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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-07
Borrow and Buy to Your Limit

Penna. Co. for Ins. on Lives, etc.
Penn National Bank
Peoples Bank
Peoples Trust Co.
Philadelphia National Bank
Philadelphia Trust Co.
Provident Life & Trust Co.
Quaker City National Bank
Real Estate Title Ins. & Tr. Co.
Real Estate Trust Co.
Republic Trust Co.
Rittenhouse Trust Co.
Roxborough Trust Co.
Savgs. Fund Soc. of Germantown
Second National Bank
Sixth National Bank
Sons of Italy State Bank
South Philadelphia State Bank
Southwark National Bank
Southwestern National Bank
Starr Savings Bank
State Bank of Philadelphia /
TacOny Trust Co.
Tenth National Bank
Textile National Bank
Third National Bank
TiOga Trust Co.
Tradesmens National Bank
Union National Bank
United Sec. Life Ins. & Tr. Co.
Wayne Junction Trust Co.
West End Trust Co.
West Philadelphia Bank
West Phila. Title & Trust Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-07

Aldine Trust Co.
American Bank
Bank of Commerce
Bank of East Falls
Bank of North America
Belmont Trust Co. ~
Beneficial Saving Fund Society
Broad Street Bank
Centennial National Bank
Central National Bank
Central Trust & Savings Co.
Chelten Trust Co.
Colonial Trust Co.
Columbia Avenue Trust Co.
Commercial Trust Co.
Commonwealth Title In. & Tr. Co.
Corn Exchange National Bank
COntinental-Equit. Title & Tr. Co.
Drovers & Merchants Bank
Eighth National Bank
Empire Title & Trust Co.
Excelsior Tr. & Savings Fund Co.
Farmers & Mechanics Nat. Blk.
Federal Trust Co.
Fidelity Trust Co.
First National Bank
Fourth Street National Bank
Fox Chase Bank
FrankfOrd Trust Company
Franklin National Bank "
Franklin Trust Co.
Germantown Trust Co.
Girard Avenue Title & Trust Co.
Girard National Bank
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-07
EVENING PUBLIC -PHIIADELPHJA WEDNESDAY, MAY

such as took place in Chicago Mon
day, rapid break of ten or twelve
cents, followed by quick reaction Of
five or six cents, was not clear indica
tion of speculation on so large scale
that it was ovcrbalanclng legitimate
functions.
Trade Conference May t3
\ conference will be called May IS
ut New York between representatives of
millcrs, bakers and grain traders and
others. at which certain trade agree
mcnts will be entered into. Mr.. Barnes
announced. He added that If the prices
of -four did not sharply reflect the real
situation IN regard to supplies the
United States must shortly return to
the 1917 food regulations. which al
lowed only thirty DAYS supply to be
held on hand. He did not, want to do
this, however. he said.
II know that the food administrator
relies on the officers of this exchange
and others, to protect this situation in
the public interest. and I am sure he
will not look i'll vain, said the speaker.
1T has been in my mind for some
time. and at conference in New York
week from today, which | have ar
ranged with advisory committees from
the grain trade, from the milling trade,
from the -four jobbcrs and bakers of
this country. among others. | shall dis
Cuss the tabulation of a weekly report
of authentic and exact Information to he
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Only 4 Pc. of u. S. Troops
In Russia in Hospitals
British War Office Reports Con.
ditiOn of Allied Force Is
Excellent

LONDON. Feb. 14.~-An official report
on the condition Of the troops in
Northern Russia, dated February | and
made public by the War Office to-day.
says that the medical arrangements are
excellent.
The health of the American troops,
the report says, is very good and less
than 4 per cent are in hospitals from
all causes. The winter has been mild,
the food suitable and sufficient and the
sanitation has been improved as much
as possible, the report adds. There
have been no infectious diseases.
There arc hospital accommodations.
It is added, for 20 per cent of the
American and Allied troops, and they
are being Increased. There is an am
nul&Nce train for loQ eases and 100
nmnuiancss and sleighs. The trying
period 9f the climatic conditions on
the Murmansk coast has passed. The
report says that special clothing has
been provided and that the soldiers
WI be no more inconvenienced than
Engiishmen are during a cold spell in
England.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
France Offers U, S.
Var Monument Site
WASHINGTON Feb ID

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA
w France has offered to pre-
sent to the United States the site
for monument on French soil to
Americans who died "on the field
of honor"
Edouard De Billy, of the French
High Commission, sent Secretary
Baker to-day the following trans
lation of a cablegram received
from Andre Tardieu, head of the
commission, who is now in Paris:
II am informed that it is pro-
posed to erect in France a monu-
ment to the American soldiers who
have died on the field of honor.
M. Clemenceau begs me to advise
you that France wishes to offer the
ground for the erection of this
monument"
Mr.. Baker said that upon the
passage of legislation pending in
Congress he would be happy to
take up with the French authori-
ties the question of cooperation
from the French government.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
League Held To Be
No EncroaC!,ment on
Il. $. Constitution

PARIS, Feb. IA (By The Associated
Press )-Subjects of great import arc
still to come before the peace confer
cncc, but in the opinion of qualified
students Of the history of other con-
fcrcnces the adjournment of to days
session may reveal that the foundation
for the settlement of all questions that
will follow has been laid.
The view taken by many delegates
early in to-day's meeting Of the con-
ference was that nearly every i'm
portant subject to be adjusted depend
ed for satisfactory settlement upon
the society Of nations which the CON
ference pledged itself at the outset
to organize.
Thus it became .he custom to give a
patient hearing to everybody who came
to Paris to present the claims Of op-
pressed and dissatisfied peoples, and
then refer the claims for justice to
the society of nations to be created.
One prominent delegate explains that
the conference took the position that to
undertake to adjudicatc all conflicting
claims would be equivalent to creat-
ing a court and endeavoring in the act
creating 1t to dispose of every posi-
bic case that might come before it for
decision
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
No Early Vote ON League n Senate

EDARS, Feb 14The plan for the league
nations which President Wilson will take with him to the
United States will not be condition by the
United States Senate until the
The society of nations project and the
framed will be nterdependcnt Many peace
treaty Will adjustment settlement under the
of the leagues that they will have be
the Senate a a whole combination.
President Wilson, therefore, during the few
Washington before his return France will himself
discussion of the leagues with members
and House committees Foreign Affairs The
public opinion in the United
itself definitely when the final of the
reached and the combined
1t is not expected there will be anything the
vote the conference itself the last the
probable being that those which
their adhesion the through
rcarat AS sufficient number has the
of Nations will into being begin to
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Chinese Here Sav
Japan Aims TO Gag
Their Peace Envoys
Nipponese Government Is
Accused of Borrowing
Bismarck's Tactics to Ter
rorize Neighbor Nation

Charges that Japan is still trying to
gag the Chinese delegates to the peace
conference are made in a statement is
sued yesterday by the Chinese Liberals
League, an organization of Chinese
university students, with headquarters
in New York. Publication by the Japa-
nese of the treaties of 1915, when the
public is talking about the secret agree
ments of 1918, is described ss master
stroke Of misinformation."
"The only question is whether there
is any China left" says the statement
"The arms alliance of May, 1918, was
intended to make China a vassal state.
Besides, Japan wanted, and still wants,
China to recognize her preponderating
influence in the Orient and to call
Japan's police power to suppress revo-
luton in the southern provinces.
We are informed that some of the
items have not been ratified by China;
we are also informed, and the latest
news confirms, that pressure is still
brought to bear on China for their rati-
tication. To control our delegates at
the peace conference, and to force US
to sign treaties which we are unwilling
to sign, are merely different ways to
accomplish the same end.
Bismarckian Policy Changed
"Whatever may be the form of the
pressure, the effect is the same. 1t is
to terrorlze free nation to submission
1t is militarism pure and simple,
M Machiavellian in theory and Bismarckian
IN practice. 1t is something we
cannot tolerate, something the Ameri-
cans must not tolerate if they want to
make the world safe for democracy.
They may take Japan for an innocent
power but the slightest scrutiny will
help them to discover the serpent.
"The Japanese procedure of auto
matte denial whenever some of her in
sldlous practices are let loose is no
longer entitled to popular confidence
At the time when the world was not
yet Informed of the nature of the
twenty-one demands of 1915, Premier
Okuma said:
After the negotiations arc dis
closed it will be found that Japan has
not lnfringed the rights of other ma
tions, that she has adhered strictly to
the principle of equal opportunity and
that she is not securing any monopoly
in China.
Okuma's Statement Questioned
"Thc treaties subsequently conclud-
ed proved the falsity Of his statement.
IN the present case Ambassador Chin
da made fiat denial as if no pressure
of any kind had been exerted. while
the acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs
admitted Japan's suggesting to China
that it was not the practice of one
nation to publish treaties without con-
sultlng the other. Both cannot be true.
Statements that are made to order do
not square with facts"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Lord Robert Cecil
Praises League Plan

Lord Robert Cecil, head OF the Brit
ish commission on the league of ma
tions, followed the Interpreter in an
earnest speech.
1t was good omen, said Lord Robert,
that this document had been laid be-
fore the world before being finally en-
acted, so that people everywhere could
advise upon and criticize it, The prob
lem had been one OF great difficulty,
for 1t was to preserve the peace of the
world with the least possible interior
cncc with national sovereignty
The results accomplished, he contin-
ued, embraced two main principles:
First, no nation shall go to war until
every other means Of settlement shall
be fully and fairly tried.
Second, no nation shall forciblv seek
to disturb territory's integrity or
interfere with the political indcpcnd-
ence of the nations of the world These
were the great principles, but later an
other great principle must be laid down.
namely, that no nation should retain
armamcnts fit only for aggressive pur-
poses.
DR.. Vittorio Orlando, the Italian
Prime Minister, expressed deep salts
faction at having collaborated in what
was going to be one of the greatest
documents Of history. He would not
speak of the merits of the scheme, DR..
Orlando continued, as these had been
explained by one whose noble inspira-
ton had brought it into existence. The
war had brought forth the necessity for
this document.
"Thus born out Of the pains of war;"
the Premier exclaimed, "this is a docu-
ment of freedom and right which rep
resents the redemption of humanity by
sacrifice"
Leon Bourgeois, of the French dele
cation, spoke in behalf of France on
the goodwill which he said had pre-
vailed in formulating the project. At
the same time, he said, the French
delegates reserved tho right to present
their views on certain details of the
plan as whole. which was q work of
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Alleged Denouncer of
Edith CaveII l. Arrested

PARIS. Feb. IA French military sa-
thoritics now hold, on charge Of deal;;
ing with the enemy. q man name
Krein, who is alleged to have plssess
leading role in the tragedy IN wiiic"
Miss Edith Cavcll lost her life.
A report made ON Krein for Juce-
Advocate Grebault, by Police lnspec'o.
Cholet, states that the man was ~
jail at st. Quentin at the beginning O.
the war. He was released by the OeI'
mans and went, it is said. to the man
sion of Prince and Princess Grey ~
Belgium, where he denounced ipS
Prince and Princess as having aio,e
French prisoners of war to escape. .,
a result the princess was conde n'nss
TO ten years Imprisonment at hH'S
labor.
Krein is said to have then gon.e. 'o
Brussels, where he went in1o, 1's, -
Cavell's hospital service and helped :"
work up" the case against her.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
n ,iion OF Wills in
, Common Purpose

Fourteen nations were reproscnt-
u, among them all Of those powers
hfrh Tor convenience We have called
great powers, ard among the
IS repro eniation Of the greatest
IIrirfr OF circumstances ana inter
's ru that / think We arc justified
saying that the significance Of the
ruIt therefore, has the deepest of
~ meanings, the union OF wills in a
snmon purpose, a union of Wills
ntcn cannot be resisted, and which,
care say no nation will run the
~ OF attempting to resist.
Now as % the Character of tho
) 'euneut. While IL has consumed
nr time 20 read this document
na yon ~sil sec at orEe that It is
.ry simple. and IN nothing go sim
nr The structure which II suy-
sts fos league OF nations a bod.y
delegates. an executive council
4 permanent secretar1at.
When II came 70 the question IF
= termining the character of the
presentation IN the body Of dele
81 'e7, We arc aware of feeling
shieh Is eurrent throughout the
I'D.
'lnaamuch AZ ! am stating it in
presence Of the official represent
e. lses ~ the various governments
! ~ present, including myself, / may
fsF thnf there ~ a universal feeling
~ at tar world cannot rest satisfied
81 tn merely official guidance. There
D. reached as through many chan
q ia the feeling that II the deliberat-
J. z body ~ the league of nations
merely TO be a body of officials
~ presenting the various govern
nts the peoples Of the world would
Ff Ae sure that some OF the mis-
s. 80 which preoccupied officials
tti sf'attedly made. might not be
ls4ifs
uo0s sibie 10 conceive "A
ttee ar aa assembly - large and
- ioar as 10 be really representa-.
8 e of the great body of the peoples
= 'af world. because. az roughly
IN i' We represent as vic sit
s ue this table more than twelve
: 1afed million people.
You eannot have q representative
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Mrs. Roosevelt in France
10 See Grave of Quentin, Then
Go to ItaIy

HAVRE, Feb. 14.-Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt arrived here to-day on the
French steamer La Lorraine. She was
met by Lieutenant Verdicr of the Staff
OF Andre Tnrdieu, French High Com
missioner to the United States, who
riaced at her disposal on behalf Of
the French government, all civil and
military facilities for visiting the grave
si her son, Lieutenant Quentin Roose-
yelt. After visiting the grave Mrs.
Roosevelt will go to Italy to visit her
sister, Miss Emily Carow.
Mrs. Roosevelt was quito tired after
stormy voyage.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
erence 20 order and President Wilson
sc snd addressed the gathering.
President Wilson's
Peace Table Address

President Wilson'S speech follows:
"Mr. Chairman: l have the honor
and assume it very great privilege
of reporting in the name of the COM
mission constituted by this confer
cnco on the formulation Of a plan
for the league of nations. am
happy TO say that il is unanimous
report. a unanimous report from the
representatives of fourteen nations
the United States, Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan. Belgium. Brazil.
china. Czechc- -Slovakia, Greece, Po-
and. Portugal. Rumania and Serbia.
II think II will be serviceable and
interesting If /, with your pernis-
sion. read the document as the only
report We have to make"
President Wilson then read the draft.
when nc reached Article XV and had
sead through the second paragraph the
President paused and said:
II pausc to point out that mis-
conception might arise in connection
with one Of the sentences I have just
rond-'tf any party shall refuse to
comply, the council shall propose
measures necessary to give effect to
Tho recommendations
"A case in point, purely hypothet-
icai case. is this: Suppose there is
N the possession of a particular
aower a piece of territory. or some
other substantial thing, in dispute, to
which it is claimed that it is not en-
titled. suppose that the matter is
submitted to the executive council
Tor recommendation as to the settle
ment of the dispute. diplomacy hav-
ng failed. and suppose that the de-
cision is in favor of the party which
laims tho subject matter of dispute,
as agnlnst the party which has the
subject matter in dispute.
Then. If the party in possession
af tho subject matter in dispute
merely sits still and does nothing, it
has accepted the decision of the
rnuncI. in the sense that it makes
no resistance, but something must
be donc TO sec that it surrcnders the
subject matter in dispute.
In such case, the only case con-
tompiased, it is provided that the
executive council may then consider
what steps will be necessary to
oblice the party against whom judg-
mcrt has heen given to comply with
the decisions of the council"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Accepted in ull
Z v Five Powers

After having read article xix, Presi-
Gent Wilson again stopped and said:
let me say that before being
'm bodied in this document this was
he subject matter of very careful
iiscussion by representatives of the
'iYo greater parties, and that their
unanimous conclusion is the matter
embodied ia this article"
After having read the entire docu
locnt. President Wilson continued as
fellows.
at gives me pleasure to add to
'his formal reading OF the result Of
our labors that the character of the
discussion which occurred at the
inftinEs Of the commission was not
only OF the most constructive hut of
he most encouraging sort. 1t wa,
obvious throughout our discussions
hat. although there were subjects
spon which there were individual
differences of Judgment, with regard
10 the method by which our objects
should be obtained there was practi
ally at no point any serious differ
"nces ~ opinion or motive as to the
objects which We were seeking.
"indeed. while these debates were
ot made the opportunity for the ex-
'rression of enthusiasm and senti
lnents, l think the other members of
ia" commission will agree with me
hat there was an undertone of high
aspect and Of enthusiasm for the
hing we were trying to do, which was
1eartening throughout every meet
pg.
Because we felt that in n way this
onfererce did jntrust to us tho ex-
reaficr ri ono of IT'S highest and
iost important purposes. to see to
that the concord of the world in
80 future with regard 10 the objects
justice should not be subject to
ioubt or uncertainty. that the CO.
eperatlon Of the great body of ma
ops should be assured in the main
'fnanee Of peace upon terms of honor
+nd ~ international obligations.
Tho compulsion of that task was
ffrt f@rtiy apon ua. and at no point
there shown the slightest desire
do anything but suggest the best
ana to accomplish that great object
'efc is very great significance,
tcfefore, in tho fact that the result
~ reached unanimously.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Women to Send Three TO Paris
To Demand Equal Vote Rigb's

BERNE, Feb. l4.-At the second ssF
sion of the Women's international 00'
ference here yesterday resolu''0"
wore adopted demanding the suppfe',
sion of tho blockade and equal pol'i'''
rights for women. Ii was decided y
send three delegates, two British a:s :.
one Swiss, to the peace conferences y
Paris to submit the views of the een
ference to President Wilson. Prem's. emu
Clemenceau and Foreign Minister ~"
nino of Italy.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Is Intended to Purify,
Rectify and Elevate

"Now, the world, expressing its
conscience in law, says there is an
end of that, that our conscicnces
shall be settled to this thing. States
will be picked out which have al
ready show nthat they can exercise
a conscience in this matter, and un-
der their tutelage the helpless peo-
pies of the world will come into
new light and into new hope.
$50 | think | can say of this
document that it is at one and the
same time a practical document and
a human document. There is
pulse of sympathy in it. There is
compulsion of conscience through
out it. 1t is practical, and yet it is
intended to purify, to rcctlfy. to
elevate, and ! want 10 say that 50
far as my observation instructs me,
this is in one sense belated docu-
ment. | believe that the conscience
Of the world has long been prepared
to express itself in some such way.
We are not just now discovering
our sympathy for these people and
our interest in them We are simply
expressing it. for it has long been
felt, and in the administration Of
the affairs of more than one of the
great states represented herc--so
far as know. all of the great states
that arc represented here that
humane impulse has already eX-
pressed itself in their dealings with
their colonies. whose peoples were
vet at low stage of civilization.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Russia Greatest Problem

Russia Greatest Problem
Russia itself was regarded by the
delegates as the great problem yet to
be settled, although the hope was ex-
pressed that the Prinkipo conference
would be realized and something like
peaceful relations restored between the
various factions. 1t was regarded as
necessary at the outset to convince the
Bolshevist elements that the peace
conference had no desire TO force upon
them settlements of debts and other
such matters as conditions of success
ful conference.
Much work remains for the various
commissions before the return to Paris
of President Wilson, Premier Lloyd
George of Great Britain and Premier
Orlando of Italy, but the material gath
cred by them is expected to facilitate
greatly the work of the closing days
of the conference
In conclusion, it may be said that
the special commission did not under
take to select a permanent home for
the league of nations. That was left
for the determination of the conference
later.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15

possess their land for European pur-
poses, and not to enjoy their con
tidence in order that mankind might
be lifted in these places to the next
higher level
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Japan Approves High
Purposes of the League

Baron Maxine, Of Japan, after ap-
proving the high purposes of the
league, added that proposal would be
submitted later, which, it was hoped
would receive favorable attention. The
nature Of this proposal he did not make
known, but it is supposed to refer to
an amendment abolishing racial distinc-
tons in international affairs.
George Nicoll Barnes, the British
Minister of Labor, and Premier Venice
los of Greece also spoke approvingly
of the league of nations. DR.. V. K.
Wellington Koo, the Chinese delegate,
gave Chnas adherence to the league.
The Arabian delegate pointed out
that the constitution of the league
recognized the right of sclfdctermi-
nation, but said certain secret treaties
we're in existence which would prevent
this selfdeterm mination. He therefore
hoped that such treaties as affected
Asiatic Turkey would be declared by
the powers null and void.
Premier Hughes of Australia asked
if full opportunity was to be given for
discussion of the proposed league and
when. Premier Clemcnceau replied
that President Wilson had presented
tho document with tho expectation
that there would be the fullest oppor-
tunity for discussion, but when this
would occur would be determined
later.
The conference adjourned at Z o'clock
this evening, and President Wilson
hastoncd homeward to prepare for his
journey to the United States.