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defeat and starvation stared them in the face. They were perfectly willing to go on fighting as long as, before the entrance of America, there was the slightest chance of victory. What assurance has the civilized world, which has suffered so much at Ger many's hands, that Germany rein stated in power, will not revive kaiser ism, imperialism, and hunger for world-domination.
 After 1870 the people of France re- pudiated the feeble and vainglorious emperor who had allowed his country to be driven to destruction. The people of France declared republic, but Ger many did not mitigate by one jot or little her terrible demands on de- feated France. She insisted that the republic, under M. Thiers and his suc- cessors, pay for the weaknesses of Ma poleon III. The allies make their de- mands in a spirit different from Bis marck's in 1870. It is not desire for revenge that animates them, but desire for the future peace of the world. If Germany has truly renounced i'm perialism why is she so anxious tor the return of her colonies, where her misgovernment has been notorious? Another point made by the counter proposals is that the allies haveI no right to judge and to punish Germhny at the same time. Perhaps GermRny wants a neutral body to try the case against her. There is no difficulty about this this has been war almpst unique in history, war in which thsfe were no real neutrals. There were only those who favored Germany and those who favored the allies. In every great war in history the victors have both judged and punished the con. quered. It is hard to see why Ger many feels that this universal pre-, cedent should be broken in her case
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It is clear that she does not feel her crimes to have been so fragrant after all
 Nevertheless there are many signs of change of heart in the counter
 proposals. Germany yields to the stip-
 ulations concerning the reduction of her army and navy. She makes prom ise to pay an indemnity of $5,000, ,-o00,-
 900 in gold by the year 1928 and to make annual payments from 1927 onwards to total not exceeding $25,- 900 100000 for damages inflicted by the allied blockade during the war. This demand is rather curious in view of the fact that the allied was nec- essary war-measure.
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LAMONT, YANKEE FINANCIAL WIZARD

Following the Klotz failure to sad dle the international pool of all war debts upon the peace conference, which would have left the United States to carry the allies financial bur- den, the American financial experts. headed by Thomas w. Lamont, have rejected the British plan formulated by F. M. Keynes of the British treas ury providing for a $5.OOO, 900, 900 bond issue to Germany, to be guaranteed by allied and associated powers.
 In the opinion of the American dele gation, including President Wilson, the British plan Is obnoxious to the Amer ican people, who are realized to be re- luctant to become guarantors for Eu- ropean loans. Furthermore, the $5,OOO,- 100000 loan to Germany Is thought to be necessitated only because of the shortsightedness of the European allies, who insist upon extracting all the liquid assets from the Germans nnd then want the limited States fo
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MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1919.
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION
 IMMINENT

The report comes from Washington that the Republican congress will make an exhaustive investigation of the Democratic conduct of the war, and particularly as to the huge war time expenditures, which are esti- mated by General March as being for all departments, 100000, of which amount the war department is said to have spent in round numbers, s14,O0O,O0O,000 or about two thirds of the entire sum.
 While our system of political parties is not without faults, one thing fortu- nate about it is the fact that the al- formation of government control from one pary to another provides an auto matic means of checking up official acts which, while of course subpect to abuse, is of real value to the country. Thus today the Republicans are keen in their desire (for political purposes, perhaps, but still to the advantage of the public) to discover and disclose any and all shortcomings of the Demo- crats who have recently been exer- cising full governmental power; to- morrow, or the tomorrow after tomor- row, the Democrats, or perhaps some new party will be in power and just as keen to reveal the mistakes or other faults of the Republican regime.
 This sort of house-cleaning by op- posing political parties answers fairly we'll as far as it goes, but the trouble is that it does not go far enough. These checking-up periods are to far apart; then too they are too apt to stop when purely political motives are attained and before the work is fully com pleted.
 If then this means of checking up the official acts of public servants is so inadequate and unsatisfactory, one may we'll enquire whether there is any other available means of accomplish ing this desirable purpose. Of course the different governmental depart mentsand bureaus have investigation corps which serve to keep the off cials fairly closely in touch with mat ters of interest, but the reports of these investigators are not available for public inspection, and even con- gress is often refused access to them on the ground that to furnish them would "be contrary to the public in- terest" The most effective civilian agency for this purpose is the press Through cooperative measures, as well as by the individual initiative of public spirited publishers, it is already doing a tremendously important work in this direction, and it is upon this means that the public may rely for the rem edy in this matter.
 The press of this country, and of the whole world is rapidly becoming more and more an effective secret service of the people, ready and willing, at all tins, and regardless of the trouble and expense involved, to keep the public advised on all subjects about which it desires to know the facts.
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the British had half of the under Paris financial wizards under the leadership
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HEINIE LIKELY TO LOSE GREAT BET
HE MADE ON HAVING u. S. MARKET
Uncle Sam Determined He Shall Not Dump Here Stock
of Dyestuffs and Chemicals Accum-
ulated During War.

chemical and dye plants humming. He
has had no large market in which to
sell the product, because he was cut off
and the chemicals and dyes produced
have been stored up until they are the
largest surplus stock in the entire world.
After the war the Hun planned to
dump all this surplus stock into the
American market at such ruinous prices
as would drive the domestic war-born
industries out of business-and, then,
and dominance in his own specialized
lines.
II spy" calls Uncle Sam. Now the
Congress Of the United States, which
swings the paddle for Uncle Sam, is
going to wake the Hun out of his
dreams by an Industrious spanking
where his pants are slack-and that's
have.
Congress is going to make the Hun
dream untrue by enacting a new tariff
law with specially stiff duties on
those commodities which he planned
to dump into this market. The re-
publican majority of the ways and
means committee, which drafts the
tariff bill. has promised it. Repre-
sentative Joseph w. Fordney, chair
man of the committee, has promised
it, with special reference to chem
icals and dyes. Representative ].
Hampton Moore. the. ranking repub-
lican member, has promised it. Rep
resentative William R. Green of Iowa,
next in line. has promised it, Then
comes Representative Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio. who hurried to intro
duce bill, framed by the United States
Tariff Commission, to anticipate general
tariff revision by putting heavy and
permanent tax on chemical and dye
imports from Germany.
Affect Every Citizen.
Dyes and potash-these are the
items against which the tariff bars
will be particularly raised
Some unthinking person may say:
What does the average reader of The
Star care about potash, or about dyes?
They're Just technical, Industrial inter-
ests"
Not quite so fast: Potash has two
specially big nses-for fertilizers and
for manufacture Of explosives. With
the German supply cut or. the United
States never could have won the war
If she couldn't have produced potash.
It is an essential Ingredient in ferti-
lizer for food crops stimulation-for
wheat, potatoes. grains, garden truck
and fruits-to feed the fighting forces
and also the army engaged in the in
dustries Of the country. The Unitad
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the stamp form of investment. and through
schools, teachers and parents, as well as by
direct instruction. they will be taught that the
habits and discipline of systematic savings
yield a return in character and training tnat
far outvalues the money saved.
PROTECTION of savings will not be over
l looked In every era after war there is
period of speculation and of doubtful invest
ment With the relief from strain and danger
there is an impulse to take chance" and
the national optimism sees these chances
through rosy glasses. The country is being
flooded with stocks of more than doubtful value.
1t is estimated that over $500. 100000 is lost
annually in the United States through such
speculation. The authorities of Chicago alone
estimate that confidence men feeced investors
there of over 100000 within the year.
No effort will be spared to protect the saw
ings sheep from the financial wolves by either
the Treasury Department or the other agencies
of the government.
Treasury officials plan to wage this cam
paign without a club. No will be forced
to invest. It is realized that unless thrift is
practiced from desire and conviction. duress is
useless and tends only to defeat the object OF
the campaign. That object ultimately is to
make investments in government securities as
much an every day matter as 1t is In Europe,
where the rentes or small government securi-
ties. gave france an economic oe1enSe lHpFes-
nable through four years Of desperate struggle.
Investment in War Savings Stamps is conf
Dental matter between a man and his own adj
vantage. It is one form Of investment where
no one but the investor knows how much he
has saved.
Holders of Liberty Bonds will be shown
the advantage of converting their interest
coupons into War Savings Stamps. Those
coupons. SO invested, will yield sum equal
to the face value Of the bond within seventeen
years. .
In 1910. benevolent and charitable institu-
lions for children and adults. charity hospitals
and dispensaries expended $103 ,4S1 ,232 for peo-
pie who had taken thought for the future.
Over 100000 men, women and children had
to ask their aid. These institutions required
an investment of $5s5 .o6o because America
did not save.
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Y YHEN the United States government
n built the great Roosevelt dam it re-
" " claimed millions of acres of land in
the Southwest from the desert. Now
the government is building a new
Dam which Will reclaim millions of American
homes from the financial deserts of Want and
Lost Opportunity. @
The name of the new dam is Thrift. 1t will
be built across the great river of Income close
to its source. where the Dollars gush from the
Pay Envelope in the mountains of Your Job
The foundations of this great piece of financial
masonry will be laid firmly on the bed rock of
Habit and it will be built of the rock of Fore
sight. the sand of Ambition and the cement of
Determination mixed with the water of Educa-
ton. The Savings Division of the Treasury
Department is in charge of the job.
I1IITH the signing of the armistice the
w United States came face to face with
great problem of financial engineering. Could
the habit of saving. assumed by the American
people in the stress and strain Of conflict as a
patriotic means of winning the war, be made
permanent national asset? The discipline of
saving during the war had not only meant con-
servation of food, fuel, money and time to the
nation. but had made soldiers of the Common
Good out Of our civilian population. To MAIN
tain that army at war strength after the war
was the problem.
War Savings and Thrift Stamps was the
Before the war the holders of all kinds of
securities in America were estimated at 100000.
Only $4,000 were investors in government Sc
curites and of these the larger part probably
were banks, not individuals. With the close
of the Victory Loan, it is estimated there
100000 government security holders in the
United States.
TT is to hold and add to this number that War
/ Savings and Thrift Stamps are being
offered to the public and form the basis for the
national government Thrift campaign. Their
nature and the advantages they present to in
vestors make them peculiarly effective to that
end. The Thrift Stamp assures the saving of
small sums. The War Savings does more 1t
is an investment bearing interest at per cent
compounded quarterly, a rate so favorable.
when loss of principal is impossible. that people
of large means prohibited from owning
more than $1,000 worth.
They cannot be affected in any way by mar
ket or stock exchange fuctuation and are re-
deemable in full with fair interest at any gov
eminent agency, including all post offices.
1t has been made manifest that the financing
of the government is neither the sole nor the
main object of the issue of these securities. If
1t were, the money derived from their sale
might be obtained with far less trouble and
expense and at lower rate of interest by sell
ing bonds or certificates of Indebtedness directly
70 banks or private investment companies = 1t
was to insure their distribution among all classes
of people that the purchase of War Savings
certificates was limited to $1,000 per individual
THE general prosperity and welfare of the
of nationaIizing and popularizing thrift is the
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WOULD HAVE FLYING DEVELOPED
BY DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS
Senator New and Other Leaders in Congress Think
Government Should Take Lead
and Hold It.
and Hold It

Where is the sense, say the members
Of Congress who are backing the new
aeronautics department plan, of hav-
ing all this duplication of work and
expenditure? Economy is the watch
word of the day at the opening of the
new Congress. Surely it would be a
step toward economy, as well as to-
ward the greatest efficiency, if the
aeronautical work of the government
were placed under one department.
with one man at the head, capable of
initiating. and directing a general
policy to keep the United States at the
forefront in aeronautics.
The first heavier-than-air machine
that ever flew successfully was the
work of an American. Yet the United
States allowed the nations of Europe
to far surpass it in aviation, in the
development of airplanes for use in
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BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
TINE future of the airship and
the part the United States
shall play in it are engag-
ing the attention of mem
bers of Congress. Some of them, Sem
ator Harry New of Indiana in par
ticular, believe that aerial navigation
is still in its infancy. They foresee an
era when airships will play a vital
part in the commerce of the world,
bringing the nations closer together
than ever before.
The triumph Of the Nays NC-4 In
its across-the-ocea flight is on the
tongues Of millions of persons the
world over today. When the steam
ship Savannah first crossed the At
lantic ocean in 1819-a century ago
taking twenty-nine days and eleven
hours for the trip, it, too. was herald.
ed as a wonderful accomplishment,
revolutionary in its significance. Yet
the Savannah, with her side wheels.
is as little like the huge leviathan of
today as the NC-4 is like airships that
will be crossing the ocean-and the
continents-in years to come. ->-
A Task for Government.
Senator New believes that the
United States should not settle back
and let the foreign nations take the
lead from the United States in avia-
ton again, as they had up to the time
the United States entered the war
with Germany. He believes that it is
the federal governments job to
tackle this problem-that private in
dustry cannot be expected to perfect
the airship when there is not yet the
commercial value for it that the fu-
ture promises.
And because he believes that the
government should work economi-
cally, as well as efficiently, toward
this end, and that it should avoid ex-
pensive Implications of work, he is
preparing and will introduce at an
early date a bill creating separate
department of aeronautics. He IL not
particular whether the head Of The
department shall be called a secretary
or director. or that he should have
u SSdI III SAS IACSAuSuS C1UAuCts
though he believes that it would be
advisable to make it cabinet Office.
What Senator New desires is that the
head Of the department of aeronau-
tics shall be second to none Of the
government officials except the Presi-
dent.
For Economy and Efficiency.
At present three of the government
departments are experimenting with
aviation and airships. They are the
War Department. the Navy Depart
mont and the Post once Department.
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EARLY ARMY POSTS
NO LONGER USEFUL

Renewal of the recommendation to
Congress that the old stations and
posts in the south and west. most OF
them relics of frontier days. be aban-
doned is understood to be planned by
the War Department. The depart
ment would utilize some for hospital
or other government purposes and
sell the remainder.
Army officials say maintenance OF
these posts not only has been dispro-
portionately expensive. but has actu-
ally weakened the effort to organize
an eficiept army by scattering the
various elements throughout the
country.
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BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

ri spy is an old American game.
Uncle Sam plays it well He has
Just caught, Heine Hun OF the
Hohenzollern gang. He is going
to give him a real Dutch treat. He
caught Heinie-not mapping, but dream
ing Hunnishly, and he is going to make
that dream untrue.
Before the world war shook up every
thing throughout the world and caused
reconstruction and readjustment gener-
ally the Hun dominated the world trade
in certain lines-particularly chemicals
and dyestuffs, and especially monopoliz-
ed the American trade in these COM
modities. To safeguard that trade
against competition from the British
from the Japanese or from Switzerland
he established branch plants in this
country, controlled by cartels under
Hohenzollern subsidy. Agents Of these
cartels took out patents on dye and
other processes so as to prevent other
nations from competing in the United
States markets.
During the war the Hun has kept his
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Building Great Dam Called Thrift
to Hold Back Waters of Waste

w YHEN the United States government
IA built the great Roosevelt dam it re-
Wv claimed millions of acres of land in
the Southwest from the desert. Now
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an earlier date some apprehension was ex-
n pressed that thrift investments would re-
fleet into decreased bank savings. partial
survey has demonstrated that in those COM
munities where there has been the largest sale
of Thrift and War Savings Stamps there has
also been the largest increase in bank deposits
showing that the saving habit ranges a wider
field than the small securities. This survey
also showed that where there had been large
purchases and later large redemptions the re-
demptions were due in large measure to the
influenza epidemic during which the workers
found their savings reserve Of inestimable
benefit. It shown thai when the epidemic
passed the workers who had redeemed their
stamps again became large purchasers as re-
suit of their experience ~ = - -:
Fl The Thrift campaign not only will extend
from coast to coast, but It will be directed to
every man., woman and child in America.
Every man knows 1t, is his duty to spend less
than be earns. Every man wants to- save, and.
he will be shown that he can save. whether he
be rich or poor 1t was women who made
popular wartime thrift in food, fuel and money
To her will go appeal not to throw away
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objective Of the governments campaign. That
campaign will advance along four general lines.
Every man, woman and child in America will
be urged to "Save First-Spend Afterward"
The dollar saved on pay day. is never missed.
but the dollar the day before pay day-at the
end of the WEEKS never there. America will
be taught that thrift is not hardship but
habit, and that it is not necessary to give up
things that make life worth living in order to
live and save. 1t means only trading what we
will never miss for what we are sure to want.
If each of the 100000 wage earners of this
country invested a dollar week regularly. the
assets of the country would be increased
$3.50, 900 in five years. and $40, 900
in ten years From moral. psychological and
economic standpoint the gain would be meal
culable.
Investments of savings in government Sc
curities alone will not be stressed in the gov
eminent educational efforts. The point which
will be empha sized is safe Observation-Disclosures
ment which pays a reasonable rate of interest.
1t is realized that increased investments in saw
ings banks and industrial organizations, al
though not of immediate help to the Treasury,
Of tremendous value in solving the postwar
problems Of resumption of industries a
peace-time basis and in quickly relieving tenn
porary unemployment due to rapid demobiliza-
ton and discontinuance of work. These
advantages more than justify the expenditures
of the educational campaign.
The dollars remaining after investment will
not be overlooked. Wise spending is as mpor-
tant systematic saving, according to Treas
ury officials and effort will be spared to in
duce every one to make every penny they spend
buy something they really want and to get
full pennys value for every penny.
The habit of treating what is bought like
child with multitude Of Christmas toys also
will receive merited attention If every pur-
chase were treated with much care as il 1t
were money itself, millions would be saved, and
that saving will be made if education and ex-
ample effect 1t. '@'--
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CLARENCE CANNON,
Democrat of Missouri, who has been
named parliamentarian by Speaker
Gillett. He succeeds Bennett Clark.
son Of former Speaker Clark, and is
the first democrat parliamentarian to
be named by . republican Speaker.