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The Washington times., 1919-05-25

Paris because she thought ii no place
al inns time for anyone, man or wOm-
an. who did not have definite business
which could not be transacted else
where. | have a great admiration for
anyone, who could pass up such thrill
ing experience-but then Lady Viii
lert is an exceedingly wise young
woman. as well as a very charming
one. She and her husband are the
type Of Britishers with real under
standing OF United States OF Ameri-
cans, who in the last few years hay..
between this country and England.
done much 10 cement the friendship
The salvation Army's campaign be
gan with the big ball at Wsrdman
. Park Hotel on Monday night: ended
with. the spectacular pageant. pie
turing the history and activities Of
the Salvation Army. at the Sylvan
Theater Yesterday afternoon. and ran
the gamut OF mass meetings, tag
days "doughnut drives" garden par
ties and all the accepted ways or
painlessly extracting money from the
public. There was even a sale Of
painting and sculpture contributed
by Washington artists. which met
with great success. This took place
Al the home OF poor Mrs. Thomas +.
Walsh. She didn't wish her little
grandsons death to interfere with
the business of filling the Salvation
Army's Golfers, and insisted on things
being carried out as planned.
The tragedy at Friendship also cast
distinct shadow over the Salvation
Army ball. Mrs. Walsh. the lads
Grandmother. and Mrs. John Allan
Dougherty. her guest. were the NOV
ing spirits in arranging il: and
they had both been out at Friend
ship or Sunday--Mrs. Walsh in
charge during the absence of the
MCLesns -when the accident hap
.pened. Naturally, Mrs. Walsh was
Frustrated. but she asked Mrs. Mar
shall one Of her most intimate
friends. and the Vice President to
fiji up her box and impressed upon
her that she must not let the ball
suffer for her sorrow.
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out" but because it. was splenditIy
handled all round.
The fete champetre at Woodley was
brilliant zen gros" and highly orig
inal zen detail" 1t happened that
Friday was Rumania'S national holt
day. so the fete was held by way of
celebration thereof, and every EFFORT
was made to carry out the pictur-
esque national customs OF this an
cient Balkan country IN a distinctly
modern setting.
"StInEerea" Was
Picturesque Affair.
The hours were from four o'clock
; 10 midnight-and then some. I hated
I not to get out for the festivities o.
the afternoon, for Margaret Anglin
gave readings of Carmen Slyva's
poems and the famous Paulist choir
sang. but I couldn't spare both after
noon and evening.
! Dinner was served on the lawn for
those VINO did want to see the whole
thing through. In the evening there
was a "stingerea," and as nobody
quite knew what that meant every
I body was interested and curious. 1t
turned out TO be a sort OF carnival
Roumanian national night parade,
and very picturesque
Do you believe in fairies? II YOU
do you would have been quite at home
at Woodley on Friday night. II you
don't, you'd have been converted. 1t
was fairyland, indeed, but a Eor-
geous. coIorful, Baskt-Joseph Urban
conception. far from the pastel fairy
land OF our childhood The process
sion of men and boys in the gorgeous
Roumanian costume, carrying torches
and singing as they marched, the
folk dancing, etc, took on unearthly
beauty from the artistic setting, the
long fingers OF light from a surround
ing Gordon of searchlights, and the
golden glory OF fireworks. 1t was
something quite new and altogether
lovely. Commander and Mrs. Hayne
Ellis have recently purchased Wood
ley, but apparently they have not
taken possession yet.
Let it not be forgotten that the
Colonial Danes also ran last week.
They were holding their biennial
council-and they hadn't had one for
three years. because last year didn't
seem exactly a good time to have one.
As usual with that organization. their
functions-which are Of course an i'm
portant part OF biennial council, and
OF accumulated Importance when il
happens to be trienniaI-were bril-
liant and exclusive to a degree Also
there were a whole grist OF delight
full parties for individual Danes ana
groups OF Danes
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out" but because it. was splenditIy
landed all round.
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times were cited in Russian des-
patches. When the Russian military
system collapsed and the Czecho-Slo-
vaks started east they collected other
units here and there on the road until
they numbered 10000 men-mor-
than 900, 900, according to German to-
counts.
II was this little army that blocked
and finally prevented the Germans
from advancing into Siberia. They
fought many engagements, first with
the German troops and later with the
Bolshcvilti. and eventually won con-
troll OF more than 1000 miles Of the
Trans Siberian railroad, but they
never fought the Russians and in fact
their relations with the Russian peo-
pie always were the best That army
! still IL I'm Russia although anxious tC
return to their own country.
But although beaten Bohemia never
las submitted to her conqucrors and
many minor wars and revolutions have
marked the 0leriod between 1890 ant
, 1913, but In the end the, IIarsburgs
emerged supreme and Bohemia was III,
| vlded, the Czechs forming part of Aus
| tria and the Slovaks going to Hungary
although Bohemia still was in theory 1
monarchy and Francis Joseph prom
ised to assume thehcrown at Prague
but Bismarck prevented this and ruth
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ton is believed TO be nearer 5000, 900
Czechs and 3,0000 900 Slovaks. besides
about 5000 900 Germans ana several
hundreds OF thousands OF Hungarians,
a total OF perhaps nearly 100000
souls
Although a part of Austria the
CZecho- Slovaks managed to create and
maintain four separate armies to fight
against Austria Hungary, and valiant
service they rendered, These armies
were formed of men who became
prisoners OF the Allies, voluntarily In
most cases. and organized themselves
as allies OF their captOrs. In Russia
there were 10000 such prisoners and
when the great empire OF the north
began to break up they somehow came
together and decided that they would
cross the whole of AsiatiC Russia 20
Vladivostok, where they intended TO
take ship to France for the purpose
of throwing In their lot with the Allies
against Germany and Austria.
IL These men, troops comprising the
Eighth and Ninth Corps Of the Aus
tro- Hungarian army, together with
somt from the Second and Thirteenth
Corps who had surrendered to the
Russians IN the great advance made
by Brusiloff in July, 1917, Joined first
the Russian army, where they rem
dered excellent service and several
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turns and twists which are shown. as
the general principle Of racial unity
is 10 be the dominating idea in all as
sgumcnts Of territory by the Peace
Congress
Jugo- Slavia promises to become the
largest of the new nations before very
long Although IL includes more sep
urate countries than any Of the others
they are all OF the same blood or racial
stock, and there is every reason to be-
licvc that IN time the many elements
Will fuse into one unified nation. The
territory of the JugO SlaNs - yet to be
defined exactly by the Peace Congress,
but in a general way 1t includes Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Croatia and Dalma-
tia, Serbia, with the Banat Of Tcmes-
var to the north. Montenegro and part
OF Albania.
The new Rumania, according TO
present plans, will be about double the
extent and double the population OF
the present kingdom, taking in Tran
sylvania ON the west and most Of
Bessarabia on the east the former
from Hungary aud the latter from
Russia. Just what territory she Will
claim from Bulgaria has not yet been
made clear, but probably il will in
clude the southern. Dobrudja, the mar
velously rich country south and east
of the Danube where 1t turns to the
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m M @ o oRK The CT

past. but the modern Development Of
the nation, oddly enough, is due large
lv to one man, not "A military man nor
a politician, but Il pianist. lgnace Jan
laderoWski. EARLY in the war he saw.
the daWniuE opportunity for his coun-
try to win again tn" standing among
the nations which once had been hers
and abandoning his art for the time he
devoted himself body and soul 10 the
Polish cause,
Like the CzcchO- Slovaks the Poles
formed armies Of their own. Germany
tried also to form an army or Poles
but her efforts resulted only i'm COM
pctc failure, 4 Polish army, however
operated in conjunction. with the Al
lies in France In the later years of the
war and won distinction there. An
other army has been formed in Po-
land since Russia collapsed, whcro 1t
fought the Germans on the western
border and the Bolshcviki on the east.
1t is altogether likely that the sea =
port which Poland is TO hayc will he
DanZig ON the Baltic, taken from her
by the Prussiaus in 1898. There would
he no question about this were it not
! that East Prussia, the population OF
/ which is ipdisputahly Prussiau, would
he cut of from Prussia and isolated
1t lie for this reason that the line
shown on the map makes the peculiar
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pendent Government with the purpose
OF uniting with Germany, but such
combination is not likely to be per-
mitted by the Allies, as II would In eff
feet give Germany a larger population
than she had before the war and make
her more powerful than she was then.
1t should be understood that the
boundaries shown on the map have
not vet been definitely fixed by the
Peace Congress and are therefore ten
tatlye in their nature; they represent
the claims OF the respective nations,
or so much of them as seems likely to
be allowed in the final settlement. Tie
new republic OF Czecho- Slovakia com
rrises the former Austrian provinces
OF Bohemia. Moravia, Austrian Silesia
all inhabited by the Bohemians. and
| Sloyakia, the country OF the SloVaks, a
kindred race who speak the same Ian
puage with slight dialectical differ
! noes and who cherish the same aspi-
rotlons ss She Bohemians and always
have worked In the closest accord will
! them.
The czech provinces cover abou
80 600 square miles and tile SlOvak re-
zion, lust east OF them, about $4,000
The former have population OF $500
oee END the latter 1000. 600. but thes'
are Austrian figures. mads low for pc
litical purposes. and the real popula
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Bx COSMOS MINDELEFF.

TEVER in the history Of the
world have such extensive
i Y changes in political allegiance
and boundaries been made as are about
10 take place in the map OF Europe un-
der the orders OF the Peace Congress
OF Paris which is to end the great
war probably this month. Popula-
tions numbering in the aggregate more
than 100, 100000 souls will change their
flags and some OF them will realize as
pirstions many centuries old, while the
new map Of Europe will be so different
from the old that the latter will be no
longer recognizable.
The new nations which will come
into being are the Czecho -Slovaks and
the Jugo- Slavs, while the Poles, once
the most powerful people in Europe
will revive some at least OF their AN
Client glory, and the numaniaRs, among
Me youngest OF nations before the war
&ill double their population and terri
Bry The Hungarlans have set up Il
ew republic in n greatly restrlcte'
lea In which the Magyar blood clearly
edominates. and the German Aus
r. ans, IA tine small resioa which IL ~
lat is left OF the former great Aus
IAN Empire, also are forming an inde'
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north and discharges into the Back Sea,
one of the most interesting features
brought out by the map IL tho very
small extent Of territory claimed by
the large Powers as compared to that
to be assigned to the new nations.
France, for example, j. to get Nsaco
and Lorraine, really minute areas on
the map Of Europe, and probably some
sort OF domination over tho Rhine
land or section to the west Of tho
Rhine, for purposes of military pro-
lection. Italy gets the Trcntino,
very small section mpuratlNclN and
the region about Trieste, which IS
smaller still, She has IN addition =
dispute with the Jugo- Slavs about tho
disposition Of part Of Dalamatla, tho
eastern shore OF the AdriatiC, which
the Peace Congress must decide.
Belgium so far has asked only for
minute section Of Germany adjoining
her eastern boundary known as NAL
mcdy similarly Denmark ~ claim
ing the return Of Schleswig, that por-
ton of Germany which adJuins her on
the south of which she was deprived
by German trick. All tho land
claimed by the Allies would hardly
form one province OF any one Of the
new nations TO be formed, JugO- Slavia,
new Rumania. Czecho- SloyakH or
Poland.
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and his appointment went forward
by wire.
|. Little Tammany is represented
as looking on Billy McEwen as a
fly in the local political ointment.
Now that the labor leader and
lucky child Of fortune has been
eliminated, opportunity may offer
to let Citizen Cullum into the plum
orchard.
If broad, modest, liberal, friend
ly democracy should prevail, pos
sibly Frank G. Scribner will be-
come ''it." If the influence of Big
Interests, desire or sugar-coated
charity dictate the selection, then
Col. Eva may score.
Patience on the part of post
office patrons seems imperative,
everything considered.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-02-08
SALARY HUNGER AFFLICTS
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

Reports from st. Paul indicate
that it is proposed to increase the
salary Of a St. Louis county CON-
missioner from $1,000 to $4,000 a
year, with 5000 additional for
travel hire.
The present members Of the
board of county commissioners
must think that the people are a
lot Of suckers and that the kindly
!, old county treasury is a juicy
melon, ripe for the citing.
Right now, to all intents and
purposes, the commissioners are
getting $1,000 year, if they play
their cards correctly, and most Of
them are skilled gamsters. The
plain facts are tat St. Louis
county is getting no better grade
Of commissioners than when the
salary was only 81, 200 a year, with
no automobiles furnished. To tell
the plain, blunt truth, some Of the
present commissioners could not
ear: $1,000 year in private life.
It further is believed that the
more competent Of the bunch are
fairly well content with present
salaries.
Even if increases were war
ranted and advisable, they should
not take effect during the present
terms Of the commissioners When
a man accepts an office, he tacitly
enters into a contract with the
taxpayers to serve a certain time
for a given salary. 1t shows poor
taste and small regard for the
voters to begin to pull and scheme
for an increase in salary as soon
as a public servant is indicted
into office.
If an increase is given to any
one, it should 60 to Bert Kribs-
back who SO cheerfully puts on
"Coley's" storm windows and so
successfully builds broken-backed
concrete bridges.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919.

find relief. Thousands have time,
money and inclination to do so if
shown the way and place.
We know from personal expert
ence and observation that not one
person in ten thousand in those
states has any conception Of Du-
Quth s incompatible summer eli
mate. Unless shown the way and
convinced of the truth as to eli
matte conditions at the head of
Lake Superior, they never will
know, therefore but few ever will
come.
We do not know of anything so
directly helpful to Duluth as a
swarm Of summer visitors, especi-
ally those who come to stay any
where from three weeks to three
months. Such periods spent here
mean a liberal education to those
who dwell on the prairies. One
visit win mean many more visits,
year after year, accompanied by
kinfolks, neighbors and friends.
Some will invest. Others even will
remain permanently.
It seems too bad that the Duluth
Commercial club has not given
more time, study and effort to the
task of exploiting Duluth's sum-
mer climate in the corn-belt states.
There seems to be a great dearth
of desire and detail as to methods.
Campaigns to secure summer con-
ventions are good, but campaigns
to bring the individuals from the
humid, blistered, sun-scorched re-
gion mentioned could be made to
bear fruit much more heavily.
We have studied over that mat
ter for many years and also have
some ideas as to ways and means.
But, like prophet, are. not with
out honor save in our own city.
We must, therefore, let George do
it., He is more interested in get
ting steel plants, digging deep
water canals to the sea or even in
loading up Yankees with real es-
tate investments.
Duluth can and should swarm
with summer visitors from the
corn-belt regions. We doubt if
present bell-wethers in Duluth s
business and civic circles ever will
do any effective work to bring it
about.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-02-08
DULUTH'S NEXT POST
MASTER.

Seers and soothsayers have a
task to tax their utmost skill in
telling us who the next'postmaster
of Duluth will be. The list Of will
ing civilians has gone to the Civil
Service commission. In due course,
probably after much deQiberatio' ,
the three who rank highest viii be
certified to the department. One
Of the three, presumably, will =,
named to step permanently IL ,
William E. McEwen's recent S: les,
in the departments own good
time.
True progressives have a strong
feeling in favor Of a man from the
staff Of local postal employees.
Four such have filed their names
and presented their qualifications
to the commission. Very few pa
irons of the office, however, have
any idea that this list will be a
serious factor in the matter.
The civilian list certainly is het-
erogeneous, if not highly represen-
tative. While many feel that no
really brilliant names are on that
list, they rank from excellent to
good, poor and Indifferent.
If politics cuts any figure in the
final selection, then Little Tam
many may be expected to clamor
loudly. Col. A. G. Weiss is con-
sidered the chief of Little Tam
many. Many, if not all, Of the fol-
lowers Of that practical, perennial,
pie-counter contingent call him
"the I'D mail" As such, it is his
right to pick the man.
If Citizen Marcus B. CulQum is
so fortunate to be one of the
favored three, it is a dollar to a
doughnut that he will boss the
post-office job so long as the pres
ent system Of appointment and
service endures.
Citizen Cullum failed to gather
a crop from the political plum
tree when he ran for commissioner
six years ago. For some reason,
he secured Col. Weiss promise to
appoint him postmaster under the
Wilson regime: When it became
desirable to- make a quick change
in postmaster, Col. Weiss lay n Sar
deaths door in the hospital at
Rochester. Col. Fred Lynch, we'll
knowing th.,t the selection would
not be satisfying to Col. Weiss,
recommended William e. McEwen
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-02-08
ARE ALL MEN REALLY
EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW?

The day before +. d. Mcker-
cher, late chief Of police, left the
department of which he had been
the huge head for nearly four
years, he is alleged to have gone
to the city hall basement where
70 gallons of contraband whiskey
were stored, loaded the liquor into
an automobile and then driven
away with the stuff. It never was
brought back and McKercher
knows best Of anyone what be-
came of it.
1t further is alleged that differ
ent members of the department no.
ticed the McKercher stunt but, at
that time. being his subordinates,
they said nothing.
It is stated that some word
must have been passed to commits
sioner .Silberstein for, the next
day, he went to the same base
ment, seeking to inventory any
contraband booze that might be
therein. Like Old Mother Hub
bard who went to her cupboard,
commissioner Silberstein found the
basement bare.
Onkel Bernard is supposed to
have fully realized, then and there,
what loss it was to him, the po-
lice department and the City of
Duluth when the Big Chief quit
and went to a fresher field.
Members of the legal depart
ment must have known of the Nc
Kercher theft Of contraband
booze. Commissioner Silberstein
certainly knew it. So far as can
be learned, not single soul went
before the recent grand jury with
the facts narrated in the forego-
ing. =: ~.~-
Had some poor devil stolen a
few sacks of -four to feed his wife
and a big family of children, some
one would have gone hotfoot to the
grand jury and great zeal un-
dcubtedly would have been shown
in listening to the information and
then finding a true bill against tie
man who so menaced society as to
steal some -four. d. ... .- .......
There are those who marvel
that the masses look on our ma
chinery for administering justice
with more or less suspicion.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-02-08
DULUTH SHOULD BE A MECCA
FOR SUMMER VISITORS.

Duluth probably has the rarest
summer climate Of any city in the
entire United States. It is cool,
healthful and comfortable. Only
tAose who have suffered the swell
tering, enervating, fretting In
mer climate Of the ccrn-belt can
fully appreciate the comfort of
living in Duluth in the good old
summer tine, esp cially during
the dreaded dog days.
Today, there is no more pros
porous a region on the American
continent than the states Of Kan
sas, Missouri, Nebraska, lows, nli-
nois and even southern Wisconsin
and Minnesota. The people living
IN that great inland domain, par
iticularly the farmers and small
town jewellers, have an abundance
of money: They suffer from ex-
csssiye torridity. They fain would
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-02-08
WAS UP TO DATE.

A colored man was up for exam
nation in a suit at law.
"What is your name?" the law
We asked.
calhoun Clay, sab"
"Can you sign your names"
"What, sah'"
"I ask if you can write your
name.'
"Well, no sab. All nebber
writes ma name. All dictates it,
sab. -
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LET THE DOCTOR SAY.

"I'm afraid your poor ha~Sand
is beyond help. I can hold out I
hope" said the doctor to Mrs.
Cockney.
" Ere, 90 are yer gettin' atq'
came a voice from the bed. 81
amt a-goin' to snuff out!''
"You leave it to the doctor,
dearie; e knows best" command
ed the grieving wife.-Ex.
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SHE CHALLENGED HIM.

can hundred years Of peace We
now are goina to have.'
"Who says so?" snapped the
frail little woman at the head Of
the table.
eyes; who said sol" said the
great big man at the other end Of
the table, in wee small voice.
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