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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
WORLDS LEAGUE
TO MEAN TROUBLE
SAYS c. O.P. SOLON
Big Five Will EmbroiI U. S.
in European Middle Many
Years in Future, Declares
Moses, of New Hampshire.

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Declaring it
is not the league of nations but the
big five to which the peace treaty gives
responsibility for effecting the terms
shire, a Republican Of the foreign re-
lations committee, told the senate to-
day that by accepting the role of a
principal power as defined in the treaty
the United States would embroil itself
for many years to come in the troubles
of Europe.
The senator said that while the league
covenant was bad enough, other pro-
visions Of the treaty were worse.
in this treaty" said Senator Moses.
ARE consideration of many things-of
shoes and ships and sealing wax, of
cabbages and kings 4 roams the
plains, sails the seas, delves into the
earth, and scars into the sky; Huns,
horses and huntsmen alike come with
in its purview; books, boundaries and
governments; warships, waterways,
women suffrage and Wilhelm lin
short the alphabet and ALTERATION alike
are agoniZed in an attempt to deal ade-
Quately with merely a topical index to
this instrument which we are asked to
of the world.
These constitute a victors' peace:
and with them Ihave no quarrel. But
we look in vain through its 267 pages
for the elusive IA points of peace. Open
covenants long since took to hiding;
the freedom of the seas was treated
with scant courtesy at Paris; the estab-
lishment of equality of trade conditions
among nations conSenting to the peace
is nowhere to be found in this instru-
ment; the earlier doctrine Of no an
nexations and no indemnities long since
became a tragic joke, and there re-
mains alone, so far as present negotia-
tons have been reduced to written
form, the general association of ma
tions established by specific covenant.
Says Greed Is Seen.
Neither car we fix here any con-
firmation of the prediction that this
treaty was to be written in disregard
of the old order Of the balance Of power,
n with no element of national COM
greed, national suspicion and jealousy
are only too evident in almost every
article Of the treaty.
I'm short the sun Of commercial ex-
pansion In which Germany sought q
place passes into total eclipse behind
this treaty, n the shackles with
which she is to be manacled in her
~obscurity have been forged with metio-
ulous care by the forward looking
men with whom the president was
whose cooperation was strictly limited
to looking out for themselves, while
not emitting to see to it that the United
States should be made a full partner
in every phase of the enterprise de-
signed for the benefit of other mem
bers Of the big five.
1T naturally follows that q treaty
such as this can not be self-operative,
and we have been assured that, If we
examine 1T. we shall find that every
thing throughout its manifold provis-
ions its trainers have felt obliged to
turn to the league of nations as the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
L0NDONERS DON'T LIKE
AMERICAN SLANG

LONDON, July 22.-The English peo-
pie like American photoplays but they
90 not Xix the subtitles when slang
A well-known London critic has
praised a new American film produced
here, but is rather severe on the can.
tons. He could not understand what
a "bonehead" meant, a boob was
completely beyond him and bring bark
the bacon" he considered Impossible
from any viewpoint.
Aside from the word Some which
has been taken up as an adjective hy
~Londoners, Americans in England still
nave a monopoly on their slang,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
HOTEL COMPANY IS SUED
FOR DEATH OF EMPLOYE

The Chickasaw Hotel Tues
day was the defendant in a damage
suit In he sum of $40, 900. The suit
was filed in circuit court by d. 3.
Puryear. attorney for Abe D. Waldauer.
administrator OF the estate OF Harrison
Pemberton, deceased.
1t Is alleged in the declaration that
J. n. RaGsdale, Waterman for the hotel,
on June 80, while shooting at a negro
bell boy, missed his mark and shot and
fatally wounded Pemberton. dishwasher
at the hosiery.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
STRIKE Is FAILURE,

ROME. july 22.--The proposed inter-
national demonstrative strike called for
yesterday was not put into effect on
any considerable scale In any OF the
largc cities OF Italy. according to reports
received here -
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
R. R. OFFICIAL DEAD.

ROANOKE, Va, July 2~2.-Joseph I.
Doran, for years prominent in affairs
Of the Norfolk & Western railway, died
last night at his home in Philadelphia
after an extended illness. according to
information received here today.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
The result in either event
would be unfair to someone.

The result in either event
would be unfair to someone.
1t would be contrary to
American sense of decency
and fairness to force the non
union men off the job. And,
It would be unfair to other
trades who have arbitrated
and who have contracts,
should the general contractors
employ the union carpenters
who have refused to arbitrate
and make a contract.
Homes and factories and
warehouses and other bust
ness buildings are badly need
ed in Memphis. Hundreds of
such jobs are in their prelimi-
nary stages, either in offices
of architects, engineers and
contractors or in course of
construction.
The Uniform Working
Card" proposed in order to
put the union carpenters back
on the job without arbitration
(they refused to arbitrate)
would result in turmoil and
stop building operations.
by the Builders Exchange.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22

Some time ago the union
carpenters presented a con-
tract that the general con-
tractors considered unreason-
able. The contractors offered
to submit it to arbitration, but
the carpenters refused to arbi-
trate.
So the employers went
ahead with their work on the
open shop basis, using non
union carpenters, of whom
there are plenty - several
times as many as of union
men.
The "Uniform Working
Card" as demanded by the
Building Trades Council
would make it necessary for
every man on building con-
struction to carry some kind
of a union card.
Anyone can figure it out
either the non-union men
must join the union (Which
they don't care to DOS or the
contractors must employ I'M
ion carpenters, with whom
they have no contract.
Paid Advertisement, Publis
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
League Ignored.

II shall not dwell upon the shameful
episode of Shantung, pausing only to
say that it is not to the league of ma
lions but to Japan that Germany re-
nounces her rights, title and privileges
under the provision of the treaty.
1.-THE provisions for rendering Ger
many harmless in a military sense &C.
cupy many pages of the treaty. But,
here again, 1t is a conference of military
experts of the principal allied n as
ISOLATED powers, and not the league of
nations, which will fix the reductions to
be made in the number of German eff.
f~ectives and will approve the location
and restrict the number Of factories and
works wherein Germany will be per-
mitted to manufacture arms, munitions
and war materials. The diminution of
German forces upon the sea Is likewise
deemed by the treaty of too much i'm
p~ortance to be turned over to the league
of nations.
THE task of reparation will rest in
the hands of an interallied commission.
In this day of open covenants openly
arrived at, it Is interesting further to
note the absolute requirement in the
treaty that all proceedings of this com
clal reasons and on particular occasions
the commission shall decide otherwise.
THE principal allied and associated
powers figure rs times; the allied and
associated powers figure As times-a to-
tai of 121. Whereas the league of ma
tons figures altogether only 81 times,
and of these q refer to its nebulous
connection with the administration of
the Saar valley. 1t will be neither o
delicate nor a difficult task of dissec-
ton to remove from the treaty the Is
general provisions which it contains in
regard to the league of nations.
Il hope that az examination of the
treaty will convince others, as It has
CONVINCED me, that the instrument Is
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22

indispensable instrumentality for the
maintenance of the new order which
this instrument purposes to set up.
Il wish to call attention to the man
ner in which the signatories to the
instrument have separated themselves
into two distinct groups-the first
comprising the United States, the Brit
ish empire, France, Italy and Japan,
and everywhere throughout the treaty
described as the principal allied and
associated powers and the second, all
the other belligerents-with the en-
ception Of Costa Rica, whose absence
from the peace table has not yet been
exnlained-to the number of %.
TN the delimitation of the new
frontier line between Belgium and Ger
many, 1t is not to the league of nations,
but a commission of sever persons, five
Of whom will>be appointed by the prin-
cipal allied and associated powers, who
will assume this task. In matters of
controversy relating to the return OF
Alsace-Lorraine to French possession,
1t is not the league of nations which
functions, but the Central Rhine com
mission-an organization set up years
ago under the old order and now made
use of in the light of a new day. In
the establishment of the new CZecho-
Slovak state, it is not the league of ma
tions which will determine its frontiers,
but 1t is the principal allied and asso-
ciated powers. Similarly with Poland
and so, too, with East Prussia.
Germany its rights and
titles over Danzig not to the league OF
nations, but in favor of the principal al
lied and associated powers, who are to
appoint a commission to delimit the
frontier. So, too, with the redistribu-
ton of sovereignty over Schleswig. The
limitation of ornaments has been pre-
scented to us as one of the fundamental
purposes Of the league. Yet nowhere in
the instrument does this appear to be
the fact. Throughout the whole line Of
infinitely detailed s%tipulations which re-
duce Germany to military impotence,
1t is not the soothing agency of the
league of nations which essays the task,
but the strong arm Of the principal al
lied and associated powers. Germany
renounces in favor Of the principal al
lied and associated powers and not to
the league of nations, all her rights and
titles over her overseas possessions.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
The Union Carpenters
Refuse to Arbitrate

but if the "UnifOrm Working Card Were to 90 in
effect the general contractors WOuId hare to meet
their demands.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22

Paid Advertisement, Published by the Builders Exchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
SHOW HOUSES OF
NEW YORK CLOSE;
ACTORS ON STRIKE

New York, Aug. 9.-Nine play
houses in the Broadway theatrical
district have been closed, three are
presenting abbreviated programs,
while seven have been able to defy
the strike order of the Actors
Equity association, and to give
their advertised bills with COM
plete castles. This was the status
today of the latest labor trouble to
make an appearance in New York.
In addition TO the theatres that
are closed, it is estimated that a
total of 80 plays will be held up.
both actors and the managers
were firm in their intention to fight
it cut on the lines established. The
managers announced that suit
would be brought against the Ac-
toys association as such and
against the actors individually for
breaking contracts. The unusual
feature of a prominent actor pick
etiHg a "scab" theatre and enter
tanning a crowd sidewalk audience
with stunts gives an added public
interest in the strike
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
U. S. SECRET
SERVICE MEN
GO In ACTION
Special Agents Are Put on
Duty in Drive Against
the Profiteers.

Washington, Aug. 3. All
special agents the department
of justice over the country
have been ordered to assist
district attorneys in uncOVering
evidence of prOfiteering in food
stuffs and other necessities.
Attorney-General Palmer's in
structions were that the special
agents should drop everything
pending except the most pressing
cases and devote their attention to
the campaign to reduce the cost of
living. The results will be to put
hundreds of trained investigators in
the search for men who have in
flated prices exorbitantly.
While it was not so stated, the
was gained that only the
of radical propaganda
which resulted in recent bomb out
RACES would be allowed to interfere
with the efforts to punish profiteer-
ing.
Numerous reports from district
indicated that much evil
dence against profiteers was being
accumulated. Prosecutions are ex-
pected to soon be started in several
districts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
STRIKING MINERS
IN ILLINOIS BACK
AT THEIR PLACES

Springfield, Ill, Aug. 9.-Ninety
per cent of the striking miners in
the BelleviIle district returned to
work today, Frank Harrington,
presidentaof the LlliRois Mine Work
ers, announced this morning.
I'VE expect the remaining ten per
cent to be back at their tasks by
Monday" Harrington said. "Dissat-
isfaction arose when operators i'm
posed fines on miners who partici-
pated in the Mooney protest strike
July g."
President Harrington ordered the
men back with the comment that
the wage deductions were in ac-
cordance with the joint agreement.
Members of a committee of the
miners from the Bellevillee dis
trict, who came here yesterday,
were set upon by two unidentified
men and severely beaten. The as
sailants escaped
"Emissaries of the radicals who
tried to foment strikes in parts of
the state other than in the Belle
vile district, were roughly han
died" said Mr.. Harrington today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
CALL PERSHING
TOU. S., REPORT
Commander Summoned Home
Paris Hears-Baker and March
Deny knowledge of Order.

Paris. Aug. Sit is reported here
that General Pershing has been
called suddenly to the United States
and that he may even abandon his
visit to King Albert of Belgium,
planned for Sunday.
Washington, Aug. 9.-Secretary
Baker and General March, chief
of staff, said today they know moth
ing of any order recalling General
Pershing to the United States.
White House officials said they had
not been advised that such an or
der had gone forward.
1t was said that so far as the
war department was concerned
there was no immediate reason for
ordering the return of General
Pershing. Such an order would
come from the president as COM
mander in chief of the army.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
Budapest Held in State of Seige
u. S. CRISIS IS
DUE TO UNEASY
STATE ABROAD
Delay in Ratifying Peace
Keeps World in War
Conditions Turmoil.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Copyright, 1919, by The Argus.)
Washington, d. c., Aug. 9.-Pres-
ident Wilson believes the economic
crisis facing America is in part due
to the unsettled conditions through
out Europe and he therefore wants
the peace treaty ratified and a def
mite reconstruction program to be
passed by congress.
Mr.. Wilson has taken occasion in
his first address to both houses of
congress since his return from Eu-
rope to apepal to the legislators as
well as the American people to CO.
operate in these critical days that
America may pass safely through
the storms of industrial disturbance
growing out of the worldwide
war.
The president first says that
every shred of wartime and peace
time law, namely the statutes al
ready on the books aimed at profit
eering and boarding will be invoked
to reduce, if possible, the cost of
living. But while the executive
branch of the government may be
busted in prosecutions under the
various statutes, a definite, Coher-
ent working program must be
passed by congress which will last
through the entire transition per-
iod whether it is a few months or a
few years.
Dims at Trade Obstacles.
Mr.. Wilson also bespeaks recog-
uition of the fundamental fact that
there are many devious and diverse
routes between producer and con-
sumner and that the channels of
trade are choked and blocked by
various impediments that can and
must be removed if America is to
obtain lower prices for necessities
of life. The president makes defin-
ite suggestions aimed at those who
would stand between the tiller of the
soil and the ultimate consumer and
extract exorbitant profits by meth
DDS of combination and restraint of
trade.
But Mr.. Wilson drives home the
point that affects the tagging con-
sideration given the peace treaty in
the senate when he asks how the
world can possibly be restored to
normal if there are delays in rati-
flying the agreements made in
Paris. how trade can be carried on
and credits extended unless our re-
lations with the powers of Europe
is definitely placed on a peace basis.
Urges Cooperation.
The president asks the American
people for cooperation and appeals
to their sense of patriotism no
less needed in the perilous days of
reconstruction than in the trying
hours of war but he urges that
everything which can possibly i'm
pede a resumption of world trade
be cleared away. And he therefore
points directly at the peace treaty
containing the League of Nations
Continued on Page Nine)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
FARMERS TO MEET
AT CAPITAL FOR
AID PRICE PROBE

Indianapolis, Ind. Aug. 9.-Rep-
resentatives of farmers organiza-
tions in "a wheat and corn grow
ing states will attend a conference
in Washington Monday to plan
united action in the high cost of liv-
ing investigation according to John
G. Brown, president of the Indi-
ana Federation of Farmers asso-
Citations.
Mr.. Brown returned from Chica-
go yesterday, where he attended a
meeting of farmers representatives
of Indiana. Illinois and Iowa, who
decided to call the meeting at
Washington.
Mr. Brown said that the farmers
are anxious to do their share in
solving the price problems but that
they were the first to feel the ef-
feet of a general tieup and expect
to carry their side of the question
to the president and stay in Wash
ington until some Kind of a sOlu-
tion has been reached
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
CLEAR ICEBERGS
FROM COURSE OF
PRINCES VESSEL

st. Johns, n. F., Aug. Especial
precautions against icebergs in the
path of the battleship Renown,
bringing the Prince of Wales to
Canada were taken today. 1t was
announced that the cruiser Daunt-
less, which preceded the escorting
fleet to arrange for the princes
reception here, was to cruise
about the Grand Banks to locate
ice and then escort the Renown to
her anchorage in Conception Bay.
Several unusually large bergs have
been reported near shipping lanes.
Preparations for the royal visf-
tors reception were being hasten
ed today. 1t is being planned that
the prince shall land at noon and
after receiving homage from colo
NAL and city officials, ride beneath
eight great welcome arches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
RAIL MEN DENY
MAKING THREAT
FOR ROAD RULE
Say it Has Nothing to do
With Pay Demands
Will Find Solution.

Washington, Aug. 9.-Leaders Of
the Is organizations of railroad en-
pIoyes united today in a definite
assertion that they had no desire
and have had none, to impress upon
the public by violence or by threat, ="
their proposal that the railroads be
nationaIized under tripartite con-
troll.
Declaring that the requests of
the men that living costs be re-
duced or their wages increased was
aside from 4he question of the fu-
ture disposition of the railroad
problem, the labor leaders said
that if President Wilson and con-
gress could not meet this request
the men would have to try to find
another solution"
Answer to Wilson Speech?
While the labor Leaders did not
mention the presidents address to
congress yesterday, it was the gen.
eral belief that their statement re-
suited from his warning to the la
Dor world that strikes would only
make present conditions worse and
that those who sought to employ
threats or coercion were only pre-
pairing their own destruction.
ITO prevent any misunderstand-
ing as to the policy of the orgaL-
lied railroad employees" said the
statement, 1--WE unite in a definite
assertion that We have no desire,
and have had none, to impress upon
the public, by violence or threat,
our proposal that the railroads be
nationalized under the tripartite
control.
Are Two Separate Problems.
Two distinctly separate consid-
erations now confront the people,
the wage requirements of the rail-
road employees, and the Sims bill
(embodying the railway employees
plan for reorganization of the rail-
rOads)
I'm the matter of wages we have
said that if We are to continue to
live as Americans should and care
for our families as American fam
lilies should be cared for, the prof
iteers must be restrained or our
wages increased. Every fair mind
ed man, and very intelligent house
wife, will recognize the reasonable
ness of this request. If congress
and the president can not meet
this request, it is still living ques-
lion and we shall have to try to
find another solution.
No Purpose of Intimidation.
This however, bears in no wise !
upon our support of the Sims bill. |
We hold to our conviction that the |
railroad employees are in no mood |
to consign themselves finally 20 !
he autocratic control of financial |
lictators. but in proposing the /
of capital and the tri- |
oartite directorate. We have no pur-
pose of intimidation. We appeal /
10 the craftsmanship Of America
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
HITCHCOCK SAYS
HE rs OPPOSED TO
ROAD PLAN OF MEN

Washington, Aug. 9.-Senator
Hitchcock, Democrat of Nebraska,
announced today that he was op-
posed to the plan of the railroad
brotherhoods for reorganization of
the railroads. Reply to an inquiry
from the brotherhoods in Nebraska,
Senator Hitchcock said:
I'm my opinion, congress would
not be justified in enacting such
radical legislation without a man
date from the people. The railroad
organizations have raised a very
large question-one that should not
be passed upon by congress without
becoming the issue in a general
election"