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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-05-31
sHERIEF,s SALE

SHERIFF'S SALE
Under and by virtue or an execution In
favor Of Ellen Thomas and against James
Thomas issued out Of and from the circuit
court Of Polk county, Florida, and under
the seal Of said court on a judgment and
decree made and entered by the Judge Of said
court, on a judgment and decree made and
entered by the Judge Of said court on the
14th day OF February, 1910, in certain cause
therein pending wherein Ellen Thomas was
complainant and James Thomas defendant. /
have levied on the following real estate as the
property Of said James Thomas, towit: Lots
and in block IL Of Washington Park being
part Of Swlndell & Stephenson's subdivision Of
the southeast quarter Of the southeast quar-
ter Of section No. - In township twenty
eight south, Of range twenty three east, In
Polk county, Florida, and will offer the same
for sale at public cutlery and will sell the
same to the highest and best bidder for cash.
in front Of the court house door in Partow,
Florida, on Monday, the second day In June,
1919, to satisfy said execution together with
costs, charges and expenses. The purchasers
to pay for the deed
Dated at Barlow, Florida, this 3rd day Of
May A. D., 1919.
JOHN LOGAN.
8940 Sheriff PolkCounty, Florida
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-05-31
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
The Triple Alliance

IT HE first dispatches from Wash
~ lngton reported a good deal of
senatorial opposition to the pro-
posed alliance aid of France.
Senators Borah, Curtis and Norris
announced their opposition; Senator
Cummlns was the only Senator
openly to support it. In explaining
his opposition Senator Norris said
that it would "kll the league" and
was the nose Of militarism entering
the tent
Many important newspapers have
maintained careful silence on the
subject. But such opinions as have
been expressed do not bear out the
Senate opposition Sentiment as for
mulated is overwhelmingly in favor
of the proposal. Only one impor-
tant Democratic paper, "The Louis
vile Courier Journal" fatty de-
nounces the alliance, which it feels
has only half hearted support from
President Wilson. The league is
it argues "The st. Louis
Post Dispatch" summarizes the
prevailing Democratic view when it
calls the alliance simply boiling the
door against the probability of war
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

"a door which has already been
locked"
The Republican press is practi-
cally unanimous in favor of the ALI
ance. The New York Tribune and
''The Kansas City Star" see in it the
essential basis of future peace. Saws
the latter:
The Entente policy is in reality the
only tangible thing that gives force and
body to the peace treaty. With that
policy as buttress the peace has a
guarantee of permanence. Without il
the instrument is just a treaty and
nothing more. And the history of
treaties is the history of wars. None
has ever stood that it was to the ad
vantage of any aggressive power to
override. Their guarantees guarantee
nothing. Prussian disarmament did not
keep Prussia off Napoleon's back
Treaty neutrality did not save Belgium
These are lessons that have the deem
est significance for France and Justify
her in demanding good indorsers on the
league of nations paper. She will be
satisfied with those of America and
Britain, and those powers have as rood
reasons for lending that security as
France has for wanting it. There ought
to be no difficulty In completing the
transaction"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Where Are the Fourteen Points?

><T T is believed that the Ger
mans will find fifteen days
none too long for the dis
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Democrats Say SSYes'' Repub-
s lican Opinion Still Demands
!" League Changes

1t Will also make reservations iii be-
half Of the United States, explicitly de-
clining to adhere to certain portions of
the treaty. This will be done with the
full knowledge and consent of all
Americans, except perhaps few who
cannot eXtricate themselves from a
false position. Democrats will be as
anxious as Republicans to make the
necessary reservations which will pre-
serve lnvlolate the fundamental rule
that the United States shall be GOV
erned solely by the American people.
AS that issue becomes clearer, through
the maze of misinformation and we'll
meant, but INSTRUCTED efforts to abo-
lsh war, the ease with which the
United States will mould the work Of
Its representatives. at Paris will be
surprising TO those who now assume
that the nation can be committed to
fatal policies in advance of passing its
own Judgment uron them
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
League " III Complete Labor

"The Evening Post" argues that
the fourteen points have been
largely fulfilled, and concludes:
"The full fourteen points have NOT
been realized in the peace conle4e...-
but that is because the work of re
establishing peace must continue for
years to come, and to that end the
league mas been created. The league
VIII be continuation of the confer
ence. 1t will in the course of time
pring INTO realization conditions which
cannot now be definitely laid down
because the ground ia still too fluid
because fears and animosities are still
too vivid, because in many instances
there are no facts to build on. If
1ermany's conversion Is sincere she
Will come into the league. If the bur
dens imposed on her in reparation
are too heavy they will be reduced.
In the league is the answer to most
of the outcries against treaty vjo-
iativc of principes'
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
No Serious Results

TO the same general effect is
THE Detroit Free Press:
"As a matter Of fact, it is doubt
full whether any serious results would
come from refusal of the upper house
TO place its seal of approval on the
German treaty. The reason for re-
fusal would be made clear Berlin
would understand perfectly we'll the
causes and the significance Of the re
fusal; it would know that the failure
to ratify in no way affected American
solidarity with its allies so far as
determination to see Germany put in
its place is concerned: and this would
be particularly evident if the proposed
special triple alliance of America.
Great Britain and France were to be
put into effect
"The Boston Transcript" would
go further and separate the treaty
and league entirely:
The Senate can take one of four
courses once the treaty is submitted:
~ Ratfv it as submitted: p reject
it as submitted; 80 ratify it with
amendments; ~ ratify it with reser-
vations inserted Immediately before
the signatures of the American sigma
tories. If the Senate will separate the
terms OF the treaty of peace from the
terms Of The British plan for the fut-
i-- 6 =, l.,
treaty can then be ratified. and its
enforcement, SO far as the United
States is involved, intrusted to an in
terLational commission, Then the
British plan for a league of nations
can be discussed upon its merits. We
have good reason to believe that France
and Italy would welcome such course
upon the part OF the Senate. We are
confident that when the American peo-
pie find out that the peace treaty can
be concluded without paying the price
Of abandoning the policy of Washing
ton, destroying the doctrine of Monroe
and sacrificing the nationalism of
Cleveland and Roosevelt, and best of
all without pledging their flesh and
blood for all time to come to guarantee
The integrity of the British and jap
anese empires from outside attack
(Article Ten, they will say to the
Senate; Separate the peace treaty from
the league plan; ratify the one and
leaven the other with the Root amend
ments or leave IL alone
As to the practical question of
how such separation would be
made and what would be it's effect
IN delaying peace, there has been
little detailed discussion.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Secret and Secretly

Colonel Harvey reviews "a Four
teen Point-less Treaty. in his weekly
as follows
"First-Open covenants of peace
openly arrived at That has long been
the veriest joke, and the Joke runs true
to form to the very end For open and
openly read secret and 'secretly.
Second-Absolute freedom of the
seas. If there has been single step
taken toward making the seas more free
than they were, or toward making Brit
lsh preponderance on them less over
whelming. we shall give big red apple
to any one who will point it out to us
"Thrd-Removal of economic barriers
and establishment of equal trade con-
ditions. Germany is indeed required
to equalize her trade conditions. but
otherwise the commandment is null and
void.
Fourth-Adequate guarantees of re
duction of armaments. Again, Germany
has to do it, but nobody else in all the
wide, wide world
Fifth Absolute. impartial adjust
ment of all colonial claims 1t is a
most extraordinary circumstance that
such an adjustment should exactly
coincide with the disposition of the
colonies which would have been made
under the old system of right Of CON
quest.
"Sixth-Evacuation of Russian terri
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
England
Russia

1t was reported that an all-Rus-
sian government would shortly be
formed at Omsk and that this Kol-
chak government would probably be
recognized by the Allies and the
United States. Admiral Kolchak
was said to be ready to advance
upon Moscow. 1t was officially an
nounced that the United States and
the Allies would lend twenty million
dollars to the Interallied commission
administering the Transsiberian
Railroad Recognition of the Onsk
government in the transaction was
thus avoided.
A wireless from the Bolshevist
government to Dr. Nansen, head of
the commission to feed Russia, an
nounced on Tuesday that the gov
ernment refused to quit fighting in
return for food. On Wednesday it
was reported that DR.. Nansen had
gone to Russia.
A Russian government wireless
declared that an Afghan mission had
arrived at Moscow to establish rela-
tions between Afghanistan and Rus
sia. London announced that British
soldiers had advanced in Northern
India against Afghan tribesmen who
had crossed the border.
Hungary
Last Saturday and Sunday dis
patches reported that the Bella Kun
government had refused the ar
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Must the Senate Accept the Treaty Whole
Euents of the Week
Paris

~ EVEN notes have been filed by
the German delegates. The
~ first was general protest.
To it the Four replied that
only practical suggestions, no dis
cusslon of right, would be heard.
Marshal Foch left for the Rhine.
and 1t was announced that Allied
armies would advance if Germany
did not sign.
The Austrian delegates, headed
by Chancellor Renner. reached
St. German. II hope l may
go away with as joyful a
heart as I bring" said the chan
cellor. Unofficial predictions de-
clared that the Austrian treaty
would provide for a billion indem-
nifty and abolish the Austrian navy.
Earlier in the week Chancellor Rem
ner declared at Vienna that in view
Of the peace terms it would be mad
ness to unite with Germany.
The report of a settlement of the
Italian problem was declared on
Sunday to be false. The French
press asserted that solution was
blocked by President Wilson. On
Wednesday the Italians landed large
forces on the Dalmatian coast.
Senator Charles Humbert was ac-
quilted by court martial of the
charge of dealing with the enemy.
Germany
The imperial ministry declared a
week Of mourning for the peace
terms. President Ebert called the
treaty "monstrous." Chancellor
Scheidemann declared that it was a
dreadful and murderous docu-
ment, that it provided for "miser-
able enslavement" and was ..unac-
ceptable." He also attacked Presi-
dent Wilson.
England
The body of Edith Cavell was re-
moved from Brussels to England
with military honors, and after an
imposing ceremony at Westminster
Abbey, buried at Norwich, her ma
tive town.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Radicals and Republicans Join in Search OF Them

order which America fought to estab-
hsh, crimes against the peace of the
world The terms of the grant of
klaochau and Shantung to Japan, Of
the Dodecanese to Italy, are violations
of the fourteen points at the expense
not of the enemy but of the Allies In
the territorial establishment of new
states. Jugo- Slavia, Czecho- Slovakie,
Poland difficult questions arose which
did not admit of any clean cut applica-
tion of the fourteen points, but in the
claims Of Japan on China there was q
single issue to be maintained or COM
promised, that of right, justice and
truth. The treaty not only cancels
the principle of equality and participa-
tion in a common benefit as respects
the late enemy, it withdraws it among
the Allies themselves. America has
won the war but has lost the peace.
Mr.. y iison and the Wolres
"The abandonment of the fourteen
points was the price which Mr.. Wilson
paid for the form of peace which he
has secured under the title The League
of Nations. He viii doubtless base his
claim to success of his mission to Eu-
rope on this achievement, and already
1t Is being hailed as a triumph of prac-
tcal craftsmanship over the futile as
pirations aad feeble scruples of the
idealists of whom Mr.. Wilson used to
be accounted one. It should be pointed
out, however, that the process by which
the league was secured, that of palter-
ing with the principles on which it
was to have been based, goes far to
discredit it in It's inception. The true
relation between the covenant and the
treaty has been reversed The cove
nant was put forward as a pledge and
a promise to be made good by subse
quent action beginning with the treaty
of peace. Instead of this the treaty has
been used to buy support, or worse,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
From The st. Louis Post-Dispotch

tory. 1t hasn't been done. and no as
surance is given that it will be done.
Even the treaty does not effectively re-
quire it to be done
"Seventh-Belgium evacuated and
restored That has been and is being
done. But even there the command
ment is not strictly followed, for Bel
gium is receiving small addition of
territory which the commandment did
not contemplate.
ighth-French territory evacuated
and restored and Alsace Lorraine sur
rendered AS in the case of Belgium,
the act goes further than the COM
mandment.
''Ninth-Italy's frontiers to be re-
adjusted on lines of nationality That
will probably be done, but it will be
against the implacablc opposition of
the putatiye author of the command
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

to buy off opposition, to the league.
Mr.. Wilson is an architect who robs
his foundation of stone to build flying
buttresses. He is the mother fleeing
in a sledge from wolves, holding to her
bosom her last born and throwing her
other children successively to the de
vourlng pack. Whether the child is
worth the sacrifice is for the future to
show"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Costa Rica

President Tinoco announced that
the revolutionary forces had been
repulsed. The revolutionists pro-
claimed President and demanded
recognition.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Neic York

Representative John L. Burnett,
OF the 7th Alabama District, chair
man Of the Committee on Imrnigra-
ton, and for twenty years member
of the House, died on Tuesday,
May -.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

the Rumanian advance had been
halted by the Allies. On Tuesday q
Paris dispatch revealed the fact that
Bella Kun had been invited to send
delegates to Paris to sign the peace
treaty and was expected to accept.
China
1t was announced that four pow
ers, the United States, France,
Japan and England, would jointly
support loans to the Chinese govern
ment.
Costa RIGA
President Tinoco announced that
the revolutionary forces had been
repulsed. The revolutionists pro-
claimed a President and demanded
recognition.
United States
The United States naval seaplanes
NC-1 and NC-3 on Thursday. Nav
s, flew $40 nautical miles from
Rockaway Beach to Halifax in nine
hours. The NC-4 had engine trouble
off Cape Cod and landed at Chat
ham. The NC-1 and NC-3 on Sat-
urday, May 10, flew 46O miles
from Halifax to Trepassey. n. F., in
6 hours and 54 minutes. The NC-4
last Wednesday flew from Chatham
Light, Mass, to Halifax, about $50
miles, in less than four hours. Last
Thursday the NC-4 flew from Hall
fax to Trepassey, having to alight on
the way for repairs. The same day
the navy dirigible C-5 reached St.
Johns, n. F., from Montauk Point,
n. y. in 25 hours and 40 minutes.
Thus the first laps of the transatlan-
tic flight were completed.
The Victory Loan of four and a
half billions was oversubscribed by
billion, it was estimated. There
were about fifteen million sub
scribers.
The Republican Senate caucus
chose Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
former Progressive, president pro
tenn.
The American Legion of War Vet
Grams held the first convention at st.
Louis
a strike of the employees of the
American Railway Express Com
many was called off. In New York
10000 cloakmakers struck for a
fortyfour-hour week In Boston
5000 carpenters struck for higher
wages.
Professor Todd, of Amherst.
sailed in a steamship with two
United States navy flying boats
aboard to photograph the total
eclipse Of the sun from point near
the equator. The photographs will
be taken from the planes at an at
titude Of $4,000 feet or more.
Nesc York
Former Governor Whitman was
On the stand in the investigation OF
the Thompson charges. He denied
every accusation made by Senator
Thompson. In the course Of an e.
animation by Frank Moss charges
Of bribery were brought into the
questions. Mr.. Whitman denied
these also.
Died
Representative John L. Burnett,
Of the 7th Alabama District, chair
man Of the Committee on Immigra-
ton, and for twenty years a member
Of the House, died on Tuesday,
May 13.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

IN AIRING only the extreme
radicals, the nation has
~ united in a chorus Of praise
.. of the peace treaty. But the
league Of nations remains another
natter The dispatches from Wash
mgton agree that amendment
ofthe league covenant is likely. and
editorial opinion supports this view.
.sThe Democratic papers all take
the contrary view They see the
peace treaty and the league mex
ricaby combined, and jubilantly
predict that the Republicans will not
dare reject the former by changing
the latter. Says THE Charleston
News and Courier:
s~The treaty may be divided into two
parts part imposing terms on Ger
many and part providing for the fut-
nre maintenance Of peace. But neither
part can be separated from the other
Ii the Republicans insist on rejecting
the part providing for the future main
rrnance Of peace--that is to say, the
Part providing for league of nations
-@e=they would smash and destroy the
other part of the treaty, the part i'm
posing terms on Germany; for in the
treaty the league of nations is made
carrying out OF those terms. This
would not only throw the whole world
INTO indescribable confusion by delay
ing indefinitely the conclusion Of
reaceit would also prevent the con-
summation of the one thing which the
Republicans have been insisting upon
and thing which the terms of this
trrety accomplish in thoroughly sat
'isfactory manner-namely, the reduc-
ticn of Germang to condition of i'm
poteuce, eliminating all possibility of
revival Of the German menace to the
world
;. te t~-srnris
ihere 80 few Repub blcan
papers with Independent leanings
which argue in the same direction.
The Grand Forks N. D. Her
aid" holds chat the peace terms
and the league are "jnextricahlv
welded together" and that the
treaty must be accepted as whole
Or rejected. Says THE Philadelphia
Inquirer;
ut IS impossible to think that few
senators would care to take the re
sponsibility OF sidetrackng the United
states-leaving it 10 stand alone in q :
tecnncal state OF war with Germany
and refusing TO join all the rest Of the
world in making peace. For it has
gone TO Just that The treaty (includ
mg the league OF nations covenant
must De accepted or repudiated as it
STANDS To amend it and put those
s..s'ehohehts up 10 Germany and all
osner nations represented al Versailles
would seem to be utterly out Of the
question"
But the great bulk Of Republi-
can opinion is very far from tax
mg this view. The comments in
s'ss that the treaty must not be
ssade party measure. Almost all
agree that the treaty must be rati-
~ neo- But there is urgent demand
mat 1t be ratified only after amend
men'S OF with reservations. SAYS
The Washington Post:
Inc Senate will ratify the treaty.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Compiled It'll

"Tenth-Autonomy for the subject
peoples of the dual realm. This is
being achieved. but the commandment
was practically abrogated by the Presi-
dent some months ago.
eventh-Rumania, Serbia and
Montenegro to be evacuated and re-
stored. This viii doubtless be done,
but it is not provided for in the Ger
man peace treaty
"Twelfth-Dsposition of the Turk
ish Empire. This may be fulfilled. 1t
has not yet been, but awaits some fut-
ure treaty.
Thirteenth - Independent Poland.
Thirteen being proverbially unlucky
number, and things working by con
traries it happens that this is the only
one OF the whole fourteen that is being
fulfilled, just as the President or his
mentor apparently meant it to be.
'Fourteenth-A general association
Of nations Instead. an attempt at the
foundation OF a special league Of ma
tons, completely dominated by Big
Five
ITO recaDitulate: Six of the com
mandments have been repudiated, some
because they were found to be impos-
slble and some for the sake of bargain
ing. Four have been Indefinitely de-
ferred. Two have been fulfilled with
some additions not contemplated by
their promulgator. One has been taken
up and practically executed after its
abandonment. One, just one, has been
fulfilled substantially according to the
original intent
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

ID belleVed that the Ger
mans will find fifteen DAYS
none too long for the dis
covery of any Of the four
teen points that may be supposed to
be lurking somewhere within the
$4,000 words of the peace treaty."
remarks The Kansas City Star"
Very general agreement is ex-
pressed by critics Of the President.
And for once radical opinion coin
cides with the views of Colonel
George Harvey and of Republicans.
The New York Evening Post" is
the only Democratic paper which
has attempted an answer.
Here Is the view of an extreme
radical, "The Fargo On. D. Cou-
rier News leading organ of the
Nonpartisan League:
4 Leader Without Friends
President Wilson, instead of the
greatest man IN all history, will re-
turn to America broken and dis
credited. He went to Europe the
idol of all its common people. He
returns literally without friends
for even the imperiaists to whom
he has surrendered all his ideals
have no confidence in him, while the
people will look upon him as one who.
with the power to help them, be
trayed them into the hands of their
old enemies, the coYners of profits
and the makers of war.
THE European governments. flushed
with victory wer Greedy with the
lust for revenge ID plunder. There
was but one course for him to pur-
sue.
Having found that the Allies had
cynically turned their backs on the
fourteen points, had repudiated their
signatures to the armistice before
yet the ink was dry, he should have
made the facts known to the world
ard returned to America.
"But he made another fatal mis-
take: he thought he could measure
diplomatic swords with the most cum
ming masters of Europe, and now he
finds himself cut to pieces"
4 Lost Peace
Even more caustc is the radical
weekly, "The Dial":
ut is a thankless task TO bring in a
bill of particulars to show in detail
how one by one the fourteen points /
to which America and the Allies bound
have been abrogatcd by the
actual pact. On January %, 1917. /
President Wilson had declared that
the freedom of the seas is the sine
1ua non Of peace, equality and CO.
operation yet this was the rst article
,f the fourteen to be Withdrawn from
before the armistice WIS
'igncd The grant Of Upper Silesia to
Poland, Of Southern Tyrol to Italy are
aot only violations OF an agreement