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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
PAL MER'S NAME SENT
TO SENATE WITH OTHERS

Formal nominations of officials now
serving appointments made while
Congress was in adjournment. trays
mitted to the Senate today, included
that of Attorney General Palmer. his
new assistants and a number of fed
eral district attorneys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
Boards shipbuilding Plan Wise.

1.-The shipping board acted wisely in
starting a program of building steel and
wooden ships as fast as they could be
turned out" said Mr.. Franklin, for if
we had sent great army to France
and had not had means to get supplies
to them somebody would have been
crucfied.
ITO get back to a peace-time basis
believe that steamers under 5000
tons burden should be disposed of.
and that a liberal building program
of larger ships should be proceeded
with. Establishment of a merchant
marine is also a question of building
up individuals. corporations, foreign
banking facilities and many other
elements SO that trade may move
properly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
q. S. Should Not Operate Ships.

1--WE do not believe that merchant
ships should be operated by the gov
eminent in any form, and that the
government should have fixed policy,
SO that when capital enters the field
1t will know what the conditions are
to be and will not have to conform
to one plan one year and another plan
the next
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
May Head Big Committees.

The committee, 1t was understood,
has definitely appointed Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, as chairman
OF the foreign relations committee.
The committee also was understood
to have rendered membership on the
foreign relations committee to Sena-
tors New of Indiana, Moses of New
Hampshire, Harding of Ohio and
Kenyon Of Iowa Owing to the i'm
will have charge OF the peace treaty.
memberships have been much sought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
How Germans Will Attack Treaty.

The main German attack will be di-
rected against the financial sections
of the treaty, and especially against
that section which provides that the
total bill of Germany shall not be
made up until 1921. The German de-
mands that he shall know how much
he is to pay at once az a necessary
antecedent condition to beginning the
business. He will insist, and is in
sisting, that the financial provisions
amount to q prolongation OF war in
definitely. On the whole this seems to
be his main line of attack.
AS to the Saar settlement. German
attack here is in fact designed to give
the impression Of departure from
President Wilson's fourteen points
rather than to make serious resist
ance. The area affected is so small,
the amount Of coal involved is so little
necessary to German industry. that
the whole Saar question would be un
important except that the German
feels that it is good ground on which
to maneuver.
AS to the Polish problems, the Ger
man seems ready now to surrender
Posen in the east as she has tacitly
accepted the cession of Alsace Lor-
raine in the west. but the loss of
West Prussia and upper Silesia are al
most fatal blows to Prussia. If the
Germans reject the treaty Of peace it
will be on the whole because Of the
Polish provisions, together with the
paragraph about reparations. These
remain vital issues. But it Is well to
understand in America that debate in
Germany now is over the question as
to whether 1t will be profitable to
sign and not perform or merely not
sign. The German has no intention
Of performing. He has announced in
advance that the treaty of peace will
be for him another scrap Of paper
He does not recognize that RESPONSE
bility for the war is his. He does
not admit that the war was lost on
the battlefield. He is building up a
national belief that Germany was
tricked into signing the armistice by
false promises made by President
Wilson; that. having laid down its
arms, Germany has been shamefully
betrayed, and has no moral obliga-
lions to comply with the terms of the
treaty of peace.
In sum. therefore. the actual signing
Of the treaty of peace by Germany
Is Of relatively less importance than
it would seem. Whether he sign or
not, the German means to evade. He
means to continue to compel the al
lies to maintain armies in Germany
He will bubble and resist the applica-
ton of every provision in the treaty
of peace. and he hopes that the al
lance will ultimately disintegrate, bs.
fore he has bssn forced to comply
with the terms Of the treaty of peace.
1t is clear. then, as I have said SO
often in these dispatches. that we have
not reached q settlement in Europe.
1t is plain that no settlement with
Germany was possible. because the
German. now as at all times. declines
the responsibility for the past and
intends to avoid obligations in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
All Europe Suffering.

'All the nations of Europe are suf-
fering from losses and are bearing
and will continue to bear burdens
which are almost more than they can
carry. These burdens and losses have
been forced upon them by the agrees
sion of Germany.
1t is right that Germany, which
is responsible for the origin for these
calamities should make them good to
the utmost Of her capacity. Her hard
ship Will arise not from the condi-
tons of peace. but from the acts of
those who provoked and prolonged
the war. Those who were responsible
for the war cannot escape it's just
consequences"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
Col. Sanctuary Explains Stand.

He gave as his reason that these
employees, by reason of position. ex-
perience in the city and compensa-
tion. were better qualified to care for
themselves than employees reporting
here for service: that Congress pri-
marily intended the dormitories for
war workers, and that to admit the
employees Of senators and representa-
tives meant that some war worker,
not having the experience or salary
above referred to would have to accom-
modate herself to local conditions in
finding a room.
Col. Sanctuary also stated that all
rooms allotted by him had been made
on the basis of merit alone and not
upon influence. and that it was evil
IDENTIFY the desire of the housing cor
poration to obtain needed friends in
Congress by adopting a policy of car
ing for the employees above referred
to. Col. Sanctuary did not hesitate to
condemn this policy, because it had
been demonstrated through his service
that the dormitories could be filled by
strictly war workers, and If 1t was to
be the policy of the housing corpora
ton to admit all employees of senators
and representatives who. applied It
would naturally mean that with the
influence backing their applications
they would be allotted q room to the
exclusion of those for whom he be-
lieved the dormitories had been
erected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
Due at New York Sunday.

Boston May 81, has been diverted to
New York, where she is due Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
Promises Modern Plant.

William K. Kelly, vice president or
the company, stated that the plant
would be a modern one in every re-
spect, and that the concern installing
the incinerator would furnish BOND
as guarantee that there would De
no smoke or Objectionable odors.
President Whitehead expressed the
opinion that the incinerator would be
a success, and that there would be no
cause for complaint such as existed
in connection with the operation of
the former plant in Virginia.
Representative Stuart F. WOOD or
West Virginia, a member of the
House District committee, surprised
the hearing by joining in the protest
of the property owners. He said he
appreciated the difficult problem faced
by the Commissioners, but hoped they
would be able to solve 1t in way to
preserve the interests of the home
owners of moderate means.
Mr.. Wood struck an entirely new
note in the proceedings when he sug-
ginia might resent the locating of a
refuse plant on q street named for
that state. West Virginia, he de-
clared, appreciated the honor of nav
ing a thoroughfare in the National
Capital named for it, even though the
street has not been developed.
Institution Objects.
Ralph Burton Of the Columbia In
stitution for the Deaf. entered a pro-
test in behalf of that institution,
whose welfare, he insisted. would be
menaced If the refuse plant is located
on the site acquired for it.
Prof Isaac Allison, also of the Co
lumbar Institution, told of making
measurements to determine if many
homes are located within 2o0-yard
radius of the site.
He found more than thirty homes
within such a radius, one of which,
he said, Is located within about $50
feet of where 1t IL proposed to assert
and incinerate the city's trash col
lections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
GERMAN METHOD OF ATTACK
ON PEACE TREATY IS ANALYZED

future. His mentality remains incom-
prehensible. his purpose menacing, his
signature worthless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
REBEL AS TO WAY
DORM|TOR|ES RUN
Girl War Workers Organize
to Have objectionable
Features" Removed.

Storm clouds are gathering about
the government dormitories on the
Union station plaza. The thousand or
the dorrpitorfes have organized. and
are making determined efforts to re-
move a number of what they call
Objectionable features which have
arisen in connection with the opera
ton of the big hotel"
They declare that the idea from
the start was that these dormitories
were to be the homes for women
engaged in war work; that they
were to be operated by women. and
that they were to form a strictly
women's community. This original
idea. they contend has not been car
ried out strictly In accordance with
their understanding. and as a result
an evidence of belligerency has ma
terialized.
Regret Col. sanctuary's Leaving.
The women have gone on record
as disappearing the removal of Col.
F.. Fl. Sanctuary, who was in charge
OF the housing. 1t was he who ex-
cluded senator's and representatives
secretaries and clerks from obtain
ing quarters in the dormitories, con-
tending that they were not war work.
ers and that they received salaries
sufficiently high to permit them to
look elsewhere for rooms
Col. Sanctuary is a member of the
advisory committee of the war work
ers' organization and had charge of
allotment of rooms in these dormi-
tories from the opening of the opera
ton until April 80. when his work as
laison officer with the joint congress
sional commission for Redistribution
of salaries of government employees
made 1t necessary for him TO- resign
from that work.
Why he opposed letting secretaries
and clerks to members of Congress
get rooms in these dormitories is ex-
planned in this connection by Col.
Sanctuary. He discloses that he not
only refused to approve any applica-
tons made by the woman employees of
members of either the House or SEN
ate, but also refused to submit list
of such applications to the United
States Housing Corporation when re-
quested to do SO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
BOTH SIDES HEARD
ON REFUSE PLANT
Northeast Section Sends
Large Delegation to Com
missioners' Hearing.

Both sides to the controversy over the
proposed establishment of a refuse plant
at West Virginia avenue and Mount
Olivet road scored surprises at hear
ing before the District Commissioners
today by residents of the territory af-
fected.
Attorney George +. Hoover. appear
ing for the Northeast Washington Citi-
zens' Association and number of
property owners. declared that neither
the building. fire nor health egdiations
had been compiled with in the issuing
of a permit to the J. G. Whitehead
Company to construct refuse plant at
this location, and that the permit, there
fore, Is null and void.
Contractors Reply.
The contractors replied that the in =
cinerator they propose to erect will
emit neither Objectionable doors nor
dangerous gases and that the District
regulations will be fully complied
with. They asserted that they will
be protected by bond under which
they can close down the plant without
loss to themselves if it should develop
objectionable smoke. odors or gases
and become a community nuisance.
ne northeast SecIlOn DToDdDly
never sent such a large delegation to
a hearing at the District building as
it did today. Citizens associations.
educational institutions and home
owners Joined in protest against the
Commissioners action in granting the
refuse plant permit, and asked that it
be Cancelled. The various interests
effected were represented by attor-
neys. of whom Mr.. Hoover and J. J.
Darlington were most active in pre-
senting the protestants' views.
Quotes Regulations.
Attorney Hoover stated that the
building regulations providing that
no institution Of the general char
acter of a refuse plant should be To-
Gated within the fire limits or within
$50 yards of dwelling without the
consent of three-fourths of the prop
erty owners being obtained had not
been complied with.
1t could be established. he contend
ed that offensive and unhealthy odors
and gases would be generated, which
would bring the proposed plant with
in the prohibition of the health regu-
lations.
Mr.. Hoover referred to the conditions
resulting from the operation of the
refuse plant just across the river. in
Virginia. 1t was the destruction Of
this plant by nre recently Whlch caused
]. G. Whitehead. one of the bondsmen
of John G. Faircloth, former refuse
contractor of the District, to take over
the contract and acquire ground for
new plant in the northeast section, the
attorney said.
Commissioner KutZ called attention
to the fact that the contract held by
the Whitehead company stipulates that
the plant shall not be operated as
nuisance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
BY FRANK H. SIMONDs.

PARIS, May 21.-Bernhardi was
right when he told his countryrflen
that "our next war will be for world
power or downfall" This is fact
which slowly, very slowly. is pene-
trating the German mind, and is re-
vealed alike in German propaganda
and German official communications.
In the last few days, since the peace
terms were delivered. there has been
unfolding a wonderful picture of the
German mind.
It is now perfectly clear that Ger
man policy had two divisions: There
was the possibility of military vic
tory, held firmly up to July is of last
year. in which case the German terms
were to be of the stiffest. including
huge territorial annexatfons and stu
pendous indemnities. In the second
place, II the war were not won, then,
through the skillful use of Mr.. VIII
son and his fourteen points Germany
was to escape serious consequences
from defeat. and, having crippled
British shipping and smashed French
and Belgian industry, resume her old
place in the world.
Today every German utterance in
dicates an enormous establishment
in the mater of President Wilson.
The Germans believed that he would
save them. They regarded him as an
ally. 1ney were accordingly
when they read the terms of peace
signed by Mr.. Wilson. which carried
with them a dated sentence to all
their hopes. For the first time the
German was seized with a fear that
he might lose the war after all.
Huns Now Hate President Wilson.
The smallest examination of the
German utterance since that time in
dicates that the President of the
United States has become the center
England was the center in the early
days of the war. Great Britain be-
trayed Germany, SO the old propa-
ganda ran, by entering the war. The
United States has betrayed Germany
by cooperating with it's allies in
framing the present treaty Of peace.
The mass Of Germans still stub
bornIy refuse to believe that their
army was defeated. They announce
openly that their fleet was taken by
dirty trick" They insist that,
having changed their government, so
they can no longer be held RESPONSE
BILE for the offending of the past-and.
parenthetically. they still insist in the
main that there was no offending.
No regret for the war, no remorse
for the crimes Of the war, nothing
approximating an understanding or
appreciation of the western point of
view, has yet been revealed, except
in very scattered instances. Mean
time. the German line of defense
against the terms of the treaty of
peace is beginning to unfold. The
German is going to make an effort
to catch the so-called liberal and rad
ical opinion of the world. He is go
ing particularly to make play of
Mr. Wilson's fourteen points. and he
still believes that he has a chance
to separate America from the other
allies and persuade President Wilson
to advocate a modification of the
terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
BOLSHEvlSTS' FALL
IS BELIEVED NEAR

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
Must Recognize Facts.

But the first condition of any such
recuperation would appear to be
that Germany should recognize the
facts of the present state of the world,
which she has been mainly instru-
mental in creating, and realize that
che cannot escape unscathed.
THE share which she is being called
upon TO bear of the enormous calam-
ity that has befallen the world has
been apportioned by the victorious
powers, not to her deserts, but solely
to her ability to bear IT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-23
Relief From Armament Cutting.

The German reply also ignores the
immense relief that will be caused
to her people in the struggle for re-
covery by the enforced reduction of
her military ornaments in future.
Hundreds of thousands of her inhab-
itants who have hitherto been en-
gagged either in training for armies
or in producing instruments of de-
struction henceforward will be avail
able for peaceful vocations and for in
creasing the industrial productive
ness of the nation. No result should
be more satisfactory to the German
people
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-05
100000 Workers Are Idle as Result of
Coal Shortage-In Some Sections Whole
Communities Have Enforced Vacation

WASHINGTON Dec. (By United Press More than a
million workers completely idle employed but part
time as result of the coal shortage announced unof
ciay here today Exact figures impossible to obtain
since formal reports have been received from all sections
of the country but the Railroad Administrations reports show
that sections whole communities having enforced
vacation Loss of wages estimated at $l0000000 daily
The loss employers and business beyond all es
mates.
Reports of the geological survey show that coal production
nearing fifty per normal through the efforts of union
workers.
Reserve stocks practically exhausted and the country
mineto plants basis.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-05
Seeking Recruits in
Greeneville for
the Tennesse,

C. L. Glynn, Chief Gunner's Mate,
Recruiting Officer, of Johnson City,
Tenn, arrived in this city this noon.
He may be found at the post office
by any one who may be interested
in enlisting in the Navy for service
on the Tennessee. Exservice men
from Tennessee are especially dsira-
bly, for the new super-dreadnaught,
in view of their knowledge of the
Navy.
The U. s. S. Tennessee. which is
now building in the New York Navy
Yard, is rapidly nearing completion.
The crew of 1345 men is being as
sembled through the Navy Recruiting
Station, "a East 23rd Street, New
York City. More than 100 men who
have already seen previous Naval SER
vice have re-enlisted for duty on the
tennessee.
The Tennessee is 625 feet long,
with beam Of 81 feet, 312 inches,
and draft of 30 feet, inches. Her
battery consists of twelve 14-inch
5O-caliber guns, specially designed
for a large degree of elevation, up to
80 degrees, and twenty-five 5-inch,
81 caliber guns, For protection she
has 14-inch armor belt amidships
and an 8-inch armor belt aft.
Carrying 1928 tons of fuel oil she
will develop a speed of 21 knots.
Four alternating current motors, one
to each propeller shaft, supplied by
current at 34O0 volts, from two 49,
500 H. P. turbo generators, are used
for supplying the power.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-05
Demented Father Attempts to Kill
Entire Family-Heads Crushed After
They Had Been Chlroformed

PASSAIC, N j., Dec. BY United Press.)Two little
girls and small boy with heads battered by axe lay
conscious for nearly foyeght hours beside the bodies of their
father mother and sister and it is thought by the police that
the father Mason Strong, became suddenly insane choro
formed his family and battered their heads with
His wife dead with her head split open and daugh
ter Elizabeth dead with her head crushed another daughter
Nina with fractured skull may recover another daughre,
Susanne with conclusion of the brain may Their
Nathaniel with fractured skull not expected live Strong
convinced that the entire family dead sashed his throat
with a razor.
The tragedy unearthed last night when little Nina
covered sufficiently drag herself the telephone and call
d doctor to the Strong home, here
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-05
Asks Aid of u. S.
to Join Britain for
Freedom of World

OXFORD, England, Dec, 5.--Lord
Reading, former British ambassador
at Washington, was the principal
speaker at the inaugural meeting last
Saturday of the British-American
Club, the presidency of which is
equally shared by Viscount Bryce md
Ambassador Davis.
Lord Reading said, among other
things: "The American people are
what they have always been-great
idealists ready to fight and die for
principle which appeals to their love
of justice and freedom"
He asked what then was there to
prevent the British and Americans
from cooperating SO closely that
there would be no future misunder-
standings.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-05
Engineers Find
Ancient Niagara

TH0R0LD, Ont, Dec. 5.--(By
United Press What engineers be-
lieve is an ancient Niagara Falls,
i which has been buried for thusands
of years, has been uncovered here
during the course of excavations for
the new Welland Ship Canal.
The skeleton" of this great pre-
historic cataract, according to engi-
neers in charge of construction, was
fully as wide and probably had a
greater fall than the present Niagara
Falls.
The first indications of the former
cataract came to light when workmen
uncovered a series of ledges in the
from of steps with total drop of %
feet and width of 400 feet. The
rock from this about 100 feet from the
end of the ledges showed a depth Of
rs feet. Here was discovered what
is believed to have ben the main prec-
ipice over which the rushing water
plunged hundreds Of feet to its bed
below.
The surface of the rock showed un-
mistakable signs of having been worn
smooth by the action of water rush
ing over it for countless years.
There is nothing in history that
mentions this former cataract, but ex-
perts believe it once formed the chief
link between Lake Erie and Lake On
tario. Eight Mile Creek, a small
stream, now flows over part of the
course of the prehistoric waterway,
and this in turn will soon become the
new ship canal.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-05

Frank Miller, President of Knox
vile Business College, will be in town
the remainder of this week, in the
interest of the School, He states that
among many other things, that the
day has come, when all young people
should secure a business education. re-
gardless of whether they expect to
enter the business world. 1t is a
pleasure to any one to know correctly,
how to use the Typewriter and all
Professional Business men know the
value of Bookkeeping.
The best farmers keep a set of
books in order that they may know
what is most profitable, Mr.. Miller
states that at the present time, he has
in his School, large number of stu
dents who never expect to enter the
business world as an employee.
He will take pleasure in calling on
any one who will leave their name
and address at Hotel Brumley.
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