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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
President Wilson Plans
Second Trip Abroad For
End of Peace Discussion

nary series Of events which have cen
tered in this place.
But as l have thought today have
been impressed by the contrast be-
tween the temporary and permanent
things. Many political changes have
centered about Rome, from the time
when from a little city she grew to
be mistress of a great empire, and
change after change has swept away
many things, altering the very form
Of her affairs, but the thing that mas
remained permanent is the spirit Of
Rome and the Italian people.
Represent Freedoms Spirit.
That spirit seems to have caught
with each age the characteristic pur-
pose of the age. This imperial people
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04

now gladly represents the freedom OF
nations. This people, which at one
time seemed to conceive the purpose
of governing the world, now takes
part in the liberal enterprise OF offer
ing the world it's own government.
Can there be a finer or more Inn
pressive illustration of the indie
structible human spirit and of the
unconquerable spirit OF liberty?
81 have been rejecting in these re-
cent days about a colossal blunde-
which has been made-the blunder
of force by the Central Empires. II
Germany had waited a single genera
ton she would have had CONNER
cial empire OF the world.
'She was not willing TO conquer
by skill, by enterprise, by CONNER
cial success. She must needs attempt
to conquer by arms, and the world
will always acclaim the fact that l.
is impossible to conquer 1t by arms,
that the only thing that conquers il
is a sort of service which can be
rendered in trade, in Intercourse, in
friendship. and there is no con-
quering power which can suppress
the freedom OF the human spirit.
ReJOices In Partnership.
81 have rejoiced personally in The
partnership of the Italian and Amer
lean people, but II is new partner
ship in an ola enterprise, an enter
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
READING MAY RETURN
WITH THE PRESIDENT

British Ambassador Reading prob
ably will return to America with
President Wilson, according to infor-
nation reaching the State LCrart-
ment today.
This fact is regarded as quite i'm
portant, since 1t was reported when
Lord Reading returned home several
months ago that he and the l'resi-
dent differed vastly on peace terms
That he and the President should
return. at the same time is regarded
as a very solid evidence of British
American agreement President VIII
sons visit to London is deemed here
to have swept aside any differences
OF viewpoint existing between the
two nations, and to have made them
a unit in peace terms at the forth
coming Versailles session.
Incidentally, il is felt tina, thn
French premier's recent statement
favOring the balance Of power idea
does not indicate. in reality. an es-
sential obstacle to peace plans. On
the contrary. it is believed that
French politics prompted his state
ment at a time when his opponents
were seeking to drive him into the
open.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04

much touched by the generous terms
of the address which you have just
read" he said.
Praises Courage.
81 feel il would be difficult for me
TO make a worthy reply. and yet II I
could speak simply the things that
are in my heart, I am sure they would
constitute an adequate reply. had
occasion at the Parliament this after
noon to speak of the strong sympathy
that had sprung up between the
United States and Italy during the
terrible years Of the war. but per-
haps here I could speak more inti-
mately and say how sincerely the
people Of the United States had ad-
mired your own course and your own
constant association with the armies
of Italy, and the gracious and gener-
Gus and serving association Of her
majesty, the Queen.
Made Citizen Of Rome.
A great throng packed the capitol
last night when the citizenship Of Rome
was conferred upon the President
After the speeches by the King and
the President. Queen Elena, attired IN
a gorgeous gown and wearing a jew
eIed crown. walked through the re-
ception room, clinging to the Presi-
dents arm. Between bows, in response
to the salutations from every side, the
Queen and the President chatted and
appeared to be enjoying themselves
Mrs. Wilson wore a filmy dress Of
blue and gray embroidered with gold
Miss Margaret Wilson was attired in
a light green grown.
When the Presidential party left the
capitol there was huge crowd massed
outside, despite the lateness OF the
hour. They were nearly rushed off
their feet by the cheering people,
among whom were a number Of sol
diers. They drove back to the palace
In closed carriages.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04

the eOsrcivs force Of a military
power
'Eow the intrigue Is checked
and the bands are broken. ana
what We are going TO provide IL
a new cement to hold the psoplo
together. They have not been ac-
customed to being independent.
They must now be independent.
Il am sure that you recognizes
the principles as I do-that Il @
not our privilege to say what sort
of a government they should set
up. But we are friends % those
people, and Il is our duty as their
friends to see to Il that some kind
of protection Is thrown around
them. something supplied which
will hold them together.
Mast Organise Friendshlp.
- There is only one thing that
holds nations together, II you sx-
eIude force. and that Is friend
ship and good viii. The only
thing that binds men together II
friendship, and By the same token
the only thing that binds nations
together is friendship. There
fore, our task at Paris Is 70 or
ganize the friendship OF the world
to see to II that all the moral
forces that make for right ana
justice and liberty are united and
are given a vital organization TO
which the peoples OF the world
will readily and gladly respond.
ain other words, our task Is no
less colossal than this: To set NJ
a new international psychology;
to have a new real atmosphere. j
am happy to say that in my deal
ings with the distinguished gen
tlemen who lead your nation. and
those who lead France and Eng
land, 1 feel that atmosphere gath
ering. that desire to do justice,
that desire to establish friendli-
ness, that desire to make peaes
rest upon right, and with this
common purpose no obstacles need
be formidable.
would Challenge Obstacles
"The only use of an obstacle u
To be overcome. All that an OBJ
stacIe does with brave men is not
to frighten them. but to ehAl-
lEnEe LIEAA- ~ AAAeAA - - = -
be our pride to overcome every
thing that stands in the way.
1--WE know that there cannot Be
another balance Of power. That
has been tried and found want
ing for the best OF all reasoas
that il does not stay balanced in
side itself, and a weight which
does not hold together cannot
constitute a makeweight in the
affairs Of men.
Therefore, there must Be
something substituted for the
balance OF power. and I am happy
to find everywhere in the air o.
these. great nations the concep-
tions that that thing must be
thoroughly united league OF ma
tions.
what men once considered
theoretical and idealiStic turns
out to be practical and necessary.
We stand at the opening Of new
age in which a new statesman
ship will, 1 am confident, lift
mankind. TO new levels OF en-
deavor and achievement"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
President Says Balance
OF PoWer" Is Doomed, For
1t Won't Keep It's Balance

ROME, Jan. 4-President Wilson
delivered the following address +
he Chamber of Deputies yesterday:
N''Your majesty and Mr.. Presi-
dent Of the Chamber:
''You are bestowing upon me
an unprecedented honor, which
accept because I believe that IL
is extended to me as the repre-
sentative Of the great people for
whom I speak And I am going
to take this first opportunity to
say how entirely the heart OF the
American people has been with
the great people OF Italy.
1--WE have seemed, no doubt, in
different at times, to look from. a
great distance but our hearts
have never been far away All
sorts Of ties have long bound the
people of our America to the peo-
pie OF Italy, and when the people
OF the United States, knowing
this people, have witnessed its
sufferings, it's sacrifices, its he
roic actions upon the battlefield
and its heroic endurance at
home-its steadfast endurance at
home touching US more nearly to
the quick even than its heroie ac-
ton on the battlefield-we have
been bound by a new tie Of pro-
found admiration.
ItaIy's Noble Motive.
Then back Of il all and through
It all, running like the golden
thread that woVe it together. was
our knowledge that the people OF
Italy had gone into this war for
the same exalted principle OF
right and justice that moved our
own people. And so I welcome
this opportunity OF conveying to
you the heartfelt greetings of the
people Of the United States.
But we cannot stand in the
shadow OF this war without
knowing there are things which
are in some senses more difficult
than those we have undertaken.
because, while il is easy to speak
OF right and justice, IL is some
times difficult to work them out
in practice, and there will be
required a purity of motive and
disiRterestedness OF object which
the world has never witnessed be-
fore in the councils Of nations.
at is for that reason that it
seems to me you will forgive me
il lay some OF the elements OF
the new situation before you for
a moment. The distinguishing
fact OF this war is that great en-
pires have gone TO pieces. And
the characteristics OF those en-
pires are that they held differ
emit peoples reluctantly together
under the coercion OF force and
the guidance Of intrigue.
Difficulty OF the Balkans.
The great difficulty among
such states as those OF the
Balkans has been that they were
always accessible to secret influ-
ence, and they were always be-
ing penetrated by intrigue OF
some sort or another: that north
of them lay disturbed populations
which were held together not by
sympathy and friendship, but by
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04

world; but. above all, America is
working for disarmament, Senator
Owen of Oklahoma declared in an
Interview with the London correspon-
dent Of the Rome Messagero.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
BRITISH LABOR TO FIGHT
FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS

LONDON. Jan. 4.--British labor to-
day is resolved to fight for league
OF nations
At a meeting of the. labor party
in Albert Hall, 5000. delegates passed
by practically unanimous vote n reso-
luton congratulating President Will
sons efforts for the league, and de-
handing that British delegates to tho
peace conference make establishment
OF the league one of their foremos:
points.
Demonstrations in favor of n
league of nations will be held in all
parts of Britain" declared Arthur
Henderson. celebrated labor leader. in
his address to- the mass meeting. "-he
recent election was a practical in
dorsement OF the league
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
CARRY RESIGNS POST
ON U. S. SHIPPING BOARD

Edward F. Carry resigned today as
chairman Of the ports and harbors
commission OF the United States
Shipping Board. He will return to
Chicago to resume the presidency Ct
the Haskell and Barker Car Company.
With Mr.. Carry's resignation, Off
calls here regard the formation OF a
permanent shipping board orgsniza-
ton as imminent. Mr.. Carry, like
Charles NJ. Schwab and others, was a
dollar-a-year man. 1t was understood
that his successor will be a perma-
nent appointment at a reasonable
salary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04

IT'S NOT YOUR HEART;
IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS

signals that the Kidneys need hslb.
You should use GOLD MEDAL HaaF-
lem Oil Capsules Immediately. The
soothing, healing oil stimulates the
kidneys, relieves Inflammation and de-
stroys the germs which have caused O.
Go to your druggist today and get q
box Of GOLD MEDAL HARLEM on
Capsules. In twenty-fOur hours you
should feel health and vigOr returning.
After you feel somewhat improved
continue to take one or two capsules
each day, so as to keep the frst-elass
condition and ward OF the danger of
other attacks,
Ask for the original imported GOLD
MEDAL brand. Three sizes. Money -
funded il they DO not help yUu.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
LEAGUE OF NATIONS, OR
U. S. WILL BUILD GIANT
NAVY, SAYS SEN. OWEN

LONDON, Jan. 4.-"If Americas
mission in Europe is unsuccessful.
America will continue to build ships
until her navy is the largest in the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
ADVERTISEMENT

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
ADOPTS
ST0WAWAY ON TRANSPORT

NEW YORK. Jan. Capt. Pete-
y. Kyne. the author, has arrived
from France and with him has come
little French lad. a stowaway on
tho transport Matsonia, whom kyne
declared he intended 10 adopt.
The boy was found concealed In n
bass drum after the ship had put
TO sea.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
BEL IaN ENJOYS TO
PEACE TABLE NAMED

Belgium will be represented al the
peace conference by Emil Wander
velde, minister of Justice; Paul Hyams,
minister of foreign affairs, and ]. Van
Den Heuvel, minister plenlpotentiary
to the Vatican. according to cables re-
ceived by the Belgian official infOrma-
ton service today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
PRESIDENT IS INVITED BY
CITY FATHERS OF DUBLIN

LONDON. Jan. dublin. Ireland,
has voted the freedom OF the city 70
President Wilson, and has appointed
a deputation to wait on the American
Executive, to invite him TO visit the
city.
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CONTINUED from First Psge.)
you are comforting upon me as a rep
resentative OF the great people for
whom I speak. One who has been
a student Of history cannot accept
honor Of this sort without having his
memory run back to the eXtraordi-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-04
PRESIDENT DELIVERS HIS
SECOND SPEECH AFTER
STATE DINNER WITH KING

ROME, Jan. 4.-The President de-
livered his second formal speech here
at the state dinner given by King
Victor Emmanuel last night.
Your majesty: have been very
The sun., 1919-08-10
Here Come the Fairies !
Bv BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.

a NATOLE France in his introduction
L Il to his fairy story, Honey-Bee,
says: II have pretty little neighbor Of
nine whose library examined the other
day. I found many books on the micro
scope and the zoophytes, as well as several
scientific story books. One Of these ]
opened at the following lines: The cut
tie fish Sepia Officinalis is cephalopodic
mollusc whose body includes q spongy
organ containing a chylaqueous fluid sat-
urated with carbonate Of lime Ny
pretty little neighbor finds this story very.
interesting. 1 beg of her, unless she
wishes me to die of modification, never
to read the story of Honey-Bee."
1t is thus that the gentle Anatole regis
tiers his contempt for the purely scientific
mind. He propounds here a veritable
theory of education in regard to the child
mind, which in way might apply to
beings of larger and sillier growth. Is
there a more revolving and hideous thing
than to know a child of eight who has
mastered Hebrew and Latin, knows al
zebra and can repeat without even skip
ping Lady Jane Grey all the rulers of
England seriatim from Fool I. down to
oh, well2
The art of fanciful and fantastic lying
to children about the material universe
should be imposed on parents by the
State with the rigor of tax law. In the
Perfect State Tor even In the Almost Per-
feet State of Mr.. Marquis) a child that
reaches its tenth year and denies the ex-
istence of Santa Claus should, to our way
of thinking, be gently put to death as an
atheist, and its parents should be sem
fenced to chant for the rest Of their
waking hours the complete works and
speeches of William Jennings Bryan ON
board peerless submarine. Compulsory
stupidity should be the penalty for bring
ing up children with a reverence for the
truth.
Fairy stories come in shoals to the book
reviewers. Scholars and Critical record
ers" from the four winds of the colossal
inkpot of the world chronicle and enlarge
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"Crucible Island"

TN Crucible Island, which be further de-
L scribes as "a romance, an adventure
and an experiment." Condo B. Pallen has
achieved a work of fiction containing
something of the flavor OF q Zenda story
and a Crusoe tale which is, at the same
time, a bald criticism Of Socialism A So
ciaIist plotter, one Carl Runler, is caught
at his work and is brought before the
reigning prince Of .Unterwald for sentence.
When the prince asks the prisoner, if the
conditions were reversed and the prince
stood in his place, "What would you do
with mef" Runder promptly replies:
Execute you or inearcerate you for ife''
Whereupon the prince sentences Runder
to transportation to Schlectland for life.
Schlectland, it appears, is an island that
was selected years ago by the chief powers
of Europe as a penal settlement for men
and women convicted of conspiracies
against the state. With humor no one
ever credited to any Government, these
European powers agreed amorg them
selves that on this island, in mountain
ringed valley completely shut off from the
world, the convicts should live as Social
lists under a Socialists government. This
condition of things had been gUing on for
years when Carl Runder was thrust into
the Spielgarten, as the colony was called.
At first it seemed to be a dream of delight
to live according to the principles Of So
cialism he had preached for so long. But
presently the dull, deadly mediocrity Of
the life not only created but insisted upon
by the State aroused his antagonism. In
addition to this Carl had fallen in love
with Nina Clausen, but as the State did
its own mating it was willed that Nina
should go elsewhere as an official wife.
This set Carl to seeking IN avenue of
escape for Nina, her father, Denis Nc
Carthy, and himself, and the chapters de-
voted to this part of Runder's experiences
have the real thrill of romance in them.
Mr.. ,Pallen looks at Socialism, we should
say, from one viewpoint, and that rather
narrow one as we understand that politi-
cal and social faith. But this aside, he
has written decidedly interesting story
based on the principle that like cures like.
CRUCIBLE ISLAND. A Romance, an Ad-
venture and an Experiment BY CoNDE b.
PALLEN. New York: The Manhattanville
Press.
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Book Reviewers " Books
Rv GEORGE GORDON.

r ONG ago-in the middle 1905, to
l. be exact-the imperturbable Max
Beerbohm, who had annoyed the literal
minded penmen of the time by writing,
wisely and well, In Defence Of Cosmetics,
answering his accusers, pointed out that
whereas he thought it beneath the dignity
of an author to kick his critics, he must,
&C.; and thereupon proceeded, ever so
cunningly, to tear them limb from limb.
It was cruel business-a1d easy; for
let man once take to reviewing and
soon or late you may prove him fool out
of his own mouth.
A case in point: Under the somewhat
shabby heading, The Days Pest Book, the
Richmond NepS-Leader goes to all lengths
to prove my latest indiscretion the worst
possible book that, under the clreum-
stances, could have been written concern
ing The Men Who Make Our NorelS:
"Mr. Gordon is not only arrogant, but
supercilious, and waves aside a patient
career with few sentences or else, with
a quotation, attempts to summarize a
ifes work. 49,. He has all the
faults disclosed by Grant NJ Overton.
1t may be true that America
has few great novelists, msn or women,
but those she has are honest, pa;nstaking
workers at their craft-and brilliant,
Heaven knows, by contrast with the two
men who, in this series, have written of
them with impudent egotism," &c. Yet
in the same review, referring to bakers
dozen of the novelists with whom deal
in the later chapters of my book, this
same reviewer says that have chad to
go out into the highways and hedges and
compel them to come in and fill the COM
pass of my pages" for some that 1 in
clude care scarcely known, even in trade
catalogues or among the ghouls of re-
mainder sales" Arrogant Supercilious?
Waving aside patient career with SEN
tence7 Ye gods! Yet this glass encased
Virginian has the nerve to bid NE 60 and
read Henry Sydnor Harrisonl 1t is APP
parently what he has been doing.
ALI of which, friendship aside, proves
that your reviewer is a very negligible
person.
I persist in book reviewing, hoping
against despair; yet 1 have not, in 1 dare
not say how long, met, between the covers