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MISSING GIRL FOUND
QUEEN OF CYPSIES
Abducted Three Years A9o,
IL Rescued in Newark.

Louis Mitchell. a resident of Rich
mond Hill. has found his daughter
Louise. IS, who three years ago, accord
ing to the story she told yesterday, was
kidnapped by band Of gypsies, made
queen" and forced to marry the eon
OF a gypsy chief. She appeared in the
Federal Building in Brooklyn in her
gypsy regalia with her father and asked
Peter McCabe, Assistant District Attor-
ney, to help prosecute her abductors.
The girl said she was stolen when her
family lived In Roanoke, Va. She trav-
elled with her enforced companions
through many of the Southern States.
plying the art of fortune telling and en-
tering fully into gypsy life. Before the
band turned north she married Joe John,
son OF Gregory John, the chief. They
have a two-year-old son, she said.
The band reached Newark several
days ago and purely by chance Louise
was found by her sister. Mr.. Mitchell
was notified at once and the girl was
taken to her home. When she disap-
peared from the gypsy camp Gregory
John was seized with fear and gathered
his band for the road. They left New
ark at night and have not yet been
found.
Assistant District Attorney McCabe
referred the girl to the Federal authori-
ties In New Jersey for lack Of jurisdic-
ton in the case.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
BATTALIONS OF REDS
! WIPED OUT IN ROUT
Botsheviki Beaten by Drive IN
i.- Northern Russio.

LONDON, Aug. 1e.-severai battaIionu
OF Bolshevik troops have been wiped out
In the new counter offensive of the
Northwestern Russian army along the
River Luga. southwest of Petrograd, &C.
cording to dispatches from Helsinsfors
dated Wednesday. The Soviet forces
also lost large numbers of prisoners,
machine guns and ammunition.
on the West bank of the Luga, in
tne region East of Narva, the anti
Soishevik troops occupied Alexandroff-
skaia Gorilla.
East OF Pskov, south of Narva. other
anti Boishevik detachments made a raid
SOC prisoners
Near Porsevy an entire Soviet reri-
ment Is declared to have deserted to the
Esthonians. '''o
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
PEABODY WOULD BE SENATOR.
Chicago Democrat Announces Can
didacy for 1920 Primaries.

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-The candidacy of
Francis S. Peabody of Hinsdale, former
assistant treasurer OF the Democratic
National Committee. for United States
Senator in the primaries of 1920 was
announced to-day by the Dupage County
Democratic Committee.
During the war Mr. Peabody served as
a member of the Coal Administration
under the Council of National Defence:
He is one OF the largest coal dealers in
Chicago.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
PERsHINa ON WAY TO ROME.
VIII Visit Battieleids and Decorate
italian Generals.

PARIS, Aug. 16.-Gen. Pershinr ief,
Paris tonight for his visit to Roms
and the italian battlefelds. He will
arrive In Rome Monday where he Il
70 attend a review of troops by King
emmanuel. Later Gen. Pershing will
present the Distinguished Service Order
to several Italian officers.
King Emmanuel will entertain Gen.
sershng at lunch in the Quirinal Mon
day. In the afternoon. Gen. Pershin.
will visit a military camp, and in the
evening he will be given dinner by
Lieut--Gen Albricci, Minister of War.
The return to Paris will ,be begun
by the American commander on wednes-
day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
STEAMSHIP EDITOR LAUNCHED.
she IL Named In Honor of Amer
lean Newspaper Men.

SEATTLE, Aug. 16.-The steamship
Editor. named by the United States
Shipping Board in honor of the news
paper men and women Of the United
States and Canada, was launched here
to-day in the presence of members of
the National Editorial Association, gath
cred in Seattle from all parts OF the
country to attend the associations 1919
convention.
Mrs. Guy U. Hardy of Canon City,
Col. sponsored the big ,boat. Mrs.
Hardy is the wife of Representative
Hardy, who Is president of the Edi-
torial Association. The Editor Is a $500
ton freighter.
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second Concrete vessel Reaay.

WARRINGTON, Aug. 16.-The steam
ship Atlantus. the first concrete vessei
to be launched from an Atlantic shipyard
and the second to be operated In Atlantic
waters. was turned over by the Shipping
Board to-day to the Raporel Steamship
Line of New York, which will operate the
vessel In its West Indian service.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
REINSURANCE HEAD ACCUSED.
O. A. Amber, Former Pennsylvania
Commissioned, Charged With Plot.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ia warrant
was sworn out by the District Attorneys
Office late to-day for the arrest Of
Charles A. Amber, former Insurance
Commissioner Of Pennsylvania, charging
him with conspiracy and malfeasance in
office.
The charge Is made in connection
with the failure of the North Penn Bank,
which closed its doors on July Is with an
apparent shortage OF $2,144,000.
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not TO levy tax en- inheritances at thi,
tine. Instead the Government will frca
wealthy persons TO grant loans To the
Government Mt a low rate OF interest.
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humanian delegates asserted that they
wished II TO be understood that no
amendments to the note were added fol-
lowing its arrival here.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
TINOCO IN JAMAICA
ON WAY TO PARIS
Costa Rican Ex-Presidenf Says
Assassins Sought Him,
: BIZ fAs Asaocintsd Pres.


KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 1e.-Fed-
erico Tinoco, VINO recently abandoned
the Presidency of Costa Rica and fed
the country. arrived here to-day on board
the steamship zacapa, on his way to
Faris. He said several attempts had
been made to assassinate him, and that
his brother Jose. Minister Of War, was
5hot in the back of the head the night
before the President left and died later.
Frank JimlneE, Costa Rican Minister
to France. who was In the. party said
the Nicaraguan Government was re-
sponsible for the assassination Of the
Minister of War and for repeated at
tempts on the latter's life. He added
that Nicaragua was likewise RESPONSE
BILE for the successive revolutions TO
overthrow the Costa Rican Govern
ment, which in the past had been put
down successfully
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Juan Ban
tlsta Quiroz, banker, assumed office
as acting President of Costa RIGA
August IL, according to advices received
to-day by the State Department Press
dispatches from San Salvador under
date of Thursday said Julia Acosta had
been named provisional President.
The State Departments advlces said
Quiroz had appointed a cabinet issued
a proclamation promising reforms and
liberty, and released several prisoners.
The police, however, suppressed a move
ment for elections. and armed guards
were patrolling the streets of the capt.
tai. San Jose, when the dispatches to
The department were filed August 1 3. The
Presidents proclamation was said to
have made no reference to elections.
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ItaIlan ras rlan preppea.

ROME, Aug. l6.--The Italian Cabinet.
The Popo'o Romano says. has decided
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
A Ton for a Ton

Shipping interests in Germany have
been taking stock of what remains of
Germany's merchant marine and irving
to gauge what will happen if the Allies
INSIST upon restitution, ton for ton. of
all submarine losses. Those losses are
little hard to compute, for the reason
that only actual sinkings were given and
not vessels damaged and put out of
business. In rough way Of reckoning
the total runs to nine or ten million
gross tons At the opening of the war
Germany's merchant shipping was about
1--WE and one-half million tons, and of this
a writer in the Cologne Gazette esti
mates that at home, or untouched in
neutral countries, or seized by neutral
countries, ABOUT three and one-half mill
ion tons netNemains. To this is to be
added "at least" million tons of new
construction during the war, making the
present total around four and one-half
millions. From this it will be seen that
Germany's present merchant marine is
now little, if any, larger than that of
the United States, which in turn is not
a quarter that of Great Britain
The Cologne Gazette pleads that this
tonnage should be released for the pur-
pose Of supplying Germany as "a simple
demand of humanity,' and that the
Allies should levy only. upon new con-
struction, which, if it were heavy enough.
would secure the expansion of the Ger
man shipbuilding industry and the future
OF the German mercantile marine" But
this is looking a long way ahead. Ger
many's present shipbuiding capacity
could scarcely replace the tonnage sunk
by the submarine in six or seven years,
and Baron Pirrie, chairman of Harland
Wolff, says that it will take ten years
Tor all the shipyards of adj the countries
to bring the worlds shipping up to its
needs
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Slashing Atlantic Rates

The action of the British shipping in
terests in making a drastic cut in rates
on Atlantic shipping came as a general
surprise and indicates determination
of these interests to get down to bed
rock as quickly as possible so that
shippers may make plans and go ahead
accordingly.
OF all the things which the wars
eXigencies sent soaring in price the price
of ocean shipping went the highest. The
average for Atlantic freights rose some
thing like ten times. Time charters for
cargo boats at one period rose twenty
times. Shipping rates, therefore, were
due for a heavy fall. The present cut
is from around $50 per ton on SUCH
articles as steel to about $40 The rates
to France and to India are reduced in
this same proportion. The new rates
are, roughly, about double those pre-
vailis.g in 1914, and, therefore, would
correspond with general doubling of
prices, wages and costs of production.
This ls in many respects, very
radical step, for there is still very
great shortage in shipping, from the
submarine losses on the one hand and
the very considerable needs of the
armies and the governments on the
other. The rates made by British ship
ping were promptly met by our Shipping
Board, which still has the power to
make rates, and this reduction will
probably cause a general lowering of
ocean freight rates in every direction.
This ought heavily to stimulate our ex-
port trade and foreign buying 1t re-
mains to be- seen whether cargo space
will be equal to the demand.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
The Unemployment Bogie

Secretary of Labor Wilson and many
of his able aids and advisers are doing
their best to rouse the public to ade-
quate appreciation of the unempoy-
ment problem and to do what they can
to terminate the present heavy con-
gestion in the seaboard cities and the
former muniton making centres. 1t is
almost wholly a question of distribution,
aggravated by the natural disinclinaton
of the former nunitiOn workers and re-
turning soldiers to go back to their old
Jobs and to accept, in many cases, much
lower wages and salaries than they
could command while the war pressure
was on.
The present situation was, perhaps,
inevitable. 1t is impossible to pick up
an army Of more than two million men
and carry it across the sea and provide
it with food and munitions and not
cause a very serious dislocation of en-
ployment. And it is to be remembered
that the making of war supplies has
been going on now for three years and
that large number of workers had set
tied down to it as a steady job.
There is a natural inertia in getting
them relocated. 1t will take time, pa
tience and proper effort. There is no
call for hystera. Even several hundred
thousand men out of work, while it is
to them and to the communities where
they live very serious matter, against
a total of 35,OOOOOO to 4O,OOO,OOO
workers in this country, is relatively
very small proportion. And this means
that with the needful readjustments of
industries and business this surplus can
be very quickly absorbed Under nor
NAL conditions there would be now in
this country clear labor shortage
caused by the deficit in immigration
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
For a Neu Arnav
fFrom The Chicago News)

THE light of the nations expert
General Crowder's assertion that the
war could not have been won by armies
raised exclusively by the volunteer syster +?
1t was necessary to resort to conscription
as an emergency measure. But even the
selective service system would not have
availed had not Britain's and Frances
protection permitted US several months IN
which TO render that system effective.
Armies had to be trained. and time is essen
tal to proper military training
Looking to the future, it is not difficult
to agree with the suggestions of the letter
sent by the National Association for Uni
versal Military Training to the chairman of
the Republican National Committee urging
the adoption BY that committee of a reso-
luton indorsng the principle Of universal
training of our young men for army service
This letter suggests that the adoption OF
this system at once is the only fair and
effective way of obtaining an army of occu-
patton in Europe in order that the men now
there may be returned to their homes I'm
less there is draft within the ranks of the
men now in service, a draft outside the
service, the universal training plan is the
only solution, the letter points out
"If universal military training is imme-
diately adopted" the letter says further,
and the first class called for training at
once, it VIII be possible to train this class
sufficiently to replace the men now in Eu-
rope before the statutory limitations as to
the employment of men now in the army
become ctfective.'
In brief with universal training in oper-
alton as permanent policy, the nation
would be ready for any military emergency,
a condition not possible under any other
military policy IN force. 1t is, in fact, the
only policy that assures an adequate meas
ure of constant preparedness-not except
ing a paid standing army, which is repug-
nant to true democratic Standards
Any influences that can be brought to
bear on Congress to adopt universal train
ing without delay as the national policy
should be exerted now. Republican leaders
ought to grasp the opportunity.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29

months? There is a steadily increasing
deficit under the governments guaran-
tee, which deficit the taxpayers must
foot. Why should not the Cummins
resolution merely provide against a re-
turn Of the roads until Congress has
enacted the needed new legislation?
Surely the country does not want to be
saddled with twenty-one months more of
the present muddle after peace is signed,
which now might readily mean two years
or more. 1t ought not to take more than
few months to put through a measure
which shall embody what the country
has learned from (D the failure of reg
ulation in the old spirit, and GU the
failure of Federal operation and man
agement
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Why Not Diuision
Badges {?
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Instead Of taking away the pict-
uresque division badges, would it not be a
thousand times better to provide where and
how they shall be worn? There is consid-
erablc charm in these designs, like that of
the golden sun on a blue ground, the brill
liant rainbow, the acorn, the red, white and
blue pennant, and many others Why put
them in the same class as fake ribbons,
fake medals and unauthorized cords etc :?
The men like them, and so do the officers,
and will treasure them i'll future years. Just
as even to-day, after fifty years, men treas
ure the Civil War Corps badges, like the
clover leaf of the I'd Corps.
NO amount of rules, regulations and red
tape can do away with the distinction of
having belonged to the Sunset or the Rain
bow division or the Marines, or the En-
einecrS; and if the distinction of having
been in France is considered sometime TINT
should not be perpetuated then thu ools
chcvrons should 90 also. A little moro san
timent in this connection would he vor,,
good thing. GHERARDI DAv1o
New York, Jan. 25, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
An English League of Nations

The league Of nations still remains
nebulous. The world continues to specu-
late as to what may or may not be devel-
oped under this phrase so stimulating to
the imagination and so utterly indefinite
as to fact But meantime the practical
English have developed at the council
table Of the Quai d'Orsay in typical Eng
lish fashion one Of the most striking
political facts Of modern times. Without
trumpeting, with but little debate and
with no new nomenclature or glowing
words or political doctrine, the British
Empire has taken long step forward
toward that federation Of independent
nations which the empire was sooner or
later bound to achieve.
The growth Of the self f-governing Eng
ilsh colonies has been q peculiarly Eng
lsh proceeding throughout. 1t has come
step by step as a thing of evolution and
slow ripening, with a running commen-
tary of debate and discussion, to be sure.
but with no formal conclave to devise
revolutionary change looking far down
the years. Theory has been utterly lack
ing. Practical needs, human demands,
from year to year, have controlled the
organization of this mighty league.
The conventional phraseology of the
textbook fails utterly before such rule
of-thumb construction. In strict theory.
prior to the peace conference, Canada
and the other sclf-governing colonies
were no more than creatures of parlja-
ment granted seIfgovernment by an act
and operating only by virtue of that act.
BY strict theory Parliament could haze
reduced Canada to the status Of India or
Egypt overnight by the simple enactment
Of new law. But theory has nothing
to do with the British Empire. In prac-
ticc and in fact the self-goyerning
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
A German, Viev of Wilson
toFiai entitled ercue Hanc? from the "Kolnsche Zeiung

, sonites long before Wilson drew up his
fourteen points outlined his league OF
nations. Only have not become suf-
hcientlv self-contident through the war to
be willing to march toward peace We
thought marching toward peace
or peaceful path. We were in the
wrong. Wilson has chosen another path
Now it remains to be seen whether it is the
right one.
The goal is as alluring as the Holy Grail
But the road to it is hard and stony He
who will make progress upon it must have
faith stronger than that needed to re-
move mountains. We are still in the
midst Of spiritual upheaval that leaves us
snuddering A chaos of hatred and mis-
understanding lies before us out of which
there seems no road. And Wilson himself
appears to be lost in the wilderness, from
the message sent from his steamer in
which he declines to visit Germany giving
as his reason that Germany must spend
years in repentance and atonement for her
sins. And yet, none other than one of
Wilson'S favorite authors. Edmund Burke
wrote "You can't indict a nation" To break
ground to lay foundation tor an under
standing, for the consideration of geograph-
ical and historical questions, is the first
task in rebuilding the world.
In doing this Wilson will reach other
conclusions. lie will find that the position
he. himself, has taken is human, all too
human, and he will have to destroy before
he can rebuild. He will discover that only
few really understand the full meaning
of his fourteen points and his other claims,
and these will have to be made clear be-
fore he can put the roof on his house of
peace and unity Of nations, over his tenn
pie of justice and international law A
work lies before him that no one envies,
a fame, too, that no one has won, should
his work succeed But will it succeed in
any single aspect? Only a Hercules of
mighty moral and political strength could
cope with the ravening lions of hatred,
crush the head of the serpent of covet-
BUSINESS, capture both the hind and the
wild boar, and accomplish all the other
manifold labors for which the apple or the
Hesperides Will be the reward
Yet strain of Hamlet will also be neces-
sary-not the Hamlet who jested at the ex-
pense of Polonius, but the Hamlet who
circumstances will present themselves, and
before everything the ledgers must be
opened and the measure of guilt made
clear the first step of justice toward
a bleeding world. Should the work re-
main only half accomplished, should the
world be denied an insight into the sources
of the wars history, then matters at the
end will be more bitter than at the begin
ming. The expectation and the hope of the
world has been too strongly aroused to dis
miss failure on the part of the conference
with a bitter epigram. May the coming
conference show itself worthy, and may it,
above all, recognize in Wilson an homer
able mediator for honorable peace We
who come to judgment, totally defenceless,
also bless him, for in the belief that he
will deal honorably with us, we have made
no preparation.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
The Ette' Menace

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir | am writing you to lament the
decline of the English language in America.
The time will not be long in coming when
our English American language will be
turned into dialectic pig Latin. In sub
stitution of the well known long "a" will
be placed the syllable "ette"
Every word in our tongue will soon be
trailing an "ette" behind it.
Whether this fault is caused by the pre-
eminent existence of superior female sex
is not known, but the fate is certain. the
ignomnious death Of our mother language.
Look what the war has brought upon us;
a shower of farmerettes oysterettes con
3uctorettes, kitchenettes and brunettes
The force is truly overwhelming. We are
even having dinnerettes and noveettes.
Pretty soon will arrive the breakfast
cites, lunchettes. automoblettes and story
cites. Then will appear the stylish sup
perettes and airplanettes.
The syllable "ette," which originally
meant anything small, is rolling over our
language like steam rolerette
However the letters are abbreviated as
'et' in booklet or pamphlet, still it is plain
that an "ette" menace is attacking u.s.
RICHARD CARVER.
New York, Jan. 26 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29

domlnlons were nations united in a
league whereof England was the head
with a recognized right of veto in i'm
perial concerns-a loosely united league
by many standards, since loyalty, not
C npulslon, was its secret of success;
yet no shackled empire could have
equalled the devotion and sacrifice with
which the colonies came to the empires
defence in the world war The system
worked, and is still working, as recent
events at Paris have proved.
These events have established nothing
strictly new, nothing that can be tagged
with new governmental name. Canada,
Australia, South Africa and India, with
two delegates each, and New Zealand,
with one delegate, sit at the peace con-
terence as separate nations, side by side
with Mother England. That is all. But
what had been tactly recognized as a
domestic affair in the formation of the
imperial War Cabinet is now written on
the records Of the world The die is cast.
mat federation of the empire upon a
basis definitely recognizing the rights Of
the dominions to be heard in the affairs
of the empire cannot be afar Whichever
of the many plans proposed is accepted.
it is safe to say that the unquestioned
leadership of the mother country is at
an end. Some joint control of the en-
plre either through an imperial Parlia-
ment OF through an imperial council.
seems certain. Events have moved. and
governmental structure must keep pace
with them
Whatever failures England has to her
debit account, this modern success of her
overseas empire marks an extraordinary
achievement. 1t is striking testimony to
the practical wisdom of the English
political mind, which cares not lot for
logic or theory and conceives of govern
ment as thing Of slow growth from
within, not Of swift imposition from
without.