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The sun., 1919-06-22

IF Saints Progress had been pub
i lished two years ago it would
have created something of a Juror.
Coming as we near the end of our first
year of so-called peace it is stale.
True, people are still reading Mr..
Britling, but only because they have
grown so sick of hearing all other war
novels compared to it that they read
it in desperation. Read even so we
cannot imagine that it would fail to
intrigue, but lacking timeliness it
would never have attained its phe-
nomenal success. Do people want to
read of what war maddened girls and
their static fathers did when the war
was two years oldf The answer is
that they don't, but if that is what
Mr.. Galsworthy is writing about they
will read and enjoy themselves, wish
ing all the while that he had chosen
another topic.
One reason for the delay in the ap
pearance of Saints Progress is the
seemingly interminable serial publica-
. ton to which Mr.. Galsworthy and
our magazines are in the habit of sub
hitting his novels. This saint has a
slightly worn and haggard aspect to
those who have seen him battering
about dentists offices and railway sta
lions these many months, and yet the
book as a whole is so much finer than
could be detected from reading it on
the instalment plan that it is well
worth rereading. There is breadth
and dignity which we did not suspect
and its faults are not SO noticeable.
We see less clearly the STOPPING to
meet the reading public with which
Mr.. Galsworthy has joined hands, and
more clearly the fact that the book is
full of that exquisite writing which
we associate with him. 1t is fashion
able to say that Galsworthy has gone
all to pieces, that it is inconceivable
that the same man who wrote The
Patrician and The Dark FlOWer is
now writing such "stuff' as Beyond
and Saints Progress, that his art is
being prostituted, and so on, to
nausea. The questionable admit that
he has taken a new turn, but are not
sure that it is bad one. For one
thing he has done away entirely with
the tendency toward excessive senti-
mentality and foweriness which often
marred his earlier books and has in
troduced a clean cut simplicity Of
style which will make him as many
friends as it will enemies.
II.
In looking back over the war novels,
Mr.. Drilling Sees 1t Through, Blind
Alley and Saints Progress will always
be neatly packeted in our minds. Mr..
Galsworthy's book is not so strong as
Mr.. Weiss nor so arresting as Mr..
Georges, but it is the only one of
the three which is a story. Mr.. Wells
has lost or abandoned the art of writ
ing stories, and Mr.. George always
was more of Feminist than novel
st; but Galsworthy is romanticist
md . humanist, and even when he
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been killed and many wounded in
the most recent disorders. Some
versions represent the trouble as
having been caused by brawls be-
tween individuals and groups over
women, but the Italians take a more
serious view. The Council of Five
has appointed an inter-Allied COM
mission Of four to investigate the
troubles in Fiume and on the Adri-
attic. Major General Charles P. Sum-
neral is the American member of
the commission.
The council Of Ave In Paris decided
that 1t was impossible to make peace
with Bella Kun's government in
Hungary.
England Is less anxious for the trial
Of tho ex-Eaiser in London than
when the announcement was first
made. General surprise WAS occa-
STONED among the members Of tho
American delegation in Paris by
Lloyd Georges statement that the
trial would take place In London.
The Americans had heard nothing
Of the decision from President WILL
son before no left France. IL 10
now said that the agreement was Q
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tacit one, but is regarded as none
the less binding.
The former Kaiser shows no anxiety
over his forthcoming trial, but the
recent Crown Prince is reported as
saying, "The Allies can only have
my dead body. will myself decide
on my life or death"
Secretary Lansing, it was announced
in Paris, has been called home and
Frank L. Polk, Acting Secretary of
State, will take his place in Paris.
A national memorial service was
held at st. Ahuls Cathedral. Lon
don, for Captain Fryatt, who was
executed by the Germans for at
tempting to ram a U-boat. Captain
Fryatt's body was taken to England
from Belgium, and there was an i'm
posing procession through the
streets of London before and after
the service In st. Paul's. The burial
was at Dover Court, Captain Fry
ats home.
British statemen are apprehensiye
Of the situation that may arise from
tho prevailing industrial unrest In
Europe generally and especially In
England, France and Italy.
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-: The Week Abroad -:

The German National Assembly at
Weimar ratified the peace treaty by
a vote of 20s to 115. Nincty-fve
Deputies did not vote.
Rioting in Italy on account of the
high cost of living continued in the
beginning Of the week. Shopkeep-
ers in Rome reduced food prices
70 per cent in the hope Of prevent
ing the rioting from spreading to
that city. Fresh trouble was re-
ported at Genoa, Milan, Pisa, Les.
horn, pistoja, Arezzo and Palermo.
Three persons were reported killed
ard many injured at Imola and
Bologna. One person was killed and
seven ware injured in renewed riot
ing at Florence. In all the towns
where there was trouble there was a
general reduction Of 30 per cont In tho
prics Of food and other necessaries.
wh!lo tho reduction in Florence was
70 per cent. In nearly all tho places
the mobs organized and were recog-
nized by the authorities, with whom
they worked in accord against the
speculators. The mob organlzatio
were called Chambers Of Labor.
An anarchist plot TO attack the CEN
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trail part of Rome with hand gren-
AIDES and other explosives was ex-
posed by the arrest of sixteen of
the conspirators four hours before
the time set for the attack.
AS the week drew to close, quiet
was restored in the places where
rioting had occurred. King Victor
Emmanuel decreed that profteers
should be fined $4,000, be sentenced
to from three months to three years
in prison and have their stocks con-
fscated The population of Flor
encc was placed on rations and a
general reduction of so per cent
ordered in food prices. Troops oc.
cupied Florence and most of the
places where there had been riotinn.
Reports from all the places where
there had been trouble showed that
the revolt was reacting against the
people. Shops were closed, goods
wcro lacking and it was not pos
sible to buy anything at either the
old high prices or tho new low ones.
Bitterness Increased betwoen tho
French and Italians at Fiume. It
was reported to the Paris confer
ence that at least nine persons had
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From Blanco q Negro, Madrid

problem is their field of operations
where to select their victims. After
they have done their work thew are
faced with the problem Of the DISPOSAL
Of the bodies. The first IS simple.
They all work on the fringes Of the
human herd. Holmes chose men and
women under a cloud, the poor family
Of a convicted man, discredited and
dishonest Individuals Burke and Hare
preyed on beggars, idiots and prostl-
tutes OF the lowest class. Basson few
at higher game-men in need Of money;
pranzlni sought out prostitutes; Ian
dru had weakness for widows Of
certain age. The essential is that tire
victims should have no friends who
would take an inconvenient interest IN
their disappearance.
HIS method of approach was invari-
able. A man of unattractive appear
ance, in spite of the nonsense that IS
talked about his glttering eyes, he he'd
one bait-marriage. All the extraord-
nary mistrustfulness of the French
lower middle class woman vanished at
that magic word. When he had ex-
hausted his own circle of acquaintance
ne inserted advertisements in matrimo-
Mai papers and agencies.
The Landru method is economy It.
self. He took a return ticket for him
sell; single for the woman. Coal
was scarce; his victims had to bring
a sack with them. Later he went to
their rooms and collected their furni-
ture. He could not get good enough
prices from them the dealers, so he
contemplated a small store where he
could sell direct to the consumer His
books are we'll kept, with only the
amount Of secret code that a man in
hurry would use in his affairs-con-
fractions and signs for whether the
subject was interesting, possible, and
SO forth, the dates OF their first meet
ing, few facts abou, them that struck
MS as important. What he did with
the bodies is of course not yet known.
Inc police seemed to think that he
destroyed them somehow by fire. The
we'll known difficulty of disposing Of
a corpse this way is variously ex-
planned away in this case by special
scientific furnace, Of which no trace
mas been found, or that he took his
time and burnt only the bones, throw
ing the flesh away in lakes and lonely
places in the vicinity.
His personality deserves a passing
word. A grave, bearded man. with
sharp eyes, easy manners, he seems 10
have had genius for sentiment All
his escaped subjects agree on that
MS caressing manners, his sincere
courteous talk, his love of flowers and
music figure TO inspire symnath'
in woman who has not had fair share
OF romance herself, this rather awkward
rather pathetic middle aged man"
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It is not surprising that his strange
personality has quite eclipsed in popu-
lar interest here the debates of the
peace conference. Such men have al
ways aroused the greatest interest
One of them, Williams, the sailor, Incl
dentally dull and brutal individual.
i1au the honor Of an incompatible
essay from the pen of De Quincy. His
only claim to the title of artist con-
ferred on him seems to have been that
when at work he wore a fine lowered
silk dressing gown. Williams was not
in the same class with such murderers
as Holmes, the wandering assassin of
America; on a lower scale, Burke and
Hare, of Edinburgh, or Pranzini and
Prado in France, Marie Madeleine de
Brinvilliers and La Voisin, and, per-
haps most remarka BILE and least known
of all, Pierre Basson, the speculative
Boer in Cape Town. If, as is here as
sumed, Landru is guilty, he must take
his place as one Of the first practi-
TONERS of that gloomy and detestable
art, trade or profession. murder
Between all these villains there are
striking and interesting parallels, both
IN their methods and ways of thinking.
10 begin with their motive is almost
always money, though they differ
widely in their ambitions in this re-
spect, and they often use their dread
full art to perform acts of revenge and
jealousy as we'll, as did Brinvilliers.
Some Of them wish for great wealth,
like the little marquise with the big
blue eyes and her famous powders of
succession or Pierre Basson, with his
imperious and strange necessity for
great sums, expended no one knows
how Landru, like Holmes and Smith,
was more modest; he seems to have
had the mind of a small tradesman. He
was content if he could make decent
living. Possibly he regarded this evil
way OF life much as an ordinary man
who was called on so many times a
year to make an excessively dangerous
and unpleasant airplane fight might
DO The Paris papers have limited at
dark and vicious motives to complicate
the affair, but with a man Of Landru's
petit bourgeois way of thinking this
does not seem to be a necessary hypo-
thesis. He must be compared with
Smith, the Englishman, who drowned
women after marrying them, though a
much larger and more cunning operator,
IN that, like him, he had home and
wife and children, to whom he re-
turned from time to time. The periodic
!ty OF his crimes. almost always twice
a year. Is scarcely compatible with an
overwhelming and abominable passion.
Systematic murder with Landru is
no longer u black art, but dingy busi-
ness. From technical point of view
there are two main aspects in a pro-
fessional murderer's methods which
Gre especially interesting. Their first
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equivalent Of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is China going to do? Now,
in order to understand the psychology
of the Chinese people at the present
moment it is necessary to remember
what happened during the war Dur
ing the decade before 1914 China had
been comparatively free from direct
military aggression. But the world
war upset the balance of power and
Japan at once took the advantage. She
showed her hand first of all in pre-.
venting China from entering the war
IN 1914. Then came the twenty-one
demands and the subsequent ulti-
matum. The undisguised aid given to
the Manchurian brigands in Shantung
and the Chungchiatung incident we're
but part of the same scheme. Every
time the Chinese government yielded
against unmistakable public opinion
but the people remained calm, because
they were told each time that our case
would receive q just hearing at the
peace conference. AS the struggle be-
came more and more intense, the utter
ances of the Eureapon statesmen main
tanning that the war was a war of right
against might, and the high sounding
idealism of President Wilson attracted
widespread attention and reused
our national aspirations. The SYM
pathy of the Allied diplomatic agents
all over China, often openly expressed.
encouraged US still more.
Rightly or wrongly, therefore, the
Chinese people believed seriously that
the downfall of Germany meant also
the end of militarism all the world
over and the peace conference a
unique opportunity for redressine our
wrongs. Convinced of the justice of
their cause and confident of the SYM
pathy of the Allied powers, they put
their case plainly before the Paris con-
ference How thoroughly they have
been disappointed is tragic history"
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OF The Manchester Guar
dian" The occasion is the grewsome
case of Landru, the mysterious
Frenchman who for the last few
years has made a regular trade Of
wife killing and maintained his
"real' family on the proceeds. In
vestigation by the police shows, ac-
cording to the Paris dispatches. that
Landru has induced, by promising
marriage, one victim after the other
all of them quiet, moderately we'll
to-do, elderly, middle class women
to move with their belongings to a
secluded house in a remote suburb,
killed them and disposed of the bodies
in a manner hitherto unexplained,
appropriated their money and other
property, sold their furniture and
then started on another similar oper-
alton. The psychological and his
torical background of the case is an
alyzed by the English correspondent
as follows:
"Landru appears to be one Of those
great multiple murderers' who appear
from time to time to horrify humanity.
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Decision on Shantung May
Change Whole Orient

then, Germany is thousands of miles
away from China and has many other
interests to consider, while Japan is at
our very door and can afford to give US
all her unwelcome attention.
In fact Shantung will become
second Manchuria, and, strategically,
Northern China will be at the mercy of
Japan, for from Tsingtau Japanese
troops can reach Pekin within twenty
four hours, and in less than half that
time the trunk lines connecting the
capital while the Yangtse Valley can
be cut. Peking will be firmly grasped
in pair Of Japanese pincers--Man-
churia in the north and Shantung in
the south.
The Economic Side
Let US see the economic side.
Japan, in spite of her organization, is
country without resources; she has
only few small coalfelds, already
rapidly becoming worked out, and
practically no iron ore. Nothing made
her realize her impotency more than
when America prohibited the export
of steel on entering the war. In re-
cent years great efforts have been
made to secure her needs at the en-
pense of China. She had obtained al
ready two big coalhelds and consider
able iron deposit at the conclusion Of
the Russo-Japanese War. Hy presenting
to China an ultimatum in 1915 she en-
torted from us one of the largest iron
deposits, that of Anshan, on the South
Manchurian Railway. She controls
also some 450,000,00O tons of high
grade ore in the Yangtsc Valley. But
the Manchurian ores are mostly low
grade magnetic, partly unavoidable,
and the coal can only be used to a
small extent for metallurgical pur-
poses. Again, she possesses no coal
field near enough to- be employed for
the smelling Of the Yangtse iron ores.
The peace conference has given her
340,000,000 tons more of hcmatitc ore
and more than one billion tons of good
coal, all near the railway, the exten.
sion of which will traverse three big
coalhelds containing billions of tons
Of coking coal within economic dis
lance Of the Yangtse Valley. Thus as
the result Of the Paris conference
Japanese monopoly of Chinese iron in
dustry has been assured. The export
OF Chinese iron ore to Japan has been
of extraordinarily rapid growth; before
1912 1t was negligible, but it will prob
ably reach million tons in 1920.
with the enormous advantages just
acquired she will be able to increase
this supply four to Ave times within
the next ten years. Those who know
the ambitions of Japan can hardly
doubt that when she can build as many
ships with her own steel as she likes
Japan will assume a different attitude
toward such questions ~ racial equal
ity. and Great Britain may have rca-
; sons to think differently Of the value
OF the Anglo-Japanese alliance as the
means Of safeguarding India.
$50 much for the material side. Blu.
tho Japanese victory is b. no means
confined to It. What Japan has beer
striving for during the las. few years
: IS that she should no recognized by
; tho powers a. the only Spokesman OF
Eastern Asia. The famous twenty-one
, demands, the Lansing-Ishii agreement.
~ we'll as the recent agreements with
China, all point TO tn. same effort to
realize what IL known 90 tho japanese
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The Japanese Pir,cers

1.-THE American communicate said
that Japan was to obtain all the rights
formerly belonging to Germany only
- an economic concessionaire, and that
Japan voluntarily engaged to hand back
the Shantung Peninsula in full sove
reignty to China. Let Us see how far
these statements are from the truth.
According TO the same communiouS.
Japan will have the right to establish
settlement In Tsingtau. the only port
IN Kiao-chau, and to maintain special
police along the railway. In a country
where the japanese enjoy extra terri.
for'al rights 1t means that the piece Of
territory beginning from the settle.
ment where the railway starts and end.
ing In the terminus. which Is At present
~ Tsinan, the capital Of the province
becomes virtually Japanese territory.
II 10 true that many Of these rights
we're possessed by the C,rmaus. bat.
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"HE decision OF the peace con-
ference in regard to the
Shangtung Peninsula is dis
cussed in "The Manchester
Guardian by LANG Chi-chao, a
prominent Chinese scholar of eco
Monies and former Minister Of
Finance and of Justice, who writes:
Few people in Europe realize how
momentous was the decision taken by
the council of three in favor Of Japan
On the Shantung question. Without eX-
aggeration, we say that it exceeds in
importance all the other territorial ad-
iustments made by the conference, be-
cause of the area and population af-
fected. No we'll informed man can
have any douot that it will profoundly
modify the history Of the Asiatic con-
tinent. if rot that of the whole world.
st is unnecessary to emphasize the
Justice of China's demands; they have
never been seriously questioned even
by the Japanese Everybody admits
that the territory of Kiao-chau is in
every sense purely Chinese; that the
occupation by the Germans in 1898 was
an act OF violence; that by entering
into the war on the side of the Allies
China nulltcd all her treaties with
Germany, and that the so-called agree
merits between japan and China we're
forced upon the latter by threats of
war. But Japan is strong and China is
weak; it is much easier to sacrifice
the latter than to offend the former.
Great Britain and France were bound
by secret treaty to support Japan
flee his league of nations, which would
have been put in danger by the threat
encd withdrawal of Japan. There we
have the whole story. Some people be-
lieve that in supporting the claims Of
the Japanese Great Britain must have
decided upon a new foreign policy,
which may have its ultimate object in
diverting Americas attention to the
Pacific Ocean. Events will show the
correctness Of this view. which need
not concern Us here. Let us simply
consider the necessary consequences of
the decision taken
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A Modern B|xebeuvd At
His Work I've France

wv 7HY is "Bluebeard"? THIS
wv question is discussed by one
' ' of the Paris correspondents
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0NHE decision of the peace con-
ference in regard to the
- Shangtung Peninsula is dis
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-23
AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE Observation-Disclosures
FORDEVELOPMENTO Of ROAD SYSTEM ANDuW

Striving national road planning
which distributes
4 100000 additional highways =
onng repairs and deours
+ curing abolition crossings, +
fiscal policies and carefully designed
political
highway
= with capacities =
traffic control
= facilitate transportation of all kinds =
connecting
enjoyable
legislation which
make home registration tag accountable IN all other states
bill
transp Of AM +
including regulation OF
! wheel and vehicle loads +
marking historical
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America 4
New
consula ton will W $ a A. A.
organizations
a !
friendship
A.
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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-23
SAFETY Of CHILDREN SHOULD Be THE FIRST
CONSIDERATION Of EVERYMO7ORCA OWNER

Captain Charles ]. Van Dorm, of the
Boise Police department, has been an
officer of the law for years, and has
seen many accidents, particularly to
children by automobiles.
Captain Van Dorm has made a close
study of the subject, and speaks from
knowledge gained by experience when
he says that the safety of children
should be the first consideration OF
every motorist, and that every auto
driver should slow up and expect the
unexpected whenever children are in
sight.
A set of rules have been drawn up
by the officer, which should be read,
clipped and pasted on the wind shield
of every auto in town, studied and
learned and then practiced assiduously.
In connection with his rules, Capt.
Van Dorm says:
Give the children the advantage of
every doubt and there won't be so
many accidents to the little tots
When children are on the sidewalk or
curb the driver should swing around
as much as possible and lessen the
speed so that If child should do his