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Evening star., 1919-11-27
PAINT GLOOMY PICTURE
. OF HOUSING CONDITIONS
Interior Germany Papers Report
Congestion So Bad Compulsory
Quartering May Be Adopted.

/ COLOGNE. November l (Corre-
| spondenoe of the Associated Press).-
! Newspapers from the interior of Ger
many paint a gloomy picture OF houS-
| ing conditions in German cities They
say that families expelled from the
occupied areas, for one reason or an
other, and from Silesia and East
Prussia, wander inland and have
greatly increased the congestion in
the cities. Steps already have. been
taken in several cities 30 introduce
compulsory quartering. Unless the
housing situation improves lmmedl- =
ately. the newspapers say. this meth
cd of housing the homeless will have
to be reSorted to.
The lack of housing facilities. par
t'cularly in the occupied areas where
the troops are quartered. has been
critical for months. In HoiSteln ana
F'rankfurt Main. and even in Ber-
lin, the shortage of buildings is com
plained of by the newspa per writer's.
In Cassel, just beyond the British oc-
cupied zone. 5000 families are re-
ported in. need of proper housinF
facilities for the winter. In Cologne
work was started last summer to
build accor7r2 orlations for the poorer
people. and owing to this fact the
Terri-e~Nerts here are not so great
as in other cities of the occupied ter
ritory.
Appeal to Berlin.
In CoJlenZ, headquarters of thy
American forces in Germany. tn
shortage of dwellings has reached
such ii stage that the city govern
ment recently appealed to Berlin for
aid. 1t is proposed to build 300
frame. houses as soon as possible tC
care for Coblenz residents whose
homes have been requisitioned o.
people who have otherwise virtually
been made homeless.
. CoblenZ is particularly crowded
owing to the fact that it is the seat
of the interallied Rhineland high
commission. which is to be the gov
erning body when the treaty of peac"
becomes effective. Hundreds of civil
ians connected with the various al
lied missions have brought their fam
lilies to the city. For months the
city officials have been cooperating
with the American billeting offices IL
an effort to utilize every available
room, apartment, house or hotel in
CobIenz and its suburbs
Evening star., 1919-11-27

longed rumbling as of terrific ex.
plosion.
The rumblings were heard as far 4
South Bend and Laporte, Ind. wt4 e
the flash of light was said TO hat g
visible at Chicago.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Bar the Nickname

While Secretary Lane is spreading the
doctrine of Americanzation among busi-
ness men and legislators, that fertile
held, the younger generation, is not be-
ing neglected. Recognizing the tendency
of children to call each other "out of
their Names" as the children themselves
phrase it, DR.. p. P. Claxton, United
States Commissioner of Education. has
inaugurated q campaign among boys to
combat the thoughtless habit of attach
ing to foreigners and the children of
foreigners ncknames that carry a sting.
Boy Scouts and members of all bows or
ganizatlons are being asked to subscribe
to Code of Honorable Names" the
pledge for which reads:
my name for every true man in these
United States shall be the honorable
name OF American
My reference to all new Americans
born IN other lands shall never be dis
honorcd by slurs, nicknames or hyphens.
My purpose shall be to discourage in
the native born the love for titles. to
help every alien to forget his hyphen
and be proud of the name American and
TO stamp out the use of such nicknames
az words Of derision of the foreign
born
"We pledge ourselves never to use.
and to discourage everywhere, the use
OF such words as Dago, Dutchy, Frogev.
Ginny. Greaser, Hcinv, Horwat, Hunkv.
Kike, Mick, Paddy, Sheeney, Spaghetti
and Wop as applied to any foreign born
resident Of the United States Of America"
The epithet that sets child apart
from its fellows is injurious, not only
TO the self-respect Of the child so des-
lgnated, but also to the spirit of tolera-
ton and Americanism among those who
apply the word. When bows learn that
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
A Menacing Proposal

The internationalization of labor"
through commission appointed by the
peace conference is only phrase as vet
and 1t is impossible to criticise it with
iinality. 1t is, however, clear on the sur
lace that an intensely local and domestic
problem is here brought under interna-
tlonal review and that the greatest eau
ton will be needed
Certain contradictions with respect t.
the plan as put forward by Mr.. George
Nlcoll Barnes, representative of labor in
the Lloyd George Cabinet, have already
raised confusion and suspicion. This in
ternatlona! lebor commission will not
deal with purely internal problems of the
nations. "Capital and labor will still work
out their local differences as before"
1t is said. Yet elsewhere it is plainly
urged that the peace conference deter
mine the right of the people to form
trade unions; and that the commission.
when appointed, take up such matters
as the hours of labor. Enforcement of
orders with respect to labor is suggested
by means of economic boycotts.
One other question that has been
oroached IS the freedom of labor to move
from nation to nation as it wills. 1t can
be argued that if uniform labor condi-
dltlons are fixed the world over no OBJ
lection to such unrestricted IMMIGRATION
exists. But the mere statement of these
two general propositions with their in
terrelation shows how dangerous and
revolutionary is the whole proposition of
international labor control.
In plain truth labor is essentially and
necessarily an internal and domestic
problem. Its rights and obligations. it's
past and future, are inextricablv in
volved in the whole fabric Of a nations
HE. Seriously to regulate it interna-
tionally would be to attempt to make uni
form customs of living, methods of Ia
Dor, hopes, ideals, the very essence of
nationality If we are ready to abandon
our national faiths, our national oual-
tiles of mind and body, then by all means
let us seek to make uniform labor condi
tons IN Japan and in the United States.
Let labor pass freely across national
boundaries, regardless Of race or color.
But if we still hold by our belief in
America let US oppose any information
alization of labor that invades national
home rule as we would oppose the sur
render of our flag.
An international commission may be
harmless body of conference and investi-
cation. 1t may also be vicious source
of infinite international wrangling and
meddling. America cannot be too sure
which sort of commission is asked and
urged and adopted.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Aerial Smuggling

An aerial police force in the near fnt-
ure Is the prediction of Colonel William
A. Bishop, English ace, at a luncheon 90
'ne Aero Club. Colonel Bishop believes
mat lawbreakers will be quick to take
advantage of the possibilities of evadino
justice by taking to the clouds and that
'he police powers will have to be ov-
'ended to deal with such offenders.
The ancient industry of smugol;rv
colonel Bishop forecasts, will be given
ne" impetus when cargo carrying air
piahes come into general use. The ease
WIN winch custom duties may be evaded
~ oundling small but immensely val
aaoie cargo Of goods into an airnlano
rising INTO the clouds several hundred
n'iies distant from an international
boundary and crossing above the line
Is certain to commend itself to suup-
gers, IN Colonel Bishops opinion.
Inc readiness with which criminals
'ake advantage Of every forward stem Of
science and invention is sufficient owl
hence Of the probability of Colonel Bish-
ops prediction. When the State Of Okla
"ohna went dry few years ago. at
ABOUT the time the automobile was com
ing into fullest use, a clever individual
established regular feet of "booze carso
from a neighborng state and defied tho
authorities for number of years. Be-
lore the Federal officers finally got him
and his big band Of assistants and Gent
them to the penitentiary because thew
happened TO run foul of the law against
selling liquor to the Indians the chief
had become literally millionaire. He
served his sentence with all the comfort
that is permitted to convict and, so
far as is known, is now living at ease
On his ill-gottcn profits.
II II was difficult to break up an
Illegal traffic carried on by motor cars.
how much more so will it be If the law
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New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Our Panama Canal
urc.

There has been some talk amonp the
extreme internationalists about interna-
tlonallzlng the Panama Canal. Lord
Robert Cecil made a sensible allusion to
this propaganda when he remarked in
Paris the other day that since the canal
is the property of the United States it
must be for this country to say how it
shall be controlled.
we came near internationalizing the
Panama Canal under the terms of the
first HayPauncefote treaty. Secretary
Hay used the Suez Canal treaty as a
model in drawing that instrument But
the Senate baked at internationaliza-
ton, or even naturalization. 1t insisted
that the United States should have the
right to fortify the canal The first
treaty failed and the second recognized
American proprietary rights in the
canal
We built the trans Isthmian waterway
at our own cost. 1t is valuable asset
IN military as we'll as an economic
sense. 1t should remain American. It
is open on equal terms to the shipping of
the world. That is a sufficient measure
Of Observation-Disclosures There is no
divine right Of access to the Panama
Canal, for it was not created bv an act
of Providence
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Germany's Secret Archives

The German archives are full of docu-
ments which show German completely
with Austria Hungary to bring about a
world war. Had the old order survived
the shock of defeat these documen,
would have been destroyed. Fortunately
the revolution came so suddenly that the
Prussian military autocracy didn't have
time to cover its tracks.
1t is desirable that the world should
know the exact truth about the origins of
the war The revolutionary government
OF Bavaria did great service to history
when it made public the dispatches sent
by the Bavarian minister in Berlin in
the weeks just preceding the declaration
OF war against Russia. These confirmed
what had already been disclosed about
the complete agreement between Berlin
and Vienna
But there are hundreds Of additional
discriminating documents which ought t.
be rescued and published Herr Kautskv.
one Of the Socialist leaders in Berlin. un-
dertook to collect them. He was an
PeAA>iioiy oiliNClC III HIS ueSlTC 10 present
the whole truth. But there are powerful
influences at work in Berlin to suppress
1T. "A government in which Scheidemann
and Erzberger are conspicuous can
hardly be very Jealous to lift the veil
which hides the secrets Of the imperial
lstlc regime. Scheidemann was long a
tool of the Kaiser and Ludendorff. So
was Erzberger.
1t would be wise precaution if the
Entente governments insisted on the
publication of real German White
Book, to replace the lying one issued in
1914. If the new Germany is willing to
repent her sins let her begin by giving
the world the true story Of the German
Austrian conspiracy.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27

quent condemnation of the diabolism Of
German frightfulness, would rise up to pro-
test IN horror against the extension of that
hand IN welcome to American heroes return
ing. some Of them with severed limbs and
shattered faces, from the blood-stained
fields of Flanders and France
1t is because you young men believe that
he is not guilty of these things, but that he
has been unjustly accused, that some of you
have resented criticism Of him tonight.
Will mention just one more charge be-
fore we see what basis if any, they have to
rest upon. 1t is this that after we had
entered the war against Germany he in
sisted that we must not by any means send
our boys over to France, where the Germans
were to be found, but must keep them here,
where all the dangerous Germans were in
termed and there were no other Germans to
tight. How absurdly ridiculous such ad-
vice. Do you believe that hefever advised
or urged such stupidity silly thing?
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
The Coming 7ower
"DlICE RIDENTEM"

open the window, throw out the reeled
cable and as it uncols itself, place the life
belt left at the machine around your body
under your arms. Smile and step out of the
window" Sign in the National Hotel,
Topeka, Kan.
When the flames are a-swirling around
you like mad,
And everything seems to have gone to
the bad
Just do as it says in the escape ad,
"Smile and step out Of the window"
Your wife runs away with the man who
sells ice,
The neighbors converse upon topics not
nice;
What simpler than taking the follow
ing advice:
'Smile and step out of the window"
And if, after leaving this here vale of
woe,
st. Peter confronts you with halo aglow,
And motions you gently but firmly
below,
"Smile and step out of the window"
Topeka Kansas WEARY.
"People in the United States know how
fond of theatres Mr.. Wilson is" cables
the A. P. correspondent from Paris, as
he tells how the President went to the.
opera Friday night He is The President
generally goes to Keith's each week in
Washington and sometimes to other the
atres. And it has been our privilege to
observe the Presidential countenance
during the progress of performance
and gosh! the old stuff that he laughs at!
In a year 54,6O0,00o persons paid
s136,500,000 to sleep in New York ho-
tells, according to statistic doped out
by Mr.. John W. Lawrence for the
Evening World Perhaps 100000 of
them, however, having rooms across
from the kitchen, didn't do such lot
Of sleeping.
But the hotel system is wrong. You
register and the clerk generally asks
you how much you want to pay; that
is, he says, Something about So" If
you are courageous, you say NO. so
you say, ooh, that's all right" But
every room should have it's price on
the door
Our present complex is that there is
a conspiracy against us to keep us from
writing. Times Square is not torn up,
one frequently gets seat in the subway,
and the composing room works with in
telligent celerity.
What will the bartender do with some
of his heaven-sent gifts? Such as, for
instance, that of putting your change on
the only wet spot on the bar
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
MIR. Wilson's Triumph

When the second session of the peace
difference opened in the Sale de la Paix
of the French Foreign Office at o'clock,
Saturday, January 25, 1919, NJ. Clemen-
ceau, the chairman, said: "The league
of nations is the first subject on the
agenda."
The President of the United States
then rose and spoke for the project that
will be historically associated with his
name. He spoke of it romantically, as
the incompatible moral adventure, and
of himself as a Crusader, and of the
world as a perfectible place He spoke
in that singular manner wherein is the
mems emotions
After him spoke England and France
nd Italy and Australia and Poland and
China, none dissenting So presently a
creative resolution was agreed to, de-
claring-
THAT league Of nations is an essen
tia instrument on EARTH
THAT it shall be an integral part of
he peace, and
THAT it shall be open to all civilized
nations who can be trusted
A committee was accordingly en-
powered to work out the details of the
constitution and functions of the
league" The President of the United
States was made chairman of that com
mittee.
Thus, briefly, a league Of nations was
born, in certain way at certain time,
Exactly as Mr.. Wilson wished it to be.
The event was for him high personal
triumph.
The danger now is that sentimental
mankind will think an epoch was born
at the same time. That is not necessarily
20. 1t is very doubtful. 1t depends alto
sether upon what slow and suspicious
mankind is willing to make of the thing
There Is nothing new in the principle.
There have been leagues of tribes and
clans and nations and states since history
began, all more or less having genesis in
necessity, as even this one had. If there
IS anything new, besides the time and
place, 1t is not in the principle but in
'he spirit alone. 1t may be that this
eague of nations, more than any other
league or alliance in the past will rep
resent civilized sense of right above
any collective sense of advantage. But
that could be only in degree In anv
case the distractions begin with the de-
tails' all OF which remain happily to be
arranged.
1t is certain that league of nations
cannot represent more than the crystal
lized average moral sense of the people
composing it, with the morality adjust
ed always to the realities of everyday
national existence. To expect more is
to prepare the disappointment before
hand. And one of the limiting realities
is every nations jealous sense of it's own
sovereignty. Let the details beware,
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27

after the Lustana was sunk. In il s ..
editorial printed in large type. Anv -
you may find it on file in our Public
Library or at the Office of the newspaper
Here is what it says:
'JFhether the Lusitaniu wos o,7nss
or not, it wos properly spoil of acoy
subject to attack and destruction ,n'
der the accepted rules of so-caued c;,.
HiSed aoorfare."
And to make sure that there is no mis-.
take as to whose is the responsibility 7
md signature attached to it. The sien.-
ture reads. "W. R. Hearst" What shall
say to that charge? l must admit that
| cannot answer it.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
LOCAL NEWS
alAli01M lEI0EITii1II zSlIz M i::l

Some colder next week.
-. ulian Street, ST., is in town visit
ing his son Julian Street. jr
Fred Kelly of Cleveland and
Washington is here for a few davs
This depts. candidate for pres in
1920 is none other than 1T. Col.
Herbert Parsons
1t Henry Sydnor Harrison one
of the navy's oldest salts is Sunday
ing in our attractive city.
Al Woods and Marc Klaw were
feeling pretty good Wednesday over
the theatre tax not being added to.
Will White of llmporia and son
Billy are in Paris and Mrs. Will is
running the Gazette.
Lou Swift and Og Armour OF
Chicago spent the week at the natl
capital.
deems Taylor once OF the N. Y.
Press has been having the "inhu-
enza."
Fred Cooper the genial and popu-
lar artist will be glad to know that
his cousin Ramsey Spillman of
Washington is all we'll again.
-. lack GalswOrthy the well-known
writer is on the Atlantic Ocean on
his way to this city. Jack should
receive a hearty welcome from our
citizens.
Many were the letters every officer in
France had to censor, and sometimes we
were a bit derelict Things detrimental
to our Allies were to be elided, but one
day we let this go through: "The French
is sure brave people. Any birds who
would fight four years for country
like this has sure got courage"
You read about Magma Charta and VOL,
think there was nothing to it but signing
the thing and going home. But the
chances are that the Runnymede Gazette
printed editorials attacking the assem-
blants for their secrecy.
Due to the popularity of Capt. BARNS
fathers play, an enterprsng packer is
considering the exploitation of his Grade
A margarine, calling it, of course, The
Better Oleo
This is the ex-Kaiser's birthday, but
writing paragraph merely making a
face at him would entitle us to no D 8
c. Besides, the big stiff probably
wouldn't see it,
1t is hard to get back into civilian
phraseology. sFor the life of us we can't
help referring to the copy-boy who
brings proofs up from the COMPOSING
room as the Liaison Officer.
Food prices are down, but the res
taurant owner is even less of a news
paper reader than the actor.
new comet has been discovered and
late last night the solar system and the
comet were doing we'll.
r d
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
The Next Charge

But let US see as to the next. T. ;s
charged that after our own country h.a
engaged IN war with Germany he still Com
unued to excuse and justify her use of
the worst, most ruthless and most dia-
bolical instrument of warfare, the suh-
marine. Is the charge true? We have no
alternative but to say that it is when ua
read IN his own newspaper, "The San Fro,-
cisco Examiner" OF April IA, 1917. spch
utterances as this in defence of Germanr
with which we were then engaged in deadly
conflict: Particularly do we deplore the
sentiment that has been fostered aeain.t
the submarine. -. We are making
terrible mistake in the sentimental obiec-
tlon to submarine warfare"
Sentimental" to object to the whole
sale murder Of our -combatant citizons
and innocent mothers and helpless bahe.
by method that called forth unjverso,
expressions Of horror and condcmnatio,
from the people of all nations that vera
not leagued with Germany in the crime
and won for everything German the abbor-
renee and detestation of all Americans sr-
cepting only William Randolph Hearst and
they Of the class whose moral vision bos
been blurred by the teaching Of his neu,s-
PAPERS
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27

patriotism consists rather in making the
alien child or the child Of alien parents
forget his hyphen than in fastening it
upon him by that most tenacious Of
things, nickname, long step toward
Amerlcanization will have been taken.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27

sequestered country lanes? The advent
of prohibition, coming just at the time
when the era of air transportation is
dawnlng, is certain to appeal to those
desirious of supplying the wants of the
thirsty. The prospect opens new posi-
bilities for the Nick Carters of the fut-
urp
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Will a Soldier Speak?

am sure that no American soldier whose
valor and endurance Of inexpressible hard
ships and dangers have helped to the lust
punishment OF that and other crimes ot
the ruthless Hun will raise his voice hera
or elsewhere to justify the transgression
or the n-Americansm that would excuse II
The proof of the other charge which
have named is equally conclusive. 1t rests
upon no fallibe or impeachable witnesses
The incontrovertible proofs are in the edi-
torials which found in the files of his
own newspapers right here in New York.
Alter we had entered the war, changing
ms attitude to apparent and lavish express
slons of patriotism, with the American fac
spread all over them, he with cunning
adroltness urged US to do exactly what Ger
many wanted us to do and exactly what
would have delivered over Europe. and
after that our own country, to the rule of
German autocracy and German ku,tur-
namely, that we should not by any means
permit an American army to 90 to Euronc.
but must keep our boys-the bows who he
came the heroes of Chateau Thierrv and
the Argonne-at home to fight windmills
IN our own back yards or upon our peaceful
pastures and golf links!
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Security Enough
(rrom Tho Houston. Ter. posu

" nat security has the United States for
the billions Of dollars loaned to Great B-:.
ain" asks an anonymous muttonhead Of
st. Louis. The security of as sublime a
courage. as invncible spirit, as unwavcr
ing faith and as knighty an example of
self~sacrifce as the annals of the human
race disclose. Ntxt.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Vim. Randolph Hearst
Has He Been Treated Fo;yyv2
a Speech 1h0t Vas NOT Delivered the Goy1
Mass Meeting January
By SAMUEL COLCORD

AIDES and gentlemen, and more par
ticularly the men Of the army and
navy who have come home to us after
a service in France and Flanders and upon
The seas by which you have placed us
under lasting debt of gratitude, debt
which lifetime will not be long enough to
repay, am permitted by the management
of this meeting to say few words in de-
fence of man who has been charged in
this meeting and elsewhere with sad lack
of patriotism. Not only that, but what is
far worse, he has been charged with dis
loyalty to you and to his country, a charge
which, if true, would make him totally un-
fit to grasp in welcome the hand of any
returning American soldier who has fought
for the honor of our flag and whose heroic
valor has signally helped to make the world
safe for human freedom, q world in which
we and coming generations may live in the
enjoyment Of the blessings and the serenity
of peace.
The chairman has promised to protect me
from the violence of the critics of Mr.
Hearst, and gives assurance that if l
say what may not altogether please them
they will not cry me down, and | am very
sure that the few here present who have
shown that they are his friends will give me
attention in what I will say.