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New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
MEMpER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lenine Obliges

The Soviet government, which has been
steadily growing in military power and
which now aspires to foreign recognition
as we'll as to internal stabilization, has
accepted the invitation recently sent it to
enter the Princes Islands conference.
The Council Of Ten at Paris will send
Representatives to the Sea of Marmora to
arrange a settlement with Lenine and
Trotzky.
Allied policy in Russia has for many
months led nowhere. Now it leads to
lonely watering place off Constantinople,
where the Russian problem may be solved
by one of those electrifying surprise
shifts which so frequently occur in high
diplomacy melodrama.
1t is intimated that Lenine and Trotzky
are willing to promise to pay Russia's
debts and to welcome new influx of
capital, instead of Bolshevizing Europe.
NOW, suddenly, we are 10 De}leVe tnaJ
these priests of terror have transformed
the lawless proletariat to which they
pandered into closely organized social
istic republic, controlled by military
force. But what pledges can the Boil
shevist emissaries carry to Princes
Islands? If they promise financial ad-
justment and resumption of economic
relations with the world, is that enough?
Is it thus that we compose our horror of
their conduct? How shall we unwrite
the invitation we issued to civilization to
share our uncomfortable moral indigna-
tion at the whole Bolshevist regime?
Perhaps Lenine and Trotzky, attending
to their own survival will attend also to
that and require from the peace confer
ence a certificate of character.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
The Only Hope

total annihlation of the present sys-
tenn is the only possible saving of Russia
The country, with the greater part of its
inhabitants, has been thrown into the deep
est misery and dependency There are no
foodstufs any more. The distribution of
food tickets is useless, as in most cases one
cannot get anything on them Railway
traffic has almost stopped and, accord1ngIv
the import of food Only on the big INES
some traffic is maintained, but the trains
creep along from one station to another
and after one hours ride they stop for one
hour and half. No organized schedule is
kept. The carriages have been entirely
plundered, the brasswork, the curtains, racks
and coverings of the seats have gone fray
elllng has been made almost impossible by
an unheard-of passport tyranny To buy a
railroad ticket one needs special permit
On the road from Petrograd 70 Moscow
your baggage is examined three times Thus,
the inhabitants are imprisoned in the cities,
left to despotism, hunger and want of the
most needfuI articles.
1t is impossible to escape from the
country, as the frontiers are hermeticallv
closed to those who have not sufficient
means to bribe the frontier guards The
population seems to lack all energy to rise
against its oppressors. All the energy of
the people has been systematically crushed.
There is no police, no safety service, no
Jurisprudence. In their place came terror
ism and despotism. Never under the old
regime were there SO many imprisonments,
so many executions in masses as we see
now daily. Many time have | seen a
crowd of weeping women in front of the
prisons, looking for their husbands, broth
ers and sons, taken from them without trial
and whose whereabouts they did not know.
Heartrending tales ! have heard from these
women.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Reading at Eckarssau

Charles of Hapsburg, sometime En-
peror of Austria and Apostolic King Of
Hungary, has great deal les. reason for
remorse and penitence than his colleague
in glory and downfall, the we'll known
tenant of Amerongen Castle. He has also
less ground to apprehend retributory JUS
tice. He may derive kind of solace from
the consciousness that when the end came
he did not, like mere German kaiser or
an embezzling bank cashier, take the
first train to safety, but faced his des-
tiny, if not like a Cicero or a Seneca, at
least like an average gentleman with
normal sense of honor. Nevertheless,
family trouble. If so, irritation out of
ennui may have to do with it. His days
must be dull and his evenings long.
There are no occasions of state at Eek
artsau, no levees and dinners and balls,
no grand opera and theatre, not even a
moving picture show. So--since golf is
largely unknown in those parts-the ex-
monarch probably has to fall back upon
reading as his last line of defence
against desolation.
Still, reading has it's dangers for a
FORMER Hapsburg emperor Volumes of
history may bring him little cheer. Was
1t not Gladstone who said that in no part
OF Europe has Austria ever done good?
de might have said there are only a few
places where she did no evil. European
a 70 la tho~
mas Hapsburg skeleton The list Of
hapsburg misdeeds covers probably a
wider range, in place and time, than that
OF any other ruling house In compari-
son even the Hohenzollerns look like
mere provincial upstarts.
On the other hand, if Charles he q
philosopher, he might find both pleasure
and nstruction-however belated the
latter--in looking up the family CORE
SPondence. Passages such as the one
quoted below from a letter Of his great
&ncestresss Maria Theresa, to her Am
bassador at Paris, Mercy-Argenteau
may appeal to him:
We wished to act in the Prussian fash-
ion, and at the same time retain the
appearance Of decency. We cherished q
vain illusion"
No doubt Charles knows the feeling.
Perhaps the following fragment of let
Ter, written in 1778 by Maria Theresa to
nsr daughter Marie Antoinette, will
strike him as equally prophetic:
'Tysnce has had the experience. on
many occasions, that she can not rely on
sns word Of Prussia. Banishing all prin-
sipiss OF right and truthfuiness, Prussia
makes ntockery oY ali treaties and alu
ances. We already feel the weight
81 dsspotism whose policy is always
guided by It's own convenience alone
wnien acts never by principles, always by
Dyute force II Prussia liz permitted TO
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

there would have to be some radical re-
adjustments of capitalization of certain
companies but, in the aggregate, these
would be unimportant. Foreseeing that
the proper development of our trans
portation system inevitably involves alb
sorption of the weaker lines, and growth
into larger units, he would provide for
Federal franchise, freeing them from
the restrictions of the Sherman act,
pooling etc, and leaving them subject
only to Federal regulating body, hav-
ing exclusive control of interstate rates
and the issue of securities by such
roads.
These ideas, first presented before
the United States Chamber of Com
merce in Washington in early Decem-
Der, have been incorporated in part in
the proposals of the Walfeld commit
tee, and, on the other hand, would
achieve something of the same result
aimed at by Senator Cummins's plan for
regional operation by large competing
systems, without going to the difficult
length of government purchase, with the
inevitable controversies which would
arise over the prices to be paid. The
plan looks forward to freeing the roads
from the blghting and benumbng in
huences to which they have been sub
jected for ten years or more, and which
have finally brought them to their pres
ent plight, and give rein to "an aggres-
sive spirit of enterprise" This, as Mr.
Warburg remarks,
"for the continued intensive and free dc
yelopment Of country whose resources
we have only begun to unfold, we need
not the lazy and arbitrary bureaucracy
and political atmosphere that, with us,
would be certain to follow if one great
regional corporation would cover the en-
tire United States. A business spirit of
rivalry must be kept alive by the preser
walton of number Of large units of rail
roads, competing on broad lines-not in
rates but in service-and by the oppor-
tunity given them to earn more than the
guaranteed minimum"
Clearly, this is the spirit in which the
problem must be solved.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
An Equality of Mud and Misery
udeuykA
a and of Russia

NJ 1SMARCk once uttered the wish that
n to the Socialists should be given a
country where they could work and
handle affairs and show what they would
attain by the accomplishment of their ideals
sia for this trial.
The result is that there exist more tyr
amy, cruelty, bribery and misery under the
new free. government than under any
other government Russia has known.
A small group of people has purposely,
with the utmost refinement and with stag
gering perseverance, wiped out Russia's
wealth, her prosperity and her future.
Whatever was in Russia has been thrown
down and crushed, or Investigated" so thor
oughly that nothing remains.
Petrograd is empty; the few people out
doors wander about like spectres, with pale
faces and hollows round their eyes and
mouths from hunger. The horses drop
in front of the carriages from mere exhaus-
tion. The dogs in the streets are bony,
shivering creatures.
have had Russians come to me and
swoon in my arms from hunger and misery.
They had heard that the Netherlands Am
bassador would, perhaps, be able to help
them. Every institute of public charity
and common assistance has been wrecked
and ruined. The International Seafarers'
Home at Petrograd, even, has not escaped,
The old captain and his wife who managed
the home for years have been put out with
out means of existence. All their protests
have been of no consequence. Commerce.,
industry, banking and mining have Stopned
entirely. The banks have been plunoereo
and all the money values and shares have
been taken into custody. The records of
notes and drafts have been scattered to the
four winds. With contiscated goods, the
Bolsheviki try to create barter with for
eign countries
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Censor Is Supreme

The army itself is dsorganzed The
troops in the service of the present govern.
ment are composed of the most extreme
reds kept by extraordinarily high pay and
extra food rations.
The public is utterly ignorant of what is
happening in other countries as we'll as in
their own. Only government newspapers
are issued, and they give only one-sded
and misleading news.
The censor is hundred times more ex-
acting than under the old regime. In the be.
ginning some German papers could be had
at Petrograd. but their import has been
stopped lately, so we were totally ignorant
of what happened in the universe. Unem-
ployment has risen enormously. Never be-
fore has the world witnessed such an inten-
tional annihilation of products and means
as we see now in Russia.
All factories are ruined The engines are
taken away or transported from one factory
TO another The object of this is obvious
The few workingmen who are still willing
to work must earn enormous wages, while
they do very little work. Thus the en-
money to the workers while their output is
paralyzed for long time perhaps for coed.
Only large Importation of foreign capital
shall be able to restore the thus spoiled in
dustries. Nowhere is there any sign Of
enthusiasm for the present government.
The population has lost all energy and
seems parayzed. Tn Bolsheviki enjoy
themselves in theatres and moving picture
shows, at concerts and dances. In the Im-
perial palace they have installed a moving
picture theatre. But the bourgeossie dare
hardly show themselves in the street, be-
cause public safety is very lax.
In the cities have not seen much drunk
enness. A great deal of brandy is made in
the country, but in the cities alcohol is 50
scarce that all the eau de cologne, and even
all the polish, has been drunk
Of course the situation is relatively bet
ter in the country, where the farmers try
to keep as much as possible of their grain
and other products. The great quantities
OF grain and minerals in Siberia are unat-
tainable by the Soviet government.
The Dutch colony has almost entirely
left Petrograd, for the foreign population
is as little safeguarded against the terror
ism of the Bolshevki as the Russians them
selves. Those who remained have closed
their Offices, and like the bourgcosie they
lead pitiful existence trying to sell things
in the streets. Instead of lifting the lower
classes to a higher level the new system
has dragged everything above them down
into their mud and misery
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Maybe Mark Right, at That

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Mark Sullivan, in his article re-
printed in The Tribune, says European
politics are much more sordid than Amer-
can politics ever was at its worst why
is Cor are( European politics plural ana
American politics singular? And speeisi
signifcation? FELIX ORMAN.
New York, Feb. 4, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

afraid that in their turn they will bs :.
garded as bourgeoisie. The result % n
this is that the land remains uncultiys..L
or is insuffciehtly fertilized. On the whol,
farming has stopped for the greater No..
Everything that has been nationalized ..
cialized seems to have been touched h.
witherng hand: it fades and dies n,
socialized tug service on the Volpa. e.
merly of great Importance for grain -
petroleum transport. has stopped ~
barges are rotting in the river. Fo,s.
shipping is of no Importance any mora 3
many formalities have to be observed a..
business has been made impossible. Is,.
placards ON the street corners call on -.
proletariat to take possession of the ho,,.'
of the bourgeoisie. The people are nut ON.
of their homes with two hours notice an
must leave their furniture. Constantly ma
sees so-called confiscated furniture tslss
out of the houses while the inhabitants ~.
left to find other quarters
This is such a common sight that o.,
hardly notices it. The tragedy of fam,,v
losing in few hours all they and tb.y
become such daily occurrence that ons
passes unmoved, hardened by the sight Of
too much misery.
Servants lead miserable existence. No
body can employ them, and at their wits,
end they go and offer their services fo,
nothing just to have home and food. MANY
bourgeoisie have tried to earn their liyins
by selling newspapers and sweets, and the
tales of ex-generals selling newspapers and
princesses serving in shops and at counters
are no imaginary tales. But this, generally
their only means of living, has also been
forbidden to them. Those who possessed
jewelry, antiques or costly furniture have
tried to sell them when they needed money
This also has stopped. The transportation
of furniture without special permission tof
course unattainable for a bourgeois) has
been prohibited.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

expand, what perspectives await our
cessors' Ard this thing Will go on in
creasing forever.
True, all except the last. Not for
Der ii, 1918
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
ARCHIE,

1t is time that we sponged out the once
unerasable impression that a mandate Ia
something that made tyranny tremble. II
is, as no fewer than seven contribs pointad
out before 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
something that makes heroes assemble. II
was banners that caused tyranny's trepida-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
A Brewery Town

tFron The Netc 0rleons P.coyaael
Did you happen to note, in passing, thss
st. Louis laid the biggest water man ia
the world" on the day after the prohioit0H
amendment was ratified?
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
The Coming 7ower
The Doughboy and the Lady

Clorinda, when I went away,
You took my job, with all its pay.
You held it down and did it we'll
While I was holding st. Mihiel
You held my job so splendidly
That now they have no need for me.
Clorinda, I'm decent sort
And SO l took it like a sport
But on my homeward subway beat,
If it so chance ! get seat,
Think not unkindly for minute
Of me if / keep sitting in it.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
TO KATHERINE, WHO WANTS TO KNOW

Have | found the Real One vet.
After searches, hopes. and dreaming.
Often finding that the cleaning
Gold was just mirages net
For the hopeful pilgrim set +?
Katharine, my answers "Yeal'
That my dear, is all the trouble;
If love would but prove bubble,
Lasting for single day
But alas, it's not that way.
Every ones Real One. true
AS stand here, boldly preaching.
II they'd pass. content with teaching---
Or Just siminer down to two;
But they won't. so what's to do,
ARCHIE,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
4 MAD. MAD WAC

Sir: Says somebody to me to-day, Il hear
Ford is going to mako a six cylinder car" Says
quick More power to him HAWK.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

None so anti-German as the revered
proofroom. Three times the story men,
tions Lichow's-once as Luechow's, once
as Lochnow's, and once as Lucknow.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

Many are the geographical changes due to
the war. Mr.. Samuel Hopkins Adams's farm
at Ensenore, N. Y, called in more aA1uent
days "Wide Waters," now is known as
Financial Straits"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Dawn of the Great Unwashed

throm n, e'ersleas f,o'i Drole''
The new revenue bill puts soap IN 'as
luxury class. Is this the entering wedge y
Bclshevismg
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
Mother Goose, 1920,

Little Miss Muffet sat in buffet,
Eating some shredded hay;
naughty man spied her and ordsrad sop,,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

sin France" writes r. s., ~ suppose YOU
learned the language
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

AT the risk and with the hope of appear.
ing sentimental, 1t occurs to us that boys
best Welcoming Committee is his mother
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

The business of exposing the subjective
use of "whom" is q wearisome one, even
more so to this department than to it's
readers. But we ask NO pardon for doing
that indicates a pose on the part of the
writer; and as such should be attacked.
When, for instance, a writer like Frank
Swnncrton, in "Shops and Houses" says
"Not Louis! Oh, not Louis! But whom
could it be ?" he deserves no mercy.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

"They are men Of education and wealth,
q rule" says the Suns Washington cor
respondent, writing Of Parlor Bolsheviki,
"who thirst for some means of getting
notoriety and realize that they can attract
immediate attention by embracing cause
like Bolshevsm, which is being so uni
versally condemned" Now men of educa
tion and wealth, if they really thirst for
notoriety, should realize that they can
attract equally immediate attention by
attacking a cause like Bolshevism,
attacking everything they don't like and
calling it Bolshevism,- which is being so
universally condemned.
"Takc off your whiskers!" cry the Allied
Powers to the Bolshevik government. 1--WE
1nconniZn 1t0111',
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

To Be Answered Very Soon
fFrom The baltimore SUM
How dry IL bone?
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

The editorial "Oui."
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

Which frightened Miss Muffet away.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07

in "Anthony Trent Master Criminal
"'Whom do you think am?' she asked"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-07
G VA r IAN 7 & &

xnscred at the Pcstortce at New York Second Ca
Mail Matter
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-03
HABERKERN ENTERED
IN DISTRICT DEBATE

William Haberkern will represent
Richmond High school at the district
discussion contest at Fortville, April
II. His subject Will be Service for
Citizenship" There will be no pre-
liminaries at High school as has for
merly been the custom.
The winner of the district contest
will go to Bloomington, April 25. Rich
mond has always done well in these
contests. In 1916 Ralph Nicholson
won the state contest for Richmond
High school and in 1917 julius Tietz
won second place.
The information sheet concerning
the Reserve Officers Training Corps
which will be put in High school, has
been prepared and put in the hands Of
the High school students. They must
be signed by the students desiring
the training, and the parents. The
sheet contains the following infor-
nation. The training is voluntary
In order to establish an R o. T. c.
in Richmond High school:
l. One hundred or more boys over
ii years of age must enroll.
2. They must have parents con-
sent.
8. They must complete two years
work unless they graduate in a short
er time after enrolling.
4. If established within a month
Seniors may enroll and finish the
year.
5. Members take no obligation to
the government.
6. Three hours of work per week
are required; two outdoor, one indoor
Z. This work will take the place
Of physical training if desired, but
does not eliminate physical training
from the course.
8. The hours of drill will be pre-
scribed by the principal.
9. Drills consist Of mass athletics,
games and exercises calculated to de-
velop the body. Close order, military
drill is only small part of the work.
10. Credit will be given for this
work.
II. Each boy is given a complete
uniform consisting of wooden, olive
drab breeches, cap and coat, canvas
leggings, cap and collar ornaments,
and russell shoes.
II. Full uniform must be worn
during all drill periods. They may
be worn at all times.
IS. Extra uniforms or parts of uni
forms may be purchased at govern
ment contract prices if desired.
IA. Students who satisfactorily
complete the two years work in Junior
r. o. T. C. will be allowed to enter
the Senior grade upon entering col
lege. This Senior grade carries all
additional subsistence of about $500
per month.
Is. The r. o. T. c. scheme in
wolves a summer camp, free of all ex-
penses to all members, but attendance
is entirely optional. 1t is not likely
that a camp will be conducted this
year.
Is. In case there is a camp, addi-
tional uniforms will be issued, con-
sisting of two pair cotton breeches,
two flannel shirts. one hat and cord.
II. The instructor in military train
ing will be a regular army officer, but
he will be under the supervision of
the principal an superintendent, ex-
actly the same as any other teacher.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-03

Some outfits made up of the finest furniture-the
kind that is artisticaly designed and duraby built
may be purchased here on liberal credit terms. The
"Linwood' illustrated the left, is but one of the
many room outfits that priced this week at
saving. 1t completely furnishes four rooms and you
will be proud of every room when you see it installed
in your own home We are also featuring three
outfits at reduced prices, chosen especially for
those who have just been released from service in
the Army and Navy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-03
Italians Return to Old
Home With u. S. Savings
(By Associated J:ress)

NEW YORK, April 3. - At least
100000 real American dollars in the
money belts Of 1,400 Italians booked
to sail on the liner President Wilson
for Trieste are being held in port here
by the harbor strike-at cost of
$2,100 a day to the Union Navigation
which has been unable to start the
vessel on it's way for lack of tugs.
This amount of gold represents the
savings Of years of toll in America.
Each of the 1,4O0 passengers, eager to
return to Italy after the war, has at
least $4,000 in his possession.
The vessel, originally scheduled to
sail March 20, now is due to leave next
Saturday. In the meantime bankers
for the steamship company have paid
the Italians approximately $4,000 for
subsistence, at the rate of $3.50 per
day for each emigrant.
Now, to add the last straw, customs
officials have announced they are con-
sidering an eleventh hour investiga-
ton to determine If any of the pas
sengers owes the United States gov
eminent an income tax.
Fifty thousand books have been
placed in Coblenzt for the use Of the
American soldiers in that section.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-03
High Chair, 50 Years Old,
Is Received in Richmond

Just SO years ago Joseph Bernside
of Mechanicsburg, O., bought a high
chair for his first child After that
eight of his children and four grand
children occupied it. The chair ar
rived in Richmond today still intact
though a little out Of date, and scarce
ly any the worse for wear
Mrs. Charles Williams of 300 North
Twenty-first street received the heir
loom through parcel post this morn
ing. She will send it on to her sister
in-law in Texas where there are two
great-grandchildren of Joseph Bern
side who are going to use the chair.
Miss Hilda Wynne of the British
Red Cross won eight different medals
during the war