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New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Came Across Some Secret Treaty
AT Every Turn of the Discussions

There is another thing in this COW
cnant which was one of number of
difficulties that we encountered at
Paris. | need not tell YOU that at
every turn in these discussions we
came across some secret treaty, some
understanding, that had never been
made public before; some under
standing that embarrassed the whole
settlement.
II think it Will not be improper
for me to refer to one of these mat
ters. When we came to the settle
ment Of the Shantung question, with
regard to China, we found that Great
Britain and France were under spe-
citic treaty obligations to Japan that
she should get exactly what she got
IN the treaty with Germany; and the
most that we could do mean the
most tfat the United Safes could do
was to urge upon the representa-
tlVes Of Japan the very fatal policy
that was involved in such settle
ment, and obtain from her the prom
sc, which she gave, that she would
not take advantage of those por-
tions of the treaty. but would return
without qualification, the sover-
eighty which Germany had enjoyed
III Shantung province, to the Repub-
nc of China. We have had repeated
assurances since then that Japan in
tends to fulfil those promises in alb
solute good faith"
But my present point is that there
stood at the very gate of that set
tfement, secret treaty between
Japan and two of the great powers
engaged in this war on our side.
We could not ask them to disregard
the fact that this war had been
fought, in part, because of the re-
fusal to observe the fidelity which is
involved IN promise, in a failure
to regard the sacredness of treaties.
And this covenant of the League of
Nations provides that no secret
treaty shall have any validity.
When you look at the covenant Of
the League Of Nations thus, in the
T. large, you wonder why it is a bogy
to anybody; you wonder what in
tiuences have made gentlemen afraid
OF it.; you wonder why it is not OBJ
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
The Speech at Richmond

RICHMOND, Ind. Sept 4.-When the
Pres sdent's train stopped for six min
utes to-day a crowd thronged the sta
ton platform, calling insistently for
Mrs. Wilson. and when she came out
they demanded q speech from the Pres
ident.
az am trying to tell the people
what is in the treaty" he said in
response You would not know what
was In it, to read some of the
speeches | read; and if you will be
generous enough to me to read some
of the things say, hope it will help
to clarity great many matters
which have been very much obscured
by some Of the things which have
been said, because. really, we have
now to make the most critical choice
we ever made as a nation, and it
ought to be made in all soberness
and without the slightest tinge Of
party feeling in it,
81 would be ashamed of myself if
l. discussed this great matter as a
Democrat and not as an American.
| am sure that every man who looks
at it without party prejudice and as
an American will find in that treaty
more things that are genuinely Amer
lean than were ever put into any
similar document before.
1.-The chief thing to notice about
it, my fellow citizens, is that it is
the first treaty ever made by great
powers. that was not made in their
own favor. 1t is made for the pro-
lection of the weak peoples of the
world and not for the aggrandize-
ment of the strong. That is a noble
achievement, and it is largely due to
the influence Of such great peoples
as the people of America, who hold
st their heart this principle that
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05

back and paid no further attention.
Administration Leader Hitchcock's face
was described as looking like thunder
cloud.
MIR. Hitchcock was very much per-
turbed over the nature of the reserva-
tions, particularly that on Article Y.
I'm substance" he said, "these reser-
vations constitute amendments to the
treaty and would operate as amend
ments in keeping the United States out
of the league of nations. don't think
in their present form they will be
adopted in the Senate. don't think the
Senate wants to kill American partici-
patton in the league"
DO you think all of the reserva-
tions adopted come within the scope of
your criticsm?" Mr.. Hitchcock was
asked.
"All of them are Objectionable" he
replied.
Neither the reservations nor the
amendments, nor both together, as ap-
proved by the committee final action
to-day, satisfy the "irrcconcilables. :"
Such Senators as Borah, Fall. Johnson,
Moses and Knox reserved the right,
first, the offer other amendments or
eservations on the floor of the Sen
ate, and, second, to vote against the
treaty on the final rollcall, even if all
the committee reservations and amend
ments are adopted.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Alone to
Prevent W Wars.
Asserts Wilson
Continued from preceding page

language as understand it. If they
read this treaty and this covenant
they only amaze me by their inabi-
ity to understand what is plainly cx-
PRESSED. So that my errand upon
this Journey is not to argue these
matters. but to recall Nou to the real
issues which are involved.
"And one of the things that have
most at heart in this report to my
fellow citizens is that they should
forget what party belong to and
what party they belong to. | am
making this journey as democrat,
but I am spelling it with little ID
and l don't want anybody to remem-
Der, so far as this errand is con-
ccrned, that it is ever spelled with a
big d.
81 am making this journey as an
American and as a champion of the
rights which America believes in,
and | need not tel you that, as COM
pared with the Importance Of Amer
iCd, tne iHipoIldHCe OF tne OcmO-
cratic party, and the Importance of
the Republican party, and the i'm
portanee of every other party, is ab-
solutely negligible. Parties, my fell
low citizens, are intended to embody
in action different policies of govern
ment. They do not, when properly
used, traverse the principles which
underlic government, and the princi-
pies which undcrlie the government
Of the United States have been ia
miliar to us ever since we we're chill
drcn.
II want you to notice another in
teresting point that has never been
dilated upon in connection with the
league of nations. I am now treading
upon delicate ground and | must cx-
press myself with caution.
There were a good many dclega~
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Loss of Trade Alarms
British Steel Makers

LONDON, Aug. 20 Corresponding
OF The Associated Press )-British
iron and steel manufacturers are won
dering whether they will be able to re-
tain their home trade, not to speak of
extending th"ir export business, in the
face of steadily increasing prices of
materials and labor. Americans who
have looked over the situation declare
the British need not worry if they will
adopt modern methods, for wages in
the industry are much higher in Amer
lca than they are in England
Anxiety is chiefly confined to makers
engines and those things which go to
fit out the completed ships power
plant.
The British workman not only de-
mands high wages, but he is charged
with refusing to give its equivalent in
labor, thus cutting down production
and making it impossible for his en-
ployer to fill contracts on time.
America, awakening to the demands
of Europe, is getting the bulk of the
business, while Japan is a close sec
ond, according to high trade auth ori-
ties. Even Germany, with its rioting
workmen and lack Of raw materials, is
after trade, and. if reports can be be-
lieved, is getting it.
AS an instance of the trials which
beset British manufacturers, it Is
pointed out that one company whose
products had a worldwide sale before
the war has been able to obtain only
one contract out of twenty in con1peti-
tion with German and United States
bidders.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
$4, 900, 1000 in Hand for
Jewish Building Fund
That Sum Collected, Though
Campaign Is Not TO Start
Until Sent. ID

The Federated Jewish Institutions.
which are going to start a weeks CAM
paign on September II to raise s1o.-
100000 for the United Building Fund.
announced yesterday that already they
had collected nearly S4,000,OOO of the
sum.
The announcement was made at a
campaign luncheon at the Hotel Bilt
more, at which Harry Urdang, wound
ed soldier under treatment at the Hos
pital for Deformites and Joint Diseases,
told Of the needs of that institution. 1t
was so crowded, he said, that when he
was taken there he was unable to OBJ
tain bed, although his case was urgent.
Hc said he didn't mind that, but at
broke my heart to see children carried
out who should have had beds"
The cloak and suit industries have
raised $650,0O0 for the fund.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05

tions that visited Paris, wanting to
be heard by the peace conference,
who had real causes to present, and
which ought to be presented to the
view of the world, but we had to
point out to them that they did not
happen, unfortunately, to come with
in the area Of settlement; that their
questions were not questions which
were necessarily drawn into the
things that we were deciding.
All Oppressed People
Can Got a Hearing
IL, therefore, want to call your at
tention, if you will turn it up when
you 60 home, to Article XI, follow
ing Article X, of the covenant Of the
league Of nations.
THAT Article XI, let me say, is the
favorite article in the treaty, so far
as ! am concerned. 1t says that every
matter which is likely to affect the
peace OF the world is cverybody's
business, and that it shall be the
friendly right Of any nation to call
attention, in the league, to anything
that is likely to affect the peace of
the world or the good understand
ing between nations upon which the
peace of the world depends, whether
that matter Immediately concerns the
nations drawing attention to it or
not.
"In other words, at present we have
to mind our own business. Under
the covenant of the league of ma
tions we can mind other peoples
business, and anything that affects
the peace of the world, whether we
are parties to it or not, can by our
delegates be brought to the attention
of mankind.
There is not an oppressed people
in the world that cannot henceforth
get a hearing at that forum. And
you know. my fellow citizens, what a
hearing will mean if the cause of
those people is just The one thing
which those who have reason to
dread, have most reason to dread,
is publicity and discussion, because
if you are challenged to give a rea-
son why you are doing wrong thing,
it has to be an exceedingly good rea-
son, and if you give bad reason you
confess judgment and the opinion of
mankind goes against you.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05

In few minutes the Presidents voice
was all but drowned by the noise of
those leaving the hall
The President stopped and Mayor
Jewett came forward and suggested that
those who wished to leave do so as
quietly as possible. After their de
parture, he said, the doors would be
closed, and no one would be permitted
to enter or leave until after Mr.. Wilson
had finished. The President then COM
pleted his address.
Before the meeting Mr. and Mrs
Wilson had headed parade that
wound through four miles of the city
Here they received forerunner of the
tn Coliseum. The streets were lined
with crowds.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Senate to Hear Case OF
Scots for Independence

: e. J. Bruce, head of the Bruce News
Service in London. and active cham
pion of Scottish independence, an
nounced last night at the Waldorf-As.
toria that the Grand National Commit.
tee of Scotland had authorized him by
cablegram to lay the Scottish case for
independence before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
Mr.. Bruce issued statement sum-
ming up Scotlands grievances against
England. He claimed the Treaty of
Union between the two countries. which
was ratified in 1907, was fraudulently
obtained by England. and that its pro-
visions had been repeatedly violated
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Ferryboat Sinks Launch
One Man Drowned and BODY
Not Recovered

One man was drowned and another
barely escaped death when the Err.
Railroad ferryboat Goshen colided
with and sank small launch yestcr-
day afternoon. The Goshen had left
her slip al Cham bers Street for jersey
City with hundreds o. passengers IN
board when it ran into the launch
which was owned by julius Schwim.
mer, of 1S9 South Ninth Street, Brook.
lyn.
Schwimmer was drawn beneath tn.
ferryboat and drowned. His BODY va,
not recovered, although the Goshen
stayed near the scene Of the accident
and score of passing craft OF all
descriptions searched for some time.
Another occupant of the launch. Abra-
ham Lieberman, was saved By members
of the ferryboat crew.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Shark Meat Eaten in L. 5.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4.-Thou-
sands of persons in this country are
eating canned shark meat without
knowing it. according to a statement
made by De-. Allen Rogers, professor
Of industrial chemistry at the Pratt
Institute. Brooklyn, al to-day's session
Of the American Chemical Society con-
vention here D.. Rogers declared
shark meat was being prepared and
canned in large quantities in New Eng
land
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Trench Coat Was Army
Nickname for Bake,

NSW 4 ORE ITt0ur6
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. A." Trench
W Coat will be at your front July
q at p. M"
A message like this, flashed from
one American headquarters to an
other last year, meant that Secrc-
tary Of War Baker was on his way
to inspect some sector Of the battle
front in France.
This pseudonym Of "trench coat"
was derived from the fact that the
Secretary always wore trench coat,
steel helmet and rubber boots while
at the front, and was used to hide
Mr.. Bakers identity from Germans
who might be listening in" on the
army wires.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Rumanians DENY Arms
To Hungarian Officers

BUDAPEST, Wednesday. Sept via
Basel. September 4.)-The Rumanian
military command had placarded an or-
der in Budapest, forbidding Hungarian
commissioned officers TO carry arms
1t says these officers must be considered
as interned in their homes and must not
leave Budapest. The policeman is per-
mitted 80 have a revolver and twenty
cartridges
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Lloyd George Is Expected TO
Meet Clemenceau in Paris

PARIS. Sept A. The Temps" is IN
formed that the British Prime Minis
ter. David Lloyd George. will probably
arrive here next week, where he
will confer with Premier Clemenceau
on several questions in which Great
Britain and france are interested.
ested.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Mayor Hylan Honored

A peace festival in honor of Mayor
Hylan was held in Central Park last
night under the auspices of the Park
Commi mission. Commis ssioner Francis D.
Gallatin presented the Mayor with
resolutions praising him. Vocal seec-
tions were rendered by Rosa Ponselle,
Della Baker, Alberto Sanchez, Ric-
cardo Strassiari and a chorus from the
Metropolitan Opera House
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Hitchcock Is Perturbed

AS Mr.. Shields began his statement.
Senator Williams leaned toward him.
putting one hand to his ear. the better
to hear Mr.. Shields's remarks. AS
soon as he got the drift of the Ten
nessee Senator's comments. however,
the Missssippian calmly turned his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The Mess
Hall
From "The Right Aboufv

TVHIs week, ladies' and-those-you-
brought-with-you, we are going 10
L. make tour of inspection through
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muttering when she saw it printed in Ger
man.
"You should know how to read German"
young officer snapped at her.
"If you had told US, monsieur" she
snapped back, "when you promised years
ago to respect our neutrality that you did
not intend to keep your promise, we might
have started in then to study your Ian
guage."
Thus was war declared between them
For a time she was content to serve at
night on that venturesome committee of
citizens who clandestnely carried food to
the wounded French some of whom man.
aged to hide for whole year in the forest,
hanging on there in the overriding hope
that the end of the war would release them
Besides, she had the satisfaction of refusing
to serve drinks 70 the Germans
She and her husband had the little in
heritance they had planned to expend on a
new and quite gorgeous inn; they could live
on that. To be sure, they had to billet such
officers and men as were assigned to them
but when one of them left word to be called
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at certain hour she would intrust her
musical alarm clock with the task, and at
the appointed hour the German would be
awakened by the defiant strains of the
rseilaise."
Later she found plenty to do bucking up
the other villagers who gave way to de-
spair when the German soldiers at Dampi-
court INDUCED in a somewhat premature
celebration over the fall Of Verdun.
mach Paris" they would chant as they
goose-stepped past her door.
eyes, you will get to Paris" she would
answer, "as prisoners"
Then, as the German rations dwindied
and dwinded, she would rub it in She
would walk past the men as they sat by the
roadside, grumbling over their black bread,
with its poor atonement of marmalade.
as that what the Kaiser eats ?" she
would ask guilelessly and gloat inwardly
when they growled among themselves.
Later she found that the Americans.
echoes of whose battle reached her from the
Argonne, were playing much the same
game. Their balloons and other aircraft
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actually signed it seemed so incredible
thing that all that day she could only sit
before her fire in kind of trance She was
aroused from this quickly enough, however.
by the tidings that the Germans were plan
ming to withdraw their artillery with Bel
gian horses.
They have no right" she said, and was
straightway galvanized into action. Before
night she had organized the children of the
village into battalions to lead the horses
off into the woods and loose them there un-
til the danger should be over.
There were hundred and one such tasks
to perform, and the inn really hasn't had
proper cleaning yet. There was that
youngster with band on his arm marked
IN. p" who tainted outside her door and
had to be nursed all one day in front of her
fire. Then there were all the jolly passers-
by, who seemed to have an unlimited ca
pacity for what they called '.oofs" Then
there were the columns upon columns of
infantry, who simply must be hailed with
tiuttering apron and a "Bon Jour, mon
sleur, bon jour! and Stripes.
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The Tiny Tavern That Never Did Get Polished

HNHE little innkeeper of Dampicourt
had no time last week to clean and
polish up her tiny tavern, which
stands at the fork in the roads
where the traffic from France turns up
toward Brussels or down toward Luxem-
burg. The metal on the little bar sadly
needed shining, but she had to stand out at
her door and wave her apron as the Amer-
cans went by and cry "Bon jour, monseur!"
at every truck and ambulance, at every
doughboy and marine in the endless pro-
cession leading to the Rhine.
It was the procession she had promised
her downhearted neighbors they should see
one day, and she had earned her own right
to witness it by unfagging loyalty and labor
for the Allied cause. For, like many an
other woman in Belgium, the little inn
keeper of Dampicourt kept up tireless
propaganda to sap the enemy's morale
She had shown just about as much sub
missiveness as King Albert and the fortress
of Liege. The first day the Germans came
she went out to read their proclamation
hung at the crossroads, but she turned away
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were showering the German troops with
leaflets that set forth a doughboys break
fast menu, compared it with the German
ration and invited the unfortunate Boches
over to dinner which invitations, by the
way, were accepted by the thousands whole
companies filing into our lines with the
leaflets in their hands, filing in with a
simple trustfulness, which, it should be
said, was not betrayed. They got the
dinners.
Well, some of these leaflets huttered as
far as Belgium. The little innkeeper bribed
all the children Of the village to collect
them from the fields, and she would keep
them for circulation at the psychological
moment, when she would catch a Boche
company at mess on its way toward the
front. Of one such company, only ten were
left when the division marched out again.
and she chuckled to herself and was very
happy.
When the first shells from the big Amer
lean naval guns near Verdun reached Mont
medy she told her neighbors that the end
was very near but when the armstice was
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m
brought-with-y we are going to
- make tour of inspection through
the spacious mess hall of Debarka
ton Hospital No. 3, Greenhut Building. So
let's all crowd into the elevator here and
rise up to the second floor and prepare to
give it the "double-o"
Yes, madam, you can call the mess hall
dining room" if you so prefer, but don't
let the mess sergeant hear you, else he's
liable to murder a couple of K P's What
X. P? Oh, he's just a necessary evil
around a mess hall. Never mind him;
there's lot more where he came from.
But let me call to your attention the
stern unitarian beauties of this place Just
rows and rows and rows of tables, each
adorned with its proper complement Of
crockery and cutlery. There is room here
for 5000 men to eat at once, and when
each of the 5000 is drinking soup the re
sulting gurgle is SO stupendous as to
drown out even the clatter and crash of
dishes in the process of being cleaned.
Behind yon counter you will note row
of lads clad in almost" spotess ducks
These are student cooks and K P's and
other kitchen mechanics. The pungent
cloud of steam that befogs their honest
countenances arises from the edhles set
forth for the coming meal. All the boy
grab themselves plate and tools and walk
past the steam tables and their attendants
When they are past their plates arc loaded
with all sorts of things, "slum," "spuds
OF ct
forth-usually all in one glorious compotu
But who cares for that? All these various
sorts and types of grub" get ali mixed up
in their final destination, anyhow, so WHY
worry about having things bit conglon
Grated the plate? At least that is tho
soldiers philosophy.
To quote few facts and figures, as
should always be done on an excursion of
this sort: 1t requires a staff of $50 K. p.
to keep this mess hall running. These vii
ing little workers are on the john shift
of course-from o'clock in the morning
till the next world without end, amer.
When they are not feeding the regular
guests" they have to throw bit of "chov'
into the help, and even the nurses have TO
eat once in a while.
What's all that racket, you ask, lady
Why, that's only the lads scofing at youth
going up for Seconds"
The little cubbyhole affair in the centfe
is the dishwashing plant Here is to be
found all the most modern machinery for
the cleansing of crockery and ct cetera. No,
ma'am, the boys don't lick their plates 50
clean but what it is necessary to wash 'cm
afterward.
All ont now The P's have to scrub
the floor for an inspection.
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THE STEVEDORES

heave, no! Heave, no,
Come Or, let's go, in spite of mud and snow:
give US the cars, we'll put the go
In cargo.
Bring on the ships, both small and great,
wen work 'cm early, work 'em late,
for we're the men who lift the freight
Embargo.
laough cases drop, though tackle break,
me sky may fall, the earth may quake,
0us one and all ahey fail to shake
Our fettle.
And sun and earth and sea and sky,
ne lace them all, and all defy,
1or all. at worst, but serve to try
Our met,le
~ heavy lift, at winch and crane,
re DO our task with might and main,
ne bend our backs, and sweat and strain
Like cattle;
'sfough summers sun, through winters
rain,
=. =, soid, discomfort, ache, or pain,
's play our part, and help TO gain
ne battle. E.S. II.