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New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Germany Will Hope
To Retain SiIesia

By contrast, who can believe that
Germany will accept the provisions
of the Treaty of Versailles which
divide East Prussia from Pomer-
ania, exclude Danzig from German
boundaries and by giving the Poles
Posen make Berlin almost a from
tier town? And it will be the more
intolerable, this new situation, if
the inhabitants Of upper Silesia, as
seems sure, vote to become Poles,
depriving the Germans of one of
the most valuable mineral districts
in Europe or the world.
Perceiving this fact, the liberal
elements in Great Britain early as
sailed the Polish programme Of the
Paris Conference 1t had been
agreed that Poland should have Dan
zig and wide corridor on either
bank Of the Vistula, including the
Danzig- Warsaw railway. The thing
was almost signed, sealed and de-
livered when British protest pro-
duced a sudden reversal by Lloyd
George, the corridor was narrowed,
Danzig was assigned to the league
of nations, while even after the
treaty had been drafted and served
upon Germany its terms regarding
upper Silesia were modified.
The reason was simple. Every
sensible Englishman knew that Ger
many would never consent to a con-
dition which cut her country in two,
drove a wedge between East Prus-
sia and the main bulk Of German
lands, put some hundreds Of thou
sands of Germans "a minority, be it
understood) under Polish rule and
undid the work Of Frederick the
Great and his successors in the East.
And every sensible Englishman also
understood that if this arrangement
were imposed upon Germany it
would require British as we'll as
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Only One Meal a Day
Is Usual Ration

ain the morning drink Of some
sort is made by stewing wild berries.
For long time now we have had no
tea. coffee, or cocoa, and even the
Ersatz foods were long ago consumed
Those who are very careful occasion
ally leave over tiny morsel of bread
so as to eat it in the morning ard thus
have breakfast, but the majority
just eat the one meal. Meat is quito
unknown, and sugar has also entirely
disappeared.
"You will realize from my descrip~
ton Of Petrogrnd az it really is to-
day starving, half dead, overworked.
thoroughly cowed-that it is quite i'm
possible for the inhabitants to rise
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
America Kept Odds
Against the Teutons

But for the Russian revolution
this coalition of France, Britain and
Russia, aided by Italy, would have
defeated Germany. When Russia
fell, America took the place vacated
by the Slav and restored the fatal
odds against the Teuton. 1t was then
established patiently that Germany
could not hope, even at the most
favorable moment, to conquer the
Slav, the Latin and the Anglo-Saxon.
Now, the war over, German policy
must some time begin to pick up
the loose threads. 1t will find
itself in the presence Of certain
facts. Doubtless German sentiment
will for long time protest against
the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, but any
attempt to reconquer these prov
inces would not alone insure imme-
diate war with France, but also with
Great Britain and even, conceivably,
with the United States.
The reason is plain. British policy
was hopelessly muddled in 1871
when Germany was permitted to
crush France and mutilate her, with
out British protest. The consequence
was to bring Germany within strik-
ing distance of the Channel, to give
her precisely the military situation
which made the opening campaign
Of 1914 possible. Never has Great
Britain consented that Continental
power should menace her from Bel
GUM, but possession of Alsace-Lor-
raine made the invasion of Belgium
possible, and it has cost the British
nearly million lives to restore the
old condition Of safety.
If Germany undertakes to come
west again, nothing seems more Ger
tain than that she will have to face
Britain as we'll as France. Nor can
she, if she does not invade Belgium,
hope to defeat France, a doubtful
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Poland Not Granted
Full Rights by Treaty

BY contrast the Polish arrange
ment was not only an act of justice
but grudging and incomplete act.
Poland did not receive all the lands
stolen from her by Prussia in the
several partitions. She did not re-
ceive Danzig, to which her claim
was far stronger than the Jugo-
Slav claim to Fiume, which has up
set the whole equilibrium of the
world. If some thousands OF Ger
mans were placed under her rule,
not less than 100000 were given to
echoSlovakia without any debate.
Moreover, the Germans in many in
stances were the descendants Of col
onists sent into Polish lands by the
Prussian conquerors. To protest at
giving the Sarre Basin to France
and at the same time argue against
giving Posen or West Prussia to
Poland is to fly in the face of all
logic and all consistency.
Yet the truth was not less plain,
was openly expressed by Americans
in Paris-finds its echo in many
American journals now-that it was
unwise to return Polish lands to
Poland, because it insured future
war, permanent German hostility.
But on the same basis any return of
stolen property can be criticised and
all application Of the right Of self
determination becomes dangerous,
and even inadvisable To do justice
to Poland was to create permanent
source Of German resentment, but
was it therefore wrong to do JUS
tice? 1t is in the Polish detail that
the so-called liberal argument, crit
icism, limps most awkwardly.
The reason is patent American
liberalism derives its inspiration and
most of its ideas from British lib
eralism. But British liberalism is
far more practical. To commit
Britain to a policy of maintaining
the integrity of Poland against per-
manent German menace seemed a
wholly undesirable venture in many
quarters, some of which had openly
advocated British neutrality when
Belgium was invaded and the de-
struction of France was threatened.
AS a matter of policy the criticism
is incomprehensible; as matter of
ethics it is hardly defensible.
Yet everything which has hap
pened in recent months indicates
that Germany, bowing to the West
ern decisions. holds herself rigidly
against the Eastern terms. She is
doing everything to make the plebi-
scite in upper Silesia farce, she
is holding on in Danzig and even in
the Baltic provinces. Every express
sion which comes from Germany IN
dicates that the common thought Of
all Germans is to revise the Eastern
settlement at the earliest moment, to
destroy the Polish kingdom, to do it
even at the risk Of another world
war
But the Polish question is not sim
pie and single. France has under
taken her ancient role Of protector
Of the Poles. The Polish army is Of
ticered by Frenchmen; it has derived
its spirit from the French. For
France, for French safety in Eu-
rope, it is an important circumstance
that Germany should have on the
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
France Expects Foe
To Revolt Against Terms

But from this point Of agreement
the opinion of various fractions Of
the world travels in divergent direc-
tons 1t is asserted by some that
the German people will never &C.
cept the loss Of Alsace-Lorraine.
which was not only inevitable but
was accepted by the German gov
ernment as condition antecedent
to any armistice. 1t is asserted by
many others, with even greater en-
phasis, that the Sarre Basin pro-
visions will result in a new Franco
German antipathy, will create a
new Alsace-Lorraine. Finally, it is
argued that the provisions Of the
treaty reestablishing Poland and de-
priving Germany of West Prussia,
Posen and probably portions of ST.
lesia and East Prussia make any
but enforced German submission
impossible. While these three con-
dltions are most frequently heard
IN American and British comments,
the French and Continental press
generally sees Germany bound in
the end to revolt from a situation
created by the forcible seizure of
all of her colonies, all but a small
fraction, by the British.
Now, in this welter of opinion it
seems to me it is possible to arrive
at certain reasonable conclusions.
Germany lost the last war because
she allowed herself to become in
volved in three great rivalries. In
taking Alsace-Lorraine from France
in 1870 she sinned against the light
and against proud and determined
nation; it was always certain that
no real reconciliation was possible
while this wrong was unrighted; it
was always inevitable that, while
France would never precipitate a
war to regain her provinces, Ger
many would always have to reckon
with French hostility if she ever
became involved in any other af-
fair.
In the same way Germany openly
challenged Britain on the sea; she
not merely became commercial
rival, using the seas with her mer-
chant fleet in the fashion her DOM
inant sea power has always permit
ted, but she at one time undertook
to build a feet to challenge the
British and made plans openly to
destroy the British Empire and re-
place British by German hegemony
in Africa and in Asia.
Finally, she was drawn, largely
through her alliance with Austria,
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Women as Policemen
Are Guarding Streets

professionally Soviet cart dragged
along by cadavcrous horses jolts along
These carts, as indeed all vchicular
traffic, are stopped periodically by the
town police, or rather militia. Two
thirds Of this police force arc made
up Of women wearing long blue coats
and dresses with n badge on tho right
arm showing the letters C. M that is
Gorodskaia Militia municipal militia).
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

plate Of soup, consisting of hot water,
with little fish in it; one-eighth Of
a pound of bread The cost of this
meal, which has to last all day, is
$500 The food can be eaten in the
Communal dining rooms, which are
to be found all over the city. or it can
be taken home. It is very seldom,
however, that anybody takes food
home. There is such a scarcity Of
fuel in Petrograd that it would be
almost impossible to rewarm the food,
and half the satisfaction in eating, IS
in the warmth obtained from the soup.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Germany Has Emerged
From Shadow of Crises

Yet in that same period Germany
has passed through several crises
and emerged from the shadow of
various perils, contrary to the ex-
pectation Of many. We are rea-
sonably certain now that Germany
will not fall to Bolshevism, become
4 centre of anarchy comparable with
that existing in Russia. Nor is it
less plain that Germany is totally
Unlikely to dissolve into those COM
ponent parts which we're fused into
aational unity by Bismarck nearly
alf century ago.
All Of which means that after de-
eat, after temporary eclipse, q
rowerful Germany must emerge
rom contemporary clouds. Ger
nany has not been destroyed, she
has not committed suicide, she re-
mains nation of more than sixty
millions Of people, in the heart of
Europe, with a genius for organiza-
ton and a determination to live
which must be reckoned with in a
future not too distant. Precisely
as France after her disasters of
1870 and her hideous domestic
tragedy of the Commune in 1871
rallied and remade herself, Germany
seems now certain to restore her
old strength.
This Germany that we shall pres
emily have to deal with, then, will be
in population, aside from Russia, the
greatest single nation of the CONT
nent. She will have at least twenty
million more people than France !;
she will be, if she decides to fol-
low old policies and ambitions,
quite as dangerous as she was in the
past, because, if she has somewhat
declined in size, Russia, her old rival
and enemy, has disappeared as a
potential foe.
Now, the great question the world
has at once to ask, since German re-
habilitation is approximately GER
tain, is obvious: VIII this restored
Germany accept the peace made at
Versailles in good faith-will she
consent to live under it's terms? Or
will she observe it only while she is
constrained and endeavor to undo
its provisions the moment the force
behind those provisions is relaxed
In sum, can the Treaty Of Versailles
become the basis of a reconciliation
between the German people and
their recent foes, as the Treaty Of
Paris, following Napoleon's fall, was
the basis for ultimate adjustment
between the French and their neigh
borg?
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

Sarre Basin issue, an issue expli-
cable not as a circumstance of any
French imperialistc sentiment, but
as detail in the reparation justly
demanded of the Germans for their
crimes in Northern France.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

into a fatal revival Of the age-long
hostility between the Slav and the
Teuton. The old Polish issue,
silenced only while the three states
which had partitioned Poland re-
manned friendly, was reopened, with
deadly consequences when the war
had actually been lost.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Bv Frank II. Sirnonds

wv Y TITHIN the last week we
M have passed the first an
wv niversary of the date
on which Germany, by
her application for peace, based
on the fourteen points of Mr.
Wilson, actually recognized the
fact Of defeat In less than a
month we shall pass the first mile
stone since the armistice definitely
established the surrender of Ger
many under conditions as completely
disadvantageous as those France
accepted after the fall of Napoleon.
1t is possible, then, to make a brief
estimate of the developments of a
year, with a certain advantage of
perspective hitherto impossible.
A year ago it was the belief in
America, at least, conceivably in
certain quarters IN Great Britain,
that peace could be made on such
terms as to open the way for mu-
tual understandings among the ma
tons which had fought through the
war. Frequently in American jour
nails, at least occasionally in Brit
ish, one encountered the phrases,
"peace of understanding" recon
Citation" "a healing peace" Can
it be said honestly or candidly that
there is even the same shadowy
prospect of reconciliation now, so
far as Germany is concerned, that
existed year ago? 1t seems to
me not,
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Allies Must Stand Guard ON Wis.
tula to Enforce Their De-
mands or Give Up Poland
to Beaten Foe

French troops to maintain it and
would abolish all hope of any per-
manent return to international
amity.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
"It Is a City of
Living Skeletons

"The first thing that strikes the OBJ
server who enters Petrograd Is the
mournful solemnity Of the streets. 1t
is like walking through some long dis
used and greatly neglected cemetery.
The streets at all times Of the day are
very, very quiet, while one can walk
for hours In tho evening without meet
ing soul. 1t Is impossible to find in
Petrograd a man or woman with even
an ounce Of fat. 1t Is a city Of living
skeletons. Protracted starvation has
ended In the skin shrivelling up and
everybody looking exceedingly old and
tired.
"In the streets there is little traffic
Of any sort. Every now and then a
tramway car stumbles along. The
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Sarre Basin Decision
Opposed by Liberals

AS to the Sarre Basin, here We
touch upon one Of the contested ques-
tions. So-called Liberals in the
United States and England proclaim
that this part Of the peace treaty is
fatal defect, insuring future wars.
But it seems to me this is a gross ex-
aggeration. Certainly forcible an
nexation, disguised or open, of the
inhabitants of this district would be
in direct conflict with one of the
fourteen points and would be to re-
peat the action Of Germany with re-
spect to Alsace-Lorraine. But the
circumstances are totally different.
The Germans wantonly destroyed
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
"Petrograd, the City Of Living Dead''

July 10, but I am not at liberty to dis
close my means Of departure. To get
away from Soviet Russia is almost i'm
possible, and l do not wish to close
an avenue Of escape that may mean
liberty for some other person daring
enough to take risks and fortunate
enough to overcome them. Although
left on the 10th, actually have news
Of Petrograd up to midnight on the
18th, when a trusted friend sent me
letter which found Its way over the
frort tier.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

military venture now, given the re-
turn of Alsace-Lorraine to France,
since the Franco-German frontier is
now restricted to the narrow gap be-
tween the Rhine and the Moselle.
An effort to reopen the question of
Alsace-Lorraine, then, would be to
reestablish an Anglo-French combi-
nation, invite a new blockade, risk
all the old perils of 1914-'18. Fur
ther, if the American Senate accepts
the Observation-Disclosures treaty
of insurance, there would be an
American opposition to reckon with
also. In so far as Alsace-Lorraine
is concerned, therefore, l cannot be-
ieve that the new German policy
will initiate the old
Nor is it even as likely that the
Germans will renew their challenge
to Britain. Their fleet is gone, their
commercial navy has been taken
over by their victorious enemies.
They have neither colonies nor naval
stations. To begin commercial exist
ence again they must give bonds
to the British for good behavior.
Nor can l see any basis for Ger
man hope that what they did not ac-
complish in the last war, when they
had many advantages, now lost. could
be won in any later struggle France
after the wars Of Louis XIV and
Napoleon was compelled to accept
British supremacy on the seas. That
Germany must make the same sacri-
flee seems to me equally plain.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

against the Bolsheviki, the more so as
the latter have by TOW seized prscti-
cally all arms hidden by the hour
t-eoisip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-23
OAKLAND NOTES
Notes and personals from Oakland
by Frances Jones. Telephone $3.50.

by Frances Jones. Telephone $3.50. ..
Mr.. Myron and Mr. Lauren Kelsey
passed thru Topeka early Monday morn
they will receive their discharge. They
are the some of Mr.. and Mrs. Grant
Kelsey, Wabash avenue, and have been
in the service over a year. They enlisted
in the Washburn Ambulance Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Hammell of Ham
mond, La, who have been visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. r.. P, Taylor, 1856
Chester avenue. have gone TO Emporia,
Kans.; on visit. Mr.. and Mrs Taylor
will spend some time in. Boulder, Colo. -
Mr.. and Mrs. II. S. Sawyer and family,
Winfield navenue, were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George Mckee,
Grattan street.
Mrs. John Snyder will present in recital
Tuesday evening, Miss Lucille Jones and
Miss Amy Wisiner. The program will be
given'lt the Y. w. c. A. and will open
at $50 o'clock Miss RavadeIl Smith SOLO
list and Miss Aileen Peak, reader, will as
sist.
Mrs. Henry Shuler, Chester avenue, spent
the week end in Kansas City, Mo. with
her daughter, Mrs. Il Clayton and hus-
band
Mrs w J. williams and two sons.
Ogden and Stanley, Forest avenue. will
leave Thursday for Prescott. Arz., -
spend the summer with Mr.. Williams who
is there for several months.
w. P Williams of the Soldiers home at
Fort Leavenworth will come soon to visit
his two daughters, Mrs. Harold Lepper
and Mrs. Charles Suit.
Mrs. Anna Disney of Oklahoma has come
to visit her brother, Mr.. Reese Van SAINT
and Mrs. Van SAINT. East Belmont avenue.
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Miss Katharine McAuliffe and Mr. Theo:
dore l.. IHf were married at o'clock
Monday morning in the Church Of the As
MeInerny. The only attendants were
Miss Elizabeth McAuliffe, sister of the
bride and her brother, Mr.. Garrett Nc
Auliffe. The bride is the daughter Of
Mrs. Ca'harine McAuliffe, 322 Jefferson
street, and has just returned from Wash
the past year in the office Of the fuel ad-
ministrator. Lieut.. Tiff has been overseas
the past two years with the Fifth division.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tiff will spend the next few
weeks on a honeymoon trip in Colorado On
their return home Mr.. Tiff will return to
office. They will make their home at 1015
Van Buren, street after returning from
Colorado.
Mr. Ward Rhodes, patternmaker in the
shops, spent Sunday in Kansas City on
business.
Mr.. Harry Duekworth has returned home
after a year spent in the service. Previous
to receiving his discharge at Camp Funs-
ton, Mr.. Duckworth was stationed at Camp
Grant. He was sent from Topeka to the
freight auditors office at Chicago to do
special work last year. He Will return to
his former position in the same department.
soon.
Clarence Dolstrom has been absent from
his work in the boiler shops since the first
of the month with an injured eye, but is
recovering and will return to work soou..
Miss CARTE wetzei has returned from
two months spent in California on sick
leave. Miss Wetzel is employed in the
office of the auditor Of disbursements, .
Roy J. Ijams Of the ticket auditing de-
partnent is spending vacation in Call
fornia-
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Work on the National Oil company
filling station in the 1000 block on
Kansas avenue is rapidly nearing COM
pletion. This is the third filling sta
ton within the radius of half g block,
and the Sinclair Oil company is think
ing of putting one in in this neighbor-
hood.
The rain of yesterday evening did
not extend into the country for any
long distance. People returning from
auto trips north and west report the
roads dry until within two or three
miles Of town.
Word has been received in North
Topeka of the death in Kansas City of
Samuel Aikens. aged 90 years, a for
mer well known resident of Shawnee
county, which occurred Friday at his
home, 1415 West Thirty-ninth street
Kansas City. Mr.. Aikens is survived
by four sons, J. H. Aikens, E. S. Aikens
of Kansas City, Edward Aikens of
Fairfax, Okla, and ]. w. Aikens of
st. Joseph; and two daughters. Mrs.
Belle Lukens and Mrs. Martha Ryan
of Kansas City.
Mr.. Aikens was a well known stock
man in Kansas City. Two years ago,
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs.
Lukens, he made a trip to Japan. He
probably was the oldest American
traveller who had ever landed there.
as he was 81 years old at that time.
Mr.. Aikens was the grandfather of
former North side young people.
Notes and Personals.
The F. o. Morns family, which has
been spending the past week at the
North Topeka Outing camp, returned
home last evening.
Harold Woodland, son of Mr.. Will
Woodland of near Elmont, has arrived
in the United States from France.
Woodland enlisted with the Washburn
ambulance corps but was afterward
put in another company.
PONY BAGGAGE TRANSFER AND
PHONES. 5711 AND 2so2 Blue
Adv. 90
John Sheetz accompanied Walter
Brinker to. his home in Wichita last
Friday, making the "trip by auto. Mr..
and Mrs. Brinker and family had been
visiting for a week with Mr.. Brinker's
mother, Mrs. Amelia Brinker, and his
sister. Mrs. Blaisdell. Mrs. Brinker
and children returned home by train
last week
Col. and Mrs ]. n. Stewart were
the winners of the prize given for the
oldest couple on the grounds at the
North Topeka day celebration at Gar
| field park last Thursday. Colonel
! Stewart is so years and IL months and
| Mrs. Stewart rs years and II months.
The prize was Banquet ham from
| the Wolff Packing company. They dc
| say the colonel was nightly tickled.
| OUR NORTH TOPEKA OFFICE IS
IN THE UNION PACIFIC BAGGAGE
ROOM. OPEN MITE AND DAY.
| ROY PAYNE'S TAXI CAB AND
BAGGAGE CO. PHONE III (SEVEN
ELEVEN ADV,
Capt, j. P. Shreves and family of
Kansas City were the guests yesterday
Of Captain Shreves's brother, E. S.
| Shreves, and family of 1911 Monroe
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