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New-York tribune., 1919-03-17

affect Germany for generations to
come, and they are stopping at nothing
to influence the decisions in their
favor
.,Iney know they cannot control at
VIII the popular avalanche set in mo-
ton by the German military collapse
and the revolution, and thew are striv-
ing simply to direct its impetus and
course so as best to serve the foreign
political ends they have in view. And
1t may be said that they are acting
with rather more than their usual un.
scrupuiousness, cunning and resource,
changlg plans with wonderful alacritv
10 suit altered circumstances.
Seek to Rebuild Machine
"Ihe definite purpose of all these
bloody man@uvres is to convince the
Entente of the necessity of maxine
such concessions as will permit The
German militarists to rebuild their
shattered machine.
1T IS easy to imagine with what anx-
lety the militarists looked forward to
inc Entente's decision as to the size If
the army to be permitted to Germany
ana lhe conditions surrounding the or
ganlzatlon and maintenance of that
army. Ihey stopped at nothing to i'm
r. ''Sii SoHQucTOTS With the neCaS-
slty of large army. But this isn,t ali
"Germanys policy has taken a COM
p,ietely new turn since the revision of
the armistice terms. Till then II ws q
the cue to win a chance for the resto.
ration of the German military machine
by using the bugbear of Bolshevism
w hen that failed to impress the En-
tente they said, in effect: Then YOU
snail have the real thing
"Whcther this is the real THING or
only bigger bogey it is sard to saw.
1t is probably between the two. But
there is no doubt that social disinte-
grafton is progressing rapidly in Ger
many, nor have | much hope that the
process can be stayed at this stage bv
anything the Entente can DO. However.
our rulers realize the danger of losing
all, and are playing a game like the
desperate gamblers they are. If Ger
many is to go down, they mean to drag
the rest of the world with her.
You may yet see a Bolshevik Ger
many organized with all the military
resources and ruthessness of the
Prussian military caste, committing
leeds beside which the Lenne- -Trotzky
regime in Russia will seem only
harmless debating society"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
All Parts of Germany
Arc Driven Into UNITY

For at least two centuries the policy
OF france was to preserve the division
OF Germany. South Germany was fire.
quently in alliance with the Bourbons.
as with the Hapsburgs or Hohenzol,
lerns, and between North and South
Germany there were religious hostili-
ties as we'll as traditional enmities.
But In Paris we have chosen to regard
Germany as whole, and we have
unity which scarcely existed in 1914,
or even at the moment of the armistice
in 1918.
II we are to continue this policy we
have to contemplate for ali time a
united Germany which, unless Russia
shall achieve refrigeration, will be the
greatest single nation in Europe. If
the greatest. single nation in Europe
shall follow imperialistic and militaris-
tic ideals, we shall have to defend our
Liberties in the future as in the past.
The one hope that remains is that Ger
many by force of circumstances may
istic idea. This is what is back of
Lloyd Georges great experiment, aside
from his own political necessities at
home; and in sense it is the first rea-
soned effort to deal with the German
problem from a philosophical rather
than from military point of view.
Successful, or in the future great
failure, the decision of the conference
at Paris with respect to Germany, the
decision which dooms conscripton in
the world is Enthusiastically one of the
great decisions, at least as great as
the league of nations, infinitely more
important than all the minor territorial
changes which are now driving states
men mad.
Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Navy Had New Aero
Terror for Germany
When War Ended
Acting Secretary Roosevelt
Tells of Helium Gas Dis
covery to Simplify Raids;
U.S.Acquires Rich Supply

NelD York Tribune
Washington, Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 16.-How the
Navy Department was about ready to
furnish sufficient helium, ncn-int1am-
mable gas, to send rigid airships over
strategic points in Germany to drop
tons of explosives on the enemy, is set
forth in a statement issued to-day by
Acting Secretary of the Navy Roose-
welt.
Helium is a powerful balloon gas
discovered by America during the hos
tilities and camouhaged as "argon" to
mystify the enemy. Being non-inf1am-
mable, observation or dirigibe bal
looms filled with it could not be de-
stroyed by incendiary bullets The
driving An airplane bodily through the
great gas bag of the ship.
The Navy Department announcement
declared that the Bureau of Mines was
not responsible for the discovery, and
emphasized the part played by the Bu-
reau of Steam Engineering of the de-
partment N speeding up production
of helium.
"!f the war had lasted until spring"
said Secretary Roosevelt's. statement,
the British and American govern
~ S'oS "Ouiu nave ScHJ Hellum-llloQ
rigid airships over strategic points in
Germany, each capable of dropping q
total of ten tons or more of high ex-
plosive either in single tremendous
discharge or in a number of smaller
ones during it's passage over fortress
or city. These airships would have
carried batteries to repel airplanc at
tack"
Just prior to the armistice a ship
ment of 100000 cubic feet of helium
was sent to Europe. The problem Of
an ample supply of helium has been
Helium is component of some nat
ural gases, and the quality of the
richest helium bearing eases which
the British could secure for their early
experiments was relatively very poor.
having only one-third of / per cent of
helium. Prior investigation indicated,
however, that there were rich deposits
in this country.
The Secretaries of War and the
Navy have allotted funds for the pro
ductlon of the gas on a large scale.
The government will draw its raw
material from natural gas field
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Complementary Detail
In a Permanent Peace

In all essential respects Lloyd
Georges successful demand of the
Paris conference with regard to Ger
many is complementary detail in the
making of permanent peace. The
league of nations and an armed world
are obviously confusion of terms.
The league of nations and practically
disarmed world are logical compile
mentary circumstances. In disarming
Germany we have, in fact, disarmed
ourselves, although for q period of
years Germany will be helpless and the
combined, if small, professional ar
mics of the Allies will suffice to pre-
vent new German assault.
1t is a matter of frank question
whether the peoples of Europe, after
this tremendous tragedy, would have
consented to accept any peace which
continued the conditions as to con-
scription which existed before 1914.
1t is a question whether any peace,
even under the shadow of the league of
nations, would have been welcomed by
the millions Of Europe if it did not
absolve them from the blood tribute
of the old militaristic system. We at
Paris are still under the shadow Of the
sol9iers who won this war, but it is
matter of open question whether the
plain people of the world would have
accepted the solution which preserved
so much of what existed before the
deiuge.
In any event Lloyd George, who, be-
yond all question, is the cleverest
politician in the world, and whose
knowledge Of his own country politi-
cally surpasses similar knowledge Of
any other statesman, has concluded
that this disarmament is necessary if
order is to be preserved and Bolshe-
vism avoided, and his voice has pre-
vailed at Paris under circumstances
which must remain remarkable. For
the first time he has ventured to
speak with authority in the name Of
his country, and for the first time Eng
land has followed an original policy in
Paris rather than exercising her in
fiuence in shaping the American
policies
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
British Wouldn't Accept
Permanent Conscription

AS have said. the whole thing has
two aspects. The domestic political
necessities Of Mr.. Lloyd George and
the larger philosophical conception of
many Englishmen. 1t was impossible
to persuade the British public perma-
nently to adop. the system of con-
scription which they reluctantly ac-
cepted after the war had continued for
many months; it was impossible to
raise any professional armies by the
voluntary system which could face the
German armies if Germany retained d
the conscription system. But there
was also the hope that if Germany, now
temporarily in chains, should be COM
PEELED to abandon the institution of
conscription she would not revert to It
after she had regained her national
health.
All this leads back to single GEN.
tral truth: All that we may d. at
Paris to Germany--justly, in view Of
her great sins against her neighbors.
nationally in view OF her ultimate po-
tential strength--all will be of little
avail IL in the future 100000 Of Ger
mans shall choose to revert to the poli-
cies Of aggression rather than to adopt
the principles and ideals which have
become the basis Of Western civiIiza-
tion.
TO give France, az the outpost Of
civilization, security we are iuildinr
new frontiers along tho Rhine. To in
sure an opportunity for the develop
ment OF the recently enfranchised
races in Middle and Eastern Europe
and In Asia Minor we are constructing
league Of nations which Is in the ma
turc Of insurance. We have taken
Gsrmany's ships and we can look for
ward TO decade and perhaps u quar-
ter of century In which our insur-
ancc may hold good.
Yet more and moro the truth is be-
coming apparent in Paris and elss-
where. Ultimately the. fate Of Ger
be shaped frum within and not from
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Former Rulers
Seen Back of
Berlin Riots
Continued from page 1

tastlc and far worse to the uninitiated.
desperate game for tremendous stakes
You are satisfied that there is no
connection between the general strike
ana the street fighting. You have at
tended conferences of strikers and for
days nave heard many an unguarded
word from excited delegates. You have
neard unreserved communications over
the telephone. And you know that the
real causes and the true meaning of
the street fighting in Berlin is almost
as complete mystery to them as it is
to the man in the street.
In one aspect the matter is COM
paratlvely simple. 1t is fight for Jobs
between troops of various arms, which
mas nothing to do with politics. The
marine division and the Republican
Guard, though sifted and resifted to
make them absolutely trustworthy. are
st1ll thorns in the side OF the mill
ttary leaders because they have re-
fused to adopt the strict Prussian
dlsclpllne introduced in the volunteer
corps.
Master in Instigation
Our rulers are past masters in the
arts OF instigation and provocation.
and they have performed more pernlex,
ing tasks in their time than the set
ting Of these poor devils against each
other. But this Is all merely on the
surface of things. The true meaning
and the real motives lie elsewhere.
You must understand that all our
domestic quarrels usually have been
only reflections of our foreign policv.
and the directors of that foreign policy
almost invariably have been secretly
tne prime movers in our domestic pol
iicy This applies far more at present
than they realize at the Quai d'Orsav
These secret wire pullers know that the
decisions of the peace conference must
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17

Out ne was convinced, in addition. as
are very large number of English
men, that if the German people were
once out of the habit of CONSERVATION
they would not return to it. and tho
terrible burdens of armed Eurona
would automatically disappear.
seventy-fve Millions
Ut Germans in Europe
The English philosophy in this mat
ter is simple. There are at least 75.-
ooo'oo0 Germans in Europe, who can
not be permanently separated from
each other, except by their own act and
desire. If these 75,O00,O 900 shall adon+
milltaristic ideas of the Hohenzollern
epoch, Europe will have to remain
armed as of old, and it spells almost
immediate bankruptcy, when. to the
costs of the debts acquired in war +horo
is added the further charge of military
establishments.
lhere remains the hope that if 75.-
ooo,0o0 Germans turn from the habit
OF milltarism and military service. if
they become used to a professional
army rather than to a conscrint armv
there will be no return to the old sys-
tenn when, as is inevitable, Germanv re-
gains that stature which her numbers
and her history insure her reacouirinr.
we have here one of the great
CANDLES of the peace conference. Here
the professional soldier, like Marshal
Foch, encounters the professional noli-
tlcian. The soldier remains convinced
that the solution for the future does
not lie outside a national army. The
polltlclan recognizes that the perpetu-
alton of the old system leads toward
bankruptcy and anarchy, and the Con-
ference of Paris has adopted the view
of the politician.
II one can conceive that in the next
five or ten years Europe will abandon
a conscript army and millions of young
men will be retained in industry rather
than maintained in barracks, if one
could conceive that the enormous an
nual appropriations for the mainten-
ance of armies and navies are allo-
Gated to the payment of war debts, it is
at least possible that Europe will be
able to regain it's economic stability
and restore its industrial life. If the
thing be impossible, then, in the words
OF Pitt, "it is time to roll up the map
OF Europe for a period of years."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Italians Charged With
Attack on Dalmatians

PARIS, March IS (By The Associated
Press) The Jugo-Slav Committee in
Paris has issued statement in which
1T says it learns that grave disturb
ances have occurred at Spalato, Dali
malta, where, according to information
reaching the committee, Italian sailors
fought the inhabitants with knives,
killing or wounding several persons
Eventually the sailors were driven
ment adds
The Jugo-Slav authorities have asked
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Equality Everywhere
For Jeaus Demanded

all the Jewish communities in Greece
to-day adopted resolution demanding
that the peace conference grant civil,
political and religious equality to Jews
everywhere in the constitutions Of the
various countries and by international
guarantees. Tho resolution asks that
internal national autonomy be given all
Jewish groups that demand 1t, and that
the peace conference establish a Jewish
lection.
Inc chicf rabbi Of Salonica expressed
FOR tho Zionist ideal.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Tax on Aliens Advocated
To Fill British Treasury

LONDON, March 16. - Amateur
economists are suggesting various
levies in the hope of increasing the
national exchequer. The Treasury
has been advised to tax aliens Sl0O,
to charge $1,000 as a naturalization
fee and levy SIS year on dogs.
Other suggestions include an annual
tax of 5000 for bachelors and spin
sters in addition to the usual taxes
and 90 per cent tax on the income
of idle gentlemen under fifty.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Conscription in Germany Ends
By Frank H. Simonds

,.pIs March 16.-The last week has
,ne of the most sensational de-
s..ments of the entire peace con-
.ncs During the whole progress
..s conference up to that time the
y conspicuous figures had been
a...;dcut Wilson and Premier Clemen-
- snd the two great questions to
a.c;ded have been the league of ma
.',rs and the future security of
s..,re But in the last week Lloyd
...rce has suddenly taken control of
y. course of events, for the moment
= :. hast, and persuaded the Paris con-
,.,snee to adopt policy the conse-
..,.oees of which can hardly be fore
tist.
r,om the very outset the Paris con-
,,,snee has struggled with that duty
,rosed upon it by the peoples of the
~orld to make future war impossible.
r, this end the league of nations was
:,vised. In this movement Mr.. Wilson
.,hieyed world prominence, but to re-
;,iorce the purpose of Mr.. Wilson
rlovd George has now proposed what
,u,t at least be a temporary interrupt
,;on of the system of conscription,
srss in Germany and later, and only
,sry little later, in the whole world.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17

without. So far, we have drawn a
barbed wire line about Germany and
followed a course, logical and natural,
IN treating all Germans alike. because
all Germans shared in responsibility
Tor recent events. Yet nothing is
more certain and more obvious than
the fact that by this very course we
have contributed to preserving and in
creaslng the essential unity of Ger
many.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Every Nation Compelled
10 Follow Conscription

but the thing goes far beyond this.
sonscriptlon is the sort of thing which
persists, because every nation is COM
peiied to protect itself so long as one
aaslon arms its whole population. By
lie system of conscription the French
"e'oiution not only saved France, but
0verran Europe. By conscription the
aauonai armies of Prussia and the
sousn German states overcame the pro-
'sssionai armies of France in 1870. At
'ae very moment OF the outbreak of
'as last war France had adopted a
'afee years service law in vain ef-
1911 to raise among 100000 of peo-
pae an army approximately equal to
NAV Of state of 67,0oo,oo0.
! Nos, if Germany is compelled to
s0andon conscription and to accept a
r'O'essional army of 100000 men
rance and Italy in their turn will un
ssesslonably abandon conscription.
me Radical and Socialist parties, and.
,R 'act, the masses of French and Ital-
'aa people, will never consent to make
:" annual sacrifice of their youth when
a's aanger presented by conscript Ger
many is abolished. AS for England,
-osa'ng is more certain than that she
'"' return to her old system of a pro-
''.sional army.
Th.
me thing, however, does not end
ere Lloyd George had two objects
!. T. mind He was compelled to fulfil
SO political promises. He was COM
nsaeo TO find method to save the
s''''sn people from that burden of
inscription which they had never ac-
sp'eo before the war and only shoul-
1 "heh the war was we'll advanced.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17

that the Inter-Allied Commission open
an inquiry into the matter.
1t is announced from Belgrade that
Italy has recalled its newly appointed
minister from that city, but it is stated
that this has no connection with the
Spalato disturbances.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17

which is the largest and richest in
helium now known in the world. A
tenyear lease of this field is held by
the government for practically the en-
tire output.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Business Engraving

Our Engraving and Printing prepared to
cute orders for business engraving description
merely here the various kinds
which we constantly handling All in our
studio the premises at
ments of removal rtrements cards
and appointment heads etc
We will be glad to give estimates be
desired. FN9eN-s-tain Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17
Night Repeat in Way
Tha. Beat Napoleon

What Lloyd George has definitely
.roposed is fairly we'll known now.
MARSHAL Foch and his military associ-
,tes had proposed that the German
.rmy should be reduced to approx
mstely 100000, with a corresponding
ssneral staff, but this army was to be
raised in the old-fashioned way by con-
sription, and, provided the Germans
never had more than 100000 men on
foot at any one time, it was conceiv-
able that they might repeat the
,ehieyement of the last century, and
BY rapidly passing men through bar
racks build such system as the Prus-
slams constructed to the later ruin of
Napoleon. Moreover, as long as Ger
many continued to raise an army by
sonscription it would be inevitable
that Italy and France should not only
preserve conscription, but should con-
!inue to call up annually more men
than Germany was allowed.
To all this Lloyd George has inter-
posed an emphatic negative, and has
lad his way. Under his plan there will
be imposed upon Germany the British
military system, which calls for vol
gnteer army comparable to our own
regular army, made up of men enlisted
for long period of time-twelve years,
to be exact. The size of this army will
be rigidly held down to 100000, as con-
!rasted with the national army Of re-
cent decades.
What Mr.. Lloyd George had in mind
was q twofold thing. If Germany were
permitted to continue conscription it
sas inevitable that England also would
have to adopt permanently that con-
scription method followed in the later
years Of war. In the last political
campaign Lloyd George gave unquali-
fed assurances that this system of
tonscription should be abandoned. In
imposing upon Germany the necessity
Of abandoning conscription Mr.. Lloyd
George is keeping his political prom
ises in England.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-17

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Smyrna times., 1919-09-17
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out her Real Dutch Drops" as she
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POORLY PAID MAIL CARRIERS
Dogs That Bring News From Home
to the Lonely Men in Alaska Get
Little for Work.

There is a good deal of talk over
the meager pay received by mail car
riers, but the most poorly paid Of Uncle
Sans mail carriers receive far less
than the familiar postman, yet never
make complaint. They get a pound
and a half Of dried salmon for full
days pay.
They are the husky and the Mala-
mute, the native Eskimo and the ma
tive Indian dogs in the great Yukon
country. Without them the gOld-seek-
ers, the fur traders, the shOpkeepers
and the mission workers in the interior
of Alaska Except for the more fOrtu-
nate ones who live along the lines Of
the few railroads) would receive no
mail from the time the ice forms over
the rivers in October until it breaks up
in May.
Even the most inaccessible Of post
of1ices receive mail once a month in
winter (thOugh only one mail is car
ried them, and for those in the interior
of Alaska the husky and the Malamute
are mail carrier and Santa Claus COM
bined. They would be without word
from the outside world for eight
months every year if it were not for
the mail dogs.
These animals are pushed to their
utmost by cOnsiderate and cruel driver
alike, for there is a prescribed task for
them every day. and all they got out
of it is a pound and half of dried
salmon at the end of the day.
When they are not working their al
lowance Of fish is cut down. In the
summer they are fed on the refuse Of
fresh salmon at the fishing dumps
where the mail contractor boards then
out until the rivers freeze again.