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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16
BOSTON VOTING TODAY.
Size of License Vote and Projected
Cut in Historic Common Interest.

BOSTON, December 16-The size of
the license vote and the question Of
cutting the historic common to widen
adjacent streets were matters Of con-
today.
All but one of thirty-five Massa-
chusetts cities which have voted this
year have given a wet" majority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16
D. C.F|REMENAS
.RECLASS|F|ERSF0R
|. B|GPAY INCREASES
Wage Scale Based on 30
Per Cent Rise in Living
Cost Since 1914.
COMPENSATION IN OTHER
CITIES ALSO CONSIDERED
Fire6ghters Approve, But Doubt
Probability of Edu-
cational Plan.

Large increases in salaries for the
members of the District fire depart
ment were asked of the joint con-
gressional commission on reclassifica-
ton of salaries in the District at the
hearing given the firef1ghters today.
A committee composed of George S.
Watson. fire marshal: T. NJ. Robinson.
superintendent of machinery; c. w.
Gill, battalion chief; Edward OCon-
nor. captain; George Nussbaum. engi-
neer. and NJ w. Thayer, private, pre-
scented the brief to the commission.
Minimum Salary Scale.
The committee asked for the follow
ing minimum scale of per annum SAL
aries for members of the local fire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16
PRESIDENT BRAVES COLD.
Sits More Than an Hour on White
House Portico.

resident Wilson spent more than
{. hour OH the south pOrtico of the
hite House today despite the ex-
tremely cold weather. Rear Admiral
Grayson. the Presidents physician,
+: iii Mr.. Wilson desired to take auto
=, bile rides, but that he had not ap-
proved for fear the President might
take cold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16
Kentucky DistiIlers
Are Deeply Troubled

LOUISVILLE. KY. December 10
Watching one of their last remaining
hopes for brief wet spell go hut-
fering away by the decision yester-
dav of the Federal Supreme Court up
holding the wartime prohibition act.
Kentucky distillers and former sa-
loon proprietors today apparently
Rere deeply troubled
How to lawfully dispose of approx
mately 3S,o0O.00e gallons of iiquor,
worth at wholesale approximately
$500. 600 was a big question with
them. While expectation is allowed
until national prohibition becomes eff
fective. January 1S, 1920, a scarcity of
ocean tonnage prevents expectation of
all Kentucky whisky by that time. it
was said Distillers here professed to
see no chance of President Wilson
lifting the wartime ban soon.
owners of more than 800 Louisville
saloons had prepared to recommence
sale Of liquor, and distillers planned
TO ship thousands of gallons outside
the state for sale if the court held
the wartime act Illegal.
EIwood Hamilton. collector of in
fernal revenue for Kentucky, and Dis
trict Attorney w. V. Gregory an
nounced that prosecution of violators
of the wartime act may be under
taken shortly Those persons SELL
ing LIQUOR under protection of in
functions stopped their sales yester-
Court dissolved their injunctions.
Two Whisky Drinkers Die.
White and Robert a. Labar last night
drank liquid which they supposed
was whisky at a party at Mrs. White
house Both died today. The author
tiles say they were poisoned by the
tome-brewed liquor they partook of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow: not much
change in temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended pm today: Highest, "a, at
$40 pm yesterday; lowest, 10. at s
am today.
Full report on page %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16

Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press IL exclusively entitled to
the for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local published herein.
All rights of publica ton Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16

This board Of public works. Nj.
Worthington said. had obtained nil
lions of dollars from the government
of the United States and millions
more from the people in entirely dis
rupting living conditions. That went
on until 1874. when the citizens pre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

guarantees. The giving of a free hand
is apparently not contemplated If the
guarantee method is adopted then either
payment out of the public treasury to
meet the guarantees or a further in
crease of rates is foreseeable. And the
latter might not be the remedy antici-
pated, Tor as to many commodities the
present rates are close to all the traffic
will bear. The country's business has
been developed nationally through cheap
railway transportation. To add much to
transportation charges implies an indus
trial disintegration whose Importance Is
not generally realized, the building up of
secondary areas Of production and the
separation of the continent into compart-
ments, something which would bear par
ticularly hard on the manufacturing
East-on the edges of the country as
distinguished from the middle. Think
of the fruit raisers of the extreme West
if the cost Of their product to the con-
sumer is further increased.
Congress has heretofore studied the
railroad problem idealistically-ha ap-
piled certain principles or dogmas with
almost religious intensity. 1t is time to
consider it realistically.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

We said that the town was ours, and
that that was all there was to it. Amer
leans should therefore be able to un-
derstand how Italians feel about Fiume,
for Fiume is more Italian than Skagway
was American.
Borrowers into the past will also find
out, if they dig diligently that once
Great Britain laid claim to large part
of Maine. not merely on the ground that
it legally belonged to her, but because
her Canadian provinces were debarred
from an ice-free port. But Great Britain
did not insist, and to-day terminals for
Canadian traffic are on American soil
So Portland, Me-, as we'll as Skagway,
Alaska, is an American Fiume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
American Fumes

In its discussion of Fiume and the
rights of hinterlands The Buffalo En-
press makes comparison which The
Tribune has not noted before. A para
lei is found on this side of the water
IN the relation between the Klondike
and Alaska, and particularly in a deci
sion by an arbitral board in favor of an
American coast title against an adverse
claim by the Canadian interior.
When the gold discoveries gave the
Klondike region Importance the route to
the sea was via Skagway The Cana
dians, although they much wanted a
port under their own flag, were not per-
mitted to attack our title as born of a
treaty secretly negotiated with auto
cratic Russia. They were compelled to
rest their case on the alleged fact that
Skagway, situate on an islet that pro-
jected far into the country, was east of
the boundary. The issue went before an
arbitral tribunal, and the decision went
jurist
Our representatives loudly and sue
cessively protested against any consider
alton being given to the political status
of the hinterland---said that interna-
tional law in no way recognized the
principle that the wish Of back coun-
try could compel cession.
Here is an American Fiume case
embedded in our history. The memory
OF the incident is dim, but nobody re-
members that any considerable body Of
Americans demanded that Skagway be
turned over to our Canadian cousins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Necessary Evils

Tennyson's dictum that woman is
the lesser man was long ago dis
credited 1t would be more accurate, in
deed, to say that man is the lesser
woman Man should admit it cheerfulIv,
though if proof be wanted it may be
found IN the Shavian philosophy, as ex-
pounded in MAN and Superman." 1t
has remained for the Mothers Club of
Philadelphia, however, to teach married
man his real place. Husbands, that or
ganization has decided, are a necessary
evil
This verdict, it will be observed, crush
ing as it is, leaves husbands something
to be thankful for. Worms though they
be, they cannot be entirely blotted out.
They are necessary in the feminine
scheme of things-as one speaker at the
symposium where their status was de-
termined Observed they are what
women marry This excuse for exist
ence IS better than none. 1t seems to
leave the unmarried man out of account.
He is thus negligible quantity, cum
berer of the earth. Yet charity would
suggest that he is not always to blame.
Since it is woman who determines
whether man shall marry or not, the
bachelor is but the toy of fate, the pawn
of destiny. Perhaps he would have mar
rled if he could. Having been denied
that high privilege, he may at least be
permitted to drag out his weary life to
the close. We do not understand that
these Philadelphia scorners of the sex
would submit him at certain age to
some lethal process.
1t is clear that this subordinate posi-
ton OF man puts upon woman a great
responsibility. The necessary husband
need not be honored and obeyed, but he
must at least be cherished and protected.
He is of value as a means Of support. If
nothing else, wives should be kind to
their husbands, remembering that it is
excellent to have giants strength but
tyrannous to use it as a giant. Thew
should not be chained or bea en-. No.
6tesse obIge. In pity spare them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
The German Signing

The belief that the representatives now
acting for Germany will sign the treaty
is based not only on knowledge Of the
solid actualities of the situation but on
acquaintance with German diplomats of
the Rantzau- Brockdorff school who are
in charge of the German side of the
negotiations
SO far they have acted normally.
Their course has been as expected. They
have protested, but this was to be antici-
pated. No matter what had been the
terms, it was inevitable they would say
they were hard and bad and violative of
the fourteen points.
But besides protesting they have
argued, and although the arguments are
not good the fact that they are offered
is significant. If there had been firm
resolution not to sign it is probable there
would have been brief refusal. A man
whose mind is made up is not commonly
inclined to waste words; a negotiation
does not need elaboration.
Now come reports from Berlin of
popular demonstrations for peace. These
may not have been as large as described,
but if any have occurred they are cal
culated to impress a man like Scheide-
mann. The present German government
is an equivocating one, and an equivo-
Gator is seldom stubborn. In details, as
to meeting any legitimate German de-
mand, the minds of Clemenceau, Lloyd
George, Orlando and President Wilson
may be assumed to be open. They have
the utmost desire to be fair and know
the impossibility of realizing strict JUS
tice. If the Germans really want peace
there is no impeachment of pride in the
way Of face-saving changes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

Armenia. Even the best oldtime revolus
tlonaries like Tchaikovski, Kropotkin.
Plenkhanoff and Breshkovsky cannot re-
enter Bolshevist Russia any more than they
could have done under the Cars regime.
attributed to the Cars government that
mas not been infinitely multiplied by the
men now controlling Russia. There never
has been freedom of press, of assembly or
of expression. Men and women are still
arrested and imprisoned in vast numbers
for indefinite periods without the processes
of law. Economic life has been ruined. 1t
IS useless to the workmen who obtained
control of the factories and vastly in
creased wages, because the necessaries of
life have disappeared. Besides, millions of
people to-day are suffering and dying from
disease and starvation. Not single per-
son, including Lenine and Trotzky, has the
comfort and repose which were offered the
workingmen.
A Patriarch Hostage
at would be difficult to find in all Russia
man more highly esteemed for piety,
character and wisdom than the patriarch
Dychon, who, after the revolutionary purg-
ing of the Russian Church, was elected
supreme head thereof 1t has been one of
the most abominable of the Bolshevik
crimes to ncarcerate this religious patri-
arch with hundreds of others of the finest
men whom the Bolshevists hold as
hostages, this being one Of their processes
of terror in maintaining their grip on
Russia.
"The Bolshevik government could not
maintain itself for a month without it's
terrorsstic methods. The BoIsheviki could
not accept the Prinkipo and the Nansen
propositions. because they did not dare
desist for even a brief period from sys-
tematic murders and starvations.
Il believe the Allies are quietly giving
assistance to the anti Bolshevik govern
nlents, whose power is growing rapidly in
Siberia, which, of course, is entirely Rus
sian. Admiral Kolchak is leader of HIGH
character, resolution and experience. AS soon
as he has reestablished power he plans to
return authority to the Constituent As
sembly. The Russian Political Conference
composed d representatives of the varions
ntl-Boshevik governments in Paris. has
agreed upon three dominant PRINCIPLES
which will become effective as soon as
the Bolsheviki are overthrown: e
u. Constitutional Assembly.
"2. Land to the peasants
%. Federated government
Admiral Kolchak also agrees to these
principles"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

7FToW TIC To'doN Nothing Po5t)
With the rehabilitation Of the armv
some new stories are being demobilized
here. Que is the story of the bright
thought of an adjutant. The commanding
officer of force behind the lines had ac-
qured or "won" as they say in the army)
a COW, and he was much envied in ali the
messes. The adjutant had a cottage with a
garden in which he had some good straw
berries. One day the C. O. without a word
went into this garden and helped himself
to the adjutant's strawberries. The adjutant
could not, of course, rebuke his chief, but
he put up this notice:
"Trespassers in this strawberry rarden
will have their COW shot"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
The NJ odern Tartars
By Frederick Moore

! two years ago from America, Immediately
after the Russian revolution had been pro-
claimed. The second class cabins were
crowded with New York East Siders re-
turning to Russia, each carrying volumes
dealing with the French Revolution. Mr.
Steffens asked whether | would object to
his travelling with me, which I did not
but he spent most of his time discussing
Russian matters with the American immi-
grants, who were then returning to Rus
STA for the purpose they have now
demonstrated
Upstart Aduisers
"At Petrograd Mr.. Steffens spent most
of his time with these and other Jews.
Using his knowledge of German attained
by three years residence in Germany, he
spent months in Petrograd, not going even
to Moscow, and he discussed matters seri-
ously with few or no Russians. He could
have obtained equal knowledge of Russia
mad he spent equal time residing at the
brevoort Hotel and holding conferences at
Cooper Union. Returning to America he
|, posed as an authority on Russia, and over
here he has been received by President
wilson, while numerous we'll informed men
Of many nations who are available in Paris
are unable to the man who has, per-
maps: more power than any other man in
making world decisions
ut has been amazing to me how an
upstart like Enver Pacha, before he was
forty years of age, could dictate the de-
structlon of hundreds of thousands of
Armenians and order the assassination Of
the leading Turkish generals. 1t is amaz-
ing now an upstart like Trotzky can in
fuence opinions the world over. and how
man of no ability, except a cheap orator.
cal gift, like Kerensky will be received nv
Colonel House, while one of the finest Rus
SLAMS ike Gotchkoff is neither consulted
nor can ne obtain hearing. This is most
extraordinary, because the present Moscow
government is not Russian and is not even
sympathetic with the Russian people. but
Is definitely hostile to them.
Trotsky's Cruelty
travellers who come out OF Russia. of
whom | have seen many here in Paris
generally declare that Trotzkv is the
power for cruelty. The Boshevik govern
ment is the most brutal insane and in
competent that ever existed in the world
and it has taken all three Of these char
acterlstics to bring Russia to the state of
wreckage now existing. The Bolshevik
government hates everything Russian
political, artistic and religious. To pursue
ana endeavor to extinguish by every process
the rightful Russian leaders is the aim Of
the boishevists, who are as alien as was
the Tartar government Of the Middle Ages
ana more fanatical. 1t is of no use being
concerned with the principles, ideas and
writings of Trotzky and Lenine in the face
OF the past two years experience. The
results speak for themselves The best
Russians have been driven from the coun-
try or exterminated by the most cruel
processes, including starvation, similar to
the methods tho Turks smplovsd n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
The Campaign for Petrograd

About a month ago reports came from
Stockholm that Finnish army under
General Mannerheim had entered Russia
and was threatening Petrograd. Man.
nerheim's purpose was to push south
east between Lake Ladoga and Petro-
grad and cut the railroad running from
the capital east to Vologda. Since the
Vologda line connects both with the rail
road north to the Murmansk peninsula
and the railroad north to Archangcl,
communications would thus be broken
between Petrograd and the whole of
northern Russia
month ago campaigning was difficult
because of the spring thaws and foods
Now the soil is dry and conditions favor
real advance. Recent dispatches indi-
cate that the new Russian border gov
ernments which the peace conference eX-
poets to recognize are cooperating in a
eoncentric drive against Petrograd
which it will be difficult for Lenine to
stop.
Petrograd is indefensible in a mill
tary sense. 1t is particularly exposed to
attacks by powers which control the
Baltic British war vessels now domi-
nate the Gulf of Finland and can sup
port expeditions operating close to it's
shores. But according to the latest in
formation Allied forces are also ap-
preaching the Neva from the north and
south, as we'll as from the west on both
sides of the Gulf of Finland.
The British War Office reports the
capture of a port at the northwestern
end Of Lake Omega. The force occupying
1t came down the Murmansk railroad. If
this force continues south ii will soon
reach Lake Ladoga, and form a junction
with Mannerheim' army. An Esthonian
army is moving cast on Petrograd along
the Narva-Petrograd railroad and is now
about fifty miles west Of the capital An
anti Bolshevist column, moving north on
the Petrograd- Kev railroad, has taken
CATCHING station, only thirty-hve miles
south of the metropolis on the Neva
Lenine and Trotzky long ago deserted
Petrograd because of its exposed posi-
ton Few regular Bolshevst troops
have been stationed there. The Germans
could have taken the city at any time
after Riga fell in the autumn of 1917
They preferred to hold off and let the
Bolshevists have full swing TODAY
Petrograd can be enveloped and capt
ured by relatively small bodies of or
ganzed troops. Lenine has other far
more important things to do than to hold
on to a place which is now only wreck
of its former self, is in a condition of
transformation and is hardly worth de-
Tending.
Finland, Esthonia. Livonia and Cour
land owe the Allies an effort to relieve
Petrograd and to help to clear northern
Russia. They have been freed from Ger
man rule. They are properly expected
to do something to fortify their claims to
independence. Taking Petrograd would
discharge just debt-and also strength
en- their own position as sclf-governing
states For they can have no real sense
of security as long as Boshevism keeps
its grip on central Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
A Week of Verne
Ohdntunq*
(Frorr The Matt.

(Fron1 The Nation
the west you free Jerusalem :.
But IN the east you sell
l al Shan' the Holy Mountain. :
hear temple bell
Breathing. like perfume -
From its exalted place
The presence of Confuc;u.
The wisdom of race.
The future of people.
The only one OF all
Whose conquerors are conouersa
Whose history is tall
Taller than Fujiyama,
Taller than Koyasan.
Taller than that red sun
Consuming from Japan
and my face is in the flower.
And my brow is in the dus,
And my heart is sick with nars.
And weep because must.
weep for You, o masters.
O conquerors, o slaves.
AS hear you stir in China
The quiet of your graves
'In Shantung Confuc,,s
ana mere sun lives his descendant in AND die:
wlrTER BYNNEs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
DAPHNE CARR

Two Poems
From The Egoist)
BOMBARDMENT.
fNedr Lens 1917
-FOUR days the earth was rent and torn
By bursting steel,
The houses fell about us:
Three nights we dared not sleep.
Sweating, and listening for the irminen:
crash
Which meant OUT death.
The fourth night every man,
Nerve-tortured, racked to exhaustion, Z
Slept, muttering and twitching,
While the shells crashed overhead.
The fifth day there came hush;
We left our holes
And looked above the wreckage of the esrf
To where the white clouds moved in slsn:
lines
Across the untroubled blue.
DOUBT.
Sand in the gale whirls up,
Pricks and stiles our flesh,
Blinds and dcafens our sense
So that we cannot hear
The crumbling downfall of the waves
Nor see the limpid sunlight any more
But could we thrust from US
This threat, this misery,
Borrow the mountains strength +
AS now its loneliness, ~
Hurl back this menace on itself,
Crush bronze with bronze
Why, it would be as if some tall slim gcO'
Unburdened of his age-long apathy,
Took in his hand the thin horn Of the n'sA
And set it to his lips
And blew sharp wild shrill notes
Such as our hearts, our lonely hearts
Have yearned for in the dumb bleak sllen''>
All! Weak as wax against their bronze %
we, Il
All! Faint as reed-pipes by the waters ie"
And driven as Iand-birds by the ras'
wind.
:. RICHARD ALDlkGToS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
To England

fFrom The Ne,o Witness,
( ENGLAND, be thou holy, be tbou ,..,
And thy pure crown of most 6. s''
be made; ss'e
Pity and Love alone secure tho s+..
Pity and Love, and not to he 60,
ana let thy hands be firm beneath the h..,
VI such weak children as cry out 10 .s 's'
o thou made wonderful with narr a.' 'as'
And mighty with an island-ma e.tr,
Thou angel of the guarded rroves =,
And windAower-vales washed clean ,;a
silences, ''''
Thou lest far too near the skirts ot r.
40 De content with any treasure less.
~l.h,n' within the expected Kingdom Ii.
y lady of the calm dove-pinioned skies,
WILFRED CHILpE