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New-York tribune., 1919-07-30
New York Tribune
Wdshinqto7t Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 29.-President
Wilson, just before returning to this
country from Paris, gave assurances to
Great Britain and France that steps
would be taken by this country to pro-
tect foreign interests in Mexico, &C
cording to information obtained from
usually we'll informed sources here.
There are many Indications that this
report is true. In Administration cir
cles the story is not denied, while at
the same time it is declared positively
that the Congressional probe into the
Mexican situation will not force the
hands of the President.
One Of the combinations comes from
Canada. 1t is said that just prior to
President Wilson sailing for home a
group Of Canadians with interests in
Mexico, headed by those interested in
the Mexican and Northwestern Rail-
road, sent rush cable to Sir Rob-
ert Borden urging that something be
done about Mexico
Said to Have Received Pledges
They are said to have received a
cablegram in reply stating that Presi-
dent Wilson was willing to take a
stronger stand on Mexico and protect
foreign interests Actually, it is said
the group of Canadians included ali
sorts of interests, but the railroad
mentioned took the brunt, figuring that
no reprisals could do it much harm. it
already having suffered all that was
possible.
According to the report, Great Brit
ain submitted ar offer of joint inter
vention in Mexico. This was positively
refused by President Wilson, it is said
but the British were reported as salts.
fed with the assurances they received
The protection Of the great oil dis
tricts near Tampico is of enormous i'm.
portance to Great Britain, of smaller
but still great consequence to France
and OF potential interest to Italy. This
Italian phase as reported from Paris
to Washington is very interesting.
The Italian Government, seeking nd.
dit'onal revenue, has conceived the
idea of making the safe Of fuel in Italy
government monopoly Italy sen,
emissarlcs, 1T is declared, into the
Mexican oil fields recently to determin,
on the advisability of buying proper
ties, with Wow to the Italian roy.
ernment controlling the oil from it.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-30
House Calls On
Baker TO Sell
Food Surplus
Resolution Demands That
War Supplies Valued at
$12O,OOO,OOO Be Placed
on the Market at Once

WASHINGTON, July 28.-After a
long wrangle the House tonight adopt
ed a resolution. reported out by the
war investigating committees, request
ing Secretary Baker to place on sale
without delay surplus food products
held by the War Department and
valued at s12o,OOO,000.
The vote on the resolution was 26G
to 4, and was taken after the House
had rejected, 100 to ia, substitute
resolution offered by Democratic men,
bers of the committee providing that
the Secretary be requested to put on
the market such part of the surplus as
is reasonably capable of being distrib-
uted and sold and providing for a sales
organization.
The resolution as finally passed car
rled an amendment, offeted by Repre-
sentative Kelly, Democrat, of Pennsyl.
vania, and supported by all the Demo
Gratis and about forty Republicans, pro-
viding that the sales might be made
by parcels post. This virtually will
make every postmaster in the country
u grocer to sell the surplus army food
stocks Of the War Department.
The charge that the War Depart
ment conspired to protect American
packers and Gamers by agreements
to withhold surplus army food stocks
from the. domestic market and to sell
them, if possible, abroad was made
the battle centre Of four hours de-
bate
Stock Forced on Hoover
1t was also charged that under
pressure Herbert Hoover finally bought
$22 100000 worth of this food for for
eign consumption after he had once
refused to do so, and at time when
there were large surplus stocks abroad
that the United States was attempting
to sell "at ruinous prices"
The policy of the War Department
to sell the food abroad was made June
which Representatives. Of the great
packing interests, both Of meat and
canned vegetables, were present
Among these were two men from Will
son q Co, three from Armour & Co.
one from Morris & Co., two from Cud-
ahy & Co., one from Libby, McNeill
g. Libby and one from Swift g. Co.
limitations of minority report
by the Democratic members of the
committee quickly aligned the two
sides Of the House fatty for or against
the majority reports five charges
These we're:
/. That it was six months after
the armisticc before the War De-
partmcnt took any action with ref
erence TO declaring surplus. in
spite of The authorization or surplus
Continued on page three
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Tiffany Leads
Gold Hunt to
South America
Il
Expedition Sails for Dutch
Guiana With 81, 100000
in Machinery; Backed
by S2,OOO,OOO Company

An expedition headed by Perry Tiff
fany, of New York, sailed yesterday
on the Dutch steamer Prince der Ned
erlander for Dutch Guiana to retrieve
gold deposit which Mr.. Tiffany dis
covered years ago on the Moroni River,
in Dutch and French Guiana
Fifty men and one woman, Mrs. Tiff
fany, make up the personnel Of the
party, which takes with it more than
91,0OO,000 worth Of machinery. A cor
poration with a capitalization of ST.
100000 has been formed to finance the
expedition. and plans for mining the
gold have been worked out to the
most minute detail.
The gold was discovered by Mr.
Tiffany eighteen years ago while he
was prospecting along the Moroni
River, that separates Dutch from
French Guiana The deposit is 200
miles inland, and the river is not navi-
gable for steamers for a large part of
that distance
After determining that the deposit
was large Mr.. Tiffany returned to
America and kept the secret Of the
hidden treasure until short time ago,
when he interested friends into form
ing corporation. At the conclusion
Of the war Mr.. Tiffany went to France
and Holland and there obtained con-
ccssions giving him mining privileges
along 100 miles Of the Moroni's banks.
Colonel w. S. Gage, a mining engineer
also was sent TO the Guianas, where
he determined that the new gold field
was immensely valuable.
"'Ten of the abcst mining engineers
In New York are accompanying me"
said Mr.. Tiffany.
II have chartered the boat and ex-
pect to return rich man. have 15O
ncn awaiting my arrival in Guiana,
and have all the necessary machinery
aboard the Prince der Nederlander to
begin operations"
The party will establish hcadquar-
terg at Paramaribo, one Of tho princi-
pal ports Of Dutch Guiana, fifty milcs
from the mouth Of the Moroni. To
carry its supplies and cquipme mt
further inland they are taking a sub
marine chaser purchased from .hc
government, which, because Of it's light
draft, .Will bc able TO continue up the
8hailsT river.
A large supply Of medicines is in
t'NNrb tH bHr ENuipWeHL " Chc cNpeui-
ton. The gold field lies only $50 miles
from the Equator and yellow fever is
prevalent in that region.
Others in the party include scvcrnl
employees Of the Vanderbilt Hotel, where
Mr.. Tiffany has been staying, Max
Page, Fl Canadian who saw service in
Europe, and Edward Barnett, Of BaIti-
more.
Employees Of The hotel who had
learned Of TiHany'e quest gave
them sendof yesterday AFTERNOON
when they left the hotel to 20 aboard
the steamer at the Bush Terminal.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-30

force only until, upon the application
of one of the parties to it, the coun-
Gil of the league, acting. if neces-
sary, by majority vote, shall agree
that the provisions of the coveran.
OF the league afford her sufficient
protection.
81 was moved 20 sign this treaty bv
considerations which will, hone
seem as persuasive and as irresist
lble to you as they seemed to me.
We are bound to France by ties of
friendship which we have always re
garded, and shall always regard. as
peculiarly sacred. She assisted us
to win our freedom as a nation. It
is seriously to be doubted whether
we could have won it without he,
gallant and timely aid.
We have recently had the privilege
Of assisting in driving enemies who
We're also enemies of the world from
her soil; but that does not nav our
debt to her Nothing can pay such a
debt. She now desires that we
should promise to lend our great
force to keep her safe against the
power she has had most reason to
tear. Another great nation volun-
teers the same promise. It is one
of the fine reversals of history that
that other nation should be the very
power from whom France fought to
set us free.
Former Feuds Forgotten
"A new day has dawned. Old an
tagonisms are forgotten. The com
mon cause of freedom and enlighten-
ment has created new comradeshlps
and new perception of what it is
wise and necessary for grent ma
tions to do to free the world OF in
tolerable fear Two government !,
who wish to be members of the
league of nations ask leave of the
council Of the league to be permitted d
to go to ths assistance of a friend
whose situation has been found to
be one of peculiar peril, without
awaiting the advice of the league to
act.
"It is ny taking such pledges as
this that We prove ourselves faith
ful TO the utmost to the high obliga-
tions of gratitude and tested friend
ship. Such an act as this seems to
me one of the proofs that we are a
people that sees the true heart of
duty and prefers honor to its own
separate course of peace.
WOODROW WILSON.
"The White House, July 20, 1919"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-30

"Gentlemen of the Senate:
II take pleasure in laying before
you a treaty with the Republic of
France, the object of which is to Sc
cure to that republic the immediate
aid Of the United States of America
In case of any unprovoked move
ment of aggression against her on
the part of Germany earnestly
hope that the treaty will meet With
your cordial approval and will re-
ceive an early ratification at your
hands, along with the treaty of
peace with Germany. Now that YOU
have had an opportunity to examine
the great document | presented to
you two weeks ago, it seems op-
perfume to lay before YOU this treaty.
which is meant to be in effect rart
of it.
ut was signed on the same dav
with the treaty of peace and is in
tended as temporary supplement
to It, 1t is believed that the treaty
OF peace with Germany itself pro-
vldes adequate protection to France
against aggression from her recent
enemy On the east, but the years i'm
mediateiy ahead of US contain manv
lncalculable possibilities. The cove
nant of the league of nations pro
vides for military action for the pro-
lection of it's members only upon ad
wee OF the council of the league
ADVICE given, it is to be presumed
only upon deliberation and acted
upon by each of the governments of
the member states only if its own
Judgment justifes such action. The
OBJECT of the special treaty with
France, which ! now submit to vou.
Is to provide for immediate military
assistance to France by the United
States IN case of any unprovokcd
movement of aggression against her
by Germany without waiting for the
advice OF the council of the league of
nations that such action will be
taken. 1t is to be an arrangement
not independent of the league of ma
tons but under it.
Treaty Approved by League
1T is therefore expressly pro-
vlded that this treaty shall be made
the subject Of consideration at the
same time with the treaty of peace
with Germany; tnat this special ar
rangement shall receive the approval
OF the council of the league, ane.
that this special provision for the
safety of France shall remain in
New-York tribune., 1919-07-30
10000 Police Reserves
viii Var on Speeders

MOTORISTS who escaped the dis
tinction of being one of five ar
rested each day last month by the
traffic police still have chance to
get their names on the police records.
Ten thousand reserves are mobilized
for automobile service in an order
issued yesterday at Police Headquar-
ters, which reads as follows:
''In order to protect life and
limb of innocent people from careless
and reckless drivers. the 10000 mem
bers of the Police Reserves will re-
port all violations of the traffic law.
When the Police Reserves make their
reports they will be forwarded to the
commissioner of traffic and the vio-
lators will then be summoned to the
Traffic Court to appear in answer to
the violations"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-30
Motherand 7Prefer
Death t0P00rH0use

JACKSONVILLE. Ohio, July 2s-Scv-
eral hours before authorities were to
remove them to the Athens County
Home to-day, seven children, ranging
In nge from six weeks to ten years,
were found with their mother, Mrs.
Tony Strayiscar, burned to death or
asphyxiatcd in their home Mt Kimberly.
children were tied to their beds, and
cobl oil had been sprinklcd over the
room
IT Is supposed that worry over the
scparation caused tho mother to de-
stroy hepself and the children.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-30
nlcago Race Riots S Spread, p Dead, PA Injured;
President Demands Ratification of French Treaty
Text of Wilson's Letter
Offering Pact to Senate

WASHINGTON July 29The ert of President Wilson's
to the Senate submitting the treaty France n
New-York tribune., 1919-07-30

Continued on page three
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Could Asks Fuller.
Mexican Inquiry
Netr York Tribune
W0skipOfou Rnr.nu

Nesr York Tribune
Washington Burecu
WASHINGTON. July ga search
ing analysis Of the testimony of Henry
+. Fletcher, American Ambassador to
Mexico, before the House Rules Com
mittee last week was submitted to the
committees to-day by Representative
Tould, OF New York. in urging favor
aolc report upon his resolution for an
inquiry by the House into the Mexican
problem -
Reconsideration of Mr. Fletcher's tes-
Continued on paoe four
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-05
LIFE'S PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED

Should a man who, has been hap
PLY married. but whose wife has
died, properly consider a second mar
riage? What are his chances of sue
cess in such a marriage? Should a
promise made to the dead not to
marry again be regarded as bind
ing? ..-
Those are the questions submit
ted to me in a black-bordered let
ter l have received. They are deep
ly perturbing a man who has re-
Gently become a widower.
a short time ago." he writes.
"I lost the sweetest woman that ever
was born.
AT different times during the hap
py days l spent with her. when we
would be discussing the subject, she
would ask me to promise her not
to marry again in case she died be-
fore l did; and, acceding to her wish,
l often gave the promise.
"Now. after spending twelve happy
years with such wife. l am in n
quandary; for in those twelve years
she demonstrated TO me what won
derful being a woman is, and also
what a wife of that sort can mean
to a man.
Il cannot find words that could
possibly describe her nature and dis
osition. She was as nearly perfect
as any creature God ever made. AS
wife she had no equal. f.
Before l met her l was a skep-
tic in regard to woman. Now I sing
their praises. I adore them.
Il feel that I must have some one
to take her vacant place, some one
that will be to me the wife she
was. have enjoyed Heaven on earth
while she was here. Now everything
is dark
Should remain in darkness, or
should 1 try TO enter Heavens gate
again? Kindly advise me the course
l should pursue. j. F. NJ"
Before commenting on this letter or
considering the problem it raises, let me
stances assume the responsibility of for
wardng to the writer any communica-
tions it may call forth, or assisting in
any manner at promoting an acquaint-
anceship with him.
For him in his great sorrow there
would be, 1 am sure, many expressions
of heartfelt and genuing sympathy; but
it would be impossible for me to sift
out these from others of less worthy
purpose. So l must decline to be
purveyor of all, both the good and
the dross.
Let me try. instead, to speak for
those who might sincerely seek to ex-
tend him consolation and in so doing,
say some things that perhaps may hurt,
for there are times when it is kindness
to be cruel.
In his loneliness and longing, he
cries out, that he must have some one
to fill his wife's vacant place. some one
that will be to him the companion she
das. That is impossible.
His wife's place was made by the
love that existed between them, built
up out of a thousand memories of their
daily association. No one else could
possibly fill it, because no one else
would be the sharer of those memories
and experiences. Even though he should
find the very duplicate of his wife in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-05
Erzberger's Dream
OF German Expansion

Berne, April 5.-Mathias Erzber-
ger, chairman of the German armis-
tice commission and a member of
the German government. was ac-
cused of being the author of docu-
ment in 1914 showing that Ger
many's peace terms, if she won,
would include large annexations and
indemnities, Herr Landauer, rep
resentative of the Munich soldiers
and workmen's council, declared in
a speech at Augsburg, Russia, ac-
cording to dispatch to the Frank
fort Zeitung.
Among the peace terms mentioned
in the document, Landauer said,
We're:
Annexation of Belgium, French
Normandy and several towns on the
southeastern coast of England
Annexation of the territories on
the eastern frontier of Germany
which have since become separate
states.
Establishment of a large German
colonial empire. ...
Payment of u war indemnity cal
culated to cover Germany's eX-
penses during the first ten months
of the war as we'll as the entire
German debt before the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-05

appearance. in temperament, in dis
position-and in this world of individ-
uals that could never be-still the alb
sence of those memories and expert
ences would stand as a bar between
them.
happiness again? Is he never again.
as he puts it. to enter heavens gate?
That does not necessarily follow.
But the only way he will enter is
is by the path of love. and his heaven
will not be the same one but another
made up of entirely new experiences
and memories-of troubles and blessings
congenially shared with another woman.
And If he is wise he will not strive
to force the issue: the kingdom of
heaven is never taken by violence He
could not possibly love another woman
now. with his mind and heart full of
yearning for the wife that is gone. That
must come when time has somewhat
softened the keen edge of his sorrow
and his longing
| For him to try at present to recon-
struct his shattered paradise or to eX-
pect another woman to model herself
upon the pattern he holds of his wife is
only to invite shipwreck and misery for
them both. To marry simply out of
his loneliness, or to go seeking a wife
merely to be married would be the
greatest of mistakes.
He must wait until love comes to him
naturally and spontaneously as it did
before, and until he wants to marry
the woman he has chosen solely because
She is She. And he must understand
that that woman will fill her own place,
not that of any other, however loved
or however tenderly mourned.
AS to his question regarding the prom
Use given to his dead wife. I can only
refer him to his own conscience. 1t is
doubtful if the asking of such prom
Use can be justified but whether having
been given-either in good faith, or in
a spirit of amiability-it should be re-
garded as binding is a matter for every
one to settle according to his own code
of morals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-05
TALKS BY
BEATRICE FAIRFAX

1; you are a young and romantic
person of say, eighteen years of age
have you ever sat down and seriously
thought about yourself in the terms OF
fly?
Here you are young, beautiful, as
flies go, full of energy and the joy
of living. buzzing around very happily
indeed; and there. waiting to entangle
you hand and foot. forever and for
ever. is the strip of fly paper-repre-
sented by your mistakes.
How much caution are you exercising
to avoid the fly paper. that threatens
to put stop to your joyous activities
for all time? Older people talk to
you about the waiting fly paper and
you regard them as ''meddlesome old
bores."
They preach about fly paper in
church sometimes only they don't call
it by that name. There it is known as
temptations. the world. the flesh and the
devil, and the wages of sin. You don't
think much of these admonitions. They
seem an infusion on your personal lib
erty. Accordingly. you remain away
from church and go to the movies.
In like manner, perhaps, such words
tice and the rest of the ethical litany
impress you as being as absurdly old
fashioned as full skirts, fiat heels and
curled-ostrich plumes. Their quaint
ness will be especially apparent il you
have been reading along the lines of
the higher freedom" which advocates
a jungle-like lack of restraint in human
conduct.
You will be especially proficient in
the language of the higher freedom"
cult If you boast a smattering of Rus
sian literature-in translation, of
course. 1t will enable you to shock
your grandmother, your maiden aunt,
and the seamstress by-the-way with
your progressive views much more
quickly than If you confined yourself
to the same line in English.
There is no mistake about il. the
Russians know how to say things a
whole lot better than we Americans do,
in spite of our magazine standard; or
the English, for that matter, in spite
of their novels and essays.
So when it comes to twitching a
phrase in regard to the higher free
dom" you can shock Aunt Jane or
Grandma more quickly IL you borrow
Eour bomb from Russian literature than
II you took it from the pages of Ber-
nard Shaw, for instance. And this
shocking of Aunt Jane and Grandma is
great sport. especially since our safe
and sane Fourth OF July regulations
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-05
debar firecrackers from private life.
Harmless as CroQuct

debar firecrackers from private life.
Harmless as Croquct
AS long as bomb throwing is kept
strictly verbal sport it is as harm
less as croquet, or the wearing of those
paper hats that add so much to the
gayety and abandon of birthday par
ties
But employ the bomb, not as a missile
TO terrify the elderly, but to blow up
law order and authority, and you are
apt to find that it has landed you bang
on the fly paper-to slightly mix my
figures of speech.
Now the fly paper may be very
happy place indeed, when the millennium
arrives, but at this stage of the worlds
history 1t is neither comfortable nor
an interesting habitat. In the first
place, it is too conspicuous, and in the
second, ODE bound hand and foot
While cool. appraising world stands
aloof and watches your writings, while
aostractly specializing IL you have
enough force of character to eXtricate
yourself. is not cheerful prospect for
nesitive soul.
Doubtless you were in pursuit of the
higher freedom" when you landed on
the NY paper, and the maXims of the
cult continue to shine as beacons OF
truth, but maxims are cold comfort
when one is bound to ones fate hand
and foot
We may talk as we'll as ever about
Individual liberty, and the right to
thiS, that and the other-but when
the possession of these things has
branded us as creature apart. and
one whose individuality" - to speak
gently-evokes more pity than enthu-
slasm, the blessings are open to doubt
rave you ever, as matter of curio-
sity, followed up any OF the famous af-
unity cases that from time to time flash
through the headlines of our daily press?
Mr.. Jones and Mrs. Smith decide to
ming the gauntlet in the face of So
clety' as they used to say in the old
Iashioned novels, quit all obligations and
ny 10 be happy ever after" Suisse
quehtiy the quarreling of Mr.. Jones
ana Mrs. Smith as revealed every day in
the papers, makes the honest bicker.
ing OF the married almost respectable.
by comparison
The affinity partnership with ;ts
smashing OF commandment and con-
Nenllon' that the apostles OF freedom
lei us VIII safeguard the permanence
or the union better than hook and
neil' invariably goes on the rocks. such
aIlalrs are like the violent friendshins
tnat spring up on shipboard during a
sea voyage, they are hectic while thew
iast, Out the congenial travellers find
nation. S'''-
While wings are free, there is no
limit to ones soaring, straight into tho
oIue as far as courage and ambition
VIII carry us, but once on the fiy paner
ana the best We can do is to watch tba
uishI, OF otherS-rather a meIapcboI,,
form Of indoor sport.