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New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
U. S. and European
Labor Aims Clash
AT Paris Parley
Governmental Domination
of POst-Peace Conference
Seen i'm British Plan:
Opposed by Americans
By Chester NJ. Wright
Ne'o York Tribune

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PARIS, Feb 1O.-Two fundamental
ideas are struggling for supremacy in
the peace conference commission on
international labor legislation. They
are, respectively, European and Amer-
can. The European idea, which of late
years has permeated the Continental
labor movement as we'll as that of
England, envisages the extension of
governmental powers and an enlarged
scope of governmental control in the
lives of the people. The American idea
is that which demands only freedom of
opportunity and q minimum Of govern
ment control.
The commission, of which Samuel
Gompers is president, is now consider
ing the British proposals involving the
great world industrial congress after
the peace conference to legisate for
the stability of the future of the in
dustrial world, vital point being the
stipulation that the congress shall con-
sist not only of labor and employers.
but also of government representatives.
The proposal provides that the labor
delegates shall have one vote. the en-
ployer one and the government two,
meaning to Americans unqualified gov
ernmental domination of the congress.
Americans Call Plan Absurd
1t is understood that the remainder
OF the British proposal similarly pro-
vldes tor the dominance of government
tai machinery. Therefore, the Ameri-
can view Is that the whole programme
is so absurd that workers everywhere
would refuse to consider it, and would
not be bound by its processes
Many who support this American
view point out that the machinery Of
government, buidened 10 topheavincss,
would drive workers from orderly
processes toward the desperate meas
ures advocated by those loosely termed
Boshevlsts. American laborites view
the situation with deep seriousness be-
cause they realize the danger of the
industrial condition of the world
There is no Disgusting the danger in
the British situation. France, while
the surface is quietcr, holds a menace.
Italy is perhaps worse There is dan
ger also in Spain and Portugal. Ger
many and Russia both present peculiar
features, yet the disorder there is
largely. industrial. Viewing the worlds
state thus broadly, the Americans be-
lleVes that unless some promise of i'm
mediate Improvement in working and
living conditions is held forth the
/ present unrest must continue
Fear Disordcrly Efforts
They demand rapid and orderly
realization of labor's aspirations
through general agreement between
employers and workers, with the gov
ernments sympathetic but not domi.
mating. r. Otherwise they predict disor-
derly efforts by workers, led by fanat.
les, to obtain what they believed was
promised during the war, with an ulti
mate down-pulling of the entire struc
ture Of world industry, as in Russia
The Americans do not believe such ,
calamity to be inevitable, but regarc
the danger such as to make construc
tive measures for the promotion of in
dustrial justice the most importan
feature of the peace discussion.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Minor Commissions
Expected To Be Ready
To File RepOrts Soon

PARIS, Feb. 10.-Such headway has
been made by some of the less i'm
portant commissions of the Peace Con-
ference with the plans before them that
1t is expected these commissions will
be ready to report number of i'm
portant projects to the conference for
its action almost immediately after
Society Of Nations is disposed of.
The conference itself, while it ap
pears likely to drop into more
leisurcly pace after the departure of
President Wilson and Premier Orlando
of Italy, and in the absence of Premier
Lloyd George of Great Britain, who has
already left Paris, plans to undertake
the discussion of some of these topics.
Interesting debates are expected to fol-
low, occupying the time of the confer
ence during what. it seems to be
thought here, will .bc the rather brief
absnce of those leaders.
II the Peace Conference Commission
on Credentials ever begins to function
some stirring developments are expect
ed to follow. The commission has not
met thus far, even to organize, the
conference having got along without
the right of any of the delegates to
their seats being challenged, which
IS probably without precedent in the
history Of such international gather
ngs. 1t is recalled that the famous
Westphalian Congress of 1647 spent
the better part of year in verifying
the credentials of its members.
The usual course at these assem-
blages IS for the delegates to exchange
their credentials as soon as they meet
any ono of them being privileged to
make objection to the credentials of
another, ii he finds ground to DO so
mittee on credentials of the present
conference would conduct any inves-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Germany Keeping
Armies MObilized.
Says London Paper
More Than I8 Divisions I'M
der Hindenburg Concen-
trated in West, Writer in
ssDaily News Is Told

papers of all shades of opinion are
devoting serious attention to the atti-
tude adopted by the German govern
menttoward the armistice conditions.
"The Daily News" Paris correspon-
dent sends a dispatch from "authori-
tative source" on the subject in which
he says his informant told him that
he had the best reason to believe that
Germany is not continuing to demob-
olize.
"She has now concentrated more
than eighteen divisions under Won
Hindenburg on the western 'front.'" the
correspondent quotes his informant as
saying. eve also have the best reas-
ons to believe that Germany is keep
ing her troops under arms on the pre-
text of economic necessity. Some of
the military authorities think that
Germany has sought more material to
give necessary armament to 5000, 900
men. German rehabilitation is a CON
dluon to our demobilzation and there
fore disbandment is impossible so long
as Germany does not continue to de
mobilize.
Allied military authorities consider
the time has now arrived for Germany
to give up her military strength-that
she be brought to such a condition that
she cannot resist later the conditions
of peace now being prepared. The AL
lied theory always has Es>en that we
shall frame conditions which Germany
will have to accept, and that there is
nothing to discuss, except as regards
| details. For this reason Germany is
trying to keep up her military strength
SO that she can send delegate to the
| peace congress for a thorough mill
tary discussion Of the peace conditions
imposed. On this point the French
national Socialist party and its eX'
treme left wing are strongly opposed
to anything being done TO save Ger
many from the consequences of defeat
In this matter the French government
will be supported by the entire ma
ton"
The correspondent says he has beer
informed by a competent British au
thority that Marshal Foch made dec
/ laration of somewhat serious charac
ter at meeting Of the Supreme Wan
/ Council"
lie feels" this authority is quotee
as saying, chat the Germans are be
ginning TO forget that they are beaten
They are apt to forget that we are il
state of war. They have been SLOW
in handing over transport and othei
things and arc causing a great dea
of difficulty
eve are demobilzing fast; they arr
not continuing to demobllize. Their
is danger of Germany saying: We d.
not care anything about your league o
nations, and we have got our troops
Unless a change takes place we Nigh
be faced with a situation in which
Germany, as regards the number o
men in the field, will have three me-
as against the Allies two.
"The question of Rehabilitation ha
been taken up by the Supreme Wa
Council All the technical adviser
have certainly been In favor of takin
what additional measures may be nee
essary to prevent any danger to tn
Allies or their positions or aQy DANCE
of their being able to dictate wha
peace terms they please
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
French Press
W arms Against
German Menace
Continued from page /.

by realizing it. Civilization must be
lsh and they will not go back on their
word 'We desire peace with Wilson,
repeat the internationalists and the
Germans INCREASINGLY. Quite so, but
the kind of peace sought under this
universally respected name, in the
sense given it by the would be inter
nationalists and Germany, is the ruin
Of our country. SO long as the am
blguity exists, so long will the danger
last so long will confusion reign in
our minds and peace hang by thread"
Commenting upon the interview
given by Premier Clcmenccau to the
Associated Press, which occupies the
place of honor in all the Paris news
papers to-day, M. Capus says:
with its vigorous and hardy pessi-
msm, it is an act of ardent patriotism.
1t is just the plain language which it
is fitting to talk to France and her
Allies at the present moment. Franco
should be made to recall that her
enemy wished for fifty years to cripple
her, and has not given up that de-
sign. The Allies must be told that
the victory bought with so much blood
and sacrifice will remain a precarious
one if they do not know how to COM
plete it. Finally, Germany must be
shown that she can no longer deceive
us and that it is our firm intention to
make peace also TO the finish'
premier Clemenceau has never been
more lucid or stronger than in these
declarations which will have a con-
siderable effect"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
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have circumspectiy. but, according ia
reports reaching here, they are mt
having an easy task.
A band of 500 Bolsheviki opcratips
in Novgorod reported to the leader
that the inhabitants were hostile and
that difficulties were in sight. The
leaders of the band in Novgorod have
posted notices that there will be no
pillaging if the Bolsheviki are given
food, though when they first arrived
they stole money and other valuables
from homes. The Bolsheviki went to
the servants in the town and tried to
persuade them to quit work. The ser.
wants are said to have replied thpt
they had to work to eat, and when
the Bolsheviki laughed at them said
that it was stealing to get food as
the Bolsheviki did.
In the art of stealing the Bolshevih
are often outdone by the retiriag Ger
man troops. Before they left Novgorod
they pretended that ten horses had
been stolen from them by the towns.
people and that the town would be
burned unless 10000 rubles was paid
for the horses. Officials dressed as
black hussars, with the letter " on
their shoulder straps, gave the towns
people one hour to make the payment.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

ing Il decision. At the same time the
League of Nations Commission Writ
uAlly completed the final draft of that
project, assuring its presentation at q
plenary session the latter part of the
week.
The discussion of the armistice took
wide range, including the failure to
execute some Of the clauses of the
previous armistice, the blockade and
the use of enemy merchant shipping.
Rut the main issue turned on a series
designed to place the enemy beyond
the possibility OF rearming and renew
ing the conflict.
From the French standpoint, the
menace of such renewal is not past,
and il IS urged as u matter of forest ght
that suitable safeguards be established.
What these safeguards are has not
been disclosed, bat it is generally un-
derstood that they include the lmta-
tion of the production of field and
heavy guns and an exact accounting of
heavy guns now on hand, also some
limitation OF the military organization
which is to be of police service
While some of the military COM
manders take the view that radical
measures are needed to assure the
Allies, particularly France, against a
possibility OF renewed peril, other
views tend TO place reliance on eco
nomic measures as the best means of
averting any renewal of enemy activity
Besides the discussion of the armis-
tice terms, NJ. Klotz. the French Min
lister OF Finance. presented documents
OF the German General Staff showing
a systematic plan to destroy French
industry, not only as a military meas
ure but as means to promote Ger
man industrial interests. These docu-
ments were referred to the economic
conference recently established. The
discussion of the armistice terms will
be continued tomorrow
The official communication dealing
with the work Of the Supreme War
Council says:
A meeting of the Supreme War
Council was held this afternoon from
3 to $50 o'clock at the Quai D'Orsay.
The conditions of the renewal Of
the arm!stice were first discussed.
NJ. klotz. French Minister of Finance.
then described the work published
in 1916 OF the German Great General
staff, proving the premeditateG and
systematic character of the destruc-
tion of French industry. He gave a
detailed analysis of this work, which
it was decided to refer to the Eco
nomic Committee.
The next meeting will take place
tomorrow at 3 o'clock. The Belgian
delegates viii first be heard
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Sharp Says u. S. Trusts
Peace Parley Enjoys
NeW York Tribune
Wash inOtOn Bureau

WASHIGTON, Feb. 10.-A dispatch
from Paris quotes an interview given
by American Ambassador Sharp to the
Petit Parisien." There is no doubt"
he said, "about my countrymen's ar
dent wish to see the peace delibera-
tions brought TO a close in The short
est possible time, considering the inn
portance of the problems to be solved,
but | am sure they have an absolute
trust in the wisdom of those men
who have the mission of solving these
problems.
Surely their first preoccupation is
Inc establishment OF league of
nations, which President Wilson never
ceased to support. 1t is not only &
feeling Of national pride, inspired by
his deeds, but also an absolute trust
sin his wisdom and patriotism that won
for President Wilson such an cxcep-
tional degree Of confidence from the
American people, and / feel sure that
my countrymen have been delightd
with the accounts of the splendid ova-
tions of which he has been the OBJ
ject as the champion of democracies" :"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Liberia Wants Il. 5.
To Act as Mandatary
NeaO York Tribune
Special Cable .Servtce

PARIS, Feb. 10.-Among the various
peoples Of the Eastern Hemisphere
asking the United States to act as
for them is Liberia, the
most striking example of the failure
Of Observation-Disclosures.
Tnc withdrawal Of American infu-
cnco from the country, followed by the
Introduction of a guardianship of an
international commission, proved dis
astrous to Liberian interests, said the
Secretary Of State of Liberia to The
Tribune lpesponden1 here to-day.
we want the United States to re-
turn and help and guide us in finan-
cial. and administrative affairs" he
SAID eve have always looked to the
United States as our best friend, and
we need her influence to protect us
in +hc development of our national
life
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Bolsheviki Beaten
By Ukraine and
Driven Out of Kie,

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10.-Kiev. the
ukrainian capital, is again in the hands
of Ukrainian forces, according to re-
ports reaching here through Berlin.
Dispatches from Warsaw dated
January 81 announced that Kiev had
been taken by Bolshevik troops. a
portion of the troops of General
Petlura, the head of the Ukrainian
peasant government, having gone
over to the Bolsheviki. The seat of
the Ukrainian government, the mes
sage added, had been moved from
kiev to Winnitza, to the southwest.
The Lithuanians have arrested the
Bolshevik advance on the Lithuanian
front, according to news received by
the Lettish Bureau in Berlin. The town
Of Ponievsk, north of Kovno, has been
taken by the Lithuanians.
The German troops in Windau. in
Courland, on the Baltic Sea, fed in
panic when the Bolsheviki took the citv
last week, according to Berlin dis
patches to-day. Twenty eight civilians
in Windau were killed by the invaders
who continued advancing after the
capture Of the city.
WARSAW, Feb. 8 (By The Associated
Press).-Bolshevik leaders in Lthuanis
are attempting to make their men be
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
British Reparation
Claims AmpliGed
By Premier Hughes

PARIS, Feb 1o.-The text of the
official communication issued this
evening on the session of the Commit
tee on Reparation, says:
"The Committee on Reparation met
this morning at the Ministry of
Finance, with NJ. Klotz in the chair.
After naming the members of the diff
ferent sub committees, the commit
tee began the discussion of the
principles upon which rest the right
to reparaton and the examining of
the memoranda submitted by the diff
ferent delegations.
civilian H. Hughes, Premier OF
Australia, set forth the considera-
tions upon which the British men,
orandum was based"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Wonen to Ask Wilson
For Seats at Parley

PARIS, Feb 10.-A resolution asking
that women be represented in the peace
conference will be presented to Presi
dent Wilson tonight by delegation
the woman suffragists of
the associated powers. The American
members of the delegation will. be Mrs.
j. Borden Hartman, Mrs Juliet Barrett
Rublee and Miss Katharine B. Davis.
French woman suffrage leaders by
themselves recently demanded repre-
sentation in the peace conference.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

It's spirit is essentially the same as
that in which the United States con-
Quoted her international relations up
to the present, but it needs, to make it
effective, the wholehearted cooperation
OF the American people. Will that be
denied? We will not believe it. How
ever seductive may be the whisper of
the tempter, the pltimate choice will
be made right"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
BUTTER CAKES ARR
BACK

And there's hardly a soul !,
town who doesn't know er. ).
actly where to go to get them.
For years butter cakes hav,
been a CHILDS speclaltv
The ban on wheat automar;.
cally withdrew them from orr
menu Now they're back and
receiving an enthusiastic wei.
come.
Raised until light>asaefeatber
and baked on a quick grldds
they come to you with brown
orispy crusts and delicate
fluffy inside the best hot
bread you ever tasted.
Served t1O4 SO they lmmedi.
ately melt and absorb the rlch
golden butter served with
them.
An order of CHIlDs s,u
Gus butter cakes, risht.o@@
the-griddle, and a Gun '',,; IL
CHILDS coffee, viii ola.sa o.
the palate tired Of s,.sss srssA
thips else" N'as'
New-York tribune., 1919-02-11

tigation found necessary of the suffi-
cheney Of the papers brought by each
delegate, and that it would await the
arrival Of all the delegates before un-
dertaking the work
The Benson signal., 1919-05-17
UNSPOILED BY HIGH HONOR
General Pershing Qualities That
Compel Their Affection.

"Why do we swear by Pershing?"
cOuntered a staff officer in Washington
one day in response to a question.
"Well, 1 guess it's because he's the
real thing-a regular American, if you
know what mean.
"You can easily figure out the sort
of man he is by the stories they tell
of him. / was with him when he was
on his way to Washington to receive
his orders for France. On the way.
we passed through the town in which
he lived when he was boy. On the
station platform was the same old ne
gro porter Pershing had thrown stones
at in his boyhood. The general chatted
with the old man. Afterward I asked
the porter what happened. He said:
"'He done wanted ter know all bout
the folks he uster know, an when he
was gettin' on the car again he picked
up pebble as big as my thumb an
hove it at me, jes' like he ulster when
he was an Ornery kid"
The Benson signal., 1919-05-17
Indigestion, Gas
and B|oat From
ACid'StoI1laCh

An acid-stomach cannot digest food
properly. Instead, the food sours and
ferments and, passing into the intes-
tines, becomes breeding place for
countless millions of deadly germs
toxic poisons they are called. These
poisons are absorbed into the system
and cause untold misery. So, you see,
it is just acid-stomach, nothing else
that makes so many people weak, list
less and unfit; saps their strength and
energy; robs them of their vigor and
vitality. Biliousness, bad liver, nerv-
BUSINESS, binding, splitting headaches.
rheumatism, lumbagO, sciatica-these
and many other still more serious all
ments often are traced to the COM
mon source-an acid-stOmach.
Take EATONIC and get rid quickly
of the pains of indigestion, heartburn,
that horrible, lumpy, bloated feeling
after eating; disgusting, belching,
food-repeating; sour, gassy stomach.
These stomach miseries are caused by
what doctors call "Hyperacidity." It's
Just ACID-STOMACH. And in ad-
dition to the pains and miseries it
causes, ACID-STOMACH is the start
er of a long train of ailments that
most people never dreamed are in
The Benson signal., 1919-05-17
Needless Alarm,

Junior had not been in the best of
health, and, when he seemed we'll on
the way to recovery, his mother took
extra precautions to guard him against
possibilities of an influenza attack.
One evening the anxious mother
was startled when she entered Ju-
nior's room to find the little chap in
bed, shifting, with eyes red and wa
terry.
Goodness, gracious!" she cried, "do
you feel sick, dearie?"
"No, mamma" Junior replied.
"But you seem to have caught a
dreadful cold"
II haven't any cold"
"But your nose and your eyes!'
From under the covers Junior pro-
duced book.
'It is Uncle Toms Cabin NAM
ma," he said, "and I have just been
reading about poor little Eva
Youngstown Telegram.
The Benson signal., 1919-05-17
Out of Order.

The village was all agog. Flossie
Flatfeet was marrying William Giles.
The church was crowded. Flossie,
looking as pale as her somewhat high
1y colOred cOuntenance would allow,
bore up until the plain band ring was
safely on her finger, and then, over
come, burst into tears.
The villagers were touched, but not
anxious. All girls cry at weddings.
Then suddenly William Giles screwed
up his face and broke into howls.
Tears poured down his face and
dripped off his Whiskers.
whats up? Hush, mani" those
nearest him urged. But Giles contin-
ued to howl, and at last burst out:
''Let me be! 1 feel wuss an 'er
about it!''-London it Tit-Bits.
The Benson signal., 1919-05-17
WITH AN EYE TO THE FUTURE
Prima Donna Had Good Business Rea-
sons for Asking for Slight
Change in Contract.

Senator Lodge sounded the warning
that the articles of the league Of ma
tions should be weighed carefully be-
fore being adopted. He asserted that
too many ties might well jeopardize
our future.
Indeed" we may well follow the
example Of the prima donna who was
reading rough draft Of her new con-
tract.
when she came to the paragraph
providing that she should have trans
portation for herself and maid, her dog
and Signor Gazibeni, her husband, she
drew line through the singers name.
"'Just make that husband she said.
"'Yes, madam asserted the mana
ger, but may I ask why?'
''The diva blushed and coyly fin
gered her hair. L might wish to make
a change she answered"