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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

statement concerning Italy's demands
in substance denouncing secret trea.
ties. During all these wretched months
of secret intrigue it was the one clear
note which struck a esponsive chord
with many of US. Some of US mme-
diately Endorsed his stand on secret
treaties, assuming, Of course, that
when he took that stand in the doubt
full case of Italy he would take it in
the clear and unambiguous case of
Japan But hardly had his words
ceased to ring in denunciaton of Sc
cret treaties when he accepted, with
out demur Or objection, the worst of
all the secret treaties presented, that
between England, France, and Italy on
the one hand and Japan upon the
other.
We were not party to the secret
made, but in the settlement of the
peace we have become party to them
Of our own choice, after the war is
over, We join in the crime against
China. 1t is concerning the secret
treaties in their relation to the league
that l speak. In disposing of Chinese
territory we were dealing not with an
enemy but with an ally. We we're de-
spelling not Germany, our enemy, but
China, our friend. And we who know
something Of the Oriental character
can understand the fate of China and
how Japan bided her time at the peace
conference until the exact moment for
success came, and then demanded and
successfully demanded. Just as Japan
did with her secret treaties and China
just so will she do with her secret
treaties and what she calls race dis
elimination. When the time seems to
her propitious-and it will not be long
she will bring to the league of ma
tions our yet unsettled dispute over our
alien land law and her pending con-
troversy respecting immigration end
her assertion Of race discrimination by
US. And when this is done the league
will take charge of these momentous
questions and will decide them. i.
1t is not league Of nations to pre-
vent war. 1t is league of armed ma
tions in gigantic war trust. In it's
very creation it has been stripped of
every idealistic purpose it ever had.
1t contains within itself the germs of
many wars. and worse than that it
rivets, as in the Shantung decision, the
chains OF tyranny upon millions of peo-
pie and cements, for ell time, unjust
and wicked annexations. 1t is a great
world economic trust, wherein few
men sitting secret may control the
economic destinies Of peoples
1t is not a league of peoples, nor
does it anywhere concern itself with
peoples whose past wrongs and future
rights were SO eloquenty portrayed by
the President. 1t is trust Of existing
present power. 1t will never prevent
war; it will sanctify power in new,
a terrible, and sinister sense.
In a word, Mr.. President, this league
means that American boys shall police
the world; that all the tottering ma
lions Of the earth shall be upheld
by our blood and our bone; that Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa may draw upon
US in their every dispute and quarrel;
that our nation will be at tho mercy
Of European and Japanese diplomats
who never had and never will have
any sympathy with our aspirations or
our ideals; that wo with our glorious
past shall guarantee the territorial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

I mike the little girl with a curl
Francisco C"Pancho") Villa is
ordinarily very, very bad. That he
has broken loose again in northern
Mexico with a threat to storm the
city of Chihuahua will surprise no
one who has studied the history of
Mexican revolutions.
The formula for Mexican revolu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

for self-determination, for democracy
1t means for England, France. italy
and Japan huge territories, vast mum.
bers of people, immense national gain
The burden must be borne Of protect
ing and safeguarding these enormous
allied gains. The question is, and the
league Of nations squarely presents it.
Who shall bear the burden?
ohall the burden rest upon the gain
ers, those who made a mock Of self
determination, of the rights of weak
people, of all our high sounding ideal
ism, or shall tho burden, at the COM
mand Of one who was party to the
mockery, be thrust upon the only non
profting nation, the United States?
Tho sole reason, whispered in fear.
or ominously Kissed to create fear in
the rest OF US, why the United States
should become tho worlds guarantor
and underwritc the rape of China and
the partition Of hundreds of thousands
OF square miles of territory and the
transfer Of millions 81 human beings
to England, France, Italy and Japan
Is that by doing 30 the possibility Of
future wars will be minimizcd and
there may be n greater sense Of Sc
curity in the possession by England,
France, Italy and Japan of their newly
acquired peoples and territories. E.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

rIRAM JOHNSON, Senator
from California, character
l. Il ICES the league of nations
as Coordination Of armed
movers into a gigantic war trust"
"Where are the agreements
Openly arrived at'?" asks Senator
Johnson. What about self-deter-
m;nation and the rights of small
peoples?''
And there you are. Senator
Johnson, always known as an
aggressive public Hgure, believes
that President Wilson has had the
doubtful distinction of being the
first to violate his own precious
fourteen points.
This is not league to promote
peace, but to protect power. Those
who advocate it dare not amend it
50 that the question Of war shall be
decided by the men and women who
must fight and die for it.
Senator Capper, of Kansas, occu-
pied the chair while Senator John
son was making his speech and he
became so interested in the Cali
fornian's oratory that he evidently
was unmindful of the House rule
against applause in the Senate, for
applause there was both from the
floor and the galleries.
His speech was another big
moment in Senator Johnson's dis
tinguished public career.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Senators Lodge and Borah who launched the Whereis.th
treaty."

ut feels good to be free IMAM
again."
He will devote himself toshis pri-
vate interests and to the broader
issues Of mankind-for he feels the
time is coming when he may help.
Mr.. Vanderlip is fifty-one Fyears
old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
ErSberger Defes World

MATTHIAS ERZBERGER will be
~ remembered as the former
leader of the Centrist party in the
Reichstag who never could convince
any one of the Allied nations
1at his criticisms of the German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Golden Book Of CONGRESS-

/ league of nations, and willing and
anxious because of the same spirit
which has ruled them in the peace
conference.
The one going solvent concern ma
tlonally is about to enter into part
nership with certain national bank
rupts. We give of our assets, both
moral and material, and assume a
part of their liabilities. We do not
need them as partners. They require
us. They yield to us nothing; they
can yield to us nothing. We give to
them everything.
We can protect our borders for
centuries to come, just as we have
in the century past. The Lord has
gwen us our geographical isolation.
and the Lord has denied just that
thing to the different races of Europe.
And, while our intcrnationalists in
behalf of the league of nations pirate
OF the fact that we can not remain
longer isolated, they forget that the
geography OF the situation remains
immutable. Isolation otherwise, ex-
ccpt to refrain from European entan-
clements or to indulge in European
controversies and wars, has never ex-
listed, and, of course, never will exist.
But, when distinguished gentlemen say
that we can no longer remain in a
position of splendid isolation and play
No ri
get ali the events of the past CEN
fury. We are in constant touch with
all the world. We can, whenever we
think it in consonancc with humanity,
60 wherever we will and do whatever
duty demands.
Our position has been, and ought
to be, the commanding one in all the
world. And it is unnecessary, in or
der that We preserve this position and
maintain ourselves, in order that we
may succor the weak or rescue human
ity, to tie ourselves irrevocably to the
bankrupt nations of the earth or to
enter into a confederation for the pro-
lection of their boundaries and the
preservation Of their territories.
We have been told by the President
that we must now by this league of
nations make the supreme sacrifice
and throw in our fortunes with the
rest of the world. Why? The very
query evokcs from the league cnthu-
siasts immediate and angry rctort,
and, while they will not enlighten
us, they hint darkly at our motives
and deny even our good faith. Occa-
sionally we hear that we have at last
entered upon world career, that we
have become part Of world politics,
and that we cannot now either with
draw from the course into which
tho war drew us or desert the world
which so needs US. In the language
of famous editor of the West, "All
Of this is partly true" but it by no
means establishes that we must sur
render our cherished position or our
loved idcnls by becoming IL party to
tho sordid quarrcls and the diplo-
matte duplici'y of Europe and Asia.
The United States will play hcr
proud part in tho world in the future
as she has done in tho pasta part
proudcr because based upon American
principles and American idcnls. It did
not require secret treaties and stcalthy
barterng Of unwilling peoples to make
our nation play her part in the war;
1t docs not require the guarantee of
secret treaties and bargaining and bar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
VGnderIip Ret;res

HTT is not enough to say that
Il Frank A. Vanderbilt brought
vision to Wall Street twenty years
ago-a large, fine Western vision"
said The New York Tribune edi-
torially the other day. "Other men
have done that. He did not lose
his vision in Wall Street, and that is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

that Stillman's fathershad worn be.
fore him.
Mr.. Stillman is interested in a
large number of corporations and
is Wall Street business man who
will needyno naturalization. 81
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Our Plight

After six months of meddling and
muddlng in European and Asiatic con-
trovcrsics and contests over territory,
tho end Of the peace conference finds
Italy dctcsting US, France secretly de-
spising us, England using us, and
Japan bluffing us. They eare all willing
and anxious that We should have our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

The sordid bargaining, selfish in
tcrcst and secret diplomacy which
produced tho league of nations Is best
illustrated in the decision Of tho peace
conference relating to China and
Japan. At one time during tho &C.
libcrations tho President issued q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

| tering of unwilling peoples to have the
nation play it's world part after the
war. Throwing in our fortune with the
fortunes of the rest of the world
means, with our altruistic brethren,
throwing our fortunes to the rest of
the world, that the rest of the world
may do with our donation as it sees fit.
Gladly will we do what duty COM
inands and humanity and civilization
may require, but that duty can be bet
ter done, our obligations to humanity
and civilization better fulfilled in the
high position of the worlds greatest
democracy than in the subordinate
position Of the least consequential of
a quintuple alliance, or as one of many
bound irrevocably to the guarantee of
the many's power and territories.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Whot Kind Of Peace?

American fathers and American
mothers want peace, and they want q
league of nations which will give them
peace. Ask any American mother in
Kansas or Illinois or California if
she is for peace. She will say yes
with all her heart. Ask her if she is
willing that her son and her grand
sons shall go to the Balkans, to China,
, to Corea, to Siberia to Arabia, to the
Dalmation coast, to Poland, to compel
peace. She will answer just as
promptly "No."
This league of nations, with the men
who really wrote it, was meant to
obtain peace only in so far as peace
maintained forever inviolate their ter
ritories and their subject peoples, and
il was meant that this kind of peace
should be obtained by the exercise of
the power and the force of the United
States.
Another common expression at pres
ent is, Half loaf is better than
none" But half loaf poisoned is
worse than none at all, and this half
loaf, as some of it's protagonists de-
scribe it, that has been given us is
poisoned in it's very creation by wrong,
injustice, duplcity and broken faith.
1t was neither fair nor just nor hu-
name, when the world wanted peace, to
delay that peace until the territorial
acquisitions, like those Of Japan,
should be for all time guaranteed.
When the peoples Of every country,
staggering under the terrible effects
of war, were longing and praying for
its end by the treaty, we're begging
and pleading that they might resume
as best they could their normal lives,
it was the worst sort of duplicity to
irtertwine and intermingle with the
treaty Of peace a document for the
maintenance Of existing governments
and newly acquired boundaries. Some
day some one must answer to the SOL
diers who have been kept abroad, to
those who will be sent abroad to the
mothers and tho fathers at home, for
seven months of intermeddling that an
English document guaranteeing the
British and Japanese empires and the
Kingdom Of Italy might be fastened
upon tho American people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
United States Senator johnson
Flags the League of
Nations

4 WISH that l could adequately
picture the situation at Paris in
n the peace conference. The great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

TIRAM JOHNSON, Senator
from California, character
Il Il ICES the league of nations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-20
NAVY'S CARD INDEX OF NAMES
DECLARED BIGGEST IN WORLD

branch started OF since the begin
ming OF the war with all the men in
service at that time and has extended
the tAbulAtien back thirty four years.
The way names and other data now
have been arranged on the cards
under the guidance Of Commander
Hatch. who has specialized in that
sort Of work, any needed data can
be obtained from the myriads Of cards
in short order II the Secretary of the
Navy wants to know how many men
there are in the Navy who are be-
tween thtrty-four and thirty-five
years Of age, for instance. or who
are married, or who are petty off,
GERS, or who have seen previous
servi 20, the cards are rushed through
specisl electrical machinery at the
rate Cf 1000 q minute and in a few
hours The result can be laid before the
Official In previous times this would
have taken weeks and months Of Ia
borious pen work.
Problems Of rehabilitation in the
Navy have proved az exactinS to this
branch as those Of mobilization and
expansion. and hundreds Of employees
occupy acres Of floor space down In
the Sir new Navy building attending
to this special form of work. Com
missioned officers arc listed else
whore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-20
PRESBYTERIANS APPROVE.
LEAGUE DONATIONS IDEA
Declare Militarism Is Crushed by
German Defeat-Sunday Papers
Arouse Spirited Debate.


ST. LOUIS. May 20.-Resolutions ap-
proving the proposed league Of ma
lions and emphatically condemning
the publication Of Sunday newspapers
were adopted at yesterdays session
Of the 131st General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church. Z. s. A.
President Wilson's stand on this
league Of nations was Endorsed unan-
imously and the Senate was petit
toned to ratify the covenant. The
resolution recites that the defeat Of
crushed militarism and has opened
the way, for a league Of nations to
conserve the peace of the world"
Spirited discussion preceded the
adoption Of the Sunday newspaper
resolution. which cAls on members Of
or advertise in It,"
Rev. DR.. John A. McCollom of Phil
adelphia. in spee ch condemning the
resolution, charged the commission
ers with insincerity.
Let us be sensible about this ques-
tion." he declared. What the church
needs more than anything else is sim
certify I did a little detective work
around the hotels yesterday and saw
two former moderators, many Of the
secretaries Of boards and about half
the commissioners here reading Sum-
day papers; many had them at the
breakfast table. The Sunday paper
10 just as necessary as the Sunday
trolley. which you attempted to con-
denim several years ago.
A resolution stating the Presbyteri-
ans in convention here were not pre-
pared to accept the proposal for the
federation Of all tho Presbyterian and
Reformed churches in America. but
inviting the southern Preebyterians
to unite with them. was dispatched to
New Orleans. where the Presbyterian
Church South is in general assembly.
All games, sports. unnecessary trav-
cling. comm ercialized and uncomme r-
cialized entertainment on Sunday
were denounced in other measures
adopted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-20

Now this is the most extended ana
diverse alphabetical index Of which
We have any record" said . repre-
sentative of a commercial fling con-
Germ to Lieut.. Commander Charles B.
Hatch, u. g. N. r. F.. head Of the files
and statistics section of the enlisted
personnel division Of the bureau OF
navigation of the Navy Department.
(Some title. and. it might be added.
some job. too.)
What's the first name in the thing r
asked the naval officer, and was told.
whatever Il was.
"Now let's see what the first name
IL in this one of tho Departmental -
he suggested. and on investigation IL
was found that the Navy has no fewer
than thirty-fve enlisted men who
come alphabetically In front of the
first one in the supposed biggest in
dex. The first name Of all in the list
Is Able Seaman Aab. Hard to beat
that combination for 'previousness"-
two AS and B.
It is thought, although II cannot
yet be proven beyond q doubt. that
the Nays index OF enlisted men ID
the biggest thing Of its kind. not
only in this country. but in the world
Tabulated in the index are the names
Of all the men who have enlisted in
the Navy since January 1, 1885. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-20

MISS JANE JEFFREY.
The accompanying picture Of Miss
Jane Jeffrey, an American Red Cross
nurse Of Brookline, Mass, was taken
after she had been deco
rated with the distinguished service
cross foH extraordinary heroism dur
ing a German air raid over the hos
pital at Jouy-sur-Morin. Although
wounded herself by the bombs which
killed two of the patients and wound
ed eight others. Miss Jeffery sought
to help the newly wounded without
thought Of her own safety.
Citation by Gen. Pershing.
The citation, signed by Gen. PERISH
ing. was as follows:
For extraordinary heroism in ac-
ton at Jouy-sur-M NORM (Seine-et-
Marne), France, July, 1918. While she
was on duty at American Red Cross
Hospital No. 107 Miss Jeffrey was Sc
verely wounded by an exploding bomb
during an air raid. She showed utter
disregard for her own safety by re-
fusing to leave her post, though suf-
fering great pain from her wounds.
Her courageous attitude and devotion
to the task Of helping others was in
spring to all her associates"
Bestowed With Ceremony.
The decoration was bestowed with
impressive military ceremony at Au-
teuil by Brig. Gen. Harris, American
Army commander in the Paris district.
Miss Jeffery has been in service in
France for moro than year and 4
half. OF her experience in the air raid
Miss JefYery has only this to say:
II felt a terrible shock and fell to
the ground. I don't think I acted any
Drawer than the patients and corps
mon. They were splendid and their
bravery gave mo courage"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-20

.Craveure Clorihes
Dramatic War Song
Tense - touching - gripping -
dramatic lis this great war song
The Americans Come" Graveure
gives you all the pathos, al the doubt,
despair and downing hope of the
blinded French veteran who hears
the first American contingent march
up the street-all his unbounded
JOY and gratitude. Coupled with
Graveure's, ''When the Boys Come
Home" A27C9-$l.OO
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-17

Studebaker, and it was real pleas
ure to ride in such car with such a
fine driver at the wheel even though
the roads are very bad.
The meeting was held in the Y. M.
C. A. hall of the community building
and there was quite large number
present to hear the address of Mr..
Coleman. His subject was 'The Ex-
cellent Way" and he spoke for an
hour or more with the close and In
terested attention of the entire aud
ience.
| It would be impossible for US to
carry anything like fair synopsis
even of the. address. Mr.. Coleman
said there were only two great
things in the world, an ideal and an
idea. He made many apt historical
illustrations to impress his points
and evidenced the fact that he had
been close and an observant stu
edent Of history. He was very severe
on the hypocrite and the pharisee
whether in business or social life,
and speaking Of the war and the un-
rest he emphasized the fact that
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-17

there could never be peace and hap
piness in the world until there was
the desire for these things in the hu-
man heart, and that the great thing
lin life as you went along was to
serve your generation and do good
that others might be happy. He
concluded with beautiful thought
that even the things worth while
were useless until and unless we
made ourselves worthy to possess
them.
The people generally of the COM
munity regret very much that Mr..
Coleman and his family are no long
er to be citizens of the town that he
has done 80 much to make worth
while place in which to live.
E. II. A.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-17

fContinued on page fiye.)
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-17
|ALCOCK AND BROWN
LAND IN IRELAND
SIXTEEN HOURS TO MAKE
THE TRIP.
Hazardous Enterprise of British
Army Officer. in Vieker-Vimy BIZ
plano Ends Without Mishap.

London, June Is (By the Associat-
led Press.}-The final goal of all the
|ambitions which flying men have
Iventured to dream since the Wright
brothers first rose from the earth IN
Ia heavier than air machine was
realized this morning when two
young British officers, Capt. John Al
cock and Lieut.. Arthur W. Brown,
landed on the Irish coast after the
| first nonstop flight across the At
llantic ocean. y
Their voyage was without acci-
! dent and without unforeseen incident
so far as can be learned. 1t was a
straightaway, cleancut flight achiev-
led in Is hours and IL minates-
from Newfoundland to Clifden, Ire
land, distance of more than 1900
miles.
I But the brief and modest descrip-
, tion which comes from the airmen
at Clifden tells Of an adventurous
and amazingly hazardous enterprise.
Fog and mists hung over the North
i Atlantic and the Vickers-Vimy BIZ
lpiane climbed and dove, struggling
Itos extricate herself from the folds
,of the airplane's worst enemy:
L - 2. - e.