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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Rubens Painting Lost in Ffrr.

MONTREAL, January 1s.-The Bon,
an Catholic Cathedral at Chicoutimi
Quebec, was DESTROYED by fire Thrrsda.
night. The building and its fitting
were valued at ss50.00e. An orlgina
painting by Rubens, valued at 500,
COO, was lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Meet Humanity's Aspirations.

by establishing this new order OF
things you will meet the aspirations
of humanity, which, after the fright
full commissions of the blood-stained
years, ardently wishes to feel itself
protected by a union of free people
against the ever possible revival of
primitive Savagery. An immortal
glory will attach to the names of the
nations and the men who have de-
sired to cooperate in this grand
work in faith and brotherhood and
who have taken the pains to elimi-
nate from the future peace causes of
disturbance and instability.
This very day forty-eight years
ago-on the 18th of January. 1871
the German empire was proclaim
by an army of invasion in the chateau
at Versailles. 1t was consecrated by
the theft of two French provinces.
1t was thus violation from it's orr
gin. and, by the fault of it's founders,
it was born in injustice. 1t has ended
in Oblivion.
You are assembled in order to re-
pair the evil that has been done and
to prevent recurrence of it. You
hold in your hands the future of the
world. 1 leave you, gentlemen. to
your grave deliberations and declare
the conference of Paris OPEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

treaty, besides the fulillment of all just
reparations, besides the punishment of
all those guilty of crimes against human
laws, Germany must accept and submit
to all the rules of International control
to which the other nations will have
consented voluntarily
Senator Bourgeois then outlined his
views concerning the primary compost
ton OF league of nations and con-
Guided
Later 81 day will come, and ] sin
cerely hope so. when all the nations will
sit around the same hearth in perfect
accord
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Under Veteran Officers.

The telephone and telegraph facili-
ties are under veteran officers of the
Army Signal Corps aided by reserve
officers recruited among the best men
of the telephone and telegraph COM
panies in America. Brig. Gen. Edgar
Russell, chief signal officer, is in
charge of the vast organization, ably
assisted by Brig. Gen. George Gibbs.
assistant chief; Lieut.. Col. S. r. Coles,
executive officer: Col. John J. McCarty
of New York, chief engineer, who or
ganized the technical force here;
Lieut.. Col William Repp of Phila-
delphia, who designed the Repp lines,
an innovation at the front, and Maj.
Edward NJ Stannard of Boston, who
routed all the Army traffic.
Maj. Leslie Wheat, a veteran Army
signal officer, is in charge of the
Paris office to which, in anticipation of
the peace conference, the best Army
operators have been transferred. 1t
has 225 other Army telephone and
telegraph officers in France and Eng
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Largest Office Is in Tours.

The largest office is in Tours, which
is the central relay point of the sys-
tenn with direct wires not only to all
the other offices in France. but to
Coblenz in Germany and London,
England In Tours one is able to tele-
phone or telegraph to these places with
delays varying from ten to thirty
minutes at any time in the day or
night The Tours telephone facilities
are equal to those of an American
city of 10000 Inhabitants, and the tel
egraph facilities are excellent. Every
thing in the equipment is of the lat
est model. There is even multiplex
work on composite circuits kind of
work that is seldom done even under
peace conditions in the United States.
The telephone personnel consists of
42O men and the telegraph personnel
of 338 men. Before the war these men
were earning 800 a week. The best
telegraph operators in the world are
working in that office as private SOL
diers for $33 a month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
o. s. Action Supreme Judgment.

The Intervention of the United
States was something more. some
hing greater, than a great political
and military event. 1t was a. supreme
Judgment passed at the bar OF ms
tory by the lofty conscience of = free
people and their chief magistrate On
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
GERMANY'SE ENTRY
IN LEAGUE OPPOSED
Bourgeois, French Authority,
Says She Must First
Prove Her Title.
GERMAN DELEGATES PLAN

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Friday, January 1.-THE
admission Of Germany TO the league OF
nations is the subject of considerable
discussion in peace conference circles
While they are as yet academic. some
interesting views have been developed
In the opinion of Leon Bourgeois
the French authority on the league OF
nations. the league for the present
must be composed exclusively of the
associated nations and those neutral
states which, since 1917. have ad-
hered to the rules of the second Hague
peace conference and who have, dur
ing the war, strictly obeyed the obli-
cations of international rights. Later
NJ Bourgeois feels, Germany may
prove her title to membership.
Free People to Lay Foundations.
at is the free people who have
fought for justice and right who must
lay the unsha!sabIe foundation of the
edif1ce of league of nations declar-
ed NJ. Bourgeois to the Associated
HTeSS, ana WHO must, Ill d Splttt vi
perfect and mutual trust, promulgate
its laws. determine the guarantees and
shoulder its obligations"
Ought Germany then not form a
part OF the Lacquer" he was asked.
This is a very difficult problem OF
which opinions differ" he replied
My own opinion is that league OF
nations tends to become universal
but owing to the very object which
we are irving achieve. can ODiS
be instituted among free nations
which are true to their word, which
have discharged all obligations in.
Cured through previous faults and
which are ready to give all the guar
antees which are legally and material
ly necessary. Germany can. join the
league when she fulfills all these.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Aid for Downtrodden.

You will naturally strive to secure
the material and moral means of
subsistence for all those people who
are constituted or reconstructed into
states, for those who wish to unite
themselves to their neighbors, for
those who divide themselves into sep
arate units, for those who reorganize
themselves, for those who divide
themselves according to their re-
those who see freedom you have all
ready sanctioned or are about to sane
ton. You will not call them into ex-
fsteuce only to sentence them 10
death immediatelx bet.ause yop wouid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Method of q. S. Corps.

The Signal Corps has given the ex-
petition wire connections like the
network of copper threads spreading
over all parts of the country at home.
Through the days of fighting they
reached the farthest points at the
front. Now, in the quieter days of
peace, they are equally well organized
to keep in touch with the throbbing
heart of America.
Army wires followed the first skir-
mish line with the same regularity
that new poles and copper wires In
Dictated the American areas in any
part of France. When it was proposed
to hold the peace conference in &C.
neva the foresighted Signal Corps
surveyed the Alps in. anticipation of
stringing American wires across the
peaks. Expert surveyors and linemen
who have strung trancontinental
wires in the United States across the
Sierras and Rockies Investigated the
peaks and pronounced the task COM
paratiyely easy. Those who have seen
the operation of the lines here do not
doubt that wires and telephones would
have been installed and in working
order in Geneva and Paris before the
first American peace envoy arrived
in the Swiss city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
None Better Qualified.

IT know of none better qualified, or
as well qualified, to occupy this chair
than Mr.. Clemenceau. And I speak
from my experience in it's claim He
and I have not always agreed. We
have very often agreed. We have
sometimes disagreed, and we have
always expressed our disagreements
very emphatically because we are
ourselves.
"But, although there will be delays
and inevitable delays-in the sign
ing Of peace, due to the inherent diff
ficulties Of what we have to SETTLE
I will guarantee from my knowledge
Of Mr.. Clemenceau that there will be
no waste of time. And that is inn
portant.
'sThe world is thirsting and hunger
ing for peace. There are millions Of
people who want to get back to the
world work of peace. And the fact
that Mr.. Clemenceau is in the chair
will be proof that they win get there
without any delays which are to any
thing except the difficulties which are
essential in what we have to perform.
He is one Of the great speakers Of the
world But no one knows better than
he that the best speaking is that
which impeis benehcent action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
j. s. SIGNAL CORPS
IN FRANCE SPEEDY
Capacity Double That of
Combined Westward Serv-
ice From London.
BY JUNIUS b. WOOD.
CabIegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1919.

PARIS. France, January 1S.-The
Signal Corps of the American expe-
dition will be able to handle daily
on the wires between Paris and Lon
don during the peace conference dou-
BILE the number of words of the COM
bined westward capacity of the cables
between England and America. This
gives some idea of the scale on which
the American Army Signal Corps has
worked in France. A few days ago
! filed a 2.500-word cable from Tours,
in central France. addressed to Amer
lea. Half an hour later 1 saw the
American officer commanding the tel
egraph office and asked about the
possibilities of the cables going. He
replied: THAT cable reached London
five minutes ago"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Refers to q. S. Entry.

And what shall I say of the solemn
resolutions taken by the United States
in the spring of 1917, under the aus
pieces of its illustrious President, Mr..
Wilson, whom I am happy to greet
here in the name of grateful France
a nd, II you will allow me to say so,
gentlemen. in the name Of all the ma
tons represented In this room.
What shall I say Of the many
other American powers which either
declared themselves against Ger
many-Braxi1. Cuba. Panama, Guate-
lnala, Nicaragua, Haiti. Honduras
or. at least, broke Off diplomatic re-
1ations-Bolivia, Peru. Ecuador, Uru-
quay. From the north to the south
the new world arose with indigna.
ton when It saw the empires of Gen.
trail Europe, after having let loose
the war without provocation and
without excuse, carry It on with FIRE
pillage and the massacre of fnoffen.
sive beings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Seamless Bed
SHEETS
$1.35

Double he'd s ize i.
seamless b ] e c h e d
sheets, heavy grade
cotton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

the enormous responsibilities incurred
in the frightful conflict which was
lacerating humanity.
TT was not only to protect itself
from the audaeious aims of German
megalomania that the United States
equipped fleets and created immense
armies, but also and above all, to de-
fend an ideal of liberty over which it
saw the huge shadow of the imperial
eagle encroaching further every day.
America, the daughter of Europe.
crossed the ocean to rescue her mother
from the humiliation of thraldom and
to save civiliza ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

Black Baihric
gan. split sole.
gray, bronze. etc.
Slight inperf e c
tons. which won't
mar their wear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Every Velvet Hat Included

Heavy quality cot
ton, sno w white
bleach and hemmed
and ready for Use.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-10-23
JF. BROCK, oPToMETR1sT

OF Lawrence, Kansas, will be at
the Penny Hotel, Friday, October oath.
Conserve your eyes, have them exam
med and glasses fitted. Work guaran-
teed. Adv. 2t.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-10-23
DIR. NJ. JAY BROWN, OF SALIVA

Specialist in the medical and sur
gical diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat and correct fitting of
glasses, will be at DIR. Burnett's Office
or Penny Hotel, Thursday, October 80.
At Ellis, Kansas, October 31st. Adv
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-10-23
ALL OFFICIAL COUNTY NEWS
COMMENT

There is one more chance for dem
ocrat to get his feet under the pie
counter of the government The cen
sus enumerator jobs are to be handed
out in a short time. An educational
showing is one of the requirements
for this job but if you are democrat
and have the Endorsement of the local
leaders you will stand better chance
of getting the job than you will if
you make the highest grade CT any
who take the examination and are
republican in politics.
Now some influential democrat will
hold up his hands and exclaim that
politics will have nothing to do with
it this year as the job is strictly civil
service. But politics has always de-
cided this job, always will and 1 don't
know why it should not if the person
appointed is at all qualified to do the
work
Herbert C. Hoover says there is de-
cidedIy a world shortage of food stuff
and unless a greater amount of it is
produced there will be world famine.
In the meantime the farmers in the
United States are not planning on
sowing as large acreage of food
stuffs this fail and next year as they
have in the past on account of the
shortage of labor and the high price
of labor when it can be secured. 1t be-
gins to look like the top in prices has
not been reached but they are high
enough.
''This government is getting into a
h-- of a fix remarked a business
man the other day, "and if things can
be Strengthened out without a war I
do not see how they are going to do
it, The best way to do it is to quit
talking war and for capital, labor and
the farmers to make some sort of an
honest effort to get together for the
best interests of the greatest number
of people. AS long each party to
the controversy seeks his own good
and demands that he and his asso-
ciates shall have the best of the deal,
no settlement is going to be reached
and no honest effort is being made to
reach a settlement.
But it does begin to look like this
government is getting into h-
of fix when prices continue to soar
and each faction continues to contend
that it shall be the only one which
shall decide the form of settlement.
Also if some Of the charges are true
which are being made in con
gress. Monday Senator Watson, of
Indiana, made a public charge that
socialists, reds and other radicals are
in charge of many important depart
nents of our government and named
certain men in responsible positions
whom he charged with being socialists
with anarchistic inclinations. It is a
fortunate thing that it is only one
more year until there is a presidential
election and the people of the govern
nent will have opportunity to express
their preferences and opinions and
turn the rasca1s out.
Not all men are inclined to criticise
and condemn President Wilson. I had
a little talk with a friend the other
day who is supporting the President
while he is travelling through his pres
ent veil of tears. He believes that
future generations Will place Wilson
along with Washington, Lincoln and
/ Mckinley He thinks future genera
/ lions will understand the man better
/ than the present generation does I
really hope they will.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-10-23

Kansas farmers who have given
post-date ted checks for membership in
the Nonpartisan League will do well
cipal Nonpartisan League bank of
North Dakota, the Scandinavian
American Bank of Fargo. The collat-
eral given as resources of this bank
which has just failed, consists largely
of post-dated checks and notes given
by farmers, and the League collateral
makes up more than 100000 of the
total. The bank was declared insolvent
by the banking board of North Dakota
because of the unsatisfactory charac-
ter of the loans, it is said The Town
ley tribe in North Dakota is certainly
cutting high jinks these days Every
one who has taken out shares in this
movement will do well to stop, look
and isten--Wichita Beacon
The Cincinnati National league base
ball team won the worlds champion
ship, winning five games to three cap
tured by their opponents, the Chicago
White Sox of the American league
Each player on the winning team took
down S5,O95 as his share, while the
members of the losing team received
between $4,000 and $4,000 each Box
seats for the games sold at six dol
lars each. That's fair salary for
eight days work and illustrates the
great popularity of base ball with the
American people The players shared
only in the receipts of the first five
games, the number necessary to win
| the championship. This is done to
prevent the players throwing games
and stretching out the contest--Os-
borne Farmer.
Earl Acres, state director of the
Roosevelt Memorial Campaign in Kan
sas, received roster last week of the
active members of the memorial COM
| n1ittee- Present and former mem
bers of the u S. Senate and House
/ of Representative well as mayors
| and leaders in labor circles, are found
on this non-partisan roster. Religious
i leaders, college presidents and edu-
! cationa1 experts, writers and authors,
! jurists, notables now in the regular
army, former Rough Riders, former
members of RooseveIt's official fam
ily in Washington, and many wo-
men of prominence, have, regardless
of party affiliations, offered their help
Among the members of the associa-
ton are Alton B. Parker, democratic
presidential candidate against Roose-
Welt in 1904
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-10-23

Get the wheels frightened on your
Ford car Overland Garage Adv ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-05-08
Big OVATION
FOR GUNNBRS

st. Paul, May S.-With the most
memorable demonstration since the
Civil war days st. Paul and other
guests today welcomed the 151st field
artillery of the Rainbow division
yback to home soil.
+ The parade was formed at the state
capitol and it wound through the prin-
cipal streets until it passed the re-
veiwing stands in the park opposite
the postoffice Here Governor Burn
quist, with scores of army officers
state officials and prominent men, sa-
lutcd the fighting artillerymen who
were under the German fire for 26j
days. who helped to blow the Germans
from the Argonne. the Champagne. the
Forest Of lie Fere. the st. Mihiel sali-
ent and Chateaus Thierry.
Reunions galore took place rs the
men of the 151st marched through the
dense lines Of cheering men. An aged
woman locating her son, ran to the
streets and grabbed him by the arm
and endeavored to keep pace with the
marriOrs.
A municipal dinner was served to all
$:nen in military or naval uniform.
Perfect weather greeted the bEawn-
ed veterans, who after leaving the Mis-.
&issippi in June, 1917. neved stopped
advancing until they reached the River
Rhine, ..s
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-05-08
MORE TERMINAL
ELEVATOR ROOM
ISRECOMMENDED
Committee Suggests That Uncle
Same Cease Use of Needed
Cars for Storage

The special committee appointed to
confer with the federal administration
relative to provision for more AIDE
qnatc terminal elevator facilities on
the Atlantic SeabOard. of which
Chairman :. j. Aandahl of the North
Dakota rail board was a member,
has recommended that there be INSTALL
ed at Atlantic seabOardS elevator
capacity which will relieve the con.
geStion which has existed in former
years, advises Mr.. Aandahl Commits.
Sioner Jacobson of minnesota. also Il
member of this special commission,
will return to Washington in two
weeks TO 20 into the matter further
with the federal government. In past
years thousands of cars have been held
for long periods on the Atlantic sea-
board in order that their storage ca
pacity might he used for the accom-
modation Of grain awaiting export. AS
a result grain shippers in the north
west have been unable to obtain cars
when they wanted them, and severe
congestion has been common at pri-
mary elevators. In many instances
real loss of grain, as we'll as of time
and money, has resulted.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-05-08
TENSE MOMENTS WHEN
GRMANS REPLY TO TERMS
PRESENTEDBY CONFERENCE

Versailles wednesday,, May s.
The scene at today's session of the
peace conference when the terms were
presented to the German delegates
was an impressive one. The entire
half hour which it took Count Won
Brockdorff- Rantzau to deliver his re-
ply to Premier Clemenceau was a Pc
riod of tenseness Cor President Will
son, Premier Clemsnceau, and Premier
George, and,s in fact, for virtually
everyone present.
The speech was translated sentence
by sentence by the German interpre-
ters who did not fail to bring out with
full emphasis every sharp phrasesin it
and the three allied statesmen put
their heads together in evident anger
at more than one Of The German cut:
ting statements.
The program was unaltered, how
ever. and when the German plenipo-
tertiary had finished, Premier Glenn
enceau put the customary phrase "has
anyone further observation to make ?"
and when there was no response, con-
tinued, 81 then declare the session
closed"
The allied triumphate remained at
ter the German delegates left.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-05-08

The scene was in the hall during
the ceremony had none of the pomp
and glitter of the, earlier peace con-
ference, no display of court and mill
tary uniforms, no theatrical ceremon-
ials. 1t seemed to gain an impressive
ness, however, by these very circum-
stances.
Acted Like VictOrs
The Germans went to the chamber
with all the confidence of victors, bore
themselves without trace Of nervous
ness and acted as if they were taking
part in the deliberations on equal
terms with their adversaries.
All o'clock one copy Of the printed
peace treaty was delivered to the con-
ferees.
At 2:25 Premier Clemenceau and
Stephen Pinchon, the French foreign
minister, entered for final survey Of
arrangements, and then left to await
the arrival of President Wilson. The
minor" delegates began to come into
the room and at 2:55 o'clock, Presi-
dent Wilson and their American dele
gates and Premiers Lloyd George and
Clemenceau entered together and
moved to their places at the head Of
the table,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-05-08

|. (By Staff Correspondent n. Il. A.;
Washington, ID. c., May S.-The Me
dill McCormicks may be in the 1920
presidential race. W. r
Senator Mccormick may be the Re-
publican candidate for president. -.
Mrs. Nqirmick may be the Rrpul,.
lican Scannfdate for vice PRESIDENT Is
!. If the Republican congress passes
the Susan BS ANTHONY equal suffrage
amenlmeut,%and the chances are that
it win. one of the biz parties may get
that. MAY) pick 4 womall candidate
FOR. vice president. If the Republicans
DO why Mrs. Mcdill Mccormick is
chairman of the Republican wonielis
national executive committee, an ar
dent suffrage ,lttTsoea hen suffrage
was young, n skillfrl speaker, and Il
past master of the art of;politics. Her
father was Mark Hanna.
'The chief reason am in politics.
Mrs AlcCofinick said is strong i'll
heritance from my father, with whom,
J. worked in the closest relationship,
beginning when Mr.. MCKINLEY CAM
paign iwaS organized" sit&&ao
And there are many in Washington
who insist that Mrs. Mccormick h ny
able anpOlitician as her father was.
They insist that it is largely due to
her political knowledge and ability
that her husband has advanced to the
political heights he has reached.
But with constitutional okey on
suffrage, there are students of politi-
cal activities here who believe that
Mrs. Mccormick wlll be the Mark
Hanna for Mrs: Mccormick ana not
for her husband. That's where the vice
presidential bee. begins buzzing.
In the Mccormick lone father has
his mind set upon the presidency. wise
ones insist. They believe that McCor-
mick represents the Roosevelt pro-