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would not have It before 1914" and sug
gested, as change, mot earlier than 1914"
Great Britain proposed mot later than
1914" Germany would not agree nor would
she accept about 1914" because too def
nite." At last all agreed on the clause lat
a period analogous to that which had elapsed
since the last conference"
It thus appears that Germany had fixed
ideas and felt great tenderness about 1914
even as far back as 1907. See "The Two
Hague Conferences" by Mr. Choate, pages
S4-S5. See also DR. James Brown Scott's
books on The Hague Conference, and par
ucularly his comparatively recent Survey
of International Relations Between the
United States and Germany. 1914-1917"
II is decidedly interesting to recall that
in his Princeton lectures I'm 1912 Mr.. Choate
spoke of The Hague as 'the happy choice
made by the nations, Of the place for hold
ing the conferences" and that in HIS very
last words in those lectures, in referring 20
the fact that we were "on the eve of pre-
pairing for third conference at The Hague"
and were celebrating a century OF peace
with other nations, he declared that I'VE
may join with them In wishing a hearty
Godspeed to that conference and to all its
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Army Air Service Offers Many New Attractions

TITO the young man Just out of high
school and ambitious to rise in the
world Uncle Sam is Offering a most
extraordinary opportunity. In fact. Uncle
Sam Is ready and eager to provide balloon
for tho young mans ascent and whole lot
Of other things essential to reaching and
maintaining lofty detectives Uncle Sans
aim IL to build up reserve of officers who
know how to handle balloons and other
lighter than air craft.
Boiled down and put into tho form OF
help wanted" advertisement, the offer would
read something Ike this:
BALLOONISTS-want $50 young men with
q high school education. physically fitted 70
qualify as balloon observers; SIS n month pay,
board and lodging furnished. all clothing and
equipment free no charge for medical and
dental treatment Write Uncle Sam. Washing
ton, d. c.
The new law for the reorganization Of the
army authorizes the training OF ESQ cadets
an balloon and airship reserve officers. The
Army Air Service has decided 10 receive APP
pIications for training as flying cadets from
persons In civil life and pay them while they
learn This does not mean signing up with
the army at $40 a month, but enrolling on
cadet status at SIS a month and q ration
allowance of 81 a. day, together with quar-
ters clothing, bedding equipment, free dental
and medical treatment and an opportunity
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That is for The Hague and the third con-
ference. Such a world peace can be based
upon international law and international
justice administered by an established court
and the only place to develop that law fur
Their and TO expand and perpetuate our
American idea of an international court Is at
The Hague, established by international
usage, as the glorious neutral point for such
work. The International Palace of Peace at
The Hague Is ready for us. We must dedi-
cate II by the next conference, which think
we Americans can make a genuine open
world parliament or congress"
Mr.. Choate had no thought that he him
self would live to see the beginning of the
end he sought. The year 1914 was magical,
as many Of us realized when we found young
Germans pouring north through southern
Italy in the last week of July of that year
Blocked by Germany.
AT The Hague at first Mr.. Choate had
tried to induce Baron Won Bieberstein Ger
many's first delegate, to agree to the call
Of a third conference on June 10. 1914.
This was regarded as too definite" The
Baron wired Berlin" apparently, then com
municatad more deliberately, and finally re-
fused. saying Germany did not want 1t and
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successors forever" (''The Two Hague Con-
ferences" by Mr.. Choate, PIP. s7-92) not to
this hybrid thing put out at Paris as
result Of the diplomatic bargaining of few
war lords. but Godspeed to the deliberate
work Of the Worlds Congress at The Hague,
as the recognized peace headquarters of all
humanity.
And so IL all comes 10 this-that The
Hague is the place firmly established by in
ternational usage where the nations of the
world must quickly meet on the call OF an
American President for the third Hague
peace conference. waving all preparatory
work, now unnecessary, in order to revise
and expand the so-called League of Nations
Covenant and to frame a proper treaty for
the prevention of all wars and for the estab-
lishment and perpetuation OF peace on earth
and of good will among all the nations
thereof.
what President Wilson has ignored as
Americas duty in that behalf President Har-
ding will faithfully adopt and follow. As
soon as he has taken the measure of the in
ternational situation he will, as he has
clearly indicated. push to a speedy and sue
cessfu conclusion and adjustment the ar
rangements for a complete world peace.
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rid Was by William NJ Joseph H.

will leave them out America will call the
conferences, IL an actual call is necessary.
Secretary Roots wonderful instructions to
the American delegates to this conference
make all this possible international law
can grow only through such constant peri
odical conferences. The reign of peace will
follow, for it always comes with a reign
Of law.
IT have seen enough at this conference
already to make it clear that we must never
depart from the advice in the Farewell Adj
dress. Mr.. Evarts was right. We must
keep out OF Europe's affairs and entangle-
ments. OF course we shall always do our
duty to Europe and humanity.
Senate Holds the Power.
You have got. in the very general terms
of the treaty you have outlined all that Is
needed for a general peace treaty or inter-
national peace society l have long had In
mind such a straightforward. simple plan.
You do not want much detail but general
terms and broad general powers that will
adapt themselves to CHANGING conditions.
like the terms Of our own Federal Constitu-
ton. If public opinion will not support
action in a given case. under a liberal con-
struction of general terms II will not uphold
the most carefully framed and detailed
treaty ever put together. 1t is all n matter
of public opinion, when you come to the
enforcement OF treaties, constitutions and
laws under our American and English sys-
TENS. or course such a general treaty re-
quires much more skill and experience In
its framing. I see that your preamble. as
you recite It, Is admirably adapted from that
of our own Constitution.
THE Senate is the deliberative treaty
making body, speaking with the voice of
public opinion, so far as that speaks at all
in q treaty. and must. therefore, be ex-
tremely careful In the use of general lam
guage, because, you must never forget a
treaty binds every department Of the Gov
eminent, and, IL II runs counter to public
opinion, as represented In Congress as a
whole, that means an ultimate breach Of
treaty obligations, which, as an international
crime. would forfeit the respect Of civilized
society. We might become, like Germany,
more or less of an international outlaw.
That will not do.
mir Evarts and you must have had some
interesting talks, and I am glad that you
made n note Of them and recall them so
fully. He was right as he always was. In
such matters.
I'VE Americans can DO nothing with Ger
many. She Is not In our class In either
morals or civilization. Perhaps she Is still
an intellectual animal splendidly trained
and overturned, but still an animal That
Is really all kultur meana.
I'VE ought to make an arrangement with
England and France to maintain world
peace. In fact, DO not believe any treaty
with them Is necessary, although, on ac-
count of our MIXED population. much of II
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physical examination and the physical tests
required OF all flying officers =,
This training as a balloon observer" 70
quote the army air service director. "Opens
up an entirely new range OF experience 10
young men. II lays foundation for train
ing as n drieible balloon pilot. This IS
field Of almost limitless possibilities Com
mercial transportation BY airship Is an ac-
complished fact in Europe, and according 20
present plans in the next year VIII be In
actual operation In the United States on
larger scale than the world has ever seen
AT the present time abe only opportunity
for training as airship pilot is either with
the army or the navy. One OF the serious
drawbacks to commercial plans now under
way for airship transportation lines Is the
lack OF qualified personnel, and indications
are that the salaries paid will be very at
tractive indeed for this reason"
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for education and experience that would he
hard 20 duplicate anywhere else.
The lighter than air course OF instruction
covers period OF about ten months. 1t en-
braces such subjects as cordage, balloon fab
rlcs, gas engines, electricity Including tele-
phone and radio insulation), operation and
repair. manufacture and use Of gases, eros
tatics. map reading, aerial photography,
panoramic and perspective drawing, in addi-
ton to knowledge OF the methods OF opera
ton of all arms OF the service. particularly
artillery. New classes start every four
months at the army balloon schools at Lee
Hall. Va. and Ross Field, near Los Angeles,
for free and captive balloon instruction, and
at Brooks Field. San Antonio. and Langley
Field. Hampton. Va. for airship instruction.
Signing up as cadet doesn't obligate the
cadet 10 stay in the army. Flying cadets
appointed from civil life who successfully
complete the course OF observation are sent
to Fort Sill. Okla. for artillery training and
after three months I'm this work they are
commissioned as second lieutenants in the
army air service Reserve Corps and may
then be discharged and return to civil life.
Should they be called into service ut any
time they would receive the pay and allow
ance of the regular army Lieutenant Fur
Their, they may take examination for per-
manent commissions In the regular army.
Tho training courses are open to unmar-
red men between the ages of 20 and 81, in
elusive possessing high school education
or its equivalent. who can pass the army
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Julia Marlowe, who found her path made
easy at the outset by her great beauty.
She is photographed as Imogen.

She is photographed as lmogen.
taught to act we'll enough for all practical
purposes. But plain girls cannot be made
attractive however one may train them.
With our young women taking their
ideals from the stage beauties and the man
ayers refusing to engage any young ac-
tresses who are not blessed with looks II
is fortunate that the women of our theatre
are SO rare in their loneliness. OF course
every generation is going to be prejudiced
against those that were admired by an
other age. Doubtless there are many who
will say that the pictures here showing the
prettiest women of thirty years ago are
not to be equalled by any of their success
sors. Maybe the classic perfection of Mary
Anderson will be difficult to excel. She was
unique, however, in this respect. There is,
however, something regal about the beauty
Of the exquisite Ethel Barrymore. Ger
tainly Marie Jansen's piquant brunette
beauty. irresistible enough is no more dam
gerous to hearts than the May day love-
illness of Mar1lyn Miller, just now In its
bud. That other fascinating Julia, who Is
further known as Marlowe was never one
of the women who was said to have won
her way by her beauty rather than her
talent. Yet 1t is true that the opulent
beauty OF her youth made her first steps
easier than they might have been. The
marvellous depth of the eyes, the cleft
chin, the serenity of the broad low brow
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Marilyn Miller, one of the youngest
stage beauties of to-day and noted for
her talent.
Coincidence Of the soubrette type, and never,
even in opera bouffe. aspired to sing the
roles Of the heroines.
Some of the Lockers of the Day
There was a high standard of beauty for
the public of the eos. One of those shown
here, Mary Anderson, retired from the stage
in this country In 1889, making her last
public appearance here in that year in
beautiful revival of "A Winters Tale" at
Wallack's Theatre. Fanny Davenport, who
game of noted theatre family and was for
twenty years previously as famous for her
really uncommon loneliness as for her
talents; the glowing and sparkling Rose
Coghlan, still suggesting the prime Of her
beauty; the popular Ada Rehan, q perfect
examples Of Irish beauty OF the blond type;
Agnes Huntington. singing in Tom Jones"
after her operate career, a thoroughly
American beauty. so majestic that she might
have posed as the Goddess Of Liberty, al
though this style had been consecrated by
the adulation Of fashionable London; Edith
Kingdom. now Mrs. George Gould, rising
retire early from profession in which she
had already won success through her talents
as well as her looks; Sarah Jewett, who had
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not at all AmericaniZed II would be better
to have one. Treaty or no treaty, America,
England and France will always help one
another, in pinch. to save civilization.
"Germany-certainly. at the present time
will not join in such a treaty to secure
general peace and must be shut out II
need be. She has shown her character, or
rather her lack of character. in her backing
and filling on the general arbitration propo-
sition and other questions at this second
Hague conference.
Arbitration and peace do not fall in with
her views at ALL She Is a tough one.
have not had so much fun In an age as
have had in watching the antics and squirm-
ings of Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein.
their first delegate-and all the other Ger
mans for that matter--while they con-
stantly wired Berlin and danced attendance
on Its varying mandates. In these late days
life has become too precious and too serious
for that sort of purely selfish trifing with
great world peace policies. We must get
rid of 1t and check the menace Of German
military despotism. Certainly we must stand
by France.
Time Ripe for Treaty.
THE times are about ripe for such a
treaty as you have talked about. putting
everything on a basis Of law and judicial
adjustment but It cannot be brought about
uNbA notntullnB HdpptIS 10 CHdHBe vi
clude Germany and the Germans. AS I
have said. the world can shut them out.
"The Prussians are the worlds barbarians.
utterly lacking in any understanding OF or
capacity for spiritual development. Period
ically, century after century, they destroy
the worlds barriers OF civilization and cul-
ture with an outbreak of primitive sayagery.
They have no recognized standards for
moral conduct or even for fairness In
sports"
All these views Mr.. Choate repeatedly con-
frmed in many talks between 1907 and 1917.
In the spring OF 1917 he said to me:
II am determined to do all can to bring
together the third Hague conference as
Germans to an armistice. That 10 going to
be my final task, and then / am through.
The conference was due In 1918. and the
President is bound 70 call II forthwfth-but
he won't. That is clear. We shall have 20
walt. A preparatory committee could have
got 10 work and the conference might meet
in 1919 or 1920. Now, perhaps, II cannot
meet before 1921, II we have got 10 wait
for a new President. We will see. or course
we shall force an armistics in the mean
time.
What IN this talk I hear occasionally
about q possible league or society OF ma
tions7 We have got that at The Hague al
ready. That Is all we need, and that II the
only way to get world peace. We shall. first,
HEX the Germans. Then, I hope, we shall
not muss things up in any German peace
by dragging In discussion Of world peace.
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as stage beauty for longer period
than any of her rivals.
w yHEN in "The Critic as Artist Oscar
M Wilde set out to prove that nature
follows art, he made a convincing
enough plea for his side of the argument.
He did not however, live in this country
or at this time to observe how directly the
styles of beauty in the stage favor1tes or
the day affect the looks of the young women
of the United States. When Billie Burke
put f1llet in her hair and looked with her
astonished baby stare out Of many illustrated
magazines, the young women from Maine
to California put ribbons In their hair, gazed
as soulfully out on life, and with their hair
fiuffed in the style of Miss Burke looked for
all the world like her. So far as the distan
side of its population was concerned. 1t
looked as II this half of the world were
populated by an endless army OF Billie
Burkes. The phenomenon was not new. In
the late SOS, when Mrs. James Brown Potter
was an admired exhibit in various plays,
there was the same success on the part OF
the young womanhood of the country In
resembling this rather angular but beautiful
creature Who has forgotten how the arrival
of Anna Held on these shores served to
loosen the locks on the pretty young heads
of the debutdntes and their young sisters
for the time this fashion maintained its
popularity Then how easy 1t is to recall
how the great popularity of FIRTH Scheff In
mile. Modiste" put all these flying tresses
In a more or less rigid but carefully ondu-
lated pompadour? Such is the influence of
stage beauty on the admiring world. Thus
does nature take its lead from art.
Our Stage Beauties Initiated.
One need only look over the pictures Of
the beauties of the theatre In other coun-
tries 70 see at once the superiority of our
own stage over all others. There were
perhaps women more chic to be found on
the French stage. Beauty used certainly to
exist among the actresses in Vienna, al
though they were not of course so nuner-
Gus. The blue eyes. fair skinned loneliness
Of the English girl Is recognizable even In
the aspect of the stage.
But for downright loneliness and for more
Of It than any other country can boast Of
it is necessary only to consider the Aneri-
can theatre Probably that Is well since In
no other country Is beauty so indispensable
as It is here. Occasionally great talent I'M
accompanied by striking physical charm
manages to make itself important on our
stage Such instances, however, are rare.
This is nothing new in our theatre. Man
ayers have always been willing to take
their chances with the pretty girl rather
than with her who shows great talent.
Most intelligent young women can be
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American Theatre, World Famous for Its
Handsome Women, Sustains the Reputation
Established a Generation Ago by Lillian
RUSSELL Marie Jansen, Julia Marlowe
Mary Anderson and Score Of Others
--How Marlyn Miller Florence
Reed, Ethel Barrymore and Billie
Burke Keep Up the Record.
stage generation ago. Opinions
which set Is beautiful,
be made that each individual portrayed easily
binary puchrude.
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Copyright Strauss Peyton.
Ethel Barrymore, who ranks high among
the leading stage beauties.
a long reign at the Union Square Theatre
Julia Arthur, giving then the promise OF
beauty that lowered so fully later Maxine
Elliott, modest beginner in Edward VIII
lard's company, although even with spec
tacles in Judah" she could not disguise her
uncommon charm-these were some Of the
sirens of the stage in 1890 who had followed
a most distinguished bevy of loneliness OF
the previous generation.
There Is Always Beauty In the World.
Fortunately there is no generation that
possesses a monopoly Of good looks Beauty
always springs up for the edifcation of man
kind. II Is like the poor, always with US.
What cherries place the world would be
Il II were possible for beauty to depart from
one generation after having enriched its
predecessors to the degree that old men with
long memories are sometimes likely TO claim.
Probably there are no epochs which do not
possess their beauties which are just ir
resistible as those that went before them
Billie Burke has held her place for sew
eral years. and both as a study for stage
and camera she has so far no superior
Florence Reed has grown steadily in her
rich Oriental type of glowing beauty until
she now deserves to take her place among
the prettiest Of contemporary players. Mari
lyn Miller is a rising star. but of such IN
usual blond attractiveness that she is des-
tined to ascend high in the list of the days
eminent. Ethel Barrymore is the highest
expression OF the classic type with her
Diana like pose Of the head and her reg
ular features. 1t would take very old
a very prejudiced connoisseur of woman's
looks to declare that the quartet of the day
failed to rise to the standard of their prede-
cessors of thirty years ago. La Refine est
Morte; Vfve la Refine! So does the sue
cession Of heroines Of loneliness continue.
The theatre is a much larger institution
than 1t was thirty years ago. The num-
ter of its servants, beautiful or otherwise.
las greatly increased. Then there is that
sister art which appeals only to the sense
of sight, the cinema. II is memorable In
its demand for youthful loneliness There
are to be found countless such faces. since
It is practically impossible for any but
those to find a place before the camera
So there Is no dearth of beauty for our play
houses, even If part Of II must sooner or
later come from the picture drama.
So with the ample supply Of beauty and
the termination Of young American woman
hood to select model Of the day and their
subsequent power to make nature follow
art there will always be high standard of
loneliness TO live up to-
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all these traits of her young days did not
excel the eloquence of her speech. the low.
silvery flow Of her tones, nor the express
sive grace of her movements. Yet this
unusual physical loneliness did have its
effect in advancing her to the throne from
which she has for so many years smiled
down on the world OF her admirers and
gladdened their hearts.
Lillian Russell was for more years than
it seems gallant to record the most popular
type Of American stage beauty. One did not
search in her features for the antique aloof-
ness. the classic perfection of outline which
marked out Mary Anderson from the rest
of her colleagues in art. One did, however,
find the blend Of color. the pink Of accepted
standards of loneliness. the deep violet that
has forever dyed the eye OF everyday come
Illness and the golden hair of traditional
prettiness. Combine these beloved traits
with regularity of outline and there IL such
a popular picture Of loneliness as Miss
Russell represented during her days IN the
theatre. Pauline Hall was rival for years
Varieties in Looks.
Just as Miss Russell was golden blue and
cherry, so was Miss Anderson brown and
Miss Marlowe perhaps a deeper shade of
chestnut in the matter Of the hair, that in