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New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
TNHE creation Of fictional
4 character who takes his

"NHE creation Of a flctlonal
character who takes his
4. place in national life is q
strange process. William
Manning Skinner, famous as the
hero of "Skinner's Dress Suit"
"Skinner's Big Idea" and "Skin-
ner Makes 1t Fashionable" was
born in the brain of Henry Irving
Dodge few years ago-and he
stepped out into the world gayly,
with a ready-made smile and a
jaunty step. But, while the charac-
ter he invented has been occupying
the center Of the stage, Mr.. Dodge,
who has had a much more eventful
career than Skinner, has been con-
tent to remain in the background.
The idea that first made Skinner
famous is one Of those things as
plain as the spectacles on mans
nose-and as hard to see. 1t was
this way: Skinner reflected that
many men are almost entirely we'll
dressed all Of the time, but that
very few men, no matter how
wealthy, are we'll dressed from head
to foot at any ti1ne. When man is
wearing the finest Of new spring
suits and his shirt, collar and tie
are Of the newest and best, his socks
may be getting a bit threadbare-o,
his underwear may be just a bit
worn. Regardless Of whether this IL
noticed by others, he does not fee
well drcssed-and that Is the psy.
chology Of II as Skinner "doped II
out"
On xhe basis Of this idea the Inn,
pulstve Skinner made a cleanup
Then "Skinner's Big Idea" came te
him. The "Big Idea" was that the
middlo-aged man ought not to bt
thrown on the gcrapheap In Ameri.
can business, and that he ought no,
to have dropping shoulders and {
1abby paunch either, TO. that mat
ter. It was an idea that created 6
renaissance In many a business of.
fec and swarn Of applications fol
Y. IL. G. A. membership the coun.
try over. And now Skinner has ap.
peared on the gcenc once more in
Skinner Makes It Fashionable"-
this time solving tho high cost OF
living.
Denies He's Skinner
Skinner has had picturesque
career In his rapid rise to glory,
but # has been no more picturesque
than that Of Henry irving Dodge,
his creator. To get half an hour Of
Mr. Dodgc's reuainiscepces flYstrhand
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
N JUNE "a The Hermit OF
the Siskiyous" will celebrate
his Tooth birthday.

llS 4OVtil IlIlQdN.
Friend of Joaquin Miller
and John Burroughs, graduate Of
Heidelberg and man Of high culture
this whltehaired old patriarch has
lived IN the cabin he built since he
came from some Eastern city in
1855, and to the people hereabouts
he's still man of mystery. writes
correspondent in 1.-The St Paul
News"
He's known as "Old Man Hoofer"
to the boys Of Waldo, eighteen miles
down the trail from his hermitage.
but he comes down out of the noun
tain only twice year--in the spring
on snowshoes and in the fall on his
pet burro, Jake--to get provisions.
His siXty-five years on the lonely
pine-clad mountain side have not
made him eccentric. Strangely
enough. he likes his fellows. and the
interior Of his cabin presents pic
ture of cozy comfort with many of
the amenities Of modern civilization.
In one corner is pretty baby
grand Chickering piano, and in an
other q victrola with several hum
dred records, all classic. His walls
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Steadily Losing Strength

Steadily Losing Strength
Looking backward. then, over the
events Of the last year and half it
will be seen that so far from NOV
ing toward a solution of domestic
difficulties, political as well as eco
nomic, Germany has passed from
crisis to crisis and, after each crisis,
the actual government has been un-
mistakably weaker. 1t has failed
to rally to its support the moder-
ates; it has steadily lost strength to
the reactionaries, on the one hand,
and to the extreme radicals on the
other.
Now, we have come to the eve of
an election and the single question
seems to be whether the detection Of
radicals from the Majority Social
ist party will be sufficiently great
to deprive the present government,
the coalition of Majority Socialists
and Centrists, of majority in the
new National Assembly. Conceding
that the Centrists probably will lose
some small portion Of their strength
there seems to be no doubt that they
will, on the whole, suffer only rela-
lively insignificant diminution. Ac-
tually, the decision seems to rest
wholly on the issue Of the fight be-
tween the two wings of the Socialist
party.
In recent days there has been some
suggestion in Berlin cables that the
losses of the coalition, which are Ger
tain to be considerable, may not be
quite sufficient to bring about the
fall Of the government, but it is
agreed that any majority which
may be obtained will be small ik the
extreme and thus an unstable foun-
dation for a new period of power
Ebert and the Miller ministry may
find themselves in the present pre-
dicament of Nitti, whose latest Ital-
ian Cabinet rests on the slenderest
Of foundat tions.
1t is inconceivable that the Inde-
pendent Socialists can obtain a ma
jority of the members of the new
legislature. 1t is certain that the
Center would make a coalition with
the reactionary elements in the face
of any such possibility. But it is not
unlikely that the extent Of the gains
Of the Independent Socialists will
compel such new coalition anc
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

clearinghouse keeper. He assured
me that he trusted me, and that
could stay on for my meals and lodg-
ings as long as liked. But the
idea did not appeal to me. I Went
out to sleep on the levee, made an
occasional dime or quarter by an
odd job, and bought bananas with the
money. Then 1 got a job carrying
a hod, with withercd old darky as
my companion. For a few idyllic
weeks the old negro and I worked
along together, living on bananas
and lying around on the wharves in
sunny leisure hours, swapping
stories of our adventures. My fel-
low hodcarrier and l were as good
pals as any two men ever were, and
l look back upon those days as happy
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

have been many a day when their
owner went hungry, but the proud
carriage Of the Count and his dis
tinction of appearance did not
change. The column l was writing
was a daily collection of town gos-
sip, and one day | discovered that
the Count worked as clothes
presser in a tailor shop across the
bridge. Without mentioning names
| put the story into my column.
"Wcll, the next day the Count
came to The Star office, saw the
city editor, and demanded to know
who had written that insulting arti-
Gle about him. Whether he intended
to challenge the culprit to a duel |
never learned, but he was purple
with rage. The city editor heard
his complaint sympathetically, then
filled his pipe, put his hand on the
Counts shoulder, and said. I am
sorry, sir, that you should have had
that misunderstanding. The man
referred to in this article is not you
at all. Why, you can see the man
this story is about any morning,
walking down Park Row. And the
Count walked out Of The Star of
flee, pacified. A little while ago, in
writing Skinner Makes 1t Fashion
able put Skinner to work solving
the high cost Of living in Meadeville.
He seemed to start right off, with
out consulting me at all, by tackling
the high cost Of bluff-and / could
not help thinking Of the poor old
Count
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Reaction or Democracy Is the Issue in German Elect

ist movement, the reactionaries
openly accusing it of having pro-
cured German defeat and betrayed
Germany, first by accepting the ar
lnistice and second by signing the
Treaty Of Versailles.
Suffering at Home
At the same time the domestic
onditions of Germany, far from
improving, became steadily worse.
he country did not and could not
Il back to work. Suffering was
neral; famine, if not actually pres
It, was within sight. Economic dis
rders were as general as political.
be Ebert governments failure at
ONE was even more patent and in
oierable than abroad Instead Of
'eginning to recover Germany was
}isibly slipping down hill daily TO-
Tard a chaos which no man could
leasure.
It was out of this situation that
;as born the Kapp revolution of
lst winter. The full extent of the
conspiracy behind it has never been
early set forth, but Enthusiastically
ne attempt was made by representa-
ives of the old Junker and militia
'istlc classes to seize control of the
government. Moreover, the swift
success of the initial move, together
with the flight Of the Ebert govern
ment, demonstrated the weakness,
if not the completely, of this govern
ment itself.
The appeal to the general strike
alone saved the Ebert government.
1t seemed to disclose the fact that
the mass of German workmer,
however out of sympathy with Ebert
and his associates, were in no mood
to go back to the old order. Facing
the facts, Kapp and his associates
retired and Ebert returned to Ber-
lin, consented to few changes in
his Cabinet, which were apparently
made with reluctance, tardily con-
sented to the retirement Of Noske,
and then stood face to face with a
new crisis.
This new crisis arose out of the
fact that the worlmen who had been
called out on Il general strike, par
ticularly those in the industrial re-
gions Of the West, declined to return
to work; sought, in fact, to make a
real revolution, to set up radical
and even communistic order in the
Ruhr and in the districtsseast of the
Rhine.
There was left to the Ebert gov
ernment no remedy save to turr
again to the army, to the Prussiar
militarists, and invite them to put
down the Ruhr uprising, as Noskt
had put down the revolution of Jan
uary. 1919. But this necessitatec
sending troops into the districts just
east of the Rhine. into which the
Treaty of Versailles had forbidden
German troops to march. Thus thu
domestic crisis merged into for
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Like the Bourl,ons

What the return to control Of fl.
old order would mean TO one ~,
misunderstood. Like the Bourhons
these Prussians have Learned moth.
ing and forgotten nothing" They
would not make even a pretense of
carrying out the Treaty of Versailles
and their first resistance would be.ta
the reduction of the German arnv
in conformity with the terms of the
treaty, since Junker power must nec.
essarily rest upon military founds.
tions.
In the foreign field triumph for
reaction would then mean a post
ponement of all hope of settlement
Of readjustment, indefinitely. An
the suggestions Of Cancellation, Of as
sistance to Germany are based uuon
the demonstration by Germany. of A
readiness to do the possible and to
abandon the old purposes and ,tle
old leadership. The return of Lu.
dendorf' and his associates to power
would automatically put a term to
all attempts outside of Germany.
both in Britain and the United
States, to help Germany back to eco.
nomic stability.
In the domestic field it is quite
patent that a success for reaction
coupled with a material increase in
the radical strength, would fore.
shadow new clash, q new effort on
the part OF the thoroughgoing So
cialists, as well as on that of the
Communists, the extreme Reds. ID
! oNeTtuTn the JuHhefS. nus a redc
tionary victory would at one time III
volve Germany in foreign ando do
mestic complications. Given The
present situation in Central Europe
too, any new upset in Germany
might transform these conditions
now conceded to be desperate, ipte
something approximating absolute
hopelessness everywhere beyond thg
Rhine and the Alps. -
(Copyright, 1920, by Tie NcClw'
Newspaper Syndicote) q
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Not Germany Alone, but All Europe
vitality Concerned In I
the Result

eign incident and led directly to the
occupation Of Frankfort by the
French.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

sons intervention and the Allied ac-
ceptance Of the fourteen points as
the basis of peace as a guaranty
that German defeat would leave Ger
many free of indemnities and sub
stantially intact.
The publication of the terms of
the Treaty of Versailles thus pro-
duced an enormous sensation in Ger
many. To Germans of all parties
and political sympathies these terms
seemed to mean the political and
financial ruin of their country. Still,
no choice was left to the Ebert gov
ernment but to sign the treaty, hav-
ing obtained such minor amendments
as were alone to be had. In meas
ure, the mere signing Of the treaty
destroyed the remaining credit of
the Ebert regime at home and was
followed by very widespread reac-
tjOn in GERMANY
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

Very skillfully the militarists de-
veloped their thesis. The Socialists
had been responsible for the col
lapse Of German resistance. They
had compelled the generals to accept
the armistice, which had left Ger
many helpless, and then they had ac-
cepted the Treaty of Versailles,
which reduced Germany to the con-
dition of nation of helots. Luden-
Gorff returned to Berlin from
Sweden; the old order began to lift
it's head
Meantime, the Ebert government
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

thus throw complete control of ca,
many into the hands which held:;.
up to the moment when Focl,'s y;o
tories produced the crisis of Octobss
and November. 1918. As to the nos
sibility of reunion of the two =, =
tions of the Socialist party. witbc.,
being impossible it seems highly in.
probable in view Of the present hi4.
terness. ns
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
President Wilson Will Issue Formal Notice for First
 COnClaVe
PREMIER CLEMENCEAU MAY
 TOUR THIS COUNTRY
If Elected, He Promises to Visit America and Urge Ratification of Treaty and Lcague-LOndOn News papers Deplore Absence of United States From Conference

Paris. Jan. 10.-The putting of the league of nations into being, which will be one of the immediate conse- quences of the exchange of ratifica- tions of the Treaty of Versailles. will occur in Paris at 10:30 o'clock in the morning of Friday, January 16, the supreme council decided today.
 Amba ssador Wallace cabled this de- cision of the council to President Will son SO the president might issue the formal notice of the meeting of the council of the league to be held on the date named.
 The first meeting of the council will be called to order and presided over by Leon Bourgeoise, the repre- sentative Of France in the council. He will deliver a brief address. Earl Curzon. the British foreign secretary who will represent Great Britain al the meeting, also will speak.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
IRISH ATTACK
 POLICE BARRACKS
Throw Bombs and Lay Down Rifle Fire BarraSe-COnStable bleS
 Drive Them Away.

Dublin, Jan. 1O.-Police barracks six miles from the village of Tuam. Galway county, were attacked Thurs day evening by a large party of men, according to reports reaching this city. The attacking party said to number about 100 men, besieged the barracks, firing repeated rifle Volleys which riddled the doors and smashed all the windows. During the fight two or three bombs were thrown, one wall being demolished and one po- lice sergeant being slightly wounded. The occupants of the barracks re- turned the fire of the night assailants.
 Four constables who were patrollinS the neighborhood heard the explo- sion of the bombs and hastened to the scene. When they arrived they at- tackled the besegers so vigorously that they abandoned the field.
 Two bold mail robberies, one near Limerick and the other near Mullin- gar, were reported on Friday About 50 pounds sterling in transit to recipients of old age pensions, was taken,
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
Worked With Socialists.

Chicago, Jan. 10.-Evidence pur- porting to show collision between Russian Bolsheviki and the comm un- ist labor party of Chicago in an at tempt to overturn the government of the United States, will be submitted to the special grand jury Investigating radical activities here when it recon venes Thursday, Henry A Berger, as- siGtant states attorney announced to- day.
 Examination of the archives of the communist labor party, seized at Mo- line, H., disclosed Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self styled Soviet ambaSSa- = dor' and representative of Lenine and Trotzky in the United States was in communication with leaders of the party, the states attorneys office an- nCunced.
 Among tho papers seized, Berger said was a telegram from Martens, declining al invitation to come here to address a meeting of the party and expressing regret. A cancelled check for $120 bearing Martens signature also was seized, Berger said.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
LUDWIG MARTENS WILL TESTIFY TO SENATE COM.
"Ambag agsador' And Secretary
 Served With Subpoena in Washington.

Washington. Jan. 1O.-Ludwig C. A. K Martens, Russian Soviet mbassa- dor to the United States and his sec retary, Santeri Nuorteva. have been subpoenaed to appear Monday before the senate foreign relations sub-com- mittee Investigating Russian propa- eanda in the United States. Both ex- pressed Q willingness to appear before the committee.
 Martens whose whereabouts in Washington had been more or less q mystery, was served with the sub- poena last night at the residence of a friend in the fashionable Dupont cir cle section. The department of justice holds a deportation warrant for Mar tens arrest but early today it had not been served.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
OFFICIALS CONFER
 OVER WHISKEY TRIAL
Massachusetts and Connecticut Au- thoritics Discuss EItraditiOn of
 "Nhiskey Ring'' to Bay State.

New York, Jan. 10.-Prosecuting officials from Massachusetts and Con- necticut conferred today with Brook lyn and Manhattan authorities on plans for the prosecution of John Ro- manelli, Samuel Saleeby and Carmine Nincenziata, held in connection with the manufacture and distribution of the wood alcohol whiskey which spread death in parts of New England at Christmas time
 Arrival of the MaGsa chusetts off, cials followed indictment of the men in the Bay state on charges of murder in the first degree. They are under in dictment here charged with violation of the war time prohibition law.
 Procedure in their cases, 1t was said. probably would be extradition to Massachusetts. It has not been dectd- ed whether to hold the New York
 charges in abeyance or to ask 2 change of venue for them to Massa
 chusetts. it was stated.
 Counsel for the accused men are eX. pected to oppose vigorously extradi ton proceedings and insist that thei clients be brought to trial on charges of olating the prohibition law under which they were indicted here. Those present at the conference in cluded District Attorney Wright O Springfield, Mass. State Attorney Al ! ling of New Haven, Commissioner 0 1 Public Safety Foote of Springfield ant l Assistant l., s, Attorney Crcedon 0 ] Hartford.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
AGAIN DENY VICTOR BERGER HOUSE SEAT OuSted From Congress for Second
 Time MEASURE PASSED 328 TO 6
Socialist Representative Expelled By Motion Of Chairman Dallinger of
 Election Committee - Nominated
 For Congress Again by Constituents

Washington, Jan. 1O.-Nictor Ber- ger, socialist representative elect from Milwaukee, was denied a seat in the house today for the second time.
 The vote was BPS to 6, and was on a resolution by Chairman Dallinger, of the election committees which was offered after Berger appeared and asked that he be sworn. Berger was denied a personal hearing and there was only brief discussion Chairman Dallinger speaking for his resolution and Representative Mann, republican, Illinois, urging that Der ger be seated because he had been twice elected by the people of Mil waukec.
 Those voting to seat him were: Mann HarrelG. republican, Okla. :; Griffin, dem ocrat, New York: Sher- wood. democrat. Ohio; Sisson. demo- crat, Mississippi, and Noight. republi- can. Wisconsin. Representative Sa- = bath, republican. Illinois, voted pres cGt.
 Berger dec.ared in a statement aft CT the vote that the house action was ! one of the worst attacks on the rep resentative form of government ever witnessed in this country "lt is really a denial of the right of people to elect the citizen of their choice," he said.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
GENERAL BOSS DIES
Former Thread Company's Head Passes Away From Heart Trouble in Willimantic.

Willimantic. Conn.,, Jan. 10.-Gen. Eugene Stowell Boss, who retired from the management of the Ameri- can Thread Company's plant here April 1, 1916, died today from heart trouble.
 Gen. Boss was in his 18th year.. He served the thread company in various capacities for 5S years and from 1870 as agent. He was in the general as- sembly from Windham in 1887 and 1891; was state senator in 1883, and a member of the constitutional con- vention in 1902. He was delegate at large to the national convention which nominated Major Mckinley for presi- dent. On the staff of Governor Mor- gan G. Bulkeley he was com missary general.
 Gen. Boss is survived by son. Austin D. Boss, who took his father s place at the thread company but rG- tired three months ago, and a daugh- ter, Mrs. Caroline Cummings.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10

notifications of the treaty of VI have been deposited, the all associated powers wish to II the German government tllci ance that while necessary rep for the sinking of the German r Scapa Flow will be exacted, not intend to injure tho vital e interest of Germany. On tn by this letter. they confirm tn rationS which the general of the peace conference was with making orally 10 tho u of the German delega ton on ! The letter gives details of | penSation for the vessels 5l Scapa Flow. as modified. vi ready have been made public Peaceful relations betwec| many and the greater numbeI nations engaged in the great ,I her are esta blished by thcl taken at Paris today. TEd i treaty now goes into effect as Germany and those powers tI finally ratified it-GreGt
 France. Italy, Japan, BeIgid livia, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Siam. Czecho-SIovakia, Jrag] Panama.
 |. =. Alone in Stand Great Britain was the firsI five great powers represented supreme council of the peacd ence to take such action, bd , lowed in succession by Fras.| and Japan. The United StRfl , of the '"big five" his not rat treaty As the list shows, : ratifica tions have been given
 Of the smaller powers. sign; the treaty. China did not 2 document, because of her ol l to the Shantung provisions, claimed d state of peace w many.
 1 The all-important ratified Germany was given on June the day following which I | Wilson presented the treaty ; United States senate.
 Began Steps After tArnis
 The making of the peace vi
 becomes effective was begun ] after the conclusion of the l; | of November II, 1918 whicl the great war. The treaty
 saiIles, as it has become kne signed in this historic Versai
 ace on June 28, 1919.
 The long interval between
 sembling of the peace confe Versailles on January IS, 1
 the signing of the treaty was ! with almost daily conference
 provisions between the rel
 tives of the nations which hat
 war with Germany or had br
 lations with her, the pFfncip
 being taken by Gclega tes of
 Great Britain, Italy, Japan i:
 United States. The first II
 (Conunued on Seventh I
New Britain herald., 1920-01-10
England Voices Regret.

London. Jan. 10.-Regret over Americas abstention from participat- ing in the ratification of the treaty of Versailles is again expressed in edi- torials printed in this morning. $ newspapers.
 Americas absence,' says the Tele- graph. 'clouds alike the prospect of the present and the future. It weakens profoundly the moral au- thority of the league of nations and consequently the sese of security re- garding the imm ediate future. h. stead of new machinery for the world S future guidance standing ready and complete, awaiting only motive power to set it going, the machine is not yet put together. The United States (Continued on Ninth Page)