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New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

the consummation of strong and COM
petent democratic republic And where
will America be then? A friend. true
friend? Or one faithless to profess
sions of friendship Can we remain
quiet, and see that great consummation
wrought out, without lifting hand to
make good the profuse promises with
which we greeted the revolution of the
Russian people? Every cons liberation
of good faith. of honor. of public pol
icy, of selfish interests, conspires to
make it the duty of American citizens
to take thought now upon how they
can help Russia, prove the reality of
their friendship for Russia, establish
the foundations for a firm friendship
in the future
I'VE should DO it by our own efforts.
The men in production and in trade
can do something now without waiting,
the American people can make ready
now for effective assistance upon the
next opportunity that comes; and I'VE
can do 1t by bringing to bear upon the
government of our country the clear
knouledge and assurance of the wish
o. the American people that our
friendship shall be real and not false.
IF the people of America show the
sincerity of their professions, be GER
tain the government of America will
answer; and when the government of
America is sure that the Anne rican peo-
pie wishes it to act as true friend of
Russia, not fair weather friend. not
a lip-serving friend, not a rhetorical
friend, but true friend in deed as in
words, the government of America has
the power and will exercise the power
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Russian Goods Expected
To Reduce World,Prices

LONDON. Jan. 17.-Representative
here of Russian cooperative organizations
are eagerly awaiting advices as to how
the Allied decision partly to raise the
Russian blockade will be made effective.
Although the official statement set
ting forth the Allied decision indicates
that trading between private firms and
individuals is still under the ban, the
Importance of the ruling may be appre-
ciated when it is stated that the coopera-
tive societies, which alone are affected
in recent years have become the chief
medium for distribution of goods to the
Russian peasants. Ten of these organj-
cations having Offices in London claim
to represent the interests OF upward
of 50.000,0 900 peasants.
1t is believed in some quarters that
the lifting of the ban on the vast accu-
mutation of Russian produce awaiting
export may have Fl farreaching effect on
prices in the worlds markets. The agent
of the Central Russian Flax Association
declared the latest advices from his
principals stated that upward of 10000
tons of fax were ready for export in cx-
change for sorely needed manufactured
goods. Prevailing prices will make this
accumulation worth upward of 12,0O0,-
0G0 pounds sterling, in addition to which
there arc bumper crops of other COM
modisies awaiting export, representing
enormous buying powers.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
u. S. in Default
TO Russia,I Is
Roots CHARGE
Assurances of Friendship
Have Been Empty Says
Former Cabinet Official
in Dinner Address Here
Many Opportunities Lost
Send Munitions, Clothing,
Money to Men Now Fight
ing Bolsheviki, He Urges

The American people arc in default
to Russia, is the opinion of Elihu Root,
chairman of the mission sent to that
country by President Wilson. Assur-
ances of friendship nave been empty
except for the language used in making
promises, he contends. The views of
the former Secretary of State on the
perpfexing Russian question were
voiced in an address at private dinner
Commerce in this city, December %, at
which no reporters were present. At
the request of members of the organ
ization, Mr.. Root consented to having
his remarks made public.
After denouncing the 'horrid group
of cutthroats and assassins" now in
control in Russia MIR. Root declared
they could be fought most effectively
by supplying the "self sacrificing men
who are now trying to save their coun-
try with munitions 0 war, shoes and
clothing and money to pay. their troops.
"There are three or four things |
would like to say" Mr. Root said. "One
is that we are in default as to Russia
have given assurances Of friendship.
We have made promises; we have used
the strongest words in the English
language. I don't know whether there
are any stronger words in Russian.
But if there are, and we know them,
we probably would have used them, be-
cause we have indicated that there was
no limit to the friendship which we
were ready to show toward Russia; and
we have shown no friendship toward
Russia except in words.
Says America Has Failed
"Many opportunities have come and
have been allowed to pass. Many stua-
tions have arisen in Russia where, if
the American people had made good
tenth of what they declared they
we're ready to do, the skies would be
bright in Russia to-day. They have
been allowed to pass without action.
We have never been ready when the
occasion has come, and we have done
nothing. There are many things we
might have done.
81 am not going to criticize; ! am
going to assume that our government
had good reasons for not acting upon
all the favoring occasions which seemed
to challenge action in behalf of Russia;
| am going to assume there were good
reasons for not acting; but we have not
acted 1t is shifting scene. 1t looks
pretty dark there now, but it will shift
again, and unless we do something to
prepare to act when the next occasion
comes we shall not be ready, and there
will be no action.
"1t appears that if there is to be any
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

tyranny and terrorism and cruelty new
er surpassed in history-those men are
using the resources of that great. rich
country to pour out steady stream
OF ,propagandists, who laugh at our
feeble efforts.
I'VE are like the physician who at
tempts to heal a mortal disease by a
pouitlce upon the surface, instead of
cutting to the seat OF the infection and
curettlng the wound. The way to de-
stroy bolshevlsm is to put the strength
and heartiness and courage and hone
OF prosperity into the people of Rus
sla. who are ready themselves to de-
stroy Bolshevism if they can but have
the means to support life and to hold
themselves together and to secure sup
| plies and ammunition and to paw their
troops and to furnish them with shoes
and clothes and to make head against
that horrid group of cut-throats and
assassins and tyrants who are now op-
pressing them. That is the way to fight
boIshevlsm. at its center, at its source,
the source of its supplies and the
source of its strength. And we sit idle,
doing nothing.
Still Has Faith in Russia
Il have lost no faith in the future of
Kussla 1t is but short time. less
than three years, since the Car was
dethroned. We made our Declara tior
OF independence in l776 and amid tur
moil and confusion and dissension we
reached settled government only in
l7S9, more than four times the period
that has elapsed in Russia, and we had
the advantage of great and then unprec-
edented experience in the art of gov
ernment, for we had been building up
p n r,1o
half when our American Revolution
| came
How long it was before France
J France, with all its culture, it's science
Its art, its literature, its polite man
ners-before France achieved its Revo-
! luton and settled government after it.
In 1893 she beheaded Louis XVI anc
then came the Terror and the Direc
TORE and the Empire and the Restora
ton and the Second Republic and the
oeconc Empire; and two generations
passed before she reached her goal ot
settled popular government.
The English beheaded Charles | il
l649. How long it was before she at
tanned settled conditions! Eleven year.
later she so despaired of the success O.
her attempt to secure popular freedom
tnat she went back in the Restoration
or Charles II, and it was not until wha
the English called the glorious RevoIu
ton of 1888, nearly forty years after
that her affairs became settled.
Long before the expiration of The
periods in which any Of these nation:
row at the forefront Of popular self
government achieved settled condi
tions, long before that period ha
elapsed, | look to see Russia work ou
her own questions; work them out a:
she is working them out now, through
bloodshed and suffering and travail. ts
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

action to make good our assurance to
Russia, the American people must pet
behind the words that have been spoken
IN their behalf and call for action.
ihis is how we got into the war. We
dld not get in until the people of the
United States were walked up to the
imminent occasion for action and with
their mighty driving power put our
country into action themselves. Let
US do something now, if we can, to
be ready when the next opportunity
comes.
Must Act Immediately
The next thing l wish to say is
that now is the time to lay the founda-
tions, to take the first steps to estab-
lish the relations necessary for the
friendly and useful intercourse of
trade between the United States and
Russia. One form of activity which
carries no condescensicn on one side
nor humiliation on the other, which
is beneficial to both parties, is fair
trade. The people of Russia need
deeply, desperately need-the things
that we can supply to them by the
establishment of intercourse in the ex-
change Of products, which has been
the basis of all the prosperity and the
opportunities for growth among civil
lied nations.
Now is the time for US to put our
selves on footing with Russia which
in the days to come. when the skies
have cleared and order is reestablished
will make the Russian people and the
American people co-partners in the ex-
change of products which will benefit
both
"Other nations are doing it. The
Canadians are doing it, the Japanese
are doing it, the Germans are doing
it; many Others We alone, with all
our enterprise, with all our initiative
with all the habits and the tradi.
tions and the capacity for affirmative
and vigorous and progressive action
built up in the course Of the last
century, during which VIC have made
all that, we alone hang back That is
something which now the business mer
Of America can begin to see fer them
selves; and the effect will be that those
poor fellows in Russia, whose course
Of production and of trade has beer
broken up by the terrible events Of
the last five years, will begin to re
ceive from America some benefits Other
than the enjoyment of mere rhetoric
something besides empty words.
"The third thing I want to say i.
that Russia is the place for American:
to fight and destroy Bolshevism. We
are fiddling around here with a few
Bolshevik agents, and We pick up {
dozen or hundred and make a grea
outcry in the newspapers about de
porting them, few among the thou
sands; and the men who have gained
control Of old Russia by the use o.
German money, by the use of mer
cenary troops, by the exercise of {
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Soviet Ark
Dumps Reds
In Finland
Continued from page 1

different pogt Of dcbarkation than had
been originally planned. This caused
a delay in landing here.
Rum Smuggler on Board
While the Buford was at Kie, it
became known that three Sailors had
climbed over the side, taken stolen
fishing boat and with it smuggled on
board nine huge bottles of rum. with
which the discipline of the ship would
have been demoralizcd, according to
an officer. The story had tragic side
for the sailors because the command
ing officers sent the rum back.
The Bolsheviki on board led mo.
notonous life during the voyage. Their
greatest pleasure seemed to be sing
ing "Red" songs, including the ON
ternationale," the "Marseillaise," the
BLACK Flag" "Arise, Yc Workmen," !"
and the "Song of Hate" The latter
was sung with remarkable vim over
and over again. many Of the singers
having fine voices. The "Reds" were for
hidden to hold meetings on deck. but
made up for lost time when confined
to their quarters, at which time a
secret captain harangued all within
reached of his voice.
While the women and some of the
men were seasick during storms, there
was not a single case of serious ILL
ness, and every one arrived in good
health. superintendent Martin Berk-
shire, in charge of the prisoners, had
to warn Berkman and Miss Goldman
repeatedly that they were prisone rs
and not passengers or guests.
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Jan. IL
Finnish authorities have informed the
Soviet government Of Russia of the
plan to send Alexander Berkman, Emma
Goldman and their radical "comrades' y
across the border but no reply has yet
been received from the Bolsheviki. The
Finnish communication requested that
the Bolshevik troops cease firing when
the party makes it's appearance
The radicals deported from America
will be placed in locked cars and taken
to Terijoki, about two miles from the
lronCler, pelnE accompanied by Fin
nish military guard and a detac chime n t
of American marines. There are two
ways Of entering Soviet Russia. The
first is across bridge near Teriioki
where the Bolshevik and Finnish lines
are drawn along the banks of a little
river. The other is further north
toward Rautu, where the respective
lines are separated by thick forest
The former is the more direct route
and, if used, the American "Reds" will
reach safely Soviet territory. The
other is known as "the route of death, y
owing to the large number of political
prisoners who have been despatched
in the forest after having been de-
ported. People of Finland acquainted
with the history of deportations are
keenly interested to learn which route
will be chosen.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

srmy composed Of troops recruited
from the Baltic States, Poland and
Rumania and as large an army of Rus
slams as could be enlisted, with other
troops from all the Balkan States. the
whole under French command. This
plan was discussed by the military
council months ago, but was aban-
doned because the representatives of
the United States would not agree to
finance the new army.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

to help the poor fellows, the noble fel-
lows. the seif-dcsotcd and self-sscri-
ticing men who are now trying TO save
their country in Russia from the con-
troll OF the tyranny that oppresses
them--to help them effectively to sue
cess
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-17
WILSON CABLES
THAIylnilS TO LEAGUE
FOR ITS. GREETINGS
Proud to Be Considered to
Have Played Part in Pro- ~
noting Concord.

WASHINGTON, Noy. l7.-Presi-
dent Wilson to-day sent the follow
inE message to Paul Hymans. Presi-
dent Of the Assembly OF the League
OF Nations now in session at Geneva:
The greetings 80 graciously
sent me by the assembly Of the
League Of, Nations through YOU
have gratlficd me very deeply in
deed. ] am indeed proud to be
considered to have played any
part in promoting the concord OF
nations with the esta blishment Of
such an instrumentalitv ms the
League. 10 whose increasing influ-
ence and success I look forward
with increasing confidence. Per-
NIT me to extend my personal
greetings to the assembly. IL they
will be gracious enough to receive
them. together with an expression
VI NY hbbt dlu DtlleI lOaI their
labors will be Of immense value
to the whole civilized world"
The message sent by NJ. Hymans
TO President Wilson ls as follows:
THE Assembly OF the League
OF Nations has by unanimous
vote instructed me to send you
its war1nest greetings and to ex-
press it's earnest wishes that YOU
may be speedily restored to com
plcte health.
''The Assembly recognizes that
You have dono perhaps more
than any other man to lay the
foundations Of the League. II
fools confident that the present
meeting Will grently advance
those principles OF co -operntion
between all nntionH which you
have done 80 much to promote"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-17
MOTHER AND TWO
CHILDREN PERISH
INFIRE;; 15ESCAPE
Girl Falls From Fathers Back
and Flames Overtake Mrs.
Herk and Baby.

Three lives were lost in a fire that
DESTROYED a two-story frame dwelling
early to-day in the Vaux Hall section
Of Union Township, near Orange. y. ].
Fifteen other persons escaped. The
dead are Mrs. Hermlnd Herk and her
daughters, Catherine, aged seven, and
Theresa, nve months old.
Mrs. Herk, her husband and four
children were awakened by cries OF
fire. Herk took two children. one in
each arm. Catherine cung to his
back WITH her arms around hia neck
az he ut rted downstairs, followed by
hls wife with the baby ON the way
Catherine looscncd her hold. Herk
continued, thinking snc was follow
ing him, When 81 got outside neither
his vito nor lthcrno were to be
seen
Hcrk rushed back into the building
ana searched, hut could not find them.
Flremcn also fought their way into
the structure I'm vain effort To save
the three
The bodies or Mrs. Ilerl, ana the
baby were found in tho basement,
having fallen with the noors
or the fifteen other persons in the
building ten were children,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-17
GIRL MAKES EYES"
AT JUDGE TO SHOW
HIM HOW IT'S DONE
Divorce Case Witness Illus
trateS Testimony With
Bewitching Smiles.
TELLS OF FILTRATION.
Says Mrs. Hilly Made Love to
Dinner Guest in Presence
of Half-Blind Husband.

Sensational testimony was given in
ANhite Plains to-day ut the second
trial of the divorce action brought by
Henry II. Tilley. a wealthy contrac-
tor VI Mount Vernon. against Mrs.
Emeretta Tilley. Clarence Dugan,
private secretary TO a Vice president
" the New York Central Railroad
Company. is correspondent.
Following testimony OF private de-
tectives Bernard Hass and Dorothy
B'a.bie OF Manhattan, who said they
JIaiied Mrs. Tilley and Dugan to Ions
Reach and saw them sitting on the
sand under the boardwalk. hugginG
and kissing for three hours. Mary
Bowers. a former maid of Mrs. Tilley,
was called. She said that while at
the dinner table Mrs. Tilley made
eyes" at Dugan while she was talking
t. her husband. The maid testified
that Mr. Tilley. who is slowly becom-
ing blind, could not see Mrs. Tilley.
Supreme Court Justice Morschauser
directed Miss DOwers to illustrate
how Mrs. Tilley acted. She bowed
her head and said she did not think
she could so through the perform
ance.
Did YOU ever see Mrs. Tilley kiss
ing Dugan or did you ever see Dugan
put his hand on herr" Justice Nor
schauser asked. mo. I never did"
Now show the jury just how she
made those eyes" Justice Nor
schauser directed.
Miss bowers bent her head 10 one
SIDE in a coquettish way and then
puckered up her lips and made low
Ing eyes ut the jury. Justice Nor
achauser asked Miss Dpwers to show
him personally, and the girl bent her
head over on her shoulder and puck
cred her mouth until her dimples
showed bewtchingly.
Tho court room was crowded and
spectators leaned forward eagerly.
Miss bowers declared that Dugan
was n frequent visitor ~ the Tuley
house and that Mrs Tillcy often
asked her II she did not think Dugan
was q lovely looking man.
when | told her thought he
looked Ike n monkey" said the wit
ness, "she pulled my hair
While the maid was testifying Mrs.
Tnley kept her cyeS riveted on the
wtness. Finally the girl collapsed
ana had 10 be taken 10 an anterOom,
Court was adjourned for ten minutes
until Miss bowers recovered,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-17
BIG COAL FIRMS
TO Be CALLED BY
j. S. GRAND JURY
Burns Brothers and Madeira
Hill and Company Must
Testify on Profteering.

Armin W. Riley Assistant United
states Attor'oy General, in charge of
the antI-profIteering campaign. an
nounced this afternoon that he will
have subpoonaa issued for two Of tho
biggest New York city coal dealers
Burns Brothcrs Of 40. 60 Church
street, and Madeira. Hul & Company.
so. 142 Liberty street.
Riley said he was taking this nc
'tion because tho firms named had
refused TO give him Information
about tho cost ana the source Of the
coal they handle The Hrms. he said.
will be required TO appear before the
Federal Grand Jury Mr. Riley said
he had Just returned from Washing
ton, where hc VAS instructed by At
lorney General Palmer 10 do every o.
thing possible to prevent coal prof
iccrlnB
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-17
j. F. FORT, FORMER
GOVERNOR, DIES
New Jersey JuriSt and Republican
Leader Had Been III
Year and Half

Of Now Jersey, died this afternoon at
mis- home in South Orange. n J. He
mad been III since April. 1919. when no
suffered parnlytic stroke while do
HvcrIng an address at Carlisle. Pa. He
spent the summer AT Spring Lake. but
was brought home IN September with
out showing an Improvement He was
sixty eight years old
Former GOV. Fort resigned from the
Federal Trade Commission year ago.
lie was Governor from 1908 to 1911 and
was a delegate nj several Republican
national conventions In 1914 he was
sent ns % special envoy to the Domlu-
ion Republic and in 1913 to Haiti
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-17
6O-MILE AN HOUR
GALE KILLS FOUR:
SHIPS IN DISTRESS
Thousands of Dollars of Dam
age in City Caused by Rain
and Wind Storm.
BIG WINDOWS SMASHED
Man Killed When Swept OF
81" Platform-W Woman
Dies in Auto Crash.

Strong westerly winds and
gales which set in this afternoon,
the Weather Bureau predicts,
will last through the night, with
the weather clearing and grow
ing colder. Ships sailing from
Atlantic porto have been warned
Of the gales. Twelve inches Of
snow fell in Buffalo to- day and
last night, and snow is reported
to be heavy through Ohio, Vir-
sinia. Southeastern Michigan,
Western Pennsylvania and West
ern New York.
-Four deaths, three men and a
woman. with the possibility Of a
fifth. resulted from one of the most
violent rain and wind storms which
have visited New York and its vicin-
ity at this season for many years.
One man. perhaps more, is missing
from a scOw which overturned in tn,
storm.
A gale which reached the velocity
of sixty miles an hour and rose to
the height ~ eighty miles off the Jer-
sey Coast. last night and early this
morning, brought calls of d stress
from three ships at sea. Another was
dragged from her anchorage off sta
p1eton, s. l. Trees were uprooted,
telegraph aud telephone poles blown
down, shingles ripped from the roofs
OF houses and big show windows
smashed. The damage was estimated
at thousands.
Mrs. Emily Van Horen. No. 400
Fourth Avenue, Long Island City, was
struck last night during the storm by
nm automobile at Broadway and sixth
Avenue. Long Island city. and died
a short time later in ST. Johns Hos
pital. The car sped away before It's
number could be learned.
About the same time and two
blocks away. Agnes Sharkcy Of No
5ss Seventh Avenue. Long Island
City, was run down by an automo-
bile owned and driven by William A.
Sick, of No. 222 Franklin street, Long
Island City. Her skull was fractured.
st. Johns Hospital surgeons say her
condition ia serious, Sick ia charged
with teloniOus assault.
One OF tho men killed has not been
but is thought to be james
short of No. 1919 Putnam Avenue,
Brooklyn. He apparently was blown
from the end OF the platform 10 the
elevated tracks Of tho B, r., r, at
Bridge street and Mytle Avenue, ana
several trains had passed over his
body.
George Graham, Of No 96o SECOND
Place, North bergen, n. j, died dur
ing tho night in st, Francis Hospital,
Jersey CITY He was helper on an
express wagon and while blunkcting
CONTINUED on SECOND PsgeJ
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-17
B. R. T. STRIKERS
ADMIT KILLING
Plead Guilty Of Manslaughter in
Connection With Death
of YoutlIy

Three former guards Of Rrooklyn
Rapid Transit Company trains
the first degree to-day in the Brook
lyn Supreme Court before Justice
Cropsey They had been charged
with murder in the first degree in
connection with the death Of Ferdi 20
nand Friedman, seventeen years old,
40. 211l 6fth Street, Brooklyn, who
was killed whe ma group of Il. II. 7,
strikers stoned subway train in the
SD Street cut,
TIE three who were permitted 10
pirnd guilty on the lesser charge were
James Del Papia, No. 1904 Goth street
Michael Colucc.o, 80. 1880 6ith street.
and AmlIp Spracco, -. l52 56tn
stree. all uf Brooklyn. l. is believed
that a fourth defendant may also
plead guilty Vf mRnSlauThtST.