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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-10
CHAPTER XVI.
THROUGH THE GATES OF
TYAYCEn

The P~earlhunter picked UP the bit
of scarlet cloth that had fallen from
the dead mans hand. 1t is surprising
how; fast a man can think when he
has to-. The mystery of the arm
thrust in at the cabin door across the
moonlight cleared. The finding OF a
red mask beside the body would
the Wabash country: the finding Of
another. upon a search OF the cabin.
would be deemed sufficient proof that
the tenant of the cabin was the muir
derer.
But why had the bandit planned to
lay the theft Of the jewel on him :?
1t was not his way. He took his toll
at the pistols point and galloped
away. Why had he changed his
methods now?
He had laid his plans we'll, though
they hadn't worked out quite az he
expected. The killing of Louie Solo
mon had been an accident. forced on
him by the fact that the little Jew, in
his struggles, had CHANGED to claw the
mask ID and had recognized. him.
Otherwise he would have merely
.choked him into Inconsistencies.
taken the pearl, and left the mask
behind to complete the tangle he was
weaving. around another mar He
q AlSClluCo I4Allh III
pearl some time that night, leaving
his mask behind. and afterward,
when the hue and cry was raised. to
suggest a search OF the cabin. His
chance had come DON than he had
expected. OF course, he could not
have foreseen that the man he wished
to t11"the crime upon would be the
first to find the body.
It wa not lest On the Pearlhunter
that ~ A> -
murderer close. else why had he left
the knife? But why all these elab-
crate plans against him? Was 1t
some ancient grudge he bore his
blood? Did he wish somebody to die
in his place to deceive an outraged
world into thinking the Red Mask
was settled for good and all. and so
give him a chance to start owe again ?
Was it because he was moi yet ready
to leave the F1atwoods? It was prob-
ably for all these reasons. But with
the last, there flashed across the
young mans mind that scene at the
fence. 1t stung him like a lash.
Even though the evidence secreted
in the cabin was now In ashes. by that
dead body was the most dangerous
place in the world for him just then.
Hardly I'VE seconds had passed since
the last gasp Of Louie Solomon. so
fast does q nan think under such a
stress, when the P~earlhunter threw
the mask down by the body and turn
ed to steal back up the hill.
up with 'emw e E
He whirled; stared: slowly raised
his hands. It's one thing to face
odds: quite another to face certain
death. Behind the three black
rnuxzles pcltngi out through the
bushes siowsrsd the t~ruculent beard
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-10

Washington.-A partial summary
by the interstate commerce
sion showed net operating incomes Of
railroads increased nearly one million
during March. the first month after
their return to private ownership,
over March, 1920, when they were
under government control.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
The "Moral Obligation" Puzzle

The Evening Post censures Sen
ator Harding for saying the other
day in discussion of the league
covenant: IF this nation agrees to
accept the decision of a foreign
council, then we should be guilty of
an act of bad faith utterly unbecom-
ing Of this republic, if Congress did
not keep the compact and provide for
the warfare which the foreign con-
Gil has ordered"
In the conference of August 10,
1919, between the President and the
members of the Foreign Relations
committees this question of moral
obligation was thoroughly thrashed
out. Mr.. Harding engaged in two
long colloquies over it with the Pres
ident. The later had dwelt on the
distinction between legal obligation
and moral obligation, but he declined
to face the implications of Senator
Harding's question: What becomes
of our standing among nations if
the council fixes moral obligation
upon US and we reject the judgment
OF the council as to moral obliga-
tion"" He admitted that the United
States was free to exercise it's own
Judgment in any and every case,
even though its representative in
the council had concurred in a rec
ommendation. He then seemed to
lndorse the principle of the Lodge
reservation to Article x. Then,
suddenly, on his Western trip, he
changed his mind.
Senator Harding has merely re-
stated the Presidents later view of
the effect Of Article x, unmodified
by the Lodge reservation. But The
Post says that that view is utterly
fallaclous. 1t dismisses Mr.. Will
sons later Interpretation as of no
consequence, adding: IF the Demo-
Gratis win, it is Mr.. Cox and not
Mr.. Wilson who will be President. :"
Does The Post mean that Mr.. Cox
Endorses Lodge, not Wilson?
The Post seems trying to make
votes for Mr.. Cox as an anh-Wilson
reservationist. Will it have the
courage or the fairness to demand
OF Mr.. Cox that he declare himself to
be such? The country knows where
the Republican Senators and most
OF the Democratic Senators stand on
that qestion. 1t also knows where
Mr. Wilson stands. The only disin
genuousness discoverable is in the
Democratic candidates. silence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24

With much good humor, duly ap-
preciated by his hearers, Chairman
Hays, opening the Republican cam
paign in Maine, recounted some of
the difficulties he has encountered
IN keeping the guns of his committee
trained on the Cox position. The
position moves so rapidly that it
wears range-finder out.
Mr.. Cox was first presented as
some sort of reservationist. So be
it, said Mr.. Hays, and prepared to
discuss the issue of what sort of
reservations should be provided.
Then the Administration showed
its teeth and Mr.. Cox fastened to
Washington to have the White
House interview which Franklin D.
Roosevelt was privileged to witness,
and which he described with rapt
admiration. Mr.. Cox came from the
Presence apparently purged of the
reservation heresy-was for flat rat
lfication or nothing. So be it, said
MIR. Hays, and made ready 70 discuss
whether flat ratification wasAwise or
possible.
Then Mr.. Cox went about on an
other tack. Through Chairman
White he indicated that the league
issue was only secondary" anyway.
So be it, amiably said Mr.. Hays, to
whom agreeing had become habit.
But forthwith Mr.. Cox reversed
his chairman, and what he stands for
now is conjectural. There is low
visibility. His candidacy seems
steering a course apparently SOU
southwest by half castor, in less
nautical terms, to be on high speed
with one foot and on reverse" with
the other, and no wonder the poor
motor shrieks as it stalls. Of course
no one can say $50 be it" to this.
Ignoring the covenant, Mr.. Cox
now talks Of campaign funds, with
all sorts of aspersions and insinua-
lions. So be it again, says Mr.. Hays,
although this time regretfully. AS q
friend Of clean and fair politics, who
would have the parties competitors in
welldoing, he does not enjoy blatant
demagogy. But he has the old
fashioned notion that there is a COM
lnandment against bearing false
witness as we'll as against stealing,
and is persuaded that it will no more
pay Mr.. Cox to disregard it than it
did Mr.. Bryan in the years when he
was sure elections were being bought
away from him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24

merly active, honest and we'll disci-
plined, is now depressed in spirits, in
dolent and at least partly demoralized.
1t suffered too much, physically and
morally, and it is fatal that the in
tellectual part of the people, furnish
ing the spiritual leaders, finds itself
to-day exposed, far more than the
workingmen, to great deprivations and
is in no position to exert its proper IN,
fuence.
In spite of it all, hope IS not yet to
be given up entirely Even with all
the momentary vicissitudes there still
remains strong and healthy core,
and this will surely, under suspicious
conditions, blossom forth in new pros
perity. It is up to the former adver-
saries to extend, in their own interest,
a helping hand and to lead on to a
better future this nation to whom the
worlds civilization owes so much, by
tightening the burdensome load put
upon its shoulders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Same Old Tirpitz

"Once again England has sue
ceeded, owing to the sheer, incred,
ible stupidity of the European ma
lions. Perhaps after this
war the peoples of the European
Continent will realize how their in
terests are opposed to those of Eng
land, but are to a certain extent
bound together, and will close uu
their ranks"
Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz is at
it again. In long article, pub
lished in the organ of the monarchist
officers union, he replies to a letter
of a Hamburg fnancier, Won Ben
dixen, who suggested that perhaps
after all 1t would have been better
for Germany to come to partner
ship agreement with England. To
Tirpitz the very idea seems absurd.
He has nothing but contempt for
those who champion it.
Tlrpitz repeats the line of argu-
went, we'll known from his memoirs,
that the interests of England and
Germany were and are irreconcil-
able, that hopes for peaceful settle
ment are futile and that Germany's
salvation lies in a strong navy
capable of fighting England, plus a
continuation Of the Bismarckian pol-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Making Farming Pay

The Union-Gazette, of Newark
N. Y, comparing the census figures
for 1920 with those of 1910, shows
that the population of Wayne County
has decreased by 1852 in the ter
years. But this does not tell the
entire story. The villages of the
county show a net gain of 600, sc
the population still on the farms IN
this one New York county is about
l'9oo less than decade ago. The
Union Gazette is justified in refer.
ring to the situation as matter of
serious concern, and calls upon
thinking men and women to consider
1T in relation to food supplies and
food prices.
The drift of population away from
the farms is, of course, not confined
to Wayne County, and no more in
sistent duty lies before the State of
New York than to provide intelligent
and adequate measures of checking
the movement. Improved methods
Of marketing crops must be provided,
likewise better social, educational
and recreational opportunities.
The farmers, with the new level of
agricultural prices, are now said to
be doing well. Doubtless they are in
spots. But the profits of one year
are not enough to correct an adverse
balance. Life is still easier in the
city than in the country. Throw
away all the statistics. The mere
fact that young men and women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Our Neighbors Would Know

Franklin D. Roosevelt's boast that
he carried two League of Nations
votes in his pocket and that
Josephus now jingles them is not
deemed a jest in Santo Domingo and
Hayti. They know Mr.. Roosevelt
was not Dragging.
Behold a mystery! Uncle Sam Is
not a member of the league, but Jo-
sephus is, as legatee Of Franklin D..
The President kept Uncle Sam out
of the league, but his Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy put the two re-
publics in. AS President Mr.. Wilson
is not of the league, but as panjan-
drum of Santo Domingo he is.
Throughout Latin america is
alarmed inquiry concerning the
second part Of Mr.. Roosevelt's state
ment. He said that this country al
ready has twelve votes in the league.
Besides Santo Domingo and Hayti,
he mentioned Cuba and Panama. But
this is not twelve, but four. Adding
Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras
and San Salvador, but excluding
Costa RIGA, because on the Presi-
dents request no invitation was ad-
dressed to her, it is possible to figure
up four more possibly hog tied
But eight is not twelve--or at least
it did not use to be.
What are the other four? Colom-
bia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, b.
livia? To what other countries has
the Administration applied it's no.
ton of self-determination? Have
other pro-consuls been sent forth
and have other annexations oc-
Cured? Our southern neighbors
naturally want to know.
In the mean time the regions
now having the blessings of the
Administrations elf-determination
(namely, that itself is to do the de-
termining) function gloriously. Not
long ago, when Dominicans conf
planned that they had no President
and were not allowed to elect one,
the Admiral Indignantly responded:
You have. am your president"
Then when his visitors complained
that they had no Congress they
heard: "You have. I am your Con-
gress." Finally, when the Domini-
cans said they had no courts, they
once more heard: "You have. l am
all your courts"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Nine. Breshkovsky' New Work
To the Editor of The Tribune.

" VIC IulIOI Ol ne tribune.
Sir: Catherine Breshkovsky. "the
little grandmother of the Russian
revolution" who aroused so much in
terest during her recent visit to this
country, is now at work among the
orphans in Russian Carpathia She was
unable to Renter Russia because Deni.
kline refused her passport
She writes that the peasants of Rus
sian Carpathia have clear minds and
good hearts" and are eager to learn, but
are utterly destitute She has started
an orphanage at Uzhorod and begs her
friends in America to send clothing,
paper, pencils, pens and ink, states,
maps, scissors, knives and other tools
piaythings, materials to be made up by
the children, paints and brushes and
instructive pictures. She says:
Clothes for children are inds-
pensable. Coarse and second hand gar
ments would do, for they are naked
and the winter begins in November, and
IN autumn we have rain. Send all you
can get to A. A. Beskida, president of
the School Fund, Uzhorod, Karpato
Russ, Czecho- Slovakia We shall be
grateful for every donation to our
naked and hungry. ignorant but very
capable children. It will be such de-
light to see them nationally occupied,
working with their minds and hands,
instead of wandering from door TO door,
imploring for bit of coarse bread or
cold potato and never learning any
thing.
Their country is beautiful and rich,
but it will take two or three years be-
fore these poor people will be able 10
look out for themselves. Do not &C.
cuse US, dear Americans! You are lis-
ing in much better conditions. Nobody
has trampled down your soil, NOBODY
has robbed you of your property"
Any one who cannot easily pack CLOTH
ing, etc, to go abroad may send 1t 70
Mrs. S. Eleanor Gregg, Monadnocs
Street, Boston Is, Mass, 10 be fer
warded
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
Chilmark, Mass, Aug. 81, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24

The United States has tripled it's
tonnage, while the rest Of the worlds
merchant shipping has fallen off
about 100000 tons since 1914.
We are entering, however, on a
critical period in construction. Great
Britain has under way 100000
more tons than we have, and she also
has much smaller percentage of
wooden steam vessels and sailing
vessels. Government building of
carriers has slackened here and will
soon come to standstill. Hence it
is all the more necessary for private
yards to be kept actively employed.
Recently the ship workers in the
navy yards made demands for an in
crease in wages. On July % last it
was announced that Assistant Sec
rotary Roosevelt had appointed a
wage board, which was to make
report on August 20. The report
has not yet been submitted. But there
has been a feeling, in view of the
exigencies of the campaign, that Mr..
Roosevelt's board may look on the
navy yard employees with something
of the proprietary air with which he
regards the Latin-American nations
whose votes in the assembly of
the League of Nations he recently
boasted that he controlled.
A legitimate increase, of course,
cannot be criticized. But one
made with an eye on the campaign
may tend to upset conditions in the
private yards and cause labor fric-
ton there. During the war COM
petition with the British yards could
be ignored. Now it is a prime con-
sideration.
The United States cannot afford
to fall back at this stage. The ad
justment Of navy yard wages to
wages in private establishments is
one that requires the joint considera-
ton of the Navy Department and the
Shipping Board, for it is obvious
that the private yards must meet
the government standard to retain
their workers. Temporary political
emergencies ought not to obtrude in
the working out of great national
enterprise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
The Exchange Handicap

A natural result Of the deplorable
financial situation, with it's inevitable
system of paper currency, is the de-
probation of money and the adverse
exchange. This causes a continuous
rise in wages and renders almost i'm
possible the importation of raw ma
terials and foodstuffs, thereby sky
rocketing prices for all goods and
commodities. That is why the people,
even now, one and a half years after
the close of the war, must of neces
sity be satisfied with entirely unpal-
atable bread 1.-TWO marks for $50
grams), and do not even get glimpses
of fresh meat, milk and butter. The
most important foodstuffs are still ra-
toned, and, as the allowances are al
together inadequate for the individ-
ual's subsistence, clandestine trade
and usury are encouraged and the
people are being bled white.
The state of the peoples morale as
Influenced by these conditions can
easily be imagined. This nation, for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24

Icy Of working with Russia. 1t is
understandable that Tirpitz should
defend this course in the past-he
merely defends his life's work; but
he also argues it as the only possible
future German foreign policy.
He goes back to Napoleon's con-
ception that there is an inevitable,
unbridgable antagonism between
the interests of England and Eu-
rope; argues that Germany and
France ought to submergc differ
ences, 80 much the more as the bad
feeling between French and Ger
mans is due mainly to English
propaganda. Moreover, he contends
Continental alliance against England
would not be unwelcome to the ma
tions overseas, the United States
above all.
The chief trouble with this argu-
ment is that it is no argument at
all, but merely a hymn of hate
slightly rationalized. 1t is built
up on the fallacy that English and
German interests are irreconcilable.
For this premise Tirpitz offers no
proof, but he handles it as an axiom.
His hatred of England is boundless,
because if he cannot hate England
he has been a fool all his life. His
obsession makes his mind proof
against facts and lessons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Rounded Up

(From The Los Angeles Tin,cs)
All the Presidential candidates hsvs
now been appraised of the honor thru"
upon them. In one case the conmltIes
had to break into Jail TO find then
man, but it is believed that all have
been finally located. 1t wasn't so muc'
of search, for the three leading nom
inees were found within the radius Of
a hundred mile circle in the STATE
of Ohio. This may be large coun1sS'
but Ohio doesn't take any chances.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Shipbuilding and Politics

"A statement just issued by Lloyds
shows graphically the remarkable ex-
panslon of the American merchant
marine since 1914. In 1914 we had
about one-ninth Of the worlds ton
mage. Now We have about two
seventies. Our total has increased
from 6,S6S,ooo tons to 100000
tons. We are now close up to Great
Britain, which had 19,257,000 tons
in 1914 and has only 1S,33o,ooo now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
The Inaccurate Human Race

Sir: or course you were mentioning and
couldn't be expected to note that Mayor
Hylan, in letter to John Golden decrying
salncious drama, promised not to allow any
thing exotic" in the theater The fact
that Charles Pike Sawyer and Alexander
Woolcott haven't yet made up their col
lective mind whether it's ito the manner
born" or Ito the manor born" also doubt
less escaped your eagle eye. just as it
escaped theirs when Aloph Klauber, while
you were away, brought a play to town in
which it Numbered seventeen times, and
flashed lightning directly after each shake
of the thunder sheet. But now that you're
back on the job, are you going to let Hey
wood Broun misQuote it kiss me, 1ou fool"
and get away with it? PETER WINrEA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Opposition Criticism,

AHc HISt HameC reprOacheS the
government for its weakness in deal
ing with the Allies, reckless spending
OF public moneys, lack of discipline in
the administration and principally be-
cause of its readiness to make conces-
sions to the Socialists. They strove
energetically to combine all bourgeois
parties. The extreme Socialists, i. e..
the Independents, on the other hand,
blamed the Socialists of the moderate
group, the Social Democrats, because of
their cooperation with the bourgeois
parties and demanded Of them to make
common cause in preparing the estab-
lishment of a proletarian dictatorate.
At the recent elections to the Reichstag,
June 6, these two opposite tendencies
clearly manifested themselves, causing
the former government parties sub
stantial reduction in the number of
their members in Parliament to the
benefit of the parties of the Right. The
Social Democrats, on the other hand,
had to register large losses in favor of
the extreme Socialists, the independ-
ents.
This result Of the elections created
a new situation. The former majority
Of the government was extremely re-
duced and the Social Democrats,
though still the strongest party of the
Reichstag, fearing further to impair
their influence with the workmen, did
not purpose to remain any longer in
the government in cooperation with
the Center party and the Democrats.
Yet, together with the Independents,
they were still in a minority and could
not form a pure workers government.
The Democrats and the Centrists were
consequently impelled to form, togeth-
er with the moderate group Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Ger1nany's Plight
As Viewed by a Well
Knopn German Journalist

! Right, the German Liberal People s
party" a purely bourgeois Cabinet,
headed by the former president of the
Reichstag, Fehrenbach. This Cabinet,
although not representing a majority
of the Reichstag, has, fo~ the moment
at least, sufficient vitality, as the So
cial Democrats, for tactical reasons
intending to unload upon the shout
ders of the bourgeois parties all re-
sponsibility for the results Of the Spa
conference), promised for the time be-
ing their assistance. Their future at
titudc toward the present government
remains entirely uncertain, and it's
duration is therefore questionable. In
the mean time everything depends upon
the outcome of the Spa conference as
lar as Germany's future is concerned.
If the Allies gain clear conception
of the impossibility Of executing liter
ally the peace treaty of Versailles and
realize that Germany, IN her hopeless
financial position, can only meet her
indemnity obligations up to a reason
able limit, then and only then can a
little hope be entertained ever to re-
habilitate the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24

crowd cityward shows that, all
things considered, rural conditions
are sub-standard.
We must labor to bring them up
to standard, or grim laws will force
a redress by an inadequate food sup
ply, leading, in turn, to higher food
prices. What we may choose be-
tween are an equalization that will
be without shock and one attained
after violent bumpings of the pen
-dulum. Farming must be made
profitable not occasionally, but nor
mally and regularly.