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The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
Americans to Protect Life
And Property in Event
Of Trouble.
PANIC IN THE CAPITAL
Brother of Federal Cover.
nor Predicts Carranza
Downfall.
Dy Universal servieeJ


Ell Paso, Tex, April 2o.-The
fame of revolution is sweeping
across Northern Mexico tonight
From the American border down
to Mexico City revolutionary
leaders have assembled strong
forces and President Carranza's
regime is threatened.
The Seventh United States
Cavalry, stationed here, was
ordered to the International Bridge
at o o'clock last night. The troops
took up favorable positions and
will cross the Rio Grande TO pro-
tect American lives and property
in Juarez if the revolution results
in hostilities between the Mexican
factions there. 1t was expected
however, that the Carranza gar
rison would go over to the rcvo-
lutionists without fighting.
Crowded with Americans.
Juarez has been crowded with
American tourists. Many of them
were enjoying winter vacations
there and saloons and places of
amusement attracted Americans
from all parts of the country. 1t
was estimated tonight more than
700 Americans are in Juarez.
4 dispatch from San Antonio to-
night quoted Col. Enrique Bereeda.
brother Of the federal governor of
the Mexico City district, as having
said the Carranza government was
in a panic when he left Mexico City
a few days ago. He predicted. ac-
cording to the dispatch. that Car
rama would resign the Presidency
at an early date.
5000 Troops Desert.
Dispatches from Jiminez and Par
raj. two of the principal cities in
the State of Chihuahua. said Car
rama soldiers were deserting to
the rebels. More than 5000 troops
were said to have gone over to the
rebels cause within the last few
days.
Gen. L. Elias Gales, commander
of the Sonora state troops, was
said to be cOmmander-in-c chief of
the deserting Carranza forces.
Gales was reported to have sent
1-5GO Sonora troops to Chihuahua
city to take over the Carranza gar
Tison there.
villa forces were said to be op-
Grating in northwestern Chihuahua.
They were acting under the per-
sonal direction of PanchO Villa. but
it was said he had signified his in
tention of joining the Sonora lnde-
pendenCe movement.
Pueblo AIonzo, an agricultural
settlement in Durango. was raided
late Sunday by a band of outlaws.
who after killing all males found
there set fire to the town, accord
ing to word received here today .
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
Awards $500 Verdict
Against Father-in-Law
(By Herald Leased wire1

Hackensack, N. J.. April 2s.-Mrs.
Florence Waller. of Rutherford,
was awarded $500 by a jury to-
day as damages against her father
in-law, William P. Waller, for the
alienation of her husbands affec-
tions. Mrs. Waller was an en-
ploye at the store of her father
in-law before herN marriage and 1t
was the contention that he did not
approve OF the marriage because
of her social position.
The young woman testified that
she had not seen her husband since
he called on her in a hospital Just
before the birth of her son,
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30

b. Wilson. Secretary Of LAb1
whether the Communist Laberlt|
are subject to deportation und|
the act Of October Is. 1918. win
decided by Secretary Wilson N
week. The Communist party
America. an organizatfod which 4
Department OF Justice contends
similar TO the labor party In ever
thing but leadership and name. 4
ready has been placed under q
ban.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
Public Utilities Committee
Report Recommending
Them Voted Down.
ASK BETTER SEWERAGE
Board Rejects Plan to Form
Department of Public
Works.

In spite of a report from the
public utilities committee earnestly
recommending support. for the
chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company in their applica-
ton for higher rates, the board of
trade. meeting Wednesday night in
the New willard Hotel. voted al
most unanimously against it.
The chairman of the committee,
Charles W. Darr. declared the prof
it's of the telephone company had
almost vanished. DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley. calling attention to Darr' S
recent request that a recommenda- =
tion' by the committee on Public
Health for tuberCulin tested milk
for the District be postponed.
asked:
Which is more important. to
keep our children from drinking
germs of tuberculosis, or to grant
the telephone company exorbitant
rates?
Adopt Sewerage Report.
The report of the sewerage com
miEtee recommending immediate e
CONSTRUCTION of a sewage treatment
works to dispose of sewage now
discharged into tae Potomac River,
was UNANIMOUSLY adopted. The
committee chairman. Asa L. Phil
lips. declared that the present
method was a menace to public
health. and made the waters of the
Potomac, in the view of city ply
sicians. unfit for bathing and de-
structive to river fisheries.
4 committee appointed to study
recommendations by the United
States Chamber of Commerce. that
department of public works be
established in the national govern
ment, advocated the rejection of
the plan. The recommendation was
unanimously approved.
Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, was
guest and spoke.
"A city of 100000 or more peo-
pie in my State" he said, would
not possess an asset like Great
Falls two weeks before it would
have plans under way to convert
its energy into cheap electric cur
rent that would provide fuel, heat
and light. without burning COAL
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
BUFFALO SWITCHMEN
AGAIN COON STRIKE

Buffalo, n. Y, April 29.-Switch-
men in the Gardenville yards Of the
New York Central Railroad quit
work today, resuming their strike
which ended two weeks ago. Abou,
300 men were affected.
A number of switchmen in the
yards Sof the Erie Railroad also
walked out, ID was said. Other
roads were unkffected.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30

prevent violence arising from any
demonstration. Instructions have
gone forth to Federal district at
torneys and departmental agents In
cities known TO. be centers OF the
Communist groups.
To DetermIne.
The challenge OF Communist La
Dor" is viewed by oficials as par
ticularly significant, as the status
of the organization and its members
is now being determined by William
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
TWO STATES JOIN
IN REBELLION TO
GUST CARRANZA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

had attacked the city of Guadala-
jara and succeeded iE cutting the
towns light, water ard ROVER sup
ply.
George T. Summerlin. charge daft
faires of the American Embassy at
Mexico City, who is on his way back
to his post. was reported by the
State Department as having left
Laredo Wednesday afternoon. He
should be in Mexico City today or
tomorrow.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30

lPublic Ledger Service. }
The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
Richmond May Raise Gas Price.

Richmond. Va. April 29.-The city
Of Richmond will lose $4,000 this
year on the operation of it's gas
works unless there is a substantial
increase in the selling price of gas
Mayor Ainslie is expected to recon-
mend an increased rate.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09

siderable indemnity already by as
suming control Of the great bulk OF
the German colonies. France has re-
ceived Alsace-Lorraine, and her
claims would be fully met by the ac-
QUESTION of the German Rhineland.
The Rhineland will go to her, at all
events, should Germany be unable to
pay the indemnity in full.
Settling war on the basis Of eco
nomic penalties is extremely diff
cult and complicated. The council
shrinking from applying Foch's
method directly, really applied it IN
directly-~in the provision for an In
definite French occupation of the
left bank of the Rhine. 1t will be a
curious outcome of the peace if its
"no annexation" professions, al
ready violated in part, will eventu.
ally be violated on a grand scale by
the extension Of the French eastern
border to the bank Of the Rhine, not
alone at Strasburg, but at Mainz
Coblenz and Cologne.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09
Humbug and Hypocrisy
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The statement in the Pittsbureh
dispatch published in this mornings
issue of your paper, that prominsns
ministers and leading prohibitionists ct
that city are on record as purchasers
of liquor is not surprising to those who
are familiar with the humbug and
hypocrisy that have accompanied the
"dry" propaganda. Coming nearer home,
there is the case Of one Of the most
prominent advocates Of prohibition Ia
this city who purchased and stored u
the basement of the apartment houss
where he lives $4,000 worth Of liquors
Then there is the prominent member
of the committee of fifty on wartime
prohibition who has a seven-story
building filled with medicines" con.
tanning all the way from Is to so per
cent of alcohol. One of his widely sold
medicines" is composed of the drug
veronal and 36 per cent Of alcohol.
These are the "good people" who
arrogantly assume the right to dictats
to the wicked sinners as to the kind OF
beverages they shall drink. oh, Hum
bug, what crimes are committed in thy
name. WHIDDEN GRAHAM
New York, Feb. 6, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09
The Hoover Telegram

Our neighbor The World has
contracted to support Mr.. Hoover
for the Presidency on any ticket
and on any platform. 1t therefore
owes it to the public to secure the
publication Of the text of the tele-
gram which Mr.. Hoover sent to
President Wilson last fall urging
him to come to an agreement with
the Senate on reservations to the
peace treaty. Secretary Tumulty
told The Worlds Washington CORE
spondent that Mr.. Hoover had per-
mission to give out the telegram, "if
he thought the publicity would do
him any good"
Mr.. Hoover, like most Americans,
is anxious to see the treaty ratified
on basis acceptable to the United
States and to our allies. The allied
governments have expressed their
willingness to accept the Senate
reservations. We don't recall that
The World welcomed that news
with any enthusiasm But if Mr..
Hoover welcomes it and if he
favors acceptance of the senate's
notifications, The Worlds views
will necessarily undergo certain
change. The country ought to know
how Mr.. Hoover and The World
stand to-day on the question of
Cutting the heart out of the league
covenant"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09
Imperial Air Routes

The development of six "im-
perial air routes" to connect Eng
land with the British possessions
overseas is suggested by Lord
Montagu de Beaulieu. With Sir
Ross Smiths sensational flight to
Australia, with the less spectacular
but equally significant opening of
the CapeCairo air route, and with
weekly mail service between
Karachi, in the northwest corner of
the Indian coast, and Bombay
already running, the foundations of
this colossal network Of aerial lines
are already laid. The six imperial
routes contemplated by Lord Mon
tagu are as follows:
/. England to Canada and the
United States, via Newfoundland.
2. England, via France and Spain,
to West Africa.
3. England, via France and Italy,
to Egypt, India and the Cape.
a. India to Burma, Federated
Malay States, Australia and New
Zealand.
5. India and Burma to Hong
Kong.
6. Australia to British Polynesia
and South Sea Islands.
This is certainly vast scheme
and Lord Montagu rosslizes its exc
cution cannot be expected over
night. It postulates, however, for
the most part no new lines Of aerial
conquest, but merely the develop
ing and systematizing of facilities
already at hand. Lord Montagu
urges that the splendid organizatio
that has secured to Britain aerial
leadership in the late war should
be maintained intact, and also that
the government should take a hand
in stimulating private enterprise in
the field of air service. The i'm
portance of this imperial network
Of air communications in case OF
another war is, of course, one of
the most telling arguments in its
favor.
Is the United States willing to
lag behind in the fight for the
mastery of the air?
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09

themes with their ever-recurring mar.
ginal annotations in red ink. 'vulgar!,
'colloquialism!' 'slangl' too exuber.
anti But at least in SO far as con.
Germs outside reading, my daughters
growing mind shall wander where j,
will, joyous and without coercion. She
is particularly enamored of the dc.
lightfully multitudinous works of L :
Haggard. When she had read i. (
could obtain from our local bookselIer
the latter ordered more from the pub.
fishers, who wrote to him as follows
in regard to the order:
cannot say that any of Haggaras
novels are exactly suitable fora gl.l
about fifteen years of ago They are
all stories Of love and adventure, sp.
pealing rather more to the mature
reader. However, we are inclosing 4
list Of his works and II your customer
insists on giving the young lady stories
by Haggard, we would suggest that he
pick from the titles marked with an x
"Now, by great good fortune, my
daughter had read only books by Hag'
gard not marked with an x on this
list, SO could order the Xed ones
thus running no risk of shocking our
bookseller.
"All in all, my twelve-year- old I.
learning a good deal and enjoying Il
too, quite apart from and in spite d
Education"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09

the Senate had yielded--an auto
cratic dictatorship responsible to no
one--so long as the Presidents
term Of Office lasted. We should
have lost the limitations and safe
guards Of our American system and
gained no whit Of the English re-
sponse to the popular will. Under
the English system, for example,
Mr.. Wilson would have gone out of
Office with the election Of 1918 and
would have had nothing to do with
the writing Of the peace. Our
American system looks to slower
expression of the popular will and
expands the independence Of the
President by giving him a fixed
term of office; but it qualities
gravely his authority by giving the
Senate joint power over the MAX
ing of treaties. Such, at least, was
it's letter and spirit until Mr.. Will
son, in his overweening desire to
dictate peace to the world, sought to
tie the Senate's hands in advance
and prevent it from exercising any
of it's constitutional power.
The same vice turks in Article x
Of the league covenant; and it is be-
cause the Lodge reservation makes
our constitutional position clear for
ourselves and for the whole world
that it has gained so much popular
support.
We need to recover our constitu-
tional balance; and the Senate,
slowly, often blunderingly and amid
much partisanship, is leading in this
vital and necessary labor. That is
why, we conceive, the popular sup
port Of The Senate majority has
grown steadily and surely. No pro-
vincialism is necessarily involved in
this tendency. 1t is only old-fash-
ioned Americanism and common
sense resisting subtle but vastly
dangerous and vicious distortion Of
our governmental system.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09

pendent of any action taken by Con-
gress. The second, he admits, can
not exist until Congress recognizes
them.
He has depended on this meta
physical abstraction to combat the
Senate's reasonable demand for full
recognition Of the dual character of
our government. He seems to be still
depending on it to vindicate the
original soundness and merit of
Article X.
To any practical mind Mr.. Will
sons course is confusing and virtu-
ally unintelligible. 1t is impossible
to dissociate the moral and the legal
obligations created by Article X.
We must accept both if we enter the
league, and must accept them to the
same extent and in the same man.
ner. Mr.. Wilson's letter to Senator
Hitchcock is unconvincing and OBJ
scure, because it deals with meta
physics and not with political reali-
ties. His followers in the Senate do
not understand him. The country
has only vague sense Of what he is
driving at.
If he continues his present tactics
much longer the public will be forced
to conclude that he is fighting for
his own prestige and glorifcation,
and with view to leading his party
again next fall in a great and SOL
emn referendum" which is to be CO
incidental with our Presidential
election.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09
The Senate as Hero

The Senate is not fitted by nature
to be a popular hero--no large body
of men is. The President, by his
position and by tradition, is a natu-
raj hero. He is master Of his own
house, he can act and speak dra-
matically, while the Senate must
compromise and dilly-dally.
Yet it is the most striking fact Of
the long duel between the President
and the Senate over the peace treaty
that the Presidents sway upon the
national mind has waned and the
Senate's position grown stronger and
stronger. The strongest and most
eager advocates of the league have
observed this phenomenon and been
nonplussed by it. They have de-
plored the change as a return of
American provincialism; and in a
measure they may be right.
But we think there is larger fac
tor at work and that it is not dis
heartening sign. To the contrary,
we rate it as the soundest evidence
that the American people have not
forgotten how to govern themselves,
and, faced with New World prob
lens, cling as tightly as ever to their
ancient American wisdom.
That factor is, we submit, an tn
stinctive realization that President
Wilson, by his conduct Of the peace
negotiations and by the form in
which he cast our obligations under
the league of nations, was swinging
our American system Of government
far from it's old center of gravity
and toward a new, strange centrali-
zation of personal power for which it
was never intended and for which it
was totally untitled.
The two systems are clear-cut and
familiar. There is much to be said
for the responsible Cabinet system
of England, wherein the. executive
is chosen by the national legislature
and endures only so long as he COM
mands majority of that body
There is much to be said for our
historic American system Of divided
powers, lodged in an independent
executive and an Independent legis.
lature, cooperating, correcting one
another in many matters-the adop.
tion of treaties, for the great ex.
ample-but always independent in
origin and in term of office.
What Mr.. Wilson attempted was
to graft the English system Of
absolute executive authority upor
our own system of an independent
executive. The result is to give the
defects of both and the virtues Of
neither. We should have 'had-i1
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09
Where Were the Vets,

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Virginia adopted prohibition
by a popular vote on September q,
1914, the majority exceeding 10000. Il
Is hard to understand why Charles
Heinline jr., of Norfolk, thinks that
the majority wants it "wet" He says
ne thinks there is no way to prove Il
except by direct vote. Where has he
been all this time? / believe the peo-
pie voted nearly everywhere in the mr.
tlon and would have voted in New York
II the present Governor and few for
mer members of the Legislature had
not voted TO deny the people of New
York the right to vote during all the
years while the Anti Saloon League M
trying to get vote, and it succeedel
1or all the towns and cities Of the stst1
except New York City.
A. B. WOOD.
New York, Feb. s, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09
The President S Courage
May Ii Enable Him TO Accept the
Peace Treaty

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When President Wilson went
abroad to represent this country at
the peace conference he publicly
stated to the world that he had the
American people behind him. but he
made no reference to the fact that no
action or agreement on his part could
bind this government unless ratfica-
ton by the Senate followed He, of
course, knew this; whether the Allies
knew it or not is a question. They
know it now.
While representing this country
abroad, whenever the slightest oppo-
sition to his views became manifest he
went over the heads of the Allied gov
crnments and appealed directly to the
people He did this in Englsnd, France
and Italy, and now when Lord Grey, in
his letter, endeavors to help us out of
the muddle we are in, he finds fault
with him, criticizes him, etc.
Lord Grey is one of the ablest dip
lomats in the world and is so regarded
Is it not fair to assume the following:
Having been sent to this country on a
special mission (Which was disclosed
in his letter.. is it not more than
probable that his own government, as
we'll as France and Italy, were in ac-
cord otherwise dissension would have
arisen among them)? Proof of their
accord we now have in the ndorse-
ment OF Lord .Grey's letter by the Eng
lish, French and Italian governments.
Reaching Washington, obviously Lord
Grey's first move must have been an
effort to consult President Wilson;
there is no statement affirming or deny
ing this from Washington. After sew
eral months stay in this country, feel
ing the public pulse, interviewing Re-
publican as we'll as Democratic Sena-
tors, realizing that the sooner the
treaty was signed by our government
the sooner would peace and prosperity
come into the world, and failing to
reach the President, he did the proper
thing in letting the peoples of the
world and this country know that
England, France and Italy were not
unwilling to accept the amendments
proposed by the Senate; even Senator
Hitchcock, President Wilson's mouth
piece, frankly admits that he does not
see any discourtesy in Lord Grey's
action. Lord Grey interviewed numer-
Gus Democratic and Republican Sena-
tors, who undoubtedly indorsed his
views, as no disclaimer has yet ap-
peared. Lord Grey is too much of a
d1plomat-and too much Of gentle
man-to Intimate anything of the kind
but he may be forced by unjust criti-
clsm to make clean breast Of his
experiences in this country. This
might not be pleasant reading for
President Wilson.
1t Is sincerely to be hoped that the
treaty will pass next week and that the
President may have the moral courage
to sign the document which the world
demands, and a new era will begin for
the nations Of the world. If this is
not done God only knows what will
happen, for as matters stand to-day
we are rapidly approaching chaos.
| L. C. T.
New YerA Feb. 8, 1920,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-09
German Ability to Pay
covenant

John M. Keynes's book, "The Eco
nomic Consequences of the Peace"
has revived discussion Of the
methods taken at Paris to saddle on
Germany some part of the cost of
the war. Mr.. Keynes holds that the
financial reparation program adopt
ed by the peacemakers is impracti-
cable. He says that it loads on Ger
many debt which she cannot dis
charge and that her economic ruin,
if she should attempt to pay in full,
or even in large part, would entail
the economic ruin of the Continent
Of Europe. =
Germany started the war delib-
erately. Having lost it, it is right
that she should settle to the best of
her ability. She has no moral claim
to be let off with nominal punish
ment. The council decided that she
should pay chiefly in money, securi-
ties, commodities and notes repre-
senting future earnings and labor.
This decision involved a large re-
nunciation on the part of the Allies.
For Germany's ability to pay in this
manner was limited by her economic
condition, which is now desperate,
and probably will remain so for
years to come.
Mr.. Keynes says that if the coun-
Gil was not self-deceived in thinking
that Germany could pay in the man
ner provided, it at least sought to
deceive the people of France and
Great Britain into hoping that a
large measure of financial repara-
tion would be obtained. This charge
is admitted even by some of Mr.,
Keynes's most ardent critics. David
Hunter Miller, the legal adviser of
the American Peace Commission
contends that Mr.. Keynes has
greatly exaggerated the German in
demnity. He says that Germany is
committed to pay only about $14,.
600, ,000, 900, instead of $4,000, ,00O,-
900, as Mr.. Keynes estimates. But
Mr.. Miller admits that the trainers
of the peace treaty took into account
a "delusion" that Germany ought te
pay more and was going to be made
to pay more. This "delusion" was
recognized in the form given to the
reparations section, Mr.. Miller says
But he argues that the consequences
Of this "delusion" may be escaped
later in the process Of collecting the
indemnity.
4 Both Mr.. Keynes and Mr.. Mile,
overlook, however, an alternative
method Of reparation if Germany's
financial obligations are not dis.
charged. Marshal Foch distrusted
the reparation venture which the
council adopted. He realized that
sofar as France was concerned, Ger.
nany's real indemnity asset was the
left bank of the Rhine. And that
asset has been put in pawn tt
France and Belgium.
Great Britain has collected con-