The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-23

national honor does not permit com
pilance with the demand, the San An
| tonic Express (Ind. Dem.l causticany
remarks that in such crises the German
functionaries invariably 'succumb TO
rush Of German honor to the head.
| This merely means, thinks the Omaha
| Bee CRep.) that the fact of defeat has
not been properly driven home" and
| the Lynchburg News (Dem.) notes that
| the allies either won the war or they
only partially won the war" and holds
that now is the time to demonstrate /,
| which.
But many contrary opinions are ex-
| pressed The Nashville Banner Qndl
| believes that these prosecutions could
| be profitably abandoned. The
world wants peace, quiet and work. It
| is needed that agitation of all kinds
|, should cease and that the normal con-
ditions of trade and industry be re-
| stored" The Dallas News (Ind. DemD
holds that while there is no use IN
senthnentali2ing over Germany" new
| ertheless there sis equally little to be
gained by being vindictive and forcing
her into an action by which she feels
| that she will dishonor herself and which
can do us no possible good. The
Peoria Transcript Qnd) frankly calls
the allied demand "fourflushing,' and
the Norfolk Virginian- Pilot Gnd Dem.l
| calls it another allied bungle.' The
Chicago Tribune (Ind. Rep thinks that
to enforce the demand may leave
field of hatred in which good will can
not grow in a hundred years As for
the argument that to yield in this case
would encourage the Germans to ques-
ton other clauses of the treaty, the
New York Evening Post (lnd.) suggests:
The simple answer that precisely BY
not insisting on the weakest Of their
claims the allies put themselves in
position to press for the fulfillment Of
the essentials of the peace. Re-
auisitions should have been made in
cases only of wanton and unnistakable
guilt. A list that brackets Won
Bernstorff with the criminals Of Lou
vain, and Zimmerman and Helfferich
with the Uboat assassins Is a list IN
wisely compiled"
The Steubenville Herald-S Star (Rep !,
fears also that IAN attempt to deport'
them to foreign soil for trial would IN.
doubtedly be followed by revolution,
and urges that Germany needs stable
government to pay the enormous in
IDENTITIES" Taking up the same theme,
the st. Louis Globe Democrat tRep)
says:
IF it be true that pressure for the
arrest and trial of these men is inclined
to create anarchy in that country the
allied governments vii be disposed TOT
move slowly. The slower they move
the weaker will grow the popular in
sstence for punishment, already diInin-
ished by the cooling of the passions Of
, conflict"
The allied demand was never anything
hut pose, and an inslncere one, thinks
George" it says, merely raised the slo-
gans of Hang the kaiser and make
the Germans pay In order to get re-
elected" and the Philadelphia Press
(Rep.) thinks the whole affair "fiasco'
and that Lloyd George is already shift
| the 80 far. Nv n that
England never intended to support the
, demand for such wholesale numbers Of
/ Germans As for tie French, they are
! more concerned that Germany deliver
the coal called for by the treaty than
that it deliver the criminals" according
to the Buffalo News CRep9.
/ The offer OF the crown prince TO sur 4
: render himself as a substitute for the
accused 900 is taken largely as jokes
!, 1T indicates valuation of his own i'm Il
: Und.). that perhaps even some OF the
! 900 would not accept" and the New
n York Tribune (Rep.) says there al
+ ways was something of the comic val
: entine about the crown prince. HIS
last effort to pose as hero and martyr
Is not much better than its predeces-
, sors" Won Bernstorff's Willingness to
, surrender for trial is taken more Sc
> riously, but the Seattle Post-lntelli-
gencer 0nd. Rep) suesses he was too
], | clever to leave traces or his guilt ana
! that he knows he could not be con-
, victed.
More Congressman.
1t is more or less officially estimated
that the 1920 census will show an in
crease of population in the United
States Of 10 per cent. If the existing
/, plan of sending to WASHINGTON one
representative in congress for every
J 220 900 of population continues to be fol-
r lowed, more than 40 new members
would he added to that company whiolV
SITS under the speakers eyes. This ad
/ 6ition would give q total house mem
bership Of about ATS for a population OF
10 COO 900,
$ Forty -folr representatives we're added
+ to the membership of the house as a
result Of the 1910 census. Each 10
year period, in fact has increased the
number az representatives by approx
/ mately 40. It is by these accretions
that the total membership Of the house
Of congress has increased to its pres
! ent size from the IS congressman in
the first house.--salt Lake Tribune
t (Rep).