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New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Hays Plans toPut
Postal Department
On Business Basis
New Postmaster General
Hopes to Improve Morale
of Workers With Least
Interference of Politics

Will H. Hays, who tomorrow will
become Postmaster General in Presi-
dent Harding's Cabinet, has made it
clear to Republican leaders that he is
not going to be a political headsman,
but, on the contrary, the Postoffice De-
partment is to be put on strictly
business-like and scientific basis as
soon as he can work out plans to that
end.
Mr. Hays, through men in the Post
Office Department, already has obtained
a large fund of information about the
condition of the organization. The
morale is low and the men in the large
centers, like New York, Chicago, Phila-
delphia, st. Louis and Detroit, are
greatly discouraged. To man they
are looking forward to the coming
that they cannot be worse off under
Mr.. Hays, but that their work possibly
may be made much pleasanter.
One of the first things to be at
tempted by Mr.. Hays, it was said yes
terday will be thoroughgoing in
stalation of welfare work among the
rank and file. The welfare Of the en-
ployees has been so neglected as to
dshearten and demoralize them. This
has greatly lowered the efficiency Of
the entire organization, impelling a
large percentage Of really valuable
men to seek other employment.
The new Postmaster General is rec
ognized in Republican circles as busi-
ness manager of the first rank, with a
faculty of getting big results for a
given outlay Of money, and his plan for
the Postoffice Department includes the
introduction Of approved busines;
methods, improved machinery, an eX-
tension of the legitimate business OF
the department, an extension OF the
rural free delivery and parcel post, and
a radical change in the methods which
have provoked so much criticism of the
Burleson administration.
There is great deal OF pressure
being brought to bear on Mr.. Hays TO
fire" every Democratic postmaster OF
consequence. Mr.. Hays has been in
politics a long time, and knows how
far department head can 90 in mix
ing politics with business without hurt
ing business. 1t is no secret that he
has decided to win friends for the Har-
ding Administration by the adoption OF
business methods, without much ref
erence 10 partisan politics.
the first class the Democratic incum-
longer than the period required for
President Harding and Mr.. Hays to
choose Republican successors. In the
smaller Offices there Will be the mini
mum of politics, with changes only
when and where they are fully war
ranted for strictly the good o.. the ser
yicp
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
German Offer Ludicrous,
Declares French Press

PARIS, March 2.--The Temps com
ments lengthily to-day on the mod
crate terms of the German counter
proposals concerning separations. The
newspaper points out that during the
period of thirty years, if the Germans
propositions were accepted, the Ger
mans, who were the aggressors, would
progress, bearing only a moderate bur
den, while the French nation, the vic
tins of German aggression. would be
forced to struggle painfully under a
colossal weight of taxation. 1t would
be an encouraging spectacle, the Temps
adds, for all those desrous of attack
ing their neighbors and preparing
Punic wars against Great Britain.
:. "Germany's ludicrous offer" appears
to sum up the view of the majority Of
+. Journals, and the remark of Premier
Lloyd George, eve had better adjourn
+ quickly or we will find we owe them
money" finds immense favor.
Premier Brands newspaper, the
Eclair, says: France hitherto has
shown the utmost patience, and if Ger
many compels her to do so she viii use
her strength remorselessly in full
agreement with the Allies"
The Petit Parisien, which has the
2 widest circulation of any Paris news
paper, says: Faced with the German
proposals, which insult the misery OF
the populations of our devastated
regions and which mock all the Allies
there is not a single one Of our young
soldiers who, if the nation should re
quire it, will not readily go and mount
guard in the Ruhr region"
jacques Rainville, the widely known
writer on foreign topics, says in LAC
tion Francaise: at is the good fortune
of France always to be able to count
upon the clumsiness Of the Germans
Their eternal blunders save us from
our own"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03

papers used in commenting on the Ger
man terms. Even the paciiist Daily
News confessed it was at d loss TO un-
derstand the German mentality.
"Thc Germans" the newspaper said,
truly nstonished the world by an abb
surd offer, which was utterly made
quatc and frankly unacceptable. I'm
less DR.. Simons returns to realities it
is goodby to a just settlement and a
solid European peace"
ut is not easy to speak with pa
thence Of this combination of business
cunning, chicanery and sheer impu-
dence,' asserted the London Times.
DOUBTLESS the German delegates are
armed with a whole series of sue
cessive schemes, each giving a little
more than its predecessor. But when
her bluff is called she will abandon it,
"Shadowy, ludicrous and ill-inform ed
rs Dr.. Simons's speech may have been,
said The Morning Post, "it served to
unite the Allies. 1t was tragic, be-
cause, even now, Germany does not
realize her infamy"
The Daily Telegraph declared no
body was prepared for such 'fantas-
tic offer. and adds: Great Britain
must support France whether naval
action or economic pressure Should be
decided upon"
"No trace of loyalty or good faith,
The Chronicle asserted, "appcarel ir
the offer, which was intended as ar
evasion of the Versailles Treaty."
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Soviet Chiefs
Admit Revolt
Is Widespread
(continued from page one)


that the situation in Russia is serious.
The latest official news received. how
ever, did not indicate that the Soviet
government had lost control.
The Russian trade delegation here
announced that it was communicating
directly with Moscow, and that it was
authorized to deny the rumors OF IA
revolution in Russia.
Fighting, Widespread
Reports from Russia received. this
morning in Helsingfors, Finland, by
way Of Rcval, Esthonia, disclose sit
uation (which may result shortly IN
the complete overthrow of Soviet rule.
says the Central News Helsingfors cor
respondent.
Fighting is proceeding in many parts
of Russia, with Petrograd and Moscow
AS the centcrs of the revolutionary
movement, the reports add.
The fighting in Petrograd is of gl-
gantc proportions, according to the
reports, for 100000 strikers are de-
clared to be arrayed against the Soviet
troops, whose exact NUMBER it is I'M
possible to estimate.
at is reliably reported" the dispatch
says, that very many have been killed
or wounded on both sides in street
fighting and that there has been con
siderable property damage. The naval
garrison at Cronstadt has joined the
rebels.
"Reports of the revolution in Mos
COW are meager, doubtless owing to the
censorship. One message indicates
that large numbers of ex-otficers OF
the Russian army are leading the in
surgents there.
Cadets Overwhelmed
"In Petrograd the military cadets
who have been among the most reiia-
BILE supporters of Soviet rule, suffered
heavy casualties. Combined forces OF
laborers and marines, of whom Toe
we're eX-service men, attacked the
cadets, drove them through the streets
to the schools and quickly overwhclme I'd
them. The surviving cadets obtained
shelter only when Soviet reinforce
ments were rushed up.
"Sanguinary fighting continued in
the streets and also in the neighbor-
hood of Petrograd. The garrison
while not participating actively in the
fighting, has handed over all it's arms
and munitions to the rebels. The
rebels are holding VASTLY Ostrov Ca
suburb of Petrograd) and important
residential quarters of the city.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03

giving greater direct power to the
trade unions, who have been simple
adjuncts Of the Soviet regime, withou,
any authority or Independence Of &C
tion. A vigorous debate on this point
is now in progress between leaders Of
the Soviet regime in the Soviet press
Only n few weeks ago the Bolsheviki
were badly defeated in the elections
to the central factory council of Petro.
grad, when so-called "non-partisans'
won 70 per cent of the seats. The
election Of Social Revolutionists and
Menshevik majorities in local 5oviets
throughout Russia is also known tc
be fact. These Soviets are being
dispersed by force Of arms by the Bol.
sheviki, this action serving to fan the
bitterness and opposition of the work
ing people against the Bolsheviki. Thi:
state of affairs in the political field
combined with the most serious aggra
vation of the industrial situation forms
a most fertile basis for aggressiv,
anti Bolshevik action in the indastria
centers, of which Petrograd is the fore
most.
Vassilyostrov, which is reported to
be in the hands of the revolutionists
in Petrograd, is not a suburb Of the
city 1t is an integral part of the
former capital, lying on an island, on
the north side Of the Neva and in
habited almost exclusively by work.
ingmcn. With the support Of the naval
garrison in Cronstadt and some ar
tilery on the northern bank Of the
river it could be held with comparative
ease by any more or less we'll organ
lied force for considerable time.
The number of 100000 strikers in
Petrograd mentioned in dispatches is
probably exaggerated. The population
Of Petrograd has been SO greatly re-
duced within the last three years that
the number Of industrial workers in
the city does not exceed 100000. 1t is
possible, however, that these have beer
joined by other sections Of she popula-
ton.
The end of February and the begin
ming of this month mark the fourth
anniversary Of the March revolution
and if the revolt reported to be ir
progress is actually under way the
present moment for it has been chosen
as politically propitious.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
.Souiet Papers Reaching
N. Y. Confirm Revolt
Food and Transportation Crisis
Is Most Desperate and the
Situation Is Tery Serious

While the reports Of an organized
insurrectionary movement against the
Bolsheviki in Petrograd and Moscow
must be taken with reserve, the fiat
denial Of any revolt against the Soviet
government by Bolshevik representa-
tves in London and New York should
likewise be discounted, according to
persons in New York who are follow
ing events in Russia.
That "the situation in Russia is seri-
ous," as stated in dispatches, is con-
tirmed amply by Soviet newspapers
reaching here recently directly from
Russia. Lenine, Trotzky. Zinovietf,
Stekloff Podvoisky and other promi-
ncnt chicftains of the Soviet govern
ment have lately been very frank in
saying that the masses, particularly
the workers in the cities, were ex-
tremcly dissatisfied with the Bolshevik
regime, and that the bulk of the Red
army, outside of its Communist nu-
clei, could not be relied upon as a force
Tor the preservation of order in the in
terror OF the country.
Direct Bolshevik sources have ad-
mitted frankly that the food and trans
portation crisis in Soviet Russia has
now reached its most serious and most
desperate point. The report that the
Red army garrison in Petrograd has
turned over its arms to the populace
reported to be in revolt, while the Com
munist troops-special Bolshevik de
tachments-and military cadets are
fighting the revolutionists, comedies
we'll with the known political COM
plexions of these military bodies.
There have been series of gigantic
explosions recently in Moscow and
Petrograd, produced by secret, con-
spiratory bodies opposed to the Boil
sheviSi, according to information re-
coived here. The most serious of these
was the explosion in Leon'ieff Square
in Moscow, whore much destruction and
loss of life took place. AS result
of the explosion one Of the chieftains
of the Soviet regime, Stekloff, who was
in close proximity to the blast, became
deaf. Stekloff is editor of the lives
tia, official organ of the Soviet govern
ment.
That there is serious anti Soviet
movement among the workers of petro-
grad, Moscow and other cities is evi-
denced by official Bolshevik reports
contained in the Soviet press. To stem
this movement the Soviet government
recently has entered upon the policy OF
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
France and the Turks
May Sign Peace To-day

LONDON, March 2 (By The
Associated Press peace will
be signed, probably tomorrow,
but at any rate before the week
end, between France and the
Turkish Nationalists, it was
learned here to-day. The signing
will take place in Paris.
Instructions already have been
tclegraphed by the delegates here
of the Angora government of
Mustapha Kemal Pasha and by
the French government for the
cessation of hostilities.
The terms of the treaty are not
as yet known, but an important
point is French evacuation of Ci-
licia, Asia Minor (the Adana dis
trict).
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Navy Wireless to Flash
Harding Speech Broadcast
High-Powered Stations Ordered
TO Send Inaugural Address
Throughout the World
From The Tribu,e's Washington B,

From The Tri6une's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 2.-President-
elect Harding's inaugural address will
be flashed to practically every part of
the world by navy wireless telegraph
at noon on March 4, Secretary Daniels
day announced.
Starting imme diately after II o'clock,
the high powered station at Sayville
will begin sending the message on 1880
meters, and at the same time Arlington
viii begin to broadcast on $500 meters.
The message will be picked up by the
San Diego station and relayed to the
Far East and in practically every cor
ner of the world; wherever, in fact, the
navy vessels are stationed the inaugu-
raj address will be picked up.
This method will enable amateur
operators in various parts of the coun-
try to copy the address, as all navy
wireless stations have orders to re-
broadcast it.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Carved Initials on Chest
TO Test Love, She Charges
Illinois Farmer Held After Ten.
ant Says She Had to Make
a Desperate Choice
(ContInusd from page onc)

PARIS, Ill.,, March "A statement
by Mrs Bessie Rogers that Glen Fors-
man, a farmer, had carved his initials
on her chest to test her love for him"
has resulted in the mans arrest The
Jail is being closely guarded here to.
day as a result of threats made against
Forsman.
Mrs. Rogers is the wife of a tenant
on Forsman's farm, it was said. Ac-
cording to. the woman, she was given an
alternative of the carving knife or the
branding iron. The initial &C" was
carved one day and the initial "F'" the
next. Both were deeply cut and more
than two inches high.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Won Tirpitz Is No Hero
To German Ship Workers
They Refuse to Put Over Vessel
With His Name and Launch
ing L. Postponed
Nteclul ('ab,,Ato nc Tr.OuNle

X BERLIN, March 2.Admiral Vor
Tirpitz has lost his popularity among
German shipbuilders. The 12o0oton
1reiehter Tirpitz was TO have been
Launched at Flcnsburg yesterday foI
Hugo SHINES, coal baron, but just be-
fore the ceremony the workmen in the
shipyard met and voted by q two-thirds
majority not TO permit the launching
unless The ships name was changed.
Won Tirpitz, who was to make the
christening speech, heard of the
,workmen's action and did not appear
The launching has been postponed in
definitely.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Packers Plan Disapproved
Court Opposes Substitute Stock
ward Proposal

WASHINGTON. March 2.-The Dis
trict Supreme Court to-day disap-
&, Co. and Armour & Co. for the sale of
their stockyard interests and allowed
thirty days for the taking Of testi-
mony as to the value of their holdings.
After this. the companies viii be q, en-
an opportunity to offer their stock for
sale at the price then fixed, or the
court will appoint trustees to take
over the stock. The two companies
were granted to next June | to dis
pose Of their stock in Jersey City stock
yards.
The court decreed that a Washing
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Traders and Bankers
Fleeing From Butl4,,,

CONSTANTINOPLE, March 2 (By
The Associated Press) .-Batum is be-
ing evacuated by Allied traders and
bankers and by some refugees who
reached that city from Tihis. Russian
Bolshcvik troops in large numbers are
invading Georgia from all directions,
it is said in dispatches received here.
The 9th Soviet Army has crossed the
Kodor River, which fiowes into the
Black Sea southeast of Sukhum Kale,
and is driving Georgian troops south
ward toward Poti.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Italian Riots Quelled
And Work Is Resumed
Appeal of Socialist Deputies and
Troops Efforts Restore
Order in Cities
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune In


MILAN, Italy, March 2.-Quiet is be-
ing restored and work resumed in
Florence and other places where there
have been bloody conflicts, partly
in response to an appeal by Socialist
Deputies to workmen to end their strike
and partly owing to the vigorous efforts
OF the government troops.
The Socialist Deputies last evening
issued a manifesto to workmen lament
ing the losses on both sides in the
recent fighting, and asking that the
!s, strike be called off so as to end the
useless civil war" which they &C.
clared was not of the Socialist pro-
gram.
In the last three days about twenty
persons have been killed in ths
Florence district and more than a
hundred wounded, while there we're
numerous other casualties at Spezia
and Trieste. The fighting in Florence
and vicinity yesterday was fully as
violent as that Of the two previous
days. Bombs were thrown at the
troops and Royal Guards. In nearby
villages the Communists threw UP
barricades behind which they en-
trenched, but as soon as troops ap-
peared with armored cars they scat
tered and their barricades were
levelled. In one village artillery was
turned against the Communists.
LEGHORN, Italy, March (By The
Associated Press) .-Communist resolu-
tlons were rejected yesterday at the
congress of the General Federation of
Labor, in session here. The congress
adopted by a tremendous majority a
resolution by the Unitary Socialists
pledglng support to the present leaders
of the general federation.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
In the Spring a woman' S
fancy turns to thoughts
of house cleaning

No annual from cellar-to-garret
house cleaning is more thorough
than the daily cleaning that
makes it always Spring-time
with Knickerbocker. Plants,
Equipment, Wagons, Horses,
Stables, with their snow-white
stalls-tnust all measure up
every day to Knickerbocker's
standard Of cleanliness.
That's qyhy knickerbocker Tce, rua4s
from 4-times filtered 7edter, frozen IN
sanitary containers and deliyered IL
dean egagons, IS the choice Of homes,
restaurants and hostitols sebere ciearl-
ness rules.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
British Press Denounces
Berlin Offer as Impudent

LONDON, March (By The Associ-
ated Press).--This- mornings newspa-
pers were unanimous in declaring That
the German offer of the equivalent of
$1,000. 100000 in reparations was wholly
inadequate. "Impudent," "ludicrous. !"
fantastic" and "grotesque" we're some
Of the adjectives the principal news
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03

ton trust company be named to -.
pose Of the interests of Morris r.
and Wilson & Go. in stockyards w w.
minals and market newspapers, -
court approved the Cudahy plan ~
disposing Of its interests and tn,s.
company TO take over the in.eross.
will be named. -'''
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03
Senate Confirms NcIntvre

WASHINGTON, March 2.-The norni-
nation of Brigadier General Frank Nc
lntyrc to be Chief of the War Depart
ment Bureau of Insular Affairs was
confirmed by the Senate in open scs-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-03

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-06-25
.KIWANIANS PICK
BALTIMORE MAN
FOR PRESIDENT
Toronto. Ont Il Selected as the
Convention City for
Next Year.

CLEVELAND. ohio. June A-Tha
nfth International convsntion - the
X wants clubs ended here today with the
election Il Harry q Kerr a. Baltimore.
a. International president and the seiec-
tlon ~ Toronto. ont aa the convention
city Tor next year. The trustees win set
the date later
Toronto emerged victorious over At
lanta today and Fort Worth. Texas. The
vote was Toronto. s5s. Atlanta. iE2. Fort
Worth. -
other officers elected include three
vice presidents and four trustees n a.
Mansfield Hobbs 81 New York was
chosen chairman ~ the district Royer-
nurH
IN outlining his policies. Mr.. Kerr said
he conceived 4 future FOR KlWnnis as a
truly representative organization ~ busi-
ness men, lie said while D. vas inter
ested in extending the international scope
u the organization he was principally in-
tsrested IN upholding the dignity ~ Ki-
wants and Increasing its leadership IN
constructive civic affairs.
United states Senator James ~ Wat
non ~ Indiana, in addressing the dele
gates. denounced Iadioaiism and Eovern-
ment ownership
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-06-25
WOODEN VESSELS
TO BE DISPOSED OF
Sale Of Tonnage as Soon as Busi-
ness Judgment Dictates
Is Announced.

NEW YORK. June 24.--DlsposaI or
destruction of ali wooden ships By OC-
tober ! and the sale 20 private owners
II all ether government owned ton
mage a. soon as good business judy
ment dictates. was promised here to-
day BY Albert u. Lasker. new chair
man Of the United states shipping
Board.
Mr.. Iasker meeting fourteen lead
Ing New Yerk steamship men az a
luncheon. pledged the boards cOopera-
ti0n with private operators every
where IN solving the problems now
confronting the American merchant
marine.
The meeting with the owners was
executive. but after & had adjourned
Afr Lasker declared the situation con-
fronting the board was the greatest
commercial wreck "a the history of
mankind. The board is and has been
losing for several months. ne added
approximately sixteen million dollars
a month. This is bound to continue
for months 20 come. ne said.
Claims against the shipping board
he said. VIII receive prompt attention.
President Harding he added. "will
soon appoint an arbitration court OF
three prominent men before whom al
pending claims. estimated az three
hundred million dollars win be brought
for quick adjustment The names Z
these men. ne said win be announced
next week
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-06-25
WARREN NAMED
FOR JAP POST
Michigan lawyer Chosen BY
President Harding for Am
bassador TO Japan.

WAEifNGTON. june 2s.--Charies
y. Warren. o. Mlchigan. q lawyer and
business man who for number -
years has been prominent nxure IA
republican naiioaal peiitlcm has been
ehossn - President II4rdlne - AN
hasssaor % Japan
Announcement of ths selection was
made az tire white house late today
upon reeeips - the customary ansur-
anees that AR warren's appointment
would be acceptable to the Japanese
government soon Afterwards hls
nomination was ssnt to the senate bat
reached there too late "a be received
formally AZ today's session
II wiii be sent r. again when the
senate rer0Bvenew MONDAY
Although Ar Warren has been
closely associated with the Harding
administration. and az che time Is
understood % have been seriously con-
sitered for 4 place 81 the cabinet. his
selection as mmhaKsadur vas 4 sur
prise q most ~ official Washington
Ills name never had arured ln the
ANNM At@k ~ AAH## NANtANAN NA#E A#Affs
Tor the Toxic poet and some ~ his
closest friends had understood thar he
preferred not 10 enter public service
up0n arrival at Toxic the new am
win hnd several important
diplomatic tasks awaiting his atten-
tion Administration officials haa In
dicated they regarded the post a. one
of the most important Is the dlpio-
matte service
Besides the question - the Cali
fornia anti-aiien land laws. the sub
iecfs which now are pending between
and Toxic Include such
factors a. japanese control - shan
tunw japanese occupation - the
northern hair ~ the island % Eawha-
lien. and disposition q ne island %
Zap.
Informal conversations are under
stood - have heen ln progress here
between the state department and the
Japanese ambassador and Il - expect
- that when the new American am
goes 70 Toxic. ne VIII carry
Nith him important instructions re-
gardinR the stand of this government. |