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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
IRISH STILL OBEY
RULE Of S|NN FEM
Dali Eireann Parliament Con-
tinues as Dominant Author
ity in Country.

DUBLIN. February 5.-The dali
eireann, the Sim Fein parliament. in
the minds Of an overwhelming ma
jority of the Irish people continues as
the domipant-the only legitimate
authority in Ireland. 1t is treated
as an authoritative body None of
the municipal or county bodies which
pledged allegiance to 1t have with
drawn from that position.
The dali creams instructions are
obeyed by these subsidiary bodies,
and all dealings with the Irish local
government board, which represents
the British government. are barred.
For this reason the board Is unable
to make its customary audit Of coun-
ty and city accounts. The result is
increasing difficulty in every dis
trict.
Two Sets Of distractions.
"Rate." or tax. collectors are faced
with two sets of instructions-one
from British government representa-
tives. or the local government board
thority. A kings bench decree. de-
signed to compel these collectors to
obey the law. has been unavailing.
Obedience of-crown instructions, in
many cases, would doubtless bring
severe punishment. IL not death. to
the COlleCtOT.
Tax collecting, needless to say. is
not brisk. The balances in local
treasures are proving insufficient to
enable authorities to maintain public
institutions. In Sligo banks have
refused to permit overdrafts, and
there is no money to pay the con-
tractors. who are. therefore. with
drawing their services. Patients in
hospitals are without sufficient food
and the inmates OF the poorhouse
are in similar plight.
suEEestions Are Approved.
The chairman of the board of al
dermen approved the suggestion OF
dali cream that leading men of the
city be asked to advance ESQ each
to relieve the situation, but there
was no response.
In Queens county the greater part
OF the taxes Of the county, amount
ing to about $4,000. remains uncol-
lected. and the resources of the
county are exhausted, involving
serious consequences to the lunatie
asylum and several hospitals. The
county council at its meeting re.
solved to ask the advice OF dali
cream. They have no doubt of its
ability to meet. and are willing to
act upon its instructions.
At Bray. an important seaside
suburb within twelve miles of Dub
lin, an attempt was made by a mem
Der Of the town council to get out
of financial troubles by resembling
a resolution acknowledging allie
glance to dali eireann, but he did not
find a seconder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
Deploring Severity of Germany's Penalty,
Harden Comedies Its Essential Justice

of the crushing and bitter burden Of foreign
occupation. and could borrow from America.
with the approval Of the allies, who would be
entitled to supervise our exterior finances about
two billion dollars. enabling to pay our first
annuity and purchase necessary foodstuffs and
raw materials without further imitation.
then could manage the next five years with the
quiet conscience of poor but Industrious man
who is striving with all his might to repay his
debts. That must pay about three billion
marks yearly, must have been clear to every
body. and now we must by our earnest work
and economical life overcome the discrepancy
between gold and paper marks.
Thinking about years beyond 1926 and 1927,
and blowing the trumpets of moral Indignation
because We must carry mountainous burdens
from 1892 to 1868, seems senseless to me. HUI
manity is ever changing. Houses which today
are built for the young will not be habtable
for the old. BY 1926 indeed. the whole world
will have quite different aspect and the day
when Brands clever staging insured the en-
tentes infexible unity and offered Jacobs
ladder of brilliant rungs of figures to the French
imagination. while lifting from the British lions
already graying name at least the one burden
of dumping competition will hardly be remem-
bered. In the changed world of the future the
true face of new Germany will be clearly recog-
nzed else the old one of 1914. will be I'M
masked. And only then will you European
agreement which will extend beyond this con-
tinent and which wise men may call final. So
l not quite sure. you. my boy. will have to
bear the chains of debtor slavery which, how
ever, weigh more heavily than any tribute laid
on barbarians by ancient Rome
The world has developed essentially beyond
the time when the Athenans. in pious contem-
pation. at the foot Of their recently destroyed
Acropos, listened to tragedy which, without
word of hate triumph only described the
misery and distress of the conquered Persians.
To baptize you. with the holy spirit of such
feeling. my boy, who born to suffer, is the
ardent wish of this mild winter day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06

ated armies OF crpples widows and orphans.
and after her defeat she signed treaty promis-
ing to compensate all loss 1nasmuch she
jects all demands impossible of fulfllment-
even those whose subsequent fulfllment proves
to the contrary-she does not make single
proposal herself. but is again flirting with mon
archism, militar1sm and revenge. is again glori-
flying Wilhelm and Won Bethman-Hollweg. and
spending enormous sums on imported luxuries,
horse racing. champagne, tea. coffee. etc. She
makes no attempt to conceal her sumptuous
feasts while thousands of her children are
living on foreign charity For all these reasons
we must act theoretically to force payment. ANY
impartial business man would call creditor a
dupe who let himself be called a leech and hyp-
ocrite by the sef-same man who squandered
his money, and who whenever he asked to
pay. repeated the same litany about misery and
ruin"
That is unanswerable. The conquerors de-
mand about a hundred billion marks. which
Germany had already offered, with reservations,
at Versailles, and they declare the depreciation
of the German currency, which makes great
difference between gold and paper marks, is not
their fault. But, unable to pay i'm
mediately. the payment is spread over forty-two
years. which. with interest. makes the figures
agreed upon in Paris
For the purpose of controlling German
port trade and preventing dumping. - per
ceent tax is imposed. which not only provides
income for creditors. but permits their
interference with German trade
* X X
Whoever has a sense of duty and sees the
necessity of alleviating in every possible way
the terrible devastation in northern France and
the result of other horrors will not deny the
justice of this reasoning With the help Of Ger
man experts, it must be proved that the amount
of damage has been correctly reckoned. No just
will dispute that the proceeds of the ex-
port tax and the amounts already paid should
be subtracted from the total. If were freed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
BY RENE vIVIANI,
Former Premier Of France.

Special Cable Dispatch to The Star.
PARIS. February 5.-Once more the
deep-rooted friendship of the allied
peoples has been reflected in the
solidarity Of their governments. The
somewhat sharp discussions at the
first sessions of the Paris conference
should not for a moment have raised
the fear that the conference would
break up in discord. The allied peo-
pies fought the war in common and
found themselves inspired by almost
a common soul, and even if their
governments were hostile, which is
untrue, the peoples are so entirely
harmonious that they would prevent
any disunity.
These peoples have examined the
future and counted the risks inherent
to agreement or rupture and they
have realized that only through unity
can they obtain the satisfaction slip
ulated in the treaties. Thus. reason,
as well as sentiment, has been served
by that great spirit OF world democ-
racy which, though it does not know
everything, knows the art of heart
to- heart communication. Indeed, the
allied peoples look still further, they
realize that world peace must be
founded on a final basis because the
war would be without decision and
without a moral if it had not taught
this lesson of justice. Consequently
they never doubted that an agreement
would be reached by their plenlpo-
tentiaries.
Not Propositions to Germany.
The publication of the conferences
resolution is followed by Germany's
official opinion. expressed in the
reichstag by Won Simons. after 1t was
foreshadowed by the indignant pro-
tests Of the German press. We are
indifferent to Germany's fury and In
dignation, and we are not taken In
by this comedy, following the other
comedy which has been running two
years, consisting of an effort by Ger
many to convince the world of her
distress. Won Simons regards the
Paris resolutions as propositions
made by the entente to Germany. Nat
urally, If they were propositions, the
door would be open to counter prop
oGtions But they are something else.
Tine time for discussion is over-the
hour for action is here, and PROOF
that il was not question OF propo-
sitjons to be rejected or modified IS
the allied provision for means OF en-
forcement in case Germany does not
execute the DEGREES. ;,
Hence Germany cannot have the IL
fusion that she may gain more time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
RADICALS BACK
BUEL0W IN PRUSSIA
Hope to Elect Him President
and Obtain Majority in
Reichstag.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1921.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1921.
BERLIN, Germany. February A.
Reactionary political parties in Prus-
STA are congratulating themselves on
the prospect Of the new Brussels con-
ference being put on until March. and
ence will not be held until February
27-that is, until after the Prussian
elections have taken place. These
parties. with the monarchistic Ger
an-nationalist organization as their
leading spirit. have formed a phalanx
against the present government
Strange to say. even the social demo-
Gratis and Independent socialists are
trailing behind them and uniting in
their war cry: Down with the Paris
indemnity demands"
The only party that is revolving
mist party. The reactionaries. through
their propaganda and the fact that
they were against signing the treaty
of Versailles in June. 1919. hope 10
get a government controlled by the
nonarchistic elements by means of
the elections on February ~
Appeal to Patriotism.
So much is being written in the
newspapers of all political shades
against the governments even dream
ing of accepting the Paris terms that
the public mind is being stirred up
to a high pitch of patriotic excite
ment.
1t is probable that hundreds Of thou
sands of voters who a month ago
would never have thought of going
back on the labor parties will vote
the reactionary ticket. The result
may be that a reactionary like Prince
Won Buelow the former imperial chan
cellor will be elected president of the
German republic instead of the HARM
less President Ebert, who used to be
a saddler. Another result may be
that the reactionary right wing
parties will have a majority in the
reichstag.
Outbreak in Prospect.
If these developments really take
place they will almost amount to
right-about-face and a return to the
old regime. only under a semi-imper-
ialistic rule. What Germany will look
like after four years of semi-imp.rial-
istic rule only those who are familiar
with the German spirit from A to u
understand. Many things might hap
pen. but the thing that is almost sure
to happen If the reactionaries come
into power and when the labor classes
awake to that fact is a bolshevist
outbreak and an effort on the part OF
the laboring people to join hands with
soviet Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
PLANS TO RELIEVE
NATIONS IN POVERTY
George N. Barnes Tells of Schemes to Aid
Countries-British on Repara-
tions Agreement. =

desist from her propaganda in the
orient and Britain undertaking not
to initiate proceedings for the at
tachment of gold or goods imported
from Russia. IL Is not q promising
document. Nothing in IT prevents an
individual claimant from initiating .
seizure for former debts. Trade is not
likely to progress much under such
conditions. Nor are the soviets likely
to abandon their propaganda in the
east or elsewhere. 1t is their only
chance of success. Any contrary
agreement. however. would simply be
scrap of paper. Trade might even
be used to stimulate propaganda.
ly In the Japanese deliberations on
Russian trade.
l maintain my views, already ex-
pressed. that the prospects Of Russo
British trade are not good and will
not improve unless both sides are In
duced. by urgent necessity. to make
far greater concessions and give far
greater assurances than has hereto
fore been the case.
Interest in South African elections
is intensifying. apparently. az the
chances Of Gen. SHUTS are improving.
The Dutch nationalists. realizing that
cutting the painter" is not SO popu-
lar slogan as they expected. already
are discla inning their intention to
force the severance question. even II
successful at the polls. Smuts how
ever. is forcing them to face the is
sue.
Labor's Proposals Unsatisfact0Fy.
Labor's unemployment proposals
have been found to be some hat con-
sentative. Although emphasis is laid
on the resumption of trade with Rus
STA and central Europe, there are no
helpful suggestions toward removing
the difficulties. Parliament will be
asked to adopt the proposals, as will
the labor convention scheduled for
February %. Meanwhile. the impress
sion prevails that labor failed to
score.
Sympathy for disarmament Is en-
couraged here by the proceedings in
America. where, it appears to US.
there is a curious clashing OF forces
with respect to the league. on one
hand, and armament reduction. on the
other.
We have no right to question the
motives of those forcing the pace. but
] believe British cooperation is ready
for any real effort toward lessening
warlike expenditures. / have little
doubt that this view is being Endorsed
in the conversations now proceeding
between Mr.. Lloyd George and AM
bassador Geddes.
Copyright. 1921, BY The washinxtoa starD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
FICTION IN HIGH FAVOR.
11,OO4 New Books Published in
United Kingdom in Year.

LONDON. February 5.-Fiction in
1920 ran first in public favor in. the
United Kingdom as it did in 1914.
Sociology now comes second, in
stead OF religion. which held that
place in 1914.
Juvenile literature has displaced
science for the third place. and tech
nology comes fourth.
Then follow. in order. religion.
science, poetry. history. medicine, de-
scription and biography. Literature
comes last in the list of twelve lead
ing subjects.
In the year just ended 11,004 new
books were published in the United
Kingdom: an increase Of 2,3S2 COM
pared with the previous year. This
brings British publishing almost back
to pre-war level. The foregoing
analysis was compiled by the Publish
ers' Circular and Booksellers Record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.
Germany's Foremost Publicist.

By Cable The Star.
BERLIN, February 5.-When you. my boy.
whom we baptizing today without clergy
church ceremony. are in your fortieth
year. have grown-up children and are pulling
the first gray hairs from your temples. even
then your fatherland will not be free of the
debtors Jail. wherein for the last twenty-seven
months he has been imprisoned.
For, during forty-two years. many billions
to be paid to your conquerors-some years.
three billions later, six. Even If your little head.
already scanned and wrinkled like that of an old
man. from the suffering and misery surrounding
your tiny bed. could understand the figures. we
should not advise you to reckon the total of
these debts. Two hundred and twelve. or four
hundred and twenty-four billion marks. Even
experienced banker hardly distinguish
between such sums For these marks are to be
gold. while we, poor beggars. have only paper.
and shall have to print ten paper marks to
make one imaginary gold mark. So two hundred
and twelve are to 2,120. 900 900, and before
such a mountain of figures. even the Alpine
climbers of the great banks are breathless.
When Germany. in 1871. demanded five bill
lion francs from France, the French represen-
tatives said that only a person who began count
ing at the birth of Christ could finish count
ing such huge sum, and Bismarck answered
that therefore he had brought along Jewish
banker. whose reckoning had not begun at
Christ's birth.
X X X X
When you reach high school they will try
to prove to you, by comparing industrial trade
statistics. what wonderful progress humanity
made in our century. But only If the world
mains the your baptismal day. will
there be the gray and white world judges, who
from time to time, get together and from whom
always comes the same melody; the same words
like those CT an old photograph record:
Germany the attacker she changed
blooming countrysides into desert waste,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
Millions Spent in Providing
Education for Absent Pupils
CONTINUED from First Page.}

official EXPRESSED the opinion that un-
doubtedly some Of these children are
in the first grade second time pc
cause of inability to master the Diff
entities which beginning pupils always
meet in attempting to comprehend the
symbolic technique Of written Ian
eyaee. The first grade. he contends.
nav be the most difficult Of all when
the mass of absolutely new material
The most plausible explanation:
however. of this high proportion OF
repeaters, it is said. lies in the fact
thai children attend school very ir-
regularly during the first and second
years. No compulsory attendance
laws operate to keep them in school
Educators also state that considerable
disagreement exists among parents. ana
even among themselves, as to the proper
age for, entering children In school II
is pointed out that when child goes
to school he comes for the first time
into contact with many other children,
and has unusual opportunities to get
communicable diseases. When such chill.
dren are obliged to stay out OF school
for a few weeks on account OF sickness
parents do not consider 1t urgent that
they should return to school even when
they have fully recovered. To delay
school work for another year Is not con-
sidered q matter Of serious concern.
All these factors, 1t IL said. largely ex-
plain the overweight Of the frst grade.
In the kindergarten the average child
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
new IDEA UNIVERSITY.
Hawaiians Propose One With
Fields as "Classrooms."

HONOLULU. T. H.. February g.
Application for a charter for a pam
Pacific University. whose class
rooms" will be the sugar and pine
apple fields and other centers of in
dustry throughout the islands, has
been approved by the territorial at
torney general and passed to Gov.
Charles J. Mccarthy for his signature
Alexander Hume Ford, secretary Of
the Pan-Pacific Union. with headqusr-
tiers in Honolulu. and some of the
leading men of the territory are
among the incorporators.
Work viii he bepun accord;ne +o
the charter, in the labor camps on
all the islands Of the group. Its in
structors will be sent to the students
instead of waiting for the students
come to them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
By GEORGE n. BARNES.
Former Labor Member Of British War
Cabinet.


Former Labor Member Of British War
Cabinet.
LONDON, February British pub
lie opinion. in the belief Of the writer.
would have favored a more moderate
settlement of the reparations Ques-
ton than that reached at Paris-one
which would be capable of fulfillment
by vigorous enforcement, enabling the
more speedily to get Germany into
the league of nations. and permitting
the world to settle down to normal
relations.
Instead. the conference again put
reparations on an ascending scale.
providing for an indemnity of SIS. 000.-
100000, spread over a period Of forty
two years, plus tax on the paying
ability of Germany as reflected by
her exports. Progressive demands
predicate such reorganization of
German internal life and labor as
cient productive country, and this
raised the question of the effect of
her exports on other countries.
Schemes to Aid Countries.
Two schemes have been formulated
to enable impoverished countries to
buy goods on credit. One is the work
of the league committee. the other
was planned by Sir Edward Mountain
and approved by the Federation of
British Industries.
A condition precedent to the opera
ton of the first plan would be to
ascertain the gold value OF the assets
of the countries concerned, the latter
being required through their govern
ments to issue bonds for the purchase
of goods from the countries possess
ing them.
The second plan could be put in OPP
Grafton Immediately. providing only
that governments would share the
risk with the trading and banking in
forests of their respective countries
Sir Edward Mountain proposes pooling
that risk by the British government
putting thirteen million pounds in the
pool and the merchants bills to be
covered by insurance policy.
The league should consider both
plans and get one Of them. at least.
in early operation. otherwise there
will be precious little gold or even
human value left in the countries con-
cerncd.
Russo-British Trade.
Although the draft of the Russo
British trade agreement provides for
a moratorium on Russian British
debts and reciprocal abstention from
provocative acts-Russia agreeing to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
TERMS TO GERMANY
NOTOPEN TODEBATE
Vivian Declares Provision Has Been Made
by Allies for Means. of Enforcing
the DEGREES.

for interminable discussions. nor that
those who for two years have been
under the burden of enormous taxa
ton will tolerate continuance OF
this comedy which soon would be-
come tragedy.
"Germnny Must Pay"
The resolutions plainly fix the total
of reparations. Germany deems them
excessive, but it was not expected
that she would consider them ac-
ceptable. 1t is quite true that the
figure is one which before the war
was beyond imagination. but also
before the war nobody could have
struction which German imperialism
inflicted on France and the world by
destroying our ten departments
French districts), which economi-
cally represents from one-half to
two-thirds of the wealth OF France:
the reparations which they would
have to make. Filled with the pride
and contempt of justice that marks
all their history. they thought they
would win and impose demands IDS
lost and must pay.
Effect of Export Tax.
American public opinion seems dis
turbed. not because we are exercls-
ing our rightS-parenthetica we
lose because we don't claim the
whole total of our damages-but be-
cause of the IL per cent tax on ex-
port, which, if 1 am not mistaken.
now amounts to 100000 francs an
nually. The only just plan. how
ever. is one allowing for both Ger
many's present lack OF treasury
funds. and her future paying capac-
ity. which has been developing sur
prisingly since the armistice.
Germany, preparing for voluntary
bankruptcy, pretends the state is
poor, but she has many rich citizens
and one needs only to look at the
dividends declared by the big COM
panies to realize how Germany's in
dustrial and commercial life is re-
Stunning.
Burden on the War Rich.
Thus. the object Of this plan is to
make the German citizens of this
generation. especially the directors
of the great industries. who were the
prime authors of the war, bear a
share of the reparations burdens,
particularly since they themselves
were enriched by the war.
If 1t is asserted that Germany, to
effect the payments, will raise the
prices of her exports. we answer that
she would do similarly il she obtain
ed the money by increased taxes. and
this would force higher the prices
of everything. Anyhow, it Is the
best means for US to avoid being the
victims Of this situation. Let's see
what happens.
Copyright. 1921, by The Washington star.)