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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-15
SOUTH LONDONDERRY.
Rebekah District Meeting,

Kent Rebekah lodge entertained a large
number Of members from the four Re
bekah lodges in district No. 10 Tuesday
evening. oct f. the occasion being the
annual meeting of the district \ BAN
quet was. served by Kent lodge from 80
to 4 o'clock The other three lodges,
AIzpah of Ludlow, Excelsior Of Manches-
ter Depot. and Hope of Chester Depot.
sent good delegations.
Reports of an encouraging nature were
given by each lodge. Dennis Rebeka.h
lodge of Brattleboro exempliied the de-
gree and certificates of perfection in the
unwritten work Of the degree We're pres
scented by the assembly president and sec
rotary to a large class.
Assembly and grand lodge officers pres
ent as guests were Mrs. Adele Il. Wall
lis. assembly president; Mrs Mabel V.
Caldwell. vice president; Miss Emma
Gates secretary; Miss Clara Marden, dep
uty president of district No, Music L..
Darling. deputy president Of district 10.
40: Mrs Grace c. Gleason. deputy presi-
dent of district No. -; Charles g. Sta
pies, deputy grand MASTER; ii. I. Brown.
G. r. Otis Cummings, district deputy
grand master of district No. 10; i. f..
Perry, past grand master; and Col. q. 4.
Metcalf
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
COURT AUTHORIZES ARMOUR & CO
 TO DISPOSE OF ITS INTERE ESTS IN STOCKYARDS TO BOSTON FIRM

WASHINGTON. Feb 24-Sale by Armour & Company Of it's interest in the Chicago stocllyards Ia r. H. Prince & Company. of Boston. was authorized today by the District of Columbia supreme court A the packing company owned only p shares e. stock n lac company and Prince & Company the remainder. the government offered no objection. The price paid was Sl l500.GO1
 The court also consented tO the sale by hrmUW G Company Oi 40 shares Of the Denver. Colo. stock yards stock 10 George GraiHger. The p-ce va not made pU5iic
 HeaTingS cn other features cf tlie revised plans of the five big hackers for ci -posal Ct their sfoc.,yards. stock yard terminal and marker newspaper hCldinss in accordance with the vol unIary decree issued about year ago were continued until Monday
 The court intimated plans filed by Morris C Comrany. Wilson x Com panv and the Cudahy Packing Com pauy. providing immediate surrender C. their holdings to q trust eOrapany tu bc named by the court. were most nearly IF accordance with the idea in the mind 1of the court The trust com
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
Tijuana Track May Be Opened With New
 Promoter In Charge

SAN DIEGO. Calf. Feb. 24.- Re ports that the Tiaiuana race track is soon to be opened under the manage ment Of Jerome Bassity. of San Die go. were this afternoon declared pre- mature by associates Of Bassity.
 These associates stated that a land company in which they and Bassity are interested is claiming title to the property on which the race track is now located. and that they have in- stituted proceedings in the Mexican courts to secure it's possession.
 James W. Coffroth. president of the Lower California Jockey Club. pro- fessed confidence in the outcome of the proceedings in the Mexican courts and sated that the Tijuana track will be reOpened under his management just as soon as an agreement can be reached with the Mexican authorities for abolishment or charges on pass ports
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25

pany would be under control of the court Technical objections only have been presented by the govern nent to the Morris and Cudaky plans and no objections have been int, r. posed to the Wilson plan.
 Much of the argument today had to do with the plans submitted by Swift C Company and by Armour. Assist ant Attorney General Kresel contend ed that the Swift and Armour plants did nOt provide for an early and com plete investment or for absolute con trOl bv the court during the sale. He declared that i'll some Of the stock . prGlubitive price was being placed Ly 5he rackers asserting that they were holding tne s. Louis yards at
 .2C- Der share. when Wilson & Com pany had admitted that the hest offer made to them for their holdings there had been only SSS.
 Attorneys for Armour denled a pro hibitive price Was being asked and asserted that except in few instances tho price fixed vas far below the stock value and the value fixed by {; 'f a.se-s Counsel for Wilson ex- plained that the price was due 10 the feeling among investors that the court would order an immediate sale at any obtaina ole figure.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
EASILY
 BEATS YELLING

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 24.-Benny Leon ard, lightweight champion. easily out fought Joe Yelling of Chicago. in an eight r6und. no-decision bout tonight. according to newspapermen.
 The champion was given the deci- sion in every round. In the fifth he caught Welling off guard and deliv- ering a stinging right to the chin, floored him. Yelling took the count Of eight and on arising fell into d clinch.
 Welling fought defensively. He held Leonard around the neck with his left, striking with his right.
 The men fought ar catch weights. There was no title at stake. even should Leonard have been knocked out. according to experts.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
Canadian Minister Found Not Guilty
 Of Staying Charge

SANDWICH. Ont. Feb. 24.-One of Canada's most dramatic murder tri- als ended today when a jury found Rev. J. c. l.. Spracflin. former liquor license inspector and pastor Of Meth odist church here. not guilty of man slaughter in killing Beverly Trumble. an inn keeper.
 Tumble was shot and killed by the clergyman during a raid on jhe inn November .. Accompanied by sever al liquor enforcement officers. the minister visited the establishment. where. he testified. resistance was or fered by Tumble and his employas. Threatened by Tumble. who flour ished a revolver. the clergyman de clared be fired. convinced his life was cnGang gered
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
Three Bandits Use Old-Time Methods
 In Train Robbery

JACKSONVILLE. H.. Feb. 9. = Chicago and Alton train No. n known as the Kansas City-ChicagO Hummer, was held up at East Quincy Junction. H., near Louisiana. Mo, early this morning.
 The mail car was cut off from the train and taken a mile up the track. According 70 reports registered mail pouch was taken and the rob- beTs made their escape
 Three men. armed with rifles. were reported to have made the attack.
 The train had crossed the Mississip ri river and was near East Quincy Junction when the rio cTawled over the tender and menacing the engine crew with their guns. forced Engineer Dcnah to bring the train to a stop.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
NeW Spring Silks
Smart Costume Ribbons

Fashion has found many delightful uses for ribbo We have prepared fully to give you just the ribt trimmings separate wear. Huslreds of new from.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
BOWLS FOR IA HOURS

AUBURN. N. Y., Feb. 24.-At Il o'clock tonight Matthew Checke, a To- cal bowler. was still going strong in an attempt to set a new worlds rec ord for continuous bowling, after bowling 14 hours. Since starting at a, m. he had bowled more than 100 games. averaging 19S and has defeat ed % of the best bowleTS here.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
Dempsey Will Open Vaudeville Season
 In Wisconsin Soon

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 24.-Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight cham pion pugilist, expects to leave Salt Lake within a day or two. Present plans call for his opening a vaude vile tour at Minneapolis, although that plan may be altered by an ex pected telegram from his manager Jack KearnS, who is in New York.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
Globe Team Wins
 First Match For
 Basketball Title

TUCSON. Feb. 24.-The Globe high school girls basketball team defeated the girls team of the Winslow high school here tonight by the score of IS to II in the first game for the state interscholastic championship. The teams were about evenly matched. Globe doing better passing. The score at the end of the first half was s to 1 in favor of Winslow.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-25
TWO KILLED IN FIGHT

ASUNCION. Paraguay. Feb. 24. - Two persons were killed and two sc riously injured and several others suffered minor hurts tonight during fight between strikine river steam boat ampOyes and strike breakers. The police had tO intervene.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

his mind didn't go along with his
chiefs.
There remains, however, the question
why. for the sake of official regularity,
he signed compact which he thor
oughly disapproved and refrained from
making his disapproval Of it known when
it was before the Senate How could he
have given even passive assent to Amer
ican ratification of a covenant of which
he wrote on the day before the CON-
pleted treaty draft was delivered to the
Germans:
Even the measure of idealism with
which the League of Nations was first
impregnated has, under the influence
and intrigues OF ambitious statesmen
OF the Old World, been supplanted b.
an open recognition that force ami
selfshness are primary elements in in
ternational cooperation. The league
has succumbed to this reversion to
cynical nsaterialism. It is no longer a
creature Of idealism. Its very source
and reason have been dried up and
disappeared
Could Senator Reed or The Nation
have said more
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
Book at Last Bares Secrets
OF Wilson's Open Diplomacy"

In both these aspects the book is a
striking contribution to history. It
Fits the veil which has been drawn
-erer the operations OF the American
reaee delegation at Paris. 1t confirms
Ut first hand much that the public has
Hitherto been compelled to surmise at
second hand. 1t bares the secrets of
". Wilson's "open diplomacy" 1t lets
n the light on transactions long dark
med by our postwar censorship. After
8aai era of suppression and myth we
sRvc here corrective document of the
highest order, pungently critical, amaz~
fagly frank and gratifyingty innocent
uf protective coloration.
In the narrower, personal sense this
volume is intended as rcjoinder to a
charge made by the President in the
lstter in which he requested Mr.. Lam
x;ng's resignation. Mr.. Wilson wrote:
4 must say that it would relieve me
~ embarrassment, Mr.. Secretary, the
embarrassment of feeling your reluc-
tance and divergence of judgment, if
you would give your present Office up
and afford me an opportunity to select
some ore whose mind would more
willingly go along with mine
Mr.. Lansing doesn't deny the sub
.ance of the charge, but resents what
he considers the intimation that he
suiled at Paris in his duty To the Chief
Executive and the country. That is a
minor issue. The author makes it per-
fsctly clear not only that his mind
didn't 60 along with the Presidents at
Paris, but that it went persistently in
The opposite direction. The question
of Importance for history is why it
didn't go along and to what extent the
Residents tragic failure at the peace
sonference was due to adhering to pol
Kies over which there was so marked
: divergence of opinion between him-
sef and his subordinate.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
Keynes's Picture of the President
At the Peace Conference in Paris

President Wilson
by John Maynard Keynes, representative the British
has book The Economic Consequences of the Peace
perhaps a
His thought his essentially
theological intellectual with all the strength and the weakness
that Of thought, feeling expression.
believed the the
ference large
of advisers
embodiment Fourteen Points
treaty of
the President had thought nothing When
nebuous
ideas clothing with the flesh
the Almighty for their fufmen but could
application of Europe"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

definite to take back with him. But
the President said No.
The next day, at the meeting of the
Council of Ten, Mr.. Lansing found an
opportunity to renew the suggestion
Most of the members heartily approved
of it. The President seemed impressed
by this esponse-apparent unex-
pected by hm-and told the Secretary
to prepare such resolutions. Four
days later Mr. Wilson secured the ap-
pointment of League of Nations
Commission. On January 8 the Lam
sing resolutions were delivered to Mr.
Wilson. He pocketed them The
Council Of Ten never saw them. And
when the President sailed for home
he took with him the draft of the full
covenant rushed through the com
mission in exactly eleven days
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
lansing and Wilson at Odds
On Nearly Every Question

Let US see what these differences
were about. They were radical and all
inclusive. They concerned principles,
methods and details. There scarcely
was debatable question before the
conference on which Mr.. Lansing was
not at odds with the President. he
notes that he agreed in theory with Mr..
Wilson'S Fume declaration. But even
snen ne thought the method Of reach
ing and promulgating the Fiume de-
eision was unfortunate. He was against
she Presidents going abroad as q peace
commissioner; against the essentials OF
hs plan for a League of Nations;
seslnst putting any league covenant
INTO the treaty; against the waste OF
ume involved in making definitive
Heaty at Paris instead of a provisional
she; against the mandate scheme;
sSainst the Presidents Russian policy
so far as it refused to recognize the
dependence Of the new border states;
ssainst the Shantung award; against
M0nlst Palestine; against accepting
s1andste for Armenia; against the tri-
partlsc treaty Of alliance with France.
hr. Lansing's opposition to the treaty
framed was certainly catholic. lie
1ss as irreconcilable as Senator Borah
~ article X or as Senator johnson OH
re surrender Of Germany's rights in
9 ma to Japan, or as the extreme Lib
VAS In England and this country on
ae serritoriaal spoliations, the inius-
Ases TO the small states and the echoes
holy Alliance ideas with which they
seand the treaty crammed.
neading over the completed text on
sasy D. 1919. Mr.. Lansing wrote that the
80 !. preston 1t made on him WAS one "of
appointment, of regret and of de-
1 asssion." = He considered its terms
s. s t'n mcasurably harsh and humiiiating,v
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
international Autocracy Won
Over International Democracy

Through this tour de force Mr.. Lam
sing admits that the Preside achieved
a great personal triumph-yet he sur
rendered what the Secretary held to be
the fundamental principle of the
equality of nations. SIN his eagerness
to make the world safe for democracy
he abandoned international democracy
and became the advocate Of inter-
national autocracy.' In the Secre-
tary's view the covenant, as reported,
was cas- wrong as the President 5
original draft, because it contained the
affirmative guaranty OF political in
dependence and territorial integrity,
the primacy of the Five Great Powers
on the Executive Council and the per-
plexiDg and seemingly unsound system
OF mandates.
On the mandate plan Mr. Lansing's
dissent aftelward became emphatic. He
expressed ii mildly in an address be-
fore the American Bar Association in
the summer Of 1919. In this volume
he gives Il whole chapter to It. The
mandate system was invented by Gen
eral Smuts. Its chief utility to it's sup
porters. the eX-Secretary Of State thinks,
was that it forestalled direct trans
fer Of the German overseas possessions
Ito the victors and thus prevented those
possessions from being charged UP as
a German asset against separations. Ii
was a bookkeeping subterfuge which
the President fell for, and in the au-
thors view the latter's good intentions
were also played upon further by the
European mandate holders when they
persuaded him to engage to accept for
the United States few of the poorer
and more burdensome mandates. It
was never proposed, to his knowledge,
Mr.. Lansing says sardonically, except
by the inhabitants of the region in
question, that the United States should
accept asmandate for Syria or the
Asiatic coast of the .Egean Sea-" But
there was sustained propaganda TO
get this country to take over Armenia
and the municipal district of Constan-
tinople. Mr.. Wilson, in the end, diff
IDENTIFY asked Congress &c authorize only
one mandate-that over Armenia. But
Congress promptly refused its consent.
Two other major points of divergence
remain to be noted. The first was the
Triple Alliance Insurance Treaty, with
France and Great Britain. This was a
quM pro quo for Clemenceau's abandon
ment of French territorial claims on the
left bank Of the Rhine. Mr.. Lansing
opposed this guaranty on the same
grounds on which he opposed Article X.
He held it to be an attempt to evade
the limitations OF our Constitution. He
also told the President that special
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
Wilson, Timorous, Yielded
Shantung on Japanese Threat

Finally, there is shantung. Mr..
Lansing's sympathies on this issue were
all with China. So, he admits, were Mr.
Wilson's. He himself was satisfied that
it was beyond Germanys power, legally.
to cede to Japan concessions in Chinese
territory which had lapsed when China
declared war on Germany. He was also
convinced that Japan never would have
carried out her threat to leave the con-
ference and remain out of the League
of Nations if the Council Of Four de-
MED her claim on Shantung. Nothing
would have pleased Mr.. Lansing better
than to have Japan put in a position in
which she might feel piqued enough to
retire from the League Council.
But the President was more timor-
Gus. He was the guardian of the cove
nant. and every manifestation Of cool
ness toward it unnerved him. He
/ yielded to the japanese threat, even at
the cost of sacrificing the rights Of
an Allied nation. The Secretary of
State wrote after he heard of the
( Councils decision: China has been
abandoned to Japanese rapacity. A
democratic territory has been given
over to an autocratic government"
General Bliss. with the approval Of
Mr. lansing and Mr.. White, had writ
ten the President stalwart letter OF
protest prior TO the decision. Mr
/ Wilson refused, while in Office, Il
allow its publication, He had good
reason for doing so. The letter appears
for the first time in this volume. Its
closing paragraph contains this sen
tence: ut can't be right to do wrong,
even TO make peace The only eN-
PLANTATION offered for Mr.. Wilson's ac-
tion on Shantung is that he thought
it right to do wrong to save the cove
nant.
Events here have justified most of
Mn. Lansing's differences of opinion
with the President over the treaty,
That document was submitted to the
American people in great and SOL
emn referendum" The Wilson COW
Grant was rejected But a modified
covenant, with Article X omitted, would
probably have been ratified in the sum-
mer Of 1912
We come now to Mr. Lansing's an
alysis of the Presidents defects as a
negotiator and statesman. Mr.. Will
son made a prodigious mistake when
he went abroad. Mr. Lansing says
Justly that, as matter of tactics, the
surest way for the President to retain
his immense advantage of position when
the armistice was signed was to sit
tight in Washington. The Germans
had appealed to him to end the war.
He had acted as intermediary for them
with the other Allies. He had stated
his peace views, and vague as they
were, they were the basis on which
Germany consented to negotiate. Had
he sent agents to Paris and kept the
conference at arms length he probably
could have dictated the peace to a
large extent without having his judg
ment weakened and his policies under
mined through intimate contact with
European interests and the entangling
projects ard commitments of the
spokesmen for the other great powers.
He had played all Olympian role IN
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
Breach Over Versailles Treaty
Is Set Forth by Ex-Secretar,
President and Head of State Department Differed
Radically ON Nearly Every Important Question;
Suggestions Submitted to Chief We're Ignored

many of them impossible Of perform
ance.' In his view the conditions which
the United States had fought tho wal
to destroy were not destroyed. A new
Quintupie Alliance had replaced the
Entente and the Triple Alliance. and in
tended to rule the world in its own in
terest.
The Ave great powers, he said. had
surrounded the new alliance with halo
and called it League of Nations, but
Whatever 1t might be called or however
1t might be disguised, it would still be
an alliance of the five great military
powers.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

of wars, and Article X with such pro-
visos would have left the world legacy
Of turmoil. Territorial readju stments
also were TO be sanctioned by vote of
three fourths Of the league delegates
tempting invitation to intrigues and
discords in that body. These pro-
visions, which Mr. Lansing didn't hear
Of until much later and which he con-
demns as ambiguous and unworkable,
seem to have died natural death in
the League of Nations commission.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

,,s sas Houshton Mishin Company
r r. LANSING's long awaited
book, The Peace Ncgotia-
tions, presents itself in
two aspects. On the one
hand. it is m utterly candid revelation
of the authors dissent from the
methods and policies pursued by Pres
sdeut Wilson at the peace conference.
IN the other. it is a pitiless study at
.lose range of those defects in Mr..
Wilson'S temperament and equipment
!. statesman which led straight to
the Paris catastrophe.
American peace envoys have some
times disagreed, wrangied and COM
posed their differences after much
scerbity. But never before have COM
missioners been so irreconcilably op-
posed as Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Lansing
we're on practically all the essentials
os treaty. Not being equal in status,
compromise through their own efforts,
or through pressure on both from
common superior at Washington, was
out of the question. Mr.. Wilson was
at once agent and principal. There was
no possible meeting ground for com
mon counsel"-a solvent often fer
sentiy recommended to outsiders under
the Wilson dispensation. The breach
was never closed. and the deplorable
consequence was that the commissioner
OF lower rank, yielding to an exag-
gerated sense of official discipline, in
the end affixed his name at Versailles
to a document which he considered
bungIed, obnoxious in theory and in
detail, against this country's recog-
nixed interests and violative of its
soundest political traditions.
Presidents and Secretaries of State
have broken OF relations curtly, or
even in anger, before this. But no Sec
rotary OF State has ever before turned
50 confidently to the records for vim
dication, or produced SO documented
an II told you SO" to sustain his indict-
ment of a Presidents capacity for lead
ershiu
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

sort would discrcdit the general guar
anty of the covenant Nevertheless. he
was instructed to draft the convention
and, though still opposing it, he agreed
to sign it,