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New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
Germans Place
lnde1r1rniitylirnnit
AT SO Billions
Look 10 Harding Influence
to Gain Lighter Terms or
U. S. Mediation; Would
Put Off London Meeting
Plan to Pay i'm 80 Years
Paper Asserts Government
Figure Includes Goods
and Cash Already Given

BERLIN, Feb. II (By The Associated
Press) 1.-THE Ministry of Finance has
reached the conclusion that the utmost
sum Germany can pay in Preparations
is 15O,OQO,000,000 marks ($36,000,O0O
000), this including all she has so fal
paid in cash and goods, according tc
information which the Deutsche Zei.
tung says it has received from spe.
cial source.
The Allied Premiers in Paris jan
uary 29 fixed Cermany's war bill at
226,o0G,0o0 900 gold marks ($54,240,-
00o,oo0), payable in forty-two anndal
installments. In addition, Germany
would pay an annual tax of IL per
cent on the total of her exports.l
This 10000, 100000 marks would be
paid off in thirty years under the plan
outlined by the newspapers informant
who also is quoted as declaring that
the proposal to pay it would be sub
mitted to the authorities at Paris for
the purpose of learning whether the
coming London conference on repara-
tions will permit of it's consideration
along with the Allied proposals adopted
at the recent Paris conference
Refusal to allow consideration of the
German counter-proposal would result
in Germany absenting herself from the
London conference, set for March |
TIE newspaper says it has learned. 1t
adds that Germany would then suggest
that the United States be. called in as
an arbitrator for the purpose of pre-
venting the Entente from adopting
measures such as an invasion of the
be looked upon by Germany as an act
of war which would positively destroy
the Treaty Of Versailles.
One Paper Fears U. s. Mediation
The suggestion that the United
States be invited to mediate fails to
arouse enthusiasm in the Conservative
expresses fear that the American YER
dict in such case, while deciding on
a sum between that submitted by Ger
many and the Entente figures, would be
more likely to incline toward the sum
the Entente is demanding.
Belief is expressed by Die Post that
even if this reputed offer by Germany
we're to be accepted she would be affix-
ing her signature to an obligation
which it would be impossible for her to
meet.
american mediation would only be
welcome" says this newspaper, "if we
could ascertain the American attitude
in advance. We do not want to repeat
the mistakes of 1918"
In the Deutsche Zeitung article the
suggestion was made that, while the
Entente was extremely desirous Of
bringing about the London conference
it was not unlikely that the delibera-
tions would be postponed to a date
around the middle of March in order
to give the new Washington govern
ment an opportunity to participate in
them.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
". Y. U. Dean Suggests Nice
Hygie'ic Clay Pipes for Girls
Less Injurious to Health Than Cigarettes, Dr. John
son Points Out; Briars Might Become Odorous
Relies. Even With Gold Bands and Jewelled Bowls

While the blue laws hover menac-
ingiy over college life, some of the
deans and students of New York Uni
versity are gayly flirting with radical
ISM that even the joy killers have not
dared to face.
Pipes for women! Dean Joseph
French johnson proposes them.
ot course, as Dean Johnson apollo
geeically explained. if you turn the
academic mind away from it's beaten
course it is apt to be the most non
sensical sort of mind in the world
This, he says, is why he was led to
commit himself to hearty approval of
pipe smoking for women. The dear
Ladies in London are doing it, he added.
In fact, visitors from abroad say the
fashion is fetching when pearly teeth
cllnch themselves delicately on the slim
stem OF a Jeweled pipe.
Dean Johnson stipulates, however,
that II American girls are going to do
1T he would rather they went in for
boxes of clay pipes and used fresh
one. every day. This would be more
hygienic. 1t would also mean that their
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
Miller Denies Traction
Plan lnvades City Rule;
Asks Hel pful Criticism
Results Governor Hopes to Attait,
Through Transit Plans for City

ALBANY Feb. results which Governor Miller
hopes to attain through his traction plan
lined by him to-day:
IL 10 the public:
at can and will adequate rvce exploiting
OF the public for stock jobbng other really
e past and setup that will
at falr return for service really and fully
would mean the end of the conditions which
oager She comfort the health and the life
x 10 the city, the ownership of the greatest system
the word the freeing of its in the subways
Vhat approximately $25OOO000 including
city already Obligated will be subways and
on schools and other badly needed municipal
adequate participation in and new system
3 10 the investors the full
present transit systems and the protection abzon the
securities SO as to render them attractive investment"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
Man Who Stole $96,5OO
Is Sent Home by Lands
Puts Responsibility Upon Bank
That Paid Defendant, a Teller,
Only 500 a Month

CHICAGO, Feb. 11.-After pleading
guilty of embezzling s96,50o from the
National City Bank, of Ottawa, Ill.,,
Francis J. Carey, twenty years old, for
merly receiving teller of the bank, to-
day was released on his own recogniz-
ance by Federal Judge Lands, who crit
icized officials of the bank for the small
salary paid the defendant.
month, Judge Lands exclaimed: This
is astounding! 1t puts the RESPONSE
bility entirely on the directors of the
bank.
''You were not getting any more than
the elevator operators in the Federal
Building, and they are VIGOROUSLY un-
derpaid. Francis, you go on home. I'll
send for yqG again"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
Papers Seized
I11 Bremen Bare
Huge Red Plot
Details of Propaganda and
Distribution of Funds i'm
Western Europe and u. S.
Revealed by Archives
Arrests Forecast
German Port Headquarters
From Which the Agents in
Each Country Get Orders
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The Trihuna

Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune INC.
PARIS, Feb. 1.-The whole of the
Bolshevik secret organization for the
dissemination of propaganda and the
distribution of funds in western Eu-
rope and America is now said to be
fully revealed in documents in the
hands Of the secret agents Of the AL
uments will be sent soon to all the
powers to facilitate immediate action
by the governments of countries anx
ious to suppress communist propa-
ganda.
1t is said that when the documents
rave been fully deciphered they will
lead to sensational arrests. One of the
difficulties now encountered by the
police is that the Bolshevik propagan-
dists are never designated by their real
names. The police have only the revo-
lutionary pseudonyms of 600 Bolshevik
agents known to be acting outside of
Russia. These agents filtered out Of
Russia through Esthonia. each having
shevik system of propaganda.
Headquarters I'M Bremen
narrowed the hunt for the center of
Red propaganda to the North Sea ports
Of Germany. Hamburg was searched,
with negative results, and then
Bremen. Here the whole organization
was unearthed. Not only were the
Bolshevik general headquarters found
there, but the police were able to OBJ
tain photographs or hand copies of all
the Red archives kept there.
The documents discovered showed
that the Red propaganda is organized
on the hierarchic system. There is q
director in charge of the propaganda
in each country. All the agents in each
country are under the orders of this
director. His business is to apply the
general instructions that reach him
from Moscow, to decide on the imme-
date ends to be pursued, the methods
TO he employed and the revolutionary
nersons to be approached. They au-
thorize expenditures up to fixed
amount.
These. propaganda alrecIors 40 hoe
charge of They confine themselves
to periodical trips of inspection. They
leave to their lieutenants the work Of
carrying out the details of the plan,
These lieutenants are usually men
who lived in the country before the
"Ti The documents show that the same
propaganda director is in, charge Of
France and Great Britain, but there is
sub-director to assist nm IN eacn
also is in charge of all the little coun.-
tries of Central Europe. The real
names @ Of two of these directors have
been discovered by the police.
Details Kept From Subordinates
Besides battling the authorities by
the confusion of names, the hoishevik
iaaders have further covered their
tracks by keeping their subordinates in
Continued on page sx)
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12

piled in the hall. No one seemed to
know what they were for A rumor
went around that they formed cage,
and that same day when James F. Cor
Frank Irish Cadwallader, the talkingest
Sphinx that ever opposed prohibition,
and Jules Friess, the melancholy Dane,
were roaring at one another, Marshal
Mccarthy and his deputies would cage
them up and make them listen to one
another for the rest of their days.
The real purpose Of the screens,
however, was nothing like that. Work
men yesterday set them up in the
postoffice. No one would say by whose
order it had been done, but it was
generally understood that they were
to serve as protection in case Of an
attempted hold-up.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
Park Row Postal Clerks Gagged
As Protection Against Thugs

What with bandits and robbers oper-
ating to such an extent that even AL
Jennings, who was once pretty good
kighwayman himself, has been held up,
the government is taking no chance Of
having enterprising outlaws run away
with the cash in the money order and
postal savings department of the Park
Row postoffice.
The department has been rigged up
so it looks like a monkey cage Iron
screens adorn the top of the high
wooden partitions with barred windows,
behind which the clerks may hide. The
screens reach to the ceiling. This is
TO prevent customers from throwing
money at the clerks, and also hinders
the clerks from throwing money at
the customers.
For Is long tims the screens were
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
US. Sailors Reported
Fired Upon i'm Siberia
Vne y of Five Bluejackets Said by
Japanese Newspaper To Have
Been Wounded

TOXIC, Feb. 11.~Five American
Sase!ackets nav were fired at by unknown
Ssssons in Vladivostok at II o'clock
raossaay night, one of them being
SSypuonded, says the Asahi Shimbun's
iTTSSWostok TS correspondent to-day.
s.ae Americans, reinforced by Rus
am ss policemen, arrested three Russian
Iers ssoI . formerly under the late Gen.
S.a. happel, once commander of the
sssern ssan armies of the Omsk govern
nv the correspondent adds.
eos5. ne Impression in Vladivostok, ac-
ffgsaslng to the correspondent, is that
sis. attack was arranged by Commu-
lat;ssSs with the object of straining re-
Stsuas between Japan and the United
n, DISTINCTION. Feb. 1.-THE attack
sosto,e I'VE american bluejackets at Vladi-
BIOS by th Tuesday night. as announced
Yoe sie Asahi Shimbun, of Toxic, had
be,ao osen reported tonight to the Navy
ogSfaIV IVnent. In the absence of an
fussSs report department officials re-
'used eomment.
sRd othee Help? Wideawake workers
Sees utiHes read The Tribune. Phone
Eent m 5000 and give your advertise
kabuus n, place 1t through any of The
rant Ad AK@pt2.~-Adyt.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
Germany Gives Trade Figures
BIZ wireless to The Tribune
pyrisht. 1921. New York Tribune "

Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, Feb. 11.-The Foreign Of
fee made public to-day the data pre-
pared by a committee of business ex-
perts for the use of the German dele
CATION at the Forthcoming London con-
ference to co"nteract the optimistic
Continued on page slx)
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
British Buy Biggest Ship
The Bismarck Is Purchased by
the White Star Line

LONDON, Feb. 1.-The White Star
Line purchased the steamship Bis
marck, the largest vessel in the world,
for it's New York service.
The Bismarck, a vessel of $4,000
tons, was built at Hamburg for the
Hamburg American Line. Last fall it
was reported that fire had badly dam
aged the vessel while lying at her
docks in Hamburg. The Bismarck was
to have been delivered to the Allies
under the terms of the peace treaty
SASSAC-TAkE FLORIDA SPECIAL
20 Miami. Tri-weekiy saiIings. Atlantic
Coast Line r. r. Once. 124s B'way.--Advt.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-12
T H e WEATH ER

Cloudy to-day and tomorrow; not muea
change in temperature; west and
northwest gales, diminishing
tonight
Full Report on Last Page
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Much Slate in the Coal.
Somebody Making a Profit by Selling
the Mixture at $18 Ton.

To THE New YORK HERAID: There
is law against selling oleomargarine
for butter, against selling diluted milk,
against mixing sand with brown sugar,
but is there any law against adding
one-third slate to coal and selling the
resulting product as coal at $l8 ton?
Apparently not.
The mixture which / purchase here
as coal Is largely composed Of slate.
do not think my coal dealer Is to blame.
He has treated me fairly for many
years and he must take what the whole
salers give him. He has recently shown
me his bills from these wholesalers and
he Is not making an excessive profit.
But the fact remains that somewhere
between his office and the mines some
one is selling rock as coal. Some one
is deliberately and with large profit to
himself cheating the public. Is 1t pos
sibie to find out who this is7
Or. IL we must buy one-third slate
with our coal, cannot at least the coal
and slate be delivered In separate bags
SO that we need not wear out our fur
naces and ourselves in vainly attempt
ing to burn the latter? d. M.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, January 22.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Barring Treasures of History.

The remains Of medieval Church,
according to an announcement from
Jerusalem, were discovered by exca-
vators late In November In the Gar
den of Gethsemane at the foot OF the
Mount Of Olives. To this meagre in
formation are now added the interest
ing details that this church was I'M
covered while the Franciscans were
excavating for chapel and that be-
meath this thirteenth century struc-
ture they came upon church Of the
fourth century Of whita the outside
walls can be clearly distinguished, to-
gether with two rows Of columns
which supported the aisles, the three
apses and the floor, Of which there still
remains much OF the original mosaic
work. The church Is one Of the old
est monuments OF Christianity In Pal
estine, and the preservation OF it's re-
mains Is. assured by their incorpora-
tion within n church Franciscans will
build upon the site.
This work follows the plan pro.
posed by Sir HERBERr SAMUEL rs one
of his first official acts after taking
over the High Commissionership OF
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
On Getting Married.

An aviatrix, whose marriage en-
gagement is announced, is quoted as
saying: Flying is nothing. It's a
great deal safer than getting married,
but I'm going to take chance"
The lady's attitude reminds us Of
those young men who, after some
courtship and considerable thought,
go about among their friends asking
them whether they think it wise TO
get married. They betray the fear of
the aviatrlx, that marriage is more
dangerous than flying.
Happily these faint hearts are in
the minority, else the earth would be
a desert fit to fly away to Betelgeuse
and be burned up. 1t is one of the
benevolences Of Providence that IN
most cases marriage is approached
without tremor. The young man
knows that his soul has found its
other self, that she was intended for
him since the dawn of time, that they
will live ever afterward without a
cross word, and that their great love
will enable him to meet all the in
stalment payments on the dot. He
not only refuses to question others on
his Judgment but he flies into fury
should that judgment be questioned.
All this is as 1t ought to be.
Anybody who wonders whether he
or she ought to get married should
stay single until the doubt goes.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Farewell, Free Seeds!

The annual fund for free distribution of
seeds by Senators and Representatives was
eliminated to-day.-Washin0tom despatch.
All, how the heart in anguish bleeds
To read this cruellist of screeds--
No longer will they give free seeds!
This year when springtime rolls around
Your letter box shall not abound
With examinations by the pound.
The fire escape will now be shy
Its waving fields OF wheat and rye
With borders Of the plant called pie.
No longer will the hall disclose
The bright parterres Of Duchesse dOxe,
Which. I am told. g kind OF rose
The marigold and hollyhock,
The water lily and the stock
No more will flourish on the clock.
The bathroom never more shall be
A patch for early celery,
The rutabaga and the pea.
The climbing bean will disappear
That erst would climb the chandelier
Above the bed and kiss your ear,
No more. no more twill burst its pod;
Inert the peach trees waiting sod;
The onions name Is Ichabod.
In fact. your one time blooming fiat
Will be as arid as your hat.
But somehow none Of US cares-that!
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Hard Sense American Labor.

Whether it Is a Philadelphia stone
company, an Illinois stcel plant or a
New England textile mill whose EN-
ployees volunteer wage cut to re-
duce production costs and keep the
business going, 1t is the plain horse
sense of American wage earners
which Is helping to untangle the
national economic snarl.
Professional agitators can talk
their heads off about labor resisting
wage readjustment along with the
price readjustment, but when the
man whose bread and butter comes
out of the pay envelope sees that the
consuming public cannot or will not
pay for the article he is producing
as much as the labor cost alone in
that article is, he knows that either
the plant must send out the article
at price the public Will pay or it
must put up the shutters. He knows
that no wage scale without a job
hitched to it can. place a square meal
on the dinner table
Operating expenses, the biggest
factor of which in nine businesses
out of ten is wages, are being cut and
mast be cut right and left TO get
prices down where consumers will
buy and the Industrial wheels Of the
nation can be kept turning. The
hardheaded American wage Garner
knows this is so, no matter what the
frantic barrel head ranter or the
trades union organizer tells him.
When prices come down while indus
try is thus kept going these lower
prices make up to labor in reduced
cost of living what labor gives up In
inflated wages. The hardheaded busi-
ness wage Garner knows this is so
and comes through like the sensible
man he is with his share of the task
of getting this country on an even
keel again where every man that
wants to work will be sure of job,
and out of that job, on the basis of
readjusted prices, can get a good
American living.
This very big problem of readjust-
ment of values would have to work
out anyhow under the inexorable nat
ural laws. But it is working out the
better and the sooner because sensi-
BILE American labor is lending a
hand.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Bigness of Mount Everest.
The Highest Point on Earth Equal to
Thirty-nine WOOlwOrth Buildings.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: or late
we have heard considerable discussion
about the highest elevation upon the
terrestrial surface, Mount Everest. Now
Mount Everest approximates $4,000 feet
above sea level, that is, about five and
half miles high, or nearly ave times
as high as Mount Washington In New
Hampshire
Mount Everest Is about one and three
fourths miles higher than the loftiest
point on the North American continent,
Mount Mckinley. 1t Is little less than
twice as high as Mont Blanc, but 1t ie
only about 1000 feet higher than the
next loftiest elevation. Mount Goodwin
Austen. In other words. were there a
perpendicular shaft from the base OF
Mount Everest at sea level to Its sum-
nit it would take an elevator ascend
ing a foot a second more than eight
hours to reach that summit. That is,
Mount Everest's summit stands as high
as fifty-two Washington monuments or
thirty-nine Woolworth buildings placed
one above another.
If man succeeds in climbing to the
top of Mount Everest he will and condi-
tions there rather different from what
they are at sea level. For example. the
atmospheric pressure at sea level Is about
fourteen and seven-tenths pounds to
the square inch, whereas 1t would ap-
proximate at the summit Of Mount Ev-
crest considerably less than one-half
that pressure That is to say, Were all
of our terrestrial atmosphere concen-
trated to the same density which 1t has
at sea level our atmosphere would ex-
tend only as high as about half mile
below the top of Mount Everest. AS
atmospheric conditions are, however. our
atmosphere extends approximately three
hundred miles above the summit OF
Mount Everest.
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES.
NEWTON, Mass, January %.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
A City Repentant.

Jeffersontown, Kentucky, ten miles
south by east Of Louisville and run
ming into Colonel HENRY WAITER
SONS back yard, adds a new chapter
to the universal outcry against the
high cost Of things. After worrying
along as a city for more than a CEN
fury Jeffersontown has come to the
decision that being city costs too
much. SO the taxpayers among its
400-odd residents have resurrected
the charter from the cabinet In the
Town Hall, busted It off and sent it
along to the Legislature labelled mot
to be returned"
OF course such way out Is impos-
sible for New York, whose people are
yet to be convinced that being a city
does not necessarily require yearly
outlay of more than $3OO,OOO,OOO to
provide jobs for the hungry in each
and every political organization and
contracts for their friends. Nor Is it
difficult to imagine what would harp
pen to anybody who had the temerity
to offer such proposal in Albany.
However, 1t is to be hoped that the
Kentucky Legislature will play the
role Of tolerant parent and forgive
the child who confesses to the sin Of
having partaken none too wisely Of
the luxury Of city government.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
News From Oregon.
Remarkable Events Recorded rs the
New Year Opens.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The first
week Of the new year opened with an
exhilaration in Portland peculiarly Ore
gonian. A headline In ono newspaper
read: Feet Frozen While Lost"
Another paper. not to be surpassed.
announced in news specials:
sRArrLn. WASH, Jan. s. - Mrs. Betty
Thompson shot and killed herself while
In her stateroom aboard the steamer
Governor to-day. The Governor imme-
diately returned to port and Mrs. Thomp-
son was removed to a hospital, where
II was said she would recover.
Back came the first paper with this
shot through the second papers arrnor
mud covered automobile. driven by
Claude McGee, checked In at D:36 last
night, 20 hours and 10 minutes after
leaving San Francisco. He crossed the
Oregon line at daybrsak this morning.
Neither time nor conditions bother
Oregon around New Years Day. All
the worlds a sunrise Of glowing red
and a sunset glowing redder.
FURTHER WEST.
NEW York, January 22.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Lightning Snapshots.
Picture Of Railroad Yards ON q Car
Window.

From the Columbus Evening Dispatch.
Tho recent stories Of the picture of
wreath that appeared on n window
pane in a Columbus residence. and
which glass experts pronounced moth
ing more than defect in the glass.
which had been there from the time
II was made. but only noticed after
there had been death in the resi-
dence, recalls to former yallroad man
a case that came TO his attention when
he was employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Altoona, Pa.
One night the private car OF Presi-
dent Roberts of that railroad was
shunted onto a siding In the yards at
Altoona and before morning there came
heavy thunderstorm with Intensely
vivid lightning. Next morning when
the cleaning crew began cleaning tho
car there was found on one Of the win
dow panes very good picture or the
yards that lay directly in front OF It..
1t was just like fairly we'll developed
Photographic plate, and there could be
no question that the scene in the
picture was the yards before II.
A photographer who was called to
look at II concluded that there had been
n thin film of oil on the window. which
in some way became sensitive to in
tense light, and a flash of lightning had
imprinted the scene before the window
on the pane.