Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 2, 1919, Page 3

- ITALIAN -AMERICAN. NEWS BUREAU Dy Paolo Marisi, LV.D., Pi.D,, of the University of Rome, The Jugo-Slav movement ~has taken a deuble direction, thereby. re- flecting the aspirations of. its differ- ent radiating centerg. While the leaders of the part{J which has its ‘headquarters In Serbia are showin themselves mora conciliatory ang disposed to. recoghnize and respect Jtaly's rights on the eastern’Adri- atic coast, even to renouncing Pribi- cevich, as a Serb deputy- recently .declared, any pretensions 'whatso- over over territories inhabited “even in the least part by Italians,” the leaders of the party which has its headuarters -~ in ~ Zagabria with branchnes, in London, Paris, and the other capitals of the ,world, are bound up.in the most irreconcilable aggression, and press their preten- sions not only to Dalmatia; but also to Istria and to the City of Udine to ths Tagliamento river. Elements Rxpiain Jugo-Slav /Meovement, To understand the difference be- tween these two extremes, it is nec- essary to consider the elments which compose the Jugo-Slav On one hand are the Serbs properly speaking, in other words the people who remained loyal to the allics, who fought heroically for four years against the oppression .of Austria to conserve. their national integrity threatened -with absorbtion. This.people and its leaders know only too .well the sacrifices made by ftaly in .the war. They-know that Italy, after having saved the glor- ious remnants of the Serblan army, and-having trandported by its ships ot grive peril 300,000 Serbs to Ttaly, uqnvoryed 350,000 men on the Al- banian - front. for .thirty. months at ~huge. expense: .and £0,000. men on “the ‘Macedonian front to defend the other Balkan peoplss coallition of German, Austrian. Trrk nd Rulgaria. That is why, conscions of the duty which springs from gratitude, they do not dare to make:pretensions to Serbs and against the jan arms, .even . when .they know {hose™ territorics. are. inhabited by large groups of Slavs. It is the case also because lhey know that Italy is not Austria, much less Germany; and that (taly will surround its airanger Inhabitants with all the guarantees of national !mmunity, which may be included in the jurid- ical lin:its of its territory in the new arrangement of the political map of Furope, On the other hand are the Croates and the Slovenes, which comprise the two Slav factions who formed the most loyal subjects of Austria- Hungary; ‘who fought .side by .side with tha Eapsburyg armies to the jast, not only. on the Italian front, but alse on-ali Slav.fronts (Russian and 3¢ binn). where they were cited for acis of extraordinary valor fn the Austrian bulletins. (One should fnow that in the parlance of Austria acts of valor mean: “Savagery, bar- barism. and tyrannical acts of any %kind perpetrated In the invaded «ountries™) The same Slavs even mow have mnot forgotten Austria. “They have no particular ideals or principles to zuide the settlement of the Adrfatic question. Their action 8 governed only by Austrian duplic- i'y: mnd if they can no longer be Austria’'s instruments -of .torture, they are satisfied with hecoming the bone of contention. among the allles. STeet Tranafer Proves Loyalty to Anstria, — Proof of this is afiorded by the nargain they struek as a result of fDEMOCRACY NOW IN SADDLE Autocrats Have Diminished Rapidly as the Result of Events of the Last Fifty Years. During the last 50.years, particu. ‘larly since the dawn of the twentieth .century, autocracy has been haed hit, and the rule of “the people, by cand for the people,” as Abraham Lincoln said nearly sixty years ago, has spread and is spreading through- out the earth, When, in 1870, after the battle of Sedan, Napoleon III capitulated to the German emperor, neither of them foresaw that the French re- public would be the result. Neither foresaw that that republic would fight another battle of Sedan in 1918 and that & German republic would follow. A historian says that “Sedan gave the final blow to the French empire.” So will some fu- ture histerian write that “Sedan also gave the final blow to the German empire.” The triumphal march of democ- racy in this last half century began, says the Brooklyn Eagle, in Septem- ber, 1870, with the fall of “Bona- warte the Little” or Napeleop T Austria Plays Possum movement. - Ttalian-territories, redcemed by Ital- Natural Watershed Boundai‘ies o Italy which the entire Austrian fleet was turned over to the.Jugo-Slay com- mittee while .Austria's plenipoten- tlaries with straight ‘faces negoti- ated the armistice with General Diaz. By that act Austria-and .its Slovene-Croatian - friends - revealed thentselves. The fleet ;which should have been surrendered to_the allies “wag “deeded over” to the Jugo: Slavs to- escape the bankrupt's creditors in the plainest kind of fraudulent transaction. . It was recelved by the Slovenes and Croats already aboard the vessels in the service 'of Austria, who had cannonaded the Serb refuges in their pilgrimage toward Austria’s Possum Pact With Jugo Stavs purport of the Jugo-Slav movement. The agreement follows: Present in the name of the I, R fleet: The Imperial and Royal Chamber- and Renr. Admiral Nikolaus Northy de Nagybanya, -commander of the fleet; War Ship Captain and Commodore - Franz uffer, com- manding the second division; War ship Captain Adolf Schmidt, acting commander of the first division: ‘War ship Captaln I. R. Emil Konok Euler von Norwal, chief of the gen- oral staff of the fleet; Frigate Cap- tain Franz Morin, commanding the second flotilla of torpedo boats. Present in the name of the Na- Dr. Bukseg, members of the local committee of Pola of the Slav National council: Lacio Kriz, Dr, Lovro Skalier, Dr. Merko Vratovik, Dr. Marlo Kram- potic, Frigate Captain Metod Koch: b Zagabria; REBERVATION OF T REVIN- DICATION OF THE IGHT TO OWNERSHIF OF THE NON-JUGO- SLAV STATES OF THE OLD AUS- TRO-HUNGARIAN 'MONARCHY¢ Signed: Franz Morin, Capt. E‘rei. R.; kmil von Konek, Cap, V., L R., Pf. Lauffer, Comm. I. R.—Northy —Dr, Ante Tresic Pavicic; Ivo Cok; Lovro Skalier; Vilim Buseg; Dr. Mirko Kratovic; Lacko Kriz; Metod Koch; Dr, Mario Krampotic. (o] and in. a twinkling turnea Jugo-Slavs as soon as Austria was ltaly; defeated. Nobody famillar with ~Austria- Hungary or Balkan politics will re- press a smile when he sees among the receivers of the .fleet the name of the kindly Dr.- Ante-Tresic-Pavi- cic, a deputy in the Vienna parlia- ment who has heen represented per- sistently by the Jugo-Slav press in Ttaly as the terrible enemy of Aus- tria. One of the leading newspapers even went so far as to reproduce in full one of his speeches on the dis- astrous conditions in the Adriatic countries as an anti-Austrian docu- ment of exceptional vigor. He now reappears in his proper role as the inveterate enemy of Italy on behalf and by order of his imperial master, or his successors, about whose genuineness there is reason to have , grave doubts. The presence of Dr. Tresic Pavi- Since. that . day . five. other empires have given way to republics, or are fast on the road to become repab- lics; Dom Pedro of Brazil, the em- peror of China, the czar of all the Russias, the German. kajser and the Austrian kaiser. And added to this list should be the king of Portugal, though he was & parliamentary ruler. Our War With Mexico. The Mexican war of 1848 lasted nearly two yvears. The first actual col- lision. and bloodshed was on April 25, 1846, between a band of Mexican troops that had crossed the Rio Grande and a company of American soldiers. On_ May 17, 1846, President Polk sent a special message to congress reciting the facts and grievances, and sald: “As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avold it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called apon by every consideration of - duty and patriotism to vindicate with de- cision the honor, the rights and the interests of our country.” During 1848 the battie of Palo Alto was fought, May 8; battle of Monterey, September, 21. In 1847 the battle of Buena Vista, February 22; battle of Cerro Gordo, April 17: City of Mexico captured Sep- tember 14, Our forces occupied Mesx- feo City September 12, 1847 ; the Stars and Stripes were placed on the na- tional capital and a treaty of pearve was signed February 2, 1848. to\Keep Fleet Where it Can be Recovered. .animated by conc] remgins conciliatory. poitt % THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER cic, as an official representative of the Jugo-Slav world among the shameléss nominal- parties to the fictitious-transfer who are made use of bysAustria in. its articulo mortis ~to defraud Italy out of its rights is ‘a fact which should open the eyes of the most obstinately blinded. i Ttaly Ready to Conclliate, The Jugo-Slav element at Zagabria khows that Italy “cannot renounce any more than it has done already. That is why. they se¢ek to eet the Serbes: against Italy in the hope of créating discord among the allles, Against their pretensions' Italy has not-taken l.nr stand. It is ever liatory statements. It- stands' for “lberty, “justice, and also for ‘international friendships. y the treaty of London Italy re- nounced vital parts of its territory to guarantee -the Slavs access to the sea. By the pact of Rome of April last, in which representatives of all the Slay peoples took part, it reiter- ated {ts renunciations, and declared itself in ‘favor of every reasonable concession ' to . further the national aspirations of its new neighbors, What then -has given the Jugo- Slavs cause for alarm? Is it the oc- cupation by Italy of the territory evacuated by Austria? If there were not- more ‘subtle reasons for this raising of the shields, the charge would seem puerile. The territory occupled by Italy is occupied In con- formity with the decision of the Su- preme Council of Versailles, with the consent of the delegates of all the allies including those of Serbia. If the Slovenes and Croats did not give their adherence, the fault is not Italy’s. 'They were and still are by right and by fact enemies of Italy, and of its allfes, including the United States and-Serbia.: As such they can- not look: complacently upon the ac- tion of Italy,” which 1s exactly like the occugnt on of the Rhine valley by the allies, and is for purely mili- tary objects. Conform with President’s Ninth Point. In spite of this peevishness Italy The fourteen ifits of President Wilson form the asis of Italian policies. They rep- resent the. humane ideals of the Italian people, ‘always “disposed to struggle with all its might for civi- lization and liberty. Italy accepts the. American programme for the systemization of boundaries pre- clsely beeause they correspond to its own ideals. Examining: the topographical map, it is clearly. seen_that the “lines of nationality -easily recognized’ which should circumacribe the Italian bor- uers, and of which President Wilson speaks in his ninth point, conform with what Italy justly demands and with what has been guaranteed to Italy by--the Treaty -of London of 1815, a treaty which'is not a' scrap of paper, but a sacred international contract, which, instead of conse- crating Italy to imperialism, makes the renunciation. of territory prop- erly Italian in favor of the Slavs. As the map shows, the natural bordere of Italy, following the Ital- ian natlonal aspirations, stretch far outside . the political borders de- manded for Italy in the treaty of London. "They are not only geo- graphical lines, They are also the lines set by history, culture ana eth- nology. hey are the iines of civi- lization which reveal: the Italian character of those countries. some of which are now inhabited by Slav elements, artificially brought there, although' they never have to amalgamate with or absorb tne Ttalian element een able g fron Crosses Qalore. According to the Vossische Zels ng 185,000 Iron Crosses of the st class have been awarded up to the rzent, and over 4,500,000 of the sec- 4 class. To civillans 6,500 Iron yases have been granted. Boeshles . kalser, Pfeld Marshals von Ilin- nburg and von Msackensen, I'rince wopold :of /Bavaria and Gemeral wlendorff wear the Grand Cross of he Iron:Oross. The. Bluecher Cross + worn only by Field Marshal von iin- senburg. AN ADAGE OBSTRUCTED. “Make hay while the sun shines,’ exclaimed the ready-made philoso- pher. c “Yes,” commented Farmer Corn. toseel; “it’s easy said. But what could you do with a bunch of farm- erettes that was every one afraid of gettin’ freckled #” AWFUL THREZAT. Unele tried to tease Billy by tell- ing hind “he would have to go home in the street car. Billy coaveid 10 be raken in his unele’s antormebile, finaHy saving: *“Weil f don’ take me in your autcrachile il go in the car and sit next to a sniozer and get deaded ” TR s ————————— X . o o SPEND YOUR MONEY ON HOME OQutlay Surely Worth While, Since It Is the Grandest institution Con- ceived by Man. Life is short, yes, by comparison with what lles beyond, but since its birth this small atom in a universe of .worlds has been for millions, aye for billions of men a workshop and a play- ground. They have bought and sold, they have tolled and reaped, they have harnessed the lightning, conquered the alr and established lanes of traffic across the raging sea. They have even tunneled beneath wide rivers, hanging safe highways of steel for travel far under the pulsing tides’ ebb and flow. As the race has progressed from its earliest beginnings more and more fiemly has a fitting idea of home be- come fixed in men's hearts. Time was when a home meant a rude hut with- out windows and with a hole in the roof for a chimney. Now everyone realizes that a home Is the grandesrt institution yet concelved by man, a place not alone in which to sleep and eat but a very shrine of shrines, a sanctuary of loving hearts, a well- spring of inspiratton and peace. A tender sentiment attaches to the fmage of the little thatched cottage in the lane. But with the passing of the unsanitary thatched roof has come the bigger, better idea of the home as e place for which no modern invention for comfort, even for luxury, is toc good. Plate-glass windows, yes, if we can afford them! A garden with & tountain around which birds shah gather and beside which young lovers ghall dream—why not? If the dread of the proverbial rainy day is past why not lavish upon the home in unstinted measure not only love but money—so that when we come to it at the close of day it shall give back to us glow_for heart throb, smile for smile, ease and refreshment for every need of body and of soul. To bulld and worthily equip the home is a sacred task, a blessed privilege. As a man thinketh {n his heart of his home—so is he.— People’s Home Journal. NEW FERTILIZING MATERIAL. The fertilizing material obtaine! from industrial wastes in the United States is stated by W. H. Ross of the bureau of soils to have included 1€ per cent of the potash in 1916, 8 pe1 cent of the phosphoric acid, and 82 per cent of the nitrogen. The potash was obtained from such wastes as tobacco stems, cottonsced hulls hardwood ashes, wood washings blast-furnace flue dust, cement fluc dust and sugar residues. The phos phoric acid was supplied by sudl materials as bones, shells, fish scray and basic slag. The nitrogen came from wastes in the manufacture of castor, linseed and fish oils; frou animal wastes, as blood, hair, horns hoofs and hides; from leather and wool wastes; from coke, and from numerous other substances. By adding feldspar and other potasl minerals to cement materials, it is believed the yearly recovery of pot- ash from cement-plant waste might be raised from 70,000 tons to 100, 000 tons. Daily Health Talks GOING BACK TO NATURE. BY DR. W. LUCAS. People get sick because they go away from Nature, and the only way to get well is to go back. Something grows out of the ground in the form of vegetation to cure almost every ill. Some of these vegetable growths are understood by man, and gome are not. Animals, it would seem, know what to do when they are sick better than men and women. Observers have noted that a gick horse, dog or cat will stop eating food and seek out some vegetable growth in the field or yard, which, when found and eaten, often restores appetite and health. Haven’t you seen these animals do this very thing yourself ? Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., long since found the herbs and roots pro- vided by Nature to overcome constipa- tion, and he had these vegetables col- lected and made up of Mayapple, leaves of Aloe, root of Jalap, into little white sugar - coated pills, that he called Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellete. You must understand that when your intestines are stopped up, poisons and decayed matter are imprisoned in your eystem and these are carried by the blood throughout your body. Thus does your head ache, you get dizzy, you can’t sleep, your skin may break out, your sppetite declines, you get tired and degpondent. As a matter of fact, you may get sick all over. Don’t you see how useless all this suffering is? All that is often needed iz a few of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, which he bas placed in all drug stores for your convenience and he Try thew by all mesne, They are prohably the very thing you need right now, Are You Leaving For the Winter? BEFORE you go, why not turn over all your securities to this Company for safekeeping during your absence ? When held in a safckeeping account, your securities are available to !ou at any time. You may direct their delivery or sale by letter, or may withdraw them to be used as collateral for loans. No matter where you may be, your securities are always under your control and direction. Just think what this auailibility will mean. When bonds are locked in your safe deposit box, maturing interest must go uncollected during your absencej called or maturing bonds must wait—you lose inter- est in the meantime; you may suffer loss because of inability to sell your holdings or to use them as collateral. 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