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THE SUNDAY STAR, JANU ARY 9, 1921—PART 2 WAR FLAMES MENACE, AS THE ALLIES FIDDLE Bolshevik Dangers Grow Defnite as Against Weaker States. BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN. UST as the allies for more than three years during the war pro- crastinated in unifying their command, thereby permitting the Germanic military scourge to spread devastation, just as they “hummed and hawed” at Paris and Versailles, just as they have pursucd . dilatory tactics in making Germany settle her just accounts with the world and pay for the hidcous de- struction she wrought by four vears of strife, just so diplomats of Europe today fiddle while the whole of the eastern continent “threatens to burn. What is more, unless there is some crystallized endeavor and unity of ac- tion in _combating tae Constanily growing bolshevik menace the dip- lomats of England and France will be fiddling when the smolderins fires of sedition and anarchy spread into en- gulfing flames. And their fiddling will be stagd in the flimsy palace of their own self-complacency. Wants World Civil Strife. Today there are very definite signs that the bolsheviks of Russia are no more chastened than they were when they overthrew Keren and set in motion a revolution which has made that of the French pale into insig- nificance. Lenih. the arch traitor to civilization, openly announces that the nations of the world must be thrown into civil strife through the most dev- ilish machinations ever devised for the disruption of law, order and social decency that he in turn may be made safer in perpetuating his own nefa- rious grip.upon an awed, dazed, hun- gry and bleeding people. 1t/ is not enough that the bolsheviks should conquer all obstreperous _elements within their own nation. It is not enough that they should gut the physical properties and commercizl life of the nation. It is not enough that they should exterminate hun- dreds of thousands of the best people of Russia {n manners born of foul Eatred and jealousy. It is not enough that they should sow the seeds of dis- cord the world over and implant so- ciological principles which but mock the teachings of Him who died to save mankind. Having been born of the sword, the present regime in Russia strives to live by the sword, and only by the sword can it live. 'There is compara- tive peace in Russia if ever peace can come to a nation wherein its people writhe with the agony of misplaced confidence. physical and mental tor- tures. But peace is not desired by the Russian regime. War is the thing Wwhich it knows can alone keep the world in a state of turmoil, while bol- shevik agents go skulking about to | sow the seeds of sedition, and suc- cessfully, too, because of the.unrest, discontent and doubt as to the future which always follows prolonged strife. Chief Hope of Bolaheviks. Admittedly the only hope of the bolshevik regime is to make petense of maintaining a_national morale through military effort. And through thdse armijes leaders in Moscow hove to rally bolshevik elements about them and conquer regions far outside of Russia, throwing the whole of the continent of Europe under the infiu- ence and sway of Moscow. This was the intentfon of Lenin and Trotsky after they overthrew Kerensky. It is their intention today. Negotiations for trade have been carried on.to Iull allied nations to sleep. Bargains with commercial wmeni the world over would be kept as all bolshevik agree- ments have been kept. Bargaining with the enemy has been with an eve single to momentary expediencye “Wheny the bolsheviks have sought fit to counter agreements never has there beem hesitancy. Neither will there be hesitancy when plans have been crystallized for a definite mili- tary tavasion of Furope. Troops Being Massed. In some circles further military ef- fort on the part of Th=nolsheviks within Europe has been scouted. But recently the massing of troops along the old eastern front has caused at- tention to be directed toward the east. where the memace cannot be discounted. Baltic offensives are being planned and the danger to Ru- mania is admitted, the bolsheviks being in the state of “no war—no peace™ with Bucharest, never having consented to the separation of B sarabia from the old ‘Russian empire. Troops are massing: Lenin makes ‘widespread threats. 5 In the meantime the tens of thou- sands of bolshevik emissaries who have been sent out of Moscow have been' active In all small countrfes, possibly the first to be affected by | Fra in Eastern Europe Red Armies 'Mass bolskevik incur 1 the communist sent In all Paltic states In Jugoslavia the gov- n forced scriously to Kk elements. In (‘zecho- nd” there has endeavor to under- . create acute dis- ction over present evil eco- and social conditions. Always hold up the bubble nmunal control to suffering The work of bolshevik being done well. meantime red armies are ny successful fin rum, ent sati nomic the bolsheviks allies are fiddlin pected in Spring. -ordinated movement of in the spring. when 1l lend itself to pro- longed and safe military endeavor in eastern Europe is anticipated. It is expected the issue will come before the allied premiers at their confer- ence in Paris January 19. In the meantime Winston- Churchill, British inister of war. is to confer with the war office of Paris in regard to the uation. If as much is accomplished been accom- rs nothing will be achieved.. 1t is stated on reliable authority that even the British, though contin uing negotiations for trade with Rus- lsia, suspect Lenin and therefore are to take some concrete step looking to the curbing of his influ- ence.. In this the British are swing- ing toward the original French viewpoint, possibly due to the fact that the bolshevik influence in the near east is striking directly at the heart of Britain's eastern empire and she realizes that' temporizing much further -can gain nothing but disaster. England for Leniency. Clogely connected with any agree- ment the allies may reach in regard to Russia is the question of enforce- ment of the disarmament clauses of the Versailles treaty, for England, it is declared, will continue to advise leiency on the part of the allies in regard to German disarmament, par- icularly in the eastern sections of ‘many, in view of possible bolshe- vik incursions. England, it is said, would make Germany one of the buf- fers of the possible oncoming bolshe- vik tide, and if the French are seri- ously enough concerned over the pos- sible wrecking of eastern Europe by the bolsheviki they;may give in to the British viewpoint. There is little to be expected, how- ever, from any proposal or hope that the German government will take steps to combat the bolshevists. The world knows that the bolshevist lead- ers, Lenin and Trotsky, had close connection with the old monarchical regime. Comparatively few mSaths back the German government was forced to extreme ends to put down bolshevist revolution. Germany, as possibly no other of the larger pow- ers of Europe, is honeycombed by communism, and a successful bolshe- vist advance toward the eastern Ger- man frontier may prove a signal for another upheaval within Germany, Beset by one clique which is ready to start a revolution for the return of old monarchical forms, and on the other hand by the menace of extreme radicalism. little is to be expected of the German government in the way of assisting the allies. Frange's Great Burden. nce has spent about 40,000,000,000 francs since the armistice in the way of reparations and pensions, a sum checked off by the government as payable by German reparations. The burden falls upon the people now, however. France would rather see the preservation of the present Ger- man government than see another internal crisis. which would further defer payments of the tremendously heavy load falling upon_all through onerous taxation. If France con- sents to the delay of German dis- armament at the expense of the treaty of Versailles, it will be only through the belief that by doing so the German government may be pre- served in its present form that repa- rations be eventually paid. But whether the bolshevist situa- tion is dealt with or not at the coming premiers’ parley, or whether the reparations issue is successfully solved. the fact nevertheless remains that Europe is in danger in the east. and decisions of far-reaching char- acter must!be made and commensur- ate action taken againft Russia be- fore the treaty of Versailles can be fulfilled and the whole of Furope set- tle down to really worth-while con- structive processes. ( _—_—mm—m—— — e QUAKERS FEED 600,000 CHILDREN IN GERMANY American Organization Is iz'xtend- -ing Field of Activity to Occupied Zone in Rhineland. BERLIN, January 8. —The rellef work of the American Quakers now comprehends the feeding of §00,000 children daily in all parts of Ger- many. There have been 70.000.000 meals served since the work started in March, 1920. The Quakers have extended their field of activity to the occupied zone jn the American sector of the Rhine- land, in which the American forces will conduct distribution of the food supplied by the Quakers. Six hundred German cities now are included in the circuit, and there are about five thousand feeding centers. for which 1,500 kitchens are needed to prepare food. Fifty relief work- ers stationed In all parts of Germany have just concluded a conference at Goslar, at the foot of the Harz moun- tains, in Hanover, at which plans for the coming year were discussed and decided upon. The conference was presided over by Alfred Scattergood ©of Philadeiphia. The new plans of the Quakers in- clude the extension of the feeding to the big Industrial plants and a begin- ning will be made at the General Electric Company’s establishment. The Ruhr coal flelds are also in- cluded in the new areas to be added this year. —_— AMERICANS ARE SCORED. Members of Philippines Court At- tacked by Senate’s President. MANILA, January 8—American members of the supreme court of the Philippines were targets of an at- tack here in a speech in the Philip- pine senate by Manuel L. Quezon, its president. Quezon was supporting amendments to the judiciary bill, empowering the governor general and the senate to transfer judges from one district to another when the good of the service required such changes. “Let me say here that I have no faith in the supreme court as con- stituted at present,” Quezon declared. “How can we have faith in justices like E. Finley Johnson and George A. Malcolm, who, in one administration held that the governor general has the right to expel aliens and in an- other administration hold an exactly contrary opinion?" The bill passed the senate and goes before the house for disposal. % HAITIANS WANT MARINES ORDERED OUT OF ISLAND Politicians Say Presence Is No Longer Needed—Ridiculed - by Officers. PORT AU PRINCE, January 8.—Re- ports that Haitians formerly active fn the politica of.the republic were trying to put forward a movement looking to the withdrawal of Ameri- can occupation forces have been | widely circulated in Port au Prince. It was said that arrangements were being made by leaders of the move- ment to send a delegation to Wash- ington to urge that, inasmuch as the bandit bands had been subdued, the government be turned back to the people. Military authorities do mnot believe, however, that the agitation will be far-reaching. Withdrawal of marines would mean the instant departure of nearly every American in business in Haiti, ac- cording to the view expressed by Americans generally. Indeed, it i8 said that if the marines should go Prgsident Dartiguenave would start | ahéad of them. 1 Discussing this possibility, the presi- dent has declared that, under the treaty, the occupation forces will re- main” until the Washington govern- ment i convinced that the gendar- merie {8 prepared to deal with any situation. It is ause of this unde standing that the agitation for with- drawal is not taken seriously by the Haitian or American authorities, al- hough it _appears to b ving i Some. quarters. SN The freedom with which sofme of the Haitian newspapers have accused and attacked marines has helped stimulate the demargl of some of the old political leaders th: S0ty at they be sent NEW SOVIET CONTROL. Moscow Reports Recently Elected Central Committee. RIGA, Letvia, January 8.—Moscow reports a newly elected soviet central committee comprising three - groups. The dominating right wing is headed by Premier Lenin, the <enter by Leon Trotsky, the war minister, and the left wing by M. Bukharin. The committee consists of 300 members, including Bela Kun, Karl Radek, M. Rakovski, Gen. Budenny, M. Zinovieff, M. Kalinan, Leo Kamencff, Leonid Krassin, M. Kolontai, Jacob Peters, M. Lunacharsky and M. Raskolnikov. ifferences have arisen at the all- Russian congress of soviets through Premier Lenin's advocacy of autonomy for trade unions, and M. Trotsky's de- sire to continue government control of unions. “the | Educator, on Speaking Toqr of U. S., Visits Washington i VICTOR ANDRES Peruvian educator and rated one of BELAUNDE, the most noted orators of South America, who ix on a speaking tomr of the United States. He i a delegate 10 the United Statex from the Univer- sity of S. Marcor, Lima. Peru, one of [the oldest universities on this conti- [nent. BRTAIN FAY TRY NEW TRADE TONEC Consider Establishment of Government Insurance on Time Shipments Abroad. i i IS A.DE SPERATE REMEDY | Way Cure Unempfnyment Prnblem! and Restore More Nofmal Conditions. BY WILLIAM NASH. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. LONDON, January 8.—As & des- perate remedy for the prevailing busi- ness depression, the British govern- ment is considering the adoption of a plan worked out by a Dutchman named Ter Meulen at the interna- nationdl financial confcrence in Brus- isels in September, 1920. The plan provides ior the sale of merchan- dise to central European countries on long term credit and the protec- tion of the sellers by a sort of gov- ernment insuranc Only thus, officials here think, can British trade Le revived to such an extent as to restore”industry gen- crally and thus cause the unemploy- {ment problem to disappear. In other| words, markets must be created. Austria, Hungary, Poland and other | central European countries live in {desperate need of manufactured prod- {ucts, yet their money is so depreciated ithat they cannot buy them. Great Eritain i8 on the verge of a financial panic because she has goods which she cannot sell. 3 Whygnot solve the two needs at once.” “The very fact that the Ter Meulen \plan ‘is under consideration not only by Great Britain. but, ac- {cording” to’ the Daily afiil by he |upreme council of allied premiers as well, is a striking indication of the {value of the argument put forward 'by the league of nations last Sep- temiber. At that time this corre- spondént cabldd that even if nothing definite was accomplished the data in the shape of statistics and recom- { mendations assembled in Brussels by {the leading financiers of Europe would not perish. but would be called into use by governments and indi- viduals for years to come. Now - it seems as if this prediction was com- ing true. Probably the Ter Meulen plan nor others suggested will not be adopted as a whole. They will be amended to meet special needs, but above all they will serve as a basis for many governmental programs. OPIUM IS UNSOLD IN U. S.; SENT BACK TO MANILA Washington Office Finds No De- “mand- for Confiscated Drug. MANILA, P. I, January 8.—Ap- proximately 1,000 pounds of confis- { cated opium, which was sent by the bureau of supply of the Philippine Islands to the chief .of the bureau of insular affairs, at Washington, for sale in the United States more than a year ago, has just been returned here. Several months after the opium® reached the United States the chief s of the.bureau of insular affairs sent | the foilowing cablegram to the gov- ernor generai: i “The pharmaceutical manufacturers | here do not make any offer for the purchase of the nineteen cases of opium. There is an abundant ship- ment of Turkish opium in New York city, with a more uniform amount of morphine. It is believed that the shipment Wwill be a_complete loss.” In view of this cablegram the opium was ordered returned to Manila, where it is now being held by_the bureau of supply. The publication of an article by an¢ afterncon vernacular newspaper that the opium had been abstrated trém the cans during the round trip across the Pacific, and molasses sub- i stituted, brought forth a denial from the bureau of supply. It was asserted that the cans had been opened by secret service agents and all of the drug had been found intact. The valug of opium confiscated dur- ipg the Thst year and now in the hands of the bureau of supply is said to amount to several hundred thou- sand dollars. < McCORMICK ENDS TIRELESS INQUIRY IN FOREIGN LANDS Copyright, 1921. PARIS, January 8.—When Sena- tor Medill McCormick of lilinois re- joins -his colleagues in Washingto roblem of the foreign poli United States with the au one who was not only familiar be fore the war with most countries o! Europe, but who is unique among public men in having just completed a first-hand study of the actual con- ditions in these countries. Though his visit was entirely un- official, Mr. McCormick has been re- “I know a village,” said J. J. lug, a Swiss importer, who has worked for many years among the Egyptians, “where £100,000 is buriéd—nearly $1,500,000 at present: exchange. Ne: Iy every Ezyptian village could tell the me story. Ail the world has nevded cotton durinz the war and isince the v W the ptian peasant h ) selling the world's |ceeded $250,000 nominally, ;rush for rare Argentine, Brazilian and {Bolivian issues. ¢ | Roman _Colchester, Money “Dumped Into Ground by Lgyptian Cotton Growers BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Copyright, 1921. CAIRO, Egypt, Januar: A—"\Vlwre% did my money go?’ every one has been asking, after reflecting upon his taxes and supertaxes and excess profit | taxes and incore taxcs and indireet tax O t question not re- | sentfuily, but resignedly and with a | cientific curiosity. All this money | went somewhere. It surely didn't go | to any of the Furopean countries! which are now visible. In these lands| there are of course profiteers w h“ depreciated bank notes. 'But all Eu- | rope complains of lack of capital with which te start something and invaria- bly, begs for capital from the United State: . But now the riddle seems solved. Your money eame here to Egypt. | gypt is the dumping ground for| the moncy of Europe und the United | States. It is literally the dumping ground, in the sense that money is here dumped into the ground. i GEN HUGHE SEES DEATHOFLEAGUE Two Leaders of Dominion Disagree on Methods to Preserve Peace. Cross-Atlantic Cable” Service to The Star. LONDON, January 8.—"Within three years the league of nations will be as dead as Caesar's yellow dog,” de- clared Gen. Sam Hughes, the former | chief of the Canadian militia and one | of the strong men of the Dominion. “While the league today realizes only the beginnings of ihe great: ideals for which it was foundcd, I am confident of its successful perpetua- tion,” said Judge Doherty, the Cana- dian minister of justice. They used to say in the states, “You | pays your money and you takes your | choice.” Here is certainly a choice The two distinguished Canadians met here today ang thrashed out their op- posing opinions. Chary of Disarmament. “I'm always chary of a man who| talks about peace and disarmament, said Hughes, on the military and na- val disarmament program of the! league. “He might be stretching the | olive branch in one hand and in the: other gripping the sword behind his back. The Germans, before they started the war, were organizing peace and disarmament societies throuhout the worid. “There’s no stronger advocate than| 1 for the elimination of war by any reasonable understanding among the | nations. The time may not be ripe! for it yet, but work and hope for peace. In the meanwhile, ‘keep your powder dry." " “Give us more time than years, Sam,”_Judge Doherty ingly expostulated Hopes for Understanding. “If you're against the league, gen- eral,”’I said, “What's your plan for the termination of wars in the future?’ “An honorabie and sane undersignd- | ing between the nations.” 1 Doherty sees in the general and despread attitude for international disarmament and_for an international court of compulsory arbitration which manifesteq itself among the delegates cf all nations at Geneva proof that the league was successfully launched, and will endure. He declares unalterable opposition to article X, which he thinks hampers rdther than helps the small nations; and he forecasts its abandonment for a fairer and more effective backbone to the league, such as an interna- tional court. three laugh- WORLD-WIDE INTEREST IN BERLIN STAMP SALE Gem of the American Collection Is a Relic of the Southern Confederacy. BERLIN, January 8.—Philatelic ex- perts from all parts of the world came to Berlin to attend the great stamp sale just held here which, it is claimed, has a wider range than any ever before held in Europe. The total number of lots was 5,387 and the value at upsct prices ex- but the rarer specimens were not priced, and for many there were no standards. During the first day's sale there was a. i United States issues included the only known cancelled copy of the “Franklin _carriers,” brown orange error, of 1851; the Livingstone (Ala- bama) five-cent blue of 1861 and three blocks of the new U. S. A. ninety-cent and thirty-cent issues of 1869, with flags inserted. The gem of the American collection was a postal envelope of the Confed- crate States of America bearing on the right hand a five-cent stamp in black, on the left a Confederate sea- man nailing the “Stars and Bars” to the mast and in the center the official post office poet’s lyrical efforts, as follows: “On, on to the rescue, the vandals are coming, Go beat them with bayonet and saber and spear, Drive them back to the desolate land; they are leaving, Go, trust in God, you have nothing ! to fear.” — ROMAN RELICS SOLD. Great Britain’s Most Ancient Mili- tary '.l‘tophiag on the Block. LONDON, January 8.—Great Britain's most ancient military trophies, a Roman_ battle standard and a Roman general's folding camp chair, have By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | ju9t been sold for £200 at a London auction room. The antiquities were dug up in Essex a century ago. Bxperts believe that the battle n | tandard and the camp chair were captured or lost in the disaster that within a fortnight he will be able to|oyvertook the Roman 9th Legion in discuss the difficult and all important |A. D. 61, when Boadicea, Queen of the icy of the |Iceni, cut the leglon to pieces as it thority of | advanded to relieve _Colchester. Boadicea'’s Britons, having burned turned upon’ the 9th Legion, surprised and destroyed it- The cavalry alone got away, and it fs_believed that the relics were abandoned on the field. The standard and the chair are in perfect preservation. The former is ceived’ everywhete with diplomatic|a slight and elegant thing in bronze, honors and, having had merely to|topped by four laurel wreaths of renew acquaintances begun before the war, hias been able to converse in sometitng like many European statesme made encrgetic and tireless investi- gations {n London, Paris, Geneva, Budapest, Prague, and Rome. s ‘Warsaw, Berlin | fully worked in iron, overlaid diminishing size. Below is a medal- lion, bearing on one side a portrait intimacy with |of Nero, and on the other an inlaid He has | design showing the emperor in a triumphal car holding a palm branch and a wreath. The chair is heauti- n sil- g like a wodern camp stoul. v best cotton at fancy prices. He won't risk his money in investments.’ or even in banks. He simply buries it.” The other day some land was being old at auction. A poor fellah, or peasant, with- white turban and black robe, was bidding. He was bidding recklessly. madly. The judze, who was the auctioneer, reproved him. s: ing he could not possibly have so much money. The fellah clapped his hands in the direction of his small son, who was standing in the corridor. Abdullah.” he cried, “come here.” The lad approached, carrynig on his shoulders a sack of money. Another time an agent was offer- ing some valuable land to a peasant. The illiterate man talked calmly about aying for it in five figures ‘But have vou really got that much money?’ asked the “How much have you?" “How much have Egyptian. I have one, two, three beer barrels full of ba agent. 1 “Let me sec. notes.’ suaded to put their money into a bank, but the Mohammedan law for- bids the loaning of money at “usury.” ke this injunction literal ank in Cairo there is no less 1009,000 (nomin-ly 0 i deposit on which the depositors re- <use to accept interest. VOTE TO DETERMINE COUNTRY'SFEALTY Upper Silesia to Say Whether Poland or Germany Shall Have Allegiance. B LIN, January ‘8.—The long, bit- ter and often bloody campaign among the voters of Upper Silesia is ex- pected to come to an end January 17 with”a plebiscite, which will decide whether the .region belongs to Ger- many or to Poiand As the time for the plebiscite draws nearer the keen- t interest of Germans generally tens on the rich industrial, coal- mining lands, with the visible fear that the Poles will win the elections. Serious disorders before, during and after the elections are frankly consid: ered probable, although approximate- Iy 20,000 troops, 200 tank: d5.000 poliae will be strategically distributed through the plebiscite area in an ef- fort to preserve the peace. allied troops and many police ever, has ‘ailed to prevent fighting during the many months through which the plebiscite battle has raged, and excitement on both sides has been steadily increasing. Germany Makes Overtures. Throughout the autumn and early winter the German government has made every. effort to win the sympa- thies of neutrals and Silesians to the German cause. Frequent have been made that Gerinan work- men were murdered, by Poles. The Poles have been ridiculed, their bu ness, political and social characteris- tics scathingly criticised. 1t is charged by the. pro-Ger campaigners © that® the Doles | Mo without the men who have abilitv to manage the great industries of Upper Silesia and that under their rule these industries would be bound to decay, the operation of the mines deteriorate. Polish workmefi, not so highly skilled or strongly organized as the Germans. would overrun the region under a Polish regime and. it | has been argued, would work for such low wages that the German popula- tion would be forced to leave. Polixh Agitators Aective. On the .other hand, the Polish agi- tators, and particularly Wojciech Korfanty, former member of the reichstag, have not only flooded the plebiscite area, with appeals to unite with Poland, but have openly threat- ened -the German residents with ex- pulsion should the Poles win at the elections. They have brought up the old issue of Prussian interference with religious worship. The fact that Poles were excluded from helding any offices under the old regime has tended to intensify their desire to carry the elections for Poland. The Germans point out that with the loss of the rich Silesian coal flelds it would be doubtful if they could fulfill their coal delivery program of the peace treaty. They assert that under the Polish government the coal flelds would suffer such a decline in production that they would virtually be lost, not only to Germany, but to the rest of the world as well. Into the cympaign has entered ever, prejudice of race, religion and poli tics. In view of the intense excite- ment that prevails Germans are warned they should not carry arms. WOULD SAVE THE HORSES. Agitation in Mexico Against Using Them in Bull Fighting. MEXICO CITY, January 8.—There is 2 slight agitation here against the use of horses in bull fighting. One contributor writing {0 a loc objects on the ground that the bulls will kill 50 many horses that the sup- Ply of them for transportation in the city will be depleteq. Protest on behalf ‘of the horses is confined to those who are not keen followers of the sport. A true ball fight fan will tell any. one that a horse. even though he is gored and mutilated by an angry bull, is a nec- essary adjunct to the fight, and plays & part in keeping with the picador Wwho mounts him. However, the sight of a gored ani- mal running frantically around the arena, flecing, beean of h': Llind- fold, from he knows not what, has sent many hundreds home from the y |Rames before thev were completed. ‘This was especially noticeable wher the United States excursionists were here for President Obregon’s inau- guration ceremonies. CLAMOR FOR PALESTINE. Jews of Europe Eager to Get There, Some Walking. Cross-Atlantic Cable Service to The Star. LONDON, January 8.—“The Jews of central Europe are clamoring to get to Palestine, some of whom are even walking,” sald Sir Alfred Mond, the British _ statesman, who is shortly going there on the invitation of Sir Herbert Samuel, the high commis- sioner. “One of the reasons I am going there is to discover how much of the heralded potentialities of the country are real and how much false. Personally, I believe the country could .support three or four million people instead of the six hundred thousand that are there today. “Certain things must be done, how- ever. Communications and harbors must be developed; an irrigation system must be provided; and the development of electrical powes is vitaL I also want to see an end put to the stories of hostility between the Jows and the Arabs.” The iwo peoples are mnot hostil Dr.. Welsman, the Jewish leader, actompanies Mond on his trip, T answered |hel nk Some ‘of the peasants can be per chargesd paper | New President of the Austrian Republic Py | .DR. MICHAEL HAINISCH. First photograph to arrive in country of the executiv VOTE WILL DECIDE | . PRUSSIRSEXTENT lStates al in Kingdom to Decide” Future Statuys. MONARCHISTS ARE ACTIVE Many Well Known Persons Advise Citizens Against “Dividing Home of Fathers.” BY GEORGE WJITTE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. BERLIN, January S$—Within the xt few weeks all the states and free cities that from the reign of Frederick the Great have been united into the kingdom of Prussia, the hot- { bed of militarism in ope, willl vote to determine whether they shall continue to belong to what is now the republic of Prussia Many well known personages, from President Ebert down, have urged the working men and middle classes to vote against “dividing the home Yof their fathers.” The opbortunity | |is being used by the monarchists to ! urge a return to kaiserdom. i Rev. Dr. Max Maureabrecher, a '\'Hl! known member of the Prussian diet, writes in the reactionary Deutsche Zeitung: 4 “What we need most of all is strong kaiserdom based on broad, popular id but thorouxshly Ger- iman in all i principles. There is lalso need of a great undivided and unweakened Prussia that will be thl backbone of all Germany.” Count Posadowsky-Wehner, former | secretary of the interior, writes that | .the monarchistic movement through- out Germany has grown very strong in the past year, not for polftical reasofif, but becavse the masses be-l i-lieve. that monarchism would mean the return of law and order and bet- ter financizl and economic conditions to_Germary. \ “The Hohenzollerns,” he says. “knew how to eliminate racial and national differences among the vari- ous states belgnging to Germany, but the German republic has accentuated them through its.policy of drawing sharp )i between the states.” i { | i TTALY TRYING T0 PLANT LAND IDLE CENTURIES Campagna Romana About Rome Has Been Uncultivated Since , Fall of Empire. OSTIA, Italy, January 7.—Efforts are being made to reclaim and plant parts of the vast tract of land which stretches for several miles around Rome and goes by the name of the “Campagna Romana.” It has been al- {lowed to remain idle and uncultivated {ever since the fall of the Roman em- pire. Before that time it was a sort of |terrestrial paradise; villas and_ gar- {dens were dotted all over it as far a8 the eye could see. it_was luxuriant with fruits and- flowers, it supplied food and work for thousands upon thousands of men, it was one of the most_beautiful and intensively culti- vated spots in the world. When Rome, aowever, was obliged 'to resign her position as “the mis- tress of the warld,” the “campagna’ was abandoned and gradually became ia marshy, malaria-infected desert, in- ihabited only by a few hardy shep- herds_ Now, however, the law which was recently passed, decreeing that any one who does not cultivate his land to ithe utmost of its capacity is liable to ihave the land confiscated, is begin- ining to have its effects. Prince Aldo- brandini has engaged a company to Ireclaim a huge astate of several thou- isands of acres which he owns ini the “campagna.” The work has already begun and an experimental station has been set up at Ostia. The land was first of all drained and then arrangements were {made to obtain water from the Tiber for lirrigation. Electric tractors to draw the plows were them bought 2nd various kinds of fruits, vegeta- bles and cereals cultivated in order to {find out how fertile the land is and | hatixindior cropiit isimostiadapted i for. The results were beyond the wildest {hopes of any of the promoters of the icompany. The land, after lying idle {for centuries, seems to fave stored up its fertility throughout all that time and now yields crop upon crop with unstinting hand. An attempt has even been made to grow cotton here an the experiment has been successful, but how success- ful it has been impossible to deter- mine, as the cotton used was of the worst quality obtainable. This year, however. it is proposed to plant Amer- !ican or Egyptian cotton. | So happy have the results at the ex- {erimental station been that it is hoped |that soon work may be begun for the' itotal reclaiming of the whole of the ampagna.” —_— NOTED ISLAND GOES ‘DRY. Prohibition Landslide Hits One of Outer Hebrides. STORNOWAY, Scotland, January 5. —The Island pf Lewis, the largest of the outer Helbfides, has overwhelming- 1y voted “dry” in the prohibition poll taken here. For total abolition there were 720 votes; for no change, 149, and for limitation of drink licenses, 5. As a result, all licenses on the island will be annulled next May. Lewis is a rugged island, which abounds in ancient Druidic structures !and ruincd old-time fortresses. A LOOKS TO FUTURE WITH BRIGHT HOPES Guatemala Faces Difficult Conditions With Optjmism, Says Minister BY BEN McKELWAY. ECAUSE of the publicity at- tending the efforts by certain ] shec parties to bring about United States intervention in Guate- ma the real state of affairs public at thi Julio Bianch in that re- Guatemalan minister to | considcrea . a frank and open discussion of | I¢ time is interesting. Dr.| expected ere plorat count He seie an SIX other expert in sion, and he wdy has made four- ' trips to Central ica, where he obtained many rare and valuable | shecimens of prehistoric e s to be absent more than eight months. Robert H. V the United States, discussing the eco- | Army during th d con- nomic situation in his country, states: I 3"“ -‘x"h t 1 11';"“.-:.-‘ o that his government, “composed of‘“‘,.’j‘“m_ S 5 EhE mins the best men in the country, fully|die of this month, where he will assi supported by the people, faces condi- i the Kovernment tn reorsamidini o0 tions that are difficult, but not discour- [ of new tariff resulations.” Maj. Vor- azing and we look to the immediate | feld ha o In future with bright hopes and optimis- | Such work ,.’T"‘""“ tie determination.” g iniER nons ST Though somewhat mislcading, the | I3 onc of & number of ns who official statistical reports show lhnlI: fu'\lmf S A nd Cerls Guater iS_ina hourishing condi- tion, exports having exceeded imports in the last several years, leaving a substantial balance at the end every season, the minister points out. of | { | On the other hand, one-third of the | coffee exported, one-fiftly of the su- 1r, practically all the bananas and all ‘net income of the railroad and electric power companies belons to absentee owners and never come back to the country as money making about 40 per cent of the republic's ex- port trade fictitious. and creating an adverse international trade balance. Adoption of a gold standard and a better banking system is necessary before Guatemala can begin the real development of Guatemala’s re- sources, Dr. Bianchi believes. Dr. E. Kemmerer, a graduate of Princeton, financial cxpert, who has made a sur- vey of Guatemala's monetary situa- tion, has made a valuable report, the minister declares, and many of his} suggestions will be followed. Though Guatemala is unprepared at present to care for poor immigrants, she will be able to care for half a million settlers within ten vears, the minister states, and at present the republic invites “every clean man” wishing to go to Guatemala to invest there. Foreign capital is needed. states the minister, to aid in the de- velopment of the country's resources, | which include millions of acres of rich soil covered with tropical forests of| mahogany; flelds of sugar cane. fields of cotton “ten feet high”: flem; of corn, which produce crops tnree times a year, without fertilizer. There are mineral resources so, far virtually un- touched, but where “gold. silver, lead, chrome, antimony. iron. sulphur, com- mom salt and whitest marbel have been found in workable quantities. «T pelieve the era of revolutions and netty wars is endes declares Dr. Bianchi. “Every man. of our govern- ment today is willing to give the ver: best of his body and brain to h country. whether that be Gunt@mglz alone or Guatemala incorporated with gister republics in the United States of Central America, as we hope to see her in the near future. and legal activities giving full tection to man and money. the c: we need will come in safety from for- eign lands, our internatjonal trade will be what it always should have been and Guatemala will be the best place in the world in which to live.” * X% ¥ ¥ litical | @ s T Do | accomplished apital | world. 1 B. | study of the methods now tral America to st them in such re. organization work. » of what is termed “unsets this coun- als of the propos College of Con in Panama another postponement opening date for Phe Vinstitution, The last date de- cided upon is July 11 * K X X son of a for- i1 in New Or- founder of the Guate- party, was in Wash- ington last wi eonferring with the Guatemalan minister, Dr. Bianchi, be- fore taking over his duties of consul in New York city. ITe succceds E. T. Cabarrus, who is returning to Guatemala to fill another government post. Mr. Villacorta is a banker, served re 3 chief auditor of the Guatemalan tre nd was an _of- ficial of the International raiiroad of Central America. * ok ok k Franklin Adams. councilor for the 1 Al forward augural committee within a me photosraphs of the ing svstem on s princi sireels of Buenos : be sugzested models for s here during ina t The lighting of the principal in Buencs Aires is artistic « practical. and a_ view of city is considercd a night the beautiful one. * ¥ ok Dr. 1. A. Tavlor and J. 2 '” the latfer a sanitary engineer. both health experts of the Rockefeller Foundation, are on their way to Ar- gentina to. t the republic in i fight against malaria.) They will co duct survevs and make a detailed in use in ease, and with the zentina in fighting the dis will work in_co-operation University of Tucuman. Both of the men are expert in the treatment and control of malarid, their most recent work along this line having been done in Louisiana. They 1so are familiar with what has been in other parts of the The Argentine ambassador here has received a cablegram frcm Dr. Teran, president of the Universitv of Tucu man, in which he expresses his pleas- ure at the sending of the two Rocke- feller Foundation representatives. Tt is believed that the result of their ar- Arrangements mow are under WAY | jva) and work there will be to stimu- and official invitations soon will be !Tate nation-wide intcrest in the move- extended to the American countries, ..¢ for health improvement and by which border on the Pacific ocean to send delegates to the Pan-Pacific Ed- ucational Congress, to be held in Hon- olulu, Hawaii, August 11.. The South American countries which lie along the Pacific coast will play an impor- tant part in the conference. the pur- pose of which will be the discussion of the needs and possibilities of edu- their knowledge gained in Argentina they will be able to aid other coun- tries of South America to fight ma- 'laria. In a speech delivered Thursday in New York before the Women's Roose- velt Memorial Association J. E. Le- fevre, secretary of the Panama lega tion here and charge d'affaires ad in- cation in each of the countries repre- | terim, paid a remarkable tribute to sented. The conference will be lim- ited to seventy-nive delegates, it being believed that more can be accom- plished through the efforts of a com- paratively small of men. i co-operating body | jan Theodore Roosevelt, and at the same time “cleared” him of what ne clares was misconstruction of )!7. Roosevelt's policy toward Panama in Zvery American should be as proud Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States com- | ;¢ the timely recognition of the re- misioner Of education. iS ATFanging | oLyl of Pagama by Theodore Roose- for the conference with Alexander |ycip o o o s they should feel of Hume Ford, secretary of the Pan-Pa- presigent Wilson for the recognition cific Union, Frank F. Bunker. * ¥ * % Prof. P. H. Rolfs of Gainesville, Fla., dean of the agricultural college of the University of Florida, will go to Brazil this month to supervise the establishment in the province of Mi- nas Geraes of an agricultural college and experimental farm, to be modeled after such institutions in the United States. % Dr. Sylvanus Morey of the Carnegie Institution of Washington began his journey last week to Guatemala. HUMAN SIGHT THROUGH ~ SKIN, SCIENTIST’S CLAIM French Investigator Makes Report of “Eye Spots” Through Which, He Says, Man Can See. Cross-Atlantic Cable Service to The Star. PARIS, January 8.—That men can see through their skins and without the use of their wyes. is the conten- tion of Prof. ‘Lous KFarigoule of the Univefsity of Paits in a book he has just publishea on human vision. He claims to have fact by experiment. g The book is creating 2 sensation in the medical world, but the doctors hardly know what to make of it. His position in the scientific world is such, however, that his name. back- ing any theory carries weight. Dr. Farigoule says that there are eye spots in_the sKin, quite different from eyes, by which men can see. He recounts experiments with hyp- notized patients, blindfolded, and with their eyes closed. After sug- gestion that they rezd a newspaper, he says, they did so. By self-hypno- tism he claims to have corroborated these results. Hunting an_explanation, he says he found in the skin nerve endings, such as the “ivy bodies,” hitherto thought to be organs of touch, and ‘comparable to_ the naufer-like struc- tures in the pig's snout. ‘He finally developed the theory that these nerve endings belonged to microscopic -eyes. That we do not use them regularly he ascribed to the fact that we are out of habit, 5o that they do mot function to the brain, as in the case of a man With a squint in one eye, in which case the im- pression from that eye exerts mo in- fluence on vision. — OFF TO EVANGELIZE REDS. Clergyman, Once Exiled, Returns to Finish Work. LONDON, Jénuary 8.—Pastor Wit* liam Fetler, formerly head of the Baptist Church at Petrograd, who fled to America in 1915 after having been exiled to Siberia by order of the Russian emperor, is going back to try to evangelize Russia, He is tak- Ing & band of about twenty-five Rus- sians, who are to travel with him as_evangelists. % The band is well equipped and is taking a large quantity of clothing, a nurse, an American musical director and an expert translator. The evangelists have had three years® u&lflln‘ in theology and all are expert musicians. ‘“We shall teach sald the musical director. 5 a established this} He is assisted by Dr.iof the repu ¢ Lszechoslovaki . for the same "princi | cs of Poland, Finland or les of nationality and self-determin- ation were at stake in 1903 as they were in 1918 he said. “In recognizing our right to self-de- termination and by always respecting the sovereiznty of our small nation he earned our everiasting gratitude. for we know better than any one else that he was prompted only by the love of liberty which was embodied in him and by that love of progress which is s0 well expressed in the coat of arms of our young republic.” SAYS REDS HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER BRITISH TRADE Flax and Lumber Have Been Sold Many Times, Milukoff Asserts. LONDON, January 8—Prof. Paul Milukoff, Russian foreign minister under Kerensty.Sand considered the leading Russian anti-bolshevik au- thority 1n gland, is quoted here as saying: “There is nothing to be ob- tained from Ru except flax and timber, and that has been sold sev- eral times over. 1 cannot imagine that established British firms will consider this a Solid basis for trading with a bankrapt country.” Agreciag with American State De- partment oflicials _at Washington, Milukoff_eypressed his opinion to the ondon Globe that the proposed Brit- ish trade agreement with Russia is “to all intents and purposes recogni- tion of the balsheviki, who never have been elected Dy any vote of the peo- le.” PliTrads with the bolsheviki will only intensify the danger of bolshe- vik doctrines spreading in England.” said Milukoff. “With trade will come, first, ‘agents.’ then ‘consuls,’ all train- ed propagandists whose real work it would be to hasten social revolution:” Milukoff /states that Russia has nothing_to offer in exchange -for goods. He says that Lenin himself emphasizes that the remaining gold reserve is negligible and would ter- tainly be exhausted within a month or two. “There is one thing that Lenin and Trotsky cannot stop without admitting the awful disaster they have brought upon my unhappy coun- try, that is, the preaching of world revolution. = Everything is subordi- nated to that end,” concluded Prof. Milukoff. - STOWAWAYS THROWN OUT Swarm Over Spanish Ship at Ham- burg Bound for United States. ‘HAMBURG, January 8.—Stowaways from virtually every country in the world were found aboard the Span- ish steamer Mar del Norte before it sailed from here for the United States. The captain had to call the port authorities to help him clear his ship of the unusual number who were seeking an unpald passage to America. Among the stowaways were Eng- lishmen, Americans, Australians, Mexicans, Africans, Chinese amd In- dians, as well as & number of Ger- mans. All declared they wanted to shevists to sing ‘The Glory|go to the United States to find ems' ployment. f &