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Folay at politics th eir fling. But they ” hs characters when thi it pol- cs to interfere with the business of situation e nation. The railroad be described as chickens come to roost ay me THE DEBATE IN BOSTON. Asi d President e course of their debate accepted ertions made by Senator Lodge Lowell of Harvard in last eve- be as representative of which at Boston muay ng the two uly control the the hools of thought ! pague of Nations anabasis in hited States. Senator Lodge proved at converted to a those its present he has not becen ngle contention of who sup- the unfin- in In fact, Whether conviction rt league hed form he is even more famant a political that guess. it is a sincere he the must se or public may His disappointed right that the dmirers feel nothing new to President Wilson. e contributed ndictment” of President Lowell was an able ex- | onent for league with a few inor modifications, the most import- amendment Monroe would be an the does not appear that he Int of which uaranteeing poctrine. 1t elieves this change essential but con- He shattered the the the America Brit- force of the it advisable. of and ders eory the Knoxs, Reeds, porahs others that Fould be at and ignty. Paris constitution the mercy of Great would surrender its sover- With in slight re-writing, the would he accept- ble to him Not Taft ounced his approval he nents, inguished 1. pigorous and publicly an- the draft of few since Mr. of covenant, with a amend- has the league had such a dis- s President Low- pleader His arguments were concisc and he had of advantage of the pver senator Lodge being out olitics. SIBE AN SITUATION. having come Authentic information that an anti-Ameri- Wwith 'rom Viadivostok an ess in phould Hetermined spirit is being fostered suc- the fact and the cognizance of Washington offset reason why Siberia, be taken by efforts made tc ropaganda. There is no United the peoples should promote he States and be the bes the iberia not riends and interests of buch other in an atmosphere of amity. At this distance it is not easy to un- derstand why the feeling of hostili- y should prevail unless because the siberians expected from America was The appears the of nore than America willing to sive or could give basic griev- the Siberians of Princes’ Wilson to be ance of the offer at parley with 1 is However, that may a ands which fsheviki [President heing the author. have been seized as a pretext by those credited with previously unfriendly toward America for the purpose of stirring up in- creased dissatisfaction. Tt is a sorry state of affairs and no time should be Bol- } . n o 5 expensive 6 contend that al thereby fdyy labor because fttcndants are required ? he Ptate disposed of this jon some time ago when it de- Breed thut might keep open on Sunday for the the public, will certain business Thouses convenience of which de- sired to buy newspapers or to treat its palate to the delights of ice cream sodas or morc substantial foodstuff The amusement bill is mierely an en- largement of this principle. Another point Klett report proposal s00d made by that endorsement Sen- ator was his the nas the of the police, who believe the opening of mo- theaters and concert evening will have tion picture halls on Sunday tendency to reduce strect loitering. Tt that State Senate is alive to sentiment that only the bill. a is an indication the three votes were cast against TO BALK ICE PIRATES, Every assistance possible should he given the Common Council's special commiittee in its effort to inguire into the ice situation here. The appoint- ment of committee was author- ! ized at last night's meeting. the Becalse of the mild winter, the ice harvests in this vicinity have been far below the average Ponds have remained open almost continually since last autumn and no opportunity has been allowed to gather the usual Houses practically empty and the of other crop. are store on hand is poor quality. Reports from paris of New which have furnished part of New Britain's supply in past years indicate that there is an acute shortage. kven Maine, which ships hundreds of thou- sands of tons of ice affected harvesting every summer, that late and was to such an extent the ended early. It is proposed by Mavor Quigley to local season began ice manufactur- the two offers arrange with a to received plant control price. The ing plant has for its entire product but is anxious to hear from the public authorities before closing any deal. Ice is a necessity and the city should take steps to pre- 1t believed this through vent profiteering. is can be done co-operation with the manufacturer. Third Ward BLAR: his candidacy The should support unite in of Gilpatric, who announced for a Coun- cilman's seat. we need in our governmental body, lik As director of the Thrift Stamyp cam- Mr. chicfly responsible for its success. quick-thinking, alert, busines paign in this city, Gilpatric was vote of the Democratic the Missouri By a mem- bers of Legislature, A. Iteed has been called upon to resign from the United § But it is too much to hope that He may plead self- James ates Sen- ate. he will comply. determin:ation. the razing of around By gency orderin emer fortifications elogquent Paris, France to some of the Germans Who believe the Huns will eat their Christmas dinnerv makes an veply has | He is the type of man | Japan- jates that lock, the 3 Celes News. thing about the { ¥ill be that nohody fiSten to Delated qus ®The Old Oaken RBuck- weet Adcline” any more Plain Dealer. - FTS OF THE GODS, o The gods in their bounty Th Allotting in wisdom Each one to our need. e seasons decreed, The Fall with its riches And sglories far flung, They gave for fulfilment— The need of the youn The Spring with Its miracle told, They gave for its promise The need of the old. MCLANDBURGH WILSON. SEN. LODGE EVADES LOWELL'S QUESTIONS Five.) its Dbeauly, (Continued from Page a number of new a numhber of new relations, tions have not undertaken create. There have been There is nothing new league They go of There Westphalia, the League of Cambrai. T believe there are some thirty altogeiher in the pages of his- tory, none of them very successful. And in the Holy Alliance of 1815 an- other attempt was made, and that time a league to preserve peace. Covenant Looscly Drawn. “T take first. the form of the draft, without vegard to its substance. Therc were four drafts presented to the commission. one by Iwaly, one by France, one by the United States, and one by Great Britain. The British draft was the one selected. You can find in the treaty. if you will com- pare it with the plan put forth by General Smuts in Janu that some paragraphs were taken from his plan with but slight changes. How nearly the draft presented conforms to the British draft 1 have no means of knowing. “The drafts countries have never been discussed, although we are living in the cra of open covenants openly arrived at. 1 hope in the course of a few years that those drafts may appear in the volumes published by congress which contain an account of our foreign re- lations. “The draft think to any { it with care | Iy and obscurely drawn me that Lord IRobert | believe principally | it, should have of a parliament it was submtted A constitution a treaty ought {o be in legal, tutory or comstitutionai language and not in the language sclected for this purpose. “The languasgc immense importance, that there should differences of opinion meaning of the articles of draft as human ingenuity can vide against. No n, be he presi- | dent or senator, can fix what the in- terpretation of that draft is. The draft itself, the articles themselves, should | answer as fan possible all tions. There not a4 court fo upon them. They would have decided hy the nine powers representatives composc the tive council. bhefore us we create contact which before many in the idea back to the is the peace of to leagues. is of days Greece. offered by the other and 1 examined loose- appears to me, one who has to have been very It scems to Cecil, who 1 for hands hefore or responsible it in the draftsman is put Ty of t ft is it be ju as fo thar pro- that dra hecausc of necessary as few the me to he whoso execu- "he people who ave for this draft of = league and those who are it differ ahout the construction nearly every article, and, not only that, but those who are for it differ mong themselves, and those who are ainst it differ among themselves, as fo its construction. There will differences arising out of that porous instrument. There will differences arising, before tw month has passed, among the nations that signed it . Constructlve Criticism. ainst of ; be very be I e a very { ph lost in contradicting the false rumor in the French capital in 1925, “Lately the phrase has been much THURSDAY, MARCH: 26, 1919, BW BOOKS AT THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUIL | BAND THE WAR. by B. G. 5 ox o AVE THE LM, Rihbany. jative Syrian gt with conditions, to the actual alons the castern sand to the ta fles toward INCH IN SAR RICA, by iOriginally lectures onne, their pun e for the I Pievements of merica, nd the have specially A. Ly A s w o pose b nch eir wonderf grown o in t Bo HORIZONS, by NEAR intimately sun rebuilding Bnd the Asiatic Turkish prov- ! Mediter auiding vernment.” cing people oxplorers ul de ut he N oklist T OF of EAST, i ac- nmons of ran- thesc AM- it the vis- the in lop- to v Tic Francis Hackett Criticisms of hooks and their writ- Brs and plays, which have emporary interest, becuus cen, spiced with wit and tion of human nature Booklist HOW TO RIEAD Colson “An enthu who stock arguments for read hecause of its good effect writing. We read poetry us at one time or another we love it—unless, indeed is wrong with our loving She illustrates her pleasa sion with examples of poe range.’ LA FLANDERS FIELDS, ER POEMS, by John M NATIONS, i POETRY jast pa IN LEAGUE OF ples examined, by LUTHER BURBANK, by liams “Popularly to acquaint Burbank’s and results of ally, to show ods may be by the written the general theories and P th how actically A, come 1 amateur,’ L PEOPLE'S THEATER, by land P AN POETS OF MODE Lndwig Lewisohn “The interpretation and hook mot ih U an A by i upon b som 1ppa nt try o Booklist AND cCra its ublic e m his A ihan ey are preci- it AT by call poetry prose all of ecause cthing ratus.’ liseu wide O princi- Marburg. Wil- signed with cthods his work, and. incident- of applicd, Booklist meth- even Rol- FRANCT raphi- these | | cil sketches | Pocts with | their poems, many never been put into L. A. Booklist. modern French translations illustrating of which have Iinglish before of thirty . SAMURAYL TRATI land . A delightful illustrated ! what remains of the i as seen by two {ing tramped from ILurope other, managed to run from the Japanese show places | the ola and primitive regions where western civilization scarcely —A. L. A. list. Kirt- sketch of really hav- meet away into who to vagabhonds Peacn historic has penctrated.” Look- BACHIN( AND JESUS, SOCIAL PROPIE Kent “The chief aims of this volume are single out the important social | teachings or the Bible, to translatc | them into English, and then to | classify and present them so that they may bLe intelligently studied in the lighi of fheir historical setting and development.”—aA, L Book- 1 list i | | | by i to o x e UNDERSTANDING SOUTH | CA by s Cooper | “Happily free from the spirit which i regards South America chiefly “ | field of cxploitation in the interest of American, busines A. L. A. Book- list. AMERT- as YASHKA: MY LIFE AS OFFICER AND EXILE Botchlkareva PEA Piction. HOT WITH THE MBEZZANINE And Other Stories. by Anton Tche- Koff, translated from the Russian “Seven stories in which the char- acteristic melancholy relieved by tenderness and by purity A. L. .. OLD DAD. by E. H. Abhott A sh. the hero is father of Publisher’s i beauty and A. Booklist of thought.’ fre. in which white-haired girl of 18.- clever love story the naive, notice HOUSE * SKYPILOT IN NO Ralph Connor. AND yvoung, a jolly SINISTER by Leland Hall MAN'S LAND, by by WILD YOUTH Gilbert Parker. ANOTHER, when an 1t ticis destructiv of answ used, especially very constructive, convenient ward questions who use it and use it freely think that ther criticism mu s destro must he not easy. not way and stopped to where structive where some it alone ow this W tructive my first constructive this lcague ought to t put in language that can understand. By doing will remove at diffcrence and the instrument inc is to promote peace. “Another point is to that the sanctity everything also important a countr that must is a case criticismi s cle and that and once many spute. and to diminis agrees to t The hasis maintain ies lies at the therefore we possible fo removc agreement af be must as out of interpretations of language arising YVote of “Now, league 1 in discussing the can only deal wit important point To an: articles or that league as 1 be analyzed would fake m But T will speak of one p runs all through it it seems to me answer m e ing m evident] have ¢ are st 1ctive. destr here n itic 1 rly e rec ever tha can you dis 1 h Wh he cc peac care conf h the 1137 hey any oint be was ust be It was awk- thos never > some con- and uctive con- ceded, ism s afted ryvhody: t you ses of want sputes, ase harmony, hecause its purpos remember this of treaties is above atever ountry sanctity of treat- e, and ful all chances of di licting Exceutive Council, draft of the most those shonld hours, which -one objection, as which runs all through it, and that is that there are so many places where it says that the execu- tive council—which authority-—shall recommen vise, or propose measures, by are tated therc another but to say There shall be where is a vote, unanimous stated. “No clause in otherwise case there saying cither shou there stated, the council shall be or clse it ough cvery v upon to malke L proposal. or executive vote, jority pre: in ariicie are called dation kind. Agiin says, or a any let me quote frov speaking of ‘One of these, in respect to the cil. Will it need a or will majority vote where there is puts the peint extremely think there should be anott 1 offer that a second criticism i fc exect 1s0s: is e a The Monroe Doctr “I now come fo what sc a very vital point, indecd, the Monroe Doctrine “The Monroe Doctrine ollary of Waszhington's for declared in the farcwell am not going to hase any upon it, it is a mistake the policy laid down by and sarily bus transient. As My Washington's doctrir 1t may have come it is not ephemeral on (vwo permanent ture and gcography “Human nature, changed, when you of the past far tory, there is it at all stages. tain—not said, transient time may be to d Lecav facts you study we ma as as a But the one t even wisest is the real se d, and o i two- it sh ald ‘where decision by to t where recor decis) m My aml T ins 1ive unanimous L sufl well her ¢ inc. ems and t th eign addre arg to col is e wa wrong; ard 150 it —human 1 ay the have curious similarity hing and t of ad- fails » t what vote they shall do it one or two places where it thirds all be in most cases it is not be a not of the ma- be ex- they nmen- ion of Taft iguous stance, coun- vote icient, no specification?” That and T hange constructive to hat ne 12 e cor- policy 1 ument nsider Washington Monroe as ephemeral and neces- Wilson well not tho it, but rests na- as has history a ¥, his- in is cer- most as They say en is or the Pa- But do not the geozraphy of the globe. communication has quickened mously. The Atlantic Ocean what it was as a barrier, cific either, 1 suppose. forget that, even under modern condi- tions, the Silver Street, the little chan- nel only twenty miles wide, was kEng- fand’s bulwark and defense in the last ar. Do not underate the 3,000 miles of Atlantic It was on that that Mon Doctrine, the corollary Washington's policy, rested. T'he Monroe Doctrine panded A resolution unanimously oc of has been ex- was in the senate a few years ago statinz that the United States would urd it as an t of hostilit any corporation assoeiation of other nation possession Magdalena post of | great strategic, naval and military ad- vantage. It did not rest on the Mon- roe Doctrine. It rested on something | deeper than that 1L resied the | the Monroe Doctrine—the | of self-preservation say that if we demand the | of the Monroe Doctrine | the operation of the league they demand compensation. Very well. Let them exclude us from med- dling in Burope. That is not a bur- den that we are seeking Lo be We are ready to go there at to the world from bar ind tyranuy, but arc thirsting to interferc in every obscure quarrel that | spring up in the Balkans, Immigration and the Tariff. There is the question of immigra- | which this treaty reaches under the non-justiciable questions. [ am told—I believe I have followed it | | through all the windings—that a final could only he reache by and it is said that the not be unanimous. 1| think that highly probable, but I deny the jurisdiction. 1 cannot personally accede to the proposition that other | nations, that a body of men in execu- | ! tive council, where we as a nation | have but one vote, shall have any ! unanimous or otherwise, to | shall into the United It be within the | jurisdiction at all. It lies at the foundation national character and There should be no possible jurisdiction over reg a : for any ot o take ! of Bay, being a on basis of greal law [hey exclusion ! rrom will is a T tim sm any e save »ar c we not may tion { | a | decision unanimity power say who States. come must not of the league of wvell-heing ! the power which defends this country from a flood of Japanese, Chinese and Hindu labr. “The tariff is involved the hovcott. The coastw in Article 21. 1 ought to settle our impor: They say it domestic question So is immigration, but they are do- mestic questions with international relations. ! Withdrawal On n the article for is involved trade | think duties. we is Termination. “This trealy is indissoluble. There or! | is mo provision for wthdrav In {he old days—very termination | habit old of | beginning treaties by swearing eternai friendship. which made them last no longer, That been given up. In modern times almost all the treaties that we now have contain provisions for termination or withdrawal notice. 1If there is no provision for withdrawal You are thrown back on denunciation or abrogation hy one na- tion i the ment days—they were in the has on have been surprised senate and elsewhere that this Was only a treaty, and could abrogade it by an act of conzress at ANY time, as we can undep the decisions of the supreme court, Why, ladies and gentlemen, nothing could he worse than that. No great- hear in state- to the we ‘old Japan' | not the | passed | ) zate | most | | TheMcMillan Store, In “ALWAYS RELIABLE” Store Open 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturdays 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. . Store Closed Monday Evening 6 p. m. SPRING SHOWING of the NEW COLORED DRESS COTTONS Our showing is the most charming collection of desirable wash fabrics for spring 1919—Dainty col- orings and designs await your choosing. 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Saidonis and Mesopotamia and ia that is all “I am not going to arguc | tweer At length 1 am no' as deeply to that provision most other people American people But it responsibility to take 1o take charge of some distant pcople furnish them with civilians to v on their overnment, furnish with an my Lo protect them, send young men away on business. We have it in have done it in Domingo, it in Nicaragua, and now That is all within Doctrine; that is all within fence." \We must do it; the world; arg of doing it a demand Asia, Afric take up the tutela The Most Important “Then comes Article X important article in treaty. That the one the American people take it to their homes sides, discuss it, think commend it the treaty and praclaimed with that think of it fir: think well “That pledges Us to guarantee political independence and terr integrity rnal aggression | of every member league. every carth no have arc asked guarantee integrity of every nation practically the world—it will the leag is complete As it we guar antee the territorial and litical independence part the far-fiung’ British “Now mark! A my is n lea clauce that {1 ticl It two A mandatories. shall that char s few ti s per selec take our var witl zres on 1 veak and ap that work is, c a na o a to of or a pointed by to that W, guarant are sacred chavse 101 Sy s therc it nations inding they paper to Article letter to 1 the opposed | morall other 1 believe as many scraps o as re, as agre N the a very grave is is | out in and in should i and igreed | hecaus: car aur country would b “Now, that mothers, the them i 5 1 nd m fathers a that Hayti, | ise the and ether the jal i our e wi the they a done San e we | ready yet to guarantee political independ of are nee ito the donc doing it Monroe our own ‘ring owe it to quite capablc But this is through have natior and aggres of their the world | ternal ion ! hope nation into the (A gentleman “¥ieR. VA No. “If they American it, that articlc the treaty. If had existed France forth ¢ hope best vouth of our yvo and successfully go out ard FBurope, and of other people. Article. That the that to we we that errand?” the audic on in il to chorus of s responde c no, no.") it will b are. ready to is the people are will have lea the ot whole I want consider to t of is that vith that . article in eighteenth century, their Tf be ratified in it. But could to win and of il Revol existed inter from the cl have b other n it they ' sisted ntry he tian 1895, | {and 1 | Spain on with world this co If that we could >d Cuba should th n 1 the torial a1l tion against ext nation That We no endangered time ha tonight o of the the passed to a ta call of that prom it is mor no escape “Perhaps nation it i I attention ise only wish to the c yo ask antees . gua frontiers territorial gravity LIl what it means: that there of that it it to the ally bind that i guarantee rhink o sort that is m1 ent 7 1 without when a is in bhe when % today integrity of Empire guarantec le er wel all voked 1 that into | going spirit is ask. Consider ind rem po- must malc agreement out restriction th every of : no to without ar is never e optimistic of reformers can change er misfortunc could befall the peace | involed except When force is needed. | geduction.”