The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 8, 1919, Page 4

ANCE) oUbgRAN cute 1 — _ re AT HOME TO ACCT PEACE aTany Price} LAND OPENING DRAWS ANY SETTLERS c@ Max of Baden, the German chancellor, sent to Pres-| Wilson, Oct. 6, 1918, a note asking him “to take in hand | tion of peace,” accepting his Fourteen Points and utterances as the basis for negotiations and requesting | v JB COULD jst" DO MORE Prince Max had so far dene noth }ing since his speach of October 5 LUDENDORFF in The Star tomorrow deals with the retreat of his army *” er ‘ iate conclusion of an armistice. 3 _P t Wilson, two days later, asked if Germany fully e his principles and intended negotiations only to deal A details of their acceptance; insisted that the German "? should be immediately withdraren from invaded soil ed asked if Maz was sosouy speaking for those who had ¢ fore conducted the war. ce Max, Oct. 12, agreed to accept Wilson's points as terms,” with a suggestion that they should bind the also; agreed to evacuation and deelared his cabinet rep- sented “the majority of the reichstag” and “the German the German leaders, military and civil, disputed over notes and how he insisted they should show @ more spirit and a demand for good terms, while the Berlin ment yielded, is described by Lundendorff in today's mt of his book. “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff BY The Star thru special arrangement with the MeClure Newspaper Copyrighted, 1919, by nd Brothers All rights reserved. tm Great Britain by Hutehinsen Messrs. Seix and Hariet; in Italy by Fratelli Tr i teketno werved for France, Belgium, Holland, Russia and the countries Wilson’s answer to our T regarded Prince Max, as prince and ® Of October 5 reached Herlin by | officer, as fitted to introduce the new on the 9th. From the mill: regime. I thought ‘that he would oint, it demanded as a) yield, but act.as a brake at the same Precedent to the conclusion | time. After all, he came of an old armistice the eva: tion of | princely stock that had a real feeling d territory in the West.|for the greatness of Germany, and Fe quite prepared for this. The | there was hope that he might be of the way open for further/use to the country in its anxious |hours The hope was not, however, Fequest of Prince Max 1 | fulfilled. Berlin, and bad a long con-| With a view to this discussion, the in private with him. I/prince had had @ questionnaire prince already, he having | placed before me, which was so de- general headquarters twice; | tailed that It was Impossible to an bad conversed for a consider- | swer, but was quite characteristic and heard each other’s/as showing how little the gentlemen th interest. in Berlin knew about the war, I an- not much in common. Vice |swered It as best I could, accord. had now point-/ance with my piews of the situation, only possible chan-|I had no reason te be evasive. Wil disposed to differ,|son’s note still allowed us to hope va em i it ky 1 ANT Fe Be) I h i! Fa aT iwc a Ce os ony | | | \ et NO Ww STARTS NOW—THREE DAY Sha BIG DOUBLE BILL ‘@ is ESSIE BARRISCALE r angled Threads” AND A CORKING COMEDY A Village Venus” EMMER THIS WEEK NAZIMOVA In her own version of Maude , Fulton’s celebrated stage suc “The Brat” A PLAY OF IRRESISTIBLE APPEAL GUTERSON’'S AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA CELLO SOLO “Mazurka” Played By ¥. LHOKST Scenes of MARY PICKFORD at Home back to Germany and his |} preparations to defend the rontier in case he could |] get the government at Ber~ lin to stand firmly for bet- ter terms frem the allies. His army, however, was continually collapsing and transportation in its rear growing worse, that we should obtaim a peace that would Ret amount to destruction, PRINCE MAX ASKS | FOR CONFERENCE Prince Max begged me in confi dence to out myself aff fram General von Bartenwerffer, Colonel Bauer, and. Lieutenant Colenel Nivolal |(These representatives of the army jhad roused intense anger by thelr {Uppression of labor agitation and freedom of the press and speech) 1 asked what was the usation against these men, He replied that he did not clearly know and was merely repeating what had been said to him, I thereupon begged him to jlet me have definite reports, and I would bh them carefully examined jin the reata of the parties’ eon lcerned, Nothing was ever received, if any definite complaint had beeg made, I would have investigated it, jas my duty was, but I could not get | rid of conscientious and loyal men on malicious gossip or unsupported aug gestions, The request made a very [painful impression on me, That was the sort of work a German gayerm ment in Berlin found te do in such an anxious Ume. ‘The prince alse wanted to hear the views of other high officers on the | situation, Only general headquarters, however, had a view of the whole Position. The cofflitions were differ mt with each army. A posteriori reasoning from one army td the en Ure Was Unpossible At the beginning of November, after 1 had left office, two army \chiefs expresved their views to the |war cabinet, and in easentiale they jagreed with me. Their differences were alt explicable by the limited | view which t* all that an army chief jean have of the whole position. RESENTS CRITICISMS | oF ARMY As is always theycase after the de feat of an army, eriticiams have been expressed or published, which may be correct long as they all conclusions that the critic js not him. leelf in @ position to check. Condi- tons in the whole army, and on our extended front, were too veried to ad- mit of generalizations, whirk per: sonal experiences at one point are apt to tempt men to make. Such carry out the int jutated, 1, the ence with him, question. On the seme day | was present at ja mwoting of the war cabinet, ‘The questionnaire Why discussed, f, too, |put my questions. Ryerything was gone ever, No partioular resalutio were come to. Walther Rathena’ artiole in the Veswtohe Beltung en the Levee en Masse Wag Give dineunged. Such catchpords mene little to me. ‘The @pition wae quite different fram | that 1870-71, Strength and energy, however, were in truth available Put tho necessary Slamong our people, and had te be |threwn inte the fight There were |thus some whe ageeed with my view |that the German people, in spite of ‘all that it had done, could still do more. The pity of it wan that they had not come forward befare. It ped to be partioularly charac ter and filled me with new hepe, that men whe in ether reepects held | the same views as mywelf, should be | arguing for the continuation ef the strugste At the end of th )Primge Max the for coming. | With the approval of the field mar-| shal, I stated expressly in a short | anawering aneech that we would loy ally support the new government, Tu the evening various leading men Jin public life came to see me for \ and asked me whether rtere had, really brought about the offer of peace and | |armintion, I anawered most em:| Phatically that this was correct, as J had already communicated te the public by the press interview of October 9, when there was no longer any military damage to be feared from the disclosure. | owed such a decturation to Prince Max's govern: | ment. It was not my funetien to explain to thee gentlemen any fur | ther what § thought and felt on the | matter, | ANSWER TO WILSON'S NOTE ‘The government and general head quartera were quite in agreement) over the answer tw Wilson's first) note. | 1 managed to have inserted in thin ! in i All over the world the talk of a peace of reconciliation, with its ideal- istic eatehwords, died suddenly down, ‘That was after all not wurprising, for the press of the world was following the hints of the enemy propaggnda, which waa itself abandoning the use Irrigated Land in Celebrated Three Rivers Country Now Being Taken Up Rapidly— Presents Wonderful Opportunity see rey ree oe NRE pT This picture shows the farm home of K. Y. Shet- fer, at Burbank, one of the many prospero of the Three Rivers try. “IT have 20% and I'm here to say bless the land, declared Mr. Sheffer, “He certainly has blessed it because in the pest four years it hae produced enough to keep my family, help pay for the farm, and pay for $7,000 worth of improvements in- . stock and an 1 landed here ab, Wis, with just $500, and I must admit t's gratifying to look around and see what I own. stories the 4 t h what they might have told gnd stilt stayed within the ruth.” “Own a farm. Get back to the soil, Be independent. Get away from industrial uncertainty, own boss.” Relieve yourself of the troubles caused by strikes and riots. Be your This is the battle ery of the hour—the signal to freedom and prosperity. And it’s taking hold of men and women everywhere—because thousands are taking up land, getting back to the source of wealth. Many of these fortunate persons who are breaking away from the city to the farm are taking up the fertile irrigated areas in the celebrated Three Rivers Country re- cently dpened to settlement, And today this country—most fortunately situated on five established irrigation systems on the Columbia, Snake and Yakima Rivers—is humming with activity on every hand. Crops are being harvested—roads are being improved—irrigation systems are being enlarged —new farm homes are being constructed—and many are selecting choice tracts for their future homes. More than a million dollars is being spent here this season in improvement work alone. THE THREE RIVERS COUNTRY—NOW HUMMING WITH ALI, THE ACTIVITY INCIDENT TO A REAL LAND OPENING—IS DESTINED TO BE ONE OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL SECTIONS OF THE ENTIRE CONTINENT, Already its crops take rank with the most wonderful producing sections of the world. Why Wait? See the Three Rivers Country Now! ‘Think of a country where farmers are raising five to ten tons of alfalfa to the acre per searon—-gr 60 to 125 bushels of corn—or eight to fifteen tons of potatoes—or 260 to 600 bexes of apples. See these womderfuil crops right new—and many o' including grapes, melons, sugar beets, beans, peaches, tomatoes, asparagus and many other things produced in the North temperate sene, generalizations are as os the empty catchwords which ve poisoned the whole of our political life. Im salence they rank as the most proneunced symptom of the half-informed. Officers whe think that they fore- \saw everything, would have dene better to go honestly to general hea: quarters, in which they had conf |dence, and there to explain what was in their minds, 1 recetved but few letters from such men, and if there was anything in their letters 1| enemy's Intentions, that they had led summoned them matter. an acceptable peace. Preparati had to be taken. The press had gives | ope: us a favorable view of the possibility | 1 yy of continuing the fight. FIGHTING TALK OF LEADERS In his first important rejehatag speech, on October 6, dealing with |fortunes, after previously the necessity for continumm the | peace impossible by the extrayaga: struggle in the event of the condi-|of my demands. Thus did tions being unacceptable, Prince Max |reet the anger of the people ai took the same point of view as the|/army against me. field marshal and myself, The prinee | said: solved, if it be inevitable, yet further sacrifices for our honor, of the people and keep then morally our freedom, and the happiness offequal to the fight, our descendants.” ver have needed to ask for an And agali armistice. The time will come when “Whatever the result of our offer |thix is clearly seen. of peace, I know that it will find the| On October 12 the second note to country firm and united in its readt| America was dispatched. ness either for an honogable peace or} In those days I went quietly for for a life and death struggle to the} ward on my difficult way, When it last, on which our people are deter-|became clear to me, later, after the mined, if it be unavoidable. Iam not|receipt of the second Wilson note, afraid when I contemplate the pos-|tfat Wilson could not or did not wish sibility of this second alternative, for|to prevail, but that Clemenceau and I know the great strength that etill|Lioyd George would have their way, resides among our people, know too that the clear convietion|I certainly thought It was time to that each man ia fighting for his life| translate words to deeds and not to will redouble bia strength. rest content with empty speeches, ‘The president I expected from Prince Max and spo! lo the same effect: his government @ fulfillment of their “Every German at home {s ready, | professions, once they and the coun like every soldier at the front, to aac:|try realized that they stood at the rifice everything for his country, if} grave of all their hopes of a peace by need be.” understanding. SAW HOPE OF SHOULD HAVE RESISTANCE PINNED CABINET These were fine and stimulating) Jt may be that I should have acted words, which convinced me that the! more wisely and cleverly, if I had chancellor, the reichatag, and general | definitely put to the government at headquarters were fully agreed a4 to} the beginning of October the question continuing the fight if the worst] which it would have ultimately to de. came to the worst. But ft seemed) cide: Will the people fight on for that the chancellor and the reichstag|honor’s sake, and will the govern falled to realize that every German|ment caf up the Jast man and stir had been engaged since 1914 in a/the people again to a real and sacred fight for his life, and that this fight) enthusiasm? I gtill belleve today that demanded every sacrifice fram us all.lan appeal to the people at that time The clear consciousness of this had} would not have met with sufficient been lost among the thousands of| success. eatehwords with which both fram tn-| Prince Max was of the opinion that side and outside the soul of the Ger-|it would have been more advanta- man people was poisoned. geous to have sent the note off dbout It was not until May, 1919, when|a week later, after first publishing a the incredible pence terms were pub-|detailed program of our war aims, lished, tpat this fact really pene |making clear to the world our agree trated the people and the national|iment with the principles of President assembly. Again the selfsame presi: | Wilson, and our readiness to make dent of the reichstag spoke, using | heavy sacrifices of our national inter. noble and moving words, which|ests to these principles, seomed like @ call to instant a We had already, on October @, but the official report did. not dare| placed ourselves on the ground of to repeat them, ‘This time, too, how:| Wilson's principles. What else was ever, the words vested bare words.|to be done later? But the situation was there in which} ‘The fact that I, without coming | the country shoyld have answered|into the public eye, succeeded in their call, moving the chancellor to swift and and [j}and that we were to be enslaved, then| Bee the orchards actually breaking under their great loads @f the finest fruit ever grown. See corn 14 feet high, better corn than you ever saw im the great corn states of lowa and Illinois. See the sleek, productive herds of dairy cattle, lying op the fat of the land, right at the vource of supply, where the dairy farmers produce all their own feed and make @ big profit instead of paying all their money out for supplies. Excursions Weekly. Special Rates and Arrangements Ge along on one of the regular excursions of the Western Pacific Securities Company, which has charge of this land opeging, Many are going, and many are making their selec: tions every week, See this wonderful country, with a grow- ing #eason longer than any place north of the Mason-Dixon line. See the irrigation systems already in operation. See the many developed farms and talk te the farmers. Bee the three transcontinental railroad lines that serve this region, the three great rivers, the thriving, hustling towns, the eyi- dence of prosperity on every hand. And inquire for yourself into living conditions your family in this wonderful country—with one of the most delightful elimates on earth. Here a farmer can be closer to Independence than any place we know of. fe can almost build @ wall around 26-acre farm and be sufficient unto himself, not caring what goes on in the outside world. He can actually realize the hope and ambition of nearly every man in the world—an ambition to own a REAL FARM—e farm that will relieve himeelf and family from all worry over living conditions. Shrewd, calculating men, well-todo business men, men in all waiks of life nowadays are buying farms. And why? -They realize, stronger than ever, that the farm is the real source of wealth, of life, of contentment. What Settlers Are Doing A. H. Hawkins and A. E. Krueger, on one of the Celebrated Three Rivers Farms, harvested 112 tons of Alfalfa from 20 acres. It brought them $25 a ton. Another map raised seven tons of early potatoes to the acre, receiving 4¢ a pound, or $560 an acre. After the potatoes were harvested’ he planted corn and received 105 bushels of well:matured corn per acre from the same ground the same year. Still another man whe owns 20 acres kept 24 Dairy Cows, one Team of Horses (feeding them from this 20 acres for 12 months), and sold $1,210 worth of Hay. Unimproved land, on irrigation systems, $100 to $150 per acre. Improved land, from $250 up, depending on location and improvements. Settling up fast—on easy terms. CALL AT 711-14 WHITE BUILDING FO R COMPLETE INFORMATION Botter see us at once. Choice selections are going fast. office. will maij you a specific proposition, Recent Purchasers of Three Rivers Farms Redd over this list of persons who bave selected farms in this country within the past th eeks, Then come along on one of the excursions and investigate this opportunity for yourself. Here, are some of the purchasers A, G, Birkemeier and A. A. Lechelt, Nels Coult, Tacoma, Wash. | Conda M. Edwards ........ Minnie Fisher, Tacom: Mra. 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Mail the coupon, or call at our Western Pacific Securities Co. 7-14 White Bldg., Seattle Please send me free information about land opening opportunities in the Three Rivers Country, including newspapers from this district, MAIL THIS COUPON Telephone, . energetic action, after all the time since the middie of August had elapsed without anything being done, did nothing to injure the general po- sition, On the ether hand, the open ymention of the fact that head tice and had pressed for it did as much damage, if not more, than the Mstorted reports of Major Byron ven jaem Husche's speech. COULD NOT DECKIVE ALLIES De Prinee Max and his supporters really belleve that. if the step had been taken in the middle of October {t would have been regarded as due solely to motives of noble humanity, and as such would have received a friendly welcome from the entente? ‘The enemy's point of view was alto- |mether too material and self-interest fed for this. ‘They were also much too clever. They had as good @ view of the military position as our general head |quarters. They knew the conditions in the German army and in Germany )a8 well as they knew the weakness of the Austro-Hungarian army in Italy and the position in Austria-tungary ityelf, From the statements of the numerous German -prisoners they took, who often said far too much, they must have had a olear indica. Uon of the weak strength of our bat talions and of the number of battal- jons that we had had to break up. Waqually little can they have been ii norant of t poor morale of the troops and the people. Vrom_ Berlin they heard every: thitig, They anticipated our collapse with the same certainty as they had anticipated that of Bulgaria, Any offer of peace without an o of armistice would also have had no effect whatever on the enemy deter. mination to destroy us. That is made plain by the fate of our earlier of fers, which were treated by the en- tente as insincere and dishonorable, and by the result of Count Burian’s step, In view of the attitude of the jenemy, an offer of armistice alone could convince them of our real de sire for peace, Only an offer of armistice would enable us to see at onee whether those were right who maintained that we could obtain an honorable peace, which I would haye heartily wel- comed, or whether we should be faced by the offer of a peace of vio lence, which would have spurred us to new action There was no time to be lost, for the army was in urgent need of re Inforcement from home. FUTILITY OF IDEALISM The entente had to show their col- ors, and we had to act accordingly. At the present day no more doubt is possible as to the intentions of the enemy. Will those who have been talking continually of reconeillation and of the peace by understanding, now at last confess frankly that they have misjudged the enemy, and, after the events of the revolution, that they have misjudged mankind in general, and that the world is not yet ripe for such lessons? ‘The German people have gradually realized the futility of this idealism, On February 6, 1919, after the vic- tory of the government troops i: Bremen, Vorwaerts wrote: “As soctal democrats we regret deeply that the application of force was necessary. It goes without say- ing that we are opponents of the use of forge. But opposition to force does not mean that we must suffer without resistance eve act of vio lence on the part of opponents, The love of peace can only be main: tained when it is met by similar sen- timents. Whoever from a revulsion in principle te the use of force can not make up his mind to oppose force to force is in the long run strength- ening the rule of violence, that is, the rule of bis opponents,” Vorwaerts thus recovered the post- tien it held in 1914. It upheld the view that I have upheld all my life, The use of force, abroad or at home, brings joy to no man. In 1914, we had to have recourse to arms, to op- pose the rule of violence under which we now suffer, Theory and practice are not the same, Pioneer Realty Man Dies Here Mortimer B. Carraher, 66, a plo neer realty dealer of Seattle, died Tuesday morning, at his home, 1021 Columbia st. He is survived by his widow, Mrs, Imogene Carraher; a son, Mortimer B. Carraher, jr., in command of subchaser 40, and.a daughter, Mrs, William T. Burrell, Funeral services will beheld at 9 o'clock Thursday morning, at St. James’ cathedral, Interment will be made in Lave View cemetery, Let's go eat ab Boldt’ 1414 3d wn, ve.; downtown, 913 2d Ave. 4