The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1917, Page 3

i ( aaa IT GR eye BB ‘GERARD CABLES | FULL REPORT OF ROUBLE NBERLN Starts for Paris To-Night and Will Sail Feb. 27 on Liner Infanta Isabel. BERNE, Feb. 14. — Ambassador Gerard has forwarded to Washington @ full report of conditions attending the German administration of Bel- gtum, including a statement of de- portations of workmen. It was otated to-day that the for- mer American diplomatic representa- tive at Berlin has completed his transmission of official reports for ‘the present. Gerari leaves Berne to-night for Paris. He was entertained at dinner by the French Ambassador at Berne. He wilt sail on Feb. 27 on the Spanish ler Infanta Isabel. Mr, Gerard will bo accompanied by the entire Berlin force, with the ex- ception of Hugh R. Wilson, second eecretary, who stays here, Alexander ©. Kirk, second secretary, who goes to The Hague, Lithgow Osborne and Robert M. Scotten, third secretaries, ‘who go to London. ‘The list of Americans who had ap- plied for permission to travel to Paris, most of them on their way home, includes the following, exclu- stve of the Embassy staff: Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig Devisen, In- diana; Dr. John R. McDill, Milwau- ‘eee; Oscar King Davis and family, New York; Dr. Walter Holdy, Cleve- land; Carl Ackerman and family, In- @ana; William C. Dreher and fam- fly, Laura Wight, Oklahoma; Ray- mond E. Swing, Chicago; Peter Win- ter, Vivian and Elizabeth Stormer, Boston; Louise Wolferz, Brooklyn; % Louis Hoffman, Lawrence, Kan.; BD. ~Jowoph, Spencer Kennard jr. and James Gustay White, San Francisco; Arthur L. Siebens, Marx Halton, Iowa; Alfred Lowry jr., Joseph Weh- Massachusetts: Carl Theodore Michael, Louis Villeky, Lewis W. Dunn, Alfred and Grave Lowry, Phil- adelphia; Nina Holmes Dunn, Grave Eaton White, Dr. Charles Henry Ab- bot and family, South Yarmouth, Mass; Larry G. Seltzer, Albert F. Nufer, mother and sister, Persius and Lincoln Furbdush, Philadelphia; Christian Herter, Mrs. M. A. L. Jen- nings, Allen F. Jennings, Henry O. von Btruff, Guy Ayrault, Paul Scott Mowrer, Frank G. Hall, Ruth Leh- mann, Cleveland; Henry A. Wencken, Baltimore; Dr. and Mrs. Karl Elliot, Lyons, N. Y.; Oscar Pflug and Oscar Seitz, New York; Mrs. H. M. Eustis, George E. Vaze, I. Steward and wi and R. Foster and wife. WASHINGTON, » 14.—Tho first direct word from Ambassador Gerard since Feb. 6 reached the State De- partment to-day in a confidential message sent from Berne. The De- partment declined to make it public, THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 19 U. S. Vigor Has Declined Through Years of Peace, Asserts Admiral Fiske BECO mwa GEORGE WASHINGTON AND GEL GRANT WOULO 86 SHOCKED AT THE DIFFERENCE 5 191 me PERKECT LAbY UNCLE Sam AUNT Elras m% ieee \’ ¥ We YIELD TO PHYSICAL INDOLENCE Prof. Wood of Columbia Agrees With Naval Man and Deplores Softening of American Fibre by Too Much Luxury. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. “The Nation has become effeminate. George Washington would not and carriage between the young men of to-day and the young men that marched behind him fifty years ago. Uncle Sam, who typifies our Nation, has become ef- feminate too, In the family of_nations he has been growing leas like a big he-man than a perfect lady; less an Uncle Sam than an aunt Elizabeth. We have yielded to the pleasures of the senses and of the appetites, to the pleasures of soft beds, beau- tiful houses and gently rolling automobiles; to physical indolence, sweet music, silk stockings and kid gloves; to fashionable society, golf and French novels; in a word, to luxur; This vigorous indictment of the young men of America was pre- d by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske at a dinner given by mem- bors of the Lotos Club of New York to Major Gen, Leonard Wood. The charge has come from time to time from other less exalted sources and perhaps the most striking thing | servation of special groups. After all, tho class which can buy softly rolling automobiles, kid gloves, silk stockings, &c., is limited in num! If the deterioration were a detertora- tion of wealth alone we need not be particularly concerned about it. “But in time of war the strength of ation must be drawn from the And it is the country which GERMANY EXPLAINS ~ REPUDIATION OF OFER TO PARLEY |Says Proposal Resulted from Offer of Swiss Minister to Act as Mediator. WHPPLE ABUSES HUTTON FIRM OF | HOING LEAK FACTS Demands Head of Concern and H. J. Barrett Be Forced to Appear at Inquiry, LONDON, Feb, 14—The German] ©. F. Hutton and Company held official version of tho proposals made, the centre of the stage at the peace through the Swiss Minister in Wash-| Mote “oak” inquiry when It was re-! | sumed to-day in the Customs House. ington for a conference on submarine! “iis Sew York brokerage firm was! questions is given in the followin® tng target for the irony and sarcasm \ official telegram, says Reuter’s Am-|n ot of Sherman L. Whipple, sterdam correspondent: counsel for the Committee, but of “What lies at the bottom of this Robert L. Henry, the Chairman, and report is the following: A telegram! several other members ‘from the Swiss Minister in Washing-' Before George A. Ellis of the Hut- |ton was transmitted to Germany by|ton Company, the first witness, left! Switzerland’ in which the Minister the stand, Mr. Whipple had openly | offered, if Germany was agreeable, to charged that the firm had not acted | mediate in negotiations with the candidly with the Committee; that jAmerican Government: about the jaward F. Hutton had condoned a | declaration of prohibited areas, 44 ji uttered by a witness before the! only thereby the danger of war between Committee; that the firm had held | Germany and the United States might| pack information and had refused to | be diminished, produce necessary telegrams and Tho Swiss Government was then | witnesses, | requested to inform its Minister at Washington that Germany, as before,| '@ further pointedly insinuated | was ready to negotiate with America| that Mr. Hutton's absence from the In case the commerce barrier against) city was a subterfuge to escape x= |her enemies remained untouched, 4 ‘ re |. “As is obvious, Germany could only | Te ee ee en | jhave entered into such segetiatl also of the firm, was “conventently” | on condition that, firstly, diploma Min the South | tions between America and Yer- many should be restored, and sec- ondly, that the object of the negotia- tions ‘could only be certain conces- sions respecting American passenger ships.” “The interdiction of overseas im- porte proclaimed against our enemies through unrestricted submarine war- fare would thus, even if diplomatic relations with America were restored, be in no circumstances relaxed. | “The reply of the Swiss Mi Mr. Whipple charged that thé firm had received two tips on the peace note prior to the one sent by Con- nolly, their Washington correspond- ent, and urged that both Hutton and Barrett be brought to New York by the sergeant at arms. Mr, Ellis while on the atand was questioned closely about Mr, Bar- rett's illness. d very clearly! “How is it that you told us when 9 out of this inquiry started in Washington jour U boat war against the entire that H. J. Barrett of your firm was overseas import of our enemies there... critically ill he could not attend WASHINGTON,» Feb, 14.—While| the hearing, although he 1s a most | the United States considers that Ger-| vital witness, and now when we come many has given ground on which it/ +4 New York wo find that Mr, Barrett might properly and justly (ane conveniently in nphis?” asked Mr. Campbell of the committee, “He was very sick and still is, He had to go to Memphis to attend to family matters.” “But ho couldn't attend to public the Prussian-American treaties 1799 and 1828, it was declared at the State Department to-day that the Government will continue to live up? to the spirit of the old conventions. It was indicated that there will be no reaffirmations or extensions, 48| matters, could ho?’ asked by Germany, but that the] 'NCt at that time.” United States prefers to leave the} vir, Whipple then startled the wit- old conventions as they stand. ness nd the entire room by asking: ‘The United States cgpsiders that} «noes qt not in view | Germany's failure to adGept the Sea-| of the fact the man’s Bill Amendment to square the} that your firm r law with the treaty and the illegal] gormation of the nt's note on interferences with commerce between this country and Germany's enemies by submarine warfare in defiance of the treaty leaves this Government free to take whatever action it deems best. The Seaman's Bill provided that unless foreign Governments accepted its provisions as an amendment to commercial treaties, such as those in question, the treaties should be abrogated, Moreover, the treaty pro- vides that even in case of war the nations remaining neutral shall have entire freedom of commerce with the Dec. 20 from two sources—one from Ewssary on the private wire and the) second from Price through your of- | fice in Chicago—and that Barrett telepgraphed Chicago he was selling stocks again two hours before you sent out the tip to your customers, | that you should have brought to this committee physicians to prove that Mr. Barrett was really in @ serious | ‘ondition and not just conveniently fo, it never occurred to me that Clark about You can ask Mr. 17 the market from Dec. 18 to 22, there WAS no undus amount of activity. Tho witness, in reply to questions, sald he would not favor a law abol- ishing short selling or marginal ac- counts and declared he did not be- Heve either could be enforced | Charles I, Hudson of Charles 1. Hudson & Co, then testified that no! government officiala were clients of his compan —_—_—_ THREE GERMAN MONKS GET CITIZENSHIP PAPERS Two Sisters of St. Agnes Also| | Among Applicants for Naturaliza- | tion—Rush at Brooklyn Office. Three German monks of the Capu- chin Order andtwo Sisters of the Order of St. Agnes were among those |! who took out citlzenship p pers to- day in the Hall of Records. The| monks, with their superior, Pathe John O'Donovan, arrived at the bu-| reau at noon her John tw an Irishman, Tw caine from a monas ery at No, 226 Hast One Hundred | and Thirteenth Street and another| from No, 210 West Thirty-first Street The two Sisters of St. Agnes were ns. They came from No. Street, where the Order has a iving house for immigrants. | Before noon to-day 100 men, most. | ly Germans, had taken out their first | Ga naturalization papers, in the Brook- lyn bureau, One of the number was Charlies Otto Schoof, forty-four, No. 1106 Cortelyou road, who desert himself as an experimenter with KE thira files, Asked what he meant, he said he was a fly feeder, that he played with files. Nailed down to the English of it, he declared (hat he was the ssistant chemist of the Rockefeller Institute, He had been r in the country sin’ VON IGEL RELEASED TO 60 WITH BERNSTORFF Court Cancels $20,000 Bail German at Request of Sec- retary Lansing. Judge A. N. Hand, in the Federal District Court to-day ordered the can cellation of the $20,000 bail bond given by Wolf von Igel, secretary to Capt. Frang von Papen, former military attache to the German Embassy, Von Igel was arrested in April last for al- leged participation in a plot to de- stroy the Welland Canal. Tho bail bond was quashed at the request of United States District At- ® October, 1911, of 5th Avenue torney Marshall, who said he had re- ceived instructions to that effect from Secretary of State Lansing. There a three indictments standing Sale at Three Brooklyn: BAUTY com by good thinkin syatem in order. J on the face, 90 showm Itself in yellow, B hy. live wrinkle reddish, blotchy skin Get rid of the grouch and vod get rid of the frown, C€ up the liver and the stomach, and worry ut the loo Dr. Campbell's Sa\ the liver, That littl Immediately cleans ho rae waters have been Inint Matled tn plain cover for 60c and Richard Fink Co,, 6 roadway, old at Liggett’ Riker-Hegeman and ell good drug stores ‘I never ne of your akin. Wafers wet at touch of arsenic Since 1885 in use, and to James MeCreery & Co. Extraordinary Sale fe For Tomorrow, Thursday ‘‘Bedell 5 Beauty Hats’’ 200 Beautiful New Spring Arrivals Exquisitely Trimmed Satin and Liseres Silk and Straw Combinations In the new browns, navy, chartreuse, cherry red, taupe, blue and bisque. “The Hat Feature of New York.’ Nineteen West 34th Street against Von Igel, but ho never pleads ed to any of them. He may now leave the country with Count von Berm storff. Presenting at $5 all the exclusive smart- ness and quality to be found in New York's high-priced shops at two or three times the price. Belgian Splits \ Liseres- Milans Ribbon Hats— Straw Braids Fashion Shops many young women of then 26 boast the emooth, rounded out, rosy akin that ahe hast That woman has diacovered the se- creams and row painte, bec her beauty and use she gets ‘om within 34th Street Jabout it is its similarity to the ac- eriorated since the Civil War the enemy. This provision is Mr, Hutton now? Can | cusation of effamjnacy and deca- Ther kesh no statistics relating to n violated by German sub- h wie ' : lagna 7 the physical vigor of the young men| marine warfare, Hutton is somewhe CANNED GOODS T0 60 UP: dence brought against the men of|of the earty sfxties as compared with 4 sroiide Gh his ' France before August, 1914. the young men of to-day. [can give —_— arolina on his way to J How France has answered it we|¥oU. opinions only. My opinion 1s EGGS TAKE QUITE A DROP > rss somes mo 2a ge ce 10 GERMANS IN PANAMA lias ; i % " 0! e ta decade have “We oO fee does not —_a believe that the men of the United| e: Of Whigh: We: Have 0G Well Me CORNDILERE. Om 25% t 40% B 1 R g ] P Frotis to Be Used as Pretext for| States would rally to tne call of | init he | GANAL FORGE BROUGHT HERE >, ri" et sd elow Neguilar J rices A As aah |just war with the same valor. Yet ’ «6 is lower a5 y The next witness was Harry Con- . . " , . - ’ Raising Prices of Fruit and | prot, Thomas D. Wood, director of | than 't was fifty years ago. Arrive Aboard Army Transport Kil-| tent of the brokerage firm of H.| A delayed shipment of 4,600 Table Cloths and 4,800 dozen Napkins, pur- Vegetables in Tins, \pbysical training in Columbia Uni-|BUT THE WOMEN HAVE IM- nivale 5 Wontent M Cor ete Cesahed) nee no chased many months ago for our Annual January le, from the following well- Apaltyr GAIAM ine: VaatORday Hat there patrick and Are Sent to Government official dealt: with his raode/4 : ‘ A id I CHICAGO, Feb. 14—While oggs| Versity, told me yesterday that there PROVED PHYSICALLY. Ellis Island. fie at that. time, and then went|? known firm in Ireland, has just been received, and is being offered at much less were taking a sudden tumble to-day, |!® much In our national life to Justify! “Among our young women, on the| : Z : into a technical explanation of short | than regular prices. dropping from 31-2 to 4 cents on the| the Fiske Indictment contrary, the physical has| ‘Ten Germans employed on the Pan. | selling. He read his transactions on} r'4 I 5 Egg and Butter Exchange, Chicago wholesalers made the announcement that canned goods the coming year would be 331-8 per cent. higher than in 1916, The Florida frosts, which will keep @ largo amount of fresh fruits and vegetables off the market, will give the wholesalers the needed ex- cuse for the raise they stated. The increased price of tin and the inability of canneries to secure con- ners, together with the insistent demand of farmers and gardeners for about a 100 per cent. increase in price for the raw product, is also pointed out by R. J. Roulston, wholesaler, as @ reason for the entrance of canned goods into the war price column the one thing that all other cigarettes would do—if they could, Tomorrow you'll know all about Chesterfield |THE YOUNG HAVE NO SERIOUS risen, and I think we must credit the example of the college girl and her deals of outdoor life with this im- ment.” have the young men of rural a declined in vigor?" I asked ir, Wood, “Before I answer that question,” replied the physical director of Co- lumbla, “I must remind you that while the young men from the farms Passed better examinatyons at the time of the Civil War it was found that the men from the cities had more staying power, greater endur- ance, Since that time much of the PURPOSE NOWADAYS. “The aims of American life for the| p last fifty years have been peace, se- curity, comfort, pleasure," Dr, Wood told me tn his office in Teachers’ Col- lege. “There is a spirit among cer- tain groups of our young men—and among our young women, too—of lv- ing without serious purpose, merely to be amused. I doubt,” the profes- sor added smiling hopefully, “it George Washington and Gen, Grant would be quite so much impressed | Dest human stock has moved from with the deterioration of American| ‘¢, farms to the cities youth ax Admiral Fiske seems to| ; @ sclence and art of human fear. Perhaps the Admiral general-| living have 4 much more rapidly in the cl try. an in the coun- @ little too much from his ob- ined This applies to the immediate diet of the people in the co less hygiente, on whole, than the food of city dwellers, In general, the andards of human living In’ the cities, in relation to health, at least, are superior to those ‘in rural America, | The do | The religious life and faith of the {people are to-day weakening, or, at j least, changing rapidly in the country as Well as in the cities, In the cities, however, the Idea and habit of social service are providing a partial substi- tute for the religious life of the Among the most hopeful dey ments of our times are the Roy the Juntor Police and similar asso tions which Instill the social spirit in children, FARMERS’ BOYS HAVE CHANGED SINCE GRANT'S TIME, “The social ideals of our people have been changing likewise. In Gen. Grant's time," Dr. Wood added, “thera no farm with thr ar boys on it that did not hoy one gon to the ministry, to me e, to the law or to the bench, To-de boy on the farm dreams of getting rich, He has not the mental ambitions of his grandfather, At this point In Dr. Wood's remarks T could not help thinking of an ept- gram uttered at a judicial dinner in New York recently, wo spoke of @ struggling lawyer who grew up and became & great judge, but to-day we epeak of a struggling Judge 0 grows up and becomes a great lawyer.” If the farmer's son dreams no longer of winning distinction at the ar it may be because the law has lost its personality, if not its soul, and be- M, human environment in the country a8 well as to all habits of life affect- ing health, The farm house is, on the average, less sanitary than’ the elty home. The rural school is rela- tively the least healthful type of building in the entire country. ‘The | acks snuffling, mucous discharges or dry- than 1,200 Russians were taken | pess; no struggling for breath at night. prisoner and the booty captured by ‘Tell your druggist you want a sinall jthe Austro-Germans inclu three | hottle of Ely's Cream Balm, Apply @ joannon and. twelve machine Kune | |fttle of this fragrant, antiseptic cream “| praviat Lake ‘a German battaiion| i! your nostrile, let it penetrate! Drisvivirough Russian trenches, to. | trough every air passage of the head, ve official, statement. suid, bur | Soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed counter attacks drove them back | mucous membrane, and relief comes Th Russians re-established their | instantly, posttion It is just what every cold and ca = == ==|tarrh sufferer needs. Don't stay "In former times | 18 to the market from Dec ‘ama Canal upto the time of the | Mes Nec cin neces meting ao, severance of diplomatic relations be- | counts phil ieg Metin ital py tween the United States and Germany f enneswee asked: | sees ti ; ever noticed any pecull- | enched tige on ithe) aay about Mr. Lawson since the | transport Kilpatrick from Colon and Cairo reeee were sent to Ellis Island, ‘An goon ax Word reached Panama that this country bad broken off dip- relations with Germany @ said the witne: “Do you know if he orders his set with a place vacant for her able | Jomatic No, [ don't census of the canal employees was) «i, ‘i, true that when he buys) taken and ail aliens were discharged: | tneatra tickets he always buys two, | ‘The ten Germans were hustled aboard | ony being for her?” | the Kilpatrick “No, L don’t belleve that, for [have —_ 1,200 RUSSIANS CAPTURED "IN ROUMANIA BY TEUTONS bought tickets for him at times The reading of the Lawson account that_while he was active in| showe: ———— Austro-Germans Also Took Three Cannon and Twelve Machine Guns, Berlin Announces. PUT CREAM IN NOSE AND STOP CATARRH Tells How to Open Clogged Nos- trils and End Head-Colds, | BERLIN, Feb. 14 (by wireless to! Sayville veral Russian positions in the Meste Canesti sector of Rou-| ~ You feel fine in a few moments. mania were stormed yesterday by Your cold in head or catarrh will be aoe seen a under command of fone: Your clogged nostrils will open. | hduke Joseph, says to-day's Ger he air passages of your head will) 1 offictal statement he captured Clear and you can breathe freely. No) as held despite violent coun- more dullness, headache; no hawking, | }come merely a part of the great ma- chinery of corporations. “I cannot deny that there has been stuffed up and miserable.—-Advt. . - \q softening of American. fibre,” Dr. | c the inevitable result of years of peac of financial prosperity which has ma¢ the individual struggle for existence leas severe. 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