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om g "| [the Foreign Omice for its ; the foreign @ continuance 4 —>— PREMIERS DISCUSS WILSON’S NOTE ON FIUME official ag mere- the negotiations, _ “Answer Not Yet Sent—Millerand . Settlement. AONDON, Feb. 16.—Up to noon to- _ ay the reply of tho Allied Bupreme ‘Counpi! to President Wileon's note "relative to (he proposed Adriatic com- _ promise had not been dispatched to Washington, it was learned after a meeting of the Council to-day. }@ip Council of Premiers rewumed its conferences in Downing Street Reigian’ Ambassadors in attendance. ‘Gort obert Cecil asked in the ‘House of Commons to-dny how it timt the Premiers’ dect- the receipt of the Wilson note were made ‘Lioya George replied that publication ™m Paris was not authorized and was wontrary to the agreement of Counc!i ‘members. It is evident that the pubtcation ‘of the fact that President Wilson . had sent a new note on the Adriatic question was an unpleasant surprise in quarters here. itch, the Jugo-Bh.v Kor- ign Oiinister, held a long conference! swith Ambassador Davis on this sub- ject. The Ambassador declined Inter to affirm or deny that a reply had|’ been handed him to be forwarded to ‘Washington. PARIS, Feb, 16.—Premtor Milerand, fm an interview to-day, admitted that Presidert Wilson's intervention |) . the Adriatic questions had again de- Jayed solution of that problem. “The reply which we (the Ti ‘Three) have drawn up to his note | will be submitted to him through the American Ambassadors in London and Paris,” Millerand sald. “While it is necessary to maintain secrecy regarding the contents of his document until President Wilson receives it, nevertheless it may be stated that further delay before. wo sreach @ solution is inevitable.” ——- “NITTI SAYS U.S. ’ HAS POWER OVER FIUME PROBLEM. \Has the Handle of the Knife” 2 Italian Premier Is Quoted as Declaring. - | ROME, Feb, 15.—fAmerica has the power to annul any decision the _ Council of Premiers may make with regard to the Adriatic, Premier Nitti LONDON PRESS BACKS WILSON ON SOCIALISTS. PLAN ‘TO FORCE SWEET FIUME AFFAIRS 10 TAKE STAND Times Warns Allies Against Alienating Him—Com- ment on Lansing Case. LONDO: Feb. Wilson is substantially right,” Gispute, & position which might Jarmisice was a mere mask for pred- atory ambitions,” tinued, won ts right and if the london newspapers genera! of the United States’ own busin Whison's fatal weaknoas is t Merald asserted. |in Paris, but fut that It was a per- sonal mission and refused to hed anybody who questioned the wi dom of the four dictators and thus aliens is & final warning against the perils of secret and autocrat: plomacy.” PARIS IS BITTER IN ITS COMMENT tragic a. Alternpting to Direct Affairs on the Continent, Says La Liberte. PARIS, Feb. 16.—The French press fs aroused at reports of President ‘Wilson's note on the Adriatic ques- ‘tion, : La Liberte is particularly bitter. “This man,” it says, “who is opposed in bis own country, is again trying to block European powers, After bruta]+ ly @ismiseing Socretary “Lansing, President Wilson, from his proud isolation, is again attempting to dl- rect affairs on the continent of which he has no conception.” “tole the Messagero's correspondent , im London to-day, acording to « des- ( Batch to that newspaper. “Wg must not forget that America |it as “autocratic and unjust!flable.” ‘has the Landle of the knife,” the cor, Fespondent ‘quoted Practically the entire press regard- ed the Lansing episode as “dismissal” of the Secretary ,and characterized “The manner of eliminating Lan- Nitti as saying.|sing leaves no doubt that Wilson's temporary absence from the | authority is re-awakening,” La ‘conferences does not mean she hes|Presse declared. ‘@isinterested herself. She is watch- our decision and can intervene at|dent’s dram: yi |executive saddie after his illness a every decision.” “(Nitti said Europe's economia gitu- LiIntransigeant sees in the Presi- ic re-entry into the further obstruction to the settlement of the Adriatic problem unlesn his “unfortunately precluded those| Views are adopted. The paper adds, ‘m the negotiations Which |!" effect, that now that the rest of lead to the most . preferable golution.” _ “Hence, in discussing eéded, “we must remember the Amer- fean factor. {BERLIN ALSO HAS ~. AN“ATROCITY LIST” “| Office Make Records Public. _ BERLIN, Feb. 16.—The Lokai-An- “geiger on Thursday severely upbraided ‘give earlier publicity to its “atrocity records," which have =the course of compilation for the last years but have remained pigeun- holed. ends would fll many volumes with o “recital of the manner in which hostUe jmtatesmen, high officers and journalists failure to}to Euro; “enemy errns i 4 been in|dent and Mr. Lansing, — ‘The newspaper mays the Fe"! J sents and Im the world is dependent upon America financially the London diplomats will them,” he hesitate to further enrage “the Ameri- che sovereign.” Generally the papers are pleased with Mr. Polk's selection as Mr. Lansing’s successor. The Journal des Debats says that Secretary Lansing follows Col, House, who, it adds, is eclipsed in a retreat tantamount to ‘Dokal-Anzeiger Demands Fortign)atsgrace. ‘The paper charges that President Wilson abused the powers accorded him throughout the war, and says he assumed the dictatorial man- ner until he himself was transformed ‘nto an autocrat, and adds that the letters exchanged convey nothing new Dey as observers saw, the di rd between the Presi- FOCH FOR BRITISH ALLIANCE. oly, Gays Mar eieres PARIS, Fob. 16.—The proposed Franco-British Aljiance is an “absolute ied against Germany with “meQ-| 414 \mperative” necessity for France, ‘dagity, perjury and falsification.” The records a: ‘Lokal-Anzeiger to teem with authen- “theated cases convicting the French of ‘the torture, plunder and murder of *German prisoners, The British atro- ‘cities, the newspaper asserts, vary ‘trom those perpetrated by the French “jm that they reveal “less lust for blood Vand perverted inclinations.” The news- \paper urges that the records be given the widest distribution throughout ‘neutral countrics and the United » States. ae JUSSERAND STORY DENIED. Ometal Had No Information on Possible Recall _ PARIS, Feb. 16.—In offictal circles it was «tated today that the French cov- ‘ernment had mo knowledge of any ‘rumors or hints of disvontent at Wash- sipgton with Jean Jules Jusserand, } French Ambassador to the United , a8 reported recently American newspapers. Government, it wes sald. kno’ “ about the allexed dissatisfac with ite Am further (ian j™ press report of it, —_—-— Polncare Decoraten Verdun. declared by the) to. in some Marshal Foch said in an interview day. Relations between France and Great Britain must continue even c r than at present, Marshal Foch ass ——_— - COURT HALTS EVICTIONS. Injuct| Granted to Twelve Storekeepers In Bronx. A temporary injunction restraining the Kalsco Finance Corporation from evicting twelve storekeeper tenants from the buildings No. 965 to No, 1007 Prospect Avenue, the Bronx, was Granted to-day by Justice John M. Tierney in the Supreme Court. in holdover proceedin, in the Secor Bronx District Municipal Court, 4 the temporary injunction waa grant ‘to enable the tenants to appeal to t A te term of the upreme Court 7 claim an agne t with formes \owners of the propert WOMAN KILLS SELF. | Anale Kenvin of No. | Street committed sulci by inhaling eas. She was dis 7 Bast 108th PARIS, Feb, 16.—Prosident Poinoare, in representing the War Cross to to-dey, deciare’ ‘hat the former rel empires would veer eternally the 0) they premedi- “ to execu ies Ne shortly bofore noon by Mabe! Winfield. \* servant, who found her mist Jon the ted with a gas tube mouth, | Mi fo nero abt sufte ring for noholia, resulting (rou jus breakdown, President the Times said to-day, commenting on! the Prosident’s note to the Counctl of with Premier Lioyd George, Marl Cur-| promie sd ta. Cnn ant the Sages 884 grvcn tur Baropea nee eth | Washington government is not con- sulted in settlement of the Adriatic “The Allies should pause and re- sions on the ‘Adrigtic, Turkey and ect before they place themselves in lead the Grst in Paris. Premier President to conclude thelr adoption of his principles at the time of the the Times con- The Star believed “President Wil- British gove jermment has an ounce of wisdom in ita mental outfit it will back hyn up.” w Inelitied Tefrain from extensive | ance between Socialism qnd religion, eomment, apparently taking tho | trowsh testimony of a bigh eburch ground that the affair wae 4 matter fact he will not Haten to advice, the Daily “Wilsotf, this pauper | nays, “had a hifh sense of his mission ated liberal opinion. His political fate ON WILSON THREAT ‘The dispossess order followed a tria! | and this morning | 88 lying | Defense in Aibany ‘ lines Five Points It In- tends to Develop. | ALBANY, Feb, 16.—Lawydre repre-| senting the five suspended Socialist | Assemblymen have practically com- pleted plans for presentin# thelr de- | tense in he investigation the Judic- | tary Committee is conducting Into the fitness of the five men to seate. The defense, ne outlined to-day, contemplates five chief points: First—The exposition of the phil- | osophy of Socialism by Morris HiM- quit and Algernon Leo as experts on the witness stand. Seconi—An attempt to prove the! harmony of purpose between labor and Socialism through State ¢edera-| | tion of Inbor officials, the principal [one of whom will be J. A. Maurer, | President of the Pennsylvania State! Federation, Hl ‘Third—An attemtp to ehow an al- prelate designed to prove that Bo- clalism ji@ the econcenie cumpiament of Christianity, Fourth—An attempt to justify their own legisiative programme for 1917, 1918 and 1919. Kifth—An attack on the program of the Republican leaders of the Logisiature. Through the last two divisions the Socialists hope to forme Speaker Sweet and one or two other prominent Republican fegislators to take the witness stand to defend their course on certain Jegislation. Pe mcs: COURT’S RULING RESTRAINS FRAZEE Red Sox Owner Can’t Sell Club Stock Nor Draw Down Divi- dends on Holdings. BOSTON, Feb, 16—The Svpertor Court to-day Issued a temporary tn- Junotion restraining President Harry H. Fragee of the Boston American League Baseball) Club and Hugh J. Ward, an! associate, from disposing of any of their | stock in the olub, or of drawing divi- dends on their holdings, ‘This uction was taken on petition of Joseph J. Lannin, of Garden City, N. ¥., former owner of the club, who asserts that Frazee and) Ward have falled to| pay @ note for $262,000 due Nov. 4, 1919, in connection with thelr purchase of the club, Lannin several days ago announced through counsel the auction on March 3 of the stock realty company that owns Fenway Park, home grounds of the Boston Club, which was pledged as security for the note. At Mr. Frazee's New York office it was stated the baseball magnate was at present in Boston and there was no one in this city privileged to make @ statement on the matter, ——_ EXPERTS AT FRITZ TRIAL. f Slain Mrs, Coyne Identi- fies Her Photograph. All of this morning's season of the trial 6¢ Ernest Fritz, the young Tucka- hoe liveryman charged with the mur- der of Mrs. Florence Coyne in bis au- tomdbile in Bronx Park last March, was ocoupied with testimony congerning thar identification, — Andr@ Glenon, her futher, identined | photographa " sub- mitted by. Charles A./Carlatrom. police notographer, Dr, J. H. Barrow, Tesident phywician’ at Fordham Hos- pital, testified regarding the condition Of her body when taken there. Father Both éidea have several ex] wit- nemes. The case 18 being tried before Justice Davia of the Bronx Supreme Court. —_—»——. CZECH BILL ON PRISONER. Man Accused of Larceny Han First 1,000 of New Currency Seem Here. ‘The first $1,000 bill of the new Gov- ernment of Crechoslavia ever seen in Brooklyn was found yesterday with $2,800 in American money on the person bf Isudore Bloom, urirty-two, af No. 1529 Pitkin Avenue, recognized on a Flatbush Avenue car by Deteotive Dowd and placed on trial to-day before Judge McDermott in the County Court fon & charge of grand larceny, Bloom, who pleaded not guilty, was accused of atealing $240. in January from the pooket of Samuel Sabath in the subway station at Atlantic Avenue. When an indictment was found he was missing —_——- IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. Company B, 305th Infantry, meeting and dinner, Grace Memorial News- boys’ Home, 244 William Btréet, 8,15 |P.M. American Toy Bush Termin National Association df F taries, convention, Hotel F 9.30 A.M. through evening. National Exh'bitors, 1 Bullding, 8 P.M tail ra nnsylvanta, afternoon and conven: Association of Paint Job- . Hotel Commodore, 10 A | American Metallurgical ginvers Societies’ nd 2 Py M. : New York Lage of Elks, No. 1, dine ner, Hotel Commodore, evening | New York Diet Kitchen Association, benefit concert, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, | morn | J United Daugh- | of Mining and Engineers, convention Building, 11 A. M. uh |ters of the Confederacy, mecting, Hotel Parker Chapter, | Astor, 2 P.M | Club of the Sons of St. Patrick, | dance, Hotel Aator, 8 P. M.| Knights of Columbus, 1920 | Hotel Astor, 8 P. | nal Boiler and ton. 1} concert M. | | r| aA . reception, Wald & r Sol Madison Post, Americ Le a} gion, dance, Academy’ of Music, *| Sa. evening, an igaall EVENI rial Out-. MISS MAUD KAHN ENGAGED TO WED ENGLISH MAJOR Mise MAUO KAHN puare by Cuamaorrs Daecene J.C. O. Marriott, D. S. O., M. C., Is Member of British Embassy Staff at Washington. Mr, and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn of N East 68th Street to-day announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Maud Bmily Kahn, to Major John Charles Oakes Marriott, D. 8. O. M.C.,at prevent a member of the staff of the Military Attache of the British Embassy in Washington. In 1916, when only nineteen, Miss Kahn engaged in war service, first in France and later in England. She served for three years driving a des- Patch ambulance.‘ The’ French Gov- ernment ccnferred on her the Medailla de Ja Reconnaissance, Major Marriott is the son of Charles and Gertrude Marriott, both deceased, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, England, MONROE DOCTRINE VIOLATED, HE SAYS Congressman Demands Itrvestiga- tion Into British Interference With Steaming of Vessel. WASHINGTON, Fob. 16.—Charg- ing that Great Britain had violated the Monroe Doctrine by interfering with the sailing from Buenos Ayres yesterday of the former German steamer Bahia Blanca with consign- ments for ten North American tm- porting companies, Representative Britten, Republican, Illinois, intro- | duced @ resolution to-day asking the State Department to make a full in- vestigation. “It was a common practice of Great Britain to violate the Monroe Doctrine as well as American rights on the high seas prior to the Ameri- can participation in the European war under the guise of war neces- sity,” the resolution sajd, adding: “It must now be evident to all nations alike that the Government oft the United States will not countenance interference with American trade ex- cept through proper American dip- lomatic channels MERCHANTS TO HEAR BAKER WIIl Address Retail Dry Goods An- sociation at Banquet Here. Secretary of War Baker will be one of the speakers at the ninth annuai con- vention of the National Retail Dry Good Association, which opens Wednes- day at the Hotel Pennsylvania and con- tinues through Friday, Merchants from al! over the country will be present. Howard E. Figg, assistant to Attor- ney General Palmer and charged with enforcement of the Lever Act, wit dis- cuss the high cost of itving and tell what the Department of Justice has done in this connection. The Rev. 8. Parkes Cadman and Secrotary Baker wil speak at the banquet Thursday —_—_—_—— evening. ON TRADE COMMISSION. Pollard to Be Named by Wilson. WASHINGTON, Feb, 16—The nom- ination of John Garland Pollard of Vir- gina as Federal Trade Commissioner will be sent to the Senate to-day by the President, it was said at the White House. Mr. Pollard, who formerly was At- torney General of Virginia, will suc- peed Joseph BE. Davis, who resigned to make the race for Senator from Wisconsin against Senator Lenroot, Mr, Pollard is @ native of Virginia and is forty-nine years old, —_—_——- EDWARD D. JONES DIES. One of Founders of Dow-Jones Ser- fee Victim of Hemorrhage. Bdward D. Jones, one of the found- ers of the Dow-Jones News Service, died suddenly to-day of hemorrhage of the rain at his home, No, 18 West 68th Gtreet. He was born at Worces- ter, Muass., in 1856. Mr. Jones sold his Interest in the news service in 1899 and since then had been associated with various Stock Hx- change houses. He had an office with ‘Pate & Haya and was in charge of the financial department of the Dally News Record. ee ‘Train Deratied in Storm, Engine Goes in River, WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 16,—Ice- covered rails on the Providence and Worcester Railroad at Northbridge to-day caused a Worcester train to leaye the tracks and the locomotive slid over @ four-foot embankment onto the thiek ice over the Blackstone River, Thickness of the ice saved the comotive from going into and the passenger cars romained on the edge of the river, Nobody was insured. | American concern. e water | ne woatd, wombat fadevant id ive MEXICANS KIDNAP» ANOTHER AMERICAN Hold ‘Mine Superintendent Zacateces for 50,000 Pesos Ransom—Troops in Pursuit. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Wilson | Welsh Adama, an American, has been captured by bendits in Zacatecas, Mex- foo, and ts being Weld for 60,000 pesos ransom, the State Department w: d- vised to-day. Adams's home is in Los Angeles, where his wife and child now live. The American Embassy at Mexico City has been instructed by the State Department to bring the kidnapping to the attention of the Mexican authorities and request that every step be taken to secure his release. ‘The American representatives at Sai-- tillo and Monterey, in reporting the in- aident, eald the authorities in Zacatecas were endeavoring to learn the where- abouts of Adams and his captors and jthat three columns of Mexican troops |hnad been sent out. The kidnapping occurred at Avalos last Friday and the bandits were re- ported to have looted the warehouse of the Providencia Mine operated by the Minerals and Metals Company, an Adams was super- intendent of the mine. SENATE HOLDS UP GERMAN SHP SAE DSPTE AUTON (Continued From First Page.) in McCormack Company, and Phil De- ronde, of the Oriental Navigation Com- pany. No group bids were received for the entire lot of vessels. The first vessels offered were the Black Arrow, the Amphion and the Philippines, composing the group ot the Black Sea service. No bids were offered. The group composing the South American service, the Aeolus, De Kalb, Princess Matoika and Pocahontas, was then offered. No bids were received for these ves- sels, nor for the Colombia, Venezuela and Brazilian service ships, the Moc- cassin and the Otsego; the Southamp- ton service vessels, the Leviathan, Mount Vernon, Agammemnon and Nansemond; the Hamburg service ships, the George Washington, Mar- tha Washington, Van Steuben and America; the Mediterranean service vessels, the Antigone, Susquehanna, President Grant and Artemis, and the Baltic service ships, the Matewaska and Powhatan, One bid for one of the Black Sea fleet was received. It was $700,000 for the Black Arrow and was made ‘by the Oriental Navigation Company with the understanding that the ves- sel would be retained in the Black Sea service Commissioner Scott stated that the board would insist upon assurances that vessels would remain permanently in the services Planned, but he admitted he could not put permanent restrictions upon the craft. George W. Goethals offered $10,- 000,000 for’six vessels for the Ham- burg and Bremen service, the bid being quickly raised to $10,500,000 by President Ffanklin. The vessels are the George Washington, Martha Washington, America, President Grant, Nansemond and Gallao. Sharp bidding followed between Goethals and Franklin, the offers going up in $100,000 and $200,000 jumps until Gen, Goethals's original offer of $10,000,000 had been raised by Mr. Franklin to $13,000,000. Gen. Goethals said $13,000,000 was the limit to which he was authorizod to gv. Commissioner Scott announced the top offers received by the board in the proposals offered a week ago, all of which were rejected. Among the offers were: For the Leviathan, $4,000,000; Mount Vernon, $1,250,000; for the Nansemond, $900,000; Geor; Washington, $8,050,000; Martha Wash- ington, $2,180,000; Von Steuben, $727,- 620; America, $2,300,000; President Grant, $2,250,000; Susquehanna, $600,- 000; Antigone, $1,200,000, and Artemis, $1,000,000. Franklin offered a conditional bid of $14,050,000 for nine veasels for serv- ice to the United Kingdom and North- ‘ern European ports, The vessels were the Leviathan, George Washington, America, President Grant, Nanse- mond, Antigone, Pocahontas, Princess Matoika and Callao. The offer was conditional upon an agreement by the Shipping Board not to enter into com- petition with these vessels in. this sorvice, Moore and McCormack offered $4,- 500,000 gor five vesvels for the South American service, and the Munson Steamship Line a conditional, bid approxtmating $3,880,250, for the game Vvessem, the Martha Washington, Aeolus, Huron, Princess Matoika and the Pocahontas. seceatenracstiierentacsaniet ors Meet to Crinia, Go er Coal BOSTON, Feb. rhe Governors of several of tie New England States met here to-day at the call of Gov. Coolidge to take action in representations to ratiroad and coal authorities at Wash ington on the coal shortage. “The situ- ation is so, serious immediate action is imperative,” Gov, Coolidge sald, Gov- ernors Beckman of Rhode Island and Holeomp of Connecticut were unable to attend, — Swedish Cabinet to Resign. STOCKHOLM, Feb. i6,—The Cabinet Will probably resign to-morrow, it was said in official ciroles here to-day. It will be followed by @ Socialist Minority. NO SUDDEN FIT OF CaS (Continued From First Page.) a President Wileon haw heen ‘permitted to learn of events and affairs going on In the Gpvernment and outside , World during his ifiness. Three per- sons can answer the question: Ds. Cary T. Grayson, his physician; Mrs, Woodrow Wilson and Private Secre- tary Joseph P.,Tumulty. The lips of the first individual are sealed by pto- | fessional ethics, the wife of the Pres- ident is not ‘given to answering in- quiries from newspapers and has had {no communication with the press ‘since Mz. Wilson became ill, and the | Private Secretary to the President has decided to keep absolutely mum. WHAT IS KNOWN AMONG THE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS. But correspondents who go to the White House every day make it the!r Dusiness to keep their eyes and ears open and to remember from week to week and month to month, And any cne-of a dozen who watch White ! ' | |TWOFIRES IN TRU woul tL |Man. Who Owned Trunk Says Suils Found in Neighbor's Room Are His. Smoke in the five-story tenement at No. 1907 Second Avenue about midnight was traced to the apartment of Jose Garcia and Hugina Paredes, who work late. A blaze was found in a trunk in One of the rooms, in the trunk were oil-soaked rags. After ‘the Janitor had put out the fire he notified the police and while de- tectives were waiting for Fire Marshal Willis @ second firé started in the trunk, and there was azain emelte- ment (pared the twenty families im the ~ANGER LANSING REMOVAL » the impression that the Attorney Gen- eral was consulting his colleagues in an informal way. It 4s within the range of pomsibllity, that while Mr. Wilson did know about these conferences, did read about them in the newspapers and did regard them as inter-departmental “consultations,” he may have fallen back on fine dis- tinctions in the use of ‘words and failed to regatd them as Cabinet “meetings.” Nor did he concern him- self about them ‘probably until some he told him they were not informal together-functions but fofmal sez- ions and that at one of these sessions the question was seriously raised ae to whether-or not the Cabinet should ask the Vice President to come and take the place of the President +. May be Mr. Wilson didn’t learn of the latter fact till last week. Gos- sip like that doesn't always travel fast, but when it did feach Mr. Wil- son he gave vent to a pent-up dis- house! Mrs. Mary Stanley, fifty-two years old, was held in $19,000 ball this morm- ing charged with arson in the first ée- gree, and her hearing was set for Wednesday. She lives across the hall from the apartment where the fire oo- curred, The poli y they found off soaked rags in her apartment and.seme milk cans and a@ bottle filled with of. Six sults of clothes she had were iden: satisfaction with Mr. Lansing’s views|tifle as taken from his room on the Peace Treaty and a deep re-|'#tedez, the police say, rei sentment at what he considered a > desire to depose the President of the United Stat Personally, I prefer for the present to believe that the President was, for the most part, kept in ignorance of what had been going on around him. and that those of his friends who RUSSIA URGES U.S.” TO FORM SOVIETS House affairs carefully can testify to certain happenings, which, when pieced together and analyzed in the light of the Wilson mood and temp- erament, cannot but result. in iljumi- nating conclustons, For instance: Did Secretary Lans- ing call the first cabinet meeting after President Wilson took sick? He ad- mits he did, but at least one of the calls for a cabinet meeting—I think it was the first—went out through the medium of the White House offices, and officials there could have stopped it by notifying the President of what was happening. They did nothing of the kind. What was the atmosphere and sit- uation in which the first cabinet méeting was called? Congress was restless, political enemies of the President were circluating stories that he was mentally unable to ful- fill the duties of the Presidency and were talking about constitutional methods of getting a successor Newspapers were clamoring to know how the Government was function- ing, if at all. Members of the cabinet thought it was up to them to do something to prevent public alarm. It was the political and loyal sido of the Wilson following trying to meet public criticism in an awkward situ- ation. WILSON’S FRIENDS DIDN'T KNOW HOW SICK HE WAS. ‘The President's friends did not know how sick he was. They knew that only he needed rést and freedom from worry. If they could only give the appearance of uninterrupted Government they felt they would be doing him a service. Cabinet meeting was held. It is true Dr. Grayson caine there as the emis- sary of the President and made It clear that Mr, Wilson was curious and, therefore, not altogether pleased with what was happening. He wanted it understood that no action could be legally taken on a question which the President is authorized to act upon by law unless the President himself approved. The Cabinet took that as a natural limitation upon them and understood perfectly well that they could not do. But it was decided, for the sake of appearances as well as,for the good that might come out of inter-depart- mental conference and consultation, to continue the meetings. Several of them were held. White House offl- the Government was functfoning and that all was well with affairs of the Republic. Suddenly out of a clear sky comes a letter from the President to Secre- tary Lansing asking if it was true that Cubinet meetings had been ied. No- body Was more surprised than the Secretary of State, He had haa dif- ferences with the President and had been intending to resign, but he never dreamed that the basis of ris retire- ment would be the calling of Cabinet a service and not a dis-service, TOOK HIS REBUKE QUIETLY AND QUIT OFFICE. But Mr. Lansing didn’t play the part of a little man. He took the rebuke politely and made his exit. He could have involved other men in the Wilson Administration who had urged him to keep the Cabinet meetings guing. He could have involved nearly everybody in the President's oMcial family, but since he was made the “goat,” he cepted his fate without a whimper, trusting that the public might some day understand. Did the President really remain un- aware until last week of the fact that Cabinet meetings were being held in the executive offices @ few yards from his own sick room. Circumstantial evidence would seem to point to the absurdity of such @ conclusion, The newspapers printed references to It gain and again. 1 remember clearly that Attorney General Palmer went to the White House before @ certain momentous cabinet meeting on the coal strike an afier a brief discussion with the Pre | dent, told the correspondent later thut |the Government was behind him and ' Mr, Wilson approved of what had been done, The correspondents recall that | Mr, Palmer said somothing to them of | having informed the President of the Cabinet situation, But he may not have gone into detail concerning meet- ings. The President may bave gotten So the first! cials pointed to them as proof that| meetings which had been planned as} Inflammatory Document, Seized in London, Advocates Rule of Communists in America. LONDON, Feb, 16.—An inflammatory document has been seized on the per- have endeavored to create tho im- pression that he did know what was happening in the outside world said so merely as a political stratagem one of those’ unfortunate cases of po- Utical Ife in America, which remnrde sincerity and frankness as secondat 5 to the-Aloghlavellian philosophy. that | 20" Of & Bolshevik agentarrested here in politics the end justifies the meana, |" the way to the United Stgtes. The Every President has an outer armor | document consists of a letter addressed which protects him from accusations | "to our American comrades,” and and at the same time safeguards him | eigned by M. Eucharin, president of against mistakes. ‘The tragedy of the | the third internationale of M President's fit of tomper is that this | gectaring the t 22 Whediotscit ( time nobody dared to say him ‘nay. | niin ripe for a commun- nobody tet him in on the fact that the | *t Party in the United States, country had been accepting the Cabi- The program is, first: ‘The establtsh- net meetings as of his sanction. ment of government of workers’ So- Nae viets; secondly: The overthrow of the capitalists and the management of the WILSON CAN NEVER | factories by the workers, and third. FULLY RECOVER, IS |‘ sei#ure by tne workersofthe food supply organi: at n. DR. BEVAN’S VIEW| a —_ | IF 5 Noted Surgeon Says President) sae THES UP OTH AVE. Should ‘Not’ Be’ Allowed to | CPOWR Attracted by Barstag ae i celslor Stops Traffic. Resume Duties. One bonfire, one crowd of “busy New CHTCAGO, 18.—Dr. Arthur | Yorkers” tu wate ngine to put it out, « dozen cops to watch Dean Bevan, noted surgeon and for- 8. the wat ask for exp two or three officials to mer President of the American Me¢ . two or three oth- {ea} Association, in a letter to the) ers to sive elements conte Tribune saya that President Wilson's | bed to te up min- uts at Fourteenth th Ave- condition Is due to a disea e of the| nue this mognin arteries of his brain, which Is a per-| A truck load of exc caught Ore matient condition! |and it was dumped into the street. The i saug (ative, Bernard -Hoehm, of No. 352 In other words.” hy adds, “the/qenth Avenue, sald he thought it was President has a permanently damaged | “started by spontaneous combustion be- brain. He is evidently slowly recovor- | Che Excelsior was CstaDy, ing from the paralysis of his arm and Seiere aca leg and may recover fairly well, al-| STRIKE ONLY DELAYED. though never regaining completely | a i the use of his limbs, but the disedsrg| Mtintenance of War Mem sell arteries, which were responsivie for| NESSIE ith 8 thas the stroke and the damaged brain, | Feb. 16.—The proposed remain and will not be recovered| pba gin from. } | “What advice gvoult :he best scien- |tifle medical authority, uncontrolled | by personal or partisan reasons, give {an the President's case, both for his| | own personal interests and the inter- | jests Of the country? Let us consider | this matter first from the standpoint | of the President's own interest. ance y Shop Laborers but has been Pr nd Railway ed, has not postp, Al Brott Rome Kestaurants, iI 16.—f stall i | RON ant e ‘A patient who Js suffering, a# the have de to. call neral locks President 1s, from diseased arteries | Oitonc und ether toodstafia, With OU cheese and other foodstuff of his brain and where the disease has progressed to such @ point as to Produce paralys's of one side of the body, should undet no circumstances be pertnitted to resume tho work of such a strenuous position as that of President of the United States, The Jetrain and responsibility of such a |position would bring with them the! danger of a recurrence of such at-! \tacks and might hasten a fatal ter- mination, ,"The proper and normal course of action would be for the President to retire from office under the advice of | his physicians and family und Notice to Advertisers: Advertising copy and release orders “or either the week day Morning World or The Evening World, if received after 4 P. M, the day preceding publication, can be inserted on!v as space may permit and in order of receipt at ‘The World office. Advertising copy for the Sup- plement Sections of The Sunda World must be received by 3 P. M. Thursday preceding publica- , tion, and releases must be res friends. ere. boas ceived by # P. M. Friday. Adver- c \|] tising copy for the Main Sheet of President's Mind Keen, Says || ‘The Sunday World must be re- Allenist Dereum, \|] ceived by 6 P.M. of the preced- ing Vriday and releases must be received by 12 o'clock noon Sat- urda, Copy or orders received later than as provided above, when omitted, will not serve to earn discounts of any character, con- tract or otherwise. THE WORLD, PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 16—Dr. Fran- cls X, Dercum, noted alk st, who wag called in consultation by Dr. Grayson in! 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