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Csst lirertisirj Kediaa ia Korta Carolina VOUOX. .N0.61. RALEIGH, N. C SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1919. PRICE: FIVE CENTS. J- 4M SECRETARY SPEECH TO Talks About Achievements of The Navy in the Great "War Against War," On Shore, in Air and Afloat CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OF NATIONS PLAN And Declarer, No American Eight Is Pat in Jeopardy By The Constitution of The League At Submitted By President Wilson; It Is Es aential For The Qood of Mankind That a Parliament of Man and a federation of The World ' Shall Be Estab lished in Our Day As It Was . in Washington's Day When The Colonies United 1 1 1 . " - ViCmM " Press X'liTl, said: V r- Whenever there it a big job to be done yon must find a big man to do it. I cannot speak too highly in praise of the big naval officer who mora than measured tip 'to the highest expecta tion in the acid test of war. The tiamo of your big man who is ready for tho emergency may not htve been in the -kdlit of our acwfipap -Most - probably he bad been navigating a ship, or governing some saiall country ' which needed assistance to help it over ' -revolutions, or directing airy navres in the central. blue, or making ships and munitions, or training fit youngttcn, or in p'oces of leadership, making the , mighty .Navy engine -ready against the day of peril. Some of us thouglit grim ' visazed tnr would not frown upon our , generation, but naval officers, with ' world knowledge gained by voyages -' - from coast t coast, sensed the danger beforo most .civilians deemed .it pos sible. They were engcr for a stronger I-vy, but more, ccnlous that the Auief- leau Nnvy,'b45 r liltlcshould b one ' hundred por cent efficient. - ' v - American. ' Efficiency. '' The war bat revealrfl an et flcicucy - In Auiorirsus we' did not realize was - tnr greatest new. - Standing '. put tienrly, Tccfgulaed at home and abroad, rising to hoigliti uusnrpassed by others In initiative and in execution in every . t field of .activity, is the "American naval ' ' officer. ' Cleir bf head; cool under fire, . quick in decision, able in" administra .tion; tactful in diplomacy, as wise as he is patriotic, all Anierieaas pay trib ' . te to these resourceful and victorious planners and fighters of the Navy. And eqnal to them in, patriotism, in courage and - in skill in the duty assigrfed are the quick and capable personnel from 1 the., youngest to the oldest... It il . to . thorn, tho veteran and the new r cruits, tho 'country owes tho gratitude it f rooty and generously gives. It is n loeause of their readiness that when great war came 'and all America rose . to its duty, nobody had to ask how soon tho Navy would be ready for the Iiart it was 4o play. It required no ong orders to aeeure naval mobiliza- t.on. Ono brief allnav message eou vorted a peace navy into m fighting nary over night, and bravo gun crews chaupioned freedom of the seas before destroyers hurried across the Atlantic lo join the' gallant allied craft to les ' sen the menace of undorwater nssas- lint. ' "The Xavy Way. . Arming merchantmen . was a 'new work for the Mkry. There were not enough guns of proper calibre avail , , ll'le in the country for the purpose. .Did the Navy say . 'We cannot arm the ships until guns are made!" That isn't the Navyway. Jt removed sce ondary batteries from battleships and filled the' erder forthwith. That is ' tvpieatof what the Navy did from the first and what it ia doing now in sup-. , I; lying -officers nnd crews to man t .e ' berman ships Which are bringing back tur victorious soldiers. The k largest ships that carried American troops to ' France were built in Germany and in- tcraed here during the war. Is there net algnifieanet that when German do vstructive ingenuity - thought they had destroyed the machinery beyond repair, American naval skill by new methods hurriedly repaired the ' ships to they made better speed than when under German direction. -Bow Conld It Be Possible.' It it related. knit the ehicf engineer f one of them, interned on Ellis Is land, when he saw the first one of these ships go out on her trial after repair exclaimed in amazement! "How can it bo possible! I know that too can weld steel but yon cannot weld east iron or bronse. , We broke only, east iron por tions of the machinery. How was the repair msde!" He was never enligh! tned in the matter before his transfer to an internment camp. Nobody needs to underrate' German efficiency, but tbit war gave full proof that naval men had no superiors in skill and in vent ion as well as in . daring and courage. Convoying Two Million Soldiei . . The safe eoavoying of over two mil - lion American soldiers to Franca was ae. eomplishing the seemingly impossible, but this safe transport of troops was accomplished not merely by presence or transport and convoying vessels as defense airainst submarines, bnt by Striking offensively snd with deadlv effect against the. U-boats. The primary weapon, ids aeptn enarge of unlimited supply seriously affected the morale and success of German submarine crews. They mada 'the ocean depths anything but pleasant' habitation for the sub DANIELS PRESS CLUB (cam navy wat quickly reeognired and appreciated by tur allien. , Laying North Sea Barrage. Tie moit stupendous undertaking in the history of. naval offensive was the laying of the North Sea barrage by the Yankee Mining Squadron Yankee through and through with a Virginian first in command, a Bay State captain second, and officers and., crew from Maine to Texas. In an address to the officers of the assembled fleet, delivered on the flagship Pennsylvania just as we entered the war, President 'Wilson de clared that the way to kill the hornets was to destroy or block np the hornets nest. The Lig shore emplacements pre vented destruction of Holgoland ao that the hornets nest could not be ut terly destroyed. There only remained shutting them, in by the 240-mile long barrage by which the North Sea "Cab-, bag Patch" became dread reality to German submarine commanders. Though just completed as the armistice was sign ed, fourteen submarines were caught in its deadly grip. Is it too much to:tay the mutiny of sailors at Kiel1 was in duced by their knowledge that, with I yver oirau ciuhvu aou ma junu avm la death trap', they would be point into J Dover Strait closed and the North Sea JjJLZi WTOvyraWW-oYTu dollars and pressed back oa land by the brave and invincible army what eonrse wat left for Germany but to sign the armistice f 1 s. ' " The 14-Inck Gnat. Toward the victory which Prussihn resistance could only dclny, the navy contributed also in the mobile fourteen- lnch guns of which Admiral Plunkett will tell yon. They xonld shoot twenty four miles, nt an. clevRtipn.,of Jorty sve degrees and "ono ahot was tuflicient to completely wreck a railroad - lino of three tacks for distance of one hun dred feet, tsaring np the rails, shatter ing the ties and blowing an enormous crater in the road bed. . . - Land Victory of the Maria. Yon are to hear tonight from Major Dcning the story of another epoch-mak ing naval contribution to land victory In the fighting of the marines. 80-4- inspired boet hat in the decisive fight in Bcllcau Wood tho material for another Charge of 'tho Light Brigade, . for never at BalaKlavn or Thermopylae did men fight against greater odds or with more courage than the marines and sol diers -who saved the eity of Paris by their dash, and marksmanship and do or-die, gritgsnd Jeterm.ijiasoilt t( be' killed . T: The German submarines seemed to be possessed of tome instinct that made oil tankers jut easy prey. This war was fought on oil and gasoline, and British and American ships . wore dopendent open a steady supply of oil. ' The num ber of tankers tunk rounding the north of Scotland are not known, but it wat so large as to give grave eoncern for fuel supplies to .the allied fleet in the North Sea. American naval skill, co operating with British naval skill, left the operation of the sea and constructed a pipe-line seroes Scotland 37 miles long. This made quicker trips from the ou fields and aave assurance against the infested coasts of Northern Scotland. " 1 Shoro Stations. On land, too, the navy constructed more then half a hundred snore stations abroad and aided in the fight against the- submarines by the1 patrol of many scores of set planes. .It sent flyers to Italy, had Important bases on the Aaoret tnd in the Mediterranean; and when the armistice was signed had completed plans with allied navies to . construct barrages in the Mediterranean which would have effectively shut in the Aus trian and Turkish submarine in that tone where much havoc . had been wrought. In aviation the navy was train ing 42,000 men when the armistice wat signed, we had developed a tea plant to a point where it can cover over n thousand miles without landing, and shortly American aviators will fly across the Atlantic carrying through tht air messages of friendship to our comrades across the seas. - Gas HeUam For Airships. Tht etrnett approval by 'Admiral Sims of tho Navy Department's recom mendation for tht construction of Urge airships gives special emphasis to the work which tht War Department and the Navy Department have undertaken for the production or the non-mnam- mable gas helium for us in airships. When tht armistice wat signed, one of the experiments! plants which had been operated at Fort Worth, Texas, had successfully produced helium at tht ratt of 3,000 or 4,000 cubic feet per day, but at tbit production was far below what would be required for. tht needs of the War Department and the Navy Department, to say nothing of thnt of onr allies, it was determined to undertake production on a large scale, and for this purpose contracts wort en. tered into by tbt . Navy ,. Department acting for btth the Wtr and Navy De partments for the construction Of plant at Fort Worth having capacity ten er twelve timet as great at tbt ts. penmental Plant from which helium had been prodneed. The necessary ma chinery for equipping this plant it now tearing completion and the buildings will toon be under construction. . -. Ia order that tht supply of this rare gas may. be conserved contracts have beet entered into with tht owners of the wells supplying it, by which tht use of this gat for domestic purposes will be limited to tuck in extent as to eon- serve it for a period varying from ten to twenty yeara. Tht necessity of do ing this will bt evident from tht fact that foreign governments have already show?., the greatest interest ia this gas and art making every effort to secure a supply of it. Tht importance of eon serving it is so great however, that of fleers of tht Wtr and Navy Depart ments believe that Congress should lose no time in enacting legislation which will secure to ths government tht sole control of all helium bearing gas in thit country. In explanation pf tht great mllitarf SPRING CLEANING'S ALL OVER AT WHITE HOUSE-BUT MRS. WILSON . ISN'T ALL TUCKERED OUT By Carolyn Vane Bell. : t WMkla(Ua 1128-1U1 Maaaey BIdg., Washington, D. C. Hooseeleaning's over at the White : House! ; " : ' .. Some job, ladies! But Mrs. Wil aoa, mistress of the White Botue, isn't even tired! -". All the White oust tervantt- nad a lot of extra "ladiet-by-tht-dsy" fixed up a plan to surprise Mrs. Wilson and the President, inci dentallywhen they came some from Europe. Bo the cleaned the White House from btsement to roof, insido and out, and when the mistress walked ia all she had to do . was .to sigh contentedly "My! ; How nice everything looks 1" ' ' It's been s hard life at the White House these past weeks. The rugs have been beaten, the stone work . ' 7 i .. . ' honed, the walls scraped, snd the . WHsoir can -walk in, sit down- ' thoughts of spring jnilinery-nny thing but spring houeeeleaaing. . Fortunate woman!' - To moat women, spring does not mean the twit-twit of birdt and greening verdure; etc., but the an nual spring offensive with brooms ,,J3.M thpjte. JWKKI or 40JMQ war " workers, said Thomas Brahany, of the White House staff, "who cam ia . here to net hew President Wilton and Mrs. Wilson really lived that tort things up so. They must of come ia here witVhob-naila in their shoes, for the hardwood floors were to dog into and scarred that wt had to hart a force .in here to' plant ., them level again." It's n-good thing Mrs. Wilson doesn't have to use her own, unaided broom and mop la house-cleaning . the presidential residence. , Hert't what she'd lave to tackle among oilier uijtp joot. . . , Tha east room it iO feet wide and 81 feet long, wits a celling 23 feet high, from which hang three huge crystal chandeliers. White and gold moldings and panels ornament tht -walla. The windows 18 feet high He U a Seasoned Legislator "anrl vhmilrl Uota Raari hiiu viivutu iiiurxw uvvu In The Chair (Br the Associated Press.) , Washington, March 1. For continu ous service Trederlck H. Gillett it tht veteran of tht House as he' It rounding out hit twtnty-fourth yctr of consecu tive service in that body. Although he entered Congress when Bcprettntativt Cannon of Illinois wat n veteran legis lator, klr. GUlett'a record for nnbroken service exceeds that of the former speaker, 'whose forty-years in tht House kavt been interrupted by a bee act from two congresses. Despite hit long service, Mr. Gillett it not widely known And hit friends ascstbt hit rise to Republican leadership to lis dote application to legislation rather than to any personal advertising. In this connection they pointed to the fact that all of tht speeches he baa de livered during almost a quarter - of a century of service would scarcely fin ona small wolatntv - Representative Gillett't homo it it Springfield. Ht wtt born in Wettfield, Mass. in 1852, and was graduated .from Amherst College and the Harvard Law school. Tbt nominee for speaker entered pub- lie lift in 1879 being appointed ataittaat attorney general, which position ha held until 1883. His first election to office wtt in 1890 at a member of tbt IXassa chusettt House of Representatives. He was reelected ia 1891 nad at tht ton elusion of hit term wat nominated tt Congress aad elected by a large vote. Upon entering Congress air. Oillett waa assigned to tht committee ta civil service reform and later to military affairs aad others and finally appropria tions en which kt U tht ranking Jta- pnblieaa " member. Government ex penditures has been his special study, His ability a a floor lesder waa dem onstrated during the illness last year of Mr. Mann, hit rival for tht sp-sakorsnip. With tht country it war ht publicly announced a "friendly and helpful dis position toward tht administration.'" Massachusetts has not furnished svesker of the Houie .since before ths Civil War. Katsltn Charck la IT. 8. Formed. " Cleveland, Ohio, March l.-Tho Rus sian orthodox church in tht tinited Stated hat been formally . separated from the parent (Russian) organisation, aad made an independent institution. . This .waa accomplished at a meeting of ltymen and priests btld here. Bt. Bev. Mr. Alexander, who has bee a ia America 18 years, of which time r was bishop of New York tea years, I Is been elected archbishop and head K I the Russian church in America. More than 200 parishes wert repre -T'---r----"" r-y"J"i,"J,'-"irPv -i-iyfc-aru'nrartinirsrTwviayusn juij'u-'j'uii u"i ATJHj,jJuiJU'L"uLrLruTj'jnj'JiruT."U',T.ri.T.n.isi SOMETHING ABOUT iWOMAfl ASKS FOR CARE OF. CHILDREN - THE NEXT SPEAKER STATE ORPHANAGE BORN OUT WEDLOCK sented In the council, etch by a lay. V- ' . , l ; ' k- . '-'- ..s I . ' - 35wrassff V; ?fs itTfhi Iff - tvt ' -4 jl "- W s 1 , -tJfct I Ami I- LI? I t -- toss, wocmasr uzmroM Tkia It how Mn. Wttdrow Wilson, mtttrest of tht White Honse, did not look dsrlng tht annul -yrlng koatecleanlng of the presidential mansion. . The White Bant ta "brand clean," bnt the erst lady of the land did not kavt to put tin cat? and a erst to accomplish n which It a pity, considering he nice tht 1 L. f V I 1 V.J-....:, .,-.": have old-gold Hlk and velvet hang ing. There is 1500 piano, and a lot of costly marble busts and Sevrcfl vases to dust. 1 ' In tht state dining room' tht walls are paneled ia dark English Points To Constitutional Pro vision Requiring Establish ment of Institution NO PLACE NOW FOR MANY HOMELESS ONES Denominational Institutions Overcrowded and Hare Lonj . Waitinf Lists To tht Editor May I have space in your columns to ea'-l attentioa to some matters its con aa.tioa with a bill which I hart sent to the Legislature, to be introduced by a member from Mecklenburg T I also scad yon a copy of tht bill, which is entitled: "An Act to Establish aad Maintain a Horns for Dependent aad Delinquent Children in , ortb Carolina." Tkt bill specifies thtt the Homa it to bt - for- white--children: though I sincerely trust that a similar Homo may bt established for negro child, en at an early date. Tho constitution of North Carolina, Article Eleven, Sections 4 and 6, pro vides for the erect on of a house of cor rection, aad for a house of refuge, for various classes of offenders; and Arti elt Eleven, 8ec 8, provides for tht et- UDuaameai oc an orphan noma; so there It aa abandanet of authority for the proposed measure (Const. 1868). There it no Htate orpkaaatt in Nortk Carolina; orphanages supported by va Hons denominations tad organisations, ara avorerowded, aava towg wtiting lista, aad art confronted with problems of insufficient funds for maintenance ai.d additional dormitory space. A re cent copy of an orphanage paper of the orphans homt of a denomination in the ots to carries this editorial: ' "Tht infiuenza hat wrought havoe-ia thousands of hornet in North Carolina. On! those connected with tht orphan age work havt aa adequate conception of tho amount of suffering there is in tht hornet of widowed mothert in the boandt of tnr State, Godly women left wit, a house full of little children, nnd with no meant bnt a woman's hands for tb.ir support, Tho pastors of - the ehurchet know, and" wt know, through tht piteous tppealt :'-at ara ecastantly coming to as for shelter tnd support of the helpless, how great aad how argent it tht need for help.' "But our haada are tied for lack of doruitorv roots. There Is a very rrgent demand for aew dormitories, and we hope this matter will appeal tt tome of God't stewards ia a very special wsv.- . i . The head of aaother orphan's home, of aaother denomination, said to me only tbt other day. "Wt always have i . t (W2S'J oak and the mahogany dining tablt W'H teat 100 guests.. There art 1,800 pieces of china ia the White House table service, and 820 piece of cut glass, each engraved With tht arms of tht United States. . . Other' Features of "Children's Code" Now Before Mis- ; . souri Legislature ; (Br the Associated Fri.) Jefferson, City, Mo., March 1. Wei fart organizations in thit - and other countries tnd State and government of flcialt are closely watching the progress of tht 'Missouri Children's Code," now before the State Legislature. Tht eode of. fifty-one child welfare laws drawa by a eommlssioa appointed by Governor Gardner, is ssid to be the mort complete ever offered for legisla live action. Proponents express con f.denee of its enactment. Enactment of somewhat similar codes repealing old laws, revising others and containing new regulations, is being sought in many States by the national . cvmmlttee for standardizing children's laws, which hst tht tupport ,ef tht Na tional Child Labor Committee. But noihing hat been attempted on so broad a stale and the outcome in Missouri is awaited as somowhat of a test ease, ac cording to Lucille B, Lowenstein of the Missouri Commission. ' The eode provides ' for tupport of children born out of wedlock; raises the age of consent to 16 years, estab lishes the marriage age at IS; abolishes common law marriages; provides for extradition of child deserters; provides for punishment of adults, responsible for child delinquency; establishes a State home for dependent children ; es tablishes n bureau for menial defectives at the University of Missouri to serve courts, schools and iastitutions in ex amination of defectives, and provides special claaaea ia public schools, for fee ble minded, deaf, blind aad -crippled children. Marriage of feeble-minded aad epileptics would be prohibited. Tht codes of . tht labor section pro hibit employment ' of children under 14 in any occupation, unless an , em ployment certificate has been Obtained, except during vacation periods., Boys over 12 years old and girls past 18 eould engage in street trades if licensed And supplied, with badges after special examinations. Children under 18 could not be employed mora than 8 hours a day or 48 hours a week, and children tnder'Sl could not work as night mes sengers. ' Special permits would be re quired for children under 16 working under ground, on power machinery, or on tbt ttage. Completion of ..tht -eighth grade would bt accessary before employment certificates were issued, and tht com pulsory school attendanea ago would bt raised to 16, unless the child had fin ished the eighth grade. Poverty of par ents would aot be grounds for school exemption. Th. State Board of Health would havt charge ef a division of child hy- (Con timed aa Ftgt Mx) GOVERNOR GlEtlll SUGGESTS LAWS Former Chief Executive Dis . cusses Matters Before Legislature - SEES PROSPECT FOR -V EXCELLENT. RECORD Outlines Some of the Measures He Would Like To See On Statute Books To tht Editor of News and Observer: The present General Assembly, if it passes the progressive laws now on its calendar will go down in history at one of tht ttrongest and .best, ever assem bled in the State. It is therefore earn ectly hoped that it will not let local matters or measures of minor weight sidetrack the mora important matters that art beforo it. ' I believe it a dog tax, in fact I could almoat wish that tht Legislature would tax the whore canine tribe out of ex c.fo i.i "HT the'Bfat'c. "BuTW ttxThg"'6: iswtvWvon?rm tb tjV bona nnd little collars as fitted' out Jr our blessed ltdiea who won't bear 'Chil dren but want pete constitute about all tht dogs' wt now have) Jt' hardly as necessary ta passing laws that will help build up the State , and enable ut to provide pastures, green for our sheep that wt now desire to protect. . Past the bill in retard to taxation. aad let ir be a measure with teeth. Let tbt ,iai)ta, Aigh valuation,- and ,, lot- rate; this brings tho right hind of im migration. . Alto havt true equaliza tion, not oas county with a just and fair valuation and nn adjoining county, just as fertile and rich, not paying half as much. About fifty counties get more from tht Statt treasury thsa they pay In, and others, with less wealth, help support the entire State. This is neith er fair nor just. ' I hope tht members of the- legisla ture will examine carefully the laws of New Zealand, which to me hat tht best laws on taxation of any county, and at a result payt tht very lowest tax rate. In my message to the Legislatures of 1907 nnd 1909, X called special atten tion to these lawn, but non-progressive members thwarted my every effort and continued tht old method , -c , , ' The New Zealand laws make indi viduals tjsott both their real and per sonal property, and then if aot satisfied with tht valuation, a commission was appointed to nsaott tht property, aad tht county could take it in, by paying tea per cent mora thaa the personal as sessment. In thia way fraud wat toon wiped out ' . ' , Don't let tnything side track tht splendid start you havt mada for good roads: next to illiteracy, mud levies th highest ttx oa a State, and no in vestment more rapidly builds up a1o ealit) than good roads. The legislstort - teem to wtnt good roadr but mnnbert art honevtry -drvid- td at how thit it bett to bt dont. Some want all taxes to come from automo biles, gasoline, etc., others want the taxes raised by light auto taxet and a bond issue. j Now don't fail to pass a strong road law, but get together. A good old judge in this State when sore perplexed by soma dif flfeult question of law-would tra to the lawyert on each side and tty, "Boys can't you go out and get together and settle this matter." So settle it tnd don't be like tht juror, who said, "wt would havt had a verdict if those elevea folks had agreed with me." Give and take it a saft rule, evea before the Legislature, The stmt appliet to your bill in re gard to schools. Wt havt promised six months school and better pay for teachers, and we must keep our word. Some want more concessions in all the large cities, and others to tako almost all taxes off the week county schools. I have not read carefully the two bills, but cities tad counties are naturally dependent on each other. The eounty school educates the boys and girls, who eventually become the men and women of the cities, nnd therefore the cities can afford to help those who wilr ulti mately be a source of strength to them, Let joint concessions bt msde, -but let the most help be given the week. In regard to the salaries of State officers, L do hope the legislature will increase and not diminish. Our Su preme and Superior court judges re eeived 14,000 a year, all right, when corn was fifty Cents a bushel and whea; seventy-five cents, but now how eta they live when butter is sixty aad seventy-five cents a pound, eggt sixty cents a dozen, . and chickens so high you can sat one even on Sunday with out thinking of the poor house. These men could command ten thousand dol lars a year; and we don't want to dis place them, and get "cheap Joha- law. yere to preside, over courts thtt past on tht lives, liberties tnd property of ourfttojucj Tht-tamt-with - regard to....tht per diem of our legislators make it $10 per day and $15 for Speaker of House tnd APresidcnt of Senate. Don't re quire them to serve tht State for less than they caa live on, or compel them to board at some "hash-house."; Give them enough to enable them to pay for one "biied shirt" a week at the lann dry and to allow their wives to visit them once while serving tht people in Raleigh, without forcing them to put a mortgage oa their little hornet, or giving a bill of tale en their wives and children. Give us a better Child Labor Law. Let ut btvt a thorough inspection for the law without inspection it a dead let tar. In my judgment, the Commission er of Labor ia the 1 best qualified to make thit Inspection and I know of no truer and better man in tht Butt thaa FRANCE MUST BE FULLY PROTECTED And Germany Must Be Closely Watched For Some Time . To Come VIEWS OF SIMONDS AS TO PEACE PROGRAM We Have No ' Guarantee, He Thinks, That New Germany Is Anything But An Enlarged and Camouflaged Edition of The Old; Plight of Trench Eepnblio . (Copyright, 1919, by MeClureJfewspa- '-- per Syndicate) ,- (Special Cable froaiT' Paris) ' Paris, March 1. To understand tht t-pTflbleitrTif "pea,; the real problem of pence witkr Germany, it it neeesary tion of Europs and of tbt rest ef tht ' launched her great attack upon .eivili-' cation for the purpose . of achieving AGAINST GEiAHY world domination. At that time, ,Eu- rope wtt mort or lest evenly divided into two great alliances, the Triple Al liance of Germany, Austria aad Italy, and the Triple Entente of France, Jus tus and. Great Britain, in which. Bosnia ,. . !Sf.J'j,te.Jiti allien, . Thlj waa the balance of power. Theo retically, both groups, were tt nearly ' -equal in strength that neither eould v .,, venture to risk war, with at least half a chance of defeat. , t But now, after four and half years of war, what ia the tituatioaf Bussia, tht greatest military force in the Triple Entente, hat disappeared in chant, but -inch elements of power and organiza tion aa exist still ia that chaos are ia the main friendly to Germany and ready to co-operate with Germany.. The Triple Entente of 1914 then, haa not lost only Bussia, but hat seen Bussia la tome measure ehange tides and be- come aa enemy with her vast potential resources not unukely ta become Get man assets in the future. . . . T ! Austria Jelns Germany, To balance the downfall of Bussia we have the collapse of Austria; but Aus tria wat never one-tenth as important a factor, ia tht Triple Alliance as But sia wat ia tht Triplt Entente, aad al ready we set the Germane of Austrian seeking to unite themtelvct with Oer- ' many; and it it patent that tome timi lar allianct will be sought by tht Hun- gariant as a result of ehacgea to be mtde ia . Hungarian territory through the liberation of the Slavt aad Boa- maniaas. Thus more thaa twenty mil-- lions of Austrian subjects will remain associated with Germany, and it wtt precisely this element which supplied the -main aid-Germany could obteia from her Hapsburg associate. Germaay , has thus saved almost half of Austria, while tbt Allies htvt not only loot all of Bussia but havt sect Bussia march ing towards a aew alignment with Gcr mtnyf j- ! Now, by contrast, Italy haa associat ed herself with -Great Britain and France,- but before-the war Italy wat economically at well tt politically peat- trated by Germans. There waa no pro- found bitterness between tht Germans and Italians, even daring tht present wtr, nnd there exists for .tht future no real batit for jealousy now thst Italy haa achieved reintegration of the Aus- trian-Italian population. Italy's pres ent sympathies tit unquestionably with Great Britain and France; but. Italy't commercial interests in tht fa ture, even more thaa ia the past, will be with the central powers aa a result of geographical conditions. It comes down, after all, to this: That Germany has abolished Russia, anil not simply abolished her, but prepared the way for future German economic, political and perhaps even military pre dominance in thnt vast area which wat onco tht Romanoff empire. She hat saved for her own influence out of the wreck, of Austria fractions which were alone of very great importance.. She will have added thousands of square miles of territory and alx or seven mil lions of people to her population at a result of tht unsuccessful war, since it is dear now to everybody that a anion of Austrian Germany with Northern Germany ia no longer to be prevented. ' She has assured herself a population Of nearly eighty millions, almost en tirely German, enclosing most ef tht Bohemitu state which, however political ly Independent, must for all tlma be economically dependent upon Germtny for access to tht open markets of tht world. French Resource Heavily Taxed. Now the only absolute force left in ' tht fact of thit tggrandited Germany it France, with n population of thirty-nine millions, with her industrial regions ruined, with her' transportation system over all the northern regions abolished, with a colossal debt and with a sacri fice ia life alone as a eonsequenee tf tht war which' exeecdt three million lives. Obviously, it it beyond tht re sources of France to hold Germany again as she did for tht greater- pert of four years of war, if Germany shall havt a new accession of militaristic and imperialistic ambition. The brutal truth is thst if Germany has aot under gone a charge of spirit aa a result of the war, or if Germany is aot put out of tht race for trmtmentt for a considerable period of time, Frtnct can not hold tht gatt as tht did before, unless Great Britain and tht United Statea ara prepared to guarantee to. France the presence oa aa open fron tier of considerable armies, which will chart with tht French tht cost in lift SBMISMMt'l Continued en Fact Three) marine. This contribution by she Amer (Coatlnaed oa Page Two) aua aai a prteet. tCaatiaaei aa Ftgt Three) (Contltted aa Psge Six)
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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March 2, 1919, edition 1
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