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Tie News: fiol Observer TEE WEATELS Tin 1 14 fee Itertk CaweBwat Fait M mUn Than! Frioey fat. XXTCELAtn. m ymr pa, lead reaowal day War expiration la m4m t void mhastag atagie cop. VOL QCIV. NO, 133. SIXTEEN PACES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C'THURSDAY MOkNINC, NOVEMBER 10. 1921. SIXTEEN PACES TODAY. PRICE? FIVE CENTS DEMOCRATS GAIN IN FOUR STATES AND MANY CITIES .Kentucky Back In Democra tic Column After Two Tears of Republican Control SUBSTANTIAL GAINS MADE IN NEW YORK AND ALSO MARYLAND Democratic Candidates In Virginia Beat Republicans by Wide Margins; Albany, Long Regarded as Repub lican Stronghold, Elects Democratic Administra tion For First Time In Twenty-Two Years; De troit Re -Elects James Consens as Mayor and Cleveland Elects Inde pendent Republican Over Regular Nominee New York, Nov. 9. (By the As eclated Press). Final summariza tion toripht of reulti of yester day's ''off year" elections through out the euirtry indicated substan tial gaina for the Democrats in four states Maryland, Kontucky, Vir ginia and New York while munici pal hiilloU in many eitiea resulted in changes o party control. Tie outstanding case of State wido Democratic vietory was in Kentucky win re the party regained control of the legislature, which has been Republican for two years. Iu Maryland, where the entire lower House was elected, with 27 members of the B'nate Democratic contro1 was increased. In Virginia the Democratic guber natorial candidate, State Senator E. Lee Trinkle, led his Republican opponent by a wide margin, which extended also to his running mates including J. Murray Hooker, the party's candidnte for Representative in Congress. In the New York As sembly the Democrats increased their representation by 23 seats, al though the Republicans with a' total of !6 assemblymen still retained a wide working margin. Albany long regarded aa the stronghold of Republicanism in this State, will have a Democratic ad ministration for the first time In E2 yearB. The Democrat! elected their mayoralty candidate, William S. Haokett, and seized every other berth in the city administration bsl lotted on including a large majority of the 19 aldermanic seats. Detroit re-elected Mayor James Couzens, whose campaign was waged on a platform calling for municipal traction ownership, while Cleveland gave Fred Kohler a substantial plu rality over Mayor William 8. Fitz gerald, Republican, and voted to change to a city manager plan of government m 11)24. It was Kohler, who, when dis missed as chief of police by Newton D. Baker, then mayor told his friends he would some dny vindicate himself by being elected hend of the city government, lie conducted his campaign without the backing of an organization and without mak ing a speech. Cleveland is anid to be the largest eity which has adopted the city manager plan. Republican mayors were eleetei in Indianapolis and Cincinnati. DEMOCRACY STILL MILITANT DECLARES CHAIRMAN HULL Washington, Nov. 9. (By the As sociated Press-. Results of yester day's election prove that the spirit of the Democratic party "is still militant," Chairman Cordell Hull, of the Demoeratie National committee, aid today. Ilia statement follows: "Fighting Democrats who captured numerous Republican outposts in Tuesday's elections have given evi dence that the spirit of the party Is (till militant. Although this was not a general election, a conserve ' tive interpretation of the elections held Indicate that tho people are tar enough away from the mist and con fusion of war conditions snd influ ences to see tho merits of Demo eratie administration; to realize the great benefits so generally enjoyed thereunder; to see and become con vinced of the increasing demerits of the present Republican administra tion and to realize that the com pre hensive program of reconstruction proposed by the Democratic- admin istration following the armistice was obstructed and in chief measure "deSrV-ated by a Republican Congress during 1919 and 19'JO, with the dts astrous results to business Which have inevitably followed. They in diente a general trend from the Re publican party, including sections long under Republican rule. "Apart from the gratifying out come in Virginia, Kentucky, Mary land and other localities and the tremendous victory in Greater New York the results In upstate Nf York cities, in Bridgeport, Conn., fol lowing recent, Demoeratie victories ia other Connecticut towns and par ticularly gratifying because they have been strongholds of reactionary BepubHcamsm. "The Democratic victories of Tues day will Inspire Democrats every where to renewed efforts with In creasing expectations of success." GREATEST REPUBLICAN ROUT IN NEW tOK CITY'S HISTORY New York, Nov. 8. Tammany chiefs tonight were celebrating the result of yesterday's election which promised absolutely unchallenged , Continued etvPagt Two), KMOOU I President Harding's Home Elects Democratic Mayor and Democratic Board The News and Observer 003 District National Bank Bldg. By EDWARD E. BRITTON (By Special Leased Wire) Washington, Nov. 9. It is a jubilant democracy here tonight, a democracy that was delighted this morning when the news earns that Demoeratie victories at the polls had eome in widely separated sections of the country and that not alone had states normally Democratic given great majorities for the Demo cratic tickets, that where there had been a slump in 1920 Democracy had come back with a rush, that hither to Republican strongholds in eities had fallen to the Democrats, that some eities never Demoeratie had swung into the Demoeratie column. That was enough good newt to send Democratic stock bounding, but the climax came when the wires brought the news that the home town of President Harding had been cap tured by the Democrats. For Marion, Ohio, yesterday elect ed a Democratic mayor and a Demo cratic board of eity commissioners. The news from President Harding's own baifiwit.k is that the Demoeratie candidate for mayor, George Neely, won over the Republican candidate, T. E. Andrews, by a vote of 3,477 to 3,432. That this will serve notice on the country that the Demoeratie party is on the job, that it is vigil ant, and that the voters are watch ing the "wiggly-wobbly"' eourse of the Republicans, the sluggishness and dilly-dallying that has gone on in Cougross, the absolute subser viency of the Republican Congress to big business can be clearly recog nied. The country may well exclaim "That big news for the Democrats they have carried Marion, Ohio, President Harding s home town." It is a return to Harding "normalcy" with a vengeance. Good Newt Everywhere. The Democrats have cause for re poieing in the huge Demoeratie ma jority iu New York, in the inroads made by the Demoeratie upper New York cities heretofore Hepubueaa ism, tho big Demoeratie sweep In Virginia as against the highly optim istic claims made by the Republicans the sweeping Democratic victory in Maryland the "come back"' of the Kentucky Democrats in gaining eon trol of the legislature. All these show tho trend of the country to be back to democracy. Democrats around Washington to day are having smiles of the best pleased kind aa they talk o.' Syracuse having gone Democratic for the first time in more than 15 years, of the election of a Dcmocrtic mayor in Oneonta, N. Y., for the first time in the history of that city, of a Demo cratic victory for the first time in 22 years, in Albany, home of Boss Bill Barnes, of the recapture of Rome, New iork, by the Democrats of a Democratic mayor elected in Schenectady for the fourth time breaking all records, of Democratic increases everywhere in the elee tions and of the Marion, Ohio, re sult. These straws shows which way the wind is blowing, said a prominent Democrat today in talk ing of the matter, "And the results look mighty good to me." WAKE FOREST STUDENT SHOOTS HAZING PARTY Freshman, Attacked by Masked Men, Wounds J. S. Saunders, a Sophomore Wake Forest, Nov. 9. Attacked by a party of masked men, B. B. Pat terson, of Fayetteville, a member of the Freshman class of Wake For est College, last night shot and wounded J. B. Saunders, a sophomore. The shooting occurred while Pat terson and several classmates were on their way to their rooming kouse off the campus, following a class basketball game in the college gym nasium. According to the statement of the freshmen, Patterson waa the only member of the party molested. They state that six or seven men were in tho party, but they were un able to identify any of them because of the masks. Patterson fired only once, but the shot served its purpose wall, Saund ers being rushed away by bit com panion! snd the freshmen proceed ing to their rooms withont further molestation. Saundera was later taken to the hospital, where it was found that the bullet bad penetrated hi thigh. The sophomore ia still confined the hospital, but his eondition ia not considered carious, except for the possibility of infection. Civil authorities have not taken cognizance of the incident but Dean E. W. Timberlake, Jr., stated tonight that the affair will be investigated thoroughly by the college faculty and the student senate, which has jurisdiction over baling. All of the freshmen in the party have made statements disclaiming ability to identify their assailants, while no one in authority baa yet interviewed wunders. UN 01 WILSONWANTED TO MAKE NATIONS RESPECT AMERICA Takes New High Ground In International Affairs on Panama Tolls INSISTS ON REPEAL1 OF ACT OF CONGRESS Strong Opposition In Both Parties But Finally Wins Fight and Likewise Gains New Prestige For Ameri ca; Begins Work on Cur rency Reform Legislation WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM BY JOSEPH P.. TUMULTY (Twelfth Installment) CHAPTER XX PANAMA TOLLS In an introduction to The Pane ma Canal Tolls Controversy," editor by Hugh Gordon Miller and Joseph C. Froshoff, Mr. Oscar Straus wrote "There is no more honorable chapter in the highly creditable history of the diplomacy of our country than the repeal of the Panama Canal tolls act under the present administra tion. Being a controversy affecting our International relatione, tt ia gratifying that, aside front the leadership of the President, the re peal was effected not solely by the party in power, but by the help of leaders ia all three parties, rising above the plane of partisan poll tics to the higher reaches of broad statesmanship, guided by scraps- lous regard for our international character in accord with 'a decent respect for the opinions of man kind,' aa expressed in the Decla ration of Independence. President Wilson himself, after the repealing act had been passed, remarked, "When everything else about this administration has been forgotten, its attitude on the Panama tolls treeaty will be remem bered aa a long, forward itep in the process of making the conduct oetw.tn nations the same aa that which obtains between honorable in dividuate desling with each other, scrupulously respecting their eon tracts no matter what the coat." 'In making his recommendations to Congress he almost with high dis dain, ignored legal and diplomatic quibbles and took high moral ground Said he, "The large thing to do is the only thing we can afford to do. A voluntary withdrawal from a po sition everywhere quoted and mis understood. We ought to reverse onr action withont raising the Ones tion whether we were right or wrong and so ones more deserve ear tdu tation for generosity and for the redemption of our every obligation without quibble or hesitation.' An act passed in 1912 had ex empted American eoastwiae shipping passing through the canal from the tolls assessed on other vessels, and the British Government had Drotes ted against this on the ground that it violated the Hay-Pauncefot treaty of 1901, which had atipulated that the eanal should be open to the vessels of all nationa "on terms of entire equality." Other nations than England had an interest in this question, and there waa suspicion that some of them were even more keenly, if not more heavily, in terested ; but England took the lniti ative and. the struggle to eave the exemption was turned, in the United States, into a demonstration by the Irish, tier mans and other5 anti- British elements. Innate hostility to England, and coastwise shipping intoreats formed the backbone of tho opposition to any repeal of this ex emption, bnt the Vt Administra tion had held that the exemption did not conflict with the treaty (on the ground that the words "all nations" meant all nations except the United States), and British opposition to the fortification of the canal, as well as the attitude of a section of the British press daring the Cana dian elections of 1911, had ereated a distrust of British motives which was heightened by the conviction of many that the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty had been a bad bargain. unexplained to Tale Day. It waa understood early ia Presi dent Wilson's administration that) he believed the exemption waa in violation of the treaty, but not an til October did he make formal an nouncement that he intended to ask Congress to repeal it The question did not eome into the foreground, however, until March 5, 1914, when the President addressed thii re quest to Congress in ominous lan guage, which to this day remains unexplained. "No communication addressed to Congress," he said, "has carried with it more grave and far reaching implications to the inter ests of the country." After ex pressing his belief that the law aa it stood violated the treaty and should be rupealed as a point of honor, he continued: rI ask this of you in sup port of the foreign policy of the administration. I shall not know how to deal with other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer consequence If yon do not grant it to me in ungrudging measure. The first word I received that the President contemplated addressing Congress asking for the" repeal of the Panama tolls eame about in this way: I waa notified after dinner one evening that the President wished to confer with no ia his study. When I arrived at the White House Mrs. Wilson met me and in formed me of the plan which the President had in mind with refer enee to this matter and of his de cision to issue a statement that night, which would b carried in the newspaper the following 1 morning, Continued ej Page SUe4 , ! 1 ' Stat! Collect Alumnus. Speaker tt Exercises . r ""3 V O. MAX GARDNER Masonic Grand Lodge Will Conduct Ceremonies at State College O. Max Gardner, former lieutenant Governor, will deliver the principal address at N. C. State College this morning when the Grand Lodge of Maaona of North Carolina lay the eorperatone of the memorial tower oemg erected in honor of mate Col lege men whe served in the World War. The laying of-the cornerstone and attendant ceremonies at State Col lege will follow a dress parade and review of the College B. O. T. C. regiment at Riddick field. The parade takes place ot 10:45 and in the reviewing party will be Gover nor Morrison and staff; O. Max Gardner; Adjutant General J. Van B. MetU; C. V. York, President Gen eral Alumni Association; J. Bailey Owen, Grand Master of Masons, and Grand Lodge officers Major Gordon Smith, Assistant Adjutant General; Csle K. Burgees, State Adjutant American Legion; Judges of the Supreme Court, and the City Com missioner. The epeaker, one of the most dis tinguished sons of the college, will be presented by Adjutant General Mette. Following the laying of the cornerstone, there will be a lunch eon at 12 JO in the College dining room for specially invited guests. State College cent into the ranks of the country s army and navy more than two thousand men daring the war, er one out ef every three men who have ever attended college there, One out of every Sve of those who served were commissioned officers, and thirty-three State Alumni gave their lives. Articles In Cora en to a The following articles will be placed in the cornerstone: Complete service record of State College men containing more than ,000 names. Name and record of 33 State Col lege men who gave their lives. Minutes of the meeting of the General Alumni Assopiation at wnleh the memorial was adopted. Copy of Raleigh Times November 9, 1921. Copy of News and Observer no vember 10, 1931. Copy of first ieeue ef Alumni News November, 1917. Copy of eurrent issue of Alumni New November. 1021. Copy of 1921 College catalog. Copy of program of laying of cornerstone. Photograph President of College. Photograph ef Colege plant from airplane. Names of Memorial Committee. Masonic emblem, etc. The memorial tower will be con structed to a height of about 18 feet after the cornerstone is laid and will be completed as rapidly aa funds be come available. The total cost is estimated at 0,OOO, about $22,000 of which has already been subscribed. SWAIN COUNTY TOWNSHIP votes Hoe.m in bonds Asheville, Nov. 9. Pordney's Creek Township, Swain county, voted $400,000 in road bonds yester day for the purpose of building a highway down the Kuekeslege and Tennessee river from Bryson City to Chilhowee, Tenn. my CORNERS MEMORIAL TOWER Raleigh Woman Re-elected For 20th Consecutive Term Concord, Nov. 9. Election of offi cers, selection of the 1922 meeting place and an impressive memorial service featured today's sessions of the 32nd annual convention of the North Carolina braneh, King's Daugh ter and Son. The convention closed with tonight's session. Mrs. William H. R Burgwyn, of Raleigh, was re elected president, and Greenville wa chosen as the meeting place for the 1932 eonven. tion. All officers who served during the past year were re elected, in elnding Mr. Burgwyn," ."president; Mis Easdale Shaw, Rockingham, vice president; Mrs. Richard Williams. Greenville, Btato recording secretary ; Miss Margie MeEarhera, Concord, treasurer; Mrs. T. J. Minning, Hen derson, central council member. This is the 20th consecutive year Mrs. Burgwyn ha been chosen as head of the State organization. The executive committee lai com posed of Mrs. J. A. Cannon, C,oneord; Mr. O. Clarke, Greneville; Mr. J. IT. Rutledie. Kannapolia: Mrs, M. JL fitMar, CUpel Hill, a4 Mra. H. TESTAUTHORITY OF COMMISSION TO LOCATE ROAD Halifax and Edgecombe Take Hobgood Controversy to Superior Court RESTRAIN COMMISSION FROM CHANGING ROUTE Temporary Order .Signed by Judge Calveft Returnable November 28; Commis sion Will Fight Action With VEvery Resource Arailable The authority of the State High way Commission to determine the location of roads under its jurisdic tion waa attacked in injunction pro eeeding brought by the road com missioner of Halifax and Edge combe counties yesterday, seeking to restrain the Commission from changing the route of the Tarboro Halifax road originally routed by way of Hobgood. Court action waa begun before Judge Thomas H. Calvert on Tuea day at Halifax and a temporary re straining order obtained, returnable before Judge Calvert November 28. Service of summons waa made upon each member of the Commission here yesterday afternoon. No plana have been announced for defending the action but the Commission intends to resist the injunction with every re source at its eouimand. hIf this 'order stands, the work of the State Highway Commission is finished we will have the State road law administered by the courts," declared Chairman Frank Page yesterday afternon discussing the effort of Halifax and Edgecombe citizens to prevent the building of the road on the location determined after tho matter had been thrashed ou at hearings held here several weeks ago. Kltchln Leada Fight The fight over the location of the road has been bitter, led on the one side by Paul Kitchin aa chief conn sel, and by R. C. Dunn, of Tarboro, on the other. Hearings were held here early in September that con sumed the better part of a day, when testimony was offered by both sides, and the matter was argued at length by counsel on either side. The vote of the Commission wa nine to one agaiuat the Hobgood route. On the first draft of the State road map, the Tarboro Hal if ai road fol lowed the present county road by way of HobjgBod, and was approved by both county boards of road com miseionars. Later opposition de veloped in favor of the Lawrence ville rout. The matter was brought before tho State Highway Commis sion, and on two different times, committees were sent down to in vestigate. Both reports were in favor of the Lawrenceville route. Hobgood Haa Read Hobgood ia on the railroad and al ready has an excellent county road. Eight miles west of Hobgood, and on a direct line between Scotland Neck and Tarboro is a prosperous farm ing settlement that is now without a road- This route was declared by the committees that investigated , to (Continued on Page Two) APPORTION FEDERAL FUNDS UNIFORMLY North Carolina's share of a mil lion and three quarter dollars of the Federal Aid fund for road building will be distributed among the nine construction districts on the basis of area, mileage and population that determined the allocation of State funds among the several distircts, according to a resolution adopted by the State Highway Commission last night Eeach construction district will share alike in the distribution of the fund, and roads to be built with the Federal money will be deter mined by the District Commissioner the State Highway Comissloner and the Chief of the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. The Commission plans to take immedinte steps to se cure the funds available, and ap ply them to construction at the ear liest possible time. H. O. Wells' Outline of History will sharpen your mind and clear yonr thought on problems of the hour, (adv.) G. Kizer, Ralishary. The first two were re elected. Impressive Memorial Service. The afternoon session proved the most interesting of the entire eon vention, memorial services being held at that time. Features of the aerv ice were the dedication of the me morial window in the Jackson train ing school chapel and the presenta tion to the school of tho bridgo eon necting the chapel with the other buildings of the institution: The chapel was erected of stone gathered around the school property, and the window was purchased by the Daugh ters. The bridge is also constructed of . stone and forms an arch over the National highway. It was erected by the Daughters. The dedication service was eon ducted bv Bv. M. A. Barber, of Baleigh. The bridge was presented t the school by Mrs. D. Y. Cooper, of Henderson, and was accented by Hon J. P. Cook, ebairman. of the board of directors of the institution. Thirty-five delegate were present for the sessions of the convention and they were entertained at the Uaiiung school, " - PEACE or WAR Studies at the Washington Conference) By H. G. WELLS Two Great Powers Absent From Arms Conference and Silent Punitive Peace Imposed On Germany Tenacity of Russia Unexampled By arrawgement with the Chicago (Copyright, Itil, by Th Chicago llshlng Co. (The (Copyright tn All Korrlun Countries. itepubiteation V v x .... Two Great Powers Are Silent aad I Absent Washngton, D. C, November I. Washington, the guide books say, was planned by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant in imitation of Versailles. If so, it ha broken away from his intentions. I know Versailles pretty well, snd I have gone about Wash ington looking vainly for anything more than the remotest resemblance. There ia .something European about Washington I admit, an Italianata largeness, as though a Roman design has been given oxygen and limitless pare. It is a capital in the expand ed Latin atyle. It has none of the vertical uplift of a real American city. But Versailles! Versailles was the home and em bodiment of the old French Grand Monarchy and of a foreign policy that sought to dominate, Frenchify and "Vcraaillize" the world. A visit to Versailles is part of one's world education, a visit to the rather faded, ruther pretentious magnifi cence of its terraces, to that Hall of Mirrors, all plastered over with lit tie oblongs of looking glass, which was once considered so wonderful, to the stuffy, secretive royal apart Dienta with their convenient back stairs, to the poor foolishness of the Queen s toy village, the Little Trian on. A century and a half ago the people of France, wasted and worn by incessant wars of aggression weary of a government that was aa intolerable burden to them and a nuisance to all Europe, went to Ver sailles in a passion and dragged French Policy out of Versailles for a time. Unhappily it went back there. In 1871, when Germany strsck down the tawdry imperialism of Na poleon III (who was also for setting up Emperors in the New World), the Germans had the excessive bad taste to proclaim a New German Em pire in the Hall of Mirrors. So that Versailles became more than ever the symbol of the age-long, dreary, pitiful quarrel of the French and Germans for the Inheritance of ''the Empire" that has gone on ever since the death of Charlemagne. There the glory of France had shone ; there the glory of France had been eclipsed. I visited Versailles one autumnal day in 1912, and it was then a rather mouldy, disheartened, empty, picturesque show place, per vaded by memories of flounces, fur belows, wigs and red heels and also by the stronger, less pleasant flavor of that later Prussian triumph. It was surely the least propitious place in the whole world for the mak ing of a world peace in 1919. It waa inevitable that there the Rhine fron tier should loom larger than all Asia and that the German people should be kept waiting outside to learn what vindictive punishment victorious France designed for them.. The Peace of Versailles was not a settlement of the world, it was the crowning of the rrench revanche. And since Russia had always been below the horizon of Versailles it was aa inevitable that the Russian people, who had saved France from utter defeat in 1914, who bad given far more dead to the war than France and America put together, and who had collapsed at last, ut terly exhausted by their stupendous war efforts, should be considered merely as the defaulting debtors of France. Their government had in curred vast liabilities chiefly in prep aration for this very war which had restored France to her former glori ous acendancy over Germany. And now a new, ungracious government in Russia not only declared it could not pay np but refused to pretend that it had ever meant to porform this imiiossiblfl feat. There could be no desling with such a government. The German people and the Russian people alike had no voice at Ver sailles, and the affairs of the world were settled with a majestic disre gard of these outcast and fallen powers. Has to Revise Verdicts of Versailles They were settled so magnificently and badly that now the Washington conference; whatever limitations it may propose to set upon itself, has in effect to review and, if it can, mand or replace that appalling set tlement. The Washington confer ence has practically to revise the verdicts of Versailles, in a fresher air and with a wider outlook. I do not know how nenr future historians may eome to saying that the Washington conference was planned in Imitation of that Ver sailles conference, but it certainly does start out with one most unfor tunate resemblance. There seems to be the same tacit eyisumptinn that it is possible to eome to some per- rmnnent settlement of the world s affairs with no rvresontation of cither the German or the Russian people at the conference. The Ja panese, the Italians, the French, the Americans and the British, assisted by modent suggestions from such small sections of humanity as China nnd Spanish America, are sitting down to arangement that will amount practically to n settlement of the world's affairs, and they are doing so without consulting these two great peoples, and quite without their consent and assistance. This rarely ren counter to the fanda j mental principle of pom American Tribune and Mew York World.) Tribune Co, and the Pre Pub- New roik World ) All Right ef Translation aad servea . and British political life that ie to say the principle of government with the eonsent of the governed and it is indeed aa altogether de plorable intention. In some form these two gfeat peoplea will' have to be associated with any perma nent settlement, and it will be much more difficult to eeeure their assent to any arrangement arrived at with out even their formal co-operation. It ia necessary to remind ourselves of certain elementary facta about Germany and Russia and their posi tion in the world today. They are fact within the knowledge of all. and yet they seem to be astonish ingly forgotten In very much of tho discussion of the Washington eon ference. First, let us recall certain points about Germany. The German people occupy the most central position in Lurope; they exceed in nuumbers any other European people except the Russians; their educational level has been as high or hhrher than anv otfcer peopiet in the world; they are. aa a people, honest, industrious and intelligent; upon their social and political well being and econo mic prosperity the prosperity of Brit nln, Scandinavia, Russia, Italy and in a lesser degree France depends. It is impossible to destroy such a people, it is impossible to wipe them off the map, but it is possible to ruin them economically and socially And if Germany ia ruined most of Lurope ia ruined. Germany has been overthrown in a great war, and it will be well to recall here certain elementary facts about that war. Under a particular ly aggressive and offensive imperia list system the Germans fere plung ed into conflict with most of the rest of the civilized world. But it was repeatedly declared by the Brit ish and by the Americana, if not by others of the combatant, that they fonght not against the German peo pel but against this German ins peri aliens. The British war propaganda in particular did Its utmost to lata rate Germany with that assurance I and to hold oat the promise of gen crous treatment and a complete res toration of friendship provided there waa a German reannelatlon of Imperallam aad militarism. Germany, exhausted and beaten surrendered in 1918 upon the strength of these promise and npon the similar promises Implied In President Wilson's Fourteen Points The declared ends of the had been achieved. The Kaiser bolted, and Germany repented of him publicly and unequivocally. Panltlve Peace Impoacd On Germany. But the conference at Versailles treated these promises that had been made to Germany as mere "scraps of paper." The peace imposed upon the young Qerman republic was punitive peace, exactly a punitive as though thsr were still a Kaiser in Berlin; it wa a vindictive re versal of the Franco-German treaty of 1871 without a shred of recogni tio or tolerance for the ehastened Germany that faced her conquerors. The Germans were dealt with race of moral monsters, though no one in his senses really believos they are very different, man for man from English, French or American people; every German wa held to be individually responsible for the war, though every frenchman Englishman and American knows that when one's country tights one has to fiirht. and it is Quite natural to fight for it whether it m in tli right or not; and a sustained attack of oppressive occupations, disraem herment, and impossible demands was begun and still goes on upon the shattered German civilization which is at least as vitally necessary to the world as ths French. The British and French nationalist press openly confess that they do not in tend to give Germany a ehance of recovery. The European Allies hav now been kicking the proatrste body of Germany for three years; in little while they will be kicking dend body; anil, since they are link ed geographically to their victim al most as closely as the Siamese twins were linked together, they will share that victim's decav. It is high time that this barbaric insanity, this prolongation of the eombst after surrender should cease and that the best minds and wills o Germany and the very reasonable republican government she has sot up for herself should be called into consultation. I could wish that Washington could so far rise above Versailles as presently to make that invitation. Sooner or later it will have to be made if the peace of the world is to be secured. The absence of Russia from the Washington Conference is an eveu graver weakness. People seem to have forgotten altogether how the Russians bore the brunt of the opening year of the great war. Their rapid offensive In HM saved Paris and saved the little British Army from a disastrous retreat to the sea. The debt of gratitude Britain and Francs owe to Russia's "Unknown Warrior,'' that poor un honored hero and martyr, is in calculable. But for Russia Germany would probably have woo, the war (ContiaM On Page Three), BODYOFUIK SOLDIER RESTS L Plain Soldier - Lies Where Only Martyred Presidents ; Have Slept NO HONOR TOO GREAT - ' FOR HIM WHO DIED Headd Ij President, High- ett Oncers of Govern ment Pay Tribute to Him Who Died on Soil of Trance; To Lie la Stat Until Final Ceremonies v Washington, Nov. t.-(By the A. eociated Press.) A plain soldier w known but weighted with honor at perhaps no American before him be cause he died for the (lag in Frnaee, ay tonight In a plaee where only martyred presidents, Lincoln, Oar field and McKinley, have slept 1st death. He kept lonely vigil lying in state under the vast, shadowy donfe of the Capitol. Only the motionless figure of five armed comrades one at the head and one facing inward at each corner of the bier kept watch wit him. But far above, towering from the gruit bulk of thu dome, the brooding ' li gure of freedom watched, loo. aa though it said "well done" to the eer vant, faithful unto death, asleep there in the vast dim chamber below. No Honor Toe Great. America's unknown AmA lm Iumi from France at last, and the nation haa no honor too great for him, it paya us unstinted tribute of praise . and glory to all those sleeping in the far soil of France. It wa their home coming today; thoir day of days in the heart of the nation and they must have known it for the heart beat of a nation defies the laws of space, even of eternity. Sodden skies and a rray. creeping. ennung rain all through the day seemed to mark the mourning of thi .. American soil and air at the bier of this unknown hero. But no jot of the full meed of honor wa do- -; nied tho dead on that account. From ' the highest officials of this demo eratie government, to the last eoldlef or marine or blue jacket, rain and cold meant nothing beside the desire III CAPITO to do honor to the dead. -Day'e CeremoaUe Brief. , ' . The eeremonlee were brief today Thoy began when the far boom of saluting cannon down the river gig naled the coming ef the great gray cruiser Olympia. The fog of Mis hid her alow approach np tho Poto- v maa bnt fort by fort, post by poet, the guns took np the tale of honor for the dead as she passed. -TV"-1 Slowly the ship swung in to ker dock. Along her raile stood her crew in long lines of dark blue, rigid at attention and with a solemn expres sion uncommon to the young face beneath the jaunty sailor hat.' astern, nrer trie tong, gray mnxala or a gun that once echoed it wny into history more than 20 year ago in Manila Bay, lay the ting draped casket. Above, a tented awning held off the dripping rain, the inner tide of the canvas lined with great Amer ican flags to make a canopy for tho sleeper below. At attention stood five sailors and marines aa guard of honor for the dead at each Conor and the head of bis bier. Casket Carried Ashore. Just 4fl-htp bWI-)ged-otf the quick doable strokes of 'eight bells," the sailors' form of foor o'elock, and the hour set for arrival, . the bugles rang again and the erew lined the rails far above the dock.'' The marine guards filed down tho gangway to face the troopers aeroeo the dock, the ship's band came down and formed beyond the marine. Ob. deck at the gangway head, four side boys took their place on each side facing toward each other and tho hoatawsin waiting behind them to pipe a dead comrade over the aide with the honors accorded only to fall admirals of the li-ct. Cars bearing Secretaries Week and Denby, Asujstant Secretary Wainwright, Oenornj Pershing, Major Oen. Harbord, Admiral Coontx aad Major General IcJeune, the marine commandant, and their aides roiled up to the gangway. Last Salute ef Sea. ' Just as the casket passed end through the rails, overside to tho plank, the wail of the bo'sun's pipe oundsd, shrilling the lost satut of the sea to the dead. Btep by the hearers labored down the nlaakv sanded against the slippery murk of the rain, to the cobbled dock floor below. Again the pipe above wailed as they stepped ashore at last and the unknown wua again on America soil. The caisson waited in a space be tween the second and third squadron of the full strength of the Third Cavalry from Fort Myer, and beaido it stood the eight body bearers of tho arry headed by Sergeant Woodflll, hero of heroes among American who fought in r ranee. The soldiers took over the gun car riage and then could be aeen a withered handful of flowers, the only decoration on the flag wrapped casket. They were the blooms with which this casket was chosen from others -there in France before tho long journey home began. Through it all they have lain there above tho breast of the dead, yellowing with each passing day. They will go with the unknown to his last sleep in tho stone crypt at Arlington. - A the casket w strapped fa plaee, an order rang!' Out, and tho cavalry band swung off to tho left playing "Onward, Christian Bold lers." Ahead the winding road to the old gateway wa lined on either tide with marine at present arm and behind them tow after row, were) picked the thousand of juot plain,' (OeaUnued on Psge Tw. . .. a ml .