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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919. Hartford Onurant Established 1764. THURSDAY MORNING. APR. 24, '19.

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TWENTY PAGES. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, All rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved and none may be taken without credit to Courant" Some of the newspapers and some of the special war writers call it "Saar', and some call it "Sarre," but it seems that the number of those using the latter spelling is increasing. This inclination to adopt the French name for the coal fields north of Lorraine would indicate that the belief is growing that German ownership of the mines will soon pass. THE CRISIS AT PARIS. The line of cleavage between the allied governments represented at the Paris peace conference is brought to the front of the stage by President Wilson's statement, issued yesterday, flatly refusing to concede the demands for territory made by Italy as her part of the peace agreement.

These demands, based on a secret pact entered into between Italy and England and France, have been pushed by Italy's delegates with utmost vigor until an impasse has finally been reached, President Wilson, speaking for the United States of America, has been unable, in the peace council, to force the Italian delegates to recede from their insistent demands. The deadlock, which has been threatening for some time, has been in existence for several days now and seriously threatens to disrupt the peace program. In this juncture President Wilson, in his public statement, makes a stirring appeal to the thought and judgment of the world. It is phrased in friendship, but is coercive in intent. It is a strong move on the peace chess board, far stronger than the President's ordering his ship to France.

He now throws down the gauntlet to supporters of secret treaties in such plain terms that they cannot be misunderstood. His unequivocal utterance emphasizes the seriousness of the situation. His statements, without making any such suggestion, convey the impression that this is an ultimatum on the part of the United States, issued after all arguments had failed. It is a strange spectacle--this fixing by the United States of the boundaries of European states. It suggests our great power in remaking the map of Europe- and it will bring home to the thoughtful the responsibilities that we have assumed by exercising that power.

DRAMA THAT REFLEOIS The "New York Sun's" Berlin correspondent has recently written of conditions in the drama now obtaining in Germany, emphasizing the fact that the war brought out plays almost wholly of serious import there; the attempt made to keep up German national enthusiasm by means of lighter theatrical fare having completely failed after the first few months of the war. The great producer Reinhardt is quoted as having given some plays to invited audiences during the war which he could not, under censorship conditions, give publicly. Some of these plays will be produced publicly as soon as war censorship is off; and some of them are of the kind, apparently, that will never see the bright light of day. A few of the tragic plays written in Germany since the war began are described in the letter to the the scene of one is laid in a battleship's turret and the action of the play passes while the ship is in action--and death and destruction are 'round about. It must be a very dismal play, with its seven male characters who simply discuss life and death in their steel prison while life passes and death comes; but doubtless it serves to show the state of mind of the German playwright.

Another play, written in the trenches, is said to be quite too horrible in its lines for general presentation; and in all the pieces mentioned the tragic note- or the note horrible -is present. Reinhardt (who is said to be Austrian and not German) says, in explaining the quantity of serious plays, that the Germans are a serious people. He further says that Shakespeare has proved a great drawing card in Germany straight through the war years an that his popularity continues unabated. We are not particularly concerned, however, in what the German thinks of Shakespeare; we trust. for their own sakes, that the Germns do not hate the English so much as to bar Shakespeare from their stage, but there is an interesting comparison to be drawn between the ways the war re-acted on new German drama and the drama of the English stage -including our own stage, of course.

for there is no line of demarcation, really, between the London and the New York stage. The war, as we have seen, exercised a peculiarly depressing effect on the German playwright. His thoughts were all turned to tragedy, to horrors, to unsettled and unpleasant social disturbances. The war left no place for joy or hope on the German stage, and those who responded to the influences of the war wrote, when they wrote at all, in the tragic vein. But how were matters in England -strafed-England, where the streets were darkened and terrible death rained from the skies? Englan 1 demanded cheerful plays, light plays, plays with music and dancing.

The heart of England, though saddened, was not under the shadow of evil; the spirit of England never ucknowledged the possibility of ultimate defeat in even the blackest of days or the foulist of moon-lighted raidnights. The English and the American stage offered not a few serious plays during the war, it is true, but the plays did not tell stories of despair; they were not morbid; they breathed the spirit of the timesand that spirit was not broken by the consciousness of guilt and sure disaster. We on this side of the water did not attend the theater in war time at peril of our lives, but our London cousins went regularly about their evening business of being amused at the play, even when it was tically certain that some part of the lines or music of the show would be rendered inaudible by the suund of exploding bombs or the crack of anti-aircraft guns. And ail the world honors the grim, genuine British pluck that was quietly shown in that way. The British and American playwrights responded to the demands made upon them and the amusements that were wanted were given the people just as they were in Germany.

But what a difference there was! A difference which we are proud to recognize. WAIT AND SEE. The "New York Sun's" Washington correspondent thinks Italy in the end will obtain at the Peace Conference complete satisfaction as regards the east shore of the Adriatic. He impression here is that Italy actually is asking for more than she expects to get and is ready to compromise at the right momenton The suggestion that President will decline to yield is regarded as unfounded, especially if refusal to yield would mean the break-up of the present plans for speedy peace. It is generally admitted that Italy's claims are much more vital to Italy than any one of the so-called principles is to the United States or the Allies.

So far there is no record of any nation's vital interests being sacrificed for these principles and in every case, diplomats point out, the principles have had to be distorted to meet practical needs. President Wilson himsalf has now apparently abandoned the hope of making the practical peace problems conform to his fourteen points. A confidential cable received in administration circles from Paris today states that President Wilson will take no action with respect to Italy's claims or with respect an alliance with France, which might in the slightest degree jeopardize the League of Nations or conflict with its fundamental principles. But nothing is now being said about the fourteen points. That is, the issues that are most vital will get the chief consideration, and the Fourteen Points must stand aside where thay threaten to intertere with this principle.

Thus does the guessing about what the gates to the Peace Conference think and what they intend to do to keep meerily going. We believe that sometime we shall know, but the long wait is rather irritating. AN INSURANCE POLICY Most communities, large or small, take much interest in their fire departments. The department may be a large one, well equipped or it may be a small one with little in the line of apparatus. In the smallest places there is no organization, but when an alarm is given by ringing the bell of the Methodist church everv one turns out and does what he can, the results depending upon the supply of water and the number of helpers available.

But despite all this interest in and work of the fire department most thoughtful men carry fire insurance, paying the premiums as they due, knowing well that they will receive no return unless the evil which they fear comes upon them. If they live in a city they expect their fire damage to be trivial, but it they are in the country remote from Die hydrants and a water system they feel that their loss if any wilt be total, the amount of insurance carried being their only compensation. In any event they are doing what lies in their power to save themselves from loss, inasmuch as they can see that loss is among the possibilities and in some cases among the probebilities in every community. Now these persons and all the rest of us have an opportunity to secure and to urge others to secure another type of insurance of even more value through the purchase of Liberty bonds, either for $50 or for $500,000, the principle being the same. Every man who loans the government $50 or $500,000 becomes interested in the welfare of the ment to that extent and will desire to maintain it; it is his debtor and if it goes bankrupt he is the loser.

If he thinks the matter out he izes that among his losses will be personal freedom and the security which he and his family enjoy but even less thinking than that will show him that the overthrow of the government means to him the loss of the money which he expended for a bond. The men who would establish a new social order and begin it by repudiating debts public and pri tel will make little headway in a country wherein a majority or even a large minority of the people are holders of government obligations, hence every bond and especially every small bond purchased, insures by so much the stability of the nation because buyer becomes stockholder in the concern and will think twice fore he assists in burning or dynamiting the plant. Each bond now being sold to pay the expenses of the war, goes beyond that purpose and ins the stability of the government. Russia may go back to the law of the jungle but every small bond issued and bought in France, England and the United States is doing effective work toward preventing the spread of anarchy. Each bondholder is suring himself and his government against loss in that manner for he becomes at once the holder of an insurance policy and a member of a fire department ready to hold in check a world conflagration.

SOME POWER. The "New York World" of Monday published a scathing review of Postmaster General Burleson. The "World," like many other great dailies has a line of outlying papers to which it furnishes specials. It prepared an outline of this Burleson article and offered it to half a dozen of its clients. It seems hardly credible, yet the "World" asserts it as a fact that the telegraph managers, who are appointees of Burleson, refused to send these dispatches.

The absolute power of the postmaster general, in charge of all telegraphs and telephones "as a war measure," was used to prevent the publicity of a criticism of himself. Of course he didn't accomplish this result for the "World" itself issues hundreds of thousands of copies and they carried the story widespread. But the arbitrary exercise of a power that no man should have was there to the surprise and indignation of a people who supposed they had not the privilege but the right of free speech. Some of Wilson's little associates have been noteworthy merely for the insignificance which secured them their jobs, but Burleson's attitude and his policy makes him absolutely dangerous. Instead of being insignificant he is significant, very.

His rescinding of the order later makes very little difference. The trouble was done. If there was a possible "libel" there it was a personal matter of his own with the courts open. GERMANY'S "VICTORY' Germany, to hear her tell it, has secured a diplomatic victory. She has put one over on the Allies.

She had heard that Premier Clemenceau intended that the German peace delegates would have to sign the document presented to them without discussion. Now she hears that when he got wind of Germany's defiant determination not to accept a dictat-d peace he "pulled in his claws." Just what Clemenceau said in his two telegrams to Germany regarding the attendance of Germany's representatives at the conference has not been printed, in this country at least, but the Germans claim that in the second he reversed the attitude he took in the first, and that, therefore, they have won one round in the diplomatic battle. This German jubilation teaches a moral. Yield nothing to German bluff and intrigue. Any disposition on the part of the Allies to temper justice with mercy will be interpreted as a weakening of the Allied purpose and a victory for German strategy.

It will only make the final settlement more difficult. There should be no time wasted in dickering or in attempts at persuasion or moral argument. In dealing with the Huns the rule of action must be force and firmness. IN SOUTH AMERICA. The Associated Press is establishing its service in Central and South America as, since January 1, it has furnished matter by cable to twentyfive newspapers in the territory mentioned, sending daily from 500 to 000 words, the tolls on which will amount to more than $150,000 a year.

Other papers in Brazil and Uruguay will be elected to membership until all the leading. papers in South America will receive the service. A map of America shows the extent of the Associated Press service, inasmuch as it shows that one line beginning at Seattle ends at Nome in Alaska, while another line beginning at Montreal runs south to Santiago, Chile, thence east to Buenos Aires and from that city north to Rio de Janeiro on the east coast of South America. The work of this organization makes the world smaller and, by the process, more neighborly. YOUNG OFFICER A SUICIDE IN NEW YORK New York, April Francis J.

Wilson of Ashland, committed suicide by shooting at the Imperial Hotel today, according to the police. He was 28 years old and attached to quartermaster's department at the army piers in Hoboken. He left no notes in his room and the hotel employees could advance no reason for the suicide as he always appeared to be of a cheerful disposition. He had been at the hotel two months, STEAMER BEATTIE ABANDONED AT SEA Third Officer Huntley of Portland, Drowned. Portland, April Ferris Roy H.

Beattie, built at Portsmouth, N. for the emergency fleet corporation, was burned and abandoned at sea last Friday and Third Officer Lewis B. Huntley of Portland was drowned, according to a cablegram received today by Huntley's wife. The message was sent from Bermuda, where the rescued crew was landed by a whaling vessel, The Beattie left Norfolk on April 114 with a cargo of coal for a port in Brazil. Captain Thomas H.

Cole, master of the vessel, was assistant inspector of hulls, connected with the local office of the steamboat inspection service before taking command of the Beattie. FIRE DESTROYS NORFOLK BARN (Special to The Courant.) Norfolk, April 23. Fire this morning completely destroyed the large barn owned by Patrick C. Holleran of the P. C.

Holleran Company of Emerson street and the livery stable and garage, owned by Jeremiah Maloney partly destroyed. fire threatened a section of the town but the work of the volunteer firemen saved the nearby buildings. The contents in the barn were destroyed. The loss is partly covered by insurance. SEVERAL ARRESTED FOR ARMENIAN CRIMES Constantinople, April Wireless -Several persons, charged with having been implicated in the massacre or deportation of Armenians, have been arrested during the past few days.

Among those taken into custody are Abbas Halin Pasha, former minister of public works, whose brother, Said Halin, already is in jail, and Ismail Kemal Bey, governor of Sivas. The prisonerg will be tried by courtmartial. The Present Democratic Assault on President Wilson's Administration. (New York 'Sun.) The democrats of the United States in their anxiety to rescue their party from the discredit and disrepute into which the Wilson administration has brought it have decided to make -General Burleson the scapegoat for all the errors and blunders committed by the democratic party in the 1 last six years. From every quarter of the country come democratic denunciations of Mr.

Burleson. His political practices, his administrative methods and his personal qualities are assailed with concerted violence which suggests, if it does not prove, the existence of a party movement to eliminate him from office and lay upon his shoulders responsibility for all that goes wrong in the public service since March 4, 1913. The "Sun" has no desire to defend Mr. Burleson. What his fellow demsay about his reckless partisanship, his arrogance, his incapacity in official place we shall accept as But the "Sun" does not believe the electors of the United States will be deceived for a moment by this ingenious effort to load on Br.

Burleson the whole burden of democratic failure and incompetence. Mr. Burleson was selected by President Wilson to be postmaster-general, and has been kept in that office for six years by President Wilson. Every act performed by PostmasterGeneral Burleson has had the approval, sanction and support of President Wilson, made manifest and potent through Mr. Burleson's retention in office by the President.

Had President Wilson regarded Mr. Burleson as an unfit, mischievous, incapable postmaster- him general, he would have compelled to quit office. To retire Mr. Burleson to private life and thus to rid the public service of what Mr. Burleson's democratic critics describe as a malign influence exerted by Mr.

Burleson has been within the power and proper province of Woodrow Wilson every day in every week ever since he succeeded William H. Taft in the office of President. This being the case, the democratic critics of Postmaster -General Burleson are actually criticising President Wilson. Every word they say in derogation of Mr. Burleson is a word in derogation of Mr.

Wilson. Mr. Burleson came into authority as postmaster-general through the President. allthority Mr. Wilson as He has remained in authority as postmaster-general through the authority of President Wilson.

At any moment the President might have disposed of Mr. Burleson 88 postmaster-general. The fact that President Wilson has kept Mr. Burleson in office constitutes President Wilson's official indorsement and political approval of Mr. Burleson's acts as postmastergeneral.

Consequently, every democratic assault on Postmaster-General Burleson's administration is a democratic President Wilson's ministration and a democratic confession of the weakness of that administration, a fact which democrats may be presumed to understand as well as anybody else. Charles B. Richards, (New Haven Journal-Courier.) Now and again the men and women of this city are made aware, with a suddenness and a clearness almost startling, of the life and power that rest in and radiate from the group of men who make the place which we call Yale. We think of their ways as quiet and cloistered, and sometimes it is a temptation almost to pity them because of their forced isolation from the active lives of their fellows. The picture in our minds is of a group of gatherers and delvers and ponderers who are putting in order the things which have been and which the world has passed by, and who as to the present have to do only with theory and thought.

When a man like Charles Brinkerhoff Richards finally closes his account with things as they are, and his story, as needs be, is told, there is thrown at once and vividly upon the screen another picture- a picture of not only a master mind, but a master worker, of one who had dealt powerfully, led at first hand industrial with affairs of and the the army world into new fields and given them new conquests. This quiet company who labor under the banners of Yale are thus revealed as line officers and high officers in the army of industry and in the forces of civilization. Again the story is told-and may those who rule at Yale hear it and may those who are most insistent as to numbers and endowments and buildings and systems hear it--that the place we call Yale has her name and her fame and her lead because of men. The passing of Charles Richards is the passing of another of a group of men of mind and vision and power who in the last quarter of the last century made a company which may safely be described AS without parallel or precedent in the annals of American educated life. It was they and some of the "simple great ones" who went before them through whom Yale's name shines.

It is only through such and through unhindered and fearless leadership of such as these that Yale can justify the hopes born of her past. The life story of a man whose long years are full of such achievements as Professor Richards's dwells naturally only on the high points of service in the world of science and of affairs. Professor Richards left another story which will not go into print. It is a story which is written only by the teacher whose heart accords with his head in simpleness and gentleness and honor and who gives to generation after generation of those who sit at his feet such visions and influences of friendly courtesy 88 the longest and hardest of years shall not remove. REPUBLICANS ARE TO CELEBRATE UNIQUE EVENT Second Ward to Enthuse Over Election of Aiderman.

"FIRST OFFENSE" IN SCORE OF YEARS Samuel Hoffenberg, Winner by 3 Votes, Man to Break Record. When the new board of aldermen convenes on the second Monday in May, the Second Ward will be represented in the legislative branch of the city government for the first time by a republican, Samuel Hoffenberg. This change in the ward's politics is to be celebrated by the republicans with a victory dinner at the Heublein Hotel tonight. The story of the Second Ward SAMUEL HOFFENBERG. -until 1919.

Close Elections. starts with the year 1896, when the district gave up its identity as 1 the old Sixth Ward. after From that time on demo- came victory victory for the ity held its ground worked hard crats, although the republican du minorsometimes running close to the democrats: but until this spring, when for the first time in more than a score of years, the fortunes changed. It was a tight squeeze for Hoffenberg, though as he had three votes majority over his democratic opponent, Harry G. Cohen.

The Second Ward, as it was before being consolidated with the First Ward, in 1915, was formed by the special act of the Legislature of 1895. amending the city charter. and its first city election was held in the spring of 1896. It has not always endorsed the full democratic ticket and in 1900, when General Alexander Harbison, republican, defeated William Waldo Hyde, democrat, for mayor, carrying every ward in the city, he had 542 votes to 295 for Mr. Hyde in the Second Ward.

However. at the same election, the democratic nominee for alderman had more than 300 plurality and the candidates for the board of councilmen had comfortable margins. From that time to 1919 no democratic city father has been elected from the ward. More remarkable is the election of Mr. Hoffenberg now than it would have been a few years ago, before old First Ward was joined with the Second.

which made it, according to the belief then, a hopelessly democratic ward. It was not that the republican ticket lacked substantial candidates in all the years which it has met repeated defeat in the Second Ward. On the contrary, well known citizens willingly made sacrifices of themselves to the interests of the ward via the grand old party ticket--men like the late Dr. E. J.

McKnight, Clifford D. Perkins, Morris Older, Warren D. Chase. Dr. John F.

Sagarino, Dr. Morris Tuch. Ira J. Strong and the late Frank S. Kellogg.

But the democrats continued to hold the fort The democrats had some scares. on occasions when the republicans were putting up a good fight in the ward. and Senator have Herman P. habit Kopplemann, who used to a for the council in the ward, had a cold chill at more than one election. The closest calls the democrats had were in 1909, when Louis H.

Katz, republican, was beaten by Older. only thirtyfive votes by Abraham democrat, and in 1913, when Francis A. Pallotti, republican, now judge, came within thirty of the votes cast for the democratic nominee, Daniel D. Doyle. The votes for the leading aldermanic candidates at these elections 1909.

Louis H. Katz, 378 Abraham Older, 413 1913. Daniel D. Doyle, d. .309 Francis A.

Pallotti 279 Alderman-elect Hoffenberg. Alderman-elect Hoffenberg was recently discharged from the army. He is the son of Rev. Cemach Hoffenberg, of Village street, and is chairman of the Hartford Zionist Council and president of the Maccabaeans. There are nearly 1.700 voters in the Second Ward and about 1,000 votes were cast this year.

There are about 340 Jewish voters and about 200 Italian voters. Chairman Leipsiger. Chairman Jacob. Leipsiger of the Second Ward republican committee, has been working in the ward since 1902, the year that I. A.

Sullivan beat the late William B. Dwight for In 1904 Mayor W. F. Henney beat mayor. livan.

At that time John T. Robinson resigned as chairman of the republican town committee: and his successors have been Charles A. Goodwin, Ernest Walker Smith, Colonel Richard T. Goodman and the present incumbent. J.

N. H. Campbell. Mr. Leipsiger was made chairman of the Second Ward committee in 1904, succeeding William A.

Baeder, who died a few months ago. COURAGE. Why the Automobile Industry is Booming. Boston News Bureau.) Boston--The head of one of the prosperous independent automobile companies hear it said that the automobile business is the only business that is booming. The reason for this is that automobile manufacturers did not wait or hesitate but went ahead full steam the moment the armistice was signed: i.

e. went ahead as much as they could and kept going. "They immediately began to reorganize their sales forces, started advertising and manufacturing. One of the first things we did, and I think other automobile manufacturers did the same, was to reinstate with our vendors all canceled and held up orders. Within a very few days after the armistice was signed we had placed orders for about $4,000.000 and have been placing orders ever SHOWERS TONIGHT; PROBABLY FAIR, COOLER, TOMORROW Washington, April For eastern New York, showers in west and Thursday or Thursday night in part; Friday cooler and probably fair.

For southern New England, increasing cloudiness Thursday, at night; Friday cooler and probably fair. For northern New England, at partly, and cloudy Friday, Thursday, cooler show- Friday. Winds along the north and middle Atlantic coasts will be respectively moderate southeast and south, and moderate south. Observations at United States Weather Bureau Stations. Taken 8 p.

m. (Summer Time) Yesterday, April 23. Ther- Ba- Pre- Weather. mom. rom.

cip. Abilene, cidy. 80 30.02 Albany, clear 68 30.00 Atlantic City, clear 52 30.08 Block Island, clear 48 30.10 Boston, clear 56 30.10 Buffalo, eldy 64 29.12 Charleston, clear 68 30.12 Chicago, cldy 58 29.98 .66 Cincinnati, pt cldy 70 29.88 .02 Denver, eldy 66 30.08 Detroit, rain 56 29.82 .54 Duluth, pt cldy 32 30.34 Father Point, pt cly 36 30.14 Galveston, pt cldy 72 30.16 Hatteras, clear 62 30.12 Helena. pt cldy 68 30.0. Jacksonville, clear 70 30.14 Kansas City, pt cly 62 30.26 .06 Knoxville, pt eldy 80 29.94 Louisville.

clear 72 29.94 .02 Montgomery. clear 82 30.08 Montreal. eldy 62 29.98 Nantucket, clear 44 30.08 New Orleans, clear 80 30.10 New York, clear 54 30.08 Norfolk, clear 68 30.08 Philadelphia, pt cly 66 30.06 Pittsburgh, rain 70 29.80 Portland, clear 50 30.08 Quebec. pt cldy 42 30.08 St. Louis, clear 78 30.02 Salt Lake City, eldy 74 29.89 Tampa, pt eldy 76 30.14 Washington, clear: 68 30.00 Winnipeg, clear 28 30.64 Bi-Daily Meteorological Observations, (W.

W. Neifert, Connecticut Mutual Building.) Hartford, April 23. Normal Time. 8 A.M. 8 P.M.

Barometer 30.22 30.09 Temperature (deg. 50 57 Dew Point (deg. 34 37 Relative Humidity 54 48 State of Clear Clear Direction of Velocity of Wind (miles per 3 16 Daily Summary. Normal Time. Highest Temperature 72 Lowest Temperature 42 Mean Temperature 57 Total Precipitation past 24 hours 0 Notes.

Normal Time. Highest Temperature occurred at 2:30 p. m. Lowest Temperature occurred at 5:30 a. m.

Sun sets at 6:41. Sun rises at 1:58. Ante Lights Lamps on all motor vehicles must lighted at 8:11 o'clock. Chauncey M. Depew 85 Years Old.

New York, April Chauncey M. Depew will be guest of honor at three dinners celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday, which falls tomorrow. At his home tonight Mr. Depew said he had ben obliged to decline a number of similar invitations, as to accept them all would be to continue the celebration until he was well along toward the eighty-sixth mile post. Life of a Doughboy By RAY TUCKER.

CHAPTER XI. I was fortunate enough to see England throug the eyes of Englishmen who had been away from their homeland for years, as emigrants to the States. Both were American citizens, and one said to me after a few hours' riding through English countryside. "I guess I like the States better than England now. I wouldn't come back." But they still retained enough of their love and memories to point out to me the oddities and beauties of the country.

One of the two, though he emigrated nine years before, was English still in mind and body, Arthur was his name, and he came from the farming section of Cheltenham, which would correspond to the rural districts of Vermont. We called him the "'Cheltenham farmer." He was red-haired, freckled, easy-going, do pipe -smoking farmer, with short legs, squatty body and awkward walk. In New York he had been: a valet, and by birth and training he had acquired what we termed a "shadedroom, soft-rug manner'-never speaking above a conversational whisper and having no sympathy with, or understanding of, our horseplay and noisy, boisterous fun. His life for the past seven weeks had been that of a motion picture star in a seven-reel film. From, his position as' valet in a palatial Long Island home, he had been sent to Camp Upton, where he did nothing but pull weeds.

In four weeks he was transferred to Devens, and the only job open was that of valet for our colonel. Another three weeks found him in Europe, only thirty miles from his country home, but unable to visit his mother, who, according to his last letter from her, was seriously ill. He was no soldier -he had never had a gun in his hand--and did not pretend to be, nor was he offended when he won the nickname of "comic opera soldier." Like a symphony leader waving his baton before the grand crash that marks the opening, he would ceremoniously withdraw his pipe from his mouth before speaking. On the train his quiet dry remarks were to the effect that "Uncle Sam 'as brought me 'ome now, and H'im willing to let it go hat that. I don't want to be han hexpense to 'im hany longer." But Arthur was, and is yet, "han hexpense." The other boy was a full-blooded lad, tall and wiry, a cross-country runner, soccer-player and horseman of considerable ability, and was one of the best known and most popular men in the company.

From the manufacturing city of Birmingham he had emigrated to Ansonia, where he continued at the brass trade, Though married, he had made no objection to entering the army, and with us he was going to do his bit also for the old country. It was in their company that I marched through the roomy, dark warehouses and into the compartments of the continental coaches that were waiting just outside. There were seven men in a compartment, but even with our packs and rifles, we had more room than we ever had again while traveling. With every window framing an American head FAMOUS PEACE By H. Irving King The McClure Newspaper Syndicate Copyright 1918, by TREATIES TREATY OF ST.

PETERSBURG (1772.) One of the Many Efforts to Straighten Out Poland. Poland, having been taken off the map by a treaty, is now to be put back again by another treaty. In the latter part of the fourteenth century Poland was the dominant power in Eastern Europe. Her dominion extended from the Baltic to the Dnieper and pressed down upon Austria to the south, while Red Russia, White Russia, Black Russia and the Ukrain were hers. Prussia was a little state huddled up in a corner on the Baltic, and surrounded on the other sides by Poland.

Courland and Livonia were Polish provinces. The Prussians or Bourussians, were an idolatrous tribe, who indulged human sacrifices and Poland called in the Teutonic Knights to subdue them. The Teutonic Knights subdued the Borussians, but they turned Prussia into a militant little state, which began at once wars to increase its territory. A Hohenzollern had himself elected head of Teutonic Knights and thus began the House of Hohenzollern, and that power destined to have such a large share in the downfall of Poland and to be such a menace to the world; sprung from a race of savages led by an adventurer. As late as 1663, when the American colonies were already settled commonwealths, Poland was so powerful that her King.

John Sobieski, ing with a Polish army, relieved the siege of Vienna and saved Europe from being overrun by the Turk. With the death of Sigismund Augustus in 1572 the dynasty of the old kings came to an end and Poland adopted a system of elective kings, and a new constitution which worked out badly and contributed to the downfall of nation. The Polish Diet elected the king. It consisted of a chamber of peers and a House of Representatives of the lesser nobles. The Diet sat only six weeks each year and its decisions were obliged to be unanimous to be effective.

Also there was a recognized right of any nobles confederating together to enforce their will by the power of arms. Naturally the result was discord and sometimes civil war. Russia, the growing Prussia and Austria fostered these internal disagreements with hungry looks on Polish territory. A large number of Germans found their way into the country, gathered to themselves business and industries and worked their propaganda. In 1733 the election of Augustus Ill to the Polish throne was accomplished by open bribery and under the guard of Russian soldiers.

The Poles I revolted and that interference of that bobbed and yelled and stared, the long train slowly steamed out of the yard at six minutes of eight. Held up at the entrance to the yards, we talked with the Englishmen who were going to work on the night shift at the docks. We exchanged American for English cigarettes- Fatimas for Woodbines- and gave them some pipe tobacco which was difficult to buy in England. They told us that England was going wild over the Americans; they pointed out several 1 famous battleships in drydock for repairs after submarine scrapes, among them H. M.

S. Warwick. Some of the Indian colonial troops, who were working on the docks, clustered around, tall, lithe, graceful figures, with dark skin and serious faces and some swathed in turbans. The gathering, so new and strange, filled us for the first time with a sense of the romance of our crusade to the old world, where men of all races and customs and climes were warring in an epic that eclipsed that of Troy-and this feeling we retained until we again saw America's shores. At the gate of the yards a crowd of English children sang to us in greeting, but the only songs we recognized were "God Save the King'we began to think the king must, be an awful old rake from the way everybody asked God to save a Long Way to Tipperary" and -it seemed good to hear it, commg from them- The Star Spangled Banner." I learned later that they had been taught our national anthem in the schools in anticipation of the Americans' arrival, and I wondered if our schools had tried to do as much.

If this were typical of the cold, thoughtless Englishman, give us more of it, thought we. Passing through the west end of London, the so-called tenement district, we were given an arms-open ovation by the thousands who gathered as our train whistled its way along. It was long after 8 o'clock, but slanting rays from the western sun still were mirrored in the rows on rows of tile roofs, and on the round, stubby chimnies that rose up in regular lines. Flickering street lamps lighted by hand, winding narrow streets that led into blind alleys and stucco and brick houses proved to us that we were really seeing England. But not the England of old! Among the thousands who waved the Stars and Stripes at us, shouting and gesturing and holding their babies up to us, there was not a healthy man or boy between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.

Old men and young boys, tired-looking women with five and six babies tugging at their skirts and girls who dashed out of houses and factories in trouserettes were all we saw. There were more babies in arms than could be found outside a world congress of baby shows, all of whom had been born since the war began--in reality, a predetermined and conscious effort to make good for the future the losses England was daily suffering on the fields of Flanders and France. We were impressed by the welcome they gave us, or rather, more by the consciousness that our arrival brought almost visible sighs of relief to the worried faces and tight-drawn lips. That is no exaggeration. Now, after the agony is ended, it is not possible for the human heart to understand the poignancy of these simple Englishmen's pain and gladness at seeing dozens of troop trains jammed with strong husky radiant young Americans, whose very faces and voices reflected confidence and strength.

Old men bending over gardens planted almost between the rails of the tracks, straightened up slowly, wearily, startled as we cheered them from thoughts of boys in France--either dead or challengling death every day. It was not fmagination that saw the hard lines soften, the lips tighten or the eyes flash with hope. It must be remembered that at this time England and France were about ready to make peace with Germany on terms extremely favorable to the latter, and would have done so but for this country's refusal to accept complete reparation in western Europe and German control in Russia. I have never seen this printed, but it was common talk in Europe about the time we arrived there. There were many things done across the water--to our shame and to our glory--that have never been made known to the American public.

So, London and England were glad to see us, especially the metropolis, for we were among the first and few troops to pass through the city. The majority of our men went straight to France, while those who did pass through England, usually landed at Liverpool, Cardiff in Wales, or at Southampton. Nor were the English thinking solely of themselves as they welcomed us to battle. I heard several women, who had probably made their own sacrificial offering for England, murmur with a shake of their heads, "Oh! they're so young!" At one wAy station was a home-made sign that fed our pride and drove us almost mad with joy. It read, "WELCOME, GOOD OLD AMERICANS." Russia was the beginning of the downof Poland.

On the death of Augustus III Russia and Prussia forced the election to the throne of Poniatownski, an old lover of the Empress Catherine, sending an army into the country to accomplish it. The Poles organized to resist Russia. Prussia and Austria, fearful that Russia would seize all Poland, proposed that kingdom be divided up among the the three, and a treaty was signed by the three powers at St. Petersburg on August 5, 1772, by which Russia acquired a part of old Lithuania, an area of 42,000 square miles with a population of nearly two millions; Prussia took West Prussia, excepting Dantzig, and a district on the Netze of 13,000 square miles and 400,000 inhabitants; while Austria received miles and and Lodomeria, 27,000 square 2,700,000 inhabitants. Poland was left a kingdom; but one sorely shorn and clipped.

And the Polish Diet moved to open bribery consented to these concessions. But it was the beginning of the end. It is known as the First Partition tof Poland. But Poland did not die without a struggle. Kosciusko, who had served ican under Revolution.

Washington returned during the Amerto his native country, inspired the spirit of patriotism into his fellow Poles and stirred all Poland into war against her bravely oppressors. The Poles fought and defeated the Russians in the fierce battle of Dubienka. Put now a Prussian army entered Poland. Kosciusko was defeated and Poland overrun. The Austrian troops had joined with the armies of Russia and Prussia and the three powers, in the face of the protests of the Western powers and the outbursts of indignation from all upright men, proceeded to a third partition which gave to Prussia 22,000 square miles of territory Russia with 96.000 1,100.000 miles inhabitants.

to square with 000.000 inhabitants: Austria had been slow and rising, got nothing this time. A general of the Poles followed and again the leader was Kosciusko. Hords of Russian and German soldiers were poured into Poland and at length. on October 10. at the battle of Maciejowice.

Kuselusko was defeated and taken prisoner. and "Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell." wrote the poet Campbell. The victorious Austrians. Russians and Prussians now proceeded to finish their work by taking Poland off the map altogether. of what they had not stolen before they proceeded to portion out to themselves the remnants of the kingdom A5 follows: Russia 45.000 square miles with 200,000 inhabitants: Prussia 21.000 square miles with 1.000 inhabitants.

Austria had taken part in this last subjugation of Kosciusko and got 18.000 square miles with 1,000,000 inhabitants. The deal begun at the signing of the Treaty of St. Petersburg on August 5, 1772. was completed. Poland ceased to exist.

Ag full of crimes as history is it contains no record of such another coldblooded crime by civilized and Christian land. powers as the annihilation of Po- I Church Organist Dies. South Norwalk, April 23. -Alexander S. Gibson, for over fifty years organist of the Norwalk Congregational Church, died today, aged 75 years.

He was widely known as composer, director and teacher of music, and served under Admiral Farragut during the Civil War. He leaves a wife and one son. For some years he was director of music and organist in the Congregational churches in Waterbury and Danbury..