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LADIES' GARMENT '
AVORKERS TO STRIDE. ,
t New York, Jan.' 18. Representa
tive of 35,000 members of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers' union today voted to strike, i
.WOULD PERMIT SMOKING ";
IN Y. M. C. A: BUILDINGS.
New York, Jan. 18. Abolition of
I' tiQ smoking" signs in Y. M. C. A.
buildings1 is suggested in a letter
1o general secretaries sent out today
by Dr. George J. Fisher, head of
the physical department of the in
ternational committee. Dr. Fisher
said he advised the secretaries that
in view of the return of soldiers ad
'sailors, all arbitrary rulings on the
use of tobacco be done away with.
GUN IN GREAT BRITAIN
WILL SHOOT 90 MILES.
; London, Jan.' 18. (By Universal
Sendee.) Germany'! "big Berthas"
were not the largest guns in the
world, it has just been learned here
The armistice, it developed, pre
vented the use of a British naval
gun made at Sheffield which would
throw a shell 50 miles with ease
and 1 probably' cause damage at 90
miles. The gun was 83 feet long and
with its carriage, 124 feet long. It
was planned to use the gun in the
bombardment of Rhine towns.
HOUSE VOTESWAGE
BONUS OF $240' YEAR::
' Washington, Jan. 18. A wage
bonus of $240 for the year beginning
net July for nearly all govern
ment employes receivirrg $2,500 or
less; was voted tonight by the house
, in passing the 1920 legalative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill, carrying $96,000,000. The wage
bonus, double that of the current
fiscal years, will cost the fsovern-
' ment approximately $14,000,000.
; Employes of temporary govern
mental agencies, established during
the- war, will not receive the in
crease, nor w:ll postal employes.
mm BANDIT
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IliilTOJlOLBUP
Holds ; Revolver at Head of
, .Motorist While Male Com"'
s panion Robs Occu-
j ; ;pants of Car. ,
i A bold woman bandit held re
volver at the head of a motorist last
night while a male accomplice,
pointing a gun at two other occu
pants of the car, robbed them.
The hold-up occurred near
Twenty-ninth and Parker streets jn
full view of C L. Anderson, 3012
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Parker street, who was on
to the carline on Thirty-third street.
Karnes of the victims of the -duo
were not learned. , . '
Emergency police from the central
- station searched the neighborhood,
but found no trace of the Victims ot
the woman and man who committee
the hold-up. ... . ,
"The woman held a shining revol
ver directly in the face of the driver
while an unmasked man was point
ine a gun at two other occupants ot
the car," Mr. Anderson told the
police'. "V , ,. .
"I was on my way to the carhne
with my mother when the car passed
slowly by me, going west to Parker
street. When it turned on Hamil
; o'n, (he man and the woman leaped
' from the car.". .... j
Anderson f art to his home and
called the police. '
Photos of "First Lady" '
SKoTiin-'Roto'VPart
V v Taken in Movieland
i My, myl How many movie fans
Would give v their heads (almost)
jo be a friend of one honest-to-
goodness movie star, to say nothing
6f being photographed with four of
them and the hig ones at that;
Theda' Bara,- Bessie Love, Mary
Pickford and Harold Lockwood.
The First Lady of Nebraska, Mrs.
R. McKelvie. has this distinction
as is shown by The Bee rotogravure
section today. The pictures were
taken at Los Angeles in the heart
of the movie world during Mrs.
McKelvie's visit to that city.
. For sometine, Mrs. McKelvie has
been a. department editor for one of
tne eastern muit iu5..i..
interest in this work became so keen
that she decided to spend a season
at Los Angeles and study technique,
movie production and, especially,
the players. It .was during this so
journ that she became intimately
acquainted with many of the stars.
; Mrs. McKelvie is an authority on
motion pictures, players, genealo
gies, eccentricities, pleasures and
sorrows-as well as their matrimo
nial storms all of which proves that
there is nothing worth while that
does not come from, or exist in, Ne
braska, from our beautiful and tal
ented First Lady on down the scale.-
"VIRTUOUS:
. FOREWORD.
i New York is a city always on the
inarch. It grows as no Other city
has grown, devouring its past. The
great capitals of the world London,
Paris, Rome present, the phenom
enon of a stone dropped into a sur
face of water. The expanding cir
cles of population, widening and re
'ceding, leave a central calm the
i-alm of history, of traditions; of
cherished memories, the solidify
ing calm of monumented genera
tions. But New York is like an
niiturned bottle, constantly charged
ith champagne through its nar
row neck, and this restless, increas
ing pr-sure, driving from the bat
Te'v to Central park, has not only in
VHT YT VTTI WO t'?
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Head of Police Department In
terviews Wilma Rice; Re
fuses to Give Result of
Investigation.
Police Commissioner Ringer yes
terday afternoon began a thorough
probe of alleged graft in the police
department in connection witfx the
vice ' traffic. Wilma Rice, former
trained nurse and now an inmate
of the women's Detention hospital,
who charged that she had given
policemen money to keep from go
ing to jail, was brought to his of
fice in the city hall by Miss Berger,
superintendent of the . hospital.
Chief of Police Eberstein and a
number of police officers who have
been on guard at the hospital were
also present at the investigation,
which took place behind closed
doors in Commissioner Ringer's
private, office.
Mr.' Ringer refused absolutely to
give out any information as to
what was disclosed. .
Affair Not Closed.
. "The affair has 'not been finished
yet by any means," he said. "If I
fave out anything now I fear it
might defeat the ends for which we
are working. We are going to get
the truth of this thing."
"Will you state whether or not
Wilma Rice divulged the names of
the five policemen who, she says,
took 'hush' money from her?" he
was asked. . , . ,
"No, I don't want to say," he re
plied.. - ..
Miss Rice said in her . interview
With The Bee last Thursday: "I
will give Police .Commissioner
Ringer the names of five policemen
to .whom I personally gave 'hush'
money several nights a week." ,
She added that "the police are op
posed to this home because they
want us out so they can graft on
us." . ;
Mr. Ringer, Mr. Eberstein and
Miss. Berger were in conference in
the police commissioner's office for
more than an hour while Miss Rice
was kept in the custody of several
detectives in the office of the chief
of. police.' Miss Rice was then
brought in and the investigation
proceeded into the charges which
she has made against some of the
personnel of the police department.
The statement by Mayor Snr.th
that "he was going to the bottom
of these charges" was mentioned to
Mr.. Ringer.
"Let him go," he replied. "I'm
going to the bottom of it myself.
The mayor and I are in full accord
on this proposition. If we can get
any proof that anybody in this de
partment has taken money from
women, of the street we will cer-.
tainly deal with such person with
out gloves." ,
Mr. Ringer said the investiga
tion .would not be finished for sev
eral-days.
In an interview yesterday morn
ing Mayor Smith declared that he
would issue orders immediately re
voking the authority of physicians
to commit women to prison.
"I do not believe this is proper,
and never have thought so, said
the mayor. "In the future when
pat'ents are committed to the home
they will be duly charged in police
court with a specific crime before
they will be denied their liberty."
"Writes to Mrs. Hayes.
Mayor Smith also declared that
he had written to Mrs. E. W.
Hayes, former president of the Wo
man's club, inviting her to come to
his office and substantiate the
charges of Miss Rice, declaring that
she had paid hush money to a
number of the policemen on the
Omaha force. The Rice girl told
the same story to a Bee reporter
and declared she was ready to fur
nish the names of policemen who
had taken money from prostitutes.
provided she was protected by the
police authorities. .
"It is my understanding that Mrs.
(Conttnard a Face F1t, Colama Four)
one generation consumed its ancient
residential area and dispersed its
once conservative landmarks but
created a new and feverish society.
. As late as 1884, when Delmonico's
on Madison Square, was the north
ern advance of public restaurants,
and Wallack's at Thirtieth street,
suffered from its isolation in the
theatrical district. New York, from
Washington Square to ,the Grand
Central station, between the iron
limits of the elevated railways, was
one unvexed stretch of brownstone
fronts with high descending steps,
which gave to the vistas of its streets
the aspect of two brown-clad regi
ments marching into each other.
Each brownstone front was a home.
RETURNING SOLDIERS NEED JOBS. THE BEE
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tlm4 it wrui-tliu ittr Mir jt. IMC !
onh P. 0. ..dec Ml .1 Mired .
Radical Socialists
Oppose Padereivski
MinistrnJn Poland
Warsaw, Jan. 18. The Polish
ministry, formed by Ignace Jan
Paderewski, apparently meets the
approval of all parties except
radical socialists. They have
threatened a general strike if
the Paderewski ministry holds
office until the elections to the
national assembly, which are
planned for the middle of Feb
ruary. The new cabinet represents
most of the parties in German,
Russian and Austrian Poland.
Bankers of Posen, or German
Poland, have loaned it 100,000,
000 marks.
Paderewski took charge of the
foreign office with the assistance
of five under-secretaries.
"At least 95 per cent of the peo
ple of the three Polands are with
me, he said. 'The thers con
stitute a grave danger."
I011A FABfilER
ANSWERS TAUNT
BULLET
Feud Over Draft and Use of
Yellow Paint Results in
Shooting, Affray at
Maquoketa.
Davenport; la., Jan. 18. Bitter
feeling, growing out of the free use
of yellow paint on the barns and
fences of Ward Turner, 35 years old,
led to the probable fatal shooting
of Dennis Flynn, 34, by Turner, in
the main street of Maquoketa this
afternoon.
The feud between the Turner and
Flynn families started last summer,
when Turner was married. The
Flynn faction alleged that he mar
ried to evade the draft.
On one occasion during the sum
mer, raiders visited the Turner farm
at night and painted his barn and
sheds a bright yellow. The Flynn
faction was accused of the deed.
At night another expedition alleged
to have been headed by therlynns
went to the Turner farm and daubed
the fences once more with yellow
paint. This afternoon Flynn and
Turner met on the main business
Street of the town.
"You ought to be in Russia with
the bolsheviki," Flynn is alleged to
have said to Turner. ;
Turner is alleged to have drawn a
pistol and fired two shots at Flynn.
Bnker to Attend Banquet i
- to Captain Rickenbacher
New York, Jan.. 18. Secretary of
War Rakpr tndav accented an invi
tation to a banquet by the American
Automobile association nere reDru-
artf .1 .n hnnnr nf Parit F.HHip Ric.k-
enbacher, America's premier ace.
The aviator is understood to be on
the "Adriatic, due here in a few days.
Ten New York Firemen
Fall into Blazing Building
New York, Jan. 18. Ten firemen
fighting a fife in a two-story frame
automobile' warehouse early today
fell into the blazing building when
the roof collapsed and were buried
in the debris. - .
Strande4 Transport Refloated
Fire Island, Jan. 18. The United
States transport Northern Pacific,
which ran aground on a sandbar off
Fire Island Light New Year's day,
was floated tonight. ;
North Platte Girl Y
Wants Auto License
With Marriage Permit.
Lincoln, Jan. 18. (Special.)
Miss Marie Bowen of North
Platte paid her fee to County
Treasurer S. M. Souder for an
automobile number plate and now
she wants the license transferred
to Ralph J. Claybaugh, who is
going to drive her car for life, ac
cording to a letter from Souder,
to Secretary of State D. M. Ams
berry. To Which Amsberry re
plied: . "Since he has transferred his
name to her, it would be only a
square deal for her to transfer her
number to him. The license re
ceipt will properly disclose wheth
er they are going to make the
journey through life in a Ford or
Cadillac-eight in a one-seated
roadster or a seven-passenger
family car": ' ' . '
WIVES"
A few apartment houses (called af
that time "flats") had made a timid
entry, but were associated in the
popular mind .with that symbol of
the slums, the tenementThe million
aires could be counted on the. fingers,
and most of them were still waiting
their entrance into a rigid society
that quoted Emerson, served cold
suppers for Sunday, packed - the
churches, knew no divorce, and
brought - tfp its children ' at home.
Thirty years ago, a woman who ap
peared on the streets rouged and
powdered attracted as much atten
tion as a Zulu princess in native
costume would today.
Toward the end of this decade, the
tide of emigration surged in. The
Omaha - Sunday
OMAHA, SUNDAY,
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Fewer Bills Introduced
During Fir?t Week Than
i in Previous Legislatures
Total of 110 in House and 44 in Senate; Interest Cen
tered in Bills Pesigned to Standardize and'
Americanize Public. - and Private " :
! V Schools of State. , ' ;? :'
from a Staff Correspondent .
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 19. Although
110 bills have poured into the house
and 44 into the senate legislative
hopper the first week of the session
after organization, the number of
new bills is not above the average,
but rather below it. ' ,
A similar period in the 1917 ses
sion produced 112 bills in the house
and in the coresponding week of the
1915 session 115 bills were intro
duced. - " "
So far most of the proposed meas
ures are tecchnical in their nature
and are designed to cure certain
technical and legal defects which oc
cur in the statutes. , ..
- Americanization Bills.
Public interest will.be largely in
the fate of the bills, which" are de
signed to standardize and Ameri
canize the public, private and paro
chial schools of the state.
' These are measures which meet
with the exigiencies of reconstruc
tion and have had their birth out of
Gus Hyers Makes His
First Arrest of Man
Bringing Booze to City
Gus" Hyers, newly appointed state
agent,' made his first arrest of boot
leggers last night on a Missouri
Pacific train. W. A. McDonald, 412
South Fifteenth street, former em
ploye of the city health and sanita
tion department. ' was Hhe victim.
Two grips, which were in McDon
ald's possession when arrested, were
found to contain 20 pints of booze
each. The owners of two other suit
cases of booze who were in the front
coach of the. train escaped with their
contraband, while Hyers was hoid.
ing McDonald.
The arrest was made on the train
between Plattsmouth and Omaha.
Germans Call Assembly.
London, Jan. 18. A German gov
ernment wireless message says that
Phillip Scheidemann, the foreign
secretary, announced today that the
government had decided to convoke
the national assembly, February 16.
(Copyrijh ISIS hy
first skyscrapers began to multiply.
The front offices of the nation
were transferred to the lower city,
and, from the battery upward, three
great invading columns began their
march. Greenwich village was over
run, Sluyvesant Square isolated.
Washington Square invested, and
Fifth avenue began to fall - frew
York society became a society in
retreat, driven toward the park,
while historic homes, if they were
not leveled to. permit the sudden
rise of citadels ff industry, passed
down. the inevitable ladder of deg
radation from boarding house to
furnished rooms, to modified flats,
their lowest stories finally converted
into laundries, groceries and cellars
OFFERS ITS HELP FREE. . SEE WANT AD
J ANUARY 19, 1919.
Coming Back
domestic conditions that are the
outgrowth of the world war. "
In the. house five bills of this
character have already been intro
duced and . three are before the
senate. ,.
Hous Roll No. 4, by Maurer,
Gage, which is substantially the
same as those of Burney, Cedar,
and Lampert, Saunders, in the
house, and that of Reed, Ainley and
Johnson, in the senate, compel at
tendance of all children of school
age on the public schools of the
state, and makes it unlawful for
them to attend parochial, private or
denominational, schools.
Religious Question Involved.
Opponents to these bills claim
that the religious question is raised
and that laws of this kind interfere
with inherent rights. They say
they have no objection to law9 that
have for their purpose the standard
ization ' of all schools to conform
with the public school curriculum '.n
(Contlnord on Fas Four, Column One.)
Boy Scouts of America .
Hold Annual Dinner;
Budget Considered
Annual council dinner of the Boy
Scouts of America was held at the
Y, M. C A., last night. , . v
Scout Executive G. M. Hoyt told
of the aid extended by the local
scouts to the government and of the
progress the organization was mak
ing, in Omaha. Walter W. Head,
president of the local - executive
board, told of the prospects for the
new year. Omaha will soon realize
the great value of the scout or
ganization in promoting good citi
zenship and will aid it in every way
possible, according to Mr. Head. '
The $25,000 budget for the year
1919 was considered after the dinner.
Mr. Head stated that though the
sum seemed large it would all be'
needed. J. E. Davidson expressed
the opinion that the sum could easily
be raised. ' .' . " ;
"I'll help raise the amount by giv
ing myself and I am a pretty good
giver," said Dr. E. V. Powell.
LlttU Brown Co.'
for small produce. . .
There is something "grandiose in
this, spectacle of a city constantly
on the march, a spectacle unique in
history. In the center, the main at
tackthe heavy battalions of indus
tryleveling' great areas with its
p"uissant artillery, fortifying each
acre conquered with immense re
doubts, strikes straight through the
heart of a crumbling resistance to
ward its main objective, the park,
leaving to its covering battalions
the task of subjugating those last
strongholds of resistance where the
enemy'clings to its homes in Wash
ington Square and embattled Murray
Hill.
.Oa,1!1? West Side, the spreading
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WARSHIP LAYS
TOIilSTQilAS
DOCTOHS WORK
With Wsyes Runriing 40 Feet
High, Cruiser South Da
kota Steps for Crit
V ical Operation. - ;. , .
' New "York, Dec.; 18 Coast ar
tillerymen . from. Connecticut and
scattered states and aero construc
tion troops from Pennsylvania, Iowa
and" Oklahoma; who reached port
today oh the armored cruiser South
Dakota, went through a storm two
days out from Brest,' described by
naval officers on the war s'hip as
one of the most tempestuous they
had ever experienced.
Mountainous waves buffeted the
vessel and one demolished the pilot
house, injuring Captain Luby, Com
mander Caldwell and a number of
officers and sailors on duty. Com
mander. Caldwell was disabled for a
week and his companions were bad
ly cut and bruised. - ,
Lashed To Tables.
In the midst of the storm, with
waves at times running 40 feethigh,
two army surgeons performed an
operation . for appendicitis , upon a
soldier aboard the South Dakota.
When the condition of Corp. E. O.
Williams of the Fifty-sixth coast
artillery was pronounced dangerous,
the war vessel lay to in order to
facilitate the operation. Lashed to
the table, the surgeons accomplish
ed their delicate task between
lurches of the ship and today the
artilleryman was removed to a hos
pital on the way to recovery.
' Battleships Bringing Troops.
Departure from French ports of
the battleships New Jersey and Ne
braska, and" the transports Haver
ford, Maui and Zeelandia with re
turning troops, was announced to
day by the War department. The
battleships and the Zeelandia are
scheduled to arrive at Newport
News, the Haverford at Phila
delphia and Maui at New York.
The vessels are scheduled to arrive
on and between January 25 (Maui)
and January 20 (Haverford.)
.Mills Go on Short Time.
Manchester, N. H., Jan. 18. Be
ginnig next week the Amoskeag
mills, employing 15,000 textile,work
cps, will be operated five and one
fourth hours a day, said an official
announcement today. They will
open at 6;45 a. m., and close at
noon. General trade conditions due
to readjustments were given as
reasons for the curtailment.
Owen Johnson's sparkling society novel which is
in the movies. Begin it here- read it day by
invasion has been without discipline
or directing force that horde of
guerillas, free-booters and scaven
gers, which rolls up in the wake of
an invasion; a vast' contaminating,
pestilential torrent, engulfing the
last. vestiges of the old Dutch and
colonial life with the greed of a
tidal wave. The West Side contains
the true slums of 'the city slums of
little sweatshops and ramshackle
factories, slums of stagnant exist
ences where all filth and all deRta
datiou, all bleakness and all suffo
cation, all races, intermingled in the
mediocrity of arrested development.
It is a region without clear racial
definition, except in the upper
reaches, where the negro has estab-
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FIVE CEN1S.
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LASTING FRIENDSH1
KEYNOTE AT.0PENING
OF PEACE CONGRESS
Georges Clemence&u, French Premier, Elected CJjair
man of Conference, Following Address of Welcome
by President Poincare and Nominating Speeches by
President Wilson and Minister Lloyd George.
By the Associated Press.
Paris, Jan. 18. The peace conference, destined to be
historic, and on which the eyes of the world are now center
ed, was opened this afternoon in the great Salle De La Pari.
The proceedings,, which were confined to the election ef
Georges Clemenceau, the-French premier, as, permanent
chairman of the conference, an address by the president of
the French republic, Raymond Poincare, and speeches by
President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and Baron Sonnino,
were characterized by expressions of lasting friendship and
the apparent determination of ,the representatives of the
various nations to come to an amicable understanding with
respect to the problem to be decided by the conference.
When President Poincare spoke,
the entire assembly stood, and the
fact that, according to custom, no
applause greeted his utterance, gave
greater solemnity to the scene.'
Outlines Great Problems.
M. Clemenceau's acceptance
of
the presidency of the congress was
both a feeling expression of per
sonal gratitude and a definite out
line of the great questions imme
diately ahead. Three of these larg
er general subjects he defined as re
sponsibility for the war, responsibil
ity for crimes during the war and
international labor legislation.' The
league of nations, he declared, was
at the head of the program for the
next full session.
"Our ambition fs a great and
noble one,", said M. Clemenceau.
"We wish to avoid a repetition of
the catastrophe which bathed the
"Let Us Try to Act Swiftly
And Well"
Advice to Peace Envoys
French Premier, After Election as Chairman Gives As
surance of Readiness to Make Sacrifices in Order
to Achieve Closer Union; "Old Tiger" Eulo
gized by Wilson and Lloyd George.
Paris, Jan. 18. Following is the
address of President Wilson at the
opening session of the peace con
ference: "Mr. Chairman: It gives me great
pleasure to propose as permanent
chairman of the conference M.
Clemenceau, the president of the
council.
"I would do this as a matter of
custom, I would do this as aHrib
ute to the French republic But I
wish to do it as something more
than that. I wish to do it as a trib
ute to the man.
"France deserves the precedence
not only because we are meeting at
her capital, and because she . has
undergone some of the most tragical
suffering of the war, but also be
cause her capital, her ancient 'i-nd
beautiful capital, has so often been
the cetfter of conferences of - this
sort, on which the fortunes of large
parts of the world turned.
"It is a very delightful thought
that the history of the world,
which has so often centered here,
will now be crowned by . the
achievements of this conference
because there is a sense in which
this is the supreme conference of
the history of mankind.
"More nations are represented
here than were ever represented in
such a conference before. The -fortunes
of all peoples are involved. A
great war is ended, which seemed
about to 'bring, a universal cata
clysm. The danger is passed. ' A
victory has been won for mankind,
and it is , delightful that we .should
be able to record these great results
in this place. -
"But it is more delightful to hon
or France because we can honor
lished .himself like a spreadfmg
shadow cast by the advancing line
of skyscrapers. If this western in
vrsion seems at first 'rrtnlcss and
without intent, it still fows upward,
a soiling barrier from which society
recoils as from a pest.
On the East S'de. like the cohorts
c? imperial Rome, an imi.isnse army
oi immigration i'.archc. toward the
tut re,' nation upon naticn trca 'n:v
each other down What spectacle tn
history is comparable to this sub
lime procession of races up the a-;t
Side, healing in a generation the
ills and outrages of old initift'cos
as flowing water purifies itself, its
face to the future, marching toward
iJestiny for ititchildren
THE WEATHERi
Fair Sunday and Monday;
with continued mild temper
attire.
Hourly Tampcraturea.
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world in blood. If the league of
nations is to b practicable, we must
all remain united. Let us carry out
our program quickly and in an ef
fective manner."
Refers to Kaiser's Responsibility.
Referring to the authors of the
war, he said he had consulted two
eminent jurists on the penal re
sponsibility of the former German
emperor, and each delegate would
receive a copy of that report.
In all, 72 seats were provided for
the opening session of the peace
conference. On the outer side of the
great horseshoe were arranged the
Japanese, the British and colonial
delegates and the seat of the fifth
British delegate. A chair for the
fifth American delegate also was
reserved immediately to the right
of the table of honor.
The . Italian,. Belgian, Brazilian.
(Continued on Fag Two, Celoma Four.)
her in the person of so distinguished
a servant. We have "all felt in our
participation in the struggles of
this war the fine steadfastness which
characterized the leadership of the
French in the hands of M. Clem
enceau. We have learned to
admire him, and those of us who
have been associated with him have
acquired, a genuine affection for
him. x
"Moreover, thoss of us who have
been in these recant days in con
stant consultation with him know
how warmly his purpose is set to
wards the goal of ' achievement to
whicl all our faces are turned. 1'e
feels as we feel, as I have no doubt
everybody in this room feels, that
we are trusted to do a great thing;
to do it in the highest spirit of
friendship and accommodation, anrl
to do ir as promptly as possible in
order that the hearts of men may
have fear lifted from them and that
they may return to those purposes
of life which will bring them hap
piness and contentment and pros
perity. ,
"Knowing his brotherhood of
heart in these great matters, it af
fords me a personal pleasure to pro
pose that Mr. Clemenceau shall be
the permanent chairman of this con
ference." . .
Address of Lloyd George.
Prime Minister Lloyd deorge of
Great Britain, in seconding the nom
ination of Clemenceau, said in part:
"I count it not merely a pleasure,
but a great privilege that I should
be expected, on behalf of the British
empire delegates, to support the
motion of President Wilson. I !d
so for this reason, which he has so
(Continued an Pi(e Two, Column Six.)
making such a hit
day in The Bee.
Brawling, quick-witted, gay, tlic
Irish landed , first. They fornv I
their clans, fighting for the love of
combat, hard drinkers, loyal friends,
predestined politicians, establishii-
themselves in the old bowery and
the now forgotten Five Points, until
forced upward by a new wave of
refugees from Prussian militarism.
The great disciplined solidarity of
Gelmany arrived, bringing their
theaters, their restaurants, their
newspapers, their turnvereins, thrit
choral societies organirs a.id ar
chitects of industry. The Italian im
migration and the Russian Hebrew
inflow followed, each in deimcd
(loulluurd on Tf Stvtn, Co!ra I-.fr