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'V A- . f t I R IEF RIGHT REEZY JD BITS OF NEWS "HOT AIR" IN SENATE MAY CAUSE MORTALITY Washington, Feb. 24. Appealing today for steps to purify the atmos phere in the senate chamber, Sen ator Owen of Oklahoma said he be lieved the poor ventilating system lead contributed greatly to the mor tality among members of the senate. He pointed out that in 11 years '6 members had died during office while 23 others had died after re tiring, and declared his belief that their health had been impaired, by impure air in the senate. "I think the senate is suffering more from hot air," said Senator Thomas of Colorado, as Senator Owen concluded. .MUST MARRY IN 90 DAYS TO GET BG FORTUNE. South Bridge, Ma's., Feb. 21 James Baney of Kansas City, Mo., must marry within W days to get the $9U,IXK) his aunt provides in her will, otherwise he gets half the amount. The aunt watTTdi'ss Jenny Baney of St. Louis, who died a .short time ago. lianey, who has been at Tort Arthur, Tex., since the war, serving as a ship's painter, says he has the girl picked. He is keeping her name a secret. Baney has received $500 from his attorney with the request that he come to St. Louis regarding settlement of the estate. FRENCH LAWMAKES HARD WORK FOR DAN CUPID, 'v. Camp Dix., N. J., Feb. 24. 1'rench laws presented a barrier to the marriage of at least 50,000 American soldiers and French girls, according to estimates of overseas officers returning here, who claim that at leaSt that number of in ternational romances were either permanently blasted or uncertainly postponed because the Yanks could not produce official birth certifi cates. "In a few cases the boys managed to get the folks at home to scratch and find their birth records and have officially attested copies mailed," said an officer. "The home folks, however, ap parently opposed entangling matri monial alliances, even with a fair ally, and the lovers have had to wait until the soldier can come home, get his birth credentials and go back to France for his bride or send for her to join hifn here," he concluded. " , fJliS. El'KELVIE, EDI I0ISI OF GOVJS DEAD Succumbs to Relapse After Recovery From Attack of Influenza at Her Home, - Near Clay Center. ,. I'lav Center, Neb., Feb. 24. (Spe cial telegram to The Bee.) Mrs. S. R. McKelvie, sr., mother of Gov ernor S. R. McKelvie, died at' 8:15 o'clock Monday morning at her home near Clay Center Neb. Death was caused by a relapse of an attack of influenza which she suffered in January. She had been seriously ill during the past week from a sec ond attack. Governor and Mrs. MsKelvie were at her bedside, be sides the husband. Four sons sur vive their mother. They are: S. R. McKelvie, governor; H. C. McKel-vie.-Lincoln; H. L. and Othello Mc Kelvie, living at Clay Center. , A daughter died one year ago. General Harries Made Member of Food Council Washington. D. C. Feb. 24. (Special Telegram "to Bee.) Oliver O. Kuhn, in a wireless message from Paris to the Evening Star of this city, , says; There is one man in Kurope who is consistently and ef fectively calling the German bluff, ind he is General George H. Marries, formerly of Washington, late of Omaha, declared a inrmbcr of the inter-allied food council, which is feeding the Poles. "Germans on the Danzig have consistently endeavored to impede allied assistance to the Poles, but through General Harries' work the allies now are going forward in 'an 'ncreasing measure. "Harries has been a match for the Germans' trickery and when they have resisted relief measures he has s invariably brushed them aside, re plying: 'It will be done, and it has ocen done " " Woman's Club Orders First Called Meeting in Years To consider the pending state cen sorship of the moving pictures bill, 'he Omaha Woman's club wjll hold i special meeting today at 1:30 p. m. in the Y. W. C. A. Fifteen mem bers demanded a called meeting, ac cording to the constitution. This is the first call for a special meeting in several -years. .r An amendment to the proposed censorship bill will be offered at this lime, it is said. Mrs. W. S. Knight, chairman of the educational committee of the club which investigated the motion picture censorship bill, will report. Recommendations on other pend ing, bills will probably be made. Editor Found Guilty of Sedition Is Fined $5,000 Helena, Feb. 24. W. F. Dunn. ditor of the Butte Bulletin, charg ed with the violation of state anti sedition lays, was found guilty late tonight by a- jury in the district murt which fixed punishment at $5,000 fine. The state alleged that Dunn, in an editorial published in . the Bulletin last August attacked the slate council of defense. Prince's Death Denied. Washington, Feb. 24. The japan cse embassy received an official dis patch from .Tokio today denying re- t't'iitlv pumisnen reports oi ine ucain ..; thV hmm,. Fi. l'.I Msr-hal Prin.- V ll!,nrata - MAKE VOL. 48 NO. 216. Omrha TAFT AND PARTY IM; OiMIA FOR Former .President With No table Men of Nation Pass Through City; Score' Opponents of Pact. William Howard Taft, ex president of the United States; Henry Morgenthau, ex-United States ambassador to Turkey; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, man of letters and ex ambassador to Holland; Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, presi dent of Harvard University, were in Omaha for nearly an hour last night. They were en route from Salt Lake City to St. Louis where, today, the seventh in a series of eight national con gresses for a league of na tions opens. The distinguished gentlemen named with numerous, others and with officers of the League to En fore Peace and secretaries and stenographers to the total number of 26 have been on the road in two special cars since February 7, when the series of congresses' opened in Boston. ' "We are carrying the appeal for the league of nations direct to the people to get them to see to it that the senate supports President Wil son in bringing about this great league of nations," said Mr. Taft. Crisis In Europe. "There is a great crisis on the other side of the ocean. People don't realize it here. But, unless the. league f-nttems-'wHewiHcJ. there may be a reaction there. These recalcitrant senators. Poin dexter. Borah, and Reed, who are attacking the league, assume no responsibility for the result of their acts. "If Europe breaks up it will be because of the operation of such obstruction as these men are plac ing in the president's path." Mr. Taft was asked regarding a popular idea with the "man on the street," namely that "F.ngland will have more votes and more power in the league of nations than this coun try. "How absurd !" he exclaimed, "this wild idea that somewhere, some time some sort of a vote is taken. Will you take it down if I dictate just what is the metliod of procedure?" Covenant Fob Arbitration. The reporters answered unan imously in the affirmative and Mr. Taft dictated as follows: "The nub of the covenant of the league of nations so far as it has to do with peace or war is this: "First It is a covenant bv all the nations to submit their differences to-arbitration by an agreed court or to the mediation and attempted setr tlement of the executive council. "Second The covenant will pro vide that n nation shall begin war against another nation until three months after a report shall have been made by the executive council which has been mediating; and not even then if the nation against which it had a grievance complies with the award of the executive council. "Third Any naiion that "begins war before this; violates its cove nant, and that is an act ' -of war against every member of the league. "When such a contingency occurs all the other nations boycott the outlaw nation. Congress in our country and similar bodies in other countries must make the necessary embargo order.. This embargo cuts off the outlaw nation from trade with the rest of the world. It ren ders the nation helpless. "This theory that a vote must be taken and that England will have more power than this country has no other excuse except ignorance." Van Dyke Carries Message. The train bearing the distinguish ed party arrived at 5 o'clock from the "est. Henry Aiorgentnau, iormer United States ambassador to Tur key, was first off the car. "Where is Victor Rosewater? Didn't he come down;" was his first question. Being told that Mr. Rose water had not arrived, he called Sec retary Short of the League to En force Peace and sent him into the station to telephone. Within 10 minutes Mr. .Rosewater, who evi dently was en route when called for. arrived at the train where he greeted Mr. Morgenthau, Mr. Taft, Dr. Van, Dyke and others of his friends. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, a small "a-i with grav hair and a white mustache, talked to the reporters before Mr. Taft gave his interview. "We don't expect that the league of nations will bring the millennium at once," he said, "but we do know that it will make w.ir more difficult and more danererous. I had the honor of bringing -the first idea of j (ContHuril on I'mse Two, Column Four.) USE OF THE BEE'S HE laMntf-eliM lustier Ma 2. 0. uidtr act at March I'KM. al 3. 1879 Henry Van Dyke Describes How He Brought League of Nations Message to America Former American Ambassador to Holland Relates Manner In Which He Transmitted England's Mes sage to United States In Early Days of War When Germany Was Pressing Ruthlessly Through France. 1 By HENRY VAN DYKE. ' It was my privilege to bring the first message from Great Britain to America in regard to the establishment of a League of Nations to defend peace. ' It was in November, 1914, Germany at that time after her reverse in the first bat tle of the JVIarne was pushing forward with apparently un broken strength and manifestly ruthless cruelty in vher barbarous, plan to exterminate Belgium, crush France, and dominate'the world with the sword. The United States not being fully -awake to the real situation in the issues at stake, not realizing that she herself was attacked when freedom was assaulted, was still neutral. Sir Edward Grey, at that time the I vention against repetition of any British foreign minister, sent by me sucl crime in the future. to a gentleman living in a white cot- ' Tj,e.first of tl"esre objects. 1,as a1' ready been won. Germany has sur- tage in Washington, D. C, a per- rendered and Germany must oav sonal, unofficial message, the sub stance of which was as follows: "Great Britain will welcome' the United 'States, though neutral, at the peace conference provided it can be sure of two things. First, that the UnitenVStates will stand for restitution and reparation by Ger many, especially that it must make good all the harm that it has done in Belgium and northern France and give all that it has stolen in -property and in land. "Second, that the - United States will favor, support and f enter a league of free nations pledged to use all their powers and forces against any nation which in future makes war without submitting its cause to an impartial, international tribunal for investigation, conciliation and if possible adjudication." In other words all' that Great Britain asked of us was to stand for the punishment of the criminal who forced this war on the world and for effective measures of pre- MUST FIGHT THE POLES TO LAST, ""SAYS TROTZKY ftUSSian BOISneVIKI Minister Of War Gathers Army Of 600,000 Men; Has Ammu nition for Six Months. Warsaw, Feb. 24. (By the Asso ciated PAss.) "We must fight the treacherous Poles to the last sol dier." This is the dictum of Leon Trotzky, Russian bolshevik minister of war, sent from the Perm, the front, to the Smolensk-Minsk head quarters, whence the troofis have been ordeffd to advance on Baran ovichi. Trotzky is anxious to give the Poles what he terms a "lesson" as he especially hates Paderewski. It is just revealed that prior to Paderewski's becoming premier the members of the Polish legation in Moscow were arrested and some shot. When the Warsaw govern ment protested, tbe Moscow gov ernment replied: "We are surprised. We thought we were doing you a favor by lock ing up your bourgoise representa tives.". Trotikv 1ms assumed an exalted military atntude, assembling about him commissaries whom he treats as marshals. He holds frequent re views, sometimes riding on horse back wearing a high sheepskin cap and calling out to the men: "Good morrow., my little soldiers,", where upon they reply "Good morrow com rade." These close relations, how-, ever, did not prevent one of his com rades from stealing Trotzky's sable overcoat recently during a halt, when the war minister was enjoying his usual sumptuous meal. More Power. Trotzky, who has of late assumed more power than ever, had a fierce quarrel with Nikolai Lenine, bolshe vik premier, regarding the propos ed Trinces Islands conference. He strongly opposed this conference, but Lenine prevailed. Lenine de sires to preserve bolshevism at any cost, and also to keep in as far as possible with the allies, in the be lief that bolshevism will sweep the world. Sverdloff of the central executive committee of the council of work men's and soldiers' delegates has been playing meditator between Trotzky and Lenine and has been engaged at Vilna, Minsk and other points in urging the bolshevik of ficers to cease their crimes and keep a semblance of order as reports of murder and pilage are reaching the "capitalistic press." Meanwhile Trotzky is continuing to build up an armv, which is now estimated at 600,000 men. He is suposed to have ammunition for six months. Trotzky manages to keep the cloth factories working for uni forms, although handicapped by lack of coal and much wood is be ing used. Another handicap is transportation difficulties. There are only two trains a week to Bar anovichi with a first class coach for soviet delegates and third class or freight errs for the others NEW QUESTION a OMAHA, TUESDAY, the damages to the limit of its abi ity. On that we stand firm with both feet. The second o!je,t has yet to be achieved, and it is In order that the people of America ma-,- understand how necessary it is for their own welfare as well as for the future happiness of the world in order that no disaster at home may be fall the wise plans which President Wilson is successfully pushing for ward abroad in order that the greatest of all forces, public opion ion. may be not manufactured, but enlightened, in regard to the mean ing and indispensable necessity of the proposed union of the major moral forces of the world to pro tect mankind if possible against the horrors of war that these nation wide congresses of ""the league to enforce peace are being held, and that men of all political parties and of all occupations and professions have volunteered to serve without pay in this good cause. Cold Wave Arrives As Predicted by the Weather. Forecaster """" Cold we.athearter the prolonged warm weather arrived last night as efUAlA K tit i-9t1iff fnrcacrr At 8 o'clock the thermometer reg Jeered 19 degrees and it promised to go slightly lower during the night. The prediction for today is con tinued cold. Ice men had been worrying for fear their season's crop would not ))t harvested. (They were not laying many wagers that the present cold spell would be of much service to them. Shall Omaha Women Wag:e Another State Campaign For Suffrage? Oh My, No! Mrs. H.. Sumney Will Tell State Board That Fair Sex Hopes For Federal Rights Club Denounces Capital Punishment Bill One Woman Declares Home Now Only Place to Eat and Sleep. . Omaha clubwomen will not go into another state suf fx'age campaign not if they can4ielp it! They're satisfied with the partial suffrage they have, now for the present and they are confident that theederal suffrage amendment will pass some time soon. They're willing to wait for it, anyway. This was the gist of the message the political and social science department of the Omaha Woman's club Monday afternoon entrusted to Mrs. H. S. Sumney to carry to the state board meeting in Lincoln Thursday. But tliey had a difficult time framing their sentiments in appro-! priate language phraseology which ! couldn't be attacked by the antis, "I worked in one state campaign and that's enough for me," said Mrs. D. G. Craighead. "We're satisfied with what we have." said Dr. Jennie Callfas. "We're not satisfied, but we think it is unnecessary to go into a state campaign," corrected Mrs. J. H. Dumont. "Let's say we are opposed to a state campaign," suggested Mrs. J.' W. tilll. . ; "Ladies, ladies, do you realize what this will sound like? Can't you see the antis will use this against you in the future?" Mrs. Benjamin S. Barker warned. So, very carefny, the women drafted this resolution: "Feclinq sure the federal suffrage amend ment will pass, we deem it unneces sary at this time to- favor a state campaign." Mrs. Sumney will carry the fore going message to Lincoln. Capital Punishment Discussed. , .The department also debated the pending bill for the abolishment of capital punishment in Nebraska. Mrs. Craighead characterized the punishment as a relic of barbarous days to which we still cling. "Capi- 'ontlniil on Fge Two, Column germ.) AND ANSWER COLUMN SEE EDITORIAL PAGE. Daily -,B FEBRUARY 25, 1919.t Housekeeper of Priest Ar rested for Killing Sister Mary Johns, Who Disap peared 1 1 Years Ago. Manistee, Mich., Feb. 24. Mrs. Stanislaws Lypchinski was arrested here tonight charged with the mur der of Sister Mary Johns, who mysteriously disappeared from the convent at Isadore, Mich., II years ago, and whose body, it recently became known, was exhumed last summer from a grave in the base mentjof the church. At the time of the disappearance of the nun, Mrs. Lypchinski was the housekeeper of Father Andrew Bienowske then in charge of ihe parish. Both denied any knowledge of the manner in which the nun met her death. Mrs. Lypchinski, was placed in jail but Father Bienowske was allowed to remain in the parish house. ' Goes for Walk) Mrs. Lypchinski told the oit'icers Sister Mary left the convent for a walk one (jay, and until the discov ery of the body her whereabouts had keen unknown to her. When presented with ' the charge Mrs. Lypchinski was overcome with grief and was placed in the care of physi cians. The body, officials say, has not as yet been positively identified, bnt a box dug up from the church base ment containing the habiliments of a nun is the basis for their belief that the remains are those of Sister Mary. Arrests Never Made. .L,the-.'me. of her disappearance on August 22,t1907. "a countrywide search was made and rumors impli cated several persons of this neigh borhood but no arrests were ever made. The inquiry was again taken up when a workman recently made affidavit that he had exhumed a body from beneath the church and j helped re inter it in a cemetery after : receiving instructions to do so in 1 an anonymous letter. j bister Mary Johns was a member of the Polish Franciscan sisters, the mother house of which is in Detroit. She was born in Chicago. left an orphan at the age of 9, went to De troit when 18, and joined the order a year later. She went to Isadore as a teaching sister in 1907. REFUSAL OF APOLOGY FROM LOCAL CLERGY MAN TAMES OMAHA WOMAN'? CLUB. Deadlocked the Omaha Wo man's club political and social science department and "the Rev. Robeijt F. Leavens, pastor of, the Unitarian church, will drop the matter of the apology asked for from the clergyman by the club women and not received. ' "Dr. Leavens called at my home one afternoon and we dis cussed the matter at great length.' Neither one of us would change our position," Mrs. H. J. Bailey, leader, reported at the meeting Monday afternoon. On request i Mrs. Bailey, be cause ' newspapers were repre sented, the reading of Dr. Leavens', reply by letter was omitted. x "Any member of the depart ment who wishes' to read the let ter may obtain it from me for reading," Mrs. Bailey said. "This matter has been given too much publicity," she said. The Woman's club demanded an apology from the minister on the score of his pathetic rebuke because the department refused to perniit Wilma B. Rice 'of the City Detention Home to address it. vv o y a WP HELD FOR OF A NUN i Dally an Sga.. SS.50: ouUldt Ntb. aoitaM ' By Mall (I iraar). Daily. M.SO. Sunday. K.5U; (5V 9 RESIDENT WILL FIGHT AT HOME AS ABROAD FOR LEAGU Any Report on Be Premature Conference Settlement of War Affects Every Nation of World, Pros j i. m-ii n j . r-x-tt t.. c.i' i- meni xens trowa at rosion; nas i5een oearcning For Facts Which Europe Mechanics Hall. Boston, Feb. 24. President Wilson ar rived at Mechanics hall at 2:30 o'clock. He entered at the West Newton street entrance, which led to the stage. As his party reached the outer door a battery in the railway yards at the rear of the hall fired a presidential salute of 21 guns. Inside the hall the band struck up "Hail to the Chief." The preliminaries were brief. John McCormack sang the Star Spangled Banner and the president applauded. Mayor Peters welcomed the guest in the name of the city and Governor Coolidge extended the greetings of the commonwealth. Governor Coolidge aroused ap plause by references to the presi dent's share in the work of the peace conference. As the governor concluded, the band played the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the battle song of the Twenty-sixth (New England) divis ion, and the audience sang the chor us. "Onward Christian Soldiers" fol lowed. TUe hall was filled with the song, the preiident joining in the singings As Mr. Wilson rose to speak the crowd cheered and shouted. He smiled and bowed repeatedly. - The president began by asking his audience if they could understand he was as glad to see them as they were to see him and expressed appreciation of his reception. His reception iij Europe, he said, he regarded as i welcome to "the friends of liberty," coming across the sea to see that a new world wa3 to be consecrated on the basis of justice and right. Country Trusted. "The greatest thing I have to re port to you," said he, h that this great country of ours is trusted throughout the world. I have not come to report on the progress of the peace conference. That would be premature. "The men who are in conference Wilson to Resume Duties Immediately on Arrival Attendance at Cabinet Meeting Expected to Be Only Engagement of President on First Day at Home; Large Number dn Waiting List Will Be Submitted. Washington. Feb. 24. President Wilson wil resume official routine tomorrow immediately after his ar rival in the capital and wilj spend the entire day at his desk, accord ing to present plans. A cabinet meeting in ,jhc after noon is expected to be almost the only engagement of -the president during his irst day at work since his return to this country. . Numer ous requests for engagements have been received a the executive of fices, but no appointments have been made and the list of persons desirJ ing to see him will be submfttcd to Mr. Wilson for him to select those whose business he deems of suf!i cient importance to claim part of the busy week available to him before he sails again for Paris. The president's most important conference, that with members of the senate and house foreign affairs Nebraska Men Now in France to Return in June Is Latest Report Coblcnz, Feb. 24. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The approximate dates of the departure for home of two national guard and two national army divisions, comprising half the American army of occupation, were announced today at Third army j headquarters. I The Thirty-second division and i the Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth di j vision will leave about April 15 and j the F.nghty-ninth and Ninetieth di i visions of the national army during t T...,. According to the plan the places of the departing divisions will be taken by thrfe regular army divi sions. The force of occupation will then consist of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh divisions of regulars. Details for the departure of the men by way of the Rhine and Holland are being worked out. ! The Thirtysecond division is J-rnade up of men from Michigan and j Wisconsin. The Forty-second com ! prises National Guardsmen from all i sections in the union. The Eighty ! ninth division - was recruited in Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and the Ninetieth di vision in Texas and Oklahoma TWO CENTS. nnn n rr (eVn nn Uu 0 -wwJl. Peace Would Says Wilson; Serves, People Believe In Us. in Paris realize they are not mas ters of their people, but servants of their people and that no' man will dare go home from that conference and report anything less than is ex pected." Speaking of the slow progress of the conference, the president re minded his audience of the complex ity of the problems affecting nearly every country in the world. "What we are doing," he said, "is to hear tlie whole case from those most interested. I have been struck by the moderation of those repre senting national claims. "I have seen tears in the eyes of men there pleading for a national ambition, but they were not the tears of anguish, they were the tears of ardent hope. "There is no nation in Europe that suspects the course of the United States. Was there ever such a won derful thing before? "I would not have you under stand that the men who represent the other nations there are disin terested. Quite the contrary. "I wonder if you are half as glad to see me as I am to see you. It warms my heart to see a great body of my fellow citizens again, because in some respects during the recent months I have been very lonely, in deed, without your comradeship and (Continued on Pace Four, Column One.) committee for discussion of the con stitution of the proposed league of nations will be held Wednesday night. x The president and Mrs. . Wilson will find the spring cleaning at the White House finished. Every part of tlie house that needed at tention has received it at the honds of a small army of workmen. They return also to a city decorated in gala fashion in preparation for tiie parade of District of Columbia sol diers TJiursday. The president will review he parade from a stand in tront ot the White House. Late tonight the executive officers had received no word of the signins of the revenue bill or transaction ot other business by the president since landing from the George Washing ton. , It was thought he might sign the revenue bill on the train tonight. Ambassador Francis Says Bolshevik Rule Victory for Germans Boston, Feb. 24. Ambassador Francis, home from Russia for the first time in two years, had several conferences with President Wilson while coming over on. the George Washington and made several rec ommendations for action on the part of the allied and American govern ments for meeting Whe bolshevik menace. Mr. Francis probably will disclose them, later before one of the congressional committees. "A reign of terrir instituted by the bolsheviki, with the purpose of maintaining themselves in power, is preveiling in central and northern Russia," said the ambassador. "The outrages they have committed are incredahle. I think it impossible to restore peace to Europe with chaos prevailing in Russia. In fact, with Germany practically uninjured in dustrially, I am persuaded that if a peace is negotiated with bolshevik rule continueing in Russia, Germany in 20 years or a decade will be stronger than she was at the beign ning of the war. She is familiar with the Russian character and for a generation has been studying it to influence it. If this turns out, Ger many, instead ,of haviiiR been de feated, will have gained a victory." THE WEATHER: Fair Tuesday, colder in east; Wednesday probably fair, warmer in west. tlmirly jWiiprniTitr: Hour, ft . in., . . t a, m..,. Dei;. Hour. . .I'l t . hi. ,s: S i, .N" 8 , i. .ri s n. .'.'! ! 1, M 1 n. .-': H i, in. . 1 n m,. V a. in... ) . in... I . in... li a. hi. i m. . . Throws Down Gauntlet in Speech, Less Than Three Hours After Landing on : r -: I American auu. i Boston, Feb. 24. President Wilson will fight at home as - i,he has S0" abrT,ai fo? a .1 league of nations. Returning from France, he had been on i American soil not more than three hours today before he threw down the gauntlet to those who distrust the pro posed concert of governments, based, he said, on the Ameri- 1 1 1 1 ? t 1 1 At. . can laeais wnicn naa won me war for justice and humanity. An America confining to its territories its conception and purpose to make men free, he said, would have to keep its honor "for those narrow, selfish, provincial purposes which seem too dear to some minds that have no sweep beyond their nearest horizon." Pictures Old World. Before a responsive audience that filled the biggest auditorium ill the city, the president pictured the old world fighting with stubborn des peration, and expecting in the end nothing better for the peoples than they had known for centuries. Hi: pictured the American nation enter ing the lists with a new purpose the freedom of mankind. The oH world had caught the vision, and any treaty of peace drawn otherwise than in the new spirit would , be nothing more, he asserted, than a "modem scrap of paper," and the present peace, unless guaranteed by by the united forces of the civilized world, could not stand a generation. uenanig over tne speaker s taD.c. his face set in tense lines and hU right hand clenched, the president exclaimed. "Any man who thinks that America will take part in giving the world any such rebuff and disap pointment as that does not know America. I invite him tg test th? sentiment of the nation." Has Fighting Blood. dent halted and then evoked the greatest demonstration of the afte--noon when he added' that he Would accept no sweeter challenge than the issue of the American purpose in the war. "I have fighting blood in me." ht said with apparent feeling-, "and i; is sometimes a delight to let it have scope, but if it is a challenge, on this occasion, it will be an in dulgence. At another point in his address, the pre'sTdent said that if the great hope of the world for a league of nations was di appointed he would v.-ish "for my part never to have had America play any part whatever in this attempt to emancipate the world. I have no more doubt cf the verdict of America in this mat ter' than, I have doubt of the blood that is in me." New England gave the president a rousin? welcome home. This city, probably never has seen a greater crowd than gathered at every point of vantage along the route from Commonwealth pier, to whirh the naval cutter Ossipee brought his party from the steamer George Washington, through the down town districts and around two sides of Boston common to the Copley Plaza hotel, where a stop was made for luncheon. Guard of Honor. At every turn, the president wa cheered. Hat in hand, he stood in his motor car throughout the two niiles of the parade except in one block between Washington and Tre niont streets:, where,' because of the narrow way, spectators were not anowea to congregate. The National ,army, the navy, the state guard and the city police in lines on either side of the ronte, formed a guard of honor for the, entire distance of the drive. So effective were the arrangements that not an unpleasant incident occurred. Qpposite the state bouse, in front of .which a group of f ounded soldiers greeted the president, a handful of snfiracjsts claiming to represent th? National Woman's party took their stand for a demon stration which they had announced. Before the parade reached them they were told by the police to move fin. Kef using-, they were arrested for loitering and locked up. Later, at the hotel, the president received a committee from the Massachusettj Woman Suffrage association, a non militant organization, and asked its (ContlniK-d on r Two, Column On.) Total Deaths in the U. S. Army Given Officially as 107,444 Washington, Feb. 24. Deaths during the war in the American ex peditionary forces and amomr troops in the United States from all causes, the War department an nounced today, numbered 107.444. In the expeditionary forces the total was 72.V51. Of these -,n.8-', resulted from disease, 4H,7t8 from injuries received in battle and i from all other cause. i
