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GOTOCHURCH
ON SKIS AND
SNOWSHOES
Worst Blizzard in .Years Rag
ing in Parts of New York
State Trolley Service
Abandoned, Cars Stalled.
GOTHAM IS ICE-BOUND;'
MERCURY SHOOTS DOWN
Army of 15,000 Men, Headed
by Mayor, Spends Sunday in
Renewed Efforts to Open
Important Thoroughfares.
V tiloyersville. X. V., Feb. 15. To
night the worst blizzard in years is
raging in Gloversville and Johns
town. For the first time in its 'his
tory the iiiterurb'an division of the
Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville
Kailroad today was forced to aban
don trolley 'seiwtc9 to Amsterdam
aidsSchenectady, many cars being
stalled along the line.
In Schenectady people .went to
church on skis and sndwshoes. ' '
Jamestown, N. Y., Feb. 15. With
tSrce feet of snow on the level and
cfecpjdritts in the cuts, railway traf-
ti'cft is completely suspended be
tween Buffalo and this city.
'Zi New York Ice Bound.
. T 'ew York. Feb. 15. The masses
of snow which have choked the
Streets of New York for the past 10
days, defyin-the onslaughts of fire
men, policemen, army flame throw
ers and brigades of pick and sh5vel
men,, were frozen into ice fields to
night when the city was, wrapped in
a, cold wave." A biting gale from
the northwest swept thp metropolis j
and the mercury tumbled until at.
lftidnight it had drooped to nine de
crees abovd zero, a fall of 33 degrees j
since carlv morning. .
Food Stores Pile Up.
"An army of 1.5,000 men, headed,
by Mayor Hylan,. spent the day in
renewed efforts to open the more
Miupoftanr tiionSdglifafes' tint the tc
Milt of their efforts was almost neg
ligible. Throughout r the- greater
part of the cit tonight 'vehicular
traffic was impossible, while pedes:
Iriins risked their limbs oiijice-cov-e:-ed
sidewalks. One of the most se
rious feature of the blockade is the
inability to move the stores of food
which are spiling up -in- the railroad
terminals-' and on wharves. The
city's prospects' were not rendered
the cheeriest by the, news that one
of the fiercest blizzards on record
was sweeping vthe northern portion
of the state and threatening an at
tack on the metropolis. The weath
er man ottered no prospect of rcliet
tor. at cast 1wo days.
Sinn Feiners Employ
' Explosives in Attack
. On Police Earracks
V . '
llclfast, Feb. 15. A large body of
Sinn Feiners attacked the police
barracks a Bellatrain, county
Monaghan Sunday employing ex
plosives. The Sinn Feiners over
came the small garrison, four of
whom were wounded, and then re
moved the arms and ammunition.
This is the first attack on barracks
in Ulster.' .
y . Dublin. 1-c). 15. A train c.oave?
in a military 'guard and arms was
heTdMip oiltside of Dublin,. Friday
night by a large band of armed men,
vo shot and seriously wounded a
signalman .and threw bombs into
the train, wounding a corporal and
doing much damage. The guard
did not reply to the fire owing to
the darkness. '
The wife, of a farmer at Pallago,
Wexford, resisting masked armed
raiders, was shot dead. ,
Hold Alleged German
On Secret ( Visit to .
Orient Through U.S.
New York, Feb. 15. Five gov
ernment agents took charge of
Valdenwr.Peitch, said to be a Gee
man, who arrived here Sunday from
Copenhagen on the Scandinavian
American line steamship Oscar II.
All his correspondence and wireless
messages which he received and
lispatched during the voyage were
xamined. It was reported that
Oietch is on his way to China
hrough this country and that gov
ernment officials are making an ef
fort to learn what is his business in
the Orient.
Allies to Plan Control of
(Straits of Dardenelles
Taris, Feb. 15. Agreement has
.been reached by the supreme allied
council to permit the sultan to main
tain his court in Constantinople, but
Turkey must give guarantees, espe
cially relative to the Dardanelles,
tnd must not have an army, accord
rig to London advices quoting a
iatement by Premier Millerand. J
"Further advices from London,
fonfk-matory of the above, are to
the effect that the- allies will main
tain vigorous military and naval
control over the Straits of the Dar
, danelles. The experts tomfirrow will
begin the discussion of the methods
of control : Marsha) Foch will rep;
jrtsent Franc S
Lansing-Wilson Split
Brings Cabinet Crisis V
Belief in Washington
Opponents of Peace Treaty Stand Behind Resigned
Secretary May Take Action to Learn How Gov
ernment's Executive Business is Conducted Dur
ing President's Illness.
Washington. Trh 15 5srrptaru
Lansing's enforced resignation con
tinues to. hold the, attention of of
ficial Washington and all the talk
among politicians, members of con
gress and government officials con
tinues to center about it. Gossip as
to the probable successor to the for
mer secretary of state is even su
bordinated to discussion of the Sen
sational climax to the strained rela
tions between President Wilson and
the former secretary, which are now
known to have been in existence for
more than a year.
Such terms as a "crisis' in the
cabinet are freely used arid in a
sense find color in the frank ac
knowledgment of Secretary Lane
that he was equally responsible for
the meetings to which the president
objected, but the best information
available indicates that there is no
crisis, in the sense that more secre
taries are likely to resign; in fact,
it has been stated at the White
House that no more resignations are
expected as a result of the incident...
Opinion Is Divided."
Opinion in congress continues di
vided, with opponents of, the peace
treaty supporting Mr. Lansing's po
sition and talking of some action to
determine how the executive busir
r.ess of the government is being con
ducted during President Wilson's
illness. There is even cloak room
talk of some sort of legislation to
define specifically what constitutes
the disability of a president more I
VICE-PRESIDENT
FORCES HAND OF
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Outlines Campaign Issues When
Wilson Silent Bryan
Has Platform.
Washington, Feb. IS. Vice presi
dent Marshall, in a letter to E. G.
Hoffman of Fort Wayne, Ind.. sec
retary of the, democratic national
committee, made public tonight.: an
nounced his candidacy as a deiegate-at-large
Irom Indiana to the coming
San Francisco convention upon an
old-time, democratic platform."
Political gossip says the Vice
President Marshall is slated to be
come chairman of- the democratic
platform committee.' ' y
"Another presidential campaign
impends," Mr. Marshall wrote
"Thus far the president who is the
chief of our party, has not deemed
it expedient to express his opinion
as to what the issues will be. As I
ain desirous of being a delegate-at-la-ee
from the state of Indiana, I
wish in connection with what I hope
has been, entire public career, to
state the substance of what I think
the democratic party should stand
for. I would not want to go under
anv misapprehension as to my views
upon the part of the unfaltering dem
ocrats of Indiana.
After War Plans.
"We were in the war from the
very start of its beginning, because
it afectcd our international affairs
A'l the measures and methods
adopted for the preservation of the
peace of our country and the win
ning of the war. met with my ap
proval and I am 'ready to defend
them.' , " "
"The war is now over and the re
habilitation f America as well as
the rest of the world is taking place.
It is not possible to accomplish our
rehabilitation other than through
the instrumentalities of political
parties. How shall the democratic
party propose to rehabilitate the po
litical system of America if en
trusted with power, is the question.
"I have watched in other coun
tries the effects of so-called : un
bridled democracy and I hare seen
its menace in this country, until I
am quite convinced that the peace,
prosperity and perpetuity s of the
American public must - Test finally
upon a few ancient and time
honored democratic doctrines.
"Mo one save God can remove the
individual as the unit for good gov
ernment. Legislative efforts to pro
duce justice and good order in so
ciety by listening and acceding to
the demands of personf and classes
will in ,th hour of peace produce
failure. ' The -sure foundation
for a stable rep -.-' 'icmust rest- upon
the right to life, ' liberty and to
the pursuit of hap.:!i:is. v
V Outline of Platform.
"The democratic party should
stand for this and pledge itself to
rebuild the American political struc
ture alone this line by clearly divid
ing its citizens into the law-abiding!
and law-breaking; making its lawsf
rest equally upon all men; permit
ting the individual citizen who is
honest to succeed by honest meth
ods; giving to no citiztn legislative
advantage; speedily punishing any
one who unjustly obtains success
by crooked and dishonest means;
recognizing that this is still a fed
eration of states r demanding that
the states discharge the duties of
local self-governmtnt; resisting the
usurpation of the general govern
ment; removing corrupt and biased
judges, but standing always, for
obedience of the decrees of court
and to constituted authority; insist
(Calloue4 m ftti Xw. Oluna TkMt.k
clearly than is provided in the con
stitution. So far it is all in ' the
realm of talk; no 'member of con
gress has brought forward any pro
posals for legislation. ,
The 'chief discussion seems to
range about whether President Wil
son knew of the cabinet meetings
which nave been going on for three
months until he wrote his letter ask
ing for Mr. Lansing's resignation.
Probably no one but the president
himself and three or four persons
most closely around him can answer
such a question specifically, but it
is being pointed out in discussion
of the incident that reports of the
cabinet meetings have been printed
regularly in the newspapers; thr.
has been stated at the White Hou. ,(
that the president reads the paper.,
every day, and that in some in
stances, at least, official action
which the president took on some
subjects was alter those subjects
had been disotissdd at the cabinet
conferences. .
Persons who arc well informed of
what has been going on inside of
the administration, hold to their be
lief that thp cabinet meetings were
only au incident and that President
Wilson himself, in one of his let
ters to Mr. Lansings-referred to
other and more important reasons
when he wrote that the cabinet
meetings were only an incident and
that President Wilson himself, in
one of his letters to Mr. Lansing,
(Continued on 1'aite Two. Column Svm.)
WOMEN BURNED
TO DEATH TRYING
TO THAW PIPES
Miss Elizabeth Easley, 81 , Years
Old, Dies Following Burns
Sustained in Bluffs Home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Easley, 81 years
old, died' Sunday afternoon in Mercy
hospital as the result of burns sus
tained when she attemoted to thaw
oiu water pipes , with a kerosene !
lamp at the home of her sister, Mrs.
j. uranam, luu Avenue A, a
few hour-? earlier.
Miss Easley took the Miiid to the
basement of the home when she
discovered the water pipes were
frozen. In some manner her cloth
ing caught fire from the lamp. She
screamed for help and. members of
tiie family rushed t6 her assistance
Her clothing was burned from her
body beicrs they could aid her,
however.
1 An ambulance was called and she
was taken immediately to the Mercy
hospital for medical attention. She
died at 2:45 p. ni., only three hours
after the accident.
The body was removed to King's
undertaking parlors, from where it
will be taken to her old home in
Apava, Iil., for burial. Miss Easley
lived in Bellevue, Neb. for 35 years
before coming to Council Bluffs.
. Besides her sister, Mrs. Graham,
she is survived by another sister,
Mrs. Phoebe Fitzcnry of Peoria, 111.,
two nieces of Council Bluffs, Mrs.
J. P. Cliristenson and Mrs. Bert,
W'illiams, and a brother, John Eas
ley of Florida.
Decisive Stage of
Peace Treaty Will
Be Reached Today
Washington, Feb. 15. The peace
treaty fight will pass into another
and perhaps decisive stage tomor
row with the best opinion, in official
and political circles here divided as
to whether the outcome will be rati
fication or rejection.
The 1iest prediction that coyld be
made by Senator Lodge, the repub
lican leader tonight was that the
treaty would be ratified "if wej can
get 64 senators to agree oft it."
The democratic leader, Sen. Gil
bert M, Hitchcock, . said he was
hopeful that there might be a rati
fication though he could not for
sec on what terms it would be se
cured. ' .
On Tuesday Senator Thomas,
democrat, Cdlorado, will speak on
the treaty's economic features. Sen
ator Thorqas is a member, of the
group 'irreconcilably opposed to,
ratification.
Pershing Spends Busy -4
Sunday in Memphis, Term.
fmnti!e Tnn . TiS.. 1v funer
al Pershing was the guest of Mem
phis Sunday and attended a lun
cheon, in his honor given , by the
Chamber ot commerce, inspected
Park Aviation Fitld. addressed the
local irtgro post of the American
Legion and spoke at a dinner ar-
rariof4 hv fpmntiia nnct nf tli
legion. He'left for New Orleans.
Want Omaha Brother
to Attend Funeral
Word of "the death' of Lewis T.
Hankins of New Brunswick, N. J.,
was telegraphed to-police depart
ment last night, and G. H. Hanking,
a brother, supposed to be living -in
Omaha, is requested to , telegraph
authorities there if he expects to at
tend the funeral . i
DANGEROUS
RADICALS IN
U.S. CAUGHT
Picked Department of Justice
Operators Arrest 29 L' Era
Nouva Members for Depor
tation at Paterson, N. J.
THREE ESCApFfEDERAL
NET IN DRAMATIC RAID
Terrorist Group Broken Up
Were Disciples of Caminetta
Favoring Assassination by
Individuals.
Paterson, N. J., Feb. 15. Tweuty-
inc radicals, said by secret service
stents to include the most danger
ous terrorists in the United States
members of , the notorious L'Era
Nuova group, whose1 creed is as
sassination and violence by individ
uals without waiting for "mass ac
tion" were captured early today by
100 picked agents of the department
of, justice in a dramatic raid on
"red" headquarters here. Warrants
had been sworn out for 32, but three
escaped the federal net.
All official records of the I. W. W.
for the entire district east of Chi
cago were seized in the home of
Andre Graziano, anarchist. In this
house, federal agents said. E. F.
Doree, Philadelphia secretary of the
I. W. W., was in hiding. He is un
der indictment in Chicago and is al
leged to have 'moved the records
from Chicago to Philadelphia,
thence to Paterson.
Capture Important Editor.
The most important capture, fed
eral officials said, was that of Ludi-j
vico M. Caminetta, editor of the
Italian anarchist magazine La Jac
querie (The Massacre). The print
ing office was raided, and as the fed
eral agents entered they found
printers running off an 1. W. W.
pamphlet entitled "The Truth About
Centralis." - The Galla', said to be
the- most complete collection of an
archistic literature in the United
States, also was 'raided.
Every anarchist captured was
(Continneil on Page Two. Column Four.)
Detective-Mayor of
Hastings, Neb., Traps
Alleged Blackmailer
Hastings, Neb., Feb. 15. Harley
Coba, a young well-known man in
this community, is under arrest here
on the charge of attempting to'
blackmail and to extort money from
L. L. Brandt,, a retired banker of
Hastings. Mr. Brandt on Friday last, re
ceived a letter threatening the kid
naping of his little daughter un
less the sum of $5,000 was deposited
at a place designated. He turned
the letter over to Mayor Stincr and
Postmaster Wahlquist and a plan
was mide with the aid of the po
lice, to capture tiie writer.
A dummy package was( deposited
V,rt ntirA Aficicrn n Pft atirl wtirfl
Coba appeared policemen arrested
! ' . 1 . '.I.... i
Stincr, who gave pulicity to the af-
tair, saicl Loba naa made a com
plete confession. 1
Barricades Home, Then '
i Awaits WifeV Advent,
But Police Foil Him
With the doors and windows of
his home barricaded, and ,the win
dows and doors of his wife's room
barred and double padlocked, Wil
liam Anderson, 30 years old, was
awaiting the return of his wife last
night, when Officers Summit, Krug
er, Samardick and Peters finally
broke down the barricade and ar
rested him.
At the police station Anderson
was booked as demented and, ac
cording to police, awaiting return
of his wife .with a large coil of rope
which was found in the room.
Mrs. Anderson was found stand
ing in the street almost frozen when
police were called to the home by
neighbors.'
New Mexico May Block
; Suffrage Ratification
- Santa Fe.'ty. If., Feb. 15. On the
eve of convening of the special ses
sion of the fourth state legislature
ratification of the federal woman's
suffrage amendment .seems to have
encountered difficulties. One house
member stated that 21 members 6f
that body were committed against
ratification and he predicted the nec
essary 25 votes to block ratification.
There are 48 house members.
Green Cotton Staple Is ,
; Grown by Georgia Farmer
Dalton,"Ga., Feb. 15. Production
of cotton, with a . staple of pro
nounced green, an objective long'
sought by agriculturalists and sci
entists, -is claimed- by C F. O'Briant,
a farmer near here, who has been
conducting experiments with that
aim-in view for years. , .
Samples of the cotton are said to
be of a beautiful green color and. of
fine fiber, , , V
First Centenary Anniversary of Fight for
Woman Suffrage Sees GoaKNear at Hand
Ardent Supporters Cele-,
brate 100th. Birthday of
Susan B. Anthony.'
By D. M. CHURCH,
International wi Service taff
1 Correspondent,
Washington, Feb. 15.' Today
marks the centenary of militant suf
frage. ' One hundred years ago today
Susan B. Anthony, the first militant
suffragist, was born in South Adams,
Mass.
Today the disciples of Susan B
Anthony' are making a final drive in
an effort to make good the prophecy
of that first militant who' predicted
that; the year 1920 would see women
voting. If that prophecy is to be fuU
filled eight more states must ratify
the suffrage amendment, 28 having
done so already.
Upon the shoulders of Miss Alice .
Paul, leader of the National Wom
an's party, has fallen the mantle of
Miss Anthony as director of the mil
itants, and Miss Paul declared today
that the greatest tribute which can
be ''paid to the memory of the first
militant is success in obtaining rati
fication of the suffrage amend
ment. "To- that end we are all
working at top speed," said Miss
Paul, j , j ;
. Both Leaders Quakers. '
Susan B. Anthony was the daugh
ter of a liberal Quaker, a cotton
manufacturer, and it is a peculiar co
incidence that the modern Joan of
Arc of suffrage Miss Paul is also
a Quaker.
It was as a schdol teacher that
Susan B. Anthony first became
known to the public, and the same
is true of Mjss Paul.
But it was the temperance move
ment which first inspired Miss An
thony, and finally led her to suf-H
frage as the real cure for many of
the evfls of her day. Havjug or
ganized the New York Statfe Tem
perance society in 1852, she became
an abolitionist in 1857, and took up
1 v u: f- .. -:t.4
after the first Women's Rights con
vention at Seneca Falls, N. Y.
First Direct Attack. .
The first direct attack Miss An
thony made on the male was in 1860,
when she started a petition in favor
of leaving the word "male'' out of
the Nth amendment. '
When the civil war broke out Miss
Anthony insisted that the fight for
the vote be carried on by the women,
but upon piomise that-justice would
be done at the clojg of the war she
suspended her work, only to take it
PLANE FOLLOWS
BODY Or OMAHA
FLYER TO GRAVE
Employe of Dead Manufacture
er Pays Final , Tribute by
Braving Dangers of Cold
) Weather Flight.
High 'above the funeral cortege
accompanying the body of Henry
W. Ashmusen to West Lawn ceme
tery Sunday afternoon flew an air
plane kept aloft by one of the two
motors Mr. Ashmusen had spent the
last years of his life in developing.
The plane was piloted by Lieut.
R. L. Wagner, test pilot for the
Ashmusen Manufacturing company,
vho paid this final tribute to his de
ceased employer in the face of cold
weather that made flying dangerous.
Lieut, , A. J. Neilsen, of Council
Bluffs, who, was. to-have accom
panied him in the funeral flight, was
unable to, put his plane in condition
for flying. ' ' '
Circles Over Grave.
As the cortege reached the ceme
tery Lieutenant Wagner circled
above the spot where the grave had
been prepared, swooping low as at
tendants began lowering the body
into its final resting place. He then
rose - rapidly and headed for the
Ashmusen plant,' the whirr of lie
propeller dying away in the distance
as the body; disappeared into the
grave.
Rev. Earl . Moneymaker, of the
Benson Presbyterian church, Svho
officiated at funeral services 'at the
Ashmusen home, Sixty-third and
Center streets, praised Henry W.
Ashmusen as one of the pionedrs of
the airplane industry and paid trib
ute to the enthusiasm which he
said, was largely responsible for
making Omaha a station on , the
proposed transcontinental air. mail
route. Mr. Ashmusen's untiring ef-,
forts to perfect an improved air
plane motor .were characteristic of
his other life activities towards -self-development,
Rev. Air, Moneymaker
said. . . 1
Floral Model of Plane.
' Neighbors had sent to the Ash
musen home a floral model of a
small airplane and a plane propeller
model was another of the floral of
ferings. ! ' . . ,
Officials, of the Ashmusen "Manu
facturing, company, of which Mr.
Ashmusen was president, announce
work of developing' the Ashmusen
motor and turning out airplanes
from the Omaha plant will be con
tinued bytthe compay, '
it-' r'l,M
up more vigorously with the close
hostilities.
The first victory marked on the
books of suffrage by Miss Anthony
was in 1857, when, with Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone, she
succeeded in obtaining 9,000 votes
fc-r suffrage in Kansas.
First Woman Arrested.
,The first womdn to be arrested ur
the cause of suffrage was Susan B.
Anihony, and it was then and' there
that she became a militant and set
the example which has led Alice
Paul and a score of other women
behind barred doors in the interests
6l their cause.
Jn 1872 Miss Anthony decided to
test the strength of the constitution
and cast ballots at the state and con
gressional elections in Rochester.'
She was indicted for illegal voting
and a fine imposed, but defiantly re
fused to pay the fine and offered to
accept jail sentence,, but was never
actually imprisoned. Since that first
bit of American, militancy there have
be?n nearly 500 arrests of suffragists
and 164 women have served jail sen
tences of iroui three days to seven
months.
In 1875 Sasan' E.' Anthony drafted
the federal suffrage amendment and
worked for its adoption tirelessly,
but it was not passed by congress
until' 1919, 13 years after her death.
E-uring the 100 years since Susan
B. Anthony's birth, which is being
celebrated ! today', there have been
rapid strides in suffrage. In 1820 no
SUFFGRAGIST BODY
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
DR. ANNA H. SHAW
Nebraska Delegates Attend
- Meetings of Committees
, X On Sunday.
By MYRTLE MASON,
; Staff Correspondent Omaha Bee.
: Chitago, Feb. 15. (Special Tele
gram.) Impressive service was held
Sunday afternoon at the Fourth
Presbyterian church for Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw as part of the pro
gram of the victory suffrage conven
tion in session here. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt and Miss Jane Ad
dams were two of the speakers who
paid high tribute to the memory of
this greatly beloved woman. Let
ters read from various admirers and
co-workers with Dr. Shaw referred
to her as leader) orator, citizen, pa-,
triot and friend. . . . .
K "She was greatest as , a friend, '
said Rev. Charoline Bartlett Crane.
It was as a friend, General Pershing
referred to her replying to an invita
tion which asked 'him to speak at
the service.' With characteristic: di
rectness and simplicity General Per
shing said in a telegram:
"I much ' appreciate your cordial
invitation to speak at the Shaw me
morial service and reg'ret extremely
that my present trip will prevent rne
from having the privilege of being
with you on February 15 to do
honor to the memory of my friend."
Except for the Shay memorial,
which practically all of the Nebras
ka delegation attended, there was a
conspicuous lack of SiTnday church
observance. This probably was due
to the banquets of Friday and Sat
urday evenings and strenuous hours
of convention session, as well as the
fact that some important committees
met on Sunday.
Mrs. TJraper Smith attended a
meeting of the resolutions commit
tee, Mrs. Charles Dietrich, regional
division, of the League of Women
Vbters, and Dr. Jennie Colfas1, a so
cial hygiene sectional meeting.
The Weather.
Forecast.
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row; Tuesday partly cloudy -and
warmer.
Nebraska Fair Monday and
probably Tuesday; warmer Monday
and iu east portion Tuesday.
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state in the union and no foreign
country alloVed the women to vote.
In 1920 there are 17,000,000 Amer
ican women eligible to vote for
president and 7,000,000 eligible to
vote for members of congress. In,
26 states women have full or presi
dential suffrage, and primary suf
frage in two states.-
In 21 foreign countries women
have full suffrage. Since Susan B.
Anthony started her agitation mil
lions of dollars have been raised and
spent for the suffrage cause in cam
paigning an.l petitioning
Today the -suffragists are making
the final dash, and they declare that
they can prove that Susan B. An
thony was -a prophetess' when she
declared that 1920 would see the
women with the ballot. '
TEXANS RALLY TO
MODEST MANNER
OF GEN. PERSHING
t .'
Dignity of Battlefield Fades
Before Unassuming Friend-.
liness Exhibited by
"Black Jack."
El Paso, ' Tex., Feb. 14. (Spe
cial.) In all the cities John J. Per
shing has visited during his recent
trip through the west and . south,
the outstanding feature to' the. peo
ple of these sections has been the
discovery that the general is the
same modest, friendly officer he
was when they knew him in Uhe
davs before the war.
Ex-service men have taken an im
portant part in the receptions
given, him and all ot them have rer
marked on the difference, between
General Pershing of the battlefields
and the friendly, unassuming "Jack"
Pershing of the home country.
The El Paso Herald says, of his
visit to this city: "At first the peo
ple here, his friends, hesitated a bit,
feeling uncertain hpw he was. to be
received and how he would take this
reception. ... ,
Revert to -Pet Nickname.
. "But when he remembered every-"
body, when he walked from the sta
tion instead of riding, and when he
showed the very depths of his emo
tion Sunday night at the . Liberty
hall: when he met the old men jf
the civil war and the younger men
of the American Legion;. when lie
saw his vry. own regiment in re
view at Fort j Bliss, and when as
the ..town thawed out and "warmed
up to him his eyes grew moist on
more than one' occasion the people
knew how to take him back, and
that was as their own Jaclr 'Black
Jack' Pershinjr."
t .l: t...- - . j i i
x wo tilings iijvc rtceiveu "speciat
mention during the general's trip.
They are his unaffectation and his
smile. Nowhere was the general
more hunane. and kindly than when
he came in contact with children.
Wherever he saw a child that-looked
as if it wanted to get closer to him,
he would stop everything else and
give the child a chance.
Gerieral Pershing sounded again
in Houston hisybattl.e cry of educa
tion, more education to the vast
throngs that greeted him in that
city. "Education," he said, "is the
only safeguard of a true democ
racy. All must have an equal op
portunity to be educated, regardless
of birth or nationality."..
Education .Foundation Stone.
Appealing 4o the country to for
tify itself against ignorance, and its
dangerous consequences, he went on
to say: "The people of America
must be aroused to the-necessity of
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OPPOSED TO
SETTLEMENT
IN ADRIATIC
Withdrawal From Conference
Club Is Used by President to
Prevent Lloyd George's Pro
posed Compromise Plan. ;
ITALIAN CIRCLES ARE
DISTURBED OVER NOTE
Consultation With United
. States on Proposal Submit
ted to Jugo-Slavs Said to Be
Demanded in Memoranda.
Paris, Fe1. 15. Hugh C. Wallace,
the 'American ambassador, yester
day, delivered to the foreign office a
memorandum from President Wil
son, according to the Temps, in
which the president said he could
not annrnve of i Premier T.lnvil.
George's proposed settlement of the
Adriatic question, which has been
submitted to the Jugo-Slavs. The
newspaper says that an identical
memorandum was delivered to the
British foreign office in London.
The Temps says President Wil-
son allowed it to be understood that
the United States would find it im
possible to continue in conference ,
if the allies-settle the Adriatic ques-
tioc without consulting the United
States.
Italian circles in London are re- '
ported to be greatly disturbed ocr
a note sent by President Wilson to '
the supreme inter-alliad council iu
session here, disapproving of, the
proposed compromise by which it
it is hoped the Adriatic question
might be settled.
WiUon 'Criticises Plat).
In his memorandum, President
Wilsoir criticises Prewier Lloyd
George's plan as communicate a to
the Jugo-Slavs by the supreme
council of January 20. The presi
dent examined the plan, but declare?
he cannot approve of its tenor. II
particularly opposes the idea of giv
ing the Jugo-Slavs the choice be
tween this plan and execution pur
and simple of the London pact.
In addition, according to 11 1
Temps, the president finds tli
Lloyd George plait too divergen
from the memorandum drawn tip a'"
London last December by Premier:
Lloj'd George and Clemenceau, witl
the collaboration of the Americar
representative. '
The president wishes to be under
stood that if the allied powers settlt
the Adriatic problem without con
sulting the United States govern
ment, the United States will find i,
impqssible to concern itself in Eu
ropean affairs.
The memorandum was inimedi- '
ately -examined by the chiefs of the
allied government before the Fcench
premier left London for Paris this
morning. 1 ,
' JKeep Reply Secret.
The premiers have drafted a reply
to President Wilson's note on the
Adriatic question, wjiich will be
transmitted through the American
ambassadors at London and Pans
according to a-member of Premier 1
Miilcrand's staff, who arrived in
Paris. '
The greatest discretion is bt'w.n
observed as to the contents of the
reply, and it will not be tnadc public
until after it is . received bv the
president - of the United States. '
However, another delay in the Adri
atic settlement as a consequence of
the incident is foreseen in French
Lofficial circles.
Premier Millerand has called a
cabinet meeting for Tuesday to heat
his account of the, London negotia
tions. He will also make a state
ment on the diplomatic situation t;
the senate committee of foreign af
fair?. ,'
' V ! White House Is Silent.
? Y'ejhi;i'ton. Feb. l.i. White '
House officials tonight refused tc
discuss, the statement of the Paris.
Temps that President Wilson ir.
memoranda to the French and Brit
ish foreign offices had. disapproved -the
latest Oroposal for settlement of
the vexin? Adriatic problem. There
was neither confirmation nor de-
nial that he position of the United
States again had," been laid before
the allied governments.
Granting that such memoranda as '
reported by the Temps had been
disnatched. other officials interprc- -ted
the step as designed to bring
to a head the negotiations , over
Fiume and Adriatic territory, which
have lieen dragging along for some
time.
Disapproval of the most recent
proposal, which was advanced by
Premier Lloyd George and contem- :
plated the making of Fiume a free
city under the league of nations and
thp awarding to Italv as a recom
pense a strip of territory toward the
south from Trieste, it was said,
would 'be entirely in-line with the
stand taken by President Wilson at
Paris that Fiume should, be award
ed to the-Jugo-Slavs. This oositkm.
it nas been stated, is the only one
which Mr. Wilson considers is in
accordance with his! 14 uoints, on
which Ita'.v as well as the other al
lied governments made pctce witlt
the central poweri
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