THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1919.
PfiESIDEIHTOOMW
Power Wielded at Peace Con
ference Far Reaching.
NEW WORLD IDEAL RAISED
Justice and Reason. Simple and In
vincible Rules of Conduct and
Executive Has Triumphed.
(BY HERBERT BAYARD STVOPE.)
CopyrfsM by the New Yorft World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
PARIS. Feb. 13. 'Special Cables-
President Wilson has pone and Paris
and the -rest of the world are casting
op accounts in efforts to measure the
value and extent of his two months of
work in this temporary capital of hu
manity. It wouid be idle to speculate
upon the position history will accord
to him because of the principles he has
enunciated, since the value of those
principles turns upon their application,
but it is quite possible to establish
through analysis the direct effect of
the president's influence in the 60
days of the life 'of the conference.
That examination shows him to have
been th dominant figure in all phases
of the matters under consideration. He
has dominated, not because of his per
sonally, but because of his precepts;
not because of his political science, but
because of his human understanding.
President's Strength Proved.
He has cast the conference in a new
dimension, in which the question has
been for the fruits of peace rather
than the spoils of war. Justice and
reason have been his simple rules of
reached, but the process may be slow
and painful.
Premier Hughes of Australia is in
the forefront of the contention that
reparation must be comprehensive. In
Saturday's session Premier Hughes de
clared with outthrust jaw his intention
I to attack the system of mandatories
1 1 mat. b u i 1114 y w x t c ii -w
on the floor of the conference. He
stands opposed to any extension of
Japanese influence In the south Pacific.
Reference f Japan brings to mind a
point I am now at liberty to make pub
lic, and that is that another reason for
dropping the religious clause from the
league constitution was that the Japa
nese intended to use it as a means of
barring all racial discrimination. The
situation thus created was so delicate
that all concerned were glad to leave
out the section, as it seemed fo be
packed with -dynamite.
It seems probable that Japan will
be given a chance to save her face
and get virtually all the advantages
of equal rights and will make a sepa
rate agreement whereby she will divert
the flow of her migration to China and
Siberia instead of permitting it to go to
America and Australia. International
labor legislation is expected to have
great effect upon oriental emigration
by bringing about a parity of working
hours and of wages.
ELBOWHUG
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NOVELTY ACT' TO BE SEEN
Few Doughboys Lucky Enough
to Live in Palaces.
TROOPS WANT TO RETURN
Cyril Brown Declares 'That jWith
Conditions So Crowded, Two. Di
visions Could Be Sent Home.
EDXA PEXDLETOX STAR IX
"HEART OF ANIE WOOD.
Play Depicts Country Girl in At
tempt to , Choose One of
Two Sweethearts.
The Orpheum show, which will close
its Portland engagement with the mati
nee today. Is headlined by a novelty.
the star of which is Edna Pendleton,
Seattle girl, who was chosen personally
by Emily Ann We 11 man, the producer,
for The Heart or Annie wood, on ac
count of her talent as a singer and
dancer.
"The Heart of Annie "Wood" is a nov
elty not only in the manner of its
staging, but in its theme. The action of
the pluy depicts what transpires in the
romlart. and they have proved his heart of a country girl in her attempt
strength against opposition, some of it
honest, some of it mendacious. He has
fought against the forces of reaction,
of avarice, of thinly disguised mil
itarism and of selfishness, and he has
triumphed. But such is the curious
nature of the man. that in all his vic
tories it may be doubled if he has
added to his personal popularity, al
though it is manifest that he has
gained recognition for his purposes.
President Wilson never has had the
faculty of reaching the popular imag
ination, but he has done better he has
projected his principles into the very
heart of mankind. If there was doubt
in the minds of statesmen such doubt
certainly did exist as to the manner
in which the American executive would
be received by the European peoples.
It was banished by his visits to France,
Kits land and Italy.
wiisant-4 Frustrated.
Because of what he stands for, rath
er than for what he is, his stay in
Paris has been productive and has but
tressed him from the attacks of malig
na ntrf, who veritably believed that in
the public forum they could ipnore him
by playing upon national cupidity and
liifst for power, the two elements which,
in one form or another, have actuated
all ti.e other peace conferences in his
tory. He has not dogmatized. On the con
trary, he has alwajs shown willing
ness to discard his own and to adopt
other methods if they K-d to the same
ends. His attitude disarmed antagon
ism. His fiercest opponents, such as
Pr mirr Hughes of Australia, soon per
ceived they were beating lances, not
with n individual, but with an im
movable forte of justice, right and rea
son. Exceptional Mmm ever Liked.
That fact cont ributrd to the presi
dent's la-k of personality. The excep
tional man is never much liked. He
may command ad mi rat ion and receive
support, but he is rarely able to touch
the we 11-tpnr. ira of personal affection.
His minir lack of faults lifts him
from th:it clas In which frailties estab
lish a touch of nature and induce sym
pathy. It should not be thought that his
progress wast over a path of roses,
t.ach frtep had to be fought and each
advance waa made after a contest, To
dy, while the tone of the French
press is less unsympathetic than be
fore, there arc p:ipers in which the
president is referred to as an "idealo
gist" rather than as an idealist.'
lrielleM lleM Kaariamental.
It is a faj-t that from the begin
ning until now and from tup to bot
tom the conference has been guided
and charted by the 14 peace principles
laid down by the president. He buildetf
better than he knew when he an
nounced the principles on which Amer
ica would be rt-udy to make peace
h'n he first spoke, in January 11S.
The league of nations, r.o annexa
tions, boundaries, armament, economic
relations. navigation and other
problems are covered in the policies
declared by President Wilson.
There is one problem that threatens
great difficulty in . solution, and that
is the matter of reparations. Into this
ituhject terminology enters in order to
determine wli.it is meant by repara
tion. President Wilson defines the
American attitude, which is that repa
ration should satisfy only actual dam
ages suffered. The British are pro
ponents of the Interpretation that
reparation should and does cover full
costs of the war. Therein is the choke
tMiinC Compromise of definition and
of nnnl tent ion will eventually be
to select one of two sweethearts, the
BY CYRIL BROWST. ,
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
mRLKXZ. Feb. 18 (Srjecial Cable.l
The latest statistical survey of the
German population totals 874.901 and 5ponde"ts ith th American army of
incidentally furnishes an unanswerable by being. compeiied to cool their heels
out, having the possible case of Mexico
in mind. ,
A delicate problem has been put up
to our military authorities here. An
enthusiastic French commission to re
store French monuments in the Rhine
land discovered a statue of Marceau, a
Napoleonic general, who captured Cob
lenz in 1794. The statue had been
abandoned by the Teutons in their
hurry to get away from the Rhine, and
was found in a suburb of Coblenz under
an ancient fortress and near the site
of the graveyard, where lie French
prisoners taken in the war of 1870.
There Marceau has been allowed to
go to seed, surrounded by cabbage
patches and outbuildings. The sight of
him wounded French sentiment, and
the French commission asked to be
allowed to restore the Marceau monu
ment
Go to it." was the attitude of the
American authorities. The French
commission went to it by trying to buy
up the surrounding land, ostensibly for
laying out a park in memory of one of
Napoleon's generals, but the German
owners of the adjacent cabbage patches
asked what the French considered ex
orbitant prices. Now the commission
has appealed to the American military
authorities to use their persuasive
powers with the German authorities to
compel the German owners to sell their
land at reasonable figures.
ewapaper Men Are Hampered.
As further proof of the critical situa
tion in which the accredited corre-
1
Edna Pendleton, In Tne Heart of
Annie Wood."
reliable country boy or the doubtful
city "drummer. The stage setting
shows a bit of a farm in a huge heart,
and this heart broadens or contracts as
the story is unfolded. There are nine
musical numbers in the piece.
Edna Pendleton, while new to vaude
ville, has had considerable experience
both on the stage and in pictures. She
played the leading role with "You're In
Love" and "The Masked Model," and
took a prominent part in "The Prince
of Pilsen' in Its tour west" under the
Shubert management.
.The extra attraction of the Orpheum
show is Karl Hampton, who is "joshed"
from a box on the lower floor by
Dorothy Blake, his partner, and the
third big-type act is "iince the Days
of '61." the comedy old-soldier classic
offered by Foster Hall and Ford West
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VKNTOIt OF APPLIANCE.
Sergeant Louis J. Witte, Now
FreiH-U Base Hospital, Sue.
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SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 18. (Spe
cial.) Serjeant Louis J. Witte. a
graduate in chemistry from the Orepon
Agricultural' college and son of Mrs.
M. L. Wilte of this city, has had adopt
td by the government his invention of
a message shell, according to informa
tion received by his mother.
The message eht-H was invented by
Sergeant Witte while at Camp Lewis in
April and May of last year. The shell.
a model of which was made in paper
by Sergeant n Itte. was intended for
the carrying of messages from one part
of the American lines to another. As
it bursts it releases a flag, a colored
light and a parachute.
Different colored lights each have
a distinct meaning in conveying mes
sages from the officer by whom the
shell is dispatched to officers in other
parts of the line.
Sergeant Witte was wounded during
the ileuse-Argonne operation the night
of October 2, 1S18, while a member of
company F, 316th United States engi
neers. He now is in Base hospital 54
In France.
argument . for the earliest possible
withdrawal for tbeir homes of .at least
two American divisions. .
The American army of occupation
totals approximately 250,000 men. A
very high rate of soldiers to the native
population on which they are billeted,
indicating excessive congestion, with
the result that the billets for the bulk
of the army are poor and crowded.
Only a small percentage of lucky
doughboys live in castles on the Rhine,
palaces, hotels and chateaus; only a
small proportion have slept in beds,
while the bridgehead itself is unde
niably overcrowded, and the congestion
and living conditions are worse in the
sparsely settled Hinterland.
Americans Closely Massed.
This congestion was caused primarily
by the French taking over 42 per cent
of the brideghead thus necessitating
the massing of the American army oi
occupation in the depth or the narrow
front. It will be greatly relieved wnen,
and if, the 32d and 42d divisions start
home.
The men of the Rainbow division are
greatly cheered by an unconfirmed
rumor that they are soon to return.
The fact that formal arrangements
have been concluded with Holland for
the use of the Rhine exit via Rotter
dam, is held to be circumstantial evi
dence that many men will be sert home
in the near future. Besides, the an
nouncement that General Pershing will
visit the Rhine to review the troops is
considered an auspicious omen.
I have learned unofficially that the
American troops could all be with
drawn from France by August next
and that the idea is to have no lines
of communication whatever through
France thereafter, but to keep the army
of occupation separated from France
and, really, entirely on the Holland-
Rhine line of communication.
The text of the covenant of the
league of nations-only became known
throughout the army of occupation last
evening with the arrival of yesterday's
English language Paris paper, but im
mediately it roused an all-absorbing
interest that momentarily eclipsed the
subject of going home as a topic of
discussion and debate.
Covenant Im Approved.
The concensus of army opinion is
that the covenant is an important mile
stone on the way home, and by win
ning out all along the line. President
Wilson has done a good job which
makes a working peace look like a
probability of the reasonably near fu
ture, enabling the army of occupation
to shut up shop and go home soon.
This is purely the selfish angle that
naturally interests the army most. On
the whole the army found the text the
utmost of dull reading, its colorless
legal phraseology arousing no emotions
in the soldiers' breasts. Army public
opinion, in fact. Is extremely conserv
ative regarding the covenant and the
men are chary about expressing their
views as to the historic importance of
the document
Our military men continue, quite nat
urally, to show a mild professional
skepticism about new-fangled paper
leasrues. There Is, however, wide
spread satisfaction that the Americans
have not been let In for participation
in a large international standing army,
even under the name of a police force.
The quicker the army of occupation
finishes its present international police
tour on the Rhine the better it will be
satisfied and there is no popular de
mand with the army for participation
In a standing international force in the
future on the Rhine or anywhere else.
Yanks Fnce Problem.
Especially is the army showing con
siderable interest in the question as to
a league of the powers, and the proced
ure in case of a revolution breaking
on the Rhine with the armistice con
fer jnce at Treves only a two hours' ride
ay ay, the correspondents have been no
tified that any dispatches dealing with
the Treves conference could not be
passed by the chief field censor, nor
would they be transmitted over the
signal corps wires, our only telegraphic
facilities from Coblenz. The correspond
ents were told they might send special
mail articles provided they were signed.
not as accredited, but as special cor
respondents.
The only American newspaper print'
ed in the occupied area has been placed
under auxiliary censorship. The en
terprising Fourth Corps Artillery head'
quarters at Mayence has been gettin
out a lively weekly paper crammed with
news, particularly featuring all uncen
sored wireless news picked up by the
Fourth Corps wireless station at
Cochyn near here.
Discretion Ordered In Future.
The result was that the Fourth Corps
flare has been the only uncensored
newspaper circulating in the occupied
area. The Flare came a cropper in its
last issue, however, when, under big
headlines. It featured all the news re
cently suppressed by the censorship
from editions in English or American
newspapers published, thus letting the
cat out of the bag and creating a small
sensation at Third army headquarters.
The Fourth Corps Flare has been
warned to practice discretion in the
future. (Dispatches last week from
Paris told of the elimination by the
Pans censor of news intended for pub
lication in Paris editions of American
newspapers of the American peace
delegates' dissatisfaction with French
propaganda.)
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FOREIGNERS IN BUTTE EAGER
FOR NATURALIZATION PAPERS.
Connty Clerk's Office Is Besieged
All Day by Would-Be Subjects
of Uncle Sam.
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 18.-The county
clerk's office liere was again beaiegred
today by a long line of foreigners seek
na naturalization papers. The move
ment began yesterday when it was re
ported the mining companies had
reached a decision to employ only
Americans or those who had declared
their intentions of becoming citizens
of the United States. Eighty foreign-
born men applied for first papers yes
terday and it was estimated that at
least that many would make applica
tion today, judging from the lino at the
clerk's office this morning.
The report that the mining compa
nies would employ only citizens or
those who had applied for citizenship
lacks verif ication, but from all sources
during the last few days has come the
report that it would be done and this
It seems has caused the rush for first
papers.
Rumors of deportations of undesir
able aliens in this district also are
said to have caused the rush for pa
pers. First citizenship papers will not
prevent deportations, however, it was
unofficially reported by those known
to be authorities in this matter. Up
to date there have been no deporta
tion measures taken here, according to
available information.
Paper dust exploded with fatal re
sults when workmen carried lighted
lanterns into a room filled with it in
a paper tube factory in France.
W. X. DAVIS DIES IN WALES
Weil-Knoun Clackamas County Man
Came Here in 1886.
OREOOV CITY. Or.. Feb. IS. Spe
rial.) From Wales comes news Of the
death of William X. Davis, 68. a' pio
neer of the Carus district in Clackamas
couniy.
Born at Axton Farm, in Flintshire,
Wales. January 7, 1851. Mr. Davis set
sail for America in 18S6. coming di
rectly to Portland and driving out into
the wilderness at Carus. where he was
one of the first settlers.
In 191. just at the outbreak of the
war with Germany, he returned for a
visit to his old home and on January 4
of this year went to Liverpool to take
a boat home. Boat after boat left but
no passage couid be secured, until at
ast, discouraged, he returned to Wales
and in his brother's house, sitting
quietly in his chair, Mr. Davis passed
away on January 22.
Mr. Davis leaves his widow, now in
St. Vincent's hospital. Portland: three
sons. Richard, who Is on the old home
place, and William and John, now in
the army in France.
It is believed the two sons in France
were at their father's funeral, sum
moned by telegraph.
Interment was in the family plot, be
side hie father and mother in the old
country, where he was horn.
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