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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FKIDAT, JUNE 13, 1919. -21 .GOD'S WRATH SEEN IN PEACE TREATY Maximilian Hardin Finds in Harsh Terms Only Beginning. CONQUERED ARE TO BLAME Germany Gives Xo Indication or reeling- of Wrong Doing or of Headincs for Atonement. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. (Copyright' by the New York World. Pub. Mshad by arrangement.) BERLIN, May 24. (Special Cable.) The trumpet sounds, the main sate of heaven is open, the jasper throne shines in emerald in a rainbow halo, 24 crowned heads of old men bow in ewe on snow-white roses, homagin? the Almighty, throned in light from eternity to eternity. Around the throne are four winged animals, a lion, an -eagle and an ox, and only one with a human counte nance, but all four holding sleepless watch before a glassy sea, whence fhoot forth fire, thunder and lightning flashes. Seven torches burn, seven seals are set, seven angels pour God's wrath, upon earth, and in a criminal court such as no mortal ever saw, cry out to sinners: "Just is the Almighty and wise and true his every verdict." Peace Tfrm Brine VlHion. Thi3 vision rose before me as I read the conditions under which the 23 al lied and associated powers were will ing to grant peace to Germany. Haven't 1601 war days transformed everything in St. John's Revelation mass murder, epidemics, hunger, annihilation by fire, drought, civil war and uproaring and diving monsters into frighting experi ence? Did not we all too often hear the snorting of the horses of apocalyptic riders, feel about us the frightful day of judgment once held over Babylon? Anger howls round about us, against the naked, raw force which first lured us into the trap with the bait of prom ised justice. Tribute Is Paid Wilson. If we accepted these or any similar conditions we would be dishonored and Germany's death verdict would be pro nounced. Yet another voice is audible, that of the people striving after justice, seeking to understand the soul of the enemy, and asking: "Were we judged by a just deity or by the guardians of those four animals, become autocratic, and was the one wearing a human countenance in this court, in this coun cil of tour, outvoted by the others in their lust for revenge?" The president of the United States did everything humanly possible, not for love of Germany, but in his love for right and justice. Yet being mor tal and subject to error, he knows that not everything which may seem just to him is regarded as jusc by all, and an angered people, kept to this day in ignorance, may reproach him with having belied his principles as ex pressed in his 14 points, and with breach of his pledged word. President Held Savior. The fact that Marshal Foch's de mand for the left bank of the Rhine has not triumphed, that Danzig will not become Polish and that the Saar basin, for the duration of a pawning period, will not be placed under French control, but under the league of nations to which Germany will soon belong this and much more is. Presi dent Wilson's work. Yet he would have accomplished still greater things if we had helped him more effectively. Perhaps he grew tired of the strug gle with the allies wnen ne nonceu how slight was our realization of the ituation. or the feeling or wrong doing, or the readiness for atonement in Germany. He hud said publicly that with Germany inwardly changed an understanding would be possible, but with Germany unchanged there could be only a dictated peace. Be cause we had not succeeded, because no attempt was made by our govern ment to prove the genuineness of an inner change, because even Mr. Gompers. close as he is to the social istic elements, drew conclusions from liis European visit, that the German revolution was only sham politics and propaganda and that German aims were unaltered, therefore was mistrust fostered. Germany Herself to Blame. Whv. during the six months of revo lution, did we not offer spiritual se curities and guarantees that there was really a new Germany, willing to atone for everything possible? Those who did nothing to effect the entrance of a new spirit into their German father land, and to make that spirit credible to the eye and ear of the world, have tio right today to cry out .and become enraged over the inhuman and cruel verdict. But I will not budge from my rock of hope that the biographer and heir to the power of Washington will re main accessible to the voice of noble reason and will co-operate in softening conditions that are impossible to meet, and that he will listen to the pleadings of honest, clean men who can show to him the real situation. ApoloKtKta Parasitical. A hard peace was to be expected be cause the German republic failed to draw a thick dividing line between its cause and the lost cause of the kaiser. From the head of the republic came no word of regret nor of will to make honest atonement, and parasites of the wartime, disguised as hangers-on, courtiers and profiteers of the revo lution, thrust themselves upon the en emy world, since the beginning of the armistice, as Germany's attorneys. The peace offered in Versailles is harder than any in history since Alci biadea of Athens had to bow to the orders of the spartan generalissimo Ly sander, surrender his fleet and colo nies, raze the walls of the city and open the Acropolis to the spartan army, victor through a hunger blockade. V hat the German pigmy statesmen wanted to extort from Russia at Brest Litovsk, and from Roumania's wounded body at Bucharest; what Erxberger and after him. strong German parties and associations and interest groups de manded in the way of territory, in crease of power and money, was much worse than the conditions now be fore us. I would be a liar if I denied this, and I do not believe that patriotic pur poses will sanction a lie. Such idols as My country, right or wrong," have been demolished by the avenging God of time. But treaties like those of Brest and Bucharest, monographs, propaganda, pamphlets and inflamma tory articles, inspired by greed for ex pansion and world-mastery, were from the first hour doomed to remain "scraps of paper." For that reason they are -not to be compared with the Versailles treaty, whose authors believe they have the power to enforce all its points. America Will Heed. la Hope. Have they this power? Could the Kuropean members of the league of nations endure conditions completely demoralized and incurably sick, push ing a nation toward disintegration, opening th eway for anarchy or some thing akin to bolshevism. and finally poisoning the victors of yesterday with distillations from its festering sores? Ought they even to wish a Germany remilitarized by anger over a supposed wrong done to it and by thirst for revenge, a Germany perhaps driven back into monarchy, which would then threaten the world with barbarization? America is so far away and stands so high in safety and quiet and in confident youth, above the quarrels of Europe, that it is a titanic task to dis tract its attention, and I will not ask for an answer to the above questions. The keen sense of every American will find an answer without the guidance of my weak efforts. Having already shown the narrow limits of Germany's wealth, I will not lose myself in details, but will only ex press the firm conviction that after the maddest crime of this war, which has shaken the foundations of European wealth, the solidarity of all true human interest will again stand the test of the world's needs. A healthy Germany, well ordered and peaceful and capable of recompensing the victorious powers, will be determined to climb upward to the highest morality. Teutoni Basically Strong. Germany is essential to the world, and even under the heaviest pressun it will not be annihilated if, firstly, the door of the league of nationa shall be opened to if- after a short quarantine; secondly, if disillusioned by its horrible experience it shall quickly accustom itself again, to work and self-confidence; and thirdly, if a government shall come into power whose spiritual and creative work shall prevent the clean forces of youth from going astray into the camps of radicals or Trom becoming subject to the influences of the bol shevik!, the communists or the military monarchists. Germany is fundamentally strong. It is not dependent upon foreign guid ance, but it will be the moulder of its own fortune or misfortune. Therefore it will survive the most painful treaty. Ilovr Great Hour 1Vas JLoat. Because Germany at The Hague in 1907 rejected England's willing offer to give up all war on merchantmen and all sniffing after contraband Ger many brought upon itself a frightful hunger blockade. Because it broke into Belgium and destroyed vast in dustrial areas in France and because it imported Lenine and Trotzky into Russia, Germany missed its opportu nity in Brest and Bucharest to rec oncile the spirit of humanity. Germany now stands under a co lossal burden of duties that will sorely press but not oppress it. I see in tho peace treaty, be it formulated as ma be, not an end but a beginning. It will be the first step on the way to the internationalization and the socialization of humanity; the first step on the inevitable road close before us. I see the day when the question whether the boundary of a country shall be shoved a little further ahead or back will become insignificant, almost a matter of general indiffer ence. For it will Jbe drowned in the voice of realization, calling out to us the much nr.ore important holy duty which the people of two nations dwelling within the border of every land will have, in the words of Disraeli, in be coming reconciled to each other and thus bringing about the social peace without which the white race must, after a short period of grace, go down before the colored race of the world. World 'Federation Awaited. This duty, this wiping out of all re membrance of shameful concept and of the revolting nature of the -proletariat, may be achieved in a United States of Europe, which need not in the least alter its special physiognomy, and which the United States of Russia and of hinter Asia should join. i In such a united states the life of no country or of no people would hang on the answer to the question whether one province or one territory showed this or that national color or boundary posts. After our flood it is very hard to take the first step toward the firm land of the future, and the feeling is more painful than can be told that the sharp -point of the shaft must be turned specifically against our Germany. But the suffering and the burden will not te confined to Germany, as the angry conquerors would have us believe. New Birth of Humanity Foreseen. The structure and character of all Europe will alter.' No victor's triumph will remain unclouded. As President Wilson has well said, through suffer ing we see clearly and all will recog nize the necessity of community of in terest and good will. The soul of the world that was had the poison of ill will. Once the earth is cleansed of the old distemper, a new feeling, based not on pity but on necessity, will bring about a friendly understanding in which Germany win; share. Then there win be little lett to remind us of Ver sailles. The Apocalypse? The hoofbeats of the four dark riders will vanish. This wasn't a war. It isn't the conclusion of peace, as war and peace formerly were. For me the treaty is not a death verdict, but a birth certificate of the idea of humanity, at last born out of the sufferings 'of the Old World. It is a beginning, not an end. After the thunders and the seven trumpet calls and the horribly strict day of judgment, a voice has sounded, calling confortingly to mankind: "The old arth and the old heaven have passed away; but see, there are a new heaven and new earth for you!" REED TO HONOR VISITORS DINNER TO BE GIVEN FOR DIS TINGUISHED GUESTS. Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler and Pro fessor Elliott of California Uni versity Among Speakers. The trustees of Reed college have in vited 50 guests to an informal dinner In the college commons this evening at 6:30 o'clock, to meet distinguished com mencement guests of the college from other states. Among the -after-dinner speakers will be Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who re tires this month from the presidency of the .University of California, after 20 years of service. Dr. Edward Elliott, professor of politics. University of Cal ifornia, is another guest. The chief commencement speaker from outside the state is Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of learning, formerly president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. James B. Kerr of the board of trustees, will be toastmaster and Reed women will serve. Saturday is the last day of com mencement week at Reed. Candidates for the A. B. degree will receive their diplomas at the graduation ceremonies beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning. All exercises are open to the public. Reed alumni will have their annual luncheon at 1 o'clock to organize for next year and talk over old times to gether. Under the direction of Miss Anna Nilson and Miss Frieda Goldsmith a dance will be given on the .lawn by Reed women. The evening will be taken up with faculty and alumni reunions. Kelso Church Engages Minister. KELSO. Wash.. June 12. (Special.) Rev. R. A. Walmsley of Chively, Cal., was extended a unanimous call Sunday by the congregation of the Kelso Pres byterian church, which has been with out a regular minister for several months. Rev. Mr. Walmsley will come to Kelso about July 1. HEW WORLD ORDER .IN OLD EGYPT FELT Conditions, Which Pryamid Faced 40 Centuries, Change. UPHEAVAL'S EFFECT SEEN Business Interests Throughout Coun try Clamor for Returning Tide of American. Travel. (Copyright, Canada, by ' th New York Herald company.) (Copyright by tho New York Herald Com pany. All right reserved. ) BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. GIZA, Egypt. A famous lady of dry wit and uncertain age, with a sardonic curl to her lower lip, and the rougre fading1 from her time-ravaged cneeks, entertained me yesterday out at Giza, near the Great Pyramids. If it were polite to describe in detail the features of a hostess of eminent historic posi tion I should have to confess that her nose has been eaten away, as if by leprosy, and her eyes are empty sock ets though she is reputed to be able to see deep into the mysteries of time. Irreverent Americans might even call her a cynical old hag1 which surely is not polite. For this un canny embodiment of the wisdom of the ages, who has kept her position and poise in society despite the muta tions of the ages (though time's erod ing wrinkles about her neck suggest that she, too, like all the other great ones, will some day lose her head) is none other than the Sphinx. JSvery woman is said to possess a secret, and the Sphinx above all others. Whatever hers be, she keeps it with a grin, undisturbed by the sands which cover the temple beneath her feet, or the desert blasts that are slowly wear ing away her frame. Secret of Sphinx Told. The secret of the Sphinx, unrevealed for centuries, may be her knowledge that Cheops and Rameses and all the long line of kings upon whose living faces she looked thousands of years ago, have missed the point concerning power. Their Pyramids have been dis mantled and sacked and their tombs rifled and their royal persons displayed as mummies in glass cases -to the gaze of the curious and the vulgar. That king power is not all power and that physical force is weaker than senti ment may be the secret which the Sphynx has been keeping to herself for 40 or 50 centuries. About the silent spaces in which the Sphinx dwells great changes have taken place of late. The black tents of the Bedouins, those wild and law less nomads, have disappeared, and in their stead have come the white and khaki tents of British troops, pitched in orderly array on the sands to the west and north of the Pyramids, over looking the eternal Nile and its stately palm trees, which seem like jade orna ments on a lovely woman's breast. W Ireleas on Pyramid?. Trolley cars run to within a few hun dred yarsd of the Sphinx and automo biles honk along a fine road to the very bag of the Great Pyramid. Four long antennae of a -British wireless appara tus stretch from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops to the ground, and their length is suggested by the fact that so vast is the Pyramid that no golfer has as yet been able to drive a ball from the top to the sands beyond the base. L'very attempt thus far has land ed the ball only on the lower slope of the gigantic pile. Since the advent of the British until the present month of March the trav eler has been as safe on or in or about the Pyramids as in Herald square. New York safer, for there is no such men ace of traffic out here. At present Egypt Is in trouble, and I had to carry an automatic pistol when calling? upon the Sphinx. Side arms are good form these days, for officers wear them on the streets and into the hotels and to i social functions. j A few days Ago a band of Bedouins from the desert seriously messed up a group of sightseeing British troops at the Pyramids. Each breeze that sweeps the sands brings tidings of slaughter and pillage in every part of fair Egypt. This is no new experience for the Sphinx. She has seen the contending armies of at least four millenniums rage to and fro before her face and for her possession. What is new is the order and law that attends the marching men. The old lady is perfectly safe from insult at the hands of the Aus tralians who have sojourned here or the British Tommies or the three col umns of Indian troops whom I passed yesterday en route to bring quiet and safety to the outlying parts of the land. Bedouins may loot, but Britain's ar mies arc custodians of law and justice. Airmen now pee these columns, some times as many as a dozen new ones a day, pressing on by sand and water to every turbulent and imperiled point. Truth Told About Sphinx. After a time of communion with the Sphinx I am bound to confess that she is a disappointment. Aside from the sinister curve of her sensual lower lip, her face is expressionless and not cryp tic, as we have been told. Pictures lead one to suppose that the Sphinx is of a magnitude commensurate with the neighboring Pyramids. Not so. The entire body, now partly submerged in sand, is only 150 feet long, while the head is only 30 feet long, the face being 14 feet wide. True, a mouth seven and a half feet wide is not a rosebud, nor an ear four and a half feet high a seashell; yet the im pression of the extraordinary magni tude of the Sphinx is erroneous. Along side of the Pyramids she is small. Not only is the Sphinx smaller than is commonly supposed, but she Is less interesting. A dozen years ago I saw her and "did' the famous sights with keen relish. Today I find myself unin terested in any antiquity. All the proffers by donkey boys and merchants of scarabs, old and new, fail to get a second look from me. The war and its problems have dissipated all curious interest in the sights of the world Vast human concerns have crowded out zest for tombs and palaces and churches and mosques and relics and museums and art galleries. The remaking of the living present is all-absorbing. I am more interested in the solicitude of the donkey boys and the merchants and the hotelkeepers as to when the Americans will begin to come again to Egypt than in the Spinx, the Pyramids or the excava tions. , Egypt astir and blundering, attempt ing a revolt against the governing power, is better worth observing than all the memorials of the Pharaohs. Napoleon's famous utterance to his troops at the Pyramids, "Forty centu ries look down upon you," inevitably recurs to a journalist out here to eek a detached view of the situation. Those 40 centuries never before saw a sight like the present. Here Is something new. Armies still are ubiquitous; but these khaki-colored1 hosts do not rep resent the older king-order. Oppression built the Pyramids and various later oppressions captured and held them throughout the centuries. These Mitrhty pyramid! of atone, "Which wedRelike cieaw the detr atr. as Longfellow call edthem, are entirely symbol of the divine right of kings and of the complete subjugation of the toilers. Today they see a world freed from the old "Me und Gott" idea. These steady British troops stand for liberty under law, for all men everywhere. The Australians are the embodiment of in dependence. KTTPt Wonderfolly Proapervu. The Pyramids have never before wit nessed such prosperity as is now writ ten in green effulgence in the wonder ful lush fields between Giza and Cairo. Nor does the entire east boast another such thriving, modern, safe and beauti ful city as Cairo. Beyond all other lands Egypt has profited by the war, and by the presence of a strong, be nign power which, despite all mistakes, has brought blessing to the people. Even the violent reachings after great er self-government are inevitable fruits of the enlightenment and liberty provided by the British. A curious tribute to the success of the present administration is contained in the statement that never before in history have the Egyptians attempted a revo lution. In the clearness and calm of the des ert air, beneath the shadow of the Pyr amid of Cheops, one sees the present Egyptian upheaval in better perspec tive. It is merely birth pangs. The physician and the nurse have been a bit negligent, fn too great confidence of their own efficiency. New Egypt is being born. An old nation is coming to reincarnation. Out of the present travail will emerge a child among the free peoples of earth. And in renewed and somewhat contrite devotion, the British doctor and nurse will attend it until its health and maturity are as sured. This Is the new wonder that the Sphinx sightless eyes gaze out upon a mighty and Imperial nation. In prac tical possession of Egypt, not for the purpose of oppressing and exploiting the Egyptians, but lending its re sources of men and skill to help the people themselves to come as quickly as possible to their own highest meas ure of self-realization. Human welfare today polices the Pyramids and the sarcophagus of royal might is empty in the king's chamber within. SPRINGFIELD JUBILEE ON SPORTS AXD CARNIVAL OPEN IRRIGATION" CELEBRATION. Trip to Canal Ileadgates to Be Made Today Airplane Exhibition Expected Saturday. EUGENE, Or. June 12. (Special.) Springfield 8 three-day irrigation jubi lee was inaugurated this afternoon by sports, a street carnival and dancing, and tomorrow the celebration will set tle down to its real business of ac quainting the world with the fact that an irrigation project has been launched in the upper Willamette valley and that water is ready to be applied to crops. The bifT feature tomorrow will be a trip to the headgates in automobiles, which will leave Springfield at 10 o'clock. The parade will be led by the Eugene band and the Eugene Radiators will participate. At 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon the visitors will be welcomed by Mayor E. E. Morrison, whose address will be followed by short talks by F. B. Chase, of Springfield and Frank Jenkins, of Eugene. Percy I. Cupper, state en gineer, and "Farmer" Smith of the O.-W. R. & N. extension department will speak on irrigation. Saturday the airplanes now in Port land for the Rose Festival are expected to arrlup In Springfield on their re turn flight to Mather field and give an exhibition over the city. ALIEN SLACKERS BARRED Clatsop Denies Citizenship Because Military Service Evaded. ASTORIA, Or.. June 12. (Special.) Four more alien slackers were for ever barred from becoming American citizens by an order of Circuit Judge Eakin today. 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