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T ISfil IS SOLUTION OIGLISN SUGGEST All Sides Are Agreed It Would Be Worse Than Useless to Try to Bayonet Ideas Out of People. GUNS CAN FIGHT BRUTALITY Arms Can Be Used to Suppress Criminal Excesses of Radicals, But There Usefulness Ends. Br Edward Prlee Bell Special CabU to The Journal and The fMcaao (Copyright. 1919. by Chicago Dally Nam Co.) London, April 12. Liberal and radical opinion in Great Britain naturally re- Jecta the militarists' view that Bolshe vism or any. other doctrine can be op posed successfully by force, K But today X had a talk with a conservative man of the old school, a man of long stand In? official distinction, indicating: that : British conservatism and liberalism, at . least the thinking: exponents of both, adopt practically the same standpoint In ' this particular. - "We know quite well," said he, "that it would be 'worse than useless to send armies to fight ideas.- Ideas cannot be ' shelved or bayoneted to death. Arms are not the things to pit against creeds. If we are to best Bolshevism we must use against it an ism that makes a powerful appeal to reason for these are times when all sorts of conditions , of people are beginning to think. Force Idea Is Wrong : ; "Every day we see in some of the newspapers words Implying that, there Is a way in which force can be employed to arrest Bolshevist agitation, at least in this country, There is none, "We have had such agitation, though we have called it by another name, time out of rfiind. We have it now We cannot lock up British citizens who do no more than expound ideas of political or social change. Neither can we suppress news papers, periodicals or leaflets that go ao farther than this. True, they may run counter to our notion of what is wise. They may tend to disturb conditions that we would wish to have left alone. "But if on th.Is account "we had re course to force against them. w should be trying to turn back the clock of our civilization hundreds of years.' And we should not succeed ; - we merely should place ourselves and all we have in ex-, trerae Jeopardy. At best. we can hope to. do no more of a repressive .character than to shut the mouths or stop the "pens of those who incite the murder, robbery and violent social upheaval. Cannot Fight It :.""'' "Crime we can and must fight by phys ical means; reason, argument. and en treaty on behalf of orderly principles however revolutionary, we can resist if at all only by mental and moral means. So when we think of physically opposing- Bolshevism in Russia or elsewhere we do not think of so opposing the doc trine of political and social reform; we think only of opposing cruel and crim inal methods of advancing that reform. Our quarrel is not with reason, not with argument, but with . physical, - violent crime. And even . here we are not so ambitious as to, seek to rid Russia of these evils. At any rate we have no idea of sending great armies for this purpose. If we send reinforcements to Bussia now it Is not to impose our wjll upon Russia, which . is - an Impossible task, but to ' save from disaster the troops we already have there.- "If we endeavor to give such aid as we can to those In Russia In whose po litical Ideas we believe or If we strive tq help Poland, Roumania, Bohemia and other countries against Bolshevism it is not because we fancy that .force ever can be made "finally triumphant over a Just creed, but because we think that force possibly can b used with success against the further spread of criminal violence. In fine, we have no quarrel with Ideas; our quarrel la with brutal, felonious deeds." ""Classic Features Of Kaiser Bill No More in Hun Schools By Ben Jleeht Special Cable to Tha Jotimal and The Cafes Daily Nm , JCopjrtfht. 1919. by Chicago Daily Nam Oa.1 Berlin. April 12.4-The school children of Prussia wiu be deprived of the privi lege hereafter of contemplating the classic phis of Kaiser Wllhelm. Min ister of Culture Haenlsch has Issued an order commanding that 'all . paintings, photographs bas reliefs and statues of the former emperor - shall , be 'removed from German schools. The minister fol lowed up this order with a second -decree that the compulsory teaching of re ligion shall henceforth be abolished from the German schools. . , . "These Small but Pregnant items were to be found on page four of the morn Li,?,'" 7110 flr8t thre pages were divided between - warnings of the world revolution and attacks upon the govern ment by the Independent Socialist party rhe conservative newspapers are trying to sidetrack the feeling of unrest by pointing out that workers r pier than ever before in-the history of ui mey are making money nd are more respected. -- Th ru.i papers are countering by printing the manifesto of the central committee of . uiuoireiuwni ociajit party. Oldest JoiIu. "Demobilized" -aria, April 12. (U. P. Charles Burugue. ex-mayor of Aukere, and . umcoi twuu," naa been da moblllaed. He is SO va.r. n, .2 " ff7: later Clemenceau Chief Scont Paris. April U. P. m,.- the "Grand Young Man of France," has accepted the position of ; chief of the ireiica coy OCOUIS. i. -j :. PIT M AGA 'IS WMle Fron Famine Through By Anthony Csaraeekl -.. Special Cable to Tba Journal sod-The CWcago lfilj New... (Copyright. 1919, by Clucaao Daily Neva Co.) SLONIM. White Russia Little babies are dying for want of food and young boys and girls are wasting away in the grip of - pestilence,' : while - mothers are helplessly watching the fate of their be? loved ones racked by. untold ' agonies and while grim-vlsaged men, facing the gradual wiping out of their . families, are vainly seeking help from neighbors in a similar plight.' I Such things I 'have ' seen for miles around la ; this territory. U The . worst known horrors resulting .from war and the - greatest ' possible ' human misery which fire, pestilence and famine com bined can bring to any people are being visited upon the Jews and Christiana of White Russia and old .Poland ' between the Bolshevist, front in eastern Germany and the Ukrainian-Polish batUefront on the south. -. - Suffering Beyond Belief I All of our army officers, headed by Colonel , .William R. Grove, ' the chief , of the Hoover aid commission to Poland, after visaing the cities and villages In this. section, report, that the sufferings and horrors confronting them are worse than anything they have ever seen elsewhere. While peace and hap piness are being restored to some of the other countries which suffered, from the world war, 'the spectacle here continues to be one of death, devastation and star vation. A council composed of Edward Klimowlcs, as mayor, and' Alexander' Hlrsch Owarski, for the Jews ; the Rev. Francis Tycsowskl, an American -born Polish army chaplain from Connecticut. tor the Catholics ; Adam BaJ Jassewskl, for the Mohammedan group. In . con Junction with the Polish 'mUltaryj Is diligently at work trying . to help the people. All are united In pleading for Immediate help to ward of f . death hy starvation. Officials . estimate that" Slonim has been reduced from -a oity of 17,000 to 11,000 Inhabitants. Of these 9000 are Jews and the remainder cmeiiy Poles. There are practically no births, while -the death toll on Ahe young, and old is dally Increasing. . The city - itself is a- symbol of devastation. There are barren walls and piles of debris where formerly houfes stood. ' The town has been overrun by three-fold enemies. 7r Since the . outbreak i of the war It has been visited, by three destructive fires and It is now a hotbed of ; smallpox, spotted typhus, lnfluensa, tuberculosis and the resulting starvation : and ex treme lack of the most primitive neces saries of civilised life. When the Ger mans drove the Imperial Russian troops ahead of them the Russians applied the torch, laying In ashes the whole of the city on the other aide of the Sxczary river, on the banks of which the city. Is located. In 19 H another blase reduced more than 100 dwellings to ashes, while last fall before the armistice, while the Germans were In full control and apply ing an oppressive military rule to the people, names" aevourea bou nome?, . , ::r- Tio'$& Art' Starred;,; ;r5-fi;; .Durtng" f oujears ipf 'Germsii military occupation, ''according-'to the. 'statement of representatives of the 'Jewish, Cath olio and Mohammedan population, the people were mercilessly robbed of food, machinery and everything the Germans found portable and useful for the fath erland. -The undernourishing- of chil dren began systematically through the requisitioning by the Germans of all the milk formerly used by the community, some of which the Germans turned into the gutter or shipped by the carload into Germany. In the wake of the Germans came the Bolshevist forces, who took what had been overlooked by the Ger mans. When a short time ago the Pol ish troops drove out the Bolshevik! they found the place in the depths of misery and .suffering. To add -to the needs "of the suffering, local population refugees from places seised by the Germans and released prisoners of wa ; poured In. j With pleas for pity, mercy and help on their lips - these suffering, hungry peo- j pie axe nuqaiea together. The struirrle is not onlyrbetween, life' and death but between ChrlaUan training and civiliza HATS CLEANED AND REBLOCKED 3 1 Vv --i is the 1- ':yY'' "Time ' -lljT M 2 s-T ' i U : T' ? FISHER ; BROTHERS The Paris HqiMfg. Co. - Comer West Park and Alder Su.. ' ; ' In the Peoples Tbeatre EUg. G Rtissia Suffers Fire; Pestilence, War tion and the 'primitive passions into wnicn the people have been dragged by hunger.., lack of, clothing and by the slow death agony of those nearest and dearest to them. .-v. . 'i . Slothers Ja Distress- , Mothers in various walks of. life dark eyed. Jewesses side by side, with blue eyed Polish matrons eit or stand on the floor, broken In body. eCnd nirit. tryinsr to comfort the babiea In their arms who need food which they ; cannot get, who are - too weak to cry an - only, like frightened birds, peep 'at each plaintive outbreak, which . further rends their helpless - mothers - hearts. In boxes which serve as beds or upon cots made of bags are emaciated, starving boys ana gins, some of them In the last ex tremlty.' With the exception " of their own immediate kin, who try-to comfort them, ; the others are too deeply , en grossed wiu their, own .misery to give mem nein or sympatny. . . .-. There are four, hospitals . operated by tne city, nut .au are overcrowded and have insufficient medicines and food. The Jewish ' hospital is kept neat and clean, nut Is devoid of drugs. - In - it children and aCilts are slowly idying from disease caused : by lack of food. In the contagious hospital, where small pox, spotted typhtis and influenza cases are treated, the conditions are inde scribable, owing to the lack of the nec essary means to cope with the diseases. In the hospital of the Roman Catholic nuns of the St Benedict order a most pathetic sight is seen In the ward con taining lost children. - They were found and picked up by the Germans .' and others on the battlefields, in the forests and on country roads.;. They- are the remnants of the caravans of humanity which during the war were driven from place to place seeking safety, Among these children was a little girl who for a ; long time . had remained speechless except that she uttered these three words, "Bomb killed mother.! The sis ters,, themselves, in need, give their -.all to the babies, whose faces, like all others in this city, show the pallor and strain ct hunger. 1 . - Smile Forgotten, ' As one goes through the streets try- ing to cheer children by smiling, there is no response. Both young and old seem to have forgotten how to smile. As Colonel Grove sympathetically asked a Jewish rabbi, a Catholio priest and the Mohammedans assembled . at a con ference, to arrange for prompt action what Immediate steps should be -taken to relieve the distress, promising that something, would be done, they replied in -Chorus that Almighty God had an swered their ? prayers for help from across the ocean. Daily when the In spection tour is finished rand one re-, turns to his temporary Quarters, one wonders if it U not all some horrible nightmare. ''-i Then realizing that it is stern reality, one wonders if after such scenes smiles and songs will ever seem the same again and one offers thanks for America's abUity to help in sparing the swrlTors' trom this horrible fate; , lAbbuf Coal Fields 1 llOllpppeB "-A ' .ft vftr (lord on Stiles BpecUl Cablo fo, Tb Jooroal sad Jb CbJeac (Copyright. 1919. i the- Catted BUUa and . Roriin. ' An Hi ,12. Anou the prom- inent Germans with whom I have talked In the last few days there i much anx itv vr what they regard as a strong possibility of the coal producing- section in Upper Silesia passing under Polish hands as in the other Sllesian districts. It is asserted that these coal fields are hot developed and It is asserted that the object of -tbe Poles i first to obtain rich mines without tne laoor ana -nense of opening shafts and, secondly, to hold their control of coal production as a club to force Germany into such commercial agreements as they care to dictate under the. threat of cutting- off coal supplies. . . " . Out-of-town orders sent parcel post g i en immediate attention. ' Mr. Man .To have ThatOId Hat Cleaned Re-Blocked! JRV AND GENTILE ALIKE STARVING ALL OVER POLAND Dr. H. I. Davis of Chicago.. Mero ber of Red Cross Commission, Tells of Horrible Sufferings. LASTING IMPRESSION' LEFT Hebrews and Christians of Amer ica Are Appealed To to Send Food to Put End to Misery. .By Anthony Csaraeekl Special Cabla to The Jonrnal aad The Chiease Daily Nawa. (Copyrlsht. 1919. by Chioaco Daily Nw Co.) Plnsk. Poland (By Courier to Part), April 1. (Delayed) "For . the past several days my eyes have seen unbe lievable-suffering and great numbers of people,: both Jews and Gentiles, at the very bottom depths, of misery, sorrow and death," said Dr. Halm iddeU Davis, former superintendent of the Cook County 'Psychopathic hospital, i rtd whose home is in Chicago and who now in Poland as a member of the American: Red Cross Polish relief com mission, ' traveling: through! the famine and disease-ridden sections of Poland. "Tell your fellow Americans back home that the most horrible dreams of suffering, destitution and want this city and in other centers of the territory which I have Just visited are overshadowed by the stern reality. Food and milk for the babies and clothes and medicine must immediately be provided for these innocent victims of the world war if these centersvdf civilization are to remain-and if crime resulting from dire need of . the ? barest necessities to , be prevented from spreading among the people, : . . V Conn try Stripped of Food ."The country was stripped of &U food by the Germans and then followed the destruction caused r by . the - Russian troops ' when . they returned in flight. After the Germans came the Bolshe vists, with their practice f of the doc trine of destruction. The Poles who drove out the Bolshevists have little if anything to give before the next, har vest, and so famine and disease are causing a daily increase in. toll of death) In this city and in other -places which I have visited during my 2000 kilometer (1200 miles) inspection: tour. If ever Americans, helped a deserving cause. and if theyxever shared in the work of - saving a - people from famine and other misfortunes, they now have an opportunity, of helping here. There no question of creed or even of . race in these stricken places. Suffering, misery and death grip all alike. ; Many have the appearance of being dazed and not comprehending the sufferjtng . and hor "Slowly. Inch by inch, children, men and women Jew and Christian are1 dvinB for the want of bread. What they eat is often mlxtuit tree bark. leaves, potato " peftllngsaind other in gredients without food, value. Hade Sick at Heart ' ""Some of the: families I visited used solely as food a mixture with less than 10 per cent of corn meal 'flour, adding to this chestnuts picked to the forest. If the Jews and Gentiles of wealth in America could hear only an echo of the cries, of distress which here ring In the ears of. everyone, they wonld. never feel at. ease again unless they did their ut most to hurry relief to this region. "Whatever misfortunes may happen to me. they will draw no complaint from my Hps aftev.what I have seen here. These scenes leave an indelible, impres sion upon one's very being;. Sometimes one undergoes real physical suffering by witnessing what other beings endure wttnout tne anility to . neip wemseivi and without any avenue of escape. Never in my life have I felt worse or FISHER BROS. "Clean j and Reblock Men's Hats : Extensive Quarters Located at Yest Park r and . ' Aider The many thousands of ? of this larje concern will Ae pleased to learn that theynow can have the hats of tbtir husbands and other male embers of the family' cleaned 5 and reblocked by Cisher Bros., who heretofore have Confined their business exclusively to, women's headgear. i - . -- This new branch of the business 'will be in charge' of Mr. Harry Fisher, the Junior partner of the concern, who has now returned to civil fife. Men's hats will be cleaned and reblocked. Out of town orders will be given careful attention. - ; Fisher r Bros, will I aim to build up this branch of the business with the same ' de gree of thoroughness; that has made for them in women's headgear the largest blocking house on the Pacific Coast more sick at heart Uin . since coi;....j here. "Such shipments of food as have come to this country: from America as gifts and such as . have come as purchases are not L anywhere . suff Icient. ; Our American Red Cross mission U already organising means to cope with .the su- distributing help to needy people, but knei" r eo ' t ind tne rt done so extensive that sreater efforts than ever must be made f!L?LerJc? V1 to million rrom death by famine and disease., rPriirDSrwho 18 companIed by ?n ot Boton- ho to also rJ? 5 C"s ce, has visited VlTru B,re"t-LlUV8k d Mad Empress fcroperty" v - tnflZZ"la AprU W p.) Among rereip property sequestrated by the Belgian government is 918.000,000 be longing to the mad ex-Empress Char-tS-Ir w,fdow c Maxlmnun, Emperor of Mexico sister-in-law . of Emperor Francis Joseph. - , t . . fTT . . '- Death to Be Legalized v rlm, Aprn 12. (U. P.) The cham ber Is considering a bUl enabling rel atives of the J14.000 missing French sol diers to presume death If no news to received within z years of the signing of peace. Widows may remarrr. - . "Hurry and Go Early" THE : SHOW riOl- :i n tr ; ? o v n good ; ? that . h c - rj?su A ; words J : ' Vv ; -US YOU 7 - v(fA fM J-J$K&- ..-ssf ) f s -.l J nJLVvU- iLM!l,L(J f; LZD 1 -ry - - -t: .,- 1 j ' . - . ' A . . - . ' - - ' ' ' - - t. - (il,iLliiil)U;ii,l' ILL FEED GERMANS tJ OCCUPIED AREAS One Army Ration a Day .Will Be ; Issued to " Each - of 850,000 V Population lnstead)f 150,000. ; By' Jnnins B. Wood Special CabW tp Tha Joaraal asd Tha Caleace . IJaily Neva. , - . (Copyricht, 1919. by Oucaao Dally Kawa Co.) Coblenz. ' Germany, : April ; 12. Plans have been completed to feed the Ger mans in the area occupied by the Amer ican army to the extent of one army ration :ior each 450.000 persons daily. The former plan contemplated only 150. - ooo rations in the area dally. With their own food resources the Germans are as sured of full stomachs during the com ing weeks. The liberal distribution of food is hailed with approval by every body except the local food dealers, who foresee a certain decline in . pricea The DIRECTION OF JENSEN - VON HERBERG FEAST OF THE SEASON uccater.t of tte dealers la further in creased .by. another modification of the Atni ican plans which . limits the price for consumers to 1 5 per- cent above cost price, "which the Hoover committee sets for wholesalers.: instead "of: 20 per cent as at first proposed. . . Prices are computed in "American money. . though the German consumers naturally pay in th "depreciated paper money .of their country. WhUe the Ger man looks on the mark as worth 15 cents, its actual value, according to the present, rat of exchange, is less than 9- cents. Wages have not advanced si multaneoualy with the depreciation of the mark and conseauently the price of food, for : the average, working man is high. v ,:-. . . Soap Is Thing Most -Neededf in Holland At Present Moment - By W.' J. 3U Klehl Spaoial Cable to Tha Jonraal aud The Chieasa . r . Dally Newa. ; -':... (Copyricbt. 1919., by Cbicaco Dally Xrw Co.) 1 HagXie, April 12. Holland's great est need at the present moment is soap. About one cake a fortnight is allowed to xamutes , oi rrom one te three persons. Toilet soap is not given to persons whose income is less than '1200 florins ($480) a year. - - , - - - - -aMa - ntoua , A"liJO, A(,y, I " - HHBa BV uvbWU Ull UBS l S3 V V w- H.1 waws A 1 c w a inriw AM and fllfth r diseases, ,.spread by- vertr threaten the, various centers, especially harbor ' towns ; and i industrial c.atrkt near the f frontier where disease wss , first imported bys refureos and, priaon .. er of war. An examination of the t school children revealed the fact that a -large percentage of them liav vermin. In their . clothes. - ; - , The. doctors say that It is useless' to i treat the children unless the families to which, they belong are also ; cleansed, The problem is betne; ; studied by tho municipal authoriUea , . , i 1 - In addition to the lack of -soap there is a dearth of clothing. 5 This is a factor in the vfrting off in cleanltriess.," Ther9 is a lacaT especially, of underwear -an hosiery and t many . school children de i not seven have " one change of . clothing1. ' I learn from well informed sources that ' English v manufacturers i have offered huge quantities of soap to Dutch firms, but -apparently the embargo on that ar ticle has not yet been lifted. A cake of soap. which costs 9 pence (13 cents) V in England is sold in Holland at from 60 to 80 cents. -t Even at -that price the supply is now exhausted. Cheap cloth- ; " . u eons wouia una . a reaaj maricet nere. , . ... fl I.Li. . m - Melbourne. Anrll 12 rr.--! "i xntut- . - - ' -.,41b from Australia to Xiondon. commencing next J uly, are planned by an aviation company , formed here . by Australian I capital. -i ' I i --j naowwu exiiu insia woea; frreii WEEK: "Plenty for Twenty' HATS CLEANED AND REBLOCICED . v; - - ;