LEAGUE ONLY GAN
PREVENT NEW WAR
————
President Wilson Presents
Treaty Of Peace to Senate
ONLY HOPE FOR = MANKIND
——
Address Lasted 40 Minutes—EBoth Sen-
ators And Galleries Listened With
Deepest Attention — Compro-
mises Not Of Vital Nature.
Wishington—President Wilson laid
before the Senate the peace trealy
with Germany.
wholly to the League of Nations.
said, “ended 20 years ago at the close
of the war with Spain, Fear of Amer
fcan motives now also had ended,” he
declared.
“There can be no question of our
ceasing to be a world power”
Mr. Wilson. “The only question
whether we can refuse the moral lead
ership that
shall accept
of the world
or reject the
already answered that question, “and
nothing but our mistaken
alter it.”
After the end of the
President said,
tion
action can
great war the
“every
cost of independent action
ernment that took thought for its peo
dom should lend itself to a
of international politics.”
Statesmen might see
accomplishing this purpose, the Pres.
ident continued, but the people could
gee none and could brook no denial
The League of Nations, he added, was
“not merely an
and remedy old
treaty of peace;
for mankind.”
It had not b
said, “to graft the new order of
on the old, and some fruits
the grafting may, I fear, for
bitter.
instrument to adjust
new
hope
wrongs under a
it was
the only
een easy, the President
ideas
of
of the
added,
the peace table
as we did to get
influence, the
demoralizing
tional counsel
of which the
many
growth.”
“the men who sat with us
desired as sincerely
from the
away
ambitions, the interna
sinister des! of
(Ger
as a natura
ELSR
had sprung
Accepted By Most Practical.
“The fact . of the
league was
of the treaty
agreed wupon™
“while all else
to make
easier.”
Mr. Wilson agreement on
the covenant had given the conferees
a fesling that their work was to
permanent and that the
tical among them “were at last
most ready to refer to the
that the
first
be
tha
covenant
the substantive part
out
President
to worked
gaid,
was in
the formulation of the
said the
be
most
terests which did not
admit of
& continuing oversight.”
“What had seemed a
perfection,” said the President,
come to seem a plain counsel of neces
sity. The League of
counsel
he was attempting.”
“My services and sll the
of your Committee on Foreign
in session, as you prefer; and 1 hope
of them.”
American
asserted,
isolation,
was ended 20 years ago
when the war with Spain put the
nation in partial control of Cuba and
the Philippines.
“But we have not exploited them.”
he continued. “We have heen
. a There can be no question of
our ceasing to be a world power, The
only question is whether we can re
fuse the moral leadership that is of
fered us, whether we shall accept or
reject the confidence of the world.
Our Destiny Disclosed.
“The stage is set, the destiny die
closed. It has come about by no plan
of our conceiving, but by the hand of
God, who has led us into this way. We
cannot turn back. We can only go
forward, with lifted eyes and fresh:
ened spirit, to follow the vision.”
GRAIN PEST IN VIRGINIA,
Shipments From That And Othér
States May Be Barred.
Washington Appearance of plant
diseases in the grain crops of Indiana,
Nlinois, Virginia, West Virginia and
Georgia has resulted in the issuance
of a call for a meeting at the Depart
ment of Agriculture to consider the
advisability of prohibiting or restrict:
ing the movement of wheat, oats and
other small grain from those states.
Alluding to the skepticism with
which the plan for a league of nations
first was received, the President said
that as the peace negotiations proceed.
ed it became apparent to all the dele-
gates that such a concert was "a prac-
tical necessity,” demanded by “all the
peoples of the world.” For the United
States to reject it, he asserted, would
“break the heart of the world.” Point.
ing out that many minor compromises
were necessary to secure the support
of all the interested nations, he con-
tinued:
“The treaty, as a result, is not ex-
actly what we would have written, It
is probably not what any one of the
national delegations would have writ
ten. But results were worked out
which on the whole bear test. I think
that it will be found that the com
promises which were accepted as in-
evitable nowhere cut to the heart of
any principle.”
President Given Ovation.
Wilson was given an
he entered the Senate
he concluded the
address, but he was
during the reading.
crowded
President
ovation when
chamber and when
reading of his
not interrupted
gallery following him closely.
After conciuding
President formally
to the Senate
was
his address the
presented
treaty and the
copy
Foreign and
Relations Committee
.
}
possible
of
address
shortest
copies
dent's
by the Senate,
time,
ireaty
were
Presi
printed
the the
ordered
and
Confers With Senators.
his ad
his room
After conclud
ng
went to Near
Senate chamber, whare he remalr
nearly an hour receiving
Representatives and
treaty of them.
Peace
Senators §
discussing
with many Reasons
+ iv ar 3 pe .
t ting t Conferees
aCciua ue
many important subjects were said to
the President,
have been disclosed by
All Precedents Are Shattered.
The
League
far-reaching proposals of the
covenant, praised on the
era of
mdemned
hand as signaling a new
brotherhood and on
other as marking the end of national
were submitted in appropriate
a session annulling mans
Senate procedure It
t Pros
I
“Line a
treaty in person, and
of
t
:
w far Fisk a
irs gent HAR
pres the
first t
¥
me sage of presentation
with
» the public,
ad aren received the
doors open
BRITAIN TO RESTRICT ALIENS.
To Limit
Their Employment.
House Committee Votes
London
opposition
House of C
ed by 2
the Allen bill
mmons
15
restricting
vote of
Britain
Home
ment of aliens in Great
Under Secretary of the Office
had argued » the committee
inclusion
would wreck the
try in the empire
E. N. HURLEY RESIGNS.
J. B. Payne May Succeed Shipping
Beard Head.
Washington Wilson ac
resignation of Edward N
Hurley as chairman of the Shipping
Board, effective August 1. It
stood that Mr. Hurley will
ed by John Barton Payne, of Chicago
the Railroad Ad
ministration, whose nomination as a
member of the Shipping Foard was
gent {o the Senate
President
the
is ander
be succeed
coun gel ¢ {
TORNADO'S TERRIBLE HAVOC.
Houses Destroyed.
Bradford, Pa -—Two
killed, many olheras suffered
and houses were completely
molished by a tornado which swept
a narrow path through Bradford.
persons
wr
small dwelling was carried
of a mile by the twister.
Russia's Latest Proposal.
Admiral Kolchak, has written
Premier Clemencean, as president of
the Pegco Conference, proposing an
international mandate for Constan
tinople, with Russia represented, and
a Russian mandate for the Dar
denelles,
Only German Propaganda.
Paris. Reports received from Ger.
man sources that American troops
would occupy Upper Silesia were de
nied in American circles here. A
member of the American peace dele.
gation characterized the reports ae
“perfect rubbish.”
sh —
. Return Of Raliroads.
Washington. Chairman Cummins,
of the Senate Commerce Commission
announced the appointment of a sub
committee consisting of himself and
Senators Poindexter, Washington;
Kellogg, Minnesota, Republicans, and
Robinson, Arkansas, and Pomerene,
Ohio, Democrats, to consider and for
mulate legislation looking to the re
turn of the raliroads to private owner:
ship. The subcommittee will begin
work within a short time.
PRESIDENT WILSON
BACK IN CAPITAL
Thousands Greet Him in New
York and Washington
SPEAKS AT CARNEGIE HALL
The
in
Brilliant Scene In Harbor As
George Washington Steams
Through A Lane Formed By
Decorated Vessels.
York. — President
from the gangplank
George Washington,
Wilson
Lhe
which
Now
stepped
of
soil
pier
American
line
on the Hamburg-Amer
at Hoboken at 3
ican
M.
and
he
Miss
with him, a
other daughters
aboard the ship to greet him.
There was gcene In the
ship en
Wilson,
Margaret
who
President's
the
the guns
tered, As
Hancock
transport
boom i i i
boomed a pres
Fort and Fort Wade
shrill whist
Hamilton
The
{ook up the din
by
les
President
of
ght aft
absence ths at the
ton at midni
an
Paris
of
Zens
Peace Conference, told a throng
Was! i
greeted m
many thousand
who
sn that
States
The
league of nations
Be snd
} aid
pleasi
hE
asgurancs
ir of arrival dus
President
filer wel
and Mrs
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iv a the
President
» White
1s . vig #
pYennsEvivanid
well
but | do not
you extend
§
ome you ha
believe
fo me
which extend
though | am
I ever thought
tiful
have
walter to
ht
een mes
man in the
Forces,
it would
express
Amer :
with
for
find myself
again, |
and it is feelings
me Lo fc
in this
i
not say
be vain
that |
FEE $y
Coun y
iry
A
a0
that because ] lack in
suniries,
ihat
One of the chief
There
gofiened
other
many
have
my home
things that
things
sickness
come that they extended to me as
Your representative
of the water. And {i was
softened by the pride that | had in
discovering that America had at ast
1 was
with their own eyes what
America had done for the world. They
deemed her seifish. They had deemed
her devoted to material interests and
they bad seen her boys come across
the water with a vision even more
beautiful than that which they con
ceived when they had entertained
dreams of liberty and peace,
' Pride In The Army.
And then I had the added pride of
finding out by personal observation
the kind of men we had sent over.
I had crossed the seas with the kind
of men who had taken them over,
without whom they could tot have
got to Europe, and then when | got
there | saw that army of men, that
army of clean men, that army of men
devoted to the high interests of hu
manity, that army that one was glad
to point out and say, "These are my
fellow countrymen,” It softens the
homesickness a good deal to have so
much of home along with you.
These boys were constantly remind.
ing me of home. They did not walk
the streets like anybody else. 1 do
not mean that they walked the streets
selfassertively. They did not. They
walked the streets as if they knew
that they belonged wherever free men
lived, that they were welcome in the
great republic of Frande and were
comrades with the other armies that
had helped to win the great battle and
acter
to know the great sacrifice. Because
it ie a wonderful thing for this nation,
hitherto isolated from the large af.
fairs of the world, to win not only
the universal confidence of the poo
ple of the world, but their universal
affection, and that, and nothing less
than that, is what has happened.
Whenever it was suggested that
troops should be sent, and it was de-
#ired that troops of occupation should
excite no prejudice, no uneasiness on
the part of those to whom they were
sent, the men who represented the
other nations came to me and asked
me to send American soldiers. They
not only implied but they said that
the presence of American soldiers
would be known not to mean anything
except friendly protection and assist
ance. Do you wonder that it made our
hearts swell with pride to realize these
things?
But while these
degree softened
they made
get home
live, to
dynamo
uated, to
purposes
formed,
part in
things in some
my homesickness,
me all the more ecuger to
where the of the folks
get home where the great
of national energy was
get home where the great
of national wore
and to be allowed take
the counsels and ae
rest
sit
action
io
in the
which
the
nation,
has followed
whe
last
first to
the
from
vision of men
set it up and created it
We have had cur eyes very close
upon our tasks at times, but when
ever we lifted
ustomed to lift
We
peoples
thelr
who
them we wes
them to a dis
srizon were aware that
of the
faces
he
{
h
t earth
:
urnied
thi od
toward
were friends
of right, and
nations
upon
knew
we Were
3
the larg
NE
free
Yokes Thrown Off
i w
ner
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HAVE
and
und
’
are
iawn about
hey think of what
day with action th
Hem
of the {
years
think first
the long
who were
iende
through bave
for them.
for
ciare tha
spoken
privileged to de
they « ¢
whi
make peact
terme than their liberty
known t}
into the
war to
that they
any other
release said
would no upon
and they have
America’s
iat presetice in the
the conference was the
uarantee of the result
The Governor has spoken
Yes, the formulation of
the peace is ended, but it creates only
a new lask just begun
I believe that
the peace you
Just peace and a peace which,
can be presedved, will the
world from unnecessary blood
shed. And now the great task is te
preserve it 1 have « back
with my heart full of enthusiasm
for throwing thing that 1
can, by way of influence or action
in with you to see that the pease
is preserved; when the long
reckoning comes men look
back upon this generation of
America and say: “They were true
to the vision which they saw at
their birth"
of a great
ended
if vou will study
pits 56€ thai it is a
if it
save
ame
ever
that
may
Montenegro Protests.
Paris. - The Montenegrin govern:
ment has addressed a few nole to
the Peace Conference, protesting
against alleged excesses by Serbian
troops in Montenegro. The note save
that certain villages were attacked Uy
a force of 5,000 Serbs, which were
equipped with cannon, and houses
were demolished and women and chil
dren killed.
To Prosecute Reds,
New York.—District Attorney Swann
announced that he had impanelod an
extraordinary grand jury and woanid
ask Governor Smith to call a special
term of the Supreme Court ax the first
steps in the prosecution of didngerons
radicals aw revealed by the inquiry of a
joint legislative committee now in
progress here,
PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Catasauqua. Walter White, a Cata-
wucua letter carrier, was attacked by
i vicious dog while riding from his
farm at Kreldersvillie to work and was
wriously bitten on a leg
Coplay. —Council has accepted a lo
ql cement company's offer to furnish
ree the cement, sand and stones need
pd to pave all the streets in the bor-
started at once,
Belleville —At the annual conven.
dom of Mifflin county Sunday schools
sere, George B., Kellm was re-elected
sresident for the eighth
year
Dunmore William ¥
place, hag been elected
Lackawanna county
consecutive
Grady of this
chairman of
Democratic
of Carbondale, who declined
Welsh
Pennsylvania,
New Castle folks
enrtern
gather here
of west.
Ohio
¢ ‘
ang
On JU)
This
Ber 2 ¥
Manheim
town In
the first
conoerele
borough,
this
contracted for
7 i is . s ’
other big section, and
completed, fully
streets
ith concrete.
when this
half the borm
Work in
iN E main
OGVEred w
Huven The
pioinied L¥ LET
Lock bhosird of viewers
Dauphin «
court do th nreliminars
the joys
Waynesboro
TEATS,
OER
{ the American
] won a war cross, Thu
‘askie Kern and Miss E
ww ? ah
Ming '
1 00LE. i i
Wenn
registered nur
anda
ushand wa yp
ishand was serving
goitieors it Its gh Was
5
: f +)
’
# side of 1
In
OUPRT
Huszl«
sive and
ine P
rioh oo
the
had been a
streets after 1
W. Heide:
police to rigidly enforee
ordinay
the
*
Me
iyor Henry
ce, which
ier recently.
Johnstown
war
gnnized General Menoher Post No
Yelerang of Forelgn Wars J
Genera! Charlies T. Menoher hess com
plied with
Velerane of the
who served overseas me!
the request of the
he bed ame
Yelerans
8 charter member of
i
for
organization
New Castle
membership in
have been
{ ‘ontract
the
fe received
Was awarded
:
i
!
i
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{
:
i
lock-up in the police patrol
The jail in the basement of the
will be abandoned.
New Castle—~Willlam Finley Alken,
twenty-six, of Slippery Rock township,
was sixth drowning victim in the
barn
the
drowned while swimming at Niles,
Bethlehem. Bethlehem's war chest
has grown to S402800 48 making the
total for June $31.441.11.
Bloomsburg — The defunct ostrich
farm at Espy will now be put to an.
other use. “Osirich brand sauer
Kmuot” will be the output of the farm,
taking the place of the £1.000,000 cor
poration which was to yield big reve.
nue fo the lurkiess stockholders. Wil
Ham Creasy, who purchased the farm
at sheriff sale, has set out fifteen acres
of cabbage pinnts,
Altoona. Dragged along the road
near Lakemont Park for several hun-
dred yards by a cow, Millard Haines,
thirteen, Altoona, is in the hospital
tied the rope to his wrist, and when
the cow he was leading became fright
ened and bolted he could not loosen
himself,
Harrisburg. —The state compensa
tion board will =i «! Reading, July 7:
Potteville, July 8; Wilkes-Barre, July
8, and Scranton, July 10. Sittings
are also scheduled for Plttshurgh on
July 18 17 and IR
Lederach. Attacked by a cow, Mr
Corson Epenship, of this place, was
hurled into a diteh, sustaining werd
vas injuries,
“ust Lansdowne. Bast Lansdowne
will vote on a $40.000 loan for a new
school at a special election on July 8
Hatfield. Abraham M. Kulp, former
principal of the public schools here,
tendent of Montgomery county schools,
Wormleysburg. Hams, bacon and
eggs to the value of almost 2100 were
stolen froma the store of W. Scott
Coble, of Wormleysburg by automobile
ieves.
past, and many of them graze in the
{ flelds of farms Wm this vicinity, Bear
are also frequently seen.
i Lock Haven--At 8 meeting of the
| Lock Haven Ministerial association
{ these officers were elected for the en-
| suing year: President, Rev, Elliott D.
Parkill ; vice president, Rev. J. Win-
field Beoit; secreiary, Rev, 8, B. Bid-
incle,
Montrose Harford hoys won state
| championship at State college. The
| Busquehanna county stock judging
team consisted of Miller Lewis, Rupert
Grant, Kenneth Maynard, Frank Wil
marth and Howard Benning
! Hazleton. Labor day, September 1,
| has been set for the big welcome home
celebration for the service men of the
Hazleton district by the general com-
in charge of arrangements. A
will be held on July 4 In con-
with the unveiling of the sta-
the memorial
mitlee
parade
nection
tues and firches erecind
on the principal streets of the city.
Mauch Chonk. ~The Kwitchback rafl-
road has opened for the The
and equipment
compielse
we BOT
roadbed
given a
ipachiinery,
Have Deen overhaul.
ing
Mahoning
instituted in Normal pure chapel
here by Dr. J M. Yeti e { Kresge
Carbon Counts arm
M. Rahn, of Ma: 1
Marysvilie Rallrond
ity are badly In need of emp
A new lodge was
grange
the =
and
Nicholas
ville Agent
unk
this
You
and advertisements ho
for men for the first time
nent order
ksued
big
the
was
ihe re
{ after funds
any closed the pure
teen Acres of
from
purpose
the side and
the Aunibersos
of the comp
n of quite =a
its employes.
rnesboro ~The w
for
works
3
te
the erectio
yok Tor
We
hore
the =
began cutting
I swing bs
int
Firspvae
grain
looks a
Castle New CC
rade membership
completed
ana
oot
board af
& ahout
putle
CRYGDE RT
The board
The
added twenty
board this he
plural membership
| been reported
Brownsville Led
| 4 posse Is searching the vicinity of
| Brier Hill for the unidentified man
| who assaulted Mary Kilm, fourteen, n
short distance from her home The
little girl was on san errand the
home of her grandmother at Roya!
Works When the tot managed to
| reach her home, bloodhounds were
{ sent on the trail, but were unable to
follow It on mecount of the cross
tracks. The little girl is suffering
from shock
Brownsville When an pole on which
he was fastened while repairing an
electric wire fell, Thomas Johns, Jr.
aged nineteen, of South Brownsville,
wae so seriously injured that he was
| taken to the General hospital. When
| the pole hit the ground Johns, who
was hugging it, received a severe blow,
i which rendered him unconscious He
ie suffering from shock and concussion
of the brain.
Lebanon —In digposing of a R000
estate the late Mrs. Lizzie K. lever,
of Annville, bequenthes S500 cach to
| Bethany Orphans’ home, Womelsdor!;
| the ehureh buliding fund of the hoard
| of foreign missions of the Reformed
church, the Annville Reformed chareh
and the board of foreign missions of
the Reformed Church of the United
| States
Pottstown — The schoo! board here
elected teachers, but postponed fixing
ihe salaries
Wilkes Barre.—Thus far thirty-four
candidates have come out for office
| In Luzerne county, with others report.
| od ax seeking places.
| Palmerton.-Farmers of the adioin.
ing districts have alrendy started to
| make their meadow hay, and the crop
will be Ane,
Montrose Mrs. Etta Warmer has
| been held for trial at Montrose on a
{ charge of having assaulted John Bute
ler, aged elghty.seven,
Chambersburg Oud Fellows held)
memorial services in the Central Pres.
byterian church here, ;
Fogelsville As he was buying bread
from a baker's wagon in front of his
home James Hans a wealthy farmer
of Ruppsville, Lehigh county, fell over
dead.
now hes about
Stee!
memberships
largest
that has
members Carnegie
nPANy
to 1h
result
{ hy bloodhounds,
fo