w immmm'mmim jTHPflWB l"iJ L'l" fBlUBflU fW Wppwpnjr-wjB n""v? "-I?- r "?itif py-ex--r EVENING LEDaERr-IHILADELPHIA; MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1917 PEUTONS REPULSE Attacks on pdtna Berlin Report Shows Ger- M mans Homing uwh un Rumanian jjronts SLIGHT ACTIONJN WEST BfUlACS Moment - ttfnr.TV. .Inn. 22. ? . ... ...- n.itnna nncl KmnnnlftnA f AS"l lh" AwTro-aerman position, in tlS infl'a Illver. west nf Panel... tre -",!,! tho Wnr Olllce nnnouncerf toduy Wu,'l'L 1. J H...nnnlan operations. fJL, his licclr heavy cnnnoi.adliiB on IS B. lei of t he Olto. Valley. In Moldavia. Sfn fKlern. farpathlans the connnun.. fe .eveml poliiH. nil being rn.ccesst.il for HM Teutons. -n,ilan raldhiK detachments wrro notUo fert SSTt l f tfrWWmdt and the K"1 a!!' M,e attacUM wero repuHed. the Office, stated In Its report on eastern- Kfroiit light .iB . a S demehment,-. ld the Oer letween . announcement fan (lKhthift m Macedonia. fcni!r. . i. normal, trocps of Nnncstl I.ro a Pl"ar from the wall . of tho Busman fnse." the military cruio ui u.u ....... K Ptw uu"n" ' -:' .V . ,; . uma an cam- the recent iuv. - ip&lgn. i-,.iMI Hntnln the K "The Jiumanuwi mu u :-- E.dvances of Archdtiho Josephs army In the lirder to avert danger to that posltlton and Boutflanklni; on tho I'.itna and Sereth. the I.Utement said "During tho last ew davii .!eclnlly. Molent nttnclcs Imvo l.ecu . 1 Irected ngn.nst our position situated on he fccarpatn.au sioput. im ... --- -------- Bv.ii.v Tlieso brought mi success, but In stead heaiy losses In dead and prisoners. rPIOTKOaiUD, .Ian. 22. .....i r nimv attempts to advance by BMfclaa fire in tho Oltus Valley was re SrNl in todays olllclnl statement. On the 'rest of the ltumanlan front thero was mutual exchango of lire. rATUS. Jan- Two German attacks on tranches tmrth ot Courleres Wood yesterday evening vvero topped by artillery and Infantry lire, to day's olllclal statement stated A number !i..i,i r.nmiinis in Alsace were also ru- ported. ' A The repulse of a minor British attack Fnear Lens was reported uy ' no v. ,ir vi.to ftoday Near Uczonvaux and l'ont-a-Mous- iion German ra.uing ueiuK-nii"" ."".. French positions, and captured some pris oners and one machine- gun. i German Raider Reported Sunk Continued fnim I'nco Ons lmt fhn raider liad nrmed and cnulppcd nt lyleast ono of her captures, presumably tho K British merchantman St. Theodore. W The South Atlantic today was literally Immering with searchers ror tno snip or Bhips responslbla for tho blow at Allied commerce Brazil added to her fleet of war vessels watching to prevent violations ot neutrality by detaching a number of vessels from her fleet. They will patrol Brazilian territorial vvateis. Neutral merchantmen arriving at various South American ports reported Allied war vessels nlmost con Itantly In sight Klve steamships variously reported as merchantmen and cruisers vvero said to bo lurking between Trovo Acao and Yncare. Lack of anv recent Information locating 4(;, the Hermans In adjacent South American I i"V mlaru lino ... I ... t.t-A..tia.l r-t.111 ii.ltli tl.n lie. Y ..h.v.o nun on iiiit cavil lltlll . ...i i? . - lltf that tho raider has changed her field of operations, and that this Held may be I the 'southern Pacific, that the Chilian navy '- has been called on for vigorous patrol duty Dispatches from Itlo do Jonelro today . carried vigorous denial by tho Brazilian au thorities of reports that Uerman vessels ' Interned there including a German gun boat had been permitted to outfit and take on Bupplles. Tho rumors had developed GERMANY REVIVES ARMED SHIP ISSUE Berlin Will Contend' Vessels With Guns Are Really Warships U. S. FACES CONTROVERSY Washington Awaits Memoran dum From Gerard on Teuton Stand SCHOOL HEADS OPPOSE POPULAR ELECTION IDEA Wouldn't Servo if Ho Had to Run and Play Politics, Says Edmunds UNAMERICAN, SAYS LANE Tendency to Concentrate Authority in Few Men Called Undemocratic by Political Leader IlKnMN. .Inn. 22. A summary nf the Gorman Admiralty's olllclal statement on the detention ni pris oners of war of neutral sailors aboard nrmed merchantmen captured by the Ger man navnl forces has been cnblcd to the State Department at Washington by Am bassador Gerard This Is tho only Informa tion :iet unliable regarding this develop, inont In naval procedure. German olllclal circles profess to regard tho rase as affording nil opportunity for tiegotlntloni looking to the settlement be tween America and Germany of the slatni of armed merchantmen. Slnco the men In question are afo ntid tho rase Is not com plicated by the lo"s of human life, as might havo been Involved bad it arisen from the destruction of nrmed merchantmen by sub marines, optimism over an amicable adjust ment Is expressed here. Slpce th9 Issuing or the German memoran dum nn nrmed merchantmen earlier In the war German authorities have held that a ship which mounts guns, whether they be Intended for defense or offense, loses it- status as n privato commercial craft and becomes n wa.slup Sailors taking service on such a ship, German authorities contend, loso their neutral status. Just as If they had enlisted in the naval forces of a bel ligerent Therefore. thco sailors arc liable to treatment as prisoner otivar It Is held These grounds arc set forth In tho second nnnex to tho German pr:zo code, which states explicitly that trie crews ot armed merchantmen which offer resistance to l.er man naval forces shall bo treated as war prisoners. Though the memorandum and tho prlzo court lake this stand, the prob lem bus been held in abeyance. Of late, however, the nrmed merchant man Issue has again become pressing, and the belief Is growing that tho Government will tnko ndvnntngo of the situation created by tho bringing Into a German port of tho prize ship Yarrow dale, with tho crew held as prisoners of war. to bring tho question to a head. According to the British Consulnte In New York, three Americans nro among the members of the crew of tho British steam ship Yarrowdalo captured by tho German raider In tho South Atlantic. Tho Ynr rovvdale, with a prlzo crewln chnrgo and tho former crew as prisoners, was sailed Into a German port, believed to bo Swinn-muendc. The proposition to reorganize the gov ernment of the public school system by hav ing tho Board of Education elected by the people rather than appointed by the Board of Judges found llltlo favor lodny ntnone tho members of tho school board. The proposition had been advanced by Franklin N Bt'cvver, ns president of tho Public Indu ration and Child Labor Association. In n letter tn .Fohn ( Winston, chairman of tho Charter llcvlslon Committee. Mr Brew er advocated a complete, change from the present system of choosing members of tho Board of Kducntlon. He suggested that the board consist of Rlx members rather than fifteen, ns at present, and that If theso members n.o chosen by popular elections womtn bo per mitted to vote. "If Ihli change Is effected." said llenry rt Kdmund. picsldent of the Board of Kducntlon "I shall no longSr wnnt to be a member I will not be n candidate and make slump speeches to obtain member ship In a board for which there l no com penallon and which under the proposed icliemc would become nn entirely political body. I vvai oiu'e offered a Judgeship of the fnlted Slate District Court bv Presi dent llarrl'on. t resigned olllce of assist ant City Solicitor nft.'r holding it for one year. I Would surely tint bo willing to glvo all my time to school matte. s In a liouid f sK members, especially vvliero political pressure worn! be gienl." MfJMIUJttS WOllK ItAtm "The public docs not appreciate, I think, Just how much work a member of the Board of Kducntlon Is called upon to per form. If the board Is reduced In number the labor will be doubly great and If thi public expects six men to administer the school sjsteni II should ntso expect th.-u those s'x men should be paid. Ah to tho proposal to have women vote for member'? of the Bonrd of Kducntlon, 1 mil not op posed to letting them vote If they want to." David It. I.nnc, member of tho Board of r-Murntlot. nnd Republican lender of the Twentieth Wnrd for many years, referred tn the proposed rhnngo ns undemocratic. Ho snld that constant trend of legislation vvns to rcduco the number of persons exer cising authority nits, lie thought, vvai nn unwholesome condltlton. A board of educa tion with only six members, he said woul.1 be "un-American. Dlmner Beeber, president of the Common wealth Trust company, chairman of the committee on Boys' High Schools of the Board of IMuentlou nnd n former Judge of the Superior Court, was emphatically In favor of enfranchising women If the Bonn: of Education should become elective. WOULD MKAN HAttD WOltK "t havo not read the plans In detail." he said, "anil I an. not sure whether or no n Board of IMuenllon nf six members would bn satisfactory If there were to h only six member, however, they s'ould bo men of means will, no other occupation, vho could devote nil their tlmo to educa'.i mi matter'. Six men could p. i.irm all llv work, but they ivould have to devote far more lime to It than the lioiiid of flf'crn tiieinli" now does. "If .. salary .vers attached to the oflhc. It should be n Inrpu one. say nt least f'.'M n month But 'hen nicmbcrMitp In thu Bonrd of Education would bo Inr too vnln ble a prlzo for the politicians to nes'et. I should ce Mainly tot wish in nr,y caso to seo the public cchtula steeped Hi politic"." JiOGUS U1V0UCE DECREES Police Say Stenographer Defrauded Negroes, With Preacher's Aid LtTTT.tJ BOCK. Ark Jan 22 omrers who arrested W H White, n negro stenog rapher here, say he has Issued 1000 coun terfeit divorce decrees to Arkansas negroes within lhe last year. They say that While, defrauded negroes of the State, out of sev eral thousand dollars. Tho Ber. William If. Alford, a negro preacher, was nrrested as an accomplice. The officers say he solicited business tot White. n muinjiinarrx The Proverb That Declares "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eafc It" was accepted before Endowment Insurance had been heard of. . . THE Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia FOURTH AND CHESTNUT STS. FOUNDED 1865. Provident f li i .in mi i HiiiHiwnr 1 j ' widespread reports he.o that such ves- ; .'seis were preparing to make u. dash for tho a, open sea to join tho raider. The steam- lL Khln Tint,.'., .... I . .A n t. I !N subsequent mectinir with n German vessel Bgfc'tatsca wero revived ns evidencing extensive uerman preparations for tho raid. Estate department GETS OFFICIAL NEWS , WASHIXOTO.V. Jan. 22. The State De , Partments Hr&t olllclal word on the German 1 TAider'S r.ltltllr-A (lit- nrlBun... In l.n C...I. Atlantic including 103 neutrals, came from - "rar vieraru loti.ty in a messago kunuriiunB press statements, that 46a men ntis tuivtril The message referred tn prisoners on the Tarrowdale, which, tho papers said, had arrived In a German port. : Theje was no mention of Americans in the number, It w-an said by officials. "MACDUC" SAYS ALLIES PLOT U. S.-TEUTON WAR , , NEW YOBK, Jan 22 Printed elrenlnra wamlnt. that tim ah.h Imay try to force war between Germany "u America uy Having a submarine Hying Efjerman colors and manned by sailors In kGemian Unifnrma slnlr nn Ama.tnnn .. ere said to have been received by several "vMtciio iriiiua louay. t They were signed "Macduo" and detailed inow England would shortly-- be rendered ftdesnpmtn h a ..a... ,--. . Ecampalgn. Germany, tle circular said, Erould be "particular not to dangerously ,iuu0 Amencap antagonism." Continuing Km letter fancifully details "whispers" from lhe "ghost of Machlavelli" that "to the de fpwate all things aro Justifiable" and aug- siis now easy it would be to essay the IJUPmarlno Plan specified. It suggests hav- wa I ...-.- ie,,44iu (nviiu Americans ownlng from the liner and being certain I'th "man3r Americans lose their lives r i"r mo uumntr me greater the lmpetus to Immediate hostilities." a "The German Government will make Sweeping denials." thn rlrrnlni. i.Antln,.Aa quotlng the ghost of Machlavelli. "They i- nnuso )uu ui perpetrating the In i kS star'e,,' tno American press will- WILL DEMAND RELEASE OF U. S. RAIDER VICTIMS WASHINGTON, .inn. 22 Tho State Department expected today to receive a report on Germany's capture of neutrals In her recent South Atlantic raids. Inasmuch as this will probably" show Americans in the crows were made prison ers, the Government then will havo a new International complication on lt3 hands. Its course will probably be: To demand release of tho prisoners, and. It Is Indicated, Germany would not balk at such a r,ea.ucst. Second, to engage In n. new diplomatic exchange looking to bettlement of armed ship question. The second course seemed logical to authorities, though tho department had made no official pronouncement of its views on that point up to early today. Germany wants that vexatious problem cleared ; tho department, too, would like to havo it satisfactorily disposed of. To 'date, thero has been a gulf between the two nations In their Interpretations. Germany vsays armament makes a ship a war vessel! without the usual Immunities of a peaceful merchantman. Capture of prisoners on such a ship, Germany holds. Is Justlllablc. On the other hand, tho United States bays "defensive" armament Is proper, nnd clears vessels thus armed. But thero have been slight indications In the past two or threo months that the United States might alter some of its Ideas though perhaps not enough to como tn the German viewpoint. Hence, tho possibility of troublo is greater today than In recent months, especially ns this Issue Is linked with the probability of a broader German submarlno campnlgn. LOCAL OPTION STAMPS OUT Blue-and-White Stickera Demand Im mcediate Legislative Action The local option forces hae inaugurated a "stamp" campaign to di"ct Interest of tho voters of tho State In the county local option bill which u .tl como up for passage during tho sessions ot the Leg islature. b amps a trifle la.ger than the or dinary portage srmp have been sent to a!1 parts of the State from the Philadelphia offices of the local option committee of I'cnn sj Ivanla They aie being pasted every where, nnd aro being used by the local op tlomsts on their letters In the same manner as the annual Bed Cross Christmas stamps are used The local option stamps carry this direct appeal to the voters and, itgislators: "Give Pennsylvania local option .low '" They are printed In blue and white, tre State colors. More Paralysis Cases in West Virginia FAIRMONT. W. Va . Jan. 22. Three additional cases of Infantile paralysis were discovered In this vicinity according to ni announcement by local health officials. Two were found in Fairmont, while the third was In Bnrackvllle, near here. Fined $10 for Smoking His Pipe. ORANGB. N". J-. Jan. 22. Because he smoked his pipe near a tank of gasoline, Victor Jablonskl has lost his Job and paid a fine of $10 in the Irvlngton police court. The complaint was made by Carl Berger, an olllclal of the Irvlngton Varnish and In. sulato Company, who asserted that, in spite ot warnings, Jablonskl persisted In smoking In the plant. The prisoner's only excuse was that he did not know that he was endangering the lives of the other employes. The Philadelphia Art Galleries S. E. Cor, 15th and Chestnut Sts. It E Ell II. 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