EVENING rrBLIO LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 191D 14 y 6 K ti 1 1 . toy PRESS PRAISES : WILSON'S SPEECH -hsr it. 'Jf'ff sues- Despite Some Criticism, , Many Newspapers Ap prove Address DETAILS ARE AWAITED !Agrcc What He Said Made Profound Impression on ' His Audience lit Ifft Despite here nnd there u oto of criticism and a disposition to aw nit his discussion ot details before pasalng final Judgment on his lews, the newspapers of tho United States today spoke gen erally In approvat of President Wll aon's address In Boston jestcrday asMng support for the league ot nations. Among theso editorial expressions wcro tho following: New York World "Thus far tho op 1! JXosltlon to the leaguo of nations In the unuea Males, nnu particularly in m Senate, has been a counsel of cowardice. Xo critic of tho leaguo of nations has advanced any plan of his own by which tho peace that ends this war ran bo guaranteed. Xot olio of them holds out tha smallest measure of hopo to a civilization wounded almost to death. They leao tho world weltering In Its own blood and tell tho afflicted peoples to heal themsehes as best they can " New York Tribune "In the generall ties and aspiration expressed by tho President, although their tenor does not differ essentially from his prelous ut terances, It Is possible to catch. It seems, a little more appreciation of realities. "There Is a happy nbtenco of any echo of the doctrlno sedulously preached by distrust breeders that tho Huropeans arc a selfish lot and need careful watching. 'The practical aspects of the peace problems' the 1'resldent did not discuss " New York Times The President dc I Cambrldgo prior to the time the Presi dent will sail, n visit in this city la re garded as more than iikoiy. f Only One of Party Intra Tm.. Here j Mrs. Thomas J. speiiacy, or i-amora, Conn., was the only person to leave the Tresldentla' train at West Philadelphia. Mrs. Speiiacy and her husband were members of the party In France, and Air. Speiiacy continued on tho trip to Washington, while Mrs. Spcllaey will lslt Mr. and Mrs. II, O Ilruliakcr, of Wayne, Mrs. Speiiacy said that President Wil son had expressed himself ns extremely happy ocr tho way matters had gono In Franco and over the tremendous wel come accorded him on his return and further, that he was extremely pleased to learn of tho birth of a on to Mr and Mrs. Sayre. First Treaty Will Decide Big Issues rontlnuttl from I'ns" One Karuch. cf the United States Mce presi dent of the commission. Tho committee also welcomed the dele gates of Portugal Sehnors, Monlz, Frlere and Daudrade The official communication of the Peace Conference says' "The representatUes ot the Allied and nssoclated governments met yes terday at the Qual d'Ors.iy. from 3 to B p m 'The Albanian representatives were introduced and Turkhan Pasha stated the Albanian claims The examina tion of this question was referred to the committee on Ureek affairs "Tho Paris Inter-Allied commission on Polish affairs communicated cer tain1 Information and proposals re ceived from the Inter-Allied commis sion now at Warsaw. Marshal froch was present , , . , , "Tho net meeting will be held today at 3 p m " Complete Work on M nr Oullt The s ibcommlttee of the Peace Con ference, deallrg wl'h the responsibility of the authors of tho war has com pleted Its work Its report has not been made public, but as Its meetings and hearings it gave were attended by nearly all the members of tho full com mittee, there seems no doubt that the report will receive formal approval and be laid before the Supreme Council. It Is believed that ho subcommittee has made findings only aa to the moral responsibility of the authors of the war and not as regards technical violations of International law by Individuals THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ARGUMENT IN A NUTSHELL rlnna lipases nt rP.snOTlslhlllt J lOr tllC i - .. n..i..1 tin unlnt nf .. V.I- -.,.ltlr, f !. lonn-n rf ,n. "'" '"' -v"rt " lr. '"J ., T. . ," l : -,;. ' reporting their findings 1 iwt MTvsti: YEARLY WAR BILL DURING 25 YEARS TO BE $1,200,000,000 Net War Debt $10,000,000,000. Interest and Sinking Fit nil Ncccssnry Washington, Feb. 25, (By A. P.) It will cost tho American peoplo about 1. 200,000,000 a year for the next tnen-ty-flvo years to pay off tho war debt, according to estimates of the Treasury, based on Incomplete knowledge of precisely what tho final war debt will be. This calculation Is made 'on tho as sumption tho net war debt, with de ductions for loans to tho Allies, will be about 118,000,000,000 Interest on this amount, Rt tho rate of 4U per cent, would bo J7CG, 000.000 a year, to be raised by taxes and then repaid to bondholders. In addition, about J417, 000,000 would have to bo provided every j ear as a sinking fund to redeem all bonds In twcnty-flve years. This would require a cumulative sinking fund provision of 2.32 per cont. Congress has not yet authorized es tablishment of a filnkhig fund, as recom mended by Secretary Glass. Treasury officials assert that If (his authorization Is given, bonds might bo bought up on tho market each year or called for redemption nt tho periods provided In wore sold, under which they RUNNER ATE THE MESSAGE Saved His Regiment Despite Capture, anil Then Was Rescued ('mnifllMlllr, Feb 25. Surrounded by Oermans vvhllo acting as a rurmcr. John Julian Drlscoll, of Connellsvjlle, chewed nnd swallowed an Important message. which meant the safety of a regiment before he was captured by tho enemy. Just fifteen minutes after he had been made a prisoner Americans stormed tho (Jerman positions, anj ho was released. Tho young man. Who Is a member cr the 320th Infantry, later badly gassed, has been Invalided home. Leopold Jailed for Bavaria Plot Continued from rsa One the gates of the military prison and lib eraied men In prison and then raided tho castle and burned the archives. Berlin, Feb. 24 (delayed.) (By A. P.) Soartacan forces June prevented municipal elections from being held at Dusseldorf. Armed bands on Saturday demanded from some election presidents the lists of voters, an a result of which action elections could not bo hold In those areas. Other Spartacan bands armed with rifles and hand grenades nppearod at most of the polling booths on Sunday evening and seized ballot boxes a"nd lists of voters, which were burned or thrown Into tho Rhine. Lively fighting Is reported In some election precincts. Herr Fuldzcnnck, Spartacan leader In tho Bottrop district. In Westphalia, has been killed vvhllo resisting arrest by government troops. He had attempted to Inclto mobs to further rioting there, It Is alleged. The Ocrsenberg division, which restored order In Bremen, has arrived In tho Bottrop district, and wilt be re-enforced by an army corps; which has been stationed at Wllhelmshaven. Six persons were killed nnd thirty nine were arrested during tho rioting Saturday night nt Augsburg, Bavaria, according to advices received. IRISH PEACE DELEGATE RECENTLY WAS EXILE Scan O'Ccalligh (J. T. O'KclIy), Scin Fein M. P., Knows British Prisons By the Associated Press Dublin, Feb. 26. Sean O'Ccalligh, who yesterday presented himself to tho Peaco Conference In Paris as nn nc redltcd envoy of the Irish Government, J. T. O'Kelly, one time In business hero and secretary of tho Gaelic League. Mr. O'Kelly. whose name has been Gaellclzcd to Sean O'Ccalligh, was not prominent In tho disorders Easter Sun day, 1916, but was deported Immediately after the government had suppressed that rebellion. He was released late In December, 1016, and was rearrested In February, 1917, but was not dctalhed very long. Ho was not placed under arrest last May, when many members of his party were placed In Jail. O'Ccalligh Is a member of tho Dublin Corporation, and was elected to Parlia ment on tho Sinn Fein ticket from Col lege Green, Dublin, In the recent general election. He was a member of tho dele gation appointed to present tha freedom of tha city to President Wilson and. when no reply to the invitation to visit Dublin was received from Mr. Wilson, he obtained a passport to go to rati to Innulre nhv no answer had been sent. When ho arrived In Pari ho announced that ha was a representative ot tna iriilt Government, and his action was p proved by his party. .O'Cealllgh waa married last year tit Miss Mary Ityan, professor of modem languages In the National University. Like a Breath of the Pine Woodi SOZODONT refreshes the mouth, keeps the gumi firm and the teeth clean and wholesome; its agrees ble flavor and comfortable "after feel" hare made SOZODONT pop ular for oyer sixty years. jbiodont FOR THE TEETH Liquid Powder or Pasta SOLD BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE fty Pine in New Tork Tribune GOTHA TO FIGHT GERMANY ! "REDS" JAIL AMERICANS international law uy nm" , - . .. , , , , . r mi ir r.. Other subcommittees dealing with va- TiulcixMiricilt Socialist Rcsohc to i Hold lo ot 1 Item ill crillin-lll- . ll-lll, fnw tl,i '. - . I C . 1 n II Quit the Federation iienliKen. Feb 25 The National t tlons plan but ho brings u message ; ,V," the Rupreim 'War Council ha" ' luiende s Berlin correspondent reports which tho American peoplo may profit ably ponder while they are awaiting what he has to say on that subject. The peoples of Huropc are buoyed up and confident In tho spirit of hope,' he told lils Boston audltnce, 'because they be lieve that wo are at tho eve of a now ago in the world when nations will unite very moral and every phslcal strength to see that right shall prevail ' "That Is the -very soul of the league Ul IIUUUIIB. v,v York Sun "Before we Ameri cans can fairly discuss and Judge Pres' ident Wilson's specific views on tho league of nations we must hear more from him than we heard at Boston not illsmii-sed the disposition of surren dered Oerman warsli'ps, the naval ex perts of the council have studied the subject British and American oftlocis. agreeing that the proper so.utlon of the question will be to sink them in deep I water French and Italian officers do , not take thin view, and if the experts do nnt non reach an agreement that i that the independent Socialists, at a meeting In Gothn, resolved that Gotha and the neighboring districts bo with drawn from the German federation and ht In a state of war with the country. This it Justified, they sa, because Herr N'oskc s white guards attacked Gotha without a declaration of war The Workers' and Soldiers Councils matter may be taken up directly by the na,p sent negotiators to the state gov Supremo War Council eminent for government troops, who are jesterday, and we must know more than J B committee The character of plans submitted Is not uiecioscu ho has permitted us to know from any place at any time. "Mr. Wilson declared that we wnt over to Europe and plunged Into the battlefields there solely for the sake of humanity. Wo did not. "We went over there to help save France and England, because If France and England were not saved our turn would be next." New York Herald "Tho President spoke lery confidently of the outcome of the conference, but entered into no particulars. "It may be that In the latitude of B "yyashlngton Mr. Wilson will enter Into more tietaus loucnins mo uciuui imb turo ot affairs. But his speech of yes terday was not lacking In tho nolo of personal conviction and apparently .,,k,ft6de a profound Impression upon his bearers. Tho subcommittee of the International Waterwavs Commission has completed Its discussion of the draft of the con vention on the freedom of transit sub mitted by the Brltlsn It was decided that the convention be lett to me ciran- , the REFERENDUM URGED FOR LEAGUE ISSUE to stav until order Is restored Drilain Wunts Captured Gum l.ojulon. Feb. 25 Great Britain Is de manding tmni dlate return of all British guim captured by the Germans. This iv as announced In the Houe of Com mons sterday by Andrew Honor Uiw, government spokesmin, In answer to a question by Colonel C. It Burn fested Cells Paris, Feb 23. The French mission to llussla, headed by M Duchesne, the consul general at Petrogiad, which was kept In prKon by tho Bolshevlkl for flvo months, arrived in Paris Monday night. Consul Ch.irbaut, of the mission, said a cell adjacent to one of tho cells In which tho French were confined was! occupied b five prisoners belonging to Allied nations, two of whom were Amer icans. The cell, he salJ, was only two j arils square and was retklng with I vemiln The consul said the members of the part had endured man) tortures at the hands of the Bolshevists. Major Elilm Root, Jr., Returns Newport Nf, Vo Feb 25. (By A. p.) Major Ellliu Boot. Jr. son of ex-Secretary of State Ellhu Hoot, of New York, arrived yesterday on the transpoit Huron from France. Sf r I president Must t i Win Congress Cenitnued from I'aee One made. And It "was appaient that It carried those who listened to It alone t at least ii partial realization of a noble realism lit diplomacy that has o often been misnamed as mere ideal ism. But tho effect didn't endure. A moro than unusually intemgent , audience In Boston applauded too often at tho wrons time. Us fervor -was aroused by the men Vt iihliliiEln. Feb 2.". Ueprescntatlvc Mndecn. of Minnesota, Republican, Introduced a bill providing for a , referendum vote to determlno tho action of the United States Government on the proposed league of nations Mr. Lundeen mado no comment on the floor of the House In Introducing Ills bill, but In a prepared statement Issued later he said "We have announced the policy ot self-determination for others. The American people want self-determination for themselves The President and Senate cannot commit the people of tho Cnlted Slates to a leaguo ot nations constitution, which In effect amends the constitution of the Unlttd States The bill is short and easily understood, and there Is every reason for passing It at this session of Congreks, so that the people will be prepared to cpress ineir opinion " MEXICAN PROBLEMS LEFT TO AMERICA ! Do You Believe In Signs? The psychological condition of one evilly inclined causes him to take note of all signs. 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Not a gct-rich-quick proposition, and I am only interested in talking with men who want a financial and personal interest in a successful enterprise. If you arc looking for an opportunity of this kind, I will be glad to talk with you. Phone or write mc for appointment. ?i - u 808 Stock Exchange, Phila. l'Hrl. Feb 23 That Mewnn prob-1 lems nlreadj have been the subject of formal discussions between the delegates of tho ivnre Conference anil that (Jreat tion ot tho placo in the new world Ilrltaln and France have Indicated vvlll ..... .... T...,.i. i. .,..!.,, . mnk. I Incness to leave to Hie Fulled States adjustments of all Mexican questions In it rV r r i r ir h i that tho President Is trying to make. Mr. Wilson returned from places that are filled with a horror of war and a bitter and anguished sense of its futility to find ills own land reservinpr 'Jts wildest cheers for tho blood and iron of tho American divisions In the -war. It was Impossible tcf avoid the 1 feeling, as Mr. Wilson spoke, that, f In tho education that comes with ultl ' mate experience, the countries ot Xurope are years ahead of us. Euorpe Feels World Need They can understand the need for a league of nations more thoroutfM) than that need is understood in the il)nitcd States. And here is tho sug- ' 'gestlon ot Mr. Wilson'a chief difficulty. jl$ Is a question whether the country , .altogether understands him It follows him instinctively und it iakes lilm on faith. It Is likely to mlt- f Ttake his purposes and to suppose that K lio is merely inspired by kindness of J'neart when, in fact lie Is trjlng to "vieet the menace of the future with a policy that Is essentLilIy realistic and 'atrango only because it had to be tie ' xlaeil to meet strange conditions. r" , " mm s . -m: oRMLik aw mmmmmss, r r vyi' .m w 3Kitt via i i j i -!, mmmemBk m k )LVmm&S MS gtm W mWXjmLmW 'x JL l"ni tsk ' 'mm mwmwmmw 1 , ilHSl I l x II 'b-JP dthc rderer! which their nat.onais are Interested Is revealed b the announcement In Paris newspapers of the'formailnn ot an inter national committee of bankers to pro tect holders of Mexican securities. It Is not planned to bring the Mcclcah question before the conference otTlclallj. but advantage has been taken of the presence here of official representatives of the three nations most concerned to form the committee at this time and begin joint consideration of plans that ' may serve as a basis of adjudication Mexico is not represented at the con ference, but the presence In I'arls of Alburto J Panl as a representative of President Chrranza opens the way for direct negotiations should they bo de sired It is regarded aa possible that before the conference adjourns the Incidental discussions Instituted b the committee of bankers ma find a formal place In tho conference program HOG ISLAND STRIKERS AWAIT SETTLEMENT WILSON GOES THROUGH CITY WITHOUT STOPPING i. .f ' - . . 7. ., i.i- -..rn it' y'.-i -Too train Hearing i-fraiuriu " "? V"d ''" DartJ' 1'avlng New TorK a revv , I'ljnmutes nfter eleven ociock tasi nigm. 1veaehed West Phlladelpnia station at :03 this morning, halting only long urn to change engines. Details of police and secret service tn were on duty. The curtains were ly drawn on the car occupied by resident Wilson. t ?') .... . . .. . .,.-.. 4" City Hall were sent to West Phila- imia eariy in me nigni. laiicr, iu- II or tncce men were recaiieu, aii ,r detail of policemen smd secret e men went to uroaa nireet ma- m nnlu Ihnu bAvtnir htlnKieiiii permitted within tho structure or wieus. - , jln't Hloii nir tn ftee Grandson was thought that President Wilson t leave tho train for a brief period, lent to permit visit to Jefferson Itai to see m aaugmer, Airs, r rcn sayre, ana me mq niucm iw- n to tho Sayro'famlly -President 'a grandson, born in that Institu te Stturday night. M.ftlona.naa been maae to re 4b'Preldnt had, this plan been l.out., tHIt tn atcisiou 10 proceea rW Einergeiicy F 1 Promise Thursday c c t Officials i Action VMhuuton precluded pos. rimV .ai hospital. nWMaMrtmMrt haa an- Definite action by the llmcrgencj Fleet i Corporation on demands of 140 striking Hog Island shipyard foremen for higher j wages will be taken Thursday. It was announced today aU the offices of Charles L'lez, director general. I Mr. Pier Is in Washington in confer ence with IMward N Hurley, chairman , of tho United Stntes .Shipping Board, I and president ot the corporation Meanwhile, the dissatisfied foroint-. have returned to work pending the out- i coino of the dispute between themselc and the American International fahli bulldlng Corporation, agents of tho gov- I emment In the operation of tho hlp- yard, and operations there are going ahead at a normal rate. . After meeting representatives of the strikers yesterday at IIg Island. Mr Plea spent the afternoon gtudvlng labor conditions In other Urge shipyards in this district, principally the navy yard at Leairuo Island and Cramn'n yard. It la his purpose to make a I thorough Inquiry Into the whole ship-J yard labor situation before determining for or against any Increase in pay, Tho Hog Island foremen, of whom there are two classes, ore demanding an advance of six dollars weekly each, tract tit i HI and from let to 170 ,tt week. TBfjyumr Iixm-a. Hopper of a concrete mixer has a good appetite and a great capacity at the top. But all that goes into it must pass easily through the narrow outlet at the bottom. If the man on the job goes away and leaves the mixture to harden in the hopper he gets fired that's all. And the machine is put out of working order for a time. It's easy for you to satisfy your appetite with food. 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