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Show , , ' , Irs, 5 I r " fx ' ' " ' 1 1 -,- " - ' t j 'J " -1" - , , 1 ' ('') A.'r , J rsK'- ' r - ( . If- i 1 - I , U F - If j 1 Turkish delegates to the peace conference who have been sent o:ick to Constantinople. 2 Private Paul L. liolin and Corporal Ldward J. Gillespie with their wives about to start from Ivew York on the second leg of their Journey from 'France to tr:sco." A American circus performance for the anks at Bordeaux, France, awaiting transportation hon e. HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS How the United States Launched The Great Experiment of National Prohibition. EMERGENCY LAW IN EFFECT President Returns Home to Take Up FigKt or League of Nations Senator Sena-tor Borah Charges That Wall Street Is Financing League of Nations Propaganda British Dirigible R-34 Meets With Disaster When Near End of Voyage. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The United States has launched the great experiment Just after the treaty was signed that nominally brought the war to an end, our wartime war-time emergency prohibition act went Into effect and the entire country be- came officially "bone dry." Presuma-( Presuma-( bly demobilization will be completed I within two months or so, and there ! will be a "wet spell" at least in some states until the constitutional amendment amend-ment goes Into effect on January 16. At present there is considerable confusion con-fusion concerning the scope and the enforcement of the emergency law. A federal court has ruled In favor of beer and wine containing not to exceed ex-ceed 2 per cent of alcohol and In many localities the dealers are taking a chance and dispensing those drinks. In most states the old and new laws on prohibition prevent even this. In any case the manufacture and sale of all drinks with the greater alcoholic content are barred and Attorney General Gen-eral Palmer has ordered rigid enforcement enforce-ment of the law relating to them. The "wets" have been making a game but losing fight, and the "drys" have refused to yield at any point. The forces of the latter in congress are planning to pass measures to prevent pre-vent the country from going on a whisky-drinking basis between the time of demobilization and January 16, and to put a stop to the sale of weak beer and light wines at once, regardless regard-less of court rulings. Though the United States is now the only "dry" country, there may be another an-other before very long, for the United Kingdom alliance, encouraged by the success of the American prohibitionists, has opened a campaign to put Great Britain on the same basis. American methods will be followed and American Ameri-can speakers imported. London correspondents corre-spondents predict that to deprive the Britisher of his ale, porter and beer would almost precipitate a revolution. British labor is against prohibition, but so is American labor; and it may be that John Bull will in the not distant dis-tant future be reduced to drinking "lemon squashes" and "minerals." The world will watch the American experiment, experi-ment, one of the greatest ever made in economics, with intense interest. His great task abroad completed so far as might be, President Wilson has returned to his domestic duties. On the homeward trip he signed bills and read documents and otherwise prepared pre-pared himself for the contest that confronts con-fronts him in the United States. The goal he has set for himself is the ratification rati-fication by the senate of the peace treaty, including the covenant of the League of Nations. Victory will not come easily, though it probably will come, mnybe after the covenant has been amended to meet the objections now made by a considerable number of senators. Those who are against the league in any form are very few, but stubborn. If Mr. Wilson is equally equal-ly stubborn, the whole matter is likely to become a partisan issue despite the efforts of many party leadei'j to prevent pre-vent this. It is intimated that, if the Senate makes evident its Intention to refuse to ratify, the president will withhold the trpp.ty for the time beintr. and that would at once make It an out-and-out parry question. There is precedent pre-cedent for such a course. If the Issue Is put up to the people to decide, they have had plain warning warn-ing that, in case the United States becomes a member of the League of Nations, it will be called on soon to begin assuming international duties and responsibilities. Dispatches from Paris say President Wilson will propose pro-pose to congress the acceptance of a mandate for Constantinople and for Armenia. Senator Borah, rampant opponent of the league, broke out in a new place last week, with charges that the propaganda propa-ganda of the league to enforce peace, headed by ex-President Taft, is financed by Wall street, Mr. Taft's organization or-ganization glories in the fact that most of its financial support comes from men of big business and broad vision. "It may be," said Senator Borah, "that the occasion for the. opposition upon the part of small men is not a limitation of vision ; it may possibly be that their investments are not the same and their interests are not'the same. "It may be that they are confining themselves to the interests of their own country and believe in the traditions tradi-tions and policies of their country, and it may possibly be that those who take a wider view of the matter are those who have large investments in other countries, and who propose to have more Investments there, which Investments In-vestments will be worth very little unless un-less they are underwritten by the United Unit-ed States government." It is not easy to see why American business men should be criticized because be-cause they wish to see peace permanently perma-nently established In Europe so that they can resume trade, commerce and Industry with the Europeans., An instance in-stance of what they are getting ready to do is supplied by the news that three great American construction concerns con-cerns have been awarded a contract for the rebuilding of the Nancy district of France at an estimated figure of $250,000,000, which sum may be doubled. dou-bled. Dispatches from Weimar declared that the national assembly would at 'once take up the peace treaty and that a majority for its ratification was assured. as-sured. The Germans had been notified noti-fied that, the blockade would be lifted as soon as the pact were ratified, and they expressed the hope that Germaa prisoners of war would be released at the same time. As an earnest of their good intentions the Germans ceased all warfare on the Poles simultaneously for some time and not without a pro-sailies. pro-sailies. Released fioin danger in that direction, the Poles turned all their attention to the Gallcian-Volhynian front, starting a counter-offensive in which they claimed to have broken the Ukrainian resistance and regained control of important towns and railways. rail-ways. There is no assurance, however, how-ever, that Germany will not again break out on the east front, for according accord-ing to correspondents she has, since the armistice, reorganized an army of about 1,000,000 men and gathered equipment for three times that number, num-ber, including as many airplanes as she had when she surrendered. Of course all this is contrary to the terms Germany accepted, and if the stories are true the allies will have to get busy again. The Germans can be trusted in one respect, and one only. They will evade ' the treaty if it is possible for them to do so. The French foreign office gave out the texts of the proposed agreements of France with the United States and Great Britain designed to protect France against unprovoked aggression by Germany. The pacts differ in that Great Britain "consents to come" to the rescue of France, while the Cnited States "will be bound to come immediately." imme-diately." Various, plans are being devised by the Germans to save the former kaiser from trial and punishment, Including the formation of a national league for the "protection of his freedom and life." Von Bethmann-Hollweg, former for-mer imperial chancellor, formally asked the allied and associated powers pow-ers to place him on trial instead ot the former emperor, assuming responsibility respon-sibility for all the acts f.r which William is blamed. The German general gen-eral staff, which resigned, agreed to withdraw its resignations if the government gov-ernment would promise not to give up lie ex-kniser for t.-raig'iment before i court. William 'u -jo danger of his life from the allies, but that they still purpose to try him for his crimes Is evidenced by their warning to Holland Hol-land not to permit him to escape from Dutch territory, and by Lloyd George's announcement in the house of commons com-mons that William will soon be placed on trial in London. All matters concerning the peace treaties are now in the hands of the new council of five, comprising Lansing, Lan-sing, Pichon, Balfour, Tittoni and Makino. Tittoni let it be known that Italy wished all territory taken from Austria to be definitely disposed of in the Austrian treaty, which meant that that pact could not be formulated for sitae time and not without a protracted pro-tracted debate over the Fiume question ques-tion especially. The Chinese delegates said they expected ex-pected to sign the treaty with Austria, Aus-tria, in which they found nothing objectionable, ob-jectionable, and thereby gain admission admis-sion to the League of Nations despite the withholding of their signatures from the German treaty. China probably prob-ably will make a separate peace with Germany. In refusing 'to sign the German treaty the Chinese delegates disobeyed their instructions from Peking, being influenced by the south China revolutionaries. The Turkish delegation to Paris was sent back home In a hurry because be-cause its ideas concerning the maintenance main-tenance of the Ottoman empire were quite contrary to the plans of the allies. al-lies. These plans, however, are still Inchoate. Greece, which wanted possession pos-session of Constantinople and realizes that she cannot have It, Is urging that the United States accept the mandate for that city as well as for Armenia, but there is more than a chance that the Americans would not agree to this. Meanwhile the Greek forces in Asia Minor are fighting three Turkish armies over which the government of Turkey says It has no control. It was predicted in Washington that with the return of President Wilson there would be a radical change in the government's policy toward Mexico. Mex-ico. Senator King of Utah, Democrat, said the administration would practically prac-tically issue an ultimatum to Carran-za, Carran-za, demanding guarantees for the protection pro-tection of American lives and property prop-erty in Mexico and hinting at intervention inter-vention by the United States. The public has just learned the facts concerning con-cerning the brutal murder of John W. Correll, an American citizen, near Tampico on June 16, and the assault on his wife. There is every reason to believe that Carranza soldiers were the perpetrators of those shocking crimes. Having lived to see the triumph ol the cause for which site labored for many years, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American Woman's Suffrage association, associa-tion, passed away at her home In Moylan, Pa., at the age of seventy-one years. During the war Doctor Shaw did excellent work as chairman of the women's committee on the council of national defense, and for this she had just been awarded the distinguished service medal. The first "balloon" to cross the Atlantic, At-lantic, the Britisli dirigible R-34, commanded com-manded by Major Scott, which was to have arrived at Roosevelt field, MIu-eola, MIu-eola, N. Y., late in the afternoon of July 5, came to grief in the Bay of Fundy, between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. A United States destroyer destroy-er was dispatched to her aid from the Otter Cliff station at Bar Harbor, Me. The airship evidently was following the coast line in a southwesterly direction direc-tion toward New York. The dirigible started from East Fortune, Scotland, at 1 :4S on the morning of July 2, and despite the accident, the achievement is considered in aviation circles as a success. Tlie new motor that was installed in-stalled worked splendidly until near the end of the voyage, and the crew of 23 men, including one American, had nothing but praise for the conduct of the big airship before that. Scores of tinny and navy officers were at Mineola to welcome the British Brit-ish flyers, and general sympathy was expressed. During the voyage the dirigible di-rigible had been in almost constant touch, by wireless with ships, and, nearing the end, with shore fetations. |