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Show f PRESIDENT WILSON x I iff " ! T) RESIDENT WILSON has arrived home to ask that his secret Xt diplomacy be' ratified. How much better it would have been had W he remained home and prepared a plan for the League of Nations ' which could have been sanctoined in advance by the senate. We are under the necessity now of accepting or rejecting the plan said to be largely Wilson's plan already approved by the entente powers. If " the senate rejects the scheme it will be not only a rebuke to the presi-'' presi-'' dent but a snub to friendly powers. In a sense, therefore, the presi-(l, presi-(l, dent is using duress to force the United States senate to adopt his views formulated in secret and proclaimed as a covenant before there was the slightest chance to discuss any of the points in this country. tif. If it be argued that there was'more or less of an idea among the people of this country as to what the covenant would contain it can be '' flatly denied. In one of his last utterances Colonel Roosevelt, after the president's departure for Europe, said that no one could approve or condemn the League of Nations because nobody knew what it was. - The president, for'many good reasons, should have remained at ' home, but even if he felt the call of Europe so insistently in his soul . that he could not stay in Washington and perform the duties of his t office, it was incumbent on him to prepare in advance a draft of the ll League of Nations and submit it for consideration to the senate and r the people. Ateast the general scheme could have been agreed upon. ,, The people would have had a chance to discuss all the salient plans f': from Roosevelt's proposal that the league oe based on a few general .. principles and covenants to the extreme plan of William Howard Taft ; that a League to Enforce Peace be established. 17 H Acting as he did President Wilson committed himself, to an of- m fensive form of secret diplomacy. All his emotional andiiigli-sound- Sr., ing assurances that hereafter international covenants must be openly v- discussed and openly agreed upon seem hollow and hypocritical now I that the covenants have been prepared in secret and agreed to secretly &,. in advance by the "high contracting parties." Who is there that does S not feel that he is in a certain sense bound by what the president did abroad. True, it would be a folly, a betrayal of the nation if the , senate were to ratify the -treaty in a weak surrender to this duress ; .' nevertheless all of us are conscious of the duress. f " - Unless the peace treaty is to be delayed for many months our discussion must be brief. Speaker Reed, in the campaign of 1896, re-ferring re-ferring to the silver issue, said that the country had been called upon to determine this great question "in less time than it takes to ripen a strawberry." Now we are called upon to approve or reject a certain plan for a League of Nations in an even shorter period. If we reject the plan there will be no "league. If -the senate tries to modify the plan it will enter upon a protracted task which will delay peace indefinitely. in-definitely. If the senate approves the plan in haste all of us may live to repent at leisure. To approve in haste is to approve blindly. President Wilson contended that he must be actually in touch with the peace delegates to obtain what he wanted. It seems to us that he should have been actually in touch with the United States senators all the time that the plans for the league were being formulated here and abroad so that he might know what they wanted. In that way H he could have made valuable communications to the senate from time H to time and the senate could have supervised the terms of the cove- H nant. Inasmuch as the covenant must be ratified by the senate it H would have been well had the senators been consulted constantly re- H garding the plan. H One of the peculiar and deplorable results of the president's H erratic action has been an open and public breach between him and -H the senators who oppose the league as promulgated in the Paris plan. H Some of the senators felt it incumbent on them to reject the presi- H dent's invitation to dinner, arguing that they would be bound by the H rules of courtesy to treat as confidential everything said at this secret H diplomacy feast. They feared that they might be bound to keep in H confidence things that the American people should know. H Long ago the president should have laid his cards on the senate table, face up. In Europe he could not easily do that. Had he re- mained at home it would have been simplicity itself. H The senate and the nation are in a quandary. The presi- H dent comes back fully equipped for argument and has his opponents at a disadvantage because he thoroughly familiarized himself with H his plan while keeping the senators utterly in the dark. Some of them H have already blundered in their criticisms. Some of their arguments H have seemed almost juvenile. And yet there is a great body of H sceptics who feel that, after all is said and done, the covenant binds M this country to unending, interference in the affairs of Europe, Asia, H Africa and the' islands of the seven seas. H Theoretically the people want the United States to live up to all H the obligations resulting from their entrance into the war, but when M it comes to indorsing a League of Nations plan which involves us in a M seemingly interminable adventure in all parts of the world there are 1 many sane leaders like Senator Borah and millions of plain citizens H who fear that President Wilson has committed the nation to a scheme H fraught with the deadliest dangers. H ( l T jH A UTAH CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY AMAZING has been the development of the sugar beet industry in Utah. The stranger within our gates, when told the magnitude of the industry, marvels. He recalls, perhaps, that it was Napoleon Bonaparte who established the sugar beet industry in France and he wonders whether Utah's success was due to a Napoleon or to some M peculiar features of the soil or to a happy combination of both in- H fluences. M Utahns could tell him that there was and is a Napoleon of the H industry, but they would smile in the telling, for they would mentally contrast the vanity, egotism and pomp-of the military conqueror with ",H the modest, simple, retiring man who built up the Utah and Idaho in- dustry. Sometimes he was battling against odds that might well have daunted even Napoleon. H The industry, although irwas founded before the time of Thomas H SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 1, 1919. . fl R. Cutler, did not begin to pay and develop until he took hold of it. M It was some thirty years ago that he became a sugar man with the , completion of the factory at Lehi, where he was bishop. True, the j church gave the industry its support from that time forward, but it m was the genius of Thomas R. Cutler that transformed a struggling and W losing enterprise into a financial success. ji Resigning his office of bishop at Lehj, he came to Salt Lake to ! devote himself to the sugar beet industry. He threw his whole life H' into its development. Recognized as a good business man, he had H ' been persuaded to work in an industry of which he knew practically M nothing. Today there is not a man in Utah, perhaps not a man in the M United States, who knows as much about sugar as Thomas R. Cutler. M From the outset he made it an intensive study. He set about acquir- H ing all the knowledge of the business that books, the experience of H others and his own experience could give. If there was a problem to H solve it was his brains that solved it. If a crisis was to be met and H there have been many crises in the industry in the last thirty years Mt it was due largely to him that the crisis was overcome. If a tariff H change was contemplated he knew just what the effect would be on H sugar beet growing or sugar making in Utah ; or, if he did not know, he H never rested until he did know. If something happened to the sugar H cane industry in Cuba or the Dutch East Indies or elsewhere he could H gauge accurately what the consequences would be here. H And because he possessed this information, together with a far- H seeing business sense, he was able to cope with any difficulties that H arose. The industry had many ups and down in the early days, but he H remained an optimist. He always glimpsed the glorious future ahead. H He toiled on laboriously and courageously, removing obstacle after H obstacle as each presented itself. H It would be a long story to tell of all the trials and tribulations of H the man who did most to set the industry on its feet and start it on H the road toward the goal at which it has arrived. It was one of Mr. H Cutler's merits that he sagaciously associated with him able assist- H ants. Among them may be mentioned the Austin brothers George H and Mark. The former has retired from the business, but Mark Aus- H tin is still with the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and has Idaho as his H field of operations. H When Thomas R. Cutler took control of the sugar business beets H were selling for $4.50 a ton. Today they are selling for $10 a ton. H The price of beets was always one of the perplexing problems, for it H was necessary to make the business profitable to the grower and at H the same time pay the investors something on the capital they had H risked. It was not always an easy task to harmonize these interests H so that the industry might continue to exist. But Mr. Cutler suc- H ceeded in weathering all the storms and bringing his 'bark safely into H golden seas at last. H The Utah farmers have found that the sugar beet is their most H remunerative crop because it pays for itself in many ways. After the H extraction of the sugar the residuum is pulp tops and a sugar syrup. H The pulp and tops are directly as food for cattle and the sugar syrup is M used in preparing fat foods for cattle. But that does not tell the 1 whole story. It improves the land by enriching and developing the H H If one would rightly visualize the heritage which Thomas R. Cut- H ler is leaving to Utah and Idaho he must ride through the beet-grow- H ing sections of these states. He will be profoundly impressed by the H titanic work which the genius of the industry has accomplished in a M generation. H Without the self-assertion, the egotism or the braggadocio of H many of the captains who have developed industries throughout the H land, Thomas R. Cutler is really one of the biggest hi them all, one H who has done his share in lifting our industrial civilization to higher H M CALIFORNIA'S ESCAPE. 'r FANATICIZED Califomians wanted the state, to go into the health insurance business, but the people voted down; the plan. B The influenza epidemic should be a convincing argument. It was H brought to light that insurance companies, as a result of the epidemic, are called upon to pay $ 100,000,000 in death claims aionc in California. 1 Had the. people adopted the plan in 1918 there Would have been I disaster at the very beginning, It call be taken for granted 'that ho j reserve sufficient to cope with the epidemic would have been provided. pro-vided. That is the history of the earlier exponents with State ih- Jj surance. The failure to provide sufficient reserved quickly emptied the insurance funds and the taxpayers "Were compelled to make Up the deficits. ,,,, It is interesting to speculate Upon the amount of the deficit in California had the health insurance law been in effect at the Outbreak - f of the influenza epidemic, , ' - ' ' DEPORT THElM. - S ONE of the best services the monarchies and ex-monarchies of Europe can do the United States is to keep their aristocrats aWay. from this country. It is true that some of these blue-bloods are refu- f gees seeking safety from a murderous Bolsevism. As Americans we cannot refuse mercy to any human being who Comes to us for refuge ' from wrong and injustice not even to a king. At the Sanie time We cannot blind ourselves to the fact 'that these representatives of the monarchial and despotic systems which have come into such disrepute in Europe can do much harm if permitted to attitudinize in this country coun-try as our friends. They cannot possibly have genuine sympathy for our institutions and we are simply playing into the hands of the Bolshevists, anarchists and I. W. W. by allowing these personalities , to parade from city to city airing their silly views. Only a few days ago a Russian princess dined with some of our literary women in this city. After delectable bits of scandal over the tea and cakes about Tolstoy's domestic infelicities the princess proceeded to tell how noble and good the old regime in Russia Rus-sia had been. "Was it true that the old regime of the czar had treated the peasants cruelly? Oh, dear no. Of course, the government was some- I what one-sided, but the people were happy and contented. In time, I, as the masses became more educated and better able to handle the reins of government, they would have been given control." In 1905 when the oppressed people were lured up to the gates of the imperial palace "by Russian agents to voice their protests, to demand de-mand reforms and to plead with the czar for surcease from ancient wrongs and cruelties the emperor's cossacks formed a screen in front of scores of machine guns. At a signal the cavalry divided to each side of the thoroughfare and the machine gunners opened fire on the men, women and children. This was the end of the revolution of 1905. Of course, if the people had been better educated and more refined the czar would have abdicated and handed over to them his ' crown and sceptre. Let us admit that the weak czar was well-meaning and that he was injustly tried, condemned and executed, yet, as Americans, we are perfectly aware that he was a despot and that in 1905 he acted as H despots must act if they are to retain their thrones. The only way a despot can keep himself in power is by force. He is a standing A challenge to his people. He cannot make concessions to them and still remain an autocrat. In Russia the czar made concession only under compulsion. When he felt that he could resist reform he resisted. re-sisted. When his people approached him to ask for mercy and pity he killed them. In the whirl of the war have Americans forgot the Kishinev massacre mas-sacre when a fanatical people hurled themselves upon the unoffending Jews of a whole city and slew them. That was the fruit of despotism. Such an atrocity was unthinkable in times of peace anywhere in Europe outside of Russia and the Balkans. It was due to an ignorance which is essential to the maintenance of autocracy. It is true that the czar, before the war, had granted his people a " liberal system of education. It was a fatal mistake. Enlightenment was sure to bring his dynasty crashing into ruins. Books were sure to overcome the machine guns. The same ignorance which produced the despotism of the czar and the pogroms against the Jews has produced the Bolsheviki and , their "dictatorship of the proletariat," In benighted Russia it is one I despotism after another.. The people do. not understand democracy or a government of the people, by the people or for the people. They ? live for class rule and for revenge. , We do not want Bolsheviki in this country, but neither do we i, want the princes, the dukes nor any of that despotic ilk. If they come fleeing danger should pass them through the country as quickly as possible and deport them as we deport the Bolsheviki. Let them pro- ceed on their way to the remaining monarchies of Europe where they 'f " w ke among people who can sympathize more or less with their m&l moss-grown absurdities. f H r 5p H jVv RUSSIA TAKES TO BATHS. ff A LREADY Russia's "dictatorship of the proletariat" is leading to "' JTx. class distinctions. We have long been of the opinion that soon 4" , t . there would be an aristocracy among the Bolsheviki and we find our ; '' most sinister suspicions confirmed. The Bolsheviki are beginning to take baths. If that departure II from every tradition of the Russian proletariat were all we should jSNf not raise our voice in horrified protest. We would be glad to see a the proletarians take a bath rather we would be glad that they had W-- v surrendered to this refining influence. l We hate to see the proletarians turning to aristocracy in the use J ' ' of water. But there is no doubt about the new aristocracy created by MQ Lenine and Trotzky. An authbritative dispatch tells us that bathing is now regulated by the state. Some persons, evidentaly influential r proletarians who can demand and enforce special privileges will be ,k'V' allowed to take two baths a month. Others will enjoy this strange, gvf . thrilling experience only once a month. And others will not be al- fet lowed to bathe at all. HI " That s ie sa Part a- The commoti people will not be al- mgk lowed to bathe. They will still be fettered in the old serfdom of un- Sr. cleanliness. Saturday night will come and go, but no baths for the jpr$ downtrodden. For a thousand years the poor moujiks have been iL struggling toward the bathroom to take a liberty plunge and here w$ . they are stopped at the very threshold. 'fi ' Of course, there would be grave dangers if all were permitted to I Bfv bathe. The rivers probably would be raised above flood levels and great disasters might occur. Then, too, close relatives would not 't recognize one another and would pass by in cruel silence. Children Jk -would be all mixed up because parents would not recognize their own. H Nevertheless we lift our megaphone and cry aloud for true democ- Wl, racy. It is quite evident that a new degree of aristocracy even above M- that of two baths a month is to be created. Soon we shall have the 2$ once a week aristocrats who will bathe every Saturday night just as W) the czar used to do. Perhaps they will even shave off their whiskers. rC Down with Lenine and Trotzky and their clean aristocrats. Jrw M BANK SCANDALS AGAIN. " TT'r ' AS Goodwin's Weekly was the first to proclaim the moral responsi- i$ -Tjl bility of the Utah State National bank to rehabilitate the failed ' , Bingham banks it hastens to acknowledge a settlement which seems ' to be adequate. The Bingham institutions have been reorganized as 0 going concerns and much of the credit belongs to the heads of the $fe Utah State National. We desire to felicitate the officers, directors u " and stockholders of that bank on their broad views of public policy and also to congratulate Governor Bamberger who handled the af- f fair in such a way as to bring most satisfactory results. The settlement, however, only serves to emphasize by way of ' . contrast the plight of the Merchants bank which could have been re- organized and rehabilitated had the directors and stockholders been as keen to recognize their moral obligations as have the officers, di- " rectors and stockholders of the Utah State National. It is regrettable ' that some of the officers and stockholders of the Merchants bank, who apparently were conscientiously eager, at the first meetings of the depositors, to fulfill their full obligations, have since displayed a complete apathy and, in some instances, have resorted' to all manner of maneuvering and legal filibustering to prevent a just settlement. One of the most amazing examples is that of Fred Q, Richmond, president of the Salt Lake Commercial club, who has not paid his I stock assessment and who, as trustee for certain assets amounting to H many thousands of dollars, has filed a declaration of trust in which he claims offsets and restrictions which would practically avoid the H obligation. His conduct is astonishing not only because, as president of the Commercial club, he should be guided by a profound sense of I personal responsibility and public policy, but because it is in such ifl startling contrast with the acts of some of the other stockholders of the wrecked Merchants bank. Some of the stockholders and di- ifl rectors, among them Moroni Heiner, have not only met all require- I ments but have offered to go even beyond their legal and moral ob- I ligations and to make personal sacrifices in the interest of the de- I positors. It is deplorable that Mr. Richmond, holding as he does a I position which calls for a keen appreciation of private honor and public I morality, should now be seeking the technical refuges of the law. I Members of the Commercial club would be better pleased with Mr. I Richmond's services as president if he satisfied his obligations to the bank. H It seems necessary to say that the indictment of two or three of I the heads of the wrecked institution in nowise frees from liability the I officers, directors and stockholders. The moral responsibility still ex- H ists, indictment or no indictment. In an effort to fix the responsibility for delays in settling the af- fairs of the bank Goodwin's Weekly would not be doing its full duty I it it I'd not denounce the acts of some of our most prominent attor- I neys. They, too, seem to have forgotten their public duty as officers of the court and ministers of justice. It might be well for the Bar as- I sociation to make an investigation into the scandalous acts of some I of its members who have become associated with the litigation result- I ing from the failure of the Merchants bank. H 5p r t M LA FOLLETTE'S PLEA. IN an effort to rehabilitate his waning reputation Senator La Fol- lette delivered one of his famous five-hour speeches in the United H States senate. We shall miss our guess if the senator can ever restore H himself to popularity among his countrymen. It was his attitude H toward the' war, more than anything he said, that earned the contempt of his fellow citizens. Now that he is fighting in defense of his pol- itical reputation he finds his greatest asset is a blunder made by the Associated Press, which quoted him as saying something he did not say. In consequence of the press association's admission of error the senator was left with a fighting chance to retain the esteem of his countrymen and he is making the most of his opportunity. H The tenor of his ple'a is that he has always battled in behalf of the weak, that he has attacked "big business" and that he has done his best to preserve "pure democracy" and render the government re- sponsive to the will of the people. He is welcome to whatever repu- tation he gained in a cause which made him popular and almost a fix- ture in the United States senate. It was an investment which paid in personal remuneration and glory. But nothing the senator has done can wholly blot out the odium and disgrace of having failed to sup- port his government in the hours of its most menacing crisis. Like the members of the I. W. W. the senator raises his voice in behalf of a "free speech" that is not guaranteed by our constitution. "Are you going to fr.ame a statute to gag the people who protest that everything is not right?" he inquires. I This is-one of the favorite themes of those who have been sapping the foundations of our government. Low-browed, murderous-minded agitators from Europe, who were denied free speech at home, have orated from soap boxes in this country just as if they understood what free speech meant. They assumed, without reading our constitution or our laws, that free speech signified any utterance that anyone wished to make. But we never had that kind of free speech in this country and, doubtless, never will have. No sane government could permit speech advocating its overthrow by violence or speech inciting to crime. That is the kind of speech the I. W. W. require tor their anarchic purposes and when it is refused they and the La Follettes and the Bergers are furious. Take the case of the I. W. W. as an example, Their organization Hr is revolutionary. It works for the overthrow of the United States H government by violence not simply the violence of firearms, but all Hi manner of secret and treacherous criminality. If bombs cannot be I'' hurled the I. W. W. will set fire to wheat fields or throw emery dust H into farm or factory machines. And while they are secretly plotting H j these crimes their apologists whine at the street corners about being K: ' denied free speech. H j j Mayor Hanson of Seattle urges that the I. W. W. and members Hl j of similar organizations be declared outlaws. If statutes to that effect H are passed we shall not be departing a. hair's breadth from our con- H a stitution or from our traditional attitude toward free speech. Our Hjj laws never have guaranteed anyone liberty to advocate sedition or H crime. The sooner the brutalized and blood-lusting foreigners among HI us .get this clearly into their minds the better for them and for us, in- H asmuch the American people, who understand their own laws and do H not need instructions from the scum of Europe, are in no mood to H pamper these pests as in the past. H' se H H H5 I; BAKER'S WILD WASTE. IT is comparatively a safe conjecture that when the inside story of our war expenditures begins to be unfolded we shall hear a tale of H waste and graft that will appall us. , H 'Already, of course, we have been informed of the millions squan- '' dered and grafted in shipyard and airplane construction, but these, in Hi our opinion, will form but a small part of the total sums of which HI the government has been fleeced or has fleeced itself. H ' We have before our eyes the example of Fort Douglas. The H ' trouble in that case has been the war department's change of mind H Apparently the government could not make up its mind just what to Hm do with Fort Douglas. It promised a number of things and began V ' buildings to fit each new idea. When the war department shifted to H another idea it ordered more and different construction. At one time Hi the post was to be transformed into a great cantonment. Barracks H ' and other buildings were constructed in conformity with that notion. H Then an internment camp was decided upon and other buildings were H constructed. Meantime the cantonment idea had gone to seed. The H barrac.ks were being occupied only by occasional recruits. H i About this time there was some talk of making the post a big H '' quartermaster's depot. A little later we were promised a recon- H struttion hospital. And each of these ideas resulted in new con- H struction. H Now orders have come to discontinue all the work, which signifies H ! that some $60,000 or $70,000 in hospital and other construction stops H amid chaos. V It is practically certain that Fort Douglas has not been Baker's Hf only folly. The fantastic performance probably has been duplicated H in many other cases, but naturally the government is not telling on H itself. H jf It is about time congress instituted an exhaustive investigation H to take in all war expenditures so as to form comparisons between H the money expended and the results accomplished. When the results H are made known, we presume to predict, the administration will call H on the League of Nations to enforce peace and domestic tranquillity. m 3c JfC (c p I GUARANTY FALLACY. AFTER many unhappy experiences the bank guaranty plan has ar-rived ar-rived in Utah and has been introduced to the legislature by no H " less a solon than the esteemed George Dern. When the champions H of the bill become vocal we shall hear the old arguments in favor of a H scheme which, like many another scheme, contradicts its champions H and their arguments when once it is put in operation. H The chief argument is that a bank guaranty law not only in- H i sures payment to all depositors but does away with unsafe banking. H j The truth is that it promotes unsafe banking and excessively taxes H f sound and honest business men to pay for the delinquencies of those H , who are lured into the banking business by the state's guarantee. H f Oklahoma adopted such a law about ten ten years ago. We have H not followed its operations closely, but from time to time our atten- .' . . . . f, . tion has been called to it. If we are mistaken in; the observations we are about to make we desired to be corrected. We have been told that the Oklahoma law had the effect of drawing tavern keepers and others into the ranks of the bankers. The wildcat banker placed over the door or on the window of his bank $ I the legend : "Payment of all deposits is guaranteed by the state." So I much trust did the people put in the state that they did not greatly I care whether they deposited their money with a wildcat or asafe and sane banker. At last accounts the very liberal reserve of the state of Oklahoma, if we are rightly informed, was overdrawn about $140,000. The Dern bill would create a guaranty fund of hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars annually, but if we should duplicate the Oklahoma experience the fund would be insufficient. : We have had some unfortunate banking in Utah, but we would be very unwise were we to take refuge in the exploded bank guaranty system. It has the effect of placing a premium upon unsound banking bank-ing and penalizing the honest bankers to pay for those who are dis- honest. We have not had an opportunity to study the Dern bill and necessarily neces-sarily are speaking somewhat at random, but we are safe in advising the legislators to make a thorough investigation of the experiences of other states with bank guaranty laws. Our Democratic legislators are the champion boomerang throwers of the intermountain states and no one would be surprised if the bank guarantee fund should turn out to be another of their boomerangs. A FRENCH ATROCITY. i HUNS in parliament assembled were horrified to hear that Field Marshal Foch, when fixing the new armistice terms, was "brusque." The sensitive soul of Mathias Erzberger burned with chagrin, cha-grin, humiliation, bitterness and woe at this French atrocity. Erzberger Erz-berger had protested against the terms of the proposed armistice and had found the commander-in-chief of the allied forces obdurate. He continued to protest, "but Marshal Foch brusquely refused to make any alteration and insisted upon the inclusion of a clause which gives him power to promulgate any order to Germany at will." Atrocious Marshal Foch ! With the utmost cruelty he makes them take their own medicine. Like a barbaric potentate of the orient he compels the treacherous foe to drink the poison intended for him and his fellow Frenchmen. In Belgium the German officers required the citizens to step from the walk into the street and salute. They stole the wine, the furniture, the crockery. They polluted the rooms of mansions and castles. They burned, pillaged and murdered. If a Frenchman or a . Belgian protested he was beaten or shot. Men and women were carried car-ried away into slavery. Men and women were forced to advance under un-der the fire of their own people to form a screen for Hun troops. These were German atrocities, but think how the German has been outdone by ferocious Marshal Foch. He is treating the Ger- U mans brusquely. $ Utah legislators are laughing at a reformer who writes urging that a law be passed suggesting that all states be made of equal size. Why laugh? The freak laws on the Utah calendars now are quite as funny. Utah Solons should take a day off and laugh at themselves, if they can do themselves justice in a day. t K r p Kerosene and Benzine are now popular bootlegger beverages in Moscow. That's a hint as to one method of improving the brands now dispensed in Salt Lake. Lenine was held up and robbed by some of his own "comrades," s who opined that they knew he would not object to being robbed by a comrade. Evidently the Russians use ' ., word in the German, sense of "Kamerad," meaning "to giveup" T H nfi T , William Hale Thompson and Robert M. Sweitzer are running for I mayor of Chicago on the republican and democratic tickets respective- t B ly.. It will be a great German victory either way. I |
