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Show WA3p(3ipi? Borah: "We Paid It and We Paid It All" WASHINGTON. "Every now and then somebody dwells on the sentimental aspects of France's assistance to us in the Revolution anil asserts that we still owe France for loans then received," re-ceived," Senator Borub said In the senate sen-ate the other day: "As t matter of fact. Mr. President, the United States paid France every dollar of the debt Incurred at that time a full settlement at a higher rats of interest than we are now proposing pro-posing to ask," he said. Here Senator Borah had for antag-, antag-, - onlst a recognized specialist In the in tricacies and the traditions of Franco-American Franco-American finance at the time of the Revolution, especially In the matter of the loans which Ilenjamln Franklin negotiated with the French financier, adventurer, and dramatist, ' Beau-marchnls. Beau-marchnls. That antagonist was Senator Sena-tor William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, Mary-land, author of the monumental two-volume two-volume "Benjamin Franklin Self-Revealed." Mr. Bruce said: ' "The senator is aware, of course, that France made some very large gifts to the people of the United States during the war of the Revolution?" Borah replied, "I have not been able I , to find any record of them." Then they came to grips the specialist spe-cialist on Frunklln and on Lafayette fencing with the widely read man who still outspeclullzed the specialist. Borah knew all the Intricacies of the Franklin-Beauiuarchals dlckeringa how the French government refused to take any risk in connection with them, how alleged gifts were no gifts at all, but loans, which were ultimately paid In full ; how Lafayette, coming to help us, had to leave France In secrecy se-crecy In order to escape being overhauled over-hauled by a government that did not want us to be helped. He quoted Frunklln and Beaunmrchals, and Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton and VVoodrow Wilson, and, having driven Bruce of Maryland nearly frantic with his citations, ha wound up by contemptuously brushing all the citations aside and saying: "Mr. President, those things are only Interesting at this time to stay possibly possi-bly the continued criticism that the United States Is ungrateful and Is assuming as-suming the attitude of an lngrate in not forgiving this debt because of the services of France In the American Revolution. France Joined with America Amer-ica in that contest, but she Joined with America because It was to her Interest to do so. France loaned America money because It was to her Interest to do so. She loaned the money. We paid It, and we paid It all." And What a Ruction E. T. Cahill Started WHILE! nations, states and cities wage the greatest legal, legislative and verbal battle of the present day, Involving future navigability of the Great Lakes, the man, aged and worn, who started the whole fight between Chicago and northern United States and Canada, remains obscure, unmentloned and unrewarded. un-rewarded. nil part In this affair, which has aroused more heat than any controversy contro-versy In years and which puts at stake hundreds of millions of dollars, Way soon receive official recognition v aa well as some measure of reward from the Wisconsin legislature. And once Wisconsin starts, Canada, the dozen states and the eighty large cities Involved may chime In. But since his work stdrted the battle, bat-tle, Edward T. Cahill, now of Wash-i- lngton, D. C, has never so much as . received public mention. He had spent i . all of his earnings as a Chicago attor- .-" ney, and almost all of his time for years, to bring about the recent verdict ver-dict of the United States Supreme court that Chicago was Illegality drying dry-ing np the Great Lukes. Ever since 1908 efforts have been made to restrain Chicago from turning turn-ing huge quantities of water from the Great Lakes into the Desplalnes river In order to dispose of her sewage. Cab 111 was of counsel representing the attorney general of Wisconsin In the action started at that time. He had made the study of navigable waterways water-ways and the laws governing them his life work. The case dragged for years In the courts until finally Just before he retired re-tired from the bench, Judge Landls decided that the diversion of water above the War department allotment was Illegal. Then In 1921 the Supreme court held the Desplalnes a navigable river subject to the ordinance of 1787. Mr. Cahill went to Attorney General Gen-eral William J. Morgan of Wisconsin. Mr. Morgan beenme Interested at once and si'urted the proceedings that have resulted In a Supreme court decision holding Chicago to be diverting lake water Illegally. Cnnii'lu, all of the states from Wisconsin to New York along the northern part of the United States and every large Greut Lake city Joined in the fray. To Restore the Robert E. Lee Mansion soldier who came from Michigan and who served four years under Custer nnd Sheridan," said Mr. Crumton. "If huppened that his service was mainly in this parrot the country. General Lee was the outstanding military figure fig-ure of the Confederacy, and I have felt that there was a propriety In the son of a Union soldier offering this tribute to the military leader of the Confederacy Confed-eracy and to Robert E. Lee as an Individual. , a T THE request of Represent a- . tlve Cramton of Michigan, the honse adopted a resolution au-1 au-1 thorlzlng the restorotlon of the former home of General Robert E. Lee in Arlington cemetery, across the Potomac Po-tomac river from Washington In Virginia. Vir-ginia. The resolution authorizes the secretary secre-tary of war to restore the mansion as nearly as possible to the condition In which It was prior to the Civil war, and to procure, if possible, articles of furniture and equipment which were then In the mansion. Replicas are to be obtained where the original pieces are not available. The resolution states that "now hon-i hon-i or Is accorded Robert E. Lee as one of the great military leaders of history, whose exalted character, noble life and eminent services nre recognized and esteemed, and whose manly attributes at-tributes of precept and example were compelling factors in cementing the American people in bonds of patriotic devotion and action against common external enemies In the war with Spain and In the World war, thus consuro- mating the hope of a reunited country that would again swell the chorus of the Union." "I am myself the son of a Union Such action would he a tangible recognition by the country, North and South, that the bitterness of other days Is entirely gone; that we can recognize the worth of an American, wherever he was born or In whatever army he may have served. I believe that It Is unprecedented in history for a nation to have gone through as great a struggle strug-gle as we did In the Civil war and so bitter a struggle as that was, and In the lifetime of men then living to see the country so absolutely reunited as la our country at this moment. "In the Spanish-American war and In the World war the world was given tangible evidence, conclusive proof, of the actuality of the runlon, and I feel that there was no man In the South who did more by his precept and example ex-ample to help bring about that condition condi-tion than did Robert E. Lee." Policewomen Would Establish Reforms WITH an ambitious program for the education of the public pub-lic regarding the work of the policewomen and for curbing delinquency among girls the International Interna-tional Association of Policewomen, of which Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, director di-rector of the locnl woman's bureau, Is president, has announced the establishment establish-ment In Washington of Its headquarters. headquar-ters. The association, founder In a small way In 1015, will seek to ameliorate crime conditions among women, with a view to minimizing the necessity for arresting women and in the hope of keeping at a low lewl the number of women prisoners ln;the Jails of this and other countries. rr. Mary H. Harris, formerly superintendent super-intendent of .the New Jersey State Home for Girls, has been made field secretary in' charge of the headquarters headquar-ters of the association. The assoclat inn already has succeeded succeed-ed In establishing standards and requirements re-quirements for woman police. In Its new headquarters If will conduct an information and research service, and will circulate the findings by means of ' pamphlets and speakers furnished to clubs and civic bodies. Crime-prevention work will be portrayed por-trayed aa a fruitful field for women In police work, Investigations will be made of the cause for delinquency among women and children and its relation re-lation to the prevalence of social diseases, dis-eases, and efforts will be made to show how potential offenders may be given the kind of aid that will prevent crime and make arrest unnecessary. It Is stated. The association also will seek to have the general standards In police departments elevated, will work for uniform police records and will press for the exchange of records for purposes pur-poses of comparison. Doctor Harris has been with the New Jersey State Home for Girls for more than five years. She was connected con-nected with the United States Interdepartmental Inter-departmental Social Hygiene board dtirinR the war and formerly was s'.i-perintendent s'.i-perintendent of the New Jersey Reformatory Re-formatory for Women ami of the women's workhouse at Rlackwells island, is-land, X. Y. She Is a graduate of the University of Chicago. As evidencing the Interest being shown In the work of the association by eiluratlonul Institutions, Doctor Harris pointed out that courses In social service work are being conducted con-ducted In a number of schools and colleges. Including George Washington university here. |