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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1918.
BREST LITOVSK CONFERENCE
In view of the Associated Press dis
patch in yesterday’s Daily Times an
nouncing the complete collapse of tlu
•’peace” conference at Brest-Litovsl
and the plan of the Teutons to resumt
hostilities against Russia, the follow
ing excerpt from the monthly review
of the war situation by Frank Simondf
will be of particular interest. Mr
Simonds believes that the Germans
come out of the conference with less
of glory and advantage than do th<
Russians. The article is from th<
February Review of Reviews:
’’Turning now to the actual negotia
turns of Krest-Litovsk, I desire to warn
my readers in advance against regard
ir.g the results of these exchanges as
having any military value. Russia is
out of the war. A certain number of
German and Austrian troops will have
to be maintained in the East to garri
son the occupied districts. Even if
the Russians should refuse to make
peace this number of troops would not
have to be increased, because the Rus
sian army has ceased to exist as a
force and a factor. Germany and
Austria will have to police the Rus
sian districts they have conquered—*
police them very heavily, since the
populations are hostile; but nothing
that happens in the peace conference,
so far as one can see, will change
the situation.
&naji ao well to cease to regard
• Russia one day with hope and the next
' in despair. Russia is out and that
>s i01 there is about it. A separate
S-eacc might end in giving Germany
a good deal of food next summer, if
communications could be restored by
fhat, tim'e, which is excessively un
likely, given present Russian anarchy,
but, granted that Germany may gain
some material aid for the fight against
fhe West, if she gets peace in the
East it cannot come soon, while nei
ther more war nor immediate peace
• can offer her any change in burdens
rtibe east front.
then, does Brest-Litovsk
mean. Just this: The Germans went
there with the hope of using the Rus
sian revolutionists as catspaws in
their general scheme of a peace of
fensive. They imped to take the Rus
sian Reds into camp, persuade them
to make a separate peace and to be
come peace agents in the allied coun
tries, working among the same ele
ment in the allied publics. This was
the real purpose of Brest-Litovsk and
when it was not realized Brest-Litovsk
lost all its value and much of its in
terest for the German leaders.
"Unfortunately for them, they could
not end it when it ceased to be use
ful. Their own populations now
looked to Brest-Litovsk and discov
ered that peace was not to be had
because of the annexationist plans of
their rulers, whereupon their disap
proval began to be heard and it be
came incumbent upon German leader
ship to find a way out of the mess
which should enable them to escape
the condemnation of their own public,
w’ho expected peace and wanted It.
"It is hard to imagine a more hu
miliating or intolerable position than
that in which German leadership found
itself at Brest-Litovsk. It was nego
tiating with anarchy, itself the cham
pion of autocracy. It was listening to
threats and insults from the repre
sentatives of a mob, not a nation. It
was compelled to solemnly debate with
men who had no army and no real
Jorce behind them, and it was com
pelled to da all this because it had in
volved itself In a game designed to
strike at allied morale, but, as it
turned out, destined to affect the mo
rale of its own populations.
"German terms at Brest-Litovsk are
not Interesting as such. Germany is
demanding the ‘war map’ and a little
more. She is seeking to erect a Bal
tic state, under her control, in which
250,000 Germans shall rule 5,000,000
Slavs. She is endeavoring to construct
a new Poland in which Hapsburg
power shall prevail for the present.
She refuses all evacuation until after
the war. She insists upon self-deter
mination of political allegiance by the
people, while her armies guard the
ballot boxes, and she refuses to let
her own Poles share in the same self
determining process. In a word, all
' her protestations are shams, covering
- extreme territorial ambitions.
"But what is real at Brest-Litovsk
is not the Russian delegation nor the
» German demands. Actually Brest
i* Litovsk is interesting because it was
( the battlefield upon which was fought
out the German peace Offensive. There
it was exposed and routed There it
collapsed with the results I have indi
> cated already. Had the Bolsheviki
7 been knaves, had they been German
f agents, they would have made peace
on German terms. They would have
accepted the German protestations at
I their face value and become willing
dupes of German policies. Had they
done this the effect in allied nations
would have been bad, if not disastrous.
1 Thoughtless and war-weary people
would have accepted any terms the
Bolsheviki accepted on the valuation
of the Russians. “If Russia is satis
. I tied,” they would have argued, “w'hy
y not we?” This was the dangerous mo
! ment. It has passed. Now Brest
, Litovsk is a minor affair and the Ger
mans are in the position of a man wrho
. went into the swamp to waylay a foe
and got mired. Even with the game
gone, they have still to get out.”
. Explaining the motives which Ger
many had in mind concerning the con
, ference at Brest-Litovsk, Mr. Simonds
,'says elsewhere in the article:
“Germany had expected to fight an
other military campaign in any event.
Her rulers were not deluded into be
: lieving the allies would surrender what
; they had determined must be surren
| dered, but she expected just this, that
; while her enemies were divided and.
I shaken over peace debates, she would
j level one more tremendous military at
tack, and this attack, gaining ground
I and advantages at the outset, as all
j such attacks are bound to do, would
j insure peace before it was perma
nently checked. It was a brilliant
and thoroughly Teutonic scheme, but
it failed, because the Germane were
not clever enough to mako even tran
sient concessions at Brest-Litovsk.
I They could not make up their minds,
| even for a moment, and for the effect
it would have on the world, to let go
of any of their conquests. At the
critical moment, therefore, they had to
lay aside the mask and the result was
utter rout.”
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DESERVE
SUPPORT
The campaign of the Knights of
Columbus to raise funds for their work
among the soldiers deserves the sup
port of every citizen.
The Knights are maintaining build
ings in the various cantonments, and
the work will be carried on in France.
These buildings are maintained on the !
same plan as the Y. M. C. A. buildings, .
and it should be remembered that thej 1
Knights of Columbus make men otj <
every religious belief thoroughly at <
home in their establishments. The' '
work being done and to> be- done by '
this organization is for the entertain- •
ment and the morality of the men in <
the service. P
The Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. t
C. A. and the Hebrew association are
taking over a vital work for tile gov-j t
ernment. They are doing all possible (
to look after the welfare of ail the i
men called into the army and navy. (
They are making life more pleasant for A
them, and are keeping them in paths r
of right living. Because they are do- 1
ing this they must be given the money •
they require. 1
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At last accounts, Mr. Nicholas Ro
. ^
manoff was much addicted to whist.
g
If such is still the case, he is the only
c
noiseless thing in Russia.
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It takes all sorts of people to make 1
a world; including, of course, the wo
man who pays one dollar to the Red. <
Cross and eighteen dollars for a knit- <
ting bag.
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When the kaiser dumps his medals J
into the ammunition melting-pot, the
end of the war will be visible even to
the naked eye.
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The characters of Mother Goose are
sometimes too demonstrative. Little
Boy Blue wound his horn, you recall,
simply because there were cows in the
corn and sheep In the meadow. If
there had been coal in the cellar, he
would have had something to blow
about.
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Broadway will not worry so long as
nights are merely lightless. When the
footlightless night arrives, Broadway
will release a few well-chosen words.
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The New Yorker is prey to much un
certainty. For Instance, when the Red
Ball appears he doesn’t know whether
to go skating in the park; or to line up
on Fifth avenue to welcome a Japan
ese commission.
(Correspondence of Associated Press)
BASE AMERICAN FLOTILLA IN
BRITISH WATERS, Jan. 20.—Every
part of the United States has supplied
a hero in love romances that have cul
minated in happy marriages between
American bluejackets and blue-eyed
Irish maidens since the arrival of the
American destroyer forces in the south
of Ireland. After the war every part
of the United States from Maine tc
California and from the Great Lakes
to Florida will boast of an Irish bride
who was wooed and won in her native
land by an American sailor.
All of the brides are looking forward
to that happy day when they will see
what their husbands so proudly pro
claim as “God's country.” Already the
American sailor has supplied his Irish
bride with all necessary documents to
establish her identity as an American,
and some have even had their prop
erty in the United States transferred
to their wives as a precaution in case
they lose their lives for their country.
There is the marriage of a former
ranchman, Bert Adams, to Brigid
O’Rourke, whose family descends from
an Irish king of that name. Adams,
who is a boilermaker on one of the
destroyers, hails from Hugo, Colo. He
is now arranging to have his ranch
in Colorado deeded to his wife as a
precaution in the event of his being
torpedoed. His wife’s relatives live
in Bruce, County Limerick, and there
is plenty of anecdote connected with
the family’s relation to the O’Rourkes
of kingly fame. “I don’t know any
thing about ranching,” Mrs. Adams
told the Associated Press correspon
dent, “but I am preparing myself for
the fair land Bert has told me so much
about by studying a history of Colo
rado.”
Then there is the case of Mary|
Ridge, head waitress at the leading
hotel here, who lost her heart to Har
land (1. Ritchie, a machinist's mate,
first class, of Allston, Mass. She was
me of the most popular girls in town,
rhe dining room over which she pre
sided is out of bounds to enlisted men,
sut Ritchie contrived to see her when
she was off duty. They knew each
sther for four months before Mr.
Ritchie led her to the altar of the
rillage church.
But the record for love at first sight
imong the Americans belongs to a
•onng seaman, Paul Vafachovic by
tame,' who used to work in the ma
hine shop of the General Electric;
Company at Schnectadv, N. Y. He fell;
n love the first day he stepped ashore|
lere from his destroyer. Ada .Tones,!
Cork girl, was the object of Cupid’s
tart. After the war Valaetiovfc is
oing to take her back with him to
hat thriving city of New York.
A few of the Americans iTrst met
heir wives on visits to England
’harles TIarmon Cobia of Charleston.
5. C., fell in love on the Beautiful
’ornish Riviera with Ada Gilbert, a
.'idow of 24, whose home was- in Ply
mouth. Another English bride is Nora
Elizabeth Kitt, who was married to
oseph IV. Highfierd of Des Moines,
owa.
But the majority of the Americans
narried Irish girls who lived in the
■icinity of the American naval base,
nd whom they met at the dance hail
r roller skating rink. Thus Dorf
Yances Phillips Is now Mrs. Leo Vin
cent Elavell of Hanover, Mass., and
dary Ellen Sullivan has become the
vife of Thomas A. Balschi of Mount
larmel, Pa. After the war Mary
VKeefe, who became the wife of Ed
vard C. Turner, expects to desert the
rying climate of Southern Ireland for
hat of sunny San Jose, Cal., which is
ler husband’s home. William Spauld
ng of DeLand, Fla., has married Ester
Allen, while Oral E. Cox of Tola, Kan.,
ivon the hand of Phyllis Rose Rogers.
Among others of the American sail
ors who have taken to themselves a
wife over here are Benjamin J. Moore
of Dallas, Texas; Elbert R. Bicking
ham of Pensacola, Fla.; Harry E.
Holder of Denver, Colo., and Michael
J. Della Roco of Schenectady, N. Y.
And the list gives promise of growing
steadily.
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IT’S ALL A MISTAKE;
ICE CREAM NOT COLD
(By George Martin, United Press
Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Ice cream
Js too hot a food for Americans to eat,
according to Prof. R M. Washburn of
the University of Minnesota.
If you have been kidding yourself
along in warm weather by eating a
dish of ice cream to cool off, Prof.
Washburn informs you that what you
have really been doing is making your
self hotter.
Statistics show that we have been
in the habit of doing that to the ex
tent of many dishes apiece a year
But the ice cream men are going to
fix that. In the interest of food con
servation and your personal comfort
they’re going to cool our ice cream off
a bit before they serve it up next sum
pier.
“The ice cream men,” says the bul
letin, “find that there is a parados
in their industry. Ice cream contains
from 10 to 15 per cent of fat. Fat is
heating food.
“Prof. Washburn estimates that old
fashioned ice cream with 11 per cent
butter fat contains 25 per cent more
heat than does present day ice cream
with about 9.40 per cent fat.
“If the ice cream consumption is 2
gallons per person per year, on a basis
of 14 per cent butter fat, there would
be 145,600,000 pounds of fat consumed
whereas on the basis of 9 per cent fat
we would make a saving of 52,000,000
pounds, or more than half a pound per
person per year.
“Bought at an average price of 45
cents a pound, there would be a con
sumption of $25,000,000 worth of but
ter fat, which is not merely waste, but
undesirable from a dietary point of
view.
“The ice cream men seek to adjust
their products to wartime needs by
f
revising national and state laws regu
lating the fat standard in ice cream.
A good ice cream can be made with
from 8 to 10 per cent butter fat, and
an increase in the fruit Juice and other
cooling contents would make it more
agreeable.
“ ‘Chemically cool and physically
cold’ is the war standard desired by
the ice cream men. On this basis
Prof. Washburn estimates that the in
dustry can be maintained with little
disturbance to manufacturers and deal
ers, which decided economy and bet
ter health to the consumer, not to men
tion a saving of perhaps $35,000,000
during the summer, or sufficient to
finance the Y. M. C. A. war work for
many months,”
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