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SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1919
DEPORT THEM
One of the best services the mon
archies and ex-monarchies of Europe
can. do the United States is to keel
their aristocrats away from this coun
try. It is true that some of these
blue-bloods are refugees seekinj
safety from a murderous Bolshevism
As Americans we cannot refuse mere)
to any human being who comes to us
for refuge from wrong and injustice—
not even to a king. At the same 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 per
mitted to attitudinize in this countr)
as our friends. They cannot possibl)
have genuine sympathy for our insti
tutions and we are simply playing inte
the hands of the Bolshevists, anarch
ists and I. W. W. by allowing these
personalities to parade from city t<
city airing their silly views.
Only a few weeks ago a Russiar
princess dined with some of the liter
ary women In one of our leading cities
After delectable bits of scandal ovei
the tea and cakes about Tolstoy’s do
mestie infelicities the princess pro
ceeded to tell how noble and good th(
old regime in Russia had been.
.■‘W’as if true that the old regimi
of the czar had treated the peesanti
cruelly? Oh, dear no. Of course, th(
government was somewhat one-sided
but the people were happy and con
tented. In time, as the masses be
came more educated and better abh
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 im
perial palace by Russian agents tc
voice their protests, to demand re
forms and to plead with the czar foi
curcease from ancient wrongs ant
cruelties, the emperors cossacks
formed a screen in front of scores ol
machine guns. At a signal the cavalrj
divide!} to each side of the thorough
fare and the machine gunners opened
fire on the men, women and children
This was the end of the revolution ol
"1905. Of course, if the people had
been better educated and more refined
the czar would have abdicated and
handed over to them hie crown and
. sceptre.
Let us admit that the weaz czar
was well-meaning and that he was
unjustly tried, condemned and exe
cuted, yet, as Americans, we are per
fectly aware that he was a despot and
that in 1905 he acted as despots must
act if they are to retain their thrones.
The only way a despot can keep him
self in power is hy force. He is a
standing 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 refore he resisted. When
his people approached him to ask for
mercy and pity he killed them.
In the whirl of Jhe war have Ameri
cans forgot the Kishinev massacre
when a fanatical people hurled them
selves upon the unoffending Jews ol
a whole city and slew them. That wae
the fruit of despotism. Such an atroc
ity was unthinkable in times of peace
anywhere in Europe outside of Rus
sia and the Balkans. It was due t<
an ignorance which is essential to th!
maintenance of autocracy.
It is true that the csar, before th<
war, had granted his people a libera
system of education. It was a fata
mistake. Enlightenment was sure ti
brliukhis dynasty crashing into ruins
Boo* were sure Jo overcome machln
guns.
The same ignorance which prt
duced the depotlsm of the csar an
the pogroms against the Jews has prt
dueed the Bolshevlkl and their "dl<
tatership of the proletariat.” In b<
nightsd Bgsslh .tt is on* despotist
after another. The people do not un
derstand 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 Bolcheviki In this
country, but neither do we want the
princes, the dukes nor any of that
despotic ilk. If they come fleeting
danger should pass them through the
country as quickly as possible and de
port them as we deported the Bolshe
viki. Let them proceed on their way
to the remaining monarchies of
Europe where they will be among peo
ple who can sympathize more or less
with their moss-grown absurdities.
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RUSSIA TAKES TO BATHS
Already Russia’s "dictatorship of
the proletariat” is leading to class dis
tinctions. We have long been of the
opinion that soon there would be an
aristocracy among the BolsheviKl and
we find our most sinister suspicions
confirmed.
The Bolsheviki are beginning to
take baths. If that departure from
every tradition of the Russian prole
tariat were all we should not rise our
voice in horrified protest. We would
be glad to see the proletarians take a
bath—rather we would be glad that
they had surrendered to this refining
influence.
We hate to see the proletarians
turning to aristocracy in the use of
water. But there is no doubt about
the new aristocracy created by Len
ine and Trotzky. An authoritative
dispatch tells us that bathing is now
regulated by the state. Some persons,
evidently influential proletarians who
can demand and enforce special privil
eges, will be allowed to take two
baths a month. Others will enjoy
this strange, thrilling experience only
once a month. And others will not be
allowed to bathe at all.
That is the sad part of it all. The
common people will not be allowed to
bathe at all. They will still be fet
tered in the old serfdom of uncleanli
ness. Saturday night will come and
go but no baths for the downtrodden.
For a thousand years the poor mou
jiks have been struggling toward the
bathroom to take a liberty plunge
and here they are stopped at the very
threshold. :.i
Of course, there would be grave
dangers if all were permitted to bathe.
The rivers probably would be raised
above flood levels and great disasters
might occur. Then, too, close rela
tives would not recognize one another
and would pass by in cruel silence.
Children would be all mixed up be
i cause parents would not recognize
; their own.
Nevertheless we lift our megaphone
and cry aloud for true democracy. It
is quite evident that a nCw degree of
aristocracy even above that of two
baths a month is to be created. Soon
we shall have the once a week aristo
crats who will bathe every Saturday
night just as the czar used to do.
Perhaps they will even shave off their
w’hiskers.
Dow'n with Lenine and Trotzky and
their clan aristocrats.
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NEW YORK STATE TO
OBSERVE PEACE DAY
ALBANY, March 3 (by mall).—A
bill designed to make November IT a
holiday to be known as “Peace day”
has been introduced in the New York
state legislature.
Another bill would authorize city
and county officials to provide in 1919
for a city or county celebration in
honor of returned and returning sol
diers, sailors and marines of the world
war, and to provide medals, badges
and decorations for them.
SOLDIERS GIVEN WORK
OR STATE HIGHWAYS
.CHEYENNE, Wy»„ March 15.—In
addition to hearty co-operation with
federal agencies in rehabilitation
work, Wyoming will offer employment
to returning soldiers on its elaborate
plan for state highways and on irri
gation enterprises stopped by the war.
The state highway commission has
existing contracts aggregating $493,
000 for the construction of trunk line
highways connecting ail of Wyoming's
twenty-one counties with transconti
nental roads. Much concrete will be
used.
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Americans will understand that British friendship is today unre
served and without qualification.
In the compliments which one nation pays to another there is always
an element of camouflage; but in the present case the sincerity of the
tribute stands out clear as the day. It is not only a matter of words and
pictures and anthems.
Momentous issues are being decided. As long as we were all laboring
under the strain of war we had the strongest possible reasons for working
harmoniously. We knew what Germany would do to us both if we fell
asunder. The worst stress has been eased by peace, and we need to be
all the more careful to maintain the former comradeship. Trade rivalry
and innumerable delicate questions affecting the distribution of food and
raw materials might cause friction if approached by either party in an
ungenerous spirit. Officials are working at high pressure and are not
always diplomatists in any country.
We need to make it plain that our two nations will not tolerate any
drifting apart. It is not a question which solely concerns departments in
London and Washington. Every one of us is involved in it, and it is
for the departments to do our bidding. If there should be any narrow
minded mandarin in Whitehall who wants to make himself conspicuous
at the expense of the United States let him be fired. The only competi
tion should be in reasonableness.
From the Pacific ocean to the Rhine there is disturbance and blood
shed. Democracies cannot afford to be divided in days like these when
anything may happen among populations numbering 300,000,000.
Americans and British have worked together, fought together, bled
together, died together! They have been foes and they are now friends.
As friends they must learn to live together.
DEADLY LOCUST
IS AGAIN DUE
DURING YEAR
WASHINGTON, March 15—Great
swarms of the seventeen-year locust
will infest the United States in late
May and early June' this year, which
is expected by scientists to be one of
the worst “locust years” on record.
Experts of the department of agri
culture, however, sle nothing alarm
ing in the prospect.
Once regarded superstitiously as a
harbinger of disaster, the periodical
cicada, popularly known as the seven
teen-year locust because It comes at
long Intervals, Is seen How to he more
than an ordinary non-poisonous Insect
pest, which can do little damage if
proper precautions are taken. The
chief injury inflicted by the insect
consists almost wholly In chiseling
grooves in the branches of trees for
depositing eggs. Young fruit trees
sometimes are killed, but the damage
generally seems greater than it actu
ally is, according to the entomologists,
and popular alarm is out of proportion
to the real danger.
-Suggested precautionary measures
are:
Defer putting out young fruit trees
until next year; postpone budding op
erations; do no pruning this spring.
When the insects begin coming out,
hand pick them from young trees or
spray with pyrethrum powder, kero
sene emulsions, or a solution of car
bolic acid or acetic aetd.
Later, when the Insects are ready
to begin laying, spray young fruit
trees with whitewash.
The department of agriculture has
kept crose check for many years of all
the broods of locusts and can forecast
accurately when and where the pests
will appear. Large regions wfn be af
fected this year where one brood ap
peared seventeen years ago and in
other regions which suffered thirteen
years ago, the states Including Ala
bama, District of Columbia, Delaware,
Georgia, mmols, Indiana, lowa, iven
tucky, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Tennesee, Vermont,
Virginia, West Virginia and Wiscon
sin.
Belief that the 1919 brood will be
exceptionally large is based on the
fact that the seventeen-year brood
coming out this year is brood ten, per
haps the largest of the seventeen-year
brood, and that brood eighteen of the
thirteen-year family comes out at the
same time. The year 1868 was the
greatest locust year in history, when
brood nineteen, the largest of the
thirteen-year family, appeared in con
junction With brood ten of the seven
teen-year family.
There will be three regions of great
est occurrence of brood ten, one cover
ing New Jersey, Maryland and easterti
Pennsylvania; another covering all ol
Indiana, the greater, part of Ohio and
southern Michigan; and a third cover
ing western North Carolina, *8310111
Tennessee and northern Georgia.
While brood ten will affect twenty
states, brood eighteen wfn appear in
only five states—Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee, and only limited! areas fn
those states.
CT. L. Marlatt, chairman of the fed
eral horticultural board, who has per
fected the information on- the cicada,
calls the insect the most interesting
in the world, because of the- spectacu
lar swarms in which it appears, its
queer recurrence at long intervals and
the- portentous significance frequently
attached to it. Every locust year has
been a year of fear and dread, even
in civilized times. Some people have
fancied that they could deteet fn the
cry of the insect a resemblance to the
name- of the Egyptian monarch. Phar
aoh, who presecuted the Israelites.
Superstition attached also to the shape
of the filmy bars on the cicada’s
wings, which seemed to form the let
ter “W,” Interpreted as a forecast of
war.
-‘Since this outbreak will come just
ar the conclusion of the greatest war,”
Mr. Marlett said, “and when even the
imagination of the rural prophet could
hardly conjure up the likelihood oi
another one, some new- explanation
will have to be found.”'
“INTO THE MOUTH OF HELL” |
When Chicago eiWts 7?& war ma
merlal, whatever It Is to be, there
oast be engraved upon It in giant let
ters, “Chipllly Ridge" and "The AP
gonne." And right near must be the
•names of the men of the One Hundred
and Thirty-first and One Hundred end
Thirty-second infantry regiments.
Not s transport comes into New
York harbor but which bears new tes
timony of the magnificent feat per
formed by the men from Chicago at
Chipllly ridge in that awful three days’
struggle early In August, when they
•went In to complete a Job which t'je
British had been forced to abandon
Hardly a soldier who was in the
Argonne but comes back with words
of praise for the two old Illinois Na
tional Guard regiments which went
through another fearful battle, which
broke' the backbone of German resist
ance. The men of the One Hundred
and Thirty-first and One Hundred and t
'thirty-second do not hare to sing their own praises. Men of other regiments
who were located near them when they went In tell the story.
OoL J. B. Sanborn, commander of the One Hundred and Thirty-first
Infantry, formerly tbs First regtaieat, t N. th, has been decorated by King
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