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New Leader of Villa Faction is Conducting Civilized [Warfare NEW SORT OF REVO LUTION FOR MEXICO Interesting Interview With As - sociated Press Correspondent In Which Gen. Angeles Dis cusses the Campaign Against Carranza. / Headquarters of Gen. Felipe Angf ie-V; "Mexico. June 13.?Gen. Felipe Angeles, commander of the rebel forces 'in the vicinity of Juarez, grur.t ?<?" a. four hour imervn-w to a corr? - jspcident of the Associated Press this afteV.iOOa. With General Angeles a: his headquarters is Martin Lo 1 <<?-?/. nex: in? command. Ramon'Vega nr..} Gener al Hoignin. General: Angeles is in 2he host of spirits and* says he is e.-miident of his cans?. The forces of General Angeles are well equipped, his cavalry horses are the-best seen beiow ;h?- border and .equal those of American cavalry. . General Angeles is -.veil sup:-!:'*-3: \wit-h funds and states he is paying for everything he obtains from the ranch folk. ? The most surprising Thing is his men?they are not. the ordinary run of.-'revolutionists, they are big and ?trong .and when some wer?- asked about Juarez they smiled and ~.'iid: "We can take Juarez i:; triree hours." Gen, Feiip* Angeles' headquarters are in ^n old house "iniated on a iarie.'off-the main road about 13 mile? southeast of Juarez. Toy reach his headquarters is a dif ficult task ^he^ause his men appear *j\ery few yards. Seme of his forces arc at'm'ed with as many as three guns and as many cartridges belts /filled to capacity with shells. When Geners 1 Angele;; -was asked what he intended to do a boot Juarc-x, he-said: "I do not know whether to take the city or nor. If 1 tn]d you thai would be -military information .and I of course have nothing further ;o say about Juarez. ' In. speaking of conditions in ah Mexico Genera: Angeles said; 'For my parr, I have no aspire tiqns; I rave no desire or. wish o be the "big man in Mexico; ] have r.o de sire 'to be proclaimed as the redeem er-of my country which has-'been torn and-bled for nine years. The only ambition'I have is to aid and assist those other leaders with me in re deeming my country. '.'How mS^-ny men have he said when, asked by the correspondent, and answered, "I have a small com mand here." ! "General" Villa is to the south and ? his troops number the largest," Gen. Angeles continued. '"Which way he is moving, and his exact location, how ever, are not, for publication. General Villa who haSfbeen the mainstay hi the.revolutionary movement, has been charged with many things of which he is innocent. Chihuahua City is cut off from Juarez. The Carranza government has 2,000 men at or near Nogaies, Sonera, which they can.no* move." * T 2c av e pi e r. I y 0 f m o n e y a n d ! 0 0!: around at my m^n, are they not good ones. We pay for everything we get; we are-' not robbing - anybody, the ranch folk in the valley are getting paid ' for everything we obtain." When asked regarding General > :j }a. General Angeles said he was very well and denied the report thatiVilla had been wounded in the kneejf-: the Columbus raid. El Paso. June 12.?a courier who arrived tonight from the rebel head quarters near Zaragoza )?? >s than 3 3 miles, from Juarez, report- the rebeb ;hays?-4.400 men, ail armed with rifles and each man supplied with 300 rounds of ammunition. ?Two field guns and eight machine guns are included in the :??;?> : fight ing ecUipmen*-. At the time the courier Left the camp the intention was to attack Juarez before daylight orrow morning. ? Juarez. June 13.?A skirmish oc currecl between federals and advan ? ?d- forces of General Angeies. J?t !.:.?? o'clock this afternoon Several . ? reported kiEed on the :? d? . i side. Improvements in Concrete Shipbuild ing. San Francisco. June 13?Th-- new cement ship Palo Alto, recerrtl launched at the government Island plant at Oakland differs m&ieri ?; both r.!) to arehitecturi 'tnd con ;?<:? sition from the first concrete "Faith." The system of steel reinforcing of the Faith was diagonal, that of thi Pa <o Alto horizontal and vertical. The feoncrete agregate used in the Faith was rock, sand and cement; that of the Palo Alto of sand, crushed t rra cotta and cement, makinr for ]'?-;?'? ? construction. The San ranei? Shipbuilding company, builders of the Faith, directed the construction of th'; Palo Alto, the work being done under inspection of the Shipping Board. The "shell" or walls of thi Palo Alto are four inches thick with th.i exception of par- nC the bottom, wh< ? it is five inches,in order t provid ditional strength to enre for ? foa <2ations of the machinery. Deck? deckhouses, cabins?in fact every thing about th" \*essel, w:t'n th ception of a few fittings and necessary steel appurtenances, is of concreto. About six weeks hence, when the Palo Alto is ready to ^o into servic another concrete vessel will b'> launch - 1 ed. It is growing in its forms located next to those that held the Pali) Alto j It will be the first "puffed brick" j ship ever built and will be named the ! '?Twilight" iMutinj in Frenc h FI* el ?Senrr-ei; Hoist Rod 1'iag and De clare France Has >?o Ri^nt to Use Them in W ar :>ot Voted by Parliament i Paris. Jun^ 13 (By the Associated ' Press)-?An aceoum of the mutiny 01' [teamen of the French Black sea fieeJ j tir Odessa, in April vvss told it. the ?Chamber of Deputies last night by ( Deputy Emhe Goulde. a Socialist; Dur j ing the trouble a reel flag had beep Iran up on the baxT-Teship France; ) On April 20 a zealous young officer j orders d a. machine gm; tlr d against j French soldiers arid sailors fraterhal : izi.ng with the Russiajii and several ! persons w??!*??? kiiied and wounded [After negotiations tne demands ot thy | sailor.4; were met and It was agreed jikat they should hot be punisiied. j "Th*' signal to clear for action was {given on (he morning of April i'.K" [the "deputy said. "The men gathered j in crowds on the deck and refused to dispers- when ordered. Then '. i om che battleship France arose the strains of the international revolutionary hmyrss j '"The captain tried 'to discuss the I matter with 'he sailors-, who*appomt I ed delegates lo explain why the in i leriiationa!?' had been sung. One ol the "delegate* said: *' 'Tbe war we .tr. being forced to make against the Russians is ar>coh srilcUtlonai. Th" .mildster has no: j right to use us for a war parliamen: ! has y~*>' voted^ { "The captain informed the Admiral 'in Command 01 the situation. Tne men i listened to the attempts or* the a ! imiral to parley. They were respect feu! in their altitude but refused to ? obey his orders and insisted "hey ! should b< returned to franco. The ! internationale again was suhg in the I evening and sailors on other ships j ten); up the singing, j -Tue red Ssjg was run up on/Faster I morning bWides. .the tricolor. The jwork on the ships .was ca^ri-d out i regular/y and the cmcers iuei :>:ViAW~ tert:--. ? ! *-v; hen the nien were roing ashore j on Apr.! "r> .'?. young ensign, seeing the sailor* and French soldiers fraiemai izin^ with Russian men arid place.] himself in front Of the men../stopping the firing, llpwever some ^vere I:die 1 and wounded^ "After four days of negotiations the j admiral granted the demands or va. I delegates that the ship*- should r- ru-s to France 'and ' that ho punishrm n? should be enacted against the rn-jr. after t h e 1 r re tu r? 1.' * ; Holding Up Appropriation Republican Congressmen Criti cise War Department Ex penditures i _ ! Washington^ .Time 12.?Fir.; ; ac ition on the 1020 army appropriatiorj Ibill was delayed in the house today a.> f-tfae result of a brisk parliamentary skirmish over a proviso prohibiting tire war department fr er. using -an* part of the appropriation or any un ! expended balances now in ]t:- posses sion for tiie ' purchase of ad ::? tiOTial lands for army purpose. A point of order on the proviso was made by Representative Crisp, Demo crat, Georgia and sustained by Rop ? reseritative Campbeil of Kansas, pre siding, after prolonged debate. Ar 'Iattempt will be made tomorrow ? ? obtain ?a special rule from the rales Icommit^ee making the proviso in or ; der. j Seductions retailing ?-'?0.."CO.^rto \t j the bill were made during the day re ducing the total amount carried from ?Sl^OOOiO^O to $ 17S,0:0.00 or $."13.0> 006,000 lest: than the original esti ! mates of the war ?eparthrent: The. debate on the proviso centered ! InrgcTy on the question of whether [the war department was justified in [making 2arg._ exper.dAur^s of land now that hosUllities have .-eased nr.:": demobilization more than half com pleted.! Republicans cohtciided that the .i.-'pnrtmTi'V. authority to ma,fce land purchases cease when the armis tice was sign.- :, and that millions >i [dollars has been spent without jus ,' Representative Madden, Republican, iof Illinois, declared trat liore than L3,000 acres of \r.id had been pur chased near C.-.n^p Benning. Ga.. at a cost >>? abort ^.00.0,000 for ??? small arms practice ti:.-u even though a si:u iiar field existed at Fort S;i;. 'i;-. characterized as a criminal misuse I-of the go\Trr?ment*s money which :should ).???? consideVe? tie- same >s "fa j ^' :-Ztrra-;iT. ' i Representative .".!'.? Metzle of iibu ; rasserted that this was only or- ?.f : .'- ??-: ( us "dagrant abuse?;." I "Se^r-jin^'y,'- ?.]r. MeKeuzie added ,:*the departmeni does not yet r? iii.'.t the war is over. Land for v.}\ . ;: the army has now absolutely no uf< ^ being purchased recklessly. Millions ; of. d-'ljar- are being thrown io -.c? ; wuius. If the administration :.? ,.: able to realize that the time for such a course has passed, it is the cl ? congress to step in and put a sloe to ' it " Dem'.'cratt; replied to the h i by declaring that they v.-^:-.- as much Iwithout foundation as other ? e-:> . j which ihe majority par v ha.i J making. j "Evidenth.- ihc Republican: ha*.. ! not taken " o considerationv'" d clared Re -enttaive Lever. South Caroina in -t -he war dep-rrtme: ? saving money for the gov ri m igoing ahead and purchasing tr < > land for which it already has ? .? ? j large sums for options < r :mr>rov, j meats. Judgment must be used t- j> termine whether it would be economi cally wise to abandon tlm property or go ahead and acquire the title of Mr. Crisp, said it seemingly was *h idea of the Republicans that the arm 'was made up 0f nothing but a lot of "cheap, common grafters who would descend to anything." and r.<\>]<-:> th - the nvn who carried on the w: ?? could be trusted to wind it up. Miss Frances Miller left for hor home yesterday. Agnation Tokio -iciviccs Says Iis Spread Serious in China \ Tokio, \Vfe?n.<y. .d:ne (!>>" til'" : .AssT>.'j;ih-l Press). ?AUvices received !;frow ?'hl na show that lhare has b~2?:? j:: serious spread of anti-Japanese igl J tati?n'. especial]} hi Shanghai, Il?hk .?? [ ko. Nanking :>mi Canton; with ?:: :;<?* f.iions thai -:t ihay develop into a geu leral anti-foreign rnov^nent. I Several warships of the Japa..'iJi3S I China r^suaUro;. h?-ye : . hu-.?: d re (Shanghai. Srtlpr>j:^ . i < hmose ports { has virtus lb owing to . ' icott, resultintr great monetary iO?Sj :-es to :kteafi:ship f:or:vt-'anies and ex j porters. j Tiio KrtOx K-mii.on. j The ?esoiuiien pr?m.;-.. ?: in the sen kite y. ^??-:<:r.\ by Air. fvvyjx, deckling i to riie p-'ac." conferee- e the judg i merit of the- CiiXtet. .?..'>.'<?.- senate, as pa coe<P?ai i>::i-: ??? the Ir, 11y-rAskjnJ? ipower of this government. ??? be that i the structure 01*tcW I^atruc .\.:tions j should be excluded from the ? peace itreaty and left t-o future consideration [and 1';:.; the treaty shoulsi be directed Koielj to the ?>nhhl ishnrent of peace en : pilueiy^es 01 ri> n?. and justice to all i):a':oiiN which Lite [Jnited Sta es en j r-. -f 1 bite (he- war, is ? very keen and ? S?*aTchiiig stroke- at 'the elaborate i compact which has been drawn up at i V< rs;;.il!< s and the treat}. ''without re jecting ehmer ihu dissect out of*the body (.:* the eompajct which is pending' in negotiations in-twe^n the Allied (powers and ^h** Germans. The Knos {resolution is so framed as to repudi? ?;ri effectually pie program of Presi jdem rvilsoh. insofar as ihat still re? j mains r- cognizable, ir: the treaty, whh ! out rejecting cither the treaty itself Kor the League of Nylons or prevent ; ii:g the Cunteioning of the L'reted [States with other nations which tvtay jaccept them both. The peace treaty j has been trained around /he League jof Nation's so intricately that it has | ;,*-< n thought impossible to accept the i on< and ?:? i'cc! the other, out the Knozi resolution would seem to ac i complish this even without change ? :?? :hr rest of she document;; by the j simple device of repudiating raeni i bership of the fJriited States in the j League ccmniitting to diplomatic , commisiiioTis such functions as are. |.designated In "bo treaty for the j League its- if. Wbb ' the resolution declares the treaty >o coma Pi provis ions ".calculaJted to force upon us un 'i desirable and far-reaching covenants ; inimical ?0 ">.<?" free insritutionS.-' the lob'ligat'on's to rheso provisions. "s I h^dicatr-d. consist wholiy in the j League, which i: is propoosed to to j dissee- of the body of the com i pnet. and the integrity of the treaty : its,"!:* need :???* be impaired tnereby. jln other wai-i \ ii woidd seem not es : sentlal that a new treaty should be I drawn to be made acceptable to the ; senkte, but that the operation of re ihiovina' t.b. League of: Nations ieave> ' the objectionable portions of thf j:agreements mnOjCuous. and r-ff^^tuni'y non-existent, as far as the '"nited States ;r- eoncerheor: the whole pur pose of the resolution seems to be to dispose of the Leagu ?. with its binding of this country to the > nforcementjof [??rovis.ons which ii.ay no? ;:;rree afelo to our sense of right, ?hd justice and which we should noi conc.erh cd i.?; without the association of th? ! League. As Mr. Wilson has entwined j thv League uronnd every principle of the treaty 'and --^ the ?*nforcement /' tlie terms wholly into hs agency, the Krox resolotiori, by rutting off th*? League at the :oc\ would leave the undesirable sections 01 the treaty j:withoui re?ation the LhTted States, i The^resuit would be a ]:??:<<??:? betw< en ich:' t :. *States and Germany on ? xh?"1 saint! ! r.-rms as between i.the ail!? d powers and Germany: but > wlihom ohligatibn o;: rhis country to I ?-iifor? ??:.;??-:ts >-.i wh?ch -t not ap I pn-.v*. i: would leave :?>?? ajuestion of ' American spembership in '.5;.- T^""guo ; ii, future dete^mibation, meantime re ? serving a worklr.:r position for tile I country with other notion?, ^through diplomatic relationship gen (erally rccngpize^. The alternative to : this v.'ould b-e either a new treaty, to ! ?.? fom ttlated whit'- the enemy is still ?.Ysitlerb g the terms laid down after sl~ month's o: discussions, or a sepa ;::.r. peace by ih*> United States wirh [Germany. In tho circumstances, the ( Peace Conference is likely to proceed according to program, leaving the sen .?)?;? to take such action as it. may de sire. In that event, if the Knox reso lution expresses the real sentiment of the senate?as we shall know as soon :is a vole is taken upon it?-the treaty is likely to be ratified with the Leagu of Nations set aside in all its bear ings, and a new arder on internation alism still to be constructed. That would, of course, constitute a repudi ation of the president's whole conrepr and accomplishment, and would cre ate an exceedingly serious and unfor tunate state of affairs. The Knox' resolution is the most dangerous uroke which has been delivered ye*. :: ? ? product of the Peace Con ference. That it represents a selfish, oartisan effort to embarrass the pres ident does not detract from its ef ficacy. Nmsing the Baby Trade. London. May 10 crvu-rcspondence) '?The British government ftill finds to "nurse- the baby*' of :<' Me- profit-- have to put > rhe "bottle." Sir Auckl?rd Ged des. r;r;inrr president of the LJOard of Trade, told a deputation of Liberals who calted on him to urge that the present restrictions on imports and; exports were hampering business in j this country and preventing British tcrehant'" from competing on <>c.ual j terms with Aincricttiis in neutral 1 countries. Sir Auckland admitted that profits of several hundred percent were be-; :ng made hi wool but he was '-f the,' opinion that the import restrictions< mast he kept on d<-:mi?r- needs of the! consumer and the consuinTng indus ni"s. He said he thought m uch im- j employment would be caused if the7! restrictions were to be lifted sudi!<?;:-;' [y. Trade confidence was just begin- j: u'ng to return, he argued; and noth ing should 1." done to hamper ?:. '/ The English Government is Being Asked by Many Tramp Soldiers to Send Them to America Winchester, Eng., May 10. (Corres-j ponaerice of The Associated Press.;?j American and British authorities tielegated to examine-th? thousands: of soldiers the Briti -k army who j .... r.i ?.:V.dveniiirr,ir3 in-! df> K?:.:.;: wiio ha Vi. ro-imed 'he globe I.- ? nr?v want to go to America at; ???? expense of the British gov ,? ??-] I me: ?. j Fp date the British government ! has received more than 20,00i> appii a ions for repatriation for those who I ?-.?-.? the", have :i right to be sent to !?)?' ihsited States/ About 3,000 have certified, hundreds have I.i [rejected and the applications keej ? coming; ? Th- British government agreed ' when die United States entered th*1 ' war to send home after the war any I American citizens who joined the ! British army and a tec anj citizen of [Allied nationality who had previous : i'* established ;s reside.nee in tb<. LUhited States. Th4- authorlti s are j not having mir. eh trouble wen the f,rs: category but the latter one is bring ing on no end of complications. A board of military and civil offi cers which examined men collected :..L the camp here formerly used a? a j rost camp by Americans troops had so ' manv difficttlties chat the aid of Lieut? {reliant A. Kane anu? Fater a representa i tive of the ('nited States Consul Gen !'*]?;.!':? oi?c" in London v::;.s requested, I Llentennnt Kane v. as -selected be I e;i!:se of .bis knowledge of many cities '?in the i aited States and his general ? acquaintance with conditions north, south, cast and west. A favorite city ?electi d by the wpuldbe repatriates p. [their "'home town" is Detroit. Th? street number tallies, their statcmem that they are one of the thousands ? mployed in the motor car indus'r. cannot be disputed and they know ; some of the principal streets. Bor one question finishes them. "What is the principal park in D jtroit?" j Th? y do not know Relic Isle and [ they do not get to the United Stat'-s. Li< utenant Kane has a stock of such <s, ???--.:?ms c?'?nc-ring most of the cities of the country and if they can Ibo correctly answered it is reasonable [to suppose that the sold-er has a just [claim and he is passed. ? there are many such cases Uhoj are in the minority. Most of Uxht ?? vho apply are men who want led o< get i.ito the fight as quickly as ? they could and calculated they had a better opportunity with the British than to wait until the first American' Expeditionary Force came overs -as. These men are being given everj available facility to go home. ! Helping Jugo-Slav. j Work of American Navy and The Red Cross j Spalato, Bosnia. April 26. Via [Paris. May 10. (By Mail)?Rear Ad miral Alb rt P. Xiblack. who is in rcharge of the American Naval forces i the Adriatic ir stationed a< this [?point. News from Fiume reaches ? ho'o quickly and Admiral Nib lack ? maintains close wireless con!.'!., both iwith Washington and Paris. Develop ern en ts in the Adriatic are being close jly wa.t hed by the American naval j authorities. i The Arn? rican Navy for humanitar ian r< asons is giving all the assist:.' j possible to the American Red Cress and Major Lawrence of th?- Arm:. !Food Mission ir: their efforts to supply the destitute and starving of Bosnia [and the Jugo-Slay state with modi Seines, food and clothing. j There have been difficulties with l) ? j rtaiian authorities in securing p< r [mission for American food supplies to enter the Jugo-Slav sta*-? but re cently a dozen motor tru< cS loaded with medicines. ? food and clothing reached Jugo-SIavia and have been distributed by the American R^d Cross. American sailors fraternize with the Czecho-Slovaks and both the. American Red Cross and the Army Food Mission recently mad.- up a spec-1 ial shipment of food and medicines [and sent a special commission of dor tors and nurses to care for the boat- j lo;id of Czechb-Slovak soldiers who i recently came ho;no from Colombo ! fand Vladivostok after a voyage half! around the world. The Czecho-SlovaI<s fought their ! way through Bolshevik Russia, to I Vladivostok along the Trans-Siber- I ian railroad. They were held for months at Vladivostok but finally I were put aboard ship and sent home! via India and the Suez Canal. Many of the soldiers were suffering from their wounds and bore traces of the] hardships they endured while fight ing Admiral Xiblack strongly urged the] American Red Cross to enter Spalato' with relief shipments and on his ! recommendation Colonial Henry W. j Anderson of Richmond, Va.. Balkan j Commissioner of the American Bed Cross, has instructed his Bosnian rep- j rcsentativos to rush supplies into I Spalato and the mountainous districts! beyond it Damage Claims Against Mexico. Mexico City, May i'l (Correspond-j er.ee)?n is learned that claims for ? many millions <o" pesos in damages arising from the Madero revolution, have been filed with the diplomatic representatives here of various nations i whose nationals demand reparation.1 These claims are in addition to many others presented to the Mexican gov ernment direct which are being con sidered by a commission. Thus .'.!:? : tin- commission has paid no claims. Government officials contend thai -?'.??uns from foreigners should first be presented to the Mexican government.!' If disallowed they should then be pre-? t sonted through diplomatic channels, 1 Build Build Bi?ld Build Build I Make rimes good by building NOW ' own a lion.:*' for your children's s?he. Build now schools, church's and roads. Build now the homos the war has stopped Sei your money to work cn building a home. Construction adds to the wraith of the country. Booth & McLeod, Inc. Building Headquarters High Priced Food One Item Mentioned is Paying! For Paper at Rate Charged For Meat ; _ ; N~eV York. June 12.?Adoption of cooperative methods in the purchas.' of foodstuffs was described as the ' only hope of adequate remedy of the food situation" by Mr1?. S. Eleanor Barton of the Women's Cooperative Guild of England in an address today at the quarterly meetings of the Xa ! tional Consumers' League executive ? < ommittee. Mrs. Barton declared one-third of the population of England hnd adopt ed coopera ive purchasing methods. Jessie Lover. secretary of Con sumers' League of the District of Co te '??hi. emphasized the need for co operative purchasing, declaring that, at present '"there was no avenue for distribtion of 246.?00.000 pounds of meat held by the war department ex cept the avenue provided by the meat packers." The committee adopted a resolution hadorsing senate bill S2S, which would amend the pure food law so as to in clude ham and bacon in the "net weight" law. At present it was stated mnaufacturers are including the weight of paper, which costs four cents a pound with weight of the meat which brings from 5 0 to 75 cents a pound. The Vagrant Treaty. (Charleston Post.) Mr. Root saved everybody a good deal of trouble by stepping upon the i witness stand of the senate foreign re lations committee to say that it was he who showed Senator Lod.qe a copy of the treaty and to tell how it came into his hands. It came from Mr. Henry P. Daviscn. who, as everybody knows and should ever remember, says Sir. Root, is and was during the .war head of that great organization, the American Red Cross, whose ser vice was of such high order and whose administration was so ably directed by Dav:son. The treaty was in Mr. Pavison's hands, says Mr. Root, as in ad of that organization of mercy arid relief, as it should have been, be cause the work of the organization required that Mr. Davison should know what was going forward in the way of peacemaking and what con dirions would have to be faced under the agreement made by the allies with Germany. Mr. Davison then, accord ing to Mr. Root, was given a copy of the .text just as the heads of other semi-official agencies were given them in Paris, and, there being no particu lar injunction against the having and; holding of the treaty, he put it in his pocket when he left Paris and brought; ? t to New York, where he gave it to | Mr. Root. All of which appears to! be proper enough and commendable, j But Mr. Ledge came back to Wash-] i-igton fr m his meeting with Mr.: Root ::.>., inti anted that ;here was a; mighty scandal in the possession of1, copies of the treaty by unauthorized j parties in Xew York, saying he had: been shewn one of them by a friend; who shoU'd Ivo nameless. He had not thought to ask his friend how the copy had reached him, but he conclud ed?such is the nature of friendship ! in hiiih Republican circles?that he I had it from somebody who should j not have had it. unless it had been slipped to that person by the presi dent of the United States while deny ing possession of it to the United States senate. A word from Mr. Root I to .Mr. Lodge would have dispelled I that idea, but it would have spoiled j Mr. Lodge's play. There is no rea son why Mr. Root, shouldn't have said j that word that anybody can see.. If j Mr. Lodge knew ail that Mr. Root > knew, which was simply that the head! of the Red Cross had obtained the - treaty in connection with his admin istrative work in Paris, ho could not have made his charge of possession by preference. But Mr. Lodge stu- j diously avoided thai knowledge and, 1 therefore, felt himself warranted in suggesting a, scandal about the presi dent. It is just the sort of tiling one would expect of Mr. Lodge. He con tinues to run true to form. Xow .Mr. Davison comes to the stand in his turn, but not quite so vol untarily as Mr. Root, but no matter for that. He came. He was head of the : Red Gross, cert;:inly. am'. In? had the , treaty text in that capacity. But he ] would he frank will; the committees < lb- hadn't obtained the copy a; heal of the Red Cross. The senators mavjs have forgotten, in their contemplation 11 ?f his distinguished war service as di-j< recting genius of that organization, j j that he was also a hanker, in short a : partner in the Morgan house, hut Mr. i Davison hadn't forgotten that for a t single minute, lie never forgets thatjs he is a banker. And as a hanker? < but not in any thought for his ownj 1 interests, certainly no:, but. on beb,:-'.!' of. wei; '.>? the American people not to speak of the people of the Whole 1 world?he had thought he ought in ( study oat tin- question of financial ] conditions under the treaty, and to f that ?od he needed a copy of that j c document. He might have gone up je to tie- secretary of state or even to t the president and asked for one. hut j ho didn't, ih* asked another Mor-;l gan partner. Mr. 'Thomas W. La mont, to get him one of the copies and Mr. Lamont got it. So he got the treaty in a banking way, although he j persuaded Mr. Root he had it in a I Red Cross way. That is where Mr. I Davison stands and his position, too, i.seems to be characteristic. These j gentlemen do not vary their paces ! greatly. How did Mr. Lamont get the copy j he gave to Mr. Davison, which 'Mr. Davison gave to Mr. Root, which Mr. . Tioot showed to Mr. Lodge? Why, he ; was a?member of the American peace ? mission and as such had access to the ' treaty. Being Mr. Davison's partner he saw no reason why he should not pass along what he had in the way ' of information. The text of the treaty has been i printed in the Congressional Record and is available to the public now, and it matters-very little who has or who lias not a secret copy of it. There was no great harm in anybody : having the full text and there is nothing in it that was not sufficiently i known from the many summaries and reviews which had been given in ? the press reports. The only harm m i the whole business was the intima j tion made by Mr. Lodge that the ? presidlent had surreptitiously given j text to preferred interests and the ; apparent representation'by Mr. < Da7 j viscn to Mr. Root that he had obtain j ed the text for Red Cross purposes. ; But those things being, as we have 'said, characteristic of the parties con ' cerned are not sensational and do not i deserve to hold attention seriously. ! The Lodges and the Davisons will act I that way and the world goes on with j ihem. The really interesting point is that jnone of the actors in the sorry drama j seem to think any the less of any of j the others for all the alleged and in I dicated bad faith. Mr. Lodge, one } might think, would feel that he had been shabbily treated by Mr. Root in not being told that the copy he had was a Red Cross document. Mr. Root should resent Mr. Davison's failure to explain to him that he had obtained the treaty in his role as a banker. Mr. Davison, of course, has no. grievance, j He got the treaty. And Mr. Lamont did the business of a partner. But -here will be no friendships lost?nor any business either. As for the con I sideration due to the president of the j United States?who / made Woodrow j Wilson President? ... j Spending Easy Money j Ep.^Iish War Profiteers are Pay I ing Big Prices for Antkfues London, May 10. (Correspondence !of The Associated Press).?The enor mous foriunes made in England aur ing the war are responsible for record breaking prices which sellers of an tiques of every kind are realizing in London auction'rooms, in the opinion of men who have long been close to the trade. The who'e country is being searched for treasures of ail kinds i-vhich find ready sale at prices which hitherto have only been paid by for eigners; A mysterious portrait which recent ly i\ ppeared in one auction room and was said by some one to have been by Franz Hals quickly brought $60. 000, although its authenticity has even now not been established. A Reynoids portriait which to the pres ent had not attracted much attention was easily sold for $70,000, and pic tures by much lesser lights brought phenomenal prices. Artistic furniture is in even more demand. Six Chippendale Gothic chairs recently sold at a country sale for $5,120, in spite of the fact that modern artists are copying this par-, ticular design with marked success and only the trained expert can de tect the difference. At another coun try sale two Chippendale tables brought ?1,600 and a Chippendale cabinet $0,250. Sheration furniture is not so popular excellent tables going as low as $100. An old harpsichord in a. William and Mary case sold for $2.500. and grand father's clock gave its fortunate own er $600 in spite of the fact that the clock had probably ceased to tick more than a hundred years ago. Illuminated manuscripts also are in demand, and as in the case of fur niture, record prices are being ob tained. Letters of David Gar rick, and x few by his wife, to noted person:; of th<ar time, caused spirited bidding. [>ut were withdrawn and will be offer ed again. Efforts to trace the purchasers of some of the choicest offerings have revealed the presence in the marker >f persons who never before paid any mention to antiques. Many of them in- persons who accumulated large fortunes during the war. and now that h? y have ecqujred fine houses have set out. with the aid of experts, to rive them the ancient touch required >y good taste. Mexico City. .May 24?.Moving pic ur< s will be used by the Mexican gov ?nmn-ut t<> demonstrate to Mexicans sow to appply modern machinery ;?> arm lif.-. Pastor Rouaix. Secretary >f Agriculture, and several federal engineers have left the capital on a nur t'> promote better farming, us ng the pictures to show th.e farmers I?W to do it.