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GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
NINE
ADVOCATES AN IMMEDIATE
NIVERSAL SERVICE LAW
Patriotism
FRENCH ACADEMY EJECTIONS.
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members and 20 clubs.
first athletic
Some time ago the old team
CABINETMAKERS
JEWELERS
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INSURANCE AGENTS
REAL ESTATE WANTED.
LEGAL NOTICES.
versal Shipbuilding' company, as well the Marne, I said
the
its
the
ago its
banded.
battle marked the
century-war-ridden
Napoleon.
Conscription—the
A recent cable dispatch said that the
French academy announced that “hav-
ing been sounded on the subject of the
candidature of Marshal Joffre, it will
that that titanic
end of the great
by the genius of
Pacificism in New York’s
Picturesque Section,
PAWNER OKERS.
For Loans and Bargains see H NEVE
LOW, 2326 D. Phone 1275. 4E-
PAINTERS AND PAPER
HANGERS
INSURE YOUR AUTOMOBILE
Against Damage.
Yourself Against Damage Suits.
M. H. POTTER,
Agent.
400 Am. Natl. Ins. Bldg.
Classified Business Telephone Directory
If You Want Your Business Listed Here Call 83 or 1396
and Ask for the Advertising Department.
French Alone Know How to
Write Unbiased, Declares
Prof. Johnson.
Disastrous Blaze at Humble.
Flags Are Raised on Wood-
en Ships.
LOYALTY DOMINATES
EAST SIDE PEOPLE
Congressman Richard Olney, 2nd, Says Right
Time Is Now When Country Realizes
Cost of Unpreparedness.
DRUGGISTS.
For quick delivery phone Keene’s drug-
store, 26th and H. Nos. 423, 262.
EXPERT cabinetmaker, repairing and
refinishing high-grade furniture by
hand, polish in Gull finish or changing
colors: upholstering done; years of ex-
uerience; ask for references. PHILIP
KOST, phone 6136. (tf).
WANTED TO LEASE—A small house,
cottage, bungalow or apartment, con-
taining four or five rooms, kitchen and
bath, screened porch and garage. Have
a desirable tenant . in view for the
above. JOHN ADRIANCE & SONS.
Phone 213. (el)
You can put a man on a pedestal,
but you can’t keep him there.
A thrift card in your pocket beats
a half dozen flags on your lapel. Buy
war savings stamps.
Fourteen years
team was dis-
INSPECTOR VISITS
CAMP ELLINGTON
HISTORIANS DENY
HISTORY’S TRUTH
No. 5832. THE STATE OF TEXAS, to the sher-
iff or any constable of Galveston county. Greetings:
John Wegner, administrator of the estate of Rob-
ert Spencer, alias R. P. Letcher, deceased, having
filed in our County court his final account of the
administration of the estate of said Robert Spen-
cer, alias R. P. Letcher, deceased, together with
an application to be discharged from said ad-
ministration. You are hereby commanded, that,
by publication of this writ for twenty days in a
newspaper regularly published in the county of
Galveston, you give due notice to all persons in-
terested in the administration of said estate, to
file their objections thereto, if any they have, on
or before the next regular term of said County
court, commencing and to be holden at the court-
house of said county, in the city of Galveston, on
the third Monday in January, A. D. 1918, when
said account and application will be considered
by said court. Witness, GEO. F. BURGESS, Clerk
of the County Court of Galveston County. Given
under my hand and seal of said court, at my of-
fice in the city of Galveston, this 29th day of
December, A. D. .1917. (SEAL). GEO. F. BUR-
GESS, Clerk. County Court, Galveston County. By
J. R. PLATTE, Deputy Clerk. A true copy I
certify: HENRY THOMAS, Sheriff, Galveston
County. By IKE POSNER, Deputy Sheriff.
Thrift’ stamps are the way of
government to help you save.
It costs little to list your business
here and brings big results.
Tuberculosis Camp.
The first shovelful of dirt for the
ATTENTION!
SAM PLANTOWSKY
Artistic cabinet maker and finisher.
Upholstering, Mirrors, etc.
Factory 2717 Ave. P. Phone 3537.
(tf)
for it, will give us nothing but the
authority to create something later
on if it is needed. It will be an easy
matter then to repeal the law if that
which it authorizes is not needed. But,
I repeat again, it will, be practically
impossible then to get the authority,
no matter how urgent the need may
be.
as head of the insurance agency of
Cravens & Cage, to take the special
agents of the insurance firm, as well
as its 60 or 70 employees in Houston,
with an automobile and boating party
to the shipyards and the San Jacinto
battle ground.
As special guests of Cravens & Cage,
Colonel Thomas H. Ball, Major Cle-
burne MacCauley, Commodore Bryan
Heard and Guy McLaughlin accom-
panied the party.
Arrived at the shipyard, where keels
have been laid for eight ships of 3,500
tons, the visitors inspected the plant.
At 4:15 the whistle called the 800 ship-
builders to the headquarters building,
where J. D. Hall, general manager, in
a few words introduced James Cra-
vens, who spoke briefly, making the
point that the men engaged in build-
ing these ships are soldiers in the war
against kaiserism no less than are
the men in the trenches—that there is
one common purpose only, to build the
ships and win the war.
NO. 3944.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, to the sher-
iff or any constable of Galveston coun-
ty, Greetings: James S. Montgomery,
administrator of the estate of Frank
Mullis, deceased, having filed in our
County court an annual account of the
administration of the estate of said
deceased, Frank Mullis, deceased. You
are hereby commanded, that, by pub-
lication of this writ once each week
for three successive weeks, in a news-
paper of general circulation, which has
been continuously and regularly pub-
lished for a period of not less than one
year, in the county of Galveston, the
first publication to be made at least
twenty days before the term of court
named herein, you give due notice to
all persons interested in the adminis-
tration of said estate, to file their ob-
jections thereto, if any they have, on
or before the next regular term of said
County court, commencing and to be
holden at the courthouse of said coun-
tv, in the city of Galveston, on the
third Monday* in March, A. D. 1918,
When said account will be considered
by said court. Witness, GEO, F. BUR-
GESS, Clerk of the County Court of
Galveston County. Given under my
hand and seal of said court, at my of-
fice in the city of Galveston, this 23d
day of January, A. D. 1918.
4 (SEAL) GEO. F. BURGESS, Clerk,
County, Court, Galveston County. By
J. R. PLATTE, Deputy Clerk. A true
copy I certify: HENRY THOMAS,
Sheriff, Galveston County. By C. J.
ALLEN, Deputy. Sheriff.
Special to the Tribune.
New York, Jan. 26.—There is a sec-
tion in the upper East Side of New
York where colonies, large and small,
of many different nationalities have
their homes. There is scarcely a na-
tionality which is not represented. In
point of interest this section rivals the
lower East Side, and yet, because of
comparatively recent development, it
is a part of the city which is practi-
cally unknown to the city sightseers
and the out-of-town tourist. It is on
the east side of Harlem, and is often
called the New East Side, extending
from Ninety-sixth street to One Hun-
Special to The Tribune.
Washington, Jan. 26.—The clearly
announced attitude of the secretary
of war and the supposed similar at-
titude of President Wilson in apposi-
tion to compulsory universal training
and service as a permanent part of the
military policy of the United States
after the present war is not acceptable
to many members of congress, and it
is altogether likely; that legislation
will be undertaken at this session to
provide for such training and service,
to continue from the- time when the
present emergency war legislation will
cease to operate—that is, with the
end of hostilities.
In the opinion of Richard Olney, 2d,
representative of the Fourteenth con-
gress district of Massachusetts and a
member of the house committee on
military affairs, the time to formulate
and adopt the country’s permanent
military policy will be immediately
after the passage of the army appro-
priation bill, which calls for $8,000,-
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918.
military service
Anarchism and
FARM, COUNTRY PROPERTY
TWO-STORY 4-room house, cistern and
fenced, with 7 lots, at Texas City
Junction; cheap. Box 9833, Tribune.
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$100,000. He was interested in many
enterprises in the colony and was cred-
ited with being the agent for the Royal
Italian Lottery. He moved uptown
from the downtown “Little Italy” to
better his fortunes. He accumulated
money rapidly and was everywhere
known as the King of Harlem’s “Little
Italy.” His rivals were continually
trying to wrest his crown from him,
ana attempts on his life were frequent.
Gallucci never went abroad without an
armed bodyguard. Two years ago,
accompanied by his bodyguard, he vis-
ited one night, his son Lucca’s coffee
house. Safely inside, he sent his body-
guard on an errand. No sooner had
his protector disappeared than a half
dozen armed men entered the place and
opened fire on the two men. The po-
lice found them mortally wounded.
When Acting Captain William A.
Jones was put in charge of the Third
branch detective bureau, in East 116th
street, he decided to clean up the crim-
* inal plague spots in the colony. The
district attorney’s office gave assist-
GIVES PROTECTION.
“Such a measure would simply give
to the country, without cost, adequate
safeguard and insurance against its
own weariness and reaction after the
war, against the danger of mistaking
a temporary peace for a' permanent
one, against the utter folly of its blind
faith of the fact that a million men
will spring to arms over night if they
are needed.
“We have made one great gain so
far as the mental attitude of the coun-
try toward war is concerned. We are
pretty generally convinced atef ar cen-
tury and a half of foolish faith that
the volunteer system will not do. The
thing that was condemned by every
general from Washington down, the
thing that failed us in every war be-
fore this one, is now rated at its true
value by the public as well as by the
experts. As a nation we are converted
to conscription or compulsory service
in case of great emergency. That is
a tremendous gain, but it does not car-
ry us as far as we should go.
The next step must be compulsory
service at all times, emergency or no
emergency. We have put the notion
of the ‘million volunteers over night’
into the discard of wickedly useless and
dangerous theories. It will be only a
little less dangerous to say in the fu-
ture. We can pass another conscrip-
tion law over night and compel a mil.
lilon men to enlist when they are need-
ed.’
equilibium, moderation and conser-
vation will this reform be for demo-
cratic institutions which will rule Eu-
rope after this war!
Conscription has been one of the
many secrets allies of European de-
mocracy, because the majority of dem-
ocratic reforms of the nineteenth cen-
tury were granted as compensation
of the .blood spilled—too often, and
in a too large measure, requested.
But applied as it is now in the present
proportions, and in a war of excessive
length and with such expenditure of
blood, it threatens to disrupt democ-
racy to serve the purpose of turbu-
lent demagogy.
THE MASSES WOULD REVOLT.
If the governments, after having
burdened the masses with terrible
sacrifices, as in this war, were, will-
ingly or not, to insist on a payment
in blood, what shred would they have
left to offer passions of the masses?
One may predict, without fear, that
sooner or later all Europe will find
herself in the same conditions as Rus-
sia now, where the masses, the most
docile and patient of Europe, have re-
volted against this blood payment in-
humanely imposed and exacted with
unbelievable thoughtlessness, by an
oligarchy gone mad.
This is the sense of the events in
Russia.'
In short, the proposition of the sec-
retary of the pope would give an op-
portunity to prove the sincerity of the
central powers.
The ministers are speaking too free-
ly and too boldly about the disarma-
ment. The Austrian secretary of state
has gone so far as to declare disarma-
ment to be the paramount issue in the
peace negotiations.
It is wise to distrust, and it is in
order to ask Germany and Austria'
what they mean by disarmament.
Do they mean to simply lower their
Special to The Tribune.
Rome, Jan. 26.—Guglielmo Ferrero,
the eminent Italian historian, says
that compulsory military service prac-
tices by Germany since time immem-
orial, is the backbone of Prussian mil-
itarism, and that effective disarma-
ment—disarmament’ which will make
the world safe not only for democracy,
but for humanity—can be accomplish-
ed only through the abolition of such
compulsory service. In a recent ar-
ticle, Ferrero refers to the Prussian
advocacy of disarmament, and says
that Germany’s hand should be called
on this very proposition, and that no
peace should be contracted • which
would not include absolute abandon-
ment of the principle of conscription,
which, he declares, has been used
through the centuries by the central
powers to build up the system of mil-
itarism that made the present world
war possible. Following is a transla-
tion of Ferrero’s article:
Some time ago the newspapers
published the summary of a statement
given out by Cardinal Gasparri, to a
representative of the Associated Press.
The cardinal is said to have declared
that the basis for a future peace must
be the pledge of all nations to abolish
conscription and to restore the small
volunteer armies of the past, moulding
them to the needs of the present times
and with a definite program of order
and peace.
If Cardinal Gasparri has really ex-
pressed this idea and if the holy see
means to aid Europe in turning it into
a fact—-without any second thought—
and shorn of all diplomatic and politi-
cal intent, we cannot but rejoice at
the news.
Because the crux of this tremen-
dous question of the disarmament is
absolutely that, and it is well that
somebody should begin -to so state it
and explain it. If logic and reason
still survive these tempestuous times,
the disarmament of Europe, as often
mentioned and put forth by the cen-
tral powers, cannot but mean the
abolition of conscription.
SOLE BASIS OF PERMANENT PEACE
Only this great reform may definite-
ly bring peace to Europe and save
whatever there is to save of modern
.civilization, and at the same time put
to a decisive test the loyalty of the
central empires and their clamorous
invitations to the world to lay down
its arms.
Last year in celebrating, at Milan,
the anniversary of the the battle of
would be a very dangerous thing to
wait till after the struggle in Europe
is over before we make provision for
the time to follow. By the time we
reach peace this country will be war
weary, war sick. It will want to have
nothing whatever to do at that time
with any sort of a military policy.
Some of the very men in this congress
who are working day and night to per-
fect present war legislation, men who
now bitterly regret our previous lack
of preparation, will be caught in the
reaction that. is bound to come with
peace, and succumb to it.
“This war weariness will completely
blind the American public to its future
needs and dangers. It will be in a
state of mind to prefer neglecting the
needs and risking the dangers to tak-
ing any thought of creating an army
or putting itself in readiness for an-
other war. The senator or representa-
tive who, at that time of the new peace
in the future, should undertake the
first steps of getting a universal ser-
vice law on the federal statute books
would be about as unpopular as the
disloyal obstructionist or pacifist of to-
day.
“So we should get such a law on the
books today, before the great war
weariness comes, and when the whole
country is just awakening to an ap-
preciation of our past mistake in not
being prepared, in being totally unpre-
pared in, absolutely everyhting that
pertains to war and security. As I
have said, our present war machinery
is adequate, and in its main purpose
of getting men into service it is work-
ing without a hitch, but it is altogether
a temporary device, without one iota
of assurance for our future protection.
With the end of the war this great
army, these great armies, rather, which
we are now raising-, and training, will
disband automatically, and we shall be
left with nothing but our own pitifully
small and inadequate regular army of
the past to depend upon in case of fur-
ther danger and emergency.
“I fully realize that there- is a fond
hope in the world at large that this is
to be the last war, that England and
France and Italy and the United States
are going to fight till there is nothing
left of the menace of Prussianism and
militarism, and that when they fire
the last shot at Germany’s retreating
troops that will be the signal to mark
the beginning of permanent, universal
peace. I fear that is Utopian. Of
course, I also have hope, but not the
expectation that should go with it to
make it a reasonable basis for action
or inaction.
“But suppose that this best of hopes
is fully realized, that with the end of
this war we are all actually convinced
that there is to be no future war, what
then? It will be the simplest thing
in the world to repeal a law for uni-
versal training and service if every-
body realizes its uselessness. It will 1
cost nothing to repeal the law; it can
be done before the army which it au-
thorizes has been created. There will
be nothing to undo or set aside or
tear up except the piece of paper upon
which the law itself is printed. The
law I have in mind for present enact-
ment, when the country is in the mood
“But it bears repeating that
held a reunion. It was attended by
more than 100 of the “old boys” who
came from far and near.. Several ar-
rived in their own automobiles. Two
held high positions, one in the depart-
ment of health, the other in the post-
office. Among them were physicians,
lawyers, chauffeurs, and day laborers.
The history of Harlem’s “Little
Italy” has been closely interwoven
with crime. For years Sicilian and
Italian criminals levied and collected
tribute from shopkeepers, and those
who refused to submit to blackmail
were assaulted, killed, or had their
places of business wrecked by bombs.
Murders became so common in the
colony that they caused little excite-
ment or comment except among those
who were in some way affected by
them. Many of these crimes were the
result of long-standing feuds begun in
Sicily and carried on here. Several of
these feuds in which innumerable lives
were snuffed out to satisfy the spirit
of revenge could be traced back three
or four generations.
The stiletto, once the favorite
weapon of the Sicilian criminal, was
laid aside for the more handy revol-
ver, or "sawed-off shotgun.” The bar-
rel of a shotgun was sawed in half, the
shot were extracted from the cart-
ridges and replaced with steel or iron
slugs. It made a dangerous weapon,
which could be conveniently concealed
beneath the folds of a coat, and en-
abled the .user to draw a better bead
on his victim than he could with a
revolver. The assassin would shoot at
his victim from a nearby window, hall-
way, or dark corner, and not infre-
quently the victim would be lured to
the scene selected for the crime. Any
number of these shootings and mur-
ders could be traced to the desire of
rival factions to control or monopolize
different forms of graft in the colony’s
underworld.
“MURDER STABLE.”
In East One Hundred and Eighth
street, near First avenue, there is a
row of shed-like structures, one of
them, at 334 East One Hundred and
Eighth street, being known as the
“Murder Stable,” because in and around
it more than twenty-three murders
have been ’committed in less than a
score of years. Early crimes in One
Hundred and Eighth street are sup-
posed to have had their inception in
horse stealing and in horse trading.
Mrs. Pasquarella Spinelli, because of
her wealth called the Hetty Green of
Harlem’s “Little Italy,” was one of the
first proprietors of the stable. She had
a daughter, Nellie Lenere. “Chick”
Monaco had been attentive to Nellie.
On Oct. 29, 1911, when Nellie and
Monaco were alone in the house there
was a quarrel, and Monaco was stabbed
to death. She told the police, she had
caught him in the act of robbing her
mother’s safe. She was arrested for
the crime, but was discharged later
through lack of evidence.
Five months after the murder of
Mo’naco, Mrs. Spinelli was murdered in
the stable and the police believed it
was the death of Monaco that prompt-
ed his friends to slay her.. Mrs. Spi-
nelli’s partner, Louis Lazazzara, was
slain near the stable in 1914. The last
owner of the stable to be murdered
was Ippolito Greco. He was said to
have supplied the gunmen who shot
to death Barnet Baff, the Washington
Market poultry dealer. In November,
1915, Greco left the stable for his
home. He passed out the door and had
just turned to walk down the street,
when a hidden enemy shot him in the
back with a sawed-off shotgun. Greco
was killed instantly.
For years the most dominating fig-
ure in the colony’s underworld was
Giosue, Gallucci. He was something
of a dandy, wore expensive clothes and
diamonds, and was reputed to be worth
half a million, although a conservative
estimate of his wealth placed it at
show itself happy to receive in
bosom the glorious victor of
Marne.”
Ten Chairs Are to Be Filled in Impend-
ing Ballots.
Paris, Dec. 26.—Correspondence of
The Associated Press.)—The most re-
. cently elected members of the French
academy/ Gen. Lyautey and Henri
Bergson, will, it is announced, be for-
mally received here in the new year,
after which elections will be held to
fill the ten chairs that have become
vacant since December, 1913, the late
of the death of Jules Claretie.
Since then the following members
have died: Henry Roujon, June, 1914;
Jules Lemaitre, Aug. 5, 1914; Albert de
Mun, October, 1914; Alfred Mezieres,
October, 1915; Paul Hervieu, October,
1915; Francis Charmes, January, 1916;
Emile Faguet, January, 1917: Marquis
de Segur, August, 1916; and Marquis de
Vogue, November, 1916.
The chair of M. Claretie is by com-
mon consent accorded to Marshal Jof-
fre, while Cardinal Arnette is men-
tioned for that of Albert de Mun. The
marshal hasadhered thus far to his
attitude of passive consent without
making the traditional application. It
is said that the academy will not in-
sist in his case upon the rule.
Joffre will be the seventh marshal
of France to sit with the “Immortals.”
The first was Villars, chosen in recog-
nition of his victory at Denain in 1712.
In his case, also, the rule requiring
aspirants to declare their candidacy
and visit the members to solicit their
votes was waived. The other marshals
of France who were academicians
were d’Estrees, Richelieu, de Belle Isle,
eBauvau and Duras. The last named,
the most recent before Joffre, was
elected in 1775.
ance to the police. Detectives visited
saloons and hangouts of gangs, lined
suspects up against walls and "frisked"
them for ‘weapons. Those carrying con-
cealed weapons were promptly arrest-
ed and prosecuted.
The police also waged war against
drug traffickers, blackhanders, and
blackmailers. Many arrests were
made and desperate criminals soon
found themselves in prison. The cru-
sade struck terror into the hearts of
others and they departed for fields
where they could breathe easier. To-
day the lawabiding inhabitants of the
colony'are hoping that the bad, old
days will never return, but, as a po-
lice official sagely remarked, “You
can’t tell what is going to happen in
Harlem’s ‘Little Italy.’”
looked upon not as the art of a lim-
ited number of men coached in the
use of arms, but as a civic duty of
all valid men—was one of the many
institutions of the ancient times, that
the French revolution restored and
imposed upon all Europe. This law
proved beneficial, because it welded
the scattered units of Europe into
great states and formed the great na-
tions of Europe, gave the people their
civic rights in compensation for their'
military diuties, and created numer-
ous armies, powerfully armed.
But speaking of the modern na-
tional militia, we might repeat the
saying about the Roman empire,
“Magnitudine laborat sua.” The Ger-
mans, having become, after the year
1870, the teachers and pattern of Eu-
rope, have destroyed the principle,,
exaggerating it monstrously and
stretching it beyond any human pos-
sibility. In their frenzied efforts to
increase the might of their armies
Blaze at Humble.
Fire, the origin of which has not yet
been ascertained, destroyed more than
a dozen buildings in the business dis-
trict of Humble early Friday morning
and for several, hours threatened the
entire town. .
Two chemical companies of the
Houston fire department made a quick
run to the scene of the fire when the
alarm came in. Humble residents had
the fire fairly under control by the
time the Houston companies arrived.
To be able to combat the flames a
water line was run from the Bender
saw mill, several blocks from the fire.
There was also considerable water to
be had from the local water works.
This, added to the use of chemicals,
made it possible for the volunteer
firefighters and the Houston companies
to save the town from probable de-
struction.
The losses incurred were:
Two-story rooming house on Rail-
road street; the McLaughlin building,
occupied by the barber shop of John
Beard and the butcher shop of H. F.
Bozarth; Black’s fish and oyster par-
lor and rooming house, owned by the
McLaughlin estate; building owned by
E. M. Isaac, occupied by Kit Petti-
grew’s saloon; grocery store of Corley
& Jackson, grocery store of Tom Wat-
son; building owned by Sam Hooks of
Beaumont, occupied by Ben Heror’s
fish parlor, and Dave Sayer’s saloon,
and a restaurant, popcorn and tailor
shop. All except the first building
named were on Main street.
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000,000, now pending in committee.
That, it is expected, will be some time
next month.
Representative Olney, who was one
of the “willful eight” who began the
fight for conscription long before the
rest of the committee were willing to
indorse it and make it the law of the
nation for this war, fears that unless
something definite is done before
peace is declared the country will drop
back into the old plight of unprepar-
edness, and again find itself with
nothing but the discredited volunteer
system to depend upon.
“With the present army appropria-
tion bill for the financing of our im-
mediate military needs out of the
way,” said Mr. Olney in the course of
a recent interview, “the next big piece
of military legislation of congress
should be for the future. Nothing
could be more futile in a matter of
this importance, especially in a matter
of this kind, than to let the future take
care of itself. The country will be in
no mood to take care of itself in a mil-
itary way at the end of this war. We
must do the right thing now for the
very simple reason that we will not
do it then.
“That is why the present congress
should enact the laws that will put into
force and effect a real military policy
for the United States in the future.
The bill should contain an enacting
clause that the measure is to go into
effect immediately after the declara-
tion of peace, but not before. Our
present conscription law affords us am-
ple machinery for the raising and
training of troops in the present emer-
gency. It would only create confu-
sion to have a permanent law in-
tended for future protection in opera-
tion at the present time.
DANGEROUS TO WAIT.
Special to The Tribune.
Houston, Jan. "26.—It was inspection
day at Ellington field Friday, Lieu-
tenant Colonel H. T. Mathews, inspec-
tor general from the war department
at Washington, being the most im-
portant visitor at the camp.
Although one of the youngest avia-
tion training camps Ellington field
ranks as among the first in the coun-
try from the standpoint of efficiency
and officers in control of the adminis-
tration of affairs are bent on placing
the camp at the head of the list, from
every military standpoint.
Standing at the top of the list as
the military aviation training camp
with the smallest casualty list—only
two to date—Ellington field is re-
garded in military circles as the stand-
ard for all other aviation camps to
pattern after. /
It is a matter of general knowledge
among military men that to be trans-
ferred to Ellington field is the ambit-
ion of «»-ery cadet in training for the
aviation service.
Plans are under consideration for
enlarging the present field and it is
probable that within the next 30 or
60 days the territory west of the
present comp comprising- 514 acres,
will be acquired by the government
and added to the present camp.
Work is now under way in prepar-
ation for the large additional force of
men expected at the camp for train-
ing in gunnery, radio signalling and
flying. Additional streets are being
laid out and along some of ’these
streets tents are being erected to
house the first among the new arriv-
als.
The training of the flyers is being
carried on day and night. Cadets ac-
companied by instructors are receiv-
ing their initial training in the air. Ca-
dets qualifying for a lieutenant’s com-
mission, requiring a certain number
of hours in the air, unaccompanied by
instructor, or solo flying as it is call-
ed, and those who are sent aloft for
cross country flights, are the daily
evidences of the speed with which
Uncle Sam is preparing an aerial
army.
Less than a year ago the number of
aviators in the United States could be
checked upon the fingers of both
hands. Today it is not an unusual
thing for 60 aviators to fly over Hous-
ton in a day. And the 60 are from
Ellington field, one of the many avia-
tion training camps preparing aviators
for active service in France.
As the training progresses, regula-
tions become more rigid relative to
the admission of visitors to the camp.
Recently an order forbidding cameras
within the confines of the camp was
issued at Ellington field, and every
camera in the camp was confiscated
or ordered to be retired from commis-
sion indefinitely.
Flags Are Raised.
Flags were raised on the 3500-ton
wooden ships down at the shipbuild-
ing yard of the Universal Shipbuild-
ing company of Houston Friday aft-
ernoon. These two ships have the
siding about up.
The occasion was utilized by James
Cravens, who is president of the Uni-
they have transformed the war—which
was art and movement—into a terrible
engine of destruction, an example of
horror to the world and which in
three years has ruined Europe.
MILITARISM MUST BE ABOLISHED.
Is there any one today who be-
lieves that after the experience made
in this war the armies, after peace
is declared, will be re-established as
before the struggle? If that were
possible we would have to multiply
the military and naval appropriations
by ten. But if the old principle was
swept away through exaggeration,
there remains no other safe escape but
to return to the opposite principle.
■Besides, strong political reasons fa-
vor its adoption.
Some reparation is due to the mass-
es who have given freely of their
blood in this terrible war, something
that is more tangible than mere words
of admiration and praise.
Nothing- would be more acceptable
to the people than the deliverance of
the future generations from the grave
burden. They would quickly forget
the horrors, the privations and suffer-
ings of this war.
The governments that have prepar-
ed and managed, as best they could,
this dreadful adventure, would be
somewhat relieved in their painful and
thorny task of giving the final ac-
counting, if they could disband the
armies, saying to them:
“You have suffered and fought for
years, but you have fought to secure
peace. Neither you nor your sons
will run any danger to be compelled
again to serve. Henceforth you will
serve if you shall care to.”
And what beneficial factor of
’Of course, under some future stress
such as prevailed last April, we would
be able to enact another conscription
law and bring into service another
army of absolutely green men with
no adequate provision for their im-
mediate equipment and training. But
why make that mistake and run that
risk even a second time, simply be-
cause we made the mistake of depend-
ing on 1116 volunteer system six times?
there is the best of expert military
evidence to show that months and
years of hostilities, thousands of lives
and millions of dollars would have
been saved to this country, in the ag-
giegate of all its previous wars, if it
had entered upon each of them with
. trained armies of men serving under a
compulsory system instead of going in
with green volunteers on short-term
enlistments. Very well, the same argu-
i ment applies to the difference between
having an occasional spasmodic con-
scription under stress of actual war,
without training, and having compul-
sory service with ‘training as a con-
tinuing policy in which there are no
peace-time interruptions, no opportuni-
ties for sinking back into a states of
criminal negligence and absolute un-
preparedness.
“If it is true, and I have no doubt of
it, that Washington could have won
the revolutionary war in three years
instead of seven if the government had
provided the right sort of troops it is
equally true that if this country had
adopted universal training and service
as its fixed military policy several
years ago it would have its million or
more men equipped and trained and on
the firing line in France right now in-
stead of being in the throes of prepara-
tion, with its full participation still a
year off. This is only another way of
saying, what I have already, said, that
American preparation for this war
long before we entered it would have
saved us thousands of lives, saved
thousands of European lives, and
brought peace much nearer than it
now seems to be.
cannot agree with Secretary of
War Baker, who has recently declared
his opposition to compulsory training
and service as the permanent military
policy of the United States. For the
emergency of the present war he is do-
ing splendid work. He knows his big
job through and through. The short,
quick, and decisive answers he has
given when appearing before the house
committee on military affairs have
made a most favorable impression upon
all of us and convinced us that he
measures up to his task. But it is to
be regretted that Mr. Baker is not in-
terested in the matter of reserving for
the country for all time something of
the splendid defensive machinery which
he himself is building up.
“The details of a bill for a perma-
nent training and service system are
already familiar to the country. There
isn’t much necessity for protracted de-
bate. The Chamberlain bill or some
similar measure, with such modifica-
tions as may be suggested by our war
preparation experience of the last ten
months, will serve the purpose amply.
“The main thing is to provide for
the training and service of every
young man in the country for one
year, optional with himself, between
the ages of 18 and 22. Training in a
private or public school or college will
not do. There must be training and
service in the army of the government
itself, and that army must be as thor-
oughly democratic as our new nation-
al army of today, into which all young
men of the draft are being put with-
out the slightest trace of class dis-
tinction or exemption.
“Such a system will give us a mil-
lion men under arms at all times and
a constantly increasing reserve of
trained men. Furthermore, it will
give us the civil and departmental ma-
chinery for supplying and financing
and transporting such an army. It will
give us such machinery, as a matter of
course, and a smoothly working de-
partment equal to any emergency, in
place of the makeshift, unco-ordinated
groupings of civilians and army men
with which we are struggling at the
present moment to get into the real
stride of war.”
dred and Twenty-ninth street and
from Fifth avenue to the Harlem river.
It is for the most part a thickly popu-
lated area, in which many blocks are
little towns in themselves. In the
block of tenements between First and
Second avenues, and from One Hun-
dred and Twelfth street to One Hun-
dred and Thirteenth street, there are,
according to a police census, 4,729 per-
sons, and in another block, between
First and Second avenues, and from
One Hundredth to One Hundred and
First street, 4,243 persons'! In many
places there is an average of 640 per-
sons to the acre.
The district has become a favorite
stamping ground for radical Socialists,
pacifists and anarchists. As a police
official remarked recently: “It would
seem that every one with radical ideas
moves' to the east side of Harlem.”
These radicals are continually trying
to -spread their propaganda abroad and
convert men and women to their
theories. The district has three schools
of anarchy, and large repersentations
of Socialists, particularly those of,the
pacifist type. The chief delight of
these radicals and extremists is to hire
a hall and expound their doctrines to
the public. Leon Trotzky, the bolshe-
vik foreign minister, has addressed
meetings on the New East Side, and
spoke there shortly before he departed
for Russia.
• Many revolutionary movements in
the city were launched in the section.
Indeed, it was there that the school
children’s revolt against the Gary sys-
tem was first started. The youngsters,
after calling a strike, made incendiary
speeches from soap boxes, and de-
stoyed 100 windows in a public school
building, and at night paraded the
streets in hundreds, carrying banners.
Shortly before the selective conscrip-
tion law was enacted an organization
of young men of military age held a
public meeting to oppose conscription.
The better element in the community
resented this, and the young men soon
found public halls closed to them.
MAJORITY LOYAL.
A large majority of the colonists are
loyal Americans and staunch support-
ers of good government. When Italy
entered the war many of her sons de-
parted from their homes to join the
Italian colors. Other colonists are at
present in the service of Uncle Sam.
The Italian colony, known as Har-
lem’s “Little Italy,” with a population
of nearly 100,000, occupies a good part
of the district east of Third avenue as
far as the river. Parts of its have a
distinctly foreign aspect. It is, noted
for its drug stores, grocery and fish,
stores—there is a butcher shop which
sells only horse meat. Coffee houses
for neighborhood clubhouses, where
men gather to sip a cup of black cof-
fee, gossip, and play cards.
Considerably more than 100,000 Jews
live west of Third avenue, principally
on Lexington, Madison, and Fifth ave-
nues. Other colonies are Germans,
with a population of 10,000; negroes,
with 6,000, and Swedes, with 1,500. Be-
sides these, scattered here and there,
are smaller colonies and groups of
Austrians, Hungarians, Russians, Poles,
Bohemians, Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks,
Finns, Norwegians, Scotch, Irish,
French, Spaniards, Chinese, Porto
Ricans, and others. All of these dif-
ferent nationalities live together in
good fellowship. When they quarrel
it is a case of Greek meeting Greek;
their quarrels are never racial,
The section has plenty of settlement
houses, which have found it a prolific
field for work. Two of the largest are
the Union Settlement and Harlem
House. The Union Settlement occupies
a good-sized brick building at 237 East
104th street and also has nine dwell-
ings, five in East 104th street and four
in East 105th street. The home build-
ing has an auditorium, dance hall, kin-
dergarten, gymnasium, and caged play
roof. It has a staff of 30 workers, 700
weapons or to cast them overboard
once for all?
It is plain if Europe were to re-
tain compulsory military service for
all her men, even if on a smaller
scale temporarily, the central empires
would at the first opportunity again
flourish their weapons over our heads
and strike another mortal blow at
Europe.
THE SPELL WOULD BE BROKEN.
It would be different, on the other
hand, if the Austrian and German
masses were, by newly acquired right,
and once for all, declared exempt from
all compulsory service at the beck
and call of, their respective emperors.
The spell would be broken. The Teu-
tons would never again be the docile
instruments of the courts of Berlin
and Vienna in their bellicose enter-
prises as in the past.
The cardinal’s statement to the
American correspondents may be con-
sidered, therefore as the luminous
dawn of a new day, that the people
now crushed by the never-ending
night have been impatiently waiting
for.
It .is the becon light also for the
statesmen, who have been looking for
it to dispel the gloom that surrounds
them and which will enable them to
lead their people out of the chaos.
For there is not the least doubt that
once the masses were sure of this
long-wished boon they would willing-
ly bendtheir will for the supreme ef-
fort. Germany made herself lately
the champion of the disarmament
question, but she will not disarm until
she shall have been compelled to do
so by the invincible force of events.
The military orders created by the
French revolution were made to serve,
unfortunately, what was left of the
last bellicose aristocracy of Europe in
their attempt to subjugate the world.
The German state, being the most
thickly populated among the nations
of Europe, and with its masses, which
up to now, at least, have willingly
suffered the military yoke, will defend
to the very extreme its military or-
ders, brutal as they may be, which
give her a predominant situation in
Europe. The last sacrifice of her men
will, therefore, make the previous
sacrifices yield fruitful results.
WORLD IS BEING RENOVATED.
But to obtain this spontaneous
sacrifice it is necessary that the peo-
ple should be led to hope, with the
certainty of realization, so as to see
it with their own eyes, for the day
of their deliverance from military op-
pression. The governments of the en-
tente and the leaders of public opinion
among the people fighting the central
empires should bear in mind that the
world is under a process of renova-
tion; that a new order of things is
substituting the old one; that in this
decisive moment of the world’s his-
tory, it is the duty of each one of us
to share in this renovation, because
by clinging to the crumbling rocks
of the old order no one will escape
being under its debris.
It behooves us then to reflect on
the expresed thought of a high prel-
ate of the church, with a new spirit,
shorn of all political preconceptions
of the times preceding the cataclysm
and to ask ourselves whether we
should not rather see in that enlight-
ened utterance the gleams that shall
guide us out of the darkness of the
present hour.
site of the . city’s tuberculosis camp
to be constructed at San Felipe and
Shepherd's Dam roads was turned Fri-
day afternoon by Dr. Elva Wright,
who has taken an active part in com-
batting tuberculosis in Houston.
Others at the ceremony, which
marked the beginning of construction
by W. L. Goyen, contractor, were May-
or Hutcheson and the city commission-
ers, County Judge Bryan, Ira P. Jones
Jr., secretary of the Antituberculosis
league; City Health Officers Dr. P. H.
Scardino, Maurice J. Sullivan, city ar-
chitect; Mrs. Sterling Myer, Miss
Leah M. Abadie, city tuberculosis
nurse, and Miss Belle M. Costello.
Material for the camp has been se-
cured at cost, and the different labor
unions have offered to do the construc-
tion at cost. The city will in this way
be .able to build a much better camp
than was at first contemplated. Con-
struction will require about two
months.
J. A. NELSON, house painter and paper
hanger; work done as reasonable as
ever. Phone 3984. (2-eb)
KIRSCH AND JACKSON, painting and
paperhanging. Phone 3795. (el)
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