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THE GRECIAN EXECUTIONS
Greece has executed several of the most
prominent men in her recent history.
Among them were the commander of an
army several men who had been pre-
mier of Greece—a position that corres-
ponds to our Secretary of State with
the exception that the premier has greater
powers than are given by us to our Sec-
retary of State.
The charge against these men was that
they were guilty of high treason in.con-
nection with the recent disaster to the
Grecian armies in Asia. Several months
ago it was announced from Athens that
some of the higher officials of Greece
wer< to be tried by court-martial but
after that brief announcement there was
nothing more. Now comes the announce-
ment that six or seven of the leading
men of Greece have been executed. It
is only natural that the report should
cause something of a shock.
The worjd his never been informed as
to the extent of the Greek disaster in Asia
nor of the causes that led up to it. Enough
has been told to make it plain that it
was one of the greatest military disas-
ters in all history. The Greeks had an
army numbering several hundred thou-
sand men and it seems to have been an-
nihilated as a fighting force. At the
beginning of a week it was an army
and at the end of that week it was noth-
ing but a disorganized mob fleeing for
safety. There must have been mon-
strous mismanagement somewhere. An
army of several hundreds of thousands of
men is not destroyed in that manner un-
less there is gross mishandling. Its initia-
tive may be taken away it may be re-
duced from the offensive to the defensive
it may even be forced to retreat but a
well-supplied army—and the Greeks had
plenty of excellent equipment—can not
be wiped out if there is even common
sense used in the direction of its affairs.
The Greeks were based on Smyrna
. they held the port and there was no way
in which the Turks could take it from
them by any naval operations for the ex-
cellent reason that the Turks had no
navy. The worst that should have hap-
pened to the Greeks was to have been
compelled to fall back and take a defen-
sive position near Smyrna. *vhere they
should have been able to hold their ground
indefinitely.
The fact that their entire army was
ruined proves conclusively tlfat cither
there was treason cr that the affairs of
the army wete misdirected in such a
way that the inefficiency shown amounted
to a betrayal of the interests of the
country.
It has not been the custom in these
later days to execute generals and states-
men for lack of success. Fortunately
there have been so few examples of out-
right treason that they are negligible and
do not call for consideration. Tn the days
of the French Revolution it was cus-
tomary for the Jacobins while they were
in power to send to the guillotine such
generals as did not score success in the
field. The French in their furious pa-
triotism did not even allow that a general
might have bad luck. He had to win or
off went his head. The plan did not work
and it is practically certain that the mon-
archy would have been re-established had
not the extraordinary genius of Napoleon
which baffled all expectation put the re-
public for the time being on a firm
foundation.
Some day the story of the Greek disas-
ter and the causes that brought it about
will be known to the world and it will
be a wonderfully interesting narrative.
— oo
COMBATING THE DYER BILL
As a general proposition the Amcri^n
people have no great admiration for legis-
lative filibusters. Ordinarily they are re-
garded as grumblers —“poor sports.” But
if any conceivable circumstances would
justify filibustering tactics in Congress
such circumstances have been created by
the attempt of the majority in the United
States Senate to force through a measure
which blasts at the very foundation of
this country's form of government. The
Over "anti-lvnching" bill is unqualifiedly
* un-American.
The provocation of the bill’s opponents
is great to an almost unprecedented de-
gree. If the voters throughout the coun-
try had expressed a desire for the enact-
ment of such a measure the situation
would be radically different from what
it actually is. In the absence of popular
instructions it would be uncomplimentary
to the people to make any other assump-
tion than that they would not endorse it
if they had an opportunity to express
themselves because the provisions of the
bill are so fundamentally contrary to the
theory of our kind of government. To
force the passage of such a measure by
means of the numerical strength of its
exponents is under the circumstances
nothing less than the tyranny of the ma-
jority.
That the Democrats should be able to
tie the hands of the Republicans in the
present situation is highly suggestive of
retributive justice. At least one Republi-
can se’T’nr «ec^s to have given some
thought to thi« nha- ? nt the subject. Says
the Associated Press dispatch reporting
the proceedings: “Senator Cummins
(Rep.) lowa who is president pro tempore
of the Senate entered into the debate and
took occasion to say that the Democratic
filibuster was a ‘proper rebuke' to the
Republicans for having failed to amend
the Senate’s antiquated and unjust rules.’’
Whether Senator Cummins had exerted
his .influence to the full before the de-
velopment of the situation upon which
he moralizes only he can know.
As a filibuster whether it be justi-
fiable or not this project of the Demo-
crats is certainly admirable at least in the
sense of surpassing in strategy and ef-
fectiveness anything of its kind that has
been resorted to in Congress for a gen-
eration. That is the opinion at any rate
of men who have been in the Senate long
enough to make such a comparison.
But- though the opposition is exception-
ally well organized and is being “scien-
tifically” conducted as even the Republi-
cans have voluntarily stated it would be
immoderate to indulge in any guessing
as to the outcome. Usually the chances
are against filibusters because they are
in the minority. The odds against the
Democrats in the present case are strong
so far as the numerical count is con-
cerned. But legislation not half so dan-
gerous to Democratic government as the
Dyer bill is and far less unpopular than
this measure may logically be assumed
to be has been defeated by filibustering
methods inferior in strategy and apparent
preparedness to those which the Demo-
cratic senators have employed.
If these senators should gain the vic-
tory they will deserve the thanks of all
citizens wM hold democratic principles
above expedience irrespective of any case
that may be made out against filibuster-
ing as a general proposition. For that
matter. Republicans cannot consistently
condemn the use of such tactics in the
present situation on the ground that the
Democrats have adopted doubtful means
toward what they regard as a good end.
For the Republicans themselves have un-
dertaken to destroy a fundamental prin-
ciple of democratic government as a means
of abolishing an evil which is not so prev-
alent as the federal government’s ten-
dency to wreck the organic law of the
land.
OLD FALLACY IN NEW FORM*
Although signal failure has been the fate
of various latter-day attempts to repeal
natural economic laws and to place man-
made statutes in their stead farmers of
the corn belt have conceded another plan
to promote their fortunes by artificial
means. According to an announcement
from St. Louis they will advocate “the
creation of a governmental commission
to fix prices on agricultural products.”
The author of the plan is quoted as
saying: “The country cannot become
prosperous until the dollar the farmer re-
ceives for his toil equals in purchasing!
power the dollar he is compelled to pay |
for merchandise freight rates taxes' etc.”
Almost in the same breath he advocates
the adoption of a remedy which has ale
ready been tried and found wanting—-
tariff “protection” for the farmers’ prod-
ucts.
What has become of the wonderful re-
sults which the emergency tariff law was
certain tq bring? Ah but the rates im-
posed by that statute were insufficient
the protectionist farmer might say. In
that case what of the great relief prom-
ised by supporters of the Fordncy-Mc-
I Cumber law which provides for the high-
est duties in the country’s history? To|
this the protectionist farmer might reply
that the degree of protection necessary
for agricultural products has not yet been
(attained.
What the farmers of this persuasion
; seem to overlook is that “protection” is
a relative matter in cases wherein high
I tariffs actually do affect the domestic
I price of their products. Another fact
I which they apparently ignore is that
I many agricultural products of this coun-
i try —those grown in such quantities as to
leave a surplus for export—could not be
protected in the sense of having their
prices increased by the highest duties
conceivable even if the manufactured ar-
ticles which they have to buy were on
the free list.
The three features of the corn belt
farmers' plan which were mentioned in
die St. Louis announcement are- them-
selves conflicting. In addition to the ap-
pointment of a governmental commission
THF SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
which would “equitably relate the prices
of wheat pork beef and cotton to the
current price of merchandise” and the
levying of import duties “to_ protect the
prices created by such commission it is
suggested that the government take ox er
the surplus of the above commodities at
whatever the world price may be. ’ Ihe
object of the latter scheme would be to
discourage over-production and protect
the government against loss.
Then there is such a thing as a world
price after all. What is the explanation?
Simply that the United States is a great
exporter of agricultural products. And
if the producers of the country s export
commodities —the principal crops—were
assured that the government would take
off their hands all that they produced
in excess of enough to satisfy the home
demand would they take great pains to
limit their production to domestic needs?
If so what of the prosperity of classes
that are not engaged in agricultural
production ?
It is a queer philosophy which defines
the entire country’s prosperity in terms of
high prices for one class at the expense
of all other classes. Equally fallacious
is the idea that limitation of production
rather than expansion of production spells
national prosperity. But the idea is all
too prevalent. In this age many people
count their wealth in monetary rather
than in economic terms.
VON BERNSTORFF’S CONFESSION
At last an official of the war-time gov-
ernment of Germany has confessed a de-
gree of guilt. He is Count von Bcrnstorff
former ambassador to the United States.
In criticising the ex-kaiser’s recently pub-
lished memoirs he says: “Unfortunately
all of us share the blame.” Blame for
what? It is in answering this question
that Count von Bernstorff makes his con-
fession less appropriate from the world
standpoint than it would be if he had
spoken more broadlv.
The quoted words constitute »nly a
part of a longer sentence. He was dis-
cussing the ruin that had come to Ger-
many rather than the suffering which
Germany’s course had inflicted upon the
world. Germany’s old system of govern-
ment he said had spelled her ruin “but
unfortunately all of us share the blame
because we consented tef thjg system for
so long.”
But though the former ambassador
limits his confession there is no escaping
its logical application to his and the Ger-
man people’s complicity in the crimes
committed against the world for which
Wilhelm is held chiefly to blame. Bern-
storff may continue to regard himself
other henchmen of the kaiser and the
Genpan people as a whole as having a
share only in the misdeeds which
wrecked the empire but his and their
guilt by a logical application of his own
confession cannot be so narrowly re-
stricted.
Early in the war in fact even before
the world-conquering plans of the kaiser
were set afoot it was obvioits to the
outside world that Germany with her
autocratic government was headed for
grief. But many Germans including such
highly placed men as Bernstorff were
dazzled by the visions of [>4wer with
which their emperor fired their imagina-
tion and stimulated their cupidity. Th»y
were to blame not only for feeding his
ambition before the conflict began but
also in enlisting their efforts in the at-
tempt to effect Us realization when he
undertook to make his dream of a pan-
German world come true.
If they were guilty in any decree be-
cause they supported the kind of govern-
ment that finally brought ruin upon Ger-
many they 'cannot escape the charge of
culpability in their efforts to execute the
leaser's plans at the expense of the rest
of the world. But it has been character-
istic of Germany’s war-time officials to
regard Germany’s present plight as the
only regrettable result of the world war.
For the suffering of the rest of the world
which Wilhelm’s madness brought about
they seem to have no concern. It is only
their own fate that troubles them. If
Germany had won the war doubtless
they would have defied their emperor.
They were quite willing to accept the
fruits of victory while there was any.
prospect of winning. But in the midst
of defeat they look upon their country's
war project as a great mistake only be-
cause of the domestic troubles it has
wrought.
Yet for the rest of the jvorld Count
on Bcrnstorff’s confession is sufficient
because it has a broader logical applica-
tion than he intended. Even such a lim-
ited confession was unexpected; but now
that it has come it ma» despite its literal
inadequacy be gratifying because .of* the
possibility that it indicates a more whole-
some attitude than German officials have
habitually displayed. If the Germans
can bring themselves to realize that they
were even partly to blame for supporting
a system of government which has spelled
ruin for their country eventually they
may see their guilt from the world stand-
point.
More women are leaving the farms
than men according to government Eta-
tistics. Any one familiar with the life
of the average farm woman can not blame
them.
triumphs oF^
MJbwiuelle^
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THE THING ON THE HEARTH.
Befin Here Today.
Did some occult power of the Orient
cause the mysterious and uiercditable
tragedy which had removed v©-oin the
world one of its greatest intelligences
—the brain of
RODMAN who had startled scientists
with his paper on the niauufacture
of precious stones by synthetic chem-
istry?
Rodman was dead. Hia attendant
that strange Oriental from the Shan
monastery in Asia told a story weird
and incredible. Finally
M. JONQUELLE greatest of French
detectives was called to America
and the Oriental rehearsed the story
of what took place on the night
when the man who could manufac-
ture rubies and emeralds as cheaply
as glass met his death
Go On With the Story'.
CHAPTER Hi.
The Oriental was going on with a '
slow precise articulation as though he
would thereby make a difficult matter
dear. *
“The night had fallen swiftly. It
was incredibly silent. There was no
sound in the Master's room and no
light except the flicker of the logs
smoldering in the fireplace. The thin
line of it appeared faintly along the
sill of the door.”
He paused.
“The fireplace. Excellency is at the
end of the great room directly op-
posite this door into the hall before
which J always sat when the Master
was within. The fireplace is of black
marble with an immense black marble
hearth. And the gift which 1 had
brought the Master stands on one
side of the fire on thia marble hearth
as though it were a single andiron."
The man turned back into the
heart of his story.
“I knew by the vague sense of
pressure that the devocations of the
thing were again on the way. And I
began to suffer in the spirit for the
Master's safety. Interference both by
act and by the will were denied me.
But there is an anxiety of spirit Ex-
cellency that the uncertainty of an
issue makes intolerable."
The man paused.
"The pressure continued—and the
silence. It was nearly midnight. J
could not distinguish anv act or mo-
tion of the Mister and in fear 1
crept/ orer to the door and looked in
through the crevice along the threshold.
“The Master sat by bis table; he
was straining forward his hands
gripping the arms of his chair. His
eyes and every tense instinct of the
man were concentrated on the fire-
place. The red light of the embers
was in the room. I could see him
clearly and the table beyoml him
with the calculations; but the fire-
place seemed strangely out of per-
spective—it extended above me.
-My gift to the Master not more
than four hand-breaths in length in-
cluding the base stood now like an
immeti-e bronze on an extended
marble slab beside a gigantic fire-
place. This effect of extension put
the top of the fireplaia and the en-
larged andiron above itn pedestal
out of my line of vision. 'Everything
else in the chamber holding its nor-
mal dimensions was visible to me.
"I have said Excellency that m.v
angle of vision along the crevice of
the doorsiH was sharply ent midway
of this now enlarged fireplace. From
the direction and lift of the Master’s
face he was watching something
above this line and directly over the
pedestal of the andiron. I watched
also flattening my face against the
sill for the thing to appear.
“And it did appear.
“A naked foot became slowly
visible. as though someone were
descending with extreme care front
the elevation of the andiron to the
great marble hearth under this
strange enlargement now some distance
below. ”
The big Oriental paused and
looked down-at me.
“I knew then. Excellency that
the Master was lost I The creative
energies of the Spirit suffer no divi-
sion of worship: those of the body
^ust be wholly denied. I had warned
A Certain Type of a Sport
the Master. And in travail Excellency
I turned over with my face to the
floor.
“But there is always hope hope
over the certainties of experience
over the certainties of knowledge.
Perhaps the Master even now sus-
tained in the spirit would put away
the devocation. No Excellency. I was
not misled. I know the Master was
beyond hope! But the will to hope
moved me and I turned back to the
crefiee nt the (kjorsill.”
He paused.
“There iHs now a delicate odor
*
He killed Rodman simply by crush-
ing him in his arms.
everywhere faintly like the blossom
of the little bitter apple here in
your country. The red embers in
th? fireplace gave out a steady light;
and in the glow of it on the marble
hearth stood the one who had de-
scended from the elevation of the
andiron.**
Again the man hesitated as for
an accurate method of expression.
“In the flesh Excellency there
was color that would not appear in
the imago. The hair was yellow
and th* eyes were blue: and against
the black marble of the fireplace the
bodv was conspicuously white.
• But in every other aspect of her.
Excellency the woman was on the
hearth in the flesh as she is in the
clutch of the savage male figure in
the image.
•There is n<> dress or ornament
as you will recall Excellency. Not
even an car-jewel or an anklet as
though the graver of the image felt
that the inherent beauty of hia fig-
ure eould take nothing from these
ostentations.
“The woman’s heavy yellow hair
was wound around Lor head as in
the image. She shivered a little
faintly like a naked child in an un-
accustomed draught of air although
she stood on the warm marble
hearth nnd within the red glow of
the fire.
“The voice from th« male figure
of the image which I had brought
the Master and which stood as the
andiron now so immensely enlarged
was beginning again to speak. The
thin metallic sound seemed to splinter
against the dense kilfißp as it went
forward in the ritual prescribed.
• But the Master had already de-
cided ; he stood note xin the great
marble hearth with ^hia papers
crushed together. And as I looked
on through the crevice under the
doorsfli. he put out his free hand
and with his finger touched the
woman gently. The flesh under his
finger yielded and stooping over he
put the formula into the fire.”
Like one who has come to the end
of his story the huge Oriental
stopped. He remained for some
moments silent. Then lie continued
in an even motonous voice:
“I Jot up from the floor then and
purfied myself with water. And
after that I went ints an upper
chamber opened the window to the
cast and sat down to write my re-
port to the brotherhood. For the
thing which I had been sent to do
was finished.” .
He put his hand somewhere into
the loose folds of his Oriental gar-
ment and brought out a roll of thin
vellum-like onion-akin painted in
Chinese characters. It was of im-
mense length but on account of tbe
thinness of the vellum the roll
wound on a tiny cylinder of wood
was not above two inches in thick-
ness. .. .
“Excellency” he said “I have
carefully concealed thia report
through the misfortunes that have
attended me. It is not certain that
I shall be able to deliver it. Will
you give it for me to the jewel-
merchant Vanderdick in Amster-
dam? He will send it to Mahadal
in Bombay and it will go north
with the caravans."
I put the scroll into my pocket and
went out for a motor-car had come
into the park and I knew that Jon-
quelle bad arrived.
I met Jonquelle and ihe super-
intendent in the long corridor; they
had been looking in at my interview
through the elevated grating.
“Jonquelle” I cried “the judge
was right to cut short the criminal
trial and issue a lunacy warrant.
Thia creature is the maddest luna-
tic in this whole asylum. ' Tho hu-
llan mind is capable of any absur-
dity.”
Jonquelle looked at me with a
queer ironical smile.
“Perhaps” he shrugged “there is
some explanation in the report in
your pocket to the Monastic Head.
It'a only a theory you know.”
He smiled showing his white
even teeth. .
We went into the superintendent's
room and sat down by a smoldering
fire of coals in the grate. I handed
Jonquelle the roll of vellum. It was
in one of the Bhan dialects. He read
it aloud. With the addition of cer-
tain formal expressions it contained
precisely the Oriental's testimony be-
fore the court and no more.
"Ah!" he said in his curiosuly in-
flected voiee.
And he held the scrool out to the
heat of the fire. The vellum baked
slowly and as it baked the ijlack
Chinese characters faded out and
faint blue ones began to appear.
Jonquelle read the secret message
in bis emotionless drawl:
“ 'The American ia destroyed and
his accursed work is destroyed with
him. Send the news to Bangkok
and west to Burms. The treasures of
India are saved.' ”
I cried outs in astonishment.
“An assassin! The creature was
an assassin! He killed Rodman
simply by crushing him in his
arms!”
Jonquelle's drawl lengthened.
“It's Lal Gupta" he said “the
cleverest Orientsi in the whole of
Asia. The jewel-traders sent him to
watch Rodman and to kin him if he
was ever able- to get his formulae
worked out. They must have paid
him an incredible sum.”
"And that is why the creature at-
tached himself to Rodman!" I said.
"Surely." replied Jonquelle. “He
brought that bronxe —Romulus car-
rying off the Sabine woman—and
slaked the supernatural to work out
Ilia plan and to save his life. I knew
the bronze as soon as I got my eye
on. it—old Frans Josef gave it as a
present to Mahadal in Bombay for
matching up some rubies."
I swore bitterly.
“And we took him for a lunatic!”
“Ah yes!" replied Jonqhelle. “What
was it you said as I came in? 'The
human mind is capable of any absur-
dity !’ "
Another M. Jonquelle story. “The
Fortune Teller" will begin in our
next issue.
Pointed Paragraphs
Elitism works twenty-four hours a
day.
An excuse nearly always goes lame
in the home stretch.
A man seems to inherit all sorts of
troubles—except money.
Every man han his double and the
contortionist has several.
A woman in love is more or less
foolish; a man in invariably more so.
Uusually the less amiable a woman ia
the handsomer she thinks herself.
A perrimist finds consolation in the
fact that he wasn't born an optimist.
A woman can keep an expense ac-
count almon? an long as a man can
keep a diary.
DECEMBER t 1922.
A Laugh or Two
A man went into a telegraph office
to send a message aud was told that
the fee would be $l. “How do you
make that out?''
B" he sai d. “Weil
there is SO cents
for tbe wire and
as much more for
the delivery. It'a
outside the ra-
dius” was the
reply. "That be
hanged ’ remarked
the sender “To u
send • the telegram and I'll write and
usk my friend to go after it.”
He was doomed to failure all his life. .
He either told the truth too religiously
or said tbe wrong tbiug.
It began when he
got his first job as rT35r '
office boy. [Z^T tr-^- )
He hadu't been P'J J nJ
there long when his \
employer looked up j
from au important —»A fVS
letter and said ir- t /Jf Jit I
jitably: \ I VtJ
"Don't whistle at MJi
your work bo/!” ** PSI.
"I ain’t working sir” he replied.
“I'm only whistling."
A small worried looking man tna©h
about to take au examination for lite
insurance.
. “You don't dissl-
Zr) i” l ^' y° u s”’
A (o*l f .) - asked the doctor as
he made ready for
Ayy tests. “Not a fast
JFtX liver or anything of-
w vXi that sort?”
*i_ v y**'® ma n
■■ yiP-r hesitated for a mis
—SBbCtdSaLa ment looked fright-
ened and .then said in a piping voice:
“1 sometimes smoke a cigarette.”
H. H. Kohlsaat tells a story cor-
roborating the legend that Eugene Field
was a cheerful debtor. William E.
Curtis of whom
Field had bor-
rowed $ll5O a o m e a
years before vis- Gj/T*
ited the poet in . '
Chicago and re- a
minded hi m of O?-/
debt. The following k
<1 a y Field printed
thie paragraph in
Lis column: "Wil- 121 — 1 —
linm E. Curtis the well-known cor-
respondent of tho Chicago Record is
in the city for a few days looking after
some of his permanent investments.”
The farmer and bis hired man were
sitting under the hedgerow taking
cover from the rain and incidentally
resting ffom their
/! J. 7.1 labors.
The hired man
s was young and en-
thusiastic and he
was eager to gain
. TyT. knowledge. So he
/11 a II« t/ perpetually asked
/ I'll Lv A* question'!.
/ "" '''"h weeds
— 1 ' ■ are tho easiest tv
kill?” he inquirdfl.
The farmer gazed nt him shrewdly.
“Widows” he replied.
“Widows!” How do you mean ?”
“Why you've only to say wilt thou’ i
to them and they wilt.”
Where to Go
Vande ville.
Majestic—Vaudeville and motion pic-
tures.
Motion Pictures.
Empire: Thomas H. Ince's in "Skin
Deep."
Princess: Gloria Swanson in “The
Impossible Mrs. lleilew."
Rialto: Constance Talmadge in.
“East Is West.”
Roval: Tom Mix in “The Fighting
Streak.”
FARMER IS SLAIN
Wife la Alleged to Hava Confeased
Crime.
Stuttgart Ark.. Dec. 2.—Hugo Krnse.
a dairy farmer living near here whs
allot and killed in his home near here
and his wife. Mable is held by the au-
thorities on a charge of murder. Ac-
cording to tbe officers sho confessed to
the slaying of her husband after a quar-
rci which lasted all yesterday and most
of last night. Kruse and his wife re-
cently moved here from Texas.
—By RIPLEY
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