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presence of many prom¬ seeking in every way to aid the j inent civilians, distinguished Allies. Then finally came the rediplomats and officers repre¬ establishment of Poland as a nation and at the beginning of this year senting all of tho important Allied armies Constantin BuszczynMr. Buszczynski was appointed con-i su! general to the United States with DR. ROYAL S. COPELAND,! of Charities that Dr. Copeland be- ski was inaugurated a week ago last instructions to develop the consular THE coming to the fore of as "irresponsible adventurists" and Thursday as Consul General for Health Commissioner, is one came Health Commissioner. service of Poland in this country, back in the days when he Poland in tho United States. He a man like Jacob Weltner condemned their opposition to the public official in this city stillAway thus became the first representative which shelters several millions of his lived In a in Hungary following the Stockholm conference. Michigan was project who doesn't give a fie; about on countrymen. He landed in New foot to run an electric railway of his country ever accredited to the It will be breaking no confidence downfall the régim* of hesitates to never tell York on June 2, bringing with him Bela Kun indicatesof that .«i tape and the small town where Dr. United States, for Poland lost her through to say now that as a result of WeltHun¬ the a large staff of experts who, under vcu so. If he wants a thing done he Copolaud's parents lived. Natur- freedom and was partitioned shortly working class masses are ner's visit to Stockholm and his his before States United the in¬ guidance, are organizing the garian gained the toward his ally, commissioner beeline and vns conferences with H u y s m a n s, well cured of Bolshevism. a goal inter-! -;ak:cs pretty service. este«! in this for the sake of his dependence. Jacob is of the head the Weltner obstacle that through whom he communicated aside every ^rushes Consul General Buszczynski is a parents. The Coler family of New Soviets as such he with Arthur Henderson, the British and Hungarian The Consulate the Here in way. :ets York" was asked to sink money in white-haired, blue-eyed, ruddy-comThe consulate lias boon established was the medium of communication labor leader, a number of the Allied During the last two month? hi? of- the scheme by the man projecting! plexioned individual, who looks pre¬ between the Allies and the Com¬ envoys in Stockholm promised Huysin an old brownstone house in 40 a storm centre been over the railway. The present Commis- cisely what he is.a country gentle¬ ffce has government in the negotia¬ mans to support the Stockholm proj¬ West Fortieth Street. There each munist .he drug »question. Any one wateh- sjoner of Charities went out to look man of the Old World who has spent tions that led up to the latter's ect in their recommendations to at least 200 day go of in the Poles, including a ."îfhim through this period is forced the ground over. He didn't know a much his interesting life18.5(5 their governments, among them the fow women, who, wishing to return resignation. at the conditions open air. He was born in ..} the conclusion that Dr. Copeland great deal about Weltner is a man of medium stat¬ British Minister. to Poland, want passports; or, if they ¡ifces a scrap almost as well as he there, so he put it up frankly to Niemiercze, government of Podolia. ure, dark complexion««!, and is about Nothing came of the project, arc American citizens, to have the His father was Stephan.Buszczynski, »Joes a joke.and that is very well Royal ?. Copeland, He is a So¬ however, despiie the statement old. forty-two years consul vise their papers. Not more ¡-deed. If you can put a new story "If you were in my position would an historian and social philosopher, than one-third of these applicants cial Democrat of many years' made to the writer by M. Vorovaky, author of the work "La Decadence ver on the Health Commissioner. you or would you not sink and has played a leading the Bolshevik Minister ^n Stock¬ money are permitted to go. Only those are standing de l'Europe,'' and many other im-1 not a made-over, but a brand new in this thins?" in the Socialist movement of holm, that the Bolshevik; would be rôle approved who are seeking to return re__ he will remember you and go "To be honest with you, I would portant studies. to relieve the distress of relatives Austria-Hungary and in the Inter¬ willing to discontinue the BrestThe consul wie and teil his wife about it. His not. There ¡s general's distinguished Litovsk negotiations provided the little traffic, very made destitute by the war or who nationale as a whole. nthusiasra for'a fight is just as pro¬ The soil is poor. It is unlikely that* father took an active part in the The writer mot Weltner in Allied governments granted pass¬ idle land possess in Poland that ceed and he has the knack of the country around here will be Polish revolt against Russia in 1863, would not be worked unless they did Stockholm in December, 1917, soon ports to the Stockholm conference. ting barf when the scrap is on. opened up. I believe the railway is and with many other Polish patriots return. All others are told to wait. öfter the beginning of the Brest- Apparently M. VorovsRy was over¬ was forced to flee to save his skin vn sitting back am! shaking hands doomed to Litovsk between Ger¬ ruled in Moscow. failure, although perAnother important phase of the many andnegotiations with his opponent when it is all over. sonally I would be interested in and to live in exile for many years. the Bolshevikh He canu¬ Wcltnei's visit to Stockholm co¬ work of the consulate is that of try¬ to Stockholm in The consul was then only seven Perhaps it is this faculty he has seeing it go through." excitement incided with that of Scheidemann, great ing to find trace of families in the over the new turn of affairs and but. unlike the latter, he did not :' enjoying mere living that has That ended it. Later some other years old, and he was fourteen beold country who have not communi¬ was out by the sep¬ call or. M. Yorovsky, preferring to ept him good-tempered and cheer- man invested in the railway, and fore he again saw his father, this cated with their relatives in Amer¬ arateparticularly put through the fusillade that has sure enough it failed. But »Mr. time in Dresden, Saxony. In Drespeace negotiations initiate-; do his business with Huysmans and ica for several years, in many in¬ by the Bolshcviki. Those were '»lie den the consul was educated, first at ten directed at Ins head since he Coier never Dr. Copeland, the stances these people lost their lives days when Europe still lacked faith, Henderse school and at afterward .rteri to think about drug addicts and when the forgot high 77?. p Polish Consul Gênerai latter came to finally either in an invasion by Germans in the ¡t April. As. he says himself, if New York he asked him to serve as the Polytecnicum. He then went to ability of the United States Revolt After or Russians. Then there are others, and the of '.veren't addicts it would be some¬ a fourth Riga to exert pursued study agri¬ military When asked why the Socialists deputy to him in a public culture, graduating from the tech¬ cess many other breeding establish¬ attracted by the life and institution?».! most of them working people who influence any appreciable In the tí: else, so why worry? the situation and of Germany and Austria-Huigarv, upon lie met the capacity. rst place, a good many contend that Mayor andSubsequently received his nical and agricultural branch of the ments came to life in Poland and of Americans and decided that he desire to transfer money to relative? when the probability of a German unexpectedly Southern Russia. would develop business relations with in Poland. The consulate arrange? victory «eemed certain to the minds university there. present apopintment. this country. Accordingly, he estab¬ daily for the transfer to Poland ol of neutrals and the people? of the After his graduation Mr. Busz¬ lished a branch of his seed breed¬ about $20.000. Central Empires. to czynski returned to his native heath Forcsaiv Revolution In 1906 the consul foresaw a Rus¬ ing business here, laying out several In addition experts are engaged ir and took over his father's land Time and again Dr. Copeland has sian revolution and its effects, and large sugar beet plantations in West¬ fathering information concerning A Final intimated his readiness to give up estate, ruined through the revolu¬ schemed to protect his industry ern States. He made a second trip the supplies her»? of agricultural im tion and the Weltner arrived in Stockholm on absence of prolonged the job of Health Commissioner. against it. He therefore started a to the United State in 1912. plements, railroad supplies, shoes a bitterly cold day and rushed im¬ When the armistice was signed the owner. The young man, however, new branch of his breeding estab¬ During the war Mr. Buszczynski clothes, dyestuifs, chemicals an< mediately to tiie office of the In¬ lie sent in his resignation to applied to the cultivation of his the Mayor, but it was torn up. As acres all that he had learned of lishment in the vicinity of Cracow, resided in Cracow and was active in countless other items of trade o ternationale Socialist Bureau to see Camille Huysmans, the secretary. arranging for the supply of goods which Poland stands in need. farming, and in 1886 Galicia. soon as he prepared to get cut, scientific It was in 1910 that Mr. Buszczyn- for the civilian population. Also he started for the first time in Poland Then, must important. Consu His object in coming to see Huyssome pressing question arose, and scientific breeding of the ski first canv to America. In com* started several new agricultural and Buszczynski is arranging the crea mans was to have some measures although the possibility of his resig¬ a modern, beet seed. pany with his kinsman, Mr. C. industrial concerns and met with tion of the American-Polish Navi taken to counteract the effect of the sugar nation has been revived, he wants This enterprise grew rapidly and Pulaski, who later became chairman unusual success. All his enterprises gation Company, which is to operat peace negotiation s between Ger¬ to see the drug question on a firmer' basis before he returns to his pri¬ with time became the most im¬ oí' the Polish Provisional State Coun¬ were on a cooperative basis with the steamships between the Port of Nei many and the Bolsheviki and. if he came to the United States employes, who were made partners York and the once German, but no- possible, to stop them. As lie pat var«; nraetice, which, by the way, is portant breeding concern in Eastern cil, it to the writer: Polish, port of Danzig. much more remunerative and less Europe, and consequently a strong to participate in the ceremonies that in these concerns. "The Breat-LitovFk negotiations competitor of German breeding marked the unveiling of monuments During this period his home be¬ All of which explains what M arduous than his present work. to Kosciusko and Pulaski in Wash¬ came the meeting place of those Buszczynski means when he insisi have put an end to the hope of a Dr. Copeland is a picturesque houses, until then undisputed mas¬ patriots of Poland who were form- that he is not a statesman, but sin democratic general peace in Europe. figure. It is sometimes said of him ters of the world's seed markets. ington. Mr. Buszczynski was immensely ing tho thought, of the country and ply "a farmer and a business man. If they are allowed to reach the that he is too affable to be a hard¬ Encouraged by Buszczynski's sueculmination desired by Germany it ¦. working man. As a matter of fact, means the end of a democratic Eu¬ those who watch him most closely Mm rope and particularly our own hope know that he is one of the busiest of democratic reforms in Austriaofficials in New York; that he works Hungary and Germany. Our im¬ early and late; that his luncheon perialists are walking about in usually consists of a sandwich Jacob Weltner greater pride and self-confidence snatched about 4 o'clock in the President of Guatemala for lo.-low of which reconstruction in ever before, in expectation of than period and that he is afternoon; always and high, indeed«.these last twenty routing Russia at Brost-Litovsk and raising of money, electrification of that the moment was a ready to do a favor and hear the years and one. of 'finishing' the Allies on the West realizing and other national issues petitions of all and sundry. During one, did not sound the call railways grave NE of the most picturesque It is unofficially reported that the front. The »Allies better get busy for a the "flu" epidemic he did not have a Weltner replied: / 1 figures of the war was Captain have to be fa; ed. He asks the French Foreign Relations Committee has end start a movement for general "It isrevolution, meal in his home for two weeks. for easy Entente peo¬ to set about you people accomplishing If been informed that the State De-! peace negotiations. not they He is one of those men who think ^."^ Ar.die Tardieu, Frencli High ple to tail; revolution in Germany these with ment from the next is to will receive blows President Ca¬ peace problems part unity spring give it takes no more time to be courte¬ Commissioner to United States. Like and Austria, especially at this mo¬ Dr. S. brera the well known "gate." It which they will never recover." that characterized France when ous and friendly than it does to be i« menceau, there was in h.is inwill not again sanction his running It was Weltner's "idea that the ment when our trovernments are at rude and brusque. He has a warm Germany would have mad»- her a for domitable will to reelection, in that effect, conference scheme be re¬ the height of their military and po¬ Stockholm victory saying, something vassal state, and that, he says, will »king after addicts isn't the handshake for every one and an all- infectious, something it cannot such dictator¬ vived and that the labo'htes of all li: vai prestige. There will be no permit buoyant and bring certain victory. He points dealth Commissioner's job. Wei!, enveloping friendliness that sends in the Central Empires ship as has been Cabrera's for the countries get together and present revolution maybe not! But when an epidemic his visitor away happy even if he reassuring; something in the face to the American urn il Germany is defeated in the last This has the of to taxation, a a twenty-one for years. system plan general peace rf some kind breaks out a responsi-. hasn't got what he wanted. Fine of tremendous odds that was in¬ caused Washington's lawmakers to belligerent governments. Weltner held. More-over, what assurance in which some of the larger fort¬ Me person doesn't sit back and wait: address ami a certain richness of Gallic. It. was significant unes pay as high as TO tier cent, exclaim upon the impeccability of, fait.and felt honestly.that Ger¬ have we that after we ma:.- the for the slow moving of machinery personality make him generally evitably Señor Cabrera's regime, particularly; many was on the verge of victory. revolution the ilútente governments of as the the esteem in ideal which Tarpattern. Captain *hüe life hangs in the balance. This popular. He is at his best on the as to his ability to squelch revolu¬ That hi? feeling was not altogether will not pounce upon up and crush was how Dr. Copeland viewed the platform. Captain Tardieu is known prinBut he has sufficient dieu was held that when an atand wonder if this interfer¬ ungrounded was demonstrated next us? We cannot afford to make a tions, situation when hundreds of addicts force of character to make many tempt to assassinate Clemenceau cipally as. editor of the "Temps" while you simply sit by ence by the State Department will a.- a member of the Chamber spring when the Germans made their revolution *ere thrown into a desperate plight enemies, and his path as Health Com¬ and applaud. The question is, What incapacitated the Premier it was and breed a not "second Mexico." once seemed and offensive final Deputies. At the beginning of trough the arrest last April of phy- missioner has not been a smooth Tardieu to whom the French peo¬ of In his day President Cabrera has more to have Paris within their are you going to do? 'lie war he enlisted as a reservist .¡dans and pharmacists who had one, chiefly because of hi.-; habit of Weltner'« fears anent the vic¬ been a gay dog and a much har¬ grasp. and was prometed until he reached &een supplying them with narcotics. shattering precedent and going ple looked. of Germany were not realized, tory one. In assed one bomb he plot He opened a public health clinic on ahead impetuously with whatever Captain Tardieu is ¡«reaching as a captaincy. His exploits on the his but statement that there would S. on Count L. Did Not a lost finger; at another time a mine worth Street That was the first measures he thought necessary. the battles of peace as Verdun frier m 1916 won him a vigorously nor be no revolution in the Centra] Em» Weltner neither To sure, be to timed as his explode carriage eh alien. »ove in the game. Then came the: He has had a versatile career. His until Germany is defeated In passed down the street blew two of Germany counted sufficiently on pires delation of the extent of the traf- father, Koseoe P. Copeland, is he did those of war. There lies Born it: Paris, Tar.lieu entered Gen. H. E. Croivder as the situa¬ the held wa3 borne out by .history. but the United States, his. of horses and a France ahead a tremendous perfectly good klring in drugs. He decided that' Mayor of Dexter. Mich., and the French diplomatic service upon coachman into smithereens, but tion stood in the winter of 1917 And in that revolution-.as far as 'igistratfon and identification of ad¬ president of the Board of Education completing his schooling, and in failed to harm a hair on the Presi¬ Weltner's fears were perfectly jus¬ his own country is concerned.-the dicts would be the only effective way there. Young Royal started out by 1907 he was appointed to the of tlu.» Cuban Congress. The Con¬ dential tifiable, and his eagerness to pre- modest and vivacious labor leader head. '.o bring them out in French Embassy at Berlin. Among gress also voted th»j general its ¿he open, so he selling in a store in Chelsea, Mich. vent the success of the German and editor seems to he playing an Wht until he got the State Nar- That bored him so he turned his several works is "Notes on the gratitude. both diplomatic and military, important part. Little did the plans, ^tic Commission worked up to ap¬ to the livelier occupation of teachIt is interesting to note that both United States," written after a trip was the expression of a genuine de¬ writer think that he would play that prove these measures. Finally, in ing in a little country school. He and General to the United States while Theo¬ General Pershing That ¦part when he bade him goodby at a democratic peace. for sire "Pening up a registration bureau at earned the magnificent sum of $38 dore Roosevelt was President. In Crowder are native Missouriana. was why he was so strong in his the railway -tation at Stockholm as *28 Prince Street on July 17 he a month. This was a decided advance 1908 he was Cercle Français lect¬ General Crowder was born in Mis¬ condemnation of the Brest negotia¬ Weltner was preparing to catch a <*>* the most drastic step recorded on the time when he had been vil¬ souri April 11,1859, was graduated urer at Harvard. He spoke of the Bolshevik; 'train for Berlin and Budapest. tions. '"the treatment of addicts and came lage lamplighter and store clerk. In from the United States Military :n for a storm of pretest at the 1889 he was graduated with distincAcademy in 1.881, took the degree ^ndg of city physicians. However. tion from the medical department of Bachelor of Lavs at the Univer¬ ¦¦* smiled and explained and got of the University of Michigan, a1 sity of Missouri in lS8b\ entered **ay with. it. Ann Arbor. Then he took post¬ the judge advocate's department no American mili¬ in 1895, saw service in the Philip¬ graduate courses in medicine, spe¬ little '. ¡¿echoyou SHIDEIIERA is to b< ¿I Outs With in ophthalmology in Eng man has been more hon¬ pines. Manchuria and Cuba, and was Slovak in your home? Irving tary cializing Ambassa¬ the new Japanese Ko sooner did he begin to get the lish, German, Swiss, French anc D. Kimball, senior secre¬ ored by American universitieí sent to Chili on a special mission of dor at Washington, succeed¬ listed than he decided that Belgian universities. He is consid tary of the V. .»Í. ' . A. for Czecho¬ than Major General Enoch H ¡the War Department in lull. SevCapital beds were necessary. So ered a brilliant and daring opera ing Viscount Tshii, according to un- slovakia, ¡¡ad in his.a number cf eral months prior to this mission he Crowder, the modest executor o1 had up a fight for the Rockefeller tor on the eye. In 1901 he wa; official cable dispatches from the them, i:' fact..and then the Hun¬ been made a brigadier general the., draft law which gave thi and and came to logger- j elected Mayor of Ann Arbor- H» land of cherry blossom?. advocate general of the garian Bolsheviki came alone and judge with the Mayor and Bird S. was called to the deanship of tin United States an army of suffi army, which post he still holds, with M. Shidehera is no stranger in chased him out. Then Mr. KimbaV j 'oler, an old friend of his, over it. New York Homoeopathic Medica cient size and character to achiev« the new rank of major general. Washington, having been associated had a little Bolshevik instead of a Se hopes in course of time to see all College in 1908. When America en with the Japanese Embassy there Czecbo-S'cvak in hie home. the glory it won in such edicts hospitalized as a means tered the war he organized th< ¡in 1912 as counsellor during the' This unforeseen circumstance o»ishort length of time. Awarded de Cure, after they have reached the Flower Hospital unit and was eagei period that Viscount Chinda was curred last June unen the Hun¬ grees by Brown, Columbia, Prince "reducible minimum." There are to go to France, but was requestec ambassador. He is forty-seven garian Bolsheviki mo te a successful <**r 100,000 addicts in New York! to stay, as he was one of the mei ton, Michigan and Harvard univer AMERICANS are a particular years of age and, after leaving the thrust on the Slovak-Hungarian 'Uhii wasn't his job to start with who could he more useful at home sities for meritorious cervicc to hi, in the matter of Presi¬ Imperial University at Tok;o, was front and captured six "Y" build¬ people ^«ade it so by having the sanitary And so it proved. If for nothinj | continuously in the diplomatic ser¬ ings, a- well as Czecho-Slovsks by They not only have ¡country, within the lost two months looked dent;. c&oe of the city amended to in- else, he will be remembered, when vice until appointed Vice President the »Lzjii. askance Et the moot third his most recent recognition is tha drug addiction among the he finally relinquishes office, as th of Foreign Affairs in the Japanese incumben¬ of but long term, periods By a counter charge the zechobestowed Pestilential diseases" and to allow man who put New York in the fore by the National Universit; cy on the part of other people's Cabinet. Before coming to »h Slovaks ga ned their lost sector * the registration and identitica- front in the ad of Cuba. The Cuban university ha Presidents in the Western hemifight against drug United States he was Japanese and found the "Y" buildings intact. u°n of addict«. awarded General Crowder the hon sphere are apparently regarded as diction. There are other thing in London and in Antwerp i Mr. Kimball, with his wife and Consul His tiflT with Commissioner Coler to his credit, but this, perhaps, wa orary degree of Doctor of Law« an annoyance. and after leaving the United States daughter Louise, sailed last week .** the Rockefeller Foundation got his most unique achievement. H largely for the general's work ii There is Don Manuel Estrada he was promoted to the post of on the Adriatic, where the Y. M. adjusting the electoral «system o Cabrera, whose name suggests the for they were pate of personally considers it the hlgges Minister and «terved in Switzerland C. A. secretary is to resuma his the protectorate, which task he ha heroics of a Central American folk¬ **>& years' standing and indirect- problem wllh which he has had t to the time of hi« Appointment work on the up » » m throogh Andre Tardieu Slovak-Huagnfiaa just completed to tha «tatis&ctia song. 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