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Poland's First Consul in America

IN THE presence of many prom¬

inent civilians, distinguished

diplomats and officers repre¬

senting all of tho important

Allied armies Constantin Buszczyn-

ski was inaugurated a week ago last

Thursday as Consul General for

Poland in tho United States. He

thus became the first representative

of his country ever accredited to the

United States, for Poland lost her

freedom and was partitioned shortly

before the United States gained in¬

dependence.

Consul General Buszczynski is a

white-haired, blue-eyed, ruddy-com-

plexioned individual, who looks pre¬

cisely what he is.a country gentle¬

man of the Old World who has spent

much of his interesting life in the

open air. He was born in 18.5(5 at

Niemiercze, government of Podolia.

His father was Stephan.Buszczynski,

an historian and social philosopher,

author of the work "La Decadence

de l'Europe,'' and many other im-1

portant studies.

The consul general's distinguished

father took an active part in the

Polish revolt against Russia in 1863,

and with many other Polish patriots

was forced to flee to save his skin

and to live in exile for many years.

The consul was then only seven

years old, and he was fourteen be-

fore he again saw his father, this

time in Dresden, Saxony. In Dres-

den the consul was educated, first at

the high school and afterward at

the Polytecnicum. He then went to

Riga and pursued the study of agri¬

culture, graduating from the tech¬

nical and agricultural branch of the

university there.

After his graduation Mr. Busz¬

czynski returned to his native heath

and took over his father's land

estate, ruined through the revolu¬

tion and the prolonged absence of

the owner. The young man, however,

applied to the cultivation of his

acres all that he had learned of

scientific farming, and in 1886

started for the first time in Poland

a modern, scientific breeding of the

sugar beet seed.

This enterprise grew rapidly and

with time became the most im¬

portant breeding concern in Eastern

Europe, and consequently a strong

competitor of German breeding

houses, until then undisputed mas¬

ters of the world's seed markets.

Encouraged by Buszczynski's sue-

Hungary Is Rid of

sioner Sticks-

seeking in every way to aid the j

Allies. Then finally came the re-

establishment of Poland as a nation

and at the beginning of this year

Mr. Buszczynski was appointed con-i

su! general to the United States with

instructions to develop the consular

service of Poland in this country,

which shelters several millions of his

countrymen. He landed in New

York on June 2, bringing with him

a large staff of experts who, under

his guidance, are organizing the

service.

The Consulate Here

The consulate lias boon established

in an old brownstone house in 40

West Fortieth Street. There each

day go at least 200 Poles, including a

fow women, who, wishing to return

to Poland, want passports; or, if they

arc American citizens, to have the

consul vise their papers. Not more

than one-third of these applicants

are permitted to go. Only those are

approved who are seeking to return

to relieve the distress of relatives

made destitute by the war or who

possess idle land in Poland that

would not be worked unless they did

return. All others are told to wait.

Another important phase of the

work of the consulate is that of try¬

ing to find trace of families in the

old country who have not communi¬

cated with their relatives in Amer¬

ica for several years, in many in¬

stances these people lost their lives

either in an invasion by Germans

or Russians. Then there are others,

most of them working people who

desire to transfer money to relative?

in Poland. The consulate arrange?

daily for the transfer to Poland ol

about $20.000.

In addition experts are engaged ir

fathering information concerning

the supplies her»? of agricultural im

plements, railroad supplies, shoes

clothes, dyestuifs, chemicals an<

countless other items of trade o

which Poland stands in need.

Then, must important. Consu

Buszczynski is arranging the crea

tion of the American-Polish Navi

gation Company, which is to operat

steamships between the Port of Nei

York and the once German, but no-

Polish, port of Danzig.

All of which explains what M

Buszczynski means when he insisi

that he is not a statesman, but sin

ply "a farmer and a business man.

Bolshevism

DR. ROYAL S. COPELAND,!

Health Commissioner, is one

public official in this city

who doesn't give a fie; about

.«i tape and never hesitates to tell

vcu so. If he wants a thing done he

-;ak:cs a beeline toward his goal and

^rushes aside every obstacle that

:ets in the way.

During the last two month? hi? of-

ffce has been a storm centre over

.he drug »question. Any one wateh-

."îfhim through this period is forced

..} the conclusion that Dr. Copeland

¡ifces a scrap almost as well as he

»Joes a joke.and that is very well

¡-deed. If you can put a new story

ver on the Health Commissioner.

not a made-over, but a brand new

re__ he will remember you and go

wie and teil his wife about it. His

nthusiasra for'a fight is just as pro¬

ceed and he has the knack of

ting barf when the scrap is on.

vn sitting back am! shaking hands

withhis opponent when it is all over.

Perhaps it is this faculty he has

:' enjoying mere living that has

ept him good-tempered and cheer-

through the fusillade that has

ten directed at Ins head since he

.rteri to think about drug addicts

¡t April. As. he says himself, if

'.veren't addicts it would be some¬

tí: else, so why worry? In the

rst place, a good many contend that

of Charities that Dr. Copeland be-

came Health Commissioner.

Away back in the days when he

still lived In Michigan a project was

on foot to run an electric railway

THE coming to the fore of

a man like Jacob Weltner

in Hungary following the

downfall of the régim* of

Bela Kun indicates that the Hun¬

garian working class masses are

pretty well cured of Bolshevism.

Jacob Weltner is the head of the

Hungarian Soviets and as such he

was the medium of communication

between the Allies and the Com¬

munist government in the negotia¬

tions that led up to the latter's

resignation.

Weltner is a man of medium stat¬

ure, dark complexion««!, and is about

forty-two years old. He is a So¬

cial Democrat of many years'

standing and has played a leading

rôle in the Socialist movement of

Austria-Hungary and in the Inter¬

nationale as a whole.

The writer mot Weltner in

Stockholm in December, 1917, soon

öfter the beginning of the Brest-

Litovsk negotiations between Ger¬

many and the Bolshevikh He canu¬

to Stockholm in great excitement

over the new turn of affairs and

was particularly put out by the sep¬

arate peace negotiations initiate-;

by the Bolshcviki. Those were '»lie

days when Europe still lacked faith,

in the ability of the United States

to exert any appreciable military

influence upon the situation and

when the probability of a German

victory «eemed certain to the minds

of neutrals and the people? of the

Central Empires.

A Final Effort

Weltner arrived in Stockholm on

a bitterly cold day and rushed im¬

mediately to tiie office of the In¬

ternationale Socialist Bureau to see

Camille Huysmans, the secretary.

His object in coming to see Huys-

mans was to have some measures

taken to counteract the effect of the

peace negotiation s between Ger¬

many and the Bolsheviki and. if

possible, to stop them. As lie pat

it to the writer:

"The Breat-LitovFk negotiations

have put an end to the hope of a

democratic general peace in Europe.

If they are allowed to reach the

culmination desired by Germany it

means the end of a democratic Eu¬

rope and particularly our own hope

of democratic reforms in Austria-

Hungary and Germany. Our im¬

perialists are walking about in

greater pride and self-confidence

than ever before, in expectation of

routing Russia at Brost-Litovsk and

of 'finishing' the Allies on the West

front. The »Allies better get busy

end start a movement for general

peace negotiations. If not they

will receive blows next spring from

which they will never recover."

It was Weltner's "idea that the

Stockholm conference scheme be re¬

vived and that the labo'htes of all

countries get together and present

a plan for a general peace to the

belligerent governments. Weltner

fait.and felt honestly.that Ger¬

many was on the verge of victory.

That hi? feeling was not altogether

ungrounded was demonstrated next

spring when the Germans made their

final offensive and seemed once

more to have Paris within their

grasp.

Did Not Count on L. S.

To be sure, neither Weltner nor

Germany counted sufficiently on

the United States, but as the situa¬

tion stood in the winter of 1917

Weltner's fears were perfectly jus¬

tifiable, and his eagerness to pre-

vent the success of the German

plans, both diplomatic and military,

was the expression of a genuine de¬

sire for a democratic peace. That

was why he was so strong in his

condemnation of the Brest negotia¬

tions. He spoke of the Bolshevik;

as "irresponsible adventurists" and

condemned their opposition to the

Stockholm conference.

It will be breaking no confidence

to say now that as a result of Welt-

ner's visit to Stockholm and his

conferences with H u y s m a n s,

through whom he communicated

with Arthur Henderson, the British

labor leader, a number of the Allied

envoys in Stockholm promised Huys-

mans to support the Stockholm proj¬

ect in their recommendations to

their governments, among them the

British Minister.

Nothing came of the project,

however, despiie the statement

made to the writer by M. Vorovaky,

the Bolshevik Minister ^n Stock¬

holm, that the Bolshevik; would be

willing to discontinue the Brest-

Litovsk negotiations provided the

Allied governments granted pass¬

ports to the Stockholm conference.

Apparently M. VorovsRy was over¬

ruled in Moscow.

Wcltnei's visit to Stockholm co¬

incided with that of Scheidemann,

but. unlike the latter, he did not

call or. M. Yorovsky, preferring to

do his business with Huysmans and

Henderse

Revolt After Deject

When asked why the Socialists

of Germany and Austria-Huigarv,

Copolaud's parents lived. Natur-

ally, the commissioner vns inter-!

este«! in this for the sake of his

parents. The Coler family of New

York" was asked to sink money in

the scheme by the man projecting!

the railway. The present Commis-

sjoner of Charities went out to look

the ground over. He didn't know a

great deal about the conditions

there, so he put it up frankly to

Royal ?. Copeland,

"If you were in my position would

you or would you not sink money

in this thins?"

"To be honest with you, I would

not. There ¡s very little traffic,

The soil is poor. It is unlikely that*

the country around here will be

opened up. I believe the railway is

doomed to failure, although per-

sonally I would be interested in

seeing it go through."

That ended it. Later some other j

man invested in the railway, and

sure enough it failed. But »Mr.

Coier never forgot Dr. Copeland,

and when the latter finally came to

New York he asked him to serve as

a fourth deputy to him in a public

capacity. Subsequently lie met the

Mayor and unexpectedly received his

present apopintment.

Ready to Quit

Time and again Dr. Copeland has

intimated his readiness to give up

the job of Health Commissioner.

When the armistice was signed

lie sent in his resignation to

the Mayor, but it was torn up. As

soon as he prepared to get cut,

some pressing question arose, and

although the possibility of his resig¬

nation has been revived, he wants

to see the drug question on a firmer'

basis before he returns to his pri¬

var«; nraetice, which, by the way, is

much more remunerative and less

arduous than his present work.

Dr. Copeland is a picturesque

figure. It is sometimes said of him

that he is too affable to be a hard¬

working man. As a matter of fact,

those who watch him most closely

know that he is one of the busiest

officials in New York; that he works

early and late; that his luncheon

usually consists of a sandwich

snatched about 4 o'clock in the

afternoon; and that he is always

ready to do a favor and hear the

petitions of all and sundry. During

the "flu" epidemic he did not have a

meal in his home for two weeks.

He is one of those men who think

it takes no more time to be courte¬

ous and friendly than it does to be

rude and brusque. He has a warm

handshake for every one and an all-

enveloping friendliness that sends

his visitor away happy even if he

hasn't got what he wanted. Fine

address ami a certain richness of

personality make him generally

popular. He is at his best on the

platform. But he has sufficient

force of character to make many

enemies, and his path as Health Com¬

missioner has not been a smooth

one, chiefly because of hi.-; habit of

shattering precedent and going

ahead impetuously with whatever

measures he thought necessary.

He has had a versatile career. His

father, Koseoe P. Copeland, is

Mayor of Dexter. Mich., and

president of the Board of Education

there. Young Royal started out by

selling in a store in Chelsea, Mich.

That bored him so he turned

to the livelier occupation of teach-

ing in a little country school. He

earned the magnificent sum of $38

a month. This was a decided advance

on the time when he had been vil¬

lagelamplighter and store clerk. In

1889 he was graduated with distinc-

tion from the medical department

of the University of Michigan, a1

Ann Arbor. Then he took post¬

graduate courses in medicine, spe¬

cializing in ophthalmology in Eng

lish, German, Swiss, French anc

Belgian universities. He is consid

ered a brilliant and daring opera

tor on the eye. In 1901 he wa;

j elected Mayor of Ann Arbor- H»

77?. p Polish Consul Gênerai

cess many other breeding establish¬

ments came to life in Poland and

Southern Russia.

Forcsaiv Revolution

In 1906 the consul foresaw a Rus¬

sian revolution and its effects, and

schemed to protect his industry

against it. He therefore started a

new branch of his breeding estab¬

lishment in the vicinity of Cracow,

Galicia.

It was in 1910 that Mr. Buszczyn-

ski first canv to America. In com*

pany with his kinsman, Mr. C.

Pulaski, who later became chairman

oí' the Polish Provisional State Coun¬

cil, he came to the United States

to participate in the ceremonies that

marked the unveiling of monuments

to Kosciusko and Pulaski in Wash¬

ington.

Mr. Buszczynski was immensely

attracted by the life and institution?».!

of Americans and decided that he

would develop business relations with

this country. Accordingly, he estab¬

lished a branch of his seed breed¬

ing business here, laying out several

large sugar beet plantations in West¬

ern States. He made a second trip

to the United State in 1912.

During the war Mr. Buszczynski

resided in Cracow and was active in

arranging for the supply of goods

for the civilian population. Also he

started several new agricultural and

industrial concerns and met with

unusual success. All his enterprises

were on a cooperative basis with the

employes, who were made partners

in these concerns.

During this period his home be¬

came the meeting place of those

patriots of Poland who were form-

ing tho thought, of the country and

¦.

Three Who Have Scored and Still Score

Jacob Weltner

Andre Tardiest

period of reconstruction in which

raising of money, electrification of

railways and other national issues

have to be fa; ed. He asks the French

people to set about accomplishing

these peace problems with the unity

that characterized France when

Germany would have mad»- her a

vassal state, and that, he says, will

bring certain victory. He points

to the American system of taxation,

in which some of the larger fort¬

unes pay as high as TO tier cent,

as the ideal pattern.

Captain Tardieu is known prin-

cipally as. editor of the "Temps"

and a.- a member of the Chamber

of Deputies. At the beginning of

'lie war he enlisted as a reservist

and was prometed until he reached

a captaincy. His exploits on the

Verdun frier m 1916 won him a

ehalien.

Born it: Paris, Tar.lieu entered

the French diplomatic service upon

completing his schooling, and in

1907 he was appointed to the

French Embassy at Berlin. Among

his several works is "Notes on the

United States," written after a trip

to the United States while Theo¬

dore Roosevelt was President. In

1908 he was Cercle Français lect¬

urer at Harvard.

President of Guatemala for lo.-low

and high, indeed«.these last twenty

years and one.

It is unofficially reported that the

Foreign Relations Committee has

been informed that the State De-!

part ment is to give President Ca¬

brera the well known "gate." It

will not again sanction his running

for reelection, saying, in effect, that

it cannot permit such dictator¬

ship as has been Cabrera's for the

last twenty-one years. This has

caused Washington's lawmakers to

exclaim upon the impeccability of,

Señor Cabrera's regime, particularly;

as to his ability to squelch revolu¬

tions, and wonder if this interfer¬

ence by the State Department will

not breed a "second Mexico."

In his day President Cabrera has

been a gay dog and a much har¬

assed one. In one bomb plot he

lost a finger; at another time a mine

timed to explode as his carriage

passed down the street blew two of

his. horses and a perfectly good

coachman into smithereens, but

failed to harm a hair on the Presi¬

dential head.

realizing that the moment was a

grave one, did not sound the call

for a revolution, Weltner replied:

"It is easy for you Entente peo¬

ple to tail; revolution in Germany

and Austria, especially at this mo¬

ment when our trovernments are at

the height of their military and po¬

li: vai prestige. There will be no

revolution in the Central Empires

urn il Germany is defeated in the

held. More-over, what assurance

have we that after we ma:.- the

revolution the ilútente governments

will not pounce upon up and crush

us? We cannot afford to make a

revolution while you simply sit by

and applaud. The question is, What

are you going to do?

Weltner'« fears anent the vic¬

tory of Germany were not realized,

but his statement that there would

be no revolution in the Centra] Em»

pires until Germany is defeated In

the held wa3 borne out by .history.

And in that revolution-.as far as

his own country is concerned.-the

modest and vivacious labor leader

and editor seems to he playing an

important part. Little did the

writer think that he would play that

¦part when he bade him goodby at

the railway -tation at Stockholm as

Weltner was preparing to catch a

'train for Berlin and Budapest.

Dr. Roya! S. Copeland

NE of the most picturesque

/ 1 figures of the war was Captain

^."^ Ar.die Tardieu, Frencli High

Commissioner to United States. Like

i« menceau, there was in h.is in-

domitable will to victory something

infectious, something buoyant and

reassuring; something in the face

of tremendous odds that was in¬

evitably Gallic. It. was significant

of the esteem in which Captain Tar-

dieu was held that when an at-

tempt to assassinate Clemenceau

incapacitated the Premier it was

Tardieu to whom the French peo¬

ple looked. .

Captain Tardieu is ¡«reaching as

vigorously the battles of peace as

he did those of war. There lies

ahead of France a

»king after addicts isn't the

dealth Commissioner's job. Wei!,

maybe not! But when an epidemic

rf some kind breaks out a responsi-.

Me person doesn't sit back and wait:

for the slow moving of machinery

*hüe life hangs in the balance. This

was how Dr. Copeland viewed the

situation when hundreds of addicts

*ere thrown into a desperate plight

.¡dans and pharmacists who had

&een supplying them with narcotics.

He opened a public health clinic on

worth Street That was the first

»ove in the game. Then came the:

delation of the extent of the traf-

klring in drugs. He decided that'

tremendous

Major Gen. E. H. Croivder

'igistratfon and identification of ad¬

dicts would be the only effective way

'.o bring them out in ¿he open, so he

of tlu.» Cuban Congress. The Con¬

gress also voted th»j general its

gratitude.

It is interesting to note that both

General Pershing and General

Crowder are native Missouriana.

General Crowder was born in Mis¬

souri April 11,1859, was graduated

from the United States Military

Academy in 1.881, took the degree

of Bachelor of Lavs at the Univer¬

sity of Missouri in lS8b\ entered

the judge advocate's department

in 1895, saw service in the Philip¬

pines. Manchuria and Cuba, and was

sent to Chili on a special mission of

¡the War Department in lull. Sev-

eral months prior to this mission he

had been made a brigadier general

and judge advocate general of the

army, which post he still holds, with

the new rank of major general.

Wht until he got the State Nar-

^tic Commission worked up to ap¬

prove these measures. Finally, in

"Pening up a registration bureau at

*28 Prince Street on July 17 he

<*>* the most drastic step recorded

'"the treatment of addicts and came

:n for a storm of pretest at the

^ndg of city physicians. However.

¦¦* smiled and explained and got

**ay with. it.

¿I Outs With Mayor

Ko sooner did he begin to get the

i^icts listed than he decided that

tary man has been more hon¬

ored by American universitieí

than Major General Enoch H

Crowder, the modest executor o1

the., draft law which gave thi

United States an army of suffi

cient size and character to achiev«

the glory it won in such

short length of time. Awarded de

grees by Brown, Columbia, Prince

ton, Michigan and Harvard univer

sities for meritorious cervicc to hi,

¡country, within the lost two months

his most recent recognition is tha

bestowed by the National Universit;

of Cuba. The Cuban university ha

awarded General Crowder the hon

orary degree of Doctor of Law«

largely for the general's work ii

the new Japanese Ambassa¬

dor at Washington, succeed¬

ing Viscount Tshii, according to un-

official cable dispatches from the

land of cherry blossom?.

j M. Shidehera is no stranger in

Washington, having been associated

with the Japanese Embassy there

¡in 1912 as counsellor during the'

period that Viscount Chinda was

ambassador. He is forty-seven

years of age and, after leaving the

Imperial University at Tok;o, was

| continuously in the diplomatic ser¬

vice until appointed Vice President

of Foreign Affairs in the Japanese

Cabinet. Before coming to »h

United States he was Japanese

Consul in London and in Antwerp

and after leaving the United States

he was promoted to the post of

Minister and «terved in Switzerland

up to the time of hi« Appointment

Slovak in your home? Irving

D. Kimball, senior secre¬

tary of the V. .»Í. ' . A. for Czecho¬

slovakia, ¡¡ad in his.a number cf

them, i:' fact..and then the Hun¬

garian Bolsheviki came alone and

chased him out. Then Mr. KimbaV

had a little Bolshevik instead of a

Czecbo-S'cvak in hie home.

This unforeseen circumstance o»i-

curred last June unen the Hun¬

garian Bolsheviki mo te a successful

thrust on the Slovak-Hungarian

front and captured six "Y" build¬

ings, a- well as Czecho-Slovsks by

the »Lzjii.

By a counter charge the zecho-

Slovaks ga ned their lost sector

and found the "Y" buildings intact.

i Mr. Kimball, with his wife and

daughter Louise, sailed last week

on the Adriatic, where the Y. M.

C. A. secretary is to resuma his

work on the Slovak-Huagnfiaa

Capital beds were necessary. So

JePut up a fight for the Rockefeller

Jiads with the Mayor and Bird S.

was called to the deanship of tin

New York Homoeopathic Medica

College in 1908. When America en

tered the war he organized th<

Flower Hospital unit and was eagei

to go to France, but was requestec

to stay, as he was one of the mei

who could he more useful at home

And so it proved. If for nothinj

else, he will be remembered, when

he finally relinquishes office, as th

man who put New York in the fore

front in the fight against drug ad

diction. There are other thing

to his credit, but this, perhaps, wa

his most unique achievement. H

personally considers it the hlgges

'oler, an old friend of his, over it.

Se hopes in course of time to see all

, edicts hospitalized as a means

¡J Cure, after they have reached the

Manuel Cabrera

AMERICANS are a particular

people in the matter of Presi¬

dent;. They not only have

looked askance Et the moot third

term, but long periods of incumben¬

cy on the part of other people's

Presidents in the Western hemi-

sphere are apparently regarded as

an annoyance.

There is Don Manuel Estrada

Cabrera, whose name suggests the

heroics of a Central American folk¬

song. Don Manuel has been the

"reducible minimum." There are

<**r 100,000 addicts in New York!

'Uhii wasn't his job to start with

^«ade it so by having the sanitary

C('Ucte drug addiction among the

Pestilential diseases" and to allow

* the registration and identitica-

u°n of addict«.

His tiflT with Commissioner Coler

.** the Rockefeller Foundation got

*¡*»bi8skifc, for they were pate of

adjusting the electoral «system o

the protectorate, which task he ha

just completed to tha «tatis&ctia

**>& years' standing and indirect-

problem wllh which he has had t

» » m throogh the Commissioner

[d%sL

Andre Tardieu

! The President of Guatemala

in the Japanern Cabinet.

front. He goes to Prague«

Health Commis¬

Weltner 9s Rise Shows

through the small town where Dr. J

trough the arrest last April of phy-

'Y9Man lo Slovakia

HaYL you <» little '. ¡¿echo-

MaiorGen. Croivder

PERHAPS no American mili¬

After Viscount Ishi i

KIJURO SHIDEIIERA is to b<

^undation, and came to logger-

c&oe of the city amended to in-

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