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New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
The Danish Irredenta

If the Allied powers are going back
nearly century and half to undo
the three partitions of Poland, and sew
eral centuries more to revive q Czecho-
Slovak kingdom, why should they not go
back fifty years and liberate the Danes
OF Schleswig from Prussian oppression?
= Modern Prussia is state built on
conquest. Bismarck inherited the land
grabbing policy of Frederick the Great
and of the Great Elector. He never lost
a chance to annex territory by force or
fraud He took Alsace- Lorraine awav
from France in 1871. But before that
he had seized Hanover, Hesse- Cassel.
Nassau and other non -Prussian German
states, and had used Austria to further
his schemes for taking over Holstein
and Schleswig from Denmark. He as
signed Schleswig to Francis Joseph in
1854 as the latter's share of the Danish
war booty. Two years later, after
konlggratz, he extinguished Austria's
title and Schleswig reverted to William I.
Prussia has been no more successful
in .assimilating the Danes Of her Jutland
province than she has been in assimilat-
ing the French of Alsace-Lorraine or
the Poles of West Prussia and Posen.
North Schleswig, which was overwhelm
ingly Danish at the time of annexation.
has remained so. In 1905, of the
14S,000 inhabitants of that section
1890 spoke Danish. Even the chill
dren of German immigrants accepted
the Danish tongue, the use of which
could not be checked by fifty years of
police persecution.
The Treaty of Prague, which ended
the Prussian-Austrian Sixty Days War,
contained an article providing that the
people of North Schleswig should abe
again united with Denmark, in the event
of their expressing a desire so to be by
vote freely exercised" That plebiscite
was never taken. Bismarck delayed it
on one preteXt or another, and in 1878
Prussia abrogated the plebiscite clause,
with the assent Of Austria.
Denmark could not enter the present
war for the purpose of recovering her
unredeemed territory. Germany was in
position to overwhelm her. But the
Danish people have been eagerly await
ing German defeat and a chance to
present to the peace conference which
is to free other suppressed peoples the
claims OF the steadfast Danish popula-
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21

where they can and organize the women
into auxiliary units Of the main party
organization. Through these practical
lessons the Connecticut Woman Suf-
frage Association expects to train its
members in citizenship and politics and
make them ready for the exercise Of the
vote when they get it, as they expect to.
oy the Federal route. Meanwhile, the
organization of suffragists is to remain
non-partisan, working for measures and
not men.
The Democrats Of the state, being the
"outs,' have seized upon the proposition
and are making the most of it. The
Republicans have taken no action off,
,ially, though a good many Republicans
feel that the challenge ought to be met.
1t ought to be. Not so much for the
practical value Of making friends with
the women Of their state--though that
necessity is not as slight as they seem
to think-but because the Republican
national party covers the adoption Of
woman suffrage completely for the ma
tion and stands for women whole
heartedly.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
By Royal Cortissoz
| |.

bar to clear thinking, instead of the noble
humility which is the key TO constructive
thought
A combination Of imagination and horse
sense, our officer has said. One sees super
added, in the true guide TO take through
this vast crisis o. the war. certain other
traits, the traits of Linco n, for example
They generosity, tenderness, humor.
the traits which when fused make sympa-
thy-which is the cornerstone of wis
dom. 1t takes sympathy and wisdom to
comprehend, and in the worlds present col
ossal task comprehension is everything In
insistence upon the German crimes the de-
featist sees only the reteration OF an ugly
hatred. 1t is beyond his mental powers, ap-
parently, to grasp the fact that in order to
know what to do with the criminals at the
bar Of justice we must have the clearest pos
sible vision of precisely what then have
done. The advocate of a negotiated peace
with featherweight penalties, sees the Ger
wrecking the industrial towns Of
France and Belgium, admits the savagery.
but shows realization of the fendsh fact
that this wrecking has been carried out in
order that the towns in question may be
out of the way of German competition after
the war. He has neither imagination nor
sympathy enough to perceive that those
towns must be protected by economic pen
alties laid upon the wreckers. He is too
busy cogitatng a peace "unblemished by
vindctive reprisas." Tribune dispatch
from Paris reports the official inspection
just made of the coal mines at Lens 1t
contains these words:
1t viii be from eighteen months to two
years before it Will become possible to
take out any coal from the mines in the
Lens region, which the Germans damaged
TO the best of their ability before they
retired from the city. 1t is estimated
that it vii take five years to restore the
normal production of the pits. At Cour-
rleres; northeast of Lens, the Germans
had blown up the mines before retiring.
Of the 10000 houses in Lens the visitors
found not one left standing, the town hav-
been completely raZed.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21

came another for the paradox monger And
not only in fiction but in every department
of letters there appeared the thinker who
pushed his Thought" by giving it verbal
smartness and an air of dogmatc original.
ty, of so-called independence" and "lib-
eraism." The familiar anecdote Of Shelley's
mother comes back to me. Said the friend
who advised her as to the school to be chosen
for her son, cob, send him somewhere
where they viii teach him to think for HIM
self" The counsel was to the poets mother
as spark to tinder. Teach him to think for
himsef!" she exclaimed. oh my God;
teach him rather to think like other people!"
That, to your clever mediocrity, is sheer
madness, and vulgar mob psychology" into
the bargain. He has a consuming vanity,
and he must think for himself or perish. It
is plaus bic philosophy until, as l have
said above, one begins to inquire into the
calibre of the mind thai is pretending to do
the thinking. Never in the history of the
world has there been moment like this one
for man to learn to think like other
people" 1t means in this case, thinking in
harmony with the great heart and brain Of
mankind
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
Our Day

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: This is our day. We have waited
for it patiently; we have fought for it
valiantly and we have prayed for it daily
Ever since the tentacles of the monster
whose devlish head is at Potsdam dragged
the Lusitania under ever since it's slimy
arms struck at Red Cross ships and
wounded soldiers, ever since its writhing
coils fastened themselves on fair France
and sucked in her great cities and her
peaceful citizens, old men, women and chill
dren; ever since Belgium was outraged,
we, the people of the United States of
America, have said: Our day will come" {"
1t is here-ths is our day. And unless
America refuses to confer with the agents
Of the Hohenzolern or Hapsburg harpies,
then we have preached in vain. In vain
have our orators hurled their anathemas
against these men, in vain has all this blood
been shed, and in vain have we offered the
flower of our youth and poured out our
wealth to make this old world safe for
democracy. A. F. ASHBACKER.
New York, Oct II, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
Hearst Mcoiled
tFrom The Baiston Spa Journai)

JONruGO
Ballston Spa had celebration anyway
After the ringing of bells, the OWING
of whistles. bonires and parades its citi-
zens woke up this morning to find that
its celebration, to say the least, was prema-
ture but, then, we celebrated.
The following telegram from "The New
York American" to Feeny Brothers was the
cause of the disturbances "Detinitely re-
ported Germany surrendered and Kaiser
abdicates Wire your increase for Thurs
day and Friday.
Some boys got hold of this word and
started the celebration with bonfires and
ringing the bell of the Presbyterian Church.
The news spread and grew, and finally the
more sober minded citizens began to be-
lieve it could be true, and the celebration
spread until the village was perfect bed
lam of noise
Finally the Allied flags were secured
from Mulholland, and with an impromptu
drum corps parade was started and went
noisily through the main streets, the cele-
bration lasting from 8 o'clock until mid
night.
In the height of the doings the Kaiser
was carried through the streets on a scat
fo d, minus his head, with the Inscription
above "Kaiser Bill is Short His Head"
the efgy being thrown in the bonfire after
the parade.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
No Reparation


When the war is enued the Allies in
Europe will have spent far above a hun
dred billions to save their lands from
Germany. The United States may
spend forty or fifty billions more in their
aid. Our fields and cities have not been
devastated; our people have not been
dragged into captivity The war has
never come brutally piercngly, home to
us. 1t never can. We cannot feel what
the French, the English the Begians,
the Italians feel. We have not as ma
tion seen hell with our own eyes.
We cannot feel and therefore we can
not think as our allies think. To us the
war is more like horrid nightmare, an
evil dream. 1t is grim reality to them.
Shall we therefore sit coolly and make
"dispassionate" and tempered" judg-
ment? Is this our role?
Because we have the might and the
millions, wealth in billions, steel mills;
granaries-because we are rich and
powerful and safe from all assaults, and
because they needed our aid, shall we
make terms for them?
With an academic soul do we think to
weigh and measure their pain, their loss,
and, forsooth, is this to be weighed and
balanced with those of the marauding
German?
The war has not been fought on Ger
man soil. The cunning of the Hun, with
matchless preparation, aw to that.
Shall the atrocities which the President
says are now a bar to an armistice-
shall these be no bar to peace? Shall
they go unavenged?
1t is estimated that the destruction
and ruin wrought in Belgium and North
ern France alone could not be compen-
sated for three billions of dollars. Shall
Germany pay nothing? The submarines
have sunk more than a billion dollars
worth Of ships? This is to cost the Ger
man nation nothing? 1t is merely an in
cident Of war.
Yet we seem to have stopped thinking
Of reparation and restitution.
The might that was and still is, Ger
many's was not a military autocracy.
nor, alone, q vast military machine; 1t
was a nation of seventy millions that
had become the dominant industrial ma
tion of Europe. A change of rulers, of
fgureheads, will change neither it's pur-
pose nor it's soul.
1t is time to have done with the fiction
that the war was created by handful
Of marplots, or even by the Junker
party. 1t was created by the wealth and
intoxicating success of the German ma
ton.
For it's sins the nation shall pay And
the people Of the United States will not
delay the punishment.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21

ton Of Northern Schleswig. The wrong
done them ia as fragrant as that done
the people Of Alsacc- Lorraine, of Po-
land, Slovahia, Jugo- -Savia, Transylva-
MIA or the Italian Irredenta. 1t should
be righted
Prussia's attitude toward all the alien
elements incorporated bya force into the
body polite of Hohenzollernism has
been one Of unyielding severity. But
this severity has recoiled upon itself.
It has nourished that spirit of national
ism which it sought to destroy. Now
the Teuton subject peoples turn exult-
antly toward their deliverers. The hour
of justice for all of them is about to
strike
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
The Tent of Jael

Past all finding out are the workings
Of the Teutonic mind. A leading article
in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse sees
hope for an easier peace in the fact that
English women have been given the bal
lot and will vote at the coming elections
The government that owes its existence
partly to the votes of women will the
Neue Freie Presse trusts, be less in
clined toward "the policy Of annihila-
ton" than the present Lloyd George COM
binatlon.
"The woman voter" says this Vienna
exponent Of Kuitur, may be the dove
with the olive branch and may liberate
the soldiers from destruction and death.
She may stretch out her hands over the
fronts of irreconcilable men to her sis
ters in enemy countries, who, like her.
live in fear and perish in want. The
feelings of women's hearts may have
their, way"
Who but German would dare frame
plea for mercy to the women who
through his savagery Give in fear and
perish in want? Who but a German
would not pray in an agony of terror
to whatever God he worshipped that "the
feelings of women's hearts" might not
have their way when those hearts belong
to women who remember their ravished
sisters and the murdered and starved
babies of Belgium France, Poland and
Serbia?
"The Lord shall sell Sisera into the
hands Of a woman"
And when the Lord had discomfted
Sisera and all his chariots and all his
hosts with the edge Of the sword. Sisera
fled for refuge to the tent of Jael. And
Jael soothed his fears and ouenched his
thirst and covered him with mantle.
and he slept And when he slept she
took a nail from the tent and a ham
mer and went softly to him and smote
the nail into his temples, so that he died
Then Jael went and stood in the door
of her tent and to the men of Israel
who rode in pursuit of Sisera she said;
Come and / will she>y you the man
whom We seek"
The Lord has discounted the Hun and
all his host with the edge of the sword.
Surely his Gott has withdrawn his face
from him if in his extremity no other
refuge offers than the tent of Jael
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
Connecticut Women

The Republicans of Connecticut have
so far been unstirred by the appeals If
the suffragists of their state to get to-
gether for both the sake of Republican,
ism and of suffrage. Miss Katharine
Ludington has offered both parties a
Observation-Disclosures proposition. In
view of the political enfranchisement of
the women OF her state she has asked
Democrats and Republicans to come into
the suffrage organization of about SO. 600
women, tell their story, make converts
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
Apostles of Glibness

1t is adrotly put, and, indeed, there is
lot of ''fne confused reading" in "Joan and
Peter" which ought to keep many high
erected dinner table going this winter But
must risk the rudeness of taking seriously
Mr.. Wells's allusion to Counter Jumping
There is something of it in his presentment
of his wares. The instrument which we
may call his genius is not an instrument Of
mpeccable fineness, tempered to cut cleanly
through the problems of life He is not so
much eloquent as glib, not much perc-
ing as specifically irritating He is even
a little stupid in his impatience over things
Victorian. Isn't it time for that cheap dis
paragement of a great epoch to be retired
"Heligoland was given to the young EN-
peror William the Second by Lord Sails
bury" Prodgious discovery! All the latter
day oracles who exercise their tremendous
wit upon the errors, foibles and hopeless
limitations of the Victorian era have made
it in their turn. Where the period of the
great Queen is concerned .heir sense of
history rarely includes a sense of perspec-
tive. They remember blunder like Heligo-
land. They forget an achievement like the
purchase of the Suez shares. But am los
ing sight OF Nh. Wells's instrument In its
need of tempering it is representative. The
trouble with all these apostles of glibness
is that they want depth, true cutting power.
and think It is because they lack what the
counter jumper may be assumed TO lack.
largeness of mind largeness OF soul They
have the sophomorical arrogance which is a
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
The Humanitarian Cloak

The world is united on the treatment thar
is to be meted out to Germany. In view Of
that circumstance, denunciation OF the de-
featist might seem to suggest the fog
ging Of a dead horse. He is not notably
articulate just now. But neither is he con-
clusively routed by the cry OF "uncondi-
tional surrender" which has gone ringing
after the fleeing Hun. His powers for mis-
chief have been subtly exercised all through
the war, and they must still be guarded
against. Use and wont are terrible task
masters. We are all accustomed to the war
by this time, and that means that We are
keyed up to a high tension of thought and
emotion. When peace is unmistakabe the
mere reaction .5ill cause any man to founder
a little he gets his bearings. One could
see that when the armistice discussion hah
its sackening effect upon the Liberty Loan
Mems minds were swayed almost instants'
neousy from their usual poise By the same
token we have President Wilson's clar-
flying note as quickly reassure the country
leading to swift stffening of national
thought and purpose. One way of keeping
that thought and purpose true to their LOFTY
function las peace approaches is to protec'
~ iiOHi VIC u SiOCdtliS iIHueHCtS " S4S -
featist. We must continue 10 be on our
guard against him, to make sure that taise
guides are not permitted to substitute f0'
the human realities of the peace issue those
fabby dealisms, those fine drawn Ideas
which have no vitality save paper. Be
meath the defeatist's humanitarian CLOAK
there lurk pacifst and socialist nostrums'
cooked up into plan for the regeneration
of mankind but validated b" nothing more
than the self-conceit of the impacable
theorist He is the who would give
Germany her armistce. who would give her
equal advantages in the forthcoming eco
nomic dispensation, who would spare her
humiliation and punishment as smackng too
much of "the red spirit of revenge" He is
the man. in short. who would give to "the
good German people" every possible benefit
of a negotiated peace One way of combat
ing his insidious propagar "a is that OF
keeping the criminal record straight and
before the eyes of the world. Another is 70
recognize his place and that he IS kept
in it, the place of the poor patriot who is q
poor thinker.
(To be concluded tomorrow !.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
Ship for Ship

France is to demand full compensation
for all this-and for much more The
British are talking of "ship for ship" at the
peace conference There will be indemnii-
cation for tangible losses. But there must
be a reckoning also in the sphere of the
imponderables. The immeasurable moral
anguish inflicted by the Hun cannot be for
gotten at the bar of justice. Indeed he who
would forget it is unfit to touch the subject
of the war. On that subject you cannot
think honorably if you do not feel honor
ably. The defeatist cannot do either.
Marvellng at his density and at the
vogue which he still enjoys, have been re-
minded of a phenomenon long ago developed
in this country. For some thirty odd wears
1t has been my occupation to observe the
currents of literary endeavor. Any number
of fine things have been achieved in that
period, but think most judges OF the sub
ject will agree with me that the peculiar
outstanding fruit of the years in question
has been what christened in The Tribune
many years since CLEVER mediocritv" 1t
is the aptitude Of second-rate minds fhe
energy and technical competence adeoua+a
for the production of work momentarilv ner
suaslve, but IN essence commcnplace. Recol-
lection of the day of "the best seller will
suggest to the reader what | mean. Glib
ness then came into its own If it could be
entertaining, much the better. But where
is the bulk of all that beguiling stuff to-
day! Out of the new cult for facile glamour
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21

8 ing devc opment. With gifts
n like his he seemed destined to
bear not only useful but a de-
lightful part in the play of ideas consequent
upon the war, and for a while he was evil
IDENTIFY abreast of his opportunity. Then he
began to get little muddlcd. Does the
reader remember the annoyance which Mr..
Wells quantity found in spurs at the front?
Imagination, with him, presently outstripped
horse sense. "tigure" him now, 70 use
a fond old phrase of his, as the genius Of
new kind of department store, which has
taken over the restoration of the universe
"Plain and fancy reorganizing done here"
I hear him decaiming. "New social sys-
TENS while you wait" He is great patron
of Christianity nowadays "Consult our
new schools of ethics. The Sermon on the
Mount brought up to date" little Of it
is not unamusing, but occasionally one
wearies of the popu ar journalist playing at
Gcd There is an arresting passage opp.
272-273) in Joan and Peter" his latest pro-
duction bearing on the education to be got
out of writer's of his own type:
Most of these irregulars he Oswald
disliked by nature and tradition None of
them had the dignity and restraint Of the
great Victorians. the Corinthian elegance
of Ruskn, the Teutonic hammer b 'ows of
Carlyle. Shaw, he understood, was a
lean, red haired Pantaloon. terribly gar
ruous and vain; Bcloc and Chesterton
thrust shameless obesity upon the pub
lie attention; the socia origins of most of
the crew were appalling; Bennett was a
solicitors clerk from the potteries; Wells
counter jumoer; Orage cam from
Leeds - Except for Cunninghame
Graham there was not gentem as
Oswald understood the word, among them
all. But tt ose writer's got hold of the
intelligent young because they did at least
write freely where the university teacher
feared to tread 1t remained an
open question in his mind whether they
did more good by making young people
think wrong. Progressive dons he found
maintained the former opinion.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
KANNED KULTUR.
First ReCipe

FlrSt KeClpo
With all the peace talk and the uncer-
tainty of the Germans keeping any agree
ment that they might make, the obvious
safeguard and poetic justice seem to be
overlooked
Why not insert that Kaiser Wilhelm and
his six husky sons surrender in person
their swords to the King of Belgium on his
throne at Brussels, their worldly goods
forfeit to him, they to remain in the hands
of the Belgans as hostages until all loot
taken from Belgium and France, including
the tribute in gold which was levied on
Belgian cities, is returned?
At the same surrender, so to have it all
on one reel, Hindenburg and LudcndorR
and the rest of the High Command can
hand over their swords to Foch and his as
go around and furnish souvenir for each
of the Allied generals. Then they should
be forced to remain prisoners on ST. Helena
or Devils Island Or some other place in
communicate during the pleasure of the
Allied peoples.
This is suggestion for start; it can
be elaborated to suit the individual
taste. VICTOR SCOTT
Bohemians haze set up separate no.
tom and are issuing their oaUn money.
Establishing Czeching accounts, ave
venture, and enit hugviedly.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
What They Stand For
(From The Asherille Cittsen)

{From The Asherille cittserD
What do the letters ~ S. on the
American uniforms and equipment stand
for?' said Ludendorff to Hindenburg from
the shelter of friendly hill "Uncondi-
tional Surrender" replied old Squareherd.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
SHOES G. SHIPS G.
SEALING WAX
TO AN UNKNOWN DAMSEL

Lady, be you e'cr distant
Still your voice rings in our ear.
May we ask this one persistent
Question of you, lady dear?
You have all the day to call US;
Why, then. wait till hours nocturnal?
When from slumber sweet you haul
BY your whirrng bell Internal
Why, in answer to our squalling,
Ask, what number were you calling?"
Lady, though your voice be pleasant,
We are growing sad and wiser.
Earnestly wish at present
You were central for the Kaiser.
Lady, we'll admit you grieve US.
Yea, our anger cannot cease,
When you placidly deceive us
And remark Excuse it, please"
Why, when Beekman we implore,
Say "I'm ringing Wall three four?
Lady, your employers tell
That the influenza drear
Soon may force them to compel us
Not to use our phones this year.
Although sad this epidemic
And the headway which it gains,
We, recalling tlts polemic,
Know it won't affect your brains
You who, wakened from your slumber,
Murmur, "Tryn' t'getcha number"
Here's the loan oil ouer, and one co,
un1list aoomders helplessly how he is 60
ing to keep on getting ont has stuff.