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New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Another Ruler Passes

The Sick Man Of Europe was one of
the few phrases of European diplomacy
that we in America knew before the war.
The details of Turkish disintegration
were beyond our acquaintance. but the
fact was agreed. Like most international
ideas then familiar to Americans, the
fact Of Turkish msrule was accepted rs
whole and simple, without analysis or
explanation. That there was a Road to
Bagdad and that German officers trained
Turkish soldiers meant next to nothing.
We are gradually facing our new re-
sponsibilities. AS the German plot un-
folds we begin to realize that the peace
of the world is not as simple as it sounds;
that it presupposes, whatever ingenious
machinery may be invented and set in
motion to delay and prevent war, fun
damental comprehension of national and
racial facts-the truth, in short, as we'll
as pious intentions. We must search
behind phrases for essentials
The original Sick Man of Europe still
remains problem, and the death of the
Sultan brings up again the anomalous
rule Of his empire. But already, through
the swift march of events, the centre Of
interest has shifted north and east of
Constantinople to the new Sick Man of
Europe and the East, Russia. There
government is in even a more parlous
state than on the Bosporus, and the issue
for Germany and for the Allies far
greater.
Mohammed Y, the weak creature of an
ambitious group, passes with hardly as
much notice as was awarded the report
of the death Of the Car of All the Rus
sias. The rulers pass, the problems re-
main That is the lesson of Turkey, of
Russia, of Austria. We who would make
peace for whole world must deal in
peoples, actual homes, families, towns,
races, creeds, rather than dynasties or
the set phrases of diplomacy as Amer
leans have vaguely conceived them.
Germany has mastered this lesson to the
devils taste. If, in the service of peace,
we would combat her successfully in the
present struggle and in the Years there
after, we cannot be too swift in revising
our knowledge and learning the underly.
ing facts of the worlds quarrels
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Hearst's Coilmg-Out Party

We read in "The New York Ameri-
can" that the dinner of the Hearst De-
fence Society in this city Thursday
evening was great success. The head
lines tell that Speaker of House is
Greeted with Storms of Cheers in De-
Tending Loyalty of Greatest Publish
err and that Senator Reed Lauds the
Host" In the first paragraph the his
toric fact is set forth that the dinner
wound up with a tremendous demon
stration Of loyal friendship and admira-
tion for William r. Hearst"
Champ Clark was the chief character
witness. First he told why he came and
what kind Of man he was to do it. II
want to tell you why I'm here" he said
~ stand by my friends. And when q
man gets up and says shall not come to
New York when get ready and shall
not be the guest of any friend of mine
he calculates on very different kind of
man from what I am
So much on Champ Clark, for himself,
by himself. (For further particulars
see his biography, presently to appear in
"Hearst's Magazine.") AS for Hearst,
the man whose loyalty was to be de-
Tended, "He's the biggest publisher"
said Champ Clark, according to "The
New York American's'' undeleted YER
Sion-"the biggest publisher that ever
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06

lived on the face OF the earth, or ever
will live on it,
Your Champ Clark is no quibbler.
He goes the whole hog for friend. And
this was at the Hotel Astor dinner--be-
fore the Ziegfeld "Follies." That and
the midnight supper were yet to come.
Senator Reed was next. 1t isn't his
temperament to be for anything. He is
against whatever it is. He testified for
Hearst oblique!y by denouncing those
mythical persons who would try to "stop
such procession as we have seen to-
day." and those other imaginary people
who are continually Certifying that the
great heart of America is rotten with
treason"
He may have meant by "the great
heart of America" Hearst, but he didn't
say so. He said, instead "If we were
to read tomorrow that the greatest pub
Usher in Germany wanted the Allies to
win and that twenty or more other pub
fishers were daily announcing this,
would not that bring us comfort?"
1t would, indeed. Not the twenty or
more other publishers who denounced
the disloyalist, but the one denounced by
them-he would bring us comfort, and we
should quote his editorials, in preference
to all others. even as Germany quotes
the Hearst editorials.
Exit the Hearst Defence Society. We
shall hear Of it more, but we shall never
see it again.
And we salute the Hon. Champ Clark.
Never We're the exquisite pearls o,
friendship so ignobly obliged.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Social Justice
BY Taxation

insist that as We go through this war
and are adopting new tax laws in the state
and nation we should have sufficiently be-
fore us this principle that certain forms OF
business should be taxed far beyond others.
Why are we talking about taxing luxuries
to-day? Largely because we wish to dis
courage the purchase of luxuries by our
propriety of doing so. Why not 60 further
and the principle, for example, on the
minimum wage proposition? Why should
we not provide by law that the manufact-
urer or employer who pays his employees so
little that they are likely to become a public
charge should pay more in taxes than the
employer whose wage roll is sufficient to
preserve the health and welfare of his en-
ployes? Why should the rest of us have to
pay in taxes for the support of children and
adults whose inability to support them
selves is due to exploitation by profit taking
employers?
The child labor situation, as the result
of this Supreme Court decision, affords an
interesting opportunity to inaugurate cam
palgn for an adequate extension of the tax
ing power for the purposes of social Justice.
Society derives no profit from exploiting
children. 1t derives loss. The people who
create that loss should pay society for caus-
ing that loss until such time as the taxing
burden justifies itself by removing the men
ace of the exploiter
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
The Honor of Erir,

Last evening about 45o Austrians and German
civilians who had been interned at oldcastle
county Meath Ireland, since the beginning of the
war we're conveyed to Dublin and shipped thence
TOT internment elsewhere. AT the auays they were
the subject OF remarkable demonstra ration.
A crowd OF Sim Feners the opposite side OF
the river sang the soldiers song and cheered tho
departing aliens-From the London Doilv Te,c
graph.
oh, THE sharp pang of shame when the
~ honor of Erin
Is tarnished, her heroes disgraced in the
grave,
When Austrians, Prussians and Germans
from Schwerin
March past while Sim Feiners fraternal,v
wave!
There is mist on her hills, and mist IN
her valleys;
The night wind means loud round the
shrines Of her past;
The host of her SAINTS to her altar light
rallies
The lamp of her freedom is dimminp NJ
last
Shall her sons shout in praise of the slav.
ers of wounded.
VI ravagers worse than the terrible Dane?
is the cross of Clontarf, by no foeman CON-
founded,
The emblem Of learning which looted
Louvain?
No! Her true sons go forth to the trenehes
Of Flanders;
Inc light Of her freedom glows once
more in France;
der honor is safe from the plotting of
panders,
Where the soul of free nations cr;ss
"Freemen, advanced"
NoRREYs JEPHsoN o'coNop
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
The Clause
That Has Cracked

The question which should be more seri
ousy considered is the next step, or rather
the correct step, to make up for the time
wasted in the legislation which the court
has declared invalid. My reason for writ
ing this letter is my interest in that next
step. At the time l originally criticised this
bill made suggestion to its proponents,
which ! make now. 1t is t,lis We have
overdone the attempt at regulating morality
by the utilization of the interstate COM
merce clause of the Federal Constitution.
We have stretched that clause until, in the
Federal child labor case, it has cracked. The
decision will require us to look elsewhere
for power to accomplish desired result.
OF course the competition between states
which have effective child labor legislation
and states which do not is undesirable. The
competition between Southern cotton mills
in states like Alabama where sixty days is
enough for schooling and where the maxi
mum is eighty days, with child labor in their
mills, acting in competition with Northern
mills, operated under enlightened child labor
laws, puts the enlightened state and its
manufacturing interests at disadvantage
which is to the interest of the nation to re-
move. 1t is crime against Southern chill
dren. 1t is also an economic wrong to the
Northern manufacturer.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Tax Child Labor to Death
ctive Way to Frame Federal Statute That Will Stand
By George W. Alger, Of the New York Bar

Tax the privilege OF employing little chill
dren to the point where the employment of
children becomes improbable. and you do
two things: you send the children back to
school, which is the main thing. You
eGualize conditions of competition between
the honest employer, who employs adults.
aud the child exploter. Sentmentalists
may say that such a bill would legaize
child labor. I am now considering q prac-
tcal result--thc abolition Of child labor
I am willing to offend the sensibilities
of sentimentalists if 7 can help children.
A tax of this kind would not have Con-
stitutional objections to it. 1t repre-
sents an effective and well established meth
cd Of accomplishing desired result. an,
frank to state that it would not be the pur-
pose of this tax bill to collect taxes Its
purpose would be to prevent taxes The
license fee and the head tax should be high
enough to discourage completely those who
otherwise might consider employment Of lit
tie children profitable undertaking. am
not deferred in the least by the views which
Judge Hough recently expressed in an ar
ticle in "The Harvard Law Review" in op-
posing this type of legislation. I admit, to
start with, that it is not, in fact, tax
measure. 1t has an ulterior social purpose.
| think we have neglected to extend suffi-
clently this kind Of legislation to subjects
to which it may properly apply and that we
should make up for lost time. l think it
is the province and function of the nation
to utilize its taxing powers as means Of
discouraging as well az encouraging indus
try, and thereby regulating in highly ef-
fective way the development Of American
industry. The nation ought to know what
types Of business it wishes to discourage.
Businesses which are injurious to us So
cially should pay the penalty for the injury
they Go up to the time when the injury
disappears by the direct pressure Of the
taxing power.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
A Polish Apology
To the Editor OF The Tribune

10 the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The duty and object of the Polish
Military Commission, a strictly military and
patriotic organization, is recruiting for the
Polish army in France. This army will
atiRht on the side Of the Allied armies
Being military organization, the Polish
Military Commission refrains from any
political discussions or national parties
which do not have exactly the same views
or tendencies; on the contrary, the Polish
Military Commission considers as good
patriots all Poles who believe that the
cause of justice is on the side of the Allies
and that only the victory of the Allies will
give to the world a just peace and liberty
to the nations deprived of it by the enemy
Of civilization and his associates
Therefore, the second last paragraph of
the article "The Other Poles," published in
The New York Tribune on June is, with
out the knowledge of the chief of the
Polish Military Commission, shall be con-
sidered as absolutely non-existent
The Polish Military Commission is con-
vinced that all Poles, without any excep-
ton, will cooperate with all their forces
and patriotic eagerness in the organization
and increase of the Polish army which al
ready is fighting in France under it's own
national flag on the side of the Allied
armies against the Teutonic barbarism for
justice and liberty for the entire world as
we'll as Of Poland, which, thanks to the
generosity Of the Allies, especially Of the
United States and France will revive.
MAJOR J. KOZLOWSKI.
OF the Polish Army, Chief of the Polish
Military Commission. =
New York. June %. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Nurses Are in Military
Service
To the Editor of The Tribune.
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have read with great interest the
editorials and letters which have lately
appeared in your paper referring to rank
for the army and navy nurses.
Since the days of the Spanish-American
War-lS9s-there has been constant but
so far futile effort made to secure rank
for the Army Nurse Corps OF the United
States; therefore their position has never
been officially defined.
The Army Nurse Corps of the United
States is military organization analo-
gous to the Queen Alexandra Imperial Mill
tary Service and the Canadian Army Nurse
Corps of British origin; and rank should
be granted army and navy nurses, but
it should be confined to the Army and Navy
Nurse Corps, these are the only ones OF
the various nursing organizations that are
a part of the military or naval organization
Of the United States, in which rank forms
the essential in assignment to duty,
authority, pay, leave, pension, privileges
or rights in regard to ration, mess or
quarters.
Rank is law or keynote that governs
the whole personnel of the United States
army, and if it is necessary to this great
organization how is it possible to incor-
porate a corps of women nurses into the
medical department of the army and with
hold from them the one determining fac
tor note that would simplify and define
their position in the organization of which
they have become of late years so impor-
tant and indispensable a part?
l would like to make one point, which is
Gas l understand) that the Red Cross nurse
once appointed army or navy nurse
sewers her connection with the Red Cross
during her term of service with the Army
Nurse Corps and is governed and guided
entirely by the army and navy rules estab-
lished for the government of the Nurse
Corps. The Red Cross nurse who accepts
duty offered her by the Red Cross remains
under the rules and regulations of the Red
Cross, which is not military organization.
NJ EUGENE HIBBARD,
Late Chief Nurse, u S. Army.
Chief of National Bureau of Nursing Cuba
Havana, Cuba, June 25, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Work or Jail for Crippled Beggars

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir The public has too often confused
the idea of cripple with that of a beggar
The resulting reaction has done a great
injury to the cause of the self-respecting
disabled man in regarding him as q sub
ject for charity but not for trade training
and employment.
To be sure, there is historical precedent
for this attitude, for in past decades and
centuries various peoples have condemned
the cripple to the status of roadside beg
gar, or at best employed him as jester or
court fool. And in our experience there is
justification in the view, because we have
seen many cripples at street corners max
ing public exhibition Of their deformity or
amputation and soliciting aims of the
passersby The number of these beggars
is small in comparison to the great body
OF physically handicapped men who are
usefully employed but the few have Wig
orously advertised, have made consider
able impression on the susceptibilities of
the community and have reaped profit
able harvest. A bank teller reported re-
Gently the case of crippled street beggar
VIM ocPoeiecu III d savings account, after
paving his living expenses, $40 weekly.
That the beggar cripple has been per-
mitted to ply his trade is a great injustice
to the disabled men of character and in
dependence. The practice should have been
stopped in the past; it is absolutely neces-
sary that it be prohibited in the future.
for with the expectation of our soldiers
VINO VIII return disabled from the front,
the public should have no excuse for as
sociasing their prospective career with
that of the mendicant. On the contrary,
every influence should be brought to bear
upon the public to show that physical dis
ability is an obstacle, but easily superabe
with character and ambition, and that the
cripple may be made into a useful and pro-
ductive citizen.
In several cities there have been inaugu-
rated campaigns TO drive the crippled beg
gar from the streets and give him the
alternative of productive employment o,
stay in jail. Such efforts should be imi-
tated IN every community and persevered
IN until the unfortunate conception of the
cripple shall exist no more.
Such activity may we'll be undertaken
as flrst step in preparation for the re-
turn OF our disabled soldiers and sailors.
DOUGLAS C. MMURTRIE,
Director Red Cross Institute for Crippled
and Disabled Men
New York, July 8, 1918,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06

T HAVE been interested for some fifteen
wears in child labor legislation in New
York. When the Federal child labor
bill was in process of debate apd discus
sion opposed its enactment on grounds
witch the Supreme Court has found valid.
I felt at the time, and subsequent events
have confirmed my views, that this bill
was not only ineffective, but involved seri-
GUS dangers to the future of social legisla-
ton I have no criticism of the decision
which the Supreme Court has reached. l
think the majority opinion was entirely cor
rect think the bill itself was a mistake.
It was an utterly ineffective piece Of legis-
lation at it's best, and presented to the Su-
preme Court in the harshest, crudest and
most imperfect form the Federal control
OF interstate commerce in child life.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
What Makes
The Euil?

What should we do about it? What sort
of law should we have? My first ques-
tion is, What makes child labor? The an
swer is simple. Child labor is used because
child labor is found to be profitable The
law which we need is simply one which will
attack the profit. Ny suggestion, therefore,
is an entirely simple one: Tax the profits
out of child labor; pass law requiring a
manufacturing plant employing little chill
dren to obtain and pay for license and pay
SO much per head on every child fourteen
years Of age or under employed in any man.
ufacturing or mercantile establishment; re-
quire manufacturers and employers to keep
lists Of their children, subject TO inspection
by the internal revenue inspectors; collect
the tax as a part of the internal revenue
system, instead Of an intricate, unavoidable
scheme such as the one which the court has
declared unconstitutional; substitute sim
pie and effective tax statute instead of re-
quiring criminal prosecution involving in
dictment by grand juries We will then
have the ordinary Federal procedure for the
collection Of taxes due
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
The Russian Fog

The fog and the haze which cnvelop
the problem as to what we shall do
about Russia seem to continue with un
diminished density; with strong "intel
lectuap' disposition to feel that perhaps
after all the Lenine-Trotzky govern
ment' is the only one which can be dealt
with and therefore that the better plan.
perhaps, is to give it some sort of recog-
milton. From a man of high intelligence,
who has spent years of his life in Rus
sia, speaks the language, knows the
country and the people from one end of
it to the other, we have received note,
answering an inquiry, from which we
take the liberty Of quoting terse para
graph:
AT the moment there does not seem
the slightest chance for any American
being named for the commission to Rus
sia who has had any practical expert
ence in the country or has any intimate
knowledge of the people and the con-
dtions now obtaining there. My ap-
prehension is that the next commission,
like all it's predecessors, will simply go
to that dazed people, asking the usual
nauseating question, Now, just tell us
how we can help you and we will see what
be DONE instead of taking hold of
the tremendous job there staring them in
the face"
"The usual nauseating question:!
Does not this sum up exactly the atti-
tude of about 80 per cent of those who
are for "helping Russia" through the
Bolsheviki--as though Lenine and Trotz-
Ky and their precious cohorts were in
any mood to be asked what they would
like US to do, when, backed by German
troops and provided with German money,
they are hotly pursuing their unhappy
country to its utter ruin.
If it is not Lenine and Trotzky to
whom our commission would go with
"the usual nauseating question" to
whom would the commission go?-to
Miliukoff or Lvoff, or Rodzianko, or the
leaders of the first Russian revolution;
to Bourtseff and the oldtime anti-Czar-
istic leaders--to whom, pray, if not to
the German agents now in the saddle?
And if the commission did not go to
Lenine and Trotzky, how far would it
get in it's endeavors to penetrate Rus
sia. unless it had an armed force?
Meanwhile, waiting watchfully, Ger
many fastens deeper and deeper its
grip upon the Russian people, buying up
the Russian banks, buying up the fac
tories now closed, buying everything in
sight, believing that no power can disso-
ciate it from it's spoils and that when
the visionaries and mercenaries of the
Bolsheviki have completed their fell
work it will be able to step in and as
sumo control and be welcomed by a
despairing, exhausted and starving peo-
pie!
1t goes without saying that we need
at the head of an American commission
to Russia the most distinguished Amer
leans who can be spared abroad But
above all things we need Americans who
have lived in Russia, who know the peo
pie, know the leaders, speak their Ian
guage and understand how to deal with
them in this dire emergency. Will it be
these or some of our distinguished "real
politikers"?
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Leze-Majesty in Germany

fFrorn The At,omto Conssststton)
herr BALM has been scathingly referred
to by the German "vorwaerts" as "ths
money-grubbing manager Of the Hamburs-
american Line," and further charged win
Mdulging in the rage Of the incarnsw
capitalist" Another indication that al =
not amity and alteration behind the Prue
sian lines.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06

it seems an extremely short-sighted poll
icy to reject this profFered aid. Osteop-
athy has definite and not to be mis-
priced part in modern therapeutics.
And it is an ill-timed prejudice which
now refuses it's need of recognition.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
An Actuarial Nightmare

From The Atlanto Constitution
Ii it is true that the young son of
Nicholas is to be hosted to the Russian
throne his elevation will not tend to raise
his status as an insurance risk
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06

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