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New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
"Open Diplomacy"

The State Department continues to
exhibit a so per cent loyalty to the
theory of "open diplomacy" 1t has just
made public the text of note written
by Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau under
date of May 20. The Count says, among
other things: The more deeply we pene
trate into the spirit of the treaty the
more convinced we become of the i'm
possibility of carrying it out"
Such statements whet the curiosity of
American readers to know something
more definite about the contents of the
treaty. The German public has the full
text and can follow the diplomatic ex-
changes intellgently. We are not al
lowed to have the text and can follow
them with difficulty. The abstract
printed in this country is incomplete and
slletchy Much Of the controversy in
Paris seems to be over provisions which
it omits or leaves obscure.
What is the use Of giving out German
protests and Allied answers so long as
the text on which they are based is with
held? Half-open, half-secret diplomacy
of this sort is no great Improvement over
the old style hugger-mugger supposed to
have been abolished by the Fourteen
Points.
Let us either have the text of the
treaty and 100 per cent "open diplomacy"
or frankly revert to the old method,
pigeonholing Count Won Brockdorf
Rantzau's rather aggravating epistles
until they are ripe for publication in
some Foreign Relations Red Book of 1920
or 1921.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
College Men in the War

1t is impressive reading, the official
record of Yale's service in the war
The first complete figures of an Amcri-
can universitys service to the country.
they may well stand for that vast
body Of college bred heroism, graduate
and undergraduate, throughout the ma
tlon, that played so large a part in lead
ing our forces to battle. In 1860, when
another danger confronted our nation.
it was the college boys who were first
to rally to the aid of the flag The men
of 1913 and 1919 were not less quick
to answer.
The totals are large and significant
5000 Yale men in uniform; POT dead;
as many wounded, missing or prisoner:
76 decorated by the United States for
gallantry; 1913 decorated by other ma
tlons; 413 officers above the rank of
captain. But the figures of the graduat
ing classes Of 1913 and 1919 arc what
stir ones thoughts. Practically the
entire membership Of both classes vol
untcered. From the college there were
36S men of 1918 in service and 374 of
1919; from Sheffield, 235 of 1918 and
1873 Of 1919. Taking the college class
or 1918 as an example, it yielded |
major, 8 captains, AZ first lieutenants
and 61 second lieutenants; also 81
naval officers and 1 officer of marines.
OF the 207 names on Yalc's roll of
honor, 72, approximately one-third, we're
members of classes which had not vet
been graduated when America declared
war. Here is casual item from the
record of the class of 1917:
"Johnny Ovcrton, captain of the 1917
track team and national figure as
middle distance champion runner. died
leading his men in a gallant charge over
the top at Chateau Thierry With him
died three other classmates of II, all Off
GERS Of the 9Th Marines One more class
mate was wounded and another decorated
for his service in the same regiment and
in the same engagement
1t is a tragic loss to the country that
so many Of these young men have died
with their lives unlved. They can i'll
be spared. But their example should
mean much to the country in the years
TO come; and their comrades who have
been through the fire will bring an en-
riched and precious character to our
national life. There can be no high
devotion without risk, without sacrifice.
Ours is the obligation to see that the
inspiration of this sacrifice is not lost
or wasted. All over the country this
month our colleges are holding memo
rial services in honor of those who
fought and served and died. The loss
is listed and great. Only if the whole
nation bows its head in gratitude and
dedication can the gain be as great.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03

Germany, though weakened, still will
treasure the same ideas of future gran
deur as she cherished before the war The
illusion Of world power has sunk too
deep into the Teuton consciousness to be
rooted out by single defeat
Those who are inclined to take Brock
dorff- -Rantzau's protestations at face
value should study Erzberger. He speaks
for the real after the-p peace Germany
people who will break the bonds of any
convention they may sign at Versailles
as soon as they think they have divided
and demoraized their former enemies
sufficiently to warrant lifting of the
mask
The only safe guarantee of German
good conduct is a strong peace, rigidly
enforced. Germany is full Of Erzbergers,
and they all think and feel what he has
fortunately been indiscreet enough to
write.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
The Parlous Case of the 200

Do girls swear? A reverend critic de-
clares that they do. Out of 216 girls in
a seminary which he recently visited 200
confessed as much. 'Tis true It's pity,
pity 'tis It's truc"-that is, if it's true,
But perhaps the girls were only spoofing
the inquiring gentleman
Granted, however, that the confess
sions were in good faith, it would be
interesting to learn to what particular
kind Of profanity feminine lips are ad-
dicted. There is q distinction among
oaths, as among other sins. Some
are regarded as venial. Thus. learned
court once decided that "damn' was not
swearing. Men frequently use the word
as plain adjective. The swearing
habit is open to grave objection, but
few would number it with the mortal
sins. Those who ''crasn curse in
setting down a cup, or through
banging doorpost vent an oath,' may
conceivably be just as guilty-nay, even
more so-for this means i'll tcmper.
whereas the plain honest cxpletivc may
be good-naturcd.
Some rhadamanthine moralists regard
as oaths many expressions that in them
selves arc perfectly innocent Thus
"Goodncss gracious," or ooh, dear me-"
or by gosh!' if traced to their origins
can be included in the profane category.
or an ejaculation starting in English
may be softened in another language. No
one would accuse a French girl Of swear
ing if she said mon Deu" Perhaps
these seminary girls had been corrupted
by the study Of French.
1t would be a pity, of course, if Young
women should become as profanc as
many Of their men friends. There was
time when women inclined to ape men
when they dressed like grooms and
tried to be "horscy." But they no
longer do that; they set examples, not
follow them. We may be sure that the
two hundred girls who confessed TO
swearing, if they were really serious.
never use a big, big D, or at least
hardly ever
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
The Amazons' Union

Everybody is doing it in Germany
nowadays SO it is only natural for the
wives of military officers to form a union
of their own. They have, we are in
formed by the Bcrli1er Neueste Noch-
richten The new organization bears the
name "Union of the Wives of German
Officers, Sanitary Officers and Military
Officials" the admission of the two lat
ter groups in itself being sign of the
democratic period, as in the bad old
times no self-respecting wife of a cap
tain Of hussars would have conde-
scended to talk to lady linked by matri-
mony to a member of the highly useful
but scarcely aristocratic commissariat.
Those ere utterly wrong who assume
that the new union aims at securing the
eight-hour day for its members, with
time and a half for overtime, or at the
regulation of disorderly orderles, No.
Their platform is nothing if not patr-
otic. They demand "the creation of a
German peoples army, which shall in
cude the whole strength of the nation;
restoration of the military authority of
officers and subalterns; creation of
state ministry to protect military inter
ests' One clause has touch Of "inlus-
trial democracy" about it, "Ohicers to
be discharged only under egalized regu-
lations. Legal security for pay and
PENSIONS
But the crowning demand is that which
urges that "womcn also shall be con-
scripted for the peoples army Now,
this is distinctly radical, for, with
all their -emancipated bearing, the
officers wives were politically, as a class,
most conservative. The celebrated slo-
gan of the three Kinder.
kiiche, Kirche' e'-covered pretty fully
their political and economic ideal
Times have changed, and now the Off
GERS ladies are clamoring to annex a
fourth k to their domain i Krieg.
Their rosy dreams about compulsory
military service for women must have
been badly shattered by the clause of the
peace treaty which abolishes conscription
in Germany. However, they may retain
the fourth X in their programme; only.
it viii not stand for Krieg any more,
but, instead, for kaputt Which. in plain
American, means "busted"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
We fcon,e but No Job
To the EDITOR Of The Tribune.


Sir: ! was much impressed by vo.,r lettsr
from an overseas man which You nublishs
Saturday. cant see particularly where
mans war record viii help him erren II
give him the sense OF having done his duty
My experience after twelve months active
service is to find my job filed by a fellow
who is not married, but worked the SIX
classification stunt, which many Of us we're
too proud to accept. worked for the largest
manufacturer of powder in the world. some
time in the high explosives plant and later
in one of the american industriose hich
is not in any way affected by muni,ion max.
ing refer TO plants making the class Of
products such as paint automobiles. artificial
leather lacquers. etc.
After my discharge I returned to the plan.
from which had been "gorioaslv sen.
away ard which still sports star on its
service flag for me. | mad been sent way
on "leave of absence but no Job yas avail.
able when ! returned. Vacancies were flled
and are filled by non-service men being
transferred from munitions plants. We find
our leave Of absence was actually or dis.
charge when we Joined the army
Two competitors, at least, of this big com.
pany l worked for have taken back every
soldier who returned to them yet this big
company, which paid so per cent dividends
one year and 100 per cent dividends another
year, cannot bother its System enough to
reemploy the men who answered their coun.
dends.
A "wELCONE HOME BOY
Arlington, \. J., May 2S, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
The Letters of Duicinca

Grayce Dearest: haven't written YOU
in month of Sundays. And | don't know
where the time goes TO- But so many of
the boys are coming back from "over there
and their stories are simply thrilling. We
can't realize what they've been throuch
asked Bill, who was Lciuetenent-is that
right? Pm an atrocious speller-in the
Artillery if it wasn't too exciting and he
said, "I'l say it was" "Were YOU
frghtened?" ?" asked him. 'You said it,"
he replied. Isn't that like him?
don't know whether we are going away
for the cheated term" or not. I'd lust as
levc stay in little old N. Y, which is a
pretty good summer resort after ALL
always say, Give me my comfort and Ill
stand the hot weather. Besides. no matter
how warm lit is, if there is breeze we
get it.
Went out to New Rochelle Sunday to
see the tennis. Mr.. Hartman beat Frank
Hunter-he married that lovely girl. YOU
know-and 1t was wonderful playing. They
were so we'll matched. 1t was min and
tuck, as Bill says. And Saturday | saw
Miss Goss beat Mrs Raymond at Pelham
she plays just like a man, if you know
what mean. don't play myself-iust
play at it,
I'm pig for not having written, but
you know how it is. Well. over tho river
DULCY.
Is the bathing suit subject to the luxnrv
TAX Inc taclt Interpretation of many of
It's wearers argues that they don't CON
slider it a necessity.
1t isn't the heat we mind It's having
10 WORK IN IL. 4. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03

larger cities, including Ottawa, Montreal,
Toronto and Winnipeg, are using the
summer schedule
The Canadian railways, in order to
keep their connections Nth lines across
the border in the United States, ad-
vanced their time at 2 a. m. on March
30 Their justification was that ''the
use of different times on the railways
operating in both countries would cause
confusion that would be almost certain,
sooner or later, in spite Of precautions,
to result in accident"
In this stand the railways were sup
ported by the Canadian Railway War
Board But the Dominion's Board of
Railway Commissioners demanded that
the railways show cause for their action
in disregarding the will of the people
as expressed by Parliament.
Meantime, while the controversy RACES
between the Railway War Board, cham
pioning the cities, and the Board Of
Railway Commissioners, championng
the rural districts, the trains are run
ming on advanced time in both rural
and urban regions.
In Canada it is case of "Tell me who
you ere and I'll tell you what time it is "
If railroad man, stockbroker, soldier,
sailor, traveller (rural or urban), it is
3 o'clock; if farmer, civil service en-
ploye, government clerk, Member of
Parliament, it is only g.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
What Time Is 1t in Canada :?

A fortnight Of daylight saving, and
we had almost forgotten that our time
pieces were ever slower The summer
schedule slipped in on US in the night
without confusion. Only the longer
evenings now remind US Of the change.
But in Canada time depends on who
and what you are. Dominion farmers
this year were able to prevent the pas
sage by Parliament Of the daylight saw
ing act. But they could not keep city
dwelers from adopting home rule as to
time. The result is that most Of the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
The Great White CITY

TO the Edltor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Dark, dingy courts and fences in
old-1ashioned places are principally the
cause of dark rooms apartments and of
fees in greater New York
If every landlord would use white na;nt
on courts and fences it would make a won
dcrful difference in the light throurhont
tho city. and it is not difficult to securo
TINS II every prospective tenant, when ex
amlnlng an apartment or house or Office.
will demand that white paint be used on
cXtcriors of buildings
If this can be accomplished New York
will be known as "thc Great White CT, .
". F, WAKEMAN.
New York, May 80, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03

Tao Ch'ien (365 -427 A. d. who gave beau
tiful expression to the Taost creed,
action from the strict obligations laid
down by Confucius. A singularly fine piece
is his dialogue between Substance, Shadow
and Spirit, which ends as follows:
You had better go where Fate leads
Drift on the stream of Infinite Flux
Without joy, without fear
Drifting on the stream of Infinite Flux
is not far from NJ. Bergson that it need
be absolutely incomprehcnsible to strug-
Cling Westerners. In fact in one Taoist
Song Of century earlier it needs only
pinch of ireverence to glorified
Hermione at play amid the rice fields:
I viii Wisdom and reject Learning.
My thoughts shall wander in the Great Void
Always repcntng Of wrongs done
VIII never bring my heart TO rest.
cast nay hook in a single stream:
But my JOY is though L possessed King
/ loose my hair and go singing;
TO The four frontiers men join in my refrain.
My thoughts shall wander in the Great Void"
Only women seem to have been matter
Of supreme unimportance for these poets
Of China and beings quite without thoughts
OF any kind save occasional grief over a
departing husband. As for Taoism, it
bears d strangely familiar resemblance to
our modern reactions from Puritanism.
There is another note, infrcquent and
exceptional, that makes one wonder what
latent and colossal herosm may reside in
Chinese character; heroism, that is, ac-
cording to our aggressive Western stand
ards, that will not only cherish a splendid
thought. but fight with hands, teeth, any
thing, to win in its name. 1t shows in a
gorgeous poem called "The Red Hills" by
Pao Chao (died 466 A. D., which begins
with picture that might be st. John of
Patmos, retouched by Coleridge:
Red hills lie athwart US as menace in tho
And fiery mountains are terrible in the south
The body burns. the head aches and throbs
y r. a bird light here its soul forthwith departs.
Pour from cloudy pools
And hot SMOKE issues between the rocks
The San % ana ev dew never @ ssy dry 00'o"'ea
Ihere are red serpents hundred feet long.
The sand -spitters shoot their poison at the
The flying insects arc i'll with tho shifting
The hungry monkeys dare not come down TO
Thg Thg ,r, wqnni4g e.. birds dare not set out to ay
Our nigh Wills surmount the snares of Fate
The carrier poem in the volume BATTLE"
by Ch'u Yuan (332-295 b. c., is fairly
Homcfic in its sweep of action and the
doings of its godlike warriors But these
bursts Of vigor and aggression are rare
The quotations show what exquisite and
sensitive poetry Mr. Valley has produced.
HIS translations have been highly praised
by scholars as well. They certainly bear
every mark Of conscientious and able
translatons, not a free and easy recrea
ton, but beauty literally transshippcd
from one vessel to another. Mr.. Valley has
written simple and readable introduction
for the general reader who would know
something of the form and history Of Chi
nese poetry. Altogether distinguished
ana precious labor, for which every lover of
poetry can be thankful
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
The Same Old Germany

Matthias Erzberger's letter, published
in yesterdays Tribune, let's the world
into the secret of German diplomacy
at Versailles. The appeals and entrea-
ties of Brockdorf Rantzau, the full text
of which the council of three allows
to be published in Great Britain, France
and the United States, are merely
reproduction of the reptilian German
war propaganda.
Germany cultivated the spirit of paci-
fsm and defeatism wherever it could be
planted and nurtured in enemy soil. Her
own alleged pacifsts, of whom Erzberger
now and then figured as one, laughed in
their sleeves at the innocence Of the emo
tionahsts abroad who fell for German
pacifist suggestions. They still smile in
secret at the readiness of their dupes in
France, Great Britain and the United
States to accept insincere German pro-
fessions Of repentance and to grow soft
hearted over the "unbearable' terms al
legged to be imposed on Germany by the
peace treaty.
Erzberger knows what the Germans
are doing. He writes:
1--WE learn from reliable sources that
pacidst propaganda will be pushed in
every possible way in Entente countries,
especially among demobilized soldiers.
Indeed, il even is being done openly
in newspapers. pamphlets and speeches.
The tendency Of the French War Cabinet
will be combated; tho return OF Alsace-
Lorraine to France VIII be criticised and
plebscite will be proposed as the best
soution Of the problem
at is certain that if the war should
be resumed anti-miltarisn would play a
different role in the armies of the En-
tente nations than before the armisticc
The Entente is essentially weakened in
fighting strength, advocates having arisen
for US in the very heart Of our enemies
IN overpowcring force"
The sentimental weakness of French
Socialists, British Laboritcs and our own
tender-heartcd radicals will be played on
to help Germany escape just retribu-
ton and to prepare to repudiate the
treaty few years hence, when, most
German leaders believe the Entente will
be only "a historical memory"
To Erzbergers mind-and to the av-
erage German mind-the war Of 1914
1913 settled nothing 1t was only an
incident in the secular struggle for world
domination between Continental Europe
meaning German Continental Europe)
and the lo-Saxons Of England and
the United States. 1t still is to them a
case Of Carthage against Rome, London
agajngt Berlin, "thc Continent against
overseas"
This has been Gcrnany's Gamma, Erz-
berger says. But he predicts that She will
rise above defeat, as Rome did, and in
the near future will conquer France and
then fight it out for world dominion with
Great Britain and America.
Are these the visions Of disordered
imagination? Many partsans Of an
easy peace--~a "peacc without victory
may think 50. But if they do they
again misrcad the German character.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
Bolsheuists or GhouIs?
lrron rtn ! ondn.. nr.l.. r..-.....al

(From Jhc London Dcifg Trieoraph
Never before. even in tho darkest days Of
a world which has witnessed many horrors.
has there been such blood-lust as the
shouls of twentieth century Russia have
fomented. Where i'm past records can We
find. for instance, anything to equal story
hidden in the pages of the British White
Paper, Of executions carried out while the
Red army bands played "lively airs? One
witness of such an orgy has recorded tha;
on one occasion he was playing in the band
and, as usual. all the people TO be executed
were brought to the edge of the grave. Taeh
hands and feet were tied together. SO lh4s
they would fall forward INTO the grave. They
were then shot through the neck by Let.isa
soldiers. When the last man had been shot
the grave was closed up. and on this par
ticular occasion the bandsman saw the grave
moving Not being able TO stand the sgn'
OF 1t, he tainted, whereupon the BolsheTiks
seized him, saying that he was in sympathy
with the prisoners. They were on the point
of killing him, but other members Of the
band explained that he was really j. and
he was then let of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
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New-York tribune., 1919-06-03

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New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
The Coming 7ower
On Receiving Word of Praise from a
PrO0freader

ReCclNiNg d NO1Q OIL ITdLSe from
Proefreader
You who delve forever
Through printed words like mine,
And in your off-hours never
Forget the ill-phrased line;
Who hunt through miles Of galley
For split infnitives,
And see ii ali things tally,
And if it's give" or gives;
Who seek inverted esses
With never wearying eye;
Mark Roman" while the presse.
Stand mute, but painting, by;
Who catch the slightest blunder
The best of authors make,
And calmly cast asundcr
Words that refuse to break;
You cant think how I value
Your need of uncarned praise.
VIII you Cor is it shall you?"
Ye gods my lost school days y
Accept my meek oblation,
My thanks for all you gave?
Don't read for punctuation
You valiant galley slave y
CHARLES HANSON TowHE.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
Applied STYLE

fFrom The Portland Orcoon,dnl
Oklahoma is putting on style white
man has been electrocuted in the penlten'
tiary. The old method prevails for colorea
folk.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-03
AS in lrclandl

(fron The Washington Poaf)
Uncle Sam Buttinski: an other words.
will mcddlc in your affairs, but you can't
mcddlc in mine,"