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New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
The Alsace Autonomists

Students Of Teutonic after-war psy-
chology will appreciate the manifesto,
printed in the Vossischc Zoitang, of the
so-called autonomists Of Asace-Lorraine.
1t Is an example of that German disin-
genuousness which defeats itself by it's
super-subtlety.
To avert the ruin threatened by "in-
mediate and brutal annexation" the au-
Economists, always emphasizing the eco
nomic, as distinguished from the ma
tlonal, character Of their motives, de-
mand a plebiscite of inhabitants over
twenty-five whose parents were Alsatians
or Lorraincrs prior to 1871 This would
comfortably confine the voting to pre-
sumptively pro-Gcrman clements But
listen to the following: owe must not
submit to the population the choice be-
tween France and Germany" Naturally,
because II such clear-cut alternative
were put the result of the vote would be
foregone conclusion. The purpose is
served much better by beclouding the
fundamental issue with the following al
ternatives:
l. Neutrality guaranteed by the great
powers.
2. Autonomy under British protectorate.
3. Autonomy under American protecto-
rate.
d. Autonomy under French protectorate
5. Annexation to France
The last alternative must not be
omitted from our ballot, as otherwise we
might be accused of fearing it," the man.
ifcsto naivcly remarks, and continues:
"Our party refuses to bear any share
Of the war burdens either of Germany
or of France, as we have been dragged
into the war against our own will There
by our taxes will be held down to a mod
crate scale, and we shall be able to capi-
talize hundreds Of millions for the eco
nomic development of our country"-un-
til more favorable conjuncture will
permit us to go back to the German fold,
needless to say.
Finally, the German cat is let out of
this pseudo-Alsatian bag in the last par
agraph: 1--WE declare emphatically
against the annexation Of the Saar dis
trlct to Alsace and Lorraine We have
no lmperialistic aims"
AS nobody urges the annexation of the
Saar Valley to an autonomous Alsace-
Lorraine, the clause, supcrerogatory az
1t IS, proves merely that the signers arc
running Germany's errand.'
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
The Bavarian Division

How large will be the dividend if the
Munich Soviet confiscates all private
fortunes in excess of 10000 marks?
Probably much less than the Soveteers
believe. In modern wealth there is
much water" that would flow awav
under any system of communist division.
What is the divisible wealth of Bavaria
in the hands of persons having more
than 10000 marks of property? The
gross area of Bavaria is 100000
acres and the population 100000
But OF the total area something more
than half is stream or mountainous or
otherwise untillable. Thus the average
tarm, II all were reduced to one size
and a family be reckoned at five, would
not be larger than seven acres At 5000
per acre this average farm would be
worth $1,400. Other movable property
that would exist after the division would
probably raise the average to $4,000 the
line of exemption
But peasant proprietorship already
exists in Bavaria, the consequence of
not the rule. 1t follows that if the
peasant holders are not disturbed the
present landless will get little
How about other property? Urban
dwellings, if the principle of no
rents is logically enforced, will have no
exchangeable value. AS to industrial
establishments, the shares representing
them depend on whether or not they
are operated at a profit. And the Soviet
government advertises it will not per-
NIT industrial profit
The workmen Of Bavaria can't we'll
carry home big machine or beer vat
They will get no more than is contenl-
poraneousy produced by the establish
ments in which they labor If the pro-
duction falls off from what it has been,
and this fall-off is greater than the old
owner or manager retained for his ser
vices, the workmen will have less than
formerly. The new scheme will thus
be at the expense of the masses This
is the experience of Russia, and there
seems no reason to expect much DIFF
ferent result in Bavaria.
Soviet philosophy travels in the circle
of saying that particular forms of wealth
can be destroyed and yet exist after de-
struction. There is an unconscious as
sumption that the phenomena of capital
ism will be present when capitalism is
gone. This absurdity arises from the
fact that Socialist doctrine has centred
its attention on distribution and practi-
cally ignored production. Yet the prob
lem Of production is the primary one 1t
comes to the front, as Lenine recognizes,
whenever there is an attempt to apply
socialism.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
The Coming 7ower
PSYCHOGRAMS

PSYCHOGRAMS
Midnight-o peu pres. Silence. Shut the
Shep wisely sleeps - no, not upon the
floor,
Plump on the cushions Of my easiest
chair.
l envy him, who "outwatch the Bear"
And wait All! there's my sig
nall Through my hair
A chill vibration passes thrice.-Who's
there?
The chill vibration pulses dot and
dash
Spinoza's Interplanetary Code:
"All clear to Neptune stop!
don't send US trash
Last week you psycho'd that it rained
or showed
Something about your local weather!
Who
In Neptune cares! How go the veering
tides
Of thought with Man? what passes?
what abides?
Why on Earth are you doing what YOU
that's neOs--what 1Ue call news!"
Shep whimpered.
Unhappy correspondent to the Blest,
Rated to labor when l longed for rest)
Bent to my thankless task with a deep
LEE WILSON DODD.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
He That Plantetn a Tree
New York, April /, 1919.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In regard to a recent editorial IN your
paper entitled "Memorial Built by Nature"
and giving Gouverneur Morris's suggestion
as fitting memorial to our great American,
l would like to add another letter of ap-
prevail. 1t struck a chord Of response in
our family who have loved Theodore
Roosevelt always. Mr.. Morris's wholesome
suggestion could not be bettered, and 1t
brought to mind verse from one of Henry
van Dykes poems, Friendly Trees:
"He that planteth g tree is a servant OF
God.
He provideth a Kindness for many genera
tons,
And faces that he hath not seen shall bless
him"
And that is what we want-that the fut-
ure generations shall be impressed by the
great personality of Theodore Roosevelt
MRS. MARCUS c. HEMSTREET.
Oneonta, N. Y, April l, 1919. :.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

Gotham Gleaninss
nlf0lE0 nll1 IIdSr0lni0SE

Lots of cloudy weather last
week.
Art Guiterman is having him a.
new spring suit made.
Clarence Kelland of PIT. WASH
lnSton was in town Wednes.
Bliss Perry Thnrsdavcd in our
midst and talked like he thought the
Eng. language was in a bad way.
Thursday was Sig. Spaeth's S
birthday and tomorrow is Art Sam
uels's. Both of these gentlemen are
Princeton boys.
w. K. Tower, the w. k. Y. man,
was in town Tuesday. w. K. is
back from France where he bought
us citronade one night.
Miss Edna Ferber of Chicago
after 4 months in our city has gone
back to Chicago, she leaving at 3 :O4
last Wednes. p. m.
Capt II. Blankenhorn is back
from France. He was met at the
dock by Mrs. B., who was glad to
see him is the report.
Barney Flynn, the w. k. bed king
OF kenosha, WIS.,, is at the Grand
Hotel in Paris. We hope Barney
makes the French people buy a lot
OF beds that you can lie in without
crouching.
Our Own Inquiring Reporter asked four
newspaper men and three newspaper women
NP
Evening Post. None knew it.
Quebec votes wet by majority Of moro
than $4,000. But, as the fcler said thew
don't call that wet in Quebec.
bolshevist love song, suggested by Anne:
my love is like a Red, Red Rose"
Speaking of words that induce fatpuo
We nominate now the verb "intrigue"
AN aliuring skirt Is one thing, and pleas
ant coat is another. And there are wanted.
says the advertisement, "Girls to work in
an agreeable suspender factory"
$1,000 "''S S"AooiA 4uuepenuenC says The
more you work the less you worry" we feel
'hat there Is just as much to be said on the
other side. How much others worry we do
not know, for 1t is a question Of definition.
But our worry varies directly as the square
or the work we do; and our only worryless
moments are those of utter holiday.
Anything that stops or hinders Work.
says the writer Of Mr.. Ford's Own Page. in
the Dearborn Independent, ais an evil" We
are of the opposite opinion
Take, frnst, the blessing Of arriving nc .
last line. F. p. =.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
The Truth About Russia

Some Russian Socialists and liberals,
having fled and thus kept alive, are con-
ducting a newspaper in London. It's
contents are quotations from official
Bolshevist reports and newspapers.
Thus is presented picture of Bolshevist
rule painted by Bolshevists themselves
which does not agree with the romano
ings of American parlor Bolsheviki.
The Bolshevist labor commissariat
some time ago investigated industrial
conditions, and his findings were pub
lished in the "Novaya Jzn," Gorki's
paper. The statistics refer, it is said,
to 81 per cent of all workers in Petro-
grad, and the period covered is from
January l, 1917, to April /, 1918. The
workers in S32 miscellaneous Petrograd
factories decreased from $685. 900 to 144,-
600. Of those who left, the majority,
176,000, left during the second, third
and fourth months of Bolshevist rule.
OF 245,000 metal workers, only $4,000
remained; of $4,000 chemical workers,
only 5000; of $4,000 textile workers,
10000; but this latter figure was greatly
reduced during the following month.
Two-thirds of the workmen forced out
to avoid starvation were unionists
Albert Rhys Williams, "authorized
messenger from Lenine," says that the
"Bolsheviki organized factories and
made them more productive than be-
fore" But the Bolsheevist Labor Com
missary says the Maltzer car works in
Moscow formerly turned out 600 rail-
way cars in a month, whereas three
months after Lenine came into power
the number became from "a to 80. In
the Kolometz works expenses were
100000 rubles a month and the value
of products half million.
Since these reports industry has fur
ther stopped. Sixty billion Of paper rubles
have been printed and are pushed into
the hands of the workingmen, but they
buy nothing, because deprecated and
because there is nothing to buy Red
Guard mercenaries rifle food from the
peasants to feed themselves, but the
peasants say they will not be caught
again-that they will raise no more
grain this year than is needed for their
own use and can be hidden.
The world has been curious as to how
so-called social republic would work.
The masses of Russians have found out.
The bourgeoise, particularly the worst
of the class, having recovered from
their first panic, are faring better than
others Putting on old clothes, they
have joined the Soviets and the Red
Army, and while formerly compelled to
divide with the worker or the peasant,
now they shoot him if he clings to his
food or refuses to work as ordered.
Russian aristocrats had some skill as
exploiters, but were under restraints of
law and custom. The Bolshevist intel
lectuals, now in command, are much
more thorough exploters-more clean
ly pick the bones of the Russian people.
Formerly the masses at least had coarse
food, while now they get little except
what can be secreted and dug up in the
middle of the night. A short life, but
not particularly a merry one, is exist
ence in Bolshevia.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

The New York Tribune contained a local
news story few days ago which began with
the following words:
Mrs Julia King, ncgress. is demanding
$4,000 damages for the loss of tho affections
charges were alicnated by Mrs Al.ellsta l.
Mott who employed King her chauffeur.
Mrs Mott wife of Manhattan lawyer. lives
on the north shore Of Long Island
The fact that colorcd woman is suing
wealthy white woman for the alienation
OF her husbands affection makes an inter
esting story; and the case takes on an
added degree Of Importance when it is
known that the colored woman has for her
attorneys such lawyers as Abraham Green
berg and ex-senator Edgar T. Bracket and
Alexander A. Mayper, former Assistant Dis
trlct Attorney 1t also appears that the suit
will not be lacking in sensational features,
as the newspapers carry extracts from somo
very endearing love letters purporting to
have been written by the lady to the chauf-
feur.
But rs interesting all of this is as a.
news story, the thing which attracted our
attention was the use Of the word "negress." ."
with small "n' at that This word was NOT
only used throughout the article, but was
featured in black-faced type in the head
lines
Designating colored woman as a "ne-
gress' IS common practice in the news
papers of the South, but up to this time the
word has not been current in tho news
papers of the North, especially of New
York City. We do not like the word, and we
are sorry to see it make it's appearance in
a New York newspaper
Of course there is no grammatical obioc-
tion that be raised against "ncpress,,.
1t is set down in the dictionaries as thc
FEMININE OF negro; but the word has a dis
tasteful sound, and we have never vet met
colored woman who did not resent its use
The word always carries a degrading sense
and those who apply it do SO much in the
manner in which they apply the various
terms that denote the female of the species
In the animal world
1t is true that in some degree this same
sense is often attached to NEGRO" 1t can
not be gainsaid that a great many people
when they wish to say or print anything
disparaglng- use the word NEGRO" and when
they wish to be soft or express something
complimentary use the word "colored." For
example, in the phrase "a negro man."
which Is so often used in the South there
Is something Of contempt which the phrase
"a colored man" does not contain.
Nevertheless,' adopting the term negro
the race has given 1t dignity, and will In time
cOmp etely purge il or onnrohruno Now
the question arises, will the race have to
go through the same process with me
gress'? We feel certain that the women
OK the race will never willingly accept it,
We hope they will not accept it, for there
Is absolutely no need for the word
black citizen of France Ia known as a
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
The Saar for France

The Havas Agency report that the
council of four has decided to give the
Saar Valley in perpetuity to France is
almost too good to be true. Such deci-
sion would mark a closer approach to a
real peace of justice than has been made
in Paris since the peace conference
opened. Acts count more than words or
resolutions or covenants. Why not have
peace which translates Allied war aims
into actualities?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
IF Germany Wins the Peace

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If Germany wins the peace the war
may have to be fought over again, and our
heroic allies who held hack the foe while we
hesl'ated' may not do it the second time.
since we abandon them and side with the
enemy IN the hour of victory. And our
gallant boys who sacrificed their lives to
win the war will have died in vain.
c. f. LOEW.
New York, April 9. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Food WiU Solre TIE Problem

"lf the Allies, and especially America,
are really concerned about seeing order
established in Russia they can find no better
time to help to reastablish this order than
now and no better way than TO resume at
once communication with Russia The
keeping up of Chinese wafl about Russia
viii not destroy Bolshevism If an Amer
lean transport filed with -four came into
the harbor to-day and the flour was handed
as a present 20 the Russian people with
the announcement that if they want food
America will gladly give it to them on the
condition that they establish an orderly
government with which America and the
Allies could deal the people of Russia
would at once proceed to build such an or
dorly government, and woe to the man who
would stand in their way.
always, however, tho Allies and America
must be sure to tell the Russian people.
and to prove it to them, that there is 10
desire on the part of the Allies and Amer
lea to restore the monarchy or to NEEDLE
in Russian affairs in any way. The matter
of refstablishng law in Russia should be
left entirely to the Russian people but
America and the Allies should feed them
IN part at least, while they are reestablish-
ing order. The country that brings food
to Russia viii bring law and order into
Russia and Will help to bring peace to the
world"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
LEE WILSON DoDD.

Three insurance men tell us that cur refer
ence to a sprinked risk is miscue; a risk
under sprinkler protection is a sprinklcrcd
risk. Corrected we Sit But in the days
when we wrapped up policies, our fellow
clerks always spoke of sprinked risks
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

Still, it was for the Norddeutsche Feuer-
versicherung Geselschaft that we wrapped
those policies up; and the clerks may have
had Hunnish accent
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Perhaps He'll Take IN Dr,,os

fFro'n The Dallas Nc,rs>
announcer thlng, after prohibition becomes
uh'Versal "hat excuse will the melodra-
matte drunknrd have for pawning his
baby's shoes2
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

Frenchman; the day will come when a
black citizen of the United States will re-
quire no other designation than that of
American
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Le5lir,e Wants Peace

"Lenine sees this anomaly and thinks
the most important thing for Russia now
is to establish modus vivendi with the
rest of the world which would enable it TO
lay down arms on the four Bolshevst
fronts-the Murman Coast, the Black Sea,
the German front and the Urals-and pro-
ceed to work out the socializaton pro-
grammc at home. Lcninc is therefore.
heartily in favor of union with the Men
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
wv 7ARSAW, March S.-A Russian of
w high standing and authority who


w high standing and authority who
has just arrived here from Moscow,
but whose name l must withhold because
he is returning shortly to his country and
does not want to expose himself to impris-
opment or worse at the hands of the Boil
shevik government made to me the follow
irg statement:
"Bolshevism in Russia day is tower
of Babel. Trotzky, Bukharn and Znovicv
pull in one direction; Lenine and Chich
erin pull in another The former are still
riding the hobby horse Of universal revolu-
ton. Lenine and Chicherin no longer be-
Eeve that universal revolution is at the
door While Trotzky and his followers
still insist defying the whole world,
Lenine and Chicherin are musng over the
fate of the German Kaiser, who has also
defied the whole world and who is to day
p,~icn H~Ilc
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

sanitary Gordon between Germany and
Russia, is one of the pressing needs Of
Europe.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Peasantry Dissatis fed

"Lenine and Chicherin are anxious to
establish relations with western Europe.
they are willing to pay Russas debts and
to make concessions to the Allies. They
are all the more anxious to bring this
about as they are now face to face with
new prohlem-the problem of dissatisfied
peasantry. Lenine and Trotzkv gained
their power by promising the peasants
land What they meant was that they
would take the land from the land own
ers and give it to the peasantry to work
It, What happened was that the peasants
took the land away from the former owners
and divided it among themselves, not
only to work it but to own 1t as we'll. With
this the socialization programme of Leninc
and Irotzky simply went to pieces In
stead of socializing the land and abolish
ing private property, they have merely
abolished one class of private owners Of
the land and established another class
The Boshevists are now trying to rec
tify this mistake of theirs bv coming. to
the peasants and talking communism to
them. But the new and smaller proprietor
or the land, the peasant, is just as hostile
TO the idea of communism as were the land
owners Of the former regime When the
bolshevlst agents come to the peas
ants and tell them that they must sell their
products to the government at certain
minimum price because private ownership
has been abolished the peasants are furi-
Gus, and it is only by force. OF arms that
they can be made to part from their grain
and potatoes at a price which is four or
five times smaller than what they can fully
get for the same products from the private
spcculators
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Lenine at His Rope s End

By Elias Tobenkin
(Staf Correspondent Of The Tribune)

shevlk socialists, who are for moderation.
Trotzky, OH the other hand, is simply an
lmperlahst of socialism. But Trotzky's i'm
pcrlalism, too, is becoming shaky, for his
programme is overreaching itself. As long
as his army consisted of Volunteers
though the volunteers may have been
driven to become soldiers by hunger-he
stlli had reliable army. Now however,
that the military activities of the Boil
shevlsts have greatly spread, he was COM
PEELED to establish q form of conscription
Soldiers are now conscrpted from certain
reliable classes, mainly the peasantry.
But the memory of the Czaristic regime
and other events is still fresh in Trotzkv's
mind. He saw how Miliukov and Kerensky
swung the army from the Gar and how he
and Lenine swung the army from Keren-
sky and he is worrying lest the army that
he is now conscripting to strengthen Boil
shevism turn against Bolshevism.
"That Trotzky has good reason to worry
is again evident from the attitude of the
peasantry The peasantry, while fighting
the attempts of the Bolshevist government
to take their products and force them into
communism, at the same time still
ready to acknowledge the Bolshevist
regime They are ready to do this because
they were told-and they believe it-that
if Bolshevism falls the old order will re-
turn and their land Will be taken away
from them and restored to the former own
ers. Ii the peasants were once assured,
however, that the abolition of Bolshevism
does not by any means imply the reestab-
hshment of the monarchy and the taking
away of the land from them they would be
the first to help speed the Bolshevist
ropirnp ont of ox;c+opco
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

Take frinst, the blessing Of arriving nc .
last line. r.. p a
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

Anything that stops or hinders Work.
says the writer Of Mr.. Fords Own Page in
the Dearborn Independent, "is an evil" We
are of the opposite opinion.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
A New Word in New York
(From The NcaU York Aoe)

The New York Tribune contained q local
news story few days ago which began with
the following words:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-12
Shirley Mason, Indulges
 In Interior Decoration

Shirley Mason, a new addition to the Fox galaxy of stars believes in keeping interested in things other than her work. She has been taking g a course in interior decoration, and so delighted is she with her new hob by, that she has taken it up in a, prac- ticaI way.
 For the benefit of those progres- sive young girls who want their rooms furnished with attractive, new painted furniture, and who have not a great deal of money in such a way, Miss Mason tells of her success in refurnishing her bedroom furniture. After removing the old paint with coarse grained sand-paper she re- blue aIternated with white.
 An artistic touch, such as is seen only in the most expensive of paint ed furniture, was achieved by the star with the aid of a strip of cretonne. She cut out the little flower motifs which were a part of the design, and pasted them where they would be most effective on the furniture. A coating of lacquer over this produced a most attra ctive glazed effect.
 The color scheme was carried even to the curtains. A soft white mater iaI edged with blue also boasted the dainty bouquets cut from the ere tonne, which had been applied upon them.