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New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The Coming Tower
Marie

From, the Propencal
There never was lady
Across the farthest sea,
So lovely as the lady
That lives next door to me.
There never was a lady
OF dreams and pocsy,
So gracious as the lady
That lives next door to me.
There never was a lady
In mystic fantasy,
So distant as the lady
That lives next door to me.
ISOSCELES
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Heart of the Covenant
A Criticisn. That Ignores the
Text of the Reservation
To the Editor of the Tribune.

To the Editor Of the Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune, in this mornings
editorial supporting the Lodge reserva-
ton to Article x, justiies exactly one.
half Of the reservation and ignores the
other and really Objectionable half en-
tirely. Most other supporters Of the
reservation do this, too.
The Tribune says we could never sena
troops abroad without Congressional ac-
ton So why should one pretend that
reservation which reminds the world Of
this constitutional popularity of our.
amounts to an alteration of the league
of nations covenant? How, they ask
innocently, can such a reservation be
said to "cut the heart eut of the treaty..
The answer is that this is not the part
Of the reservation which weakens the
covenant. 1t is the first part of the
reservation, to which The Tribune edi-
torial does not refer, which cuts the
heart out of the treaty.
For the reservation begins: "The
United States assumes no obligation to
preserve the territorial integrity or po-
litical independence of any other coun-
try or to interfere in controversies be
tween nations-whether members of the
league or not--under the provisions Of
Article X" etc. Article X begins.
"The members of the league undertaks
to respect and preserve as against ex-
ternal aggression the territorial integ.
rity and existing political independence
of all members of the league" Surely.
nothing could be clearer than that the
reservation cuts Article X out of the
treaty SO far as we are concerned. For
it begins by denying the obligation ex-
pressed in Article x. With all due def
erence to The Tribune, no argument is
candid which supports the reservation
by ignoring the clause with which it
opens.
Article X, like the proposed reserva-
tion contains a second part-a sentence
providing that in case of aggression the
council Of the league (Which must act
unanimously, or, in other words, as our
"advise upon the means to be adopted"
Let it be conceded to The Tribune and
to Senator Lodge that if the council Of
the league were to "advise" our sending
detachment Of troops abroad, Congress
not only ought to be, but under the Con-
stitution would have to be, consulted
To recite this much in a vote of ratii-
cation will hardly weaken the treaty II
your editorial were clearly limited to
this contention it would be conclusive.
Article X, from which the first part
Of the reservation would withdraw the
United States, says in effect that among
the objects for which the members Of
the league pledge themselves to confer
and cooperate prime object is the pre-
vention of military aggression The
reservation knifes the treaty by prefac.
ing All affirmation of Congressional au-
thority over military expeditions By
broad reputation of this covenant tc
unite with other members of the league
in preventing wars of aggression In
that covenant lies the worlds hope Of
really reducing armaments and of put.
ting an end to Prussian methods. The
United States cannot remain aloof from
such an enterprise
HENRY JAMES.
New York, Nov. Il, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
New York, Nov. Il, 1919.

1.-THE argument made by our cor
respondent rests on a familiar mis-.
reading of the reservation which the
Senate has just adopted. The text
of the reservation is:
"Thc United States assumes no obl;-
cation to preserve the territorial in
teg-ity or political independence of
any other country or to interfere in
controversies between nations. whether
members OF the league or not, under
the provisions of Article x, or to
employ the military or naval forces
OF the United States under any article
of the treaty for any purpose unless
IN any particular case the Congress.
which under the Constitution has the
sole power to declare war or authorize
the employment Of military or naval
forces of the United States, shall by
act or joint resolution so provide"
The Tribune respectfully sub
mlts that it has not ignored the
first clause of the reservation, but
has kept it steadily in mind. It IS
rather our correspondent, it seems.
who Ignores something essential.
He quotes correctly TO certain
point, but then ceases TO quote and
drops into "etc" He does not men,
ton phrase which relates to the
whole of the reservation. This phrase
begins with the word unless"
The true meaning of this is that
this country assumes no obligation
unless Congress agrees that a par
ticular case falls within the pledge.
Article X obligations apply only
when there is aggression. Nov
some one must decide when there is
aggression and when there is not
The Presidents plan is obviousiy
that the decision is to be by him
alone. The reservation, avowing tie
right Of Congress under the Consti
tuition, merely says Congress must
also participate in the decision.
The sense would be the same if the
reservation were cast in the reverse
form: "The United States accents
obligations under Article X to pre-
serve the territorial integrity. etc.
on condition that in each particular
case Congress shall SO provide by act
or joint resolution"
Mr.. Borah sought to alter the res
ervation by striking out the latter
part of it, from unless" down. The
Senate rejected his amendment. II
he had succeeded, it might be argued
successfully that the heart had
been cut out of the covenant" But
President Wilson has admitted that
Article X can have no binding force
on the United States unless both the
Executive and Congress agree in
each specific instance to accept and
carry out recommendations coming
from the league council.-Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
His One Concern

From The Philadelphia Evening Lsdpsr)
The miners picture their lot as one
near destitution. The operators paint
them as living adjacent to a bed Of
roses But the average citizen, un-
aware OF their real address, merely
II he'll have coal for his
furnace this coming winter.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Milk Every Other Day

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: More power to the Health De-
partment for it's efforts to reduce the
price OF milk! 1t may help this pur-
pose If. during the winter, the carriers,
instead Of bringing milk every day,
would bring 1t every other day. Milk
received Friday can be kept even Until
Sunday. N. BEHaR.
New York. Nov. II. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Count Czernin Explains
By Frank Fl. Simonds

General Hoffman, in true Prussian
style, made a speech and it was all over
with any peaceful solution. But Lu-
dendorff's congratulation for the speech
satisfied Hoffman and arrived by tele-
phone the next morning.
Victims, Not CuIprifs
In Czernin's narrative all the great
figures on the enemy side are passed
in review by one who sees them, not
as we did (and perhaps do), as mon
sters, but as fallibIe human beings
with great qualities and correspond
ing weaknesses. Czernin is neither
malicious nor yet fattering. Even en-
perors have for him obvious limita
tions, and he is sorry for Charles and
even for William II, both Of whom ne
regards as victims of their trade rather
than as deliberate culprits.
The arresting thing about Czernin's
narrative is the fashion in which he
shows how hopeless was all the strug
gle before it ended in military de-
cision for his enemies and finally how
impossible now is any really peaceful
settlement. He sees President Wilson
as sincere, but he had not the smallest
hope for the Wilson proposals from
Versailles as the beginning of new
wars, but his one note of optimism lies
in the fact that he believes that the
war will in the end destroy militarisna,
Allied as we'll as Prussian.
The book is good antidote to ex
treme standardization on the part of
Allied publics.' The former Hapsburg
Foreign Minister pushes home not
few points and reaches not few weak
points in our armor. He is not angry,
there is none of the German buster
and fury about him, but his method
gains thereby. Reading him, one feels
better acquainted with half score Of
enemy leaders, sees the confusion
which existed behind the solid exterior
of the Central Alliance, appreciates
more exactly the extent and reasons
FOR German mastery of the General
Alliance.
"When | was at Brest striving with
all my might and main to persuade
the Germans to modify their demands"
Czernin explains, "Vienna ordered me
to go down on my knees to Berlin and
beg for bread. How could you be both
a supplicant and master? We had
to have German troops to get us out
Of troubles all the time, until our armies
were simply ntermingled with the Ger
mans and our freedom of action gone
But how could you help it ?'
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Bark Worse Than Their Bit.
from The Tucomn Je5oev,

fFrom The Tacoma Ledoer)
III Buffalo the soviet" party got 800
out Of $4,000 votes. From the noiss
nose fellows made you'd have thought
there were twice as many Of them. Let
US not be alarmed.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

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New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The Movie Takers

May, if you ain't the most ineonsist-
ent thing First you say you like him
or account of his eyes, m then you
turn around and say it's his nose. His
nose don't make him a good actor.
Lookit i'm! He's SO stuck on himself.
bet he carries a mirror In his cigar
cite case. There's nobody like my own
Tom Moore, the darling, with his sweet
smile. May, ii I could be near tina.
man I'd let him use me for carpet.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

The cold did not in the least lessen
the enthusiasm of the followers of
either the Tiger or Old Nassau
Evening Mail.
'I'm neutral,' said Mrs. Callahan,
when asked which team she was root
ing for. Don't you see the orange
and the black here on one arm and
the crimson on Che other ?"-Evening
Mail.
The less said about Yale, the Mails
policy appears to be, the better,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The Supreme Test

fFrosa The Baltimore .Aneyfcdnj
A woman in Buffalo was killed in
the rush at an army food sale. Uncle
Sam. with ali his ability. does not yet
know how to conduct a bargain sale.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
" anted: A Bismarck

Czernn supplies the useful counter
pose to Ludendorff. Admiring the
soldier he bemoans the idea and the
method he represented, He saw the
German military leaders as they we're
and wrestled with them again and
again. They could not realize, he
points out shrewdly, that nation may
die OF victories and that unlimited Sc
curities in the shape OF conquered
provinces like Belgium and Northern
France are valueless if the enemy is
not prepared to redeem them at your
price Perhaps, he suggests half
humorously, perhaps The elder and
greater Moltkc would have been just as
bad had he not been controlled by q
bismarck, and Bismarck was just
what was lacking between 1914 and
1913.
AS conse guence Czernin wandered
from impossibilty TO impossibility.
His own emperor agreed with him that
victory was impossible and peace es-
sential. But the Germans were equally
certain thar victory was inevitable.
When Czernin went to them to urge
that they cede Alsace- Lorraine to
France and take Poland in exchange,
with Austrian Gahcia thrown in, they
we're both angry and amused Vic
tory was as certain for them as the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

The appointment of Miss Hay"
says the Evening Post, "is declared to
put women on the same equality as
men," Before her appointment, one
assumes, they were on different
equality.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

dispatch from Washington says
that the President is much better and
in an aggressive mood. For "and" read
"but"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
GUARANTEE

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New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
20 D., Where IS Thy 81"

[From the Mexico IN. " independently
There will be a bee at the Vermilon
Cemetery. All those who are interested are
invited to be present.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
The Moral Victory. Once Removed

Sir I wonder If Old Dick Child's moral
victory" is anything like my own. 1t was
the day before Christmas in 1913 that I
formed a resolution never to drink intoxi
eating beverages again. On the second an
niversary of that day Old Morton Birge in
vited me to go up to the Arch Inn, of glori-
GUS memory to Boston newspaper men, for
a cup Of Christmas cheer.
ut is now just two years" proudly
stated, "snce have taken a drink. -
That so7" said Brge, casually. and not
at all impressed. what else did the doctor
tell you?" c. r. S.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

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New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

In Maxwell Smiths "tunny Fin
gers" in the Satevepost, the ncwsboy
IS made to say, cts a dee-voice case,
amt ito" Probably the boy lives in
what fiction writer's call "New Yoik,"
locuton we defy the acutest car to
distinguish. "Or.' suggests Ambrose
Slutz, Maybe his ancestors lived IN
brldgepoit or Poitsmouth--~or even
New ltoiven."
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

r N ALL the welter Of material coming
from sources until recently enemy,
and designated to impress domestic
and foreign publcs alike, 1t would be diff
ficult to find any more entertaining or
Illuminating documents than those now
supplied by Count Czernin, Foreign
Minister for the Hapsburg empire in
the critical years which stretch from
the latter end Of 1916 until the close
of the negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
and Bucharest in 1918.
The peculiar value and charm of
Count Czernin's contribution lies in
the fact that he has no other thesis
to establish than that he did his best.
He does not claim, ana he obviously
does not believe, that other policies
would have saved the empire that had
his wishes prevailed Austria would
have been saved, much less that, had
q different course been adopted, the
war would have been won.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Neither Prevented Nor Won

BY contrast what he does believe
manfestly is that the war could
neither have been prevented nor won.
"The watch Of the Dual Monarchy had
run down.; this is his melancholy con-
clusion, conclusion reached early in
the struggle. He never believed in
victory, he only rarely hoped that the
monarchy could survive the shock III
the main, doing the best he could, he
felt himself like q physician called to
attend patient in the advanced stages
of a mortal illness.
Given these circumstances, however,
hi. comments have striking value, as
they show the position of the Central
Powers from standpoint wholly diff
ferent from that Of Ludendorf or Tir-
pitt, both of whom are sure now that
the war could have been won had
their view prevailed, or had some un-
necessary circumstance not intervened.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

1t should be corrected to read that
the copy Of an old set Of verses of
ours was taken from Office Appliances
and not from the Typewriter Daily
Trade Record. "And," says Mr..
Jacob Backes, "you are also in error
about it being rotten poem; I Sc
lccted it, and it wasn't rotten. When
you say SO you reflect on my selective
ability Well, we never thought of
that; as usual, we were thinking only
of ourself
More than the other Gilbert lbret-
tos, "The Yeomen of the Guard" is
the columnists opera. Jack Point is
the very pattern of journalistic
japer. No columnst will not sigh
in sympathy as he sings
Though your head it may rack with n
bilious attack,
And your senses with toothache you're
losing;
Don't be mopy and Aat-they don't fine
you for that,
If you're properly quaint and amusing.
Jimmy itched to give out story
concerning the social and business
connections of the young soldier, but
he had given his word and, being an
cx-newspaper man, that was sacred. l.
From "The Waters Fine" by John
Peter Toohey, in the Satevepost.
AS a newspaper man to an ex-news-
paper man, we ask you, Mr.. Toohey-
for Lucille wants TO know--why a man
has to wait to get out of the game
before his promise is sacred?
II wonder" R. E. P. wonders. chow
the Prince would look with his cap
on straight"
Hymns Of Hate
His features should gladly soil
Who always blats "accordng to
Hoyle." RUTH.
Id like to kill all those who'd say,
"Yes, this is Saturday, ell day"
r. l.. f.
Tho girl who gets mo most enraged
ls she who says, care you begaged ?"
CHlQUITA.
And, Of course, there is our ever
young friend Ducinea,
She attended 1.-The uproaro last
night
y a
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

Because of her success in collect
.ng laughs, Frances Byrne is hence
forth to be featured in the cast of
"Nightie Night. THE World
She might play the title role as
the hero of George Sand"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
Infanticide

Coming from his interview with
ne President yesterday, Senator
Hitchcock said:
New-York tribune., 1919-11-18

She attended "the uproaro last
night
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-06-07
BELFAST
Annual Meeting of Teachers
Club-Midget 50 Years Old
Friday-High School Notes
Judge Johnson Retires

The annual meeting of the Belfast
Teachers Club was held Thursday
afternoon in the Belfast Free Pub
| lie Library, when John A. David.
| principal Of the Belfast High school,
was elected president. The other Of
| ficers were: vice president. Mrs.
Sarah knight: secretary and trea-
surer, Miss Frances Abbott; execu-
tive committee. Supe. E. E. Roder-
ick, Miss Vilpha Clements. Mrs.
! Maude F. Townsend, Miss Frances
A. Sargent.
Miss Annie L. Barr, librarian. by
whose invitation the meeting was
! held in the library, gave a brief
talk to the teachers, explaining to
them what the library is anxious to
do for the schools as well as what
| has been done in way of reference
books, etc. She also told them that
the library will be glad to cooperate
in every possible way with the teach
ers and asked for suggestions. The
teachers inspected the library and
! were very much pleased with the
| courtesies extended to them by Miss
Barr. About % members were pre-
sent.
Admiral" Don Robbins. Belfast's
midget was SO years old on Friday
and received congratulations every
where he went for he is a popular
little chap although he only weighs
| So pounds and stands As inches high.
! Don was born in Robbinstown. in
! East Belfast. and the greater part
of his life has been spent in Belfast.
with occasional tours with his pal.
City Marshal Knowlton to Florida
or other sections of the country.
where the latter has had business in
| terests. While he has not really led
| a professional life. Don has frequent
Is appeared in public as feature in
enterprises conducted by Mr.. knowl-
ton, and had he wish to do SO. this
little midget might have made for
tune. The little chap is known far
and near. is a great favorite with the
travelling public as he has always
been connected with the hotels and
theatres of the city and has been
made much of by the ''drummers."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-06-07
SIDNEY
Elmer L. Bessey

WEST-Word has been received
here Of the death Of Elmer L. Bessey
at his late home in Marshfield. Ore
gon. May 10. at the age of So years.
After a weeks illness of influenza and
pneumonia. Mr.. Bessey was born in
Abingdon. Mass, Oct. q. 1863, while
a small boy he moved to Pennsylvania
where he remained until Is years old.
He then came to Maine to work on tho
farm Of the late Charles H. Lovejoy
where he remained until he was 10.
He then decided to so west, locating
in southern California and later in
Marshfield. Oregon. owning one Of the
finest ranches on Coos River He was
who was practicing physician in Sid
ney for number Of years. Mrs. e. L..
Bessey survives her husband and
three children; a brother, Everett H.
Bessey Of Coos River and :. sister.
Mrs. Mabel E. Meagley of Escalon
Calf. A son. Alden E. Bessey an en-
listed man serving in the navy died
last spring making the blow unusually
hard for the bereaved family.
Rev. E. S. Philbrook Of Augusta was
greeted with large congregation
Sunday. June at the beginning Of
his services at the West Sidney Bap.
fist church. Mr.. Philbrook will sup
ply every Sunday afternoon at 2.45
weather permitting. The Sunday
school had good attendance and the
interest at both services was good.
Sunday school will begin every Sun.
day at 1.45 instead of 80 All are
welcome.
Miss Lulu Smith and Miss Hazel
Richards Of Augusta passed the week.
end with their cousins Misses Grace
and Elsie Elaisdell.
Mrs. Louise Lyons and children,
Mildred and Doris returned from Lew
iston Monday where they passed
Memorial day with Mrs Susie Jordan
Mrs. Leroy Lyons and little daugh-
ter and niece Vera Tillson have gone
to Rome to pass the summer.
Fred Barry and Pvt. Percy c. Lyons
have been working for Albee and
Adams hauling logs to Long Pond.
Clyde Barry has gone to Augusta
to work for the bookbinding company.
Miss Eta E. Lovejoy has been pass
ing two days with Miss Dorothy
Swift. Miss Susie Lovejoy passed
Tuesday at the E. l.. Swift homestead
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Pierce and
family of Augusta, Mr.. and Mrs. Err.
nest Wright Of Augusta. Mr.. Robinson
and son Harold. Mr.. Fowles and Mr..
Ames Of Gardiner were at Mr. and
Mrs. c. L. Richardson's Sunday.
Miss Jessie Abbott Of waterville
passed the weekend at her home here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-06-07

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