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New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
The Void Waits

Analysing the hold of the Bolshevik
leaders on the Russian mass mind Hans
Worst, the Moscow correspondent of the
"berllner Tageblatt," an able and i'm
partial expert, writes: "The speeches
of the Bolshevik chieftains furnish the
best clew to their success While all the
other parties dreamed Of restoring ma
tlonal unity, strove to smooth out diff
ferences, and were thereby doomed to
wavering, bargaining, hesitancy, the
Bolsheviki stood by themselves in reject
ing all compromise and preaching un-
conditional class warfare, a fight to the
utmost. They did not have to parley, to
weigh things, to reconcile adversaries-
they simply had to follow their own pro-
gramme in a straight line. While their
enemies were paralyzed by thousand
considerations and regards, the Bolshe-
wiki founded their strength on a policy
of unthinking, ruthless action"
For the Bolshevik mind-the primi-
tive mind-ths world is a simple affair.
In their religion-as in the ancient
creed of Iran-there is just one line of
division between good and bad 1t di-
vides the proletariat from the bourgeoi-
sic While the Russian patriots and
democrats endeavored to line up the
Russian nation behind constructive
national policy, the Bolsheviki merely
tried to line, up the dissenters against
wall. 1t is a simple enough method
But will it last?
Worst is one of the many who don't
think it will. "The Bolsheviki concen-
trated all their efforts on class war;" he
says, "but they neglected everything
else. They aimed at destroying capital
and capitalists in Russia and destroyed
Russia. Not content with pouring out
the baby with the bath, they smashed the
tub. They climbed to the skies, and
earth has slipped from under their feet.
Their fall will be hard one.''
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Our Fabulous Foreign Trade

The largest of our banks has made an
interesting computation to show that the
war brought to this country larger bal
ance of export trade than in all the pre-
ceding life of the Republic. 1t reckons
the entire excess of exports over imports
from the beginning in 1890 down to
August, 1914, as $4,000, 100000. In the
fifty-one months of the war our trade
balance was S1O,9O3,0 900.
Before the war years trade balance
of $666,000,000 was record, and this
balance had exceeded $6OO,OOO,OOO but
once before For 1914, even with the
considerable shipments that immediately
set in when the war was declared. this
balance was only 1924, 100000. AS is
we'll known, it was over s3,7O0, 900, 900,
in 1917 and $3,326, 100000 last wear.
This does not include government ship
ments
With this enormous credit balance we
bought back a great quantity of our Sc
curlties held abroad. That is to say, our
foreign customers were paying us in our
own stocks and bonds. When their hold
lngs OF those were practically exhausted
they had to borrow from us-that is,
they had to buy on credit. This explains
why our government and our bankers
loaned heavily to the Allies and else
where
Ii we are to keep up this magnificent
foreign trade we must continue these
loans, with heavy foreign investments.
or the nations of Europe will have no
means Of paying US They could not paw
IN gold, but if they could we could not af
ford to let them do it, because SO much
gold would cause prices and the cost Of
living to soar to height that would
make even war prices look slim
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Forestalling a Loss ON Wheat

The bill which has been introduced at
the request. of the food administration
to enable the government to carry out it's
guarantee to the farmers on this
years crop of wheat calls for very
large sum--a billion and quarter of
dollars. But the measure does not imply
that any such loss as this will be sus-
tanned by the government in fulfilling it's
contracts. On the contrary, the bill is
really to protect the government against
precisely such a loss by enabling it to
purchase all the wheat that may be Of
fered and then to resell it as the market
will takc it. The bill is part and parcel
Of the obligations incurred by the war.
They have to be met like any other con-
tract
TO date The government has 1sustained
no losses on the 1918 wheat crop, and the
carry*oyer, according to the estimates Of
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
than now to see the wedge 90 deeper still

than now to see the wedge go deeper still
into Anglo-American understanding
We are still officially associated"
with Great Britain. among others, in a
state Of war with Germany
The War Trade Board stated the case
fairly and fully. Any one who stopped
to reflect could not miss the truth. The
boards statement of England's plight
was as follows:
For over four years Great Britain has
been subject to the shock and strain of
war which not only required the sacrifice
OF life and intense human energy, but
also necessitated the most stringent eco
nomic readjustment and the sacrifice Of
private business.
1T is not strange, therefore, that Great
Britain should to-day wish to make every
legitimate effort to keep her commercial
and economic status from falling into
chaos, and instead to restore it to state
OF equilibrium. In fact, to do anything
else would be strange.
"As natural result of such normal
patriotic aspiration, in order to bring her
own manufactures to a state of stability
approaching that Of pre-war days. Great
Britain finds it necessary to impose such
import restrictions for the time being as
VIII permit her the opportunity to re-
establish domestic business conditions on
normal basis"
But the truth is nothing and fairness
is nothing. Mr.. Hearst feels that the
danger is past; it is again safe to attack
our national friend and ally, and behind
the Bernard Shaw wave of gas he goes
forward
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Six Trail Hitters
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Having read your article in connec-
ton with the Billy Sunday campaign in
New York, may we have a little space in
your valued paper to let others know what
have been our experiences as a result OF
this campaign? We are six girls who went
into the Tabernacle out of pure curiosity
lnot ready to give credit where credit was
due), but-hallelujah!--w came out with
sawdust on our shoes.
After hitting the trail" in April, 1917
we became acquainted with each other ana
formed what is now known as the "Halle-
lujah Sextet." We all became members of
the church, and now spend all our spare
time singing the Gospel in and around
New York City.
This is but one of the countless instances
which prove Billy Sundays God-given
power. The lives of Us six girls have been
completely turned from worldly pleasures to
active religious work, and the great Joy we
md III our work makes US want to have
others know what the Billy Sunday cam
paign in New York has meant to US.
May God bless Billy Sunday and his
work! THE HAELELuJAH SEXTET.
| Cor. xiv, 10.
New York. Jan. 81. 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
"Free'' Chevrons

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Last Saturday afternoon Will.
walking through Forticth Street. in w.
company OF returned wounded soldier wa
passed building just west of Rroadws,
the upper fioers of Which are occupied hy
the Brooks Uniform Company. In tho co.,
ond story window of this building was
large sign inviting soldiers. sailors ara
MARINES to come UP and have service
wound and discharge cheyrons supplied ara
sewcd on free. This notice was subscrhsd
"Ihe Mayors Committee on Welcome
The soldier with me had wound and
SIX months service stripe on his blouss
but none on his overcoat and | suggested
that we take advantage OF the ;nvitat;o, -
have the missing chevrons supplied
We went upstairs and the soldier asked
for the chevrons. and he in turn was ssksa
for the "newspaper coupon" | had conr
OF "The Evening Sun" in nv pocket snd
went through it, but failed to find an,,
coupon whereat the young lady explained
that it was only TO be had in "The New
York American" or "The New York Eyen;,o
Journal"
Naturally. neither the soldier nor myself
cared to buy Hearst newspaper. even 10
secure the chevron, so I was charged IL
cents for each chevron and 20 cents for
sewing them on.
Of course, for all 1 know Hearst NAV ho
paying the Brooks Uniform Company fo,
supplying these chcvrons. but if he ;s 7
would like to know by what right does bs
use the name of the Mayors Committee ON
Welcome for increasing .he circulation Of
his newspapers?
II, on the other hand, it is part Of ths
money recently appropriated by the Board
OF Estimate which is paying for the cbev.
rons, then by whose authority is Hearst al
lowed to use this money for his own endsp
know that this is only small matter
but as other soldiers and sailors will he
open to this same injustice, am sure that
you will take some measures to preven.
this imposition on them
JOHN R. CAREY.
New York, Jan. 80, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Another ''Quofation y

70 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In line with your editorial on
quotations" born by the war, the follow
ing incident which occurred on nv old ship
may be of interest:
She (never mind her name-ber cantai,,.
two-and-a -half-striper, is one of the mos
modest men afioat) was sinking fast, with
hole the size of tunnel mouth in her,
port quarter. Of course, it was pitch dark,
and the night was full of heavy seas and
rain squalls and wind All the boats had
left the side. On the stop side" were
grouped on the last raft four men waiting
Tor the thing to float free. The stern was
way under, the bow in the air A good wave
would do it. Near them was the radio
shack, coming adrift from the pounding Of
the waves. One of the men was. naturally.
the captain. AS he hung there, watching
his ship disappear under his feet, came "a
voice: Captain, have a cigarette?" He
turned, and peering, discovered his quarter
master "Well, damned if l won't" he said
And they were managing the light, face 70
face, when a big one caught the radio shack,
tore it loose and tossed it overheard. knock
ing the captain with it,
HueNi'y' eneie Is all antl-cllmax mat
last wave sent the raft floating off, too, and
it was the same O. n. who kept yelling
"Captain!" till he found him perched on one
corner Of the shack and, sticking out an
oar, yanked him aboard the raft All the
cigarettes were wet, however
AS long as a quartermaster and lieu
tenant commander can share smokes while
the ship is hesitating before her last dive
there must be some small hope for this
nation-and her navy. f.
New York, Jan. 81, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Quantity Couplets

Having SO successfully applied the
principle of quantity production to the
manufacture of motor cars, Henry Ford
is now turning out couplets in the same
way. Side by side the three principal
Ford products-motor cars, tractors and
couplets-advance to tighten the human
load. Mr.. Ford himself probably no
more writes his own couplets than he
makes his own cars. Each couplet, per-
haps, is fashioned by many hands, like
each motor car. One may contribute
only the initial word. Another may sup
ply the semicolons and another the
comma, each man specializing in one
mark of punctuation. All the employees
OF the couplet factory are, no doubt,
scientifically arranged, the last to touch
the product being the man at the end
OF the room, who finishes off each gem
with period. With no wasted motion
the couplets move on to the linotype
man, who converts them into bold face
BREWER lines to fill the spaces between
editorials in The Dearborn 11depe,adsnt,
But whether or not President Henry
Ford OF the Dearborn Publishing Com
pany writes his own couplets, they are
all dlstlnctlvely fordesque. Reminiscent.
certainly, of the earliest Ford product
is this one:
Bumps come to all; but to some men
bump
Is blow; to other boost on the jump"
And the maker of motor cars doubt
less is rejecting on his own handwork
here:
"rThe artist wrought in strength a marvel
to create;
Critics soon discovered it, but muckers did
berate"
But it should not be assumed that all
Jhe verses smell of gasolene The world
is their field. Of international problems
the rhymes enlighten US:
columbus sailed to westward continent
to find
Wilson journeyed eastward to unite whole
worlds mind"
And then, lest some doubt still remain
about the solution of problems growing
out of the war, all is made clear:
"The league of families are the creations
Which by extension form the League of
Nations"
And also the man who arranged to
"get the boys out of the trenches by
Christmas" 1915, publishes to the world
the recipe of his success:
Good will that makes plain folks for Peace.
Alone can bring red Wars surcease."
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03

the Food Bureau, will be very small
not, perhaps, over 100000 bushels,
and possibly much less So far as the
new crop is concerned that is any mans
guess. The present indications are that
the crop will be very large, possibly
equalling or exceeding the record crop OF
1918. But what Europe needs will be
by the time it is harvested and ready to
ship no human being can say. All we
know is that wheat is the most conserva-
BILE OF grains and the demand for it uni
versal, and even if it should take two
years to market the surplus there seems
no present reason to fear that the loss
will be large.
Anyway this loss, such as it is, will be
distributed among the people of our own
country, and, while no one would propose
such bonus to the wheat growers in
peace times, it is we'll to reflect that the
farmers accepted without grumbling
heavy cut in the price they were receiv-
lngs-nearly full third-and if this be
distributed over something like a billion
and half bushels, say, a year and
half's crop, the loss they sustained would
be probably half again as much as any
possible gain from the governments
guarantee this year. So, in one sense, it
is only a fair equalization, and in view
of the great services rendered by the
farmers in the war, it is to be accepted
as part of the wars bill.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Music for the Soldiers
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Since the armistice the public has
an idea that our work has ceased, when
really the need for musical recreation for
the men still in service and the returned
wounded increases. As one officer writes:
You may know that since the signing OF
the armistice thare has been great clamor-
ing among the men to be relieved from ac-
tive duty. AT the present time this is i'm
possible, and wholesome diversion is abso-
lutely essential to keep these men inter
ested. The services which you have rem
dered have been inestmable in keeping up
the interest and morale Of these men,"
This is only one Of many letters we re-
ceve expressing the same appeal. As for
the calls from the wounded men. it is impes-
sible to begin TO comply With requests.
MR.. AND MRS. ORLANDO RoULAND.
New York, Jan. 81, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Precious Salvage

Students of sociology will await with
impatience the opening of the new Mu-
nicipal Clinic for the Classification of
Mentally Defective Children. This pro-
posed ally of the Children's Court is con-
cerned with what we may call the ro-
nance of human advancement. Its DUR
pose will be to salvage a tragically large
mass of human driftwood before it has
become altogether useless and danger
Gus to the community.
DR.. Max Schlapp, professor of neuro-
pathology at the New York Post Grad
uate Medical School and Hospital who
will head the clinic, says experiments
at the institution where he teaches have
proved that numerous forms of mental
effectiveness are not caused by brain
deficiency. The failure of certain BODY
glands, such as the thyroid, to function
normally can produce, he says, a blood
condition which lowers the threshold of
the brains activity. That means les
sening of the minds power to control
emotions like fear and anger, which
impel human being to action.
DR.. Schlapp said, at recent meeting
of the Reconstruction Educational ALI
ance:
1T is manifestly wrong to take a child
not responsible for its deeds, and who
can be cured Of its evil tendencies. and
submit that child to penal servitude. The
crying need Of New York is for an insti-
tution where such cases can properly be
treated. The new municipal clinic will be
for the purpose of wedding out the cur
able delinquent children, and we will do
the best we can about getting treatment
for them until the city or state provides
proper institutions"
Charities Commissioner Bird S. Coler.
Judge Morgan Ryan, of the Children's
Court, Health Commissioner Royal S.
Copeland and Or. Carlos Macdonald
are among those who have worked to
establish the clinic. Judge Ryan says
that there is nothing experimental about
the plan, for DR.. Schlapp has already
tested hundreds Of cases unoffically for
the Chldrens Court and has been of
high service in the administration of
humane JUSTICE.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Nobility Is Dead

You said that the Bolshevik govern
ment will be turned out by spring at the
latest and the Omsk government will take
It's place. What sort of economic order
in Russia do you expect the new govern
ment will establish 2"
"You mean, of course" NJ. Victorov
said, whether the nobility will be re-
stored? No, the new government will not
attempt to restore any class. Under the
new government there will be none Of the
old classifications in Russia. Men will be
citizens just as men are citizens in the
United States. AS for the nobility. if thew
will want to eat they will have to find
some occupation and earn their bread inst
like everybody else.'
What will the salient difference be be-
tween the government you hope TO es-
tablish after the Bolsheviks have fallen
from power and the present Lenine oov-
ernment?"
"A o'g difference. world of difference, j"
NJ. Vlctorov spoke vehemently. -"Ours will
be a democratic government. Eyerv man
Will have a chance, an equal chance while
now we have not democratic bnt a cIacs
government in Russia. In fact. tho. Rms
sian government to-day is an aristocratc
government, with the proletariat in place
OF noblemen and military officials as the
aristocrats."
is there any danger of return to
monarchism ?'
"Monarchism is dead" was the reply.
IT IS gone from Russia never to return.
we are going to have democratic gov
eminent. The Omsk government is demo
cratic government. Tschaikovsky and other
socialist revoluticnists are in it. With
the aid OF the Allies and of America the
omsk government will become the govern
ment of all Russia"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Into the Villages, Too

Have the Bolsheviks extended their in
nuence beyond the cities, beyond the in
dustrial ccntres?"
certainly" M. Victcrov replied. "They
went into the villages and have organized
there committees of village poverty.
These committees consist of the landless
peasantry in each village. The committee
IN each village is given guns and authority
to use them. 1t is the government of the
village, and it is governing in the inter-
ests of it's own group or clique and not
OF the whole village. The landlcss pcas-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Gotham Gleanings

Now is the time to subscribe
Advt
Art Folwell was d pleasant caller
one day last week.
Doc Jim Burgess OF Montclair is
mighty busy these days.
Elmer Severance OF E,tnporia
Kans., has moved to our growing
city.
Yesterday was Ground Hog Day
and was celebrated quietly here
abouts.
Our boom for Herb Parsons for
Pres. in 1920 is doing as we'll as
could be expected.
Bob Wildhack writes from Scotts
dale, Ariz., that he is feeling gNbetter
every day Bob has been there since
Nov. 1917.
Charley Riegelman has got his
discharge from the Army and hung
out his atty-at-law shingle again
yesterday.
The many friends of 1t. Grant
land Rice will rejoice to learn that
Grant will be back in this country
in about a week.
Chuck Towne the w. k. rough dia-
mond is back from a soiourn at
Lakewood where he went to play
pool with Porter Browne.
-Ye ed. brought Geo. Cohan Ger
man bayonet which Sgt. Aleck
Woollcott found on the battlefield at
Cohan, France, but we don't know
whether Geo. ever got it.
Capt. d'Annunzio has said that ''the
Americans are trying to hide under
a cloak of idealism the fact that they
have just concluded the biggest piece of
business in history" The cloak bust
ness?
"The theatregoing public" observes
Mr.. John Cort, "is mighty intelligent
body-give it chance" Or, better.
rattle off the chances.
Still, the altruistic hotelkeeper makes
no cover charge for postage stamps.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
A Mint Mystery
{ From Tho Eo,,,a. pa.,,

VET'0"s TIC doustoM PoSf)
You can put any construction on it YOU
wish We have six friends with mint
crops coming on whore their lawn hydrants
drip, in spite OF everything that has han
pened' And none of them is fond Of spring
lamb or drinks ice tea.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Vie1uing Russia BY Proxy
By Elias Tobenkin

ants tyrannize the rest of the commusitv
and it is here that the weakness of the
Soviet government comes in. Persistent
terrorism soon spends itself, and re-
action follows"
What is the land programme of the
Bolsheviks ?" asked
The programme of the Bolsheviks is
the programme of Lenine," NJ. Victorov
replied, land Lenine is communist an
archist He wants land communism. Let
the peasant work the land, but let no one
own it,"
And what is your land programme as
opposed to the programme of Lenine and
the Bolsheviki?" ?"
Planned to Buy Land
Our Land programme, the programme of
the League for the Regeneration of Rus
sla, which backs the Omsk government and
to which we subscribe, was, first to have
the government buy the land from the
snoblity-from the land owners. In add-
tion We would coniscate the land belong
ing to the Crown and all church land, then
put this land in government trust and di-
vide it among the peasantry, letting each
PooSoHe o"H MS piece OF land. We be-
lIeve in private ownership.
Il said this was programme The
reason l spoke in the past tense is be-
cause, to be frank with you, right now I
don't know what our programme is with
regard to the settlement of the land ques-
ton. Conditions have made our programme
useless. There can hardly be talk now
of buying the land from the owners when
there are no land owners left in Russia.
The Russian land owning class is
memory. You see few thousands of this
class living sparingy in Switzerland on
whatever savings they managed to snatch
with them when they fed Russia. What
they will do when these savings are gone
do not know. Of the land owners who
have been unable to leave Russia. many
escaped into the Ukraine, and of the rest
many have been killed. Those that have
not been killed are sweeping the streets in
Petrograd or are working as firemen or
doing other manual labor They are lucky
to get that"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Still, the altruistic hotelkeeper make:
no cover charge for postage stamps.
More Propaganda

New York, Dec. 8, l919-Hans Mueller,
the first Boche ambassador arrived in this
city to-day There was no one present to
receive him. 1t is said that he will leave
for WashingtonNto- m orrow, but the Pullman
car, according to the last reports, refused
to make any reservations for the Hun en-
voy. 1T he can rent house in Washington,
which is doubtful, he will arrange for new
Embassy quarters, some time during the
spring of next year. Society will regard
him as non-existent
New York. Dec. 8, 1919-The German
wireless to-day sent out the following gem
eral information from it's station at Nauer:
"Excellenz Hans Mueller, republican envoy
to the Vereinigte Staten, took with him
as part of his official baggage 1900 bottles
Berncastler Doctor, 1000 bottles Nier
steiner and Johannisberger, 1000 bottles
Dantziger Goldwasser, 1000 bottles Hoch-
heimer and 10000 bottles Buxtehuder
Schnapps.'
Washington. Dec. 10, t9l9-Hans Mueller,
the diplomatic representative Of the Ger
man Republic, gave his first official re-
ception this afternoon. Among those pres
ent were all the judges of the Supreme
Court, and all the members OF the Senate
and the House. Furthermore, most of the
eligible young men from the Chevy Chase
Country Club were present at an early hour
At four o'clock fifty patromen were sum-
moned to regulate the traffic in the En-
passy pro tenn. H. V. L.
The Peace machine is 5-rower affair,
with planetary transmission
New-York tribune., 1919-02-03

Artists are an observant lot. Every
few days you see the drawing of an
officer who doesn't wear his Sam Browne
belt over his left shoulder.