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New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
Keepers Of
The Ego

1t Is a curious fact, by the way, that tho
strongest resistance to the unifying tend
epcy came precisely from the most advanced
radical states, like Bavaria and Brunswick,
both Of which had finally to be rescued
from anarchy by national troops Kurt
Eisner, the Ill starred political dreamer
and father Of the Bavarian revolution, was
one of the stoutest fighters for "Particu-
larismus," and he was seconded by the
radicals who had seized the slender reins
of power at Brunswick
Nevertheless, the states Fighters, after
scoring some initial success in the early
stages of shaping the constitution, lost
ground later on, and have not been able to
prevent the adoption Of document Of far
reaching centralizing tendencies, so that
even Dr. Preuss, as he told me, is fairly
we'll. satisfied with the work. The new con-
stitution will certainly give the central
government far larger powers than it had
under the Kaiser. This is very evident at
a few cardinal points. Take, for example.
the old Bundesrat, or Federal Council.
Under the old empire it's members were ap-
pointed by the various kings and minor
potentates, and they had an absolute veto
upon legislation, passing upon all bills both
before and after their adoption by the
Rechstag. Henceforth the Reichstag will
be practically supreme
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
Handing Doun
OF La,cs

Where it is not to be wholly supreme the
people themselves will give the decision
through a referendum. The constitution
provides for the referendum in several diff
ferent ways.
In the first place, the President himself
has the option to refer bill to the people,
but he must do so within one month after
its passage by the Rechstag
second way in which referendum may
be brought about is when one-third of the
members of the Reichstag request it, but
their request must be reinforced by petit
tion signed by one twentieth of the voters.
Finally, a demand for referendum may
proceed from the people themselves in the
form of petition signed by one-tenth of
the voters.
The supremacy of the nation finds express
sion in the very Technology Of the consti-
tuition. There will be no more talk in Ger
many of "the federated states" for the
constitution does not degn to call the va
rious political units Estates" at all. 1t calls
them lands instead, and it explicitly confers
upon the President the right to use force
to compel them to observe their duties un-
der the constitution. Hence such question
as the fright to provision Fort Sumter" can
never come up for discussion in Germany.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
The Origin of Article x

The Presidents colloquy with the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
contained one distinct contribution to
history. 1t cleared up the mystery sur
rounding the origin of Article x of the
covenant of the league of nations.
American opinion has been inclined
to believe that the pledge made by
the members of the league "to re-
spect and preserve, as against ex-
ternal aggression, the territorial integ-
rlty and existing political independence"
Of the signatories of the covenant was
a fragment of some "strong league"
draft presented by the representatives
of nation more interested than the
United States in the practical advan-
tages of such a guarantee. 1t has been
generally assumed that the American
delegates accepted the article with some
mlsgivlngs because of the constitutional
difficulties, now fully acknowledged, in
the way of binding the United States
government to make good this pledge
by force, without infringing on the
war-making powers of Congress.
Article has been the target of Wig
orous criticism in this countrywide
more vigorous, perhaps, because it was
supposed to have originated with some
nation whose war-makng power is not
so hedged about as is ours. 1t must
nave caused some surprise when the
president told the Senate committee. as
matter OF history, that Article x
was to a large extent a duplicate of
the provision which he had sought to
have Incorporated in treaty. with the
oeh1ral and, South American states
embodylng the principle of Pan-Ameri-
N canism.
mat treaty never got beyond the
stage OF diplomatic discussion. It was
intended, apparently, to substitute the
theory Of joint American action for the
theory OF hegemony on the part of the
United States which had developed out
OF the Monroe Doctrine The United
States was to become a partner in
concert with the other American re-
publlcs. instead of retaining it's present
broad powers of supervision over the af
fairs of this continent.
So both territorial integrity and polit-
ical independence were to be guaranteed
to all the associates in the American
concert. The tentative draft Of the
treaty went even further. 1t purposed
to guarantee each existing government
against revolution. A trace of this la{-
ter notion is to be found in the Admin
istration's policy of denying recognition
to governments in the Latin-American
states coming into power through reyo-
lutionary action. On the strength Of
that dictum Costa Rica was excluded
from the peace conference But at
Paris the guarantee was limited to pro-
lection against external aggression
only.
1t is easier now to understand WHY
the preliminary draft of the covenant.
reported on February ID last, contained
no reservation as to the Monroe Doc
trine. The Pan-American concert treaty
would have had the effect of construct
ing the Monroe Doctrine. II not Of al
bgseAaE s2pzlsnttp lstez antsxpxsts~,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
The State
Orer All

Then, in addition to all this, the railways
OF the different states are to be NATIONAL
lied, and the watercourses as we'll. Bavaria
must surrender the petty local Pride Of
having its own army and its own postae.
stamps. Great electric plants will spring
up, puilt and operated by the nation, prob
aoly the biggest of them all in Bavaria
itself, which had already made the prelim-
mary studies with the plan of building it
Tor its own account. National monopolies
OF various kinds will probably be estab-
isned and some form of socialization of in
dustries will be gradually introduced. All
enoA msaxuzea- are duly warranted .As-%Ae
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
Our Richest Ma yor
(From The st. Louis Post Dispotcho

,From The st. Louis Post Dispotcho
The minority interest in the Ford Motor
Company, which has just been sold, COM
prlses little more than 6,100 shares, which,
at S75,0O0,000, figure out at the rate of
about $l2,500 a share. This probably estab-
fishes a record in the appreciation of cor
porate stock, barring possibly the case of
sulphur company in Louisiana.
Figures printed in connection with the
sale show that the company was started June
l6, 1903, and sold the first year 1,7o8 cars
from which the profit enabled u 100 per cent
dividend to be declared The stockholders
having got back the first year all thew ever
put in--and of the $l5O00O capital onlv
about $4,000 was in cash--everything thew
have received since has been velvet. The
company sold thirteen fewer cars the second
year than 1t did the first and ninety-sx fewer
the third than the second. but bv 1907 Il vas
selling at the rate of $500 year and after
19o9 production never fell below 10000 cars
year, and reached 100000 in 1917. 1t was
not until 1906 that Mr.. Ford obtained a
controlling interest.
The Dodge brothers retire with s25 900 900
to divide equally between them and six other
stockholders retire with from s6,562, 500 to
$l2,500,OO0 each. In 1908 majority inter
est in the property whose minority interest
has now brought s75,oooooo was offered for
$e'ooo,ooo and refused. Mayor James couzens
OF Detroit remains in the company with
2,lSo shares, valued at s29,25o, 900, which
would probably make him the richest Mayor
IN America. 1t is not so many years ago
since the municipal budget of Detroit was
hardly greater than his present income.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
The Coming 7ower
In a Hotel Dining Room

In Hotel Dining Room
The bald man in palm beach suit
Looks chilly after his Maine dip.
At table with seven grim ladies
He seems depressed.
From the way he holds his hands
In benediction above his chowder,
/ judge him to be minister;
But even ministers in August
The dowager enters, packed with lace
AS apricot ice is packed with cold.
Her smiles are quickly distributed
To an anxious few.
So she passes majestically, with steady gaze
Above the discouraged others.
The old maid who has had the dressmaker
five weeks for this great event,
Now experiences 1t.
In her dark blue silk and marceled hair,
She smiles softly at her preserved goose
berries
And thinks she is having restful time
Two girls, pretty ana prlm,
Well brought up in Philadelphia.
The third, rouged and bold, newcomer;
But she is pretty, too.
Enter, young man.
Immediately, drama!
The bold girl talks to the young man.
She feeds him with quick conversation
AS the rain feeds grass.
This lustincss is not in PHILADELPHIA.
Hauteur, horror over the lemon pie!
The man in tweeds should be crouched over
his fire alone by blue lake this morn
ing,
The forest is in his dark eyes turned
baff1ingy toward his ecstatio wife,
Who quivers like fat jelly over this chance
to display-her baronet satin.
A young girl, fresh as new plum,
Sits discontentedy beside her mother
And among small brothers
She looks weariedly for the entrance Of ono
Who never seems to come.
The small boy, oh, the brown small boy,
Eating soup and fish and frtters and cabbage
and steak and onions and ices and
lobster and pie and ice cream
No headache, no stomachache, no heartache
He likes the hotel all right!
FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
y Cohesive P0toer
OF Taxation

The sovereignty of the nation over the
Glands" is also fully and indubitably ex-
pressed in the far-reaching taxing powers
conferred upon it, as we'll as it's power to
nationalize the railways and create monopo-
lies. 1t had till now long been a tradition,
troublesome enough to the various Secre-
taries of the Treasury, that the states were
entitled to reserve for themselves the direct
taxes, especially the income and general
property tax, but now, under the pressure
of the tremendous financial burdens laid
upon the country by the war, that reserva-
tion has been swept away.
But his scheme Of taxation goes much
further than indicated in that bare state
ment The income tax is to supersede all
the income tax laws now in force in the
states and henceforth these and the cities
can only get tax from incomes by taking
certain percentage of what the nation
raises in that form. That, manifestly, must
prove levelling factor of tremendous i'm
port. Add to it the national property tax
just proposed, levying maximum tax of IS
per cent on the largest fortunes, collectible
over period of thirty years; also an in
heritance tax, sharply graded upward as
kinship grows more remote, and it is evil
dent that these heavy taxes must prove a
unifying force that will practically wipe out
state lines in the course Of years.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

epeaklns OF actors who drew no pay tou
5saesxss11. there's tho SKaissr. HcRr.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

All the worlds a stage; and all the M.
and women merely strikers.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

You purchase t:erchandfse advertised In THE
rai6uNE With absolute safetyor II dlsaat'sfactoh
suits In THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay ysur
money back request. No red tape. No aubhllns.
We make good promptly u the advertiser does net.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tho
for republication Of all dispatches credited 10 II
no otherwise credited In this and also the local
news OF spontaneous origin published herein.
AL rights republication OF all other matter hefein
src also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
THE DIARY or OUR OWN SAMUEL pepys

August l9-Up betimes, and derrained at
Yonkers, and hired a petrol-cab, but it ex-
pred after going Il mile; and the lad driving
1t summoned another cab, and l got in, but
after going few feet the>lad found he had
no petrol, so l must wait, with all NV np-
gage, till he could get some. Home. then.
and my wife waiting for me, more vigorous
and radiant than l had seen her in 2 years,
showing how we'll she hath done in NV
absence And found then white kitten.
which DIR. Buehler had given her, and
roguish, gracile pet it is, though so raw
It, To the city then and to luncheon with
Lieut.. Hornblow and w. SAKE, and thence
home again, and Mistress jacques Campbell
there for dinner, fairish dinner, not so good
as have been having at Mistress Daisy's.
betty's and Roses Read "Blind AUev."
brave, true book, and wrote with more hon
esty about the war than any other hook
have read
2o-by train to my office, and to work,
ana 1t seemed like no work, but dread lest
my employer discover this, forasmuch as I
DO not like him to know how pleasant NV
task 49, With j. Wise and his wife. and NV
cozen Florence, and c. Riegelman the bar
rister, to dinner, which payed for, and with
good grace; and thence to the playhouse and
saw The Greenwich Village Follies," and save
tor the burlesque of Miss Cecil CUNNINGHAM
ana the muslckall anticks of Ted Lewis and
the dancing of Bessie Davis and the soft and
hueful concord of C. Falls's scenery. fonnd
1T a dull piece, and J. Watts over-v,lesr
Home by train, and met R. Irwin the artist
who hath been, he tells me, i'll. To bed. hnt
mosquito bit my index finger, which kent
me wakeful till three in the morning.
2l-To the city In my petrol-wageon. and
with G. Parsons to luncheon, and wa talked
of many things, and we doubt that tba ro+;on
IS tottering. Finished my stint early. and
home and to bed.
once' long time ago, before the davs
OF the Actors Equity Association. there was
certain manager who offered a certain
actor $50 week to play a part. "I can,+n
the actor said. tive got to live dor,+ o,
"Not necessarily" replied the manarer
Well. actors are a generous crew. and
after the armistice is signed It will ho i,,s+
Ike them to give a monster benefit for ~.
managers who, not to be outdone, probably
Will donate their theatres rent free
All the worlds stage; and all the man
and women merely strikers
speaking Of actors who drew M n.~ +e-
seae@xsa1z. there's tho sKatssn HNE.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
The Ancient Monarch Again

Old King Cole a merry old SOUL
And had been for a number of wears:
But his merriment subsidized when his pocket
book colided
With the food and raiment protiteers.
The inhabitants of the Island of Yap, our
guess is, cover their automobiles with pen
nants from the towns they tour through:
and when they play on other peoples tennis
courts they shoes with heels
There the mild reconstructionists and
the Colorado maduro kind.
The motto of the actor appears to be Strike
While the Manager Is Hot
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

tion that the President gave Senator
Borah a pettifogging answer-that what
he meant was that he had not seen the
actual texts, although familiar with their
substance.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
Paraphrasticallv

tFrom The Sauannah Ne,os)
Count that day lost whose low descending
sun seas no nsw plotting hatchsd. no oxobe
begun
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

WELL actors are a generous crew: and
after the armistice is signed It will ha i,,s+
like them to give monster bene6+ fou 49,
managers who. not to be outdone, probably
Will donate their theatres rent free.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

window cleaners strike is something in
which our interest is purely academic Ten
minutes after our window is cleaned we can
see, on clear day, into the business Office
OF Ihe World; and you can't imagine how
scant the enjoyment is.
We should like to be press agent for the
anti-profiteers, but fear they wouldn't
pay as much salary as we might get else
where.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

W. W Jacobs. who has been rather silent
of late, will be with US again on August 90
when Scribner's is to publish new volume
of his short stories called Deep Waters
These will be in characteristic vein, we trust,
but all that we know yet is that one of them
begins "a sailorman-said the night watch
man, musingly-is like a fish, he is safest
when 'e is at sea. When fish comes ashore
it is in for trouble, and so is a sailorman.
One poor chap Anew
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

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New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
GUARANTEE

Entered At the Postoficc at New York Second Cas
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

Once, long time ago, before the davs
OF the Actors Equity Association, there was
certain manager who offered certain
actor $50 week to play part. "I can't
the actor said. "I've got to live, don't I 1?n
Not necessarily" replied the manager.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

Some taxicab driver in New York is richer
three books through our patronage We left
for him, inadvertently, Harold Bell Wright's
"The Recreation of Brian Kent. James
ONeill's THE Moon of the Carbbeesv and
P. G. Woodhouse's Their Mutual Child" We
want ONeill's plays back. We don't know
about the novels because we haven't read
them yet, but if the taxi man will do the
reviews he can keep the books.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
and the employees wages cut as the
company has announced, a strike is
certain.
CHANGE TIME
ON RAILROAD
How Order Will Be Issued Governing
This is Revealed in Instructions
Send Out by officials. of
Rock Island.

How the railroads will meet the
change in time next Sunday morning
is told in bulletin from the office
of the Rock Island lines in Des
Moines. This bulletin was received
by Emile F. Renaud, local time in
spector for the c., B. & O., Rock
Island and Wabash railroads.
At 2 o'clock Sunday morning, all
clocks in train despatchers' Offices
will be turned back one hour. Where
offices are not open, the time will be
changed as soon as the office is open,
and comparison for time made with
the despatchers.
Employees are instructed to change
their watches at o'clock. If they
are not on duty they change their
time pieces as soon as they get on
duty.
Trains which are on the road be-
tween terminals when 2 o'clock
comes, must report to the despatch
ers at the nearest open stations and
wait for positive meeting orders. The
division superintendent will see that
as few trains as possible are in be-
tween terminals at the time the
change takes place, the bulletin
states.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
Don't Spoil a Good Meal
With a Bad Stomach

If physician, specialist in stom-
ach disease, came to you and said:
81 will fix up that miserable, worn
out stomach for you or money back.
II will make it as good as new SO
you will not suffer from any distress
and can eat what you want without
fear or suffering, or money back,
would you turn down his offer?"
And when you are offered Mi-o-na
stomach tablets, made from a prescrip-
ton better than many of the stomach
specialists know how to write, are You
going to be narrow minded and con-
tinue to suffer from indigestion, or are
you going to be fair to yourself and
try Mona on the money back agree
ment.
Mona stomach tablets are offered
to you on this basis, that if they do
not put your stomach into such good
shape that there is no dizziness, sour
stomach, biliousness, sick headache.
and stomach distress. your money will
be returned. For sale by all leading
druggists
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
PREACHERS DO
HAVE TROUBLES
Sometimes They Get All Primed and
Cooked to Marry Folks, and
Then a Rival Minister Comes
Along and Takes Spells.

Preachers sometimes have tough
luck and disappointments just ike
ordinary men do, only not over the
same things. For instance, it is
somewhat of a blow to see a couple
that you have expected to marry walk
down the street with another minis
ter and give you only bewitching
Iohengrin or Mendelssohn jazz step
and a bridal smile when you planned
on more.
This is what happened to one Keo-
kulk minister last week He went out
TO the hospital on a sunny afteronon
to make pastoral calls and was get
ting along fine when he CHANGED to
meet one OF his church members who
toId him that his wife was searching
the town for him. With this startling
hit of information he called Mrs.
Preacher over the telephone and in
ouired what the trouble was, and
when her gentle and delighted voice
rang out over the wire, In accents
sweet, my dear there's some people
here who wanted to get married and
I sent them out to the hospital to you,
he was all attention and hung up the
receiver to get ready to greet the ap-
preaching bride and groom.
He walked out of the office and IN
TO the hall and right past another keo-
kuk preacher and a young man VINO
was with him, like seven hundred dol
lars because he was in hurry to catch
that bridal party. Out onto the street
he stepped and there he say young
lady in an automobile. AHA I have
YOU now, you're looking for a minis,
ter are you not?' he asked her and
she replied blushingly that, they
were" but that they had another one
now, and at this point in the CONVEX,
sation out walked the minister ana
the young man whom the first rever-
end had passed by so haughtily a re"
minutes before.
"My loss, your gain" the first one
said TO the second, and he departed,
leaving them in peace.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
Sleeps Any Old Way Now

II am SO years old and never was
sick until years ago when / got
stomach trouble. l have spent for
tune for medicine which did not cure.
kept on suffering and getting worse.
A fellow worker told me about Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy. After taking
three doses felt like different man;
before taking 1t I could not lie on my
back nor right side. Now I can sleep
any old way" 1t is simple, harm
less preparation that removes the ca
tarrhal mueus from the intestinal
tract and allays the inflammation
which causes practically all stomach,
liver and intestinal ailments, includ-
ing appendicitis. One dose will con-
vince or money refunded. Wilkinson
G. Co., and druggists everywhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
Won BERNSTORFF
AS WITNESS
Tells Reichstag That He Believed
President Wilson Was Honest
Mediator Before U. S.
Entered War.

United Press Leased Wire Service
BERLIN, Oct. 22.-Before the
United States entered the war Presi-
dent Wilson intended there should
be mo peace without either victor
or vanquished" in the opinion of
Count Won Bernstorff, former Ger
man ambassador to America.
Resuming his testimony this after
noon before the reichstag committee
the war, Won Bernstorff
replied in the affirmative to the
WAS President Wilson an honest
MEDIATOR"
But" continued Won Bernstorff,
I"Wilhelmstrasse (the German foreign
opinion and dictated tactics to be
pursued by me when indicated
clearly their belief. / am honestly
lof the opinion at this time President
Wilson intended there should be no
peace without either VICTOR or van
lquished." ~
Replying to a question by DR..
Shinsheimer. Won Berhstorff said
that he sent a cable to Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg after the lat
tiers visit to German headquarters in
the spring of 1917, but that it was
too late, as America soon declared
war"
did you understand that your in
structions were ito tell President Will
son that Germany was ready for
!peace?" Sinsheimer asked.
"Yes," Won Bernstorff replied.
was President Wilson also
Iready?"
YES"
Sinsheimer then asked il Wilson
was ready to prepare fU an interna-
ftional peace conference without
knowing what Germany would de-
mand in concrete terms. Won Bern
storff replied in the Affirmative.