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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-11
AMERICN LEGION
POST FORMED BY
SERVICE MEN HERE
Continued from page y

bert Lynch; Vice Post Commandant,
r. e. Howes; Adjutant, Merton e.
Ashton; Finance officer. B. H. Dan
iels.
r. E. Howes presided at the meet
ing. Those at the meeting were:
John w. Tinker, r. E. Howes, Ebert
Elliott, Frank H. Hastings, Lyle
Lynch, Charles ]. Gagnon, Walter
E. Dean, Webb Batchelder, B. H.
Daniels, Wilbur w. Garfield, Harold
B. Powell, George E. Drouin, A. N.
Asselin, E. H. Urann, N. Greenwood,
d. M. Guyer, M. e. Ashton.
The Constitution was:
ARTICLE
Name
The name of this organization shall
be The American Legion.
ARTICLE II
Membership
All persons shall be eligible to
membership in this organization who
were in the military or naval service
of the United States during the peri
Cd between April 9th, 1917, and Nov
cmber 18th, 1918, both dates inclusive
and all persons who served in the mil
itary or naval services Of any of
the governments associated with the
United States during the World War
provided that they were citizens Of
the United States at the time of their
enlistment and who are again citizens
at the time of application, except
those persons separated from the SER
vice under terms amounting to dis
honorable discharge, and except also
those persons who refused to perform
their military duties on the ground of
conscientious objection.
ARTICLE III
Nature
While requiring that every member
of the organization perform his full
duty as citizen according to his own
conscience and understanding, the
organization shall be absolutely non
partisan and shall not be used for the
dissemination of partisan principles
or for the promotion of the candidacy
of any person seeking public office or
preferment.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-11

Second Hand "Spence" Hot Water
Heater, large enough for medium
sized house, store, shop, etc. will be
sold for trifle more than it is worth
for junk. Chas. S. Hastings, 20
Main street. 10 #
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-11
ARTICLE VII
Dues

Each state organizer shall pay to
the National Executive Committee or
such officers as said committee may
designate therefor, the sum of Is
cents annually, for each individual
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
DR.. HIPS Testimony

Many Americans who are sufficiently
versed in the law and American diplo-
matte practice to make their opinions of
value with respect to the effect Of ratifi-
cation with reservations, are so placed,
so environed, so committed that their
impartiality is naturally doubted
But two conspicuous citizens, both
long, earnest advocates of International
ism, seem to have escaped the general
distrust and to be recognized as fair and
non-partisan in their attitude toward the
covenant. The Tribune refers to Elhu
Root and DR.. David Jayne Hill, one an
international statesman of the first rank
and the other for many years regarded
as the most learned man connected with
out State Department.
Z With respect to the regularity of rati-
fication with reservations let us call DR..
Hill. In the current number of The
North American Review he says:
Gas to the technique of the procedure
Mr. Root is on sure ground. :.
amendment by reservation Is a we'll es-
tablished procedure and has never
believe, been questioned in any interna-
tonal document where complete sover-
eighty was the necessary postulate Of the
act"
The reservations which VIRGINIA
made when entering the Federal Union
have been mentioned as showing that
reservations are imperative. But, as
DIR. Hill remarks, the citation is ''wholly
irrelevant both in form and principle"
Virginia said that she ratified on the un-
derstanding that "the people of the
United States" may resume the powers
they delegated. Virginia did not reserve
the right to secede as has been inaccu
rately asserted. She recognized the
wholeness of the nation and merely held
that the aggregated people could change
their government. They can. The Vir-
ginia reservation but stated an unchal-
lengeable truism, as valid now as in
1888.
Another objection to ratification with
reservations is that the Supreme Court
has held that interpretative resolutions
do not weigh against the text of rati
fed treaty. But this has no bearing on
the status of reservation which is part
OF the ratifying resolution. The passage
of the independent resolutions which
Senator Pittman, at the instance of the
White House, has submitted to the SEN
ate would be futility. Hence their re-
lection. But President Wilson and Sen,
ator Pittman both know that reserva-
tions made part of ratification would
not be utilities.
The procedure to which the Senate
seems committed may thus be regarded
as usual and regular. The only re-
naming question, then, is the practical
one OF whether the other countries will
upset the treaty rather than sign a doc
ums4S 10 which ws have appended rss-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Shoes Again TO Be Shoes

The Tribune recently discussed the
question raised by Percy Hammond,
whether the human knee is joint or
an entertainment. 1t reached the con-
clusion, which strangely does not seem
to have been challenged by it's readers,
that the aforesaid anatomical part, what
ever it is, is not an entertainment.
Now comes the issue Of whether a
shoe is utility or decoration. With
an abnegation noteworthy in these
profteering days the shoe association has
declared for practically rather than for
art. Its styles committee recommends, in
the interest Of economy, that pedal COW
ering be simple. 1t is no longer to be the
ambition of manufacturer to see how
many kinds Of leather he can use or how
many hues can be introduced into his
color scheme. Only nine tints, so drastic
is the reform, are to be regarded as
orthodox, instead of ninety-nine.
The button bill is to be brought down,
tassels discontinued, and no longer is the
incasement to be such as to suggest that
a young woman is equipped for a fishing
expedition, an impression not removed
until the eyes fall on the elongated cones
that dive down from the heels. Skirts
are longer and the shoe men surrender
the business Of habilimenting several
inches.
When freakish footwear came in, evi-
dence of how difficult it was for our
people to meet the war hardships, organs
of the shoe trade gleefully proclaimed
that at last the shoe man had come into
his own. There was no reason, they
argued, why shoes should be dun and
sober. They pointed to the milliner's
ability to convert bit of straw and rib
bons into confection which trapped a
$40 or $40 bill. Glovers had made
fortunes out Of fancy creations, and so
had fabric makers. The trade was ex-
horted to 60 in for Art. They demanded
its emancipation from profitless sim
plicity. Shoes were no longer to be
merely shoes, but areas to be pointed
and embroidered and furnished as in the
days Of the grand seigneurs. TO aban-
don effort toward realizing this dream
surely shows remarkable self-sacrihce
The country is not going back to the
days when shoes were regarded as nee
essarily black and goose grease was the
national polish. Five tints are left for
vanity to play with. Nor are we to be
weighted with full thickness of cowhide,
nor are clergymen and the softer sex to
be restricted to CATERS. But the threat
passes of being constrained to pay S25
ofor lurid, cubist boots and slippers-the
latter to be abroad on sloppy days and
the former reserved for the -s,3ir or
the den.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Japan's S Record
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There has been an official statement
from the Japanese government, which ap-
reared in many of the New York papers
some days ago, emphasizing the fact that
Japan could not restore Kiao-chau to China
because the government Of the latter has
not yet signed the peace treaty Such
statement is more deusive than it is non
sensical.
What has tho present treaty to do with
the restoration of Kao-chau 10 China? The
Shantung clauses, as they stand in the
treaty expressly transfer to Japan the ter
rltory of kiao- -chau and economic rights in
Shantung Province which were by right Of
treaty, possessed by Germany until China's
declaration of war against the latter in
1917 Should China sign the present noace
treaty without reservation it would auto
matically mean that she acquiesces in the
cession of said territory together with said
economic control to Japan
II Japan has no sinister intention to be-
tray her peaceful neighbor for selfish gain
she should in realizing the real cause of
Chinas refusal to sign the treaty, have
withdrawn her troops from Shantung and
restored to the original owner the territory
OF Kiao- chau and the economic rights which
she had seized from the latter during the
Great War, in order TO mitigate the resent
ment of the Chinese people and TO avoid
the suspicion Of the world. The fact that
she has declined to do all this shows clearly
her untold criminal motive.
Daring the Russo-Japarase War Japan
declared that she would return Port Arthur
and Tallenwan to China, which were leased
by the latter to Russia in 1898 for a period
OF twenty-five years. But after the war
was over Japan demanded the transfer to
herself Of the Russian lease Of these two
ports. The demand was yielded Not salts
fed yet, in 1915 she further demanded tha.
the lease Of twenty-five years should be ex
tended to ninety-nine years This demand
was again yielded after a threat of war on
China. The black record so conspicuouslv
shown in Japan's diplomacy is more than
sufficient to tell the true meaning of
Japanese faith" and Of Japanese policv"
In regard to the question of Shantung.
r. YE YOUNG CHAN.
New York. Aug. IL, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Nine Wives Out of Ten
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

Sir: Wailings about the Servant prob
lem" am sure, must prove highly amusing
to thousands of others who, like myself,
have servants and, unless through some
unexpected kindness of Providence, expect
never to have any
Servants are a luxury, and those who
insist on having them must pay the market
price and accept the market conditions, as
with any other commodity. The clerk who
earns $25 a week and has no automobile
does not lament the fact that automobiles
cost so much, that one must wait SO
long for them to be delivered; the point is,
he cannot afford at any cost, and so
he does without and forgets it.
The person who elects to maintain
home or establishment in such pretentious
fashion that it is necessary to have SER
wants, or servant, certainly is not justi-
ned in complaining because the rest Of
humanity is fortunately enough situated
that it does not have to accept such en-
poyment, which at very best is not in
spring employment. Certainly no one
wishes to be a Servant" If there is any
way out of it, and certainly, Servant"
may feel justified in getting all out Of his,
or her, unenviable lot that the traffic will
bear.
To advocate an influx Of immigration to
lower the grade of native workers to such
a level that there will be an unhappy lot
cf people to draw "servants" from seems a
poor compliment to millions of hard work
ing and intelligent people all over the
country who are satisfied to scramble
along" without Servants" and thankful if
through their own industry and the grace
CT God they may find for themselves he
necessities and moderate comforts of life.
and are not complaining about the labors
attached to maintaining their homes, but
grateful that they have homes.
One Of your correspondents who claims
to be nervous wreck" after doing "half
her housework for two years." calls upon
TIE congress of the land" for relief from
ner terrible predicament. How about the
rlne out of every ten wives and mothers
who do not half, but all, of their work. not
tor two years, but practically all their
lives?
1t is to laugh.
WALTER A. BERGn
Brooklyn, N. z. Aug. 20 1914
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
The Wilson Stand

Let us glance briefly at the events which
led up to the tragedy. In January, 1917,
General Federico Tinoco, at that time
Minister OF War, claiming that the then
President, Alfredo Gonzalez, was illegally
plotting to reelect himself for another
term, and that he was conspiring to throw
the country into the arms of Germany
sprang coup detat and seized the gov
ernment. Three months later free cleo
tions were held and Tinoco was elected
by an overwhelming majority. Shortly
after that the whole country held the
biggest national fete ever known there to
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

ervations. As to this there is little
doubt except that which is manufactured
To say that the European nations would
tear the whole document up rather than
tacitly recognize our interpretative dec
laration is absurd. In the first place,
they want the treaty discussion ended.
In the second place, they want the
United States as member of any kind of
league. They will not cavil, and predic-
tions that they will may be deemed born
Of desperate desire to scare the public
to decision to which it cannot be
brought by honest argument.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Let the Public Organize
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The suggestion in one of your ed;.
torials that the poor abused pubic should
itself go on strike one OF these days will
make strong appeal to the men and women
who have of late been made to sI'Ter bv ths
| highhanded actions of minorities. OF course.
the public viii not strike; it ail not. that
is, go on foot from l65th Street 20 Wall
Street, in order to show its di.approvai Of
the traction managers OF tne.r e,roloyes
neither will it go in taxis There sn', enough
money in the world Ard ,here ave nc.
enough taxis.
But it is time that something be done
to enable the people as whole 20 protect
themselves against the arbitrary. mighi-is-
right action of selfish minor.tes Hundred,
of thousands of commuters have recently
been forced to accept decimatcd train
schedule by the strike Of haedfn ~ shop-
men IN New Haven; millions have been in
convenienced to the last degree ammed.
shuffled about, stepped on. forced 20 extreme
exertion, by a few thousand STRIKERS on he
B. r. T. and the subways % Manhattan A
tie-up of all the railroads is threatened by
group comprising possibly Two ril.ion who
will If they fit, bring discomfort untold
loss and possibly starvation to hundred
million, with death to thousands as an in-
evitabe accompaniment. In Washington the
House has voted TO repeal the daylight saw
ing bill over the Presidents ve-o. st me
behest of the farmers. goaded and backed ne.
imprcoably, by tho coal. gas and electricity
interests. The majority Of the American
people, / am convinced, derive pleasure. COM
fort, satisfaction and profit from the new
adjustment of the clock IN sumner. This
majority, however. which IS technically and
sentimentally Supposed 10 govern. is COM
pletely disregarded.
If the public were composed Of quadrupeds
some charitable soul would undoubtedly long
since have organized a Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Rabbits Bat since
this public is composed only Of men and
women supposed to be reasoning beings, no
one thinks of organizing it in order 10 enable
1t to make use of the power which is IN
herent in its very numbers
Labor organizes, capital organizes ths
farmers interests organize. ard so on Why
should not the public organic. es-ablshng
non~partisan Common Welfare society.
which should represent the interests Of ne
long suffering public at tho conferences Of
employers and employees and should mako
clear to voters the issues of the conflicts
from which they have suffered. and the public
officials, ii any, on whom the blame rests
for any violence which may occarg
l frankly admit that the idea sounds q
bit wild. 1t may be altogether iupiacticabe.
Perhaps 1t viii stimulate somebody wiser
and cannier than l to think o.; sons plan
that viii work. 1t is time that some rabbit
should make his fellow rabbits realize that
million rabbits making arted front
might possibly be more than "a match for
twenty thousand foxes. "Bre'r Fox" was
outwitted by one
HERMANN HAGEDORN
Fairfield, Conn, Aug % 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
NN SUNDAY evening, August 10, ex-
Y , Vice-Presidcnt and Minister of War

Y J Vice-Presidcnt and Minister Of War
General ]. Joaquin Tinoco, while
walking alone to the house of a cabinet
minister and only one block from his own
home, was assassinated-sh in the head
from behind-in San Jose, capital of Costa
Rica
The fact and the, circumstances call for
moro than passing notice. Curiously
enough, no news of the event was received
here until Wednesday, the 18th. On that
day the State Department in Washington
gave out the bare fact, without details,
referring to it in casual manner and
dismssing it in two three lines, which
were embodied or imbedded in a story
about the political situation in Costa
Rica. Then The Associated Press got
busy and on the 17th and 18th gave us
two cabled interviews from Kingston,
Jamaica, with President Federico Tinoco,
brother of the assassinated man, who had
just arrived there from Costa Rica, and a
cable from its correspondent at San jose.
General Federico Tinoco says that his
brother was murdered by paid assassin,
and that the plot was hatched in Nicaragua
and Washington By that, it is to be un-
derstood he does not mean that any Of
our officials citizens had hand in it.
He refers rather to revolutionaries against
his government operating from Nicaragua
and Washington. But can our own gov
ernment, one wonders, feel entirely COM
Portable?
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
Tribune Features

TIC the Editor of the Tribane,
Sir: Does The Tribune ever have
birthday? If so. when is it, And when
it does come. does The Tribune cole5rate'
II not, why not
May | not suggest "malus celebren-
di," which, l am sure, viii meet The approval
of each and every Tribune fan Publish
a concise history of The Tribune. including
names and photos Of early editors and
famous contrbs photos Of the Tribune
Building, past and presen., the dates OK
the first appearance Of each Of your feat-
tres. including Briggs. and 1eysood
Broun's book column. and ending with
statement of the policy Of The Tribune
and its ideals. feel certain that many OF
your readers would appreciate suca nior-
nation and be grateful for it
What would he most grateful fo' how
ever. is a series OF photographs of he
Tribune staff One could apprec ate me
charming chatter Of His Knobs r ?. A.
and the gossip and wit Of ys other col
yumnists il one could first study their
physiognomy. The learned brows Of DO
editorial staff might also grace such his
torical review with good effect and 80 good
purpose.
Who viii deny that the beamng copnte-
nance II Grantland Rice at the head o. his
column makes his mess1gc more pisas-
antly personal one That unique and per-
sonal note found everywhere m The lfio-
une soon makes the casual reader a hrm
friend. Bind your readers by stronger
tie by visually introducing your friends 10
your staff. Let's have the pictures
Utica N Y Au9 Is 1914 RlA
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

have full equality with us and every
body, even though they lack power.
1t is not necessary to agree with the
conclusion of so-called bitter-enders
touching their duty as Senators, but dif
ference as to this does not justify falsi-
fication of their views or warrant re-
fusal to recognize that their motive Is a
high one.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
The Eh;dcdt Blister Deeds Taylor

Mr.. Rupert Hughes, who, he says, approaches
with reverence actual dialogue, proves 1t by
writer's who faithfully transcribe speech--an nd
the only one know who with consistent truth
sets down cold head and lisping dialects.
Coming Tower.
Do Si9. joid issue with you. Blister Hughes,
hde his work Is, dot the "odly ode' Eved
his cold- -d-thc-head stuff cad dot ad does dot
surpass Deebs Tayors "Barch: Soddet,' i'd
THE CEDTURY Lighter Veid several years ago
Il thigk Nideeed-twclve thrteed. You dow
Deebs Taylor; fde poeb of his Id a recedt
Coddig Tower, or "Colyub" side "Sbeed." Theb
do hib justice, ruat coelub!
Yours frbly
Corrybeela, ROBERT EBBET WARD.
Hignlads
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

The two young women who have re-
turned from war service with 234
notches on their parasols, each repre-
sentlng young man who would not do.
have no war medals, but they don't need
any The proud consciousness of duty
we'll done is enough. But let no one be
mean enough to suggest that in the next
war tunnels will be needed to give
patriots chance to get over before tho
real game is over.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
The 7inoco Tragedy
By One Who KNOWS Costa Rico

celebrate the Inauguration of the new
government. Tinoco consulted the wise
and respected men Of the country in every
thing he did; his aims were high, and his
government was much praised. But he had
allowed ex-President Gonzalez to leave
the country, and this gentleman had flown
to Washington and told President Wilson
how good man he, Gonzalez, was, and
what bold, bad man was Tinoco. There
at President Wilson is said to have de-
cared he would never recognize Tinoco.
And he never has. 1t made no difference
to him that Tinoco soon afterward be-
came President by election He persisted
in viewing the Costa Rican government
as revolutionary regime and all the
entreaties and persuasions of his own min
lsters, of Senators and Congre ssmen. of
prime ministers in Europe and in Latin
America that he should let the little coun-
try have the privilege of choosing its own
government and that he should not stultify
that choice were in vain.
Il FerOci0us Deed
The consequences of President Wilson's
refusal to accord recognition were many
and farreachng. England and France
were obliged to suppress their own in
clnations and withhold recognition also;
Costa Rica found itself more and more
throttled financially and economically; it's
exchange dropped to an embarrassing
point; its business was hampered and
crippled; the Gonzalez revolutionists wero
encouraged and large army had to be
raised and maintained to fight them off
This continued for two and half years.
until at length the Tinocos apparently
could stand the strain no longer About
a month ago Don Federico appeared be-
fore the Costa Rican Congress and told
it the situation. He intimated that he
wished to retire, and they voted him leave
of absence on account of the state of his
health. Arrangements were made for him
to leave the country. On August his
broaher Joaquin resigned the Vice-Prcsi-
dency and the Ministry of War; and they
were both to leave with theA families
on the 11th. That is why the assassina-
ton on the 10th was particularly cold bloodcd
and ferocious
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
DOrth CarOida.
August Dideteedth, Dideteed-dideteed

1t is right to add that whenever we make
a statement to the effect that anybody is
the best this that, always except
Deems Taylor Almost anything Mr. Taylor
does he can do better than most of the head
liners in the same field. Large fortunes and
big regulations are made by men with one
twentieth of his gifts.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23
The Coming 7ower
"When as in Silks"

"When as in silks my Julia goes
Or even in silkoline or gingham,
/ feel the duty to compose
Some songs about her, and to sing 'em
A whelming urge is what feel
To celebrate her in sonnet,
To sing her from her slippered heel
Up to the zenith Of her bonnet.
Ineffable though she may be,
seek articulate expression
Of chow that glittering taketh me-"
GA quoted, but true confession.)
Sing I my Julia's fair array,
Not that she may be unforgotten,
But verse is gold; and l must pay
For Julia's silks-or even cotton.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-23

The city spends approximately S.
100000 daily for food, and the first day
of the army sale, after about million
dollars worth of advertising, did onlv
$4,000 of business. The figures are re-
spectfully referred to the statisticians
and to the element which is sure the
newspapers have no influence.