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New-York tribune., 1919-10-30

Congress must sit idly by and the
last farewells can be said with only
the pocHetbook the limit. So runs
the gossip in the demons camp, and
it is not to be ignored. The demon
took the count yesterday, and New
York went dry with a dryness never
heard of before in all our long sland
story. But the ultimate thrust re-
mains to be given. The tail still
wagg'es and fire still glows within.
A very groggy dragon still refuses
to yield.
So let us not expect the impos-
sib.e, and let us not be too critical of
dryness and it's works until it is
really here.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
The Woman Who Worked

There are two views of the fate OF
those women who took on mems jobs
during the war. The cynics see in
their many activities only a passing
fad, which, being passed, will leave
no mark upon society and will not be
repeated soon. There is the other
point of view expressed recently i'll
short story by Mrs. Alice Duer Mil
Ter, wherein a suitably charming
young woman suffering from the
current notorious postwar restless
ness, complicated by a slight attack
f love, was cured of her major COM
plant by going to work again. She
became q scrub lady exactly as she
had been in the Red Cross in Paris.
The story does not say so much of
scrubbing as a career as of the en-
thusiasm for a job which job sue
cessfully performed by some one who
has never done anything successfully
except pout can inspire. The moral
is suggestive hint rather than a
,arge conc, ,usion.
The problem of each war worker
is personal, and it is not easy to gen.
cralize But it is safe to assume
arge part of the cynics' assertion.
The fervor of the war did not re-
make souls by the wholesale, as vari-
US optimists are learning to their
iorrow. 1t is not going to convert
all war workers or many war work
ers into self-supporting indepen-
lents. The world is not changed as
rapidly as that, and would probably
be very hectic and eruptive and
impossible place to dwell in if it
could be so changed.
On the other hand, there are the
women who showed a real aptitude
FOR business or wage-earning and
found more pleasure and success in
it than they ever took from home
making or housekeeping. For such
a choice is not easy. But it is easier
than it would have been ten years
ago, or even Just before the war.
The war has shaken our ideas loose,
even if it has not altered our per-
5onalities. For a married woman to
work at job is no longer a wild,
declosse proceeding. 1t may be odd,
bat 1t no longer disgraces the hus-
band. The thing has been Ione, the
zee has been broken, and no decades
of peace can take back what the
war demonstrated to men and
women as to women's capabilities in
the first place, and to some women,
in the second place, as to what fun
there is in job.
Upon such still exceptional and
brilliant successes, whether of scrub
bing or bond selling Or canteen run
ming, is any shift of the future likely
to be built. The dubs will resume
their amiable and precious dubdom
The clever ones will, whatever their
husbands and children and families
and sets and suburbs think, continue
to work. Having once tried and sue
ceeded, they cart help trying again.
That is natures little way of utiliz-
ing wars and other trihes to her Job
of improving the well-known and
most unjustly celebrated human
race.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30

appear in an outside court as de-
fendant against group Of its own
nationals.
Rumania and Serbia are willing to
accept the principle of extra-national
minority rights, if it is applied to
all nations alike. But, as every one
knows, the major powers would not
tolerate such an abridgment Of
their sovereignty. Take the United
States, for instance. Our people
have been aroused to the need of
nationalizing and Americanizing the
many separate linguistic and racial
groups which have established them
selves here. Protest would BE uni
versal if the peace conference should
attempt to compel the United
States to recognize those groups as
entitled to special privileges and to
an appeal to the league OF nations
whenever they thought such privi-
leges threatened. Would the Ameri-
can people concede the right Of
each linguistic group here to main
tain its own schools and exploit it's
own culture? The question answers
itself. We want no sub-nations with
in the nation. Whatever may be said
in favor of protecting the racial,
linguistic and religious mnorities in
Rumania and Serbia, the method of
protection adopted by the peace con-
ference is dangerously anti-national-
istc. 1t is in conflict with the prac-
tises Of the freer and stronger
states.
1t is likely also to lead to inter-
minable controversies in the league
of nations council. The United
States will necessarily be involved
in these. Rumania, Serbia, Jugo-
Slavia, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland
will all resent having their domestic
affairs dragged before the council.
In addition to the external rivalries
of these states, domestic animosities
will probably keep the council in a
turmoil.
Rumania and Serbia have strong
case. 1t is supported by logic. The
conferences policy is arbitrary and
experimental. Why should the major
powers impose on the minor ones
obligations which they themselves
would refuse to accept?
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
A Life Saver
o the Editor of The Tribune


Sir: Apropos of smoking in the nall
ing places' II Is a very good thing in
deed as long as they are appointed in
iaundries, tailor shops and crowded lit
tie dens of all sorts. | registered this
year in tailor shop measuring six by
e'ght, or so. entirely surrounded by
clothes on hangers. steamed, half
steamed gasolincd and in process of
gasollning. The odor from these unaired
garments was wholly indascrib bic, and
'he sheil or tobacco as it presently as
serted itself was entirely welcome. To-
Dacco Is said to oe germ killer It
destroys moths. 1t is entirely sanitary.
AS choice Of polling place smells, give
mo tobacco. MARIE HEMSTREET.
New York, Oct %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
His Greatest C,ift
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: After reading "Theodore Roose-
velt's Letters to His Chi dren,' edited
by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, can bu,
feel that his greatest gift to mankind
is i'll the example he set as hu band
and father The solid basis of
"Americanization" is really to be
found In the revelation of his char
acter that these letters provide Take
heed. oh, parents and teachers,
Mrs OLIVE DURANT SMITH.
Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct 26, 1910
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
The Minor Case

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The statement of the Secretary
of War regarding the release of
Robert Minor from the custody of the
American army in France falls fiat to
those of US who were in Paris at the
time and were not ignorant of the pro
Bolshevik attitude and activities Of
certain members of the American
Peace Commission. 1t will be remem-
bered that the President himself tried
by various methods for several months
to get the Allies to make peace with
the Bolsheviki- although he finally
agreed, for purposes Of accord, to the
modified French program of recogniz-
ing and supporting the anti-Bolshevik
forces and although, since his return
to America, the President has warned
Us Of the danger Of Bolshevism if the
peace treaty is not ratified without
serious reservations.
When Minor arrived in Paris from
Russia and Germany Che had been in
those countries ostensibly as a news
paper correspondent he pretended to
other American correspondents that he
was hostile to the Bolsheviki. A few
days after his arrival he was arrested
by the French authorities, who per
mitted him TO send note Of Informal
t.on TO has friend, Lincoln Stetfens, an
other radical, who had recently been
n
half Of the American peace delegation
IN the delegations final effort to find
means of bringing about peace be-
tween the Bolsheviki and the Allies.
Stefens Immediately took up the
matter of Minors arrest with Colonel
House, who promised to have it in
Vestigated, and later Stcffens took it
up with other members of the peace
mission, some of whom were openly
and continuously hostile to the Allies.
particularly the French, though few OF
them we're bold enough admittedly to
favor the Bolshcviki as Bulitt and
Stetfens We're doing.
On investigating the matter Colonel
House learned that the French had
promptly turned Minor over to the
American military authorities, and. ac
cording to information given out to the
press, the evidence was sufficient to
warrant the shooting Of Minor. The
army had knowledge that he had con-
nived and worked with Germans to
spread seditious propaganda among the
troops of our Allies who were then
holding, with our own, the military
front along the Rhine Nevertheless
suddenly and without much, if any,
more reason than that which Secretary
Baker now gives, Minor was released
have no evidence that any superior
influence was brought to bear in
Minors behalf, but that it was exer-
clscd continuously for many days in
the Crillon Hotel is fact
With influence among Americans
occupying very high Offices, it is not
surprising that Minor feels it IS not
necessary / ere in the United States to
ontinue his pretense OF hostility TO
the Bolsnoviki.
FRTDEPICK MOORE.
1Formerly Correspondent of The New
York Tribune at Paris.
New York, Oct. %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
San Fruncisco's
Decline
From The Spokane spokesmanReuie.c)


of the growth of manufacturing
Industries at Los Angeles. whii,
manufacturing was shrinking at San
Francisco. presents an intensely inter
esting economic lesson of what mus
follow when costs of production moGus
at one place and are held within bounds
at another.
Thirty years ago San Francisco had
l,74s manufacturing establ shments.
providing employment for S2.555 wago
earners. Twenty years later the
number of establishments had III
creased only AZ. and the number {
wage earners had decreased to 2s,24i.
a loss of nearly 1000.
AT Los Angeles. in exactly the
same period the number of manu-
featuring establishments Increase
from 534 in 1899 to 1926 in 1909, and
the number Of wage earners grew
from 5,l7S to 1927.
1t is generally thought in California
that the census to. be taken next year
will show a still more remarkable
loss at San Francisco and still
greater growth at Los Angeles.
These char ges. as was to he ex-
pected, are reflected in the genera
growth of the two cities. While Sar
Francisco's population increased bu1
SO per cent in the twenty years be
tween 1890 and 1910. the population OF
Los Angeles showed an extraordinary
growth from so 395 TO 3l9,l9S-nearly
$50 per cent.
IN California the reason is very well
understood. San Francisco passed IN
der the sway of an intolerant, IN
reasoning labor union leadership.
Manufacturers and other employers
there faced an incessant demand for
more wages, coup ed with iminishine
output, due in part to the shortening
of the labor day, but in larger par
to systematic policy on the part OF
der the economic fallacy that they
were prov, ding jobs for a greater
number of workmen, when the census
record shows that they were throw
ing near.y 1000 wage earners out o.
employment, and all that notwith-
standing the general growth in the
Pacific Coast states.
1t Will help us to catch the full i'm
port of this depres sing loss at Son
Francisco and amazing gain at Los
Angeles to bring home the illustra~
ton to the cities of Washington. II.
twenty years hence, Seattle. having
followed its present course, on takine
stock should find that it then had
1000 fewer wage earners than It has
to-day; that its industries had been
driven away to another city or cities:
that its population had scarcely grown
in twenty years, while that of Port
land, Tacoma, Everett or Belinghan
had grown nearly COO per cent-tha.
record would be identical with tn
experience that has come to San Fran
cisco.
The warning lesson apnlies, o.
course, to Spokane and other cities
that are hoping for steady growth. IT,
from increasing production costs they
must ask for their manufactures
higher prices than are asked by their
competitors in other cities. eithe,
East or West. their hope Of growth
will not be realized. They will havo
to travel the same downward road
that San Francisco travelled so long
Many of their wage carners viii have
to move on to distant cities in search
of work. with all that means of los
and sacrifice to men who have built
homes or acquired other interests and
ties.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
"A Great Free People
To the Editor OF TIE Tribune.

10 the Editor OF TIE Tribune.
Sir: In the October number o.
Scr'bner's Magazine" in letter
from Theodore Roosevelt to Sir George
ifevciyan, dated December 8, 1904 is
TIE following sentence: "A great free
people owes it to itself and to man
KIND rot 10 sink into helplessness be.
lore the powers of evil"
am writing to suggest that you
place this sentence ut the head of your
editorial page as long as these presen.
trouhlous times exist.
MARGARET f. TAUBE.
New York, Oct. 27, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
Silent Millions

There are millions of small invest
ors, policyholders and depositors in
this country that are the backbone Of
its economic and social life. But they
have no mouthpiece. Their interests
are represented at no conference. They
come from all ranks Of society. Most
of them grin with delight at the car
toon of the potbelled old rascal la
beled "Capital" or employer" espe-
cially when brick lands on his head.
They do not recognize themselves in
the picture.
But the day is at hand when we must
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30

Should stern duty require Mr..
Hearst to finance another political
party as the only way to compel the
wicked to recognize his fitness for
Office, no difficulty will be expert
ned in selecting a ballot symbol.
Of course, a cyclone cellar quiescent
with a Governor outside rampant.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
!abor's Partnership

He may grant the need Of reforms in
our present institutions; he may ad
vocate further restrictions on stock is
sues and transactions; he may favor a
new deal for labor which will satisfy
labor's honest desire for a partnership
IN the industries to which it gives its
blood and muscle; but against him
who threatens to overthrow those in
stitutions this silent army is ready.
Theodore Roosevelt freed this coun-
try from the underground government
OF the "high fnanciers." 1t needs no
such fearless leader to keep it free
from the usurpation of the machinery
OF industry and government by the
group of radicals that has at last
shown it's true color in the American
Federation of Labor.
CHARLES LAW WATKINS.
New York, Oct. "a, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
The Coming 7ower
CHICKEN CHOW MEIN
sit at a table of marble and wood.

I sit at a table of marble and wood.
With little blue plates and a pot:
The rice in the saucer is steaming and good
The tea is delectably hot
/ summon the slave with clap Of my hands
And whisper hint in his ear
And 10 The is gone to his mystery lands
An instant-behold! He is here!
Ho futile old nouns. Intellectual verbs
Away with your pitifu whine
Here's Chicken with Sweet and with Savory
Impeccable Chicken Chow Mein!
I pluck thy dear streamers Of tawny- -and-gold
Whose fairy gauze ouivers and clings-
The centuries fly and | sniff as of old
The scent OF celestial things.
Then set out the Chess Men-let joss-candles
stream
Pet dragons a-purr at my knee).
While l drift with the dallying incense to
dream
OF thy delicate, succulent. Orient geam-
Sweet Acknowledged chicken. of thee!
LEMUgL.
Not since the reading of ETHAN
Frome" do we recall seeing a grimmer
short story than the following descrip-
ton, written by Omer F. Bre wn, Sheriff
of Kokomo, Ind, of Ira N. Kaufman:
Age 40 years wears 6Hs shoes,
pleasant manners and good mixer,
smokes, drinks at times heavily, pool
player, occupation timer, plumber,
steamfitter. He left crippled, helpless
and dependent wife and eloped with
Mrs. Lucy Simmons of Hobbs. Ind. She
is tall, angular, emaciated about AZ
or so years. Roman nose, swarthy COM
plexion, sunken eyes with dark circles,
long thin neck, dark hair streaked with
gray, occupation cook in restaurant
If we were Mr.. Theodore Dresser we
could make 582 pages of that. But
Sheriff Brown himself has written one
of the best short stories of the year.
The reward offered for Ira, which
strikes us as prodigal, is $50.
The Advantage of Being an Actor
Playwright
[From The Tribune
At the same time Mr. Weber viii pro-
duce another new play. The Beautiful
Virgin" drama by Harry Durant, VINO
has been engaged for the role.
Any reference to the brave days Of
old brings out the reminiscers. "The
Geisha,'" writes w. Kaye, "opened in
London in 1897. at Daly's Theater,
with Hayden Coffin as Lieut.. Reginald
Fairfax Marie Tempest as 0. Mimosa
San, Huntley Wright as Wun-Hi and
Lefty Lind as Mollie Seamore.
celebrated my twenty-tirst birthday by
seeing The Geisha' for the fourth
time, and in this same year | saw the
motion pictures of the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight at the Royal Aquarium,
and witnessed Queen Victoria's Dia-
mond Jubilee procession from the
crossbar of a street lamp IN the
Strand. The American Biograph Com
pany, also in that year, took a mo-
tion picture Of the National Hunt Cup
race, near LlVe'pool, at o CLOCK IN
the afternoon, and reproduced it on
the screen at the Palace T'heater that
night an unprecedented achieve
ment."
It is also remembered by many that
the young woman who understude1
Miss Dorothy Morton in "The Geisha"
is Mrs. w. f. Corey and was Miss
Mabellc Gilman.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30

But when the revered Doctor writes,
wherever you may live in This Great
City or its environs you are near The
Funeral Church." he is lifting his
stuff from Horace, whose remarks on
the inescapability from the so-callel
Grim Reaper are Old Stuff
The Ohav Shoelum congregation
laid the cornerstone Of their new
synagogue on East Third Street Sun
day afternoon in the presence of a
large number of onlookers. The Burn
ham band furnished the music by
playing All Hail the Power of Jesus
Standardization, Pa, Gazette.
$50 many faiths. so many creeds"-
According to the printed story, Mr..
Tumulty said that he was going to see
"the King of Belgium; and the presi
dent corrected him with "The King Of
the Belgians." But what Mr.. Tumultv
probably said was "The King of the
Belgiums.'
HYMNS OF HATE
A murrain on my colleague. Sadie.
She always yawps "Oh Lady LADY -
My moral sense grows strangely freaky
When Edmund calls them "Bulsheviki."
And Annabe!le's an Aphrodte
Who'll perish for Good Nightie, Nigftie. I"
For Ed I'd bang the gong funereal;
His favorite gag line is "severial'
With glee I'd pass rio to the Borgas
She's SO promiscuous with her .Corpeous -
Some day in tortures Bill will die:
He says, She's little but--oh myl'
| dare not print my thoughts of John
The half-wit says, yes, yes-go onv'
KIT
IsoscELEs
Lou
Now that the packers appear to
have control of many large hotels.
it is reasonable to suppose that, un-
der their altruistic supervision. petty
graft. like the hat-cAeck pestie ence
and the Scent newspaper blight, VIII
disappear.
News from Washington arouses q
desire to have Mr. Gelett Burgess
write a Group Book.
We have known joins, we have known
emporin
Where the rum was sold, where the
gin was vcndcd;
All, all are closed, the old familiar
places.
But on the day Of the treaty's rati-
iication,
Then, conjccture-and who shalt
now gainsay me 2?
All, all Will open, the old familiar places.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
erBscRlrTiON Majesty MAIL. mcludtns
Postage. In THE UNITED STATES AND
RANIEE

vsu cat purchase .nefchaadtse advertised In THE
thlBUNe with absolute ssiev-tor u dlssatsfac.
ton resuIt. IN any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
10 pay your msney back upon request No red tape
At suibn,t W MAKE gaov eftmptH the
sfvsrtIser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
The Streetcar Puzzle

t''o"' Fhd Philadelphia Psbric Lsdoer,
Ns a wise passenger who knows be-
lorehand which type of strcetcar he
is getting into.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
Monkeys of the Future

tFrom The Toledo Blade)
We see the time coming when
man will feel no older than a monkev
gland.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
Your Agents

This ho~de Of hoarders has intrusted
its wealth to bankers, insurance COM
panies and stock companies. The off,
GERS of these institutions are simply
the agents in whose hands this ac-
cumulat. ION of small sums is confded
and made available for the conduct
and growth of industry and commerce.
If these agents have taken advantage
of their position "on the inside' to
make large private fortunes for them
selves by stock manipulation, stock
bonuses and other tricks Of finance, it
does not necessarily follow that the
capitalistic system is bad and that the
small capitalist along with the great
should be annihilated. Nor does it fol-
low that the situation will be remedied
b, surrendering the control of industry
to organized labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 80, 1919

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Rogers Reid. Secretary. A. suter Treasurer
An sres> Ttibtr.e .;u,idrs III NASSAU Street. New
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New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
The Small plane

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Slr: In your editorial this mornine.
under the title "The Small Planes
Success" we feel that you have been
unlntentlonally unfair in setting forth
the facts of Captain Donadson's p ane
and motor, which have just completed
the transcontinental fight.
The impression created by the edi
torlal is that this is a French or for
elgn, victory rather than an America "
victory. 1t is apparent that the writer
OF the editorial does not realize that
the plane and the motor OF Captain
Donaldson are American built.
The SE-5 was originally an adapta
tion made by the English of the French
Spad, and this type of plane, as it
was finally built in this country, was
quite further modified by American en-
gineers.
This plane was equipped with an
Americana built Hlspano motor. MANN
factured by the Wright Martin Air
craft Corporation at New Brunswick.
~ ). Our corporation operates under
license agreement with the Hispano-
Suiza Company, of Barcelona, Spain.
However, the American built Hispano
is greatly modified from the foreien-
built Hlspano, and has been thoroughly
Americanized through continuous
production period OF three years dura-
ton.
Therefore, it is felt that this victory
is just as essentially an American vic
tory as if De Haviland plane with
Liberty motor had won this race, and.
further, it is felt that this victory re-
i,ects just as much credit On the armv
air service and on American industry.
f. B. RENTSCHLER.
New Brunswick. N. j., Oct. 20, 1919
In connection with the above.
Captain Rentschler is evidently not
aware that the Spad entry in the
transc1ntlnental air race, success
fully flown by Lieutenant R. L.
Maughan, was built in France, and
also that 1t was equipped with 22O-
horsepower Hispano Suiza motor
bullt IN France. He is also appar-
entity unaware that the SE-5 flown
IN the race by Captain j. 0. Donald
son was built in England, although
it is true that this particular shin
was fitted with a 1sO-horsepower
ltlspano-Suiza motor built in this
country. Both Of these machines
arrived in Mineola from Eurone
bout three days prior to the start
of the race. He is correct in stating
ehat the victory of these airplanes
reflects credit on the army air SER
vice, and our editorials upon the race
have unreservedly stated so.-Ed1
New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
CIR: A picture has been framed in
y the public mind of an overfed Old
fellow with silk hat, a fancy vest
and a fat cigar. The cartoonists have
created him. One day he is labeled
Capital" and on the next employer
1t has led to confusion when the
need of clear seeing was never SO
great.
AS a matter of fact. every man and
woman is capitalist who has dollar
in the bank or owns the smallest secur-
ity. A true caricature of the capitalist
would be composite picture of every
Industrious and thrifty American. The
combined savings of the millions of
provdent workers is vaster capital
than the great fortunes of the few.