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New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

Mr.. Frazier Hunt, the reporter who
copped the treaty, is a chronicler who re-
tans his curiosity-a quality without
which Journalist, whether he writes
movers or verses or covers ball games. NAV
as well resign. Last August Mr.. Hunt
wearied of reporting army doings and
yearnlng for romance, asked Admiral Will
son whether he mightn't take a trim with
destroyer. We saw Mr.. Hunt as he do
parked, after four-day trip. "Romance? ?n
we asked. "Romance!" he answered. "Au
saw for four days was the Cantan,s
cabin. It's got zigzag shaped sword b.ra-
ing on the wall"
The treasured Times horns in on the
discussion OF slang by hailing "horninp inn
as phrase "full of dew and grass 80
great herds and spaces, of all the buco1ic
beauty and freshness and forward -thrust-
ing rush of the Banana Belt!" Tut, How
Ing IN is so old phrase that we believe
even Mr. Woodrow Wilson himself would
use it without quotes
we are taking over the German sh;ns
but there our imagination stops. But whv
rot appropriate, for the purpose of catch
ing the bomb plotters, what was spnnosoa
10 be the most efficient of all German in
stitutions?
why not take over the German Secret
Scryice2 rp
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
DUTY CALLS

Contribs get busy r. P A.
At tennis has begun to play.
FOR this is spring, and spring is when
He lays aside his fountain pen
And swings racquet all the day.
Shall we our noble Chief hetray
When he most needs our pife? Nay!
Let's not confne him to his den!
Contrbs, get busy
Right now I might be far away
At countryside, in the bay
Taking dip. But plainly then
Id be least dutiful of men.
My Job is to complete this layl
Contribs, get busy!
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
Or Like an American

tFrom Tho 81. Louiy Post D4spafoh,
Won Tirpitz has shaved off his whskers.
lie must be trying to look human.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
The Coming Towcr
NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES

vi
The years might come, tho years might 20
Ger Hannah Humphreys head;
Hannah remained in statu quo.
A-lying in her bed
She hardly deigned to speak, they said,
Or elevate her eyes,
And, by faithful daughter fed.
Attained enormous size.
One day the house burst into fame,
And all were in despair:
'Iwould be, they thought, burning shame
10 leave poor Hannah there.
Yet who should be the ono to dar.
To save her from her doom?
Who that prodigious bulk could bear
In safety from the room?
As in excited tones they spoke
And strove to frame plan.
Forth through their circle Hannah broke
And like deer she ran.
She sped as only fat folk can
When fear is on their track:
she vanished from the sight of man
And nevermore came back.
u. .. B.
When the all too human race gets on
basis of four hours work day it will
haVe' the theorists tell US, more time for
reading. But those who supply reading
matter also will work fewer hours. so the
amount of reading matter will decrease.
The problem is one we have deliberated
on Tor eight minutes, which is the time,
under our labor schedule, allowed for q
paragraph We are compelled to leave it
unsolved, and the human race hereby is
lett to Its own ridiculous devices.
This month";" runs Max Lifitz's adver-
tlsement in the Paterson Evening News
and there is not more romance in the first
chapter of "The Mayor of Casterbridge"-
we are holding June Bride Sale"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
The Life of Spice

SIR: Tell Walter Prichard Eaton that
the team on Hammerstein's roof was Rice
and Provost, not Provost, and that the
lafter's la specially was pretending to fall
'SSI naSchwards across the footlights, from
which calamity he was always saved at
the hnal second by Rice, who clutched him
by the slack of his loose attire and brought
him back to safety. Also, those we're the days
When W a masked dancer calling herself La
Domlno Rouge, who afterwards turned out
TO be Mile. Dazzle, set the town afre with
curiosity as to her identity. Can you
Imagine that happening now? And does
Mr Eaton remember that anv one who
burst into the limelight IN those days, for
whatever cause, was Immediately offered
an engagement at Hammerstein's I have
IN mind specifically the case of the two
girls who shot millionaire, and who were
given week at Hamme rsteins on the
strength of it. And I think it was Loney
Haskall' who, observing their premiere
performance, remarked: "If they want to
get second week anywhere they'll have
to shoot another millionaire"
One of our laughingest recollections is
of Yorke and Adams, as they sang parody
on II Don't Like No Cheap Man" which
ran:
Jake Mendel has grocery store on FORSYTH
Street and Grand,
HIS daughter Rebecca she served ice cream at
soda water stand;
She got stuck on nice young man what was
glass eater in a show
He asked Jake Mendel for his dauehter,. hand
but Mendel he said No.
He said:
Il don't like cheap man that makes his
money on the instalment plan
A''a' the reason wouldn't let my daughter
marry a man with such monkey face
l wouldn't let her marry cheap glass eater
That gets his money in big theatre;
a butcher or tailor a baker Is a business
But actor wouldn't do"
IN order that our vagrant and treacher
Gus memory may cease to wander, ]. !. M
and f. G. 7. offer that "Little JOHNNY
Dugan" was sung in "a Parlor Match~.
l.. l.. c. says it was Andrew Mack's sono.
e. B. credits Sheridan and FLYNN with #.
+. M. gives it to William Collier; and
b. G. l.. recalls Bobby Gaylor as it's SINGER
Old Fred Hawthorne, scorning the pomp
OF the Persians, entities his column Of
tennis notes "Hawthorne's Tennis Notesv y
Faults and Aces" is another possibility
and Mr.. Sigmund Spaeth, the rutilant
chronicler, offers "The Voleys of 1919"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

Owned published daily by New York Tribune Inc :.
New York Corporation. Ogden Head. President; a.
Vernon Rogers vic President Helen Rogers Reid secre
tary: T.. A Suer Treasurer Address, Tribune Buildms
15i Nassau Street. Now York. Telephone BeeSman Sooo
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

why not take over the German Secret
wv ''S'' F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
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IN TIE United STATES AND CANADA:
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New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
The German Fleet

1t is possible to sympathize with the
sentimental aspect of the plan to escort
the captured German navy to some spot
where the water is exceptionally deep
and sink it there. That would be d
dramatic and colorful proceeding, rival
ling the great scene at Scapa Flow when
the larger part of the German navy sur
rendered.
The ceremony would be wasteful.
Ships are ships, and even junk is junk.
The German navy contains many small
vessels which might be of use to other
countries and might bring good price
if put up at auction. 1t also contains
many modern major ships. These un-
doubtedly have value too high to
Justify their use as the raw material of
a naval pageant. Would the Allied
powers be willing to throw into the sea
the millions of marks which the German
fleet represents in original cost or even
in present bargain counter values?
1t is less important to sink the exist
ing German navy in depths where it will
be "spurlos" than it is to provide
against the construction of new Ger
man navy. The surrendered fleet can
do no harm if disposed Of to governments
which find a use for its various units,
or even to the junkman What may
make trouble is the German fleet of the
future. A clause in the treaty of peace
prohibiting or strictly limiting German
naval construction will help the cause Of
world peace more than spectacular
consignment of existing construction to
the lowest bed of the ocean.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
The Parlor Bolsheyists

'sow valuable is the time of sub
10 smittee Of the Senate Judiciary
committee? How large is the bill which
must be met OUT of the money paid by
the taxpayers for days session?
obviously the time of the sub-com-
mitsee is not precious and the cost is
niue. Else Senator Overman and his
colleagues would not have wasted CIV
erai days listening to the haranpues Of
American Bolsheviki who know little
ABOUT contemporary conditions in pus-
sia and who would not tell the truth
if they knew it.
Witnesses who left Russia manu
months ago were allowed to cumber m
the record, although it was evident what
they had to say was irrelevant. incom-
pesent and immaterial. They took their
facts to Russia and brought the same
facts back. Determined to see certain
tnings and not to see others, they sue
ceeded in the double task 70 get them
to acknowledge Russia was not a land
OF perfect bliss was obviously as inn
possible as to induce disciple of eti
quette to confess to eating with knife
The ideas of such persons are like the
contents Of bonded warchouse-~-put
N ana left to rpen in a dark place.
Ihey don't believe in property, but feel q
vested interest in bombast.
One conspicuous member of the fra
ternify walked for eighteen days about
the streets Of petrograd. not knowing
word Of the language, and then
tracked for America, to beat his rivals
70 the magazine Offices and to the mana
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
Fiatisn in Germany

The note circulation of the Bank of
Germany in the last week of July, 1914,
was S472, ,723,00O (marks translated into
dollars on basis of four to one). On
November IA, 1913, the week of the
armistice, this had risen to S4,-
278,368,000. The total note circulation
now stands at S5,S91 ,405,OOO. That is
to sa..-, paper money has increased more
in three months of peace than it did
even in an average year of war.
The conclusion is inescapable. This
is fiat money-a forced loan. It's amount
has no relation to the needs of trade.
1t is the desperate expedient Of bank
rupt government, and the currency of
revolutionary governments always and
everywhere. The United States had it's
experience in the Revolution and in the
Civil War. Revolutionary France went
through it. Russia is going through it.
The government has not the power to
raise funds by taxation nor the credit
to raise them by bond sales, or perhaps
it lacks the will for either. 1t must
meet bills, and does so by the simple ex-
pedient of the printing press.
The results are always the same AS
paper issues increase, beyond certain
point, prices increase in roughly the
same degree, and as doubt of ultimate
redemption in gold begins to spread,
prices may increase at an even faster
rate than the currency. The paradoxical
result is that the more paper money
| there is issued the greater becomes the
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
A Correction

The Tribune is informed, on authority
it accepts, that an injustice was done
to members of the Nearing jury in COM
ment in these columns. The men on the
jury (report had it that the division
was ten to two) Of German birth were
strongly for conviction. 1t is perhaps
needless to say it was TO part of The
Tribune's purpose to foster suspicion
against those who are faithful in spirit
and letter to their naturalization oaths
1t is anxious to do all in its power to
integrate our multiform population and
to consider, not classes or groups, but
individuals on their merit.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25

demand for currency, for it takes more
money to buy each individual thing.
The worker is always the hardest hit
The prices of the things he buys are
raised enormously. His wages move
slowly: they are fixed largely by Gus
tom. There is little incentive to work.
Fewer goods are produced, and as the
great body of wages must be paid out
of current production there is less for
the average man. In the end the fiat
money goes to sleep in the pocket of
the last holder "Not worth CONT
MENTAL" say Americans, in common
speech, referring, often unconscously, to
what happened to the paper issues Of
the Continental Congress. Some things,
it would seem, no people ever learn.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
Worth a Filibuster

The present Congress passed but one
measure which reduced the cost of liv-
ing. That was the daylight saving law.
Are we now to lose the benefits of that
law, which cut down illumination bills
and also generously extended the day
light recreation period for indoor
workers?
Every city, town and village is inter
ested in preserving last years gain. If
the people of the rural districts think
that they are getting no advantage out
of the new schedule, they at least suffer
no deprivations Or loss under it.
Many business organizations are ap-
pealing to Senator Calder to prevent
the repeal of the act which bears his
name. Fortunately, he is in a position
to prevent it. The short session has
only six more days to run. The Senate
calendar is congested Many Of the
annual appropriation bills will fail. The
agricultural appropriation bill ought to
fail, if the daylight wasting rider is
not stricken from it. Senator Carter,
of Montana, won fame through his sue
cessful single-handed filbuster against
a river and harbor appropriation bill
several sessions ago. If the worst comes
to the worst, Mr.. Calder can win fame
by using similar heroic methods
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
Kne,C HOaC to Proceed

with kindly smile he told me story
of the day of revolution. With handful
of youths he went to the government Of
fees and quietly took possession; an in
fantry captain marched 18O soldiers to the
palace and offered his services to Eisner.
An automobile at once drove through all
the streets with machine guns firing fusil-
ladies' in the air.
1.-TWO deaths resulted and one old person
died of nervous shock in a cellar and a
junker aviator committed suicide. Lie5-
knechts Bolshevist folly was a thousand
times as far removed from Eisner as is Ber-
lin from Munich.
"Eisner understood the necessary his
torical process; he knew exactly how to
proceed, keeping the radical crew out of
Munich with one hand and the Scheidemann
gang out with the other.
"Eisner more than any other German
leader possessed the confidence of the
German democratic forces that were e:,-
lied to Switzerland. If spared he would
surely have become the leader of all forces
and their great hope.
His first speech at Berne can never be
forgotten. The French majoritarans and
the British laborites, who, together domi-
mated the conference, demanded peace with
the German majoritarians. Eisner arose.
appearing rather clumsy and looking at
fifty-one at least sixty-fve. His voice evil
IDENTIFY was unframed for speaking.
"Yet at the very first word all kne7
what manner of man he was. From out the
tousled beard there came roar that
reached every heart. He pointed finger
at the majority members and said: The
time is coming when we of Bavaria will
have to defend ourselves and our freedom
against those from Berlin with arms in
our hands. In that day, comrades of the
old international, will you stand By our
side :?
Prince Joachim, Ludendorff and Schei-
demann have known exactly whom to as
sasslnate, but they have gone off prema-
turely and but half cooked. Peace is not
yet made. VIII it be carelessly made with
Germany as she is? That is the question
that cries out to the Quai d'Orsai from the
grave of our brave comrade and true ally
Eisner"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
"a Good Cigar Is a Smoke"

Some horrid man smoked cigar not
long ago in the room where Mrs Minnie
Grinstead was dining, little suspecting
she would have her revenge in a way
given to few women. He did not know,
Of course, that she was the first woman
legislator in the state of Kansas
Mrs Grinstead promptly introduced a
bill prohibiting smoking in public dining
rooms. Her masculine colleagues passed
the bill-but not until an artful mascu-
line colleague had tackled on an amend
ment which provided that "smoking in
public places shall be unlawful except
where cigars, merchandise and stocks Of
merchandise are kept for sale" Mrs.
Grinstead, unused to legislative tactics,
voted for the joker, and now discovers
there are few lunchrooms which cannot
boast stock of merchandise consisting
at least of a package of gum
Women legislators are going to have
a hard time taking tobacco away from
smoking lawmakers. Men may vote for
prohlbltlve measures, but are prone to
tack on amendments prohibiting the use
of face powder, cosmetics and lip-sticks.
AS Kipling discovered some years ago.
"a woman is only woman but a good
cigar is a smoke"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25

gers of lecture bureaus. Since he has
passed as knowing all about Russia.
But there is no loss without some
gain. The columns American news
papers have given up to the cold stor-
age testimony sufficiently refute the
charge that the press is not willing to
carry the Bolshevik side of the case.
There is nothing, or very little, favor
able to carry-that's all. This is at
tested by the circumstance that the
American Bolsheviki cannot be induced
to emigrate to Russia. When such a
thing is suggested they cling to the
skirts of the law and beg the protec-
ton of our bourgeois institutions.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
The Presidents Speech

The speech of the President yesterday
in Boston neither in words nor spirit
contains anything to arouse controversy.
lie interprets in broad phrases of great
felicity the high mission of this country.
He proclaims with great power his
ideals; behold, they are the ideals of the
great Republic.
No sensible person now challenges, or
has challenged, the sincerity of the
Presidents allegiance to the idea of or
ganizing the world for peace instead of
for war. The war was to end war, and
if this is not completely possible, then to
set up some bulwarks for peace
If there is failure at Paris as to this,
great indeed will be the failure The
discussion of the momentous problem
must therefore be lifted above the plane
of personalities. To do other than this
is to degrade theme almost as lofty as
that contained in the New Testament
Every sound American thrills at the
picture the President paints of Ameri-
can motives which are suspected by none
The pulse beats faster to learn that so
great a compliment is paid to US by both
the European masses and their appointed
Of bo vi vi; .;ol,
we have been at war. No similar con-
fidence was before the guerdon of any
nation.
In the generalities and aspirations
expressed by the President, although
their tenor does not differ essentially
from his previous utterances, it is Dos
siole to catch, it seems, little more
appreciation of realities. There is a
warmer recognition of the views of our
allies, livelier sympathy with them
IN their deep trouble, fuller acknowl-
edgment that what we would do they
also would do, and with greater reason.
There is happy absence of any echo of
the doctrine sedulously preached by dis
trust breeders that the Europeans are a
selfish lot and need careful watching.
In this respect the President appears to
nave gained something by his contacts,
and, while not less an American to be
more internationally-mi
The practical aspects of the peace prob
lem the President did not discuss. He is
Of course aware that the debate now 60
tng on relates not to wishes and desires
out wholly to whether or not the plan
noH being examined is calculated to
further the end sought His contribu-
ticn to this debate is left for another
occasion, and so leaving it he now offers
nothing toward resolving doubts. The
issue raised when the tentative plan was
pu"AShed thus remains as it was before
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
Foreign Notes

The servant problem is to be solved in
Bristol, England, by an appeal tribunal con-
sisting of equal numbers of mistresses and
maids, set up by the Bristol Employment
Exchange, which will adjust differences aris-
ing between employers and servants. Bas-
ing their calculations on $3.50 year as the
cost of maintenance of servant who "liyes
in" the committee has fixed 500 a year as
the minimum wage for a maid-of-all llwork'
with an increase of SO a year for four
years. Every servant enrolled on the list
of the exchange is to have half an hour for
breakfast and tea and an hour for dnner
with an additional two hours leisure eyery
day. She is to have half day off every
week and half day off on Sunday
One of the reforms instituted in Berlin
by the Socialist regime has been the aboh
tion of tips to walters in the restaurants,
but the public pays just the same. The
walters now receive $3.50 month wages
while 10 per cent is added to the price Of al
food and drinks. At the government mum
tions factory at Brandenburg the problem
of unemployment has been solved Shells
are still being turned out, and after they are
finished they are broken up and made over
again. 1t is said that otherwise the factor
would have to close for lack of raw mate
rials.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
ON "oN A VINE OF HORACE

ON "ON A WINE OF HORACE'S"
My pen I'm taking to uphold
The good reputc Of @. H. Flaccus
He always worshipped, we're told
moderate and modest Bacchus"i
Who civilized when he came
And made indoce tigers tame.s
To tempt M'pcenas Sabine plains
And not Falernan wine. he offered
And, Tyndaris to entertain.
The innocent Lesbian"' he proffered;
Nor did he think that Aulon's vine
Need envy proud Talernia's wines
When harsh Faernan"7 he took
He liked it with light Chan bended'
To those who quaFed it in some nook'
Unshakon calm he recommended.io
The golden mean must be held fast.n
And Bacchus bounds must not be passedta
"The fiery Falernan
To quench, 80 he used to send for wateri-
And thought himself gay young MANS
If his wines strength was moren quarterts
And always when his cups he drained,
An arbiter bibendi reignedi7
He, like old Cato,'' liked to drink
But very sparingly would revel.
He still could talk, he still could think
Because, you see, his head was level
And if to follow him we'd try
Our country need go dry.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
For the Iconoclast
n of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your Mr.. Henry Graham of Brook
lyn, has so definitely settled and disposed
of the grounding or bear weather story
that would like to refer the story of
Jonah and the whale to his decision, and
trust that you will publish his opinion on
that question in full. C. B. STODDARD.
North Cohocton. N. Y. Feb. %. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
The Overhead on Hats
lFyom The Eupoyin co~rt,.

Ffom The Emporiu GaScttc)
If he takes one meal day in a rcstau
rant or cafe in n season New Yorker will
spend $50 buying n SIS hat back from
check boy who gets about Sc week. and
who works for a concern which nova bapd.
somely for the checking concession and
furnishes the help to run it. A Now Yorker
is the biggest sucker in the world.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
E1sner; q Great Loss
f'unh Bo american Democratic Socialist Pays
the Bdvarian Leader.
By Frederick Moore

Esner organized and led the revolution in
Bavaria. l have before me copy of the
call to arms which he wrote: Workers and
Citizens: Have full faith in the great and
wonderful things these epoch making days
are bringing forth. Let all help, so that
the necessary change may come quickly
and easily, and peacefully
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
Led RerOH in Bavaria

ut was the day of the treaty of Brest-
Lltovsk. The Independent Socialists and
the German democratic allies thought they
foresaw the concentration of troops against
France, resulting in the capture of Paris
and complete victory for the Kaiser.
Let us always do them honor aud our
cause justice, and remember how brayelv
they threw themselves into the unequal con-
hict. When the strike failed Esner was
imprisoned eight and a half months, being
liberated only in September, when he be-
came candidate for the Imperial Reich
stag
when retribution came in November
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
Militarism at Home

From The Washington 4eSF) !.
When "a private soldier is sente"'sD
forty years Imprisonment for stea's'
cigarette, the mind recoils from wnas sss
happen if he had also stolen mass~
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25

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We make good promptly II the advertiser does nc'.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
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