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New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Prying Loose the Huns Fingers
By A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien Property Custodian

this country by her patents of processes
and products.
The trading with the enemy act did not
permit me to demand and take over those
enemy owned patents Consequently.
faced the possibility of being required to
sell American corporations to American
citizens Invested of their chief assets; and.
more than that, Of subjccting the Ameri-
can purchasers to ruinous competition
with the cartel-controlled industries of
Germany in some lines where American
markets had been closed to American pro-
ducers by German patent monopoly here.
Germany by the way, early in the war
appreciated the value of American patents
held in Germany and took steps to place
them effectively in German hands
The other obstacle was the difficulty in
making title to American purchasers OF
stock, because the certificates representing
the enemy ownership were beyond our
reach, being in the strong boxes of the
owners in the enemy countries BY an
amendment to the trading with the en-
cmy act, approved November A. 1918, both
these obstacles have been removed The
Alien Property Custodian was thereby en-
powered to demand and take over enemy
owned patents and to require corporations
to issue to him new certificates of stock
IN lieu of certificates which cannot be pro-
duced for transfer by reason of their being
IN the enemy country.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
The Russian Bog

The possibility of war between Ger
many and Russian Bolshevism, which, if
successful, would put the Allies under
obligation to the Hun, is preposterous
and Illuminating feature of the situation
in Eastern Europe.
Germany fomented the Russian revo-
luton. After the Cars empire fell into
anarchy the Bolshevist conspirators met
the German conspirators at Brest-
Litovsk and divided the spoils. Red
Russia became an ally of Germany,
declaring war on Great Britain and
France and making war on American,
Japanese, Italian, Czecho-Slovak and
other Entente forces which both the eni-
pire and the early revolutionary govern
ment had recognized as friends.
But under the terms of the Senls ar
mistice German armies of occupation
were left in those parts of Russia which
Lenine and Trotzky had surrendered, but
which had not yet bden organized into
self-sustaining states.
Lenine and Trotzky are now trying to
divert attention from their own misrula
by reclaiming these states to proletarian-
ism and terrorism. They have sent Red
Guards into Esthonia, Livonia and Lithu-
ania. These troops are threatening
Wilma. They have entered Riga and are
said to be approaching Reval.
The German garrisons have avoided
fighting them. AS the German COM
mander in Wilma put it the other day:
I'VE Germans don't see why we should
pull the Allied chestnuts out of the fire"
All this muddle is in default of policy
in Russia. The Allies are temporizing
with the military situation. Neither
Gre Britain nor France nor the United
States seems to want to send troops
enough to Russia to fight Bolshevism to
a finish. But, thanks to the happy after
thought of relieving the German garri-
sons in Russia fsom the necessity of
evacuating all former enemy territory, a
miraculous though humiliating way
seems to have been opened to halt the
Bclshevist invasion.
1t is apparent from recent remarks
made by Matthias Erzberger, one of the
German armstice commissioners, that
the Allied High Command has suggested
all active defence of the Baltic provinces
and Lithuania by the Germans Herr
Erzberger protests that war against
Lenine and Trotzky is not nominated in
the bond which he and his colleague
signed at Senlis. Yet by broad inter
probation of the supplementary article
referring to continued German occupa-
tion of former Russian territory the
duty may be plausbly laid on the Ger
man forces of maintaining the status quo
there. This would involve the expulsion
of the Bolshevists.
Until spring comes the Allies cannot
themselves undertake any operations on
large scale in Russia But meanwhile,
they can, if they will, formulate pol
icy in the interests of humanity.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Thoughts on a Roosevelt Memorial

We have begun to receive letters and
kilograms requesting The Tribune to
open a popular national fund for a mon
ument to Theodore Roosevelt. The SEN
timent is probably universal, and we
share it naturally, but we feel at the
tune that such a monument ought not to
bear the name of newspaper, or seem
in the slightest way to have either spe-
cial origin or preferred management.
1t should be national in the widest sense
and entirely spontaneous. We should
like to see every newspaper and periodi-
cal in the country participate by giving
publicity and receiving money in trust.
But since we are thinking out loud we
may as we'll go on to speak of the reser-
vations. Would Theodore Roosevelt
wish magnificent memorial? 1t would,
perhaps, become very magnificent, for
as people loved him so they would give,
and the amount would be large. Of
course that might he controlled Indi-
vidual subscriptions could be limited to
a nominal amount But then, what kind
of monument are we talking about? Do
we mean something in heroic art, like
an equestrian figure OF mountain in
silhouette against the sky, or something
for the service of mankind?
AS yet there is only the impulse to do
something. Presently the hearts desire
will find it's natural and most suitable
expression. Let us entertain sugges-
fions
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
ColonelRooseueLts
Last Fight For
Suffrage
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t will be a pleasant memory s..
suffragists that almost the last though,
of Colonel Roosevelt was of the Feder.,
suffrage amendment. He died before
dawn on Monday morning January G. a,a
on Saturday, the 4th l received verv
cordial letter from him inclosing conr
of most important one which he bad
written the preceding day to obtain the
one needed vote He asked me no. 70
make the letter public. 1t cannot fai, -
show Il favorable result when the Sena,o
takes action this measure. He ~,
pressed in 1T his personal fondness 70.
some of the Senators who had worked and
voted against it, and his deep regret at the;r
opposition, which he called "a misfortnno
from the standpoint of the war and from
the standpoint of party expediencv-: and
he SAID: ut is coming and it ought to
come. When states like New York a~d
Illinois adopt it, it cannot be called wild.
cat experiment. / very earnestly hone vou
can see your way clear to support this
amendment"
1t is something to be remembered that
In the midst of pain and illness and The
many duties that pressed upon him
Colonel Roosevelt could have time and
thought for the enfranchisement of wom
en-. Before the vote was taken on this
amendment October he appealed to his
personal friends in the Senate with all
that vigor for which ne was noted to
give 1t their support. and for many years
ne lost no opportunity to use his iniu-
ence i'll its favor. He fully realized As
must all who genuinely desire universal
woman suffrage, that it cannot be obtained
by the present generation except through
an amendment to the national Constitu
ton. His descendants will be as proud
Of his record on this question as are the
Sons and Daughters of the American Revo
luton of the record of their ancestors in
helping to found democracy
IDA HUSTED HARPER.
Editorial Chairman, National Leslie SUI
frage Bureau
New York, Jan. s, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

w 7HEN the original trading with the
wv enemy act was passed a full reali-
zation of the German industrial
menace had not dawned upon the law
making body. The design of Germany in
planting industrial and commercial
army upon American soil was only vaguely
felt, and Congress followed the custom
of other wartime legislation in making
provision for the conservation and safe
keeping of enemy-owned property in this
country, without any attempt to employ
the power of the government as war
weapon to destroy the German hold upon
American industry and commerce.
The Alien Property Custodian was given
the powers of a common law trustee to
manage and operate the property within
his control, and to dispose of the same
only if and when necessary to prevent
waste and protect the property.
After large bulk of this enemy prop
erty had come under one hand, and we
were able to piece together the picture of
Germany's industrial aggression during
the last forty years, there came not only
fuller realization of the hostile nature
of Germanys industrial investment in
America but also of the powerful weapon
against the foe which lay ready at our
hands,
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Shaking OF the German Thing

The Congress then adopted the Amcri-
canization idea. On March 28 1918, an
amendment to the trading with the enemy
act was passed, giving to the Alien Prop
erty Custodian the general power of sale,
providing only that enemy property should
be sold at public auction to American citi-
zens, except in cases where the public in
terest would best be served by private
sale, to be determined by the President
Under this amendment it has been possi-
BILE for the Alien Property Custodian to
make big start in the work of divorcing
German capital from American industry
When | came to carrying out my selling
programme, however, I met with two very
the most important of the German owned
industries in this country were operating
under patents issued by the United States
government to German subjects, which
patents were being used and enjoyed by
the American corporations owned by the
enemy and which had never been formally
assigned and were still the property of
German subjects. found further that
Germany had taken out thousands of
patents upon articles produced under SIM
liar patents in Germany, for the sole pur-
pose of preventing the manufacture of the
patented articles in this country, and there
by forcing the importation of the German
product into the American markets.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
An International Reserve Bank

A plan of large interest and impor-
tance is broached by Professor o. M. w.
Sprague, of Harvard, in the current
"Annalist." The proposal is for kind
OF international Reserve Bank, or series
Of banks, which would answer more
or less for international affairs to our
Federal Reserve banks. Professor
Sprague cites the fact that during the
war international exchanges have been
very largely interrupted. The export of
gold has been forbidden from all the
leading countries, including the United
States, and each nation has been. as
Professor Sprague puts it, kind of
watertight compartment Of course. this
cannot last if free exchange of goods
and capital this last is very Important
among the nations is to be resumed.
In rough sort OF way the watertight
compartments have been connected by
rather free grants of international cred
it's, for the larger part credits from one
government to another Thus the United
States has loaned the Allies something
over 10000, 900 900, of which about four
fifths has been credits extended by our
government, the latter recouped, in this
country. by a corresponding issue of Lib
erty bonds. England likewise has grant
ed very large credits.
Nov that the war is over the question
Of specie resumption is imminent. The
present situation is that the United States
has large supplies of raw and ynanufact-
ured materials and food needed by Eu-
rope, while European countries have
much below their usual exportablc sur
plus. The exchange problem - Oh
yious
The greatest difficulty IL Professor
sprague's plan II sfat It would tend to
supersede the working Of the finest and
most effective balance wheel in the COM
nsrcial world. That il the London gold
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

idea is to say that we are still young,
still fired by enthusiasm for a strange
and wonderful land
There is will, too, as in Colonel Roose-
welt. 1t does restrain and make for
morality of a Puritanical type. Here,
perhaps, the criticism holds more truth.
But for the rest of. life, energy is the
word. "Spend and be spent" is the best
motto for America Colonel Roosevelt
ever devised. In it he summed up him
self and his nation as we'll
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
The Roosevelt Watchword

'o speech By Theodore Carnegie Hail. March co. 1879
Hh leader for the time beng achoeuey may be- is but
on instrument, to be used until and then to be
cast aside; and If he is acorth his salt vU care no
more When he broken than soldier aUhe he is sent
Here ms e IS forfeit IN order that the victoy may aUon
1" the Tong fight for Righteousness the for of us
@ spe"a ana be SPENT 1t IS little matter achether any
oN !ds on succeeds but the shall ta
cause OF nahand We here IN America hold hands the
nope OF the 0od the fate of the coming gears and shame
desgroce V be If IN eyes the light of high resoue is
o1"'ed n Oe trail IN the dust the golden hopes of If
THIS ne0 continent merely build country of great
on" n7uty dv1ded material prosperity shall haze
nothing; and shall do little If nere set the qreed of
y against the greed of arrogance and thereby destroy the
material 7Oellbeing Of all Of
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
To Get Back Home

BIZ Lieutenant Gruntland Rice, Third Army, A. E. F.
ITO GET back home agoin-and there 0
I Old friends and faces of long vanished days,
TO hear friendly voice call
From street OF remembered Uays,
Where rain shine vnd-blown aOinter
The lights of home hold up their golden shield
With soft, from out the long ago
In waiting avelcome from the silent field
The guns still from Flanders to Lorra;ne
The day of soggng through the mud is past,
The night of terror IN the drung
Lies hidden an the midst of Argonne drifts,
A grim get holy spectre Of the gears,
That wd ahead vhere erery shadoao hits
Before the smile that avelcomes through ats tears
TO get back home again-O dream of dreams
Too radiant to last but for breath;
The drift of purple nights and singing streams
Beyond black dams still rife aOith ghosts and death
Beyond the dreoness sleep Of those acho avait
TO hold the line they fought for to the end
Eternal sentinels at Freedons's Gate
Where none shall chisper-"Er,<udy
To get back home again--yes that is all;
The rest IS less than nohing doUu the aporId.
10 near no more the bugles avakng call
lhe tramp Of marching feet--au standards farled-
And only silent thoughts of those acho stay
To hold the guard tho endless ueoys
Who cU not come again the ancient uay
Nor hnow tho "smile that uelcop,es THROUGH its teors
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Energy or Will?

There is a common European criticism
of American life that it lacks spon-
taneity. The Puritan taint is supposed
to have struck into our hearts and re-
duced us to self-controlled machines,
living by will alone. We have restrained
our vices and impulses and pursued our
virtues and ideals so busily that we have
ceased to be human and have become
mere automatons of our wills. An Eng
lish poet, Mr.. D. H. Lawrence-a writer
of much beauty, incidentally-is the
latest to express this idea, in a series
of articles now running in The Eng
lish Revicw.
There is much apparent truth in the
criticism. To the superficial observer
Americans do appear to be constantly
lifting themselves by their boot straps,
willing themselves to be cultured, edu-
Gated, healthy, rich, what not! A will to
get on, to do the right thing, to succeed,
uous surface national trait 1t ex-
pressed itself in the faces and in the
deeds of our men in France-splendidl
and goriously
But we think the truth lies deeper and
is somewhat different; and for an illus
tration of it we can think of no better
clearer evidence than the life and per-
sonalty Of Colonel Roosevelt
He was superman if there ever was
one, but we think every one will agree
that he was typically American. At bot
tom it was because he was so intensely
American and expressed so accurately
in his life the hopes and desires of the
average American that he. was such a
hero.
Now, there was a strong will in
Colonel Roosevelt's character, unques-
tionably. The fashion in which he took
his frail body and slowly trained it into
a stanch and trusty weapon is the clear
est illustration of his control. No one
who ever knew him, and no one reading
his life, can feel that will was the vital
force in his career, however, If one
word is to cover that force, we should
say it was energy-a boundless, tireless,
resistless urge within him that drove his
mind and body forward He did not have
to drive his mind at ALL His mind, his
heart, drove him.
He was never without book in his
pocket. He was never idle. His zest for
life was utterly inexhaustible. He could
spend hours, days, with John Burroughs,
stalking rare sparrow. He could risk
his life, did contract the sources of his
death, in a jungle exploration. Nothing
! counted with him save living, the spend
ing Of the Niagara of power that was
his to spend.
The point we would insist upon is that
there is far more of this zest for life in
every American than the superficial OBJ
server is apt to see. The Puritan is
present and sometimes prevails. But in
most Americans he has been swallowed
up in the Pioneer. There is a national
| striving, terrific expenditure of energy
and effort. AS nation we do try. trv
terribly hard, to win. But the trying
comes not primarily from conscience and
it is not the result of will---herc is the
mistake OF our critics 1t proceeds
chiefly from the same interest in life
in doing things, fnat nade Colonel
Rooscyelt's career 80 picturesque and
! rich, Aaothsg way Of expressing the
~
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
SHOES G. SHIPS G.
SEALING WAX
THAT LINE

THAT LINE
OF Least Resistance
When, in the course of nhuman events,
The heat of my love might perchance
grow intense,
Only this line keeps me safe on my
track
"The groom was attired in conventional
black
When, in the creases and seams of my
brain,
I'm searching for words of affection in
vain,
Only this line does my mem'ry call
"The groom was attired in conventional
black"
When, in the rarc-by repute-days of
June,
Romance comes with sunset and silvery
moon.
Only this line saves my heart from
attack
"The groom was attired in conventional
black"
When, in the grist of the news, you
divine,
The Hymencal halter at last, Prince, is
mine,
Only this line let your last revise lack
"The groom was attired in conventional
black"
VEGETABLE.
Why object to the city administra-
TONS underground method of discussing
the subaOoy purchase?
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
The Deadly Cootic
(From The Utica Press)

The coote is as deadly as high powered
gun. 1t was responsible for at least
million lives IN the war zone. The louse
carried germs of typhus and trench fever
and other maiades and spread disease over
many countries. Typhus is a louse borne
disease, and in Serbia alone nearly 900 00o
persons were infected. The cootie is
deadly pest.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Not Penny Ante
lFrom The epallaa Meara

One German paciist laments that after
the territorial settlement Germany will
have only one copper mine. Does he think
they are going to pay their indemnity with
pennies?
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Ripping
From The Toronto Telegram

From The Toronto Tcleoram)
1t must have been historic moment
when members of the House of Lords joined
hands on the banks of the Thames and
sang:
shout tho chorus near and far,
Wilson! Wilsonl 'Rahl Rah! Rah!,D
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY s. 1919
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New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Cutting Down
fFrom The Boston Globe,

fFrom The Boston Globcl
1t is less than two months now since tha
fighting stopped, but already the govesn~
ment Is saving the salaries of gfcas
many S1-a-year lhsn.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
A Stiff Combination
i,'y0pt The ,Sf fo,,;s -,

fFyo'm Thc 81. Louis Rcpubifc)
The Kaiser has trouble eternally with
that Hague G. Hsig stuff.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
TEDDY"

Millions who have no spokesmen to
make articulate their emotions, who lack
words to express their grief, mourn
Theodore Roosevelt surely quite as sim
cerely as those who fill papers with their
tributes and draw up resolutions of re-
gret.
These mute mourners are the boys of
America. In their Pantheon Theodore
Roosevelt, hero of San Juan, mighty
hunter, slayer of lion, bear, wolf and
panther, explorer occupied a throne
more exalted even than Frank Merri-
wells and Nick Carter's, far above the
history y-embedded heroes of G.. A. Henty.
He was the eternal boy. His were the
boys enthusasms and unlimited capacity
for swift movement of body and BRAIN
And the boys shall mourn the passing of
this full colored, virile man long after
grief has faded from older and colder
hearts and minds, untouched by the
eternal dawn
II we only defer the question of hoav to
help the Russian people long enough
there a0on't be any question--or people.
THE AGILE ANTELOPE
The skittish antelope will fee
From nothing, just in play.
Her little nephews like to see
Their antelope away.
#
Berlin seems, to be reaching the STAGE
'ohem her population acul long for the
dear, peaceful days of international
strJe. +. F. V.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
II aDe only defer the question of hoav to
help the Russian people long enough
there a0om't be any question-or people.

THE AGILE ANTELOPE
The skittish antelope will fee
From nothing, just in play.
Her little nephews like to see
Their antelope away.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

Berlin seems. to be reaching the stage
'uhe" her population "iH long for the
dear, peaceful days of international
STRIFE FEW.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

4 MONG all that will be written of
~ Theodore Roosevelt as great public
figure there may yet be room for
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-04-02
JOSE LENA


Las siguientes marcas dc fabrica
han sido presentadas en- la oficina del
Secretario Executive:
Una de la corporation ''The Welch
Grape Juice Company, de New York,
que consiste principalmente en- la pa
labra GRAPEIADE~y y Sc aplica a la
venta de cOnservas y otros productos
de Ia uva;
De la corporation 'The N. K. Fair
bank Company, de New Jersey, que
consiste en- la palabra RAINBOW"
Sc aplica. a la venta de jabones.
otra perteneciente a la corporation
1.-THE Stetson Shoe Co. Inc'', de Mas
sachusetts, que consiste en- un monogra-
ma cuadrado tornado por dos letras
IS 81 entrelazadas. Dicha marca Sc
splica la venta de botas y zapatos.
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NO coMPARECIERoN

La vista preliminar del injunction
establecido en- la Corte Federal por la
Porto Rico Railway Light and Power
Co" contra ell Ncgociado de Compcn-
saciones a obreros por academies del
trabajo, estaba senalada para tcner lu-
gar aver mafiana. Los sefiores que com
ponen la parte demandada no compa-
recicron, la vista sc pospuso hasta
nuevo senalamiento. la compafiia del
trolley quiere evitar que contin6en
los tramites judicialcs incoados por la
Comision de Indemnizaciones a obre-
ros'', que Ia exigido el pagO de s4,56O.
1S.
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( oTRA cARTERA QUE Sc PIERDE

En- estos dias parece cue los rateros
Sc han dedicado exclusivamente Ia
especialidad de las carteras. FL domin-
go lc levaron una al Sr. sanjurjo vi
dal dueho de la libreria de San Jose,
y otra Venancio Betancourt del ba-
rrio de LA Perla'' Ahora Sc trata
dc don Eduardo Balladares, Gle Huma-
Gao, que entro una farmacia de San
Juan, al salir, noto la ausencia de su
caxtera, que contenia $4,000 en- billetes
de banco. FL detective Ferrer investi-
ga activamentc Ell asunto, y Sc presu-
me que un caco sea ell autor del timo.