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New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
By Threat

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
CIR: Your editorial "By Threat" in your
~ issue of August II impels me to call
your attention to Subdivision 3 Of Section
8 of Article ! of the Constitution Of the
United States, which confers upon Congress
the right "to regulate commerce with for
cign nations, and among the several states,
and with Indian tribes"
The words "to regulate" properly con-
strued, mean, among other things, to pre-
vent interference with Interstate COM
merce If so, a ''thrcat" to interrupt
commerce may be made by act of Congress
felony Any agreement for concerted ac-
tion by any number of individuals having
the result or intended to have the result
of interrupting interstate commerce should
by act of Congress be declared conspir-
acy in restraint Of trade and be punished
and for a felony.
No person should be permitted to remain
in to enter into the employ Of anv in
terstate common carrier without having
first signed a written contract which should
provide for arbitration of all grievances,
and for written notice of intention to leave
the service of such company on fixed date
specified in the notice
Service of notice of intention to leave
the service on a given date by 5 per cent
of any class of employees should be made
presumptive evidence of conspiracy. The
written contract should provide for the ar
bitration of all disputes between interstate
common carriers and their employees and
that the final determination Of such>arbitra-
tlons be binding upon the contracting com
panies and their employees.
refusal to accept such determination
should be made a felony, punishable by fine
and Imprisonment or both
Strikes and lockouts should be prohib-
tied. Any interstate common carrier re-
fusing. to comply with the provisions of
such an act of Congress should, for such
refusal, be Immediately placed by Federal
court in the control of receiver.
Every human being living in any city of
the United States is at the mercy of the
interstate common carriers and their en-
ployes. A government that can not or that
Will not protect the people of this country
from the results of such interruption of
interstate commerce should be superseded
by government that can and will furnish
some protection
The time has come when this question:
question of life or death-should be set
tied. and settled in the right way.
Any interstate common carrier can be
compelled to enter into such a contract as
IS here suggested The enactment of the
Adamson law proves this statement. The
terms and conditions under which an ind
vldual may enter into the employ of an
interstate commerce carrier may be ~regu-
lated by Congress. To hold otherwise
means that subdivision 8 of Section s of
Article Of the Constitution of the United
States is meaningless
Cannot the President and Congress be
made to understand and appreciate the sit
uation?
els there a more logical or effective rem
edy available? M
New York, Aug. IL, 191o
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
The President and the
European Left
By Frank II. Simonds

leadership Of the French Socialists long
before the Sarre Basin or the Shantung de-
cisions were made. He had lost it just
soon he failed to declare upon Lloyd
George and Clcmenceau, upon his arrival in
Europe, and, the contrary, sat down to
discuss with them the details of peace set
tlement, he was bound to do if he were to
act a reasonable being and in accordance
with the desires of the people of the United
States, who did not conceive that it was the
mission of the President to undertake in
Europe to destroy institutions which were
in the main quite similar to their own.
almost Any Peace
Extreme French socialism had never given
its government any constant support during
the war, and in the critical days Of 1917 and
1918 was prepared to make almost any con-
cession to Germany to procure Il peace
abroad which would enable it to resume its
domestic upon the social order which
existed in France. 1t had seized upon many
of Mr. Wilson's utterances to embarrass its
own government, engaged in life or death
struggle against the German But it was
precisely as hostile to the American social
ana pOlItlCaI OTQef as 10 the French, It wei
coined the possibility of an alliance with Mr..
Wilson only because this alliance held out
the hope of destroying in France social
order which in America was also marked for
destruction by the elements holding to the
views of the French Socialists
Mr.. Wilson might have declared war upon
Clemenceau and Lloyd George Mt any time,
and just far as such a struggle would
have shaken these statesmen and the order
they represented in their respective coun-
tries European Socialists would have sup
ported the President. But, by contrast and
. the point is capital, treaty of peace which
Mr.. Wilson could procure IN collaboration
with the heads of the French and British
states would satisfy the extremists in either
country, whose chief concern was in over
turning the statesmen and discredting the
regime.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Siberia's Sad Fate

| The news from Siberia is of a most
that the entry "Too late" is to be made.
The Allies have meant we'll, but feebly,
and the fruits Of feebleness are often
as bitter as those of badness.
Expected supplies and assistance have
not reached the Kolchak government
Troops sent in either have been ordered
to do nothing or withdrawn. There has
been no policy either of intervention or
of non-intervention. There has been a
nonsensical effort to be at once at war
and at peace with the Bolsheviki. A
vain effort has been made to distinguish
between helping Siberia in civil ways
and in military ways. The railroad, as
the President recently explained, was to
be guarded, but TO hand was to be raised
against those fitting out to seize the
railroad.
A large share of the responsibility
seems fairly attributable to the waver-
ing indecision Of Americas representa-
tives. The President sought substitutes
for the plain requirements of the situa-
ton, and while not willing to get out of
Russia, as Lloyd George urged, he was,
on the other hand, unwilling to follow
Clemenceau in going in.
The tragedy, if events turn out as
now feared, will be a frightful one The
Siberian peasants now crowding the
roads as they seek to keep ahead Of the
Bolshevist advance know what will hap
pen to them if they remain. They have
had experience, for they have been under
Bolshevist dominion. For year or
more they have lived at peace Over
wide stretches the travellers have found
no indications Of war. Civil government
has been reGstablished and with the
highly developed co0operative institutions
which are characteristic of Siberian life
there have been order and reasonable
comfort
But why is Kolchal not able to resist
if the people are with him? For the
sufficient reason that no unarmed popu-
lation, no matter how valorous, is able
to resist when the invaders possess bet
. ISi NSctPOiiS. A'iOtIl lst HAS IciW mat lCIldlS
in abundance, but no gun factories or
munition works. At Moscow and else
where the Bolsheviki have inherited
plants able to supply war machines The
plight of the Siberians is similar to that
OF the Peruvians when Pizarro came
with his gunpowder. The Kolchal1 gov
ernment looked to Vladivostok, but the
ships never came. From military point
of view the result is as was to have been
expected
The most populous part of Siberia
faces a gloomy future. If it fights the
Bolshevilli it will be overwhelmed. If it
does not 1T will be robbed and wrecked.
Death is on the upper road and Injuns
on the lower" 1t is probably now too
late to do anything, even though action
were resolved on. But the doctrine of
nonresponsibilty is not satisfying, and
the outcries of Siberia will disturb con-
sciences all over the world. If we had
not intended doing we should not have
raised false hopes.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
The Unlit Tower
A Dirse Upon the Absence of the Boss, by
Sundry Chirpers From the Poetry
Society Of America

by Axalea Th'oing Hepplethvoite author
of "A Joded L,ete," "Whifs of Yesterdoy,
and "The Dolly Madison Cook Book")
What shards of amaranthine woe,
O mimic Momus of our aeon,
Follow athwart the path you go,
Leaving us, in times lorn Egean.
Withouten glow
Nouchsafe again your winged shoon
On asphodellic clouds returning,
To pluck your effervescent Groom
While Ennui's topless towers are burning
A deic boon!
(By Carl RufstmGshi, e'nitter of 'Oshkosh
Poems' aud "Yawps of an Umta,ned Nut,")
Lookyere boss
I've got elephant biceps and hippopotamus
neck,/
My cheeks tougher than shoe leather and
my conscience outclasses my checks,
/ dote on wobbes and ginlappers, slum scum,
and blanket stiffs,
l can even endure confessed millionaire;
But would give biceps, or have my neck
shaved,
Or even walk once on effete Fifth Avenue.
To have you back again
by Ernst Rosenberg, creator Of "Tbe
Cosmos and Myself" and "Psychanolytic
PsOngs.")
Although only man, cousin to the stone
and the rose and the ape.
Near-relative Of the mosquito and the crab
and stepfather of the future.
have read with daily amazed morbiditv
your column
How man be frivolous,
When he has little cosmos inside of hin,
And needs three hundred and sixtv-seven
days year
To study out his complexes?
by Eioise hiddikims author Of "Loyeuo
and the Girl Scouts" "Lorella and the Red
Cross Lassies," "7'he Lily Pond Lover, and
"Poems.")
lyric leaf found one morn, while in the
lyric wood
And though the singing gale may roar and
din hearts lay,
lheres not a touch OF the silence tree that
ever, ever could
Quiet the lyric debt / feel to F. PA
I'll pluck him carnaton from the hill Of
whispering flowers,
III Gull a grooming crocus and some no,,
mown hay,
IN weave lyric chaplet in the softly s;nn-
ing hours,
And drape my clnging cloak of dreams m
F. p. A.
by the Coatribs, Superannaated and E,-
Well, boss, you've gone vacationinp
Like statesmen internationing:
The much beloved Tribune
Runs this squib you n
Ever'd pass;
In fact. with F. P A. away.
We've got to while the day aw.v
BY telling how we've borne tho
Loss and mourn the
Empty glass.
INGOT,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13

We wish to recommend V. sactv;r
Vests new novel, Heritage" Doranr ~ Il,
is vivid and a stirring tale. marksa =, =.
an aptitude for the creation Of backgron,4
Mr.. West has sense not only for the .;.s.
and sound of things, but for the smsl, =.
them. too His IS decidedly among the s.- ".
novels for noses. At times the book is o,..
to the objection which one character in Nv ~.
novel makes 20 another, for it is "jn.er,.,~
damnably, analytical" Moreover. the b' b.s-
ending seems to US rather forced and nv ~,
convincing. The writer grows ,;,.,.
w'nded toward the last, we fear. but .b;s ).
his first novel and it seems TO Us an er..,
lent beginning.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13

The practice of reading an old boo,
whenever a new one appears savors q ,;,.,.
Of pose but we recommend the practice Of
going back into the works Of an au,so,
whenever one of his new books proves an.
pealing. We trust. for instance that N.
enormous popularity OF Snaith's The 7,
defeated' (Appleton) will send some Of h,
readers back to The Sailor" which seem,
to US finer achievement. Those who N.
Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpencen wopl5
also do well to hunt up the same author,
"of Human Bondage and people who liz.
"While Paris Laughed" (Dutton) shOuld
by all means include Merrick's Conrad in
Quest of His Youth" 'Cyn-hia7 is ala
pleasing, but we cannot recommend "Tbs
Actor Manager"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Personifying

(From The Boston Transcript)
If the poor ultimate consumer had his
way, somebody would wiring a few tears
out of the profiteers.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
A Honduras Day

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: We read the statement made by INV
Consul General OF Honduras in that city p'''
lished against the anti Bertrand propagsnO'
in this country. As secretaries Of the Hon
duras Patriotic Union we beg to say to 'h'
American people that the Hondurian youHS
men, sixty citizens, are enjoying the guafsD'
tees of this country of liberty, and thar w
cannot stop our fight against the bertfaa'
autocracy until comes down that h'''
Kaiser of Central America
The Honduras day is coming.
RAFAEL MARTINI v
MIGUEL PAZ P.
New Orleans, La, Aug. s, 1919. 50
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13

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New-York tribune., 1919-08-13

The Associated Press IL exclusively entitled to the use
for republication Of all dispatches credited to or
not otherwise credited in this and also the locSi
OF spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter heren
also
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Books
By Haywood Brour,

4 NEW and enlarged edition Of Als,.,
n W. McCann's This Fam;ss; sa
World' has just been issued
Doran under the title, The scisns. ., y
Eating We were under the imnr.s u
that it was gift. '''0A
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13

From E. !. Farrington's book. "pr,..;.,
Rabbit Keeping" (McBride) we lear, '.,'Si .s
Most rabbits ready for the .ahla -, '@'
about four months DID, and also. ~Ts.u ~T.u
make excellent friers at the age Of ,s..
mon hs" '"'se
"What," we can imagine prac.ica, 80
bit asking, docs Mr.. harrington mos, ~ :,
keep" v
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13

Several readers have writer to ask wbv
we odd not protest agains. the ethics q.
Maugham's The .Ioon and sixpence." Thsv
assert that it is an immoral book becaa,s
it suggests that for the man Of genlu,
there are no laws OF conduct such as apply
to the ordinary individual. They pojD.
out that the hero deserts his wife and chill.
dren and later drives a woman Who love,
him to suicide because of his indifference.
and in every human relationship is selfish
TO the point of ruthlessness.
We might avoid the necessity Of defence
by saying that strictly speaking ethics have
no place in literary criticism, but thai.
would be sophistry. Perhaps. it is the ideal
of every critic to write on that lofty plane.
but it is beyond our grasp. and we drive
ahead every now and then at things which
we think are immoral in plays or in books.
Il might be said that Maugham's book is
not immoral, because he is never partisan.
lie does not applaud the actions Of his hero.
and most certainly he does not maintain
that they bring him any high degree Of
happiness. But above all that. the system
Of conduct which Is preached IN The Moon
and Sixpence' is not one to seduce any
considerable following. It Is not sentimen.
taized and it is not set forth as system
OF life possible. even. for any but geniuses
We must confess that even ii Maughams
book made the Immortality Of his hero at
tractive we would still have to shout for
the book, because it seems to Us that its
observation is truthful Somehow or other
it is difficult to reconcile mans being
supreHely great in any OF the creatiye
arts, and being at the same time what is
known as "a good husband and father
Perhaps there have been some such gen.
uses. but the intensity of the ndlvidualism
which mus animate every great creator
makes it difficult for him to adapt himself
to the give and take necessary in human
relationships.
But the saving factor lies in the fact that
though Maugham's philosophy seems pOis'
onously plausible for geniuses, he has not
made it wide enough TO include the rest Of
US. We will, think, continue to look for
the siXpence and let the moon go hang
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13

Anthony Hope, who usually writes Of
young knights arrayed in all the shining
virtues, pictures a much more materialistc
hero in his pleasant book. "The Secret Of
the Tower" (Appeton). He has devised a
we'll sustained mystery and managed to
have some time for deft character drawing
IN addition. The book is certainly not
among those which every body must read
but he can do so just the same without
prejudice to his soul or his intelligence.
The mast books: Why. The Moon and
Slxpence, of course; Galsworthy's saints
Progress and Arthur Ransome's "Russs
in 1919"
Something OF the genial nature Of James
r. Groves book, Pat Grove, Aviator IN
L. Brown, may he gathered from the de-
scrptlon OF his flying at Tours, where nc
learned the art Of aviation ain good o@
bus We call the Flying Bedsteadsshs'
can't make any too safe when you al'
laying down these first few landings. lhs
old hack has been round the circuit 50
often that all you have to do is to wrap
The lines around the whpstech and she VII.
bring you in. only you have to be carer"
to keep her from scraping you of IN 'A'
barn door"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST 10, 1919
SUBSCRIPTION RAKS-By NAIL, including Poetase
IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA;
Guarantee

Entered at the Pcsofrice New York Second Glass
Mail Matter
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-14
4 Fighting Preacher" Is
GiDen Pastorafe At AHanta

Atlanta, Ca, April 14-Rev. Ben r.
Lacy. ir-, "the gamest chaplain in the
American army" has been rendered
the pastorate Of the Central Presby-
terrain church Of Atlanta. one Of the
largest in the south. and IL is believed
he viii accept Lacy recently re-
turned from France, where he dis
tinguished himself in every way. win
ming national fame as the Fighting
Preacher" In addition to his regular
duties in holding services and looking
after the men, he aided in buryiug the
dead by day and night. cheered the
wounded, and when occasion offered
grabbed a gun or seized a hand gre
made and led attacks on the enemy.
L p. 1IcLendon, his captain. said OF
him.
Lacy is the most wonderful man I
ever met Not SO many months ago
We captured some German guns and
he organized a crew and Turned them
on the enemy for two days and nights
Then when we were short Of officers
he went out TO a post Of great danger
and observed for US so that We could
do our best work against the enemy
He ought 10 be given every medal and
award granted"
Capt Lacy. who is 80. is a native OF
North Carolina
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-14
GEORGE s
AIDES CRITICIZED
British Election Not Favor
able to Government;
Papers Comment.

London. Eng. April 1A-In COM
menting on the result of the Hull cleo
tions last week, IN which the coali-
ton. or government candidate, was
defeated. the Daily Express remarks:
1--WE have faith in David Lloyd
George ana Andrew Bonar Law as
heads Of the government. but no be-
lief whatever in the abilities Of sew
eral OF their colleagues or in the
policies these gentlemen are forcing
on an unwilling people. The country
is crying out against the men who
want TO carry the spirit and methods
Of the war into an era Of peace
Rap At COnscriptiOn.
The Daily News finds in the result
a definite pronouncement against con-
scripti3n-
The Manchester Guardian declaims:
THE rectors thinks they have been
fooled and don't like it. There was
a great deal Of humbug and pure
demagOEuery at the general election
and, unhappily. our prime minister
was In more ways than one response
bic for these things Germany. which
was TO pay all, will nay something. II
we are lucky. and the German state
holds together, but not a 1.-THE Of
what the electors were encouraged TO
think she would be made TO pay"
The Guardian also ascribes the de-
feat TO the establishment over the
punishment OF the kaiser and the
abolition OF conscription.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-14
GERMANS H0LDA CUNNING HOPE
To SUCCEED IN WORLD CONQUEST
Think Enemies, the Allied Countries May Be Pros
trated by Bolshevism and Germany, Recovering
First, Win in End; Allies Face Task of Having
to Make Concessions to Defeated Nation.


and England are PROSTATE the re-
turn Of the old order may come
first in Germany and so enable
Prussia TO conquer the world.
This. have heard. is the willy
Won kuhlmamn's theory OF the fu-
lure.
1t IS not a pleasant task for any
Of the allies. having to negotiate
with and make concessions to the
people we proposed to compel to do
our VIII to the urtermOst- But Boil
shevism has compelled US TO make
concessions. TO negotiate. The fact
may be denied now; IL viii be patent
in a few weeks TO all the world
Americans Disguised
On returning 70 the United States.
after an absence Of three years. my
first interest was to learn how the
American people are viewing the
progress Of events in Paris. 7 find the
man in the street impatient at the
delay in framing the treaty. angry
at what he calls the secrecy in which
The proceedings have been wrapped
He cannot understand what is go
fnE on. he tells me, and has stopped
reading newspaper dispatches from
the diplomatic front because one con-
tradicts the other.
The man in the street is wrong
his first two grievances.
So far from the peace conference
having dawdled along and wasted
time, IL has rushed matters through
with incredible speed That the pre-
liminary treaty is now almost ready
for presentation TO Germany falsifies
the prediction Of every expert VINO
had hazarded a guess as to the length
OF the interallied deliberations. None
of the sharps. last Novem Der, thought
we should be where we are today
before midsummer; many Of them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-14
FAVE COLOR m CHEEKS
Be Better Looking-Take
Olive Tablets

IF your skin IS yeIlow-compIexion
psllid-tongue coated-appetite poor
you have a bad taste IN your mouth
a lazy, no-good feeling-you shoIld
take Olive Tablets.
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets-a sub
stitute for calomel-were prepared BY
Dr.. Edwards after II years Of study
with his patients.
Dr.EdWards' OliveT abletssre purely
vegetablecompoundmixedwitholiveoi
You vii know them by their olive color.
Iohsve aciear, pink skin, bright eyes,
no pimpleS a feeling Of buoysncy like
childhood daysyoumustget atthecause
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the
liver and bowels Ike calomel-yet have
no dangerous after effects.
They start the BILE and overcome COL
stipstion. That's why millions OF boxes
are soldsnnually at 1Oc and sc per box.
Al druggists. Take one or two nightly
and note the pleasing results.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-14
Mice Are BoLsheuiRs,
According To Arfisfs

Philadelphia, Pa, April "A. - Boil
shevism exists among mice. II the tales
OF the committee Of artists appointed
to examine the famous portraits in
Independence Hall are TO be believed.
According 10 the artists. all Of the
famous historical paintings have been
repeatedly attacked by armies Of
mice.
Systematically. the mice have eaten
away the frames and have even in
some cases penetrated to The very
canvas portraits proper. II is their
objec-. the artists believe, TO destroy
the works in the manner in which
the Bolsheviks are working havoc
with the historical art OF the Euro
peau countries.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-14
Wireless Telephony In
Air Between Bndmen
Miles Abart Successful

London, Ems, April 1A-Conversa-
tion between Two airmeu travelling in
machines several miles apart has been
rendered possible by the wireless tele-
phony discovery announced I'm the
house Of commons by Gen Seely. OF
the air ministry
Wireless telephony 10 airplanes has
been carried on in the United States
but so far as Is known the communi-
cation has been ia one direction. IN
accommodation between planes has
not been accomplished in the air. but
replies have been received on the
ground from travelling machines
in q short time" said an officer OF
the air ministry, lit should be prac-
ticable for a business man iourneying
from London to Manchester by air TO
issue Instructions to his chief clerk,
perhaps in another plane.
Messages have been sent from the
ground, but no answer has been pos
sible-
II believe the new revolution win
revolutionize communication in the
air. for IL enables 2 craft TO send 70
another while flying and 20 receive,
also 90 send 90 the ground and re-
ceive in return"