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New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Our Turkish Commitments

The Right Hon. Austen Chamber
lain told the House Of Commons last
Wednesday that delay in negotiating
a treaty with Turkey had put heavy
additional burdens on the British
Treasury. For this delay, he said,
the British government was not to
blame, because making peace with
Turkey was an international task,
and everybody knew that a settle
ment was being postponed "pending
a decision by the United States
whether she would undertake her
part of the white mans burden and
the execution of the tutelage of Tur-
key under the league of nations"
This is the first oflcial notice the
people Of the United States have ever
had that they were directly CON
cerned in the settlement with Tur-
key or that their hesitation stood in
The way of peace negotiations be-
tween Turkey and the nations with
winch she has been at war. Turkey
broke off diplomatic relations with
the United States in 1917. That was
the extent Of our breach with the
Turkish government. We are at
peace with the Porte and are not en-
Vitied to assume a state of belIip-
erency in order to become party to
the Turkish settlement. The United
States IS legally an outsider and n
neutral so far as any peace ncpotia-
tions with Turkey are concerned
The powers which fought the Turks
have always been free to 20 ahead
and make their own peace with Con-
stantinople.
The American public is completely
unaware that an inability to make
up its mind has delayed the Turkish
settlement. What has it vacillatcd
about? Nobody knows why the
American delegates at Paris partici-
pated in the Bulgarian negotiations.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Telephone Shock

Just how many million dollars
have been lost and just how many
homes have been smashed and just
how many dispositions have been
permanently soured by bad telephone
service the makers of statistics will
never be able to tabulate But who
has not pretty fair notion? The
devastation of the war was, Of
course, tremendous. But put the
telephone shocked alongside Of the
shell shocked and their numbers
would be vastly greater Whole
armies of afflicted will rise up to call
DR.. Copeland blessed for taking his
very practical view of the injuries
to public health caused by bad tele-
phones.
They are, as the phrasemakers
have 1t, part Of the nervous system
of the nation. To jangle the wires
of the telephone system is equally to
langle the nerves Of everybody. We
don't suppose any one has yet laid
all our current unrest to this cause,
but the theory is quite as good as
most Of the others. The parallel
with prohibition is almost perfect.
The removal of alcohol is regarded
as having had an unsettling CON
dition upon minds and natures. But
think of the poor telephone addicts
deprived of their favorite avocation.
Or, rather, not deprived of it COM
pletely, a state to which they might
become Injured, but obliged to use a
2.15 substitute brewed chiefly of
wrong numbers and broken connec-
tons!
Everything, from cigarettes up,
had the glory of winning the war.
Why not "Better telephones +" to win
the peace?
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Everybody Belonging

With respect to an organization.
Of One Big Union which will in
clude every one contributor sends
in the following:
"Once upon time there was a
Trade Union which grew so big and
powerful that it was able to absorb all
the other Trade Unions Ultimately
it became known as The Union, and
everybody had to join it, A National
Program was drawn up, and a
Great Conference was arranged 1t
was unanimously decided that in the
event of the National Program
being refused General Strike should
take place.
There was nobody left outside The
Union either to concede or refuse the
demands of the National Program,
so the General Strike began. Every
body in the country stopped work, and
everybody drew Strike Pay But
there was nothing to buy with the
Strike Pay, for Nobody was making
anything, so Nobody could sell any
thing.
so Everybody died In a desperate
attempt to live at the expense of
Everybody else.
and the Union came to an end"
And when the world became re-
populated, through the progeny of
one family whose ark foated safely
above the suicidal deluge, it was
recognized that the One Big Union
idea was good and that merely it's
were bad.
To save the good and to avoid the
bad it was ordered that its chief
should be chosen at free election
and be called president; that its
council or board of directors
should also be chosen at free
election and be called a congress ::
that for the guidance of these
agents divers fundamental and not
easily alterable rules should be
collected in a document called a
constitution, and finally that group
of wise men, called supreme
court, should Judge when president
or congress exceeded the law.
Antiquaries of the new dispen-
sation, digging in ruins where thew
found an old cracked bell with an
rndecipherabIe inscription on its
lip, uncovered indubitable evidence
that in the overthrown building a
great council had once been held
which embodied the One Big Union
idea and that it worked benefcently
until alien influences, arousing the
spirit of faction, brought in, as in
decadent Rome, an era Of forty ty-
rants.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Amendment No z

No fewer than 100000 qualified
voters Of New York are annually de-
prived of the voting privilege be-
cause Of necessary absence during
registration week or on Election
Day. These voters are exceptionally
we'll informed and intelligent, and
the public greatly needs the weight
Of their influence.
This wholesale disfranchisement,
a serious flaw in democracy, is al
together unnecessary, as has been
demonstrated in other states where
absentee voting has been established.
The exclusion is merely a survival
from days when travelling was less
common and the evil was negligible.
Efforts have long been made at
Albany to secure remedial legisla-
ton. But constitutional obstacle
has prevented action. To remove
this obstacle an amendment is
necessary. 1t has passed in two
sessions unanimously. No one ques-
toned the merits of the measure,
and assertions that there were in
superable practical objections did
not endure examination.
Now the question is before the
people. Plain justice requires vote
in the affirmative for Amendment
No. ., under which the Legislature
may pass q bill. No valid objection
is heard, but there is, Of course,
danger that Indifference and lack Of
understanding Will perpetuate the
wrong.
/ is not difficult to safeguard
against fraud. There will be no
added expense or new machinery
There will be no delay in counting
and declaring the result. Secrecy in
voting can be preserved. Tee alb
sentee will vote by mail, at his own
expense, and the ballot, properly
verified, arriving on or before Elec-
ton Day. is to be duly deposited in
the box. Simple Those who fear the
reform are to be numbered with
those who are blindly averse to
change.
Men and women of New York,
don't neglect to vote eyes" on
Amendment No. on Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
DR.. Fuller $ Title
ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In Your account of the recent
changes in the School of Journalism of
Columbia University, published on Tues
day, YOU state that "Mr. Harold do
Wolfe Fuller, of The Review has been
appointed assistant TO Professor Roscoe
{. r. Brown This is, of course. erro-
neous. Dr.. Fuller is in no sense nv
assistant. Owing to the greatly in.
creased enrolment in the School of Jour
nallsm, 1t became necessary to divide
some courses. including that in editorial
writing, and we were fortunate enough
to get DR.. Fuller to give an independent
course in that subject.
Dr. Fuller's title, "associate in Jour
na'lsm,' is the highest employed in the
university to designate those who, while
chiefly devoted to outside professional
careers, give to it special service with
out joining the regular teaching staff
ROSCOE c. f. BROWN.
Columbia University, New York City.
Oct. %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
The Buyers Po.ver
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

}
Sir: "ln union there is strength" !"
But Is it not one Of the many after-the-
war paradoxes thai the real party who
holds the balance of power in the hiph
cost of living is neither capitalist nor
striker, but he who least makes use Of
tins power-the purchaser!
The man who holds the money box
and dlspenses its contents can we'll die
tate terms. When women, who are the
household spenders Of the nation. have
unlonized in boycotting abnormal prices
as IN The Bronx and in Chicago. thew
nave met with success. Yet few such
efforts have been made Tho protest
against profiteering has been feeble on
the part of those who have most keenlv
suffered
One reads that boycott against eggs.
nutter and coffee is to be carried on
this week by the National Housewives,
League. At this moment it is to be nut
to the proof whether the consumer pre-
fers the uninterrupted comfort of his
regular daily menu, or, for the time
plain living and a high kick against
cxtortionatc prices.
We Americans enjoy reading highly
seasoned tales Of revolutionary resist
ancc to tyranny, but where, now (speak
ing of food, is the pep" of the Boston
tea party? II. T. FRENCH
New York, Oct 2s, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

Nobody knows whether or not they
are going to participate in tho Turk
ish negotiations or why they should
participate in them. Our people
have not been trying to decide
whether or not they want to accept
Turkish mandate. Not a word
has reached them regarding mandate
offers Of any sort. If any commit
ments have been made by our dele
cation to Paris they have been care
fully concealed. Congress is in the
dark; the country is in the dark. An
obscure hint Of a desire or purpose
on the Administration part to use
troops in Armenia has been con
veyed by witnesses before the Sen
ate Military Affairs Committee ad-
vocating an increase Of the peace
strength of the regular army to
$4,000 men. But that is all.
If there are any private under
standings involving an American ac-
ceptance of Turkish mandates, they
ought to be disclosed. The British
Chancellor Of the Exchequer has
broadly intimated that the American
people are unduly postponing de-
cision as to Turkey, thereby incom-
moding our European Allies. What
decision? There are no facts or
questions in sight to pass upon.
Colonel House has promised to ap-
pear shortly as a witness before the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee. Perhaps he can throw some
light on the mysterious obligations
to which Mr.. Austen Chamberlain
aludes. A decision can be reached
promptly enough, once the situation
becomes clear.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Russian Conditions
By Frank H. Simonds

gether with the slight but distinguish
able patriotic influences, which are all
represented in the forces now contend
ing to destroy Bolshevism, are equally
unre representative. The single fact that
seems to stand incontrovertible is that
Russia itself is yet in q totally diff
ferent stage of development from other
clear that its future evolution Will be
in the direction of Western democracy.
No Real Stability
1t is wholly conceivable-not merely
conceivable, but perhaps likely-that
the foes of the Bolshevists will now
gain control. The same WEAKNESS of
conflict which explained the collapse of
Russia as a member Of the alliance
against Germany, the same desire for
peace at any price, which led Russian
armies to disintegrate and allowed
Lenine and Trotzky to gain control
the elimination of these leaders equally
automatic.
But it seems to me the thing which
Is most patent is that it must be
very long time before there can be real
stability in Russia, and the mere sue
cess of one faction or another seizing
control of the machinery of govern
ment and the centers of population will
in no true degree measure the adoption
by the mass of the Russian people of
the particular political or moral, or
even immoral, doctrines advocated by
the successful faction.
There seems to be very general
idea in the United States that if only
the Bolshevists are conquered, ex-
PEELED, abolished, Russia will reappear
as a nation in the Western sense. But
putting "Humpty Dumpty back on the
wall" may prove to have been simple
task beside restoring any semblance of
national state in the regions ruled
by the Romanoffs less than three years
ago.
When the Bolshevists have been de-
feated, as seems likely now to happen
shortly. then it will be a problem TO
create new national unit; nor is it at
all improbable that the inert mass, the
hody OF Russia. may prove the prize
for future civil wars between factions
for decades to come.
From the outbreak OF the Russian
Revolution to the present hour the
West has been wrong in every single
estimate it has made of the facts and
the probable course of events in Russia.
1t has been wrong, In my judgment, be-
cause it has insisted upon seeing
Russia through its own history. 1t has
regarded Russia as nation. with the
same general tendencies, emotions,
ideals as exist in Western nations.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Mathematics and Justice

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your article entitled "Mathc-
MATES VIII Win" is very interesting.
but if you Will permit this frankncss
on the part of one of your readers it
might be rather more convincing 1T
would be quite consistent with the law
of mathematics and with every other
law except that of injustice and other
laws that might we'll be broken 10 have
society so orgarzed that every adult
would do some of the worlds work and
every human being would share all of
lfe's blessings. The only way to pre-
vent the coming of this state Of affairs
Is TO have deep ignorance.
Would it not be well to take the cx
cellent advice once given in Tribune
editorial, !. e., "Put yourself in the other
individuals place?
LOVER OF JUSTICE.
New York, Oct. 80, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Library Hours
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 tIt EullUf OF The Irlbune
Sir: The branch public Libraries on
the West Side should be kept open
until 10 p. N. evenings and on Sun
days, so that those who have no place
TO read can do so there. There is
very little doing until 3 p. m. any day,
and II they kept open from that time
until 10 p. M, they would serve the
greatest number of people who mainly
live in tenements without heat or light
except at n big expense. They do not
go to bed at 8 p. m., when the libraries
are closed, and have no visiting facil-
tiles or other place to go. II. Mr.
New York; Oct. 25. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
The Mirror Makes a Correction

To the Editor Qhc Tribune.
SIR: note IN your paper this morn
ing, October %, The Dramatic Mirror"
as being mentioned as one of the papers
that is going 20 appear on tho stands
in the nc..r future.
wish you would make correction on
this to The effect that "Dramatic Mirror"
has been published regularly and in Il
union shop during the present strike. 1t
has not missed an issue.
II. A. wYCKoFF,l president.
New York, Oct. 30, 1895
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

on the doctrine that men, if they
have power, have the right to dis
regard the welfare of others and to
freeze men and women if unwilling
to empty their pockets when arbi-
trary demands are made on them.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
A Judge and rs

Frop, The arkansas Gasettei
Judge Lands says he knows he
ges drunk on 2.15 per cent beer,
we don't know whether his homo
testifying to extraordinary suscs|
bility to alcoholic influence or
common storage capacity. -
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

DERHAPS there is no situation in
all the confused mass of Euro
pean tangles which must be
viewed with more suspicion than the
Russian. In the first place such news
as comes to us from Russia is almost
without exception so handled in trans
mission and so written at the outset
as to create an impression rather than
to present fact. In the second place.
in the very nature of things swift solu-
tions of Russian chaos are in adj
human probability out Of the question.
Russia, even before the revolution,
was nation in which the cohesive in
f1uences, relatively slight in any case,
had practically crumbled to nothing
The world, the Allied world made the
natural but profound mistake of inter
preting Russian events by the prece-
dents Of the French Revolution. On
the basis of this reading of the situa-
ton, Paris, London and Washington
promptly looked to the Russian Revo-
luton to reveal that passionate patri-
otto impulse which moved tho French
nation to the frontiers in 1892
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
The Coming 7'ower
POLICE COURT ANTHOLOGY

Doctor HcKeluey
was driving on the Grand Concourse
When this man drove up beside me on
motorcycle,
And told me to pull over and stop.
He wore khaki uniform. and I thought
He an officer, so obeyed him.
Well when I'd stopped, he flashed a badge
me,
Which I knew sign Of the Military
Intelligence Division,
And when he hinted that brbe
Would get out Of trouble,
I knew he was impersonating = traffic
officer.
Hoping to make some money
So just held him till real policeman came
And had him arrested
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

While it is true that Hudson sugs s
the Patagonian dolichotis as one of the
available substitutes for the dog, hd
also mentions other animals neareH
home. He tells. for instance. OF a pet
teal duck which was very aifectonate
and Jealous of its master. When q
cat or dos was fondlcd in its presence
j, would ran to the spot aGministt- I
few blows TO the animal with its d
bill and solicit a cares for itself.
One OF the most sloc ss.ui max vts
of the American army A France was
an snseater which went ,hrou~A lhel
war with Il record OF ra.er once bitins
anybody above the ran, Of second lieu
ter.ant. Hudson tells an engaging
story of a pet rat in his book and alsc
speaks enthusiastically of the posi-
blities of the pig as companion. As
matter of fact, he does not dispArssd
all dogs. but takes occasion to RECORD
the story OF a London writer whj re
lated to him how lin sheltered Ispo
among the rocks on a lonely ScAotsl
moor he stumbled on an old she(rher'
playing whist With his collie"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
HYMNS OF HATE

Her would slay by any means
The Jennie who exclaims, "Traize beans"
LYSBETHE
I'd like to swat the thick gazebo
VINO thinks it wise to holler Yea bo :"
LfCE.
"a like to swat her on the lid
The Jane who says 1T can't be did -
MARIAN
HI shoot the gun II you will hold II.
And we'll murder the guy who saws "you
told it,
The hairless ones who give me pains
Cry. Couldn't have both hair and brains"
They're bad enough, but get the hearee
For those who say ITS not SO worse
F. e. s.
ia execute, il axe were handy.
ne skirt who gushes 'Fine and dandy
And some from health I'd like 10 bar
Who never board. but hop a car.
BILL
There's Lucy--shes an awful bore
She leaves me with 'Au Reservoir"
And Mabel's caused me many a shiver
when taking leave with "Over the River -
And Gertrude thinks IT awfully funny
To say Don't take any wooden money.
But most Of ALL May makes me boil.
She leaves the crowd with "Ohve Oil, :"
NoREMAc
man I never treat with JUNCTION
is he who makes verb of function"
EARNEST GUY
shoot sneer at friend or pal
VINO Hreets me with you know me
Al'
The dame whose word, my anger rears
Is she who says, I'm thrilled to tears"
Lock.
lady that I'd like to mess up
Is she who MARBLES, Come now, fess up. :"
GIBBS
Louise ] long to squelch compactIv:
She's always drawing out "Persactlv.
Make him eat parsnips nl his life,
Who babbles on about "the wife
And I'd snnihlate the stiff
Who calls his consort queen the wifi.
Verse cannot freight the feeling we
have for the person who uses "gotten ~
AS TO the French forms Of verse.
many attempts at which are received bv
this Plaster of Prosody, we rcpeat our
refusal to print those which violate .ho
rigid rules. Workers in that medium aro
referred to "A BaIlade Of Indienation >,
written long ago by a panstaking YER
sifier, Miss Carolyn Wells, the cnvov
of which ran:
Calliope, pardon, pray,
These workers without any tools,
And to them this message convey:
At least they might follow the rules
Three or four years ago this depart
ment listed among the enviablc few
who wrote too little Thomas r
Ybarra, Frank Moore Colby. II. 8. Har-
rison, Charles Macomb Flandrau and
Theodosia Garrison. Additions to the
list are Jesse Lynch Williams. Georpe
Adc, and Horatio Winsow.
Well. this is Halloween and Capital
will lock the front door and take In
the gate.
,A.tK r. F. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

DR.. Copeland utters truetalk when he
says that the condition of the telephone
service is menace to health. And not
lnirequently it is only distance that
makes the telephone service not men
ace to the physical wellbeing of the
operator.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
TO DR.. BerthOld A. Baer

yet he leaves the selection OF
the frame which encoses his earthly re-
mains-the casket--to the family THE
DOC.l
A tsket, a taskct
Come help me pick my casket.
Let taste and art, when 7 depart
Encompass me. | ask it.
ROZ.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

James Helms
Your Honor. I'm a member Of
The United States Motor Transport Corps,
And my job is to watch the public roads
For government vehicles that disobey rules
The doctors car was between me
And Liberty truck I was trailing.
He hogged the road, so just as ! got by
yelled at him and told him to pull over.
Then when he stopped I thought that he was
sore,
And I stopped too and went to Ak it up.
He grabbed me then, and held me till a cop
Went by and then he had me arrested
never told him he pinched,
Nor spoke about a bribe B. G. JR
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Absence Of Patriotism

But the striking fact in the Rus
sian Revolution was the absence of
patriotic impulse. 1t was mat
ter of absolute unconcern for the
mass of the Russians that the Germans
occupied Polsl DISTRICTS it was a
question of no moment that the whole
edltice reared by Peter the Great and
the succeeding Romanoffs was being
destroyed by foreign enemy and that
the gains of several centuries of effort
we're being wrecked.
The Russian was without anything
suggesting patriotism, despite the un-
mistakably patriotic sentiment Of those
few men who for brief period di-
rected Russian affairs. In the case of
France the inhabitants of the various
provinces, those which had been French
for centuries and those like Alsace
and Lorraine, which had been incorpo-
rated relatively recently, were equally
moved by an overpowering determina-
tlon to drive the enemy from the from
tiers.
But in the case of Russia there had
been no fusion of the nation compar-
able with the fusion of the several
quite distinct clements in France. The
conquered nationalities, the Let's. the
Poles, the Lithuanians, preserved a
strong memory of ancient independ-
encc, as did the Finns A century or
two centuries of Russian domination
had merely paralyzed, it had not de-
stroyed the separatist desires of the
people of the Russian fringcs. Once
the central power. the bureaucracy,
with the already shadowy Car, col
lapsed Russia few into fragments as so
many empires conquered by the sword
have disintegrated, once the great con
queror has disappeared.
IN word, unlike France in the Rcvo-
luton. unlike Germany to-day. unlike
Italy in the last century, Russia pos
sessed no national sense. 1t was not =
nation in the deeper meaning Of the
word; it was vast geographical ey
preston, held together by no bond of
mutual understanding, common ideals;
1T was, in this respect, almost purely
Aslatic. And added to the absence of
sense of nationality and an emotion of
patriotism there was certain inde-
scrlbablc stolldity, ignorance, among
the mi Hons
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

TO blanche. Robert Grmshaw, P. K,
B. M. s., S. s., G. H. R. and L. V. T. ::
Our mistranslation OF "Die Gotter-
dammerung," in Tuesdays Tower, was
the fault OF neither linotyper nor
proofreader, but that of our own wide
and uncomfortable ignorance
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

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