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New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
In the Red Cross

TO A. w. F.
HER near presence teases-the slender
J. l. young red-head,
Playing at war-work, laughing as she
plays.
The look in her eyes BODIES a deal of mis-
chief
God help the bold ones till she mend her
ways.
Just passed the boundary set out for child
hood
All, there's breath of April with the
lass,
Lanes and little places with echoes Of
one-step!
God help the shy ones, how soon their
luck will pass.
She never caring for the solemn moments,
Dusty feet that go trampling the ground;
She never needing anxious, praying per-
God help the wakeful, how her sleep is
sound!
The fragrance Of violets steals quickly up
wards,
All Of the sky is full of shooting stars
Half Of a kiss would surely never matter
God help our memories, what should they
be but scarsi
GORDON HAMILTON
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
The Medical Centre of the World

There can be no question of the failure
thus far of New York to attain the
medical rank and offer the medical facili-
ties which it's size has long made FEAST
ble Therefore, the new project of the
New York Association for the Advance
ment of Medical Education and Medical
Science is heartily welcome.
The statement of the purposes Of the
new movement gives as one excuse for
present backwardness the fact chat in
dlvldual institutions working along some
what narrow lines have accomplished
satisfactory general results" This is
mildly and generously put The right
leadership could long ago have organized
fitting medical centre in connection
with our existing schools; but the lead
ership has been lacking and the oppor-
tunity goes into other hands 1t is no
easy task that these creators face. Onlv
time can tell whether their project can
attain its full stature But, at least.
the conception is sound, the goal clearly
conceived and the means Of progress
we'll realized
For the general public the first hope
Will be that IN connection with this vast
postgraduate school of education and
research there will develop clinic
worthy of the larger scheme The oppor
tunities for diagnosis in New York are
very great, but they are not assembled
in any reasonable and economical fash
ion. At Rochester, for example. the
Mayo brothers have organized under one
roof facilities for diagnosis and treat
ment to parallel which in this CITY it is
necessary to draw upon a score of sep
arate Offices and operating rooms. The
patient seeking light must travel from
specialist to specialist. The waste Of
this system is colossal. The individual
practitioners must charge more, but
owing to the maintenance of their sep
arate Offices their net income is less
And the directing genius, the thorough
cooperation of specialists in a final
diagnosis, is most difficult to discover.
Along all these lines of education, re-
search and organized diagnosis and treat
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Chop Sue y Drama
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Writer is on his sixth visit to New
York since the war and never before was he
attracted by SO many plays, movies" and ex-
hibits about his country life and people
"Red Lantern" "Broken Blossoms" East
Is West" "Underground of Chinatown
and many others All imaginable wicked
ness of human life and every undesirable
popularity of his country is portrayed at
its worst if not at all with exaggerations.
These shows could only be amusing for
their artistic immortality. But look where
to see anything about the other phase of
China Is there any nation which has no
dark side of it's life?
Though writer is aware that Confucius'
teaching "Display others good but conceal
others bad" is not observed here his
knowledge of American people and their
ideals does not warrant him to believe the
possibility OF there being a conception of
the reverse. Having drained of all blood
from his veins to review these shows "a
whole and judge them with impartialitv.
he cannot help saying that there must he
motive of an organized body behind Thorn
and is more convinced for the fact that
>-' ~'-0-O ''NAN SSoSSu Uu1il tNe Clme when
emma had some Of her vital questions at
dispute in Paris, the whole world looking
un to America for justice. Can it be otb,r
than propaganda to impress the mind Of
American people that the Chinese as MOO
pie are immoral, wicked and conservative
and cannot modernze themselves so tbs+
a claim Of some ones domination NAV saar,
justihable?
The American part of the plays is often
so skllfully combined as to breed preind;ce
and hatred between the people of the two
republics. Those Americans who know
family Of real Chinese life would easi,v
be led to take them as true representations
and to indorse the digestion of the nrona-
gandists' idea, while those Chinese who are
superfuous observers would doubt how
sincere friends, sympathizers and be,pers
would calumniate people for amuse-
ment.
Shall we ever be deceived bv sucb do
hcious soup containing harmless poisons
sprinkled by some one envying orr n,ora1
relations and economical corradeebino
A TROTTING CHINAMAN.
New York, July 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
The Higher Sumne r
By Emma Bugbee

Nov is the time when all inhabitants
J. y Of Morningside Heights revert to
undergraduate days, swept along on
tide of young energy and enthusiasm for
learning that sets in with the opening of
the summer school. The undergraduate. it
is true, we have always with us, but he
makes little impression on the community.
Save for his occasional outbursts of revelry
by night in his fraternity house, the winter
species OF undergraduate is puny and COM
paratlvely colorless character, who goes
about the business of acquiring an educa-
ton with minimum of that fond and illu-
sive thing called college spirit that makes
itself manifest in noise. There is doubtless
just as much learning per hour on Morning.
side during February, but it is a cloistered
and unproductive thing compared to the
joyous intaking of knowledge that goes on
in July.
Then history walks in white linen skirts
and biology lunches and sleeps under the
elm trees of the campus. Mathematics
reverberates through the dining halls and
the sound of the economist is loud on the
bootblack's chairs. Is it music, we wonder
or advanced astronomy that strols through
tie twilight, strumming ukulele? What
ever its faculty, it is a stimulating sight.
in curls and unabashed blue organdies, re-
mindlng again that all learning is not hid
den under wrinkles and dyspepsia.
1t Is not merely, however, that the sum-
mer school imbibes it's wisdom in holiday
spirit, but it brings sort of pedagoeic
tonic to the university life. These thou
sands Of young students come from Bur
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Wante d: A Floating
Bath
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your cooperation is asked by the
Greenpoint Community Council to aid the
people of Greenpoint in securing bathing
place for the boys and girls of Greenpoint
during the remaining part of the summer
An appropriation has been asked by Bor-
ough President Riegelmann for an issue
Of $1,000 in corporate stock, and the matter
has been referred to the Finance and
Budget Committee of the Board of Esti-
mate. If action is not taken at the next
meeting Of the board it simply means that
the hopes of a bathing place for this sum-
mer will vanish
Greenpoint enjoyed such a floating bath
up TO hve years ago. The waters of the
East River were declared to be polluted
and floating bath was declared to be
menace to the, health. of those who used
It, lhe baths at the Battery, in Manhat-
tan, were also discontinued at that time
Inc baths at the Battery have been re-
stored and so arranged that they take in
none of the waters of New York Bay
They are fed fresh water through pipe.
connected with the city mains. The same
thing can be done in Greenpoint. The Bor-
ough of Manhattan has eight floating baths
Brooklyn none
Inc Greenpoint Community Council
hopes that the Board of Estimate will take
favorable action on this matter.
ARTHUR ]. OLMSTEAD
Chairman of the Bath Committee, Green
point Community Council
Brooklyn, July 8, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Stravs

Senator Swanson, of Virginia, who
seems, at least temporarily, substituted
for Senator Hitchcock as the Admin
istrations Senate spokesman, is quoted
as saying that Certain of the reserva-
tions may be supported by the Demo-
Gratis" The intimation is conveyed that
to save the covenant it may be necessary
seek nom partisan two-thirds majority
through combining with reservationists.
Concerning this the following contri-
button from Arthur D. Howden Smith,
biographer of Colonel House and Of
supposed excellent standing in inner cir
cles, to The Globe, is interesting:
"Already there is heard talk among
men who hope to see the covenant adopt
ed Of taking the matter into their own
hands and endeavoring to secure nom
partisan support for the ratification, with
reservations which would win support
without diminishing the strength of the
league
70 the same general effect writes
David Lawrence, an interpreter of the
Presidents mind, in The Post. After de-
claring that mo one takes literally Mr..
Wilson's remarks against reservations"
he says that
"a majority of the men in the press
gallery who have looked on dsnterest-
edly fully expect the peace treaty, league
Of nations included, to be ratified, but
with certain reservations tackled on by
the Republican leaders,"
Coincidentally comes news Of the de-
mise, with no mourners, Of that remark
able doctrine, much exploited by our
neighbors, The World and The Times,
that unless the treaty, including the
covenant, were ratified precisely as writ
te1at azsen there could be no peace or
trad6 with Germany. This fair-haired
boy, once greatly relied on, is thrown
overheard, and the announcement made
that trade with Germany will begin i'm
nediately.
Which way blows the wind? Watch
the straws.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
The Blasting Da;sv

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t has been suggested that all who
are opposed to the alcoholic beverage pro
hlbitlon law manifest their protest by
wearing daisy in the lapel of the coat
Ihis consider would be an appropriate
and consistent badge. My knowledge of
psychology is quite limited, but as I un-
derstand it, this suggestion has certainly
demonstrated a striking mental phenome-
non."
Any one who has any knowledge of the
character of the daisy knows that it will
thrive greatly without cultivation. and in
proportion to the manner in which u
thrives all other vegetation is bIas+od
E. A. PACKER
New York, July TO- 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Silly Left Wing ers
The /. w. w. Pays Its Scornful
Respects to Radical Socialists
From, The One Big Union Monthly II. ". W.
" OU have all heard Of it. The great
events in the Socialist party. The

" OU have all heard Of it. The great
events in the Socialist party. The
average Socialist party man thinks
that the world has nothing else to talk
about We mean the expulsion of the Left
Wingers from the Socialist party, 40 900 of
them, it is said, comprising the Slavic Ian
guage federations, as we'll as 5000 mixed
members in Michigan.
The cause of expulsion was the advocacy
of "mass action" and tle consequent fear
of the conservative officials of the party
chat the Left Wingers would bring them
all in Jail" perhaps also fear that they
would lose their jobn.)
Numerous Left Wingers are taking a
friendly attitude toward the I. W. W., but
it generally stops with the attitude. The
Endorsement of industrial unionism is
to be considered as plank in their
political platform.
In view Of this endorsement" a number
of them seem to be mildly surprised at the
l. W. W. for not doing them the same
favor back, i. e., indorsing Left Wing poll
tics. The idea Of barter and compromise is
inherent in all political movements.
his expectation OIL Lne LeIC WlnRerS
shows that they have not studied and un-
derstood the 1. w. W.
Ever since 19os-that is, for eleven
years.. W. W. has been on-political. To
become member it is not necessary to
abjure politics. In fact, that question is
never raised. Members can vote for any
party they please. But the programme Of
the /. W. W. is such that it leaves no room
for political action, and a member who has
fully understood our philosophy is not
political worker.
Our programme is to create new So
ciety by organizing the workers in indus
trial unions, by means of which they can
take over production and distribution, thus
abolishing private ownership. We have
dropped everything else and centred our
activity on this point. AS a matter of
fact there is no difference of opinion on
that score in the l. W. w.
If you go out among the agricultural
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Americanizing Nancy
(From Tho Boston Globe)

tFTon1 1he boston GtOoe/
American energy is already at work Who
but Americans would undertake to replace
in three years a city which took centuries
in the building? Even before the treaty
was signed three large American concerns
had accepted the contract to rehabilitate
the Nancy district. The actual work will
soon begin.
Nancy is in the Northern France battle
ground. Most of it's public buildings, fac
tories, dwellings, roads, bridges and
churches must be replaced. The cost will
be done by these American firms.
So far America has evolved only one uni
versaly national architecture-the sky
scraper. This we can scarcely offer to
France. The French infinitely prefer their
straight skyline to our jagged one. They
may concede the titanic splendor of our
city canyons, but they will not exchange
them for the intimate charm of Old World
streets.
Besides, France stands on her dignity a
little. The mother of the finest type Of
Gothic architecture, and the arbiter in
standards of artistic taste, it would be sur-
PAAoiu6 Al oHo euouiu OclBH 70 accept art
lessons from us. 1t would be as though a
dowager were to take hints in etiquette
from debutante
We cannot offer France architectural
forms. Nancy-one of the most beautiful
Of French provincial towns-has it's own
noble architectural traditions. But we can
bring new building methods. We can apply
the durable principles Of steel and concrete
construction to the architecture of the re-
gion. We can unite French perfection OF
form to American excellence of construc-
tion.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
War Films

THE CHILD AND THE SOLDIER
~ BROTHER, put me in your pouch
~ AS you would a fresh, sweet locust-pod.
For | am frai as flask OF glass,
AS fine gray egg g slender rod.
0 brother; and am the golden ring
You wear on your finger so gladly For God
Takes everything from you tomorrow, and
gives me everything.
THE GRAY NURSE
The gray nurse entered rose garden
Where roses shadows dappled her
Her apron was brown with blood She
prayed,
And roses wondered at her prayer.
NEITHER MOTH NOR RUST =
God. only God is eternally
God is forever, and only He.
Where, white maid, are the men you have
loved?
They are dead so God was between YOU.
you see.
D. q. LAWRENCE.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
How to Enforce Peace

In his interview with the newspaper
correspondents 1--WE quote from The
TSnesJ the President is reported to have
said:
'sHe explained that there was no pro-
vision for military action in the league
covenant except on the advice Of the
council, and that it was not compulsory
for governments to accept that advice"
# this is accurate, the President con-
firms conclusion which those who have
studied the covenant have deduced from
it's ambiguous language; confirms an
opinion reached by those who have
sought TO penetrate the mysteries of it's
devious provisions.
A council Of nine ambassadors, COM
posed of five chosen by specified coun-
tries and four elected by an assembly
IT delegates from forty nations, is to
meet, each ambassador being responsive
10 the orders of his home government
Before this body question involving
peace or war comes and is debated. The
council can pass resolution. If there
is unanimous vote a recommendation
goes back to the home government, but
* there is single adverse vote no ac-
HOn occurs. Even when there is una
ninnity in the council the action binds
nobody. The several home govern
ments, as they please, may accept or
reject the recommendation; if there is
re3ection and the issue is deemed i'm
pcxtant enough by any one to justify
independent action it must be fought
nut as now.
It need scarcely be pointed out that
when nations are unanimously unwilling
TO 60 to war there is no war. Nor need
II b pointed out that as things now are
there II no impediment existing to ma
lions agreeing. In the vital matter the
dew bond introduces nothing new. This
oasic fact men who have urged an un-
sonditioned acceptance of the covenant
aeve been interested in obscuring; there
1as been diligent effort to present the
Aeague as able through its own power to
sm1orce peace, but the President himself
sdrnfts the contrary. 1t is not compul-
ssry, he says. for governments to follow
kf1e councils recommendation, even
H1pu9h unanimously reached.
4 4I,e unanimity rule, coupled with the
gS1exence TO home government, is rod
~ Aaron which consumes the rods of
Szka e0venant necromancers. The pro-
gposed league Is not league to enforce
ooece. It provides a place where those
~ inclined may talk peace, may even
seconmend IT in a particular instance If
fke ambassadors are all Of one mind or
q ~ p1rmitted to be Of ons mind; but
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Mrs. John Wright

CHE no longer held him:
~ In the long dragging evenings
She knew that
The mirror shouted to her
That she was no longer desirable
Her hair had lost its color,
Her eyes were dull.
She loathed his perfunctory kisses,
His polite inquiries as to what she had
been doing all day.
She loathed him
Because she loved him.
Then War came.
He went toward it hungrily, !
Like q dog to red meat. /
Life woke up in him rubbing its eyes.
In hot glow of emotion
He remembered what she had been 70 him,
And in his voice was tenderness
That kindled beauty within her.
The night before he left she slept in MS
arms:
And War had given more than it can tske
away.
MARGARETTA SCOTT.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Abraham Jacob

At the ripe age of eighty-nine years,
following a life full Of honor and useful
ness, an earthly end has come to the
venerable and venerated DR.. Abraham
jacob.
Not few residents of German birth,
both naturalized and unnaturalized as
citizens, now complain of prejudice
against them. Let such consider the life
and career of German-born Abraham
jacob and how he was treated in this
country. If they do, and also bear in
mind the difference between his spirit
and those they must recognize as con-
trolling many Of his nativity, they should
be able to understand.
In 1848, then young man of nineteen,
he began the study of medicine and be-
came student at the University of
Bonn. A great political movement was
astir-the question up was whether the
Fatherland was to be German or Prus-
sian, liberal or reactionary. Eager and
ardent, taking more thought of life than
Is taught in books of anatomy, the young
student became member Of that group
Of romantic souls who dreamed the dream
of German liberty.
Denied the primary rights of men, for
hidden a chance to bring in orderly
change, they turned to force and revou-
ton. Their glorious rebellion was futile.
The Hohenzollern was too strong, and
they found themselves scattered and help
less. For two years Abraham jacob was
a prisoner. He escaped to America, where
Carl Schurz, a co-conspirator, had pre-
ceded him.
The unwilling immigrant found Amer
lea land Of opportunity, and turning
to his profession he was soon one of
it's leaders. Distinctions came to him
which he richly merited, but that they
came is sufficient answer to the
slander that America views intolerantly
any coming as Ruth did to Naomi-any
seeking in good faith to participate in
her life. Americanization? The first
thing necessary is for man to be will
ing to be Americanized If this desire
is present the sound Of gutturals and
strange sibilants in accent are not bars
to community of spirit.
Not only is the career of DR.. jacob
instructive to all men Of foreign birth,
but particularly 80 to the special group
which now talks revolution. This man
never found that the fact that he had
been a revolutionist brought condemna-
ton. On the contrary, it feathered his
fame. America loves a revolutionist-
of certain kind. But it judges revolu-
tionaries as all things must be Judged:
with reference to the end sought and the
means employed.
1t is right for man, as we con-
ceive it, to use force to secure equality
of right; it is wrong to use it to establish
privilege The eulogists of Lenine and
Trotzky are condemned not because of
their sympathy with revolution, but be-
cause of their sympathy with a revolu-
tion which would make some men the
masters Of others. America holds to
the doctrine that as long as the road
to orderly change is left open there is
no justification for revolution, and hence
honors the Jacobs and loathes the bomb
planters.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
In France

TIGH above the drab barren ground
d Il Three herons beat across the dawn
blue sky.
They drift slowly away
Until they appear
AS three horizontal umber brush strokes
On finely shaded cobalt
And the mist, driven by the wind
Up and across the distant hill,
Cleans like soft white hair
Brushed amorously backward!
RICHARD ALDINGTON.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Why?
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Can you tell me why our Post
master General has issued orders prohibit
ing the exchange of 3-cent stamps for 2
cent ones? One would imagine they must
have been bought at bargain or were
damaged goods, which our very efficient
postoftice could not consent to handle Mine
were in perfect order; they had not even
been torn apart. TRIBUNE ADMIRER.
East Gloucester, Mass, July o, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
From Laurel Wreaths
THE FALLEN
WHnERs1EsvvanaEs s1svaas.sss..ss you are

WHEREVER you are,
w o strong-throated,
Husky souled
The sun was on your swords,
The light of all time, and the still wands--
ings of high Romance through fcr
tracks.
Flame touched you, fame and wonder,
The stars for moment singing in ycut
lips,
The sea for an instant washing the doors
of your souls,
Wherever you are,
fallen,
Timid though, or gruff
Prometheus welded your limbs
And set them aiame.
Now we hear of you dying, -
And do not understand.
FAREWELL
Will you latch up the doors,
And hush the Tyre that wakes its soul in
the corner?
Latch up the doors, and open the windows,
That the wind may come in;
For I go earthward, and shall nevc~mors
return
Nevermore.
When the Autumn rises like a burni-ha
god,
When the Spring steps over the writhia.,
hills,
When Winter sweeps her robe across tia
roofs,
And Summer wheels her dronine sleepv
bees
Nevermore.
Will you latch up the doors7
But hang no yew on the Intel,
And weep no tear in the doorway.
I go skyward and shall nevermore retu-n.>
Though the earth-soul cry at me- whir 3
like lone lover in the dark;
Though the soil lean her bare, brown haso:a
toward my cheek
Latch up the doors
Still the wailing Tyre in the corner
I go deathward, and shall nevermore return.
LOUREINE ABER
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13

ment backward New York has far to
travel. 1t will be a profound source Of
satisfaction If rivalries and chickering's
of educators are no longer to delay
medical progress in this centre of oppor-
tunity.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
Alien Enemies
tFrom The Detros. Free Press,

tFrom The Detroit Free Press,
The Secretary of Labor says there is no
law under which alien members of the
soviet bureau in New York can be de-
ported. Since Lenine once declared war
on the United States. why not treat them
as alien enemies?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
.rruprx OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

.
fhe Associated exclusively entitled 10 the
IA Republication dispatches credited to It or
ctheswtsc credited this and also tho local
asBs Of spontaneous origin published herein
All rights republication Of all other matter herein
also reserved
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Nsa purchase merchandise advertised In THE
fnt9uNE with absolute sasetfor ~ dissatisfaction re-
eaits IN any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to your
mccoy beck upon request. No red tape. No aubbilng
W. mako sood promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
A Week Of Verse

All these poems are from "Poetry" fo,.
July, an issue entitled "A After-the-Wo
Number"