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New-York tribune., 1919-10-29
When VIII the War End?

When will the war end? That is
a conundrum to which many confus-
ing answers are being given in
Washington. The war prohibition
provisions Of the agricultural bill
of 1918 were to remain in effect un-
til the termination of the war and
the completion Of demobilzation.
Congress thought that demobiliza
ton would not be effected until after
peace was made-a natural supposi-
ton. But France, Great Britain and
the United States disbanded their
armies without waiting for formal
peace.
In his message vetoing the VOL
stead enforcement bill President
Wilson said that its objects were
satisfied in the demcbilization Of
the army and navy" He is opposed,
therefore, to conceding that the war
time prohibition provisions are still
applicable and to passing legislation
to enforce them. Yet the Admins
tration has failed so far to issue
proclamation declaring the state Of
war with Germany or with AUSTRIA
Hungary ended.
Furthermore, in his statement re-
garding the coal strike. issued last
Saturday, the President reminded
the fomenters of the strike that they
had signed an agreement which was
to hold during the continuance Of
the war; though not beyond April
/, 1920. He said further that "thc
war itself is still fact" Plainly,
then, the objects of the contract,
which was made with the concur
renee Of the Federal Fuel Admins
tration, we're not satisfied by de-
mobilization.
According to Associated Press
dispatches from Washington, it was
sad yesterday at the White House
that the President would issue
proclamation declaring the war
ended "immediately after the SEN
ate ratifies the German peace
treaty" The Senate, technically
speaking, doesn't ratify a treaty.
1t advises and consents to ratihca-
ton by the President. Peace with
Germany cannot come automatically
the moment the Senate votes to ad-
wise and consent. The President has
several times suggested that he
might consider advice and consent,
with reservations, as equivalent to
rejection. Under the terms of the
treaty it cannot become effective be-
tween Germany and the United
States until our ratification is depos-
tied in Paris.
There are other complications.
We declared war ON Austria Hun
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Cusses
To the Editor of The Tribune

AHteSa ~ HC iDuUe
Sir: One of your readers acknowl-
edges noby in your issue of to-day
that in times gone by he often
'cusscd" Roosevelt.
Honest confession, indeed. which is
to the confessor's credit But was it
necessary? Any bright American boy,
twelve years old, remembers perfectly
how Teddy was not merely "cussed." ;"
but cursed and vilifed by the same
people who now exalt him while cuss-
ing and cursing "some one else"
1ris is lesson to the bright
American boy; and he will not forget
1t. He will no more allow himself to
be moved by the "cusses" of wild ire
spectacle" people of both sexes.
AS for the "some one else" that
they are vilifying now, the boy will
not worry bit. for that is sure
sign that some day they will canonize
and "stntucfy" him. O. G.
Ithaca, N. Y. Oct 25, 1919.
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The johnson Amendment

The provision of the covenant
that gives to the British dominions
six votes in the assembly of the
league of nations, whereas no other
nation has more than one, has af-
fronted the American feeling that
partners should be equals. No
serious attempt to defend the pro-
vision has been made in Great
Britain, and it is probable if the
negotiations were reopened that
Great Britain would gladly yield
the point.
Yet it has been recognized that
the issue is of small practical i'm
portance. In the first place, Amer
lca would rather trust Canada than
Hedjaz, Liberia, Siam and other
slgnatories that might be men,
toned. In the second place, our re-
lations to Cuba, Panama, Santo
Domingo, Hayti and Nicaragua are
such as to give to us more than one
vote. In the third place, it has
been plain for some time that the
inequality might better be covered
by reservation than by amendment
So. except in special circles, the
rejection of the amendment will not
be greatly regretted. 1t may be
confidently predicted that a prop
erly drawn reservation will be ac-
eeded to by Great Britain, and no
other nation will be interested in
OnnOc;+,on
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The German Post
War Mind
BY William c. Dreher,
Berlin Correspondent Of The Tribune

ID ERLIN, Sept 26.-The Germans
are still intensely occupied viii
discussions of the causes of the
war and the question of responsibility.
The last six weeks have been q period
of sensations in that regard. First came
the German White Book, the other more
or less official statements about Ger
many's military and political break
down; and now everybody is talking
about the latest Austrian Red Book
But for war books, in the specific sense
of the word. the general reading pub
lie has lost all interest People in gen.
eral have had their surfeit of descrip-
tions of battles and military opera
tions. Only boys of ten to sixteen
still delight in the adventures of the
Emden and Ayesha.
Such is the statement coming from the
municipal library of Berlin. which has
its branches throughout the quarters of
the city populated by the working peo-
pie. The reading now done by the
ways; it shows the intellectual trend
among them The library records pre-
sent many other interesting movements
of the public mind. besides its turning
away from military book. In the first
place, we learn that, since the revolu-
ton, the number of readers has in
creased nearly twofold And this was
not because the workingmen who made
the revolution have suddenly become
filled with new aspirations for broader
knowledge. On the contrary, they are
now conspicuousy absent from the
Libraries; after having previously fur
nished large quota of readers they
prefer now to spend their time in at
tending political meetings.
The flight of the Berliners to their
books has q very serious aspect They
are taking to heavy philosophical works
as never before. The books of Kant.
Schopenhauer, Hegel and other well
known philosophers are in great de-
mand, even among persons who are
living q hand-to- mouth existence So
ciaism, of course, ranks high in the
number of readers; but the readers of
Socialist books mostly are not work
men, who have long been Socialists. but
new inquirers who feel that it is now
necessary TO krow something of a sys-
tenn that seems destined to be fastened
upon Germany Bolshevism and Russia
in general occupy the attention of very
many readers, The Russian language is
also studied extensively, and this is
also true of Spanish. That is straw
pointing plainly to thoughts of emigra-
ton, and it is therefore not surprising
to hear that many books on that sub
ject, too, and quite especially books
about South American lands, are
eagerly read. Standard works on
political economy enjoy. great favor
All this shows that the German mind
is striving to get away from war. This
is also clearly Indicated by the great
popularity of the books of those two
French enemies of war, Barbusse and
Romain Roland The libraries have had
to order and recorder their books, so as
not to keep readers waiting unduly
The indifference Of the working peo-
y>to
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young and old, for generations to

young and old, for generations to
come.
To do ones utmost, without saving
or sparing, for the right; to bend
ones body and ones mind to their
best achievement by unending tug
Of the will; to live true and hit hard
and die gladly-it is a noble creed,
that needs no form of words to ex-
press it, thanks to its incarnation in
the life of Theodore Roosevelt. It
will never be forgotten as long as
America is America.
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WEDNESDAY,. OCTOBER %, 1919

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GliAR RANIEE

Yea esn purchase merchandise advsrti.rd In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute .atety---'or " dissatsfsc.
hsn rcsuIts In ssy case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay your msnsy back request. No red taps.
No qu,bnins. 40 make good promptly the
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New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

Being lover of good books.~ write,
Joseph D. Coden, "and a follower os
your column, | got into the habit of
depending on you for the selection Of
my books. And the other day when you
mentioned The Moon and Sixpence' "a
the best novel you had read this wear
went to the library and asked for it.
But imagine my astonishment when
was Informed by the head librarian
who, by the way. is an old woman. that
The Moon and Sixpence' Is trash and
that it will not be taken in.
Don't you think that it is unfortn-
nate that the choosing of books for the
public library is left in the hands OF
fossils who call such book trash when
most of the best literary critics have
praised it7 The same library refused
to take in The Rise of David Levin.
sky by Abraham Cahan. Some one
told them that the book was 'sordid.' but
after a fight they finally consented to
get copy, which proved to be the most
widely read book in that branch.
"P. ST was just Informed that even
headquarters will not take in The Moon
and Sixpence'
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

Maurice Maeterlinck has been irving
his luck. One of the essays in his new
volume, "Mountain Paths" (Dodd Mead,
is entitled "Of Gambling and writing
about Monte Carlo he says:
an any case, at these tables. as at
all places where passions become nten-
slfled, we are able to make interest
ing observations and, among other
things to behold at first hand. violently
foreshortened and i.rsnly Illuminated,
certain aspects of mans lifelong strug-
gle with the unknown. The drama,
which as rule is long drawn out, pro.
jecting itself into space and time and
breaking up amid circumstances that
escape our eyes, is here knit together
gathered into ball; held, so to speak,
in the hollow of the hand. But. for all
its speed, its abruptness of movement
and its extreme compression. il remains
as complex and mysterious as those
which go on indefinitely Until the
ivory ball that rolls and hops around the
wheel falls into it's red or black COM
partment, the unknown. yelling IS choice
or its destiny is as impenetrable as
that which hides from US the choice
or destiny of the stars The move
ments of the planets can be calculated
almost to a second; but no mathemat-
ical operation can measure or predict
the course Of the little white bail
Better luck next time, Mr. Maeter-
linck
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Misinfornation

NFrom The Mi,cautce Journal
AS for us. we're bit fed up with
having anybody and everybody who
wants something tell America what its
duty L..
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Of course. we do think it unfortunate
that the public library should refuse to
circulate "The Moon and Sixpence." II
Is unfortunate that an old woman.
or young man, or anybody else, any
place, should have the right to say.
This is book which you must not
read" We have been told that "The
Moon and Sixpence" is an immoral book
Perhaps it is, but, after all, the busi-
ness of the public library is not to pro-
mote morality, but to promote reading.
1t is not only nonsense, but immoral
nonsense, 10 suppose, as so many CEN
sors do, that every established institu-
ton, whether it be marriage or the
American Constitution, or what not. cam
not stand for moment if it is exposed
to criticism. As the well-known hus-
band of Mrs. Caesar said, Caesars wife
wife should be above chaperones."
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Books
By Haywood Bro,,r

HVERY British writer (and o..
Irish ones) who has turned on,
novel recently in which the wa,
has been mentioned has taken occss;o,
TO say that the business of fighting ha.
been grossly sentimentalized and +h..
1t is almost wholly grim, dirty and nm.
pleasant work. And every British write,
who has said this has either implied =,
stated that he. of all the articulate NO,
sons in the empire, is the first m.
possessed of the courage or the wisdom,
to announce the discovery
1t would seem to prove that Dern..,
Shaw has never had time to read Arcols
Benefits "The Pretty Lady, and tha@
Mr.. Bennett has been much too buxv
to dip into ". L. Georges Blind Auevs
and that George in turn has not bouob+
a copy of Gilbert Cannan's "pi,r
Roses" And Coningsby Dawson, Of
course. has read nothing, with the nos.
sibe exception of Garry On" and "Tba
Glory of the Trenches"
Still, Mr.. Cannan has done it IA.
tie better and little more simply than
anybody else through the mouth of
French character in his new book, Pink
Roses" (Doran). "When Frenchman
goes into the army" says the httls
doctor. "he is a poiiu, dirty fellow; h.
feels and knows that he is dirty; but
when an Englishman goes into the army
he is St. George"
And again the sagacious little doctor
says to his English patient, "You will
have your social revolution without nor.
ror, so nice, SO nice and gentlemanlv
and the class war, like everything else
unpleasant, will melt away under your
hands"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

Fear Of q coal strike did not keen
the thrifty. far-seeing American yes
terday from having the steam turned
on In most of the Office buildings.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

Board and lodging are wanted in
Albany, according to the Argus, by
conservative Yale graduate" ~ sup
pose" Q. supposes, that a radical Har-
ward boy would demand the use Of
car and privilege of staying out
nights"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

Philosophy is a wonderful gift. When
we fail to fill an inside straight we drop
the hand or try to bluff and get called
by the man with eights and deuces The
incident has no cosmic significance foT
us 1t is not in US to find literary in-
spiration in the event. Mr. Maeterlnck,
on the contrary, may find that the roy
alties on his essay will more than make
up what he lost in backing red during
a run of black All we can do is TO
buy another stack and play them IL
tie closer to the chest. But even in the
case of Mr.. Maeterlinck, we wonder
whether he did not find it necessary TO
wait little while before he was abs
to achieve an attitude of such calm and
detached philosophy.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29
Inaccurate Figures

tFrom 7 nc Baltimore Amertcas)
It, will take more than statistics 10
convince the consumer that the cost OF
living Is being reduced.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

Moreover, some things arc not salts.
factorily explained in the Maeterinck-
ian essay on gambling Nowhere do we
find him tackling such difficult problems
as why there is always diamond on top
or why it is unlucky to win the first pot
or why aces and eights are never beaten.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

the Greater Berlin Labor Councils one
member. who is organizing so-called
free university extension lecture courses
especially designed to give workmen
a deeper knowledge. particularly of So
ciaism, was almost howed down when
the councils be required to attend at
least four courses of lectures. His hear
ers grew very impatient, and he ended
by giving them a piece of his mind,
thus: IF the working people think they
can dispense with knowledge and can ac-
complish everything with machine guns,
they are mistaken. On that road Social
ism can make no progress"
The "Bund for Proletarian Kultur,"
which was organized here last week, is
another attempt to extend a lifting
hand to the omnipresent proletarian---
who was present, by the way, in only
2 few specimens. 1t was meeting of
writers, actors and actresses and other
"lntellectuals' who are claiming a
place in the ranks of the proletariat
The radicalism served out to each
other by these folk was, of the extreme
type. What they seemed to be driving
at was the commonplace subject of art
for the working classes; but they in
sisted upon accomplishing this worthy
aim through the new kutur of the
dictatorship of the proletariat, based
upon class hatred" But there was q
sharp diversity of views, and the speak
ers belabored each other with verbal
injuries in way that augurs i'll for so
young and tender an organization. One
anarchist even denounced the "reac-
tionary ideas Of the anarchists"
While these efforts to educate the
proetariat thus do not appear very
promising, it is pleasant to record that
the oldtme educational craft is carry
ing fuller cargoes than ever before.
The attendance at the German univer-
sites during the recent summer sem
ester reached $1,000, which compares
with $4,000 for the time just before
the war. Strasburg University has
dropped out through the loss Of Alsace,
but new universities were started at
Frankfort, Hamburg and Cologne. The
figures. however, are not wholly cor
rect. inasmuch as they include men
who quit the universities to go into the
war and have not yet returned The
number is too great by 25 per cent. A
noteworthy fact is the great increase
Of women students; they now number
5000, as against about 1000 before the
war. There has been considerable
shifting in the relative Importance of
the universities. Berlin, which has
now nearly 1900 students, has made
great gains; so have Bonn, Frankfort,
Muenster, Tuebingen while Breslau,
Freiburg. Halle, Heidelberg and Kel
have lost ground relatively. Hamburg
had more students in it's first semester
than Erlangen.
is also taking a fresh squirt in it's de-
ve. opment. New courses are in prepa-
ration in many towns, and it seems
certain that educational opportunities
will be brought to the people in this
form more abundantly and multifari-
ously than ever before. Many schemes
are on foot for utilizing the moving
picture in these courses.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29
The IT'S in Cider
lFrom The Boston Herald1

1t takes good deal of tasting to
tell whether sweet cider Is still
within the law.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

For few moments Monday evening
1t seemed as though the country's re-
quest would be "Plcase pass the rye"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

"On the street of Thousand
Laughs" Marian writes, "a hair goods
shop loudly proclaims 'INVICTUS (Un-
beaten) Foot Powder suggest as
further advertising:
Il am the master Of my feet:
l am the captain Of my SOLE"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

But it was "Please pass the Volstead
bill"
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The Coming 7ower
SESTINA

SESTINA
When at the dawning | arise
To let my soul commune with God.
My feet are led by whispering winsA
Across the dew-'aid fields to thee.
And In my heart there comes song
That 6lls my life with JOY all day.
l saw the funeral Of day
Pass westward on the clouds grey wings
And In the night I heard song.
AS If an Angel sang ARISE!
Go forward in the strength Of God,
task for Him is waiting thee
All. what is all my love to thee7
silent voice-the noise of wings
Fain would bid my love arise
Within thy heart--a cloud by day
And in the night hame-Dear God,
Grant that my love will hear my song.
Sing sing. o lark. thy happy song
Thou golden spirit held by wings,
Proclaim on high the coming day
Before the sun thou shalt arise!
AS thou fy'st upward, take with thee
Ny little prayer of love to God.
He spake: ~ am the Lord thy Godi"
Did no one see His Son arise
From out the tomb on Easter Day?
shepherd heard the Angels song
''The Christ is born this day TO thee''
shepherd saw the Angels wings.
send kiss with love for wings
Across the sleeping world to thee.
That it may kiss thee when the day
Has scattered night. and thou dost rise
And on the kisss lips song:
May thou be always blessed by Cod
Our Fathers God. beneath Thy wings
My humble song doth now arise
Bring me to Thee ere parts the day"
M. M. H.
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Ode In Time of Appreciation

When rocky seems the road and rough.
When brims the cup with care,
read the mortuary stuff
BY Or. Berthod Baer.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

The indifference of the working peo-
pie was mentioned above. Here is am
other straw pointing in the same direc-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

Entered At the Portoric~ at New York Sccon'
Class Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29
Help Wanted-Femn

Sir; Replying to Mrs. F. D. S.eele's ad
for Household Assistant have about two
hours day that | could devote to this
work If the lady will arrange to send motor
Tor me Immediately after breakfast daily
say at ii ;30-excepting Thursdays, Satur-
days and Sundays. or course it is under
stood that all my laundry work is to be
done for me in addition to the $500 weekly
and nothing is TO interfere with my musi-
cal studies IN the afternoon. Stenway Grand
Preferred And The puppy will have to be
eNchanged for cat, | have a very
nervous temperament and dogs make me
tidgety. GwENpoLyN MoNrAtoReScy
For the benefit of those who never
have heard of j. S. Fletcher, author of
the book the Pres dent has been read
ing, it is hereby set forth that he is
the author Of many other books, in
Guiding Daniel Quayne" and The
Marriage Lines" He is an English
man.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

III tell the world she's some atrocity
Who always MARBLES The docity T.
K. DIS WIFE,
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SUBSCRIPTION RA1ES-By MAIL including
Postage. IN THE CNITLD STATES AND
CANADA:
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Hymns of Hate

The man whose blood I'd like to spill
Says. Hello, Bill! Well, how's old Bill p,
E. D. S.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29

The dauntless author of that sestina
is a sixteen-year-od girl.
Amercanizing "Der Freischiitz'' to
1.-THE Free Shooter" is we'll enough, but
why not call its author Chuck Weber?
Whose English translation is to be
used for the German operas? Most Of
the English transations Of German
operas sound-or read, rather, as the
words are not Observation-Disclosures
though they had been written by
Weber and Fields. They are almost as
bad as the average translation of a
Heine song.
If 'Die G6tte terdammerung" should be
given, the title THE Damnation of the
Gods" possibly will be objected to by
some broad-mnded persons and "The
Confounding of the Gods" be substi-
tuted
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29
\ I.oNGsuoRE CuaNrry

The longshoreman strikes for a dollar an
hour,
Nom amber toes. whtttic n,e nose.
On an even three hundred the skipper grows
sour,
Now ich tile mc nose. timber me toes
The a!f-haked young sailor wants ninety
mont,
I'm tstiin' ies, batter me eyea:
At two hundred an fifty the engineers grunt
NoW batter me eyes, tetun' hes.
But the clerk from the Office on twenty a
week.
Noap rattle bones. laugh at me groans: ::
Comes down to the dock lookn' happy and
sleek,
No heei TO me GrOdns rattle bones,
An for nothin'-lcss postage-contributor
They're less n hall br 0ht hammer me
viii torture their souls through half of a
night
Yea. hammer me light, less n half bright.
'Twxt them what gets it an others as
cant,
i's pta.n to be seen. batter me bean,
That the good tempered swabs as yc never
hears rant
Ncr Oaeter nc bean, plain to bo seen.
or the high cost O livin', the sorrow o
toll.
Now step on me frog, kick at me dog.
Get the JOY out O life. I'm Us sore as a
boil
THEY'VE CUT OFF ME- GROC. CUT
OFF NE GROGi
RAY SARGENT
Harvard Rolls Along With Majestic
Stride.-W orld headline.
"Ah," says Norman. shaking a sly
finger the while, "but suppose Yale or
somebody strides along with a majes-
ic rnll-==1,,hnt hnx, q,
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The dauntless author of that sestina
g year-old girl.
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r. r. A.