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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
No More Obstruction

Our neighbor The RerieU is right. The
country, tired of delay, wants the treaty
ratifed-ratified with clarifying and
safeguarding reservations, so drawn as
to secure prompt acquiescence abroad.
Senator Hitchcock plays politics and
makes threats, but his politics is child
ish and his threats are feeble bluffs.
The case has been heard, and SEN
ate and country have made up their
minds. Never was there chance that
secretly prepared document would be
accepted without reading or examination
on any ones say so. 1t has long been
manifest, if new machinery is to be set
I'D at all, that it is necessary to have
reservations. To oppose reservations
thus has been to oppose ratification.
The preposterous "sign here pro-
eramme brought from Paris colided with
a Constitution which provides that
President shall submit his treaty work
to the Senate for approval. The Constl-
tuition, according to it's habit, refused to
bulge. 1t was certain the Senate would
not yield to dictation when to yield
meant to consent to the making of
vicious precedent which would be pointed
to by other Presidents as they sought
to avoid democratic control of foreign
relations Even though the covenant in
itself had been unobjectionable, the de-
bate was keyed so as to make some sort
of pro lorna change essential to vlndi-
cate great principle.
But the Senate dealt not with per-
feet instrument, but with highly i'm
perfect and ambiguous one. Point by
point the "sgn here" advocates have
been beaten in the argument At last
even the President admits the propriety
of interpretations. His contention has
recently had no more substance than
that he objects not to what is proposed
but to the way it is proposed to do it.
The White House seems to think the
outside world can be kept ignorant as to
our construction of the covenant pro-
vided we do not express our construction
in the resolution of ratification. Obvi-
ously, the only honest course is openly to
declare our understanding of the obliga-
tons we enter into.
AS to the covenant itself the public
has gained an adequate comprehension.
1t painfully disappoints the hope Of the
world. 1t fails to provide the safeguards
Of peace that were expected. But, insult
ficient as it is, it secures the assembling
Of periodic international conferences to
talk over disputes, and, although there is
no guarantee of action or agreement,
the country, hoping for the best, is will
ing to have the conferences assemble.
So it would not wreck the whole instru-
ment--would save what good there is in
it. This saving is provided for in the
resolution which the Foreign Relations
Committee has recommended for pas
sage.
Ratification with reservations! No
reason exists for postponing action. Sen
ator Hitchcock and his colleagues should
desist from further obstruction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
The Vanished Americans
From the Tribune Paris Bureau

very complicated system if you would find
your subterranean way. In the last eighteen
months I suppose that have travelled over
every section of their many lines, and (here
is the point) never without seeing Ameri-
can or Americans descend or get aboard at
every station But to-day, on the Metro and
the Nord- Sud, the American is the exception
where he used to be the rule.
In the Metro
Listen to q story OF the Metro which dates
back to August, 1918, which you will remem-
Der to have been time of terrible anxiety.
The train full it moved between the
Etoilo and the Place de la Concordc, even the
spaces between the seats being crowded, when
there entered two youngsters in the uniform
of Uncle Sam, one Of whom carried his arm
in q sling.
There is in France a pleasant custom,
which is more than a custom, for it is a law
of the Modes and Persians. wounded
man is entitled to a seat, no matter who may
be occupying that seat, and if he is grand
blesse you will see every man, woman and
child call to him to take their places, eager
for the honor of making way for him, of con-
tributing what little they can to his comfort.
Our young American was not by any means
grand blesse but he was a wounded man,
and that enough for little old French
woman who sat near the door by which he
entered. She was prim little old lady, who
somehow made you think Of New England
and the stories that Mary E. Wilkins used
to write. She had little quick movements,
she had little bright eyes that darted and
peered like birds, and she hoped from her
seat like nervous little sparrow and waved
the youngster to her place
The French Code
She was q woman and she was old--and
the lads code presented these facts as two
immense and overwhelming reasons why he
should not take her seat. Obviously, he had
forgotten his wounded arm and he made a
shy motion which spoke of thanks and re-
fusal. 1t had about as much effect on the
little old lady's determination as a shadow
has on rock.
She touched his bandage genty--very
gently-and "Je vous en- prize, monsieur" said
she, once again indicating the empty place
The boys embarrassment was painful to
behold. He was red from the neck to the
scalp, and he looked piteously at his pal
But his pal (also red but not from embar-
rassment) had chosen that moment to make
study of the roof Of the carriage and there
was no help. The little old lady knew no
English, and It was clear that the boy knew
no French. He reached for his cap, made
the little old lady a salutation that was some
thing between nod and bow and sat down
The little old lady's pleasure was DELIGHTFUL
to witness. She stood beside the bow. she
positively bridlcd, and she looked about her
with an air that said "This I would have
the assembled company to know, is mn
wounded American. lie belongs to me-. He
Is sitting In tho place that gave to him.
Touch him at your peril"
And the lad! His cap was still in his hand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
Maid Virtue
From Colour

(From Colour
FRAGILE and slim and pale is she,
And cold as cold virginity.
She cannot feel the passionate pain
OF dreaming hearts, that dream in wass'
The crimson pleasures of the Wise
Only fill her with soft surprise.
Fragile and slim and pale is she.
And cold as cold virginity.
e. p. CRANMEA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
THE DRAGON FESTIVAL,

ID something wrong with my Calendar?
The streets are all ablaze with flowers
And paper lanterns swinging to the bres.a
Big dragons looking in at the windows
Little children have money in their hands.
This must be the Dragon Festival
And yet in all this world of light.
see the triumphant moon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
JINGLE

Eight times bow towards your friend.
Hail, brother! come, brother,
Eight times kneeling swear your friendship,
Come, brother; Ho, brother
AS liver and gall in mutual relation
The eight bows seal our brotherhood,
Thus brother friend-brother
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
FOREIGN INVENTIONS

NHESE strange things which barbarians
l. have
have dcvll-bellies which make them go.
But we are happier people
Who do not ally ourselves with the devil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
CHERRY BLOSSOM

The garment and the flesh of the winter
world
Are torn, and here and there amid the opened
wounds
The blood comes bursting through.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
WILD DUCK IN FLIGHT

The wild duck scatter, afraid.
II only 1 could fly as my thoughts dy,
] would have q rich supper Tonight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
Chinese Coolie Songs

tFron To-do,p
taken down from the lips of Chinese coolies with
.ne q. r. r. in France and translated by A.
;;.eVile j. Whymant Phi. u Iitt D. late
lieutenant of the Chinese Labor Corps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
GUARANTEE

You purchase merchandise advertised IN tnI
TRIBUNE With absolute safey-for II dssatsaeto" 10
suits in TRIBUNE guarantees 20 paw your
money back upon request. No rod tape. No du'oo""s
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
wv 1HERE are the Americans?
wv "Where," asked that engaging rascal
and great poet, FRANCOIS Villo

and great poet, FRANCOIS Villon,
"are the SHOWS of yesteryear?"
The Americans have melted away from
Paris as the SHOWS melt, leaving here and
there like the SHOWS, little trace. But as
a rushlight in a tunnel serves only to make
darkness visible, so these forlorn men in
khaki, drifting where recently hundreds
moved, throw the change Of the last few
months into sharp relief.
Once there was current the story Of the
remark with which an American woman took
leave of Paris. She had lived at the Ritz, she
had driven in the Champs Elysees and in the
Avenue du Bots de Bologne; she had shopped
in the most expensive street in the world
the Rue de la Paix; she had dned at Voisin's
or the Cafe de Paris; she had arrived late at
the theatres Of the Grands Boulevards and
everywhere she had met people who were
known to her. To all intents and purposes
she never had come abroad at all, and as she
went she said:
The French Tenth
owe had perfectly wonderful time, and
I think Paris is simply too sweet. But
told TIE story to an American yesterday,
and he commented laughingly French
quarter? Why, it's not so long ago that the
French didn't even have a tenth"
1t was true--or at least it seemed true to
those who lived in Paris in those days. The
in khaki. the girls in the gray Of the
Y. NJ c. A. uniform, or in the more sombre
dress of the Red Cross, were everywhere.
And now? Hens teeth are not more scarce.
A taxi is not more difficult to find
Turn into the Cafe do la Regence, diago-
nally opposite the Coincide FRANCHISE. 1t Is
the great chess centre Of Paris, and they will
even show you the table on which the great
Napoleon was wont to play There, in the
section given up to the game, not so long
ago you could see, at any chance visit, three,
four, round half-dozen American lads try
ing their skill against the French habitues
Last night there was not one.
l moved into the room on the right as you
enter, where the names of past masters Of
the game are blazoncd on the walls and one
lonely and aged American colonel was the
only representative Of his country at the
dining tables, where no longer ago--it seems
than yesterday you might have seen ten
or twenty.
On,nipresent america
AS In the Cafe de la R6gcnce, so every
where, for the Americans did not confno
themselves to that big cosmopolitan area
which radiatcs from the Opera. You met
them in every part of Che city, moving back
and forth on their lawful OCCASIONS Tho
Metro" gave you the measure Of the COM
pletencss of their occupation Of Paris.
The capital Of Franco is fat, round city
not long and narrow, like New York. Its
subways-the Metro and the Nord- Sud-cir-
Gle and wind and criss-cross about below
ground, and you have got to get tho hang Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12

Entered the Pos,onice at York Second Glass
Mail Matter
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
Dinner Stories

A bright-eyed little boy in sailor
suit saluted the occupants of a pass
ing motor car so quantity that they
stopped to give him nickel.
You're a very polite little fellow"
the lady motorist said DO you sa-
lutte all the strangers who pass in the
same way?"
mo, no, ma'am, only motorists"
the boy stammered. lingering mis- coin
nervously. Father says ] have to be
polite TO them, because motor cars
bring him trade"
The lady seemed disappointed.
What is your fathers trade. my lit
tie man? Does ne repair motor cars?"
mo, ma'am: he's an undertaken"
was the little fellows response.
Johnny was at the grocery store. 81
hear you have a little sister at your
house" said the grocer.
Yes, sir said Johnny.
do you like that" was queried.
Il wish it was boy" said Johnny.
$50 l could play marbles with him,
and baseball"
Well" said the storekeeper. "why
don't you exchange your little sister
for boy?"
Johnny reflected for minute, then
he said, rather sorrowfully:
I'VE can't now: it's too late. We've
used her four weeks
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26

diseases and are cooperating with the United
States Public Health Service in a nationwide edu-
cational campaign urging the adoption of proper
control legislation the closing of houses of pros
titution, the segregation and compulsory treat
ment of the diseased until they are no longer a
menace to the public health.
1t is new discussion for the press and public,
for until the drafting of millions for the army re-
vealed the terrific prevalence of gonorrhea and
syphilis in civil life the twin evils secrets to
everyone except the medical profession, and be-
cause statistics were not available, physicians
had only vague idea of the high prevalence.
The army experience was startling. 1t con-
WINGED President Wilson, his cabinet and Con-
gress that false modesty could no longer shield
one of the greatest dangers to Americas health
for it was realized then, as now, that ignorance
and secrecy were largely responsible for the con-
dtion, that exposure and publicity would bring
reform.
This is actually happening A majority of
the states are treating venereal diseases quite as
openly and frankly an epidemic Of smallpox.
and quite as effectively. And that is the only
way. The public must realize that gonorrhea
and syphilis are names for communicable diseases
instead of crimes, and that the fight for their
eradication is not private affair of the Public
Health Service, but concerns every American
vitality.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
Burleson S Censorship

The PRONUNCIATION of an order by Postmaster
Burleson instructing telegraph companies to
transmit messages criticising him, illustrates the
inherent menace of federal control of the tele-
graph and telephone service. Burleson's order
followed the refusal of the wire companies to
transmit message from the New York World to
other newspapers receiving its service in which
the postmaster general was severely criticised.
Burleson tried to mitigate the highhanded
action of the telegraph officials in New York by
revoking at once an order under which they
found justification of their ruling. But the
order does not pallate the fact that under an or
der of the postmaster general fragrant effort
to stifle the freedom of the press was made.
The principles upon which our government
rest are being stretched to the breaking point by
men of Burleson's calibre who, for some mex
plicable reason, have come to the conclusion that
the American people are willing to permit Of
ficials to encroach upon their rights and stifle
the principle Of critcising the acts of elected
to office.
1t must not be forgotten that the New York
World is Democratic newspaper "The fact, ="
says the Indianapolis Star, "that one of the most
influential papers in his party felt justified in
sending out scathing announcement of him and
his management of public office cannot be CLOS
sed over by any edct he may have issued SUBJ
sequently."
In passing it may be added that government
control of utilities has proved a miserable fail
ure not only from the standpoint of business adj
ministration but also as it pertains to our civil
rights. The people have been taught the import
ant lesson that government control means inef-
ficiency in management, poor service, and too
often a medium whereby our rights are curtailed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
Printers Ink-Prophylactic

Somewhere, sometime, someone made the
sage observation that the judicial of printers
ink might prove as useful medicine in the pre-
venton of communicable diseases.
If not statistically accurate it is certainly
worthy of comment that publicity, directed to-
ward education, has been prime factor and most
useful ally in lettering living conditions from
health standpoint. 1t has been priceless in sani-
tation education, for it first taught the public
the necessity of drainage and sewerage; that flies
and mosquitoes were the chief carriers of sew
eral ever-present communicable diseases, and it
has taught the public, great portion of it, to
insist on pure foods.
At first newspapers hestated to touch the
subject of sanitation, pest houses, flies and mos
quitoes because the editor feared it was not news.
Experiment proved there no bigger element
of news anywhere than something that concerned
every one of his readers intimatey-the public
health.
There can no longer be room for doubt that
every reader of a newspaper and every good citi-
zen is vitality interested in prolonging his chance
Tor living greater number of years.
That is the reason today newspapers have
taken up the fight for the eradication of venereal
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
SPRING MEDICINE
Hoods SarsaparilIa Is Needed Now
As Never Before-

Because. although the war is over.
its work, worry and excitement have
undermined your reserve strength.
Because the coughs, colds, grip and
maybe severer illness, have broken
down your power of resistance.
Because Winters work and close
confinement have WORKOUT your stom-
ach and exhausted your blood.
Can you afford the good long rest
the doctor advises?
If not, take a course of the famous
old medicine,-the one that mother
used to take,-Hood's Sarsaparilla.
IT'S the finest extract of Nature s
purifying, vitaliZing and strength
making roots, herbs, barks and ber-
ries. such as physicians prescribe,
prepared by skilful pharmacists, in
condensed and economical form.
If you want the best Spring medi-
cine you'll surely get Hoods Sarsa-
parilla.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
When Did Raising
Of Hogs in Wayne
by Farmers Begn9

Hogs have always been king in
them were raised almost as soon as
the first settlers came But there
were no stockyards, and palatial stock
cars, not to speak of auto trucks then,
to take them to the nearest large mar
ket. Cincinnati. Instead. when buy
er accumulated from 1000 TO 5000 Of
them, he hired a dozen young men as
drovers and went to market overland.
Linyille Ferguson, one Of the very
early pioneers of Wayne county, went
on one OF these trips which proved un-
usually exciting and dangerous, and
he told about it in articles published
in the Sun-Telegram many years ago.
ferguson, VINO was 20, was one of
half dozen young men hired to es-
cort 1900 hogs on an early-day trip
which proved unusually exciting and
dangerous. 1t rained most of the time
and was very cold The 1900 hogs
churned the road into muddy slough,
knee-deep. The drovers were kept
busy picking up the animals which
fell by the way-side and putting them
into the wagons brought along for the
purpose. From to 10 miles a day
was schedule time. but their progress
was much slower
The Great Miami, which they cross
ed above Lawrenceburg, was high.
and ferry-boat loaded with hogs
broke loose and drifted down the riv-
er to Lawrenceburg. where it was
caught. Many of the hogs died of ex-
hausIon and cold, and at the end of
the trip one of Ferguson's companions
took sick and died of pneumonia
In connection with these hog drives,
it is recorded that Samuel X Boyd,
during the year of 1925 started with
a drove of hogs from Jacksonburg to
Cincinnati. He left them at Hamilton
and went on to the city, but when he
found he could get but 50 cents a
hundred pounds for them, he disgust
edly drove them back to Jacksonburg,
fed them two months longer. butcher
ed them, and succeeded in selling the
pork for 80 cents hundred.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
fzzzzzz=v-News Of the-,
|IfkSl]: Churches l1l41 - II al
Baptist

First Baptist-North Eleventh neal
Main. Shelby c. Lee, pastor. 9:15.
Sunday school, K. E. Kenny, supt.
1910, morning worship, sermon sub
ject, "A Basic Principle of Success
and Contentment." $50. B. Y. P. u,
group number four will have charge
Of the meeting. 7:30, evengelistic
service Sermon subject, THE Man
Who Might Have Been but Wasn't
There will be no mid-week prayer
service this week as by the agreement
of all of the churches that service is
to be dismissed in favor of the union
evangelistic meetings. You are here
by urged to give your attention to
these meetings to attend each night.
This church will observe Cradle Roll
Day in the Sunday school and morning
service, with an appropriate program
Sunday morning May 4.
Second Baptist Church - Sunday
school at $50 a. M; morning service
IL o'clock, subject: THE Gospel
Train" Afternoon service, o'clock.
Subject: Can Man Take Fire in His
Bosom and His Clothes Not Be Burn
ed?" B. Y. P. U. at $50 p. m. Ev-
ening service, o'clock; subject, THE
Hell-Bound Train" Preaching by A.
A. Mays, the great evangelist from
Mobile, Alabama Rev. J. w. Robin
son, pastor
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
The Victory Loan

1t is regarded strikingly significant that
those of the Indiana counties that have taken
their allotment of Victory bonds counties
in which bankers have underwrtten or where
agricultural wealth is predominant and the farm
ers are keen on securities bargains. The asser-
ton was made recently at state headquarters by
Will H. Wade, sales director for Indiana, that this
is the best testimonial of the worth of the Victory
bonds and compliment both to the bankers and
farmers who know good thing when it is offer
ed to them.
The state sales director is insistent that the
people in Indiana have every opportunity of Sc
curing these bonds, in many ways the most at
tractve from an investment viewpoint of all the
Liberty bonds. He has directed the county chair
men to notify banks that have underwritten the
loan that they are periodically bound to permit
small investors to share in the advantages of the
Victory issue. 1t has been ascertained that in
some counties the banks have shown proper es-
innate of the expressed desire of Secretary of
the Trasury Carter Glass and War Loan Director
Lewis Franklin that these bonds be given the
widest possible popular distribution, in order that
bank resources be left intact for peace time in
dustrial and commercial requirements and for
such additional financing the federal govern
ment may require.
Of the first % counties in the seventh federal
reserve district to report 100 per cent distribu
tion of their quotas of Victory bonds, it is note
worthy that in very few instances have manu-
featuring communities or large centers of popula-
ton been included For the greater part the
farmers and farm wealth have been successful
first in making quick finish of their part of
the job
The statement was authorized by Director
Wade today that notwithstanding the United
States Treasury will refuse an oversubscription
to the Victory loan ISSUE Indiana counties that
have reported their task done, may if they desire,
roll up an oversubscrption in order that possible
denquencies may be overcome, in other COM
munities.
The fact that banks and wealthy farmers are
swapping up the bonds when given the oppor
tunity encourages the belief at headquarters that
the entire state will have absorbed its allotment
before the end of this week. The example of the
rural communities is certain to stimulate inter-
est and activity in the cities it is said, and when
the latter have taken their full share the Job will
be finished for Indiana.