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The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21

Giving Thanks I!
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O Cra1l1tlef'
81 a9szzszzazz ssp
e. T'S A shame not to share this
good dinner with some one"
II said Lydia. who had loved TO
IN cook from the days when
| GAS she baked mud pies in the
NS63S sun until the nights when
3 she made fudge in IA chatting
% dish. 1t was partly because
OF ner taste for cooking and partly cs-
cause of her distaste for bo1fi'ag-
house life that she gladly avs'if7f her
self of suite in the first on.-tenant
apartment house erected in her city.
Her living room with its tiny fireplace
was flanked on one end by bathroom
and a bed closet, and on the other
by a complete and compact kitchen
ette.
On Thanksgiving day Lydia fitted
from room to room singing gay
snatches of song. Her trim little fig
ure was lost in the lOOseness OF long
sleeved white apron with which her for
mer landlady had endowed her when
she set out on this housekeeping ven
ture. Her auburn hair was soft about
her flushed face and her blue eyes were
bright with enthusiasm as she concoct-
ed tempting dishes for her Thanksgiv-
ing dinner.
The plump chicken browning In the
tiny oven was small and the quivering
mold of cranberry jelly just turned
out was small, yet there was much
more of each than Lydia alone could
eat, healthy and hungry as she was
This thought came to her as she was
arranging pieces of toast for aspara-
gus and with the thought came hos
pitable longing to share her good din
ner with some one else who was
healthy and hungry. The girls who
were her co-workers in the public
library either had homes in the city
or had gone to their homes outside
the city for Thanksgiving holiday. and
besides them she had made few nc-
quaintances In the city. SO she could
think of no one to invite.
She reflected that there must be
many lonely people in that city who
would gladly share with her the dainty
meal that was now almost ready to
serve. Then she thought of the young
man who lived alone in the suite across
the hall from hers and of whom she
had caught occasional glimpses
through his open door as he bent spec
tacled eyes low over drawing board.
She found herself wondering. as she
had several times before. whether her
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21
THRIFT IN LITTLE THINGS.

1t Is in the little things md small
wastes that multiplied by hundreds,
make the great wastes In many homes.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21

Put your feet down In the right
place. and then stand firm.-Lincoln.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21
GOOD THINGS FOR THE FAMILY
TABLE.

When n dish is both good and eco-
nomical 1t is bound to be popular.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21
HEADACHE
Often Caused by
Acid-Stomach

Yes. indeed. more often than you think
Because ACID-STOMACH. starting with in
digestion. heartburn. belching. food-repest-
ing. bloat and gas. II not checked. will even
tually affect every vital organ of the body
Severe. binding, splitting headaches are.
therefore, OF frequent occurrence a result
of this upset condition.
Take EAToNIc. 1t quickly banishes acid
stomach with its sour bloat, pain and gas.
1t aids digestion-helps the stomach get
full strength from every mouthful of food
you eat. Millions of people miserable.
weak. sick and hiling because of ACID
STOMACH. Poisons. created by partly di-
Eested food charged with acid. are absorbed
into the blood and distributed throughout
the entire system. This often causes rheu-
matIsm. biliousness, clrrhosis of the liver.
heart trouble. ulcers and even cancer OF
tho stomach. 1t robs its victims OF their
health. undermines the strength of tho
most vigorous
II you want to get back your physical
and mental strenEth-be full of vim and
vigor-entoy life and be happy. you must
get rid of your acid stomach.
In EATONIc you will ind the very help
you need and IT'S guaranteed. So get big
SOC box from your druggist today. II II
fails to please you. return II and he Will
refund your money.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21

r ORD, thou hast given me a cell,
wherein to dwell;
A little house, whose humble rooi
Is weatherproof.
Under the spars of which 1 lie
Both soft and dry.
Where thou my chamber for to ward
Hast set guard
OF harmless thoughts to watch and keep
Me while / sleep.
Low is my porch, as Is my fate:
Both void of state:
Is worn by the poor.
Who thither come and freely get
Good words or meat
Like as my parlor, so my hail
And Kitchens small;
A little buttery and therein
A little bin,
Which keeps my little loaf of bread
Unchipt, unfiead;
some little sticks of thorn or briar
Make me fire,
Close by whose living coal sit.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22

and confused with innocuous radi-
calism. The radical may be toll
Grated if he works within legal linz
itations. But the "Red" of the Le-
nine school is criminal and an en-
emy of civilization.
The people Of this country have no
tenderness toward anarchist and
communist agitators. Our own un-
desirables of this sort are as noxious
as any others. We shall find a way
to deal with them. The foreign sort
can be reached without delay under
the deportation power. Soviet Rus
sia is their spiritual home. They
should be sent there to enjoy the
blessings which we are determined
not to have thrust upon us.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22

saved civilization from formidable
attack purposed to continue their
guardianship until danger disap-
peared. But the President would
not have this, and so the sort Of
league he brought back never has
ceased to be disappointment.
Thousands of Americans do not
know whether we are asked to sign
an agreement making for peace or
one making for war.
These things were as clear to Eu-
rope as to us, but, instead Of trust
ing the American people, Lloyd
George and Clemenceau adopted the
artificial theory that the Presi-
dent was America. All the conse-
quences Of which now there is COM
plant flowed from this great blum
der. If the foreign statesmen had
been willing to stand for their own
ideas in an open and honest fashion
they would have found that they did
not differ much from those of
America.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
ayry On Clubs
The One Agency for Housing
Disabled Soldiers
c Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In yesterdays New York Trb-
une there appears statement by
Franklin D'Oler, the grand command
cr of the American Legion, calling on
Congress for immediate enactment of
legislation giving discharged cx-serv-
ice men "the consideration they de
serve at the h@nds of their govern
ment.' Mir. D'Oicr does not criticize
the principles upon which the legisla-
ton for compensation and vocational
training is founded, but states that the
legislation itself has proved enormous
ly inadequate.
On account of the delays and rcd
tape caused by this legislation disabled
men have been held up as long as
ten months before receiving the pen
sions due from their War Risk Insur-
ance. A typical case is that of Pr
vate Mcharg, who has recently entered
the Carry On Club at Thirty eighth
Street and Madison Avenue. Private
Meharg has just been placed in train
ing by the Board of Vocational Edu-
cation afto, eleven months of waiting,
during which time he has not received
penny of the insurance to which he
was entitled A great number of simi-
lar cases are on file at the Red Cross
Offices, at Mad son Avenue and Twen-
ty-sixth Street,
Neither the government nor the
great organizations like the Red Cross
and the Y. M. c. A. have undertaken to
meet this condition. There is just one
organization which has attempted to
give the ex-service men the square
deal that they deserve in this respect
That is the Carry On Association,
which,, under the direction of its pres
ident, Mrs. Wendell Phillips, has been
founding clubs as quickly as its re
sources Will allow. to house the dis
abled men at a price they can afford
or free of charge when their compen-
sation is delayed.
This has been a brave undertaking,
for. understand, all of the funds
which support this work have been
raised through the personal efforts of
Mrs. Phillips
The work done has been of such a
quality that the government has ap-
pointed the Carry Os Association sole
official agency for housing the disabled
men. But to maintain the necessary
number of these clubs, enough to meet
the problem adequately, much money
is essential. The organization is there.
sufficient organization to "put over"
the clubs at once, if the money were
forthcoming. If the government were
to give this organization financial as
we'll as moral support the association
could be stepping stone of great i'm
portance in the solution of the prob
lem. MAUD NATHAN
New York. Dec. 1S, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
The Underwood Conference

Senator Underwood proposes that
the President of the Senate (Senator
Cummins, mild reservationist)
shall appoint committee of ten SEN
ators to report such resolution Of
ratification as will in it's judgment
be approved by two-t thirds of the
Senate.
The proposal has elements of at
tractiveness and on its face seems to
represent sincere attempt to arrive
at a settlement. Yet when examined
it is seen to be merely warming
over of the Pomerene plan, rejected
when ratification was voted down by
q combination Of Administratio and
Borah-Reed Senators. There is the
same defect that destroyed the
Pomerene project and, unless q
change of opinion has occurred, is
not likely to be accepted.
The forty Senators who are sup
porting the Lodge resolution reached
agreement after grave trouble. 1t
was no easy task to reconcile diver
gent view, not only with respect to
general ideas, but to their particular
expression. They openly revealed
their ideas to the country. Rejecting
ratification on the Lodge plan, the
Administration Senators offered no
alternative. They assumed a purely
negative attitude. They would not
have the Lodge reservations, but
would not say what they would have
Up to the present time, although pre-
tending in a non-official way to favor
compromise, they have not defined
their position.
Under these circumstances the
Lodge reservationists object to going
into conference. They ask those who
would confer to say openly what they
will concede. With the President de-
claring he has no compromise to Offer
and large number Of Administra-
ton Senators still under White
House control, the Lodge Senators
naturally do not feel sure that those
who talk conference mean compro-
mise. The Lodge bloc, with difficulty
brought together, may break apart if
it's resolution is thrown into a melt
ing pot and there is an effort behind
closed doors to write an entirely new
ratification resolution.
Senator Underwood, if he means
compromise, should not object to
slletching with some preciseness
what he seeks and how many votes
are behind him--votes that will
stick no matter what the White
House NAV order.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
Sending Them Home

The House of Representatives
passed unanimously on S; turday n
law providing for the deportation of
all aliens affiliated with organiza-
tions which advocate sabotage. the
forcible overthrow of governments.
the killing Of public officials or the
unlawful destruction of public or
private property. Persons contrib
uting money or personal service to
such organizations also are to be
elected.
This measure comes late, but is
heartily welcome. The Indifference
OF the government to spreaders of
the doctrine of terrorism has been a
scandal. The deportation service
seems to have been organized in re-
cent years to keep pestiferous aliens
here instead of facilitating their ex-
pulsion. Bolshevism was shifted at
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
Origins Of Schrecklichkeit

One of the standard arguments of
the apologists Of Germany was that
her ruthless warfare was adopted in
retaliation for Allied "atrocities,"
particularly the blockade. Of course,
this contention was never impress
sive. Siege and blockade have al
ways been recognized as legitimate
IN warfare, and there was nothing
to prevent the German government
feeding the civilian population with
the vast stores of provisions re-
served until the very last for the
military. Above all, had the Allies
actually transgresscd against hui
manity, which they did not, the
practices Of Germany would have
remained none the less wrongful.
Therefore the German argument
was generally regarded as pretexu
pure and simple, improvised er post
focto, and merely another indication
Of ethical color blindness.
1t appears now that even this as
sumption imputed to the German
war lords degree Of honesty, how
ever slender, which they actually
never possessed. For, as matter
CT fact, the German argument in de-
fence Of "schrechlichkeit' was a
conscious lie from the start. Evi-
dence to this effect is laid before the
world by the collection Of documents
from the Wilhelmstrasse archives
recently published by Karl Kautsky
These documents prove that ruth
lessness, far from being an emer-
gency expedient, had been deliber-
ately planned in the days preceding
the war-that it had been a corner
stone Of the entire German world
policy.
According to the Kautsky Nevela-
tons, on August 5, 1914, Won Moltke,
then chief of the General Staff, ad-
dressed a memorandum to the Ger
man Foreign Office in which he said:
"Enkland's declaration of war,
which, according to trustworthy in
formation CD was designed from the
very beginning of the conflict, COM
pels US to exhaust every means that
may contribute to victory. The
grave situation in which the Father
land finds itself makes it duty to
resort to every means that is calcu-
lated to injure the enemy. The un-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
Europe's Great Blunder

The British press is increasingly
frank as to why the treaty is un-
ratified at Washington. But it can
not be said it is yet completely fair
to it's readers. Why not come out
openly and tell the truth? The
English journalists who have been
in the United States know the facts
If this country reverts to a policy
of isolation and washes its hands of
all responsibility for Europe it will
be more from WEAKNESS and disgust
than from intent or desire. The
chief obstacle to settlement is, and
has been, the President and a mis-
handling that has wrecked high
hopes.
Americans who are the most
eager to assume world responsible
ties have never been able to smother
their doubts as to the Presidents
loyalty to the supreme war issues.
His many statements showing no
sympathy for the cause of the Allies,
his suggestions looking to nego-
tiated peace, his preference for
styling our partners associates i'll
stead of allies, his willingness to
receive messages from Germany
which assumed that our policy dit
fered fundamentally from that Of
our allies, his launching of a propa-
ganda which meant, if it meant any
thing, that we had special aims and
that our European friends were not
to be trusted-thought Of these
things has never been wholly sup
pressed.
The news from Paris as it cloud
ily came did not remove misgivings
1t was sadly apparent that the
Presidents ideas were more popular
in Berlin than anywhere else. Until
driven from its position the Ameri-
can delegation opposed imposing q
peace and refused to extend the
Entente into a peace league. The
Iolicy pursued was to draw away
from our allies and to ask for Ger
many's admission as a charter mem
ber of the league Germany expect
ed admission and reproached the
President with having been untrue
to his words when he ceased to in
sist on it. The shipload of journal
lists that the President took with
him, many of them on the public
pay roll, occupied themselves in
spreading the notion that his ideals
were peculiarly noble and that he
was wrestling with wicked men.
1t would have been easy to have
formed peace league at Paris-a
simple one which would have said
in effect that the nations which
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22

scrupulous policy which our adver-
saries are conducting against us
warrants ruthless action on our
part"
This proves plainly enough that
frightfulness had been part of Ger
many's plans before the war actu-
oily began. But Moltke's memoran-
dunn is significant from another
point of view, too. 1t reveals the
colossal ignorance upon which the
Prussian supermen had built their
dream of world domination. 1ncred-
ible as it may sound, the leaders of
Germany actually counted on Amer
ica's sympathy and support. Moltke
wrote:
"The sentiment of America is
friendly to Germany. American pub
lie opinion is indignant at the shame
full way in which we have been treat
ed. Every effort must be made to
turn this sentiment to account. The
influential personages of the German
colony must be urged to exert fur
ther influence in our behalf upon the
press. 1t may, perhaps, prove pos
sble to induce the United States to
take naval action against England, in
return for which Canada beckons as
a prize of victory"
Lack of humor always has been
recognized as Prussian character
istic, but the rulers Of Germany
were thought to possess, if not eX-
actly intelligence, at least an intelli-
gence service. One is at loss to
decide which is more amazing, the
lack Of information displayed by the
chief of the German General Staff
or the stupidity of German state
craft which followed up his premises
by a policy of which the sinking of
the Lusitania is the symbol ever
lasting.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
Control Of All Necessaries

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In this morning's issue of The
Tribune you have an editorial headed
Food Control in Peace" Considering
your viewpoint, namely, as q resident
OF a large city, you naturally wish to
obtain your food at as low a price as
possible and sell your manufactured
goods at the highest price you can.
believe that if the public wants a
law such as you speak of, namely. food
control, they should be fair enough to
include control of all necessaries. I
note that Magistrate George ". Simn-
son rendered a decison that theaters
are necessaries. Such being the
case, why not have a law that will cover
all necessaries and not have a class
law that applies to only few
If we take into account amuse-
ments as necessaries, we might CON
sider automobiles, newspapers and the
machinery necessary for printing the
same as necessaries. In fact. all We
ask Tor is a fair law and not class
law.
lhis will be accepted, no doubt. bv
all IN the proper spirit, but to continue
to harp upon this food proposition and
10 prosecute, as you have done in YOUR
CITY, the Roth brothers, will only tend
toward increasing the rebellious spirit
among those who are compelled to
ABIDE by the restrictions of this Lever
law and the unfair interp rotations en-
acted by those in control; and if YOU
WISH to enlarge your Socialistic and
bolshevist body I do not think you can
make better effort than continually to
slamor for class law.
JOHN W. RYON.
Elmira, N. Y, Dec. &, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
Moral Suasion Sugar Prices

Our government is a wonderful
moral suason institution. Legisla-
tors and Cabinet officers denounce
prohteers and thunder against in
fated prices. But they keep. the
thunder safely in the index.
When it comes to doing some
thing to r.strain profteering and
check the rise of prices there are
many hesitations and anxious
glances toward the tall timber By
foolish judgment the government
lost a chance last summer to keep
the price of sugar to the consumer
down to something near the war
rate. Now Congress has been wrest-
ling with a long neglected measure
to prolong the life of the Federal
Sugar Equalization Board, with a
view to preventing sugar from kit
ing to 25 or 80 cents a pound.
Congress and the Administration
both profess to care for the inter
ests Of the great majority. But let
a little organized minority, intent
on its own prosperity, intervene, and
coercion is sidetracked in favor of
moral suasion.
The Louisiana Senators want to
see the sugar growers of their state
get a high price for their small
contribution to the American supply.
The domestic beet sugar growers
also expect a high rate Of return.
They are willing to let the govern
ment experiment with Cuban sugar,
which can be bought,at much lower
figure. But they protest against
giving any powers to the Federal
Equalization Board which will per-
NIT it to maintain war prices during
1920. Congress, naturally, yields to
the first minority protest. Sugar at
war rates, is, therefore, definitely a
thing of the past.
There is human nature in the
Louisiana uprising against regula-
ton. "Why pick on us?' say the
Louisiana growers. Yet if the gov
ernment doesn't pick on somebody
there Will never be any restraint on
profteering. Real cooperation in re
ducing prices can be obtained only
when the government picks on
enough people to get them keenly
interested in picking on the rest.
Otherwise we 60 back to Give and
let live" and no limit to price ex-
pansion but natural forces and the
blue sls.
The public will pay mostly moral
suasion prices for sugar this winter.
For some time as to one matter the
sad housckeeper must look back
regretfullv to the WAY.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
The Absolute Relatively of Marx
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir In recent editorial on Seeker.
of the Absolute you again use Kari
Marx as an example Of those who seek
to apply absolute rules in a relative
world" 1t is, obviously, possible to pur-
sue this line Of thought to the point Of
absurdity, for what is to prevent the
sure-tire indictment that calling this
relative world smacks of absoiutism'
But for reasonable folks it should be
sufficient to show that Ka1l Marx, and
Socialists generally, are not only "satis-
fled with relativity," but. indeed, they
were and are sure that ultimate truth"
is the choicest intellectual pet Of ninety
nine stand patters' out of every hun
dred
Accordingly. here are few pointed
quotations. The first is Marx in the
original Communist Manifesto:
Does it require deep intuition TO
comprehend that mans ideas. views and
conceptions--in one word, mans con-
sciousness-ohange with every change in
the conditions Of his material existence.
: in his social relations and in his social
life %
Then comes Engels in Socialism:
Utopian and Scientihc":
"Then it was seen that the economic
structure OF society always furnishes
the real basis, starting from which We
can alone work out the ultimate eX
panaton of the whole superstructure
of the juridical and political institu-
tons as we'll as the religious, philo-
sophical and o&her ideas of given his
torical period
And finally she Socialist philosopher
Dietzgen, IN his "Essays":
''The fundamental proposition OF IL
ductive socialism may be thus formu-
lated. There is no eternal principle or
an priori idea of the divine. just and
free; there is no revelation or chosen
people. but there are material forces
which govern human society"
And again
''In science the atom is as worthy an
object as the starry sky There is no
fixed gulf in science between worthy and
unworthy objects. and none in scientific
ethics between good and evil All things
and qualities are useful and suitable:
clean and unclean, love and hate, en-
joymcnt and rcnunciation-all IS rela-
tive. more or less, according to time and
conditions"
Marx may have made few poor pre-
cictions; he may, too. have allowed his
whiskers to grow uncultivated. HIS
legendary portrait does not prove that
he was addicted TO the modern insttu-
ton of frequent bathing. l believe he
has even been called a fool. which IS
only fitting, for il places him in rather
illustrious company But it is stretch
ing even relative truth to suggest that
Marx and his followers are chasing ths
rainbow of ultimate truth
T. A. S. Jr.
Bayside, n Y. Dec. 13. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
The Art Of Politics

From The Springfield Republican,
The most obvious comment on the ap-
pointment by the Republican National
Committee of a special committee on
party politics and platform to do pre-
liminary work for the resolutions COM
mittee Of the national convention, Is
that after ALL the people, not the poll
ticians, made the issues. The greatest
political leaders are men who can fore
cast reasonably early the issues that the
people will make and then jump to the
safe side of the fence.