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New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

What Mr.. Burleson announced IN his
statement of Thursday, June 5:
"The President having recommended the
return of the wire systems and the control
Of the owning companies with certain legls-
ation designed to stabilize their operation,
and the Senate committee having taken ac-
tion looking to their immediate return and
the House committee in its hearings on
the proposed legislation having indicated
concurrence in the suggested immediate re-
turn with or without legislation so recon-
mended, | feel it my duty to now return
the actual control of operations to the COM
panes. Some days ago | directed the nee
essary orders to be prepared to accomplish
this, and have to day issued same These
orders do not affect questions of rates and
finance with which the Congress may de-
termne to deal. The rates now in force
and the financial relations between the
government and the companies, and the or
der of October 2. 1918, prohibiting dis
elimination because of union affiliations,
will continue unless Congress in its wis,
dom may decide to change them or the
emergency is terminated by the proclama-
ton Of peace.
BY the action now taken, however, the
wire companies resume actual control of
operations of their respective properties
and are free to formulate and put into eff
feet their own policies unrestricted by gov
ernment control, which is to continue in
any case a few weeks, and thus be able to
prepare themselves for complete resump
ton of the management of their properties.
1t will be necessary for each company to
keep its accounts during the continuance of
government control that its books may be
closed on the day government control ends,
in order that full and accurate statement
may be promptly made when it is called on
for same.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Heroic Economy

The Treasury Of the United States Is
again practically empty. The proceeds
of the last war loan--the Victory Loan
hardly covered expenditures already
made. The government, therefore, faces
choice between resorting to ID another
popular issue of bonds, and (2) the con-
tinuous sale over the counter of short
term notes, certificates of indebtedness
and high interest-bearing bonds.
This situation is one which Congress
must give heed to in making over the ap-
preparation bills which failed at the last
session. 1t is fortunate for the country
that they did fail, for now they can be
cut to fit the reduced needs of the army,
the navy and the civil departments.
The House Military and Naval COM
mittees have made an excellent begin
ming. Mr. Kahn has reported an army
appropriation bill for 1919-'2O which
carries a total of only $750,O00,00O. The
measure which was blocked in the Senate
last March appropriated S1,1170o0, 900.
Here is saving Of 1857 0OO, ,0OO-or 33
per cent.
The Naval Appropriation bill, to be re-
ported this week, will carry about $780,
100000, against $746,444 900 in the
measure which the House passed at the
last session-a reduction of $196,444, 900,
or 26 per cent. Moreover, the vast in
crease in the naval building programme
which Secretary Daniels recommended
= and the House approved last February,
has been eliminated.
The appropriation of $1,2O0OOO,OOO
asked by Director General Hines to meet
deficits in railroad operation and to
finance the railroads for the rest of the
year will also probably be sharply cut.
There is another way to meet the short
age in railroad revenue. That is, to in
crease rates. In either case the public
must pay. But it is simpler and fairer
to let the railroads collect the deficit
themselves than to use the Treasury as
their collecting agent.
The $l00,00O,000 emergency fund
placed at the Presidents disposal during
the war is no longer needed. The sundry
civil appropriation bill can also be re-
duced by about 100000 900.
The most urgent duty of Congress at
present is to prevent the piling up of
national Indebtedness. The government
has been spending money with a lavish
hand. That was unavoidable in war
time. Now retrenchment is the highest
patriotic duty. Congress has great
opportunity. 1t will deserve the graft
tude of the country if it pursues to the
end programme of heroic and relent-
less economy
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

What Mr.. Burleson Wrote to Senator
Cumnins on Friday, June g.:
"An order issued by me yesterday rela-
tive to the operation of the telephone and
some as actual return of the properties to
the owners. No such action has been taken
by me nor is any contemplated.
"This order simply dissoves the operat-
ing board appointed by me under date OF
December 13, 1918, and directs that the
systems be again operated by the regular
operating officials under government super
vision. Responsibility of the government
to the systems in no wise colldes. 1t being
evident that these properties are to be re-
turned in the very near future it was neces-
sary for the Postmaster General to take
steps Immediately to set up the regular
operating organization of the companies so
that when the properties are turned back it
can be done without confusion to the SER
vice, which was the purpose of the order
This order in no wise affects the leeisla-
ton pending before your committee or be-
fore Congress. 1t will enable the companies
to begin steps Immediately to prepare the
data and collect their information to sub-
NIT to the state commissions for the rate
cases, which will probably be taken up i'm
medlately after the period of government
control ends"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Crime and Romance
money exists.

The recent attempt by two girls, one
his sister the other his sweetheart. to
rescue a youthful prisoner from the
Tombs again illustrates the strange af-
fnity between crime and romance. That
the plot failed is fortunate, yet SO
strangely are human impulses mingled
and so oddly are bad qualities allied to
good, the episode in one aspect provokes
not exactly admiration or sympathy but
feeling that has some shadowy trace
of both. The girls revealed moral per-
versity which cannot be condoned: they
apparently had no horror of the murder
Gus act of the prisoner but still there
was at least womanly quality in su-
preme personal faithfuness.
There are, no doubt, born criminals,
though the number of these may easily
be exaggerated. But crime, in it's be-
glnnlngs at any rate, is often misdirected
energy. The gangs" that infest large
cities have their origin in many cases in
the associations of boys who suffer from
an excess of high spirits. Their members
are little more wicked at the outset than
other boys. 1t is sound instinct which
has led to the various efforts to reclaim
them by giving their high spirits
legitimate vent. To turn a gang into
club is to prevent the making of many
bad citizen. The Boy Scout movement
has been of nestimable value in this re-
spect
Modern civilization, obliged TO create
for it's own protection what we NAV call
artificial crimes, is hard on youth. 1t
must forbid many things not in them
selves evil. The city boy lacks oppor-
tunities to work off steam. The worst
of it is that the law can seldom restrain
the potential criminal until he is an
actual criminal. He must be punished if
he does wrong, Of course, and vet the
punishment is only too likely to confirm
him in wrongdoing.
The romantic appeal of crime is unde-
niable. Many books give the criminal
something of the glamour of the hero
Not few young readers have greater
affection for the quarry than for the
hunter. Even in literature of a higher
sort deeds of derring-do shine brightly.
The instinct is rooted in primordial
deeps. Mans remote physical ancestors
were not the chasers, but the chased
species that were compelled to exc out
lack of strength with cunning and speed.
So inherited rnemorios crrovo, Joox, 49,
brain and tissues, evoke sympathy for
the pursued, no matter how just the
pursuit.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Cleansing the Mails

senator Townsend, of Michigan. is
author Of bill forbidding the mails to
advertisements relating to the treatment
y-o1 venereal disease. The prohibition OK
tends to denying entry to any book or
= publication containing such ADVERTISING
o. The measure will be energeticallv sun
ported by every publisher who does not
- hefoul himself and his columns. Others
may properly be ignored. Such opnosi-
5atlon as they make (likey to be Indirect
land sneaklng) is no credit to journalism
-nrand should be disregarded. The word
- SILL runs through newspaper Offices TO
. clean up. Removal Of gross abuses first
then the tug to make advertising honest
as we'll as decent.
.-as The Townsend bill, if enacted. will not
,-interfere with the prophvlaxis cam
so1aign, whose results are excellent. The
.sSenbargo does not apply to didactic or
o"scicntific treatises which seek to snread
legitimate information, and which call
n" attention to places or persons whence
treatment or medicine can be secured.
a time approaches when venercal dis
." ease viii be az unknown as smallpox or
yellow fever. The great scourye il tn he
llften. The public needs but to applv
s,~hgically and thoroughly preventive
~ sa1neshods Of proved efficacy. necessary
ee'step IL tho elimination Of the CONNER
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Star Gazing
(From The Toledo Bladej

1t is not that ideals are worthless. Thew
are of value. SO is star gazing. But there
are too many statesmen and would he
leaders of the nation, in fact, of all ma
tions-old, new, and trying to be-who
have not learned to discriminate between
gazing at stars and finding way to get
over the bumps on this solid earth
There were the ideals of the anti-mili-
tarists in both England and America. which
as matter of history are now known to
have impeded greatly the vigorous pushing
of war measures. The war would have
been won sooner and at greatly reduced
cost in life and money if the idealists had
not attempted to prove that it was not
necessary to be ready to fight
A worldwide result of our Presidents
idealism is that every little "nation" has
a movement of its own. Self f-determina
ton is good as a principle where the prac-
tlcal conditions make it politically feasible.
But the broadest idea for self-determna-
tion is to-day much a cause of discord
as any one factor in the present epoch
The number of tribes, peoples and sections
OF races clamoring at the doors of the
peace conference for realization of the
Ideal is legion. No more than small frac-
ton of them can or will realize the nation
al ideal for which they are contending.
Practical conditions forbid.
Star gazing is of some value for GETTING
general direction. But men want to know
where and how to take the next stcp ON
this solid earth of realtiea.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Church
(From The Villoger)
N1HILE the Presbyterian conference
" was mourning Mr.. Wilson's relaxa-

XX HILE the Presbyterian conference
w was mourning Mr.. Wilson's relaxa-
tion concerning beer and wines, and
arguing afresh whether good Christian
might read the Sunday newspapers, Bishop
Burgess was speaking to the Episcopal
Diocese of Long Island some earnest words
whose echoes we wish could resound
through all the churches Of the nation. Stop
moaning about conditions fifty years ago,
was the purport of his message; there IL
only one condition that counts and it never
changes; put an end to all these meetings
of alarm over events like the legalizing Of
money making amusements on Sunday
such efforts are negative, they are nothing
compared with the work in handi religion
is what counts now; men everywhere are
turning blindly and helplessly to religion,
and the sudden opportunity for the Church
to fulfill its only mission is so great that
it will need all your vigor and all your
passion even partially to meet 1t.
There are cynics who say that the oppor-
tunity to which the bishop refers is an
accelerated fiction and the actual fact is
sadly otherwise; mostly those who hold this
are the pacifsts who, by their premises,
must believe that the trial by fire through
which we have Just passed has left us de-
graded and butcherzed, instead Of awak-
ened to real, if vague, religious aspirations.
But 1t is not true; any one who lives in a
community small enough to permit him to
know his neighbors is we'll aware it is not
true.
Our men have not come back from France
atheists. Some have come back and, to the
puzzlement and secret discomfort Of Baptist
or Methodist parents, now go off on Sunday
mornings to the Catholic Church; "ortho-
dox" is not in their vocabulary, and all the
myriad detail we have been building up for
three centuries in order to be able to tell
one creed from another they topple over
with single magnificent gesture.
But the religious impulse is there; what
ever put it there was something not of the
old way; nothing Of the habit and maze of
associations in which we have enmeshed our
religious life here at home mas had any
weight, and there is no confining this new
wine in our old bottles
And of all the institutions abroad, which
is it that brought men to religion? Forum
ately there are no statistics to prove" any,
thing on this point, but we know at least
the negative truth without any expert in
vestigaton. Many an individual chaplain
here and there was the spark that touched
the soul; as an institution the Salvation
Army probably came nearest supplying
sanctuary But thcse only guesses;
what we know with certainty is that the
Y. NJ. c. A. made no "converts'; there is no
argument about this and it is a lesson
whose roots go deep.
For what are most of our churches come
to be but association like the Y. NJ. c. A.?
They offer showers and billiards, gymna-
sum- library, summer camp, cooking school
lectures on art, literature and higher criti
csn, dances, games, teas; on Sunday the
preacher breaches from the pulpit, but his
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Boy

BLESSINGS on thee little man,
Barefoot boy with cheek Of tan!
With thy turned-up pantaloons
And thy merry whistled tunes;
With the sunshine on thy face
Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;
With my heart give thee Joy
I was once a barefoot boysn
He is now we'll shod, except when able
to escape watchful vigilance; he wears
"knickers" and has nothing to turn up;
ragtine is not easy to whistle, and his
face is pale, unless brick red after a
Sunday at Coney; his hat is rimless and
is usually cap, and if it were torn the
neighbors would think the family was
coming down In the world.
But beneath he is boy, all boy, one Of
the few changeless substances Of
mutable world. Father says they are not
what they were in his day, but grand
father, while seeing falling away from
those with whom he drank delight Of
battle, declares they have not altered
much for two generations, while great
81 AetAAN40 0oi1CA ilOlOo Illcy udVC IQIl along
as usual for three. Had the first boy
left a mark in the rocks as did molluscs
whose species still survive, doubtless the
signature would be just about the same.
But, tough in fibre, the boy is, perhaps,
not absolutely immutable-is susceptible
of yielding, even though slightly, to en-
vironment. And inasmuch as any ma
terial modification will be a loss, it is
necessary to improvise new means to
preserve the ancient strain. Hence the
Boy Scouts.
Of all the drives that of the Boy
Scouts deserves the most generous sup
port. This time it is not so much money
that is sought as members-the raw
material of manhood, to create which
money exists.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Forgotten Dead, | Salute Yo,,
From The En0lish Re,ye,r,

(From The English Revte,p)
nAWN has flashed up the startled slis.
Night has gone out beneath the hi,
Many sweet times; before our ewes
June makes and unmakes divinelv still
The daily magic Of the rose
The gentle history of the rain
Has been unfolded, traced and lost
BY the sharp finger tip of frost;
Birds in the bracken build again;
The hare makes soft her secret house.
The great winds tourney comes and oos.
Tilting and tossing in the boughs;
The moon has waxed fierce and waned dim
He knew the beauty of all those
Last year, and who remembers him?
Love sometimes walks the waters still.
Laughter throws back her radiant head
With life and strife the moments thrill
Utterly Beauty is not gone
And Wonder is not wholly dead
The starry, mortal world rolls on
Between sweet sounds and siences,
With new, strange wines her beakers brm--
He lost his heritage with these
Last year, and who remembers him7
None shall remember him: he lies
In earth of some strange-soundng place.
The wind his only chant, the rain
The only tears upon his face.
He holds no place in memories
Of living men; yet such as he
Have made it possible and sure
For other lives to have to be-
For men to sleep content, secure
Lip lies on lip, and eyes meet eyes
Because his heart beats not again;
His rotting, fruitless body lies
That sons may grow from other men
He gave, as Christ, the life he had,
The only life desired or known,
For strangers this forgotten dead
Went cut into the night alone
There was his body broken for you,
There was his blood divinely shed
That huddled now with weed and stone 81!
In some dark field lie lost and dim;
Eat, drink, and often as you do
For whom he died, remember him
MURIEL STUART.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

"a fragment from long aoor,e az con..
portions Of whtoh are prsmsed tn 49, s0''oa.
number Of Poetry.) '"''sst
7 HAVE vision,
l. OF new Republic, brighter than -.
A new race, loftier faish-this land of oSA an'
Made over for its people, boys and OWL.
Conserved like forests, water.no1rs~
mines; or
Watched, tested, put to best uss. !,
economies A'ea
Practlsed on spirits; waste of human lie.
Hope, aspiration, talent, virtues powers
Avoided by science, science of life
OF spirit, what you will. Enough Of w.. ]
And billions for the flag-all well enorrh,
Some billions now to make democracy
Democracy in truth with us, and life
Not helter-skelter, hitting as it NAV
And missing much as this La Menker ~,
I'm not convinced we must havs St..
pansies,
That have no use but Just to n;sco =,
pattern. '
Let's try, and if we try and fail whv +ho
Our human duty ends-the God in ia
Will have it just this way, no other ,r.-.
And then we may accept SO poor world
republic so unfinished.
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Just "Flina-F1ana %


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New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Hours Of Women
TO the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There IS being 80 much said upon
the discharge of women transportation
workers that is misleading and incorrect
that should like to take this opportunity
to express the point Of view of the New
York City Consumers League, which was
one of the most active organizations in
securing the passage of this bill.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit already had
discharged large number of women en-
ployes before the passage of the transporta-
tion bill. The Industrial Commission, upon
whom rests the responsibility for the en-
forcement Of every law, had stated that as
this measure necessarily would entail some
readjustment, they would not enforce the
law Immediately, but would give time for
these adjustments to be made. In Detroit
and Cleveland, where no transportation bill
has been passed, women workers are being
discharged by the hundreds. Public senti-
ment undoubtedly favors giving the Jobs
back to discharged soldiers.
In view Of these facts, as we'll as from
other evidence, we believe that the B, R. r
already had determined to dispense with
the services Of these wonaens irrespective
Of the length and value of their services,
and has avaled itself Of the passage of
the bill for an excuse
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Three Taverns
acts xviii, 15.)
lFrorl The Lyric )

A S LONG as there are glasses that are
~ dark
And there be many-we see darklv through
them;
All which I have conceded and set down
In words that have no shadow. What Is dark
Is dark, and we may not say otherwise
Yet what may be as dark as lost fire II
For one of US, may still be for another
coming CLEAN across the gulf Of ages.
And way home for shipwreck to the shore:
And so, through pangs and ills and desolations,
There may be light for all. There shall be
light.
AS much as that you know. You cannot say
This woman or that man will De the next
On whom it falls; you are not here for that
Your nainstration is to be for others
The firing of q rush that may for them
Be soon the FIRE itself. The few at first
Are fighting for the multitude at last
Therefore remember what Gamaliel said
Before you, when the sick were lying down
In streets all night for Peters passing
shadow.
Fight, and say what you feel; say more than
words
Give men to know that even their days OF
earth
To come more than ages that are gone.
Say what you feel, while you have time to
say it
Eternity will answer for itself
Without your intercesaion; yet the way
For many is long one, and as dark
Meanwhile, as dreams Of hell. See not your
toll
Too much, and if be away from you.
Think of me as brother to yourselves,
Of many bemishes. Beware Of stoics.
And give your left hand to grammarans;
And when you seem, as many time you may.
To have no other friend than hope, remember
That you are not the first, or yet the last.
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON.
God
CFron The strattord Journal

(Fror7 The StrGt'ord Jouriicil
WHAT strange illusions mankind has OF
w you
And never one has guessed the truth.
That you are but a little girl
Dressed in azure clouds, trimmed with RAM
bows
A little girl, gay and mschievous.
That likes TO play with mud,
And fashion little earths with little people.
Little skies with little stars.
Whole little planetary systems. n
And then throw them hgh-high-- u
And shout in merrment
To watch them glisten they rip tniinity. =
Then fall and crumb!e
PAUL ELDRIDGE. !
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Saving is duty every one can per-
form.
One who laughs at sen (half cent? will
cry for ych
Savings win over spending.
Think of saving rather than dream of
making money.
Daily saving, daily happiness.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Thrift in Japan

fFrom Tbs Japan Trade Buuetin)
Seventy thousand thrift slogans were
submitted in contest conducted by the
Savings Bank Bureau of the Japanese
Postoffce Department.. The first five
prizes. ranging from $50 to SIS, were won
with the following phrases:
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Change in Japan Trade

Japan's exports for the first three
months of 1919 were valued at $l87,372 900
and her imports at $3.50 b9o 900, showing
an adverse balance of $52,227 600 The
adverse trend that has been maintained
since the beginning of this year is taken
as an indication that Japan's business
ls losing the war impetus and is going to
run In it's normal groove, states the Japan
Advertiser"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associated Press exclusively entitled ths
eior republication Of all dispatches credited to
not athe."se credited In this and also tho local
Lws ~ spontaneous origin published herein.
Al rights OF rspubllcaton OF all ohsr matter hefen
are tsN
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

You purchase merchandise advertised n THE
'Ri SUNE With absolute safet-for dissatisfaction
s1u'ts In The TRIBUNE guarantees to your
money ba,k request No red tans. No au'bb'nD.
= &c maSs 1ood promptly II the advertiser de< set.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

cialsm which preys on the disease. The
jugular vein of this is the printed ad-
vertisement. ~