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New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
The Bronx Hospital
Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Bronx Hospital is appeal
ing to the masses for the contribution
of 100000, if necessary in single
dollar donations, for the completion of
a 125-bed institution, which will be
able to care for approximately 1900
bed patients, $4,000 clinical patients
and 1000 outdoor maternity patients
annually. Its buildings now complet
ing, and which, if funds are raised.
Will be equipped in time for opening
IN the spring of 1920, are situated in
district at present entirely without
hospital provisions--in an area thicklv
populated by tenement dwellers and in
which for period of six years it treated
$4,000 clinical patients annually free of
charge
Our county at the present time af-
fords only one bed to approximately
1,S00 inhabitants, which represents a
deficit of approximately rs per cent in
necessary hospital bed facilities. This
condition was acutely felt with dire
results during the influenza epidemic
last year, when 146 out of each 15o
applicants for hospital treatment were
rejected because of the lack of bed
facilities. Another unfortunate fea-
ture was the lack of ambulances. for
ct present The Bronx, with an area
OF forty-four square miles, has but
two ambulance zones and only nine
ambulances, and patients who must be
Immediately transferred to hospitals
for operations and medical care are ex-
posed to all kinds of weather and driven
over miles of rough pavement to Man.
haitian hospitals, where bed facilities
often are secured only after criminal
delay.
The Bronx Hospital has no persons
OF means associated with it 1t the
present time. It has thousands Of
members who had Joined the institu-
ton long before 1t was visualized in
brick and mortar. Forty-three physi-
clans and surgeons, headed by men
prominent In their professions. are
ready to render service free Of
charge. VIM HrRSCH
Managing Director.
New York, Dec. 0, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
A One,Sided Conference

Driven into corner once again,
the Administration leaders in the
Senate, Messrs. Hitchcock and Un-
derwood, were compelled on Satur-
day to admit they had no compro-
mise offer to submit. They had no
proposal to make except to renew the
Pomerene suggestion for a concilia-
tlon committee. This was, of course,
not acceptable, as they knew it would
not be.
The Senate element of which Sen
ator Lodge is the spokesman has
matured the conditions on which
they are ready to ratify the treaty.
The Administration Senators, in
coalition with the Senators who are
opposed to ratification altogether,
have voted down ratification on these
terms and refuse to specify on what
terms they will change their votes
from the negative to the affirmative.
The conference would be one into
which one side would enter bound
while the other was not bound at all.
There would be no agreed-on pre-
liminary basis for the negotiation.
The attitude of the Administration
Senators is thus not dissimilar from
that of Germany when she was ask
ing for a general peace conference.
The heads Of the Allies, including
President Wilson, properly replied
that the Allies, having stated their
terms in advance, a conference was
obviously impossible unless Germany
made a similar advance statement.
When Germany did this and it ap-
peared there was prospect of an
agreement the conference was called,
not before. 1t is not to be believed
that Messrs. Hitchcock and Under
wood are unalive to the fact that
they are but repeating the tactics of
Bethmann-Hollweg.
The Lodge reservationists having
declared their position the Adminis-
tration Senators should declare
theirs. If the majority reservations
are to be regarded as maximum the
Administration Senators should out
line their reservations as mini
mum. Then, if it appears the two
sides approach agreement, there can
be profitable negotiation to resolve
the points left in dispute. 1t can
scarcely be left open for one side to
have full liberty of action while the
other has not.
The Administration Senators are
fully aware Of the weakness of their
position. But they are not free
agents. They are under an outside
influence which says to them: "Yield
nothing. Create all the dust you
cam" So the treaty rests on the table
CT the Vice President, where the
President indicates that it is his
wish for it to lie. He still maneu
vers to prevent any sort of reserva-
tion being attached, and so maneu
vering there is lack Of the goot
faith which is essential to arriving
at settlement.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
The Coming 7'ower
A Portrait by Trumbull

(Notc bp Gnfhor: Some rcccmt inUcstfOa-
tors have conjecturcd tho Worh of art
here described to be tho prototype of
that ,ceH kno,Dm modern series, "When
Fcucr Needs a Friend."D
A youngstcr six-and- thirty inches tall,
He stands there, awkward and un-
natural.
The frill immaculate and the we'll
brushed hair
Confirm his features in their prim
despair;
And such nosegay he extends to view
AS in terrestrial gardens never grew.
Fated to have his sorrowful. constraint
Frigidly thus immortalized in paint,
As Trumbull left him you may see him
stand.
Clasping his flowers with most repug-
nant hand.
And you may fancy that his lips COM
plain,
Bargaining with you for release again
"Aw, please ESQ you may think you
hear him say)-
Please let me fire. these stuffy things
away
PLEASE give me just this afternoon for
play"
Half guilty you hasten down the
stair,
Leaving the poor, bored, wistful urchin
there. G. S. B.
Some Of the more public-spirted res
taurateurs-they have been getting our
breakfast trade recently--are doing all
they can to mitigate the terror of the
sugar shortage. They make the coffee
so weak that any sugar is too much.
Will rent or sell my Ford delivery;
with or without chauffeur.-World ad-
vertisement.
The slave traffic again.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
Where Blame Rests
League Sees No Difference Between
Senate and President


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial this morn
ing on the highly important question
of where the blame for the failure to
secure ratification Of the treaty rests,
you say:
Gall and sundry who are interested
in the ratification of the treaty should
know where to build the fire to
thaw out stubbornness. The heat
should be applied to the White House,
and nowhere else. The League to En-
force Peace, if it really believes in it's
cause, should cease bombarding Sena-
tor Lodge and his associates and turn
it's attention to those who are keeping
the door closed"
Obviously your reference is to the
campaign which the League to Enforce
Peace has been conducting by news
paper advertisements, designed not to
fix the responsibility for what has oc-
CURED, but to secure reconsideration
and action. The business men of this
country are out of patience with this
very effort to place responsibility
They know. at least as we'll and prob
ably better than either the White
House or the Senate, what the results
of failure to ratify the treaty in some
form will be, and their demand is for
an adjustment of differences.
You and l may very we'll express our
belief that the primary responsibility
rests at the door Of the President. That
question may be decided hereafter; at
this moment it is not the most i'm
portant one.
The declaration of the Chamber of
Commerce of the State of New York,
which has been widely advertised by
the league, specifically states:
"It is not the duty of this body to
place the responsibility for this con-
dition. Rather, our problem lies in
the circumstances in which we find
ourselves and in the practical meas
ures that, ought to be taken to solve
the problem"
And the resolution adopted by the
Chamber closes with these words:
"That the difference between the
President and the Senate should be
composed without delay by such mu-
tual concessions regarding reservations
as may be necessary in the treaty tc
secure ratification"
If this is bombardment, it is a bonn.
bardment of the President as we'll as
of Senator Lodge.
If the President and Senator Lodge
were the heads of two great business
institutions which had serious differ
encc of opinion resulting in damage tc
the public and to their respective
stockholders they would not spend
their time in mutual recriminations
They would find way to get together
and the stronger man would be he who
should find this way, even though il
might involve the greater concession.
EDMUND DWIGHT.
New York, Dec. 13, 1919.
But suppose one Of two, as the
PresideSt has done, refused to CO.
would not even state condi
tions on which he would cooperate:
1t would be nonsensically partisan te
assall his unfortunate associate as
equally to blame. Let Mr.. Dwight
show energy in applying pressure
where it is needed.-Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
What Is To Be Recognized

Speaking of conditions in Russia
which are the consequence of the
revolution, Lincoln Steffens, Bullitt's
companion, who will not be accused
of anti-Bolshevist sympathies, has
written:
"The effect is hunger, cold, misery
anguish, disease-death to millions
But worse than these mean this
was the confusion of mind among the
we'll and the strong. They
1.-The Russians understood how to
work and live under their old sys-
tenn; it was not a pretty one; it was
dark, crooked and dangerous; but
they had CROPPED around in it all
their lives from childhood up. They
could find their way in it. And now
they can remember how it was, and
they sigh for the old ways. .
The poor, in their hunger, think now
how it would be to go down to the
market and haggle and bargain from
one booth to another, making their
daily purchases, reckoning up their
defeats by and victories over the
traders. And they did get food then.
And now-it is all gone. They have
destroyed all this, and, having de-
stroyed it, they were lost, strangers
In their own land"
We may not ignore what sort of
system it is proposed to recognize in
Russia, nor the fact that this system,
recognized, will use its power to
'aduce the remainder of the world to
tie Russian level
Ii it were frankly said that it was
proposed to starve the world so all
would be equals in misery; that
there Is such merit in Bolshevism
that it must be embraced though its
results are as Mr.. Steffens has
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
Canndn$ Rank Among
the Nations

10000 inhabitants. COS. frst; total tele-
graph wire mileage, $50. sixth: tele-
graph wire mileage per 10000 inbab-
''H islsj, $50; s5o7. 7.si7 900, .sy.nth; total ss-
ports value t191e),. $77s, 900, ffth.
Total export and import trade value
1919, $1,287, lit 900, seventh
The figures demonstrate that for the
last year for which comparative sta
tistics are available Canada outranks
all the nine other nations under discus
sion in area, and also in railway and
telegraph mileage, per ten thousand in
habitants; that she is second only to
the United States in potential and de-
veloped waterpower; that only this
country and Germany lead her in total
railway mileage; in total telegraph line
mileage and total exports she is ahead
of Itafy, Spain, Japan, Belgium and
Switzerland; in pig iron production she
leads Spain, Italy, Japan and Switzer-
land; in coal production she makes a
better showing than Spain, Italy and
Switzerland; in total imports and for
eign trade she is before Japan, Switzer-
land and Spain, and even in population
that she beats Belgium and Switzerland
"Owing to the lack Of statistics" the
memorandum continues, cit is impos-
sible to make a more detailed compari-
son with the nine countries given above,
but comparison of Canada with Spain
and Switzerland may be made on the
ho ocJo Of nd 70 do
union membership and estimated indus
trial population. Export figures for the
year 1917 are available for both Spain
and Canada. In that year the value of
the manufactures exported from Spain
was $107 ,867, 800, as compared to a value
of $477, ,399 676 for the manufactures ex-
ported from Canada. The latest trade
returns available for Switzerland are for
1916, in which year the value of the
manufactures exported was 1868, 1887 500.
''The total trade union membership in
Canada for 1918 was 248,sS7. Figures
for trade union membership in Spain
are not available. The latest figures fer
Switzerland show a total trade union
membership of SS,628 in 1916, as COM
pared with 16O,407 for Canada in the
same year"
Canada, incidentally, is not the only
country to protest against omission from
the tentative classification of the eight
leading industrial nations. Objections,
Lord Miner wired the Dominion govern
ment on October IL, have also been re-
ceived from India, Poland and Sweden.
The inclusion or exclusion of Canada
will have certain effect upon the status
of the United States in the conference,
because Canadian labor problems and
interests are more closely allied to the
similar problems and interests of this
country than are those of any European
nation. If the decision of the league of
nations council should be against Cam
adas inclusion, there appears to be still
possibility of the Dominions coming
in as one of the four governments au-
thorized to send representatives by later
nomination, but the Dominion govern
ment undoubtedly feels that it's prestige
would suffer by this procedure.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
Predigested Platforms

The appointment by the Republi-
can National Committee of COM
mittee to pre-digest a party plat
form for next year has stirred up
some outstanding prejudices. The
national committees interference
with the organization of Republican
conventions, through it's power to
settle contests, led to many scandals
and finally disrupted the party in
1912. Memories of that disaster
are still acute. So the suggestion
that the committee, after having
largely surrendered it's old power to
make up the roll, shall assume a
yelled authority to write platforms,
provokes opposition from those who
want to have the convention enjoy
the greatest possible freedom to
manage it's own affairs.
Theoretically a tentative platform
committee may smack of S'inside"
control. But practically the work
that such a committee can do will
be of genuine service to the con-
vention. Platforms are generally
very crudely prepared. A big COM
mittee of fifty-odd members dele
gates the job to a subcommittee,
which wrestles for two exhausting
days and two sleepless nights with a
mass Of memoranda submitted by
volunteers or political promoters.
In the end some professional drafts
man reduces to form the ideas
which the subcommittee has ap-
proved.
Most platforms are tedious and
verbose. Few people read them
and the country usually prefers to
look for a declaration of party
principles to the acceptance speech
of the candidate for President.
Senator Lodge is right when he says
that, apart from a few leading
issues, party platforms are apt to
be "a series of more or less con-
fused compromises.
Faith in the binding character
of such utterances has been shat
tered by the fate which overlook
the Democratic national platform of
1912. That document contained
a declaration favoring the remis-
sion of tolls on American shipping
using the Panama Canal. After Mr..
Wilson's election he opposed such
remission and influenced Congress
to pass legislation relieving foreign
shipping of any discriminatory toll
charges.
The same platform pledged the
Democratic nominee for President
to the principle of single term.
The candidate made no protest
against this plank while he was
running for Office. But after his
election he wrote letter urging a
Democratic House of Representa-
tives to sidetrack the single term
amendment to the Constitution
passed by Republican Senate.
If respect for platforms is to be
restored more care must be taken
to see that they reflect the real
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15

Not all the confusiOns wrapped up in
the peace treaty are contained in Ar
ticle X. There is dispute being stirred
up, for instance, as result of the first
attempt to put into effect the provisions
Of Article 1893 Of the treaty, and, while
this country has no direct interest in
the outcome, it has large secondary in
terest, since one Of the principal dis
putants is our near neighbor, Canada.
Article 393 deals with the constitution
lished by Article 392, and it provides
that the Office shall be under the control
of governing body consisting Of twen-
ty-four persons, appointed thus:
Twelve persons representing the gov
ernments. Six persons elected by the
delegates to the conference, represent
ing the employerg- Six persons elected
by the delegates to the conference, rep
resenting the workers.
OF the twelve persons representing
the government eight shall be nomi-
mated by the members which are of the
chief industrial Importance, and four
shall be nominated by the members Sc
lected for the purpose by the govern
ment delegates to the conference, ex-
Guiding the delegates of the eight men,
bers mentioned above. Any question as
to which arc the members of the chief
industrial Importance shall be decided by
the council Of the league of nations.
The question of which nations are
of chief industrial Importance has
been tentatively decided by the organic
ing committee of the conference, which
has named the United States, Great
Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Bel
GUM, Japan, Switzerland and Spain.
The announcement of the tentative
list brought an immediate protest from
Canada, the Dominion government de-
claring that "some rule or standard
should be laid down to govern the de-
termination Z. the question of who are
the members of chief industrial i'm
portance"
In the absence of such rule, the
ottawa reply continued, the Canadian
government feels that the claim of Can
ada to a place among the eight mem
bers of chief industrial importance
should receive further consideration.
In support Of this claim the Dominion
has submitted a memorandum on the in
dustrial Importance Of Canada, which
makes out an excellent case for Ca
madam place in this particular sun. The
memorandum, prepared by the Canadian
Department of Labor, makes compari~
son Of Canadian statistics on area, popu-
lation and industrial resources, with
similar statistics for countries in the
tentative list. These are its best points
Canada's position among ten nations
named:
Area, s72o 665 square miles. first
population. $50 coo, eighth; coal produc-
tion O9lI>, 12.95S 900 tons. seventh; pig
iron production 1915(, S290 900 tons
sixth; potential water power, 20, GIG, 0OC
horsepower, second developed water
power, |, ,T40, 900 horsepower. second total
railway mileage, 81 43f miles, third; rail-
way mileage per 10 600 inha abitants, 45.9
first; total telegraph line mileage 40, PSI
miles, fifth; telegraph line mileage per
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
Who's 8 Patriotic ,
To the Editor of the Tr;h,,.

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: Can you tell me why the min
ers are called patriotic? They pnt
Ia per cent increase into their pockets.
and the operators, who take IA per cent
out OF their pockets, haven't a good
word said for them. is. NJ.
New York, Dec. 12, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15

lacks. The most uncomfortable of
all homes is that inhabited by nag
ging wife or grumbling husband.
The poor man who couldn't get
divorce in Philadelphia will doubt
less find the law better arranged
when feminine influence shall have
expunged man-madc rules born Of an
insulting spirit of condescending
chivalry,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15

sketched--if this were openly ac-
knowledged perhaps there would be
no harm in sending ambassadors to
Car Lenine, as we have to other
czars and sultans. But the soviet
propaganda, if it has a chance to
operate, will not thus truthfully de-
scribe Bolshevism.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
Gotham CIeanings
homo SElT TIIHlI6l MON

"A cold spell is about to come.
Looks like Gen. Wood in 1920.
Jim Burgess is in Baltimore to-
day.
Miss Rosina Henley is spending
the frigid season at Lake Placid.
Jack Drinkwater's show, "Abra-
ham Lincoln" begins here tonight.
Col. r. H. Van Deman was here
Sat. eve'g, dinner by G-2 B, A. E. F.,
being given him.
Mont Glass, wife and daughter
left for Pasadena, Calf, Thursday
to be gone until spring
Miss Pauline Perrin, of Cleve-
land, was married last Wednesday
to Franklyn L. Alcott jr.
Sam Merwin, of Concord. Mass.
was in town this week for the opera.
Sans idea Of the opera season, like
ye eds, is the Columbus Circle kind.
Herb Swope says his window is
across the St. from ours, and we
spend most of Our time looking for
him, but either he isn't in his office
much or we can't see straight.
At the peril of jcopardizing the tre-
mendous Yuletide sale of our own
volumes, we recommend, for gift
purposes, "Oh Mani" by Briggs; "In-
cluding Horace" by Louis Untermeyer;
"McAroni Ballads" by T. A. Daily;
"Once Aboard the Lugger-," by A. S.
M. Hutchinson; and-the best of all
gift books-"The Home Book of
Verse;" compiled by Burton E. Stew
enson.
Then, if you want to help the family
of the late Charles E. Van Loan. send
$25 for the special 5-volume edition of
Van Loans stories to George H. Doran
Co.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
Oh, for the Big Stick"
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I saw by your paper the other
morning that llttle girl, nine years
DID, had been held up by the authori-
ties on Ellis Island. She came with her
uncle and aunt to make visit. The
authorities concluded that she had no
Interior motives In entering this coun-
try SO they said she might stay six
weeks "a little girl nine years old
having Interior motives in entering the
countryD A Belgian boy came over
as stowaway five times; each time
no was deported, until the last. sup
New-York tribune., 1919-12-15
Books
By Haywood Broun

If Gerald Cumberland is thir.r
or less, "Tales of a Cruel Conn. -.
(Brentano) is an exceedingly prorn;s;s
collection of short stories. II ., :,
other hand, he has gone beyond that 49,
we see only doddering literary su.u.
for him. There are twenty-five sto,;.
in "Tales of Cruel Country" and thr.'
Of them are excellent. One. in g.
seems to us superb short story 49,
many of the other nineteen ara -.
Now, they are the sort of rot whic,
young man may turn out by the b,,s,.,
and still go on to great things. au.1
eyes arc pits Of darkness "a beau+;s,,,
ANIMAL" "whiter than the paper ~
which this little history is written - .s,
pulled his body together sensua,lrs
"his teeth bit more deeply into his Inv
er lip" "brutally tore her arms ava
and flung her from me as man wo,,s
fling away a snake that had co;las
around him in his sleep"-that is u.
sort Of rot we mean
1t has its place in the work Of sve~u
young writer. In fact, if he writes bor
estly there is no skipping this per;oa
which must be passed before he i, reas-
to do more important work. For.r
nately, there are several easy tests br
which one may determine whether
writer is still in his salad days. in whic,
he does as the romaines. or whether !.
is ready to go on and deal with hard;or
grasses. Ask him what the word "rn;~
ror" suggests to him and note whether
he replies "a man shaving" or "a slender
woman disrobing.' Try him with
model" and see whether he replies ~a,-
lists" or tenement" and finally. if bs
can meet your bed" immediately with
eight hours sleep" you may nut MIN
down as among those who have finished
their literary stint of half insane CLEAN
of DESIRE" cher eyes swooped into mis-
and "yermouth on purple trays