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New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Of the Job Again

The country is confronted with u grave
industrial crisis, or rather a series of
crises, and it is recognized that i'm many
respects the settlements, if tlAy are al
rived at, must be reached at Washington
through the extraordinary power granted
by Congress to the President and those
acting under his orders. The govern
ment has become highly centralized, and
there is no person or group of persons
outside of the Executive department able
to make decisions.
Yet on Wednesday the President is
booked to leave Washington to go on
ten thousand mile journey which will
occupy him twenty seven days. The tour
is to be a stumping one, relating to af-
fairs now constitutionally before the
Senate. Two long speeches are to be
made each day and many short ones,
committees are to be received, and all
the exhausting labor endured that such
a swing around the circle implies. There
is limit to human capacity. The bust
ness of the government will necessarily
be neglected except for brief attention to
routine matters.
The feeling that inspired Congress-
man Rodenberg TO cry out for the Pres-
dent to remain in Washington and at
tend to pressing tasks may thus be un-
derstood. Doubtless his resolution will
be futile, and some will be so gangrened
in partisanship as to say it is impudent-
~ insulting. The opinion is entertained
by some that it is dignitied and proper
for the President, as ne did in his super
cilious message asking for $1,500,000 for
his Paris expenses, to insult Congress,
but that it is scandalous for Congress to
venture anything in the nature of ad-
vice. From the foundation of the gov
ernment the country has been inflicted
with those who have never completely
conquered their royalism and see in a
Chief Executive not an agent to be in
structed but a master to be obeyed.
This company will, of course, fall on
Mr. Rodenberg as profaner of sacred
things, but he will be able to sustain
himself by the thought he is not the only
one persuaded that the demands of the
hour are such as require the President
to stick to his job.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Herr Haussmann's Lament

What would have happened had Ger
many refused to sign the peace treaty?
This question is discussed in the Be,liner
Tageblott by Conrad Haussmann,
prominent member of the National AS
sembly. To cry over spilled milk is
neither profitable nor dignifed, but Herr
Haussmann weeps more copiously than
Gorki's horse.
A member of that bourgeois radical
faction Of which the Berliner Taqeblatt
and Frankfnrter Zeitung are the most
important mouthpeces and DR.. Dern-
burg the best known leader, Herr Hauss-
mann was all for not signing the igno-
minious treaty, and he has not changed
his mind since June %. He says the
choice to which the German government
was put was "between not signing and
signing, in the hope that the enemy will
voluntarily cancel accepted obligations"
The possibility Of Germany fulfilling
these same accepted obligations does not
enter his horizon at all. Those who advo-
Gated signing in the hope of an abate-
ment cherish deluson, he says, because
France, above all, will never abstain
from exacting her pound Of flesh.
"The worst effect of signing, in sense
of world policy" is, according to Herr
Haussmann, that it assured success to
the false policy of Lloyd George and
Clemenceau. Had the German govern
ment refused to sign, "had Clemenceau,
Lloyd George and Wilson failed to see
the peace through by July, 1919, the non
attainment Of peace would have been
their strongest accuser before the world"
This failure, Herr Haussmann beatedly
predicts, would have caused the fall of
Clemenceau, (which thus would have
have been an achievement of defenceless
Germany" AS it is, Clemenceau "now
parades crowned with victory as the one
man who through ultimatum and threat
obtained the consent of the enemy"
Making things hot for Clemenceau
would have been, for Herr Haussmanns
mind, such good fun as to outweigh all
the inconveniences and discomforts of
non-signature. For this course Hauss-
mann adduces all the trite arguments Of
tie bitter-enders: it would have put all
responsibility on the Entente; it would
lave braced the morale of the German
people (althorgh it is not clear how the
continuation and intensification of the
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01

in contact with thousands of police officers,
and with very few exceptions | found them
to be honest. brave, God fearing men. faith
fully serving the community from DAY TO
day and making New York the clean city
that it is and that We hope it ever will
remain.
II our police force is to have the morale
and spirit which every large body OF men
must have in the performance Of quasi
military duties, it must be animated by the
consciousness and knowledge that the cti-
zenshp of the community in which they
perform their duties is actively back of ard
supporting them, and that they are inter
ested in their welfare and future
The irresistible spirit and dash of the
American soldier upon the battletields OF
France and elsewhere produced by tire
consciousness in the soul of every dough-
boy that back of them on the other side of
the ocean was the great American people sac
riticing, praying for and encouraging them
to do their utmost. That was indeed the
inspiration which solidtled, maintained and
supported our armies in the face of over
whelming obstacles against which they
fought and conquered in the most critical
period OF the war.
The same principle in a more circum-
scrbed form applies to the relationship
which should exist between the citizensh
OF New Y ork and our soldiers in blue who
are permanently enlisted in the war against
the hosts OF CRIME. viciousness and disease
In my opinion, fundament ntally, this is the
most vital problem that confronts our CITY
to-day. The men who are proud and glad
to wear the livery OF the City Of New York
and whose presence makes the homes and
streets OF our city safe for us and our
wives and children, are deserving of our
encouragement and support. They should
receive a living wage.
regard it as an honor and duty, through
the medium OF your esteemed newspaper, to
call upon the citizenship of New York to be
fair and decent to our friend and servant,
the New FORK policeman.
LOUIS D. GIBBS
Judge Of the County Court
New York, August 28. Couaty of Bronx
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Penrod and Tom

No living American author has been
so successful as Booth Harrington in
writing about boys. Penrod, Sam, Will
lam Sylvanus Baxter, and now 4.ansey
Milholland, appeal to the reader as living
and breathing creations. Their fidelity
to life is unmistakable. But in one
sense Harrington is misleading in de-
plotting young America. He falls short
of the whole truth not in what he writes
but in what he leaves unsaid. All the
Harrington youngsters are inarticulate,
particularly in the presence Of grown-ups
They are agreeable, natural boys, these
lads Of Harrington, but little heavy
witted. The glib youngster has no place
in the Harrington tales. Neither Penrod
nor Sam nor any Of the others is capable
Of carrying on the traditions of Tom
Sawyer. They fall short of Tom not only
in flights of ina gination, but in practical
performance as we'll Nor could any Of
the Harrington clan have followed Huclz
down the river Penrod could neither
duplicate HuclS's feats Of physical
prowess nor his talent to talk himself out
of difficulties. 1t is possible that Tark-
ington has observed boys just as closely
as Mark Twain. The difference between
Tom and Penrod may be difference in
fact and not in literary Imagination.
The frontiers of boyhood have been re-
strcted. The boys of Tarkington's
Indiana get more supervision than
Twan's Missouri lads. They have more
schooling, more clothes, more home in
fuence. They are better trained in the
sense that they are more hedged in with
information and advice. Perhaps this
may serve to explain why they do less
thinking for themselves.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Misusing the Dictograph

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following has been sent to the
District Attorney and Police Commissioner:
Gentlemen The recent disclosures of
the unauthorized use of the dictograph
(erroneously called dctaphone by the
ncwspapers) in the Newman case, brings
up again the problem of regulating the
use of the dictograph and other secret
listening devices to the public authorit
OF the city, state and national govern
ment, and to its definite legitimate use
on the part of reputable organizations.
During the war this company volun-
tarily discontinued the sale of all dicto-
graph listening devices except to the
War Department and the various other
Secret Service agencies, and for more
than two years we have refused to sell
photographs to private detective agencies
and to individuals, unless they could as
sure US that they had definite. legiti-
mate reason for its use.
AS the inventors and sole manufacture
ers of the genuine dictograph, we realize
our obligations in the matter, and. while
the instruments which were used in the
Newman case were not genuine dcto-
graphs or secured from our company. the
opportunity given to irresponsible and
possible blackmailing agencies through
the use Of such instruments is puhlic
danger and should be done away with.
c. II. LEHMAN,
President Dictograph Products Corporation.
New York, Aug %, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01

alleged famine conditions would have
worked that way); it would have brought
greater immediate suffering, whereas the
evils Of signing will become apparent
only later.
Herr Haussmann's real purpose, how
ever, is scapegoat-hunting, and he runs
down his quarry by blaming it all on the
Independent Socialists, who, by their in
nuence on the left wing of the majority
Social Democrats, terrorized the govern
ment into yielding, The Independents,
according to Herr Haussmann, acted as
the agents of the Entente by threatening
civil war in case of non-sgnature, and
by testifying, "in the face of TRUTH that
Germany "is still mperialistic, that she
has not changed her heart and that she
deserves chastsement for this continued
imperialism by the most cruel terms pos
shle."
Of course, this is old-style talk-de-
nouncing AS the agents Of the Entente
the only group Of men who opposed the
kaiser's war, who foretold where it
would lead to, and who, when their pre-
dicton had come true, were honest
enough to demand that Germany should
take the consequences. If the lnde-
cendents' assertion that Germany did
not change her heart needed any addi-
tioral proof, their accuser's argumenta
..or now furnishes it.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01

the past, it is probable that we have
missed one musical comedy in which the
principal funny man would have re-
marked that when the league Of nations
building was erected in Geneva Profess
sor Masaryk would have the check-room
privilege. There would also have been
an obstetrical problem play, in which the
young heroine would have died under the
most tragic circumstances, complaining
that her plight was due to the failure of
her parents to allow her to read Have
lock Ellis when she was a child. With
out doubt we have been denied the privi-
lege' of witnessing three war plays in
each of which the hero would tear off
his mustache in the last avt and cry:
II am no German spy, but an officer in
the Intelligence Department Of the
United States army! Put up your
hands, Won Golwitz" Next door we
might have expected to see revue
called "Ill Say 1t Is" in which ono
comedian would say that he felt eerie, to
which his companion would reply, with
out hesitation, "Thats better than feel
ing Lackawanna." 1t is safe to assume
that we are also forced to go on without
a bedroom farce called "Mabel's Mat
tress." light English farce comedy en-
Bolshevist drama, "The Red Orang
outang," and special matinee Of "Ham-
let"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
The Plays We Miss

Observers of things theatrical have
said that the strike is blow to the
drama which may necessitatc years for
recovery. There is no question that
some twenty or thirty new plays would
have been presented to the public by this
time if the dispute between the mana
gers and actors had not occurred. Just
how great blow has been dealt to the
drama is problematical. If the present
season ran according to the formulas of
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Justice for Policemen

To the Editor Of the Tribune.
Sir: AS citizan and public official who
has had considerable opportunity to observe
the average New York policeman and who
appreciates the difficulties under which he
labors to keep his head above water under
the ever-increasing pressure Of the high
cost of living, | desire to place myself un-
reservedly record in support of the
movement to increase their pay to the point
where it will be possible for them to live
SO that their physical, mental and spiritual
vigor may remain undiminished and their
wives. and children obtain the necessaries
essential and requisite to their reasonable
wcllbeiNg.
| think it may safely be said that on the
whole our large police force is the finest
body OF men that have been intrusted
with the discharge Of police duties in mod
ern times in any city in the world. Their
courage, honesty, forttude, vigilance and
intelligence among the proudest tradi-
tons Of our city. AS body of men they
have never been known to falter or fail in
the performance of their duties. The
safety of lives and our property de-
pends upon them, and we have the right TO
anu tO Itly upon tntm TO SldNu between :
and organized and unorganized crime and
yiciousness of every sort
have yet to meet the man who fails to
admit that under the present scale of wages
the policeman is wofully underpaid. In
fact, it is difficult to conceive how the
police officer can live at all He is reeluired
to keep himself mentally and bodily fit.
His position IN the community is such that
ne must live as elf-respecting man and
associate with self-respecting people. How
can ne do it receiving wage which in some
Instances, with legitimate expenses deducted
for uniforms, etc. is lower than that OF a
dshwasher IN a restaurant? 1t is a high
tribute to the honesty and integrity of the
personnel of the Police Department that
notwithstanding the hardships, if not actual
want, which they and their families endure
by reason of the unfair wage which thew
receive, they found to be honest and
reliable in almost every case.
In my work as county Judge have come
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01

The American people ask no territory,
no indemnity. no material gain any
kind Of compensation for their services
and sacrifices in the great world war.
But while rcnouncng these utilitarian
objects they strcnuously insist on the main
tcnancc Of their national ideals and prin-
c,ples and the retention of their funda-
mental policies.
What then in particular do the Ameri-
can people demand for themselves in tho
treaty Of peace?
First Of ALL having accomplished and
gloriously completed their military under
taking in Europe, the American people de-
sire a complete withdrawal from the af-
fairs Of that continent Not, indeed, that
they favor preciptate action; still less
that they unwilling to finish the job
to which they have put their hands. They
will sec the business through, even though
Il involves temporary continuation IN
semc form of the existing partnership with
the European allies. New nations, whom
America has helped to cmancipate, must
be set firmly upon their feet and started
safely on their respective careers, and the
chaos and destruction wrought by war
must be dspeled with the aid of America,
by the hand Of the farmer and the crafts
man, by the brains Of thinkers and states
men, b. vast plans of reorganizat on eco
uomc financial social and political. Pend
ing these readjustments America is ready
t" do hcr full duty to Europe. But when
every allowance is made for cooperation in
these provisional tasks the great fact still
remains that Europe IS not abiding
place, that arc strangers and pilgrims
alike in her tents and chancelleries, and
that it is the yearning desire, as it is tho
firm intention, Of the American people TO
resume their national life in their own way
on their own continent. Except in great
emergencies involving the sanctity Of
treaties or the laws of nations, or the
principles of right and humanity the
liberties of mankind, Europe must take
care Of herself.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Books
By Haywood Broun

OF. JOHN IRVINE, author Of 'John Fer
- guson." recently reviewed Somerset
Maugham's "rhe Moon and Sixpence"
Doran), in "The Manchester Guardian"
Mr. Ervine found the novel entertaining.
but he questioned the sudden blooming 0.
the hero frora a commonplace stockbroker
into great painter. Strickland might, Mr.
Ervine admits, have lived 70 the age Of forty
without painting pictures OF genius, but 40
adds, Il do deny that any man of genius
can live in this world for forty years with
out manifestng in some way the quality OF
his spirit, even II ne has not expressed 1t in
definite work"
Developing the point later on IN the re-
view, Mr.. Ervine remarks. There are no
mute inglorious Millions, although there
many nglorious persons who imagine that
they are Millions. A -jilton may be in
glorious for period, but he is never mute
for moment. Even the ingorious persons
who imagine that they are Miltons when
they would be much better employed rs
hsbeTdashers, mute. They are
as rule, more articulate than the Millions
for they put into their tongues What thcv
are unable to put into their pens. The
problem of society in dealing with men o,
genius is not bow TO encourage them, but
how to keep them in order"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
GothamsG q Gleanings
Bacon buying is the order OF tn
i az M lln nsil IN lIi7 SiTI M Sisl SSiaz Il

Bacon buying is the order OF the
day
Bill 1ilden of Philadelphia is
visiting in these cnvirons.
-I'rancis Hackett has been fort
nighting at Newport, r. l., for few
weeks
Mrs. Max Grab OF Yonkers got
home from Pentwater, Mich, yes
terdav
MIR. and Mrs. II. Leon Wilson
OF Monterey, CAL, are expected in
this city ere long.
Clint Ball the worlds best limo
typer is expected back from his va
cation tomorrow.
Charley Rieeelnan entertained
party OF two Wednes. cve'g..
pleasant time having been had by
ALL
-Maurie Mclaughlin OF Los
Angeles spent a few days last week
with John Mccormack, another ten
lis player.
-Rollin Kirby is back from his
vacation and he has got moustache
which looks terrible is the consen-
sus of opinion here and in Scarsdale.
The smiling face of Steve
Schlesinger, runner-up for the nap
kin ring championship of Lake
Placid, was seen at Forest Hills
Fri. and Sat.
T. w. Wilson OF Washington is
going on a business trip Wednes-
day. Joe Wise will start his to-
morrow. The latter is in the blue
and red hdki. profession
ITO Question General Pershing," says an
Evening Post headline. But Jerry a re-
turned ex-warrior, suggests that the public
be warned not to ask the G. in c. the fol-
lowing:
Did you like France?
How did the Y. NJ. C. A. treat you?
Have good eats?
What do you think of the French girls?
See any action?
Did you have cOotiesv
Are those wound stripes?
Did you get your old job back?
When are you going to work?
One question asked returning soldiers
Jerry forgot to include: Was General Perish
ing really popular?
One cannot help thinking. as one reads the
Chicago Tribunes headline Fifty New Holes
Made in Treaty by Committee that there
should be shooting contest. What with the
target practice some Senator'S have had, the
tournament ought to be exciting
Our choice is Senator Lodge, who. blind
folded and without the aid Of mirror. can
shoot hole in the treaty at 5000 miles.
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Trailing the News

tFrom The ST. Louis Post DispatcA)
A "Post-Dispatch" reporter recently fol-
lowed calm eyed cow from the green
pastures of Missouri to the hot and shining
dinner plate, and the only feature he missed
on the journey was the doleful point where
the packers lose money
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
.fEMsrR OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

1ns Associated Press exclusively entitled to tho ,ss
NJ republication Of all dispatches credited to or
not otherwise credited In this and Also the local
sews Of spontaneous origin published herein
Ali rights Of republication Of all other matter herein
sre Also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
The Peace Treaty Tangle
BY Jacob Gould Schurman
ARTICLE /

she should be given retributive justice. But
if she should be made the victim Of revenge
and malice, if atrocious and ntolerable
penalties were imposed upon her, she would
be driven into bankruptcy or, In time, into
another war Politicians may outrage JUS
tice, but justice bides her day and has her
Nemesis.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
We subm;. a sample:


We've been getting the presents out Of
storage to send up to Fifty-second Street
Yours was so lovely Kitty. You do send
such handsome things, Now, which was it,
Oh the gold tray, OF course. On, my dear,
| must tell YOU about the gold the
"adswor'hs sent. It was too big to get
into anything, and my husband held it
his lap al The 'vay to The bank when we
took the presents DOM; and now Edward
has 70 hold /. IN MS arms to take il 10
Fifty-seeond Street; and ne and Lily are n
the little ear. and he's driving. Lily can't
hold i because she has her little dog and
her muf. I've had it in my in the
little seat behind but I'm not going with
them, and. of course. X can't ride back
there alone. IL wouldn't be safe-it's valu-
ablc' It's under their table Isn't that
quaint? It's like Li,y's sabies. sac Wore
them when she went away, Of course, and
they are so heavy, and California was so
warm, and Lily was SO uncomfortable, and
they were so valuable that she had 10 keep
on wearing them.'
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
The Coming 7'ower
Derclicts

UercIlCt0
(Bowery, Nev York Ctty)
The noisy L reels by its dingy windows
The Lodging House for Mem
And careless eyes may look upon its inmates
(They seldom look AGAIN.
Only bunch Of "has-beens," frayed and
secdy,
Wanting a bath and shave;
wastrels, who whistled down the wind of
Fortune
The gifts that Nature gave.
Now, drawn together by the fatal current
or life's Sargasso Sea,
Helpless they drift along, like human wreck
age,
Yet dream that they are free;
Each morning sees them bent above paper,
Their eyes intent and widc
Each has a 'hunck" that he will make "a
killing
Before the day has died.
Though startling stories deck the outer pages,
Their flaming headlines pale
Beside the interest Of those fateful columns
That say: "Help Wanted Male;
young Strong ga Ambitious" s"-"Full of
pep and ginger"
(They scan them one by onc>
"Wantcd: q man who is sAlivc-Aggrcssive";
(jIow much alike they runD
The noisy l. reels by its dingy windows
The "Lodgins House for Men,
And those who rushed this morning to the
City
Go rushing home again;
But there they sit, in apathetjc quiet,
AS evening twilight falls,
While cynically near their dingy lodging,
Shine out--thc Three Gilt Balls.
FLORENCE VAN CLEVE.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Maintenance of
National Sovereignty

Lastly. the American people, devoted as
they are to the humanization of interna-
tional relations, are proud Of their own
tionality and independence and intend TO
retain their sovereignty unimpaired No
league Of peace will have any prospect Of
adoption which does not leave them sole
and absolute masters in their own house
They will never permit any other nation
even TO discuss with them their tariff or
immigration laws policies or any other
Of their domestic affairs. Even if they join
league of nations to maintain the peace
of the world. they will never so far limit
their freedom of Independent action as TO
consent to make their membership perma-
nent and indissoluble; they will insist on
ar unconditional right of Withdrawal at
any time. In democracy the generation of
to-day must not unduly limit the national
sovereignty of the generation of tomorrow.
(7'o be concluded tomorrow