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New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
The Seasons Return

b. the tumult and the shouting ns
strikers and strikes, and treaty ratitiers
and reservaticnsts, and vino rot else. Il
might seem as il Il dog Kennel had been
substituted for our faithful planet and
as If not only the good Old ti.1les but
the bad young times and arv time 1T
all had gone plumb to kinglom come.
Yet even in all this riot human nature
lurchcs along i'll strangely familiar un-
dulations. Above all the uproar old, old
cries are heard, in effect AS unchanged
rs the pyramids
The new skirts arc here. narrower.
than ever. And the world series looms
amid patter cf 'tis ard 'tain't and
betcher as familiar as the roses tllat
bloomed on Queen Clytcmnestra grave
1T she had q grave or there we're then
roses. The experts are already busy
with Their percentages and stately
guesses. The alignment Of fans III be-
half OF Pat AloraN's marvels or Kid
Gleasol's wonders is Sharpening hourly
rs the dollars 60 down on the red or
the white. Why should plain and res
sonable citizens of I1latbush and Gram
ercy Park and Al1nonk develop passion
ate convictions that a hired team of ball
players in Cincinnati uniform shall or
shall not conquer not less boughten
team in Chicago uniform?
Because they are Americans appar
ently-and who are we to change any,
thlng?--and such is life. Such is life. at
any rate, as the daily records Of our in
telectual progress bore in upon us.
There has heen no summer worthy of
the meme. There has been Il war that
knew neither seasons, nor cities. nor
continents. Yet like some blind animal
g1ubblng accurately toward single
goal, human nature, with world crash
ing about its ears, never forgot. When
the due hour comes, the old ways return
rs ii by the clock. Autumn and the world
series call. Who are humans to resist,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
The German Triumph

NeV Yori; Tribune
Paris Bure0w
bARlS, Sept. 2-Yet another asphvxiat
E ing gas has made it's appearance. but
1t is not against the human race that
1T will be directed. The victim intended is
the clmeX lectularius-or if you must have
tie truth bluntly told, the bedbug
Yesterday Professor Roux read to the
Academy OF Sciences q report drawn up bv
Messrs. G. Bertrand, Broca, Rousseau and
Dassonville, in which the ultimate disap
pearance Of the insect above named was
predicted, thanks to a method which these
gentlemen had developed and put into op
Grafton.
They had given long study to the habits
OF the insect, and had been struck BY the
lnadequacy of the means employed to de-
stroy it. Then they experimented with
chloropicrine in room which had been
made tor the occasion a veritable COLONY
OF bedhugs, the only details Of the method
thus far transpiring being that five TO ten
grammes of pulverized chloropicrire were
used per cubic metre It was observed
with jcy by the exrer;men.crs that, after
the lapse OF certain timc not one cimex
lectularius remained. alive.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Policemen and Firemen

Mayor Hylan told Patrolman Moran
that an increase of $3.50 year would
satisfy the policemen.
Patrolman Moran told Mayor Hy1an
that he was mistaken; which caused His
Honor to express the opinion that Patrol
man Moran was inclined to he an agita-
tor, who might be speaking for himself,
but not for the patrolmen. patrolman
Moran is president Of the Patro1men's
Benevolent Association.
The Mayor added that police strike
would not be tolerated in New York.
That is right, but it is interesting. that
the only mention of police Strike should
have been made by the Mayor "
Mayor Hylan is mistaken when he sup
poses that the increase which he fnvors
would make satisfied patrolmen. The in
vestigations The Tribune has made into
the living conditions Of the patrolmen
and tiremen OF New York convince it
that the increases for which these men
are asking are moderate They should
be granted.
But If they are not granted, there will
be no strike. There will be, instead, many
designations among the younger patrol
men and a very great lack of material
to talSe the places OF those who resign.
There will be 'esseniug Of tie general
morale Of the department and an increase
i'll the already prevalent disposition to
look upon a job in the Police Department
as something to be avoided rather than
something to be desired.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Movies First

Ne7r Torff Tf5bpae
London Eureou
LONDON, Sept. 2.---Londoners. faced with
serious housing problems for the coming vim
ter, have been. aroused to, resentful excite
ment by the action Of syndicate which has
purchased q block Of house property and il
demolishing tin order TO erect motion
picture palace. One hundred and thirtv-f;ve
needy tenants are turned out on weeks
notice.
With shortage of houses in Eneland,s
capital so alarming that many families
nave already been forced to take to tents.
former government barracks and bu.s to
slHd shelter, this sudden, and apparently
ruthless, turning out OF thirty-odd families
has caused severe denunciation both of the
syndicate and the building authorities.
Applications for injunction are pending:
protest meetings are being held nightly.
Representations have been made to the
London County Council and the Ministry
of Health.
There are already forty cinema shows In
the neighborhood.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Battlefield Ghosts

From 7ae LoYdoH ;oa.,y Ergress)
Terrible dreams of Ypres. Passchendaele,
Amiens and the Sonmc haunt the sleeping
hours Of demobilized soldiers who are try
ing to-day, despite wounds and shattered
nerves, to find themselves" and do good
work again in England.
Among them are pathetic Lcndonets who
fear to cross the Old Kent Road, and ex-
lailwsymen VINO shrink from the sound of
an approaching train.
Wise friends are taking them in hand.
at Lancastergate the Lancaster Clinic, re-
Gently established by the Ministry of Pen
sions, deals daily with more than forty
cases Of neurasthenia, hystera, anxiety
,euresis and she'll shock.
"The treatment adopted at Lancaster
gate said al Official Of the clinic to
Daily Express" representative, "is OF the
simplest and gentlest nature. The essential
feature is for our physicians to see into
the depths Of the. patients mind, and then
help him to readjust himself for civilian
life,
"Our great object is to dig up and revive
and talk over all forgotten experiences os
the battlefield. We go over the incidents
OF the attack the hand-to-hand fight. the
death struggle, the horrible sights of mutt
lated corpses, or whatever it may be.
"When these repressed memories have
been once more brought to the surface che
terror dreams disappear, the man begins to
sleep well, and All his other symptoms
rapidly amelorate.
''There Is no point to which the doctor.
attach more Importance than digging up
and talking over these painful Incidents"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Are They Criminals?
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Apropcs of YOUR timely article in
to-d&y's Tribune, may l quote hereunder
few excerpts from the comprehensive work
on the subject By Dr.. William !. Eickson
director OF the Psyclopathic Laboratory O.
the Municipal Court CT Chicago? Probably
we have no greater authority than Dr. Hick-
son, whose report on $500 alleged criminal
cases, published by the Chicago Municipal
Court, is appallingly Illuminating. Dr. HEX
says:
THE law has recognized tae irresponsi-
blity of the child under certain ses of de-
rslopment and understanding. and vet MANY
OF our criminals better oif mentally
than these same children. Statistics
show that there are proporticnately as many
murders in states and lands with capital
punishment rs without capital punishment
We should posit the following ques-
ton to oursclves Wou,d we have
done differently from him {the crin,inaN
and, conversely, if he had our nental.ty,
heredity, socio-econ omic conditions, etc,
would he act differently frota uso
Assistant states attorneys have 5oid Us ,hs.
they do not want 20 hea- our reports to the
Judges OF cases, lor after hearing all the
Aacts they are not ab.s 10 prosecute their
cases 50 dras cscallg The fact tna.
: per cent o. ne general popula-ion are
criminals is llgs.iy significant. rns
fact also that hboae . rer cen. Of tn.
general population have boen estimated 10
be defective Is more than coincidence.
. Infancy. childhood school and cspe-
cally juvenile court records should be care
fully preserved. showing IS tAey Go the
,nai,e-up OF TIE individual. . We are
dealing here in the MAJ iori7y o. cases with
ngascr brothers AID sisters, who never
as9..ld be approached III, TIE idea 7hat they
80 deliberate c-ia.iaals, but as weak and
he'll p.ca. nlu nee.,...g oar best assistance and
Gaze. 1asc sarly records of con-
ilict with el,v.so..-..ei,tt IL '.e passive yea,s
are one of or greatest rrooFs of their in
herent mental da2scrveness'
REGINALD GOODS.
New Yorh. Seps IA, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Flip : Flops and
CuffLefsh
70 tho Editor Of Tho Tribune.

TO tho Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In his letter 70 The Tribune this
morning Lloyd NJ. Howell pokes fun at
the agility" Of "The New York Times" in
following the "fip -fops" Of the President
of the United States Through the hoops
in the. Far Northwest, where the big show
is now drawing large audiences"
Let" us assume that the pro-President
press occasionally does. an "acroba.ic
turn" Let us. likewise admit that Secre-
Let US not even deny that tho President
asked every one last year to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket; that he ignored the Senate
in the selection Of the peace commission;
that he uses MAY not' too frequently,
and that he often wears a blue sack suit
when receiving Senators instead of the
conventional black Of the conventional
statesman. But have these highly interest
ing and indubitable facts anything more to
do with the case than the flowers that
bloom in the spring?
The only issue before the United States
at this moment ID whether the peace treaty
shall be ratified or not. Mr. Howell cannot
deny that this treaty, If adopted, will pre-
vent Germany from subduing by force her
ncighbors, will compel her to make restitu-
ton for her crimes, will liberate subject
peoples, will set up new democracies, will
restore ravaged territories and will con-
cretely attempt to translate into practical
craftsmanship the age-long dream of poets,
prophets and philosophers by setting up
league Of nations to the end that mankind
can cooperatively work out its own destiny
in peace and security. Does he claim that
the twenty-eght agreements Of the COW
enant or the machinery by which they are
to be carried out Ii: e., the assembly, coun-
Gill; court, sccretaliat, commissions, etc.
or the proposed bylaws in respect to adj
mission, resignation, secession, expulsion
and amendments, are detrimental to inter
national justice, stability and efficiency or
dangerous to our sovereignty and inde-
pendence?
Let Mr.. Howell argue the real issue The
greatest project that has been put before
the American people since the adoption OF
the Constitution should no longer Re OBJ
scured by the inky fluid OF nisrcpresenta-
ton and irrelevancy sqnirted about it by
the human cuttleish inside. and outside ths
Senate. HAMILTON HOLT
New York, Sept. l6, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
American Troops for Armenia? ?

Senator John Sharp Williams has in
troduced resolution authorizing the
President to send American troops to
Armenia. The language of the resolu-
ton is vague. The preamble notes the
intention of the British government to
withdraw the British troops now sta
toned in 'the Caucasus and Armenia" :"
In the body Of the resolution Armenia
only is mentioned.
The new state Of Armenia, which is
seeking recognition at Paris, lies partly
III Turkish and partly in Russian terri
tory. The bulk Of the surviving Ar
n1enian population is on the Russian side
OF the old border. Does the President
feel that he needs warrant from Con-
gress to send forces into this region?
We have never declared war on Russia
or on any government claiming SOY
ereignty within the boundaries of the
former Muscovite Empire. But we have
troops in Siberia We also have had
troops for many months in northern
Russia. What restrains, then, the Prcsi-
dent from dispatching American soldiers
to still another part of disorganized
Russia?
The United States also has never been
at war with Turkey. Yet the American.
peace delegates at Paris apparently have
been instructed to participate in the in-
position OF peace terms on the Turkish
government. If we are belligercn,
against Turkey to that extent, what pre-
vents the President from exercising the
same belligerent rights as Great Britain.
France, Italy and Greece have exercised,
and establishing garrisons in various
portions Of the Turkish Empire?
Mr.. Williamss resolution raises all
these puzzling questions. On what basis
can we send force either into Turkish
Armenia or into the Russian Caucasus.
where the Georgian Republic, the pro-
vlslonal Armenian state of Eriyan and
the republic of Azerbaiian have been
quarrelling for the last six months and
have been kept from a wax OF extermina-
ton only by the presence OF British
troops! Other questions will be raised.
How large an army of occupation will be
needed? And will the American occu
patton, if authorized, eventually extend
from Tihis to the Bosporus:
President Wilson has limited now an0
then at his desire to accept a mandate
lof Armenia - possibly also for Con-
stantInople and Anatolia But he has
submitted no proposals to Congress. The
Williams resolution may help to clarity
the obscurities Of the situation. There
ought to be some Qualification before tho
army reorganization bill is considered
1t IS evident that We do not need q
standing army OF more than o5O 900 fo,.
ordinary police purposes at home. Is
the BaAer-March bill for a REGULAR
establishment Of more than 100000 me,,
drawn with a view to providing $50 900
or 10000" men for foreign service? Mr..
Williams deserves credit for forci,1g This
issue into the open and possibly uncover
ing the Administration real policy in
the Near East.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
The Massacres in Siles;x

BY able press agenting the Germans
have made much OF the plight Of their
kInsinen IN Eastern GERMANY. who. on
the strength Of the peace treaty. were 4o
pass under the "barbarous' Polish rule.
Stories Of Polish "atrocities'' committed
against the "defenceless" German popn-
latlon were launched with more or less
success by the Wolff Bureau and its
auxlllarles. On che other hand.-as is
only Misunderstanding was heard from
German sources regarding the activities
or the so-called Grenzschutz, or frontier
guard, IN the contested border districts
OF Upper silesia, except that they we're
engaged IL Putting down "local OUT
breaks charged in the German official
dispatches to Spartacist intrigue.
Now comes the testimony of two Brit
ish newspaper correspondents Of stand.
iag~-Mr. Cameron Mackenzie. cf The
london Norning Post, ard Mr.. C".,.;s;o-
pier Lunlby, Of The London 7ixes---t;,;y-
closing the methods employed! by the
Germans in crushing the outbreaks 4hnf,
ia C1'e Ai1uGic OF August. The
two correspondents issued io;c;t state
nent charging the German, trooys and
authorities in Silesia Wit, activities
closely paralleling the exploits in Bel
GUM in the first months Of the war
Thus we are told that the German troops.
IN clearing towns and villages seized bv
the Insurgents, ARRESTED every one thew
could lay hands on-old men, young bows.
women - who were collected in droves
and made to march, sometimes for hours
their hands held above their heads.
The prisoners were being con.
tinuaNy baaten with the butts of rifles
and struck with pieces Of wire cable and
betting"
In kattowitz, the correspondents nro-
ceed, the floors of prison cells where
Polish prisoners had been kept "were
SO covered with blood from wounds in
'hicted on the prisoners that ones shoes
stuck in walking over them."
Forty Poles were shot by the Germans
at Gross Dombrowka, another forty at
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
1872 Years Young

One hundred and thirty-two years
young is that document under which
Americans have been living by the grace
of those great creators of government
whose victorious labor was celebrated
yesterday.
Gloomy and depressed are those who
wpald sit by the fire and bask in the
comfort of settled, unquestioned days.
But for those Americans with enough
faith in their convictions and enough
love of battle for their faith there was
never more hopeful hour for the United
States of America and its incompatible
Constitution. A score of years ago it was
the fashion to criticise that document as
a strait acket restraining progress, as
ancient wisdom inapplicabie to our roar
ing, marvellous Years. But harder times
have produced harder sense. 1t was in
no hour of basking ease that the Consti-
tuition of the United States was written.
The times that try mems souls were at
their climax when Washington and
Madison and Franklin and their fellows
assembled in independence Hall. Now
that test, severe and anxious test
faces our nation again, that worn and
seasoned structure, the labor Of vast
travail and devotion and sacrifice, re-
-urns again into its own. On every side
= new res s,ecJ for the Constitution is
card. In every loyal American heart
ats g new realization Of the colossal
Gius inhabiiing as a soul those brief
~ farSceing words.
amendments have cone thick and fast
these late years. Given the national
sapulsc, the Constitution reveals itself
ss 10 strait aci1et, but rather living,
growing body, accurately expressing the
healt and mind Of America. In every
aspect Of world war the Constitution
showed itself swift to accommodate.
amply supple for every far-hung, un-
prccedented need. In the making Of peace
rs well We see it serving, as if with un-
carny provision, the cause Of public de-
Date and The insurance of a true Ameri-
canism in foreign affairs.
The issue will soon be plain one, is
becomng sharper with every fresh
crisis-tne Constitution of the United
States, the sum Of hard-won democratic
wisdom Of the ages, does battle with Boil
sheVism, an improviscd dictatorship Of
the few. Those devoted men who Gre
;,ted our government were not daunted
by threats of minorites or fears Of the
downcast No true American to-day is
either fearful or depressed. He welcomes
the challenge. He is proud to fight in
such a cause. The Constitution of the
United States--ours to trust with our
liberties and happiness. ours TO uphold
with our lives--what better raliying cry
could free people ask?
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Potential Bootleggers
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

-.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The 100000 physicians Of the coun-
try should protest against the clause Of
the prohibition enforcement law, now be-
fore Congress, which compels them to take
out permit" to prescribe alcoholic bever-
ages in quantities not to exceed an arbitrary
limit laid down by q lay body. Already
physicians are compelled to take out Fed
eral and state licenses to prescribe opium
and its derivatives. This is obligatory under
en- act passed mainly to control the sale and
distribution Of narcotic drugs after these
we're used as a substitute for the alcoholic
under the prohibition, laws originating IN
that section of the country.
If Congress can limit the use Of alcoholic
beverages to sacramental and medicinal .pur-
poses, it should be competent to punish all
offences against such cnactments without
passing an offensive license law affecting
the whole medical profession. Inasmuch as
c!ergymen do not have to take out permit
it might be presumed that physicians would
receive the same consideration. This per-
haps would be the case were it not for the
fact that the Anti Saloon League esteems
every physician q potential bootlegRer. a
conclusion shared evidently by Congress in
compelling physicians to be licensed and
supervised by the Department of Internal
Revenue.
The AntiSaloon League also claimed that
the American home" would be converted into
a speak-easy unless forcble entry and search
were permitted without the formality of a
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Open aud Tacit Support

What is OF at least equal importance Is
the fact that italy openly anc france
tacitly support the Rumanan claims. The
Italians are moved By the fact that they
have dispute with tho Southern Slavs
over Fiume and the Dalmatan coast. Any
thing that strengthens the Southern SIavs
contributes new force to future enemy
which has already disclosed its purpose to
challenge Italian possession OF Funae if
the Italians get it, and Of Trieste and
those Slav hnterlands which the Italians
have already received at Paris. The French,
OH their PART, while championng the Jugo-
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
Commercial FLYING

The Designer Of new passenger air
plane, after taking sixteen men at one
time for flight over New York few
days ago, declared that Gin the spring
Of 1920 the business man of New York
will be able to step into an airplane
sleeper in New York and wake up in
Omaha, Neb., the next morning" az
irving in San Francisco the morning Of
the second day.
Allowing for the overoptimisn Of the
enthusiast, it is apparent that the COM
mercial development Of aviation is pro-
crossing with marvellous speed. A re-
cent report Of the American Aviation
Mission contains ar account Of plan
being considered in England for trans
atlantic airship line for mail service
that would make it possible for letter
written in London to be delivered in
San Francisco five days later. Such all
achievement, so beyond the bounds Of
reason few months ago, does not ap-
pear so fantastic now that the Atlantic
has been crossed four times by aircraft
without the loss of single life. There
are now being built in England aircraft
that will carry from five to ten tons Of
mail, in addition to the necessary fuel
and crew. These airships will cross the
Atlantic from London to New York in
,.af the time required by the fastest
.bexycatip.
Already commercial flying has made
considerable progress in Europe. Re-
ports have reached London of several
air lines having been started in Ger
many, and considerable has been done
along the same line in both England and
France. A daily service from Paris to
London has been in operation for some
time. Other lines are operating from
Paris to Lille and Brussels, and from
Paris to Alsace-Lorraine and to points
in occupied German territory.
Private English interests have now
under process Of formation companies to
New-York tribune., 1919-09-18
A Fatal Gift

We have, then, at once, & clear example
Of the ultimate peril involved in the rigid
application Of one Of the Fourteen Points.
To have assigned the Toron1al to Runana
might possibly have aroused temporary re-
sentiment or the part c9 the Serbs, but
with the italian quarrel on their hands it
could not have LED to conflict. Presenting
Che Serbs with something they canno. de-
fend and thereby insulng the hostility of
q state which will always 90 stronger has
proved a questionable piece OF generosity.
1t may yet prove Of the most Fatal gifts
in history, since the Serb now finds him
SELF involved IN QNarrsls with al his
reighbors, with the exception OF the Greeks.
vii ot whom could easily and conveniently
make common cause against rin, aaG
could i:1ad IL hat common cause the oppor-
turity ror ato!isiiiag diAeraNces existing
between each otlier. Thcs hungary, T,u-
mania. italy AND. Bulgaria might easily
crush Serbia, partition he Iugo-Slav sta.e
among themselves, ard repeat il g small
way the Austro Prussian- Russian policy as
10 Poland nearly century and half ago.
1ioreover yrc see also The reappearance
Of great power, namely, Italy, making use
Of Balkan complication precisely "a Rus
sa and Austria used the Bal;an scates III
all the years preceding the wcrli war. THE
theory that Paris could solve questions
like that Of TIE Banat, the belief that the
principles expressed in the Fourteen Points
and in the league OF nations r'oald govern.
are disclosed to be 5sllacious. an,; ;herc is
every possibility saac we may see actual
military conflict once more breaking out
in the Balkans in consequence OF the de-
cisicn Of the Paris conference in the matte.
G.. the BaNat.
(Cscyrg.t 1919 tr N. MoHuts :secsa1sr s,-e.nat,.