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New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Gee-Up Oar, Mules

tFroD Contemporary Verso
LIE STOOD up in our khaki with the
4 poise
Of perfect sodiership beneath the praise
Of the French officer We caught the words,
"Conspicuous courage" "bringing wound
ed in"
And decorated with the cross of war"
Black-faccd? Yes, just niger. Nine
months since
He drove span of bony cotton mules,
And never had been out of Jasper County
In Georgia, U. S. A
They drafted him,
Shipped him to barracks, broke him into
drill;
1t was a changelings life. l saw the lad
After his first three days in cantonment;
He had just finished polishing his teeth
Novel achievement, and he swung the
With beat ecstatic, chanting ioyously:
"Lordy, lordy, got a toothbrush,
Lordy, lordy, got toothbrush,
Lordy, lordy, got a 4oothbresh,
And I'll go to heaven on a-high,'
Perhaps he sings now of the service medal.
Or Of some other meagre badge or symbol
Out of that rich and shattering experience
Hurled round his simple soul. With hasty
hand
Life sweeps loaded vvifyng brush
Over his old dull past.
And yet, | like
To think he will come back to Jasper
County;
picture him in patched and faded denims;
Over the wagon wheel he mounts the seat.
Evens the lines so the lead team won't jerk,
Then all together the four nervous mules
Will straghten tugs dig in their toes and
pull.
She shakes, she creaks she rolls,
"Gee-up dar, mules."
General Foch is fine old French.
He puts us niggers in a front line trench;
The barb-wire dossn, and the barrage be-
Boche see a nigger, and the Boche he run,
po' mourner,
You shall be free
When the good Lord sets you free,
ooh, hitched up the mules, and the mules
worked fine;
| hitched 'em to that Hinnenburg line,
l drawed her back till snagged her on the
Rhine,
An the boss come along, and he give me
my time.
0 po' mourneri
You shall be free
When the good Lord sets you freel
Gwan-n, mules Cee-up dar, mules"
EDWIN FORD PIPER.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Time to Choose
In Russia
To the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
N IR: Information was published in your
~ paper March "a to the effect that the
American peace delegation had dis
patched two American Bolshevists. Lincoln
Steffens and William c. Bullitt, to MoscoN.
in order to prepare data for the supreme
council of the peace conference which
would enable it to recognize the Bolshevist
terroristic rule in Russia. Your paper men
tions that the ostensible reason for the dis
patch Of this commission is that 'the mem
bers Of the American peace delegation still
profess ignorance on the Russian situa-
ton"
Is it possible that the American peace
delegation really ignores the horrible and al
most hopeless nature of the Russian situa-
ton? Is it possible that their ignorance
has not been dispelled by the testimony of
practically all the Allied and neutral
representatives who fed from Russia under
the menace of the Boshevist bayonets?
Do the members of the American delegation
read some of the American papers? Have
they ever heard anything of the Overman
committee? Have they read of what Ambas-
sador Francis, Mr. Simmons, DR.. Huntington,
the Rev. Mr. Simons, etc. testified before the
Overman committee? What proofs are needed
in order to convince these gentlemen that the
Bolshevist rule is hell and not a para
disc? How many more Russians, men,
women and babies, must be murdered bv
the Bolsheviki in order to convince these
ldealstlc gentlemen that there is terror,
the worst known in history, going on in
Russia? What crimes must be accom-
plished by the Bolsheviki, in addition to
those already accomplished, in order to
prove that the Bolshevist rule is a criminal
in the most disgusting sense of the
word?
Is it not the duty of American pub
lie opinion to raise its voice in defence
of the Russian people who are being muir
dered and plundered by the wholesale by
gang of irresponsible anarchists and Grim
lnal cutthroats? Herron's mission failed
because of a combined effort on the part of
the loyal Russians throughout the world
Now Heron is being substituted by Steffens
and Bulitt. Watch your step: the patience
Of the Russian people has its natural limits,
and when the peaceful. timid Russian peo-
pie lose their temper they become fright
that the Allied nations are going to helm
the Russian traitors the Russian people
will become frightful. The 2OO 1000 ru-
bles in gold promised by the Bolsheviki to
this country for their recognition won't
help.
1t is up to the loyal, intelligent and
great American people to make an imme-
diate choice between crime and treason on
the one hand and loyalty on the other;
between the Bolshevk criminals. interna-
tional dreamers, international criminals on
the one hand, ard the Russian people on
the other.
LIEUTENANT BORIS BRASOL.
Vce-chairman of the Voluntary Associa-
ton of the Russian Army and Navy
Officers in the United States
New York, March 27, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
A Week of Verse
A Poem From the Propertius Series

(From Poetryl
and letter comes to me
1*l from our mistress
Telling me to come to Thur AT oncets
Bright tips reach up from twin towers,
Anienan spring. water falls into fat
spread pools
What is to be done about it!
Shall l ntrust myself to entangled
shadows
Where bold hands may do violence to my
person?
Yet if l postpone my obedience
because of this respectable terror,
shall be prey to lamentations worse than
nocturnal assailant.
4 nd / shall be in the wrong,
and it Will last twelve month.
For her hands have no kindness me-ward,
Nor is there any one to whom lovers are
not sacred at midnight
And in the Via Sciro
If any man would be 3 lover
he may walk on the Scythian coast:
No barbarism would go to the extent Of
doing him harm,
The moon will carry his candle,
the stars will point out the stumbles,
Cupid will carry lighted torches before him
and keep mad dogs off his ankles.
Thus all roads are perfectly safe
and at any hour;
Who so indecorous as to shed the pure
gore of a suitor?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

wild beast back. They don't want an
other war, even though certain to win it.
II wild beast is abroad they think it
wiser to hunt him down and end him-or
at least to chain him.
In some quarters France is accused Of
narrowness. But in truth she seems a
nation with great breadth of vision. If
her advice is rejected there will be no
disarmament, and those now living will
probably see the horror of another world
war. France is surely able to support
her claim that she is the true pacifist.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Women In Medicine

For the first time woman is to hold
faculty position at Harvard The
board of overseers has appointed DR..
Alice Hamilton, of Chicago, as assistant
professor Of industrial hygiene at the
Harvard Medical School. DR.. Hamilton
is noted bacteriologist. Since 1910 she
has been investigating industrial poisons
for the United States Department of
Labor, and measures of health protec-
ton for munition makers are largely
due to her researches. Her appointment
at Harvard suggests her great talent;
otherwise the overseers would have had
no trouble in overlooking her.
The magic Of being a man still counts
for great deal in the medical profess
sion. lnterneships in hospitals are
awarded to men on the basis of their
medical school standing, but many hos
pitfalls refuse to consider a woman for
such post. Even in the stress of war
shortage our government did not give
commissions to women doctors, but ac-
cepted them in the army only as econ
tract surgeons" True, DR.. Florence
Sabin is professor of histology at the
Johns Hopkins Medical School, having
first been there for fifteen years as
associate professor of anatomy; DR..
Dorothy Child has just been made chief
OF the division of child welfare in the
Pennsylvania State Health Department;
of the doctors who have carried on the
work of the American Women's Hospitals
in Europe five have been decorated by
foreign governments-three by France,
one by Serbia and one by Greece. And
yet only the other day the dean of a
New York City medical school which is
belatedly opening it's doors to women
students remarked that he hoped not
many of the sex would embark on such
an arduous course of training, and added
Some few (of those that graduate)
may adopt the practice Of medicine, but
in the main | would recommend labora-
tory work for women"-this being a hum
BILE and ill-paid calling (which more men
would undertake if they could afford it
The situation is improving rapidly,
however. Women are now admitted to
nearly all the leading medical schools
of this country and Canada. And most
deans are more encouraging than the
one just quoted DR.. Lambert, of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, says
in his annual report for last year: at
is confidently expected that the admis-
sion of women will prove success in
medical education at Columbia, for the
standard and work of these students (the
eleven women in the entering class) are
fully equal to that of any other group
in the school," Incidentally, last years
total enrolment was abnormally large,
and DR.. Lambert hazards the prophecy
that "the admission of women will in no
way diminish the number of men ap-
plcants" Columbia Law School please
note!
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
4 Natural Capitalism

There very thoroughgong Socialists
in high places in the league-A. Z. Bowen,
Walter Thomas Mills, Arthur lie Sueur, for
instance. Townley himself seems more the
opportunist than the thoroughgoing doc
trinaire; he came to the Socialist party
from the disillusonment Of flax farm
gambling. The rank and file Of the league
$4,000 in North Dakota-are simply aver
age Scandinavian and American farmers.
They have yet to dream of the dictatorship
of the proletariat, or talk in their sleep of
the Economic Interpretation of history"
"The class struggle" is incomprehensible to
them. They are, after all, examples of the
natural capitalism which has existed in the
farm lands since the world began, and
which was the general rule before the in
dustrial revolution. They own the tools of
production. They don't care to think about
the state taking them over. Their radical
ism arises from the fear that somebody else,
the banker and the big money ymanipulator,
is on the way to owning those tools. Where
ever events may finally lead, the propaganda
and the laws of the Nonpartisan League
and have been directed against encroach
ments on private ownership by what they
call Dig Dr.
1t is propaganda which has quite re-
spectacle history in the United States. In
the last fifty years hardly decade has
passed without some outcropping of farmer
reform" or labor reform" dominated by
much the same ideas as are behind North
Dakotas new laws. America, industrially
and economically, has been more largely in
the natural" position of the farmer than
any other large country except Australia
or Canada. Consequently, no body of whole
sale "class conscious" philosophy has ever
arisen. The Grange attacked "the railroads
and the monopoles." The Farmers ALI
ance united with the Knights of Labor de-
clared for the abolition of national banks
and the government ownership of the means
Of transportation and intercommunication
and urged that the farmer be allowed ad-
vances against his products when deposited
in warehouses to be built and owned by the
government. Along with Free Silver, the
Populist party of the nincties stood for
government ownership to curb abuses of
monopoly.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
To a Chickadee

From Horqc Sctolasticoo. Published By the boys
Of ST. Palal's School, Concord, Y. H.
IN, HAPPY bird defying sleet and
~ snow,
Bravng the bitter cold yet free from care:
Oh, true philosopher of fortune, share
With me thy happy secret l would know
Why thou, so small and lonely, yet can'st
throw
Thy challenge, singing in the stormy air
To brave fierce winter in his ice-bound
lair;
To blunt his arrows ere they leave the bow.
'Tis pride like thine which urges men to
spurn
Unmerited rewards, for thou wouldst
wrest
A hard living from boistcrous cline,
Nor deign to ask what thou didst never
earn
From summers royal store, God speed the
When with such spirit man may be more
blessed! SHERMAN EWING
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

n ORTIZ DAKOTA is prepared by law
~ to embark on a Socialist pro-
gramme of stateowned industry The
thoroughness and completeness with which
A. c. Towncy has built up the idea, the
organization and the law-makng of the
Nonpartisan League lead to a superficial
conclusion that North Dakota will wake up
some morning and find itself the first COM
pletely collectvist state in the world.
Perhaps and perhaps. Opponents assert.
Friends deny. The decision lies in the
future of course; but there is a certain
basis for judgment in the character of laws
passed and the general background of
American radicaism into which the league
fits
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Distance

From The Ne,o WitneSs>
HOW often have | seen the moon on
L hills
And watched the Nile turn golden with
the sun;
Thought stars a hands breadth past NV
window sills,
And heard the seas sweep by me every
one.
Distance to me was such simple thing.
But now, how seperate and far away. ..-,.'
Lies the next room whore can hear vou
sing
When sit quiet at the close of day. J
HAR0Ln LEWIS COOK.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Intensive Crime

tFrom The Kansas City Stur)
There seems TO be an impression abroad
that murder and suicide will come 10 an
end along with booze or July l. We can
think of no other reason for the present
feversh traffic in murders and suicides.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Concerning the Nonpartisan League
A Bourgeois Revolt
By Kenneth Macgowan

labor If these things had touched the
American farmer they would have touched
him only as an employer of "hired men"
and harvest hands. America in general
has shown little liking for the elaborate
Teutonic philosophy of Continental social
ism. Here the depressed" have seen op-
preston in just quarter-monopoly
They have urged government action, both
regulative and competitive, to break mo-
nopolies created by trust agreements, and
government ownership of all natural or
necessary monopolies.
Practically all the laws enacted by the
Nonpartisan Leagues legislature in North
Dakota have been for these purposes
Practically all to be found in more or
less their Dakota form in the legislation
of states and nations which have been
touched by this same "bourgeois'-in the
opinion of party Socalists-reform move
ment
Thus the elevator bill follows upon the
public operation of elevators by the State
of Louisiana, the port of Seattle and the
Canadian government. The bank bill follows
the lines of 25O-year-old Swedish in
stitution. Home building by the state
q.
The tax regulations are compounded from
single tax experiments in British Column
bia, and various measures of other Amer
lean states. Canada, Wisconsin and Colo
rado furnished models for labor laws, the
mining code, and the insurance measures.
Even the educational consolidation bill has
a parallel in Kansas.
4 "Uilifdridn Philosophy
But if the laws passed are not the prod
uct of thoroughgoing socialist thought or
oppressive industrial conditions, they do
not lack consstent-even a rather elab
crate social philosophy. 1t has no name.
Anti monopoly" comes nearest, perhaps;
public ownership of public utilities" is
bit narrow. The word "utilitarian"
might fit, if it didn't fit something else
too we'll already.
Walter Thomas Mills, Socialist of the par
lor or American type, as contrasted with the
political and revolutionary, and long stu
dent of Australian reform, is always ready
TO relate the legislation of the Nonpartisan
League to this body of progressive radical
farmer thought Mills divides the field
of economic action into five parts, in each
of which the league believes that monopoly
exists and must be fought. They are:
l. Land and natural resources.
, Transportation and communication.
g. Large manufacture.
A. Distributive agencies.
5, Finance.
Monopoly, the league believes, exists in
ali these fields 1t is more or less complete
always powerful enough to control prices of
goods and to take a larger profit than its
contribution justites. In every case, Mills
asserts, a community of interest among the
factors in the field has produced the practi-
cal result of monopoly preying on the pro-
duccr and consumer
The laws favored and enacted by the
league which affect land and natural re-
sources are the tax measure, putting the
corrective of the single tax into somewhat
incomplete force on farm land, and the bill
authorizing state action in the Ignite fields.
In transportation and communication
railroads, telegraphs and teiephoncs-thc
league has taken steps to regulate rates,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Drinking OFF the Mortgage
lFron. The Boston TrnnSc

(Fron The Boston Transcript
II home stills can produce a satisfying
drink for few cents a gallon, as averred,
the wife, by selling it to the husband at
barroom drink prices. can soon make enough
to pay off the mortgage.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Monopoly The Only Oppression

Such government ownership has been
only part of European socialist phil
osophy The characterzng bulk of its
thought has been upon the class struggle
and the surplus values produced by hired
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE With absolute safetyIor II dissatisfaction
suits In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to nay your
money back upon request. No red tape. No auob'ng
We make good promptly II the advertiser docs not
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
but leaves public ownership to the Federal

but leaves public ownership to the Federal
government
In large manufacture the league has put
North Dakota into the milling business and
is likely to extend its action to meat pack
ing and bread making if it finds monopoly
or conspiracy fighting the state There is
no manufacture of Importance in North Da-
kota itself, and these outside industries
the only ones utilizing the products of the
farmers.
The distributive agencies touched by the
league laws are few. They are covered by
the vague provision under the mill and ele-
vator act for the marketing of farm prod
ucts." But the leaders of the league and
the individual members have gone actively
into extensive distributive operation for
the reducing of the price of goods sold to
the farmers This is the set of chain stores
run under the name of the Consumers
United Stores Company. Opposition gossip
says that the state may be induced some
day to take over these stores. Townley
himself, who is the leading factor in their
management, confesses that they interest
him personally more than the league itself
Government Competition the
P0noCe0
AS for finance, there is the state bank
and the farm loan and home building prof.
ects.
1t is interesting to note that in only one
of these fields is there any proposal looking
eventually to government monopoly - the
Ignite activities of the state, plus the
strictive mining code. Government compe-
ttion is the panacea generally proposed.
League opponents, however, when they do
not assert that state industry will fail,
argue that it will drive private capital out
of business.
At present government activity in indus
try is proposed and supported by the farm
ers only as a corrective The two essential
questions are, therefore:
Will inefficiency, politics and graft wreck
competitive state industries?
Or will competitive state industries wreck
private business and create state monopoly?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
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New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-25
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Yesterdays subscriptions to the Fifth
Liberty loan were the smallest of any
day since the campaign started Monday
morning, the total being only $500
In the breach of contract case of +. w.
f., Dyer of Greenfield against Frank A.
Townsend of Putney in county court at
Newfane, which was a suit to recover
$4,000, the jury this afternoon returned
The funeral of Henry j. Allen, who died
yesterday morning in his home at Ia
Vernon street, will be held in the house
at 2.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon Rev.
Delmar E. Trout officiating, and the
burial will take place in Prospect Hill
cemetery.
The Boy Scouts will go on hike to-
morrow, and trip has been planned that
it is hoped will appeal to a large number.
They are asked to meet at j. L. Stock
wells store in West Brattleboro at 9
o'clock, with lunches, to hike up Pleas
ant valley, where the reservoir is located
from which Brattleboro receives its wat
er supply. Dinner viii be cooked in the
open.
| Harry Gray came to his home here
last night from Philadelphia, where he
arrived yesterday from laicutta, INDIA,
on the motor boat Falstria, being So days
on the way. There were 10 passengers
and 81 members of the crew aboard. The
party left Calcutta March |. Mr.. Gray
enlisted for service last July and left
New York Sept. 10 as business secretary
of the National Council of India and
| Celyon, with 2s9 men. Since leaving
Brattleboro he has travelled $4,000 miles
He is not yet discharged from the seryie'
and has to report Monday in New York
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-25
NO FOOD WITH STRIKES.
Hoover Sent an Ultimatum to Germany
Causes Discussion.

-GduScS OlSCuSSlOu.
BERLIN, April % (delayed) A mes
sage to Germany by Herbert Hoover, dl-
rector-general of the interalied relief or
ganization, was published i'll Berlin yes
terday. In it Mr. Hoover warned against
a continuation of the strikes and disor-
ders, saying they We're endangering con-
tinuation of the food supply.
The message has brought about serious
discussion in the German newspapers
which is best reflected by the Boersen
Zeitung, which calls Mr. Hoover's note
an ultimatum to Germany
MIR. Hoover says shortly and sharply, .
the Roersen Zeitung continues, America
has no desire to restrict itself In order
that its grain ships may be sunk in the
Elbe and its fat kegs may disappear
through the riot of few thousand Spart-
aeans, or that its potatoes shall ruin in
warehouses because they cannot be trans.
ported.
''America has the good will to save all
from starvation, provided there is assur-
ance of q state of order in Germany; 9TH
erwise there win be no more supplies
That is Mr.. Hoover's ultimatum, which
just now for Germany is of equal import
anee with the peace conditions of the en-
tente''.e s s.
The newspaper then criticises the insti-
gators of the unrest articles printed in
the radical press. 1t says the party lead
ers have directly or indirectly benefited
by the chaos, and charges the whole
trouble to the independent socialist party,
which, it says. has been guilty OF extor
ton.