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New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
Simply Awful

German professors, vocal from the be-
ginning Of the war, have broken into
fresh clamors over the terms of the
treaty. "The document is simply awful"
says one Of them. The learned gentle
men are largely the same company as
signed the famous manifesto defending
Germanys invasion of Belgium.
The German professors lent them
selves joyously to the task Of making the
German people believe what the gov
ernment wished them to believe. Thew
lent themselves even more joyously to
the task of spreading German propa-
ganda outside Of Germany. The EEK
change" trick was in some ways one of
the cleverest of them all. When the war
broke out there were Germanzed Amer
lean professors ready to uphold the Ger
man cause. Doubtless the German pro-
fessors believed that these represented
American opinion. Many were the re-
proaches they addressed to us when it
was discovered that they were mistaken.
Yet they went on living in a land of
illusion. Up to the very last they were
certain that Germany would win. Thev
WROTE addresses, pamphlets, volumes. to
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
The Eagle Wins

Steadily, reliably, with all the stanch-
ness of a twin-screw liner, the NC-4 has
crossed to Lisbon and won for the Amer
lean navy and all America first honors
of the transatlantic sky lane Other
feats remain for Hawker and the other
daredevils. The first crossing has been
made.
An ante-climax in dramatic effect af-
ter the melodramatic swoop and loss
and lucky salving of Hawker and
Grieve, the feat Of the NC-4 is all the
more impressive for its scientific thor
oughness and sureness of accomplish
ment. 1t seems almost certain now that
only the unlucky chance of an Azores
fog bank prevented all three of Com
mander Towerss fleet from covering the
entire route.
The American success has been of the
greatest value in pointing the way
toward future development. Not by a
circus leap, however plucky, can mail
and passenger service across seas be
achieved. Unless some utterly unex-
pected invention intervenes it seems al
most altogether likely that air crossings
in the years to come will be made in ves-
sells developed from the example of the
NC planes. There will be several en-
gines, perhaps a large number; there
will be a substantial boat hull there
obviously will be needed huge wing
extension to elevate such load.
Perhaps the most valuable and inter-
esting feature of the whole experiment
has been the guiding chain of destroyers
maintained from shore to shore Upon
the whole unsolved question of aerial
navigation the experience of the NC
planes is certain to furnish most valu-
able information. When ocean air SER
vice becomes established it certainly will
need every aid to direct courses and
lessen the chance of accident Land sig
nails for aircraft have made much prog
ress through the war. Visible marks
would seem to be a relatively simple
matter of smoke screens and search
lights. Fog signals have yet to be de-
veloped. Wireless seems far from a
complete reliance, judging by the expert
ence of the planes in the fog at the
Azores.
All these moot problems await the evil
dence of such brave pioneers as Com
mander Read and his crew. Theirs is a
glorious and historic achievement. From
every point of view their labor means
much to the progress of mankind.
America is proud of their success and
rejoces in their safe passage of the
most venturesome voyage yet completed
by man.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28

prove that anything else was inconceiv-
able. They applied the doctrine that the
end justifes the means in the most COM
prehensive sense. No atrocity was too
horrible for them to defend. When it
was obvious that Germany had been
beaten they still clung to their ideal of
the German superman. Somehow the
laws of nature would be broken in his
case; somehow the crime would fail of
punishment. For the last few months
they have been prating about just
peace. Impenitent, unabashed, they
have declared that Germany would not
submit to humiliation, forgetting that it
was no longer in Germany's power to
choose. They have put their own inter
probation upon the fourteen points and
insisted it must be accepted.
Now after all these vain imaginings
comes the relentless truth. Germany is
to learn the full meaning of the old
Italian proverb that "who breaks pays"
No wonder they think it is "simply aw-
full"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
China's Reservations

The President of China has notified
The Chinese delegation at Paris that at
meeting of the Chinese Cabinet and
the leaders of both houses of the Chinese
Parliament it has been decided that the
delegation is to sign the peace treaty
with reservations regarding Shantung.
The idea has been widely exploited in
this country that the only alternatives
offered are the complete acceptance or
the entire rejection of the peace treaty.
Even China is awake to the unreality
and artifcality of the alleged dilemma.
The Chinese are acquainted with enough
international law to know it is the prac-
tice, not only of this country but of
other countries, when a general conven-
ton is submitted to ratify and in the
instrument of ratification set out reser-
vations and constructions, and that the
effect of such ratification is not to leave
vital the treaty as a whole. Many gen.
eral treaties are plastered over with
reservations which have not prolonged
wars.
Our diplomatic history is full of quail
ided adhesions to general agreements.
Both Hague conventions, the Alge-
ciras convention and the convention for
the suppression Of the African slave
trade are cases in point. Indeed, it may
almost be said that all of the general
agreements to which we became parties
have been entered into with reservations.
AS to matters not covered by the reserva-
tions, the treaty stands as written. Our
Supreme Court has recognized first the
legality of qualified agreements with the
reservations binding on US.
Great Britain has done the same. The
Holy Alliance attempted to end war by
enforcing peace, pledging its members to
maintain the status quo in much the
same manner as Article x does. Inter
vention was to occur whenever the great
powers thought the behavior of any ma
ton threatened peace. Great Britain
Joined the league but at the same time
declared the agreement to intervene was
not binding on her-that sne would
judge any case that arose on its merits.
Later Canning's words were cordially
approved when he called the league zone
of sovereigns that aspire to bind Europe
In chains
Of course, should reservations be
made by the Senate it would perhaps be
legal for the executive department to
tear up the whole treaty, but it is scarce
ly conceivable any President would do
this. He would not wish to assume the
responsibility of continuing even nomi-
nal state of war.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
Secretary Daniels Changes Front

Secretary Daniels has scrapped his
new three-year naval construction nro.
gramme. At yesterdays hearing be-
lore the House Naval Committee he fell
in line with the committees views an
nounced last week. The 1916 three
year programme is far from comnle-
ton. 1t will be sufficient for the present
to carry it to completion. From this
point OF view it was fortunate that the
naval appropriation bill passed bv the
last House failed of passage in the
Senate
The Secretary attributes his reversa,
OF attitude to the creation of the league
of nations. A league of nations was in
sight, however, last winter when he
urged Congress to accept his new and
vastly enlarged scheme of construction
1t isn't SO much the league of nations
which stands in the way of naval ex-
panslon. 1t is rather the doubt which
so many naval experts now entertain 90
to the future value of huge warshins
Inc development of the torpedo plane
mas increased skepticism created bv the
development of the submarine.
VIII air navies make surface co.
navles obsolete? That is the question
which worries naval opinion to.do,,
Surface naval expansion will therefore
probably be held in check everywhere
until more light is thrown on this in
teresting problem.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
Let the Films Go Free!
CFr-om The Illinois state JournoD

trTo7n me ILLINOIS state JoKffGN
The bill before the Illinois Legislature to
censor moving pictures should be defeated
The people alone have the right to determine
what they wish to see. And their consensus
of opinion is the best and only law needed
to determine what is good for them. As .
matter of common sense the managers OF
movie theatres are keen to learn the wants
of their patrons and are as eager to meet
them.
Is it not intellectual presumption to con-
tend that the movie going folk do not know
what they want? Is it not self-righteoas
to say that they are incapable of moral as
elimination? Certainly it would be suiciae
for the managers to disregard the opinion
of their public. Writing of literary censor
ship, John Milton, the English poet, SAID
"The state shall be my governors. but not ny
critics; they may be mistaken in the choice
of licenser as easily as this licenser may
be mistaken in an author"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
The City Also Profteer

-s The city's Department of Markets
also labors under an accusation of rent
profteering. The rent Of the stall hold
ers of Washington Market has been
boosted, and they are saying much the
same things said by other tenants who
receive chilling notices from heartless
landlord.
The excuse of Commissioner Day is
not generically dissimilar from that of
other rent raisers: Washington Market
is afflicted with a financial disease at
tending other municipal trading, and the
city goes behind $4,000 annually on the
enterprise. Whether a charge for
ground rent on the investment does not
appear, tho chances being no full allow
ance IS made and that the Commissioner
SHOWS deficit in running costs.
Clear and shining Washington Mar
ket, the delight Of the thrifty New Jer.
sey commuter, chiefly is frequented by
hon-New Workers. Its low prices for
good food have brought to it many new
customers. But the city treasury hardly
should bear this burden. All markets
ana TINS one especially, should pay their
own way Instead of the city being a
tprofiteer 1t is the buyer who is prof,teer
that is, receives an unearned bcnef+
paid for by others.
The rent agitation continues and SOW
eral hearings are in progress, but the net
results are about as expected-that ;s
little or nothing. Rents 20 up and sten
by step real estate values advance with
them, and at the same time we continue
the system under which every builder
pays S2.25 year on every 500 he in
vests On building costing $1oo 900.
besides the ordinary return on his
money, he must see prospect of soueez-
pig s2,25o year from his tenants. He
naturally holds back, for while thouoh+
OF Ricardian laws may be dim in his
mind they are active in hig conduct
Housing thus tends to be at the conoes-
ton point.
The learned gentlemen CONDUCTING tbe
inquiries arc generally familiar with tho
economic laws involved and know what
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28

would provide remedy, but they fear
that public opinion is not prepared to
take strong medicine. So the years go
by and there is vain hullaballoo when
consequences arrive which are to be ex-
pected. Some day, let us hope, the pub
lie, instead Of having prejudice against
tellers Of disagreeable truth, will turn
their condemnation against the jolliers
and fatterers who have lifted the pass
ing of bucks to the level of a great sci
ence.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
Daylight Saving Imperilled

This Congress is ambitious to earn dis
tinction as an Economy" Congress. But
if the Agricultural Committee of the
House of Representatives has it's way
Congress will begin by wiping out the
single saving which the country owes
to the war.
The war loaded US with enormous bur
dens - through taxation, the increased
cost of living and the reduction by half
OF the purchasing power of the dollar.
But it effected a daylight saving which
has decreased the bills of every user of
gas or electric light, and which by length
cning the daylight recreation hours has
made life more agreeable to millions of
factory workers and dwellers in towns
and cities. Urban and manufacturing
communities are tied down to the re-
strictions Of the timepiece. There are
many legal, trade and business conven-
tions which it is difficult to revoke in
order to get the city world to start work
earlier and end it earlier. All these
difficulties vanish through the simple
device of setting forward the hands of
the clock. The farming community,
which follows the sun, is now said to
be aggrieved because it's customary
working schedule has been deranged.
There may be some basis for complaint
so far as concerns the milk producer.
who has to get up an hour earlier in
summer time to deliver his milk at the
nearest shipping point, or the truck
growers in the neighborhood of cities.
who have to drive to market an hour
earlier. Yet the mass of the farming
population is just as free as ever to go
on following the sun, for banking, court,
business and factory hours hardly exist
for the independent rural population.
There is no material obstacle in the wav
of the farmer going to work an hour
later than clock time and quitting an
hour later.
The Agricultural Committee has taken
an exaggerated view of the inconven-
fences supposed to have been imposed on
the farmer by the daylight saving law.
IL is deferrlng to a vague impatience
ie1CiCl CIldn w d real sense OF economic
injury. 1t would penalize the towns and
cities in order to remove more or less
fancied rural grievance.
The summer daylight saving scheme
has proved a boon in every country
which has adopted it. The war clearly
proved it's economic value. No other
country has shown a disposition to 90
back to the older and more wasteful
schedule. Why should the United States
go back? Are we not wasteful enoupb
IN other matters? The only substantial
complaint made against daylight saving
that of the dairymen-can be easilv
met by readjustment of milk train
schedules
The Calder act deserves a fair trial
Its repeal would be misfortune in that
1t would take money out of the pocket Of
every householder in the land and would
narrow opportunities for wholesome
summer relaxation which town and citv
people are just beginning to appreciate
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpys

May 24-Up, and with my wife to New
Rochelle, and in the afternoon to the citv
again, and played lawn tennis, not with
out success, neither, and thence back, in
the rain, and read J. Barrie's "The Ad-
mirable Crichton," for the first time, and
enjoying it to the uttermost
25-To the courts early, and beat A.
Clark, and essaying to go back for dinner
with my wife, my petrolwaggon would
not move, and had to have it towed to
a garage, and so by train to New Ro-
chelle, form of travel I have grown un-
used to, and dislike greatly, in especiull
on Sunday.
26-All morning at work, and in the
afternoon E. Henderson trounced me. and
thence to M. Gass's for dinner, and early
to bed, and read, for the hundredth time.
G. AIDES "Pink Marsh" finding it comickall
as ever found it.
27-To the city, and with F. Steele and
A. Boyden to luncheon, and saw there w.
irwin, the first time in three years. and
he tells me Mistress Inez is we'll again
which [ am glad of hearing Saw, too
D. Chase the painter and he told me he
would paint my portrait if did but put
on my uniform, but have no thought of
doing it,
Larry Keyes shined again for Prince
ton," says the Herald, according to which
palladium Princeton's colors appear to be
orange and backing
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28

need, from plots of ground on which
soldiers might drill to knives, forks,
spoons, the kitchen range and the coal.
The army requisitioned the buildings of
the government of Rhenish Prussia but
these public buildings for which the
laws of war dictate no payment of any
kind.
Suites for ArtiIlerynen
At Bad Neuenahr In the picturesque
valley of the Abr, situation presents IT.
self which will be difficult for the appraisal
board. Bad Neuenahr is no more nor less
than conglomeration of expensive inland
water place hotels and villas, and it ranks
in summer style bath resorts next to
Baden Baden. Some of it's hotel rooms
normally rent for 100 marks a day and
more, with the mark at its usual value
These rooms are hung with the most
expensive silks, carpeted with the most
billowy Brussels and furnished with mill
ionaire ornateness. 1t is clear that the
Bad Neuenahr Hotel Proprietors Associa-
ton may not receive all the cash il de-
mands, since artllerymen of the 42d Div-
sion until recently occupied some expen-
sive suits and quartered their long-eared
quadruped friends in the Kaser's summer
garden.
Neuwied- am Rhine, the largest recreation
centre for American troops in Germany,
is to-day almost an American amusement
park with "Uncle Sans Theatre" Uncle
Sans Hotel" and other conveniences.
Neuwied's populace is beginning to have
more money than it can bale and store
away. The cash begins to roll in, to con-
tinue in a steady stream until laele Sans
folks leave the Rhine.
Major Zautner's appraisal board has Just
determined that it will cost the German
government just 5,425 marks for the Pass
over feast of Jews in the American army
of occupation. The army on that occasion
requisitioned a Jewish bakery near Coblenz
and furnished the white -four Tor enough
"matzos" for every American soldier of
the Jewish faith in occupied Germany.
The Jewish bakery proprietor furnished
the labor, the water and the rabbi who
blessed the dough. And he didn't hesitate
to name the price the other day when he
learned that there was real cash in sight
And what is more, he got it.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
The Coming Tower
NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES

Ammi Pratt thought that he could tame
All animals by simple kindness;
He sought to demonstrate the same,
And realized too late his blindness.
He held ferocious bulls would yield
To pleasant words, discreetly spoken,
And by benevolence appealed
To savage dogs and colts unbroken.
Alas fair theories like that
Will sometimes fail in application:
A favorite jackass dashed him fiat,
Past any hope of reparation.
He wandered the end drew nigh,
Of his own ego scarcely certain;
"1f I'm not Ammi who am II"
He asked; then fell the fatal curtain
G. S. B.
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
THE OLD-FAsHIoNED BALL PARK

Oh, how mourn for the vanished days
OF the Yankee baseball park
Where I used to sing Jack Kleinow's praise
And in wonderment remark
The doings of Elberfeld at short
And of Chesbro on the mound
All! those, my friends. the days of sport
The untrammelled bliss | found
AT the old Yank field cannot find
At the Polo Grounds at all:
And say this not as a rap unkind
At the present-day brand of ball
Which excels the old. And though this Weld
I stick to my preference
For the good old Yanks of the old Yank field
Where feer could hop the fence
EDAR.
The nuances Of accentuation enpage our
vagrant attention. Some persons, frinst. saw
'iive-and-ten-cent store; others "fve-and
ten-cemt store" There are those who saw
lobster salad" and those who say "lobster
salad; chocolate cake" and "chocolate
cake" What, if any, is the dope on these
momentous things?
And arc you giving a thought to
Broadway?
Or IN Pro,J,rc,9
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
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The argument That Won

Voluminous conversations with Marshal
Foch's headquarters and General Perish
ings headquarters, and in turn with the
German government itself, pointed out that
the German government was ATTEMPTING
to put the burden of the cost of the Ameri-
can army of occupation on the people of
the Rhineland with the evident intention
of repudiating American requsition slips
at a later time; that never before had the
United States delegated the payment of it's
bills to a third party; that this system
was regarded as unbusinesslike and un-
Americana that it became iniuutous when
the fixing of prices paid private persons
tor supplies, property and services is left
to the discretion of a government whose
reputation for fair treatment of individuals
has not been improved during the last four
years.
The argument was winner
A simple order was issued from General
Pershing's headquarters, as follows:
fragments for billeting, tent supplies, ct
cetera, will be made by the ouartermaster
disbursing officers in their respective areas.
Payments will be made only in German
money obtained from the chief quarter
master"
QH0rfernaster Marks
Under the terms of the armistice the
chle1 quartermaster may draw on the Ger
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
Merely an Awakening
tFrom The Detroit Ncms)

brom The Detroit Ncos)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics ~ wa.h
ington rushes forth with the annourcnv,e,4
.nA' 'ne price of food is going up again"
we nad not noticed that it had ever stoned
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28

Well do we recall, P. G., the song
whose chorus ran:
My best girls a corker
Not the kind that's slow
Born and bred New Yorker,
would have you know.
You may talk about your Molly
Your Mamie your Pearl
They're all back numbers when comnared
With-my-best-grl.
Also, P. G., we recall Billy Clifford's
purple high silk hat, his monocle, his
soaped locks, and his cane with a huge
hook. But, alas we never saw Press
Eldridge or Sager Midgeley.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28

The unalcohoic days, the saddest of
the year, are not yet come, and booze
stories continue to be told, most of them
dull. Our favorite drunk yarn is Ted Rob-
inson's, about the gentleman who, gazing at
the elevator Indicator as the car went from
the main floor to the 18th, said, "Say, don't
the time go fast when you're having fun p"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
A Mandatory for the u. S.

tFyom The Washington poso
Congress will try to act as mandatary for
the United States.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
And RevengefuI2

tFrom The Chicago Daily Neics)
Anyway, the Atlantic must feel con-
siderably reduced. .sA
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28

Speaking of hotels named for great
writers,' walls Mr.. Samuel Hopkins Adams
of Ensenore, N. Y, "don't forgot Boston's
W. k inn the Adams House"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-28
The Wasted Hours of Study

Sir: | remember family one course I took
at College which we called Surds. It had
another name, believe, Botany or Philos-
ophy or something, but we called it Snrds
we had three hours a week of it for year.
but aside from the fact that there was some
thing called Determinants mixed up scandal
ously with it, my mind is total blank on
the subject
wonder whether Weary or Deems Tav
lor, who were up there at the time took
Church History. All ! can remember after
half year of it is that st. Polycarp was
burned at the stake
Still, my greatest regret is eight wears
Oh Lat'h ana creek. N. L.
To the w. X. Colossus at ALBANY. Mr.
Frederick Stuart Greene: Give more
than a thought to Harlem River Terrace
The Waggery of a L. S. District Judge
Sir: In the recent trial of Belden vs. Bacon
ct dl-charging plagiarism in the matter Of
"Lightnin the attorney for the exceed
ingy out of luck plaintiff spoke somewhat to
this effect;
"1f some one were to remove the works
from my gold watch and the case we're to
be melted up and made into a ring. the
appearance would be altered, but the material
would still be the same
And" interjected Hizonner altogether
apropos of the situation in hand, "you would
have no case"
Not bad for United States District Judge.
eh, wot! c. A.