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New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

Why not a touch of invention or
novelty now and then? Why not
"Hofbrau" or "Pyorrhea in pref
erence to the eternal Oneidas and
Maybelles?
In reply to which it need only be
said that exactly the sort of smart
ness thus touted is the prevailing
custom of the racetrack--with what
results any racing schedule will viv
idly present. Is it race for maiden
two-year-olds? Then your mouth
can twist lovingly around such titles
as Bridge Player, Larghetto, Locust
Leaves, Belgian Queen and Short
Change. Lovely ladies yield up
large number Of racetrack names.
But it is the smart and the bizarre
and the absurd that prevail, shift
ing with the fashions, but always
striving for the unobvious. Since
the war Joan of Arc, Enfilade, War
Plume, They Shall Not Pass have
forged to the front. But Carpet
Sweeper, Ting-a-Ling, Fruit Cake
and Stucco are just as inevitable as
ever.
Now, the lovers of things that are
different can take joy in these
mouth twisters-just as they can
take great joy (if they have brains
enough) in the Nathan -Mencken
thought-twisting ep;grams. The
racetrack seems to be the natural
habitat for such smart thoughts.
But the sea is not by the same token,
and it's tradition seems sufficiently
strong to restrain even rocking
chair yachtsmen who have chris
tened their yachts from the club
porch with never a dash of salt
spray in their inhalations.
Is there, on the other hand, no
imagination in yacht names? Are
the Indians unduly favored? There
is an absence Of freak names, and
the historic favorites recur again
and again-Wasp, 1dlewild, In
trepid, Nautilus. But there are less
familiar ones outcropping in any
boat list, showing both fitness to
their task and beauty-Mistral,
Mirage, Mystery, Onward, Sapphire,
Siesta, Starting, Swordfish, Tern,
Windward, for a hasty selection.
Naming anything, from a baby up
or down, is not an easy job, in plain
fact. AS in every case Of action, it
is much easier to sit on the side lines
and criticize. The one right word
has eluded greater minds than
yachtsmen-even authors and the
namers Of magazines.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Worker or WIFE,?

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: For the consolation of Mrs.
Fuller aud others VINO resent the term
housewife" as defining their social
quality and economic function, may |
say that the board where | registered
refused that honorable title to all ex-
cept married women who were able to
declare living husband?
The woman next in line before me
declared herself widow" and gave
her occupation as housewife"
The head of the registry committee
seemed annoyed in lofty way at this
contradiction of terms.
put her down 'houseworker.' he
yelled to his associates.
The lady demonstrated. ~ keen
house for my two daughters" she OBJ
jccted. ~ receive no pay for nv
work. Why should be rated house
worker'?"
"How can you be house,cife when
you amt got no husband ?" retorted
the registrar testify. "Put her down
a houscworker." he renewed his shout.
And houseworker it was.
Think how much less you would like
being called a "houseworker" than a
"housewife!" r. NC
New York, Oct. 16 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Asking One s Way
/E,o,,, Tb, nx,<y If ~

Nrom The London Morning Post)
Asking ones way in the country has
many difficulties. Nearly all the inhab-
itants hastily assume the role of
stranger" The others, with the best
will in the world, find it difficult to
give any direction with clcarness. ITO
the west of that white COW" is some
what confusing direction to receive in
front of a trackless, green hill side,
dotted plentifuly with grazing cattle.
1t is as bewildcring as the gruff advice
given overhead when shower baths
we're first introduced into Ireland to
the shiverng lady awaiting the
douche: "a little further to the west.
me lady, and you'll get the full bene-
fit" There is, however, much to be
said for the lad in old story of whom
inquired two men how long it would
take them to wax to q certain town
some miles off. The boy said he did
not know, and was reproached for his
stupidity. AS the men moved off he
shouted, "Take you two hours" and
when asked why he did not say so be-
fore answered, could not say till |
had seen you walk"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

receipt in blank for the value of it's
services, and then turn back its
charges to the league of nations to
be disposed of to other guardians?
The Balkan region and the Dar-
danelles have been for generations
the focus of wars and intense COM
mercial rivalries. We have fortu-
nately been strangers to these dis
putes. They concern us only re-
motely. On what basis except that
of mere adventure or dubious altru-
istic service could we consent to en-
tangle ourselves in the melodrama
of intrigue and hatred which holds
the boards perennially in this dis
tracted corner of Europe? If we
get in, could we get out without dis
credit or difficulty? Does our ad-
herence to the peace and the league
of nations obligate us in any way to
undertake tasks in Europe for which
our political experience in no way
qualities us?
The American people feel a ten
derness for the Armenians, and
would be glad to help them to achieve
independence and security. But there
is little probability that Congress or
the country will ever sanction the
atrical enterprise like the acceptance
of vexatious and troublesome trus-
teeship for Constantinople or Tur-
kish AnatoIia.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
The Civ:lizing Cigarette
(from The iondon Da " Erpress)

ffrom The hondon Da ~ Enpress)
Taking cigarette smoking as a
standard of civilization, the savages Of
British East Africa are fast catching
US up. A few years ago the natives
were content with crude raw tobacco
mixed with all sorts of things. Now
they are smoking cigarettes at the rate
of $4,000 600 month An official of
the British-American Tobacco Com
pany told me that the Kavarondos. a
tribe on the shores of Lake Victoria
Nyanza, and one Of the proudest, most
moral and most naked in Africa. have
an improved method of smoking. I'VE
packed our cigarettes in boxes of
four" he said, because the Kavaron-
dos smoke four at time. putting one
in each corner of the mouth and one
in each nostrils"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
The Passing of the Red Trousers

The red trousers of the French armv
are to be no more. There is a political
and economical tragedy about it with
whicn very few people are familiar.
The originator of the red trousers was
Napoleon, who was prompted in his
reform" by a desire to help the ma
tive cultivation of madder root-at
that time and for many centuries pre-
viously the chief source of red color
throughout the world-against the
Dutch and Italian rivals. As a result
the industry expanded considerably.
and some fifty years ago was worth
nearly $4,000 600 per annum.
But then came the Graebe- Lieber-
mann discovery of the alizarine dyes.
and in less than ten years, between
1870 and 1878, the production of mad
der root in France shrank from 25 1000
to 800 tons, and then it disappeared.
This was n great German victory.
Nevertheless, the army trousers con-
tinued to be dyed red, only this timc
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Escaping From Inferno

Helsingfors and Stockholm have
heard from Russia so many things
not so that confirmation will be
awaited before acceptance of the re-
port that Petrograd has been re-
conquered for civilization.
But signs multiply that the sands
of the Red tyranny run toward ex-
haustion. Two years have elapsed
since the disease of Bolshevism be-
came epidemic and gripped the Rus
sian capital. 1t was not anticipated
the scourge would rage as long as it
has, and a sigh of relief will arise
if the ravagcs have at last been
brought to an end.
The Bolsheviki will not be soon for
gOtten-will be long remembered as
having done more to add to human
misery than any group of men who
ever seized and misused power. Pite-
Gus is the spectacle presented by
Petrograd, city Of dreadful days and
even more dreadful nights. It's pop
ulation has shrunk from 100000
to 100000. Indeed an abode of sor-
row and acquainted with grief, all
except the we'll fed mercenaries of
the tyrant have seen famine face to
face. When its aspect became too
terrible the only recourse was flight
along frozen road in the hope of
getting some peasant to share a
scanty store hidden from the for
ayers of Lenine.
Heavy was the burden placed on
Russia by the war-greater than
she could endure, she pleaded. But
greater horror was behind When
her people, yielding to weakness,
listened to those who said they
might throw down bitter cup they
little realized that they were being
led to period compared with which
the war time was one of plenty 1t
is net the present fashion to ascribe
to heaven participation in human
affairs, but the mystical will see in
the penalty Russia has paid fearful
retribution for her great betrayal.
But in the toad's head is jewel.
Russia has suffered vicariously to
reestablish the obscured truth that
government matters and that false
doctrines, if applied, wreck the COM
mon welfare. If Germany's down.
fall is a warning to imperialistic
madmen, Russia's experience is
equal warning to revolutionary
madmen, or rather to their dupes,
Doctrines too much current have
been put to the test of experiment
The world has seen of what nature
Is their fruit.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Names Smart and Otherwise

1t is hard to be overbrash and
startling in this fiat land of ours.
and Messrs. Nathan and Mencken.
of The Smart Set, in endeavorinp to
beat Mr.. Bernard Shaw at his own
epigrammatic, deity-smashiag game,
necessarily pull some pretty careless
stuff. At such times one is appalled,
to see how dull mere smartness can
be. AS, for instance. when discuss
ing the name Of yachts they
lament the lack Of originality. Why
invariably an Indian tribe or the
owners sweetheart? they inquire.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
The Veto on Railroad Strikes

From the public point of view the
most satisfactory feature of the
Cummins railroad bill, as it now
stands, is that prohibiting strikes.
The public's primary interest in the
railroads is to have them operated
uninterruptedly. Since the govern
ment is going to fix the conditions
under which the carriers are to
work, it would be gross dereliction
on its part not to provide, as far as
possible, for continuous operation.
Transportation, it used to be said
when the railroads were still to
large extent under private control,
was an industry AFFECTED by pub
lic interest. 1t is more than that
now. If the Cummins bill passes it
will be a governmentalized, semi
socialized industry, operated under
public auspices and for the public
benefit.
The only complaint against the
anti-strike section comes from the
unions of railroad employees and
union labor generally. The mass
strike is weapon which the en-
ployes are loath to surrender. They
have depended on it in the past to
secure higher wages and better
working conditions. In private in
dustry such right would hardly be
abridged by Congress. But the
railroads have passed out of the
category Of private industries.
Under the Cummins bill the en-
ployes are protected by govern
mental supervision over wage stand
ards and working conditions. They
are also to be admitted into a part
nership with the owners Of the roads
by the provision that in certain cases
they shall receive n share Of excess
earnings. Their status is excep-
tlonal. 1t is fixed by law. In that
respect they are no longer on level
with labor in private industries,
which enjoys no governmental guar
antees and has to rely on the COM
pulsions Of collective bargaining.
If the railroad employees enter into
association with the government and
with the owners Of railroad prop
erty they ought to accept the draw
backs as we'll as the benefits of that
relationship. Remuneration of the
right to strike is balanced by gov
ernmental control and profit sharing.
The strike is a legacy Of private
economic war. 1t has no place in q
socialized or semi-socialized industry.
The people will control the carriers
through the government. It there
fore becomes their right to demand
that the waste and suffering caused
by artificial Interruptions of traffic
are eliminated.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Mandating on the Bosporus

Former Ambassador Morgenthau
presents pleasing picture of the
opportunities attaching to American
mandates in the Near East. He ad-
vocates the acceptance by the United
States Of mandatory supervision
over Armenia, Anatolia and Con-
stantinople; and he is apparently
more enthusiastic about the Con-
stantinople venture than about either
Of the others. The Turkish capital,
he says, could be made the fourth
largest city of the world if the
United States would only spend
$Soo,oo0,000 or s4Oo,o0o,0Oo to
make it So"
We need, Mr.. Morgenthau thinks.
70 take an active, energetic role IN
turkey in order to arouse the mag
mation and interest of Americans.
TO do this we should have to procure
background for our activities. s,,ch
ss Is furnished by the historical as
sociations and commercial possibili-
ties of the ancient city of Constan-
tine. Under our rule, as he sees il.
there would be spectacular revival
OF prosperity and the moribund Tur.
key Of to-day would become land OF
intensified activity and rich rewards
to the capitalist and the immigrant
This is an inspiring prospectus
But Mr.. Morgent..au passes toe
lightly over the question Of costs and
OF returns on our investment. The
most moderate estimate of the size
OF the American army Of occupation
which would be needed in Turkey is
10000 pen. Probably $500 would
be required. Mr.. Morgenthau fixes
the limit Of the mandatory era at
thirty years. But what is to become
OF the Turkish territorieg after our
trusteeship is terminated? The
United States would hardly want to
acquire permanent dependencies in
zhe Near East. Would it retire from
III duties as mandatary, give A
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Lessons of the Air Race

What benefit has the transconti-
mental air race to offer against the
high toll Of human life which it has
exacted? That is question in the
minds of all. Nine men were killed
in the flight.
The testimony of Brigadier Gen
cral William Mitchell, himself fier
Of renown in the war, has empha-
sized what was already known in
aeronaut:cal circles-that the De
Haviland a biplane has serious
defect in design, This defect is
highly inimical to the safety of the
pilot in crash landing.
The construction of this biplane
was persisted in by the Aircraft
Board during the war, despite the
warning of the British designer Of
the type that inherent defects of de-
sign had been discovered in it. 1t
was placed in quantity production
against the advice of the practical
experts in the Air Service.
The result of this error of judg-
ment is that the Air Service now
finds itself with but this one type of
machine in quantity for active op-
erations. 1t is true that there are
few machines of other types, some
Of which are wholly American and
thoroughly proven equal to or better
than foreign types. But they are
not in sufficient numbers for even
adequate training purposes.
1t has been charged that the Air
Service was guilty of criminal folly
in sending the De Havland 4s on
the great race while aware Of their
defects. An air race such as was
won by Lieutenant Maynard, the
famous flying parson," is of far
more value in the training Of mill
tary pilots than any form of local
lied flying. 1t teaches them aerial
navigation in every phase and de-
velops in them quickness of percep-
ton and decision, two prime neces-
sites to the airman. Moreover,
without actual flying Of this nature
we cannot have an efficient air ser
vice.
On this point alone the transconti
mental air race has justified itself.
AS demonstration Of the rapid
mobilization and concentration of
fighting airplanes from one coast to
the other it has taught us the posi-
bilities Of national defense. This
defense can be greatly improved as
soon as separate department of the
air has been established, with appro-
priations sufficient to build perfectly
designed machines.
Even with the DH-4, twenty-six
of the sixty-three starters have COM
pleted the flight across the continent
in serviceable condition against the
worst weather the elements could
offer. Since the DH-4 is the only
type in quantity at present possessed
by the Air Service, the aviators were
exposed to little greater risk in this
race than that to which they are ex-
posed every day in the routine of
military duty with the same ma
chimes.
This fact is emphasized by the
number Of fatalities which have oc-
Cured at training fields. AS an in
stance, nine deaths were the result
OF one days flying at Issoudan, the
American training field in France.
during the war.
The remedy lies in the immediate
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

establishment of a department of
aeronautics, in which only actual
liers and technical men shall be COM
missioned. Then, with new appro-
priations, we can eliminate the fol-
lies Of the past and build anew q
solid aerial arm Of defense for the
nation.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
The Main Point

The Main Point
Labor is aggrieved because the
National Industrial Conference has
declined to make the settlement of
the steel strike it's paramount busi-
ness. But in the deluded pride Of
thinking it could achieve its ends by
might labor was deaf even to the
governments plea that the steel
strike be postponed until the open.
ing Of the National Industrial Con-
ference. Though it was matter
of only few days, the demagogues
and revolutionaries in the councils
of labor could not be restrained.
They had their way.
They have lost.
The steel strike is lost-unless
Mr.. Gompers can win it by strategy
in the Washington conference.
For the sake Of true American
trade unionism it is to be hoped that
Mr.. Compers cannot win it, for then
the utter failure of the steel strike
will have historical significance of
deep value. The case against Boil
shevism will have been proved in
terms that can be understood by the
most ignorant alien.
If in America there is no Lenine
who can deliver the goods our alien
proletariat is doomed to become
prosperous bourgeoisie. Besides, the
extent to which public sentiment has
been alienated from the cause Of
labor will be lesson that sane lead
ers of organized labor will MOI soon
forget. May it give them the moral
courage to eXpel Bolshevism entire
ly and define the objects of Ameri-
cansm in pure American terms.
Meanwhile, we trust that tht rep-
resentatives of the public in the Ma
tional Industrial Conference will not
allow the main issue to become OBJ
scured in dispute over the prin-
ciple of collective bargaining.
The right Of men to bargain COL
lectively is not going to be denied in
this country. 1t was long ago con-
ceded.
Employers do not oppose collec-
tive bargaining really. They have
been maneuvred into a false posi-.
tion. What they have in mind is
the fact that the power Of collective
bargaining was used, or was sought
to be used, in the steel strike not to
achieve an economic adjustment, not
even to force a bargain. but to
launch war for the specialization of
the country's basic industries by q
soviet formula. The leaders boast.
fully announced it on the first day
and from that hour the steel strike
was lost.
1t is not necessary for the National
Industrial Conference to assert the
right of men to bargain collectively
That right is neither in- jeopardy
nor honestly in dispute. But the
National Industrial Conference will
have failed deplorably if it adjourns
without asserting:
First-That it is the American
duty Of men who bargain collective.
ly to keep the bargains they make.
Secomd-That the power of col.
lectlve bargaining shall be exercised
for economic ends, and never, as in
The steel strike, as an adventure in
political and social revolution.
,
Name4 Smart and 04L
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

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also the local news Of spontaneous origin published
oerein
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nsrein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Delicacies
From The Arknnsna Ga

fFrom The Arkansas Gasettej
The hope of the country is that the
White House conference will result in
splitting differences instead of split
ting hairs.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Meals a la Utopia2

From The Wheeling InteQigencer)
Give US four-hour work day.
three-day week. two-week month and
perhaps we will all be happy--if we
don't starve.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

the dyes had to be imported from Ger
many! This was certainly a great hu-
imitation for the French, but it evi-
IDENTIFY required great war to rut an
end to it
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
Hitting Back
(From The Fargo Courier,

(From The Fargo Courier-Ne'cS
According to "The New YORK '',s, =.
the l. W. W. are strong In MOTIF q
kota. There are probably more
w. in any single East Side pio'a
New York than in all North Dsk'~
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

Yea purchase merchandise advertised IN THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safet-for u dlssatsfac.
hsn results In any casr the TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay ssur msney back Vpoa request No red tape.
No aubblIns. 10 make s"od promptly the
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

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When we were seventeen, twenty-four
looked old to us: and it Is. But the
tragedy is not as poignant as similar
happening must be to the other sex.
We should like to see Mr.. Briggs COL
laborate in a cartoon with Old Doc
Freud, the subject being. "Wonder
What Twenty four Year-Old Girl
Thinks About?"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20

1--WE do not applaud the Atlaaa
Ocean," continues Craig, "or the poerl
of the ocean, but. catching sight of til
man who can swim furthest in ths'
ocean, We utter birdlike and beastlln
cries."
And yet we rather think that the'
have been times when men cheered '''
the sea. After that first silent momeS
upon peak in Darien. Cortez ard 'a
men must have been ID pretty poor ~
If they didn't give at least one "ES'
rah, rah-Pacitic."
Mr.. Craig can't convince US that =
applaud too much. for il is our IL
preston that we don't get up to sn0.'
half often enough. We shout for q
Cobb, TO be sure, or for Eddie Casey I
ne gets loose, but as a rule We do y
more than cap hands once or t""
if Bernard Shaw bowls over all the ~
reference and runs the whole lehg"
of the field without "a tackler SO mus
as throwing him off his stride. W.
shout when Jack Dempsey knocks 'ss
Willard down seven times IN sits
round, but we don't do nearly as ~
for the writing man who gets az
some big, hulking idea that has ~
lived its usefulness and is still pos'sl
around as the hope of the white race
We will be one to volunteer 10 y,
any little group of serious snou''
that wants TO go out and whoop
for skyscraper or sunset or W.
net. None of us cuts much OF ny
con planning about all the thinc' :,
the world he doesn't like # ne ha'-
made a practice of yelling his neaO
for such few things as meet WIN
approval in the theatre or out o.
More than that. Mr.. Cra;g ought !"
member that if there were no app ~
in the American theatre there won"
no curtain speeches by David be'
New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
THE ANSWER

Horace: Book l. Ode 25.
'Pnrc1us iunctds quatiunt fenestras"-
Seldom now the young men fall:
Less and less they serenade you;
Those who daily used to call
Now evade you.