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New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Wants "Rooseuelt Auenue"
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: VIII you allow me to indorse most
emphatically the admirable suggestion mads
by Representative Siegel that Fifth Avenue
shall be renamed Roosevelt Avenue IN
honor and loving remembrance of our great
President and true friend? Many memorials
are proposed and Will materalize in cue
season, but this one is of 10 -day"-we can
call it into existence now, right IN our
midst-a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt
from his fellow citizens, here, in the eln
of his birth. There need be no delay ihs
Board of Aldermen can take the initis'
steps at once, and we New Workers, "n's
own people," while our wound of loss stlS
bleeds and our hearts are sore-can tas'
comfort in feeling that we have shown, II
practical and tangible fashion, how We
loved and priced him. ! propose that We
all speak OF Roosevelt Avenue hencefoF@
and at once. {. NJ. STANLEY.
New York, Feb. 4, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
A League Without Claws

The Society Of Nations is slowly taking
a form more and more acceptable to
American sentiment. 1t is sloughing off
the attributes of the super-state, policing
the world with big stick.
The Paris architects seem to have de-
cided to avoid challenging any nations
inherent sovereignty. Partnership is to
be self determined Even the feature of
compulsory arbitration of all disputes
between nations-the foundation stone
of strong" league-has been aban-
doned or modified
The now projected society will provide
the machinery by which quarrels may be
adjudicated But it will use no sheriffs
or marshals, no international army or
navy, to hale the disputants into court.
The boycott on strife will be moral, or, at
most, economic.
The American delegation at Paris has
been thrust by circumstances into the at
titude of seeming to want to impose q
society Of nations on Europe. But it
has always been the fact that most Eu
ropean nations have been willing to go
further toward the creation Of power
full super-state than the United States
has been. The Federal Constitution and
national tradition have led our delegates
to hesitate before subscribing to any the
ory of supernatural control under
which we should be obliged to accept re-
sponsibility as a mandatory for the ad-
ministration of backward Asian or Afri-
can areas. If we were ole-heartedly
for such mandatory system we should
not balk, as we do now, at taking charge
of Constantinople, Armenia or Syria.
The Society of Nations at this stage
represents an experiment in internation-
al comfy and cooperative service. 1t is
not political and military amalgama-
ton. 1t stands for solidarity rather than
consolidation.
If more spacious and powerful asso-
citation is needed the nations will grow
up to it and into it.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Dry Art
as well,

Report that the Sahara breath Of pro-
hibition will cause Caruso's liquid notes
to cease to flow proves, fortunately, to
be base canard, but the bare sugges-
tion offers the foundation for uneasy
speculation. What effect will prohibition
have on the lyric and literary arts, to
say nothing Of painting, sculpture and
the revels of the aesthetic disciples of
Terpsichore? What can dclineations of
the flowing bowl by the chisel Of the
sculptor and the brush Of the painter
convey to people for whom the bowl
does not flow? This is a democratic
country, and if the majority believe that
the country should be dry" then "dry"
shall it be, and it is in no spirit Of criti-
clsm of the new order of things that it
is observed that it is going to require
time for song and prosody to accustom
themselves to the situation. What ro-
bust barytone, for example, will venture
that rolling ecstasy Of Brown October
Ale for a people who know not ale any
month of the year? And what will the
college youth do for substitute for "a
stein on the table and good song ring
ing clear? Subtle old Ben Jonson
proved he knew. a thing or two about
writing for enduring fame, for where is
even the most eXacting of prohibitionist
who can find fault with:
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And | will pledge with mine;
~, Al.
And III not look for wine"?
In the days when it was the fad to
decorate homes with burnt wood art
ladies of the most unimpeachable repu-
tation for sobriety were known to have
scared upon slabs of pine sentiments eu-
logistic Of cold wood to burn, old wine to
drink, old friends to trust" Those, it
is to be presumed, will now be fit only
for the first clause of the motto.
Reprints of old Omar a few years
hence probably will be filled with mar
ginal references, footnotes and asterisks
for the explanation of such passages as
"a book of verses underneath a bough,
loaf of bread, jug of wine and thou"
And as for Shakespeare, an entirely
new annexation of the Bard of Avon
Will be required.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
War Losses

To the Editor of The Tribune
CIR: Obviously because of the fo~
which the information was pvsn
by the War Department, your Wash;n,s WV
correspondent made tabulation in es0a O.
days Tribune of our division losses - ~
war which does serious injustice to on. s
our great divisions-the I'd. VI
After writing that, according to tho
latlon, the lst sustained more battle aaa.,
missing and prisoners than anv otbsr
went on to say that ranking second in - a'
total number of major casualties was a.
2oth, OF Pennsylvania National Guard ~
vision, for which the total given is s.Sao
The fact is that the I'd Division r.s,
second - the 1st in the matter of ns.'
casualties, and second by total Of ~,
twenty-four men. This ranking is on q
figures of the War Department up to J.ns
airy 10, and may be changed when the d..
returns are in.
The reason for the mistake is tha. :,
losses of the 5th and 9th Marines. who Wv
brigaded with the 9th and 29d Inf....
regiments to make up the I'd Division -.
not inluded in the totals of the I'd Division
These marine losses amount to 2,25s =.
cordng to the War Departments ac,,s..
apparently given to your corresponao,.
along with the other figures. Addinc ~.
2,259 to the 2,965 loss total of the 9th ..s
23d and the machine gun battalion art,
lery, trench mortar and engineer arms :.
tached to the I'd Division, we have a cr.,s
total for the division of 5,224. You tb.s
have the ranking of the divisions in lossos.
1st Division 5oA0
I'd Division K oet
28th Division .......a soo
ou DlSisioh ..-..... .-.s...---... 3,6l7 !.
SD Division ....... 3oIa
avn DiViSioh ..'... .......-...-s-s.. 1886
4zd DIVISION NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2.9N
and so on through the losses of tbo..
below about 5000.
The greater publicity received bv Tho
9th and 9th Marines has overshadowed tba
part played by these two regular armv units
in the I'd Division, but that thew wrought
and suffered alike in the great cause il M.
where more clearly shown than in the fact
That for the two regular army regiments
killed, wounded and missing total 1927. and
for the two marine regiments 2,259.
1t would be unfair alike to marines and
regulars in this great division if in con.
nection with the historical record which
you presented Sunday the total of their
contribution as division to our cause was
not presented in comparison with all other
divisions. j. H. CANNON.
New York, Feb. 6, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Trade Notwithstanding

Some interesting points Of view have
been developed in the interviews on our
business page that are contrary to much
prevailing opinion. We have quoted
from the head of Marshall Field & Co.
as to the unprecedented volume of trade
for January and December. The head
of one of the largest drygoods concerns
of the South supplements this with the
statement that although the price of cot
ton has recently declined the farmers of
his section have saved money and their
buying power is very large. Texas and
Oklahoma have been very prosperous
from the oil boom. This house takes the
view that
Despite the possibility Of gradual
decline in the price level Of merchandise
and the consequent need of caution in
buying, the total volume Of goods that
will be purchased during the next twelve
months ought to be just as large as it
would be if the price level were abso-
lutely stable. Retailers will buy eau
tously and in smaller quantities, but they
will buy mucls oftencr. Their shelves arc
not overstocked, but rather bare"
In a similar vein is the expression Of
the head of large manufacturing COM
pany of Ohio, who says:
"In spite of tho widespread belief
among retailers and ultimate consumers
that prices must come down in the near
future, | feel confident~and this ia the
opinion have heard voiced by other mill
men in the industry that the prices to
be named FOR fall lines will show but
slight reductions from last year and that
these prices viii be maintained right up
70 January of next year"
Similar views are voiced by leaders in
other merchandising lines. The under
Wing fact. as we see it. is that it is ex~
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
The Gold Bounty

Little attention has been paid to the
emphatic verdict of the British Parlia-
mentary Committee that no special
bounty or subsidy Of any kind should be
given to the gold mining industry in Or
der to stimulate the production of that
metal. In many respects Britain had
great stake in such a proposal, first, be-
cause from its mines in the Transvaal
and IN Australia came very large part
of the worlds present production, and
this industry has been very hard hit by
the tremendous rise in costs and wages;
and, secondly, because England has no
such monster stock of gold as has this
country, and has, on the whole, a much
larger need of such a gold hoard. Yet
the British committee sets its face hard
against any kind of codding 1t says
fatty:
"The committee arc not prepared to
recommend any bounty or subsidy for the
purpose of stimulating the gold output
of the empire. Gold being the standard
OF value, no more can properly be paid
for 1t than its value in currency. Such
subsidy would be fundamentally un-
sound. The result would be that the pur-
chasing power of the whole Of the worlds
gold would be diminished, while the value
OF commodities for which it is exchanged
would rise. We can maintain our gold
reserve in this country only if the value
Of our exports, visible and invisible, ex-
ceeds on balance the value of cur imports
profit must depend on our capacity
TO render services and to produce at
profit the commodities wanted elsewhere
by the holders Of gold, and to DO so We
must adjust our prices TO world prices"
1t appears that the London Chamber
Of Commerce had been pressing for some
form of subsidy on the ground that
'prices may fall rapidly at peace, with
disastrous results to industry and
urged that it might be in the public in
terest to take steps ''to prevent this rapid
fall liz the price of commodities by stimu-
lating the production Of gold at the ex-
pense Of the taxpayer" The British Par
liamentary Committee replies sharply:
"The committee neither share their APP
prehension nor accept their contention.
To give more for an ounce of gold than
il is worth in currency appears to be out
of the question, except on the suppositon
that We want gold for the purpose Of
keeping IL locked up and unavailable for
export. They have no reason 10 believe
that there viii not be forthcoming from
The British Empire parity basis as
nauch gold as we shall need for the pur-
pose Of strengthening our reserves"
The committee Of experts appointed by
Secretary McAdoo to consider the petit
ton Of the gold miners in this country
came 10 tha same conclusion, except to
advocate Y removal Of the excess profit
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

tax in the case of gold mining corpora
tions This probably will make a definite
end to the efforts to promote gold infla-
tion by government edict. But the plea
of the gold miners has still been of use
in drawing the attention of the public to
the fact that there is relation between
gold production and general prices, and
that if this production is more rapid
than the increase in the worlds needs
prices must inevitably rise.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
The Happy Ending

Long before the psyche analysts came
along to explain the happy ending, and
why the tried business man and the un-
tried, unbusinesslike debutante alike
must have it, there were sturdy souls
who were not ashamed to avow the taste
Colonel Roosevelt was one in his essay on
reading, incidentally as excellent an
array OF advice for every reader as we
know Read what tempts you; read dis
cursively, if you feel so inclined browse
dip, f1utter, consume as the spirit moves,
was the general line taken-with COM
plete recognition of the fact that reading
is an intensely personal matter and that
every one must read in his own fashion
AS for happy endings, the Colonel pre-.
ferred them that was all, and he stated
the preference without damning or de-
Tending it.
Less sturdy souls were not so willing
to confess their weakness, however, and
it remained for the psychologist to make
the happy ending both scientific and re-
spectacle, as respectable as calories and
buckwheat cakes. We like happy end
ings because we see in them the perfec-
ton OF our uncompleted and thwarted
hopes. 1t is not Muriel or Richard that
we see clasped together on the final page,
but ourselves; not frecke-faced Johnny
Jones, who curses out the magnate in his
heavily carpeted lair while the ticker
spells out his doom and Johnny's mill
ions, but our own $30-a-week self. Of
course, we need happy endngs in this
world of disappointment. Perhaps there
might be-too many of them, yes. Take a
dose of Dunsany or Dostoetfsky on
odd Saturdays, prescribes the psyche
analyst. But for a general diet eat
heartily. 1t is like those delightful diges-
tive specialists who advise one to consult
ones palate and eat and drink what one
feels impelled to.
And now the happy ending, just as it
achieved this respectable standing as a
nerve tonic, even if not precisely as lit
erature, receives the greatest setback of
its career. The war has ended, and with
1t the simplest, most available happy
ending our union ticketed novelists have
ever possessed. With the war booming
away there was never a question of how
to solve that hopeless triangle in the last
book. AS matter of course, you sent
both lovers off to the war-and equally
as matter of course you brought only
the right one back. Or if you brought
both back the wrong one was naturally
cured and regenerated and nobly self
abnegatory. Before the war it was the
devil working out this problem. Every
conceivable trick had been tried and
varied and retired and worked over a
thousand times Then the war came, and
the happy ending received boom be-
yond all dreaming. Never had it so
fourished. Now-peace has come, and
with it the end of the happiest endings
we have ever met. What will our novel;
lists do2 b
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

~ UR army abroad is composed of
A a three clements. The first in
cludes the officers and men
who have entered the regular
army as 4 permanent profession. These
mems homes are in the regular army
wherever it may be, and they are indif-
ferent as to where they are ordered, and
the best among them accept the Philip
pines or Mexican border or Panama
with like equanimity. There are, sec
ond, the volunteers. These include the
National Guard regiments and also very
many men who went into the regular
regiments and the drafted divisions be-
cause thereby they could quickest get
to the other side. These men entered
for the one great purpose of beating
Germany to her knees and winning the
war. Third, the drafted men. These
were drafted under law specially de-
vised to provide for fighting this great
war through to successful ending
Congress never would have passed such
law if there had been any thought of
permitting the men to be kept away
from their ordinary business and from
the task of earning their livelihood for
themselves and those dependent upon
them in order to take part in obscure
European contests as to which the
American people as whole has little
interest OR information.
Now, as regards Russia. | cannot
speak with decision because neither |
nor any one else knows what has been
promised explicitly or implicitly by the
dministration-and | am by no means
certain that the Administration itself
knows. We must keep our promises.
But it does seem exceedingly silly to
have our gallant boys waging mid
winter campaign south of Archangel for
objects which President Wilson has with
determined furtiveness kept to himself.
Surely the men at Archangel can be
brought home. In Siberia, however, the
case is different. The Administration
has waged war in Siberia with the max
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
".SIackers Set Up !

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Secretary of War Bakers aes %
recently releasing 109 conscientious or
jectors" from the disciplinary barracks st
Fort Leavenworth, with back pay rang'nt
from S400 to 5000, is most damnably ou''
rageous to the boys who have gone out "
fight for their country. 1t is direct insa''
TO patriotism and the home, and ssao .
the heart of every true-blooded American
No wonder the Kansas Legislature say''
at has placed premiam upon slaekerisp'
cowardice ard mawkish sen mentality !.
FATHER OF SOLDIER IN AMERICAN
TANK CORPS ABROAD.
Brooklyn, Feb. S, 1919. n f~aa*--
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
New York, Feb. 6, 1919.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
HNHIS country is moving headlong to
the most serious industrial crisis
B of its history.
The beautiful promise of a
quick resumption of peace activities, the
golden opportunities of resupplying our
depleted domestic markets and breaking
through the thin barriers to a harvest of
foreign trade all turn out to be piece of
optimism, so far as the immediate future
is concerned, hedged and hindered by a
multitude of difficulties.
Business men are seized with the
paralysis of doubt.
The investment markets stagnate.
Manufacturers restrict their output, and
the production of basic materials is sliding
down the percentage scale.
All hope for a reduction of costs, and
consequently wait for it, The outlook is
too doubtful to step out boldly and so
between waiting and fear the business
morale of the country is continuously drop
ping. We realize that our optimism
came from our glimpse of the power of
America when organized for national
purposes. But this kind of organization
held no great prizes for individuals. The
government seemed to think that the coun-
try could have its cake and eat it. The
result is chaos.
Under these conditions of business de-
preston the country faces the task of
placing or shifting in industry some
millions of its working peoples
The method of rehabilitation adopted
by the War Department is one that ac-
centuates all the difficulties.
1t is the simple expedient of bringing
home and letting go.
Other countries have found it necessary
to arrange reclassifcation of the men in
service SO as to bridge the gap between
the army and industry. We take the more
convenient way of simply dispensing mill
tary units at places convenient for turning
in military materials. Why the convenience
of the War Department should play any
part in time like this the country will soon
want to know.
Men flow into New York from overseas.
They arc demobilized at the nearest camp.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL
PEPYS

PEPYS
February 4-Fnished my stint early this
day; and S. Merwin had me to dinner, and
Mistress Alice and A. Thomas and his wife
and lady named Mldred; and we all to
the playhouse and heard "Robn Hood"
highly delightful and l enjoyed it greatly.
Thence to a publck where l had cheese
rabbit and two beakers of ale, which tasted
better to me for cause l shall soon be un-
able to buy it; and the prohibition of all
things afecteth me thus.
Saw Miss Marie Cahill this night in
Gust Around the Corner" an inept comedy,
albeit Miss Cahill could recite a directory
and make it comickall. But Mr. Hobart's
drolleries arouse no laughter in me soever.
6-At my desk all day, and with G..
Nichols and John Adams to dinner, and to
a BARRIERS to be shaved, which | dislike
nightly, forasmuch as they will ever try
to make my face smooth, despite my adjura-
tions. With Mistress Adelaide Hughes to
see Mistress Minnie Fiske in L. Eyre's
"Mis' Nelly of N'Orleans," the merrest
play | have seen this year, and Mrs. Fiske
full Of prankishness that filled me with Joy.
But little Miss Irene Haisman did take her
part with insufficient seriousness, which
marred her scenes, methought.
MANY persons to call upon me, which
made me late with my scrvening, which
| do not like to be, nor doth Joe the printer
like it neither. To meeting of men from
the college at Ann Arbor, and saw Mr..
Hutchins the president and thence to the
train for Washington, to see my wife, poor
wretch, who still lieth in bed
The explanation Of why the quondam
Kaiser is raising a beard is not so difficult.
Probably Mrs. II. won't trust papa with a
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Roosevelt s Last Editorial
Bring the Fighting Men Home

On Jdnay Colonel Roosevelt dictated this
Miss Stricker, o took to him
G the last things he did the Sunday before his death
correct the ypecriten copy.
The Editor of "The Metropolitan Magnsne"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

GONDRECOURT, MEUSE, FRANCE
From the Billings (Mont) Gazettel
WANTED - TO KNOW NAME OF A
good town that needs good restaurant.
J2S78, Gazette.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
OH. BEHAVE !

Is good kitchen maid a p able person?
VIII captains and lieutenants, senior grade, be
allowed to bars after June 80?
Don't you think certain rascaly graduate of
Annapolis that know might be called a knaval
officer?
1t the police 'contiscate egg nogg on July 1,
Will it be seize service?
Could an American cootie make German flee
HELOIsE.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
NEW INTERPRETATIONS

The Independent Order of Trench Coat Torea-
doris. Membership open to Home Guardians, now
holding the jobs of those who went into service,
and who continually wear officers trench coats
(marked down to $3.50 with their civilian clothes.
Officers cordovan shoes (aso from bargain saes)
complete the desired impression of discharged
hero. A wrist watch helps. and the crowning
elcry, worn only by Exalted Past Masters of the
order. is the allies ribbon" which looks enough
like a service ribbon to fool any number of stenog-
raphers and office boys.
Nominations for membership are in order
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

"Provsons,' says the "Globe," "started
steady show of firmness in the hog
market, but, subsequently, prices gave way
in sympathy with corn" "Corn," sobs
H. P. t., needs all the sympathy it can
get these days"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
The Coming Tower
A BALLADE OF TEMpUs EDAx RERuM

FOR THE AUTO SHOW
In days of yore when you but a stripping
I'm sure you had it these subway standers
Lovers who let go straps and risk Gripping,
To whom the l. r, T. so boldly panders
You had it, too, those smart Alexanders
Who while at sixty miles hour a-gliding
Must at the same time woo-and honk like ganders:
Thank heaven took our James out buggy-rding.
Midsummer nights, the moonlight quantity stip-
pling
The leafy roads, we'd hitch up Lysanders
End drive where svsry rills softly ripping.
What fral is that with whom yon swain
philanders
And Lymust he be drlrcn? Speak slanders
OF that old nag he needs nor rein nor chiding;
lie knows the road he placidly meanders.
Thank heaven, We took our James out buggy riding.
No motors then. our John abors tripling
In those old days of basques and gerrymanders,
OF tariff. silver, Dewey. Wilds and Kipling,
Stranders
Would go to leave their bones in Flanders
Ask Dad; If he won't tell. I'll say he's hiding
The favorite outdoor sport of all two-handers.
Thank heaven, took our James out buggy-riding.
L'ENvOI
Boss, when you're bald, your whskers sparse as
Branders,
Recall the days when you and went Birding;
What though Rolls Royce never has the glanders,
Thank heaven, took James out buggy-rIding u!
c. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

Collector Old Bill Edwards relays q
beatitudA blessed" he telephones, "are
the peacemakers, for they shall see Paris"