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New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Amendments and Reservations

Senator Colt. who was formerly a
distinguished Federal judge. spoke
IN a clarifying way the other day on
the question Of amendments and
reservations. He opposed both the
Shantung and the johnson amend
ments on the ground that. they would
not accomplish the real purpose they
had in view. He favored reserva-
tlons which would accomplish that
purpose.
As to Shantung, an amendment
transferring to China the rights
granted to Japan by the Versailles
treaty would have to be accepted bv
each of the signatories in order to
effect the transfer. Japan, of
course, would not consent. Great
Britain, France and Italy might not
consent. A deadlock thus might en-
sue, and the United States might be
compelled to make a separate peace
with Germany.
But if a reservation is attached
asserting the freedom of the United
States to ignore the Shantung award
Under certain conditions the reserva-
slon would affect only the United
States. We would not be involved
in the shame of bartering away
economic concessions at the expense
of an allied nation. We could work
hereafter to secure a remuneration
of the rights which other nations
have acquired in China.
The Johnson amendment. dealing
with inequality in national repre-
sentation in the league, cannot cure
that inequality, Mr.. Colt argued.
1t would be but slight advantage
TO US to have six votes in the as
sembly Or as many votes in the
council as the British Empire and
It's dominions, colonies and depen-
dencies might have. If we were in
volved IN a dispute we should lose
our six votes. The real question is
whether, if the British Empire were
involved in dispute, it would also
lose it's six votes.
The status in the league Of the
British dominions, colonies and de-
tendencies is ambiguous, as Mr.. Colt
sensibly says. The ambiguity ought
to be removed by a reservation tc
the effect that each sovereign state
recognized as such in it's interna.
tional relations, shall have one vote
and that in case of a dispute the
word party in the covenant must
include the dominant member of ar
empire and all its dominions, col
onies and dependencies.
Such a reservation has been pre-
pared and will probably be adopted
1t would not invalidate the treaty
but merely state our understanding
Of the te--,S OF the covenant and i'm
phedly 40 whether with such ar
understanding the other powers de
sire the United States tn become 6
member of the leagu4.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
"Comprehension for the Sea"

One of the frankest of Admiral
oon Tirpitz's many frank admissions
Will be found in his remark that
the German nation had no compre-
tenslon for the sea- The obvious
meaning is that it did not under
stand the meaning of sea power.
In the hour of Destiny" the ad-
mlral adds, sit made no use of it's
fleet The humiliating surrender
Of the navy is a sufficient commen-
tary upon this statement. But lack
OF comprehension" is not the only
POINT to note. There was lack of
aptitude as well. Men who had the
sea IN their blood would not have
ssiied to make zone more hght-the
Dest and the last" The Germans
could play the part of pirates we'll
Snough with their submarines, but
not that of honorable seamen. No
Fonder that the seamen Of other ma
lions detest and despise them.
Is not this aptitude for the sea,
after all, largely a matter of in
aeritance? Some peoples have always
rad 1t. The Carthaginians were
oorn seamen and the Romans were
aot The Italian successors Of the
romans are good seamen, and they
~ought nobly in the war. Yet Italy,
on the whole, has not achieved quite
much with her commanding posi-
son in the Mediterranean as might
aave been expected. There is no
'etter seaman than the Breton, but
france is hardly eeafaring nation
IN the sense that England is. 1t
would BE rash to conclude, however,
mat the Latin races are by nature
'ahdsrnen. The exploits of the Span
sn and Portuguese-a brilliant page
N the history Of discovery-alone
sohtrovert such an assertion.
Inc old free cities Of Hamburg,
Inoeck and Bremen looked 10 the
sea Tor their prosperity, TO be sure,
sho the tradition was carried on BY
Ahe German merchant marine until
.'s var drove it into harbor. But
iFussaan Germany was always dis
.ihctiveiy a land state; that her
'u'ofe lay upon the sea was tbs
.'e'ufn of the imperialist desire
"l colonies ard trade. Bismarck, d
"isef statesman than any Of his
successors, feared this development
"e GERMANS proved to be formi.
sao'e rivals in modern sea traffic
'a' 1t IL sill question If THEN
''fairy was strong enough TO zrlr
I'VE The dkbdex which has over,
sakAn II. At nil sysnts, tae Germar
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
The Decalogue of Labor

/. Thou shalt not shrink produc-
lion. By it all are fed. It is the
mother of every material blessing.
2. Thou shalt not break contracts
Neither plenty nor brotherhood is
possible when men are liars.
y. Thou shalt not raise thy hand
against the better machine or
method. Invention lifts the curse
pronounced against Adam.
!. Thou shalt not slack on the job.
The unused talent rusts and the
sluggard sins against his soul as
against the leisure and happiness of
his fellows.
s. Thou shalt not put three men
10 the work of two. The third is a
burden carried by the two.
s. Thou shalt not deny freedom to
others. Another's right to work is
As sacred as thy right to quit. He
may also bargain.
2. Thou shalt not deem an en-
ployer an enemy. He is thy partner
and earns his wage.
8. Thou shalt not Cypress the con.
sumer. Strip him and he lacks
wherewith to buy the work of thy
hands.
9. Thou shaft obey the law, the
mandate of the majority. If it suits
thee not persuade, but beware Of
the barbarism which distils the
poison that might creates right.
10, Be thou a man, independent
full statured, mindful Of the mora
law, guided by an intelligence which
sees that man best serves himself
by harmonious cooperation with his
fellows.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Returning to Reason

Not having been heard from since
his recent foolish threat to vote
against ratification unless uncondi-
tional, Senator Hitchcock yesterday
indicated that he is mentally con-
valescent by indicating a willingness
to join in coalition which will
bring about ratification with reser-
vations.
The Senator admits there are but
forty Senators in favor of obeying
the Presidents order to swallow the
covenant whole, whereas sixty-four
are needed to put such a programme
through. Thirty, he estimates, are
ready to ratify if safeguarding res
ervations are part of the resolution
of ratification, with an extreme
strength Of twenty-four with those
who would reject altogether. Such
a parliamentary situation mani
festly demands union which has
hitherto been prevented by a mar
row, partisan and unreasonable
stubbornness in behalf of pre-
posterous position.
To meet the views of our friends
in Europe who are most anxious to
have the United States participate
in world affairs, to save what little
affirmative good the covenant con-
tains and to avoid the reproach Of
refusing to adhere to the only league
now in sight, majority of the Sen
ate has long been ready and willing
to ratify. But this majority has in
sisted, and properly insisted, that
the ratification should be safe
guarded, that conceded antiquities
should be removed and that the
nature of the obligations this ma
tion assumed should be defined and
generally understood.
To achieve these ends the most
practicable method is to include res
ervations in the ratifying resolution
thus giving fair and open notice
This method is in accord with Amer
lean diplomacy. Our ratification OF
both Hague conventions, of the Al
geciras convention and of many gen,
eral conventions to which the United
States has become a party has beer
with reservations, which have beer
formally or tacitly accepted by other
nations. The principle Of the pro
priety Of reservations when a com
plicated instrument was under con
sideration has never been challenged
The attempt to create the impression
that the whole treaty would be en-
dangered by them has been insin
cere.
The principle of reservations be
ing acknowledged, no great difficult,
has been encountered in preparing
particular reservations to be at
tached to the pending treaty. All
that it has been necessary to writ
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Sonnet

From s,ssies's)
Nora May French Ia Merrorsasn
I AN not bitter for myself alone;
But for those others vho go STUN
bling out
Before their time, those fervid ones
devout
Whose jewels unto men are naught but
stone.
Their days defeated, slscken in a grosn
And meet the dark, knowing ths
masked rout
Was rendered vain by life's envcn-
omed knout;
Doubling that time may for their blood
atone.
Not for myself shed l the heavy tear,
But for my sister gasping in the
dust,
Her meaning vague. her self-appointed
bier
Crying her, "OTsl!" She who carried
song.
Gave it By pang tn breathe It's holy
trust
And heard il silenced by the cursing
throng.
LOUISE GERHARD cANN.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Ding On Ding


CIR: ] have noticed with mild amuse-
ment the discussion of my "politics' .
that has been going on in the contribu-
tors columns of The Tribune. It is
funny how that habit seems to have
grown of late. for everybody to want
to throw somebody else out Of the party.
At least, it was funny until they com
menced to pick on me. But if this
George A. Ward person wants to throw
some one ont of the party for being a
democrat and un-American," why
doesn't he pick on Old Bill Taft or Muir
ray Crane, instead of chasing an humble
and unpretentious csrtoonist around the
backyard and making such a catter
about it? | always thought Taft was a
pretty good representative Republican
and certainly good American. I still
think he has something on Hiram John
son, and Murray Crane, too under
stand he is for the treaty and must
therefore be Democrat and un-Amer-
lean.
But what I started out to say was
that it seems to me strange that The
Tribune should have found no voice to
defend itself against this silly discus
sion. AS an old and respected spokesman
of the Republican party, it is the duty
of The Tribune to keep the records
straight, and The Tribune knows that
there is no question of Republicanism
or red -blooded Americansm" involved
in the issue. Where the names of such
sham and Herbert Hoover are involved
there can be no question of loyalty to
their party or to their country. And
yet The Tribune Is allowing a factional
strife to fasten itself on the Republican
party which has nothing to do with
party principles whatever. Whether the
treaty is good or a bad treaty is 8
matter of judgment, and to allow fac
tional politics to enter in is not only
fatal to a clear judgment on the ques-
ton at hand, but it is a fatal error
for the Republican party.
Out in Iowa, for instance, which has
never been anything else but Republi-
can, you will find the sentiment for the
treaty almost unanimous among the Re-
puhlicans. On the other hand, the Ger
mans and the Irish, and what few
Democrats there are, are against the
treaty. Iowa's reputation es g Repub-
! lican state is unquestioned, and as to
its Americanism, one has but to look
up its record in the war, in which
it was the first ove- the line with
their Liberty loan subscriptions in
every drive but one, and in that il
came in second. Is Iowa Democratic and
un-American? The idea is absurd. Iowa
would have no objections to mild reser-
vations, but it has no sympathy with
the theory that the United States is such
q weak and spineless nation that il
could not associate itself with the
rest Of the nations of the world for the
J good Of the whole without losing its
backbone.
1t seems to me The Tribune ought tc
lay down n few rules about indiscrmi.
nately throwing folks out of the party
I'd like to stay in myself if you could
sort of put a cot in the hall for me
Bill Taft and Murray Crane can sleer
on the billiard table. Let US at least
avoid sending any of the family out tc
the barn to sleep with the jackass.
DING.
Des Moines. Iowa, Oct 16, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
A Thrasher of Wheat to the
Winds

From The Anglo-FrercA Rerietp)
THE lines of Joachim du Bellay. "D'un
Vanneur de Bled aux Vents" have their
place not only in all anthologies. but in all
hearts They gather up the sweetness Of the
French Renaissance. the distilled beauty
drawn from deep native sources and kndled
anew by Italian culture. Their theme is
taken from the Latin verses of a Venetian
scholar. as these, in turn, had aimed at re-
capturing the touch of the finest Greek
epigrammatists. But they have lyric DELI
cacy, ipsa molities. all their own. incomps-
rable and inimitable. Many endeavors have
been made to render them in English An
drew Lang's version in the Ballads and
Lyrics of Old France comes nearest to
reaching their simplicity and exquisiteness.
Another attempt at the impossible is hers
offered.--Dr. J. w. Mackalll
DEFORE you, lightfoot band,
ID Who winged over the land
Wandering go by,
And delicatSly swing
Rustling and whispering
The shady greenery.
These little flowers set
Of lily and violet,
These roses for you,
Roses that first have blown
Their fresh vermilion.
And these pinks too.
With your sweet breath around
Blow on this level ground,
Blow on this plot.
The while l toll amain
Winnowing out my grain
When midday is hot
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Science in the War
And After
By Professor r. A. MilIiken
Of the University of Chicago

ls impossible to distribute more than
IS created, and where the wealth is
once created there is no little evidence
that natural processes, in the long
run. do q good deal, at least in demo-
cratic countries, toward producing a
more or less reasonable distribution.
The inequalities and injustices which
strike the eye are Of much less gen.
eral significance than the superficial
observer realizes. A progressive econ
omlst told me the other day that I
was probably making an over-estirhate
when / stated that complete level
ling of all incomes in the United
States might possibly increase the in
come Of the average worker by 10
per cent. | am informed, by one who
is in position to know the facts, that
such complete levelling in the tele-
phone industry, for example. could no..
increase the average income of the
wage-earner by more than 2 or 5 per
cent, and that | have been given,
from what I consider fairly reliable
sources, about the same figures for
the steel industry. 1t is probable that
the total possibilities of improvement
of conditions through changes in dis
tribution are very limited, while pos
sibilities of improvement through in
crease in production are incalculable.
One Little Adr0nCe
However important, then, the prob
lens Of distribution may be there can
be no uncertainty about the even great
er Importance of the problems Of pro-
duction. One little new advance like
the discovery of ductile tungsten. which
makes electric light one-third as ex-
pensive az it was before, is larger
contribution to human wellbeing than
all kinds of changes Ia the social order.
The man who finds a way to so harves st
his hay as to make a given plot of
ground feed twice as many cattle as
it did before has contributed immeas-
urably to human welfare. So has the
biologist who shows mankind how to
agate nationally instead Of in accord
ance with the law OF the jungle. Or.
again, the pure scientists who for
ten years worked out the properties
of discharges of negative electricity
through highly exhausted bulbs and
so made possible the use of pure cleo
tron discharges in multiplying enor-
mously the possibilities OF telephone
and telegraphic communication-the
cornerstone of international good will
have made their lives count for hu-
manity as very few political or social
reformers have ever been able to do.
Inresting Wealth
Fifth, there is q new opportunity
in science for the man who wishes
to invest his wealth so that it will
yield the largest possible returns to
his country and his race. The United
States has not, in the past, been the
leading scientific nation; it cannot even
claim to have been on par with two
or three of the foremost scientific
nations, at least If population is con-
sidered in assigning places.
The universities cannot possibly full
fill their function of selecting and de-
veloping scientific men OF outstand-
ing ability unless they create within
themselves the atmosphere of scientific
research. The creation of research
mon may not be the prime function
of al universities, but it should GER
tainly be the prime function Of some
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
a Poser for the Hun
rh, D-tro1t yournar

tFron. The Detroit Joarnaf
Following the Omaha affair the Hun
may wonder why the people of this
nation made so much fuss about his
depredations in Belgium.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

ysu san purchase merchandise adveetised IN THE
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10 nav your none, back ueou request. No rod taps
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s5yrftisef 5ces sot.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
The Distribution Problem,

The second type of effort has TO do,
IN one form or another, with possible
and projected changes in the dstribu-
/ tion OF wealth. In this category are
found all efforts toward social re-
arrangements and educational, reform
! brought about either by legal enact
ment or by the development of an
enlightened public opinion. No man
in his senses would belittle this type
Of effort. The needs are tremendous
every worker of this sort godspeed.
But it may, after all, be questioned
whether effort in this field has as good
chence-I had almost said one-tenth
as good chance--of effectiveness in
contributing to human wellbeing as
has effort in the third field; namely.
the field which has to do broadly with
the creation Of wealth rather than
with its distribution. This last il
the field of scientific and engineering
endeavor; for the scientist is, in the
broad sense, q creator of wealth as
truly as is the man whose attention
is focused on the application of
science. Indeed, the scientist is mere
ly the scout, the explorer, who is
sent on ahead to discover and open
up new leads to natures gold. His
motive may be merely to find out
how nature works, but once that
knowledge has been gained. man al
most always finds way to apply it
to his own ends. 80 that in q very real
sense all scientific effort is directed
toward the Improvement Of human
wellbeing through the creation of more
wealth.
Now. it goes without saying that it
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1919

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r.. Associated Press stcissjsr.y entitled tc the
,sr ..- republication oi al dispatches Nre<i.ied
ID il or not cilsFW ise credited IT, tris paper anl
aiso the ccai aews oi spontaneous origin puoii5hed
aI arata u, republication q al othes mater
asretn are also rcsefsed-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

OF them. One of the most urgent
needs, then, Of America to-day is for
the development in connection with FIVE
or six American universities of great
research institutes in the natural
sciences, such as do not exist at all
to-day, Institutes in which there will
be as many able Investigators devot-
ing two-thirds of their time and energy
TO research assare now found in the
detached institutions like those of
the Carnegie Institution and the Rock
efeller Institute for Medical Research,
or the research laboratories of the
Western Electric, General Electric and
the Westinghouse companies.
For Research
The great opportunity in science, then,
for the man who wishes to invest his
funds where they will count most for
his country and his race lies in the
endowment Of research chairs, or, bet
ter, semi-research chairs, in a few suit
ably chosen educational institutions.
Such monument, ought to be infinitely
more attractive than those of brick
and stone. Such a chair endowed in
such a way as to attract the ablest
men whom we develop and filled con-
tinuously by fertile men will yield
bigger returns to the donor and to
the world than any other investment
which can be made. Therein lies the
greatest opportunity which America
offers to the philanthropist to-day.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
The Ne1c OpportunitN

There is to-day new opportunity
IN science for the young American
who is facing the problem as to
where his life can be spent on the
whole most effectively. It is to be as
sumed that most men are at bottom
altruistic, that most men seek to di-
rect their lives into channels in which
they can make them most worth while
for the race. I should like to divide
all atruistic effort into three great
classes.
The first has to do with efforts
toward the improvement of the i'll
dividual characters and lives of men.
This is the field which for thousands
of years has been the chief concern
OF religion, and it is perhaps the most
fundamental and most important of
all. Its needs and its opportunities
are eternal, and no thinking man leaves
it out OF account, But il is not this
field to which I am directing attention
to day.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
CHINA PLEADS HER CASE,

cartoon sent to American newspapers by the Public
information a Shanghai
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
FOREIGN RATES
EUARANYEE

sn,crc q me fos,o-acs at New YORK. As Second
Glass Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
} Ut what have all these accomplish

- Ut what have all these accomplish
ments Of science in the war to do
with the new opportunity in
science? Simply this: For the first time
in history the world has been walked up
by the war to an appreciation OF what
science can do Why have we gone on
for hundreds of years wasting millions
and hundreds OF millions of dollars in
collisions between ships: Why have we
not years ago in times of peace gone at
the problems of underwater detection
IN the way in which we went at them
during the war? Simply because men
in authority have been asleep to the pos
slbllities. But now for the moment at
least they are awake
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-08
Girls Who Sold Tags.

Following are the Pendleton high
school girls, who under the direction
of Miss Katherine Hoag, member OF
the faculty, raised $l64.10 for the
children's bureau by the sale of tags:
Miss Esther Richardson, Miss Varie
Baker, Miss Bethel Mention. Miss Saran
Morton, Miss Pearl Ernest, Miss Min,
dyed Bowman, Miss Marietta Savage,
Miss Evelyn Davis, Miss Rachel
Barnes. Miss Elsie Park. Miss Violet
Dunn. Miss Helen Matthews, Miss
Mabel Hudson. Miss Caroline Schnei-
ter and Miss Pauline Dohnert,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-08
BAND WIN Have OFFICERS.

Following the appearance of the To-
cal band tonight at the head of the
procession from the trophy train to
Happy Canyon. that body will adjourn
to the court house where practice will
be held and officers elected for the
coming year. Plans will be perfected
for the band dance to be given April
%, receipts from which will be used
to purchase the new uniforms. All
measurements have been taken for
the new suits and the order placed
with the Henderson-Ames Company,
of Kalamazoo, Mich. They are ex-
pected here in 80 days.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-08
Order to sell Issued.

orders providing for the sale of
personal property belonging to James
T. Wyriek. in the partnership estates
Of James P. Wyrick, H. w. Collins
and w. Il. Wyrick. and of James p.
Wyrick, w r Wyrick, Ellen wyrick,
Hazel Wyricl< and James p. wyrick,
Jr., were issued today in probate court.
The orders provide that the deceased's
Interests in the first estate may be sold
to II. w. Collins. for a consideration
OF $4,000, and to the same party In
the second partnership estate for s10.-
coo.