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New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
What's the Idea?

1t IS not strange that even the most
Undetermined have difficulty in keeping
step with the official" doctrine with re-
spect to the Monroe Doctrine. Differing
authoritative declarations, to doubt any
of which is to be a bastard and to risk
communication, keep the presses busy
Here is a partial list:
l. The covenant merely expands the
Monroe Doctrine, benefcently applies it
to the whole eworld.-Original interpreta-
tion by the President
2. The Monroe Doctrine = archaic,
anyway; amounts to so little it can be
proftably given up to get the covenant.
Former President Taft, at the Metro
polltan Opera House.
3. The Monroe Doctrine, of course
must be safeguarded; all not partisan
fools have recognized this all along and
have known the covenant-makers will be
happy to remedy an overlooked defect
President Lowell, of Harvard.
4. Paris, March 30. - The President
has submitted an amendment which ne
will strongly urge specifically providing
that covenant obligations shall not apply
to purely American questions.
5. Washington, March 81. - Advices
from Paris received by the White
House, but withheld from publication, in
dicate that the proposed recognition of
the Monroe Doctrine in the revised cove
nant is not specific, but in general terms,
and that in consequence the Australians
have gone on the warpath because of the
implied recognition of Japan's Monroe
Doctrine-namely, that she is the special
guardian Of the Far East.
No wonder new lines of care show in
the face of the faithful Joseph as he
vainly turns for comfort to his daily
copy of Arthur's "Chicago American"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
The Shipbuilding Race

Who's going to lead the world in ship
ping? Chairman Hurley, Of the United
States Shipping Board, sees this country
as potentially the greatest marine
power of the earth, for the reason that
we possess the greatest shipbulding
instrumentalities'
But f. 7. Good, writing for the Eng
lish "Outlook" on the same subject. saws:
"We can give the Americans all the
praise possible-and they merit it--for
their splendid efforts to counteract the
German submarine campaign; and we can
pay all due respect to their general in
dustrial efficiency and enterprises but it
is only the bare truth, and only the
barest justice to ourselves, to say that
we can comfortably beat the Americans
in shipping and shpbuilding, as we have
beaten them in the steel export trade"
Mr.. Good argues that the country that
can produce and ship steel the cheap
est, the country that has it's coal and
iron supplies, its steel works and ship
yards and ports the most conveniently
situated, coupled with the lowest labor
And that country, according to Mr.. Good
Is Great Britain. He contends that both
capital and labor in America will CON-
tinue to look inward instead Of out
ward, and that "Americans will find
themselves handicapped by long inland
haulage distances for materials and by
scarcity and high cost Of the right kind
Of labor"
Experience in cognate fields suggests
that perhaps Mr. Good and Mr.. Hur-
ley are both right; that in standard
lied ships of common type we shall
lead, while Great Britain will lead in
special ships built to order There is
demand for both types, just as there
is Il demand for custom-made and ready.
made clothes and for the Rolls Royce and
the Ford in automobiles.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
An Air Pilots Resentment

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | incose herewith copv of a Ietter
which / have sent to the adiutant general
OF the army. The letter is self-explanatorv.
but desire to say that the feelings which
L entertain in the matter are shared bv
every pilot who suffered the same treatrent
which l received land there were MANY such1
and with whom | came in contact during NV
service. BERTRAM BODENHEIMER
~ herewith return my commission as Sec
ond lieutenant, aviation section (lying
status). Signal Officers Reserve Corps. To-
gether with letter declining same. same to
date from March 20, 1919.
Il desire to say in connection Herewith
that my reason for so doing is that at the
time of my original application and enlist
ment for a commission at Plattsburg, ~ Y,
August 10, 1917, was informed that, on my
qualifying as a pilot, I would be commits
sloned flrst lieutenant. Subsequently, and
while was IN ground school, was
PEELED to make out q new application in
which no grade was specified, and shortly
before l was in a position to qualify as a
pilot an order was published to the effect
that all pilots would in future be commits
stoned as second lieutenants This order
was retroactive so as to include every one
who had not at that time qualified for n
commission. felt that the order was un-
just and unfair not only to me, but to all
who were in similar situation, and par
ticulary to those who, like myself, had fore
gone all chances of obtaining a commission
at the officers training camp by answering
the governments call for men to go into i'm
mediate training to become pilots. Owing
to my sense Of duty and to my desire to get
overseas l made complaint and accepted
the commission of second lieutenant which
was offered me, and which, by the way, I
did not receive until l had been overseas for
two months
"Now that I discharged from service
and the emergency has passed, feel that I
am free to manifest the resentment which
entertain at the treatment accorded to VOL
unteers by refusing the commission now
rendered me-"
New York, March %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

1928, 1886, 1914, 1852, 1853, 1867,
1869, 1876, 1887, 1886, 1914, 1875,
1907, 1908, 1744, 1892, 1893, 1914,
1915, 1870, 1914. Thirty-three inva-
sions in little over fifteen hundred
years, an average of one invasion every
fifty years.
Whenever they were successful, the
Germans celebrated with unspeakable
atrocities. Whenever they were beaten
they swore they would never do it again
lie Matin," which prints the above
statistics, recalls that three days before
the outbreak of the world war Herr
Haase, the German Socialist leader, sol
emnly declared at Brussels that the
German proletariat would oppose war
TO the utmost Three days later Herr
Haase voted for the war budget
-Four and a half years ago the Ger
mans again invaded France Again they
were beaten. And now they swear they
will never do it again
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Castigating the "Houn' Dog"

Representative Henry T. Rainey has
Joined the war on Champ Clark. He
says that the leaders of the House in
the last Congress, meaning Clark and
kitchin, were not in sympathy with the
war, and charges both of them with OBJ
structlng the Presidents plans ''for
carrying to a successful conclusion our
participation
While the war was on and these
leaders had the opportunity to obstruct
war Legislation the Democrats in the
House meekly submitted to their will.
Now that the war is nominally over and
the Democrats have lost control of Con-
gress, Rainey and the others want to
demonstrate their patriotic spirit by re-
versing themselves
When the Democrats of the House re-
elected Mr.. Clark Speaker in 1915 and
1917 they were well aware of his
ldlosyncracies and his views. They
knew his record had been publicly at
tackled by the managers of Mr.. Wilson's
campaign for the Presidential nomina-
tion in 1912. Most of them must have
seen pink leahet issued in Mr.. Will
sons behalf while the contest for dele
gates to the Baltimore convention was
IN progress. The title of this leafet was
"Clarkisms." 1t began:
"Attention, Dcmocratsi
"Do you believe that President Grover
Cleveland was worse than Benedict
Arnold or Judas Iscariot?
"Do you believe the civil service law
the greatest fraud ever perpetratcd?
"Do you believe the whole diplomatic
service should be abolished?
"Do you want Immediate and absolute
free trade?
"If you believe in these things Champ
Clark is entitled to your support"
His party in Congress had already
shown its Indifference to Mr. Cark's
eccentricites and temperamental ebulli-
tions by electing him Speaker in 1911.
1t came within an ace of nominating
him for President in 1912. 1t kept him
in the Speakers office as long as it could
keep him there. Now the self-righteous
Ralneys begin to protest that his short
SOiihiiiSo >iiC uloNiuelill aug MN from QlS-
charging the innocuouc function of
minority leader.
The Democratic party in power re-
spends to the lash of authority. Out
of power it is restive and queruous.
Mr.. Clark knows the history of the
House. AS minority leader he will be
subjected to the same sort of annoyances
that drove Joseph W. Bailey frantic and
led John Sharp Williams to curse the
day when he assumed Mr.. Bailey's
burden. Mr.. Clark realizes what Is
ahead of him if he attempts to act as
spokesman for the minority. But he
can also appraise at their true value the
virtuous professions of his present
critics, who knuckled to him and Mr..
kitchin when war legislation was at
stake, and who have at last plucked up
courage to discipline him only when
nothing he and Mr. Kitchn do can
materially affect legislation.
They are simply kicking Mr.. Clarll's
famous "houn' dog" around after the
poor animal has lost his teeth and his
powers of locomotion.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Tonnley's Soviet

1t is a true soviet that Townley has or
ganized. Only a farmer can be member
of the league and every device of oratory
and propaganda has been used to make the
North Dakota farmer intensely class con-
scious and bitterly resentful toward the
capitalist and mddeman. Class hatred is
preached and taught in fervid language
The system of choosing officers is exactly
that of Bolshevist Russia 1t is either most
democratic or most autocratic, according to
your view of the soviet system. The Nom
partisan League members for each precinct
elect a delegate these delegates meet, by
Legislative districts, and in turn elect a dele
gate for each legislative district; these dis
trlct delegates meet in state convention
and elect state committee of from three to
five members; the chairmen of these state
committees constitute the national commit
tee, and this committee elects the national
executive committee of three, who are the
real directors of the league and Of whom
Townley is chairman. There are thus six
steps between the members of the league and
Townley. Of course, the American theory of
representative government would view this
indirect system hopelessly undemocratic.
1t has certainly worked out in the case of
the league to give Townley the last limit of
autOcratc power
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

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New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

many and her allies, unchastened and
but nominally subdued, continue to plot
and to plan. America, awake! Too long
already have you been anestheticised
by words.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
History's Repetitions
New York, March 28, 1919.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In 1860 Walt Whitman said: "To 4
President" (Buchanan), "All You are doing
and saying is to America dangled mirages" !"
History repeats itself
JULIE NJ. LIPPMANN.
New York, March 81, 1919,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
The Coming Tower
SONG: VIM. HOHENzOLLERN

II to the throne too young. I
did not want The whole guilt of the war
rests on the Russian Government ex-
Kaiser 70 Harold Begbie
Time was when Peace and I were we'll
acquainted;
Time way when we walked ever hand in
hand;
A sanity youth, by politics untainted
No innocenter youth in all the Father
Time was when I believed the Russian
nation
Composed Of only honorable men;
l never thought of world disintegration-
All me! l was fair young Kaiser then!
Economy is a thing we have not yet
learned More than half of our New York
contribs affix Scent stamps to their offer
ings. Or is it that the contrib is
a prodigal?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Truetalk

From The American Language" by H. L.
The American, from the beginning, has
been the most ardent of recorded rhetorl-
clans His politics bristles with pungent
epithets; his whole history has been be-
dizened with tall talk; his fundamental in
stitutions rest as much upon brilliant
phrases as upon logical ideas. And in
small things as in large he exercises con-
tinually an Incompatible capacity for
projecting hidden and often fantastic re-
lationships into arrestng parts of speech.
Such term as aubber-nect is almost
complete treatise on American psychology;
it reveals the national habit of mind more
clearly than any labored inquiry could ever
reveal it. 1t has in it precisely the boldness
and disdain of ordered forms that so
enthusiastically American, and it has, too,
the grotesque humor of the country, and the
delight in devastating opprobrums, and the
acute feeling for the succinct and savory.
Mr.. Mencken's book-or, as Mr.. Mencken
would say, Mencken's books the only
frst-rate treatise on Slang we ever have
seen. Mencken, as far as we know, is the
only writer on the subject who doesn't
patronize slang; the only one who doesn't
give you the effect of a phlologist going
Summing.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
SNIPE.


The Council of the Actors Equity As
sociaton, through Mr. Grant Stewart, Re-
cording Secretary, believes that our recent
paragraph about the cheapness of
comedians sneer at the Y M. C. A., "con-
sidering the number Of actors who wanted
to go abroad for that organization and who
failed to pass the tests of morality, 10y
atty and physical ability" is "a most un-
kind and unjust slur upon the Thea
trcal Profession" and feels that we
will gladly repudate it, giving equal
publicity to reputation as was given to
the paragraph in question" We h. no b.
for tho Y, and we should never think of
casting "a most unfair and unjust slur at
the Theatrical Profession" which we have
an idea did more free war work, and more
unsclfshy, than any other profession
Nevertheless, it is cheap stuff for a
comedian to sneer at the Y. What we
should have referred to was the number of
actors, newspaper men, bankers and others,
who failed to pass the Us tests, con-
sidcring those who did pass them.
Many years ago, when we laid down our
first barrage against very" it was set
forth that one of the justified uses of the
word appeared in De Morgan's Joseph
Vance," C. G. D.. reciting the quotation,
wins the very good cigar:
Janey: you're very fond of Miss Lossie,
aren't you, Joe?"
eyes, very-aren't you?"
"Of course I am. But not so fond as
Sarry is. She's very very fond of her 1t
goes by veries."
He speaks of Miss Lizette Wordsworth
Reese" as "a new voice in our American
poetry" which is entirely true; but he
might have given this rare and lovely poet
her correct name Of Lizette Woolworth
Christopher Morley, in the Even
ing Post.
Or, for that matter, her correct name of
Lizette Woodwork Reese
although small" says the Westminster
Gazette "the islands Guadaloupe and Mar
tiniqueI are rich in sugar, rum, and coffee
and it is suggested that they may form
part of the payment of the debt of France
to America" 1t is suggested that sugar.
cream, and coffee would pay an after-July-1
debt more effectually.
A Subsolar Novelty, according to Bill
kens, is the Subsolar Novelty that YOU
write and send in about February l. You
think it is lost, and in the Dead Letter
Office. Suddenly, on March %, it appears
in The Tower.
loL
buried in cemetery overlooking the
Hudson.-Batimore Star.
Periscope?
The esteemed Bureau of War Risk Insur
ance, if it really wants to economize. can
paper by taking the request of Dec 2
1918, to lapse certificate No. 56S24s, seriously.
glance at the vouminous mail that
comes to the editor of any newspaper this
week answers the question "What Shall We
Do With That Extra Hour" The answer
appears to be, "Wrte Letters About Dav
light Saving"
Commercial Candor in the Hartford
Times: Pass by the Richman Cycle Co..
253 Market ST., in your spare time"
The Perfect Simile, by c. w. T.: "As
much of a slave as a who owns a
dog"
The drug clerks asking for an eight
hour day.
why not offer EN- something just as
goodf r. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Concerning the Nonpartisan League s~.-4
The !. s. s:
Soviet of North Dakota
By Geofrey Parsons. es~.-
ment and had long been a familiar common.
place in European countries.
Touching Tenanfry
By Geofrey Parsons


place IN European countries
Touching Tenantry
The question is closely allied to that of
tenantry, already an urgent problem facing
every agricultural state in the country One
of the chief aims of governmental banking
aid IS to enable the tenant to become an
owner. For this purpose loans are made
far beyond what purely business caution
permlts-as high even as 80 per cent of the
value of the land. The broad defence of such
laws is that rs matter of public policy. the
safety and stability of the state, tenantry
must be discouraged and the ownership of
land encouraged.
1t should be added that an alternative is
to strengthen the position of the tenant.
giving him a certain permanency in his
tenancy. This is the English system, and it
has advocates in this country. But here,
equally the state must act through regula-
ton instead of financial aid.
Against this background the North Da-
kota demand for state banking aid certainly
seems neither radical nor wild 1t is, to
the contrary, proposal which by increasing
the number of land owners ought to increase
the conservatism of the state.
The Basic Stones
These were the existing discontents and
grievances upon which, as foundation,
Townley has erected his socialistic state.
The $4,000 terminal elevator was almost the
only specific thought of the farmers before
Townley came upon the scene. He has both
,,,4o al +I1.-
their programme out of all recognition It
must be said for his programme, however,
that it goes together-that each part depends
upon the other-and that if North Dakota is
to go effectively into the business of hand
ling its wheat and other products beyond the
farmers hands it probably needs all the
elevators and mills; it needs for its stock
produce a packing house, and it needs the
state bank to finance these ventures Town
ley has simply taken the crude and vague
wish of the farmer and translated it into a
sound socialistic programme. The moral is
that if you want state socialism you must
take it; you cannot experiment with it few
dollars at a time. AS was natural, in getting
the necessary constitutional amendments and
laws to provide for this initial programme
Townley has secured authority without limit
to pursue socialism as far as sentiment
permits.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

You Can purchase morchandIse advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute safoor If dissatisfaction
saWs In any ThE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
monU beck upon request. No rsd tape. No au5blino.
We make good promptly II tbs advertiser doos not
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
But Constitutional

The sharp break with the Russian paral-
lei comes in the method by which Townley
has carried the programme of his soviet into
political action. He has pursued an abso-
lutely constitutional course, and has used
the oldest and most familiar devices of
American politics to secure the passage of
the desired laws. With the aid of a strict
caucus he has kept his league legislators
tightly in hand, and, while himself keeping
in the background, has ruled the Legislature
and administration of North Dakota with
rod of iron.
Townley is much criticised by his oppon-
ents for this autocratic manipulation of state
machinery. 1t is certainly a strange re-
Election on the "new democracy" that it has
to revert to the oldest and most Objectionable
of boss methods to put through a reform
programme. But the boss system can scarce
ly be called un-Amercan. The fair parallel
with Russia is in the creation of true soviet
Of farmers extremely class conscious and
automatically governed through highly in
direct election of leaders in true Boshevist
style.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

owned and published daily by New York Tribune lnc'
New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. President IT,
vernon Rogers Vice President Helen Rogers Reid
tary; F. A. Suter Treasured Address Tribune BUILDING
isa Nassau Street. New Telephone Beekman sooV
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
GUARANTEE

Entered 81 the Postofrco New York Second Glass
Mall Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Thoughts
Summing.

What fairy traceries
Are these, woven so daintily
Upon the surface
Of this snow-white parchment,
Like silken cobwebs?
Damn!-Thc carbon papers
Creased again.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Not PrOLefariaf

1t should be added that it is anything but
a soviet of the proletariat. The farmer is
small capitalist and small employer of
labor-incidentally, in harvest time, one of
the worst exploters of labor and one of the
most active manufacturers of I. w. w. dis
content in the country. Townley has care
fully avoided any suggestion of nationalizing
land. (The mild step in the direction OF a
single tax forms minor exception which
will be taken up later.) The farmers of
North Dakota would go fighting mad if the
confscation Of land in true Russian style
were proposed AS they view their pro-
gramme, and as Townley breaches it, their
attack is centred upon the capitalist middle
man. And by the middleman they mean ap-
parently every one between the farmer who
grows the wheat and the consumer who eats
the brcad-railroad, elevator man, specu-
lator, miller and baker.
"If necessary to prove our point we'll
build North Dakota bakery in New York
City and sell North Dakota bread made of
North Dakota -four direct to the consumer of
New York." said one Of the league leaders in
Bismarck,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

The drug clerks are asking for an eight
hour day.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

why not offer EN- something just as
good1 y. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

His body taken to Brooklyn and
buried in cemetery overlooking the
Hudson-Baltimore Star.
Periscope?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

A Subsoar Novelty, according to Bill
kens, is the Subsolar Novelty that you
write and send in about February l. You
think it is lost, and in the Dead Letter
Office. Suddenly, on March %, it appears
in The Tower
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-18

and be forever free for all time to come from the
firing annoyance o INCREASINGLY looking for
house" Permit yourself the pleasure of looking
forward to the time when you may be forever
free from the whims of a landlord. Never be-
fore IN the history of South Bend has there been
such demand for houses. Women are tramp
ing the street daily in frutless search for place
to live, and the situation is steadily growing
worse.