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Expect Heavy R. R. Traffic

By The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-Persons
desiring to travel on Labor Day were
warned today by Director General
Hines to make arrangements for the
purchasing of tickets, and sleeping
car reservations as far in advance as
possible. The arrival next week or
the first and third army division from
France, another troop movement, viii
require large number of cars. but
all possible equipment will be made
available for the holiday travel.
II your coal or gas range does not
bake or burn, / will make 1t or no
charge. r. ]. Larkin. z0S Market st.
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First In at Toronto

BIZ INC ASSoctdtsh f'TeHs
TORONTO, Aug. 27:-Colonel W..
G. Barker, famous Canadian airmar1,
flying a captured German Fokker.
completed the round trip from To-
ronto to New York in the interna-
tional derby at 9:35 A. M. today. He
was the first of the competing avia-
tors to arrive at Leaside today and
the crowd at the airdrome gave him
a great reception. Col. Barker de-
clared that his wound-shattered left
arm, which was nearly frozen during
the flight, was uncomfortable, but
had not caused him much inconven-
fence in making the trip from Buffa-
10 this morning.
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RESULTS Of BIC
RACE IN DOUBT
More Than Twenty AirpIanes at
Roosevelt Field Today
ALSO SEVERAL new ENTRANTS
Bad Weather Conditions Cause
Much Delay for New York.
Toronto Flyers

MINEOLA, N. Y, Aug. 27.-More
than twenty airplanes participating
in the international aerial derby were
expected to arrive at Roosevelt field
today from Toronto and several new
entrants including Colonel William
mander of the Lafayette Escadrille,
were preparing to start onNthe first lap
of the race.
With improved flying weather the
pilots were hopeful of lettering the
mark made yesterday by three avi-
ators who succeeded in making the
round trip between Mineola and the
Canadian city.
Lieutenant M. J. Plumb, and c. w.
Maynard, flying the Haviland -Four"
machine, with 400 hip. Liberty motors.
completed their part In the interna-
tional event when they landed here
last night. Lieutenant Plumb arriv-
ed at Roosevelt field at $50 p. M,
having consumed a gross time twenty
six hours and thirty-eight minutes.
Lieutenant Maynard alighted at 6:44
p. M, having been away twenty-six
hours and forty-one minutes. Major
r. w. Schroeder in a Vought flyer,
who left Roosevelt at II o'clock fore
noon on return trip. arrived in To-
ronto at 5:52 o'clock taking twenty
eight hours and twenty-seven minutes
The winner of the derby cannot be
announced, it was added, until Of
fetal reports have been received from
all stations along the route and the
actual flying time completed.
Eight new starters entered the race
yesterday from Roosevelt field, and a
total of eight arrived from Toronto
and started on the return trip. One
of the latter was Colonel Barker, a
one-armed Canadian ace, who exper-
fenced much difficulty in driving safe
ly through snow and rain storms COM
ing through New York state. Colonel
Barker brought pouch of mail which
included letter from the Prince of
Wales to President Wilson.
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Claims Iong Distance Record.

BIZ The ASSOcfdted Press.
TORONTO, Aug. PA record for
long distance flying is claimed fo'
Major Rudolph Schroeder, who yes,
terday completed the international
aerial race between Toronto and New
York and return. Major Schroeder
was in the air nine hours and thirty
five minutes. The first half of the
derby was accomplished in four hours
and three minutes.
Lieut., James Plumb was tho first
American entrant to reach Toronto.
He landed at 1928 yesterday morn
ing and thirty-one minutes later was
again in the air.
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WEATHER Show
ers probably tonight
and tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
The Presidents Optimism

One idea runs like thread through
most of the Presidents speeches. If this
is not now the best of all possible worlds,
it soon will be- The magic league of ma
tions is to turn all it touches to gold. It
will rectify "the age-long wrong which
characterized the history Of Europe" 1t
will end the ancient quarrel between the
lion and the lamb. Governments may
perhaps still be tempted to go astray, but
peoples will hold them to the strait and
narrow path. The real triumph of the
war is revolution in human nature.
Thus begins the Golden Age
One Of the details of the picture per-
fectly illustrates the Presidents opti-
mlsm about people as people His attempt
to separate the German government and
the German people will not have been
forgotten. Again and again he empha-
sized the fact that we were warning upon
the one but not upon the other. In his
Columbus speech he shifts his ground
little. He admits that Germany was
self-governed." In other words, the Ger
man people had just the kind of govern
ment they wished to have. Therefore
they cannot hope to escape the conse-
quences Of utter disregard" for human
rights. The treaty rightly imposes pen
alties. Yet Mr.. Wilson excuses them so
far as to insist that their rulers deceived
them cas- to the character Of the methods
they were going to use'
What is there to show that they were
deceived? What is there to Justify the
assumption that they did not approve the
character of these methods? Whose voice
was raised in Germany against the in
credible cruelties and brutalities which
the German armies perpetratcd? The
Germans who told the truth to their
countrymen can be counted on the fingers
of one hand. Lichnowsky, Lebknecht,
the author of 'accuse'-who else? 1t
was not until the heavy hand of Nemesis
was laid upon them that wes began to
hear the echoes of reproof II believe
from what | can learn" the President
says, "that there is an awakened con-
sciousness in Germany itself of the deep
inquity Of the thing that was attempted"
The mythical imposed-upon German
people which the President created at the
beginning of the war survive in his
optimistic IMAGINATION.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
More Enemies Within
(From The Toledo Rlode

1t has been noticeable in our recent con.
troversy with Mexico that that nation has
great number of friends in the United
states. They not only defend our neighbor,
ho4olhg ner up as a pattern of sweetness
ana hight, out at the same time they paint
ohcie Sam as crook and horsethief
Whether it is of significance or not. these
stout defenders of Mexican outlawry were
year or SO ago stoutly standing up for
Prussia Their admrations may swing
around the compass, but they are consist
emily against America.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08

hearts respond. But in the most positive
public way Japan has at last promised to
get out. The Shantung amendment of
Senator Lodge has achieved, it would
seem, its chief end. The President was
unable to get definite promise from
Japan by three months of secret argu-
ment and appeal. The Massachusetts
Senator, a more successful negotator,
has been aOle to effect the business in
week Japan having yielded to our
views, it would seem kind to make it as
easy as possible for her government to
quiet the Japanese jingoes.
With respect to American membership
on various international commissions, it
does not seem as if the country had a
positive opinion either way, and the in
clination thus will be to let the treaty
stand as it is concerning them.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
Rumania's Grievances

Dispatches from Paris continue to in
dicate a clash between the peace confer
ence and Rumania The Rumanan gov
ernment, feeling that it has been sub
jected to grave injustices at Paris, is re-
luctant to pay any heed to orders of the
peace council in the regulation of it's ac-
counts with Hungary. There is also
strong current of sympathy with Ruma-
MIA in France and Italy, although the
representatives of those countries are
trying to uphold the conferences pres
tige.
To get q fair understanding of Ruma-
MAS case one must go back to 1916,
when Rumania entered the war. The
bigger Entente powers were eager for
her aid and gladly paid a price for it.
But when Rumania got in they failed to
make good their assurances of military
assistance. They agreed to start an of
fenslvc from Salonica against Bulgaria,
which would relieve Bulgarian and Ger
man pressure on Rumania's exposed
southern frontier But the Salonica
operation was an offensive only in name
In military results it was complete
tiasco.
The desertion of Rumania by the
Western powers was one of the great
tragedies of the war. There was no COM
petent Allied leadership at the time and
no unity of control.
The Atlantic Monthly some months
ago published letter written by Lloyd
George to Premier Asquith which does
extraordinary credit to the formers
sound feeling and military Judgment 1t
was dated September 4, 1916 1t urged
immediate measures to safeguard the
Rumanians and made this strkingly ac-
curate analysis of the military situation:
IL have just seen kilograms announcing
the declaration of war by Bulgaria
against Rumania. This is additional
ground for the anxiety which | expressed
to you on Saturday as to the possibilities
in the immediate future.in the Balkans.
II then expressed some apprehension
that Hindenburg, who has strong Eastern
proclvities and has always been opposed
to the concentration OF the Germanic
forces in the West, would direct his at
tention to the crushing of Rumania and
that we ough. to be thinking out every
practical plan for giving effective sup
port to Rumania in the event of her being
heavily attacked.
Owe cannot afford another Serbian
tragedy. We were warned early in 1915
that the Germans meant in confederation
with the Bulgars, to wipe Serbia out In
spite of that fact, when the attack came
we had not purchased single mule to
aid the Serbans through Salonica.
"The result was that when our troops
landed there, owing to lack of equipment
and appropriate transport, they could not
go inland, and Serbia was crushed
81 hope that shall not allow the
same catastrophe to befal Rumania
through lack Of timely forethought"
Mr.. Lloyd George then summarized
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
Mr.. Bum Uttered a Bookful

[From "The Stage Both Before and Behind the
Curtain by Alfred Bum. Lessee of the Theatres
Royal. Drury Lane and Covent Garden-Pub-
lshed 1S40
manager should be a very extraordinary
fellow, for he has to do with more extra
ordinary people than any other man amongst
his fellow creatures He is a sovereign, to
be sure; but what is the use of sovereignty,
unless he can excaim, with Alexander Sell
kirk,
"I am monarch Of all survey!"
He is q general, most certainly; but what is
the advantage Of all his tactics, unless he has
disciplined army? He is considered to be
the arbiter elegantiarum-but the elegantiae,
j. c. (the pcrformers), act the part of drbitr|i,
by becoming VICEROYS over their KING;
though apparently uncontrolled, he is in a
perpetual state of dependence; and in the
midst of power he is poweress.
Exit the actors strike. And now we, as
fraction of the public, are going to keep
track of the time consumed by intermissions
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
The Amendments

When it is said the British Empire is
to have six members of the assembly of
the league of nations while the United
States is to have but one it is natural to
blow off steam. But when it appears
that the contrary proposal is to exclude
Canada, Australia, the South African
Union, New Zealand all highly devel-
oped, self governing democratic peoples,
and to admit Hedjaz, Hayti, Liberia and
Siam, there is some change of opinion.
If the league of nations is to meet hopes
and to Justify confidence are we to keep
out seasoned democracies which are re-
publics in everything but name and to
trust more to the turbulent and the in
experienced?
With respect to Shantung, when it is
said the province should go to China all
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08

coal, railroads, and measure up the increase
IN money wages since the beginning of the
war against the increase in the index number
Oh commodities, so as to see where these
various industries stand with respect to real
opposed to money wages?
The War Labor Board must be in pos
session OF the essential facts required for
a study of this kind. 1t would be most timely
in view of what has happened in the street
railway situation in New York City
THOMAS F. WOODLOCK.
New York. Aug. 2l, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
Duelling as Usual

There is q sign, at last, that the Ger
mans have made up their minds to &C
quiesce in the treaty of Versailles and
to return to peace footing. The editorial
columns of the TagesSeitung and Tdg-
hche Rundschou may still, by sheer force
of habit, issue their daily ration of stage
thunder, but the rehabilitation of the
German intellect has begun in earnest.
Information has reached here to the ef-
feet that undergraduate sabre fighting
has been resumed at the University of
Heidelberg. What is~this, if not peace?
Mutual blood letting among under
graduates, that famous and uniquely
German pastine, has been suspended
during the last five years. During the
late war the fashionable German youth
did not have to resort to the substitute
called "mensur" in order to indulge in a
little eXhilarating boodshed; he had the
"real thing" to amuse himself with, for
which his entire life had been training
and prelude. Now that "der Tag" is
over and there are no more degenerate
Frenchmen" and "mercenary Britishers"
and other barbarians--not to speak of
Belgian mothers and babies-as objects
for his exquisite swordsmanship, the
Prussian Junker youth returns to the re-
sounding halls of his Studentencorps and
inscribes the proof of his pluck and gen
tility in nice runic script, reminding of
the incisions made by the expert chef on
roast young pork on the faces of his
fellow undergraduates
To be sure, the resumption of the old
peaceful habit of "schlager" fencing
does not pass without protest Thus the
we'll known author Herbert Gutenberg
raises his voice in Indignation. He ex-
hlblts, for German, unusual insight
and good sense in an article published
in the Berlimer Togeblott. "Do these
people (the duelling undergraduates
not know that such barbarian relics as
the students duelling craze are CO.
responsible for the refusal of the West
ern peoples to admit us to their commu
nity?" he asks. 81 do not want to over
estimate what, after all, is mere under
graduate prank. But it is significant
that the English command in Bonn in
one of it's first orders issued prohibited
undergraduate duels. in the university
thereby earning the gratitude of all
really serious and acadcmically minded
men"
The we'll known scars of plaid design.
borne as token of courage and high
birth, Gutenberg compares to the tattoo
ing of Melanesian natives, adding, how
ever that the latter practice is rather
more artistic
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08

what he believed to be the "disquieting
facts" in the situation. One Of these was:
II can hardly think that the equipment
OF the Rumanian army would enable it
long to resist an attack from an Austro-
German Bulgarian force armed with hun
dreds of heavy guns and supplied with
enormous quantities of heavy she'll. The
Rumanians are very scantily supplied
with heavy guns, and I doubt whether
their supplies of ammunition suffi-
cient to get them through continuous
fight lasting over several weeks"
What Lloyd George foresaw happened.
Rumania was overrun and crushed be-
cause the Western Allies failed to give
her any adequate assistance. Russia COM
piled with the conditions of the treaty of
alliance, and even did little more than
she contracted to do Rumania naturally
would feel that her fate gave her spe-
cial claim on the consideration Of her
Western associates.
In the treaty Of alliance signed in the
summer Of 1916 Great Britain, France,
Italy and Russia promised to allow Ru
mania to participate on equal terms with
them in the peace settlement. They also
promised to give Rumania the Banat, as
far as the Thesis River, although they
kept Serbia in ignorance of that engage
ment Both these obligations were re-
pudiated at Paris by the Council Of Five.
One technical excuse has been that be-
cause Rumania made a separate peace
with the Teuton powers her contracts
with the Entente had lapsed. Yet one
of the provisions in the armistice with
Germany was that the Treaty of Bu-
charest should be held to be null and
void, thus releasing Rumania from any
liabilities under it.
The conference not only put Rumania
off among the thrd-class powers but
voted to impose on her what she con-
siders onerous restrictions on her SOW
ereignty. These restrictions concern
guarantees of equal or special privileges
to minority races and groups. The Ru-
manian delegates were willing to vote for
an equal rights provision in the treaty
applying to all the signatories. The
major powers rejected this.
What Rumania has done she has done
under sense of strong resentment at the
conduct of the powers with which she
concluded her treaty of alliance in 1916.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
Arkansas Pride
From The Arkorxos Tho,,

lFrom The Arkdnsds Thomas Can
Arkansas is a Southern state. Arkansas
IS democratic commonwealth. Arkansas
Is Gibraltar of the party. Both houses
OF the Arkansas Legislature ratified the
suffrage amendment. In the Senate the
vote was 20 to and in the House it Was
IS to 10. Arkansas is the twelfth state to
ratlty the proposed amendment and the
second of the Southern states to take this
action. Governor Brough championed rati-
flcation and two Democratic United States
Senators threw the weight of their influence
Tor ratification. Texas led off. Arkansas
followed the lead. Now Oklahoma will
ratlfy, and Oklahoma is a Democratic state.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
Scientific Wages
Editor Of The Tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
CIR: Last March the employers and op-
eratives in the Yorkshire dyeing and
finishing industry came to agree
ment on the subject of wages, approximate
ly as follows:
Taking the index figure of the cost of
living, published in The Labor Gazette
the sliding scale provides for reduction
in war wage until that index figure has
fallen to lot per cent as against the pres
ent 120 per cent. From 1O7 to 100 the
full measure of the decline in the cost of
living IS deducted but from 100 downward
the operatives retained one-fourth of the
war wage. There is, therefore, gain to
the workers of 25 per cent but no reduc-
ton in the cost of living, leaving the new
standard of total wage 25 per cent above
the pre-War standard"
The beauty of that arrangement was, first,
that it represented an agreement upon the
positive standard of real wages, namely 25
per cent over pre-war standards; and, sec
ond, it provided the necessary measure or
standard for adjusting money wages to real
wages. | do not know of any attempt in
the United States to deal with the matter
in this way, but it seems to me that it should
be wholly feasible. Take, for instance, the
case Ol tn6 Steel WORKERS VINO are now Lalk
ing about a strike. My impression is that
the United States Steel Corporation has ad-
vanced wages considerably over 100 per cent
since 1914, and my impression also is that
the increased cost of living in the United
States, measured by the index number of
prices, is about 80 per cent higher than
before the Would it not be q good
scheme for industries such as the steel in
dustry to tackle the problem on the lines
above described so as to eliminate grounds
for frequent controversy and enable, at all
times, easy application Of the facts and the
principles agreed upon? 1t would merely be
case of agreeing the amount of the
permanent increase in real wages and the
details of the adjustment in accordance with
an agreed index number. Also, would it not
be good thing to take two or three of the
leading industries, as, for instance, steel,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
For the Finest
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The general public heartily approves
the policcmen's efforts for increased nav
lhey deserve it. Their work during our re-
cent parades was of the highest character.
IN the various emergencies they conducted
themselves admirably. In traffic regulation.
courtesy and general protection of the pub
hc they cannot be exccled The policeman
to-day is Of the superior type, not the old
police product. To men to whom we mus+
look to guard us from all kinds of DANGER
we should be willing to pay reasonable and
contenting wage.
Here's hoping the administration will un
hesltatlngly give our "cops" the increase
requested. Justice requires it,
ISADORE L. MONTEFIORE
New York, Aug. 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-08


We say it simply. A terse greeting
least embarrasses a terse man. The rest
we feel.
Supermen inspire awe and wonder, but
leave the heart cold and uneasy. The
conquering hero neither belongs to our
time nor corresponds to our spirit. he is
obsolete. But the affection of a great
democracy for the grim and mighty SOL
der who has saved its day at Armaged-
don is deep and durable.
This ones place in military fame we
leave to the historian. Experts will ex-
anime his strategy and pronounce upon it
technically. None Of this we care about
not now. What we know is that Per-
shing commanded q modern miracle. He
did not invent it. He would be the very
last, perhaps, to perceive the true nature
of his relation to it.
His was that direct and accurate faith
which unconsciously shapes momentous
things. At the supreme moment he said,
I'VE are ready" meaning not that his
men were prepared by training or ex-
perience, but that the heart and youth
and strength of America were there to
erapple with destiny at any odds. He
knew.
The German line was like great iron
door turning on a hinge in the Argonne
and reaching to the sea. The weary
forces Ct liberty We're trying to swing 1t
back. Pers}ing hurled his green army at
the hinge and tore it loose.
This wholly impossible feat, besides be-
ing cardinal military achievement, was
incredible as a rational fact to the Huns,
and, therefore, terrifying. 1t made their
blood run'cold.
eve expected" wrote Pershing in his
report to the Secretary of War, "to draw
the best German divisions to our front
and consume them"
American tactics not learned from
manuals of war;
The expectation began to be realized
on September 25 That was the begin
ming of the Meuse-A -Argonnc offensive.
Io%o
On October 5, reading from the report:
"The strategical goal which was our
highest hope was gained. We had cut
the enemy's main line of communications,
and nothing but surrender or an armis-
tice could save his army from complete
disaster"
Forty-four Of the best German divi-
sions had been beaten and consumed.
"Many of our divisions" continues the
report, "remained in line for length of
time that required nerves of steel. Al
though some of the divisions we're fight
ing their first battle, they soon became
equal to the best"
And of his men General Pershing
wrote at the end: when think of their
heroism, their patience under hardship,
their untiinching spirit of offensive ac-
ton, am filled with emotion am unable
to express. Their deeds are immortal.
and they have earned the eternal graft
tude of our country"
And so has the man who led them and
tod them they could do it,
Modest, true and handsome soldier,
your nation now salutes you. We en-
brace you in our hearts-forever.