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New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Strike Against Strikes
Let the Public Boycott Labor That
Threatens General Safety
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is it not within the realm of
correct reasoning to prophesy that the
unprecedented act on the part of our
government in taking out an injunc-
ton against the striking coal miners
be taken by The community, and the
beginning of the evolution Of the "peo-
plc's union"? No remedy has as yet
been found to combat unionism which
borders on the intolerable. The menace
to the community is becoming more
acute with the granting of more and
more compromises to labor in order to
avert a show down which is inevitable.
Why not strike unionism with it's own
weapon? If some means could be de-
vised by which class of laborers
could be boycotted when engaged In
strike which the people deem to be
unfair, solution of the question Of
how to counteract the damn the pub
lie" attitude of labor would have been
found.
Suppose clothing dealer refused
to sell clothes to a striking clothing
worker and q coal company refused
coal to striking coal miner. etc.
Then, suppose all these men, incud-
ing in their organization majority
of the public. organized and refused
to sell anything or give services to a
man or woman striking for conditions
considered to be unjust by the public
How long would strike last? OF
course, a howl would be raised by la
borites everywhere against this bar
barrie bovcotting of the workingman.
But is not labor doing exactly the same
thing and on larger scale? Does not
coal or rail strike amount to boy
colt Of the public? The public should
organize into "people's union" and
strike against labor when labor strikes
against the public.
CHARLES GOLBLATT.
Brooklyn, Nov. 12, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Stay Out of Mexico

10 the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The "Clean Up Mexico" letter
OF Charles F. Gardner in this morn
ins's Tribune is particularly offensive,
because of its appearance on the first
anniversary of the armistice.
Mr.. Gardner may wear more medals
tor valor than The writer ever saw,
but when he says that "every Ameri-
can who has ever followed ou. gor-
lous flag would gladly serve our coun-
try IN these trying times and Willingly
loln an army of occupation to clean up
Mexico suspicion grows that he does
not know what he is advocating 1t
seems incredible that man who faced
the rcnding terror of those long black
nights in the Argonne could come ou.
of such an experience with anything
but great and undying hate for the
group of men or the nation that de-
liberately forces such a horror upon
another nation.
1t is bad enough to have TO fight
on the right side of such a struggle
when the heart is strengthened by the
knowledge of right and the conscious
ness that victory for the enemy
means the trampling under foot OF
everything that real men and real
nations hold dear But when one is
asked to don the bloody garments OF
the ravager of Belgium, the despoiier
Of homes and the torturer of children
when one is asked to adopt his prln-
ciples, to accept his methods and to
initiate his acts by seizing the lands
and destroying the homes of de-
fenseless neighbor- here is one OF
those for whom Mr. Gardner assumes
to speak who emphatically objects.
The United States of America
emerged from the recent struggle as
the leader Of the forces of righteous
ness in the world. No man in ms
right senses will want to see her
throw away that leadership and hurl
herself into the same Shiny filth from
which she has just rescued the other
nations of mankind.
ANDREW J. KANE.
New York, Nov. II, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
ShudderingW
% the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Any one who reads "Anno's"
masterpiece of "Boche" opinion in The
Tribune of the 18th inst. must surely
tremble with fear for the safety of our
country. Think. Germany, with all
her worship of Schrecklchkeit, her
obelsance to methods and means
scorned by any brain not twisted from
years of insidious propaganda dis
euised as love for the "vaterland," ar
rayed against us for all time.
A war with Mexico! Call for Ser
geant York and a few others of the
combat divisions which put the pride
Of the Hun regalia to rout But Ssh!
The crystal becomes clear once more.
We are to be successful, as we COM
prehend success. The Boche seer
means as the next calamity rises out
of the mist. The imperialistic ambi-
tions of Wilson, with the greedy, froth-
ing monster known as Big Business" ."
ride to victory on the strength of this
campaign How wonderfully we'll our
zealot of the vaterland knows us! He
was doubtless one of the those whose
planning brought Hun propaganda in
this country to such a glorious and
colossal end)
And now the secr's voice rises in
pitch. 1t is to be Japan. Yea, even
with England as an ally, who will clip
the wings Of the arrogant American
eagle at one fell stroke, and Germany,
Germany over all, will be there to gloat
over our last gasping brcaths.
America, beware The reasonings
of brain running in the channels of
common sense are as naught, for
"Anno" has called upon the deities to
witness our future destruction The
crystal gazer cannot fail, so we are
lost! Oh. we'll, ce ne fait rien! Rather
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
"Pussyfoot" Carries On

1t was a typically British per-
formance, the good-natured hazing
Of "Pussyfoot" Johnson by London
medical students by and with the
consent of "bobbies." That the victim
Is no mean antagonist and knows
the ways of the people he is sent
out to convert was shown by the
good nature with which he took his
rough handling and his refusal to
make any criticism Of either hazers
or police. To be a good sport ac-
cording to the conventional rules of
whatever game you are playing is
as deeply imbedded in British char
acter as the British constitution.
"Pussyfoot" lived up to the best re-
quirements of the public hazee
There is one other factor that is
making in the prohibitionist's favor,
and that is his humorous qualities.
To be good sport is good deal
in the Anglo Saxon creed; to be an
innocent source of merriment counts
quite as much. We are distinctly
more dignified in our attitude tow
ard our public men in America.
Especially is our President hedged
about by a certain attitude of tradi-
tional respect. 1t is possible to be
bitterly denunciatory of an Ameri-
can President, goodness knows. 1t
is not the rule to treat him as q
comic episode. Humor is much more
freely and constantly admitted in
British politics than in American.
Lloyd George is fair game for the
most satirical pencil that draws.
Naturally the great "Pussyfoot" has
been seized upon as a daily subject
Of jest and caricature. He has be-
come the leading subject Of stock wit
in the British small jesting of the
hour.
Will prohibition thus become a
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Good Causes and Poor Tunes

(From The Manchester Guarddn)
Mr.. Bernard Shaw, who has fallen
foul of "The Red Flag" which he re-
CARDS as an air that would ruin any
movement. seems to forget that many
a good cause has been supported by
a poor tune. The Belgian National
Anthem is a remarkably inanc melody,
but that did not impair the resistance
of Liege. And neither the words nor
music of "God Save the King" are par
ticularly uplifting. The air of "Lilli.
bullero," that is said to have whistlet
James II off the throne of England.
cannot have been very distinguished
one, for nowadays no one seems to
know what it was. On the other hand
the Russian National Anthem was
easily one of the most stirring ex-
amples of its kind in Europe, but it
did not save Russia from collapse. If
the sovets have provided substitute
for it the result would probably please
Mr.. Shaw as little as "The Red Flag"
which he considers should be rechris-
tened "The Funeral March of Fried
Eel"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
The Need Of Men
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is precisely such shallow
talk of that of Mr.. Gompers, pub
lished this morning, that gives en-
couragement and inspiration to fur
thcr attacks and conspiracies against
our government by sponsble peo-
pie of alien sympathies. The fact that
such a character as William z. Foster
can with impunity make an inhamma-
tory speech before thousands in our
city, after being driven out of Johns
town by loyal Americans, shows our
danger. We need few more men in
this country like Ole Hanson and Gov
ernor Coolidge, and we are likely to
need them more as time goes on.
E. H. CLEVELAND, NJ. D.
New York, Nov. 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
The Eastern Outpost of Liberty

1t is an ancient and vague and to
many Americans an all but forgot
ten bond which engages our affec-
tions to the Poles. Yet it is none
the less real and sturdy bond, and
present generations are glad to COM
prehend and acknowledge it's force.
At bottom it is nothing else than
the brotherhood which Americans
feel for every people to whom lib
erty has long been watchword and
government by the people a goal.
In respect to specific events, it is
builded on that spirit Of liberty per-
sonified in Kosciuszko and Pulaski,
who fought for American liberties in
the Revolution with the same gen.
erosity and devotion that inspired
Lafayette.
There is an episode to touch the
imagination of the coldest in the
christening of the ship Kosciuszko,
bought by the subscriptions of 1O,-
600 Poles in America, and soon to
sail for Danzig with supplies and
provisions for the new republic of
Poland. The loyalty Of our Ameri-
cans of Polish blood was unques-
toned throughout the Great War.
The deeds of the Polish Legion are
an honorable part of the record of
the Allied armies. Without hesita-
ton the Pole of education and the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15

Pole Of narrower horizon united
themselves heart and soul with the
Allied cause and never faltered. By
the deepest instinct of nationality,
as Joseph Conrad has pointed out,
the Polish people cast their lot
with the forces Of Western civiliza-
tion and against all the forces Of
naturalization, whether Prussian
or Bolshevik.
1t is an old debt that America has
been endeavoring to discharge in
Poland with such belated and frag-
mentary aid as it has been possible
to get to this beleaguered nation.
The new obligation is founded on the
old, and is not thing of days or
months. Poland is the Eastern out
post Of Western civilization in Eu-
rope; hers is the task of carrying
aloft the torch of liberty amid perils
without parallel. 1t should be our
task and pride to aid the new repub-
lie, sorely stricken by famine and
war and blockade and threatened by
enemies from every quarter, with
every resource of moral and materi-
al SuccOr.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
The Leopard's Spots
To the Editor of The Tribune.
New York, Nov. 12, 1919.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter entitled "Auf
Wiedersehen,' which appeared in
Wednesdays Tribune, is a challenge to
American intelligence and patriotism
The sentiments expressed are not
merely those of a single disgruntled
individual, but they accurately repre-
sent the unwholesome and treacherous
thinking of a great proportion Of the
Germans in this country and else
where. 1t is but another proof that
the leopard has not changed his spots.
Say what we may, the blighting curse
of Germanism is still abroad in the
world, and the people who profess to
believe otherwise prove their utter
ignorance of present day conditions,
or they are openly pro-German. In
either case they are living in a fools
paradise
The whole letter bristles with hate,
revenge and cowardice. The writer de-
clares that at the first opportunity
Germany will present her bill and call
for payment. Bill for what? For
hurling the world into chaos and being
directly responsible for the death of
millions of human beings? For call
ing treaties scraps of paper and dis
regarding every known law, human or
divine? For ravaging women and mur-
dering babies? For trying to embroil
the United States in war with Japan
and Mexico while we were a neutral
nation? For sinking the Lusitania
For the rotten and sneaking propa-
ganda carried on in this country under
the direct leadership of Won Bernstortf
"lll Mr.. "Anno" tell us exactly what
this bill is for?
G. w. VAN VLECK.
Brooklyn, Nov. 13, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
A Call for the Bill
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May every German deriving a
living from this country and enjoying
the benefits and privileges accruing to
a resident of it, who is disloyal, un-
appreciatve and disre spectful, be driv-
en- forever from the shores of America.
"Anno," on your homcward voyage,
Liberty, and although you may not be
capable of possessing a feeling Of
shame, that is the emotion that should
overcome you, as you know You and
your ilk are not worthy of being given
an opportunity to live under its infiu-
ence. Let the statue, fading from view
as you return to your beloved father
land, serve as a warning to you.
settle with you to finish, as that is
the only way we know how to fight,
but you showed yourselves yellow and
quit. Some day, as you predict, it will
be necessary to settle with you once
and for all, and that cannot come too
soon. Prepare for forty more years,
but prepare we'll, and less smugly next
time, for every ounce of red American
blood, every resource, every American
element will be used in bringing you
to your senses and wiping out for all
eternity German egotism, which is in
describable. We will scar into your
pachydermous hides the futility of
trying to dominate the world; we will
teach you to live like human, God-fear-
ing beings, and not like lustful ami
mails of the lowest plane.
Present your bill at the first oppor-
tunty and you will be paid in such
manner as will be lasting and unfor-
gettable.
AN AMERICAN WHO WILL NEVER
FORGET.
New York, Nov. 12, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Article x Humbug4ery

The confusion In regard to Article
X and the force of the reservation
which interprets it is born of
campaign of humbuggery that inter-
ested partisans have waged. 1t has
been assumed, apparently rightly,
that no considerable number of per-
sons would carefully examine the
article and the reservation and con-
strue them together; that, hence, it
was safe to misrepresent by the use
of muddling metaphors.
The article as it now stands with
its reservation does not reject the
principle of participation in the
worlds affairs nor give notice that
the United States will not act to
preserve he territorial integrity
and political independence Of as
sailed nations. The reservation is
directed to other ends than this and
in no way commits us to aloofness.
What it does is merely to declare
that Congress, as the Constitution
requires, shall be consulted and give
consent before the military and
naval forces of the country can be
used in war The article as drawn
implied, although not so saying, that
the executive department should be
the sole judge of when the obliga-
tion required action. This was the
natural Interpretation abroad, where
the voice of an executive is assumed
to be the voice Of it's nation. The
reservation corrects this mistaken
assumption--calls attention to a
popularity of our institutions which
otherwise might be ignored.
Article X as interpreted IN no qcise
droavs IN question the validity of the
principle of mutual aid. Indeed, the
reservation is so drawn as to infer
entially further recognize this prin-
ciple. The only change made is that
Congress shall be heard on the ques-
tion of when the obligation arises
(for example, when a threatened
war is in fact one of aggression) and
the means to be used to meet the
danger if it exists.
The Congress asserts its constitu-
tional prerogative-that is all. So
doing, it does not invade the preroga-
tive of the President. In the first
instance he will judge whether an
obligation to act has arisen-a judg-
ment to be indicated by coming be-
fore Congress. Then Congress will
also judge, as the Constitution pro-
vides.
What has been debated is not an
international question, but domes-
tic one. The issue has been as to
whether a President could put US
into war at his pleasure or whether
he should be under constitutional
check. The effort to convince the
country that the issue is as to
whether this country shall meet or
disappoint the hopes of the world is
based on fraud.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Give a Thought 10 the Public

Senator Cummins insists that he
will not abandon the anti-strike pro-
visions of the Senate railroad bill.
The House also is showing some
restlessness over the action of the
Committee on Interstate Commerce
in emitting similar provisions from
the Esch bill.
The public interest in the railroad
measures centers in the means
adopted to prevent strikes. A gen
eral railroad strike would be a
calamity But with the railroad en-
ployees organized as they are to-day
transportation could be brought to a
standstill at any moment by a de-
cree of the affiliated unions. The
strike weapon threatens national
safety L. ought to be curbed by
the government in the general
interest.
The railroads have long been a
semi-public agency. They are likely
to be taken more and more under
the direct control of the govern
ment. The workers are supporting
ambitious plans for "nationaliza-
tion," under which they would enjoy
the benefits both of high wages and
of share in profits. The Senate
bill allows a part of the profits to
go to the workers.
Under such conditions the en-
ployees have been divested of their
old status as wage-workers in pri-
vate industry. They ally themselves
with the government in scheme
of operation. They have representa-
ton in the directorates. They are,
in a sense, government function
aries. 1t is not too much to ask
that in return for all these special
benefits they renounce the right to
engage in private industrial war
that they cast in their lot unre-
servedly with the government and
the nominal private owners, the
other partners in the railroad enter
prise.
The public will have to pay the
cost of railroad reorganization.
Wages have gone up. Rates must
go up, for railroad service is about
the cheapest service in the market
to-day. Railroad earnings have
been held down artificially for years,
while earnings in other industries
have scared.
The public is not unwilling to
give the railroads a fair deal and
to see railroad wages maintained or
even increased But if it must
stand the cost of all this it ought
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
To the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t was not America that brought
Germany to ruin; neither was it Eng
land or France. 1t was the hatred
which filed Germany's heart that
brought her low. 1t was hatred that
carried her into the war and it was
hatred that caused her to lose it. Lu
dendorf wrote nothing more significant
in all his memoirs than when he ex-
planned that no one in Germany would
listen to the danger that threatened
from American Intervention, because
greatly. Hatred blinded them. A man
in a fight can wipe blood out of his
eyes and thus clear his vision and
fight on to victory. But man with
hatred has an incurable blindness that
only helps his enemy.
Poor "Anno," departing from these
shores, does we'll to go. His letter in
your journal Wednesday morning
shows that his poor mind is all gorged
with hate; a racial failing has beset
him.
He will spend the rest of his life in
Germany with puckered brow, feeling
heavy, bilious weight in his fore
head, hating us.
"By the living God, we shall bring
you to bay one day" he says. We
brought to bay by pack of puckered
browed blind men? The rubber ball
of German hate cannot explode; it can
only rebound. Stop hating, "Anno," if
you can bring your German mind to
drop it. 1t brings only our pity upon
you, not our hatred.
A GERMAN WE'LL WISHER.
New York, Nov. 12, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Rejiuvenation
, Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr. f. Milton Willis, in a letter
to The Tribune under date of October
II, uses the theory of reincarnation az.
an argument against the recent dis
covery Of a new elixir of life in the
form of gland graf.ing AS the de-
velopment OF mind and will power, be-
sides the law of Karma, is one of the
assumed reasons for rencarnation, it
seems to me that any discovery would
be welcomed which would prolong the
time of our physical existence and
thereby increase our opportunity for
advancement and attainment of a high
er mentality. AS we are using meat
of various animals for our daily food,
the new discovery apparently would
only require the prompt removal of the
respective gland from the freshly
slaughtered young animal and it's sub
stitution for the worn-out gland of
the human body. The operation seems
to be only minor one and can be
performed without the use of anas-
thetics This gland seems to hold or
produce the life fluid needed to run the
human or animal dynamo. In the case
of the removal of the gland from a
monkey that operation would hardly
come under the class of vivsection, be-
cause the operation is minor one
it would just age the monkey and re-
juvenate the human being
EMIL HERBECK.
New York, Nov. 10. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Ths~First Movie

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: At the risk of being the 1o1s
Constant Reader, to fell Won ,,o,, oro
wrong IN your article in Sundays Trib-
une entitled "Unreeling the Past of the
MOTION Picture l would like to state
that long before the May Irwin Kiss
and the Ocean Wave, Eumiero,s Gina
matograph was showing at Keith's Union
Square Theater This was in 1890
But (and here is where the FIRST real
motion picture was on exhibition Il was
IN Broadway store on the east side of
the way in the neighborhood of Fnlton
Street, and it was in 1884. 1t was called
Latham's kaleidoscope 1t was a genuine
motion picture, exactly as it is shown
to-day, and was given with the aid of a
calcium light, which was thrown through
film which was interrupted the same
as to-day, but much more imperfectly.
and the light was binding and The
flicker was dazzling
The picture shown was an organ
grinder standing in front of a fence. and
two girls were dancing in front of il
and skipping rope. This machine was
using what is to-day one of the basic
patents of the motion picture industry
(the Latham ratent), which l under
stand IS the momentary stopping of the
picture before the next one is thrown
into place and the interrupting shutter.
The admission price, 1 remember we'll.
was 25 cents
GREGORY COSTIGAN.
Noxzx Vail Ncxx
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15

joke in England and be laughed
out of court? Hardly. 1t is the
way of England to jest in her SOL
emnest moments. There can hardly
be any handicap for Mr.. johnson in
having opened his campaign by ap-
pealing first to the British sense of
humor. Rather, we suspect, is the
Anti-Saloon League showing it's old
acumen in propaganda that swept
this country into the desert district
of the world with hardly a tongue
awake to oppose it in time.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
The Descending Bolshevik

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In yesterdays Tribune editorial
you state that the alien Bolshevikj
resist deportation with frantic
energy" etc. This is not true, as you
could readily learn by asking nine out
of every ten Russians. They do not
want to be sent to Cutthroat Kol-
chak's government" but they would
be exceedingly happy to go to the
Soviet government.
When will papers of your kind learn
to tell the truth?
AN AMERICAN RADICAL.
New York, Nov II, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-15
Till They Meet Again
The Replies of Sundry Tribune Readers to Departing
Tcuton Who Said "Auf Wicderschcn" in These Columns

be lost than Boche adherent any day
of the week.
Yours, in shuddering terror,
SILANU.
New York, Nov. IL. 1919.