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New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Bolshevik Truthfulness

The defenders of Bolshevism before
the Overman committee, softening their
admissions as best they could, still we're
forced to admit, as Mr.. Frost points out
in his summing up of the hearing, that
the charges made against the Red regime
4 IN Russia are true. Lenine and Trotzky,
and particularly the former, attempt no
serious denial. Both the Bolshevik lead
ers frankly acknowledge terrorism and
Justify it. Lcnine in his address has dc
clared that the whole Bolshevik regime
rests on force ruthlessly exercised say
ing:
mo Socialist or Anarchist-call him
what you like--dares to say in any gath
crlng you choose to name that one can
arrive at Socialism without civil war-un-
less he has lost his reason. You may look
through the entire literature of all more
or less responsible Socialstic parties.
factions and groups, and you will not
find a single responsible and earnest
Socialist entertaining such nonsense as
that Socialism can come in other
wise than by civil war and that the land
owners and capitalists will relinquish
their privileges. That is a degree of
simplicity that borders on imbecility."
Later, in his report on "The Immc-
diate Tasks of the Soviet Power" Lenne
said it would be the greatest folly and
the most senseless Utopianism to sup
pose that translation from Capitalism to
Socialism is possible without compulsion
and without dictatorship" Continuing,
he said:
zone cannot conquer and abolish Capt.
talism without ruthlessly overcoming the
opposition and the e&poiters. Every
great revolution, but especially the Social
list revolution--e if there had been no
external warts unthinkable without an
internal war, that is, civil war, which
implies even greater disorder than exter-
nal war"
Trotzky admits that ''the cleansing of
Petrograd from counter revolutionaries
was carried out with great intensity,"
and says that the struggle in Moscow
assumed an extremely protracted and
sanguinary character" Last summer
Trotzky said "!aamine does not threaten
Us, it is here"
Bolshevst sympathizers here are not
equally frank, because they know the
truth would not win favor here. Yet
they agree with their co-workers on the
basic principle that the end justifies the
means--in Russia murder and in Amer
ica lying.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Bogus Plebiscites

The Legislature of Missouri has
membership of 176. Of these fifty Dem
ocrats offer to resign and to stand for
reelection at special election. 1t is
suggested to Senator Reed, Democrat,
who is opposing the covenant of the
league of nations, that he do the same
The impression is sought to be given
that in some way test Of public opin-
ion will be had.
The plan is about as disingenuous as
the proposal of The World that the
round robin Senators in the national
legislature forthwith resign and face
their constituents. The World does not
suggest that the whole Senate resign,
thus giving nationwide test. It is
not interested in having Hitchcock, Of
Nebraska, resign; nor Pomerene, Of
Ohio; nor Goclet, Of Rhode Island; nor
Smith, of Maryland; nor Jones, of New
Mexico; nor Phelan, Of California; nor
the two Senators from Nevada. These
supporters Of the covenant, being in
danger Of non-return, are to remain.
Only Senators unwilling to do as they
are told are to put themselves up to be
shot at
The Missouri plan has fairness about
equal to that of The World The pre-
tended test is to be in Democratic legis-
lative districts. Districts not of the
true mossback variety arc not to be
consulted, 1t may be conceded these
districts would largely vote as they have
voted since the Civil War. The Presi-
dent is strong enough with his own
party to hold most of these carefully
selected Missouri counties and thus win
a victory"
If nationwide plebiscite we're pos
sible, with poriod for education suf-
ficiently long to permit thorough con-
sideration, it would be desirable But
for bogus plebiscites, carefully devised
for an arranged result, nothing can be
said Such would have about the same
value as newspaper polls when the qucs-
tion is care you in favor of league
to preserve peace?"
But one inference is to be drawn
from the persistent effort which is be-
ing made to confuse the public as to
league nlatters-the proponents of the
covenant do not resort to such tactics
because they prefer them, but because
they think they must.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Testimony of Aristophanes

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Permit me space to call attention to
THE Knights" of Aristophanes. 1t contains
many passages of portraiturc of our self
appointed and self determined chief dele
gate to the peace conference. For example:
But the country folks complain that in
fraudulent design
You retailed them skins of treaties that
appeared like trusty leather
Of peace secure and lasting, but the
wear and tear and weather
Proved it all dccaycd and rotten, only fit
for sale and show.
Such as here you now behold him. all his
life has he been known,
TIN nc reapcd reputation in a harves at
not his own;
Now he shows the shcaves at home that
ne clnndestinely conveyed,
Tied and bound and heaped together till
his bargain can be made
A. NJ. NJ
Orange, N. j., March 10. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
The Kaiser, Hero or Craven?

Did the Kaiser, by running away,
prove himself hero or a craven? The
question is one with which historians
probably will be busy for a long time.
but the issue has been sharply joined
already in Germany, where the people
must have something to talk about while
they are waiting for the peace terms to
be handed to them.
The discussion was precipitated by
the statement of Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg, who, still loyal to his onetime
Emperor and resenting the criticisms
levelled at the fugitive ruler, has pub
Hshed defence of the flight Accord
ing to Hindenburg, the Kaiser's abdica-
ton and flight constituted an act of su
preme remuneration and were inspired
solely by his love for Germany.
"The Emperor" says Hindenburg,
"could have betaken himself to the fight
ing troops in order to meet death at
their head in last attack upon the en-
emy, but the armistice so l-eenly de-
sired by the people would thereby have
been postponed and the lives of many
soldiers uselessly sacrificed"
1t was only after "severe mental
struggle that Wilhelm came to this de-
clslon, according to his field marshal,
who ignores the fact that neither the
Kaiser nor any of his six sons showed
any great inclination to "die at the head
of their troops" On the other hand
the critics of the ex-Kaiser assert that
Prince Maximilian had long foreseen
that if the throne was to be saved at all
the abdication of the Emperor and the
remuneration of the Crown Prince we're
necessary, and had urged this upon the
Kaiser, but that the latter "dallied with
the thought" of abdication until it was
too late. He couldn't make up his mind
whether to give up the throne or take
the one last desperate chance with the
army. Apparently it was another case
Of
"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That dares not put it to the touch
To gain lose it all"
SO the Kaiser, according to the Taqc-
blatt, went to Great Headquarters, where
the atmosphere was more congenial, and
there he remained indecisve until the
hour had struck.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

partments ali over Washington. During
the long hours sat in these offices / saw
thousands Of employees wasting time. The
system is wrong. No business concern
would tolerate it. A reduction of force of
75 per cent and a iudicious injection of
pep would accomplish an equal amount of
work. Official Washington requires the
services of an undertaken.
To make long story short, the Bureau
of War Risk Insurance had decided my
claim one year after it was made. in my
favor, OF course had ignored all letters,
and to cap the climax OF stupidity, had
sent the result of its deiberation to
France, where I have never been, just be-
cause my claim had originally been made
from a regiment of which was member
in 1917. and which went across. Yet on
file with my claim were eighteen letters dis
tinctly informing the bureau that / had
not gone over and giving my organization
at Camp Devens.
1t cost me $685. to collect $500, exclu-
sive of cigars and tips. My money was
kept from me whole year, and l was paid
no interest.
Mr.. Dawley is right and Colonel Lindsey
wrong. His organization is incompetent.
1t is diseased from the neck to the scalp.
SERGEANT
New York, March 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Dead Fountains
From The Pagon)

(Fron, The PagoN)
NJ CONSTANTS on leaf-strewn cloiste1
lVl walk,
And through the colonnades, dead foun-
tains, rain-flled,
Cast upward hollow echoes of the stars.
Moonlight tinsellng a girls black hair
AS light step crinkled Though the Ieavess
"Paolo? Paolo?"
The dry rustings of the leaves
Blurred out the whisperings of two,
Wrapped silk about the sound of kisses.
Moonlight streaming in silver
Along rapier blades.
Heavy feet scatter leavss
Into frightened leaps.
Twice g curse!
Then the moan of a maJ
Lying, pale head in the light,
Body in shadow.
"Paolo! Paolo! Help!"
The cry of girl totters against the colon.
nades
And falls across dead fountains
That cast upward hollow echoes of the
stars.
ROYALL SNOW.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
A Week of Verse
The Lady Abbe.s
(For A. B. McC.)
From Yo1sh)

From YoNshJ
A LADY tall and frail and rare,
"A She comes wind-blown along the streets
From places far and otherwhere
She comes on swift and gentle feet,
And, though she wears no snowy hood
Nor trailing robe--I know she should.
For she has walked down shadowed halls,
Past pointed windows, known soft bcllss
Dwelt in great peace behind white walls
With sorrow that she never tells,
And made those glad who crossed her wayy
Pale futtering nuns in white and gray.
HORTENSE FLEXNER.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

wrote-bless his trusting soul. In over
letters were written.
On December IL, 1918, was discharged
On my final statement the $15-dollar-a-
month deduction was still made, a total
of over 5000 due me. was told to write
to the auditor Of the War Department. I
wrote December withered, January bios
somed. | went to Washington At the War
Department I was introduced to specimen
of homo defunctus eXtnctus fossificatus
who, I told the right party to
see. at his Office promptly at
o'clock, but he did not arrive until after
10 o'clock He said that since had come
specially TO Washington my would be
given immediate attention, and that could
go home confident that interest had been
aroused. Go home I guess not! This
shocked everybody, but they consulted the
files under my name. Triumphantly an
austere person produced my letter of De-
ccmber is. Il was neatly stamped ere
ceived." The homo d. e. f. offered this as
proof that the War Department was on the
job. However. NY case presented unusual
dificuitcs which had tc be overcome by
personal Influence. / was given a card and
Mir. pawley is right. The place ia large
building filed with people who do nothing.
nothing. nothing. The girls exchange
"reminiscences nbou. the latest Y ". C. A.
or X. of G. exercises and the men look i'm
portant as government officials should.
In all, had to pass through eight do
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

him to oppose hypocritical pledgemak
ing. He was against promises which
would not be respected. This brought
down on him the wrath of the Pharisees
OF pretended pacifism, and they mis-
represented his attitude; but, as COM
monty happened, events show he was
right.
Article X should be studied and con-
sidered by every citizen. If it is few
will have the effrontery to say the cove
nant is perfect and unamendable.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Applnuded Criticism of Wilson

All of the points set down above repre-
senting the meetings. view. were not covered
by both debaters. President Lowell said no
word in criticism of President Wilson. Yet,
judging by his appearance, he did not at all
regret the Senator's direct attack upon Mr..
Wilson This of the parts of the
evening that brought forth almost universal
applause. Senator Lodge seemed as much
astonished as any one. He compelled
to make the attack by one Of the questions
which President Lowell put to him. From a
debaters point of view, this question
blunder. He asked "Will you formulate and
send to the proper quarter the amendments
that YOU think ought to be made?" The
only answer-and the complete answer-was
the one that Sentor Lodge proceeded to make:
That he had no authority to speak for the
Senate; that if the President had consulted
the Senate beforehand, as most Presidents
have donc the battle would have been half
Won, and that the proper course was for the
President to call the Senate in extra session
at once
The audience began to cheer and applaud
the moment this note was struck, and when
the Senator, with all the fire in him. de-
clared, "And in the path that George Wash
ington and Abraham Lincoln have walked
there is no man too great to tread" there
was tremendous demonstration. Pract-
cally every one joined in.
The Turn OF the Tide
On its face the applause seemed absurd.
What the audience in terms was cheering
was nothing more less than the Senate
of the United States, certainly not popu-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

From Kisnet)
GGT Owe will be a sword to you,"
l. My mother said
"Not pillow
Behind your head,
Not staff
Below your hand,
Not stream
In brown land;
Love will never
Be breast
Where you, sore beset,
May rest.
what you have felt
You will forget.
To old-time JOY,
To oldtime fret
Eyes you will shut,
Ears you will seal.
You will bow,
And you will kneel.
Grass beneath,
Sky overhead
What you possessed
You will count as dead
"You will give all to love as his due:
And for that will love be a sword to you'-f
Ny mother said.
MARY CAROLYN DAVIES.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
A Baby s Dress

From The ToSchstoneJ
TT is made of finest linen
l. Sheer wasp-wings;
1t is made with a flowing panel
Down the front,
All overrun with fagot-stitched bow-knots
Holding hours and hours
Of fairy-whte forget-me- nots
And it is finished.
Tonight, crisp with new pressing.
1t lies stifly in its pasteboard box,
Smothered in folds of tissue paper
Which enveop it like shroud-
In its coffin shaped pasteboard box.
Tomorrow a baby will wear 1t at chris<
tening;
Tomorrow the dead-white of its linen
Will glow with the tint Of baby skin;
And out of its hlmy mystery
There will reach
Baby hands.
But tonight the lamplight plays over it
and finds it cold.
Like the fower-husk Of little soul
Which. new-iived, has nuttered to it's dess
tiny.
1t lies in its coffin shaped pasteboard box,
Tomorrow will make it. what hands cana
not
Limp and warm with babyness,
A hallowed thing
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Article Ten

Article X of the draft Of the pro-
posed league Of nations begins as fol-
lows:
The high contracting parties under
take to respect and preserve against out
side aggression the territorial integrity
and existing political independence of
all states members Of the league"
This extraordinary all-around guar
antee is beginning to receive the atten-
ton it merits. In The Neao RepubIc
1t receives caustic analysis from William
Hard
Mr.. Hard submits that if this rule
had been adopted in the days of Mar
Gus Aurelius the world would still see
a Roman Empire stretching from the
Tweed to the Euphrates. The conclu-
sion can scarcely be avoided. Article X
freezes the status quo; it assumes that
future liberal growth is impossible and
puts mankind in straitjacket. 1t pre-
scribes, as Mr.. Hard remarks, not a
method of procedure, as do other parts
OF the covenant, but lays down a rule
of conduct morally binding for limit
less periods on the makers of the re-
ciprocal pledge,
In our War Of Independence France
came to Americas s aid, and the war. on
the part of France, became one Of tech
nica1 aggression. If Article X had ex
listed in 1776, Germany, Russia, Spain
all nations party to the proposed pact
would have been under pledge to assist
King George III. Texas and California
to-day would be q prey to Mexican an
archy if such an agreement had been
made seventy-five years ago. Cuba, the
Philippines and Porto Rico would still
be under Spanish misgovernment if the
proposed pact had been in force in 1898.
We would be 1T war now with the great
powers because Of the Haytian, Domi-
nlcan and Ncaraguan policies of Pres
ldent Wilson. Had such a provision
been in being five years ago Turkey
would be unmolested in murder cam
paigns against the Armenians, and there
would be no free Poland, Bohemia. Jupo-
Slavia or Finland.
The qualifying phrase that the guar
antee Is only against external aggression
IN valueless. Domestic change and that
which, in international law, is aggrcs
SION, are generally intermingled, one
bringing the other. No one can ade-
quately assess the consequences of war
ranting for all time, as is proposed. the
territorial integrity and political inde
Dendence OF all states members of the
league. II our national word ia to be
kept, soldiers OF the United States must
be ready for summons to all parts Of
the world TO fight against the substance
OF liberty and freedom and IN the in.
terest Of tyranny.
Tho league as such is powcr]css IN
itself TO compel obedience 70 It's orders
Inere Is no sanction 10 it's dccrecs. bit
even though this be so, even though we
cannot be physically compelled to ioin
In sroundup. TO refuse would break
the national word. Colonel Roosevelt
favored arbitration treaties and peace
schemes, but his moral soundncss led
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Things

From The Paoonl
THINGS are very intriguing.
Il In times of illness,
When death has peered
Boldly above the horizon,
A woman is seduced to fold her laces,
On slip gay strings of gsrlanding beads,
Blue. amber, green,
Cooling her fingers
We still have monkey-tricks
Of carrying off Things into corners,
And gloating there
Though lightnings crack
The mirroring sky,
And thunders yell-unheeded orscles.
Manicuring-toos make nice diversion
When death is stalking near human dwell>
ing,
Or else has ravaged and passed by,
Still crunching!
KATHERINE W. M'CLUSKEY.
Isolation
From Youth
IN EATH is blade
H. That sewers either way the edge 10
turned:
Not only you are lost,
But these, who walk with me,
Their eyes still glad.
HORTENsE FLEXNER.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Why Overlook New York ;

fFroni The Cievcidmd Plain Dealer
Thirty-three and one-third per cent Of
the nations saughtering is done in Chi
cago, boasts a Chicago exchange. Well,
Clevelnnds murder statistics are not so
negligible, either,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

And it seemed based on realities. But it
was not Faith rose triumphant again.
And faith was in strict accordance with
the military facts.
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seH E WANT O. league of nations.

Sc M WANl q league OF nations.
~ But a0c don't like the way Presi-
dent Wilson is trying to force has league
the countrp
"Wc think the present draft needs much
amending specially to preseruc the Monroe
Doctrine.
"If it is so amended at Paris, 'oe wont
the Senate to ratify it,
IF it isn't so amended at Paris, ,cc ,cnut
the Senate to amend it,
"And more nonsonse from anybodD."
That would be fair guess at the net
popular significance of the Lodge Lowell de-
bate, a rough consensus of Boston opinion
as it developed from the argument and from
thc applause. # was d fair audience, about
evenly divided between the two speakers
when the debate opened. Yet twice in the
evening, with respect to the two most i'm
portant issues raised practically the whole
audience Joined in loud and prolonged ap-
plausc. Beyond question the discussonthc
two speakers too agreement to
yield sharp dcbatedd much to clarity
the minds of everybody present, Of every
body Down East, in fact.
All in the Family
Senator Lodge is Boston hero, and Presi-
dent Lowell. if not exactly popular hero
outside of Cambridge, has the respect and
admiration of every one. They good
friends. Both arc Republicans. The audi
that jammcd Symphony Hall was chosen
in part by lottery but it looked a typical
Boston Symphony crowd, which is to say 1t
was largely Back Bay and exceedingly in
tellgent throughout.
Yet the man to man form Of the occasion
inevitably produced results. The merits and
benefits Of such public discussion were never
more clearly revealed. Senator Lodge made
his position clearer than he has ever made
1t before. President Lowell, starting with
carefully prepared speech, was melted by
the occasion to a personal give and take of
impromptu candor that brushed aside mass
Of nonsense. And the 5000 present played
their part too. There three parties in
such contest. Each of the three counts.
That is the merit of this old fashioned
method of hammerng out ideas. 1t has it's
limitations, one of which is that a high de-
gree of intelligence and speaking ability are
demanded by the debaters. And modern poll
tics has not developed able speakers. The
principals for Lincoln Douglas debate arc
rarely to be found. In furnishing Senator
Lodge and President Lowell, Massachusetts
did herself proud. ! think every one who
heard the debate in Symphony Hall came
away feeling regret that such occasions have
become so nfrequent in American politics
and wishing that genuine political debate
might be revived.
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My Mother Said

.OYALL SNOW.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-26
SECRETARY BAKER INVITED
TO ADDRESS GEORGIA MAYOs

ATLANTA, May 26.-Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker will be invited
to address the first convention of the
Municipal League of Georgia in At
lanta on July 8. Invitations will be
sent to the secretary by Governor Dor
sey and Mayor Key, following the ac-
ton taken by tie league committee
composed of City Attorney James L.
Mayson, of Atlanta, Mayor H. H. Tiff
of Albany, and J. B. Lyons, of Rome.
The Municipal League of Georgia
includes majority of the cities and
towns of the state. 1t was organized
at the last session of the legislature
to promote municipal efficiency and
progress.
Mayor Tiff, president of the league,
expects many applications for mem
bership to be filed at the convention
here July s.
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address the meetings are DR.. J. Camp.
bell White, DR.. F. P. Haggard, R. E.
Diffendorfer, David McConaughy, Rev
Asa M. Parker, DR.. W. E. Doughty
DR.. Charles H. Pratt, DIR. Ernest F,
Hall, Franklin Cogswell, BiBshop Lu-
Their B. Wilson, DR.. j. Timothy Stone,
Mrs. E. c. Cronk, Mrs. Herbert L.
Hill, Miss J. Gertrude Hutton, Miss
Emily Tillottson, Dr. E. M. Poteat, B.
Carter Millikin, DR.. T. H. P. Sniler,
Rev. c. L. Ogilvie and Harry S.
Myers.