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New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

ceptible of prohibition, without the
charge Of infringing on the freedom
of speech or press. Simply because
the advice in one case is directed to
particular individual or number of
individuals and toward particular
crime, and in the other case is gen.
eral, makes no difference in princi-
pie between the two. We are
confident that we have kept within
constitutional limits in the measure
submitted, and that measure in no
way threatens either individual
rights or individual safety,
The validity of this argument was
conceded the other day by Justice
Holmes, even though he favored
freeing the Russian anarchists
whose case was before him. 81 do
not doubt for a moment" said the
justice in his dissenting opinion,
"that by the same reasoning that
would justify promoting persuasion
to murder
The unconstitutionality of the
criminal anarchy statute is not the
reason for it's non-enforcement. The
weakness has been in administra-
tive officers, not in the law.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Simple Annals
, Editor of The Tribune.

To The Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Martha Leonard appears TO bs
Lady Entirely Pleased With Her.
self, and | genuinely envy any one who
can publicly, in temples and market
places, utter joyful thanksgiving that
she is not as others are. | belong
to the Others. am the otherest thing
you ever saw. Meckly l take my stand
among them and try not to feel that
It is an impertinence for Nine. Mar
TIA to instruct me as to how | should
manage my own affairs, of which she
can know nothing.
The $4-a-day worker. who had raised
our ire, had refused to use butter sub
tltutes in our cooking (she no longer
mas that chance) and glories in the
iuXures she is able to put before her
man May | not, "Woodrow Wilsony'
speaking, state her one days menu, as
gwen to me? For breakfast. two
melons, cereal, if so desired. with
grade A milk; four strictly fresh eggs,
When they were 90 cents d dozen: a
platter OF bacon and an Scent orange
Tor himself" to take away in his
pocket. For dinner, a juicy porter
house, swimming in S0-cent butter cher
own description), proper vegetables ac-
companying and sweet. Nearly all
these things are the very ones we
have been obliged to give up in order
to save, as Nine. Martha advises US
to do.
should like TO state. quite meek.
~ that I rather fancy myself IS
cook believe I am cook bv in.
suhct' with a good New England trains
ing as well, though it does not 90 back
as far as 1920. The earliest date l am
sure of is 1923.
Fhe domestic question is an ab,
horrent one just now, and of course,
my own sordid experiences are but
those of many others. | have not
worked out my problems so success.
iuily as Nine. MARTA has, but my probs
lens are not hers. MRS. A. Mem. L.
New York, Nov. rs, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Many Complications

AS usual in any Balkan affair there
ars many complications to be faced in
the matter of Dalmatia. Thus if the
Italians continue their present policy
the first step will be war between Jugo-
Slavia and Italy, but almost equally
certain will be attacks upon Jugo-
Slavia by both the Bulgarians and the
Rumanians, who have been acting more
or less in accord with Italians in re-
cent weeks.
Between the Jugo- Slavs and the Ru-
manians the issue is the possession of
the old Hungarian province of the
Banat, one district Of which. under the
recent peace treaties was assigned to
the Serbs-that is, to the new Jupo-
Slav state. The Rumanans have de-
cllned to accept this decision and have
moblIized troops with the purpose of
invading the Banat. The outbreak of
hostilities between the Jugo-Slavs and
the Italians would be the signal for the
Rumanlans to carry out their threats.
AS for the Bulgarians, they have al
ready attacked the Serbs twice in
vain endeavor to gain possession of
Macedonia. To their old grievance the
latest treaty of peace had added new
vitality by ceding to the Jugo-s slavs
small but important territories on the
old Serbo- Bulgarian frontier. If Serb
troops were recalled to defend the
banat and to oppose the Italians, new
Bulgar invasion of Macedonia would be
wellnigh inevitable
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

The police band does not lean on
the public treasury. 1t buys it's own
instruments, music and uniforms,
and rehearses during the few hours
a policeman is not on duty. Without
money or price it toots welcome to
the boys from over the seas, marches
the boys off in parades and fills the
City Hall with joyful noise whenever
Distinguished Visitor is to be told
he is welcome and that if there is
any country our people love and ad-
mire it is the one he halls from.
And the only drag" on the public is
a couple of benefit concerts a year.
This year one is to be held at Pros
pect Hall on December 4 and one at
Hunts Point Palace, The Bronx, on
December 5. Be there if you can; if
you can't, buy a ticket. We refrain,
although the strain is great, from
saying how much New York owes to
the Police Department-to the loyal
pavement Founders who have ac-
cepted the mandate to guard s.
100000 and to induce them to be at
least half civilized.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
The Lady and the Commons

There will be few extremists to
draw heartrending or world-saving
differences from the success of Lady
Astor (of Virginia and Plymouth)
on the British hustings. That the
general American public is mildly
amused and somewhat gratifed and
quite unexcited is nearer the truth.
Women are not all naturally and
inevitably Tories, because the first
woman to take her seat in the House
of Commons will be Unionist.
Charm can work wonders in dour
and solemn world, but it can hardly
solve Britain's countless political
and industrial problems-almost as
complex and grave as our political
and industrial problems in America.
Miss Jeannette Rankin came and
went at Washington, and the wars,
big and little, military and indus
trial, wag on much as before.
Lady Astor seems plainly to have
more qualities of political leadership
and parliamentary success; but the
Mother Of Parliaments is venerable
and accustomed to change, and one
new member in her family is not
likely to remold radically her faith
or ways.
On the other hand, the ice is
broken. What Lady Astor can do
other Englishwomen can do. A
Pankhurst has already stood for
Parliament, unsuccessfully - the
able and original Christabel, who is
not to be confused with her fighty
sister. There are other able wom-
en- in England who could make
a real contribution to the legislation
of their country. May they come
forward! May the same type of
woman enter political life in Amer
lea! Not women as women, but
ability as ability, is the crying need
of democracies in their govern
ments. They have been wasting a
large fund of ability in the past,
the ideas and aims of their
women. A plucky and clever
pioneer like Lady Astor sets an ex-
ample and establishes a precedent
that will help bring into govern
mental service a wealth of original
and ingenious ability. That she
comes forward of her own indi-
vidual initiative not in the least on
behalf of any woman's party, and
distinctly in opposition to those
radicals who have been credited by
the enemies of suffrage with being
the chief proponents, is but another
proof of the broadly human basis
Of woman's new interest in the
state.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
The Bulgarian Treaty

The American delegates to the
Paris Conference have signed
treaty of peace with Bulgaria. This
document will presumably be sub
mitted to the Senate, which will then
have to wrestle with this interesting
question: How can two countries
make peace without having been at
war?
From a legal point of view a
peace treaty between the United
States and Bulgaria is an absurdity.
We had many opportunities to de-
clare war on Bulgaria when she was
the ally of the two Ieuton empires,
with which we were at war. Con-
gress wanted to make declaration
but the Administration opposed such
action. We didn't even suspend
diplomatic relations with Bulgaria
We refused absolutely to put our
selves in a position to be principal
in our own right In any settlement
with the Bulgars.
VIII the Senate hold the treaty to
be nugatory, since no gap exists in
our friendly relations with Bulgaria
to be bridged over by such an instru-
ment?
But even if the Senate waves
aside all legal and formal considera-
tions and admits that the conclusion
OF a peace treaty requires no ante
cedent state of war, an acceptance
of the Bulgarian agreement means a
protracted debate.
Looked at practically, the effect of
the treaty is to pledge the United
States to underwrite the status oato
which is about to be erected in the
Balkans. The equilibrium will be
unstable. Greece has signed the
compact reluctantly. Rumania and
Serbia, the two countries whose ter
ritory Germany had helped Bulgaria
to overrun, have not signed it. Bull
garia subscribes to its terms in the
same sullen spirit in which she sub
scribed six years ago as loser to
the Treaty of Bucharest.
Rumania and Serbia (Jugo- -Slavia)
are resisting the race and religious
minority provisions of the Austrian
treaty, on the ground that their
sovereignty is impaired by such pro
visions. The Balkan region is a
hotbed Of racial and national ieal-
ousies and passions. The Austrian
and Bulgarian settlements will not
allay friction there, but will increase
it. Under these conditions Ameri-
can acceptance of specific obligations
guaranteeing Balkan boundaries
seems dangerous policy
No one who understands the
temper of Congress and the country
can imagine that the United States
would consent to send troops to the
Balkans to enforce the Neuilly
treaty. But if we have no idea of
sending troops it leould be bad faith
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Practical Peace
Hon Council Could Have Been
DEVELOPED Into Workable League

developed Into q w 0rRdble League
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After reaching an agreement as
to the terms of the treaty the first
task of the Paris peace conferees
should have been the. establishment of
the machinery for enforcing those
terms and for maintaining the unity
of the Allies until their economic
stability could be reestablished.
The machinery was already in Paris
and was in smooth action. The Su-
preme Council of the Allies was there
functioning, and functioning we'll
enough to have won the war. There
was the nucleus for the league of ma
tons; fourteen united governments
were behind it. The Supreme Council
of the Allies. as constituted on Novem-
Der IL, 1913, was amply able to pursue
that stern, complete fulfillment of the
conditions of the peace treaty" which
Marshal Foch has rightly demanded.
BY the addition of commission on
trade and economics the Supreme
Council could have met every i'm
mediate problem with authority and
decision. The fifteen little wars. the
Fiume tiasco and the Russian disgrace
might have been averted. Within the
ranks of the Allies trade could have
been reestablished, the rates of ex-
change maintained, the unity of
thought and purpose preserved.
Then the theorists in every land could
have argued and fought for the league
to their hearts content, and the Allied
peoples, who sincerely want proper.
peace-preservng union of all civilized
governments, would have Fundamentally
aided and supported them.
But an autocratic mind, honest proba
bly, in the belief that it had the best
possible solution, disrupted the unity of
this country, estrangcd Italy and has
delighted Germany.
1t is by no means too late to confer
upon the Supreme Council of the Allies
full authority and force to carry out
the unmoditied terms of the treaty. It
is by no means too late to add to the
Supreme Council commission on
trades and economies, made up of finan-
ciers and business men from every Allied
country, who shall immediately confer
and take steps to afford relief where
relief is most urgent and outline a
sound basis for the resumption of inter
national trade relations and to aid
those Allies who have suffered the most.
With Marshal Foch at the head of
the military commission, and practical
business men on the commission on
trade and economies, the Supreme
Council would have the united support
of all Allied peoples.
Out of this Supreme Council. capable
Of handling practical needs in practical
manner, would grow in natural fash
ion the workable league of nations
which every peaceloving human being
earnestly hopes to live to see.
c. LAW WATKINS.
Rye, N. Y, Nov. 26, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Fellowship With Lenine

On April 2, 1917, when President
Wilson asked Congress to declare
war on Germany, he said:
"a steadfast concert of peace can
never be maintained except by \
partnership of democratic nations.
No autocratic government could be
trusted to keep faith within or to
observe it's covenants"
What are the essentials of a demo-
cratic nation? First, acceptance of
the principle that sovereignty re-
sides in the people; second, a scheme
of representative government which
shall perform duties assigned to it
by the sovereign; third, code of
limitations by which the sovereign
secures to the people the enjoyment
of defined rights.
Judged by any one of these stand
ards, the present government of
Russia is not democratic. The SOW
ereignty of the people is not ac-
knowledged, for the people have been
prevented from expressing their
will; such government as there is
rests not on consent or popular ap.
pointment but on force and seizure
of power by a military .aninority;
there are no rights in Russia which
the government is required to re-
spect. Thus all the stigmata of
autocracy are present in an aggra-
waited form.
Yet one Maxim Litvinoff, whose
authority is no greater than that
the self-appointed masters of Rus
sia are able to give, is in informal
negotiation at Copenhagen looking
to securing recognition for the
Soviet government and to a lifting
of the blockade which the Allies
maintain against Soviet Russia.
James O'Grady, a member of the
British Parliament, is in conference
with him, and there are reports that
Litvinoff may succeed in his object.
If Lloyd George yields to what are
called the practicalities of the stu
alton, doubtless then effort will be
centered on securing recognition
from the United States.
This country has sustained diplo-
matte relations with China's Son of
Heaven, with the Mikado when he
was absolute, with the Gar when he
was Autocrat of All the Russias,
and with various sultans, rajahs.
panjandrums and despotic kingpins.
But, so doing, we have always seen
what we were doing. If we have
fellowship with Lenine let US not
make false pretences. We will be
showing to the Russian dictator a
tolerance we withheld from the
Kaiser.
If the hand of fellowship is ex-
tended to Lenine let us at the same
moment hang crepe on the resound-
ing phrases Of President Wilson
quoted above and disavow the doc
trine he expressed, and so avoid add
ing hypocrisy to inconsistency.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
The Coming 7ower

Lines Welcoming Old Art Chapman
to Our Midst
Back where the coin comes q little
stronger,
Back where the streets are little
longer,
That's where the East begins;
Back where the cares of life are
lighter,
Where tho white way lights are \
trihe brighter,
Where things are so right that they
can't be Fighter,
That's where the East begins.
Back where the pay wad's a trifie
thicker,
Back where the news breaks that feeds
the ticker,
That's where the East begins;
Back where the street cars run every
minute,
Where always there's Jack enough to
be in it,
Where comfort Is and good chance
to win it,
That's where the East begins.
Back in the world where there's some
thing doing,
Where is banished the custom of fret
ting and stewing,
That's where the East begins;
Where there's never moment for
lonesome pining,
Where the guy is taboo that indulges
in whining,
Where the stars of Broadway are
forever shining,
That's where the East begins.
FARQY.
Still, the New Workers. idea of where
the West begins is Port Jervis.
At noon yesterday the amount re-
ceived to support the distinguished d
poet had reached the inspiriting total
of $500.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

lacking official authority. The warn
ing was sounded, and the rulers of
Germany ignored it. They may not
have been absolutely sure of British
intervention, but as they plotted for
war they anticipated it and hence
argued that matters would not be
made worse For them by a violation
of Belgium.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Tongue Workers

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The new Labor party has de-
clared in its constitution that its OBJ
ject will be 'to organize all hand and
brain workers of the country to sup
port the principles of a political, So
cial and Industrial democracy"
We wonder why thus exclude the
union labor agitator, who works neither
his hand nor brain, but only mis-
chievously wags his tongue?
E.. C. CAMPBELL.
Utica, N. Y, Nov 2s, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Guerrilla Warfare

One thing is patent: all the southern
Slavs, Serbs, Slovenians and Croats
would prefer new war, with all its
sacrifices, to annexation to Italy. In
this spirit they will resist d'Annunzio
and the country on the eastern shore
OF the Adriatic is admirably adanted
to guerrilla fighting. Nor is it bv anv
means certain that the southern Slavs
might not ultimately derive aid from
the Austrian Germans, a portion Of
whose territory, together with a omar
ter OF million of German-speak;ne,
Tyrolese, has been included witb;n
Italian frontiers against their will and
protest.
Finally, Italy is faced with the nrac
tical certainty of a rising in Albania
"here Italian troops have occunied
large areas against the will Of the
people. Again and again protests have
come from albania against italian
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
4 Long. Struggle

war between the southern Slavs
and the Italians would not be termi-
mated by a single swift campaign. nor
would Italian occupation of q portion of
the Slav territory bring about set
Element. The Serbs carried on their
resistance to the Turks for four
centuries, after Kossovo enabled the
Turks to overrun their territories. The
Montenegrins never surrendered in
their mountains. Moreover, in the
recent World War the Croats and
Slovenians fought against the Italians
with very great success until the final
campaign of 1918.
Given the critical domestic situation
OF Italy, given the strain placed upon
her by the Turkish War and even more
by the World War, given the present
| domestic unrest and economic ano So
cialistic agitation, the prospect of
another long war, with the certainty Of
continued sacrifices and costly effort
after the war itself had ended in q
military occupation, might easily lead
to internal revolution.
The best thing friends of Italy can
nope for is that the government will
De able to regain control of the situa-
tlon and restrain d'Annunzio and his
fellow adventurers Had their opera
tions ended at Fiume a solution of the
problems might have been found. for
IN all the countries allied with Italy
there was and there remains measure
OF sympathy for the Fiume claim. But
II Italy follows d'Annunzio into a Dali
matlan campaign there will be little
sympathy and less support for Italv
anywhere, least of all in the United
States.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
The Letters Of Vinaigretta

Dear Pollyanna:
Your flowers came. Is there not
enough Joy in the world without trying
to add to it? Besides, there is moth
ing so depressing as throwing away
dead flowers.
am going to the Army Navy game.
My only bet is that it will be a poor
game. Dulcinea says that she goes to
see the crowd, which is a sight in
itself
Next time you want to send me
something, say it with sirloin steaks.
VINAIGRE,TTA.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Too Unsel6sh
(Frou The C,x,..,,

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer,.
jim Larkin's lawyer says that the
ia" against criminal anarchy is uncon-
s'i'u''onal' The Constitution, in other
words, does not approve of laws against
conspiring to overthrow the Conat;tu-
''on' what an unselfsh Constitution +,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Peace Remote

Even if none of the great powers
ohat IS, France, Britain and the ITn;+od
States~ac actually intervene on boba1r
Oh the southern Slavs, all of them ~gll
De IN honor bound to refrain from,
giving Italy all further support. fnan-
clal or material. League of nations or
~ league of nations, Americans will
NOT contNbute to the conquest OF q
race whlch has earned it's right to
iioerty by three gallant struggles in the
iast decade and is in its resistance to
i'ailan aggression fortified by every
principle which the victors in the re-
cent struggle have claimed to cham
pion.
1lven the present situation bow-
ever the prospect of peaceful accomn,o-
datlon seems remote in the extreme
When Garibaldi went on his immortal
adventures there was Cavour to cal, -
halt at the right moment The lack of
a Cavour to-day may cost Italv as
much as the absence of BismarcI
has cost Germany in recent vea,s
copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

Of course the explosives in "Red'
headquarters were merely for salut-
ing purposes when the much-talked-
of peaceful revolution" arrives.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

We do not know whether Mr, Rein
aid Werrenrath keeps scrapbook of
his press notces-so few singers do.
But if he does happen to have such
repository We wish he would paste in
it the fact that we had rather listen
to him than to any other singing NOR
tai. He has all the gifts the gods can
give-B. l.. L. in the Chicago Tribune.
Mr.. Rcinald Werrcnrath keeps a
scrapbook Whether he subscribes to
clipping bureau we don't know But
if he does, this will cost him pretty
penny; sc for the Chicago Tribune
mention; SC for this one; and sc for
each of the newspapers these columns
may be syndicated to-
Speaking Of which, we cured Old
Sam Merwin Of the clipping prodigality.
We used to mention him every day,
and it cost him 35c a day Just to lose
a set Of tennis.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

Chicago, in the midst of crime
wave, temporarily turns aside from
argument proving her moral supe-
riority to New York.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

You ear purchass merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute satety-tor y dissatistao.
tIsn eesuits In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
= pay yeur money back upon request. No red tape.
Ne quibb'ins We make good promptly II the
advertiser docs not
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Still at Large
(Frona The roledn Rid

(Frona The Toledo Blade)
rroffeers are like Villa, the vel
known Mexican bandit. They're hard
10. half-bearted administration ts'
catch.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

Never has been seen a jollier, more
lyrical lead than Daniels, to the Cor
nell-Penn game story. with hcave
and a toss and a smash thrown in,"
he intros. And we defy anybody not
to add, instead of Daniels "the Penn
sylvania team tore it's way to triumph" j"
"Cheerly, my lads, yo-hoW
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
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New-York tribune., 1919-11-29

Bulgaria signed the Peace Treaty,
many years after Greece her knees
we're in suppliance bent.