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New-York tribune., 1919-04-02

doesn't get a port practically her own.
Danzig as free city or a neutralized
city would remain predominantly Ger
man in population. German capital
would control, for, economically speak
ing, the Baltic would still be a German
lake. Its shipping and commerce would
be in German hands, and if Poland en-
tered Danzig merely on a basis of equal
ity with the other adjacent regions sub
tie determinations against Polish trade
could hardly be avoided.
The second pledge of Article XIII an
nuls to a certain extent the first pledge.
For Polish state economically free
cannot be constructed at present exclu-
sively out of territory "inhabited by in
disputably Polish populations" There
must be some fexibility in interpreta-
tion. Prussia must cede some undeniaby
Prussian territory in order to secure
Poland free outlet to the sea. And the
cession Of Vistula corridor which in
cludes Danzig will do less violence to the
general rule Of race and natonalistic
self-determination than any other solu-
tlon which now seems practicable. For
although Danzig itself is at present Ger
man the adjacent region is predominant
ly Polish.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
The Recruit

Americans are always groaning over
the absence of strong men from the
ranks of their professional politicians;
and never doing anything to help better
things. SO the announcement of Thno-
dore Roosevelt, jr., is a refreshing and
gratifying surprise.
This recruit does not go through
the pretence of waiting for a "call"
from the people. 81 am going into poll
tics" he declares frankly. That is abso-
lutely a sound idea. America ought long
ago to have developed politics as a career
into which the ablest and most upright
men of the country could enter with
candor and enthusiasm.
We are proud and glad Of Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt's step. The Republ-
can party and the whole country need
young blood in their leadership-need all
they can get. Through Mr.. Will H.
Hays the Republicans have discovered
what a new hand, with youth and skill
and integrity, can bring to an organiza-
tion. This particular lieutenant colonel
will have hard time filling the Colonel's
sombrero. But he has good, American
record, befittng his name, and he starts
right. Good luck to him
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02

arch is the amendment authorizing the state
to engage in any industry, enterprise or
business" except the manufacture of in
toxicants. Characteristic amendments pre-
vent the elective Supreme Court from de-
clarlng any Law unconstitutional except by
vote OF four to one and provide for fut-
ure amendment by majority vote at any
election or by majority vote of the Leg
Islature approved by majority at refer
endum election. League leaders frankly saw
that they left the checks and balances of
the bi-cam}ral system only because they
didn't want to change everything all at
once A commission form of government
will be the next step
with all the Offices and all the constitu-
ton it needed, the league proceeded me-
thodAcally to the matter Of lawmaking. The
primary desire of the farmers had been for
a terminal grain elevator and -four mill.
IN order to secure larger returns from their
wheat crop. The leaders provided the
proper law; but in order to make the ele-
vator and the mill surer of success thew
provided state bank to finance them. In
order to carry the bank and the elevator
they made new bonding and tax arrange
ments. On the side they put the state into
the mining Of Ignite coal, home building.
the mortgage loan business and hail insur-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Lloyd Georges Warning

To The Manchester Guardian Lloyd
George says:
"The league of nations will prove fruit
less if it is to be no more than new
piece of international machinery.
The nations must not let themselves be-
lieve that, having drawn up proper con-
stitution, the peace of the world has been
made secure. If they allow themselves to
be bemused by this policy they will only
be reawakened by new war"
Lloyd George, although circumstances
constraln him to give nominal support to
the covenant, seems to recognize it for
what it is. He is too clear-headed to
think, if nothing is to be done except by
unanimous consent, and no one is bound
to anything, as Mr. Taft says is the fact,
that the league will preserve peace.
The seasoned democratic nations are
the only authority in the world both de-
string general peace and possessing
power to enforce it. Yet it is proposed
to break up their alliance. No wonder
Lloyd George files warning against
sanctionless, functionless paper constitu
tion-against reliance on a motor which
has no gasolene tank.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
the cost of government. Congress ought

the cost of government. Congress ought
not to act as steward, but as con-
troller and auditor. Its proper function
is to criticise the budget, not to construct
it. 1t hasn't the facilities for construc-
tion, nor time enough to give for that
purpose from it's other labors.
If a President knew that he could not
lay the blame for extravaganza at Con-
gresss door he would become actively in
terested in economy, instead Of standing
aside in an attitude Of Indifference.
Division of responsibility has brought
waste in it's train. The Republican party
will do great service to the country if
it effects readjustment Of control, based
on the principle that those who spend the
appropriations must first strictly budget
ize their requirements and then account
to Congress for their allowances. This
is an undramatic reform. But there's
millions in it,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Poland's Claim to Danzig

The XII1th of President Wilson's
Fourteen Articles (that dealing with
Poland) reads:
can independent Polish state should be
erected which should include the terri
tories inhabited by indisputably Polish
populations, which should be assured q
free and secure access to the sea, and
whose political and economic independ-
ence and territorial integrity should be
guaranteed by international covenant"
The Inner Council of the peace confer
ence seems to be deadlocked over the ex-
ecution of this mandate 1t doesn't seem
to be embarrassed by the task of delim-
iting "the territories inhabited by indis-
putably Polish populations" although
such delimitation must in the nature
of things be arbitrary when it comes to
dealing with Eastern Galicia and the
former Russian governments of Wilma,
Grodno and Kovno--vaguely described as
Lithuanian. The main difficulty is over
assuring the new interior Poland, what
ever its boundaries, a secure access to
the Baltic. What seaport is Poland to
have, and what is to be the nature of her
Baltic corridor?
The Poles ask a corridor down the
Vistula through West Prussia, termi-
mating at Danzig. They want to take
possession of that ancient Hanseatic
city, which was theirs from 1855 to 1772.
Under their rule its name was Gdansk.
Being free port and having been at
various times attached to Pomerania,
Denmark and tho feudal state of the
Teutonic Knights, as we'll as to Poland
and to Prussia, its population has been
varied in stock, and is now probably
predominantly German. Yet of all the
Baltic ports it is the most directly con-
nected with Poland and the most Polish
in history and sympathy.
Poland's main artery is the Vistula
River. The natural outlet for the Vstula
basin is down the valley to Danzig. Be-
fore the war much Of Poland's commerce
with the outer world had been diverted
by railroad to Hamburg. But Hamburg
is out of the question as Polish outlet.
under Polish control, or even as a neu
tralized port.
Article XIII guarantees Poland eco
nomic independence. Economic indc-
pendence will be incomplete il Poland
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Jugo-Slav Claims

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Since The Tribune has openly sided
with the claims of the irreconcilable ex-
tremists of Italy, it is useless for the
Jugo-Slavs here to claim from The Tribune
any consideration for the destiny of .ooo.-
900 of their co-nat;onalists in Europe or for
the strangulation, by an impcrialistic power,
of newborn nation.
We think, though, that nothing good can
derive from encouraging the extreme claims
OF Italy, which have not even the approval
of liberal minded Italians, and are con-
demned, because of the evil they will imply,
by the working classes of Italy.
An understanding between Italians and
Jugo-Slavs was possible-perhaps it is still
possible. But the Italians have to forget
that In order to save $4,000 Italians they
have to annex the best part of Dalmata
(mlxed population, you say; 81 per cent
Slavs and per cent Italians), CT, in order
to save $4,000 Italians at Fiume, to annex
100000 to 100000 Slavs-not only that but
to exclude Jugo-Slavia from that part of the
sea which alone has a commercial value
The Slavs were ready to sacrifice many
thousands of their countrymen in order to
come to an agreement; the reciprocal sacri-
fee Of more or less arbitrary claims on the
Italian part would have been mere triae
against it. But nobody can expect the
Jugo-Slavs to commit racial and national
suicide.
Ine Austrian oppression was a mere flea
bite against the methods used by Italy in
the occupied territories. If the people once
IN while lose their patience, Italy tries to
arouse the world against the "barbarians'
Germany, too, was blaming the Belgans.
The Jugo-Slavs are secluded from the world
and, exhausted, disorganized, unhelped and
scorned, they can only feebly counteract
the contumelious campaign of their oppres-
sors. Certainly no nation has ever been
born under greater handicaps.
What Italy wants is the control of the
trade of the Jugo-Slavs and their economic
slavery besides partial national slavery.
The redemption of the Italians is a good
aim, but camoufage
Italy may succeed or may not. There are
many Slavs who wish that Italy may now
get everything she asks for and possibly
even more. Bosnia, Gortchakof predicted
at the Congress at Berlin, will be the grave
of Austria. And it was. 1t has always been
dangerous to eat from the fruits of the
Balkans.
You understand now the trend of mind
of those patriotic Slavs who are not afraid :
If Italy gets everything. You cannot kill a
nation aroused to full consciousness Bad
methods are the worst. Italy's clamorous
imperialsts have learned nothing from the
present war. r. T. HLACHA
New York. March 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
More About Those Parade Seats

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On a par with the cavalier treat
ment accorded the families of soldiers from
upstate by the Mayors Committee of Wei
come was the distribution Of grandstand
tickets for Tuesdays parade, for which no
seats had been provided.
The grandstand did not extend beyond
Section No. 589, and there were quantities
of tickets marked for seats in sections from
No. 800 to 392, the holders of which were
turned away, many viewing the parade from
the sidewalk after hours of weary waiting,
while a very few, more fortunate, found
places by crowding in on the grandstand'
Curiously enough this cynical carelessness
on the part of the official committee has
gone by almost unnoticed in the press.
feel that the Mayors Committee of Well
come owes the city and the city's guests
apologies and explanations for the discour-
tcsy and acknowledgement.
ELIZABETH OGDEN WOOD.
New York, March 70, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
The Coming 7ower
AN OPEN LETTER

AN OPEN LE1IER
(care of the Man in tho Moon)
Dear Sphinx:
In Buda-Pest they are shooting Count
Somebody,
And in Tomsk or Omsk or Some-Such- Place
haf-starved child,
Rounding the corner Of desecrated Cathe-
dral
To hunt for non-existent garbkge,
Has just now Il dare say) stopped a bullet
Meant for an Enemy Of the People, who
(Six months ago.
Was hailed with cheers in Pinsk or Minsk-
Or Some Such Place-as
The
Friend of Humanity.
Meanwhile woman in Pompton, N. j.,
Is receiving messages through a Ouja-
board
From William James:
And in Paris, Orlando is pointing out to
Lloyd George
The regre table fact
That if Italys prehistoric claim to the
coastal belt of Venus
Be not granted
Then he, for onc cannot be expected to
With diplomatic tomplacency-
Frances equally prehistoric claim
To riparian rights in the Third Ring of
But my little girl is happy, thank Godl
She is making a snowman
From the last drift of last weeks blizzard
And robin near her is digging up
Worms.
Respectfully yours,
LEE WILSON DODD
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Really Preserving Peace

Possibly the covenant, by few more
weeks of induced amendment, may be so
retired and so improved in steering gear
as to be trusted on the road without
head-on collisions with the Constitution
or the Monroe Doctrine or other things
relating TO national independence.
Messrs. Taft, Lowell and Bryan, with the
assistance of Messrs. Hughes, Root,
Lodge, Borah and others, have seemingly
successfully appealed to political fears,
even if they have not opened closed in
telligence. Vowing he would never con-
sent. the President has consented-to
changes.
But not for what it doesn't do is pre-
tended league to preserve peace to be
judged. 1t is not enough to strip a
scheme of harmfulness. 1t must do
positive good to stand the test-must
preserve to be reckoned a preserver
The chief charge against the covenant is
that it is not preservative.
The events of the week support the
charge. The text of the covenant seems
to provide, if the general peace is threat
ened, for concerted inquiry looking to
possible concerted action against the
peace threateners. The condition thus
covered contingently is one that now
actually exists. An alliance has been
formed by Lenine, of Russia, and Bella
Kun, of Hungary, to wage war on the
democratic nations. These two war
makers, seeking to enlarge the alliance,
have agents in Berlin in secret parley
with Ebert and Scheidemann. Other
agents are in Warsaw, in Bucharest and
Sofia. Not only is there promotion of
great plot, but armed forces are engaged
in aggressive action.
And what does the American govern
ment, now domiciled in Paris, do under
the exact circumstances when the cove
nant league is supposed to function? 1t
not only refuses to act but even to con-
slider acting. 1t does not summon Lenine
and Bella Kun before the areopagus No
bull of communication is launched No
ban is proclaimed. Instead, policy Of
scuttle is almost announced. Foch, who
sees things realistically, and thus is
true idealist, is truculently told that CO.
ercion of the new war makers is not to
be thought of. This is the situation if
the tanned correspondents at Paris do not
gravely misrepresent it.
The covenant is not yet formally
signed. But if its principles are sound
and its methods wise, the soundness and
the wisdom exist before signature. The
hiss of tho serpent Of militarism is
plainly heard. But suggestions to kill the
snake are flouted. Those who will be
directors Of the league, if formed, are to-
gether, with freer hands than they may
hope to have in six months. But there is
retreat before the war makers. The
President, apparently doubling his own
principles, does not much believe in the
efficacy Of his own plan.
To say you want to preserve peace is
one thing; really to preserve it is quite
another.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Millions in 1t

AS Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives Mr.. Gillett promises to do
what he can to introduce a national
budget system. He has been member
OF the House Appropriations Committee
for many years and is familiar with the
disadvantages Of the old blind alley wav
Of conducting the governments business.
At present estimates of expenditure are
made haphazard by dozens of executive
officials, for whose guesses the President
assumes no responsibility. Congress
tries to find out how far these requests
are justified and then shoulders accounta-
blilty for granting them. After the
money is voted its expenditure is audited
by agents Of the executive branch, in
stead OF by agents representing Con-
gress.
Representative Good, who is to be
chairman of the Appropriations Com
mittee, has prepared bill which intro
duces some order into this chaos. He
suggests the creation of bureau Of esti-
mates, to work under the Presidents
direction. This bureau will deal criti-
cally with all departmental requests for
appropriations, coordinate them, and
then furnish complete budget, which
must be indorsed by the President. An
independent auditing organization. re-
sponsible to Congress, is also provided
for.
These are excellent beginnings. SEN
ator Aldrich said some years ago, in a
burst of frankness, that government ex-
penditurc could be cut down 30 per cent
II appropriations we're made in busi
nesslikc fashion. The ideal is an in
escapable executive responsibility for
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Abusing Italy

Elsewhere The Tribune publishes an
anti-Italy letter from r. f. Hlacha, Of
the Jugo-Slav Information Bureau, which
the writer's opinions.
For four and one-half years the Slavs
of Southern Austria furnished soldiers
to fight, not merely against Italy, but
against their own liberation and the
great cause of which Italy was one of the
upholders. Suddenly, when the Haps-
burg power was overcome, but not until
then, Austrian uniforms were taken off
but the business of keeping alive hatred
of Italy has gone on more actively than
before Yet except for the great army
Italy held on her frontier, it is unlikely
there would be any Jugo-Slavia now.
Is it strange Italians are suspicious?
Is Italy to be blamed for doubling
whether the partners of imperalistic
Austria have become as anti-imperials-
tic as they assert? The Italians are rated
quick, generous and mpulsive people.
If the Jugo-Slavs had refrained from
fiercely attacking the good faith of their
liberators, perhaps no serious dispute
would have arisen. But being rid of
one bad neighbor, who used the Dalma-
tian coast to raid Italian shores, it Is
natural for Italy not to want another
enemy installed there
The nationalistic argument has poten-
cy, but it is not the only one Jugo- -Slavia
sees the wisdom of departing from it in
Macedonia. Italy is also entitled to fair
protection. And that she needs it the
anti-Italian attitude of the Jugo-Slav
leaders seems to make clear Can't they
perceive the consequences of making it
appear that Italy, having rejected Aus
tra, faces Austrianism in a new form?
Every one here wishes the new state
we'll, but it would be weak friendship not
to note poor start is made when it be-
gins with a vendetta. Apprehension is
raised as to whether or not an immature
people, under the control of vehement
and exclusive nationalism, can be trusted
with Fiume, from it's situation destined
to be in fact an international port. 1t
would seem as if Italy were more likely
to be just trustee.
The Tribune would have confidence
among the nations. The seeds of new
war will be planted if the peoples in
dulge the luxury of hating one another.
Italy is notoriously the victim of cam
pagn of aspersion. 1t should stop. Our
Jugo-Slav friends, by aiding this
campaign, weaken themselves among
those who do not pretend to under
stand all the intricacies of compli-
Gated problem, but who see clearly the
broad fact that chief object of pro-
German and pro-Bolshevist effort is to
break down 1talys just repute and to dim
the lustre of her heroic achievements in
the war.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
From Now On She'll Vote

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have just finished reading the article
by Archibald Roosevelt in to-day's Tribune.
My word is only one in thousands to indorse
all that he says, from the first line through
the last ! am not suffragcttc and, to nv
sorrow, neither registered nor voted but
"bcieve me" l will do both this year, if ontv
to help put in stronger Republican Con-
gress and Senate.
MRS. E. ALDEN PETIT
Brooklyn, March 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02

"A Boston street car CONDUCTOR" says
II. l.. Mencken in "The American Language"
could go to work in Chicago, San Fran
cisco New Orleans without the slightest
risk of misunderstanding his new fares"
He could but in Boston his fares ride on
electrics, in Chicago on trolley cars, in
San Francisco on cable cars-and in New
Orleans? In New York we take the sur
face car.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Shoots From the Young Idea


Soleclsm is sweeping throu Europe
The Solecism is now into Austur and thew
have sized the Government
Yester day their fired on the British. so
I think there is going to be trouble and
President Wilson has gave order to stope
the troop from comeing home. and ]
think in time the hold world will be in
the hands of Solecism.
"ln the same spirit in which Republicans
during the recent war measured their every
act by how they could contribute most to
effective action, so now they are determined
to meet this new phase Of the war problem
IN that revived spirit of fervent Ameri-
canism which is the glorfied result of our
experience of fire and blood moving with
full appreciation of this country's duty
as a responsible factor in the world of to-
day and tomorrow and with the earnest
determination to do all that can possibly
be done toward the maintenance of peace
without sacrificing own supreme ma
tlonalism, the preservation of which in it's
integrity is the greatest safeguard for the
future, not only for the citizens of this
country, but for all peoples everywhere"
said Mr. Will II. Hays to Mr.. Elihu Root.
And then Mr.. Hays took another breath.
Our thanks to the generous contrib who
sends the adolescence cigar
cite plctures-one of Mulvey, 3rd Base,
Phila., and the other of Anna (sic) Suther-
land.
The Navy's Man Power
From the Boston Herald
Miss Alice Arnold. U. S. NJ, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Janet Smith, of Worcester was the maid
of honor.
Licensed to marry in Washington, D. c.,
is Safi Temachi. Oh, yes. She is
going to we'd Hchi Ku of Tokyo. Ninnon.
Smokeless Authors
William Allen White Ed Hunrerford
Robert M. Mcbride Leona Dalrymnle
She gave a little cry, not seeing whom
it was-From 1.-THE Secret CITY" bv Hugh
Walpolc.
Well whom was it?
Telephone and telegraph lines, railroad
lines, and ol-ppe lines all suffer from the
new tax rates.
Last lines arc still exempt
New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Concerning the Nonpartisan lie ague
The Soviet Busine ess
By Kenneth Macgowan

OPTIMISTIC opponents of the Non
partisan League point to the up
surge and collapse of the half dozen
radical farmers movements" which have
diversified Americas political history in the
last half century. They point to the mill
ion and half members of the Grange in
1875, to the sweep of the Farmers Alliance
in 1890 and to the Popuist party's million
votes for Weaver in 1892 And they sug-
gest that the Nonpartisan League, with its
2O5,000 members, must follow long road
of expansion and collapse before it will
take its place beside the other political
wrecks of American history.
But the significant fact to an investiga-
tor of the league is that its opponents
point out parallel to the amazing thor
oughness of organization and the amazing
thoroughness of political achievement of
this group Of farmers. Populism was a
revolt Of the emotions, a revolution by
word Of mouth. A. c. Townley has put
behind the Nonpartisan League and its
programme campaign fund, a propaganda
organization and skill with the old polti-
cal methods which no other such movement
hoo