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New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
kept the water pressure right and probably
saved big part Of the city from fire when
q conflagration started few days later.

kept the water pressure right and probably
saved big part Of the city from fire when
conhagration started few days later.
Society" women took over the telenhon.
system. Wives and daughters Of mer.
chants, brokers, high officials, store clerhr
and army officers all sat down at &
switchboards. They got away with it. too.
though for a while it was much of
gamble who you would find on the other end
of call. The service remained a lis+la
slow-about like London's. But the mas.
time of "bawling out central" ceased.
The postal service came nearest "a
"stumping" the volunteers. For a whiM
strike sympathizers dumped the mail from
all trains miles from the city, but grad
ually it began coming in via trucks. and
something had to be done with it. A fore.
was recruited from the mail clerks of ths
department stores and big brokerage houses
and an attack was made on the pile It wa.
no time at all before mail began reach;nc
people, but it was long before the size ~
that pile shrank. With the best thew could
do there was delay. But kind of delivsrv
was kept up, except Where strikers, and
more often their wives, would explain "a
the volunteer carrier. with a rolling pin or
flatiron, that she would not receive mai,
till the strike was over. Finally the prob
lem was solved by establishing branch post
Offices, where citizens call for their mail in
the good old corner crossroads style.
Except in the postal and phone services.
and particularly in such things as collect
ing garbage and running the delivery
trucks-in all things in which trained skill
is not required-the Citizens Committe.
soon found a curious situation. They had
filled in the places of we'll toughened work
ers with soft from offices, and though
soft muscles and soft hands suffered great
ly it was not long before the volunteers
were turning out more work than the reru
lars ever had done. The forces on that
kind of jobs now are smaller than thew
have been for years, yet the work is per-
fectly done. Roughly, it figures that two
"softies" can do the work of three regulars
in this kind Of thing The Citizens Com.
mittee leaders have not yet quite decided
why this is So
Perhaps it is because the volunteers hata
the job so sincerely.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Saving Daylight Saving

1t seems as if there ought to be brains
enough somewhere to preserve the bene-
fits of daylight saving and at the same
time meet the objections of the dissatis
fled farmers. Congress has, as often
before, reacted to the vociferous kickers
and needed not at all the larger bodv
of silent approval. Cannot the country
face the whole problem in broader
fashion and work out a genuine solu-
tion that will answer the needs of the
whole country?
The benefits to the great majority of
the people of America are unquestioned.
The saving in fuel, large as it is, is
but one small item. A distinct gain in
health is undoubtedly the largest item.
All the diseases Of which fresh air is
the chief enemy have felt the effects Of
the outdoors afforded by long evenings
Of daylight.
On the other hand, the farmer is a
large and important minority, and he is
very generally dissatisfied with daylight
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Our Overseas Armv

When Marshal Joffre was in th;c co,,r
try IN the spring of 1917 with the Allied
military mission he intimated to secre-
tary Baker that the maximum Ameri-
can reinforcement which the French
nigh command expected was from 400
ooo 10 100000 men. At that date the
fgure was reasonable one; for Russia
was still in the war and GERMANY had
been on the defensive on the Western
front since the close of the battle Of
Verdun. Had Russia stayed in the
United States would probably not have
been required to maintain more than
half million troops in Europe.
Our effort through 1917 aimed at
maximum little greater than 100000.
But the Russian revolution released
100000 Germans from the Eastern
front and upset all Allied calculations.
Then Ludendorff came along in 1918
with his win-or-lose offensives. He
raised the limit of American participa-
tion from a quarter million to two mill
ions. For by November, 1918, when the
armistice was signed, 100000 American
soldiers were in Europe. The American
army in France at that time was larger
than the British army.
Americas military policy was an i'm
provisation. Its development was guided
by outside events. 1t could not produce
the tools of war in sufficient quantities.
But it could, and did, produce man
power, which was the greatest need of
the Allies The enthusiastic response Of
the country to conscription made pos
sible the delivery of 100000 troops in
Europe before the end of 1918. AS Sec
retary Baker justly remarked the other
day, this was not the work of the gov
crnment, but of the American people.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
The Only Thing on Earth
That Can Be Trusted

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In poland, Child of the West
Joseph Conrad scorns vision" and goes be-
low and above the surface of things when
he speaks of national temperament which
is about the only thing on earth that can be
trusted"
Samuel Clemens had. something to say
about temperaments Judging from what
he did write, he might have had something
to say about the "league of nations" Be-
low is appended q quotation from one Of
his books. ROBERT w. GARDNER.
New York, June 49, 1919.
"The vast majority of temperaments are
pretty equally balanced. The intensities
are absent, and this enables nation to
learn to accommodate itself to it's political
and religious circumstances and like them
be satisfied with them, and at last prefer
them.
Nations do not think; they only feel.
They get their feelings at second hand
through their temperaments, not their
brains. A nation can be brought by force
Of circumstances, not argument, to reconcile
itself to any kind of government or religion
that can be devised In time it will fit
itself to the required conditions Later it
will prefer them and will fiercely fight for
them.
LAS instances you have all history-the
Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the
Egyptians, the Russians, the Germans, the
French, the English, the Spanish, the Amer
leans, the South Americans, the Japanese,
the Chinese, the Hindus, the Turks; .
thousand wild and tame religions, every
kind of government that can be thought Of
from tiger to house cat; each nation know
ing it has the only true religion and the
only sane system of government each ma
tion despisng all the others; each an ass
and not suspecting it; each proud of its
fancied supremacy; each perfectly sure it is
the pet of God; each with undoubting con-
fldence summoning Him to take command in
time of war; each surprised when He goes
over to the enemy, but by habit able to ex-
cuse it and resume compliments.
''In a word, the whole human race content
persistently content indestructbly happy.
thankful, proud, no matter what its religion
is nor whether it's master be tiger or house
cat Am I stating facts? You know / am.
Is the human race cheerful? You know il
is Considering what it can stand and be
happy, you do me too much honor when you
think that can place before it a system Of
out of it. Nothing do that. Everything
has been tried. Without success, beg you
not TO be troubled
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
This Commencement Season

Every day is commencement day. Life
is always beginning. That is what keeps
it from being dull.
The thousands of young persons who
are being graduated this month from all
sorts of schools and colleges stand
"where brook and river meet" They
have the pride of achievement and high
hopes for new adventure and enterprise.
They are blessedly young, and youth is
courage.
We who are older and perhaps trife
wayworn envy them, congratulate them
and urge them to take the road boldly.
They are starting out at time when
timidity end gloom are more than ordi-
narily costly, but at time when brains
and courage command unusual returns.
We are at the entrance to a period of
extraordinary opportunity. The gradu-
ates of this JUNE will see big things and
do big things.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Why Try the Kaiser?

The demand for trial Of the Kaiser,
no matter what it's result or what SEN
tence is or is not inflicted, is support
able on other grounds than those COM
lfonly urged There is more to the mat
ter than the bare question of whether
the Hohenzollern is to be punished.
The world needs the fullest inquiry
into the exact circumstances surround
ing the decision of the German govern
ment to launch the war. Much has been
revealed--enough to warrant general
conclusions. But many details are
covered and others are contradicted. The
whole matter should be laid bare.
The best way to bring this about is to
try the Kaiser. He is the centre Of in
formation The truth can be extracted
concerning what went on in Berlin in
July, 1914 The trail is left in docu-
naents still in existence. Witnesses,
though unwilling, can be induced to tell.
The worlds attention would be focused
by an inquiry that would reach to the
bottom.
Particularly is this desirable for the
possible effect on the German people, To
charges, to deductions, to arguments, to
general probabilities, they seem blind.
Their eyes may be opened when the mar
rative becomes concrete. It may be said
that if the Germans are not now con-
vlnced nothing will convince them. But
another effort is worth making.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Italy's Protest

The fall of the Orlando Ministry
shows that Italy is still unreconciled to
the idea of yielding her claims in the
Adriatic. The Big Three at Paris have
been trying to arrange a compromise by
which Italy shall not only lose Fiume,
but also get less than was promised her
in Dalmatia in her compact of 1915 with
Great Britain, France and Russia.
Orlando made his protest against the
scaling down policy of his associates in
the conference when he dramatically left
Paris after the publication of President
Wilson's letter and asked a vote of con-
fidence from the Italian Parliament.
That body overwhelmingly indorsed his
lnslstence on 1taly's claims. But it re-
fused him support on Thursday, when
he returned to Rome with another CON-
promise proposition and demanded that
1T should be discussed in secret session.
Internal political intrigues evidently
had much to do with this latest vote
259 to 78-against Orlando. The SUM-
porters of Giolitti, Nitti and Bissolati.
who were originally opposed to the Son.
nlno nationalistic programme, seem to
be using the club Of popular sentiment
to coerce Orlando into rejecting any
compromise at Paris. Thus, thew hone
to bring about his retirement as
Premier, which the King decided to hold
IN allegiance. Giolitti, Nitti and Bisso-
lati personally favor a moderation of
Italian demands. But Italian public
feeling is strong for fight to a finish
at Paris against a scaling down of En-
tente promises to Italy,
The Italian difficulty at Paris has
been largely an artificial creation. Italv
could reasonably have stood for q literal
redemption of the promises of the
Treaty of London, just as Japan held
out for redemption of pledges which
the Entente made to her. But Fiume
an independent crown municipality
separated by Hungary from Croatia
pleaded for incorporation into Italv. and
Italian pride was touched bv this
demonstration. The Italian deepation
at Paris has been willing to trade for
Flume some of the Dalmatian territorv
assigned to Italy. But President vii
sons letter has been a stumbling block
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
After-War Speculation

tFrom Tho Bridgeport Standard -Tcieoram)
Everybody is going in for oil these days
and the spectators are reaping a harvest.
SO marked arc the raids entirely without
reason, that the authorities in New York
have decided to try to curb what seems
in the main an organized swinde Thou
sands of honest dollars made by extra
labor have gone into tho pockets of those
who sell worthless paper 1t is time for
warnings in all directions. Aftcr-war
speculation is always dangerous. 1t was
land doings following the Civil War Busi-
ness invited adventure after the Spanish
war. And oil has tho call to-day. Be-
ware Of the oily seller.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Taxing Toddlers
(From, The solt Lake Herald,

(From The Salt Lake Herdld)
Every time see a toddling youngster
paying penny toll for his ice cream cone
we lose respect for the democratic system
of meeting the expenses of war. There
are too many families whose kiddes
measure their wealth in pennies for
great, strong, wealthy nation to tolerate
this method of raising money. The
youngsters of to-day are the taxpayers OF
tomorrow No doubt they will have to
help pay for the war, and the least we
can do is grant them immunity during
their childhood days.
Congress did a needless job when it
placed a special per cent excise tax on
candy. War has proved candy to be
wholesome and a necessary food Tho
new Congress las promised to eliminate
many of the inconsistencies of the exist
ing revenue law. No real Americans will
seek to avoid payment of just share OF
the burden of war. but few of them WILL
condone a system which deprives the
youngsters of the little "luxuries' OF
childhood days. One of the first efforts
of the new Congress should be to lift tho
burden from young America.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpys

June 18-All morning at errands, and
searching for an apartment to live in next
autumn, but finding none. Hard at nv
scrlvenlng all afternoon, and in the evening
l bested w. Enright at pool albeit it took
no great adrotness.
19-Early to the office, and all the day
reading the publick prints and writing
little, too. And in the evening with B.
Green to the playhouse and saw "Peek-a-
Boo," dceming it moro comick than most
of the musickall comedies, and l LAUGHED
many times at a comedian named Bobbv
Clark, who hath a gift of high humor and
low comedy to great degree. Thence to
my inn, and B. Green had me drink 2
mint juleps, very pleasant
20-In my petrol-waggon to Yonkers with
my wife, and left her there, and thence to
my Office where till late; and to call for
her again. Read U. Snclair's Jimmie
Higgins" dull piece of writing. me-
thought.
We opposed as the doddering among
our readers may recall, to the patronizing
use of quotes. But "reds" is admissible.
and we should never correct a proof that
Sdlleu IL tHe secret service.
Little children were singing yesterday to
the air of "The Farmer in the Dell" Ger
many will sign, Germany will sign. Heieh
no and derry o! Germany will sign"
Well, the bartender has only nine more
days to put the change on the wet spot
of the bar; and to offer the change to the
man who didn't buy.
The period of "drives" and "quotas" is.
we hope, almost at an end. The rules were
fairly elastic, in some instances. If the
quota wasn't reached the time was ex-
tended. Now, in the daily drive for the
coumnar quota of paragraphs that is i'm
possible. If the copy for the last line isn't
in hand before midnight the composing
room won't give us three hours grace.
"Only six minutes before going to press"
the foreman just telephoned from down
stairs, land you're two paragraphs shy."
"Two7" did you say?
XheTo you ara 4. y. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Constantinople

Employing one of those f1amboyant
and plausible general phrases he was so
adept IN coming to serve a particular
purpose, Napoleon said to Car Alex
ander at Tilsit: "Constantinople means
the rule of the world"
France, to win in her great duel with
Great Britain, needed Russia's aid or her
neutrality. Alexander was an idealist,
but ne was also monarch. and perhaps
would listen to the hint that the second
city of the Caesars might be his prize.
< Moreover, merely to talk Of Stamboul
was calculated to keep Russia and Brit
ain apart. SO Napoleon, besides dangling
his bait, alarmed nervous John Bull by
putting in circulation the bogus will Of
Peter the Great, one of the most success
fhl flakes" of history.
Time was when the commerce from
East to West passed through Constanti-
nople, and naturally it was the worlds
Capital. But a combination of causes
lsssened 1t. The hinterland passed to
the control Of the Turk, skilled in desert
making, and once populous regions had
htele to sell. Through piracys suppress
SION sea traffic became safe, the Suez
(anal was dgged and Constantinople
was left to one side. Her trade. instead
OF peing horizontal, became perpendicu
iar-from north to scNth. Goods to and
from the Black Sea basin passed her
door, but local, rather than Worldwide
was ner trade. But, victims of his
toflcai remlniscence, men have remem-
oered the words of Napoleon, and the
peace conference attacks the Darda-
ne1ses problem largely under their
domination.
ihe straits primarily concern Russia.
and next Rumania, Bulgaria and the
new Armenia. The Bosporus is Russia's
water gate. AS long as it is in possibly
hostile possession Russia is denied the
Fneit Of the principle guaranteeing
tree access to the. sea-
The Bolsheviki assailed Mil;ukoff aa
an lmperiaiist because he asked for an
open door, but one can't we'll argue for
a Danzlg for the Poles and a Fiume
for Jugo-Slavs and not admit Russia's
SPECIAL claims to Constantinople.
af Russia were in libtal control ;f
her present rulers had not "welshed" on
the war, the settlement would be easv.
Russia would get the mandate" under
conditions insuring equal treatment to
other Black Sea countries.
sAs things are, nternationalization in
some form would seem the alternative.
hut Observation-Disclosures implies agents.
laws, force, the machinery of power.
BY whom are these to be furnished?
1here is. no international police force.
Britain, If the matter were judged coldly
on merits, would doubtless be rated the
most competent for the job. Bus to
many Britain seems to be getting the
glory OF too many responsibilities. The
United States SHES at hints to assume
control. Bear the brunt Of wranelines
with the Black Sea countries? No.
A stop-gap until such time AZ Russia
y r. b trusted. may b found "a some
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

sort of administration by committee
of the whole. But this is not alluring,
for in Peking, in Cairo in Samoa and
elsewhere joint government has not
worked we'll.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
The Coming Tower

An Infermezz0 For the Fourth Act
If my peculiar pulchritude in Paris
seemed to please,
Upon the Champs Elysees 'mongst the
blooming chestnut trees,
Or if along the Rivoli in hell's melange
Of men
Which bubbled in the war brew, you OBJ
served me now and then;
Or if the picture rising, of my roly-poly
form,
A-toddle down the boulevards should
make your heart grow warm
o Phyllis, wipe that picture from your
memory cold and flat
You should see me in my new straw
For Pm in London now, my dear, in
London old and gray;
And spring is fading in the past, and
summers under way.
But London is decent town, polite and
SNUG and curt;
1t breaks her heart to frivol and one
breaks her laws to f1irt!
And how she works and how she frets,
and yet she's always sweet;
> So am here in London for to give the
town a treat
And if Pm middle aged and bald and
slow and rather fat
You should see me in my new straw
hat!
Perhaps we're not immortal, lass, but O
l wish we we're;
or pale philosopher.
l want to find those lads whom life's
sweet, poignant beauty wracked,
Who had to duck and cut the show, be-
fore the second act
Say Schubert, Keats, or Phidias, those
olden, golden boys
And tell them something of the play, and
how it never clogs.
For I have seen three acts, and now
Pm fifty-but, at that,
You should see me in my new straw
hat! WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
London, June 3, 1919.
Prof. Henry A. Beers, in the Yale Re-
view, says that Roosevelt was "too strenu-
Gus for humor, which implies certain re-
Taxation of mind; and ability to look dis
intercstedly on both the upper and under
side of thing; and, in the peculiarly
American form of it, a humility which in
clines one to laugh at himself" Certainly
7. R. was without that sense of the ridicu-
lous which is a deterrent to advancement
one must take ones self seriously to COM
mand the respect of the unhumorous, or
controlling class.
And yet the only time we ever met T. r.
he made adroit fun of himself. He asked US
whether knew Simeon Strunsky. "I
consider Strunsky," he said, "the most in,
telligent of my opponents. In fact, he's so
intelligent, don't see how he can be an
opponent"
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purchase merchandise advertised In THE
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suits In THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money upon request No red tape. No aubbIing'
We make good prom pity Il tho advertiser does not
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She patiently, gratefully signed it.

Mr.. Will Rogers's book "The Peace Con-
ference" fails, 20 our notion, because it is
impossible to put into print the spontaneity
real or counterfeit-of Rogers's spoken
words. In the decanting the sparkle dies
When Rogers speaks his stuff, there is the
illusion that the things have just occurred
to him; but stuff in type, whether readers
of this department believe it or not, is
deliberate and un-casual.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

Well, the women's tennis champion ship
remains in America, Miss Zinderstein hav-
ing vanquished her opponents including
the Scandinavienne
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

GUARANT TE e

Entered a; the Pos,oricc New York Second Class
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

But 1t Remains
(From Tho Baltimore Americos)
The once respected rule of supply and de-
msnd seems to be outlawed.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

And yet the only time we ever met T. R.
he made adroit fun of himself. He asked US
whether we knew Simeon Strunsky. ~
consider Strunsky," he said, "the most in,
tellgent of my opponents. In fact, he's so
intelligent, l don't see how he can be an
opponent"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
The Profiteers' Mother Goose

Little Bo Peep sought fiat that was cheap,
And didn't know where to find it.
So despite the increase in the terms of her
lease,
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METHOD OF PAYING 500
ARMY BONUS

The War Department. author
lzed the following statement
from the Director OF Finance:
Section 140G of the Revenue
Act, approved Feb. 81, 1919, au-
thorized the payment of bonus
OF $4,000 to officers, soldiers,
field clerks and nurses of the
Army upon honorable separa-
tlon from active service by dis.
charge, resignation or other
wise. This bonus is not pay
able TO the heirs or representa-
tives of any deceased soldier.
"Those who are discharged
hereafter will receive this bonus
on the same roll or voucher up
on which they are paid their
final pay. Those who have
been discharged and have re-
ceived their pay without the
$50. bonus should write letter
TO the Zone Finance Officer,
Lemon Building, Washington,
ID. e., stating their service since
April'6, 1917, the date of last
discharge and their present ad
dress to which they desire their
bonus checks to be sent and en-.
closing with this letter their
discharge certificate or military
order Tor discharge or both, If
both are issued Upon the re.
ceipt by the Zone Finance OH
Ger, Washington, ID. & , OF this
information and the soldiers
discharge certificate, this officer
will cause checks to be drawn
and mailed to the claimants in
the order in which their claims
were received by him. The dis
charge certificate will be re-
turned TO the soldier with the
check.
at was estimated that at
least 100000 persons have
been discharged from service
who are entitled to the benefits
of this act and while payments
will be made as expeditiously as
practicable it will manifestly
take considerable time to write
and mail this many checks"