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New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
The Stamp Quandary
(From The Philadelphia Rulletin>

Postoffice clerks at the stamn w;ndovs
have been busy the last week exnla;ni,g
that they cannot redeem three-cent stan,ns
lett on the hands Of provident purchasers
who were overstocked on July l when tho
rate for first class postage returned to tho
normal two cents.
In fact, the clerks have merely stated
Mat the Postofice Department has made
no provision for the redemption of the .a
stamps. Explanation is still lacking as 70
why two threc-cent stamps bought in po,1
faith Of Uncle Sam when the base rate for
letter mail was three cents are not the equiv
alent and are not recognized as exchanpe-
able for three twocent stamps. Thev y ..
still worth three cents for postage and can
be utilized without loss where the mait
matter requires excess of two cents. and
If they were redeemable at the postoffi-5s
they would of course be resold as is the
three-cent issue ordinarily
The Postoffice Department would be in
no sense loser by such transactions. and
whether or not the aggregate of such
stamps which are out and would be likelv
to be submitted for redemption is larce
the opportunity for exchange ought to be
provided, if for no other reason than To
square the practice of the postoffce with
the ideals of fair dealing and relieve it of
even the suspicion Of a gouge.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
pendence of the islands has been rec

pendence of the islands has been rec
ognized, there still be some kind Of
connection between the two countries.
But that is merely a secondary consider
alton, think. The most essential thing
is that the independence Of the Philip
pines be recognized-cither absolute in
dependence or independence under the
protectorate of the United States"
The Filipinos now have a very large
measure Of self-government They enjoy
all the advantages of autonomy and none
OF it's disadvantages. They make no
complaints of oppression or maladminis-
tration on the part of the United States.
But if they should lose the protection
which their connection with this country
affords them, what would become Of
them? The islands are inhabited by
guage. The Tagalogs are, numerically,
minority Of one-ffth. Feuds exist be-
tween them and the Igorrotes, the Ne
gritos, the Cagayans, the Pampagnans
and the other backward tribes in Luzon,
between them and the Visayans and the
Moros. A Tagalog government could
rest only on force. With the withdrawal
of the American protection which now
unifies the discordant races the central
government would become either
bloody tyranny or mere shadow. The
new state would either be broken into
fragments or become a prey to civil war.
In it's external relations Tagalog CEN
tral government could hardly hope to
avoid the complications which always
come with internal anarchy. 1t is not
would admit the Philippines to member
ship while it is imposing mandates on
far more developed peoples like the Ar
menians, the Syrians and the Anatolians.
We should probably soon nave to take
the Philippines back under a mandate
or see mandate for them given to
Japan.
The Filipino delegates know that their
people are not prepared to assume the
burdens of nationality. The indepen-
dence which they seek would be tragedy
for them if it meant real independence.
If it is only independence with strings,
they have already the reality of indie
pendence, with complete protection
thrown in.
In turbulent world upset by the ex-
periences of the war, what they have is
a safeguard which it would be folly to
exchange for an independence which
would leave them helpless both against
external peril and internal strife.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
Filipino Independence"

The Filipino Commission, now in this
country, is asking for independence.
What kind of independence" does it
want?
The Clarke bill, which the Senate.
passed in 1916 as substitute for the
Jones self-government bill cut the
Philippines completely adrift Senator
Clarke, it's author, was something of a
cynic. At least, he was brutally open in
pursuing the theories embodied in the
original Jones bill to their logical con-
clusion He was also a pacifist. He
wanted to turn the Philippines loose be-
cause he thought the United States
would never put itself in condition to
defend them and that their retention
would only get us into trouble with
Japan or some other aggressive coloniz-
ing power.
President Wilson wrote a letter urging
the House Of Representatives to accept
the Clarke measure. The House rejected
it, however, and there can be little
doubt that even the Filipino politicians
heaved a sigh Of relief when it was
killed.
Do these politicians, speaking for the
small Tagalog minority in the Philip
pines, want unqualified independence?
They say they do because they obtained
control of the legislative branch of the
insular government on the independence
issue. But they speak with some natural
hesitation when it comes to the point of
casting off entirely the American guar
dianship which has brought them tran
quillity, prosperity and security in their
relations with the outside world.
At the recent hearing in WASHINGTON
Senator Harding asked Mr.. Quezon, the
head of the mission, whether he was ad-
vocating a complete severance Of rela-
tions with the United States. His replv
was adroit but not convincing. He said:
Senator, we are not now making
concrete proposition as to that, because
the Philippine Legislature has not given
us concrete instructions on this matter.
since we think that the future relations
between the United States and the Phil
ippine Islands should be discussed be-
tween representatives Of the government
of the United States and representatives
Of the Philippine Islands commissio
to this effect after Congressional legisla-
ton has been enacted whereby indepen-
dence Of the Philippines shall have been
recognized. However, I might anticipate
the assertion that the people of the Phil
ippincs are prepared to have the indie
pendencc Of the country recognized by
the United States without any protecto-
rate; but If it should be deemed prefer
able by the United States that some kind
OF political relationship should exist, we
would be willing to accept that. In other
words, we shall take the independence of
the Philippines with or without any pro-
tection."
To another question he replied:
"Pcrhaps it might be to the interest of
both the United States and the Philip
pines that some kind OF understanding
! should exist whereby, after the inde-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
SidetracAing De Valera
lFrom NC sprinadeld Repuo!lcqnl

NHfO" AHe opT1nJUcld hepuOHcdn)
The city authorities, as represented By
the Mayor, president of the Board of Alder
men and president Of the Common Council,
have returned courteous refusal TO tho
petition requesting the city to invite Eamon
De Valera to address the citizens Of
Springfield. There is, of course no obje,-
tion whatever to Valera coming here un-
der private auspices; indeed, great many
persons would welcome the opportunity to
hear him plead Ireland's cause 1t is nor,
however, properly within the province Of
the city to bid him come, for although hs
calls himself president of the Irish repub-
lie, there is as yet no such republic and 10
recognize him as such would be to estab-
lish precedent that might prove embar
RAISING.
There may be universal sympathy with
lreland's longing to be free and inde-
pendent country, but until her indepen-
dence has become an accomplished fact
Valera represents nothing more than q
great hope. II it should be his good forl-
une some day to return 70 America with
full right to the title he has assumed,
there is no doubt that the city would De
glad to accord him not only an official WEI
come, but to grant him the traditional
freedom of the town.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
A World Wide Open

tribution Of wealth, Of the political distri-
button of power, Of social adjustment and
OF industrial organization. We shall not
nave to waste our strength on these things.
This is true of no other race, except, per-
haps, OF the Germans, and their taste for
war has given them plenty Of handicaps
and distractions to last them through the
next two or three decades Even our good
friends the French will have problems of
colonization, transportation, home, finance
and European continental politics to keen.
them too busy to dominate the worlds COM
mercial highways for q generation. The
field is wide open to the English-speaking
people
If!
If they cooperate, share the same ideals.
the same habits, the same opportunity
they must hunt in a pack
That does not mean close political union:
for, in the plane of civilization upon which
the English-speaking people are moving.
political forms have ceased to be of great
consequence. They concern interior national
development, not exterior relations. Amer
lca' Tor instance, which is quite outside the
political union binding the other English
speahlhg peoples, is quite much q part
OF the Union to all intents as South Africa
or Australia. But cooperation in aims. in
ideals in peaceful competition for the
worlds business, is necessary.
Jealousy is fatal.
The United States and the United King
dom and the British Empire have each
learned tho great necessary lesson of In
ternal national cooperation 1t is their
great secret-ths genius for huge combina-
ton. They must now learn that lesson in
Information cooperation. By its strength
1t Will save for humanity the ideals we
fought for in the great war For the ex-
ample of this cooperation of the English
speaking peoples will prove what NAV be
done by ell mankind.
II we can make an English-speaking group
junction automatically without force. with
out intrigue, without pacts, treaties or cove
nants-make it work merely because It
should work in the interest Of intelligent
self-lnterest, then we can make the same
idea function for the salvation of the world
IN the league of nations If we fail. the
league fails
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
By William Allen White
(fn 1'he Neto Europe)

u" IhS " etO EHrOpC)
"HE English-speaking people have
arrived at that place in their economic
evolution where war no longer pays.
They fight well-the German knows that
but they can trade better than they can
fight their way into domination.
A frontier no longer bothers them.
From the point of view of gaining eco
nomic influence inside any border or Of
securing political advantage for the Eng
lish-speaking races to-day, with their
equipment of ships and machines and their
trading instinct, it is vastly better to treat
and trade than to fight.
We have the raw materials, we have the
genius for mass production, we have ships,
we have our own ports in every quarter Of
the globe, we have facilities for making the
short haul from these ports, of either as
sembly or manufacture, to any land that
needs the things we have for sale, and then
best Of all, we have the league of nations
For. the league of nations, whatever else it
does or fails to do, does afford to the trader
Of the world sure protection in his inter
national trade-such protection as never
surrounded commerce before.
Under the league Of nations "the whole
world loves' trader, and we, the English
speaking nations, by ancient breeding, by
reason Of our vast natural resources, all
carefully tucked away in absolutely undis-
puted boundaries, by our far and yet even
advance in economic, industrial, social and
political evolution, are the worlds traders
To restate this: We Englsh-speaking peo-
ple bred of an old strain, all mixed and set
the Saxons, the Celts and the Northmen-
face no danger Of our stock degencrating
through native cross in any new colony,
for we are firmly planted near every people
who are rising in the economic scale
whether in Africa, Asia, South America,
Eastern Europe or the islands of the sea.
And thus we are planted near these natural
markets for the wares of an advanced
civilization while, people who have
gone through tho infantile diseases of a
race, we all Of us-Britons, Americans,
Australians, Irish, New Zealanders, South
Africans, Canadians--have solved or are
peacefully solving through evolutionary proc
esses our problems of the economic dis
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
The Coming Tower
THE WEAKER SEX

Tom was dear fellow
l think he was the sweetest man I ever
- knew,
With the incest kindly, boysh smile,
And the warmest, softest, deepest voice.
He was always ready to go anywhere at
any time.
If had vacant evening
Or some party that I'd planned fell
through,
Tom would always take me dancing
Or to dinner.
l never failed to get him
When l needed him to fill an evening
Or an afternoon.
1t Went on long time like that
Almost two years, I think
And then we moved,
And in the confusion all the contents Of
my desk were lost.
I never saw Tom again.
Somehow I never could remember the num-
Der Of his telephone. ALICE.
"They walked the Streets" said the
President of his comrades, the doughboys,
aS IL tley hHcW tucy UeIOHBcu Wherever
free men lived" Which reminds US Of
wheeze that was current in the A. E. F.
more than a year ago. "The British SOL
der" it ran comes into town as though
he owned it; the American soldier comes
into town as though he didn't care who
owned it,"
There is quarrel with the realism of
Francis Miller, who draws the Ainslee's
July cover. The young woman with the
tennis racquet doesn't know how to make
a backhand stroke, but 1t is exactly the
way that beautiful young woman would
make backhand stroke
Lawrence Ice Men Under Fire-Boston
Traveller.
Speaking Of melting headlines
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
France, the Leader
DULY III, 1919


Luckily for the world and for human
beings, near-sightedness is not the pre-
vailing view over any period of years.
Our soldiers have their irritations with
France, and they are real and numerous.
France has her complaint of America,
and it is as real as it is single and basic.
Any one who feels that such things mat
ter is at liberty to weigh the grasping
ness of many small shopkeepers against
the delay of great nation to come to
the aid of civilization until the last pos
sible moment.
But such bookkeeping counts little in
the long run. The judgments Of centu-
ries are generous and copprehending.
gible in the final balance if the result,
the soul that acts and controls and lives
in the crucial hours, is steadfast and
true and glorious. The provincialism of
America that held us safe at home
through SO many months will not count
against the final splendid battle of our
far-hung lines And France-AFrance will
live for many things when the tongues
of her petty critics are moulding in the
dust.
France led the forces of civilization
from the first hour to the last. Fate
placed her in the front line trench. In
the first onslaught hers was the task of
' holding, of retreating and holding, of
retreating again-and, at last, of strik
ing back. The Marine is history by this
time, the greatest single battle of all
time, in it's scope, in its valor, in it's con-
sequences to mankind. Thereafter time
worked for civilization. France had
passed her greatest test and came
through with spiritual glory beyond
compare.
No black days thereafter could dim
that lustre Through our delay the vic
tory, saved at the Marne and saved
again at Verdun, was all but lost. No
hours of the whole war were darker than
the spring of 1918. Then came our test
as a nation. The falling torch was
grasped by our hands and rushed for
ward to a colossal triumph. We proved
ourselves worthy comrades of our allies.
That is our boast and our pride.
Joffre, Foch, Clemenceau-it is great
succession of leadership. At each crisis
in the fate of the, Allied cause France
- produced the man to conceive and will
! and direct. Let US say that French
leadership was worthy of the French
soldier Under it the banners of all civ
ilizatiop fought and won. The greatest
armies of all time were united in COM
+, mon cause under the commanding brain
ssof Frenchman.
Nor did this leadership of intellect end
with the signing of the armistice Much
nonsense, much deception, has been
printed in this country concerning the
stand of Premier Clemenceau. Already
Americans are seeing through the haze
of controversy some outline of the truth
And, amid all the wrangling and dis
pute, the sense of fact, the sheer brair
and will of Clemenceau, stand sharp anC
controlling. Others could manruvre ant
cajole and threaten and inveigh. The
Frenchman stood boldly and overtly foa
the inescapablc truth, yielding neither
to unrealizable idealism nor false ambi
tons And his was the voice that pre-
vailed
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
Plight of the
Educated
By Maxim Gorky
Translated from an Editorial IN Has
Petrograd Newspaper

The revolution is penetrating deeper
and deeper
In factories and shops vehement
struggle has arisen between the unedu-
Gated and unskilled workmen and those
skilled and educated. The unskilled
workers call the trained workers-locll-
smiths, machinists, foundry workers,
-"bourgeois."
The revolution is penetrating-fo the
greater fame of the men who are MAX
ing experiments upon the living flesh Of
the working class.
The workmen, those of them who
grasp the tragedy of our time, are great
ly concerned over the fate and future
of the revolution.
II fear" one such workman writes
me, "that the day is not distant when
the masses, who have found no salts
factory answer in Bolshevism, will lose
all faith in better future and in Social
ism, and will turn their gaze once more
to the dark past, to monarchy. Then
the struggle for the freeing Of nations
is put back centuries.
"I believe that this will take place
because Bolshevism is unable to fulfil
the hopes of the uneducated masses, and
l do not know what we, who have to
live in the midst Of these masses, can do
in order not to let our faith in Socialism
and in better life on earth become
cxtingushed.
"The position Of workingman who
is somewhat enlightened in the midst of
the masses who have become idotic is
pretty much like the position of one who
has grown to feel himself a stranger
among his own brothers," another
writes.
Such plants, which are growing more
and more numerous, point to the peril
of impending split in the ranks of the
working class. On the other hand, there
are workers who write to me like this:
"You should rather rejoice, comrade,
that the proletariat is victorious"
l have no reason for rejoicing. The
proletariat has conquered no one and
nothing. Just as the proletariat was un-
conquered when the former police re-
gme held it by the throat, just so the
bourgeoisie, which the proletariat now
has by the throat, is not conquered
In general, ideas cannot be conquered
by physical force. Victors generally are
neutrality-suspicious. because they
are tired. But the proletariat shows no
signs of magnanimity, as is shown by
the fact that persons like Panina Boldi-
row, Konovalov, Kartashov, Bernatzky,
Besides the above-named there are
starving in prison thousands-yes, thou
sands--of workmen and soldiers
No! The proletariat is neither mag
unanimous nor just. And yet to establish
the greatest possible justice should have
been the first task of the revolution.
The proletariat has not conquered.
Throughout the country civil war is rag
ing. Hundreds and thousands of men kill
each other. IN the "Pravda" madmen
incite "Kill the bourgeoisie. Kill the
supporters Of Kaledin.'' But this bour-
geoisie and these supporters of Kaledin
are the same peasants and workmen.
They are killed and they in turn kill the
Red Guards.
If the civil war could only be con-
fined so that it was nothing more than
Lenine taking hold of Miyoukov by his
closely cropped bourgeois hair and
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
Was Lin coin Wrong g?
An Open Letter to a Senator
Senator James D. Phclan,
Washington, D. C.

Washington, D. c.
Dear Senator: Are you willing to 60 on
record officially as favoring plebscite Of
Hawaii to determine whether Hawaii will
become an Independent nation or a mem
Der of the Japanese Empire, or remain
with the United States of America?
Are you willing for the government of
the United States of America to confer on
Hawaii the right to do the above any
time in the future large number of
Hawaiians who are pro-Japan wish to join
Japan?
Would you consider it a friendly act for
the British House of Commons to try to
force the United States government to
submit the two above questions to the
plebiscite of Hawaii?
Was Lincoln wrong when he coerced the
South and maintained the Union?
HENRY A. WOODARD.
San Francisco, June 20, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
lnmobility
{ From The Dctroit Nom

1From The Detroit Ne,oS)
One man who isn't disturbed in the
least, either, by these comings or these
goings Of tho President, is Mr.. Marshall
In either case. he Is still Vice-P President.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
Gotham Gleaninss
II IIS7 iz I ii1 1iE mn M E7S1 17ST7S

-Rupe Hughes is taking Polish
lessons.
Fred Alexander says this is a
big year in the sport. goods bus
-Izzy Kaplan and Newt Baker
had quite a talk Tues.
Clayton Hamilton has paraty-
phoid fever at New London, Conn.
Prof. Durham of Yale was
among those who enjoyed "The
Gaieties Of 1919" last Mon. eve.
Jimmy. Montague has new
auto, the same kind as ye scribe's
and Walt Nason's.
Mont Glass and Frank Butler of
New Rochelle motored up to Lake
Placid Fri
Mrs. Ed Godsall of Chadron,
Neb, is visiting Mrs. F. P. Adams
Of Yon<ers. Ed is Maj. at Is-Sur-
Tile, the Yonkers of France.
-Aleck Woollcott of Phalanx.
n. =, is in town for a few days.
Aleck is a worse civilian dresser
than he was an army one, which
is no faint praise.
John Phillips says he would do
the same thing as we if he owned
paper, viz. : not run stuff about the
Toledo affair except the bare news
of same. That is only one of the
many things we would do if we
owned paper
Any afternoon the Colossus at Albany
doesn't know what to do, he may give a
thought to North Broadway, Yonkers.
Riverside Drive from 135th Street to 18TH
Street, he tells us, is out of his jurisdc-
tion. The only thing that stretch of road
is good for is a practice ground for
chautfcurs to shimmy.
Things have changed since Charles Ed
ward Carryl, in "Davy and the Goblin"
wrote 81 spent no time in looking for a
maid to do my cooking" Housekeepers of
our broad acquaintance say they put in
majority Of their time at it.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
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Diversion

tFrom The Boston Transcript)
Doubtless the moralists, If not the II, :.
uraists. will ere long find knship be-
tween the blind tigers and the jaguars.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14
Fundamentally +

From The Boston Herald
But even in the brown beer it was the
water that quenched the thirst.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-14

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Another headline word is "urge" In head
linese, urge" means anything from a mild
request to n passionate demand In con.
versation the word is seldom used
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