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New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

sions Of his fellow Americans, es-
pecially those who fought in our
behalf, when those repulsions are
engendered by sincere and patri-
otic resolve to see that the lesson
Of the war is not lost. 1t is sound
human nature to insist upon unity
and a stanch front in war time
and to resent the activities Of the
near German and frankly German
who would destroy the fruit of the
war by any practicable device.
The whole question is one Of hu-
man nature, and we think the atti-
tude of American human nature
in the war in respect Of tolerance
and good nature has been gener-
Gus and splendid. The nation has
erred on the side of generosity in
it's treatment of conscientious OBJ
jectors and similar obstacles to ma
tional preservation. Now that the
immediate peril is past the old prac-
tices of liberty, Of live and let live,
that peace permits. arc being re-
sumed with amazing rapidity. Some
sections of the country are ahead
of others. But the tendency is clear
and universal. We have not the
slightest fear that the ancient lib
eralsm of America has been in the
least affected by the war. 1t is the
obvious policy Of radicalism to dis
tort facts and stress minor and ex-
ceptional injustices. The main cur
rent Of American life flows straight
and strong. 1t moves steadily and
inevitably to resumption of every
great democratic liberty as soon as
the dangers Of great war will rea-
sonably permit.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Liberalism Preserved

There are timely advice and clear
sense for all Americans in the
statement addressed by Franklin
d'Olier, national commander of the
American Legion, to the members
of his organization. His words come
not as a reproof for action in the
past, but rather as a standard of
conduct for the future. We gladly
quote the essential sentences again
"And now we must realize that
the strength Of the Legion and our
influence and service to the nation
will be measured only by our ability
to cooperate effectively with the
10o,000,000 other loyal and patriotic
American citizens in the promotion
of 100 per cent Americanism and the
maintenance of law and order. We
know that there is only one way to
maintain law and order, and that
one and only way is through the
orderly process of government and
its duly constituted agencies.
"ln times OF need and emergency
we members of the American Legion
stand ready as individuals to sup
port, strengthen and speed up, if
necessary, the civil authorities
charged with the maintenance of law
and order But always in
accordance with competent authority,
which we realize now is civilian and
not military, and originates in the
Constitution of the United States as
expressed through national, state and
local governments"
This expresses admirably the
temper and spirit Of the nation to-
day as its war energy subsidies and
civilian authority resumes charge.
Every true American has been and
will be slow to criticize the repul-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
E"roPes approaching Crash

Yet the steady decline of the rates
or exchange, the stream of veracious
reports coming from Europe, reveal
the fact that the situation abroad so
far from improving save in certain
wholly restricted areas, is steadily
worsening. One can read in tho
London financial cables and in the
French financial and political dis
patches the unmistakable assertion that
Europe sees no other hope for saliva
'lon, for the escape from a crash. than
can be found in the prompt and far
reaching American participation in the
world situation.
The conference among the British.
French and Italian statesmen in Paris
is recognized as an almost despairinp
attempt to find within the countries
represented a solution for the perils
OF the hour. But again and again such
European conferences end with the dis
closure that action Of a decisive sort
Is still postponed against the hope that
the American mood will chanre and
America return to her temper of one
and two years ago.
But this is exactly what America. so
Tar as Washington is an accurate baron.
eter, Is not doing. The war, it's issues,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

ginning Of the war, when English
merchantmen were unarned and no
way Of dealing with the submarine
peril had been devised, the sub
marines "could have destroyed so
much tonnage that England would
have soon been eager to sue for
peace"
The first period Of the submarine
warfare. showed that the guns
mounted on submarines were too few
and too light, although their shells
had destroyed as many ships as their
torpedoes. The German "U-boat in
spection" demanded the 88-milli-
metre guns, but the ordnance de-
partment of the Ministry of Marine
forbade contractors to submit any
plans for cannon to the U-boat in
spection, which was a mere sub-de-
partment. Vainly the U-boat in
spection demonstrated that the other
departments knew nothing about
submarines; the ordnance depart
ment simply forbade it's subordinate
to "meddle." Tirpitz himself was at
loss. He said: at is questionable
whether smaller caliber would not
suffice for the results desired. :"
Later the ministry gave way; but it
did so gradually and grudgingly, so
that number Of submarines
changed guns three times.
In the mean time the merchants
men of the Entente were equipped
with 102 and 1875 millimetre guns.
1t was not until 1916 that 1865 were
granted to the German submarines.
Even then the number actually
mounted was exactly three-one at
Wilhelmshaven and two at Po1a.
The reason was the Battle of Jutland
scared the German Admiralty into
withdrawing the 1865 from the sub
marines and allotting them to tor
pedo boats.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
The Governor Retreats

The final abrupt decision on the
part of Governor Smith to render no
assistance to the Extraordinary
Grand Jury comes with singular i'll
grace after his previous attitudes.
In his sundry vacillations upon this
question the Governor has hereto
fore shown a real desire for the
facts. for a thorough investigation,
In striking contrast to the mancuvers
Of Mr.. Swami to protect his office
from hostile, prying eyes.
The present decision, if literally
enforced, amounts to telling the
grand jury and the citizens of this
county that there is no way of in
vestigating their District Attorneys
Office save Ger that officials own
direction. + Governor sought to
reach anf + method by his sug-
Eeeted az jntments of Mr.. Battle
and Mr.. ,oskauer. He has now
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
The Diary ofOur Own Samuel Pepys

December 23--How now, quoth C. Ball
the typesetter, what hath come of Mr..
Pepys? forasmuch as I have not time
to ask of the state of his health and
what his vagares may be, but when |
do put them into type learn them thus;
in especial, quoth he, the indiscrect
things he writes, but thinking better of
printing, grasses. Well, said, this day
rose betmes, and to a counter for break
fest, my wife, poor wretch, being in hos
Iital. To my office in my pctrol-waggon;
and at my desk all morning, and took
Mistress Edna Milay for ride, and
thence to l.. Cntermeyer the criticks for
dinner, excellent good, and we to see
Baby Blues" an harlequnade wrote
and played by coloured Americans, but
methought it an indifferent piece,
without distinction. Home. but could
not sleep till near five in the morning,
what with refrains and burthens run
ming through my mind.
2A-At my desk till evening, and had
dinner with W. Graham, and then with
which I deemed an inept play, and
should like to see Mr.. G. Tearle act in
something worthier his evident and per-
sonable talent Mistress Edna took me
to an inn, where I had a cheese rabbit.
and then home in the snow, lighter
hearted than my won't Read O. Her.
ford's "rhc Giddy Globe" a piece of
merry huwour and far higher in spirit
and quality than most of the other COM
lex books, which irk me and weary me.
25-Early up and to the office, but the
typesetters tell me they must go at
noon, so / FASTENED through my stint,
and played my harmonicka for two
hours, which Mr.. McKenna and Mr..
Clark, and all others who heard, said
they enjoyed greatly To Mistresa
Neysa's, and she took me for ride in
the country, and we had plum pudding
for dinner.
26-Late to my office, but a message
is come from my wife that she is we'll
enough to come home, which I am glad
of, the house being lonelier than 1 like
it; nor do l enjoy keeping 1t tidy. To
dinner at r. Lingley's; and to j. Too
hey's to play at cards.
"The annual waste in Christmas tree
cutting every year Is enormous" OBJ
serves the prodigal Or. Frank Crane,
who uses up lot of words per annum.
One of the things Old Bill Tachau
can't understand is why DR.. Berthold
A. Bear doesn't change his given name
to Paul.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Bottle Waste
Breakoge Is Inevitable, Presi-
dent Horton Declares

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There appeared in your Is
sue of December 20 letter from
Mr.. w. Volkhardt, who complains that
I did not take into consideration the
question of bottle waste in an adver-
tisement which l published few days
ago: The advertisement referred to
dealt with the conservation Of food
product, it did not speak of bottles.
Nevertheless, if must speak of bot
ties will have to admit that there is
goes into the broken glass pile. There
is some salvage IN broken glass. bat
not much. AS a matter Of fact. there
is wastage of material in every de-
partment that enters into the distribu-
tion of milk. Machinery wears out
horses outlive their usefulness, wagons
wear out, there is a regular and in
evitable depreciation in cans, buildings,
dynamos, packing cases, and even we
humans in this business have cur end.
| know Of no way to stop this loss
OR waste. We try very hard to min
imize these losses, but | am sure we
can never obviate them entirely. But
l would like to make it clear 10 your
correspondent that the glass bottle,
fragile as it is, is up to this time the
most economical containe~ for milk
and by far the best If he, as some
others apparently have, has an idea
that paper containers would cost less
l would like to rid his mind Of fal-
lacy. 1 have tried paper containers IN
my own business and at time when
paper was a great deal cheaper than
now.
A bottle, with US, makes between
twelve and fifteen trips-at the price
OF bottles to-day that means about
one-fourth of cent per delivery. The
paper container costs about $40
thousand-that is, nearly . cents trip.
Of course, bottles have to be washed,
and 1t costs more to carry them about,
but, everything added, they still cost
about onefourth the present price of
paper containers.
There is no question but that many
bottles are needlessly broken; that
many are lost through failure of the
delivery men to gather them. but if
you take into consideration the mil
hons of bottles needed for milk serv-
ice ] believe you will think that they
are gathered up consistently and we'll.
do not agree with your correspond
ent IN the general assumption that
housekeepers are careless about bot
ties. There are all kinds of house
keepers, but the percentage that shows
disposition to be careless about bot
ties IS small, at least with US.
1t is reassuring to note in Mr.. Volk-
hardt's letter that the workmen in his
nelghborhood are buying milk for
lunch, and l hope when summer comes
around again he will be less selfish in
the matter of sharing his shady lawn
with the horny handed toilers, foreign
ers though they be.
LOTION HORTON.
New York Dec % 1910
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Free Stiffness

The beauty Of free speech as a
governmental principle Is that it
works. 1t is the best practical way
to handle discomfort, however ira
tional, in a democracy. If there
we're any doubt upon this point the
episode of the Christmas walkers
ought to convince all doubters.
The canny souls who Matched and
enacted this show were out for
publicity. Did they get it? They
certainly did, as the front page Of
every newspaper will attest. On
the merits Of the protest-a sillier
cne it would be hard to imagine
the proceeding would have attracted
hardly any attention from any one.
1t would have been buried in the
minor news of the day and hardly
been mentioned outside of New
York, for the obvious reason that
the public was not interested. AS
it was the walkers got exactly what
they wanted.
Partly this was due to the incom-
petence of Police Headquarters,
which issued no general orders, with
the result that one police captain
interpreted the law one way and
another quite another. But with
much more intelligence at the head
Of our police, confusion and blum
ders yielding "martyrdom' to some
at least of the eager seekers there
after are inevitable. The less the
enforcement of restraints upon free
speech and free assembly is left to
individual police judgment and dis
cretion the better, is the point we
would make. Was or was not the
affair of Christmas Day a parade,
for instance? Any group Of i'm
partial, intelligent folk would dis
agree or the question and it would
take dozen lawyers and all the
courts finally to decide. SO how eX-
pect a, busy policeman to guess
right
Suppose on the other hand that
the parade had been duly author
ized-with such signs as were
clearly lawful permitted after due
consideration by legal authority
Especially, suppose the exhibition
of manaced ladies and gentlemen
had been authorized as proposed.
The crack Drained absurdity of the
paraders, thoroughly protected by
police, would have brought its own
answer. Eve are aware that no
request for a license was in fact
made; but we assume that request
would have been made had the
announced attitude Of the police
been differently
We cannot pretend to plead the
cause Of free speech or the right
of free assembly as a matter of
high and noble obligation in behalf
CT such a prcposterous proceeding
as this. We place our convictions
on the severely practical grounds
stated above. 1t seems to us that
to curtail the right to parade, now
/ that hostilities are over, save where
the parade is anarchistic or other.
wise plainly in violation Of law, is
to court and create exactly tina,
fake martyrdom and sensational
publicity which are the chief goal Of
these sentimentalist sympathizer:
with legally convicted crime against
the safety of US all.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
The Coming 7ower
Cold Weather Stuff

AID THAL1ARCHUM
Horace: Book ], Ode 8
"Vides. ut alta stst nivs csrdtdssns"
Soracte's crest is snowy, Thaliar-
chus;
The weather bureau says "Con-
tinued Cold"
Let's sit around the heater. and
In any merry meter
Drink little Of the stuff that isn't
sold.
Why fret about the future, Thalfar-
chus?
Gather yc roses (Herrick) while
ye may!
There's nothing quite so pleasant as
the brimming, vivid present;
The time to do your living is To-
day.
It's evening on the Campus, Thaliar-
chus;
The girls are out in couplcs,-yes,
in twclves,--
I'd make tidy gamble if we took
little amble
We might run into merrilnent our
selves.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Victims Of Prohibition
New York, Dec. %, 1919.
From, The Ru1o1o t,.,,s,x,

(From The Buffalo Erprcsa)
In order to temper the wind 10 the
shorn lambs, and incidentally keep the
wolf from their door, the very least
that the Anti-Saloon League ought to
do right away is to establish a home
Tor temperance orators ard reformed
drunkards that formerly capitalized
their reformation. It's an II wind,
indeed, that doesn't blow somebody
good and plenty. .
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

IN all the situations at the national
capital to-day two circumstances stand
out clearly. The first is the tota! lack
Of interest or concern with European
affairs disclosed by the vast majority
of men in and out Of national political
affairs, and the second is the not less
manifest apprehension and anxiety of
the few actually in touch with Euro
pean affairs over the situations abroad
which have grave menace for America.
To put the thing simply: Washington
has dismissed Europe, gone back to do
mestlc concerns, to domestic problems
and troubles, but while it is now alb
sorbcd iN these domestic concerns, in
the first operations of new national
campaign, the conditions in Europe are
going from bad to worse and may lead
at any moment to a financial crash
which cannot but involve this country
1t is the judgment of one of the best
Informed observers in Washington that
the month of February will see one of
the greatest world financial panics in
history, that the whole edfce of paper
credit and currency in Europe will col
lapse, and that the repercussions in the
United States will be enormous.
Italy on the Verge
Washington has been informed that
Italy is on the verge Of revolution. 1t
knows, officially, that Austria, the i'm
possible fragment carved out at Paris,
actually is starving. 1t knows that
actual destitution and genuine surplus,
so far IS foodstuffs are concerned, ex-
lst on either side of frontiers traced
at Paris with regard for racial consid-
erations but without concern for eco
nomic circumstances
The dispute over the Treaty of Yer
sailles in the Senate has served to
obscure all other European ques-
tlons. The country is weary of this
dispute, and it is going through re-
action from its European adven-
lures which makes the strongest nos
slble contrast with tie mood of 1917
and 1918. The exalted mood of the war
time has not only disappeared but has
gwen place to an equally strong mood
OF materialism. People who made all
sacrifices gladly to win the war are
now demanding all possible concentra-
tlon OF American effort and energy to
spare them from further hardships or
even sacrfiroS of q to1or,LI
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
No Tie-up Possible

ANO lC"OR OSoAOAC
The question now under debate
at Washington as to whether the
railroads are TO run without inter
ruption is vital especially to the
100000 persons who live within
twenty miles Of New York's City
Hall.
These people cannot live, much
less prosper, if the railroads don't
operate. To turn off the air or the
water would not be more fatal than
to turn off food supplies daily arriy-
ing. Talk not of the horrors en-
dured in the great sieges Of the
past! A blockade Of New York, an
embargo on arriving freight, would
mean greater misery than Jerusa~
lem suffered when beleaguered
The city has about q three weeks
supply Of flour and about the same
of meat and other alimentary
things. It lives from week to week
out of inbound traffic. If there were
a shutdown the rich might get along
by fleeing to their country places;
the poor would quickly starve and
shiver. Let your imagination dwell
on what would inevitably happen if
the locomotives did not move.
Comprehension Of the necessity
= 4
ton has come suddenly. The threats
made when the Adamson law was
under consideration were quickly
educative. Since then other menaces
have shown that the danger is real
So in the Cummins railroad bill is
g provision for compulsory arbitra-
ton Elaborate machinery for JUS
tice and cancellation is provided
no one Is denied hearing or re-
dress of grievances; there is no
prohibition to quitting railroad
work when conditions arc unsatis-
factory, but the quitting cannot be-
concerted and with the object of
starving the public into sub
servience.
The public is not hostile to the
so-called rights Of labor, for the
public Is composed Of wage workers
and their dependents. But there are
a general preference for living and
fixed determination to prevent
any minority, motivated by selfish
ness, taking the rest Of US by the
throat
The Esch bill, passed by the
House, contains no prohibition of a
tie-up, and it is reported from Wash
ington that the anti-strike provision
may be eliminated from the confer
cnce bill. A powerful lobby is at
work, and If countering agencies do
rot show energy this lobby may
have its way.
The results Of the steel strike
and the coal strike have not been
such as to encourage the officers
end men of the railway brother
hoods to think complete power is
IN their hands. In all probability a
general Strike would smash the
brotherhoods, built up by years Of
painful effort, and on the whole
worthy organizations. If the steel
men and the coal men discovered
that the public is not helpless the
railroad men, should they decree a
general stoppage of commerce, would
quickly collide with the same force.
A general railroad strike is un-
thinkable and if called would be
bound to fail.
If certain to fail, then why object
to having it labeled as unlawful?
Resort to it will wreck the brother
hoods, and if this is so there is no
practical reason for clinging to a
barren right
The time is not a good one for
members Of Congress to play con-
ventional politics Too much is at
stake.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

AS an cx-parader-we marched in Oc-
tober, 1916, bearing torch, for Our
Candidate, Charles Evans Hughes-we
believe that anybody should be allowed
to parade for anything, unmolested.
Parading is it's own punishment
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
AND, MOREOVER

AND, MOREOVER
Air: 'Jerusalem."
Last night lay a-dreaming,
had dream so fair:
| dreamed l lay in Campbell's,
And happy to be there.
Free of charge l smelt the flowers.
Saw all the pretty things,
Contented was there to die
And glad that I had wings.
CHORUS
Jerusalem Jerusalem!
Buried without fuss!
If you, too, would be happy,
Call 5000 Co-lum-BUS.
LARRY AND PAULINE.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

Concerning DR.. Vizetelly's quotation
of Lindley Murray's "He whom / serve
is eternal" Fl. II. G.'s opinion, formed
while occupying a ringside seat at
Forest Hills, is that the quotation is
correct, provided that the striker-out
has led an upright life.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1919.
GUAR RAN TEE

vsu can purchase merchandise advertised In TIE
TRIBUNE with absolute safcty-tcr II dissat'stac-
ten results In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to say your money back upon request No red tape.
No quibbiina. We make GOOD promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
L too VOnes

AS opposed to this view, almost uni
versal, two voices are heard, but both
Enthusiastically faint. The one continues
to assert that America has still a moral
obligation to Europe to finish the Job,
which was only begun in the war.
This ls a plain survival of the voice
and spirit SO general twelve months
ago and now exciting little more than
impatience in most quarters.
The second voice is at the moment
more impressive; it asserts with ear
nestness that carries convictionA that
long persistence in the present course
by this country will make inevitable a
general financial and economic crash in
the world, which will have very great
echoes here. To ratify the treaty with
or without reservations will not change
this. Nothing can change it but a re-
versal of the apparent decision of
America permanently to quit Europe.
to abandon participation in European
affairs and concentrate on domestic
concerns.
FOR the moment this is truly a voice
crying in the wilderness, impressive to
few only because of the character
OF the men who are behind this view.
iet one cannot accurately portray
Washington conditions at tho present
nour without giving real attention to
the soiemnity with which men whose
names would attract attention and
respect forecast the arrival of a finan-
c'al deluge to which American indiffer-
ence Is now contributing enormously.
fcopyriSht. 1919. TAs MeC,~,. Ne,gspapn
Sywdicdts)
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

After March it will be pleasant
again to kick about the service on this
or that railroad. The U. S. Il. A. has
taken such good care Of it's passengers
that nobody ever felt like complaining.
How we have come on since the
day five years ago when Prof Bliss
Perry said American writer's had no
satirical ability!
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
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New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

BESIDES
Blow, bugles, blow.
Set the wild echoes flying,
Calling Columbus 5000,
Dying, dying, dying.
I. S. A.
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead,
Call Columbus 5000.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

The serve of Lindley Murray, Of
Niagara Falls, is pretty dsrned eternal
itself
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27

Song of the investor: "1'm investing
in the railroads, all the livelong day"
F. P. A.