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New-York tribune., 1919-11-20

Teuton land, is no longer the DOM
icile Of despotism. Jefferson's ideal
ism has won it's way, and he would
be the first so to testify were he
alive. Moreover, his wish, if war
came, that it should see the United
States fighting once more side by
side in the same cause" has been
fulfilled.
But touching American and Brit
ish relations, his farewell advice is
as pertinent now as when given. 1t
is still true that if the two English
speaking peoples are firmly united
neither their freedom nor freedom
anywhere has reason to fear the fu-
ture. And this all the more because
the Latin has joined the great COM
bine for peace and democracy, with
France and Italy ready and eager to
assist in the common great work.
Narrowness and fostered distrust
still hawk at the real league of peace
and for peace that is offered. Would
that the spirit of Jefferson could be
introduced into those prone to think
of little teasing issues and to keep
alive old misunderstanding! The
hope of genuine league of peace
has no foundation except in that
concert of future action that the
visit seeks to promote.
With the chief democracies of Eu-
rope firmly united there is a chance
for peace, but except they keep to-
gether formal league and a writ
ten covenant would become vain and
hollow. The covenant is well, but it
is merely system Of armatures and
wiring; a dynamo, to be provided in
only one way, must furnish the
electric current if there is to be
power for good.
The British people have not con-
cealed their thought from US. Let
US not conceal ours from them. Let
1T not be said that we are so dull to
the call Of great cause that we do
not hear what Jefferson heard nearly
century ago. May it not appear
that another people surpasses us in
solicitude for principles we have
eulogized as American! National
patriotism and world patriotism!
They coalesce these days and enjoin
the same duties.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
Holding Up Equal Suffrage

Nineteen states have ratified the
equal suffrage amendment. One
other state has set date for spe-
clal session of its Legislature and
the governors Of four states have
agreed to call special sessions in
January, and Of the states holding
regular Legislative sessions in Janu-
ary tour are expected to ratify.
Here is total Of twenty-eight
states in which the amendment will
have been ratified by spring. 1t fol-
lows that in eight other favorable
states special sessions must be called
to have the women everywhere par
ticipate in next years general cleo
ton.
Under existing law, without the
amendment, women now participate
IN Presidential elections in states
casting 326 electoral votes out Of p
total Of 53l. Such being the case, it
seems only fair that all women
should be admitted to the polling
booths. This cannot be done if spe-
clal sessions are denied in states rea-
sonably certain to vote to ratifv.
States containing a majority of
the population of the United States
have ratified the amendment. The
issue is thus whether a minority will
be able to postpone, and postpone in
mean way. 1t is reasonable for
outsiders to urge strongly on states
which do not hold regular legislative
sessions until 1921 to quicken their
Governors into calling special ses-
sions.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
Reds in the Schools
Only Way to End Them Is to
Throu Them Out

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In the interest of enlightened
public opinion with respect to the &C.
tivities of the communists in the edu-
cational system of the City Of New
York, permit me, if you please, to make
the following statement:
Deputy Attorney General Samuel A.
Berger and members of the Lusk COM
mittee are of the opinion that scdition
has crept into the public schools be-
cause of the inadcquacy of the salaries
paid to the teaching staff Such is not
the case. The revolutionary forces
have been active in the schools for
years. Plans were laid long ago by
the revolutionary Socialists to take
over the schools of the city To this
end THE American Teacher" tho Of
hcial organ of this group, was founded
and the present Teachers Union con-
ceived. number Of innocent tcachers
have been deceived by this coterie of
radicals and have unwittingly identi-
tied themselves with the activities OF
each OF these organizations.
President Stilman Of the Federation
of Teachers himself told me that .sThe
American Teacher" was so radical f.,
its utteranccs that it was doing serious
damage to the cause of unionism and
for that reason 1t was taken over bv
the federation. Now the point that !
wish to make clear is this: These ac
tivities antedated the period Of the
high cost Of living and In no sense were
they the result of present economic con-
ditions.
The Lusk committee believes that the
public schools system can bo purged
of Bolshevism and Communism by ra,s-
Ing teachers salaries, and to this end
1t Will recommend to the Lep!aIature
higher pay for teachers. In this con-
nection | wish to state that no salary
increase, however great, will ehahge tho
vasws q tAsos psSvesss eatissuA Th~y
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
Health for Children
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune,
Sir: The health Of the American
school child Is being neglected. Millions
of the children in our schools TODAY
are failing to attain the development
OF which they are capable because Of
some physical handicap. Six million
are suffering from malnutrition q
condition due to ignorance Of or in
difference to simple health rules
more than to poverty. Malnutrition in
the child may be the first sign of
tuberculosis in the adult.
Infant Welfare" has fourht q w;n-
ming fight for the baby. The marked
decline in the infant death rate for
the last fifteen years shows conclu-
sively that the baby is being saved.
The Child Health ORGANIZATION ~
America has undertaken a similar
campaign on behalf Of the school child :
for, although neglect In health mat.
ters may not kill the child as 1t kills
the baby, 1t may condemn him to a
lifetime of inefaciency and misery.
uur1ng the war we spoke and
thought OF the American soldiers as
our boys" Now let Us show that tho
American children are our children,
Let US see that they get their "rights"
health, strength, happiness!
Tho organization Is asking for con-
enbut'ons toward tho $4,000 needed
for tho years work. Will you help7
ANTOINETTE R. PETERSON
Chairman Of the Finance Committ.e
Child Health Organization Of Amor.
lea, 1853 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
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partner than many nations that
could be named.

partner than many nations that
could be named.
Further, under the Lenroot reso.
luton we would, in fact, have plural
votes, while the British Empire
would not. Cuba, Panama, Hayti
San Domingo and Nicaragua are tc
be members of the league, and our
relations to these countries are such
that there is more actual like
lihood of our controlling their
votes than there is Of insular Great
Britain controlling the votes of such
dominions as Canada, Newfound-
land, South Africa, New Zealand
and Australia.
Finally, it is clear that the una
nimity rule makes it inconsequen-
tial, except as to matters of small
Importance, how many votes any
federalized country may have in the
league. Our veto will be effective no
matter how large a majority is
piled up against us. We are to be
protected against assuming obliga-
tions, first, by the unanimity rule,
and, second, by the necessity Of Con-
gress asserting before obligations
become binding. Here, surely, are
safeguards enough.
The first part of the Lenroot reso-
luton is thus one to be excised in
the concluding deliberations. 1t
promises no good and may do great
harm. 1t makes a superficial appeal,
for it seems unfair for the British
Empire to have six votes in the
assembly while we nominally have
one. But this reading does not en-
dure analysis; for practically all
league purposes the British domin-
ions are independent nations and are
to be recognized as such. 1t would
be trying for Americans to meet
Canadians and hear from them the
reproach that we Of all peoples
barred their path to full nationhood.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
The Hungarian MIDDLE

With the disbanding Of the peace
conference scheduled for next month
che settlement with Hungary, last of
The enemy countries to be dealt with.
seems as far off as it was q wear
ago.
Allied insistence has succeeded in
causing the Rumanian army to with
draw from Budapest, but this is no
more Of positive achievement than
was the ousting Of the Communist
regime early last August. Highly
desirable as the latter event was in
itself, its sequel showed that it fell
short Of Hungarian solution; and
impotent and impoverished though
Hungary be, just her desperate posi-
tion makes her all the more danger
Gus as a potential center Of another
European confagration, a sort OF
mid-European Macedonia.
The present political situation of
the country is unfavorable from the
Entente point Of view. Ita. out
standing feature is the return to
power Of that fanatical, semi-Asiatic
gang Of junker bureaucrats which.
by ruthless oppression Of the nom
Magyar races and its criminal pol
icy toward Serbia, was directly re-
sponsible for the outbreak Of the
world war. 1t is the same group Of
olgoted, power-mad adventurers that
surrounded the late Count Tisza.
who, by the way, is now being canon
lied at Budapest as the martyr saint
OF the Magyar national cause. These
are the sworn enemies Of democracy
and, their hypocritical genufections
before the Entente representatives
at Budapest notwithstanding, the
1anatical haters Of Western civiliza-
1ion. During the war these men
were the relentless upholders of Ger
man militarism, and to-day we see
their campaign for the suppression
OF Communists deteriorate into anti-
Jewish pogroms, to a persecution Of
those genuiaely liberal intellectuals
who throughout tha war had raised
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their voices against the Prussian al

their voices against the Prussian al
lance.
The leader Of this clique, Pre-
mier Friedrich, assisted himself into
power by telling the people Of Buda-
pest that he had obtained the sane
ton Of the Allies--a straight-out lie,
as was presently demonstrated. He
is the type of man that, with stub
born will unfettered by moral scru-
pies, often comes out on the top in
times Of violent upheaval. He and
his retinue make no bones about their
intention to restore the monarchy,
possibly under a Hapsburg prince
restoration that would be an ever
lasting menace to free Czecho-Slo-
vakia and the other liberated races,
as we'll as to Italy. Among his sup
porters are men like Vazsonyi, who,
in October, 1918, did his utmost to
save the Hapsburg throne and to boil
ster up Magyar resistance to the En-
tente; Count Julius Andrassy, who,
in July, 1914, personally engineered
the surrender of the Magyar opposi-
tion to Count Tisza's war policy and
hurried then to Corfu to cash in on
the Kaiser's gratitude. The rumor,
launched from Budapest that the
Hungarian peace delegation will be
headed by Count Apponyi is in itself
an insult to the Allies, for this
statesman has been the most implac-
able enemy of a liberal attitude
toward the oppressed races. He was
the Minister of Education who car
ried the Magyarization of the schools
to the limit and abolished during the
war the teaching of French in the
secondary schools.
1t is inconceivable that the Allies
should sanction the regime Of this
Junker clique which will be driven
into being the readiest tool of Ger
man intrigue; indeed, of any scheme
against the peace and safety of Eu-
rope. What Hungary needs today is
government truly representative of
the new Magyar democracy, and
government based on terrorist bayo-
nets does not answer that descrip
ton.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
A Missionary for Peace

IN his last days the following
words were addressed by Thomas
Jefferson, written by the same hand
that wrote the immortal document
declaring our separation from Great
Britain, to President Monroe con-
corning the wisdom of accepting the
intimation of Great Britain concern
ing the promulgation of the Monroe
Doctrine:
"The question presented by the let
ters you have sent me is the most
momentous which has ever been
offered to my contemplation since
that of independence that made US
nation; this sets our compass and
points the course which we are to
steer thro' the ocean Of time OPEN
ing on our views. And never could
we embark on 1t under crcum-
stances more auspicious. Our first
and fundamental maxim should be
never to entangle ourselves in the
Drolls OF Europe; our End never to
suffer Europe to intermeddle in Cis-
Atlantic affairs. America, North and
South, has set Of interests distinct
from those Of Europe, and peculiarly
her own. She should, therefore,
have system Of her own, separate
and apart from that Of Europe.
While the last is laboring to become
the domicile of despotism, our en-
deavor should surely be to make our
hemisphere that Of freedom.
"one nation, most of all, could dis
eurb us in this pursuit; she now
s. offers to lead, aid, and accompany us
IN 1t. By acceding to her PROPOSE
tion we detach her from the band of
despots, bring her mighty weight into
the scale Of free government, and
emancipate at one stroke a whole
continent which might otherwise
nnger long In doubt and difficulty.
\ Ireat Britain Is the nation which can
90 us the most harm of any one, or
all on earth; and with her on our aide
We need not fear the whole world.
with her. then. we should the most
sedulously nourish cordial friend
ship; and nothing would tend moro
70 knit our affections than to be
nShting once moro side by side In
the same cause. Not that I would
purchase even her amity at the price
Of taking part In her wars.
But the war in which the present
pseposition might engage US, should
that be It's consequence, is not her
wsr, but ours.
onticello, Oct. "a, 49,"
Behind the smiling face Of the en-
raging young man whose manliness
and modesty have endeared him to
Tho multitudes Of New York can be
dscerned message which expresses
'he earnest aspiration of the British
people to do their part to realize to
he full the vision Of jefferson.
Time has made archaic much that
Isfssrscn said. Europe, except Rus
= md the unrsconstsucted Of the
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The Real Leaders
Why Do Highbrow "Reds" Es
cape Arrest?
20 the Editor of The Tribun.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: With anxious interest have
been watching for evidence that tn.
United States government, acting with
our city government, is moving against
the intellectual leaders Of the Bolshev-
lists Of New York. Thus far have mo.
seen one scintilla of evidence tending to
show that any Of the big leaders who
are most responsible for the present sit.
uation have been arrested or examined
The list published in Wednesday,.
newspapers, giving the names of ths
persons held by Justice McAdoo. show
nothing but lot of small fry, mostly
with unpronouncable Russian names
and not one real leader of Boshevism In
New York. Where are the highbrows
and the "parlor Bolsheviki" who have
been financing, leading and encouraging
the roughnecks? Where are the men
who have presided at the many ansr-
chist mass meetings that have been held
in Madison Square Garden with packed
audiences, and where are the men who
before those mass meetings made
speeches and openly insulted Wilson,
Clemenceau and Lloyd George? Where
are the rich women who have been fur
nishing money for the Red" propa-
gandists of New York?
To answer my own question, Will
say that 1t is impossible that these high
brow leaders are not known to the Lusk
committee and the police OF New York. II
there is any doubt about their identity /
will cheerfully. furnish a list as long as
my arm of renegade American and other
leaders who are on record sufficient 10
lmprison them or expel them from the
country, and who are the real brains Of
this dangerous business.
Where is the Reverend" who said.
"Tt is not the m.ddlc-aged that you need
to make your revolution |, is strong
youth? Where is the other Reverend"
who openly pats on the back, in print,
the negro Bolshevik? What of the meet
ing in Madison Square Garden when the
audience shouted, "To he'll with Wilson,"
and cheered Lenine and Tro,zky 10 the
echo? Where is L. c. A X Martens,
the well known emissary OF Lenine and
rotzky, whose office was reported to De
the headquarters of Red propaganda
in New York;? might continue these
queries indefinitely
Can it be possible that our govern
ment is afraid to move against the n gh-
brow Bolsheviki who preach anarchy
from their pulpits and sit on platforms
before mass meetings? If such is the
case then the roundup of REDS" in
New York C.t. a farce. If it is not
the case, wau l...e to see about thr-
ty or forty ol tAe mon l am talking
about rounded up, tried for their crimes
and punished when found guilty. This
is no time for cowardlce in high places
and weakened. halfway measures.
WILLIAM T HORNADAY.
New York. Nov. l3, 1919.
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The New Rumanian Crisis
By Frank H. Simonds

The new crisis which has arisen over
Rumanian action in Hungary and else
where serves to draw attention yet
once more to one of the most complete
failures of the Paris Conference. To-
day, defiant and practically independent
Of the authority of the Peace Confer
ence. Rumania was, until the issue
was Joined in Paris, one Of the nations
which might have been most useful
in the erection of u new system in
Europe.
The manner in which Rumania was
lost, the essential justice Of those
Rumanian contentious which were re-
jectcd, the conspicuous part played by
President Wilson, himself in the Ru-
manian episodc-these details have been
very little discussed or known on this
side of the water. Yet the truth is
that as early as the session Of May
81, Rumania through her Prime Minis
ter, M. Bratiano, presented her case and
her decision.
The break between Rumania and
the Paris Conference had its origin not
in any territorial question, but in q
discussion arising over the effort of
the great powers to assert the right to
Interfere in the domestic affairs of Ru-
mania on behalf of minorities, and
obviously to establish such a right
would have meant to transform Ru-
mania into a dependent state.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
Allies Diritfetl

Meantime the Allies themselves are
hopelessly divided in the matter Of Ra-
mania. Italy has made a common
cause with Rlmania both against the
Paris Conference and against the Jugo-
Slavs. The French people are more
and more tending to approve the Ra-
manian contention, and the United
States has no real support left, save
possibly British. In this situation
Paris statements of American or gin
are more and more becoming propa-
ganda for the American contention and
more and more seeking to establish
the idea that the trouble with Rumania
grows out Of territorial ambitions.
The truth is otherwise The trouble had
its origin in the attempt to create dis
tinction between large and small states
and to apply to the small states princi
pies conveniently suspended in the case
of the large.
Copyright 1919 by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
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The Coming T1ower
Protest

Protest
(A(ter reading "Poetry": tho October Num-
ber)
These new poets with their man.
nered daintiness,
Their high dry fnicky aloofness,
Irritate me:
! long to rush
Through their delicate china shop
for dilettantes
(Hay, Skin-nay! This way, Bac-
chantesD
Like the proverbial bull
Crushing.
Primrose Satin" now
Excellent mincing fellow in pretty
pie fancy-dress-
Oh6, ohe!-
He wearies me, l confess:
Whims d la mode
Pale popinjays (ancien regime j.
Images? Petrified ice cream
OO-WAW!
Lets go to bed,
Instead.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
Reading the Glass
The Mysterious Barometer
Made Perfectly Clear

To the Editor of Tne Tribune
Sir: Some days ago you published
humorous CON munication from one Of
Your readers, complaining of his re-
Gently pure ased barometer. AS this
instrument is quite commonly to be
found in homes, bearing upon its facs
alleged weather predictions from
stormy" to very dry" and is per-
haps the most useless article in the
house, it may be of fairly general in
terest TO quote from Qualtrough's
Boat Sai.er's Manual" the following
paragraphs:
"The barometer rises for northerly
wind (including from northwest by
north to tie eastward), for dry or
less wet weather, for less wind, or for
more than one of these changes: ex-
cept on few occasions. when rain.
nail or Sc from the northward
ith strong wind.
wind One ud.ng from southeast by the
south, to the westward). for wet
weather, for stronger wind. or for moro
than one of these changes; except on a
few occasions, when moderate wind
with rain Cor snow comes from the
northward
The thermometer falls for change
Of wind toward northerly directions.
"Ihe thermometer rises for change
OF wind toward southerly directions"
1t Will be noted that it is rather
more an indicator of wind than OF
rain, and that its reading does not
consist of a single inspection but Of
the comparison of two readings with
an interval of time between.
Captain Lecky in his "Wrinkles In
Practical Navigation" a standard nau>
tlcal book, says that even on land the
weather cannot be predicted with cer-
'alnty Tor even singe day in ad-
vance and that the barometer is over>
rated as an instrument of precision
ard can only be used in conjunction
with other indications of the weather
There is even a slight daily change
according TO the hour of the day in
its readings. II is generally admitted
also that sometimes its predictions are
"noly 1t Eau and sometimes they are
colncident with the weather changes
they are supposed to predict.
Practically nothing is to be gained
from single inspection Of the instru-
ment. Any one who has paid the
slightest attention to weather condi.
tions can forecast the weather for .
day as soon AS he is in the open air
from the various signs of the sky and
the feel of the air, with sufficient GER
taln'y, the barometer adding but little.
1t is unfortunate that the makers Of
narometers conti2ue to print upon the
dlal face the misleading information.
y word or two giving a clew to ths
ruth would be far better and would
save the reputation of the instrument
while it pointed to fair" during
snree-day northeaster.
CHARLES E. MANIERRR
New York. Nov. "a. lQ1A
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Tho Best Use
From The Ct~ot~~a. Cem,..r,,.,

fFrom The Ci~ot~naH Cc~.wsrsiaI rribxx.,
Recent raids on "Red" headouarters
throughout the county have uncovered
enough internal machines to blow I'm tho
whole anarchlstic movement In the
United States, and no better disposal Of
these bombs can bd conceived than their
uss n 3usA tha4 p1itzaot1s ssuvlnA
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
A New Kind of Strike
fFro,n Tho Bultimore Au.,,

FFro'n Tho Baltimore An,erican)
Perhaps some day the public viii, be-
come tired Of being made cold, hungry
homeless and generally uncomfortable.
oy strikes in the production of the
necesssries of life and may inaucuratc q
strike Of its own on scale which nil,
long be remembered.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
An Unwelcome Position
From TIE Otto,oc /r;t.,

From The ottawa cttizen)
Inc measure under which the United
states government orders the mine
WORKERS union to call off the strike il
known as the Lever act. And the name
seems to suit the legislation. The work.
ers' however. don't relish being tho full
ssum b thip -
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wherein Joe Butts. Stills, Vets and Uoucvo,

lJoe Via In the Evening Sun1
Inc Yale eleven will reap benefits from
the sad experience with the Tic,rs ,rI
should extend Harvard to the limit. But If
must be admitted that Harvard made far
more Impressive showing against Princeton
than did the New Haven players. Still in
spots, the Yale players developed more driv-
ing power in their line buckinq against
princeton than Harvard displayed the week
before. Yet 1t would seem that. so far the
crimson team has excclcd at forward pass
ing and In all around play. Yale, however
should be right on edge next Saturday,