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New-York tribune., 1919-05-05

Gotham Gleanings

Victory Note buying is the Or
der of the day.
Al Burleson has had a busy
week Of it what with | thing & an
other.
Sec. Redhe1d Of the Cabinet had
his name in the papers one day last
month.
Steve Whitman is expected
from Washington practically any
day now.
} Jack Gavit gave ye scribe lift
in his auto Thurs. p. M, it being
rainy day.
T. w. Wilson is still in Paris
and will be entitled to a gold chevron
pretty soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. II. Davis are
better of the Influenza" which thew
have Just had
Kendall Banning is out of the
army and is working on Will
Ilearst's Cosmopolitan.
Prank Bosworth of BALTIC. is in
town for a while, he being back from
France, where he was with the
Red X.
Rupert Hughes of Bedford Hills
laid $4 on our desk last wlx. for
6 mos. subscription. Come again,
Rupe say we.
Gotham Gleanings's candidate
for pres, Herb. Parsons, is being
favorably spoken of in state politics.
Id astra per astera, as the Greeks
had it.
Gotham is filling up with people
and where they are all going to live
is question. We would give a
yrs. subscription for a home our
selves.
Bill McAdoo was in town this
week, looking finely. 1t agrees with
Bill not to have to save and skimn
like he had to when he was workinp
for the govt.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
The Capital Depopulated

Aguirre Beranga, Secretary of Gober-
nacion and First Minister, and Luis Cabrera,
financial adviser to the President, were left
behind 'to sit on the lid" in the capital, but
later Joined the Presidential party, and be-
fore the return to Mexico Mr.. Cabrera had
resumed his post as Secretary of the
Treasury
The wife of the Governor of Colma was
the only woman on the train during tho
greater part of the time, but there was
constant ebb and flow of visitors of an official
character from day to day.
The rate of speed maintained was suited
to the taste of Mr.. Carranza, and although
the President is an excellent horseman. so
much at home in the saddle that his friends
dread the suggestion of a horseback ride.
never knowing when it will end or how
fast a pace the President may set, he
prefers a moderate speed when travelling
by rail, and almost invariably caused the
train to be stopped at meal times. There
were moments when one might have walked
beside the train, and it was unusual for
twenty-mile rate to be exceeded More
over, as the President had not passed over
the road to Guadalajara for more than two
years, there were little receptions at every
way station. Sometimes there would be
songs by the school children. sometimes
music by a military hand, but invariably
there was gathering Of the local notables.
with fringe of the peon laborers in the
background, and still further back the
women and children. And invariably the
PRESIDENT was received with enthusiasm
Its quite different from the reception
accorded Mr. Carranza the last time we
came over this route,' said ono gentleman
in the party. "Then there were crowds
as you see to-day, but the motive was
curiosity. They were not sure that the
First Chief would make success of
things, and especially they were not sure
what the First Chief would do for them.
They were polite, but not deeply con-
cerned either at our coming or our going
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05

the conclusion of real peace II will
DE TO organize such league, embracin. n ~
the nations of the earth, and onlv srs, ~
league can have real value"
Inc exclusion Of Mexico from the co,.
ences IN Paris had been deeply resented =
the Mexican press and had been - "
by certain of the officials as an ;nsr,. es0
nation. Mr.. Carranza, however h.s 'as
silent on the subject and it was not ,s.,,
the second day of the journey that \. A'a
mt to refer to the matter at all IT, "w
was in playful way, for the pros;s. y
enjoys joke as well as the next ,nar 'sA'
at his own expense N'sa
The talk had drifted TO the nat;o,., A..
lean card game, poker, which is bisb,,, s'>
ular IN Mexico. MIR. Carranza remarked ~.
it was an excellent game and that h. aA, s",
been fond of it. nag
L said that l fancied the President h.,
played a pretty good game in his tim. 10y 80
IN most of the diplomatic exchancas ~, w
other countries he had shown co,ns,.s
mastery OF the art of bluffng, by which ,
meant that when it came to an aetna, ..n
he always had the cards, and was tbus an
from time to time to rake in a good not ,,;.s
four flush or q small pair.
Mr.. Carranza seemed amused Of .h;.
ton, and observed that if he had ,n..N
sciously built up that sort of reputatio,
it might account for the action of the n...s
conferrees in shutting him out of the s.,s
in Paris.
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try anything that does not interfere with
breakfast in bed.
The Passing of the Oregon

The battleship Oregon is to be put out
of commission and the Navy Department
has offered to turn her over to the State
Of Oregon as an historical exhibit. She
deserves an honorable retirement of this
sort. She is the most famous Of the
battleships of her day-those which
reached their prime in the period of the
Spanish War
The Oregon eclipsed all her sister
ships in that war. Built on the Pacific
Coast and in service there when the
Spanish War broke out, she was sum-
moned in hot haste to the Atlantic in
order to assure this country's naval su-
periority in West Indian waters. The
Panama Canal was only an abandoned
cut in April, 1898. SO the Oregon had
to circle South America, thus furnishing
the one striking argument needed to
press home to the mind of the country
the vital need of trans-isthmian water
way.
The Oregon's trip was watched with
breathless interest. Her name was on
e"Fry ones tongue. And when she ar
rived off Santiago in time to take the
leading part in the battle with Cervera's
squadron she leaped into an immortal
ity comparable with that of the Consti-
tuition, the Kearsarge or the Hartford.
She had more speed than the other bat
tleships and she alone outlasted and
wore down Cervera's Cristobal Colon
Now we have superdreadnoughts
alongside which the Oregon seems a pyg-
my But she Will retain her place in
American hearts for what she did so
dramatically twenty-onc years ago. She
rose to her occasion-and above it,
What more could be asked of any fight
ing man or ship?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
No Loan to Germany

The American delegation in Paris has
done sensible thing in declining to
lend the assistance of the United States
in floating $5,OO0,O00,000 loan to
Germany. The British financial COM
mission has suggested that Great Brit
ain, France and the United States be-
come the chief guarantors of new
German bond issue, and also should
apportion allotments of it to the other
allies, including even the newly created
states of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and
Jugo-Slavia. The proceeds of the bond
sale were to be used to, put German in
dustry on its feet.
The United States is asking an ex-
tremely moderate reparation from Ger
many, and is accepting no territorial
compensations whatever. Great Brit
ain, France, Italy, Rumania and Greece
will receive some territorial compen
sations. Japan inherits the German
concessions in Shantung province of
China. Poland and Czecho-Slovakia are
carved completely out of enemy terri
tory Serbia acquires Montenegro, Cro-
alta, Slavonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Rumania gets Pennsylvania, Bukowina,
bessarabia, most of the Banat of Temes-
var and slices of Hungary Greece ex-
poets to receive Northern Epirus, part
OF Bulgaria and section of Asia Minor.
The major share of the money indem-
nifty, whatever sum it is fixed at, will
go to France, Great Britain and Bel
GUM.
The United States does not begrudge
these compensations to its allies. But
since its own compensation is so minute.
considering it's war expenditure, it can
well excuse itself from contributing
anything to the resuscitation Of German
credit or the enhancement of Cermanv's
ability to pay.
Germany went into the war on
business basis. She expected to saddle
it's full cost on the losers. The last
thing she would have thought of, IL she
had won, would have been tightening
Of the indemnity burden saddlcd on the
backs Of her enemies. She deserves no
charity or sympathy now. The peace
conference is planning to let her off
easily in the way Of monetary indemnity
and Of territorial Indemnity. Ameri-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
Basement, ParIor and Boudoir

The traditional phrase "parlor social
list" has an honorable past and will have
a useful future. But we rise to sug-
gest that times have changed and that
new occasions require new definitions
and fresh Technology.
When the parlor division of socialist
formed in line it was exactly what the
phrase connoted. 1t was bourgeois and
college settlementish, with Burne-
Jones on the wall and "The Evening
Post" at the supper table. 1t was in
tensely respectable and quite utterly
ordinary by 'Vanity Fair" standards
Since Lenine and Trotzky burned up
Russia to roast their pig, an entirely
new spirit has entered our radical cir
cles. Or if the spirit is not new it has
certainly eaten its way into strange and.
unexpected quarters. 1t has burrowed
downward; and it has, emerging from it's
chrysalis, flown upward. In Greenwich
Village it has occupied easements; dis
playing its gay colors debonairly to the
higher regions, it has perched in more
boudoirs than there are editors of radi-
cal magazines-which is a very high
percentage. Perhaps boudoirs is not the
current word; or, perhaps, even, bou-
doirs no longer exist. But the boudoir
BOlshevik is a marked and settled type,
none the less, and those who would be
realistic had best remember that truth
is not a thing of fashions or of fact, but
of ancient and historic tradition.
The history Of the basement Bolshevik
is simple and obvious. All of Greenwich
Village spends its entire time looking
for such nonsense to sip. Only lust so
many triangles can be described week
ly, and between episodes one must drag
out the hours with something Naturally.
the soviet first hung up its hat at Sheri-
dan Square. But that was nothing to
brag Of, and the eager young adventurer
soon sought more exclusive worlds to
conquer. 1t found them. Perfectly at
tractive homes in the East Fifties and
Sixties, and so on up, subscribed to the
radical weeklies and began to attend
luncheons dedicated to the Trotzkyfica-
tion of mankind and the general soviet
ment of us all.
The motive here is not at all clear.
Perhaps Professor Freud, in his more
genial moods, could explain. Whv
should PROSPEROUS aristocrat enioy
contemplating, nay advocating, the cast
ing Of her rope of pearls before the prole-
tariat? Of course, she is not called upon
actually to cast anything clear away
beyond her subscription to her radical
weeklies and the endowment of sundrv
peace societies. The carnage and revo-
luton arc all in her eye. But they are
there, and she toys with them and is
remotely satisfied by their touch. She
has an editor or SO in to luncheon, and
lives with them through positively earth
shaking days. After which she sends
them home in her motor.
Limousine liberals" is another phrase
that has been attached to these COM
Portable nibblcrs at anarchy. But it
seems to us too bourgeois 1t may do as
subdivision Of our higher priced Boil
sheviki. 1t is too ephcmeral and extern
sive to denmark accurately those blood
red boudoir revolutionaries who will
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
Romonces of Promotion

(Fro'n Str Douglas Huio's Last Dfspatoh>
Promotion has bean entirely bv merit and
the highest appointments were open tn tbs
humblest, provided he had the necessary ouali.
fications of character, skill and knowIedga.
Many instances could be quoted Of men whd
from civil or comparatively humble occupa-
tions have risen to important commands.
schoolmaster, lawyer, taxicab driver and
an ex-sergeant major have commanded
brlgades; one editor has commanded
division, and another held successfully the
position of senior staff officer to a regular
DIVISION; the undertook of Cambridge col-
iege, clerk to the metropolitan water board.
an insurance clerk, an architects assistant
and a police inspector became efficient gem
eral staff officers; mess sergeant, railway
slgnalman, coal miner, market gardener
an assistant secretary to a haberdasher's
company, quartermaster sergeant and many
private soldiers have risen to command bat-
talions; clerks have commanded batteries; q
schoolmaster, collier, the son of black
smith, an iron moulder, an instructor in
tailoring, an assistant gas engineer
grocer's assistant, as well as policemen.
clerks and privates, have commanded CONS
panies or acted adjutants.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
A Presidential Progress
in Mexico
By L. J. de Becker

Now, as you see, we are made to feel
everywhere that we are among friends.
The revolution has succeeded, and Mr..
Carranza's attitude toward the people is
longer a matter of doubt"
Mr.. Carranza's attitude toward the peo-
pie was, in fact, the occasion of certain
amount of alarm to some of u.s. We would
crawl into some gayly decorated station,
and after the national hymn, with which
the train was always saluted, Mr. Car
rama would sometimes receive a few of
the local officials in his car, but would
then descend for a little walk up and down
the tracks, and in the course of this walk
none was so humble as to escape his notice
or too obscure to receive a pleasant sau-
tation. The President was ready to talk
with any peon who had anything to say,
and there were hundreds of opportunities
Tor attacks upon his person during these
promenades. 1t was useless to demonstrate
with his officials about their carelessness
in not watching over the Presidents
safety.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
The Absent Coat
r,o,,, .,,,, ,

(From The Manchester GudrdiorD
Apparently NJ. Clemenceau's practical mind
and hate of show are going to deprive his .
admirers of the right of gazing at the fam :
Gus perforated coat and waistcoat in one oi
the Paris museums, for this is not to be in
cluded among the relics of greatness for
future age, like Nelson's coat and the
Napoleon relics. There have beer some
very curious souvenirs Of the kind, apart
from the halfsmoked cigars of royalties
which are treasured by Americans and
others. Most curious of all undoubtedly
was Lord Anglesey's "leg." Lord Anglesey
lost leg at Waterloo. and it was buried in
the garden of the villa to which he WAS
taken. In after years he used to recall how
parties of people visited the spot "to view
the grave" relic of another kind was
George IFS famous coat, and it was pleas.
ant trait in the fiery little King that he
squeezed himself at Dettingen into the
coat he had worn years before at Ouden.
arde. Horace Walpole's researches aftef
Queen Mary's comb, Wolscy's red hat, ths
pipe which Van Tromp smoked during his
last sea fight, and the spur which King
William struck into the flank of Sorrels
arc famous.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
No Wc4doo Menus

1t was apparent from the start that at
least three of the best chefs de cuisine in
Mexico were aboard and that there was
something of spirit of rivalry between
them as to which should set the best table.
a competitive instinct much stimulated bv
the frequency with which dinner visits were
exchanged.
Clearly the affair was looked upon as q
prolonged picnic except by officials intimately
associated with the Presidential household.
They knew what to expect and were not.
therefore, disappointed to find that President
Carranza could find as many working hours
in the day train as in Mexico Citv. The
others were made to feel that as guests of
the President they were free to come
and go and to amuse themselves as thew
pleased, attendance being expected however.
at the more important public functions.
There was a delightful absence Of formalitv.
but always an abundance Of that exquisite
courtesy for which the Mexican is distin-
guished, even among Spanish-Americans.
In the Presidential party were Pastor
Roauix, Secretary of the Department of
Agriculture; General Canddo Aguilar. chief
of the military operations in Vera Cruz.
ooh-lH-ldW O1 Ile ITeSlQenC ana roDroSen-
tative of his hospitality on the Presidents
car; General Juan Barragan, chief of the
Presidential General Staff and probably the
handsomest man in Mexico; Pedro Gil Farias.
former newspaper man and private secretary
to the President Francisco M. Gonzales,
Controller General of the Treasury; Manuel
Amaya First Introducer of Ambassadors;
Mario Mendez, Director General of Tele-
graphs General Heriberto Hara Minister
Designate to Cuba; Ernesto Perusquia, Gov
ernor Of Queretaro; Aurelio Gonzales, Gov
ernor of Aguascalientes; J. Felipe Vaile
Governor of Colma; Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Governor of Michoacan; Colonel Pauline
Fontes, Director Of the Mexican Railways;
DR.. j. Aleman Perez, the Presidents physi-
clan; Ernesto Cara Perez, Under Secretary
for Foreign Relations; Oscar Duplan, Sec
ond Secretary of the Mexican Legation in
Washington, and number of the younger
officers of the army
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
\ NJ EXICo CITY, April 9-There has been

"A N EAlCO CITY, April 9.-There has been
VI attempt the part of the Mexican
officials during my visit to conceal the
ravages of the revolution. On the contrary,
have been invited to visit the districts in
Morelos and Jalisco, which suffered most
from civil war, in order to see the extent
of reconstruction work necessary, and was
disposed to do so until an inspection of the
war photographs exhibited by the Alliance
FRANCHISE in this capital convinced me that
the world might be weary of horrors. The
waste of Belgium and Northern France has
been superlative. Mexican officials admitted
that these scenes could not, fortunately, be
duplicated in this country, and it was with
a grateful sense of relief that I accented
President Carranza's invitation to accom-
pany him to Guadalajara alternative,
knowing that my last days in the republic
would be spent in pleasant places, with con-
genial people and under conditions which
would be most favorable to the study of the
personnel of the Mexican government
The Presidential special consisted of six
thoroughly modern coaches Mr.. Carranza's
car was that built by the Pullman Com
pany for General Porfirio Diaz Thoroughly
renovated inside and out, it looked like new,
and contained every convenience of more
recent invention. In order that the obser-
walton platform might be utilized this car
was the last Next to it was an office car
beyond that a sleeper, then baggage car
another baggage car and finally, the private
car Coahuila, in which group of American
newspaper men found excellent accommoda-
Tho
section were uniform, the Presidents own
car bearing the Mexican arms in colors on
a large shield. In addition to this train
however, was another in which a car was
reserved for correspondents of the PRINCIPAL
Mexican dalies, flats on which were carried
automobiles, boxcars for horses and freight
cars and ordinary day coaches converted into
temporary quarters for a battalion of the
Presidential Guard and it's band We left the
capital March &C.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
81 Would Not Live Away"

I have no wish for immortality, but
should like to live long enough to
i. Attend the funeral of the last man
who thinks it is funny to call any kind of
activity an indoor sport.
2. Exterminate the cartoonists who end
their cartoons with the backward collapse
of one character.
than ten miles an hour.
a. Meet person who admits having
social ambitions
5. Meet some person who confesses to
comparatively blameless youth.
6. Meet some one who has the good
sense, vision, and intelligence to hold the
same views as | do. G. O. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
GLiimpses
By Wilbur Forrest

When the "Argonne Players" the thea.
trical troupe Of the 77th Division, plavea
in Paris recently, President Wilson. wbo
attended one of the performances. was ~
quested to put his name on the orchestras
cello, which is one of the curiosties ~
the A. E. F. Having nothing better IN I
work with, the President scratched tbs
thirteen letters of his name on the over.
grown fiddle with a finger nail file he took
from his vest pocket, thereby adding NOR.
value to the several hundred other names
which adorned the wooden surface. Tba
names rank from doughboys to generals
the latter of whom number about twentv.
four. To be complete, the cello lacks tina
name of General Pershing and its ownen
private from New York, who Joined the
division six months after he had arrived
from his native Holland, is making every
every effort to "get" the Commander in Chief
before the 77th leaves for home. The "An.
gonne Players" are booked for performances
in New York in the near future, the much
autographed cello included But the Hol.
land 'celloist returns to America an Amer
lean. He signed his name to an American
citizenry blank few days ago.
Recently the American military police.
through clever work, caught the most i'm.
portant liquor merchant of Coblenz smug-
Cling illicit cognac into the area, arrested
him and caused him to receive fine Of
100000 marks, and six months in jail. To-
day he is anywhere but in jail-hown the
coop-and the blame rests on one trusting
and sympathetic American sentry. The sad
tale follows:
my wife is very i'll and she must 20
away" the merchant told the sentry. Il
may never see her again." he continued, as
crocodile tears splashed down his cheeks
"l just want to say word of farewell in
private before she goes" he pleaded.
"Surel" said the sentry, and the Liquor
merchant was conducted to his equally
weeping wife in a waiting-room, where
they could weep a farewell in absolute pris
vacy. And when the sentry opened the
door to gently separate the grief -strckea
liquor merchant from his forlorn frau the
room was empty. AS they say at home, the
"dragnet' is out, but so far without avail
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05

AMONG those who fit noblv at Cbs+oor
lhlerry was sergt Fracasse, now in hos
pital at Fort Sheridan. Should he not be
made captain? Or have you forgotten
that ingenious tale ?-B. L. T. in the Chi
cago Tribune.
We haven't, for one. Nor have we for
gotten that we still have B. L. T.'s conv
of captain Fracasse," borrowed in 1907
and which we shall return almost any dec
ade now.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05

cans generally may or may not regret
this policy of leniency. But certainly
our people are not subscribing to Vic
tory notes with view to easing Ger
many's punishment. 1t would grossly
offend public sentiment for our govern
ment to become an underwater of any
German recuperation loan.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
The Coming 7ower
CONCERNING ARGUMENTS


Somebody's wrong Who it be?
The trouble lies with you
That much l know, and would L knew
Whether err or whether you
When agree to disagree.
My arguments you cannot see,
And II shout excitedly
You're wrong-you know it!-through and
through! u .
Somebody's wrong.
We argue Why? Because it's free?
No. Don't we lose time when Hu
Stand cussing till the air is blue
What prompts us then? Search mel DO
Know this: When all is g. and d.
SOMEBODY'S wrong.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05

1t is G. P Ms aural registration that
causes him to say that the native New
Yorker patronzes d,uck store and refers
to the Hattson River. He crosses the latter,
by the way, to Hobucken.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05

We are easily Influenced, and good
arguer convince of almost anything
and vice versa. And apparently there
never was a tax that was fair
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
A Verse from the Poyers of Brooklyn

A Verse from the Poi1yers Of BROOKLYN
Sir: Please keep your contribs off Brookilyns
Hinterlandish bers. We are self-conscously inn
proving ourselves. Behind the house Of that
bouevardier Hiszonner didn't we have Hamboig
Avenya? And didn't we see the error of our high
ways, and didn't change it to Wilson Street?
Dill DADDLE.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05

Entered for the Ultimate of Unluck is
f. j. P, Jr, who received his season pass
to the Brighton Beach Swimming Pool just
twenty minutes before the d. t. burned
to the ground
New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
Personally Conducted Tempest
(From The Washinoton Star ,

(From The Washington STAR
Il understand that your recent speech
aroused n storm of criticism"
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum, compla-
Gently; at sounded like some storm, didn't
it? was behind the scenes supervising the
sheot-iron thunder and the artificial light
ming myself"