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New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Non-Equality for the Small States

Premier Bratiano, with the backing
Of some Of the other representatives of
the small states, has been protesting at
Paris against the efforts of the Council
of Three to draw a distinction between
the status Of the great powers and that
OF the minor powers. 1t appears from
the provisions of the Austrian treaty
that Czecho- Slovakia, Jugo- -Slavia and
Rumania are to be required to give
guarantees as to their domestic policies
which they believe are an infringement
on their sovereignty.
There may be some justification for
imposing such conditions on Austria.
which is a defeated enemy, or on
Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo- -Savia, which
are creations of the conference and are
at present in a state Of wardship But
Rumania is not and never has been
ward of the Entente. She is an equal
member of the association of powers
which fought the Quadruple Alliance
and no conditions affecting her internal
policies can fairly be imposed on her
which are not imposed on all the other
Allied states.
In the treaty Of alliance with France,
Great Britain, Italy and Russia, which
brought Rumana into the war (the text
of which was published last year by the
Paris Temps) these four big Entente
powers pledged Rumania an equal voice
in the conclusion of joint treaty of
peace. They could do no less, for they
needed Rumanias help. Relying on
promises of military assistance which
were not fulfilled, Rumania invaded
Hungary in September, 1916, and soon
found herself exposed to Teuton at
tack on three sides She lost the most
Of Wallachia, and when Russia made
peace with Germany in 1913 she, too,
was forced to conclude a humiliating
peace with Germany.
The small nations which have ap-
pcared at the Paris conference have
not been recognized as equals by the
major powers. They are not being
treated as equals in the treaty with
Austria. The ends which the big
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Scout Week

There are some 100000 boys be-
tween the ages Of twelve and twenty
one in America. Of these, 375,O0O are
to-day Boy Scouts. That is fine
nucleus, brave beginning. 1t includes
the keenest, pluckiest youngsters in
most communities.
But the aim of the organization is
far wider, its possibilities of influence
and training much more inclusive. It
can and should bring freshened spirit
of outdoor health and uprightness into
every home. The object of the Boy
Scout Week, proclaimed by President
Wilson, which begins next Sunday,
is to lay the foundation for this wider
usefulness by gaining the support
and interest of 100000 associate men,
bers. The subscription is ISL or more"
Your cooperation and understanding and
moral backing are wanted even more
than your dollar
New York's quota is 100000 members,
This should be greatly exceeded No
where is the need for scout training as
great as in our huge city. Let us sup
port scout week and join with will.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

that they forget primary and real things.
We think of the dollar as wealth, whereas
it is but representative of wealth and
may quickly lose its representative char
acter. We think Of wages as something
PAID by one man to another, whereas
they are but dividends accruing out of
what worker creates. We forget that
trade is but disguised barter, and that
IN the end one man in his pay envelope
gets but blank check payable in goods
which have cost another man ratably
similar amount of labor. The forty
four-hour week means that the worker
will get for it approximately what an
other man can produce in the same
period Of time
These things are veneered and var
nished by modern language, but it is the
wood beneath that sustans the weight
when the surface coating is gone.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
MIR. Bakers Beef

The War Department has arranged
to sell 100000 yards of denim at
prices ranging from 20 to 281s cents
a yard, whereas it paid from 20 to
34h cents. The governments loss is
thus about Is per cent. But the politi-
cal influence of the farm is large, and
the farmer and the hired hand insisted
on their customary habilments.
But meat products, of which there
are 142,000,000 pounds in government
warehouses--here is another matter.
If this great supply were sold a break
in the market might occur, of which
consumers would get the benefit. The
farmers do not want prices to come
down.
Secretary Baker gives various ex-
cuses for the meat impoundment. The
latest is that the packages are unusual
and the people would not purchase.
Try them, Mr.. Secretary.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

powers have in view in demanding that
the domestic policies Of the sm.l1 states
be subjected to the control 6 the
league of nations are undoubtedly
pralseworthy. But they have sought to
shelter their own domestic, policies from
similar interference. Is states
sovereignty to be gagged by its size?
If it is, the small states have not
realized that dream of an equality in
status for all nations, whether they be
big or small, strong or weak, which
bulked so large in the Allied pro-
gramme Of war aims.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Bomb Planting

Between the law and the bomb there
can be no compromise. The law, the
agent of all Of us, represents the in
stincts of the gregarious human animal.
The horde must have rules for its in
ternal government. The bomb, symbol
of treason to the social bond, repre-
sents those who Would return to indi-
vidual savagery
The law is umpire among men, and
although it's regulations are no embodi-
ment of divine justice, it's mandates,
at particular time, must be obeyed,
leaving to time and orderly processes
their readjustment. There is no other
way. Any one who plants explosives in
the hope of creating conditions under
which he and his group may seize power
Is would-be mass murderer. Even wild
asses have wit enough to kick to death
any deliberate assailant of the laws and
the order of the herd.
Bomb planting noxiously develops
from indictments by men who re-
gard themselves as educated. Except
for the seed sown by men and women
who have been attacked by what may
be called diseased liberalism, it would
grow little. The symptom of this dis
ease is tendency to credit half truths
and to let the mind slip along on the
superficiaites of knowledge.
We have the martyr complex, and
the absurd non sequitur that because
some men who have stood alone were
right, all who stand alone are right.
What counts is not the standing alone,
but the cause for which witness is borne.
We have the originality complex, with
its non sequitur that because every good
idea was first the thought Of some one
man all new ideas are good. We have
the love Of agitation complex, with the
non sequitur that because some kernels
have fallen into receptive ground all
paintings will have increase. What man
witnesses for, or thinks, or agitates
for is of consequence, not the mere fact
of witnessing, or thinking, or agitating
Diseased liberalism is marked by a
liking for the absolute in a relative
WOilus ~ oOouIIlCc1 1OA CheAiHP PIC, Iilcc
free speech is absolute. Never has it
been and never will it be. Was the
Old Man Of the Mountains, with his
cult that it was merit to commit muir
der, deprived of freedom when admit
tance was denied to his missionary
assassins? Have those who don't credit
the mosquito origin of yellow fever a
God-given right to bring in and scatter
abroad infected insects?
Preaching whose fair object is to en-
courage bomb planting must be stopped.
Rounding up outlaws, we may not ig-
more the most dangerous Of outlaws.
Only the weak of head or bad of heart
will judge otherwise.
In this country every man and a
steadily increasing number of women
are able to count one, and no more, in
determining what our laws and inst-
tutions shall be. This is enough. With
such a front door to charge wide open
we must load our shotguns against any
who would climb in the back way with
weapons in their hands.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Burlesonized
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: We have received this morning
letter advising US that a telegram, using
the same address as that which succeeded
in bringing the letter to US, was returned
to the sender in Atlanta, Ga, marked Not
delivered; no such party known
From what we have been hearing OF
burlesonized service we suppose that we
should be more surprised at the receipt Of
the letter than over the fact that the tele-
gram never reached US, for we have been
In business here for over thirty five years
and conduct a charge account with the tsle-
graph company. Their bills have never
failed to reach US when due.
HENRY ROMFIKE. INC.
BY GEORGES D. ROMEIKE, President.
New York, May 2s, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Canada's General Strike

For ten days Canada has been threat
ened with industrial paralysis because
three Winnipeg employers Of metal work
crs and about twenty Toronto employers
chose to stand for the open shop, or for
the right to bargain with their own men
only.
On the theory that it is the general
fault if there is not instant conversion
Of the unreasonable, a sympathetic gen.
eral strike has been announced as about
to begin. SO far its rigors have been
avoided, but the menace is still sus-
pended. In Western Canada the l. W.
w. idea has found Judgement. One big
union has been organized, and it makes
no concealment that it is enlisted for
trouble. There is talk Of higher wages
and shorter hours, but these things are
not sought by the new leaders. Indeed,
there is reason for thinking they would
be disappointed were there to be a settle
snent on the basis Of gaining all de-
mands.
II is scarcely necessary to point out
the consequence we're general strike
logically applied. 1t would mean the
Russian sickness. Articles Of use would
not be produced, and II not produced
would not be getable. The general
striker hits not others but himself He
pulls down an c1ifce, but is the first to
be smotherci BY the debris.
The root Of the trouble is the fact
that people have so long been accustomed
10 handling secondary md unreal things
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Variety's Golden Days

OlI' 1OuI ADMISSION OIL naVlng Oeen
youthful victim of the manifest charms of
the pulchritudinous Norma Whalley proves
you had a discerning eye-even in them
days-lf not retentive ear. Walter Jones,
who was Norma's variety partner, can't
recall that she sang "Louisiana Lou" That
lifting forerunner of ragtime was made
popular first by frankie Raymond, the
wife of Dave Henderson, who produced the
famous Chicago Opera House extrava-
ganzas.
Also George cohan says you've done
pretty we'll to remember that much Of his
"Rah- Rah- Rah" gag, but that you didn't
get it entirely correct. 1t was "If don't
say 'rah-rah-rah' nine times before break
fast, I'm nervous all day" But, of course,
you do remember Billy Cliffords "My
papah met your papah" twaddle to Maudie
Huth.
Getting back to Norma, I've got you
beat anyway, because met her, which you
didn't. Yep, dad was her attorney, and |
got back stage with him one day and did
my visual sna tsSr tworshipping close up while you
you did, guess it was some treat. AS
Briggs says, "Oh. Mani" But soon for
got Norma and didn't care bit when she
married sherrie Matthews. because in the
Cheridah Simpson and others, but at that
! think Norma had 'em all backed off the
boards, don't you? B. O.. B.
"You are taking unkind slap at the
variety of to-day" writes P. G. O. "When.
in the days Of yore, were there productions
as lavish and costly as variety offers to-
day?" Never. A show like "The Scan
dals of 1912" for example, which, to our
notion, hasn't three laughs in it, probably
cost many times what also for example,
Weber and Fields burlesque cost, and
much as the Cohan Review, of 1917.
cost. On the premise that an audience
wants to laugh, the days Of old were far
more golden than the hodiernal evenings.
do any Of these nonstop memory
flights go back to Rosina vokes in The
Circus Rider" asks c. W., "standing on
the head end of lounge, and cracking
her whip?" That is too far for US; but
we do recall Matthews and Bulger in the
first piece George Ade ever wrote-"The
Night of the Fourth"
Just because it was dancing show, the
Globe and the Evening Mail linotypers call
it THE Sandals of 1919"
In tho Brevoort
Upstairs they sat and talked Of Walt
Downstairs we talked and slipped our malt
Upstairs in learned guise they spoke
We said Some poet!" through our smoke
oh many highbrow things they said
While raised glasses to our dead
And then walked for several miles
And spoke of Walt-ard spoke in smiles
Yea, there smiles though Walt had died
But think Walt was satisfied
MoRRE.
The Socialists and the Anarchists will
disagree, one guesses, with the writer of
the Evening Mails Lucky Number copy.
Remember" he says. in q glorious non
sequitur, "the winning numbers will be
selected by prominent people, so every one
has equal chance"
There is, as Pollyanna says, the bright
side to everything.
Our composing room is lovely place
on cold December night. F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

provements, etc. Expenditure this wear an
war account IS estimated at about $500, ,oO0-
ooo' as compared with probably $40O, 900 900
TOR the fiscal year 1918-'19. The entire
spending programme this year, exclusive of
credits to other countries, calls for $780,
o'o,oSo, as compared with an estimate for
l9l8-1e of $647,5o6,514. In addition the
government will have to find at least $500
100000 in connection with its policy of ad
vanclng credits to other countries for pur
chases in the Dominion and to assist in
financing the sale of the exportable surplus
OF Canada 1919 wheat crop The Canadian
acreage in wheat this year shows good
increase, and yield of at least 300 900 900
bushels Gas compared with bare 100000
600 bushels in 1879 already is being fore
cast Government advances to finance pur
chases by Great Britain and the Allies Of
Canadian wheat and -four of the 1913 cron
have been arranged to the amount of S170.-
100000, and provision of very large sum
may be necessary in order to find a market
for the coming harvest. In addition Cana
dian government credits of S25, 900 900 each
have been accepted by Belgium, Greece and
Rumania for purchases in Canada and
credit practically unlimited has been offered
to France.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
IhlsoNE with absolute .aety-tor II dssatssao'ion rs-
cults In any ThE TRIBUNE guarantees to your
monsy back ssausst. Ne red tacs. No auibbl'ng.
Ws make good promptly II tho advertiser does c0t
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Canada s Load
Especial Correspondence of The Neao York T11bune)
Seuen Million People to
Find a Billion Dollars

lVA Dominion is awaiting anxiously the
announcements which the Hon. w T.
White, Minister of Finance, is expected to
make in his budget speech in the Canadian
Parliament on Thursday. Great national
issues cluster around that speech and even
the strikes and rumors of strikes have not
entirely supplanted it in public interest
Will it spell disruption of union govern
ment, a general election and increased an
tagonism between East and West?
Or VIII the measure Of compromise which
the budget proposals undoubtedly represent
be successful in holding the government
together during the immediate reconstruct
tion period?
What bearing, if any, will the budget
proposals have upon the present industrial
unrest?
There is regular weller of rumors about
changes in the Federal Cabinet and impor-
tant political moves apparently are con-
templated. Certain it is that the tariff
changes which Sir Thomas White will an
nounce will not satisfy the Western grain
growers and the resignation of two minis
ters, both representatives of the agricult-
ural interests in the Canadian West, is
expected Usually the budget is brought
down toward the latter part Of April (Can-
ada's fiscal year ends March 81, but delay
this year was caused by the absence from
Ottawa of the Prime Minister and the con-
f1ictng demands which had to be considered.
Sir Robert Borden is now back at the CAPT
tai, and as head of the government he must
take the responsibility for whatever the
budget may evoke While budget legisla-
tlon is carefully safeguarded against ad-
vance announcement, it may be stated that
the tariff changes will not seriously injure
any Canadian industry. Modification in cer-
tain of the agricultural implement duties is
expected, but some offset may be provided.
There will be no general and drastic reduc-
tion of duties and, indeed, the impression
prevails that the war tax of 71a per cent on
imports will be continued, in part at least,
for another year This levy has been con-
tributing at the rate of nearly $45,000000
a year to the Dominion treasury and in
view of fiscal needs this year cannot we'll
be abandoned.
Expenditures
This Year
Allowing for credits to be provided to
foreign countries for purchases in Canada
and assistance in the financing of the new
wheat crop, the Dominion government will
expend probably 1,ooo,ooo0oo, and per-
haps more, during the present fiscal year.
Estimates of requirements on consol-
dated fund account total $354,2S5, 400, as
compared with $266,o51, ops for 191s-ls.
Expenditures for soldiers land settlement,
soldiers civil reestablishment, pensions,
housing, public debt charges. mail subsidies
and steamship subventions, war bonus to
civil servants and increased pay to tho
Northwest Mounted Police account for the
major part of the advance Capital outlay,
exclusive of that for war purposes, is esti-
mated at $s5,S93, ,5s1, or sb2, ,2s2 1857 more than
IN 1918-19. to provide for purchase of rail-
road equipment, prosecution of the govern
ments shipbuildng programme canal i'm
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Paying London
Back

The government has announced a cash
repayment of a loan of approximately $685.
100000 maturing in London in July and is
IN no Immediate need of additional borrow
ing. During the next couple of months, hcw-
ever, some financing is likely to be done in
New York, the present exchange situation
making it possible for Canada to borrow
there at comparatively low cost. Sir Thomas
White has also announced that domestic
loan VIII be offered in the fall, possibly in
September, but that the amount of public
borrowing will be limited as closely as pos
sible on account of interest rates still be-
ing high. The amount to be raised by loans
will depend largely upon the extent to
"hich the government continues its policy
of advancing credits to foreign countries
for purchases here. Doubtless part of the
money will be provided by temporary Dor.
rowing from the banks.
With net debt of 1854, ,000, 900 at the
beginning of the current fiscal year (Aprii
u, after participation in war which
already has cost this country more than
Sl,3OO,0OO,O00 and involved additional obli-
cations which will bring the total cost
probably to $4,000 100000 or more, Canada
unquestionably has difficult financial prob
lens But the Dominion has emerged from
the war immeasurably stronger than she
entered it. Canadian credit is unimpared,
because of two facts: This country's latent
power and resources and the careful inan-
cial administration which has been provided
under the direction of Sir Thomas Whtes
the Minister of Finance
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
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New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Suggestions for Hawker

fFrom The Boston Globe
For ambitious aviators who want to do
something absolutely new. there's the Pacific
Ocean yet to cross.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

ported commodities. This necessarily will
entail loss Of revenue, which must be made
up in some other way. A general upward
revision of the income tax schedules, with
sharp graduation, seems certain, and .ome
form of tax on business profits must be
continued The system of internal excise
taxes probably will also be extended and,
indeed, may embody new levies on luxuries,
similar to those in the present revenue law
in the United States.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
The Coming Tower
NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES

NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES
V.
Hark now to the tale of Goodman Brown:
By life's little ironies beaten down,
He, wishing to stop his mortal breath,
Hit upon freezing himself to death.
He read that travellers who perished 50
Had found it easy way to go;
And Goodman Brown, to be frank, was fain
To say painless goodby to pain.
When it twenty below or more,
He stationed himself outside his door
In his old armchair, resolved to wait
The chill approach of his frosty fate.
He shivered and shook as he sat there
In that most nipping and eager air;
With redeemed nose and a rheumy eye,
He shook and shivered, but didn't die.
Not only that, but the process seemed
Less painless by far than he had deemed,
And his opinion was not disguised
That the method had been overprzed.
He called to his wife, "'Tain't wuth rapl
Get m overcoat, mittens, an sealskin cap!
By jinks call it ALFRED dun sort
o. world, where q man CANT freeze In
comfort"
Day wore to nightfall; with cough and
sneeze
Goodman sat waiting, but didn't freeze;
And when evening came, he took to bed,
Too mortified to hold up his head.
From disappointment and deep chagrin
He grew more feeble and pale and thin;
And SO, after all, he died one day,
ThOurh not in hie oun al +ad
Funerals were few in the little town
More thronged than was that Of Goodman
Brown. G. S. B.
Bluff, uncouth Aleck Woolcott is back
from France, and in his embarrassed way
shutters his elation. care you glad to be
back?" asked The Tribune's dramatic and
book. reviewer. "I'll say I am," said Mr.
Woolcott blushing
The day after Sgt. Woollcott was de-
modified he met General Pershing. "Hes
a civilian now," said Lieutenant Early, who
introduced Woollcott to the c. in c. "He
looks like a soldier to me-" said the Cen
eral. In Sgt. Woollcott's twenty-five
months in the Army, it was the first time
anybody had said anything of the kind
to him.
From the Colossus Himself Subject: Harlem
River Terrace
Sir: For the purpose of putting wise the
perusers of your Pisa of Perspicuity, please see
paragraph something -or-other, page something-es
of the law pamphlet pertaining to highways
You'll there perceive that I'm plainly prevented
from participating in any particular with public
paths within the populous city; only those past
the city's palings put under my powers other
wise Id palpitate with pleasure to pattern, pre-
serve and perpetuate the places you've politely
pointed out. F. s. G.
1t is a sad thing that Harlem River Ter
race is not to be paved. One. of our tires
1t had travelled mere 16,361 miles-expired
there yesterday, and our arrival at the Office
was delayed many hours. If clause about
Harlem River Terrace be not inserted into
the covenant Of the L. of N, we shall bolt
the Democratic party.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
And Some Diners

From The Ne.o York CommercicD
The shot that sank the Lusitania sank the
German Empire.