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New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
A Battery Commander
at Montfaucon

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | have been an interested reader
of the correspondence in your paper reia
tive to the capture of Montfaucon. was
in command of a battery of 155-mm
guns on that occasion. Ny position was
that which l occupied prior to the first
attack. I was on the north side of the
road, between Montzeville and Esnes. On
the afternoon of September 26 ! was or
dered to prepare data to sweep Mont
faucon from its north edge to the centre
OF the town l later received orders no,
to fire, as the town had been captured.
Scott was, l believe, in command of our
brigade at that time, so the orders un-
doubtedly came through him.
General Butt is correct in at least one
of his conclusions. The fault was not
that of National Guard or reserve officers
They were at the front doing the fighting.
The rush of regular army officers 20 the
front did not occur until after Novem-
Der H.
l was in action continuously from Sep
tember 25 to November . During that
time | saw only two officers above the
rank of colonel. One of these came up by
mistake and left before breakfast in the
morning when he found out where he was.
In my opinion such misfortunes as the road
tie-up at Avocourt (Which | Witnessed
could have been avoided if the staff officers
who directed operations had obtained
little more personal information of condl-
tons that prevailed at the front. How in
innate they were with these conditions may
be imagined from the experience of one
OF them, who, with the plans of the No
venlber 1 attack in his possession, wan
dered into the Boche lines, not knowing
where he was. This attack. | believe, was
planned for October 2s. His capture
caused the postponement and, incidentally,
caused those of US who were up on the
line several days of severe punishment.
CAPTAIN OF ARTILLERY.
New York, Aug. 4, 1919.
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The Cider Jag
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Mr.. Samuel Wilson, Of the New
Jersey Anti-Saloon League, exhibits the
usual prohibition disregard of facts IN his
statement in this mornings Tribune that
the pending Eighteenth Amendment en-
forcement bill applies to cider. He IS evil
IDENTIFY ignorant Of the fact that Attorney
General Palmer, prohbitions;. has ruled
that cider is neither malt, vinous, fer
mented nor distilled liquor, and therefore
the language of the bill quoted by MI
Wilson does not apply to cider.
Will Mr.. Wilson kindly explain why the
House, when the enforcement bill was un-
der discussion voted down by an slmos'
unanimous vote of the drys an amendment
to the bill specifically prohibiting cider
Why mention beer, wine, ale, rum, GIN
etc, and omit an alcoholic beverage that
often contains three times as much slcohei
as ordinary beer?
The Anti-Saloon League has shown tha'
it has majority of our national Legislators
coerced and terrorized into doing its BIO
ding. Why does not that band Of up
lifters and reformers issue orders thas
cider shall be included in the enforcement
law? WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York, Aug. 4, 1919.
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Unquenchable Oscar
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: number of years ago Hammer
stein built on Broadway, between Forty
fourth and Forty-tifty streets, the wonder
full structure containing two theatres,
which were then known as the Olympic and
the Criterion and are now known as the
New York and the Criterion, which was
considered at the time (and is even at the
present day. as among the finest structures
of its character in New York City
few years afterward the New York
Life Insurance Company started fore
closure proceedings against him, and on
the day that the property was offered at
foreclosure sale, at public auction in the
Real Estate Salesroom, instead of attend
ing same he dropped into the Office of a
friend l happened to be in the office at
that time and was surprised to see him
there instead of attending the SALE
Sitting down, he commenced strumming
upon desk with his fingers and humming
tune. l looked up in surprise, and said:
81 cannot understand you, Mr.. Hammer
stein; here is your life's ambition going
under the hammer to-day and you sitting
down and hummng tune" Turning to
me he said, if he did not have a care
or trouble in the world: "Whats the diff
ference? It's all in a lifetime" Hesitating
minute, was dumfounded when he said:
"Tll tell you what Pll do. I'll bet YOU a
new hat that in six months ri have a new
theatre either built or under con-
struction." Needless to say, l did not
take him up on the bet. He would have
won, however, as inside of the six months
period he was breaking ground at the north
west corner Of Forty-second Street and
Seventh Avenue, upon which he erected the
Victoria and the Republic theatres.
The above is certainly wonderful ex-
ample of self-conhdence, and l thoroughly
believe that he no more understood the
meaning of the words down and out"
than our brave boys in the recent war
understood the word "retreat"
HARTIE I. PHILLIPS. "A
New York, Aug. 4, 1919.
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Women and the Police

Police officers having recently made
bad "breaks" by arresting decent women
en- the ugliest of charges, a thrill of
horror has run through the community,
eliminating in declaration by a judge
of the Court of General Sessions that the
uncorroborated testimony Of police Of
fcers should never suffice 10 ccnvict-a
statement more indicative of 4 heart
chivalrously sympathetic 10 women than
Of a judgment s,hich looks at life calmly.
In rejoincler Magistrate Msncuso, Who
heard the criticised case, has written an
account Of the proceedings. Instead Of
an offhand conviction occurring, there
was patient investigation at three or
four hearings, the record covering l25
pages. with the defendants story care
fully examined. The girl was taken
into custody as an inmate OF a house of
woman who admitted two convic-
tions for keeping disordery house,
who possessed narcotics and who had a
suspicious telephone list ard book
giving the names, addresses and per
sonal description Of 2 vlnber of
women. And when the defendants ex-
PLANTATION Of her presence was shown
weak and the results Of a physical ex-
animation were prejuacial % her, the
magistrate places he net in jail nor
even in an institution. but en- probation,
on promise Of treatment by her own
physician in accor' with Board of
Health regulations. 50 the public's in
dignation has been ncodessly stirred,
and both police officers and magistrate
may complain OF hasty, harsh attack.
The generalization Of polcc haters
that policemen are always parjurers is
as worthless as the police assumption
that defendant is always liar What
is needed is not discriminating con-
demnaton Of men who measure up to
the average, but a discriminating weed
ing ont of the bad who stray into all
companies. The detective is not pop
ul;tr Most OF US seem descended from
laWorcakers and to have inherited
an 1t&vistic prejudice against the spies
that society hires. Yet the detective
must be hired if the vicious are to be
curbed. If the testimony of those ap-
pointed to watch the pavements is
never to be good the streets are likely
to be dirty indeed. 1t seems mean to
trick q streetwalker into revealing her
business, but if the method is not used
the police wili hear they are neg,ecting
their duty. Riotci:s seatilncntalisn has
not been the influence that has made
New York the clcanest of the worlds
great cities.
The way to good results, is not to
vent spleen on the plainclothes man, but
to wreak a terrible vengeance on any
one Of them who becomes a murderer
Of coed repute. To the labor of ex-
pclin& the contemptibles in their COM
pany the police may be respectfully in
vted. The candid policeman will con-
fess that there is too great tendency
to hang together-that class feeling too
often leads to screening the guilty The
wearers of uniforms should suppress
this noXious bias and hail as true
friend o. the public any person who un-
covers sconndrel in their ranks.
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The Bulgarian, CLAIM,

The arguments that this territory should
go to Bulgaria rest solely on the fact that
without it Bulgaria will have no outlet
upon the Egean; but the country is desti-
tute of harbors, and unless the Bugars
are again to be presented with the Greek
city of Kavala it is difficult to see how
much Importance attaches to this strip
of front.
Great Britain and France have agreed
in recognizing Venizelos's demand, based
alike upon the fact that the population of
the territory involved is Greek, not Bull
gar, and upon the further fact that in Bull
garian hands it is constant threat to
Greek security.
Twice in two years Bulgaria attacked
her neighbors in undisguised efforts to
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q straight Tammany man and has yielded
many times to Tammany influence, he
is meeting his new responsibilities in
ways that have been steadily taking him
away from domination by the Tammany
machine. Mr.. Hearst is giving public
testimony that Governor Smith has now
taken another long step in that direction
"a testimonial that is as welcome to
those who long for clean politics as it
should be to the Governor and his
friends.
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~ Everything
70 the Editor of The Tribund.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: F. P. AS absence is giving us all
chance to try to be clever so let me
tell how he held my job for me. You
see, work for typical t. b. M, who Is
so typical that he invariably shows mo-
ments of intense temperament in the
morning. For several weeks | worked a
fine system for keeping him sheered. 1t
was quite simple. | merely made 1t
point to be in the wrong once before 9:oo
But, unfortunately, ! had to increase the
ratio of errors to an alarming extent
Then, then, bethought me of the
Great Ideal Each morning | brought my
Tribune to the boss's desk folded so that
The Coming Tower would first greet his
eye, and when he trundled in, showing
signs Of rage, would refuse to hear the
buzzer summons until I was assured that
he had read F. P. A.
Can you picture my anguish when
f. P. A. departed decamped, scooted? Not
until Mr.. Brownel appeared on the scene
did | have happy moment. But he is
not so regular, nor is he, with all due
reverence to his ability, quite eficacious
in my own small problem. +. Il. X.
New York, Aug. 5, 1919.
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Brotherhood Reservations

The methods Of promotion, displaying
the manners if not the morals of the
highwayman, which the brotherhood
chiefs have adopted to induce al of US to
buy the railroads for them to experiment
with are, of course, calculated to arouse
hot resentment. Nothing more arrogant
has been known in this country since
railway magnate objurgated "The public
be damned! Indeed, there seems to be
throwback to the mood of the plutocrats
who regarded themselves as the owners
of the earth and thought when they
spoke humber folk were to obey.
But indignation over the threats and
throat-grabbing which garnish the plan
should not prevent calm consideration of
it. The railroads are i'll. The service be-
comes worse and worse, the ccst higher
and higher The political authority Of
the country, as centred in the executive
department, has run away from the
problem.
1t has been made plain that our gov
eminent as now organized is afraid Of
the bludgeons nourshcd in its direction
1t is doubted whether any political power
would be able 70 resist the pressure thas
one militant minority can apply. 50 gov
ernment operation is dead.
On the ether hand, private operation
is warned not to expect to reassume
management under conditions permitting
Improvement If private owner may
neither make rates, nor participate in dc
tcrminng wages, nor in fixing the number
he is to employ, nor "fre" anybody as use
Z less OF slothful there will be no private
management in fact. Don't let us ticliide
ourselves, although such is the fashion
of the hour, with names of things To
call a system private operation does not
make it private operation any more thar
the styling Of the covenant plan league
Of. peace makes it league OF peace
The railroads must be run But
will the brotherhoods take lease on
tfe terms they have held others should
submit to? VIII they agree that rates
are to be made by the Interstate Com
Enerce Commission? Will they permit
THEN wages to be fixed according to the
method of the Adamson law? Will they
pay fair rental for the leased property
and be satisfied with what'is left?
The guess may be hazarded that they
Hill nct-that they are tco canny rs
business men to accepu any unguaraa-
teed compensation. They have a shrewd
idea of what would happen should they
offer themselves as kicking post
should the muzzle of faultfinding be
pointed in their direction. Suppose the
shopmen said the engineers were getting
too much and the clerks and the section
men should suddenly walk out. The
democratization of industry is grand
phrase; it 9nbodies an ideal all would
like to see realized; but it provides no
safeguard against industrial disturb
ance. Indeed. the wranglings among the
coop@rators would perhaps be more fierce
than between employers and employed.
SO it is doubtful whether the brother-
hoods mean business. They probably are
staging gesture rather than submitting
an offer They ignore the intimaton that
they accept real responsibility They
woGN have a sure thing, and a sure
thing is seldom provided by cooperation.
Here is one reason why its champions
labor in vain
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Another Balkan Far

This Thracian episode is only one more
example of the difficulties which are confront
ing the still unorganized league of nations
IN every part Of Europe and one more evil
dence of how dangerous American participa-
ton in the settlement of such questions mus,
be for European nations, whose own security
and rights are thus sacrificed in the pursuit
of an abstract or academic idea
If the Bulgars get Thrace there will be
another Balkan provoked by them in an
effort to get Salonca. Conceivably, if thew
fail to get Thrace there will be another war
but short of handing over the whole Balkan
peninsula to the Bulgars there is no wav
of satisfying their appetite and their am
bltion. Nenizelos in 1918, offered them
Kavaa and all the hinterland east of the
Struma. They took it and then attacked
Greece treacherously He and the Serbs
consented that they should have this very
Thracan region under discussion, even
after their wicked assault upon Greece and
Serbia in 1913. Yet two years later thew
attacked Serbia and invaded Greece. The
consequence has been that those strong Brit
ish forces, which from the day of Gladstone
have sympathzed with Bulgaria, have prac
tlcally abandoned hope.
Our appearance now in the role of a cham
pion of the Bulgars has resulted in the loss
not merely of Greek sympathy with the
league of nations, but of the enormously
valuable support of man who in manv ewes
bulks as the greatest of contemporary Euro
pean statesmen.
Copyright, 1919, by The Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
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To the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In regard to Of. p. A. On His Vaca-
ton," you may be interested in the following
extract from a letter written by my son,
Roger ?. Stone, of the American Embassy,
Toxic:
"The Tribune comes regularly; that is,
get all the issues, but of course, they come
all punched. Grantland Rice is fine; so is
f. P. A. Those and Briggs, together with
the editorials enjoy most, because, of course,
the news is pretty old.'' w. s. STONE.
Providence, r. L., Aug. 2, 1919.
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Can a Horse Weep?
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: In yesterdays Tribune on the
much discussed editorial page your Mr..
Gorky spoke of horse who had fallen in
the street and was weeping convulsivelv
or at least he was weeping. Did you ever
near horse cry-l mean other than the
sort uttered by Chambers hero when he
crushes the heroine to his breast? And
that you spell differently. However, I
am sure that horses do not weep from an
excess of emotion. He probably had a
cold never saw weeping horse.
never hope TO see one, and if you will
take the trouble to look up my record you
VIII fnd that my knowledge of horses is
congenital. HARRIETTE UNDERHILL.
New York, Aug 5, 1919.
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A 2.75 League

fFrom The Pittsburgh Gaxette.Times)
Some opponents of the draft of the
league of nations will admit that it has
some value, rating about 275 per cent in
efhcleney to prevent war, while others will
not concede much as half OF | per
cent.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
Heart or Headso

fFrom The hlraakce Sentinel
President Wilson has received . number
of blackthorn sticks from an Irish aamirsr
and perhaps the idea of the donor is that
1t Is better to break the heads of a few
Senators than to break the heart of the
world.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07

seize their territory. She is the disturb
ing element in the Balkans, and her am
pltlon was and remains to acquire an
actual hegemony south of the Danube.
American championship of the Bulgars has
been as severe a blow to the Greeks
American championship of the Jugo-Slavs
was to the Italians. Moreover, the Italians,
themselves rivals of the Greeks. and seeking
to deprive Greece of lands unquestionably
hers under Mr.. Wilson's principles, have very
promptly and cleverly come to the support
of the Bulgarian claims, precisely as they
are championing Rumanian demands at the
expense of the Serbians.
AbandOns the League
Venzelos asks not without reason, why
America, which did not declare war upon
Bulgaria, which has no interest at stake,
now insists upon the bestowal upon Bulgaria,
the hereditary enemy of the Greeks, of lands
alike Hellenic and essential to Greek security.
The idea that the league of nations should
advocate the destruction of Greek safety and
the annulling of Greek rights has evidently
converted Venizelos from the views which he
held when | talked with him five months
ago. His remuneration of support of the
league of nations deprives it of champion
of lncalculable value, since in the Paris con-
ference and in the world Venizelos is one
of the outstanding figures, great in
every sense of the word
The championship of the Bugars by
America seems to one of the greatest
mistakes conceivable. The Bulgaf has repre-
sented the Prussian idea and the Prussan
spirit in the Balkans. He has been guilty
of every crime which we charge against the
Germans. greater Bulgaria would be only
step toward that Bulgaria which the peo-
pie of this Tartar state have sought to
create for more than a generation. The
Serbians and the Greeks certainly far more
deserve American support if we are to mix
in this complicated question. Moreover
precisely as the effect Of our intervention
at Fiume has been to break the relations
between Italy and her European allies and
start her on the road back to her German
alliance, the consequences of successful
championship of the Bulgars in Thrace will
be to ruin Ncnzelos in Greece and bring
back the supporters of King Constantine and
the sympathizers with Germany
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

Sir: The mission of The Tribune is that
of newspaper. Funny columns are non
essential; once in while thing is worth
a glance and thought; mostly the para
graphs in the funny column are obscure or
valuelcss. We're it omitted the loss would
be unnoticeablc. Such columns become tedi-
GUS and irritating, and what of value they
contain, as news or comment, usually APP
pears in editorials or other departments
OF the paper. JOHN HOPKINS
New York, Aug. /, 1919.
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The irst Line

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir:
What does "Trbune" mean to me?
Easy 'nuf it is to say;
Headlines read, make a bee
Line for Briggs and f. ?. A.
New York, Aug. 5, 1919. II. r. N.
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Venizelos and the
League of Nations
By Frank II. Simonds

"HE announcement in Paris dis
patches that as a consequence of
81 The &faiiure of the peace conference
TO descide Balkan matters, and par
ticularly in view of the American position
with referenceAto the disposition of Thrace,
Venzelos has publicly stated his loss of
confidence in the league of nations, is of
more than passing Importance at this time.
| remember sitting beside the Greek Pre-
mier at dinner early in the peace con-
ference, when both at table and in a speech
which he made Hfterward he forcefully
and eloquently defended the league of
tions from the point of view of the repre-
sentative of a small nation. Venizelos
himself was not only most conspicuous
representative Of a small nation, but he
was one Of the great, figures at Paris,
man whose force and whose intelligence
marked him from the outset.
What TcniseL0s DID
Had Venizelos sided with the Germans
in the war Greece would have been totally
lost to the Allies, would have become an
invaluable base for German submarines
and the victorious Macedonian campaign in
september OF laSC year cOUlu uOL nave Oc-
Cured. In the face of the. open sympathy
of King Constantine. the court and the
Greek army with the Kaiser, Venizelos
saved Greece to the Allies and rendered
service of almost incalculabde value at crit
ical hours.
In Paris as in the various peace con-
ferences after the several Balkan wars,
Venizelos displayed moderation and a
reasonableness in striking contrast to the
attitude of representatives off other small
but ambitious nations. Froms the very out
set he was a champion, and a powerful
champion, of the league of nations, not
/only as an ideal but also as a practical
machine, calculated to protect tsmall powers
in the presence Of the great; not only
an instrument for peace between large
nations, but as a guarantee of the indie
pendcnce and rights of little states like
his own.
In the peace conference Vcnizelos asked
for his country only lands in which the
population Greek, lands which had an
Hellenic tradition; but in advocating these
demands he encountered the hostility of
the Italians and he found himself not
alone opposed by the Italians in the .Egean
anu III ilOlticlH EplruS, DuC 10 ms sur
prise he found the United States advocat-
ing the bestowal Of territories upon the
Bugarans, as we'll as the Albanians, in
which the population was Greek, and in
which, during brief occupation, the Bull
CARS and the Albanians had prosecuted the
Greek population the Bulgars had also
prosecuted the Serbs during the time they
held Serbia
The of the situation was the dis
position of Thrace, and particularly that
portion Of Thrace which lies between the
Martha River and the present Greek
frontier. The occupation of this country
had permitted the Bulgars to assail Greece
III the second Balkan war without provoca-
tion and to have a valuable base for Bulgar
operations during the world war. In Bull
garan hands it was constant menace to
Salonica
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