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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-10-23

The Board upon motion adjourned
until 2 O'Clock P. NJ,
Afternoon Session
o'clock p. M.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
The Board, upon motion, hired
Wallace Kyes to grade by day labor
two bridges located as follows: one
between Sec. and 2-132-74 and one
between section % and 23-13l-74.
It was moved by Matthews and sec
onded by duHeaume that the county
Treasurer be instructed to carry the
Court Certificates Of the present term
OF court as cash items until the next
meeting of the Board. Motion prevail
cd
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Woman S Place

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The most difficult problem that
confronts the American z ment and
society in general is that . nnding en-
ployment for discharged soldiers.
Many organizations and the United States
Employment Service are not leaving a stone
unturncd to find employment for these men
One way to secure work for the former
members Of our American army is to make
a survey of the many jobs that are now be-
ing held by women, who have replaced
these very men who arc now out of en-
ployment. According to the New York State
Industrial Commissions report there are
between 1900 and $4,000 women holding
JOBS that we're previously held by mon /
do not know how others may look upon
this, but for my part think the following
Jobs are unsutcd for women: Machins
shop hands, elevator runners carpenters.
foundry workers and many other similar
occupations that are too numerous TO
mention. Now, If these people who are
employed or arc volunteers for various or
ganizations who are seeking to find en-
ployment for soldiers. will devote their
energy to replacing the women with men.
think that the prob EN- will be part
ly solved, at least for New York State
soldiers 1t is obvious that there is a
great demand for female help all over the
United States. We can readily understand
the cause of a shortage of women for in
dustrial purposes, let alone the servant
problem.
am sure that the female workers will
b,,i
a readjustment.
GEORGE f. GOTTLIEB.
Assistant Manager Community Employment
Bureau, 1856 Second Avenue.
New York, April 49, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Like a Dirty Bootblack'

Inc penalty which German seamcn
VIII pay for the crimes of the sub
marines is bound to be heavy one. Poa-
slbly not all of them were SO lost to all
sense of sea honor that they approved
the Admiralty campaign of murder. The
folmer commander Of the liserin Au-
guste Victoria, who is credited with hay-
ing said at Spthead, II am leaving NV
ship like d dirty bootback." was. no
doubt, as good an example as any Of the
traditional sailor virtues in the davs be-
tore the war. Indeed, the German mer-
camille marine has many courageous ex-
plolts to its credit Nor in the early
days of the conflict was the German
navy devoid of chivalry. The memory Of
Won Spec testities TO this fact.
But the German seamen are now in
the position Of men who have bartered
their good names and sold their souls.
lhey cannot escape collective responsi-
pillty for deeds that have made the yerv
"ord German smell to heaven. CAPTAIN
hopff, comparing himself to "a dirtv
-~'''NN, may SOICClVdDlV realize the
degradatlon of the position to which he
and ms mates have sunk That the acts
or the U-boat commanders were renel-
liant TO him may be believed. But wonld
he would any German seamen have 70
fused to obey an order to send women
and children to death? Are they of diff
ferent metal than the German seamon
who launched the deadly torpedo against
the unwarned ship, who fired upon the
helpless victims trying perilously to
escape in open boats?
Perhaps some of them we're Perhaps
some of them never would have allowed
nature to be subdued to what it works
in, like the dyer's hand. Perhaps some
Of them, ordered to forget that they were
searnen, would have refused But sucn
compunctious visitings cannot redeem
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Fifth Avenue 8 Disgrace

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The secretary Of the Forty second
Street Committee has just called my attcn-
tion 10 an article in The Tribune in rca-
tion TO the regulation Of the height Of
buildings on Fifth Avenue, in which I am
quoted as having "callcd the corner of
Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street
disgrace" I am glad the Forty second
Street Committee is so sensitive 1t shows
fine spirit. What particularly hurt their
feelings the fact that one Of the cor
ners of Forty second Street is occupied by
the Astor Trust Building and another cor
ncr by the Public Library. I did not refer
to either Of these corners. In fact, l said.
in effect, that when ! stood on the steps Of
the Public Library and looked northeast it
made me sad. 1t always does make me sad
to see the streets of our city disigured by
the atrocious signs which are the most
obvious features Of the landscape looking
northeast from the steps Of the Public
Library.
| sure that the time will come when
will prohibit all signs other than mod
est signs advertising the business conduct
ed on the premises. The sooner that good
day comes the better.
LAWSON PURDY.
New York, April 18, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Burying the Monroe Doctrine

The point is being made in defence of
the lame and halting provision by which
the peace conference has "safeguarded"
the Monroe Doctrine that at least the
Doctrine attains a status in interna-
tional law hitherto denied it, For this,
it is argued, the United States ought to
be grateful.
But it cannot Serve the interests of
the United States to have the Monroe
Doctrine thus smuggled into the body of
international law. 1t does not belong
there. The Doctrine is simply and solely
a statement of national policy. AS such
it is in conflict with internationalstic
conceptions. The Doctrine sets up a
claim of special privilege in the Western
Hemisphere. But international law i'm
plies equality of privilege among the
states to whose concerns it applies.
If the Doctrine is denationalized to the
extent Of describing it as an "interna-
tiona engagement" or a "regonal un-
derstandlng for securing the mainten-
ance of peace" (neither Of which it isl,
then it becomes subject to Interpretation
under the principles of the law of ma
tions. 1t loses its character and value
as an assertion of a special regime of
aloofness for the Western world and Of
the peculiar role of the United States as
guardian Of that regime.
The purely nationalistc character Of
the Doctrine must be preserved in order
TO safeguard it. Instead Of throwing II
into the international melting pot, the
United states ought to stibuafe its ex-
clusloh from Tie scope of any ihletna-
floh6l partnership into WhleI the Amer
icon people enter, For thnl reason The
reservation attached 10 the Hague
trenty Of 1901, also embodied in Mr.
Roots proposed amendment to the Soci.
ETY. Of Nntions covenant, should be IN
sisted upon The United States would
surrender It's traditional attitude toward
American questions if II should rntify
the covenant os it now stands. DO we
want to put ourselves IN the position Of
inviting other powers to define the Mon
roc Doctrine, Incorporating ms an "n-
tcrnational engagement? They could
not be blamed for holding that as such
1T was only an empty form Of words
The covenant amendment does not pre-
serve the Doctrine. 1t prepares it for
burial
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Did the Hand Salute
Win the War?
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir To one Of your readers it seems re.
grettable that you did not print your news
article entitled Justice Is Not Courts.
Martial Aim, Says Glenn on the front
page, and that you did not make it the
subject of an editorial.
Why DO we not candidly confront the
fact that in the United States military
establishment we have evolved military
type Of mind utterly at variance with she
typically American mind?
General Glenn, in telling US plainly that
the objective of military jurisprudence is
not justice to the individual, but "dsc-
plne," has acknowledged our military
types controlling principle Quite simply,
justice to the individual ought to be sub
ordinatcd to discipline" From the mill.
tary viewpoint the end obviously justihes
the means. From the viewpoint Of the
American civilian the end in this case does
not justify the means. II ia along these
lines that the real issue lies; why shouldnt
it be fought out on them
A man recently returned from overseas
has told me that in the course Of lecture
on discipline an officer informed men in
trimming that the failure Of Russian arms
was due to the fact that the hand salute
was not required in the Russian army. The
man received this statement without con-
viction. Unconvinced, he went to Europe,
and unconvnccd he came back Although
he had not, in the meantime, been Stacker
in the execution Of military commands, the
meaning Of discipline as conceived by Gem
eral Glenn and his kind was at all tmea
foreign to his American understanding
The man was never an American soldier
merely an American, Willingly in arms.
cant prove that the war was won by Amer
leans in arms. Can the general prove that
it was won by his "disciplined7 soldiers?
If so, why didn't Germany win?
SARAH TEMPLE SEWARD.
Brooklyn, April Is, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Why Fatalities Are High

The death roster would seem to tell a
different story, for perhaps 500 people
have been killed in the various riots which
60 under the name of Spartacism. But it
is the number of people engaged and not
the deaths that give the true indication.
The modern form Of expression in Germany
is the rifle. Without frearm of some
kind your average German does not con-
slider it possible to resist any one or any
thing. The rioters always we'll armed
and they have been trained in the use of
arms. No police force to speak of any
where exists and thus every sort of dis
turbance must await the arrival of the
military before it be settled. The sol
diers in the service of the government are
mostly green youngsters who are not to
be trusted except in numbers. Inevitably
the rioters have their own way until the
arrival of the troops and then the troops
with artillery, hand grenades and all the
panoply Of war set out to destroy the po-
stion which the rioters are supposed to
hold. Every one who happens to be incl
dentally killed in these operations is a
Spattacist That Is one of the rules of he
gafne
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Canada Annexes an Idea
(Fron, The Toronto Globc)


MIR. Lemicux has renewed his demand for
legislation to compel newspapers to dis
close the names of their owners. The argu-
ments for such law are as valid in Can
ada as in the United States, where it has
been in force for years. The readers of a
newspaper have a right to know whether il
is an untrammelled organ Of opinion or
mouthpicce Of special interests, however
legitimate.
Such law would blow away cloud of
suspicion that has gathered around the
press through attacks which are ground
less with scarcely an exception. Mr.. Le-
micux cites the case Of Liberal daily con-
tinuing to pose as such after it had passed
secretly into the hands Of the proprietor ~
a Conservative daily in the same ctv
Probably it is the only example of the kind
in Canada. disclosure Of the names Of all
owners Of newspapers would yield few sur-
prises, and would be in the interests Of ,be
press by banishn9 good deal Of unjust
conjecture.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Heorstiono

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l have just returned from +x.
three months service in Europe VIZ
Hearst's publications are not allowed ~ ~
sold. While there in 1917 took "Tho a.
lanta Georgian" but the tone of tho
seemed pro-German, and l switched ~ ~
New York Tribune and became deen,v -
terested in your anti-Hearst propseana,
in this camp I have noticed bows .rr,.
to sell the Hearst papers. TODAY s
to Aver, the nearest town, and in ths ...-
of the c. R. P. Company asked .os
newspaper, a Boston paper, but as Il w.
noon the saleslady said she had onlv .ts
Hearst paper left. | said: 81 don't surro.'
soldiers care much for that payer 80 -
England and France Hearst's pans-.
not allowed to be sold.'
man whom I had not noticed s.o.,
back Of me reading a paper and at NV
mark said: Don't you know army oric.s.
are not allowed to criticse newsna,or. >.
told him criticised everything IN.
American, and especially Hearst's nubN..
tions, as they had been pro German d,r;u.
the war, but we're now conducting a nro,.
ganda to win back the favor of the sold;sr,
inasmuch as the Central Powers wor. ~
badly defeated
He asked me if would give nv nsr.
and address to back UP my sentiments ..s
I said: "I'd be only too glad to. as tho 49,,
dence published IN The Tribune vac srs;
clent for me, together with the fact tbs.
our allies had found his papers so mr.
German that they didn't allow them n :.
sold in Europe" | also mentioned "tifsp
lie said that "the Senatorial commit,,.
had proved sll The Tribunes sfaters,t.
TO be false" lie said "You don't know >,
anything against Hearst or his tabsts ~,
side If what these other papers hays isa
you - believe, 10 gouY'
mentioned the nisptintine ~ tho r,s..
dents sfeeeh tle said tint was tho sra,
~ MI editor. for which lieafst vas M,
eeeobhlsbie asked him. "lteN shout tbs
secret conferences iieafAt hsd With bole
fnehe ahd berustoff, aud the baek fra
eachpe entrapee "a iearsra spartments,p p
"I'ut this was AL before America deelered
war" he enid.
told him | didn't remember all the in
etnnces, rs ! wasn't working for any IN.
tereats other tbnn those Of America and
the Allies.
He said might be called to Washington
to prove what | had said.
VIII you plcase advise ns to what You
think OF the procedure, and state also u
you think ! am safe and how to proceed
should llearst's interests try 10 make
things unpleasant for me?
The sentiment among my soldier friends
and among the Allies is against Hearst.
FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE.
Camp Devens, Mass, April IS, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21

be no quibbling about the terms on which
the Rhine Valley is turned over to
France and the Vistula Valley to Poland.
Nor should the conference neglect to for
bid the union of German Austria to Ger
many--an annexation which would more
than compensate the latter for the loss
of Alsace- Lorraine, Northern Schleswig,
Posen and West Prussia
The Allies in time of peace didn't pre-
pare for the great war. That failure
was tremendously costly. 1t was an
error which should never be repeated in
dealing with power as cunning and un-
scrupulous as Germany
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
&c Germany To- day
Land of Nightmare
By Samuel Crowther
Special Correspondent OF The Tribune, Just Returned From

HVERY German firmly believes that his
country reeks with Bolshevism
Spartacsm. have yet to talk with
q single German, high or low, who did not tell
me in the course of the conversation that
the whole country was in the grip of the
revolutonaries, and that they were all ready
to join forces with an immense army of Rus
slams, sweep over the country and then set
about the ruin of Europe. No rich man ever
goes to bed without the fear that he will
awake to find himself penniless. No work
man ever goes to bed without the fear that
the morning will find all prospects of job
gone forever. It is truly shocking thing
to doubt the reality of Spartacsm in any
part of the country. And if you do express
q doubt you will quickly be told with great
circumstance just how and where you can
find the Spartacists in full charge. In Ber-
lin, III particular, every street becomes
a revolution and according to the gossip of
the hotel corridors and the public Offices, it
IS really not safe to venture out at night,
much less attempt to go into any other sec
ton of the country If one stays in Berlin
and takes every ruinor fact, then all Ger
many is reeling toward the most vivid red
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Blind, But No Record of His
Service
CerVlCe
(From The Fh;laddlphia Inquir

FFom Tie Fk'a9eTphid InQulrerJ
If you don't believe this we can tell YOU
another A young marine who was in the
st. Mihiel fight, wounded three times.
gassed, blind for two months and nvalided
home, has received no pay since last April.
Recently in the hospital in this country.
where he had been for four months he was
ordered to line up for pay, but on doing so
was Informed the authorities had mo rec
ord of his service!
Let that chap be absent without leave for
a half hour and it's certain as death and
taxes they find the record. Can official stu
pidity and incompetence go further?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
History Without Truth

The Scientific American recently made
the suggestion that the German and Aus
trian general staffs be invited to con-
tribute to definitive history of the war.
Few people seem to know that the Ger
man general staff has already fathered
compendious study of the military
operations which it conducted
This was published in Berlin and
Stuttgart under the title, "Kriegs-
berichte aus dem Grossen Hauptquar-
tier and consisted of about thirty
paper-bound volumes, dealing with the
various campaigns up to the end of the
year 1917. Its value as piece Of press
agenting for the edifcaton Of the Ger
man public may have been considerable
But its historic value may be judged
from the fact that the series began with
a colorful account Of the siege of Maui
beuge, in September, 1914, and then
jumped to a description Of the Battle Of
SCISSORS, in January, 1915. Not line
or a word was given to the Battle of
the Marine or to the Battle Of Flanders.
German general staff history has
its limitations. 1t would not be true to
staff traditions if it didn't proceed on
the assumption that Grand Hcadquar-
ters never lost a battle and never made
a mistake.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Love Across the Sea

II rom The Detroit Neus)
Fred Lucaretti the first man TO enlist
from Ionia for foreign service, became en-
gagged to a French girl and planned mar
riage. But the French law required the
American to produce a birth certificate and
this he could not do because he had been
born in Italy and went, when very young,
to South America. He then decided TO wait
until he should receive his discharge from
the army. But the United States refused
TO grant him discharge until he should
return to this country. Having reached
this country, he found himself too poor
to purchase a return passage. He set to
work to earn money for his passage. But
growing impatient to see the girl, and hear
ing the call for $4,000 volunteers, he en-
listed at Grand Rapids and expects 70 be
among the first 1000 to sail. Thus at last
if the French law does not demand a birth
certificate, and if he does not prove TO
have been an Italian who moved to South
America, and if the United States does not
require trip home before discharging
him, this American can marry the French
girl. Something or other seems very likely
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
sp0tfacism only a laicj,mord

II would De wholly untrue 10 say that
Bphripeism did not esist in Germany, II Is
there hs II Is ~ eyefy other country on
ehtb, Bat II is not movement, and NJ
though many of the independent sociniista
fllft With the crond and announce M in.
tellectuhl union the Independent Socialst
IN power, ns eDy IN Dresden, does not differ
much from the Majority Socialist. A wide
gap exists between word md deed which
condition, however Is not ut all peculiar to
Germany.
The German does think that his country
is goin9 Spaftacst, and in this he is per-
fcet5 volnbly sincere. There is moth
ing pagnnda in it and those who
write Ia the newspapers from time to time
to the general effect that Boshevism would
be better than Allied domination simply
express in laborcd fashion the well-known
iii be damned first For Sparta
clsm ls the present synonyme for hell
What Germany is really suffering from
is not Spartacism, but neurasthenia brought
about by the reaction from the strain of
war, the breakdown of organization and
leadership and the dread of what the peace
conference eventually will do Considering
the factors for unrest in the country to-
day 1t IS remarkably quiet.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
The Danger in Using Tony Words

From The WtAiamSrlle On d. Iem)
We wish to apologize to Mrs. Orville
Overholt. In our paper last week we had
as a headline "Mrs. Overholt's Big Feet"
The word we ought to have used is French
word pronounced the same way, but spelled
"fete." 1t means a celebration. and 10 CON-
sidered a very tony word
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
WHEY! zg5 az " ~
Gotham CIcaninss
I'M M ,ii7' iff

Jack Calder Of Utica I'ridaycd
in our busy midst
Bob Bcnchlcy and Carter Glass
arc busy on the Victory Loan these
days.
Mrs. f. w. Hohenzollern, ru-
NOR hath it, is seeking a divorce
from her spouse.
Jimmy Montague entertained
Sen. Hiram Johnson and Mrs. J. at
dinner Thursday eve.
Miss Jobyna Howland is some
better at this writing, she having
been on the ailing list last wl.
-Czuch Towne the w. k. bard
was feeling poorly Friday morning,
but is back to his robust ways again.
Sam Mcrwin was in town
few days this wk. Sam says Mere
dth Nicholson calls him the Sage
brush Of Concord.
The many friends of Brig. Gen.
d. L. Nolan and Of 1t. Col. A.
Moreno will be glad to know these
officers have got the D. S. NJ.
Old Charley Mangan the far
famed assigncr Of automobiles at
A. p. O. 73l, A. T. f., and a Ilamil-
ton graduate is back from France.
Mrs. Crosby Gaige is out at her
farm Pcckskill way and has sub
scrlbcd for The N. Y. Tribune for
8 mos. Thank you is our feeling in
the matter.
Az the Orphcum Theatre, Brooklyn.
Thursday night the curtain, advertised to
rise at g. rose at 8:15. But the opening
piece observes Floradora, "is Watch.
Hope and Wait Little Girl"
We typical Americans chafc at the irk
some delays that have cloered n littlo
thing like the Peace Conference, but we
have no 'mpatlcnce with the jockcyings of
the transatlantic fiers
Agreement Among Opponents of tho League Of
Nations
spontaneous agreement has been reached bv
all opponents Of the League Of Nations 90
follows:
l. All or us advocate some League OF NatIons
to be concluded some time
H. All Of US want some kind Of League that
BOLTON HALL
Sign in DeKalb Avenue bootblackcrv.
Dogs Must Keep Off Chairs While Getting
Shoeshines"
In one paragraph the Brooklyn Standard
Union--proving that n barytone is withonr
honor IN his home town-refers to Renald
Merreurath and Mr.. Werreurath.
Mr. Hedlcys opinion is that the Inter
borough is entitled to copyright the word
subway There is nothing the matter
with underground" said Mr.. Hedlcv
besides, If the newspapers should print
story about Terrible Wreck in Subway,
people would think of the Interhorouqh
subway first, when as a matter of fact .he
accident night be on the B. r. r. or soma
where far removed from our lines" That
Oh course, is one Of the disadvantages that
accrue from pioneering. The Interborouph
always Will be known The Subway; and
other subways will be called the B. R. r.
subway, the Paris subway, or whatever
else it may be-
Our suggestion is that the Aeroplane
company whose plane makes the first
transatlantic trip copyright the word
"air"
II they ever try, the apartment land
'ords Will give them tussle for that
eoPyl'Rn'' F. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21

not the slightest danger OF the country fall
ing into the condition of Russia. On the
whole, there is less Bolshevsm in Germany
than there is in England, and nothing has as
yet happened to approach in seriousness or
determination the Clyde or Belfast Strikes
New-York tribune., 1919-04-21
Where Can They Be}

From The Philadelphia Inqurc.)
Baltimore reports that 1913 persons are
missing in that city since January I hnt
u ioregona conclusion that they have not
cmigrated to the District Of Columbia.