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New-York tribune., 1919-03-25

Rosenwasser Bros. felt it necessary
to spend their own money to buy adver-
tising space in which to place the facts
before the public.
The advertisements are unusual. but
the principle involved is not. An ethical
tragedy in the administration of Justice
Is laid bare. When a man unjusty
accused, is acquitted, he is turned loose
that is all. No apology is made to
him, nothing is done to compensate for
his days in Jail or under obloquy. And
an ethical tragedy of newspaper making
is similar Indifference to the wrongs
of the acquitted.
Newspapers plead the excuse that they
do not primarily publish information
either to injure or to reestablish any
ones repute. Their duty is discharged
when they publish news; and, speaking
generally, news is what the public thinks
IS news. And human nature is such that
destruction Of reputation is more in
teresting than it's rehabilitation. This is
perhaps because of the love OF scandal.
or perhaps because vice is exceptional
and virtue normal. Yet in particular
cases, the explanation does not seem
wholly to satisfy; and in the effort to
cke it out The Tribune is led to make
the present publication in justice to the
Roscnwassers and Colonel Hirsch.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25

Italy the ruling idea is that anything
Italy seeks is presumptively wicked,
while those who fought for imperialism,
as long as they had bullet left, now
have good standing as anti-imperialists.
The war was to make the world safe
Tor democracy. It is being made un-
safe. The mandates of spurious IDEAL
ism displace those Of true idealism.
The peace making has been turned over
to men who only half saw the war. A
taboo went out against those Of robust
war faith. Favored councillors were
those who on one excuse or another
had always been against the Allies-lnen
who had no sympathy with the Russian
revolution until it paid dividends to Ger
many. What gigantic fraud! Men who
sought compromise peace with Ger
many, the most imperialistc of nations,
now convict the Entente Of imperialism!
Is there any one so stupid as not to
see why peace is delayed-why there is {,
Willingness to take the chance of in
volving the world in another explosion?
Germany fights for delay. So does
Bolshevism.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Misleading Our Allies

Mr.. Simonds's dispatch in yesterdays
Tribune says the Presidents prestige at
Paris has recently grown because of
belief there that the opposition in Amer
lea to the covenant is induced by oppo-
sition to any league of peace.
Europe gets fragmentary information
from America and America fragment
tary information from Europe. A CEN
sorship, established and submitted to
prevent information reaching the enemy
is used to block a free exchange of
ideas between the public opinions of
dcmocracies An offence against fun
damental of the new diplomacy is COM
mitted.
A protest against further misrcpre-
sentation of American opinion must be
emphatically entered At home a parti-
san attempt to confuse the public mind
is familiar political pettifogging. Its
refutation can be safely left to time.
But when the Misrepresentation goes
abroad, with no corrections allowed,
there is different condition.
One would think that the President
himself would be at pains to inform
Europe that the opposition in America
was not to the league idea, but to an
embodiment Of it regarded as objection
able.
Surely it is most extraordinary
thing that it is deemed necessary to send
couriers to Europe with accurate in
formation. One would think Europe
would be put on inquiry by the mere dis
patch Of such messengers. But probably
Europe does not know, is not allowed to
know, they have been sent.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25

A ~
r. whom there is still a devoted band
in this countrywill be grcvcd to
see that the almost sacred Fourteen
Points are being severely criticised in
America. Thus Mr.. James NJ. Beck one of
the republics most distinguished jurists, says
that "thrce of them have already been aban-
doned, some of them as meaningless
as Delphic oracle, and all of them simply
exist to perplex our allies and to cheat
them Of the full fruits of their victory"
Mr.. Beck by the way. goes on to suggest
that President Wilson came to Europe to
push his policy of peace without victory and
ITO bully Great Britain and France, taking
advantage of the fact that we (the United
unmpaired, and they, God help them were
almost prostratcd." We should not dream
Of indorsing the violence Of this criticism;
but we are bound to say that if we have
fault with the Fourteen Points it is that we
never quite could make out from reading
them whether they were directed against Ger
many or England We havo no right TO
complain Of this obscurity old-fashioned
diplomatists who believe in the balance of
power might even call it virtue Yet there
is this moral to be drawn, that the division
between the new and the old diplomacy may
not be so wide after all In bygone DAYS
diplomatists embodied their views in secret
documents; but these documents usually said
what they meant now we make our docu-
mcnts public, but leave their meaning secret
1t is perhaps the greatest merit Of docu-
ment, which began by stating that "diplo-
hall nj
the public view" to propose terms which have
puzzled almost everybody
President Wilson is a great man and we
would not be thought for q moment to uues-
ton the originality of his genius. But as
a matter of historcal-or lterary-criticism
it may be of interest if not of Importance
to question whether the fourteen points are
wholly the work of President Wilson, After
all, ii modern scholarship is allowed to sug-
gest that the Had is not altogether Homer's
and Shakespeare's plays not altogether
Shakespcrian, might not the inquring critic
investigate the authorship of the Fourteen
Points? In questions of authorship dates arc
important, and the Fourteen Points were
published by President Wilson in January,
1918. Now, on 22d June 1916, Toyworts pub
lished a manifesto of the German Socialist
Party Directorate, which has in parts a re-
markable resemblance to the Presidents mas
tcrpiecc. It is true that the German text
is much shorter, running only to ten points,
which are stated in style much less elegant
than the Wilsonian text. Moreover, they
contain GLAZING which are not recognized in
the Fourteen. Thus the application Of the
first German point: "No ccssion Of German
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Memorial Built by Nature

Letters to The Tribune have shown the
wide popularity of a plan for Roosc
welt memorial that would take the form
of an educational or "Amcricanizing"
foundation. But the decision of the Roose-
velt family is against this plan because
of the fear that in coming years it might
follow ideas far removed from his simple
principles of patriotism and American
ism. A Roosevelt foundation under the
influence Of dictatorship out of SYM
pathy with the ideals of Theodore Roosc-
welt would surely be an affront to the
memory of the great American.
With this plan set aside many will
turn to the suggestion for Roosevelt
Foundation for the Conservation of Wild
Life" This plan is one of several that
the family approves, and it had many
supporters among the hundreds of letters
received by The Tribune from those who
desired to make suggestions as to the
proper form of memorial. 1t was first
put forward in a letter to this paper by
Gouverneur Morris and struck popular
chord.
"lf l could turn my love into action
and my grief into gold I'd build for
Theodore Roosevelt the kind of memo
rial that / know he would have liked.
and I'd call it the Happy Hunting
Ground" wrote Mr.. Morris in his letter,
which was widely approved. The plan
was not to set aside some ready-made
forest, but to select some great tract
from which the forest had been strpped
and there to create new forest to which
those who loved Theodore Roosevelt
might each contribute tree.
Forever and ever such memorial
would grow more gracious and more
beautiful, more useful and more used
more enchanting and more haunted" in
the words of Mr.. Morris. 81 think he
would like to be remembered forever and
ever in Happy Hunting Ground which
was the creation of those who lived in
the same age with him and who loved
MN, and which would become the care
OF the generations to whom he will be a
symbol of the RepubIic-a myth. a fable
a romance and a fairy story, and. like
Lincoln, human and a God-fearino
man."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
The Atmosphere of Secrecy

Article No. of the fourteen points
declared for "open covenants of peace,
openly arrived at"
Instead of an application Of this prin-
cplc, the world beholds an exact con-
trary. Secret covenants of peace are
being secretly arrived at. The delega-
tons at Paris are in dugouts, ours
further under ground than any other.
Talk not of the screened diplomacy of
the Vienna Congress of 1916! 1t was
meeting of candor compared with the
Paris Conference of 1919. Tanned cor
respondents send out predigested news.
contradicting themselves every other dav.
When the newspapers of Paris grow
rcstive and indicate a. tendency to re-
lapse into truth telling, "Sh!" comes
from somewhere. This or that visitor, it a
said, might be offended, and wisdom re-
quIres abstention from free discussion.
clemenceau is naturally frank and so
IS Lloyd George, but they feel obliga-
lions to restrain their temperaments.
The chief Of our delegation, disregard
ing the method Of negotiation which he
eulogized, grows more and more seers-
tiye The more he Is appealed to to take the
public into his confidence. The theory
!. ''nds acceptance that anything partat-
ing OF definite information is too strong
'9r Us digestion. This intelligence voaeh.
saien ~ chiefly that unreliable kind,
~b'eh, eo'ofed and reseolored, leaks
through seyerM men.
bus N spite OF oamouGags one thing ut
leAst - clear, binee the armigtIea was
signed ia days have elapsed, and with
the passage Of time A problem originally
simple has Dscome more and more com.
ples No definite policy has vet been
adopted with any Of the mnjor aues.
tieDs.
What Ia the policy toward Russia and
the Boisheyists? No ono knows. What
~ the policy toward Germany and tho
beaten bellgerents? No one knows. What
Is tho policy toward the problem Of guar.
antseing the peace? No one knows.
Allied soldiers, including men OF our
own uniform, fight In Russia, yet the
Prinkipo conference, although postponed.
has not been called of. The President
turns for advice concerning Russia 70
men who had their conclusions In their
baggage bcfors they went there. Pro-
Germans make confidential reports to
Secretary LansingA With respect to
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Who'll Believe in Fairies Then :?

How much longer will the sonhisti-
Gated child OF the present be entertained
by tales from Hans Christian Andersen
the Brothers Grimm, the Arabian Niphts
and literature of that description? The
marvellous and the unreal are the meth
ods by which the fairy tale charms. and
Tor not much longer can there be any,
thing strange or startling in the old fa-
vorltes. There will be more wonders in
the everyday life Of children than are to
be found in the pages of books that are
now standard juvenile thrillers.
what child, for instance, who hears
MS father talking by wireless telephone
to Paris or Toxic will consider it worthy
OF exceptional comment that some fairy
named Puck was alleged to have put
glrdle round the earth in forty seconds?
In world that no longer knows anv-
thing OF prince or princess, the Sleeping
Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella and the
rest VIII have no significance How will
the magic carpet that carried it's owner
anywhere with the speed of the wind
awaken the wonder Of the child who secs
the air full of fiers? There ID an omi-
nous portent in the case Of the little bow.
accustomed to watching the stately and
steady 1rahnuvres Of arplanes. who re-
marked on seeing some Tapping BIRDS
"Aren't they awkwardw
The Seven League Boots will eonvev
no idea Of extraordinary speed to those
VINO may coon be travelling through the
air from Athefiea 10 Europe In twenty
four hours or less, and the modern boy
who Is familiar with the exploits N the
submarine might be excused for yawning
over the pages Of "Twenly Thousand
Leagues Under tho Sea-" GlenrIy the
writer's OF fairy tales have been robbed
OF lot Of "propertics' that once wero
good TO make young eyes open vide. The
ronancers OF the future will have to po
far afield for new surprises.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Justice at Work
(h'rom TAs Boston Giobej

with tho State Of kansas permitted BY
the United States Supreme Court to lnatl.
tuts proceedings against the rostpna.e,
General questioning tho validity Of bIs
order establishing new telephone rates.
ana tho State Of Rhode Island seeking 10
get deeibion on the eopsiitutionaIjty Of
tho July "bone dry" law, and proceedings
started In New York by tho advice Of Mr.
Root TO yet decision as to whether 2N
per cent beer 10 Intoxicating liquor, The
learned Justices ut Washington must think
they have fat chanco OF getting nm early
summer vacation.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
A Day of Glory

This is frankly New York day, with
neither our nation nor our allies in
speaking part. 1t is our own New York
men who marched down Fifth Avenue
not so many months ago and some Of
whom to-day march up it that we honor
with throbbing hearts and cheers choked
by memory. A brave sight they will
make, with bayonets fixed and battle
helmets cleaning. Victorious they come.
We shall see them as stanch and true
and unwavering as when they as a van
guard broke the line of lines in France.
SO they march and so they fought.
They did not falter when their comrades
fell in Picardy, moved down in one of
the most desperate assaults Of the war.
And we shall not falter in our tribute
to-day. We cannot forget any more than
they the unseen host which lies in
: France. In place of those straight,
rhythmic lines, elbow touching elbow,
VIC shall see another line, shell-torn and
thin, breaking wave on wave, and halt
ing never. We shall see above our march
ing men Of the Twenty-seventh the regi-
mcnt Of the absent, throbbing in our
memory, still advancing before our misty
eyes, the host of the unconquered dead
70 both alike, unseen and seen, we
yield our hearts in deep affection and
solemn pride. Never was New York so
touched. Never have we SO realized the
sacrifice, the obligation, the majesty Of
that service which took our best and
bravest to answer "Present" on distant
and terrible field Of war. That our city
there fought valiantly, dauntlessly and
TO an utter victory will henceforth be
, our chiefcst glory.
, A day of memorial and day of glory
. we celebrate in the name of these our
sons, living and dead, who gave their ut
, most for the imperishabe cause of free
!. dom and right triumphant.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
invoking the Deity
TO the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
srl Under the heading "A plea for esa'
Name IN the League Of Nations" this 1lfih
ing's Tribune prints n telegram sent BY "
pastor of n Brooklyn church 10 PfesIaen'
Wilson, suggesting that he propose -
recognition of the Supreme Being IN W.
covenant Of league of nations.
with ali respect TO the reverend fsh''s'
man who proposed this TO his congregst'se,
II Ia to be hoped that neither he nor any :,
them knows that The denntive tressS - y
peace, made September ., 1888. In waF'
Great Britain first acknowledged the sy
ereignty and Independence Of the uhNr
states, began with this solemn adilfaus.n'
"In the name OF the Most Holy sna ~,
divided Trinity" Those gentlemen, =
course, know that we were again ~ ~
with Great Britain In 1912. and thai ~
just cause therefor had then been se%s
or for years. u not, let them read e
dfeth's or. even Woodrow Wilson's, H's,s'
Of the United States.
STuYvESANT Fisss
New York, March "a, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
The Passport Game
By Chester M. Wright

r ONDON, March 2.-Trayelling in Eu-
rope is like trying to get into a
house that is not only full, but full
Of people who are not craving your COM
pany. Bucking the passport game is the
great sport-nothing to compare with it..
Absolutely nothing.
He who goes through the endless per-
formance and comes out with no black
marks against him must be a very solid
sort Of citizen, and he who goes through
it and comes out smiling is more than
human. Nothing will ever mar the serenity
Of his lifc-nothing short Of an earthquake.
For example, you arrive at Liverpool.
Two sets of inspectors board the vessel.
You pass set No. l in alphabetical order,
slowly and with many haltings and hesita-
tions Perhaps, also, you pass set No. 2.
If your name begins with "W" you may be
able to leave the ship four or five hours
after she docks. Great joy-you are on
land! Yes, great joy, you ARE on land,
where your troubles have just begun. You
go to the police station to register You
learn that this has to be done or you may
be thrown into prison.
This is simple little formality in which
you tell the officer the history of your
life, together with the histories Of as many
Of your forebears as you can remember
You spend a half hour waiting and half
hour relating biographical sketches. Comes
a point at which the policeman asks:
What is your ancestry"
American" you may say, as did.
II know, but your ancestry, mean"
"American, | said" you repeat.
Eyes, but before that" he persists
"American,' you persist.
sounds English. I'll put it down that
way" he counters
Might be Irish" you suggest, "but its
Arneriean," you insist, just because the
thing is getting your goat.
"Well, III put it down as British them
he says aud you let 1t go ut that.
You reach London and you hunt 10 II
police station 10 register again. Maybe
you wait ~ line for from Il haif hour 10 al
hour. n y6u intend travelling in England
you are provided with book, and this
boos must be ysad by tha police eysry
time you leaye or arrive in town II gets
TO be mad and merry ebnss in which life
''N"''" f'Se'S wv ioshtiHB HoliIe EtHtlDHa,
You have to state the ject Of your visit
each time. If you II business man your
business Is known before you get off the
boat and 1t Ia known at every step of tho
way thereafter. The government has A
complete check on the business of every
foreigner.
A great many Of the questions arc fool.
ish. IL happens sometimes that as many
as seven inspectors In line will ask yo,,
the same question in turn--perbaps,
where was your father bofnY" IL would
not be a matter TO cause surprise II some
one Of these individuals should ask, "Why
dld your paternaI great.unee have pink
hair and wear gardenia In his button.
hole on sundaye?'
Witnessed a conversation something
like this between an inspector and an
Americans
where were you on blank day, blank
month, blank year?'
II was in Holland"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
No Woman Wanted
TO the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir; had thought prejudice against
women IN buaiheun had been overcome. but
this Is my tale Of VOC. 1 wanted n lob
aud registered with a reputable srenev.
thought my qualifications would make me
valuable to textile or nh exporting house.
The agency gent out letters regarding me,
and this Is what they received In reply;
III. you have man on your lists with sim
liar qualifications we will BIO glad to ulscs
him, but we would not consider n woman
Surely II our revered Horace Greeley
were alive to-day ! believe he would saw.
"Go West, young woman" What do Won
think! A SUBSCRIBER.
New York, March N, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
".JObs for Soldiers"

In dairy lunch. Large, quiet man cat
ing. Soldier in uniform comes in and Of
fers for sale dirty slips of paper with flag
printed on them Several sentimental
thought-free, sclfindugent people buy and
refuse to take the worthless paper slips
Large, quiet man is approached. "I wore
that uniform for year in France and
was proud Of it. When I sec fellows like
you, Pm ashamed Of it. You're dirty
little beggar." Perfectly even tone Of
voice
"Wcll, I couldn't get job" Whine
from soldier.
"lf you spent half the time and
energy hunting job that you do collecting
dimes, you'd have job"
Exit soldier.
n B.-lIow about those 200 pushcart
licenses Hylan was saving for returned
soldiers?
That at least is an honorable calling
G. p. W.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
IN PART. AS FOLLOWS.

Said President Lowell Of Harvard
To Senator Lodge OF Mass,
''lf we don't have this League OF Nations.
Well be in pretty pass"
Said Senator Lodge Of the Bay State
To Harvards president keen.
How can you accept these darned old rules
When you don't know what they mean? %
DtNCE,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25

Mr.. Henry Watterson, in the current Sat-
evepost, says: {" Spencer, whom
fancied must be literary man a
certain Herbert Spencer, whom 1 rightly
judged might be he" Our guess is that
Mr.. Watterson dictates his stuff; that he
dictated correctly; and that the stenograph-
er thought he must have said "whom": and
that Mr. Watterson has arrived at the point
where he thinks he no longer has to read
proof.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
The Coming 7ower
THE LUCKY MAN

THE LUCKY MAN
They both men Of gallant mien, and when
She saw them clad in khaki,
Which of the twain she loved the more
She could not tell and So
She wcpt.
No wiser when she them sail away,
She wept again;
Not knowing for whom she wept and 90
She sat her down to think.
But, alas,
No solacc her meditation:
Memory still preserved the balance in her breast.
Then
She smiled
Absence would resolve
The queston of her heart
Alas, when letters came
The written love of both made equal music
Within her soul,
And again her heart rent in twain.
Then came pcacc-but peace came to her:
The she loved-hoh were returning
Upon the ship.
With heart a-bcat she went to meet them:
And then-thcn-at last Fate came To her aid
And brought the long-sought answer.
With a sob OF blended joy, love and pity
She fell into the arm of him
Who?
Why, the fellow on crutch.
SAMUEL MiSrUEN PECK.
Last years big parade was engineered by
Hindenburg, and the given point was Paris.
1t would have taken the Germans eternity
to pass that 6. p.
What bothers most OF us to- day is not
how long it will take the parade to pass a
given point, but how to be a given point.
THREE WOMEN AT A PARADE
"Thcrc goes my SOM" his mother cried,
And wept in joyous pride.
"Ncar KENNEL Hill my boy has slept
Since August" his mother wcpt
But let her grief be reverend
Who had no son to send
To the 9th Divison: You will proceed
from Washington Arch Fifth Avenue TO
10th Street and Fifth Avenue The travel
directed is necessary in the m iii nv az r,,;co
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
GUARANT EE

You purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute saetyfor II dissafsfacon re-
sults In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
mcney back gpon request No red tape. No uulbbI'ns
We make good promptly II tho advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
MEs,rrn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES

Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO tho USE
for republication OF dispatches credited to IT on
otherwise credited in this and also tIe local
ucws OF spontancol:c origin published herein.
All rights OF republication Of all c.her mater herean
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Philadelphia Papers Please Copy

lFrom the Deep River (Conn.) New Era
Mr. and Mrs George Hartshorn who have
been on one of the barges all winter. have gone
10 New York for rest and quiet
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25

1t is an ungrateful republic that does not
allot mileage to-day to the officers and
men Of the 9th
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25

"spsaklhs OF the Yals SEAL" writes Dan.
vile, ms John Kendrek Banes onas ,e-
mafkeh 10 hs writer after having had n
sqphrs meal at the Yale Club, why NOT
'dpeks ct demi-tnsse"7'" Evidently that
used TO occur to Mr.. Bangs every time he
saw the seal at least three persons In the
INST twelve years have repeated 1t 10 us;
and once IL appeared in Harper's "Editor's
drawer as one Of tho snappy sayings of
j. X. Bangs.