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New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
The Ultimatum to Italy

No adequate explanation is furnished
by the State Department in support of
its announcement that the italian gov
ernment has been warned that unless it
puts to an end alleged delays in the
movement of relief supplies to Jugo-
Slavia and Czecho-Slavia steps will be
taken to cut off the flow of American
food supplies to Italy.
Here is serious business. In normal
times to level an embargo against a
friendly nation is almost an act of war
SO important does the Constitution deem
the embargo right that it's exercise, like
the right to declare war, is reserved to
Congress. Yet the State Department re-
trains from any particular justification.
There is merely the broad assertion that
Italy has been interfering" with ship
ments Of food across her frontiers to re-
gions whose populations but recently
were engaged in killing Italians.
The action may be justified, but re-
spect for public opinion would seem to
require something more than announce
ment of a secretly prepared edict.
The matter does not lose in consequence
when one remembers that Italy, our ally
IN great war, has made sacrifices for
the common good of civilization greater
than our own, far greater if disparities
of population and resources are taken
into account, and is one of the nations
which we must cooperate with if there is
to be an effective league of nations. No
one needs to be a specialist in psychology
to imagine how large numbers of Italians
will feel if taken by the throat in such
peremptory fashion.
The twentysiX articles contemplate in
vestigation before action, look to the sub
mission of national disputes to arbitra-
-tion before proceeding to extremes, yet
mere is our government entering an
er parte judgment. If the principles en-
bodied in the covenant are good they are
good in advance of the signing of treaty
including them-exist in spirit before
they do in contract.
Why Italians are suspicious of popula-
tions but recently ravaging the plains of
Venetia and which overnight put off the
uniform of the Hapsburg to appear as
opponents Of Austria Hungary is not
strange. Nor is it strange the Italians
reject the charge that they are hostile to
Slavs as Slavs. They remember, when
the Serbian army was wrecked, that the
Italians gave it food and safety. They
remember that Italians, leaving their
own lands when greatly needed, fought
through the mountains of Albania to give
Slavs fatherland once more And the
reward, as they see it, is to have a dis
puted case prejudged against them.
Here is no cement with which to bind
together the stories of temple of peace
A new element of distrust is introduced,
whereas it is plain the only foundations
of true league must be mutual conf
"dence among nations of which Italy is
One
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Ships Now British
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Assuming you not to be one who
deliberately wishes to foster distrust be-
tween the u S. A. and Great Britain,
hasten to point out to you a statement in
your paper that is, to say the least, mis-
leading.
One of the sub heads over Theodore NJ
Knappen's articles reads as follows: Cant
Prevent Transfer of Great Corporation
Trade Fleet to English Registry"
| hasten to point out that the ships in
question under British registry.
The question is whether these British built
manned and operated ships shall remain
under British registry or whether they shall
be sold to the Shipping Board for eventual
transfer to American registry.
You will note that careful reading of
Mr.. Knappen. article will show this to
be so.
As harmony and good feeling between
the two countries are so essential at present
(and at all times), trust you will publish
a correction prominently and without delay
A. ALEXANDER SINGER.
Atlantic City, N j., Feb. 26, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Blind Mice

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune | read DELIGHT
fully naive letter from one of the ardent
supporters of President Wilson. accusing
those who disagree with him of being "ieal
Gus cats" The President himself calls
those who differ from him mental pvp
mics" Is it one of the attributes of the
great and noble to resort to "mudsling-
ing? If so have never known of any
great character in history who resorted to
such methods. | am zone of the American
people" who dares to disagree with Prcsi-
dent Wilson. | repudiatc his league of ma
tons in its present form as a menace TO
the future welfare of America. When
President Wilson said in his Boston soeach
tEs he had been "lonely" in France be
cause he missed tho Council" of the Ameri-
can people did he tell the truth? An things
considered, some of us may feel compli-
mented to be called "pygmies" by the Presi
dent and Jealous cats" by his Of we wish
to initiate their methods in calling names)
blind mice followers
ONE AMERICAN WOMAN.
New York, March l, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
The Germans "Fnuifless"

1t was my turn to reel now, but before
winding up the round | agreed that
were wrong some of us-n taking him
at his own valuation as a peacemaker
How we could have made such mistake,
being the subtle and Internal magicians
that we are, simply battles imagination.
This disparagement of the eX-Kaser as
dplomatist extended in the course of our
talk to everybody but Hindenburg. The
Grown Prince was voted hardly worth
discussion. Bcthmann Holweg was no
friend to Germany. All her ministers were
worthless, and the worst of all were the
men now representing her the Inter
national Commission. 1t was only Ger
many that was guiltless and faultless.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08

ing English society and its leading figures,
gallery Of portraiture so accurate and
vivid that it stands alone in our time.
Surely, l urged, with his admitted curiosity
about English affairs, our friend had read
all this. He retired from this round with
a promise to give the prince reading.
and when we started the next he delivered
what he evidently thought a knock
out blow. He said he himself had fore
told twenty years ago that England would
attack Germany through jealousy of com
mercial competition, and he now thought
this prophecy was justified
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Hadn't Read Lichn0iusky

When he asked me, with an ncreduous
smile, to prove it, I pointed out the way
in which Austra's last reply to Belgrade,
consenting to arbitration, was held up by
Germany, as was shown in PRINCE Lich-
nowskys disclosures. 1t appeared that
our friend was weak on this particular
document. Argument failing, he dis
paraged the princes intellect, and there
| had him. l asked how he explained the
marvellous prescience with which the
prince framed his warning to the Kaiser
on the course the war would take and the
brilliant penetration he showed in describ-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Opinion in France
Feb. 81, 1919.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have letter from an American
who has lived and worked in France all
through the war, from 1914 l mean. dated
February 16, that contains the following:
Il wish You could know the change that
French opinion, and of the best, mas under
gone in the last two months. Anguish
is the best word, and intense distrust. The
full text of his (Mr. VS. chimera Is
published in to-day's paper. The immediate
verdict of a highly intelligent Alsatien
priest, a professor in boys academy at
Nancy, and that of an artillery officer on
leave, fine, serious. clever man. who has
lost two in the war, is the so-called
league of nations set forth in the document
published to-day means war in ten years
They and every one else here are simply
Mortified. Every one feels that he (Mr. WI
has been terrible obstacle to the settle
ment of the all important question
peace ALLEN TUCKER.
New York. March 5, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08


XA/ but we shall never convince
w her. All we can do is to
silence some of her fallaces
and rooted preconceptions, and this is hard
enough. For the moment the German
press, inside the occupation zone and be-
yond, is occupied with an anxious present
and a most forbiddng future, but in pri-
vate life there appears to be still great
deal of harping on the past Once you
enter into that tangled region you find
every kind of speculation and indictment
which tells against the neutrals and the
Allies, especially the Allies, as we'll as
against Germany5 own confederates, w',o
for the most part revied as treacher-
GUS and worthless. AS for any question of
guilt on her own account, your German is
either unconscious impentent There
never was such an absolute refusal to
state for appeal as you get on this
question of the war whenever you tackle a
representative German with typicallv
nailed up mind.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Windows Open and Shut

There is something about the hermeti-
cally sealed mind of the true Tory that
infallibly charms and ingratiates.
whether it be of the English or Amer
lean breed. Or at least it charms
as soon as you realize the futility
of words and ideas in attempting
to effect an entrance and sit back to en-
JOY in admiring silence.
Of all such minds none extant surpasses
the mind of The Saturday Reuieao. What
ever the subject touched upon, the touch
is the same old naughty crouch toward
the new, the changing and the different.
Therefore, it is naturally in The .Satur-
doy Reuleav that we come upon a noble
dellverance upon "The Open Window,"a a
letter from reader, surely faith
ful and devoted imbiber at the font
of Things as They Always Have Been.
Walter Winans is his name, an authority
upon such outdoor matters as rifle shoot
ing and deer hunting, and a member of
an American family distinguished for
the railways it has built in Russia. He is
dlsputing with another correspondent, a
reverend gentleman, who has advocated
the open window treatment to prevent
colds. The only cold caught in all his life,
asserts Mr.. Winans, was caused bv dining
with an open window lover, who sat him
face to the fire and an open window at his
back "during snowstorm." This does
seem a bit rough; and in this sympa-
thetic frame Of mind we reach the main
testimony Of the letter:
The Russian peasants, in whose huts
have lived in very severe winters, seal up
the windows hermeticaly during the
whole winter (double windows); they
have warm water to wash in, and do not
break the ice to wash, as people fond of
open windows have to do
"ln Petrograd some years ago, twelve
Englishmen started bathing society to
break holes in the ice of the Neva and
have cold plunge every morning. Be
fore the spring they were all dead, and I
have never heard Of a case of a foreigner
(the Russians, of course, never do 500
who lived through Russian winter and
slept with his bedroom window Open"
Evidently Mr.. Winans has lived much
IN Russia, and that fact, no doubt, ac-
counts for the Tchekoff flavor in the epi
sode of the twelve dead Englishmen. 1t
is tragic and affecting picture, almost
as tragic and affecting as the thought of
what the flavor of the air must have
been in that hermetically sealed peasant
hut that Mr. Winans found so invigorat
ing Perhaps, after all, the twelve Eng
llshmen died the happier death.
AS for the philosophy of Toryism that
is illustrated, the formula is perfect.
When change is modestly suggested Ga
little more fresh air) the changeless ego
Immediately sees red and pictures the
reformer in the most preposterous ex
tremity it can imagine (breaking holes
in the ice of the Neva for cold plunee).
Having thus transformed the hateful en-
emy into absurdity, it jumps upon it and
Stays 1T gorgeously. Then in state of
blissful safety and self-satisfaction the
ego takes another brandy and soda and
writes to The Saturday Reuieu.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
The Other Side

My inquiries into German mentality
the leading men of Cologne, and he in
vited me to come and have a talk about
the He stands high in his professio
and is vice president of its principal asso-
ciation He has travelled widely and read
much, and in the course of an active
career he spent a couple Of years in
London in the sos. He certainly cannot
be called Anglophobe, as Germans 90,
that what he said of us may be taken
a favorable version Of the national
view Indeed, as a member of the old
Centrum section and /. supporter of the
Rechstag, he is all for welcoming our
assistance against the Bolshevist influences
now threatening the land, and, therefore,
he may be taken a good example of the
kind of person we have to reckon with in
preventing it from reapsng into revolu-
tion
After inviting me to state frankly and
succinctly my conviction of the causes
of the war, our friend objected to my i'm
putting arrogance to Austria in her attitude
toward Serbia after the Sarajevo murder.
How would England have borne the
murder of her successor to the throne if
it had been done in Ireland? he asked. The
answer was that this arrogance was all the
worse in being directed not at country
under Austrian rule, but at one in alliance
with Russia, and whether or not it Of
Tended the worlds sense of justice because
it was artificial and dictated from Berlin.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Va lie dictory at
Camp Funston
One of General Woods fine sermons
HEADQUARTERS.
CAMP FUNSTON, KANSAS.


GENERAL ORDERS No. s.
l. Upon relief from duty as commanding
general of the 14th National Army Can.
tonment Camp Funston, Kansas the un-
ersigned wishes to express his sincere ap
probation of the soldierly and loyal spirit
of the officers and men of the command.
They have done their best under all condi-
tions, and made possible whatever degree
of success has been attained Cooperation
has been earnest and sincere, and fine spirit
and high sense of duty have characterized
the command from the first The Red
Cross, Y. NJ c. A., knights of Columbus,
Y. W. c. A, Salvation Army, Jewish VEL
fare League, Camp Community Service and
other organizations interested in the well
fare of the troops are entitled to the high
est commentator for their splendid work,
work which has added to the contentment
of the men, built up their morale and ex-
ercised the strongest kind of influence in
maintaining high ideals and excellent moral
standards, not only in the cantonment it.
self, but in the communities adjacent
The undersigned feels that he has been
signed to command in this section of the
country for, in addition to the excellent
qualities of the men who came for tram
ing, there has been the heartlest and most
sincere cooperation on the part of the civil
communities from which the men came.
Especially has this been true OF the area
from which the bulk of the men who came
to this cantonment were drawn. Women
and men have done everything in their
power to keep the country clean and to
build up respect for the uniform and send
the troops oversee in the best possible
physical, mental and moral condition.
Nothing could have been finer than their
attitude, and to it must be attributed IN a
large measure the success attained in the
rapid training and preparation of the men.
They have demonstrated what can be ac-
complished by people in arms whose
hearts are in the cause for which their
men are fighting. The troops We have sent
oversee have established record second
to none, and the division which was
training when the armistice came was
ported by the joint French and British
commission the best they had seen n
this country. This could not have been
accomplished without the earnest and loyal
support, not only of men and officers but
of the people from whom they came.
That preparedness is the lesson Of the
war has been accepted by the people Of
this great Middle West. who now realize
its Importance in maintenance Of peace as
well as for the prompt and efficient con-
duct of war
Men who have returned to their homes
have returned the better for their tram
ing and with better understanding Of
the obligations of citizenship. Those who
failed to go oversea have the consolation
of having done their best, for they cheer
fully and Loyalty discharged the clear duty
of every citizen in time of war, and their
effort has been a part OF the great ma
tional effort which brought about VIC
torious peace. LEONARD WOOD.
Major General. United States Army,
Commanding
Feb. 21, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Isn't Everything Here?

'fron The PhiladeIphn Public Ledger
The Gothamitc's puzzled exclamation
when he hears New York has been elm
mated as the seat of the world league be-
cause of its distance is, "But distance
from what ?"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
The Coming 7ower
THE TWO WISE MEN OF TH1BEr

THE TWO WISE MEN OF THIBET
In an ancient Monastery on the Roof Of the
World sit the Two Wise Men Of Thbet. And.
harn0 nothing else to do, they talk. Their names
are Yasnit aud Tinlbdsh and they discuss all
things. And someday Lord Dunsany rM Write q
plan about them, but not now: they too modern
for his art. But somcday, after ten thousand
yenrs he acll urtte play about then, for the
Attlest theatre Of DIX, lchich 1ciU then be the
Metropolis Of Satarn. And there wiu be doom,
upon them.
Then arc cynical old men, Yas,nit and Tim
bash They ctctc bitter kernels of Grool and
pcctorate at the Eagles crcling beloW them. They
hare no reverence for mankind and unabashed
before the stars And their speech runs on
this wise:
Ho,o about this League of Nations, hey!
No to 1t.
NY notion erdcty.
Nine, too.
Men have al,oays fought. hapent they?
They haze So And aludys Wi.
Yea, and then some You can't change human
nature.
You can't Improve it--thats certain.
Men ae born selfish.
Thcy achierc selfshness.
They hare it thrust upon them.
That's the aoorst Of these retorncrs Most Of
them are only publicity chasers anyauay.
Something haze uou SAID!
And the rest plain ddnfools.
Again you hare uttered somephdt
President Wilson,
Words. Words. Words.
Lenine
Ditto, three times
Ho,U many revolutions hate 1Ue seem Yasnit?
-Four score and scren.
Has he ,yOrd beff bEor
1t has not.
Has 1t 9rown aoorse?
1t has
WI it continue to 0roW aoorse?
Hd, ha! HoU it not?
Human nature being qchdt it is
All, you can't change human nature
No. you can't change human nature,
have dltUays said. Timbash, and shall euer
maintain, that tho all else changes, human nature
does not.
Certainty. 1t has not.
Therefore, it 1ciU not.
Because, it cannot.
Why. it stands to reason Take just one point,
Tmbash Men hare allooys fought. haven't then?
They haze And acays 4ciu.
My notion eracty.
Nine, too
Then how about this League of Nations, hey?
de Cdpo-ad infnitum.)
More than a couple Of days ago we used
the expression "a couple of years ago"
And in our catholic ignorance we never
knew how wrong it was. The wrongness of
it has been proved to us by Nh S. T. Glover,
editor of the Richmond Journal, and not
only shall we never again employ the
usage, but we also shall help in the cam
paign against it.
"When two persons or things are Joined
or linked together" says Dr. William
Mathews, in "Words: Their Use and Abuse"
"they form a couple. The number of
things that be coupled is comparatively
small, yet the expression is in constant use;
as "a couple OF books "a couple of
partridges,' a couple of weeks ETC. One
might as we'll speak of "a pair of dollars'"
1t is, then, one hazards, correct to say
that a couple of mines beats a pair of
eights.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
Still On the Job
(F'rom Thc Thrift Magaxinc)

fF rom 1hc THRIFT MdDnxinc)
ME- Hoover has rcmavcd all food restric-
tons, but Old Man Gastritis will continue
doing business at the old stand
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08
The Typical American

The Typical American
My nominee for typical American is
John Hay AS long ago as when he was
our Secretary of State he declared that
he would rather make an ally of China
than of Germany. D. S. P
The spirit of William Allen White
is typcaly American-for it is the soul of
youth. OF course the first American to
run true to type was Benjamin Franklin.
w. W. e.
The only place man can feel Mt home is
where nothing has to be explained to him.
The President.
Amendment by J. E. S.: BIZ him.
Curse Her.
A hen I hate
Is Jane Munro,
When she replies,
"Well-ycs-and no."
C.. W.
Some OF us are pro Borah, some pro-
Wilson, some pro German, and some pro-
British.
" But most of us are prosac
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Huns of Same Opinion Still


e HAVE conquered Germany,
but we shall never convince
her. All we can do is to
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08

= But most of us are prosaic.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-08

Some of us are pro Borah, some pro
Wilson, some pro- German, and some pro
British
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-10
HIGH PRICE OF BAR SILVER
MAY HIT CANADIAN COINS

OTTAWA, December 1O.-The high
price which bar silver has been COM
handing in the metal markets of the
world may necessitate a reduction of
the fineness of the alloy from which
Canadian silver coins are struck it
was author:tatively stated here today
With bullion prices at the present
level there is too great q tendency
to withdraw coins from circulation
and melt them for commercial uses
1t was said. So great has been the
demand for silver coinage of late
that the belief is strong that a con-
siderable quantity of it is being con-
mint here has been kept busy to meet
the demand for silver coinage and
minting is not a profitable business
with bar silver SO expensive.
To lessen the temptation to with
draw Canadian coins from circula-
ton to be melted and sold for bullion
II now is proposed to reduce the per-
centage OF pure silver in them Just
what standard may be adopted has
not be made. however. before the end
of the year. because the Dominion
cannot issue coins of two different
standards of fineness in the same year
The fact that Canadian silver coins
sell at a discount of 5 cents in New
York is an additional factor in en-
couraging the melting process, and it
is believed here that a good deal of
coin has been exported there Cana
silver. while those of the United
States contain 80 per cent. and some
European countries go as low as 80
per cent.