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New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Confusing the Monroe Doctrine
Call Congress-!

President Lowell took fling at what
he called the 'imperialistic" interpreta-
tion of the Monroe Doctrine To call
thing "imperialistic" in these days is to
condemn it as outworn and unworthy.
Yet Mr.. Lowell might more Justly have
described as "nationalistic" the evolution
of the Monroe Doctrine which he carica-
tured. And in that case he would have
already confuted his own argument.
Mr.. Lowell specifically indorsed the
Senate's Magdaiena Bay addendum to
the Monroe Doctrine That addendum
was frankly nationalistic in character
1t extended "thc traditional policy of the
United States SO as to cover the direct
or indirect acquisition by foreign gov
ernments (not European governments
alone) of harbors on the American con-
tinent, even though an American nation
should be the lessor or seller. Self-inter-
est and altruistic interest were certainly
combined in this broadening of the Mon
roe Doctrine. What purpose is served by
likening such ar attitude on the part of
the United States to that of an absentee
landlord in whose view Central and
South America are a game preserve from
which poachers are excluded, but where
the proprietor may hunt at his leisure"?
There are corollaries of the Monroe
Doctrine which cannot be escaped. One
of them is that since we seek to prevent
the acquisition Of territory or ports or
other holdings on this hemisphere by
European and Asiatic powers we owe it
to those powers to secure the fufilnent
of legitimate obligations. We must live
up to our self assumed functions as man
datary for weaker and unsettled states.
Is that "imperialism'
President Wilson and Secretary LANSING
have been unable to avoid applying in
Hayti and the Dominican Republic an ad-
vanced form of the Monroe Doctrine.
Our government has maintained for sew
eral years military occupation of these
two countries. We suspended their SOW
charge of their debts
This course was taken in fairness to
European nationals, to whose govern
ments we denied rights of intervention.
1t involved the establishment of an
American protectorate over two back
ward states. Yet the government didn't
bak at that. And this expression of
self-interested nationalism was no more
extreme than that implied in the Mag
dalena Bay declaration, which Mr..
Lowell himself approves.
The Monroe Doctrine is growth.
We must take it as it is to-day. We
ought at least to keep clear in our
minds what the Doctrine signifies to-day
and what we should be doing if we
abandoned it.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

visitors at present in Paris deDlo,.
lack of amusement and recreation and = =
restrictions that drive them early - :, ~
hotels. uss|
The Temps" takes up the cudcs,.
loosening of the war restrictions sss
Almost four months have passad !.
the Temps" "since the armistics =, ssA
are not yet in state of peace, it i
haps because the conference at the ~ ps'
d'Orsay has not made great HASTE Sas
labors. In any case, we have no,h;s a
do with that, and should not have to ny ny
any longer the inconveniences of 'e
of war of which the existence is nro,. aE
artiicially and without necessitv rsss ny
military or diplomatic interest reouire. =. =
cafes and restaurants should close =. aa .as
and why should music be forbidden =, s'@
There used to be noisy music th.t
haps displeased the sensitive who = s''
music too much to endure hearing |, sN''
lated; but they could refrain fror 3's
ing to the cafes, and the little r.. ~
mian orchestras pleased the ms;or;..
the diners. At any rate, music can h.
or less good, more or less onnort,n.
we'll played without being seditious or 80 -
versive of public order in a cabaret q. ~
as IN a theatre or cinema. Thu NJ.
Gras is suppressed by ordinance; manr ~
pie have no regrets for The serpentnes =,
the confetti. But the RESUMPTION 40 ~a'
ing, so often promised, is DELAYED .ns :.
is difficult to see what national or ;r,.s
national utility is served thereby. The o..
ernment should let US free to resums
normal life and amuse ourselves, if !. +.
our pleasure"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
A Discredited Prophet

Cassandra was fated to prophesy the
truth, and not to be believed. Other
prophets whose errors run close race
with their successes never lack for a fol-
loving. The grounding is one of these.
Never was there prognostication fol-
lowed by more ignominious failure than
that put forward this year bv this
meteorological specialist. Emerging from
his subterranean apartment February Q
after the mildest winter in forty wears
he saw his shadow, and, with calm assur-
ance in the infallibility of his eyes and
nostriis, withdrew himself again from
public gaze, thus testifying that winter
would not end for six weeks.
Then did his followers shake their
heads and declare we were in for be-
lated winter and a frigid spring. Yet
six weeks and one for good measure have
elapsed, and still the cold wave comes
not. Winter is officially dead. Spring
has arrived and finds the crocuses here
before her. Children return from coun
try jaunts with sprigs Of fuzzy pussy
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

for the rare and superior child as it is
for the teeming average"
The plan is excellent. In the ordinary
course the gifted child is constantly
marking time while waiting for his
classmates to catch up with him. This
tends to weaken his character and will
power, besides retarding his mental de-
velopment; it is far better for him to
match his wits against those of his
equals and to tackle problems suited to
his powers.
All that is needed for the system is
an adequate number of teachers Of
superior attainments. The salaries of
tered should be at least as high as those
given to the teachers of subnormal chill
dren. The Public Education Association
Is urging the Board of Education to act,
and it's efforts should be warmly Sec
onded by individuals and civic bodies
Pubic money could be spent in no more
profitable way than in securing favor
able environment for the growth of
special native ability. Even an occa-
sonal genius may be captured. The
common notion that genius is a fixed
and immutable thing, bound to fulfil it's
promise, is fallacious. Thomas Gray,
with his mute, inglorious Millions, his
village Hampdens, came closer to stats
tical truth, poet though he was
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Call Congress-!

The request of Secretary Glass for
$3,000,OO0 from the $10O,0O0,O0O war
emergency fund to maintain the War
Risk Insurance Bureau is followed by
pleas for similar allowances from the
Department of Labor and the Federal
Employment Service.
The war emergency fund was not
created to meet bureau deficits More
over, the fund is said to be near exhaus-
tion. The cost of living in Paris is
high. But there is way by which needy
Federal services may obtain money;
that is, to go to Congress for it. Con-
gress is eager to meet and to pass the
regular appropriation bills which failed
at the last session. 1t is prevented from
meeting only by the Presidents neglect
to call an extra session.
Why are the officials who view with
alarm an abridgment of bureau activities
after April l unwilling to cable to Paris
urging the assemblage of Congress?
Why do they shrink from making a d-
rect appeal? Is any answer possible ex-
cept the one that they put other and
partisan considerations ahead of the
public interest? The business of secretly
arriving at open covenants of peace
should proceed, and examination and de-
bate are not wanted
Call COngressl
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Nurses Also Ignored

10 the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Will you permit me to ask why no
seats or standing room for the 9th Di
vision parade have been offered to the
nurses of the army hospitals who cared
for this division in France? In NV uni
form applied for two tickets and was
told they were only for the families of
men in the division. am sure a LARGO
number of seats will be occupied by the
Mayors committee and their friends
During the Hindenburg drive and when the
influenza epidemic was raging we gave
them the best Of our time and strength
and now that they arc at home we. the;r
sisters in France, would naturally like to
look among their ranks for the faces we
have washed!
challenge the Mayor to furnish a fcw
tickets to the returned army nurse corps, :
A. K W,
Late of A. L. F., France.
New York, March II, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Schools for Brilliant Children

Separate instruction for mentally de-
fective children is an established part
OF our public school system. Specially
trained teachers and special equipment
are provided for these "ungradedo
classes. The expenditures involved
have proved tc be we'll worth while
The backward children are released
from the nightmare of hopeless compc-
tition and the regular classes accom-
plish much more when not carving
along the dead weight of incapacity.
We ought to make the most of ex
ceptional talent as to do the best pos
sible for exceptional incompetence and
at last are beginning to wake up to that
fact. In Public School Ga standardized
mental tests are being used for the
selection, at an early age, of children
whose native endowment is highest, and
they are to be given kind of education
which would be impracticable in the case
OF the general mass. The object is not to
rush the children through school. "On
the whole" says Miss Elizabeth Irwin.
one of the leaders in the movement
special classes for bright children
should not progress much more rapidlv
than other classes. . more varied
intellectual ration is needed rather than
a speeding up process; ~ryanic and or
Derry development is just as necessary
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
The Coming 7ower
The Carlyles

II was talking with a newspaper man the
other day who seemed think that the fact
that Mrs Carlyle threw teacup at Mr.. Carlyle
should be given to the public merely a fact
But fact presented to people without the
proper-or even, if necessary without the i'm
proper-human being to go with it does not
anything and does not really become alive
about in peoples minds
But what / want and what I believe most
people want when a fact is being presented is
one or two touches that will make natural and
human questions rise in and play about like this
Did a servant Mrs Carlyle throw the
teacup? Was the servant an English servant
with an English imagination Irish
want with Iiish imagination? What would
the fact have been like if Mr. Browning had
been listening at the keyhole? Or Oscar Wilde
Punch, the Missionary Herald or The New
York Sun, the Christian Science Monitor -
Gerald Stanley Lee in the Satevepostl
BY OUR OWN ROBERT BROWNING.
AS poet heart-and fancy free-whole,
| listened at the Carlyles' keyhole;
And l saw, l. Robert Browning, saw,
Tom hurl teacup at James jaw.
She silent sat, nor tried to speak up
When came the wallop with the teacup-
But one that brimmed with Orange
PekOe
"Jane Welsh Carlyle" said Thomas,
bold
"The tea you brewed for M breakfasts
cold
I'm feeling low i my mind thing
You know b. this time. Have at you"
Bng.
And hurled, threw he at her the teacup;
And | wrote it, deeming it unique, up.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

willows. There has been scarce day
since he settled back for an additional
nap of a month and half that Br'er
Grounding could not have been improv-
ing the shining moment But will this
demonstration of the fallibility of the
grounding destroy his prestige? Not in
the least. Next winter those who believe
in him will again await his forecast and,
mentally at least prepare themselves for
six weeks of weather to accord with his
dictum.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
MIR. Baker Complacent Again

Senator Chamberlain's letter leaves
Secretary Baker in an unfortunate pre-
dicament. In the matter of reforming
the administration of military justice the
Secretary has duplicated the attitude he
took in 1917 and 1918 with regard to
shortcomings in military preparation.
He is willing to repair faults. But it
must be understood in advance that those
faults are non-existent so far as they
may seem traceable to his management
of the War Department.
He eagerly defended Generals Crowder
and Sharpe before the Senate Committee
on Military Affairs. Later, of course,
they were relieved. Now he is eagerly
defending the existing order in the Judge
Advocate Generals Department and try
ing to shift the blame for undeniablc
evils to Congress, which neglected to pass
bill improving court-martial procedure.
In his recent telegram to Senator
Chamberlain Mr.. Baker said: "More
than year ago I asked of the Military
committees of both the Senate and the
House legislation to correct the evils in
the present court-martial system" But
a week before he wrote to General Crow
der: 81 have not been made to believe
by a perusal Of these complaints that
justice is not done to-day under the pres
ent law, or has not been done during the
war period, and my acquaintance with
the course Of military justice gathered
as it is from the large number of cases
which in the regular routine come to me
for final action) convinces me that the
conditions implied by these recent COM
plants do not exist and had not existed"
A habit of mind which has persisted
since Mr.. Baker first began to wrestle
with war problems is disclosed in these
two quotations.
Theoretically there may be room for
Improvement in the existing order. But
whenever it is challenged it becomes
criticism proof
Senator Chamberlain has been too long
familiar with this tergiversaton to be
impressed by it. 1t has gotten on his
nerves. He challenges it roughly, and he
produces arguments which will lead the
public to think that an urgent military
reform is being obstructed in order to
vindicate the War Department hierarchy
and to induce the country to accept the
Secretary's optimistic conclusion that all
is well-isn't he on the job?
The shabby treatment of Lieutenant
Colonel Ansell in itself has excited suspi
cion. Senator Chamberlain whose knowl-
edge is ample, describes the present
courtmartial system as ''medaval" and
'iniquitous." A full investigation of it
obviously should be made and not bv men
interested in covering things up. Leuten-
ant Colonel Ansells prescription should
be looked into. We may be living in the
best possible world. Things as thev are
in the War Department may be beyond
amendment. Yet, knowing what han
pened in the first months of the war.
when Secretary Baker was equally self
satisfied, the public may be excused for
being skeptical.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Our Part in the War


things which Colonel William Hayward
said on Thursday night. The period Of
exultation over the part that the United
States played in the war is not over.
We do not want to weigh our military
achievement foo critically.
Our first year of war effort did us
little credit-although we tried to put
brave face on it. Colonel Hayward
says that his regiment was deposited
on the doorstep of France" 1t was re-
organized, trained and equipped by the
French. "The only thing about us that
was American was our expected pay and
the tattered uniforms and wornout
shoes"
In Colonel Haywards opinion "the
ignorance of the whole American mill
tary establishment of what modern war
fare meant was astounding" This may
seem to many harsh judgment. But
how could the American military estab-
lishment have been expected to know?
We had officers who had never seen
troops used except as border police. We
had generals who had never handled
modern brigade OF modern regiment
even on the parade ground. We pos
sessed none of the implements of mod
ern war except the rifle and the light
field gun.
But the regular army wasn't to blame
for all this. The blame is elsewhere.
Though we had two and a half years
warning of what was coming, those two
and half years were practically wasted.
When preparations were asked for the
President told us not to be hysterical
We had as head of our War Depart
ment a gentleman who said that Mayor
Mitchell was played on by munition
makers when he called a Mayors pre-
paredness conference.
Our government didn't expect to go to
war. 1t didn't intend to go to war. And
it was psychologically impossible for a
government in that frame of mind to en-
visage the war, except very gradually.
The United States was, in fact, only
nominally in the world conflict until
Ludendorff's drive from st. Quentin,
just a year ago, reused the government
from its easy-going optimism and put
our armies on the battle line some six
months earlier than the date originally
set for their arrival
American preparedness was a
tragedy, and the responsibility for it goes
Tar deeper than any inexperience on the
part of our regular establishments 1t
sinks down through the government to
the people themselves, who, under lead
ers who did not face facts, chose to pro-
long through 1915 and 1916 the roseate
dream of pacihsm
Colonel Hayward's speech recalls these
errors of the past-but in regret rather
than in condemnation. The truth should
make US humble. Let us be glad that we
were able to do something partly worthy
of US. But there is no reason for being
boastful
Il hoped says Colonel Hayward. "the
American people would not feel arrogant
about winning the war, which thew did.
But tor four years the French, Belgians
and British had been winning the war"
Ihat IS most generous and pertinent
reminder In these days when we look
back to the German offensive of March.
1913, which nearly severed the connec-
tons of the British and Fr-ach armies
IN France and seemed for moment to
write the doom of civilization
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New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
FROM OUR OWN NEW YORK SUN.


Fortunate is Mrs. JANE WELSH
CARLYLE to have escaped with her life,
though if she had not, no American
worthy of the traditions of Washington
could simulate acute sorrow Mr.. CAR
LYLE, wcaried Of the dilatory methods of
the BAKERIAN War Department, properly
took the law into his own strong hands.
The argument that resulted in the tea
cups leaving Mr.. CARLYLE's hands was
common in most households. 1t trans
pires that Mrs. CARLYLE, with a Boil
shcvistic tendency that makes patriots
wonder what the Department of Justice
to borrow a phrase from newspaper
cartoonist-thinks about, had been cham
pioning the British Wilson League of
Nations, that league which will make
ironically true our "E Pluribus Unum"
One of many. Repeated efforts by
MIR. CARLYLE, in appeals to the Depart
ment of Justice, the Military Intell
gencc Division, and the City Govern
ment, were of no avail. And so Mr..
CARLYLE, like the red-blooded American
he is, did what the authorities should
have saved him the embarrassing trouble
of doing.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

Macmillan Harden says that Germany
is dishonest, and from the fuss he makes
about it one would think he had discoy
cred something.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

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New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
FROM OUR OWN MISSIONARY HERALD.

From what clouds cannot sunshine be
distilled. When, in fit of goddess rage,
Mr.. Carlyle threw a teacup at the good
woman he had vowed at the altar to
love, honor, and obey, she smiled and
the thought of China entered her head.
Yesterday Mrs. Carlyle enrolled as
missionary, and will sail for the be-
nighted land of the heather tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
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Entangling Alliances
From, The baltimore american

tFron The baltimore American)
IT is one of the rcvenges of historv
that George and Martha Washington are
kept busy bringing back victorious Amer
lean soldiers from Europe.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
BY OUR OWN OSCAR WILDE.

LADY LEFF1NGWELL (coldly) "A full
teacup! What a waste! So many good
women and so little good tea.
[E1it Lady LefimgweUl
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
FROM OUR OWN PUNCH.

A MANCHESTER autograph collector, we
are informed, has just offered $50 for
the signature Of Tea Carlyle.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

The New York Railways Company has
gone into bankruptcy, and Mr. Shonts
can now boast, "lf you see it in The Sub
acay San it's going to be So"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
The Value of Classic Learnin,

took a course in Tactus at Yale
took year of carly Latin dramas
spent lot of papas boarded kalc
And exc goody quantity of mama's
MY cider brother scorned the chance to get
knowledge of the classic poetasters.
And he is hardly self-supporting yet
While I've income strikingy like Astor.s ,
CHILDE ROLAND
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

Priest and Public to Blame for Bisqu,
Plays. Evening Telegram.
"Stet!' sings the proofreadcr.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

But of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest concern the l.. of N.
f. r.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

"My pupils at the De Witt Clinton
High School," confides d. B. g., "have
adopted the battle cry, NO beer no home
wtrk!"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
FROM OUR OWN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR.

lT IS reported that Mr.. Thomas CARLYLE
has thrown a teacup at Mrs CARLYLE,
and much exaggerated and acrid COM
ment has been made on this incident.
If it had been whiskey glass, or a
cocktail glass, the results might have
been fatal. In Oregon, which went drv
in 1916, the number of women hit bv
crockery has decreased 4.2 per cent in
three years. Of 1,844 women in Oregon
hit by crockery in 1916, 1902 were hit by
glasses containing, or destined to con-
tain, alcoholic stimulants. More than
81 per cent of these accidents resulted
fatally. The remaining 22 women. hit
by tea OF coffee cups, are now happy,
useful members of society.
Col. Henry d. Lindsey, Director of the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, says that
Mr.. Dawley's charges against the B. of
W. r. l. are false. They may be; they
may not be. But the B. of w. r. l. doesn't
give botters or calendars to its polcv
holders, so we stringing along with
old-linc companies.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

And from Variety it is learned that. Sc
cured as solost in Madame Meba's place
Is Reinald Werrearabc. no less, as Mr.
Theodore Dresser would say
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

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Gompers
By Chester NJ. Wright

AMUEL GoMPERs has just won II.
"a greatest fight of his life. 1t was
\ fight of America against the world
for the preservation of nripe;.ls.