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The Legal Aid Society Needs
$4,000
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Legal Aid Society has just
received pledge Of 81, 900 from one
of its contributors contingent upon the
liquidation Of its $500 Indebtedness
to the Title Guarantee and Trust Com
pany and finishing the year without
deficit, which will require a further
sum of about $500 in addition to what
we may reasonably expect from our
regular contributors, so that to com
ply with the terms of the pledge it
VIII be necessary to raise about $4,000
before December 81, 1919.
May | ask your readers to subscribe
such an amount as they can spare to
further the cause of this work? They
will, assure you, not only achieve the
gratitude Of each and every one of our
officers and directors but will be aid
ing the accomplishment Of q necessary
and public service.
Checks may be sent to Allen Ward
well, our treasurer. at 10 Broad Street
CHARLES L. HUGHES, President.
New York, Nov. 2S, 1919.
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believe that he will 1.-Two to fulfill the
other half of Gibbons prophecy.
League or No League

That thought-stimulating publica-
tion, The Vuldger, which has re-
sumcd its ministry of education af-
ter an interregnum due to the press
mems strike, is persuaded there is
no middle ground between accepting
the peace league as President Will
son arranged it or rejecting it alto
gether.
There is to be superstate or there
is not to be, argues The Villager-
and hence there is no halfway house
or room for compromise; if the
United States Senate gives up any
thing it gives up everything, and if
the President gives up anything he
gives up everything.
The issue is scarcely between the
exact Wilson-Smuts league and no
league. The second draft of the
covenant differed from the first, and
the final draft is to differ from the
second, which the President holds is
Interchangeable. 1t is practically posi-
bic to retain the good in the covenant
and to guard against the bad-to
have new international covenant
for peace preservation without sur
rendering national liberty Of action.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
The New Session

At the last session Of Congress
the peace treaty with Germany had
the right of way and pressing do
mestic legislation had to be side
tracked. At the session which be-
gins to-day reconstruction problems
will come to the fore. President
Wilson suggested in his address to
Congress a year ago that, in the
main, reconstruction would take
care of itself. 1t has failed utterly
to do so. Economic conditions are
more disturbing now than they were
g year ago. A partial relaxation of
war restraints has brought no relief
The government is faced with the
problem of continuing, even enlarg-
ing, its emergency control, or seeing
prices rise still higher, production
decrease and prohteering become
bolder and more destructive.
Congress must now concentrate
On economic and industrial legisla-
ton and on measures to combat the
spirit Of Bolshevism. On this last
issue there can be no party dis
agreements, for both the democratic
principle and the authority of repre-
sentative institutions are being
attacked. Similarly there ought to
be no partisan differences over a
radical reduction of government eX-
penditure. Until we get back on a
real peace basis the burden of Fed
eral taxation and of credit expan-
sion cannot be Hghtened. Excessive
taxes and initiation are themselves
two Of the most formidable obsta-
cles to the lowering of production
and distribution costs.
Mr.. Mondell, the majority leader
in the House Of Representatives, has
offered this admirable program:
Rigid economy, avoiding par
smony; constructive legislation
along sane and progressive lines;
the maintenance of conditions of
orderly prosperity and sound and
traditional Americanism these
should be, and undoubtedly will be,
the aims and purposes of the Con-
gress."
These aims and purposes can be
only partially attained at this ses-
sion, for the work of reconstruction
is prodigious and must be spread
over many sessions. But with such
an operating program Congress will
at least be pointing safe course.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
Prophecy Fulfilled

English genealogists of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries
traced the origin Of the Warwick
shire noble family Of Fielding, which
to this day holds the earldoms of
Denbigh and Desmond, back to the
house of Hapsburg, through the
counts Of Laufenburg and Rhein-
felden. Recent historical research
has disproved the relationship; but
for every lover of English literature
it has been immortalized by Gibbon,
who refers to it in his autobiography
in connection with Henry Fielding.
The author of ''Tom Jones" belonged
to a junior branch Of the great
Fielding clan. 1t is curious to note
that this genealogical error gave oc-
casion to prophecy which has been
fulfilled in our days, almost a CEN
tury and a half after it had been
uttered.
1t is now 14O years ago that Glib
bon wrote; "The successors of
Charles Y may disdain their breth-
rem of England, but the romance of
Tom Jones' that exquisite picture
of human manners, will outlive the
P. ace Of the Escurial and the I'M
perial eagle of the house of Austria"
The Palace Of the Escurial that
gloomy monument of the gloomy and
erratic genius of Philip II, still rises
above the wild slopes of the Sierra
de Guadarrama. But the double
headed imperial eagle of the house
of Austria is dead-and, as far as
human certainty goes, dead forever.
The proud emblem, adopted by the
Hapsburgs from among the para
phernalia Of the Byzantine Empire,
has been thrown into the discard by
the low born bourgeois" doctors
and Journalists and socialist work
men who to-day govern the Republic
of Austria, last fragment of the do
mains Of Charles V to slip from the
hands of feeble successor. The
Austrian eagle is dead, and the last
Hapsburg refugee in the land
whence $50 years ago his house
emerged. But even as Gibbon said.
tom Jones" lives; and it is safe to
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The Aforesaid Shades

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l see another Radical gets into
a rage in this mornings Tribune over
the attitude of our government toward
his kind, abuses the papers for telling
about them, General Wood for enter
ing their homes, and calls upon the
shades of Washington, Jefferson, Lin
coin, Phillips and Whittier to witness
this injustice.
But he doesn't say that Radicals
have killed, bombed and threatened
American citizens during all this time,
besides spending millions of dollars
advocating the overthrow OF our gov
ernment by force of very few radi-
Gals, nearly all foreigners. not even
citizens, who ignore the value of the
vote and therefore cannot base their
arguments upon the will of the ma
jority with one iota of justice.
In the meanwhile we will relv upon
the aforesaid shades to continue to
guide Us in the progress and advance
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
Kansas Leads

The inextricable tanglcs in which
Washington has involved itself with
respect to the coal miners suggest
something very like impotence at the
head of the nation, where we should
look first for decision and action in
d domestic crisis-one of the most
serious that have ever faced our
nation.
But the State of Kansas is neither
entangled nor impotent, and her ex-
ample suggests various thoughts for
reflection and debate. Her Gov
ernor, Henry Allen, has taken the
shortcut expressed in the humble
phrase, "Do it yourself" He has
called for volunteers to mine coal;
and volunteers, several thousand of
them, have come forward Granted
proper military protection, Kansas,
thanks to its coal mines and its
Governor and its volunteers, expects
to do quite nicely, thank you, bliz-
zard or no blizzard.
Even if the military protection
granted by the Federal government
should be inadequate, we suspect
Kansas will worry along. Her ma
tional army troops had a famous
training under General Wood and
fought famously on the other side.
The American Legion is strong in
the state. So is patriotism and so
is old-fashioned American dander.
In short, if Kansas makes up it's
mind TO mine coal the coal will be
mined
Oklahoma is already taking no.
tice. What other states will follow
after? The American people made
up their minds to go into the Great
War and they went. When they
make up their minds to fight a coal
war in defense of warm homes and
the lives of their families and the
industrial salvation of the country,
they will fight whether Washington
is ready for action or not.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
How to Settle Strikes

CFrom Tho San Froncisco Chronic,e)
An effective means of settling strikes
has been devised in Bolshevik Petro-
grad. Every workman who dares to
strike becomes automatically a men,
ber Of the bourgeoisie, and as such goes
before firing squad, say letter from
that city written by former Russian
revolutionist. In the few factories
that are open armed guards are posted
everywhere to encourage the people to
work. According to the letter, the
Bolsheviki are compelled to use this
method, even in the Putilov works, the
cradle of the revolutionary movement
Such are the benefits" Bolshevism has
TO offer the workman.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
Not a Rubber Stamp

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Frank II. Simonds argues that
the Ang French American treaty
now before the Senate should be rati-
fed without consideration Of its mer-
its and in spite of any demerits which
the Senators may find. His reasoning
is that our French allies not only sup
'sed that President Wilson had au
thority to negotiate the treaty, which.
OF course, he did, but that the Presi-
dent promised absolutely to Premier
Clemenceau that ratification by the
Senate was certain, and that on this
assurance the French negotiators gave
up part of their claims.
1t is perfectly plain that the Senate
should consider this treaty and every
other treaty on its merits and that if
-ney ratify without such consideration.
or against the honest judgment of
the Senators, the Senate is acting as a
rubber stamp, which is exactly the
complaint made as to the actor. de-
manded by the President in regard to
the Versailles Treaty.
A. B. CARRINGTON.
New York. Nov. 2S, 1919.
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The Healthful Mine
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You recently published a letter
from Mr.. Searles, editor of THE Mine
Workers Journal giving the miners
side of the wage controversy.
Mr.. Searles lays stress upon poisonous
gases in the mines, the necessity of liv-
ing and working in artificial ventilation.
(which in many instances is practically
no ventilation at all Such conditions
may prevail in some of the small
broken down, one-horsc colicries in Ger
tain of the coal districts Of Ohio, Ind-
ana and Illinois, but in the typical
Pennsylvania mine and the new and
large mines Of Ohio Indiana and IL
linoiS the ventilation leaves nothing to
be desired The air is far more health
ful than that in a typical factory, and
mine workers are very apt to put in full
time underground when the weather is
unpleasant outside. The temperature is
always at an agreeable figure, summer
and winter, and the ventilation methods
ara under strict supervision OF the mine
inspectors.
The poisonous gases referred to are
not observable, excepting when there is
some outburst of gas followed by an ex-
plosion, which causes the deadly after
damp. Fortunately gas explosions are
by no means common. 1t is the fact
that they result in serious loss of life
that causes them to be frequently re-
ferred to. There are more men killed
in accidents on or near the car tracks
at collieries than there are killed by
gas explosions. The car accidents ac-
count for their victims one by one and
so pass unnoticed by the outside world.
f. ". SAWARD,
Editor "Saward's Journal" >"
New York, Nov. 25, 1919.
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A Queer Distribution

The terms of the distribution Of
the captured German fleet will cause
amazement and annoyance in this
country The United States receives
q 2 per cent share-consisting, ap-
parently, Of battleship and de-
stroyer The Navy Department is
said to be astonished at this alloca-
ton, not because it is so small, but
because, small as it is, it is consid-
cred in Administrator circles to be
undesired and burdensome.
Here is another case Of charity not
beginning at home. At Paris the
Administration altruism where
American interests were concerned
has been uncontrolled and ALIEN
bracing. 1t has never been colored by
the thought on the part of our agents
that they were giving away things
which belonged not to them but to
the American people.
Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Daniels accept
unwillingl!v battleship and de-
stroyer which are to re demolished
at the end of the year, since the
council has adopted the principle of
scrapping the German vessels. But
thriftier nations, like France and
Italy, have baked at that principle
and have obtained exemption from
it. They hold very sensibly, that
they can use various types of the
German fleet as they stand, and they
naturally want to save the labor and
expense Of duplicate construction.
France is to receive five submarines,
five light cruisers and ten destroy
ers, in addition, presumably, to the
one battleship and one destroyer al
located to each Allied nation Italy
is to receive five light cruisers and
five destroyers.
Why shouldn't the United States
also take over and keep permanently
some of the smaller German ships?
The Administration has overdone
the policy of renunciation. In the
small matter of naval requirements,
making that much new construction
unnecessary, this country is entitled
to generous consideration.
British naval policy has aimed at
the demolition of the German fleet,
on the ground that a distribution of
it might upset the existing balance
in naval armament The President
and Mr.. Daniels have concurred in
that view--to our disadvantage.
But France and Italy have been wise
enough to insist on self-protecting
reservations.
There is another disturbing ele-
ment in the situation. The council is
demanding reparati0n for the Ger
man ships sunk by cir crews while
interned at Scapa Flow. Those which
cannot be raised arc to be replaced
by German floating docks, dredges
and tugs. These are worth more
than ships at present. Under the
scheme Of distribution just an
nounced the United States would ap-
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"Illegal" and Suicidal

The Unauthorized and illegal"
strike Of yardmen and switchmen AT
Kansas City has brought an earnest
protest from w. G. Lee, president of
the Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men. He threatens the strikers with
loss Of union status and benefits. He
is not willing to wink at their breach
of contract and classify them indul-
gently as "vacationsts."
Mr.. Lees attitude does him credit.
Yet it is matter Of life and death
for the unions to mcintain their
authority against local insurgents.
If union members refuse to submit
to the theory of representative gov
ernment and defy their elected lead
ers, collective bargaining becomes a
farce. The railway brotherhoods are
opposed to the anti-strike provisions
Of the Senate railroad bill. But the
arguments Mr.. Lee and other broth
erhood spokesmen have been making
at Washington are reduced to alb
surdity when small brotherhood
groups set up for themselves, re-
pudiate their obligations to the
union and the government, refuse
arbitration and engage in local
guerrilla war,
A railroad strike like that at
Kansas City is the biggest kind of
boost for the Cummins anti-strike
iIao
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
The Safety Of France
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Can the Senate revisioniats of
the treaty be said to have provided
adequately for the safety Of France? 1t
seems that this oversight is the weak
part of the Senate majority's work and
it is so serious defect that it eurely
ought to be remedicd before ratifica-
tion occurs. If Mr.. Wilson makes his
stand on this point he has secure
ground and may be able successfully
to obstruct and even kill the treaty:
whereas If the Senate voluntarily cor
rects this fault the American people
may be relied on irresistibly to demand
the acceptance of the revised document
The war was fought by us to make
impossible repetition of Gcrmany's
CRIME, and we do not want to have to
repeat the work. A second time we
might not succeed But if France is
not made safe from Germany beyond
peradventure how can we be said to
have achieved the purpose of the war?
In this crucial respect neither now as
revised nor as it first stood does the
treaty satisfy. France, which is our
European bulwark, was not made i'm
pregnable by the Paris conference. The
Senate, where it should have increased,
diminished her defenses, in equal meas
ure by that act lessening ours.
When the Senate remedies this neg
lect the last reasonable opposition to
the revised treaty will vanish and the
Administration further resistance will
be vain. Those who have influence
should beg the Senator's not to delay
the remedy. The revised document
must net fail.
MORRISON I. SWIFT.
Boston, Nov. %, 1919.
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and without them it will not. The
public was slow to grasp this simple
issue, but at last it grasps it strong
ly, as do our friends abroad who
have taken the trouble to acquaint
themselves with the nature Of our
governmental institutions.
There is. no prospect of securing
ratification if the President con-
tnues to insist on having kaiser
power and his tame Senators do as
they are told to do. On the other
hand, ratification is certain if he
Will bend his will to the authority
of the Constitution.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
The Coming 7'ower
Tho Return of the Native

Nothing in Grassy Plain appeared
greatly altered
A queer new cupola perched on the
roof of the schoolhouse;
Some of the barns now had the new
tangled siIos
Standing like donjon-towers oer the
unkempt farmyards
Things of romance, those towers, in
the winter twilight.D.
We sighted fellow moodly digging
potatoes,
Hailed him and brought him reluctant
and dour to the fencc-rail;
Then in vein historico- sentimental
We told of our youth passed there in
his beautiful region:
lie shifted his quid and never battcd
an eyelash.
Whereat we began to revert to tales
of our grandpa
Spoke of the good old days now be-
yond the ramparts
Of this uneasy planet forever fitted
Spoke of their hcarticr folk and their
simpler manners;
Wooden he stood as the fence on which
he was leaning.
But when we tried to start our obduratc
Betsy,
And Betsy refused (thc ignition coil
being feeble),
Then he awoke-then at last we had
reached him
Had found a motif to which hi, nature
responded;
A lopsded grin illumined his face as
he shouted,
"Now yc'vc got back, ye thought ye'd
stay awhile, didn't ye2"
G.. S. r.
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The Fruits Of Bolshevisn
New York, Nov. 2S, 1919.
From The San Francisco Cbxo.,u

n f0'n The San Francisco Chronicie)
Bolshevism, by letting the Russian
railway system go to rum. and by rob-
blng the peasants, driving them to pro-
duce no l"ore than the limit they are
permitted to keep for themselves. has
brought Russia to famine, though no
other country is naturally able better
to supply itself with food. ! di-
rectly murdered tens OF thousands of
innocent persons. On the other hand.
1t has not done one constructive thing
for Russia. Czarism was bad enough
but the bloody and crazy despotism
Lenine has substituted for it is incom-
parably worse.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
No Easy ask

(From The Baltimore Ame14can)
A Give longer" week is to be hold
in New York with the gospel Of cheer
fulness and the elimination Of worry
as its basis. A cheerful and worryless
world in these times of turmoil and
high prices would tax the crusading
resources Of an optimist outclassing
Mark Tapley and Pollyanna-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01

parently not be in position to claim
any Of them.
The Allied peoples arc glad to see
the German navy extinguished as n
threat against peace. But the United
States helped to extinguish it, and
deserves a fairer share in the liqui-
dation of Germany's naval assets.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
A Safe Bet

From TIE San Francisco Chyonicle)
Wen bet a rcd apple to a Boshevik
ruble that .he agitators in this coun
try who sing the benefits that soviet
government would bring to the workers
of the United States never did lick of
honest work in their livea
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01

After the Germans had raded the
Americans and taken prisoners, thereby
identifying the division, there seemed
no harm IN letting America know that
there was a Roosevelt in the first
American force which faced the Ger
mans. The censor was obdurate, SO We
all tried subterfuges The son of ths
most famous lion hunter in the United
States" said one; The son Of an Amer
lean who has taken strong stand
against race suicide" wrote aHother;
The son of the greatest living Ameri-
cam" hazarded third correspondent;
but the censor ruled ali sucn clauses
out. ITS no use.' he said Every
body would know you meant Roose-
velt."
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70 pay your money back request. No red tape
advertiser does not. ~
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Our Own Travelogues

Sir: I'm sitting in the diner of the Cali
fornia Limited going East. y'understand,
and the waiter is hustling me through with
such uncalled for dispatch rs we pass
Dodge City. Kansas. where one defes God
and Congress and puts ones watch back one
hour from mountain to central time. that
ask: Hey, Fred. why the rush? Are you
trying to catch train or something" ?"
Gosh he comes back smiling like Bill
Parsons as he scoops my ice cream before
I'm half finished. "it amt that, sub, but
just looked the clock and I'm one hour
behind in my work This being my first
trip on the Limited 1t would look kinda
bad II I couldn't keep up with the others
SCULIYWAG.e
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ment that have placed US at the head
of the class. No, Radical, you can't
stampede the American nation.
A REAL. AMERICAN.
New York, Nov. %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01

So many inquisitive contribs want to
know what is our l2c worth of reading
matter that we gather in with the
Grade B cream mornings that we don't
mind confessing: The World. the Ameri-
can, The Times, The Sun, The Herald
and The Tribune. Not until we reach
the Office do we glance over the costly
Morning Telegraph, Call, and Journal
of Commerce.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-01

There have been men so original
that ali they said was "Thats another
common Variety; but never has there
been man-ths is G. o. AS observa-
tion-with the originality to dctract
one jot or iota from somebody else
by starting said detracton with
"Without wishing to detract one jot
or iota from the story Off,
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The subconscious, the subconscious-
how could we get along without IT.
Beliacy. writing in The Mail" reports
a conversation with Gilbert Cannan
concerning Theodore Dreiser's The
HarG of the Potter and adds TO bis
Introductory paragraph the secmings
revealing factor winch brought up
Dresser as the subject of converse
ton I'VE were sitting in a little res
taurant at the time. redolent VIII
cdors'
Some dav we intend to begin an M
terview with somebody on the subject
Of Harold Bell Wright by writing
"' And what do you think OF Harold Ben
Wright" d" ] asked a. we sat in the
frostiag room Of the largest bakery ID
Newark
Or again, one might devise a cOn'sf'
saton which should begin: And 30
you prefer The Four Horsemen' OK
Mare Nostrum - inquired as we en-
tered the riding academy"
Of course, il one wanted TO redae'
the idea to its absurd limits he mlsa'
suggest that the best place IN wasa
to discuss Shaw would be carpen's' >
on account Of the shavian atmosphere
However. such fripperies partaSs N
no wise of the true nature OF lltersfs
criticism.
"rhe Book of Naturalist" by ". +"
Hudson, is fascinating.