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New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
4 Rarest Opportunity

He was singulary fortunate in finding
the rarest opportunity in modern history
for the exercise of his specialized abil-
ties. The league of nations is by far the
most benefcent political principle that has
appeared since Jefferson's pen started the
American experiment in applied democ-
racy. Mr.. Wilson's guidance toward it
deserves the admiration of contemporaries
and will have that of fbsterity.
By the one-eyed rule of party politics, if
the league of nations is trademarked
Woodrow Wilson and you accept that, then
you must accept everything else bearing
the same trademark (which accounts for
a good deal of the opposition to the league
1t is a silly rule. The great Revolutionary
spokesman for democracy half ruined the
country with his foolsh> embargo. The
great spokesman for democracy in the
world war had fairly to be driven into an
efficient organization for carrying on the
war. That phase of the affair was over
on the other track
To non-partisan eyes the Presidents
faults are as open as his virtues. They
show continually in his appointments. By
preference, whatever the job, he picks the
whom he would like to sit down and
talk with general political and social
principles. Training and bent incline him
to amiable, we'll bred, college, educated
theorizing with only incidental attachment
to realities. The academic mind often in
clines that way, much as an amiable man
sitting on the fence would like to have the
farmer plough in circles instead of in
rectangles The experiment would be very
interesting to an observer The pedagogic
mind is often an unbending mind, and
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
"Welcoma Home"

Sir: Will the Young Lady hereinafter
described be SO Good as to send her Name
and Address to One who is sincerely de-
sirous of Killing her without Any Fur
ther Delay?
She boarded a Hudson River Local.
wherein most Of the males were standing.
and, having allowed soldier Of the 9th
Division with only one leg, but two wound
stripes, the privilege of giving her his seat
unthanked, gazed absorbedy at the female
of Italian origin who promptly swept two
OF her infants into lap already contain
ing two in order that the aforesaid soldier
might not have to balance himself on his
crutches In the crowded aisle. Having
gazed sufficiently she pleased and electri
fed the surrounding observers by indi
eating the mere mother to the conductor.
You ought to have cattle cars for that
sort of thing" she said, and relapsed to
the scrutiny of a magazine devoted n
motion pictures. Although l am not cer-
tain, feel that this virgin is related tn tho
gentleman who at once occupied the seat
was so foolish as to vacate Monday in
Lexington Ave. express on behalf of an
elderly woman in black TR
While the witness was being hard
pressed by Moss as to his family affairs
the witness shouted: "I object to this,n
81 was provoked by the witness" said
Moss.
"Well, you provoked something that
will kill you," shouted Burke.
Il won't be killed by you, Mr.. Burke -
retorted his cross-examiner
"Well, the man at the other end Of tbo
table WILL" said Burke, garing at Senator
Thompson.-The Tribune.
And so, as Jack Keefe would saw tb.v
kidded back G. 4th.
Received from the Cootey Companv
+ Minneapolis, one-er-scratch pad.
For the postof1ce clerk it's the homhv
month of May.
Whaddye mean a bomb-proof Job?
b. P. A
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
a.
Haly;s Claims
tp
By Whitney Warren
From a letter to the Paris TENNIS

IT is necessary to be wholly ignorant ~
Dalmatia, never to have visited its cities
or talked with its people, to suppose that bv
every inalienable right of nature and civiliza-
ton it does not belong to the country Of
Venice and of Rome. Long before the war
visited this land full of Latin monuments IN
which, as strongly as on the opposite shore.
there prevailed Latin population and Latin
manners. But, knowing the German methods
of inhltration and immigration, methods OF
which Alsace-Lorraine stands the first vic-
tim, l asked myself whether Austria-Hun-
gary, by favoring Slavism, would not have
succeeded, little by little, in completely de-
maturing province of which the autochthon-
Gus elements were hostile to her. To nv
great delight I have been able to convince
myself that nothing of the sort has hap
pened-that no oppression, no intimidation
has been able to beat down the resistance ~
the true inhabitants or to wipe out from,
Dalmata the races which, across the sea-
link her with the mother country. Take
away the Germans from Alsace and Lor-
raine and there remain your brothers who
acclaimed you at Strasbourg and at Metz:
take away the Slav from Dalmatia and
there remains the fervent multitude which
at Fiume, at cara, at Scbenico, at Spalato,
at Trau, protests without cessation against
a decision that would incorporate it in q
Croatian kingdom.
cannot express the emotion which has
resurged within me as I travelled through
these towns and ascertained that their in
habitants held more precious than ever their
Italian nationality. He, who has not seen
what l have seen, who has not heard what
/ have heard, is not competent to suggest
valid solution of the Dalmatan problem.
After such experience one would have
to be blind and deaf to suppose that the
Balkans begin at the other side of the
Dinarc Alps.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
Burke's Grave Offence

A responsible newspaper, of course,
should be cautiously careful before
venturing any opinion that criticises or
seems to criticise. 1t is necessary to be
sure, doubly and even triply sure, before
expressing anything that may be tort
ured into animadversion. Time was
when the very life blood of democracy
was criticism-when the press was
thought to have failed in its duty if it
did not constantly spray those in the
public eye with mixture Of vinegar and
vitriol. But now contrary doctrine
has vogue.
But, mindful Of the different standard
and demand, fully aware of the limita-
tions now imposed, nevertheless the
opinion may be risked that the behavior
of one Richard H. Burke before the
Burlingame investigating committee was
entirely irregular and contrary. to the
etiquette of investigation. Here was 4
witness. And what is a witness? A
creature summoned before inqusitors to
be grilled; not only to be grilled, but
toasted and roasted and held up to
every species of contumely. He is in a
pillory, sits on a ducking stool, and
every passerby is expected to claw at
him. Use and wont have established
this procedure. A long line of million
aires has passed through the ordeal and
has not dared even To hleat
And what did Burke do? He was
guilty of the enormity of answering back,
replied to insinuation with charges. He
dared to tell Frank Moss, a seasoned
Torquemada, that he was a ICON" man
and said that Senator Thompson was a
liar and a scavenger The alarmed
chairman erected a barricade between
the enraged witness and the enraged in
terrogator, and the table survived the
joint pounding only because of seasoned
timber.
1t need scarcely be pointed out that
the inquisitorial committee, the new en-
gine we have set up to save. the public,
will scarcely survive if witnesses sass
back. A cross-eXaminer must not be
compelled to take his own medicine. He
may pin-prick and goad as he pleases,
but is not to meet retort in kind if the
new institution is to survive.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

A FINE one-track mind has happened
~ before in American politics. In
writing the Declaration of Inde-
pendence Thomas jefferson did masters
job. His second term as President is
different story. When it was a question
of indicting autocratic power and stating
democratic principles in general terms no
man in the world excelled him. In
grapple with stubborn unphilosophized
facts he failed. There was juncture in
the development of America when Jeffer
sons generalizing, phiosophizing literary
talent was immensely useful. There were
other situations in which the goods to be
moved were mostly over on the other
track and he was not useful He was not
a Lincoln
When Woodrow Wilson was leading
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for President the opposing Democratic
press pictured him in a resplendent silk
hat the shinest of shoes, expansive shirt
bosom and kid gloves-as a legend in the
cartoon informed you. At any rate, those
habiiments were more familiar to him
than Lincoln's patched homespun. He got
his democracy by reading and reflection,
not by mingling with the crowd at the
village postoffice. IT, like Lincoln, he had
been thrust into hard but genial, a rough
and ready but not stunting, pioneer
struggle for existence, very likely his
mind, like Lincoln's, would have developed
another track-the one by which the world
gets its living-and he would have had
the same solid sense of vulgar realities.
His academic life denied him that ad-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
The Speed Demons

(Fro1n The Philadelphia lnqutrcr)
correspondent describes Colonel House
as the speed demon" behind the peace con-
ference. Taking the results of that con-
ference a basis, snail must be streak
of light when compared with the Texas
speed" artist.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

Fifty years ago to-day the Battle Of
the Wilderness began. In terrain and
tactics it recalls the Battle of the
Argonne. But it lacked the Argonne's
decisive character. The Wilderness was
a draw. Lee did not give up until
nearly a year later. The Confederacy
was more on it's last legs in May, 1864,
than Germany was in October, 1918.
But Lee was a far greater soldier and
more resourceful fighter than Ludendorff
was. What would Lee have said to pro-
posal to ask for an armistice when his
armies still stood on Northern soil and
only few square miles of Southern
territory were held by the enemy?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
Or Texas Cotton
iFrom The nn,,a. Ar....,

(From The Dallas Ne,os)
II the truth could be discovered probably
it would be found that Wall Street thinks
it won the war.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
The Heart Of Italy

| will not here revert to the pact of Lon-
don, with regard to which there is neverthe-
less great deal yet to be said; ! hold fast
here to the thesis of not abandoning the line
of evidence which, all along the coast from
Fiume to Cattaro, has torn the heart OF
Italy.
Everywhere, in all the cities [ have
toned above, in spite of the constant danger
with which the Jugo- -Slavs pursue all who do
not support their cause, l have witnessed
the spectacle of courageous throngs mani
Testing, with Latin fervor, their willingness
and their desire to live under the Italian
tricolor or to die for it. 1t is a marvellous
patriotic ardor which cannot be checked-be
sure of that-and which will surely lead its
possessors to the triumph of their passion
or to the sacrifice of their existence, if that
passion does not secure its just recompense.
If the peace conference must give way TO the
Croatian cause, then the Italians of the
Dalmatian coast, the only people who
call that country their home, their own land
and their own sky, are marked for massacre.
They know this and accept the risk rather
than abandon their claims. Already there
is war of ambush; daily there are to be
found in the streets and on the roads the
bodies of good citizens traitorously slain by
Slavic bullets for having refused to submit
to the arrogance of the invader.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
More Pianists Should Retire
{From The pctroit Neua

Paderewski is going to give up piano
playing. How forciby it is brought home
to the apartment dweller at about il y. m.
that it is only the great piano players who
retire.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

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New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. President; G.
eIhor Rogers Vice President Helen Rogers Reid Sece-
ary: f, a. Suter Treasurer Address Tribune Building.
i't Nassau Street. New York Telephone Beekman 5000
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

fled number of dollars wants to pay back
in money of greater purchasing power
or whose units would spondingly
be more difficult to mobilize.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
Free to Write

Free to Write
(From Tho Philadelphia Ledger
Amy Lowell has inherited 5000 from
relative. She can now afford to write more
free verse.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
The Coming 7ower
A Lament

A Lament
Propertius: Book II, Elegy s.
"Eripitur nobis lam pridem caro- puello"-
While she I loved is being torn
From arms that held her many years
Dost thou regard me, friend, with scorn?
Or seek to check my tears?
Bitter the hatred for jilt,
And hot the hates of Eros are;
My hatred, slay me an thou wilt,
For thee'd be gentler far.
Can I endure that she recline
Upon another's arm? Shall they
No longer call that lady "mine"
Who mine" was yesterday?
For Love is feetng as the hours.
The town of Thebes is draped with moss,
And Ilium's well-known topless towers
Are now a total loss.
Fell Thebes and Troy; and in the grave
Have fallen lords of high degree.
What songs I sang! What gifts l gave!
{. She never fell for me.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
Fumes Right

l wish / were able to recte in detail the
reception accorded me in Fiusne, in Zara and
elsewhere, simply because l a friend of
Italy 1t were necessary, | repeat, to have
occasion to look into the thing the spot
in order to be admitted to a place of i'm.
portance in this discussion of the Dalnatan
question. What would you say of for
eigner who has not seen Strasbourg and
Colmar and Mulhausen weep with joy at
their return to France, and who, from the
isolation of his study, continued to insist
that Alsace was German in sentiment In
my journeys through Dalnatia I have cb-
served the lengths to which the rebellious
pangs of people whose aspirations are dis
regarded can go. l have admired the faith
and enthusiasm of this people and its resolve
to fight until it shall have won the thing
so many times trumpeted forth by the
Entente-the right of peoples to dispose cf
themselves.
But far more serious are the consequences
in Italy itself of any solution that does no !
tend toward the liberation Of Dalnlatia- LIE 8
US but reflect that the force which bruugh !
the Italians into the was the desire to
bring back their brothers to the common
cradle. If diplomacy vetoes the realization
of this aim shall see dire eventuaIities-
we shall see a new GaribaldI arise, to ar
ganize a corps of volunteers beside which
the Thousand ard their deeds will pale.
say this because it is my conviction and
because everything indicates It. There is
rising in Italy a storm of indignation
against the ingratitude of the Entents-sp
generous and conciliatorv ;rr IRIS nour of y,er;
so pettifogging and disposed to retract when
the time comes for payment, so willing to
give to the enemy of yesterday the prize
which has been promised To credulous and
faithful friend
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

The Repartce Necessary in the Military Service
Sir: Father Duffy referred to the incident when
the 165th Infantry were coming down from Bac-
carat and met some troops from the 77th Division
going up from Rambervllers. In the exchange
of compliments Mike Donaldson, of the 165th,
called to the boys of the 77th: 1--WE
over here in France licking the Dutch before
they drew your names out of the hat
Father Duffy forgot to say that there promptly
flashed back the reply: Licking the Dutch,
you? Why, since you've come every Dutch
man here has been singing I'm Always Chasing
Rainbows.' JUL.
"The cry for food is the first demand
of mankind" says Mayor Ole Hanson, who
must have been reading the psychological
series "Wonder What a Baby Thinks
About 2"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
Pure Reading Mattcr

Sir AS of those interested in douehbovs
and doughnuts you will doubtless be glad to
hear that the entire proceeds from the run of
the special motion picture production Fires Of
Faith, at the Harris Theatre, where it opens
Monday evening, will be turned to the Sal
walton Army. Sort of, as you might say if you
were in a hurry, putting the dough into dough-
nuts. MoRR1p
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

1t was Mr.. Theodore Dresser himself, and
not his brother, who wrote the first stanza
and the chorus of "On the Banks of the
Wabash" But Paul wrote the second
stanza; and while the first contains the
amaranthine line, "Without her face it
seems quite Incomplete" the second has "I
loved her, but she thought l didn't mean
it, yet I'd give my future were she only
here"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

"The more hear of that song" said a
girl IN the crowd at the Sub-Treasury
(overheard by P. H. W. at the conclusion
of the playing of the national anther,.
"the better I like it,"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
How the Child Has Grow,

<Frote The Troy Rsccrd) e
Wonder II Mr.. Monroe would ~
his doctrine if he were In ths N.s6
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
OUR OWN WILLIAM


Our government is too much with us; soon
Will come the day when prohibition
glowers:
Little we have indeed that's really ours;
They have taken our John away, a sordid
boon.
Must this dry throat cape drier than the
moon?
And know tobacco craving at all hours?
1t not ever thus-our vaunted powers
Of living seem quite sadly out Of tune
What next will go? Yc gods! I'd rather be
A pagan, sucked in creed outworn;
So might l, filled with alcoholic glee,
Have glimpses that would make me less
forlorn;
Have sight of Bacchus, pie-eyed, on some
lea,
Or hear Silenus chortle to the morn.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

Our notion of self-consciousnes would
be to have a paragraph like this, firing
stance, applauded by an audience Of film
hounds.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-03

Selections from the revered Literary
Digests "Topics in Brief" are being shown
weekly in the movie houses. We seldom
are able to write a paragraph that makes
that column, but shall try to do so
now. A paragraph of H. Ms got into the
Digests column this week; and other con-
tribS are warned
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27

stripped the dead of rifles and bullets
And we reported to the commander
that we had been deserted under fire
by the men and were in danger of i'm
minent capture. The commander
begged us to hold out till o'clock
when the Night Corps would come up
to our succor.
Had the Germans any idea at
first Of the size OF our force we
would not have remained there more
than a few minutes. We dreaded
momentarily being outfanked and
surrounded. Our line was stretched
out SO that each soldier held a con-
siderable number Of feet. our force
altogether covering a distance of
three versts. The Germans organiz-
ed an attack on the flank. Aid was
dispatched from the right flank,
which was left almost without ma
chine guns, and the attack was re-
pulsed. In this scrap Lieut.. Col.
1vanov was wounded. There were
many other officers and men lying
about disabled. We could not spare
the hands necessary to carry them
to the first-aid dressing stations
far away in our rear.
Three o'clock came, and the ex-
pected re-enforcements were not yet
in sight. The Germans made an at
tack on the right flank. My adju-
tant, Lieut.. Filippov, was now COM
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
CLASSES WILL SHOW
HOW TO KEEP HOUSE
lheodworus Bailey Myers Mason
House to Start Courses.

Points on spring house cleaning
viii be smphasiEed In the Domestic
Science classes to open at the Theo-
dorus Bailey Myers Mason House.
lsos Twentieth street northwest. to be
held at $3.50 Tuesday. Wednesday
and Friday afternoons for a month.
This course will include market
Ing. household sanitation, scientific
bed making. balanced meals. cook
ing for the sick and aged. children's
diet, and understanding Of the va
rtous cuts OF meats.
The course In reconstruction
crafts will be given In connection
with the fourth encampment Of the
First National Service School, spe-
cial Arrangements being made for
day pupils at the Mason House.
They will also have the advantage
of the course of fifteen lectures on
psychology Of the wounded, re-educa-
tion. etc. to be given in connection
with the course at the George
Washington University.
The students taking this course
OF lectures will be credited with
one college semester hour. This
course viii open June Is and end
July 5.
Mrs. Larz Anderson. wife Of the
former Ambassador to France. will
relate her experiences In the war
zone. Monday. May 5. at o'clock.
All those interested are invited to
attend.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27

the forest II was Q slow and peri
lous job, full Of anxious moments
during the shifting OF the line. but
everything went along smoothly. and
there was hope
Our line was drawn In. and we
were preparing for the nnal dash
when terrifying shouts OF 'Hur-
rah" suddenly rang out. almost In
unison. on the tanks. We were half
surrounded Another quarter Of an
hour and the net would have been
drawn tight around US. There was
no time to lose. ] ordered Q free
for-all run.
The German artillery increased
In violence. and the enemy's rifies
played havoc with Us from both
sides. ran for all ] was worth
several hundred feet. till knocked
unconscious by the terrific concus-
sion of . shell that landed near me.
My adjutant Lieut.. Filippov. saw me
afll.. picked my body up and dashed
with II through the devastating fre.
the German trench system. the open
space that was No Mans Land be-
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27

there, within Q verst OF two. were
they. thousands Of them. with the
fate Of our lives. the fate of this
whole movement. nay, the fate. per-
haps. OF; all Russia, in their hands
And they were celebrating!
Where was Justice? Where was
brotherhood Where was manhood
and decency?
How can you leave your comrades
and those brave women" the COM
mander appealed to them. ito certain
destructioh7 Where IL honor and
right and comradeshipT"
The officers begged. implored their
men to go forward as our calls
for help grew more and more in
sistent. There was no response.
The men said they would defend
their positions In case Of a German
attack. but would not participate
in any offensive operation.
It was In these desperate circum-
stances, as I was rushing about
from position to position. exposing
myself to bullets in the hope that
I might be struck dead rather than
see the collapse Of the whole en-
terprise, when came across q
couple sneaking behind . trunk Of
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
GIVES LIFE In ATTEMPT
TO SAVE CHILDREN

Reidsville. N. c., April 8.-Charred
remains Of a woman kneeling In prayer
over the burnt bodies of her three
children was the gruesone sight wit
messed by citizens today when they
entered the home OF Mrs. Alfred G..
Galloway. In response to an alarm by
telephone.
The woman and her children were
at home alone early today when the
fire broke out. The mother attempted
to rescue the little ones. but. unable
to DO so, telephoned the alarm. and
when she returned the staircase sud
denly burst into flames, cutting on
all means Of escape.
Frank Allen. his wife and two chill
dren were burned to death under sim
liar circumstances yesterday morning.
1t Is the belief OF citizens OF the COM
Inunity that both fires were Of in
cendiary origin.