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New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Seeming To Do

1t appears that the fiat policy of
not allowing the coal companies to
raise coal prices to recoup their
treasures to meet the subtractions
Of the new wages is not as fiat as
advertised.
With respect to coal shipped after
November 13 on contracts made
prior to October 80 the Fuel Admin
istrator does not insist on the fixed
price. Naturally a large part Of the
coal being distributed is billed at
prices in excess of the government
maximum. In many contracts it is
provided that should wages be in
creased there should be CORE
spending increase in cost to coal
buyers. The operators foresaw, as
did every one else, what might hap
pen, and provided against it. It is
estimated that nearly half Of the
coal will carry the new wage charge.
Scarcely an agreeable prospect is
held out to consumers who must pay
more to operate their plants than
their rivals. The reactions are likely
to be such as to break down the
regulation which has been politically
advertised. The country has before
it another case Of seeming to do.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Lost, Strayed or Stolen

Has the League to Enforce Peace,
headed by former President Taft,
DR.. Lowell and other we'll known
gentlemen, lost interest in the rati-
;ication of the covenant?
1t would seem it has, for it is not
reported that anything is being done
to remove the obstacles to ratifca-
ton. Willing enough to bring pres
sure on the Senate when it could be
charged with blame for delay, it has
become supine now that the cause
for further delay is with the White
House. The President is not asked
for expediting steps which only he
can take Why have they one rule
for the Senate and another for the
President?
Mr.. Taft, like others who give any
candid consideration to the treaty
situation, admits that rati6cation
without reservations is impossible.
Senator Hitchcock comedies the res
ervatior principle and not even the
President now denies the need of its
application. Yet Mr.. Taft and his
co-workers seem practically to have
ceased agitation - they ask no
pointed questions as to why the
President fails to outline the reser-
vations he will agree to. If the Sem
ate had pursued a similar course,
had refused to outline its reserva-
tions while it held up the treaty,
what would Mr.. Taft have said and
done? As a working agency the
League to Enforce Peace seems lost,
strayed or stolen.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
The First Movie
A Final Word in Behalf of
LIE Prince

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l should be glad of an oppor-
tunity to support my side of this ami
cable discussion by relying upon classes
of data which have the advantage of
carrying conviction on their face.
First-the lie Prince patent. 1t is
matter Of indisputable government
record that this patent was applied for
November 2, 1896-or several months
before Mr.. Edison even began to think
about this subject-if we assume Mr.
Frank Dyer's own date. This patent
eral cameras placed close together in
one machine, and each of these cam
eras conformed to Mr.. Dyer's own
formula, producing, as it did, a rapid
succession of pictures of the same
moving object from its own single point
of view. To be sure, inasmuch as Mr..
LIE Prince was so very early in his
recognition Of this principle, he did
not have available the light, strong
celluloid film which the Eastman Kodak
Company produced later, and for
this reason he was obliged to use rela-
lively slow-moving machinery and
clumsy Photographic surfaces. Realiz-
ing this handicap, Mr.. LIE Prince very
ingeniously contrived means whereby
number Of such films were used, each
in its turn; thereby making it possible
to move each more slowly than would
be necessary in moving one, and still
get the required number of pictures
per second. By exhibiting these in
the same order in which they were
taken, he got his moving picture. Of
course, there was theoretical depar-
ture in perfection, due to the fact that
the different cooperating cameras nee
essarily viewed the common object
from slightly different standpoints, but
fair-mipded person will certainly
admit that this would make no appre-
ciable difference in viewing more or
less distant objects. I contend that
if Mr.. LIE Prince produced a machine
which would make moving picture of
travelling train q thousand feet
away he was a successful inventor
and, remember, he did this by using
cameras each Of which acted in the very
way Mr.. Dyer says Mr.. Edison thought
Of several months after the LIE Prince
application for patent was filed.
Second will accept Mr.. Dyer's ad-
mission that Mr.. LIE Princes son first
saw actual moving pictures produced
by his father on a screen early in 1888.
So far as Mr.. Dyer has shown, up to
that time Mr.. Edison had only been
thinking about it. Under these cir
cumstances, is 1t fair to characterize
Mr.. lie Prince as ga dreamer of the
Jules Verne type"7
II. s. MACKAYE.
New York, Dec. 8, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
A Week Diverse
At the Turn of the Year
fFron, Poety)


From Poetry)
WATER floats lazily through all the
regions Of heaven;
1t writhes and flutters and rolls be-
fore the wind.
1t bursts from the earth in springs, it
spreads in lakes and marshes;
It is unconfned.
Strike it, it does not break; cut It. it
does not alter;
Throw torches upon it, it yet con-
sumes the fame.
Pen it with mighty rocks, It rises ever
higher;
To it mere sand or granite are the
same.
1t trickles from the SHOWS upon earth's
topmost SUBMITS,
1t pours in torrents through deep
wooded lands;
1t spreads out, makes great lakes in
lower valleys;
In deserts it flows yet beneath tho
sands.
My soul in me is only moving water,
Poured out upon the black and sterile
earth
By thunder-clouds that burst and
loosed their burden,
Gathered for endless years before my
birth.
My soul in me has grown a monstrous
river
That moves straight onwards toward.
an unseen sea;
Rushing and straight and turbid, never
stopping,
From long banks never free;
Perhaps shall come to the desert, find
about me
Sand everywhere; no end
Perhaps I shall sink in the dust, and
all my being
With formless earth shall blend.
Perhaps, with my current checked in
its slow falling.
shall spread out, broad lake for
the sun;
Perhaps l shall wind about uneasy
marshes
For years, my task undone.
But neither desert nor lake nor marsh
shall stop me
From what | once began,
Free as the sea, exultant in my free
dom,
The lifework Of man.
And shall work free at last, and aloft
as leaping dragon,
To the sky I shall take my fight,
Flowing and reverberating through the
empty halls of heaven
Day after infinite day and night OF
endless night.
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
The Great Baskets Poets

(Frons The Athenasssns)
CHE sat there, the strong woman,
~ Dark, with swift eyes alert and
laughter-lighted,
And gathering that wild fiock,
This on her knee, that at her side, an
Crouched hiding elfn-eyed under tossed
hair;
A calf unsteady footed
And muzzled with q stocking snufYed
and blundered,
And chickens hither and thither
Pecked on the floor, fiuttered on loft and
settle.
"Poets? And is 1t poets?"
She said: "The day has been when there
were poets
Hero on the Island, yonder on the main
land.
And my own fathers father
Was the choice poet of the Island
Wishal
You'd go to the we'll up there to draw
the water
And talk spell, maybe. then como back
to him
And he'd have tho poem for you clean
and clever.
He had the wit. If only he'd had learn
ing,
Mother Of Godi 'tis he would have been
poetl"
ROBIN FLOWER
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

much difficulty, has been founded near
Bucharest, under the personal direction
of Queen Marie.
In Serbia there are upward of 300
men who lost their sight in the terrific
fighting this gallant little country en-
gagged in all through the war. For them
the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund
has established reeducational school
near Belgrade. No local help Of any
kind is available for these blind heroes
their country having been laid waste
so thoroughly by the Bulgarians, Aus
trans and Germans that those inhabit-
ants the invaders did not exterminate
have all they can do to keep alive and
struggle with the tremendous problems,
political and of reconstruction, confront
ing them.
Then there is Poland. The situation
there is distressing almost beyond de-
piction. Nine. Paderewski, wife Of the
President, Jan Ignace Paderewski, wrote
in an appeal for aid that in all Poland
there were only three hospitals equipped
so as to be able to give any kind of
surgical aid to small proportion of
more than 600 blind soldiers, whose
numbers were being constantly added to,
and that it was out Of the question to
think of reeducating those who were
cured, although she had taken a few
in hand herself in an effort to do some
thing in this direction. The Permanent
Blind Relief War Fund, therefore, is
establishing training school in War
saw
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Radical Obsequies

The melancholy days have come
again to the radical Liberals of Eng
land, and their views make lugubri
Gus reading. The latest issue of
The London Nation devotes most of
its space to explaining the French
election and to mourning at the bier
Of the league of nations. These
radicals had no difficulty in brushing
aside Lloyd Georges coalition VIC
tory; they cannot do as much with
Clemenceau's overwhelming success.
The Nation comedies sthat France
has elected the most conservative
Chamber that has sat in Paris since
the early years Of the Third Re-
public.
As for the league, it Is assumed
that America is definitely out, and
that the Senate in it's action ire
fleets American feeling" where
Conservatives and extreme Liberals
unite" in approval of the Senate's
declaration of undiminished SOW
ereignty." There is no sympathy
for Mr.. Wilson" American ideal
ism which at one moment seemed
about to flower into magnificent
promise for humanity, withered
away In the debilitating air of
Paris" And so on. What shall
come after? The Nation can see
only Europe "divided, confused
and immoral"
Here is much unconscious confes-
sion. 1t is made altogether clear
that what these supporters of the
league wanted was super-state, and
that, now that the Senate has elimi-
mated super-sovereignty from the
league, they consider it an emntv
shell.
The whole point of view closel,
parallels that of our American in
telligentsia. Failing to get the new
heaven and the new earth which the,
set their hearts upon, they beat thei
breasts. Their Great Idea havin,
been rudely scorned by a hard
hearted world, they would Withdraw
1t till more propitious season. AL
ways the goal is an idea, panacea
Utopia. Of that other conception
of league, organically related t.
the Supreme Council at Paris, logi
cally developing from it by the SLOW
shaping of events and gradual,
gaining power and authority as tn,
minds of men lent approval, there il
plainly not the faintest apprecia
ton.
Perspective toward the peace anc
the league is yet to come. But sucl
barring Of the radical soul reveals
an important landmark. 1t was ir
the fantastic World Of Ideas that the
covenant had it's inception. Necessa.
rlly it had to be stripped and remod.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Breaking Away

The Cleveland Plain Dealer. a
representative Democratic newspa-
per of Ohio. has been a strong and
consistent supporter of the Admins
tration. with reference to the league
of peace project.
But The Plain Dealer, in view of
the facts, is not willing to stultify
itself by lodging responsibility for
the treaty hold-up elsewhere than
where it belongs. 1t finds that par
ticular responsibility rests with the
President. 1t says: "The treaty can
be laid before the Senate again
only upon his volition. The treaty
is in the Presidents hands. Respon-
sibility for initiating its ratification
is upon him"
In New York Administrative or
gans, in an endeavor to serve parti
san ends, continue their efforts to
place the blame on the Senate. They
Juggle the facts. The combination
of the Borah-Johnson irreconcilables
and the Administration Senators de-
feated ratification, and now the
treaty is not under parliamentary
consideration because the President
wills it so.
The situation is too plain to per-
NIT misrepresentation to be long sue
cessful. Other Democratic newspa-
pers will testify to the truth, as The
Plain Dealer does.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Pandolfo

On December 6 Federal Jury at
Chicago returned a verdict of guilty
against S. c. Pandolfo, president
and chief promoter of the Pan
Motor Company, of StNCloud, MINI.
The indictment charged the use of
the mails in scheme to defraud.
The conviction is a great victory
for the vigilance committee of the
Associated Advertising Clubs and
for the general cause of advertising
honesty and cleanliness. The COM
mittee attacked an imposing con-
Germ, backed by the local business
patriotism of considerable town,
ard did not desist when counter
attacked by a S500,O0O libel suit.
Pandolfo and his co-workers sold
$9,500,000 of stock of the Pan Motor
Company, which was to repeat the
success of Henry Ford. The buyers
numbered 10000. eve accept Lib
erty bonds as cash." ran the adver-
tisements, and the evidence showed
that the company exchanged it's
stock for $1,000,O00 of Liberty
bonds. The hope of rs per cent
return was held out.
But when the treasury of the COM
rany was searched but $4,000 cash
was found, and the debts owed
amounted to $25O,000. Pandolfo's
contract with the company provided
that the first SO per cent from the
sale of stock was to go to him net.
He got his first and avoided chances
of a lapse of payments on subscrip-
tions.
Surely smart and clever are we
Americans! We are not gullible--
oh, no! We know who are tricksters
and defrauders. When reputable
publications would not publish Pan
Goifo's advertisements and his COM
pany was brought under suspicion
all he had to do was to yell that he
was being attacked by powerful hos
tile "interests." Wicked Big Busi-
ness was seeking to hamstring him
and it was our duty to protect him.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Voices for Justice

Deputy Sannes in the Dutch
Chamber has called amid applause
for the ex-Kaiser's expulsion on the
ground that Wilhelm's presence on
Dutch soil constitutes a danger to
Holland.
The Dutch are Of an eminently
legalistic turn Of mind; ever since
the days of HUG van Groot, better
known in English-speaking lands as
Hugo Grotius, international law has
been favorite Dutch preoccupation;
nor is there people in the world
which would hold in higher esteem
the right of asylum, as the Dutch
attitude toward Spanish, Jews,
French Huguenots, English Puri-
tans, Magyar Calvinists and politi-
cal exiles of all lands and ages amply
testifes. So, if the demand for
withholding the right Of sanctuary
from the erstwhile All-Highest is
becoming popular with the Dutch,
others may as we'll waive legalistic
seruples.
Not less significant than Mr.. San
ness suggestion are the utterances
Of Hjalmar Branting, the veteran
leader Of Swedish social democracy,
regarding criminal prosecution Of
those responsible for the war. Herr
Branting, to-day by far the ablest
and most authoritative Socialist
statesman on the Continent Of Eu-
rope, and an inexorable opponent Of
both reaction and Bolshevism, says in
his newspaper that the proceedings
of the German parliamentary COM
mittee inquiring into war blame are
parody, and that the committee
has now adjourned sine die after
standing humbly bowling hat in
hand before it's pre-revolutionary
masters.
Everything" Branting concludes,
Indicates that The old spirit is rails
ing its head more impudently than
ever. We can hear beforehand the
furious protests echoing through the
German press when the Allies some
day, tired Of this farce, demand the
extradition Of the culprits for real
trial by real investigating COM
mittee."
More than ever is there need of
the Kaiser's trial. Already there is
recrudescence Of the doctrine that
the war was an imperialistic or eco
nomic one, with each side about
equally to blame. The true antidote
for such poison consists Of the facts
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
The Ark of the Soviet

1t would seem at first blush as il
there should be tragic and dramatic
possibilities in the farewells Of our
anarchists who are presently to sail
eastward and away from here, ulti-
mately to be returned to that Russia
which gave them birth. But many
factors combine to make the occasion
comic or, at most, weakly pathetic.
Miss Emma Goldman attempts
heroics, but her fine phrases do not
come off. Truth to tell, she and her
partner, Berkman, are two Of the
most futile figures in the universe.
They have talked their heads off for
g generation, talked audiences by the
score into somnolence, and never OBJ
tanned any more success than was to
be counted in the notoriety Of an oc-
casional arrest. OF actual converts
to their cause, of contribution to the
philosophic and political faith of any
Americans, they leave not trace.
1t is their comic misfortune now
to share the fate Of a movement but
remotely resembling their original
faith. If there could be anything
further removed from anarchy than
the ruthless dictatorship Of Lenine
and the prying, rigorous control of
LIE which his communism exercises
1T would be hard to invent it. 1t is
this new spirit of blood and violence
which makes the present action nec-
essary A nation can, if it chooses,
sit by in silence while anarchy or
any other rule is debated on it's
merits as system Of government.
But when debate is abandoned and
the call is for action, for the over
throw Of the existing order by force,
no nation can sit by in silence and
maintain its self-respect or its
security.
So from the West which received
these offspring Of the East there
will depart one Of the strangest as
/ sortments Of human beings ever
gathered on board q ship. They will
depart as failures, the rejected
voices Of an alien faith which sought
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Invocation to Liberty

(Fron, The An0lo-French Revfew)
RURN, burn, undying fire,
Blown on by Gods desire
Which moves in wide, slow volume
through the world.
We know not of thy cause
Nor understand His laws
BY which the false gods in thy flame
are hurled:
But while the great wind blows
Burn up your beastliness before the
heavens closet
AS wild bonfire burn
Till all the Nations stir
The pettiness that we have treasured
here;
Till all the Nations stir
To see Loves harbinger
And grid Truths armor on and cast
OFF fear,
And Mammon in his might
Sinks covering for cover through the
fame-stabbed night!
r. L. MEGROZ
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

to undermine the foundations of
American success, the most demo-
cratic success yet achieved, in the
name of one of the most extraordi-
nary tyrannies ever created by man.
They leave order, comfort and
plenty for starvation and chaos. No
one need question their sincerity nor
the pathos of their plight. On the
other hand, there should be no false
sentimentality or undeserved admi-
ration. An alien, Eastern and un-
comprehending faith is being sent
back to the soil where it belongs.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
The Banner of CZenenceau
Under 1t France Has Turned Aside From
Revolution and Rallied to the Republic
(From the Tribune Paris Burcau)

PARIS, Nov. 25.-Now that the
tumult and the shouting have died down,
now that France has voted and a new
Chamber of Deputies has been elected,
it is possible to see the situation in a
recovered perspective. The cables
have told how socialism went down to
defeat, how the shrewd common sense
of France turned aside from the road
of revolution, but there is, nevertheless.
a story to tell which should set the
situation more clearly before Amer
leans than can be done in hurried mes
sages destined for the wire.
First, it should be told how Georges
Clemenceau, that indomitable old mas
ter of political strategy, gave the So
cialists rope, and how they promptly
hanged themselves. Carry the mind
back to the great speech the aged
statesman journey to Strassbourg to
make on the eve Of the elections, the
speech which was to be the keynote of
the campaign for the great united party
the bloc notionoJ-that carried his
flag to the polls. It will be remem-
bered that he scourged Bolshevism as
with whips, and that he heaped scorn
and contempt on the Socialists who
accepted among their number q traitor
to France. certain Captain Sadoul,
officer in the French army once, but
later one Of the Bolshevists.
This man Sadoul served Clemenceau
as the red rag which was to infuriate
the Socialist bull. Sadoul went to
Russia as an officer attached to q
French mission. He is young man,
yeasty minded'and impressionable, for
merely a passionate proclaimer Of So
cialism as a panacea for all the ills Of
all the world. In Russia the Bolsheviki
worked upon his vague yearnings and
nodded him as they would, and re-
turning Frenchmen had to tell how an
officer wearing the horizon blue had
gone over to Lenine and Trotzky. Later
came q dreadful-an almost unbeliev-
able-story according to which Sadoul
had even denounced some Of his own
countrymen to the Bolsheviki, with re-
suits which those who know the pres
ent government Of Moscow can imagine.
SadouL's Shame
For this treason jacques Cor Judas)
Sadoul was tried in his absence by a
court martial sitting in Paris, and was
condemned to death. Despite the SEN
,tence, his name was kept upon the So
cialist ticket, and it was to this fact
that Clemenceau referred when he
scornfully called his political oppo-
nents Bolsheviki, and taunted them
with Sadouls shame.
The Socialists of France saw red
and they were lost. Long live Sadoul!'
and "Long live the Russian Revolu-
tionl" we're their election cries, and II
the echoes reached the old man who
had waved in their faces the red rag
he must have smiled grimly. Had the
Socialists kept within bounds there is
no knowing what might have happened
at least in Paris, which is the great
working and Socialist center Of the
country. But the old leaders SCOTT
and contempt had maddened them
; Sadoul the Bolshevist, Sadoul the be
trayer Of his countrymen, Sadoul unde,
sentence Of death-they would hAvs
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Thrift in the Treasury
To the Editor Of the Tribune.

To the Editor Of the Tribune.
Sir: What, pray, do you think Of
this? Here Is a letter from the Gov
ernment Loan Organization Of the
Treasury Department appealing to the
recipient to take a pledge to
"Work sensibly
Save reasonably
Invest wisely
Buy carefully
Spend savingly,"
and much moro, with the accent upon
Thrift (always with capital letter).
The urgency Of this noble epistle Is
intensified by reminding the recipient
Of his first arrival here and Of the fact
that America represents to all who
come Opportunities for moro money,
better living conditions, chances for
advancement, education for the chill
dren," etc.
Why should such . lofty message as
this have come to the wrong door
But such was certainly the case. One
surely is not to blame If ones ances-
tors chose to "arrive" before there
was any money, before asphalt or
plumbing was known, while the only
chances for advancement were risky
explorations in the forest, and there
was, as yet, no educational system
There was not even a Treasury De-
partment to tell them to "Work sensi.
bly,, ETC."
This valuablestter was addressed
to person whose name Is pure Gaelic
but the envelope was marked Russian,
and there was much Russian literature
incl6sed.
Is this working "sensibly"? Is thi.
| Thrift?
MAC 1NTosH {uot Russian).
New York. Dec. 10, 1919.