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ordinary ten-cent loaf in this country
now. They gave each of us a piece
a little larger than a safety-match
box,
The bread was hard and dark, and
really think they made it from trees.
1t had just exactly the same smell
that the dirt around trees has.
We fled past the sentries single file
to get our ration of this mud, and
there was no chance Of getting in line
twice, for we had to keep on fling
until we were out in the road, and
stand there in the snow to eat it. We
could not go back in the barracks I'M
til every man had been served.
Our meals were like this: A can Of
barley coffee in the morning; cabbage
soup, so called. at noon: tenth of a
loaf of bread at 8 p. m. That was
our menu day in and day out, the
kaiser's birthday, Lincoln's, May day,
or any other time.
This cabbage soup was great idea.
We called it shadow soup, because the
boys claimed they made it by hanging
cabbage over barrel of water and
letting the shadow fall on the water.
We pretended, too, that if you found
any cabbage in it, you could take your
dish back for second helping. But
/ never saw anybody get more than
one dishful. All 1t was, was just
spoiled water.
We tried to go TO sleep that night,
but there were SO many sentries
around us-and those Of MS who were
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12

up by the Hylan administration.
judging by the two for which it is
responsible, it seems to be TOO much
to expect even information on the
8. bjcct of the budget
One great need now is greater
publicity, so that the changes made
in the budget will be apparent and
not hidden, as at present, in bulky
volume that discloses nothing by
way of comparison. The greater
the exposure of budget contents the
better budgets the public may en-
pect and the greater the difficulties
for political tricksters, who look
upon budget only as means Of
secret partisan reward.
The budget, even as now made, is
an improvement over the appropri-
alton method. Under present law
publicity is attainable through the
discretionary power Of the Board
of Estimate. But the people see
that boards Of estimate come and
go and that some are frank and
others covert. So it is we'll to
enact compulsory legislation. A bill
to that effect is to be introduced in
the next Legislature, backed by a
number of organizations.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
tions--hc carried out their spirit
only the more faithfully.

Brother Anderson, Of the Anti
Saloon League, heatedly denies that
he opposed Mr.. Haskell because "he
voted against prohibition in Con-
gress or favored Il referendum. "
Those offenses, it would seem, might
have been overlooked had he not
"dragged'-this is the word used
"the Anti-Saloon League into his
campaign" Mr.. Anderson, man Of
most atfluent modesty, does not say
the dragging in aforesaid involved
the state superintendent of the
league. But there is no reason why
others should be unjust to him. Let
the full truth shine. Be for or
against prohibition or a referendum,
but at your peril make faces at the
Arti-Saloon League or it's superin-
tendental cnbod iment
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
The Last Straw

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What is to become Of us, tina
is, those Of us who belong to what
known as the educated classes?
About the last straw in the advance
Of the cost of living is the extra tw,
cents per diem now demanded by the
milk distributors. Where are We t.
get that extra two cents?
Ny envelope. for have one weekly
does not nowadays contain .-m SUI
icienr to keep two Of r ccntly
aid yet the woman who oof. to o.
oay's work must have her c.rfare, prac-
tlcaill Two meals and from So 10 5
ior what she calls a days work.
She admits that she pays 81
cents Il pound and upward for butte
wren we have to make a substitu-.
90, and that her man" must nave h
bacon and eggs, not at the price We car
pay, but at the top notch. Those who
wish to go out for the half day" worI
do not want TO cook or wash.
Can you -uggest some way out @
It's situation or cannot some of youl
readers solve the question?
A Mem l..
New York. Nov 5, 1919.
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necessarily conditional and circum-
scribed. The President has repeat
cdly admitted that. Why all this
uproar against the majority's action
in calling the attention of our league
associates to an undisputed fact?
The Eveming Post, among the
newspapers which have steadily con-
fused the public, now comedies the
truth. Speaking of the majority
reservation, it declares: "The argu-
ment that the proposed reservation
is an indirect method Of killing
Article X will not hold in face of
the record" Who will be the next
to own up? The opposition to the
reservations for the greater part is
fraudulent and may be assumed to
be based on partisanship.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
House and Othef Wives
A Bachelor From England DcpIorcs
a Confusing Title
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / have read with amusement the
letters appearing in your peoples
column relative to the title of House
wife" Now. may I, an unmarried man,
express my opinions and ask for some
information?
First, can any one tell me just why
that unlovely name was ever wished
upon the American husbands wife :?
Who was the guilty party, knowing that
it is direct derivation from the German
"Hausfrau," while the old English and
Scotch name for the partner of our
joys and sorrows was "Gude wife," and
how much nicer. What a pretty COM
pliment to the wife! Now why, Ameri-
cans, did you drop the more pleasing
title of your own English-spcaking peo-
pie to adopt the German idea of q
drudge?
To me, All onlooker "housewife" al
ways suggests drudgery. In my minds
eye | imagine q steel ribbed, iron-clad
woman, with hair screwed into hard
knot, and with skirts we'll twisted around
her shanks, vigorously scrubbing the
mop boards or dusting the ceiling, with
scowling face over the washtub, always
serving an admirable meal, of course
but minus the CHEEKY, honey atmos-
phere that the less particular and even
dlsorderIy little fluff distributes about
her.
Another argument, Americans. Why
has it never occurred TO you that the
name "housewfe" has n plural sound =?
For example, we say a "traveling sales
man" to designate him from other sales
men. And "housewife' implies that
there may be a wife out of the house
such as an automobile wife, or a sea-
faring wife, or theater wife. Where we
used to say "the working girl goes to
work." now we say 1.-The business woman
goes to business" and justly so. Why
should they not use the more dgnifed
mode OF expression about their daily
life? b. l.. LANGTRY.
BROOKLYN Nov s. 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
Better Budget Methods

AT the first of q series of meet
ings at the City Club DR.. Charles A.
Beard, director of the Bureau of
Municipal Research, and Leonard M.
Wallsteln, counsel to the Citizens
Union, criticized the methods of pre-
pairing and publishing the city bud
get. DIR. Beard said it was not
a budget at all, but merely an act of
appropriation. He urged budget
\ that would show not only the en-
vpected revenues and expenditures,
but capital outlay. The suggestion
IS excellent, bu. the city has not yet
attained the modest aim of. real
current expense budget. The last
Legislature refused TO remedy OBJ
vious defects, and it is not certain
the Legislature of 1920 will treat
the city with greater kindness.
The purpose of budget is to
check extravaganza and keep officials
within q charted course. Where
there is a will to extravaganza the
budget is not in the way Nobody
expects miracles from a budget sys-
tenn. Etdeed, as budgets arc made
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
The "Dry'' Side

10 the Editor OF tno Tribune
Sir: The Anu-saloon League does
not mind being whipped in order to
accomplish something more Important
IN the future, but it does object to
being misrepresentcd as to the occa-
sion of the controversy. In view Of
repeated misrepresentation and con-
sequent general misapprehension of
'he real facts, | respectfully request
the publication of this letter to ret the
record straight
1T is not true that the Anti-Saloon
League opposed Mr. Haskell because he
voted against prohibition in Congress-
or because he favored a referendum
1t did not oppose him at all until he
dragged not only the prohibition issue
put the Anti-Salo loon League into his
campaign. The league then had tho
choice OF remaining silent and having
Nr Haskell and his "wet" backecs
continue the claim that the league had
secretly opposed him and that hrs prob
able nomination and election were a
reputation of prohibition, and get
nothing out of it in the way OF COM
pensation for the cause. or else Of &C
cepting the challenge and using the
Haskell incident to arouse BROOKLYN
On law enforcement We chose the
latter, and in two months have done
more to wake Up Brooklyn on the pro
h'bition issue than mad been done in
twenty years. And we made the "wet,f
pay Tor it.
The statement that Mr.. Haskell de
feated the Anti-Saloon League by
10000 is absurd. Mr. Haskell had a
plurality of about 10000 over both
Democrats. but as one of them was as
wet" as he, and as the "wet" Dem
ocrat and the one supported by the
prohibition forces received about the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
The Message of Peace

1t IS confused and tangled world
we live in year after the day when
the Great War came to an end. 1t is
good to bark back to that clear hour
when, for all the din and terror.
issues were simpler and the path for
all brave and honorable men lay
straight as bullets flight. Not
for it's gift Of peace but for it's men,
ories Of the great days then ended
Armlstice Day yielded a solemn and
abiding message.
The Great War has ended, but the
Lesser Wars have begun-rather,
have never ceased. And to the clear,
simple issues Of the war have sue
ceeded the beclouded and puzzling
problems of what we conventionally
call peace. We have learned some
thing in this year of the armistice.
But surely it is not that peace in
evitably brings repose and comfort
and happiness and progress in it's
train.
We are beginning, in fact, to re-
alIze that war and peace are not
terms In utter opposition, like black
and white. There can be war, war
OF the deadliest, most destructive
character, in time Of peace. There
can be serene and lofty islands of
happiness and even vast and swift
progress in time of war. Neither
word holds an answer for human
aspirations. Only what we do in
war, our motives, our courage, our
goal, counts. Only what we do in
peace, our works of justice and wis
dom and fairness, counts.
Armistice Day should mean to us
not an easy and conventional hur
rah for peace If it is to aid in our
lives the least, we must recall in it
the great virtues of war, Of those
who fought and bled and died. and
seek with every endeavor to keen
alive in our labors Of peace their
clear and shining spirit. Only so
can we carry forward their work and
profit by their example.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
We Also Have Oar Troubles

oF'om f's fhiioddp'ia Press
If We could get ria Of oar strikes
and the league Of nations business wa.
disposed of, and the next presidentia
election was out of the way. and tn,
high cost of living wasn't SO everlast
ingly high, and everything was as safe
as it ought to be for democracy every
where, perhaps We might ind time to
take over the burdens and tribulations
OF few European and Asiatic peoples
1t would be nice of Us if We did, bu
just now we seem to be quite 6ps.
around home.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
Looking Backward
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Several days ago you printed q
statement from Mr.. Gompers charg-
ing that the torelgn-ianguage press
had long endeavored to prejudice the
cause Of organized labor. Such news
papers," he declared, "are suborned
and subsidized by the financial inter
ests. and especially by the United
States Steel Corporation"
In Bellamy's Looking Backward,
supposed TO be a record of conditions
in the year 1000, he says that histor,
proved that the radical clements were
financed by the moneyed interests, be.
cause they could do more than any
one else to harm labor. This is rather
interesting in view Of the fact that
Bellamy's book was written over thirty
years ago, yet was never Of such vital
interest as it is at this moment.
f. r. WALL.
New York, Nov. G, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
A Belated Rainbow

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: WONDERFUL wondcrful.. news.
One can hardly believe his eyes in read
ing the headlines in to-day's papers.
~. S. to Deport 200 Agitators" runs
one. Federal Judge Orders Withdrawal
Strike Order of 100000 Miners" says
another. cole Hanson Attacks Com.
pers-Says American Federation of La
bor Is Being Turned Over to the Reds;
L, s. Senate committee investigating
steel strike calls it "Industrial Barbar-
ISM"
After months of strikes throughout
our beautiful country, after untold loss
of money and great suffering, after
waiting with the patience of job hoping.
begging and praying for action and re-
lef, we see ray of sunshine here and
there. For all true Americans these
rays of sunshine, let us hope, are true
hdlngs OF great Joy and a rainbow Of
great promise. Let us trust, now that
we have started, that no red tape, no
techncalities. no politics will stand in
the way of swift deportation Of this
gang of ungratefuls, but that they will
be moved on the fastest and largest
boat we can find to their favoritc climcs.
If they really have any. J. A. G..
New York, Nov. 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12

same vote, where is the reputation OF
prohlbltion! Mr.. Haskell's victory j.
the extent of his lead over the hiphes.
candidate of his own party. who Was slo-
ported by the "drys." This is 10 0oo ir
round lgures. Granting. fov the sakc 81
argument. that it WAS 4 Reputation
both OF prohibition and the Anti-Saloo,.
League. that margin Of less than ! ne,
cent OF the total vote is the best show
ing ever made by The 'drys" in any
large city IN America in the first line
up OF test OF strength. as the cities
nave been not only conceded to be
wet but strongly wet"
one year ago Brooklyn gave a laro
plurality than this for wet Coz
efhor' and we were told that prohibi-
ton rad been repudiated and was dead
But ratification went through az i Re-
puhNcan party measure, and the Repub-
means, with the open, blanket indorse-
ment q I've Anti-Saloon League. which
IT has been said, is fatal, were not ONLY.
not repudiated but gained some fifteen
members Of the Assembly, thus givinq
an indirect referendum on ratification
and proving that the Republican Leg
lslature represented the people of New
York in putting through ratification as
party measure
WILLIAM II. ANDERSON.
State Superintendent Anti Saloon
League of New York.
New York, Nov. I, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
A Breach of Etiquette

An International labor conference
called under the provisions of the
Versailles treaty, although that
treaty has not yet gone into effect,
is sitting in Washington. The United
States is not represented in it Off
cially. In technical sense, at least,
it is an alien body meeting at our
capital.
Many of the members of the con-
ference were present at a dinner
on Monday night at which Mr..
Gompers attacked the Administra-
ton for enforcing the law against
the officers of the coal miners
unions. Some of the foreign visitors
publicly expressed sympathy with
Mr.. Gompers's views. According to
dispatches from Washington, "dele-
gates attending the dinner, at the
suggestion of Louis M. Morrones,
Mexican representative, pledged
their support to the United Mine
Workers in the present strike
The indiscretion is obvious. The
coal strike was a domestic matter
1t raised questions not appropriate
for discussion by members Of an in
ternational conference. AS quasi
guests Of the government, comment
or action by conference members
disapproving the governments policy
was, to say the least, in glaringly
bad taste.
The procedure of the delegates
who pledged support to an unlawful
strike on the point of being aban-
doned by its promoters ought to be
promptly disavowed by the confer
ence. Comfy demands such re-
traction. And this injudicious in
truson into a purely domestic affair
must raise unpleasant suspicious of
what is to be expected of the inter
national labor annex to the league
Of nations unless its functions are
limited by reservations.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
Muddled by a Metaphor

" nat is the point IN the violent
attacks made in the Senate on the
majority reservation to Article X?
Why should Mr. Hitchcock and his
followers, who themselves voted on
Monday for the original McCumber
reservation, denounce the majority
reservation as destructive" and as
"a knife thrust" at the covenant?
The McCumber reservation puts
exactly the same limitation on the
employment Of the forces of the
United States as the majority reser-
vation does. Those forces cannot be
used unless, in each specific case,
Congress authorizes their use. That
Is a restriction embodied in the
Federal Constitution. Everybody
knows that it exists. The President
has admitted that the Executive is
not compelled to transmit league
recommendations to Congress and
that Congress is not under al.y obi
CATION, moral or legal, to act in ac-
cOrdance with them.
What, then, is the argument in the
Senate all about? 1t has been mud
died by a metaphor. At Salt Lake
City Il few days before his COLLAPSE
the President read into his speech
what is now practically the majority
reservation to Article X. He made
the comment, on the spur of the mo-
ment, that such reservation would
"cut out the heart of the covenant" j"
If he had recalled his admissions to
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee at the conference of August
10 last he would never have used SO
misleading and injudicious figure
of speech. He has never yet ex-
planned (and his followers cannot
explain) how the majority reser-
walton invalidates any covenant obi
cations which the United States
should have been expected to assume
Our government is barred from
making promises to use it's military
and naval forces to enforce Article
X, except on specific authorization
from Congress. If it can make such
promises, then the covenant has
superseded our Constitution. Pos
sibly some Of the other members of
the league may believe that the
United States will tacitly amend the
Constitution when it subscribes to
It's covenant. If such false hopes
exist it would be uncandid on our
part to encourage them by refrain
ing from giving the notice contained
alike in the McCumber reservation
and in the majority reservation.
Our adherence to, Article X is
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12
Count Cze Minis Testimony

The recollections of Count Ger
min, the late ro-Hungarlan For
eign Minister, now issued at Vienna
in book form under the title "ln the
World War; confirm the worlds be-
lief of where lodges the responsible
ity for the war. Germany's govern
ment was the guilty one.
The recently published Austrian
Red Book disclosed desperate at
tempt of the present German-Aus-
trian government to exonerate Ger
many by concentrating all RESPONSE
bility on the defunct Austro-Hu
garian regime. The Kaiser and the
generals and statesmen of the Pots
dam clique were pictured as mere
tools in the hands Of the Austrian
Foreign Minister, Berchtold This
is so at variance with evidence so
far established that there WAS no
danger Of its being accepted.
But Czernin's 5 testimony further sus-
tains the view generally prevalent
that the roles were just the reverse
that it was the German militarist
clique which willed the war in the
first place, and that Austro-H Hun
garian craftsmanship, although it
self by no means averse, was partly
humored, partly bulied into the
fatal step against Serbia.
Czernin names Herr Won Tschir-
schky, at the time German Ambas-
sador to Vienna, as among "the few
statesmen VINO in the summer of
1914 hoped for war" He says;
"There can be no doubt whatever
that the keynote Of all Herr Won
Tschirschky's private utterances at
this time was now or never And
it is certain that the German AM
bassador declared his own opinion
that at the moment Germany was
prepared to support our point Of
view with all her moral and military
power, but that it appeared to him
doubtful whether this would con-
tinue to be the case if we pocketed
the Serbian rebuff
Czernin expresses his personal be-
lief that in his vehement attempts to
wake up" Austria Tschirschky re-
peatedly exceeded his instructions,
and quotes the Magyar Premier,
Count Tisza, in support. That may
be so and may not, but it should be
pointed out here that this "now or
never attitude charged by Czernin
to Tschirschky's private account
was, according to the testimony of
the Austrian Red Book itself, in ac-
cord with the official standpoint of
the German government, summed up
in the report of the Austrian AM
bassador, Count Szogyeby, as fol-
lows: "Should Vienna recognize the
absolute necessity of military action
against Serbia it would be deplor
able if Austria Hungary would fail
to utilize the present moment, so
favorable in itself"
Altogether we may agree with
Count Czernin's qualifying remark
that "an ambassadors private opin
ion is, in certain circumstances, not
easy to dissociate from his official
view" Herr Won Tschirschky, in
urging Austria into war, may have
exceeded" the letter of his instruc-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-12

Victor Berger was not only con-
victed Of violating the espionage act
but has refused to repudiate the
utterances for which he was con-
victed-says that under the same
circumstances he would make them
again. So the House had no choice
but to refuse to seat him. Men who
hatA our institutions and govern
ment may not be trusted to become
their guardians. Here would be an
absurdity akin to naming cat to
look after the welfare of mice.