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New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Egean outlet. Since the Bulgars have
several ports on the Black Sea, they could
not be cut off from the Mediterranean bv
an award of all the Thracian territory to
Greece. The American delegation held
out, however, for concessions to Bulgaria,
and Paris dispatches now say that Presi-
dent Wilson insists on the allotment of
Eastern Thrace and almost all Western
Thrace to the internationalized state
which it is expected to erect with Con-
stantinople as its focus and capital.
This suggestion has amazed and an
gered the Greeks 1t has also annoyed the
powers which carried the war against
Bulgaria to successful conclusion. They
desire to compensate Greece with all of
Thrace for the waiver of some of her
other claims with regard to Albania and
Turkey. The peace conference has there
fore been forced to leave out Of the Bull
garian treaty its most important feature
the Thracian rcadjustment. This is
to be left to the future A solution be-
ing dependent on the conditions imposed
Eastern problem will be left open for
weeks or months.
Americas concern in this region would
not seem substantial enough to Justify
opposition by our delegates to the de-
clsions of the powers actually engaged in
war with Germany's southern allies.
There is only a remote probability that
the American people will consent to ac-
cept mandate for the Constantnople
region. Interest in such adventures has
died away. Why, then, continue to excite
anlmosities against US by mixing aca-
demicaly in the details of the Bulgarian
and Turkish treaties? Why create expec-
tations of American participation in the
mandatory administration of Near East
ern territory if such expectations are
never to be fulfilled? Why, concerning a
doubtful matter, should we elect TO favor
Bulgaria at the expense of Greece?
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
An Investment in Sailors

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Every officer and enlisted man in the
United States army and navy must realize
now, as never before, that without an efficient
navy both ships and personnel, our country
would not be safe in time of war. The fact
that we were all aware Of this never WIS
brough. to vivid realization as in tho
pas. war, and for this reason am appealing
to every man who enlisted in the army and
navy to support the movement on foot to
provide a permanent club in New York Citv
for enlisted men of the navy, which move
nent has received the sanction of the Navv
Department.
Previous to the war a man wearing the
United States navy uniform had verv few
places where he was welcome, and most Of
the self-respecting men discarded the uniform
and wore civilians to enjoy the ordinary
pleasures of a leave on shore. As thew
were never in any port for any lenrth of
time they had no opportunity to form perma-
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
The Bulgarian Muddle.

American participation in the Bull
garian treaty now threatens to defer in
definitely a settlement with Bulgaria.
and thus further to postpone peace.
Great Britain, France, Italy and
Greece, which waged the war against
Bulgaria and to which Bulgaria sur
rendered, had virtually arrived at an
agreement. giving Eastern and Western
Thrace to Greece, when Mr.. Polk inter-
rened. He proposed to allow Bulgaria ac-
:ess to the Hgean Sea, either by award
ing her corridor to Dedeagatch, or by
creating small internationalized state,
including the present Dedeagatch rail-
road and harbor, which would guarantee
Bulgaria the economic benefits of an
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Baby Carriages, Etc.,
Wanted

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
ClR: Some time ago l appealed through
your paper for clothes for Bellevue
children, who needed to be sent to the
country for convaescent care; the response
was immediate, and so no child was held
back. We have among our many problems
two needs which might be met through the
same publicity. and | hope you will extend
it to us, for the hearts of humanity are ever
responsive when shown where hepfulness
can be of specific service.
The high cost of living has made it i'm
possible for many mothers to get baby car
riages and to the poor mother they are an
incaculable boon, while to the poor child
needing air and place to sleep outdoors
it means health and almost life itself
To cite case, we lately supplied car
riage to the mother of five little ones. She
was suffering with kidney trouble, which
caused constant backache, yet had to carry
her heavy six-months-old baby everywhere
She went, and into the fresh air for needed
change from the crowded home conditions
Frail mothers have strength left from
their household labor for even so loving a
burden. Many mothers would gladly pass
on outgrown carriages for those less fortu-
nate babies.
We have also women of all ages who need
clothes after stay IN the hospital in order
to appear we'll in procuring work, and the
Influence of neat clothes for new start
in life is very decidedly good in aiding toward
reestablshng Of self-respect in large class
of our women patients.
MARY F. WADLEY,
Executive Secretary
Social Service Bureau, Bellevue and
Allied Hospitals.
New York, Aug. %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Getting back to the army, it IS these
vaulting costs OF living that a second lieu
tenant on $5.72 day, or a first lieutenant
on $6.97, has to pay, while the same army
that gives him his title pays q hod carrier
$3.50 for eight hours or stevedore ss.7s
for day.
The navy is in much the same case with
the army. 1t has had no increase Of Off
GERS base pay since 1903 and hundreds OF
officers want to leave it at the first oppor-
tunity, and Admiral Cowie is proposing 50
per cent increase for enlisted men and rs
per cent for officers in both army and navy.
Speaking of enlisted men, the worst SUI
ferers Of all from demotion are the regular
army non-coms, who were made provisional
commissioned officers and will now go back
to the ranks. Men who have risen during
the war to the temporary rank and pay OF
ileutenants, captains and majors are now to-
go back to where they were before the war.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

that as much as possible should be paid
in supplies, First, because their pro-
duction will keep large proportion of
labor, and that not of the worst type,
in Germany, which otherwise would be
compelled to join the ranks of emf
grants second, because, owing to the
unfavorable rate of exchange and the
difficulty in supervising and testing
foreign products, domestic labor will be
cheaper than supplies bought abroad
and charged against our account"
The obligation imposed by the peace
treaty upon Germany to rebuild the
devastated area is, DR.. Lesser argues,
in sense beneficial to German interest:
it provides an inducement for German
industry, an artificial stimulus so badly
needed in these times of general leth-
argy. He praises the clause Of the
peace treaty which accords Germany
the alternative Of either rebuilding COM
pletely certain districts with her own
efforts and out of her own resources,
or else to restore damage in certain
a safety valve which can be used by us
for the release Of considerable PRESSURE"
he says. "On the part we are to play
in the work of reconstruction depends
the regeneration of a paralyzed will and,
to considerable extent, the solution of
our labor problem"
The German expert says the sooner
Germany starts on the job the better,
gestions. Expert commissions should
be dispatched as soon as possible to
the destroyed districts to survey the
terrain and report on the needs and
requirements. Prize contests should be
arranged by the government for plans
to reconstruct single localities, also for
general organization and transportation
schemes. The question whether air
planes can be utilized for carrying sup
plies to the areas under reconstruction
should be investigated. Supply bases.
both on German and on French ana
Belgian territory, should be mapped out.
Last but not least, the labor problem
ought to be considered from all angles,
including the question of expert tech
nical help.
This is no mean programme, and it is
rather an encouraging sign that a sec
ton at least of the German public is
turning its concern to these questions.
BY speeding up action in the field Of
French and Belgian rebuilding the pres
ent German government could do much
to establish it's standing before world
opinion.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
The Flalf-E{iicgcen Budget

The effort of the patrolmen and the
fremen to secure calary increases in the
1920 budget, now in preparation, besides
bringing meritcd additional pay, may
help to focus attention to the way budget
information is withheld from the public.
The Hylan administration last year, in
it's first experience with making up a
budget, made what proved to be only q
surly pretence of taking the public into
its confidence.
The policemen and frcmen have
grievance the public recognizes as just,
and the two departments are not with
out political power TO command atten-
ton. But in matters Of great impor-
tancc, as to which general interest is
lacking, past experience has shown an
aversion on the part of city adminlstra-
tions to let the public sit in at the early
budget conferences. When eight officials
Of the city, elected by the people. sat
around an oval mahogany table in the
Controllers office last year and shut out
the public while the distribution of
$248,o00,000 Of the peoples money was
discussed there was an a1lront to those
whose money was spent.
Much of the budget information pub
lished by the city is meaningless and
worthless to the public. The tentative
budget, which is the first stage after the
preliminaries, is a tabulated series of
items and amounts, and so is the pro-
posed budget, which comes next; and, in
deed, the budget as finally adopted is
little different. Nobody can detect what
has been added or subtracted without
detailed comparison, item for item, line
for line. Some devoted slave of civic
betterment might, indeed, actually COM
pile information from the puzzle books,
but before his work was finished the
budget would be adopted.
The solution is to make the items in
each volume comparative with preceding
conditions, in cumulative fashion, so that
marshalled columns will reveal at once
and in detail wherein the latest budget
stage differs, if at all, from earlier ones.
bill embodying this idea was submitted
to the last Legislature. Controller Craig
opposed it, and it died in committee.
Concerning the later forms of the
budget, a well intentioned LEGISLATURE
provided there must be public hearings,
but these have proved of small value.
The public is asked to discuss problems,
policies, items and amounts concerning
which to a great extent it has been kept
IN ignorance The publicity thus becomes
mockery. Should the officials persist
IN secrecy they may find that the
Legislature will prescribe in alarming
detail compulsory code for enforcng
publicity.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Music and Alcohol


speaker at musical gathering in Pitts
purgh, quoted "Musical America - annonncoa
ms tear that prohibition would increase +ho
demand for light and frivolous music "Do-
pflVcd OF alcoholic beverages" he said. "in-
'o%icatlon by music will be sought bv those
whose emotional vibrations attune tbom n
such stlmulant." The result. he concIndos
Will be much musical coYnnosi+;or 20
lHebratlng' and other undesirable char
acter.
Inc inference that the age of booze was
not productive of the kind of musical com
position ne deprecates viii hardlv s,ora
"hat produced Jazz, we wonder? We won,+
undertake TO say, but it doesn't sound av
actly like W c. r. U. convention ~ Nc
What sort of emotional vibrations wero A..
musical revues of the last twenty wears
written to catch? But we don,4 ,ooa :.
cohllhed to the moderns. What of that
Venice that would always leave off ta)k;no,
to near Galuppi play? Didn't Brownine sav
ne was equally good at grave and eava W.
Judge that those balls and masonos h,r,;,l-
ever to midday, when they made nm fros6
adventures Tor the morrow were NOT danced
10 measures entirely wanting in emot;ora,
attunements, even though Venice d;d ,o+
lack the stimulant we are now do,r;,os -
On the whole-bah, Music viii oo,,.;..9.
~ pe Eooo ana bad as 1T always has been
irrespective OF the habits of the age. IF M,
age OF alcohol produced "Salome" so did =
a Messlah.' The age of restraint probably
VIII not do worse or better
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

The equipment for members Of the Pres-
dential encourage, according to Mr.. David
Lawrence, is so collars and 80 shirts. The
Q. NJ. of the party evidently figured without
thinking of Pittsburgh and Chicago, where
an hour is bogey for collar and whero
cleanliness is next to impossible.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

This is the costofliving 5 5
This is the retailer
Who raises the costofliving.
This is the wholesaler
Who soaks the retailer
Who raises the cOstofliving.
This is the packer
Who sticks the wholesaler
Who soaks the retailer
Who raises the costofliving.
This is the stockman
Who rocks the packer
Who soaks the retailer
Who raises the costofliving.
This is the farmer
Who stings the stockman
Who rocks the packer
Who sticks the wholesaler
Who s0aks the retailer
Who raises the costofliving.
This Is the upon the farm,
Whose cost the farmer views with alarm,
So he stings the stockman
Who rocks the packer
Who sticks the wholesaler
Who soaks the retailer
Who raises the costofliving.
This IS tho with the crumpied horn.
That be fed on the farmers Corn-
The corn tho farmer grows on the farm,
The corn whose cost he views with alarm;
SO he stngs the stockman
Who rocks the packer
Who sticks tho wholesaler
Who soaks the retailer
Who raises the costoflivng.
This the all forlon
Who pays for the with tho crumpcd horn--
The that feeds the farmers
That fine the farmers FARM
The whose cost he views with alarm
So he stings stoctman
Who rocks tho packer
Who sticks the wholesaler
Who soaks the retailer
Who raises the costofyng
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

According to the terms of the agree
ment reached between the Public Ser
vice Commission and the New York Tele-
phone Company, rates are to be reduced
per cent, with the further concession
that 5 cents shall hereafter be the fiat
call rate throughout the city. Congratu
lations, it would seem, may be triply ex-
tended--to the public, to the company
and to our neighbor The Woyld-tbe
first on lossening of living costs, the
second on having profits to share with
the public and the third for acceleratino
publicity
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

which are not in keeping with the sort Of
life find ourselves living to-day, either
by choice or by compuson. With our in
herited habits of housewifery, our liking
for beautiful things. such as fine linen and
sparkling glasses and silver polished to n
reflection, are, possibly, the victims of
our possessions and must rid ourselves of
costly old things that require much care
and constant attention.; of costly habits of
personal comfort, such meals served to
us, piping hot and to the minute, in our
own dining rooms, and of costly tastes as,
for instance, for privacy.
Our mothers, and especially their mothers
before them lived contentedly in their
homes and their maidservants abided with
them till death or marriage did them part
because they were not troubled with demo-
cratic ideals that forbade the hiring of
human being to do personal service nor
with notions of economic independence or
of eight-hour days extra pay for
time
But these newfangled notions which
seem to be spreading throughout the land,
w'i]y-nllly, arc threatening the old-time in
dlviduaistic home with its nurtured idio-
syncrasies of appetite and the unassalable
sacredness of its private four walls and
offering, in its stead, Utopian schemes for
comm unity kitchens, day nurseries for
everybody's children and household assist
ants who give a fair hours work for fair
wage and demand neither meals nor lodg-
ing.
We find ourselves, therefore, in the tran
siton stage between the home of old with
their personal service, their individual
character and the home of tomorrow,
which, judging by the shadow it casts be-
fore, will be filled to the door hinges with
the community spirit The transition stage
is always a painful one and requires hard
thinking and brave experimenting of those
who would get out of it. The educated
woman of to-day is, think, trying to get
out of it, for she hates muddle, and what
IS more, she wants to know for what sort
of world she is bringing up her daughter
For it IS obvious that in servantless
world, flied with labor compelling houses.
it would be quite impossible for any woman
to have both a career and family, and so,
unless we devise world with better living
conditions, we are simply driving the next
generation or girls to a most hedrtrendin0
choice.
When sufficient mechanical devices are
within the purchasing power Of the average
family to take care Of the daily pursuit Of
dirt and the need of the body to be fed and
houses are built with maximum of beauti-
full simplicity and a minimum Of useless
appurtenances, then womans natural hom-
ing instincts can have full play once more.
But meanwhile the independent young
woman who has had education and is living
a carefree bachelor life will weigh the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of matrimony
very carefully and will not risk the loss Of
all her immediate enjoyments for the gain
of home which viii only rob her Of her
hardfought freedom.
If our "contempt of household tasks" of
which your correspondent accuses US. drives
US to find good and honorable way to
simplify or avoid them, then, l say, it is
healthy contempt.
EVA VOM BAUR HANSL.
Princeton, N. j., Aug. 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

The President says that it is time for the
treaty critics to put up or shut up. But he
quotes when he says it; and he apollo
gizes for its usage with "If | may be par
doned homely expression" If the Pres-
dent could use-or, better, invent-a homely
expression without apology condecension,
his would be a tremendous popularity. But
if he could do that he would not be-and
we defy successful contradicton-Wood
Wilson.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
The Persistent Dead
From The Bo,tir,o,s N

FFom The Baltimore Nescs)
he army. the War Department announces
viii be back TO peace strength by September
3o and the body of John Barleycorn. which
lies mold'ring in the grave, stirs uneas;lv
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Again the newspaper accounts fail. The
President, story from Richmond, Ind, says
went into the club car and chatted with the
newspaper correspondents telling "many
stories Of humorous incidents connected with
previous speaking tours and with the Paris
peace negotiations" What was one of those
stories?
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

1t is just like that when the newspapers
tell Of somebody who expired laughing at
Joke. All the details printed, except, as
we have observed frequently, the provoca-
tive whceze
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
GUARANTEE

fsu purchase merchandise advertised In TFE
yhi6uNE With sbsciuto safet-for II dlssafactcn r.
tuits In the TRIBUNE guarantees to nay yeur
msney back request. No red tape No aulne''nS.
We make good promptly II tho advertiser toes not
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Mixed Doubles: First Round

ITrom the Washington Post1
YOUNG MAN wants roommate. $40 per month
Apply 311 East Capitol st
YOUNG LADY wants roommate; $40 per month
Apply 81 East Capitol st.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Football tickets are to cost $3.50 this
autumn, and all Of us who are beeting about
the C. of |. will pay it. Also we shall read,
the morning of the game, how one man paid
$50 for a pair of what the reporters refer
TO as the Coveted Pastcboards
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
nEMBrn OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated rress exclusively entitled to ths ss
Ter republication OF AL dispatches credited TO II Of
tot otherwise credited In this and also the local
eews Of spon taneous origin published herein
are Also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
You Write the Head

From the Newark Newsl
l. the undersigned. will not be responsible for
any debts contracted by my wife. Agues Love.
less (Sgned) c. LOVELESS.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

And OH for the Touch of Vanished Hand
Strike Strike! Strike!
Maybe you're right, Equitee
But the salary Ia got if you had not
Will never come back to me-!
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Speaking of jesting at scars. follows
sonnet by Marion Couthouy Smith. from
The Final STAR:
Even he, the master of the songs of life
May speak times with less than .ertain
sound
He lests at that never felt wound"
So runs his word. Yet on the verge of st,;f.
lhey Jest not who have known the knife.
lhey trembe who in the waiting ranks are
found
While those SCARED deep on mauy battls-
Sing to the throbblng of the drum and fife.
Th"y laugh who know the open, fearless breast
The thrust the steel-point. and the spreadinu
STAN.
Whose flesh is hardened TO the soaring +as+
whose souls are tempered to a high dsdain
Theirs is the lifted brow, the gallant lest.
The long, last breath, that holds a victor
strain.
Butter, Cheese, Eggs Are Next in Price
Drops-Evening Mail headline.
AS Calverley might have said:
Inc prices now are beginning to fall
fbutter and eggs and pound Of chse,.)
A7 to that town that rose phen;x-l;ke
etc.
The Ash-Handers' Union must havs for-
gotten 70 strike.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

This is the second time Johnston has won
the championship. He won it in 1916. too
James =. Sinnott, in the Evening Mail
That is, he would have won it if Dick
Williams hadn't beaten him in the final.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Owned and published daily by New York Tribune Inc.
vN ne" dosk Corporatio. Ogden Reid President; ..
eInoe Noeers Vice President Helen Rogers Reid Secrs-
nu; +. A suer. Treasurer Address Tribune Building.
iss Nassau Street New York Telephone Bcekman 5000
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
The Coming Tower
THE COsTOFLIVINC

Repapered from this PlInth OF Pffle Of eight
years ago
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

Inc Ash-Handers' Union must have for
gotten TO strike
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06

A' to that town that rose phenix-like
etc.