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Henry P. Dawson S Work

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The wartime organizat on Of th'
American Red Cross went out of existenc'
on March /, and the personnel for peac
takes its place. May be permitted to giV'
expression TO the sense of great obligs
tion under which the Red Cross rests u
its wartime workers, from the lowest Il
the highest, but particularly to its masts
spirit, Henry P. Dawson, chairman Of it!
retiring war council?
When some one sneeringly asked, or
hearing that Mr.. Dawson, a partner in
Morgan e. Co., had been made chairman Of
the Red Cross War Council by President
Wilson, what does the Morgan firm get
out of 90 Mr.. Dawson replied: "The Nor
gan firm gets out of it with S1O0O,O@
subscription TO the Red Cross"
AS humble worker in a minor bureau
of the Red Cross during the war | ws'
privileged to study and to learn the vslu'
of the application Of American business
methods to a great social enterprise. It Is
due to Mr.. Dawson to say that his method'
were everywhere adequate to carry throug'
whatever project he undertook.
RED CROSS WORKER
New York, March 6, 1919.
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The Biblical Method
W York, March 6, 1919.
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The editorial Better Than the Cove
nant' pleased me very much. The Presidsn'
seems to be under the misapprehension t'a'
all who do not approve of the present dFs''
of the constitution for the league o. hS'
tons are opposed to a league OF nations
any form. That is not so at all, but tnh'
very few people approve the form propose
Some time since the President suggesp'
that nations should settle their quarres d
the same manner as individuals. Very We"
Here is Christ's own plan:
"If thy brother shall trespass agsll',,
thee, go tell him his fault between thee S''
him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou nS''
gained thy brother. But if he will not hs''
thee, then take with thee one or two NOR
that in the mouth of two or more witness
every word may be established. And =
shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto "
church; but if he neglect to hear ~
church, let him be unto thee as an hes''''
and a publican"
REV. C VANOOSTENBRUG1h
Ulster Park, N. Y, March 7, 1919
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The Lure Of the Trust

You hear more talk from these leaders
about "social ownership and democratic
management" And you find rank and file
workingmen who never knew what socialism
was all about or who ran away from it when
they found the politician installed as the in
dustrial manager, but who now listen with
interest and some approval to declarations
that the trade unions could should man
age industry.
Let the nation own the trusts"-the sim
plest statement of the old socialism-never
touched their emotions or their intelects
Gown the trusts yourselves" is a vastly
different proposition. 1t has an attraction
about it that has got to be seriously reck-
oned with
The Seattle general strike was failure
as a revolution and failure as a sympa-
thetic demonstration to force victory for
the shipyard workers. But for those who
wish labor to think in the way of the new
socialism" its Importance and its power are
not to be lightly questioned.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10
The Workers. Plan

The following quotations come from two
leading articles into which were sandwiched
statements that there would be no violence
during the process of appropriation and
that any drenching of Seattles streets with
blood would be cup to the employers,"
Seattle faces the most tremendous and
vital changes that have ever taken place
IN the history of the American working
class. For here in Seattle peacefully and
without violence, may transpire the revo-
lutionary change in the management of in
dustry from the present exploiters to the
workers. The workers are not
going to stand by and see the industries
of Seattle non-productive because it is
the whim of the American capitalist class
to crush out unionism. The class con-
scious workers of Seattle insist on a posi-
tive policy: the management of industry
by the workers with the complete elimina-
ton of the boss.
Unemployment stalks through the
land. What is the solution? Sure
ly not the closing down of the shipyards
for a protracted period. The shipyards
must be reopened; the strikers are the
only ones to do it. Then let's do it. The
employers may object That is of no ac-
count.
= "Since the employers refuse to run in
dustry in way that provides for the
greatest good for the greatest numbers,
we, the workers, must. And we can"
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Mr.. Wheeler's 8 Solicitude

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: II Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun-
sci of the Anti-Saloon League of America,
considers it secession for New York State to
put It's own construction upon the prohi-
plt'on amendment, why hasn't he been as
distressed about the secession" of the
Southern states, which for years have very
sensibly nullihed by construction the Fiji
teenth Amendment, particularly when the
Fifteenth Amendment wac the result Of
four years civil war instead of doubtful
Legislative hysteria!
GERALD MYGATT.
New York, March 5. 1919.
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The German Fleet

President Wilson's letter to Repre-
sentative Alvin T. Fuller is encouraging
and indicates that the United States
delegation at Paris will stand out against
the asinine plan to sink the captured
German fleet
Collecting the captured German war
ships in mid-ocean, drawing a circle of
doom around them, reading their death
sentence and then plunging them into
the depths would furnish highly dra-
matic-not to say Northumberland
tace 1t would be meat for the movies.
1t would have something Of the pomp
and solemnity of an AUTO da fe.
But in these days the auto da fe is out
of date. Why destroy anything of value
merely for the sake of destroying it?
The German navy represents an invest
ment of hundreds of millions of dollars.
That investment has shrunk. But GER
tain marketable value remains. Even as
junk the German feet is an asset which
can be applied to the payment of Ger
many's debts to the Allies
Moreover, it is idle to say that the
German vessels are worthless except as
junk. After the Spanish War the United
States took over a number of small
cruisers belonging to the enemy's Philip
pine fleet. 1t raised a larger cruiser
from the bottom of Santiago Harbor and
refitted it as a guardship or receiving
ship. Many of the German war vessels
are relatively new. They can be used in
any navy for various legitimate pur-
poses. Some of them are much superior
to the vessels which the minor nations
keep in active service
If Great Britain and the United States
don't want the German battleships, bat
tle-cruisers and cruisers France might
be willing to take them in partial salts
faction Of her claims against Germany.
So might Italy or Portugal or Greece or
Brazil. Some of the neutral nations
Holland, Spain, Chile and the Argentine
might be glad to pay cash for them.
To sink them would imply singular
poverty Of business talent on the part of
the peace conference. AS the President
justly says: ut 1.-THE scuttling projectl
seems to me like the counsel of those who
do not know what else to do" 1t is the
duty Of the conference to salvage as
much tangible property as possible out
Of the German wreck. Every dollar that
can be realized will be needed to square
Germany's bankruptcy accounts. And
even then the creditors can hardly hope
for anything like a settlement in full.
1t Doesn't Brush Of Easily
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Calm Consideration Now Impossible
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir A league of nations may some day
be practicable and blessing to its makers.
No one knows. Certainly among the critics
OF the scheme blasted by Senator Knox last
Saturday no pretends to know. Per-
sonally | believe that any cast iron world
obligation would be loaded more with bad
than with good. But, whatever be the hid
den TRUTH here are two reasons why each
and every plan for such an organization
should now be put out of consideration.
The first reason is that to begin an at
tempt to manage the affairs of the world,
when, as at present, almost every govern
ment on earth is strained to the utmost to
manage its own affairs, would be madness.
The second reason has been furnished by
two of the leagues very foremost advocates.
Shortly before President Wilson left this
country for Europe the League to Enforce
Peace, William II. Taft president, and in
England, Lord Grey, Of Falloden, said, in
substantially the same words, that if a
league of nations is not made now it never
will be made.
Whether they be right or wrong, their
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The BoLshevik PhQntos,
(Fror, The ValaocrJ

EFT US hope we are done with the in,
sponsible prophecies of word.wi.,
Bolshevism; for the time being
least, events and few men with cour.
geous faith seem to have outfaced the bro,
Of Dragging horror. And it is time: ",
had been patient longer than the deess.
spirit of freemen allows with those wh,
insisted that the whole world would b
thrown into chaos unless the particular ds.
tails of their egotism or fear were write,
into our law. Even Mr.. Wilson, visiting
these shores, has been constrained IN
pseudo secret whispers of the terrible pur
pose running in the hearts of "'plain men
everywhere" His intimate and acceptsd
interpreters, it must be admitted. have
been less restricted some of them hsy.
been childishly frank in revealing the uni
versal upheaval that hangs on our disobedi
ence to the mandates of the information
ally minded. Senator Hitchcock, for e.
we're tied; it was a choice between one kind
Of internationalism and another, between
the league of nations as it is now present.
ed and a reign of the Trotzky pattern
That such q statement is false is less in.
portant than that the generalization back Of
it is immoral, for, whatever may be true 0,
individuals, nations are never forced, in an
great matter, TO choose between two de-
grees Of badness The recent round robn
of the Republican Senators, however, hsi
finally disposed of the despicable effort I
convert our convictions as to the right an
wisdom of the particular league of natior
plan before Us into a fear of epidemic
Bolshevism. Whatever else, this much hal
been settled; our people are not to b'
frightened into this league or any oths
league. Safety first is not yet. thsni
heaven. written on any of the guide pOsa
along the road of our national destiny.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10

torial page on each side of the Socialist
party emblem the words:
advocating the overthrow of capitalism
through the dictatorship of the proletariat. !"
On its front page the week of the strike
this "organ of the Socialist party of Wash
ngton" bore in three-inch type:
"CAPITALISM TOTTERING."
Another headline said:
"CAN 10000 WORKERS OPERATE IN
DUSTRY WITHOUT BOSSES?"
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An Heroic Queens Quest
do about it :

Two wearers Of crowns emerge from
the war with the admiration of the
world. Irrespective Of what may be said
of other crowned heads King Albert of
Belgium and Queen Marie Of Rumania
have displayed fortitude and bravery
that have compelled the respect even Of
their enemies. Albert, returning in tri-
umph to his capital, has seen his people
on the way to recovery from the suffer
ings of war. That goal is not yet in
sight for the faithful Marie. who has ar
rived in Paris as supplicant before the
peace tribunal in behalf of her hungry
people. On her breast she wears the
French War Cross with palm, bestowed
not in idle compliment to the Queen of
an allied state, but, as the citation point
ed out, because she was "a good soldier"
All that she has proved herself to be.
The daughter of a son of Queen Victoria
and a German princess, she has opposed
everything German. Her husband, King
Ferdinand with whom she ascended the
throne after the outbreak of the Euro
pean war, is Hohenzolern with
brother in the German army. How much
Marie did to turn him against his natu-
raj affiliation may never be known out
side the royal palace, but soon after their
ascension to the throne Rumania entered
the war
All the world knows what followed.
Deserted by Russia and isolated from her
other allies, Rumania was overrun by an
overwhelming force of Germans and Bull
garians. AS soon as her armies took the
field Queen Marie donned the garb of a
Sister of Charity and gave all her time
to the sick and wounded. Until forced
to flee before the invaders she gave the
greater part of her palace in Bucharest
over for use as a war hospital. Op-
pressed by the double grief of her coun-
try's misfortunes and the death of her
youngest child, Queen Marie still de-
voted herself to her hospital work. For
days, fleeing before the advancing Ger
mans, she and her family had no home.
Writing of this period when she buried
her private sorrow in that of her sub
jects, she said:
AS queen it was my duty to place
myself at the service of my suffering
people, to place myself there where
could hear every cry of agony and every
echo of suffering and Distress"
She earned the title of "the Joan Of
Arc of Rumania," and when, overcome
by hunger and superior forces, Rumania
was forced to sign a humilatng treaty
of peace, Marie declared she would never
accept the result. At the final review
before the rehabilitation ordered by the
Germans, she exclaimed:
What tragedy that this magnificent
army must lay down its arms! But
please God,'it shall not be for long! l
repeat it, it shall not be for long. Ger
many by her might and brutishness may
subdue but she can never crush the
spirit of my soldiers. With Gods help
we shall fight again, and pray that the
day is not far off,
Now, with the fighting ended, she is
appealing for food. eve are used to be-
ing shabby, and we can go without shoes
and clothes," she told Premier Clemen-
ceau, "but we must have food"
The spectre of Bolshevism, common
now to all Europe, will not rise in Ru-
mania If the people are fed, she prom
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opinion condemns their ideal as a subject
for present consideration. For this nation.
under the pressure of duty, to make neace
and, still infiamed by the emotions of war. to
take the most momentous and adventurous
step ever suggested to it, which the spon-
sors of the proposition confess the nation
would not take in moments of calm delib-
Grafton, would be flying in the face of every
sane principle Of government
PAUL DANA.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10

proceeded, in his Interpretation of the
fourteen points, on the theory that there
should be peace without vctory-that
no safeguarding terms should be i'm
posed, or as little as our allies can be
induced to consent to. Likewise, there
is strong similarity between the ideas of
the two Presidents with respect to the
prerogatves Of chief executive.
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ises. America will wish her the success
it would accord to any brave warrior,
crowned or uncrowned
The Red Blood of Nationalism

Chairman Hays says that nationalism
will be the keynote Of the next Republ-
can campaign. If it is the original Re-
publican tradition will be lived up to.
The Republican party's first mission was
to uproot slavery and sectionalsm and
to establish national unity on the basis
of liberty and equality Of opportunity
1t inherited the broad nationalistic
ideals of Clay, Hamilton and Washing
ton. 1t sought to create a free, power
full and indissoluble state.
1t has taken the United States more
than century to become a real nation
The separatist tendencies which Wash
ington deplored in his Farewell Address
were not eradicated until long after the
Civil War. We are just beginning to
function as a thoroughly united people.
Yet there are chose who think that our
nationalistic development should be halt
ed before the first mlepost has been
passed.
Why should the immensely helpful
processes of naturalization be checked in
the case of the United States-at pres
ent only beginner in the school of ma
tionality? To bring lasting peace to the
world is an aspiration which all enlight-
ened men and women share But there
are other ways of guaranteeing peace
than tying up with an all-embracing
scheme of internationalism
There is nothing in this countrys rec
ord which even family suggests a threat
to the worlds peace. There is nothing
in Great Britain's record or Frances
which contains such threat. Germany's
morbid, immoral and militarstic nation
alism plunged the world into war. But
that hardly furnishes a sufficient reason
for distrusting our own pacific national.
ism, or Great Britain's or Frances. 1t
@does not excuse an abridgment Of our
sovereignty and a departure from our
traditional policies on the ground that
that way only lies an escape from
calamity such as the world has just gone
through.
The United States needs a larger
measure of nationalizato ton-political,
economic and cultural. 1t needs that
more than it needs the protection Of in
ternationalism. To enter league which
will outlaw war is one thing 1t is an
other to enter a league which will under
take to administer the whole world as q
political trust. We have still to work
out our own problem of nationality, un-
der conditions which separate us as
New World power from the complexities
and confusions Of Old World politics.
Why should we drop that problem and
abandon our American mission in order
to become a member Of an international
system whose centre of gravity must al
ways remain in Europe?
Nationalism means more to us than we
realize. 1t is the real factor in our
future. 1t is the one thing which we
ought not to sacrifice. And there is no
need to sacrifice it for the sake of a
world peace For the peace of the world
can be maintained by joint action of
those nations which desire it, yet prefer
to remain nations and achieve their own
destiny as such.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10
For Marse Henry

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I arise to nominate Henry Wsp'' ;,
son. IF Louisville, Ky. There1l be losc' :
seconds-both Democratic and Repuoh''s
He's an all-around Americana. r.
Ideal American" On with the boom'
EDWARD L. KLEIN
New York, March s, 1919. !
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Gotham Gleanings

look out for snow.
Rupert Hughes is out in Iowa
visiting the home folks.
T. w. Wilson was Gotham
passer-through last Tuesday,
Miss Crosby Little OF here was
calling on her sister Tues. eveg.
-. )oe Wise and Mrs. !. II. Wise are
the parents OF a new baby girl and
Joe is handing out the cigars.
Ii Art Hornblow is back from
France and will tell us the no. OF
that party he asked us TO call up we
gladly will do same.
Mrs. P. Lydig Of here was hostess
at a lunch Friday for Mime. Bar
rientos, the festal board groanine
meath the w.t. Of viands.
Mont Glass of New Rochelle is
home from Paris, FIR. Mont saw
Pres Wilson, Ralph Hayes and
Jimmy Montague lover there" as
they say.
Max Foster is back from France,
nearls O. k. from his having been
gassed. Max is still angry at Wade
Hayes and ye ed for leaving the
wash basin on his door, same bean
ing him when he came in Just a
boyish prank, we thought it,
lack Calder of St. Nazaire. Utica.
Gotham and Tours is back in the
\. 5. and in youths size clothine
again: Jack was putting together
ambulances when we saw him and
his men used to sing to him
by mandates make auto trucks
assemble'
Greater songs have been written. but no
songs sung during the war were more ponu
lar than THE Last Long Mile" and "There's
a Long, Long Trail" written, one bv Sam
Hill and the other by Stoddard King. the
W. k contribs
When $4,000 Was Considered Money
Burr u. Burr. Hilrs Reports, VOL VII. page
233, 1S43l
with the plain and simple habits of
expense to which she has been accustomed
during long life, she certainly will not
now require such an establishment as might
be thought suitable for queen dowarer.
At her age it would be unsuitable. even
Iuuic JUS, 10 laVlSn tne revenues of DriD-
clpality in the adornment of her person.
and she Will not require to be fed like the
proHigate Egyptian courtezan with pearls
dissolved in acid. The allowance of ten
thousand dollars a year is manifestly ex-
travagant and excessive, if not vndictive,
and is obviously even confessedly, intended
tor other purposes than expenditure for
support and maintenance. 1t equals the ar-
gregatc amount of the salaries of the chan
ceilor, the secretary of state, the attorney
general, the surveyor general and the comp
troller Here are five distinguished gen.
tlemen, learned and talented, filing With
ability and honor the highest departments
OF our state government, associating, with
the most respected classes of society in the
state-fully equal it may be presumed to
the first circles of Connecticut, of which
the respondent was once the ornament and
delight; and yet their united salaries do
not exceed what the chancellor had thoupht
proper to allow for the suitable mainte-
nance of one woman"
The principal parts of the highly irrepu-
lar verb, according to Drge, are Woodro
woodire, wood, wilson.
The Parlor Bolshevist has a rood deol
of fun making fun of the Vestibule Anti
Bolshevist.
AS we understand the Covenant of tho
l.. of NJ, it is Dictated but not Red.
f. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10
"Fair and Warmer; SoutherIy Winds


As it might appear IN Kind Of newspaper
AS though this had not already been a
season such as has not been undergone
by red-blooded Americans since our ma
tion shook off the yoke of tyranny, the
latest announcement by the Administra-
tons paid weather-bureau affronts the
patriotism of all of US who have been led
to believe that an American winter
means lack of insipid, vacillating, mild
weather.
"Southerly Winds" indeed! This
trucking to political influences is as re-
voting as it is obvious. How long this
sort of thing is to continue unless some
thing is done, we hesitate to predict.
All honor to the patriotic, virle Amer
ican Senators who have signed the pro-
test against this added insult to our in
StitutOns.
As it might appear in another Kind OF newspaper.
"Fair and warmer: Southerly. Winds"
This is a summary of the past achieve
ments of the President; an earnest of
even greater things to come. Never had
we had so fine winter. "It is impossi-
ble," said the partisan detractors of the
Administration. "There never has been
snowless winter" Did that daunt one
to whom precedent is not to be revered
merely because it is precedent? No.
Like in other matters, he sees no reason
for not doing a great, apparently impos-
sible thing merely because it never has
been done.
This is the spirit that has won the war
fairness and warmth. And the gentle
zephyrs blowing from the Southland,
which contributed so many of her brave
sons to make the world safe for
democracy, are but an added tribute to
an Administration which, weathering all
storms, sees the harbor, shining fair and
warm, near at hand.
1nternationaism is sweeping Newark
where at the Typographical Union No. 1O3
Welcome Home celebration, the members,
according to the Ledger, Sang several pa
triotic songs, including The Star-Spangled
Banner Minnie Shimmie For Me- and ia
Da'"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10
The Police Nets Haul

1t is curiously significant that when the
authorities in Seattle began their arrests
at the end of the revolution" the trade
unions were not the ones to suffer 1t was
the remnants of the Socialist party that fell
into the police net. And they fell in as
81. W. VS." Yet the truth is that "The
international Weekly" whose Office was
closed up by the police and whose editors
were arrested, was actually not "wobbly"
paper-as every news dispatch stated-but
an organ of the Socialist party. Only-n
the sort of propaganda it printed-the dis
tincton had ceased to exist
The weekly carried at the top of it's edi-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10

Red and black flags are permitted in Ne
braska for railroad signalling, but the rail-
roads chief use these days is for the white
flag.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-10

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