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New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Seattle, Wash., Feb7ua7.y 26.


A STRIKE is complex enough in its emo
~ tions, in the desires which drive men
proverbially "a week from the poor
house" to give up their livelihood A general
strike such as Seattle has had is complex;ty
worse compounded No one can catalogue all
the reasons that led 10000 men and women
to stop work in sympathy with $4,000 al
ready on strike, and the reactions that filed
$4,000 unorganized workers. who either
joined them voluntarily or were forced out
by the general breakdown of industry. No
one can know just how many felt this or
that But it is safe to say that FIVE main
motives ruled the general strike. In the
order of their magnitude, of the relative
number of men and women who probably
felt them, they are:
The desire to "bow off steam," to gain
a short vacation from the humdrum of
both labor and of ordinary vacations, to
have little excitement, to liberate and
dramatic tte pent-up emotions of two
years of hard, driving, strikeless work
This on the part Of the large body of un-
organized workers and unionsts who sell
dom s to labor meetings.
striking shipyard workers, to secure for
the common laborer on the ships a wage
that they felt his living conditions re-
qured, and to strike at an outsider
Charles Piez of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, who, they felt, blocked local ad-
justment in favor of Eastern yards. This
on the part Of the large body of organized
workers who attend union meetings. but
do not achieve office.
The desire to express and emphasize the
solidarity of labor, to make the EMPLOYERS
feel (before the discharged soldiers flood
the labor market and create the potentional
strikebreakers that lurk in unemployment
that Seattle labor is too strong for curb
ing, TOO united to tolerate reductions in
wages. This on the part of active union
men and leaders.
The desire to try little rehearsal of
"thc social revolution" to experiment bit
with the facts and emotions of taking
over industry" This on the part of few
intelectuals and very few Socialist labor
leaders.
The desire to see actual revolution a
fact, the belief that general strike of
American workers of to-day would cul-
inmate in the overthrow of capitalism and
Of representative government. This on the
part of perhaps three labor figures and a
small army of I. W. w. leaders entirely
jokingly contemptuously referred to by
labor men as ''wobblies"
I do not believe that any considerable
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Aloomess Impossible
By DR.. NicholassMurray Butler

CT 1899 and 1907 be taken as starting
point, 1t should not be difficult to put into
the draft plan a succinct statement of prin-
clples OF international law and conduct
upon which the whole civilized world will
agree. The question will then arise as to
the enforcement of these principles. There
are grave objections to any plan which will
compel America to accept responsibility
for matters of international adninistra-
tlon in Europe, in Asia or in Africa. and
there are equally grave objections to anv
plan that will substitute for the Monroe
Doctrine international control on the part
OF the nations of Europe and Asia of mat
ters affecting the American continents
alone. 1t might be worth while to consider
whether, given a single code of principles
OF international law and international ad-
mlnlstration, the world might not then be
divided into three administrative areas:
First, Europe, Africa and the parts of Asia
Immediately adjoining Europe and Africa:
second, the American continents. and. third.
the Orient, including Japan, China and
Siam.
Should these three administrative areas
pe created, all owing allegiance to com
mon code of law and principle, then the
world would have, i'll effect, Monroe Doc
trlne Tor each area, and the original Mon
roe Doctrine would be preserved unharmed
and unamended Should any exceptional
breach of international law and order take
place within a given administrative area,
as when Germany invaded Belgium in 1914,
which the forces of law and order within
that area were unable to subdue, the
similar fOrPnc in ho{I Of
administrative areas could then be called
upon to take part in upholdng the prin-
ciples to which all alike had given allepi-
ance.
Americans, and especially Republicans.
will recall two striking sentences in Presi
dent McKinley's last speech, delivered at
Buffalo, on September 5, 1901:
"No nation can longer be Indifferent to
any other"
1.-The period of aloofness is past"
These declarations marked the BEGINNING
of a new world attitude on the part of tho
people of the United States. The nronosa1s
contained in Theodore Roosevelt's address
before the Nobel Prize COMMITTEES deliv-
cred at Christiania, Norway. on Nav
1910, should not be overlooked at this time
since some OF them go even beyond the
provisions of the present draft plan. This
for example:
III would be a master stroke if those
great powers honestly bent on peace
would form league of peace, not onlv
TO keep the peace among themselves. but
to prevent, by force if necessary. its
being broken by others The supreme
difficulty in connection with developinp
the peace work of The Hague arises from
the lack of any executive power, of anv
police power, to enforce the DEGREES OF
the courts"
For several generations the American
government has had large part in the de-
velopment and establishment of interna-
tional law and order On many occasions
through resolutions of the Congress-
through executive declarations, through din
iomatic correspondence, through special
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

who declares that so far as he can see the
Democratic party has ceased to be guided
in the least by the ideal to which it once
clung.
Where Colonel Watterson and Mr..
Mack diverge' is in forecasting the out
come of contest with Mr.. Wilson again
the Democratic leader. "If we cannot
win with Mr.. Wilson, don't know how
we can VIII at all" says Mr.. Mack. "Mr.
Wilson can have the nomination if he
wants it, but he can't be elected" says
Colonel Watterson.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Picking at the Bard

Edgar Lee Masters, whose "Spoon
River Anthology" has tended to remove
some Of the prejudice against what is
called Lazy Verse, says it would be
ridiculous to write on modern day topics
in Shakespeare's iambic pentameters or
blank verse.
In spite of Burleson and what hasty
critics say about Burleson this is STILL
in some respects at least, free country;
and what Mr.. Masters thinks he is at
liberty to say. But others are also at
liberty to think and say that perhaps
the paucity of Shakepearian pentam-
eters and blank verse is due to the
lack of Shakespeares. 1t is possible, if
there were such, with hands subdued
to the dye in which they worked, Shake
speare's verse methods would be no in
superable obstacle to the expression of
poetic ideas and feelings.
1t is not Shakespeare so much as
Whitman who is difficult to the average
man. 1t may be Whitman presents the
form of the future, but not the form of
the present. He is esoteric, caviare to
the general, more than the Elizabethan,
who never saw graveyard of Illinois
or led calf to water in New ENGLAND,
or had experience with the mingled roars
OF an African jungle, or dwelt in Green
wich Village, and felt like Thackeray as
1T consumed clam chowder and imagined
it bOuillabaiSSe
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Thompsonism Still Grips Chicago

1t was the familiar tactics Of dividing
the opposition that gave William Hale
Thompson the Republican nomination
for Mayor Of Chicago last Tuesday, With
the anti-Thompson vote split between
Judge Harry Olson and Captain Charles
+. Merriam, the Mayor of "the sixth
German city" gained denomination.
His political mentor, Lundin, fully ap-
preciated the opportunity.
Chairman Hays of the Republican
National Committee saw the necessity
Of consolidating the anti-Thompson Re-
publican votes. His influence and that
Of the leading Chicago newspapers was
thrown to Judge Olson, who seemed to
have the better chance Of winning. In
twenty-five years of holding public Of
fee, particularly as director of the Munic-
ipal Court of Chicago, Harry Olson had
given evidence of real administrative
talent.
Captain Merriam, a professor at the
University of Chicago, was highly es-
tcemed personally. His mistake lay in
tactics He fought both Thompson and
Olson, antagonizing rather than con-
verting adherents Of both. Judge Olson
directed his fire solely at Mayor Thomp-
SON.
Now Chicago has neglected another
opportunity to rid the city Of Thomp-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
No Settlement Out of Court

For Italy to submit to arbitration bv
an individual her claims to the eastern
coast of the Adriatic would be to oues
ton the authority Of the conference it.
self. More than this, she would by such
an act belittle her own position as a
member of that conference. If the
Jugo-Slavs are confident their own CLAIMS
are just, they should be willing to agree
to the same procedure in their case as
is to be followed in other cases.
What Italy asks is, first, the compile
ton of her unity by the incorporation
within her boundaries Of those predomi
nantly Italian lands, and, second, Sc
curity for her long and exposed Adriatic
coast line. Questions of racial affinity
are not always easily determined, and
IN any case the delimitation could not
be exact. There is no doubt, however.
that many of the ports demanded by
the Jugo-Slavs, even those where the
Slav population is large, belong stratefi-
cally, culturally and commercially to
Italy. On the other hand, the Jugo-
Slavs justly ask access to the sea,
which would be denied to them if Italy
took all the ports. Such does not seem
ltaly's intention. Last year there was
an agreement between the Italians and
the Jugo-Slavs apparently satisfactory to
BOTH
With regard to the second point.
nation i'll Italy's geographical position
cannot afford to leave naval strongholds
threatening to her safety in the hands
of possible enemy. The Austrian DOS
session of these strongholds was nicely
calculated to lay her open to invasion.
To say after all her sacrifices and suf
terlngs in this war she must abandon
hope OF future protection is nothing less
than absurd. A doctrine of no annexa-
tlons worked out like this would compel
us to give up Panama The Italian dele
gates may we'll say they would not dare
to go home if they consented to a similar
surrender. If their security we're SINH
larly threatened, Americans would ask no
less.
Perhaps President Wilson himself
would not have accepted the task the
Jugo-Slavs sought to thrust upon him.
At any rate, he should be relieved bv
1taly's refusal, for it would be verv un-
fortunate in every respect if he should
be regarded as mediator between
nations, whether allied or enemy, apart
from the body of which he is a member.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: A league of nations with an impos-
ing array Of naval and military power be-
hind it sufficient to enforce its mandates
would have some standing in the eyes Of the
Huns-nothing less would. Let the league
of nations be thus equipped, otherwise it
would better be strangled at birth
Not one foot of ground should Germany
be allowed to hold west cf the Rhine
throughout its whole length. The Rhine is
the logical boundary between Germany and
France. 1t were better that Belgium and
Luxembourg should voluntarily become
part of greater France extending east
ward to the Rhine and northward to the
Scheldt, no matter what the German-sym-
pathzing Hollanders may think about it.
There should be a France able to protect
herself against any German menace like
that under which she lived for SO many
unhappy years.
All success to league of nations if we
go at it right. ZEB GAINES.
Goose Creek, L. l., Feb. 26, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

sonism. The Mayor who declined to
welcome Marshal Joffre and the French
commission, who opposed sending
troops, munitions and food to Europe,
who protected anti-war meetings, who
has shattered its civil service, has a good
chance to continue in power
The one remedy lies in the April
election. The Democratic candidate,
Robert NJ. Sweitzer, will have it out
with Thompson, as he did four years
ago, when Thompson won. But again
the anti-Thompson vote will be distrib-
uted among four men and one woman,
all of which looks good to William Hale
ThnmnSnn
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Red Cross Workers Wanted

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The American Red Cross maintains
a workroom and units on the lower East
Side where garments for refugees are made.
There is great need for these garments,
and the assistance we are now receiving is
so inadequate that we are far from making
the progress necessary to meet the demand.
Therefore, we would very much appreciate
whatever time our neighbors could give in
volunteer work. Come. Bring your friends,
and help those less fortunate than your
selves.
RED CROSS LOWER EAST SIDE AUX
Hilary, 1877 East Broadway.
New York, Feb. "a. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Make All Roosevelt Boys

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May / suggest what ] would think
prove to be a lasting memorial to Theodore
Roosevelt-his book, "The Foes of Our Own
Household" be made standard high school
book for our boys and girls. No better
book could be used to make them just what
Theodore Roosevelt would have all bows and
girls grow up to be-good Americans. The
book is dedicated to Roosevet's sons and
daughters. Why not dedicate this book 10
our boys and girls
r. l.. HUTCHINSON.
New York, Feb 24, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

treaties and through participation in M.
merous international conferences and con
ventions, the American people have exertaa
iarreachlng influence in making interna-
tional law and in developing an interns
tional public opinion. Republicans in NV
'icuiar must not allow their justifable -
sentiment at the Presidents methods and
policies to drive them into an unstafesr,.-
IKE attitude, and one wholly out of ba~
mony with their long tradition, on ~.
greatest question now before the cour+ -
public opinion -
New York, Feb 25, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

To the Editor of The Tribune
CNIR: The editorial "Aoofness Impos-
sibe" in The Tribune of February 21
puts the discussion of the plan for
league of nations upon solid ground
society of nations is wholly in accord with
Republican traditions, Republican princ-
Piles and we'll established Republican pol
icy. The only formal declaration known
to me to have been made on this subject
by any party convention in the United
States is that adopted by the Republican
State Convention held at Saratoga on July
19 last. That declaration reads as follows:
"We favor the immediate creation by
the United States and its allies of a
league of nations to establish, from time
to time to modify, and to enforce, the
rules of international law and conduct
The purpose of this league should be, not
to dlsplace patriotism devotion and
loyalty to national ideals and traditions,
but rather to give to these opportu-
mites of expression in cooperation with
the other liberty loving nations of the
world. To membership in this league
any nation might be admitted that pos
sesses responsible government which
will abide by those rules of law and
equity, and by those principles of inter
national justice and morality which are
accepted by civilized people,"
1t would be most unfortunate for this
question to become partisan one, or to
fail of consideration on its merits regard
less Of any party declaration hithero made.
Nevertheless, it may be helpful for Repub-
licans to ask whether the draft plan that
has been submitted for discussion and
amendment, as 4 result of the preliminary
work of the peace conference at Paris is
or is not league of the type described in
the declaration just quoted If it is
league of this type, it will be logical
deduction from the foreign policies of the
Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft administra-
tons, Illuminated by the lessons of the war;
II 1T is not league of this type, then we
may we'll strive to shape it so that it will
become such while the plan is still open to
discussion and amendment. Blindly to op-
pose any better form of world organization
because we do not like some of the details
OF the plan now proposed, is political mad
ness, as we'll as in the highest degree reac-
tionary.
The draft plan is so i'll drawn and so full
of unnecessary difficulties that its critics
Will have an easy task in making those
facts plain to the people. The construc-
tive critic, however, will not content him
self with opposition to any plan whatsoever
because he does not like some of tho points
of this plan, but will endeavor to show how
it may be transformed into a wiser and a
better plan.
1t is probable that the difficulties in the
way of acceptance by the Senate and the
American people generally of any plan for
a society of nations may be summarized
under two heads: First, agreement upon
the principles Of international law and in
ternational administration which are here
after to prevail in the world; and, second.
agreement upon method for their enforce
ment that will not dsplace the Monroe
Doctrine.
II the votes of the two Hague conferences
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

THE ANCHOR
In the hulk of broken ship-some lands
mans fancy sought it
A ship that had, ranged the tides with
captain of renown;
Up from the voice of the sea and the
seas old lure he brought it,
And here it rests on the green of
placid inland town.
Once it had known the floor of many
distant ocean,
Capri's celestial blue and the coral
Carbbees
Once it had stoutly held in many wild
commoton-
Now the cropped turf clings round it
under the murmuring trees.
But yonder hill-bred lad, pausng to look
as he passes,
Can, with the vision of youth, the vast
blue plain behold,
Or breast the clamorous gale and the
waves engulhng masses
A shy and obscure Odysseus, who Sc
hazards are never told! G. S. B.
What bewilders ]. D. G. is whether the
sign fronting the Winter Garden, "a
Chorus of Unparalleled Beauty" means "a
Chorus of Unparalleled Beauty" or "a
Chorus of Unappareled Beauty"
We haven't despaired utterly of getting
our final pay check from the army, but we
are willing to- match the War Department
double or nothing
Captain Harvey Dunn, who was one of
the eight official artists of the A. E. F.. is
at home again. after nearly a year of for
elgn service. Captain Dunn was at Chateau
Ihlerry in early June, and fearlesser ar
tlst never was seen. When he returned
to his billet at A. P. o. 731, he found these
verses at his place at mess:
You may talk O quans an fear
When you're quartered over here
In the neighborhood of Meaux and Chateau
Therry
But the boy with the begonia
Is the Captain from Leonia
(Which is near the 130th Street Ferrv)
Now in Frances rainy Cline
Where I've put in lots of time
A-makin' nasty faces at the Hun
OF all the lads know
In the scrap at Neufchateau
ihere was none of EN- like Captain Haryev Dunn
y it's Dunn, Dunn. Dunn!
You mountain range O valor Harvey Dunn
Ihoush i've k'dded you and guyed you,
by the livin Gawd that mde YOU
You're braver man than l am. Harsvn,,,
mus IL Is stated that the total exnend+rr.s
OF America and the Allies were S1s.375. 600 ooo ~
which Great Britain spent S37 100 900 600 Franco
Szn nVOoooo.Oo0, the United States s1S AL oOo mn
Russia $4,000 100000. Italy $4,000 900 900 and
Serbia $4,000, ,oO0.0eo.-Col Harveys Weekly.
But" comedies Beasley, "you can't ex-
pect the Colonel to give all hig time +o
checking up on the President and still have
time to devote to mathematics and proof-
reading"
FROM the Diary of John Rowe. a Rostop
merchant, January II, 1774: "I dined At
Childs' in Roxbury'
Though this department stood for nm
Conditional surrender,
In colyuming it's never one
TO be n Bitter Ender
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
The Coming Tower
On Baked Apple, Received Yes
terdax from Pnmfret. Conn

terday from Pomfret, Conn.
The fruit of that forbidden tree
Whose mortal taste an Eden quaked
Appeals enormously to me,
Particularly baked.
Came yesterday that sugared myth,
spiceless, coreless apple, from
The little town of Pomfret with
The accent on the pomme).
Gramercy for the succulence
OF that so sweet pomonic boon;
And for the deep intelligence
TO send along spoon.
For wit ye we'll an such fruit
OccaSioncd Eve her famous fall.
Why did they dim her bright repute
Or blame the dame at all?
Woodrow Wilson of Paris, who is spend
ing a week in Washington. D. c., enter
tanned few at dinner last night Con-
versation ndulged in till late hour
and a good time is said to have been lad
by all
Grim visagcd peace hath her wrinkled
front no less than war, as the Teller said.
THEY CAN'T GET TOO MANY LETTERS
Ex-Austran Sh5 Radetzky Spalato. Dalmata
Feb. I, 1919.
Sir: The Blidgeforce of this vessel are Won
derng whether you will bring this letter to the
public eye for We are far away from any
English speaking folk and word from home would
go good
We have hestatcd to advertise for mail but,
knowing SO many people would be glad to corre-
spond, we have finally decide; that recourse to
This would be justifablc You know gobs over
here have absolutely nothing to look forward to
except mail. Liberty is infrequent and when we
do get ashore we are much at if we
were on the Adriac, of us can speak
the language.
The following therefore are requesting that
some Tower readers take our cause to heart:
REyNorp BUNKER WARREN ZErGtER
LESTER r. HOUGu- GRANT d SINISTER
TAfING BENJAMIN SEGET,
tAMhEII GEx CHESTER G. DETTMER
{. II. N1RDN ALBERT j. CArAf ArRrR
address U. s. S. Olympia, Postmaster. Nc,v
Yorh. Care OF Radctzhy
Problem in quantitative hydraulics: If
it takes a man until l a. m to accumulate
a state of neutrality under the present
high proof combustiblcs, what time, in the
era of one-half Of one per cent, will he
come home?
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Police Briberv>

tFrom Tho clcceiaad Plain Doaier)
ST. Louis man has been fined $500 for
trying TO kiss poicewoman. What was
the charge-attemptcd bribery?
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
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All rights Of blicson 0f all other matter herein
also
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
Tribune with absolute safetytcr II dissatisfaction re-
suits In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
mohty back request. No red tape. No cuibblns
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
PROHIBITION GAG NO. 7S5,3o1

Tax: per cent?
Puncure the Prohibition law
And l venture you'll make a name;
Yea the Muclage Trust will install your bust
In the Acohall of Fame ,
If it isn't one thing-and it's eight or
nne-that makes nti-Prohibtionists it's
another Another is the way the Prohbi-
tionists keep on arguing after they have
won. Or, if they must rub it in, why not
give us an alcohol rub?
Some of the men who report sick on
hangover morning should wear buttons
reading: "No Work: Beer"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By Mail Including Postage:
IN TIE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
GUARANT e E

Entered q. the Ptstorice at New Second Glass
Mall Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

Grim visagcd peace hath her wrinkled
front no less than war, as the feller said.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

Woodrow Wilson of Paris, who is spend
ing week in Washington, D. c., enter
tanned few at dinner last night. Con-
versation was indulged in till a late hour
and good time is said to have been lad
by all.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
Goose Creek for League with Teeth

New York, Feb. "a, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-27

Problem in quantitative hydraulics: If
1t takes a man until l a. m. to accumulate
state of neutrality under the present
high proof combustiblcs, what time, in the
era of one-half Of one per cent, will he
come home?