davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
The Governors Move

Our fearless District Attorney.
who cares not who investigates his
office SO long as he has entire con-
troll Of the investigation, seems to
have reached a fairly definite crisis
in his relations with that pestiferous
grand jury which has not sense
enough tovquit when ordered to. He
has been strong for investigation; !;
and If this grand jury must have
a legal adviser, he has argued
eloquently that the adviser must be
special assistant District At
torney, yet when the Governor ac-
cepts his entire view and proposes
Mr.. Proskauer (who is acceptable to
everybody else) Mr.. Swami finds it
quite impossible to accept Mr. Pros
kauer on the obvious terms of inde-
pendence which alone can make the
investigation anything more than q
farce. To be sure, Mr.. Proskauer
has already shown himself letter
writer of parts, combining a pain
full frankness with an ominous
knack Of going to the root Of things.
But Just because Mr.. Swami does
not fancy a prospective assistants
epistolary style is no reason for
turning him down.
We regret to view our District
Attorney in an undignified light;
but we cannot help feeling that he
has climbed out on the end of a
limb and carefully sawed it through.
1t Is now the Governors move. His
choice for the investigation job has
reported the only conditions upon
which it can be accepted, and Mr..
Swami will have no such conditions
in his office The arrow points
plainly to the naming Of Mr. Pros
kauer as a special deputy Attorney
General. At any rate. it is for the
Governor to act, pending the ar
rival of the new Legislature, which,
if all else fails, can easily, as we
have before pointed out, satisfy Mr.
SWann's desire for. investigation to
the full.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
What Is Peace ?
.dltor Of The Tribune

To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; Whenever the Sim Fein poets. or
Gcrman-tnged, wandering on our soil
have no easier point of, attack, they
seem to fall upon that valiant poetess
and defender "of things of good report"
Marion Couthouy Smith
There might seem to be a certain CON
sistency in Irish taking TO the cudeel.
Germans to arms. But why has that
apostle Of peace, A. Hamilton Gibbs, let
his angry passions rise against her also ?
Why has he, opponent of war, taken I'D
arms against fellow scribe, especially
in this season born Of peace? Why has
he not rather turned 10 her the left
check OF give and take. or, better still,
sent her an autographed copy of Gun
fodder for Christmas?
"What.' the poetess might. indeed.
ask, with the cudgel raised over her
shoulders, the weapons of resentment.
sarcasm, anger, discharging across the
Hudson toward harmless East Orange.
'is peace ~
AS for the cause of the war. which
seems SO 10 ruffle the calm OF peace
seeking Mr.. Gibbs, Marion Couthouv
Smith might give it to him in the brew
ity he seems not to love by sending him
to that famous remark of the youthful
Macaulay when q treaty breaking do
mestic invaded the promised neutrality
of his childish territory.
Cursed be Sarah" said the young
Thomas, for it is written Cursed be he
who removeth his neghbor's land
mark. EVA MADDEN,
Not of East Orange, but Of the Dark
and Bloody Ground"
New York. Dec IT, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
Natiue-Born Radicals
They Flourish in Little Groups Of
Parlor Pacifsts

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following paragraphs, which
appeared in q letter from a CORE
spondent of Portland, Ore, showing the
reaction Of Roosevelt Ameri-
cans to the destructive doctrines of
socialism, will nm sure, interest your
readers:
ut has become such common thing
to see the worst Of radicals in the best
of society here that thought they
needed q special paragraph. There is
a little group of pacifst, radical idiots
here who are menace to any cont
munity, and, as far as | have been able
to learn, they are everywhere. They
are led about by certain set Of Wild
eyed radicals who seem to flourish
their best under the fostering care of
this Administration
ut cannot be too frequently en-
phasized or dcnounced) that many
American born of the vell-to-do classes
need AmericaniZation even more than
the foreigners. Especially is it ncces-
sary for those poor, barren souls who
are prone to consider themselves set
apart and above the common herd, and
who are only excluding themselves
from the larger issues Of life and all
the things which insure the growth
and wisdom that can be obtained only
from contact with real life in all its
various phases. 1t is just as necessary
to break up the meeting places in the
homes Of the idle, wealthy men and
women who try to relieve the tedium
and boredom Of their lives by encour-
aging with money and influence any
wild-eyed propagandst who can offer
them a thrill for their money as it Is
to break up the cohesion Of foreign
groups and inoculate them with
democracy.
ut is certain that better conditions
In homes and better standards in
schools will be beneficial to every one
in every community, since contagious
cf physical diseases or of destructive
IDEAS cannot be confined to their breed
ing places"
ELIZABETH OGDEN WOOD
New York, Dec. II. 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
Our Dead in France
Z The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: When Senator Frelinghuysen, of
New Jersey, introduced his resolution in
the Senate to provide for the removal
OF American dead from the battlehelds
of France, did he think he had behind
him the sentiment Of American women
whose heroic sons and husbands fill
those distant graves?
I'm the discussion throughout the conn
try pro and con for this proceeding, one
strange feature must have been noticed
the silence Of the gold star women.
In spite OF their silence I cannot but
think that the majority Of mothers.
wives, sweethearts and sisters must view
with horror and repulsion this attemDt
to raise and bring a multitude Of man
g!ed. decomposed bodies across the sea
am a gold star mother, who. when
my son was killed in France (the Grst
officer, at the very beginning of Amer
lca's participation), hurried over there
TO work for the comfort of our army.
am thoroughly acquainted with cond-
TONS there, and am so bitterly opposed
10 the idea of bringing the bodies home
that seek to enlist against it the gold
star women OF the land.
Under existing conditions, cannot
ask newspaper to give me space for
my reasons. which are based on nv
personal experiences overseas. There
fore, I intend to publish pamphlet
which will gladly send gratuitously to
any woman who will send me her name
and address
MABEL FONDA GAREISSEN.
No. 155 East 72d ST., New York, Dec.
16, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
By
Hcypood Broun

instance, is at a good deal Of pains to
let US know how terrible were the eman-
cipator's hats. But Henry Watterson
who saw Lincoln when he came to
Washington for his first inaugural
bears testimony Of another sort. In
his delightful autobiography, "Marse
Henry" two-volume edition just pub
lishod by Doran, Watterson says Of
Lincoln:
He CAME to the capital under the es-
cort Of Mr.. Seward, and among the
rest | was presented to him. His ap-
pearance did not impress me as fantas-
tically as it had impressed some others.
was familiar with the Western type
and while Mr.. Lincoln was not an
Adonis, even after prairie ideals, there
was dignity about him that COM
manded respect"
Later Wattcrson came to Lincoln to
get a copy of the Inauguration speech
for The Associated Press. He found
Lincoln exceedingly kind and consid
crate and entirely self possessed. He
delivered that inaugural address" "
writes Colonel Watterson, "as If he
had been delivering inaugural ad-
dresses all his life. Firm. resonant.
earnest, IT announced The coming Of a
man, OF leader Of men; and in its
tone and style the gentlemen whom
he had invited to become members Of
his political family-each Of whom
thought himself bigger man than
his chief-might have heard tho voice
and seen the hand Of one born to
rule. Whether they did or not, they
very soon ascertained tho fact. From
the hour Abraham Lincoln crossed the
threshold Of tho White House to the
hour he went thence to his death, there
was not moment when he did not
dominate the political. and military sit
uation and bis Official subordinates.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

running amuck. In various forms
this thought Is constantly appearing.
Why it Is expressed may be easily
understood, but nevertheless it Is a
dangerously misleading one-is in
the direction Of encouraging insan-
ty, and by encouraging insanity 1t
contributes to pcrpetuation Of bad
conditions. Bolshcvism is system
that makes for the intensification Of
starvation, not for its appeasement.
The delusion that by making bad
conditions worse the average man
can be benefited is not one to stimu-
late or countenance.
Russia is land rich in food sup
plies. 1t has within its borders
ample supplies to ration All the
Russias. Russians are hungry be-
cause Bolshevist disorder has pre-
vented production and distribution.
IIf this country has reasons for
avoiding Bolshevism those who
hover on the border Of extinction
have greater reasons for avoiding it.
When it is intimated that human be-
ings are not much to be blamed if
they lose their heads they are likely
to go wrong. The sound thing is to
emphasize that head-losing has in
evitable consequences. IF the dis
tressed of Central Europe had not
flirted with Bolshevism when the
armistice was signed it probably
would now be able to take care Of
itself. A large part Of the lessons
Of the war is lost when words are
used which lead persons to forget
their own faults and to hope to
escape the results of evildoing.
Feed Austria, but don't present it as
a bribe to keep her away from Boil
shevism.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

admits his communist experiment
has not been able to overcome this
difficulty-that workers individually
get less when they absorb the whole
Of a lesscned industrial product
than when capital took s or 10 per
cent out Of q larger product.
Hero is one nemesis Of commu-
nism, but even though communism
be able to escape it through in
creased mass self-discipline. an
other remains. Industrial democ-
racy, though It be able to keep tho
world as good rs it is, has no sug-
gestion to offer as to making it bet
ter. If all that generation pro-
duces is divided and consumed. who
and what is to build for the future?
Who is to maintain those who per-
form tasks not at once productive?
Neither Marx nor Lenine attempts
to give one.
The buyer Of a gallon Of kerosene
or gasoline not only buys moro
cheaply because Of Brother Rookie
feller, but also helps maintain a
hospital or to build factory or rail-
road. And what does Brother
Rockefeller get? The fun of saying
on what particular activity his capi-
tai power shall be expended.
The Rockefeller report, when di-
gested and not merely read, is an in
teresting document and is corrective
Of many current superstitions.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
Capital at Work

The report, just from the press,
of the Rockefeller Foundation. is a
source book for those who would
study capitalism at work. It may be
specially recommended to wallowers
in theory who spend energies in
drawing deductions which commonly
are not true.
What is the Rockefeller Founda-
ton? During the year it diminished
tuberculosis in France, malaria in
Arkansas, yellow fever in Guate-
mala, the hookworm disease in twen-
ty-four nations and twelve states,
built hospitals in China, increased
its contributions to starving Europe
to S22 ,00O,0 900, and otherwise filled
the world with its benefcent deeds.
Whence comes its power to do
these things? Stores Of fuel through
the ages had lain inert. A group of
men arose who awoke the sleeping
giant. They said they would Eek
plot" Ito use word favored by the
half-baked radica). natural re-
sources.
These schemers devised ways, first,
to produce on large scale COM
modities of human need, thus adding
to the sum of comfort and enjoy
ment; second, by economical meth
DDS so to cheaper distribution as to
sell for less, yet at a price high
enough to leave to them large
profits; third, to mass their profits
into an instrumentality of reserve
power whose income, as it is called
could be expended further to inn
prove the planet as place Of habita-
ton.
The scheme worked. Rockefeller
became billionaire. The Standard
Oil group filed the world with the
effects of its activities. Mankind be-
came richer. AS nearly as finite
hands can do such thing there
was Notwithstanding was made
out of nothing. In word, there
was presented the familiar working
of capitalism.
Capital is sight draft on Labor
and objects of desire. 1t is the re
suit of undivided abstention from
consumption (thrift), or of the non
immediate expenditure of wealth
developed by the release Of natural
resources lenterprise). When not
dlssipated on non productive luxury
1T is q trust fund whose employment
amelicrates the lot of the oncominc
generations. Whether spent on new
bridges, canals, factories, habita-
tions or on education or such work
as the Rockefeller Foundation car
rles on IS of relatively small i'm
portance. The main thing is that
there is storage battery of energy
whose current can be directed to
meet any need.
Disillusioned Lenine acknowledges
that great obstacle to non-capital
istic systems Is that men are not in
telligent enough to coSnerate under
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

1t may be necessary some day to
feel sorry for the possessors Of dis
titled liquors on their great financial
loss. But not yet. A rather in
ferior brand of whisky was yester-
day quoted in the underground mar
ket at S92 a case. AS the stuff
cost the owners scarcely more than
one-third Of this, it is to be gathered
that q period Of grave apprehension
has not arrived. The demand for
medicinal supplies promises to be
good even after fateful January 16.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
The Coming Totuer
To Ruth

Lots Of letters on my desk,
Commonplace and picturesque,
All Of them addressed ITO Ruth
Partly fiction, partly truth;
Dozens Of them, slews and volumes,
They would fill hundred colyums-,
If you want them, more or less,
And will send me your address,
I shall forward them to you,
Where and when you tell me to.
Question not the motives Of
One who offers as above,
One who's becn--allay your fears
Welded half of thirty years.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

"You know" said DR.. Lyman Abbott,
"one can write easier almost any place
in the world than in a newspaper Office"
We quarrel with the Doctor. Ono Is in
such a hurry to get away that writing
in a newspaper office is easier than any
where else. This paragraph itself,
momentous as It is, took only-what
with amiable visitors, telephone queries,
and carrying the copy downstairs
seventy-one minutes
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Amendment will, therefore, stir tho
deeps Of constitutional erudition.
Yet 1t will probably be very diff
cult task to bring the sovereign
power of the people successfully be-
fore the bar.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

"Christmas gift?" expectantly says
the country to Senator Underwood.
Will he respond? Or, like Friend
Hitchcock, will he turn away, say
ing "The President won't let me-?
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
Tho sta. Preserve U.!

Sir: My sister Elizabeths wishes to IN
form you that the apartment house at No.
POI West 1o9th Street is called tho St.
Goldberg. HAY
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
SUBSCRIPTION RArES-By xiArI. Including
esstass. IN THE UNITED STATES AND
GUARANTEE

Ssu can surehass msechandlss advsetissd In rhk
TRIBUNE with absolute safetst-tor II dlssatisfao-
dsh Vesults In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
t. pay ysuv money back usen request. Ne red tass
Ne subhIins. We make sosd promptly II ths
advertises tess rot
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
MkMBER OF rHr Assoc1Arrp rRrss

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
fhs Associated Press Is exclusively entitled tbs
sss for republication Of All dispatches credited
to It otherwise credited In this paper and
ais< the local news o. spontaneous origin published
6srcin
All rights Of republication Q. All ether matter
Aefsin are also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Frightened. perhaps, by the various
upsets that have supplied the sport
writer's with much copy this season.
Cross's booklet leads off with: "Christ
mas Comes-When You Least Expect
It,"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

She says II you print this then sha can
come to the Contribs' Dinner, and bring her
harp with her, and maybe some one will
ask her to play.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

1t could also be announced this way:
Secretary Franklin X. Lane, whose
debutante daughter recently made a
shopping trip to New York, is about
to resign. because he cannot afford to
continue at The salary paid Cabinet
officers.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
Columbus Eight Two Hundred"

Mr. Cosmo Hamilton tells Morre
that he can't send his checque for the
Contribanquet until he learns just how
much money four berries is. "Wil you
please tell him." asks Morrie, "and your
other English contribs that one pound,
assisted by 16c. in U. S. money, will be
accepted ?"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Reprinted from an 0. (. winter col.
umn: Man wants but little here below
zero.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Perhaps the reason why no Ameri-
can has written as good a Lincoln play
as the abraham Lincoln" of John
Drinkwatcr, Of England. lies in the fact
that most Americans labor under the
handicap OF having approached Lincoln
first as a subject to be studied in
school. More than likely we began
by memorizing the date of his birth
and then Of his death Even when we
came to the details Of his life he
was still lesson. Drinkwatcr's ap-
proach was probably quite different.
1t Is entirely possible that he never
heard Of Lincoln in school Tho man
may never have been much moro than
a name to him until he read the bog-
raphy written by Lord Charuwood
Thus, Lincoln came to him of his own
Tree will, complete. He was, in fact,
allowed to discover Lincoln rather than
having him thrust upon him. He was
profoundly stirred by the greatness of
Lincoln, because the acceptance of that
greatness was matter of choice and
not of necessity.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Briefly" says Tho Tribune. "'The
"ayfarer' Is composite picture Of
you and I and the rest of u.s. Again
the Lardnerian influence.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
Cosmic Thoughts

NoSmlc thoughts
This Is a helova lie.
They said the world would end to-day
believed It
/ spent all Tho money had saved On orx
good tims. l had It, too, but the savings
vera three years'.
I proposed to my best girl and said I'd
marry her next week.
I got drunk.
And now It's all fake
The darned old world didn't end
I'm broke.
| don't want TO get married
And ! lost my job
It's helova life
Merry Christmas ANoS
Lecointc covered the distance Of a
milometre in to-day's test at an aver
age speed Of 3O7 ,225 kilometres (about
1870 miles) an. hour.-Evening World
Billy Esty's guess is that the proof
reader never counted the white kilo-
metre stones in France while stagger-
ing under underground pack.
"My husband, like so many others, I
believe, dreaded to attend funeral or
enter an establishment devoted to the
care of the demised. Yet upon his
slckbed he said: Don't forget, dearie,
Columbus 5000 Prom Dr. Berthod
A. Baers studies in the higher
optimism.
LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN
CESAR-"Et TT. Brute. Call
up Columbus 5000
NELSON-"Kiss ne. Hardy Don't
forget Columbus 5000
LAWRENCE-"Don't give up Tire
ship and don't forget to call Columbus
5000
Also
The boy stood on the burning deck.
And voiced his single ono dread:
"Call--when the flames have reached
my neck
Columbus Eight Two Hundred"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Owned and published daily BY New York THhuns
ius-. New York Corporation Ogden Raid Prcai-
sshti O. vsznor Rossra. vies-Prss,dent: Helen
Rogers Red. Secretary; =. "A suter. Treasurer.
Address Tribune Building. 1N Nassau su~t. New
Xsrk Telephone Bcekman 1900
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
The Amateur ParayraDh~r

1t is bit late, Of course, to make
the observation, but I should like to
wager that Germany's ultimate answer
to the Allies will be not Noske. but
Yepsky
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

1t Is e. T. C's whimsical-b the W.,
1t occurs to us that whimsical" should
so into dead storage for few years;
as charming" has lost it's charm, so
all the whimsicality has departed from
"whimsical'-notion that John 2hey's
posters should be drawn by Mr. 12trees,
and f. st. V. M. suggests that he re-
vive "12th Night One who lisps
in numbers might add that those sug-
gestions are 13y good.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Probably most Of US have come to
exaggerate Lincoln's peculiarities Of
dress and appearance. Drinkwater. for
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

We feel privileged to comment on
abraham Lncoln' in this column,
even If it is q play, for it is available
for readers in an edition published by
Houghton Mifflin.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Gan any one tell why It is that COL
lege teams are invariably 'trounced" =?
This seems to be the caption writer's
only word for beaten" or "dcfeatcd."
L. s. FLEET TO GO
SOUTH IN JANUARY
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19
Our Elastic Currency

Our Elastic Currency
'Sir The Tribune quotes a convert at tho
McAuley Mission rs testifying:
Il went out with a dime" he said.
A man gave me another nickel
went and got shave-two cents
got some bread and coffee-three cents.
Then l bought pair of shoes for ten
cents, and went to work"
Now, not attempting to discount the
veracity Of the speaker. l ask you, what can
YOU do with 10 cents? Even your fnvorite
tipple costs SEVENTEEN cents (including
war tax. while mine sets me back SIXTY
cents land it tastes the way varnish used
to smeiN. And for shocs-wcll, ask
you deare, I ask you DrRnAN.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

Father Dufy's story" (Doran) is a
chummy and intimate account of the
"Fighting GOTH by Francis P. Duffy.
who was chaplain of the regiment. It
was, you may remember, the 165th for
the purpose Of the great war. Father
Duty IS generous in his use Of names
and gives very complete story Of the
doings of the famous regiment in
france. 1t was, of course, the regiment
around which at least half of the war
stories became associated The chap
lain himself has turn Of Irish wi,
and tells Of how he bantered one of his
French friends about the size of the
French rivers
Il told him. writes Father Duffy
that one of our soldiers lay badly
wounded near the river and offered
nm pull at my canteen Raising HIM
self on one elbow and throwing out his
arm in Sir Philip Sydney fashion, he
exclaimed. Give it to the Ourcq; it
needs 1t more than | do'"*
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

One of the reasons why children
generally like Horatio Alger and Char
lie Chaplin Is because they are not en-
couraged to read the books Of the one
or to see the pictures of tho other.
Their delight is, in part, that Of discov-
erers. If any parents are worried over
the popularity Of Chaplin, we suggest
that they make him a subject Of study
for the little ones, compelling them to
learn where and when Chaplin was
born and what was the date upon which
he first threw a custard pie. There
might also be written quizzes in which
the children would be asked to describe
IN their own words why Charlie Chap
lin kicked the waiter downstairs and
what We're his motives in pouring
champagne on his head. In addition.
the children might be required, as a
punishment for delinquency and other
petty crimes, to write all the captions
in "Shoulder Arms" 100 times and to
commit the captions from "The Tramp"
to memory. We will not guarantee q
cure of the Chaplin habit, but, at any
rate, the same system has managed to
make William Shakespeare a figure
loathed and detested by almost every
schoolboy in America.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

FOR TARGET WORK
-Trib headline
Mexico City papers please copy.
II. 7. f. H.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-19

And now Us all fake.
The darned old world didn't end.
I'm broke.
| don't want TO get married
And lost my job.
It's helova life.
Merry Christmas