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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16

ures to reduce the cost Of living, and
these policies are adopted, constitu-
tional and parliamentary democracy
would still rule and there would be no
relationships of the proletariat. The
hope of Longuet and Smile Is that
other and moro revolutionary objec-
tives-such as strike in aid Of the
Soviets-may be grated on the move
Irent before it degenerates into democ-
racy and loses its class character.
In this newest form Bolshcvism still
remains world danger of the first
magnitude. And the key to the whole
situation still lies in Russia Until
the Russian dictatorship of the probe
tariat is replaced by democracy all ef-
forts to deal with the revolutionary
minorities of Europe and America are
utterly useless.
The Bolshcvist propaganda no longer
emanates from Russia alone. Lenine's
vast subsidies and armies Of propagan-
dists are now aided by independent pro-
Soviet propaganda In all countries. AS
long as the Soviets remain in power
this propaganda will continue to have
an immense influence over all the most
ignorant and irresponsible clements
not only among the working people, but
in other classes. The moment the Rus
sian Soviets are overthrown the entire
movement will collapse-and not be-
fore. There is but one way to deal
with IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
Indemnifying the Buses

Commissioner Whalen is quoted as
saying the city is prepared, until
the drivers and owners are bonded,
to shoulder full responsibility for
all accidents in which the bus lines
cause injury. These are the pri-
vately owned and operated lines
that replace abandoned traction
operation in Manhattan and COM
pete with surface lines in Brooklyn.
Surely there would be a protest
from the Mayor at the mere sug-
gestion that the Fifth Avenue Coach
Company, the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit or the 1nterborough be indenlni-
fed by the city for even day.
What liabilities the city may incur
are supposed to be determined by
law, and by what law does the city
assume responsibility for the ncgli-
gence Of private business?
The bus lines started their career
with legal omission by failing to
get a certificate of convenience and
necessity from the Public Service
Commission, required in conjunction
with the temporary permit they got
from the Board Of Estimate. Com
missioner Nixon did not press the
point, preferring to give the Mayor
wide berth in his experiment.. So
tho buses were permitted to run
without the required certificate,
without a state license and without
furnishing the bond required of
others. They pay the city nothing
for the privilege they enjoy and the
roadway they use, and now the city
is to carry also the accident risk.
One trouble with municipal owner
ship schemes is that seldom is there
honest comparison with private
business. Ways are found to load
part Of the expenditure under them
on the public treasury. They are
said to sustain themselves, when they
do not. The Mayor has apparently
little liking for open bookkeeping,
and he would seem to be trying to
make q paper record for the busea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
A Week diverse
Dog


From Tho Eeso Stdtesnsaal
YOU little friend, your nose Is ready:
you sniff,
Asking for that expected walk,
(Your nostrils full Of the happy rabbit
Whit
And almost talk.
And 30 the moment becomes q moving
force;
Coats glide down from their pegs IN the
humble dark
The sticks grow live to the stride Of
their vsgrant course.
You scamper the stairs,
Your body informed with the scent and
the tract, ard The mark
or stoats and weasels, moles and bad
gers and hares.
We are going out You know tho pitch
of the word.
Probing the tone of thought as II come.
through fog
And reaches by devious means half
smelt, half-heard)
The four-legged brain Of walk -enrspt-
ured dog.
Now in the garden your head is already
low
NCan you smell the rose7 IA, no.
But your limbs can draw
Life from the earth through the tooeh
OF your padded paw,
Sending little look to as behind.
Who follow slowly ths track OF your
lovely play,
You carry our bodies forward away
from mind
Into the light and fun Of your useles,
day.
Thus, for your walk. we took ourselves,
and went
Out by the hedge and the tree to the
open ground.
You ran, in delightful strata Of waited
scent,
Over the hill without seeing the view:
Beauty is smell upon primitive smell
10 YOU.
To you, as to us, it is distant and rarely
found.
Home and further 10Y will be
surely there:
Supper waiting full OF the taste of bone
You throw up your nose again, and
sniff, and stare
For the rapture known
OF the quick wild gorge Of food and the
still he-down,
While your people talk above you IL
the light
OF candles, and your dreams will merge
and drown
Into the bed-delicious hours Of night.
HAROLD MONRO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
Switzerlend's Danger

Germany to-day is exploiting her
weakness, just as in the past she has
exploited her strength"
In these words q writer in the
J6a,raal de Gensve summarizes his
warning against the ruin that
threatens Swiss industries from
across the Rhine. He quotes figures
purporting to prove the existence of
a systematic plan Of dumping" set,
into operation by German manufac-
turers. Thus, he says, Germany TO-
day delivers paper in Switzerland at
20 francs unit, while Swiss paper
costs anywhere between So and 70
francs. Chairs (ap important Swiss
product) are sold by German firms
at 13 francs each; the Swiss ware
sells at 30. A German-made bed.
room set costs 450 francs; that of
Swiss manufacture 1000 francs.
The condition of the exchange, we
are told, does not furnish q salts
factory explanation for this enor-
nous margin. The Germans could
realize twice or three times the
price they now are getting and still
undersell the domestic manufac-
turer. Why, then, do they refuse to
make this surplus profit? 1t cannot
be charity, for, among other reasons,
the same article tells us that German
manufacturers Of machinery are
selling such machines as are not
being made in Switzerland at ex-
orbitant prices, whereas in lines
where they have to compete with
machinery Of domestic make they
sell at figures ridiculously low. Sim
liar experiences are reported By
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
Finland Intervenes

A report comes from Eelsingfors
that Finland has agreed to go to
General Yudenitch's assistance.
representatives of the new Baltic
states have been in conference for
some days at Dorpat, discussing the
advisability Of opening peace nego-
tiations with Lenine. Tinland's
action will probably dissolve this
conference.
There are sufficient anti-Bolshe-
Visit forces in the Baltic region to
take Petrograd. But it has been i'm
possible to unite them. Yudenitcn
has been unwilling heretofore to
promise recognition to the border
provinces detached from the old
Muscovite empire. He ard Denikine
have had in view restoration of
Russia pretty much as it was before
the war, Finland and Poland ex-
Guided. SO all the minor Baltic
states have hesitated to cooperate
with him. After his recent set
back southwest of Petrograd they
apparently considered the time
opportune for making peace with
Lenine and getting a Soviet recog-
milton of their independence.
Yudenitch was distrusted by the
f1nns, also. They wouldn't help to
pull any chestnuts out Of the fire
LOT him. But they have reason for
doing service of that sort for the
Allies. Great Britain end France
nave taken ALARM, at Lenine's mill
'ary recovery. In the long run they
can hope for nothing from the Boil
shevist regime. It's international
commitments are worthless. They
are therefore turning again to Fin
land, which is willing to send an
army against Petrograd If the
allies reciprocate by guaranteeing
smiand's Independence and going to
aer assistance economically.
Yudenitch has twice demon
"rated that he can't capture Petro-
ssao single-handed. He can do it
: % ONES to terms with the Baltic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16

states. Petrograd is dangerously
exposed. Its fall to Finnish, Let
tonian, Esthonian and Volunteer
Russian armies would be a saving
stroke for the Entente. 1t would
neutralize Kolchak's failures and
restore waning Allied prestige in
Eastern Europe. 1t would also be
2 first step toward the expulsion Of
Lenine---the necessary preliminary
to satisfactory reorganization of
Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
By William English Walling

Bolshevist and pro-Bolshevlst forces
of Western Europe-England, France,
Italy, Holland, Germany and Switzer-
land-are now engaged In an attempt
to capture the unions for this pur-
pose. They have already succeeded in
Italy and Switzerland; it Glasgow in
September they gained the support of
the British Trades Union Congress.
though by close vote. And while
this congress was in session a Ger
man cable showed that similar move
ment was rapidly spreading in Ger
many. We read:
The Threat in, Germany
"The struggle between the 1nAe-
pendent and Majority Socialists had
been carried into tho ranks of the
German trade unionists and Germany's
once incompatible organization of la
Dor declarations, which for discipline
and unity had been likened to the
German army, has been made the bat
tie ground Of politics which heretofore
had been excluded from the trade
unions.
"The latest development Is the &C.
ton taken by the Woodworker RS
Union, which recently adopted a reso-
! luton to GUST Karl Legien, head Of
the Commission Of Labor Federations
and member Of the National Assem-
bly,. Tho independently plan Is to
replace all union members belonging
to Scheidemann's party and permeate
the unions with the Soviet System"
The Russian Soviets have failed to
revolutionize the world by arms or
propaganda. But If the revolutionists
get even q temporary control Of the
labor unions and call q series Of gen.
eral strikes, we shall be confronting O
danger far greater than from Soviet
Bolshevism, which Ia an economic I'M
possibility. For the new movement
does not aim to operate governments,
but merely to contro! them, as when
the Glasgow Congress decided that 1t
would take action to compel the gov
| ernment.'
This congress refused to condemn
direct action even "for purely political
Objects" q decision that was very
wrongly interpreted as q refusal to In
dorsc any form Of direct action. On
the contrary, the naturalization OF tho
mines, having been proposed as solu-
ton Of the miners labor problem, Is
not regarded as purely political ques-
ton, and 1t 10 certain, from she votes
taken, that an overwhelming majority
Of tho congress would favor any form
Of direct action for that object
whether q coal strike or q strike Of
tho Triple Alliance Of Coal Miners,
Railwaymen's and Transport Workers
Unions.
"Dlrect action" accords with the So
Wet ideal Of proletarian dictatorship
only II 1t tries to use the power Of
labor to gain An object opposed by the
majority Of the nation. II the major
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
Is Light Breaking?


The Tribune wishes to extend it's
sincere congratulations to its neigh
boy The Worl1 on the evidence YES
teroay presented that it is Begin
ming to see the truth with regard to
Article X. In its article discussing
the meaning of the reservation
which has passed the Senate it
shows at last faint recognition of
central fact--name]y, that the reser-
walton relates to the question of
where power lodges in this country,
and not to the question of what obli-
cations the United States is to
assume.
"The reservation remarks The
World, cat once raises a conflict be-
tween the executive and legislative
authority Of the United States"
Leaving aside the question of wheth-
er or not there is any necessary con-
flict, the implication is that the dis
pute is over what power is to deter
mine when the obligation to act at
taches. This marks at least an ap-
proach to accuracy of statement.
TIE obligation to protect other ma
tons against aggressive attacks is
tie same under the article as inter-
nreted by its reservation as under
the article as written. The contro-
versy is whether the President alone
or the President and Congress act
ing together shall decide when &C.
ton is required and what action
shall be taken.
Cur neighbor goes on to say that
"the conduct of foreign relations is
intrusted by the Constitution to the
President" 1t is net. Congress has
the exclusive right to declare war,
and war certainly affects foreign re-
lations. He may make" treaties,
but only with the advice and consent
Of the Senate. In practice he nego-
tiates, but he must submit the re-
suits Of his negotiations. So he has
under the Constitution no plenary
power to conduct foreign relations.
Article X discloses a manifest at
tempt to give him such power, and
the Senate and Congress will, Of
course, not permit usurpation.
Here is what the debate is over
with respect to reservation which
neither extends nor limits the prin-
ciple Of mutual aid among nations
to repel aggression.
There are those who think the
President should conduct foreign
relations, but, unfortunately, the
President has been compelled to adj
NIT the Constitution is against this
view. The Senate will not consent
to it, nor will any considerable num-
Der of persons consent when the dust
is cleared from the public's eyes.
The President has power, great
power, but the democratic principle
that there must be direct RESPONSE
bilitv to representatives Of the peo-
pie with respect to war and peace
is worth preserving.
Let us hope it is not too late to
desist from partisanship and to ex-
anime with candor treaty issues as
they arise. The habit of misrepre-
senting should be overcome. Much
harm has already been done to the
league of peace idea by the cam
paign which has been carried Oh
witness the feeling Of Europe that
in some way this country is refusing
to join the league and that the Sen
ate labors to hamstring it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
Falling Asleep

From The Nation, Londo~j
VOICES moving abou. In the quiet
house:
Thud Of feet and muff,ed shutting Of
doors:
Every one yawning Only ths
clocks are alert
Out in the night there's autumn-smell~
ing gloom
Crowded with whispering trees-loon-
ing Of oaks
That roared IN wild, wet galess scross
the park
A hollow cry of hounds like lonely bells:
And know that the clouds are moving
across the moon;
The low, red, rising moon.
Now herons call
And wrangls by their pool; and hooting
owls
Sail from the wood across pale stocks
Of wheat.
Waiting for sleep, drift from thoughts
like these;
And where to-day was dresmlike. build
my dreams.
Music there was . bright white
room below,
And some ono singing . song aboutA
soldier
One hour, two hours ago; and soon the
song
Will be last night; but now the beauty
swings
Across my brain, ghost Of rememberd
chords
Which still can mako such radiance IN
my dream
That / can watch tho marching Of my
soldiers,
And CONT their faces, faces, sunlit
faces.
Falling asleep tho herons ana
the hounds
September in the darkness; and the
world
I've known; all fading past me- into
peace.
s1E,AslsD sAssoos.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
The Crime Of Bomb Making

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In the state of Delaware break
Ing into house with murderous weap-
ons on the person is q hanging offense.
In consequence, burglars leave their
murderous jewelry at home when they
contemplate a midnight visit to unex-
pecting neighbors. If we were to enact
law making the placing, or even the
making. Of bomb, or its equivalent,
punishable by death, there would be
less bombing.
ROBERT GRIMsHAW.
Now York, Nov. IL, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
The Newest Bolsheuisn1
4 Distinguished American Socialist and the Au-
thor Of Many Important BOOKS on Socialism

THERE Is lull in all Europe at the
present moment, due to elections.
In France, Italy and England
revolutionary political Socialists do not
wish to appear too Bolshetistic for fear
of being rejected by the electorate. At
ter the elections we shall almost Ger
tainly have q rccrudesccncc both of
sovietism and Of direct acton"--in its
most extreme or political form-that is,
direct action which aims at the imme-
date control Of the chief policies of the
government, regardless Of the views of
the majority of the population.
There is no longer any immediate
danger that soviet relationships will be
set up outside of Russia. There are no
soviets now except in Central Russia
and Turkestan. Lenines Communist In
ternational, however, fares better, and
serves as the connecting link between
the soviets and the new movement for
revolution by direct action. 1t Is known
that the Socialist parties of Italy, Nor
way, Bulgaria and Serbia have joined
that body, which will be immen sely
strengthened by the Italian elections,
where the political Bolshevism
vs.. ultranationaiistic reaction - has
given an exceptional opportunity to the
soviet candidates.
The Socialist parties Of France, Swift
erland, Austria, Holland and other coun-
tries are in the hands Of majorites
which are demanding the fusion Of the
Communist and tho Socialist 1nterna-
tionals together with the expulsion Of all
those Socialists who supported the war
or now support their governments-in a
word, they are aiming to expel all anti
Bolshevists. Acting with these ele-
ments are not only tho out-and-out Ser
man Bolshevists (the Spartacists), but
also the chief opposition party IN Ger
many to-day, the Independent Socialists.
In Great Britain tho Independent Labor
party. under Mcdonald and Snowden,
takes the same position and is sup
ported by such leading labor unionists
as Cramp, head Of the railwaymen;
Smillie, head Of the miners.
The Direct Action Group
Here is powerful international
group-quite powerful enough under IA
vorable circumstances to control tho
combined labor movements Of Europe.
Already it dominates the British Labor
party. In spite Of Henderson and the
moro moderate elements, and all but
dominates the labor unions.
The program Of this international
group may be summed up in three
words: revolutionary direct action" It
Is this form of direct action" and not
sovietism that constitutes tho danger
now.
This form Of political direct action,
camouflaged as economic, 10 the newest
Bolshevism-the latest effort, approved
and supported by Lenine, to bring
about world revolution. The entire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16
No Choice

(From The Charleston Nescs and COURIER
Newspapers in Mexico City are urg-
ing Mexicans to remain in their own
country. They might as we'll. It's
about as peaceful in Mexico now as it is
anywhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-16

ity Of the British people favor ma
tionalization of the railways and
mines, but is held back by obsolete
constitutional checks, unjust electoral
laws or insuperable parliamentary Jug
glery, then the direct action movement
may be revolutionary in method or
even In aim, but it remains democratic,
and so IS in no sense Bolsheviki.
Now Smillie claims that the major
ity of the British people are with him
and that in threatening the general
strike he is using constitutional and
not revolutionary means. He even de-
MES that his speeches are revolution
ary-though 81 whole booklet of these
speeches had been quoted against him.
But this claim to democracy and con-
stitutionalism cannot be taken seri-
ously, since he never fails to express
his sympathy not only for the Russian
Bolsheviki, but for Bolshevism itself
in general. At the Glasgow Congress
smillie said: 1.-THE trade unionists Of
Russia to-day are fighting battles in
behalf Of the Socialism of tho whole
world"
The truth Is that the British cleo
tions have shown that the majority Of
the people are against anything that
approaches Bolshevism. Smillie has
been defeated several times, and all his
associates were overwhelmed last De-
cember, so that he has only one relia-
BILE supporter among the 600 members
Of Parliament, elected on the new dem
ocratio- suffrage. Later bye-elections
have shown a drift in his favor, but
not 80 that a general election could
possibly give his revolutionary or semi
revolutionary friends q third or even
a fourth Of Parliament.
Revolution by Stages
Tho government is to be "com-
PEELED" to follow the labor unions only
in such matters as shall place the
potential control of the country in
their hands. Actual administration Of
industry and government would follow
only later and by degrees.
This revolution by stages and with
out violence differs profoundly from
Lenine's ready made and compulsory
Utopia. which smacks so much Of
Car Peter the Great. But 1t follows
the Bolshevist plan OF operation, since
it amounts to . virtual revolution by
obtaining control for q labor minor
ity. Moreover, the fantastic, violent
and extreme ideas Of Lenins would
doubtless obtain more and more vogue
In proportion as such 9 movement rs
this grew In power.
The newest Bolshevism does not have
the full approval Of Lsnine for the
simple reason that IL runs . grave dan
ger Of becoming democratic and so Of
ccasins to serve his "proletarian" rev.
olution. For, If great masses Of the
population, outside Of Industrial wage
earners, come to approve nationalist
tioa, higher xsses and radical meas
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rct can eussha,s mcSshs-diss advertised In THE
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From The st. Louis Post-DispotoA)
Strike and che world strikes With
you. Work and you vcAk alone.
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Srsn.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1s. 1919

Owned sne rus,isFsd daily ay Now York Tribune
lac. New YORK. CeTp2rasscn osucn Reid. rres,
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-26
Gen. HO1gGe Is
Warm In His
Praise Of "Y"
Men and Women With His
Division In France Are
Cited For Valor.

The interstate committee Of the Y.
II C. A. is in receipt OF copy Of the
general orders citing "a 7. NJ C. A.
workers for energy. zeal and courage
displayed, issued by Maj. Gen. Robert
L. Howe. commanding officer Of the
third division, A Z. r., whom Fl Pa
scans 'wiu remember with pleasure as
former commanding officer Of the FL
PasO military district
Those commended are: Miss =. NJ
Barker. Miss T. y. Dickson. Miss Nil
dred Nash, r. c. Shreve. C.. A. Platt.
NJ H Ellis. E. L. Bevan. @. o. Good
win, Miss Anna Davis. 2. S. Roberts.
~ C. Little, r +. Esd0n. r. O. futile,
d. h HoWes, G. w RIceout. T. G. Sid
ley, Fred Olney. W r. Flaxington. n.
z kcchler, +. J.. Duraut, Mack Strong
J. R. simpson, J. r. Wood, W. J.
Stewart
In the battle Of the Argonne. in
which the third division was actively
engaged for 81 days. the entire per-
sOnel Of the y. ~ c. a. rendered a
service to our men in the front line
which, though not OF a cOmbatant ma
ture, made easier the task OF our
combatant troops says Gen. Howe.
Nothing could have been finer than
this performance Of duty. and the en-
tire division is proud Of its y. H. c. A.
representatives