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New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
Ludicrous Terrorism

Had the Germans sense of humor
it would go i'll with the "red terror"
Several dispatches that have come
through from Berlin in the last few
days make it difficult to believe that the
situation there is really as desperate as
it seems.
In world Injured to the ruthlessness
of the most barbarous of wars it is hard
to square the stories of frightfulness in
the German capital with the announce
ment that by mutual consent the fight
ing was discontinued last SATURDAY. SO
that the hausfraus of the neighborhood
could DO their Sunday shopping and
business could have chance to catch up.
Fighting was not to be resumed bv
either side without formal notice, a sort
Of exaggerated "King's Excuse" affair
such as children observe in their nIav
This was followed by the story of the
capture by the Ebert forces of the office
OF V0raUdrts and the effort of the blood
tharstN Spartacides to escape over the
rocftops armed with--four typewriters
Now comes the dispatch from Mr.. ]
{. Segrue, correspondent of The Tribune
IN Germany, of the appearance of
Spartacide delegation from Munich to
= Interview the Bavarian Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister refusing to receive
the delegation, four of these very mod
ern ambassadors, who once had leen
sailors, Skinned up drain pipe and an
peared before the minister in his private
chamber.
The same dispatch tells of members of
the Spartacus faction who stopped
wedding at the altar because they did
not like the political opinions of the
bridegroom. 1t is also to be noticed that
the great loss of life is always among
the forces opposed to the particular fac
tion that is giving out the report. and a
growing suspicion that this peculiaritv
gives rise to is strengthened by the state
ment In Mr.. Segrue's dispatch that at
must be remembered that German news
papers, from motives of party policy.
often grossly magnify the Incidents oc-
curing"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
"Our Heroes Homeward Bound"

Dedicated to Our President, United States Army
and Navy, Red Cross and the Allied
Nations Over There
By COL. WILLIAM HENRY KERLEN
NASHVILLE, TENN.
On the blood-red fields of Flanders,
On the blood -drenched fields of France
There the American manhood
Made the German tyrant dance and prance.
All glory to Americas manhood
The heroes of every strife,
Routing the Huns from destruction
Of property and life.
See Old Glory-foatng,
Floating to the breeze
The emblem of freedom
To the countries beyond the seas
Red, white and blue: it's our banner!
Love and cherish it; never desert it!
1t is the banner Of the heroes true
Our banner-red, white and blue.
See the heroes coming!
God bless them, one and all!
We weep for those left behind
And rejoice with the ones coming home.
Some have given their lives for glory;
Some have given their lives for fame
Their lives for freedoms cause beyond
the River Seine
TO BE CONTINUED1
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
Open Diplomacy"

THE first of President Wilson's four
teen articles reads as follows:
IL. Open covenants of peace. openly
arrived at, after which there shall be no
private understandings OF any kind, but
diplomacy shall proceed always frankly
ard in the public view
.Whether the era Of covenants of
psace "openly arrived at should begin
at. Paris, or only after the adjournment
Of. the Paris conference was not speci
fed. Hence the confusion and irritation
over the announcement that the business
at. the peace congress would be transac-
ted -after the ancient methods of "secret
Diplomacy"
What is meant by "open covenants tf
peace, openly arrived att? That is not
the esAmerican habit. 1t is not the habit
Of. any other nation. Treaties to which
the United States is a signatory are
secretly drafted and are transmitted to
the Senate in confidence. There they are
discussed behind closed DOORS The Sen
ate has rigid rules, which pledge each
member to divulge no information con-
corning treaties under consideration. 1t
has tried many times to punish news
paper corresp spondents who have published
the texts of conventions before the in
junction of secrecy had been removed.
We have, in fact, no treaties which
were "openly arrived att President
Wilson may have contemplated some
radical innovation in diplomacy when he
wrote the first of the fourteen arti-
cles. If so, he afterwards changed his
mind for he sent a letter to a Senator
a few months ago in which he said that
he had in mind nothing more startling
than that treaties should be made publ
after ratification. But that has long
been the rule in the United States.
Certainly, delicate negotiations, such
as the peace congress must undertake,
cannot be conducted publicly. 1t would
be highly absurd, moreover, to frame the
peace treaty in the open and then trans
nit it to our Senate, which still main
tains the right to discuss treaties in
secret.
What is the meaning of the demand
in Paris for "open diplomacy? So far
as Americans are concerned it cannot
be for the creation of press gallery at
the Congress. That way lie confusion
delay and diseord. What the American
people want is not . eaily report Of the
chickering's and frictions III the council
They know that there must be much
pulling and hauling and many compro-
mises. They viii be entirely satisfied to
let the delegates wrestlc with details
But what they would like to have
and &c far have had to go withoutZis
a,clearly defined idea Of what the repre-
sentatiyes of the United States are de-
manding in the name of the United
States. Give them that information in
It's essential outlines, and if they approve
it they will be satisfied to have the de-
tails worked out in a diplomatic atmos-
phere.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

The War Department transferred
General Leonard Wood to the South.
and then, for the first time, the South
put its whole soul into the war. Then it
transferred him to Kansas, and Kansas
famed with militant Americanism. 1t
now has transferred him to Chicago
and that city, we predict, will be at last
thoroughly and deeply Americanized.
We congratulate Chicago and we felicj-
tate the War Department upon making
General Wood the significant political
figure he is coming to be-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
Conversion of Mr.. Hines

TlALAEh D. HINES The Director
Nv also to Mr. McAdoos
FedeTat control tie
management demonstrated
1917
CONTROL as the folowing extract
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

No one will object to the presentation
OF horse to Representative James R.
Mann by the counsel for Swift e. Co..
but harassed providers for families are
sure to demand what inspired >the gift
of three and a-half-pound steak.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

Every time man uses the telephone
ne thanks Providence that the govern.
ment has thus far kept its hands off the
subway.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

The Washington dispatch telling that
the dollar-a-year men will receive their
annual pay in the form of checks signed
by President Wilson radiates the in
ference that these men have not yet been
paid. This dwindles to nothing the vari-
Gus and conflicting stories about delays
in soldiers pay. And the Thought of
men like Mr.. Frank A. Vanderlip and
Mr.. Bernard M. Baruch waiting around
for the case-note melts the icy heart of
an ex-warror himself.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
Foods 8 Big Job
From The Lon Auocica

From Tho Lar An0cics Ttmes
1t used to be said that food will win
the w@r'i but 1t now reads Food win win
tha world"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

,. ~ can purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRtSUNE with absolute safet-for il dissatisfaction re-
sntS In TAe TRIBUNE guarantees TO pay your
rcasy back upon request. No red tape No qubhne.
Nd make good promptly II tn, advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

Il r. NlEMBEE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
*rfe Associated Press IS exclusively entitled 70 the
I. REPUBLICATION % al di patches c-e,cd 20 it
n sNevss cfcdit,d in THIS and also the local
sssso; Spontaneous ufisiu published herein.
s1s nights ~ republication VI a. other matter herein
J, $so reserved.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
Anomalous Mr.. Hearst

tFrom The Colwmba Stote>
Mr.. Hearst will go down into history AZ
the Unwelcome welcomer.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
The Coming Tower
REGARDING o. THE u. S. AND CD |
NEW YORK

Before I wos trauelled oird,
scofed, IN my provincial acay,
A othe1. laaads; deemed absurd
Al nations bit these Z. S. 4.
And-although Middle Western, born-
Before avos travelled guy,
/ laughed at, qrith unhiddeoa sco17a,
AU cities bit Ncae York, N. Y.
BIT now Trc been obout bit
Hon. tyauel 6roadcno! Ho1o 1t does'
And hare found out this, to auit:
Hoac right I aros! -Yoay right aouS!
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
TO BE CONTINUED I

A returning colyumist should wear
gas-mask when reading the letters that
come in, for they are charged with
lachrymal gas. But it was the notice
of the annual meeting of the tennis club
that was hardest to read with undimmed
vision.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

Perhaps Freudian expert can inter-
pret this recurrent dream: We are
New York hotel keeper. A man registers
"B. X. Blink, Washington, D. c." What
do you do in Washington" we ask "I'm
in the hotel business" he answer.
Sorry" we say, though our hotel is
empty, eve haven't thing"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

Authoritative comment by this de-
partment on the League of Nations and
the Bolshevik menace must be deferred
until VIC know just what they mean.
The perfect definition, if any contrib
has it, would help us.
The athaletic young doughboy in the
a. +. f. was under the command Of
General Perishing.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

Consider this paragraph gold star
for Lieutenant James Saunders O'Neale.
who, as Jimmy ON, was frequent
Tower topper
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17


that was hardest to read with undimmed
vision.
The honor flag of the Fifth Liberty
Loan, Victory Issue, will bear blue
"V,' indicating both "fve" and "Vic-
tory" And perhaps Woodrow wilson.
Consider this paragraph a gold star
tor Lieutenant James Saunders O'Neale.
who, as Jimmy ON, was frequent
Tower topper
Looking on the Pollyanna side of Pro-
hlbltlon, it may have some good effects.
1t may annihilate the public dinner. with
It's oratory. You simply can't listen to
the average dinner speaker if your So
briefly is 100 per cent. So Prohibition
will either do away with the public din
ner or inspire a new school Of speakino
And Prohibition may raise the musi-
Cal comedy standard. A slightly jingled
audience thinks anything is good.
Little did Charles H. Hoyt consider
himself prophet when he wrote "a
Temperance Town."
Mr. Ray Stannard Baker has had ex-
cellent experience in secrecy. It wa
years before anybody knew he was David
Grayson.
1t takes pair of kings or better to
open the Peace Congress.
Ones civilian pay is greater than ones
Army pay, but don't neckties cost q
lot nowadays?
Perhaps it was fitting that Nebraska
should he the state to push us over the
dry line. Omaha, to our notion, is the
dryest town in the country.
vi whom is man to make a conf
dant after June 3Oth? You can't xvean
to soda clerk and tell him that vour
wife is the swee's' iii woman in tho
worl
From "The Tempest: II would fain
die a dry DEATH"
. Reserved your table for June 30th?
T. F. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

The honor flag of the Fifth Liberty
Loan, Victory Issue, will bear blue
"V,' indicating both five" and "Vic-
tory" And perhaps Woodrow wilson.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

Washington is strange town. Only
one hotel there is named the Grafton.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17
RANTEE

cred at the Postorcc at New York Second Glass
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-01-17

> Reserved your table for June Goth?
r. p. A.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-09
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-09
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
werid's Highest Paid Woman Writer
Idle Women and working Women. =.

Idle Women and Working Women. =.
Idleness is also the real CORE
snondent in the great majority of di-
yorce cases. Give a woman plenty of
money and nothing more interesting
to do than to buy clothes. and haunt
beauty shops, and you give her a first
class ticket to perdition- She's all
dolled up. and she has to go some
where to show off her finery, and she
has got to have somebody to admire
her. and the somebody's got to be a
man.
Husband is too busy making money,
to pay for her idleness to notice Wfat
she's got on, or to pay her eompli-
ments. and SO wife starts cut on still
hunt for somebody who will. And
she finds him in some lounge lizard,
or long haired aesthetic. who is per-
fectly willing to pay for being fed,
and driven about in her car, by tell
ing her how misunderstood and unap-
preciated she is, and what a sordid
ehump she is married to.
They ignore the fact that women
/ have any intelligence or any energy,
and that the individual with brainss
and energy must be given a worthy
object upon which to expend them, or
else he or she will find an unworthy
| one
Yet. in spite of all this, the great
| majority of people continue to believe
| that idleness is the ideal state for
women, and men keep on working
themselves to death SO that their
wives and daughters may have MOTH
| ing to do but to- sit on a silk cushion
! and sew up seam, and feed upon
strawberries, sugar and cream. That
men should sacrifice themselves to do
their womenkind the greatest harm
| they could possibly do them is one OF
| the most pitiful mistakes that the
world has ever seen in all the history
of laundering altruism.
You need no better proof of this
| than to see how much healthier, how
much happier. how much more alert
the working woman is than the idle
| one. q thought she looked so alive"
says the envious rich. fine lady of the
typist of one of Barrie's subtle plays.
And it's true. The woman who works
/ is alive. She's up on her tiptoes. She's
| full of fresh ideas. new thoughts. bub-
bling over with hope and enthusiasm.
| She doesn't have to fill in endless
days with make-believe tasks. such as
punching holes in cloth to fill them up
again, or crocheting borders on wash
| rags. She's doing constructive work
that is worth while. that means some
thing ara gets somewhere. She has
| a definite goal to her ambition. and il
puts pep and ginger in her days and
a song in her heart.
/ Work is the panacea for broken
hearts for ill health, for everything
that ails you. and it affects the femi-
| nine constitution precisely like it does
the male end when men realize this.
and instead of trying to protect their
| sisters from having to earn their own
| support. they get them good job, the
millennium will be In sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-09
EVENING STORY
The Future Mrs. Tevis.
BY IONA FROST.

Patience leaned farther over the
balustrade, and frankly listened. Not
that she had ever intended to, but
when one comes along unexpectedly
and hears ones own name used freely
and without warrant. it is surely hui
man nature to want to know what it
is all about. Especially when matters
have been at the high point of tension
they had at the Quintards'.
Old Nine. Rossiter was calling with
her married daughter Milly, and Milly
was not in favor of Patience, or her
| position in the home of her wealthy
aunt. She had her own younger sis
| ter to marry off, and the marriage
! able men in the little summer colony
at Larchurst were reduced to the
minimum. Archie Tevis was the first
prize, and Patience had ignored him.
with deliberate intent. Yet now she
heard their names coupled in the gos-
sip of old madame. who ruled like an
autocrat over the other fluttering
girls and women of the resort.
well, I'm in favor of it," she said
| fatty. "Archie's my nephew, and he
needs balance and family ties. espe-
cially now, when his father is getting
younger every day. Have you seen
Tooker lately. Mrs. Quintard? He's
| fifty-four to my certain knowledge,
and he looks about forty or younger.
Been on the other side, all thru the
war, and it agreed with him. He's fit
and handsome, and Archie can't hold
a candle to him, think. If 1 were a
girl I'd make straight play for the
lcolonel."
rs he back?" asked Mrs. Quintard.
pleasantly, Il thought he was in
| Washington"
| Yes, he's opened up Everglades.
Going to make a big stock farm of it,
believe. Crazy over the rural life
for me to overlook Archie and make
Tooker fall in love with her. I'll help
all 1 can"
| And here Patience stole back up
stairs, along the broad, cool corridor
| and out on the upper porch. Here she
sat in full view from the road, with
/ rose vines and honeysuckles around
| her, and just as attractive in her white
| linen smock as she could be, with its
knots of black velvet ribbon here and
| there, and one perky bow, like Chip
peway maiden's tribal feather, point
ing upward from her brown hair.
Archie and his father rode horse
back slowly, while the colonel lectured.
You're twenty, sir, and cub. I've
seen lads three years younger than
you leading their men thru hell. sir,
and making good on it. You're afflict-
| ed with leisure and no definite aim in
| life, and now 1 hear you've had SER
| ious love affair with Molly Quin-
| tard's niece. Who the devil is she?
| There she is, dad" drawled Archie,
| provokingly, but with a twinkle in his
eye, as he nodded his head toward Pa
tience on the upper porch. No danger
that she would take the trouble to lift
her head and speak to him. He felt he
| was quite safe, and Col. Tevis turned
his handsome head toward destiny
quite as fearlessly as he had ever look
red in the face of danger.
Patience had seen them when they
first rode down the hill road, but she
had read her book deliberately until
she felt the gaze of some one, not
Archie, but a compelling gaze that
forced her to meet it. And slowly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-09

necessary to build So many new ones
to keep pace With the ever-increasing
demand for steam power. Any great
expansion of the railroads always re-
acts against the consumer in two
ways: The rates are raised to pay
for the new construction; and the de-
mand for large capital, such as is re-
quired to finance the construction,
sends interest rates up.
If the country is going to do its best
by its power resources, then this de-
velopment of electric power plants at
a thoro development of water power.
Water power, where the natural site is
good, is the cheapest power resource
of all. In the Alabama coal mine cleo
trio power plant, for example, which
makes electricity much cheaper than
it could be made by a half dozen
plants receiving shipments of coal
from the mines, it takes 270 men
working in two shifts to mine the coal
and generate. the electricity. Iui a
water power plant in the same state
it takes just Is men, working in two
shifts, to produce just four times as
much electricity.
The water power bill now before
congress, it is prophesied in govern
ment circles, will be passed during the
next session of congress. If so. many
valuable water sites will doubtless be
developed during the next few years
under federal control, and the great
amount of power which is now going
to waste will be harnessed to increase
American production for foreign as
well as domestic markets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-09

Mary Watkins dident come to skool
today. everybody saying she was sick,
and this AFTERNOON 1 was wawking thru
our dining room on my way frum see
ing if there was enything Exciting in
| the ice box, and there was some flow
ers in a thing on the table, and
| thawt, G, HI take them GROUND to
Mary Weaknesses house and leeve them
for her, and tell her who brawt them.
And 1 took the flowers out Of the
thing and took them GROUND to Mary
Watkinses house and heer who was
setting on the frunt steps but Mary
Watkins, me quick putting the flowers
inside my overcoat and holding them
| there, saying I thawt you was sick, and
aMry Watkins saying, My goodness no,
1 jest stayed home to go to the dentists,
watts that you put inside your coat, 1t
looked like flowers.
WITCH, these? I sed. And / pulled
them out agen looked kind of mussed,
saying. That's wat they are Meening
flowers And Mary Watkins sed, You
didnet bring them for enbody speshil,
| did you? and l sed, No, wy? and she
sed, o i jest wondered, 1 never saw
you wawking with flowers before.
/ hardly ever do, sed. And kepp
| on going as if 1 thawt 1 was going
sumwares, and as soon as ] got
GROUND the corner quick went nome
agen with the flowers, dropping them
| twice on the way, not doing eny good
! to theirs appeerants, and vile 1 was
| putting them back in the thing ma
looked thru the kitchin door, saying.
Well for mersey sakes, SO you had
| them, did you, look at them, they're
| a site, wat on erth have you bin up
| to?
They looked as if they needed some
wattir. / sed.
Well ware did you take them, to
the reservoir? sed ma, and 1 sed, No
mann. I jest went for a short wawk
| with them, thawt maybe 1t mite rain
| a little.
Well you take the cake, sed ma.
WITCH I do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-09
MY HUSBAND AND. i
BY JANE PHELPS

from me what 1 already knew: that
he had been drinking,
Don't look at me like that. Bah!
what's got into you tonight?"
Nothing, Neil But something has
gone into you. Please, dear, don't
drink. 1 am afraid. Afraid for you
and-for me-"
Nonsense, 1 only take a couple
after am thru at the office. 1t braces
me up. 1 shan't end in the gutter
like the story books say, SO don't
worry"
Neil, won't you take me into your
confidence 2'' 1 begged, II don't like
to feel that my sex, and my power to
amuse yoL, and my home-making abil-
ity are the only links between us. 1t
is an insult to my intelligence. Per-
haps might not understand things all
at once; perhaps l could be of no help
or assistance to you. But 1 should be
SO much happier, Mel, IL 1 felt you
were making me your eonfidante, that
you let me share all your life instead
of only a part of it. Women are do
ing many things nowadays, Neil. They
are successful in business and in the
professions. It shows that it is not
brain power that has been our lack.
or the reason we have not competed
with men long ago. / have read of
women who have been the inspiration
of the men they married-who have
given lHcIn lucas winch maze LOT sue
cess. How do you know but that /
might be such a woman? You see.
Neil dear. you don't give me a chance"
Instead of answering Immediately.
he roked at me thru half-closed lids
moment. Then:
You say you might give me ideas
that would make for my success. Am
I not successful enough to please your
ladyship? What do you want that
do not provide? Don't you have as
much, or more, than any of the young
women who have been married scarce
ly four years, and whose husbands are
but 80 years old Z? 1t seems to me that
if you stop to think. you will not find
1T necessary to make the plea to help
me, a cover for what is just plain
curiosity. Once more I ask, Bah: what
do you want that do not provide ?"
The same confidence you give to
Orton.''
(Tomorrow-Barbara and Neil have
a QuarreD.