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New-York tribune., 1919-07-08

nous depression from which we have just
emerged, while away lrore to the south
the cloud bed over which we are passing
seems to end suddenly and merge into
the horizon"
These weather observations of this
trip are probably the most valuable gain
achieved. Upon just such facts depends
the whole future of aerial navigation.
1t rs still largely an uncharted region.
With enough data and constant observa-
tions there is no telling what results
may be achieved by the lighter-than-air
craft. Their huge bulk makes them
especially susceptible to head-winds, and
correspondingly benefited by them. Con-
ceivably, with greater knowledge Of
air currents, nature, expertly taken ad-
vantage of, may enable these giant and
clumsy hulls to reach an amazing speed
that will indeed abolish oceans
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Trusting Three or Forty

Senator Borah, if he has made him.
self understood, has been opposed to the
covenant ratification as implying sur
render of American sovereignty and lib
erty of future action. His well sup
ported argument has been that under
some conditions a body not known to
our Constitution might declare boy
colt, with war probably ensuing. This
would force Congress to agree to plunge
IN, or would bring on the country the
reproach of treaty breaking.
But no similar objection can be made
to the alliance treaty An attribute
Of sovereignty is the power to enter into
alliances. Indeed, if this prerogative is
lacking it may be SAID sovereignty is
manned The Constitution forbids tha
states to make alliances, but, signiicant-
ly no similar prohibition runs against
the Federal government, thus, by in
ference, saying it is free. International
lawyers and our own publcists, begin.
ning with Alexander Hamilton, agree
That the right to enter alliances lis the
very staff Of nationhood- one of the
things nation may do in virtue OF
being nation.
Senator Borah is able to convict the
President of Inconsistency in urging an
alliance such as he declared he would
oppose. But the Presidents consistency
has nothing to do with the merit cf the
proposal itself. Proof that he ;s ;n
constant may be relevant to the accusa.
ton that ne is unstable, but it's rele-
yancy goes no further; therefore, for
the purpose of the present discussion, is
irrelevant. Any engagements into which
this country should enter should be con-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08

sidered without reference to the person
ality Of any man.
The worlds peace to forty nations
they are to discuss-under some circuna-
stances, perhaps, to decide. An alliance
puts the policing power in the hands of
three
With but two partners it is not neces-
sary to institutonalize as much as with
forty; more can be left elastic and un-
defined. Each partner, as did the men,
bers Of the Entente at the outbreak Of
the war, will judge for itself, as occa-
slons arise. True, other counter alli-
ances could be formed, but they are
not likely to get far if.they face a pre-
ponderant power. If such power had
existed in 1914, if there had not been in
lieu merely balance Of power, Ger
many would not have gone on the march.
Sazonoff held that If even Great Britain
had declared herself peace would have
been saved. Certainly it would have
been saved if the United States had
adhered
The natural way to peace is for the
nations that want peace to join together
to enforce it.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Marriage and Hot Weather

Commenting upon the unusual rush
for marriage licenses last Saturday, a
philosopher Of the Municipal Building
ventured the explanation that the ap-
plicants were ''crazy from the heat"
The fact may be admitted more easily
than the conclusion. Many have thought
love madness; Glove and pride stock
bedlam,' as the proverb puts it. But
is it a midsummer madness? Does it's
frenzy rise with the thermometer? It
may be only a coincidence that a rush
occurred on very hot day. Some pa
tient statistician w.uld have to decide
this point
There may be many subtle relations
between love and weather which are not
yet UNDERSTOOD 1t is a subject to en-
gage deep thinker for years of cogi-
tatlon and research. June Is favorite
month for marriages, but it does not
follow that June marriages imply a
more passionate devotion than October
marriages, which are also FREQUENT.
Love blossoms earlier in the tropics. no
doubt, than in the temperate latitudes.
and this fact may support the weather
theory. But it would be rash to ASSUME
as much without strong confirmatorv
evidence. Upon no point are men more
given to rash generalization than upon
affairs Of the heart.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Pie ce s of E1ve
(Fron The Chicago Evenino Post,


lot Of people who 1ide down town
the surface cars, damning the service ail
the way, usually end mp with cbu.l
over their victory in the scent fara fr,st
They forget that the nickel no ,on,a~
exists, except nominaly. It is now raa1l'.
21a-cent piece.
The elevated railways were urab,e y,
July to pay any of The principal Of IA
Slo'ooo,ooo of notes then falling dine Nor
were they IN position to negotiate 81,
extension, with no prospect of HAVING
money IN their treasury in the near f,,turs
AS matter of fact, we are livino ovor
volcano. Both the elevated and tna So.
lace Zines are on the brink of banl,run+.-.
What would happen if these roads shouid
suooehly cease to operate? rece;vor-
SNIP you say? Yes, but what can ~
celver do with property whose outgo is
greater than its income?
With any break in service. what would
De the inconvenience and sutferines- os
hundreds of thousands? How crime would
thrive "0aio
Perhaps, however, as coryasporaor.
suggests, the people could ride dow, tow,
on inc shoulders of tho politicians who
nave been bunking them about into tbe
pellef that nickel is still nickel.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08

So the jocular title of your editorial :.
tragically correct.
And the carne shasn't ended. Carranza
soldiers are sent to drive American work
men away from American wells. 70 effect
the confiscation. Lee Moye, one # the
drlilers who stuck to it during the war an
Alabama boy, who wanted to enlist amonr
inc volunteers, but saw his dutv to helm
win the war where he could best holm was
murdered at Lisderrick, in Carranza for
rl1ory' last Tuesday. Joha Correll is slain
defendlng his wife's honor from ermoa
soldiers in the oil district within tho month
The carnage continues. The Mexican oov.
eminent wants the American owned oil +ha+
we need to keep ships on the seas undar
our flag and to hold down the cost 80
gasolene. Confiscation is objected to Mur-
der TOR purposes Of intimidation is mat b.,
no'hlng more serious than grammatical ra-
quests to protect Americans in tho d;.
'rlct' which are joke end a derision +,
predatory Mexico. So murder cont;nroa
"Confiscation with carnape.n yo,,uo
right. ie
olean, N. Y, July 5, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Women and Naturalization
(From The st. Poul Doslv Ne,c,

tFrona The st. Pdul DoSly Nescs)
Congress seems certain to revise our I'M
migration and naturalization laws in the
near future. There will be an effort 10 put
a little more heat in the fire under the
melting pot.
Also women will soon become citizens
and voters.
This suggests need for change in our
naturalization law as it applies 70 women.
At present there are serious inconsistent
cies
For instance New York woman whose
husband enlisted with the Canadian forces
after Uncle Sam turned him down lost the
right to vote and became British subject
until her husband was repatriated.
An American woman Ca voting citizen
perhaps) marrying an unnaturalizcd alien
would lose citizenship under the present
law.
An ambitious husband who Amercan:zed
himself rapidly and proved his right to
.natufalization and the ballot might have
an unambitious wife ignorant of English
and our political system, yet his naturali-
cation would entitle her to the ballot
Suffrage seems to demand that women
must prove their right to vote as we'll as
men,
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
The, Presidents Return

To-day is Wilson Day, in honor Of the
Presidents return from Paris.
When the President surprised the
public by the announcement that he
would take personal part in the peace
negotiations few conceded with him as
to the necessity or the wisdom of his
departure. Other Presidents had found
delegates in whom they reposed con-
fidence. With our treaty making power
dual, conspicuous Senators had been
chosen as commissioners, thus making
for harmony Of action. Not personally
committed as to details, u President could
play the part of umpire, translating the
opinion not only of himself but of
others. Moreover,>the spirit of the Con-
stitution seemed, against it. But time
has softened the acerbity Of these con-
victions. And there have been gains,
among them the education of the
President himself He has learned to
face realities.
The President has repute for stub
bornness. On the contrary, he has
-hown capacity for change. One may
almost predict that in the end, in the
struggle over ratification, the President
will yet cheerfully accept the construct
i've Root proposals, which will secure a
practically unanimous ratification and
yet rid the covenant of doubtful features
which have created alarm.
A President is a centre of national au-
hority, as our flag is its symbol, and
Though he is not to be exempt from
criticism, sound patriotism demands that
the criticism shall be solidly based and
never frivolously partisan or personal.
To the free enjoyment of his great
estate the President is heartily welcome.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
The Chain Store

The wholesale grocery jobbers, in be-
half of their own trade and that Of re-
tail grocers, charge discrimination in
favor Of the packers by the Director
General of Railroads. The packers, it
is said, are allowed to put groceries into
their meat cars, thus securing expedited
service, while shipments from wholesale
grpcers are delayed. A suit to correct
the alleged evil is before the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
That the packers send goods through
as quickly and as cheaply as they can
may be taken for granted. That they
and other chain store organizations are
invading the retail grocery field is OBJ
vicus from signs on hundreds of streets.
The retail grocery tradeeis meeting COM
petition it has hitherto escaped, and al.
though discrimination may occur and is
to be deprecated, the wholesale grocers
are doubtless aware that the source of
the trouble is deeper.
The independent drug store is pass
ing; so also is the Independent cigar
store. Popular prejudice ran strongly
in favor Of the man who owned his
business. But the steady insistence Of
price made a way for the chain store
And public sympathy has been meas
urably alienated. The retailers arc
under official indictment as profteers.
They were quick to mark up the gooos
on their shelves when wholesale prices
advanced and, unless they have been mis-
represented, they are now not meeting
fairly the other swing.
Nor do retailers seem to be doing
what they can to lessen the margin OF
cost between producers and consumers.
They lack the proper cooperative ira-
pulse and are throwing the door open
to the "trust." If the door is open it is
certainty that some group will enter,
and that all the suits will not prevail
against the practice of the economical
housewife to purchase as cheaply US
she can
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
The Uncharted Sky

There have been few logs of flying
as picturesque and stirring to the in
aginatioh as that of the R-34, written
down by General Maitland, official OBJ
server for the British Air Ministry. A
new nomenclature, new science, new
world, step forth to view as a result
Of this epoch-making voyage.
AS Commander Read suggested the
greatest accomplishment Of such trip
is to familiarize the public with what
has been done, to create a popular con-
fidence and support in new accessory
Of life. Aeronautics has grown slowly,
steadily through the contributions of q
multitude of minds AS part of .
meteorology has taken on fresh i'm
portance and developed along unexpect-
ed channels. Of all this the public is
just now learning. Perhaps the most in
teresting portions Of General Maitlands
log were his descriptions of strange
cloud effects. No artist could picture
these strange scenes in more vivid Ian
guage. But the beauty of the spectacle
was not the object of the flying man.
Each form Of cloud was seSppulously OBJ
served and noted, photographed in many
cases, for the forecast of weather
changes which it might hold
Take, for instance, that moment a..
p. m. the first day cut, when Major
Scott increased his height to 1000 feet
and brought the Ship out we'll above the
clouds in which he had been travelling
and revealed a bright blue sky over
head:
"The view is an enchanting one-as
far as see a vast ocean of white.
feecy clouds ending in the most perfect
cloud horizon. Two particularly fine
specimens Of windy cirrus clouds, Of
which Pritchard promptly obtained photo-
graphs, appear on our port beam; also
some cirrus ventosus' clouds-,ittle
curly clouds like black cocks tail
feathers all OF which Harris .interprets
rs first indication and infallibe sign
Of depression coming up from the
south"
No collector Of rare paintings could
be more excited over the chance discov-
stJ w ali unexpected treasure. AND tho
next day proved the entire correctness
Of the forecast, based on those windy,
curly clouds" Very rough sea, torrents
Of rain and visibility only half mile
were the practical consequences of that
depression coming up from the south"
after which, late the next evening, came
this second picture:
10 the west the clouds have lifted and
we see some extraordinarily interesting
sxy-black. angry clouds giving place to
clouds OF gray mouse color, then a
bright salmon pink clear sky, changing
lower down the horizon to darker clouds
with rich golden lining as the sun
sinks below the surface The sea la not
visible, and is covered by fluffy gray
feather bed of clouds, slightIy unduatiss
and extending as far as the eye can reacs.
The moon ia just breaking through the
black clouds Immediately above 1t.
"on the eastgwc see the black omi-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Con fiscation With
Carnage
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS an American who has dwelt
among the horrors of the Tampico oil fields
and followed the Mexican attempt to drive
Americans out by coniiscation and then bv
murder, l thank you for your editorial of
yesterday. Its title "Confscation Con
Carne," was happy inspiration, character
lstic of the new brilliancy of The Tribune.
But it is deeper than mere brilliance
Contiscaton-then human life-has been
the story.
Germany felt we were going to war In
lato 1916. Germany sent representatives
to the Queretaro Assembly, and German
friend of the Mexican Cabinet minister in
the Convention, ably assisted by promi-
nent American Socialist, contriyed the in
clusion in the "new constitution" of the
article confscating the petroleum industry
from its American and British owners who
had made it. George Creol has shown the
effect of this precept on the Allies war
supply. It is charitable to. believe the
American Socialist was innocent of the help
he was giving Germany. The German knew
exactly what he wanted.
In early 1918 the Germans were to make
their supreme effort. Carranza was in
formed. Then appeared the executive de-
crees con1iscating petroleum. Then came
the Allies protests. Then Mexico desisted
for time.
Then the casnc.
One Pelaez has held and protected thu
oil fields, protected the American workers
and declared for the Allies. Confiscation
by decree failing for the time, Carranza
sent an expedition to destroy our ally in
the jungle. He was driven back to the
hills, and Carranza's military expedition
was followed by attacks on and murders
of Americans working without glory or
medals to supply the men in France with
aviation naphtha, fuel oil and all the wave
Of oil on which it has been said the Allies
tioated to victory. Eleven of these Ameri
cans were assassinated and fifteen were
wounded with American bullets which our
government allowed Carranza to have. Onlv
one case of assault occurred outside the
~Carranza lines, and that was in unoccuDied
territory.
The facts convince that it was all part
Of a conspiracy to intimidate Americans
and drive them out of the oil fields. but
the Americans stuck to their posts. No
glory was theirs, no reward, no apprecia
ton by their government. But they stuck
disarmed and unafraid, picked off like rab-
bits in territory occupied by the faction
their own country had favored with rccop
milton and arms and cartridges to kill them
with. Killed and mutilated, they stuck
AND the men in France got the oil they
needed, and We won the warl
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Songs of the Air--I
My bonnie flies over the ocean;
My bonnie flies over the sea;
NY bonnie flies over the ocean;
She flew on the R-43.

Mr.. Dempsey, the we'll known Fighter
has been quoted often, before and after
the boxing exhibition, about how proud
his mother would be, and how glad he was
for her sake, and so on. Which reminds
rs that if Lieutenant Jimmy O'Neale
hadn't been killed in France, he might
some day have been tennis champion. and
then his mother and his wife might be
proud, too.
The Times reporter is quoting Stowaway
Ballantyne. "I'd worked hard, bloody hard,
on the bally blimp," he is quoted as say
ing. ~ guess I was the only man aboard
who was sick on the trip" If Balantyne
said "guess," we guess he has been read
ing the American dialect Of Mr.. Wells and
Mr.. Galsworthy.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Democracy or Egoism?
(From The Toledo B,ade)

The refusal Of 1900 British troops ar
rived from Egypt and the East to 70 into
quarantine for smallpox on disembarkinp
ct Plymouth raises AN interesting oues-
ton as to future wars
IF soldiers collectively refuse 70 ohoV
quarantine orders when they seem super.
fuous, it is not impossible that they might
refuse to fight in another war, if that also
seemed to be an unnecessary hardship or
sacrifice
Democracy Is rampakt Whether 70,
good or i'll time alone will disclose.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
The Coming Tower
THE WEAKER, SEX

JOHN
1t was the first day, 1 met him,
My first day in the city of New York.
There was party, and met by chance,
A far-fung chance of mutual friends and
crossed engagements.
And all that evening he was by my side
Telling me all his world of sorrow and
Of joy.
And II loved him
I know loved him,
For his hands were black with hair
And he said eyes, ma'am" when l spoke
And still / loved him.
But when the time Of parting came,
I put my hand in his
With all my heart sinking down and down
With limp desiring,
And he looked down at me and said:
81 did SO hope to see you again,
But it seems I'm not to?"-
And l wondered why,
Too miserable to ask,
And said goodby.
Why couldn't some one have told me
That in these Eastern states
You have to Invite a man to calf
ALICE.
The R-34 made the trip in 108 hours
and 12 minutes; and mail from Chicago
to Mineola is to come through in hours.
But that doesn't mean that you may leave
here any Wednesday and be in London
the next Sunday; or that when you mai,
a letter in Chicago at o'clock it will
be in the New York addressees hands at
T. The time that should be measured, as
Mr.. F. P Dunno said when the boat went
across the ocean in days, is "from
boardin' house to boardin' house."
The mind is saturated with miracles.
The transatlantic flight made less wonder
ment than the first bicycle trip from Chi
cago to New York Yet the flight is the
most romantic piece of adventure since
the Deutschlands first trip to the United
Srates.
Revarnishing an ancient wheeze, R. L.
suggests that K-9 would be more or less
sky terrier of airship; and J. T. W.
points out that the disease you get riding
in balloons is R-3tis.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Metaphoricallv

(Fro'n Tho Chicago Daily Nc.Os)
There is still hope that civilization. orown
weary of its monotonous level orbit, contem-
plates spiraling to higher things.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Without Naming Il
fFrom The Do1yo. Nc,rs,

tFron The Dallas Nclus)
Reports that the Bosheviki are prenarino
to leave Pctrograd arc probably untrue
There is nowhere for them to go except some
place just as bad.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Disposscssed

tFrom The Philadelphia Press)
Administration contemporaries are re-
joicing because the Knox resolution seems
to have been dropped; perhaps i. was
dropped to get better hold on something
clse
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Worse Than loss IN Vest

POLITICALLY this is a far more terrible blow
than the loss of Alsace-L Lorraine or the pos
slble permanent surrender of the Sasr dis
trict. 1t is something more than a loss of
a tenth OF the area of the country. 1t is
even more than the actual cutting of his
country in half. 1t is the erection on his
eastern frontier of new state, destined. if
1t has time and the support of the Western
powers, permanently to block his pathway
OF expansion on the east, and the permanent
surrender to he regards with some
thing of the point Of view we have toward
the Mexlcans not alone of territory essen
tial to Germany, but of territory in which
German population, a minority to be sure
lives.
AS for Upper silesia, if this by the vote
of the people who in very great majority
Polish, shall choose to join Poland also, one
OF the great mineralized districts will be
taken away and Poland will be able at no
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Advice That Is Passe

NV, from The Philadelphia fuouirer,
"eii' anyway, prohibition is going to save
the man with cold from listening to lot
Of useless advice.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Thoughts

tFrom The Pagan
I TITLE goldfish things,
IL That CLINT and dart
Among the sedges and lily pads
In the smoky blue waters
OF my mind.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-08

H 81 o"CVEH exaggerated the current
ia reports : of German military
Il "a operations against Poland may
be, it is necessary to recognize
that such operations must now be expected
The unmistakable fact is that the cessions
OF German territory to Poland are things
That cannot be accepted by any German
now, and 1t IS hard to believe that future
generations will concur in the new map
made at Versailles, which undoes all Ger
man achievement in the East in more than
a century and half.
AS it stands the Germans have evacuated
the province of Posen under Allied pressure,
thus abandoning a fertile region, one of the
best agricultural districts of the empire, to
the Poles. This territory has an area twice
as great as Alsace- Lorraine and a population
Of above 100000, but it is not from the
German point of view the most important
sacrifice demanded; in addition, the terms
of peace require that she should abandon to
the Poles almost all of West Prussia, with
an area and population equal to Posen con-
sent to the erection Of free city Of Dan
zig, joined in many ways to Poland and alb
soutely separated from Germany. and in
addition consent to plebiscites in portions of
East Prussia and in all of Upper Silesia.
Terrible Sacrifices
Ceding West Prussia to Poland, surrender
ing Danzig, risking the loss of part Of East
Prussia by plebiscite these are for the Ger.
mans terrible sacrifices. The first two iso-
late the German-speaking regions about
konigsberg from the main mass Of German
speaking people, they literally cut Prussia
IN two, they not merely take away twenty
odd thousand square miles of territory and
upward of 100000 of people, but thew
break down Prussia itself. Thus mutilatcd
Prussia, the very heart of the German spirit
Which from Bismarck to the last battle OF
the present war dominated the German En-
pre- becomes an amorphous thing, the reac-
tionary, the military, the Junker section
either put in alien hands or cut off from the
rest of Germany.
For the German there is no solace in the
fact that Danzig does not go uncondtion-
ally or absolutely to Poland he loses. above
all else, that grip upon Poland which he has
had, with the exception of brief Napo.
leonc interlude, for nearly a century and
half.