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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

Not having been heard from since
his recent foolish threat to vote
against ratification unless uncondi-
tional, Senator Hitchcock yesterday
indicated that he is mentally con-
valescent by indicating a willingness
to join in coalition which will
bring about ratification with reser-
vations.
The Senator admits there are but
forty Senators in favor of obeying
the Presidents order to swallow the
covenant whole, whereas sixty-four
are needed to put such a programme
through. Thirty, he estimates, are
ready to ratify if safeguarding res
ervations are part of the resolution
of ratification, with an extreme
strength Of twenty-four with those
who would reject altogether. Such
a parliamentary situation mani
testify demands union which has
hitherto been prevented by a mar
row, partisan and unreasonable
stubbornness in behalf of pre-
posterous position.
To meet the views of our friends
in Europe who are most anxious to
have the United States participate
in world affairs, to save what little
affirmative good the covenant con-
tains and to avoid the reproach Of
refusing to adhere to the only league
now in sight, majority of the Sen
ate has long been ready and willing
to ratify. But this majority has in
sisted, and properly insisted, that
the ratification should be safe
guarded, that conceded antiquities
should be removed and that the
nature of the obligations this ma
ton assumed should be defined and
generally understood.
To achieve these ends the most
practicable method is to include res
ervations in the ratifying resolution
thus giving fair and open notice
This method is in accord with Amer
lean diplomacy. Our ratification OF
both Hague conventions, of the Al
geciras convention and of many gen,
eral conventions to which the United
States has become a party has beer
with reservations, which have beer
formally or tacitly accepted by other
nations. The principle Of the pro
priety Of reservations when a com
plicated instrument was under con
sideration has never been challenged
The attempt to create the impression
that the whole treaty would be en-
dangered by them has been insin
cere.
The principle of reservations be
ing acknowledged, no great difficult,
has been encountered in preparing
particular reservations to be at
tached to the pending treaty. All
that it has been necessary to writ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Sonnet

From s,ssies's)
Nora May French Ia Merrorsasn
I AN not bitter for myself alone;
But for those others vho go STUN
bling out
Before their time, those fervid ones
devout
Whose jewels unto men are naught but
stone.
Their days defeated, slscken in a grosn
And meet the dark, knowing ths
masked rout
Was rendered vain by life's envcn-
omed knout;
Doubling that time may for their blood
atone.
Not for myself shed l the heavy tear,
But for my sister gasping in the
dust,
Her meaning vague. her self-appointed
bier
Crying her, "OTsl!" She who carried
song.
Gave it By pang tn breathe It's holy
trust
And heard il silenced by the cursing
throng.
LOUISE GERHARD cANN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Ding On Ding


CIR: ] have noticed with mild amuse-
ment the discussion of my "politics' .
that has been going on in the contribu-
tors columns of The Tribune. It is
funny how that habit seems to have
grown of late. for everybody to want
to throw somebody else out Of the party.
At least, it was funny until they com
menced to pick on me. But if this
George A. Ward person wants to throw
some one ont of the party for being a
democrat and un-American," why
doesn't he pick on Old Bill Taft or Muir
ray Crane, instead of chasing an humble
and unpretentious csrtoonist around the
backyard and making such a catter
about it? | always thought Taft was a
pretty good representative Republican
and certainly good American. I still
think he has something on Hiram John
son, and Murray Crane, too under
stand he is for the treaty and must
therefore be Democrat and un-Amer-
lean.
But what I started out to say was
that it seems to me strange that The
Tribune should have found no voice to
defend itself against this silly discus
sion. AS an old and respected spokesman
of the Republican party, it is the duty
of The Tribune to keep the records
straight, and The Tribune knows that
there is no question of Republicanism
or red blooded Americansm" involved
in the issue. Where the names of such
sham and Herbert Hoover are involved
there can be no question of loyalty to
their party or to their country. And
yet The Tribune Is allowing a factional
strife to fasten itself on the Republican
party which has nothing to do with
party principles whatever. Whether the
treaty is good or a bad treaty is 8
matter of judgment, and to allow fac
tional politics to enter in is not only
fatal to a clear judgment on the ques-
ton at hand, but it is a fatal error
for the Republican party.
Out in Iowa, for instance, which has
never been anything else but Republi-
can, you will find the sentiment for the
treaty almost unanimous among the Re-
puhlicans. On the other hand, the Ger
mans and the Irish, and what few
Democrats there are, are against the
treaty. Iowa's reputation as g Repub-
! lican state is unquestioned, and as to
its Americanism, one has but to look
up its record in the war, in which
it was che first ove- the line with
their Liberty loan subscriptions in
every drive but one, and in that il
came in second. Is Iowa Democratic and
un-American? The idea is absurd. Iowa
would have no objections to mild reser-
vations, but it has no sympathy with
the theory that the United States is such
q weak and spineless nation that il
could not associate itself with the
rest Of the nations of the world for the
J good Of the whole without losing its
backbone.
1t seems to me The Tribune ought tc
lay down n few rules about indiscrmi.
nately throwing folks out of the party
I'd like to stay in myself if you could
sort of put a cot in the hall for me
Bill Taft and Murray Crane can sleer
on the billiard table. Let US at least
avoid sending any of the family out tc
the barn to sleep with the jackass.
DING.
Des Moines. Iowa, Oct 10, 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
A Thrasher of Wheat to the
Winds

From The Anglo-FrercA Rerietp)
THE lines of Joachim du Bellay. Dun
Vanneur de Bled aux Vents" have their
place not only in all anthologies. but in all
hearts They gather up the sweetness Of the
French Renaissance. the distilled beauty
drawn from deep native sources and kndled
anew by Italian culture. Their theme is
taken from the Latin verses of a Venetian
scholar. as these, in turn, had aimed at re-
capturing the touch of the finest Greek
epigrammatists. But they have lyric DELI
cacy, ipsa molities. all their own. incomps-
rable and inimitable. Many endeavors have
been made to render them in English An
drew Lang's version in the Ballads and
Lyrics of Old France comes nearest to
reaching their simplicity and exquisiteness.
Another attempt at the impossible is hers
offered.--Dr. J. w. Mackalll
DEFORE you, lightfoot band,
ID Who winged over the land
Wandering go by,
And delicatSly swing
Rustling and whispering
The shady greenery.
These little flowers set
Of lily and violet,
These roses for you,
Roses that first have blown
Their fresh vermilion.
And these pinks too.
With your sweet breath around
Blow on this level ground,
Blow on this plot.
The while l toll amain
Winnowing out my grain
When midday is hot
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m, D-tro1t yournar

tFron. The Detroit Journal
Following the Omaha affair the Hun
may wonder why the people of this
nation made so much fuss about his
depredations in Belgium.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
The Distribution Problem,

The second type of effort has TO do,
IN one form or another, with possible
and projected changes in the dstribu-
/ ton OF wealth. In this category are
found all efforts toward social re-
arrangements and educational, reform
! brought about either by legal enact
ment or by the development of an
enlightened public opinion. No man
in his senses would belittle this type
Of effort. The needs are tremendous
every worker of this sort godspeed.
But it may, after all, be questioned
whether effort in this field has as good
chance had almost said one-tenth
as good chance--of effectiveness in
contributing to human wellbeing as
has effort in the third field; namely.
the field which has to do broadly with
the creation Of wealth rather than
with its distribution. This last il
the field of scientific and engineering
endeavor; for the scientist is, in the
broad sense, q creator of wealth as
truly as is the man whose attention
is focused on the application of
science. Indeed, the scientist is mere
ly the scout, the explorer, who is
sent on ahead to discover and open
up new leads to natures gold. His
motive may be merely to find out
how nature works, but once that
knowledge has been gained. man al
most always finds way to apply it
to his own ends. 80 that in q very real
sense all scientific effort is directed
toward the Improvement Of human
wellbeing through the creation of more
wealth.
Now. it goes without saying that it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1919

osned ard published daily oy New York Triouna
~ Nea York Corporation. Ogden Reid. p-esi-
d,r, G Vernon Rogers. vice President Helen
sosss Reid Secretary; + A suter. Treasurer.
Adde'S Tribune Balding i54 Nassau Street. Ne.
so.s. Telephone. Beeanaa sooo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

OF them. One of the most urgent
needs, then, Of America to-day is for
the development in connection with FIVE
or six American universities of great
research institutes in the natural
sciences, such as do not exist at all
to-day, Institutes in which there will
be as many able Investigators devot-
ing two-thirds of their time and energy
TO research assare now found in the
detached institutions like those of
the Carnegie Institution and the Rock
efeller Institute for Medical Research,
or the research laboratories of the
Western Electric, General Electric and
the Westinghouse companies.
For Research
The great opportunity in science, then,
for the man who wishes to invest his
funds where they will count most for
his country and his race lies in the
endowment Of research chairs, or, bet
ter, semi-research chairs, in a few suit
ably chosen educational institutions.
Such monument, ought to be infinitely
more attractive than those of brick
and stone. Such a chair endowed in
such a way as to attract the ablest
men whom we develop and filled con-
tinuously by fertile men will yield
bigger returns to the donor and to
the world than any other investment
which can be made. Therein lies the
greatest opportunity which America
offers to the philanthropist to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

There is to-day new opportunity
IN science for the young American
who is facing the problem as to
where his life can be spent on the
whole most effectively. It il to be as
sumed that most men are at bottom
altruistic, that most men seek to di-
rect their lives into channels in which
they can make them most worth while
for the race. I should like to divide
all atruistic effort into three great
classes.
The first has to do with efforts
toward the improvement of the i'll
dividual characters and lives of men.
This is the field which for thousands
of years has been the chief concern
OF religion, and it is perhaps the most
fundamental and most important of
all. Its needs and its opportunities
are eternal, and no thinking man leaves
it out OF account, But il is not this
field to which I am directing attention
to day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
CHINA PLEADS HER CASE,

cartoon sent to American newspapers by the Public
information a Shanghai
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
FOREIGN RATES
EUARANYEE

sn,crc q me fos,o-acs at New YORK. As Second
Glass Mail Matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
} Ut what have all these accomplish

- Ut what have all these accomplish
ments Of science in the war to do
with the new opportunity in
science? Simply this: For the first time
in history the world has been walked up
by the war to an appreciation OF what
science can do Why have we gone on
for hundreds of years wasting millions
and hundreds OF millions of dollars in
collisions between ships: Why have we
not years ago in times of peace gone at
the problems of underwater detection
IN the way in which we went at them
during the war? Simply because men
in authority have been asleep to the pos
slbllities. But now for the moment at
least thew are awake
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31
FEELING Blue?
LIVER LAZY?
TAKE A CALOTAD
WONDERFUL HOW YOUNG AND
ENERGETIC YOU FEEL AFTER
TAKING THIS NAUSEALESS
CALOMEL TABLET.

If you have not tried Calotabs you
have delightful surprise awaiting
you. The wonderful liver-cleansing
and system-purifying properties of
calomel may now be enjoyed without
the slightest unpleasantness. A Gallo
tab at bedtime with swallow Of wa
ter-that's all. No taste, no salts, nor
the slightest unpleasant effects. You
wake up in the morning feeling so
good that you want to laugh about it.
Your liver is clean, your system is
purified, your appetite hearty. Eat
what you wish--no danger. The next
time you feel lazy, mean, nervous,
blue or discouraged give your liver a
thorough cleansing with Calotab.
They are so perfect that your drug
gist is authorized to refund the price
as guarantee that you will be de-
lighted.
Calotabs are sold only in original,
sealed packages. Price thirty five
cents. At all drug stores.-Adv.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31
ARMY BACON WON'T PLEASE.
Its Vegetables Are All Right, but Sale
Won't Affect Market.

Peoria, ILL.,, July 23.-Canned and
Grated bacon now being sold to the
public from army stores probably viii
be disappointment. The canned veg
etables which the army is selling will
be satisfactory, as Gamers in filing
the government orders used goods
that were strictly up to grade. The
sale of these goods will have no effect
on the present market prices and there
is no likelihood of profiteering.
The present high prices Of canned
foods will continue because of the in
creased demand by growers and the
increased cost of production.
The big meat packers will not be
able to secure control of the food can
ming industry because of economic
conditions.
These are the outstanding features
in the high cost of living problems SO
far as canned goods are concerned,
as set forth today by Joseph Keevers,
who served as president of the Nation
al Canned Foods and Dried Fruit
Brokers Association during 1917 and
1918 and is at present member of
the executive committee Of that organ
ization.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31

much weaker neighbor, Hickory Grove,
its score being AZ, and Concord's 81.
If the people Of Ink will give their
school the support the education Of
their children deserves they can raise
the score to that of a Glass A school.
As a general proposition the rural
schools of the county are making ex-
cellent records in the spelling tests,
but no school has made a creditable
showing in the arithmetic tests so far.
Later tests will show the progress, or
lack of it, in the schools.
Superintendent Wilbanks plans to
visit schools in the eastern part of the
county, south of the Ouachita, this
week, and will then work southwark,
endeavoring to visit all schools which
are now in session.
The Polk County Fair catalogs are
being mailed out Thursday has been
selected as Educational Day. Wide-a-
wake teachers will find things of in
terest to them IN that part of the cat
alog. If you have not copy you can
secure one from Mr. Williford, Secre-
tary of the Commercial Club, or from
this office.
TOM J. WILBANKS,
County Superintendent.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31
How Poultry Comfort Was Combined with backward Beauty

is divided into three pens with an
aisle at one end The house is Tx
feet high from the floor to the front
caves and 6 feet at the back. Yellow
pine drop siding of medium quality
was used for sheathing and roofing
purposes, the latter being overlaid
with prepared, stone surface, asphalt
roofing. Adjoining the house, with
direct access to it, are four pens, one
Of which is used for small chickens,
being enclosed with one-inch mesh
chicken wire.
Plenty of Light From Windows.
The windows are an attractive fea-
ture of this house They cost COM
plete, $1.50 apiece. those at the side
being bungalow windows of large and
odd size which the dealer was glad to
get rid of. The front windows can be
opened both at the top and bottom for
ventilation. The side windows, which
help to provide free circulation of air,
are practically weather proof, as they
are hinged at the bottom and swing
inward. The material for the floor of
this house cost $12, the owner laying
the concrete floor during the evenings
by the aid of an oil lantern.
To begin with, this poultryman had
only Is hens, while his capacity record
has been 60 mature hens and pullets.
A novel feature of his poultry opera
tions was the maintenance of num-
Der of Belgian hares which he raised
for meat. One pen in the chicken
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31

house was equipped with rabbit
hutches designed according to the di-
rections of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture In the main, he
raised Belgian hares only during the
fall, winter and early spring up to the
time of the setting season, when the
space occupied by the rabbits was
needed by the hens Then he would
reduce his rabbitry to the minimum
point. In this way the rabbit quarters
provided plenty of space, by the use
of partitions, for six or more setting
hens at one time. After the Matching
season the owner would place the
broody hens in the same pen with
several rabbits, as the presence and
hopping about of the rabbits would
ultimately break the hens of their
broodiness.
Rabbits Cost Little to Keep.
The remarkable thing about these
embarrassing operations was that
valuable food was produced from
weeds and waste, as practically the
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31

only feed for the rabbits was grass
clippings, wild hay and weeds. Dur
ing the young bearing season he
would, feed the does little skim milk
and small amount of oats, but never
more than one quart Of oats a week.
In the course of two years he raised
and ate about rs rabbits, weighing an
average of two pounds a piece All
this meat was produced as by prod
uct of his poultry operations with
small expense or trouble.
Another desirable point about the
rabbits was that they required little
care as compared with poultry. The
rabbits were fed at any time of the
day or night with satisfactory results.
at is comparatively simple mat
ter to kill and dress two rabbits in
ten minutes" remarked the suburban
lite, "but ! never was able to pick and
dress single chicken in less than
double that period. Ny family did not
tire of rabbits, because, as a rule we
alternated the rabbit flesh with chick
en- and other fresh meats. The profits
which ! realized from my poultry and
rabbit operations came entirely from
the Belgian hares, as my White Ply
mouth Rocks only about paid ex-
penses since | had to purchase prac-
tically all my feed for them How
ever, it is great convenience for a
suburbanite to have on hand two
sources of fresh meat in addition to a
plentiful supply of fresh eggs"
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31
NO GREAT RICHES, BUT FOODIN
PLENTY FROM BACKYARD POUL TRY
Suburban Resident an Ornament
Also; Rabbits Maintained Waste IntoF
at Small Outlay.

Too many poultry stories read like
fairy tales in which Aladdin is often
represented as rubbing his magical
lamp and converting poultry poverty
into flock prosperity. Unlike such
varying the truth, this is the story of
an actual experience of backyard
poultryman who was not able to buy
an automobile from his flock profits,
but who did furnish fresh, nutritious
food and an abundance of it for his
family table, in addition to enjoying
his work.
The attractive and servicable poul-
try house designed and constructed by
this suburbanite cost less than 500
when it was completed in 1914. 1t has
concrete floor, roosts, trap nests, a
water system, and other hen house ac-
cessories. 1t is pleasure to look at
this hen house, which would be really
ornamental to the backyard of any
thrifty American.
The building is IL by is feet, and
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31
GOES BACK INTO ARMY.
Sergeant Who Captured 375 Germans
Wants More Service.

Camp Funston, Kas., July 27.-Ser-
geant Harry J. Adams of Sparta, Kas.,
who is credited with making one Of
the largest bags of prisoners of any
man in the A. E. F., has re-enlisted in
the army and has been assigned to
service with the recruiting Office here.
Adams was with Company X, 1853 In
fantry, seth Division. Last Septem-
Der near Boullionville, Adams chased
a German into dugout and ordered
him to come out. He did, accompa-
MED by 374 Germans. The bag in
cluded lieutenant-c and IL 9TH
err officers. Adams marched the 375
germans back to headquarters with
an unloaded revolver. He received
the Distinguished Service cross for
his feat.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-31
GREAT MEN AT ARK. S. T. A.
Educators of National Reputation VIII
Deliver Addresses Oct. 29-Nov. 1.


Special to The Star.
Little Rock, July 49, Educators of
national reputation have been secured
to deliver addresses at the annual meet
of the Arkansas State Teachers Asso-
ciaton, which viii be held in Little
Rock October 20 to November /.
Superintendent William Writ of
Gary. Ind, will attend the full session,
beginning Wednesday. He is the high
set paid school man in America, and
his system Of Gary schools is famous
the world over. His duplicate school,
plan allows twice as many children in
a given building as is usually provid-
ed for Supt. John G. Rossman of
Stuttgart, after thoro investigation
changed his school to a modification
of the Gary plan.
Another speaker will be DR.. Edward
A. Steiner, WHO is recommended to the
circuit of Western Teachers Associa-
tions, of which Arkansas is part, by
President Wilson himself.
There will also be Prof Fiske Allen
Of Illinois, and Prof. Frank Hyer of
Wisconsin. Professor Hyer is said to
be the foremost authority in the coun-
try on the philosophy of primary read
ing and language. Professor Allen is
said to be the best teacher of secon-
dairy mathematics in the United
States.
-Four thousand in attendance is the
mark that has been set and each coun-
ty has been assigned quota.