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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
4 Radical Prophesies
He Sees Reaction All About Fast
Approaching Its Doom

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: This is no time for equivoca-
ton. Whoever we are we must align
ourselves with the forces of reaction
or with the forces Of progress. 1t is
the duty of the middle classes who
have fought the fight of freedom for
a thousand years not to permit its loss
within the decade.
The events in Russia have alarmed
the propertied classes to the point of
insanity. Radicalism, in fact LIBERAL
ism of any sort, has become criminal.
Suffering from logophobia, as our re-
spectacle citizens do, anything that
ends with "ism" is fraught with menace
to them. And the newspapers, The
Tribune not least among them, of
whom a greater degree Of intelligence
might have been expected, have been
carried away by the same hate for all
things new and strange.
Those of US who have grown up in
the spirit of the Anglo-Sax law have
much to grieve over the legislation OF
the last few years and over the execu-
ton of the laws. For it seems that
our courts, too. have become infected
with the madness that is sweeping
through our press. One after another
our rights are being taken away from
US and the press of the country raises
its voice to applaud. One of the rea.
sons for our revolt against the tyranny
of the Georges was the issuance OF
writs Of assistance, by means of which
soldiers could force their way into
homes and search them for suspicious
things. Yet in Gary, without even the
prctext of writs OF assistance. workers.
homes were entered and gone through
for so-called seditious literature.
Since when has it become a crime
to be radical? Shades of Washing
ton, Jefferson, Lincoln, Phillips ant
Whittier. Has it come to this: that
we who advocate progressive measure.
to match the flight of time should be
1 deemed criminals?
On the wave Of this reaction il i,
contemplated to nominate on the Re
publican ticket no less a militaris1
than Genarul Leonard Wood, steeped
as he is, in all the beliefs that have
made the Prussian Junkers a thine
to be loathed. We went to war t,
stamp out mlitarsm, and instead tn,
Prussian spirit has conquered US. W.
see again the spectacle of an alliance
like that which crushed the imperialism
Of Napoleon, trying all it can to stem
the tide of progress.
Some two hundred and sixty wear,
ago General Monk ended the English
Commonwealth by inviting Charles tn,
Second to take the throne of his i'll
fated father. To-day we have tn,
spectacle Of another General Monk lead
ing the forces of reaction in behalf q
cause that is as doomed as was thu
reign Of the Stuarts.
ARTHUR MASON LICKE.
New York, Nov. "a, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
Still Mounting

(From The Philadelphia Prsss)
mat Bureau of Labor Statistics at
Washington finds that good MANY
food prices went up in October. but
does not report that any prices went
down. Any housekeeper anywhere could
have made the same report and at nc
expense to the public, such as the
Washington bureau is. The report
however, is a denial of the claims
that have been made by the Attorney
General that there had been reduc
lions. The Attorney General didnt
tell where they were, and nobody else
was able to find out. The fact is. and
1t IS we'll understood by every one, tina,
nothing effective is being done to re
duce prices, and in the present condi.
ton OF labor no one seems to know
how a reduction can be forced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
seems eminently practical to join
more closely the laboratory and the
factory.
Protection for France

Two thousand years Of history,
with Teutonic foray into France
coming every half century, attests
the reasonableness of Marshal
Foch's contention that France is en-
titled to have the Rhine as barrier.
But although not to be rated as
the only or even the first line Of de-
Tense, why should the marshal have
so little sympathy with alliances and
leagues of peace? If they are not
made an excuse for the neglect of
something more essential they can
be employed to complement and to
assist-to enlist the imponderables
of idealism on the side of French
protection. The imponderables now
have weight, and may yet have de-
termining weight. There is nothing
inconsistent in supporting France in
her demand for permission to pro-
tect herself while agreeing to go to
her aid, or in forming a league
whose principles may some day have
influence on German psychology.
A barrier for France, special
pledge to France, league devoted
to the general justice which France
seeks-thesc are all good things
Emphasizers of one method of pro-
lection do not need to quarrel with
emphasizers Of another and supple
mentary method.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
By
Heppood Bropn

molding each sentence, of looking up
words in the dictionary and Of follow
ing a deliberate plan Of structure All
that is abandoned in fast writing. To
write fast one simply begins somewhere
near the beginning and ends at the end
or Whereabouts. He takes no thought
of SMILES and metaphors and uses
little words which he can spell without
mental effort. He makes his sentences
short in order not to get tied up in any
elaborate train of speculation. At the
end of three quarters of an hour the
story is in the hands Of the copy desk.
which will have to take the final re-
sponsibility for libel suits and such
like. The reporter may then read The
Saturday Evening Post" for half an
hour before calling up the hospital 10
learn whether there has been any
change in the condition of the patient.
After that he has nothing to 90 until
tomorrow.
Even dramatic critics who lead a far
more arduous life seem to keep on 60
ing Unfortunately. Indeed, the first
book Of a dramatic critic is usually
called Memories of Edwin Booth"
Some time later, in response to popular
demand, he writes another called "A
Century of Service Soft coal mining
may pay better, but there is no COM
parison in the amount of work re-
Quired, and every year you get free
tickets for the circus.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
Felipe Angeles

When the body Of Felipe Angeles
fell in front of Carranza's firing
squad, life went out of not only the
best friend of civilization in Mexico,
but the most intelligently patriotic
Mexican developed since Madero's
death.
General Angeles was the most be-
loved and admired officer in the Mex
lean army when a military junta,
headed by Huerta, murdered consti-
tutional government by numbering
its constitutional head. Few there
were courageous enough to resist,
but in Angeles the citizen controlled
the soldier. Without hesitation he
elected to devote himself to seeking
to reestablish law. He was be-
seeched to join the camarilla-
everything was rendered him. Huerta
offered to make him commander in
chief and later President. A re-
markable document is that in which
eighteen Of the higher Mexican Off
GERS united in personal appeal to
him to be captain over them. With
the virtue Of a Washington he was
proof against all brides, and put his
great abilities at the service of the
wondering Carranza and won victory
for him.
When Carranza began to play the
part of Huerta and to rule by de-
cree, General Angeles, although the
hero Of the successful revolution,
was once more true to his principles
Mexico, he held, could become happy
and pacified in but one way, and that
was by the establishment Of a
regime of law and freedom. Wearied
by the long conflict, he did not sue
ceed in blowing life into burned-out
embers, but he really tried-was
still in the field when fate threw him
into the hands Of the apostate Car
rama, and Carranza executed him.
The deed, though screened by a
court martial, will be regarded in
Mexico as political murder, and the
ghost of Angeles will long trouble
Mexico's tyrant. Americans, when
inclined to believe ell Mexicans are
ignoble, remember this gallant and
intrepid man, who was true even to
death, and went to his end with high
serenity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
A Bored Patriot
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: That letter on the editorial page
of Saturday, Democracy is so well
written that am prompted to thank
you Tor giving it space. l bought all
The Tribunes ! could find - eleven of
them-and mailed the article to my
friends,
He hit the nail squarely on the head.
Because it is so true, "The Star-Span-
gled Banner fails to enthuse US any
longer. Soon the time comes when we
shall have lost all hope, even in the
Republican party, and then We shall
drift After US the deluge!
DR. H. VUILLEUMIER BUCHER.
Hollis, N. Y, Nov. 25, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
Coal Company Profits

II Mr.. McAdOO'S intervention IN
the coal dispute secures a settlement
which will not land the cost on coal
consumers a grateful public will not
pry into his motives or his good
taste. Who cares whether or not a
man is campaigning, provided he
furthers a desirable contamination?
AS to the profits of the operators,
coal buyers are entitled to complete
information. The miners tell what
they earn, and similar disclosures
may be demanded of their employ
ers. The operators cannot be al
lowed to impound the information
spread in their income tax returns.
To do SO is to confess to gouging.
But before the operators are rid
den on rails for profiteering remem-
Der that coal prices during 1917 and
1918 were fixed not by them but by
the President. On August 21, 1917,
he proclaimed what the public should
pay. He judged badly. The Treas
ury Department now says that in
1917 the operators earned from 100
to $50 per cent on invested capital,
and in 1918 almost as much, against
10 to 35 per cent in 1916, when prices
were competitive. Yet price fixing
was presented as giving protection
to the public!
Melancholy reading is the letter of
DR.. Garfield, dated October 26, 1917,
reporting a wage advance from SO
to rs per cent, which he had ordered.
He said that the operators were
making so little money that the whole
weight of the wage increase should
fall on coal consumers, and marked
up bituminous coal As cents, a ton.
4 year later, not reducing coal
prices, he refused request of the
miners for another wage increase.
Yet now it appears that Golconda
food was pouring into the operators
pockets and the Administration did
not know it.
Another thing is to be noted
namely, that the excess profits tax
law provides that if any corporation
earns on invested capital 33 per cent
in excess of normal earnings it shall
pay 60 per cent of the excess to the
government. Did the government
get the money? If it did the net
profits of the operators were 60 per
cent less than is now reported. And
why did not Mr.. McAdoo ask for a
law under which so or 90, even
100 per cent, should be taken on
profits in excess of SO per cent above
normal?
Had the other party been in power
surely the welkin would be ringing
with charges that corrupt favoritism
had been shown to wealth. The
figures would be referred to as alb
solute proof. The public, more char
table toward the present Admin
istration, is satisfied with the ex-
PLANTATION that the Administration
did not know better-committed it's
colossal blunders through inefficiency
and ignorance.
The figures on coal companies
throw new light ON the coal dispute.
The miners would seem more entitled
to 80 per cent increase in wages
than the operators are to earn huge
profits. What are present earnings?
1t may be that they are so swollen
that not only can the miners get
their increase but that coal prices
can also be driven down.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28

Ralph Waldo Urine we find little
trying. In his new book. Through the
Sunlit Year which has message for
each day in the year, we learn unde
May the twenty fourth that: of on
hold himself in the thought of povert!
he will be poor, and the chances ar
that he will remain poor. If ne hol,
himself. whatever present condition
may be, continually in the thought o
prosperity, he sets INTO operation
forces that VIII sooner or later bring
him into prosperous conditions"
We tried the scheme for single
day. We looked affluent, we talked
hreezily Of large sums of money. we
ratified the nickels in our pocket. And
what came of it? A mere acquaintance
was deceived and asked for So so sud
denly that he got it and the landlord.
to whom the news Of our strange con-
duct was carried, got the impression
that We had been remembered in & will
and raised the rent.
We even managed to pat , pres
pcrity thought into the thing hich
we wrote during the day OF the exaer--
ment. In fact, we succeeded in Great
ing false impression in the mind II
at least one reader. an your artic e,
this morning" writes Joseph Wmniek,
about suitable book for a young
man to give a young lady with who n
he is, as the young man expresses him
self, enamored, I notice that YOU make
The remark the green signal OF eau
ton
Evidently our book reviewers do not
ride in the subway Il they did they
wouid-at some time or another-have
noticed that the green light is full
speed head, the red light that of danger
and the yellow that of caution.
"Tis cruel world The reader that
makes the reviewer possible rides IN
the subway while the reviewer rides IN
his Packard over the heads of the men
he writes for"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
Two Deported Anarchists

The revelations in the Ellis Island
inquiry seem to have startled the
public. The immigration laws have
long provided for the deportation of
alien anarchists. Yet it is notorious
that alien anarchists have f1ourished
here, conducted newspapers, en-
gagged in secret and public agita-
ton, and nevertheless escaped ex-
pulsion. Alexander Berkman and
Emma Goldman have been in jail at
various times. But when they we're
at large the provisions of the immi-
grafton act were a dead letter.
The report of the Commissioner
General of immigration for the year
ended June 80, 1918, shows that
1900 aliens were deported. Only
two are classified as anarchists.
The law required the deportation of
alien anarchists, no matter how
long they had been in this country
Yet only two were expelled. In
the summaries Of the work done in
the various immigration districts in
1918 it is noted that nine anarchists
were arrested in the New York dis
trict and thirty-six in the Boston dis
trict. No arrests, apparently, were
made in the rest of the country.
The leniency with which an
archists have been treated at Ellis
Island is only symptomatic of the
general attitude of the Labor De-
partment. Instead of repression,
there has been false sympathy
with destructive agitators, who have
been excused as philosophic radi-
Gals, rather than as actual terror
lists. Their preachments and their
practice cannot be divorced, however.
The more defiant of them frankly
admit this, and acknowledge that
they would introduce by force a
minority despotism.
The former Commissioner at this
port, Mr.. Howe, was an advanced
radical. His personal inclination
was undoubtedly to give the an
archists in his custody the benefit
of the doubt and to put them in the
category of political prisoners p
an honorable classification to the
radical mind in the old days of mo-
narchical oppression. Yet Mr.. Howe's
point of view must have reflected
pretty accurately the point of view
Of the immigration Bureau. in Wash
ington and of the chiefs Of the De-
partment of Labor. They knew per-
fectly we'll what he was doing. They
kept him in office until Congress be-
gan to threaten to refuse an ap-
preparation for his salary.
The immigration service has not
been in sympathy with the law. A
man like Martens is permitted to
stay here, and it is easy for even
those anarchists who are arrested to
escape deportation. Martens claims
there are thousands Of Leninists
here who are anxious to go back to
Soviet Russa-asserts that Lenine
will pay for their shipment back
Yet in practice they scream and yell
to escape deportation and sneak back
to enjoy a country they pretend to
loathe. No wonder the general ex-
clamation is "Bah"
Mr.. Howe is out of Office. His
superiors are still in Office. What
are they doing to better the glorious
record Of two anarchists deported in
the fiscal year 1917-18?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
A Good Example
lFrom The Detroit Journal,

" '0"' 7 ITO Det7OEF VUNTHC1J
In England the worm has turned.
The middle classes-the public-have
organized themselves into union for
protection against the upper and
neither millstcaes capital and labor.
Perhaps England will show the public
how to avoid being made the goat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
No Red" Revolution
(Fro,n The Providence Journal

1"o J0NTNOI)
Vladivostok is the latest place in this
restless world of ours to announce a
revolution. Meanwhile the ancient
sphere continues it's own ageless revo-
lutions-the innocuous and peaceful
kind to which nobody can take any
reasonable exception.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
AS Usual

From The Washington Evening Sum
And after the differences between
miners and operators are settled it
will all seem so simple that no one
will be able to understand why it re-
quired so much time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28

All in all, the newspaperman fares
badly in most modern novels. Perhaps
a reaction has set in against the senti-
mental portrait drawn some ten or
twenty years ago when he flashed
through the pages meddling in the af-
fairs of strange, out-of-the-w way king
doms and marrying princesses-that is,
one princess to each novel. Now every
body takes the opposite tack and
makes him dull and venal hack. We
remember, for instance, that in Philip
Glbbs's newspaper yarn, "The Street Of
Adventure all the reporters were
broken men at forty because of the
fearful pace at which they worked
Perhaps, that is true of England. but
we rather imagine that Mr.. Gibbs is
spoofng us all a bit. Here in New
York we have had the same sad picture
of newspaper life drawn for us bv
newspapermen, but usually early in the
morning just after an Indifferent run
OF luck in which even flushes did not
seem to stand up. Of course. we have
no intention of belittling the terrific
strain man is under if he must read
the maxilns of Ralph Waldo Urine
during the daytime and see the ulavs
Of Samuel Shipman at night but PEN
eral reporting is different, particularly
on morning newspaper. Assignments
are usually made at 1890 or l o'clock.
but that need cause no experienced
newspaperman any worry. The practice
Is to eat deliberate lunch and then
drop over and join the poker game r..
the Criminal Courts Building. BY that
time, II the story is any good the
afternoon papers will have som ething
on it which will make a foundation
which may be elaborated later in the
evening with the help of the copy from
the City News Association. 1t is we'll.
we believe, to call up about and tell
the city editor that you are keeping in
touch with developments and think
that something win break later in the
day
There is then ample leisure for
wholesome recreation before dinner. 1t
is considered good form not to arrive
at the office until just in time to make
the first edition, although there are
certain proud reporters who make a
point Of never writing for anything ex-
cept the five star, absolutely final.
Some might hold that there was a
certain strain in writing in hurry,
but nothing could be further from the
fact. To write slowly is to put ones
self under the necessity Of carefully
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
A Chance For Science

(Fron The Washington PosD
Opportunity knocks at the doors of
demobilized army chemists who can
produce non-alcoholic beverages with a
kick in EN-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28

Village Nocturnes
The Horse Sheds

Village NOCturneS
The Horse Sheds
"In Adams fall we sinned alp
The line comes back to me
Each time | tethcr my old horse
Here in the ancient sheds behind the
church,
And go to do my errands in the town.
A double row, they'd hold a hundred
teams,
And once, long since,
Each stall was filled upon a Sabbath
morn,
While ed-scrubbed farmers and their
stiff starched wives
Sought for salvation in the big white
church.
A creed, fear, the Fires of He'll,
That's what these sheds memorialize !;
Man thought himself sink of sin
original
And covered from the wrath to come.
Sometimes l smile;
Yet l tread softly on the dew soaked
grass
To reach my team again,
Because and this may make you
never pass close to the dark old
church at night
Without the uncanny sense
That Parson Bradley's ghost,
Pounding the loft pulpit with impon-
derable fist,
Is laundering his CHASTITY creed
To ghostly multtudes
Till each soul walks in terror all his
days,
In terror of his God,
And of himself
Still treadng softly on the dew soaked
grass,
I turned the corner to my team
A mufled cry-a gasp-a SODA sound
of ripping cloth
The youth leaped out upon the farther
side
And dashed away;
The girl, her skirt caught fast,
Half stood, half hung, upon the car
riage step
Hiding her face behind her hands and
fallen hair,
And sobbed.
Il know you, child" I said,
Unlocking her torn skirt
"And III not tell. But
Il paused, caught with the irony of
things)
you'd best go home and ask God what
to do;
Or, better yet, your mother"
"She-she'd turn me QUIT"
The words came bitterly and choked.
Then, more dehanty,
Il love him."
'I'm sure you do" said I.
"But think Of this-does he love you :?
We do not steal from those we love
Love makes us strong for sacrifice and
self-control'
Fine words! They sounded fat
enough;
NV voice trailed off.
7 handed her a rumpled hat
And watched her go,
With stumbling footsteps, past the
ghostly church.
Her name was Bradley,
The great great-grandchild
OF him who Numbered of predestined
sin,
And babe his flock
To walk in terror all their DAYS
OF God
And of themselves
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
MENprR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
for republication OF all dispatches credited
to II or not otherwise credited In this paper and
also the FOCAL news nj spontaneous origin published
herein.
An rights Of republication Of all other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
Not Original

Inc War Department, in issuing an
ofhclai order declaring that "the war
against the Central Powers of Europe,
IN which the United States has taken
part, will hereafter be designated in all
omclai communications and publica-
tions as the World War;" is only ?
few years behind the newspapers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
Entered a, the Postof'cc at New York rs Second
Class Mail Matter


You can purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-tor II dlssatsfac-
ton results Ia any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to gay your moaey back upon request. No red tape.
No culhbIne. We make GOOD promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28

Enter Vinaigretta. Pollyanna's acetic
sister. II was so prodigally grateful
yesterday" she said early this morn
ing, chat I haven't thank left"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-28
And of themselves.
WALTER PRICHARD EATON.

The apt Illustrator, Mr.. Charles D.
Mitchell, who drew the "Wouldn't You
Be Ashamed If You'd Had Told You
Since You We're Old Enough to Under
stand That You Must Make a Good
Match?" picture for Thomas Beers
"The Totem" in the current Sateve-
post-the illustrator should have read
the story. In that event he might have
read that she was talking to Crossley,
a man, and not an elderly lady. But
it is possible that the picture already
had done service for some other story
and that not Mr.. Mitchell, but the
S. Z. P, is to be chastised.