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New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
The Fountain of Reaction

Plottings and plannings in Germany,
In Russia, in Austria and Hungary for
monarchical restorations are reported.
OF course, the overthrown dynasties have
friends, linked to them by ties of self
interest and sentiment. Successful coun-
ter revolution would give JOY to many.
Conspiracies may be expected to be
hatched-even armed instructions to
occur.
Liberalism and radicalism have not
been wisely led, and for folly a price
must commonly be paid. The nemesis
Of liberty is disorder incident to too great
q passion for change. Men have q way
Of turning on those whose zeal for inno-
walton outruns their judgment. The
turbulence Of Athens brought IN the
tyranny of Pisstratus, the riots # Rome
spawned Sully and the Casa Robes
pierre and Marat laid the foundations
!. Of the Napoleonic and Bourbon reactions
Of France. The crazy liberal is the
enemy of liberalism. If counter revolu-
ton is to be prevented it is more neces-
sary to bride revolution than to inaugu-
rate a Red Terror.
Man would have liberty, but he must
have order-without which liberty is
but name, q sirnulacrum, a mockery,
q falsehood. Those who would deliber-
ately purge society are less the foes of
progress than those who would leap
without looking The Hohenzollcrn has
been no promoter Of liberty, but history
Is likely to record that Lenine was its
principal wrecker in the first twenty
years Of the twentieth century.
In our country the chief pillars of
retrogression are among those who shout
most Justify for what they regard as
progress Our universities should es-
tablsh extension courses for the ele-
uents that regard themselves as edu-
Gated and competent to advise and to
lead Half the trouble of the country
would be over if "i5tellectuals" were only
iutelectual-if ''intelligcntsia" had but
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

developments that would build up one
section at the expense, as would be said.
of another.
The authors Of the Cummins bill ap-
parently are persuaded that government
ownership is bad and that if it is to be
avoided and the bill passed it is neces-
sary to establish complete public control
and such public control is tantamount
to government operation. One looks in
vain for any incentive held out to the
private owners to be efficient If they
save money it does not appear they are
to get it.
AS to the compensation to be allowed
to the private owners for the rent of
their property, there is the usual vague
ness. No guarantee of income is pro-
vded, but there is to be allowance of
"fair" dividends on the value Of the
property as approved by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Thus the rate
of return is left discretionary, and like
wise, the value on which the return is to
be reckoned
The subcommittee of course, does not
present its measure as in any sense
finality. 1t is merely a starting place
for further debate, with, doubtless, fur
ther attempts to unite public and private
control in one measure and to get, at the
same time, the benefits of competition
and supervised monopoly. But one
thing seems disposed of-the sub-com-
mttee has listened to the advocates of
the Plumb plan, but no echo of this re-
markable plan can be detected.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
Administration Propaganda

One OF the vexatious extravagances of
the war has been the output of Admin
istration propaganda by official agencies.
Mr.. Creels efforts to mould public opin-
ION attracted more notice than those
Of any other Administration publicity
agent. But others have been at work
since Mr.. Creel closed up shop.
Senator Smoot, who has been making
a fight for years against useless govern
ment printing, called sharp turn the
other day on some Of the more obscure
propagandists. He drew attention, for
example, to the fact that National
School Service, a semi monthly periodi-
cal published by the Federal Bureau of
Education, has been costing the Treas
ury $4,000 year. It's purpose was
to serve as "a medium Of communication
between the government and the Schools"
Recently, just before its discontinuance,
it urged school teachers everywhere "to
cultivate the league Of nations attitude
of mind for ALL" This, Of course, is in
terfering in a question on which the
Senate as we'll as the public is sharply
divided
Mr.. Smoot also ccnsured the editor of
The Great Lokes Bulletin, periodical
issued at the naval training station at
Great Lakes, Illinois, for printing an
address by Secretary Baker on the
league of nations covenant, with this
advertisement Of its value from the
commandant of the station: "I have
read Secretary Of War Bakers address
and recommend it for reading by every
man in the navy" Why should the Sec
retary Of Wars political views be ex-
plotted in an official navy publication,
except for purposes of propaganda?
Possibly there was a more innocent
motive for the enthusiasm manifested
in The Life Buoy, q Navy Department
monthly published at the Portsmouth
IN. H. Navy Yard, over a somewhat
similar address by Secretary Daniels.
Senator Smoot hopes to discontinue
most of these unnecessary government
periodicals. 1t is high time to do so.
The Creel bureau spent money right
and left on so-called war-aim propa-
ganda matter. Much of it was worth
less; some of it was misleading. We
cited some weeks ago the attempt in a
Creel pamphlet, entitled "America's War
Aims and Peace Programme" by Pro-
fessor Carl L. Decker, of Cornell Uni
versity, to garble a passage in Presi-
dent Wilson'S note of December Is, 1916
Through Secretary Lansing), asking
the belligerents to state their war aims.
And most Of this literature has con-
fused the fact that the United States
went to war with Germany Gas tho
declaration of war itself states) because
German invasions of American rights,
not to create league Of nations or to
make the world safe for democracy.
Propaganda of this sort ought not to
be paid for out Of the public Treasury.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
Margins

To the Ed, r of The Tribune.
~ IR: May venture to indicate basic
10 difference in the figures used in your
~ editorial on Fair Prices for Meat" in
last Fridays issue, which otherwise might
not be readily apparent to the reader? The
packers figure relates to the amount re-
tanned out of each dollar of the entire
volume Of their business after making de-
ductions for all expenses and losses This
is in no sense true of the "margins" al
lowed retail meat dealers Of this city Out
of these margins" must be paid all "over-
head including rent and labor, the ''shrink-
age" of their meat, which varies from 2 to
per cent, the bone loss varying from Is
to 20 per cent, and some parts sold at actual
loss.
The margins" and their various proper
tions to the wholesale cost of the meat
were the result of great deal of study by
the best authorities we could secure during
the activities of the food administration.
They were subject to a good deal of review
here and at Washington. Our committee
hoped it might be possible to continue them
during the present stress, but the dealers
showed that this was perhaps not altogether
fair to them in view of the increased cost
of conducting business since the first of
the year. During the last weeks of the
food administration it became apparent
that at least some of the margins" were
inadequate. An advance upon those adopted
during the war of two cents was allowed,
subject to further review by our committee
here and by the Attorney General OF his
representatives at Washington.
This increase does not necessarily mean
corresponding increase in cost to the con-
sumer. The margins" have not been in
force since the early part of the year, and
since that time we believe that they have
been very generally exceeded. In addition
to the advantages of having meats sold
under margin" between the retail and
the wholesale price which is known to the
public, it is believed that the figures now
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
Democracy and Discipline.

General Ansel has named the chief
Instructors Of the administration of
clemency in court martial cases through
the Special Clemency Board, of which he
was formerly the head His list COM
prised "the Secretary of War, General
Crowder, General Creger and some
others who were subject to General
Crowdcr's and General Creger's direc-
ton"
The same influences are now at work
to defeat the Chamberlain bill reform
ing court-martial abuses. They appar-
emily assent to the conclusion of the
Herman Court Martial Board--that the
administration Of military justice is not
judicial function but a mere instru-
ment to enforce military discipline. If
this is so, the legal rights of men put
on trial are matters of minor con-
sequence.
This conception of the purposes of
courts martial is bound up with the
ancient military tradition and with the
caste ideas prevalent in mercenary
armies. General Herman opposes the
provision Of the Chamberlain bill that en-
listed men shall sit on courts martial. He
says, with unconscious humor, that such
q practice would be "out of harmony with
the American conception of democracy"
The contrary is, of course, true. In a
modern national army, composed of cit
liens answering the call of patriotic
duty, the admission of enlisted men to sit
on courts martial is a proper recognition
of the democratic status which no cit
izen should be stripped of simply be-
cause he is drafted into national service
in an emergency.
The old idea was that soldierly ef
ficiency could be secured only by caste
regulation and severity toward enlisted
men. But the war has exploded that
theory. No contingent in the British
army, or perhaps in any Allied army,
ranked higher than the Australians.
Field Marshal Haig's reports show what
reliance he always placed on the
Australian forces. In France they
fully sustained the glorious reputation
which they had made at Gallipol. But
the Australians were practically all
both officers and men-civilian soldiers.
They were intensely democratic. The
rank and file respected themselves as
lighters and had the full respect of the
officers. The caste idea was rejected in
favor of the cooperative idea; which is
the right one
Such soldiers did not need to be held
down with an iron hand Nor do Amer
lean soldiers. Good soldiers submit to
discipline because they realize it's bene-
fits. But if they are charged with
violations Of discipline they ought to
have an impartial trial, in which their
individual rights are fully protected.
Is the phrase court martial" mis-
nomer? The court becomes such when-
ever 1t is considered solely as an arbi-
trary instrument of discipline.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
A New Agent OF Commerce
(From The Dearborn independently

NHTone 1he Dearborn independently
If the country We're not so busy with
intimate domestic matters, such as the food
scandal, more heed would have been given
to recent announcement by Otto Pracgcr.
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
He stated that not only has the inter
rupted parcel post exchange been renewed
with Belgium, Greece, Liberia, Norway, Ice
land, Asace and Lorraine and the Madeira
Islands, but 1t has been extended to new fer
ritory. including Corsica, Algiers, Tunis
Siam, Palestine, Mcsopotamia and the Union
OF South Africa. Parcel post conventions
are pending with Spain and Switzerland
England has agreed to act as intermediary
for India and Egypt. South America. ex-
cepting Cuba and Chile, has parcel post con-
ventions with the United States.
This rapid extension is of first Importance
to all exporter and is made possble nv
breaking down former rule that parcc,
post should not~y> exchanged with any coun
try with which the United States did NOT
have direct steamship service.
From other sources it is possible to dis
cover the amazing variety of goods exDorted
and imported by means of the parcel post:
they run all the way from annocaine to
artificial flowers, from bagpipes to bathrobes.
from cameras to chinaware, from parasols to
pearls, from seeds to spcctacles
Importers and exporters declare that the
parcel post, properly developed Will be one
OF the pioneer agents in the broad advancs
of American commerce which is promised for
the immediate future.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

adopted will thus result in an immediate
saving to the public in the cost of meat
1t is in no spirit Of criticism that vent
ure to bring these differences between the
two groups Of figures to your attention.
for you must know how greatly we are in
debted to you and to the press generally
for the splendid support we have received
in this effort to eliminate prodteering and
unfair practices from the cost of living in
tins city. In this expression Of apprecia-
ton and thanks know the Attorney Cen
eral would be glad to join.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS
Federal Food Administrator for New York
City.
~ New York, Aug 80, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

Tragedies of the Garden Variety
Crecper by the kitchen stoop,
Planted fresh each year,
Are you soused with suds and soup,
Creeper by the kitchen stoop,
That you never loop the loop
Round the trelis? Dear
Creeper by the kitchen stoop,
Planted fresh each year!
Little Morning Glory seeds,
Bitter is my laughter!
You were growing straight as reeds,
Little Morning Glory seeds,
But when Jake, the hired man, weeds,
Oh, the morning after
Little Morning Glory seeds,
Bitter is my laughter!
Squirrels get my seckel pears,
Robins got my cherries,
Bunny off my lettuce fares;
Squirrels get my seckel pears,
My own patch big berries bears,
But I buy my berries!
Squirrels get my seckel pears.
Robins get my cherries! w.
Suggestion for tractor slogan: Turn your
cords into ploughshares.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
Shrinking Railway Securities
New York, Aug. 80, 1919.

tfrom The Reuieao Of Reu;e1ss)
In the past five years the gross annual
receipts Of the American railroads have in
creased, in very round fgares, from So GOO.
100000 to s5,ooo,ooo,oo0; but owing to the
higher cost of wages. equipment, fuel and
other supplies, Mr.. Frank Fayant estimates
that the average yield on tae $4,000 600 coo
OF capital invested in the railroads is now
only about 2's per cent The Interstate
Commerce Commission has considered that
any return less than per cent is within
the danger zone.
While the costs of railroads represented bv
purchase of commodities and Of labor, have
increased ever so per cent since the BEGIN
ming OF the war, the rates charged to the
public have risen only about % per cent
This tells the story. Il is literally true tina.
the government guarantee Of income under
the wartime arrangement IS all that keeps
the railroads financially alive.
This situation is reflected in the shrinkage
in railroad bonds, for the past two years
alone of over $500 000. 600; while Mr
Byron Holt estimates the shrinkage during
these two years in the $4,000, 900 600
of railroad stocks as probably more than
s2,o00,O0O,00o.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

speaking acquaintance with history,
with political economy, with sociology
as an inductive rather than q deductivc
science.
Speaking generally, it seems permissi-
bic to say that whenever reaction occurs
some group of ignorant liberals who
gained power and did not know how to
use it should go to Jail.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
In East America
FROM Tbs Portland (Ors) Press)

FROM The Portland C0rs.) Press)
In France the centreselder is known -
"le campeur de centre nome ,7an as 'un'
course sans arret" and the home plate ss
"le plaque debut final" Ii we had sne'
names here how quickly they would be eu'
down by the fans and writers. Even
player with three syllabes in his nans se's
orally has to get along with one.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

Debcration on the various songs written
for the cause of Equity increases our convic-
tion that the Oil Of Art and tho Water of
Propaganda arc not mixable. Occasionally
Art has Propaganda by-product, but as
a rule when Propaganda comes in at the door
Art takes to the ire-escape.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

about 1t.
In one of George Adcs early fables refer
ence was made to the variety artist whose
act led up to the song, "John l.. Will BE
Our Champion Once Again" Herewith is
another song, written in 1890, about the fight
between George Dixon and Nunc Wallace IN
London The author, Michael McNally, was
boilermnker in Providence, r. I. "The
Worlds Bantam Champion" follows:
1t was in old Britania's homo the twenty
seventh of June.
Two bantams jumped into tho ring. IN the
Pelecian Club room:
To battle for the championship, each meant to
do die
Like brave Tom Sears, in former years, and tho
bold Benccia boy.
Now will introduce those men Of science, pluck
and skill.
One Is a Yankee colorcd boy, he halls from Bunker
Hill;
Tho other Is an Engshman of undisputed fame,
Great Britton's bantam champion, Nuno Wallace
Is his
Around his waist, tho colored boy, Q noble strap
OlO ware
The emblem of America, which made the lyon
stare:
The Eagle with her wide stretched wings held
arrows in her claws.
Presenting defiant front before the lyons Jaws.
When time was called each nimbly stepped to
the centre of the ring.
Six to four on Wallace some English sports did
sing;
But samnys boys would not be blufed by all
this British blow.
And each bet was freely taken by O'Rourke and
Tom McGough.
Each carefully parricd for while. an opening
for to get,
When right and left like lightning's fash, lot 20
the Boston pet;
And landed on the Britton's face, which caused
him for to run,
Or duck and dodge around the ring. the Yankees
blows to shun.
The second third and fourth my boys, lively
from the start.
While in the sixth and seventh. Dixon broke
the Brttons heart:
But in the tenth the English sports began to
lose all hopes.
When at the Yankees mercy. Wallace lay upon
the ropes.
Now Britans sports could plainly see. their
chance to win gone,
While the hackers Of the coored boy offered
two to one;
But even at this mighty odds. few takers could
be found
And Britans pride threw up the sponge, It was
In the eighteenth round.
Now darling Dixon while you live. remember
without fail,
The decent treatment you received at the hands
of Lord Lonsdae:
1t Is to his manly actions you your victory
For a fairer show was never given in English
history.
SO your English sporting men, the battle Is
own,
And grand reception we will give our boys
when they home;
We will drink a heath to Dixon, to O'Rourke and
Tom McGough
And We'll plant the Laures that they won in soil
where they VIII grow.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
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CT. Job I, l, ct seq.

[From the Fort Stockton (Te3as) Pioneerl
The Chrisoval Mineral Wells can't be beat for
rheumatism, stomach trouble skin disease Try
them.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

Yesterday was primary day, and 1t is now
too late for those who depend upon this
column for political guidance to do anything
about it.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

A mad, mad wag-T. S, are his initials
suggests that the opposition to the President
be known as Cabotage.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
The Coming Tower

Signs Of Scnescence
Darling, l am growing old:
When | pass a stranger bold.
And he makes advances rude,
What l feel ls gratitude. Fl. r. M.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
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New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

Perhaps, since he IS to be d hook reviewer
H. should 60 TO a Montessori school. Ths'
teac' the children to skip.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

It is suggested by perspicacious contrib
that Mrs. Humphry Ward wrote The Young
Visiters" when she little girl, Our
guess is no; that Daisy Ashford wrote that
book and nothing else.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

Tony. abandoning for the time his MANI
factured slang, comments shrewdly on the
Querrils when he says
what it doesn't allow for-this attitude
l mean, this Querril outlook is that in all
the big things of life one has to act alone.
In every adventure, in every experience
there comes a moment when one has sudden.
ly to weigh a chance, make a quick decision
and one has to do that-alone And in
the end one has to stand before the bar Of
God-alone. l don't really mean bar and
| don't quite know what ! mean BIZ God, but
there must come moment when one is all
collected together, all ones lfe and impulses
and temptations ones whole story in fact
and then all these others only exist in the
way that tney affected Us or We affected them
One must be terribly alona then And tbs
mu.ual sci a..acing b-s.aess is bad 'os
race unae Aness becomes selishness"
We were discussing tie education o. Il
the third the other day, and when we wers
asked whore he was to 90, of course we said
The Rand School"
mo" SAID the friend Who put the qaes'
ton. II don't believe i. By the time H. $
ready to go 10 school you. be saying that
the Rand School Is reactionary institution
and full of snobs"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

"The Querriis" (Centuiy1, by Stacy Al.
monior, is book well worth reading. Tba
gap between the best writing and the wors.
in this novel is prodigious, but the best seems
to US 50 striking and vivisi tnat the occasional
cruditics and even the Ultimate disintegra.
ton OF the theme which Mr.. Aunoaier ha,
SCI for himself MY well be overlooked The
Querf.ls" concerns a family Of nice people-a
pleasant, larky crowd Of young folk. They
have all sorts Of good times within their own
circle. 1t IS rather a sentimental family, per.
haps, but this is kept IN check A. least. 4,
is never demonstrative family Perhaps
the temper of the group is best summed ID
in the paragraph in which Mr.. Aumonis.
writes:
"The children at this time had taken lit.ls
interest in politics with the exception o..
Rodney, who was ragged by the others On
account of his Fabian tendencies. We say
ragged adyisedly, because it was a tradition
Of the family to discuss fippantly the things
that mattered and seriously the things ths,
didn't matter The question of the color Q.
piece Of embroidery for Eyelyn's diibbaa
would lead almost 10 white hot feud but
any problem which concerned Fundamental
emotions was either ignored or passed over
facctioasly. The reason Of this was obvious
Somebody's feelings might be hurt"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03
Books
By Haywood Broun

TNHERE is m amazing simplicity sbou.
great events Creation week wa,
clear, cain ard quiet. Hardly a riDpl.
was on the Rubicon the afternoon that Casa,
crossed. Even Babylon fell softly and
bounced only once. In the same spirit Pierre
v r. Key started John Mccormack: His
Own Life Story" (small-Maynard).
at was a summers day, with the sun
shining" writes Mr. Key, when we began.
Mccormack sat on the veranda Of Rocklea.
his Noroton, Connecticut, villa, gang upon
the waters Of Long Island Sound. lie had
sat that way for some minutes, in suit o.
tennis fannels, his stalwart body relaxed in
an armchair. l waited for his opening words.
What debt man owes his mother and
father, he said"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

Perhaps the paragraph which should Be
used to explain the Querrils is the one u
which Mrs. Querril's hope of suburban
future for the family is expressed
zone day they would all live down there
together As the children married thg
would each take house on the Heath AID
then they would be always visiting each
other, bringing over each others babies to
play. and exchanging photographs"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-03

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Il is an interesting train Of though. whics
this minute description OF Mr. McCormack's
momentous remark opens up What, FOR IN.
stance, We wonder, did Napoleon have On
when he said, Beyond the Alps les Italy,,
Where did Mr.. Wilson sit and what was h.
looking at when he first invented NAV
no.?