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New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Our Diocletians

Before the United States Chamber Of
Commerce at St. Louis on Tuesday
George N. Peek, chairman of the Indus
trial Board, in an address defending it's
steel prices against the criticism of the
railroad administration, said that nor
NAL prices, which the board is laboring
to restore, can be arrived at by
(a) A long period Of tedious and un-
certain barter; or,
(b) They can be determined by scen-
tifc study Of their elements and be made
effective by authoritative govern
mental announcement of what prices
ought to be.
The decision, apparently arrived at as
matter Of course, was for the second
plan. 1t was assumed that the function
OF the board was to make the studies
outlined and to deduce the true level Of
prices from the data gathered. Such
was the simple formula adopted for
reaching the true and proper level of
prices. It was as easy as dividing two
by one.
The method was not only simple and
easy, but necessary, argues Mr. Peek,
If wages were not to be reduced. if
prices unto the public were not to be
Increased, if a market was not to be
created "in which only the most power
full, highly organized and lowest cost
producers Of steel could survive
In emergencies such as are created by
A,,r, IL Il.
merges economics in patriotism, it is
doubtless necessary to resort to ration
ing and price fixing. When a city Is
under siege and supplies run low the
law Of the market can and should be
set aside. But it is something new to
learn that there are men whose wit is
so embracing, whose capacity to collect
all pertinent facts and duly digest them
Is so perfect, that they can trace in gem
erai with precision the respective rights
of producers and consumers.
Diocletian died too soon. This auto
crat of the Roman world, possessing all
power and moved by a noble ideal of
justice, essayed to determine true and
scientific and dealt with relatively
simple conditions. Yet, alas, the great
fixing decree went to an early smash.
Some commodities were valued too high
and others too low, and the result was
an oversupply Of some things and under
supply Of others. A disillusioned world
sadly went back to tedious barter and
trade, and generation passed before
there was restoration of an artfcially
disturbed balance. But our Diocletians
arc keener Of disceynment and go about
their tasks with gayety.
Especially interesting is the intima-
ton that one Of the recognized prin-
ciples Of the new economy is that low
costs producers are b.. to bc allowed
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rudely to undersell less efficient rivals.
We are to change the condition hereto
fore making for a progressive increase
of production, which is the basis Of all
materialistic advance. 1t is to be con-
sidered good thing to work two hours
creating a particular article when some
man has shown it could be made in one
hour.
The Administration is criticised as too
disposed to rely on the faculties of the
schools and too little on the experience
of men of affairs. Word has gone about
in Washington that if a man knew too
much about a particular business his
powers of imagination were likely to be
atrophied. But manifestly there is need
Of professors-not the half-baked sort,
but the old kind, the kind that is capable
of sustained thinking and who correct
vague desires for better world by
some knowledge Of how the human ami
NAL acts as he goes about the business
of getting his three coats.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Me dical Movie $
By William c. Dreher
Berlin Correspondent of The Tribune

BERLIN, April 5.-German medical mon
have begun to use the film for purposes Of
instruction and have got results which
they claim, will insure its permanent use in
teaching physiological, pathological and
clinical processes. company at Berlin is
making a speciality Of such films and has
established an institution with all neces-
sary appliances for making them. Among
other things it has special apparatus for
making microscopic and X-ray films.
In order to make these films more eff
fectlve as means Of instruction 1t is possi-
Bile, in displaying them, to stop the reel at
any point SO as to examine the course of
an operation or process with greater care.
Or, again, the picture can be reeled off at
very slow rate, so that processes that
complete themselves within few seconds
can be drawn out to several minutes When
it Is mentioned that the concern takes, with
one of its machines, four hundred distinct
views in one second it can easily be seen
how much can be gained in studying opera
tions and processes by using a reel that
can be stopped or slowed up at pleasure
An exhibition of the new films has just
been given at Berlin, at which medical men
were able to see exactly how they will
assist and facilitate the study of medicine
The display included meteorological, phar-
Theological, physiological, pathological, and
even obstetrical subjects German medical
journals have quickly recognized the advan-
tages Of the film method of instruction over
the laboratory and clinical method One
authority puts the matter thus: "With the
film the student sees more, sees it better.
sees it more rapidly. What the individual
sees through the microscope by hard effort
or tries to see, can be displayed through
the film to many at once. 1t is not neces-
sary to make preparations for an expert
ment, and failure is impossible. Disease
processes that develop through long time
can be perfectly displayed within few
minutes, and unusual diseases can be
studied at any time in the smallest medical
college. In short, the medical uses of the
film are almost unlimited"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Health and Industry

Declining to be discouraged by the
temporary defeat in the Legislature,
the New York State Reconstruction
Commission regirds itself to continue
the struggle for health insurance.
ut is fundamental in the industrial
and moral life of the community" says
the commission, "that we have physical
ly able and healthy citizens. There can
not be adequate industrial production,
nor can the arts of peace be preserved
effectively, when people are suffering
from the thousand minor and major ills,
many of which can be prevented if ade-
quate provision were made for proper
medical care of workers."
Many of the good things of modern
life are costly, mean subtraction from
state, municipal or family budgets. One
of the good things of health insurance
is that it more than pays it's own way;
the cash value of the time lost through
illness that health insurance prevents or
shortens is several times more than the
burden of the system. Put in one pile
the annual subtraction from pay en-
velopes because only 20 per cent of our
workers have medical assistance and in
another pile the subtraction from pay
envelopes such as was proposed by the
bill recently throttled, and the first ag-
gregate would probably be ten times the
second. This is the experience of Great
Britain, where it has been demonstrated
that instead Of being a charge on in
dustry health insurance much more
than meets it's costs.
1t was strange that members Of the
medical profession were led to oppose
what may be called the universalization
of medical service. To minister to 100
per cent of the population instead of 20
per cent obviously means more employ
ment for the doctors. Yet confused
physicians shut their eyes to this simple
and primary fact, and were led to at
tack on their professions income. In
terest as we'll as ethics called to them
to be the champions of the measure, but
the habit of distrusting anything new
is so strong with men of a particular
type of mind, found in the ranks Of
medical practitioners as among follow
ers of all vocations, that there was
blind opposition.
Equally surprising was the muddled
fear that health insurance is a recogni-
ton of socialism. One might as we'll
say it is socialism for community IT,
have common water supply. Inhabi-
tants of great city, unable to keep
themselves supplied with pure water by
each citizen digging we'll in his back
yard, must join in common work or
perish. 1t is not socialism to act in
concert when a desirable end is not
otherwise attainable. Queer is the in
dividualism which breaches that an in
dlvidual may not advance his personal
welfare by cooperating with his fellows
Health insurance is as socialistic as an
aqueduct, but not more.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
'Before America Entered"

It Ill becomes those who waited nearly
three years before acting to reproach
Italy for delay about entering the war.
Italy was member Of the Triple ALI
ance when it broke out, and all asked
Of her was to declare her neutrality. a.
declaration which was of inestimable
benefit to France. Moreover, Italy was
unprepared to fight. The war with
Turkey had drawn heavily upon her re-
sources; she had neither the money nor
the munitions for. beginning what was
bound to be long and difficult struggle.
Even when she finally declared war her
problems were far from solved. She
did this, too, at time of grave diff
Guilty for the Allies. The Russians were
breaking, and only powerful diversion
elsewhere could save the situation. This
italy furnished by compelling the diver
sion Of the Austrian divisions from the
Eastern front
Nor was this all. Italy had been
honeycornbed by German propaganda,
supported by the powerful fact that
Italian finances we're largely in German
hands. German influence was strong in
the great industrial centres of the north.
One Of the cleyerest and most formidable
VI italian politicians, Gioltti, was pro-
German. America suffered, it is true,
from pro-Cerman politicians; but they
had not the weapon Giolltti welded.
And perhaps the italian pro~Germanism
might not have been overcome but for
The passionate desire Of the italians to
redeem Italia Irredcnta. 1t is easy TO
accuse italy Of bargaining for IA recon-
pcngc; but only great burst Of patri-
otic feeling, burning desire TO com
pletc the national unity, could have
Swept tie whole people enthusiastically
nto the war.
And now, after sacrifices by Italy Of
very kind, after perils and hardships
far greater than any America had To
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Is a Chevron a Crooked Kneep
(From The Manchester Gt4arai

CFrom The Manchester Guardian,
The idea of denoting length of service by
some mark is by no means original, only our
forebears had rather more romantic method
of arranging their chevrons. Every one knows
the Templars with the legs crossed at the
ankles, at the knee or above the knee, and
most people know that each position denotes
the number of times they crusaded in the
Holy Land Is IA chevron by any chance
crooked knee? Certainly the blue and red
stripes on the arm are a more convenient
way of signalling service, and they also have
the advantage Of being appreciabe during
the life of the wearer. 1t would be interest
ing to know whether the families of the
Crusaders had their differences as to the
proper Specification Of the service of their
respective hero and whether questions were
raised as to the amount of fighting or land
ing or sailing necessary for one knights
legs to be crossed higher than those of
RnotheA
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The Mutual Veto

The Pact of London, signed ip Sep
tember, 1914, by Great Britain, France
and Russia, and by Italy when she en-
tered the war, is a plain instrument
which was Immediately published. 1t pro-
vides that no one of the Allies shall make
peace with Germany or her allies which
is unacceptable to any one of the sigma
plicit recognition of mutual veto. 1t
was realized that in union was strength,
and it was also realized that in the
peace-making, for one reason or another,
some power or powers might wish to
negotiate Independently.
On Saturday Clemenceau, telegraph
ing to Luzzati, the former Italian Prime
Minister, repudiated with great en-
phasis the intimation that France was
considering, or might consider, disre-
gard of her agreements with Italy He
declared it did not comport with French
ideas of honor to esteem treaties Scraps
of paper" That Lloyd George and
Great Britain are of the mind of Clemen-
ceau and France is not open to aues-
tion.
So it is difficult to understand dis
patches from Paris which suggest that
project is on to sign q treaty with
Germany to which Italy is not to be
party. Unless Italy consents this cannot
be done without ending the war with
breach of faith comparable to that with
which it was begun.
In the mean time the German ENJOYS
are to arrive at Paris on Friday They
are coming, according to all reports, in
a gleeful spirit. They confront situa-
ton agreeable to the sort of diplomacy
in which they are adept Who will sign
and who can sign under existent condi-
tions are matters of the gravest doubt.
President Wilson, against the advice
Of France and Great Britain, as is now
admitted, issued the statement that
drove the representatives of Italy from
the peace table. So doing he assumed
great responsibility. A controversy
was precipitated whose secondary con-
sequences more concern the world than
the disposition of Fiume. For the effect
of this personal act was to smash. for
the time being at least, the great coali-
ton in whose continuance the hope of
the world centres.
Whatever opinions may be entertained
with respect to Fiume the chief business
Of those interested in either an i'm
mediate peace or in permanent peace is
to mend the great split. Of what use
are leagues and covenants if man who
happens to have power may assert that
his apprehension of moral truth is the
only true one and that his will must be
accepted as law? Not by the display of
such spirit has amity ever been pro-
moted-not through it's workings will
the world arrive at harmony
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
A Wifnes SIS for the
Kaiser

To the Editor of The Tribune.
CIR: From the announcement in this
mornings papers it appears that Will
liam II of Hohenzollern is to be tried
before q court of five judges, one Of them
appointed by the United States of America.
The charge is "a supreme offence against
international morality and the sanctity of
treaties" Evidently this refers to the in
vasion of Belgium and the breach of the
treaty or treaties which guaranteed her
neutrality. Of this offence aganst interna-
tional morality and this breach of treaty
all Of us were quite fully informed in
the summer of 1914; the entire text of
the treaties involved was published here,
and the newspapers contained the statement
made to the Reichstag by the Imperial
Chancellor early in August, 1914: 1--WE
are now in state OF necessity and neces-
sity knows no law We were COM
PEELED to override the just protest of the
Luxembourg and Belgian governments. The
wrong-I speak openly-tfat we are COM
mitting we will endeavor to make good as
soon as our military goal is reached"
One wonders whether the Judge ap-
pointed by the United States will find it
embarrassing should the defence refer to
an official deliverance more than nine months
after the invasion Of Belgium It recorded
this country as recalling the humane and
enlightened attitude hitherto assumed by
the Imperial German government in mat
ters Of international right" and as "hav-
ing learned to recognize the German views
and the German influence in the field of
international obligation as always engaged
upon the side of justice and humanity.
The document was addressed to Ambas-
sador Gerard to be read by him to the Ger,
man Minister of Foreign Affairs 1t bears
date May 13, 1915, and Is signed by our
Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan
E. HENRY LACOMBE.
New York, April 90, 1919.
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Reopening the Eiffel Tower
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0"ToH THO LONDON MOfHgn0 PoSt)
The Eifel Tower, which was taken over by
the military authorities at the beginning of
the war and which has since been used as an
anti-aircraft and observation post, as we'll
as n wireless station, is shortly to be again
thrown open to the public. 1t is hoped that
the tower will bc open to visitors early in
May, and already tho various military SER
vices which had their quarters round the base
of tho tower are removing to some other
canning Ggaunah
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There is married folks union. Did
you know it? All the married folks are
leagucd together to try to get the single
ones to join. 1t is not exactly phian-
thropy on their part-they hope they will
have a little better time if some nice.
snappy young people move in next door
and spend the evening with them eyerv
SO often.
Married folks see two young people, all
blithe and gay and full of joie de vivre, and
they say:
We never get chance at these people
because they are not married and insist on
running around with lot Of other un-
married people-a most reprehensible prac-
tice. But if we could induce them to tie
up, then we would have a sort Of option on
them, and they would brighten up our little
nest, which is becoming a trife dull and
usual as the months wear on"
They think, you understand, that these
young people would go on being bright and
cheerful just the same after they were
married. They do not realize that thew
were gay young people once themselves.
before some jaded slaves Of matrimony IN
duced them to hook up. They do not seem
TO know that the one, sole and only reason
that these young people are glad and blithe
lis that they arc not married If thew
got married, they would be Just another
dull married couple wishing some joyous
young people would get married and brinr
little laughter into the neighborhood.
Married folks try a great many ways of
getting young people into the notion of
matrimony. They talk great deal about
how happy they are. 1t never occurs to
them that the young people who are really
happy never say anything about it. They
are too busy being it.
And then they try to get you interested
in the children. And that Is one thing
you must admit about married folks-they
certainly do have nice children. But there
are just four possibilities with regard to
children; Either you think you want chill
dren and are right, or you think YOU want
children and are wrong Or else you think
you do not want children and are right. or
think you do not want children and ara
wrong. But one thing is certain--you can
never find out on any ono else's children.
Personal investigation is tho only way
1t Ia pity married folks do so much
boosting. Because no matter how pood
marriage might be, 1t could never como up
to what the advertisements claim.
ALICE.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01

endure, it is said Great Britain and
France should repudiate their agree
ment with Italy. Is it strange Italy's
heart wakes hot against those who in
suit her by such a demand?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Music IN Mexico
EEXICO CITY, March 23.-There are
VB few tall buildings in the Mexican
By L. ]. de Becker

n EEXICo CITY, March 2s-There are
IVE few tall buildings in the Mexican
capital but in one of them, at la
Gale Nuevo Mexico, Mum. 6, is the office
of Maestro Julian Carrillo. From his win
dows on the fifth floor looked across
fiat roofs, where women were hanging out
the family wash, toward massive pile of
white marble at the lower end of the Alameda
"Some day that building will be tnished,"
said Carrillo, "and then Mexican COM
posers will come into their own. Operas
which exist in manuscript, symphonies, all
will be heard. But when will it be fin
ished? Who knows?"
fortunately, I do" I said, land I am
glad to be the bearer of good news. Presi-
dent Carranza told me yesterday that he
resolved to complete the interior or
the Teatro Nacional before the expiration
of his term of office. He would not promise
he said, to carry into effect the whole of
the decorative scheme, but he realized the
need of an auditorium for music of the
highest class, and as two-thirds of the
estimated cost of 100000 pesos had been
spent already he considered it good business
to convert property now useless into pro-
ducor of rayenue"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
The Coming Tower

The ten per cent luxury tax is on this
morning ct seq and the 15c glass of soda
now costs tic. The system Of having to
present the check to the soda clerk before
he starts to compile the drink will now
be complicated by the difficulty of making
change for odd amounts. The dear old
law not only is driving US to water, but
also is making US drink it.
1t was our feeting idea that we should
demand a ten per cent advance beginning
this morning. but maturer thought made
the notion vanish. It was better, we be-
lieved not to call the Boss's attention to
the fact that this Abacus of Asteism Is
luxury
1t Is unjust to say that the government
can't run a business as we'll as a private
concern. The Bureau Of War Risk Insur-
ance, frexamp, is as persistent as any
agent possibly could be. An officer, dis
charged last December, signtied his desire
to the B. Of W. r. I. that he wanted to
lapse his policy; but he continues to get
premium notices monthly.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Refinement of Cruelty
(From The Dna Afolne, RanIstnr1

Just to make the punishment little
worse, the Allies are going to make the
Germans translate the 70,ooo-word peace
treaty into their own language.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Minority Report

tFrem The Detroit Frco Press)
II am not an idiot"-The former Crown
Prince.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Where Else Is Therel

CFrom The Washington PosD
An airman left Chicago the other dav
and never stopped till he reached New
York. Nobody blames him.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Subsidized Conserrasories

The Oldest Of these institutions, the Con-
servatoro Nacional de Musica Declama-
clon, Is housed in an ancient palace which
once belonged to the University of Mexico
not far from the Plaze de la Constitution
and facing one side of the Palacio Nacional
There is an immense patio, with Offices and
classrooms opening upon the ground floor
and balcony, and a teaching staff for all
branches of musical art and literature The
pupils number 200. The Free Conservatory.
organized some years ago after disagree
ment in the faculty of the older school,
maintains separate quarters and staff and
trans 400 pupils. Both Conservatives are
subsidized by grant from the government
and both are apparently doing good work
MeXico's earliest musicians, it need
hardly be said, were concerned chiefly with
church music, but in course of time a
school of national composers has grown
up including many writers of dance music
and songs and some few men who have
composed il the larger forms. Among the
best known musicians who have written
serious works may be named Milesio
Morales, Ricardo Castro, Felipe Villanueva,
Gustavo Campo, Manuel Ponce, Rafael Jello
and Arnulfo Virmonte
Of Maestro Carrillo, I may say in parting
that he is the most distinctively American
composer l have ever encountered, being,
in fact, a full-blooded American Indian,
native of the State Of San Luis Potosi. Like
most cosmopolities, he is fond of New York
and may return for visit within a year
or so.
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suits In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees to your
money back request. No red tape. No aubbilng.
We maze good promptly II the advertiser does not
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On Going Bolshevik

(Fron The Toledo Bade)
Not much could be expected from q eeuns
Try that invented goulssh.