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New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

had a new silver coin struck from the
silver taken from the Spanards at Vigo
Other notable examples are the coins of
Napoleon, of Demetrius and the famous
Syracusan dekadrachms.
The proposals which have so far been
brought forward for a coin to celebrate
Britain's share in the recent victory over
the German Empire and allies include little
more radical in the way of change than
the adoption of an olive branch and palm
Oh the reverse of the smaller coins, the
slXpence and shilling, with King GEORGES
profile still outlined on the front side.
There would never be any question of TAX
ing the Kings head from off the coins
1t would merely be a question of what
should go on the other side.
historians and numismatists are warmly
supporting the proposal for change. They
feel that the government will eventually
yield to rightly applied pressure on this
subject, just as they (the government,
which is plural in English) have on other
questions, such as increasing the beer
supply.
The cost of such a change would ap-
parently be practically limited to whatever
amount the government decided to offer
for a prize design-probably something
about $500.
1t will be hard to have such a scheme
adopted, but perhaps when the government
and the Chancellor, in whose hands the
matter rests, have glanced over the long
line of precedents they may decide to adopt
something in the way of victory coin
If not, the present ten-shilling note the
latest of which bears an anamic- look
ing st. George spearing a sleepy look
ing dragon with a wabbly- looking spear,
offers a fertile field for such designs.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
Economy With Teeth

The House of Representatives is max
ing an earnest effort to cut all over
weight out of the appropriation bills. 1t
voted on Wednesday to reduce still
further the 1919-'2O allowance for the
army. The Military Affairs Committee
recommended provision for the support
OF 100000 regulars, instead of the 5OO.-
900 Secretary Baker wanted to keep in
service. The House held that 100000
would be more reasonable figure, thus
reducing the estimated cost of the armv
another $1oo,O0o,000
Every saving helps. The pending
army appropriation bill doesn't trench ON
questions of military policy. These re-
main to be dealt with in the army reor-
ganization bill which must be drawn
later in the session to replace the OBJ
solete Hay law. If we can get along for
another twelve months with a reduced
regular establishment, so much the bet
ter. Administration officials are prom
lslng the return of the regulars from
France by September or October. If all
the overseas divisions come home there
will be a surplus for ordinary military
uses IN the last three-quarters of the
fiscal year.
The cut in the naval appropriation
bill is equally significant AS reported
yesterday the bill carries S6O1, 500, 900.
which is $375,OO0,0 900 below the estimates
submitted by Secretary Daniels and
Sl2O,0OO,C00 below the amount carried
IN the bill which passed the House at the
last session and failed in the Senate
The reduction would have been much
greater except for the fact that the COM
mlttee sensibly raised the peace pay Of
enlisted men to the existing war basis Of
1880 month. It was formerly ST. 80
Our after-the-war naval policy also re-
mains undetermined. The needs of the
three-year building programme are taken
care o. and that is enough for the pres
ent. Naval experts confess that thew
+ cannot read the future. The war has
lett the value Of gigantic naval units
more uncertain than ever.
If retrenchment on such a scale is
practicable in the two military services
what limit can be put on it in the semi
military activities of the government
shlpbulldlng, ralroading and similar lux
urlcs? And in the inflated ordinary SER
wees provided for in the sundry civil an
preparation bill? Congress can do moth
ing more helpful to relieve the domestic
situation than to eliminate governmental
waste and reduce bufdcnsomc taxation.
NOBODY can escape the weight Of taxa-
ton. The war will be over nomina]]v
when the treaty Of peace is proclaimed
IL Will not be over economically until we
nave greatly reduced and adjusted our
enormous war debt.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
L.abor's Response to Bolshevism

The men in America most competent
to judge Bolshevism and its works are
now assembled at Atlantic City in the
delegates to the convention Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor. They know
the beast and have often wrestled with
it, first under one alias and then under
another. The name changes, but there is
the same foul and identifying breath.
A good sign of national health is the
great desire of the delegates for Boil
shevism to raise it's head that they may
smite it. We are nation Of laborers,
always have been and, let us hope, al
ways will be, with no delusion that a
parasitic leisure class has a right to ex-
ist, but intelligent and free laborers, men
who know and justly prize liberty and
subordinate the claims of class interest
to the larger claims of manhood and
humanity.
The parlor revolutionaries are report
ed scarce at the labor convention
this year The pamphleteers and book
writer's, the "intellectuals," who have
never done day Of real work in their
lives, are notably absent. The atmosphere
is not kindly
The hope Of raising storm in which
the intellectuals may ride to conspicu-
BUSINESS and power, even though it de-
stroys thousands, grows dim. Never did
so many realize as now that Bolshevism
means the tyranny of few, as in Rus
sia, and the slavery of the many; that a
new aristocracy would arise and impose
it's will, would regiment men under
bosses possessed of all power-political,
military and economic.
Jobs would not be chosen but assigned.
By whom? BY Lenines and Trotzkys
and other hite-handed gentlemen. Bet
ter captains of industry, who at least are
competent and are restrained by thou
sand conditions, than such new masters!
To wise Samuel Gompers congratula-
tions properly go. This clear-headed old
gentleman, difficult to fool, not only has
done much for his country and the world
but has been a mighty personal force in
lllllHS AIucllCdIl ldDOI lulO uSW IcdlIuS
of self respect and satisfaction-to
state wherein the forty-four hour week
is just around the corner. The worlds
greatest labor leader-here is a high
pinnacle.
But the name of Gompers, while hon
ored by millions, must now be heard with
sense of inward shame by some Think
of it! Not many years ago loud claque
in this country sought to land Samuel
Gompers in Jail. The effort happily
failed, but that it was made with the
support Of those who esteemed them
selves intelligent is a warning against
narrowness The BolsheviS agitator is
pest, but close second to him is the
stupid person who doesn't see other
mems rights while tenacious of his own
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
Arrests Lead
To BIackn1aiI

The Socialists openly asserted that the
mar-hunt instituted by the gendarmerie
ostensibly to run down Bolshevism was
used in many parts Of Poland, and espe-
cially in Galicia, to collect graft and as
a means for backmal. Some of the peas
ant delegates likewise charged the National
Democrats, the party of the land owners and
upper classes, which is now in power with
making the cry of Bolshevism a convenient
excuse for intimidating their hired farm
employees, who were restless everywhere
There are something over half million of
such hired farm laborers, including their
families, in Congress Poland alone. Scores
of thousands of them were striking at the
time, and it charged that the gen.
darmerie was serving as an aid to the land
owners and was helping them crush these
strikes by subjecting the strikers to in
dignities, by arresting them and torturng
them in prison.
But vehement were the protests
against the government, its defenders were
equally stout. The most Jealous defender
of the Paderewski government and its
method of fighting unrest and Bolshevism
was the priest Deputy from Lomsa, Father
Kazimierz Lutoslawsk.
After Father Lutoslawski once occupied
nearly whole hour on the floor of the
Diet not only defending the course of the
government in impassioned language but
assailing the parties of the Left, I asked
him to state his position to me- He did
this in excellent English.
"My position in this matter is simple and
positive" he said. "The members of the
Left say that the government is too severe,
that it is making too many arrests. I say
that it is not severe enough. The issue at
stake in Poland is the principle Of private
property. We have about half a million
Socialists. Half Of them are Bolshevists;
the other half potential Bolshevists
They are only waiting for the opportunity
to become Bolshevists. The government,
therefore, must set its face against all
socialization schemes that in any way strike
at the principle of private property. What
we are doing now is to arrest and imprison
Bolshevists What we should do is to
hang them. l would rather see two or three
innocent men hanged than one guilty man
escape. | convinced that we can spare
ourselves a great deal of bloodshed in the
future if we will execute more Bolshevists
now"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
Polished Communists
Marched as Prisoners

The few Abelated passengers who were
still on the street walked past without
word and without lingering to look at
the procession. There was a strict govern
ment order against any one being on the
streets of Warsaw after 12 o'clock at
night, and it was dangerously near 12
Protected, however, by the uniform of the
American army, my companion walked over
to one of the Polish officers in charge.
"Who are the prisoners?" he inquired.
"Communists," was the answer.
Communist is Polish designation for
Bolshevik The men and women were led
from the local jails to the larger prison at
Mokotow, on the outskirts Of Warsaw
They were led at night so as not to at
tract attention.
A few days earlier I had come into the
Crakowsky square Saturday forenoon
and found there about eight or ten thou
sand people. They were unemployed and
they gathered in front Of the Bristol, the
hotel at which Paderewski and the Allied
missions were staying. It was q cold,
rainy morning in February, yet hundreds
Of the men stood in the street barefooted
Orators took possession of street cars, of
passing wagons and automobiles and ad-
dressed the crowd. They begged for bread
and coal, and if the government could not
give them these they begged for the privi-
lege to go to America, where some of them
had been in years past, and where others
had relatives
By II o'clock the square in front of the
hotel could not hold the crowd, which had
increased to $4,000 or 10000 and had flowed
over into side streets. Transportation was
at a standstill Paderewsk came out on
the balcony and made speech, saying the
government doing all it could and ask
ing the people to go home. But the crowd
did not bulge. And when Paderewski fin
ished speaking, as reply, they began
to sing the "Czerwoni Sztandar," which is
the revolutionary international in Polish
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
The 5Oth Sire ct Pier

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: VIII you not aid the undersigned
committee of the Active Republican Club in
securing the release OF the upper deck Of
the West Fiftieth Street Recreation Pier,
which has been used by the War Department
for five years, so that the mothers children
and families OF our densely populated district
have been barred from access to the cooling
brcezes of the waterfront for five hot sum-
mers?
In the present hot weather it is deplorable
that our districts pier should be the only
one unused for the purposes for which il was
built. We feel sure that you viii cooperate
with committee and all officials with
power to open this recreation pier at once;
for lack of ice, lack of cheap milk and food
prices are all combining to increase the death
toll, especially Of young children, in this
district, which furnished so many volun-
teers during the war
We have asked the Board Of Aldermen,
June 10, to request its release py General
Black, of the War Department. Mayor
Hylan, President Moran and Alderman
Kenny, of the Sinking Fund Commission and
the Board of Estimate. to provide funds
and the Park Commissioner to provide
music and attendance.
The Committee:
WILLIAM S. REYNOLDS.
H. G. SCHNEIDER, Secretary.
610 West Forty seventh Street.
WILLIAM j. BALFOUR. i
Now York limo II 1910
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
Victory Coins
By Frank Getty

ONDON, June 1.-Pressure is being
brought to bear upon the British
government to persuade the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, who is also Master
Of the Mint, to agree to the commemora-
ton of peace by the introduction of new
design one or more of the English sill
YER coins.
So far Austen Chamberlain has refused
to adopt the suggestion. He says the mint
is understatfed and overworked. The real
meaning may very we'll be that true
Briton he objects to anything resembling
a change.
AS matter Of fact, however, If such a
plan as adopting victory coin is carried
out the Chancellor will have plenty of
precedent to point to. He go all the
way back to 400 B. c., in which year the
Greeks celebrated their victory the
Persians at Marathon by having q coin
stamped, and come right down the line of
historical victories to 1915, when British
sovereign, of st. George and the dragon
design, struck to commemorate the
victory of Waterloo. Philip II. Of Mace
donia ordered new coinage in $40 B. c., in
celebration of the consolidation Of his
power, coinage later destined to become the
standard of the world. When Alexander
the Great completed his conquest of the
Persian Empire, in 334 B. c., he first in
troduced tho symbolizcd winged figure Of
victory.
AS for precedent nearer home, Mr.. Cham
berlain can find it both ways The Roman
Emperor Claudius issued coins bearing tho
inscription "De Britanns" to celebrate the
conquest Of the British Isles about 81 A. D.,
and the noble Of the Plantagenct King
Edward III, bearing n naval galley, ccle-
bratcd the victory the French at
Sluys in 1340, and remained in the British
coinage for over 200 yoars. Queen Anna
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
Welcome the Builder

Says Abram l. Elkus, chairman of the
State Reconstruction Commission, in
letter to Senator Lockwood, chairman of
Housing:
"Unless ground is broken this month
thousands of residents of this state will
be homeless in the autumn. The Recon
struction Commissions survey has dis
closed the fact that the situation is just
as serious in rural districts and smaller
cities as it is in Greater New York This
is problem which involves every one
and demands the attention Of the Fed
eral, state and municipal governments and
the cooperation of all investigating com
mittees, big business and investors
Until this time each of these interests
has been working more or less along its
own lines. The State Reconstruction
Commission has been first to recognize
that all must get together and work
along the same lines, or the industry,
health and welfare OF the state will suf-
fer still more seriously before long"
Last winter was mild, but the next
may be az severe as that Of the year be-
fore. It is not agreeable to think of
shivering in tents. Yet, az Mr.. Elkus
indicates, nothing Of value has been
done.
Indeed, the agitation 80 far has been
rather to discourage building. 1t has
been indicated TO prospective builders,
who, of course, wish TO make money,
that II they make money they will be
held up TO contumely az proftccrs.
Carranza can't get any one to invest
in Mexico because Of doubt both Of his
Willingness and ability to protect in
vestors against confscation. We may
not initiate Carranza and escape natural
consequences. Capital il skittish and
won't play when II understands it may
he Iynched. The character Of the hous-
ing agitatiop as much, perhaps, as the
jack NJ tho cdordinatjon which Mr., Elkus
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
The Main Business

To the controversy over the publication
of the treaty. former Senator Root has
brought the cooling influence of common
sense. 1t is to be hoped he has brought
to an end discussion which has verged
on the absurd.
The treaty was published in full in
Germany-no stipulation appears to have
been filed with the German negotiators
to withhold it. Thus it ceased to be pri-
vate. Moreover, with respect to the
covenant and labor sections, the text was
given out in advance of delivery of the
document to the German delegates, and
coincident to delivery the remainder was
published in a summary now admitted
to be accurate. AS to essentials, there
fore, no secrecy has existed.
The Presidents insistence on nominal
.ecrecy under these circumstances sug-
gests slavishness to mere punctilio-has
the look Of trying to appear secret when
there is no secrecy in fact. With respect
TO the general distribution Of copies, it is
the Presidents prerogative, as Mr.. Root
says, to judge, but other persons may
Judge the wisdom of his act.
TO provoke wrangle over an inconse-
quence displays little tact. If the treaty
IS to be ratified, why needlessly irritate
:. Senate whose feelings are already
raw? Congress, before the Presidents
departure for Paris, was promised full
information concerning the negotiations
Instead, it sees a seeming determination
% deny it knowledge that the whole world
possesses. 1t is inconceivable that there
is maneuvring for political reasons, to
tease the Senate into rejecting the treaty,
but if such purpose existed it would
doubtless employ this device.
Mr.. Root sees no harm in the publica-
ton, except that the controversy in re-
gard thereto tends to distract "the atten-
ton of the Senate from the very serious
questions which are awaiting it's action"
This gentle suggestion to stop the sport
of pursuing will-o'- '-the-wisps is a reproof
that will doubtless commend itself to
mature Senatorial opinion. The treaty
in vital features is as much before
che Senate now as if formally messaged
to it, and the period of peace delay will
be shortened by maturing opinion
through conference and debate.
Mr.. Root, patriotic American, is
highly desirous of securing an early rati-
fcation, but realizes it is obviously
necessary, if ratification is to be secured,
TO safeguard against surrender of Amer
lean independence, against intrusons in
purely American questions and against
obligations to participate in the petty
quarrels Of troubled Old World. The
President having failed to attend to
these matters, responsibility is lodged
with the Senate, and it is it's high duty
to frame and agree upon the needed
reservations.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
The Coming Tower
TYPICAL AMERICANS

Last night I went-the second time
To see the Roosevelt Memorial Exhibition
At Columbia, on Morningside.
And as 1 sauntered round the room,
Impressed by all the many proofs
OF this mans versatility,
Exalted by the impact with
Dynamic personality,
Transported by the thrill Of high adventure
Which this perusal of his life stirred in
ME,
] sat down in alcove there
And watched the passing throng
Of typical Americans
Reacting to the stimulus
OF the Most Typical American.
A bronzed young soldier fingered longest
DER
The case that held the letters to his chill
dren;
At last he smiled, and patted on the back
A Boy Scout, and said:
"Some father! I'll say he was,
Read that."-Po Pointing out
A letter written long ago
To BLESSED Quentykins."
And blessed Quentykins," he murmured as
He musngly strolled over to the door,
A dear old lady was delighted at
The screen where mounted were the pict-
ures of
His children and his grandchildren.
A dewy rosebud of girl
Became star-eyed and animate
While gazing at the cowboy souvenirs.
A portly, pompous man of wealth
Was blocking up the space before
The scenes of honors heaped upon him
BY kings and queens and mighty lords of
state.
At length there happened by
Two men of dapper, debonair appearance
And evident self-satisfed demeanor;
They hovered nowhere long;
Nor they delighted were at aught they saw;
But later when they left the hall
l heard to the other say:
"Y'know what struck me most in all them
pictures?
His collarl Thirty years behind tho tinles!"
PATSIE.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

deplores, has contributed to the condi-
tions that create alarm.
Municipal, state and Federal housing
schemes are very we'll, but their tedious
consideration won't help much In the
exigency. Government is slow-neces-
sarily so. If we would multiply houses
the practical way is to welcome the
builder.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
Poland's Becoming
Her Way With Bolsheuisn1
By Elias Tobenkin

rewski government, on the blanket charge
Of Bolshevism Practically every session of
the Diet resounded with the bitter protests
against these arrests from the parties of
the Left. Sometimes it was the Socialist
and sometimes it was the peasant repre-
sentatives who attacked the government for
the movements of the gendarmerie.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
AS If New York Didn't Exist

LFrons The Chdrlcston Ne,os and CourIer)
"The Houston Post" declines to believe
that there is any city in this world whore
traffic laws are more frequently or
fngrnntly violated than in Houston How
long has it been since George Bailey visited
Charlcston1
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
Perhaps They Don't. Either
{From The Philadelphia Bulle,

(From The Philadelphia Bulretim>
The American troops in Eastern Siberia
arc said to be moving forward, but where
1,they are going why they are going
nobody seems to know.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
The Bus Takers

Henry ]. Davidson is the man who got
this treaty"
"Surc."
"And then he give 1t to Root. What'd
he do that for?''
"Wcll, why shouldn't he ?"
II didn't say he shouldn't, did II"
"No, you didn't say he shouldn't.'
~ didn't say he shouldn't"
"No, | know you didn't"
"What are they maxim so much fuss
about?"
"Wcll, the newspapers have got to have
something to fill up with"
IL suppose they have"
"Sure, they have"
"Tho Gcrmans1l sign that treaty"
Sure they will They're lot O.
cutters"
"I'll say they are"
"Ccrtainly are"
"You said it,"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

Ducnea confides that she isn't the least
bit supersttious about Friday the 18th.
IL haven't a single superstition," said
Dulcy as she asked us to guess who was
telephonng, Except one-I hate to walk
under a ladder"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tho Press is exclusively entcd to the use
republication Of dispatches credited to 1t or
otherwise credited in this and also tho local
Of spontaneous origin published herein.
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reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

If all boys Joined the Boy Scouts and
adhered to the oath, rnsculinc selflshncss
would disappear.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

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New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

Isn't masculine sclfshncss" redundant? :?
s....- y. r, A.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

Mr. John W. Edmonds, tho Unsuitable
manuscript collector, has purchased the
copy of MAUD Muller Mutatur," sending
n check for $2o which has been turned
over to the Boy Scouts
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

Now that capital and labor are in COM
plete accord, it Is amazing to recall that It
is only about twenty years ago that
a team-a supper-show team-used to sing:
1 noticed where the working class
Could get no work at all.
Tho rich man tried to down them yes
And push them to the wall.
There's many a starving family
Would be glad for work to do
So l said. God help the poor man,
AS l read the paper through.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

That G. S. X. should speak of the shoot
ing show girls in reminiscent way irri-
tatcs graybcard like Old Alexander
Woolcott. Dear mel" he cursed yester-
day, as he left for the Hamilton College
reunion Of the class of 80, 81 can remember
dimly the days of 1917 when Frances
White used to lisp in numbers, 'Thickth
Times Thickth Ith Thirdly thckth.'"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
But Not in Names

(From The Philadelphia Public LEDGER
The next President is rapidly increasing
in numbers.