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New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
Var at Any Moment

In addition italy, by claiming Fiume
and the northern half of Dalmatia, the
latter purely Slav save for the popu-
waited the situation and finally, by seiz-
ing Fiume and attempting to seize Trau,
in the Slav half of Dalmatia, has brought
the whole situation to crisis.
From this crisis war may develop at
any moment. To suppose that the
Southern Slavs will patiently submit
to all the various sacrifices which seem
impending is to suppose the impos-
sble The Serbs have suffered much
in the last war, but where Serbia had
but 100000 inhabitants, the new
Southern Slav state has OOOO.
Moreover the Slavs who were Austrian
subjects fought the Italians through
out the war with real enthusiasm and
regard Italy as the hereditary enemy.
These Slavs are we'll organized, they
are commanded by that Austrian Field
marshal, Boroevic, who held the Isonzo
for three years and is one of the great
generals of the war; they are magniti-
cent fighters, while as for the Serbs,
their praise Is on the lips of all who
saw them during the Balkan Wars and
the World War, in which they defeated
Turkish, Bulgar and Austrian armies
in great battles.
Given the mountainous character of
the country and the universal symDathv
Of the people of the Adriatic coast on
the Dalamatian side with the Slavs,
Italy would have grave problem on
her hands if war came. But unfortu-
nately for the Serbs, they have other
enemies. In giving them section Of
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
The Present Truce

But the conditions now existing on
the east shore of the Adriatic cannot
endure for many weeks more without
actual conflict. The drift, the rush Of
events in the last three or four
months, demonstrates this. The peace
which now exists is little more than
a truce at best, and this truce may end
any moment as a result of some incen-
diary act, like the attempted seizure
of Trau. Such an act would unques-
tionably unchain new war, and that war
would have consequences for the whole
world. Victorious in such a struggle,
Italy would become menace to world
peace, as the oppressor of the Southern
Slavs, exactly as the Hapsburg mon
archy was, before the recent war. De-
feated, or even forced to great excr-
tions, and she would be, Italy might
be swept by revolution, unmis takably
just around the corner, as things now
stand.
Unless speedy solution can be found
for the Fiume question, and the whole
problem of the Adratic as we'll. the
consequences for the rest of the world
are bound to be serious and the out
break of a new war is almost inevita-
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New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
A Ne1u Balkan War;?
By Frank H. Simonds

the old Hungarian province of the
Banat the Conference Of Paris also
bestowed upon the Serbs the hostility
of the Rumanans, who also claim it.
Should Italy and Serbia go to war over
Dalmatia, Rumania would beyond all
question attack the Serbs in the Banat,
where she has already modified
strong army for this purpose.
4 General Outbreaks
Again, if Serbia were thus assailed,
it is wellnigh certain that Bulgaria
would again attack her neighbor, as
she did in 1913 and in 1915, in the hope
of regaining Macedonia. But such an
attack would at once involve Greece,
now in dispute with Bulgaria over
Thrace and at once menaced in her
portion of Macedonia and in her hold
upon Salonica should Bulgaria regain
Monastir. Indubitably Greece, with
further quarrels with Italy, over
Epirus. the Aegean Islands and por-
tions of Asia Minor, would be forced
to stand with Serbia.
This would mean an attack upon
Greece by Italian fleets, but could tho
great powers who make up the league
of nations consent to the destruction
of Greece and of Serbia and the per-
petuaton of hostility in the Balkans
which would mean later wars, new and
enduring menaces to European peace
1t seems to me impossible. On the
other hand, could they restrain Italy
without resort to force, which would
mean something approaching war
Again the answer must seem negative
But such a general dispute would in
evitably serve German interests by
breaking up the old alliance agains'
her and pushing Italy and Rumania
away from their old allies and in the
direction of an understanding with Ber
! lin, an understanding made the sim
pier because the Italians now favol
the union of Austria with Germany, {
step forbidden by the Conference Of
Paris, under French influence
Criticism of the action Of the Amer
lean navy at Trau, therefore, seems tc
me the extreme of shortsightedness
Had the Italians been able to seize this
port, indubitably there would have
been a fight with the Jugo- Slavs, which
in its turn would have developed into
war. This war could not have beer
localized, given the Rumanian anC
Greek situations, and in few week
we should have had the whole Balkan
peninsula afame, to- say nothing o
serious situations elsewhere. By it
intervention the American navy at TIL
least postponed a new war, and this i
real gain.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
Hero Worship Endures

fFront Ifo Wlch "a BedrOn
The Italian government can't handle
dAnnunzio because he is too popular
with the people. Also because his
action is too popular with the Italian
government.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

"Prcsidcnt Wilson, despite his illness,
remembered that to-day was Mrs. Viii
sons birthday" the A. P. wire says.
That. along with the talkative barber
wheeze, is Old Stuff. Men don't forget
their wives birthdays, in spite-as the
old song used to say-of Puck and
Judge Besides, the dispatch, it seems
to us, if true to the comic tradition.
should read because of" instead of
"dcspite"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
V 7 AGUE as have been the reports
" coming from the upper Adri-


attic in recent days, following
the great d'Annunzio adventure, it is
plain that for several weeks now we
have been on the edge of a new war,
beginning, as did the World War, only
recently ended, with a quarrel between
the Southern Slavs and a great power,
this time Italy and not Austria-Hun
gary.
But precisely as the Serbo-A Austrian
quarrel had immediate results outside
of the two countries directly concerned
and ended by embroilng the peoples of
Asia, Africa and even America, strug-
gle between the Serbs and their Latin
neighbors would have inevitable conse-
quences for other nations. 1t is the
fate of the Balkan problems chat they
must infallbly involve the rest of the
world and can seldom be "localized" to
use the word of German diplomacy in
July, 1914.
4 Nelo Irredenta
Now the situation in the Balkans is
just this: The Serbs have united with
the Slovenans and the Croatians in
the formation of that Jugo-Slav state
whose frontiers, as fixed in Paris, in
clude all of Serbia and Montenegro, as
they existed in 1914, small portion OF
Bulgarian territory, allotted to the
Serbs in the recent Bulgarian treaty
Of peace, and all of the Austrian and
Hungarian provinces Inhabited by
Southern Slavs, save as these prov
inces, in certain fractions, contain
German, Italian and Rumanian inhabi.
tants.
But these exceptions are each OF
them sources Of present dispute anc
may be the cause of immediate OF
eventual hostilities. Thus, the Confer
ence of Paris in recognizing the Italian
claims to Trieste and the Istriar
lands, turned over to the Italians with
cut question nearly half millior
Slavs dwelling in these regions. Quite
in the same way the conference as
signed to the new Austria 5evera
hundred thousand Slavs dwelling north
Of the Drave River, about Klagenfurt
To both of these cessions the Southern
Slavs protested vehemently and con
tinue to protest. For them the deci
sion of Paris has created new lire
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
No Mission

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the New York Tribune Of to-
day, in correspondence from Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, it is reported that Mr.
Emmanuelc Messeni petruzzell is q
representative Of the Italian govern
ment on mission here
beg to inform you that Mr. Messeni
Petruzzelli is not a representative OF
the Italian government and has nc
mission in this country.
TRITONI,
Royal Italian Consul General.
New York, Oct. IA, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
The Ayes Seem to Have It

Slr' Move to eliminate:
The office boy Cor girN to whom it
matters not at all, but who insists on
your telling her Cor him) the whole
of your story and then turns you over
to some one to whom you repeat it
who IN turn refers you to some one
else, ctc, etc. J. w. G..
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
The Opportunist Gentleman

Sir; When is gentleman not gentle
man? Here is letter of reference in this
mornings mail from Anderson Ind : This
Is to introduce to you Mr. Raymond S.
Wampohl, of whom l have been acquainted
with for more than a year He has ALWAYS
been gentleman in my presence and is q
very energous young man"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
GliAEANIfE

TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for If dlssatisfac-
ton results In any The TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay your money back upon request. No red tape.
Ne uubhiins. No make good promptly II the
advertiser docs not.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

History" says the Albany Argus
"atfords some instances of very charm
ing women who smoke, among them
Cleopatra How we'll one recalls the
historic remark of Cleopatra to Sir
Walter Raleigh, please pass the
Deities."
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
The Diaryo of Our Own Samuel Pepys

October 14-No talk but of my Lord
Woodrow's malady, most appearing to
think nervous exhaustion too vague a
term, yet when that illness was ascribed
to me, the publick accepted it without
demurring. 1t came, as my Lord Wood
rows may come, from a realization that
the world was in bad way and that /
could not better it. With Mistress Betty
TO see ellis Honor Abe Potash"
highly droll piece, and B. Bernard doing
the best acting ever l saw him do, which
is to say perfection.
15-By omnibuss to my office, and
rode with r. MacAlarney; and at my
desk till afternoon, when to see Mistress
Heloise, who hath been i'll, and thence
home, and found my books in a great
Pile, and the new cases for them will
cost me 5000. With my wife to see "a
Young Mans Fancy" play that ham
mered whimsey too thin and made it q
tenuous sentimental thing. md Miss
Jeanne Eagels spoke not like Virginia
glrl at all, but like lady from Park
Lane, London To DR.. Helen Cohen's.
and she inscribed my copy of her book,
"The Ballade," the best book on that
subject there is. In the play l saw
tonight p. Merivalc taketh the part
of a poet, and the opening speech con-
cerneth a ballade, but not a line of it
is spoken, which disappointed me.
Home, and read again "On the Writing
of English" by Sir A. Quller-Couch,
who, when exchange professors are
spoken of, ] wish might come and speak
to our college youth
16-Early to the Office, where all days
in aimless discussion, and scrivcning.
Owing to the fact that the bookbind-
crs have now S6-weekly increase and
our royalty percentage has been ad-
vanced, the price Of "Something Else
Again. due next spring, probably will
be absurd. But, as one profteer to
another, we hereby warn the prospective
purchaser.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
The Coming 7ower
RONDEAU

A narrow shaft the Tower CLEANS
Since stern decree will have It so.
Yet shall the dawn's coruscate glow
Hume it still with slender beams.
Then. rising from our couch O dreams,
We'll think we're lucky still to know
A ,larroU shaft
Aye, they are finished now, it seems
Those broader grins of long ago . .
Yet may we grasp and twang the bow
To aim, where high its banner streams,
An arrows shaft!
LEMUEL.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
Why We Choose Lamb

Nfom The P,itabur0h Gazette Tnres)
A four-months-o cnlf Mt the Chicnpo
Cattle Show is valued at $4,000. Now
we can understand why veal chops arc
high.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled TO tho
use for republication Of all dispatches credited
70 u or not otherwise credited in this paper and
also the locA news 0. spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
Consolation

tFroni The Des Mo.nos Ecossfcr)
We ought to consider ourselves in
luck, because we still get more than
four pennies in change for a nickel.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
Let the Coal Strike Comet
IFrom the BROOKLYN rap,e1

GENTLEMAN or lady. steam heated. with
or without board. For further information
write t. x, Box 7, Eagle Bedford branch.
.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

Fain would 7 murder in a jiFy
Who finds that things are ooh, SO
spify.' II. d. l..
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

We find few people dsnosed to d's-
pute the statement that May sneaf't
MARY Olivier is Il Remarkable book
but here and there we run Irfo people
who complain that it is daes,, We
Will grant you that The ,r- treiTo
pages or so may seem Attle inne
owing TO the unusual method be- winch
the story IS told, but after thar ue sm-
ply cannot understand how iae story ean
fail to grip and fascinate arr r.ai-r.
Probably it doesn't. Pera. lre
pages is a good deal to ASA of ors q
US who are addicted to tho "'Hei .as
the duchess school
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
Hymns of Hate

An irritant's that secdy
Expression, Eyes indecdX."
TArSTRA
The girl Of whom the world needs
riddin'
Is she who always says "No kddin'?"
FANNETTE
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

Perhaps the Argus thinks that Cleo
patra smoked herself to death, as evi-
dcnced by her 81 am dying, Egypt.
dying"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

The esteemed Waterbury Evening
Democrats opinion of modern medicine
is displayed by its headline, "Although
Five Physicians Are in Attendance No
Serious Results of Illness Feared"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

Owned ard published daily by New York Tribune
Inc. New York Cooperation. Ogden Reid. Frcsi-
deat; G. Vernon Rogers. Vice-President: Helea
Rogers Reid. Secretary + a sutcr. Treasurer
Address Tribune Building 15i Nassau Street New
AoxA- Telephone. Beckman 5000
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

of the Roosevelt Memorial Associa-
ton, has published the following
letter.:
Commissioner Plenipotentiary Of
the United States Of America.
"Paris, Sept. 23, 1919.
Dear Mr.. Thompson: l consider
it both a privilege and a pleasure to
be associated even in q small way
with the purposes of your organiza-
ton. Theodore Roosevelt needs no
memorial, but coming generations
should be constantly reminded of
what he stood for In our public life.
When he died great, virile, whole
some figure disappeared from among
US. Roosevelts do not belong to
many generations. Let US be thank
full that he belonged to ours.
"Sincerely yours.
"E. NJ. HOUSE,"
A handsome tribute. If only men
would be as fair to the living as to
the dead! But the expression is not
only handsome but by inference is
singing rebuke of those who, in
an ecstasy of political fear and mar
rowness, demanded that Colonel
Roosevelt, more than any other man
the moral energizer Of the nation
when it hesitated at The crossroads
of selfshness and altruism, have nc
chance to serve the nation in pub
lie capacity. Moreover, a heavy re-
buke Of the doers of this thing who
have accused others Of being con-
trolled by partisanship and personal
antipathy.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
Books
By Haywood Broun

|VERYBODY'S hand is raised
against the man who puns. This
includes the composing room and
accounts for the paragraph which an
peared in this place last Wednesday,
What we intended to say was: we see
by the newspapers that glands from an
ape revive youth in aged Although
this is perhaps somewhat outside our
province we cannot resist asking. mere
ly for the sake of information. II this
is by any chance the gland and glor-
ious feeling concerning which we hear
from time to time from Mr. Briggs -
OF course, we know it isn't much Of a
joke and it doesn't belong here, and We
promise never to do it again, but when
it was printed as grand We sand TO
ourself we propose to fight il out on
this line if it takes all winter"
speaking of titles" writes Bah
Doran, Charles Macomb Tlandraa says
in 'Prejudices': Books the titles Of
which are interrogatory always have
a fascination for me- "What Is Ibsen-
ism ?" "Can You Forgive Her." What
Shall We Do With Our Girls >" for in
stance. OF course they are invariably
unsatisfactory and sometimes exasrer-
ating. They never really answer the
questions they PROFOUND, and they leave
one somewhat more muddled than one
was before.
"'Tolstoy's "What Is Ar o. isalnost
bigoted and tedious performance. In It
one of the greatest artists Of modern
times elaborately tells one nothing
whatever about it, and leaves one with
the impression that his claim on in
mortality is something Of which he has
become very much ashamed But, crafty
old person though | be, ] succunb 20
them all, and read them because
can't resist a title in the form of
question:
an another part OF the book he
tells that Miss Laura Jean Libby il
said to have declared TO the reporter
who interviewed her on her refinement
from the active world of letters that
in looking back upon her busy career
she had but one regret; she sometimes
feared that the name of one of her
books was too long. When asked which
one it could have been. she replied that
it was the novel entitled Yon Would
Not Have Blamed Her for Going Wrong,
If You Had Known What the Condito oas
We're at Home
"As for myself, | should he cuthralled
by a book entitled The Blnomal
Theorem' or The Illinois Steel Works
if the author happened TO be Charles
Macomb Flandrau."
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

Nothing convinces US quito so tAor-
oughly of the authenticity of Daisy
Ashford as the indirec. testimony
CLEANED from May sinclairs marvellous
study of young girl in The chapters
of MARY Olivier devoted to Infancy
Mary must have been little younger
than Daisy when May Sinclair icpor's
her as thinking. "When mamma talked
about God she took you On her lap
and you played with the gold farsa' on
her watch chain. Her face was solemn
and tender. She spoke softly Size was
afraid that God might hear her ,aianr
about Him and wouldn't like H." Aud
later we find. Aunt Bella's face 'qas
much pinker and richer ard more ll-
portant than mammals face Bat ner-
haps the resemblance is even .'torrsr
in Marys thought on Good Fr3ag.
"Only, when you thought Of what bad
been done to Jesus, it didn't seem rlsh..
somehow, to have eaten the hot cross
buns
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
A Tribute and a Rebuke

William B. Thompson, president
of the Roosevelt Memorial Associa-
ton, has published the following
letter:
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

with unconcealed contempt | glover
AT ANY Dub could write The Tower.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

Decidedly MARY Olivier" belongs =
our list of must books. V also ar-,
book investors to watch " IL Hisous
"The Book Of Naturalis." Th re are
two chapters in it warranted 70 irr .'c
every lover OF dogs TO the point of
frenzy, but it is no baa thing 80 be
irritated. anyway, and the ret If tie
book is ingratiatinely delightful
We haven't finished MARY cNser7
yet, and until We do Somert Nar-
HAMS The Moon and S'xpance" sea'ns
the best novel we have read l..'.e f-e
year.
Epigrams are not among oar -atr''e
literary devices. but we think an *
ception should be made for IT, IT,
tell in his essay. Bryan" in "Hooks
and Things published hy f.s-
Brace & Howe. "Blcssed afe ,fa- who
mean we'll writes Mr Iitte.l. "far Icy
shall be spared the labor q thol-ft.
One is struck in reading Lawrence ?.
Abbott's Impressions o. Tf....-e
Roosevelt" Doubleday para wta fse
extraordinary literary output o ftf
Colaaei. According 20 the os'',a g. 81
Mr.. abbott. the Colonel iu hs 'st =
thirty titles "wrote two million and
half words in permanent literary 'a,r.'
He was prodicions letter writer I'D
Mr.. Abbott states that during h.- Cow
ernorship and Presidency he wrote ere
hundred and nfty thousand letters A.
an average Of one hundred words eh
this would mean fifteen million words
more In forty working wears Roese-
Welt set down on paper Some eighteen
million words. According to cur corr
putation. this Is almost fifteen hundred
words a day. In other words dnf :
the years that Roosevelt WAS rancAng,
lighting in Cuba. wrestling with Cone
gress and jiu-jitsu instructors. preaea-
ing the square deal. deuounciae rscc
suicide and being Pre- sidcnt. BE did
every day about the average stint of a
New York newspaperman. As a. sheer
physical and mental stunt il is perhaps
the most extraordinary feat of all in
! life which was strenuous.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

AS they drew near a mans voice rang
out sharply in a military challenge:
"Halt! Who goes there ?"-From "The
Peddler," by Henry C. Rowland, in the
Satevcpost.
Whaddyemean military?
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

Old Ed Howe has some good stuff in
the Satevepost, where it belongs. When
Ed writes about definite persons, as he
used to in the Atchison Globe, his stuff
has what some call vibration and others
salt. But when Ed quit daily journalism
for the leisure most newspaper men
think they want, so that they may write
Better Stuff, he lost the crouch that
made him unique. But Old Ed is a
great writer, and when Americans are
boasting to Lord Dunsany and Hugh
Walpole and John Drinkwater about our
literature, they should boast about Old
Ed And, while the vaunting is good
about George AIDE, Ring Lardner, and
Kin Hubbard.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

~, hnt worse hate the folks who say
i. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-17

We haven't finished MARY c't.er7
yet, and until We do Somer. Naz-
hams The Moon and szpanee" .e..'as
the best novel we have read l..e ae
year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-18
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
SCHOOL NO. 10

Teachers and pupils of School No
TO-, of which Miss Eva Waters is prin-
clpal have arranged the following at
tractive Christmas program for the
CLOSING OF the first school term. The
program will be given at the school
building Friday morning at 10 O'Clock.
Song. It Is Coming; Toast to Santa
Claus, IL pupils. Grade 2; Song, Christ
mas morning. Play, King Winters
Throne, All pupils, Grade 8; What 1
Would Be. pupils. Grade1; Guess
Who. 10 pupils, Grade A; Song, Santa
Claus is Coming Soon; What Santa
Brought pupils, Grade l.; Our Plat
form, pupils. Grade 2; Merry Christ
mas. IA pupils, Grade 1; Song, Merry
Christmas Bells; Letters From Santa
Claus. IL pupils, Grade A; Song, Eyes
SO Bright; Twelve Little Candles and
a FREELY, ID pupils, Grade 2; Christ
mas Story; Song. Here at Last
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-18
YACHT CLUB CRUISE is
TO BE TO PINE LODGE

The December cruise OF the Pensa-
cola Yacht club will be to Pine Lodge
on December % it was voted at last
nights meeting of the club. Commodore
Cross was absent and Commodore
Bear presided.
Ten new members were accepted and
six applications for membership were
received.
Plans for the December cruise call
for an early boat to leave at a. M,
followed by others at and 10 a. m.
Members are to be permitted to take
their wives, sisters or sweethearts on
the cruise.
Preceding the meeting last night
! Secretary Frederic served q country
| sausage supper. The sausages were
SO hot that Adrian Langford's ears
were burning before he finished eat
Ing.