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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
A Socialist on Bolsl,evists

That socialism and Bolshevism. in
stead Of being Synonymous, are dia-
metrlcally opposed has been pointed out
by many Socialists Of the old school. but
by few more emphatically than by r. X.
Primus-Nyman, widely known English
Socialist. Mr.. Primus-N yman has re-
turned recently to his own country after
q considerable stay in Russia and has
embodied his observations and conclu
SONS IN an article for a London publica-
ton. The main conclusion is this:
II shudder to think Of what the world
would be like if the methods of the pres
ent Bolshevist regime were to be applied
all over the world
Mr.. Primus-Nyman urges ENGLISH So
clalists not to be carried away by an i'll
advised enthusiasm for a movement
through information gained by means of
"chats over tea-glasses with some we'll
meaning theorists All true Russian
Socialists now regard Bolshevism as
tyranny, he says, and declares that
Maxim Gorky is by no means the only
Russian Social Democrat who has funy
the truth in the face Of those degenerate
hypocrltes who are now pretending to
rule Russia in the name Of international
socialism. Almost all the old leaders Of
the Socialist and revolutionist movement
IN Russia are now the most bitter oppo-
nents Of Lenine and his bureaucratic
anarchist band, who for two years have
been doing their best to demoraize the
masses as well as the Socialist move
ment in Russia"
1t has been the boast of socialism that
1t is the "most CONSTITUTIONAL the most
law-abiding of all the political move
ments" and the greatest of all the peace
movements" Judged by these stand
ards. Mr. Primus- Nyman finds Bo.shev
ism far short Of the Socialist ideal, for
he declares the Red regime the "great-
est enemy of socialism, of freedom, of
justice, of peace, and even Of the work
ing classes Of their own people,
If this latter charge is true, as has
been SO frequently declared by other in
vestigators. then Bolshevism fails Of it's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Haly;s Example
She Viii Call IN Her. Sur
plus Currency and Burn 1t
From Tribune Paris bureau.
DAR1S, Aug. 24.--What is 1O0-franc
note worth to-day?

note worth to-day!
1t is worth just GO franca
This may sound like an absurdity, but it
is painfully true, and therein lies the prn-
cipal cause of the high cost of living in
France. How high that cost is let Ameri-
cans returning, sadder and wiser, recount,
for this story is not concerned Herewith
There has been deprecated paper money
in France before, notably under the Rcvolu-
ton and during the Directory. But the rate
during those periods was established by
comparison with French currency in circu-
lation. o-day there is no gold in circu-
lation, and the value of French banknotes
is established by comparison with foreign
notes.
The American dollar must be the standard
of comparison, for it has remained unafrect-
cd In 1911 Frenchman could buy dollar
for francs IS centimcs; to-day it costs
him s francs Is confines
When you have note for 100 francs in
your nand, then, you have actually no
more than 63 francs. But this is not all
You should next inquire what you could
buy to-day with SO francs in the United
States; and when you have got the dis
heartening answer you begin to realize
how dangerous the situation of France
really is.
French financiers and business men arc
loudly crying that the most important task
of to-day is to restore normal value to
French banknotes, or at least to take
measures to stop further depreciation. In
some quarters there is talk of taking a leaf
out of Italy's book
Italy has in circulation only some 10000
100000 lire III notes, Whereas with q
population roughly equal France has 35,-
0O0,000,000. Yet Italy has determined to
call in what is above the normal in this
circulation and to burn it, This the Italian
government hopes to be able to do by means
of a loan at ga per cent, to which every
Italian will be forced to subscribe according
to his resources
A forced loan can hope to succeed only If
it is understood by the people and will
ingly accepted, but the government of 81
gnor Nitti counts on the intelligence and
patriotism Of the nation and is hoping thus
to secure 10000, 900, 900 lire by persuading
all and sundry that the apparent sacrifice
demanded of them is not really sacrifice,
since it means the giving up Of fictitious
values in order to rcestablsh real ones
Could France do the same thing? The
tcchncians studying the question, and
an answer of some sort must be given soon.
If the Italian plan succeeds, and nothing is
done by France the Ira will soon be worth
81 re than the franc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
The MAYORS Suggestion

The Mayor has written letter to the
Police Commissioner to remind him that
banditry in a large city is something one
does not tolerate He says:
From time TO time bandit gangs in
high-powered automobiles have made
practice of holding up people in apart
ments and hotels. Would it not be wise
at this time to instruct the patroimen on
post where holdups of these kinds are
liable to occur after 12 o'clock at night
10 make investigation as to the oc-
cupants Of the cars, and if anything sus
picious appears, to take the number of
The car, examine the license number Of
the chauffeur, and question the occupants
Of the car as to their business in that
immediate neighborhood?
The practice complained Of by the
Mayor is, indeed, reprehensibe. The re-
strant with which he writes about it is
probably owing to the fact that his criti-
cism was meant to be- and is, CONSTRUCT
tive. He suggests how the evil may be
greatly abated, if not abolished alto
gether. 1t is so simple we wonder it
WAS not thought Of before. Patrolmen
should be con posts where hold-ups Of
these kinds are liable to occur after II
O'clock" We are sure the whole COM
munity will support the Mayor in this
reasonable suggestion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Stones
Fro,A Amerscan Poetry lfe

From American Poetry Mooaeias)
Day dreams, Ike mirages. rise from the dust
where the hearts of the world have
fallen.
Building fair castles whose spires leap up to
the utmost star;
But hands that are stained with the blood,
rust Of everyday travail
Place real stone upon stone as they are
Stones fall awry whore the hards have been
broken and twisted
And chip with big chips that CLEAN ike
new broken bone
But still the throng labors. sweating and
twisting and placing
Stone upon stone.
Build, build, build-and then climb as each
stone creeps up on another,
Climb-till you kiss the star that dances in
space.
Each stone is dream to carry your winged
upf1eetings
Till you laugh IN tune with the wind-cod
feeling the JOY Of his breath in your
face. WALTER CHAPELLE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Gern1any's Silent Tread

German merchants says the July % issue
Of the Mexico City "Excesior," residing in
the Mexican capital, state that they have
already taken advantage of the recent rails
ing of commercial restrictions by placing
orders of considerable Importance in Ger
many. During the war various German drug
and hardware stores were obliged to stock
heavily in foreign goods, in view of the fact
that they we're unable to obtain merchandise
from the mother country. AS soon peace
was signed, however. and the censorship
raised, the German merchants here in Mexico
City proceeded to place large orders for
needed articles Of German origin. 1t is said
that the import Of these goods will amount
to q million marks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
NAY, IN many cases the Pres

NAY, IN many cases the Pres
ident may not eren knoM 1c},at
the Senate's objections mere.
He is made to approach that
bOdy as Serrcnf com erYing
'citis his master, and Of course
de}crring to that master. His
only po,rer Of compelling COM
pliance or the part OF the Sen
ate lies IN his inifins;rc in
negotiation, ,UEich affords him
chance to get the country into
such scrapes, so pledged in the
rie,c Of the ,uorid TO certain
courses Of action, that the Sen
ate hesitotes to bring about the
appearance Of dishonor schich
uould follo1U its refusal to
rati)y the rash promises or to
support the i7ldiscreet threats
Of the Department Of State. -
From Congressional eut,
By Woodrow Wilson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
The Price of Coal
Clrom The PAtlcdelphic Public Ledqs.

GfOm The Philadelphia Public Ledqsl)
Consumers Of coal will watch with great
deal of interest the development of the suit
to be filed by some of the independent
anthracite operators, in the Court Of Claims,
against the government Of the United States
This litigation is designed to test the legality
OF the action of the Federal Fuel Admins
tration in fixing the price at which the op-
orators were permitted to sell their product
during the war, the contention of these COM
planning companies being that the price
actually fixed was so low that they were
barely able to meet expenses and were alto
gether unable to make that "just and reason
able profit" that, was specifically provided for
by the law creating the fuel administration
And the suits are to determine whether the
government shall be liable to make rcstitu-
ton to those mine owners who, from motives
Of pure patriotism," kept their mines in
operation at a loss. Meanwhile, the con-
sumers will be filled with wonder whether
there ought not to be some compensation
Tor them, as they were compelled to nav
price for coal that seemed to them at the
time to be unduly generous to the operators
Their wonder is by NO means likely to be
resolved, but all the same judicial review
Of the proceedings of the fuel administration
an impartial examination of the facts on
which Its policies were based, and determi-
nation OF its authority to do the things it
did, are much more likely to yield informa-
ton of value as guide for the future than
could be expected from the sort of investi-
cations with which the name of Conoress is
associated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
This Lunatic World

TO the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: l rather startled at George Ber
nard Shaw's reply when l asked him why
governments pay pensions to war widows
and orphans and do not pay pensions to
industrial widows and orphans.
Shaw said:
Il do not know why governments nav
pensions to war widows and not to. peace
widows. Nor do l know why they force
every man to fight, no matter how rich hs 10
but do not force him to work on the same
terms.
why man with conscientious objection
to killing his fellowmen should be persecuted
with murderous ferocty. ard a man with an
unconsclentious objection to helping them to
live and pulling his own weight in the COM
monwealth boat at the same time should
be exalted and pampered and hattered is an
other conundrum which I give up
The longer live the moro am inclined
10 the belief that this earth is used by other
planets as lunatic asylum"
JUDGE HENRY NEIL.
London, Sept. 1. 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Rain Storm
from Tic Pagnr }

from Tic Pagnr)
Down the gray square flags patters
The rain, and each drop skaters
To white translucent candle:
Down the rain batters
The upright blades OF green,
Dulled with the dust of days
Of there, the wind-rocked haze
OF powdered rain Is seen
Descending like filnly veil
That bellies and caves
In long waves.
OFF there the powdered ram brushes =.
leaves
And down weaves
Slanting to earth.
Behind the veil toss clumps
OF tousled green, and thumps
The wind, sudden and hollow.
Setting each leaf madly a-dancing
In jerky fiuttering jumps
And dips, like scattering wing Of swanox
Quicker. madden, thicker
Come the drops, and bicker
Fuller deeper louder
Till the tripping drops are soldered to
solid stream
OF gray that softens warmly to a CLEAN
Diffused UP from the ground,
And the busting drops are drowned
In a joyous roar
That hammers street and roofs and gras,
No more
The slanting veil. of there,
Brushing the leaves, is seen 20 pass
In flmy folds adown the air
Efaced without a trace
In the unhorizoned -choked space.
EDWARD SAPIR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Loss Sharing

In his address on profit sharing before
the Civic Federation George w. Perkins
apparently assumed that employers,
rather than the employed need to be
persuaded Of its desirability.
How does he know this? There is
much evidence that many employers
would gladly welcome a real profit
sharing system, for is natural effect
would be to stimulate productions; but
there is little evidence that the en-
ployed want it. For three quarters Of
a century progressive employers have
sought to devise acceptable profit sharing
schemes Scores of plans have been eX-
perimented with. With few exceptions
they have been wrecked because wage
workers would not have them.
The essence of profit sharing is, OF
course, division of the gains and losses
of business A division Of the gains,
when they come, meets no opposition
from the employed, But division Of
losses, when they occur-here is another
matter. The bad year--thc period of
no profits and often of failure to keep
income up to outgo--then there is re-
fusal to consent to pay envelope deduc-
lions.
Whatever few theorizing leaders of
labor may say and however at radical
meetings the principle Of division may
be applauded, the average wage worker
seems to prefer system under which
he knows what he is to get. He demands
that the capitalist employer shall carry
the risk Of finding some way to meet
his payroll.
In the large and over I; series OF years
there is and must be profit sharing when
industry is under capitahstic leadership.
Capital is capable of indefinite en-
pansion. When line Of business pays
we'll new capital rushes into it, thus
charging the demand for labor. Mean
while, labor grows more slowly in avail
able supply and its services are bid for,
thus leading to a rise in wages, the in
crease representing a share of the new
profits.
But when profit sharing is spoken Of
the automatic kind is commonly not
mcant--the reference being to a more
systeMatized and visible kind. 1t is the
latter sort which experience shows the
employed will not have. Bonuses are
liked, but not profit sharing, if it implies
loss sharing as it logically must
When all men are supremely inte]li-
gent and equally thrifty it is conceivable
there will be systematized profit division
as a part of a democratized system Of
industry. Men will then realize that
they live on the avals of current produc-
ton and that the members of 10 group
are entitled to be insured a share which
is specified in advance. But this millen-
NAL day has not come. rs is attested
by thousands Of spontaneous selfish acts.
SO it is not likely that organized profit
sharing will mark the early future.
Does any one think that business
institution which in good years and bad
honestly shared profits and losses would
be able to hold it's working forces in
bad year? Would not rival institutions
Of unaduterated capitalism, which paid
more, be preferred?
Any person who spends few minutes
thinking will have little doubt as to
which establishment would have the
greater attractiveness with labor to sell
in the highest market
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Mariners
From Harper 81

From Harpers}
MEN who have loved the ships they took
to sea,
Loved the tall masts, the prows that
creamed with foam,
Have learned. deep in their hearts, how it
might be-
That there is yet a dearer thing tsan
home.
The DECKS they walk, the rigging in the stars
The clean boards counted in the watch
they keep
These, and the sunlight on the slippery spars
viii haunt them ever, waking and asleep
Ashore, these men are not as other men
They walk as strangers through the crowd
ed street,
Or, brooding by their fires, they hear again
The drone astern, where gurging waters
meet,
Or see again wide and blue lagoon
And q lone ship that rides there with 'As
moon. $3.50
DAVID MORTON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
New yor'e Tribune
Eoreiun Prsas Bureaus


Foreign Press Bureau
~HE peace treaty still awaits ratifca-
ton in most of the countries formerly
belligercrit, but the business of life,
with a cheerful disregard for diplomatic and
parliamentary forms, tends everywhere to
be resumed. AS to this, survey of Euro
pean newspapers will convince even the
hardened pcssimist. Turn whore you may
to the financial and business pages, to the
columns art, theatre and literature, to
the general news or advertising section,
everywhere the impression will greet you
that life is life again after five years Of
nightmare.
One of the most encouraging signs is the
revival Of public interest in great projects
OF engineering discussed before the war. but
dropped in August 1914, and dormant ever
since. The factors making for this revival
are manifold; probably the psychological
motive. the desire of turning away from the
spectacle and memory Of death and destruc-
ton and of applying released energy and
invention to constructive life bringing pur-
poses, is a powerful influence
This psychological factor is very con.
spcuously at work in the instance of new
or renewed schemes and facilities of inter-
national communication. 1t is common
place of contemporary history that the war
has reerected barriers among the nations of
the world which were constantly being de-
molished ever since the great industrial
revolution Of the last century. Now that
the struggle is over, the old cndeavors to
make the world smaller are rapidly being
resumed
One of the most interesting plans along
thls llne whose execution now seems assured
is that Of thc tunnel connecting England
and France, under the Strait of Dover. The
same strategic reasons which formerly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
A Week of Verse
On the River
From Tho NationJ

From Tho NationJ
I have hidden my little boat among tn. -.
grasses;
1t is dusk and the stars are out.
My boat rocks quietly on the gray us..
That the rising moon spangles with .il..
The wild duck seeks her nest and II. =.
leaps no more.
I am alone with the night about me.
Sorrow in my heart. The cool wind
Touches my temples with phantom k;s...
o Sister Moon, you do not bring comfo,.
me, waiting;
Now I think only OF lost loves
And old memories and old regrets
Troop like sad ghosts before NE, Dear.
into my eyes.
FROM THE CHINESE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Reservations Critics at Odds

The Sign here" advocates of the
covenant of the league of nations all
agree that the reservations are obnoxious
and ought to be rejected. The pulling
thing is that they agree for absolutely
contrary reasons.
The President has been telling his
audiences that the reservations are un-
necessary and superhuous that they
merely attempt to state in different Ian
guage what is already in the covenant
That is the argument which Nh Wilson
made at his conference with the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. and
which also led him to approve the Pitt
man interpretations.
But now comes The New York Times
with d loud lament that the Foreign
Relations Committees reservations are
not mere paraphrases of the text of the
covenant, as Mr.. Wilson says they are,
but have a content and force Of their
own which are destructive of the original
compact.
Speaking of the Foreign Relations
Committee, The Times says:
"1hey have the full courage of their
hardihood they ntlexbe in their pur-
pose, for their amendments Go wreck the
league. Even though they should be
accepted by all the other nations. the
league would be a manned and ncrveless
pact, its very heart plucked out, the ulti-
mate sanction and power set up for the
enforcement Of its resolves altogether
destroyed"
The divergence between the Times
view and that of President Wilson is
absolute. Which is right? Take the
Jour covenant reservations in order.
The first gives the United States an un-
conditional right to withdraw from the
league, on due notice. Mr.. Wilson saws
that that unconditional right already
exists. The Times thinks that an ex-
plicit declaration Of right to withdraw
Internationally slaughters the covenant.
IT so, the President has already slaugh-
tered it.
The second reservation gives formal
notice that the United States will not
accept any obligations under Article X.
cept through action by Congress. presi-
dent Wilson says that under the original
text the ultimate decision on all issues
arising out of the provisions of Article
y rests with Congress. He has repeat
edly emphasized the fact that a recon-
mendatlon of the League Council in
tended to enforce Article X cannot bind
Congress. Does The Times hold that the
reservation plucks the heart out of the
covenant? If so, it disagrees with the
President.
The third reservation excludes Ameri-
can domestic questions from the scope of
the leagues action. Mr.. Wilson saws
that they ought to be excluded and have
been excluded. Does The Times think
that such exclusion is betrayal of the
compact Then the President is also a
betrayer.
The fourth reservation explicitly pro-
tects the Monroe Doctrine, refusing to
permit it to be interpreted by the league.
The President says the Doctrine is
completely safeguarded in the text Of the
covenant. Does The Times believe that
b salving Of the Doctrine must destroy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

the moral prestige Of the league? If so,
it is again at odds with the President.
The covenant discussion has led to a
vast amount of incohercncy. The oppo-
nents OF reservations owe it to them
selves to reconcile their conflicting theo-
ries. Are the reservations vicious mere
~ because they are supererogatory, or
because they wreck the covenant and
thus break the heart Of the world'o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
The Business of Liui11g

agitatcd the English mind against the scheme
now furnish the most potent arguments in
its favor. But tho initiative it would appear,
still rests with the French The commission
appointed by the French Ministry of Public
Works to elaborate preparatory plans. com
pleted its task early in August. and asked
the French government to urge a little more
speed on the part Of the English.
Another huge project, similarly of pre- war
origin, is that of the tunnel piercing Mont
Blanc. tallest of Alpine peaks, situated
just where the French, Italian and Swiss
frontiers meet. The plans were first pre-
scented in 1908 to the Italian government by
its author, the engineer Monod, in behalf
Of a French syndicate. 1t is reported now
that negotiations at Rome are in full swing
and the prospects of realization are favor
able. The French plan is to build an electric
railroad from Sallanches, in Upper Savoy,
to Aosta, on Italian territory; of the eighty
kilometres of this railroad fifteen would pass
under the body of the Mont Blanc Thus the
tunnel carved here would take its place be-
side those of the st. Gothard and Simplon
roads as the longest in the world
In the European ewspapers-British and
Continental--ther is plenty of evidence OF
this removed interest in communications.
Articles discussing railroad rehabilitation
clearly the most important item in traffic
reconstruction-as well rs the adaptation OF
aircraft to commercial uses are printed daily
The German press evinccs particular concern
for the development Of automobile commun-
cations; that indispensable instrument Of
modern warfare, the giant motor truck,
seems to have come to stay as an equally
important peace-time supplement to rail facil-
tiles. The "Technische Rundscheu," of Berlin,
for instance, has recently published on article
advocating the total revision of town plan
ming with view to automobile requirements.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Ask Mr.. Anderson

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: l have picture home Of which the
Enclosed is copy. 1t is framed and about
fifty times larger. For the sake of remnis
cence would like to put it up in one of
my rooms Is there anything in the pro-
hibition law which will prevent me from
doing 500 T NJ
Brooklyn, N. Y, Sept. 8, 1919