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New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

the Civil War, and the lessons OF
that war and the pleas Of Eastern
suffragists for the same rights that
we're then given the negro. were
ringing In their ears.
In the years that followed women
of the East and the Middle West
never ceased those pleas, but it was
in the free and unconventional
West, where government was not
SO rigidly crystallized, that the
movement made it's growth. Across
the mountain tops and down the
mountain passes. pioneer passed
the word to pioneer, and state fol-
AQwed state in the adoption of
woman suffrage. The suffrage map
has always been suffrage's best
argument. Slowly but steadily the
Far West became all white on that
map, and then in the natural course
of events the movement must have
swept back eastward, to justify the
long, faithful years of the women
who had been working there with
out tangible result. Kansas came
into the light in 1912, and the rest
of the Middle West was due next,
but here freedom struck a snag in
the foreign-born citizens, German
and Scandinavian.
In the mean time, however. a sec
ond generation of American girls
had been growing up, girls who
wondered why their mothers had
ever had to argue about the fran
chise. 1t was the second genera
tion, profiting by the wisdom of the
first, which won the victory in New
York in 1917. New York, the most
powerful politically and the most
influential sentimentally of the
states, gave the woman's cause mo-
lnentum enough to push itself
through Congress, and brought it
where it stands to-day, a-tiptoe on
the brink of complete success.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

ises or to support the indiscreet
threats of the Department Of State.
No reasonable doubt is to be enter
tanned of how the author would de-
scribe the President, The former
would say that the latter had plain
~ sought unconstitutionality to COM
pei compliance and coldly recite how
he attempted it. And perhaps the
author would add that the President
had not lessened his offense by pre-
tending in letters to Senators that
he was merely upholding his proper
prerogatives.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Foch's Vindication

Germany's refusal to sign the
peace treaty protocol as it stood has
taught the Allied powers a lesson.
They had failed to provide satisfac-
torily for joint action of a coercive
nature. The burdens of a military
demonstration on the right bank of
the Rhine would have fallen on
France. The council could have
turned confidently to Foch. But
Foch would have functioned as COM
mander in chief of the French
armies rather than in his old role
of Allied generalissimo.
The council, therefore, trimmed
down its demands little so as to
invite German assent. 1t probably
didn't care to force an issue at this
time because military gesture
would have disclosed that Allied
unity of command was already close
to the vanishing point. The Allies
achieved unity of command very
late, and many times nearly lost the
war because they stuhbornly held
away from it. The German treaty
imposes terms, operative through
long periods, which are the opposite
of self-enforcing. They will be full
filled only as the result of constant
pressure from the victors. Yet at
the Paris Conference the victors
neglected to assure that unification
Of Allied military effort which will
be required to keep Germany work.
ing at the reparations treadmill.
Paris dispatches say that the de-
parture of Mr.. Polk and the other
American delegates will leave the
council free to repair this blunder
1t is reported that even before the
American commissioners reach New
York the council will set up the
inter-Allied military generals staff
which France demanded and which
our delegation refused her.
Peace will not come after the
German protocol is signed. 1t will
not really come until Germany has
worked out her sentence. Until
then Allied military cooperation
cannot be dispensed with. A staff
or coordinating bureau, with a
generalissimo at it's head, must be
ready to apply coercion whenever
Germany turns shirker.
Foch's peace policy, which the
conference disregarded, was based
on a far-sighted view of the condi-
tions likely to prevail throughout
the long reparations period. He
asked for what he considered gen
uine guarantees of Frances mill
tary security. He didn't get them.
He insisted on an inter-Allied staff
and didn't get it. But events are
proving the soundness of his view.
An inter-Allied staff probably will
be established by France, Great
Britain and Italy. And eventually
France may fulfill Foch's expecta-
tions by an indefinite occupation Of
the vital portions of the German
Rhineland.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Victory Hall
Why 1t Is Favored as a Fitting and
Useful Memorial
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In an editorial article, appearing
in your paper to-day, headed "The War
Memorial" you have published a letter
from ~. W." in which he suggested q
playground in Central Park lake. In
addition you state that you will well
come criticism of the plan and new
suggestions.
heartily agree with ~. w." when he
says the memorial should be based on
the teachings of the great war itself in
that it should be something to provide
way to build up the strength of our
boys and girls so they will become strong
men and women. But l do not believe
his suggestions answer the requirement
playground, to be useful, would have
to be based on the community idea. 1t
would be fine thing in Richmond, in
Queens, in Brooklyn or in Manhattan as
individual boroughs, perhaps, .but can
one conceive of greater New York as a
community in the sense that all its
children could utilize the playground ?
And whatever form of memorial is &C.
cepted. it must be of use to the entire
city.
There have been suggestions that the
city's memorial take the form of a large
hall, containing triumphal arch, meet
ing rooms for the American Legion. a
hall of fame and other features. This
hall would be called Victory Hall, and, as
l understand it, would be erected in
Pershing Square.
According to my understanding of this
project it, too, would have playground
a large gymnasium, swimming pool
and target ranges. Perhaps it. will be
said that its features would not serve
the entire community. But through the
gym, swimming pool, track and ranges
it would provide place for the Public
Schools Athletic League to hold its ath-
letic meets-and when we reach that
league we reach every child in New
York.
To my mind the Victory Hall project
bettered in selecting a memorial. 1t is
planned to have artists and sculptors
consult on the decorations; it is planned
to have tablets to bear the names of
all New York's heroes; it is planned to
have a gigantic convention hall and
arena. These features will mean that
Victory Hall will stand as an artistic
monument as we'll as a building of
great usefulness to the city. 1t will
mean a central building, fitting in every
respect, in which patriotic meetings can
be held to foster the spirit of American
ism at time when that spirit needs
most to be helped.
l have no patience with the plan to
erect bridge as a memorial. We NAV
need it, probably do, but am not vision
ary enough to see its fitness as re-
minder to the city of the heroism of her
sons and daughters. l cannot see where
the playground plan brings the real
spirit we are after, but do believe Vic
tory Hall is the ideal memorial, because
it means something to every New
Yorker-to the Legion, to the G. A. R..
to the children, to the lovers Of beauti-
full things, to the business men and to
the coming generations. w. E. r.
New York, Dec. 8, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
"Playing Politics"

Inc w Mite HOuSe mas SAID through
Senator Hitchcock that it will take
no step to revive the treaty from the
comatose state in which it was left
when the Borah- Wilson alliance re-
jected the ratification resolution.
Controlled by his besetting weak
ness, the President will not end the
deadlock by writing two brief notes,
one withdrawing the treaty and the
other resubmitting it. He pretends
to care for the fate of the treaty, but
not enough to modify the rigidity of
his punctilious pride.
A similar flavor of punctilio
seems to mar the attitude of Senator
Lodge, whose latest declaration is
that the treaty will remain torpid
unless the President uses reviving
pulmotor.
But in behalf of Senator Lodge it
is to be said he is so1idly backed by
a clear rule of the Senate This
OlC says CiioC VliCil a 1dCllICc@LlO41
resolution is matured it is not there
after amendable; that hence the only
way to make new start is to with
draw the treaty and begin again.
He deems it unreasonable for an
outsider to demand of a parliament
tary body that it disregard its rules
at his dictation.
Back of the punctilio issue is an
other question. The Senate, the
Presidents partner in treaty max
ing, has had the grace to prepare
and to offer something definite and
affirmative. The Presidents servi-
tors regretted this, but offer no def
mite counter-proposal, aside from
the one of unconditional ratification,
which Senator Hitchcock has adj
mitted is impossible. The Presi-
dents friends, saying they seek
compromise, have been unwilling so
far to commit themselves to any
thing. 1t is the Presidents move
he cannot say he is not responsible
if he refuses to say a single con-
structive word.
The darkness of the deadlock,
however, is lightened by one ray
The Senate rule, after prescribing
that matured ratification resolu-
tion is unamendable, adds the pro-
viso, except by unanimous consent"
Suppose Senator Lodge should arise
and ask for unanimous consent
Would the President instruct one of
his Senatorial dummies to object, or
would he rely ON his associate, SEN
ator Borah, to object? The attempt
to end the deadlock in this manner
might not succeed, but it seems worth
trying if for no other reason than
that it would make clear a matter
the White House seeks to obscure.
Senator Lodge has been re-
preached with playing politics. The
truth is he has been too much a
statesman and Senator and too
little a politician. He neglects op-
portunities to strip away Presiden-
tial evasions. Suppose the Senator
should arise and say: Here is what
we propose to do and here is what
we offer to do. What do you pro-
pose to do?"
The President would be smoked
out of his dugout. His plea of nom
responsibility would be like the
Kriemhilde Stellung after the Ar
gonne boys were through with it..
The President plays politics all the
time, politics of non-elevated type,
and as he has maneuvered he cannot
complain if his example is catching.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Too Much Freedom
When viii 1t Be Time to
Extinguish Firebronds?
To the Editor of The Tribune

Q the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: l wish publicly to express my
candid opinion of the laxity of officials
in failing to deport men and women
who are avowed anarchists, Boshevists,
Communists, l. W. WIS, Reds" etc.
These men and women have left their
native lands for the express purpose
of escaping irksome military du-
ties or otherwise lettering their
condition in life, even to the ex-
tent of sending financial aid to
their friends left behind. They
remind the writer lwho has strain of
American Indian in his veins) of pet
canary bird born in captivity. When
you approach its cage and whistle it
will sing and warble In fact, it is
contented. But open the door of It's
cage and let it come forth to freedom
of the room. Does it remain contented!
BY no means. 1t will beat its little
breast against the window pane until
1t falls in exhaustion. Too much free
dom has ruined our pet. Our canary
is like the prisoner who, escaping after
years of confinement in dark dungeon,
comes into the bright sunlight only to
be dazzled to blindness. Just SO these
agitators from over the sea.
Why should such people as Emma
Goldman, Berkman and others be kept
in this country, living in idleness, eat
ing at the expense of the honest tax
payer that which could better be used
feeding some of our own orphans!
Why not sentence them quickly and
make the sentence stiff, with Europe at
the end?
Have we not enough trouble righting
our own home now that the wsr IS over
without these firebrands being permit
ted to roam about at will preaching
unrest and otherwise causing trouble?
in their native lands they learned to
endure hardships far greater than this
country imposes as punishment.
What impression does sentence of
year or two in modern penitentiary,
with regular visits from friends d tea
party in place compared with what
they came from, make on such minds
as theirs? Positively none. 1t is mere
ly year or two in which to rest up
grow fat and gain strength, then free
dom and renewed effort to overthrow
the house that shelters them
If not now, pray enlighten my be-
fuddled mind. When shall it be? How
far must these people go before we
act? How many more lives must be
sacrificed? How many more peaceful
parades fired upon? To paraphrase
Patrick Henry, l ask, when shall we
be ready? When ever> radical Red"
is armed and law abiding citizens a.e
not; when every employer finds more
than half of his employees ready 10
practice sabotage and destroy his ma
chinery; when every private family
that rents room finds snake IN the
home; when the housekeeper finds an
anarchist in her home ready TO burn
1t down; when every school board finds
Communist training the young minds
of its district; when the public finds
every public eating house filled with
revolutionists ready to poison all who
are compelled to patronize such places,
then will We be ready? Far better
that we lock the stable before the
horse is stolen.
ROBERT <. WEST.
Yonkers, N. Y, Dec 5, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Not Worth While

From The Washington Epeais.o Starr
There is no great competition for
the Hungarian throne. In fact.
throne is generally regarded as style
of furniture that represents maxi
mum Of expense and minimum Of
comfert.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
By
Heywood Broun

satirized by Pope in his lines beginning
Damn with faint praise etc. | like
the straightforward way Of even the
most slashing American criticism.
won't tease you by answering your ex-
cellent attack, but I may point out that
I know what applause is and how it is
called out-having been an actor for
twelve years-whereas you happily do
not. Any fairly decent actor can force
the audience to applaud by a certain
trick. The value of applause of the mob
is, therefore, null. And ! wrote not Of
the applause given to great acting, but
OF that poured out or drawn out from
us by commonplace performers. If ever
l have the pleasure of sitting next to
you in the theater you will be able to
note that I myself am a frantic an
auder-provided the actor is one of
the half dozen great actors of to-day
but that is in no way a recommendation
(in my own eyes). Again, if any critic
lmagines that I disregard the boys in
the sack room he is right off the track.
All | \oject to is that they should be
given the trash called theatrical art
which nowadays they stomach with
such show of goodhumored tolerance.
"You have not read my books care
fully, or you'd never say that my thea
ter would do away with all that is
boisterous, vulgar and broadly human
But, really, your essay was so good
| ought to abstain from objections
and would do so except that / do so
like to have good men for me and not
against me-"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

Given a choice as to which character
IN all modern fiction we would prefer
as theater companion, it seems to US
that Lena Lingard, of Villa Sibert
Gathers "My Antonia." would be N
excellent choice.
II liked to watch play with Lena"
records the first person narrator of
Nils Gathers novel; Everything was
wonderful to her, and everything was
true. 1t was like going to revival meet
ings with some one who was always
being converted"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Books

A contemplate weakness on our part
has endangered our enjoyment of Rob-
ert W. Chambers's new novel, "The
Crimson Tide" We knew that it was a
novel about Bolshevism, and we noted
the frontispiece, in which a young
woman, half head taller than a Fifth
Avenue bus, was breaking up radical
parade. The very red cover of the book
breathed excitement. We could not wait
to find out what became of the huge
heroine. Yes, we at once turned to the
last page and read:
"'You should have the Croix de
Guerre,'" he said, indistinctly.
"'All l aspire to is very plain gold
ring she said, smiling at him side
wise"
Now, there Is at least chance that
this will spoil our fun. When we come
to read the book and find the heroine
tied hand and foot, with an Internal
machine fastened to each wrist, we are
not going to be able to work up
proper concern for her. Death and
danger may clutch at the hero and
seem almost to grip him, and yet we
alone among the hundreds of thou
sands of readers will remain calm. We
know that once again Mr.. Chambers
has written one-ring romance.
Paris landlords are not like ours. we
Judge from reading "Paris Vistas," by
Helen Davenport Gibbons "Most Paris
leases" she writes, "are on the three
six-nine-year basis. You sign for three
years. If you do not give notice six
months before the end of the three
year term the lease is automatically
continued for an equal period. For
nine years, then, you are sure of un-
disturbed possession, and your proprie-
taire cannot raise the rent on you."
And yet certain agility is required
of those who live on the upper floors
of Paris apartment houses. Almost all
the elevators are on the self-service
plan and, during the war period at
least, most of them were a little def
cient in persistence. The fifth floor
was generally q gamble and nobody
ever thought Of living on the sixth
floor unless he could chin himself twice
in succession at any hour Of the day
or night.
1oS~ y.
voices against French landlords is their
prejudice concerning tenants with
children. "They do not want them" !"
writes Mrs. Gibbons, "and they do not
understand why any woman is fool
enough to have "a big family as they
call my four"
or course, four is not enough for a
baseball nine or football eleven. but
If four is exactly four times as many
as one it must be an awful lot of chill
dren along about o'clock in the morn
ing OF half-past 7 at night.
Mrs. Gibbons was in France through
out the war and she has written an in
teresting book about the American SOL
der as she observed him. We wonder,
then, how she dares in this year of 1919
to refer to the doughboys as "Sammies."
Gordon Craig writes from Florence:
"A friend of mine in America sent
me your notice of my new book, The
Theatre Advancing,' saying, 1T doubt
less will annoy YOU Why he should
feel SO about it l cannot say--for /
was pleased: 1t was the first notice to
reach me, and you quoted passage
am glad every one should read-and,
besides, found your review free from
the awful taint of much third class
European criticism, which even to-day,
~ yen know. indulgss In the methods
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

which sugar will soar to the sky line
under an impetus which will be
euphemistically referred to as
majestic demonstration Of the law
Of supply and demand?
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

vsu can purchase merchandise advsrtiasd IN THE
TRIBUNE with absolute satety--fcs u dissatsfsc-
e ray your money back upon request. No red tape.
Ne euibh'lns. We make sood 7romety II the
advertiser does aot
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
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New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
The Coming 7tower
T'hrenos

ThrenOs
say "Good night" and to soma sad
refrain
That once knew in days how long
since dead,
l feel the slow tears welling, though
unshed,
The tides of recollection wax and wane.
The tiny pit-a-pat of summer rain
A faint breeze dying in a leaf-strewn
lane
A wsp of mignonettc-a golden
head
I say "Good night"
All, memory that brings sorrow in its
train!
All, Fate that with inexorable tread
And pointing finger, thunder toned,
hath said
But when read a poem in this strain
l say-"Go-ood nightW
BARON IRELAND.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

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New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

The High Cost of Statesmanship
tFrom The Washington Poso
Not even seats in the Senate are
immune frpM tha high cost Of uviug.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Bitter Bread

Oscar Montague, Paranoiac," is a
book that didn't seem to get as much
publicity as its cleverness deserved.
But it is written by Bostonian, and
this idear of his as to how Boston
Brown Bread should be made, is both
curious and interesting.
He says: q. don't forget to
put in plenty Of molasses, a pinch of
mustard, an onion the size of a marble
two bay leaves, and half a teaspoon
full of soda" c.. w.
All this talk about where to hold
tho Republican Convention is futile.
Let it assemble at Lowden, Ia, or
Wood, Penn.
And the Democrats might convene
at McAdoo. Tex, or Palmer, Va.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

His letter to Senator Fall has five
"very"s. F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

The Presidents health appears tc
have returned.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

Differ on Steps to Revive Treaty,
headlines the Times. How about tn,
Wilson pulmotor1
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
CliA6 6ANTEE

Ent~ed at the Postcfnee At New York a. esceAl
ClASs Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

SUBSCRIPTION Majesty MAIL. inciudins
feessgs. IN THE UNITED STATES AND
CANADA:
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

Just why the ingenious Interhorough
doesn't tell the public that it NAV
ride at the rate Of S.O02 mile, while
the railroads charge 500.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
illustrations ArtfuI Aid

|. Sir: The price of white paper is
soaring and Mr.. Burleson claims &
profit for the P. 0. Department. Tc
put crimp in both of these and to
enlighten the world 1 will tell you
why the Saturday Evening Post uses
the same illustrations more than once
1t is not to save money. 1t is be-
cause stories and articles come in
that the Boss thinks are timely OF
unusual in some way, and he decides
to use them in the issue that Is un-
der way. This leaves no time to
have an artist illustrate them. Rather
than have pages of solid type old
drawings are used.
Then, again, when the advertising
pages are being made up, blank
spaces often occur that have to be
quickly filled with fiction. Again the
old picture has to come out of his
retirement and make a couple of
million appearances.
Any one who has ever seen old
Walt Dover, the art editor, illustrat-
ing story in thirty-fve seconds from
scrapbooks and observed his suffering
will admit that there is no economy
concerned in the transaction.
A. W. B.
During the fall of 1917 he became
abusive and later in 1918 left her.
says the Roselle Park, N. j., Specta-
tor. AS Bee says, the first hundred
years are the hardest.
If You See 1t in the Sun, It's Socialism
"'The socialism of Marx, Huxley, Spencer
and Mill."-New York Sun. Neither Hux-
ley, Spencer nor Mill was a Socialist.
Spencer and Huxley were extreme individu-
aists, and Mill never advocated what is
known as state socialism. Spencer de-
scrbed socialism 'The Coming Slavery"
Huxley devoted some Of his most vigorous
writing to an exposure of the fundamental
fallacies Of the Socialist creed. KIP.
That the newspapers are sincere
about trying to save paper we never
shall believe as long as the predigal
New York Times uses NEARER to-
gether" and "closer together"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
"The Red Queen

Dear Boss: 1t doesn't much matter g.
long as we can all keep from being merel
wraiths in Emma Goldman's dream.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-10

How time, as r. c. Benchley so
we'll has said, flies! Our first essays
at versification were made during the
coal strike Of 1902. They, assisted by
Pres dent Roosevelt, settled the strike.