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New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
Justice Waits

Since May 7, 1915, justice has had
special tryst to keep with the Hun. 1t
viii be kept at Versailles to-day, on the
anniversary of the Lusitania.
This is a poetic fact. But poetic facts
are not dynamic.
Justice has no resources for bringing
itself to pass in the affairs Of men. 1t
exists abstractly. 1t is the infinite es
sence of thought, as lightning is the
infinite essence of matter. Men do not
create, diminish or expand it. They have
only the power to command and con-
duct it.
In this case, as in cases generally, they
have written their sense of it into a
momentous document. The peace treaty
will be presented to the German dele
gates at o'clock. Then it will be pub
lished for the first time broadcast, and
the world shall judge whether Justice
has kept the tryst in vain.
Let us judge, not quickly, but with
courage.
Let US be not afraid of conducting
justice to an awful purpose.
Let us remember that the sinking of
the Lusitania was not a monstrous
crime against law merely, but hideous
betrayal of the trust with which one
civilized people regards another, even
in war.
Let US not forget that symptoms Of
repentance are wholly wanting, that the
German people have had the effrontery
to send delegates to Versailles with a
bill of damages in their pocket, and that
the former Kaiser, who knows his own,
is soliciting Germany to receive him back,
believing, no doubt, that there in all the
world is still the safest refuge for such
as live without God and are bereft of
any human sense of guilt.
Above all, let us not forget the look we
see in the eyes Of those who have re-
turned to US from the brink of that Mo
loch's hell which was made in Germany.
Then let us judge-and be very sure
that justice has not been thwarted by
mans wretched weakness for compro-
mise and his absurd fear of pushing the
lessons Of experience to logical con-
clusion.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
Und Ernst Freund

From an article in The New RepubIic
on "The Debs Case and Freedom of
Speech" we quote this bit of prophetic
Judgment:
Gas in the case of all political persecu-
ton, the cause of the government has
gained nothing, while the forces of dis
content have been strengthened and have
been given an example of loose and arbi-
trary law which at some time may react
against those who have set it,"
this exquisite piece Of dialectic:
"An experienced speaker like Debs
knows the effect of words. He must have
known that, while he might keep alive
and even create disaffection, his power
to create actual obstruction to a compul-
sorry draft was practically nil, and he
could hardly have intended what he could
not hope to achevc;"
and this scornful exclamation:
"Yet Justice Holmes would make us
believe that the relation of the speech to
obstruction is like that Of the shout of
'Fre' in a crowded theatre to the result
ing PANEL"
That is not at all what Justice Holmes
would have anybody believe; but let
it pass.
We look at the end for the signature
and find the name Of ERNST FREUND.
We look him up in the list of "Con-
tributors," and read: ernst Freund
Professor of Jurisprudence and Public
Law at the University of Chicago"
Then we consult "Who's Who," and
read:
"FREUND, Ernst, university prof; b.
at New York, Jan. 20, 1864; S. Ludwig A.
and Mamie (Bayer) F.; Ed. Kreuzschule.
Dresden, gymnasium Frankfort-on-Ma Main,
univs. of Berlin and Heidelberg"
1t almost never fails
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
Where Is Park Avenue? !?

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The trouble with Victory Way is that
it is off the popular lanes Of travel A host
Of New Workers and suburbanites are still
asking: "Where's Park Avenue, anyway.
and how do you get there?"
If number of tho Fifth Avenue stages
say, alternate ones could make a detour
there on their regular trips, displaying a
sign, Victory Way from Forty-ffth Street
to -----," thousands of people would go there
where now there are hundreds and there
after would make second trip on foot.
brooklyn, May y, 1912 A. M. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
The Tax On Art
Some Valuable Light on the
Status of Paintings.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SlR: You will be interested in the replv
just received from Commissioner of In.
ternai Revenue Roper to the follow;n.
series of questions which ! directed to b;,o
The principal points to which I would
call your attention are the facts that deal
ers selling pictures for artists do so with
out tax, that sales between dealers ara
taxed, and that picture when returned IN
partial payment for another picture. even
when taken back by the artist. is subject
to tax when resold
These answers should, think, do much
to clear the situation so far as dealers in
American paintings are concerned. Yours
very truly,
WILLIAM MACBETH. Inc.
By R. w. Macbeth, president
New York, April 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
Mr.. Burleson;s Waterloo
By William Hard, IN The Ne,v Republic

I'm THE telephone industry of Boston.
when Federal control of telephones be-
gan, there was an adjustment board Of
most modern type. 1t consisted of six
persons-three chosen by the telephone
company and three chosen by the telephone
operators union. The three representatives
of the company were there with power to
act They included the general manager
himself, who was present in person to act
instantly on grievances and to get them
actually settled. The three representatives
of the union were real representatives of
real union, not of a house-organ hand
turned union. The telephone operators of
Boston had an organization genuinely their
own, to which almost all Of them belonged,
and out of it they Independently chose the
persons to speak for them to their en-
ployers 1t was a system most satisfactory
to the girls and most creditable to the
company.
On December 81 of last year the local
Boston telephone wage agreement, made
through the local Boston telephone adjust
ment board, to expire. On October 80
we'll ahead of tme the operators brought
forward proposed agreement.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
Going To and Fro

On November 20 of last year it received
the Boston case. 1t received it and, through
its chairman, officially accepted it. In No
vember it made no decision. In December it
made no decision. In January and Febru-
ary and March it made no decision. 1t has
never made any decision.
On March "a a whole committee of op-
orators came all the way from Boston to
Washington, and were extremely earnest.
strike in most Of the telephone exchanges
of all New England was about to happen.
Mr.. Burleson listened, and said something.
He must have said it most automatically;
for it left one impression on his hearers
and another on himself
His hearers-Miss June, Miss Mahoney,
Miss Powers, Miss Smith, Miss Moran, Miss
McGovern, Miss Brady-are certain that he
said that a decision in their would
forthwith be forthcoming, not indeed from
the Wages Board, hut from another board
the Wire Control Board. Mr.. Bureson, for
his part, is equally certain that he laid
down an entirely different line of pro-
cedure Subsequently, when the strike was
within four days of happening, he insisted
on that lne without compromise. 1t may
be taken therefore, as his final contribu
ton to the prevention of the strike and to
the prompt and democratic settlement Of
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07

delegates at Paris can have theirs also.
If they think that all this conscientious
German accounting should go for moth
ing, they can simply add $13,650, 100000
to the German indemnity. AS it stands
now, and as it would stand then, it isn't
half enough.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
The Coming 7ower
1 DON'T BELONG HERE

'1 DON'T BELONG HERE"
I don't belong here;
I belong in yonder.
Where the air Is opal
And the glasses
Are thick with tobacco smoke.
I work in Victory Garden
On dusty rocks,
And me
Is Swede
With hands calloused
He scratches home-brewed matches
On them.
He spits his hands
And tucks in his
Black percaline shirt
While moan.
And in the office they say;
How wonderful, boy,
To be where it Is green
And you can have fresh vegetables r.
And watch the old Swede
Tuck his shirt.
While think
OF jazz melody
And sping shimmies
I don't belong here. W. We.
Every morning my way to work,
1 walk through the park and hear the soft ripping
of the lake
Provide sympathetic accompaniment to the
gentle rustling of the leaves
Harmonizing into Natures eternal spring song
without words
And / hasten on, for fea. the enchantment of
the music
Will fall upon me and cause me to lose davis
salary.
Or perhaps my5ob
And at the office when by chance breeze
Strays in, it seems to whisper fragments
OF the Wonder music 1 hear every morning
And L live in daily dread of hearing the Boss
tell me
What in my soul know to be true
You don't belong here" DIANA
/ know a man
Whose name Is Min
In Wall Street.
And, although he's getting bald,
He doesn't belong there
Hawthorne by nature
He dabbles in bonds
And mortgages and sight drafts
Cooped within tall stone structure
(Where butterflies are rarc)
All of which
Deep within himself
He loathes passionately
If Big Money
Were to be made
BY roaming amid meadows
And brooks and fow'ry hilltops,
With thrushes, trout and terriers
AS companions
l hardly think
That Min would spend
Hts Springtime in Wall Street
This very moment
He'd be picking daisies
Somewhere. HowApn
Oh, pshawl
l don't belong here either
Here-washing smeary dishes
At a two by twice sink
In kitchenette.
why l belong
In the Biltmore breakfast room
Or the Ritz Grill
Ha Why aren't VIZ
Where all belong?
Listen-If belonged elsewhere
We'd be there
F. T. T. thinks he belongs out Weat-
He doesn't!
He belongs where he is
Chinese lungs, stale air.
And Freckess ugly office
And my kitchen sink
Are all in the great scheme
Perhaps we'll evolute-
Perhaps not--but
In the mean time, cut out
This sorry-for-yoursclf stuff
Introspection gets you nowhere
We belong where we aret
Get to work. T NJ
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
WEDNESDAY,, MAY z, 1919.

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Where Opinion Lay

The old wages were manifestly low. A
beginner, at the end of her first year at the
switchboard, got only $40. An experienced
operator, at the end of her seventh year
got only SIG. The opinion of the newspa-
pers of Boston, after publicity and inquiry
was strongly to the effect that revision of
wages was justified.
The operators presented their proposed
new agreement to the companys general
manager on October 80, and waited On
November ID he informed them that under
Mr.. Burleson's new system he was not en-
powered to conclude any agreement whatso-
ever. Conclusions had been transferred to
Washington.
local union and also head of the national
union of telephone operators under the
jurisdiction of the international Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, proceeded to
Washington, and there presented the pro-
posed new Boston agreement to a certain
national committee appointed by Mr..
Burleson to Investigate wages paid to and
working conditions of employees of tele-
phone and telegraph companies" Of this
committee Miss OConnor was herself
member. The other members remind US of
Mr.. Burlesons extraordinary views of the
relations between employers and employees.
When President Wilson created the Ma
tional War Labor Board, to deal in general
with the relations between employers and
employees throughout the United States, he
gave six representatives to the employers
and six to the employees. Mr.. Burleson's
cic +od ~
ment department officials, two telephone
company officials and Miss O'Connor. Mr..
Bureson gave four representatives to the
employing side and one to the employed
Theory tells US, and practice proves it,
that when the government is an employer it
is an employer. 1t is not a neutral. Mr..
Bureson's Wages Committee was packed.
1t was also gagged
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07

\4o FrecklcS)
You're still the same
Old camouhaging COB
Who the bet
That made me count
Every freckle your hide
l wonder
If you found out
That Ki-yi is q scrubbing brush,
And that clothes
Aren't slowed in hammocks.
And
You want to be
press agent
Seeming the lilac air
OF Culver City,
Out there
violet hue
Plays about the sagebrush at dawn.
But
The sun mounts to dazzling whtenes.
Over the white spaces
The meadowlark
Pipes his CHEEKY tune beside the roadvsv
And the gumbo back-roads
Are cracking in the sun.
But you'll see them
Hunched over rasping cickety-click.
Your task will be
To tell the waiting film fans
That Pauline Frederick
Will wear blue eyes this spring:
And that Goldwyn's Geraldine
Is Better than Carmen" in her new picture.
Or that Tom Moores baby
Has the measles.
By all the quarter-decks
You trod,
Why don't you speak for yourself. Freck7
JERaY
In addition to the "verses" printed above.
thlrty-two contribs have offered answer.
but they Don't Belong Here.
Joe C.'s suggestion for July 1st songs ::
"Turn Back the Universe and Give Ma
Yesterday" and Last Night Was tho Ena
Of the World"
Also, we suggest, a parody beginning.
Backward, turn backward, O Time. in vonr
flight;
Make me Bronx again just for to-night,
barkeeper, come from the echoless shore.
Mix Martini for me as of vorel
Metals are the lifeblood of (;err,on,.
industrial progress" writes Mr.. stanisv
Frost. "Now," comments A. w. T.. "w.
know why Germany fought war of blood
and iron"
AT the request Of the inarticulate tenant
we submit name for the Rent Profteera,
Division
NO Mans Landlords. f. A.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
Mrs. Bakers
Old Cat
e><9
By DON LA GRANGE
fCopyright, 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
And who was Nirs. Baker.

And who was Mrs. Baker.
She was a childless widow who had
reached the age Of sixty. She had
sufficient income to keep her out
Of the hands of charity. She had
her little home in the outskirts Of
the town, and her companionship for
the last ten years had been her cat.
1t was an old gray cat. 1t was a
solemn-Iooking cat. 1t was a caN
which had once been a kitten and
frolicked as kittens do. but that time
had long passed and the date had ar
rived when she must ponder over
what the future had in store for her.
It was this bordering and wondering
that made her sit around without
ambition and permit the rats and
mice to come and go unafraid and
untouched. %
On a certain summer afternoon Miss
Ruth Brighton, Wishing for sight OF.
the trees, birds, lambs, hollyhocks
and toadstools of the country, took
street car ride for half mile, and
then walked for the same distance to
find herself in front of the Widow
Bakers cottage. Just as she arrived
the old woman ran out of the gate
and screamed:
''Murderl POlicel Firel"
Who was being murdered? Where
was the fire? Where the police7
"Come in quick"
Many a girl would have taken to
her heels and clipped it along for a
mile without stopping for breath, but
Ruth Brighton didn't. She followed
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14

Nf-~AN9~A-Nff'"
Returned to the Land Of the Living.
the old lady to the porch, and with
her looked down at the gasping, out
stretched cat.
"She's dying" walled Mrs. Baker
as she wrung her hands.
Maybe it's only fit and we can
save her. Get dish Of cold water"
The water was brought and thrown
over the grimalkin, and after a long
minute she opened her eyes and re-
turned to the land of the living.
~ am thankful to heaven!" plously
exclaimed Mrs. Baker as she rolled her
eyes to the sky.
That day Osborne Chalmers had
decided to take a half holiday and q
walk into the county in the after
noon. He also wanted to see the
trees and birds and lambs and holly
hooks and the rest Of the things that
make a farmers life so joyful and
innocent that he never sells 10 eggs
for dozen for fear Of hurting the
feelings of buyer.
| Mr.. Chalmers saw crow. He saw
a COW. He saw a smartweed and may
weed and burdocks along the high
way. He was just going to see lot of
other things to influence him to
buy an S0-acre farm and raise rs acres
of turnips when he saw cottage, an
old woman, girl and a blinking old
cat.
"Wnl you come hereT called the
Widow Baker as he slackened his
pace.
as it anything serious?" he asked
az he entered the gate.
! my old cat has had a ftp
: as It possible !" he replied without
cracking a smile.
sand but for this young lady here
who told me to throw cold water or
the gasping creature, she'd have beer
dead by this timel !"
ut was a fit, supposeT'
|, "That's It."
K aged cats are subject to them,
> believe"
3 what, win she have anotherr
: every likely to-"
But what would you advise me t
I. DOR
n ut seems to me the better wa,
:, would be to get rid Of her. If Their
was anything I could do ] shoul,
: cheerfully do 1t, but as there is not
will go on"
Miss Ruth bad kept Q SHOULDER b
the conversation, and Der face wa
e sober as she turned to the widow an
t said: Il have heard that aged cat
I are apt to run mad"
Glands Of mercyI" ~
'You think good deal Of her n
doubt, but tie safest VRy y g Rqt RI
~ H.. - ~ -. 49,
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14

Regarding the suggestion from the
Louisville Times that, he would be q
good man to run for treasurer, the
place on the Democratic that is moi
being sought after, Mayor Walter
Gtlin, of Madisonville, says:
at is true that / have been APP
preached by numerous friends and
urged to make the race for state
treasurer. ! yet have the matter un-
der advisement.
"If it appears to be the desire of
my friends and-the friends OF the
party in the state that become a
candidate, ] would not be averse to
announcing my candidacy, but do
not desire to enter into contest Tor
the nomination because of the short
time intervening before the primary.
Mayor Gatlin is the kind of a mar
need to give strength to any ticket
upon which he may have place. &c
to it, Walter.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14

When John L. was Champion of
Champions, Conditions we're Some
what Different from Today. A Sue
eessful Scrapper was more of an
Idol than President. He couldn't
take a Step without a Mob Tagging
him, and there were as many Ginks
eager to Cut into the Grape for him
as there now are men in National
Army regiment. The Popping Of
Corks after Fight was as Noisy
as Drum Fire on the Somme Front.
And John L. got on the Outside Of
as much of the Stun as any Human
who ever Drew Breath.
But one day after the champion
ship had Gone Glimmering, old
John got Hep to Himself. He said:
'I'm all Through with the Booze"
There was many a giggle from
the Smart Souses who knew how
John used to Tuck it Away. They
said he would be Going Good IL he
Rode the Wagon for a Week Or
Two. But they didn't Count on the
Grit that used to allow the Big Fell
low to take the Worst Wallopings
that Bare Fists could hand him.
And they were All Wrong. t1al
It was Grit that Carried him
Through. Now, you may not bel
John l. with your Mitts. You
may not be a Champ at anything.
But If you've got any Grit, you'll at
least Start your Scrap against old
John B., and maybe you'll Put ever
the Old Haymaker. You've got a
Good Example In Front Of Y0u.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
Bull Brings $12,1oo

In the disposal sale recently of rs
royalty bred Jersey cattle at the farm
Of Peter Lee Anterior, near here
William Ross Proctor, New Yori
broker, paid $1,000 for Leda Ra.
leigh, four years old, winner of %
prizes and champion bull Of the Ath
erton farm.
The remaining seventy-four ami
mails sold for $3s, $40, or about $500
per head. Stock fancies from twenty
FIVE states participating in the buy.
ing.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
THE Final Count of Ten has

"HE Final Count of Ten has
been Waved by the Great
Referee over my old friends,
Bob Fitzsimmons and John L. Sulli-
van, and two Real Good ones Of the
Ring have Passed out.
Many of the Wise Birds contend
and Maybe they're Right-that
Ruby Rob was the Best that ever
Slipped On the Leather Covers. He
sure was Destroyer for Speed and
a Dreadnaught with the Wallop.
And the Bigger they Came, the
'Arder they Fell when once he
Pasted them, as he Used to Say.
Good luck to Bob!
Recollection OF the Freckled Phe-
nom brings along Memories Of the
other Star Sluggers Of his Day, and
the Big Battles they went Through.
I've Followed the Fist-Swingers
pretty Closely, and I'm Familiar
with most Of the Great MUSES.. But
/ think the Fiercest Fight that 4
Champion ever Went Through
and won-was Outside the Squared
Circle. 1t might be Billed this way:
John L. Sullivan-vs.-John Bar
leycorn. .
And John L., I am glad to say,
was the Winner. The Boston Boy
grabbed the Decision over the Bar
leycorn Guy who has been Knock
ing them all Out Since Booze was
Invented. It takes a Good Man to
win over John B., but John L. did
1t, and SO can You If you get In
There and Determine to Stitch.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
b. aI2 SOUTH MAIN STREET.
Has The Goods.

Chief of Police James Finnerty,
Of Bessemer, Pa, declared in state
ment to the United Press that he had
evidence to show that the recent
bomb outrages were organized and
directed from there.
He declared that seven bombs
were manufactured in a shanty near
Bessemer and sent out in suit cases
to be used by the anarchists. Fin
nerty said he had established the
identity of the anarchist who met
death in the explosion at Palmer's
home in Washington as Louis Lazdue
of Elgin, Ill. ~ have the goods" de-
clared Finnerty. "All / need is the
help Of the Federal authorities IN
completing a roundup Of the bomb
plOtters."
According to Npnerty, the nations
leading anarchists have been holding
secret meetings at Bessemer for sew
eral months and collecting funds for
financing the bomb outrages.
Then the identity of these men or
women is once established, there
should be a conviction and execu-
tion Of every one Of them with a
promptness to strike terror to all OF
of that ilk and reassure the whole
country that no bolshevism will be
tolerated on this side of the ocean.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
.Mnrk and rnlant.

A talent does not relieve us from
the necessity Of working. II only shows
Ms the lines in which we can work
most effectively. The girl who thinks
that because she has q natural taste
for mdsic she can dispense with the
practice Of seaies win End herself
worse OF than another who owns that
she has no talent, but y ready 70 plcs
~-E,xchange. f,sss fts.,ss 6s<yas2 ~
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14

Just as his father, Owen Curd, At
year old, well-to-do Curdsville, KY.
farmer, had his hand appraised to
strike his mother after long quar-
rel between the two at midnight Tues
day, Robert Curd, 10 years old, rails
ed a shot gun to his shoulder and
shot him down before the blow fell
With most of the load in his neck
Curd rushed out Of the door and fell
dead.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14

, The leak in the Peace Treaty cir
cles was probed far enough by the
Republican Congress to fix the pub
licity upon the Republicans headed
bv Elihu Root. Mr.. Root justified
his action by the fact that Germany
had made the treaty public. Fur
Their investigation will be dropped.