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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Where Credit Is Due

A bit of news, almost lost in the weller
Of discussion Of the league of nations and
the attempted Staying Of Premier Gle
menceau, is contained in brief item
from Winston-Salem, N. c., saying that
fifteen of sixteen men on trial there on
charge Of attempted lynching had been
convicted and sentenced.
The men convicted were accused Of try
ing to lynch a negro. Not only was the
mob fooled in the first instance, but now
its members are to suffer for their act.
In this finding of black belt jury a
tribute to the part the black soldiers so
bravely played in the war? If so, no
negro will feel the sacrifices made by men
Of his race have been in vain and every
negro may feel that in fighting for the
freedom of democracy throughout the
world he struck blow for his own
liberty.
Incidentally, by giving the widest pub
licity to the item, there is refuted the sillv
charge that those who ask for equal JUS
tlce for all are animated by sectionalism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Real Russia VIII Not

A note of pathetic remonstrance is
in the replies of the three Russian demo-
cratic governments to the Prinkipo in
vitation. They decline to parley with
the Bolshevists, who first betrayed Rus
sia's honor and obligations 70 fellow
Slavs and then betrayed democracy by
suppressing the Russian constituent as
sembly and set up new autocracy
based on social hate.
The argument is unanswerable. The
Allied governments know all about the
Bolshevists. They have denounced them
as beyond the pale of civilization"
They have urged the neutral countries
of the world to break off relations with
Moscow. Yet as weak concession to
expediency they are willing to confer
with Lenine and Trotzky
Prinkipo may be practical politics.
But it represents a sharp recession from
the standards Of six months ago. The
Paris conference has very much stopped
IN hope to conquer. It's attitude is
one of the most depressing of the many
current reactions to the impulses of
weakness. And the abandonment will
probably turn out to be poor expediency.
Some things won't compromise. AS re-
marked by DR.. Heron, one of the
Prinkipo delegates: "The situation is
much like that described by st. John in
the Book Of Revelation, where he tells
how at the moment when it seemed that
universal peace was at hand Satan was
again let loose for a season"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
For a Roosevelt Day

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In addition to marking great events
in history and honoring the memory Of
heroes, national holidays are a benefit 10
the community BY giving a rest to the wOrS-
ers, especially the shut-in workers in the
great cities.
Lincoln Day is only partly observed ny
the business world because 1t comes in the
shortest and one OF the busiest months IN
which there is another holiday week later
The proposition to add Roosevelt TO the
names of Washington and Lincoln meets
with universal approval.
But that the actual natal day should De
kept is certainly not Of serious importance
if this tends to hamper full observance
The wisdom of putting Labor Day on Mon
day has resulted in its becoming the most
completely celebrated holiday in the yeaF
most people being able to secure three fuA
days Of outing.
August is long and trying month and
now has no holiday. 1t is in season when
outing means something. If the first Mon
day in August can be made Roosevelt Day
it will be enthusiastically celebrated an'
will give JOY to hundreds of thousands.
IRVING PUTNAM.
New York, Feb -, 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Neglected Washington Words

When Washington's Farewell Address
is mentioned reference is usually made
to the passage counselling against for
eign "entanglements."
But there are other passages, quoted
in another column on this page, which
though neglected are even more impor-
tant and pertinent in the consideration
of present problems.
Washington counselled against per-
hitting, under any circumstances, the
erection of any agencies or the develop
ment of any spirit capable Of overawing
the government of all of US. He was
alive to the dangers that lie in active
and selfish animosities. He beheld a pro-
letarian republic set up, with power re-
siding with the masses to change all in
stitutions at will. Here was method Of
remedy. 1t almost seems as If he pos
sessed prophetic powers and foresaw
the Seattle strike and the activities Of
our domestic Bolshevists.
Washington counselled against hasty
and ill-considered change. The law of
evolution, as it has worked in the phys
zeal world, was not known in his day,
but in all things relating to public af-
fairs he was Darwinian before Oar
win. He proclaimed that an irrepealable
law Of social life required that great
change, to be wholesome, must come
gradually. Because of this, and because
power was with the people, he rejected
11<< oY,14t
America and resort to it as certain to
bring mass misery It almost seems as
if his vision included contemporary
Russia.
Washington counselled against all
usurpation of power by one department
of government at the expense of others.
1t almost seems as if he held in his mind
apprehension that in the first quarter
of the twentieth century the doctrine
would be preached that a President is
practically the whole of the government
and that those who oppose him are i'm
pious.
AS to the "no-entanglement" counsel,
the attitude of Washington is greatly
misrepresented. He advised not against
alliances-he made one-but against
permanent alliances-against deeming
one people perpetual friend, another a
perpetual enemy He had in view
general acceptance of the ideas behind
the standard set up in the New World,
and nothing he said forbids US cleaving
to our own whenever it is manifest He
10 rN,-1I
France stood for liberty and Great Brit
ain for order. Washington was for both
great principles, and deprecated exalt-
ing one above the other. But of liberty
and law in partnership Washington had
no fear, and he enjoined no artificial
aloofness. Washington thought not of
geography, but of ideas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
A Right to Their Dead

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: News dispatches from Washington
report that the War Department has, on ac-
count of the great difficulties involved,
changed its plans, and it is now the inten-
ton to establish cemeteries in France end
bury therein our soldiers and marines who
fell in the great war.
This plan, perhaps, has advantages to an
organization more prone to see obstacles
than to overcome them. 1t is undoubtedly
a great undertaking to. disinter and trans
port many thousands of our dead, but it can
be done; and those who sacrificed loved
ones in the great cause are entitled by
right, and not by privilege of the War De-
partment, to have the bodies returned here
If they so desire. SAMUEL j. REID
Brooklyn, Feb. 20, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Unburdening Our
Streets
To The Editor Of The Tribnrs

! v Jig EQlLOr OF Inc UrlbnDa
Sir: The enthusiasm recentIv sh
New York over the proposition IN h..,, ID
vehicular tunnel underneath the u., ny
RIVER was direct result of conclusive D'a
having been offered to show that 49,. f-o0i
provement was one of the vital ele,,.-. '@'
the plan for the relief of condition :. =
traffic congestion which haa become u
rlous menace to business. &C.
The appeal Of the economic fac+ox
seldom had more striking Illustrator A''
With this thought in mind, it mnst \.
peated that one of the most fruitful ~
of congestion is the direct handlinc " ~
haitian OF merchandise and freight or;c.-"
ing in and destined to outside terr,os.
and having no relation nor brinein, Wv
revenue to the general business Of ths :. '
This unconscionable and wasteful s,..' "
of hauling and transferring between ~.
minals over the city's already overcrovs.,
thoroughfares should be abolished.
The remedy for this situation ;s >,
vide routes whereby this non-revenu. n,s
ducing traffic may be diverted around r..ss-
than through Manhattan.
Among the different methods suco.s,.,
the writer is of the opinion that one ~ ~
most important is the immediate comets.
ton of that most necessary link Of N.
intracoastal canal system which would %,
meet New York and Philadelphia
This improvement would furnish diva.
inside water route between New Enclara
and the Middle States and provide q mean.
for eliminating q large proportion Of tbs
Objectionable traffic under discussion
1t would also be an unusually va]psN.
and economical addition to New York's sb,n
ping facilities in much-needed direction
The present seems to be a most opnortur.
time for the prosecution of this work TIL.
topography of the country to be traysrssd
is such as to offer only the simplest an
cheering problems. The great number Of
army trucks near at hand are admirable
equipped for this character Of work, Thu
materials required are available in ousr.
tity and at convenient distance. Finally
the obligation to provide work for the un
employed during the reimbursement period
renders an operation of this kind timely
and patriotic duty.
FRANK ]. M'GRATH.
Newark, N. J., Feb. II, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpYs

February 19-Last night 1 saw Miss
Crothers's "a Little Journey" diluted
piece, but Miss Jobyna Rowland shelving
herself to be a fine comedian. Met j.
Barrymore the playactor, and had some
oysters, and we safe talking till two, which
is very late for me. Early up and to the
Office, and all day there, and the news 8
that NJ. Clemenceau hath been shot, which
I fear will delay matters even more But
his wound, they say, is slight To the
opera house to hear R. Werrenrath the
barytone sing for the first time on that
stage, which he did with virie grace, and
Mistress Easton sange we'll, too, but me-
thought Caruso made overmany antics
Seated next me q pretty lady in a
velvet gowne. and she said, "Mr. Pepys hath
said he had liefer hear R. Werrenrath sing
than any other singer, and I am of mind
with him." but who she was I have no
knowledge. Thenaftcr came "Petruschka."
with no singing at all to mar it, very beau
tful And so for beaker of cold choco-
late and to bed
20-Will Beebe to see me, and he tells
he is going to South America Wednes-
day; but | have no wish to go with him
IHlS llHle, 1OraSmuch as nad rather be
in this city than anywhere else. With s.
Merwin and Constance and FRITZ Binney to
dinner, which We matched CONES for the
reckoning Of, and l payed but with fair
grace. NJ and one OF the girls and l to
see "The Crowded Hour" fairish meo-
drama but no telephone operator in France
ever disobeyea the commanding officers
orders as Miss Cowl did.
2l-Dr. Spillman calling me up, tells me
my wife is greatly better, and merry again;
so closed my Journal, and hurried to the
train, with some champagne for her, which
she asked me to bring her.
Poetic candor, from "Youth: Poetry of
Today: :" in The Feet in the Fire
page fortyfve, omit lines 3 to %, in
clusiVnn
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Cut Out the E.pithets

Eplthcts arc the small change Of small
controversies. 1t would be well to de-
nnonetize them in the discussion Of 50
weighty and spacious a problem as the
creation Of league Of nations.
hr Taft said recently Of the Senate
critics Of the Paris covenant that they
we're the sort Of men he wouldn't trust
overnight" Again, in his San Francisc,
speech on Thursday, he showed similar
epithetical spirit,
IL is as supcrfloous for Mr.. Taft to
question the sincerity Of the opponents Of
the covenant as 1t would be for them to
question his. Our only living cx~presi-
dent is usually mode! Of fairness and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Park Place Cobbles
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Can you tell me why in the name
OK common sense the New York Commits
sioner Of Highways Cor some such ttle)
does not fix the roadbed on Park Place to
give decent footing for the millions of
hurrying feet that daily make this cross
ing? 1t is marvel to me as citizen that
unevenly laid cobblestones should be
allowed to remain ut this corner by the
largest and most prominent office build
ing in the city (Woolworth,s), where tho
crowd Is dense and with the high winds
and dust in the air walking is difficult
even on smooth footing.
Werc l in position Of authority to de-
mand reason for this state of affairs the
responsible party would have to have n
pretty good one to satisfy me.
w. W. MYERS.
New York, Feb 81, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Telling the News TO Russia

"All measures will be taken to bring
about an agreement with the Entente"
said the conciliatory Tchtcherin, Lenines
Commissary for Foreign Affairs, when
accepting the invitation to Prinkipo.
This was for Allied consumption.
But, for Russian reading, the "Red
Gazette" famed through Petrograd with
an extra announcing Universal Sur
render of the Middle Class" Under
this was telephone message from
Lenine to Zinovieff, president of the Pc
trograd Soviet, as follows:
"Our triumph is complete Wilson,
Lloyd George and Clemenceau ask for
peace, proposing an armistce and in
viting US to conference. Come to
Moscow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22

YwZHIS government, the offspring Of our
4 own choice, uninhuenced and unawed,
Is- adopted upon full investigation and
mature elaboration, completely free in its
principles in the distribution of its power,
uniting security with energy and contain
ing within itself a provision for its own
amendment, has just claim to your con-
fdence and your support. Respect for its
authority, compliance with its laws, acqul-
escence in it's measures are duties enjoined
by the fundamental maxims Of true liberty.
The basis of our political systems is the
right of the people to make and TO alter
their constitutions of government. But the
Constitution which at any time exists, Till
changed by an explicit and authentic act
of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory
upon all. The very idea of the power and
the right Of the people to establish gov
eminent presupposes the duty Of every in
dividual to obey the established govern
ment
All distractions to the execution Of the
laws, all combinations and associations
der whatever plausible character, with the
real design to direct control, counteract
or awe the regular deliberation and action
or the constituted authorities, are destruc-
tive of this fundamental principle and Of
fatal tendency. They serve to organize
faction, to give It an artificial and extraor-
binary force to put in the place of the
delegated will Of the nation the Will of a
party, often a small but artful and enter
prsng minority of the community; and,
according to the alternate triumphs of
different parties, to make the public ad-
ministration the mirror Of the i'll concerted
and homogeneous projects of fashion, rather
than the organs of consistent and whole
some plans digested by common councils
and modified by mutual interests.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Change VIII Caution

Toward the preservation Of your govern
ment it is requisite not only that you
steadily discountenance irregular opposi-
tions to its acknowledged authority but
also that you resist with care the spirit of
innovation upon its principles, however spe-
cious the pretexts One method of assault
may be to effect in the forms of the Con-
sttution, alterations which will impair the
energy of the system and thus to under
mine what cannot be directly overthrow.
In all the changes to which you may be
invited, remember that time and habit are
the least necessary to fix the true char
actcr of governments as of other human in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Beicare Usurpafion!

1t is important, likewise, that the habits
Of thinking in free country should inspire
caution in those intrusted with its admin
istration to confne themselves within their
respective constitutional spheres, avoiding
in the exercise Of the powers of one de-
partment to encroach upon another. The
spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate
the powers of all the departments in one
and thus to create, whatever the form Of
government, a real despotism just esti-
mate of that love of power and proneness
to abuse it which predominates in the hui
man heart is sufficient to satisfy US of
the truth of this position. The necessity
of reciprocal checks in the exercise Of DO
]itical power, by dividing and distributing
it into different repositories and constitut
ing each the guardian of the public veal
against invasons by the Others has been
evlnced by experiments ancient and mod
ern, some of them in our country and I'M
der our own eyes. To preserve them must
be as necessary to institute them IF,
in the opinion of the people, the distribu-
ton or modification of the constitutional
powers be in any particular wrong. let it
be corrected by an amendment in the way
which the Constitution desgnates. But
let there be no change by usurpaton; for
though this in one instance NAV be the in
strument of good it is the customary
weapon by which free governments are de-
stroyed. The precedent must always great
ly overbalance in permanent evil anv par
tial or transient benefit which the use can
n viald
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
LIE MISANTHROPE

LIE MlSANIHROPE
What time was callow, buoyant, reckless college
youth
And took the lovely happcrs out to tea.
Each time l looked into the eyes OF Betty, Kate
or Ruth
Mine would whisper Lady, marry ne p,
romance:
Right facile was my Hitting, lyric pen:
I whispered thrilling whatnots as I led them IN
the dance
Oh, man I'll say I WINS some lover then,
But now-ln cynic wisdom. and In bachelor estate.
l sniff at lmpid eyes or rounded arms
My ponderous pen lmps hatingy through female
Hymns of Hate;
Misogyny | pirate, and scott at charms
And If the fnlrest In the land, In every gracs
arrayed
With downcast eyes before me pleading stood
And spoke of love-thnk you Oh boss, I'd wed
the shameless maid?
You bet your stock of likker that would
C. D. o.
Errata: The towns recently mentioned
herein as Menil-a-Tours and Pontenazan
should have been Menil-la-Tour and Pom
tanezen AS Freddy Hohenzollern used to
say, a man can't be right all the time.
Mr.. Taft refers to ''the wild words Of
Representative Tess and Senators Reed and
Poindexter, shot out into the air"
Probably this is what tho Paris barber
meant when he told the A. p correspondent
that when he heard the first shot Mt M
Clemenccau he thought it was Americans
firing into tho air "as they are in the
hap't Oh DONG f. P. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Willing to See Monroeism Go

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your editorial entitled Gan End to
Monrocism" which appeared in yesterdays
issue of The Tribune invites comment.
Realizing full we'll your wholesome habit
of employing words in manner not calcu-
lated to make the judicious grieve," the
undersigned is constrained to believe that
you class this once honored American doc
trine in the ism family and proceed un-
emotionaly to discuss its end, not without
reason. What is the reason? Has this doc
trine outlived its usefulness, or have some
Of its applications been such a perverson
of the uses and purposes for which it was
originally intended to Justify its CLASH
fcation with the numerous isms of ephem-
eral birth, which, like locust pest, OBJ
trude themselves upon these latter days?
That this doctrine was ever accorded any
recognition by foreign governments was in
all probability owing to the same causes
which mpelled those governments to enter
into treaties for the preservation and main
tenance of the balance of power. If the
proposed league of nations is to abrogate
and supersede the one, why not the other?
Had Prussiansm in Europe not met the
fate it richly deserved, the Monroe Doc
trine would scarcely have awaited to bring
to this nation either the sympathy or aid
Of a single foreign power. If from the
ashes of militarsm and the blood drenched
soil of France new federation of nations
shall arise with reasonable guarantees of
peace to ii war-wrecked world, it will be
the best kind of an insurance policy In
which the nations evcr invaataJ avid tLa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
The Grounding and the Weather

TIC the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Those of us who have watched the
weather for many years discovered long
ago that we get six weeks of winter after
the first of February whether the ground
hog sees his shadow or not. Ii it is not sh
weeks it is apt 80 be seven or eight weeks
The maple sugaring season, which IS inc
first indication of spring days, very rarey
begins until after March 20, and frequent!
at late as April l. In 1885 II was far be'o"
zero till after March 25. The groundhoe'
seeing his shadow is about the foolishes'
of all the weather signs, for it predicts the
inevitable. HENRY GRAHAM
Brooklyn, Feb. Z. 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
DRY DICTIONARY
Alcohol

DRY DICTIONARY
Alcohol: Highly rectfed spirit Used
as a preservative element in
medicines, etc.
Beer: A fermented extract of parts
Of various plants, as spruce,
ginger, sassafras, etc.
Champagne: A province in France.
Chaser: One who or that which, chases.
Cocktail: A horse with locked tail.
Cognac: A town in France
Cordial: Hearty Sincere
Drunk: Past participle of drink.
Gin: A machine for separating the
seeds from cotton.
Liquors Any liquid substance, as water,
milk, sap, etc.
Port: A harbor.
Punch A thrust, or blow
Rum: Queer, odd. Eng. slang)
souse: Something stepped in pickle,
as mackerel pigs feet. y
Tank: A large basin. A cistern
Whiskey: A light carriage built for
rapid motion.
r. ". n. l..
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amiability in debate, but, like other good
humored men, he sometimes explodes
into untimely irritability. What is
there in the circumstances Of the peace
treaty discussion to make him testy and
belicose?
Let the disarmament provisions Of the
Paris instrument extend to epithets. They
are not becoming. They never will be
missed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22

the war and not ratify the parts relating
to indefinite future engagements. The
effect of this would be that the United
States did not adhere to the league, but
joined in the peace treaty proper.
Through diplomatic agents the fact
would be communicated and the ex-
change Of Publications with respect to
the parts dealing with making peace
would be mere matter Of routine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22

What the truth about Russia Is we have
little notion; the fiction about Russia, owing
to our inability to keep the names in or
head from page 8 to page 281-that is, to
remember whether the character is appear
ing for the first or the nineteenth time
gives US enough trouble.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
The "Goid Star" Dav
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: correspondent asks that day be
designated for the taking down of the gold
service star flags. Would not "Demobili-
cation Day" which the President is to pro-
claim, be the most suitable day that could
De II. NJ. P
West Orange, N. J., Feb. 10, 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
r. ". H. L.

at will be dangerous thing" said Lr
Feigenspan, president of the United States
Brewers Association, ITO put steady beer
drinkers to drinking whiskey." 1t may be,
especially to the whiskey interests. The
beer drinker may quit altogether. Ever
SO many persons don't drink, whatever tie
Anti-Prohibs say; and ever so many don't,
whatever the Prohibs say.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22

The Emir Feisul representative of
Arabia at the peace conference, was
asked his opinion of the league of ma
tions. "a society Of nations is very
generous idea for the weak" he replied,
but | am much afraid the strong can
never realize it," Wisdom of the East!