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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Getting More Homes

The politicians having assumed charge,
the City Hall mass meeting to consider
the housing problem went no further
than futilely to ask an extra session of
the Legislature. An amendment to the
charter under which the city may Dor
row to erect tenements and the passage
of the Dodge bill, permitting the CONVEX
sion of old four story dwellings, into
apartments, are proposed.
Not much nutriment is in this pro-
gramme. If there is a shortage of
$4,000 apartments, to remove it would
cost the city something like half billion,
and the city is up to the debt limit
The entry of the city as a builder,
would, of course, stop private construc-
ton, and hence would aggravate rather
than lessen congestion. The remedy
would not meet the present emergency.
Half-baked undertakings usually do more
harm than good, and many things need
be done before the city becomes a gen
eral landlord
The Dodge bill, whose contents are ia
miliar, is rewrite of long series of bills
to break down the tenement house law
against the interests of tenants 1t would
encourage rent profiteering The 10000
dwellings capable of conversion are now
largely occupied as boarding and room
ing houses, and take care of a larger
population, or as large as they could
accommodate if made into apartments.
The landlords would get more money for
four apartments than they now get for
one house, but the roomers and boarders
would be set adrift to crowd in some
where else. Of long standing is the feud
between the civic organizations and
greedy landlords, who hate the restric-
tons OF the tenement house law, and
first on one excuse and then on another
efforts are made to sneak through re-
dictionary changes
If there is real desire to develop an
early new supply of tenements, if a re-
moval Of congestion is genuinely sought,
one remedy is at hand. An exemption of
new homes from taxation would quickly
bring construction and a consequent
check to rent increases. The builder is
now assessed and taxed 2.32 per cent on
swollen costs, and so is inactive. He must
collect at least S32 per cent on his in
vestment to realize per cent, and knows
he will be assailed for proiteering.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Won Hindenburg

In announcing his desire to retire, Won
Hindenburg, while he deemed it his dutv
TO serve Germany during a difficult
transitional period, speaks of chow hard
it has become for me, in view Of nv
opinions and my entire personality and
the past, to continue to exercise NV
office"
Not few of us have said harsh
things of Won Hindenburg. His heavy
countenance, his bull neck, even the pro-
vocative way he wore his hair, have not
stimulated affection He has seemed al
most as wooden and as ugly as the huge
figure of him in Berlin into whose tim
bers patriotic Germans drove nails at \
cost of mark each. He has been
a blood-and-iron man 1of the Bismarck
type minus the mental gifts that made
the wickedness Of Bismarck interesting
But, after all, Won Hindenburg seems
about the best Of the German lot. He
dld not run away. He has not pretended
to be otherwise than he is. He has been
loyal to the standards-was a Prussian
but unabashed. The flag he bore he did
not pull down. He believed in his class.
The Kaiser is seen to have been lath
painted to look like iron, and the glance
to threaten and command has become
furtlve. Ludendorf took no chances
with his sacred person. Scheidemann is
sneak. Bernstorff is a fox whose
brush has been sheared by a trap. The
Grown Prince has had the truth told
about him by his unfortunate wife. Won
Hlndenburg isn't much, but he is about
the best of the lot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

holding together, but it furnishes no
binding cement.
But though the great hope has not
been met, and although there is reason
to apprehend that in the guise of secur-
ing admission for Germany or Russia or
on some other issue Geneva may be used
as place to foment discord, the league
may yet become an instrument of union.
"The men of Massachusetts" said Glad
stone, "could have worked any scheme of
government" and good WILL if it exists,
may employ any league to noble ends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Grom The Sydney Bulictin Ne,o South WoIes)
yEHEY dug his grave in France,
IL But his bones are all that keep in it;
He heard coachwhip calling
In the she-oaks by the bend;
They dug it deep and wide enough
There's half this section sleep in it.
The night wind crooned above him,
And it called him like a friend.
They laid him down to sleep,
But he could not take the rest of it;
He heard the stubble crackle
And he smelt the drift of smoke.
On, harvest-tide and ploughing-time,
He had to taste the best of it.
And sweet the strength of toll is
When you've learned to love the yoke,
They dug his grave in France.
But Death could not keep a hold Of him,
His youth was ripe for mating
And its joys were sweet to miss;
And all that's leal to love in him.
Aye, all that's best and bold of him.
Is waiting at the slprails
For lass he used to kiss.
ELLA MFADYEN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
u N EXICO CITY, April Ibis Mexico
WI proGcrman?' That is question

"a "a EAlCO CITY, April Ibis Mexico
vi proGerman ~ That is a question
| have been asking myself and
others Mexicans as we'll as Americans.
My own answer is NO.
The answer of the Mexicans is also in
the negative, with the exception of few
who would like to make it appear that
President Carranza was entirely too friend
ly with Herr Won Eckhardt
In the case of America the noes appear
to have it.
do not say that Mexico was pro Amer
lean during the war; or even pro- BIRTHS h,
but l believe that all Mexicans of the
better class love France, and that for five
years they secretly violated the injunc-
ton laid upon them, as upon others, to be
neutral in thought as well as in deed"
Officially Mexico was neutral
Actually Mexico annoyed us by permitting
the most extravagant German propaganda
and by permitting extensive system Of
communication to be operated between Ber-
lin and South America and Spain through
post telegraph and wireless, the aerial sys-
tenn in Mexico being wholly in German
hands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
/ be Source Of Beauty

'From The SonnoD
Far down through hidden assures of
the earth
Strike the thin-hbred roots, for from the
cold
And age-fed richness of the neither mould
They draw the strength whereby the buds
have birth.
We only see the blossoming tide of mirth
Op-foaming to the sunlight's wand of
gold;
Yet April's valor thrives on deeds Of old
ana faded years give brightest flowers
their worth
And so with Beauty Does the Midas wand
VI genius waken into golden bloom
casual impulse of unfosterea bowsrs,
No; not one laughing petal may expand
Unless from ancient forces nursed "a
gloom;
we see no roots; we only see thu
flowers
CHARLES WHARTON sToRx.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

a Cuckoo . . in Macedonia
from The English Rcoic,c)
q MONG these hills cuckoo sang to-day.
I "A Her solitary notes came like hymn
To this war weary land, and ebbed away D..
1t is the spring, l said, with eyes half
dim.
The spring, And those far hills beyond the
plain
Have robed their wizened limbs with
woods of beech;
Across the parched and barren valleys reach
Commands and farms and orchards; and a
lane,
Fragrant with honeysuckle and wild rose,
Leads to yon village whore ripe gardens
bloom,
And shell-riven desoation shows,
But trellised walls, a easement, and
room.
Where 1 shall see, as men in vision do,
The sudden glory of wel-loved face -.
Red pOppies in vase of Wedgwood blue
And cretonne gladdening the window space.
This ancient land forgets her ancient pain:
No guns boom; distantly church bell
rings;
An exile's spring is England's spring again.
And shell-holes blossom where the cuckoo
sings. TREVOR ALLEN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
A Week of Verse
Snow Over Night
(FOR f. NJ
(Fron, The Neso Statesman,

(Fron The Nesc Statcsmdn)
rT~HE worlds new! There is not sound.
Il Whteness and silence all around
Jewels are hung in all the trees,
The light shines splintered by the breeze
And with this crystal air we drink
All serene thoughts man can think
Tins side Of heaven--until it seems
heavens here and not within our dreams.
Heaven just so white, so bright, so still
AS this white air and that white hill.
Wherein all sight, sound, reasons caught
Into one pure, celestial thought
SO bright, so white-but not so still
See those young rascals up the hill,
How loud how happily they shout,
Hurting their balls of snow about;
On the lake, too, with coats flung wide.
The tall, fantastic skaters glide.
While on this world, full-freed and brorrr
The sun from a hoar heaven smiles down
Your beauty's there!-but, if you please.
Should we stand still in it we'd fraa4a.
My heavens like thGt-its hillsldes glow
With even a more daring snow;
Ny trees hang gems more crystalline
Which dance and tinkle as they shine;
Bright-eyed, red-cheeked, with tousled hair
Young cherubs foray here and there.
Cracking the air with jolly shout,
Hurting the brittle snow about;
Over "the still and CLASSY sea-"
Crested like gryphons and as free,
Vast seraphs on fire-wings flung wide
Speed and ring and singing glide;
While on it all, leaned out above,
God, like brown-faced sun, smiles love.
Both heavens are good-but of the two
Judge for me, World, now: which would
you?
ROBERT Nichols.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Anothe err
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Your "Sorrowful Reader" in to-davs
Tribune is so right! His rightness makes
one weep But he is guilty of one mistake.
he says "such sad lack of foresight was
shown by our own country in sending such
men as President Wilson, Secretary Lansing
and others, all men of little brains and
less knowledge. and then overlooking The
Tribune" Doesn't the "Sorrowful Reader
know that our country did not send Mr.. Will
son any Of his associates? Ha ius+ want
ANOTHER SORROWFUL READER
East Orange. N. j., May 9. 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The Course OF Neutrality

This is precisely the course taken by the
United States up to within short time
before the declaration of war, course justj
fled by the American government and a part
of the American press, however irritating
to majority of the American people.
When the United States entered the war
Americans were no less aggrieved by Mexican
neutrality than the Allies had been by Amer
lean neutrality. We are inclined and per-
haps with justice, to regard ourselves as
spokesmen for the three Americas, and we felt
hurt that Mexico did not follow the example
of Cuba which declared war against the
Central Powers, or at least that of Hayti,
which provoked a rupture of diplomatic
relations.
Moreover, we were obliged to keep large
force of men on the border, and We were
frankly afraid of neutrality in so near a
neighbor. Having revised our own ideas of
neutrality. we applied the revision to all the
rest of the world We thought of the yellow
peril, invented by William Hohenzollern and
proclaimed to the world by our own yellow
press. We ascribed to German money and
intrigue in Mexico power which, the event
proved, it did not possess
DIS HoJ JHlS our attitude, and could not
this attitude, conveyed in terms not too
polite through the press, have produced an
unpleasant reaction in Mexico?
In Mexico the situation was extraordi-
nary complex.
The whole policy Of Porfirio Diaz had been
founded on one axiom: eve must keep on
good terms with the United States"
From, the Mexican Point ofVie,,
The wisdom of this course was perfectly
apparent to every Mexican who sought to
win supreme power after the retirement of
Daz. l venture to say that it is and has
always been quite as plain to General Car
rama as to any one else. But keeping on
good terms with the United States has not
been an easy matter. Washington did not
make it So
Let us try to things from the Mexican
point of view
In the first place, Mexicans remember GER
tain historical episodes quite well. ONLY last
week there died in this city one of the pen-
erals who had tried to resist our invasion
of 1846-'47 1t cost us a trihe Of % 900 men
and $166,500,000 to beat the Mexicans at
Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Vera Cruz.
Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, Moline del Rev
Casa, Mata, and to fly the Stars and Stripes
on the Palaco Nacional of this citv. Sentem-
Der IA, 1847.
when the settlement was made, Febru
airy Z, 184s, by the Treaty of Guadalupe-
Hidalgo, we took in payment New Mexico
and Upper California, comprising 522.e55
square miles of territory, and "rectified"
tho Texas frontier by making the Rio
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
WORTH and gave our troops the praise they

worth, and gave our troops the praise they
deserved.
Clearly, the Mexicans understood moth
ing of our motives in entering the war
and still less of our strength. All they
could see was the threat of an invasion
from the north.
We did not take the trouble to en-
tighten them until the war was practically
over We did nothing until it was too
late to accomplish anything to Offset the
propaganda of the Central Powers. Mr.
Creel's bureau offered long stories for
publication, free of charge, where the Ger
man Legation offered short stories and
paid for their insertion.
The pro-Ally press of Mexico had the
greatest difficulty in obtaining news print
at a time when the German Legation was
supplying its subsidized newspaper with
all it could use.
But to say that, even under such con-
ditions, Mexico was pro-German would be
far from the truth
Mexico had her experience of French in
vaders under Macmillan of Austria in
the SOS, and licked them thoroughly. That
episode Mexicans could easily forgive.
Mexico had been in the closest of financial
and commercial relations with France.
Mexican women wear French gowns, lave in
French perfumes and read French novels.
Mexican millionaires like to spend their
money on French furnishings for their
homes, French wines for their tables and
much time as possible in Paris.
Wishout a Bet
And Mexico remained strictly neutral.
Why?
Because the Mexicans would not fight
beside the Yankees
They disliked us and they distrusted US.
But we are necessary to them, and thew
know it. 1 inclined to think that they
dislike and distrust the Germans quite as
much they do u.s. And the Germans
are not merely not necessary to them; it
will be, as they see it, matter of years
before the Germans can even be useful
The dislike and distrust Of the Mexi-
cans for Americans is based largely upon
a misunderstanding, for which we are in
part to blame.
The dislike and distrust of Mexicans for
Germans is based upon a perfect under
standing of the Teutonic character and
aims
President Carranza's course during the
war probably reflected public sentiment ac-
curately- He did nothing against the
United States that could justify a charge
of broken neutrality He did nothing for
the United States that would involve
Mexico with the Central Powers.
He did not as his critics so often say,
back the wrong horse. He watched the
race without making a bet, and is content
with the result, but he could not have
forced his people into an active alliance
with the United States, even to help
France.
This is the truth as I see it.
People here have seen great light
They will not longer oppose rapproche-
ment with the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Another Ann Query
(From Tho Detroit Free Press

WTUW TIC Uetrott Free Press
Tennessee physician says all girls
should go barefoot until they arc sixteen
years old. In that event how old would n
woman be before she would admit she WA
old enough to wear shoes7
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Is Mexico Pro-Gerr,1 an -?
By L. J. De Becker

Grande the boundary from its mouth to
Ell Paso. We assumed claims of Ameri-
can citizens against Mexico amounting to
$3.25o000 and paid to Mexico S1500o,o00.
Apparently Mexicans had been learning
to forget all this during the rule of Por~
irio Diaz, but the United States found
two occasions to remind them of 1.-THE
seizure of Vera Cruz and the punitive ex
petition under General Pershing.
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Poets

From The English Roric1c)
WHEN We are young
w We think it is for US
To shake shower of lovely words
Like blossoms from tree;
To make men drunken with our pleasant
honey,
And envious of the bee
When we are grown
We know it is for US
To rend the fowery lies from worlds
Foul with hypocrisy;
To perish stoned and blinded in the desert
That men unborn may see
Y. u. FRIEDLAENDER
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13
LIVE STOCK MARKET,

MEMPHIS, Dec. 13.--Hogs-Receipts,
light steady. Heavy, s1S25913 75; me-
dium, S12 25461275; packer sows, $1L25
d12,OO; pigs, fat, $11.OOd12.O0; stockers,
so to so pounds, $s,5O@1O,5O; so to l25
pounds, 1880
Cattle-Receipts, fair steady. tSeers,
medium heavy, S9OO@l1OO; light butch
ers, $7,OO9S,5O; thin common, $500
$50; choice light stockers, S70O@S.OO;
butcher heifers, $I5O@9.5O; fat cows,
SS.OOG9.5O cutters, $55OG6.OO; Gamers,
$450d475, veal calves good, $4,000
14.0O light and poor, $7OO@9 90; heavy
spring, good fat, IS 0O@i0, 90; poor and
thin, S5.50@70 90 bulls, fat, $6.50@750;
medium S5,0OQ6,0O; milk cows, medium,
S65.O0G75,00 good, $l,00d1,25.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13
COTTON MARKETS
Improvement in Exchange and
Lifting of Fuel ReStrlC-
lions Cause Bulge.
Saturday Afternoon, Dec. 1S.

Better rates for foreign exchange,
rise in silver metal and lift
ing of fuel restrictions in this country
served to arouse some of the shorts
TO sense of their danger today and
they covered freely during the latter
part of the brief session. The result
was that prices shot up over 100 points
from the low level and finished at the
top. Sellers were fairly plentiful early,
encouraged by the census report IN
November consumption being a bit dis
appointing, but they became scarce Ia
ter
The report showed that consumption
was 400, 900 bales used during the month,
compared with $4,000 in october and
$4,000 in November of last year, stocks
In the hands of spinners were l,643, 900
bales against 1,671 900 year ago, while
splndles in operation were ,34,4S3,OoO
compared with ,33,115,00O,
rlrst prices were slightly higher
March in New York being at 326Oc, but
It touched 80 26c before turning upward
Sterling rates We're up several points
from yesterdays lows and silver was
up to 7S1bd in London. Lifting of the
fuel restrictions was thought to por-
tend large Cearances soon, for there
are about 1900 bales more on ship
board waiting to be cleared than there
was year ago. The advance was rap
i'd and March sold as high as 49, 46c right
at the close, rise of 100 points.
Finals were firm and Is to 81 points
net to the good in New York and very
steady and go to IS up in New Orleans,
Liverpool on Monday Is due to come
five to seven points to the good, but 1t
Is questionable whether she viii do so
well, as the fuel situation on this side
may encourage the idea that they. will
get more cotton started from over here;
Spots were as a rule very quiet ami
in most centers without change, al
though Houston and Dallas raised them
100 and rs points respectively, Thay
sold but little New orleans sold Sl6
bales with no change, while Memphis
sold 400 and made none.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13

additional Markets on Page l3)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 13.--Hogs-
Receipts, 1900; Csc higher; 1855 pounds
up, $13.50; 100 to 1856 pounds, $lS25;
pigs, S12.75; throw-outs, $l2,25 down.
Cattle--Receipts, 1850; closing slow,
heavy Heavy steers, $12.00@14.00; beef
cows S5OOall 90; feeders, 50 O0@11,CO;
stockers. S700dl0,00.
Sheep-Receipts So steady. Lambs,
$12.50; sheep, $500.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 13.-Declines
of 10 to 20 points were seen on the first
call In cotton today because of thu
rather smaller consumption in this
country during November than looked
for There was an immediate recovery,
however, on the better fuel outlook and
at the end of the first half hour of
business prices were IS to 4S points
over yesterdays close.
Spots closed quiet and unchanged
ordinary 2700; good ordinary, $500; low
middling, 1850; middling, $3.50; good
middling. 41.25. Sales on the spot 316;
to arrive, $50.
Shorts covered on large scale and
their buying carried the market up to
net advances of rs to 9j points toward
the close.
Futures closed very steady, at ad-
vance of IS to 60 points.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13
BANK CLEARIN Gs.

Read News Scimitar Wants
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13
MEMPHIS COTTON.

Memphis cotton closed steady and
Middling, S9.50c. Sales, 400
Nolau
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-13
BY GEORGE WILLIAMSON.


Reactionarles In the cotton market
had some success during the week Just
ended helped bv several influences.
Some OF them were cumulative In their
effects while others were In the nature
OF a surprise chief among the latter
being the official crop estimate thai
the total growth this sea son is II $50 0od
bales Of 800 pounds gross weight, with
out including lnters. whereas eXpecta-
tons had been primed for several hun
dred thousand bales less The trade
was disposed to some extent to ques-
tion the accuracy Of the government
statlsticians' guess. although the good
record Of the department diGcour-
aged II being done IN other than
minor key The fact that conditions
seem to make It more than probable
that considerable OF the clicked cot
ton will never he picked. or II II is
quality will be extremely low afforded
those who We're bulIiah some comfort
and basis for discreditlpg predictions Of
any material recession in values
Financial conditions on both sides
Of the water figured conspicuously in
the trend of prices For some time far
seeing observers have been dubious as
to the trend Of developments and have
uttered words Of warning, but It was
not until the nast few davs that they
saw some Of their expectations verified
or justified. The crippled state Of
European credit due 10 the large pre-
ponderance Of purchases on this side
over the finished product they are sell
ing to us and TO their already heavy
debts to this country. was given add
tional emphasis when the value Of their
moneys expressed in terms Of American
dollars deprecated rapidly. Less pros
meet Of relief in the shape Of credits
rom this side accentuated matters
while there seemed to be an expansion
In the amount Of bills OF sale offered
The unsettled state NJ affairs, made
worse by failure of the peace status
between this country and Germany to
be determined. and some official an
nouncements that there would be no
provision made soon for large loans
seemed to aEgravate matters consider
ably and cause semi decentralization.