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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Cleansing the Mails

senator Townsend, of Michigan. is
author Of bill forbidding the mails to
advertisements relating to the treatment
y-o1 venereal disease. The prohibition OK
tends to denying entry to any book or
= publication containing such ADVERTISING
o. The measure will be energeticallv sun
ported by every publisher who does not
- hefoul himself and his columns. Others
may properly be ignored. Such opnosi-
5atlon as they make (likey to be Indirect
land sneaklng) is no credit to journalism
-nrand should be disregarded. The word
- SILL runs through newspaper Offices TO
. clean up. Removal Of gross abuses first
then the tug to make advertising honest
as we'll as decent.
I'M The Townsend bill, if enacted. will not
,-interfere with the prophvlaxis cam
so1aign, whose results are excellent. The
.sSenbargo does not apply to didactic or
o"scicntific treatises which seek to snread
legitimate information, and which call
n" attention to places or persons whence
treatment or medicine can be secured.
a time approaches when venercal dis
." ease viii be az unknown as smallpox or
yellow fever. The great scourye il tn he
llften. The public needs but to apply
s,~hgically and thoroughly preventive
~ 1neshods Of proved efficacy. necessary
ee'step IL tho elimination Of the CONNER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Star Gazing


1t is not that ideals are worthless. Thew
are of value. SO is star gazing. But there
are too many statesmen and would he
leaders of the nation, in fact, of all ma
tions-old, new, and trying to be-who
have not learned to discriminate between
gazing at stars and finding way to get
over the bumps on this solid earth
There were the ideals of the anti-mili-
tarists in both England and America. which
as matter of history are now known to
have impeded greatly the vigorous pushing
of war measures. The war would have
been won sooner and at greatly reduced
cost in life and money if the idealists had
not attempted to prove that it was not
necessary to be ready to fight
A worldwide result of our Presidents
idealism is that every little "nation" has
a movement of its own. Self determina
ton is good as a principle where the prac-
teal conditions make it politically feasible.
But the broadcast idea for self-determna-
ton is to-day much a cause of discord
as any one factor in the present epoch
The number of tribes, peoples and sections
OF races clamoring at the doors of the
peace conference for realization of the
Ideal is legion. No more than small frac-
ton of them can or will realize the nation
al ideal for which they are contending.
Practical conditions forbid.
Star gazing is of some value for GETTING
general direction. But men want to know
where and how to take the next stcp ON
this solid earth of realtiea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Church
(From The Villoger)
N1HILE the Presbyterian conference
" was mourning Mr.. Wilson's relaxa-

M HILE the Presbyterian conference
w was mourning Mr.. Wilson's relaxa-
ton concerning beer and wines, and
arguing afresh whether good Christian
might read the Sunday newspapers, Bishop
Burgess was speaking to the Episcopal
Diocese of Long Island some earnest words
whose echoes we wish could resound
through all the churches Of the nation. Stop
moaning about conditions fifty years ago,
was the purport of his message; there IL
only one condition that counts and it never
changes; put an end to all these meetings
of alarm over events like the legalizing Of
money making amusements on Sunday
such efforts are negative, they are nothing
compared with the work in handi religion
is what counts now; men everywhere are
turning blindly and helplessly to religion,
and the sudden opportunity for the Church
to fulfill its only mission is so great that
it will need all your vigor and all your
passion even partially to meet 1t.
There are cynics who say that the oppor-
tunity to which the bishop refers is an
accelerated fiction and the actual fact is
sadly otherwise; mostly those who hold this
are the pacifsts who, by their premises,
must believe that the trial by fire through
which we have Just passed has left us de-
graded and butcherzed, instead Of awak-
ened to real, if vague, religious aspirations.
But 1t is not true; any one who lives in a
community small enough to permit him to
know his neighbors is we'll aware it is not
true.
Our men have not come back from France
atheists. Some have come back and, to the
puzzlement and secret discomfort Of Baptist
or Methodist parents, now go off on Sunday
mornings to the Catholic Church; "ortho-
dox" is not in their vocabulary, and all the
myriad detail we have been building up for
three centuries in order to be able to tell
one creed from another they topple over
with single magnificent gesture.
But the religious impulse is there; what
ever put it there was something not of the
old way; nothing Of the habit and maze of
associations in which we have enmeshed our
religious life here at home mas had any
weight, and there is no combining this new
wine in our old bottles
And of all the institutions abroad, which
is it that brought men to religion? Forum
ately there are no statistics to prove" any,
thing on this point, but we know at least
the negative truth without any expert in
vestigaton. Many an individual chaplain
here and there was the spark that touched
the soul; as an institution the Salvation
Army probably came nearest supplying
sanctuary But these only guesses;
what we know with certainty is that the
Y. NJ. c. A. made no "converts'; there is no
argument about this and it is a lesson
whose roots go deep.
For what are most of our churches come
to be but association like the Y. NJ. c. A.?
They offer showers and billiards, gymna-
sum- library, summer camp, cooking school
lectures on art, literature and higher criti
csn, dances, games, teas; on Sunday the
preacher breaches from the pulpit, but his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Boy

BLESSINGS on thee little man,
Barefoot boy with cheek Of tan!
With thy turned-up pantaloons
And thy merry whistled tunes;
With the sunshine on thy face
Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;
With my heart give thee Joy
I was once a barefoot boysn
He is now we'll shod, except when able
to escape watchful vigilance; he wears
"knickers" and has nothing to turn up;
ragtine is not easy to whistle, and his
face is pale, unless brick red after a
Sunday at Coney; his hat is rimless and
is usually cap, and if it were torn the
neighbors would think the family was
coming down In the world.
But beneath he is boy, all boy, one Of
the few changeless substances Of
mutable world. Father says they are not
what they were in his day, but grand
father, while seeing falling away from
those with whom he drank delight Of
battle, declares they have not altered
much for two generations, while great
81 etAAN40 oi1CA ilOlOo Illcy udVC IQIl along
as usual for three. Had the first boy
left a mark in the rocks as did molluscs
whose species still survive, doubtless the
signature would be just about the same.
But, tough in fibre, the boy is, perhaps,
not absolutely immutable-is susceptible
of yielding, even though slightly, to en-
vironment. And inasmuch as any ma
terial modification will be a loss, it is
necessary to improvise new means to
preserve the ancient strain. Hence the
Boy Scouts.
Of all the drives that of the Boy
Scouts deserves the most generous sup
port. This time it is not so much money
that is sought as MEMBERSHIP raw
material of manhood, to create which
money exists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Forgotten Dead, | Salute Yo,,

(From The English Revte,p)
nAWN has flashed up the startled slis.
Night has gone out beneath the hi,
Many sweet times; before our ewes
June makes and unmakes divinelv still
The daily magic Of the rose
The gentle history of the rain
Has been unfolded, traced and lost
BY the sharp finger tip of frost;
Birds in the bracken build again;
The hare makes soft her secret house.
The great winds tourney comes and oos.
fitting and tossing in the boughs;
The moon has waxed fierce and waned dim
He knew the beauty of all those
Last year, and who remembers him?
Love sometimes walks the waters still.
Laughter throws back her radiant head
With life and strife the moments thrill
Utterly Beauty is not gone
And Wonder is not wholly dead
The starry, mortal world rolls on
Between sweet sounds and siences,
With new, strange wines her beakers brm--
He lost his heritage with these
Last year, and who remembers him7
None shall remember him: he lies
In earth of some strange-soundng place.
The wind his only chant, the rain
The only tears upon his face.
He holds no place in memories
Of living men; yet such as he
Have made it possible and sure
For other lives to have to be-
For men to sleep content, secure
Lip lies on lip, and eyes meet eyes
Because his heart beats not again;
His rotting, fruitless body lies
That sons may grow from other men
He gave, as Christ, the life he had,
The only life desired or known,
For strangers this forgotten dead
Went cut into the night alone
There was his body broken for you,
There was his blood divinely shed
That huddled now with weed and stone 81!
In some dark field lie lost and dim;
Eat, drink, and often as you do
For whom he died, remember him
MURIEL STUART.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

"a fragment from long aoor,e az con..
portions Of whtoh are prsmsed IN 49, s0''oa.
number Of Poetry.) '"''sst
7 HAVE vision,
l. OF new Republic, brighter than -.
A new race, loftier faish-this land of oS an'
Made over for its people, boys and OWL.
Conserved like forests, water.no1rs~
mines; OF
Watched, tested, put to best uss. !,
economies A'ea
Practlsed on spirits; waste of human lie.
Hope, aspiration, talent, virtues powers
Avoided by science, science of life
OF spirit, what you will. Enough Of We. ]
And billions for the flag-all well enorrh,
Some billions now to make democracy
Democracy in truth with us, and life
Not helter-skelter, hitting as it NAV
And missing much as this La Menker ~,
I'm not convinced we must havs St..
pansies,
That have no use but Just to n;sco =,
pattern. '
Let's try, and if we try and fail whv +ho
Our human duty ends-the God in ia
Will have it just this way, no other ,r.-.
And then we may accept SO poor world
republic so unfinished.
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Just "Flina-F1ana %


Commite
simply hnAam Senator Kellogg
anything.
the striker"
wante
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ofica Statement issued the last
The publicity the heading the of MI Eur
Kngsbury said
their
publicity recall
late"
Burlson had reud Federal
troll at said Kellogg.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Hours Of Women
TO the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There IS being 80 much said upon
the discharge of women transportation
workers that is misleading and incorrect
that should like to take this opportunity
to express the point Of view of the New
York City Consumers League, which was
one of the most active organizations in
securing the passage of this bill.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit already had
discharged large number of women en-
ployes before the passage of the transporta-
ton bill. The Industrial Commission, upon
whom rests the responsibility for the en-
forcement Of every law, had stated that as
this measure necessarily would entail some
REIMBURSEMENT, they would not enforce the
law Immediately, but would give time for
these adjustments to be made. In Detroit
and Cleveland, where no transportation bill
has been passed, women workers are being
discharged by the hundreds. Public senti-
ment undoubtedly favors giving the Jobs
back to discharged soldiers.
In view Of these facts, as we'll as from
other evidence, we believe that the B, R. r
already had determined to dispense with
the services Of these wonaens irrespective
Of the length and value of their services,
and has avaled itself Of the passage of
the bill for an excuse
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Three Taverns
acts xviii, 49,

A S LONG as there are glasses that are
~ dark
And there be many-we see darklv through
them;
All which I have conceded and set down
In words that have no shadow. What Is dark
Is dark, and we may not say otherwise
Yet what may be as dark as lost fire II
For one of US, may still be for another
coming CLEAN across the gulf Of ages.
And way home for shipwreck to the shore:
And so, through pangs and ills and desolations,
There may be light for all. There shall be
light.
AS much as that you know. You cannot say
This woman or that man will De the next
On whom it falls; you are not here Tor that
Your nainstration is to be for others
The firing of q rush that may for them
Be soon the FIRE itself. The few at first
Are fighting for the multitude at last
Therefore remember what Gamaliel said
Before you, when the sick were lying down
In streets all night for Peters passing
shadow.
Fight, and say what you feel; say more than
words
Give men to know that even their days OF
earth
To come more than ages that are gone.
Say what you feel, while you have time to
say it
Eternity will answer for itself
Without your intercesaion; yet the way
For many is long one, and as dark
Meanwhile, as dreams Of hell. See not your
toll
Too much, and if be away from you.
Think of me as brother to yourselves,
Of many bemishes. Beware Of stoics.
And give your left hand to grammarans;
And when you seem, as many time you may.
To have no other friend than hope, remember
That you are not the first, or yet the last.
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON.


(Fror7 The StrGt'ord Jouriicil
WHAT strange illusions mankind has OF
w you
And never one has guessed the truth.
That you are but a little girl
Dressed in azure clouds, trimmed with RAM
bows
A little girl, gay and mschievous.
That likes TO play with mud,
And fashion little earths with little people.
Little skies with little stars.
Whole little planetary systems. n
And then throw them hgh-high-- u
And shout in merrment
To watch them glisten they rip tniinity. =
Then fall and crumb!e
PAUL ELDRIDGE. !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Saving is duty every one can per-
form.
One who laughs at sen (half cent? will
cry for ych
Savings win over spending.
Think of saving rather than dream of
making money.
Daily saving, daily happiness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Thrift in Japan

fFrom Tbs Japan Trade Buuetin)
Seventy thousand thrift slogans were
submitted in contest conducted by the
Savings Bank Bureau of the Japanese
Postoffce Department.. The first five
prizes. ranging from $50 to SIS, were won
with the following phrases:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Change in Japan Trade

Japan's exports for the first three
months of 1919 were valued at $l87,372 900
and her imports at $3.50 500 900, showing
an adverse balance of $52,227 600 The
adverse trend that has been maintained
since the beginning of this year is taken
as an indication that Japan's business
ls losing the war impetus and is going to
run In it's normal groove, states the Japan
Advertiser"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associated Press exclusively entitled ths
eior republication Of all dispatches credited to
not athe."se credited In this and also tho local
Lws ~ spontaneous origin published herein.
Al rights OF republication OF all ohsr matter hefen
are tsN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

You purchase merchandise advertised n THE
'Ri SUNE With absolute safet-for dissatisfaction
s1u'ts In The TRIBUNE guarantees to your
money back request No red tans. No au'bb'nD.
= &c maSs 5000 promptly II the advertiser de< set.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

cialsm which preys on the disease. The
jugular vein of this is the printed ad-
vertisement. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
4 Fe,o Must Suffer

Adjustments such as this bill REQUIRE
do, very often, entail personal suffering
But the experience of the world is that
continued long hours and night work is
harmful to women, and harmful, therefore.
to the entire race. A few who may think
night work not injurious to them per-
sonally must submit to restrictions for the
good of the whole.
But Immediately upon hearing of the dis
charge of transportation workers, the Y. w
T. A., one of the organizations that aided
IN securing the passage of the bill, put their
very effective employment service at the
disposal Of the discharged women Only
two women, however, applied for work
This legislation is not discriminatory in
favor of women workers. as it NAV at first
appear 1t has been the experience in
other states that such legislation has set
a standard and worked toward the ultimate
improvement of the conditions for men as
we'll as for women. 1t is found to be almost
impossible, at the present time to enact
such laws for men, as the courts have not
the same ground for declaring protective
laws for men constitutional.
1t is undoubtedly because of the FORE
gong considerations that the State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor has Endorsed and sun
ported the o-called Women's legislative
Programme of which the TRANSPORTATION hill
is only one measure
ESTHER PACKARD CHADBOURN.
Executive Secretary, the Consumers League.
New York, June g. 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
GUARANTEE

Entered tbs Poson'cs at Second Class
Mali Matte
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Owned published daily by New York Tribune mo.
- New York Corporation Ogden Reid Presidcnt: g.
Vernon RoSerA Vice President Helen Rogers Reid Secre-
tsry: F suter. Treasurer Address Tribune building.
ia Nassau New York. Telephone. Reekman S00e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

This law was introduced into the Legis.
lature and supported by the Women's Joint
Legislative Conference as result Of care
full Investigations into the conditions of
employment by the Women in Industry Ser
vice, of the Industrial Commission, the Con-
sumers' League Of New York City, Miss
Pauline Coldmark, of the Federal Railway
Service, and by the District Attorney Of
Kings County. Moreover, because Of these
findings, the May Grand Jury Of Kings
County recommended that the hours of
women employed on railways should be
regulated by legislation similar to that of
factories and mercantile establishments.
The Investigations which were carried on
covered all branches of the service, and en-
tailed interviews with hundreds of over
worked and ill-condtioned employees.
Therefore, the statement of some of the
discharged employees at their mass meeting,
namely, that the measure was drafted by
Impractical reformers" without consulta-
ton or investigation, is without basis in
fact. This can more readily be seen be-
cause the Women's Trade Union League,
the largest body of organized women in the
country, who understand from experience
the needs of working women, consider this
bill q necessary measure
Charges by the Women's Joint Legis-
latlve Conference were made at hearings
as an indictment Of the conditions under
which women were forced to work. and not
as criticism of the women who became
victims of these conditions
Experience with similar laws shows that
the provisions of the bill are not imprac-
ticable. 1t is similar to many laws now
operating in mercantile and continuous
manufacturing establishments, where good
business management has been able to make
the necessary adjustments and to achieve
not only the general betterment Of social
conditions, but also an increase of output
on the part Of the women Workers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
A Week of Verse
Domesday Book

"a fragment from q long aoork Of pout<,.,
portions Of tohtoh are prsn,eS 4. "0ssoa.
number Of Poetry.) '"''sss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

= SUBSCRIPTION RATES--fsy MAIL. fnclud-
ing Postage IN THE UNITED STATES AND
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-22
5Cockroaches Carry Filth and Disease.

Cockroaches are an unmitigated
household pest, as all good house
wives will agree. They are also dan
gerous as carriers of disease. They
will feed on almost any dead animal
matter, food-stuffs and cereal prod
ucts of every kind. 1t is asserted
that they will eat their own cast-off
skins and egg cases and that they at
tack and eat other species of reaches.
They also eat or gnaw woolens ana
leather and frequently do much DAM
age to book bindings. They are espec
tally fond of the paste or sizing in
cloth bound books.
But the damage by reaches is by
no means confined to the amount of
foods they consume, but it is found
in the fact that they pollute and rem
der nauseous and dangerous every
kind of human food. everything with
which they come in contact. Wher-
ever reaches run in large numbers.
they create a fetid. sickening odor
which clings persistently to pantry
and kitchen shelves and furnishings
and which can only be removed by a
thoro cleansing with soap and boiling
water. This odor comes partly from
the excrement, but chiefly is due to
dark colored fluid exuded from the
mouth of the insect, with which it
stains its runways. 1t comes also
from certain glands which secrete an
oily liquid. which possesses very
AS a thoroly effective and simple
means of Kidding ones premises of
reaches. the United States department
of agriculture recommends fumigat-
ing with hydrocyanic-acid gas. This
gas however, is extremely dangerous
to human beings. Pyrethrum powder
literally used is another remedy sug
gested by this department. and altho
it is not given as an altogether perfect
remedy it is probably the best rem
edy known. Powdered borax. mixed
with little powdered sugar. then
sprinlsled in their runways, is said to
be an effective remedy. 1t is impor-
tant that all food should be so tight
/ ly covered or stored that these pests
will not find it easy to thrive and null
tiply.
Questions and Answers.
Question. When humps go down
will it destroy the generative power?
If man is affected this way. how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-22
FLAGS OF RIBBONS
Topckans Becoming Careless in Al
lowing Emblem To latter

From most any vantage point on
Kansas avenue person may gaze up
wards at the tops of the larger build
ings and see thereon a staff, and fly
ing from the staff what purports to
be IN American flag. But in only too
many cases the flag is just "indi-
Gated" That is there is a narrow strip
of the top red stripe still intact. thsre
is narrow strip of the bottom stripe
Haunting in the breeze. and in be-
tween the two there is an indistin-
guishable mass of fluttering -pennons
and ragged ends.
1t is thought that the proprietors
of the stores which so proudly flaunt
the above disgrace have no knewl-
edge that there is a law made and
provided which makes it a felony to
allow an American flag to be displayed
in a condition which detracts from the
dignity of-the emblem.
As rule when the matter of the
torn and wind tattered flags is called
to the attention of the store owner, a
new and uniform emblem is immedi-
ately unfurled. 1t is surely not too
much to ask.