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New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The Soldier Preferential

A protest filed by DR.. Manning and
Major Thacher in behalf of the Home
Auxiliary of the 77th Division brings
out the discriminating features of the
proposed soldiers preference constitu-
tional amendment.
To Spanish War veterans the prefer
ence is confined to those who enlisted
from New York. Former soldiers of
this class are thus protected from COM
petition of incomers. Their privilege is
"unwanted" and it's value enhanced.
But the preference to World War vet
Grams is not confined to those enlisted
from New York. Any World War vet
eran coming to New York is to have
a priority right equal to that of those
who were of New York when thew en-
listed.
The discrimination is obviously one to
be removed. Those who put their lives
in jeopardy in war should look alike to
the lawmakers. If there is reason in
one instance for confning preference to
those entering service from New York
there is reason in the other. The World
War veterans, indeed, have a special
claim, in view of the fact that a. large
part OF them were conscripted-wer
not allowed to consider other obligations
when knock came on their door.
The issue raised by DR.. Manning and
Major Thacher has, of course, no direct
bearing on the larger question of
whether there should be preference for
any. The civil service organizations,
holding coldly to the principle that the
relation between a state and it's employees
is economic, and that one party buys
and the other sells specific service, are
naturally averse to any preference to
any one on any ground. But not wholly
without justification is the human feel
ing that the public service can be in
cidentally used to employ and to honor
the public's protectors.
Few private employers, in fact, act
solely according to the dictates of selfish
ness, saying so much pay for so much
work. The man who has dared all would
seem to be entitled to have the benefits
of choice if the balance hangs level. II
is inconsistent to tell private employers
to remember the soldier, and then saw
that the public as an employer should
in no way favor him. The government
as business agency may we'll be as
human as business itself.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The Turkey as a Warrior

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: We note your recent reference TO
the saying of Franklin that the turkey and
not the eagle should have been the national
emblem. Had the turkey been selected in
the place Of the eagle he would have been
no disgrace, even in a rough and tumble
Some years ago turkey hen and her
brood were feeding in a field near cur
barns, with the big gobbler on the watch,
when with rush big bald eagle launched
himself upon them. While the hen hid the
young turkeys the gobbler faced the music
The eagle came straight for him. Just IS
the eagle closed, the turkey side -stepped'
Again and again the eagle swooped only "a
find his rush where the turkey had been.
The eagle then lit and tried mixing ii
on the ground. But hero he was outclassed
by the superior footwork and great strength
Of his opponent. How a finish fight would
have resulted we do not know. as. unfcr'p-
nately, one of the men, rushing out from
the barn, frightened the eagle away. Bus
the gobbler did not have a scratch on HIN,
and you might have heard him swear ioi
half mile. He could lick any eagle thai
ever few. true incident, save possibly
the swearing. He did not speak good Eng
lish, but | know that was what he means
JOHN KERR
Franklin, n Y, March Is. 1919,
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what cargoes the ships are to bring back,
for ships with one-way cargoes cannot
compete with ships having cargoes both
ways. A corollary of exporting is i'm
porting. Yet the discussion is commonly
on the assumption that we are to sell
and not to buy. To have an efficient and
profitable merchant marine consider
able change must occur in prevailing
American views. Here is problem Con-
gress must consider when deciding about
shipping policy, and it's decision will
have marked effect on the Willingness
to buy ships.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

nounced the sacred honor of the
Mayors Committee of New York that every
soldier would be provided with two tickets
for seats in the reviewing stand set apart
for the parents of the boys of the eth
Division. There is no question in my mind
that the tickets were allotted.
But our tickets were received at 2:30
o'clock this afternoon, together with this
note:
with the compliments of Mavor Hvlan
! am inclosing two tickets for the review
ing stand for the parade of the 9th
Division.
"(signed) GROVER A. WHALEN
Secretary"
Across the faco of the tickets is printed
in red ink these significant words: "Seats
vail be reserved only until $50 a. m.v
AS the letter bore postmark dated New
York. March "a, p. M, the public NAV
judge the real intent Of those responsible
'or 'he olstriputon. JOHN w BAKER.
Ithaca, n. y, March 25, 1919.
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Upstate Parents Bitter
The Hylan Committee Accused of De-
laying Parade Tickets
To the Editor of The Tribune.

4 u tNC LUttOT " UC i |tOuNt.
CIR: Yesterday New York paid homage
- to the heroes of the 9th Division. The
victory parade must have been an inspira-
ton to every citizen OF this great state
privileged to witness the final public ap-
pearance os this glorious military body.
AS the boys marched up Fifth Avenue
imagine some of them felt peculiar pride
as they passed the grandstand, for mother
to see theml But what disappointment
not only to the parents, who also passed
through the valleys and the shadows in all
the dark hours of the world conflict, but to
the boys thcmsclves-whcn they realize, as
they now do, that their parents and the
home folks were actually robbed of the
privilege of seeing the parade.
Three of our sons are to-day in the SER
vice of their country-two in the infantry
and ono in the Red Cross. They were
among tho very first to volunteer. Two of
them went away with the 108th Regiment
of the 9th Division. One is still with the
regiment; the other, having earned a COM
mission, was transferred to tho 1st Division
and is now with the army Of occupation.
We are proud Of their record and we arc
glad that had them to give, to die for
their country if need be-
To witness the triumphant return of the
boys was tho ono great desire of their
mother. There was cnrly promise that Tho
desire would ba gratifleds for 1t, was an.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
MIR. Beck and His Enemies

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sif; am not an American, but l resent
TO the depths this constant TRADE Of abuse
against James M. Beck, one of Americas
noblest sons, standing for the samo high
type OF Amercanism that the great and
late Colonel Roosevelt stood for. and at the
same timc ever demonstrating a true loyal
friendship for the Allies across the sea.
May wo continue to honor Mr. Beck as he
so richly deserves, and yet any and all
honors only speak in small way the depth
of our appreciation.
EMILY v. LORRAINE.
Nov York, March %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Our American Bolsheuists
Louise Bryant-SeHMade Martyr
Unsuspecting Senators Helped John
Reeds Wife Mount the PHlory
\ N1ss BRYANT made most fetching
By Stanley Frost

n a lSS BRYANT made most fetching
w martyr for the Bolshevist upift
when she appeared before the Over
man Committee. She is pretty; she is small,
and looks helpless; she has big, appealing,
violet eyes, and she has voice tha. regis
ters charmingly either the throaty sob of
suffering under abuse or the sharp ring of
indignant protest
She is clever. also. She came to be
martyr, and she not only seized and made
the utmost Of every chance that was offered
her, but she even goaded the Senators into
helping her 'feeding,' | believe is the
theatrical term that fits Of course, Sena-
tors are fair game for any one and perhaps
they were particularly easy gamo for her
kind Of attack. They and sit hedged
about with honor and Difference; how could
they suspect that pretty impudence and
insouciant contempt carefully calcu-
lated to lead them to ccnsorious speech
They spoke as she desired
The cause has long needed martyr.
is too much suspicion of brutal murder
about him to make a wide appeal in Amer
lca Berkman and Emma Goldman are worn
out martyrs, and besides the country is
almost unanimously against them and all
others who really obstructed US in the war.
Some one else had to be found and who
could be better than nice, young, pretty
woman? Especially if the martyrdom
would not hurt? Miss Bryant did good
work-the revolutionary press is still talk
ing about the "witch- burning Ovcrman
Committee"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
4 Six .Stockinged Proletarian

Miss Bryant-shc would call herself Mrs.
John Reed if she used her legal name
has long been an active parlor Bolshevist
She wears silk stockings, and in no way
looks proletarian. One suspects that she
bathes daily. But she spoke and wrote
widely for the cause even before she offered
herself as its martyr. She came before the
committee frankly as a propagandist and
spoke over the shoulders of the Senators to
prospective converts beyond.
One need not doubt her sincerity or her
idealism, though one may perhaps suspect
that her loyalty goes to the cause rather
than to any abstract reverence for facts
But, passing that question, there can be
found in her testimony a remarkable pict-
ure of what may be called the parlor Boil
shcvist mind
This is not mind turning to revolution
and all its horrors because of the smart of
its own intolerabe sutfcrings, but it is one
that is quite willing to risk those horrors
for the sake of trying on the world its own
pet panacea. Raymond Robins declared
that this type of mind did not really visual
ize the horrors 1t was invoking, and re-
canted when they appeared. At any rate
this type of mind is willing to consider
revolution--so much of it as it can sce-a
small thing to wager its own wisdom.
Miss Bryant's mind showed first a conf
dent superiority over all who disagreed
with her. "I know more about it than any
other witness who has been here" she de-
clared, though she had left Russia after
only ten weeks of Bolshevik rule and there
had been witnesses who had suffered year
of it and came from the inside of Bolshevil1
prisons. "You not there and I was"
she fared up at an embarrassing question
by Senator Overman. "Breshkovsky is an
old lady with glorious past and ptiful
present." she declared when confronted
with the fact that the long revolution
list disagreed with some of her statements.
Miss Bryant has faith in revolution as
god that can do wrong. She admitted
that she knew nothing, except from Bolshc-
vik reports, as to conditions in Russia for
more than a year. But "that is not true"
she said Of tho charge that there are Ger
mans in the sovicts. 81 don't know" she
admitted minute later, "but I can imagine
it is not true"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Among the things we mover would have
learned in our youth,a youth many after
moons of which were consecrated to "blow-
ing" cigarette pictures for keeps,-if it
hadn't been for cigarettes, were what the
flag of Ecuador looked like, the person.
ablcness Of Miss Anne Sutherland and Miss
Nernona Jarbeau, tho appearance OF
Spokane and Proctor Knott, and the faces
of Mike Kelly the ballplayer and Jake Kill
rain the scrappcr
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The aesthetic Erecuti0ncr

She denied that Peters, the Petrograd
executioner, is cruel. She was challenged.
81 do not know" she admitted. But I
know how he felt about it. He not
that sort of a man. he told me SO himself.
He was very aesthetic young man.
II do not think you can say the soviets
are in favor of Germany" she said at
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Established as q MARTYR

Just at the close Miss Bryant came back
suddenly to her martyr pose and made a
direct attack on the committee. She
charged that it was hearing one side only,
that it was not trying to get the truth, that
it abused people who took the other side,
though she refused to specify. This speech
was not spoiled by the fact that the com
mttee, as planned, afterward heard other
pro Bolshevists. 1t gave q splendid basis
for editorials in the pro- Bolshevist press,
and Miss Bryant left the stand in triumph.
d "martyr" fighting for "martyred cause"
SO here is a parlor- Bolshevist mind in
action OF a big stage the mind of one of
the leaders of the propaganda, of one of
those who shrek their demand that they
be chosen guides for blind senator's and
others. Such is the reasoning" which is
attempted. But if it does not convince. be-
hold! here is martyr, and charming one!
With sympathy and gallantry alike to rein
force the plea, how can one inquire too
closely whether it is fair or truthful or
whether the purposes are good either for
Russia America?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The Coming Tower
CALvERLEY's "oDE TO TOBACCO"


nted for the benefit OF the Anti -C,gar rett
Leaguel
Thou. who when fears attack.
Bidst them avaunt, and Black
Care. at the horseman's back
Perching. unseatest;
Sweet when the morn Is gray:
Sweet when they've cleared away
Lunch; and at close of day
Possibly sweetest,
7 have a liking old
For thee, though manifold
Stories, I know. told,
Not TO thy credit;
How one (or two at nost)
Drops make cat a ghost
Useless, except to roast
Doctors have said 1t:
How they who use fusces
All grow by slow degrees
Brainless chimpanzees,
Meagre as lizards
Go mad, and beat their wives;
Plunge (after shocking lives)
Razors and carving knives
Into their gizzards
Confound such knavish tricks,
Yet know I five or six
Smokers who freely mix
Still with their ncighbors;
Jones' who, I'm glad to say,
Asked leave Of Mrs j. y
Daily absorbs n clay
After his labors.
Cats may have had their goose
Cooked by tobacco-juice:
Still why deny its use
Thoughtfully takcn7
We're not as tabbics are;
Smith take fresh cigar
Jones, the tobacco-jar
Here's to thee. Bacon,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN sAMuELpEpYs

March 26-Last night with A. Samuels to
hear "The Mkado," and J. De Angels was
ko-ho, and O. Harold Nanki- Poo, and I
thought they did poorly; and liked only
Mistress Gladys Caldwell, who hath grace
and pretty way of saying her words, as
though she knew what they meant; and
even W. Danforth as The Mikado thought
overdid his effect of maliciousness, in
which he hath skill, but which loseth, me-
seems, its comck effect when too much
insisted upon. With N. Levy the barristcr
to lunch, and we talked Of the League Of
Nations, and Of drinking, and of what
would happen if we drank all the mixed
drinks upon the cards, and how far we
could goa poor turn for the talk to take,
for drinking bout might come of it, To
dinner with my wife, and read this evening
"a Short History of Discovery" By H. w.
van Loon, and he drew the pictures, too:
and 1T is for children, but l enjoyed it
nightly, far moro than Barnes's "a Short
History Of the United States" that I was
forced to study as lad
27-For ride in my petrol-waggon with
my wife, and we went to sec Mary Black,
that was handmaden to us in the old davs
and her little daughter Ruth. To the Of
flee, where all day, and there Is discussion
about the campaign against tobacco; and
[ think it may be a good thing. to shew
us the hypocrisy Of our way of living. To
my room and laborcd all evening at nv
scrivening. Read through L. Untermcyer's
new book, "Tho New Era in American
Poetry" filled with good criticism and
much enthusiasm.
28-Up betimes, and to the Office, and
watched the snow falling, so fascinating
'hat l could not work; and put Off doing
my STINT until evening, and then did it in
a hurry.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

a sham, but takes willing part in an
effort in stripping the so-callcd covenant
of any shreds of power that it contains.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

You purchase merchandise advertised In TIE
TRIBUNE With absolute safety-for dissatisfaction re-
suits In THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money back upon request. No red tapo. No aulbblno
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
,r,,prp or TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press IS exclusively entitled TO the usc
for republication of all dispatches credited 10 IT
otherwise credited this and also tho local
Of spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights OF republication OK all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Cooperative Industry
Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor OF The Tribune
Sit: Having had experience on the labor
end from the bench and machine to superin
tendency. and on the capital end from man
agcr to ownership, | have given considerable
thought to the question as to what would
be fair division of the earnings of a corr
poratlon between labor and capital. and
the following plan appeals to my sense Of
justice from both points Of view:
Pay to capital fixed rate of interest and
then divide equally between capital and labor
excess earnings. Let capital - protected
by preferred accumulatvc and partcipat-
ing snare OF stock, and labor by common
shares of stock. The preferred shares to he
issued at par to paying subscribers, the COM
mon shares to be held in the treasury and
issued at par in accordance with earnings
tributary to the common stock. After pre-
ferred dividends shall have been paid. one
half of the surplus fund shall be used for
the purchase of common stock at par. from
the treasury, and said stock be placed in
escrow for the benefit OF the working organi-
Zatlon until the escrow stock shall equal in
amount the issued preferred shares. This
cscrowed common stock shall DC paid n divi
dend from the subsequent earnings of the
company, and q like amount in total shall
be paid to the preferred shares as an extra
dividend. The dividend on the escrow shares
shall,when earned, be distributed to tho labor
organization pro rata on regular dividend
dates GEORGE w. HOADLEY.
New York. March 2G, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

When the Chicago Tribune says Of Mr..
Walter Llppmann that he "remained snug
~ at home during a war which was GER
talnly as close to being a war for inter
natlonallsm as could be expected in this
imperfect world the thought occurs to us
that untruth is one of the three or eight
things that help to make the world imper-
feet. Mr.. Lippmann, it happens, resigned
his position the New Republic shortly
alter our entry into the war, and remained.
lar from snugly, in Washington, doing work
that the President, at least, considered i'm
portant. In July, 1918, Captain Lippmann.
l. S. A., went to France, and returned last
month.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Marse Henry, in the current instalment
of Looking Backward" quotes Raymond as
saying, "But for the love of Mike, don't
whisper it." Could Raymond, sixty years
ago, have said that? Is the locution as old
as that? We are asking for info.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Mark twain and l." Mr.. Watterson con-
tnues' grew up on old wives tales of
estates and titles, which, maybe due to a
kindred sense of humor in both of us, we
treated with shocking irreverencc." live
ever doubted that Marso Henry was a
typical American, that doubt has vanished
The t. A.. always admits he has a sense
of humor
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

another time. Because by all logic they
cannot be-" She denied that the central
soviet forced elections in Others ~ know
the principle 1t is founded on and it does
not permit that" "No, they could not
change the principle" "It does not work
that way" 81 know the application"
AS to the naturalization of women: 81
am sure it is not correct. How could it
be?
And on atrocities: "The Bolshevik guards
did not take people out in fifties and shoot
them. They would not, because they are
not organized against the people," This in
the face of Tchitcherin's admission of kill
ing 500 in one batch
She showed a curious attitude of mind
on suffering. "Just the ordinary things that
go with civil war and with lighting" she
said of atrocities and starvation.
Miss Bryants opinion Of shoes depends
on who wears them. She was eloquent
against the use of force by the Allies in
Russia. II demand self-determination for
Russia she declared. But she had no
objection to forcibe Bolshevist domination.
Soriet Force JustiGabIe
"1s not the Soviet government attempting
w NDNAHi'Sh AtSSlI ny IOICot SENATOR Mel
son asked.
"Oh, yes! All governments do"
And by forco against the Russian people
who do not agree with them?' %
Eyes we did that against the King Of
England"
"Why shouldn't the rest Of the Russian
people have the right to express them
selves? Why should the Boshevists use
force and disarm everybody"
"Oh, that is the way revolutions are
brought about"
"Then you believe in self-determination
at the point of gum"
Cali things have to be self-determined
at the point of a gun"
Yet she maintained quite calmly, and
within a few minutes, that the Russians
were not disarmcd, that the soviets did not
rule by terror and that the whole mass Of
the Russian people were backing the ex-
pertinent!
Finally Miss Bryant proved herself un-
willing to make a fiat statement regarding
her purposes for America. Senator Wolcott
asked whether she had supported the soviet
form of government in her public speeches.
Miss Bryant launched into diatribe OH the
phere she had found. He repeated the
question: She explained that the soviet
had been lied about Again he repeated
She changed the form of the question: "Do
you mean that I ask to have a soviet in
America? l am not advocating anything
of the kind. "The Senator gave up on the
first question and tried to get real answer
on the one she herself had stated Miss
Bryant said it was shame to have Ameri-
can boys killed in Russia He tried again.
She declared that each country should be
allowed to work out its own form of govern
ment. He repeated. She did not see how
soviet could be established here Once
more he asked whether she favored soviet
government for America. ~ do not think
1T would fit America at the present time"
she replied, and he gave up.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
The Winter Garments Of Renentarc.

Sir; Speaking of preparedness now that the
war IS over you may be interested to learn tbo+
oVercoats issued last week 10 the rurs.s +
the Army Hospital Ellis Island. We can nj,
feel assured that the girls will be we'll protectcd
against the SHOWS Of spring. Besides. who can
tell what weather June and July may bring?
G. LOOM
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

The Finest View
(From Tho Philadelphia Pablo Ledger,
No scenery in the Rhineland evcr coz
pared with = closeup view OF iiy old hqHs
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

The Anti Cigarette League, according to
one of its members, Is rolling up tidal
wave OF opposition to tobacco.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

That 1t Has a Senate, for Instance
'hron The Warrington PosD
Anyhow, Woodrow and other Parisians
are learning some Of the peculiarities OF
the United States government
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

President Wilson could save cable to11s
by eliminating VERY" Two OF them an
pear in tho first sentence of his cable of
March p, and there is ono in the third
paragraph. Our offer still stands of one
very good cigar TO anybody who cites an
instance of "very" strengthening an ad
jectvc.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
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q THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
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Entered at the Pcstoics at New York second Class
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Opponents Gain On Clcmenceau.--Tvan-
ing Sun.
lato last night they had the ball on his
1o-yard line, but he was expecting A
tumble.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

n rolls ita OWL perhaps. =. r. A.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-04
Lakes Predictions

'"This is the destiny Of the subma-
rine. This has been the aim and
prophecy of the pioneers in submarine
development. There is nothing which
stands in the way of the accomplish
ment of this happy result. The sue
cess of the submarine in the present
war has at last forced those in power
and among them many who bitterly
opposed it's development-to recognize
the value Of this weapon. Submarine
designers and submarine inventors
will from now on receive the encour-
agement and the attention Of naval
authorities throughout the world.
Hence we may expect to see the sub
marine developed and improved until
it has many times the efficiency, speed
and destructive power which is pos
sessed by it today. We may also eX
pect to see the industrial possibil-
tiles of the submarine developed to