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rations, get nothing except what they manage to buy surreptitiously by sell ing their furniture and other possess sions.
 'Bartering is extensively practiced in Petrograd and Moscow as well as in the country" continued NJ. Saponen, No one may legally possess more than 5000 rubles. When people have noth- ing more with which they may trade they must join the communist party ir, crder to get work That is difficult however. for the burgeoisie All the educated people try to move into the country where conditions are better"
 Last March. foreigners. who up to that time had enjoyed special privi- leges. became the objects Of nesacr- ton, declared NJ. SaDonen., This hrad- ually increased until June when for eigneps, especially the English, were attacked wholesale.
 "The Germans after the Brest- Litovsll conference could do as they liked, but change came with the Ger man revolution. The German diplo- mats were badly treated and after Jline l all Germans shared the fate of other foreighers.''
 There has been little home life in Petragrad since July 1. NJ. Sapone7
 
 take all meals in the Communal eating houses. This crder has not yet been extended to Moscow.
 Owing to the closing Of millinery shops and other places employing large numbers of woBaep. those who were physically able went into the naunition works and other factories. The re- mainder were shut off from a liveli- hood and were forced to shift for them selves as best the Teould.
 What police protection Petrograd en- ] joys is given by women, said NJ { Eanonen and continued:
 "A year ago every person was law hunto himself the authorities doing lit tie to suppress lawlessnass, but eincr | spring the police and militia. made UT ! of women from the Baltic provinces have been trying to keen order. II ! Moscow there is a regular militia. the
 members of which are often: them selves, arrested by soldiers" Although hureEfs caught in Pctro- ] grad are prnmntlv executed hy tho hoI 1 shevists robferes aye still frenuent Wines and vGdlya are still obtairablC 1 at erorbitant prices.
 l Asked if tho i1nlsfoeTists were show 1 ing any sig''s of factional division, W S2oanen sa'd that; none wnpN adnoi publicly that there was not unanimity
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AN EVENING OF READING

The girl from next door sat down and heayed a long sigh.
 I've come to spend the evening" she announced to her hostess, who had just been in tn middle of a most ex- citing romance. And I've brought my own reading. It's simply impossible for me to spend one single evening sit home in peace Mind if I stay"
 Of course not, 'imurmured her neighbor. Whats the matter? Has your family been quar-"
 "Oh, nothing's the matter except that they're such a frightfu1 eozy fam fly group that they won't give you one single minute to yourself. There they are, Aunt Jane on one side of the table lamp and Uncle Jim on the other and Cousin Lou in her corner easy chair. They're all reading. Just when I am in the middle of para graph don't want to miss, Aunt Jane remarks, I see they're having a sale of blouses at Smiths tomorrow, Anne; you'd better go down."
 T listen politely, even though Aunt Jane knows perfectly well that. I have enough blouses to last me for tive years to come mad wouldn't take another as a gift. Then just as have found my place again, Cousin Lou pipes up-Listen to this!-and she reads some perfectly silly old chestnut from the funny page of her
 woman's magazine We all feigT merriment and before the end of the next five minutes it's Uncle Jims turn Whats become of the last number o1 my Nobody's magazine. ~
 We all have to stop and hunt fol Uncle Jim's magazine and at the enc of ten minutes somebody discovers tha1 Uncle Jim is sitting on it. After we get quieted down again, Aunt Jans 1 discovers a new recipe for apple dump lings in the household column of the evening paper, and has to read and dis. cuss that. How much flour do yot use, Lou? Are you sure? Seems tt | me my mother used to make then with less and so on for ten mniuts.
 Of course, dear Uncle Jim feels f his duty to comment at length on the leading articles of his magazine, anl
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reach decision and to act thsre can be no delays, though one feature that is in favor of the oMnsFs \ Of such goods is that a, large part of it has been assembled at New York in an ticipation of the court finding the law unconstitutional and it is. thus more available for shipment abroad.
 The only hope of the anti prohibit tionists today is that the highest court in the land will find the amendment unconstitutional and. yet that in view of the recent unanimous finding. is less encouraging than it was fort night ago. It promises. however to be a, fight to the last ditch.
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tinue to be "a leader in the movement for the payment of more adequate sa- laries to teachers Of proved ability" Elsewhere in the report it is explained that through the use of the first years income from the bequest of $300, ,0n0 from Mrs. Charles W. Hardness the university was enabled this last spring to announce an increase in the scale of salaries paid to the instructors and assistant professors in the college and the Sheffield Scientific school, thus making at least beginning of the work of revising teachers salaries, the need for which was emphasized a year ago and is now even more urgent.''
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Hauz Eroas Protect Eaas.

In the manner of dispesing of their
 eggs many species of frog exhibit re-
 markabe peculiarities. One of the
 most curious. tree frog. native of Paraguay, makes it's nest in bush overhanging a pond. The lower ends of a number of leaves are drawn to- gether and fixed in that position by eggs are also covered with a shield of empty capsules to protect them from the sun and air When the eggs
 are matched the plug at the bottom 1 appears to fall out and the tadpeles tumble into the water.
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just about the time he's through Aunt Lou asks me to come over and look at a perfectly sweet dress design and tell her whether I don't think she could make oyer her old blue serge that way. Really, it may sound like an exaggeration, but I get as much as 2 page an hour read in my book. What ? Oh you have to answer em, or they Il feet hurt. No, can't go to my room, they'd think I was i'll or else very moody and unsoeiable. I'd hear about it for a week. This evening 1 really did want to read. so just told them 1 was going to run over here for a little visit with you. You don't mind do you? And you wont mind at all if l just settle down and read? know you are anxious to read your self, too.'
 Not at all" the neighbor agreed cordially. Just make yourself per fectly at home. I'm glad you came. AnytAing l can do for you?''
 No, thanks"
 The girl from next door settled down and read-for five minutes. Then she began to chuckle, audibly. Her friend looked up inquiringly
 Just listen to thiS! exclaimed the girl from next door. And she read a paragraph or two. Her hostess laugh ed politely and went back to her book
 Presently the girl from next door found something else that was funny She read that aloud. The hostess laughed politely again and again went
 back to her book. This lasted with slight variations for the next hour an6 a half.
 After the girl from next door had gone home the hostess settled herself with a long sigh.
 We'll" she unused. T don't wonder that Anne doesn't want to spend hel evenings at home; it certainly is wear ing. One Of the worst things about family is that you catch their bad hab. its without realizing it. It may sount
 like an exaggeration, but I think Pvt
 read as much as whole page in th' last hour. But never mind; at least Anne had a nice quiet evening foi reading. Chicago News.
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The Eiscai Year et Yala.

That Yale university devoted about $100, ,600 of its general income to mil tary and naval expenditures with ex- pectation of, or request for. reimburse ment from the government is one of the many statements in the report of. the university treasurer for the fiscal year ended June 90. 1919. Tn addition Yale exnerded in 1a1S-1919 "a total of over $275 000 for the work of the Students Army Training Corps and
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have noted every move in the drama. The hefocled person generally takes the affair good naturedly and buys drinks to prove he is a real sport. at the same %k1e vowing to have fun with some of h9 friends on the same trick. The proprietor of the place says the
 mailing of the bad money on the floor is good advertisement for him.
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Major General O,Ryan doesn't be- lieve the dead in France should be brought home and suggests leaving the decision to their comrades. It is the parents and relatives who should have the say, not the living soldiers.
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With his s25.OOo gone, Pat, Grove, who kidnapped young Cudahy is now working in a Salvation Army hut. Trying to prove probably that there is some good in the worst of us.
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Senator Watson says he will not be candidate for the presidential nomi- nation. There is plenty of time for many booms to rise and cid before the convention date rolls around.
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The senate sees the need of giving protection to the public against exor- bitant sugar prices by keeping the sugar board. It is late action but 1t is wise.
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When it is declared that there are many red" newspapers advocating the overthrow of the government. one way of saving paper quickly comes to mind.
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Alabama. Georgia and Mississippi are suffering greatly from floods. The wonder is that a lot of Negroes haven't been lynched for it.
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Strange as 1t may seem a Chicago judge after. sentencing "a boy of 19 to refrain from smoking cigarettes for a year didn't suspend sentence.
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Has Hidden Attractions.

From the number already in the field, you'd think candidacy for the presidency reduced the cost Of living. Detroit News.
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It is well that no more than SOO,OO0 is asked for the standing army. It is enough. If we need more we know they can be obtained.
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Some Illinois miners balk at the strike settlement but there are always those who insist upon having the end seat. - ...-
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Those who have been pleading for some real winter weather are now having their longings satisfied.
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The fnan on the corner says: Even tall man seems to be overriding It in these days of shortages.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

There is nothing more unpopular in colors these days than bolshevik red.
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Every dog has his day-and wise Is the dog that knows when he is having 1t.
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Not at all!" the neighbor agreed cordially. Just make Yourself per fectly at home. I'm glad you came. Anything can do for your
 No, thanks"
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STORIES OF THE. WAR

Norwich. Dec. ts, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
The Powder Girl
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Can you tell me if the
American Legion will give membership
to girl munition plant workers and, if
they do, where I can apply for mem
bership?
In the fall Of 1918 I decided not to
return for my second year at college
but to keep at work at the munition
plant where had been making cannon
powder, pistol powder and doing some
inspection work until the armistice.
Three days after the armistice was
signed l left the plant.
l had never worked before, and I en-
tered the du Point plant at Haskell.
N. j., from real desire to pull hard
with those who were going overseas.
We were told that we girls who were
taking mems positions and doing mems
hard. manual labor, in order to re-
lease these for other service. were in
the third line Of defense; that we were
in the S on this side, and that we
were necessary part in the program
of winning the war" We worked verey
hard-that is. those of US who went in
for the service Of it,. Oftentimes, six
teen hours or double" shift gave US
little extra chance to help. l have
known girls to work sixteen hours
every day for weeks at a stretch in
ether, in constant danger of their lives
from explosions and fire.
Since / left the plant I have heard
wild tales about the ny We r d
and yet those Of US who were the best
paid girls in the plant, the forewomen
and the inspectors, received very little
more than an everyday" office worker
and. remember, we were taking our
lives in our hands because such work
as we we're warned when we entered
the plant, was Hazardous"
When other war workers are receiv-
ing recognition for their service from
the Legion, think that those among
the women munition workers who
served as / did, making powder, ane
who have real desire to enter this
Legion in order to pull as hard in peace
for the ideals we pulled together for il
war, should be allowed to become mem
bers in this organization. NJ. w.
Mountain Lakes, N. j., Nov. Is, 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

it is not at all consistent to believe that
the international officials would have
taken this drastic action.
During the Great War the coal miners
Of this country were outclassed by no
other set of men in their patriotism and
their loyal devotion to the government.
They worked harder than ever before to
produce coal with which to win the war.
They bought more than $10,o00,000 Of
Liberty bonds and war savings stamps
out of Their meager earnings to help
Uncle Sam pay his war bills. They
contributed hundreds of thousands of
dollars to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A.,
the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation
Army, and all other war relief funds
and agencies. In every possible way
they .howed their loyalty and did their
bit, the same as all other good Ameri-
cans. 1t is unjust, therefore, to charge
them with being in sympathy with, or
lending any encouragement to,the dam
gerous cred" propaganda and move
ment which now threatens and for q
long time past has threatened the peace
and safety of this country.
All that the coal miners ask and all
that they have a right to expect, is a
square deal They believe the great
American public wishes to be right and
to do the right thing, when the public
knows what the right thing is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Men of Dependence

The Washington correspondent of
The Tribune reports q lively effort
IN progress to choose Senator Under
wood instead of Senator Hitchcock
as Senate minority leader. The Ne
braskan Senator having failed, it is
proposed to scrap him.
Not little sympathy will flow to
Senator Hitchcock, for in no true
sense does~he seem responsible for
his failure. He was not allowed to
lead. He was required to keep in
close personal and telephone COM
munication with the White House.
He could decide nothing, not even
small details. AS often as a pro-
posal was submitted to him, he was
expected to say nothing-merely to
report it and to report back the die
tated answer. On many occasions
he was leased by those in nominal
conference assuming he was a free
agent.
Such humiliating role should not
have been accepted. The Senator
degraded himself by consenting to
be rubber stamp. But such were
the conditions imposed. Senator
Martin, the late Democratic leader.
when he realized he had no func-
ton, refused to be minimized and
practically quit, although shrinking
from open instruction. Senator
Underwood, however great his ami
ability and ability, will do scarcely
better than Senator Hitchcock, un-
less resolved to be a man and not a
dummy. "Men of independent
minds!" exclaimed Daniel Webster,
when eulogizing his colleagues of the
Senate. Men Of dependent minds"
he would be led to say if he had par
ticipated in the recent session.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
ehe paramount rights of the public,
seems certain.
The news film has hnnon,o :.

Che paramount rights Of the nuhl;c
seems certain.
The news film has become a recog-
mzed feature of American life. II
is constantly being developed. In
questlonably it is destined to play q
large part in the formation Of nub-
nc opinion and knowledge. 1t is not
1a1rly to be classed with the display
OF portrait photograph for adyer-
using or other commercial purposes.
IN which persons privacy is vio-
lated simply for private gain. The
right OF privacy is sacred and must
be preserved; but it reaches it's OBJ
vlous limits the moment the public's
Legitimate interest is touched.
10 reach any other decision would
destroy the pYblic's right to a val
liable record OF public events. In n
democracy the dissemination of facts
touching public events is vital part
OF the social system. This decision
should be upheld and made secure,
II need be, NV legislative enactment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
A Sonnet

from The English Revtesc)
THE Prince of Darkness, as I UNDER
Il stand,
Is most affable, complscent prince:
His words that soothe, his theses
that convince,
Are like a green shade in . thirsty
land.
At the crossroads he takes you by the
hand:
He cannot bear to watch you SILVER
and vince
Between the painful and the pleas. E
ant-since
The pleasant is the path himself has
planned.
In the cold hour when we no longer
care
Whether our souls be saved or
damned, we strain
And agonize in impotence Of prayer,
Not for the saints. not for the an
gels station,
But for the strength, the strength to
choose again
To see salvation and to choose dam
GERALD GOULD !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Unredeen1ed?
Head of the Anti-Saloon
League Rises to Explain

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In view of the calls from
newspaper Offices evidently either the
newspaper folk of New York City are
y orc assiduous readers of religious
news than had been suspected or else
soucoouy mas called their attention to
note in the religious column of "The
Globe" of last Saturday in which refer
cnce is made to one william II.
Anderson" among others, being "a
convert Of McAuley Mission" and hav-
ing been redeemed from "a life of
SIM
In the light of the lurid, even though
fictitious, penitentiary record which
the "wets" fabricated and have been
threatening to spring on, me for. 10,
anything is highly respectable. And
since reading some of the New York
newspapers l have almost been led to
doubt whether l have yet been ''re-
deemed from sin" Much alleged ex-
pert testimony in support of this doubt
can be produced from among the thirsty
or greedy.
| was received into full membership
in the Methodist Episcopal Church at
the age Of eleven at Carlinvile, Ill.,
where I was born and where
llse4 until entering the Anti-Saloon
League work. l have been fairly active
in some phase of church activity ever
since. / am profoundly thankful for
the work done by McAuley Mission
and similar institutions, and for
twenty years I have been working to
increase the efficiency of such insti-
tutions by trying to do work that
would increase their efficiency by Civ
ing them "a shorter haul" in lifting
up fallen men.
AS l have encountered once or Twice
william H. Anderson" who was en-
gagged in selling liquor, this unlocked
for publicity was indeed kind in hav-
ing run me through a gospel mill and
started me on the upward path, and
here's hoping that the civilian H.
Anderson" really referred to in the
religious notice in question suffers no
more serious consequences from the
confusion incident to the similarity of
name.
WILLIAM II. ANDERSON,
Superintendent of Anti-Saloon League
of New York.
New York, Nov. IS, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Europe and the President

Our allies in Europe are said to be
amazed and mortified because of the
failure of the peace treaty. They &C
copied President Wilson's fluent as
surances at face value. They closed
their minds to any suspicion that the
President was misinterpreting Amer
lean sentiment.
Article X of the covenant was the
Presidents personal contribution. 1t
was paraphrase of an article which
he and Mr.. Lansing wanted to insert
in a treaty with the Latin American
republics, substituting a new doc
trine of pan-Americanism for the
Monroe Doctrine. This article, of
American origin, was to be "the
heart of the covenant" The Allied
governments naturally supposed that
American support was pledged to it
in advance. They see now that such
was not the case. Their disillusion-
ment is bitter.
Most European critics are disposed
to vent their disappointment equally
on the President and the Senate.
But this is not fair allotment.
The Senate did nothing to mislead
European opinion. Neither did the
nation. The voters rejected Mr..
Wilson's appeal for the reelection #
Democratic Congress. They dis
sociated themselves from his per-
sonal leadership. The round robin
of March last was another direct
warning that the league of nations
compact as framed at Paris was un-
acceptable to more than one-third Of
the Senate's membership.
The Senate and the country had
no real voice in the deliberations at
Paris. The Allied statesmen, accept
ing a situation which could not have
developed under the forms of gov
eminent to which they are accus-
toned, put complete faith in Mr..
Wilson'S representative quality
They were deceived. If any one in
this country owes them apology and
reparation it is the President. He
prevented them from making peace
which would have better secured
their own interests. They staked
much on their agreements with him
They have now valid moral claim
against him. To meet it he must dc
his best to save what can be savec
from the wreckage.
If the Allied powers Of. Europe
prefer the treaty. as modified in thu
Senate to no treaty at all, theil
wishes should constitute command
to Mr.. Wilson. He owes it to then
a to keep the United States inside thu
league, if they want US to remain i,
. it on the basis established by TIT
Senate's reservations. 1t is to theil
interest to retain the United States
as q partner in the German settle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
A Week of Verse


The Polish Mother
translation from Mickiewiez)
From The Ner Witmsss)
CTAY not, son, meath the summer
~ skies
Where the day is bright.
Come, will show thee where thou
must be,
In the caves Of night.
There in the darkness thy couch Il
spread
In the dungeons gloom
There must thou think of thy country's
And the tyrants' doom,
Let not the anger within thee rise
To thy lips to-day,
Subtly thy thoughts in thy speech dis.
guise
And thy hands delay.
Christ in the workshop Of Nazareth
Played with the cross
Here be the signs of thy peoples death
And thy country's loss.
Chains! for thy hands must wear .
chain
In the days to come
In the long days when thy country's
pain
On thy lips is dumb.
Not like knight on stricken field
Shalt thou come to die;
Laid to rest on thy battered shield.
Where thy fathers lie.
Done to death by hireling spy
For a crime unknown;
From prison shade shalt thou rise "a
high
To our fathers throne.
No tall column shall mark thy rest
But the gallows tree;
So fares it ever with Poland's best
So shall fare with thee.
No sweet singer shall tell thy praise,
But tale oft told
Shall keep thy name till the coming days
Have their fame unroled.
Till sounds the call of our Poland's
drums
Meath the waking skies,
Till the night is past and the morning
i comes
And the sleepers rise.
H. f. KENNEDY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

The public will see good sense in
the decision of the Appellate Division
IN the Humiston case that news
MIN does not require the assent Of
the persons appearing in it to legal
ize its II Whether this Judgment is
clearly accord with the language
u the privacy statute may be open
70 debate. That it is the sound and
wholesome view, having regard to