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Situation Believed
To Be Improving

LONDON, Wednesday July 3D.
Th, Lancashire miners at mass
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
The Principle Waits

The new army bill Of the House, pro-
viding for an establishment of 100000
men and 1000 officers, does not deal
with controversial matters, leaving them
to subsequent legislation, but the con-
tents imply that the rank and file is to
be recruited by voluntary enlistment and
that commission holders are to be a class
apart: This is temporary army. Chair
man Kahn says: "This bill does not at
tempt to define a permanent military
policy. The committee will not take up
the question Of permanent policy for
several months" Of course. And yet we
wish the great principle preached by
Colonel Roosevelt that the supreme duty
of defence is an obligation resting on all
IN virtue Of male citizenship could have
been recognized even in this expedient
army appropriation bill
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
Japan Sees the Labor Problem

Mr.. Tatsuo Yamamoto, the Japanese
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce,
has accepted also the presidency of the
Japanese Association, which has been
formed for the official purpose of free
ing the labor Of Japan from the unrest
which torments it. The membership is
composed of officials and private citi-
zens. The association is to effect the
cure of Bolshevism and other social ills
by bringing about harmonious relations
between capital and labor.
This is the first official recognition on
the part of the Japanese government of
the labor problem as such. Mr. Yama-
moto has done many things in his active
career He was a school teacher; for
years he was in the service of the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha-the greatest steamship
company in the Far East. He was the
governor of the Bank of Nippon, the
central bank of Japan; he also served as
a president of Hypothec Bank and was
the Minister of Finance in the Saionii
Cabinet of 1911. He has never been
identified with the interests of labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
That Was Austria

Among the few mourners of the glory
that was Austria will be, one may as
sumo, the makers Of political epigrams
Somehow or other Austria CHALLENGED
satire-perhaps because she was too in
efficient, too unreal, to be genuinely
hated. If Prussia was tyranny of blood
and iron, Austria was the enthronement
of muddle. Austria was the state par
excellence where things were rarely, if
ever, what they seemed, the Eldorado
of political Potemkinism
Gladstone, more given to the use of
the sledge hammer than to that of the
poisoned shaft, said that nowhere had
Austria ever done good. His Tory op-
ponents, friends of the rival of Russia,
were ridiculed in poem published in
the COS, in Macmillan's Magazine and
unearthed for use in the late war by that
relentless foe of all things Austrian, Mr..
Henry Wicl1ham Steed. The poem, a
parody on the popular song. "Who Is
Sylvia?" asked:
Who is Austria? What is she
That all our swclls commend her?
But what is Austria? Is it fair
10 name among the nations
Some Germans who have clutched the
hair
or divers populations,
And, having clutched, kept tugging
there?
The modern principle of self-deter-
mination-the bane of Austria Hungary
was summed up in the exclamation
Mazzlnl addressed, in behalf of the Ital-
ian people, to Austria: eve don't want
you to govern us well--we want you
to go!"
Austria exasperated even her friends.
Ihat brilliant cynic Cent?, Mettcrnich's
highly efficient Prussan adviser, pro-
voked by Austrian backwardness, sloth
and corruption, declared that Asia began
on the outskirts Of Vienna. Somebody
in more recent times, angcred by the
removal of soap and towels from rail-
way cars on passing from, German to
Austrian territory, went Cent? one bet
ter by saying that Asia began at Passau.
AT the beginning of the war Bernard
Shaw said that anybody could lick Aus
tria who condescendcd to the job. He
was vindicatcd by subsequent events
And, speaking OF Austria and epigrams,
II II impossible to forego the proud in
scription above the gate Of the Vienna
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

years OF growing up, but SO many friends
and enemies and alarms and excursions
and swimming holes and birds eggs and
Indian trails and home runs and pock
cts full Of fragmentary and priceless
truck. 1t was an education in itself, the
best part Of that self-gained training
which youngsters somehow win while
classrooms and theories and pedagogues
come and go.
All this boy stuff is preserved in the
Boy Scout; and with it are compounded
a discipline and notion of obligation
and life of the finest quality. 1t is a
natural discipline, inherent in the thing
done, in the traditions and the neces
sites of the open road. 1t is the mo-
rality Of outstanding out-of-doors life.
1t comes to the Boy Scout with all the
force of group training and organiza-
tion ideals. For the city boy who can
not have the old-fashioned boyhood the
Boy Scout training is indispensable. For
the country boy it puts the old out-of-
doors play upon new basis-not in
comparably better, we may guess, but
as much cleaner, wiser and better as
we dare hope from a new generation.
This is the old stuff made new that
the Boy Scouts ask you to back with
your interest and as much money as
you can spare. Here in New York the
need is urgent and appealing. Look
around any dwelling street and see how
much of the old boy life is present
and how much else. Backing the Boy
Scouts is to put the cleanest and best of
out-of-doors into our boys of to-day, our
men of tomorrow
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
Poor Mooney

Information from Atlantic City, where
the American Federation Of Labor is in
session, is that no general strike for the
release of Thomas J. Mooney, as pro
posed by the Mooney defence committee,
will occur on July a, or on any other day,
with the countenance of the Federation.
Because of the doubt as to MONEYS
guilt new trial is to be declared for,
but it is not deemed wise for men who
are not jurors and necessarily have but
incomplete knowledge to intrude and to
threaten industrial coercion concerning
an issue which involves no industrial
question.
If Mooney is innocent one may we'll
say, "Poor Mooney" His pretended
champions talk about everything except
the one vital thing, namely, whether or
not he planted the internal machine.
His case has become football of agi-
tators who seek to promote favorite
isms. In far-off Russia hectic speakers
have expressed hectic views to hectic
hearers. In this country a defence COM
mlttee supposed to be working in his
interest forgets him to use his con-
viction to assist Boshevism.
The seeking of new trial not on the
ground of the mans innocence but on
the ground that Bolshevik firing squads
should be substituted for courts provokes
inevitable consequences. An appeal to
prejudice arouses counter prejudices.
Men who are for MONEYS release be-
cause their minds are Red persuade
others that he deserved hanging.
Mooney is ill-served Have not his
friends sufficient confidence in the Amer
lean people to know that they want no
innocent man in stripes? If they have
this confidence why do they not soberly
present the reasons for thinking the jury
which convicted him erred? The facts
are what count, not the words of the
noisy few whose only interest in Mooney
seems born of the hope of using his
alleged martyrdom to promote an I. w.
w. republic No wonder a real friend
was led to eXclaim at a recent radical
meeting: "Your methods are rotten
aren't fair to Mooney"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
What Every Boy Needs

only the old young, the sophomores
Of the human race, have any extrava-
CANT hopes from the new" education
OF "new" institutions or "new" any,
thing. The rest Of US know that it was
an old world when we we're born al
ready weary with many experiments
and much acquainted with failure.
Goodness knows we need our excite
rufnts and discoveries, our leaps at the
stars By such do we keep things
moving, inch by inch, upward. But the
real changes, the newnesses that are
really new, are few and limited. What
we need to do quite as much az to cx-
pertinent is to guard as our rarest
fDsasure the golden stuff Of the past
hsswatch it and use it and refresh it
against rust and attack BY new enemies.
vphat is why the Boy Scout calls to
every one quality, old and young What
eyer we come to be in old age, every man
'sise ever amounted To anything took his
header INTO HE from the one immortal
sprinSbsa*d, 'boyhood.-~not Just so many
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
a Changed President
By Frederick Moore

betrayed his teachings too suddenly for his
disciples to change beliefs which in their
loyalty they ardently advocated up to few
weeks ago in the committees and commits
slons of which they were members
The peak of Mr.. Wilson's resistance was
touched when he threatened to leave France
Colonel House deplored this mannuvre. and
endeavored to excuse his chief by saying that
every man in and around the council of four
was nerve-wracked with the strain of over
work. When the President found that his
ultimatum failed to wiring further conces-
sions from Clemenceau and Lloyd George he
began the capitulations now denounced by
the hot-headed radicals of the Crilon party.
Mr.. Wilson's Choice
Buflitt says, and many Crillonites believe.
that Mr.. Wilson had the choice whether to
save the league of nations by capitulation
or break with the Allies and plunge Europe
into greater disorder and prevent consum-
nation of the league while petty wars con-
tnue and new conflicts germinate
While agreeing to the minimum terms of
the Allies there several evidences besides
the alterations made in the covenant that
PRESIDENT Wilson now realizes the need of
the support of Congress in saving the league
OF nations and making it vital, which Amer
lea alone can accomplish or defeat,
Following are some of the noints IN
"hlch the President made his principal
capitulation:
1. PREPARATIONS. President Wilson
originally sought to make Germany answer
able only for actual illegal damage done dur
ing the war, and not for any war costs. He
was against fndemnfications for pensions
and pelleve this last to be correct-for
loss or HE due to the operations of subma-
flnes. lie fought hard against British in
sistence that Germany accept responsibility
1or full costs even if, as Mr. Wilson con-
tended, she was unable to paw them
2. TRIAL OF KAISER. The pres;der+,s
view was that the head of a state was merely
executive and answerable only to his own
people.
3. RESPONSIBILITIES. Mr.. Wilson
argued the legal difficulties against bringing
home atrocities to the Germans.
a. MILITARY GUARANTEES. He con-
tended that the abolition of conscription in
Germany and other features of her disarma
ment' with the league of nations, would give
France ample security on the Rhine front.
Mr.. Wilson finally compromised by promis-
ing Clemenceau to propose to the American
Congress an agreement with Great Britain
IN pledging the security Of the French from
tiers
b. MANDATES. The President desired
much narrower Interpretation and limita-
tlons in order to give the league of nations
more. positive control to insure equitable
administrations and ultimately provide for
the withdrawal of the mandatory powers
when the people of controlled territories at-
tanned efficiency in self-government.
g. RUSSIA. Mr., Wilson stood for inac-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

I ton against the Bolsheviki. and nrohab1v
would have accorded them recognition had
IL not been for the opposition of every Allied
delegation and majority of the press in
the United States
Il SAAR BASIN. Mr.. Wilson agreed,
a1ter some persuasion, that many French
coal mines had been deliberately DESTROYED
ny Germany and should be made good in kind.
but he long opposed the solution of handing
over the Saar coal fields, because of their
German population
8. DEMOLITION OF FFORTIFICATIoNs.
Mr. Wilson at first held that this was mat.
ter for Germany to decide.
8. SHANTUNG. The President inclined
toward China, but to the surprise of the ma
Jorlty of observers took the view advocated
by Arthur Balfour, and diametricaly opposed
TO the advice of his advisers on Far Eastern
questions 1t is believed at the Hotel Crillon
that the departure of the Italians Immediate
~ prior to consideration of the Shantung
question shook the Presidents resolve.
10. KEEL CANAL. Mr.. Wilson regarded
this as purely German property which OUT
side powers had no right to attempt to reg
ulate.
IL. CABLES. Long and serious conteu-
tions were made in Germany's behalf for
certain cables, one reason given being that
they were privately owned
IL. SHIPPING. Mr. Wilson sought much
more smoderate terms than those finally ac-
corded Germany
l3. AUSTRIA. The President thought
Austria should be left to determine for her.
self whether she should federate with Ger
many or maintain independence.
The foregoing is only an outline of some
OF the American positions, which may not bs
entirely accurate owing to the system of
partly secret negotiations followed BY the
American delegation with the participation
and connivance of the President.
On all matters where either or both Of
the two leading European statesmen united
and remained firm Mr.. Wilson capitulated,
but where either or both supported the Presi-
dents ideas, as in the italian case, he main
tanned his original attitude -
These same three men who made the peace
treaty and presented copies to the minor
nations at a plenary council the day before
the presentation to the German plenipoten-
tiarles now are conducting negotiations withs
the Germans and Austrians likewise on be-
half of all the Allies, sometimes without con-
sultlng them. The council Of four delegates
consideration of German communications to
the Allied commissions of specialists. but re.
talns the power of decision. thus again quick
ly achieving desired objectivcs. although
having assumed such responsibility without
proper mandates or authorization. The four
councillors may have justifications, but as to
that the practical fruits of their labors in
disordered Europe viii soon begin to testify
and continue to do SO for scores of years IL
not for centuries. 80
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
Ratification With Reservations

Confusion has naturally marked the
discussion of the covenant of the
society of nations. The subject is
new and vast The public has
been considering not merely an idea,
but document of many details. Men
have been enlisted by pride or partisan
ship to emphasize partial truths and
thus to lose sight of the whole, or to
seem to do so.
bBut basis for solid Judgment seems
maturing. This Judgment promises to
be. first, that there is enough good in
the covenant to warrant its general
acceptance, and, second, enough weight
a. the criticisms lodged against it to
require it's qualification when accepted
The conclusion naturally follows that
there should be ratification, but rati-
fcation with reservations.
-sWhat good is in the instrument that
doubts should be construed in it's favor?
Il is the provision under which inter-
national conferences will periodically
assemble. In itself this may be a small
thing; but it may have big indirect
effects.
sgHeretofore when crisis has arisen
tzhas been necessary to wrangle over
whether a conference should be held.
Sir Edward Grey believes if he had
secured a conference in 1914 no war
WOULD have occurred.
ssAt a league conference each nation,
represented by delegates who in fact
will be ambassadors, may do as it
pleases. The unanimity rule secures
this liberty. But it will be constrained
to send ambassadors, though it with
draws them the next day.
What is the bad of the covenant
which needs to be guarded against?
in brief, it is the implied departure
from the sound traditional rule that We
keep out of foreign entanglemehts" and
pfeserve intact our national sovereign
t&A So reservations are needed in the
ratifying resolution-reservation which
shall, among other things
I'd. Preserve the Monroe Doctrine.
iIi2. Keep US out of quarrels not our
concern.
esq. Lift the indefinite obligations Of
Article X
qualification with reservations is ac-
eSrding to American practice. The
hooks are full of supporting precedents
Nsis method which has the merits that
would flow from formal amendment,
while free of the objection that amend
ments would need to be submitted to
the other powers, thus perhaps delaying
the peace. 1t is international custom
to accept without new negotiation inter
psetations which declare how a nation
understands its pledges.
The President would scarcely reject
ratification thus qualified. To do so
would lodge with him responsibility for
delaying the peace. AS to the other
pewers, their assent may be safely as
sumed. They have indicated their will
i1gness to follow Americas lead in
place league matters.
)The American people have no wish
to surrender their independence, their
LIBERTY of action, when new questions
arise. At the same time the evidence
is that they are willing to associate them
selves with other nations for peace
maintenance. The two claims are recon-
cAable--at least, it is possible to save
the good in the covenant and at the
sWe time avoid the bad. The periodic
conference principle would seem to be
worth salving, and it may be that bv
va and wont the practice of acting in
concert will develop.
{. & - -
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

There are limits to the success of the
most adrolt literary advertiser the modern
world has known, as we learned from a
trip to the British front two years ago.
Our conducting officer had been Shaw's
guide a few months before, and we were
anxious to learn how he had impressed
the army.
"Oh, he was end of nuisance" re-
piled the young officer "When I got him
out to our mess | found out that he was
a vegetarian, and l had to hop around and
get him eggs and all sorts of truck"
Albert Mordcll's book, "The Erotic Mo-
tive in Literature" which undertakes to
delve into the secrets of MANY famous an-
thors by Freudian analysis, has evidently
mad 1arreachlng results. At any rate "The
New York Times" of June printed the
following corrections:
I'm letter from Mrs. Florence Howe
Hall in The New York Times Book Review,
Of May 25 she made by the compositor
to speak of the poet Longfellow as a sweet
sinner when her manuscript had referred
to him sweet singer"
Probably many will disagree with Will
lam Dean Howclls in his estimate of
the singular shapel;ness" of the novels Of
Leonard Merrick. In his preface to the
new edition of "The Actor Manager" Mr..
Howells writes concerning Merrick's sense
of form II can think of no recent fiction
lst of his race nation who can quite
match with Mr. Merrick in that excellence"
r.
prefacer's definition of recent, but off
hand we should be inclined to put Snaith's
"lhe Sailor" ahead Of any novel of Mer-
ricks IN the mere matter of structure
Conrad, if eligible as a British author. ia
a marvellous builder even if his scheme
of darting from the top floor to the cellar
and then back to the top floor again does
annoy some Of his readers
In his latest and what seems to US his
best, work. in Joan and Peter" for in
stance, Wells has undoubtedly taken little
thought of form. He has often become so
excited about some subject or other that
1t mas quite burst through any scheme he
may have had in mind when he began any
one OF his last three novels, but "Thc HISTORY
OF Mr. Polly" "Tono- -Bungay," "Kipps" and
several Of the earlier ones are nice enough in
technique to challenge comparison with Mer-
rick.
Though Mr. Howells left us somewhat
aghast at the extent of his good opinion
of "rhe Actor-Manager," we were heartened
by what seemed to us an enormously skill
1ul treatment of the ever discussed subject
of the relation of art and life
"One of the conditions of cverv art.v
writes Mr. Howells, ais that it's created
world must be microcosm; even if it is
not avowedly fragment the portrait it
pants of life is u miniature, where every-
thing but the essentials is left out IF
It's effects are wisely meditated it will
sometimes show that the essentials are the
little things and not the large things. The
scene does not matters; the quality or sta
ton of the actors in it does not count:
nothing matters or counts but the effect of
reality"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

Hofburg, the letters "a. E. I. o. u:
"Austrie est Imperare Orbi Universe"
cit Is Austria's destiny to rule the
universe"). In the light Of the Treaty of
Versailles, melancholy epitaph Of an
empire whose history, as Mr.. Seton
Watson said, Is the story of wasted
opportunities.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

,You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
rRiBuNE with absolute safettor II dissatisfaction re-
sts In any caso THE TRIBUNE guarantees to your
money upon No red tape No auinn,ihs'
We make good promptly II the advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
Especial Gable to The Tyibune)
~ ARIS, June 6--There has taken place
great change in the President of the
ID T1nitn1 Sta+oc

a great change in the President of the
d. United States
One of the signs is his break with those
youthful radical paror Bosheviki with
whom he surrounded himself at the Crilon.
whom he used as eyes and ears in Russia,
and whose opinions undoubtedly did for a
long time sway his feelings. They told him
the league Of nations could not be successful
until there had been revolutions in France.
Great Britain and Italy, and predicted the
Socialists would overturn the governments
of those countries in a few months They
drew him to the point of breach with the
Allied statesmen. At last he was unwilling
to break relations and risk a separate peace
as some of them openly advocated
The change that has come over the Presi-
dent is signiied also in the terms of the
peace treaty, whose severity satisfies the
most practical men,
The change is finally sealed by the new at
titude regarding Russia. He still appears to
be unwilling to accept the advice of men
like Clemenceau and Lord Robert Cecil, who
long have been arguing that peace in Eu-
rope is impossible and Germany can yet win
the war unless Russian conditions are sta
bilized. But he has discarded Bullitt and
Steffens.
4 Gigantic Struggle
1t has been a gigantic political struggle
the complete history of which never will be
written, but one that on broad lines and
with the limited knowledge available, l will
present in brief outline.
How tho Praedap+ orrood IN thu +ro,+r
terms contrary to all radical conception of his
ideas-winning much American approval, and
at the same time alternating the sympathy of
many of his Hotel Crillon followers-ought
to interest Americans generally and the
Senate in particular at this moment when
the latter's action or failure to act may
cause vital alterations or, on the other hand
adherence to the drafted treaty. the sigma
ture OF which undoubtedly is permitted to
be delayed bv Wilson, Clemenceau and
Lloyd George, among other reasons, to
ascertain the opinions of their respective
countries thereon.
Dissatisfaction among the Crillon staff of
course is due to the fact that it was not
representatively American, but was chosen
largely from writers with radical predilec-
tlons and college professors, many of them
notably able in scholastic work, but under
standing international affairs. only in >an
academic sense. The Crlon staff have been
in varying degrees of loyalty disciples of the
Wlsonian theories who, like their leader.
were moro inclined to blame the Allied states
men for failings than to credit them for
achievements in difficult international rcla-
tions, and who, in ignorance and inexperienced
with the tasks of dplomatists hitherto
have regarded Europeans with unfair as
we'll az fair suspicious
1t Is now. therefore, as il the prophet had
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10
B O o K s
By Heywood Broun

~ ERALD CUMBERLAND's "set Down
y in Malice" reveals the interesting
fact that Mrs. Shaw calls him
George" Moreover, she is quoted as say
ing "Dont be absurd, George"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

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