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New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Peru's First Ambassador

Peru has been added to the list of
Latin-American states maintaining
embassies in Washington. The first
ambassador, Mr.. Federico A. Pezet,
has arrived in this country, and the
State Department seems inclined to
annul for his benefit it's famous
Costa Rican "house rule" to the ef-
feet that no diplomatic recognition
can be given to a Latin-American
government coming into power
through revolution. President Le-
guia assumed control in Lima by
force last year and exiled his prede-
cessor, doing so on the ground that
he had been elected President by the
people for term to begin few
months later and that the adminis-
tration in Office was planning to
count him out.
Mr. Pezet will be welcome as the
representative of Peru, a state
which has always had the most
friendly relations with the United
States. He served here formerly
both as first secretary of legation
and as minister. He knows this
country thoroughly, speaks English
as we'll as he does Spanish, and en-
joys in an exceptional degree the
esteem of government and other cir
cles in Washington, in which he has
long been at home.
Viscount, Bryce once expressed his
agreeable surprise at the very high
quality Of the representation Of the
South American republics at our
capital. Mr. Pezet will help to
maintain this tradition, and will be
a. valued member of the able South
American diplomatic group.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Ho1U 60 Aid the Negro
Cive Him The Job That He
Deserves

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is an indisputable fact that
the average Anglo-Saxon will agree
that industrial education is essential
for the negro. philanthropsts sub
scribe to Tuskegee, Hampton and SINH
lar trade schools. Nevertheless, it is
extremely difficult to place the most
efficient colored tradesmen in factories.
plants and shops. The owners, employ,
ment managers or superintendents
venture the information that the white
employees viii not work with black
men. One man. former teacher at
Manassas Institute and a carpenter
with fourteen years of experience, was
turned down" by scores of establish
ments. His years Of effort, study and
faithful service we're not sufficient to
redeem his nationality. What is more
heart-nendng than the picture of this
individual unable to apply trade
which it took him years to acquire ?
There are scores of other men who are
chautfeurs, tailors, machinists. paint
ers etc, either out of work or COM
PEELED to accept jobs as portcrs. iani-
tors, handymen and the like to keep
them from starving. Two years ago Il
Broadway corporation decided to en-
ploy colored man as reception clerk.
They chose college graduate of ster-
ling character, hoping that he would be
able to replace the Caucasian bov of
elementary education who had preceded
him. Some firms in New York City
viii not hire negroes in any capacities !;
others restrict them to menial and
servant positions.
When the industrial and commercial
shackles cease to clank there will be
very little criticism from the black
man. If he is given an equal chance
before the law and in the business
world, the negro will sing the praises
of his white brothers. The colored
population win be thankful for a full
recognition everywhere of the rights
which the Constitution has awarded to
all mankind Violations of these rights,
not radicalism, are the causes of ex-
pressions Of indignation through their
press, on the rostrum and in the
homes
Why not begin to-day to help cure
these unfortunate conditions by en-
ploying colored men and women of
ability in positions of every descrip-
ton? Please address all orders for
tradesmen, factory girls, clerks, stenog-
raphers and domestic help to the State
Employment Bureau, 1874 West 135th
Street. Telephone Morningside 1900
PRINCE L. EDWOODS,
superintendent.
New York, Nov 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Citizens Of the World
Radicals Who Are Parasites Wher-
ever They Happen To BE

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For some time | have been in
terested in observing the activities of
the radical groups in the United States.
There is a striking similarity in their
activities which would lead one to be-
lieve that these ugly ducklings were
all hatched by the same hen.
Perhaps no one race can Justly be
accused Of leadership in the radical
activities, but from the evidence at
hand it would be safe to state that our
citizens with the foreign conscience are
the ones who are the most enthusiastic.
Some of these citizens are Americans
by birth, but in spirit are foreign to
incapable of understanding the princi-
pies upon which America was founded
and upon which every true American
must stand. In short, being an Amer
lean means nothing to them. They
are citizens of the world in the strict
est sense Of the word, and parasites in
whatever part Of the world they happen
to be-
In searching out the radicals in the
small town in which live it has devel-
oped that they are fairly we'll educated,
some being graduates of our own high
schools and colleges; but they are all
of that warped and twisted state of
mind that sees oppression and persecu-
ton in all laws that are not of their
own making or which they cannot take
into their own hands and develop into
laws of their own convenience | have
tried in many instances to know these
people and to get their point of view if
possible, so that | might have some
knowledge of their ailment and be able
to contribute my small effort to the
cure, and [ have reached the conclusion
that these people do not know how to
be free; that the exaggerated ego from
which they are now suffering was born
of centuries of persecution and devel-
oped by American liberty They grasp
eagerly at every new theory long
years Of American practice have no
significance. One of them worked with
energy for suffrage; from that she
turned to organizing trade unions; from
that she has turned to birth control
They are all anxious for a struggle of
some kind so long as it Is struggle
against some existing law or custom
In discussion concerning the recent
action of the Senate one of them ser-
ously stated, eve will eventually have
to abolish the Senate" Nothing is
sacred to them, nothing permanent
nothing that cannot be violated by
their laws of convenience
What are we to do with these citi-
zens who own no other country, who
live under the privilege and benefits
Of American laws, yet would strike at
the very foundation of their liberty?
M. S.
Mamaroneck, N. Y, Nov. 20, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Obsolete Sea Giants

The er-dreadnought California
was launched on Thursday at the
Mare Island Navy Yard. AS she
took to the water the keel of the Mon
tana, a sister ship, was laid in the
same yard. Each of these giant
warships will cost about SIS 100000.
The new super-dreadnought group is
the pride Of our navy. These ships
are at the top of their class-as
powerful as any vessels designed or
afloat. But even before they get
to sea they may be obsolete.
The Great War has rudely shaken
all preexistent theories of naval
offense and defense. In the opinion
of many high authorities the super
dreadnought is as much a back
number as the simple dreadnought
or the pre-dreadnought. Admiral
Sir Percy Scott was scofFed at when
he said, in 1914, that in the next war
battleships would have to be herded
in estuaries or narrow harbors and
protected against submarine attack
by booms or steel nets. This
prophesy was not entirely fulfilled,
for, although the most powerful of
the battleships were practically in
termed during the first part of the
war, they eventually were enabled to
go out to sea by using moving
destroyer screens, instead of fixed
defensive barriers. Yet even in the
battle of Jutland Jellicoe avoided
closing in with the enemy and strik-
ing decisive blow because he feared
the results of German DESTROYER
attack.
Lord Fisher tells with glee in his
"reminiscences how he upset Won
Tirpitz's naval plans by inventing
the battle-crusier. But he admits
now that the battle-cruiser was only
passing type, already antiquated,
and that all the monster surface
warships of to-day must be dis
carded in future naval warfare, The
sea fighter of the next war, he says,
must lie low in the water, have a
shallow keel and be submersible. It
will be subject to attack from the
air as well as by submarines. Great
Britain, he maintains, is spending
millions on ships which, under
changed conditions of naval war
fare, will be "as useful as bows and
arrows" And what the British Ad-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

miralty is doing our Navy Depart
ment is also doing.
GAS to the dreadnoughts," dis
tinguished French admiral said the
other day, "their beautiful days are
gone" So are the beautiful days Of
the stately, commodious floating
forts which we call super-dread-
noughts. The California and the
Montana will serve the show pur-
poses of peace. That they will ever
fight an action at sea, or even be
suitable for fighting one, is open to
the gravest doubt.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
The Reply by Reason
New York, Nov. 81, 1919.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter from Francis Theo-
dore Brown, of Yonkers, n. Y, shows a
splendid and fair spirit. 1t is Amer
icanism.
If a person in our country has an
idea, he or she should be given fair
and courteous hearing. Have we not
men big enough to meet the Socialist
I. W. W, Bolshevik, etc, in a debate on
the public platform? Black jacks and
Lusk committee violence are certainly
not the real American method.
Your support of the methods as
adopted by Mr.. Brown will be greatly
appreciated by one of your regular
readers. w. S. ETHERINGTON.
Brooklyn, Nov. 90, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
,uman and contrary to law.

human and contrary to law. {.
In particular, they believe that our
military methods. and the measures
of the authorities In occupied enemy
territory were frequently unneces-
sarily harsh and purposely infringed
the rules of international law and the
precerts of humanity. In
view of what is contained in this
publication, it may be justly claimed
that it is untrue to assert that our
military measures and methods of
warfare were unnecessarily cruel, and
that we plundered occupied territory
in defiance of international law. or
needlessly devastated it,"
Were these statements issuing
from some pan-German extremist it
would be possible to wave them aside
as irresponsible rawlings. But, in
stead, they voice the views of the
so-called republican government of
Germany, a government that bases
it's plea for Allied generosity on it's
allegiance to the democratic prin-
ciple and its moral superiority to
the Kaiser's regime. But Herr
Noske is not content with defending
German practices. He feels strong
enough to take the offensive:
"On the contrary, from the stand
point alike of international law and
of morality our measures have much
less need to fear an impartial court
of justice than, for instance, our
enemies blockade measures, their be-
havior in German territory at present
under occupation, or their treatment
of German prisoners Of war and Ger
man residents abroad"
This, of course, is the old Prus-
sian yarn, but that is just the beauty
of it; the "Socialist" Noske using
the language of Reventlow. Here is
a convincing piece of evidence as to
the much advertised Regeneration
of the German heart" and the hon
esty of the Ebert regime.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
The Coming ower
Village Nocturncs

Lamps
The stores are dark;
The drug sign crcaks
Under the bufets of the gusty wind
That swirls snow powder between me
and the stars;
The naked elm boughs rattle and pro-
test,
Arching street where not figure
stirs,
And blank, dark houses snugglc down
In chilly sleep.
Only three window squares are bright,
Gliding the drifts that creep up to the
sils.
The first is orangc-gold and warm:
see shaded lamp,
An easy chair,
The flicker of fire on the hearth,
The white haired doctor, feet stretched
out,
Reading a romance by Dumas.
The second is Il thin, pale, yellow gold !:
And through uncurtained panes
l see woman by a cheap glass lamp,
Mcnding, mcnding, mendng,
While her pale eyes blink,
And her poor head mods
Like a wthered lily on a sickIy stem.
The third is mufcd with a tight-pulcd
shade:
I cannot peep within.
But, even as ! watch, the light goes out,
Moves in to the hall,
The door is opened quietly,
A boy slips out.
He watches till the light appears
Upstairs,
And the chamber shades are drawn.
| see him stare a long time at the
magic gleam,
Wrapped in his rosy rcvcrie,
And then, tossed wildly by the wind,
| hear his happy whistle down the va
cant street.
WALTER PRICHARD EATON.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
turned his criticism to the severity
of the sentences:

turned his criticism to the severity
of the sentences:
'Even if I am technically wrong
and enough can be squeezed from
these poor and puny anonymities to
turn the color of legal litmus paper
Il will add, even if what think tho
necessary intent were shown-thc
most nominal punishment seems to me
all that possibly could be inflicted,
unless the defendants are to be made
to suffer not for what the indict
ment alleges but for the creed that
they avow-a creed that l believe to
be the creed Of ignorance and imma-
turity when honestly held, as I see no
reason to doubt that it was held here,
but which, although made the subject
of examination at the trial. no one has
a right to consider in dealing with the
charges before the court"
The idea of the dissent seems
to be that the country cannot
resent a dagger directed at its heart
unless the dagger is Of certain size
and until it is almost at it's dcstina-
ton. If that were good law it would
be about the supremest idiocy con-
ceivable. Similarly in respect to the
sentences. They were severe, but
like many sentences were intended
as warning as well as a punish
ment. The gravity of the crime con-
sisted not in the nearness or remote
ness with which it came to success
but in the hideousness of it's design.
This far-fetched plea seeking to
protect these precious Russian an
archists from the consequences of
an utterly un-American propaganda
for violence and resistance to law is
a timely revelation. 1t displays the
amazing intellectual processes which
can uphold such a perversion of a
noble constitutional right. 1t sug-
gests the ridiculous lack of sub
stance behind the whole present
"free speech" outcry.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Ole Hanson on Baker
(Fro'n The Hartford Cournnt)


GSpeaklng to Philadelphia Audience1
The boys came back and got their
pay check for $50 month. Baker
made a speech and gave your son and
my son an honorable discharge They
took it and framed it and hung it on
the wall.
"Then Newt went to Fort Leaven-
worth, where there were conscientious
obiectors, who had discovered some
thing in their religion that would not
permit them to fight. Newt or I
should say Mr.. Baker, gave them the
same kind of pay check your son and my
son received. He gave to the conscien-
tious objector, the Stacker and the
coward the same honorable discharge
given the man who went overseas.
II say that is rotten. | have been
out and will stay out to work against
this thing until the government has
taken that honorable discharge from
every conscientious objector"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Polls Uralicrd

Sir: The noive of some of these guys
that try to tell us the Gotham cockney
doesn't say 'oi' for "er,' and "er' for "oi.'
Believe me- | got a friend that could
teach en- different. He had me dizzy the
other day talking about an actor whose
verse was so fine. I said I didn't know
the histrion in question ever wrote anything.
i don't mean 'voise, " he said "he never
wrote any voise' in his life. I'm talking
about his wonderful speaking verse !"
And he's not the only one. could take
some of your precisans who talk about in
Elections like "eu'' and "ciu" instead of "er''
/ could take them with me to the Twenny-
thoid Street y. NJ. c. A. and introduce them
to at least ten men, most of them policemen
who say "hoid' and "woid" and bold .
and then shift around and say "erl' for
oii' and "curl'' for coil"
The writer of that immortal lyric about
the ''goil named Goity Moiphy who lived
on Thoty-second Street, right close to Thoity-
thoid.' knew what he was talking about.
Cautiously yours,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
The Italian Crisis

Inc Al61IAn NI1SIS
The disturbing news from Italy is
such as to give sober-minded Amer
leans reason for grave thought.
The appeal that Premier Nitti has
addressed to the American people is
full Of pathos, and, despite it's verbal
cptisism, contains matter which sug-
gests reasons for grave anxiety.
Italy is in danger of falling into
revolution, and the world sadly
knows what this would mean. 1t
would mean another sickness like
that of Russia. The motives and the
program of the meters of the revo-
luton may be good, just as the
motives and the program of Lvov
and Miliukoff in Russia were good,
but fire would have been lighted.
Once started the blaze would run it's
consuming course.
All Italy believes, and the world
at large seems to share the belief,
that our government has direct re-
sponsibilities. The President at
Paris in April saw fit to issue COM
bined proclamation and ultimatum
to the Italian people which drove
the Italian delegation home and has
been the root Of evil consequences.
No softening of the heart has
since come. The State Department
has just declined another Italian
proposal for a settlement of the
Fiume problem. The President says
to Italy, as he said to the Senate,
"Sign here."
fae Italian Foreign Secretary has
0Aen forced to resign, for he fears
that for his government to accept
dictation would provoke revo-
lutionary outburst-that the italian
nationalists, with great access of
strength, would be led to make COM
mon cause with radical Italian So
cialists.
The latest Italian offer was to rec
ogniZe the internationalizatio Of
Fiume provided the territories Of
the petty principality extended to
physical contact with the new Ital-
ian frontier The President will not
agree to this. He insists that Ital-
ian Fiume shall be an islet sur
rounded by hostile Slavic waters.
He is willing to take away from
Fiume, which has voted to join Italy,
the right Of self determination, but
he is solicitous for the self-determi-
nation principle in the environs Of
Fiume. Is it strange the Italians
reject so partial an adjudication?
In the way of forcing Italy to
yield to the Presidential command it
is reported that negotiations looking
to financing projects to feed Italy
have been frowned on. That such an
inhuman policy has been adopted is
almost unbelievable, but the Italians
believe it has been followed. Perhaps
Herbert c. Hoover and Eugene
Meyer, if permitted, could throw
light on this question--on whether
or not, without authority, an eco
nomic boycott Of Italy has been es-
tablished.
The heart of the American people
goes out to Italy. Not with their
consent is her lot made more diff
cult. They see no reason why she
should be Disseminated against.
They understand how hard it is for
the Italian government, even though
Its leaders are personally willing to
bow their heads to a yoke, to face
the Italian people with the news of
an abject surrender. SO they are
amazed at Washington's stubborn
refusal to consent to compromise.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Outclassed
(From The Detroit Journal)

A japanese province has placed a tax
upon great variety Of articles called
luxuries, among them being walking
sticks, gold-rimmed eyeglasses and even
the bridal couples extra suitcase. The
japanese may have Heard of Americas
tax on children's soda water and ice
cream cones, and received inspiration
therefrom. At any rate, those of us
who felt rather cockily that all the tax
levylng geniuses of the world were
concentrated in our country will have
to admit that Japan has a few wizards
Of her own
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
WALTER PRICHARD EATON.

OF course, as Professor Haywood
Broun, father of the great southnaw,
and himself singing a nasty sinister
complement, says, nothing of less i'm
portance can be imagined than a
photograph of ourself; and yet the
exclusive picture Of Professor Broun
and Grantoldrice, printed herein three
or four years ago, was as momentous
a beat as ever was registered.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Their One Salvation
(From The Baltimore American

VT 7UH1 17e Du97E710Ts AHEeTFcdNl
The "Reds" announce they will be
merciless, but, of course, they depend
on the law, order and religion which
they denounce to save them from being
made to take dose of their own
medicine.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
How to Treat Them
(Fron The Philodelph.a Press)

V'TOHs 1He PhsFddegphad PreSS)
When person comes into your
ONCE to bust UP your business you
KICK him out without much ceremony.
When an anarchist comes into this
country to bust up the government
there ought to be no uncertainty about
what to do with him, or hesitation In
doing it. Kick him out.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

"Thieyes and landlords scoff at laws
of Philadelphia" headlines the es-
teemed, by some, Telegram. "Anothcr
case of music and grand opera, "
growls Verda Stelo, organizer of the
Tenants Union.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
MxAfpxa OF TIE Assoc1ArEp PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
eee Tor republication Of all dispatches credited
TO II or not otherwise credited in this paper. and
also the local Of spont origin published
hersfn.
All rights Of republication Of all other matter
hefetu arc also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

AS to the appreciation of living au-
thors, we know of distinguished
American poet who is i'll and in need
Contributors who want to help with
no more information than this may do
so, sending the money TO US; those
who want more details may have them
But the need is pressing
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
GuARANT e &

veu esn purehass ms<chandlse advertised In THE
yHioUME with absolute safoty-for II dtssatsfac-
tlsa results In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
= ev yeur msnoy back upon request. No red tape.
Ne auIhbilas. We mako coed promptly II the
atvsrtisse tees net
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

We see by the papcr-the Westfield
n. j., Leader-that Reinald Werren-
valte is to sing in Westfeld
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

1t is true that Senor Ibanez may be.
as he said, poor writer. The story
that he received only $500 for "The
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is,
it transpires, true one.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
The High Cost of Congressmen

(Fron The Kansas City starr
Government experts are trying to
determine what it costs to live in
Washington. 1t is costing the constit-
uents of various Congressman entirely
too much.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Horace: OdcS, [. So

"Pers'cos obi, prer, apparatus"
lie luxe dcs Persans, garcon. ie d6teste
Porter une couronnc en- tileul point du tout
Ne me plairat: ans ne chcrche plus partout
on, tardive. la rose reste.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

We were pleased to learn this after
noon that the romantic conception Of
the life of newspaper man Is not vet
dead, for we received a letter in which
the writer began:
Have you valet who Is willing to
share with you the ups and downs of
fortune, one who is willing to pick
up the crumbs Of prosperous DAYS and
capable of inventing expedients to keep
up appearances in the house of poverty {?
Is he one whose constant thought Is how
he can best serve your interests. even
Ii you require that service all day as
we'll as all night, so long as it is help
ing to make your many duties lighter p"
unfortunately, we have no job at our
disposal, since we long ago ceased trying
TO keep up appearances, but any other
newspaper man who is anxious to get
IN touch with the perfect valet may have
his name and address for the asking.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
BoIToN BRALEY

:" as Melville hurdled into the
struggling mass for his yard he was
sent reeling back under the staggering
impact of score of Crimson jerseyed
bodies. daniel, in the Sun.
Il don't know" writes G. NJ. H.,
maybe he means Neville, but whoever
he was | am not astonshed that he
reeled, and why not, if Harvard had
maybe fourteen men on the line and
six backs 2"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

Sans aucun ornement le simple myrtle lasse
Nv va rien ajouter il sled bien ct oi
Quand tn sers mon vim. ct a moi 0uand
ie boi
Sous Iombre de ma vigne dpaisse.