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New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
The Ends Begi,1oi,ar

The demise Of the pseudo Communist
government of Hungary may mark the
beginning of the end of Bolshevism in
Europe. There are symptoms to show
that reason and intelligent consciousness
are once more gaining the upper hand
over the play Of instinct and ignorance
among the sorely tried masses of Eu-
rope. Whether reason is to triumph is
still question of time, and depends in
great measure upon the policy of the Eu-
ropean governments, particularly upon
that of the Allies in Hungary.
The example that Hungary has set to
the world, the example that will stand
out in shining light in Russia when the
curtain is lifted and Lenine and Trotzlv
go--and the fall of Bella Kun must ac
celerate their departure--is that there is
no other road to progress and to Social
ism, If you please, if Socialism is the
goal OF humanity, except the road of de-
mocracy; that dictatorship in whatever
form is inadmissible and contrary to the
interests of freedom and the mutual re-
spect of human beings; that only by
welding the weapon Of discussion, in
teIligent organization and human appeal
can Europe and the world at large be
brought back to civilization.
This is the thought which the masses
OF Europe must realize if the fear ex
pressed by Arthur Henderson the other
day is not to be realized, the fear that
Europe is about to be plunged into bar
barlsm by the renewal of the war in the
form of civil and class conflict. It is
not civil war that will help Europe, the
civil war for which Lcnne called the
moment he set his foot in Russia in the
spring of 1917, but honest democracy.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
! Trusting Japan

1t is not entirely clear from the state
ment of Viscount Uchida and the Presi-
dents formal comment thereon whether
settlement has been reached in regard
to Shantung or whether, if a settlement
has been arrived at, what it is.
Japan promises to evacuate Shantung,
but she also purposes to retain the eco
nomic privileges formerly enjoyed by
Germany in the province Thus the
evacuation is a qualified one, for in back
ward countries economic privileges tend
to become political ones
Yet the President, although cautious
about eXpressine any definite opinion,
seems to regal1 the Uchda statement
as satisfactory Moreover, the Presi-
dent reveals that ou April 80 Japan
served notice that she proposed to sue
ceed to Germany in Shantung, and that
he signed the treaty with this UNDER
standing. He is thus forecosed from
contesting the main feature of japanese
policy
The practical upshot of course, is the
whole Shantung matter is left in Japan's
hands. She viii negotiate with China
separately and decide what measures are
necessary to guard the property she has
acquired. That she will justify this
trust is to be assumed. She is vitallv
interested in securing Chinas friendship
and is sentimentally as we'll as practi-
cally interested in the worlds good opin
ion, and both Of these will lead her to
respect the spirit &C her engagements,
although its letter IS short of what
WAS desired
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
An Ambassador OF Fr;enas',;o

The Prince of Wales is described as
tght-hpped and serious faced as he stood
IN final salute before sailing for his tour
OF Canada and the United States. Tho
Prince appreciates that his journey is
not a mere pleasure jaunt. A heavy
burden is laid upon young shoulders.
The Prince is Friendships Ambassador
Extraordinary to Canada and the United
States. AS The London Neqvs saws.
Through him the peoples of the empire
will express in the fullest sense their
fellowship with the people of America."
1T is an ambassadorship which will
require all the store of modesty and tact
which the Prince is reputed to possess.
He has one advantage, however, that of
the precedent set by his grandfather, the
late Edward VII, fifty-nine years ago.
If Edward Albert prove as winning as
was Albert Edward. the xuccess of tha
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Up the Blind Alley Again

Attorney General Palmer, as part of a
campaign whose declared purpose is to
reduce the cost of living, indicates that
suits are to be brought against the meat
packers under the ANTITRUST law.
Many allegations of restraining trade
have been made against the packers,
which they have vehemently denied. The
doubt it is perhaps worth while to re-
solve. Let us ascertain whether or not
the packers are in illegal combination.
But let us not, when so doing, delude
ourselves with the idea that this ques-
tion has much bearing on the cost of
living. Prices don't come down as re-
suit of antitrust law suits. Should the
proposed prosecution be successful and
in three Or four years hence the courts
should write a decree of dissolution the
butchers would not, on this account,
charge less. Probably they would charge
more, for it is generally agreed that big
concerns sell on smaller margins than
small concerns are able to.
IN times past other attorneys general
have quieted the public by expeditions
up the blind alley of trust prosecution.
But there has been no arrival at the OBJ
jcctive the public has in mind The lot
of neither producer nor consumer has
been made happier.
That the packing companies are guilty
Of illegal acts in organization and trade
practice the public is prepared to believe.
Such things are, Of course, to be stopped,
but their stoppage seems more likely to
raise prices than to lower them SO the
notion has spread that an antitrust
campaign is usually device, when the
public is dissatisfied, to sdetrack the dis
satisfaction and to appear to do some
thing while in fact doing nothing
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Charles the Last

Was there ever such an incongruity
between the littleness of man and the
greatness Of fate as in the case of
Charles /, last and least of the house
that gave the world a Maximilian, a
Charles Y and Philip II? Fair and in
significant, with just faint trace of
some remote stubbornncss woven into his
good-natured almost helpless, smile he
was picked by whimsical destiny for a
most difficult and trying task-to stand
forth as the symbolic hero of a secular
tragedy, the downfall of mighty en-
pire and the proudest of dynasties. To
Wilhelm II the curse and loathing OF
ages at least are assured. His junior part
ner, last of the successors of Roman en-
perors, will be-is almost-forgotten bv
his own generation.
"Of the things of mind and spirit he
was not overfond.' A former subject
thus condcnses an apologetic condemna-
ton. In Friedrich Nowak's volume
The Road to Catastrophe" just out in
Berlin, the last Hapsburg is damned
with the faintcst Of praise by a critic
by no mean i'll willed. We are told that
''as ruler Charles surprised from the
very first hour of his accession" sur
prised not by his greatness in action but
because hardly anything was expected
from prince who pursued without
passion the preparations for the task
that awaited him on the throne of Haps-
burg and who previously did not play
any role in the war;" although this war
had been the last desperate gamble of
his house. Passion was lacking from
the makeup of this offspring of a profit
gate father, yet, when enthroned. he at
tackled corruption with an honest faith
that was almost passion substitute.
They thought of him as of just a plain
good boy; therefore his mere effort to
be man, one who carries justice en-
blazoned on the shield of his reign"
passed for an achievement GAS 'peo-
pies emperor he earned quicker ap-
plause than ever monarch" He be-
came "the dread of all those who gnawed
at TIE peoples veal" And yet che never
noticed how he was spun around bv
cllques even as he was battling them.
HE never saw the faces of those who
spoke to him, only the curves of their
bent backs. He had the plans of great
changes in him. He, the man of
6txtx. listened But ha never learned
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
MIR. Lansing's Ignorance

1t must have been trying to Mr.. Lam
sing, successor of jefferson, Adams,
Marcy, Webster, Seward and Root in the
high office which is supposed to have par
ticular charge of foreign affairs, to be
compelled to admit that as to many
events at Paris he had no information
that he also was among the unconsulted.
1t was humliating for him monotonously
to reply Il don't know" or 81 can't an
swer that"
The President did not honor the Secre-
tary with his confidence. There was an
American draft for a league of nations,
but who wrote it Mr.. Lansing was not
informed. He concurred with Henry
White in the suppressed letter which
General Bliss, with soldierly directness,
wrote in respect to Shantung, but he
never talked with Colonel House con-
cerning the issue.
Mr. Lansing has never read the min
utes of the league of nations commission
Whether the President agrees with Mr..
Lansing's Interpretation of Article Y
namely, that there is nothing compulsory
about the article, and each nation may
judge for itself at the time whether it is
to join in action-Mr. Lansing does not
know. "Ask the President" he replied
when asked why the Bliss letter is with
held.
When the President last spoke to Con-
gress he said that all the information in
his possession was at the disposal of the
Senate. But the promise, as Mr.. Lam
sings testimony brings cut, was made in
PicAwickian sense. Since there has
been not only refusal to allow read
ing of the Bliss protest but the Presi-
dent has cabled to Clemenceau an urgent
request not to give the minutes of the
league of nations commission to the
French Chamber because if published in
Paris they will be published here
The President is supposed to be great
ly interested in securing ratification
of the covenant But his policy, as
sketched by Mr.. Lansing, does not seem
practically devoted to this end. He must
foresee the natural consequences of irri-
tating every self-respecting member of
the Senate-must know he is creating a
state of mind among his treaty making
associates not calculated to promote har-
mony. Can it be that the objective is
the political one of teasing the Senate
into retaliatory unreasonableness in the
hope of using the league Of peace issue
in next years political campaign?
Mr.. Lansing gives no hint Of the
resignation whose filing has been ru-
mored as about to occur. But it is diff
fcult to see how he can remain in office
if conditions arc as he describes. If he
has not the confidence of his official chief
the purpose Of the statute creating the
Department of State seems negatived.
If ours is to be government of laws. not
of men, if there is to be responsibility,
the President is obviously entitled to
have as sub-managcr of foreign affairs
a man he is willing to trust.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Wanted: A Stone Age

Warren S. Stone, the grand chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, uses the word "profteer" with
great frequency but does not favor the
public with any accurate description Of
the animal
Mr.. Stones idea, so far as it can be
collected, seems to be that if a man who
owns shoe factory finds that it costs
him SIS pair to make shoes he is
profteer if he charges much more than
SIS for his product, but that his employees
are not profteers if they demand wages
that will raise the shoe cost to Sc a
pair. He can't see that the shoe price
is determined by the labor price, and
holds that it is meritorious to raise labor
prices, while it is wicked to raise the
price of the goods into which the labor
is translated. Profteering is thus an
offence confined to one economic class.
Mr.. Stone also has ideas as to the
nature of capital, which he says is
"labor saved up" 1t is-it represents a
credit accumulated by some person who
chose to invest some of his earnings
rather than to spend them all as his
neighbor perhaps did
But to his definition Mr.. Stone might
have added that should a state of society
develop in which there would be no in
centive to save, if there was no certainty
that the fruits of the deprivation would
be enjoyed, then saving would cease and
there would be no fund for the erection
of buildings and machinery and high
ways and the thousands OF other things.
society needs. AS to profits, so far as
they are not spent, it is to be remem-
bered that they fructify into wealth
whose very existence benefits all of us
1t is time for all, especially those
dependent on the fruit of personal toll,
to think hard and straight, and not to be
satisfied with half truths which are IN
fact monstrous error. We have inher-
tied from the past and now enjoy more
material blessings than ever before came
to a population, and the heritage is not
one to squander. Mr.. Stone seems en-
barked on a line of reasoning which, if
logically followed and applied, leads
straight on to the impoverishment of the
masses
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
rFrom the - lSssn Corporatto,.)
Camille, the Weeping Mare,
The Swift-Moving Press Agent

l1C OWllt-ltlOVlQ2 l1cSS Agent
Camille, like the stage heroine for whom
she was named, has led varied life She
IS twenty-five years old and belongs to the
Caucasian race of the equine family. In
other words, she is white She began life
on farm out West, came East to assist
in making the Belt Line cars successful.
and at the outbreak of the war Joined the
artillery. AS member Of the 77th D-
vision she went abroad with the 3O6th Field
Artillery and performed valiant service un-
til, at Chatreuve Farm, in the Vcsle sector,
a German .150 exploded near her and she
became afflicted with she'll shock She
would go along all right for about ten
days and then would begin trembling like
a leaf. A kindly "Buddy" took care of
her, and she was brought back to the
States Here she fell into the hands of a
horse trader, who sold her to a farmer
near Tuckahoe.
One Of Camille's shell shock symptoms
was to sob while trembling. During these
attacks tears would roll down her face
Ihls is what got her into motion pictures
The Tuckahoe farmer realized, after try
ing Camille at the plough, that the horse
trader had put one over on him. So he
permitted the emotional, lackadaisical mare
to lodge in lot, while he planned to get
even" financialv
At this era in Camille's life there came
upon the scene Billy Miles, property man
for Charles J. - director of the - Film
Corporation Miles had been sent out to
search for horse that would cry. Such an
animal was wanted for scene in the pro-
cfi
a farmer who is to be evictcd bids his white
mare goodby. He weeps-and the mare weeps
too Some one told Miles of Camille. and he
went to Tuckahoe. He found her DURING the
TIT of dependency, and tears were streaming
from her eyes.
III put that horse in motion pictures
and pay you So day for her." Miles told
the farmer
"All right" was the reply you'll have
to get derrick to lift her. She won't
move I'm afraid she's dying" Miles got
morse ambulance and conveyed Camille
TO Fort Lee. There sympathetic property
men VINO learned of her war record treated
her kindly and fed her abundantlv. Size
repaid them fortyfold by weeping more
than ever For many days it was impossi-
Die TO induce her to stand She would at
and drink in recumbent position If anv
one tried to induce her to stand ur She
would sob
After many days the white mare oeya,
taking new interest III life. Then She
sVood up instantly sne was placed before
the camera
Ihe "evicted farmer stood at her head
and wept.
Camille wept, too.
1t made fine picture.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Annals Of the 'Phone

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: After ten minutes wait central con-
descends to accept request for number.
Bryant 1854.
Len minutes more wait, then some.
Party wlggles hook slowly, as advised by
'he telephone company, then faster. then
staccato and violently. No luck. Central
has apparently gone to lunch
Finally central advises the victim that
the number does not answer
Party asks for manager, who promises
better luck some day soon, and central is
again appealed TO for said number and
hnally the number comes on wire and an
amlaole conversation anent certain busl-
ness matters is started.
Manager cuts IN and number il lost
Manager advises victim that service will
be better IN future Manager is told to get
otf and stop bothering victim
After ten minutes more wait number is
got again, only to have central cur +,
and advise party that number does not
answer. Central is finally persuaded to
Ia of, and business is transacted
me consumed-one hour and ten
ntes.
Tins is written in the heat of the mo-
men1 and may not sound funny. but il
actually happened
JOHN WALLACE GILLlEs
New York, Aug. 6, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08

coming visit is assured. Coming at
time when memories still made English
men and Americans i'll at ease in one
another's company, there was some
fear lest unpleasant incidents might
arise. But the visitor handled everv
situation with a grace beyond his years.
And every American, from the Penn
sylvania mayor who could not for
bear reminder that the Prince was
now in a state that was one of the
leaders in the Revolution, to the last
surviving soldier of the Revolution, ad-
mitted the Prince was good fellow.
This last survivor, on whom the Prince
called in Boston, was graciousness itself,
explaining afterward that che wished
to show the boy and his soldiers that
he bore no anger for old times"
Entering the United States at Detroit
as will the coming visitor, Albert Ed
ward, who had shed his suite at the
border and travelled as "Lord Renfrew,"
went from one rousing reception to an
other and won American hearts by his
reverent pilgrimage to the tomb of
Washington. New York prepared in his
honor "the greatest ball ever known in
this country" and the Prince is reported
to have enjoyed hugely dancing with
American bellies, naIvely remarking that
elsewhere they made him dance with
the 'old chaps"
The visit of Albert Edward was a
brief interlude before the breaking of
the storm of the Civil War. His grand
son comes at the close of a greater war.
AS a veteran of that war, as one who
carried kit bag with the rest, he will
be welcomed by his American comrades,
as he was by the Canadians in the front
line trenches, "for the man he was and
not for his rank"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
The Bishops S Loss
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to express nv an
preclatlon of your excellent account of
Bishop Kinsman's spiritual difficulties in
this mornings issue We of the clergy,
especially, feel a deep sense of loss in the
Bishops leaving US, and we feel also that
the Bishop in leaving the Church will like
wise later feel a great loss
The difficulties which the Bishop
enumerates are real and serious, but they
are not now Every priest of the Episco-
pal Church has been facing them ever since
his seminary days DR.. Kinsman apparent
ly thinks that because many of our official
teachers hold low ideas of the faith and
sacramento and holy orders the authority
OF the Church herself (teaching real and
definite doctrnes) is vitiated. One wonld
not think the Constitution of the United
States was of no effect, even if a Sena-
tor or group of high government officials
taught Boshevsm
This issue is analogous The authorita-
tive teaching Of the Episcopal Church CON
cernlng the faith and sacraments and holy
orders is as clear and definite as that ,
any other Catholic church. The mere ..,.
that men are false to their orcir ,..,t.
vows, serious it is, cannot ever
the Holy Spirit to depart from q, ee-
cause, as the fact is, there is the great
body of priests and laity who are faithful
to the Church and the Book of Common
Prayer.
Bishop Kinsman's position reminds me
Of the story Of certain priest Of the
Church of England who was disturbed also
and wrote to the late Father Tyrrell con-
cerning the advisability of entering an
o'her communion. Father Tyrrell wrote
back, on postal card, that once there
was a man who was dissatisfied with bis
house because the chimneys smoked So
he removed to another dwelling But here
he found, to his sorrow, that all the
drains we're clogged, and that he was no
better off than before.
HIRAM r. BENNETT
Trinity Church. Aahury Park. N. L
Aug I. 1a1A
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08

a thing, In fact, he never knew thing.
His spirit was INDECENT"
And perhaps perhaps it was
a trace of evil in his disposition" And
so he went down, a foolish young lieu
tenant of dragons trying to shoulder,
because he had to, the burden of Atlas.
Genius might have made his downfall
tragic; it could hardly have saved him.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Without Rancor

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; 1t was 2 pleasure to read your re-
cent editorial advocating the Importance
of prompt ratification of the French peace
treaty as vital adj junct to the ,,,ona of
nations. since my return from war ser
vice 1t has been comforting to me to find
such able editorial treatment of national
SUBJECTS that seemed to be free of parti-
san jealousy and rancor $50 objectionable
10 patrons), and therefore, command;n,
WIDE influence, admiration and snnnor+
O. W. LANDON
Naw Toxk. Aue. & ta1n.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Savin Us

F P. A. an Brs these days,
Seem zif's giFtio lots o. praise.
Gosh-al'-lIemlocN Purity soon
They VIII be Il hull Tribune.
Now, l haint a-knockin' none;
Both is smart an full O. fun;
but-MY hollyhocks-By Jing!
I'm a-savin' up fer DING.
ZEKE SILO.
Stamford, Conn, Aug. 6, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Shoes and Shins

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: agree with F. D. that F. F. V. is
up there with the rest of the headliners
Let US have some more of his "Shoes and
Ships and Sealing Wax"
Inc paper can easily carry two such
columns especially in these days. Gosh.
What relief it is to turn from, tho b,ooar
stuff to Briggs!
New xork. Aug. g. LILA
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
To Anacreon in Heaven"
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

l y lAe CdlCor OF Ihe Tribune
SIT: Apropos Of England's intention tn
purify her hymnology by the rejection of
German and Austrian tunes ("The Iondon
Expressly, does it not seem a tragic in
consistency that bone dry nation like
ours should continue to sing its national
anthem to the air of an ancient drinking
song9 MARION p,,c,,
Rocky Beach. West Haven, Conn. Aug
5. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
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OF spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights of republication of all other matter herein
also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Down and Out

(From The Provid~nce Joxrnan
capital should strike where would
labor get of? a contemporary wants tn
know. Certainly not st the DAY station.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
~ Eperything
The Tale of a Tribune
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: Bang! Out of the train came the
bundle Of Tribunes. 1t was just a little
station. Later the yawning paper boy came
strolling along and picked up the package
of papers. From house to house he went,
throwing paper after paper porch steps.
In one of these houses, which stood blink
ing in the early morning light, sat "Friend
Wife" and the Handy Man to Have Around
the House" eating breakfast. Nearing the
finish of the meal "Friend Wife" began to
look out on the porch now and then. Hear
ing the familiar thud, she brought in the
paper. (Tribune, of course). Quickly she
glanced at the headlines, then at the cartoon
and lastly at Briggs and the Coming Tower.
With reluctance she surrendered the paper
to the Handy Man" and said goodby. III.
M" read practically everything while on the
train, but saved f. P. A for coming home
at night
Back home again in the evening. Eighteen
year-od Daughter, not all grown up,
skipped about prying open ~H. MS"
satchel, and pulled out the wen read Trib-
She laughed heartily at some Of
Briggs's realistic figures and then digested
F. P. A. Next morning the tired newspaper
showed on the old paper heap and
saved for the Rag Man, signing to itself as
it settled in it's folds "Well done, old
boy' and breathed it's last. X.
New York, Aug. S, 1919.