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Cerrnany's Wealth
70 the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir AS the truth should be made nnblic
as to Cermany's ability to pay the full costs
OF the war, | trust you will be good enough
to allow me to call attention to a statement
made by that eminently patriotic writer
"Politicus," in "The Fortnightly Review"
tor June, 1913 showing that her coal. potash
and iron ore (three items alone) were
valued at 9237,678 100000 or nearly twelve
times the estimated cost of the war.
When Mr.. Lloyd George needed our votes
he publicly declared those who started the
war must pay to the uttermost farthjnp and
we shall search their pockets for it," Once
the word OF British Prime Minister
ranked high, but in this age of universal
camouilage and general decadence many
place a different value on it and are. sad TO
say, quite justified, as events have proved in
this case, as Germany is now only ito be
asked how much she can pay" and the
talked of search apparently abandoned. and
we shall be fooled again by our pro-Ger-
mans.
The above figures should be of use to
some and an eye-opener for many others.
OXONIAN.
London, England, Aug 6, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25

In the recent colloquy between the
President and the members of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations this
surprising passage occurs:
SENATOR M'CUMBER - Would our
moral conviction Of the unrighteousness
of the German war have brought us into
this war if Germany had not committed
acts against us without the league Of ma
tions, as we had no league of nations at
that time?
THE PRESIDENT-I hope it would,
eventually, Senator, as things developed.
SENATOR M'CUMBER-Do you think
that if Germany had committed no act of
war or no act of injustice against our
citizens we would have gotten into this
war?
THE PRESIDENT-I do think so.
SENATOR M'CUMBER-You think we
would have gotten in, anyway?
THE PRESIDENT-I do think SO.
Pertinent, perhaps, to this discussion
is the opinion Of Count Won Bernstorf,
expressed in Das Dcmokrotische Deutsch-
land and printed in full in The Tribune
Saturday. The former German Ambas-
sador in Washington, who had many
facilities for obtaining an inside view of
American policy, says:
The historical traditions of the United
States appeared to justify the assumption
that the Union would remain neutral in
the Great War. That assumption, more
over, was in line with the policy Of
President Wilson, Notwithstanding the
bad feeling that had arisen against US in
the United States through the violation of
Belgium's neutrality From August /,
1914, to February /, 1917, Mr.. Wilson con-
sistently strove for the same goal; he
wanted to save his country from taking
part in the war and to end the latter
through his intermediation. In the pur-
suit of that policy Mr.. Wilson was able to
rely upon the support of the majority of
the American people, who clearly gave ex-
preston to their agreement with it in the
Presidential election Of November, 1916.
The fact is not at all changed by the ex-
lstence at that time in the United States
OF war party, which was making COM
mon cause with the Entente against u.s.
This war party, however, would never
have met with success if the U-boat war
fare had not changed the situation.
President Wilson has posed an enigma
which will worry the historians. His
statement to Senator McCumber has an
air of absolute novelty. Having said so
much, perhaps he will feel impelled some
day to say more.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25

departments Of study pursued should be
taught in connection with or at least in
the spirit of philosophy.
No one phase of democracy's complex
life can stand alone any more than
should any one nation try to live for it.
self alone. If one is to participate in
any great phase of our collective life, it
must, from the democratic as we'll as
from the philosophic point of view, be
participation tempered and duly bal
anced by consideration of the relation
of that phase to the other great forms
6 our organized life. One must culti-
vske the inclusive, the synthetic atti-
tudes. And one. cannot cultivate that at
titude without the long as we'll as the
broad view.
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Shantung

On it's merits alone the Foreign Rela-
tons Committees Shantung amendment
would meet almost universal approval in
this country. Few Americans will de-
fend the peace conferences award as a
wise or just settlement.
A majority of the American peace
commissioners signed a written protest
many's concessions in the Shantung
peninsula President Wilson has ad-
mitted to the Foreign Relations Com
mittee that the decision reached was
disappointing" to him. He excused it
as a surrender to expediency.
Secretary Lansing frankly told the
committee that, in his opinion, this sur
render was unnecessary. When the Sec
retary was on the witness stand this
eolloquy occurred:
SENATOR JOHNSON, of California
Would the Japanese signature to the
league of nations have been obtained if
you had not made the Shantung agree
ment?
SECRETARY LANSING-I think so.
SENATOR JOHNSON, of California
You do?
SECRETARY LANS1NG-I think so.
SENATOR JOHNSON, of California
So that even though Shantung had not
been delivered to Japan, the league Of
nations would not have been injured?
SECRETARY LANSING Il do not
think SO.
SENATOR JOHNSON, of California
And you would have had the same sigma
tories that you have now?
SECRETARY LANSING-Yes, one more
China
The American people generally regret
The Shantung award. In their view it is
Blot on the peace treaty. They would
gladly reverse the judgment reached at
Paris. And the Senate committee will
have ample popular support in register-
ing the opinion that it should be re-
versed.
What practicable method can be
found of turning the Shantung conces-
sions back to China is another matter.
Opposition to the amendment is based al
most exclusively on the ground that the
wrong done at the conference cannot
now be repaired That is an issue not
easily disposed of off-hand.
But the Senate's action may at least
have the practical effect of quickening
the delivery by Japan of a more explicit
pledge to restore to China the rights in
Shantung extorted from her by Ger
many If Mr.. Lansing's view is correct
Japan blutfed the council of four into
authorizing japanese succession to Ger
manys privileges. Maybe the commit
tees amendment will accelerate and
clarity that promise of retirement
which Japan is said to have in con-
temptation against an emergency.
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The Gu<rrd Replies
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Under the heading, Eight 1t Out"
you publish letter by Charles B. Sade. In
fairness to both sides please publish this
reply
scout his statement that after three days
the Essential elements could go on for
months without the use of the subways IL
surface cars"
am a subway guard, one of the men who
struck, and I feel that Mr.. Slade has the
wrong idea. Here is mine, and l do hope
that you publish it.
First, let me state that 1 have no educa-
ton to speak of. I presume Mr.. Slade has,
and he still speaks of the ''laboring class"
That's the reason l am subway guard
have no education.
do know few things, however l have
read of an old railroad magnate whose motto
was, "The public be damned" Do you, Mr..
Slade, think that a man who made that re-
mark would pay his men any more than he
absolutely had to pay them? 1t was then
case of take the job or leave it, because labor
was not organized.
One of the papers tells us of the big profits
the lnterborough made in the last ten years.
Twenty per cent more. How did thew
make it? Any railroad man will tell YOU
that the Interborough was a gold mine. That
they made more than what is a reasonable
profit And in the next line this same paper
tells of the exorbitant demands of the men
for 80 per cent increase They are telling
the pubic that we want more than reason
able profit. Where that paper when the
subway was paying 20 per cent and turning
a large sum each year into the road and the
sinking fund? Why didn't they tell facts
then? We're they interested to know that
the men then got $3.50 per day? The COM
pany has never given any more service than
they had to. Why should they give US more
pay than they have to? Their motto. "All
that the traffic will stand!"
The first day Of August I was GETTING
Al cents hour Let US assume that
worked ten hours day. I would get s410
for a days work We struck for an eight
hour day and a 80 per cent increase. We
got % per cent. That works out to 81 cents
an hour in my case. SO that now get 81 .Os
q day. The net result is that the COMPANY
mas to employ more and unless / get
more pay have only gained an eight hour
day. What about it, Mr.. Slade? 1t helps
to place some Of the unemployed men that
New York has, and that's all The company
hired 481 men on August 90
l would, if had the time, say few more
words. But time is short. We are public
servants. Yes, that's true, and we take the
abuse that servants get, when the public
feels grouchy. 90.
NM Blade and sthsrs of Ais ksnd Who
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Moore and Jefferson
From The Columbus DtsputcM

When Thomas Moore, the Irish poet was
Admiralty Registrar at Bermuda in 1903 he
took advantage of the opportunity to visit
the United States. His Bermuda task was
irksomc, and he turned it over to a deputv
and visited Washington to look the vounu
republic over and determine at first hand
IN ms own mind whether the colonies were
justified in seeking their independence and to
see what they were doing with it,
Washington, the "Father Of His Countrvn
had been three or four years dead, and JEFF
ferson was just finishing his first term rs
President. Moore himself was about twentv-
tive years old and filled with love of row.
atty. He looked the republic whose con-
sttutlonal life was then shorter than his
own and was displeased. From WASHINGTON
ne wrote to DR.. Thomas Hume this strict,re
Of Jefferson:
If thou hast got within thy free born breast
One pulse that beats more proudly than the
rest
With honest scorn for that inglorious soul
Which creeps and winds beneath mo1e,s
control,
Which courts the rabble's smile. the rabb,e,s
nod
And makes-like Egypt-every beast its god
There, in those walls-but burning tongna
forbear!
Rank must be reverenced even the rank
that's there!
In the words of Colonel Mulberry Sellers
what did Thomas Jefferson ever do to Thomas
Moore that Thomas Moore should treat hin,
so?
Henry R. Randall, in his "Life of Jeffer-
CON-" draws the veil and tells the story
Moore had been presented to the President
by the British representative. Jefferson had
never heard of him or the few verses be
had then written. Wise as he was. he did
not know that the little dandihed, curled and
perfumed person before him was to ba bs
favorite poet in later life. JefFerson,s fea+
2'2 inches of height lowered >above the how
and having spoken to him once. he had No
moro to say to him.
When Moores scurrous matter ahont Tho
PRESIDENT was published it was taken to him
oy Congressman Burwell and Mrs. Randolph
poth or whom were speechless with jndo-
na1lon. Jefferson looked it over stared at his
visitors, and then burst into hearty 1anoh
len years later Moores Irish melodies be-
came Mr.. Jeffersons favorite poetry. and
with his dying hand he traced ouotat;or
from Moore in letter to his daughter p,+
tne poet never apologized
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Denikin's s Progress

Although Admiral Kolchak's armies
are being pushed back into Siberia by
the Bolshevists, control of Southern
Russia is passing steadily into the hands
OF General Denikin. The latterss star
has risen while Kolchak's has been
eclipsed.
The latest information reaching Paris
and London is that the soviet forces
have lost their grip entirely in the Black
Sea region. Ukranian troops are re-
ported to have retaken Odessa. Further
east Denikin has occupied Kherson and
Nlkolaiev. He had already isolated the
Crlmea. Now he holds a vast area to
the north of the Black Sea, including
the government of Ekaterinoslav, part
OF the government of Kharkov and most
OF the territory of the Don Cossacks.
On the Volga River, having taken
Isarltzln some months ago, he is push
ing north toward Saratov. In the west
MS next objective is Kiev, toward which
tne Ukranians are advancing from the
southwest and the Poles from the west.
Inc latter last week captured Rovno. the
easternmost of the three fortresses pro-
tecting Kiev from an attack cominp
through Volhynia. The Poles are also
making progress east of Minsk. toward
Mohilev, the former grand Headquarters
OF the Russian armies on the southwest
ern front.
The situation in Southern Russia is.
therefore, more critical for Lenine than
it has been at any time in the last eigh
teen months. He is being ousted FROM
the rich grain and coal fields on which
he has drawn for supplies. Moreover
with the Black Sea ports all regained
the anti-Bolshevist forces have a secure
military base within easy reach of the
Western powers.
VIII the Paris conference support
Denikin, after having failed to support
Kolchak? He has now supplanted Kol-
Shak as the rising hope of Russian re-
ksusraeton. There can be no real peace
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begrudge us decent wage for work that is.
to say the least, unhealthy, here is thought
for you: It's worth far more than 81 cents
an hour to work for the small percentage
of the public who look down on US because
we are merely door openers in shonts's
tubes" That sort call US fellow" and sneer
as they say it.
IN conclusion I only say that there
are two ways Of looking at everything.
Thank goodness the "pubhc whom we COW
ardly attacked" seem pleased to know that
we won our strike. At least the fair-minded
part of the public seem pleased
A SUBWAY GUARD.
fonkers, N Y, Aug 20. 1919.
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The Long View

More than thirty years ago e. B. Bax,
in closing a work on the history of phil
osophy, made the following comment on
the trend of those times:
"The student, as he lays down this
little volume, should he by chance take
up newspaper will inevitably light on
accounts of great strikes, of armaments,
of the struggle for colonies called i'm
perial expansion, of vast popular revo-
lutionary movements, etc, all of which
point to one thing, when followed out in
all their bearings-the steady approach
of. the great class struggle Let him
ponder on this and bethink himself of the
part even he, or if not he his children.
may be forced to take in the resolution
of that great living contradiction
contradiction between individual and So
ciety-expressed in what we term Modern
Civilization"
In the light of the present this COM
ment seems wonderfully prophetic. To
be sure, it suggests no solution of the
great living contradiction" nor any
measures that might avert the "steady
approach Of the great class struggle";
yet it does have the merit of due and
timely warning. 1t does take the long
view, as might be expected Of man
versed in philosophic lore. And the long
view is useful in this way: that it gives
men, and especially statesmen, time to
adjust their vision to proper perspec-
tive, so that, if they choose, they can,
0No
current need, at the same time so mould
or so limit the scope of those measures
as not to Interfere with possible ulti-
mate ideals or possible ultimate alterna-
tives
We need them both-the man of vision
and the man of affairs. And the world
needs that they duly cooperate for the
good Of our common destiny, i. e., for the
ends of right human organization, both
political and non-political
And such considerations move one
especially at this season of the year,
when our still non-technical COLLEGES of
liberal arts are so soon to reopen their
doors to new ranks of students of human
truth, to say word in behalf of in
creased emphasis, on the part of these
institutions, upon what may be termed
the philosophic aspects of the various
branches of human learning; in short
upon the long view of human affairs and
of life in general.
Whatever else the degree of A. B.
ought to mean, it should spell familiar
ity with the long view If the function
OF our colleges is to remain distinctive
and is to vindicate its usefulness to the
public, If these noble institutions are
permanently to be differentiated from
and are duly to cooperate with our other
and equally necessary schools and educa-
tional agencies, it must, one conceives.
be by insisting upon the longest and
broadest and deepest view of man and
of the world that the human mind has
made available.
Not that they should be converted into
schools of technical philosophy, although
their curricula should (and do) contain
many courses in that crowning study;
but that the history and constitutional
civics, the sciences, the economics, the
art, the literature and all othsr special
f
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25

There are two morals in "Ihe Re-Crea-
ton Of Brian Kent one expressed and
one implied. By implication the novel is
an argument against national prob bition.
If Brian Kent had not gone into rowboat
with quart OF whiskey and consumed it
he would never have drfte9 70 the shore
IN front of the house Of dear old Auntie
Sue and he would in all probability never
have reformed Likewise, if his wife, the
lady named Martha, had not "responted 20
every insane whim of her drink disordered
brain" and attempted to row boat. she
would not have been drowned and Brian
would have been unable to marry Betty 10.
Ihe expressed and secondary moral is mo
matter how tangled and confused life seems
to be 1t will ali come straight at the last,
If, like the river. we only keep going on"
All we can say is that Il didn't seem 10
work out that way for Martha
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25

in Europe until the Lenine .absolutism is
overthrown. Failure to overthrow it lies
at. the door Of Allied indecision and mac
tion at Paris. Denikin has accomplished
wonders-with very slight outside help.
Any assistance given him now would be
cheap and conscience-salving invest
ment
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Gotham Gleaninss
it1 il,li SIil l.ll l.l M 5iIY7 55;7 7'SSTyET

Striking is the order of the day.
Looks like hot spell was here.
The smiling face of Don
Marquis was seen on Nassau St.
Tues.
Miss Jobyna Howland has re-
newed her subscription to the N. Y.
Tribune
Miss Betty Glass is entertain
ing her mother, Mrs Montague
Glass, at Mirror Lake, this summer
The many friends of Mrs. Harry
Kemp nee Mary Pyne will be clad
to know She is rapidly getting we'll.
-lhe tennis tournament begins
at Forest Hills this afternoon and
it will be a busy day for julie Mvrick
and Eddie Conlin.
Col. Ralph H. Van Deman of
Delaware, Ohio, arr. Saturday from
France where he has been a long
time.
H. l.. Wilson and family are So
Journing at Kennebunkport, Me-. at
this writing. N. B. Harrington is
there, too, and rumor says the boys
are having a good time.
T. w. Wilson entertained sew
eral Senators at lunch last Tuesday,
Lamb chops, ham, peas, salad, rasp-
berry ice and coffee was some Of the
vlands that graced the board and all
united that a good time had been
had.
TO THE STRIKING ACTORS
1e heartiess hlstrions that have dotfed the buskn
and the SOCK
"ho've put the robes of shakespeare's Muse In
as the phrase goes, hook;
L dub We heartless not SO much becars. ,.
ceased to act:
The adjectves elected by quite another foc+
True we are spared the farces that revolvs sho,+
bed
True too, that problem dramas ara nro +.r,no.
quite dead;
Irue' also. we are spared some plav. tbsv,d
murder in the tanks;
ror these and kindred benefits the public owes
you THANKS.
lts not that burnt cork comedy has ceased +h.4
makes us sore;
The absence Of the stage valet peeves Us no +;tt.
Here's why we tack the epithet Of ..bsar+,.,.n
Now that you've struck. what can moor s+.,.a
speculator do7
Motorists would welcome mechanics,
union, we conjecture. Repair bills would bov.
to be audited by the union, and if there ara
two men in garage who work onlv hour.
a day it would be impossible to rece;ve for
one days work bill reading Labor
22h hrs"
Success attend the Fair Price Assoc;a+;ors,
Thatr initials are propiHous,
N n n
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Why Notp

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Please permit me- an humble read
er OF your wonderful paper for only three
years, to thank you for your editorial The
City as Bagholder" in this mornings issue.
Why Is not this great city of ours blessed
with more newspapers OF the fearIes sness
and courage of The Tribune?
ARNOLD L. EEYMAN.
New York, Aug 81. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25

Treasurer Jameson of the Democratic
National Committee says that he will
need a $5,oo0,00O to S1O,00O,00o cam
palgn fund to elect Democratic candi-
date Tor President next year. Most
people will think his estimate undulv
stingy.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
From the Shoulder

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your editorial. Quitting Vital Ser
vice" is a corker and approve of overythng
you say, and am glad there is one who il not
afraid to talk right from the shoulder.
W. II. SMITH |
Breton Woods. White Moantaina. N. IL [
Aug. 10, 1918. a
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Boozeless and theatreless, it dawns upon
the bereft public that 1t can have a good
deal Of fun, anyway. The world is so full,
nowadays, of number of books, which re-
minds us that the borrowers of "Once
Aboard the Lugger" and "The Wheels Of
Chance" may return tho books to our shelves
on and after October l.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
The Corrupted Cricbton

10 the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Commenting on the letter of August
~ signed John Glendening," may l suggest
that he return to England and add to his
splendid training" a course in tact? NV
country should not be judged by ill-mannered
buffers, ETC., and trust the American houss-
wives will regard Glendening's letter
whence 1t came. AN ENGLISH GIRL.
New York, Aug. 20, 1919
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Chorus:
l got the city blues, the non-vacation blues.
l want to play around the mountains and
the shore;
/ don't ever want to do no work no more,
Because / got the urban, said the metro
politan blues.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Benefits of War

(From The Toledo Blade)
mexico looks to Japan for help" She
won't get 1t. America has brushed up on
straight shooting
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The Coming 7ower
THRENODY

THRENODY
Here is confession that amt no news;
l got the depression that Is known as the
blues.
I don't like the city with its dust and noise
l want them unmitigated country joys.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Leaving Out the Devil

(From The 81 Paul Neios)
An honest proitcer is the strangest work
of God
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The Conradicals are bigoted lot. They
ask you which Conrad book you read first,
and no matter what you say they exclaim,
"Oh, you shouldn't have begun with that
one"
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