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New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
An ArffuL Housewife

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | have done my duty as citizen
and an antiBolshcyk. have en-
rolled, and, besides the glow OF pride
and virtue thus acquired. have now
hard, hard nut to crack, at which my
feeble female wits bak. | ask 70 be
enrolled as an artist Lo and behold.
| am told, ut isn't necessary" and
inscribed AS housewife, because. for
sooth, l am married and work at
home.
l am an artist, nominally. At least.
| have my exhibitors card from the
National Academy to prove that l am,
and | am now engaged on some maya
zine illustrations for which | will prob
ably receive real money. Yet | am a
"housewife".
AS for that, l am blessed with q
lovely girl, who doesn't leave me a
thing to worry about. But, you see.
can get dinners, and Sundays take
hand at the baby's laundry All this
IS tree, gratis, and / do get real money
lux ILLUSTRATIONS.
l can only say that if were as
poor an artist as / am housewife |
should have given up long ago.
| happened to wonder. Ny husband
is an artist, too, and for year or two
worked at home, when we had studio
house. AS became dutiful husband
man, he often and often helped with
the dishes. If he had enrolled at the
time-which he didnt-would they
have put him down as housewife, or
would househusband be more in keep
ing?
Wonderful are the ways of the
mighty! But it rather makes ones
brains reel. Would some one kindly
give the problem some slight attention =?
1t is far too involved for me.
SYLVIA FULLER.
New York, Oct. IL, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

rather than in declaratory resolu-
tions.
Finally, there is not the slightest
possibility of two-thirds of the Sen
ate voting for fiat ratification. An
actual majority is now for reserva-
tlons, and even though there were
unforeseen changes Of attitude they
would not be numerous enough to
convert a minority into two-thirds
majority.
So, abandoning all thoughts Of
further bluffng. Senator Hitchcock
and his colleagues may be asked to
yield to the majority's preferences
as to the way to publish notice of the
obligations this country understands
that it assumes.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Lip Reading
Q the Editor of The Tr;hr,o

'"e Coitor OIL Inc Tribune
Sir: In your Sunday Mara,;r.
october Il there appears a gooS
ucie ID description of the evon'.
class 10 lip reading in Public rvo~,s Ing
School 80. corner of Ans,.sss
Avenue and Nine,y-third Streo,
TITLED, Where Words Without s.
Are Plain as Lips" To one fs..-
of this article, however. / mus,
objection. and that is that von, 80
writer called IT "class in lin ro.a'-
Tor the mute" The students Of ,S's
class are far from mute. Tho, w
people who have perfectly nor..'
speech: their hearing only has h...~'
impaired after school age. They wb.
per their replies to the teachers
tons merely because some &c -
students still have good deal Of hos.
ing, and If they heard cvcryth,nc -,
Is said could not. in the c;r,,s
stances. acquire skin IN rcadine a.
lips. '"'
LIP reading is taugh; to tho h.
OF hearing, who range in ags sn :,
way from sixteen to sixty. N a.
to preserve the hearing in their w.s,
ened ears which suffer under N. 49,
stant strain Of listening. 1t is tau.h.
to the more or less totally dsss
enable them TO understand hv s,u..
what the ears cannot perceive. ], !,
That Subtitle Art" SO dexcrihea 4.
John Bulwer in l64s. which msv !.
able one with an obseryant rie :.
Heare what any man speaks bv a..
moving of his lips"
Among the students of this el...
are men and women from every wall
III life. Glass distinctions aro -.
drawn; every one comes there to +,
happy for an hour or two. 10 be bsl,os
to better understanding of 81.
spoken word. and to forget for ~,
nonce that there is such an evil ..
encroaching deafness. LIN
New York. oct. l3. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
A Reserve Fund

There is merit in the suggestion ,hat
a given industry should, in years of
pros perity, establish an undstributed
reserve fund against which should be
charged any losses thai might subse-
quently be incurred. 1t is impossible,
however, TO cover all contingencies by
one formula. 1t would appear to be a
complete justification Of the method Of
reasonableness if industry be viewed
as an enterprise in cooperative pro-
duction; if the three cooperating
agencies be all recognized and treated
as human beings and not as abstrac-
tions; if the reward of each of these
agencies be seen to be derived from
the product and from it alone; and if
the Joint and cooperative interest in a
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
The Presidents Condition

Naturally public discussion Of the
Presidents illness is restrained
Not only is there great sympathy, but
no one wishes to encounter the
charges and insinuations that a
frank discussion would arouse.
But it is essential to have a Presi-
dent capable of dealing with the
many great problems that confront
the country. There can be no pro-
tracted interregnum. Senator Moses,
by writing a private letter which
found it's way into print, has lifted
an embargo which could not long en-
dure. A time arrives when it is not
possible to yield wholly to the claims
Of delicacy.
On Sunday, although no direct no.
rice was taken of the Moses diagno-
sis, the doctors in attendance, after
reporting the continued improve
ment of their patient, added: "But
his condition is such as to necess-
tate his remaining in bed for an
extended period" This official state
nent, it may be assumed, is not an
exaggerated one. 1t is not the habit
of doctors to describe conditions as
worse than they are. The substance
of the message thus guardedly given
is that the President will not soon
be able to attend to his duties. A
grave relapse is feared if he is re-
ouired to give close attention to COM
plicated matters.
Those specially in the confidence
of the Administration need to devote
serious consideration to the problem
they face. Initiative is with them.
What workable plan have they to
bring forward to meet the crisis?
Doubtless they have already given
anxious thought to this question,
although not deeming the time
yet ripe to inform the public. As
the first step, it is obvious that they
must know the truth concerning the
Presidents condition. Otherwise it
will be impossible to formulate a
plan Of procedure, if one is found
to be necessary.
ce-President Marshall, of course.
Is indisposed to act or even inquire.
He feels as Vice President Arthur
did during the months President
Garfield was incapacitated. But
then there was no mystery about
the malady-doubt only as to re-
covery. But this time nothing
more specific than the short state
ment that the President suffers
from nervous exhaustion" has been
published and there is no knowledge
rs to whether the invalidism will be
for weeks or for months. AS TIE
World said the other day, it is not
possible much longer to continue the
policy Of secrecy.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Expectations

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Because of the sharp contrast
it will offer to the cheap and tawdry
partisanship of backstars gossip
passed along now and then by Con-
gressional scandalmongers in both
houses, it seems but fair to call atten-
tion TO the Immediately expected news
from Washington.
| refer to the prompt, complete and
generous apologies we may surely an
ticipate from Senator Penrose, Senator
Sherman and representative Roden-
burg to President Wilson, to the
American people and to the news
papers which so reluctantly followed
them in extending the circulation of
rubbish reports as to the cargoes of
regal gifts brought back from Europe
by the President and his wife.
The millions in which they talked
are by this time repeated at every
crossroads as an evidence of bad taste
and impropriety on the part of an
American who was spending his
strength on advancing an ideal of SER
vice to the world. Mighty few people
doubt that the Presidents purpose was
to advance an ideal, whether or not
they adhere to the ideal as the correc,
one. The inconsequcntial gifts which
were the souvenir evidences of that
conviction on the part of all Europe
should be matter of pride to all oi
us, for they credited us, too, with the
possession of ideals which the Pres
dent represented. AS far as they coulc
be, they were actually symbolical gift.
to ourselves.
Now that their nature and the cir
cumstances are made clear, let US per
sist, even against precedents, in the
confidence that those who offended il
the first public slurs on the floor O.
Congress will race with each other K
make public amends in the same halls
in an effort to overtakc their own un
warranted gossip.
TRUMBULL WHITE.
New York; Oct 10. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

minated-no peace status to be re-
newed. 1t would be logical and
historical absurdty for the Adminis-
tration to ask the Senate to approve
a treaty terminating purely i'm
aginary war.
In his memoirs General Luden-
dorff complains bitterly that diplo-
matte representative Of the United
States was allowed to remain in
Sofia throughout the war. Luden-
dorff intimates that this representa-
tive helped to accelerate Bulgaria's
secession from the Quadruple ALI
ance in September, 1918. Our
charge d'affaires accompanied the
Bulgarian commissioners who went
to Salonica to obtain an armistice
from General Franchet d'Esperey.
He acted as friendly adviser of the
Bulgarian government. He was
officially neutral. How, then, can
it be maintained that the United
States. non-combatant up to the
time the armistice was signed, be-
came belligerent after the armis-
tice?
1T our government promised Bull
garia, before the latter's surrender,
to try to mitigate the terms of her
peace treaty with the Allies our
delegates at Paris should have kept
that promise by exerting pressure
from the outside, not by entering the
conference as pseudo -belligerent,
thus putting the United States in
the false position of concluding and
signing a compact ending state of
hostilities which has never existed.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
The Coming 7owe1
Broad Thoughts on Narrow Column

AS one who builds the lofty rhyme
as some have called my puny
verse,
hate to see doubled-over line, III
tell the universe.
So I shall be
Compelled to write
My prosody
Constrained and tight;
And calligraph
My lyric gems
In twelve and a half
CONSTRUCTED ems.
Once on a time
1t caused me woe
How looked a rhyme,
But long ago
I learned it mat
Tered not a curse
How thin or fat
Appeared my verse
used to weep.
used to frown.
But you can't keep
The good stuff down
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

1t is not that any one purposes to
deny the right of men to bargain
collectively. That was conceded long
ago. 1t is the collective duty of men
to keep the bargain that needs to be
asserted, even for the sake Of un-
ionism.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Nor-and this used
To sour the cup
Nor can you boost
The poor stuff up.

Our effort to buy copy Of "Balladas
and Rondeaus," by Gleeson White, has
not been utterly vain. "Dear SIR"
writes Brentano's, 1--WE regret that we
are unable to fill your esteemed order
Of the Sth inst, for Ballads and Rom
dians.' by Walter Scott" The
bookshop clerks in Paris are striking,
this is as good place as any to OBJ
SPrVn
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Colonel House made the following

110uSC f11ttUt J1IE 1OTIOWInp
statement:
81 have nothing to say. Every
thing has been said that can be said
on every vital subject. We should
now begin to work steadily and tran
quillize.'
Here is not the vanity of silence,
but the wisdom that wearily know
eth all things and maketh the ex-
hortation simple. Work and tran
uuilliZe.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Malone Takes on Britain
(From The Portland Press>

From The Portland Press)
Dudley Field Malone is now so sure
that the emancipation of woman is
complete that he will devote hlmsc'
to securing the independence of India
from Great Britain.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
A Minority Threat

Recently the startling doctrine has
been taught and practised that the
strike may be used - enforce the
views and wishes Of small minority of
the population in matters relating not
only to public sportation and to
other public utilities, but to political
and public acts of every sort. This is TO
call back the Liberum Veto of ancient
Poland with vengeance. According
to this doctrine, a group of individ-
uals who do not approve of the tariff
levied on wool may unite to make i'm
possible the operation of a steamer
which carries cargo of wool from
Argentina to the United States. or to
prevent the unloading of such cargo
when the steamer reaches the docks of
New York. The government of the
United States may deem it necessary
to send troops and TO ship munitions
to Siberia, but under this doctrine
stevedores and longshoremen at the
ports of San Francisco and of Seattle
would be entirely justified in refusing
to load or to permit to be loaded the
vessels which were TO carry such troops
and munitions in case they as indi-
viduals should happen to dsapprove Of
the governments policy in this regard.
Still others might say that they would
refuse to assist in operating the rail
ways of the United States, and would
unite TO prevent their being operated
by others, unless a certain designated
public policy in regard TO railway own
ership and operation were quickly
adopted.
1t must be apparent from these IL
Illustrations that without complete 10y
atty to the democratic principle. with
out respect for law. without sincere
devotion to American ideals of gov
ernment, and without good viii on the
part of all elements and groups OF
society, the economic and political life
of the nation can no longer go for
ward, and that we are in imminent
danger Of national shipwrcck and OF
incalculable disaster.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Wo Poems
OH, CARRY Me RACK TO OLE
NIRGI\NY

OH, CARRY NE BACK TO OLE
NIRGlNNY
o. DE aost.ns s.o4 es o., virsnng
I've worked from day To- asr.
RakinR among de- oyster bed
To me + Wa bu, pias
But now I'm old and fe,air
An my bones ar, gc-fiur .ar-
Den carry me hscl 80 oie Ni.-af.
To ole Nirginuy shore
Den carry nae back go o'~ Nirelnuy--
70 ole Virginry shore
Oh carry me back to ole Nlfgnny.
To ole NirVinny Shore
Oh / wish dat was Young asalt
Den Ia lead different ifc
Ia save my money aud hav fam
And take D,nah Tor my WIFE
But now Old ape BE- holds me fIsft
And cannot loeo ans mo.c
Oh carry me bach 10 o'e Nreunr
To ole Nirginny shore
Den early nae bac. 70 olr Nrs'niy--
To ole Nirginny 4heac
On. carry me bacs ta ole Ni-einny.
10 ole Virginny shore.
When am dead and gone % r-a-'
Lay dc old tambo by ny side.
Let de possum and coon 'o ray funeral r.
For dey are my only pride.
Den IN soft repose III tate nsy sleep.
An III dream forever moro
Dat you're carrying me bach To- o'e virgnn'
10 ole Nirginny shore
Den carry me back to oc N.rg'nry-
To ole Virsinny shore
Oh. carry me bacs to ole Vl-s,nny,
10 ole Virginny shore.
WHEN YOU AND I WERU YOUNG
MAGGIE
I wandered to-day 70 Tho hill. Maggie
To watch the scene below
The creek and the crcaking o'd nHi Msgge
As we used to do long ago.
The green grove is gone from tho hill. Nas'
Where first the daisies sprung
The creaking old mill is still. Masse.
Since you and were young
CHORUS
And now we are aged and gray MagS,
And the trials of lite are nes iy done.
Let Us sing Of the dass that sse scn'
Maggie.
When you and ] were young.
A city so silent and lone Maggie.
Where the young and the KAY ard ne %
In polished white mansions Of stone AAsss
Have each found 4 place ~ rest.
Is built where the birds used - play Nsgss
And join in the songs that were suns--
For We sung gay a. they Maggie.
When you and l were young
Chorus
They say am feeble with age Maggie
My steps are less sprightly than then
My face Is weli-writtcn rasc. Maggie
But time alone WAS the ocn.
They say we are aged and gray. Msgsie'
AS spray by the white breakers dung
But to you're fair as you ~s''
Maggie,
When you and | were young.
Chorus.
The foregoing arc printed IN
sponse TO request from jay See, %
Mount Vernon, and arc versions 'a'
nshed by Mr. Grove ID. Curtis, OF Nes
York City. We thank Mr.. Gurus 81.
our other readers who have answer
l this Qucry.--Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

common product be maintained and in
creased by giving to representatives of
each of these elements direct share
in the conduct and control of the in
dustry and its policies.
A system Of industrial organization
such as this is not only entirely COM
patible with our American principles
of government and of life, but it is
nothing more than decent application
of those principles to modern indus
try. There would be no wage slavery"
under such plan.
ReasOnableness
The rule of reasonableness in the
field of industry will probably no more
certainly supplant entirely the rule OF
force than will be the case in the field
of international relations; but, as in
the case of international relations, the
habit of reasonableness will more or
less speedily supplant the habit of
force. Until the millennium comes and
until selfishness and greed disappear
from the world there will be no fric-
tionless industrial machinery. All that
can be hoped for is to apply the meth
DDS Of reasonableness and to support
those methods by good will, by sym
pathy and by kindly criticism of hap
penings as they occur. This way lie
peace, progress and the preservation Of
American institutions and ideals
If, however, we are not to use or are
not to be permitted to use the methods
of reasonableness in dealing with the Sc
problems. then we must be prepared
for the use of force. This alternative
is shocking. 1t would mean nothing
less than the substitution of anarchy
for order, of physical power for jus
tice and Of a perpetual struggle be-
tween changing and conflicting inter
ests for the calm and temperate dis
cusson of principles. 1t would almost
certainly involve the destruction of
the individuals moral right to own
property, which right is itself an attri-
butte of liberty and an essential condi-
ton of social and political progress.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
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New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

nothing, are busy once more provid-
ing the doctrine that pacifism needs
but to organize and to keep a big
stick handy.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
.Augmenting the Furies

From The Grand Forks Heraidl
AS if TO add to the general state Of
disturbance, Hawaii's prize volcano has
! turned loose again.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

You can purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute safsU-for II dissatsfac.
tlon results In any THs TRIBUNE guarantee,
to pay your money back upon request No red tape.
No ouibb'ius. Hs mako good promptly IT tho
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

The Princeton and Harvard drives are
to insure higher salaries for professors.
In the event that the drives succeed an
assistant professor which a man often
gets to be ten years after graduation
will make almost as much as man who
puts gold leaf on radiators.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Call Up Beekman the Cube Root of 27,

Call Up Beekman the Cube Root of e.
Times go Squared Plus 10 Squared,
Sir: say to the telephone girl "Gramercy
"a, please" She says to me- "Gramercy Z ."
And l say. "No, Gramercy 40 minus g." The
telephone service most of the time is too
mysterious in its methods for me to grasp
readily but now and then ! am able TO get
The hang of it without half trying. But
them that if they go much further
than addition and subtraction ! shall have
the telephone taken out and deliver and re-
cevc my messages entirely by Ouija
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14

It'd be just like the printers to strike
so that no tickets for football games
could be printed.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
The Real Labor Problem
By Nicholas Murray Butler, President Columbia University
From address devered before the Sciences

KF WE abandon our fondness for
distractions and look at any in
dustrial process just as it is we
quickly discover that it is an enter
prise in human cooperation, and that
in it there may be and usually are
three different kinds or sorts of CO.
operating human beings-those who
work with their hands, those who work
with their brains and those who work
with their savings. These are all alike
essential to productive industry, and
production is the joint enterprise in
which all are engaged in common. In
the case of the steel industry, for in
stance, a skilled employe in rolling
mill who has bought some of the stock
of the United States Steel Corporation
represents in his own person all three
kinds of cooperating influence. He
works alike with his hands, with his
brains and with his savings. This is
an almost ideal condition, and one
which we should strive to make just
as universal as possible. If industry,
then, whether it be the mining of
coal, or the transportation Of freight,
or the cutting and saving and trim
ming of timber, or the packing of sal
mon, or the manufacture of paper from
woodpulp, or the spinning, dyeing,
weaving and printing of cotton, is truly
an enterprise in cooperative produc-
ton, it follows that every cooperating
agency is directly interested both in
the quantity and the quality of the
product
Three Voices
When this point has been made clear
and industry is viewed as a coopera-
tive enterprise In production, then it
follows that those Who work with
their hands, like those who work with
their brains and those who work with
their savings, are entitled to take part
in the organization ana direction of
the industry and to have voice in de
termining the conditions under which
their cooperation shall be given and
continued.
The policy of reasonableness will
carry us a step further The industry
SO conceived and SO organized will have
to sell its product st a price that will
enable it to pay 10 those who work
with their hands thoroughly salts
factory wage, to those who work with
their brains an appropriate salary and
70 those who work with their savings
definite minimum return based upon
the current value of money. AS she
wages and the salaries must be paid
IN any event, it is interest or divi-
dends upon savings which must bear
the brunt of any shortage in net in
come. The cost of depreciation and
replacement is also to be met. When
all these have been provided for what
ever remains is profit Reasonableness
indicates that this profit should not 60
to one group alone of the three who CO.
operate in production, but should be
apportlOned between all three groups
in accordance with plan drawn to
meet the facts OF given industry. IT,
on the other hand, there be loss in
stead of a profit, or deficiency in
the amount needed to meet all of the
items just stated, the amount of that
deficiency is met. as matters now stand,
by those who work Wit; their savings
alone