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New-York tribune., 1919-05-06

cially the Cunard Line. Mr.. Durante would
most likely be hard pressed if he were made
to bring forth proofs for his accusations. If
the Jugo-Slav propaganda had such funds at
its disposal it could give the just Jugo-Slav
cause such tremendous publicity as would
make Mr.. Durante even more uncomfortable
and very unpleasant, but the Jugo-Slav
Republican Alliance never asked for anv
foreign support, because this organization is
fighting for the rights of a nation and ia
we'll aware Of the fact that self-determination
would be sacrificed if that nation should
happen to come under any foreign yoke or
If it would fall into the hands of big corpora-
tions, where all economic independence would
be lost.
And, after all. Mr.. Durante would reap
an immortal gratitude if he would only try
to prove what he claims. Excerpts from the
Roman "Tribuna," Of course, are not proofs.
Not only in private life. but also In political
fights, baseess suspicious are despsed and
avoided by all honest men.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
JugoSlav Republican Alliance.
A. j. Terbovec, Secretary
Chicago, H., April 80, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Women as Pharmacists

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In view Of your First to Last-ths
Truth slogan, it may interest you to kncv
that the distinction of being the only woman
pharmacist employed in New York Cisy
hospital does not rest with Mrs Frances
Freedman. The following institutions havs
the women pharmacists named on theH
staffs:
Cornell University Medical Hospital, Misc psir
Myerson.
Woman's Hospital Miss Rose Fried
knickerbockcr Hospital. Miss Rose Ofrias.
Manhattan Eye and Car Infirrnary Miss Yir-
gnia Baker.
Lutheran Hospital Miss Dorothy Parisi
French Hospital, Mrs. G. Reid
There are, no doubt many other women 70
employed, but the above is, think. pretty
fair representation. All of the above narea
with the exception of Mrs. Reid, are gradf
ates Of the Columbia University College a
Pharmacy.
1t is interesting to note that Mary l.
Putnam, the College of Pharmacys fs'
woman graduate, who later became the WI"
of the celebrated DR.. Abraham jacob pras
tiscd pharmacy in the hospitals OF this CIV
as long ago as 1868.
w.B. SIMPSON.
New York, May e, 191ss 81
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Saga VS.. Communique

The Lost Battalion was never lost,
says General Alexander Not at all. 1t
merely occupied the position assigned
to it and held it. To be sure, the reserve
was not rightly placed and the situation
of Major Whittlesey's command was
recognized as "extremely critical" Only
two days rations and ammunition had
to last five days. Five direct attacks
were made in an effort "to again come
into communication with him" And in
cidentally the French artillery raked the
ravine, being convinced that the CON-
mand must have surrendered But the
battalion was never "lost" or rescued"
We have this on the word of the COM
manding general, speaking officially.
The world has had much experience
with "official" statements in the last
five years. COMMUNICATES of war taught
us so much about the ingenious art of
concealing truth by stating facts that
it seemed as if nothing was left to come
after. But the official statements of
shut diplomacy and the Quai dOrsay
have surely reached new climax.
Never again! Give US our sagas and
romances and myths and let who will
read an official anything about anybody.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06

United States furnished the strategic
reserve which enabled Foch to carry
through his victory offensive.
Entente sea power made possible the
transportation of the American rein
forcement to Europe. Yet, LudendorfP
and Won Tirpitz themselves summoned
that reinforcement
Before the United States went in
Entente sea power had imposed block
ade on Germany. But the blockade didn't
starve Germany out. The Entente navies.
had not been able to force the Darda-
nelles and link up the Eastern and West
ern fronts, which alone could save Russia.
so the war was left to be decided on
land. 1t would have been decided on land
If America had not come in. 1t was de-
clded on land after America came in.
Foch's victories forced Ludendorff to
quit. The Allied operations at sea were
indecisive. The German High Sea and
submarine feet surrendered only be-
cause the armies in France had been
driven into q corner and were ready to
capitulate
Sea power helped to win the war But
land power was the ultimate determining
factor
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
The Trial of Sunday

IC was not exactly q scarlet Sunday
that our city enjoyed, we would remind
our friends who criticise Sunday base
ball. A quarter of a million men, women
and children watched games, profess
sional and amateur, hereabout But the
professional games could not begin until
2 o'clock. And our theatres are still
closed to the weekday show. A little
pink has been mixed into our old-fash-
toned blue Sunday. The generally prim
and reposeful character of the day re-
mains.
We believe in going slowly in such
matters. 1t has long been the amazement
of our Western cousins upon arriving
IN New York to find this liberal and
cosmopolitan spot officially taking Sun
day like a New England town Of the
Revolutionary period. But customs are
more important than consistency or
theory In this human world and as
long as most New Workers wanted an
old-fashioned American Sunday we think
they were absolutely right to stick to it.
1t may have been an anomaly that New
York insisted upon being far more puri-
tanical on Sunday than Kansas CITY or
the righteous, churchgoing American
Middle West generally Even an anomaly
is not to be sneezed at, however, if it
represents genuine community demand.
1t IS just because that community
view has shifted somewhat that we think
the present permission Of Sunday after
noon baseball right and sensible. The
shift has come slowly. 1t has come
largely along with Sunday golf and ten
mis- and motoring and the rest Of Sun
day recreations. To some extent it NAV
have affected churchgoing. The pro-
pelllng cause, however, has not been a
weakening of faith, but a new interest
IN outdoors and health, in sane rest.
Watching baseball game is not the
most violent form Of exercise in the
world, but it takes one outdoors, and it
is good American stuff. 1t will un-
doubtedly revivify baseball and send
more boys and grown-ups to one-old-cat
than ever
Therefore we approve and applaud.
The old-fashioned American Sunday
suited admirably our husky, outdoors
ancestors. One dank day of overeating
and loafing was probably good for them.
But our modern ways are something else
again. Strictly adhered to in this era
of offices and nerve strain, the oldtime
Sunday will ruin ten stomachs for every
soul it saves. And in the long run,
from generation to generation, good
digestion is a not unimportant aid to
godliness and virtuous conduct Is it
too much to look forward to that re-
Egion should some day bracket dyspepsia
and the devil together and try a joint
drive against them hoth7
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
How to Feed Russia

Tchitcherin, the young aristocrat and
dilettante searcher for new emotions,
who is Bolshevist Foreign Secretary,
deprecates the Wilson-H -Nansen
food scheme and asks for a complete
lifting Of the blockade, (which" he says,
"is the real reasonsfor our food difficult
ties"
Tchitcherin, Of course, is too intelligent
TO be deceived himself by such an ex-
planation. He knows better He is
aware the starvation in Russia proceeds
from courses other than the blockade.
The trouble is internal. Russia has been
the greatest food producer in the world,
raising s,0OO,oo0,0O0 bushels of cereals
during the last year for which there arc
figures
The land is there, the workers are there,
the railroads are there. The only trouble
is an unwillingness to work, which arises
out Of doubt by tillers of the soil whether
they will be requited for k-breaking
labor. The peasant is offered worthless
bits Of paper for his grains and will not
take them. lie sows to feed his own
family, but not to turn over a surplus to
Bolshevist foraging parties.
Russia's political troubles are great,
but her chief evils arc economic. The CEN
tral soviet government has smashed the
economic machine and, Of course, it won't
work
The use Of Russia to the world is
It's example. The merits Of the Marian
system have been preached with such
dogmatic fervor that many have been
led to have faith in it. 1T is tried, and
in a few months it brings general famine.
Ihc experiment has been hard on tho
Russians, but they have placed the world
under obligation.
Al that Russia needs TO escape from
her starvation is TO plant, to cultivate
and 10 harvest. She will do these things
wt.en the peasant knows the property he
creates viii belong to him. Food cargocs
may saye few lives. but what Russia
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
The Young Professional Man

In the competition in we'll doing which
occurred two years ago, no element was
more eager to offer its services than the
younger men Of the professions. Law
yers, doctors, dentists, pharmacists,
architects, engineers, etc, the majority
of whose feet were on the first rungs Of
the ladder, focked to the colors.
The older men possessed resources,
had established connections which they
knew would stand the strain of tenn
porary absence. But their younger
brothers were we'll aware they would be
forced to begin again. Yet they did
not hesitate. The professional schools
from one end Of the country to the other
were almost depopulated. The only
thing asked was an opportunity to serve
Now, these young men are receiving
their discharges, and to thousands Of
them the outlook is not bright. Under
the best conditions it is not easy to get
ahead In learned profession, and the
task Is doubly difficult when nearly three
years Of supply must ! absorbed in a
few months.
The Tribune ventures to speak a spe-
cial word for the young professional
man. His duties in the army, enarging
his experience, and generally along the
lines Of his aptitude, make him conpe-
tent. Remember this young man, par
ticularly if he is one who has a family
to support.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
The Fiurne Compromise

The Paris dispatches again put a
strain on the mental faculties. 1t is
said compromise is to give Fiume to
Italy, provided there are adequate safe
guards Of the freedom Of the port
against shutting off the trade Of the
hinterland.
Put forward as something new, this
is the settlement Italy has advocated for
months. The Austrian flag was hardly
down before the citizens of Fiume, hav
ing declared their adhesion to Italy, out
lined plan by which the hinterland
could freely trade. Not satisfied with
laying this plan before the peace con-
ference, the Mayor Of Fiume, that Amer
lea might be informed, journeyed to this
country, and interviews carrying his
statement appeared in the newspapers.
He thought it absurd for any one to
think that Fiume did not wish to pros
per and favored customs barrier
against Croatia and Hungary. That
Fiume should have special status is a
cornerstone Of Italian policy
Doubtless Italy will be wise enough
to consent to face-saving. If her de-
sires are met she probably will dis
creetly avoid mention of the fact that
the offer closed with was long ago made
But why-oh, why--do the inspirers of
Paris news continue to assume America
has no memory?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Munich's Commune Snufed O,,t

The Munich Commune has gone the
way Of the other German communes. It
lasted longer than most Of them because
Munich Is remote from the centres in
which the German Provisional Govern
ment has established its authority and
also because Bavaria has shown since
the war marked particularist tendency.
The moderate Bnvarian Socialist
regime, which the Commune displaced.
retired to the north. 1t had no con-
siderable army and was obliged to ask
for assistance from Prussia and Writ
temberg. The people Of Bavaria are, as
a whole, decidedly anti-Bolshevist. They
gave little support to the Russian inter
lopers and 1ntcrnationalists, who got
the upper hand in Munich and tried to
do there with the backing Of the criminal
elements what the original Commune did
TO Paris IN 1871. But the experiment
was Fictitious. 1T was snuffed out easilv
because there was no real fight in it.
Anarchy for the sake of anarchy doesn't
appeal greatly to the materialistic Ger
man temperament.
Leipslc now remains the only DANCER
spot in Germany. 1t has been in the
hands of q local Independent Socialist
administration. It is an industrial and
commercial centre with Red leaninps
But it is near Berlin, and Herr Noske.
the head Of tho Ebert governments
volunteer army, has shown an extraordi-
nary energy in dealing with what is
left of the Spartacidc mania.
1t is perhaps in keeping with German
policy that the Provisional Government
should wish to present an appearance
Of solidarity at home while it's Delegates
receive the peace terms at Versailles.
80 much that has happened in Germany
since the nrmistice has been in the
nature OF political camoufagc. The
Munich episode suggests on it's face that
the forces Of order are rapidly gaining
strength in Germany. Will thev feel
self~confidcnt and powerful enough to
balk at the conditions Of peace?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Sea Power in the War

Some extreme Mahanites continue to
say that Allied sea power won the war.
This distorts the true perspective. 1t Is
nearer the facts to say that the sea
power made it possible for the Allies
to win the war on land. Admiral Sims
put it that way on Saturday, when he
told the English-Speaking Union that
"the foundation stone on which the sue
cess Of the war was built was the British
Grand Fleet"
Admiral Sims remarked that had an
earthquake engulfed the British fleet In
the North Sea, so that the German High
Sea fleet could have ventured forth, Moth
ing could have stayed the hand Of the
Germans. That is beyond dispute But
If the British fleet had been engulfed
before August, 1914, Germany would
have been master Of Europe imme-
diately. One Of the biggest handicaps
to the German conquest of Europe was
Entente sea power. The Germans went
to war with the hope Of destroying it.
This they were never able to do. Look
Ing at the facts fairly, it is easier to
prove that sea power lost the war for
Germany than that it won the war for
tho Allies. Without sending a battleship
or submarine beyond her coastlne
waters, Germany conquered Russia, Ru-
mania, Serbia and Belgium, and almost
overwhelmed Italy. She had only to fight
France and Great Britain to a draw on
the West front in order to consolidate
the Middle European and Asian Empire
which she had set up. But a persistent
misuse Of the U-boat forced the United
States to join her enemies. And the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Liverpool SIave-Ships
tpron Tho Manchester ovarexon.,

'~"' ~''o IL %"cfttSteT RUUrGsGp)
Attempts which have been made tn connecs
the warehouses of old Liverpool With the
days of slave-trading are Interesting writes
'N.), but not conclusive Livernool roade a
great deal of money in the eighteenth century
out of the slave trade 1t is estimated that
between 1880 and 1886 over 10000 slaves 4
year were exported to the colonies, and be-
fore the war of American Independence 1a2
ships were engaged in the trade. the majority
OF them sailing from Liverpool. But for the
most part this was Liverpool trade in much
the same sense that most of the shiDs which
now engage in the coastal trade Of South
America are Liverpool ships They never
see Liverpool, but that city thrives on theit
profits. As to the selling Of slaves in Liver
pool itself and their actual presence there
1t should not be forgotten that it was as
early as 1772-forty years before the efec.
tive abolition of the trade-~that Lord Mans
field gave his famous ruling in the cass
of the negro Somerset, that las soon as al
slave sets foot on the soil of British islands
he becomes free"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
A Thick Thorn Speaks
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
GSIR: At the last banquet Of the italian
~ Chamber Of Commerce In Chicago, Ill.,,
Mr.. Malato emphatically demanded to know
wherefrom comes the money which is being
spent for the Jugo-Sav propaganda in the
United States. There Is no need for Mr..
Malato to go very far for the answer to his
query. Because this propaganda seems to
be thick thorn in his heel, and because
he Is evidently very interested in same he
could find out from the actions taken that
no one else is financing this propaganda but
the Jugo-Slav population in this country,
sacrificing hard earned dollars for the cause
Of something that they believe to be their
pies enunciated by President Wilson.
The Jugo-Slav Republican Alliance, carry
ing on this propaganda, does not blame the
Italians when they try to convince the world
of something that they believe to be their
right, but the tolerance cannot reach so far
that the JugoS Slavs would gag their mouths
and timidly look on when their undoubt-
ed rights and national existence arc in
danger. The Italian propaganda in the
United States has at its disposal pecuni-
ary means far superior to ours and if
the Jugo-Sav propaganda Is, in spite Of
all this, such an agonizing thorn In the heel
of the Italian propagandsts that the latter
run wild, this may be naturally explained
by the fact that it Is easy to defend justice,
and extremely hard to defend injustice.
Mr.. Oscar Durante in his great anger
over this propaganda, reached the limit and
declared that all money used for JuEo Slnv
propaganda In tho United States is fur
nished by British shipping interests. espe-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
TO FRECKLEs

I read your bit IN The Tower Freckles,
And I want to say this:
That If you don't belong here.
You don't have to stay here.
Pack your portmanteau, old boy,
And go West, young man, go Westi
I'll send you to the Goldwyn studios
In California.
But I warn you, Freckles,
You'll be sorry you ever said,
II don't belong here"
4 press agent has to work likell
Where the air Is lilac
G.. L. H., one OF your bosses.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06

requires is a chance to feed herself, and
this chance will come to her when Boil
shevism is overthrown, and not sooner.
All excuses put forward in extenuation
and support of Bolshevism are thus
propaganda to let Russia starve.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
The Negro Soldier
By Robert r. Motion
Principal of Tgskegee Institute
THERE was apparently no doubt in sr,

THERE was apparently no doubt In snv.
4 body's mind in France, as far as wa,
able to find out, among the French .,
Americans, as to the qualities of the Amor,
can negro as a soldier, when led by whit.
officers. There was also little ouestio,
about the fighting records of the fear reol.
ments, the 869th, S70th, S71st and s7oa
which had been brigaded with French
division, but when it came to the ssd
Division, there was a subtle and persister.
rumor in Paris and in other places !,
France, as far as my travels, observation,
and Investigations went. substantiating N.
rumor which was also prevalent in Americ,
only, in France it was much more general,
accepted as true-namely, that the necr.
officers "had been practically u failure .
and that it was a mistake to have eva,
attempted to have division with necroas
as officers.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Why Talk Of Peace3

eyes, Mother Citronille," said her gossip.
according to "Le Rire," my girl is still with
the Opera. Just now she is dancing in
Castro and Poilu.'"
"Ah! Another military piece"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06

The Guilty Feeling overwhelms AL when.
unable after five minutes to get any re-
sponse from Central, he slips in another
nickel, gets her, shouts that she must re-
turn his nickels, BOTH nickels, at once
and then sinks back in shame as she re-
turns four. And yet Al probably objects
to government ownership of the telephones
Sunday baseball relieves, in slight de-
gree, the traffic congestion on the Boston
Post Road, Central Avenue and other mo-
tor-clogged thoroughfares. The best chauf-
four we knows says "It's dangerous driv-
ing Sunday; too many owners out"
"If you have eggs," suggests z. S., "pre-
pare to mail them now. The postman is
handling the mail sack ever so much more
gently than before"
Decatur's platform, revarnished by Dave
Wallace: "Our country! Would she had
continued wet; but our country, wet or
dry"
Submitted to the Contrfbs' Dinner Committee
Sir; Why have Houdn do 1t when I've been
wriggllng iii and out OF tight skirt so many
times that am q past mistress at 1t? And
what's more. I'll do 1t at tho Contribs Dinner-
II you'u protect mo with O license JAYE1
The case Of Mel, who on awaking huns
the brave songs of an elder day, has been
diagnosed by an authority on Freudism
"Io hum songs from the last century {"
writes tho authority, "signifes that tho
singer finds no pleasure In the future and
suffers from an unbearabe present r.
Is sign of old age when the future holda
out only death and oblivion, and thus pre-
cludea the competition in the pleasure
principles of days gono by" Or, as Tennv-
son put it less Freudishly, a sorrows
crown of sorrow, etc.
The Allied policy on Fiume Is 8-vear
endowment.
It's g. and &. +. when a traffic con
motions you to stop, although YOU have
been travelling at only nineteen miles an
hour, and you find that all he wants Ia to
ask you to buy another Victory Note.
Buy Victory Motel 1t floats, lies flat
on the brush and does not dry on the face.
Ask the man who owns ono,
F.-P. A,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Pink BoLsheuisn1
By William J. Ghent

1he a0r7ter cds formerly prominent member Of the Social
ast party IN America He left it because of proerman
propaganda The following is taken from letter to Henry
H. Mussey editor of The Nation of Neac York. of acich
Mr. Osaood Garrison Willard publisher These extracts are
reprinted from "The National Ciuic Federation Repieo
New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
When He Cot Double Cross
(From The Bos,ou Herald,

(From Tho Boston Herold)
But General Woods real decoration came
with his enrolment by the public in the
Order of Good Losers.