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New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
Protecting a Baby

ut is something of a disadvantage"
says Charles H. Grasty in a Paris dis
patch to The Times, |for a man to 20
into battle with his baby in his arms"
This philosophic observation follows
listing of some Of the items in the price
paid for a perfunctory Endorsement of
the covenant. Great Britain not only
quieted all talk of "freedom of the SEAS"
but secured the so-called mandatory"
scheme, by which the chief German
colonies are disposed of. France received
not only Alsace-L Lorraine, but occupancy
of the Saar Valley, with it's immense coal
deposits. Japan, it is reported, is to get
Kiao-Chau and former German title in
Shantung.
Whenever objection seemed about to
be made blows began to threaten the
sacred infant.
Not until Italy was reached, the Italy
that, next to ourselves, has asked the
least from the victory, was there much
lnsistence on the Fourteen Points.
The concessions made to protect the
SONSiiduC lIOll IOuSI udlullIlS uOuDCloSS
are meritorious in their own right, but
one can imagine the outcry of the "peace
without victory" advocates if they had
not been held in leash.
What the Paris conference thought of
the vitality of the covenant was indi-
Gated when no one deemed it worth while
to speak and the doing delegates droned
their affirmative votes. If q vehicle Of
real power had been put in motion one
may assume there would have been
heated debate. And now the chief argu-
ment for ratification here is that which
was accepted at Paris-namely, that as
the instrument AMOUNTS to practically
nothing, it is ill-natured to reject it. So
it was not of a pappoose that there was
care to protect, and another triumph is
to be recorded for those who follow the
honest brokerage tradition in diplomacy.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
A Sorrouful Reader

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After reading your editorial on
the league of nations one is led to wonder
why all the various countries with repre-
sentatives in France should have over
looked your paper. Certainly, if they had
put the whole matter in your hands it
would have been quicklN settled, and
all would be happy. Just why each coun-
try should send such set of know-nothinp
men and get out paper that does nothing
and means nothing, when the medium of a
right and just settlement of the many
vexed questions was right at hand No
matter of legal import but that your paper
and representatives could so easily an
swer. No question Of justice between ma
tions but that you could have adjusted.
Such sad lack OF foresight was shown
by our own country by sending such men
as President Wilson, Mr. Lansing and
others, all men Of little brains and less
knowledge, and then overlook The Tribune.
Too bad, too bad!
SORROWFUL READER OF YOUR
PAPER.
New York, April 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
Hail Ne stors!

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The universal anxiety aroused by the
grave accident to Mr.. Gompers, who is in his
seventieth year, following so recently the at
tempted assassination of Clemenceau-"th
oldest young man in the world"-brings
realization of the tremendous role played
by septuagenarans in the making of world
peace and in the maintenance of social
peace. Among other aged men active in the
Paris conferences are Balfour and Sonnino.
Gompers has played large part in win
ming the war, and since the armistice he
has been the greatest influence toward
keeping the radical element in internaton-
al labor in the harness of patriotism He
has convinced the leaders of capital not
only of the right Of labor to organize but
of the advisability of its doing so. Only
two days before Gompers's injury two of
our largest employers of labor, Schwab and
Rockefeller, jr., publicly upheld the prin-
ciple OF collective bargaining. Since the
great anthracite strike Of 1902 Gompers has
made giant strides toward ending the war
OF labor and capital by his fearless but
conservative leadership and spirit of CO.
operation. In his most recent public speech
ne made most significant statement "You
may destroy our movement" he said, "but
II you do you will have another element to
deal with"
The capitalists with vision have no de-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
The Bomb Honor List

Thirty-sx American citizens, includ-
ing a justice of the Supreme Court, three
members of the Cabinet, judge of the
Federal court, Mayors Hylan of New
York and Ole Hanson of Seattle and
Police Commissioner Enright, are the
recipients of high honor. They have
received a decoration rivalling those
conferred on war heroes. To them The
Tribune extends fluctuations and vent
ures to suggest that they cherish the
testimonials, when properly denatured,
as precious heirlooms to be handed down
to their children.
Each Of the thirty six has been distin-
guished by having an internal machine
mailed to him. Evil men, indicating
those they esteem in the way of the
attainment of their foul conspiracy, thus
write certificate Of merit. Satan may
be too intelligent to waste effort against
those not in the path of his plans.
What do the bomb senders seek? In
the first instance to destroy democratic
government by terrorizing agents the
democracy selects to do its work. In the
second instance they seek another and
even more sinister thing. They would
reduce the masses of this country to the
level of misery which makes Russia a
land of horror. They would introduce
the Lenine regime of general starvation.
On the pretence of promoting what is
falsely called social revolution they
would bring in social devoluton.
Against the rich? Only incidentally.
Bolshevism and the I. W. w. doctrine,
which is its brother, are shotted against
the poor. In the general granary are
stores of food and our industrial ma
chinery creates more to supply the sub
fractions that go to human stomachs.
The distribution is not wholly equitable,
for men are not supremely intelligent.
On the pretence of removing the in
equity the Bolshevist proposes to raid
the general granary, to scatter it's con-
tents in one grand gorge, and then to
destroy the machinery for reflling it.
Thus the Bolshevist is promoter of
famine and an enemy of his kind.
These haters of the human species
have found lodgment in New York.
The internal machines were not self
created and self-winding. Labor went
into their preparation. The police duty
of the hour is to find the nests, and
each citizen should become an assistant
in the work, reporting with promptness
all suspicious circumstances coming
within his view. Ten million watching
eyes will effect discoveries.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
Bars Up on the Referendum

The Supreme Court OF oregon has
given jolt to the assumption that rati-
hcation by state legislature of Fed
eral constitutional amendment is not
final in those states where legislative
acts are subject, under state require
ments, to a popular referendum. Oregon
is the pioneer referendum state. Yet it's
highest court holds unanimously that the
exclusive power of the Legislature to
approve constitutional amendments SUBJ
mitted by Congress has not been i'm
paired by the introduction of the ref
erendum system.
This decision follows analogies estab-
lished by earlier interpretations. 1t has
been held that the language and intent
Of the Federal Constitution must prevail
over any attempted additional qualifca-
tions set up by the states. The qualif-
cations Of Senators in Congress are fixed
in the Constitution Some states have
sought to amplify them. The Maryland
constitution, for instance, once provided
that one Senator should be elected from
the Eastern Shore counties and the
other from the Western Shore counties.
But the United States Senate refused to
recognize this restriction when test
case came up
The Federal Constitution prescribes
that amendments to it shall be ratified
by the state legislatures. In ratifying
the legislatures are presumed to act in a
somewhat different capacity from that
in which they act when they pass state
laws. In those states in which the Gov
ernor has legislative veto Federal con-
stitutional amendments are not sub
nnftted TO him. The entire law-making
machinery is not invoked~-only the part
of it represented by the legislature.
Similarly, amendments submitted by the
two houses of Congress do not go to the
President for signature. They take ef
feet when passed.
The Oregon Supreme Court sustained
the refusal Of the Secretary Of State to
accept petition asking for referen-
dunn On the Legislatures action in ap-
proving the prohibition amendment.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

The court therefore apparently accepts
the view that the language Of the Sec
tion Of the Federal Constitution regulat-
ing the ratification Of amendments is ex-
phcit and conclusive, and that it vests
power of ratification in the legislature
alone. This is in line with common
sense. 1t combats the sophisticated the
ory that when the Constitution said
Legislature" it meant to include in that
term any and every organ within state
which might hereafter acquire a share
of direct legislative power.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

When you read one morning that tho
city is far behind in its V. L. ouota and
deciding to forego many things Won wont
you go to the bank and quadruple your
suoscrlpt1on' and the next morning YOU
read that the city is even further behind
amt 1t a gone, inglorious feeling?
An Air Service Lieutenant of our ac-
quaintance bought copy of w. L. Georce,s
"Eddies of the Day." and when he found
no reference in it to Captain Rickenhackor
asked for his money back.
The bomb business is familiar to ovor,,
colyumst. Not day passes that we don,t
get at least one ANONYMOUS ,e++ar
gestlng that we jump from the top of the
Woolworth Building. And yet if an an-
gered reader will only consult an attornev
he will discover that there ia M 1,,,
statute, or ordinance compelling hin, ~
read this, or any other, Turret 80
Triviality
Inc persons who send bombs bv mai,
haven't much of batting average. Ofbord
we can't recall one instance Of such q howl
destroying the person it was intended for.
Our notion of conspicuous waste 10
writing Personal on an envelope contain
ing a contribution.
postmaster General Burleson has suc-
gested that action be taken to reward
Charles Kapan, the postoffice clerk whose
Judgment resulted in the discovery of the
bombs And this department suggests that
the newspaper in which Mr.. Kaplan read
the account that stirred him to action bo
cited for conspicuous ncwsgathering ability.
= The papers name is on Page l, this issue.
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
Tired of the Lockout

BY unanimous vote the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States has
adopted a resolution urging President
Wilson to return Immediately to this
country. In its opinion the thing most
needful just now is reconstruction at
home, and reconstruction cannot begin
until Congress is called in session.
Opinions may differ as to the value
of the work which the peace conference
has been doing in Paris for the last four
months. The country generally was
reluctant to see Mr.. Wilson 20 abroad
to participate personally in that work.
1t noted the fact that the head of no
other state was going to appear as
delegate. Our people realized that the
Presidents absence from Washington
would virtually stop all reconstructive
effort here. They feared that that
would be too high a price to pay for
anything which might be accomplished
through his personal intervention in the
peace parleys.
The situation was less burdensome
when Mr.. Wilson departed in Decem-
Der and left the last CONGRESS to its
own devices. The two houses could pass
laws If they cared to do so, and those
laws would become operative ten days
after passage whether the Executive
signed them or not But the expiring
Congress had failed to receive a vote of
confidence from the people. 1t was dis
gruntled and apathetic, and naturally
held that the verdict at the polls alb
solved it from undertaking seriously to
shift the country from war basis to
peace basis. 1t listlessly marked time
during the short session and then dis
solved.
A fair consideration of the needs of
the domestic situation would have
moved the President to call the new
Congress in session last March. But
When he returned to Paris the second
time he locked the door of the Capitol
and took the key away with him. The
seat OF our government has been in
Europe ever since The administrative
machine here has been put in ordinary
The opening date of the campaign of
reconstruction has been postponed an
other two months.
Complaint at this delay is not due to
partisan bias. The delay affects everv-
body. 1t has injuriously prolonged un-
certainty in business. 1t is costing all
classes annoyance and loss. Americans
would face with cheerfulness any DOS
slble complications which might arise in
the Paris negotiations were they not
keenly touched in their everyday affairs
by the anomaly which keeps Congress in
recess while these complications tedi-
ously arise and are unravelled. The
peace compact would have aroused much
less criticism here if the people had
not been kept on the anxious bench
awaiting the disposition to be made of re-
mote objects of controversy like Danzio
and Fiume
The Chamber of Commerce of tha
United States is not a political body.
1t speaks for business men of all parties
and sections. Its demand is lust and
proper. Let the President call CONGRESS-
IN session and the country will cease tn
torment itself about the long delays in
Paris. 1t will be satisfied, whether Mr..
Wilson himself fingers there as dele
gate or sails home after turning over
his functions to Colonel House. Con-
gress alone can start peace reorganiza-
ton. 1t should begin at once.
--
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
The Coming 7ower
TO F. T. T.

TO F. T. T.
I don't belong here,
F. T. T.; too
Belong out yonder
Where the air is lilac
All the year round
And the soft breezes
OF the Pacific
Make life an endless Spring.
l work in an ugly office
In the heart of New York.
And near are
Several bookkeepers
Who debate whether a quart of ink
Is tangible asset
Or a current expense.
l belong in Culver City
Where the Goldwyn studios are
And the life of press agent
Is merely matter of How-dye-do.
I don't belong here, F. T. T.,
And as for the Top of The Tower.
l don't belong here either.
FREcKLBs.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

The only way, AL, that contribs can sue
ceed in making this Autocrat, this Putocrat
of Pifle, as you jokngly call US, work is
to send in such poor stuff that we shall have
to write The Tower ourself. And that, as
the great columnist Euclid so fttingly said,
is absurd.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02


But the above are from the Hungaria
statistics, which are VIGOROUSLY unfair
all the subject races, especially to the Ru
manians.
For instance, the Austrian census 70
1S4O gave 2,o37,433 Rumanians in Hungary
and in 1857 the figure from this sam,
source was 2,641,70O, or an increase in sew.
enteen years of some 100000. But ~.
Hungarian census for 1910 gave only 1882.
214 Rumanians. That is, the Austrian flo.
ures showed an increase among the r.,
manians in seventeen years of 100000
while the Hungarian figures would have r.,
believe that people which had increase
ooo'ooo In seventeen years should incress
in fifty-three years only 100000,
In fact, there is reason to believa +hs
the Rumanian population of the Banat :,
over 80 per cent of the whole and that
fair count would prove this.
T. TILESTON WELLS. Consul.
New York, April 2e, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
Who's Who in the
BdnQf
10 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You had very excellent articYs IN
kumanla and its new frontiers in your
Sunday edition of yesterday, quoted from
The Manchester Guardian" There was ono
statement, however, which I would like to
have corrected. I refer to certain figures
given In the second column which wouid
indicate that the total population of the
Banat was only some 100000, while, ss
matter of fact, the population of the Banst
as SHOWN by the Hungarian census of 1910
was over million and half, and was
made up as follows:
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
GHn,pses
By Wilbur Forrest
* ENERAL HEADQUARTERS, A. En-
r CHAUMONT, France-The Natior.;
Museum in Washington aoma a..

* ENERAL HEADQUARTERS, A. E.F
II CHAUMONT, France.-The Natior.;
Museum in Washington some div
probably will receive one of the mo.t
priced official souvenirs of the war. II !.
simply piece of paper tape from deli.
cate mechanism used by the army to re,;a-
ter sound of gunfire. Heavy firing pre-
duces Jagged, irregular line. Intermittent
cannonading makes wavy lines at intervals
while single shot throws the line into
convulsive "jag" upward and downward.
or into hump" sizes of "jags" and
humps" depending on the calibre Of the
gun and distance of its position from The
mechanism recording the sound. The ,trip
OF tape which may become National eu-
scum curiosity, therefore, records the st
cannon shots of the war on the Amer IN
front along the Meuse. One minute yc
II o'clock, November II, the line perforn 4
a series of antics. Gags" and "hump "
Beginning at one-half minute to II II 4.
line weakened and grew weaker and weake
until precisely at II o'clock it resumed tbe
even tenor of its way and recorded III.
''sound" death of the greatest war in his
tory.
Dapper young headquarter Ieuten
are extremely jealous of three young
dapper, if not immaculate, young lieu.e
ants, who to-day are performing the
luxe job of the whole war" They
peace conference couriers from Paris
Washington. Leaving Paris with messat
one at time when the occasion deman
they motor in a nice army limousine
Brest. Here a fast American warshi
awaits. Boarding it the courier just simply
Tolls back in a comfortable stateroom ar
reads books or anything until the ship 3 :
rives at Norfolk. At Norfolk another ar .
limousine awaits and he motors cont =
ably to Washington and hands over "a
message at the State Department. N
it is perfectly proper under army repu7s-
tlons to run down to Atlantic City, or nm
to New York, or just visit around Wash
ington until it comes time to run back 10
Paris. When that time comes the arrv
limousine awaits, and he enters and i. off
to Norfolk. And he does it on a govern
ment expense account.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

"Thou, Who When Fears Attack"
Another argument against that
Anti-tobacco campaign
Is the awful time
Well have
Judging character
If folks can't
Smoke any more.
There's one bird in our office
Who smokes Camels
When he's debating to me
And Melachrinos
When clients stop around
And the Big Boy
Whom everybody salaams
1mbibes in Sweet Caps,
And lets the office boys
Keep the change
From the dime
When they buy 'em for him.
And here I am
A mere child
Whose folks won't let her
Indulge
So have to do it
In the bathtub;
And, o mani
I'm one cleanly
Infant. p.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
Spring in Arkansas

From Tho ArkadeIphia <Ark) Netos>
From between the creeks, Pink Wright
says he heard whippoorwill holler. No
more socks. No more stove wood till winter
comes again.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
In His League and Theirs
lFrom The Washington Starr

lFrom The Washington Starr
If President Wilson ever finds time tn
go to another baseball game he will
probably feel thrill of sympathy with the
umpire who is called upon to render
close decision.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use
for republication Of all dispatches credited TO It
not otherwise credited In this and also the local
Of spontaneous origin published herein.
AL rights OF republication Of all other matter herein
also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

Yesterdays attempt by AL, the little giant
contrib, to call May Day strike of contribs
fell through, largely because we didn't print
his appeal. But yesterdays mail was unusu-
ally large.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

You can purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute safcfcr II dissatisfaction re'
suits In THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money back upon request. No tape. No aubbllnc,
We maxo good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

AS one who can take his frosted sarsa-
parilla or leave it alone, we record that
our first day of abstinence from soft drink
ing-a protest against the tax-passed
without untoward event. At 4:45 yester-
day afternoon the Craving came over US,
but lighting another 22c cigar, we over
came it.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
THE GREAT DIVIDE

From tho Evening POST From the Evening Sun1
, rryr1 IT ,,.vD.v Busiest Moving Day
Is Near
MOVING THIS YEAR May l, Because of In
creased Rentals Made
High Rents Put Stop Possible by Lack of
Apartments. Expected
10 oiu Ous'o" to Break Records.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

What do you make of this, DR.. Watson
DIR. Brill, rather? Frequently" con-
fesses Mel, "and without apparent reason,
my memory, trails back to the songs of
the nineteenth century. Lacing my shoes
amornings, pulling a trouser-leg or
Harvesting a wayward suspender, hum or
whistle such gems as Louisiana LOU
When I Knocked EN- in the Old Kent
Road Il Want Yer, Ma Honey and The
New Bully"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

Yesterday morning after a dreamless
sleep, we sang, until the shower got too
cold, the chorus Of "Poor Little Joe,"
which, as we recall it, went:
Cold blew the blast. down the snow,
No place to shelter him, no place to go;
No mother to guide him, in the grave she ts
low,
Cast on the cold street was poor little Joe
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

To de-swank the preceding paragraph, it
should be added that the cigar was won
by matching with the unlucky editor of the
Sunday Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

Owned and p,blshei daily by New York Tribune Inc;
New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. President. u
Vernon Rogers Vice President Helen Rogers Reid Secro
ary; F. A. Sutsr Treasurer. Address Tribune buulnS
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

There's the silver lining. The soda water
that costs 22c glass now is not so large as
the glass that cost 1Oc two years ago, so one
doesn't waste SO much time at the fountain.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
GUARANT E E

Entered at the Postorcc at York Second Class
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02
BANAT

6I,Io
In the County of Torontal the Hungarian
statistics for the same year were as iol-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-02

Ihe papers name is on Page 1, this issue,
F.. P. A.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-18
COAST ever roBBLE STONES
Sport Ii tade'ra .nas Many AGyan
tsges o;er That to which North.
eSrers Are Accustomed.

Cobble stones may not appeal 70 ths
unlnltlated as ideal for coastns oUr-
poS,s. L.' t'l.y ajnirabiy SIR, the
purp0>c, Il all depends on how L,eep
Is the hill the cobbles pave. ln ether
words, II isn't the material that a,akeS
the slide" hut the pitch of the slope.
Those of us who are accustomed TO
sliding down snOw-clad hills. or tIny
aScentS made slippery by ice know lit
tie of the thrill a slide may poSsess.
For some measure OF the delight in the
sport Is frequently mnimizAd bv Tie
frigld air that ruShes past our tingling
ears and some measure of the enioy-
ment is entirely tost by the chirs that
grip our shiverlng bodies.
magae-if you can-the thrill sof
coasting down hin so steep that your
sled flies over the cobbleS much as
is would speed over crusted snow or an
ice glare. Instead of ley air liat al
most chills you to the marrow M the
thought picture yourself In Sprmgtime
garments and famed by summer
hreeZeS
/. If you. can imagine such a picture
you will have enjoyed at least some
part of the sport of coasting in an
Island where there is no snow or ice.
Down the cohble-paved road the sled"
dies. For ten minutes you flash along
In breath-taking rush, then you begin
TO grow accustomed TO the speed and
the novelty of the sport and you take
time to look about you. But-llke most
other enjoyments-just as you're begin
ming really TO enjoy 1t to the utmost
your coasting ends.
s Where is this extraordinary slider
sOn the island of Madeira, which be-
iengs 70 Portugal, and lies In the At
lanticl oeeSR, or the coast OF Morocco.