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New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
Going Into Effect

Article 440, the final one of the treaty,
says with respect to ratification and the
going into effect of the treaty that salts
faction shall be deposited at Paris as
soon as possible, and then adds:
"a first proces-uerbal of the deposit
of ratification will be drawn up as soon
as the treaty has been ratified by Ger
many, on the one hand, and by three of
the principal Allied and associated
powers on the other hand. From the
date Of this first proces-ueYbal the treaty
Will come into force between tho high
contracting parties who have ratified it.
For the determination of all periods Of
time provided for in the present treaty
this date will be the date Of the coming
into force of the treaty. In all other re-
spects the treaty will enter into force
for each power at the date Of the deposit
of it's ratificaton."
A proces-veybol is a French law term
signifying an authenticated minute or
memorandum setting out fact
1t appears, then, that the going into
effect Of the treaty, as general propo-
sltion, will not necessarily be affected, as
Senator Knox points out, by what is
done or net done at Washington If
japan, Great Britain, France and Italy,
or any three Of them, ratify the treaty
it is in effect. The article is singular
one. The selection of three as the num-
ber necessary to effectuate the treaty
suggests it was not absent from mind
that the United States might delay and
Italy might not adhere.
So the noise about our holding up the
peace of the world or compelling a re-
assemblage Of the conference seems to
have no warrant. Although refusing
formally to separate peace treaty ana
covenant, the President appears to have
conceded to cur Allies something akin to
separation, for, Of course, it was known
IN Paris that the only doubt here was as
to the acceptance of the covenant. The
contention that we must swallow whole
for the sake of the world thus falls to the
ground N view Of Article 440.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
a General Staff for the
Army of God
tFrom The London Times,

'HFCl me LONDON TfnleS)
Sir Douglas Haig attended Yesterday ~
Edinburgh the closing session of the genera.
assembly of the Church of Scotland. accom-
panied by General Sir Henry Horne. The,
were received by guard of honor. consIst;n,l
Of army chaplains.
Sir Douglas paid tribute to the heroisr
OF army chaplains and to the work of tn
Church at home in "garrisoning the soul
the nation" He wanted to see establishe
general staff for the Christian churches
the empire-some body analogous to tho I,v
perial General Staff. The one means h
which peace could be made permanent was
develop throughout the whole world the snir-
OF brotherhood born of the war. He desire
10 see a beginning made in Great Britai
itself by forming united national churc
ana then a great imperial church in an
through which should be maintained the de-
cision and determination of the peoples of th =
empire. (Hear! Hear!D He had read witt
profound satisfaction the deliberations r.
garding Presbyterian reunion in scotlan.
Scotland might soon give expression TO ht
great ideal of church at once national ar
Tree thear, hear), and he .entreated the
ecclesiastical bodies of al denominations !
lose no time in giving them vigorou
united or federated church
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
Ship Alloy!

There will be few air records left to be
made if and when the R-34, travelling
her slow but sure route, makes her har-
Dor on the plains of Long Island. But
after the records of the pioneers will
come the slow development Of practical
passenger and cargo craft, and to this
process the experimental crossing Of this
great British ship Of the sky. is making
a real contribution.
1t is the view of the airplane partisans
that the lighter -than-air vessel is a fail
ure without future. Certainly the
Zeppelin fiascos gave the airship bad
name. There is something unspeakably
clumsy about these vast mountains of
cloth and metal and gas in comparison
With the small mouse of cargo that
they can lift. Yet the layman with no
scientific theory to back him will be in
dispute. The crossing Of the Atlantic in
seventy hours with crew of twenty
three cannot be brushed aside as a negl-
gibe feat. The airship may still have
a chance, and predictions are rash
business. With the whole science of
aeronautics still in its infancy, general
opinion will be inclined to go slowly in
reaching conclusions.
Meantime the best of good wishes go
forth from America to these new style
British mariners on their daring voyage,
and the heartiest greeting awaits their
arrival.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
John William, Strut

The death of John William Strut, in
his later years known as Lord Rayleigh,
removes one who since the death of
Kelvin has been regarded as the worlds
foremost chemist. His work in chemical
physics, in optics, and in electricity and
IN gases, has been productive of great
results Some scientists discover appli-
cations Of principles and others discover
the principles others apply The world
has lost master in the broader and
more fruitful field.
Lord Rayleigh was humanitarian as
well as investigator. He believed in
science that shone in human use. He
became the milkman Of London, and not
only brought down the baby death rate
there, but here and everywhere, through
following of his methods and examples.
He grew to have a passion for preven
tlon of disease, and every civilized land
is under obligation to him.
No further back than 1872 Disraeli
said that the health of the people should
be one of the first considerations of a
minister. The doctrine seemed so hereti
cal, so beneath the dignity of one who
carried the seals of great office, that his
opponents sneered at what they called q
"polfcy of sewage" What would "Dizzy"
90 next, it was asked, now that he had
fallen SO low as to be Interested in fresh
air, pure water, healthy habitations and
the prevention Of food adulteration?
But Time marches swiftly on his way.
and Rayleigh the milllman is likely to be
remembered as long as Rayleigh the
saYant of pure science.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
More Boy Babe S
(From The London Daily NniD

'Ffon me London Daily Maid
More boys than girls were born in the
first three months of this year, but the total
births are fewer than ever OF the 14d.9oO
babies 7454s were boys and 70372 girls
according to the quarterly report of the reg
istrnr general.
The average rate for the last ten years
is 1,o40 boys to 1000 girls Last quarter
the rate was 1869 boys to 1000 girls
Nature would thus seem to be making up
little the loss of men in the war.
But while the number of boys has In
creased, the total birth rate gives cause
for reflection. The babies born in the last
quarter were 1886 fewer than in the last
quarter OF 1918 and 1888 fewer than in the
first quarter of 1918
Last quarter, for the second time since
the establishment of civil registration, the
deaths exceeded the births by 47,0o2.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
Color Blindness

The Dentscae Toges1eitung, sometime
organ of the well known Count Peven7-
low C'Roaring Reventlow" certain Ger
man newspapers call the old lion. now
that he has lost his teeth), adds another
item to it's long list of peace time horrors.
1t emlts heart-rending wall over the
disgrace that the Germans now use the
old black-red- gold banner of 1S48 as
an after-war "Ersatz" for the black.
white and red of the Hohenzollern Em-
plre. 1t says:
Black, white, red were the colors for
which the fathers, brothers and sons of
all the parties died in the most goriousCD
of all wars. Black, white, red huttered
on the citadels of Antwerp and Lille. over
Wilma, Bukarest, Warsaw, Narva and
Odessa; they were the flag Of the Falkland
Islands and of the battle of Jutland."
Net to mention the sinking of the Lusi
tanla In fact, these are perfectly good
reasons why the Germans should make
haste to discard the flag of Prussian
kultur and substitute that Of old German
culture. Black, red, gold stands for what
was best IN pre-imperial Germany, for
the democratic, idealistic, humanitarian
ideals OF the revolution Of 1848 Black.
white, red is hated all over the world
as no other flag was ever hated, save the
jolly Roger Of Tirpitz's spiritual ances-
tors.
Or is it possible that the editorial
writer of the Togcsaeitaemg merely pro-
tests, in a sudden fit Of honesty, against
the trick of launching the old article
with q new wrapping ant, label?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
What Hodes Is Like
Nrons The Toledo Bladc)


The complete story of German thorontrh. .
ness In the spreading OF terrorism will never
be known, but almost daily new chapters are
added. They are impressive in their pictures
of wanton unscrupuousness.
An Italian, on trial in Zurich for anar-
chistic activities, testifes that he was suDnlied
from Berlin with money to purchase bombs.
grenades and revolvers, for the express pur-
pose of aiding the German cause by institut
ing revolutionary terrorism among the Deonlo
of Italy
Another witness, at the same trial, testifies
that two Hindu revoutionists were supplied
with explosives from Berlin also with small
bottles containing bacteria for killing horses
These were to be used in Italy.
The evidence is complete and abundant to
show that Germany had a regular terrorist
bureau whose business it was to create rovo-
lutions and disorders in tn. Allied countries
No means was considered too low for tho
use of the Hun. 1t did not matter how many
women and children might be DESTROYED bv
the bombs of those bowling for social revo
luton and social justice, put who were in
reality, the paid agents of the most crcellv
autocratic government in the world Ger
many.
Little need for sinking souls to pass on in
order to learn the real nature of supposed
Hades. They need only to look at Germany
as she was, but denied she was, as she un
doubtedly is, but denies she is, the while
she prayed-and still prays-to the German
Gott for the spread of German kultur over
this fair earth.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03

is liberal and democratic, in step with the
Western nations. A good ally and friend,
she will guard her own honor, and SO
doing will respect the honor Of others.
To President Wilson goes great credit
for the sublime rehabilitation. He was
the first to say, in an explicit way, that
Poland should be absolutely free and in
dependent and should include all terri
tories of indisputable Polish population,
and to this doctrine he has clung with
admirable pertinacity, when, perhaps,
others might have been willing to satisfy
Germany at the expense of Poland.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
Posting a Warning

The rejolnder of the State Depart
ment to the threat of the Russian usurp-
ers to make reprisal on American con-
suls and citizens if Martens, the Bolshe-
visit Ambassador, is not released from
arrest" is both dignfied and en-
phatic. After mentioning the detail
that Martens has not been arrested and
rehearsing some of the atrocities Amer
fered, the warning is given that our
government "now views with grave con-
Germ the reported threat of the authori
ties at Moscow to take further illegal
measures in the form Of reprisal."
Martens, . German citizen, as he de-
c,ared on his arrival in this country in
1916, has been we'll treated He has
Jared sumptuously and has not been in
terfered with as he spent sums from the
treasury of the Bolsheviki. He has spoken
at public meetings, and if not a
party to efforts to incite instruction in
The United States he is the victim of
circumstantial evidence. Wonder has
not ceased that the government could
ind no law on which to send him the
way of Dunta and Bernstorff.
True, his premises were examined un-
Ger search warrant. But what he OBJ
lected to was not SO much the visit
IS the uncovering of secret papers in
lis fling cabinets. The contents of
these, as published, suggest reasons why
there was irritation.
That Moscow heard that Martens had
oeen arrested, and that without ascer-
tainment Of the facts a threat to re-
aliate was forwarded, is further evi-
lence Of the sort Of men who control
-solshevist policy.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
The Government Wov
the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The writer Of this letter is the
father of two boys, eighteen and twenty
years of age, who enlisted in their coun-
trys service, the elder in April and the
younger in June, 1917 Both served in
France year and half or more and each
made an allotment, payable to his mother,
and which money was invested in Liberty
bonds or war savings stamps as fast as it
came.
The allotment for February of this year
for one Of the boys failed to show up and
application was made for the same After
ninety days or more of waiting the depart
ment at Washington sent the mother form
of bond Of indemnity, which required, in
addition to being filled out, two surcties,
acknowledge before n notary public
(cost SO cents) and 50-cent internal revc-
nue. stamp.
After filling out the bond Of indemnity,
securing the securities, having the sigma
turcs witnessed and acknowledged before
notary public, attempted to purchase
at the postofce q 50-ccnt internal rev.
enue stamp and were referred to 1850
Broadway as the only place in New York
where same could be purchased.
We went to 1850 Broadway, to the sev-
enth floor, where we found several hum
dred people frantic to buy internal revenue
stamps and one little window with little
man behind it to accommodate them. A
negro, in livery, inquired our mission, and
when it found that wanted docu-
mentary stamp, he directed US to desk
where we obtained slip which required
almost as much writing as the bond Of
indemnity.
Then we got in line for window which
was headed Stamps" After standing in
dow we found no one inside and, through
the kindness of a man in another line, we
found we must go to the cashiers window;
80 there repaired and the attendant,
who simply noted in blue pencil "50c' on
the face Of the document, passed it back
to the cage where the stamp window was
and told us there would get stamp;
and there eventually we did after about ten
minutes further wait.
We were an hour and ten minutes at
1850 Broadway and two hours and thirty
ilve minutes altogether cndeavorng to
buy 50-ccnt internal revenue stamp
to be attached to bond Of indemnity, which
promised the government that we would
not collect on draft that never had been
issued. Can you beat it? C. Eff.
Now York, Juno 30, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
Poland's Resurrection

That nation is more than color on
'ie map, or even a collection of indlvId-
rals bound together by cultural affini-
ties, is shown by the rebirth of Poland.
Ihe marvellous resurrection seems to
support the mystical idea, tinged with
romanticism, that a nation is living,
breathing spirit, which pursues it's own
life and enforces conformity to it's will
rather than it is derivative of casual
association.
For 800 years, beset by. Teuton and
Turk and Tartar, the Poles, people of the
plains, under Pasts and Jagelons, lived
. precarious existence, and finally sank
: into an appanage some time of Saxon
and sometime of Bourbon. Then, under
The incitation Of Frederick of Prussia.
three great vultures preyed on her vitals,
whereas the tabled Prometheus endured
but one.
Her body was torn in the three par
titions. Her members were divided
among her cannibal conquerors. Poland
was not. Dead and buried, salt was sown
on her foundations. Never again was
she to bother. But there was life after
death. The decree went forth to kill
her again. The Russian knout descended.
the German used his method of enforced
RECOMMENDATION, the Austrian sought to
disguise the poison he administered bv
the honey Of pretended concession and
liberality.
But, as the treaty published yesterday
attests, the vitalizing sense of Polish
nationality grew under pressure. 1t rose
and reroge. The Gar, to gain the sup
port o. this inponderable, was forced to
promise freedom, and for nearly two
years, until betrayed in its rear, the
Polish legions, inspired by hope, held
the line against the poundings Of linden
burg. German fire swept over the land
and consumed it. 1t was proclaimed
that the streaming sword blade was
necessary to achieve the harmony Of sub
mission; kind Of German pity moved
the war lords TO be pitilcss and make
short the sufferings Of those whose end
they had decreed. Poland suffered all
things, endured all things, but in the
darkest hour never yielded her soul. In
the, agony just before Russia's dissolu-
tios Polish soldiers bravely led tho last
BrusiloT offensive.
Poland, land Of light when others were
dark, IL welcome to the company Of man.
Kind. She has virtuous, numerous and
chiyalric population; She has fertile
lands, and to her people patriotism is
q religion. She has been tried in the
zsxuace Of afilction and emergcs full
ssatured. Her own past tells her all it
IL needful for any nation to know. She
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
Fitting the Crime
Tc the Editor Of The Tribune

I0 The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In reference to the asking of the for.
mer German Chancellor that he be placed on
trai instead Of the former Emperor, permit
an old reader of yours to remark tha, M
falr minded person will believe that a Ioc.s,
should be hanged for his paster's crimes
What Won Bethmann- Hollwee real,v d.
serves is job for the rest of his na+,,y.i
NE ao picking up scraps OF paper inside
the premises Of the st. Giles Jail, Brussels.
famous for its publishing department. Who
knows, he may become "trusty.s
HENRI DE LAFITOLE.
Boston, Mass. June 80, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
The Day We Celebrate

When considering a proposal to deco
rate their chamber with the Ten Com
mandments and the Declaration of Inde-
pendence the Board of Aldermen's peace
was disturbed by Alderman Vladek, who
said THE signers of the Declaration
were Bolsheviki pure and simple"
Had the craven words been in place
they might have found tongues to rcpel
the charge. As it was, colleagues were
forced to undertake the duty. 1t was
asked, if "the Bolshevik seven" so greatly
admired the institutions of Russia and
the life lived under them, why they do
not go there. Offers to pay fares were
generously made.
Gentlemen in small clothes and stocks
and powdered hair, leaders Of the bar and
Of business in their communities, cath
cred in hall, severely plain; men of
serious mlen and seasoned character, who
realized the gravity Of the hour, affixing
signatures to document which began
by saying that when one people severed
long existing political connections "a
decent respect for the opinions of man
kind required a statement Of the reasons
justifying the separation. Those Bolshe-
wiki! Lenine and Trotzky would have
dispersed them as they did the Russian
constitutional assembly and sent their
leaders before firing squads.
What is the Declaration of Independ-
ence? A list of grievances. What griev-
ances? They centred in the fact that
the British King, in divers ways, had
sought, like Lenine, to substitute a per-
sonal government by decree for one of
law. The doctrines that call men are
created equal" and that governments
derive "their just powers from the con-
sent Of the governed" were not pre-
sented as new but as derived from the
great fount Of British libecty-from a
system built up by thousand expert
mental years, which sought to apply
principles and to hold to common sense
at the same time.
The men of Philadelphia, bold in inno
walton and willing to construe doubts in
favor of democracy, upset as little as
possible. The spirit Of evolution, not Of
revolution, was in them. Local institu-
tions were preserved intact. When they
formed continental union they sought
merely to adapt the venerable New Eng
land town meeting to larger usefulness.
They saw how coral island reaches up
ward on the detritus of the past For
nature and history alike forbid new foun
dations. AS Professor Shaler taught,
death is benefcent because it provides
a device by which the world or a species
can mount-~a series of new starts com
ing, but indissolubly linked with the
gains Of the past.
Neither in preachment nor practice
were the signcrs tainted with Bolshe-
Visn. For any to assert similarity
shows how. great is the need Of Amcri-
canization, shows how distorted arc the
retrogressive opinions brought from
among peoples which lack political ex-
perience. Not only the illiteratc need
instruction concerning ordered political
liberty, but men of seeming education.
even some with culture enough to be-
come aldermen, or even professors in
universities.
Tomorrow Is the anniversary OF the
signing. Try to open some mind to what
America is and why. Our polity has
been an amazing success. Conditions
are not perhaps never will be.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
Pie and Ruin
trron, Tho London Dairv Nc,cs)

The Amercan's fondness for pie, to which
l was alluding the other day, was the ruin
of Emerson, according to letter written
by one of his friends, Henry j. Warner: at
was pie at breakfast that broke down Emcr-
son prematurcly; no human being however
we'll can live long and keep his mind un-
cloudcd on pie Mt breakfast Emerson lost
his mind -~ or mcmory-~at a much earlier
period than he you'd have been likely to
lose 1t owing to the vicious habit OF pic at
brcakfast."
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
The Coming Tower
The PHILOSOPHER Recuperatcs

The Philosopher Recuperatcs
Here I loiter more less
Idly in the wilderness;
Supper sauntering, sleep-all these
Lure me more than libraries,
Perchng on q shaded porch
More than carrying on the torch.
Better than books I love this Grass
Loungng with the leisure class.
Wasting time and the completer
More conspicuous waste the sweeter.
Oh l know | should be seen
Clicking thoughts my machine
Which, when in book they're bound,
Look most terrible profound
I should, far from ferns and trees,
Be hunting up dull references;
Instead of sailing slender boats
On silent lakes, be taking notes
On Dewey. Bergson, and such sources
OF ultra-inspiration courses.
Perhaps. But this is (tell it none
Whom have taught) a lot more fun.
Spinoza seems deal less grand
Than sunset here near Ampersand;
From here to Forest Homes a walk
Worth more than Platos table talk;
That fiech the sky to all of James,
The casual and caressing voice
OF these night winds to Kant or Royce.
In short, though philosophic treason,
This is the life the Life of Reason.
aranac Lake. IRWIN
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03
El Paso's $ Pest
Cfroia Thc Defroit N,,ns,

tFroin The Detroit Nous,
"A little later on it will be possible to intcr.
view residents of FL Paso and find ou. whas
they think about United States troops hav-
ing crossed over TO Mexico Just now thes
arc unable to express themselves. they ara
so hoarse from yelling across the river: Hey.
look out over there where you're shootin'.s
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03

The Evemimg Post, which pretends
to condemn any partisanship in discus
sion of the league covenant, contributes
to this laudable end a column Of abuse
Of the Republicans of the Senate. How
easily one conccals from ones self the
fault Of being partisan! How readily
we impute partisanship to those who dis
agree with US!
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03

But whether compared in terms of time
or of geography, the average American
lives more enhanced life than any other
man. Other countries, new and old, are
as we'll lowered by nature; our institu-
tions have caused the difference-have
preserved order and unloosed men to
run the race swiftly.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03

The Prohibition folks. like most cause
pushers, don't know good propaganda from
bad. Printed proof that crime in Kansas de-
creased under Prohibition would not make
US, when an 0. f. cocktail presents itself
to view, say No. The best Prohibition argu-
ment we ever read was Stacy Aumonier's
"Thc Friends"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-03

You csn purchase merchandise advertised In THE
fhisuhs With absolute sateyor II dissatisfaction
cults In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to your
meney back request. No red tape. No rubbilng.
We MAKE good promptly II the advertiser does not