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New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Women VS.. Columbia Law School

President Butler in his recent annual
report devotes several pages to the sub
Ject OF women as university students.
tie begins with the story of Dr.. Bar
nards determined campaign for T.. adj
mission of women to Columbia Co]]eoe
From Barnard's presidential report for
1879 he quotes as follows:
Whatever may be the fate of the
present suggestion, the undersigned can
not permit himself to doubt that the time
VIII yet come when the propriety and the
WISDOM OF this measure will be fullv
recognized; and as he believes that Co.
Iumbla College is destined in the com
ing centuries to become so comprehensive
IN the scope Of her teaching as TO be able
to furnish to inqurers after truth the
instruction they may desire in whatever
branch Of human knowledge, he believes
also that she will become so catholic in
her llberality as to open widely her doors
to all lnquirers, without distinction either
of class or sex"
The suggestion, President Butler saws.
raised a storm of controversy, but that
a present
with the exception to be noted" men
and women have at Columbia exactly
the same privileges and opportunities
In undergraduate work they are taught
IN separate classes; Ein the graduate
schools however, and in the schools of
architecture, business, education. iour-
nallsm, medicine, pharmacy and prac
tical arts, as we'll as in extension teach
ing and IN the summer session. coinstruc-
ton as we'll as coeducation exists with
out exciting any more comment than
does the travelling together of men and
women in the same railway train
Then comes "the exception"--the law
school. DR.. Butler evidently feels that
the time has come when some sort of
official answer should be made to those
who ask why women are not permitted
TO study law, as they are permitted to
study everything else, at Columbia OF
course, no satisfactory answer is nossi-
BILE; what the president does is to fix
the blame on the law faculty and to sum
up, without Endorsement, the law fac
ulty's case. This, it seems, is what thew
say: That not many women desire legal
educaton that the few that do can
obtain it at other places; that "women
are not as we'll adapted for the study
OF law az for the study of architecturc
business, education, journalism, medicine.
pharmacy and practical arts" and that
were women admitted to the law school
"the highest type Of male student would
seek his legal education elsewhere"
In the first two arguments no attempt
Is made to show that the result Of ad-
mitting women would be bad; the law
faculty Is merely making the plea that
the injustice Of excluding them doesn't
work AZ much hardship as might be SUD-
posed. Az who should say "Truc.
nave your purse, but your expenses
aren't very large, and besides you've got
plenty OF money left" But. for the rnat-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
The Plan filtered

Ihe Berne conferences were ORIGINALLY
proposed conferences of citizens of the
Allied countries. BY device which we
cannot approve the purpose was covertlv
altered 50 to include the delegates Of
nations with which our countries were. and
technically still are, at war. While there
lore, the official peace conference is in ses
slon and before it had admitted representa-
tlves Of the Teutonic powers to particjDa-
ton therein, it was proposed that we should
sit side by side and face to face with
such representatives, call them comrades.
and IN this public way condone the hideous
and unforgettable crimes against humanity
and democracy committed by their nations
That IS what, for the present, we declined
to do
The peace deliberations are based unon
q programme of meeting the delegates of
the Central Powers only after the Allies
and the United States have agreed among
themselves and are in accord as to the
terms to be insisted upon at the peace
table. Commissions representing the AL
lies, the United States and other countries
interested are now sitting in Paris and
1t would seem the logical course. and we
were SO instructed by several conventions.
to present abor's demands at this time and
place Labor of the Central Empires has
the same equal right to present its demands
TO the commissions which will represent
those countries at the peace table
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Neto Yorb Tribune
Special Cable Cerptcs
York Tribune Inc.)

Copyright 1919, New York Tribune Inc)
nAR1S, Feb. 15.-Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation Of
Labor, has issued this statement of
the reasons why the American labor dele
cation refused to attend the Socialist con-
ference at Berne:
Owing to the distance between America
and Europe, and there having been no
united programme between the representa-
tives of organized labor in Continental
Europe and Great Britain detailed CORE
spondence in reference to the united pro-
cedure of all parties concerned at the
present time was next to impossible For
these reasons the delegation representing
organized labor in the United States went
to London and Paris to enter into prelimi-
nary conferences with other groups Of labor
representatives to bring about an Allied
convention in Paris
AT the labor meeting in London in Sep
tember, 1918, agreement was reached
that as soon as possible after peace was
declared In Europe there should be con-
ference called of labor representatives of
the inter-Allied countries and America and
convened at the same time and place as the
official peace conference. A group Of men
principally interested in several political
parties arranged a conference at Berne,
Switzerland, and at the same time assumed
to call, without authority, a labor conven-
tlon to be held at Berne concurrently with
the political convention
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
In Defence of Dr.. Simons
0 the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
v OUR article on Page Of FebrusF
4 IS, under the caption "Simons lnae'
curate,'' is welcome revelation Of the
sources of Bolsheyism in this country. It i
fortunate, indeed, when we smoke OF
the hidden enemies into the open MAKE
them declare themselves and leave It
the American people to say whether OF NO.
we want them and their doctrine 10 90 uA'
challenged. 1t is to be hoped that tas
Department of Justice VIII not neglect INC
opportunity to make a list Of all who os-
fend the wholesale robbery and massacre
that are still going on in Russia under INC
name of Bolshevism.
The writer hereof was United States zoe
sui in Petrograd from 1909 til 1914, ms'n'
under the Taft Administration, and "a'
personally acquainted with Or. George J"
Simons, head Of the Methodist Episcop'
Mission to Russia He is in position y
state. not only upon his own persons
knowledge but the consensus OF opih'0"
of the better elements Of the AmeF'eS.
colony in Petrograd, that the character y
DR.. Simons Is above reproach. HIS s'as'
ments are entitled to be taken literally .
this connection, especially since they
expressed with cautious reserve IN fas'e'
ing the blame only on the "epostate 'e"''
The writer hereof has returned three ssf
arate times TO Russia since the war oeS'"
and believes that no American VIII quee
ton the accuracy of the statements OF -
S.monS before the Senate committee s'
certainly no one who knows him can a'''
tion his honesty. j. +. CONNhN'
Formerly u. S. Consul in Petrogrs~
Staten Island. N. Y. Feb. la. xRlA .116ua
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
The Injunction to Silence

In his cablegram requesting Congress
not to debate until after his return the
tentative league project which has been
reported to the Paris conference for fur
ther consideration the President refrains
from laying an embargo on discussion
outside Of Congress. 1t is true, it may
be argued, that a general embargo is
implied-that if Congress is to sit in
silence others with even less right to
speak should do the same. But there is
no express command to this effect.
1t is probably just as we'll Expert
ence has shown 4 democracy is not
organized for a universal closing of
lips. Counsel to be stonily taciturn
may be good but its mandate is not cas-
lily imposed. The notion that public bust
ness is d concern of the public may be
4 weakness, but it is seemingly ineradi-
cable. This was shown when the request
went out for neutrality in thought as
we'll as IN act. The President acts wisely
in avoiding attempting to achieve
the impossible and in summoning his
philosophy to assist him to endure in
mains in which men of terrestrial minds
should. like good children, be seen and
not heard, bat it is not possible to apply
the rule absolutely.
And with the country infected with
speech it is to be feared Congress will
not be able to keep out the disease. It
is the habit of Congressman to talk, and
this ruling passion is so strong that it
may be predicted some members will
take chance with the espionage law.
Inc phrase open covenants of peace
openly arrived att unfortunately gives
an excuse. Congress and the country are
officially Informed that there is a good
and sufficient reason for the phraseology
and substance of each article; )" but, alas,
skeptics and heretics will not accept this
claim of verbal Inspiration, and will
assert q right to blaspheme against at
least d comma or Two.
With the grace it can command the
country must reconcile itself to the in
evitability of discussion of the Paris
document. Some are so stupid as not to
be able to get at its true meanings and
honestly seek information. They face
what seems to them an obscurely writ
ten instrument, and note that, while
some Of its articles read like a constitu-
ton, others read like an argument, or
cen stump speech. To some the
scheme is Objectionable as merely for
near-league, while others think it goes
so far as to collide with our Constitution.
The President praises it as "a vehicle of
iife,' not 'stratjacket," but not
few want a straitiacket for the war
mad. Others following the example of
smile making, declare they behold a cart
before horse, with no harness on the
horse; or say the transmission gears do
not mesh, or that there is a motor with
out sparkling system.
Much Of the debate will doubtless be
foolish and inconsequential. Things will
be said that might better be left un-
said. But, notwithstanding the general
desire to coincide and to follow. it is
not IN the nature of the noisy, dispu-
tatlous American people to paddock their
mouths, and, if it be treason to discuss.
treason Will be common.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Berne a German Trap
Gompers E~ploims Stunned Cone

place Of meeting owing to the fact of the
peace terms not yet being prepared and
signed, and it therefore would not have
been automatically proper or advisable to
have German, Austrian and Bulgarian dele
gates at a meeting held in Paris.
"ln addition to this, the American dele
gaclon considered that if such conven-
tlon hoped to have influence with the of
hclal peace commissioners now sitting in
faris' Its purposes would not have been
enhanced and might even have been largely
hampered if labor conditions and pro-
Visions were submitted in which labor dele
gates representing countries which had
composed the Central Powers in the war
had participated, for it would have been
obvious then that the proposals submitted
were largely German made
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
SatO No Good in 1t

Had we overlooked the irregular man
ner of calling the Berne conference and
the fact that 1t was called to be held in
neutral instead of an Allied country and
decided to go to Berne, where would the
commissions of the Allies and the United
State get a truly bona tidc statement Of
Allied and American labor demands? We
declare the Berne conference to he ~
regular in conception, and can conceive of
no good which would result from our at
tendance.
FOR these reasons the American labor
delegation concluded not to participate in
the Berne convention. The Belgian labor
delegation also concluded not to attend ,
However, IN order to be as useful and con-
structlve as possible, the American delega-
ton proposed that a convention be vet held
ut Paris at the earliest possible date of the
labor delegations from America and renre
sentatlves OF organized labor in Allied
countries. This was approved by the Bel
glan delegates and may yet be held. for
there Is nothing the representatives of or
ganized labor in America and the Allied
countries need go to neutral country 70
discuss.
Besides, such action would be. as al
ready stated, in accordance with the oric-
mai course mapped out 1t would also
AFFORD opportunity from time to time IN
take action while such convention was in
session at close range, with the delibera-
tons of the interAllied delegates sitting
In Paris.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Won't Meet Germans Nosc

THE delegation from America is not en-
urely opposed to going into conference with
the delegates of the Central countries, but
they believe the present is not the appro-
pirate time to do so, and that when the
peace commissioners have 20 far proceeded
with their deliberations that they can in
vlte the representatives of the Central
Powers to sit with them and to sign the
terms, that would instead be the opportune
time. or as soon as possible thereafter, to
lold q great general labor convention for
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

Copyright 1919 New York Tribune 1nc)
u ONDON, Feb. 1l-Tte Daily News m
February 4 printed the folIow,ne
dispatch from its New York cor,e.
spondent:
"At time when concord seems mos,
desirable the Hearst papers have start,s
campaign TO blacken England and urcs
Americans to build not merely big nsyv
but the biggest navy. A cablegram IN IT..
Ne1O York American from G. B. Shaw YES.
terday helps to promote the discord by tho
suggestion that the British command of
the seas Is dangerous to the United State,
Shaw cables from London: 'All diplom,.
lists, however much they sympathize with
Wilson, must prepare for the next war
as means of avoiding it, knowing well
all the time that such preparation IN the
end will get on the nerves OF all the powers
and precipitate catastrophe The United
States, for instance, will have to place
herself in position to face the combined
fleets Of Great Britain and Japan. Japan
will have to place herself in a position
to face the combined fleets Of Great
Britain and the United States
1T Is not merely Shaw's articles which
SOW the discord but their headlines arc
cunningly devised to produce the impress
sion that there has bten plot in England
to destroy Germany Anybody who ap-
preciates conditions here will agree with
an article in The New York Tribune. Mead
ed Hearst Versus England Nothing more
abominable or cunningly devised to create
disharmony between America and its
allies had perhaps ever appeared in
Hearst's newspapers says The Tribune.
and there are other criticisms, equally lust.
denouncing the poison gas which is bein.
sent through Hearsts organizations
throughout the country.
One of the questions is whether Shaw.
if he knew the foul use to which his writ
ings are being put by the Hearst news
papers, would lend his name TO an or
gained campaign to promote bad feeling
between the two countries at a time when
they are officially associated among others
in state of war with Germany"
On the same day The Loadon Times print
ID the following from its New York CORE
pondent:
"Sir II. Darlington Smiths recent warning
of the existence in this country Of wide
spread propaganda 10 create enIaity be-
tween America and the Allies has been en-
phasized during The last few days by the
publication by Hearst Of sensational al
tacks on the reimposition by the British
government of war restrictions on IN
ports. Outside Of the Hearst papers.
which call for a retaliatogy embargo OF
exports of raw materials from the United
States, the measures planned by the British
government have been everywhere received
with sympathetic understanding of their
necessity.
THE New York Tribune today devotes
an editorial to the Poison Gas employed
by The American and other organs cor
trolled by Hearst.
Among other weapons used TO fomen.
ill-feeling between the TWO countries is
series of articles by Bernard Shaw
whose idea is apparently to show by
clever manipulation Of phrases how much
England was to blame for the war. Shaw'
efusions are displayed with gusto not
only by Fearst's newspapers but also by
the German-American newspapers notably
by the .St0ats Zestun0."
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
The Coming 7ower
FROM A FULL HEART

FROM A FULL HEART
"A 4 Milne IN Punch. CRepYoNshed b. .roent
and frequent reQusst)l
In days Of peace my fellow-men
Rightly regarded me as more like
Bishop than Major-G Gen,
And nothing since has made me warlike;
But when this age-long struggle ends
And ! have seen the Allies dish up
The goose Of Hindenburg- friends!
| shall out-bish the mildest Bishop.
When the War is over and the Kaisey's out
Of print
I'm going to buy some tortoises ond .oatch
tho 6eggars sprint;
When the War is oper and the stoord at last
sheothe
I'm going to keep jslly-fsh and listen to
it breathe.
/ never really 1onged for gore,
And any taste for red corpuscles
That fingered with me left before
The German troops had entered Brussels
In early days the Colone's "'Shun!"
Froze me; and the war grew older
The noise of some one else's gun
Left me considerably colder.
When the War is over and the battle hos
been won
I'm going to bny q bornacle and toke IL
for run;
When tho War is oper and tho German
feet tUc sink
I'm going to keep u silkworms egg and
listen to it think.
The Captains and the Kings depart
1t may be so, but not lieutenants;
Dawn after weary dawn I start
The never ending round of penance,
One rock amid the welter stands
On which my gaze is fixed intently:
An afterlife in quiet lands
Lived very lazily and gently
When the Var is over and ueve done the
Bclgians proud
Tn, going to keep chyysaNs aud read To
it aloud;
When the War is over and soe're finished
up the aho,D
I'm going to plant lemon pip and listen
to it grow.
Oh, I'm tired Of the noise and the turmoil
of BATTLE
And Pm even upset by the lowing Of
cattle,
And the clang Of the bluebells Is death
to my liver,
And the roar of the dandelion gives me
shivcr,
And a glacier, in movement, is much too
exciting,
And I'm nervous, when standing on one.
Of alighting-
Give me Peace; that is all, that is all that
] seek.
Say, starting on Saturday week.
the manufacture of skates and sleds might
have been used to smooth the Russian
waves. The open winter is obviously Boil
shevik propaganda.
If all the ice used for chilling cocktails
were placed end to end, it would reach
across the Canadian border; and after july
probably it will
If you want to be convinced of the
spumousness of friendships inspired and
nurtured by drink, re-rcad Mr. Stacy Au-
monlers story "The Friends"
And II you want to be convinced that a
poozeless world is too gray for endurance.
re-rcad Mr.. Jack London's "John Barley
corn"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Love Finds a New Wav
From The SpringGetd Rcpublico,, ,

The honeymoon express" is the name Of
an airplane on exhibition at New York. It
IS claboratcly upholstered and has n tele-
phone between bride, bridegroom and pilot
windshield and other novel hxings The
bicycle built for two, how far in the distant
past
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
For The Germans

Several conferences were held in Paris.
but owing to some misunderstanding in
reference to the time of holding the Paris
conference, the British representatives did
not attend. Instead, they sent letter in
dcating friendiness. to the purposes of the
meeting. At the London and Paris confer
ences 1t was evident that the British and
French representatives had already con-
cluded to attend the Bernc conference. al
though admitting the irregular course pur-
sued in convening it.
"The American delegation thus ascer-
tanned that the purpose of tho meeting at
Berne was because delegates Of the Cen
tral Powers had been invited and would be
present, and that the main reason for the
berne meeting WAS the purpose of arrang-
ing Socialist procedure Of an international
GkkxAetvEs Bexne had been selectod an tho
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Another IIatchet Story

- ''FN"'fVt sJfVIJ
hFro,n Tho Otfa,on Cffsen)
f'nal'y the whole u. S. became Carrie
kAtionnlized.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Sought a Conference

'The situation becoming known to the
American labor delegation, the members
thereof sought a conference in London with
the representatives of organized labor in
Great Britain, inviting French labor repre-
sentatives also to attend In this way the
American delegates expected to bring about
a convention in Paris, where the official
peace conference is now sitting, which ac-
tion would not only have been in accord
with the decision reached in London last
September, but in full accord with the
action of all at several conventions, in
which it was decided to send representa-
tives at the same time and place as the
official peace commissioners would be
sitting
This action, we'll as the decision OF
the September London convention, was pri-
marly and chiefly prearranged in order to
bring all possible influence upon the peace
commissioners, and in general way in
corporate In their conclusions conditions
which the representatives of organized
labor expected would not only benefit the
workers of the Allied countries and
America, but also similarly all workers
throughout Europe, and in very great
measure influence progressive and lust
policies in behalf of all the workers of the
world.
"A conference was held in London be-
tween the American delegates and the
Parliamentary committee Of the British
Trades Union Congress, at which the in
formation was given that the French labor
representatives above referred to deemed
1t unnecessary for them to visit London be
cause the American and British labor rep
resentatives would be Immediately in
France at Paris, at which time the confer
ence which had been suggested for London
could be convened, perhaps informally, but
with the hope of arriving at course OF
procedure which would be mutually salts
factory to organized labor as represented
by the three groups Of delegates
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

And if you want to be convinced that a
Doozeless world is too gray for endurance,
re-rcad Mr. Jack London's "John Barley
corn"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

If You want to be convinced of the
spuriousness of friendships inspired and
nurtured by drink, re-rcad Mr. Stacy Au-
monier's story "The Friends"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Assassins of Victory
New York Tribune
+ Aropedn Burequ

TIT "ptuH bureau
Copyright. 1912 New York Tribune Inc)
oNDoN, Feb. 1l.-Tte Daily Neus Or
February printed the follow,,e
dispatch from its New York cor,a
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

"Why,' nsks the Simmons Bed adver-
tiscmcnt, rhetorically, 'do people sleep 2"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

Submitted, by Carolyn, a last loan las,
line: "Now that you have found the wav
come again"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

If all the ice used for chilling cocktails
were placed end to end, it would reach
across the Canadian border; and after july
l probably it will.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

The energy and material that went into
the manufacture of skates and sleds might
have been used to smooth the Russian
waves. The open winter is obviously Boil
shevik propaganda
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
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YOU ran uurchsso merchandise advcot.ed In THs
'R6uNs with absolute saet-tor II dissatisfaction re-
sus IN any case TH6 TRIBUNE guarantees to your
money back upon request No red No auibbllns.
We make good promotS II the sdysrtIser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-17

AS to the traditional garrulity of women
it is our observation that women elevator
runners tend wholly to their Jobs whi,.
men talk every chance they get