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some value. What the ambassadors say
or do will be determined by their home
governments, but delegates are to assem-
BILE. Heretofore such congresses have
met, but it was first necessary to get
consent to meeting. Hereafter assem-
bly, will be automatic. This may not be
much, but is something. Had Austria
Hungary been brought before an areopa
gus the war might not have occurred.
BY itself an agreement to dispatch
ambassadors to common meeting place
does not seem out of step with our tradi-
tions We have sent representatives to
the Hague, and there is no great depart
ure in agreeing to send delegates at regu
lar intervals.
But those provisions Of the covenant
which threaten national liberty must be
altered and circumscribed. Article X
must be made to conform to those prin-
ciples of American policy which cannot
be surrendered. The Monroe Doctrine
must be adequately reaffirmed These
and other essential notifications can be
made, it would seem, by reservations,
without imperilling the treaty as whole
Such has been our practice when deal
ing with treaties to which many nations
are parties. Such is the practice of other
nations, dictated by common sense.
Thus conciliation may be possible be-
tween those who would save the good
there is in the covenant and at the same
time not derogate from our sovereignty
or lay on us an obligation to get into
every quarrel in the world. We shall
perhaps be able to see this clearly when
we have the text of the treaty.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-30
Fugitive Money

The junta that organized itself into a
constitutional" government of Mexico
has now become emboldened to extend
It's activities to the United States 1t
has attempted to take for it's own use
from New York bank money deposited
there by the British owned London Bank
of Mexico, which the junta has declared
IN liquidation after Selling it's assets.
The story of the wrecking of the Lon
don B;nk in 1916 by the Carranza gov
ernment has been published before; it
now reappears with new details in an
injunction proceeding in the Supreme
Court Of New York. The cx-manaeer,
who deposes he was imprisoned and
threatened with death by firing squad
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A Phone er Voyage
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 tne EQltor or Ihe Tribune
Sir: Why is it that in the exciten.,.
the transatlantic flight no mention h..
made of rse feat attempted by Waltz, N
man, October 10, 1910, when, in tbs ..
America, he left Atlantic City bovns
Europe? Surely my father was the ~.
IN this undertaking. His attempt ~
the Atlantic by dirigible was equally ask.
and as hazardous as the fight of aero.,s
in the present contest-more 50. W.
considers the progress in aircraft m.a.
nine years.
The airship America carried bes;s.
father, crew of five men, all will;,.
eager to risk their lives for the b.ns
adventure and curiosity which nav
science. The America in all travs,,aa :,
thousand miles at sea- making ,s,s'
for her type of aircraft. Her voyavs
three days and nights, when one a,
motors got out of order: this bs,s'
and terrific wind from the tron;cs
continuance of the voyage imposs;h,.
though all men aboard were eager to % Il
in spite of almost certain death o.
Finally the airship was abandoned f.. :.
lifeboat, which hung beneath her. and u A.
the crew was picked up by the steamer IT,.
from Bermuda. (The same shin which A.
ing the Civil War, came to the asss,s.
of the rebels).
In his book. "The Aerial Age" nv ;a,..
writes:
Good old Anne erica, farewell Thanh a..
for the noble comrades and rare experisr..
you have brought me, for the lessons -.
have taught us. In the years to come man.
aircraft will cross the Atlantic and Won Nh
be honored as the ship that showed a.
way"
visited my fathers camp.fn Spitzbers,
where he had hangar built for the a.,
America, in which he made an attempt {
reach the North Pole. I remember be,.
much moved by seeing there unnOtis,;
among the activities of building and prepan.
ton for the voyage into the unknown. III.
grave of Major Andre, who died in Ii.
attempt to discover the Pole in an antiouats
flying machine.
1t is the spirit of such men as Andre. such
men as the crew of the America who sham
in the glory of the flight to-day. Nan
accomplishes nothing alone With the cour.
ageous, splendid young men who have set
upon this present voyage of the air ride
whole host of fiery spirits who fill ther
hearts and souls with the eagerness Of thss
own fame of adventure
RITA WELLMAN.
New York, May 27. 1919
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From Combat Divisions

Over so per cent of the Coblenz NJ. P.s
are ex-members of combat divisions. In
company alone there are seventy five
wound stripes. The NJ. P. here in Germany
must know rules of general duties,
eleven special rules and sixty-nne traffic
and road regulations. He must not only
know them, but know how to interpret them
and enforce them intelligently. They have.
brought hundreds of German violators of
American military law to justice and on
March II, by the most clever handling of
a most tckish situation, frustrated an at
tempt the part of Spartacist agitators
to seize the property OF the local German
government. While two companies-about
500 men-remained in reserve armed with
Browning machine guns, others of the force
quietly located and arrested the leaders
before they could put their plans into op-
Grafton. Confessions and jail sentences
followed
The excellent work of the battalion has
been commended by General Pershings
headquarters, and letter from the Pro-
vost Marshal General, speaking of re-
cent inspection, says:
"The inspection indicated that both Off
GERS and men taking that pride in or
ganization and accomplishment which is
more than justified by their recent records
for good work done under trying conditions
and by the reputation that they have won
for smartness, courtesy and helpfulness,
as well as efficiency in enforcing and OBJ
servance of regulations"
The Coblenz police force is under super
vision Of Lieutenant Colonel j. L. Dodge
and its immediate police chief is Major
Cockriel. Both have horse sense and are
not hampered by politics. Their horse
sense policy has made remarkable record.
American police chiefs please take notice.
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before he consented to divulge the COM
bination of the London Banks vaults,
sues to enjoin the New York representa-
tive Of the Carranza government from
withdrawing the banks deposits in New
York and shows how the liquidation"
was brought about.
But the junta argues that it has been
recognized by the American government
as the de jatre government of Mexico,
and that, as such, it may abstract the
funds of banks it is "liquidating," and
that the violent measures it took to drive
the bank into liquidation are Irrelevant
If men steal as individuals they must
pay and mend their ways.
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Lincoln;s Gettysburg Speech

address the Dedication
Fouore
continent nation, liberty dedicated prop
q men created
NoU engaged civil hether that nation,
nation
great battlefield of
the final resting gaze
nation might lice
But large
houow this living
ged
a0ord oW little
they for u.s. Jvng
dedicated here
remaining before that honored
for they gaze fall measure of
highly
God, haueu of freedom
of the people, by the people, the
the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-30

In April the favorable trade balance
of the United States (thc excess of ex-
ports over imports of merchandise
with Europe, was .S457, 100000. At
that rate the balance for the remainder
of this year would exceed So 500 ,OOO.O 900.
Not all Of this balance can be charged
against our European customers, how
ever, since the trade statistics include
exports for government account to the
extent that such exports are transported
in privately owned ships. But certainly
Europe's debit balance for the rest of
the year, at the current rate, would be
not less than S3,0O0,O00,00O. In addition
Europe must pay this country at least
$4,000 100000 in interest and meet more
than $70o,ooo,ooO of maturing obliga-
tions--a total exceeding $4,2O0O00 900.
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Denmark Temperance Beer

To the Editor of The Tribune. !.
Sir: My attention has been drawn :
your article on the first page of the ~.
York Tribune on May "a, in the latter -, y.
of which you write that ! have saia ~
"A per cent beer was a temperance 0'...
in Denmark and recommended by the ". !.
abstinence societies. I most emphs1''a'i,
protest against this statement, whish
have never made have made statsmTs
however, that since 1904 tax free ~
that is, beer containing Pa per CEN !
alcohol by weight, has become the p
vailing and popular drink in Denmark s,
The Danish societies formed to promote ~.
abstinence are not opposed to these 70" : !.
coholic beers and permit their members !. !.
drink them because they are not resa'S''
as intoxcants." GEORG BEtn,
Consul General of Denms'~
New York, May 81, 1919.
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Anti-FraternizatiOn

Here is an example: Last January an
American woman who writes for a maga-
zine obtained credentials to visit Coblenz
in civilian clothes. With officer, whose
duty it was to conduct visitors about the
area, she was riding one day in an open
carriage driven by German hackman. AS
the carriage passed a busy corner near
Third Army Headquarters a military traffic
policeman spotted the couple He left his
post and, coming to the carriage, used vile
language, ordering the officer from the car
rage He mistook the American woman for
German civilian, and believing that the
officer openly violating anti-fraterniza-
tion laws, which he had been instructed to
enforce, he put all the profane emphas sis
into his order that he could think of. He
was one of the first weeds pulled from the
military police force Of Coblenz. The off,
merely maintained his dignity and
reported the case.
A parallel incident which occurred a few
days ago illustrates how to distinguish the
weed" from the healthy young vegetable
An American officer accompanied by an
other American woman in civilian garb
passed a military policeman on Rhine
strasse, within block of the January in
cdent. The M. P. stepped up to the off,
Ger. saluted and asked courteously:
pardon me, sir, but is this lady an
Americana"
The officer answered in the affirmative
and the American woman talked to the po-
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4 " Weeding-Ouf System

Here, with the most difficult problems an
comparatively brief military history, in
the largest city Americans have ever been
called upon to administer, the policing
problem has been solved by the wedding
out system. Military laws have, in the
emergency of war, taken the politics out of
policing Unhampered by politics, and
caring not whether weed pulling trampled-
on political toes, or any variety of toes
men with horse sense have created q police
force Of LOOT men and As officers in
Cobenz a clean-cut, youthful body of men,
each man wearing the red armband in
sigma of authority, that does the high est
credit to America and Americans.
An average of $4,000 American soldiers
from the outlying districts of the Amer
lean area come to Coblenz every week to
see the town. Thousands permanently
stationed in the city. During the Third
Armys carnival, recently, 10000 visitors
daily hocked the streets and carnival
grounds Normally, since December, nearly
100000 German civilians have come under
American military police regulations. And
so far as known not one case of clubbing,
shooting or needless brutality has been
Americans There are hundreds of cases,
however, in which intelligence, tact and
the proper perspective have solved prob
lens that might have developed into police
court cases.
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1t was said in Washington yesterday that
Hawker is better fier than speaker
Which is undoubtedly true. Almost any
body is better whatever his -job-is than
ne is a speaker. yet the cGcoethos loquendi
is not easily subdued. The desire to listen
however, is harder to understand than the
passion to speak. An incredibly low per
centage who speak have anything to say,
and even fewer persons say their little
we'll; yet there is no dminution in those
gluttons for punishment who want to
listen and pay good currency for the So
called privilege.
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The Coming Tower
THE PATRIOTS LAMENT

By 3. RAND SKITrLEs.
When, beneath the waves, autocratic
Pirate dragged the helpless and the weak,
This was not the bard to linger static,
Begging him to slap the other cheek.
This was no meek dreamer who insisted
Patience ought to be the Nations part
Nay indeed this warrior enlisted
At the start.
Two long years have passed-but not Of glory
No bold deeds of mine are told in type
No one pleads with to hear the story
OF the winning of the silver stripe.
l can tell of no carousals CHEEKY
On Partisan cognac rhum, beer
l have fought the fight of Armchair Theory
Over Here.
Though I'm not the to start bewang
When l fail in getting my discharge,
Though it may have been delayed in mailing
Though the list is doubtless very large
Still there's grave point of which I'm
thinking
If I don't get civvies by and by
How can l get caught up with my drinking
Ere July?
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Mornings after

No in America would blame an Amer
lean soldier after weeks IN soli-
tary German village somewhere in the
bridgehead, if he came to Coblenz leave
for day and augmented his joy of free
dom somewhat with a few bottles of Rhine
wine. No one denies him that right if he
feels that all the American attractions
shows, movies, sightseeing etc.-in Co.
blenz do not suffice to make perfect day
And if he feels as very many have, that
he would like to stir up little excitement
by licking the "cop," he will find the cop
handy on most any corner of Coblenz. And
about ninety nine times out of 100 now
adays he will find that "cop" a very
amenable person, sporting a wound stripe
or two and couple or three service stripes,
with a disposition to talk it over and make
friends, as against one whose powerful
right arm itches for an excuse to try out
his club. Tact and persuasion usually bring
results, but if otherwise, the BLACK Ma
ria,' a renovated ambulance, comes and
takes the wandering subject to the mill
tary police barracks. Here he gets bed,
and the morning after the night before he
gets a piping hot breakfast with plenty of
coffee and is shown the way home.
For the benefit of prohibitionists at
home, the above is not an admission that
American soldiers get drunk. No city of
occupied Germany can boast of less inebria-
tion and none is more orderly or intell-
gently handled. Horse sense has brought
back the good name of the NJ. P. with the
100000 odd American troops in Germany
to-day. Ask any doughboy and he will
venture his opinion that M. P.s "up here"
aren't the that he encountered else
where during the war. And likewise, they
are not the same that one encounters even
to-day in Paris. During the war, however,
the wedding out system impossible,
with the need of every man at the front
Weeds fourshed and grew rank and there
sprang up an antagonism between ordinary
soldiers and M. P.'s that many of the for
mer will carry to the grave. But those who
came to Germany have learned that the
"weeded" NJ P.s of Coblenz are not so
bad after all
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

r Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the
or republication OF all dispatches credited to 1t
aot otherwise credited in this and also the local
OF Spontaneous origin published herein.
Al rights republication all other herein
also
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M. z. s on the Rhine
By Wilbur Forrest
(Staf Correspondent of The Tyibune)

liceman just to demonstrate her identity
with an American accent. The NJ. P. sa-
luted again, made an unnecessary apology
and the incident was closed. There was
no weed" in him.
Some weeks ago a party of Germans
were walking along residential street
singing songs which indicated that they
might be en- route home from cafe. An
NJ. P. approached and upbraided them in
language they did not understand, perhaps
but which would have recalled to four
legged American hybrid all the scenes of
his old Missouri home. Such language
might have sounded sweet to a Missouri
mule, but it had the opposite effect on an
American officer who chanced to be in ear
shot. Another weed was pulled from the
Coblenz police force the following morning
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" OBLENZ, Germany, May 10.-The
1 largest single battalion of military
police in the American army, and the
cleanest cut, snappiest-a appearing aggrega-
CATION of intelligent American youth, gath
cred together anywhere in Europe, is the
outgrowth here to-day of a police system
that might be studied and copied to ad
vantage for peace times in any American
municipality.
Some day laws may be made in some of
United States cleverly drawn and
phrased that politics shall forever be d
vorced from forces of men who are picked
to uphold the law; that their chief requ
sites shall not be breadth of neck, girth of
chest, steel biceps and powerful underpin-
ming, but, additionally, breadth Of vision,
clear Judgment, a fair amount Of tact and
power to command respect without threat
enng brutal force If such laws were
effective the job of policing would become
easier, ingrown prejudces the part Of
certain of the populace would subside and
minions of the law would find themselves
able to other powers Of persuasion
than club gun. That persuasion would
be horse sense handling Of about 80 per
cent of cases who, after thus being han
died, would cease to be cases at all, but
persons going their way with heightened
respect for the "cop." To reach such
police utopia" it would require above and
apart from all qualifications careful
wedding out, such as a suburbanite might
give his spring onions in their infancy
But municipal politics and wedding of the
police garden patch usually mix about
we'll as oil and water; hence the desirable
ity of laws divorcing police from politics.
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You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
tRlBUNs With absolute safety-for II dissatisfaction re.
sclts In THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
money bask request. No red tape. No uubbllno.
"e make good promptly If the advertiser does not
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"ln the Middle West Ralph Barton in
forms us (and our recollection is that we
used to guy the Miwaukeeans for saying
"h'rcd girl'), cit is only persons of foreign
extraction who say ice cream, screen door
and apple pie
New-York tribune., 1919-05-30

1t is rather snippy of us to speak
slightingly of the Army's cleamess in let
ter writing. just because we are unable to
interpret the sentence that a correct in
terpretation of compiled with would Sc
cure the additional pay for US that we have
written to the Zone Finance officer about
New-York tribune., 1919-05-30

Europe is buying more uxuries than
productive machinery, as American ex-
port statistics prove.
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ADD LITERARY HOTELS

Sir Yes, my dear. and how about the Emer-
son in Baltimore; the King James in Pha-
dephia (evidentIy named for the author of the
Counterblaste to Tobacco) and by no means
leasU Morleys Hotel in London?
CHRISTOPHER Morley
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Not that $4,000 is what Mr.. Tarking-
toms Rupe Collins would call Big Money,
considering the uses Mr.. Harry Hawker
may have for it.
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Stu-rangers are we,
From far DER the sea,
A notion we took to roam;
Wen tu-ry anda do
A step or two
That We learnt IN our old Irish home.

Tell W. L. P.," writes Miss Irene
Franklin. chat the song I sang at the
Masonic Temple was 4 Don't Like No Cheap
Man. and that the young man who played
the 'dog-hous was snuck up on one dark
night and married by my aunt"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-30

Our revered composing room, in col
lusion with our hardly less worshipped
proofroom, speaks of "President Wilson'S
fourteen joints"
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New York Corporation. Ogden Reid, President: g.
Werner Rogers. Vice President Helen Rogers Reid. Secre-
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AS, for instance, his initiation fee int
the Bum Sports Club f. p. A.
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1t July 18th, 1857, and mighty hot
weather." wrote Mr.. Pepys. "lt is an odd
and sad thing to say" he wrote, chat
though this be peace worse than we had
before, yet everybody's fear almost is, that
the Dutch will not stand by their promise,
now the King hath consented to all thew
would have we are not able to
make the Dutch keep it, when they have
a mind to break it,
Well, the Salvation Army got its
$13,000000; and until further notice the
only drives we shall take interest in will
be of the forehand variety
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FOREIGN RATE
GUARANTEE

Entered the Possoface at New Second Glass
Mail Matte
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Variety's Golden Days

Lotte Gibson, "Ta- Ra- Ra- Boom-D De-Ayo-ng
herself to fame Ramon Moore, stepping
forth from the white-face section of the
semlcircle of Thatcher, Primrose and
Vests Mnstrels to delight us with his
sweet-voiced rendition of his own imper-
ishable "Sweet Marie; hear also dainty
miss, complaining to her sympathetic
listeners that Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me
Bow Wow!" My memory calls her Carrie
De Mar, but the skeleton creaks so noslv
| cannot be sure
The coming to my town, this week, of
the Sailor Boys from the Newport Training
Station, in their remarkably fine presenta
ton Of "jack and the Beanstalk," carries
me back to the time when never missed
a chance to feast my youthful eyes on the
generously revealed charms of Madge
Lesslng, who played Jack to the Mis-
tress Mary of Maude Hollns After that
came "1492," with Richard Harlow as Isa-
bella, "The Queen of High Society,"" as
his principal song put it; Edward M. Favor,
who as the Court Jester returned from his
voyage to the world and explained to
his Queen that he would have brought her
more souvenirs but for the fact that usual
ly the man was looking, or the stuff was
nailed down.
AS I close my eyes | clearly see plump,
pert little Merri Osborne. perched on a
table, in one of the Matthews and Bulger
pieces, grooming the then popular ditty,
Ut lOur arms around Ne Honey, Love
Me Little, Love Ne Long" playing her own
accompaniment on q guitar. | can see too
the clothes Sherrie Matthews used to wear,
with the coat-tals way below his knees,
and Bulger stroiling up to the bar and
tossing down frequent lbations of dog
poison with unmistakable relish
Where is there to-day pair whose popu-
larlty even approaches that of Minnie Ash
ley and James T. Powers in "San Tov"?
Who of our glorious youth will ever forget
how Pauline Hall and Della Fox soothed
the tired business man when they donned
"boys' clothes, they called them then ,
Pauline with her tray of dolls and Della
in her wonderful blue tights elbow on
knee, cigarette in her dainty fingers, as
she stood with one foot on q bench vocaliz-
ing about "a Pretty Girl, a Summer Night"
will ever be bright spots in my memory
STAT.
There was, of course, much base metal
in those golden days. There was a pre-
ponderance of statue-clogging and aero
batic acts; they always used to bore u.s.
One team Of dancers they did four turns
between 1890 p. m. and p. m.,, three of
which we used to see-had a song that
went
Stu-rangers are we
From far Ser the sea-
A notion took to roam;
Well tu-ry anda do
step
That we learnt IN our old Irish home.