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New-York tribune., 1919-08-28

pass from Germany to Holland, from
Switzerland to Italy with hardly more
formalities than one experiences in
crossing from Manhattan to Hoboken.
Pre-war prices may never return; pre-
war freedom of movement will be re-
stored very gradually. Yet there can be
no doubt that, after period of read
Justment, European travel will again
flourish. The war has destroyed facli-
ties and eliminated points of contact; it
has also created new interests and in
ducements. Probably the only country
whose yearly outflow of tourists will
show decrease for some time to come
will be Germany, owing, above all, to the
rate of exchange. But those who have
known the type Of rucksack-
horidfaced, heavy-booted Prussian or
Saxon traveller, with his gutturals, bois-
ferrous, domineering manners and beer
drinking, will be hardly sorry for his con-
tinued absence from an Alpine sunrise
or the terrace of Palermo hosiery
overlooking the azure Mediterranean.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
The Bulgarian ENHANCEMENT

American participation in the Bull
garian treaty, fantastic in itself, has
been pushed to the fantastic extreme of
imposing territorial settlements on the
powers to which Bulgaria surrendered.
Thus nation which declined to fight
Germanys Balkan ally and remained on
terms of concord with the government
of the crafty and perfidious Ferdinand
is debating peace initiating against the
interests of the nations which suffered
from Bulgarias aggressions. Greece,
Serbia, Italy, Great Britain and France,
Bulgaria's opponents, have favored
settlement which would penalize Bulgaria
by transferring Western Thrace to
Greece. But the United States has in
terposed to protect Bulgaria by constitut-
ing another small internationalized state
another Albania--on the shore of the
Egean and granting Bulgaria special
rights Of access to the sea by way of
the Dedeagatch Railroad. Under this
arrangement only small part of the
western section of Western Thrace would
60 to Greece. and Bulgaria would retain
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
The Policeman's Pay

A New York policeman, selected alter
oassinp severe examination tests, gets
$3.50 in his first year, $1,45O IN his
second year and $3.50 in his third. This
represents an increase of only $3.50, or
Is per cent, since 1914.
Out of this compensation he must pay
5000 to $500 for Quitting, and the sub
seouent annual cost of uniforms is about
5000. If his coat is ripped in struggle
with a thug or his cap is perforated by
the bullet of highwayman he must re-
place it. In addition, he pays 81
month for his bed at the station house
end 81 for the blacked shoes required
at inspection. A further 2 per cent OF
his pay is automatically stopped to go
into the pension fund, and other insur-
ance funds and dues come to about $l4.5O
q month. SO a first year patrolman finds
his compensation shrinks from $3.50 a
week to $21.
For this he is on duty 101z hours,
seven days in the week, with further
demands when there is special duty.
Other men get $40 to $50 week for an
eight-hour day, six days in the week.
For nearly double the time per week
patrolman gets about half the pay.
The condition obviously can't last If
the police force is to be kept efficient
Already men are dropping out and there
5 report of poor stuff coming in. The
city will be driven to lower standards
and to accept weaklings to fill vacancies
f living wages are not soon paid. Look
out for graft, now practically eliminated,
when the force deteriorates.
Not for the sake of the policemen, for
hey-can get better jobs for the asking,
but for the sake of the city, the Board
Of Estimate should hasten to lift it's en-
barge against both the policemen and
the fremen. The rank and file of both
departments have shown remarkable
patience, but their just claims can no
longer be safely ignored.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Mr.. Mofett's 8 Landlord
the Editor of The Tribune.

T the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In view of the publicity given to
Cleveland Motfett's claim of profteerine on
house, 1853 East Fifty-sixth Street, will YOU
allow the writer, in justice to the owners
OF this estate, to present the actual facts?
The house rented to Mr. Moffett at
d very low figure, viz, $1,000, because he
was to make certain improvements to the
house. The actual rent of this house in
normal times is $1,000. At the termination
of Mr.. Motfetts lease $500 was asked. an
increase Of IS per cent above the actual
rental value of the house (not rs per cent.
as claimed by Mr.. Moffett) The rental
asked was subject to negotiation, as is usual.
and Mr.. Moffett, declining to negotiate. took
the matter up with the Mayors committee.
At this hearing the writer offered to give
Mr.. Motfett lease at $4,000, an increase
of but per cent This was refused. Finallv
lease of $4,000 was rendered; this was also
refused, which shows the arbitrary and nm
reasonable attitude taken by Mr. Moffett
In proof of this and as showing the present
value of this house, the writer. has offers
from two different parties ready to lease the
house for three years at $4,000 per wear
c. WALTER CUSHfER.
New York, Aug %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Travel in Europe

"The greatest travel boom in history"
is predicted for the year 1920 by an off,
cial of Cooks agency in London. AS
suming that travel facilities will be more
or less restored by next year, this expert
forecasts an unprecedented migration Of
American and English sightseers to the
battlefields Of Flanders and France. For
the time being, he says, the Continent of
Europe is "too much upset" to receive
and accommodate anything like the pre-
war number of tourists besides, pass
port measures and other red tape stuff
are still active as a damper on wander
lust Nevertheless, we are told, it is
quite probable that already this fall
Italy, in particular, will be visited by
swarms Of English admirers of the
classic land Of beauty and sunshine; and
in the cold months there will be big
rush to the winter sports of Switzerland.
Needless to say, travel in Europe will
never again be what it was. The times
when one could go from London to Lu-
cerne or Geneva. spend there week and
return, all for $25, fare and lodging and
board and everything, are gone. Italy,
Switzerland and, to lesser extent,
Scandinavia were the lands of promise
for the large hosts Of middle-cass tour
lists who wanted to spend short vacation
and get their moneys worth. Measured by
American standards, the inexpensveness
OF European sightseeing appears almost
incredible. One could get, for instance.
IN Belgium a railroad ticket, good for
one week, on all routes and in all direc-
tons, for something like two dollars. In
Swiss OR Danish summer hotel in the
midst Of Alpine glaciers or on the cool
shores OF the Baltic, one could find first
rate accommodation for the none too ex-
orbltant sum of a dollar day. For
those preferring cities Florence, Berne,
Zurich, Munich, Copenhagen, Dresden
and Brussels offered the best of every-
thing at rates which compared very
favorably not only with American but
even the proportionately much lower
English prices. French resorts were
just little more expensive; the German
watering places on the North Sea, with
the exception of two or three fashionable
places like Norderney or Sylt, were
ridiculously cheap. Even first-class CEN
tres like Ostend or Venice could be re-
garded as reasonable.
Foreign travel was the great pastime
and educational opportunity of the cul-
tured middle classes of Europe. There
were no passports, except in Russia--no
restrictions and inquiries, save for Gus
toms examination, more or less perfume
tory, on froAkisz stations. One could
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Bolsheuik Help
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
NIR: The answers to the letter Of ~r..,
- Mother" show the growth Of D.,
shevik sentiment in our midst 7. -
not surprising that the gentleman with 81
German name should consider it right and
proper that his wife (poor womanil sbou,1
not only bear many children, but sbor,s
scrub, bake, wash and iron as well D..
does this gentleman conduct his bu.;,..-
without clerks, stenographers or ofic. how,
And if so, on what scale is it done7
Tenement House Mother" rebuk.,
woman (who no doubt has the Amer;c..
idea that tenement may do to land in hrs
not to remain in) because sne criticises ~.
present exactions Of unframed dom..,;.
servants. She calls attention to the snFs,
ings of Belgian and French women dp,;,.
the war a reason why Tired Moths,.s
should continue uncomplainingly to nav
enormous wages for incompetent serv;..
This is the point of view which has don. ..
much to ruin our domestic service and :,
cidentally, home life. Every one in tb;,
world must work with either head or hand.
and each of US should and must do that n,
which capacity and training best fit him ~
her. 1t is only in Bolshevik Russia .b.,
equality of function is fully established a.
the lady from the tenements desires. Neitbs.
George Washington, Thomas jefferson nor
Theodore Roosevelt preached any doctrine
of that kind. 1t comes straight from Ia
nine and Trotzky.
1t is true that French and Belgian wome,
have endured everything during the war for
the love Of their country, but, believe ma
the housewives of France and Belgium ava
far too good domestic economists to nav
such wages as paid here fer incomns-
tent service.
The Teutonic gentleman and the tenement
house lady are illogical as egalitarians ara
apt to be. There is nothing very American
in a man making a beast Of burden of his
wife by refusing to Tighten her load Tha.
is Boche standpoint Nor is it American
to remain long dweler in tenements
America offers opportunity
AS to whether one prefers to spend ones
surplus in securing leisure for other tastes
by employing servants or whether one
spends it on movies" Ford cars. extrava-
CANT dress or any other way is question
that true liberalism will leave to individual
decision. Somebody cooks the gentleman's
breakfast. Why is a cook regarded with
such contempt in America? In France she
is highly respected, for she knows her trade
and earns her salary. What is the meaning
Of this stigma" on domestic service to
which Miss Carpenter so often and so feel
ingly refers? And who put it there. Like
Togo, 81 ask to know"
JULIA T. WATERMAN.
Bay Head, N. J., Aug. 25, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Dabbling Tnferferes

To the Editor Of The Tribune
N lR: l want to express 70 you my salts
faction seeing many letters in
recent issue of Tho Tribune on the ser
want problem. VIII not The Tribune try to
do something to help the housekeepers Of
greater New York in this difficult situationf
The backbone of a nation Ia its homes
but how the homes be maintained lex
cept those of the most simple order without
help? Blessed the woman these days who
never has had domestic help-but she does
not realize her blessipgs
1t is up to the wonsn to solve this serious
problem, but instead of tackling it through
their clubs and organizations, they dabble in
everything else, from Bernard Shaw to
Esquimau theology, and leave this problem,
which is essentially theirs for bridge, gossip
and the edihcation of their tired husbands.
Where all the clever cubwomen that
they cannot show the way? Who will
help standardZe the work of the home7 Who
will get law passed protecting from the
incompetent demanding the same wages as
the competent? Who will show us, when the
supply is low and the demand high, how to
make the work more attractive? Who will
establish schools to train girls and lecture
to employers, giving them the plain talk
they need and which employment agencies
cannot give them as clients? Are children
to be brought up in hotels and boarding
houses because mothers cannot cope with
the situation? Among my friends cooks and
laundresses are getting $50; mattresses and
chambermaids, $50. Ought we pay more or
ought we to insist on not paying as much!
The part time, paid by the hour. no board
and lodging arrangement seems TO me absO-
lutely impracticable. With more than two
servants one would have to employ a time
keeper and watchman.
Won't some really clever person tell us
what to do and how to do it, and won't The
Tribune give all the space it can?
A HOME MAKER.
Far Rockaway, N. Y, Aug. D. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
MIR. Swann's Tiresome Job

District Attorney Swami is quoted as
saying it was peculiar" that the milk
distributors charge the same prices to
consumers. The mystery is akin to the
one of why several thousand milk pro-
ducers month by month charge identical
prices.
The District Attorney is seasoned
milk Investigator. He has investigated
and Investigated and investigated, to the
advantage of no milk buyer. The sue
cessive failures were because the in
quiries ran up the blind alley of alleged
conspiracy. Every man, woman and in
telllgent child in the state knows about
and consents to common prices. Why
waste money finding out that which is
already known? What the public seeks
is not varying prices, but low prices, and
experience has shown that an imaginary
competition is of no use 1t is not Of
good omen that Mr.. Swami seems to have
in mind merely another trust investiga-
tion, something that promises no cheaper
food for the babies
The dairymen have agreed on prices
What it costs to bring the milk to the city
is equally we'll known. The books of the
milk companies show factory and deliv-
cry costs, etc. Is the margin left to the
milk companies wide? They say it is not
that it is only three-eighths to one-half
a cent a quart Is this the truth?
If the margin of profit is small, lower
prices can be secured by lowering what
the producer gets or by cheaper dstrib-
uting Methods Are the companies in
efficient? Can any agency do their work
more cheaply? Here is something worth
finding out. But Mr.. Swami shows little
interest in this.
Hearst has been trying to make trou-
BILE for Governor Smith because he would
not obey orders, and milk prices seemed
to furnish a club with which to pound the
Governor. Mr.. Swami is apparently duti-
fully welding it. But the District Attor-
ney must feel weary as he trots around
track he has circled before without ar
irving anywhere. To keep on the good
side of Hearst involves labors of dis
agreeable character, and it would be un-
kind not to be sympathetic toward the
District Attorney.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28

part of her conquests in the war
against Turkey.
The United States has no proper con-
cern with the relocation of Bulgaria s
boundaries. Our government declined to
accept any responsibility with relation
to Bulgaria, when such responsibility
would have involved aiding the Entente
powers to detach her by force from the
Teuton alliance. That decision should
have precluded us from exercising any
Influence in the peace settlement. We
had no part in the armistice terms which
Bulgaria accepted and there is no assur-
ance that the Senate will act on any
Bulgarian peace treaty signed by Ameri-
can commissioners, since there is OBJ
vlously no warrant on our part for i'm
posing peace terms on a country with
which peaceful relations have never been
broken off.
The action Of the American commits
sloners in mixing in the Bulgarian set
tlemcnt is altogether illogical. 1t can
only entangle the United States in re-
'''"NS anu PCCty ulSpuleS, III Wnlcn we
refused to mix when they were being
fought out on the battlefield. We have
gone into the Balkan readjustment by
the back door. 1t would have been wiser
to open that door. And having gone into
the Bulgarian settlement, how can we
keep out Of the Turkish settlement, which,
again, does not concern us directly and
which we maintained did not concern
US while the war was on?
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Let Us Keep Cool
(From The Scrantonian,


There is lot of meat in a naroar.ul
heishooring Joker who says: "There
isn't darned thing the matter with tb;s
country except nerves." He mipht bova
added land wind" The sentence would
tneh nave been complete. The nerves of
'he country are certainly being tortured
by the noise made by the human ca1l;ones
OF unrest the calamity howlers the ANA
teur Bolshevists and the unclassifed dis
turbers who toll not, neither do thew snin
but live on the fat of the land and CON-
tlnually scream because the land is not
fatter.
Never IN the history of the United States
has there been such universal prosperitv
as there is to-day for the merchant tha
manufacturers the workingman and The nro-
fessional man.
Never IN the history of the world have
the common people been blessed with the
iuxurles that they are enjoying today.
Yet, IN spite of the blessings which are
ours for the grasping, what do we see {?
Unrest, disorder and all-around dissatisfac-
ton. Infamed by the prophets of evil. we
are passing up the joys of life to work our
selves into frenzy over some fancied wrong
or thought that the other fellow is getting
a larger share of the enjoyments than we
can realize.
Is it not time that the people of the
United States cooled down and began to
look themselves over? Why not keep cool.
use common sense and grasp the opportu-
mites that are before US to-day7
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
A Solution

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir Anent the servant question. For
years have believed that know the only
lasting and reasonable solution and several
of my maids have agreed with ME.
1t is to remove the stigma from domestic
worn and make it desirable. This evidently
can be done
Not so very long ago any old woman would
do t. go and nurse" the sicA'-Dckens
tells of them-they would taste the invalids
broth and put the spoon back. But now
nursing is profession; and education for It
is demanded.
In Norway, I met q rosy-cheeked young
cook who was as proud Of her diploma ana
profession and pastry as any nurse need be
of her work
There must be plenty of ladies' teachers
domestic, science educators, etc, who could
start school and convince girls that house
work is not a disgrace
This is an evident truth-but people need
to be told the truth.
My own servants and some young women
who work in factories, have told me that the
reason girls will not do housework IS be-
cause of the debased social standing it gives
them
If they all went to school and took train
ing, the girls do for nursing, they would
have a platform of their and not nearly
such hard work as nurses-nor s9 disagree
able. Nj. 4. R
New Rochelle, N. Y. Aug. 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
"Aposfles of Liberty
TO the Editor of The Tribune.

70 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An editorial in your estimable paper
has brought out several letters relating to
the last survivors of the Revolution" The
following may assist those interested in
finding the distinguished "last survivors. :"
In March, 1864, a committee on Revolution
ary pensions was appointed by Congress.
They reported there were then twelve still
living. Congress unanimously adopted a
resolution of thanks and sum of money to
the "Twelve Apostles of Liberty" a copy of
which was sent to each.
The following are their names, birthplaces
and age-no doubt as near accurate as was
possible to be obtained.
Apostles of Liberty:
Amaziah Goodwin, Summersworth. n H..
105; John Goodnow, Sudbury, Mass, 1O2:
Adam Link, Washington County, Penn, 1902:
Rev. Daniel Waldo, Windham, Conn, lO1;
William Hutchings, York, Me-, 1903; James
Durham, Southampton County, Va, 80; Ben
jamin Miller, Springfield, Mass, 100; John
Pettingill, Windham, Mass, 81; Alexander
Maroney, Lake George, N. Y, "a; Samuel
Downing, I'd New Hampshire Regiment, no
age given; Lemuel Cook and James Gales.
no birthplace age given
ABRAM WAKEMAN.
New York, Aug 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Skyscraper Voices

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; great many parades of our return
ing soldiers have taken place. All have
been on a line of march above the Washing
ton Arch. The thousands of workers in the
skyscrapers in lower New York could not
witness them nor help to welcome them
But now it is said that our General Pershing
Is about to come to city and will parade
with the troops, and we in the lower part
OF the city are wondering if we will be able
to see him and join in the royal welcome
ne deserves. Cannot you help us to get a
chance to see and welcome him by adyocat
lng march through the skyscrapers, from
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Winds
(Fro,n Ynrne,Js xfon,h,,>

(Fron Harper's Monthly
Some winds, like robins, nest in trees,
And some, like meadow larks, in grasses.
While others cling to flowers, like bees.
The gales that sweep the salt morasses
Like petres, brood on stormy seas;
And eagle-winds, as wild as these.
Their eyries make on beeting masses
VI crag IN rugged mountain passes.
But wiser is the nesting breeze
1he laughing, elfn breeze, that furls
aus fragrant wings among your curls,
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
The Coming Tower
Psychoanalyzed; or, The Erotic Motive In
Contribbing

'sychoanalyzed; or, The Erotic Motive II
Contributing
Love is a day Of golden beams,
(The infantile worship of the SUM-
Love, the aroma of fragrant dreams,
Can analyst, here, may read and run.)
Love is the tranquil goal of fears,
CA transference from a near relation.)
Love is the haven of weary tears,
(The Electra, or Gdipus, constelation.)
Here in the soft light Of your charms,
(In Psychoanalyss, light is a symboD,
Here, in the refuge of your arms,
(The libdo seems to be getting nimble.)
Love is enchantment, Love is true,
Love is all, and Love is You.
And it's just as well that Loves song
is sung
Before perusal of Freud or Jung!
r. N. S.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28

whose windows countless thousands will cheer
our hero?
DO you remember the great ovation to
Marshal Jotfre as he went up Broadway e?
nave you forgotten the war welcome to
leoay Roosevelt as he passed the thou
sands IN the lower section of the ctv IN
his return from Africa?
1t you can, Mr.. Editor, get US p chancs n
view our hero. Yours,
BATTERY WORKERS.
New York, Aug. 25, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
A Study in Eugenics

My grandfather lived to be ninety-two.
At eighty-five he felled the giant oak that
stood near the gate in the south meadow
One summer during court week he went to
town and stopped runaway horse with his
fist in front Of Suffers Racket Store
Now and then he slipped hot toddy before
breakfast. He chewed Gravely and Miller's
Best since the age of twelve and passed away
smoking uncured leaf in his pipe
His boy Henry could hold barrel of flour
out straight.
He played fullback at Missouri State.
And won two silver cups for standing
jumps.
| am Henrys son.
Yesterday I watched a man washing a
window the thrtieth floor of the Wool
worth Building.
And went home fainting in taxicab.
0. O. M.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28

We must realize that the wastes of
war can be made good only by hard
work, and not by soft money With the
abandonment of soft money the soft
ways of making money must also be
abandoncd.--Professor j. S. Nicholson.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28

IMngs even up, as some one with
gift for condensation has observed. We can't,
for the life of US, keep our mind this week
on anything but the games at Forest Hills:
and Monday afternoon while Mr. Patterson
was defeating Mr.. Alexander in an exciting
match, Mr.. Norman Brookes sat on the club
house porch reading the Melbourne Argus.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28

1t occurs to us that Labor is more unfair
and more dictatorial than Capital used to
be, and that it is understandable why this is
so; and that Labor, soused with power and
dizzy with the anticipation of more power,
is likely to have long and depressing hang
over.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
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