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MONDELL OPPOSES
SOLDIERS LAND BILL
Too Few Would Benefit, and II
Passed 1t Should Provide
for City Veterans.
Special Despdfch to TIE suN.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Only small
number Of the nations fighting men will
be benefited by the Mondell soldiers
land bill, Representative Ferris (Oklal
ranking Democrat on the House Public
Lands Committee, which has reported
favorably on the measure, stated To-
night in announcing his opposition 10
the plan despite the fact 1t has been
fostered by the Wilson Administrator
The bill is not feasible" Mr., Ferris
said. land the soldier will grow heart
sick over the fact that relief IS being
granted to a few and denied to the
many"
He predicted that the bill would NEE
signal defeat In the House when IT "
taken UP for consideration within the
next fortnight, or will be radicaN
amended, 30 that the benefits will b
more universal. Mr.. Ferris suggested
that in case the measure is not beaten
It be amended so that loans may be eX'
tended to service men in the cities or IT
fertile agricultural districts who do ro'
desire to buy the arid and swamp lands
the Government plans to sell to them IN
der the measure for reclamation pus'
poses. He indicated that opposition 10
the plan had grown since II was frs
reported out of the committee with only
four Republican members protesting
las I converse with soldiers on n.
subject and study the plan more ana
more feel perfectly sure that the Mon
dell bill as II stands will not be ac'
ceptable to the soldiers, because it bene'
ats a few and leaves the great majority
OF the fighters without any relief ana
without any recognition OF their se''
vices" Mr.. Ferris said.
my fear is that it will not take care
of a sufriciently large number OF soldiers
to make It a soldiers bill at all, ana
also 1t 10 not suficiently wide in Us
scope to do justice to all of the soldiers
in all of the States.
THE bill should contain a provision
that all money appropriated f'r homes
for soldiers should be equitaby appoT'
toned among the States. according 10 tns
number of soldiers making application
and DESTROYS OF availing themselves OF .
home under It. The bill as IT now stanH
does not do this,
"In States that are well settled INK
proposed plan Is not feasible. An alterna.
tive plan should be enacted authorits
the Secretary OF the interior n ma"
loans direct to indlvlduNt service m'
who desire 10 purchase homes, whether
they are in the cities or on the tars
This would make II perfectly 'e'a"
that there was some relief for the 70.
der who does not desire to g 20 Wv
sparsely settled States OF the West
cut over lands OF the South in the 4"
quirement OF a home"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-18
TRADE BRIEFS.

The operations OF prospeotors In the
neighborhood of Mapimi Mexico, In the
State of Durango, have led to the belief
in Government circles that there exist
large and important oil deposits in that
vicinity,
II is interesting TO note that while
India Is the largest sugar growing coun-
try in the world, It is also the largest
sugar consuming country, This annual
production OF this commodity amounts to
2,500.00o tons
The chancellor of Cambridge Uni
versity announces through the British
press the gift OF sl,o5o.o0o by British oil
interests. which have united In a scheme
for endowing a chemical school at this
old British university.
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Mr.. schwab on Mr.. Carneghs's Career

Mr.. Schwab on Mr.. Carnegk's Career.
To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-s.r: On
the same day that you published Sem
ator Lodges great speech on the League
OF Nations there appeared in another
column OF your paper the report of a
brief interview with Charles NJ. Schwab
In which he was asked TO make some
statement in connection with the death
OF Andrew Carnegie.
Your reporter apparently had some
difficulty at first in getting reply until
he said to Mr.. Schwab that he should
be better able than almost any one else
- say something Of interest to the pub
lie about Mr.. Carnegie because he had
fought so many years ut his side. This
remark apparently brought quick reply
from Mr.. Schwsb. who told his inter-
viewer that he had an entirely wrong
idea, that Mr.. Carnegie never fought
me- did those associated with him; that
he was the kindest and gentlest Of men
with his employees and all others with
whom he came in contact, that he never
tried to gain advantage by fighting his
competitors, but that the secret of his
great success was his tireless and I'M
ceasing efforts TO perfect his own organ
iEation from within.
Now II such policy leads to such
success In the case of an individual.
Why should It not In the case OF ma
ton achieve like results7 1t Is exactly
In line with the spirit OF Senator Lodges
argument Let us keep out OF entangle-
ments with our competitors and devote
our great energies to perfecting our own
organization from within. Then We
need fear nothing and we shall go far
indeed. for our house will be founded
on rock and the tides and the winds
may come, nevertheless 1t will stand
forever. AMADIo.
NEW York. August IS,
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Some mathematical genius should
figure out what the hog which has
been In cold storage in Detroit for
twenty-five years has cost his owners
in interest. refrigeration, rent and In
spection. 1t may be found that even
at the present pork prices the deten-
ton Of this fellow for a quarter Of a
century has cost a good deal more
than he is worth on the market.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-18
MoTHERs-M-LAW COME TOO
They Accompany sixteen w"
Brides on TroopShip.

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. l7.--The tran
port Maui with 1866 officers ana ins'
aboard arrived here to-day from Hr5s
The Maui was destined originally "'
New York, but was diverted
The units aboard are Sap}A |O,
panies Nos. 3o4 and 3sS, AIS HsI,.s
Unit: Sections Nos, ), and ,,s'
Train Corps Group d, 327ta aa''sno,n'
Motor transportation Compa res No'
s22. sac and s2s Brest Conva To-, eHl ~,
tachment No. 3s5; Casual 'onp.anoaSS'
Nos. 1892, s,l74. S,29o, 329t VA .--G
$500, 3.7OI. s,7lO, ans, SIN, ''''
and S,745 and twenty-four officers.
The Maui also brought sixteen va
brides and mothers-in-law o. Am'r'''"
soldiers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-18
A Dropping on in Perquisites.

FToN1 TNe ATkuHsuU IH0Wds Cat,
Howard Shelton. who was a bartender
in Hot Springs for many years. lie now
running q soda fountain in Pittsburg, but
he doesn't md so many umbrellas hanging
around.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-18

With the army Transforming mill
tary posts into colleges in khaki what
refuge is there for the youngsters
who have longed to enlist in the hope
of avoiding further attendance at
school?
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Firrt step Toward Economy

Rnicker-You are too extravagan;.
Mrs. Knicker-Perhaps so. but II you
will just give me a hundred dollars more
I'll Investigate
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-18

Philosophers will make a virtue of
necessity and begin to-day to walk
TO their offices for the sake of their
health.
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS

Highest temperature, 6s. at $3.50 p NJ
Lowest temperature, 81. at 1870 \. NJ
Average temperature. Sc.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

French Industrial art exhibition, grand
ballroom. Hotel Pennsylvania, all day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-18

Forceful Poem on the Treaty.
Pact r
t't Whacked.
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New York. August 10.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
The Stool of Repentance

The Albany hackers of a 10 per cent
alcoholic dead-line seem to have belatedlv
learned something. They now offer to
draw 100 per cent dead-line about those
twin relics of American sumptuary bar
barlsm-the corner saloon and the stand
up bar.
The prohibition amendment would prob
ably never have carried if the pressu %
OF those who demand total abstinence on
moral and economic grounds had not
been supplemented by the pressure of
those disguised by the abuses of the
liquor traffic No sane observer Of the
decencies which surround the sale and
consumption of liquors in Continental
countries could we'll reconcile himself to
the crudities and disreputable surround
lngs Of the American saloon.
Wisdom comes late The distillers. the
brewers and the licensed retailers should
have achieved moderate amount of edu-
cation earlier. The anti-saloon move
ment was supported by hundreds of
thousands of moderate minded men a d
women. 1t was the fault of the people in
the liquor business that this moderate
Centre felt obliged at last to commit It.
self to the programme of the radical
Left
The 10 per cent alcoholic standard agi
tatlon and the movement for Continen
taizing the retail liquor traffic NAV come
to nothing in the way of legislation. They
are a tribute, however, to the power of
bitter experience to bring wholesome
counsel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
Making Americans

w nat is an American" Without at
tempting final definition Professor
Franklin II. Giddings, of Columbia, says
everybody will agree that the first requi-
site IS ability to speak, read and write
the American language. This idea is be-
mind the Learn English" drive being
carried on by the Board of Education and
the Educational Alliance by ''four-min-
ute" men able to address hearers in for
eign languages
For the attainment Of this prereoui-
Site OF Americanism number of bills are
now before Congress. The Tribune is
glad to know that the report that all have
been marked for death is not well found
ed. An excellent chance exists that the
Smith-Bankhead bill will be favorablv
acted upon. This bill has the approval Of
Secretary Lane, who is the dynamo of the
characterization forces
The bill provides for an initial appro-
priation Of 100000 and a yearly an
preparation thereafter until 1926 of s12.-
oOo,0OO This money is to be allotted to
the different states in proportion to the
number of their illiterates, with the pro-
vlso that no state receive any Of the
money until it appropriate from its own
treasury an equal sum. To guard against
diversion it is provided that none of the
appropriation shall be "used for any
other purpose than for the salaries of
teachers, supervisors or directors of edu
cation or for the preparation and train
ing of such teachers"
The Committee of Education and Labor
of the Senate and the Committee of Edu-
cation of the House having asked for an
expression of public opinion, it would ap
pear that effective aid would be given
to Amerlcanization by letters to one or
both of these committees.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
The CIemenceau Warning

Lincoln died because the abnormal
mind of j. Wilkes Booth was persuaded
he was a tyrant Mckinley was stretched
on his bier because Czogosz believed
what yellow journalists told him. Gle
menceau is ON a bed of pain because a
man was stimulated into action by poison
distilled from the false charge that the
great peacemaker was an imperialistic
friend Of war
AS always, seed produces after its kind
Lying propagandists have gone about in
sinuating a great alsehood-intimating
that some men at the Paris conference
were holy and others unholy. Cemenceau
is a victim of foul and treacherous innu-
endo. 1t is not strange cracked brain
was fired with impulse to crime.
The warning is written very large. Let
not those who would push on their own
ideas engage further in breeding distrust
of nations or of the great leaders of
just cause who have served humanity if
ever it has been served The next time
a revolver sounds or bomb explodes the
excuse that no such result was expected
may not be accepted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
Erzberger's Revelations

Matthias Erzberger chief Of the Ger
man delegation which signed the orig
mai armistice, records in his defence be-
fore the Weimar Congress the reasons
why he promptly gulped whole the bolus
compounded by Marshal Foch.
Erzberger makes the UNQUALIFIED
statement that Prince Macmillan. then
German Chancellor, sent in his message
to President Wilson under the 'iron
compulslon' of the high military COM
mand On November 10, when Err
berger reported back the terms offered,
ne received by wireless replv from,
Hindenburg suggesting counter propo-
sails, but concluding, even if YOU do not
succeed in obtaining concessions on
tnese points, you must sign the ar
mistice
inns FULLY confirms the statement Of
rrlnce Max-namely, that on his arrival
~ oefan 20 assume office, long before
me revolution was begun and when the
ae'uded German people generally no.
Aeved no great military disaster had ~
CURED, and that, at worst. defopoa
could be indefinitely prolonged. p naner
asking for immediate negotiations wo.
placed on his desk for signature. The
high military command told him tba
circumstances brooked no delav-tba+
the situation at the front was So dos.
perate that action within twenty-four
hours was absolutely necessary.
Inc truth Ia If ;yzxxo 49,.
historically but politically. uniust,v
derogating from our armies and those
OF our allies, the idea has been soa,
iousiy 'nculcated that underwriting w..
materially instrumental in ending tha
"ar-that the German government
and people were induced to quit he-
cause OF their love of the fourteen
points. So far az there were nract,ca,
effects the generous terms offered r.
Germany probably prolonged hogtjlit,es
She Germans assumed that what ,vaa
asked represented maximum demands
showed war WEAKNESS on the mart ~
the Allies, and that IL they would hold
out but little longer easier conditions
could be yecured.
The Gepnan armies, outgenewllea
and onssosxht. were practically sur
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
The Heart of a Soldier

1t was the way Of the oldtime pacifist
to humble "Fe TO, fl, fun" whenever
the name of military man was men
toned. Every general was held up as
bloodthirsty being, yearning for fodder
for his beloved cannon, who counted those
years lost in which peace prevailed.
Perhaps there have been such gen.
erals. But Grant was not such; nor was
Lee. And neither is Marshal Foch. It
has been common remark that the
Allied leader committed rare act of
self-effacement when he denied himself
a military victory on German soil bv ac-
cepting truce that amounted to sur
render The personal glory lying across
the German frontier was indeed colos-
sal Yet evidently, from Marshal Foch's
words, the temptation did not weigh in
his decision. AS he described the situa-
ton:
Doubtless any general would have
preferred to have continued the struggle
and to give battle when the battle which
offered itself was so promising. but a
father Of family could not but holm
think of the blood that would be shed
victory, however easy, costs the lives
Of men. We held victory in our CRASH
without any further sacrifice. We took II
it came.
The Marshaps words, thoroughly sup
ported by the record of his actions. 90
far to prove how removed from pride or
blood lust, and how tender and human. is
the heart Of the true soldier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
Exempted Aliens

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: The following is quoted fro,
~ statement issued by Seattle Yraft r.
No. &: '"
The exemption of aliens was tbs 49,,
exasperating experience Of the A.
boards. The action of such alien, -
cowardly and disgraceful. Every sns.
person Immediately branded himssis
dangerous and undesirable res;a.~.
1hls country nurtured and protected +b..
ingrates. At the very first test NJ
the nation faced a crisis, these men w..
unwilling to bear any burdens. For e,..N
alien SO exempted good America, \.
had to go to the front. These aliens :.
manned at home in comfort and ssfets.
There are about ten million aliens /, e..
United States, and of the thousands rn.-
thousands who claimed and secured eyem.
ton from military service as aliens u.I
thousands of them are now holding on t,,A.
ly to good, steady and we'll paid posit;on,
as managers, foremen. superintendent.
chief clerks, assistant managers ~.
in shipyards, factories, stores and officss
on farms, on railroads and on harbor co,s
line and ocean vessels, at estimated salsr;s.
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 Won,
while thousands of the real American h,ys
who went to the battlefront and filled +bo
places of the exempted ones are now -
turning from the trcnches-with nocko,.
empty, their business gone, with no wo,t
and no home
Congress should Immediately enact law
making it felony for any individual. firm
or corporation to hire OF employ an ey-
empted alien while even one of our sold;er
boys, who is willing to work and qualified
remains without a position or job-whjcb
job or position should be similar or a.
nearly so as possible to the position or iob
that our American boy left when he went
20 Americas assistance and saved his coun-
trys flag
America should Immediately register
every alien within her borders, question and
examine him carefully as to his attitude
and intentions toward her and his willing
ness to assist her. Those who are willing
fit and satisfactory to her should be re
corded citizens at once, without red tame.
and those unwilling, unfit and unsa.isfac
tory to her should be deported without DELAY.
Immigrants should be received as visitors
only, to become citizens or return to their
own homes within one year, unless for good
and sufficient reasons the time is extended
WILLIAM H. STONEBRIDGE.
Bronx County, Feb. Il, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21

Not line Of the peace plan project
says or suggests that the Monroe Doc
Urine is to continue. No mention Of
hemlspheres or continents is made. nor
Is there implication in the draft that
rules to be applied to one side Of the
world are not applicable to the other.
But some, without adducing evidence
or serious argument, oracularly denv
that the Monroe Doctrine is abandoned
or impaired. The sincerity Of the de-
NAL is brought easily to test, as Senator
Borah did yesterday. When the Hague
convention of 1907 came to final vote.
and question of it's bearing on the Mon
roe Doctrine having arisen, the Amer
lean delegation, before signing, filed the
following statement:
Nothing contained in this convention
shall be 80 construed as to require The
United States OF America to depart from
It's traditional policy Of not intrudinc
upon, interfering with or cntanpline Il.
~lf In the political questions OF policy
or internal administration Of any foreign
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
Million aire Exploiter
From The Brooklyn Life.J

1t is incredible that any intelligent. self
respecting American citizen can longer en-
terrain the slightest respect for William
Randolph Hearst. Except among the most
densely ignorant peoples, such, for example
as the Russian peasantry, there must be
limit to the capitalization of class or racial
prejudice beyond which the demagogue
cannot go without bringing himself into
disrepute with the very classes whose preju-
dices he is striving to exploit, especially
when, as in the case of Hearst, the ey-
ploiter is VIGOROUSLY disreputabe rep
resentative of the class he tries to infame
hatred against. Unless the intelligence Of
the American populace is on a much lower
level than we have been led to suppose,
the banal expediept Of unloading such trite
and meaningless epithets as "the interests
Especial privilege" predatory" reaction
ary," "plunderbund' and what moi inds-
criminately upon any and all who excite his
spleen cannot be worked with success in
definitely. There is 10 one to
whom they more correctly apply than to
the multimillionaire whose entire stock in
and ostentatious self-laudation Surely
even the most rabd East Side Bolshevk
must be trife weary Of the threadbare'
abusive bunk" that the Hearst press has
been reiterating necessarily for years.
Though the editors and publishers of the
reputable New York newspapers must be
aware of the Sfact that Hearsts politlal
influence is largely a fiction Of the imagi-
nation, there is but one leading metropoll-
tan daily, The Tribune, that has dared to
declare its entire independence Of him and
persistently, in its editorial as we'll as It's
news columns. denounce him and show
him up as the enemy to society and good
government that he unquestionably Is. WEST
the nature of the influence he evidently
exerts over the reputable press IS can only
be conjectured, bat the fact that, with the
exception OF The Tribune, which withdrew
from it, the leading New York newspape7
are business confederates Of the Hears
press in the Publishers Association affords
a clew to the reason why Hearst is handed
with kid gloves by his associates.
1t is high time that those who realize
the gravity of the Hearst menace ceased
merely denouncing him and united TO put
an end to the sinister and insidious actiV'-
ties of this multimllonaire demagogue IN
taking up arms against Hearst Nh Jonas
is performing a patriotic service tnsH
which none could be higher.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
Nearing's Cleverness

Scott Nearing has cause to congratu-
late himself on his slipperiness more
than on his courage. If his propaganda
against the war had been blunter and
less deXterous, he could hardly have es
capped conviction
1t is a technical merit of the pamphlet
on which he was indicted that it adroitly
suggests to minds for which its venom
was intended activities that the author
does not openly counsel. Thus is literary
craftsmanship indicated. 1t pays Boil
shevist to have college education and
to be an adept dodger.
But corporations cannot attend a uni
versity. They do not enjoy the privilege
of being sophisticated. Possibly on that
ground the jury, after acquitting Near
ing, convicted the concerns which pub
lished and circulated his pamphlet.
Justice has its mysteries. The Near
ing trial is one of them. It's moral
seems to be that things can be done with
lmpunity by an astute manipulation of
words which may not be done by a
bungling one or by corporation devoid
Of brains and soul. Perhaps the fact
that the jury box was occupied by men
born in Germany and Russia, or getting
their ideas thence, had something to do
with the result, for the ways of German
psychology at best are amazing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21

rounded by the victories of late Octo-
Der and early November. The arrival
of the Americans at Sedan, cutting
one vital line of communication, made
extrcation impossible. The Germans
gave up because they knew they could
not get away. 1t has never been said
that when Napoleon III capitulated at
Sedan and Bazaine at Metz they did so
because Frenchmen liked what the Prus-
SLAMS offered. No more can it be said
that the German surrender was due to
anything but military pressure.