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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
The Vanishing Gobbler
From The Detroit Free PressJ


Maybe there was time when turkeys
were plentiful at Thanksgiving, but
that was long, long ago. Now the an
nouncement that the birds are scarce
and high comes as regularly and as
inevitably as the Presidents proclama-
ton. Somehow the farmers seem TO
have lost the knack Of raising gobblers
Though grasshoppers and locusts were
peculiarly plentiful throughout the
summer. we have the glad announce
ment that this autumn the shortage
will rival the sugar scarcity, about
two-thirds of the barnyards being be-
low normal in their supplies.
This will be hard on the general
public, but good, perhaps, in individual
cases. No turkeys will be eaten lightly
or frivolously or thoughtlessly, no
bones will be thrown away while there
are still ''pickings" on them. The man
who can afford to buy bird will know
he has something to be thankful for.
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A Deadlock of Death

Touching the treaty two more
Htchcockisms are in the news.
The first is that the Democratic
lSreconcilables, when the resolution
to ratify the treaty with reserva-
tons comes up for final action, will
vote against ratification. Inasmuch
hs two-thirds vote is necessary to
pass a ratifying resolution, and IN
hsmuch as the Democratic irrecon-
cilables Joined to the Republican ir-
reconcilables will doubtless be more
than one-third of the Senate, this
will mean the rejection of both the
peace treaty proper and the cove
nant.
The second Hitchcockism is q
declaration that the adoption Of the
preamble alone, which has already
occurred, is a sufficient reason for
voting against ratification.
Thus, unless there is basic
change of mind on the part of the
President and his special supporters,
the whole treaty is now as good as
rejected. No wonder the faces of
Senators Borah and Reed are
wreathed in smiles. They have been
frankly against the treaty from the
beginning. and have struggled to de-
feat it. They behold promise Of
success, and their JOY is not lessened
by the fact that the President in
practical effect has come over to
their position.
The theory that by rejecting the
treaty state of deadlock can be Gre
ated and that the deadlock will be
broken by conceding to the President
rests on wavering foundations. If
ratification is voted down once the
action is practically certain to be
final. Senator Lodge epitomized the
situation when he said the other day
that delay under such circumstances
means death.
Only by miracle could the Presi-
dent, after destroying his own work,
piece it together again. Those OPP
posed to ratification at all now num-
Der close to one-third Of the Senate.
If Senator Hitchcock is successful in
CARRYING out the purpose he advo-
Gates the disgust engendered will
bring new recruits to the anti-ratifi-
cationists.
1t may be Senator Hitchcock is
merely bluffing. He has so bluffed
before. But manifestly the treaty Is
menaced as it never was menaced be-
fore, and menaced not by the oppo-
nents of the league of nations but by
those who have pretended to be it's
friends. Most remarkable will it be
If the final result is the spectacle Of
the President singing to death
scheme ON which, he has declared,
rests the hope Of the world.
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The Fifth Avenue Association

The Fifth Avenue Association, an
organization that during the twelve
years Of its existence has done
much to promote the interests it spe-
cially labors to safeguard, and by so
doing has greatly served the city at
large, purposes during this week to
make an energetic drive to increase
it's membership.
The association, beginning with
eighty members, has now nine hun
dred, but ten times nine hundred
could not exhaust the number Of
those who share in the benefits it
brings and who should be public
spirited enough to join themselves in
it's civic work.
The association is type Of organ
ization Of which there should be
scores. The city, because Of it's size,
suffers from the lack of a wholesome
localism-a localism which increases,
rather than diminishes, wider
civicism. The city as a whole has
consciousness, and there is a meas
ure of borough consciousness, but
other than this there is little al
legiance. A neighborhood spirit but
family exists.
There is no means Of publicity for
local affairs, for the organs of pub
licity, for space reasons if no other,
must concentrate their attention on
subjects of general city interest
Acquaintanceship runs to those in
similar lines of business or who pos
sess similar tastes without regard to
residence. Even the churches tend
to be delocalized, and only the
grammar schools bring together
those dwelling in territorial propin-
guilty. The political candidate, so
great is the fuidity Of the popula-
ton, finds it difficult to get &C
quainted with his constituents.
So many things are neglected
which are greatly in need of atten-
ton. Nuisances creep in, pavements
are unrepaired, the city tends to
melt into an amorphous mass be-
cause there is no local public opinion
able to express itself. Only in the
nick of time was Fifth Avenue saved
from the common fate, and this
largely through the Fifth Avenue
Association.
1t scarcely need be pointed out
that proper emphasis on local inter-
ests is compatible with devotion to
general interests. Bricks are not
the enemies Of the wall which is
built of them. The Fifth Avenue
Association, besides attending to its
own affairs, called into being the
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planting a precise cross in the centre
of the square to the right of 1.-The
little bird" and then, with a pride
which they try hard to keep from
appearing as arrogance, handing the
ballot to the clerk, who will never live
down the fact that he was an anti. If
there is q suggestion of wink in
the eye nearest the smiling young
woman leader it is carefully concealed
from the men folks. Rubbing it in
is sport forbidden to college pro-
fessors.
One joy is theirs, however, in COM
mon with less learned sisters down
town. The election boards, with a fine
sense of their responsibility to q
eowned community, have tried hard to
find suitable polling places, but in a
neighborhood devoted almost entirely
to higher education places of COM
merce are not abundant, and the col
lege bootblack, although he does a big
business, has not a spacious establish
ment. One polling place was in a Sc
date store devoted to such eminently
decorous affairs as vacuum cleaners
and art lamp shades Another was in
one of those antiseptic shacks that
sit exclusively in the middle of the
street, proclaiming their high mission
to the state for blocks around. The
third was in barber shop. plain.
homely, unwomanly place, and on Flee.
ton Day there might have been dis
cerned apprehension in the face of
the district captain as the first woman
voter appeared. She wears bobbed hair
and has done much postgraduate work.
She surveyed the unstatesmanlike sur
roundings, then a delighted cry burst
from her lips:
II always did want to get inside a
barber shop" she said.
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The Toll of Arma9eddon

A French Deputy, M. Louis Marin,
has just made a report on the mill
tary casualties of the Great War. He
puts the total of war deaths at g.
O19,00O. The statistical branch of
the United States General Staff, in a
report corrected up to May 81 last,
gave the battle deaths as 7,450,000.
M. Marin evidently includes those
who died of wounds or in prison
camps, or who were classified as
missing and never accounted for.
For France the figures are now
nearly complete. An official state
ment issued last summer carried a
total of killed and missing of $780,
500-16.2 per cent Of the mobiliza-
ton of 8,410,000. NJ. Marin's fig
ure for these two classiiications is
1884 400. But since the armistice,
he says, 28,600 men have died of
wounds. NJ. Marin's percentage of
the mobilization is 1914. The French
navy lost in killed and missing 1O,-
525. France was the greatest suf-
ferer among the Western Allies. Her
loss in killed was only a little less
than the combined losses Of Great
Britain and Italy.
Other belligerents, except Great
Britain and the United States, have
not published satisfactory statistics.
Russian figures are still speculative.
NJ. Marin credits Russia with only
100000 killed Cup to October,
1910. This is below other esti-
mates. The United States General
Staff tabulation charges Russia
with 100000 battle deaths.
AS to Russia's own estimates they
are of little value, for it is part of
Bolshevist propaganda, to excuse
Russia's abandonment Of a common
cause, to exaggerate Russian casu-
alties.
The lack Of trustworthy Informal
ton about Russian casualties makes
comparisons between Entente and
Teutonic losses largely guesswork.
The General Staff statement puts the
Allied deaths in battle at 100000,
against 2,75O,0O0 for the Teutonic
powers. But this is only a rough
balance-probably minimizing leu
ton losses.
1t will probably take several years
to figure out the casualties of the
Russians, Turks, Bulgarians, Ser
bans and Rumanians. But the esti
mated total of 100000 deaths
among the armed forces of the bellig
erents may never be materially re-
duced. 1t measures in graphic way
the record-breaking proportions Of
the world Armageddon.
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Ron1shackle?
70 the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some days ago The Tribune
raised the question, What is for
eigner?' To define the foreigner one
must first define the American.
The men that made this country and
set the standard OF the native type.
whose speech is the language of the
country, whose ideals of law and gov
eminent are "Americanism" (horrible
world, were Anglo-Saxons.
The Declaration of Independence is
signed with Anglo-Saxon names. and
such are the names of all the Presi-
dents but two. But Van Buren's and
Roosevelt's blood was largely Anglo
Saxon, even if their names were Dutch.
If this does not define the real Ameri-
can, what does?
Within the last fifty years "Ameri-
can" has come to mean any naturalized
alien, and the offspring of these aliens
born in this country are referred to as
native Americans" The status Of
these persons is that of citizens of the
United States. They can no more be
Americans than an Anglo Saxon natu-
rallied in Italy could be an Italian, or
his children, born there. Italians.
There are many races represented in
this country whose race ideals will never
harmonic with those of the Anglo
Saxons. They may be as good in their
way, but they are necessarily unsym.
pathetic. The thoughtless optimist says
eve will take what is best of every
race and make perfection" There is
nothing in that. A race is like an in
dividual-all of piece, faults and viz
tues together.
When you have given an Anglo Saxon
the Slavs mysticism and the Latin's en-
thusiasm he is simply a mongrel The
value of thoroughbredness in men and
beasts is that they can be counted on
for given qualities. The stigma of the
yellow dog is that his varied strains
have made him worthless in any ca
pacity.
great deal of false sentiment has
been stopped over our polyglot A. f. F.
1t was drafted army, like all the other
armies, and any we'll drilled, we'll fed,
we'll Differed soldier will fight as we'll
as another. Patriotism has little to do
with tat the time. There were In
dams and Irish fighting enthusiastically
for Great Britain who would cheerfully
have blown up it's government.
If the United States Of America does
not stand for Anglo Saxondom, then it
must be considered as a geographical
term and its citizens, from Anglo
Saxons to Bolsheviki, all hyphenates.
Lloyd George once referred to the
Austrian Empire as "ramshackle," we'll
describing the eighteen languages and
as many conflicting race consciousness
within its boundaries. If our immigra-
ton laws are not changed so as to ex-
clude undesirable aliens we are in
fair way to become-if we are not al
ready-a ramshackle republic.
MARTA LEONARD.
Mount Kisco. N. Y, Nov. 4, 1919.
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The Fiune MIDDLE

Little progress GEMS to be made
toward the settlement Of the Fiume
question. D'Annunzio simply says,
"Here I am, here l remain" 1t is
q defiance which neither the Italian
government nor the conference
aseems to be able to meet. For, while
there is more than one conceivable
way Of dealing with the poet, none
has yet been undertaken with a
steady purpose and clear percep-
ton. 1t would be much easier for
statesmen if the world were gov
erned by logic; but they have to
make allowance for deep feelings,
and in the case of Fiume such feel
ings are involved.
The way out of the difficulty is
obviously one that must be found by
compromise. That the Italian gov
eminent recognizes this fact is in
disputable. Hampered as it is by
strength of popular sentiment in
Italy on the subject, it has offered
more than one conciliatory sugges-
ton. Nothing softens Mr.. Wilson's
stern non possumus. The latest note
OF Mr.. Lansingsshows that his chief,
whose views he is presumably ex-
pressing, is the immovable obstacle
to settlement; and no one in Paris
apparently has either the DISPOSE
ton or the ability to oppose him
openly. Yet few occurrences since
the signing Of the armistice have
done more to discredit the principles
Of which he rates himself the chief
exponent.
II the President were less obsti-
nate. II he were willing to modify
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in the morning, and rolls and eggs
in paper bags if it be in the after,
noon; street where Phi. DIS flourish
no more abundantly than kitchenettes
and where men are as scarce as pounds
of sugar in the corner store-this is
Morningsdc Heights. q
To be sure, an occasional masculine
figure energies from the subway at the
solid hour of o'clock at night -after
the few college men are safely slowed
away over their books and before the
few newspaper men have begun their
nights work-and scurries around the
corner of the campus, looking askance
at the white buttoned freshmen and
glazing at passersby with an eye which
defes them to see in him any sign of
the etfete pedagogue.
For the greater part, however, it is
neghborhood of women, school teach
ers, college professors, widows who
rent rooms to students and a little
group of writer's, actresses, doctors
and social workers who could give
Greenwich Village quite a run for it's
notoriety were it not for the Hateful
name of cold Maids Alley" which
trailed its glory in the dust derision
before it was fairly unfured Many leg
ends, of course, have sprung up about
this section. One of them is too crude te
! be quite acceptable to erudite minds,
fni1 no 1o+
was received at the New York POST
office bearing the jocose inscription:
Miss Mary , Old Maids Row
New York" And the clerk, of course
without a moments hesitation, picked
up pencil and wrote Try 11Sth
Street"
Of course, they were very sporting
about it all, these dwellers in No
Mans Land. They pretended to like
the LEGENDS every time they heard
them, but sometimes one doubted the
sincerity of their laughter. A woman
writer who moved away simply be-
cause she dared not confess to a pub
Usher that she lived there cast a gloom
over the most dauntless champions of
the Adamless Eden.
Notice the past tense. They were
very sporting about it. They are not
sporting about it any more. They don't
have to be. A change has come over
the neighborhood, and - Yes, you've
guessed it; it was woman suffrage that
did it. Instead of being total loss,
politically speaking. they are now the
very stronghold of the district. Where
before there was but one sickly little
election district, with a few hal
hearted males crawling to the polls,
now there are three flourishing cleo
ton districts. 1t is q thickly popu-
lated section-if you suddenly begin TO
count women as population. Every
ballroom has its tenant, and even the
kitchens have the gas range and set
tubs taken out and the scars covered
with cretonne to make habitaton for
one more impecunious candidate for
Masters degree, and for one more
voter
So they total up quite few votes
on Election Day, and the consciousness
OF the fact is written plainly on many
formerly meek countenances
Not theirs to shirk their duty to the
state; golf and duck shooting have no
charms for them compared to the &C.
stasy that comes from painstakingly
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memorable avenue Of the Allies"
and raised in less than an hour at
one Of its luncheons $52, 900 900 for
Liberty loan. Public feeling is
something that grows with exercise.
and faithfulness to one stewardship
leads to an enlarged sense of duty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
At the Storm Center
By Arthur S. Draper
" 7AsH1NGToN. Nov. s.-wash-

wv WASHINGTON. Nov. 8.-wash-
wv ington is living up to it's rep
utation as a city of contrasts
War, the so-called great levc!er, has
apparently served only to emphasize
the contrasts, to accentuate the differ
ences, to increase the difficulties of COM
promise and cooperation.
At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue
the chief legislators of the United
States are locked in prolonged strug-
gle over the treaty which was de-
signed to bring q lasting peace to the
world. Violent, virulent speeches are
so common that the correspondents in
the press gallery show interest only
when a vote is taken, or some Senator
interrupts with a clever question to
break the monotony of a long attack
on the League of Nations or an equally
long defense of the Presidents policy
in Paris. The war ended quickly. The
preliminaries to peace have grown as
wearisome as the days of trench war
fare.
At the othsr end Of Pennsylvania
Avenue, almost in the shadow of the
White House, there is another strug-
gle. Representatives of capital and
labor and of the governments of
twenty-odd nations are meeting daily
in the Pan-American Building to con-
slider the clause of the League of Ma
tionS covenant which has to do with
international labor legislation. Secre-
tary Wilson presides, but America has
no voting power. Until the fight on
Capitol Hill is decided, until the treaty
is ratified by the Senate, the Ameri
can delegates have no more power in
the international conference than a
delegation from Iceland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
Let Us Be Thankful

From The Kansas City Jour,acl
With the cost Of living higher than
ever and labor strikes multiplying ir
number, the country is preparing to
celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
An Optimistic Professor

From The Indianapolis News)
The Yale professor who believes q
dollar Is worth 35 cents 10 q true
pptimist.
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The Senate Debates

There is q debate in the Senate on
the labor provisions of the treaty.
Senator Reed. supporting Senator La
Follette's amendment to strike out
those provisions, declares that q labor
conference held in Switzerland during
the war sowed the seeds which brought
forth the Russian revolution which
brought America into the war which
brought the United States into the
present industrial predicament. Some
of the men who attended that confer
ence are now in the Pan-Ame rican
Building, the Senator from Missouri
declares. Only a dozen Senators sit
through the speech, but when the hour
for voting arrives forty-seven are
present to register their opposition to
the amendment and thirtyfour to sup
port Senator Reed. The majority is
left unconvinced that "the scaly snake
of socialism will Irvine itself around
the columns of liberty"
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Portraits
From, PoetryJ
BARN DANCE


zee" HAPPY thinking she
might ioVe hlm'
AND wnlstled at his blowing all the day:
scraped above him,
y" 'ne Darn noor' ne lay below IN
s''ei'e
Among 'he cattle or pile OF hay
~
N-'e''eN q0'e"'' '''''" MS "0fS
-1''0 "a'e''eu '''e guests s'io'i towards
INN up '"e 'aae'
lover;
hurt and ashamed, ne stole off from the
dancers,
Like whipped dog, to bluober out his
pain
ne 0rea'neo more calmly nearing the
A"''''e"0e
grew
i"o'''erehV 10 the ndoies IN the distance.
10 "omahKlnd and TO ms dlsappolnt~-
n'e"''
Do"" mere among 'he cattle 'hat he
N''e"
DHN'i
of twenty,
Proud OF the uniform that you were
wearing.
The girls made love to you, ana that
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Pins for Wings
From Reedy's MsYror)
EDWARD MARKHAM

Pins for Wings
From, Reedys Mirror
EDWARD MARKHAM
LIE HAS learned the art
Of leaning on hoe
Without sollng the beard.
VACHEL LINDSAY
A street-cry
In heaven
H. D.
The Winged Victory
Hopping.
ROBERT FROST
Paintings by the family
In birch-bark frames
EMANUEL MORGAN.
1.-The poem by Marguerite Mooers Marshan.
"A Song Of Loves Mortal" in last weeks
column. was reprinted from "Ainsies's Mag
~~$A~~' *S@'I
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Tipping

(Fror. The ST. Louis Post-Dtspotch>
1t is a costly distinction to get your
name IN tho Walters Who's Who.
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Labor Tax es Note

simultaneously the delegates are
meeting in the Pan american Building
What are they discussing? The merits
and dement's of the forty elght-hour
week and the eight-hour day, the latter
being the equivalent of a forty-four-
hour week, as European labor demands
half holiday on Saturday. There I
met Stuart Burning, the British dele
gate, representing the employees, to
whom Clemenceau paid the high COM
pliment of saying that he wished all
the peace delegates had the ability Of
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The Puzsle OF the Day

The European delegates, who are
without an exception supporters of
constitutional government as opposed
to direct action and Bolshevism, are
frankly amazed and unable to follow
the twists and turns in the great polit-
ical-industrial puzzle of the day. Is it
any wonder when most ashingtonians
refuse to forecast beyond the morrow :?
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presenting their case as clearly and
concisely as he had at the Berne
Conference. His first question was,
Did you hear what Senator Sherman
said about US? Never thought you
would call US undesirable aliens!
Rather getting your own back, eh ?"
The French, especially NJ Jouhaux, who
is the president Of the Interna-
tional Federation Of Trade Unions and
official representative of the French
workers, also had something to say
about the references to them in the
Senate debate. Most of these Euro
pean labor delegates are Socialists, but
not of the long hair and flowing tie
variety. and, incidentally, they are in
good standing with their respective
governments and represent the mass of
the organized workers in Europe.
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Old Maids Alley
By Emma Bugbee

\ REGION Of hurrying feminine
"a figures with dictionaries under
their arms, if it be o'clock