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New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

Questionably be the two great new
states to emerge from this conflict.
Both>will have an area greater than
modern Italy and population
capable in no long time of exceed
ing that Of the Savoy monarchy.
Therefore, Rumania. like Poland, is
a force with which Western nations
must reckon. She will be the most
powerful state in the Near East,
controlling the Danube, rich in
natural resources, capable of an
enormous industrial expansion.
In the Old World of practical
politics at the Congress of Vienna
or of Berlin a state of Rumania's s
potentialities would therefore have
won a ready hearing for their de-
mands. Moreover, this hearing would
have been granted the more readily
since Rumania had been a faithful
and on the whole an invaluable ally
in a war in which she had suffered
terrible losses alike in men and in
money.
But the Conference of Paris, alike
in the case of Poland and in the
case of Rumania, has found itself
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

-Egean Islands, The problem Of
Thrace, to fix the title TO the Do
brudja and to Bessarabia, the rights
Of the several claims in the Banat,
the just and right frontiers in
Pennsylvania.
1t is necessary to see the Ru-
manian adventure to Budapest in
the light Of recent and past history.
For something like 4 thousand
years the Magyars have held, in a
servitude beyond endurance, quar-
ter of the Misunderstanding popu-
iation Of the world. They have de-
prived these people Of every right
and every liberty They have op-
pressed them in every conceivable
way. Rumania entered the world
war to redeem these lost children.
She was defeated and her country
ravaged terribly, in part at least by
Hungarian troops. She reautercd
the war, when AUSTRIA Hungary
was falling, to regain territory
taken from her in 1918, and terri
tory hers justly but never yet re-
deemed.
Rumania and Poland will un-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

Will the Rumanians now. having
broken with the Paris Conference.
fulfil the threa. 30 often heard be-
fore and send their troops INTO the
Banat to sweep out the Serbs and
complete the expansion of Rumania
to her natural frontiers
And in face of all this the West
ern powers are by no means un ted.
The English ard the Americans SYM
pathize with the. Hungarians: she
Italians and the French with the Ru-
manians. All the Western allies
hesitate to confirm Rumania's title
to BesSaraba lest IT arouse the hos
tilty Of Russia presently restored.
But Rumania secs IT. this failure of
her old allies to support her Eastern
claims, in their differences IN the
matter Of the Hungarian frontier. in
their frank rupture in the case If
the Banat. ultimate evidence Of the
necessity of acting for herself.
To me the Rumanlan occupation
of Budapest seems the most consid-
cradle Of political events since the
armistice. In Paris | had Rumanian
acqualntances and fairly good
sources Of information. and / came
away convinced that Rumania would
never under any circumstances per
NIT Western Europe to deprive her
of what every Rumanian regarded
as his patrimonv. The Rumanlans
were willing to ALLOW the Paris Con-
ference to draw their frontiers. but
only on condition that those from
tiers CORES sponded with Rumanian
conceptions.
Above all, they were determined
to liberate Rumanian populations in
Hungary and to establish their
natural frontiers of the Danube. the
Thesis. the Naros and the Dniester.
They have seized upon the present
break between the Paris Conference
and the Bolshevist government Of
Hungary as an opportunity TO oc-
cupy all Of the Hungarian territory
which they claim. save only the ror-
ton held by Serb troops in the
Banat. They have occupied the Hun
garian capital and can impose any
terms they choose upon the Hun
garians, who will have to comply
with those terms unless the Allies
are willing TO send armies to sup
port the Magyars and fight Ruma-
MIA. In ether words, while the Paris
Conference is still wrestling with
the photographic map, the Runani-
an sword has drawn new frontiers,
and, unless | am very much mista-
ken, Rumania will now apply the
same method to Jugo- : ava she has
used in the case Of Hungary. In airy
event, Balkan affairs are now rosun-
ing that violent course which is
their disorderly routine.
Copyright 1919. as 'hc Mcclure N,rss,.sr sst-
drsiel
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

forever vacillating between new and
ldeallstlc conceptions, and old-fash-
ioned and material considerations.
Largely through American influence
there has been a constant tendency
to seek ideal solutions repugnant to
friendly nations and on the whole
pleasing to peoples recently in arms
against the victors of the present
war.
Thus the Paris Conference has 50
far refused to recognize Rumania' S
just claims to the old Russian prov
incc of Bessarabia. 1t has cham
pioned Hungarian claims in Tran
sylvania and in the Banat, and in
addition supported Bulgarian de-
mands in the Dobrudja.
The result has been that the Ru-
manian people have found them
selves, after their great sacrifices
and sufferings in the war, forbidden
by the nations in alliance with
whom they have fought, and to
whom, at critical hour, they
brought invaluable assistance, not
alone to occupy the territories to
which their claim was at least as
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

eliminating duplication of much work.
Such organizations have finally devel-
oped into the present auction com
panies and produce exchanges.
'The committee on food production
and distribution recommends that the
State Department of Farms and Mar
kets, the permanent department hav-
ing to do with food distribution. be
given greater powers than it now has
Tor the prevention of waste and the
elimination of malpractice in the dis
tribution of perishable foodstuffs. 1t is
not, however, desirable that the statute
books be encumbered with detailed
provisions regarding technical food dis
trlbution matters. The great merit of
the wartime control over food distri-
button was its fexibilityf to changing
conditions and its directness in hand
ling matters usually encountered with
legal formality. This fexibility and
directness can be accomplished only
through the basic power of license con-
troll. 1t is, therefore, recommended
that authority be given the Depart
ment Of Farms and Markets to license
all wholesale dealers in food commodi-
ties and feed stuffs. It is also recon-
mended that the State Council of
Farms and Markets be given power,
after public hearings, to issue regula-
tions which, when formally enacted
and published, will have the effect of
law for the regulation of clearly de-
ical practices"
Under the heading, "Need for Re-
vision of Food Laws" a general state
ment of recommendation is outlined
as follows: because of the duplication
and confusion in the present laws of
New York State relating to foods,
feeds, farm products and agriculture,
the Reconstruction Commission recon-
This codifcation should include con-
solidation of the old agricultural law
and those articles of the public health
law relating to the same subjects, also
the provision of the general business
law relative to weights and measures,
and certain additions and changes to
facilitate the administration of these
acts
"The confusing character of the food
laws at present is due more to dupli-
cation and lack of coordination than
to conflict. There are, for example,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

quate enforcement OF various provi-
sions of existing laws. as well a. sn-
adequacy OF some Of the existing avs
covering such malpractices. IS costing
the people Of New York City and New
York State thousands Of dollars each
week
The laws in relation 90 We gh's and
measures are IN part sufficient a sub
stance. but are not sufficiently en-
forced. Tho information collected ~
dicates that there are extensive v.ola-
tions of the existing law. not onig by
retail stores but by Wholesalers The
loss due to either type of violation Is
ultimately borne by the consumer
IN the opinion of the Commissioner
o. Weights and Measures Of New
York City the compulsory exhibi-
tion OF placard on the premises for
the second and other offences would
do more to eradicate malpracticcs
than any system Of fines. In New
York City the Comm ssioner Of We ghts
and Measures admits inadequate en-
forcement, and, apparently with res-
son, maintains that this is due to a
lack of sufficient inspectional force.
The recommendations on public
markets, summarized, are as follows:
That elaborate public market
buildings be erected only when IL "a
the purpose to operate them on a
strictly selfsustaining. business-effici-
ency basis, as means Of steadyinc
market prices and preventing abuses IN
private trade
That smaller cities establish mex
pensive curb or open-type markets in
preference to elaborate buildings.
That the state give aid to the build
ing Of public markets in municipalities
only oh condition that the State De-
partment Of Farms and Markets have a
sufficient measure OF control over the
methods of operation of the mArse, TO
enable 1t to prevent such market be-
ing run in the interests of any group
rather than the general public.
That the state Department OF Farm.
and Marhcts work cut standard &C
counting methods and schedules Of
costs for the use of public markets
That the State Department, of
Farms and Markets maxi an intensiva
study OF the existing municipal mar
kets IN the state with the object OF
reconstructlng them along economical
lines and demonstrating &C the munic-
ipal authorities the real costs oS main
tenance and operation"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
1ult Again Shows Its Head in the Balkan States
Bucharest May Now Apply the
Same Method to Jugo-Slavia
as She Has Used i'm
Hungary

good as the French to Alsace- Lor-
raine or the Italians to Trieste and
the Trentino, but also to establish
their title to lands which they had
already occupied, and to use their
armies against Bolshevists alike in
Russia and in Hungary, who were
seeking to undermine Rumanian Sc
curity.
What Rumanian occupation of
Budapest really means must be
clear. Rumania does not arrive as
the mandatory of the Western
powers. She arrives as the contest
ant with Hungary over thousand
years for the possession Of certain
provinces until yesterday Hun
garys, with the memory Of recent
Hungarian outrages in Rumanian
territory and the age-long record of
Magyar oppression against Rumani-
an peoples in the Hungarian capital
into the bargain. Who is going to
oust her? Who is going to prevent
her from fixing those frontiers
which correspond with her view of
her just right, but have been chal-
lenged by the map-makers of Paris?
Who is going to prevent Rumanian
soldiers from exacting some little
compensation from the Hungarian
people for the destruction and the
extortion of Hungarian troops in
Rumania?
Yesterday the peace conference
was trying to get rid of Bolshe-
visit leader in Hungary as pre-
liminary to recognizing Hungarians
and all their neighbors. But to-day
the Bolshevik regime has fallen, not
to proclamation, but to invasion
After thousand years the Rumani-
ian people have at last achieved a
unity long sought. The Allies had
no troops and they had no unity of
purpose adequate to supply military
force to drive the Bolshevist govern
ment and army out of control in
Hungary Will it be easier for them
to find troops to attack Rumania,
their recent ally, in order to take
from her territories to which her
claim is at least as good as the
Hungarian?
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Rumania's Occupation of Buda
pest Seems the Most Consider
able Political Event Since
the Armistice
By Frank II. Sirnonds

complete the destruction of Serbia.
IN the fall of the next year
Rumanla followed the example of
Italy and joined the Western Allies
IN an attack upon Austria Hungary,
with a consequent war with Bull
garia. In this conflict Rumania.
betrayed by Russia, was swiftly
crushed, Bucharest was occupied by
Hungarian, Bulgarian and German
troops, and year later, by the
second treaty of Bucharest, Ruma-
MA had to surrender not only the
territory she had taken from Bull
garia in the first treaty, that of
1913, but also her entire seacoast
in the Dobrudja.
Less than a year later, when Ital-
ian troops had crushed the Aus
trians in the north, and the Salonica
army had overcome Bulgarian,
Austrian and Turkish troops in the
south, Rumania entered the war,
took from the Bulgarians the terri
tory seized by them, and again in
vaded and this time held vast re-
gions of Hungary.
In the brief span of seven years,
then, we have seen the Bulgarians
the allies of the Greeks and the
Serbs and the enemies Of the Turks
III one war; the opponents Of the
Greeks, the Serbs and the Turks in
a second; the allies of the Turks,
with Greece as silent partner in
an attack upon Serbia in a third );
the allies Of the Turks and the op-
ponents Of the Rumanians, the
Serbs and the Greeks in a fourth,
and at this present hour Sofia dis
patches forecast q new Bulgarian
attack upon Serbia and Greece.
Military History Shows
Rulnania OF Many Sides
In the same time, Rumania, start
ing as an ally of the Germans and
the Austrians, has attacked Bull
garia in conjunction with the Serbs,
the Greeks and the Turks; has at
tackled Austria Hungary and been
attacked by the Bulgars, the Turks
and the Germans; as an ally Of Rus
sia and in the war of liberation has
invaded and occupied a great prov
ince belonging to her recent Rus
sian ally, and now at last appears in
Budapest, returning the visit of The
Hungarian troops to Bucharest less
than three years ago.
One could multiply indefinitely
these circumstances which thus re-
vealed the utter, and to the Western
mind the hopeless, confusion in the
Near East. The Rumanian episode
Of recent days is only one more Of
a series which extends backward
into the night Of time to that hour
when Rome was no longer able to
hold the Danube frontier, and the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

In addition, mutton outlets in Paris
have risen from 10 cents to 80 cents
each, and foie gras from % cents to
rs cents per pound. In London the
present price of As cents a pound for
chops is the highest charge allowable
for any cut Of mutton, while the cost
of small pot of foie gras is S1.oO. In
London the price of milk has risen
from cents per quart in 1914 to from
IA cents to 1S cents per quart in the
present month.
The rise in the price of coal in Paris
since the war is exactly 100 per cent. A
ton of best coal in 1914 cost $3.50;
the figure now is $500; while in this
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

Laundry work in Paris for an ordi-
nary mans bundle a week, consisting
of four shirts, eight collars, body linen,
etc, in proportion, costs about $500.
8 cents each is the charge for linen
collars. In England laundry work Of
all kinds costs at least half as much
again as in 1914.
1t is stated by "The Daily Mail" cor
respondent in Paris that "the French
nation is meeting the high prices by
living on savings. Without exaggera-
ton, sort Of calm despair is mani
tested by the population, which knows
that things are so bad that they cam
not continue.
"No improvement will be made by the
issue of larger quantity of new paper
money, as has just been announced.
1t is a curious fact that residents in
towns in the devasta ted areas, like
Rheims, enjoy prices derably be-
low those prevailing in the capital"
The French dentists nave decided to
double their pre-war prices, says "The
Paris Daily Mail" This decision was
taken in view Of the increased prices
Of materials, higher pay for assistants,
and their obligation to pay cash for
the goods they need.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Power of Conference Nav
Be Greatly Weakened

Moreover-and this is capital
what will be the effect upon the
ho-Slovaks and the Serbs of
seeing Rumanian armies, in de-
fance of the Paris Conference, oc-
cupying Budapest and Rumania ac-
quiring possession Of the Hungarian
provinces which she claims? Pat
emily it will be an invitation to
Jugo-Slav and Czecho- Slovak armies
and statesmen to follow the same
example. They have claims to
establish ii the Carpathians and on
either side of the Drave. Moreover,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

later time when the Byzantine en-
pire succumbed to the double at
tack from the north and from the
south. IN that period the Byzantine
Greeks, the Serbs, the Bulgars, the
Turks, the Rumanians and the Hun
garians have in turn dominated all
or much of that no mans land
which extends from Budapest to
the Golden Horn. Each in turn has
aspired to great empire, possessed
immense power for a brief period
and then yielded place to an am
bilious neighbor.
And underlying all else in this
Balkan and Hungarian complica-
tons is the consciousness in the
minds of each of the many nat:onal-
ties that it once was a great nation
and the belief that it has an imperial
DESTINY
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Present Laws Sufficient
If Rigidly Enforced

"The Investigations of the Federal
7 ood Board and the State Food Com
mission, which brought out informa-
ton regarding exploitation OF the con-
sumner through malpractices in the re-
tail sale o. foodstuffs, have been sup
plemented by Investigations by the
staff. of the Committee, on Food Pro-
duction and Distribution. The conclu-
sions reached are that the lack Of ade-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

tion of both laws is placed on the De-
partment of Farms and Markets by
the act creating that department, the
retention G.! the terms o. commits
sioner Of agriculture and department
of health, in the two laws respectively
is misleading.
at is the conclusion of the Recon-
struction Commission that for the sake
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

two entirely separate laws on the
statute books of the state relating to
adulteration and misbranding of foods,
one the public health law and the other
the agricultural law. Each of these
defines adulteration in different lam
guage and establishes different penal
ties for violations. Furthermore. al
though responsibility for administra-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
NelD York Tribune
+ OreiGn Press Bureau

OIctOH ITcSS DNTfUN
ss'THE London Daily Mail" has made
comparison of costs of living
in London and Paris that shows that
great as are the burdens the English
people have to bear the French are still
worse off
The Paris spondent of "The
Daily Mail" states that Official figures
establish a general increase of $50 per
cent over pre-war prices of ordinary
articles, while the outgoing budget of
the rich has risen, owing to the multi
plicatior of war fortunes, as much as
50 per cent for foods and even 900
per cent for clothing and furniture"
Following is comparison of London
and Paris prices of ordinary articles
Of food:
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

"HE arrival Of Rumanian
troops in Budapest has pro-
duced one more of those
kaleidoscope changes in
Southeastern Europe of which there
have been so many in the years that
sonarate the first Balkan war from
The latest incidents along the Dan
ube.
Before discussing this new de-
yelopment it is perhaps instructive
n review for q moment the several
shifts which have taken place in
seven years. In. the summer Of 1912
Germany, Austria and Italy We're, as
they haa been for almost a genera
ton, united III that association
which, under the title Of the Triple
Alliance, had dominated Continental
affairs from the morrow Of the Con-
gress of Berlin.
To this alliance Rumania was
bound by treaty, and with it Turkey
was associated by somthing approXi-
mating an informal engagement.
Already, however. an Italian attack
upon Turkey, the ally of ltaly's Ger
man and Austrian allies, had pro-
voked bitterness in Berlin and
Vienna, and was. in fact, the first
step in the general dissolution of
tie alliances.
Thus, in 1912 We have the Tripoli-
tan war between Italy and Turkey.
Toward the close of the same year,
while the Tripolitan war was being
aquidated BY the Treaty of Lau-
saline, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece,
hereditary enemies since the coming
Of the Slavs to the Balkan peninsula,
joined hands and crushed Turkey.
Rumania Joined With
turks Against Eulgars
A few months later, early in 1918,
Rumania, whose last war had been
fought with Turkey in support of
Bulgaria, joined hands with the
Greeks and the Serbians and with
the Turk in depriviAg the Bulgars
Of most of their conquests in the
first Balkan war. Thus the Greeks
and Serbs in few short months
found themselves the allies, first of
the Bulgarians against the Turks
and then the associates Of the Turks
against the Bulgarians, while Ru-
mania. the ally Of Germany and
Austria, sent her armies against
Bulgaria, which was both a secret
ally Of Austria-Hungary and had an
austrian sovereign.
Then two years later Bulgaria. in
alliance with Turkey as we'll as Aus
trla and Germany, assailed Serbia.
and the Greeks Of King Constantine.
while officially neutral, surrendered
to the Turks the province and the
fortress Won by the King in the war
OF 1913 to enable the Bulgarians to
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
What London and Paris Paw

country similar coal has risen from ST
to s11.5O, and next Wednesday will in
crease to S1315.
Clothing prices in 1914 and at present
in the two capitals compare as follows:
Paris. London.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Paris Still Struggles
With Fiume Problem

At the present moment the Con-
ference Of Paris is vainly trying to
solve the Fiume question, the dis
pute as to northern Epirus and the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Car Shortage Felt in
Busiest Shopping Season

"The greatest difficulties Of growers
and shippers may be summarized as
follows: inadequacy of car supply in
heavy shipping season; delays in load
ing; delays in transit; lost cars in
transit; poor icing methods and poor
terminal facilities.
"In the daily sales of foodstuffs in
any city, the commodities are received
at different terminals, arriving from
various sections of the state or country.
1t is, of course, desirable that some
form of standard prices be determined
for the guidance of all the sales of the
day. 1t is of great Importance not only
to the traders on the various markets
but also to the shippers and farmers
to know that the current market price
is from day to day.
Consequently, various means and
devices have been formulated to deter
mine such prices. Quantities Of food
stutfs consigned to individual receivers,
must in turn be divided into various
sizes, qualities and quantities for sale
TO the jobbers who further distribute
the goods to the retailers. In such
private sales, the wholesalers must in
terview the buyers and show their
goods. Very often buyer will visit
number of wholesalers before he
makes any purchases. The multiple
cation of this process to many whole
salers and jobbers tends to consume
a large amount of time and great
amount of extra expense. To save such
extra labor and time, groups of whole
salers or commission men established
central organizations for the handling
of large quantities of products, thus
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

ers is the occurrence Of oversupplies
and scarcities in succession within pc
riods of few weeks. Often such large
quantities Of commodity arrive dur
ing a certain week that it is impossi-
Bile to sell the goods at a price that
will cover the cost of transportation
alone. Such gluts cause the discontin-
uance of shipping to the market, and
within a period of perhaps two weeks
there will be another scarcity. The
price is then so high that it is beyond
the reach of the consumer. The high
price encourages large shipments and
the market is again .Clutted.'
, 1919-08-29
The NEW ST. CROIx SAVINGS BANK.

S there was no quorum at the 18th
Annual General Meeting of the New
- St. Croix Savings Eank advertised to
be held on Friday the 18th inst, the
Members are hereby notified that a meet
ing will be held on FRIDAY THE 9TH
OF SEPTEMBER 1919 AT O'CLOCK
P. NJ. at the office of the Institution, at
whlcr meeting a statement of the trans
actions for the fiscal year ending 31st
March last will be produced and the
election of Trustees take place.
1919.
By Order
T. ]. STRIDIRON,
Accountant.