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New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Awaiting the Aerial Limited

America is falling behind England in
aerial passenger transportation. Already
two British companies are regularly
operating air lines between London and
Paris, carrying people for s15 pas
senger each way and on schedule time,
making the round trip between breakfast
and dinner and allowing four hours in
either city for transactng business. An
aerial express is also flying a London
anchester-Liverpool route Another
British company has sent out a BIZ
motored biplane with six civilians from
London to Delhi, India, via Brindisi
Marseilles, Otranto. Cairo, Damascus,
Bagdad. Bushire, Bandar Abbas and
Karachia total distance of nearly 1000
miles. Major General Salmon, in BIZ
motored military machine Of the same
type, has already flown 1850 miles from
Cairo to Calcutta. This same biplane
lad previously negotiated the flight all
the way from London to Cairo and had
done extensive bombing Of the Turks IN
Palestine.
In the United States only two aerial
transportation companies have displayed
any life. There arc no machines in rep
ular passenger service on schedule from
city 10 city.
With regular airdrones-even one
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
The Diagnostic Clinic

Every layman is glad of any promise
looking toward the establishment of that
diagnostic clinic of which various ru-
mors are ahoat. To the ordinary sufferer
frcm any doubtful disease the most diff
1icult thing in the world is to find out
what is the matter. Once that is settled
there are the most marvellous specialists
in the world to resort to, dozens of them
But how make this initial decision Of
WHICH path to take!
We therefore publish with our warm
est appreciation the words of Or. Sam
uel W. Lambert explaining Just what the
plan is and how it might work out
Every physician has experienced the
necessity at times of sending some pa
tent of moderate means to a hospital fo.
that prolonged observation which is often
needed For correct diagnosis The diff
culties, generally financial, OF securing
this aid arc often considerable. Discus
sion of this problem has led to the plan
for a diagnostic clinic, an institution
where patient can be received for az
long time as may be required for dag
nostic purposes and then referred back
either tothis private physician or sent to
one of the hospitals devoted to the spe-
cielties of medicine and which would be
grouped in the proposed medical centre
OF the College Of Physicians and Surgeons
of Columbia University For these SGT
vices fec would be charged such as the
patient could reasonably pay without dif-
ncu;ty, and the physicians of the clinic
would receive salaries
DR.. Lambert discusses frankly the op-
position which the rank and file Of the
medical profession may be expected to
feel toward the project Skill and tact
in management would overcome this at
titude, he feels, for, truly understood. the
clinic would only aid the physician to a
diagnosis; it would not replace his ser
vices FOR treatment
The diagnostc clinic waits upon en-
dowment chiefly. Dr. Lambert is dean
of the College of Physicians and Sur
gcons, and his institution is sharing in
The present campaign to increase the
general funds of Columbia, sorelv beset.
like every other university, by war def
cts For q full Gevelopmen, Of the med
ical facilities Of the city S12, 900 900 is
needed DR.. Lambert declares With this
sum New York could become a medical
centre of study and research and dag
nosis equal to any in the world.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Crosses for Medical Corps

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Tribune readers will no doubt he in
tcrested IN the following. showing as i; does
the high appreciation in which doctors are
held at the front, for a doctors work is
only too often completely overlooked. in
the list OF British decorations awarded to
the American army. dated September 3,
1918 (february to July), there appear the
high honors awarded Generals pershing.
Bidde, Bliss and March; then follow two
d. 5. Os, one TO our military attache in
Egypt, the other to Lieutenant Colonel
Hodges. 9Th United States Engineers. The
Military Cross, however Can honor not
freely g'ven), was awarded to fortv-two
officers. of whom two were of ;he Glh United
states Engineers for the fight near Amicns
IN March and ADrH, two to the 1ith and
two to the 18th Engineers trailwaysj and
M7fiy-saT to officers of the medical cornsi
One OF these doctors received in addition
bar to his NJ. c. The remaining sixteen
names include two nurses, who received the
Military Medal. and fourteen engineers
nome CONS and privates. who also received it.
Surely this is wonderful record for the
medical corps, and this is but one list
GHERARDI DAVIS.
New lU.k. la. lC. 1914,
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Labor Keeps Us t{cae.

Labor stands sqparoig by Mooney. and
ny Mooney alone. That seems to be the
final message of the National Labcr
Congress, gathered in Chicago to Gevisc
ways and means Of obtaining g new teal
for the California labor lcador.
The congress disappointed these labor
and Socialist factions that expected to
make the meeting, as they have made the
Mooney case, channel for radical propa-
sahda. ret the congress as nlanifestly
disappointed labor uitra-conservatiyes
who wished to keep the conference from
any shade Of interest in matters outside
Inc pare mechanism of achieving Justice
Tor Mooney. Chairman Edward ID. No
Ian was accused of driving steam
roller. He seems TO have kept it pretty
well to the middle of the read Ile be-
gan by purgng tAe gathering Of Social
lst and non-union organizations. That
pleased the conservatives. The next day
ne joined with the whole body in invit
ing Eugene V. Debs-ultra- Socialist,
non-patriot and a convicted man on bail
to address the congress The radicals
cheered up. By the time they discovered
tnat inviting Debs was asking man
with gag in his mouth to speak 10
them the resolutions committee brought
IN report for a general strike in case
efforts to release Mooney we're unsuccess-
iuf. But the general strike, which the
radicals have been vehementlv acclaim
ing, was finally set for the Fourth Of
July, instead of the historic Nav Dav
OF revolutionary labor. The radicals
mad prepared a large number Of reson-
lions dealing with industrial democracy
the soviet form of worker government
the organization Of labor by industries
instead OF crafts and the virtual scrap-
ping OF the A. +. of l.. All these The
resolutions committee refused to report
20 the floor. But instead Of leaving
matters at this point, as the ultra.con-
-Seryatves desired, the committee brought
IN an omnibus resolution embodying
three major points which have been ac-
claimed by practically every labor con-
ference of The past few months-self-
determination for Russia and Germany,
the withdrawal of American troops from
Russia and demand that so-caIled
political and industrial prisoners be
treated az prisoners Of war and freed
w:th the coming Of peace
The actual steps taken by the conven
ton toward getting new trial for
Mooney bear out the generally sane,
yaiddleof- -thc-road character Of the meet
3fg. First, a war chest sufficiently
: large 10 make it possible to present the
& famous case still more thoroughly to
the country~-a million dollars got by
the assesgment Of organized labor at 50
: cents head; next, the creation Of a
committee 10 ask the Attorney General
of ne United States TO obtain the re-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20

hundred miles apart-passeng can be
carried IN standardized, bi-motored air
planes safely and on schedule time. II
one motor stalls the other has sufficient
power to fly tire aircraft to its destina-
ton, with no greater loss CT time
than characterizes regular, long
train service in this country Comfort
against The cold is provided by cleo
tricaly heated clothing, and, of course,
no kind Of earth travel compares with
flying fer breadth Of view and eXhiara-
ton
The greatest present need for popular
izing American aeronautics is for the
operation at Cnce a passcnger ger-carrying
air line and to transport passengers
through the heavens from one city to an
other safely and on schedule time. This
can easily be done by three or four types
Of bi-motored airp!anes now completed
in this country Buses aerially navi-
eating the distance between New York
and Washington. via Philadelphia and
Baltimore, could be put into operation
any day starting from Belmont Park
and landing at the same aildromes as
the aero mail ships now use. Indeed, the
aero mail between this city and the cap
ital has already made an enviable record
CT $50 consecutive flights through all
kinds of eathcr-from thunder to snow
storms-wth only three delays.
The Manufacturers Aircraft Aasocia-
tion is, perhaps, the most logical organi-
cation to start such an enterprise at
once. Several of its members have
constructed b;-motored airplanes which
could carry score Of passengers be-
tween those four cities without danger
and in great comfort. So many people
are anxious to visit cloudland in a heavi-
er-than-air machine that the line would
soon pay for itself. BY doing this they
would greatly advance the glory of
American aeronautics
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
The League Within

The most illuminating thing sand at
the opening of the peace conference was
this remark Of Clamenceau's:
All else must be subordinated to the
necessity of closer and closer union
among the nations who have taken part
in this great war and to the necessity OF
remaining friends. For the league of
nations is here. 1t is yourselves. 1t is
for you to make it live, and to make it
live We must have it really in our hearts.
The great Frenchman is right The
league OF nations must be an evolution.
1t must grow out of the associations of
the war. It cannot be imposed, as if
from the Clouds on the whole family OF
nations-cach nation having an equal
status in it, its benefits falling impa1-
tally, rs the rain does, on the Just and
the unjust
The countries which have saved the
world from German autocracy and saw
agery ar, already league of nations.
They have the power to preserve peace
and the will to preserve it. If they re-
main united the powers Of absolutism
and anarchy cannot prevail against
them. They can set up permanent bar
riers against Tic lust of conquest which
IS inherent equally in German militarism
and Russian Bosahes ism.
No one need despair Of the creation os
real league OF nations. The world is
not ready for an international super
state. superseding existing states and
regulating the relations among therl.
That is far-of vision. But We have
already the Worthwhile elements Of such
state in the coalition of civilized no
ions effected by The war That coalition
IS potent enough for the purposes of the
present. The ideal of International CO.
operation to secure peace and justice in
the world exists in the minds and hearts
Ct all the Allied peoples. 1t Will control
events. whatever name or form is given
% the international union through which
il works
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
The Coming 7o10er
The Bour-Cee-Oise
A WASHINGTON SQUARE LlTAN

A WASHINGTON SQUARE LlTANY
| love the Proletariat;
! scorn the Bloated Plutocrat
With all his Parasites and Toys;
But how | oathe the Bour- -gee-ose.
That Grounding works to pay his way,
To win his three square meals a day,
A horne, and other sordid joys.
Oh, how l loathc the Bour- gce-oise.
His taste would make Zulu blush:
He dotes on chairs in crimson plush;
He has no Grasp--no Flair-no Poise;
Oh how ] loathe the Bour-gee oise!
His attitude to Art is low;
He likes the vulgar movie show:
And when he laughs he makes noise.
Oh, how loathe the Bour- gee-oise.
He has no Quest-no Soul to search;
He sometimes even goes to church
And takes his wife, his girls and boys
Oh, how I loathe the Bour-g gee -oise
He lacks my Broad Humanity,
My Universal Sympathy
Ny Zeal for All that nothing cloys--
Except. Of course, the Bour- -gee-oise.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN.
Alter June so the Scent postage rate
is to revert to , cents, too. With the
money we save on postage and alcohol.
whatever shall we do? Won't some re-
taller please charge little more for
some commodity, lest we grow over
wealthy?
FROM THE ARMY or OCCUPATION
Mid billcts end bulletins though we
may roam,
Be it ever 50 arid, there's no place
like home.
I1ome home, dry dry home;
Be it ever so arid, there's no place
like home.
This Turret of Temperance leans
toward Prohibition, bat the horrendous
thought occurs that Russia was the first
nation to adopt Prohibition And now
look at the darned thing.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
LOCAL NEWS

. 9 = Yc scribe Sundaycd in Wash
ington, d. G.
!; :: j; Lou Hcilbroncr was chccry
caller Friday.
= . = Edna Fcrbcr of Chicago is
in ouf busy midst.
:; :; = Hen Clark the atty-at-law
who was on the ailing list is better at this
writing
. :: # Jack lIyan and Will Hearst
arc going to warmer cline (Florida)
next mo.
. :; !; Gordon Grant the we'll
known morale capt dropped in Friday
to say, Boy, howdy!' as the slang Of
it is.
j. = J. Art Samuels of Hartford,
Princeton, etc, is oui Of the army and
has accepted position with George
Dyer, the adv. man.
. : : This is the first chance VIC
have had to thank Capt Ray Cox for the
supper he gave us and Capt Wallace
Morgan near Chateau Thicrry last June
he pudding was o. k, Ray.
= : %' Irv Cobb is going to Paris
soon, which is good news Irv is the best
peace conference ccvercr in the game, the
things he wrote about the Portsmouth
affair in 1905 being the best anyone ever
wrote.
i j . The many friends of Alcck
Woo'lcott will be glad to know that the
Sgt: is In fine health and feeling elegantly
and Mrs Fske will be glad to know that
the dice she sent him for Xmas, 1917.
arrived o. k. in May, 1918, and AlecI
Is pretty adep. with them.
Mr.. Shonts's economical running of
the subway is to be commended of
course; but the abbrcvation "CHAM-
B'RS' isn't, as Authorizations go, much Of
an abbreviation.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20

lease ~ef Mooney and Billings b. habeas
corpus and their retrial outside Cali
for1ia; third, propaganda for a Cali
fornia law enabling the courts to grant
a new trial in cases where convictions
are secured by perjured evidence or
other fraudulent means; iinally-but not
till these means have faied--a general
strike
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
TIE Things of the Spirit

1t was typical school in which there
were Filipinos, Javancse, Chinese. japan
csc. Hawaiians, Samoans. Australians
Americans, Coreans and | said to the
school: "Can any one here tell ne why we
are at war?' A little girl, thirteen wears
OF age. who half Chinese and half
Hawaiian, rose and said 81 think can
sir" And | said, "Why?" We were un ON
the side OF the mountain, looking out over
the Pacific on an island whose only com
mun'cation with the civilized world was
by the sea. and that girl said: "We are !,
thls war because we want to keep the sea
Tree and because we want to help those
who need help" And / have vet to hear
better answer given to that question.
And would point out to that man and
show him that every child in the Hawaiian
Islands, whether Japanese or American--ro
matter what its orgin-stood every morn
ing before the American flag and raised
Its little hand and pledged itself to one
language, one country and one God.
And then would bring that man hoc.
10 TINS country and would show him
more OF the resources of our land. He
would say. "That does not tel all"
would sa~ - him. "Tell ne the maaning
of those things | have shown YOU and Won
viii know then what America is" II il no.
ll0,000,u00 people alone, il is 10000. 600
people who have lived through struggle
and arrived through struggle. 1t is 100000
600 people who have won a continent bv
work. and that is lesson that we must not
forret
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Il Will &ow You America "
(From the Americomization address of Secreayy Loae)

T 7 IS the way we
j. look at things
t h a t m a k c s us
Americans. What is
America? There is
a physical America
and t h &c Is a
spiritual America,
and they are both
30 intertwined that
you can II o t tell
where the one ends
and the other be-
gins. If ! had my
way, | would say to
the man in New
York, "Comc with
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20

Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor probably
reads only the Brisbane paper in that
city, so that he may not know that in
remaining on the committee to welcome
the returning Wisconsin soldiers after
5000 soldiers have extended to him an
urgent invitation to get off he is jn~
fringing New York's claim to the one
and original "unwelcame welcomer."
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Thoughts on a Roosevelt
Memorial
Ding's Cartoon. "Thc Long. Lors
Tral," Suggested
10 the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune
C1R: Establish endowed chairs in as
~ many Universities, colleges or schools as
the funds collected will properly finance
these to be known as the Theodore Rooss.
velt chairs in Americanism-o or some tile
expressive of that thought and to be de-
voted to the development of those broad
ideas of patriotism. Loyalty and public
probitv which were so dear to Colonel
Roosevclt's heart and for which his ip-
peals arc still ringing n our esgs.
If 3 fund of S5,Oo0,0oo could be raised by
popular subscription seems quite
probable fifty or more such chairs could
be endowed. The effect Of such concerted
effort in improving our national spirit
would be farresching for oil time
IRA II. WOOLSON.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: would sug~est that no mere hF
ting memorial to this great man could DC
raised than that Of maxim the EooseNch
Hospital the greatest free service Hospital
in the world How could this great Amer
cans services to his fellow man be better eA'
emplited than by the erection o.
memorial that would, to the end Of tiine.
honor the man who apent all the wears o.
his life in min;stering to suffering human
ity? b. B.
Trenton, n. j.. Jan. II, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Have You Lincoln's Faith?

And then would take that man whom
| was leading throughout the country to
the field of Gettysburg, and | would take
him to the spot upon which Lincoln
stood when he delivered his historic ad-
dress, and | would say to them, "What
does that speech mean to you:' Not "Ifow
beautiful is it," but "What word does it
speak to your heart? How much Of it do
you believe"
And then would take that man to
San Diego and would say What does
that bay mean to you" And would take
Ann over to the Philippines. where 10000
Philippine teachers every day teach S00,-
600 Philippine children the English Ian
guage- | would bring that man back
from the Philippines to the Hawaiian
Islands, where | had a processicM pass be-
tore me ard present nc with the flags of
their countries, representing every people
from New Zealand on the south clear
around the whole western side of the
Pacific and back to the United States. They
laid before me twenty-six flags, represent
ing every nationality along the great in
dented coast, and every one standing with
America in the fight that she was making
went from that place up to the side of
Mauna Loa and we drove up to a school
where children were at their studies.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
% the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Among the many suggestions for
memorial for Colonel Roosevelt | suggest
that your magnificent cartoon entitled
The Long. Long Trail" should be put IN
statue form. It typifes the beloved Amer
can as exulting in the entrance to his
greatest adventure. and it shows The spirit
of "the first citizen
NELSON ABEEL.
Newark, \. j., Jan II. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Brooklyn, Jan. Il. 1919.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Great monuments in great cities
may attract passersby, but his book, "The
Great Adventure" his last effort, should
be in our common schools and public Ii
brarics; also his manly life
JOSEPH p BLOSS.
Rochester, n. Y, Jan. II, 1912
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20

you America.' And | would say to the man
in San Francisco, Come with me and will
show YOU Amcr;ca.' / would give to the
man whom | wish to Americanize first of
all, after he had learned The language Of
the land. a knowledge of the mere physical
America, go as to get admiration not
merely of is strength, or Of it's resources
or Of what if could do in challenge against
The world but an admiration that he might
have pride in this as a land of hope. and
a land in which men had won out
The Vision Splendid
I would take him across this continent.
I would show him the eight million farms
which went to feed Europe in her hour of
need. I'd take him out into far Utah and
show him the mountain of copper, which
they are tearing down at the rate Of thirty
eight Thousand toHs day | would take
him to the largest and highest dam in the
world, in Idaho, and let him sec the water
come down, being resolved into power and
the power being carried hundreds Of miles
down to pump water again that spreads ou.
over fields and makes gardens out of what
was ten years ago the drcariest of deserts.
I would take that man down South and
SLOW him some of the schools down there.
| would take him up North and show him
the cutover lands of Wisconsin and Mchi-
gan, which lie waste and idle We do not
own them because we do not possess them
We own nothing that VIC do not use
would take him to your own city and show
him the slums and tencments I would
show him tho kind of sanitation that exists
in some of our cities. would show him
the good and the bad And would show
him tho struggle are making TO improve
the bad conditions. would tell him-not
that America was all right and was fin
ished countrv-T would say TO him, "Amer-
ica is an unfinished land" America. we
hope will always be unfinished This has
to be if there is anything to Americanism
Amcricanism is belief chat this country
VIC have is not to live static state, that
we have not reclaimed all of it's land. not
found al Of its minerals. TINT we have not
made its people as happy as they csn be
made, but that out Of its bereicent inst
tutions, out OF the warmth Of its peoples
hearts. out Of its higher aspirations and
intellectual ambitions and Accomplish
ments, It is spreading out over the world
growth of constant progress That is
our ambition
'''Eliis Is America!'
! would make the man who saw America
with me visualize the things in this coun-
try, from the reindeer in Alaska to the
Everglades of Florida | would make him
realize that have every mineral essen
lial TO the conduct Of industry. ! would
tell him that 5000 miles from here is
tn
and thnt the second greatest university
in the world is on this side, where only
seventy years ago there was nothing but
deer pasture.
would try to show him the great
things that have been done in the United
States. the 250,o0O miles OF railroads. the
100000 schools the universities the sa-
looms If you please; the clubs. the water
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20

mines, the industrial life Of America the
spots of America, the baseba, game in
all Its glory, and I would give to the man
d knowledge of America that would make
MIN ask the question, Glow did this come TO
be ?" And then | would realize that there
was something more to our country than
its physical republic and its physical re-
sources. 1t has a history, a tradition, and
would take the man 20 Plymouth Rock
and | would say to him, "What does that
rock say to you?"
would take him down on the James
River, and | would take him into the
ruined church, and ! would say. What
does that little church say to you?" /
would take him to Valley Forge and I
would point TO the little huts in which
those men lived. 5000 of them, struggling
for the independence of our country. and
would say. "What do they mean? What
caused them, or induced thcm-t those 5000
men--to suffer as they did. willingly?"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
New York. Jan. II, 1919.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: say, with tears in my eyes. Let S'
take the price OF three or four battlcship''
or Liberty Loan. il necessary, and euHa
something that will equal even Solomon
Temple, showing the future generations ~
was not underrated in his own time
think human understanding IS too lim''e0'
| know his history better than | know MY
prayers. know you will respect my tears
AN OLD ROUGH RIDER
Brooklyn, Jan. II, 1919