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New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
The Polish Arrnistice

The Polish Russian armistice, as
outlined in dispatches from Riga, is
based on military facts, as was the
Allied-German armisticc of Novcm-
Der II, 1918. The Soviet armies, after
getting within cannon shot Of War
saw, were caught in trap Their
numbering strategy broke down un-
der General Weygand's vigorous
counter strokes. In the last two
months the Reds have been crushed
on the whole Polish front Lenine's
armies have been wrecked. Only
demoralized remnants remain.
Moscow, also hard pressed on the
Black Sea front, has bowed to the
new situation. 1t expected to inn
pose a peace Of surrender on the
Poles. Now it humbly grants prac-
tically all the Polish demands. I.e-
nine, rubbing in his contempt of the
Allied Council, offered a few months
ago to give Poland a better eastern
boundary than they, Poland's pre-
sumed friends, were asking for. The
Council recommended the Brest
Litovsk line as the eastern limit of
Polish territorial claims. Fighting
VIGOROUSLY in their own behalf. the
Poles have now obtained an armis-
tice line far beyond Brest-Litovsk.
This line is described as running
from a point east Of Dvinsk, south
through Baranovitchi to the Ru-
manian border. 1t is practically the
old German defensive line of 1916
and 1917. 1t is well within the east
ern boundary Of Poland before the
partition of 1772. But it probably
represents the extreme territorial
and strategical demands which Po-
land now expects to confirm in the
final treaty with Russia.
Poland also obtains a corridor to
the east of Lithuania, shutting off
contact between Soviet Russia and
the new Lithuanian state, which has
been for some time past under domi
nation from Moscow. Poland re-
nounces any claim on Ukrainian
territory beyond the armistice line.
The war between Poland and Rus
sia was fought under conditions high
ly irksome to the Allied Supreme
Council. Poland is a member of the
League of Nations. Russia, from the
leagues and from the Councils point
OF view, is an outlaw. But neither
the league nor the Council would
go to Poland's aid when she most
needed aid, except with restrain
ing advice to her and verbal threats
against Russia. The Poles have won
their own war. When the Soviet
armies had reached the outskirts of
Warsaw Lloyd George said that the
fact Of Eussia's military successes
would have to be taken into account
in the peace settlement. Are the
Allies now going to take adequate
account Of the fact of Poland's mill
tary triumph? Or will they make
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
An lsn't-So Administration

IT wasn't Senator Spencer who
was worstcd in the Spencer Tumulty-
Wilson Ananias CONTROVERSY Here
are the developments to date:
% Senator Spencer reproduced
in a speech in Missouri assurances
given by President Wilson in a
plenary session of the peace confer
ence, May 81, 1919, that if attempts
were made to upset the territorial
settlements of the conference the
United States would again send it's
army and navy across the sea.
(2) Mr. Tumulty in behalf of the
President thereupon announced that
he was authorized to characterize
Senator Spencer's speech as "abso-
lutely and unqualifedly false"
(3) Mr.. Spencer publicly ques-
tioned the Presidents authorization
Of the Tumulty denial, on the ground
that it was inconceivable that the
President should repudiate the off,
cial record Of his remarks of May
81, 1919.
~ Secretary Tumulty then re-
peated the denial and President
Wilson backed him up.
(5) Mr.. Spencer offered in sup
port of his statement a translation
Of that part of the French official
tex of the conference proceedings
which covered the Presidents ad-
dress. This translation appeared in
The Tribune on December 3, 1919,
was reprinted in The Congressional
Record, and was freely commented
on in debate by Senator Reed, of
Missouri, and others.
(6) Senator Spencer next called
on the President to produce the Eng
lish official text of the proceedings.
The latter's only answer was: Il am
perfectly content to leave it to the
voters of Missouri to determine
which of us is telling the truth"
Secretary Tumulty now says that
The English transcript belonging to
the United States government was
left in Paris, and no copy of it is
available here. The only possible
inference, therefore, is that the
President depended entirely on men,
ory in charging Senator Spencer
with "absolute and unqualified"
falsehood.
The Tribune has secured copy
III French of the complete record of
the conference proceedings of May
81, 1919. 1t confirms the accuracy
of the first translation into English.
Here the controversy rests. We
have before US further convincing
evidence that the administration
hasn't changed.
Secretary Baker has told the
American people what isn't So ditto
Secretary Daniels; ditto Postmaster
General Burleson; ditto other men,
bers of the Cabinet. The President
merely adds a fresh instance of
'icr't cO -
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
South Carolina and the Bonn,

10 ina Editor of The Tribune.
SIT: Your issue of September % con-
tanned report of the proceedings Of
the convention of the American Legion
IN which it was stated that South Caro-
ma voted negatively on the question Of
bonus for veterans for the reason that
they did not desire the negroes of the
state to benefit thereby. That impress
SION is absurd sufficiently to demand cor
recton.
This is the spirit that PROMPTED
South Carolina's vote: We love our
country, which gave us our birth and
which affords greater blessings than
those of any other nation. Our homes
are here and to US they are sacred. We
do not demand, solicit or expect money
as reward for having defended them
That would be "Hessianism.'
| will thank you to give space to
inns correctlon A. NJ. JONES.
Greenville, S. c., Oct 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

by the defeat of his pet bills, he
seems to entertain the deluson that
they may have a chance at the
Legislature's regular session in Jan
uary, and so may not be averse to
being able to say that the legisla
tion passed did no good.
The responsibility for failing to
utilize effectively the power which
the Legislature has given to the city
for the relief of the housing short
age will be heavy one. The Legis-
lature has put up to the city sim
pie proposition to take or leave, but
not to be manipulated for partisan
or political purposes.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
The Workers Government
70 the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: Morris Hillquit, the Socialist
leader who lives in luxury on River
side Drive, says that he will fight till
the working class controls the govern
ment." What does he mean? The gov
eminent is now controlled by the peo-
pie, who are all workers, for the
United States is nation of workers
some with their brains, others with their
hands. If Mr. Hillquit thinks i. is nee
essary to be dirty and ignorant in order
to be called worker, then he is not :,
worker The idle rich are more than
offset by the poor who won't work. Mr.
Hlllquit can only mean that he will
tight until the foreign workers control
the United States government.
New York, Oct. 4, 1920. VIA.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

Lovers Of that stirring mouthful
"forward-looking" will be pleased to
discover that Governor Cox, as long
ago as 1916, experimental with this
phrase of high ideals and agreeable
vagueness.
The phrase was then used to be-
deck dummy association of Coxites
the Forward-Looking Association
Of Ohi0'-the same being organized
to receive and eXpend some $4,000,
and thus conceal the fact that this
tidy sum was in part the contribu-
ton Of a corporation, to wit, the
Dayton Metal Products Company,
which in turn owned the Dayton
Wright Airplane Company, of some
notoricty following the war, thanks
to Colonel Deeds and Mr.. Charles
Evans Hughes
At least such seems to be the drift
of the testimony at Dayton. The
hind leg Of any mule is straight
edge by comparison with the devious
routes through which the Cox money
Travelled to forward-lookers in these
gubernatorial days, and we hesitate
to chart the course Of any particu-
lar dollars with certainty.
We can only be sure that there
were dummy notes and dummy funds
and dummy corporations en- every
hand and that the command then as
now was forward-or rather to look
forward which was highly sensible
advice for any practical politician in
these days Of corrupt practices acts
when the less one knows of what
either cne's right Or left hand is do
ing the better.
Governor Cox is soaring skyward
on mighty pinions to-day. 1t is thus
dcubly interesting to trace these
first sproutings Of his idealistic pin
feathers.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09


""7vrght. 1872" New York Tribune 1r".
OF the 100000 workers who went
on strike in 1919 1,053.25 strucl. for
reasons which labor authorities them
selves refused to recognize and other
wise condemned as unwarranted
On August 80 last the front pages
of all the newspapers contained an an
nouncement that 175,0O0 hard coal
miners had sent three-day ultimatum
to President Wilson, threatening a
strike in defiance OF their own officers,
who did not believe such strike was
warranted.
On the same front pages of the same
papers was another announcement Of
the actual tying up OF the principal
transportation systems of Brooklyn
that was insisted on and perpetrated
against the orders and threats Of the
unions own officials, who said strike
vas not warranted and could be de-
fcated.
The printers strike in New York last
fall, which cut the wages of 500 900
other men, was condemned by the print
ers' own international union as entirely
unwarranted.
Out Of seventy conspicuous strikes
that were begun during the first half
of October, 1919, only eight were rec
ognized by higher labor officials as be-
ing justified.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

copy
Postoffice Inspectors Office, Eighth
Avenue and Tnirty-frst Street,
New York City,,
Sir: On October G, 1920. at about
noon, there was deposited in the Post
office, City Hall Station, Broadway and
Park Row, special delivery letter ad-
dressed to me in legibla hand
writing, with my full name and ad
dress. 1t is now o'clock in the aft
crnoon of October T, exactly TWENTY
seven hours after the letter was de-
posted, and | am still waiting for il.
In the meantime the person who sent
it to me has informed me of the above
facts
In view of this circumstance. and
other previous dsconcerting circum-
stances, | naturally hesitate to use the
Buresonized Postofiice system. That
is why | took the precaution to tele-
phone your office before sendinc This
letter through the Burlesonjzed Post
once system. wanted to make sure
'hat the facts would reach you. have
no confidence that this letter will ao ca
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
Condemned by Labor

The whole series Of railroad strikes
during the last spring, which have cost
the public more than the coal str4Ne
itself, have been popularity known as
"outlaw Strikes" because they have
been condemned as unjustified and com
hated as much by the rest Of labor as
by the employers themselves.
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, for twenty
years president of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, is undoubtedly in a
position to defend strikes in general
or IN particular with as much knowl-
edge and ability as they can be de-
tended In his famous debate with
Governor Allen of Kansas, as labor's
chosen advocate on this subject. he
rested his whole defense of strikes.
first, on the inherent right Of a free
man to refuse to work as Il protest
against unjust conditions, and second.
on what strikes in the past had ac-
complished in doing away with child
and woman labor and in raising the
working conditions and standards Of
living Of all labor.
In order thai there may be no mis-
understanding Of the aims of the pres
ent discussion or misappreheasion of
its fundamental attitude toward labor.
it may be said that the writer is per
aonally of the opinion that it would be
entirely unwise for society 10 deny to
any group of men the fundamental
right to strike IN protest against eco
nomic injustice as it would be unwisc
to deny any group OF men the right to
rebel against any form of injustice or
tyranny as long as society contains
50 much OF both.
But any theorizing about the right
TO strike, any discussion of the good
or bad effects of strikes in general, is
merely acadr<Jc.
For We haer or nave had during the
last year millions Of men not discus
sing the theories Of strikes, but strik-
ing. 1t is not what strikes in the
past have aimed at or done or what
strikes in the future may aim at or do;
1t Is what strikes of last year and this
year are aiming at and doing that is
practically important now.
There have been three times as manv
strikas since the war as In any similar
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
1t Makes No Difference

VFTom IHe FhlI0df7nNI0 NQ1.rorl
The government forecasts a BIGGER
sugar crop than ever, but the prcdic-
tion is merely of academic interest to
the consumer, who knows what is beine
done to him this fall after an increased
production of more than fifty million
tons of coal over the amount mined
last year.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

another effort to pin her down to the
skimped and militarily indefensible
eastern frontier drawn for her
north and south through Bialostok
and Brcst- Litovsk?
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
Strikes Wifhouf Basis


On August 81 $500 American
longshoremen went on strike and re-
fused to load American vessels-even
vessels carrying provisions to Ameri-
can troops on the Rhine-because the
roal.5h government had arrested an
Irish political criminal
On August 1 all the printers in
Manila were on strike because of one
political editorial in one newspaper in
favor of American government in the
Philippines.
On July 21 nearly hundred thou
sand lrshmen went on strike because
an American court sent Larkin. an
American citizen, to jail for a crime
committed in America.
During August over a dozen groups
OF workmen went on strike because of
the war between Russia and Poland
part Of them because they were afraid
the government might help or encour-
age one or the other of these foreign
comoatants, part because they were
afraid their government might not help
or encourage one or the other of these
foreign combatants.
In August a group of American ma
rlne workers went on strike because
an English official would not let an
Australian Archbishop go TO Ireland.
Another group of dock workers, sea-
men and cooks struck because this
same Archbishop was allowed to get on
boat to try to get to Ireland.
On August 81, when five women ap-
peared on certain New York docks wav-
ing green flags and haranguing the
workers to strike till the British govern
ment should release the Lord Mayor Of
Cork from prison, $500 men of all races.
most of them supposed to be American
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
Cox's Newspaper Says
(From The Dayton Daily Ne1os,
December Is. 1916)

A military critic who has closely fol-
lowed the progress of the war states
that the contest can only end in one of
three ways: Either through knock
out for Germany, through a knock out
for the Allies, or by the world coming
to an end. Germany seems incapable
of being knocked out.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
The Insomniacs

I've co+ n +o1,o r.l,u,,
4 ,no.. o......4.', ,''' "'"s' va Id
And rdu. O. I1:. W., N'''''t'' 'i' ID
1'i' i'''"s'
lake back the vows thou hast spoken;
Smile DER each pitiful token
Edna St. Vincent M;llav
w g 9
These are the saddes+ Of noss;h,o ,ou,u
N NJ
She was bred in old Kentuclsv
Edna St. Vincent Mjllav
"Shoot, if you must. this old qrav boad
And Edna ST. Vincent Millav" she sa;1
When I went to the Raras vorr o
With Edna St. Vincent Millav
K NJ Y
Baa baa black sbeon
WHAT'S this dull town to me?
NaN-'-ii''''ah urao.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
A DRESS FOR YOU

90 Esther. Uho hates to shop and tuho find
'fttsnOs" boresome)
Ia take the starshine from the night.
I'd take the roses bloom;
The silver spider-fax as light,
The blowing heather broom.
And weave gown Of thistledown
Upon a drcamers loom.
The purple of the sunset sea,
Bright gold of morning sky,
The velvet of the bumbe-bec,
And wings of butterfly
All these l take, gown to make,
That money couldn't buy.
OF all the beauty that there is
In earth and sea and air.
My loom of airy fantasies
Would weave a fabric fair
Your loveliness to grace, dress
That only You should wear.
c. ". W.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

period before the war; probably ten
times as many men have been on strike
III the last year and half as in
any similar period before the war in
our history. What have been the re-
suits Of these strikes? We know some
thing about what they have cost the
public, including labor, in loss and suf-
fering and present high prices. Have
they paid anrthing or do they promise
to pay anything to the public that has
or may in any way Offset their tre-
mcndous costs?
The first and one of the most strik-
ing answers to that question is the fact
that Mr.. Gompers himself and organ
lied labor in general have openly ad-
mitted that the aims sought in a large
number OF our most costly strikes do
not Justify the cost of the strike. and
Mr. Gompers and organized labor have
themselves opposed these strikes.
Their own higher union officials
pleaded with the B. R. T. workers not to
90 on strike. The leaders OF the dock
workers who struck in August hastened
to tell the public the men were wrong
and shouldn't have struck In fact. most
of the strikes that came to public at
tention during August have been con-
demned by a large part and often bv a
majority Of labor itself as being with
out adequate justification. And the
September strikes, Of which special
record happens to have been kept, were
even worse, for here out of twenty
strikes only eight were unanimously
'9notioaed even by labor itself as be-
8 justified
One of the most serious clothing
strikes in Chicago was called because
the manufacturers refused to paw q
huge blachmail to certain union Off
cials for not calling the strike.
The strike in the P F. sternberg
plant in Chicago was called because a
new paymaster refused to include $50
IN his weekly payroll to hand" GER
tam walking delegate.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

THE DRAMA

THE DRAMA
l once saw gentleman wallop his
wife;
I've heard a girl holler "You
brute!"
I've heard non-poet say something
was rife"
And l once knew child who was
"cute."
| once heard humorist say some
thing subtler
Than what he wrote down on
page;
But I've never heard one philosoph-
ical butler
Except on the stage.
I've heard an articulate guard on
the L,
And a negro who couldn't play
tunes;
l once saw an audience silent at
"Hell."
And not even giggle at "Prunes. ;"
| once knew a lady but honorable
bettor,
And girl who would not tell her
age;
But never saw any one crumple a
1ettor
Except on the stage.
The esteemed authorities haven't
done much to interrogate Abe Attell
the slayer, as the newspapers call him
or her, of Elwell is untred; the Wall
Street explosion still is a mystery.
But the police and the District Attor-
ney's office know where Nicky Arm
stein is.
What astonshes us, after all the arti-
cles of the American Credo we have
been led to believe in, is not that the
inmates of that borough are unable to
direct you to Brooklyn address, but
that they can't even tell you how to get
to Manhattan.
The Hurt Street chapter of Brooklyn
rooters are loud in their praise of
Boins.
In Washington yesterday some of
the correspondents, asking Secretary
Tumulty about the Presidents alleged
promise to help Rumania, went to him
with Say, it amt true, Joe"
Our intelligent Persian feline, Mr.,
objects to our appropriation of Eddie
Cicotte's famous alib. Mr.. wants us
to say Il did it for the wife and the
kitty"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
Burlesonized

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I inclose copy of a letter
which have just posted f.
New York, Oct 7, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

The Hurt Street chapter of Brooklyn
rooters are loud in their praise of
Boins.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

In Washington yesterday some of
the correspondents, asking Secretary
Tumulty about the Presidents alleged
promise to help Rumania, went to him
with Say, it amt true, Joe"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

citizens, stopped loading boats-chieay
American beats. No man in his sane
mind, if he stopped to think about it.
could believe that such an act could
change the course Of English law any
more than Henry Ford's slogan. get
ting the boys out of the trenches be-
fore Christmas" could stop the World
War. And in any event why American
shipping should be penalized, Ameri-
can beef cargoes be allowed TO spoil
and the American people be forced by
American workmen into paying the
cost of a strike in such a cause a~e
equally beyond the average mans
Imagination.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
Losses for Al

Losses for All
OF course, most OF these workers
saw the incongruity Of such a situation
in a few days and went back TO work.
and the strike cost only perhaps $4,000
"a mere bagatelle as we count costs
to-day. But the point is there have
been literally hundreds of strikes
equally footless and resultless-for
Ireland or Russia or Poland or Philip
pine independence or because this or
that or the other man, generally a
criminal. was or was not treated this,
that or the other way-whose sum total
has been tremendous item in piling
up the cost of living without any bene-
fit to anybody
A fourth group of strikes. part of
which come under the group which labor
itself condemned and part OF which do
not-but all of which resulted in piling
up great loss to the public and bringing
no good to anybody, are those which
whatever may be said about their aims,
were foreordainsd to failure from the
beginning, because Of circumstances un-
der which they were called
The Clyde, Mallory and Old Do
minion lines were being run 1T loss Of
about s6ooo,ooo year. They had a
clam before the Interstate Commerce
Commission for fre.ght raise. and any
raise in the dock workers wages had
TO depend on the action u The govern
ment N raising rates.
The B. R. Z. strike WAS also doomed
from the beginning. The men were
getting 81 cents an hour, which, while
not high, is good average wage for
the kind Of work they do Thousands
Of investors, including widows and
minors, who owned B. R. T. stock had
not for years received one cent o. divi-
dends or Of interest Oh the money they
have invested, and the company was in
the hands OF ? receiver. being operated
under the direction of a court The
court had given the men a substantial
raise the year previously and WAS will
ing to raise them again as much as it
could. This strike cost the workers the
per cent increase they might havs
had, caused immense Inconvenience aud
loss to the 100000 people of Brooklyn
ard got nobody anything.
There are no specific figures svsils-
from which it is possible for any one
to say or even to estimate that any
particular percentage of all strikes
since the war have brought any par
ticular results. But there is ample
general evidence available which all
points to certain very definite con-
illusions.
Destructive, Not Constructive
We know that among the classes OF
labor where strikes have been most
common higher wages have been used
as an excuse for working shorter hours
and fewer days rather than as q means
Of advancing living conditons-thss
instead of increasing production or
production efficiency they have in
creased the spirit Of discomfort.
We know, in short, that far from
being socially or economically con-
structive, strikes since the war have
been chiefly an expression OF the pur-
poseless unrest of the average man.
and that where they have had purpose
or purpose has been injected into
strikes that began from mere unrest
that purpose has been chiefly sinister
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

A copy was published in a
New York newspaper to-day.
The copy published in a morning
newspaper-From an evening news
paper
Thanks for the ad., Mr.. Munsev.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

"The great singer begins The New
Haven Register, in it's Jenny Lind story,
known the world over as the Swedish
Florence Nightingale.' Probably thinks
A. G. c., she gave her first New York
Concert at Castle Mary Garden.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09

Brooklyn sings: What's this dull
town to me? The Robins amt here.
= %
New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
The High Cost of Strikes
Bp Marshall Olds

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