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New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
The Nations Shame

OF all the war and after-war
blunders Of an ungrateful democ-
racy nothing that we have seen CON-
pares with our tragic failure to care
for disabled soldiers, the record of
which The Eveming Post is now un-
covering.
There are more than 100000 of
these disabled men. More than 200,-
600 registered for training under the
governments much advertised provi-
sion for making these cripples and
stricken men self-respecting and ef-
ficient members of society. Of these
it is estimated that at least 10000
are eligible for training. Yet nine
teen months after the organization
of the responsible body-the Federal
Board for Vocational Education
only $4,000 have been put into train
ing and only 217 have been trained
and placed in gainful employments;
that is, 217 for the whole country, it
should be made clear. For the three
states of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut the number is forty
three. Last December the board
paid out $386,807 in salaries to 3,242
employees; it paid only $139,335 for
tuition for 1,537 disabled soldiers.
These last figures apparently give
vivid notion Of the spirit in which
the work is conducted. The disabled
soldier is not treated as a charge of
honor upon the nation, entitled to
every consideration and assistance;
he is obliged to prove his right to
treatment through an endless period
Of technical opposition and bureau
cratic red tape. No wonder men be-
come disheartened and disgusted and
quit! Of the men approved for
training 80 per cent drop out and
throw up their chances. The circum-
locution Office vents it's months of
weary questionings and applications
and forwardings and filings and
initialings, and at the end the
wounded soldier is often beaten.
Small wonder. The labyrinths of
this government bureau would drive
a strong man to despair.
The whole revelation should stir
an instant wrath in every Ameri-
cans heart and prompt investiga-
tion by Congress. Probably much
irrevocable harm already has been
done. But surely something can be
accomplished for the future. The
obligation Of the nation toward
these men is Of the profoundest and
.solemnest description. 1t was so
sacred and the corresponding need
so pathetic and noble that the pub
lie assumed that it must be met
faithfully and well. Little did we
comprehend the workings Of bureau
cr&cy, which sees in a crippled SOL
dier only another opportunity for
red tape, jobs and new acres Of
filing cases!
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Lenine's Blood Guilt

When Assemblyman Cuvillier at
the Albany hearing. interrupted the
examination Of Morris Hillquit to
say that Lenine and Trotzky cor
rupted the Russian army, then made
a separate peace with Germany
which released 100000 German
soldiers for service on the Western
front, and that this compelled Amer
leans to pour out blood like water to
stop the Germans, Mr.. Hillquit
made the elegant retort:
"Your sentiments are good, but
your history is rotten"
Mr.. Hillquit's own brand of his
tory is not only rotten, but putrid
He knows Lenine was transported
to Russia by the Germans and
furnished money to work to get
Russia out Of the war. Lenine has
never denied the facts-has justified
the receipt Of German funds. Luden.
dorff in his book openly speaks of
the Germans bringing back Lenine
and of supporting him. Lenine's
only defense is that he merely did
what he would have done without
inducement, thus offering the apol-
ogy that comes from our crooked
politicians when they campaign for
a candidate and coincidentally 20 on
his pay roll,
The Russian army was corrupted
The killing Of officers was encour-
aged. The war was denounced as
"imperialistic" The proletarians of
Serbia, Belgium, Poland, France
Italy, Rumania and other nations
were abandoned to German bayo-
nets. There was a betrayal beyond
anything known to history, and
Lenine engineered it. Then Lenine
made his separate peace with Ger.
many. At his door is responsibility
for the death Of 100000 non-Rus-
slams, including practically all of
our boys. Hillquit may be a skillful
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
New York, Feb. 10, 1920.
Touching the Jacob Tones

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May we not expect that the
Congressional investigation now in
progress touching naval operations
during the late war will finally dispose
of some rumors as to the loss of the
Jacob Jones, which were quite wide
spread and persistent, although the
writer never saw them referred to in
the newspapers. They were to the ef-
feet that
1. The submarine was able to get the
Jacob Jones because she had stopped
for target practice; and that
2. The rescuing ship arrived in time
to save the survivors because the sub.
marine captain, being more humane
than most Of his brother officers in
the German navy, sent out two wireless
calls giving notice of the Jacob Jones's
mishap. E. HENRY LACOMBE
New York, Feb. Is, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19

casuist, but tho crosses in France
sufficiently refute him.
AS to many items concerning the
Bolshevists, there Is basis for differ
ences Of opinion, but the chief things
are incontrovertible-are proved by
Bolshevist testimony. The Bolshevik
power, during the critical period,
was the ally Of Germany, but now is
a tyranny more gross than that of
the Gear. It rests on military force
and never has permitted free cleo
tion. Hillquit says that he favors
government resting on consent, and
at the same time that he admires
Lenine. The two things are abso-
lutely incompatible.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19

ono wing for time leaning
too much to conservatism and too
little to progress, became divided,
and a minority party has since
ruled the country. But the causes
for the division have disappeared
and there is complete reunion once
more on the basis of intelligent
service to the plain men and women
whose faces look forward, but who
have too much sense to expect
miracles and too much acuteness to
be deceived by political quackery.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Will the Senator Answer

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Bainbridge's inquiry abou,
where Senator Wadsworth stands on
the Socialist ousting is timely and in.
teresting. We know where he has
stood on suffrage and prohibition; we
know where he stands on the league OF
nations; only one point remains. to be
cleared up. Maybe, having jumped
wrong on so many other issues, he ex.
poets to wait until after election to
commit himself on this one. But that
will prove losing game; we are not
going to choose any more representa-
tlves out OF grab bag. H. F. A..
New York, Feb. IA, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Unfinished Business
By Frank II. Simonds

tion. The Italians have occupied Va
Iona, at the Strait of Otranto; they
plan to make this base the key of the
Adriatic; they are anxious to extend
their area of occupation around Valona
as widely as possible. To do this they
are using the cover of Albanian ma
tional sentiment to justify themselves.
They are trying to create an Albania
which, under their domination, will ex-
tend far south into the Hellenic dis
tricts. In doing this they are per-
mitting and encouraging the Albanians
to drive the Greek majority out of
Epirus, relying upon the Albanian
minority presently by their votes to
give color to Albanian claims, which
here are nothing but disguises for Ital-
ian ambition.
The Aid Of Veniselos
No one will expect the United States
to send fleets or armies to assist the
Greeks, righteous as is their cause and
just as would be such an action, but
there ought to be some American ap-
probation Of the Balkan situation and
some moral support, at least, for one
more oppressed race seeking national
refrigeration. The Oldest national as
piration in history is that of the
Greeks; they have been faithful to it
since time which antedates the very
existence Of other nations and Of race
consciousness among the other tribes
which still survive.
In Venizelos Greece has produced
one of the very greatest statesmen Of
contemporary times, and tho services
Of Venizelos to the Allied cause, at a
grave crisis in the World War, were of
inestimable value. Thanks to this man,
Greece has pursued her national aims
with every regard for the peace of the
world. Her confidence in the ultimate
justice Of her cause has been complete.
But, unfortunately, there is to-day grave
danger that Greek rights may be sscri-
feed, because the world comprehension
of the issues in the Egean has not been
sufficiently aroused.
With several hundred thousands of
Greek citizens, whose loyalty to Amer
lea has been strikingly displayed in
America and in Greece alike, the United
States has certainly a moral concern
in seeing the legitimate aspiration of
all Greeks realized, and American SYM
pathy and interest may yet prove a de-
cisive element. AS it stands to-day, more
than 100000 Greeks are in imminent
peril of being permanently transferred
so far as injustice can be permanent
to Italian and Italo-Albanian rule.
Even at the hour when international
sympathies are lowest and American at
tention is most narrowly concentrated
upon American problems, there must
still be at least an effective minority
still loyal to the principles millions
of Americans were processing only a
year ago. And nowhere more than in
the case Of the Egean Isles, whose
Hellenic character Byron sang more
than century ago, are these princi-
Piles at stake.
Copyright. 1920. Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Wadsworth Loyalty
With Some Discussion of the Duties
of Republican Women

of Republican Women
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sirs AS Republican woman I And
myself appealed tQ by some Of my
party's leaders to support Senator
Wadsworth on the score Of party
loyalty. But is 1t not as much, or
even more, the duty Of Mrs. Wads-
worth and the former Miss Wadsworth
to support Mr.. Hays, the chairman of
our party? Yet seldom take up the
paper, "The Woman Patriot" Of which
Mrs. Wadsworth is president and Mrs.
Harper secretary. without finding a
violent and disloyal attack on Mr..
Hays. In an article on January 81,
asking II Mr.. Hays is angling for the
Socialist women's vote, it is said that
"the Republican party has submitted
itself to the will of small body of
women, many Of them pronounced
Socialist and Red leaders" This
sounds almost like Democratic judg-
ment. And on January 10, under an
editorial humorously entitled, "Hays-
ing tho Republican Party" the phrase
"the sanctimonious cant of Will Hays
is used, and the article ends by ask
ing whether ut is any wonder that
thinking Republican women like Mrs.
Garret Hobart refuse to support the
Republican party" This seems to me
far more dangerous form of party
disloyalty than an individual vote
against Senator Wadsworth-of which
| fear there will be great number
If the party presents him as its candi-
date at tho polls.
CAROLINE SLADE.
(Mrs. F. Louis Slade.)
New York, Feb. II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Why Teachers Resign
Salary Raises Slo.u and Whit.
tied Dotvn

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: No man in the elementary schools
has received more than $1O0 increase in
his salary during the last twenty years
The men received practically nothing or
nothing in the salary bill that wus
passed last year. In fact, they are even
being given what amounts to q retiue.
ton in salary in accordance with an In
depreciation Of the bill by the Board Of
Education.
No man was given the 500 bonus
which was to be given to all city en-.
ployees receiving less than $1,000 year
The Board Of Education arbitrarily
ruled that the men were to be denied
this. Inasmuch as most of the men II.
fected thereby were in the service. N.Y.
self included, they could voice no objsc-
ton. News Of that sort wasn't sent out
to France to cheer US up.
1t is unnecessary for me to tell you
how those men who are married-ant the
majority are-are scraping and g ig-
Cling to make both ends meet, and :
ing. Money that should go for the T..
comforts Of life, for the education sf
their children, for decent clothes, 4iu,t
be used to pay increased rents, faAd
products and other necessares. TIE
United States Department of Labor he'd
stated that wage Of $4,000 per annum
is necessary to maintain a family with
the bare necessities. A majority q tAs
men receive less than this.
The Board of Education knows xhess
facts to be true. So does the city ad-
ministration. Their answer is, Get out
of the schools" Perfectly right. Those
who can are doing so. Those wte H.
main are hoping to do 80. But there
are others who cannot take Q chsnes.
Shall they be left to continue sour and
disgruntled, not caring or unable "a siys
efficient teaching because of home wor-
ries? Will they have the inspiration o.
desire to inculcate the lesson of god
citizenship in the adolescent boys undss
their charge? I dcuhs 1t.
INTERESTED.
New York, Feb. Is, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
His Honor in Wonderland
The Mayor and commissioner

The Mayor and commissioner
We're walking on the Strand;
They wept like anything to see
The snow and ice at hand.
"1f this were only cleared away"
They said. ait would be grand"
"1f seven cops with seven mops
Swept it for half year,
Do you suppose" the Mayor said,
That they could get 1t clear?"
They might" said the commissioner
And shed bitter tear.
HUNTLEY MONROE.
New York, Feb. 16, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
New York, Feb. Is, 1920.
To the Editor Of Tbs Tribune.

TO the Editor Of This Tribune.
Sir: A year ago the State LegislatQ9s
granted all high school teachers 6ss
raise Of $500, which was to be added "
present salaries by the local boards Of
education within a three-year period.
In New York City the high school teach
ers are given an annual increase OF (fS0
until they reach the maximum SALARY,
which increase is connected in no vsy
with the $500 raise granted year aso.
However, this Is the way our Board
OF Education is constituting the nov
law: $500 $15O=$650; 1-3 of $s5o=
$216. Each teacher (who has not yss
attained the maximum salary receives
yearly increase Of s216, acquiring
thereby $66 Of the $500 granted her ~
the Legislature, a sum not sufficient
buy winter coat-the food inspecteF
to the contrary Notwithstanding ~
this rate it will take her nearly eiehs
years to get the $500, which the lS~
expressly states she shall receive
three years. One is in doubt wheth~
to regard it as pitiable or laughable-
Can any sane minded individual thu
that such treatment tends to produe
either loyalty or devotion to duty
those who are the objects-or shall y
say victims-of this policy? What iF
ducement does it offer to the future cor
lege graduate to enter the teaching pre
fession! Has the City Of New Yon
reached such a financial plight that
makes up its deficits in other diree'
tions by depriving its teachers OF
portion Of their salaries?
ESTHER HARMONn
New York, Feb. Is. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
The Telephone and the Public

The report of the Public Service
Commission and the reply Of the
telephone company should serve to
clarity the general mind some
what, even though important ques-
tions of fact are still left in dis
pute. The commission lays stress on
the shortage Of personnel and con-
demns the company for failing to
raise the wage scale sufficiently to
attract an adequate supply of op-
orators. The telephone company
cites the raises which it has made
and stresses the fact that it is i'm
perfectly trained personnel, rather
than the shortage Of hands, which
lowers present efficiency.
1t is common observation that all
labor is below it's normal pre-war
standard Of efficiency. In particu-
lar, the turnover, due to the con-
stant shifting of laborers from
job to job, is abnormally and in
escapably large. The sympathy Of
the public should unquestionably
be with the telephone company in
recognizing this factor. On the
other hand, there is much to sup
port the opinion of the Public Serv-
ice Commission that the telephone
company has erred in attempting to
secure personnel at the wage
scales fixed during the past year.
The latest raise in wages will be
taken by many as a practical con-
fession Of the inadequacy Of the
preceding figure.
Thus, with every allowance for
the injuries to the service worked
by government ownership and the
war and recognition Of the long
period which must elapse before the
old extraordinary efficiency can
possibly be regained, it seems prob
able that failure to increase its
wage item adequately is partly re-
sponsible for the present crisis in
service. Thus far the Public Serv-
ice report seems persuasive.
When it comes to the question of
how these increases in operating
costs can be met, however, there will
be prompt criticism of the COM
missions view. That view ignores
utterly the question of maintaining
the credit and borrowing capacity
Of the telephone company. 1t sug-
gests that dividends should be cut
or passed to pay for operating ex-
penses. But to follow any such dis
astrous and unsound financial pol
icy would be most costly in the long
run to the whole public; for there
could be no surer way Of alternating
capital from the telephone as an in
vestment and increasing hugely the
price which the company-and ul-
timately the public-must pay for
new capital. This leaves wholly
aside the question Of justice to capi-
tai already invested.
From this point of view the crisis
illustrates perfectly the evil plight
which government regulation pro-
duces when an effort is made to hold
a public utility down to inadequate
charges. The corporation so at
tackled can lower the quality of its
service, or it can lower its return to
investors. Usually it does both, and
either way lies disaster for the pub
lie, as the railroads are abundantly
demonstrating.
The public has learned a lasting
lesson from the government opera
tion Of railroads and telephones. 1t
must learn the equally important
lesson touching regulation. To skimp
the income of a public utility by in
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Enforcing the Treaty

Senator Mccormick, Of Illinois,
told the Senate on Monday that the
treaty with Germany was unen-
forceable; witness the refusal Of
Holland to expel the former Kaiser
and the German government to ex-
tradite war criminals.
Senator Mccormick apparently
overlooked Article 20 of the treaty,
which says:
"As guaranty Of the present
treaty by Germany the German ter
ritory to the west Of the Rhine, to-
gether with the bridgeheads, will be
occupied by the Allied and associated
troops for a period Of fifteen years
from the coming into force of the
present treaty.
Beside the Rhine region, Cologne,
Coblenz and Mainz and territories
adjacent thereto are in escrow.
Moreover, the evacuation Is not to
occur at all if Germany breaks her
pledges. Does Germany prefer the
society Of war criminals to that of
several millions of her people?
Not for vengeance or blood lust
do the Allies seek the trial Of Ger
many's war criminals. What is
sought is to prevent future barbar-
ism. Hague rules signed by Ger
many forbade atrocities, but these
rules were openly disregarded. The
German staff said it was permis-
sible to slaughter to establish state
Of terror.
Other wars may come. Are they
to be waged according to the prin-
ciples of Schreckkchkeit? If the
German war criminals go free, peo-
pies that would be humane will be
compelled to retaliate.
- By whom the trials are conducted
is obviously a factor Of Importance.
Unquestionably the proper method
is that contemplated by the treaty
trial by the Allies on Allied or
neutral soil. Certain practical ad-
vantages are now being discussed in
favor of having the proceedings be-
fore German courts. The danger of
miscarriage of justice can be min
imized if it is clearly understood
that all such proceedings are SUBJ
ject to review by an Allied high
court, with full power to reverse, re-
hear or convict upon the record. If
the prosecution is given full oppor-
tunity to marshal the facts, the
danger of farcical acquittal may be
risked, for the error could be cor
rected by review certain to COM
mand the approval of the world and
of history. If there is veritication
of the massacre Of Dinant, for ex-
ample, when old men, women and
children were pushed forward as a
bullet screen, will the court at Leip-
sic dare acquit? If it does who
could question a reversal?
How the war was started and how
carried on are things which need tc
be placed beyond all cavil and
doubt. German historians will be
ready enough to lie if allowed an
excuse. One great good of the trial
of the war criminals would be in the
mere trial and it's record. Where
the courts meet and whether or not
the Judges don black caps is of sec.
ondary Importance. German jurists
may be as vicious as German com.
manders and may decide against
the evidence, but the world woulo
know they did it, and ultimate JUS
tice would be certain.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Tho Non-seouitur Contest.

Tho Non-Sequitur Contest
ALBANY-"I have run for office sixteen
times and never been defeated" said the
Governor. but these skis are one too many
for me."-The Sun,
"1 have staged twenty plays in Ave
years." said George NJ. Cohan, "but
this car is too crowded for me-"
~ have drawn posters for all the
Liberty Loan campaigns" said James
Montgomery Flagg, "but this steak is
II have sung barytone solos for
many years." said Reinald Werrenrath.
"but this ice is too slippery for me-"
II have been star since I was
eighteen years old" said Miss Ethel
Barrymore, "but these rubbers are too
small for me-" X. T. M
"And," lastlines Old Doc Crane. "as
you love me, cultivate q sense Of
humor." Oh, doctor, we try and we
try, but 1t doesn't seem to do any
good.
Suggestion-J. W. E's-for two
generations hence: The Society Of
the Sons Of Wilson Cabinet Members.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19

eve are not going to quarrel with
America" the London Globe says,
cover a two-penny strip of Dalmatia. !"
We believe that utterly, but we do not
believe that it is impossible for one
nation to quarrel with another over
the one-hundredth part of halfpenny
strip Of Van Dieman's Land.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
The Coming 7'ower

The -Bsggar and the Policeman
He was beegar:
He did not seem a fakcr. but a. II life had
indeed reduced him to the asking Of
aims on public highways--
He had no legs: stumps protrudsd from
beneath the bulk Of his body.
His face was weary and his eyes sad:
His face, in fact seemed smudxed over with
this business Of going on somehow and
in some way and to little purpose;
And he was resting, n tin cup. q cluster
OF pencils extended, where quito obvi-
ously ne had no business to be-
Against one Of the pillars Of the subway
stations platform.
A policeman approached him;
great, burly, xed-faced guardian Of tho
law,
Huge and impressive and terrifying.
We watched.
1t made us a little sick to think Of that
cringing hulk Of a man with the weary
eyes. ordered on, commanded on. with
perhaps sly and ponderous boot to
urge him.
And then the policeman stopped. stopped
over him. spoke and smiled, and dropped
a coin into the battered cup.
Mr.. Hoover, largely by personal ap-
peal, made many persons do without
things during the war; and that way
endeared himself to the public, for
the people love whom they sacrifice
for. And the people are sentimental,
and affection influences moro votes
than respect. But the sacrifice that
inspires affection must be voluntary;
which Is a cheering thought, other
wise the President of the Telephone
Company were tho city's most loved
denizen.
barytone is without honor in
his Alma Mater, an observation caused
by the advertisement in the New York
University New Yorker Of tho annual
concert Of Reginald Werrewealh.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
The Need for Work

(From The Chicago Daily Nsvs)
What Is needed along with industrial
democracy is an industrious democracy.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19
Cry Of the German ships: "A sale!
A sale!"

The Public Service Commission. in
oulring into the causes afor the alleged
breakdown in the telephone service,
hnds that there is no specific remedy.
1T is like rundown human constitu-
tion, and the Evening Sun saws that
the cure must come by way of slow,
steady building up.
In the mean time, the company ap-
pears to be trying the rest cure.
r. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-19

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