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New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
Recapturing Politeness

Bad temper and bad manners have
SO long marked the behavior of
political leaders that the exchange Of
courteous kilograms between Presi-
dent Wilson and Presdent-elect
Harding seems a novelty. 1t seems
remarkable that the White House
was moved to offer to make Senator
Harding the governments guest in
his journey to and from Panama,
and that the answer was polite.
1t is not necessary to go into the
question of who first set the bad ex-
ample, 1t is enough to welcome the
fact that it is for once not followed.
No good cause was ever helped by
splitting at its opponents, and per-
haps a time will come when this fact
is recognized in conduct, and not
solely IN words.
But speaking Of White House mes
sages, there is one for which the
public has waited in vain. We do
not refer to the fact that no tele-
gram Of congratulation has been
forwarded, but to the more impor-
tant and significant neglect. There
has been no word that the verdict Of
the American people is Loyalty ac-
cepted; no offer to place the influence
Of the Administration at the dispo-
sal of Senator Harding in the hope
that he win be able to bring to a
success what the Administration
failed in.
1t will be recalled that Abraham
Lincoln, when he believed that Gen
eral Mcclellan would be elected,
wrote and put in a sealed envelope
a memorandum, to be opened after
his defeat, declaring that it would
be the first duty Of his Administra-
ti6n, as it wished to save the Union,
to tender General Mcclellan it's un-
divided support and assistance.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
The Girl Scouts

This is Girl Scout Week in the
United States. Organized in 1912,
the membership has grown to 82,176,
and thousands of girls are turned
away every month because there are
not funds to meet the demands of
expansion. A sustaining member,
ship Of over a million is required to
carry on the work.
The threefold aim of this organi-
zation is to train in homemaking,
health-building and citizenship. Non
sectarian and non-partisan, its sole
endeavor is to develop the young
womanhood Of the nation. The
training Of the average girl, aside
from book education, is usually hap
hazard. If she is the home type she
absorbs certain knowledge of home
making. If she is not she manages
to evade responsibilities as irksome
to her as chopping wood is to the
average boy. Heretofore citizenship
has meant less to her than to the
boy. With suffrage, all is changed.
AS for the great outdoors, only the
tomboys have reaped the benefits
from it.
All Of this the Scout organization
has taken into consideration. Home
making is recognized as the big
thing it is. Washing dishes is no
longer hateful task when it counts
in the test for household efficiency.
Child care and home nursing become
accomplishments to be proud of.
Citizenship means much more when
it is translated into terms of COM
munity helpfulness at all times. And
the pleasure of having a strong and
healthy body is so manifest that it
does not have to be drummed into
careless young ears. In achieving
these things the teamwork and sex
loyalty, so often lacking among girls,
will broaden and deepen their under
standing of life.
Every girl should be a Scout.
Something more than a million men,
bers at dollar apiece will go long
way to make it possible.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
abundance Without Effort

rof thirteen months Fiume has lived
without working. The wharves are
deserted, the railway is overgrown
Win weeds, the factories are mostly
shuttle great Whitehead tornedo
snop' which IN 1913 employed 1900
men, now has only some $50 workers
BUSINESS in the town is limited ~
supplying its needs and doino Et,1s
trade with Trieste, Venice and PARTS
OF Dalmatla. And yet in some totally
unexplained fashion the soldiers are
PAID the unemployed are given boun-
tes' TODD IS plentiful and compared
with other Italian cities, living is cheap.
Inc soldiers and sailors get regular
itailan army rations, with something
added and extra allowances of wine
VI everything there is an abundance.
"ol excepting money. Fiume is the
only city to-day where one gets rea,
pure wheat bread made from the finest
white -four. II tastes like cake 1n-
deed, the other day D'Annunzio was
able to sell 1000 tons of white eour
to the Austrians. Another feature Of
the Truman puzzle, which recalIs the
miracle Of loaves and fishes. is the
enormous and never diminishing sun-
ply OF neutrality-suspicious. Italian
ammunitlon-in spite of the quantities
used up almost every day in sham
nights and training. D'Annunzio boast
ed to me Of the fact that in training
his storm troops his men wcnt forward
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
About Postponing Purchases

Sweeping, even sensational, price
declines have taken place, with the
result that manufacturing activity
is at low ebb in many places and
trade generally is marked by dull
ness, in striking contrast to the
frenzied buying of last winter. The
depression is felt everywhere, al
though some districts naturally are
suffering more than others.
In New England, where the hard
hit textile industry is centered, there
is perhaps more unemployment than
III any other geographical division.
In Michigan, the automobile center,
conditions are almost equally un-
favorable, but although there are
degrees in the effects of the read
justment, one Of its phases is COM
mon to all sections-namely, the pro-
nounced inclination on the part of
the public to confine purchases to
needs Of the moment.
That people are practicing self
denial is commendable. Certainly NO
one wished for an indefinite pro-
longation Of the extravaganza wit
messed last year. But there is as
much danger in penuriousness as in
extravaganza.
The dangers are twofold: First,
that over-abstention in purchasing
will compel factories to suspend op-
erations, owing to lack of demand
for their products, thus throwing
more workers out of employment and
making the unemployment problem
acute, and, second, that it will react
on prices, for if production should be
heavily curtailed a great rise in
prices would surely follow when peo-
pie at last began to buy the things
the purchasing of which is postponed.
Those who are advising people to
buy only absolute necessaries are thus
not giving wise counsel 1t is true
that if every one buys as little as
possible prices will go lower, but it
is also true that if that should hap
oen good many of US wouldn't have
the money to buy even the necessa-
ries, and in the end all of US would
Nay the piper later by another adj
vance in the cost of living.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
The Sevres Compact
business.

lhe Sevres agreement Of August
10 last, signed by Great Britain,
France and Italy, creates certain
spheres of influence in what is left
of the Turkish Empire. This docu-
ment was signed on the same day
as the Sevres treaty, which took
Syria, Palestine, Arabia, Mesopota-
mia and Armenia from the Sultan
and established Allied control over
Constantinople. 1t is supplement
tary compact intended to lessen fric-
ton in the economic development of
Anatolia and Kurdistan, which left
to themselves would be incapable of
clambering out Of the primitive ruts
in which they have travelled for
centuries.
The Turkish peace settlement is
still incomplete, inasmuch as the fate
of Constantinople cannot be deter
mined until the Russian situation is
cleared up. The Entente powers
promised Constantinople to Russia.
The Kerensky government renowned
the gift. No one would think Of
turning control Of the straits over
to the Lenine regime or to one
equally irresponsible in the interna-
tional sense. YET if Russia is not
split into fragments and manages
20 retain the territory fronting on
the Black Sea from Odessa to the
Caucasus her vital interest in the
Dardanelles outlet cannot be disre-
garded.
Constantinople lies on an ancient
trade route and controls the sea COM
munications not only of southern
Russia, but Of Rumania, Bulgaria,
the new Turkey in Asia, Armenia
and the Caucasus republics. These
countries have q big stake in the
preservation Of an open channel. 1t
is to their manifest advantage as
we'll as to the economic advantage of
Europe that the straits passage shall
be internationalized. The power
which administers the former Turk
ish capital and the tiny European
strip Of territory attached to it
should be trustee, not a selfish
exploiter. Great Britain is said to
be anxious to devolve the trusteeship
m Greece But the enlarged Greek
state is still an experiment and
Greece's preferment would exasper-
ate Rumania and Bulgaria and be
intolerable to Russia, should the lat
ter become once more great power.
The Near East is still chaotic.
Unity in Allied policy is required to
enforce the Sevres treaty and sup
press disorder. Great Britain,
France and Italy haven't held to-
gether very well in their dealings
with Germany. They realize, how
ever, that they cannot YET afford to
agree to disagree in the Near East.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
No Defrauding of Government

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIT: l should Ike TO dissbuse your
spondent's mind Of the idea that
business people are, in the main, dis
nest. have been in business for
fifteen years in confidential capacity
and never have discovered even hin'
OF an attempt on the part Of busine"
people to defraud the govermnt
For his benefit. and for those Others
who have any doubts in the matter,
will explain the working Of the manu-
facturers' excise tax law. The rctsl'
dealer does not pay the tax direct 70
the government. He pays it to tne
wholesaler from whom he purchased
the goods. The manufacturer who sells
any completed article on which the GOV
ernment has placed tax must SCI
aside the proper amount OF the tax fot
remittance 10 the Commissioner Of IL
ternal Revenue on the last day OF the
month following the month in wnEh
the sale was made. ] agree with yop'
correspondent that there IS Ih'0
laxity in this department, In thst tho
governments agent no longer come
around to inspect the records; but
presume that if there was anything
questionable about the remittance OF
a cessation Of it, the said gentlensa
would be on the joh
The manufacturer passes the 'N
charge on to the dealer who in TUX"
passes it on to the consumer Whetasr
or not he shows the consumer no"
much tax he pays has very little oea'-
ing on the matter. DIOGENES
New York, Nov. 5, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08

disappointment to the French. But
Frances representatives in the peace
conference allowed themselves to be
put off with the shadow of the guar
antics which the French people ex-
pected instead of the substance.
Now the realization Of reparations
contemplated in the treaty is to be-
come more or less a matter Of post
war politics.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
Books

"Thc writing Of advertising looks
easy" says Roy S. Durstine in Making
Advertisements (Scribners). "It's one
of those jobs which every man in his
heart thinks he could do better than
the man who's doing it-like running
hotel, producing musical comedy.
and editing a newspaper"
Mr. Durstine has hit us only once
out of three shots. We mean, Of
course, that we would never think OF
charging for bread and butter.
Certain advantages accrue to the
man who writes criticism in a frothy
and frivolous manner. There often
arises a belief that he is really much
smarter than he seems; that, like the
Harvard football team when it fails
short Of success, he is holding back
something for the Yale game. At Cam
bridge, for instance, l saw C. IT. Cope.
land, who is professor of English, but
also reads the newspapers. This may
be because he is the literary godfather
CT John Reed, Kenneth Mac Gowan,
Robert @. Benchley, Hartford Powell
and scores of other young journalists.
At any rate, Mr.. Copeland took me to
task little and complained that while
he enjoyed much of the Journalistic
writing of his young men, he found that
ror Of being seized while conveying
knowledge or information. He main
tanned that they rated the intelligence
Of the wspaper-rcading public too
low.
why" he asked, "did none Of you
dramatic critics in reviewing Richard
III mention that just as it was John
Barrymores first venture in Shakes
peare, SO it had been Booths and David
Garrick's %
| - ook my head obviously and let
him b ply that personally I had left
it out because I doubted whether read
crs would be interested in such re-
search. | did not dare to confess to
Copey that this was the first time had
ever heard about it,
But there are disadvantages, too, in
froth and frivolity. It is hard to get
under anybody's skin with light ar
rows. In our entire newspaper career
we have never succeeded in getting
anybody mad except Eva Tanguay and
George Creel. 1t is not for want of
trying. There is in New York a GER
tain popular preacher whose influence
seems to us of doubtful good and
whose point Of view about life is de
plorable. We felt so strongly in the
matter that we hammered away at him
week after week with all our strength
At the end Of our campaign we received
a pleasant letter from him in which
he said that he had been vastly amused
by the articles and wouldn't we name
day and come and have Nunch with
him as he would like to have US meet
the children.
Also, Irwin Cobb on the eve Of a new
production once begged us to write an
unfavorable notice about his play be-
cause, he said, he had never had a sue
cess in the theater. Unfortunately, we
could not see our way clear to doing
him this favor and. instead spoke ar
IDENTIFY and glowingly about the piece.
1t was withdrawn in a week.
HaryQr6'a IA ST tO1ch IOUyy, ceop,aJ
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08

scale. Savings bank deposits are
purposely hedged about with restric-
tions to discourage their sudden
withdrawal. Consequently, the sur
plus of the family income, if there is
any, is kept in the sugar bowl, to the
injury Of all.
The example Of the Cleveland
engineers may we'll be commended to
banks in general. If cooperative
banks have an attractiveness not
possessed by others they will get the
business.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
(COntinuedl

Continuing a notion Of Arthur II
folwel's, in Leslie's Weekly.)
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed of in wooden shoc,-
Sailed on river of crystal light
(Con.ln4ed on page p
1t was many and many year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That maiden there lived whom Won
may know
Continued on page 81
The blessed damozel leaned ont
From the gold bar Of Heaven:
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
OF waters stilled ar even;
She had three lilies in her hand
lCoMttnued on page y
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
The Reparations Compromise

The Franco British difference over
reparations hinged largely on the
question Of outside interference with
the functions of the Reparations
Commission. The commission derived
its authority from the treaty, and
was logically bound to uphold the
latter's terms. But the governments
which ratified the instrument are not
so strictly bound. They may have
changed their minds, and thus be in
clined to do what they can to secure
notifications dictated by new poll
cies.
France has been holding out for
an enforcement Of the reparations
clauses by the commission charged
with enforcing them. She named ex-
President Poincare as her member,
hoping to add thereby to the board 8
prestige and sense Of independent
authority. NJ Poincare resigned
when he found that the commission
was being shorn of its original
powers and turned more and more
into a mere agency of the Allied
Council.
The French theory had much to
commend it. But, as a matter of
fact, each government represented
on the commission was left free to
control its delegate. So if there was
no agreement among the govern
ments there could be no agreement
among the commissioners, unani-
nous vote being required on most
questions. The French are begin
ming to realize that the agencies
created by the treaty cannot enforce
the treaty. There are no sanctions
behind the document except those Of
diplomatic and military pressure,
and that pressure must come from
the existing signatory governments.
The French Foreign Office has
therefore compromised with the
British. The compromise reduces
the Reparations Commission to a
secondary role. 1t will be allowed
to appoint experts to discuss with
German experts the details of repa-
ration. The experts will report not
to the commission but to the govern
ments concerned, and then the gov
ernments will confer directly. The
results of this meeting will be laid
before the commission, which will
fix the total due the Allies. Finally,
the Allied governments will review
the commissions decision and guar
antee execution.
The way is left open in this round
about process to revise and modify
the treaty terms to far greater ex-
tent than the commission might have
felt free to modify them. The repa-
rations sections may, in fact, be
That would be q great
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
The Coming ower
Prohibition Mother Goose

Prohibition Mother Goose
There was crooked man,
And he climbed u crooked hill;
He bought some crooked liquor,
Close by crooked still
He told some crooked friends,
And they filled his crooked house!
And they all Joined together
In little crooked souse.
MARCASCO.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, bootlegger man
Get me some gin as fast as you can.
Ice it and pour it and mix it with glce
And put it in the shaker for Aleck
and me.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
4 Friendly Visitor

The day before I saw D'Annur,;o /.
had lunched with General Cav;v,;,
commander in chief Of the army of A.,
cupation, who had come down from ~.
headquarters at Trieste TO see ~.
commandantc. D'Annunzio h;r,s,.
told me that they had lain OF. on H..
grass together and talked over the 4.
veloDments likely in tire near fu,u,.
D'Annunzio also has the full supuo,,
Of Admiral Milo, commanding n.
Italian naval forces IN Dalna.ia. who's.
headquarters arc at cara.
SO D,Annunzio, free from the dsng.-
Of interference. has organized II.
Corpus Separatum of F.ume. has pro.
claimed its independence as the Res.
genza Italiana del Carnaro-this beinr
in his mind but the frs. step towars
.orma' annexation to ItAly-and h..
written fer i. q constitution which !.
not one Of the least Of the anomalies o,
this wonderful place.
There may be a tragic side 70 al
this. The great captains Of Italian in.
dustry believe that the present Italia.
government is powerless to withstand
the demands OF Italian labor To use
their manner OF speech, Italy needs :
shock" D'Annunzio Is to be Their
agent. Lavishing upon him praise AM
gold, +hey urge a march on Rome
They calculate that II once he start,
from Fiume there will be nothing 10
impede his triumphal progress througA
italy. No Italian soldier will raise :
hand against him. for does he no.
wear the medal OF the mutilated sat
the Gold Award of Valor-the equivs.
lent of the Victoria Cross? Much O.
the immediate future of Italy may be
bound up in the three words D'Annunzio
has inscribed upon his banner: Quis
Contra Nos?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
Saving Trouble
I From The phtfnde,,bto

(F'Tom The Philadelphia Iiquirsr)
One gratifying feature Of the elec-
ton is that Wisconsin has made it un-
necessary for the House of Represent
atlyes TO waste any of its valuable
time in throwing Victor Berger back
upon his questionable constituency again.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08

with live hand grcnades under
chine gun barrage twelve inches a,a~
their heads. His casualties. n,..,
from premature explosions o, h.-,
grenades, sometimes total . dom, =
day. OF course. it all provides -.
youthful followers with thas sr.,.
ment which is as essential 20 .,s..
the air they breathe '
During the early days of his o...
ton Of Fiume D'Annunzio's whol.
gram was summed Up IN the ~
italia, Morte'" and evcry pren.r..,s
was mades for the defenders n ..-
their lives as dearly as possibla -.
destroy the town rather than sp,,..
der it. Fiume was thoroughly M,
and everything was made ready - NJ
up public buildings, highways w..
mains. wharves, piers, warehouses 49,
If need shoQld arise. The town I, ..'',
mined, but D'Annunzio knows now 4,..
ne will never be called upon 70 !.
fend it against Italian troops. Ins..s
he is entirely surrounded and pro.ec..5
by the Italian army OF occuns..,.
which has been thrown forward \.
yond the Treaty Of London line 49,.
now occupies the heights above r..
carl, where small force Of Inc.
Slavs is stationed.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
MrMRrn nr TILE ASSOCIATED rRras

MENBrR OF THE AssOC1ATED PRESS
fhs Associated Press is exclusive, entitled to the
for republication OF all disl lqtches credited
10 II otherwise credited In th.s paper. and
slso ths locs OF sponlsncou. origin published
herein.
All rxhts Of republication Of ell eehM matte
atSsin rsxervod.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
Fiun1e, City OF Youth
The Report of London Times Core
spondent Of Life Under D'Annupzio

IL would be easy, very easy, to write
Of Fiume in Gilbert and Sullivan
strain. Here is the Paradise of Youth,
the widest dreams of boyhood adven-
ture come true. Everybody seems to
be about twenty. Some of the more
staid men may be twenty-five, and
from time to time an elderly person
serves to emphasize the immaturity of
the overwhelming majority. In strong
contrast with the background OF list
less apathy furnished by the towns
people, whose children have been
shipped away, there is among the Con
qulstadores" an atmosphere Of enthu-
slasm, of heroworship. Of self-confi-
dence, Of JOY Of life, altogether ex
traordlnary when one stops to think
that for more than year now trium-
phant youth, buhbling over with vi
tallty, has been cooped up in this mar
row space, without work to do or
battles to fight, without knowing how
its grand adventure will end.
Like a Pirate Plny
The picturesqueness Of the scene
makes one blush for the lack Of imagi
nation which stage directors show when
attempting to present a pirate plav.
Here are Arditi della Guardia
finest of shock troops-who fight Writ
ually naked, in nothing but tin hat
and hobnailed boots, a pair of shorts
and q leather belt, carrying large clus-
ters Of hand grenadcs and a short.
vide bladed trench knife In Fiume.
however, they sport horizon-blu put
tees, gray jerseys and rather becom-
ing gray tunic and rolled collar the
lapels Of which are covered with deco
rations placed en- echelon one above the
other. Their headgear is black
chechia, from which on long cord a
huge black tassel bangles between their
shoulders. This costume emphasized
rather than hides their splendid phvs-
lque. Besides the Arditi, there are
ieglonafles, grenadiers, machine gun
ners, bersaglieri, cavalrymen, airmen
and volunteers, all wearing uniforms
blended according to personal taste
Ihen above the town, at the top of a
steep street with staircased pavements
IS the Palazzo, over which float the
nag Of Italy and the purple, gold and
blue trieolor Of Fiume. From here the
Commandante Gabriele
d Annunzio rules his tabloid state.
But it is not the comic opera settino
that counts. 1t is not the weird cos
tunes which youthful fancy has de-
vised for its own -glorifcation. nor
the medals and stars that D'Annunzio
mas plastered all over his legonaries,
and which they value above any decora-
ton won in war. The thing that counts
IS the force that gives cohesion to all
this turbulent quicksilver.
Il Is great mistake TO underrate
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
Debss s Name on the Ballot

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; Could you kindly publish an
explanation why Debs's name could
be on the ballots? AS the writer under
stands the Constitution and the law, no
criminal or person sent to prison can
hold public office.
Many people Of the street are dis
cusslng this point, and no one seems tc
understand. How can Debs be put on
the ballot and poll 100000 votes Or
over when he is in prison.for a crime?
New York, Nov. 6, 1920. F. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08

ysu can suroha,e merchandise advertised In THE
IHieUNE With absolute safety--fsr II dissstisfac.
ton results In any THE Tribune guarantees
10 pay your MONEY back upon request. No red fape.
Ne suibblnu. We make ssod promptly the
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
| [Debs's name NAV have been O,

Debs's name may have been on
the ballot in the party circle. But
nobody voted for him directly. The
Socialist votes were cast for Social
lst state electors. They could, if
chosen, vote later for man who is
in jail or even dead, if they wished
to.