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Bisbee daily review., 1920-10-23

Taulac IS sold in Bisbee by J. M. Ball. W Harry Miller, Johnson's addi- ton. Lowell Drug Co.. and by leading druggists in all other cities.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
The League Cadaver

Lloyd George, in his frank way, has
blurted out the true reason why the
machinery of the League of Nations
has not been used in the Polish
crisis. "The league" the British
Premier told the House of Com
mons, cannot operate where there
is no unanimity, and it is quite clear
that the Allies have not the same
views regarding Russia and Poland."
The league covenant in form binds
the league members, when dispute
arises between a league member and
non-league member, to summon the
non-member Gin the present case
Russla) to join for the purposes of
the controversy. If it does not re-
spond, then the league members
agree to take common action in be-
calf of the non-member. The Ian
guage is plain, yet not a hand was
raised to apply it to Russia invasion
of Poland. AS working organization
the league blew up--the covenant
became a mere string of barren
words.
Except there is in fact an alliance
based on a community of policy
which shall exist independent of
the league it is futile as peace
enfWcer. 1t has no will or power.
AS The Tribune has wearicd it's
readers in pointing out, there is only
one kind Of league carrying assur
ance Of peace. This kind is not the
covenant kind.
1t was such a league as was func-
tlonlng two years ago-a league
with power and animated by a COM
mon purpose. When he went to
Europe President Wilson devoted
himself to destroying this league.
He succeeded. He created suspicion
where there had been trust-dis-
harmony whore there had been
harmony. He quarreled with Italy,
almost forced break with France.
and made his scheme ridiculous to
Great Britain.
The President may have thought
he was promoting a peace league.
But his personal beliefs DO not alter
the fact that he was not-that in
stead he was disintegrating league
that was functioning.
How long will the shallow-headed
OF America repeat the preposterous
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
The Maynower Hostel

An interesting feature in the pro-
gram of the Pilgrim Fathers ter
centenary celebration at Plymouth,
England, will be the opening on Sep
tember 6 of the Mayf1ower Sailors
Hostel in the presence, it is hoped,
of the British Premier, the American
Ambassador and other influential
personages.
The hostel, formerly headquarters
of the American Y. M. c. A. in Ply
mouth, has been acquired by the
British and Foreign Sailors Society,
and with the Sailors Home in Vaux-
hall Street is now being brought
into one organization. During the
war more than 1000 shipwrecked
and torpedoed men were accommo-
dated at this home, of which 179
were torpedoed American sailors,
74S We're British and the others of
various nationalities. Since the hos
tel was opened in November last, fo,
the use of all seamen visiting Ply
mouth, more than 5000 men have
been provided with beds, and some
$4,000 have used its facilities. One
American consul after another has
testified to the practical aid given by
the society, and masters and crews
of American vessels sunk by German
submarines or otherwise wrecked
also have sent expression Of their
gratitude for such humane and
friendly service.
During the war the society as a
whole gave sUccor to more than
10000 victims Of submarine ruth
lcssneSs. 1t maintains branches in
various ports throughout the world :;
promotes the training Of boys who
desire to follow the sea as career;
provides a home for boys of six
years and upward whose fathers lost
their lives at sea, and prepares them
TO obtain certificates as mates, and
carries on other activities of like
purpose.
Lowell R. Dunstan, Mayor of Ply
mouth, thinks it possible Americans
may wish to share in an effort now
being made to raise money for pay
ing the entire cost Of the Maynower
Sailors Hostel. Any who wish to do
so are requested to make out checks
payable to Treasurer, Lloyds Bank,
Plymouth. The remittance should
be addressed to the Mayor of
Plymouth, England.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18

by all the other maritime nations.
We shall fail If we cannot support a
feet for our own trade purposes.
The United States merchant marine
now faces it's greatest opportunity.
We have the ships already in hand,
or in sight, with which to begin to
compete with all comers. In the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1920, Of
the tonnage entered and cleared in
our ports 5O.84 per cent was Ameri-
can and 1915 per cent was foreign.
Compare this record with that of the
fiscal year 1918, when only 27 per
cent was American and 73 per cent
foreign. These are figures for the
foreign carrying trade. But, COM
pairing the values of merchandise
carried, the share of foreign vessels
in 1913 was 9019 per cent and the
American share only 9.81 per cent.
In 1920 the exports in American bot
toms were 45.1 of the total ond i'm
ports 37.6 of the total.
The United States ought soon to
be transporting the bulk of its for
eign trade. Efforts to that end will
be more fruitful than efforts to do
Germany's work for her while she is
convalescing as a maritime nation.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
The German Shipping Contract

The Shipping Board says that it
has adequately safeguarded Ameri-
can interests in the contracts signed
with the Hamburg American Line.
American ships aye to be used to re-
store traffic between Germany an.
the United States, and the protec-
tion of the American flag is sought
to obtain entry into way ports-pos-
slbly Plymouth, Cherbourg and
Southampton. In return the new
American marine is to find an easy
opening into the field of deep-sea
traffic, hitherto closed to it except TO
very minor extent The Hamburg
American Line will employ Ameri-
can vessels to restore it's old trade
routes to South America, Africa and
the Orient.
This service may be profitable and
Will, at least, give a part of the new
American marine a needed eXperi-
ence in the methods of ocean trans
portatlon and competition. The Ger
man contract runs for twenty wears.
Meanwhile the Germans will try to
create another merchant fleet. There
IS always the possibility that the
Hamourg-American Company, be-
fore the war a leading agency for
German propaganda and during our
neutrality an active espionage and
sabotage agency here, is cleverly en-
gaglng the United States to pull
Germany's chestnuts out of the fire.
After we have revived German for
elgn commerce our vessels will prob
ably no longer be welcome in Ger
man ports. This suspicion, fortified
by our knowledge Of German char
acter and tactics, gives an unpleas-
ant SAVIOR to the Shipping Boards
arrangement.
To the board, however, business is
business. 1t will take chances on the
twenty-year compact. Meanwhile it
ought to labor to create and main
tain American world trade routes,
independently of foreign cooperation
or support. Our entry into the deep
sea carrying trade will be contested
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
A Respite for Warsaw

The Polish counter offensive holds
out hope Of the relief of Warsaw.
The Poles have the better of the
strategical situation. If their armies
are still full Of confidence and we'll
directed they may make much trou-
Bile for the overextended Red forces.
The Reds have tried to encirclc the
Polish capital and to compel it's
evacuation by the threat of an at
tack from the west. They have also
edged along the old boundary of
Prussia and Poland toward Thorn
and Graudenz, On the lower Vistula.
Marshal Pilsudski is attacking
now to the southeast of Warsaw,
facing east ard northeast, with the
idea of breaking through the Soviet
front there and rolling it up toward
the northwest. If this operation is
successful the Reds will have to re-
tire hurrie0ly from the region they
have overrun in old northern Poland
and West Prussia.
At any rate, the Marshal seems to
have brought Warsaw a welcome re-
spite.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
Accidents in Sports

The tragic accident at the Polo
Grounds whereby Ray Chapman,
shortstop of the Cleveland On
dians," was struck on the head with
a pitched ball, is all the more shock
ing because authentic baseball rec
ords show very few similar cases
Thus far but two are mentioned
those of Charles Tenkuy, who, in
1910, was hit or the head by q
pitched ball at Grand Rapids, dying
as Il result, and another, in 1916
at Mobile, Alabama, where John l.
Dodge met a like lamentable fate
Wilson FeWster, "Yankee' infelder
who was hit on the head by a ball
thrown by Jeff Pfeffer, of the Brook
lyns, in one Of the spring games, ey-
capped death, but was speechless un-
til after the operation. There may
be other instances of the kind if So
however, the general public is not
familiar with them.
The extreme rarity of fatal on
even of serious accidents in baseball
is surprising, when one remembers
the vast multitudes who play the
game. Consider the number who are
drowned while bathing or boating,
who meet injury or death while hunt
ing. In the light of such compari-
sons baseball is singularly free from
untoward happenings.
Ray Chapman's fate, sad as it
is, may be rated as sheer accident.
it represents coincidence not
likely to occur again. The streets of
New York are more perilous to life
than is the game. 1t is safer to be on
diamond than walking about. 1t
seems hardly necessary to upset the
fine balance Of the game to provide
against that which is highly eX-
ceptional.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18

nonsense that Senator Lodge de-
feated the hope of a league of peace?
That work was done by President
Wilson, and to complete the wreck
he stubbornly refused to allow the
ratification Of the half league or
quarter league that he had substi-
tuted for real one.
Unless Senator Harding and the
Republicans are able to put life in
the league cadaver, unless in some
way they bring the dead to life, there
is little hope Of any sort of league.
Candidate Cox is represented as
standing with the President. If this
is so he is also to be rated as a
league killer. AS a sensible man
Senator Harding, of course, cannot
pledge himself to the exact things
he will do. This would be fatally
foolish. Place the Republican label
on any particular plan or method,
arouse the spirit of partisanship as
President Wilson has done, and it
is practically a certainty that the
Democratic Senators will vote
against ratification, and those Demo-
cratic Senators will be more than
third of the Senate.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18

travagance set in, it did make de-
cided difference. People all at once
found that they could get along
for time with old clothes. Goods
that had been moving across retail
counters with the speed of the
Twentieth Century Limited moved
more like a local freight. People
just didn't buy or bought sparingly.
Let Mr.. Wood tell the rest of it:
"Cancelation of orders alone was
to blame for the shutdown. Last
February. when we opened our goods
for the season, we took orders sufIi-
cient to run our mills on full time
for six months. Since that date moro
than one-third of these orders have
been cancelled and the cancellations
accepted, as we had not begun manu-
facture. There were in addition many
cancellations made which we refused
to accept because goods were too far
advanced 10 process of manufacture.
These orders remain in doubt, and
likely will be the subject of litigation
No new orders of any substantial
amount have come in for many
months. The result is that at least
two months work for our mills has
been lost"
Of course, the company might
have gone on producing and storing
goods. 1t could have sold them some
day-at some price. What price is
uncertain. We doubt if even Mr..
Gompers-assuming he were hated
capitalist, too-would have been will
ing to underwrite the transaction.
1t is hard to please everybody, but
Mr.. Wood at least has the satisfac-
tion of knowing that his company is
solvent, which it might not be if it
were in the business of producing
things for a vanished market.
Mr.. Gompers apparently thinks
this is a strike on the part Of capt.
tai. We don't believe it; but if it
were it would be very ungrateful for
the head of the American Federation
Of Labor, who for many years has
defended the right to strike, to deny
that right just because the other
fellow did it.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
A Good Choice

'from The Springfield Repubtcar)
The strongest possible candidate fo,
Governor, IN the opinion of dsinterested
observers, is recommended to the Renub-
lcan voters by the New York Repub-
llcan State Convention. Ex-Judge Mil
ler's selection by the party managers
dlscloses, in reality, their deep fear that
Governor Smiths popularity will insure
his reelection. Judge Millers opponents
tried to discredit him at the SARATOGA
convention because at Chicago in June
h0 made speech nominating Mr.. Hoover
Tor the Presidency, but even William
Barnes rose above political pettiness of
that sort and acquitted Mr.. Miller of the
crime of party disloyalty in having
favored Mr.. Hoover for the Presidency
There may be contest in the primaries
but the Miller candidacy seems assured
fortunately for the Republican party.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
MIR. Gompers's Strike Of Capital

In the Almost Perfect State of
Don Marquis there is to be no work
and consequently no labor disputes.
But until we become intelligent
enough to establish that state we
must continue to endure a good
many painful things, even the dis
pute between Mr. Gompers, who says
his position is second in honor only
to that of the President, and Mr..
Wood, a capitalist
Mr.. Wood, head of the American
Woolen Company, has closed the
company's plants, thus throwing
some thousands of workers out of
employment. This is more than MI.
Goinpers can bear. 1t is nothing less
than a bald attempt to chastise
labor. Hadn't Mr.. Wood himself
said, early in the year, that un-
filled orders were large enough to
keep the machinery employed we'll
into 1920, with good prospects for
full production for the entire year?
And, anyway, hadn't the company
made large profits Tor several years?
He had said it had.
SO it followed that closing the
plants was nothing less than a
tremendous indictment Of manage
ment and heinous ofense against
a people in need of every possible
ounce of production" At least, Mr..
Gompers professed to believe it was.
Perhaps he really did believe it, al
though it should be remembered
that there is a radical element in
labor's councils, considerably lower
in the scale of intelligence than he
is, which has to be placated.
But let us look at the other side
of the case. 1t is true that some
months ago the American Wooden
Company, along with others in it's
line, had large untitled orders on it's
books. 1t is true also that there was
then an unparalleled demand-a de-
mand for all that could be produced,
and more. Based on the situation
as 1T stood then, Mr.. Wood was ap-
parently justified in predicting a
year of full operations.
Then something happened. Busi-
ness had been crippled by one strike
after another. There were steel
strikes and coal strikes and silk
strikes and woolen strikes. Finally.
there was the outlaw railroad strike
This was the last straw, for traffic
congestion so severe as to create q
situation which still has menacinp
aspects followed swiftly.
Almost at once there was a decided
change in business sentiment. Pes
simism displaced optimism. People,
fearing bad times were ahead. BEGAN
to save, or at least to buy less ex-
trayagantly. Until then the demand
for clothing was seemingly insatia-
bic. The fact that labor-including
labor in woolen mills-had demanded
and received higher wages for
shorter hours and then had failed to
produce as much each hour actually
worked had caused production costs,
snG, in turn, prices, to rise to fan
tastic heights. Profiteering, Of
course, added to the price, but in
the main high wages and low pro-
duction were responsible. The work
ers got the bulk of it, either in the
form of money or leisure. Still, as
long as prices didn't matter and
people bought regardless, this made
no difference to the company.
But when reaction from tho ex-
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
San DOMINGO

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To ease The troubled soul of
"W C. W." in to-day's issue, wish to
call his attention to San Juan, Port,
Rico; San Diego, Calf; San Luis
fotosi, Mexico; San Salvador and San
Pedro islands off South America; Sar
jose Central America, and many
others. San for "Santo'' is not the
result of anglicizins, but simpl an
abbrcviation very much used by Latin
Americans The feNinine form of this
adjective, Santa" on the other hand
is never abbreviated. So let us retain
the more euphonious San Domingo.
L. H. B.
New York Ano Te 1ooo
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
The Radical Jew
He Is Charged With Responsible"
for Much Redness
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: My letter, which appeare.,k I
The Tribune of August II, was plainl.
misinterpreted by your Jerse. "a
correspondent, whose answer to mine
appeared on August 49, To interpret
my letter as being a general attat OF
the Jew shows plainly that you, Je,
sey City correspondent did not care
fully read it.
Certaip specific charges VIE h1ds
which did not expect any enlightenes
American would attempt to deny
Here are proofs sufficient to satisfy
any who are convinceable that practi.
cally all of the world radical revou-
tionary movements are led by Red
Jews:
l. The governments of England,
France and the United States have
figures showing that at least IS per
cent Of the Russian Bolshevik lead
ers are Jews, active or apostate.
2. Bella Kun, Red Terror leader ID
Hungary, and seventeen of the chief
assistants of his advisory council Of
twenty-three were Jews.
3. The German Red Terror was led
by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxeln-
burg and many other Jews in their de-
structive revolution.
4. The extreme radical stand Of the
Middle West coal miners was dictated
and led by an American Jew--Alex
Howat.
5. The Seattle strike to Bolsheviss
that city, and through it the nation
had as leaders q great many Russian
and German Jews. Many of them
assume Anglo-Saxon names as Co.
moufiage, but the facts can be had BY
any one.
6. The Winnipeg strike. which tisd
up that city for six weeks and nearly
succeeded in starving out its citizens
had as leaders the following, whose
names speak for themselves Charts
noh, Armazoff, Shimarofsky, BLUM
berg. and Ivens.
T. The leadership and membership
of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union, which has over 100000 mem
bers, is practically wholly Jewish, wa'
speak very little English and are Oh
record as being a Communistic anu
anti-American organization.
s. The Socialist party of Americs -
led and operated by Jews, mostly ioF
eigners and men of Jewish extracto''
headed by Morris Hillquit (real n'ns'
Hilkowitz, a Russian Jew. 1t IS &C.
lieved that Debs is of Jewish ex'fa''
ton, but it is not denied that his san'
ming partner (Steadman) for the VICE
Presidency is a Jew.
8. The leaders and the prepondersns'
of the membership of the Commune
party of America are Jews.
10. The leaders and the prepono'''
ance of the membership OF the WV
munist Labor party are Jews. :,
There is no one in these uni'ss
States that is less anti-Semitic ths"
myself. And it is because of TINS law
that | have hope that the loyal Ans'
cans of Jewish faith will take so'''
action TO cripple, dsown and eApvs'
this Red element in their faith, 10 wv
end that Americans will cease coh'.'
ing Judaism and Communism, as '"s
great majority of our educated citizens
are fast learning to do.
There is no more loyal citizen 10 ~
country than the loyal Jew. ..,
AMERICAN
Brooklyn, Aug. 13, 1920. =
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
A New Label

(From The Birmingham Age Herald
Russia is suffering under the same
old autocracy. 1t merely has different
name and is not so favorable to soap.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
MrAipER on rms Assoc1ArEp pREss

Tie Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
uss for republication Of all dispatches credited
to II or not otherwise credited In this paper. and
hcretn.
An rights Of republication OF all other matter
herein slso are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute ssfeb-for u dissatsfac-
tloa results In any case TIE TRIBUNE guarantees
g pay your money back upon request. No red tape.
No un'bb'lnp. W. mako good promptly II the
Advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18

The Not Impossible She

Her eyes are too small and her hair
is too light;
Her lips are too pale and too thin;
Her wisdom is scant and her learn
ing is slight;
She's dull, and she always has
been.
Her brow is unduly, excessively low;
She dresses, they say, like dowd;
BUT
Whenever she goes to a cinema show,
She doesn't read captions aloud.
In her introduction to "Buestone,"
Mrs. Marguerite Wilkinson says that
when she is making a lyric, she sings
it :. "the words take their places in
lines that carry a tune" "The musical
tunes that I make" Mrs. Wilkinson
writes, "are of one sort with the rhyth-
mical tunes Of the words as spoken, and
with the meaning that the words are
intended to convey" We doubt whether
this is not the case with everybody who
makes verses of any sort. 1t is almost
impossible, we imagine, to construct
rhythmical lines without consciously or
unconsciously setting them to tune.
Mrs. Wilkinson transcribes the music
tha. some of her lyrics were composed
to. That to one of her "Sun and
Shadow" series especially is interesting.
The words are:
My life is like a shadow, a shadow,
shadow,
With soft grey feet that patter down
A path of waning light:
And where the shadow passes is only
rustlng laughter
That rushes to the mighty dark
OF the low-yng night.
We never write in that meter with
out setting it to For Christ was born
in Bethlehem, in Bethlehem, in Beth
lchem''; which, we have been told,
is what provoked Alfred Noyes to (f
Mrs Wilkinson's division of lines be fol-
lowed):
Go do*r to Kew in lilac time in lilac
time, in lac-tine,
Go down to Kew in lilac time
ct isn't far from London.)
Another variant Is:
Now we go round the mulberry bush. the
mulberry bush, the mulberry bush,
Now go round the mulberry bush,
SO early in the morning.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
Books

Although we have said once or twice
that we were not among the cathusi-
astic admirers of the literary style
of Woodrow Wilson, his note about
Russia fills us with envy and admra-
ton. Only master could translate
tut! tut" into 1000 words.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
BY
Heywo0d Byou17

house. Probably it all comes down to
tie basic fault that we don't know any
thing about sex psychology.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
Our Own TraYeIOgucS


Sir: Twelve hundred years ago Emperor
Tenchi Tenno devoted his time to COM
bnting the national pastime of dawdlng.
The other day festival was held to COM
mcmorate the altruistic reformer.
Eight days ago ship arrived mt Yoko-
hama with American mail. Yokohama is
eighteen weary miles from Toxic. but in
spite OF that infinite distance my letters
whisScd up here and delivered ly a
breathless (almost entirely, sr) postnan
this morning.
pair of shoes sent out to be rcsolcd
were rushed through as a special favor in
twenty-four days, and yesterday the light
ming calculator at Shimbashi station sold me
a ticket and figured out the change for a
five-yen note in exactly four minutes and
twenty seconds-but then, she had an abacus
to check up on.
Who said the first twelve hundred years
the hardest? SIB
Toxic. July 90