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New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

the Russians. 1t is significant that
while the German press overhows
with indignation about the retention
Of German prisoners Of war in
France, nothing is being done to re-
claim the numerous prisoners from
Soviet Russia. The explanation is
suggested that these prisoners are
among the most valuable of the ad-
vance agents of German business.
"The Soviet government" remarks
The London Times, "although disap-
proving in principle the capitalistlc
methods adopted by the German
prisoners, tolerates them in practice,
considering this drawback more
than neutralized by the impetus
given by the German prisoners to
Russian production. German SOL
diers in Russia are, therefore,
considerable asset to their Father
land, since while they are pegging
out claims for posterity they are
also doing good service for contem-
porary trade"
And SO the game goes on. The
one certainty that energies from the
maze of Russo German bluff and in
trigue is that Germany is trying to
win the peace in the East after
losing the war in the West.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

will elapse before conditions are re-
stored to normal.
Investigation has divulged that
Great Britain is in need of ono
million homes. To overcome the
shortage the government has planned
a building campaign and vested it in
the Ministry of Health. This cam
paign is Of such magnitude that the
secretary of the ministry recently
declared that it was more than a
mere housing project that it
amounted to the rebuilding Of Eng
land"
The British solution is to SUBJ
sidlzc the building industry. The
subsidy is distributed among private
builders, building societies and COM
munltles. To encourage private con-
structlon a bonus of about 5000 is
offered for every workman's home
completed within the next year. So
cleties are encouraged to build by a
government offer of loan of rs per
cent of the necessary capital and the
payment Of about SO per cent Of the
interest charges Of the total amount
invested.
Numerous municipalities are al
ready at work in an effort to relieve
the shortage. The London County
Council has acquired 5000 acres Of
ground for the development of a
housing scheme. In London 2,700
old houses have been listed for con-
version into flats, and more than 800
already have been altered by private
enterprise. Birmingham, where the
need is very great, has planned an
outlay of $5,000,000 and will build
1000 homes within the next two
years. The Health Ministry's plan
aims at the completion Of 100000
homes within twelve months. 1t is
announced that sites for 100000
houses have been purchased in Eng
land and Wales, plans for group
construction of 100000 houses have
been approved and more than 10000
alreadytare under construction.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
What 1t Means

Alter bringing against the Lodge
reservation to Article X practically
every conceivable indictment, our
ne1ghhor The World has swung
around to the conclusion that it does
not amount to much-that it is in
consequential whether or not the
reservation is attached. ''In the last
analysis it asks, "is the Lodge
borah reservation to Article X any,
'h'ng more than an empty form of
Words"
1t our nelghbor is right in it's ult;-
mate conclusion, why object to the
reservation? If an empty form of
words satisfies and quiets those who
otherwise would vote against ratif-
cation, why not advocate LETTING
them have their way? If Article X
in its original form is a stumblinp
block, why not, like st. Paul, gladly
consent to changing it?
But the reservation is not as bare
Of effect as our neighbor implies. 1t
is true that so far as any integral
national relation TO the league is
concerned the reservation does not
much matter. But touching the
highly important domestic question
of who and what shall give final in
structions to the American repre-
sentatiVcs on the league council, the
reservation is highly important. The
doctrine of Article X as drawn is
that the President, and the Presi-
dent alone. shall effectively decide
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
Don't Monkey With the Moon
To the. Editor

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have been reading in the pa
pers lately about a professor in Soma
coliege or other who has invented a
rocket and is going to shoot the moon
with 1t. The paper that read seemed
TO think he would hit it, too. And the
way we would know if he hit if was
that when the rocket struck if would
let off a big lot of flash powder.
NOW, think it is high time stop
was put to such kind of foolishness and
that such papers as The New York
Tribune, which has great deal of in
nuence, should lift up their voices
against the plan of this, professor. If
the Lord had wanted US to monkey with
the heavenly bodies he would have give,
US wings, the same as the angels had
Another thing: Nobody knows what
the moon is made of. Maybe it's made
out OF some kind of mineral that will
explode when this flash powder goes off
on It, And let me tell you, Mr.. Editor
that wouldn't be very funny thing for
anybody to have the moon blow up
Folks IN the city don't know anything
ABOUT the moon, whether it is shining
or whether it amt, and they don't care.
but we folks that live in the country
use the moon good deal. I courted
my wife by moonlight, and my Oldest
boy is doing the same thing with his
girl. I've planted my corn in the fuu
OF the moon for forty years and never
had poor crop. Besides. we use tho
moon IN lots of other ways. I can't
naroiy th'nk OF what life would be here
IN the country without the moon.
once done, twice sorry. Right now
- the time to put stop to this pro-
1essor before he goes any farther with
his fool plan. N rry
Cooperstown, N. Y, March 1e. 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
The Double Daneer
By Franz H. Simonds

forces. Thereafter the men who were
seeking to transfer Russia into a pro-
gresslve democracy, preserving its pa
triotism, but aboishing it's tyrants, lost
control completely. There was nothing
left to meet the next push, which came
from the Bolshevists
1t is not simple thing-this new
German problem. The defeat of the
counter revolution and the restoration
OF the Ebert government desirable as
they seem to the Western World. NAV
not prove a solution but a mere prelude
to the final collapse of Germany. de-
scent into the abyss of chaos totally
reminiscent of that which for three
years has been Russias plight.
Danger to the W0rld
The more clearly German conditions
are set forth the palmer is the fact that
we are in the midst of reaction itself
destructive Of our own victory and of
the permanence of our peace settlement.
While as an alternative of this reaction
we face unmistakable danger of triumph
OF Bolshevism in Germany and, in its
turn, the arrival of anarchy and of
chaos at the Rhine, which more and more
tends to become the frontier of Western
civilization. And if anarchy thus ex-
pected does not pass that line the rea-
son will be because of those armies
which "militaristic" France is still able
to fling in the pathway of a danger
equally menacing to France, to Britain
and to the United States.
Whether Germany goes "Red" or
White" the danger to the world is
equally great, and to-day there is sound
reason for fearing that the failure of
the present counter revolution NAV
prove the victory of Bolshevism. In
word, Germany, having to choose be-
tween Ludendorf and Lenine. NAV select
the latter.
copyright, 1920, The Mcclure Newspape-
Syndicate.)
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
The British Housing Program

The entire world is suffering from
shortage of homes. New York is
suffering only from condition that
is universal. Probably France and
Belgium, with their immense areas
OF devastated lands, are most acutely
affected, but the situation in Great
Britain is also very bad.
But Great Britain has one adj
vantage over most of the other coun-
tries similarly affected. Officials
there were awake to conditions even
before the close of the war and were
busy on plans for amelioration. The
result is that progress already is
being made. AT that, however, it is
officially estimated that seven years
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
Thirty Years Ago
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If any New Yorker will lei
his mind travel back thirty years he
will see some very astonishing pic
lures of the conditions that prevailed
at that time. 1t was habit of house
holders to put in front of their homes
large tin barrels containing garbage
1t was an everyday sight to see men
and women in rags, each one carving
IN his hand stick with crook on
the end. With these sticks they turned
over the contents of these barrels
looking for any discarded pieces of
bread, meat joints, or anything that
they were able to eat. These thew
wrapped up in old newspapers. stuck
them under their arms and took awav
with them.
The men Of that day who organized d
such great charitable bodies as the AS
sociation for Improving the Condition
OF the Poor took this lesson to their
hearts and studied sand worked to
remedy thelevil. This was one of the
causes that started the work among the
poor in their homes. To-day the streets
of New York are free from such awful
conditions. We are now to-day work
ing on just as important problems,
The enormous work that we are doing
IN the homes of the poor to show them
how to improve their condition, how to
build up their health, how to train
their children so that thev will he
good American citizens, is one of the
main reasons why the Association for
Improving the Condition of the Poor
IS appealing to the public for this
large sum of money. To-day thousands
of men and women are leadinp self.
supporting, self-respecting, God-fear-
ing lives; and they owe all this to
these associations.
SAMUEL S. KEYSER.
New York, March ~, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
Who Is the Tool?

Karl Radek, leader of the Russian
Bolshevik propaganda in Germany,
who recently returned to Moscow
from Berlin, begs Germans to come
to Russia. The invitation is pub
llshed in Zuhunft, the organ of Max
irnilian Harden, who crowns para
doxical career by evolving from high
priest of the Bismarckian tradition
into an ardent apologist of Boil
shevism. After indulging in an ex-
preston Of his contempt for the
bourgeois order in general and the
German bourgeoisie in particular
Radek declares that Soviet Russia is
perfectly willing to accept such help
from the German bourgeois state as
it is willing to grant
Radek boasts that other countries
will soon enter the race for the Rus
sian market, because none of them
can "renounce wood, hemp, flax and
platinum simply because it does not
like communism" But on Germany
devolves' the special task of furnish
ing Russia with organizing intelli-
gence. "Now that the German en-
terprises abroad are things Of the
past and the German intellectual
for foreseeable time will be leper
in the world, he can reject no oppor-
tunity for work, and this has spe-
clal Importance for Russia.
From the Entente countries we shall
not get what we need, for their colo
MES absorb their superAuous skill.
The only country that has a surplus
OF these forecasts Germany"
So Radek says to the German
bourgeoisie, in effect: "You are 90
ing to die, but in the mean time we
shall allow you to work for u.s."
When Lenine concluded his working
alliance with kaiserism he was less
explicit, but the essence of the bar
gain was the same.
= However, there is another side to
the matter. The Bolshevists NAV
hope to employ the Germans as their
tools, but perhaps the tools will be
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
The Ancestry of Our Flag
Why the Exhibition at The Grand
Central STAYED Up

NcnHdl CtQpcd Op
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention has been called to
an article which appeared in last Sun
days issue of your paper, March Ia,
under the caption "Flag Exhibit Taken
Down."
Warren Shaw Fisher, who styles him
self commander in chief of the so-called
United American War Veterans, ac-
cording to statement in The Tribune,
sent out an announcement that the
New York County American Legion had
taken down its exhibition of British and
American flags in the Grand Central
Terminal in the face of widespread
angry criticism and threats of legal
action.
AS the article which appeared in last
Sundays Tribune is misleading, I would
like to state that, as the owner of the
display in the Grand Central Terminal,
| removed the flags, as it was necessary
to place them on public exhibition else
where in New York City.
The American Legion had nothing
whatsoever to do with the removal of
the flags, nor did the Terminal people
order them to be removed In fact, the
exhibition remained in the Grand Cen
tral Terminal for one week longer than
originally intended, making three
weeks exhibition. The flags were kent
there an extra week on account of the
protest.
For the benefit of Tribune read
ers and the general public / make the
assertion that the exhibition of. flags
recently in the Grand Central Terminal
is a true evolution of the flag of the
United States. The flags as shown by
me were American flags, all of which
ait one time or another were used in this
country. Four of the flags were used
during the Colonial period Of our coun-
try. | know that there are many who
would like to erase the early Colonial
period from our country, but facts are
facts, and the truth sometimes hurts.
The flag of the United Colonies of
America, as raised by the order of Gem
eral Washington in 1776, was a flag
of thirteen alternate red and white
horizontal stripes and union of the
crosses of St. George and St. Andrew in
the canton. The crosses were taken
from the flag of the mother country.
When the United Colonies of America
became the United States of America
the stripes were retained and stars took
the place of the crosses. There were no
flags of any foreign nation shown in
this exhibition.
TELFAIR. MlNTURN.
New York, March 16, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
The. Lusk Report

The preliminary report OF the Lusk
committee in asserting the potential
efficacy of existing laws, and in par
ticular of the. New York statute
against criminal anarchy (Which has
been presented a number of times in
these columns), stands upon firm
ground. Its suggestions of con-
structive measures of Americaniza-
tion demand detailed consideration,
but the broad decision Of the commit
tee against the need of new legisla-
ton is to be approved.
The anarchy statute, passed years
ago as a result of the assassination
of President Mckinley, covers the
whole ground of illegal and danger
Gus speech. 1t states clearly the
fundamental distinction between
radicalism that seeks reform by law
full political agencies and radicalism
that seeks its ends by force or vio-
lence. The advocacy of this latter
doctrine and all acts in aid thereof
are made felonies by this statute,
which constitutes Section 100 to
166 of the penal law of the state. If
applied and enforced it affords
ample protection to law and order
and it leaves untouched our historic
practice of free speech. We hope
that this general finding will furnish
the text for whatever action is taken
by the Legislature.
1t seems fitting to state again that
the Lusk committee, despite the
hysterical outcry against it, has
throughout used lawful and wholly
American means of getting at the
truth. 1t did nothing more than
summon witnesses to appear before
it and testify. 1t punished nobody.
1t convicted nobody. 1t sought only
facts, and it's final action is only a
recommendation based on such facts
as it considers it developed. A fairer
or franker method of legislative pro-
cedure it would be hard to imagine.
Yet by the howls and squeals which
certain of our radical friends emitted
when summoned before the Lusk
committee for examination one
would have thought the thumbscrew
itself was in action again. Fountains
Of ink have been spilled in denounc-
ing its proceedings as barbaric and
Infamous. Of course, they were
never anything of the sort. There
was ample ground of suspicion and
evidence for the investigation, which
was conducted with proper respect
for constitutional rights. Nobody
was hurt except as guilty con-
sciences gave twinges.
Is the present breed Of radicals a
tender flower that shrivels up at the
bare thought Of a frank question?
Partly, we suspect. There is little
enough of the stanch reformer about
our parlor Bolsheviks. But mostly
their outcry over the Lusk commit
tee was plain pretense They needed
the robes of martyrdom in their
business. SO they put them on,
bowling the while We do not be-
lieve that their outcry fooled many
or advanced their cause or their
fortunes an inch
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
The Coming 7'o1oer
AT THE WAR MOVIE

The house is silent
Except for the hum Of the reel un-
winding;
And the tense faces Of the crowd
Clean palely in tho gloom.
On the screen, they are fighting
In the sand-bagged trenches;
With steady nerve they fire,
While shells burst ON every side.
At last they lift the flag
And, mad with victory, leap
"Over the top"
The tense faces Of the crowd
Clean palely in the gloom;
And the house is silent
Except for the ironic laughter Of
soldier.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
From Edgar E. Piper Jr.
To +. u. A.

Subject: Middle-Parted Mcnicker.
l. 1t seems to me the oldest preju-
dice against this aggressive short
coming was maintained by Senator
Nesmith, Of Oregon, who probably died
before | was born. He ran man off
his place for parting his name in the
middle, and said the only person with
right to do it was f. Pluribus Unum.
9. can't find copy of Joe Miller,
so l don't know if this joke is a
classic or not Senator Depew has
probably cracked it many a time. But
[ believe Nesmith is probably the
oldest claimant.
EDGAR +. PIPER JR.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
When Hoover Was for Quitting

On April II, 1919, Mr.. Hoover,
according to letter which for
nearly year was withheld from the
public, urged on President Wilson
withdrawal from the various inter.
national commissions which it was
proposed the peace treaty should con-
tlnue, and practical quittance of
Europe by this country.
Some of Mr.. Hoover's sentences
read as if written by Hiram w.
johnson. Mr.. Hoover regarded it as
"repulsive to our national interests,
traditions and ideals" to give moral
or political support to our associates
in the late war concerning matters
wherein we had little direct interest
On the other hand, if we continued
On the commissions with the object
of moderating the demands of our
allies he feared we would be thrust
into the unwelcome position of SEEM
ing to defend our late enemy, and
thus be subject to constant COM
plant and attack by the Allied gov
ernments. Summing up, Mr.. Hoover
wrote:
"1f we continue to sit in the en-
forcement of this peace we will be
in effect participating in an armed
alliance in Europe, where every
change in the political wind will
affect the action of these commits
sions. We will be obliged to par
ticipate in all European questions
and we will be firmly tied indefinitely
to one side, unless we precipitate
break and lend ourselves to the
charge that we have been traitors to
the common cause"
And again:
cit grows upon me daily that the
United States is the one great moral
reserve in the world to-day, and
that we cannot maintain that indie
pendence of action through which
this reserve is to be maintained if
we allow ourselves to be dragged
into detailed European entangle-
ments over period of years"
Seldom has the argument for
aloofness and non-participation been
made with more cogency than by
Mr.. Hoover. In April last he ap-
parently indorsed the Lansing view
that if the American people fully
knew what the treaty let them in
for they would tear it to pieces.
Even as to the league of nations
Mr.. Hoover feared that because of
the indefinite exclusion of the Cen
trail empires and Russia it would ''be-
come simply few neutrals gyrating
around this armed alliance"
Mr.. Hoover subsequently some
what altered his opinions and ap-
proved having a representative of
the United States on the Reparations
Commission, and has urged this
country's entry into the gyrating
league. But it will come as sur
prise to many that Mr.. Hoover was
once of the belief that we should
withdraw from Europe and that our
influence would be the greater and
the more wholesome because of our
ahstention from formal participa-
ton in an international organiza-
ton. Senator Knox has been savage
ly abused for venturing to uphold
this conclusion, even by the news
paper which had the honor of pre-
senting Mr.. Hoover as Presi
Dental candidate.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
What Mr.. Wilson Does Not Know

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When few years ag6 Presi-
dent Wilson declared that he did not
know what the war was about he told
the truth. He has not yet learned. The
Lord be praised. it is now less than a
year before he shall cease to abuse our
patience! A. KNICKERBOCKER.
Schenectady, N. Y. March i8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
The Feudal System

From the Geneva (Neb) Signal
Delmar Larkin called at the Svehla home
Sunday.
Peter Franzen helped Joseph Svehla
butcher Tuesday.
Alex Enge called on Miss Ema Svehla
Sunday afternoon
Miss Minnie Huber called on Miss Ema
Sveha Sunday.
Henry Opdrak called at the Svehla home
Wednesday evening.
Joe Svehla called at the Ondrak home
Wednesday evening
Frank Sveha helped E. A. Kuska nick
corn Monday and Tuesday
John and Josie Franzen called at the
Joseph Svehla home Sunday.
Josie Svehla and Mary Franzen called
at Hubers Sunday afternoon.
Miss Ema Svehla helped Mrs. Guthrie
cook for threshers last week.
Misses Alice and Ema Svehla spent Sat-
urday and Sunday with home folks.
HenEy ondrak and Joe Sveha called at
the Jim Rozanek home Friday evening.
Frank and Stanley Svehla called at tho
Peter franzen home Thursday evening.
Overheard by w. w. in downtown
second hand bookstore:
"pd like copy of General Ballino-
ton Booths Under Two Battlef1ags y
You mean Under Two Flags by
Oh You Weeder."
mo, want General Booths book"
Under Two Flags is what YOU are
looking for. Oh You Weeder is the
pen name of General Booth"
"A few days ago." writes DR.. Ber-
thold Baer in his glorious mortuary
serial, 81 saw Miss Jane Cowl in
'Smiln' Through the success Of which.
kind critic said, was made possible
by my essays" O grave, where is thv
victory?
Some evening one of the gentlemen
who pay 50 for highball at Colum-
bus Avenue restaurant is going to COM
plain SO loudly that revenue officer
may almost hear him.
r. p A.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
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EDGAR f. PIPER JR

The manuscript of shelley's Julian
and Maddalo" was sold Tuesday for
Sl6,25O. How long it would have taken
Shelley. to earn $16,25o it is hard to
guess. Those were the happy days of
poesy, when poet could give all his
time to composition, instead of having
to spend days filling in income tax
blanks.
Doubtless we are the only ignoramus
who until yesterday never had heard
of "Julian and Maddalo." Still.
we know a man who thinks Shelley
Plain is resort, like Palm Beach or
Saratoga Springs
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We have not finished reading the
book, and we don't know whether,
when they call Lady Penelope Wyper
Pen for short, it means anything in
particular