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New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
Peary

Peary was one Of the least spec
tacular of the polar explorers. If
there was any particular lesson for
others in his success, it was that he
reduced polar work to a practical,
common sense basis. He spent a
large part of thirty years in the
Arctic. He became a Greenlander.
He studied the life and activities Of
the natives, and realized that by imi-
tating them he could best acclimatize
himself and prepare for the final
sled dash to the pole.
Stefansson says that it was Peary's
ability to work in winter that made
it possible for the latter to reach the
top of the world. The older explorers
usually didn't get started north until
late in the spring. But Peary
reached the pole on April 6, 1909,
having moved from his base early in
February. He found the pole to be
at point far from land, and there
fore extremely difficult to mark by
any permanent structure. Nor could
his discovery be so picturesquely cor
roborated as Amundsen's discovery
of the South Pole was by SCOTS sub
sequent arrival on the spot and his
reading of the records deposited
there.
Peary's trip to the North Pole was
naturally less dramatic than Amund-
sens dash across the bleak South
Polar Continent. But the former
always avoided display. He had a
genius for plodding organization,
rather than for magnificent improvi-
sation. He perfected his machinery
for years, learning through failures
and hardships; and when his goal
was attained he confessed that the
accomplishment seemed astonishing
ly simple.
Peary was man Of one idea and
purpose, with enormous grit and pa
tience, self-disciplined and undis-
courageable. He succeeded through
concentration and common sense ap-
plication. With him exploration was
not a shining adventure; it was a
workaday employment, reduced to
practical terms. Heroism and ro.
nance couldn't be excluded from it.
But no explorer ever laid less stress
than Peary did on mere heroism and
romance.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
The Union League Resolution

Great things are expected of the
Union League Club. Founded in
dark days, when forces of reaction
and disunion were tearing at the
heart of the Republic and the great
principles on which it was founded,
1T is more than social organization
1T is representative institution
which exists to bulwarll freedom
under law.
Such being the noble purpose for
which it was established, and it's his
tory being one of patriotic useful
ness, it is matter for grave regret
that it has seen fit, as it seems to
many, to attack the very citadel of
free government.
In form, the clubs declaration
merely expresses approval Of the
suspension Of the Assemblymen,
pending inquiry, but in fact there is
plainly revealed a willingness to
judge in advance the results of
quasi judicial proceedings whose
issue is whether the accused are
guilty of personal offensc. With all
the resources at the command of
Speaker Sweet and his associates,
there has been failure, after five
weeks of inquisition, to establish in
dividual guilt.
But instead of asking for speedy
and impartial finding in accord with
ascertained facts, the Guthrie reso-
luton in effect asks action on the
unwarranted assumption that all
Socialists are Bolshevias. Are the
Union Leaguers so ill-informcd as
not to know that even in Russia the
most courageous defenders of DEM
ocratic principles are Socialists?
The chief victims of the Red Terror
are followers Of Kerensky, of Kro-
potkin, Of the sanity Babushka and
other brave opponents Of the brutal
and bestial tyranny of Lenine and
Trotzky.
In other days, when thought of
the loss of Lincoln embittered many
hearts, Horace Greeley, a member
of the Union League Club, to pro-
mote a magnanimous peace, jour
neyed to RiS,.mond and put his sig
nature to the bail bond of jefferson
Davis, whereupon he was summoned
to show cause why he should not be
expelled. He declined to respond to
the summons, saying: "You evil
IDENTIFY regard me as a weak senti-
mentalist, misled by maudlin phi
losophy; l arraign you as narrow
minded blockheads who would like
to be useful to great and good
cause but don't know how" Events
vindicated Greeley; there is not a
Union Lacquer to-day who is not
glad jeff Davis was not hanged.
The case of the Assemblymen in
wolves legalities which are founda-
tions of American institutions. But
political principles are at stake more
precious than legalities. If this
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official statement escape which was
utterly misleading?

O1nC1al SCaCcmoHC escape WHICH was
utterly misleading?
Take, for instance, the report that
Mr.. Wilson had threatened to with
draw from the Versailles treaty.
This was officially termed an "abso-
Lutte falsehood" through a crack in
the White House door. A little later
the "absolute falsehood" was with
drawn and little more Of the truth
was permitted to escape. Meantime
reports from Buenos Ayres went rae
ing ovuf the cables to reveal more of
the truth; and these were in turn
contradicted and corrected by the
White House, and anybody that
wanted to believe almost anything
had reasonable basis for his fai th.
A better manner of creating hard
feeling and misunderstanding be-
tween nations it would be difficult to
conceive.
1t is diplomacy at once open ana
shut that we are venturing to criti-
cize. Such negotiations possess the
virtues of neither system and the
vices of both systems-and, faced
with them, the public is as certain of
losing as when confronted by the
ancient and classic game of the two
shells and the one pea.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
Canada's Vote
To Reduce 1t Would Please
Great Britain
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Your editorial favoring Can.
ada's vote in the assembly Of tha
league of nations must commend itself
to thoughtful minds. The Fundamental
error of Americans in considering
this question is their assumption that
Great Britain desires her dominions to
vote in the assembly. Is it not obvious
that to be able to cast the vote II
the British Empire as single impres.
sive ballot would be far more COZ.
venient than to run the risk Of having
Great Britain's vote nullitied by that
of New Zealand? The Downing Strest
diplomats cannot relish the distribu-
ton Of authority for the empires fos-
eign policy beyond their control.
AS matter of opinion, l should
hazard the guess that the six-votes
plan was forced upon Lloyd George by
the f-governing dominions as an uk
tlmatum, and that nothing could please
Viz b1ltlSll AdUlueC more Ild0 10 ud'o
the single vote restored, while at the
same time America, by her reservation,
gets all the blame for thus depriving
the dominions Of this measure Of in.
dependent action in foreign affairs as
their price for contributing to victory
When Lord Grey voiced British opinion
recently, he took pains, apparently, not
to consult Canada or the rest.
If the United States insists on the
so-callcd equality reservation, we shall
not only be playing Britain's game but
we shall ALLEVIATE the great democ-
racies whose votes would naturally 60
with ours on questions of international
comfy. Our Senators who insist Oh
the six-to-six reservation are simply
trying to destroy the league of ma
t,ons by making it unavoidable. There
is no other possible consequence Of
their action.
H. n. MAC CRACKEN.
Poughkeepsie. n Y. Feb IA, 1920.
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country is to be unfretted by Bolshe-
visna, if it is to pursue the path Of
orderly progress, there must be no
lynching of minorities, no action
disclosing the spirit Of the Jeru-
salem mob which refused to discrim-
mate and shouted for Barabbas.
The Union League Club sees itself
as champion Of Americanism, hut
what sort of Americanism is it that
blindly speeds on the hue and cry
raised at Albany?
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
The lmperious School Teache,
New York, Feb. II, 1920.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | agree entirely with your cor
respondent who said eight wears of .
college president was enough. Let us
learn by our experience.
we have proved the truth of the fol-
lowing quotation from the "Politics" of
Aristotle:
u admit not in the government of
any schoolmaster to the exercise of
civil duties, schoolmasters commonly
proving apex of tyranny; and being
used to imperiousness over scholars,
II you put sword of justice into his
hand you may easily guess how he
will lay about him in the state and
city" I.R
New York, Feb. 1s, 1920
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Rumanian Treatment Of Jews

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: So many unjust things have
been said about the Rumanian occupa-
ton of Budapest that it gives me great
pleasure to call your attention to tho
following cable, which was received os
our legation the other day:
The Jews in Budapest have hanasa
TO the French Mission in Vienna, to ~
sent to the peace conference, petlton
bearing 100000 signatures, in wh'eh
they urge that the Rumanian troops -
sent back to Budapest to reestaohaa
order and to put an end to the prose-
cutions to which they are at present e1s
posed" T. TILESTON WELLS,
Consul General Of Rumsnis
New York, Feb. 10. 1920.
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The Railroad Settlement


being a compromise, has it's logical
weaknesses, and is naturally at
tackled from all sides. The owners
of the more prosperous roads con-
denim it because it "socializes" their
earnings in excess of per cent for
the benefit of weaker brethren.
The railroad unions attack the re-
port on the ground that it Social
ICES" their labor. They complain
that the wage arbitration sections in
terfere with complete freedom to en-
ploy the coercive methods of col
lective bargaining. They would be
at liberty to carry on private indus
trial war in the railroad industry.
They protest against especial treat
ment" of the transportation industry
--especially against the mild prom
Use Of rates which will guarantee a
fair return-perhaps a 515 per cent
return-on an equitable valuation of
railroad property, after two-year
period of readjustment on a s. 1s per
cent basis is over.
But it is too much now for any,
body to say that the railroads must
not receive Special treatment" Gov
ernment policy for generation has
set them apart as an abnormal-al-
most a pariah--industry. The gov
ernment took from the owners of the
roads the power to fix transportation
rates. The railroads were stripped
of liberty of economic action. Their
earnings, their solvency, their devel-
opment as an instrumentality of
public service, were all made to de-
pend on the will of a government
agency.
The government compelled the
roads to hold wages down and to
meet such wage increases as were
cxtorted by strikes and strike
threats without adequate compensa-
ton through increased rates. The
development of the transportation
system was halted. Railroad credit
was shaken. Then the government
took over the operation of the car
riers. 1t multiplied their operating
expenses and slowed down their
service. But, true to it's policy Of
b-productiveness in revenue, it re-
fused to raise rates sufficiently to
meet the vastly increased expenses.
Now both the Administration and
Congress have been forced to recog-
nize the shocking failure of govern
ment operation, and have been al.
most in a panic to turn the railroads
back to their nominal owners.
The present bill is primarily a de-
livery measure. 1t is an expedient
to get rid of the burden of govern
ment operation. But Congress ha:
at least conscience enough to appre
ciate a part of the injustice which il
has done to the railroad owners
There are some whose minds are
still hardened and who feel, like Mr.
Barkley, that, having the roads al
its mercy, Congress might as vel
strip them completely bare They
want to have the stockholders as
sumo the magnificent operating
deficit which the railroad admins
tration has built up. But the break
down Of preconceptions has softenec
some hearts, and the owners of thu
roads may get so per cent settle
ment.
Because the conference report un
doubtedly holds out some hope t.
railroad owners they arc for it. I.
they are satisfied the bill is worth
while, for it is obvious that if Their,
Is not now some reparation n,
future set Of investors will care II
risk their money, and that if the,
do not there will be further speed,
depreciation of railway service.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

AHe present conferences IN LOnQOn
between the new French Prime Minis
ter and the British Ministry must have
very farrcaching influence upon the
course of events in the immediate fu-
turc. There is no mistaking the fact
that there is opening between the three
great powers which constituted the
European branch of the association
against Germany very real and dan
gerous breach, duo not so much to any
rivalries as to total lack of common
objectives.
While the war was going forward
the chief concern of France, of Britain,
of Italy was to defeat the German. AS
the possibility of German victory in
creased in 1917 and 1913 Allied policy
was more and more shaped by common
necessities to common end. Finally,
the defeat of March, 1918, led to unity
of command, to Foch and to victory.
Common Objectires Ended
But with the end Of the war France,
Britain and Italy no longer had com
mon objectives and the peace confer
ence was an unhappy revelation of
this circumstance. BY the armistice
and by the fact of victory Britain
achieved all that she could hope to
achieve. All the profit for her in the
war which Germany had provoked was
found in the destruction of the German
naval power, the elimination of the
German merchant marine competition
the possession of the German colonies
and thus, in sum, the elimination of
Germany as a commercial rival
All this having been accomplished in
war and by victory, the British had no
longer any reason to fear Germany
and no necessity to make hard terms
with the vanquished. Germany, dis
armed and bankrupt, could not build
new fleets to challenge British sea
power for many a long year to
come; German industry crippled, if not
ruined, and German markets abroad
occupy these markets.
Italy Separated
AS far as Italy was concerned, her
war with Germany had been onlv an
incident in her long struggle with the
hapsburg monarchy to redeem her
fellow Latins in Trieste and the .ren-
tlno. She had now acquired the Alps
as far as the Brenner and her natural
frontiers from Abbazia to tho Swiss
frontier; she had no further grievance
against Germany, no long-standing
teud. She preferred to see German
Austria joined to Germany rather than
left to provide a possible opportunity
tor later refrigeration of the Haps-
curg monarchy. Real Italian interests
now were affected not by German o,
austrian circumstances, but by South
ern Slav aspirations, which had French
and British support. and thus the Ital.
lans were separated by an Adriatic is.
sue from their old allies and found nc
surviving cause for dispute with Ger.
many.
The case of France by contrast was
totally different. The end of the wa,
mad not brought to France the same
profit which it had bestowed upor
Britain, or liquidated Franco German
causes for dispute as it had Italo- Ger
man. France was financially ruined
unless German reparation were as
sured and, granted that Germany was
incapable of rebuilding her naval powe,
briefly and menacing Britain, there
was still an obvious possibility that she
could repeat the Prussian achievement
OF 1878 and. reorganizing her armies
aasail France.
| French policy, therefore, had to seel
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

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RoSNrs Reid secctary: r. A. Sune. Treasurer.
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use for republication Of all dispatches credited
10 it or otherwise credited In this paper and
also the local news OF spontaneous origin published
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herein also arc reserved
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GUARANTY
You car purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safet--for 4 dissatssiac-
tioa results Ia any THE THtBUNE guarantees
to pay your money back upon request. No rod tape.
No avlbbns. We make soed promptly tho
advertiser docs not.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

What gives us pause is how a Presi-
Dental possibility knows more about
all suoJects than anybody else knows
about any subject.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

Husband Gone Four Months, Wife
Hopeful.-Syracuse Post-Standard.
Still, you can't depend on men.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
Britain and Poland

Britain and Poland
But Britain was not in the least in
terested in this. She had little SYM
pathy for Poland and less interest. The
rise of a strong Poland, at the expense
OF Germany and with the inevitable
consequence of arousing German re-
sentiment and hostility, she viewed with
actual disapproval. Her own sea con-
troll remaining absolute, no return of
German military strength could men
ace her and she was no longer think
ing III terms of French security. Thus
at the precise moment when the French
were urging the strengthening of Pc-
land the British were favoring the sac
riticc of Poland with the rather vague
notion Of placating Germany
AS for the Italians, they saw French
support of Jugo-Slav aspirations with
resentment, which was carried to the
extent of actual anti-French policy.
The more the French urged the extern
sion of Jugo-Slav territories, albeit
in accordance with the principles Of
President Wilson, the more bitter be-
came the Italians, until in the end the
gulf between France and Italy became
and remains tremendous.
I Now 1t is clear that if any coher-
ence IS to be preserved, if the anti
German alliance, which has become the
dominant factor in European affairs,
is not to give way to a new set of
alliances, German and French, there
must be some harmonizing of the views
OF the three nations-France, Great
Britain and Italy. And this harmonic
ing can only proceed from the common
recognition that while Great Britain
and Italy have by the outcome of the
war realized all their legitimate de-
sires for security, France has been left
exposed to new German attack, and
French policy is therefore condemned
TO continue to seek, by direct support
of Poland and Jugo-Slavia and by in
direct efforts to retard German reor-
ganization, to protect France by keep
ing Germany weak.
''LiberoI'' Selfshness
If Great Britain is to have any real
right to urge a modification of French
policy this justification must be
coupled with a clear and specific guar
antee of readiness to support France
Immediately and unqualifiedly in case
of new German attack. There is
something intolerably selfish in the
present clamor Of so-called Liberal"
journals and publicists in Britain that
there shall be sweeping modification
OF the terms of the recent treaty, with
the obvious insistence that the costs
of the modification shall all be taxed
against the French
There is justice in the contention
that there must be new and wiser
policy adopted toward Germany if the
economic recovery from the war in
and out of Germany is to be prompt OF
even possible. But to-day the sugges.
tions to this end which come from
Britain urge that the French shall sur
render their Saar Valley acquisitions
and reduce their reparations demands
and include the proposal that the United
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France and Great Britain
BY Frank H. Simonds

in Europe the creation of counter
weights to German strength. 1t sought
them in Poland and among the Jugo-
Slavs. These two new states, with q
combined population equal to that of
Germany and with the promise of mill
tary strength in the future, would
on the one hand add to the French
army the sufficient strength to meet
German numbers and on the other
block the way to German expansion to
the south or German exploitation of
Russia.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

The War Department has 100000
typewriters, acquired during the war;
and every ex-warrior who had anything
to do with paper work" will want to
know what bocame of the other 500 600
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

1T Is Argy's problem whether his
wlfe's annual outlay for hair nets NAV
be listed in his income tax report as
overhead charges. Certainly; did you
want to list it under Net Exemption
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

"No better weapon can be given them
than the crown of martyrdom," says
Mr.. Guthric's Union League Club state
ment about the five Socialist Assem-
bly, members. No better leaf has been
woven into such a crown, to our
bigotcd way Of thinking, than Mr..
Guthric's utterances.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

Monday will be Washington's Birth
day; and Republican, Democratic and
Socialist orators will all prove that the
lesson Of Washington's lie is that YOU
should vote the Republican, Democratic
or Socialistic ticket, as the c. m. b.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

eve must suffer and tolerate and
concliatc and appease these Socialists -
Mr.. Guthrie's report reads. AS to ap-
pcasing we are uncertain; but suffer
ance, liberation, and even conciliation
arc not such un- American qualities as
many who celebrated Lincoln's Birth
day might imagine.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
SUBSCRIPTION aArEs-By NAH Including
GUARANTY

cred at tho Pos,ofacs At Now York Is Second
Glass Man Matter
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

Sometimes we think the business
world is hardly more efficient than the
literary ether. On February we re-
ceived a bill dated February /. On
February we mailed payment. On
February 20 we got receipt dated
February II.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

There will be Several" many" "a
big proportion of" 55-cent seats, but
why the esteemed management doesn't
tell the public how many such seats
there will be is one of the reasons old
gentlemen lose interest in the game.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-24
DAISY BELL HAS FISHING JOB
ON STROMAN FARM, SEC. -

Daisy Belle Petroleum Company No
B on the Stroman farm in section
|22, 4s-2w is fishing for a string oil
tools which have become fastened in
the hole. This we'll was producing
with a fine flow until the casing
trouble set in and the hole began
TO W Fishing is now being carried
|bn with another string of casing. The
well is al a depth or 1880 feet.
The completion OF we'll No 6 on
this lease completes the operations
|pf the Daisy Belle people for the
present in regards to the drilling OF
wells on the Stroman farm. All six
wells drilled are producers on the
t20-acre tract, and the average daily
production is about 700 barrels. The
tract Is located in tho east half Of
the northeast quarter of the south
east quarter of section %.
Practically each of the wells is
producing from W sands. The first
band has a thickness Of about so feet,
then there is a break Of about IA feet
land the second sand follows with a
Thickness of 30 to 40 feet.
Should the operators drilling about
the tract successfully negotiate deeper
sands, the Daisy Belle people will drill
other wells on the farm. Due to the
ccnvy formation of the ground in the
a3ction there is the possibility that
lit Is more advisable to drill twin wells
than to attempt to get production
from more than two sands in the
same we'll.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-24
TEXAS COURTS UPHELD
ANTI POOL HALL LAW

Austin, Texas, Nov. 24.-The Texas
anti-pool hall law which prohibits
the operation of pool or billiard halls
in the state for profit, was upheld
today when the court of criminal APP
peals affirmed the lower court ver-
dict under which j. A. Davis Of Bel
county was fined $25 for violating
the law Contentious of the defend
ant that the passage of the law was
irregular and that it was unconsti-
tutional were not allowed by the court
which said in regard to the latter,
I'VE do not think the legislature
has exceeded its power"