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New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
New York, Jan. /, 1920.
That Third Term Question

(Fro,n The Nebraska State Journoy
Nobody believes that President Wilson
will be candidate for a third term
He could have disarmed much of the
Republican opposition to thee peace
treaty by saying that he would not be
q candidate. Why did he not do it? A
Washington correspondent makes what
Is undoubtedly the correct guess. While
such announcement would lose him much
Republican opposition in the Senate, II
would also lose him all substantial sup
port by the Democratic Senators. A
President without future is to Con-
gress dead lion. The classic illustra-
tion of that fact was given in the winter
Of 1908-'09, when Congress which had
got itself elected in the fall on the
strength Of President Roosevelt's popu-
larity spent tho winter kicking Roose-
volt.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
Footwork vs. Headwork

There seems no doubt that Mr..
Maeterlinck's footwork we speak
now Of his boxing, not the rhythm
of his so justly celebrated prose
lis the best Of that of all our living
dramatists. Footwork Of this de-
scription dwells in a realm all it's
own and knows no limitations Of
language; it speaks to all. In this
field Of contest Mr.. Maeterlinck is
unhandicapped by his phonetic Eng
lish, whether he is addressing Car
negie Hall or.Butte, Mont.
Why; therefore, does not Mr..
Maeterlinck abandon his projected
and somewhat shell-shocked lecture
tour and substitute for it a series
of boxing exhibitions with Mr.. Jack
Dempsey as his sparring partner?
The financial gain would be i'm
moderately increased. Successful
books and successful plays pay we'll,
as Mr.. Maeterlinck knows. SO do
lecture tours, at least when delivered
| in the vernacular. But even Mr..
"Babe" Ruth, we conceive: would
genuflect respectfully before the
piles of gold which the Mammoth,
Unparalleled and Dazzling Exhibi-
tion Of these Two Peerless Heroes
Of the Squared Circle would cart
away.
Very probably Mr.. Dempsey would
insist upon the larger end Of the
receipts, for he seems to be young
man not without his sense of the
main chance. But that need not
discourage Mr.. Maeterlinck. Mr..
Dempsey's revenue would end with
the tour. Mr.. Maeterlinck could
write a book about it and play
about it, and go on lecturing about
it, with prospects from the industry
that would turn the Blue Bird green
with envy and make any hive Of bees
that tried to stand the pace curl up
and die Of exhaustion.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
Berger and Free Speech

It is to be hoped that Victor Ber-
ger. who was shooed out Of Jersey
City and prevented from making a
speech by the local police, will carry
out his declared purpose Of bringing
suit for damages.
What man may legally do in the
way Of promoting law defiance, rev.
oution and their attendant blood
shedding has become a matter of
some doubt. This doubt is worth
dispelling. The way to do this is to
appeal to the courts to interpret and
apply the law.
If the law permits such activities
as Berger and his sympathizers are
embarked on, they should be duly
protected in the enjoyment Of their
rights until such time as the law is
changed to conform to the ajority's
will. Few will seriously uphold the
proposition that it is desirable to
have condition under which officers
Of the law are lawless or seem to be
lawless.
AS the late Mayor Gaynor was
fond Of remarking, and many others
preceding him, we live under a gov
'ernment Of laws, not Of men. One
Of our objections to Bolshevisrn.
whether in Russia or in Mexico, is
that it is regime where rule is by
decree.
OF course, Berger is not to be
rated as believer in free speech.
He belongs to political group that
in practice is most intolerant Of it.
He is aware that radical Socialists
are among the quickest to yell down
and pelt down any speaker with
whom they disagree. The Left
Winger eulogizes Trotzky, whose first
step when he seized power was to
suppress and keep suppressed every
newspaper in Petrograd that criti-
cized the Bolshevik program.
The Left Winger's solicitude for
free speech is not more sincere than
the solicitude the Bolsheviki pre-
tended to before they lynched
the Kerensky government. Should
= revolution occur here, ons Of It's
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
The Governors Message

An uneven document is Governor
Smiths annual message. There will
be much sympathy from many
sources for his wish that a popular
referendum upon the prohibition
amendment could be had in this
state. But to urge such submis-
sion now seems to urge a futility,
The possibility of recalling a rati-
fication of an amendment is exceed
ingly slender under the law; and
even if this state went to this bother
the chances that it would affect the
final result are equally slight. For
better, for worse, prohibition has ar
rived, and it must receive fair trial
before any real possibility Of its
modification exists.
Almost equally academic is Gov
ernor Smiths advocacy Of municipal
ownership and operation of public
utilities, broadly and without res
ervation. Neither the City of New
York nor the country is in any mood
for such step in view of the object
lesson of the railroad administration.
The Governors general plea for
laws protecting women and minors
is sensible and sound. Whether his
whole program is deserving of ac-
ceptance is another matter. Occu-
pational diseases seem fitting field
for the extension of the workmen's
compensation law. Maternity in
surance rests upon an entirely diff
ferent basis and is open to far graver
objection.
In denouncing Bolshevism Mr..
Smith repeats the sound and needed
warning against confusing such ex-
ceptional revolutionaries with the
great mass of our alien population.
The Governor knows our East Side
from many years Of dwelling there.
He knows that the loyalty to Amer
lea of the bulk of our alien-born is
splendid and touching, as the war
and the draft demonstrated. AS the
Governor well says, it is only upon a
realization of this fact that a;ny>suc-
cessful campaign Of Americanization
can truly be carried out.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
What the President Sought
he Editor Of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent John Crosby
Brown asks question which l should
like to answer: "For what other pur.
pose did the President work day and
night for six months?"
Unfortunately, there was another
reason, which is now coming to light.
Mr.. Ray Stannard Baker, an adherent
of the President, has told the truth
without realizing it.
Mr.. Baker reveals the fact that Eu-
rope wanted:
1. An immediate closing Of tho war.
2. An association Of the Allied na-
tions to give instant support in case Of
further German aggression.
3. The salvation Of Russia from
cred" anarchy.
4. The return to France and Belgium
Of the loot that the Germans had
taken away.
s. chance to start in to rebuild
their shattered institutions.
Mr.. Wilson demandcd:
I. a league Of all the nations of the
earth without regard to civilization,
size or ability to add anything to the
stability Of the league.
2. A body in which small number
Of men could take into their "purview"
all international questions and decide
what should be done in any given case.
3. A body in which he, as the sole
representative of the United States,
could dictate terms in the same manner
as he had forced the league on Europe.
For this he has held up Europe for
nearly year.
For this he now stands determined
that no action shall be taken unless
his league and his unholy ambitions
are gratifed.
Mr.. Wilson has intimated that he
will not consent to terms of peace un-
less his demands are complied with.
Having forced his league on Europe. he
is now trying to force it on the United
States by deceiving the people and in
timidating the Senate.
LEWIS H. NASH.
New York, Jan. /, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
The Little Productionists

Ray Stannard Baker, in an article
in The Euening Post, reduces the dis
pute over unionism to single cause.
He describes collision between two
opposing ideas in the manner Of the
writer's Of Greek tragedy. Judge
Gary is presented as believing con-
tented workmen are corrupted by
outside agitators, and Mr.. Gompers
as believing the causes are inside,
in intolerabIe conditions that de-
humanize labor.
Whatever these gentlemen may
say when indulging in propaganda
before an investigating committee,
each Is too sensible to entertain
literally these ideas. The causes lie
behind their spoken words. Judge
Gary may be acquitted Of any desire
to "crush" labor. He may point to
the ia per cent advance in wages
he has voluntarily granted, an in
crease that more than offsets the
rise in living costs. And Mr.. Com
pers is too seasoned in judgment
seriously to think the opposition to
the unions is because of blackness Of
heart.
But why does Judge Gary, who is
liberal in his pay roll policy, oppose
unionization? Partly because he
loves power and partly because of
another reason, reason every in
teliigent labor unionist may profit
ably take into his thought. The
Steel Corporation president is anti
union, it may be assumed, princi-
I paliy because he honestly regards
the policy Of the unions as bad for
both stockholders and workers. He
is convinced there is only one way to
keep dividends up and wages up, and
that is by enlargipg production. He
SEES the unions, instead Of acting in
the light Of this truth, not only
little interested in enlarging produc-
ton, but upholding many rules that
positively reduce it.
An employer does not enjoy being
denied the means Of paying higher
waxes and Of humanizing industry
ana then being fiercely attacked be-
cause he cannot work a supreme
miracle. II Mr.. Gompers would head
. successful movement within union
labor To stimulate production, 1t Is
probable opposition to unions would
quickly disappear. The opposition
10 commonly not to unions per 80,
but TO particular policies they follow
policies which are hang-ovcrs from
days when organized labor fought
the Introduction Of Iabor-saving
machinery.
Instead of acting On the principle
t1s&t whatsoever Saves labor Il labor's
bsSE zrisnd, Mr. Gonipers recently.
probably s1assrt his viii has shown
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
The Spreading Plague
Hon to End Infection in Europe
and Here
To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Leonard Wood characterized the
"Reds" most efficiently when he referred
to them as infected rats" Up to the
present time the general public has
given little attention to the treach-
erous use which they have made of
tho privilege accorded to them of landing
on our shores. There can be no doubt
that when our people are aroused the
"Reds" will be trapped and disposed of
in way greatly to their surprise and
little to their liking.
Owing to the folly Of the present Ad-
ministration, our inexcusably retarded
entrance into the war gave them the
opportunity to overrun our unfortunate
ally Russia.
1t seems absurd, being responsible, as
we are, for the hideous results of their
activities In Russia, to adopt the course
of shipping back to her distracted shores
the worst Of the "Reds" that have been
caught so far and Of promising ourselves
to further increase her misery by send
ing over other thousands.
The place for these miscreants, native
or alien, is either in the electric chair
or in jail, according to the character Of
their infamous activities.
Having accomplished this result, we
shall only be at the threshold of duties
Tar more onerous. AS a nation we can
not afford to have the civilization of
Europe wiped out. It is high time that
tho United States, France, England
and Italy took united action to support
with their armies the nations which are
on the battle front against the Boil
sheviki.
Our first crying need is for leaders
who will point the way and prepare the
people for the sacrifice which must be
made
With regret subscribe to the clos
ing words Of your editorial on "The
Enemy Within and Without: at may
confidently be predicted that in deep
sorrow and contrition the Western
world will regret that it fiinched from
hard task" There can be little doubt
that, as before, the United States will
shirk its duty until forced into action,
and pay another huge price in blood and
treasure for its apathy
Once again it will prove foolish to
assume that the spread of the plague in
Europe is no concern Of ours.
CHARLES E. MANIERRE.
New York, Jan. s, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

first fruits would be the end Of free
speech. This is one of the reasons
why the revolution is not wanted.
Berger does not appeal to the law
with clean hands,; whatever legal
claims he may advance, his moral
claims are worthless.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

According to Waikiki, perfect CASE
is one who is "caught with bomb in
his teeth, photograph of Lenine in his
right hand, a red bandana in his left,
and the sounds of the Internationale
issuing from his red, red lips. Or is
the case even perfecter if he carry q
membership card in the Communist
party in his pocket, photograph of
Emma Goldman in his wrist watch, and
copy Of our well-beloved Constitution
in 4his overalls-with the part about
"free speech" underlined? That, as we
too understand IT. is q perfect case, sin
Rular accusative.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
Another Sergeant Flynn Case
To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.

To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Last night at Ninety-sixth
Street and Broadway one Of our wound
cd soldiers, lerlcss and ON crutches.
stood in tho car waiting for a seat,
No one gave his seat up till the guard
noticed his plight and secured one for
him. Thanks to Guard b1O8--a real
man. JOHN n. CLARK,
Ex.Soldier.
New York. Jan. 4. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
n Miracle Of Foil

NO ono should exaggerate the prs
ent or future Importance of the diffee
ence of opinion between Paris an
London over the Eastern question 81
the present hour. !. is purely prs
fessicnal squabble between two sets d
diplomats; it will not disturb the ps
derlying friendship and cooperatil
between the two nations. It will y
settled amiably or left unsettled viii
equal amiability in the end. What
important is the fact that the squsAI
BILE once more discloses tho fatal b.
ability Of Europe, of the Paris Csa'
ference, to reach q decision.
Asia Minor. territory larger tn
Germany, is going back to war, breed'
ing chaos; the Dardanelles and "
Bosporus, the gates of the Black 81
the, road to Asia by land, are beinJ
permitted to become again the bass
for international rivalry. The Wess-
ern question, after various TRANSFORMS
tions, is being born again in an eys
more threatening shape. Finally-aS
the thing would be ludicrous if y
were not tragic-the "Sick Man" =
apparently entering upon ono moro 8
those convalescences which have agsli
and again proved miracles Of evil -
the whole civilized world. 81
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paper Syndicatel
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
By Frank H. simonds

ated into mere squabble for plunder
and battle over the spoil.
In the end the thing was compro-
missed, as it was always bound to be.
Each Foreign Office obtained all that it
had actually expected to obtain. Syria
was left to France, with a somewhat
mythical arrangement with the Arabs
in the back country, and Mesopotamia
remained British, with The Holy Land
sandwlched in between, recognized in
some fashion to be under British pro-
lection. General Gouraud, who won
the last Battle Of Champagne, which
was the first round in the Second Bat
tie OF the Marne, is in Syria, and in
due course Of time the French will
have occupied their own proper sphere
and the British will have consolidated
their hold in regions clearly necessary
to protect their Eastern empire.
But one consequence Of this dis
pute YVES the reference of the Turkish
problem to America. President Will
son and Colonel House, with little or
no reservations, indicated their ap-
proval of the idea that the United
States should become mandatary for
Armenia, for Constantinople, for the
whole Of Turkey. outside Of the French
and British spheres. At one stage
American occupation Of CONSTANT
nople was as good as settled and
Europe breathed more freely because
it removed one choice bit Of fighting
ground from the area of Foreign Office
conflict.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

The New York Sun says l am limited
in aesthetic standards. The Sun will
never know how grateful am that am
not @sthetic.-E. w. Howe's Monthly.
Old Ed is the kind Of typical Ameri-
can who considers any knowledge or
love of music, painting, or poetry
affectation. The pose Of contempt for
what is over ones head is worse than
the affectation of scorn for what is
ordinary.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
The Coming Toloer
To the Pack !

To the Pack
Something you tremolo Of, you call
your country,
Swelling your ego to that eternal
brag.
I speak my mind. You shrek at my
effront'ry,
And, for a muffler, seize upon the
flag.
Stars that were once the stars of
independence,
Bars red with rebel faith-that now
are blackl
Those who once died for it-and
these defendants
Padding together in q wolfish pack!
That faith you never kept-so soon
forgotten;
"Liberty"-howled so long-you
never knew!
False to the trust, before their bones
are rotten
Who hurled themselves on tyranny
for you!
Give tongue, give tongue unleashed
rave, ruin, shatter,
So long as any free, brave thought
endures!
I, too, have loved land-what does
it matter,
1t aOos not yostrs, 1t 1aever could be
yoursl
WILLIAM ROSE BENET.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
An Endless Supply

fFros 1As Indianapolis Nescal
The sugar situation IL being ccmps'
tently handled, the supply Of excuses
Tor evsry increase In price being ~
pArently inexhaustahle.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

We see no good reason why Mr.. Ber-
ger should not be permitted to speak.
Speaking, like parading, is its own pun
ishment. Probably the number Of men
who are converted to cause-especially
a political cause-by speaker are few;
practically all the persons who go to
hear a speaker go to hear their own
convictions and opinions echoed and
ratified. Those who don't agree with the
speaker know in advance that they
won't, so they stay away. Sometimes it
seems to us that there is too much fuss
made about free speech, by both those
who say they aren't allowed to practice
1t and those who won't let everybody
practice it.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
The Book Borrowers

What thief goes on remaining mute
About our "Vandover and the Brute!
And some one in the pirates league
Just keeps on keeping our "McTeague.'
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
Another Turkish ConuaZescence

That part Of tho capital, a very tiny
part, which knows it's Paris Confer
ence is watching the latest difference
Of opinion Of London and Paris over
the Eastern question with undisguised
interest. It is only little more than
year ago that another dispute over
Near Eastern matters produced the
first real fissure between the British
and French partners in the alliance
which had just defeated Germany. And
not long after that dispute developed
the United States began to be men,
toned by many onlookers as the GER
tain mandatory for Armenia, for Con-
stantinople, presently for Turkey it.
self.
Too Foreign Offices
Back Of all else in this earlier dis
pute lay the rivalries of two Foreign
Offices which for centuries had been
engaged in unending battle, battle Of
the diplomatic sort, only occasionally
rising to the level Of real incidents,
disputes that found their way into the
newspapers and led to recriminations
between capitals of the old-fashioncd
sort. Even the outward manifesta-
tions were absent after the famous
general liquidation Of 1898, which led
to the later agreements in Morocco and
Egypt, led to the German belief in
IAN encircling policy" led to the scv-
eral Moroccan affairs, led ineluctably
toward the World War itself.
United first by the Entente Cordia,e,
then by an alliance in the presence of
the enemy, lastly by the terrible ex-
perience Of four years of struggle, the
French and British public forgot old
jealousies and rivalries. But not the
Foreign Offices. Once victory was at
tanned there began the age-long battle
over the redistribution Of the East.
France had rights in Syria, racog-
nized by treaties, surviving in some
thing more than tradition since the
Crusades; Great Britain had Egypt, the
land road to India, old obligations and
new ones to consider.
The Peace Squobble
The result was battle which, sell
dom rising to full view, poisoned the
peace conference for weeks and months.
British champions Of the Foreign Of
flee policy whispered in American ears
the corroding idea that French i'm
perialism was awakening, that France,
without the requisite resources, was
aiming at vast colonial ventures,
against the will of the peoples con-
cerned, using several of the Presidents
fourteen points, including that relat-
ing. to DIFFERENTIATION.
French retorts were prompt and tell
ing-when had self-determination been
applied to Egypt? Was not Britain, az
usual, sweeping up the outlying prov
inces Of the world. gathering in the
few remaining tidbits. while Paris
solemnly debated the division Of Eu-
ropean territory not desired by the
British, in terms Of President Wilson?
Now in NIL this there was nothing
Of the expression of the will or wish
of tho people Of either nation. In the
main neither the British nor the French
people were aware Of this little battle
between Foreign Offices, but It did a
world Of harm. 1t contributed I'M
msnsely to creating the impression In
American minds, 40 familiar now, that
the Conference OF Paris had degener-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

The Department. Of Justice conducted
Berger from Jersey City to New York.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

Would tho D. Of J. like to conduct
The Tower soma snorningf
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

Suggestion for poem: II the "Red'
envoy thinks he slays-------
New-York tribune., 1920-01-08

less will Italy be permitted to take
over. An international state would i
at the mercy Of q Bulgarian foray
any moment when Europe was occl
pied. AS for Greece, having the Of
just claim, she is so far obtaining Ii
least respectful hearing.
Meantime conditions in Asia Mins
are going from bad to worse. VI
shall have fresh fighting betwes
Greek and Turk in the hinterland 4
Smyrna. Italian troops are beginnin
to push in toward Kanieh, where Il
Turk would have his capital if Il
were exiled from Europe. And ell hop,
of an American mandate has roaI
glimmering.