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New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

record by losing our reputation on
the American Continent?
1t does not suffice that Mr.. Daniels
and Mr.. Colby insist that we are
merely suppressing "banditry'' in
Hayti. Why not suppress "banditry"
in Mexico? Did we do it? The dan
ger Of this policy in Hayti is simply
this: If we assume to invade and
subjugate these small, weak Ameri-
can republics that have not harmed
or attacked us, while submitting to
indignity elsewhere, we will not only
lose the respect of the world but the
American republics will begin to sus-
pect us. They will say to us that we
believe in "self-determination" for
the strong and not for the weak.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Making Profteering Possible

Or course there was profteering and
speculation during the Civil War. Tn
doubtedy there was relatively more
profiteering and more speculation dur
ing the Civil War than there was dur
ing our war, because there were no
laws then against either. But prof
teering and speculation as reasons for
nigh prices Of normal commodities are
always only the little children of the
real basic cause-lessened production
of ordinary commodities because less
labor is applied to producing them.
For it is perfectly plain that any
would-be profteer would have mighty
slim chance to get llegitimately high
prices when there is plenty Of the ar
t.clc ne sells being produced and the
buyer can get it anywhere else as well
as from him. Profteering thrives only
on shortage. The profiteer has always
been merely the flea on the back of
lessened production.
Exactly the same thing is true of
speculation. The speculator knows the
Ddsic economic law that when plenty
OF goods are being produced the price
is bound to come down.. He would not
think Of attempting to hold or cor
ner' goods for higher prices except
where there is decreasing production
to help him along. When there is an
increasing production the wise specu-
lator always goes short and so helps
prices down.
At the end of the Civil War we had
lot OF new factories and new rail
roads Men had learned to work more
efficiently because they had to during
the nations need. When the men came
back from the army and from making
war supplies and applied their labor
once maks to the prsGasiax of normal
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Educators at Albany

Officers Of the State Department
Of Education and their distinguished
guests are observing at Albany this
week the fifty-third convocation of
The University of the State Of New
York.
A wide and varied program in
cludes papers concerning many
phases OF education, tributes to
those who notably have served the
state in such fields, and recognition
Of problems now confronting schools
and colleges. This is of general in
terest, but the fact of Importance is
that those charged with public edu-
cation are steadily going ahead with
their great work, undisturbed by
political clamor, business uncer-
tanty or other elements Of unrest
which serve to distract so many
from the more permanent things of
life.
AS an evidence of stability,
strength and unswerving purpose
the convocation at Albany is reas-
suring to those who understand that
the American civilization of to-mor-
row depends upon the American
school of to-day. There is nothing
of greater moment than realiza-
ton of this elemental truth. Presi-
dent Finley and his associates do
we'll to emphasize it by the ceremo-
malls now in progress.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Hayti and Mexico

Senator Harding is quite right.
Our rule in Hayti and Santo Do
mingo cannot be justified.
The Administration has complete
ly subjugated these two republics.
1t rules supreme within their bor-
ders. 1t withholds the salaries of
their presidents" and other officials
if they oppose our sovereignty!
They must yield obedience or wa
dock their pay Naturally, they
yield to keep out of jail Oh the poor
house!
Contrast our policy in these two
little republics with cur policy in
Mexico. Our interests in Mexico are
vastly greater than in Iayti and
Santo Domingo. Hundreds Of Amcri-
cans have been murdered, tortured
and kidnapped in Mexico. They have
not suffered in the two little repub-
lies. We took Vera Cruz, losing
thirty lives, and then gave it up. We
sent Pershing into Mexico, and when
he drew near Villa we ordered him
out, after two of his scouting parties
had been slaughtered The ignorant
classes in Mexico had reason to feel
that they had driven US out. 1t was
a record Of weakness, waste and re-
treat which would have justly caused
the downfall of any foreign govern
ment.
Now how do we account for the
inconsistency Of our policy with
Mexico and the two little republics?
There can be hut one explanation.
Hayti and Santo Domingo are small,
weak and helpless. The Administra-
tion can be brave with them. But
to subjugate Mexico would be diff
cult. And so the Administration
wrote notes. 1t sent poor old John
Lind to talk to the Mexicans, and he
was easily vanquished in the battle
of tongues. Mexico knew we would
do nothing to call her to account.
She was safe from the fate of Hayti
and Santo Domingo.
1t is humiliating to make this ad-
mission, but there is no alternative.
We do not criticize the army, navy
and Marine Corps. Not at all. They
always obey orders and do their
duty. 1t is the Inconsistency of our
policy at Washington that we con-
demn. We are not justified in con-
quering the weak and in surrender
ing to the strong. This is not in
conformity with the principle of
self determination" which this Ad-
ministration affects to support. 1t
deliberately violated the holiest of
all articles of the League Of Nations.
There is one more point to empha-
size. Perhaps civilization and good
government would gain if the United
States assumed control of the inter-
nal affairs of all countries, large and
small. where anarchy and disor-
der prevail-West Indian, Central
American, South American and Eu-
ropean countries; Armenia, Fiume
and Hayti! But is it wise for us to
do this? By meddling and muddling
we have already alienated the good
will of our European allies; we have
offended China by compelling her to
surrender Shantung to Japan. Thus
we have lost friends in Europe and
Asia. Must we now complete the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

lar IN wages lost only SO was lost in
production, this means that the DAYS OF
labor lost by only the actual strikers
IN about 60 per cent of last years
strikes cut. last years production, at
factory prices, about $2,5OO, 100000.
If we try to count up the total Of
how much less production the whole
country had to sell, and make a profit
on and enjoy because of all the time
lost last year, directly and indirectly.
through all strikes, the figures would
be unbelievable.
In fact, it has been said that the total
costs Of strikes last year was greater
than years cost of the war. This is
undoubtedly true.
In 1913, at the end of the war. the
price level was 207-107 points higher
than in 1918.
At the end Of the Civil War the price
level was 190-1O2 points higher than
when the war began; and the high
prices were accompanied by high profits
and high wages, just as in our own
war.
But whereas, by 1867, the second
year after the Civil War, prices had
gone down 80 points, within two years
after the World War prices, as we all
know too well, had gone 65 points
still further up.
The primary and basic and biggest
reason is strikes.
At the beginning of the Civil War
plenty of goods were being made to 90
round and prices were moderate So
as compared with 100 in 1913 and 103
IN 1910. But during the war great
numbers of men went into the army
Other great numbers had to make
powder and shells and special war sup
plies. All this labor stopped being ap-
Piled to the production Of normal com
modities; less normal commodities were
produced, and the prices went up.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

tion. AS a result prices have scared
far beyond those which prevailed In
October, 1917, just before the ter
rible winter when we were at war.
With prices firmly established at
their present unparalleled figures,
those controlling the anthracite in
dustry may find it possible to pro-
vide much larger quantities of
household fuel in the near future.
Should this prove to be the case,
some explanations by the coal trade
may be in order. =
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Prohibiting Lawlessness

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: If Mr.. Thomas R. Adams, whose
letter, "a Wet Query" appears in to-
days Tribune, will stop to consider
course, provided his mind is opea--he
VIII understand the trouble caused bv
the Eighteenth Amendment has been
due to and is due to the almost univer-
sal disregard for law inherent in
llquor dealers and almost to the same
degree in consumers.
The lawlessness of the LIQUOR traffic
Is one Of the reasons the vast majority
OF the citizens of the United States are
against it.
HENRY E. HALE. NJ. D..
Member of the Allied Citizens of
America.
New York. Sept 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Another Mystery

President Wilson's dispute with
Senator Spencer over the character
Of the assurances given to the Ru-
manlan and Serbian delegates in
Paris on May 81, 1919, recalls an
Other curious ard still mysterious
incident This is the Presidents de-
NAL 70 the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee that he had ever been in
formed Of the existence of the agree
mcats between Japan, on the one
hand, and Great Britain, France,
ltaiy and Russia, on the other, re-
garding the cession to the japanese
q all German rights in Shantung.
In response to question by Senator
Rorah, put in the course of the White
House conference on August 49,,
1913, as to whether the President
waa aware, until after he went to
Paris, of various agreements among
tie Allied beligerents for the dis
position Of German and other terri
tory, the latter answered.: "The
whole series Of understandings were
disclosed to me FOR the first time
then"
Secretary Lansing also testified
before the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations that although he had
heard that the Japanese were going
to take the Pacific islands north of
the equator he didn't know until he
went to Paris that Great Britain,
France, Italy and Russia had agreed
to support Japan's claims in Shan
tung. These two Americans-one
President and the other Secretary
of State-professed not to know any,
thing about an international open
secret Of vast Importance, which had
long before become common knowl-
edge. The Lenine government gave
out the text of the Russo-Japanese
correspondence 1t was printed in
the United States by The Evening
Post, of this city, and by other news
papers. According to A. M. Pooley,
author of Japan's Foreign Policies,
formerly Reuters correspondent in
Japan, the text of the Shantung cor
respondence was also published in
Russia. China and Great Britain.
MIR. Lansing may never have read
these revelations or had his attention
called to them by some alert and Wig
liant subordinate. But in 1916, 1917
and 1918 we had a super-Secretary
of State, in the person of Colonel
House. He has never appeared be-
fore the Senate committee. But will
1t be contended that the vast organi-
zation which he created for the CO.
ordination of our foreign relations
tor war and peace settlement pur
poses never stumbled across the pub
hshed fact of the existence of one or
more Shantung agreements and
wasn't moved to ascertain when. how
and why they were made?
In the House of Commons this col
loquy occurred on March 4, 1918:
"Mr. King asked the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs whether there have
been communicated to President Will
son copies of all treaties, whether
secret or public, and memoranda of
all other agreements or undertakings
to which this country has become a
party since August 4. 1914; and, if
not, whether copies of all such docu-
ments will be handed to the Ameri-
can Ambassador in London
"Mr. Balfour-The honorable mem
Der may rest assured that President
Wilson is kept fully informed by she
Allies"
Can 1T be that Mr.. Balfour's in
form alton uoe In1tvn~eJ $o C~1~~~1
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

Houses organization and was never
transmitted by it to Secretary Lam
sing or the President?
There are many mysteries in con-
nection with Americas part in the
peace settlement. And they are
boring deep in the shadows by the
Presidents unaccountable refusal to
permit the publication of the official
conference records.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
A Divided Fleet
To the Editor of The Tr;buna


Sir: In your splendid editorial en-
TITLED "A Divided Fleet" you state that
1t would be impossible for the Atlantic
and Pacific fleets to form junction in
the event of damage to the Panama
Canal and that admiral Mahan. were
ne alive, would condemn such cond-
ton and view it with horror"
May take the liberty of pointino
out to you that Admiral Mahan .cx-
pressed himself on this very point
After exposing the dangers of VIOLATING
the fundamental principle of naval
strategy, concentration, by dividing our
battle fleet into two parts, one to be
stationed in the Atlantic and one in the
Pacific, he said:
Ihis summary Will not be any more
true, nor any more useful for reflection
when the line passes by Panama instead
OF the Strait Of Magellan; but it GER
tainly will be moro obvious"
New York, Oct. 6, 1920
EDWIN A. FALK.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
The First Flag of Tugo-Slav;

he FIRST Flag Of Jugo-Slavia
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; In connection with your dis
patch from Belgrade telling of the
burial of Major Metheany, of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, beneath the first Ameri
can flag made in Jugo- -Slavia, it may
interest some readers to know that the
first American flag made in Jugo- -Slavia
was that made by the girl students in
the handwork school of the Kolo
Sryska Sestara, at Krushcvatz, Serbia,
in January, 1920, for the Serbian Relief
Committee, for their dispensary there.
ONE OF THE X-WORKERS.
Brooklyn, Oct. 3, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Figures Unbelievable

In the shoe industry last year a
dollars worth OF labor applied through
tools and machinery to the raw mate
rial produced over ST worth Of finished
product. A dollar in the mems
clothing industry produced SO in fin
ishod product. A dollar in the furni-
ture industry produced 50 worth Of
finished product. A dollar in the cot
ton industry Produced nearly So worth
Of product. In the coal industry the
rate was J to l; and while in
many industries it was much higher,
IN few industries is it lower than this.
II, then we figure. that for each dol.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Cox's Newspaper SAYS


The world gets it's news from the
victors. AT this time most of the news
from the battefelds comes from the
Allies. That has been the case to q
great extent all along, but never more
notlceably than at present. The friends
OF Germany are still hopeful. They
have an abiding faith in her genius.
They have seen her on other occasions
at disadvantage, only to note her
working her way out of the difficulty
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Calvin Coolidge Says
(Ffom his address before the Re
publican Commercial Traueleys'
Club, Boston, April 10, 19eO.)

P"ottcuH commercial IF0UoterS'
Club, Boston, April 10, 19eO.)
The people of our land, that which
we call America, are not born to q
status and do not exist as such. They
cannot be divided into employer and en-
ployed. They are all partakers of both
OF these conditions, from the President
who sits in the White House to the
proprietor of the bootblack stand. They
are all employed and receive compensa-
ton as such, and they are all employ
ers, directly or indirectly and pay com
pensation as such. Any law or rule of
action which undertakes to set off one
part against another is based on flc
ton which does not exist and which cam
not be carried out, and only leads to
disaster.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
The Coming ower
POEM

POEM
ITO be included IN an anthology to
bo called "Verses of Protest
and Indigna tion")
Like that delightful jester, Day."
I often write Of books;
So, in Brentano's, yesterday,
| took some hasty looks.
And all I saw were slathers Of
Poem-anthologies--
Garlands, bouquets, and gathers Of
The Verse of Those and These.
A student Of cosmologies,
This gets me in a huff:
If all compile anthologies,
Who's lef. to write the Stuff?
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
A. Rare Sight
(From The Cincinnati =

tFrom Tho Cincinnau Enquirer>
"Whss g so rare as day in June :"
asked tho poet. Well, there's q miner
who works smere than two days a week.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
Money efsifE G00ds


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80. ''''i - "'s''o'eiy simple and OBJ
30 0,Sen on aa axiom tnat
''"sS o. economists even the
- '''' VI h J, ADMIT and on all the e1-
PEI 'er'e 'H@' the human race has yet
'''''' / Oh can oai u "iaaation' If you
wan, TO- as many people have got into
'"e ','''lo o. DONG bat imitation means
'''''' wv n.'e more money 'nan
roua >-0''' - '''''''- p'oo-els ana there'
ccr.,,,,.,', .'''' ~ pay more money 10 0uy
''' ""' II Is sinps
b,,.a '''' ''i5 '"e' 'hat "'
,ro money means 3" ''seii 'na'
,,.oa.~. 'ess oonsums0'
,.a. Gu ''''. '-e one ec0nom'
'''''''- '''e ie--'ion De'"ssA
''''-' 80 ID ''''''''e p'0"ac'S Is "
~, - % 0O"e'''h'
'''.' ''1" came oAc8 from the army
- - .''' "o.'u war they haa the sam'
''-'' % "isn wages ano nigh pron'
-e'' @4sef lhe OiFh War Ihey
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
MAY IN OCTOBER

l wonder now-can this be Spring?
How soft the air and mellow
Y ct August is Il month a-gone
The trees have brightest colors m
And fields are scar and yellow.
hear gregarous bluebirds sing.
And meadow larks are calling:
there's vernal meaning in the way
Ihey sins-'tis Spring, 'tis Spring to-
day
Although the leaves are falling
DENIsErrE
You couldn't exactly say that Corona
Remington, nuthor of "Lightning," run
ming in The Newburyport News, writes
under a pen name.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

thirteen articles apDear-ing on this pqqe
'0pYr's't' 1870 New York Tribune Inc.
''''' GOV '''oie io"' 3o@ more and
spcclilcally raised the prices Of hun
dreds of other necessaries of all kinds.
But such individual and snsc;.1
fo.. ,
'''' u ''''
""0ic p'c'u'e--'hey represent only
few OF The more direct and obvious
costs of strikes to Won. To pot anv
idoa of tho wbo1o ooo+ 81 .;,..
mo- "e
'''''@' N->'''''''e '''9 o"oAtiouHa OF the
strike plcture-get at the basic gen.
eral facts Of the strike problem.
In 1919 5000 strilos >,voro oeioio,,m
reported OF ,hesa tbo 1rr,tod cta+n,
Department of Labor aba]v1.d COX
and found tha+ in oblv +b;s 60 INV ooat
of all strikes 2o50a11 s+.;,,ars 1oa+
an averaoo of tbi~ty-fo,,. do,,,
strike which means los. of ioa ooo noo
WORKING dave
~,
re otoi loss
Another ANALYSIS Of only part Of last
years strikes shows 57SS5 davs of
striking by an average of 1G4o work
crs to each strike. or a loss Of abon4
100000 900 working days.
Neither of these Investigations in
cludes the hours lest bv all labor and
the days lost bv part of labor wbila
the strike was being fomented and aoi-
tated before it began. or the time lost
after the men began to come hack
Neither of them includes more than
60 per cent of all the strikes of which
we have record There were. therefore
far more than 134.300 0.000-perhans
nearly twice 134.3O0 Ooo-workino DAVIS
actually lost bv the strikers alone
But practically every one of tboso
more than 3.950.0O0 workors who
themselves '.,. los' more than 134.3oO'oOo
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
N hcn Labor Returned

All this demand for more products
all this capital and equipment reaey
to produce more prcducts. waited mere
ly for the return Of labor from the wS'
and from war industries.
Labor came bnck from the war ana
war industries. but instead of applying
itself with the ncw energy and skH
We had learned during the war to the
new resources We had gained during 'ns
war to produce tie vast new quonu-
ties of goods which We and the Whole
world expected. Jus. psst Of labor
Immediately wasted lsi 100000 wefs
days on strikes and forced other labos
TO waste hundreds of millions mors
work days because Of strikes.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

Almost our favorite autho~ is the
Adams family, from John Quincy down:
and we were pleased to find old Ed Hunt
of our prediction. We each decided TO
set aside one library shelf for the works
of the Adams tribe, and as a mark of
special esteem we have reserved a niche
for f. P. A.-B. l.. T. in The Chicago
Tribune
Thanks for the Ad But one library
shelf will not hold us all B. l.. rs
shelf, it chances that we know, includes
only Henry, John Quincy, Charles
Francis, Brooks, and our unmomentous
self. He has no room, it seems, for
Andy, Sam Hop, F. U., Bristow, Old
Hank of Ann Arbor, Oscar Fay. jim
Barton, and-to our notion the best of
the entire ilk-William T.. whose books.
written under the splendent name of
Oliver Optic, have given more joyous
guidance to entrants in the human race
than all the rest OF us combined.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

(To-moryoac's article: "The High Con
Of Strike Failures")
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

Search yesterday for Mr.. Franklin
P. Davis's "Anthology of Newspaper
Verse for 1919 and Year Book of News
paper Poetry" was futile The search
was inspired by Mr.. Herbert S. Cor
mans review in The Bookman, which
said that Mr.. Davis included no verse
from The Sun Dial or The Coming
Tower. The Grand Jury, we hear, is
about to summon Mr. Don Marquis and
ourself to answer charges of Fixing
the Booksellers. Our defense will be
that we did it for the Wife and the
Kiddies
Mr. Marquis, by the way, is back on
the job, and careful and Joyous read
ing of his stuff arouses us to inquire
paraphrasing Lincoln, what brand of
germ made him ill.,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

Speaking of books, in the South they
call Edna Ferber's book "Half Potions,'
and some people buy it in the hope of
getting Guide for Home Brewers.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08
The Diery Of Our Own Samuel penvs

'He D'sry or our Own Samuel Pepys
october 5-As early up as I could be,
and had breakfast, the bacon well
enough done. but the coffee far weaker
than like it, and so to the Office, but
what with this and that it was soon
time to go to Brooklyn, so there, with
D. Wise and I. Kapan, in my petrol
wagon and to Ebbcts Field, and saw
there the Cleveland team defeat the
Brooklyns, but a dull game to watch.
save for the grace and skill of Mr..
Speaker. | hear c. Mathewson is bet
ter in his health these days, and | could
not but think of him as | watched Mr..
Marquard and Mr. Speaker and Mr.,
Gardner, and of the day Mr.. Snodgrass
dropped fly ball in Boston. To nv
office and finished my stint and to Mis-
tress Sylva's, to call for my wife. and
so home, and was for reading Arnold
Bennett's The Price of Love, but our
Anna had taken it from my room.
drawn, | make no doubt, by the title.
For doubt whether she ever read
aught save the advertisement that
brought her to US.
G-To the office, and had f. Wilson
the pamphletcer to luncheon, of a chop
and bacon, and so with L. Gensler to
Brooklyn, and l gave him his choice of
teams to wager on, and he chose Cleye
land, for S25, and Brooklyn won. so
am of the notion my luck has turned TO
good To the office and finished nv
scrivening, and drove Miss E. Bugbee
uptown and so home and to B. Taylor's
Tor few minutes, and on the wav home
my wife showed me where was q shon
that had many musickal instruments.
and | bought a concertina, for SIT. but
no" to play it have no notion. no. not
any; and my wife would not suffer me
to try it that night, neither, saying she
was too tired. SO to bed but not before
I had played with MIR, our cat, which
has come back this day, and we very
glad of seeing each other again
7-Early up, and to the Office, and so
to the ball game with Mistress Viola
Shore
New-York tribune., 1920-10-08

Motto for tenants: Dispossession il
nine points Of the law.