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New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

The mouth Of the mines, in conjunc-
ton with car distributors who fur
nish cars to the mines, and that it
runs through every later transac-
tion until the coal is actually in the
hands Of the consumers.
Apparently an excellent beginning
has been made to unearth conditions
generally suspected but hitherto not
proved in court. Production of coal
in one field or another has been re-
duced by strikes and by bad trans
portation conditions. This every one
understands, and the fair-minded
recognize that honest men in the in
dustry must not be classed with the
dishonest. So greater is the need Of
discrimination. But, alas! the Ad-
ministration apparently knows but
two methods-either does nothing or
enters on course of amuck-running
and suspicion-manufacture which
breaks down through its unfairness.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
The Sport Climax

An extraordinary year of sport
came to its extraordinary climax in
yesterdays three events en- the race
track and the diamond and in the
prizering.
The victory of Iris Speaker and
his Indians held the widest popular
interest, for baseball is the great
American game beyond possibility of
rivalry, crooks or no crooks. 1t was
a discounted victory that only con-
firms the long standing superiority
of the American League. Our
Robins put up manful fight, and
superb management did all that it
could for team Of little distinction
in individual ability. The success
of the Indians was ali the more
noteworthy for the fact that they
entered the worlds series minus
their star shortstop, Chapman,
killed by pitched bali. The trag-
edy did not stop the championship
stride Of the team in its own league,
and the weak spot which it made in
the Cleveland infield was more than
offset by the brilliancy of the attack
which Speaker led.
The old dope prevailed at Wind
sor, too, where one of the greatest
horses Of all time breezed home an
easy winner. Here unquestionably
is the high mark Of the sporting sea-
son. Man O. War is a champion of
champions, and deserves all the ad-
miration and praise he has received.
Humans are crooked oftener than
we like to think-in racing and, as
the fans recently discovered to their
sorrow, in baseball. The true run
ming of a great-hearted horse like
Man O War ought to make the
crooks of sport end their careers for
all time. The contrast certainly
makes the average human being
blush for his breed and renew his
affection for this superb, feet friend
Of man. who may be pulled, but can
never be bought.
The crowning contribution to the
sporting events of a crowded day
was the easy victory Of Georges Car
pentier, the distinguished pugilistic
savant of France. In him our peo-
pie take lively interest, not only
for his professional achievements,
but because of his record as a gal
liant soldier. We salute in him a
representative of the France which
Germany found virile.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

To end the controversy concerning
the Des Moines speech Of Senator
Harding The Weekly Review sent
to him this telegram:
your Des Moines speech is being
generally interpreted as an abandon
ment of the position defined in your
speech of August o. 1t is regarded
as especially repudiating that part Of
the August % speech in which YOU
said that if it shall be found that the
existing league has been so entwined
and interwoven into the peace Of Eu-
rope that its good must be preserved
in order to stabilize the peace of that
continent, then it can be amended
or revised into a form that would be
acceptable to America. We consider
it Of the utmost importance that the
question thus raised be promptly
and authoritatively cleared up"
The following answer from Sen
ator Harding promptly came:
Senator Harding has directed me
to say in reply to your telegram Of
October that his Des Moines speech
ii read in full is in complete har-
mony with his speech Of August 2S.
There has been and will be no change
from position Of August 28."
The newspapers which steadily
labor to muddle the league discussion
played up the Des Moines speech
as repudiatingA the league prin-
ciple. Messrs. Borah and johnson
were depicted as in state of ecstatic
delight.
The misrepresentation was gross
The Review carefully and intelli-
gently framed its question, and the
reply leaves no doubt. Senator
Harding has not changed his posi-
ton. He does not know at this
time, nor does any one else, what
exact form of league can secure rati-
fcation from the Senate and the ap-
proval Of our war associates. So
he will not make specific promises
that he may not be able to fulfill.
But he is for a league or associa-
tion of nations in the interest of
peace ard will Loyalty consult to
this end.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Poland's Victory

The terms of the Polish Russian
armisticc, which amounts to a pre-
liminary peace treaty, are gradually
coming through from Riga.
Russia is to abate large terri
torial claims. Poland's eastern
boundary is to run north and south
from Latvia to Rumania, with the
line passing well east Of Minsk,
Pinsk and Rovno. Thus Poland has
confirmed to her most of the area
which her armies held last March,
before the beginning Of the Soviet
offensive. In the north Lithuania is
separated entirely from Russia and
her eastern boundary is to be fixed
by further negotiations. East Of
Brest-Litovsk large part Of Po-
dolia is taken over and in the south
considerable segment Of Volhynia,
including the three fortresses Of
Lutsk, Dubno and Rovno.
Poland thus attains a size larger
than allowed TO her by the peace
conference mapmakers. That she has
been disillusionized as to the abil-
ity Of the Allied Council or the
League of Nations either to protect
her or to restrain her is evidenced
/ by a section in the armistice which
binds each of the signers mot to
extend support to foreign military
action against the other" Under
the rules Of the league such an
agreement must be submitted to the
council for approval, 1t is doubt
full whether Poland will submit it..
and Russia, Of course, will not,
At Wilma another Fiume situa-
ton has arisen. General Zellgouski,
following 'Annunzio's example,
occupied the city with Polish and
White Russian forces and then for
warded his resignation to Warsaw
Lithuania claims Wilma, and agents
of the League Of Nations are in
Suwalki endeavoring to straighten
out the dispute. Poland's settle
ment with Russia leaves Warsaw a
free hand, however, to determine
the width of the proposed Polish
corridor east Of Lithuania. And it
Will be hard for either the league
or the Allied Council. both Of which
turned a cold shoulder on Poland
when the Reds were threatening to
sweep across the Nistula, to dispute
the logic of the situation now
brought about by Polands complete
and single handed victory.
Poland, in fact. has worked out
her own salvation. She is there
fore fairly entitled to shape her own
policy. Her armies have done what
the Allied chiefs were unable to do.
They have broken the military
power of the Lenine regime and its
prestige inside Russia. Unconfirmed
dispatches say that Budenny, the
most successful of the Soviet gen
erals, has mutinied and taken Kiev
and that Lenine is now making
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Children and Crime

Extension of the provisions of the
widows pension statute to include
families where the father may be in
capacitated or imprisoned was
urged at the Conference of New
York State Boards of Child Welfare
last week. 1t has been pointed out
that the marked prevention of
youthful crime already noted under
the administration Of the law justi-
ties such an amendment.
The conference has unanimously
agreed that the maintenance of chill
dren in their homes, made possible
under the pension granted to the
widowed mothers, has proved far
more effective than the old system of
allowing the home to be broken up
and the children placed in institu-
tions. And, further that the system
Of allowing the mother to handle
actual funds in the management of
her home made for condition of
selfrespect that never could be
reached under the old poor laws,
whose operations were patent to
every merchant in the neighborhood
When it is realized, as one speaker
stated, that approximately rs per
cent of the crimes in the state are
committed by children, and that of
those youthful criminals 75 per cent
become so because they lack the
comforts and pleasures Of home. not
TO mention the necessaries of life,
the value of home influence cannot
be too much stressed.
The individual attention and af-
fection required by children from the
moment of their birth cannot be sup
Piled in any institution. The tie of
blood is strong and the mutual self
respect developed in family life is
the beginning Of loyalty. And if
the state preserves the family unit
intact in cases where illness or
misdemeanor of the father is likely
to disrupt it, loyalty and respect for
the state follow. There can be no
more dangerous citizen than one
whose childhood has been neglected.
In the end the state must pav.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
When Glasses Ruled

To defend themselves from the bar
ons the merchants and workers of the
cities built strong walls and trained
or hired armies. But once safe and
strong themselves, they began to use
these armies to settle their trading
jealousies and extend their power
Even the peasants in desperation
built for themselves safe retreats in
the deep woods Or mountain caves and
banded together in camorras or other
organizations for their own protec-
ton. But they, too, once safe them
selves, fell into the spirit Of the age
and soon were fighting with barons
and burghers and depressing other
peasants as unscrupulously as any rob-
Der baron had ever oppressed them.
The Dark Ages were the dark ages,
and all Europe, instead of producing
and going ahead, bled and starved, was
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Administration Waste
litor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Apropos your latest special
article entitled Omitted States Wasted
Millions by War Policy" I thought it
would not be amiss to point out a
concrete example of how millions are
wasted right now
On October T the writer found in his
mail five letters from the Treasury
Department, Bureau Of Printing and
Engraving (franked, of course,) and
all postmarked October g. WAS some
what surprised (although many of your
readers probably would not have been)
to find that the content of each en-
velope was dentical-namely. a multi
graphed form letter. 1t is no wonder
that paper is 80 scarce and expensive
and that taxes are SO high.
You are certainly to be commended
on showing again so clearly the
scandalous extravaganza and wasteful-
ness of the Administration during the
war Most certainly any one at all ac-
quainted with the operation of the
army or navy or any of the war
agencies will know these facts to be
true and without exaggeration.
THREE GOLD STRIPES.
New York, Oct. II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
en- that they were running things.

men" that they were running things.
The assumption was that old age
was necessarily conservative and set
and lacking in "pep." Az a matter of
fact, the criticism was comical as ap-
piled to Lloyd George, for example
who on his critics own showing was
not sufficiently "set," and if Clemen-
ceau was set it was backed by
vigor and an attack much more sug-
gesting husky young boxer than
an elderly has-been. Perhaps some
youngster might have shown more
daring imagination and swift deci-
sion than Foch or Petain, but it is
hard to conceive how.
AS for the inimitable Anatole
France, he has turned distinctly
radical in his late seventies, and to-
day stands shoulder to shoulder with
that youthful reformer, Romain
ROLAND, who was born on January
20, 1866, and is, therefore, strip
ling Of barely fifty four Evidently
there is something wrong with the
dope which rates all young men as
hopeful radicals and all old men as
pessimistic mossbacks. There are
enough exceptions in both classes to
make one wonder whether years
have anything at all to do with de-
veloping conservatism. A family un.
doubtedly has-children especially
and property almost always. But
true radicals and conservatives are
born, not made, it can be maintained,
and the years only develop their
tendencies.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
The Coal Scandal

Investigation by Brooklyn grand
jury shows that q single group of
spectators has been holding IL, 900
carloads of soft coal on railway sid
lngs at Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Hampton Roads-and this in spite
Of unprecedented efforts by con-
sumerS to get hold of enough fuel to
Keep their industries going. How
many more such instances are TAX
ing place in various parts Of the
country remains to be seen.
Government officials are said to
have information that while only
about one-fifth of the big coal opera
tors have been acting dishonesty,
yet the influence of that fifth has
been so powerful as to cause flnan-
cal loss to operators who try to run
tnelr business decently. One opera
tor, for example, is alleged to have
lost $4,000 in single month rather
than connive at graft. Another,
who had no objection to paying for
privileges made clear profit of
100000 in three months" 1t ap-
pears that where crooked dealing ex-
SITS 1t commences with operators at
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

The bleating OF the robber baron
about the fundamental right OF sel..
protection to justify or cloak his pr.
vate wars-the cry Of the trust nag.
nate about the Fundamental righ. O.
any man TO do what he wanted viii
what was his % justify or cloak hi.
own conspiracies for price manirula-
tlon-the wall of a labor leader aoou,
the fundamental right 10 work or no,
TO work to justify or cloak a system
under which he himself commands ME-
TO work or not to work in order 10 pro
mote his own or his class Interests
all arc in exactly tho same category.
1t is one Of the unfortunate wes.
nesses of democracy that a small nj
nority. efficiently organized. can otter
through plausible sonhIs'ries and clersr
misrepresentation widely and bcldly
proclaimed. dominate for time the
opinion of all the people as regard
principles and rights about which tn
rest of the people have no active inter
est or opinion.
Il Is also weakness OF human "a
ture, which is very fortunate for de
mocracy, that whereas an Individual who
rises to illogical or iilegtimste poVs'
may have the self-control and the dis
cretion not to become arrogant and
fiaunt that power, the group or clss'
that achieves illogiesl or illegitimsie
power has invariably throughout his
tory sooner or later become so over
confident that it has recklessly over
played its hand
Our great early industrial Leaders
and railroad organizers were referred
to as empire builders and were "a
most universally looked up 20 as great
public benefactors. Yet II is row vel
known that they frequently achieved
their power by methods far more cues
tionable than those used by their sue
cessors. the trust magnates, wAo
achieved an equally extreme obloquy
chiefly because they made the psyche
logical mistake of not only thinking
but of openly acting and taking ~
terms Of "the divine right Of cap'tsf
and the public be damned"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
The Coming ower
A Ballad of the Great War

A Ballad Of the Great War
Oh, twas back in the fall of II that |
went as volunteer.
For the war was raging aero" the sea
and the war was raging here.
And every lad had khaki suit and
sweater and helmet knit
And shiny mirror made Of tin and
KHAKI comfort kit.
pair of Munson shoes.
And the Poems of Robert Service bound
in the leather that's known as ooze.
Oh, some may call it glorious war, but
we soldiers knew twas hell,
We were stationed up at Ithaca at place
that they call Cornell,
And they crammed us full Of all sorts Of
hns,, and they drilled US from morn
till night,
And we learned to master the Levi. Gun
and The Theory of Flight,
And as we lay al the close of day on our
cots when our work was through
Some guy from bunk near mine would
spout The Shooting Of Dan Megrew."
Yes, they drilled us hard and they crammcd
us worse ill our heads they were
busting full,
And they rode u.s. too. and the worst of
the crew was a Lieut. known a. Frank
lin Bull.
No, never harked to the cannons roar
nor the shrek Of shrapnel she'll,
And my only Huns were the waiter men
at the Ithaca Hotel.
Yet shudder to think of the honor. Of
war that | suffered at Cornell IT,.
AS listened in bed through the silent nigh,
to The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew"
A fellow named Charlie Hoffman used to
recite it each night at mess
l remember Thanksgiving dinner, when he
performed it with great success.
'~" "~N'''' anu younS JOiln Nlcdny, and
need | name any more2
Why. Henry Churchill did it, and ,ha,
warrior, Jack Hoare.
Now this cruel war is ended, lust as Milne
once said it would
And I'm through with the horrors of war
fare; I'm veteran now for good.
And I'm done with the wei! known army,
henceforih and forevermore,
And they'll have to catch me frs, before
Ill sign for another war.
For my soul is wearing Service stripe
for the suffering I've been through
FROM the Poems of Robert Service and
The Shooting of Dan Megrew.'
FLACCUs.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

plague ridden and stood still. chiefly
because Europe was organized bv
groups and classes, and all these
groups and classes only schemed and
thought and fought to advance their
own interests without a conception of
any common interests or rights.
"A generation ago our forefathers
were forced to unite to protect the
pubic interest against special pronn
OF industrial robber barons who had
arisen through our rapid economic d.
Velopment and who tried to put tbe;r
special group interests above the COM
mon interest through control of our
economic necessities.
IN the first year of this century tho
Supreme Court in a number If da
clslons restated as basic American law
'nat the rights of all the people wero
superior to the rights of any groun Of
people IN our economic life lust as
we'll as IN our political life
The Supreme Court declared in tbo
meat trust case 169 |. s., 375) that
though the several acts charged NAV, bo
lawful, the whole plan to restrain
trade, decrease supply and 50 raise
prices to the people may make the
parts unlawful" And again in the To-
oacco case the Supreme Court declared
there is no possibility of frustrating
pubic policy again referring to a..
tempts to stop free manufacturing and
trading, decrease supply and raise
prices by resorting to any disguise or
subterfuge of FORM
Yet, within twenty years Of our hard
Fought and sweeping victory for the
common interests of the whole peonlo
against the special interests Of o,,.
modern robber barons, our modern
camorras, organized doubtless for neces-
sary self-protection, ere to-day maxine
more ruthless, unscrupulous. DANGER
Gus use of their new power to promote
their own special interests, thus stopnjng
our economic production, than any trust
Magnate ever dreamed of
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Youngsters of Seventy

Not content with supplying the
military genius for winning the war
and the political skill for making
peace, the seventy-year-old young
sters of France are showing their
zest for life and adventure by
marrying. Marshal Petain was the
first to go. Anatole France followed
in his seventy-sixth year-and
Camille Flammarion, his senior by
two years, joins the group. There
were rumors that Clemenceau was
matrimonially minded, but he dis
missed the report by going off to
India to shoot tigers instead.
There was much complaint among
radicals everywhere, during and af-
ter the war, against "these tired old
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Americanisna fnfringed

livery strike, no matter what its ann
means direct and total loss of all tho
PRODUCTION with which it has TO do.
Livery strike whose whole aim ia To forco
cruelty needed readjustment of WAGES
or working conditions and is therefore
totally justified from the point of view,
Oh the rights and interests of the strik-
ers, because, from its very nature il
necessltates tota, and irredeenahle
loss OF production. puts these Interests
and rights in direct competition with
pubic rights and interests. If strikes
We're 100 per cent of this kind and all
deserved universal public sympathy. they
would nevertheless be such a direct in
frlngement of the fundamental Amer
can principle that the public interest Is
always paramount that for the workers
sake as we'll as for the public's sake
some other method than a strike ought
TO be devised to get justice.
But when, as a I present, the great ma
Jority of strikes are obviously. and often
blatantly, mere weapons in the hands Of
powerful, self-seeking organizations. or
Of factions in organizations. that are
used not only with wanton disregard Of
public interest, but often in calculated
and ruthless attack upon public interest
III order to force public interest to yield
to group chauyinism, the strike to-day
becomes the most powerful and sinister
challenge TO Americanism that the
American people have ever been called
to face
History tells US that the robber
barons "bleated like lambs" about the
fundamental right of self-protection
when they were forced to put their
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
On the Side Of Labor

American pubic sympathy aAs A.
ways been, naturally and openly o.
the side of labor. because IS strugg.e
were 50 frequently against iae SANK
big industrial "gobber bsrons' ~neo
the public itself was lighting and oe
cause in genera. ln IT'S hgh; vita cap
tai labor seemed TO be the under eos
BGt labor's overcon;dcnf. often B.
most mad. inslstence ln Haunting -
fundamental doctrine OF class Tign''
its Increasingly ruthless and opeA VI
fringement of the most basic and ~
portant rights OF all the people e 0
fed and warmed aud clothed. n oFoe
that some small aseup Of the la0''
class may be able to draw fuH P@
Tor working three days a week or IN 81
der TO put one group Of men 'as'ea'
Of another group .nso union power
an open challenge as 70 whether Ah's'
lea is TO so back 20 the class sA1
group government of -he Middle As''
for the benefit Of some Of the peep"
or is TO stay American for the eeneH'
Of all Americans.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

private soldiers with which they hsa
fought their private wars under CON.
mand Of central government which
represented, at least IN some degree. al
the people.
We all Of Us remember how this his.
tory repeated itself - how, when the
question came up Of the right Of al
Americans not to have the price o.
their necessaries OF life artisciallv
manipulated merely for the bened. c,
selfish groups, our own industrial rob.
Der barons cried to heaven about the
fundamental right Of any American 70
do what he pleased with what was hn
01rr
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

peace proposals to Wrangel. Lenine
is obviously hard pressed and prob
ably shrinks from the dangerous ex-
pertinent of carrying on war
through another winter with beat
en- and disatfected army. At no
time since 1918 has the collapse of
the Soviet despotism seemed near
er. And for this cheerful prospect
the world owes far more to Polish
steadfastness and valor than to any
exertions on the part Of the Paris
league or to the Allied concert or
to the policy of America.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
5 Cent Postage to South America

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 7 take the liberty Of asking
you to kindly publish the fact that
foreign postage on letters to South
America is FIVE cents, not two cents, as
SO many people appear to believe.
Any one wishing to know the exact
rates to different countries can obtain
such Information from the local post
office. In the event Of letter not car
rying sufficient postage a fine, equiva-
lent to double the missing postage, is
imposed upon the receiver Of the let
Ter. 1t Is very annoying to corre-
spondents to have TO make good this
deficiency and shows gross ignorance
on the part of the sender A. f. D.
Santiago, Chile, Aug. 90. 1920.