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New-York tribune., 1920-01-30

herent in our government. A Presi-
dent, acting as he sees fit and not
subject to parliamentary direction
in this, recommends action to Con-
gress. Congress, also acting as it
sees fit, accepts or rejects the recon-
mendation. Now the trouble with
Article X is that it upsets or ig
nores the necessity for joint action.
1t apparently assumes that orr gou-
e17mem is like that Of othe, conn.,
trics-that a President, whose action
is approved because he is in power,
plays the role of Prime Minister
and thus speaks the voice of Con-
gress.
Inadvertently The World has ex-
posed the reason why reservation
is required-that notice needs be
given that a President, touching
war and peace, is not the United
States. If an American newspaper
does not know a most obvious fact
concerning our institutions, foreign
ers cannot be expected to know it.
But the guess may be hazarded
that our neighbor is not as ignorant
as it pretends to be. We have re-
spect enough for its information to
believe that it needs no instruction
concerning this matter from The
Tribune. 1t is merely engaged in an
old game, one to which partisans are
addicted-namely, 100 per cent mis-
representation. Hard necessity
drives To state the salient facts
in regard to the reservation to Arti-
Gle X would make it plain that the
reservation is needed. The reserva-
ton, rid of surplusage, merely is
that obligations to go to war are not
assumed ataless Congress consents.
Who can honestly object to this if
the Constitution is to rule?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
Hungary as a Monarchy

1t is reported from Budapest that
at the elections held on Sunday an
overwhelming majority was returned
in favor of a restoration Of the mon
archy.
The polling was not under the con-
troll of representative of the Allies
or any other impartial agency.
1t was bossed by the Huszar gov
ernment, regime to which suspicion
attaches. 1t was not improbable
that the election was of Mexican
quality and marked by the tech
nique Of Lenine and Trotzky when
they wish to go through the motions
of consulting particular electorate.
Those who believe there is a middle
ground between Bolshevism and mon
archism, and who abominate the
tyranny of the one as much as of
the other, are justified in waiting
for further information before con-
cluding that the Hungarians sigh for
return of their old masters.
Ugly stories are published con-
corning the recent events in Hun
gary. Men, it is said, are impris-
oned, tortured and hanged on f1imsy
pretexts. There is news of the in
ternment Of 10000 men and women
IN the concentration camp at Hojmas-
ker, not because they are Bolsheviki,
but because they are anti-royalists.
French and British officials have
protested again Huszar's acts, bu,
in vain.
The outside world has no favorite
color with respect to Terrorism.
White is as bad as Red to all of lib
eral minds. Only the pseudo-lib,
erals Of the parlors of Great Britain
and the United States have SO lost
their sense of proportion as not to
object to Terror if it wears a hue
pleasing to them.
1t may be the Hungarians were so
familiarized with Bolshevism bv
Bella Kun as to want a monarchy.
Bella was surely great propaganda
agent for counter-revolutionists, Just
as Lenine and Trotzky are. In his
tory men have found it more toler-
able to live without liberty than
without order. But few will accent
at It's letter the news that Hungary
IN any real sense has voted for a
kingship.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
4 Plea from entroI
The Burden Of Abnormal Con.
otitions Plus fhe "TIu"

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In my ffteen years Of service
with the New York Telephone Company
have never seen such conditions.
through 10 fault either Of the com
pany on employees We never worked
harder. Therefore. feel certain tha,
if the telephone user would stop 70
think, when he lifts the receiver to make
call. OF the human being Who answers.
and be patient, instead Of faultfrd-
ing. it would ease matters consider
ably.
The transit facilities not only of the
city but Of the entire country are
poor; then why eSpect the impossible
of the telephone operator? No one
expects The railroads TO resume norma
conditions over night, but when the
telephone company was released by
the government in worse condition
than when the govegnmen. took con
troll all seem 20 expect pre-war service.
Now, vith abnormal conditions, such
as the influenza epidemic, we work still
harder VIII the pabhc stop I" real
ize that telephone operators are not
immune to the FLU" and t1y 10 bear
With us2 g. 3. EVANS.
New York. Jan. q. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
Weeping Alice
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: If Bartlett and Stcdman both. AS
you say, vouch for Thomas Dunn Eng
lsh's assertion that Alice "wept with
delight when you gave her a SMILE" that
appears to settle it, and | am six bits
in through your declining to accept nv
wager.
In thinking over the many Alice types
on whom ] have smiled, fail to recall
one, who "wept with delight when |
smiled upon her, but scores of them
bushed delightfully."-. That is why [
always have felt that the author of
Ben Bolt" made Alice "blush," but the
proofreader, who knows best about
these things, made her "weep."
Sir Oliver Lodge, being now among
those present, might suggest to us a
means Of getting in touch with T. ID. +.
and satisfying ourselves as to whether
he himself or tho proofrcadcr was re-
sponsible for making Alice "wecp with
delight" when a blush would have been
more becoming, to say nothing of the
logic Of the thing.
MILTON MOBILES.
Brooklyn. Jan. 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30

pact. To-day Italy is ready to re-
nounce most of the advantages to
which she was entitled by it. If the
1ugo-Slavs are not satisfied with that
* means simply that they do not see
the wisdom of moderation in states
manship.
But, after all, the real significance
Of the Fiume problem has to-day
little to do with its settlement either
way With the league of nations a
mere shadow and the disinclination
Of America to assume European re-
sponsiblities becoming more evident
every day, the insurance Of Euro
pean stability would naturally de-
Nolve upon an alliance of Great
Britain, France and Italy. If such
a combination to-day is a remote
hope it is due, above all, to the quar-
rel about Fiume. For this quarrel
a good portion Of responsibility
rests upon President Wilson. His
handling Of the Fiume situation was
altogether unhappy. His position
involved monstrous injustice to Italy
it ran counter to the very prin-
ciple Of elf-determination whose
champion he regarded himself. 1t
brought discord when concord was
essential. Nor is this all. If to-day
the new Triple Alliance of Britain,
France and Italy is not an accom-
plished fact the lack is due to the
reactions Of the row the President
started. There was a chance to pre-
serve harmony, and thus to show
true allegiance to future peace, but
when harmony was trembling in the
balance it was tumbled down and
smashed. This is the Fiume tragedy.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30

tional heroes. There were many
Americans who feared the worst
when news of Mr.. Drinkwater's play
arrived. Here was an effort to make
art of our greatest figure, almost
before we ourselves were ready for
such a task of generalization. Could
any foreigner comprehend the es-
sertial truth of Lincoln, American
to the marrow? There was Lord
Charnwood's excellent biography to
point the way, and no viewer Of the
Drinkwater play can question, we
think, the amazing success of his
dramatization of the great events of
the Lincoln story. Not only in ex-
ternals, but in the heart of the mat
ter. The truth is that when an
Englishman speaks of liberty he
means what an American means.
When he writes Of the whole fabric
of our laws and customs he writes
of a system so closely akin to his
own that he comprehends without
any effort Of imagination.
We think Mr.. Drinkwater has done
a very great service to the cause
Of Anglo-American understanding.
He has done it not by preaching but
by demonstration There will doubt
less be irritations between the two
nations in the future, as in the past
What "Abraham Lincoln,' this
American play by an English poet,
can do for the whole country is to
reveal in most moving fashion how
deep and sure is the basis of common
faith and common purpose under
lying our surface rivalries and
disputes.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
The Fiune Tragedy

The Italian Adriatic proposal
ahich Jugo- -Slavia rejects was to
make the harbors of Fiume and
lara free ports under the league of
lHtions, while assuring to the cities
themselves the status of free, self
governing units; to yield the Dalma-
IAN islands except Lissa and Lussin
e Jugo-Slavia, while demilitarizing
al Of them, and TO place northern
Albania under Jugo- Slav rule, with
al Italian mandate in the rest of the
:ounNry.
These terms involved considerable
sacrifice on Ita,y's part. If last Nav
be axsoiogists Of the Croats with
tome plausibility could accuse Italy
# an extreme stand, the position to-
lay is reversed. 1t is the Nitti goy-
sFnnlen. that exhibits cagerness to
:ouccfe and conciliate, while the gov
rnmeut If Belgrade a2sumes a
'bltter-e ender" attitude. The Jugo-
slaY pretcnsion tn ignore the Treaty
u London II, to speak plainly, rub
neh Italy entered tho war--one of
tnoee ajnV was to snve Serbia from
g"zsrpction~~on tho basis of that
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
The Real Issue in the NAVY

Representative Byrnes's attack on
Admiral Sims not only shows that
the attacker is wide of mouth but
reemphasizes the necessity of a
searching investigation of the Sims
charges. If the admiral has been
making all sorts of reckless state
ments, as Mr.. Byrnes says he has,
he should have chance to defend
himself on the stand, as we'll as to
support his own views as to what
was wrong with the Navy Depart
ment's conduct of the war Pre-
sumptively Admiral Sims has opin-
ions Of greater value than South
Carolina partisan.
The country is not so much inter-
ested in an exchange of epithets as
it is in correcting any faults of
direction or administration which
have developed in the navy. The
main point must be whether the pol
icy pursued by Secretary Daniels
and Admiral Benson was up to the
best professional standards. We
have Naval War College at New
port, r. !. Is the navy getting the
full benefit of the work done there?
Was the conduct Of naval operations
in accord with the teachings of
best and broadest minds in the
service?
Representative Byrnes says: Mr..
Daniels may have made many mis-
takes, but his greatest mistake was
the appointment of Sims" Didn't
he necessarily make a still greater
mistake, from the Byrnes point of
view, in subsequently recommending
Captain Sims for promotion to the
rank of admiral? Apparently the
department and it's champions in
Congress had no fault to find with
Sims until he wrote his memoran-
dun on the lessons of the war.
Let the country have the facts
about the navy's share in the war.
They alone are Of value for building
up morale and leadership.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
Had the Shimmy SYMPHONY!


To the Editor of Tie Tribune
Sir: NJ Bodanzky has lateiy seen
fit TO inform the public, through the
columns Of the press. that 'jazz" IS
not music, although he admits liking
for it, in spite of lis failure to qualify.
Jazz. written and PLAYED properly, IS
not only music, bat program music, re-
markably descriptive. If Mr. BodanzSy
has not heard JAZZ through the
medium Of a large orchestra, with
complete orchessration, he IS not far
TO the subject in has statement. lie
has not given it hearing or probed
its possibilities.
have a JAZZ suite in collection Of
Jazz Classics" by American composers,
and believe that this suite is worthy
Of presentation on symphony pro
gram as real music. In depicting he
ceremonies attendant on the instsla-
ton Of a new chieftain in an African
village. the pulsating drum beat. which
persists Throughout q characteristic
two-four allegro, preserves the spirit
Of Jazz completely. In p second move
ment Ga mystical waltz the voOdoo
shadow spirits are materialized IS
guardians of the welfare Of the village.
The third and last number OF the
suite is bona dde "shimmy' dance,
celebrating the occasion in q dance OF
JOY by the villagers and merging INTO
digniied and triumphant recesslonai'
indicative OF the withdrawal Of the
newly chosen chief.
EARL FULLER.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
Initiating the President
An Appeal 10 Senator Lodge in
the Name of Common Sense

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The position taken by The Trib-
une in its editorial yesterday" "Imitat-
ing the President"-is everlastinply
right. If Senator Lodge and his asso-
ciates continue to insist that the Lodge
reservations to the treaty must not be
modified in the slightest degree they
Will be guilty of a colossal blunder. If
their persistence in this uncompromis
ing attitude should result in killing
the treaty they will have made lam
entablc mistake, not only from a
party standpoint, but in a larger and
more important way, as regards the
welfare Of the country and the world
They will have thrown away the tao
tical advantage they have held since
President Wilson gave out his jackson
Day letter. His attitude, as revealed
in that letter, has been almost univer-
sally condemned. The great majority
of the people want the treaty ratified,
with reasonable reservations, and want
IL Idtlltu du once. II IL Is not, thcD
indignation and disgust is going to be
profound and far-reaching.
Why, in the name Of common sense,
should Senator Lodge pay the slightest
attention to the views OF Borah, John
son and their little group Of irrecon-
cllables? Everybody knows they arc
out to defeat the treaty by fair means
or foul. If their advice is followed it
would spell disaster for the Republi-
can party, as well az humiliation and
trouble for the country Ignore them
and let them do their worst. The SEN
timent Of the people is unquestionably
against them.
Let the Republicans preserve the
general principles laid down in the
Lodge reservations; adopt q more cour-
teous phraseology in some of the res
ervations. Be a little more conciliatory
toward the Democrats and give them an
opportunity to save their face and find
common ground where it is possible
for both sides to meet and compose
their differences.
The people want an end to this
wrangling in the Senate. C. II. l..
New York, Jan. 2S, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
Taking a Committees Order:

ulgnation over the bald application
OF the recall principle contained in
the constitution Of the Socialist
party the idea it expresses is old.
In democratic commemorative many
assume an elected officer is an
agent. Edmund Burke argued the
question heatedly with the electors
Of Bristol,
American political history records
many demands for resignation. The
laws Of many states provide for the
unclecting of elected officers. The
Wings ragged at John Tyler when he
timed out to be Democrat and the
+ publicans at Andrew Johnson
when he sought to undo the results
OF the Civil War "Embezzlers of
power'-this has been charge often
hurled at public officers who violated
cNpressed or implied pledges.
But though the principle is old
j will be admitted that the ap-
rlcation of it in the Socialist con-
stltution is extreme. The method of
enforcing it is offensive to the vast
body of Americans, as are other rules
cf the Socialists-for example, the
enc that prescribes that Socialist,
On pain of expulsion, must vote for
yellow dog if on his ticket
Whence comes this obnoxious rule?
From countries which have had little
experience with free institutions,
countries wherein the government is
deemed an enemy and not an
arent to do cooperative work. In
backward countries agitators for
c7ange have been coerced into be-
coming conspirators, and con-
sniracy naturally takes on the char
acter of centralized autocracy The
tactics OF the so-called popular par
ties of Continental Europe have
steadily shown this bias. An execu-
tive committee Controls. Witness the
ethods If the Russian nihilists,
hose governing body possessed life
ad-death authority. Lenine spon-
taneousiy thinks in terms of dicta-
5ership- whole bias Of his educa-
jion is chat way The defect pro-
ceeds from total misconception of
What democratic government is-a
misconception due to the assumption
iaei a government is necessarily
pablic foe This notion is not only
the source Of the Socialist rules, but
at the bottom Of the friendliness
of many aliens to revolution.
Not only should the Socialists clean
house, but ii would be proper to re-
qulre, as test of eligibility, that a
public agent be forbidden to have
any allegiance, express or implied,
to any committee or coterie. Politi-
raj allegiance is not something that
can be divided. Fealty must be sim
gle. The law IN many indirect ways
already recognizes this principle. A
Judge may not engage in business
and no officer can trade with the pub
lie But the law as it now stands
does not seem to forbid an officer rec
ognizing a group as his master, and
for good reasons CT post fdcto laws
are forbidden. So it does not appear
unless he is Interested in the manu-
facture Of prejudice, why Speaker
Sweet is concerned in exploiting a
non-pertinent issue before the AS
'embly Judiciary Committee.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: There seem 20 be readers OF
our enhghtening Tribune that think
Holland did right in refusing to give
William UP to the Allies.
Stripping this argument OF i's teen
nicalities, which ii the best create oniy
Misunderstanding it is simply ques-
tion Of did he, or did he not. order
violations of international laws he WAS
bound to obey, and did the execution o.
has orders cause death knowingly ana
unnecessarily to the citizens OF other
counuiese If it did, he IS guilty Of
murder. and each country whose c''''
zcns he murdered in violation OF Va
ternational law has a right. in justice
to her citizens. ia demand his triai Tor
those murders and TO hc represented
at that trial q. II. u
Brooklyn. Jan. &c, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
Indefinitely POSTPONED

ffTo" The Cincinnati Commercial T,.bune)
Suggestion that the peace treaty
and league covenant be ratified hy
compromise with conservative reser-
vations having been favorablv received
oy the people has logically brought IN
more talk in the Senate. the result be
ing that ratification is now reserved
until some time in February and no
body knows how much longer.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30

We do our poor best to cooperate
with the newspapers in their alleged
effort to save paper, but our faith in
their sincerity is shaken daily. The
Sun. jubiant, perhaps, at the prospect
of the paper saving the merger of the
Sun and the Herald will mean, printed
in contiguous columns yesterday as
follows:
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
Books

For the enlightenment of your cor
respondent, Aloysius OToole, who pro-
nounces my quotation from Strabo
Il fabrication forged out of whole
cloth (sic)," writes Oliver Herford, 81
am glad to give him chapter ana verse
so he may look it up for himself. In
Book ~, chapter 5, paragraph 5-on
page 200 in Casaubon's edition of 1920
Or in Vol. l, page 299, of the Bohn
translation, he will find the following:
'There are other small islands
around Britain; but one of great ex-
tent, lerna, lying parallel to it toward
the north, long or rather wide; con-
corning which we have nothing to re-
late, further than that its inhabitants
arc more savage than the Britons, feed
ing on human flesh and enormous eat
crs, and deeming it commendabc to
devour their deceased fathers'--
"The rest of the paragraph is un-
printable, so I have omitted it.
AS l pointed out once before in an
essay in 'McClure's Magazine,' the cell
ebration known as the Irish Wake un-
doubtedly took it's origin from this
custom, modified through the introduce
tion Of Christianity so that the de
ceased parent no longer feature of
the menu, was retained as an orna-
mental feature, like the pineapple at
an English dinner party"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
FRANCE HONORS PENFIELD
Sevres Vase Presented to Former
Ambassador at His Home

Ambassador at His Home
Presentation was made in New York
Yesterday to Frederic Courtland PEN
field, former American Ambassador to
Austria Hungary, at his home, 1877 Fifth
Avenue, by the French Consul General
to New York, CASTOR Liebert, of a
superb Sevres vase, sent to Mr.. Pen
field by the French Government in
token of the gratitude Of France for
services he rendered when Ambassador
to French interests in the dual mon
archy At the beginning of the war
Mr.. Peniicld. then the American Am
bassador, with the approval of the
United States Government, took up the
representation of French interests, as
he did of nearly all the nations at war
with the Central Powers.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

1.e Assoc aied Press IS exclusively entitled 70 the
t. 10y republication II all dispatches credited
L i- or rct otherwise credited In this paper and
g. tic .11a Hews Of spontaneous origin published
l--rln.
Al right, Of republication Of all other matter
hert-u do reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
FRENCH GIFT TO PENFIELD
Vase in Recognition of Aid in 1917
as Ambassador to Austria

A Scvres vase almost four feet high
with an inscribed bronze base was pre-
sentcd yesterday by directors of the
French Government to Frederic c. Pen
field, 7S7 Fifth Avenue, for services
rendered the French as American AM
bassador in AUSTRIA Hungary until the
severance of diplomatic relations with
the United States in 1917. Mr.. Pen
iield represented the interests of near
ly all the Allied Powers in Vienna for
a considerable period, securing liberal
treatment for French and British in
termed civilians and military prisoners.
He received the French Cross of the
Legion Of Honor many years ago for
his writings on international affairs
The presentation of the vase was made
by CASTOR Liebcrt, French Consul
General.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
II Remember, | Remember"

OF my hlst day at school re
member only my apparel. A clean,
crisp flock of blue and white percale,
q tiny bib apron edged with Cash's
Dmity Ruftiing, Gipsy straw hat
trimmed with daisies, and a scarlet
merino cape, with tassels.
The last two items being hung on
a nail spent the day in the en-
crossing occupation of keeping the
others unspottcd from the world OF
iostlng girls and boys. c. W.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
RAN ~

ou can purchase merchandise advertised In The
Tribune with absolute safet--for II dissatisfac-
tar results any case The TRIBUNE guarantees
to pas your money back request. No red tape.
No ulibhnq We make good promptly n the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-30

We have little sympathy for the oft
repeated theme that a little baby brings
charm and cheer to the roughcst
groups of men. Except for some
mothers and grandmothers. almost all
the persons who lavish admiration on
any child less than one year of age are
taking AS matter of fact only an
expert can tell one from another. OF
course, when the child begins to walk
and talk, no matter how imperfectlv.
his charm Increases prodigiously. but
by that time he has become a person.