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New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
The British Doninions

Confirmation Of Ambassador Har-
vey's belief that Anglo-American CO.
operation would promote the peace of
the world is furnished by Austrana.
AS long ago as 1918 Premier
Hughes Of Australia, speaking of the
common interests shared by Amer
ica, Australia, New Zealand and
Canada, told the members of the Pill
grim Society: "Australia looks to
you, her older brother, to stand by
her around the peace table as we'll
as on the field of battle. For if we
are to continue to be a common
wealth of free people we must have
guarantees against enemy aggres-
sion in the future"
And last December the Australian
High Commissioner in New York, dis
cussing the problems of the Pacific,
said that he was assured that Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Canada and
South Africa would support any ar
rangement that would make for
solution of the question.
From other sources come further
indications that bonds of self-interest
as we'll as the natural sympathy
born Of common development un-
der approximately the same pioneer
conditions are strengthening the
friendship between the United States
and the British dominions.
"The hope of the world" said
Premier Hughes last month, "de-
pends upon some sort of understand
ing between America and the en-
pire," and he went on to say that the
minds Of those attending the coming
imperial conference in London should
be- directed toward realizing this
hope.
Despite certain vociferous anti
English elements in this country, a
close cooperation between the Eng
disappearing peoples would go far
toward insuring world peaces AL
though commercial rivalries con-
tinue and the Irish problem remains
unsettled, there are enough links be-
tween America, Australia, Canada
and New Zealand to make ID pos~
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
A Basis Of Settlement

The Upper Silesian situation has
passed the acute stage, thanks to
Germany's willingness to take
Brands timely hint. The German
Silesian border is officially closed.
The Allied Supreme Council will
meet in a few days to see what it
can do in the way of carrying out
the treaty.
Anticipating a deadlock in the par
tition of the plebiscite area, the sug-
gestion has been put forward in Lon
don that Upper Silesia be cut into
three parts-the western given to
Germany, the southeastern to Poland
and the remainder put under interna-
tional control for thirty years. Such
a solution would dodge the issue over
which the Silesian commission and
the Allied powers have split. 1t
would leave most of the rich mining
and industrial district east of the
Oder a No Mans Land, subject in
administration to the fluctuations of
future Allied policy, and trouble
breeder In Central European eco
nonics and diplomacy. 1t would
mean continuance of the lax con-
troll and internecine war, open or
coysrt, which have made Upper
Sllesia center of turbulence for
the last two years. To continue a
condition of unrest and irritation
for many years to come in any
part OF the district would argue
incapacity on the part of the Coun-
cli TO repair one of the peace con-
lerence's most unnecessary blunders
and to liquidate one of the few re-
naming legacies of the war.
At the, conference there was
onanimity of opinion on the parti-
ton OF Upper Silesia until Llovd
George stepped in. The division
suggested by the Polish commission
OF experts was an equitable one
Great Britain's representative an
proved it. 1t was in accord with
Allied promises to Poland. The
piebiscite has shown that it CORE,
sponded very closely to the wishes of
the actual inhabitants.
Why not go back to it? 1t applies
fairly the principle applied in the
Posen. West Prussian and East
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
Chief Justice White as a Rebel

Chief Justice White as a Rebel
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to register my OBJ
lection to the letter by Francis B.
Hays criticizing your article on Chief
Justice White.
Let me cite one paragraph. "Is is
now generally conceded by historians
and lawyers not blinded by passion
that Southerners did not fight against
the Constitution, but really took up
arms to defend it from the assaults of
those who denounced 1t as a league
with hell" This is the first I ever heard
Of such cause for the Civil War and
it is utterly false, Of course.
10 really doesn't matter that Mr..
White as a young man Joined the rebel
army. That question has been set
tied; we are one people. IL Mr.. White
attained high rank 1t was likely due to
his ability and not hecause he had
served in the rebel army. Any foolish
admirer who chooses TO bring up that
point as a merit deserves rebuke. and
there are plenty of Americans yet
remaining in the United States to give
it him. WILLIAM HARRIS,
Loyal Legion, Ohio Commandery.
New York, May "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
Useful knowledge
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l answered 80 per cent of +ba
Edison questions-all but the technical
ones. Immediately after my graduation
L couldn't have answered SO per cent.
But fifty years of newspaper work COM
pelled me almost every day to acquire
the kind of knowledge required by the
questions. knowledge. like buried trea
ure, is Of itself of no great value. It
is the ability to use it that counts, Ths
person mentioned by one of your cor
respondents, who in spite of his wide
knowledge landed in the poorhouse,
reached there because he didn't know
what to do with his knowledge.
What is useful knowledge? A news
paper man was once reproached by a
successful real estate man for having
more useless information thar any one
he ever knew. "What you call useless -
replied the other, sis my working
capital. You have just as much useless
information as | have" "What do YOU
mean?" inquired the astonished real
estate man. II mean," answered the
newspaper man, "the values of real es-
tate in your city. If that had been my
chief knowledge I should have starved
to death long ago"
e. G, HOLDEN.
Tryon, N. c., May "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
Naturalization

The BoIsfevist Revolution and ITS
Results Up to the End of 1919
0) The Soviet government proceed
ed to fnaugurate policy of nationali-
zation of industry and to institute an
organization for the state collection
and distribution of food.
(2) The Soviet government estab-
lished the collegiate system of admin
istration in industry, with a view of
controlling the hitherto unrestrained
actions of the factory soviets.
(3) The Soviet government, in a stu
alton calling for the exercise Of the ut
most discrimination and care, carried
out the policy of naturalization in
haste, without taking account of the
disorder already prevailing in Russia,
of the complex structure of modern
industry, of the absence of expert tech
nical assistance, and Of the disabilities
resulting from the lack of knowledge
and experience under which they them
selves labored.
(4) AS result Of naturalization,
carried out in the above conditions,
production continued to fall, and with
ever increasing rapidity.
90 In the summer of 1918 the OUT
break of civil war, accompanied by for
eign Intervention, caused the Soviet
government to divert to military pur-
poses all its energy and the residue of
Russia's industrial capacity. In these
circumstances the collapse Of all other
than war industry became complete.
(6) The uninterrupted fall of pro-
duction in the towns was accompanied
by further decline in the supplies of
food received by the towns from the
villages, which were able to obtain less
and less in exchange for their produce.
CD The reluctance of the peasants
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
American Shipping Cannot Yield

Representatives Of the striking
marine workers are claiming that
Admiral Benson, chairman Of the
Shipping Board, is urging upon pri-
vate owners and operators of Ameri-
can shipping the acceptance Of the
compromise agreement suggested by
Secretary of Labor Davis. This pro-
vides for the continuance of the
overtime pay evil and an agreement
10 last for year, signed at a time
when the labor market is greatly un-
settled and foreign merchant ma
rines are reducing pay scales. Both
of these provisions the ship owners
have announced it is manifestly i'm
possible for them TO accept.
1t is unthinkable that Admiral
Benson will accept for the vessels of
the Shipping Board terms that will
porpetuate handicaps upon the
American merchant marine which
are now on the eve of removal
through the foreshadowed failure of
the strike.
Speaking before the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers here on
May Is, Admiral Benson, referring
to the policies decided upon to aid
shipping under the American flag,
declared that on this basis he had
taken his stand and would adhere to
it unqualifiedly. The adverse atti-
tude of the leaders of the unions, he
said, was a matter of record, and he
added that the Shipping Board
would continue to make use of all it's
resources to keep it's ships moving
and prevent the success of the effort
to defeat a permanent resstablish-
ment of the American merchant ma
rine.
For the government to surrender
to the unions with the strike already
won would mean two merchant ma
rines under the American flag oper-
ated under entirely different rules
and policies. The S,0O0,0 900 gross tons
composing the governments foreign
trade fleet will be run with conces-
sions to the workers that will make
impossible profitable operation in
competition with foreign merchant
marines. The 100000 tons repre-
senting the volume of American
shipping owned and operated by pri-
vate enterprise cannot accept such
conditions and continue in service.
At Washington to-day the question
of strike settlement will again be
taken up officially. If the Ship
ping Board yields at this juncture,
new menace will be added to those
with which the American merchant
marine is already surrounded.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
The Effects Of the RepoEatton Of
Tehyyfnsss mn

The Effects of the RevoIatton Of
February, f9f7
(1) The establishment of soviets Of
workmen in tho factories adversely af-
fected industrial administration and
was largely responsible for rapid fall
of production in the manufacturing in
dustries.
(2) Tho establishment Of soviets
among the troops, who were war-weary
and desired peace, contributed further
to destroy the Russian army as fight
ing machine. Wholesale desertion be-
gan, and the army became powerful
factor in the process Of disintegration
throughout Russia after tho February
revolution, 1917.
(3) The peasants, from the moment
Of the revolution, 1917, began to seize
the estates Of tho land owners, and
were encouraged in this course by the
Bolshevists during the summer OF 1917
(4) The area Of land under cultiva-
tion began to decrease as d result of
tho disturbed state of the countryside.
CO.. The peasants ceased bringing
their grain to tho towns as d result Of
the fall in production and the great
rise in the prices Of manufactured
goods. Such food as the peasants did
bring Co the towns was commandeered
by the government at fixed prices, but
the price given was such that it did not
enable them to purchase the articles of
common necessity which they needed.
(e) The disturbance Of the balance
Of exchange between town and country
was general result of the events ac-
companying and following the Febru~
ary revolution.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
Campus Memories

Sir: In my ten-year-od days in
school, we sang capital" song, for OBJ
vious purposes, and to this day | throw
my otherwise downward nose high in
air whenever any one hesttates in
naming any states capital or is con-
tiguous waters, and correctly, as we'll
as ostentatiously, state both. To be
sure, invariably have to allow dead
ly sing-song to flood my brain to recall
the words, but the mnemonic is always
fatally successful. The dronins thing
begins:
State of Maine, Augusta, on the
Kennebec Ri-l-ver,
State of Maine, Augusta, on the
Kennebec River;
New Hampshire, Concord, on the Mer-
rimac Ri-i-ver,
New Hampshire, Concord, on the Mer-
rimac River;
Vermont, Montpelier, on the Yonion
Ri-i-ver,
Vermont, Montpelier, on the Yonion
River"
And so on, down to
"California, Sacramento, on the Sac
ramey-ento,
California, Sacramento, on the Sacra-
mento."
Were our schoolmates, we wonder,
the only ones to sing the one that be-
gan: "'Tis raining, 'tis raining; twill
wet the cuckool"? --
Hymn of Hate
A93sA SO NJ 1921 MAY rs Pm %
+ 74H
NETWORK TRIBUNE NETWORK NY
HATE This BIRD COMMA John QUINCY
HOWE COMMA SiRS SEMI COLON HE SPEAKS
OF KhlcksRS AS GOLF TROUSERS PERIOD
WHEN FORTH HE CaNTERS COMMA ptL TAKE
a chA~cs nc CALLS HIS sREECHEs RlDiNG
Higher English from the Ensemble
School of Music circular: "Also the
members name being placed on our
books as an eligible performer, if the
case may be, to be called on in regards
to playing engagements which we con-
tract from time to time"
Agnes is going TO sell Magma Gar
ters," writes NJ. C. "Woollcott & Co.,
Brokers, will make a speciality of pre-
ferred laughing stocks, while I'm un-
decided between the hardware business
Il can get the agency for Ultima Tools)
or buy the feed store Of the Scotswha
Hay Company. In the mean time ev-
erything's coming along nicely with my
biographical work, From Infinitive
Splitter to President"
"She may reck all the redes she
likes" H. w. M. writes, regarding C..
WIS ambitions, "but basic patent has
been issued to me to dree my. weird.
Also, | have large supply of material
Tor Paving the Road to He'll"
New Trade Slogans
Moi: "Sins Originated"
M. E.: "The Melodrama Amusement
Company--Ears of Groundlings Split
on Premises --
Well. Britons never will be run
0apa1H Sa y,
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27

prussian settlements. Any gener-
osity TO Poland here wouldn't really
make up for the wrong done her in
depriving her of Danzig, her nat
ural Baltic seaport. A definite set
tlement now on the lines proposed
unanimously in 1910 would be better
than any other kind of settlement.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
The Coming 7'otocr
THE FIGHT OF pASO DEF. MAE

Gusty aud raw was the morning,
fog hung over the seas,
And It's gray skirts, rolling inland.
We're torn by the mountain trees;
No sound was heard but the dashing
OF waves on the sandy bar,
When Pablo of San Diego
Rode down to the Paso del Mar.
The pescador, out in his shaIiop,
Gathering his harvest 80 wide,
Sees tho dim bulk Of the headland
Loom over the waste of the tide;
He secs, like n white thread, tho path
way
Wind round on the.torrible wall.
Whore the faint, moving speck Of the
rider
Seems lowering close TO It's falll
Stout Pablo Of San Diego
Rode down from the hills behind:
With the bells on his gray mula tim
king,
He sang through the fog and wind.
Under his thick, misted eyebrows
Twinkled his eye like star,
And flercer he sang as tho sea winds
Drove cold on the Paso del Mar.
Now Bernal, the herdsman Of Chino,
Had travelled the shore since dawn,
Leaving the ranches behind him
Good reason had he to be gone!
The blood was still red on his dagger,
The fury was hot In his brain,
And the chill, driving scud Of the
breakers
Beat thick on his forehead In vain.
With his poncho wrapped gloornily
round him,
He mounted the dizzying road,
And the chasms and sleeps Of tho head
land
Were slippery and wet as he trod,
Wild swept the wind Of the ocesn
Rolling the fog from afar,
When near him a mule bell came tin
king,
Midway on the Paso del Mar.
"Back!" shouted Bernal, full fiercely,
And "Back!" shouted Pablo, in wrath
AS his mule halted, startled and
shrinking,
On the perilous line Of the path.
The roar of devouring surges
Came up from ths breakers hoarss
war;
And Back, or you perishl" cried
Bernal;
81 turn not on Paso del Mari"
The gray mule stood firm as the head
land;
He clutched at the jingling rein,
When Pablo rose up in his saddle
And smote till he dropped it again.
4 wild oath Of passion swore Bsrnal,
And brandished his dagger, still red;
While fiercely stout Pablo leaned for
ward,
And fought Ger. his trusty mules
They fought till the black wall below
them
Shone red through The misty blast.
Stout Pablo then struck, leaning far
ther,
The broad breast of Bernal at last;
And, frenzied with pain, the swart
herdsman
Closed on him with terrible strength
And jerked him, despite of his strug-
giles,
Down from the saddle at length.
They grappled with desperate madness
On the slippery edge of the wall;
They swayed on the brink, and TO-
gether
Reeled out to the rush of the falll
A cry of the widest death anguish
Rang faint through the mist afar,
And the riderless mule went home
ward
From the fight of the Paso del Mart
Little did Bayard Taylor dream, sew
enty-three years ago, that he was writ
ing a great therapeutic poem. Re-
printing it allowed US to chuck our
Fevered Form upon a Bed of Pain.
And, though it may be swapping at
the Hand That Feeds Us, we must ex-
press our disappointment at the poem
Our recollection of it was that it was
great stuff; but now it seems to us like
thirdrate narrative hokum.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
Helping the Housing Problem
(Eron The Boston (zlnhel

(From The Boston Gtobe)
Now that the exchange value of 90
900 Russian Soviet rubles is one Amer
lean dollar and trade with Russia is not
forbidden by the State Department,
why not import enough Russian Soviet
rublos to make neat and original paper
fog . room1
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27

sihle to work together in the inter-
ests of, mankind. Founded OH self
interest and fortified by common
understanding born OF similar tradi~
tons and ideals, such an association
would do much to stabilize troubled
world
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
sUgsCRYPTION RATEs--By mali. lnniNdins
FeAtsre IN TT7N UNITED Staten
GUARANTY

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ths advertiser does rot
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27

to supply the towns with food placed
the Soviet government under the ne
cessity Of requisitioning agricultural
produce. This requisitioning in many
cases evoked peasant revolts, which the
Soviet government endeavored to sup
press by sending punitive expeditions
to queli them.
(8) Tho shortage of food In the towns
owing to the cessation OF exchange be-
tween town and country was further
accentuatsd by incoupetence and COR
ruption on the part Of the Soviet food
administration.
(9) Tho Industrial worker WAS paid
partly In paper money, which fell in
purchasing power with each succeeding
month, and partly I'm food ration,
upon which 1t was impossible to sup
port life, and partly in small and ir-
regular issues of other commodities.
Short Rations
(10) The worker was thus compelled
TO devote much of his working time
trying to supplement by Illegal pur-
chase che insufficient rations which
he and those dependent upon him re-
ceived and to which by law he was
limited. Government shops nominally
existed where the worker might make
supplementary purchases at moderate
prices; but little or nothing could be
purchased at these shops.
QD An organized system of specu-
lation, which the Bolshevist authorities
endeavored unsuccessfuily to suppress
and in which they ultimately came to
participate, grew up side by side with
the Soviet administration snd made II
possible for those who possessed the
means Of purchase and exchange to
keep body and soul together.
(12) Since the revolution of October,
1917, disease has been widespread, par
ticularly among the poorer classes,
owing to malnutrition and neglected
sanitation. The annual mortality Of
Russia is said to be per cent of the
population at the present time.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27

completely ths conditions Of wo,, -,
leisure, OF food and Drink, Of eAn..
ton and amusement. q travel. .ss
even Of the home life Of every ,rA
v'duai in nation whose pooui.,;..
even now exceeds 10000 900. Aceo.s
ing TO recent evidencs the tendencv -
ward state control is Increasing rssbo.
than diminishing, and this at tin.
when many Communists are Of opinion
that the withering away of the stats
accepted by all believers as the second
stage on the road to Communists.
Utopia--'has already been reached.
It Is our conviction that there ;s =.
possibility Of the economic regene,,.
tion OF Russia in the near future With. ;
out the assistance of capitalist conn
tries. Our conclusions with regard N
the rendering Of such assistance avn
guided by the following considerations.
% That the destruction Of capitalism
by violence, not only in Russia hgt IN
other countries, is the deliberate aim
and purpose of the Russian Conrnuni,e
party, which forms the government %
Soviet Russia at the present time.
~ That, to this end, the Third AZ
Communist international has been e,.
tablished at Moscow. and we believe
this has been done under the auspices
of the Soviet government, and with its
financial and material support.
Communism and Capitalism
(3) That the Russian Communiss
party and the Third international are
actively endeavoring to compass the
destruction by violence Of capitalism in
countries TO which the Soviet COVER.
ment has addressed overtures for trade.
(4) That the Soviet government in
destroying capitalism in Russia. has
assisted to bring about complets col.
lapse of industry in that country.
(5) That, in face OF this collapse, the
Soviet government invites capitalists
to help to restore Russian industry.
(6) That the Soviet government has
carried on, up to the present time, an
active and widespread international
propaganda, and that had that propa-
ganda achieved its object international
capital, to which the Soviet government
now turns for aid in restoring eco
nomic prosperity to Russia, would have
disappeared.
Cd That the credit and capltsl re.
quired for Russia's urgent needs are
large, that no government can give this
credit and capital on the sc$le required,
and that such aid can be furnished only
by individual capitalists or financial
groups who are willing 20 provide the
necessary supplies in money or goods
(6) That it is inconceivable that the
credit and capital required in Russia
should be provided by foreign capital
lists as long as the destruction Of capi-
talism and the violent overthrow Of SO.
called bourgeois governments remains
the main object of the Russian govern
ment or of the political forces BY
which it is controlled.
(9) That if the Soviet government.
renounce and abstain from propaganda
directed to the destruction of capital
ism and the established order in other
countries, it still remains to be seen
how far in the near future they will be
able to arrest the process Of economic
disintegration and to lay foundation
upon which it will be possible for Rus
sian industry and agriculture once
more to develon and expand.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27

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New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
Diary of a Reoolutior1
The Succcssoc Steps by Which Russia Has 4rDed Coans

their
md uouma
New-York tribune., 1921-05-27
FRIDAY, MAY 81. 1891

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