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New-York tribune., 1921-05-18

The London Times, coming to
the defense of Lloyd George, says
that his speech was not accurately
reported; that he did not suggest
that the Germans be invited into
Upper Siicsia-merely that ''if"
the Allies were unable to restore
order the Germans should not be
prevented from doing it.
AS skillful a dialectician as the
British Prime Minister is aware
that there are many cases wherein
to mention matter, even condi-
tionally, is to suggest it. It is con-
ceded he referred to the possibility
of using Germany as a mandatory
of the Versailles Treaty, and his
exact language is not Of much
consequence.
However, his disclaimer is of
some value. 1t opens the way for
discussion OF the steps to be taken
by the Supreme Council to decide
at once the fate of Upper Silesia
and to provide troops to enforce the
decision reached.
But it may be said that France
and Great Britain, which ordinarily
control the decisions of the Su-
prelne Council, have views so op-
posed that they cannot agree on a
finding. This may be. If it is,
then it is a most serious matter
and represents a great victory for
Germany. For two and one-half
years she has steadily labored to
separate Great Britain and France.
Germany's diplomacy is not re-
rnarkable for it's cunning, but it
sees how again she may resume the
policy abandoned on Armistice Day.
To both Great Britain and
France union is the main thing.
With hostile or Indifferent France,
Berlin will soon again challenge
London. With a hostile or indif-
ferent Great Britain, Upper Silesia
in Polish hands will not give Paris
peace and quiet.
Other considerations are impor-
tant, but the vital one is Allied
solidarity. All who talk hotly of
this policy or that have need to re-
member this. Union, somehow,
anyhow-this is the big thing, and
If the union is broken it is idle of
BRAND or Lloyd George to talk of
success.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Confiscatory Wage Standards

Mr.. Jewell, the president of the
railway employees department. of
the Federation of Labor, has SIM
pie and easy answer to the carriers
request for reduction in the wages
of unskilled labor. The railroads
say that they can't pay inflated war
wages If they are to make ends meet.
Mr.. Jewell answers that it would be
"a fundamental injustice" should the
Railroad Labor Board grant a re-
duction in rates of pay because Of
the present financial condition of the
railroads"
Whether the roads can afford to
pay or not is deliberately excluded
from Mr.. Jewell's calculations. With
him what he calls living standards
come first. If the railroads have inn
poverished themselves maintaining
these standards that is no concern of
his. Yet, when the roads go into
bankruptcy, where is the money to
maintain present wage standards to
come from? Mr.. Jewell is still living
in the illusions created by wartime
mismanagement of the carriers. Mr..
McAdoo and his successors had the
credit of the United States Treasury
behind them. They took no thought
of making ends meet. They be-
queathed Congress a deficit of ST.
200 1000 900, which will probably be
increased eventually to S1,S00,000,-
900.
Now the railroads have to pay
wages out of their own pockets.
Isn't it rather "a fundamental injus-
tice" for the Railroad Labor Board
to compel them to maintain wage
standards which the traffic isn't able
to bear? Mr.. Jewell's argument
should be addressed to Congress. He
should ask Congress to resume re-
sponsibility for the deficits created
by railroad labor demands. Then
both railroad ownership and railroad
labor would be on an equality.
But Congress is sick of the govern
ment operation experiment. 1t re-
suited in an increase in operating
expenses between 1916 and 1920 of
1864 per cent, with an increase in
revenue of only 516S per cent. If
railroad wages are not readjusted
and Congress refuses to aid the roads
in maintaining existing wage scales
government confiscation of railroad
| property must continue until the
transportation structure falls. But
what after that? Is the government,
having wrecked the roads, willing to
face the prospect Of new trial Of
Federal operation, under which a
deficit of probably $1,800,000 900 was
created in less than three years?
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18

erence to the United States, that a
whole nation ran to war, dragging
after 1t whole continent, just be-
cause Germany decided on unre-
stricted submarine warfare---espe-
cially SO when President Wilson
knew anyway that even without
this reason he would have gone into
the war!
The answer, according to the
German scribe, Is simple--Ger-
many was not "unschuldig," blame
less, but "mitschuldig," an access
sorry, accomplice or partner in the
crime.
This is a new development. At
least it does not make poor Ger
many the victim of wanton attack
by brutal Belgium.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Georges ct Jacques

Mr.. Georges Carpenter, cham
pion heavyweight Of France and
contender" for the heavyweight
championship Of the world, causes
the pugilistic authorities to gasp by
announcing that he will do his train
ing in private. In the mean time our
M. jacques Dempsey, the American
champion, is preparing to make
highly lucrative sideshow of his
training. Mr.. Carpenter announces
confidently that his mind is entirely
on the main event, and that he will
win it in few rounds.
This announcement by Mr.. Car
pentier has the look of psychologi-
cal left jab delivered at long range.
The experts tell us that when the
two meet in the ring at Jersey City
on July 2 Dempsey will outweigh
Carpenter by nearly twenty pounds;
that he will be more rugged and that
he will pack the harder punch. Car
pentier's only chance, then, will be to
outthink the heavyweight champion,
The human rapier is already fash
ing at long range. Carpenter knows
that Dempsey has planned to make
a series of preliminary shows out of
his training. For Carpenter to be
different will puzzle the slow think
ing Dempsey. The confident an
nouncement as to the outcome of the
main event also will battle the Amer
ican champion.
Before he battered down the
giant Jess Willard Dempsey was
quietly confident. He was not at all
appalled, by the bulk and the repute
Of the man from whom he won the
championship. But it is said that
the sullen and glowering American
champion is puzzled by the radiant
smile and the personality of the
French poilu boxer. He is wonder
ing in his dull way what is behind
that smile and the shrug of the
shoulders with which Carpenter
dismisses the chances of collecting
$4,000 for making public exhibit
ton Of his training.
When he faces Carpenter in the
ring Dempsey will not see before him
a frazier antagonist with a not par
tlcularly impressive ring record, but
an enigma that will worry him more
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Ratification Time Limits

When Congress submitted the
Eighteenth Amendment time limit
was set on ratification. This was an
innovation, and on this departure
from precedent an ingenious citizen
Of California based a claim, which he
carried to the Supreme Court, that
the amendment was invalid.
The plaintiff held that the amend
ment was not effective on January
IL. 1920, when ne was arrested for
transporting casS Of liquor. But
the case was broadened so as to at
tack the whole of Section 8, govern
ing the method of ratification. The
court ruled unanimously that Con-
gress had the power to provide that
an amendment must be ratified
within definite period-seven years
in the case of the Eighteenth
Amendment. 1t also expressed the
opinion that since Qualification is but
the expression of the appreciation of
the people and is to be effective when
had in three-fourths Of the states,
there is a fair implication that it
must be sufficiently contemporaneou
in that number of states to reflect
the will of the people in all sections
at relatively the same period"
Twenty-Five constitutional amend
ments have been submitted by Con-
gress and eighteen have been adopt
ed. The others were left hang
ing in the air. The language used
by the court sanctions the inference
that they are dead, though hitherto
they have seemed to be, in the legal
sense, merely in state of long sus-
pended animation. The First Con-
gress submitted in 1889 twelve
amendments, constituting a "Bill of
Rights" which a number of states
had asked to have attached to the
Constitution. The first two were not
ratified. One of them regulated the
apportionnlent Of Representatives,
the other provided that changes in
the salaries of Senators and Repre-
sentatives should not take effect
until an election of Representative
had interviewed.
In 1910 Congress submitted an
amendment prohibiting states from
granting titles of nobility. It was
approved by twelve legislatures
one less than the required three
fourths. In 1861 the so-called Cor
win amendment, intended to fore
Stall secession, was passed by both
houses. 1t was approved by three
states before the Civil War broke.
These four amendments are obsolete
and forgotten. Yet renewal of the
effort to ratify them has been blocked
by no obstacle in the way af judi
cial determination. The Supreme
Courts opinion apparently squeezes
the last breath of life out of them.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Sim Esin Terror

American friends of Ireland read
with pain more than surprise the
stories of Sim Fsin activities in
England and of another sinister
fare-up in Ireland. This news Is
evidence that insane fury persists,
and insane fury never won a patriot
desirable results.
Great Britain has the power, of
course, to stamp out all the insurrec-
tion in Ireland. The active rebels in
Ireland are small body. They can
never hope to accomplish more than
sporadic acts of violence that no ma
ton, no international tribunal, can
interpret as acts of war. And the
conduct Of the British forces has not
been the conduct of an army con-
ducting regular military operations;
it has been police work, under mar
tial law, to restore order, and it can
function only upon the appearance
VA 0lhGtoS QlSCu ulSOTuGT.
If the guerrilla bands we read
about are "out Of hand"- "-~-that is,
under no control-then civilization
must protect itself. On the other
hand, if the firing of dwelling houses
in England, vengeance upon distant
wives and children of constables or
soldiers, the Staying of solitary men
on lonely roads or in unguarded
houses or in street crowds-if these
acts have been deliberately ordered
by Sim Fein headquarters, then
Sim Fem advertises to the world its
feeble state.
There is moral difference be-
tween Sinn Fein outrages and Brit
isn reprisals. The British punitive
demonstration says: "Quit murder
.ilg eur men or we will burn down
more OF your houses" The Sim
Fein counter reprisal says: "ouit
trying to suppress cur campaign of
assassination or we will murder
more frequently and burn your
houses in England" The continu-
s,nce Of "invisible insurrection" in
Ireland will probably lead to concen-
tration camps, with their terrible
scenes, and a great loss to business
in agricultural districts until recent
~ at least prosperous.
It cannot be long before the real
people of Ireland will assert them
selves. At present the fear of a
secret society which kills Irishmen
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Elusive Lloyd George
Hard to Discover His Real Convic-
tions on Anv Question

tons on Any Question
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The first two editorials in to-
days issue, "Lloyd George and Poland
and Germany an Outsider" are notice
ably fine. They are in line with your
usual sound views, which are a great
assistance to the rank and file Of your
readers.
Somewhere I read the criticism of
some English writer that Lloyd George
Is political eel. fancy he can keep
any one guessing. However, the French
are SO direct, run so true to form, that
hope they will not allow themselves
to become fuddled with his sinuosities
and squirming.
Germany will pay if throttled and
hobbled. AS you we'll expressed IL in
a recent EDITORIAL "With her colossal
impudence, as we'll as being confessed
debtor, she wants to be comptroller
auditor and paymaster She wants to
be freed from all restraint, which in
cludes the freedom to foment distrust
and differences among the Allies"
In 1914 Germany clearly threatened
to manhandle France so that never
again would she be a menace to Ger
many. That threat still stands. It has
never been recalled. In fact, again and
again we have heard ominous sounds
seen threatening gestures-evidence
that the old grudge is still there, but
now intensified. At her best Germany
was dangerous. What will she be at
her worst? The next war will be one
of determination, unquestionably.
| doubt very much Lloyd Georges
having any deep convictions. No one
can get where he is really at on any
public question. No question is ever
entirely settled-threshed out as il
ought to be.
have heard it stated that he is in
sympathy with all revolutionary move.
ments. If so, he not only is a danger.
GUS quantity to his own country, but
also to this. There are new forces
working here which draw their inspira.
ton wholly from across the water and
are consequently moved by every erup-
tion in the Old World.
WILLIAM BEATTIE.
Brooklyn, May Is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
''Alcohors Last Stronghold"
Brooklyn, May Is, 1921.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Apropos of what Fl. A. w. says
in Fridays Tribune about Something
Wrong" I'd like to pass on some
phrases which stuck in my mind from
lecture some years ago which Profes-
sor Masaryk, now president of Czechc-
Slovakia, gave in this country
He told of the "alcohol drenched
valleys" of Moldavia, where he had
been reared, and then of how com
pletely alcohol had discredited itself
in the fields of science and industry.
Alcohol's last stronghold, he said, was
the cultured classes" and he called
upon the cultured classes Of Europe
and America to explode the "alcohol
superstition"
His words have come to me hun
dred times since the ban was put on
alcohol, as we have watched the re-
bellion of "cultured classes" in this
country. But hard "Gradgrirdian"
facts will capture them eventually, as
they have captured other groups.
F. G. MERSON.
Kcuka Park, N. Y, May 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Congress in the Dark

The naval committees of Congress
have not been fully informed as to
conditions that now exist and they
have not been impressed with the alb
solute necessity OF providing three
new types of submarines without which
the United States feet cannot carry
war overseas-feet submarines, cruiser
submarines and mine-laying subma-
rines. Congress does not know that all
the submarines built or building in this
country with the exception Of three
boats that will not be completed for
thirty months are limited to coast de-
fense or to short cruises at sea! To
be sure, the navy list gives total of
twelve feet submarines under con-
struction! But an analysis shows that
this list is completely misleading.
Three of the number-the Tboats-
are too small, their reliability is seri-
ously questioned and they are armed
with small (1S-inch torpedoes). 1t is
quite as absurd to call them "Aect
submarines" as it would be to desig-
nate a 1912 battleship. armed with 12-
inch guns, as a super dreadnought!
The three V-boats on this list, now
building at Portsmouth, belong prop
erly to the feet type. They may be
ready in 1924. The remaining six v
boats named in this list were author
lied by Congress, put they have been
stricken from the present appropria-
ton bill. Thus the twelve fleet sub
marines are reduced to three, and these
three will not join the fleet for three
years! Is it not wrong that Congress
should be left SO completely in the
dark?
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18

who oppose it's will as readily as it
does members of the British garri-
son is effective. And many are, of
course, affected by appeals to patri-
otic feeling and by press campaign
which talks of reprisals rather than
of the outrages which bring repris-
ais. But the truth will sooner or.
later make its way. The Sim Fein
organization will be seen FOR what it
is. Murder is still murder, as the
chief dignitaries Of the Catholic
Church in Ireland have pointed out.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18

Speaking of "The Tanning Of the
Shrew," F. S. J. writes:
"Of course, Shakespeare meant the
play to be taken or its face value
He never heard of feminism and, IS an
observer Of social progress, saw no
farther than his own century. But 1t
is good to see the old Bard kidded
"And, speaking of social progress as
it is reflected on the stage and IN
novels, why do writer's insist on crying
over broken barriers? For instance
one novel is advertised as the story Of
"a woman who defes convention snd
still finds life beautiful The woman
who defies social conventions ususLy
finds life just as it existed before
unless, of course, she is promiaeh'
enough to get her name in the heao'
lines of the newspapers.
Most novelists and playwrights a''
divided into two classes. One side j
trying to prove that the woman wa0
defies convention suffers, pays and I''
pents. The other side is trying 10
prove that the world owes living y
the woman who refuses TO be either
spinster or a respectable wife. AS :
matter of fact, any honest writer knows
that these social conventions are saS'
tered every day and that no one pay
much attention to them. The moaei@
woman has achieved the right to SOV'
to earn her own living and to live ne,
own life. Society merely demands tns'
she does not disturb the peace. Aoge''
lists and playwrighss are worrying Oss,
problem that already has been so'feS
by the women who have reachea -
status of human beings.
"The social problems that the me-
writer's are making the most fuss O'''
are those which were created WITHIN Y.
last century. At present they are oyi's
out so fast that the dead past IS ns'
ing terrible time burying It's assr
Most modern novels are terrihc ~.
because they are written by men
are handicapped either by an sO'''.
cent or a Victorian mind. The Aias
lean novelist in particular seems % !.
fuse to face the feet that indiv'01,
and economic freedom is open 20 -
mcn or woman who has nerve eDose
to fight for it. And *hose whe ns''s
nerve enough to fight for it area z
teresting enough to read about
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Submarine Officers Ignored

In the hearings before the naval
committees of the House and Senate
during the consideration of the cur
rent appropriation bill by Congress,
previous to March 4, it is astonishing
to note that not single naval officer
who had had actual experience in sub
marine warfare was called to testify!
The so-called "director" Of sub
marines, who is thoroughly in
formed on the subject, though he has
no real authority to direct suo-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Broad Mindedness Required

There are officers of ability in all
navies who confirm the opinion Of Al
miral von Scheer as to the value ard
the role of the submarine. And now
we find air forces coming to the front.
We need not and should not be STAN
peded by these new weapons; but we
must intelligently recognize their in
portance. Broad-mindednes SHOULD
rule in naval policy. Narrow-mindsd
ness is now in the ascendancy in the
United States Navy.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18

ship alone is not all-suficiens. II.
submarine alone is not sll-sbfE.;.r.
Air forces alone are not all-sufsc,on,
They are interdependent. All tkr..
are necessary 20 modern navy NJ.
withstanding this self-eYident fact 49,.
House Naval Committee framed IN,
with no provision for submarine, ga
with a pittance for air forest ~
Senate Naval Committee has m.a.
provision for small air force bu. q
has confirmed the action of the uor.'
in striking out six subnarins,-..,.
one item OF most importance n -.
navy at this time. We are confrontsg
therefore, with the legitimate s.,,.
Of naval narrow w-mindednesx-.
face feet with submarine and -.
forces so totally inadequate that on,
navy appears to be hopelesslv g.,
fenced to the defensive in war. II !,
condition at once alarming and j.,
excusable.
Testimony From World Var
1t is interesting to note the ye,.,.
opinions of Admiral Won Scheer: @w.
came out again on August 10 fsfs,
the Battle of Jutland) for the pnrno..
of attacking Sunderland in the hon. :,
infuriating Great Britain and forcinr
new battle. I steamed into the Nora
Sea. For what happened let me ouot.
from The London Times:
again, on August 10, the eon.
mander of the Grand Fleet, with ,g-
perior force, for second time cam,
in contact with the enemy and
sent the following signal: 81 exnset
to be in action in a few minutes srs
havs every confidence in the result
Immediately afterward ne was ATTACKED
with torpedoes. Two cruisers were sunk
no battleships came into action, and
in half an hour the battle feet was
steering for its base"
Won Scheer continues: "our feet r..
mained in possession of ths North Sea
that day, and our submarines tsugb.
the world lesson that will not be for
gotten-that few submarines could
make England uncertain regarding the
value of her Grand Fleet. Thus the
August battle showed that Great Brit.
aims fear of loss through our Sub.
marines kept her from engaging in
battle.
"The Battle Of Jutland and the Au-
gust affair changed the whole course Of
the naval campaign. Great Britain
blockaded Germany. Germany sub
marined British commerce, willis the
fleets remained in their harbors."
Later on Admiral Won Scheer nay.
: further tribute to the power of the
submarine in war: "The strongest feet
has no opportunity for victory if It is
forced by its adversary TO stay in port
through fear of submarines.
Nowadays the greatest naval feet
cannot guarantee the safety of its msr-
chant feet unless the enemy's subms-
rine bases are destroyed"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Wasted Medicine

fFrom The CtevclGnd Plain Dealery
France exported 285,000 bottles of
champagne to the United States last
year for medicinal purposes. And we
are little, il any better.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18

than the giant Willard, who once
killed a man with glancing blow
of a gloved fist. The bout is op
already.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
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shs ase for republication OF all dispatches
rgedited 10 1t or NOT oshefwse credited in this
rsprf, snd also kse local news OF spontaneous
origin published hsSeis.
Al rights of republication OF ali sshsr matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
The Coming ouer
THE INDIFFERENT READER

THE INDIFFERENT READER
Thtnh 10, 0 fluent wyiters,
Filling ten cola. day
With tales Of the hardy fighters,
Dempaey and Carpenter,
Think 10 I care how many
Pounds are in D6mpsev's pu,tohs
Or ,ohether The Frog cots any
Prunes for his "Wednesday lunch?
Tales Of tho heroes fstio--
Think vs thot they get bys
That Pu read cutogistio
STUFF until neat Jutu?
Colamna Of sad and tight stuff,
Pondoroas, dull, absurd---
Think yoa I'll read that fight STUFF?
Kid, PH read every pordi
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpYs

May 14-With my wife to Man
hasset, to R. Pulitzer's for luncheon,
and pretty lady come there named
Mrs. Tweed, and she and played some
lawn tennis, with fair success, against
Mistress Frederica and R. So home to
dinner, and to j. Toohey's to play
at cards, but could do nought against
the silly luck of H. Broun.
15-To Englewood for a game of cro-
quet, and SO home, and with my wife
to Mistress Leola Lconard's for dinner,
and met Mr.. Wherry there that was a
great tennis player twenty years ago in
Ann Arbor, but he said could beat him
now, which L doubt greatly.
16-Early up, and to the Office, where
all day, and so to see Mistress Zona
Gale and her mother, and Zona telling
me she will be here again in July, and
/ said, Well, shall devote the month
to you, and so, if she will let me. will
l. Home and found that my nephew
Allan had taken my great shears and
cut off our cats whiskers, which dis
tressed Mr.. sorely, but the lad was
contrite, or appeared so, my knowledge
of children being not deep enough to tell
the genuine from the spurious. To bed,
and read Eunice Tietjens's Jake, a good
book.
17-In low spirits this day, foras-
much as my windpipe irketh me still,
and the coughing maketh me weak and
weary, two things l do loathe to be
above all others. Did my stint and so
home and to bed.
Nine. Curie says-or the papers say
she says-she wants to see Southern
California. Our notion of superfuous
advice is Southern California Papers
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