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New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
A Pathetic OVERSIGHT

In two recent articles dealing with
the so-called "secret treaties" which
figured disturbingly in the Paris
peace conference MIR. Ray Stannard
Baker maintains that President Will
son never knew about the existence
Of these treaties until after he
reached Paris. This is substantially
what the President told Senator
Borah at the conference with the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
on August 10, 1919. 1t was gen
orally assumed at that time that
Mr.. Wilson spoke with a reserva-
ton, meaning merely that he had
not been officially informed about
the agreements by the Entente gov
ernments.
Mr.. Baker, however, holds that
the President was also unofficially
ignorant of them. In order to make
cut this case some astonishing ad-
missions are necessary. The Treaty
of London, by virtue Of which Italy
entered the war on the Entente
side; and the agreement disposing
of Shantung and the German islands
in the Pacific, were the two princi-
pal rocks, Mr.. Baker thinks, on
which Mr.. Wilson's Fourteen Points
program at Paris was shattered.
They were sunken rocks; Mr.. Wilson
had not been warned of them.
Yet the provisions of the Treaty
of London were made public by the
Bolshevist government in Russia long
before the war ended. So were the
terms of the Shantung-P Pacific
islands understanding. These COM
pacts were accessible to any one who
cared to read them. They were pub
lished in the newspapers of Europe
and America, and even those of
China. They were freely discussed.
Moreover, Mr.. Balfour explicitly
stated on March 4, 1918, in the
House of Commons, that the Allied
secret agreement" had been com
munlcated to the United States.
Colonel House had already organized
his monumental Inquiry.
Every one of the scores Of experts
who were drawing up new maps of
the world for use at the peace con-
ference must have known what
territorial changes were contem-
plated in these "secret" documents.
Why didn't President Wilson
know? Mr.. Baker blames Colonel
House and Mr.. Lansing. He says
that Mr.. Balfour did speak to Colonel
House about the treaty commit
ments, but that the Colonel dis
played no interest. He charges Mr..
Lansing with knowing, or seeming to
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Naual Chaos in CONGRESS.
Treaty Wreckcrs The Senate lpe Wa-Thc House Neglec
the Navy and Obshuct Preparedness
By Quarterback

Naval chaos reigns in Congress. The
irreconcilables in the Senate invite war
in an attempt to defeat the treaties,
while the House of Representatives
threatens to wreck the navy and leave
the country completely unprepared for
war. The two branches of the ma
tional Legislature are sailing on op-
posite tacks. Neither will pay the
slightest attention to the danger sig
nails hosted by the President.
Let us analyze the amazing situation
at the Capitol:
The Senate
Read the debate on the treaties in
the Senate. Republican and Demo
cratic irreconcilables, League of Ma
tion advocates, League of Nation op-
ponents, defeated Presidential cand-
date and, as reported, an eX-President
are all allied in a determined attack on
the treaties framed by the Washington
conference. They would deliberately
smash the four power pact and with it
all the other treaties that serve to
minimize the chances of war in the Pa
cific for years to come. They would
by so doing, revitalize the Anglo o-Jap-
anese alliance, kill the provision for
limitation of naval armament and
bring back condition of maximum
turmoil and danger in the East.
Senators rise and shout that we
should not have given up the project
of fortifying the Philippines and Guam,
though they have repeatedly declined
in recent years to appropriate money
for fortifications and submarine de-
fences. They declare that Japan
threatens our possessions in the East
They assert that we have scrapped our
navy and placed ourselves at the mercy
Of England and Japan. They complain
that the conference did not drive the
Japanese out of Saghalien, Siberia,
Manchuria and Corca. They condemn
the treaty because it leaves Japan in
possession of the Pacific Islands given
to it by the Treaty of Versailles-a
treaty which some Senators supported
by their votes two years ago. In short,
these Senators are virtually advocat-
ing a policy that leads straight to
war; they demand fortihcations; they
demand an enormous feet that can
cross the Pacific and force our policies
upon the world. They demand these
things or their words mean-nothing.
policy in the House
In the mean time, while the Senate
| irreconcilables are condemning treaties
of peace, trying to kill limitation of
armament and advocating nebulous
schemes that tend to provoke war on
the sea, what is the House of Repre-
sentatives doing? Is it informed of
what the Senate is doing? Is it CO.
ordinating in the latter's national
policy? Quite the contrary While the
treaty wreckers in the Senate are pro-
noting war the House proposes to cut
the navy personnel to $4,000 men and
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Cherish My Love
Prom 7,he rdbe~o,or,

From The laboratory
EHERISH my love before it dies at
~ last
A day or SO, month, a feeting year,
Cherish my body's whiteness and each
tear
That falls because all love is overcast.
We talk of this and that, beloved friend,
While shuddering gloom falls lightly on
our house
Nor mark the snowdrift on the impa-
tient boughs
Hardly aware that spring and summer
end
Cherish my love for soon these eager
hands
Will cease to hold you warmly to my
heart
And we will learn how quickly flow the
sands
And how the hours tear US both apart.
Some chill and quiet morning we will
wake
And weep our hearts out for each other s
sake.
HAROLD VINAL.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
The Passing Of th~ Dolphin

The governments sale of the dis
patch boat Dolphin to private cor
poration forms the epilogue to an
interesting chapter of naval history.
The Dolphin, bearing the name of
the caravel with which Verazzano
visited New York Bay in 1924, was
the first vessel of the new navy
which the United States began to
build after the fleets Of the Civil
War had fallen into decay. The
Chicago, Boston and Atlanta, cruls-
ers. were authorized few months
earlier, but the Dolphin was COM
pleted first, being launched in April,
1884. less than year after the pas
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
The Occupation Bill

Repayment by Germany of the
costs of the Allied occupation was
provided for both in the armisticc
and IN the Versailles Treaty. Such
repayment naturally is first charge
on loser in war whose territory is
occupied by the victors. The treaty
fully recognized this fact. 1t pro-
Vlded that the cost of OCCUPATION
should be betrayed out of the orig
lnal 2o,O0o,o 100000 gold marks due
from Germany not later than Nav |
l92l. 1t also established a priority
schedule by which payment of the
cost OF the armies under Article 249
OF the armistice and under Article
249 Of the treaty should take prece-
dence over any reparation payment.
The United States has spent S241.-
100000 maintaining troops on the
kline. 1t was urged by the other
Allies to keep them there. 1t is en-
titled to reimbursement just the
same as France, Great Britain, Bel
gium and Italy are entitled to it.
The State Department presented the
claim at last Fridays meeting of the
Allied finance ministers in Paris. in
fiuenced to do so by the fact that in
allotlng amounts due for occupation
costs no arrangement has been made
so far by the Reparation Commits
sion to liquidate the American share
of this first call on German war pay-
ments.
The United States is not an anx-
lous or importunate creditor, but
the other powers with garrisons in
Germany have been too much dis
posed to overlook the fact that Ger
many owes US something out of the
occupation fund. Under the sep
arate peace treaty Of Berlin Ger
many acknowledged this debt to US
The other occupationary powers are
In no position to refuse similar rec
ognition.
We would not wish to crowd other
friendly creditors whose necessities
may be greater than ours. We can
wait reasonable time to have our
account settled. But the American
claim is just and valid, and the other
creditors should not be permitted to
ignore it's existence.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Peevish Nihilists

The pettiness of the attacks made
on the four-power Pacific treaty be-
cause of it's surmised non-American
authorship and its non-press-agented
negotiation has been completely ex-
posed by Secretary Hughes. The
Termination of the Anglo-J apanese
alliance, he says, was the main OBJ
iective Of the Washington confer
ence. That alliance was the super
/ obstacle to broad understanding in
] the Far East and to a cessation of
Arivalry in capital ship construction.
The United States has sought to end
IL and in advance of the conference
| had indicated to Great Britain and
Japan the terms on which it could
be replaced by a Pacific concert.
At this country's suggestion
France was brought into the group
Of major Pacific powers. After that
it was only a question of defining
the scope of the regional associa-
ton for the promotion of non-ag-
gression in the Pacific. Mr.. Hughes
says that he wrote the first treaty
draft himself. 1t makes little diff
ference who wrote it, for all the sig
natories were satisfied with it. 1t
Is the treaty of no individual and
|no group.
The four power compact was the
foundation on which the work of the
conference rested. Without it there
could have been no capital ship linn
itation, no amelioration of China's
situation. Those who are seeking to
defeat the four-power treaty know
this perfectly. They want to nullify
what the conference did by pulling
cut the cornerstone of the whole
treaty structure. They would put
us back where we were before the
conference started. This is sort
Of nihilism. Some of the wouldbe
treaty wreckers call it super-Ameri-
canism. Others imagine that it is
loyalty to the principles of the
League of Nations covenant. Be-
tween them they are trying to engi-
neer rejection which Mr.. Hughes
rightly says would be nothing short
of national calamity"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

for life. Or, even verse, they might
cake the matter up direct with Local
ool7 of the Amalgamated Order Of
thugs and Stick-Up Men.
But even at that their protests
probably could be overcome if they
received reasonable assurance that
everything would be nice in their
new surroundings and that the
Police Commissioner. after the fash.
ION of police commissioners, would
DC content to shut his eyes to the 60
lngs-on about him and say at every
banquet he attended that that crime
wave he'd heard tell about wasn't y
crime wave but myth.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
People Onn the Nary

Rear Admiral Goodrich has declared: {:
"The United States navy, as its name
implies, belongs to the people of the
United States, and to no one else. 1t
is not royal navy like those of Great
Britain and Italy, nor an imperial
navy such as Japan's, and as Ger
many's used to be. 1t does not belong
to any person, party or administra-
ton," etc.
Is not the admiral perfectly right?
DO not the people of this country agree
with him? If so, what do they propose
shall be done with their property2 D9
they take any interest in it? 1t has
been commonly reported in the past
that the people believed in the navy
: and were interested in its welfare and
efficiency as the first line of national
defense. Is this true or not to-day?
There has never been a time in the
history of this country when it was so
important for the people to take an in
terest in our foreign policies and in
the efficiency of the navy-their prop
| erty. The two are dependent, each
upon the other
One of the treaty in the
Senate has loudly declared that "this
is government Of the people" True.
Then let the people, not the Senator,
decide the following questions:
I. Shall the treaties be wrecked,
with the result of returning to a
condition of international anarchy
in the Pacific?
2. Whether the treaties arc
wrecked or not, shall the navy be
wrecked? Is there not reason for
its existence in either case?
3. If the Senate acts to promote
war, shall the House act to prevent
preparedness?
4. Shall limitation of armament
be condemned, and new race be-
gin in building battleships?
If the treatywrecking Senator is
right IN saying that this is govern
ment of the people" it is high time
that the people began to govern. They
should make their will known without
delay. They should umpire the fight
between the naval policies of the
House and the Senate. 1t is believed
that they will decided that both arc
wrong. 1t is believed that they will
decide that the President is right
that the treaties shall be ratified; that
peace, not war, shall be promoted
that there shall be limitation of naval
armament, and that the navy shall not
be wrecked.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

sage of the act providing for her
construction.
Those four vessels were built under
contract by John Roach at Chester,
Pennsylvania, and were authorized
and begun during the Administra-
ton Of President Arthur. When in
the spring of 1885 a Democratic Ad-
ministration succeeded, an unworthy
attempt was made to discredit what
had been done by it's Republican pre-
decessor for the building of u new
navy, and particularly to discredit
and drive out of business Mr.. Roach,
who, as the foremost advocate of the
protective policy for American ship
building, was most obnoxious to
Democratic politicians of the free
trade school. Accordingly, when the
Dolphin was finished and offered by
her builder for trial, the pretense
was made that she showed "struc-
tural weakness" and there was
much delay before the government
would accept her. 1t was generally
believed by his friends that Mr..
Roach's death, which occurred in
1887, was hastened by the losses and
humiliation which were thus in
f1icted upon him for partisan pur-
poses.
The fact is that the Dolphin, in
stead of being "structurally weak" "
was an exceptionally stanch and
seaworthy vessel. She was used for
many years as dispatch boat and as
the official yacht of the Secretary of
the Navy. 1t was from her deck that
President Cleveland reviewed the
representative Of the worlds navies
in New York Harbor in April, 1888
| There is scarcely port in the world
that she did not at some time visit
there were few perils and vicissi-
tudes of weather that she did not
encounter, and never once did she
fail to hold her course or suffer ma
terial mishap.
She was the first Of the famous
"White Squadron" which was the
nucleus of the navy which served us
at Manila and Santiago, and she
outlasted most of the others. OF
the first four, only the Chicago en-
dured to the present time, while va
rious others, of much later date
were long ago stricken from "The
Navy Register" The little Dolphin,
with unblemished record, spannec
the whole history Of our modern
navy, down to the epochal reduction
and limitation of naval armaments
to which the United States has lee
the great powers of the world.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Safety First

disappointment awaits the people
who fancy that the passage by the
Legislature of the Lockwood bills is
going to end the building shortage
Building may be temporarily accels
Grated by the granting to life insur-
ance companies of permission to in
vest a larger percentage of their
funds in the erection of houses.
But there can be no permanent cure
for the present situation until eco
nomic laws are left unhampered by
state legislatures.
The building situation is analo-
gous to the railroad situation in that
capital is withheld from it because
Of constant uncertainty as to what
the lawmaking bodies are going tc
do next.
A railroad which can fix neither
its own rates nor the wages of its
employees naturally has difficulty in
persuading investors that it's secur-
ties are as good as government
bonds. A real estate owner who is
continually fearful of legislative re-
strictions on the conduct and rev.
enues of apartment houses and tena.
ments loses interest in plans to put
up houses on his property.
The Legislature has probably
done all that lay within its power to
help the building situation-which
is not very much. 1t would have
done far more if it had been able to
bind it's members and their sue
cessors for ten years to let the
building situation alone, save for
providing for building soundly and
safely.
Spectators will always be found
who will take chance and put up
buildings whenever rents are high.
But conservative investors, or insti.
tutions responsible for other people
money, are not going to gamble on
uncertainties, whether or not the
law gives them permission to do so
Of more Importance to the future
of building in New York City than
the passage Of the Lockwood bills is
the conference between the Build
ing Trades Council and the Build
ing Trades Employers Association
to be held Monday.
If the wage Of 81 for unskillec
labor is insisted upon strike OF
lockout will result which will undo
all the Lockwood committee did ir
it's really valuable work Of concilia
ton. With skilled carpenters re-
ceiving SO day it will be
seen that building has not as yet be
come cheap. Some sort of reason.
able wage for unskilled labor must
be agreed upon before the most
reckless investor will begin house
construction on big scale.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
The League of Bandits

New York City, it seems, has
handsomely oversubscribed its quota
IN bandits and really ought to do
something to help less fortunate
municipalities that are tagging in
this regard. The presence Of crimi
nal folk certainly gives zest to the
hfe OF any community, and there's
no reason why Mr.. Hylan's kingdom
should gorge itself at the expense Of
the hinterland.
There are said to be some COM
munltles wherein that amiablc fell
low the hold-up man is actually an
unknown quantity and there is never
50 much as pay roll hold-up
70 break the dull routine 1t seems,
therefore, that there could be per-
lected an arrangement whereby
Sssious cities could make trades
VIII, one another, after the fashion
OF baseball clubs. Some excellent
swaps could be made.
( New York, for instance, plenti-
fully supplied with gunner and
iootpads, could certainly trade a
Dozen bandits in good condition for
some shade trees or husky snow
shovelers or apartment houses. In
event that some lesser municipality
IN striking up trade with this city,
complained that it was getting a
little the worst of it, New York could
aaord to be fair-nfnded enough to
throw in commissioner Of accounts
0f an old postofsice building for good
measure. Anything to avoid hard
feelings.
There might be some protest from
sae crooks themselves, however, if
we tried to trade them off. AS they
"sVe evlnced a liking for the ways
VI New Workers. and have become
.sa"y Impressed with the possibili-
-. That permanent residence here
~ bring, the bandits might, after
~ fashion of ball players, get rash
ous 1t and retire from crookdom
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
More Folklore
Ballad of the Young Mower and the
''Pizen Sarpint''

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In a recent issue Elias Vosseller
made inquiry regarding the identity of
song of which he quotes four lines.
My father, who was Bowdoin College
man of the class of '61 or so, used to
sing me number of songs that have
never encountered in any college song
book. l recall one among others the
lyric of which ran:
ION Springfield Mountain there did
dwell
nice young man. l knew him
we-l-l-l-l-l-l."
Chorus
Ri fal-di-rsl -di raj -di-ray
Ri-fal di-ral di-ral di-ray yyy-y-y.'
(The well" and ray" being pro-
longcd indefinitely at will, on the notes
F sharp and G, assuming that the song
is sung in the key of g.
The second and third verses ran:
'One day this young man. he did go.
Down in the meadow for to
moww-w WV
Chorus:
He scarse had moved half round the
For q pesky sarpnt bit his
heel-l-l-l-I."
Adding Mr. VosselIcr's four lines:
ooh mother. mother make my bed.
For now ] think I'll soon be dead
AS 7 was moving I did feel
A pizen sarpint bite my heel"
we have a fairly comprehensive
story of the young man on Springfield
Mountain. There may be other verses,
however. Can some Eastern Yankee
supply them?
If this masterpiece of folklore music
is of any historical value, I can send Mr..
Vosseller the tune, set down in manu-
script.
After writing the foregoing | have
set the tune down on paper and find
to my astonishment that it has seven
beats in the first, second, fourth and
fifth measures and only three in the
third and sixth bars.
V. E. B. FULLER.
New York, March 6, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
A Week of Verse

~I<A@A ASoF
(Frovs Poctry)
TNDER Monadnock,
Fold on fold.
The worlds fat kingdoms
Lie unrollcd-
Far in the blue south
City-smoke, swirled,
Marks the dwellings
Of the kings Of the v,rld.
Old kings and broken,
Soon to die,
Once you had little.
AS little as |.
Smoke of the city,
Blow in my eyes
Blind me a little.
Make me wise.
Dust Of the city,
Blow and gust
Make me, like all men,
Color of dust.
stand on 5iouadnock,
And seem to see
Brown and purple kingdoms
offered to me.
MORRIS BISHOP.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

the present time-that chaos in Con-
gress will give way TO an intelligent
recognition of the Presidents ideas and
to the plans of the Secretary of the
Navy, which have been framed in hsr-
mony with the Presidents views.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
HAROLD vINAI
Sleepless Night
(Frens The Ce,.tury)

(Fron1 The Century,
THEY love me, and I have not made
them happy
(Rush of the wind, and river whistles
moaning);
They love me, and cannot give them
peace
(The city shifts in sleep with a low
groaning). -
They love me, and watch their faces
aging
And growing pinched as the slow win
ter dawn;
give them nothing but few sad
poems,
And life Is short, and we shall soou
be gone.
SARA TEASDALE.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Short Division

(Fron, The ST. Louis Post DtspdtchD
immigration authorities, though ad-
mitting a mother from Europe, ruled
to exclude her three-months old baby
because the quota had been exceeded
The new law has done nearly every
thing now but divide a person into
fractions to satisfy the quota.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
a Litany of Birds Asleep


fFroDl The Hew R'ltress)
NOW are all birds asleep
And all their songs
Are bundled up in sheavcs
Amid the barns OF heaven:
Dews weep
And unseen leaves
Fall driven
Back to the mothers breast to whom all
life belongs.
Save that the watchful owl
Enwrapped in his cowl
Cries ftfully
This itany:
"Oh loving mother, oh dear earth.
For all our sins,
Our feathered deeds, our woes.
And throbbing fears,
For dearth
OF ftful mirth,
And for whate'er bestows
The drip of tears,
Upon the children of men. our Ijtanv
"First that the jenny wren,
By foolish fear of men
Has wronged thy loving breast.
Next that the gaudy dressed
Jay bird has robbed the trees
Of plums and muIberries;
Next that the sparrow crew
| Twittering the long eve through
Chased from the baby's eyes
Sleep; and the ever wise
Jackdaw has ceased to bring
OF sudden death warning.
"Oh earth, mother of birds and men,
Hear and forgive the wren,
Jay, sparrow, and black jackdaw,
And birds a hundred more"
Chanting his itany,
"ailing exceedingly,
Tawny owl called to me
Lying so sleepessly
JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
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Girl Climbing a Ladder

(Ater Design by Ha,unobu)
fFrons VGnity Fdfvb
TITO SEIZE the flower she thinks Il
fair
She dances up the leading stair
AS though on steps Of golden air.
And if she pass the flower by
And chase instead butterfly,
Who could reproach her bitterly?
She is bird whose lie IS wings;
She loves. a little, many things-
Too swift to leave remembe-:ngs
ARTHUR DAWSON FICkE.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Beyond Possibility

(From The Philadelphia North AnericoW
1t will be time for Germany to
squeal if she is ever compelled to pay
as many marks to France as she left
there.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

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