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Fomenting Discord
Five months ago happy people, in a
delirium of joy, were celebrating the
return of peace. The incomparable
bravery of the soliliers of civilization,
supported by the firm resolution of civil?
ian population, had won a victory for
right. Tha future was bright.
Now anxiety is in countless hearts.
. Uneasiness and apprehension are abroad
and men fear new commotion. Interna?
tional conditions are not good, and the
domestic conditions in many lands are
bad.
The cause of this change is no mys?
tery. Discord reigns where harmony
prevailed. Malevolent forces'have dis?
tilled subtle poisons. The nations which
won the war by acting together have
been artfully pushed apart.
The battle of the Mame showed the
German leaders that their chance of a
clear-cut victory was slight. Germany's
chief hope thereafter lay in the political
field. Could she break up the coalition
which had her in its grip and which
some day would succeed in mobilizing
its superior power? She could and did.
Russia was detached from an alliance
which in the first instance had been it?
her defence and that of her Slavic kins?
men of Serbia. The Czar was surround?
ed by men corrupted by Germany. And
vrhen in a final spasm for saving of Rus?
sia's honor the Czar was dethroned, Ger?
man money fomented a counter revolu?
tion in the German interest. Bolshevism
??ame, and its first act was a separate
peace in violation of Russia's pledge and
in betrayal of the general interest of the
world.
Russia's defection was offset by the
entry of the United States, and after a
few frenzied months Germany was
aten. Then Germany and her allies,
' including Bolshevist Russia in this un
rtaking, went to work to divide the
' Allies at the peace table. Latent jeal?
ousies and suspicions have been fanned.
The insidious propaganda has never
. nagged. The livery of heaven has been
? worn to conceal a hellish purpose. The
business has gone on and is still going
on wherever floats a flag of the Allies.
The consequences are too grave to
? waste time in determining what nations
! or what men are chiefly to blame. The
; supreme question is whether from this
time forth a common front can be re?
stored. If it is not, if a halt is not
called, the so-called peace will be of little
if any value.
The worst disservice a Frenchman can
? do to France is to point the finger of
doubt at America, and the worst disser
t vice an American can do to America is
! to point a finger of doubt at France.
:'> as to Britons, Italians and the rest.
: i<o nation is so superior in its idealism
' as to warrant reproach of another for
failure to measure up. What must an
Italian think who sees America strongly
demanding recognition of its Monroe
Doctrine while < ppoaing Italy's Adriatic
Doctrine? What must go through the
; mind of a polite Japanese as he beholds
great anxiety for economic equality but
httle for race equality? It behooves no
delegation at Paris to vaunt its special
virtue.
Suppress the trouble breeders within ?
our own rates. They have been per?
mitted to pursue their maleficent activi?
ties long enough, It is of no consequence
What their motives may be. The effect
of their labors is what counts.
An end was brought to a bad military
situation last spring by unity of military
L command, and diplomatic unity can bo
J achieved only by applying the same prin?
ciple. This cannot be applied unless
there is a willingness to sink differences
and to support our friends.
The Atlantsc Fleet
It was North River weather yesterday,
dear and blue and a whipping wind, and*
if ever that historic d;tch of water saw
a prouder sight than our Atlantic fleet
an it swung up stream to anchor may
tha "'?" of Hendrik Hudson and
?. ? Ultoil rise to damn us, Xew
York has grown used to pageantry on
this spot There never was a better
?tage netting or better accommodations
for ?peetatora. Arid yesterday the show
*arpa?#ed our beat Fleets of war wo.
. have had before, even ships fresh from
fighting overseas. But nevet the weight
metal, the numbers, the variety, the
wie fighting force of our country at
'?ita summed up ai here. Airplane?, de?
stroyer?, dreadnoughts not even our
i 27th Division on Fifth Avenue gavo
a mor? vivid sansa' of Invincible battle
power.
To our 30,000 guests wa need not
, J
proffer the freedom of the, city, for they
! know that ft. is theirs. A long trick our
\ sailors have done, a bad task well per
' formed, largely under cover, with little
chance for public honor or applause,
i New York appreciates their service pone
I the less. We owe our navy men every
? honor. We give them our heartfelt
' thanks and gratitude. We wish them
welcome and the best of shore leaves.
The Victory Loan
The terms of the $4,500,000,000 Vic
; tory Loan arc very attractive. The rate
of interest is satisfactory. The pro
, vision for interconvertibility of taxable
and tax exempt issues is excellent. That
will not only keep the prices of the two
issues together; it will keep them up.
But in any case the new notes could not
? possibly go to the discount of the pres
' ent Liberty Loan bonds. They mature
i in three years, and are then payable at
100 per cent.
Most important o all, the amount ?3
unexpectedly low. The $4,500,000,000
required by Secretary Glass compares
with expectations of five or six billions.
It compares with almost 97,000,000,000
i subscribed to the last Liberty Loan,
j offered at only 4*4 per cent. This is
j the last great war loan. The terms of
i payment, reaching over six months, are
! easier than those of any previous issue.
It is now the duty of the people to
I lend the government this $4,500,000,000
j in order that it may pay off the banks,
from which it has been borrowing
heavily, so that the banks will be free
to attend to their primary function of
financing industry.
"Safeguarded!"
After holding that there was no need
of "safeguarding" the Monroe Doctrine
in the society of nations covenant the
American delegation in Paris now an?
nounces that the doctrine has been
"safeguarded."
The text of the reservation, as tele?
graphed from Paris, reads:
"The covenant does not affect the valid?
ity of international engagements, such as
treaties of arbitration or regional under?
standings like the Monroe Doctrine, for
securing the maintenance of peace."
This reservation is clumsy and mala?
droit. The Monroe Doctrine is not "an
international engagement"?either for
the securing of peace or for any other
purpose. It has no international status.
It rests solely on the fiat of the United
States. It is a statement of the policy j
of a single nation, supported by the j
military and moral power of that na- i
don. Neither is it accurate to describe j
it as a "regional understanding." Pan- |
Americanism might be classed a re- j
gional understanding, but the Monroe
Doctrine is a nationalistic dogma, pure
and simple.
If the Monroe Doctrine is to be safe?
guarded why not use language which
says clearly what it is supposed to
mean? The American delegates to the
second Hague conference drew up a
declaration, before signing the conven- j
tion for the settlement of international
disputes, which really safeguarded the
Monroe Doctrine. The second clause of
that declaration read: "Nor shall any?
thing contained in the said convention j
be construed to imply a relinquishment
by the United States of its traditional
ettitude toward purely American ques?
tions."
The United States Senate ratified the
second Hague convention with a pro?
viso which reproduced this language.
The Monroe Doctrine amendment to the
i covenant recently submitted by Mr.
Root was based on the Senate's reserva
j tion of April 2, 1908. After reciting
? the circumstances which induced the
i United States to accede to the wish of
! the European states that it should join
its power to theirs for the preservation j
? of peace It said:
"The representatives of the United
States of America sign this convention j
With the understanding that nothing j
therein contained shall be construed to
imply a relinquishment by the United
States of America of its traditional atti?
tude toward purely American questions,
or to require the submission of its policy
regarding such questions (including j
therein the admission of immigrants) to
the decision or recommendation of other
powers."
Here is a clear, explicit, unconfu?ed
declaration of American policy. Why
was it sacrificed for the awkward and
inaccurate phraseology of the Paris
amendment? Are clarity and definite
ness offensive to the framers of the
covenant? If the conference is going
to indorse the Monroe Doctrine the
indorsement ought to be at least work?
manlike and unequivocal.
The Railway Wage Increase
In 1910 the average annual wages of
| railway employes was $073; in 1919 the
\ average is $1,460. The increase has
! been 117 per cent. The wages of the
: organized employes (train crews, which
arc about 20 per cent of the total) have
gone, up from $993 to $2,020, an increase
of 104 per cent. The wages of unorgan
; ized employes have gone up from $599
| to $1,325, an increase of 121 per cent.
It lias been assumed that the railway
j brotherhoods greatly profited from their
, strong organizations, but relatively the
i unorganized have done better. This
I supports the view that organized labor,
? when it gains advance?, pulls up the
level of compensation for those outride
its ranks, or the view that organization
ha? little effect ?n the wngo scale.
Various estimates have been made of
the decline that occurred in the pur?
chasing power Of the dollar. Probably
ns accurate a one as any if. that of the
i.'f-w York liubor Bureau, It puts the
general advance in prices between June,
1914, and October, 1918 (the changes
between 1910 and 1914 were slight)? at
about 55 per cent. In food the advance
?v/hh 71 per cent, but in other items loss.
On this basia the average raiway am
ploye has gained approximately $250 a
year in actual wages. Living on his ?
! former scale he has this sum for saving.
The railway administration assumes
the continuance of the cheap dollar,
something that they will contribute in
no small degree to making permanent.
But if railway employment long gets
more than its share of the new dis?
tribution men and women will be at?
tracted to it, which means in the end a
re?stabliBhment of conditions. But a
Bilent revolution has occurred. The per?
son of fixed income has suffered a loss
: equivalent to 40 per cent, and his losses
! accrue to the masses.
Guarantees of Peace
H. A Powerful Rumania
Poland has been designated by nature
and political circumstances to be the
main northern outpost of Western de?
mocracy in Eastern Europe. Similarly
Rumania has been designated to be the
main southern outpost. These two states i
constitute the end links and anchor posts
' of that sanitary barricade, stretching
? from the Baltic to the Black Sea and
j separating the Teuton powers from
! Russia which it is one of the chief tasks
i of the peace conference to erect.
Rumania is especially fitted for her
r?le as a sentry and quarantining agent.
Her people are of Latin stock and have
maintained their Latin traditions, al
| though they were encircled for centuries
! by non-Latin races?Slav, Turk and
Magyar. Geographical and dynastic con?
siderations made Rumania for a time a
satellite of the Triplo Alliance. The
vagaries of international politics also
threw Italy for a while into association
with Austria-Hungary and Germany. But
these relationships were unnatural. Italy
and Rumania both belong by sympathy
and racial affiliation to the Western
European group.
A Etrong Rumania would contribute in
every way to preserving the status quo
which is to be established by the peace
conference. Following the principle of
the self-determination of peoples, her
area of 53,000 square miles before the
war would be about doubled by a recti?
fication of her boundaries. She lost
Bessarabia to Russia through the Treaty
of Berlin, following the Russo-Turkish
war of 1877-'78. The Germans gave
! Bessarabia back to her last year through
the Treaty of Bucharest. The province
! is now Rumanian. It should remain so.
Transylvania is preponderantly Ru
! man?an in population. So is the Banat
I of Temesvar, except in its westernmost
sector. Bukowina is a land of mixed
races. Yet no violence would be done to
self-determination by including it in
Greater Rumania, with which its people
are more closely allied than they are
with either Austria or Hungary. The
enlarged kingdom would have a popula?
tion of about 14,500,000?greater than
that of Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slo
vakia or Jugo-Slavia. It would become
the chief Balkan power and as such
would tend to bring Balkan policy com?
pletely into line with that of the Western
democracies, whether these latter work
together through an old-fashioned con?
cert or use the mechanism of a Society
of Nations.
The Allied nations are under great
obligations to Rumania. She entered the
war in 1916, trusting to their promises
and conforming her military policy to
theirs. In accordance with the military
convention which she signed, Rumania
undertook the luckless invasion of Trans
sylvania, leaving her Bulgarian border
poorly protected. Russia gave her all
the assistance stipulated in the treaty.
But France, Great Britain and Italy
failed to make good their assurances of
support. The Sarrail offensive out of
Sal?nica, which was to keep Bulgaria
occupied, was a fiasco. Rumania was
speedily attacked on three sides by Mac
kensen and Falkenhayn, and within a few
months had suffered the fate of Belgium
and Serbia.
The Allies have therefore a long
score to pay to the Rumanians. It would
be foolish for the pea?e^conference to
be stampeded by the sulkiness of Hun?
gary, which has now staged an imitation
of Bolshevistic irresponsibility as a pro?
test against a repatriation of her subject
populations. Hungary has had her day
as an oppressor of the Danube Valley
peoples. To strengthen Rumania should
be an important object of Allied policy.
For the peace of Europe can be guaran?
teed only by the creation in the troubled
Vistula and Danube basins of dependable
and virile pro-Ally states, able to with?
stand Teuton intrigue and Bolshevist
infiltration.
Did Germany Blunder After All?
To tho Editor of Tha Tribune.
Sir: From the way in which tho "repara?
tion terms" are reported In this morning's
papers It would seem that their statement
is officially authorized. Germany is to pay
$5,000,000,000 for the first two yoars nnd a
yearly sum, uot stated, for thirty (or
twenty-eight) years thereafter. Surely, it
requires a robust faith hi the power of
words to believe that Germany xvill con?
tinue to mako these yearly payments be?
yond tho timo when she thinks it will b?
to her Interest to cease doing so. Them
seems to havo come to pas? what nomo of
us forecast and published early in 1917,
namely, that Germany would forco us into
tho war because she supposed that dls
tarico and unprcpnrodness would make our
weight In the scales militarily negligible,
but believed that In thin way sho would
lrisuro the presence at tho peaco conferenco I
of a power which would vote to treat lier
tenderly. Fho miscalculated tho weight, but
apparently this time made no psychological
mlHtako. 0. HRNtlY LAO0MBE.
New York, April 10, 1919.
Sign? of the Times
(from The Alinneapoliv Journal.)
Tho first robin wears a button reading?
*9ta worax, a? sonsy
The Conning Tower
The New York Daylight Savings Associ
\ ation, at its luncheon to-day, will consider
\ a suggestion to ask the President to incor
! porato in tho L. of N. the Daylight Sav
; ing Lav/. We are deliberating tho sending
j of a cable asking that the Rising of Theatre
I Curtains on Time also bo incorporated, and
j a codicil added about the curtailment of in
! termissions. And the Association for Widen
I ing the Boston Post Road surely will ask
; that its platform be included in tho L. of N.
, Mr. David Wallace is authority for the
statement that the "East Is West" curtain
\ rises at the advertised time of 8:30 p. m.
"Thanks for the Ad, Jack," Says Briggs
[From "Saint's Progress," by John Galsworthy, In
Cosmopolitan]
"Wonder what a baby thinks about?"
"A baby doesn't think of anything except
when it wants something."
"That's a gravo thought. . . ."
A typical human being is one who feels
no thrill of virtuous elation when he lets a
probably worthless man, who he knows won't
pay it back, $100 without interest; but who
fairly exudes goodness when he buys a Vic?
tory Liberty bond, for which he gets 4%%,
According to Howard, the tune Nero
jazzed must have been "Keep the Home
Fires Burning." Or tha Rome fires,
possibly.
Subsolar Novelties
The Liberty liona? you pavo to your wife in
1017 and 1918. Always thought of in multiples
of $50, and considered only as an investment for
the children. Then when you are wondering;
how much you cnn invest in the new Loan, your
wife takes them out of the little black box and
you discover that they have Brown into little
coupon-bearing fruit trees, and the total crop
will pay 10% down on a respectable sum of
Victory Notes. Aimiun.
Tobacco, a weekly paper, defies the antis
to produce a great author actively hostile
to tobacco. There is none we know of.
. . . We hope, by the way, that To?
bacco's proofreader doesn't smoke; a hopo
shared by that w. k. p. r. ?luder Barton
Brayley.
Under its new editorship the Bookman
is full of typographical errors. But C. W.
notes that it still speaks of the "Bigelow
Papers."
TO JEAN", A SKEPTICAL AMERICAN
Ah, Jean, you flatter me,
And when women flatter me?
Well, that's another story.
If I liad imagination
I'd write scenarios for the movies
Or street car ads?
(I/ord knows the baby needs some shoes).
I can but chronicle the passing; papreant
From the chance glimpse I get
Between the heads of those who stand in front.
But, Jean, If you will take my hand,
I'll lead you through that Wonderland: m
I'll show to you the school she built,
It has her name above the door,
And I'll point out to you the unknown things?
Lfttlo dwellings, red with rambler roses,
Set in plots of clean, green grass,
And rows of zinnias, beds of asters,
Salvias, pinks, geraniums,
Cornflowers?all the old beloved blooms ;
These dwellings are called "homes,"
And in them dwell a curious sect
Who do good unconsciously,
A most strange folk called Christians ;
Among them many who have lived full lives
Never tasting of the juice that July doom?;
Some of them are teachers, too,
Respected, loved?and paid.
(Of course, they don't spend all they make
On spearmint and "de movies.")
But, Jean, if you've no faith in Mad Hatters,
Then form a Soviet,
I'll be your first member?
Tin- other day I wished to plant some seed
In a tiny window box ; t
So I went out to get some soil,
And I paid for it?
Forty-five cents for a peck of dirt !
_ I'sv.
We who once were whiskey-swiggers
used to resent tho term "rum." Non
drinkers used to refer to all kickful drinks
as "rum." But we who now blot up our
frosted chocolate, our lemonade, and our
sweet cider?we fountain fans object to
\he idea, prevalent among the ironic mem?
bers of the younger Martini set, that our
only tipple is the Nut Sundae.
If Mr. Taft said what tho advertisements
say he said about "A Little Journey," we,
for one, see no reason why his remarks
should not be blazoned forth. What per?
plexes us is why his statement should be
accompanied on the billboard with a picture
of the late John Lawrenco Sullivan.
. . . human bloodhounds, whonr 'no
had certain reasons to believe, would be
unleashed on his trail.? Henry Leverage, in
the May Cosmopolitan.
"'Whom are you?' said Cyril."
Theda Bare in "Salome."?Baltimore Sun
headline.
"Stet!" cries the proofroom.
"But When It Comes in Slaughter"
Sir: A prominent Prohibitionist remarks
that tho American/ soldiers wero prohibi?
tion-trained, and adds that "they went over
and licked the beer guzzling Germans."
Giving the Imperial German Government a
Dry Cleaning, as 'twere. But considerable
credit for tho completo crash of tho Hun
lollern plans must be given to the rum
swigging British, tho beer bibbllng Bel?
gians, the wine tippling French, and tho
Chianti gargling Italians. D. A. 9.
As forewoman of tho jury that is to try
tho ex-Kaiser, H. M. nominates tho Ger?
man woman who gave nine sons and re?
ceived the "Kaiser's" signed photograph in
exchange.
Not "very" these days, is M. L. !?'.'? con?
tention. Tho thing now is "moro than,"
as In "more than glad," moro than grate?
ful. It is, truly, n rasping locution.
Although our manifestation? of what
Prof. Thorsteln Veblen calls Conspicuous
Waste do not include tho wearing of em?
broidered Initials on tho arm of n shirt,
there .'irn nomo exhibitions that wo do
make u."e <>f.
A last line, for exarnpl*?.
Could anything he moro
Conspicuously
Wasteful! , ., ^_ Jfi, p. A.
The Government Has Added Another $65,000,000 to the Trainine^?s^ayj^uT
(Copyright. 1918. Vwr Tort Trlbnn? loo.)
-1-1-,??-1
i The Unhappy
I Mexican German
Von Eckhardt, the Deported Minister, Is Reported to Have
Skinned His Countrymen
By L. J. de Bekker
EXICO CITY (By mail).?For the
time being it is ''Deutschland unter
Alles" in Mexico, as in Cuba. How
long this state of subjection will continue
is a matter for better guessers than I am,
still I fancy that recovery would be quicker
here but for the conduct of the late Ger?
man minister, Se?or H. von Eckhardt, who
skinned his fellow Germans in the interest
of Gott und Kaiser in the most ingenious
manner.
The story, a3 it comes to me from three
different sources, is too good not to tell,
especially as its variations agree In most
details. It is, therefore, a composite, In
which I have taken $10,000,000 as a com?
promise in financial estimates by Btriking ;
an average.
Tho German prospered here during the
war. There is no doubt of that. He knew
in advance here, as well as in New York.
just about when tho United States would
get in, and prepared, as he well knew how,
by laying in large supplies of American
goods, converting whatever accounts were
held against Americans into metallic cur?
rency, and arranging for a series of "cloak"
consignees to whom shipments of Amer?
ican goods could be sent, even after tho
declaration of war; or, if necessary, trans?
ferring nominal control of his affairs to
some apparently loyal ally or neutral.
it Was (iood liusincss
Mexicans, for reasons to be told else?
where, were tolerant. In many cases
friendship had been cultivated with Amer?
icans. Only tho British and French were
really to be feared, he. thought. It looked
like good business. It was good business.
?Many Germans from other parts of Span?
ish America flocked into Mexico at a time
when, had von Eckhardt's foolish schemes
succeeded, it might have been possible to
divert Uncle Sam's attention from a war
8,000 miles away to something unpleasant
a little nearer home. Thero was much
running to and fro. Distrusting tho banks
and having complete confidence in one
another, the wandering Huns followed their
custom of depositing money with sonic good
German house which would take care of
It for (hem, and pay 5 per cent for the
privilege.
Mark how tho Hun commercial morale
wa3 affected by war. Mexico, before ac?
complishing tho Impossible feat of estab?
lishing metallic currency, ha4 seen a great
variety of paper Issues, somo of which
were- almost worth their weight In copper
and some only fit to bo ground up and
made over into newsprint. German busi?
ness men, not in ono instanco but in many,
having taken hard money on deposit, de?
livered an equal frtcn valuation in depre?
ciated paper with their notaries, to be paid
the depositor on demand. It was 'legitimate.
It, was ?nod business. It increased their
hoard for active trading. To the disor?
dered commercial German mind it looked
liko what the Yankees would havo called
a "smarb trick" in the days when Con?
necticut was famous for wooden nutmegs.
But propaganda was an expansivo tax?
M
? ury in Mexico as elsewhere. Publications
and orators who had been bought had to
be paid for repeatedly, or they would not
? stay bought. Herr von Eckhardt, having
taken General Carranza to the top of the
mountain and shown him the fair lands to
the north which should be Mexico's if he
would but fall down and worship, and having
failed to convince; Herr von Eckhardt, hav?
ing demonstrated to Japanese diplomacy
? how easy it would be to capture the Phil
j ippines, bombard San Francisco, and Herr
von Eckhardt, wily diplomat, shrewd finan?
cier, loyal servant of tho All Highest
himself, turned to the equally-so-loyal-Ger
man colony in Mexico City.
These rascals, needful for propaganda,
refused to be paid in paper or promises.
They demanded gold. Therefore Herr von
Eckhardt asked for gold, and offered drafts
on Berlin in exchange!
He got the money.
Most of these drafts were about as
valuable as the Mexican depreciated paper.
by which some of the German business
men added to their stock of metallic cur?
rency at an earlier period.
I am told that drafts on Berlin to the
value of $10,000,000 have not been cashed,
and that Herr von Eckhardt is not held in
as high esteem as in former years.
German Impiulenee
More than a month ago a deputation of
representative German citizens called at
the American Embassy, where thev ex?
plained to Mr. Fletcher that, now the w-ar
is over, It was the duty of tho United
States to destroy its blacklists and thus to
permit them to resume tho agencies for
American goods.
The American colony in Mexico City was
aghast at thi3 impudence, but took no ac?
tion. Even tho report that the Germana
went to their club after calling on Mr
Fletcher, toasted the Kaiser and sang theii
dear old "songs about "Mutterlieb" and th?
"Vaterland," failed to excite them. By thi?
time some?-not all -of the American colon;
hero know tho Germans pretty well.
In tho last few weeks, anticipating tha*
Mr. Fletcher must be favorably impresses
and that Washington would immediately
lift the restrictions of the trading-with
the-enemy act, German business men havi
been advising their Mexican, clients to dc
for any purchases for a short time, whei
they would havo a fresh stock of Americat
goods and would give them better term;
than could be obtained fro*ffltho American;
themselves.
Have American Good?
A? a matter of fact, by one means o
another, most of the German huslnes;
houses have managed to maintain full lino
of American goods up to thin time and t
sell on long credits at advancing price*
What moro they expect Is not clear, bu
they expect something.
It must not bo supposed that whjl
Atttrteit.* fcer* b*v* tekra no ?Mtootta
measures, they aro unaware of what is go*
ing on.
At the last meeting of the American
Chamber of Commerce in this city one
member suggested that a letter be drawn
up to be issued in circular form to Ameri?
can manufacturers urging them not to
give their agencies to Germans for several
years, unless it was found impossible to
obtain an agent of Allied nationality.
Opposition developed. A group of Ameri?
cans in the chamber were of the opinion
that if German agents could sell Ameri?
can goods better than Americans it was to
the advantage of the United States to let
them do so. The possibility of substitut?
ing German goods the moment they could
be brought in, although that is beyond
? question part of the German scheme here,
J never seems to have occurred to tbeso
j gentlemen.
ISTo Competition
The proposed letter was referred, there?
fore, to a committee, with instructions to
report at a meeting to be held the lattes
part of this month. Whether German ftid?
is necessary to the sale of American goods
at a time when no German goods can reach
1 this market may be decided by the manu?
facturers of the United States, but it will
be interesting to know how the Americans
here feel about it. For the present, st
least, the American manufacturer need
fear no competition from Germany, and he
; may, even with his reluctance to adopt tho
system of credits worked out with equal
results here by tho British and French,
manage to hold his own for two years
more.
After that?
Well, after that, he will probably find tho
market in which he has every natural ad?
vantage closed to him through failure ta
his part to utilize the finest opportune?
for expansion ever presented to a manu?
facturing and trading people.
If American business men really wi^h
to retain their present position their li**
ing for "cash with order" transactions must
be overcome.
What Is Beer?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring to the interesting line "f
citations set forth in your to-day's editorial?
"When Is Beer Intoxicating?" will you ?1*
low me to contribute an expert opinion re?
ceived some years ago from an employe "*
a Western brewery, who held that quantU/i
not quality, was the governing factor?
When asked how much beer would b* re?
quired to make a man drunk he said he d"i
not know, explaining that he himself h?4
never been drunk on beer. In reply to tho
further question as to how many plaise* *
day he drank, he said: "Veil, on de effcfJeh,
I guess a hundert?hundert and fifty-"*
mebbo two hundert glosses."
" 'Course," he added, "If a man vants la
mek a tam hog of himself, dot's different
again." GEORGE WESTERVEI.T.
New York, March 21, 1919.
Civilization Without Qualms
{From Th? I^wiitviUe Couritr-Jovnuil]
It was said long ago that to hold CaU'S
is to have a dagger at the heart of England.
To internationalit? the Kiel Canal I* <9
fchove h butcher's Jcnifo through the vlreer?
of Germany's recent conduct, to which
citilir.atlon does not demur.
Plainly Stater!
(From Th? tndianapoli? f itr?)
That league of nations scheme i.eems to
have got around to tho question of what to
do to tho bleaeherite who throw? ? pop bot*
tlo ?I tho smplr?.