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Partisanship
Tfie Tim-es, joining The World, is more
interested, it appears, in advancing
partisan than national causes?is more
concerned about promoting the interests
of a political party than about creating
a public opinion which will integrate
Americans and make all proud sharers
in the satisfaction which the country
may well feel in the great position it has
achieved.
This slipping down t? a Jow level is
shown by the attack which The Times
sees fit to make on Senator Lodge be?
cause he is unwilling blindly to follow
orders and refuses to be false to the obli?
gations he assumed when he took his
oath of office. Senators have a respon?
sibility specifically laid on them by the
Constitution; are guardians of their own
honor and custodians of the interests of
a remote future; are protectors of the
very essence of democratic institutions,
and they may not substitute any judg?
ment save that of the people, duly ascer?
tained and recorded, for their own. Yet
because they are true, not false, they are
the objects of gross assault.
They are accused of being animated by
narrow partisanship. No evidence, or
even probable justification, is adduced,
yet the accusation is made. Senators
may well smile in the presence of the in?
dictment. Early 'in March, when they
signed the Senatorial statement, they
were similarly assailed. High authority
declared they possessed "pygmy" minds,
and, taking the cue, tho partisan press
was filled with belittlements and asper?
sion of motive. Now it is admitted by
their former critics that they were right.
Indeed, the basis of the new demands
and the new campaign of abuse is that
their advice was taken. Those who thus
confess to ex*ror of past views may hard?
ly claim impeccability for present ones.
Instead of striking its objective, the
charge is a boomerang that returns to
hit those launching it. Messires, you
describe yourselves. As to war ques-,
tions there is and has been little parti?
sanship among the American people.
Practically all have joined in?Demo?
crats,-Republicans, even the great body
of Socialists. The man or newspaper
that raises the cry of partisanship slan?
ders the great body of his fellow citizens-.
Not the least gloriouB feature of the
last two years has been the spirit which
kept in check those sneakingly willing
to capitalize the war to a party's ad?
vantage. I? in volunteers, in tax pay?
ing, in bond buying, in all the multiform
activities in which men and women of
all classes and sections 4 threw them?
selves some states did more than others
this was due to non-political causes and
influences. Few persons anywhere were
party-conscious.
The merit of keeping partisanship out
is chiefly due to the men whose patriot?
ism is now sought to be drawn into ques?
tion. When the war came, entailing
common responsibilities, the suggestion
was made that here, as in other coun?
tries, the government should become a
coalition one. The Administration saw
fit to reject the proposal. It preferred
to function through party agencies. The
decision made it more difficult to keep
partisanship down, but it was accepted,
and Mr. Lodge and his associates were
able to induce their colleagues to outdo
the President's party friends in support
of the Administration. Grants of au?
thority and resources were placed with
the President such as had never been in?
trusted to the most illustrious of his
predecessors. Failures were condoned,
mistake? were not emphasized, to avoid
embarrassing the Administration. This
record is known to all fair-minded Amer?
icans.
The Administration made an open
partisan appeal when, on the advice of
Burlesou, it issued its extraordinary pre?
election proclamation. But this having
met th? rebuke it richly deserved, parti?
sanship was again sent to the rear.
Now the powerful newspaper organs
of the Administration seem dissatisfied
with this condition and raise partisan
cries. They are sufficiently versed in
politics and know the probable consc
rjBtnc? of trying to make questions
? ed by the genera! course of the Pro?
vient party ones.
As to such matter?, all men should
ignore partie* and be simply free Ame**
ic?ns, remembering that the tscz. <roick
to throw doubts on the motives of an?
other usually does not describe the other
fellow, but describes himself.
Germany's Choice
President Ebert calls the peace made
at Paris a "peace of violence." His atti?
tude reflects German opinion, and Ger?
many is dazed and astounded, because
her idea of the worst the Allies could
do to her has fallen so far short of the
reality.
The German delegates will protest
and offer counter proposals. They say:
"The draft of the treaty contains de?
mands which no nation could endure."
The Allies have replied that they "can
admit no discussion of their right to in?
sist on the terms of the peace substan?
tially as drafted." Notice is thus served
on Germany that this is a peace of vic?
tory, and that she must either take it
or leave it.
Will the German government sign in
spite of Brockdorff-Rantzau's and
Ebert's display of balkiness? Certainly
Germany would reject the Paris verdict
if she saw any other way out of her
troubles. The peace terms consign her
to the position of a ticket-of-leave man
slowly working and paying his way back
to freedom and respectability. The
Germans tried to set themselves up an
the taskmasters of Europe. Now they
have been sentenced to become hewers
of wood and drawers of water for a
couple of generations. It is a vengeance
at once poetic and Mosaic.
But how can they expect to escape
it, by merely refusing to sign the treaty?
They might have escaped if they had
Bolshevized themselves three months
ago and entered into a defensive and
offensive alliance with Red Russia.
Then Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Ru?
mania were weak. The German Eastern
armies still held the Russian border
provinces and bridges existed over
Courland and over Eastern Galicia and
the Ukraine to Soviet Russia. Now
those bridges have been broken down.
Poland has been strengthened. Lithua?
nia has organized as an independent
state. Finland has joined the Allies.
The Czecho-Slav army has been rein?
forced by the return of the Czecho
Slav veterans from Siberia and Ruma?
nia is again firmly on her feet.
A couple of months ago Hungary .
tried the experiment of an alliance with
Lcnine. That manoeuvre almost created
a panic in Paris. But L?nine couldn't
go to the aid of Hungary and the Bol?
shevist r?gime there has petered out.
How could Germany, aroused by terri?
torial losses and appealing to the na?
tionalistic pride and emotions of her
people, expect to establish a workable
alliance with the Moscow Reds, to whom
nationalism means nothing and who sub
mitted without a murmur to the Brest
Litovsk dismemberment?
Soviet Russia is walled in. It faces a
new danger from the East. Its power
within its own territory is insecure.
Its only interest in Germany is to over?
throw bourgeois government, such as the
Weimar Assembly and Ebert represent,
and to introduce chaos and the war of
classes. It gave Germany the BSrIin
Spartaeides and the Munich Commune.
Would it be worth Germany's while to
now exchange a "peace of violence" im?
posed by the Allies for the reign of vio?
lence and anarchy which fraternization
with Soviet Russia would invite?
Germany therefore is in a hard and
fast predicament. Her only choice is a
choice of evils. Yet she can console
herself with the reflection that it is ex?
actly the sort of choice which she would
have imposed on each and all of her
enemies if she had been victorious.
A Bolshevist Exhibit
This is the story of a Russian shoo
factory and what happened to it, as
told by Emanuel Aronsberg in Strug?
gling Russia.
The business was founded some twen?
ty years ago in a Western Russian city
and prospered. The proprietor was not
of the kind called in Russian Beilo
rutsha ("white hands," afraid of work).
He was the factory's hardest worker, and
succeeded in making his establishment a
temple of labor, with a spirit of mutual
good will prevailing. He paid the high?
est wages and he never had a strike. So
high was the repute of his products that
any man trained in his shop was sure
of a job wherever he went. He was a
man of great humanity and sympathy.
On one occasion, a worker having been
caught stealing, he took the culprit into
his private office, talked to him, and
ultimately tho repentant thief became
the factory's foreman.
In the early days of the war boots
were made for the Russian army, but
the German advance having come, the
machinery and the family of workers
were removed to Moscow, where they
were soon busy again. Then came the
Bolshevik!. A commissary appeared with
orders to elect a factory committee to
take charge. The proprietor mado no
objection, the committee took his advice,
and affairs went on largely as before.
The harmony gave dissatisfaction. A
commissary visitor concluded a long
speech by pointing to the proprietor and
saying: "There he Is, your exploiter and
sworn enemy!" The men laughed and
shouted a thundering "No!" Whereupon
they were told they were ignorant,
should at once become class conscious.
Shortly afterward the manufacturer
was carted off and locked up. He was
released, but only after "some ono in
power" had been quieted by a six figuro
ransom. Toward^ autumn last year the
effects of Bolshevism rapidly matured.
Raw materials could not be secured, and
many of the workmen departed on thou?
sand mile tramps to reach the peasant
villages where was food.
The few that remained put in two event?
ing? every week and all Sunday drilling
f oi'vIiT Ft"d army. By December the work
? ers numbered but seventy; the capital was
gone ; the machinery had deteriorated ; it
was time to put up shutters. Then ar?
rived another commissary, but this one
to say the hotheads had had their day
at L?nine headquarters. A large salary
was offered to any competent bourgeois
manager who could be secured. The
change of policy came too late. What
had been done could not be undone.
"So passes out of Russian life," sayB
Mr. Aronsberg, "one industrial unit
after another, one link after another in
the chain of useful human activity, to
make room for the great Nothing."
Throughout the great land beginnings
of good have been snuffed out. It will
take long to remove the imprint of the
Beast. Reorganization will be slow and
painfui?will not be achieved by a mere
change of government. What the Ger?
mans did to Belgium is little compared
to what the Bolshevists have done to
Russia.
The Tertium Quid
The Villager quotes this advertisement
from The London Times:
"To All Who Are Getting Poorer: With
rising taxation and with wicked prices for
everything one needs to buy, what is to
f ;.npen to those who are neither big capi?
talists nor labor men? Who il to pay tho
huge sums that are being squandered,
often, it seems, for political ends? Far
the biggest party in the State is the
Third Party, and to-day it is looted at
every turn. Who will join in helping to
make it assert its strength? The adver?
tiser, a retired officer, would be glad to
hear from others who feel as he does, and
who refuse to take everything lying
down."
And here is another:
"Middle Classes Union. A new move?
ment that interests you. The Union has
been formed to protect the great, hitherto
unorganized Middle Classes against the
insatiable demands of Labor, the Tower
of Capital, the Indifference of Govern?
ment. Full details of the Hon. Secre?
tary."
How numerous is the middle class?
How powerful in rank and file may the
new party expect to be? No census in
either Great Britain or the United States
has been taken. But tho company that
feels itself oppressed is probably larger
than is supposed. Talk of class wars?
here is one afoot that will provide some?
thing of a shindy if it sets going.' The
men and women of small fixed incomes
have feelings which are raw.
The Benign Cootie
There is fashionable authority for the
rehabilitation of the cootie which Mr.
Samuel Crowther has attempted. This
bane of the soldier and civilian, this
purveyor of typhus, has at least done
one noble deed, he asserts. The cootie is
death on fleas, and a railway carriage in
Germany, of whatever class?and all
classes apparently are much alike now?
adays?is no longer a menagerie of the
long-leaping scourge of Innocents
Abroad. The cootie may have his had
points, it is conceded. But at least he
has his important utility. So runs the
defence.
The only trouble with this sort of
whitewashing is its upsetting effect
upon life. Our historians have been at
it for a generation. Give a historian a
doctor's degree and lie will prove in a
thesis much too solid to bite into, let
alone read, that George Washington was
a near-sighted bigot who fought the
Revolutionary War to keep his acres
from the Bolsheviki. (Vide Professor
Beard, passim.) Or, for a precise paral?
lel, ho will prove that Benedict Arnold
vas a courteous and considerate friend
with only the best interests of the nation
at heart. Nero, Catherine Medici,
Mephistopheles, hardly a fame villain
but has been rebuilt in the past genera?
tion into a pious, suburban father or
mother of a family, misunderstood and
grossly maligned by posterity. Our
whole history and mythology have to be
revised annually to keep pace with tho
rehabilltators.
The little animals have had their de?
fenders, too. The scientist of Provence,
J. II. Fabre, has taken his microscope
and pen in hand to revise utterly not
only popular belief, but classic literature
as well, in respect of tho grasshopper.
The cigale of La Fontaine is one of his
chief pets. As we learned it in our
youth, it was the grasshopper and the
ant, and the grasshopper sang idiotically
all summer while the ant stored grain
thriftily. Then, when winter threat
erred, the grasshopper went to the ant
for a bit of food, and the ant virtuously
and sternly, as if delivering the judg?
ment of God, said no. Those who will
not work must starve, etc.
Now, Fahre proceeded to demolish all
this pretty morality by demonstrating,
first, that the cigale is never hungry in
cold weather, for there are no cigales in
winter; second, that the diet of wheat
which she was supposed to have begged
is absolutely incompatible with her deli?
cate capillary "tongue," and, third, that
she does not hunt for flies and grubs, as
per La Fontaine, since, in fact, she never
eats. As a final touch Fabre demolishes
the moral standing of the ant by pictur?
ing him as a mean-spirited, narrow
minded sponge. Tho cigale has one very
ingenious ability, that of boring into a
juicy twig in hot weather and sucking
out sap as a beverage. Very well. A
crowd of brigands surrounds the cignle
upon such occasions, and among the
most aggressive are the ants. Thus we
see that the shameless beggar is really
the ant and the industrious worker,
willingly sharing her goods with the
suffering, is the cigale. Finally, when
the cigale dies, after five or six weeks
of gayety and tumbles a shrivelled
corpse to the ground, it is the ant which
pounces upon her body and dissects her
to cart away. A dying cigale, wingB
still trembling in the dust, will be drawn
and quartered by these choice cannibals,
held up for centuries as the noble heroes
and exemplars of childhood.
The Conning Tower
I Do Belong1 Here
I do belong here.
I love New York.
I love Fifth Avenue x
With its line of palatial residences
Followed by its line of palatial department store?.
And I love Broadway
With its bright lights
And its sparkling restaurants
And its wonderful theatres hard by,
Where one may see Shakespeare,
And "The Jest,"
And those adorable r?arionettes.
I love the hurry and bustle of the stream.
With their unending succession of 'bu??? and cars
and taxis
take me swiftly wherever I wish to go;
ive all I love the subway,
Ti ..i carry me two miles In twiee as many
..?ir.utes.
I love the grand Library,
Where the wealth and wisdom of the world Us
ready and waiting at my fingertips.
And I love the stately Museum,
Where within its hushed, spacious passages
I may be transported in an instant
To the ancient times and the distant climes
That are so dear to me.
And I love the di?nified University on tha Heights,
"Stayed on rock eternal" above the broad, peace?
ful Hudson,
A .acred precinct, where the things of the spirit
are tenderly nurtured,
And success is not measured by dollars and cents,
And Truth and Light and Beauty reign suprema.
Yes, I love lilao air, too.
But when I want it I can walk over to the park,
Or motor across the Queensborough Bridge,
And yet get back the samo day to civilization,
With an aeroplane mail box on the corner,
And my ice and my milk and my Tribune left at
my door in the morning.
And I love my Tribun?,
Especially when it prints my stuff ;
But I don't love the zinc,
Even though 1 do belong there.
A DEI. AIM
There is a bad stretch of road between
Neufch?tcau and St. Blin tnd when New
York men motored over it -hey would say,
"Well, this is worse than Central Avenue
between Hartsdalo and White Plains." But
now, when traversing the latter stretch,
they say, with truth, "This is worse than
between St. B!in and Neufch?teau."
With what his detractors call stubborn?
ness and his proponents term firmness, the
President stands by his choices for office.
As the leap year editor of The Conning
Tower suggests, iio is a poor picker and
a good sticker.
?Gotham done her part in the
Loan like always.
?T. W. Wilson and wife are
Maying- in Paris.
?Electric fans were the order of
the day last Monday.
?Walt Trumbull has gone into
the syndicate business. %
?Now is the time to subscribe to
Gotham Gleanings.?Advt.
?Miss Eleanor Goss played some
tennis with ye scribe 1 day last wk.
?Eddie Conlin has got a new
summer suit. Pretty snappy Eddie
say we.
?Slas Azov, Dr. Helen Cohen
and Janet Wise were pleasant callers
one day last wk.
?Old Wade Hayes was out in St.
Louis last week helping organize the
American Legion.
?Charlie Falls got back from
Hayti a few weeks ago, the Marines
blowing him to the trip for the swell
posters he drew.
?Mrs. Herb Swope says she has
no idea when Herb is coming home.
Herb is in Paris, but even when
Herb was on Nassau Street it was
pretty hard to tell.
?Lt. Ralph Hayes is back from
France and has accepted hi? old po?
sition with Newt Baker. Ralph is
from Crestline, O., just the same as
Earl Babst.
Although the coreleBS baked apple Is an
objectivo our restaurant cannot attain, it
should be said that by 7:45 p. m. Its lemon
meringue pie is always heavily over?
subscribed.
A statistics terrier in the local room has
computed that if the treaty is 80,000 words
long, each expert had to write four-fifths
of a word a day.
SCIENCF;-?Biological AND Domestic
When our heir
(For at least twelve of the twenty-four
hours)
Apparent,
Found a cache for her toast
Near tho fireplace,
And when on the following morning,
There being rolls for breakfast
And no toast for her highness,
She made trncks to the cache
And returned munching the hoarding,
I benignly explained
That here we had a true example
Proving the theory of the young of the
species
Repeating the history of Its race?
And at this point of the discourse,
F. W. scorning, as usual, my wisdom
Said it certainly did prove
The new maid was a darned poor sweeper.
Pbm.
Mr. Hugh Walpole aims to please. "She
gave a little cry," appears on page 378 of
"The Secret City," "not seeing whom it
was." "Tlien," appears on page 378 of the
same book, "she saw who it was."
What most of U3 object to these sunny
days is Daylight Slaving.
The bomb sendera, it seems, were at?
tempting to present that delightful mclo
(irnmu entitled-bet you've guessed it. . . .
Oh, well.
'TNT for Three." F. P. A.
BERLIN, April 15? The Budapest cor?
respondent of the "Deutsche Alige?
ro ,-.:-i ^ Z'>;*"ur>r;." wh" Hab just returned
te Berlin, contributes to that paper a strik?
ing account of conditions under Hungarian
Bolshevism. He writes as follows:
"When Michael Karolyi'a enthusiastic
followers tore up the Belgrado agreement
with the Entente and offered to fraternize
with Moscow, there went at first a feeling
of jubilation through all Hungarian hearts
?a feeling of release; after incessant hu?
miliations, at last the courage to act. If
Hungary had risen at that time, as en?
slaved Prussia did in 1813, it could without
great difficulty have restored its frontiers,
or at least retained the counties predomi?
nantly Hungarian. But to-day such hopejs
have disappeared, and the flames of patriot?
ism that had been enkindled are extin?
guished.
"A small minority of international dream?
ers are easily ruling a people who for a
thousand years bravely defended them?
selves against all warlike attacks; and their
leader distinctly declares that he takes no
interest in Hungary's territorial existence,
but only in the victory of the world's pro?
letariat. The government, directed from
Moscow, . . . will therefore offer ho ob?
jections to territorial concessions, if there?
by it can purchase other advantages, like
food, and keep Itself longer in power.
Enforced Hospitality
"Budapest is to-day a dead city, in ex?
treme danger of famine. The riffraff of
the population, unwilling to work, revels in
a passion of vengeance against those who
have some property. The homes of the
bourgeois are occupied by the most impov?
erished families, and joint housekeeping is
compulsory. Tho secondary purpose is to
keep the bourgeois under tho surveillance
of those who aro chiefly interested in con?
tinuing communism. Tho stocks of goods
belonging to merchants have become state
property, and money taken in at the shops
must be turned over to the treasury without
any indemnification to the owner. The mer?
chant is accounted a useless individual, and
the same is true of tho greatest part of
the officials and members of intellectual
callings, like lawyers. Such men are sent to
work at building street railways, at brlcK
yards or mines. ?
"The middle classes have been forcibly
proletarianized through the suppression, so
far as possible, of the sale of merchandise
and the circulation of money. The consoli?
dation of banks has thrown 100,000 bank
officials out of employment. The economic
programme of the Soviet government also
provides for the centralization of factories.
This will eliminate competition, but it will
kill the spirit of enterprise and shut off
opportunities of work for hundreds of thou?
sands. The communizing of houses has had
the effect of stopping building operations,
from which many industries and branches
of trade had derived their support. By far
the greater part of the population of
Budapest is already without work, and the
situation is growing worse from day to day.
"And Budapest is haunted by the spectro
of hunger. Only a little food is any longer
arriving from the country in the great city,
Minister Gonzalez
To the Editor of The Tribune:
SIR: As a Cuban resident in this coun?
try I desire to express my sincere ap?
preciation of the spirit of fairness which
inspired you to reproduce in your issue of
yesterday the editorial article from the
"Heraldo de Cuba'' in reference to the un?
fair and most unusual attitude of the
American Minister at Havana. Thousands
of my fellow citizens will doubtless shai-e
my satisfaction when they learn that a
great newspaper such as T"he New York
Tribune is ready to defend a foreign and
friendly nation against acts of injustice
and impropriety, even though they bo per?
formed by a highly placed American diplo?
matic representative in his official capac?
ity.
The statements so temperately set forth
in the "Heraldo" but feebly express the
true facts of a situation which has already
done, and is still doing, infinite harm to the
friendly relations of my country with the
United States, because if is difficult for us
to believe that tho government at Wash?
ington can be entiroly ignorant of fact3
which are common knowledge to all Cubans
and to every American who visits Cuba.
The well founded complaints against the
general attitude and policy of Mr. Gonzalez
are not only voiced by the political oppo?
nents of tho Menocal administration, but
equally by educated and patriotic citizens
not within the sp?tere of politics, who re?
gard the partisan activities of the present
American Minister as a far stronger attack
upon the sovereignty and independence of
Cuba even than the Platt amendment.
We are by no means unmindful of the
gratitude we owe to the United States for
the past sacrifices of its government and
people in the generous and successful ef?
fort to secure our freedom from colonial
serfdom and to confer, upon us that na?
tional independence to which our high
standard of civilization and progress en?
titles us in these days of right and self
determination for small nations. We do
not even object to American intervention
in our domestic affairs if it is legitimately
exercised for the proper enforcement of law
and order. What we do object to and what
we cannot submit to without protes.t is
American intervention to lend official en?
couragement to an oligarchic governing
authority which not only ignores law and
maintains public order by violence, but en?
tirely deprives the people of the most ele?
mentary rights of citizenship. As I am con?
vinced that the United States government.
would not for a moment sanction such a
course of action on tho part of its official
representative, you, sir, are rendering a
distinct service to your own country and
to mine by directing public attention to un
actually existing state of affairs which is
rapidly developing into nn international
scandal so far as Latin America is con
ceVned. - RIGOBERTO FERNANDEZ.
New York, May 10, 1919.
Budapest, a Dead City
By William C. Dreher
Berlin Correspondent of The Tribune '
now filled to overflowing with fugitives. The
peasant has held on to his gun, and he will
not hear to the communizing of houses, or
1 the confiscation of his property, and he will
resist with force the compulsory requisi
I tion of food. Farming work is at a stand
I still, as the peasant will not work for
others at no profit to himself. The military
j forces of the Soviet government are so
! small and so lacking in discipline that it
I would not be possible for them to carry out
| the provisioning of Budapest by force of
I arms. The grocery stores are almost en
? tirely empty, and there is lack of the most
j necessary foods. Inasmuch as the small
' supplies are used chiefly for the 'red army'
! and the workmen's barracks, the bourgeois
i are confronted by a terrible future. Their
! ?last possessions, clothing, linen and jewelry
| are requisitioned, and by means of a food
| card system, such as was introduced in
I Russia, it is now proposed to call out the
j last penny from the savings of the bour
| geois, in order to compel thejn to join the
I 'red army' as the last means of subsist
!
i ence.
"Food is steadily becoming scarcer, and
j the famine is increasing in intensity. Or
j ganized labor will soon see, therefore, that
? it has exchanged a few fine flattering
! phrases and paper advantages for an ex
! istence that grows intolerable in the end,
\ and all to achieve a result that profits
1 chiefly the most inefficient and the profes
! sional loafers. Already there is a growing
antagonism between the metal workers'
| labor union and the communists, who with
, brutal satisfaction are destroying the
wheels of economic life, supported by the
j armed power of the greedy mob and in
| spired by enthusiasm or much more human
I motives.
I
; The Ever-Active Censor
i
"By means of a rigorous censorship the
attempt is made to deceive the world as to
true conditions in Budapest. The few news?
papers that are still allowed to appear
have been degraded into dull propaganda
organs of Bolshevism. All hostile criticism
is threatened with death. Nobody ventures
longer to speak out freely, as the govern?
ment has an army of spies. Death sentences
have already been pronounced and carried
out on persons whoso only offence was to
express doubts as to the stability of the So?
viet Republic. The correspondents of foreign
newspapers at Budapest are under strict
censorship; their dispatches are changed
by the censors at will. Foreign newspapers
are not allowed to enter Budapest.
"The impoverishment of the Hungarian
people in soul and body also finds expres?
sion, so far as Budapest is concerned, in
tho fact that nobody shows any disposition
to risk his life for a Hungary of the Soviet
Republic. The accessions to the 'red army'
are very few, despite the most energetic
enlistment campaign and the favorable con?
ditions offered; and among the enlisted
men there is not the slightest desire for
service at the front. There are not the
slightest signs of a national resistance to
the imperialist violence of neighboring
states.
"A once proud people, who, in a weak
hour intrusted their destinies to dangerous
i illusionists, is going miserably to ruin."
Jobs Without Men
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We are very much interested in
your articles on the unemployment problem
and in the statements made by the various
officials of the. employment agencies.
During the past thirty days we have
needed carpenters, painters, mechanics and
assemblers, and we find it practically im
i possible to secure such men.
If thesj; employment directors would
j make a systematic canvass of the various
j industries and offices in New York City
they would undoubtedly find that employers
! were having a difficult time securing men.
! Such a survey was made in Detroit in 1914,
with the result that it practically dis?
missed the city's employment problem at that
time. There are many agencies, such as the
Police Reserves, that could make such a
canvass and find out from each employer
just how many men he could take care of.
B. M. WALKER,
Assistant General Manager, Hurlburt
Motor Truck Company.
New York, May 8, 1919.
An Agreeable Disposition
(From Tho Engineering and Mining Journal)
Some of the men one meets in Virginia
City are not only fellows of infinite jest,
but also of such an agreeable disposition
! that it is pleasant to have them around,
j said Dan De Quille in "The Big
! Bonanza."
"Do you know Mr. Popper?" asked a bar?
room proprietor of one of his customers.
"I have heard of him," said the cus?
tomer, "but I don't know that I ever met
him."
"No?" said the other. "Well, you ought
to make his acquaintance. He's a nice,
agreeable, pentleman. I never saw him be?
fore last night, when he came in her?
about 12 o'clock and took a drink. He is
a man who makes himselr at home with
you at once. Why, he had hardly been
in here five minutes before he drew out
| his six-shooter and began shooting holes
! through the pictures, the lamp and other
I little notions about the place, just as
j familiarly as though he and I had been
boys together. Nothing cold and distant
j about him! He's a charming fellow?
j charming!"
Strength of the Army
(From The Army and Navy Journal)
The estimated strength of the army, not
including marines, as of April 22 was
1,851,783. Of these 1,139,248 were in Eu?
rope and 509,800 in the United States. The
present strength in the A. E. F. is 58 per
cent of the strength November 11, 1918, and
the strength in the United States is 31
per cent o*f tho strength in this country
on that date. Daily reports of recruiting
bring tho total on April 24 to 18,363. In
the week ended April 10 there were 5,842
enlistments, and of these 2.095 were for
tho one-year term and 2.9G4 for the three
year term. Thus, 269 men .selected tho
longer term at enlistment during this one
week.
Post-Mor te ms
By Wilbur Forrest
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OP
OCCUPATION IN GERMANY
Secretary Baker believes in pS
ting opinions first-hand from the soldi
Since war "post-mortems" more and m
frequently reach the floor of the Bo? 1
and Senate with Congressmen or Senator
speaking for the soldier, Baker believes in
letting the soldier apeak for himself when
ever possible. Therefore Baker probablv
had in his mind the political fence-making
of members of the House and Senate when
he mingled among the rankers her? durin?
the last few days asking hundredi of qUe^
tions.
Baker will carry the answers receive.!
here back to Washington and hurl them
back at the men who malign the American
war machine.
"Are you getting enough to eat?" the Sec?
retary asked a private of the 33d Division
in Luxemburg the other day. The r,r?.
vate was standing in closely formed rank?
with thousands of companions during the
review by General Pershing.
"Yes, sir, the food is good," the private
replied.
"Was it good when you were at the
front?" Baker asked.
"It was 'bully beef and hardtack, sir"
the man said.
"It made you big and strong and healtht
dida't it?" demanded the Secretary.
"You had to be big and-strong to eat it"
was the soldier's rejoinder, and the Secre?
tary of War passed on down the line.
"Where do you come from?" Baker
asked another soldier.
"I'm from Cleveland, Ohio, sir," the man
replied as he stood stiff as a ramrod.
"Bless your heart," said the Secretary,
"I'm from Cleveland, too! Did you ever see
me in Cleveland?" he asked.
"Yes, sir; you're Newt Baker and you
were Mayor of Cleveland," the lad answered
quickly.
"Good boy!" replied Baker. "Such ig
fame!"
Baker asked many soldiers whether they
had received their Christmas packages on
time. He ascertained, at least in the 33d
Division, that most men had been able to
gather in these cheering home gifts at
their local army postoffice on Christmas
Day. One man replied that ho hadn't re?
ceived his package on time.
"What was tho matter? "Baker asked.
"Don't know, sir," tho man said; "guess I
was just sorta outa luck."
Many men did not recognize Baker as the
Secretary of War. He was dressed in ordi?
nary civilian clothes and appeared as any
other civilian which the boya might see
anywhere. The Secretary followed along
tho lines of men some little time after
General Pershing had passed making his
personal inspection. When Baker passed,
therefore, very few stood erectly at atten?
tion as they did when Pershing passed. An
officer would recognize Baker as he passed
along and give a sharp command for "At?
tention." The men would stiften for a mo?
ment until the little civilian Secretary
countermanded the order. And for the
most part, during his afternoon of "ques?
tions and answers," Baker talked to men
standing "at ease." He demanded it and it
made a great hit with the men when they
realized thoy were talking to the Secretary
of War without the necessity of standing
like a poker with "eyes front." Baker met
one man from his old home, Martinsburg,
W. Va., and they stood there talking, man
to man, for some little time about Mar?
tinsburg.
Though none of the regiments with
which Baker held his "t?te-?-t?tes" origi?
nally hailed from Ohio, the Secretary
found many men who came from that
state. They were "replacements" who had
joined the various regiments to fill in for
those who had fallen in battle or from
other causes. Whenever Baker met an
Ohioan he spent some little time talking
over "things" in connection with his adopt?
ed state. And sometimes it was talk about
the health of "Bill" Jones or "Si" Smith
down in Buckeye or some other Ohio com?
munity. The only folks who felt at all
"fussed" in the presence of the Secretary
of War during his visit with the ranks
were the officers, who saw visions of many
things and acted a trifia self-consciou?.
But the men, the common buck privates,
felt very much at ease and thought ac
thoughts, future or political. Baker left
the impression with them that he was, as
many would express it, a "pretty hum?n
guy," and from the impressions gathered
by the Tribune correspondent who accom?
panied the Secretary the answer is that
Baker is "a pretty human guy," politics
notwithstanding. He didn't patronize
America's most common variety of soldier,
the "buck private," or any other variety.
He talked to every one, private or general
during his stay with the troops in the field,
man to man. And he craned his neck when
an aeroplane came along just as much a?
any private standing there at ease and
asked those who were afraid to crane their
necko to go ahead and "crane."
Following the review of one division--?
thousands of men marching by the review?
ing stand with flags flying and bayonet?
flashing in the sunlight?Secretary Baker
made a speech to the assembled thousands
who broke ranks and crowded about the
reviewing stand. He followed the speechj
of General Pershing and was in most fli^
rect contrast to that of the commander in
chief. Any one who hearB General Pershing
speak must realize that Pershing is a soj
dier, and not a speaker. Baker, however,
with the ease of a preacher in the pulp!t
announcing the next hymr., "got" the boy?
with him from the start by drawing in the
setting sun.
"You boys have beat? standing out her*
on this field since early morning, fust Ket"
ting ready, and, secondly, being revie*?l
by the commander in chief," was the way
Baker commenced. "Now we have with u*
the setting sun. I know many of you hi*!
long distances to march before you rc?fn
your billets, so I am not going to keep y*u
here but a moment longer." Right herr
whether Baker knew it or not, ho made ?
great "hit" with the boy?, and they WO?M
havo stood listening to the Secretary ?'
long as he had desired to speak. In other
words, he had touched them where they
lived, for army discipline doesn't "coddM
the man in the ranks.