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Fruits of the Blunder
An unofficial but authorized statement
of the Scheidemann government says
Germany will not sign, and declares that
the terms "spell economic destruction,
political dishonor and moral degrada?
tion." The Allies, particularly the
United States, are assailed as piedge
breakers who have not written a docu?
ment based on the Fourteen Points, but
composed "a song of hate."
It is not necessary to debate the issue
thus raised. Scheidemann, backer of the
rape of Bcigium, a judge of morality!
The most slippery and false of German
politicians enraged at mendacity! We
have before us another ebullition of the
Teutonlsm, far more obdurate than
Bourbonism, which seems incapable of
learning and which has an unkillablo
faith in the merits of bluster.
Nor is there need to speculate over
whether or not Germany will sign.
"Der Tap" has not arrived?will not
come until May 2S; in the mean time
may occur a change of mind. Germany
at one time was as sure she would never
Bue for peace as she now is that she'will
not accept the terms prescribed.
But it is profitable, in the way of get?
ting instruction for possible future ac?
tion, to review at this time events which
occurred late in October and early in
November. Germany then openly asked
for parleys. The mere application showed
she knew herself beaten. But in form ''
the proposal was one to make peace on
the basis of the Fourteen Points, atenta- \
tive formula that the President had em?
bodied in a speech delivered ten months
before, whose details were generally for?
gotten in the rush of events.
Two opinions quickly manifested them?
selves. One was that Germany, by spe?
cially appealing to the President and
playing up his terms as different from
those of our allies, was fashion?
ing a wedge with which she hoped to
divide the peace table. It was held that
the wise course was to insist on an un?
conditional surrender; that such a capit?
ulation, while shutting no door to a mag?
nanimous peace, would simplify the
negotiations and prevent the rise of mis?
understandings.
On the other hand were elements which
professed a great fear of an "imperial?
istic" peace and plausibly contended that
it was highly desirable, if there was to
be a peace of justice, to pledge its de?
tails- in advance. Germany, it was said,
should not be unnecessarily humiliated;
a bar should be raised, it was asserted,
against an outbreak of narrow national
views.
The first reply of the President-was in
the direction of taking Germany at her
bare word and exacting no preliminary
guarantees. Not even the withdrawal of
the German armies was mentioned as a
condition precedent to negotiations. Ger?
many, fully armed, was apparently to be
able to renew the conflict should the
conferences come to nothing.
The country protested so loudly that it
was heeded. The later notes mentioned
preliminary conditions, although the
President refrained from asking uncon?
ditional surrender. The final result was
a compromise. The realists wrote the
armistice, in a military sense almost
an unconditional surrender, and the
other party secured the acceptance of tho
Fourteen Points, as amenaed, as the
political chart of the conference.
The consequences of the mistake then
made are now plain. In the first place,
the writing of the peace was delayed.
The conference, instead of being plenary,
was theoretically tethered, and when
judgment went against any country it
?aid the Fourteen Points were flouted.
Instead of making for speed and har?
mony the formula caused slowness and
discord. And every time the cry of a
violation of the Fourteen Points was
raised at Paris Germany was served. A
foundation was laid for her pretence that
faith was not kept.
And a? the effect among the Allies was
bad, so it was worse in Germany. Instead
of Germany being softened and mollified
her leaders have been able to keep alive
a bad spirit. Germans were told that
Germany laid down her arms, not be
?auKe she was beaten, but because a
favorable bargain had been made. False
expectations were kept alive and a basis
furnished for the charge that Germany
now makes, and which for six months it
Has been inevitable she would make.
The soreness of Germany, so far as it
it honest, is more intense than if she had
Understood the surrender was uncondi?
tional. Tue chief objection to tying the
peace conference in advance was that
more bitterness -would thereby be^engen
dered. The world would have a more
hopeful future to-day if the free confer?
ence had been entirely free, and the
treaty prepared, it may be deemed cer?
tain, would have been marked by as much
breadth and magnanimity as the one
now pending.
The best guess still is that Germany
will sign?will sign because she realizes
the next time her surrender will be un?
conditional, with no insincere clatter
about promises to her. But, whether she
signs now or later, it is sadly evident
that a more embittered Germany will
exist to menace the world than it was
necessary to have exist. Idealism is
worth little unless rooted in realism.
Peace without victory talk prolonged the !
war and has delayed, and will long
delay, the realization of real peace.
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The American Way
While the NC-4 waits at the Azores ;
for safer weather and the world mourns
the loss of the intrepid Hawker and
Grieve may be a good time to note a dif?
ference in traits displayed by the two
English-speaking countries in their at?
tacks on the problem of transoceanic
flight.
The American has been rated a quick
and hasty fellow, ready to take chances,
damning torpedoes and impediments,
trusting to luck and adaptability to see
him through. Kipling told Jonathan i
that he was an unkempt creature who j
sprawled across his continent, willing to i
match with destiny for beers, and we ac- ?
cepted his judgment. We were sloppy j
and irregular?the sky lines of our cities j
proclaimed that we had little instinct for I
order. On the other hand, our British }
cousins seemed to make a god of form !
and personal repression and to love the
locksteps that iron out personal idiosyn- I
crasies of gait.
And. behold! it is Jonathan who is the
careful, scientific organizer, and Bull
who is the daredevil. Our Navy Depart?
ment meticulously got ready. A bridge
of boats stretched aci'oss the Atlantic.
We selected the shortest possible leaps, i
Every strut of the airships was sub- '
jected to metallurgical analysis. The
thread of every screw nail was micro?
scopically examined. The wings were
tested and then tested again. Nothing
was left to chance or to improvisation.
We purposed reaching Europe via the air,
and we used the creeping-on methods em?
ployed by Peary in his siege of the pole.
Our triumph, so far as it has been
achieved,, is one of laborious, scientific
prevision. And even though Lieutenant
Commander Read does not reach the coast
of Portugal, the achievement is a great
one. Three planes left Newfoundland and
three 'planes arrived at the Azores. Two
of them did not thread the eye of the
needle, failed to mark up bull's-eyes, but
they struck close. The crews lacked
nothing in courage and in endurance,
but they gambled as little as possible.
The victory was not only for the men
who went over the top, but also for the
planning naval staff, particularly Ad?
miral Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt,
his sympathetic supporter.
If the war had gone on for a few
months longer the new American way, if
it may be called new, would have been
seen in full voltage. We were unpre?
pared, but we were preparing as was no
other nation when the curtain went
down. Something akin to a new psy?
chology seems to possess America, or we
are not as we thought and as others
thought us.
Thoughts About Broadway -
The responses to the invitation of
the Broadway Association to "Give a
Thought to Broadway" run from the
gay to the severo*, from small practicali
. ties to impossible idealities.
Nearly everything is expressed except
eulogy. It seems the universal opinion
that thj famous street is not what it
j should be. Thought converges on the
conclusion that it too much resembles a
battlefield of France, and when not this
is too much an arena for the exhibit of
howling vulgarity. The replies are from
New Yorkers, and are of such tone,
; coming from outlanders, as to raise the
I bristles of offended local pride. Gotham
| dearly loves to berate herself, but others
j are to keep out of the game.
Broadway is quite likely to continue
Broadway. Its Broadwayishness, as it
may be called, seems uneradicable. It is
at once a despair and a glory. But,
whatever faults it may have, one charge
cannot be brought against it?it is no
funeral street, is no parade ground for
the "dead ones," and, though June 30
! relentlessly marches closer, will find some
way to surround the serving of an ice
! cream soda with pomp and circumstance.
Popularizing Campaign Funds
Chairman Hays's plan of limiting
campaign contributions to $1,000 is a
natural outgrowth of bis robust and in?
spiring theory of party reorganization.
He want> to make the Republican party
| not only fully self-governing but more
; broadly self-sustaining. He seeks to in?
stil a new spirit of individual pro^He
j torship and responsibility into the rank
i and file.
No great organization can be success
; ful in the larger sense if it doesn't
awaken that spirit. As in the church or
! the fraternal society, ?t? obligations of
party membership shi^n?? fyctend tr all
members. If a member' i heart is in the
principles which his political party
stands for and in the work which it is
doing he will consider it a matter o*' per?
sonal pride to sustain it by his co'jtrlbu
; tion? as well as by his vote,
? The Socialist party has carried thia
principle to an extreme by requiring all
members in good standing to pay dues.
That rule seemed eccentric in the days
of enormous Republican and Democratic
campaign funds, provided by a very lim?
ited number of subscribers. Trye aver?
age Republican or Democrat felt him?
self excused from giving his mite in such
circumstances.
But times have changed. Under the
pressure of public opinion Congress and
the state legislatures have imposed
limitations on the funds to be raised for
election purposes and have created elab?
orate systems of official accounting. We
speak of these regulatory provisions as
"corrupt practices" legislation. There
was little real corruption in the old cam?
paign methods. Most of the money was
spent foolishly rather than corruptly.
But the effect of excessive individual
contributions was bad?particularly in
the way of discouraging general party
interest and giving speakers and work?
ers the idea that their services, formerly
volunteered, ought to be paid for.
Mr. Hays's plan accomplishes more
than the corrupt practices laws ever
would have accomplished. It commits
the parties themselves to a more sparing
use of campaign funds and a more nor?
mal and beneficial method of raising
them. Political leaders bewail an in?
creasing laxity of party ties and a wide?
spread indifference on the part of en?
rolled voters. But here is a sane bid for
a wider participation in party affairs.
Mr. Hays's psychology is correct. And
his policy is intelligent and constructive.
Bolshevism as a Bugaboo
Bolshevism is greatly valuable for edi?
fication. It is of doubtful advantage as
a bugaboo. The word comes to havo
little more meaning than any other lazy,
* catch-all slang term used to express dis
! approval or opprobrium.
Are you against a measure? It is
\ Bolshevist. Are you for or against Sun?
day baseball? Bolshevist, because it un?
looses an ancient restriction, or because
I to restrain the human impulse is to plant
! seeds of dangerous dissatisfaction. Bol
I shevist this and Bolshevist that! The
I new skirts of the women and the new
coats of the men are symptomatic. High
wages and low wages?both are Bol?
shevist.
We enter a plea, probably a vain one,
to save the word from fatal dilution, and
call a murrain on all derivatives, meta?
phors, applications and epithetical at?
tempts to capitalize prejudice. Let
Bolshevism carry its own sins, numerous
enough, without being used as a univer?
sal scapegoat. Sociology might not be
the difficult science it is if its first
savants, like those of botany, had re?
sorted to a dead language for rigid clas?
sifying terms. Half arguments are be?
tween those who use words in different
senses.
Bolshevism is important enough to be
studied in its own person. It is a pro
j posai to end capitalism by violence. As
j'such it presents, in many respects, the
greatest object lesson mankind has
known since perfected communications
made the world one great whispering
gallery, with the newspaper providing a
sounding board unknown in the dumb
ages, when silencers were on the doings
of other men.
The ferment itself is nothing new.
Property was held to be theft cen?
turies before Proudhon fathered the
phrase. Montesquieu argued for na
I tional workshops and that the state owed
every man a living. Francis of Assisi
and Jack Cade, saint'and roysterer, were
together on the principle that only the
I poor were righteous. The sores of Laz
| arus?these have always been a reproach
to Dives.
The novelty is in the large 3cale trial
I of the idea. One searches history in
i vain to find another example of 100,
000,000 people denying the validity of
personal possessions and saying none
should hire or be hired. Here is an am?
bitious experiment, well worth watching
in all sobriety.
How does the scheme work? The
world is incredulous, but was similarly
incredulous when this country launched
the first large scale application of de?
mocracy. To every generation comes a
knocking at the door, and unless, as with
Macbeth, evil work is inside, there is no
: call for a shudder. Mankind bars no
| portal against a possibly good visitor.
, What if the Russian dreamers, educated
' at the knee of Karl Marx, were right?
The supreme question was not what
| Bolshevism did to the bourgeoisie, but
what it did to the proletariat. If it
j demonstrably advanced average happi
j ness, nothing could stay it. If Russia
? had solved the problem, had given form
: and actuality to the ideal, no accelerat
: ing propaganda was required to secure
imitation.
The dividends of Bolshevism to the
proletariats are of paramount interest.
i It is unfortunate to have the clearness
: of tho news clouded by arguments,
, prophecies, deductions and inferences.
, Honest reports f~om the laboratory are
of more value than all the speculations
and predictions. Is Russia Decoming a
land where an average human being
might prefer to live? Do people pass
from misery to happiness, through Bol?
shevism? Tbese are the vital questions.
The best way to meet Bolshevism is to
I get and spread all accurate information
| from Russia. Not by fear, but by
j knowledge, are its evils to be combated.
j Those afraid of it as an insidious enemy
j lurking in the shadows; those who beat
I the tomtom of alarm whenever a twig is
heard to break or a leaf to rustle con
I tribute to creating Q state of suspicion
j friendly to ignorant revofcrt?on; those
j who confuse the public by dragging it
into irrelevant alleys distract attention
J from the main consideration.
The Conning Tower
"Let's Go"
"Come on; let's go."?Commander Towers'?
last command on taking-off from Trepaasey.
Would you touch the place where the
morning lies?
Go find the way with your new found eyes,
If you know how the stormy petrel flies?
"We know."
Then over the sounded Caravel track,
As East runs East by the Zodiac,
New words to Old Worlds?wing them
back.
"Let's go."
In yonder dark where the lightnings play
Find death and night?or life and day.
The Santa Maria came that way.
"We know."
Tome, follow the fathomless mystery
Of the skyward lanes o'er the fathomed
The "1," tho "4" and the "NC-3"?
"Let's go." s
And what if they vanish 'tween shore and
shore,
The "1" or the "3"?forevermore?
Still know you the course of the "NC-4"?
"We know."
While men are mortal and minds are meek,
While hands still grope and hearts still
seek?'
Still hear their questing voices speak:
"Let's go." A. M. T.
Punch, which deserves at least the
D. R. 0. for the conspicuous sanity of tts
humor during the wnr, is the innocent
victim, in its issue of April 23, of thievery.
Tho verses "A Germless Eden," beginning
"The antiseptic baby and the prophylactic
pup," which Punch prints as original, were
written by Arthur Guiterman and first ap?
peared in the Woman's Home Companion
for July, 190R. They appear also in Mr.
Guiterman's hook, "The Laughing Muse,"
published by Harper's in 1015. These, for
some reason, are the stolenest verses we
know of. They were offered to Puck in
1908 by A. Francis Walker, and their
publication was stopped because some one
happened to remember that they were not
Mr Walker's. But Walker sold them, in
May, 1908, to the Now York World. This
Rafter of Righteousness exposed the
theft, but Walker told Mr. Pulitzer that
he had written the verses, before July, 190R,
I for a newspaper in Sydney or Melbourne.
: The editor of this paper, in response to
n cable from Mr. Pulitzer, said this was
j untrue We wonder who the thief was
1 who sold it to Punch.
Tho same issue of Punch has this:
PEACE PREPARATIONS
Music-hall artist (to partner) ; "I reckon we
1 ought to introduce some new features into the
' turn, with Peace comin'."
Partner: "Ah, I've been thinking of It, too.
What abnht pink facings for our evening dress?"
Which recalls a line from one of tho
first Ado fables, "The Fable of Paducah's
Favorite Comedians and the Mildewed
Stunt," Zoroaster and Zendavesta, you
may recall, ha?i been doing their act for
seventeen years. "During tho Seventh
Season Zoroaster changed his Whiskers
! from Green to Blue."
runch also runs, as new, the original
Ford wheeze?the one about the car, with
! its englno removed, running seven miles
i on its reputation alone.
?7NVICTU8"
Petar stood on Heaven's high mole,
Looking downward: "Verily,
Man is captain of his soul
When he mocks at Death," eald he.
"Unen wings are flimsy things,
Put the mind that conquers fear
From the wreck of matter springs
Undefeated, there?and Here!"
Something circled In the void,
?'limbed in spirals through the stars?
Mote, or vajrrant asteroid ?
. . Peter opened Heaven's stout bars.
"Way for Hawker !" loud he cried,
"Way for Hawker and his maty? !
Matter ma-itcred them; they died
Scorning Death?and mastered Fate!"
Lkb Wilson Dodd.
Our regrets for having studied German
| instead of French are few. Our choice
of German was made because it enabled
us to pet through at noon, as French was
scheduled for 2 p. m. And petting
through at noon enabled us to attend the
; excellent variety shows at the Olympic
j Theatre and the Chicago Opera House,
' which began at 12:30 p. m. These were
the days when Lady Sholto Douglas sang
i "The Daughter of Officer Porter," when
Bobby Gaylor used to say: "Well, anny
| how," when George M.,_ of The Four Co
| hans, began the act with "If I don't say
; 'Rah! Rah! Rah!' before breakfast every
, morninp I pet nervous," when Williams
and Walker sanp, "Oh, I Don't Know,
You're Not So Warm," when Johnny Car?
roll sang "P?t Malone Forgot That Ho
Was Dead," and Carrie Scott "Just a Plain
American Girl Is Good Enough for Me,"
when the Russell Brothers used to say,
; "Take the cow out of the hammock," and
i Johnny Ray said, "I've been up sixteen
flights of stairs and every door's a win
. dow." Oh, yes, and Helena Mora, the fe
( male baritone, after singing "The . Moth
; and the Flame," used to recite a poem
ending "And Salvator, Salvator, Salvator
won."
"Two soft drinks <a fresh strawberry ice
cream soda and an f. s. sundae)," writes
Mim, "cost 56c at a w. k. Fifth Avenue
fountain last night?but then almost every
i body was in evening dress and there was
i no admission fee." It is the samo place,
1 probably, where a plain soda costs 20c.
, But, as the landlords say, there is no law
j compelling you take the apartment.
II?1 is at present actively and promi
I nently identified with that section of tho
American Socialist party calling itself the
i Left Wing, which aims at the establishment
j of Bolshevism in the United States.?The
i Tribune.
Thoso southpaws, suggests Edar, ai
i ways were wild.
If we misunderstood the young man who
j spoke at tho Booth Theatre Wednesday
' night, we apologize. If we didn't migun
j derstand him, we should like tc know by
j what authority he said the Salvation Army
had 100,000 workers in the trenches.
Why doesn't the S. A. enlist the ex
| hortinp services of tho world's greatest
| money raiser?the Rev. W. A. Sunday?
?
Suggested exhortation: "Donate for
' doughnuts." p. p. a.
! Employers Incog.
By Theodore M. Knappen
JUDGING from many conversations I I
have had in the last few months with I
leaders of American industry, I
would conclude that the reaction of the j
American employer to the world-wide agi
? tation for the reorganization of industry is
i not much along schematic lines. Instead of
: laying out a comprehensive plan on paper,
! where it looks perfectly workable, the aver?
age employer is undertaking some imme
; diate concrete improvement in the relations
between himself and his employes. He is
I first trying to find out what the men are
thinking, seeking to get their inner point
of view. He is very skeptical of the labor
! organization point of view as really repre
! senting- that of the men themselves. In
! fact, there is no use camouflaging the fact
that the average employer thinks that labor
; unions are a barrier to real reforms in re
1 lations between capital and labor. How?
ever, I am not trying to write an essay, but
< merely wish to record some notes of what
I employers are thinking and doing.
What Workingmen Want
A Middle West manufacturer of strong
altruistic leanings remarked that the only
i way to get better conditions is to get better
| employers and better men-?more education,
i more culture, more refinement. So far as
I his establishment is concerned he regards
the unions only as a source of irritation.
, Indeed, he says that the labor leader with
i whom he has to deal frankly told him that
1 his object was to keep the men always in
, a mild state of irritation. If the men were
frlly contented they would stop paying
union duc3. On the other hand, a crisis re?
sulting in a strike was to be avoided, for
I a strike also meant loss of dues. This cm
? plover believes in doing all he can to im
! prove the material conditions that surround
i his men, believing that such improvement
I will lead to n hirrhor standard of life and
living. He considers that a good home in
a good locality, owned by a workingman,
is better than a membership in the company
directorate. Likewise, he thinks that it is
moro important to teach workingmen's
; wives how to prepare a dainty, nutritious
; meal than to give much time to shop com
! mittees. So he builds homes?always with
; bathtubs?for his men and sells them to
i them on the instalment plan for cost or
less. Also, he tactfully, through his visit?
ing nurses, gives the wives hints now and
then in domestic science.
The visiting nurses are utilized as a
i regular means of maintaining a human
touch in his relations with his men. If a
man fails to report for work he is im?
mediately communicated with by telephone
or messenger. If he reports that he is not
feeling well but expects to return to work
the next day. nothing is done unless he
fails to report as expected. Then a com
pany nurse goes out to his home, gets hire
the medicines he may need, gives him the
care he may require, suggests to the wife
? how to prepare the right kind of food, etc
No charge is made for this service, and th(
men do not resent it, for they are cducatec
to expect it as part of the company's pro?
gramme of keeping them fit, just as it cares
for its machinery.
Medieal Harpies
Speaking of the work of the nurses, th<
employer in question made the surprisinj
assertion that most of the workingman';
woes are due neither to poor pay nor tin
pleasant relations with his employers, bu
to the "harpies" that prey on him am
mulct him out of his earnings. Chie
among these he rates the doctors who at
tend the men. Investigations, he sayp
showed that next to rent and food the chie
outlay of his average employe was fo
medical attendance. Ho charges that thes
doctors deliberately "string" along th
I treatment of minor ailments for the put
pose of adding to the number of S2 fee
they can collect. The "real estator" is an
other pest of the workingman, he say;
He means the real estate man who soils ;
workingman a shack of a house at two o
. three times its real value. The purchase
usually fails to keep up his payments, an
loses all he has invested. So this employe
carries on constant warfare in behalf o
his men against the preying doctors an
real estaters.
Generally speaking, he has no patienc
I with any sort of scheme for altering reis
! tions between labor and capital or fo
j
The Post- War Home
{From The London Times)
Sir Nevil Macready, Commissioner of
Metropolitan Police, is of the opinion that
I the war is responsible for increasing the
! amount of crimo in this country and for
| changing the type of criminal.
In conversation on Saturday Sir Nevil
| said that freedqm in battle from the re
j straint of ordinary law lowered man's re
? spect for and fear of that institution, with
' the result that an increase of crime in
| variably followed war. At the present
? time there was a big rise in Zhe number
of robberies, and the robber of to-day,
I grown callous after four years' experience
of killing, was indifferent alike to the tak
1 ing of life and to his own personal safety.
? "In pre-war clays," said the Chief Com
! missioner, "if a burglar were met on the
stairs by a householder in his pajamas, hi3
; first thought was to escape, but to-day the
! thief would probably resort to violence,
1 and, if necessary, to murder."
Sir Nevil expressed the view that an?
other result of the war would be an in?
crease in the number of women murders.
Before the war, he said, when a man quar?
relled with his wife or tho woman he lived
with he would "just clip her under the
j ear," and everything would be all right again
, the next day. But now, after four years of
| lifetaking, he would hit her over the head
i with an iron bar or anything that happened
', to be handy, and there would be no next day
, for her.
The Betting Odds
j To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: It is dollars to doughnuts, and no
takers, that the Salvation Army drive will
go over the top. JETSON.
Washington, D. C, May 20, 1919.
Hands Across the Sea
? from The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
England lets it be known that sho is
1 short of whiskey. Shake, Britannia!
democratizing industry. Make men better, !
give them more education, make them
healthier and more comfortable, provide free
play for worth and industry to be rewarded
and you have settled the problem, accord?
ing to his point of view. He considers that
he is a real democrat, and he detests unions
because they tend to create class lines and
break the line of promotion from the shop
to the executive office.
The Capitalist in Overalls
An Ohio manufacturer donned overalls
the day after the armistice was signed and
lived the life of a common laborer for the
next five months. He went to Pittsburgh,
put up at a workingman's boarding Tiouse,
stood in the line waiting for employment
at a steel mill until he got it and then did
the work of a common laborer day after
day. His purpose was to view the labor
problem from the bottom looking up. His
general conclusion was that a good, steady
job, good pay and decent human treatment
are the main desiderata with laboring men.
Very few of them entertain grandiose ideas
of reforming industry by fundamental legis?
lation. He didn't encounter a single Bol?
shevist and met few socialists. The Gold?
en Rule is his remedy for labor and capital
troubles.
Matt C. Brush, the president and general
manager of the American International
Shipbuilding Corporation, which conducts
the Hog Island shipbuilding yard, has
among other ideas one that corporations arc
! not human enough in hiring and firing. Or
j his first day at Hog Island he applied, in
', cognito, for a job. He got the job, but h?
. didn't enjoy the process. Other men wh<
I now apply get r.spectful and consid?r?t?
i treatment. He cons'ders that many a man'i
| whole subsequent attitude toward his em
j ployer is determined by the way he i
! treated when applying for work.
The foreman problem, which is tho plagu
| of most large establishments, is dealt wit!
i at Hog Island by depriving the foreman o
? the authority to discharge men. It is im
? possible for p. man at Hog Island to? qui
; or be dischargee! without having nn oppoi
| tunity to talk with some one higher up. I
? this way many a good man is saved froi
1 being sacrificed to a petty tyrant's whin
? Brush tried tho system himself by going 1
| the proper official with a fictitious tale <
I abuse by a foreman. He swore and rave
I and did his best to provoke the official con
; poser of difficulties. Despite everything, tl
? latter remained calm and sympathetic, ar
: assured _the seemingly irate man that if i
. impartial investigation showed that he wi
! right, the foreman would be discharged i
, stead of him.
' Obstructive Foremen
"You're all right," said Brush, thrbwii
| off his disguise. "I'm the new general ma
| ager. The only trouble with you is th
'. there are not enough of you. We need ni
j more men of your class to handle this jol
I And he got them.
Brush worked for two years as a railw
? shop mechanic. He knows.
Big employers all agree that the forem
is the wall between them and their m<
He discourages ambition, dischargea go
men and keeps the employer ignorant
real conditions. The general tendency p
is to deprive the foreman of tho power
i discharge.
A large concern recently took a qu
; tionnaire canvass of the persons in its e
I ploy. It revealed many interesting cai
; of misplaced men who were held in boi
age by foreman or fear of them. A to
' maker worth 575 to $100 a week was c
| covered in a minor place, at $18 a we
j Some industrial change depriving him
: his former position, he had taken this p!.
i as makeshift, but knowing that he wo
be "fired" if he asked his foreman for
' better place, he kept quiet.
Employers everywhere are now study
i the problem of how to get closer to th
? men, to interest them in their work ?
their company and to create a democn
equality of opportunity. Gw?rally,
American employer thinks ihat democr,
zation of control and administration of
dustry'is a dangerous chimera, but he
convinced that he must find a way to
together with his men. Practical Christi
. ity appcals^to him as the way out.
Jim Ham Recants
!_!
(.From Tlie Scranton Republican)
The country was surprised during the
past week by a statement made by Senator
J. Ham Lewis, of Illinois, who was the
Democratic whip in the Senate which ad?
journed on the 4th of March last. Com?
pleting a tour of the West, Mr. Lewis ex?
pressed surprise that he found the Ad?
ministration so unpopular in that section
? of the country.
While a member of the Senate, previous
! to his defeat by Senator McCormick, there
i was no more ardent champion nor more
: ready apologist for the Administration
\ than Mr. Lewis. When other Senators
i were dismayed by demands made by the
| Administration and faltered in their al
i legiance the Senator from Illinois did not.
On that account his recent utterance will
send a chill to the spine of every friend
I of the President. It is the utterance of
i an ardent friend, not of a critic. He
j would not have made the confession had
not the proof been overwhelming. Even
? the chairman of the Democratic National
i Committee, Mr. Cummings, of Massa
: chusetts, will find his enthusiasm dampened
by Senator J. Ham Lewis's revelations.
There was resentment in the West, Mr.
; Lewis found, "against everything going or
? with the Administration at Washington,'
] but particularly because of Mr. Wilson'i
I complacent Mexican policy, his Russlar.
! policy, and because of his supposed lean
: ing toward a European alliance.
Mr. Lewis's utterances are regarded ai
| sincere, as a result of facts driven horn
j by evidence too clear to be denied. The;
are calculated to. cause many uneasy mo
ments for Administration champions.
Resourceful America
(from The Boston Globe)
Incidentally, it has been demonstrate!
again thnt thn people have plenty o
money to invest.
Russian Armies
By Leo Pasvolsky
Editor of the "Russkoye Slovo," tch$
has spent several months at
the peace conference
THE military situation in Russia, as far
as the Bolsheviki are concerned, is as
follows: They have %n army estimated
at 000,000 men, directed bv the generals of
the old Russian army, officered partly by the
officers of the old army and partly by 0f.
ficera imported from Germany. It has at
the present moment good artillery and large
supplies of ammunition. The government
has a possibility of forcibly mobilising a
very large number of men in the territorr
held by them. The supplies of ammunition
however, cannot be replaced and must
eventually give out. Their artillery, ac?
cording to expert information received from
Russia, is handled very inefficiently by
them ar?d is also bound to wear out.
Opposing these forces are the armies of
the anti-Bolshevik governments. The most
important of these armies is that mobilired
by the Omsli govsrnme-nt. On paper that
army numbers 300.000 men, but in reality it
is not more than 125,000. The rest cannot
be mobilized because there is a lack ofarrag
and equipment, but they can be called to
the colors the ?noment such arms and equip
ment arrive. These troops can constitute a
formidable force for the Volga and the Ural
fronts. At present they are fighting par
tlcularly around the city of Perm and are
expected to take the offensiv* some time
during the spring.
In the south there are several volunteer
and Cossack armies, under the supreme
command of General Denikine. These
armies grew out of th<? small ?orces organ?
ized by General KorTJloff early in the last
year, numbering at the beginning S.flOO or
4,000 men, fighting without bases and al?
most without ammunition, but gradually in?
creasing. At different times these volun?
teer armies were commanded by the most
'brilliant of the Russian generals Korniioff,
Alexeyeo, Kaledine and now by Denikine.
The number of men mobilized in the south
of Russia is nominally 250,000. Again, as in
the case of Siberia, these men can all be
called to the colors only if arms and am?
munition in -jufiicient quantities ire fur?
nished for them. The /lumber of troops
actually on the lighting line Is about 100,
000. They hold the Donetz coal basis, prac?
tically the only source of coal supply in
Russia, and the Kouban and the Don terri?
tory, constituting -Vie richest grain region
of Russia. Some parts of these troops are
found in the Caucasus, in the Crimea and
in other parts of Southern Russia.
The Russian army in the north of llussia
numbers at present 20,010 men. It is co?
operating with the Allied troops in the
north on the battle front in the southern
part of the government of Archangel. Be?
sides these principal armies there are small
detachments in Finland and in other parts
of Russia also operating against the Bolshe?
vik armies.
Thus the military situation, from the
point of view of the anti-Bolshevik forces, is
as follows: There are in diffemnt parts of
Russia armies numbering approximately
250,000 men actually under arms. There is
a possibility of recruitihg an equal or even
larger number of troops if arms and equip?
ment ?an be provided for them. The exist?
ing armlos, except in the northern part of
Rusia, are very poorly armed, have very
| little- artillery and win the victories that
they have won principally because they have
1 greater moral strength than the terrorized
and mercenary armies of the Bolsheviki.
The military situation in Russia is by no
I means hopeless from the point of view of
? the anti-Bolshevik elements, providing they
! receive the necessary arms and munitions,
? which cannot come except froji tfaa Allies.
! If a comparatively small ?orce of ?egular
troops from abroad be sont to tie Wli?t
ance of these armies their victory ove? the
Bolsheviki would be a spec j'y ins. If no
I troops but only arms and grinm'initie; are
j sent the victory would com?, arat it would
be delayed considerably.
Silver's Whirligig
(From The Rocky Mountain yews)
i
The price of saver Is reaching close to
the dream of the Colorado bimetallist of
a quarter of a century ago. It was the
time of the "free silver" agitation. We,
the people, demanded a return to the dcTlar
of our daddy that nao a dollar's yorth-of
silver in it. B..T silver was a rwcmodity"
and was ?ellYng ctt half as present price.
The dem ?d .vas tnat it snotiio bo a stand?
ard of vaUo aj tfiac its price woali doable.
It was argaed 'inat wiru s }rer '-a a ratio
of sixteen to one with gold, Colorado
would live nigh again and thi ?rorli would
floes to the Colorado hills in ??arch of
th? white meial.
It was ?(aimed in those days that s
conspiracy?the "crime of '73"?brought
?liver and Western mining to a low ebb,
and Congress and the President were peti?
tioned iu break tho conspiracy and restore
the doable standard.
But silver is reaching the bimetallic
price tnese days through s.? opo.i market.
As soon as the Executive hd.id was taien
off the white metal, whk'n heid it to a
dollar an ounce aa a favor to our Allies i"
tfrs war, che old law of Bupp?y an? demand
shot it up 10 cants an ouncu in a jir?y
Some person., predict silver at ?l.^O *n
ounce before long.
Somehow Cobrado is not overexcited.
The bills are not being searched for ne*
findj) capita, is hanging on t'.e traces re?
garding the reopening >f o?d mine?. W*
are not any longer an exclusive s'.ate; wt
I havo several ?r.lngs to tarn to.
Bum the moment there is asyurar.ee W
; Stability to silver si the presfnt price the
j mining districts of Colorado will take heurt.
j Perhaps tnls staco may discover another
. Leadvin? or Cre\?de or An'pen. Nevada has
j found -what Is torteen tn optimlstiJ quarters
; to be a secon? C/.n stock lod<j ac DlvM*
i However, if thore is no such lu A a* *
! new camp to make the blood run faster,
\ ther? la promise that the old districts ?".!'
i recover and iow graae ore? bearing s liver
| with lead and jlne can be mined at *
I profit, something that is Impossible ?t
present on account of the low prices
of
commodity metals and the high pt"cc
labor and materials required In minin*;.
of