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Returning the Railroads
A questionnaire, submitted to 13,424
editors and eliciting responses from
5,992, asked i i i whether public opinion
ir. their localities favored a return of
the railroads to private ownership and
operation; (2) if not, was ibis adverso
opinion based in part on a desire to see
competition in service and facilities re
stored; < ;' the general judgment con?
cern in :? the proposal to extend govern?
ment operation for live years.
On the first question 83 per cent voted
yes; on the second, 75 per cent; on the
third, 71 lier cent against extending the
period of government operation.
On the generalities of the railroad
question, if the editors correctly asress
public opinion, there is thus substantial
unanimity, for with the minorities are
reckoned all who arc. doubtful. The
American people have had a year and
one-half of McAdoo-Hines railroad man
agement, and they don't like it.
Rut this negative conclusion does not
carry far?helps little toward any af?
firmative solution. The question is not
bo much whether the railroads shall be
returned, but under what conditions. To
(urn them back under the conditions
that existed, phis the new adverse con?
ditions, would r,rivo little ground for hope
of improvement.
rhe railroads were in the breakers
when the government took them o%er.
''hoy liad lost two essential attri?
butes of private ownership. They con?
trolled neither their ''iconic nor their
outgo. Higher rates have added a bill?
ion t'i income, but expenditures, chiefly
in higher wages, arc up a billion and a
half. Private managers Would struggle.
nearly as vainly to reduce the balance
as government agents have dono. Rail?
road managers, whether public, or pri
vate, are not miracle workers and can
net draw rabbits from an empty hat.
The work of education on the railway
question is not finished. It is scarcely
begun. Having destroyed railway pros?
perity in one burst of hysterical unrea
: on, it will do no particular good to bun
dl them bark to their former owners in
another burst. No one seems seriously
i o want to invest money in or to keep
money in the railway business unless
??? ' a reasonable prospect, of pettine:
it bai k. The realities cannol be success
? ! i er cither at Washington
cf the committees work?
ing to bring government operation to
an end.
Must the Yeowoman Go?
There is opposition in the Naval Af?
fairs Committee of the House to the
continued enlistment of women in the
navy. There are now moro than eight
thousand filling yeomen's positions, and
naval officers testify to their efficiency.
emergency of war made their ser-*
vices exceedingly valuable. Should they
? * tined in time of peace? Those
?.??.ml have them dismissed do not
arguments. Thus,
Captain ' eigh, the acting chief of
t ? Bureau of Navigation, urged thai
? ' ? '?-.- ' ained for at least a year, Mr.
Butler, the chairman of the committee,
the retort, "Why don't
' !00 000 \ ? men in and let all
' ? men out of the navy?" But this is a
? iperficial reductio ad absurdum. No
pre'.led that a woman could
fil) any arid every pla :e.
;,''. doubt the appearance of women in
naval uniform wai a bit of a shock to
the public at first. Many refused to
e "yeomanettes" seriously.
'?';?? . of them looked very well in this
regulation attire, only slightly modified
to fit the sex of the wearer. Perhaps
mai :?? of them were attracted to the ser
: c for this reason. Tho war has
shown that "gold lace has a charm for
the fair" even when they wear it them
.. What with emergency aid, and
ariouft other war worker?, it seemed as
if half the women had discarded the cus?
tomary feminine garb. If in some cases
it was regarded as a sacrifice, there was
DO evidence to that effect. On the con?
trai;., the return to "civics" has often
.-< ? re ctant.
There will be a mil sing note of color
ia toe streets if the yeowomen disap?
pear. But there are other than aesthetic
reasons for keeping them in the ser?
vice? 7 hey arc not to be reckoned
as inertly Sir Josephus's sters and
eomini and aunts. "They rio all the
clerical work that men can do," says
Captain L*sigh, "and in many ca ses they
do it better." it. \v. idle to talk of unfair'
eompetitlon With m<n in these day?,
when the women are taking all sorts of
job3 and making good with them. Will
not the Naval Affairs Committee have a
heart and spare, oh, spare the yeo
woman?
Our AfW-the-P-eace Army
General March was nut indulging .in
hyperbole when he told the House Mili- :
tary Afi'airs Committee that it would be ?
impossible for the army to function un?
der the Hay law of 1916. It will have to
function under that law, after the peace
treaty is signed, unless Congress mod- ;
cruizes Mr.-Hay's bungling work.
The Hay act was pacifistic in inspira?
tion and reactionary in effect. It sought
to perpetuate the military system which
wc inherited from the era of the War of |
1812. It made the regular army a sort
of constabulary, doing duty in small
units and in a primitive police way.
Modern armies had raised their working
unit to the division?of from 12,000 to
18,000 men. Bui in our army, up to
1017, it was extremely difficult to collect
more than a couple of brigades?six or
seven thousand men?at any one point
or for any one occasion.
The Hay act permitted a moderate in?
crease in the strength of the regular
army, which might have boon expanded
in the course of live years to 17."?,000
men, if sufficient recruits liad been ob?
tainable. But Mr. Hay saw to it that (lie
old limitations on military efficiency .
were preserved. The army was prevent?
ed from developing into a rea! army. It
remained a shell?from the modern
point of view almost a toy.
As General March points oui, a return
to the Hay law would abolish the tank
corps, the air service, the motor trans?
port corps and various other new and
now essential service?. Inder the Hay
law, for instance, the air service was a
minor adjunct of the Signa! Corps. Now
it is the fourth arm of the military es?
tablishment, taking rank with the in?
fantry, the cavalry .and the artillery. It
could not survive if reduced to the petty
role assigned it in the army reorganiza?
tion of 1916.
Whatever its size hereafter, the regu?
lar army must be a highly trained or?
ganization, capable of lighting according
to up-to-date methods. The new combat
and auxiliary branches must therefore
be enlarged and the infantry must be
concentrated into divisional units,, in?
stead of being scattered far and vide in
tiny detachments, assigned to police
work. The Day maximum of 175,000 in
peace time has become inadequate. But,
worse than that, the w'noie Hay concep?
tion of what constitutes an army is obso?
lete.
It will take Congress some timo to
work out, a permanent military policy.
Bui while that problem is being solved
it would be foolish to relapse to ihr
status of three years ago. The army
and the country have far outgrown the
dwarfing provisions of Mr. [lay's Arca?
dian scheme.
Commercial Diplomacy
Mr. Hurley, of the Shipping Board, lias,
declared for the operation of the now
American merchant marine under a sy -
tern approximating to universal subsidy.
The ships are to be sold or leased to
operators, who are to be practically in
sured against, loss. On special routes, if
earnings do not at first suffice to meet i
charges, the Treasury is to assume the
deficit. Foreigners will scarcely consider
arrangements of such a character, which
would favor American trade, as making |
for "the establishment of an equality of
trade conditions.-'
Groat Britain, which for seventy-five
years has followed a policy of trade
equality, now considers a change. Colo?
nial preference, long talked of, seems
likely to come in some form. British
thought, morco'cr, does not run toward
giving to Germany a dumping place.
The license system, developed by war
necessities, will continue and nullify in
large measure "the most favored nation"
clauses of commercial treaties. Britain
must provide work for her demobilized
soldiers, and for industrial rehabilitation
something akin to protectionism may be
anticipated.
France seems firmly resolved not to
suffer again the alien economic permea?
tion which made her in many things a
German province. She lias listed certain
industries as "basic" and purposes to re?
serve them for her nationals.
Italy, economically the most dependent
of the principal European nations, hopes
to supply her coal deficiency by harncss
ing water powers and her lack of met?is
by developing ore bodies in her pos
?essions. The new Italy will struggle
bard to become self-sufficient, and this
does not mean "economic freedom."
The new Russia after Ik r present
crisis is. over will strive to keep out the
(J? rmans?to her a disintegrating pest.
As to the new nations, their fervid
patriotism will lead them to develop
economic independence for national
safety. In the new era more, rather
than less, trade barriers may be fore?
seen. Idealists will demonstrate tins
should not be so, but facts will continue
to be facts. For a number of years the
nations are likely to be highly suspi?
cious.
The old protectionism is losing strength
in this country, but tariff problems
are to be more acute and complex
than ever. We have need of commercial
diplomatist? of negotiators able to get
something for something. The solution
will be difficult, for the country is ill
supplied with men competent for the
work. Americans lovo general prin?
ciple:-;. Our theorists are not enough
opportuni ts, and our men of practical I
affair.'! are still handicapped by the
prejudice which afumes that anything |
they ask is wrong because a profit is
sought.
Consider what is implied by the policy
which says that the American who has
business abroad must not look to have
his establishments safeguarded. Or the
full depth of the folly displayed when
American railroad men were practically
told they must not build railroads in
China. Yet the onslaught on what was
called "dollar diplomacy" was popuiar.
The commercial diplomacy of the post?
war period demando a better under?
standing of many matters by the Ameri?
can public. Nations with internal bonds
tightened by the war may be expected
to be competitive as organized social
groups. Such is the outlook, and to pre?
pare American opinion will be a work
of great magnitude, calling for the re
visio i of many accepted ideas.
Miss Elsie Janis, A. E. F.
Many Americans did many admirable
tilings in the war, but we know of noth?
ing with greater muzzle velocity to cheer
and sene and inspire and heal than the
classic cartwheels and other poignant
drama enacted by Miss E'sie Janis for
the benefit of the A. E. F.
Noise of her doings has come back in
various forms. Young reporters have
written dithyrambs. Seaso;.-.d, grizzled
correspondent.-? took to sonnets. Buck
privates vie with colonels in expounding
just how Miss Janis entered an impro?
vised theatre in a railway repair shop
riding on the cowcatcher of a locomo?
tive. Often -usually?she did her pro?
gramme over and over again, ten times
in close succession, to as many audi
ences. And anybody who heard the
tenth performance saw just as much im?
mortal pep and inimitable grace and
charm as those who heard the first.
Tnere was no tiring Miss Janis. There
was no ?pot too weird, too impossible,
too close t'"> front lines or Gothas er
horrors or noise or danger to daunt her.
She had the spirit of the A. Ik F. to the
tip of her tongue and to the. last wheel?
ing toe. Our salutations to her on bet
safe return, a true artist and a brave
American.
No More "Riders"
The House Committee on Rules has
?nude an excellent start by refusing to
allow a daylight saving repeal amend?
ment to be fastened as a "rider" on
the agricultural appropriation bill. The
"rider" is a vicious device. The rules
of the House forbid general legislation
in an appropriation bill. The reason
for this prohibition is sound. Appropri?
ation measures have a right of way be?
cause they merely provide money to do
work estimated for or already author?
ized by law. Restrictions on the content
of appropriation bills ''acu?tate their
passage by eliminating contentious mat?
ter. Different rules govern the consid?
eration of general legislation. It is,
therefore, a clear violation of the House
and Senate codes to fasten general legis?
lation on money bills. II also open.; the
way to demoralizing log-rolling and
favoritism.
In Avar all rules are suspended. Much
general legislation was saddled on the
appropriation measures m 1917 and
1918. But the war emergency is over.
The daylight saving repealers empha?
sized that fact by bringing their propo?
sition forward. Yet the Committee on
Rules in the last House treated the re?
peal as if it was, in fact, a war meas?
ure and helped to rush it through last
February without any pretence of pub?
lic discussion
The daylight repeal bill ought to
have no move privileges than the Calder
daylight saving act had when it was
under consideration. It should be
parsed, if it is passed, in the established
way, subject. ! i ordinary delay and de?
bate. We are satisfied that the support
it seems to have in the House is facti?
tious. But, in view of the alleged
strength of that support, the Committee
on Rules did a courageous thing in re?
fusing to waive the anti-rider regulation
for its benefit. This is a good begin?
ning. It encourages the belief that for
this Congress, at least, the offensive
1 legislative "rider" has been dismounted.
Danish Mary surely is entitled t?i a
small part of that consolation prize, or
is she to remain the unrewarded heroine'.'
The "old diplomacy" that is menacing
the world again was made in Germany.
The Wheat Harvest Problem
i i ,, m Tho Topcka Capital)
Harvesting a. two hundred million bushel
wheat crop is a serious problem which Kansas
faces, i" be accomplished within a few weeks.
When! cutting cannot be put ?>tT. State Farm
Labor Director Frizel], of Lamed, culls for
220,000 men to harvest the crop, more than
half <?!' this immense army of worker;-, to be
broughl m from o tin r ; at? . There are
i:II in the army, unavailable for harvest
hand . neue than twice as many Kansas
. men as a year ago, ami Kansas therefore
! is shorthanded to an extent that it has
nev< r be? n before.
With high wages in other occupations it is
not, easy to induce men to come into the
wheal harvest. The pay i Rood enough, but
the job doe ? not attract men who have per?
manent employment. For harvest hand-,
Kansas must rely largely on former men in
tho S. A. T. ('.
"If the wheat isn't harvested as. soon as it
I is ripe, it is lost,'" Mr. Frizel) told Kansas
City thin week. "We can put off our corn,
our hay and our alfalfa, but we can't put off
wheat. The crop thi:i year iu ? :, ? : 11 j- to be
worth $476,000,000."
It is worth a supremo effort to save the
whole of it.
A Question of Vermin
-/ rom flu I..:,: i! i City Stai )
A N'ew Jersey town ?a reported to havo
kept itself free of Bolshevism by threatening
to wash nny red card agitator found within
its limits.
The Conning Tower
AN ATHALETIC ROM'NCE
TTal Hawker was a gladiator.
He soldered up his radiator
And claimed the ocean bridgeable
By 'plane-, if not dirigible.
He picked a good locality
And warned the Admiralty.
i'il wager all I have he ate
Before he tried to aviate,
lie banked op neither Spanish
Tramp schooner?, Dutch nor Danish.
Ii' ha could on the ground land ?
The Azores or Newfoundland?
Escape without a wound,
Nor have his engine ruined,
And follow the equator
With unclogged carburetor,
He'd get his rivals' goat,
inspire a many a poet,
, He'd boost the old* Rolls-Royc?,
And cop Alf Harmsworth's purse.
So he seared above the drink,
Amazed his land and king,
And brown as any berry
Was picked up by the Mary.
All honor to Hal Hawker!"
1'il say that bird's a corker.
C. A.
If Prohibition were put to a popular vote
there is a chance that more people would
vote for it than against. It; but the day?
light raving repeal bill would be defeated
by a 10 to 1 majority. The only cla^s op?
posed to daylight saving?except some of
the farmers- are the tennis reporter?.
When a match doesn't end until 8:30, and
the courts are at least an hour from the
shop, it takes speed and adroitness for the
reporter to have his copy in by 9:30?which
is (ho sporting page deadline these hurried
ovrninjrs.
Variety's (?olden Dajs
Sir: How many of your readers ever
saw Dave Warfield do a female impersona?
tion ? Vet ? remember him well, way back
in 1890 er thereabouts, doing a specialty in
"O'Dowd's Neighbors" at. the Windsor
'Theatre, Bowery and Canal Street. Mark .
Murphy was the star of the show, and
Warfiold appeared in a Jimmie Russell
makeup and gave an Irish servant girl's
impressions of Sarah Bernhardt.
.lust a few blocks north of the Windsor
was Harry Miner's, a popular burlesque
house. Sum Bernard was a part owner
of "fhe Broadway Burlesquers," and in
the company were McAvoy and May, who
aftdrward appeared on Broadway. On the j
right end of the chorus (it numbered ten
in those days) ivas a big blonde, with a
powerful contralto voice. Can any of your
readers remember her as Emma Carus?
Sam Dcvere i>ai:g shady songs, But in his I
company was a wonderful musical artiste.
Lillie Western. She played "Then Vou'll
Remember Me" on ?he bells, and finished ;
her act with tho "Poet and Peasant" over
ture on the xylophone. Peter F. Dailey
was a member of ihe "Horseshoe Four," \
and Rill;.' Van as a bellhop appeared fun
nier to me than he did last year as the ;
star of "The Rainbow Girl" at. the New
Amsterdam.
And two blocks further north was the
London Theatre, another popular home of
burlesque. What a how] the regular
patrons made when a speculator made his
ln*s 1 appearance and sold the. first five rows
regularly 50c?for 60c- Weber and
Fields brought a "straight, variety" com?
pany of eight numbers here every year.
H' ides the stars, who did their famous
pool table sketch, Johnny Carroll sang "I
Loved You Better Than Von Knew," Lottie
Gil o>\ "The Little Magnet," sang "Little
Willie Know .lust What to Do." Staley
a:"! Drummoud did a musical act in a black
simith shop and then made an instant
transformation into a ballroom, and Maude
Hutli did a single. Later on she doubled
vv with Bill} Clifford, the first of the "silly
ass" lypc. I remember his blank stare
and t'n laugh when he asked his partner
"Well, it" you had a sister, would she care
for Charlotte Russe?" One burlesque com
pany (the name escapes met liad on its
roster Matthews and Bulsrer, Hie De Wit;
Sisters and Will West. They all appeared
later on in Broadway productions. One
comedy quartet had Jack Gardner, later of
"Mme. Sherry" fame, and Al Shean, who
is now pla> ing Sam Bernard's former part,
m "Friendly Enemies'' at the Hudson
Theatre. And John and Harry Kernell?
Well, what's the use of lamenting?
W. J. S.
I'm;- ir;.;,, (hat did the musical black
; ?nit.h ac* ?n our day was- Staley and Bir
beck. We fail to recall Billy Clifford's
Charlotte Russe pair, but if he sprang it he
must have lifted it from "Lord Dundreary."
The pleasures of the memory, as M. T. I
Cicero used to say, are not surpaasable; I
which accounts for tin- fact that contribs !
enjoy writing their variety show remi?
niscences. We enjoy reading 'em, for one,
and as thin Plinth of Piffle is constructed
with no other thought than our own de?
light, we shall keep printing them as long
as they continue to amuse and thrill.
Variety acts may not have improved In
the past twenty-live years, but automobile
service stations, fountain pcn3, coaster
brakes, linotyping, and safety razors are
much better than they were in 1894.
I Gotham Gleanings J}:
--lt'.-? a boy at Dave Lawrence's
and Dave is handing out the cigars.
Jimmy Montague lias left the
I employ of Will llearst and is about
, to buy a new auto.
?(.'.cue O'Conn?ll's little girl,
. Patricia May, was 1 mo. old yes?
terday.
-? Frank Butler of Xcw Rochelle
motored up to the Adirondack Mts.
i ,\ cr the recent holidays.
Jack ( alder of l tica and the ;
I Motor Park near St. Nazaire will be
: married _' wks. from to-morrow to |
1 Miss Pauline Carmichael of Spring
I field, Mass.
Frida\ was Decoration Day for j
lots of folks, but it was just Friday j
!> ,|- v c scribe.
Pert Green of Mt. Vcrnon is
? [lending .?> wks. in Gotham.
? News arc scarce at this writing.
?Here it is June again, one of
the best known of the months.
Mac", husband calls it the Ladies' Home
Journal, Marion the Ladies' Home Journal,
and the s. y. t. nt the newsstand the Ladies'
Home Journal. And Mac wonders whether
there may not be a clew here-a subcon
sciou lipping on the gas at the Sign of
the Psychic Interest. Not. that it matters.
For example, some say last line.
j And some last live. F. P. A.
Self-Gagged
By \V. '
Of tk? American Alliance
This is the conclusion of a
Ghent has examined in detail tl
New Republic," "The Nation,"
in relation to the publication oj
THE last of the "liberal" periodicals
clamorous for the "truth about
Russia" to be considered here is "The
Survey." For the service of "The Survey"
in its proper field of representing and re?
porting the work of the various social
agencies of the country I have only praise.
1 am concerned here only with its newly
added r?le of furthering Bolshevist propa?
ganda.
A careful search of the issues from No?
vember 2 to April 5 reveab a vast deal of
Bolshevist matter, but an almost total ab
senco of anything unfavorable to Bolshe?
vism. In a letter to the editor printed In
the issue of January 11, a correspondent,
though fa.oring the Bolshevist programme,
censures the Bolsheviki for having aban?
doned the war and risked a German vic?
tory. In another letter in another issue a
correspondent is permitted to enter a brief
explanation in defence of the Czecho?
slovaks.
That is the total. If there is anything
more it has eluded my careful search.
Out of all the masses of testimony; out of
the piles of documents, official and un?
official, out of the many statements of
Bolshevist journals confirmatory of ac?
cusations against, the existing r?gime
"The Survey" admits to its columns dur?
ing this period not a line, not a word, to
which L?nine could reasonably object.
Spare for Bolshevist Matter
But it finds ample space for Bolshevist
matter. A year ago its policy wa3 evi?
dently unformed. On July 27, in an article
by Arthur Gleason on the British Labor
party conference on June 26-28, it quoted
briefly regarding the Bolsheviki from both
Kerensky and Branting. Then followed a
long, long silence. The silence was broken
on November 16 by a non-committal sec?
tion on Russia in a long article by Ed?
ward T. Devine, In the issue of December
tl a correspondent complains that the
periodical had so far published no "thor?
oughgoing and comprehensive article"
dealing with the soviet government. The
reminder was not without effect; and
though the particular thing asked for has
no! been given, thorp have been columns
and pages of outright Bolshevist propa?
ganda.
In the issue of January 11 appeared a
Bolshevist account of the Intercollegiate
Socialist Society annual dinner in New
York City, stressing the demand for "in?
formation about. Russia"; two letters to
the editor, one of which complained about
the. misrepresentation of Russian condi?
tions ? presumably by the "capitalist"
pr?ts i, an?! an editorial or sub-editorial
on the publication by "The Nation" of the
soviet constitution.
The Suggestive Method
It ig in this last-named composition that
the tyro in the science of apologetics may
learn the value of insinuation over misrepre?
sentation. We are told that the document
"contain:? no compromise whatever between
the democracy as understood by 11.e Bol?
shevik philosophy and that promulgated
by Western nations"; that "complete, free?
dom of assembly and of press is assured";
i.nd that "there is, at any rate not in this
constitution, any suport for the assump?
tion the central government, is animated
by a desire to assume autocratic control."
Now if the editorial writer on "The
Survey" had been assiduous in gathering
that real information about Russia which
he professes to yearn for, he would know
that the Bolshevist leaders and the Bol
shevist press moke no pretence of de?
mocracy -that they have expressly and re?
peatedly renounced it, llr> would know
further that there has he?!' no freedom
of speech and pr?s:; under the soviet con?
stitution, and that the fact is admitted
by the Bolsheviki themselves. And ho
would also know that the central power
under the present rulo ?3 an oligarchy;
that it denies participation in government
to disaffected elementa and that it crushes
by force the numerous revolts against its
authority. Yet he has sought to suggest
to the credulous that the rule of the Bol?
sheviki is a mere variant of democracy
as it is known to the Western nations, and
that because certain fundamental viola?
tions of democracy are r.ot expressly pro?
vided for in the soviet constitution, there?
fore they arc not practised.
These four "liberal'' periodicals, "The
New Republic," "The Nation," "The Dial"
and "The Survey," have much to tay, from
time to time, of the rigidity of the official
censorship. Vet this censorship has, as they
admit, sometimes unintentionally permit?
ted a forbidden matter to pass. One may
imagine with what painstaking security the
editorial censorship on things Russian is
Fake Heroes
By Wilbur Forrest
CKOBLENZ, Germany, May 10.?"The
^j Ameroc," the American Army of Oc?
cupation's official daily newspaper,
which voices the sentiments of those who
guard the Rhine bridgehead, prints the fol?
lowing editorial in its issue of May 5:
"Beside:; the Bolshevist liars that arc
abroad in the States trying to detract from
the heroic acts of men who played impor?
tant roles in the A. E. F., one must not
lose sight of the fact that there are many
men in and out of uniform, who have never
aeen service, doing gross injustice to the
men who came overseas and fought the
war.
"These are the men who wear service and
wound chevrons to which they are not en?
titled. This type is greatly in the minori?
ty in the part.they play in tearing down
public opinion, public regard for the men
who deserve merit for their sendees.
"Most dangerous is the man who lands
on the dock and immediately begins blow?
ing his horn in the newspapers of how he
won the war single-handed. Scores of these
liars have already been uncovered and
scores more will be publicly branded as
falsifiers when tin- members of the Third
Army return home.
"Nothing is more encouraging to the con?
scientious objector or the lady-flnger-eat
"Liberals"
r. Ghent
for Labor and Democracy.
: series of articles in which Mr.
he four "liberal" -weeklies, "The
"The Dkd" and "The Survey,"
" facts about Russia.
? practised when in the case of three of
i these periodicals it obtains a virtually total
exclusion of even a suggestion unfavorable
1 to Bolshevism, and in the case of the fourth
| an exclusion of everything except what is
regarded as harmless. If there is any chap
' ter in the history of American journalism
j more disgraceful than that furnished by
j these periodicals, I do not know where it
! is to be discovered.
j The four "liberal" periodicals treated
j are the leaders of the Bolshevist propa
? ganda in America. The radical or extremist
? press takes from them its cue and a large
part if its material. Of course, it carries
the argument further. No mealy-mouthed
camouflage of words disguises its attitude
: regarding the establishment of soviet gov
; eminent in America. It is for just that
' thing. But in the matter of the suppres?
sion or distortion of the facts about Russia
it. plays exactly the game of the perodicals
of "light and loading."
With the Radicals
i
The romantic anarcho-socialist "Libera?
tor," the doctrinaire Socialist "Radical
I Review," "The Class Struggle" and "The
! Socialist Labor People," the I. W. W.
! "New Solidarity" and "The Rebel Worker,"
! the Left-Wing Socialist "Revolutionary
| Age," the regular Socialist "Daily Call,"
"Eye Opener,"' "Milwaukee Common?
wealth," "Oakland World," "Ohio Socialist"
and "Los Angeles New Justice" are all, with
certain doctrinal reservations here and
there, for soviet ism in America. I do riot seo
the "Volksiseitung" and the Jewish "For?
ward," but I presume that they are at one
- with their journalistic comrades. Even "The
' Appeal to Reason," which up to last No
j vombcr was opposed to sovietism and was
! willing to print real information about
! Russia, has ?witched about, and with Upton
' Sinclair as chief editorial Bolshevist, has
closed its columns to everything but the
] sort favorably censored by "The New Re?
public,'' "The Nation," "'I he Survey" and.
"The Dial."
They are not at peace with one another?
these advocates of sovietism in America.
They chant the same tune on the blessings
; of Bolshevism and the alleged lying of the
? "capitalist" press, and they practise the
' game of suppression and distortion with a
marvellous uniformity. But as to how,
? when and by whom sovietism is to be in?
troduced, they are in angry and vociferous
I disagreement. The Socialist Labor party
I "People," in commenting at great length on
(he strife between the Left-Wingers ami
; (lie Right-Wingers in the Socialist party.
' calls it a case of "swine rending swine."
"The Revolutionary Age," a Left-Wing ex
1 ponent, keeps up a running lire on the
! Right Wing, on the Socialist. Labor party,
i on the i. W. W. and on the "bourgeois
; liberals," otherwise the former members of
? the Socialist party who left that organiza?
tion because of its attitude on the war. Of
course the Right-Wingers are not silent;
nor are the I. W. W.
No Guarantees
There is not one of these groups that
would nol, on the moment of coming to
power, abolish every one of the ordinary
: guarantees oT freedom. There is not one
| of them which would not, in its determina
j lion to hold on, rcr-oric to the intimidation
\ of force; and the ?lightest word of c.\
! postulation from any o: t?cese scntimen
! talists of the "liberal'' press who had fed
1 ami nourished this thing, but who now
j "realized that it wan something more than
they had counted on," would bring down
: upon the protestant. ;t swift vengeance.
"Freedom of speech," "the rights of minor?
ities," "self-determination," arc phrases
for present use: the fanatics who "revolu?
tion with rosewater" would abandon them
: the moment power was achieved. The
! cynical apology for repression, "you can't
win a revolution with rosewater," would be
heard instead; and it would be immediately
apparent that the only minority that has
rights of self-determination and freedom
of speech is that minority sheltered by
bayonets.
Bolshevism is terroristic reaction. It is
i an old foe. with a new face. It. is the thing
. thai labor, both radical and moderate, has
steadfastly fought against since the days
( of Bakunin. Under unique conditions, un?
paralleled in the world's history, it has
achieved power in Russia. Sentimentalists,
? faddists, Utopians, enthralled by the magic
of a momentous and remote happening, are
? chanting its praises; and revolutionary ex?
tremists are proposing its world-wide c>:
tension. The issue is clear; and labor,
which has most to lose from social disin
1 tegration and demoralization, cannot do
else but throw its united strength against
| this menace to civilization.
j ing lounge lizard, who stayed at home, than
'. to see stories of fake heroism perpetrated.
Every story of this kind printed cause.; the
genuine hero to be doubted when he ar
rives on the scene.
"The folk;-, at home are getting fed up
I on the fake hero stories. It is getting -. >??
according to recent letters received from
the States from men who wer-- decorated
, for their bravery while m the A. i . ! ,
' that a real soldier is discredited in c -rtain
j quarters until he can produce creden
, But there arc men now out of uniform who
; even show decorations and claim to have
won them, when in reality they ? -nt the
: last two years simply ge?. ;::-g the b? ne it
of military training in some comfortable
. barracks back in the States.
! "Is there not a need of legislation which
? will permit the punishment of faker.-, along
? this line? And if there is legislation, why
I are the men who are back to en il life ly?
ing about glorious deeds they alleged they
[ accomplished not punished? A law that
not enforced is not a law. The War De
1 partment is not to blame, for after ?\ man
I leaves the ranks he is without the pale of
j military jurisdiction in these matters.
"It is the duty of every man in the A. E.
: F. to expose these fakers when he goes
| home. While he is here he should expose
: them by letters. Bring the attention of
editors to tying interviews yon see printed
! in your home paper. For liars should not
J reap the reward of the brave. Valor
does not live in fakers."
Saving Daylight Spoils
the Cow
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I wish to say a word in reference
to your article of this morning on page 12
of The Tribune, entitled "Daylight Saving
Imperilled." I have no objection as a resL
dent of New York City to the daylight sav.
ing plan, but I am the owner of a dairv
farm in upper New York, and as a dairy
farmer I am very much opposed to the day.
light saving law and am absolutely in favor
of its being repealed.
In your article you make the one scnsibl?
suggestion that has ever been made con?
cerning dairy farmers in connection wjth
this law, and that is that the train schedule
for milk should be run one hour later, or
by sun time. This one thing would make the
life of the dairy farmer livable, but when
you consider that the dairy farmer must
get up in the morning under the new law
at 3:30 by sun time, and that every dairy
burn has to be lighted by electric or gas
lights, as the case may be, in order that the
farmer may have light enough to milk and
feed his cows, you will not be so insistent
upon the saving of gas and electric light for
the ordinary housekeeper. As a matter of
fact, the housekeeper in the city does not
save anything in the way of lights during
the summer by the clock being turned for?
ward. Those residing in the city only gain ?
by getting a better use of their late after?
noons and evenings, but this is quite beside
what I consider the greatest evil of all, and
this evil is done to the cow herself, and as a
result the farmers lose millions of dol'ars
thereby. All animal life lives according to
sun time. You cannot change their habita
by turning the clock forward.
Cow?, in order to give the most efficient
service in the dairy business, must be milked
at exact periods of twelve hours each. If
, you milk the cow in the morning at 4:30
you must milk her in the afternoon at 4:30;
if you milk her in the morning at 5, she
i must be milked in the afternoon at 5, etc
; To disturb a cow in tho morning before her
rest H completed means a loss of milk, and
j to disturb her again in the afternoon means
;? ?neater loss. Cows graze through the c^ol
I of tli3 forenoons and go and lie down in
i the shade in the middle of the day and
j until 4 o'clock or 4:00 in the afternoon, thus
! being able to masticate their food of the
? morning and to rest in the coolest possible
i places away from the worst ravages of their
j arch enemy, the fly, after which they of
their own accord get up and feed again.
Under the daylight saving law the cow
; must be disturbed every morning and every
! afternoon. It makes no difference what you
? do with the clock, the cow goes to bed again
| with the sun after the cool of the evening
has come on. She does not go to bed by the
clock, and if she is disturbed an hour earlier
every morning, an hour is taken on' of her
night's rest. This does not happen just one* I
day, becauie Hie cow does not get uted to
this, sort of r?gime. No matter what time
she gets up in the morning she goes to bed !
at night at the same hour. 1( is again so
after the forenoon's browse, she 1 es down i
at an exact hour by tite sun to "chew lier j|
cud ' or masticate her food and thus accojd- I
ing to the new law ?he is again disturbed ,
a1 3:30 by the sun time in the afternoon, I
the very hottest time, and must be made to I
pet up, and stie is driven in by the farmer
to the barns without having the oppoi
for her hour's browsing in the afternoon.
Any one with the slightest bit of sc rctifiq
thought can see at once the effect of 'his
daily disturbing o?" (he cow upon the flow
of her milk. I caused to be made a* my farm
last summer a careful investigation and
trial upon my herd of cows, and by the new
regime the cow gave an average of two
quarts of milk less per day than if not dis?
turbed and left to go by tihe old law. This
I attribute absolutely to the disturbing of j
the cow twice a day and the curtailing of j
her rest. If any one doubts this, just let i
him go out into the country and hunt tip the 1
cows af :?::J0 n the afternoon by the sun j
t;mc. He will find the condition just as I I
said, and he will pity the cow as lie drives j
her the half-mile to a mile across the burn- J
ing sun-heated pastui'es to her barn, j
Now, supposing there are 300,000 cows in I
the State of New York, and each cow by I
being thus disturbed give3 an average of I
two quarts less of milk per day, what would I
be the financial loss to the farmer thereby? j
It would be the value of 600,000 quarts of 1
milk, would it not? So that in the summer's i
season more money is lost to the farmer than
any one could possibly imagine without sit?
ting down and putting it. in figure.-.
The effect produced upon the cow in rela?
tion to her rest is produced upon ai! oth'?
animal life. All animals rise in the morn*
ing and go to bed at nicht by sun time, and
under the "daylight saving" law every hors*
that works on the farm must be di I irbed
before his rest is over eery solitary morn?
ing. There is something more in life than
accommodating humanity: we must take into
consideration also the feelings of animal
life. We cannot govern the habits of animal
life. They learned with the beginn ng w
time to lie down and sleep when darkne*
came on and to arise with the dawn. T"
change their habits is an Impossibility, st1
that if we disturb an animal one hour before
his rest is completed in the morning we havf
taken away one hour of that anima '.- igMfr
rest every night.
If the railroads and handle!
products would consent to run their i-'-:"
trains according to the winter schedule an?
the farmers be made to understand that tb*J
were not expected to run their farm >y ?!"
daylight saving law, there would be no hal*
done the farmer through this law. The 's*
in itself, if it must be obeyed by the farrWfi
is the most deplorable injustice thai M*
ever been jvul upon any singlt class "?
people.
Then there is another tiling, the
must have >r<ivr- rest in ght, and ?r he mu*
get up m the morning at 4:30, winch hoi'
compelled to do, he must go to bed at S:<>u
but under the daylight saving law he fc?'
to go to bed at 7:30 by sun time, which '5
oftentimes before the Bun has gone do**
Any one can readily understand that <w
farmer who has worked the whole day !on*
under the tcrnric heat rays of the sun. <*"
get very little rest by going to bod befo?
the sun has yet Rone down and the evenitf
partly cooled off.
The men who are crying so strongly 'e
the daylight saving law should be cornp?^
to go out on the farm and Hvo for a vtt'
and follow the farmer around in his d?11
tasks. They would t,oon rind out th? ter*
riblc injustice that is done the farmer.
WILLIAM WADE HINSHA? .
' New York, May 28, 1919. J
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