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The Unknown Text
Information concerning the "lost,
Btrayed or stolen" text of the peace
treaty builds up. The document exista.
::?? t merely in Germany, where copie3
sell for half a marlc, but here?in the
United States of America.
N r alone in the cecretest archives of
the State Department, behind walls of
1, with the' combination to
the huge lock known only to the Acting
Secretary.
w York. Senator Lod^e has
seen il nator Borah has heard of
lt, and they are credibly informed that
than six copies have reached
ivate hands. Senator
Borah adds the grisly detail that one
has reached Wall Street and was
discussed al a board meeting of a cor?
poration !
days whose torridity
ts the dog days, no one would
. ?? t?> peruse a book of
\ itb contents not exactly
summer fiction. But there is interest in
this latest demonstration of "open cove
r.ants of peace, openly arrived at."
How far Senator Lodge proceeded in
does not say, but far
enough, it appears, to stir his curiosity.
. thei i are important sections
in the treaty that were not touched in
the summary.
Despite the intimations of deliberate
concealment, it is simply inconceivable
that the summary, when compared with
the treaty itself, will be found to have
rhe work may have been im
.,: i )abilities are against
i garbling. These at Paris
were aware the text ultimately would be
1. : .. e and Great Britain
appear to have had the same summary.
Not Our White Elephant
Mr. Henry .?'. irgenthau, former Am
i Turkey, has explained that
r 22. American mandate over
. Anatolia and Armenia
does n >t i :? raplate a unification of
these tl .'? e sections of the Turkish Em?
pire into a single "backward" state. He
says that his project involves the as
sumption by the United States of three
separate mandates?one for the Con?
stantinople district, one for Anatolia
- . ? Armenia. But in order to
V administration the same Gov
wot 1 I cxecute all three mandates,
serving as an economic link between the
three m
Thi.i explanation relieves in part the
obviou.-? difficijlties and injustices of an
attempt to merge the Christian Armeni
ana and the Moslem. Anatolians in one
politieal community. But it does not
cure them. Oil and water would mix as
readiiy as these two races. What is
needed most in Asia Minor is a barrier to
keep the Turks and their age-long vic
? ?:. Even an economic co
partnership would probably bc highly
.. to both.
? er serious obstacle to an
Americai for Anatolia. That
made to Italy by France
an I G in the Treaty of Lon?
don. ? IX of the treaty reads:
. Gn it Bril tin and Russia
' he fact that Italy
. in mauitaining the politieal
power in tho Mediterranean,
ai ' '? ' t to take over, when Turkey
'? bi . ??? por ii n equal to theira in
' ? '22 in that .part
' n tl e Provincc cf Adalia,
I ?' acquired special
:.'?" sts, laid down in the
c< ? enl:' ? . The zone to
. to [taly will, in due course,
'"?' ' ? with the viul in?
terests ?f France and Great Britain. In
the i- ? ? way rcgard must be had for the
? ?? oi [taly, even in the event of
: lintau ing for a further
ty of Asiatic
? ? ? cd ?-?- to map om
? an ong themseh .-s.
of '-'-;?:.. o, Great Britain and
,- ".<? prenont war
at - Tnrkey, the whole dis?
trict ? < ? Adalia, and denned
above .: greater detail, Hhall be rescrved
u> 1-':i :?'. ??? ?? r< ervei the right to oc
f . ? ; i ? "
Great ? w:. ri e was expressed by rome
of thc Paris corr*5apondentf> recently
wh?n led I roop on I; e outhern
?' ia Minor. But she waa
''?'?? - -: to do o under her agree
mer;t:i with the other major KnU-nto pow
ern. And lt \t hnr<i to ??<?<? how France
and (,ri:^. Britain, if they accept man?
date* for Lebanon, Syria, Paleutine and
Mesopotamia, can avoid giving Italy a
mandatti f'-r a part of Anatolia.
Mr. ' pJan involvea a nulli
fication of the Treaty >,f London to Italy'i
dayMment. The United Statea could not
v/ejl afford to acc?pt a mandate made
possible hy the violation of an unim
paired treaty. We should also have on
our hands ln Anatolia a population
utterly alien to American ideas and
methods, troublesome, intractable and
burdened with debt. There may be much
to be said in favor of an American trus
teeship for Armenia or for the Constan?
tinople district. But Anatolia is cer?
tainly a white elephant, which we don't
want to adopt and ration.
Victory for Women
Victory for women came as it should,
calmly, quietly, by overwhelming vote.
Those who still see some chance of de
feating suffrage in the states lose sight
of this inevitable sweep of public opinion
which has foreed the measure through
our most conservative legislative body by
a two-thirds vote. If the change rested
upon a small propaganda, however in
tense, or the machinations of politicians,
there might yet be doubt. But the irre
sistible force of the popular will is un
mistakable. Women will gain their full
rights, not beeause of any group of men
or women, but beeause the whole nation
is ready for the move and persuaded of
its necessity.
It is a far cry from those first eager
woman's rights pioneers to the present
broad resolve. A distinct flattening of
enthusiasm is the obvious accompani
ment of such success. So runs the timc
table of debate in every popular move?
ment First come the tense forerunncrs,
visionary and jpdomitable. In how
many cases are they following false
trails and perish, leaving no trace! A
breed apart in every case. To few plain,
everyday mortals is it given "to hunt
upon their shining trails." The simile
of the pioneer carries through with ac
curacy. Only if the bold adventurer dis
covers a habitable and worthwhile land
will the trek of settlers follow first the
mero adventurers, finally the great
stream of open-minded folk, till only the
hold-fasts and sit-by-the-fire immovablcs
are left in the old places.
Now that the day is practically won it
is easy to be lenient and generous with
the unbudgeable conservatives. Per
spective is very hard to get in the making
of a reform and absurdly simple when
the height is gained. We need every ele
rnent in a popularly ruled nation to se?
cure debate and prevent error. Turn a
nation over to its pioneer3, however sin
cere and high minded, and it would not
last a generation. We must have every
quality of human brain contributing its
testimony. Modern psyehology helps ex- ?
plain why. Reason, sheer thought, can
of itself decide hardly any of the great
human problems that determine an indi
vidual's or a nation's success or failure.
Observed facts and reasoned conclusions
can carry us part way; always there re
mains a no man's land that we must cross
by instinct, by deep faith and underlying
emotion, relying upon those tides of will
and judgment which are our inmost
selves of character'and race. In form
ing the considered judgment of a nation
on any such fundamental issue as suf?
frage we must act not only upon theory
and fact, but upon the trend of our whole
peopie, conservative and radical alike.
Looking backward, it is easy to see
that suffrage could not have come much
sooner than it did?or would have
amounted to little if it had come before.
It is to the everlasting credit of the first
suffragists that they had the practical
wisdom to fight not only for the distant
goal but for the taking of each small po?
sition logically needed on the way. The
higher education of women was the foun?
dation of much later progress. As new
generations of trained women came to
maturity in increasing numbers the task
became increasingly easy. The women's
clubs movement gave another vast im
pulse. And underlying all these surface
advances was the great economic shift of
women into the wage earning classes,
which the war brought to a suclden and
patriotic fruition.
The enthusiasm of the contest is dying
out as final success draws near. We
have left only another sure but slight
gain in the long struggle of peoplcs to
order their ways more wisely. The pio?
neers have passed tn to other venture?.
To the nation falls the slow task of turn
ing the new territory to account and
drawing from it the best that in it lies.
Worried Mr. Taft
In another column is a letter from
Henry W. Taft in which he sceks to
broak the force of the deduction The
Tribune recently drew from a statement
in which he hatf said:
"Undoubtedly reservations w?;ich do not
purport to amend but only to interpret
treaties do not constitute such a change
in the terms of the treaties themselves
as to rerjuire ratitieation hy the other
partirs."
Tho Tribune remarked on this that
Mr. Taft was doubtless aware of the
width of the door he had opened; under
the name of reservation practically any?
thing could be injected, if thero wore no
; objection. Now Mr. Taft seems to com
( plain beeause there was no quotation re
ferring to his subsequent contention that.
rcservations which introduced substan
tial changes would be amendmont.s and
require the subrnission to the other par
tiea. The omission was of no conse
quence, and in any event the point was
fairly covered hy implicntion.
That Thr- Tribune fully covered this
phase of the matter appears from the
following (which Mr. Taft does not
quote) in ita article:
"And who may object in the present
inKtance? The President, nf course; but
ohjectinif or construing the reservntionn
nn a defoat of ratification, he would take
on himself the responsiblllty of tcarlnc
up the wh'de trenty or of rnllint; for a
reansprnhly of the peaco conferonco,
Does Mr. Taft, knowln# what. he does
about America, think the President would
do this? Objection may also come from
other nations. But does Mr. Tnft, know
ing what he does about international af?
fairs, think any other nation would ob?
ject if the practical consequences would
be to postpone the peace?"
As to what will pass as a reservation.
if the President or any one else with
authority protests, is shown hy the rati
fying resolution of the Algeciras con?
vention. This resolution declared that
by ratification the United States was
"without purpose to depart from the
traditional American foreign poliey
which forbids participation by the
United States in the settlement of polit?
ical questions which are entirely Euro?
pean in their scope." Language could
scarcely be more broad. If this annex
did not postpone the ratification of one
treaty, can it be said the annex of a
similar proviso to the pending treaty
will necessarily postpone it?
What, then, dismissing refinements,
! does Mr. Taft drive. at? It may be sur
: mised that what hc really objects to is
j a transfer to the White House of the
j choico of postponing peace or of accept
! ing rcservations. He has campaigned
for the idea that it is necessary to ac?
cept tjie covenant without blotting a
comma, and it is, perhaps, not easy for
him to see that the shoe may squeeze
another foot.
Bobby Ashe
This is the tale of Bobby Ashe. The
first knowledge of him came when an
infant's cry was heard in an ash-can of
Mount Vernon. There he was. He re
posed not on feathers, but on cinders.
Lifted out and given the ablutionary
treatment recommended to Betsy Trot
wood by Mr. Dick for David Copperfield,
he was discovered none the worse.
Bobby found refuge in a hospital, and
was surnamed Ashe in honor of the
place where the stork dropped him. He
prospered, and along came childless Mr.
and Mrs. John Finebloom, whose pos
sessions, as the romance demands, were
many. It was not difficult to arrange
a legal adoption, and Bobby, not that
he cared, entered into purple living. A
special nurse was his devoted slave, and
the fibres of all hearts bvined about the
little fellow. A motorcar for outings
and a cottage by the sea were planned.
Then descended the agents of the
hospital. A statute forbids an insti
tution to surrender a foundling to a
guardianship not of the religion there
is evidence the child is born into. A re
examination of Bobby's accessories dur?
ing his ash-can hours showed a card
which attested he was of Catholic pa
rentage. The Fineblooms were of an?
other faith. So back he went, and the
bereft foster parents are inconsolable.
In the chronicle is a cross section of
the old and the new. An ash-can, so
designed as to gi%-e the maximum of
noise when rattled and banged in the
early morning, is urban, and secular,
and exudes galvanized modernity. And
the rule invoked speaks of the far-off
days of piety when the. clerical affilia
tions were of supreme consideration.
Fitness requires that the hospital which
immures Bobby have turrots and a moat.
Let us hope that in-the dispute as to the
proper possession of the future citizen it
will not be necessary to hack him in
twain.
The Flaw in Prosperity
Signs of prosperity are almost every
where apparent. A survey of the busi?
ness field shows only one branch of in?
dustry in which the trend is sharply di
vergent from the general course of
trade. But the exception, unfortunately,
is the most important one of all, namely,
the steel industry.
American steel plants are running at
half capacity. The output of pig iron in
May was only 68,002 tons a day, against
111,175 tons a year before. The capacity
of pig iron furnaces in operation on
June 1 was only 68,100 tons a day, com?
pared with 7r>,860 tons May 1?conclu
sive evidence of the drift of affairs in
the basic trade.
And this condition prevails chiefly be?
eause the railroads are being starved in
maintcnance and betterment. They are
not. buying as much as any railroad ex?
ecutive would have considcred the barest
minimum before the government seized
the carriers.
Transportation is the largest custom
er of our greatest industry. It is well
to recall that "as goes the steel industry
so goes the nation's business."
Governmental Scorn
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Government control of the railways
and cxpross companies has int.roduced some
peculiar changes, perhaps for good reason,
but certainly annoying. Formerly the. ex
press companies were eap;cr to get ihe
business of shipping trunks and were cor
dially hclpful aboul it. having them broughl
down from upper room:- and trnnsported
with neatness and dispatch. Now the
drivers disdain touching a trank unless it
is passed to (hem at the front. door; a
mighty inconvenience for householders not
cmployitiK two men-of-all-work. They scorn
to handle it even if offered a tip. In this
city of Poughkncpsie freight for certain
points is accepted or.ly on certain days:
for instancc, goods lo he shipped to Long
Island will be received only on Mondnys
and Thursdays. Unaware of these novel
ties, n man hires a truck on the wrong day,
cannot deposit thn sbipment, has to have it
brought home and unloaded, and trans
ported again on the proper dny, making nn
extra expense for two hauls?formerly
un necessary. Tho general poliey underly
ing theso annoying n.-sl rictions seems to
he to the time of "I shoJjld worry."
F. M. TOWNSEND.
roughkeepsie, N. Y., June 2, 1919.
The Conning Tower
0\ ENVIRONMENT
I used to think that this environ
Ment talk was all a lot of guff;
Place mattered not with Keats and Byron
Stuff.
If I have thoughts that need disclosing,
Bright be the day or hung with gloom,
I'll write in Heaven or the composing
Room.
Times are when with my nerves a-tingle,
Joyous nnd bright the songs I sing;
Though, gay, I can't dope out a single
Thing.
And yet, by way of illustratlon,
The gods my graying head anoint . . .
I wrote this piece at Inspiration
Point.
Tlie ex-Kaiser, who is now a non-resi
dent member of the human race, is re?
ported to look like a man who had lost
everything en the Stock Exchange. "Non
sense," comments E. C. D. "All that he
has lost are his honor, his country and
his inheritnnce to Heaven."
Variety's Golden Days
Sir: To come down into more modern
times, within my memory, there was the
Victoria Roof Garden, with Osear and the
cow at one end and Rice and Prevost per
forming on tho stage at the other. One
of the latter pair turned cartwheels and
did remarkable feats on a pile of chairs
and tables, while his partner, dressed in
mealsack evening clothes, with whitened
faco, burlcsqued these flccomplishments,
making no sound savo .apish gurgles.
Nothing seemed to give him such keen
enjoyment as to teeter en a chair, perched
on a chair, set on a table, set on a table,
till hc finally fell over backward and the
whole pyramid of furniture landed on his
stomach. For a curtain call he came in
front with a chair, a saw and a piece of
wood. He placed tho wood on the chair,
lifted one foot upon it with his hand, made
a couple of strokes with the saw, then
dropped the saw with an idiotic gurgle
nnd walked off stage. This used to amuse
old Al. Thomas more than anything cn
the boards prior to '?T'ho Great Catherine."
There was a trick bievcie rider on the
bill with them, called La Belle Vcnus, as
1 recall. Gazing upon her, Oscar remarked
it was plain where Cupid got his bow.
From the higher roof of the Republic
Theatre, where the cow lived, you saw the
stage far off. through a haze of tobacco
smoke, and over the parapet the lights of
the city and above them the stars.
_ W. P. E.
A vagrant memory ourr-, and a treacher
ous. For the life of us we can't remember
who sang a so.ig that ended
What? Little Johnny Dugan?
Yes!
What did Dugan do to him?
He swore he wasn't true to him?
Did Dugan owe him money?
No, he stole McCarthy's wife.
This was followed by a dance, the
melody of which, as the editorial writer
whose desk is nenrest ours will attest.
we shall be glad to sing for anybody on
the slightest encourngement.
Why not exchange mayoraltics, like ex?
change professorships? Or why doesn't
Toledo, in her despair, draft the assistance
of the redoubtable Mayor of Seaitle?
THE DIARY Of OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPY5
Jure 2 At my stint all the day, and
finding il pleasant, A. Woollcott to dinner,
and !!. Ross, end Mistress Caroline Mun
dell, and H. Broun and Miss R. Hale, nee
Hale, and thenafter I to the playhouse and
saw "The Scandals of 1019," a pretentious
harlequinade with much good dancing, but
nothing I took for humour. Home late, and
to bed.
3?Up early, and with S. Spaeth to the
courts and ho beat me tive times in six,
try as I would. And thc heat. wearied me,
till 1 felt old and weak. To the office,
where till evening, and then with A. Sulli?
van to dinner, and he brought a fine dark
girl. named Mabel, and we four drove
through the park in a horse-chaise, and
Mabel had me put my arm about her,
which I enjoyed mightily, nor did my wife
mind it at all.
4?To the courts with S. Spaeth, and he
trounced me again. To the office, where
I was nt my work till night, and thence
home, hot and weary, and found Judge
Wadhams there. and twitted him with
wearing a waistcoat on so hot a day, but
he shewed me the thinness of his suit,
wh>cn '? ? li '? since 1914. With H. Ross
and A. Woollcott to the playhouse, and we
?' iw some dull vaudeville acts et tiie
Palace, and thence to see an art of "She's
a Good Fellow," and Mistress E. Janis was
there, in a box, and General O'Ryan gave
her a medal, and A. Woollcott greeted
them, and Elsie's mother gave A. a sound
ing buss forasmueh as she had seen him
in Paris during the warr.
6 Boat S. Spaeth this day, and thence
to my office, where till evening, when
Mistress Alice is come for dinner.
Our athaletic young man has been asked
to make a speech to-morrow at the Na?
tional Round Table for Speech Improve
ment luncheon. Oh, yes. At the McAlapin.
"Hace Olim Meminisse Juvabit*
[Aftnr Deems Taylor, Hood nnd 24 years]
I remember, I remember,
Without a shred of wrath,
Ihe little window where tlie sun
Shone on our class in Math.
I? shone on Surds nnd Indioes,
(At which I was a bear),
And it shone on Eunice Follansbee'3
And Evelyn Hayden's hair.
The sea fiction we are familiar with has
no more thrilling stuff than the trial,
now current, of Captain Pedersen. Jack
T.ondon, at his sea-wolfiest, was not better
than the story of this trial.
We *,.e by the paper tho Newark Npws
?that nmong the artists gracing the Mu?
sic Fcstival is Mr. Werrenorath. Not to
say Mr. Wenenrath.
Ireland United for SeparaHon, says M. J.
Ryan Tribune headlinc.
The tradltiona] bull.
The urgent need is for open windows
openly arrived at. p, p, ^
en Mr. Daniels Came
to Judgment
From The London Morning Post
{The meagre eabted aceounts of Secretary Daniels'e speeches in England
last month gave little indication of how completely he withdreiv hit "big
?navy threat" and how strongly he stressed "Anglo-American amity." After
the luncheon in his honor Mr. Daniels gave an intcrview. Aceounts of both
follows.']
The Duke of Connaught was present at
the Carlton Hotel at a luncheon given by
the Anglo-American Society and the Sul
grave Institution to Mr. and Mrs. Daniels.
Sir Robert Hadfield was in the chair, and
among others present were the American
Ambassador, Viscount and Viscountess
Bryco, Viscount Burnham, Lord Weardale,
Lord Askwith, Lord Erskine. Admiral Sir
Lowther Grant, Colonel Sir Malcolm Mur?
ray, Rear Admiral Taylor, U. S. N.; Rear
Admiral Knapp, U. S. N.; Mr. Walter Long,
M. P., Mr. A. H. Illingworth, M. P., Sir A.
Mond, M. P.; Sir Reginald Blomlield, Sir
Vincent Caillard, Mr. Andrew Fisher and
the Dean of St. Paul's.
Duke of Connaua.hVs Trihute
The Duke of Connaught, who was cordially
received, proposed the health of Mr. Daniels.
He said it was a great pleasure to him, as
president of tho Anglo-American Society
and Sulgravo Institution, to find himself
thero to welcome most warmly Mr. Secre?
tary Daniels. We all looked upon his visit,
following the splendid services rendered by
the United States Navy, as a very happy
one. Mr. Daniels must already have seen
how warm a place the American Navy had
gained in the hearts of the British peopie.
He hoped that Secretary Daniels had seen
sufficient of the fieet to recognize in it a
great asset for good, for the protection of
the world. He did not think there had been
any instance in the history of the navy
when we had not been on the side of what
was right and just. We were, in fact, a pro?
tection for civilization and of the world.
All present would agree with him when
he said that we hoped that the good feelings
that had been cemented between the two
navies would live forever (cheers) and that
the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes
might bo seen working together for the
good and right of the world and for the
progress of civilization.
Viscount Byrce and the League
Viscount Bryce seconded the toast, and
referred to the feiicitious way in which the
Duke of Connaught had mentioned the two
anniversaries that affected both nations.
Mr. Daniels represented the place where the
British flag first fiew in North America.
When our fleet went into battle at Alex?
andria the American crews cheered our men.
He congratulated Mr. Daniels on the im
mense achievement of the carrying through
at the Paris conference of the covenant of
the league of nations. That was an un
paralleled achievement. It was the first
great and serious effort made to lead the
world out of the paths of war into the
paths of peace. Our eyes were now fixed
on the United States to know whether there
this covenant would befaccepted. It was not
for us to offer advice, but we might be per
mitted to cxpress our most earnest hope
that the covenant would commend itself to
the peopie of the United States. The oppor
tunity might never recur. Without the co?
operation of the United States the peace
league could not succeed.
Mr. Daniels, in respondir.g, expressed his
thanks to Sir Robert Hadfield, with whom
he had had most pleasant associations in
his own country, to the Duke of Connaught,
whose services in America and here had
endeared him to the peopie of both coun?
tries, and to the former Ambassador to the
United States, than whom no one was more
beloved and honored in America. (Cheers.)
Beloved as Lord Bryce was here, he was
beloved in America as the grand old young
man. (Cheers.) It was more than a coin
cidence that they were gathered there on
that day which, in America, ranked second
only to the anniversary which we held in
Great Britain of the victory of Lord Nelson.
It was just twenty-one years ago that day
that Admiral Dewey sailed into Manila Bay
and won the victory which made the day
memorable in American history. (Cheers.)
And in America they loved to remember
that in the fateful days that followed, when
the German admiral sought to embarrass
Dewey, it was a great British sailor, Admiral
Chichester, who balked him. (Cheers.) The
German admiral called upon Admiral Chi?
chester and asked him: "What will you do
if I move my ships over to where Admiral
Dewey's flagship, the Olympian, is an
chored ?" Tlie British admiral was a diplo
mat, as were most naval officers, and he re
pliod to the German in two words, "Ask
A Better General"
i From The Lciidon Ttmcs'i
Sir Douglas and Lady Haig spent Satur?
day afternoon on the St. Andrews Links,
when in a foursome Sir Douglas, partnered
by General Kiggell, lost to Lady -Haig and
Andrew Kirkaldy by 1 holes.
In the hall of the United College Sir
Douglas presented the cup given by the late
Sir John Batty Tuke to be competed for an
nually by the University Ciold Club of Edtn
burgh and St. Andrews to thre St. Andrews
Club, who had been successful in winning
it in the day competition.
He said that as reetor of St. Andrews he
was glad that Edinburgh had allowed the
cup to go to St. Andrews. He thanked Edin?
burgh for being such good fellows as to
play the way they had. They would not
expect a simple soldier to say much about
golf in St. Andrews. It was the life and
soul of the place, and he also might say of
Scotland. Wherever a Scotsman was he
played golf more or less well.
As they knew, he was a wee laddie at
Clifton Bank School, St. Andrews, but he
neglected his opportunitiies then to learn
golf. A caddie who'was watching his play
the other dny remarked, "Well, well, he is a
better general."
Golf should be learned in youth. It was
snid to be nn old gentleman's game. There
was some truth in this. There was no gamo
like Rugby footbnll for boys, but the time
came when they got too stiff nnd heavy to
play Rugby, nnd thrn the delights of golf
really were appreciated. But unless one
started young ho would never be a good
golfer, and one should therefore learn the
game ln youth.
( Dewey," (Laughter and cheers.) It was a
Delphic answer to those who did not under
stand the significance of it, but, if he might
say so, it was very illuminating. (Renewed
laughter and cheers.) They could never
forget that Dewey's victory was secured by
the cooperation and the fine spirit of the
British admiral. (Cheers.)
Ten years ago, Admiral Sims. speaking at
a banquet in London, made a speech in
which he said that if the time ever came
when the soil of Great Britain was threat
ened with invasion the American people
would fight with the English people shoul?
der to shoulder. Nor did they forget that
the Admiral was rebuked for that speech,
for the President, in pursuance of policy,
sent him a formal reprimand. (Laughter.)
That reprimand, in the light of this hour,
was a decoration of honor. (Loud cheers.)
ISo Competition
He could not say what mobile police force
would be required, but it would be a calami
ty worse than a crime if the British people
and the American people ever entered into
a competition in navy building. (Cheers.)
It was not for the good of the world that
any nation should possess so large a navy
that it could, under any conditions, domi
nate the world.
"We recognize in America," said Mr.
Daniels, "the conditions surrounding your
empire, and we know that they call for a
powerful navy; and you will never see the
day when we shall have any suspicion of
your objects. We know the British navy
has never fought for greed, we know it has
fought against tyranny and wrong. You
know tho spirit of America?that while we
have a large coast line and a large and
| growing trade, and we need a strong navy,
I there is no feeling?in either country?
| that either should have a navy to dominats
| the world, but that the navies, whether
| large or small, shall act, not in competition,
but in cooperation."
A "Parliament of Man" was in session in
Paris, and so far as America and Great
Britain and other free nations were con
i cerned, they had determined that a "Fed?
eration of the World" should be something
j more than a hope, and that it should bring
j a permanent and enduring peace. (Cheers.)
Mr. Daniels "Re?
ceives in Audience"
Mr. Josephus DanielB, the United States
. Secretary of the Navy, received in audience
' yesterday representatives of the British
; press.
It was pointed out to Mr. Daniels that the
British man in the street was asking why
the States had an estimate of ?600,000,000
for the navy, which seemed rather a large
sum for police work.
"Perhaps the man in the street has not
| read the bill," suggested Mr. Daniels. "The
naval bill with a ?600,000,000 estimate for
new construction has a provision, which I
J helped to draw up, providing that if the
league of nations is established it is in the
discretion ef the President to say that all
the new ships may not be constructed.
When the estimates were drawn up the
1 armistice had not been signed, and it was
? a question for each country to decide in
dependently what it should do.
L'nthinkable Distrust
"It is unthinkable that any nation under
the league should undertake competitive
naval building based on suspicion and dis?
trust. I think that the day when the
league of nations was agreed to unani
mously?which is the greatest event that
any generation has witnessed for centuries
i ?will make unnecessary the tremendous
, expenditure of money by each nation.
"Of course, we must have in the league
I of nations a mobile police force. We must
i follow the example of that great American
! soldier in the Revolution, who advised his
j soldiers to 'Trust in God and keep your
powder dry.' But in the early days of the
league of nations we must not forget there
' may be lingering in the mind of scme na?
tion a desire for conquest or an unwilling
ness to submit to arbitration for the sake
of the world's peace.
"Perhaps I ought never to say 'Your na
ton' or 'My nation,'" said Mr. Daniels a
little later. "I ought to say 'Our common
voalth.'"
CowsThatDon't Care
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When a boy I worked on a farm,
and we had about thirty cows. The time of
milking in winter and in summer varied
by more than an hour, and did not seem
to affect the amount of milk. We milked
about 5 a. m. in summer and 6:30 p. m.
and in winter about 6 or Cr.30 a. m. and 5
p. m. It did not make any difference to
the cows, and we varied our time from day
to day at that.
Certainly you are mistaken about the
cow, for I had a long talk with the owner
of a prize cow yesterday, who gave your
theory the laugh, but said the hired man
was not willing to abide by the summer
clock on risir.g, but insisted on knocking
off by it in the evening. So he worked one
hour less a day by the new time. Hard
on the farmer, all right, but soft for the
bired man. A. L. BOYCE.
New York. June 3, 1919.
A Recurrent Rash
(from The Sprinofield Rapublican)
A thumping revival of the oldtime "town
and gown" feud in New Haven was not an
ticipated as one of the results of the world
war.
A Delicate Question
(From The Rnsfon <7tori<M
How much would government ownership
of the coal mines increase the prica of
coalt
England Defended
TRAD1TIONS OF BRITISH RTiTPMr.._
By the Hon. Arthu,? n. Bmtt*%wJ95?<.
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1919. Pii t t? TorK'
It is perfectly possible to make out an
excellent case for the "traditions of Bri'ish
statesmanship" during the last hur.dwd
years by contrasting them, say, with those
of Russian or Austrian poliey in the same
period. The success of the attempt, how.
ever, turns entirely on the author's modc-a.
tion, on his willingness to see the boam
in the English eye without overemnhasizine
the mote in the other fellow's. \0 apologv
o< British diplomacy in the nineteenth cen".
tury is worth the paper it is printed upon
if it fails to start with the admission
of its three fundamental mistakes. They
were the backing of Turkey in 1854. the
non-backing of Denmark ten years later
and the engineering of the treaty of Berlin
in which Beaconsfield accomplished for Ger^
many that which Bismarck lacked the nerve
to accomplish himself.
Mr. Elliot tries to smooth over the first
blunder, politely defends the second and
practically ignores the third and most faUl
Tho volume is devoted mainly to a defence
of British poliey in the ten years preceding
the world war. This has been done before
and done better. The fact that in the sum?
mer of 1914 Britain acted honorably and foi
the common good, while Germany acted dj8.
honorably and criminally, is generally rec
ognized, and its reiteration can hardly
justify a new volume on the subject. It ?
a pretty safe test to judge an English pub
licist by his attitude toward the lrish prob
lem. Mr. Elliot implies that the Kaiser wai
materially encouraged by the prospect ol
rebellion in Ireland. He does not seem tt
be aware of the fact that in July, 1914
Berlin expected the main diversion, not ot
the part of Sinn Fein, but on that of Sir
Edward Carson and his Ulster volunteers
The slip js unconscious; its implicationi
label tho author and his work. E. S. B.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention has been called to an
.editorial in your issue of last. Sunday, en?
titled "Mr. Taft Sheds Light," in which you
comment upon a recent art<cle of mine pub?
lished in "The Times," under the title of
"Why the Paris Covenant Cannot Be
Amended Without Postponing the Peace the
World Needs." You quote from "Tbe
Times" article the following part of a
sentence:
L'ndoubtedly reservations which do net pur
port to amend but only to Interpret treaties do
not constitute such a change in the terms cf
tiie treaties themselves as to require rauficaUoB
by tlie other parties.
And you say:
..Th;"? changea ,n ,!-" eovenant ran be made
lf called reservations instead of amendment*
?Mr- Taft is doublless aware of the width of
the door he opens. Under the narr.e of reser?
vations practically anything: can be injected Jf
there is no objectlon?no demand for a rea?
sembling of the peace conference.
And you conclude your article with the
following:
11 r. Taft, ln fact. shows hnw the treaty rr.a^
peace1" amended without postpoajrjf
You would hardly have found just:f.ca
tion for these comments if, after quoting
the above extract, you had also quoted the
next two sentences, which were as follows:
But on expreb-sion of the S-nate, which
though purportlng to b* a mere Interpretationi
Beeks to introduce a substantlal change Is ln
fact an amendment. Its adoption, on prlnciDlai
already referred to, amounts 10 a dleapprovS
f? nfl?rt (a5;^?d.,,re"uirea ns resubmUsion al
amenaed to the other parties.
The value of your space no dou'ot pr?
vented you from making copious extracti
from a too long article, but it would have
been pertinent, although destructive of
your argument, if you had referred to the
concrete illustrations which I gave of what
tho Senate might and might not do, and
notably what I said concerning Mr. Root's
six suggestions, viz., that two of them, re
lating to the Monroe Doctrine and Internal
questions. could be satistfacrorily covered
by resolutions embodying the Senate's in
terpretation of tho treaty. but that the
other four advocated by him "would all un
doubtedly come within the category of
amendmente to the treaty which, if adopted
by the Senate, would require the assent of
all parties to the treaty before ratifica?
tion."
May I take the liberty of saying that in
its treatment of the tenor and substance of
"The Times" article your editorial affordl
a striking instance- of an ?-amer,dmert" ai
distinguished from an "interpretation?"
HENRY W. TAFT.
New York, June 3. 1910.
Flag Flaps in a Film
-j
iFrom The Toronto DaiJy Star)
The Duke of Connaught and La ? Patrida
Ramsay were among ?:? e present at a rrivate
' 'he Canadiai wai film, ? - Heart of
;! '?'?'?' ??:? ? '? i .???'!(??!! {?., . ?.e>,day
The P '"??'? which tells the story of Canada1!
: - an ! giory ln the war, ?? a . hown bv Mr.
John D. Tippett.?Canadian Gaxette London,
England.
As it is shown in Canada and a; it il
shown in England "The Heart of Hu
manity" is a Canadian war film, te'.ltnjj
the story of Canada's sacrince and giory
in a stirring manner. The Canadianism
of it will make it not one bit less at?
tractive to the British public than to thi
peopie here. But it is significant that
this stirring war film, in order to be made
acceptable to the movie-going public of the
United States, has had its whole chsractel
and purport changed the heroint bein*
represented as an American g:.r! risitinf
in Canada; ihe American flag, and no
other, is introduced in th< charge ovtt
Yimy Ridge, and later on when tnfl
Canadians are supnosed to he hard pressiel
and driven back by the Huns, in the ear'y
part of 1918?which they never were?up
rush irresistible American reinforcemeBtf
with flags flying, and save the day.
Are the movie peopie to blame for put*
tting this sort of thing over on the Ameri*
can public, or are they right in sayWt!
as they do Bay, that the American puplj*
would not stand for the film unless '*
were doctored and fiag-favored in thil
manner? Would not this film as it i*
shown in Canada and as it is shown >?
England, heing a deserved tribute to thi
performanccs of Canadians in the war. h*
acceptable to American audiencefc? *?
fancy it. would. But the trouble is thi'
nobody in the American fiira busiceM
would ever think of trying it. There U
reason to brlievo that humanity has much
moro heart and chivalrout sentiment th**
these peopie are aware of.