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Returning the Wire Systems
Postmaster General Burlcson, with a
precipitancy that suggests he keeps track
of proceedings in Congress and knows a
whirlwind when he sees one, has ordered
the return of the wire companies to
their owners. The companies, according
to the official statement, are "free to
formulate and put into effect their own
policies, unrestricted by government
control."
But the devolution thus presented as
complete has several heavy strings at?
tached to it. The companies are not to
lower rate?, are not to decrease wages,
are not to discriminate against unionists
in their working forces, are not to alter
their financial arrangements with the
government. A private operation so
qualiiied is hardly a private operation.
It may be good for stockholders, but how
the public will share in the better man?
agement, except in improved service,
doc? not appear.
The deficit which is to be met out of
the money of taxpayers and purchasers
of Liberty bonds is $1,000,000. In ordi- j
r.ary times this might be deemed large, j
but in view of the gigantic size of the
railway deficit it is small. As a deficit
breeder the postal administration has j
some amperage, but nothing compared
to the railway administration.
Mr. Burleson ha" long been a loud
champion of government ownership and j
operation. When the opportunity came j
to take something over he did so with j
great joy. Of course he could do better
than knavish and inefficient private
owners who wallowed in illegitimate
profits. Mow he scuttles out of his ex?
periment with no advance warning, a
more prudent, if not a wiser, man.
Many things, alas! do not work per ,
plan, and the doctrinaire bumps himself
against impediments whose existence he
clamorously denied.
Ch?teau Thierry
A year ago the country was thrilled by
the news that American troops had dis?
tinguished themselves in action north?
west of Ch?teau Thierry. It was the
first test of any large unit of the Ameri?
can army in stubborn open fighting, al?
though the capture of Cantigny a short
time before had shown that the Ameri?
cans in the front line were already com?
petent to carry through a local surprise
operation with dash and thoroughness.
The 1st Division took Cantigny. The
2d Division, which included the 5th and
6th regiments of marines, was occu?
pying support positions in Picardy when,
on May 31, it was ordered to get aboard
camions and hurry southeast to support
the French line in the Ourcq region.
The third Ludendorff offensive was at
that time in its last stage. It had been
completely halted on the east side of the
deep salient which the Germans had
driven from the Chemin de3 Dames
south to the Marne. It was also held in
check on the west sirle, from Soissons
down to the Ourcq. But below that river
it was still making progress in a south?
westerly direction, aiming to reach and
control the highroad on the north bank
of the Marne, leading from Ch?teau
Thierry through Meaux to Paris.
The 3d Division and the 28th National
Army Division [Pennsylvania National
Guard] had been sent to the front south
of the Marne, from Ch?teau Thierry east
to Dormans. But Ludendorff was not so
keen about crossing the Mame as he was
about working down the Ourcq Valley
around the southern edge of the Forest
of Villers-Cotterets, one of the chief
bastions of the defence of Paris. The
French had been yielding ground
steadily in this sector, having been
pushed back five or six miles to the south
of a line running through Bouresches,
Bussiares and Veuilly-la-Poterie, south
of the road running northwest from
Ch?teau Thierry to the Ourcq. On June
1 the 2d Division relieved the French
on the part of the line from Bouresches
to Bussiares. The same afternoon it
halted the German advance. Prepara?
tion? were then begun for a counter at?
tack on a large scale. This was launched
on the afternoon of June 6, when the
American forces dashed forward on a
two-and-a-half-mile line for a gain of
mor* than a mile. All the objectives set
were reached.Boureschcs, on the right;
Bussiares, on the left, and Torcy, in the
centre. Beyond Torcy an advance was
made to the eastern edge of Bclleau
Wood.
The fighting was severe, the attacking
force having to clear out nest after nest
of enemy machine srurp. The casualties
of home of the American units in thin bat
MorK ?tribune
tie and in the succeeding battle for the
possession of Belleau Wood ran up to 40
or 50 per cent But the results accom?
plished were striking. The German drive
northwest of Ch?teau Thierry was
brought to an end. The splendid fighting
quality of the American Expeditionary
Army was established, and all doubts
were set at rest as to its availability for
use at once in an Allied counter offensive.
General Pershing subsequently issued i
an order congratulating the 2d Division. ;
In it he said:
"Since the organization of our sector
[in the Marne region], In the face of
strong opposition, you have advanced
your lines two kilome.tres on a front of
eight kilomatres. You have engaged and
defeated with great loss three German
divisions and have occupied important
strong points?Belleau Wood, Bouresches
and Vaux. You have taken about 1,400
prisoners, many machine guns and much
other material. .. . . All elements of
the division have worked together as a
well trained machine."
The significance of the American vic?
tory northwest of Ch?teau Thierry, so
far as it affected the development of
Ludendorff's campaign and Foch's de?
fence of Paris, was somewhat exagger?
ated in the first flush of enthusiasm a
year ago. It did not save Paris. Foch
knew in June, 1918, that Paris was safe.
And he was then more concerned about i
meeting a German drive against Com
pi?gne than he was about limiting the
extension of Ludendorff's Marne salient
to the south and southwest. The deeper
Ludendorff got into that dangerous
pocket the harder it would be for him to
extricate himself when the time for an
Allied counter stroke arrived. Luden?
dorff, in fact, stopped the Marne drive
in the first week in June in order to
launch hia fourth offensive, south from
Lassigny.
But the first week of June, 1918, will
remain a brilliant anniversary in Amer?
ican history- Our regulars and marines !
of the 2d Division proved at Bouresches
and Torcy that they were the equal of
the best veteran divisions which Ger- j
many had. The German General Staff ;
had convinced itself that the American !
contingent would never count. After ?
June 6 they knew that it would count, \
and that, with the American re- '
inforcement, fresh, eager, high-spirited j
and immensely combative, added to the j
seasoned troops of France and Great
Britain, there was no longer a reason- |
able hope of German victory on the '
Western front.
Scientific Nonsense
The last Legislature of Kansas made j
the following appropriations:
For the health of hogs, $25,000.
For the health of bees, $8,000.
For the health of babies, $7,000.
Not finding the support given to her
department adequate, Dr. Lydia De
Vilbiss, who for four years has dimin?
ished infant mortality in Kansas, has
resigned. She asked' for four field
physicians and funds for an enlarged
office force, but her requests were de?
nied. So the Kanpas Department of
Child Hygiene loses its chief and the
babies of Kansas their most effective
friend.
A daughter of Kansas who sends in
the foregoing information requests men?
tion of it. "I want my dear native state
to know," she says, "that such fatal
mistakes as she has made in the case
of 'doctoring kids' goes not unnoticed.
So I want the best paper in New York
City to give Kansas a little publicity
about her appropriations."
Th? Tribune, though thus incited, will
refrain from lecturing Kansas. The
Sunflower State has no monopoly of the
spirit that leads to neglect of conserva?
tion of human life, and it may be
assumed that her mothers and fathers
are as tender of heart a.s elsewhere. No
commonwealth has a monopoly, or an
excess, perhaps, of ignorance and nar?
rowness. Knowledge grows, but science
lingers. It is not easy for many to
think straight when the scientist comes
bothering. He is regarded as a pest and
a nuisance when he uncovers his facts
and asks what is to be done about them.
His arguments are so good that there is
no resource but to get abusive and talk
about scientific nonsense.
How little we seem to care about the
harm that flows from the sale of poison
foods! We have succeeded in get?
ting whirling machinery screened, and
our milk is pasteurized, but we don't
much believe in the germ, because we
don't see him with unaided eye. No; we
shall not bastinado Kansas?not, at least,
as long as New York is a state whose
Legislature refused to establish health
insurance.
The Perfect Uplift
Inspiring news comes from Atlantic
City. The National Conference of So
; cial Work is in session there, devising
schemes for the general good. Police?
women, "many of them young and
pretty," are testifying in behalf of the
I Cause. If all they say is true, it is high
! time to "view with alarm" the future of
: the race. Beset with cvilyui every hand,
how shall virtue survive?
First, as a delegate from Louisville,
i Ky., informed her hearers, there is the
I dance hall. That this often needs
! amending few will deny. But the state?
ment that "(lance hall proprietors are
running their places for the money that
is in it" hardly seems to be a very severe
indictment. Most commercial enter?
prises are conducted for that purpose.
But the Jeanne d'Arc of the battle
against bunny-hugging?so the lady is
described by an impressionable reporter
?has other weapons in her armory.
She says that jazz munie and decent
dancing do not mix. Those too capti?
vating strains must bo banished if youth
is to be protected. There is nothing
novel, of course, in attacks on modern
dancing. Doubtless they are not always
unjustified. The discovery of jazz as
the root of the evil, to be sure, should
settle once and for all a difficult problem.
Then there is the stage. A reverend
gentleman from Chicago declared that it
was "set for hell." Admitting "a few
worthy exceptions," he went on to say
that it "reeks with moral filth." We
have heard something of this sort before
from a source nearer home. Unfortu?
nately, this reformer offered no specific
guarantee to work a cure. He did not,
like his fellow delegate, put his finger
unerringly upon the origin of the dis?
ease. The young policewomen were
credited with great success in tracing
jazz music to its lair and routing it. But
anything that is "set for hell" must be
almost past redemption. In thi3 case
the uplifters have their work cut out for
them? As one witness said, "Our cities
are suffering from panics of vice and
crime." Who shall stay the contagion?
A dismal picture?and drawn at At?
lantic City, of all places! Perhaps the
uplifters went there to seek the fons et
origo malis. That exuberant resort has
jazz music and many other of those mani?
festations of the joy of living which the
serious deplore. The hand of reform,
though often busy, has touched it but
lightly. Yet if the Jeanne d'Arc of the
battle against bunny-hugging cannot
bring in the perfect uplift, who can?
The Small Investor and the Bank
Although the small investor was
reached to a hitherto unprecedented de?
gree by the various Liberty Loan drives,
it is clear that he still has much to learn
regarding the nature of government se?
curities. The success which unscrupul?
ous promoters have had in inducing him
to part with his bonds, even below the
market price, is proof of that. In many
cases he has not realized that his pur?
chase was an investment. It was money
he gave to the government as a patriotic
duty.
The truth is that there are thousands
of fafrly intelligent persons in this coun
ti'y who have not progressed financially
beyond the stocking. There must be an
enormous amount of money which even
the savings banks cannot get. The Trib?
une's investigation of the dealings of
pawnbrokers and others with sellers of
Liberty bonds revealed the curious fact
that people of this class would not go
to the banks although they were told
they could get a higher price there. They
were a little awed by the idea. A bank
in their minds was a place where the
rieh did business. Its atmosphere was
subduing, its routine perplexing. The
pownbroker they knew, but not the bond
clerk.
It is true that the banks have become
within^ecent years popular institutions
to an extent once hardly dreamed of.
They are widely patronized by persons
of small means who have learned the
value of personal checking accounts.
This is a kind of patronage which for?
merly was not much sought, even if it
was not discouraged. But some of the
largest banks in New York have estab?
lished branches which are practically
neighborhood banks, mainly for the bene
of householders and tradesmen. It is a
sound policy which thus makes the keep?
ing of accounts convenient and easy.
And it is a policy capable of still further
| extension.
That there is still need of educating
1 large masses of people in the use of
\ banking facilities is undeniable. That
j would be one of the best possible means
' of protecting them from sharpers. These
| could not "clean up" large communities
; in the remoter parts of the country if
' the money were kept in the banks, and
if the depositors were accustomed to go
freely to bank officials for information
and advice. Nor could they even in a
| large city like New York find so many
.' investing gudgeons. It is a familiar
j paradox that money, which is one of the
j hardest things in the world to get, is
! often the least carefully guarded by
! those who have little of it and have
; worked hardest to get it.
Roosevelt's Greatest Victory
The Roosevelt family, obeying a self
imposed rule of good taste, has not been
inclined to talk of its most distinguished
member. A model of modest self
effacement, it has not sat in the first
row with reflectors to fling back glory.
But Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of
Colonel Roosevelt, has been moved to
tell at a semi-private meeting something
about the little boy she knew in nursery
days. Letting her mind run back, she
said:
"A little, dainty, narrow-chested boy
in the nursery, suffering so that he could
hardly breathe and propped up always
with pillows?that was Theodore Roose?
velt. He never said a word, never ut?
tered a complaint, yet we all knew he
suffered intensely. His asthma tor?
mented him every moment, but there ho
sat quietly, thinking, writing, smiling.
When he was nine ycar3 old my father
built an open porch so that Theodore
could live outdoors, and fitted it up with
all sorts of gymnastic devices. 'You
have got the mind, but you haven't got
the body; you have got to make your
body strong enough to do all that your
mind wants to do,' he told my brother."
The exemplar of the strenuous life,
his years crowded with achievement,
fought and won his greatest victory in
boyhood. That which came after was
easy. He forced his tissues to obey, and
so doing he performed the greater, task
of hardening his will. Teil it to the
Froebelists, to the Montessorians, to the
Freudians, who hold education consists
in doing as one pleases and that the
sins of sins is to thwart desires. Out
of the depths of his experience Colonel
Roosevelt derived the doctrine he ever
preached: to work hard, study hard, juay
hard, hit the' line hard,
The Conning Tower;
MAUD MULLER MUTATUR
In 18C9 toilet good? In 1919 an assortment
were not considered a of perf ame* that would
serious matter and no rival any city depart?
special department of ment ?tore i? shown,
the c?talos? wo? de- along with six paxes
?oted to it. A few of other toilet articles,
perfumes and creams including: roagre and
were scattered here eyebrow pencils,
and there among bar?
gain goods.
?From "How the Farmer Ha? Changed in a
Decade: Toilet Goods," in Farm, and Fire'
side's advertisement.
Maud M?ller, on a summer's day,
Powdered her nose with Bon. Sachet.
/
Beneath her lingerie hat appeared ?
Eyebrows and cheeks that were, ' well
veneered.
Singing she rocked on the front^plazz,
To the tune of "The Land of the, Sky Blue
Jazz."
But the song expired on the summer, air,
And she said "This won't get me any?
where."
The judge in his car looked up at her
And signalled "Stop!" to his brave
chauffeur.
He smiled a smile that is known as broad,
And he said to Miss M?ller, "Hello, how's
Maud?"
"What sultry weather this is? Gee whiz!"
Said Maud. Said the judge, "I'll say it is."
"Your coat is heavy. Why don'l you
shed it?
Have a drink?" said Maud. Said the judge,
"You said it."
And Maud, with the joy of bucolic youth,
Blended some gin and some French ver?
mouth.
Maud M?ller sighed as she poured the gin,
"I've, got something on Whittier's heroine."
"Thanks, said the judge, "a peppier brew
From a fairer hand was never knew."
And when the judge had had number 7,
Maud seemed an angel direct from Heaven.
And the judge declared, "Youre a lovely
girl,
An' I'm for you, Maudie, 111 tell the
worl'."
And the judge said, "Marry me, Maudie
dearie ?"
And Maud said yes to the well known
query.
And she often thinks, in her rustic way, ;
As she powders her nose with Eon Sachet, j
"J never'n the world would 'a got that guy,
If I'd waited till after the First o' July." !
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme,
The gladdest are, "Act while there yet j
is time." I
When the Mayor suggests that the banks
use their influence to keep the reports of
crimes out of the papers he is barking
up the wrong woodpile. And we go on
record as saying that no bank can in?
fluence us. They arc ungrateful insti?
tutions. We five them every cent we
can scrape together, never even asking
whether the bank is a safe one, and when?
ever we get n $"> check cashed we pet
a look that makes us feel like giving our
self up to the police.
If the Anarchists subscribe ta a clip?
ping bureau, they should receive, in a
few days, clippings to the effect that their
plans for a big: Fourth of July planting;
are known. This will give them time to
change their plans, and effectively demon?
strates again the power of the press.
Vivid are the memories of the song
about Little Johnny Dugan. Six gentle?
men called yesterday to say, a. o. t., that
it was Johnny Carroll who sang the song;
Mr. S. J. Woolf Eays it was Gilmore and
Leonard; and F. S. says the Jeremiad on
the Ptisan-McCarthy scandal was first
sung by Thomas Q. Scabrookc.
"To me, however," adds F. S., "the dear?
est .landmark of my salad life was Ilarri
gan, the Tramp Juggler. Xot only did he
offer an amusing act to his many wheezes,
but abo he has pointed a moral for me
throughout life in diagnosing action. Ilar
rigan always had a couple of rows of
dummies on the stage, and whenever lie
did not get what, to me, uppearcd suffi?
cient plaudits, he would pull a string,
whereupon they clapped their wooden hands
frantically. And when in after life I have
counted people who carried their own ap?
plause I would think sentimentally of Ifcr
rigan."
"Smeed should have included the words
and music of 'Kansas,'" writes Bab. If it
is the song we think it is, two stanzas??
somebody in one of the Henderson extrava?
ganzas used to sing it?ran:
Potatoes tliry grow small
In Kansas.
Potatoes thry <?row small
In Kansas.
Potatoes thry grow ?.mail ;
Thry pii-k 'em in the full
And cut 'em. Bkina and all,
In Kansas.
There are no old maids
In Kiinsa.?.
There are no old maids
In Kansas.
When they reach thirty-one
Thr> Sheriff gets a Run
And Bhoota 'cm just for fun,
In Kansas.
The motorman passed the great street
without stopping. "Hey," said the waggish
passenger, indignantly, "dive, a thought to
Broadway."
"Self-denial is the secret of success in
training for a championship, as in every?
thing else in life," says Mr. Jess Willard, in
the American. Well, [business of shutting
teeth I.
Wo shall try to give up reading the train?
ing stories, from Toledo.
r. I\ A.
No Turkish Mandate
The Views of Frederic C. Penfield, Formerly Ameri?
can Ambassador to Austria
To the Edltor of The Tribune. i
SIR: It delights ma to read the plan of
the peace conference for practically re?
tiring the Ottoman Empire from th?
family of European nations, and I trust that
tho programme becomes concrete when
the Turkish delegates are brought to
France.
The cringing appeal? of the Sultan for
generous consideration, because ho cam?
to tho throne in tho midst of the war, and
in the making of which he had no part,
should pass unheard. It is unrecorded that
ho onco took any step appealing to peac?
until his beaten armies had collapsed, as
a result of General Allenby's triumphs in
, Palestine, Never was there a claim that
tho new Sultan had any opinions varying
from thoso of hi3 German controlled
brother, tho stupid Mehemet V. Yet the
Sultan remains the only sovereign of the
Central Powers to retain his crown, which
is strange evidence of the eccentricities of
fate.
The big four announced a month since
from Paris that Egypt now is a British
protectorate, and the confirmation Later
will probably perfect Britain's title to the
land of the Pharaohs. A fortnight ago
Greece was formally installed as mandate
over Smyrna, with the step validated by
the fleets of tho Allies outside Smyrna har?
bor, and we read that the event caused a
mild panic at Constantinople.
Little Area for Turkey
Jerusalem and Mecca, shrines of great
religions, have by the war been redeemed
from Turkish misrule, the latter carrying
with it so much Arabian territory that the
kingdom of the Hcdjas is a political fact.
Doubtless a form of autonomy amount?
ing to independence is to fall to Armenia
by mandate over the country whose soil
for twenty years has run red with Chris?
tian blood by reason of Mahom'etan
hatred. The whole of Mesopotamia is now
British; France expects to possess Syria,
while Italy, Rumania and Serbia are to
receive generous territorial reward for help?
ing to bring success in the world war.
With these losses of soil, it is seen that
but very little area can remain for Turk?
ish rule.
It is pleasant to read that the absconding
Enver Pacha has been apprehended in his
hiding place in the Caucasian Mountains,
and the presun^.ption is that the scoundrel
will be tried for his share in bringing
Turkey into the war. He was the Kaiser's
active agent, and the responsibility for hun?
dreds of thousands of murders rests upon
his head. Incidentally, when this worthy
effected his getaway from the Bosporus
he took with him the last few millions in
the Sultan's cashbox. Hanging may be his
punishment, while his accomplices in
crime, Talaat and Djemal, when surren?
dered to justice, may expect summary pun?
ishment.
Another tool of Germany's exploitation
of Turkey is tho Sheikh-ul-Islam, head of
the Mahometan faith, who was so com?
pletely controlled from Berlin and Pots?
dam that in the name of his faith he
sought to arouse hatred of all Christians
by formally commanding at Constantinople
?with high German officers on the plat?
form with him?a holy war against the Al?
lies throughout all Mussulman lands. This
fanatic also provided German agents with
indorsements to thp leaders of the Senussi
tribes of Northern Africa, causing the.
Bedouins to make war upon British troops
in Egypt and in the desert to the. westward
of the Nile. Fortunately both moves proved
abortivo, but what the scoundrel did was
dastardly and his punishment should be
severe.
Not Our Ches I nuts
For a decade Turkey has been hopelessly
bankrupt, and the country now owes more
per capita than any other European nation.
It is even believed that the national debt is
greater than the national value. The heav?
iest "creditors are France and Great Brit?
ain, and it is but natural that these na?
tions would be delighted to have Uncle
Sam take charge of what remains of the
Ottoman Empire, to police the land, adjust
the finances and save for them all that is
4'Plain
Quotations from "Plain Words," by
"The Anarchistic Fighters," found near
the homo of A. Mitchell Palmer after
tho bomb explosion:
1.?There will have to be. bloodshed; we
will not dodge. There will have to be
murder; wo will kill because it is neces?
sary. There will have to be destruction;
we will destroy to rwi the world of your
tyrannical institutions. Just wait and re
sijrn to your fate, since privilege and
riches have turned your heads.
2.?Wo have been dreaming of freedom,
we have talked of liberty, we have aspired
to a better world, and you jailed us, you
clubbed us, you deported us, you murdered
us whenever you could.
3.?And never hope that your cops and
your hounds will ever succeed in ridding
the country of tho anarchistic germ that
pulses in our veins.
4. Now that the great war, waged to
replenish your purses and build a pedeatal
to your saints, is over, nothing better can
you do to protect your stolen millions and
your usurped fame than to direct all the
power of the murderous institutions you
created for your exclusive defence against
tho working multitudes rising to a more
human conception of life.
A Russian Product
(From Tho W'tuhington Evi ning Star)
In spito of Lonino's ambitions for a world?
wide revolution. Bolshevistic disorder shows
a growing tendency to concentrate in u few
Russian communities,
' possible. Germany advanced an enormous
! sum to keep Turkey in the war, and Berlin
is certain to put up a fight to recover this
' sash from somebody, and the wrangling will
probably last for years. I cannot feel that
: it is any part of cur duty to pull the chest?
nuts out of the Turkish embers for the
benclt of European powers loner having
; intimate relations with the Ottomans, nor
; do I want to se? amiable Uncle Sam go
i into Anatolia with any administrative re
]t spor.sibility.
Only as a temporary expedient can I
\ favor an American mandate over Armenia,
1 aspiring to become an organized Christian
1 state, with independence guaranteed by
the powers?this is as far as America
should be obligated in cleaning-up the rem?
nant of the empire of the Osmar.lis, in my
Judgment. Humanity will compel ua for a
i long time to help feed Constantinople and
Armenia, as well a? starved Austria and the
Balkans, and this we will be happy to do.
Our Hemisphere *
It was refreshing to read last week that
former Ambassador Straus had said at
Par?s that all mandataries irt the Near East
should be assumed by European nations,
. and that it would be sufficient for the
United States, under the responsibility of
the league of nations, to take care o? the
Western Hemisphere, To my thinking no
saner opinion has come over the Atlantic
cables. Mr. Straus was emphatic in stating
that Uncle Sam should not mix humani?
tarian and political interests, and he spoke
as chairman of a league to enforce peace.
The Sultan and what passes for the Ot?
toman government should early be removed
from Constantinople, for it menaces world
peace and commerce to allow the Darda?
nelles and Bosporus to remain another
month subject to the treachery and cor?
rupt rule of present day Turkish states?
men. Tlie highway to the Black Sea and a
major part of Asia Minor should be guarded
by Christian nations having a vital inter?
est in perpetuating peace in Europe. Brit?
ain, France, Italy and Greece are the coun?
tries most interested in Turkey, and there
can be no absence of their sense of respon?
sibility. America's interest in Turkey is
comparatively altruistic?any European
board at Constantinople would safeguard
Robert College, the school at Beirut and the
educational establishments of American
missionary societies throughout Turkey.
An appropriate place for the Sultan
would be Brussa, or a location elsewhere ic
Asia Minor, where his majesty might re?
flect upon the crimes of his race and the
sinister r?le played by his predecessor, in
permitting the Ottoman nation to be dra?
gooned into a war in which it had no inter?
est, merely because German agents and
clrillmasters had for years been goosestep
ping the Turks in the way Wilhelm II
wished them to go.
A Diplomatic Stench
Turkey's right to send and receive diplo?
matic representatives should terminate, foi
hereafter she can have few foreign interest;
that cannot be dealt with by consuls. Foi
a quarter of a centnry I have known Otto
man politics and diplomatists, but seldon
had acquaintance with ambassador, minis
ter or lesser functionary who, beneath th<
surface, was not an ardent German propa
gandist. The Young Turk politician
brought into being by German schemers, i
nearly always a stench in the nostrils o
decency. Wilhelm was the god cf these, t<
whom they looked for favors when th
guidance of Europe rested in his hands.
Confident am I that President Wilsoi
does not expect Uncle Sam to accept con
trol at Constantinople, and I am positiv
that the Senate would make record spec
in voting down a mandate placing Americ
in the position of policing the ancient capi
tal and toiling with an army of America
functionaries to bring order and decenc
out. of the Augean stable on the Bosporu'
And Uncle Sam never should remain i
Armenia, if he goes there at all, longer tha
to make certain that the native administrs
tion was properly organized and controlle
by capable men. But this task would tak
eight or ten years to complete.
FREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELD.
New York, June 5, 1919.
Words'"
Quotations from a statement made
after the bomb explosions by Victor
Berger, elected to Congress from Mil?
waukee, now under a ticenty-year
prison sentence:
1.?They [the capitalists by tyrannical
legislation] will invite a cataclysm such
as the world has never seen before?a
cataclysm in which their class will simply
he wiped out. in the end. A terrible retri?
bution will be meted out to the capitalist
class as a class.
2.?Just now the plutocrats believe they >
can quell all new ideas by passing special J
legislation, by employing spies and by ?
using all the force available.
3.?And since ideas cannot be excluded j
by bayonets and by prisons, the commun- j
ists will eventually win, and the present .
civilization may be 1 >st entirely. The ?
good in it will go with the bad.
4. It is true our capitalist rulers may
form a league of nations. It will be but
an alliance of plutocratic government
against the communistic nations of Europe.
In the Geography Class of 1934
i From The st. fail Pioneer Frees)
The Snar valley will bo spelled Snrre
for the next fifteen years, at which time
orthography und geography will bo settled
together.
Buried Alive
By Wilbur Forrest
GOBLENZ, Germany, May 10?fcy ft
time these lines reach New York Ols*
Dalghren, wagoner, in the Soppt*
Company, 51st Pioneer Regiment, will pro?
ably be on his way home to Tuxedo Park.
Olaf is one of the "alivest" dead raea in
the Army of Occupation. The War r>ptrt
ment, at Washington, insists that Okf b
dead, but Olaf knows better and is ??^
to insist upon his rights.
Dalghren belongs to the last, complet* S'w
York unit remaining in Europe, the "'?
Pioneers, an offshoot of the old New Y<rr."
National Guard. Part of the rej-.m ? ?
habits the little village of Gula, along the
Moselle River, on the outskirts of CQhvj,
This is how Olaf explained hia piight to ths
reporter of the official army paper at Gu'
to-day:
"Either Pm supposed to bt* dead in thi- '
act or the Wax Department la trying to'k-'i !
me." He pasaed an official death notice to
his interview to read: "They have ?Ka ^j
from wounds and killed in act?a and now
they are inquiring of my aunt, ir, Xe.iv York
if she wants my body sent home tat bami'
"Last fall the captain called me to hia
dugout and informed me that he had a tele,
gram from New York asking him to vnrifr
the War Department's casual report that I j
had died of wounds received while or. dnrv I
I wrote back and told my aunt that I was '
a very much alive dead man and eating ihre?
'squares' a day.
"A few weeks ago I got a letter from th?
folks saying; that the War Department in.
sisted that I was killed in action in Novem?
ber, but, of errarse, J had heen writing ta
them? regularly and they re.ir.sr-d to warn
"But this last letter is the 'clincher.' Ti? ?
be dead when you're alive and to be aJiv?
when the government wants yon dead ami ;
wants to pay your S 10,000 insurance ii who: S
gets me. Here I am, getting about $40 a
month, with Tncle Pain trying to hand me
$1.0,000 more: eating three chows a dar ard
getting my clothes and room gratia, while
away up there somewhere in Flanders, th?
cute little poppies are supposed to he droop?
ing over a lonely grave. Ain'1 it hell!"
Olaf intends to drop into Tuxedo Park
soon and refuse t'ncle Sam's (10,000 In per?
son, as well as settle the question on<:e aaJ
for alL
Earnest Frolickers
To the Editor of Tile Tribune.
Sir: My associates and myself, who
weald suffer the greatest ?conome mis?
fortune of all classes o* working women by
an interpretation of the Lodrwood-Caol
fir.ld bill, such as has been demanded by
representatives of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Women's League for Equal Op?
portunity, may he forgiven for "vii
with alarm" any agitation the purpose of j
which is to force the inclusion of pro- ,
fessional women among those -irrair.iS I
whom the legislation prohibiting the ? m- I
ployment of women after 10 p. m. *n\l be
operative. For -while such an application
of the law would compel actresses and en?
tertainers in regular theatrical attr I
to cease their labors at a comparatively
early hour, we members of t!.- V.
Midnight Froiir. company would not be
permitted to appear at all. And the sug?
gestion that other professional entertain?
ments produced tit an earlier hcur offer
us opportunities for service is nr.-ymps
thofic, to say the least. The New An
stcrdam Theatre Roof is an established In?
stitution. ?The Midnight Fr< i -. remain?
stationary. Other entertainments stay n
New York for a while and then are : i
from place to place around the country?
Having earned the distinction of member?
ship in this particular i ation we
feel that it would he an to be
forced by a statut" to give ? ? the reward
of our talent and our ii I
Incidentally, we feel ? I the repr??
sentatives of the B. R. T. W. L. for F.. 0.
are adopt g a d :- ? ?? ? - tttitude.
The granting of their demand ceuld ^?
them no possible good. Further, we be
Iieve that their attitude is influenced by
the impression they may have received
from newspaper stories that the life of
a Midnight Frolic girl is one of gloriou?
luxury and ease. They envision tii ???
butterflies, having no cares end no re?
sponsibilities, instead of as earnest, atrt
bitious yount* women devoting most of our
thoughts and by far the greater part e.
our time, when we are n^t performing,
to tedious rchi arsing.
It is possible that this picture might
be changed if there wero fewer references
in the newspapers to tl e Rolls-Royca au?
tomobiles, the "world famou " ?;< ma and
the fnr:: "worth a monarch's ransom"
which Zicgfeld girls are '" ovrn
Maybe, you will be willing to s ss in
spreading the truth by refraining fren
characterizing us always bs spoiled
darlings of fortune and *o help the B. R- "?
W. L. for E. O. to renlire that the descrip?
tive "working women" is ns applicable to
us as it is to them. SYLVIA DAT.
New York, June I, 1919.
Battleship Scholars
To the Editor of The Tr I m e,
Kir: fcincc the signing of t
I have read with a great deal of "
the many suggestions advanced for the
position of the enemy warships now
possession of the Allies, and would '? k* w
add mine.
The destruction of these ship would
seem to me a wanton wast? of i
I believe they could I
smaller nations, who woul . '? \
glad to buy them at a reasonable price. ?
conservative eatimate of the |
such sales would, I think, be in the neigh?
borhood of $150,000.000. wh^rh, placed ?'
4 per cent interest, would yield $6
annually. May I suggeat that this .?
income might he placad in the hands ?*
trustees appointed by the Allies, (iivided
equally ?n?1 uscd for travelling scholsn-hip^ ?
Thus the truateea would be in a position
to send French and Belgian boys to the
United States and American boys to Franc?
or England, to finish their education.
C. S. DANIELSON,
Columbia Uniwriit
i New York, June 3, liU9,
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