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Imitating the President
The Republican Senator?, particu
arly those likely in the public mind
to share responsibility if the treaty
is not ratified, may, it would seem,
?arefully consider the case of Presi?
dent Wilson and the main reasons
for the general dissatisfaction with
his course.
Why have the President's repute
And influence steadily declined since
he transmitted the treaty to the
Senate? Is it not. because he has
been more interested in having h'i.s
?*xact way than in contributing to j
the triumph of a great cause? No j
one has accused him of maneuvering ;
to prevent American participation in
the peace league. Ho is conceded to
A-ant participation. But, forced by,
the practicalities of the situation to'
choose, he has shown that be pre?
fers to kill the treaty than to yield
an inch to the judgment of others.
This seems narrow, stubborn and
.ainglorious, a putting ?if the
claims of persona] pride above the
?rifare of the country and of the
world.
If Senator Lodge and his asso
ciates are guilty of the same offense,
f they similarly insist, on the abso-1
lute perfection of the language arid
provision! of the reservations they
have matured, they will be regarded
as also afflicted with Wilsonitis. It
will not be easy to condemn the
?'resident, for his spirit and acquit
his opponents if they show a simi- i
ar spirit. Tt is nol in the heart
? f the American people to lay clown
one rule of condui I for the White |
House and another for Capitol Hill.
If the issue were joined in this way
?( is not improbable that Capitol Hill
would be judged the more harshly.
So far the Senate majority has had
the better of the dispute, but this
? i nol so much because of greater
confidence in the Senate's wisdom
and breadth as because, the Senate
SO far has been the more reasonable
and less partisan and personal.
In these comments it is assumed
that a majority of the people would
have the treaty ratified -ratified
with reservations. The available evi?
dence points in this direction. The
fact that eighty Senators voted for
.orne kind of ratification is confirma?
tory. The Hat opponents of the
treaty In the Senat?; constitute only
a negligible minority. Senator Ixidge
surely does not wish to be remem?
bered as a public man who imitated
the President and shared with him
responsibility for the treaty's de?
feat. Millions of ryes are watching
his course, and his critics will be cer?
tain to become most active unless it
in clear he is not to blame should
'here be defeat.
The Nobel Award Scandal
The Nobel Prize Commission has
?iven an award to a Cern?an chem?
ist. Herr Haber, who was one of the
developers of poison gas for use in
military operations. Paris dis?
patches say that this action will be
protested by the chemical societies
of the Entente nations. It certainty
ought to be.
Germany was the first belligerent
to employ poison gas. It is safe
to say that no Allied government
would have thought of adding this
new terror to warfare. It was
barred by the Hague conventions
regulating the usages of war. It
"vas a barbarous innovation, repre?
senting a return to the savagery
which the belligerents of the eigh?
teenth and nineteenth centuries had
put behind them.
It is an olfense to the humani?
tarian spirit to honor a man who
helped to introduce this illicit wea
I son?-tried first, with horrifying ef?
fects, at the second battle of Ypres.
Phe Nobel Prize Fund was estab?
lished to encourage humane intel?
ectual effort and to promote
progresa in the civilizing arts and
sciences. It is being misused when
:t rewards a scientist, whatever his
work in other branches of his pro?
fession, who has aided in spreading
death and has contributed to the
perfection of a weapon outlawed
by international contracts.
If the Nobel Fund directors can
give Herr Un her a prize for dis?
tinguished scientific achievements,
they may next be honoring Herr
Rosenberger, the German artillcrj
engineer, who had the largest shan
, in the construction of the "Big
Berthas" which bombarded Paru
; from a distance of fifty miles 01
I more and massacred the worshipers
1 in a Paris church on Good Friday
i 1918. Rosenberger'ts claim is a?
, good as Haber'a?perhaps better
; For his secret is still a secret, whilt
; i Haber's has been mastered by al
the world and has set all the armec
nations to manufacturing poisor
' gas as one of the requisites of the
. wars of the future.
1, The decision of tho Nobel Board
>! is a scandal of world-wide propor?
tions. The protest against it ought
' to be universal.
Mr. Hoover and His Candidacies
That Mr. Hoover will long be able
to maintain a receptive attitude
toward both Presidential nomina?
tions is, of course, to be regarded as
impossible. If his claims continue
: to be urged circumstances beyond
! his control will force him to choose
; on which ticket, if any, his name is
to appear.
Many thousand other public offl
i cers are to be chosen in November
i and the interests of these candidates
will be affected by the ticket's head.
This alone negatives the non-parti?
san idea that some of Mr. Hoover's
friends are promulgating.
Moreover, most of the states have
primary laws which assume the
existence of a bipartisan political
system, and through force of law
there must be partisan selections.
j Admiral Dewey a few years ago
: sought to present himself as Mr.
Hoover is being presented now, and
did not care on which ticket he ran,
i but his plan of campaign proved un?
workable.
But though the fact* of the situ?
ation are to be recognized, this is no
reason why there should be any
disposition to derogate from Mr.
Hoover's just repute. He was one
of the first Americans to perceive
and react to the issues of the war,
and this attests alike his vision and
his moral soundness. When word |
came to him from across the sea ;
that all Americans were to be neu- j
tral in thought as well as in deed, |
he repudiated the advice and went
to work to advance the cause ;
which both his mind and his heart
approved. He was not of the num.- ]
ber that it took two or three years to
educate into right views.
When the advancing German i
armies pushed the helpless Belgians
before them Mr. Hoover was not
satisfied merely to indulge the '
luxury of generous feelings. He
acted; he acted in such a way as to
make his name a blessed one to mil?
lions. Americans can take proper
pride in saluting Mr. Hoover as a
fellow American. He has conferred :
luster on the nation, and in the ;
eagerness of political discussion the
fact should never be forgotten or,
obscured. It is beyond his power
to ride at Cue same time horses ?
going in contrary directions, but this
is no reason for his belittlement or i
for failure to acknowledge his great,
services.
No New Thing
A group of serious thinkers in
England break in on the leap year
joke-smiths to urge seriously
the advantages of equality of
the sexes in proposals of mar
nage. One takes high altruistic ?
ground. "It is really quite unfair," .
she says, "that the men should al- !
ways suffer the humiliation of being j
refused." Another argues that "shy :
men make the best husbands"-?an
obiter dictum that requires some re?
flection. The general agreement is
that the initiative has passed to tho
women bo generally that there is no
good reason why marriage, the mo t
important, event in a woman's life,
should be the exception.
The force of the argument maj be
admitted. Geoi'ge Bernard Shaw
was not the first to discover that
in the love chase the hunter and
the quarry are the same. If women
once lacked initiative in matters of
the heart it was in a time "whereof
?he memory of man," in Brack
stone's words, "runneth not to the
contrary." The case of Dido is a
familiar example. Much of the
talk about tho New Woman is
absurd. Queen Elizabeth would
have done credit to Vassal*. Lady
Jane Grey wore hosiery of the
most cerulean hue. Descartes thought
that the Princess Elizabeth,.?he sis?
ter of Rupert, was the only person
who really understood his philosophy.
Let not the learned ladies of to-day
boast too loudly.
No, it isn't the war, it isn't wom?
an suffrage, it isn't the extension of
feminine occupations which have
given woman equality?rathei su?
premacy? in clamping down the bond
of wedlock. One of the earliest
romantic episodes in American his?
tory is recalled by Priscilla Mullins's
question to Miles Standish's envoy.
How often do men speak for them- (
selves except under prompting'.'
"Why don't the men propose, mamma. 1
Why don't the men propose?" '
So rang the song popular with our
grandmothers. Because they couldn't
take a hint when it was offered to *
them?that is the answer. i
Leap year is only by idle tradi- -
S ion a mark in the marriage calen- <
Jar. There is no year when women *
io not dispose of men as they will, \
lot merely when they seek "the felic- It
ily of unbounded domesticity," bu
| in all mortal concerns, great 01
? small. What has the war or an?
other event to do with it?
i The Caucasus as a Barrier
The recognition of the republics
of the Caucasus is the natura
counter move to the Bolshevil
, strategy of making war on Wcsterr
Europe via Asia. By their attempt
!to forge their way to the northwest?
ern frontier of India through Persia
and Afghanistan the Bolsheviks one?:
more prove themselves the truc heirs
of Czaristic imperialism. The strate
1 gists of Moscow now try to combine
with their program of class strug?
gle the Prussian scheme of arousing
the Moslems of Western Asia, while
Bolshevik propaganda has been ex?
tremely busy in Persia, Turkestan
and Afghanistan, and in India itself.
The strategic center of the Bol?
shevik plan of campaign?another
hint borrowed from Czaristic im?
perialism?is Afghanistan. Two Bol?
shevik emissaries, Bravin and Sur?
it zky, are, or were quite recently, at
work on Kabul and Herat, respec?
tively, with large staffs and larger
funds at their disposal. Barana
tulla, a Hindu who recently headed
i the Afghan mission to Moscow, de
' clares that his chief purpose is "the
expulsion of the British from Asia."
: Needless to say, it is not the
Marxian aspect of Bolshevism that
appeals to tho barbarous Afghans.
If they join the Russian "Reds" in
an attack on India, it is not to spread
communism and establish proletarian
dictatorship. It is characteristic of
Bolshevik statesmanship to avail
itself of such allies; here again
Trotzky merely follows in the foot?
steps of Ludendorff.
One hundred and twenty years
ago Nelson made Egypt India's first
line of defense. To-day the danger
threatens not from the west, but
the north, and the advantages of
establishing the line of defense in
the Caucasus are obvious at a glance.
The British task there is facilitated
by the existence of the two vigorous
and progressive republics of Georgia
and Azerbaijan, the former largely
Christian, the latter Moslem, both
abundant in natural resources and
inhabited by virile rac.es with a keen
nationalist feeling and an intense
hatred of Bolshevism. Por them, as ;
for the Baltic peuples, Poles and i
Ukrainians, the rule of L?nine means
another form of Muscovite tyranny.
The "Nullifiers"
It is a singular thing that the
newspapers which have gone fur?
thest in holding that the articles
of tiie treaty which President Wit-'
son brought home from Paris ought
not to be amended or modified arc
now advising the Allied governments
to admit that Article 227 of th<
treaty is a dead letter and non- !
enforceable. These newspapers have
expressed horror at the idea of |
amendments or reservations through
which the United States should de?
fine its attitude toward certain sec?
tions of the convention before ac?
cepting them. Such action on our
part, though perfectly legitimate,
has been protested against as "nulli- !
fication." But a proposal to nullify
a section to which no signatory has,
ever raised an objection?that pro?
viding for the trial of the Kaiser?
excites no moral indignation what?
ever from these champions of the
integrity of the Versailles compact.
The Times said yesterday: "As |
time goes on there is likely to be !
a feeling of relief among the p .ople
of the Allied countries because Hol?
land has declined r,o be a party to
the setting of the stage for the trial
of William of Hoher.zollern and the
prolongation of tho agony-- of the
great war."
The World has expressed similar
sentiments. To these two supporters
of the President it seems unpatriotic
and narrow-minded for the Senate
to want to modify in any way tho
terms of the treaty. But if difficulty
arises elsewhere in carrying out the
provisions of the compact gratitude
is frankly confessed that some?
body has intervened to prevent the
execution of some unanimously
adopted but still obnoxious treaty
section.
Holland is applauded for blocking;
the trial of the Kaiser. The Allied
governments are advised to take that
rebuff to their stupid policy as good
naturedly as they can. But where,
then, is the process of "nullifica?
tion," with the consent and approval
? f the friends of the treaty, to stop?
Suppose the Allied governments now
say to themselves: "Article so-and
so is foolish; let us forget it." What
argument can lie made when another
irl cle is challenged? Germany may
?e encouraged to maintain that the
rials of German officers accused of
violating the rules of civilized war?
fare will also "prolong the agony of ;
he great war." Shall the Allied '
>ov.crs answer: "Yes, you are right; '
lon't let. us have any tria'*." They '
vould have to say that if they
istened to the reasoning o? treaty
'nullifiers" like The Times and The j
World. i
Articles 227 and 228 of the treaty ?
ver? intended to compel an account- ?
ng for the crimes in which the war
originated and with which its con
luct on the part of Germany were "
tained. Trials are necessary to ?
indicate international morality and ,
o establish before the world * the ? ?
l
; ! truth of what seems to have beer
?lone of the foulest and most con
' ' scienceless conspiracies in history
I Will the Allied powers have th<
courage to do what they set out tc
| do in spite of the misgivings o1
? those who are now counseling t<
?turn tail and run away?
Mr. Hoover's Residence
A Question for Colonel Houst
Based on the Constitution
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Before Herbert Hoover got tht
Presidential bee, eleven yearn ago
"Who's Who in New York City ant
! State," 1910 edition (L. R. Hamersly <?
Co. i, ran a soventy-one-line sketch ol
' his career. It is fair to assume flint thi:
; sketch was published with Mr. Hoover';
full authority, aa it is one of the long
j est in the book, and contains persona!
j data that appear in no other book o?
j tho time, Including a long list of for
; eign mining corporations in which h<
; claimed to be a director or for which
ho was consulttag engineer.
i Tho significant part of the sketch is
lits closing set?neos: "Clubs: Devon?
shire, Ranclagh (London); Phyllis
i Court (Henley). Residence: Red House,
Hqrnton Street, London. Office; 62 Lon?
don Wall Street, London, E. C, Eng?
land."
The Constitution of tho United States
says:
"No person except- a natural born
citizen, or a citizen of the United States
at the time of the adoption of this Con?
stitution, shall be eligible to the office of
President; neither shall any person be
eligible to that office who shall no*t have
attained to the age of thirty-five years
and been fourteen years a resident
within the United States."
? \ow, how could Herbert Hoover reside
?it Red House in London eleven years
ago and be eligible for the White House
in Washington this year or next?
Perhaps Colonel House can tell us!
ALVIN M. HIGGINS.
Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 20,
1920.
Did Alice Weep or Blush:-1
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have just read in The Tribune
an editorial with the caption, "For
Women Must Ween." The writer, quot?
ing from a famous old ballad, says
Sweet Alice "wept with delight when
you gave, her a smile."
1 have heard public singers use that
same "wept." 1 have aiso .seen it on
the screen of a movie "Trilby." Xow, I
would like to wager, say six bits, that,
according to the author of ''Pen Bolt,"
Sweet Alice "blushed with delight," but
she didn't "wept.''
MILTON NOBLES.
New York, .Ian. 25, 1920.
[In "Bartlett" and in the Sted
man "Anthology of American Verse"
Alice "wept." If. Thomas Dunn
English wrote "blushed" we shall be
glad to have Mr. Noble's proof of
the fact; but we could not consider a
wager upon a question touching so
delicate and sacred a subject.-?Ed,]
Intervention, Not Conquest
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Two fundamental American
principles, altruism and commercial
development, demand our ultimately
intervening in Mexico. Our acceptance
of ?t mandate over that country, even
by force of arms with necessary sacri?
fices, will prove a lasting benefit to man?
kind. Mexico's enormous natural re?
sources, made safely accessible to in?
ternational commerce, will amply repay
us for introducing law and order..
Mexico to-day is a breeding place for
Bolshevism a nd lawlessness, a menace
to us in its proximity. The better
element in Mexico is terrorized and
powerless. No progress is possible
without protection. Intervention doe?
not mean conquest, but standing for
civilization and general betterment.
G. J. S. WHITE.
New York, Jan. 25, 1920.
Unsanitary Streets
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The filthy condition of the ;
streets of the city and the entire
lack of eifort to handle properly the
removal ol" the snow are sufficient rea?
sons to explain the influenza epidemic.
The Health Department should have
exercised its authority to enforce the
abatement of such obviously unsani
tary rond it ions long before now.
While the Mayor is "playing to the
galleries," the ??roper cleaning of the
streets, upon which the general health
of all the people depends so largely.
is shamefully ignored. E. t?. M.
New Vork, Jan. 24, 1020.
Just an Editorial Guess?
To tho Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: { nder tho title "Beautiful but
Rare" you print the following from
"The Detroit Journal": "There is some?
thing attractive, if not fasctnaMng,
(ib '-.it Mr. Bryan's mitp.h, when it is
closed."
! urn very much interested in learning1
how the writer managed to ascertain the
above facl ?. C. PUGH.
Upper Montclair, N. J., Jan. 6, 1920
Modern Economics
(From YV.t D< troit Jintrnal
Under the old-fashioned law of sup?
ply and demand a very huge quantity or
i surplus of any commodity brought
ibout falling prices. A new law in
sconomics reverses the process. The
itocks of pi troh uni have been increased,
-."?'? o I has I ei n refined in the last
rear than in a;.y previous year, core
ias been imported and tli* Standard
'il Company has raised the price of
?asolin? and kerosene. It remains now
or seme logically minded economist to
ay down tho rule that the less there is
>f anything the less It costs the con
uraer. But if he trusted to his experi
ince he would make the rule read:
Whether there is too much or too little
if a commodity an increase in price is
asiie imperative."
The Conning Tower
To Fortune
Horace: Book I, Ode XXXV.
"O Diva gratum"
; Come, Fortune Fair, to whom th<
sailors pray,
As through the lashed Bithyniar
waves they plough,
Come, guide my doubtful hand to?
day,
Befriend me now.
Oh, Lady Luck, bring charity divine
; Grant me thy sacred aid and sag?
advice;
Just breathe upon these bones oi
mine,
Just bless these dice.
Teach them to roll the way I crave,
Queen, let's pecuniary forces join,
Make these two fickle cubes behave:
? ? need the coin.
J. D. McMaster.
'Sarcastic words," says Arthur
Chapman in tho Evening Telegram.
"come from a book reviewer who de?
clares that a certain work 'sounds as
if it were the product of a man who
wears a celluloid collar.'
Joaqu?n Miller, Mark Twain, and other
rough dressers have done considerable
for literature. Perhaps the time may
now be ripe tor some writer who wears
collars of celluloid to say something
; that will startle the book world." We
i doubt it. A man who wears a celluloid
collar would wear buttoned half shoes,
and would stick his necktie in his
shirt so as to reveal the diamond stud.
And we defy such a man to write
good stuff. -
"Backward, Turn Backward"
Sir: I wonder how many remember their
first day at school. I remember mine. I had
to ?it for about ten minutes with V?rete
Coliman, a little colored girl, because I
made taces at her. Virgle grew to be a
regular Amazon. Before she got through
?he eighth grade she licked the school bully
for calling her chalk-eye. Evre.
Our first day at. school was .lignal
izcd by fright at the familiarity and
confidence with which all the other
pupils sang "In ?U tho green world
vhere is none so -sweet as my little
lamb with his nimble feet," a song
Utterly unfamiliar to us. That every?
body but u:5 should know it bewildered
us, and we doubted our abiliry to last
out the day.
Murder Him or Something
Sir: The time is ripe "for a campaign
against "Or something." For example,
my friend will remark:
"It looks like rain or something."
"Let's go to the theater or something."
"ITow about some, coffee and pastry
or something?"
I broached this subject to him, and
bo said: "Sure, let's start a club or
something to fight it."
What can 1 do with him? A. L. W.
1- all originated, probably, with the
farmer who "wished his wife would get
well or something."
THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE
Sir: A press dispatch from London says
Miat In the orcheslra for the Russian ballet
is now included an ordinary typewriter,
which doubtless plays many keys. This fact
brings to mind Oscar Wilde's suggestion
made in a letter from prison concerning the
preparation of "De Profundis" : "Could you
not get Mrs. Marshall to send down one of
lier typewriting girls?women are the most
reliable as they have no memory for the
important?to do it under your supervision 7
I assure you that the typewriting machine,
when played with expression, is not more
annoying than the piano when p!aye<l by a
bister or near relation."
Tioaa Tces-DiT.
Our favorite typewriter song would
he. "(.lome, My Corona, Let's Co
.Maying." _
Lessen the pain. Baume Analg?
iquo lier.gu? will give you quick re?
lief. Put it on your shopping list
Advert i s?ment.
"Put it where tho pain is worst,
eh?" suggests Xina.
The Dlaryof Our Own Samuel Pepys
January 2\?Read all morning in
"J?rgen," and high humour in It, and
beauty, and then I took from my shelf
a book of J. B. Cabell's poems, and re?
read them, and took great pleasure in
them; in especiall the rondeaux and
ballades, and one sestina, fashioned
with great ekill and word-happiness.
R. Fosdick come to call, and tells us
he hath resigned as Secretary to the
League o? Nations, or whatever his
office was, and I feel ho is disappointed
at our part in the League. Stopped
at home all day, my wife being ill, and
she fearing 1 did not enjoy not going
ou . which is true.
-.'."' -With my wife to Greenwich to
R. Lardner's, and Mistress Neysa
here; and there came an argument as
to the authorship of "I've Got a Feelin'
Por You," a common song of fifteen
?ear? ago. And N. said it was wrote
by G. Cohan, whereat R. and F.
laughed full fore, and she offered to
wager us it had been, and we wagered
her each $7.50, but were unable to find
who had wrote it; except that I would
wager $ino,000 ?? wa3 not G. Cohan.
R. Lardner played upon the saxophone,
very 'sweetly, too, a gift I envy him;
and Mistress Ellis, his wife, hath a
pretty voice, and a fair spoke manner,
?ml four fine boys. Home, and the
iitten overjoyed to see me.
26 To the office, by omnibuss, and
walking, as 1 mis?ike the subway when
the piague is abroad, which I fear
greatly. F. Munsey !s to combine the
Sun and the Herald, which will save
tie no money at all, forasmuch as I
did not buy the Herald. Read B.
rarkington's "The Other Tilings of
Life," in the Metropolitan, full of
?eart-aching humour.
Journalistic Ueography
Sir: What are they going to do with
Herald Square now that the Herald is going
to be published down town? Maybe Mr.
Munsey can change New York City a.? well
i-i New York City's newspapers.
- BSUXCTT.
"Keep out of crowded subways and
streetcars, ar.d don't worry," advises
Or. Copeland. -,_
Entitled "Walking as a Core for
Melancholia." F. P. A.
The Russian Upset
B\) Frank H. Simonds
Washington, D. C. ; while we nr? still to preserve all Bol?
?n the last few weeks the Russian shevik hostility by adopting toward
situation, so far as western Europe is j them the language addressed to out
concerned, has reached a crisis. The ; 'avrs- We ar? going to let them get
Russian forces engaged in war against j stronger, but as they get stronger we
L?nine and Trotzky for the control of a?V eoing to see to it that their hos
! Russia have been completely defeated j tility and hatred for us increase.
and the Bolshoviki are rapidly con- ! T*11'-1 is also a matter of domestic
solidating their hold upon the whole politics. Lloyd George does not dare
of tho old Romanoff empire save along ' further to affront the Labor and Lib
the outer fringes. ""? ' groups by fighting B ?lshi
The collapse of the internal opposi- he ia e{iually afraid to arouse th.
tion to the Bolsheviki has left the \?ur^ oi Conservative wrath by a
outside world with the obvious neces- makine peace with !h" Bolsheviki. He
I slty of making peace with Bolshevism vvon't recognize Trotzky and L?nine
or else of sending money, material and, I bccause of hia apprehension of what
ii the end, men to bolster up the be the effect upon the Tories who
Poles, the people of the Baltic prov- stU1 8UPPort him. He won't continue
inces, the Rumanians and the Arme- tho war at??inst Bolshevism because
nians against Bolshevik attack. of the possible revolt, of the Liberal
and Labor representatives.
Mr. Lloyd (?eorge Surrenders But this means only one thing: it
Such sendings mean war; they mean \ merins that the Poles and the border
out-and-out war, not the sort of in- races ffenerally are being sacrificed in
direct warfare which hitherto has <-??-''??>' the same way Haig and I e
been carried on under the guise of British a?y were sacrificed in 1918.
supporting Russians to regain national \p0lanil Sacrificed
freedom and .save themselves from an- ?
aichy. And Lloyd George, with a con-I Ludendorff'a great success of March
siderablo and growing Labor opposi- and APriI was- in fact, a triumph ever
tion to further Russian effort, with a ! r*lo-v<1 George, not over Haig. Xow
considerable Liberal protest based on [ ''eland.i ; ?eft, as the British army was
a Utopian interpretation of the Bol- left three years age It will have to
shevik program, with a considerable bear the full fury of Bolshevik attack,
opposition at home, has suddenly and only when the attack discloses the
changed front, thrown over all of the whole extent of Lloyd George's misap-j
earlier policies of his government and \ prehonsion will there he any chai.ee
of his allies and surrendered to the j of beginning real resistance.
Bolsheviki. Supported by Nitti, who has a large i
Regarded as one more of his marvel- \ and dangerous Socialist problem in
ously clever bits of domestic political j Italy u,-d ** equally prepared to aac-1
dexterity, the new Lloyd George ma- >'i*.ee foreign for domestic ?
neuver is easily comprehensible, bu1 Lloyd George has put through a com
what of its externa! consequenci ? plete and unconditional surrender to
Only two years ago Lloyd George al Trol ky and 1. nine. IL \. ?
tempted a similar reversal'of policy, waited to ask for a; y ten
He decided that the war in the West other s de. The reason is that f r ;
had become a stalemate, that there her side is no th !: . - , , but
couhl be no military decision; that it e Liberal and Labor groups
was a mistake to send reii 'ore Briti h Parliam nt.
to Haig to be wasted in sue futile : rr. . ...
attacks a, those of the Somme in 1916 ' tCloriOUS Bolsheviki
and of Flanders in 1917. Ther ?' re i e Not bi rig al i or ng to fig : ai j
dispersed British troops over the Ea . nger, Lloyd George has endeav ..-?
refused all reinforcements in France to buj off th? B hcvik .
and at the same time consented, under precipitate has e to fortifj his]
French pressure, to permit the ?; I .
army in France to take over new ter- i ' .- -
ritory, to lengthen the line, tl '?'?.?.-?? >] heviki. li?
ning the defenders. . ? ... to a di .
The Kdue of Ruin ar ,ea9t- cripp!e<] :ii" enemy' '' "
has failed to make any effort to con
For the moment this was a popular ... .. , , .. ... ... , a ...... fl
move, ;? silenced domcstii ? . I . . . . ting on I
growing out of terrible cas la victorious Bol ki are
the res lit was the groat,' ... , .. ?/.. . . dec] . _n.
British history the disaster of March ..,,.. ?;i:. -. . ,. , vou ttnv more; we
and At.ril, which est Haig loss. - ag- w?1] eyen t?.;ii? w?th yQxh bu1 we _. ,
gregating 350,000 men, 125,000 them j d , h "M ......;. a]
prisoners and brought the whole Al- ,
'? , der no en :um ta rice will ve at
lied cause to the edge of ruin. this ... ,,
, - , . with you.
was a fair example of th ??? an ,,,..., , . ,,
,. , ,. , .,, All ol which means that the Rus
mel od, which finds new ?llu tration
'.!: the Russian upset. With the mil?
itary facts of 1918 Lloyd George did
not concern himself; he was thinking
. , . , , tion. with time and opportunity to or?
?n terms of lus own political prob
n revolution, like t I h revi
bei ire ;', has won
round. It is now master of the situa
anize its resources before it n
ie inevitable conflict, for Bolsh
ltms at home. In the same way I
now thinking of his Labor and Liberal
? ?ties at home, not of R . ! " :i ltate ' " v''ar a-";'' ' ?
Middle European conditi as. ! thc cnd :' r' aS< "
The worst phase of this new pol luered* and !o',la-J u ''* V?CU '
if policy it may be called, is that in ' ? ' '' by ^ M?C,ur* New"'
, , " ,, ? . r. , r. . paper Syndicate.)
abandoning all notion of lighting Bol- ,_
shivism it does not go t>> the logical
conclusion and make peace. There is An Unsolved Mystery
to be no recognition of Trotzky ami ,; ? >? The '? usa* City Sta ?
L?nine, no surrender of the idea that, The Ami i troops are to be with
they are beyond the pale; we, the West- drawn from Sib'-ria, and the only cx
orn nations, are merely going to feed planation the government now gives oe \
and equip and supply Russian indus-j the purpose for which they were sent
try, itself in the hands of the enemy, i th^re is that it wasn't realized.
-Jl
The Negro*s Needs
Education That Might Prevent
Bolshevism Later
I To the Edit? r of The Tribune.
Sir: It is only after years of Indiffer?
ence ,: -? country has wakened to
s of Bolshevism, and now *
. : last, * rou ed, radica) act;' ??
The c - of Bolshe
' vism a - ' . : ted by deportations,
! no matter how numerous. The same dis
ms that prognosticate
! Bolsh.- be read in the cum 11
events ,: nong tho nice riots in ?
and Oi ? : - ?'"
Prejudice I ice ai e the bi e?
! ing ground . ? n and many o
our twelve million negroes feel tl a
their race '? . linority race
i ?is ad - rited minority. True, the
i negro has always teen loyal, whether
in the > of Gel -^ral Washirg
tion or in the battlefront in the '60s
or in France, but one wonders whether
may not be imposed
upon. Unequal pay for equal labor,
unequal trai rtation fac?ties for
.il school facilities
? fur children, added to race prejudice
and rac ? d tion, do not make
of mind or orderly condu:t.
The handwriting is on the wall; now
ot later is the proper time to
. - * fSictive pro-rram which
will pre rve the negro's loyalty ana
! render Bolshevistic propaganda un?
availing among colored people.
1 ie egro needs schools. Nearly'
of he negro children of school
- of school to-lay. There !?
a vital need in this second reconstruc
tion era for the tmininf of negro
leaders, men who are fit to go amotig
*.!T*,r people as teachers, doctors and
ers men inspired with the
Ideals of citizenship and
. :e, ? . n who will tench the respon
? and thj privilege of being *n
\i i r ?
is said to bo the
l'isni,and American edu
ich to allay the un
id among the si b
I tenth of the Am -rican popu *??
ME 1'. RIDDER
' ? ? ?-, Nashville, Tenu
I
Day of Reckoning Is Announced
? - ??f The Tribune.
tion of domestic poll
I States at the pr*
. i to be ?s follows Vit
s of promlnei :e,
the C? party, ?s r::any call ;'
:
and Pi But 1
ratic I be a - *? "
- - The sec? rnj party Is I -
\ ? . a!i',\ e a
- a. 'fberty, but t*
oui 1 r- : - ness, arid that Is ' '
party und? r whose banner ail
? rl ;. lo\ ine men and women will
?? next election, when the
ng will s :r?*Tv co::.?
A. C. II.
?ork. Jan. 24, 1920.
, The Original Brain
litor of The Tribune.
.*-.: : your fearless editorial "T; ?
p of March, I ! the nailon
iad, and I am indeed g!?d f-at
tve one great daily newspaper that
afraid to speak the truth. Every
one seems desirous of making a go?t
of poor old Daniels; but those in the
it are * oroughly convinced that it
emanated from the great brain whir''
coined those catch phrases "Too prou>.
to light," etc
AN OLD TRIBUNE REALE?.
New York, Jan. 23, 102?X J