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Benson W?as the Man
Admiral Sims lias named the high
official who told him: "Do not let the
British pull the wool over your eyes.
It is not our duty to pull their chest?
nuts out of the fire. We would as
soon fight the British as the Ger?
mans."
The man who made these extraor?
dinary statements was Admiral W.
S. Benson. Secretary Daniels's chief
?if operations, the officer responsible
for the handling of the fleet. They
were made twice in Washington, just
before the admiral started for Lon?
don, war having not yet been de
dared, and a third tiinc, substan?
tially, in Paris, six months later,
when the United States was a co
belligerent.
The obvious primary role of the
American navy was to cooperate
with the British fleet in maintaining
the blockade of the German coasts
and in checking the devastations of
the enemy submarines in the "war
zone." How could a wholehearted
effort to cooperate in this critical
task be expected of a strategist who
even six months after war had been
declared was still harping on the
idea that he would as soon fight one
side as the other?
Admiral Sims's description of Ad?
miral Benson's state of mind not
only harmonizes completely with
the original Wilson attitude toward1
the war. but with the policy of the
Navy Depai-.tment in the earlier
months of the war. The department
turned a deaf ear to appeals for
immediate use of the fleet in the
zone where the struggle for the safe?
guarding of Allied communications
was being decided. It ignored the
plainest principles of sea strategy.
And the reason for this violation
of elementary rules was bluntly
stated in the department's dispatch
to Sims on .Tilly .10, 1917, which said
that "while a successful termination
of the pre:eut war must always b?
the first Allied aim and will prob?
ably result in diminished tension
throughout the world, the future,
position of the United States must.
in no way be jeopardized by any'dis?
integration of our main fighting
fleet."
Not even the politically plausible
excuse of protecting our coasts from
submarino raids was advanced. The
navy's inaction was frankly justified
on grounds of post-war policy.
Admiral Sims's disclosures put a
?staggering burden on the President,
on Secretary Daniels and on his
chief naval adviser. Can they break
the force of the case for inefficiency |
and indifference in the conduct of
the war which the Sims hearings:
have so convincingly built up? The!
honor and zeal of the United States :
as a co-belligerent have been im- i
pugned. Surely no American will ;
be proud of a record which will say
to the future that in one conspicuous
case responsible agents of our gov?
ernment said one thing in public
and quite another in private.
Rash Landlordism
The real estate owners who clamor
against the Lockwood housing bill
lack a clear grasp of the renting sit?
uation. They ignore the existence of
a public emergency. As the extrem?
ists were warned at Saturday's meet?
ing of the United Real Estate Own?
ers' Association, landlords must con- !
sent to the passage of some remedial |
measures. Otherwise, as Stewart
Browne said, the Legislature "will
pas's measures to suit the tenants,!
and the landlords will discover that
they have killed the goose that laid
the golden egg."
The United States is still techni?
cally at war with Germany. The
emergency created by that fact
legally permits a vigorous use of
legislative power. The Legislature
could probably pass a moratorium
act if it wanted to. Even if it is
admitted that the war emergency
has passed for practical purposes,
t here is a grave peace emergency
so far as housing facilities in this
? ity are concerned, and a peace
emergency is as sacred as a war one.
The courts would certainly take
notorious facts into account in re?
viewing tho Legislature's action.
SQta first) p? jth* Lockwood bill? i_
a pure emergency bill. It is to re?
main in force only until November
1, 1922. It gives the courts in
cities of the first and second class
discretionary powers to stay sum?
mary dispossess proceedings against
tenants when the latter tender pay?
ment at the existing rate, with such
additional payment as the judge
may deem fair and reasonable. This
is a restriction only on such land?
lords as are unwilling to submit to
a judicial determination of what
constitutes a fair renting increase.
It restrains only obvious profiteer?
ing during an emergency period.
When famines and epidemics come,
the. police powers expand automati?
cally. During the coal shortage of
1918 and the influenza epidemics of
1918 and 192? the conduct of busi?
ness in this city was summarily in?
terfered with. The present housing
crisis is a threat to public health
and order. It is fatuous to assume
' that the Legislature is not com
| potent to take radical measures in
! dealing with it.
Most owners of habitations are
| more sensible than the one who said
| at Saturday's meeting: "We want
all the income we can get, the same
! as labor doe?." The Federal gov
I eminent intervened to prevent the
' soft coal men from striking for
higher wage;?. It has in effect
coerced the railroad men. The de
| sire to take advantage of a public
i calamity like the housing shortage
by skyrocketing rents is bad policy
and bad citizenship. The real
estate owners will show more wis?
dom by trying to harmonize their in?
terests with the public's needs
through a give-and-take conference
at Albany.
Backward, Christian Soldiers!
The New York State League of]
Women Voters, a l'esponsible organi?
zation, of which Mrs. Frank A.
Vanderlip is chairman, has pre?
sented a carefully prepared report
which makes two serious charges.
One is that Speaker Sweet, touch?
ing welfare legislation, is unduly
under the influence of the Associ?
ated Manufacturers and Merchants, j
whose secretary and lobbyist is one*
Mark A. Daly, of Buffalo.
The other charge is that the so- ?
called New York League for Ameri- j
canism, Carroll D. Babcock sec re-;
tary, is a screen for an effort to j
defeat workmen's insurance for the
benefit of insurance interests.
The evidence submitted against
the Speaker is calculated to excite
robust suspicion, and explains why ?
the Speaker a year ago put the wel- j
fare bills into his pocket and sup- j
pressed them after deferring con- j
sick-ration until the close of the ses-i
sion. Once again the Sweet ma?
chine is maneuvering against the:
bills, and once again Mr. Daly seems
well placed in respect to access to
the Speaker's ear.
It is prqdent for the Republicans
of the state to note that a close
imitation of the old Barnes machine
is operating at Albany. Is it in?
tended to make the women under?
stand that the Republican party in
this state has only lip interest in
progressive legislation?
With respect to the so-called
League for Americanization it ap?
pears that its most lively interest is
in opposing health insurance, such
as most civilized countries enjoy.
Unless the private insurance com?
panies write the policies New York
is not to have it. Secretary Bab?
cock is a patriot from California,
where he was deeply concerned
about economics. He organized what
he called the California Research
Society of Social Economics. Its
researches were confined to marshal?
ling data against public health in?
surance. Mr. Babcock has carried
on in New York similar work. He
holds that it is "socialistic" and most
un-American to have health insur?
ance. To him the fact that Great j
Britain and other countries which
are bulwarks of individualism have
such insurance is of no consequence.
The Republican party has a large
majority in both houses of the Legis?
lature. It is responsible for results.
Does it want to go into the fall cam?
paign under the banner of Swectism,
with Messrs. Daly and Babcock as
color bearers? One can imagine
the progressive wing losing step as
such precentors sing "Onward, Chris?
tian Soldiers!"
No Censorship of Education
There are clear and conclusive
reasons against the bill proposed by
the Lusk committee for subjecting
the Rand School and all such schools
to state regulation.
First and most obviously, the bill
contradicts the main logic of the
Lusk report, which argued con- j
vincingly that the existing criminal
anarchy statute of the state pro1 ?
vided against every form?of sub?
versive radicalism. This statute,
I comprehensively punishing, forbids
every act in aid of the doctrine of
! change by violence. It clearly cov
j ers a school in which such doctrines
! are taught. In short, if the Rand
j School teaches and urges the over?
throw of our government by force j
its teachers are violating the exist- :
ing laws of the state. On the other !
hand, if they are preaching only,
change by orderly, legal methods
they are acting within their rights
as Americans.
A "Red" commonly camouflages
his doctrines, but state regula?
tion trf echooLv ?U schools noces*
J_
sarily, is not a, safe or just or
American answer to his deceit. The
conviction of no criminal is a sim?
ple matter. The "Red" may be as
difficult to catch in the act of crime
as the counterfeiter or the smug?
gler. But to give any small, central
body of men the control of so sacred
a matter as education merely to
facilitate the suppression of a par?
ticular group of criminals is op?
posed to every fundamental princi?
ple of Americanism.
Our schools arc mainly locally ad?
ministered and should remain lo?
cally administered. Our right of
free speech in times of peace should
not bo subjected to regulation by
any body of men, however wise or
discreet. We want no censorship
of education in short, however pa?
triotic the motives of those who are
advocating the project.
The Rand School is not an in?
stitution commanding any intelligent
man's respect or deserving on its
merits the protection of law. But
the principle is larger than any one
small pest. It is a principle deserv?
ing the adherence of every Ameri?
can who believes in the govern?
mental system under which we live.
Mr. Gibson's "Life"
The news touching our old friend
Life will be welcomed by every
one possessing affection for the
American tradition. A high mark
of character and intelligence has
been maintained by this official
magazine of American humor. Its
humor has tended to become too
officialfljformal and conventional, al?
most bureaucratic in its search for
the safe, guaranteed-to-produce-a
chuckle joke. But its editorial pages
and its policy have, been distin?
guished and high-minded, as wise >
and clear-headed as they have been
good-natured. Upon the founda?
tion of such Americanism as Mr. ?
Mitchell's and Mr. Martin's has our
country built all the permanency
that it possesses.
The new ownership, will, carry on
this fine tradition, we are sure. Will
it also go delving into new fields of
humor in an effort to widen the
appeal of the Life page? There is j
unmistakably an opportunity for
growth here. For better, for worse, ;
leadership of American humor has |
passed from the magazine field \
to the newspaper in the last gen-|
oration. Life has suffered in con-1
sequence. Thei-e is no humorist !
drawing for a magazine who pos- j
sesses the wide public or the wide,
human appeal of Briggs, for exam-1
pie. It is to the columnists of the
country?B. L. T., of The Chicago '
Tribune, or Don Marquis, of The '
Neto Yorl&JSvening Sun, or our own!
F. P. A.?that the American reader
of taste first turns for humor to?
day. The despised comic and the
joke "colyum" have unmistakably
borne away the victory.
This humor of the newspaper is
largely a thing of daily repartee.
Plainly, there is ample room for the
weekly to hew out a path of its own.
This is the task which Mr. Gibson
faces in his new r?le of publisher?
to keep Life the sane, considered in?
fluence it consistently has been and,
include within it more of the salt of;
the day's humor, the stuff that really
entitles our country to its reputation ;
as the possessor of a sense of humor
second to none.
On Abusing Young Genius
Probably there ?re no more young
geniuses in the home than there
were before the rise of Daisy Ash
ford and her brilliant six-year-old
sister Opal Whiteley of The Atlan?
tic. But the fame that has come to
infant masterpieces ' has plunged
many a parent from calm amuse?
ment at little Betty's precocious dex?
terity with the typewriter into a ?
state of real alarm lest the child be, !
after all, another disturbing genius. \
The crisis is probably only psycho?
logical, but that makes it no less
difficult.
Therefore we hail as a direct con?
tribution to domestic morale the ad- j
vice handed out by Hugh Walpolethe
other day on the care and abuse of
young genius. "If you have a young ;
g?nies in your home," he said, "my j
advice is to go home and strangle ?
and trample upon and hold down i
that young genius."
Mr. Walpole spoke out of his ex?
perience, it may be presumed, as
young "Jeremy," anf from a real ?
solicitude for the good of other ?
eight-year-olds. "A writer," he well j
says, "who has been coddled and ?
praised and encouraged to read his \
productions to the assembled family !
from the age of eigh. will sever
know the fine rapture of having a
first book accepted at thirty, after
many rejections and the continuous
predictions of his Aunt Julia that he
will never amount to anything."
The real good of the writer thus
co-existing admirably with the peace
of mind of the family, the only per?
son to suffer from the policy of
strangulation is the infant who sees
father lower his paper and hears him
say, grudgingly: "Well, son, we'll1
listen, if it isn't too long."
With his assurance, however, that
eight-year-old agony becomes matur?
ity's triumph, the horde of young
imitators of Daisy Ashford with
which the race is threatened, and all
young scamps who confide to diaries
their secret opinion of the hand that
spanks, may be returned to the ;
status quo ante. Mothers need not
fear to turn out the nursery light in
tht iniddla a&? Jjorn?og cfcSB??M*nd
fathers, in an extreme of brutal
jocularity, may even recite to the
Sunday dinner company the latest of
Jeremy's sonnets to Mary Pickford.
It will even be possible with,a clear
conscience to continue to chastise
young persons who when sent for
the milk dally in the lanes convers?
ing in sweet nothings with pet pigs.
Let this not be construed as lack
of sympathy for the lonely child?
Opal, for example, writing her re?
markable little diary under the bed,
with the sore part uppermost. .lb is
only a reminder to bewildered
parents that for one Opal whose
works are immortal there are sev?
eral millions of Bettys whose re?
putes are to be saved by the burning
of their diaries unread.
The latest Anderson ism is the fol?
lowing, which was heard Sunday
evening from the pulpit of a New
burgh church: "If it were possible
for New York City to dribble to
hell through a beer funnel without
dragging anybody else down there
are plenty of people who would say
'Let her go!' " Some day some
clergyman before allowing his edi?
fice to be used may stipulate
that Anderson shall not indulge in
rowdy talk, and then the man is go?
ing to burst through inability to
speak.
The Farmer's 8-Hour Day
It Comes Before Noon?and It
Repeats After Dinner
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: According to one of The
Tribune's prominent advertisers, "the
sap is rising in the maple trees." And
so it is, but very slowly indeed. In
fact, it did not run a drop all day to?
day, but yesterday it fairly poured out
the spouts. Such are Nature and her
moods.
This morning 1 arose at {5:30 (we
farmers lie late during the winter
months), descended to the kitchen,
started a fire and then off to the barn.
Fed the horses, cattle; milked, strained
the milk and ate my breakfast.
Breakfast being over, I am ready
for the day's work, so 1 fed the
calves and chickens ( ? carry in wood
every other morning), cleaned the
horses, harnessed them to the sleigh,
all the while scanning the fields for
a sight of the hired man who had ?
promised to come and help me. ?
After I had loaded on sap pans,
tools, etc., Mr. Eight-Hour-Man comes
in sight at precisely 8:30 o'clock.
We proceed to sugar bush and set to
work. At 11:30 Mr. Man informs me j
that he must go to a neighboring vil- j
l?ge this afternoon. So no more sap |
wood is drawn this day. When I have ]
tapped the fortieth tree I go home to I
dinner (not lunch). That is to say, ?
I cat after I have fed the horse;? and !
let the cattle out to drink. After din- ?
tier I" feed the calves and chickens and ?
do other small jobs.
Now for the sugar bush. I boiled
down sap, cut wood, tapped thirty more
trees and quit at 5 o'clock. Repeat
feeding process. Gather eggs, bed
down horses, fix a, broken tic rope, and
then supper.
Now my faithful day laborer is
probably enjoying the company of his
follows around the warm postoffice
stove. i
Well," as T was saying, having eaten'
supper. I take my lantern, milk pail
and calf slop and start on my way j
again. Horses get their grain, cows
theirs. 1 milk, strain milk and do!
a few incidental tasks, and presto?at j
7:30 my eight-hour day is over. j
Now I have finished reading The. j
Tribune from start to finish, and after
a chapter in the Good Book will go
to bed.
To-morrow is another day?with
variations?and bo on ad infini turn. But
we as a class have our eight-hour day
?eight before noon and eight after.
C. A. W.
Catskill Mts., N. Y., March 19, 1920.
Not a Sinn Fein Parade
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The parade, on St. Patrick':?
Day was not a Sinn Fein parade. It
was the old parade of the Irish-Amer?
ican citizens uf New York, which has
become a time-honored custom, and
the men who marched up Fifth Avenue
Wednesday had nothing to do with
making an alliance with Germany in
1916. The men who received aid from
Germany (if this be true) during or
before the Easter rebellion are in then
graves in Ireland, and the men who i
walked in the St. Patrick's parade ;
thi3 year in New York arc our own '.
beys who fought on the fields of
Fiance and who left there behind
them many of their comrades dead
that small nations might live.
Surely the 165th Infantry (the C9th !
of gallant fame) has done enough for
our beloved country to be beyond petty ;
criticism. ? should think they had '
earn?d the privilege to march up Fifth j
Avenue whenever they choose to fore?
gather, and do so without protest from ?
any citizen of this land for any reason j
whatever.
We are all inconvenienced at some
time in our lives by being held up by
parades. Sometimes it i-s the Elks,
sometimes the Masons, etc. Kumar?
beings love parades and probably will
go on parading to the er.d of time, and
it is difficult to understand how the j
police can cope with the great crowds I
on these occasions if they have not spe- ,
cial regulations to meet the situations. |
MARY DISSEL.
New York, March 20, 1920.
Look Out for the Chickens!
To the Editor of ?The Tribune.
Sir: What shall be done to protect
our grandchildren? We have been get- j
ting stones for bread from our wrang- :
ling Senators, scorpions for eggs, '
and now a henhawk instead of the
dove we prayed for. Look out for the
chickens I : L. F, SPENCER.
The Conning Tower
"LIVES OF GREAT MEN. . . .?'
When I read of famous men,
And of their wonderful deeds, as
children,
That did foretell their greatness;
When I sec the glittering parade
Of boy Caesars, Washingtons, ?
Lincolns, Napoleons,
And all our Presidential candidates :
I grow aweary of the world.
For I know a dozen persons
With a golden, shining past.
One, as a girl, composed most
charming music;
One had a poem in a magazine ;
One (who is now a grocery clerk)
Led all his class at college;
One made a speech
That William Jennings Bryan
praised ;
One had his drawings in an ex?
hibition:
And now they are ordinary people.
And so I am aweary of the world
And all.its smart biographers,
That know a duck egg from a
chicken
, After the hatching.
Will Lou.
'Dipping into the future, one sees
| Gaffer Nicky Arnstein in a Home for
j the Indigent Aged, telling tho attend?
ant, for the thousandth time, how he
Used to Have Money, but it cost him
! a Pretty Penny to elude his pursuers.
Only tenants who do not rent apart
ment3 for as little as they can get them
! for have a right to be indignant at
landlords who get all they can.
WITH NO THOUGHT OF REWARD
I viewed Kick Carter with disgust
I When I was nine or ten:
"Another redskin hit the dust"
Held no enchantment then.
Perhaps my hero was much -worse
j Than he who redskin? floored ;
He always found anothcr'o purs.
And thought not of reward.
He always saved another's life.
And lying he abhorred;
So he exposed the boss's wife
And thought not of reward.
An orphan on his father's ?ido,
His mother he adored.
And when the poor old lady died
He thought not of reward.
Horatio Alger Jr.'s curse
On literature has scored,
For I write colyumnistic verse
And think not of reward.
CHA8I.B. II. SCRiBNF*. , Jt.
Our thanks to Doubleday, Page &
Co. for the first copy of "Something
Else Again," a volume of verse. It is
trivial stuff, and we have despaired of
tho author's ever doing Something Big. i
The book has a red cover, it is well ;
printed, and, if the publishers heeded
the corrections on the, proofs, well ;
punctuated.
!
The title of the book is the best i
thing about it, and that, like most
things the author gets credit for, is
not his own. It is by 0. 0. Mclntyre
out of Montague Glass.
The esteemed Hudson Republican has
no desire, it is assumed, to be catty,!
but it carries an advertisement for "a j
middle aged lady or widow."
The Dfary of Our Own Samuel Pepys
March 20?To my office, and at work;
and home to dinner in the evening, and
we had a ham, but with cloves in it,
which I do not like, and so to J. Too
hey's and played at cards, with fair ?
success, and home, late, to bed.
.1?A fair day, which put me in a :
joyous mood, and I rode about in my
petrol-waggon, and took Hilda for a
ride, she looking very pretty, and I
lent her some books to read, albeit she
has not yet returned my "McTeague."
With my wife to Janet Grant's, where
H. Hawley and Roy Baldridge were,
and a gay party besides. A. Samuels
to my house to-day, playing on the
piano, and contending that the musick
of Victor Herbert hath more melody l
in it than that of Sir Arthur Sullivan, |
a silly contention. Mr. Woollcott said, !
Well, I suppose we will have to ask !
Mr. Samuels to play. Nay, quoth I, I j
do not think we .will have to. Which:
caused great laughter, and deservedly.?
'?2?Early up, and to Dr. Feldman
the dentist'?, and he took a tooth out, '
the first ever I had out, but I felt no
pain soever, but felt ill all day, as i
did when inoculated against typhoid
fever. But I said nought about it. for
I am bored by the recital of other
persons' maladies, and have no wish to !
bore them with talking of mine. But
I did have a poor day of it.
"Oh!" dismayed Helen.
"Well!" brisked Warren.
-?From "The Married Life of Helen
and Warren,'' by Mabel Herbert
Urner, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
Mrs. Urner is an able contestant for
the cup now held by Eleanor Hallowell
Abbott, whose characters seldom "say"
anything.
And recently we saw " 'Ah!' she anx- i
ioused."
Two years ago this morning Big;
Bertha awoke us Parisians; and wh'.le
thirty years from now we may boast
of our courage on that occasion, candor
compels the admission that we were a '
trifle frightened. And so was Lee Wil- [
son Dodd. And so was the barber t.t j
the Palais Royal, as he overperfumed I
Mr. Dodd's and our treBses.
Non sequitur headline from the
Greensboro, N. C., Daily News: "Good
Roads President Not Against Suffrage |
but He Hopes for Good Roads."
Another thing we recall is the opin- ?
ion of Genera! Wood and other bal?s- \
ticians, cabled the next day, to the j
effect that it was impossible for a i
gun to cany that distance.
Have you had a tooth extracted since
July 1, 1919? I
Wall, you haven't missed much.
\_J_ fiVlVA. I
"NO EUROPEAN ENTANGLEMENTS"
?Tlo*rrf*_t, mo. New Tot- TrUnme lnc>
The New Alliance
?v Frank H. Simonds
It is a circumstance of at least pass- i
ing notice that at the present hour
European affairs are being directed by
a new Triple Alliance composed of
Britain, France and Italy, which is, in
a sense, the executor of the will of
the Paris Conference, become little
more than a memory. Lloyd George,
Millerand and Nitti are now speaking
in the names of that collective will
which was represented in the victori?
ous association of nations of Novem?
ber, 1918.
But it is not less clear that the
new Triple Alliance is itself divided.
On most questions which have recently
arisen the French and British have
taken different stands, and it has been
left to the Italians to cast the decisive
rete. Their vote, too, has become
unfailingly against the French. Thus,
fn a sense, Groat Britain is once more
dominating the- European councils
with the assistance of Italy.
The Italian Objective
The explanation of the Italian
maneuver is simple. Last year Italy
began her campaign to obtain her
Adriatic objectives by giving President
Wilson his memorable reception. His
visit to- Reme was one of the most
amazing episodes in international his?
tory. But while it convinced the Ital?
ians that the President had been wor
as a champion of their claims, it satis?
fied the President that the Italiar
people wero behind his fourteen points
When, at Paris, Mr. Wilson directlj
opposed Italian claims and emphatically
vetoed their Fiume aspiration, Italiat
bitterness was without limit and th<
Italians turned to the French, offer
ing them Italian backing for Frencl
claims on the Rhine, provided Franc.
would stand behind Italy in Adriati
matters. Clemenceau, who was. no
strongly sympathetic with Italy, re
pulsed this proposal rather bru3quelj
with the result that Italian bitternes
aj-ainst the French was quite as grea
as against President Wilson.
For the time being Italy had n
remedy, for the British also stoo
with President Wilson, and Italian r?
sentment was directed equally again.'
the- three countries?Britain, Franc
an?.' the United States--with the keei
es anger, perhaps, reserved for tr
French.
Franco-Italian Differences
In recent months, however, tl
Italians have concentrated their e
forts upon gaining British support, ai
the recent Fiume compromise accept?
by Lloyd George and Millerand, b
rejected by President Wilson, wa% i
obvious fruit of this policy. Mea
time Italy has supported the Briti
upainst the French in the matter
Poland, in the question of the restor
tion of Germany and in the dispu
over Constantinople.
At bottom the Franco-Italian d
i'erence rests upon the clash of t'
clear policies. The French desire
see the three new Slav states?Polai
Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavis
strong, because they see in these stal
guaranties against new German ?
pansion and certain allies in any n
European combination. If Germa
attacks France again a Polish ally v
be of inestimable assistance. Mo
?over, without French assistance 1
new Slav states can hardly endure
The Italians, on the other hand, i
eager to prevent the rise on the ea
ern shore of the Adriatic of a strt
Slav state. For then this would b<
rival not only in the Adriatic but
th?~?a_utK%, jpr_er.vi_ey _?rtM_ w-,
pirations, both economic and political.
In the same way they are eager to
restrict the development of the Greeks,
in Epirus, the JEge&n and in Asi.
Minor, while French sympathy with tho*
Greeks is of long standing.
Two Hostile Coalitions
Thus the Italians have sought to cre?
ate an alliance between the Rumanians
and the Bulgarians, and they have even
had conversations with the Hungarians.
All three of these states are at odds
with the new Jugo-Slav state?the Ru?
manians over the Banat, the Bulgars
over* Macedonia and the Hungarians
over Croatia. The Hungarians, too,
are at odds with the Czecho-Slovake
over Slovak regions south of the Car?
pathians whioh have been assigned
to the latter by the Paris Conference
Two wholly hostile coalitions ar<
now in the making, while behind th<
present Italian policy lies an ultimate
expectation of a new alliance with Ger
many, who will share the Italian hatre<
of the new Slav states and be as in
terested in the extinction of Polam
and Czecho-Slovakia as the Italian
are in making impossible a stronj
Jugo-Slavia.
As between the two schemes it wouh
be a mistake to recognize Britain a
accepting the Italian or totally reject
ing the French. But the British hav
a policy of their own, which is no
political but economic. They believe i
is essential to world stability, as i
would be obviously profitable for then
to get Germany on her feet econom
cally again. Put the French are ui
willing to see Germany started on ti?
tead to prosperity before their own de
astated industries are restored. Tl
British, moreover, are rath-er hosti
to the Poles and dead against t.
French wish to erect a strong; Polar
?.; the risk of permanent German ar
Russian hostility.
Joy for Germans
Thus the British have accepted Ita
ian support against France and tl
Italians have demanded and receive
measurable British support in the me
t<M- of Fiuine, support which is c
pressed in the British acceptance
the note warning Jugo-Slavia that u
loss she yields, bowing to the w
of Britain and France, expressed
the last compromise, she will have
expect the application of the ten
of tho Treaty of London.
For the Germans this temporary
vergence of BritiBh and French polic
is a thing of joy. For the Italians tht
is a promise of profit and a pr?s?
revenge for French refusal to j<
them last winter. For France the si
ation is difficult and disappointing. I
it may be doubted if the British v
support Italian claims very far or
tually drift into an open break w
the P'rench.
(Copyright, 1920. McClure Newspa
Syndicate, ?
Much Ado About Nothing
(From Ths Philadelphia Enquirer)
Why all this fuss in the Senate o
the nomination of Bainbridge Cc
for Secretary of State? What is
sense in delaying confirmation? W
matters it who shall wear the t
for he will wear nothin? else so fai
official authority goes?
The Autocrat of the White Houa
all sufficient unto himself, and is
need merely of a puppet clerk.
. Well Named
(From Th* Toledo Blade)
An unspeakable telephone servie
th* Jund-4hat-brinr???^reapotu*i
Isolated Russia
Resumption of Trade Might
Bring Her to Reason
To the Eciitor of The Tnbune.
Sir: When Robespierre and Rom
seau were in the height of their fani'.:
i cism and all France was cringing ut
derneath La Guillotine in the days r
the Reign of Terror, no man in Euro?
dared to speak a good word for _
leaders of that saturnalia of misguide
liberty. Instead, men whispered of I:
ternatioual alliances to crush tf
springing up of mob rule, and "Scar!!
Pimpernel" movements were organiz?
to aid the suffering nobility of tit
French nation.
When the autocratic r?gime of Ca:
1 Nicholas II of Russia was overthrow:
j in 1917, for a moment people smile
| and looked toward Russia with that?
i pectancy which citizens of time-honor?
democracies might assume toward tit
new arrival?the latest adherent :??
the cause of world-wide democrat?
i The next, instant the smile had chanp
to an expression ?if horror, diigH.''
' and fear, for the Bolsheviki had o!>
tained control, and a strange type o?
misunderstood idealism was about tc
be put into force.
For mor., than two years this adhe?
rence has marked the American atti?
tude toward Soviet F.us3ia, and it il
; only within the last few weeks ft?!
with the same sudden shift that En
ropean (?pinion took toward the Frene"
I Republic, the American press has I?
: general begun to acknowledge merit in
I what was evidently a highly impneti
| cal ideal, but still an ideal.
j What the official attitude of __#
j ened American statecraft shall N
' toward the Russian problem is one?
? the most urgent questions now facing
us. The man who discovers the cor?
rect solution will prove himself at?'
statesman in the eyes or* the AmcricW
people, party politics notwitnstawUHl
Shall wo attempt to resume trad?
relations with the Russian coop?ratif
societies without recognizing; the D*
viet government? The ir.ccnsistcnc?
of this attitude may be readily sets
Shall we, then, recogni? the Son?
government ? This at once implies,r
admission that Bolshevism is * leSltj
mate political creed. ?r shall ?*
simply remain in the same position '?
which we are to-day--ihat of unqu??
tied disapproval? Again we are W
against the problem of feeding Eur?F
without aid from Russia and the pr?b
lern of an economically disorganize
world.
At first glance it looks like a ques?
tion of taking the ?cast of three ?**?
and the least of these seem? *?
iccognition of the Soviet govern-*?'
On further consideration, this recog?-"
tion micht not prove an evil, f?r
would open the channels of trade |
Russia; outside influence would P*?
meate the country; above ?.I. !
people would be acquiring a sDsr
the world's goods. ,
As lonK as we have a difTerence u
the minds and activity of iadi!*??,
just so long must we have a diff?r? .
in the social rank of individual?.?;'
? h? ru?'
Russia is no evception to ine ^
Isolated from the world, Russia
been able to cling to its commune
tendency longer than any other
lar Utopia - if. starving Russia ra?7
compared to M ore's idealistic c0
tion?but at least it is bouBd to ?~J
back to the fold of common hum?
and a world of practical fac*8- _,
The time is ripe for a definl"u|}.
pression of policy on the Russian F?-j
tion. The correct interpretation ?
ideals of American democracy
? ^e Mi?at**
respect to this policy i? *>' ?"" .,.
importance te the political P8ri>prel,.
wishes to enter the lists in the '
dential campaign of 1?20 ?it!? ??"?
white chalk-mark on its slat? o?
?ign relations. HOWARD V. J0*"%
?New Xoxk, JivcciUiaASsVk . a**