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Overconfidence
Senator Harding lias returned to
his home in Ohio and is soon seri?
ously to take up the business of
securing his election and the defeat
of Wilsonism.
No one charges that so far any?
thing has been done to increase ma?
terially Senator Harding's chances.
The unfortunate impression created
by the way the Chicago nomination \
was made has not worn off. If any?
thing it has seemingly tended to be?
come more acute. It would tie fool?
ish to deny a distinct recrudescence
of Democratic hopes. Not much was
achieved for victory in November,
when as campaign advisers were
named such persons as Boies Pen
rose, of Pennsylvania; Jake L. Ha
mon, of Oklahoma; A. T. Hert, of
Kentucky: John W. Weeks, of Mas?
sachusetts, and Harry M. Daugherty,
of Ohio. The list is conspicuous by
its non-inclusion of many represent?
ative Republicans of a different ten?
dency.
In 191G Mr. Hughes defeated
himself by following a false cam?
paign theory. He did not express
himself. He allowed himself to be
surrounded by politicians who said
it would not do to offend the pro
Germans. It is to be hoped "he po?
litical tragedy will not be repeated,
i nd that Senator Harding will not
permit himself to be persuaded that
he must cater to the "stand-pat" ele?
ment of his party.
A rudimentary knowledge of poli?
tics suggests that Mr. Harding has
already an excellent chance of se?
curing the so-called hard-shell
Republicans. But alone they are
not enough. They need to be sup?
plemented by progressives and
independents, by a majority of the
new and inexperienced women
voters and by those idealistic Re
1 ublicans, always numerous in the
party's membership, who are not al?
together satisfied with ftie lack of
definite statement of what is to be
done with respect to organizing the
world against future general war.
It is to be assumed that Senator
Harding is not ignorant of the dan?
gers ahead of him and is not in a
mood of overconfidence.
Greek Operations in Asia Minor
In its first stage the Greek ex?
pedition into Asia Minor has ful?
filled all of Venizelos's expecta?
tions. The forces marching north
cast from Smyrna have made a
junction with those landed last Fri?
day on the south shore of the Sea of
Marmora. The Greeks now hold the
railroad line from Smyrna to Pan
derma, shutting off the Turkish
Nationalists from a large section of
western Asia Minor fronting on the
vEgean Sea.
The Greeks are trying to clear
the region adjoining the Sea of Mar?
mora, from which Kemal has been
threatening Constantinople. The
Nationalists have been at Ismid, at
the extreme eastern point of the sea,
and also at Brussa, on the southern
side east of Pandemia. Brussa will
probably be the next place to fall,
as the (?reek advance is already
near it and it is also exposed to
long range bombardment by British
vessels lying in the Gulf of Gemlik.
When Brussa and Ismid are occu
iV pied by the Allies the Nationalist
? threat to the capital will be ended.
The next Greek objective will be
the Bagdad Railroad. A line run?
ning east from Smyrna joins the
line coming southeast from Constan?
tinople at Aflun - Karahissar. If
Kemal loses this junction his forces
will be obliged to retiro into the in?
terior of Asia Minor and will be
marooned there, away from the
western seacoast provinces. After
that whether he held out or came to
terms wouldn't matter very much,
for no Allied power cares to assume
responsibility of the Anatolian hin?
terland.
Kemal is strong in his isolation.
He could put up a good guerrilla
fight. But that wouldn't profit him
much. He could get no military
supplies except from Soviet Russia,
and his troops would have to live on
their fellow Turks, which would up?
set ancient Turkish precedents. A
true and possibly moderately pros?
perous Turkish state can be created
in Asia Minor. But it can never be
created without the tolerance and
friendship of the powers which hold
Constantinople and the -$_gean and
Mediterranean coasts.
Rather Broken Glass
Senator Glass, who does not deny
his responsibility, attempts to ex?
cuse the forgery contained in the
Democratic platform. Referring
to the quotation from Senator Lodge,
to which the date December, 1918,
was given, whereas the true date
was the preceding June, the author !
of the San Francisco treaty plank
says :
"It is asinine to draw fine distinc- j
lions in a matter like this. If it |
was true as of June, 1918, it was ?
true also as of December, 1918. The j
quotation was handed to me in type- j
written form and I accepted it with- i
out checking up as to the exact date ]
in which it appeared in 'The Forum'
or in the Congressional Record. It
it absurd to talk about it. as a for?
gery."
But time is the very essence of
(he, matter, for it shows what Sena- |
tor Lodge was discussing. In
June to advocate a separate peace
with Germany, the conflict then be?
ing at its height, is a far different
thing than to vote for the Knox
resolution in May. 1920, when :
hostilities had boor, over for eigh?
teen months, and at a time when ,
our allies had signed and put into
effect their peace with Germany.
In the one instance there would
have been abandonment of a com
mon cause; in the other effort Mas
made to adjust this country's af?
fairs to a practical situation caused -
by the President's defeat of the
treaty's ratification. Daylight and
darkness are not farther apart. One ,
does not envy Senator Glass if re?
quired to confront in the Senate the \
fact that he is not only responsible
for grossly misrepresenting a eel- ?
league, but that when caught he ?
trickily attempted to defend his act. |
Senator Lodge was opposing the
President's '"peace without victory"
and urging peace through victory.
He early foresaw the use that would j
be made of the Fourteen Points? '
that they would be a wedge to :
separate the Allies. He almost fore?
told the editorial article which ap?
peared in an Administration news?
paper in September, 1918. He
seemed to have sensed that the Pres?
ident in Octotber, 1918, would need
to be whipped by public opinion ?
into consenting to the Foch armis
tice. He perceived the conse- j
quences of separating the Allies,
upon which course the President
subsequently embarked?that this
would lose the best fruits of the
war.
Senator Lodge wanted an uncom?
plicated peace, jointly and expedi
tiously made, based on Germany's
defeat, as the first practical step
toward preserving the future's peace.
Our allies also wanted this. But
our President said "No." He in?
sisted on combining with the peace
treaty a highly controversial league
project, which was certain to delay i
peace and thus be to Germany's ad?
vantage. As Senator Lodge said, so ?
events have come. There is still i
nominal war with Germany, and this
country is largely separated in
sympathy from its war associates.
In view of this record, to try to
fasten on the Republican Senate
leaders the obloquy of advocating a
separate peace, as that phrase is com?
monly understood and as Senator
Glass knows it is understood, shows
how far partisanship will sometimes
lead men.
At Spa
Ex-President Poincar? is not en?
thusiastic over the idea of taking
the Versailles compact to the heal?
ing waters of Spa for treatment.
It is there, however, the Germans
have made great preparations for
the excursion. They hope to have
a good time. The Brit;sh revisionist
school is active in Germany's behalf.
It is hoped Great Britain will sup?
port the modification in the repara
? tions bill which, according to Mr.
; Keyncs, Lloyd George couldn't ob
i tain at Faris after he had success
I fully bamboozled President Wilson.
The prospect that the British are
! willing to reduce the sum coming to
Franco and to ullow the Germans
to goosestep again, of course, greatly
delights Germany.
But Franco feeh that her future
is at stake. It is all well enougtt,
from tho Keynes point of view, to
talk of restoring the old economic
balance in Central Europe?in every
i body's interest, including Germany'??.
? France hasn't reached the point at
j which she can complacently, identify
I her own interest with that of her
! chief enemy. M. Poincar? may be
| assumed to express France's atti
; tude simply and truthfully when he
: says: "If ehe [France] wishes to
; disarm Germany, it is only to be
able herself to live for the future in
security and to reduce her military
charges. If she is to be indemnified
for tho loss she haa suffered, it is
not from the evil purpose of ruin?
ing and humiliating Germany, but
only that she herself should be able
to live."
The frame of mind of the Ger?
man representatives is revealed by
Chancellor Fehrenbach. He says
they go there "with an honorable
will to make reparation," but he
adds: "No one must dare to
pledge us to anything in excess of
our ability." And this display of
dogmatism incites Count Reventlow
to dctonato as follows: "Our repre?
sentatives must also use every op?
portunity to make it understood that,
notwithstanding the criminal signa?
ture of its then government to the
Versailles Treaty, the German peo?
ple is conscious of its guiltlessness
for war and also the guiltlessness
of its government of 1914, and, on
the strength of these convictions,
demands a revision of the peace
treaty."
The treaty is assailed from two
sides. But fortunately it is still
intact and cannot be altered except
ry the consent of all its ratifiera.
France has a veto power on damag?
ing revisions. She can demand that
the enforcemment of the indemnity
clauses of the treaty he left exclu?
sively to the Reparations Commis?
sion, as is solemnly provided.
Blowing into a Gun
Dissatisfied with the 'Frisco Irish
plank Fanion de Valera, president,
of the so-called Irish republic, is
quoted in a public interview as say?
ing that at once work will be begun
for "an immediate and thorough
organization of the. Friends of Irish
Freedom in America." It is to be
gathered that Mr. de Valera pur?
poses to take a prominent part in ;
this undertaking.
Mr. de Valera presents himself as j
an alien, as the head of another or j
foreign government. In this ca- j
pacity he is a guest here. Yet. un- ?
less he misrepresents himself he i
thinks he is permitted to take part
in our domestic politics and to seek ;
to coerce our government to act ac- I
cording to his dictation.
Mr. de Valora, it would seem, !
might profitably read a little Amer?
ican history, particularly the chap?
ters that tell of what President
Washington did with respect, to Cit- j
izen Genet when that gentleman of
France assumed he was privileged ;
i
to take part in American affairs. If ?
Mr. do Valera carries out the plan ]
he outlines he is entitled to be sent !
home. Already considerable restive- ?
ness has been aroused by his many '
appearances as a lobbyist and an j
inciter of division among our people '
in the alleged interest of another
people. Mr. de Valera is blowing
into a gun that may go off.
A Castigation
It seems fitting to extend to "The
Weekly Review" and, if we mis?
take not, personally to its chief
editor, Dr. Fabian Franklin, con?
gratulations on one of the most
thorough pieces of flaying that the
American press has known for a
long time.
The skin operated on and removed
is that which appertains to Oswald
Garrison Villard, who is now re?
sponsible for the conduct of the
publication called "The Nation," but
formerly was of "The Evening Post."
Dr. Fi-anklin, who has had the ad?
vantage of close association with
and intimate knowledge of Mr. Vil?
lard in the days when they were
together on "The Evening Post," is
slow and charitable of judgment,
but when he makes up his mind that
a duty is to be performed he is a
heavy hitter. Our baseball hero does
not smite the whirling sphere with
more power than this Nestor of the
; press smashes the unworthy. He
shows that it is still possible for a
man to be severe and just at the
same time and to tear down an edi?
fice of mud without self-soiling.
The occasion for the castigation
| is the attempt of Mr. Villard to
| serve his own interest by libeling
the American press. He presents
himself as about the only truth
teller in a generation of liars. In?
stead of this we discover, by the
citation of a clear case of perver?
sion, that he is a garblcr and a
misquoter.
In war time the public was
called on to endure Viereck; in
peace time we must put up with
Villard, who, in many respects,
shares Viereck's ideas and imitates
his methods. There is no remedy.
We must pay something to keep the
press free. Probably the most ef?
fective treatment is to pay as little
attention as possible to the "hol
lerin' and bellerin' " (to use a phrase
of the late E. L. Godkin) of the
undesirables.
A World Benefactor
William C. Gorgas will rank as
one of the great Americans, and in
due time his name will be inscribed
in the Hall of Fame. Next to Mor?
ton, the discoverer of ether as an
anaesthetic, and thus a founder of
, modern surgery, Dr. Gorgas, of all
I American members of his profes
j sion, rich as they are in achieve
| ment, may be rated as having done
j the greatest world service.
Originally skeptical of Dr. Fin
; lay's epochal discovery of how the
: mosquito transmitted yellow fever,
he quickly yielded to the facts, and
| with the enthusiastic support of
| Leonard Wood, then Governor
| General of Cuba, set to work to
sanitate a whole city. Havana,
a pest-hole for centuries, be?
came a health resort Then fol?
lowed the creation on the Panama
Isthmus of conditions that made
the construction of the canal pos?
sible. Applied science never won a
greater victory. The contribution
of Gorgas was his large scale
demonstration that a fierce and in?
tractable disease can be stamped out.
Wherever civilized man has since
gone he has carried this principle
and has applied the Gorgas method
to large populations and to many
infections.
What lias como is but an earnest
of what is to come. Tho tropics,
with their astonishing capucity to
furnish food, will yet be as whole?
some as the temperate zone. Ma?
laria will go wherever a Gorgas is
permitted to do his work thoroughly,
and with the going of malaria there
is to be a new kind of tropic man.
Necessaries and Luxuries
Miss Edith Strauss, head of the
women's activities division of the
Department of Justice cairq aigners
against high prices, has compiled
figures which show that the Ameri?
can people spend nearly $9,000,
000,000 annually on luxuries. But
what is a luxury? The distinction
between luxuries and necessaries
is not easy to draw.
Miss Strauss's list of luxuries is
open to question. She sets down
tobacco,' on which $2,000,000,000 is
spent. Then what about, coffee,
which, no less than tobacco, people
r.nce got along without? A large
number of desirable if not abso?
lutely necessary tilings would he
ruled out by a strict definition. Civ?
ilized man has never confined him?
self to absolute necessaries, since
civilization itself implies artificial
tastes. Pleasure automobiles cost
more every year than does tobacco.
The tale of cosmetics, perfumery, toi?
let soaps, furs, phonograph- and
other more or less superfluous ar?
ticles is also a Ion?.1' one. H is a na?
tional failing to want, what we want
when we want it, and all the solemn
sermons on thrift appear to do little
to modify the weakness. We know
that the production of luxuries di?
minishes the production of necessar?
ies, but though we recognize this fact
in collective expression we ignore it
:n individual conduct
That which persistently tends to
exist presumptively has reason, if
we could analyze far enough, for
existence. The secret of the pro?
gressive life of the Occident is the
expansion of desire and the hun?
ger to satisfy it. The luxury instinct,
if such the appetite for more than
bread can be called, is the stimulus
that pushes us on. Results are bet?
ter, or seem so to us, than in the
Orient, where an accepted philoso?
phy of life teaches the subjection
and the non-gratification of d sire.
For His Enemies
Why an Ex-Service Man Earnestly
Supports Dr. Tildslcy
To the Ex-Service Men of New York
City:
The reelection of Dr. John L. Tildslcy,
associate superintendent assigned to
high schools, is being opposed by the
enemies he made during the war while
trying to keep the schools loyal to those
ideals for which you and I were offering
our lives. His untiring efforts to see
that our children were taught what we
were really fighting for, his stubborn
determination to put the schools square?
ly and loyally behind the government,
his fearlessness in doing his duty- -
these are the arguments now being used
in the attempt to prevent his reelection.
Can we, whose children he was defend?
ing against the most insidious of poi?
sons, fail now to protest against this
injustice?
So far as I have heard no one contra?
dicts the statement that he is one of the
most efficient high school administrators
the system has ever had. Thiit, however,
is the business of the educational experts
to decide. But that he should be penal?
ized for his splendid efforts to protect
my boy against disloyalty while I was
fighting in the front lines in France is
my business and the business of every
soldier who has a child in the public
schools. If any of the rest of you feel
about this as I do, let's "tell the world,"
especially that part at 500 Park Avenue
known as the Board of Education. Let's
tell them that we want a man strong
and courageous enough to keep all dis?
loyalty out of our schools, that we
"love him for the enemies he has made,"
and that wo are backiug Dr. Tildslcy
now as strongly as he backed us then.
ROBERT A. HALL.
Formerly First Lieutenant 18th In?
fantry, First Division, A. E. F.
New York, June 28, 1920.
Will They Rag in Time?
(From. The Los Anuelcs Times)
The new Provisional President of
? Mexico is said to have an unusually
j sweet and well trained tenor voice.
! The President of the United ?States is
also said to have had a pleasant and
? cultivated tenor in his college days. It
would seem as if the two could get to?
gether and strike a harmonious chord
once in a while.
A Drastic Remedy
(.From The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin)
Mr. Hoover's suggestion for the com?
plete elimination of Article X was
long ago denounced by the President
as cutting the heart out of the treaty.
Compared with that operation, the res?
ervation program of tho Republican
majority was only a dose of aspirin,
In the Good Old Days
i From The Indianapolis News)
That story from Chicago that it
would take 3,442,222 messengers to
duplicate the service rendered to the
I country by telephones is interesting,
I but how many would it take if the
telephones were as efficient as they
once were ?
A Family Ticket
\From The Indianapolis Ifewt)
McAdoo for President and Sayre for
Vice-President would take caro of both
sons-in-Jaw and, in addition, have the
quality of being a decided novelty.
Useless Furniture
(From The Baltimore Sun)
If one can't find a house he might
sleep outdoors on-some political bunk.
To the Nearly Perfect Youth;
or the Fly That Broke
the Camel's Back
What lime you sing "The Golden Stair,'
Your stunning bass has me entranced.
And when we waltz I feel that ere
I met you I had never danced.
You paddle like an Indian brave,
You're there in camp or on a hike,
You always have the perfect shave,
You wear the kind of ties I like,
1 love your zipping repartee,
You have a lot of sntippy stuff;
And then your manner distingue?
Your ways make Chesterfield seem rough.
You shine in almost any crowd,
You hat around lour Thirty Two;
But when you start lo read aloud,
I wish the earth would swallow you.
Bab.
To our notion Mr. F. Scott. Fitz?
gerald's "This Sido of Paradise" is
sloppy and cocky; impudent instead of
confident; and verbose, tt ?;; doubtful
whether the Scribner proofreading
at fault for the numerous errors; and
if they arc the author's, they indicate
a sloppy carelessness that it. will pay
Mr. Fitzgerald to overcome.
He speaks, for example, of "Frank
ou the Mississippi." The book is :
"Frank on the Lower Mississippi," as
any slippered pantaloon who used to
road Harry Castlemon will recall.
fHher instances of Mr. Fitzgerald's
disregard for accuracy follow:
Ashville [ Compton 1 Mc
Collar and Dan- Kenzie
?el's "First-Year Fanny Huret
Latin'' Lorelie
Mary Roberts "Ghunga Dhin"
P?h inchart flambuoyant
cut. a swathe "Come Into the
'Swinburne's] (larden, Maude"
"Poems and Bal- flare [for flair]
Indes" Arnold] Bennet
"Jenny Gerhardt" Gouveneer Morris
The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys
July 3?Up early enough, and to the
doctor's, who tells me my lip is healed,
and so to S. Spaeth's, and sat there read?
ing and conversing, and met J. Toohey
at luncheon and cast dice for the reckon?
ing, and I won, but had only some
corned beef and a slice of a huckleberry
pasty. To the courts in the afternoon,
and to E. Davis'a in Englowood for din?
ner, and beat him a game at croquet.
So early to bed.
4?Up by times and crossed the river
to the courts, and played H. Swain and
beat him, and so to Englewood again
and played a sett with J. Hutchison and
beat him, too, and in the evening R.
Werrenrath is come and tells us about
England and France, and all watched
the moon rise, and I called it gibbous,
and all were astonished to look up the
word and find its meaning, which I
never had known before, neither. Much
frivolous talk, and there was a lady
from Pittsburgh there, and what she
thought of the light-mindedness of New j
York I tremble to imagine.
5?Up by seven, and to the office, ]
where I did my stint, nor stopped long '
enough to learn what was toward at <
San Francisco, partly through indiffer- i
ence and partly to play H. Manchester
in the tournament, who trounced me j
without any trouble to him.
To those who waited last night to
ferry across from New Jersey it may
be comforting to know that their next
punishment is set for the evening of
Labor Day.
OUR OWN' TRAVELOGUES
One pair of chaps, one Injun squaw,
That's all tho Western stuff I've saw,
Except for cactus and a plain
The scene exists as East as Maine.
Freckles.
Belen, N. M.
The modern dance forecast, as ex?
humed by Heloise: 1 Kings 3: "Shimei
is put to death." Numbers 32, 1:
"And when they saw the land of Jazer,
behold the placo was a place for cat?
tle."
WOOD SABBATH
The mutter of a distant fall
Becomes a priest's soft-chanting
voice
In this church-dim, wood-bounded
place.
Moss-tapestried,
The granite wall
And column trunks arise
To Gothic-arching roof?
Leaf-tracery on blue.
The ghost-flowers frail,
Adoring, bend their saintly heads,
White-capped, white-robed,
And white-faced nuns.
Put one, a pink-blushed novice,
Looks without?
A toadstool cavalier
Stands, orange-hatted, in the sun
While a great bee
Drones forth an organ tone?
Amen. John Gay.
There were those who, a few years
ago, on the first quiet Fourth of July,
talked a lot about Innocent Amusement
and the curtailment of Personal Liberty.
If they wanted to shoot cannon-crackers,
whose business was it? Va it or ain't
it a free country? Possibly twenty
years from now it will be hard to be?
lieve that any of us ever found Pro?
hibition irksome.
June Breaks All Local Records for
Marriages. Not So Many Have Died
This Month, Though.?Headline in New
Haven Journal-Courier.
A copyreader's idea of the Silver
Lining?
It was a struggle with tho conscience
yesterday afternoon whether to remain
at the post of duty, where the bulletins
were the thickest, and thus get material
for comment as to yesterday's doings
at San Francisco, or to leave the office
early and devote the evening to 18 holes
on the. Course of Human Events.
Besides, wasn't it Independence Day?
F. P. A.
MUST HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE MIRAGES IN THE DESERT
WE READ ABOUT
(Copyright, 1920, New Tork Tribune Inc.) '
Tears for Germany
Why John Kendrick Bangs Finds It
Difficult to Sympathize With Her
To the Editor of The Tribune. !
Sir: If any one thinks that the j
nature of the Teuton has been at all ;
changed by the war and that the Hun :
is sorry for anything but himself, let ?
him watch the newspapers day by day:
and learn from what he. reads therein
how the same old thing still survives, 1
in spite of the scotching of its armies
and the smashing of its imperial head.
One can hardly pick up an American
newspaper but that in the most inno?
cent of connections he finds propaganda j
at work. Every ship that comes in from j
Europe brings with it a cargo of this i
precious stuff, and its design to the
seeing eye is as simple as the mind
that considers it harmless. It has for
its purpose nothing other than to
arouse sympathy for a gang of bandits
at the expense of those the bandits
have robbed.
Only recently we had a fair example
of it in the columns of a New York
newspaper in an interview with a Mr.
Herman A. Metz, described as a mem?
ber of the Hoover Relief Commission,
whereby the things that he said gained ?
force. In this interview Mr. Metz is
represented as saying that he found
conditions in Germany "depressing," as
if that were something for us to worry
over and ourselves to be Bad about; '
as if any of us should ourselves be
depressed over the depression, for in?
stance, of Captain Kidd as he felt the
halter draw about h?3 well known and
properly stretched neck.
Mr. Metz is represented as saying
that France, expectant of a substantial
indemnity from Germany, is "marking
time industrially." France is doing
nothing of the sort. France is working
tooth and nail to get back to where
she was before those now depressed
scoundrels of Germany started in to
destroy her, ripping up her fields,
burning her homes, despoiling her
women, smashing her factories and
looting her of every portable posses?
sion within reach of their obscene
hands. She has restored to cultivation
millions of acres of her ravished lands.
She is getting her highways back into
possible use. She is daily enduring
the sickening process of cleaning up
the scum and nastiness left behind by
a particularly nasty and scummy
enemy.
If in her manufactures she is slow
to recover it i.i not because she is
marking time in the expectation of
substantial indemnity from her ravish
; ers. She is under no illusion as to
that. She knows as well as the rest
of us know that whatever substance
there is to be in any indemnity she
will receive from Germany will be ex?
tracted from the Hun only by some
yet to be discovered triple process of
wringing his neck, his heart and his
pocketbook simultaneously. France's
slow recovery industrially is due to
the plain and simple fact that where
I the Hun did not utterly destroy her
plants he stole her machinery and took
it home with him. One does not need
to travel twenty miles in any part of
devastated France to have th?3 abomi?
nable fact borne in on his mind, and
in the interest of truth and common
justice it should not be forgotten by
U3 over here, whatever returning
Metzes, Strassburgers, Hochheimers,
Katzenjammers and Whatnotzers gen?
erally, tell us to the contrary notwith?
standing.
One can almost hear Mr. Metz'f
tears drip through the types, slopping
over into the advertising space and
wetting down the sizzling brilliancy of
the editorial paragraphs on the other
side of the sheet, about the hardship
of Germany having to give over some
of her several million milch cows to
France. It is too bad that any little
child, whatsoever his race may be,
should ever have to go without the
milk he needs to nourish him, but in
this particular case let it be remem?
bered that there are children and chil?
dren. France and Belgium have little
ones quite as tender and needy as any
little lad or lassie in Hunland, and the
cattle that Germany has been forced
to return have been either the cows
she stole from the little Belgian and
French babies or acceptable substi?
tutes therefor. There were nearly
200,000 of those, as far as anybody
knows, and in round numbers 190,000
have been ordered to be returned, not
as a nose bleeding process by which
Germany has suffered hardship, but
neither more nor less than as an act
of restoration of something she had
herself either destroyed or stolen.
That is the fact we cannot too strong?
ly stress. Those exactions upon "de?
pressed" Germany are not tines or
penalties, but the mere return of stolen
goods.
The talk about Germany's inability
to pay for the damage she has done
is the purest kind of poppycock Teu?
tonic bunk. If I were a President of
the United States with a rather loose
idea of the exact meaning of words
I. should call it "skulduggery." There
is plenty of wealth hidden away at
this moment in Germany that, if that
country were in the slightest degree
repentant and willing to make repara?
tion for her hideous misbehavior, could
be made immediately available. The
Hohenzollern fortuno hasn't all gone
into the woodpile. If the possessions
of tho Krupp crowd were listed they
would be found to total up to almost
Carnegieish proportions. There is
wealth galore in plain sight from one
end of the Rhine to the other in aris?
tocratic preserves and castles, and auy
government having an honest inten?
tion to repair its dishonor could tap
it and get it in five minutes, if it were
minded so to do. All that job lot of
secondhand kings, prince?, dukes,
duchesses, counts and margraves now
idling in luxurious exile, which doubt?
less they find "depressing," in Switz?
erland, have stores stowed away that
if taxed would do a great deal in the
cow line, and if wholly confiscated
would serve to restore many a ruined
factory in "time marking" France.
Here's hoping our hardheaded Ameri?
cans may block her game, no matter
what nonsense returning members of
Hoover and other relief commissions
try to put over on them.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
Ogunqu.t, Me., June 30, 1920.
Lawbreakers
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: No one can deny that many
respectable men were engaged in the
liquor busine?s. Theirs was a lawful
traffic, licensed by the state. It was not
inconsistent with respectable citizen?
ship to belong to the trade. But one now
wonders wh: t kind of men are promot?
ing the business. Since it has been out
I lawed by the Constitution and the Su
i preme Court most of the respectable
I men have abandon.d the trade. It is now
left in the hands of the men who have
I gradually brought it into dl. repute by
their lawlessness. It is no secret that
? they are still disregarding and defying:
i the law.
How long will the nation or the states
?tolerate these lawbreakers? To make
I them feel the terrors and vengeance of
! the law will teach the same salutary
! lesson as the breaking up of any ordi
? nary gang of criminals. It must be
done. It will be done.
ARTHUR DOUGLAS.
New York, July 1, 1920.
The Soldier Cripple
?To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Here is something I witnessed
'? last evening, and I hope- you will have
; the kindness to give it space. At the
1 corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventy
'. second Street I noticed a lame soldier
in uniform trying to board a north
, bound bus. He was unsuccessful, as
: all the buses were tilled. Many dozen
? automobiles passed and the soldier
: called and waved to at least a dozen
j that were entirely empty except for tb
! drivers. The drivers looked at him and
? drove on indifferently. He started to
hobble away and then returned to the
corner, evidently hoping that some one
j with a spark of human feeling would
?give him a lift. After what must have
been a painful and disheartening wait
a man stopped his car.
It is certain that those who refused
the crippled soldier a lift took no part
in the war; if they had, they would
not have refused him. As gome of
them were abou-t the same age as the
soldier it can be assumed that the
safety of those "safety-firsts" had been
dearly paid for by just such lads as
the crippled one referred to. It is alw
possible that war profits enabled tuer?
to buy costly automobiles in which t?
ride up and down Fifth Avenue and
annoy women pedestrians.
While on my way home, thankful t_
the one man who stopped his car, and
! wondering what could be the make-up
j of the creatures that passed the crip
' pled soldier, I was not left long in
- doubt, for I was annoyed by several
automobUists, presumably of the sam?
low caliber, three of the specimen,
drawing up to the curb and inviting na?
to ride!
If our boys were worthy of cheer?,
tear?, gratitude and consideration wh?n
i they went abroad whole to fight for us
they are certainly entitled to as much
; now when th'?y are back, disabled. It is
? our duty and should be our pleasure to
| give them a helping band whenever w?
1 have the privilege.
MRS. M. A. PHILO.
New York, July 1, 1920.
Inevitable
'From The Chicago ?vmrj Po?tt
There is one penalty that San Fran?
cisco has to pay for having the con?
vention?from one end of the country
to the other she is being blazoned
forth by the nickname she hates-~
'Frisco. She can't get away from it,
either. No civic booster, no chamber
of commerce or anything else can com?
pel the headline writers to use a
double word of eleven letters and
spaces when they can get * singl*
word of half the length.
No Alibi
(From The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Unfortunately for Los Angeles, noth?
ing was burned during the earthquak??
so the residents cannot refer to th?
tremor in the future as "The Fire."
His Inspiration
(From The It ?chita Beacon)
The poet who wrote of "the stiHf
i night" had probably been out hunting
J moonshine.