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Facing the Facts
- Two short years ago a league of
nations ? powerful, efficient, vic?
torious, and founded on eternal prin?
cipies of righteousness?was rescu?
ing the world from horrors of Ger?
man savagery. This league, in its
principal members, consisted of
Great Britain, Belgium, France,
Italy, Japan and the United States.
' Only two short years ago, this
league;?with dogged persistence and
at fearful sacrifice?was pressing
back the German horde. Pulses
leaped as the good news streamed in
and hope was reborn. Even Jo
sephus Daniels, pacifist as he always
had been, was quoted as declaring
on two occasions that he was going
to Berlin, there to witness uncondi?
tional surrender by the enemy of
mankind.
When the Germans sued for an
armistice every American man and
woman of heroic fiber watchfully
waited for this answer to be given:
"yViconditional and immediate sur?
render." Sin-h was the answer ex?
pected by all peoples defending civil?
ization. Certainly it was expected
by the American people. Half the
world was tottering on the brink of
ruin. Russia had disintegrated; her
ignorant, multitudes, already seized
with the madness" of Bolshevism,
niest assuredly would endanger
Europe unless confronted with a
league of nations which, meant
bf&ines-s?by a league based on the
principle that the peace winners
nuisl be-the peace maintainers.
No word came from the White
House-r?no ring?nj . courageous word
sj&ph as Theodore Roosevelt would
nave pok n. If it had come Bol?
shevism would not have dared to
ve:iture beyond the boundaries of
distracted Russia; Armenia won!.!
have been spared further massacres
by Turks; revolutionaries every?
where would have fled to save their
own skins.
The world listened for that word,
but listened in vain. This must
be "a peace without victory"?God
save us!
To-day are seen the sickening re?
sults: France and England find
they must send armies to Poland if
central Europe is to stamp out
ar.archy which, unchecked there, soon
may menace them at home; the Near
East in a turmoil of fighting, an i
ominous clouds gathering in the Far
East.
. One?' more the world li ; ms for a
"word to come out of America.
. Is there not any on< at Washington
ivivh authority to speak who pos
sesses enough common horse-sense
to see the situation in its naked
truth? Enough character to grapple
wilh it?
Is there, in the entire? Administra?
tion, no one strong enough to face
tlie fads?
The New Profiteering Excuse
An increase in prices, other fac?
tors remaining the same, from the
new freight rates, is, of course, in?
evitable. A new tax of $15 per cap?
ita is to be levied. But $15 ?a only
1 per cent of the average annual in?
come. If the consumer is called to
pay more than this the reason will ?
simply bo the greed of dealers. To
put up prices more-than 1 per cent
wi ! be indefensible profiteering, and
lathing else.
The prosent high cost of living is
in no small part due to the habit of
each middleman of passing on the
higher price with an extra profit. By
a sort of arithmetical progression the
difference between what the pro?
ducer gets and what the consumer
pays widens. Hence agitation to
eliminate the middleman. But this
is not always, or perhaps often, prac?
ticable. The middleman is a com?
mercial necessity. Yet if middlemen
?7)1* the right kind are wise they will
nariize thai the greatest enemy of
??qfi}" class is the ui fail ?? 'ofit taker,
fffl-fibrings the whole profession into
d$s?epute and danger.
?ijj?'he exorbitant prices now asked :
f<j$> food are ?lue in ?arge part to
XX?}< profiteering. Any further con?
siderable rise in prices with freight,
laites as an excuse will be clearly duo
to rapacity, Th? Department of i
v-uaucq kia\jja)?t iW-i.Ui.ue4 no often
and done nothing, we appeal to the
decent merchandisers to come to?
gether to control the rascals who
havo sneaked into their company.
To screen them or excuse them is to
repeat the folly of the honest police?
men who would not "give away"
crooked members of the force. Moro
than this, it makes the business fu?
ture of all "merchants and dealers
unsafe.
Curbing the Curbstonera
The workhouse rebukes admin?
istered by the police courts to Broad?
way loiterers have been long due. It
has been a boast of American cities
that women may walk abroad and
be safe from annoyance. It is time
for New York City to justify the
boast.
Any woman who happens to be
without male escort is still too much
considered legitimate game for
ogling. The automobile male flirt
is common and is now under the
ban of the Police Department, and
for good cause. Observing women
have long since learned that it is
unwise to glance at a slowly moving
machine. The lone occupant, with
his anxiety to intercept the most
indifferent lock, proclaims his status.
The auto cruiser is the summer
version'of the winter lounge lizard.
A workhouse sentence for men
found guilty of annoying women is
the only known cure for the disease.
Easily Satisfied
Practically complete returns from
the Democratic Senatorial primaries
in Oklahoma show that Congress?
man Ferris, who ran as the Presi?
dent's candidate, received 95,000
votes, against 70,000 for Senator
Gore, who opposed the President's
treaty policy. In Missouri returns
from about half the state show 53,
000 for Long, pro-Wilson, to ".7,000
for Priest, anti-Wilson, with 25,000
for Hay and 7,000 for Lindsey, the
position of the laiter two not being
... arly defined.
The White House is reported
pleased over the results. If so, it is
obviously easily satisfied. In one
state, with all its prestige and all
the officeholders openly used, it was
able to command only GO per cent of
the Democratic support, and in the
other state the candidate it actively
championed is in a minority. Judge
Priest was a conspicuous gold Dem?
ocrat, and Missouri remembers that
he bolted Bryan, so doubtless he was
weaker than his issue.
Various polls have indicated that
the Democrats are fairly evenly
divided?half flat ratificationists and
half reservationists. The President
thus has with him something less
than one-quarter of the voting
strength of the country, or can
dragoon this many into supporting
him by his control of the party ma?
chinery, the offices and the office?
holders.
600,000 Benevolent Despots
If Bei'trand Russell's report on
':, ia does nothing else for our rad?
icals and intellectuals it ought to
end once and for all that ecstatic
faith which they have steadily
hymned that R issia under L?nine is
carrying a torch of idealism and
i
ress.
In a continuation of his report
published this week in "The Nation"
Professor Russell goes further into a
judgment upon the character of the
Soviet rule. He redescribes the
utterly unrepresentative character
of the government?shows Russia
is in fact ruled by 000,000 Com?
munists who have concentrated their
power in a few hands. He puts the
matter graphically when he says:
"The g .'.? rnment represents the in?
terests of the urban and industrial
population, and is, ?as it were, en
?. '.; i amid a peasant nation with
whom its relations are rather diplo?
matic and military than govern?
mental in the ordinary sense."
There is much to be said for Pro?
fessor Russell's opinion that Russia
"is not ready for any form of de?
mocracy and needs a strong govern?
ment." This view of L?nine as a
sort of beneficent, despot of the Diaz
type is thus stated:
"The Bolsheviki represent them?
selves as the allies of Western atl
vanced socialism, and from this point
of view they arc open to grave criti?
cism. Per their international pro?
gram there is, to my mind, nothing
to be said. But us a national gov?
ernment, stripped of their camou
flage, regarded us the successors of
Peter the Great, they are perform?
ing a necessary though unamiable
task."
Compare this with the sort of rub?
bish our radical weeklies have been
carrying, gravely discussing the
beautiful advantages of soviets over
parliamentary rule and of a blissful
Brook Farm communism supposed to
prevail under Bolshevism as .against
the wicked Western capitalism.
From the Russell description it is
quite as likely that America could
learn governmental or industrial
wisdom from Mexico as from
Russia.
Potatoes
Why are potatoes selling for $1.25
and ?:'!..'>(> a bushel in Long Island
ai d for $4 or more a. bushel in
N< .. V. rk?
The greed of commission men and j
retailers in the first instance, of
course, but back of this is another
cause ? namely, gross social ineffi?
ciency. The public has not energy
enough to protect itself from rob-1
"Dery. If bleats, but it does nothing
more effective.
This social inefficiency has two
manifestations. First, it shows itself
in the disappearance of the woman
or man with a market basket. This
ancient chcapener, who refused to
he imposed on, still lingers in parts
of the city, and in these parts the
margin between what producer and
retailer get is the narrowest.
But there is even grosser social
inefficiency in the selection of II y
lanesque four-flushers to look after
the public interests. These bloviate,
but their zeal spends itself entirely
in words. Think of the fact that
New York, practically speaking, has
no public markets where producers
can meet consumers! It is not, of
course, possible to have all the food
trading at public markets; perhaps
it is not desirable, but what a cluck
on rapacity a few would be!
The public having refused to wake
up and to demand practical remedies,
it is conceivable that nothing to
the purpose will bo achieved until
it is hit harder and that the food
profiteer is unconsciously contribut?
ing to his final discomfiture.
Kipps, Son of Martha
The Sons of Martha will not be
downed. Our readers insist upon de
bating in their behalf. And now a
whole volume, one of the most de?
lightful and illuminating wo have
ever read, happens before us replete
with informative matter upon this
very poignant subject. We mean
"Kipps," an early volume by H. G.
Wells, which is as good as "Mr.
Polly," which is to say that it seems
to us as good as Dickens at his best.
It will be recalled that we at?
tempted a defense of the lot endured
by the Sons of Martha, who make
and deal in things and bear the
brunt of the job of making the world
go round, as against the lot, super?
ficially far more grand and glorious,
of the Sons of Mary, who sit in the
. high places and deal in ideas. Not
i to go into all the endless delights ol
"Kinns," it is the story of an orphan,
entering the world quite naked., with?
out, haitches or anything, who in?
herits a fortune and tries, as ;; mat?
ter of high obligation, to marry a
superior and admirable young worn?
an and become at least an imitation
of a gentleman?and who flunks at
the last minute and elopes with Ann,
his boyhood sweetheart, thereby
sinking back to comfort and sclf-rc
spect and a small shop.
It can be seen that Kipps tried out
many strata of existence and knew
what lie was talking about. Inci?
dentally, as Mr. Wei!.; has made i
plain, he himself lias the same ex?
perience behind him. That is to say,
he was apprenticed to a small shop
: keeper, a.?; was Kipps, and sprang
ft",;.! equally .-'mall beginnings. Of
course, Mi'. Wells did not sink back
' again having once fought his way
\ up. Ho was fated to become a Son
; of Mary, and that was the end of
j that. But he plainly knows the joys
; of the other lot and in "Kipps"
: makes clear just, what those joys
are. Let us listen to Mr. Wells:
"There is, of cours?, nothing on
earth, and I. doubt at times if the:-;'
is a joy in heaven, like smarting a
small haberdasher's shop. Imagine,
i for example, having a drawcrfu] of
tapes * ?me whole j?: ce most exqui?
sitely blocked of every possible
width of tape), or, again, an array
of neat, large packages, each dis?
playing one sample of hook:; an.l
eyes. Think of your cottons, your
drawer of colored silks, the little,
less, least of tin? compartments and
thin packets of your needle-drawer!
Poor princes and wretched gentle
folk, mysteriously above retail trade,
may taste only the faint, unsatisfac?
tory shadow of these delights with
trays of stamps or butterflies. I
write, of course, for those to whom
these thing.-; appeal. Ther ? are clod ?
alive u, see nothing, or next to noth?
ing, in spools of mercerized cotton
and endless bands of paper-set pin?.
1 write fer the wise, and as I write I
wonder that Kipps resisted haber?
dashery. He did. Yet even starting
a bookshop is at least twenty times
as interesting as building your own
house to your own design in an un?
limited space and time, or any pos?
sible thing people with indisputable
social position and sound securities
can possibly find to do. Upon that I
rest,"
It will be seen that Mr. Weils'.;
testimony bears ou both our points.
; Shopkeeping?that most dull and
: horrible of occupations by the
; standards of toplofty aristocrats?is
seen to be a labor of love, a delight?
ful game dealing in the nicest and
jolliest of little things. It is not,
perhaps, creative in the sense that a
blacksmith or any artisan is a crea?
tor; but it deals with the tangible
and the visible, with the world of
things directly, precisely as do the
creators of things. Also, Mr. Wells
remarks upon the pathetic effort of
the Sons of Mary to share some of
j this delight?by playing with stamps
or butterflies. Our illustrations
, were, golf and fishing.
Some of our readers refused to
concede our fundamental point, and,
stressing the hardships of many of
the Sons of Martha, argued that all
humans should be educated into
Sons of Mary. Upon this peint also
"Kipps" bears testimony. For two
occupations "Kipps" is as appealing
as any of the Dickens appeals in be?
half of children. Kipps is appren?
ticed to a draper, Shalford by name,
and the hardships, the dismal, blunt?
ing life there led, are enough to make
the most callous employer of the old
typo turn over in his grave. ''I tell
you we're in a blessed drain-pipe,
and we've got to crawl along it till'
we die," says the gloomy senior ap?
prentice. Then there is the case of
Ann, who went into service and
learned all there was to know of the
ingenuity by which English houses
are designed so as to break the backs
and hearts of housemaids?steep,
narrow stairways, no water up?
stairs, and so on. When Ann mar?
ried Kipps and they embarked upon
house-building her first concern was
to make the house right for the
servants that she didn't want but
that Kipps insisted upon. Perhaps
American houses are quite different.
Perhaps there is a moral even for
American housewives, downtrodden
as they now are.
The conclusion is, we submit, not
to try to make Sons of Martha into
Sons of Mary?they would only be
desperately unhappy and miserable
failures?but, to give their work all
its natural fun and beauty. Any
amount of reform remains to be ac?
complished here. But don't let's
misunderstand the problem or un?
derestimate the real joy of work
! upon anything that can be touched
I and handled, from shoes to ships.
Enter League "As Is"
The View of a Reader Who Doubts
Possibility, of Chance
j To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have read and followed your
j editorials through the war with a great
deal of interest. Your stand during the
conflict was admirable and the propa?
ganda which you spread was undoubt?
edly valuable to the Allied cause. Now
that tho war is over you seem to have
returned to the old petty knocking. Jn
answering other papers such as "The
? Times," which are your direct political
j opposites, you din the same refrain in
their ears, "Harding docs not reject the
I league, lie believes in 'a' league and
will make an endeavor to ratify the
treaty with 'a' league clause in it." In
: other words we, the United States, are
going to shuffle the league covenant
around until it suits us. In spite of the
; fact that the European nations have
accepted the league in its present form
and furthermore have organized the
league along those lines, wc ?re to
change the covenant, be admitted to the
league with our own set of rules and
act accordingly. Do you suppose that
any of the. other nations would agree to
this?
The Republicans, including The
Tribune, say'that we must safeguard
our interests to a greater degree than
the present league provides for. Is it j
natural to suppose that Prance, who
suffered the most material damage dur?
ing the struggle and is consequently the
weakest of the Allies, would trust her?
self to any league which did not fully
protect? The same applies to Great
Britain and the other Allies who have
all been harder struck than ourselves.
It seems to mo that we have come out i
of the struggle stronger than any of
our brothers in arms and consequently
would incur no dangi'r in entering the :
1 ague "as is " W. M. V. I),
(den Ridge, X. J., Aug. 5. 1920.
.
Lost in the New Subway
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To-day, as I had occasion to go
to Brooklyn, I changed from the In
terborough to the 1!. R. T. at Times
Square. 1 thought it might be possi?
ble to make time and avoid a change
to surface car by using the newly
opened Brighton Beach line.
On the station platform 1 met with
uniform indifference and ignorance.
Those of us confused by Brooklyn's
natural hazards are under handicap
; enough and should be helped rather
than treated to sarcasm by employes
'of a company whose business, at first
glance, it is to cany passengers to
some destination reached by its lines.
Wc will lot that pass.
A train marked "Brighton Beach Ex
press" rann? along finally, on the local
track, however. The guard believed in
signs and verified my eyesight. My
destination wa< Seventh and. Fl?tbush
I avenues. There was no station be?
tween Times Square and my port
of disembarkation that said "express"
missed-- there were even those sooth?
ing waits between stations, when
passengers are given opportuity to in?
spect concrete and steel construction
minutely.
Don't misunderstand me?this is not
a complaint. It got to be a game after
j a while, and was almost as funny as the
"Family Flivver" in the Follies, and
cost five cent--, as against?well, it de?
pends where you try to buy tickets.
The only thing that worries me and
lias me puzzled is this: Where do the
locals stop? And if so, why?
LESAN.
Brooklyn, Aug. ',, 1920.
Governor Cox at the Bat
To the Editor of Tho Tribune..
Sir: According to "The World's" re?
port of Governor Cox's .speech in Day?
ton yesterday, the Governor said "like
; Casey, I'm at the bat."
We wonder if Governor Cox has
mentally carried the simile to its nat?
ural conclusion. We all know what
happened to "mighty Casey."
JOHN B. WARREN.
New York, Aug. 5, 1920.
A Lucky Escape
?From The Wichita Beacon)
It is now ten days since the Demo?
crats nominated Cox and Ring Lardncr
has not yet congratulated the winner.
He was one of the unsuccessful candi
! dates, he haveing got a one-half vote, and
it looks like he should of been a good
sport and of congratulated the nominee,
?but it looks like this bird can't stand
to get beat or nothing, and he's got to
h.a..? everything comeing his way or ho,
wont applaud. It all goes to show that
the country was lucky when it turned
him down for President, as he would
of appointed Georges Carpentier secy,
of war and minister to Germany, being
that this bird Lardncr thought they
! was two of them on acct. of him having ,
?. plural name.
Inevitable Language
Why Rage Over "It h Me" or An}) \
Other Change?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Langages not only "evolve,"
they die. There i? a vast difference be?
tween the addition of new words or of
new idioms to a language and tho cor?
ruption of a tongue duo to inaccurate
and confused thinking. The corruption
of the language has always been a con?
tributing cause of the fall of civiliza?
tions, for when a languago can no
longer bo used as a vehicle of accurate
thought nccurato thinking itself soon
becomes impossible.
When English or any other tongue
has become so corrupted by the admis?
sions of the terms and usages of the
ignorant, who, not thinking accurately,
have no need for the niceties of ex?
pression and- subtle differences of terms,
then the peoples using that language
take a minor place and some other
nation or race builds up and imposes its
civilization on those with whom it comes
in contact.
Therefore, why should wo rago over
"it is I" or "it is me"? We may retard
or may hasten a very little, but it is
j improbable that this great conglomerate
j mass of people who now use the English
i language will reverse the. process of
; birth, growth, decay and death.
II. SMITH.
New York, Aug. 6, 1920.
On the Floor of the World at
Large
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's Tribune I read a
dispatch from Budapest which aroused
in my soul a senso of great pride. It
quoted a man by the name of John R.
Mott, who was stated to be connected
with the international Y. M. C. A. He
told about the effect of a largo number
if holidays on interest in politics in
Central Europe. They gave people an
opportunity to think. The result was
political upheavals. I felt thankful we
had so few holidays in Ameidca. It
would be horrible to have a political
upheaval here. Then he told of the
"decadence" of European universities
and the great need of "3elf-help,"
whatever that may be, for the rehabili?
tation of Europe.
My breast wollnigh burst with patri?
otic feeling as I pictured this Ameri?
can who could '?a to the cultural cen?
ters of Europe and tell them what they
needed. As I read his words, "The \
keynote of my talks in Poland, Czecho
Slovakia and Hungary has been self- ;
help. From tho Y. M. C. A. point of
view wo are establishing model j
branches, as we hope to show the. new .
nations their way back to work and ;
to self-help," I thought of John llus? -
and Comcnius and Masaryk, and the
fact that Bohemia had one of the high?
est percentages of literacy of all
countries on the face of tho globe, and
of Poland, with its contributions of ?
heroes to tho American Revolution
and its high per capita percentage of
genius, perhaps higher than that of
the United States. And now America
was going to rehabilitate that culture,
raise up the decadent universities
through the establishment of "model"
Y. M. C. A.'s. As I thought upon this
great project, the only obstacle that
occurred to me was the antagonism of;
Roman Catholics and Hebrews.
Then I prayed that Dr. Mott might
be returned safely to America in order;
that his world vision and broad-mind?
edness might be applied to the prob?
lems of our own culture and Y'oung
Men's Christian Association. As I
prayed, however, I recognized that I
was selfish in view of the great work ;
being carried on for the world at large, j
II. F. S.
Clinton, Conn., Aug. 5, 1920.
Music Center as War Memorial
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In regard to the Xew York City
war memorial, I believe that it would
be best, to have the matter postponed
until next winter. When tho time
comes that a decision must be made
1 would make the following rceora- i
mi mint i ons:
That a suitable building be erected
on property belonging to the city, in
one of the parks or elsewhere, to give
good music to tho public, free of
charge or at very small cost. It should j
contain a first class music hall, better
and larger than Carnegie Hall, clean, j
bright and tasteful; it need not be
luxurious, but with good acoustics.
'I hern should also be one or two small?
er halls for rehearsals and other pur?
poses, arrangements for choral music
on a large scale and, in addition,
rooms for classes in musical education.
?Societies like the Music School Settle?
ment and similar music schools should
give their instruction and concerts in
this building, which should also con?
tain a complete musical library. Every?
thing should be done? to give the pub?
lic a chance to hear the best music,
cither free, or perhaps some days at a j
small entrance fee, as in the case of
the museums.
ADOLPH LEWISOHN.
New York, Aug. 4, 1920.
A Sparring Match
(From The Springneid Republ -.?,
Th.e questionnaires being buried at
each other by candidat? s Harding and i
Cox look formidable. But they are
easily dodged. To Mr. Cox's query, "Are
you going into the League of Nations i
or aro you going to stay out?" Mr.
Harding deftly counters with a question !
whether his opponent stands for Article i
X. Mr. Cox might come back with an- ;
other question which Mr. Harding might
answer with still another interrogation
point. Pretty soon tho people will tire
of pussyfooting and sidestepping and
the most votes may go to the man who
shows every patron of the political
movies ju.7'. what he is driving at.
It Might Be Worse
(From The Detroit Free Press)
After reading that there aro still
twelve wars in progress in the Old
World one becomes more reconciled to a !
country where they merely havo elec-1
tioaa.
ARE ALL OUR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS PAYING STRICT
ATTENTION TO THE LESSON?
?"ouvriKht. 132). TVew York Tribuno Inc.
Italy and Greece
Bv Frank H. Simonds
The announcement that the Italians
have declined to fulfill the agreement
made by Nitti, many months ago in the
matter of tho -'Egean Islands serves to
emphasize once more the difficulties
which lie in the pathway of the British
plan to make Greece her agent in the
Near East and, in the larger view, the
obstacles in the pathway of preserving
any semblance of unity among the
three great powers who still represent
the victorious alliance of the World War.
So far as the question of the .-Egcan
Islands is one of right, Italy has not
the smallest claim for a hearing. All
the islands which she seiiccd in the
Libyan war ami still occupies have a
thoroughly Greek population, have been
Hellenic in population since the very
dawn of history and without exception
their inhabitants desire to be united
with Greece. If the matter is to be
resolved in accordance with, principles
proclaimed at Paris, then there is only
one solution possible, and Italian policy
represents a flagrant violation of the
principle of nationality.
Italy's justification
But if the discussion is shifted to
any other basis, then Italy can fairly
claim a hearing in court. For ex?
ample, there, is no reason why Malta
should remain British, if tho Dodecane
sus are to be returned to the Greeks.
British occupation of Cyprus is no less
an affront against the principle of
nationality, and specifically against
Creek rights, than Italian possession
of Rhodes. Tho defenso of Italian
policy in the ^Egean rests just as
solidly on self-interest as the British
policy which has been represented by
the occupation of Gibraltar for so
long.
The moment you pass from the strict
enforcement of the doctrine of na?
tionality to the compromise between
the doctrine and the interests of great
powers, then the result is fatal. Italy
has at least as great interests in the
. Mediterranean and the ./Egean as any
other country. Malta is in fact the key
: to the eastern Mediterranean, or
rather one of the keys?the French
naval port of Bizerta, in Tunis, is tjhe
! other. But Malta is a detail In the Brit?
ish Empire, a link in the chain which
runs from Southampton by Gibraltar
and Malta to Suez. Bizerta is a cir?
cumstance in the French empire in
Africa, which now extends from Agadir
to Gabes.
Ambitions of Other Mations
What the other nations are now ask?
ing of Italy is that she refrain from in?
dulging exactly the same ambitions
which they have realized in the past, j
The sole difference is that time has j
measurably legalized claims and j
policies which remain mora?ty at
variance with tho principles pro
claimed at Paris. And Italy refuses to i
accept for herself regulations which j
are rejected by her neighbors. If
Prance is to have Bizerta, B. ?rut and
all the best of North Africa -that is,;
to dominate in Syria and in the Bar
bary States?if Britain is to hold Gib?
raltar, violating Spanish rights; Malta,
clearly violating Italian rights, and is
to retain Cyprus, which offends Greek
patriotism as much as Rhodes why
should Italy be left ont?
Moreover, all the Italian claims,
recognized when Italy entered the war, '
have been thrown out by her friends. :
who once sanctioned them. She is denied j
the Adriatic settlement promised in
the Treaty of London. She is com?
pelled to submit to Greek occupation
of Smyrna, promised to her. She sees
Greece expanding her rule in portions
of Asia Minor, which were awarded to
Italy; she sees Jugo-Slav claims in the
Adriatic which wreck her hopes
honored by her recent allies. She hws
just been driven out of Albania, at the
moment when France has successfully
occupied Aleppo and Damascus, in the
hinterland of Syria. She sees Britain
; supreme at Constantinople and un?
shaken in her determination to hold
Mesopotamia, Palestine and the
Arabian coast, as well as Egypt.
The Greek Threat
The result is that Italy has seized
upon the opportunity provided by the
arrival of the moment when the Turk?
ish treaty is to be signed to register
her protest. She has repudiated her
agreement to give up the Dodecanesus
because she has not obtained Smyrna,
as was promised, and the Greeks have
not only occupied that town but very
wide areas in Asia Minor in ;-,
She has repudiated her agreemi nt with
the (?reeks in the matter of Northeri
: Epirus because the Albanian reb ?Hi n
| has supplied her with the opportunity
! while retiring herself, as she is forcei
to do, to bequeath a quarrel to he;
Greek rivals.
From the Italian point of view tin
expansion of Greece has become ?
grave problem. A really great Gr?ec
means the death of ail Italian hopes ii
the Near East and a challenge aloni
! the Albanian coast. And Greece i
rapidly becoming a considerable na
? tion. Backed by the British, she is r.
longer negligible. Site has occupie
Sal?nica. Adrianople and Smyrna in re
cent times. Her arrival at Constanti
; noplo in a brief period is already fore
! cast by French as well as Italian oh
| servers, who see British policy thu
; outlined. Nitti preferred to sacrifie
Italian hopes of territorial expansio
] for the solid advantages of Britis
friendship expressed in coal and iroi
But Nitti is gone, Giolitti has returnei
and Italian policy has taken a ne'
turn.
One of the Gravest Moments
The worst of the new crisis in Allie
relations arises from the fact that
comes at the moment when the Ru;
sian situation is more serious than ?
any time since the armistice. A div
sion of the three great powers no
may mean paralysis in the face of tl
Bolshevik peril. And Italy is in a pos
tion to bargain again, to demand thi
she receive certain advantage:* in r>
turn for adhesion to the common polii
against the Russians. Moreover, bI
has seized her opportunity. This i- ti
real meaning of the Greco-Italian cris
over the signing of the Turkish treat
This is its real significance at one
the gravest moments in recent Eur
p??an history.
(Cop/rlght. 1920, McClure Nowspap.-r Sy
(lirait)
A Belligerent Meeting
IFrom, Tho Philadelphia Inquirer)
With twenty or thirty wars going
at the same time, it looks as though t
1 nations certainly were getting togeth
Soaring Beef Prices
Explanations Are Submitted tp
Swift & Co.
To the Editor of The Tri
Sir: The, Tribune of July 2 con?
tained an editorial entitled "Soaring
Beef Prices," which has just ccmo to
our attention. Although some time
has elapsed since this editorial ap?
peared, we trust that it will not be
too late for you to give your realer?
the benefit of cur . : . of this
matter.
This editorial call - to the
unusual increase - 'prices that
took place during June; est!
that the "voluntary : ition? o?
the packing indu try i ? "con?
tributed to the prie?? lea?
"scarcity of cat1
shipments" is on? . en, hut
that the principal ? ? rubablj
| unprofitableness of i ? ling.
The increase in pi ,- June
| w-as cau><-,i primarily by a substantial
? falling off in the su] e cattle
sent to market. The ; I of cattle
?n seven principal markets were over
. 30 per cent s nailer for the first two
A-eeks in June 1
, corre: ponding two
It is not true - '" iv?
mted . "o.-er
shipmeni ;." Ex? ts i : ttle
and beef pract ic i
few months af r - ice was
signed, and this eau d crease in
cattle and beef prices 1? 5t year. It is
true that cattle :" ling has been on
| profitable to many fa iring the
? past year, and - is caused a
slight cutting down i - Is. Re
crin--, of cattle ?" month?
of 1920 "
S3 per cent, as coi
'
This editorial ei I
we must be sui
profits are exa I
consumer." It is well known that the
j profits of the packers a\
fraction of a cent per pi und of meat
sold; it is also known that profits ha?
not been large enough to enc cirage pro?
ducers to increase pi- luction of cattle.
Retailers* expenses ai ? >' F'S?-1.
but their profits are not making them
rich; in other words, profits all alonf
the line are en - I ? tctor !n
he final price of m< it -, ???;i "
may be mentioned
much as the price ?
since 1913, and that they
substantially duri -
the average prices of all commodiw*1
had advanced. SWIFT &
Per L. D. H. Weld, Manager Comraet
cial Research Department
Chicago, 111., Aug. '?.
For Palmer's Attention
i l?'r-???i The Bost ' ? '
The French ar
combined with sai *"
ing the punishmei I
of crime. Con?, icted ] ?r0 r',:
only sent to jail, bul ?0 ?**
for pitih ? rtisiB*
their sentences in the newspaper*
A "Wet" Climate
(From The Chicago Daily Sews)
Maybe, in the ebullience of spirits ?&
to an exhilarating climate. Los hv-kT^1
ir doing a seismic "shimmy.*'