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nous depression from which we have just

emerged, while away mor« to the south

the cloud bed over which we are passing

seems to end suddenly and merge into

the horizon."

These weather observations of this

trip are probably the most valuable ga'n

achieved. Upon just such facts depends

the whole future of aerial navigation.

It i3 still largely an'uncharted region.

With enough data and constant observa¬

tions there is no telling what results

may be achieved by the lighter-than-air

craft. Their huge bulk makes them

especially susceptible to head-winds, and

correspondingly benefited by them. Con¬

ceivably, with a greater knowledge of

air cm-rents, nature, expertly taken ad¬

vantage of, may enable these giant and

clumsy hulls to reach an amazing speed

that will indeed abolish oceans.

| stances, perhaps, to decide. An alliance

I puts the policing power in the hands of

three.

With but two partners it is not neces-

sary to institutionalize as much as with

forty; more can be left elastic and un-

defined. Each partner, as did the mem¬

bers of the Entente at the outbreak of

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The Conning Tower

THE WEAKER SEX

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JOHN

It was the first day, I met him,

Germany and Poland

By Wilbur Forrest

GOBLENZ, Juni 13 (By Mail).~The

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919

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By Frank H. Simonds

the official newspaper «f the Ameri.

can Expeditionary Force, which arrived

here to-day, carried on its editorial page

the following letter from a soldier:

"I notice that many of the »owspapers in

the states and one or two of the American

editions over here are quoting General

March as saying that the entire American

Expeditionary Force will sail for home bfl

i My first day in the city of New York.

There was a party, and we met by chance,

A far-flung chance of mutual friends and

crossed engagements.

And nil that evening he was by my sido

Telling me all his world of sorrow and

j the war, will judge for itself, as occa-

HOWEVER exaggerated the current

reports , of German military

operations against "Poland may

be, it is necessary to recogni:'.e

that sneh operations must now be expected.

The unmistakable fact is that the cessions

of German territory to Poland are things

that cannot be accepted by any German

now, and it is hard to believe that, future

generations will concur in the new map

made at Versailles, which undoes all Ger-

man achievement in the East in more than

i distant date to challenge Germany as one of

I the great industrial states of Europe.

Moreover, if a real Poland is thus created,

with sure outlets on the sea, with satisfac-

I tory industrial machinery^ nothing Is more

likely than that thé East Prussian fragment

will in time be submerged by the Polish

waves from the great Slav hinterland.

Germany recognizes with a certain clarity

that she has lost the war m the west; it may

well be that she will never challenge France

again, so far as Alsace-Lorraine is concerned,

with the certainty that France will be backed

there by Great Britain, and not improbably

by the United States. Moreover, the loss of

Alsace-Lorraine, even the permanent loss of

the Saar basin, is of relatively minor im¬

portance, but if a real Poland is constructed,

protected during its early years and en-

dowed with Germany's Polish provinces,

then Germany's hopes in the east are gone.

I Germany Cannot Accept

For Germany, then, the Polish question

is vital. As it stands, Polish armies in

Posen are less than 100 miles from Berlin.

j The barrier of the lower Vistula is re-

moved. If the Slavs should ever again

stand together, if Pan-Slavism should re-

awaken when Russia comes to her own

again, the road to the German capital would

be open and short, without natural obstacle.

Even if Russia remained in chaos, another

European war in which Poland, as wouldJje

inevitable, stood with France and Great

Britain would bring instant and deadly peril

to Germany.

In sum, and the point is capital, Ger-

many cannot, save after she is reduced to

sions arise. True, other counter alli-

anees could be formed, but they* are

not likely to get far if «they face a pre¬

ponderant power. If such a power had

existed in 1914, if there had not been in

lieu merely a balance of power, Ger-

many would not have gone on the m^rch.

I of joy.

And I.I loved him.

I know I loveá him,

For his hands were black with hair

And he said "Yes, ma'am" when I spoke,

And still I loved him.

But when the time of parting came,

I put my hand in his

With all my heart sinking down and down

With limp desiring,

And he looked down at me and said:

"I did bo hope to see you again,

But it seems I'm not to?"-

And I wondered why,

Too miserable to ask,

'And said goodby.

Why couldn't some one have told me

That in these Eastern states

You have to invite a man to call?

June 12, with the exception of the Army

of Occupation.

"Now, I know.and so do mtijr others.

that less than one-third of the S. O. S. will

leave France by that date.

"The fact that venereals will b» fcfld over

here until they are cured has been given

wide publication both here and at home,

and when the time comes for oat sailing

as announced and we do not show up at1

home it is going to be hard to convince

them of the misunderstanding.

"I hope to see a definite announ#*»ment

in regard to this before we have to say

goodby to 'The Stars and Stripes.' I am

sure such an article will be preserve«* for

self defence by a large number of the cang

who are out of luck."

\The editor of "The Stars and Strip«,"

answering the communication, sums up the

situation rather frankly as follows:

"Nobody but the evil minded and sea»-

dal mongering people, who In the fall and

winter of 1917 branded the infant Ameri¬

can Expeditionary Force as a group »I

venereal drunkards in order that thef

might raise funds to save the dear boyt

from the perils of a wicked, wicked Franc«,

would ever repeat or circulate such a

charge against you or anybody else.

"Although it is admittedly hard to Re¬

lieve it at times, there is etill a goodly

amount of common horse sense left in the

United States; and people with horse senso

and without axes to grind do not make such

charges."

Letters From Home

Probably this letter with its reply has

done more to assuage the sensibilities of

the average American soidier than any

move so far made to combat a misinterpre¬

tation which appears to exist at home. Sol-*

diers are receiving letters here daily ask¬

ing them to explain why they have not re¬

turned to America with their units. In the

majority of cases these men were trans¬

ferred to units in the Army of Occupation

or units in the Service of Supplies because

of a desire to see the thing through or be¬

cause of exceptional ability in various

lines. For this patriotic service they have

been branded, in many cases, as men guilty

of misdemeanors and forced to remain in

Europe as a matter of disciplinary punish¬

ment. Commanding officers of regiments,

battalions and even smaller units in the

Army of Occupation have been queried

secretly of late even by mothers of soldiers

to know why their sons were dot at home.

I know of other cases where sweethearts of

men remaining in France or Germany have

taken too much for granted and flown "off

the handle," breaking engagements or Ion»4*

standing friendships. To say that such a

situation is heartbreaking for thousands of

men of exemplary character remaining in

Europe is putting it mildly. Many are too

proud even to refute such allegations.

The Tribune correspondent recently

stopped at Romagne, France, headquarters

of the grave registration service in which

men are engaged in registering and prepar¬

ing the last resting places for those who

fell in the Argonne-Meuse battle. Follow¬

ing a memorial service conducted by Gen¬

eral Pershing over the graves of thousands

of heroes, the commanding officer of the

registration service said to The Tribuna

correspondent:

Dangerous Rumor

"You can do a great service for every

man working here and that is to correct a

criminal misrepresentation which appears

to be scattered broadcast at home r»:gard-

ing their character. I have sent »he follow¬

ing explanatory telegram to the headquar¬

ters, advance section, of the S. 0. S., now

located at Neufchâteau:

ir.tercd at the Poetoffioe at New York as Second Clas»

Mall Matter

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«Junday only .

Sazonoff held that if even Great Britain

had declared herself peace would have

been saved. Certainly it would have

been saved if tho United States had

adhered.

The natural way to peace is for the

nations that want peace to join together

to enforce it.

I a century and a half.

As it stands the Germans have evacuated

the province of Posen under Allied-pressure,

The Stowaway

Rigger Ballentine, of somewhere in

thus abandoning a fertile region, one of the

best agricultural districts of the empire, to

the Poles. This territory has an area twice

as great as Alsace-Lorraine and a population

of above 2,000,000, but it is not from the

¡ German point of view the most important

sacrifice demanded; in addition, the terms

Great Britain, did a Reprehensible thing

when he stowed away between gas bags

Nos. 6 and 7 of the big blimp R-34. Ho

is tobe duly punished, as he concedes, for

his irregularity. It won't do to clutter

up air liners with unauthorized human

baggage when lifting power is needed to

carry gasolene.

Nevertheless, it is a cold heart which

does not beat responsively to the feel¬

ings of this rigger, who could not bear

to think of the big monster sailing awTay

while he was left behind. He had

helped get ready the huge machine and

had developed an affection for it

May Major Scott, commander of the

R-34, temper justice with mercy.

May the spirit that moved this man

to risk not only the perils of a trans¬

atlantic flight, but a cat-o'-nine-tails

at the end, never die out of our neighbor

across the sea!

The Chain Store

The wholesale grocery jobbers, in be¬

half of their own trade and that of re¬

tail grocers, charge discrimination in

favor of the packers by the Director

General of Railroads. The packers, it

is said, are allowed to nut groceries into

their meat cars, thus securing expedited

service, while shipments, from wholesale

L of peace require that she should abandon to

the Poles almost all of West Prussia, with

an area and population equal to Posen, coa-

sent to the erection of a free city of Dan-

zig, joined in many ways to Poland and ab¬

solutely separated from Germany, and in

addition consent to plebiscites in portions oi

East Prussia and in all of Upper Silesia.

Terrible Sacrifices

Ceding West Prussia to Poland, surrender-

ing Danzig, risking the loss of part of Easr

Prussia by plebiscite, these aro for the Gep

mans terrible sacrifices. The first two iso

late the German-speaking regions abou

Königsberg from the main mass of German

speaking people, they litcrairy cut Prussii

in two, they not merely taka away twenty-

odd thousand square miles fcf territory nn<

upward of 4,000.000 of people, but the;

break down Prussia itself. Thus mutilate»

Prussia, the very heart of the German spiri

ivhich from Bismarck to' the last battle o

the present war dominated the German Em

pire, becomes an amorphous thing,,the reae

tionary, the military, the Junker sectlo

cither put in alien hands or cut off from th

rest of Germany.

For the German there is no solace in th

fact that Danzig does not go uncondition

ally or absolutely to Poland; he loses, abov

all else, that grip upon Poland which he ha

had, with the exception of a brief Nap<

leonic interlude, for nearly a century and

half.

Worse Than Loss in West

Politically this is a far more terrible bio

than the loss of Alsace-Lorraine or the po

sible permanent surrender of the Saar dir

trict. It is something more than a loss <

a tenth of the area of tTie country. It

even more than the actual cutting of 'h

country in half. It is the erection on h

eastern frontier of a new state, destined,

it has time and the support of the Westei

power:-., permanently to block Iris patfrvva

of expansion on the east, and the permanei

.surrender to a race he regards with som

thing of the point of view we have towa:

the Mexicans not alone of territory esse

ALICE.

The R-34 made the trip in 1-08 hours

and 12 minutes; and mail from Chicago

to Mineóla is to come through in 5 hours.

But that doesn't mean that you may leave

here any Wednesday and be in London

the next Sunday; or that when you mai«.

a letter in Chicago at 2 o'clock it will

be in the New York addressee's hands at

7. The time that should bo measured, as

Mr. F. P. Dunne said when the boat went

across the ocean in 5 days, is "from

boardin' house to boardin' house."

The, President's Return

To-day is Wilson Day, in honor of the

President's return from Paris.

When the President surprised the

public by the announcement that he

would take a personal part in the peace

negotiations few coincided with him as

to the necessity or the wisdom of h;.s

departure. Other Presidents had found

delegates in whom they reposed con¬

fidence. With our treaty making power

dual, conspicuous Senators had been

chosen as commissioners, thus making

for harmony of action. Not personally

committed as to details, ú President could

play the part of umpire, translating the

opinion not only of himself but of

"others. Moreover, 4he spirit of the Con¬

stitution seemed, against it. But time

has softened the acerbity of these con¬

victions. And there have been gains,

among them .the education of the

President himself. Ho has learned to

iV.ce realities.

The President has repute for stub¬

bornness. On the contrary, he has

.hown capacity for change. One may

almost predict that in the end, in the

struggle over ratification, the President

will yet cheerfully accept the construct¬

ive Root proposals, which will secure a

practically unanimous ratification and

yet rid the covenant of doubtful features

which have created alarm.

A President is a centre of national au-

hority, as our flag is its symbol, and

Ithough he is not to be exempt from

criticism, sound patriotism demands that

the criticism shall be solidly based and

never frivolously partisan or personal.

To the free enjoyment of his great

estate the President is heartily welcome.

grWers are delayed. A suit to correct

the alleged evil is before the Interstate

Commerce Commission.

That the packers send goods through

as quickly and as cheaply as they can

may be taken for granted. That they

and other chain store organizations are

invading the retail grocery field is ob¬

vious from signs on hundreds of streets.

The retail gi*ocery trade.5,is meeting com¬

petition it has hitherto escaped, and al¬

though discrimination may occur and is

to be deprecated, the wholesale grocers

are doubtless aware that the source of

the trouble is deeper.

The independent drug store is pass¬

ing; so also is the independent cigar

store. Popular prejudice ran strongly

in favor of the man who owned his

business. But the steady insistence of

price made a way for the chain store.

And public sympathy has been meas¬

urably alienated. The" retailers aro

under official indictment as profiteers.

The mind is saturated with miracles.

The transatlantic flight made less wonder¬

ment than the first bicycle trip from Chi¬

cago to New York. Yet the flight is the

most romantic piece of adventure since

the Deutschland^ first trip to the United

Stales.-

Rcvarnishing an ancient wheeze, R. L.

suggests that K-9 would be more or le^a

sky terrier of an airship; and .T. T. W.

points out that the disease you get riding

in balloons is R-3tis.

Songs of the Air.1

My bonnie flies over the ocean;

My bonnij flies over the sea;

My bonnie flies over the ocean;

She flew on the R-48.

Mr. Dempsey, the well known "fighter,'¦

has been quoted often, before and after

the boxing exhibition, about how proud

his mother would be, and how glad he was

for her sake, and so on. Which reminds

ns that if Lieutenant Jimmy O'Neale

hadn't been killed in France, he might

some day have been tennis champion, and

then his mother and his wife might be

proud, too. -

The Times reporter ¡3 quoting Stowaway

Ballantyne, "I'd worked hard, bloody hard,

on the bally blimp," he is quoted as say¬

ing. "I guess I was the only man aboard

who was sick on the trip." If Ballantyno

said "guess," wo guess he has been read¬

ing the American dialect of Mr. Wells and

Mr. Galsworthy.

The Train Talkers

"My son was in Albany yesterday and

he says the station was literally jammed."

"It was like that everywhere, I guess."

"Yes, I'll bet it was. My wife thought

it'd bo nice to go somewhere over the

Fourth, but I said we'd both be better off

if we stayed at home."

"Does you good to get away, though, if

only to appreciate your home."

"What'd you think of the fight?"

"Oh, I didn't care."

"Neither did I. Still, I was glad to

see Dempsey win."

"Think it was fixed?"

"Oh, I\ don't know. Pretty hard to tell."

"Still, you never know." *

"No, you never do."

"You can't tell from the papers."

"No, they never print the- truth about

such things."

"Wonderful about thé airship getting

over, wasn't it?"

"Yes, but I wouldn't go up in one of

those things for a million."

"Neither would I. Wasn't it hot Satur¬

day?"

"We were pretty comfortable at our

house. If there's a breeze, wo get it."

The Subway Sun is a fascinating mani¬

festation of journalism, of course. But if

the Interborough wishes to please passen¬

gers.and wo are convinced that its other

desires are secondary.it would place in

every rar a list of the stations the train

stops at; and would install easily read maps

at each station. An utter dub, tako his

word for it, can find his way in the Paris

Metro without ever asking one question.

The vitalizing effect of headline English

j utter helplessness, accept the eastern

frontiers as drawn at Versailles. She can¬

not even permit; them to be established

temporarily, for the Balkan example has

shown that peoples once liberated mcintain

their freedom tenaciously and successfully.

If Poland gets her new boundaries her

chance of keeping them is far greater than

if the matter is delayed by German oppo-

sition until Allied armies are demobilized

and Allied publics have wearied and gone

| back to forgetfulness.

Poland Gets Only Justifie

There is no need of pointing out that

The Ex-Kaisers Trial*

Cheers greeted the question asked yes¬

terday in the House of Commons: "Is

the spokesman for the government aware

that nobody particularly wants the ex-

Kaiser brought here?" This demonstra¬

tion marks, perhaps, a natural reaction

from the surprise of Lloyd George's an¬

nouncement that William II would be

tried in London. Many people in Great

Britain would be better pleased to have

the trial take place in Brussels, for the

greatest single crime against interna¬

tional law which the head of the German

state committed was the violation of the

treaty, to which Prussia was a signatory,

guaranteeing the neutrality and terri¬

torial integrity of Belgium. But the

ex-Kaiser is even more responsible to

the other signers of that treaty than ho

what Poland has obtained is justice, not

generosity. The Danzig compromise is 8

very real disappointment of legitimate

Polish aspirations. But to permit Poland

to have justice means for Germany, foi

They were quick to mark up the goons

on their shelves wdien wholesale' prices

advanced and, unless they have been mis¬

represented, they are now not meeting

Prussia, the true master of Germany, tc

lose much of her power in Germany, much

of her force in Europe.

By contrast, if Poland does not obtair

j justice. Germany will escape from the wai

fairly the other swing.

Nor do retailers seem to be doing

what they can to lessen the margin of

cost between producers and consumers.

They lack the proper cooperative im¬

pulse and are throwing the door open

to the "trust." If the door is open it is

a certainty that some group will enter,

and that all the suits will not prevail

against the practice of the economical

housewife to purchase as cheaply as

she can.

with no real barrier in her way for a new

adventure, and the flimsy Polish stati

which does not include German territories

assigned to it at Versailles will first bi

strangled industrially and commereiallj

and presently reannexed to Germany, re

is to Belgium; for Belgium was the ward

of them all, and did not mafte an agree¬

ment with Prussia on her own account.

Moreover, Great Britain declared war

against Germany specifically on the

ground that Germany had violated her

guarantees to Belgium.

William II must be tried somewhere.

The treaty of peace compels such action.

He will have a fair hearing in London,

and he will appear not before a British

but an international court. It is of the

utmost importance that the Allied na¬

tions establish the precedent that the

head of a nation deliberately breaking

faith with other nations and excusing

himself for doing so (through the mouth

of his chief political agent) by pleading

"military necessity" can be brought to

account as a breaker of international

pledges. If he is brought to accoun;

international law will take on a new

meaning for states and executives dis¬

posed to treat it as a mere form of words.

The ex-Kaiser is a criminal. If he

had been successful as a criminal lie

would have overthrown the whole sys¬

tem of international restraints. Bad

faith among nations would have been

vindicated and glorified. But he was

an unsuccessful criminal. Justice de--

mands that he should be made an ex¬

ample of. It also demands that the

whole German conspiracy against the

world's peace bo laid hare, so that even

the Germans themselves may have no

excuse left for thinking or asserting

that the war was on their part a war

of self-defence. .

storing the old situation of evil and th<

ancient obstacle to world peace.

Events in Poland in the next weeks anc

months, therefore, must have a very im

portant bearing upon the future of Eu

rope and of world peace, and no detail ii

the application of the conditions of peaci

can be more interesting than that whicl

relates to the surrender by Germany o

tial to Germany, bat of territory in which

German population, a minority to ne suj

lives.

As for Upper Silesia, if this, by the vo

of the people who are in very great majori

Polish, shall choose to join Poland also, o

of the great mineralized districts will

taken away and Poland will be able at

The Uncharted Sky

There have been few logs of flying

«as picturesque and stirring to the im¬

agination as that of the R-34, written

down by General Mattland, official ob-

sorver for the British Air Ministry. A

new nomenclature, a new science, a new

world, step forth to view as a result

of this epoch-making voyage.

As Commander Read suggested the

greatest accomplishment of such a trip

is to familiarize the public with what

has been done, to create a popular con¬

fidence and support in a new accessory

of life. Aeronautics has grown slowly,

steadily through the contributions of a

multitude of mfhds. As part of '.t

meteorology has taken on a fresh im¬

portance and developed along unexpect¬

ed channels. Of all this the public is

just now learning. Perhaps the most in¬

teresting portions of General Maitland's

log were his descriptions of strange

cloud effects. No artist could picture

these strange scenes in more vivid lan¬

guage. But the bçauty of the spectacle

was not the object of the flying man.

Each form öf cloud was scrupulously ob¬

served and noted, photographed in many

cas't'.r, for the forecast of weather

.:. rages which it might hold.

Take, for instance, that moment a:

6 p. m. the first day cut, when Major

Scott increased his height to 2,000 feet

and brought the ¡?Wp out well above the

clouds in which he had been travelling

aitd revealed a bright blue sky over¬

head :

"The view is an »nchantirig one.S3

far as one car. rfec a vast ocean of white,

fleecy eltmds ending in the most perfect

cloud horizon. Two particularly fine

.specimens of windy cirn-s clouds, of

which Pritchard promptly obtained photo¬

graphs, appear on our port beam; also

some 'cirrus ventosus* clouds.tittle

curly cloud« like a black cock's tail

all of which Harris interprets

as a first indication and infallible sign

of a depression coming up from tue

south."

No collector of rare paintings could

be more excited over the chance discov¬

ery of an,unexpected treasure. And t'le

next day proved the entire correctness

of the forecast, based on those "windy,

curly cloud;--." Very rough «oa, torrents

of rain and visibility only half a mile

were the practical consequences of that

"depression coming up from the south."

jifter whir-h, ¿ate the next evening, came

this «econd picture:

To the west tho clouds have lifted and

we sec some extraordinarily interesting

«ky -black, ar:gry clouds giving placo to

clouds of a pray mouse color, then a

bright salmon pink clear sky, changing

lower down the horizon to darker clouds

with a rich golden lining ¡is tho «un

.ink» below the surface. Tho sea Is not

visible, and is covered bv a fluffy grav

feather bed of clouds, ¡slightly unaulatHg

Marriage and Hot Weather

Commenting upon the unusual rush

for marriage licenses last Saturday, a

the territories she has promised to returi

to Poland.

(Copyright, 1919. by The McCiure NewspRpe

philosopher of the Municipal Building

ventured the explanation that the ap-

plicants were "crazy from the heat."

The fact may be admitted more easily

than the conclusion. Many have thought

love a madness; "love and pride stock

Syndicate)

! . _ , _ , _

Confiscation With

Carnage

To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: As an American who has dwelt

among the horrors of the Tampico oil fields

and followed the Mexican attempt to drive

Americans cut by confiscation and then by

murder, I thank you for your editorial of

yesterday. Its titlo "Confiscation Con

Came," was a happy inspiration, character¬

istic of the nev.- brilliancy of The Tribune.

But it is deeper than mere brilliance.

Confiscation.then human life.has been

the story.

Germany felt we were going to war irr

lato 1916. Germany sent representatives

to the Queretaro Assembly, and a German

friend of the Mexican Cabinet minister in

the Convention, ably assisted by a promi¬

nent American Socialist, contrived the in-

elusion in the "new constitution" of the

article confiscating the petroleum industry

from its American and British owner» who

had made it. George Creel has shown the

enect of this precept on the Allies' war

supply. It is charitable to^ believe the

American Socialist was innocent of the help

he was giving Germany. The German knev,

exactly wiiat he wanted.

In early 1918 the Germans were to make

their supreme effort. Carranza was in¬

formed. Then appeared the executive de¬

crees confiscating petroleum. Then came

the Allies' protests. Then Mexico desisted

for a time. *->.

Then the carne.

One Pelaez has held and protected thv

oil fields, protected the American workers

and declared for the Allies. Confiscatior

by decree failing for the time, Carranzi

sent an expedition to destray our ally ir

the jungle. Ho was driven back to th(

hills, and Carranza's military expeditior

wa3 followed by ¿¿tacks on and murder:

of Americans working without glory or

medals to supply the men in France witl

aviation naphrtrha, fuel oil and all the wavi

of oil on which it has been said the Allie;

floated to victory. Eleven of these Amerl

cans were assassinated artri fifteen wer»

wounded with American bullets which ou

government allowed Carranza to have. Onl;

one. case of assault occurred outside th

Carranza lines, and that was in unoccupiei

territory.

The facts convince that it was all par

of a conspiracy to intimidate American

and drive 1 hem out of the oil fields, bu

the Americans stuck to theiT posts. \

glory was theirs, no reward, no apprécia

tion by their government. But they stucl

disarmed and unafraid, picked oiT like rab

bits in territory occupied by the factio

their own country had favored with rccog

nition and arms and cartridges to kill thei

with. Killed and mutilated, they stucl

»And the men in France got the oil the

needed, and wo won the warl

So the jocular title of your editorial Is

tragically correct.

And the c<mia»hasn't ended. Carranza

soldiers are sent to drive American work-

men away from American wells, to effect

the confiscation. Lee Moye, one jf the

bedlam," as the proverb, puts it. But

is it a midsummer madness? Does its

frenzy rise with the thermometer? It

may be only a coincidence that a rush

occurred on a very hot day. Some pa¬

tient statistician w:uld have to decide

this point.

There may be many subtle relations

between love and weather which are not

yet understood.^ It is a subject to en-

gage a deep thinker for years of cogi¬

tation and research. June il a favorite

month for marriages, but it does not

follow that June marriages imply a

more passionate devotion than October

marriages, which are also frequent.

I Alabama boy, who wanted to enlist among

j win the war where he could best hc«p, was

murdered at Lisderrick, in Carranza ter-

ritory, last Tuesday. Joh:i Correll is siain

defending his wife's honor from armed

'Romagne, France,-. Letters received

here by enlisted men from the United

States in this mail indicate that the opinion

is gaining ground in the United States that

organizations on grave registration service

are composed of venereals and men beiirg

punished for absence without leave. Trie *

report will seriously affect the morale of

the command as this news has reached

families of men engaged on the work here.

I recommend that immediate steps be taken

to correct this report by cable. The ven¬

ereal rate of this command is practically

nil, as shown by reports of medical inspec¬

tion. .

"'(Signed) CHAPMAN, Colonel.'"

There is scarcely a unit remaining in

Europe to-day in which some man or men

have not had the effect of this rumor laid

before them. Our medical records show

that the American army is tire cháñese

.Army in the world, ¡-'o the folks at horn«

can creditably give those renaming ove*

here the benefit of the doubt.

soldiers in the oil district within the month.

The carnage continues. The Mexican gov-

ernment wants the American owned oil that

we need to keep our ships on the seas under

our flag and to hold down the cost of

gasolene. Confiscation is objected to. Mur-

der for purposes of intimidation is met by

nothing more serious than grammatical ro-

quests to "protect Americans in the dis¬

Love blossoms earlier in the tropics, no

trict," which are a joke rnd a derision to

doubt, than in the temperate latitudes>

predatorv Mexico. So murder continues.

and this fact may support the weather

theory. But it would be rash to assunrb

as much without strong confirmatory

"Confiscation with

carnage." You're

right.

B. T.

Trusting Three or Forty

Senator» Borah, if he has made him¬

self understood, has been opposed to the

covenant ratification as implying sur¬

render of American sovereignty and lib¬

erty of future action. His well sup¬

ported argument has been that under

some conditions a body not known to

our Constitution might declare a boy¬

cott, with war probably ensuing. This

would force Congres.? to agree to plunge

in, or would bring on the country the

reproach of treaty breaking.

But no similar objection can be made

to the alliance treaty. An attribute

of sovereignty is the power to enter into

Olean, N. Y., July 5, 1919.

evidence. Upon no point are men moro

given to rash generalization than upon

affairs of the heart.

Demo»eracy or Egoism?

(From The Toledo Blade)

The refusal of 1,500 British troops ar¬

rived from Egypt and tho East to go into

quarantine for smallpox on disembarking

is beyond question; but there *re curious

affectations common in headlines that no

one evar uses in conversation. Did you

ever "laud" any one? And did you ever,

even in France, engage against the "foe"?

And did you ever engago in a "net tilt"?

TO A BOOK WORM

O vermicide, distent with learned lore!

Did «scholar's fancy draw thee to this tome.

Or gourmand's instinct bid thee honeycomb

Mine ancient book and batten on its Btor«?

And hast thou found it not an awful bor«;_

This solitary building of a home

Amid the buried treasures of Oid Rome,

With cl;is3ic dust heaps nil about thy door?

Thou hast {fono through my book from end to end

And all its deare3t sophistries laid waste,

Digesting portions that eoyikl not offend

But sparing many lines of doubtful taste.

Still, thou hast ope'd forever to the light

Some passages that were obscure as night.

W. H. OSTRANDEB.

And now there is doubt as to whether

the former Kaiser is to be tried in London.

Ar unprejudiced jury, it is thought, cannot

be collected. The hotelkeepers of Toledo

probably will attempt to have th«j trial

sinped in that city.

"How Senators Now Stand on Peace

Treaty," said a headline in last evening'»

Sun. Some of them stand on it with

spiked shoes.

Many a home can worry along without

a fireless cooker.

The desideratum is the fireless cook.

F. P. A.

Pie ces of Five

(From The Chicago Evening Post).

A lot of people who ride down town on

the surface cars, damning the service all

the way, usually end np with, a chuckle

over their victory in the 5-cent fare fight.

Women and Naturalization

(From The St. Paul Daily NeW8)

Congress seems certain to revise our im¬

migration and naturalization laws in the

near future. There will be an effort to pat

a little more heat in the fire under the

melting pot.

Also women will soon become ci'izens

and voters. '

This suggests need for a change in our

naturalization law as it applies to women.

At present there are serious inconsisten¬

cies.

For instance, a New York woman whosa

husband enlisted with the Canadian forces

after Uncle Sam turned him down lost the

right to vote and became a British *¦ »bject

until her husband was repatriated.

An American woman (a voting either,

perhaps) marrying an unnaturalizcd alien

would lose citizenship -under the ¡»resent

law.

An ambitious husband who Americanized

himself rapidly and proved his right to

naturalization and the ballot might have

an unambitious wife ignorant of r'nglish

and our political system, yet his naturali¬

sation would entitle her to the ballot.

at Plymouth raises an rntcresting ques¬

tion cs to futuro wars.

If soldiers collectively refuse to obey

quarantine orders when they seem super¬

fluous, it is not impossible that they might

refuse to fight in another war, if that also

seemed to be an unnecessary hardship or

sacrifice.

Democracy is rempaft. Whether fo»

good or ill time alone will disclose.

Without Naming It

{From The Dallas News)

Reports that the Bolsheviki are preparing

exists, except nominally. It is now really

a 21/£"-cent piece.

The elevated railways wore unable p.i

July 1 to pay any of the principal of tlie

513,000,000 of notes then falling du<\ Nor

alliances.xIndeed, if this prerogative is

were they in a position to negotiate an

extension, with no prospect of having any

lacking, it may be said sovereignty is

money in their treasury in tMte near future.

maimed. The Constitution forbid-! the

states to make alliances, but, significant¬

As a matter of fact, we are living over

ly, no similar prohibition runs against

a volcano. Both the elevated and tne sur¬

face lines are on the brink of bankruptcy,

the Federal government, thus,, by in¬

What would happen if these roads should

ference, saying it is free. International

lawyers and our own publicists, begin-

suddenly cease to operate? A receiver-»

ship, you say? Yes, but what can a rc-

ceiver do with property whose out^o is

ning with Alexander Hamilton, agree

that the right to enter alliances%is the

very staff of nationhood.is one of the "

things, a nation may àp in virtue of

to leavo Petrograd ara probably untrue.

There is nowhere for them to go except some i

greater than its income?

With any break in service, what would

pince just a.s bad.

Metaphorically

{Front The Chtcac-o Oailu News)

There is still hope that civilization, grown

weary of its monotonous level orbit, contem¬

plates spirnling to higher things.

Dispossessed

(From The. I'hilndsttthia Press)

Administration contemporaries are re¬

joicing becauso the Knox resolution seem»

to have been dropped; perhaps it was

dropped to* get a better hold on something

else.

be the inconvenience and sufferings'" of

being a nation.

Senator Borah is able to convict tho

President of inconsistency in urging an

alliance sucb as he declared he would

oppose. But ínfí President's consistency

hundreds of thousands? How crime would

thrive! _

Perhaps, however, as n correspondent

suggests, the people could ride down town

on the shoulders of the politicians who

have been bunking them about into the

has nothing to do with the merit oí the

proposal itself. Proof that, he ig in¬

constant may be relevant to the accusa¬

tion that he is unstable, but its rele¬

vancy goes no further; therefore, for

''¦ ¦.

belief that a nickel is still a nickel.

Thoughts

I From Th'i Pagan) I

Suffrage et vr\s to demand that worn*?»»

must prove their light to »ote as well M

men.

»nd extending as far as tho «-ye can reac-.,,

The moon is Just breaking through the

black cloud« imrr.ediately above it.

"On the east we see the black oral-

LITTLE goldfish things,

«*

purpose of the present discussion, is

That glint and dart

Among the sedges and lily pad»

Advice That Is Passé

(From The Philadelphia ¡»attirer)

irr< levant. Any engagements into which

this country should enter should be con-

In the smoky blue water«

Of my mind.

Well, anyway, prohibition is going to .»*.

the man with a cold from listening to a lot

of useless advice a

ELEANOR HAMMOND.

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sidered without reference to the person¬

ality of any man.

The world's peace to forty nation:;

they are to discuss.under some circum-

last issue of "The Stan» and Stripes,"

9"5 Mí

('drillers who stuck to it during the war, an

the volunteers, but saw his duty to help

They forget that the nickel no longer

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