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IJorK tribune First to Truth: limber vv, Bureau of TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919 publiai 1 dailj No? New 1 Ogrten BeM. I 1 Blcb.rd A Bui a row, Tribune, Nassau Street. Ne? Telephone, cOOO. SUBSCBrrnON Including Toftage: Till MTKD STATES AND CANADA. Une- P'x ye.r.

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ol all other matter herein erred. The President's Speech The speech of the President yesterday in Boston neither in words nor spirit contains anything to arouse controversy. lie interprets in broad phrases of great felicity the high mission of this country, lie proclaims with great power his ideals; are the ideals of the great Repubic. No sensible person now challenges, or has challenged, the sincerity of the President's allegiance to the idea of or ganizing the world for peace instead of (or war. The war was to end war, and if this is not completely possible, then to set up some bulwarks for If there is failure at Paris as to this, great indeed will be the failure.

The discussion of the momentous problem must therefore be lifted above the plane of personalities. To do other than this is to degrade a theme almost as lofty as that contained in the New Testament. Every sound American thrills at the picture the President paints of Ameri? can motives which are suspected by none. The pulse beats faster to learn that so great a compliment is paid to us by both tire European unisses and their appointed of the countries with which we have been at war. No similar con 4 ce was before the guerdon of any nation.

In the generalities and aspirations expressed by the President, although their tenor does not differ essentially from his previous utterances, it is pos to catch, it seems, a little more appreciation of realities. There is a warmer recognition of the views of our lilies, a livelier sympathy with them in their deep trouble, a fuller aeknowl dgment that what we would do they also would do, and with greater reason. There is a happy absence of any echo of the doctrine sedulously preached by dis? trust breeders that the Europeans are a lot and need careful watching. is respect the President appears to gained something by his contacts, not less an American, to be internationally-minded. The practical aspects of the peace prob lem the President did not discuss.

He is of course aware that the debate now go ng on relates not to wishes and desires ul wholly to whether or not the plan rv being examined is calculated to fu rther the end sought. His contribu en to tiiis debate is left for another so leaving it he now offers nothing toward resolving doubts. The raised when the tentative plan was publi remains as it was before. The Parlor Bolshevists valuable is the time of a sub? te of the Senate Judiciary Committee? How large is the bill which 1 et oui of the money paid by the taxpayers for a day's session? Obviou iy the time of the sub-com is net precious and the cost is little. Else Senator Overman and his gues would not have wasted sev daya listening to the harangues of iheviki who know little porary conditions in Rus? tra and who would not tell the truth if they knew it.

Witnesses who left Russia many ago were allowed to cumber up the record, although it was evident what they had to say irrelevant, incom and They took their facts, to Russia and brought the same facts back. Determined to see certain and not to sec others, they suc i ded in the double task. To get them to acknowledge Russia was not a land of perfect bliss was obviously as im ble as to induce a disciple of eti to confess to eating with a knife. The idea? of persons are like the of a bonded in and left to ripen in a dark place, ive in property, but feel a ve ted Interest in bombast. One conspicuous member of the fra? ternity walked for eighteen days about the streets of Petrograd, not knowing word of the language, and then for America, to beat his rivals to the magazine office? and to the mana gers of lecture bureaus.

Since he has i passed as knowing all about Russia. But there is no without some gain. The columns American news- papers have given up to the cold stor- age testimony sufficiently refute the charge that the' press is not willing to carry the Bolshevik side of the case. There is nothing, or very little, favor- able to all. This is at? tested by the circumstance that the American Bolsheviki cannot be induced to emigrate to Paissia.

When such a thing is suggested they cling to the skirts of the law and beg the protec? tion of our bourgeois institutions. The Debits of Delay When Maximilian of Baden arrived in Berlin to be German Chancellor he found document on his desk marked i "at once," ordering him to lose no time in asking for an armistice. The German military front was smashed and the only safety was in an early cessation of hos- tilities. The Chancellor on October 8 transmitted the surrender offer to Wash ington. Instead of recognizing a white flag had been raised our State De- partment began note writing.

A pre? cious month was wasted and many thou- sands of lives lost before the armistice went into effect on November 11. Negotiations have since gone on the theory that, there was no hurry-that all time was before us. The formal be- ginning of the parley was postponed to i allow the President to reach Europe. Then two more weeks were allotted to I him to make a speechmaking tour. Not until middle January was there, any get- ting down to business.

Since October 8 more than four months have elapsed, and everything is held up again until the President shall return. As this will not be until the middle of March, the world has before it to-day the credits and debits of five months of peace labor. The credits are: One badly shattered table of the Four? teen Points, cracked by interpretation and split by reservations. One tentative what-is-it? peace cov? enant, which has been read once for information and which seems to need to be recommitted for amendment and possible deliquescence. One armistice which it has been necessary twice to renew.

One Prinkipo conference which may not be held. On'the debit side are: One Germany in unnecessary and dangerous civil war, hanging over a Bolshevist abyss. One Russia more gravely disturbed than ever and hence more of a menace to others and to herself. One Southern Europe in chaos and unable to begin work of reconstruc? tion. One ancient friendship with France brought to the verge of mutual recrim? ination.

One Great Britain, suspended be? tween mobilization and demobilization, with industrial disturbances. One America anxious to resume nor? mal life but forced to act on the as? sumption that a great army must be maintained abroad. One condition of wholesome harmony among the Allies yielding, under the con? tinuous blows of German and Bolshe? vist propaganda, to something like dis? cord. The list of debits, if given in full, would fill a column. The world is pay? ing a heavy price for a delay in making peace.

It is jeopardizing the future, is possibly creating a situation which will make the present cessation of formal hostilities a peace of Amiens, such as punctuated but did not stop the Napo? leonic struggle. When the journey across the seas was announced it was pointed out it was not possible to have haste if the spokesman of one of the principal na I tions were constrained to go back and forth across three thousand miles of sea. Persistent effort has been made to de? ceive the American people into thinking I that the objections to the President's oc casional appearances at Paris are- born of a mean spirit, whereas they spring from perceptions of geographical condi? tions which no one can remove. Peace, and peace, is so much as now. It can scarcely come quickly if America forces continuous conference adjournments.

Fiatism in Germany The note circulation of the Bank of Germany in the last week of July, 1914. was $472,723,000 (marks translated into dollars on a basis of four to one). On November 14, 3ill8, the week of the armistice, this had risen to $4, The total note circulation now stands at $5,891,405,000. That is to sa; paper money has increased more in three months of peace than it did I even in an average year of war. The conclusion is inescapable.

This is fiat forced loan. Its amount has no relation to the needs of trade. It is the desperate expedient of a bank rupt government, and the currency of revolutionary governments always and cvei-ywhere. The United States had its experience in the Revolution and in the Civil War. Revolutionary France went through it.

Russia is going through it. The government has not the power to raise funds by taxation nor the credit to raise them by bond sales, or perhaps it lacks the will for either. It must meet bills, and does so by the simple ex? pedient of the printing press. The results are always the same. As paper issues increase, beyond a certain point, price? increase in roughly the degree, ami as doubt of ultimate redemption in gold begins to spread, prices may increase at an even faster rate than the currency.

paradoxical result is that the more paper money there the greater becomes tho demand for currency, for it takes more money to buy each individual thing. The worker is always the hardest hit. The prices of the things he buys are raised enormously. His wages move slowly: they are fixed largely by cus? tom. There is little incentive to work.

Fewer goods are produced, and as the great body of wages must be paid out of current production there is less for the average man. In the end the fiat money goes to sleep in the pocket of the last holder. "Not worth a conti? nental," say Americans, in common speech, referring, often unconsciously, to what happened to the paper issues of the Continental Congress. Some things, it would seem, no people ever learn. Worth a Filibuster The present Congress passed but one measure which reduced the cost of liv? ing.

That was the daylight saving law. Are we now to lose the benefits of that law, which cut down illumination bills and also generously extended the day? light recreation period for indoor workers? Every city, town and village is inter? ested in preserving last year's gain. If the people of the rural districts think that they are getting no advantage out of the new schedule, they at least suffer no deprivations or loss under it. Many business organizations are ap? pealing to Senator Calder to prevent the repeal of the act which bears his name. Fortunately, he is in a position to prevent it.

The short session has only six more days to "run. The Senate calendar is congested. Many of the annual appropriation bills will fail. The agricultural appropriation bill ought to fail, if the daylight wasting rider is not stricken from it. Senator Carter, of Montana, won fame through his suc? cessful single-handed, filibuster against a river and harbor appropriation bill several sessions ago.

If the worst comes to the worst, Mr. Calder can win fame by using similar heroic methods. The German Fleet It is possible to sympathize with the sentimental aspect of the plan to escort the captured German navy to some spot where the water is exceptionally deep and sink it there. That would be a dramatic and colorful proceeding, rival? ling the great scene at Scapa Flow when the larger part of the German navy'sur? rendered. The ceremony would be wasteful.

Ships arc shins, and even junk is junk. The German navy contains many small vessels which might be of use to other countries and might bring a good price if put up at auction. It also contains many mpdern major ships. These un? doubtedly have a value too high to justify their use as the raw material of a naval pageant. Would the Allied powers be willing to throw into the sea the millions of marks which the German fleet represents in original cost or even in present bargain counter values? It is less important to sink- the exist? ing German navy in depths where it will be "spurlos" than it is to provide against the construction of a new Ger? man navy.

The surrendered fleet cap do no harm if disposed of to governments which find a use for its various units, or 'even to the junkman. What may make trouble is the fleet of the future. A clause in the treaty of peace prohibiting or strictly limiting German naval construction will help the cause of world peace more than a spectacular consignment of existing construction to the lowest bed of the ocean. "A Good Cigar Is a Smoke" Some horrid man smoked a cigar not long ago in the room where Mrs. Minnie Grinstead was dining, little suspecting she would have lier revenge in a way 1 given to few women.

He did not know, of course, that she was the first woman legislator in the state of Kansas. Mrs. Grinstead promptly introduced a bill prohibiting smoking in public dining I rooms. Her masculine colleagues passed the not until an artful mascu? line colleague had tacked on an amend ment which provided that "smoking in public places shall be unlawful except where cigars, merchandise and stocks of i merchandise are kept for sale." Mrs. Grinstead, unused to legislative tactics, voted for the joker, and now discovers there are few lunchrooms which cannot boast a stock of merchandise consisting at least of a package of gum.

Women legislators are going to have a hard time taking tobacco away from smoking lawmakers. Men may vote for prohibitive measures, but are prone to tack on amendments prohibiting the use of face powder, cosmetics and lip-sticks. As Kipling discovered some years ago, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." A Correction The Tribune is informed, on authority it accepts, that an injustice was done to members of the Nearing jury in com? ment in these columns. The men on the jury (report had it that the division was ten to two) of German birth were strongly for conviction. It is perhaps needless to say it, was no part of The Tribune's purpose to foster suspicion against those who are faithful in and letter to their naturalization oaths.

It is anxious to do all in its power to integrate our multiform population and to consider, not classes or groups, but individuals on their merit. The Overhead on Hats From The Emporio Qa tette) If he takes one meal a day in a restau? rant or caf? in a a New Yorker will upend (20 buying a $5 hat back from a check boy who gets about week, and who work? for a concern which pay? hand? somely for the cheeking concession and furnishes the help to run it. A New Yorker the bitfjjoat sucker in the world. The Conning Tower The paragraphs in Henry Ford's new weekly banner Are separated from each other in this manner. ON A WINE OF HORACE'S" My pen I'm taking to uphold The good repute of Q.

H. He always wor we're told, A "moderate and a modest Who civilized us when he came, And indi era tame.3 To ti'mpt Maecenas, "Sabine Ami not Falernian wine' he otfered lari to ent? rtain, The "il ni nt 1 he proffered; Nor he think that Aulon'a vine Need proud i le a' When "harsh lie took, If- liked with light hian To those who luaffed i' in some Unshaken calm he recommended.10 Tho "golden mean" be held fast.11 And Bacchus' bounds must not be passed." "The fiery 1 'a lernia i I'm quench," he used to send for And thought himself a gay young man," If wine's strength was more'n a quarter." And always when hi cups be drained, An arhi'ir bibendi reigned." He, like old liked to drink. But very sparingly would revel. II-- --I'd talk, lie still could think, Because, you see, his head was level. Ami if follow him we'd try, din- i m--, er need go dry.

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I 27. 8 9. is i i. -i. A couplet factory, one per cent efficient, Can turn out stuff that people think omniscient.

If Mr. Ed Harmon were the kind of person he supposed to be, why, -a he l'il -i letter, does he use the apostrophe in "dinin'," "kickin'," Take stuff that's solemn, trite and old; And have it set in Cheltenham Bold. THE TRAIN TALKEKS A Woman and a Porter. "1 fpper 5 "Right mi "Any ing lower "No, ma'am all tak? "No chai gel a lower "No, ma'am they're all taken." "No chance even after we get started?" "No, ma'i "Tha''. lal told me at tho ticket office." "Yes, 'm." "I went early yesterday morning.

Thought Bure I'd get a lower going early as thai two days ahead. They told mo they were II sol "Yes, 'in." "You don't think there'd be a chance getl ng a lowe "No, "You would think going as early as that would he time enough. What time do wi gel in "Six fifty." "That's about- let's see ten minutes be? fore six no, ten minutes to seven, isn't it "Yes, 'm." "Do we have to get out then?" "No, ma'am. You can stay in the car till seven "Well, better wake me about seven." "Yes, 'm. "oh, porter!" es, 'm." "Better vvak6 me at quarter to seven.

Then I won'i have to hurry." "And if yon hear of a lower, you'll 1 me know, won't "Yes, Vi." Declare that one and one are two, And multitudes will sigh: "How true!" Tourists who will bo visiting Chateau Thierry, Bclleau Wood, and points adja? cent should spend the night at the hotel in Montmirail. The landlord, who looks' like Dave Warfield in the Casino days, is almost as interesting as the road acros; the bridge. And but assert that one and two are three, The crowd will cry: "Just what occurred to me." If the French barbers neglected the President, ho can get, on Pennsylvania. Avenue, "Shave, Including Neck, 15c." Set forth that sixty-three is seven nines, "What subtle fluff," they say, "between the lines!" If we were managing editor of the revered Time should have wirelessed the correspondent on the George Washin0 i ton "As for instance?" when this trickled into the office Sunday night: Wilson is passing his time in such ways as passengers do on a ship that has ar rived home but not landed." For many a time? A prosy thought's expressed in rhyme. It looks to us as though some of the intrepid Senators who are lighting against tho L.

of N. will be entitled to wound chevrons before they get through. And even oftener, heaven knows, A prosy thought's expressed in prose. In the new scheme of things four jacks probably will beat four kings or queens. A little learning's pretty dangerous dope1, How much thou hast to answer for, Pope! Admiral von Tirpitz is busted financially, and some of our passionate friends, the utter internationalists, are planning a mon? ster benefit.

This kind of couplet makes no great splash, But it's easy to write as a three-em dash. Tin re is no impugning Senator Borah's motives. A man who will decline a dinner invitation in Washington is incorruptible "Easy to write," you say, "indeed; But not so easy and pleasant to read." P. P. A.

THIS ISA OF A'OLE weit- ir You KNOW A BETTER, 'OLE, CO TO IT. 'Il After 3AiM-fA7HR Eisner, a Great Loss Frank Bohn, American Democratic Socialist, Pays High Tribute to the Bavarian Leader. By Frederick Moore New York Tribune Special Cable Service TARIS, Feb. The following is an ap preciation of Kurt Eisner by Frank Bohn, a prominent: American Socialist having the closest touch with the German liberals who are in refuge in Switzerland: "The death of Eisner if a much greater loss to the forces of world democracy than is appreciated outside of Germany. His passing removes the one characterful and capable leader about whom the hon? es! and intelligent portion of the German Socialist moveVnent might gather in the immediale future.

"From the very beginning of the war lustier had all the courage of Liebknecht, but in practical leadership Liebknecht was a fool, while Eisner was a man of con? summate wisdom. At Berne I had re? peated and most intimate talks with Eisner. ''After his great speech exposing the shameless barbarities of the German gcv ernment in its treatment of prisoners of war I found myself alono with Eisner and a distinguished leader of the Prussian In? dependent Socialists. Predicted Eisner's End "This independent leader was a bit criti? cal of Eisner's speech. He said to Eisner: 'You should not have done that Eisner straightened up and bristled, and then shot out: 'Because the war is explained the 'But the war is not retorted Eisner sharply, 'until wo have set our country right before the "That evening a group of young German Socialist leaders dined with me, and I said: 'Eisner will be hurled from power in thirty days, because he is destroying his political future "Kurt Eisner was one of the first German Socialists to devote himself to a study of i foreign politics.

With Bernstein and Karl i Kautsky, he had a true insight of the causes of German militarism and the great war as early as 1906; and wrote an illuminating pamphlet prophesying future catastrophes. "He was always a marked among the junkerdom. If he had lived in Berlin he would never have survived until now, but Munich was a fairer field for this brave soldier of democracy. Eisner was one of the ablest leaders of the great anti-war strike, organized during December, 17, and February, 1918, and it is a bitter thought how near victory caine at that time, but the great moment found them unduly prepared. Led in Bavaria "It was the day of the treaty of Brest Litovsk.

The Independent Socialists and the German democratic allies thought they foresaw the concentration of troops against France, resulting in the capture of Paris and a complete victory for the Kaiser. "Let us always do them honor and oui cause justice, and remember how bravelj they threw themselves into the unequal con? flict. When the strike failed Eisner wai imprisoned riurht and a half months, heinj. liberated only in September, when ho be came a candidate for the Imperial Reich Btag. "When retribution enmo in Novembei Eisner organized and led the revolution in Bavaria.

I have before me a copy of the call to arms which he wrote: 'Workers and Citizens: Have full faith in the great and wonderful things these epoch-making days are bringing forth. Let all help, so that the necessary change may come quickly, and easily, and Kneiv How to Proceed "With a kindly smile he told me a story of the day of revolution. With a handful of youths he went to the government of? fices and quietly took possession; an in? fantry captain marched 180 soldiers to the palace and offered his services to Eisner. An automobile at once drove through all the streets with machine guns firing fusil? lades in the air. "Two deaths resulted and one old person died of nervous shock in a cellar and a junker aviator committed suicide.

Lie'j knecht's Bolshevist folly was a thousand times as far removed from Eisner as is Ber? lin from Munich. "Eisner understood the necessary his? torical process; he knew exactly how to proceed, keeping the radical crew out of Munich with one hand and the Scheidemann gang out with the other. "Eisner more than any other German leader possessed the confidence of the German democratic forces that were ex? iled to Switzerland. If spared he would surely have become the leader of all forces and their great hope. "His first speech at Berne can never be forgotten.

The French majoritarians and the British laborites, who, together domi? nated the conference, demanded peace with the German majoritarians. Eisner arose, appearing rather clumsy and looking it iifty-one at least sixty-five. His voice evi? dently was untrained for speaking. "Yet at the very first word all kne-v what manner of man he was. From out the tousled beard there came a roar that reached every heart.

He pointed a linger at the majority members and said: 'The time is coming when we of Bavaria will have to defend ourselves and our freedom against those from Berlin with arms in our hands. In that day, comrades of the old international, will you stand by our "Prince Joachim, Luderidorff and Schei dcmann have known exactly whom to as? sassinate, but. they have gone off prema? turely and but half cocked. Peace is not yet made. Will it be carelessly made with Germany as she is? That is the question that cries out to the Quai d'Orsai from the grave of our brave comrade and true ally? Eisner." For the Iconoclast To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: Your Mr. Henry Graham, of Brook? lyn, lias so definitely settled and disposed of the groundhog or bear weather story that 1 would like to the story of Jonah and the whale to his decision, and trust that you will publish his opinion on that question in full. C. B. STODDARD.

Cohocton, N. Yw Feb. 122, 1919. Foreign Notes The servant problem is to be solved in Bristol, England, by an appeal tribunal, con? sisting of equal numbers of mistresses and maids, set up by the Bristol Employment Exchange, which will adjust differences aris? ing between employers and servants, leas? ing their calculations on $250 a year the cost of maintenance of a servant who "lives in," the committee has fixed $100 a year aj the minimum wage for a maid-of-all-work. with an increase of $10 a year for four years.

Every servant enrolled on the- list of the exchange is to have half an hour irr breakfast and tea and an hour for dinner, with an additional two hours leisure every day. She is to have half a day off every week and half a day of!" on Sunday. One of the reforms instituted in Bertis by the Socialist the aboli? tion of tips to waiters in the but the public pays just the same. The waiters now receive $250 a month while 10 per cent is added to the price of al food and drinks. At the government muni? tions factory at Brandenburg the problem of unemployment has been solved.

Shells arc still being turned out, and after they are finished they are broken up and made over again. It is said that otherwise the factory would have to close for lack of raw mate? rials. England is far ahead of America in tit development of the aeroplane for coinrr.et cial purposes and flying as a popula? pastime. The big dailies now publish part of their regular weather re port a chart showing the direction and velocity of wind at 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 and 10.0C% feet in the most important centres. ger aeroplanes are being built to carry' pilot and two passengers.

The body of machine is an inclosed saloon-cabin windows, built like a limousine motor When the windows are closed there I more noise than there would be in press train. There are well padded seats, electric lighting and heating. table for the use of the two i they sit facing each other An I there special cabin for? baggage. The macfitS" I are expected to make 12f) miles an hour. How is the sudden trusl Londoners come to exhibit for each other to be accou ed for? There is an extreme shortage1 i copper coins for small and one man says of his expel several occasions lately news vend have been unable to chai to me, 'Never mind, pay me you are this Only one of then? I me as a regular customer.

Even more expected credit than this was offered a railway booking office whore I tender? shilling for a two-penny fare. 'Im of said the girl hooking me 'But I shall nol be here I replied. 'Then pay me the time you are here, whenever it is, 'But supposing I I I know that you will come and pay nie she answered. 'I've never known pie Similar testimony ia others, who tell of copper credit thrust them by strangers, and often very humble strangers. Militarism at Home (From The Washington When a private soldier is forty years' imprisonment for steal cigarette, the mind recoils from happen if he had also stolen a mate!.