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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1919
Page
2
An advertisement from The Tribune promotes a Tywiathon event in New York with assurances of best merchandise, safety, and a money back guarantee if the advertiser fails to deliver. It pledges prompt payment and no quibbling if the ad is closed or defective.
The passage celebrates a forthcoming day of peace after five years of conflict. It warns against complacency, notes Allied discord and Germany’s lack of repentance, and urges vigilance, disarmament, and strong frontiers as bulwarks of lasting peace for future generations.
The piece lists brutal material losses from war including 70 million killed and 120 billion in money loss, then pivots to a credit side praising liberty, moral progress, and fraternal resolve. It calls for resisting great evil, stresses spiritual gains over material, and foresees a future where humankind remembers triumph through endurance and ethics.
The Knox resolution, shelved, prompts discussion of foreign relations and a broader domestic issue. It touches on treaty revision and clarifies the President versus Senate roles in treaty making, signaling the constitutional balance and the aim to educate the public on Senate prerogatives.
The article notes a struggle over the treaty making process as the President seeks to intermix the peace treaty with the covenant to prevent disentangling them. Senators warn of weakening Senate prerogatives and preserving constitutional checks even as they seek safeguards.
Walter Lippmann’s Yale Review essay analyzes Wilson diplomacy at Paris. It contrasts Wilsons idealism with realpolitik, arguing the president relied on a fused Jeffersonian democracy and Cobdenism to wield mass consent.
An eyewitness account describes a tank and rosebush as a memorable pen portrait from the fighting along the Seine. The vivid image captures crowd psychology and the intensity of the encounter during the battle.
The article reviews Mr. Root's plan to ratify the Covenant, preserving good to save the league structure and avoid full rejection. It argues for selective adherence, limiting obligations on guarantees and quarrels, while speeding peace ratifications and using reservations seen as valid in prior treaties. Root aims for a middle path blending arbitration, law, and diplomacy to protect peaceful nations.
The United States follows a State Department rule that no Latin American government arising from revolution is recognized, a policy at odds with prior recognitions of revolutionaries in Czechoslovakia Poland Yugoslavia and Carranza. Tinoco’s coup in Costa Rica and his isolation amid uprisings and Nicaraguan tensions raise questions about whether Washington could aid the legitimate claimant against a usurper.
Tokio corre spondent cites Japanese journals criticizing American aims in the Far East and attacking President Wilson. Osaka Mainichi Depo speaks of dangerous justice and female demon, while Yamato Shimbun assails Wilson in open letters. Niroku Shimpo urges an Oriental league of nations.
A brisk, meandering reminiscence ties Broadway lore, old Buffalo showhouses, and early cabaret acts to classic impresarios. The writer recalls Dan Daly, Koster and Bial, Flo and May Irwin, Cinquevalli, Tenny Joyce, and a scatter of performers, with tangents on city life and theater lore.
From Romagne France May 80 a Tribune correspondent recalls Romagne Argonne as a stark memorial to American sacrifice in World War I. The article explains the Argonne grave registration effort, the shifting battlefield search for fallen soldiers, and the planned movement of nearly 30 000 remains to Romagne cemetery. It notes the difficulty for future pilgrims, the lack of local facilities, and the enduring resolve of those who laid the white crosses.
In May a committee sought 15000 dollars to establish a temporary home for friendless and wayward colored girls in New York. The plan aims to provide care, with possible short stays, and eventual placement or permanent provision. The appeal lists organizers, supporters, and approving church and civic figures, urging patriotism and humane action.
Carlton J. N. Hayes of Columbia University and former US Army captain accuses Archibald E. Stevenson, associate counsel to the Lusk committee, of misusing a mailing list to tar loyal soldiers and citizens as revolutionaries. Hayes warns the tactic harms New York’s welfare and the Joint Legislative Committee’s prestige. New York, June 21, 1919.
Spiritualists debate Conan Doyle’s mediumship warnings as excavations unleash an earth spirit. A tall lean éle mental, with immense strength, is said to topple carts and throw riders into ditches. In a southern county drivers report alarming car accidents near a recent excavation.
The report notes ongoing public concern over Lenine and Trotsky as the wider scandal continues to occupy attention, though fewer fresh details emerge.
Ex Crow Prince defends honor amid remarks about trial and submission. Father would sooner die than face a tribunal. The exchange highlights suspicions of credibility and social pressure surrounding the man once linked to Crow histories.
Maxim Gorky, once a celebrated Russian novelist, turned editor after the revolution and wrote a stark sequence of editorials in The New Life. His pieces aimed to present reason and restraint, delivering blunt, simple rhetoric to the Russian public.
A Russian wartime column presents reader letters on women’s rights, public morality, and social change. Soldiers describe brutal punishments for infidelity, while others fear equality will destabilize peasant life. The writer urges focusing press on democratic culture and practical issues rather than personal squabbles.
A reader writes the editor about an insured Virginian package sent by parcel post in late 1918 that was not delivered. An agent claims the loss is proved but payment awaits new appropriation as existing funds are exhausted. The letter warns readers to save pennies if considering parcel post insurance.
The Indianapolis News notes the ship carried not 14,000 troops but enough food to feed that many for a week, praising the navy's provisioning rather than the troop count. The remark emphasizes logistics over sheer numbers in wartime support.
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