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New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Can the Satevepost
Soue Us?
To the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: There has been much snecr,,-
ton in the newspapers as to whom
THE Saturday Evening Post" referred
to in its recent specifications for ,
Presidential candidate.
The man wanted is "Old Corc.,
Graham" or Graham Gorcan." fox
get which, who is otherwise known =,
his public as George Horace Lorimer
M. Lorimer became a receptive can.
ldidate for the Presidency in July. 1919
Al that time Mr. Ed Howe. of Kansos
and myself decided that he was tho
logical man and called upon him -
come out for the nomination.
What political party DO you suppos.
he represents? That's the funny mar.
OF 1t. He has no party, only plat
form" and that consists of four planks
-four short sentences Mr.. Iorimer ..
we'll as Mr.. Howe and myself foresaw
the possible evaporation of our polit.
zeal government before the next Elec-
tion Day. Mr.. Lorlmer has no polit;ca,
ambitions, but if our political institu-
tions disappear in the boiling acid Of
proletarian sabotage the largest nm.
undissolved chunk will be "The Saturday
Evening Posts" reorganization" with
its readers and its advertisers. This
undissolved chunk will offer nucleus
about which, when the ferment wanes
capitalization viii begin and gradually
spread in rebuilding organized societv
To begin with, it has the support Of
100000 middle class families. 1t ia
also allied with the heads of productive
industry. If social disintegration be-
gins, here is great homogeneous group
best calculated to resist it. This group
has policy, it has leader. II the
proletarian group scraps the political
government, this bourgeois group is
best prepared to take over its remnant,
and make the fight for rehabilitation
On that view of the situation rests the
receptive candidacy of George Horace
Lorimer.
If the forces Of disorder nominate
the dictator of the proletariat. he
will find himself running against
George Horace Lorimer. Lorimer
awaits the eventuality. But he has
announced his platform:
Work or starve.
Save or want.
play together or play he'll.
BE good American or get out"
These are his paramount issues"
There is no middle road. You are for
him, or you are against him. Speak up.
c. l.. EDISON.
somerville. n. j., Oct 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Its Peace Use
Why Do Women
Marry?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A letter from Lucille s. Bleir
in your paper of October Is interested
me. She recounts her various duties
as a housewife and closes her remarks
by saying, "Thcy are certainly not a
pleasure, and neither do they weld any
pccuniary reward"
Why do women marry? The answer
should be "To work" for work thew
must or be drones. If doing the work
about house when that work IS for
ones own family is not a pleasure.
chen | do not know what the meaning
of that word is. What greater happi-
ness car woman find in life than
taking care of home for her hus-
band and self?-and the happiness would
be superlative II children we're in
cluded.
AS for the "pecuniary reward" docs
she not share in all there is to be
divided? She has her home, which is
one of the greatest blessings woman
can have.
Fancy woman washing dishes and
sweeping floors with scowl on her
face, angry because she has to do
housework. 1t is the sort of work she
was originally designed to do, and it
should bring only JOY and feeling of
Thanksgiving that she has the health
to perform her tasks and that she had
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
The Stubborn Stayheres

A sheriff out Gary way has post
ed the following notice:
''If you do not like this country 90
back to your own. If you have no
country go to H."
Crude, but with the merit of free
dom from ambiguity. Moreover, it
raises a question whose mystery
many head puzzles over
The gates of Ellis Island swing in
ward and seldom outward. By their
acts myriads declare that life in
America is to their personal advant-
age. But the arrived, or highly
vocal minority of them, devote them
selves to expressions of extreme dis
like. Yet when it is suggested that
they leave and efforts are made to
assist them on their onward journey
they fight and scratch and call
heaven to witness how great is the
outrage.
Russia is a land where for two
years have been realized the ideals
and principles Of the social revolu-
tionaries who pretend to admire the
institutions of Lenine. Yet they
cling to residence in this country
like raccoon to the branch of
tree. A few who saw chance of
connecting with quarters in a ducal
palace and authority to grab any
thing fancied were willing to take
ship; but become a real proletarian
in Russia-not on your life!
The world is wide and in many re-
spects free. There are places where
the dissatisfied could go and apply
without hindrance their ideas. Yet
no Mayhower puts out from a
Plymouth The radicals do not be-
lieve in radicalism. They realize
that amid population practising
radicalism only a few would eat,
and they have a sound prejudice in
favor Of eating. Like other para
site classes, they want the majority
to work-would not lose the chance
of fee collections or suffer the
calamity of having the passed hat
returned empty. So the most bour-
geoise of countries is the one land
Xhora tho ,evO1utiOnarv wOn)d live
So eager is the desire of Reds to get
to this side of the water that Con-
gress feels impelled to set up new
fences of exclusion.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

have intervened, and the Allies are
not in a position to-day to employ
large forces to effect and guarantee
Turkish settlement. Constantl-
nople, under the guns of Allied war
ships, cannot resist. But the Ma
tionalist government is more or less
inaccessible and can make a great
deal of trouble for countries acquir-
ing territory in Asia Minor or at
tempting to exercise mandates there.
Mustapha Kemal is another kind
of Bella Kun. And because he is op-
Grating in Central Anatolia instead
of in the valley Of the Danube he
may prove much more difficult to
dispose Of
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
"Advantages''

When Mike Gllhooley, safely
landed at last, went in his sailor
uniform to the Hotel Vanderbilt and
began his life of luxury under the
auspices of a generous and wealthy
guardian, what was the chief
thought that crossed any ones
mind? The transformation, the
bizarre shift, at first, perhaps. But
afterward we wager, the prevailing
speculation was whether Mike would
be able to stand so much luxury.
Or was he in fair way to be spoiled
by his advantages?
That is typically American point
of view, and it is based on sound OBJ
servation and common sense. TO be
sure, there is the tender-hcarted
theorist who writes of the handi-
caps Of the poor and laments, on
paper, the advantages" which he
himself has had and others have not.
But the facts are not with him. Nor
is the general feeling of America.
Any rich parents with grain of
sense are doing what? Trying,
laboriously, artifcially, with all the
complications and pretences inevi-
table in the state of things, to give
their children the advantages of
poverty. Foolish rich parents give
their sons and daughters money to
squander, tutors and Wallets and
maids to keep them soft mentally
and muscularly, and so inevitably
ruin them-or at best bring vp
utterly useless, wastefuI, unhappy
idlers. The best of the most expen-
sive preparatory schools limit the
allowances of their boys rigidly.
The best of our colleges are levelling
down living conditions to win for
their students the training of de-
mocracy.
1t has its pathetic side, this sin
cere, uphill effort to buy the bless
inSS OF poverty at Whatever cost.
1t has large moral for every one
who is inclined to measure wellbeing
in terms of comforts and luxuries.
AS a matter of fact, muscle of char
acter and will can be gained only in
the same way that muscle of the
body can be gained--by hard work.
The boy to whom everything in life
is handed on silver platter cannot
grow into as fine and courageous
and wise a human being as the boy
who has to fight his way up and
learn by experience and hard work
and encouragement and failure and
opposition.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
The Headline Index

To the Editor os Tie Tribune.
Sir: Since the days of Horace
Greeley and the very beginning Of The
New York Tribune our family have
been subscribers. am rot old enouer
10 recall all the years OF the paper
existence, but this | do know. that for
period an index Of each issue could
be found upon the FIRST page. 1t was
a most acceptable feature of so large
a quantity Of items, and TO busy peo-
pie who desired to secure certain de-
partments, also 20 avoid others, lie
advantage OF The irdey was great.
Please give ME tho reasons for the
abandonment of the index and accept
from continuous reader r'cn ror
its return. LAURA NJ. PlTCHLE
Hudson, N. Y. Oct. Is, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Naval War Honors

Secretary Daniels is said to have
agreed to the proposal of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee to give the
permanent rank Of vice-admiral TO
Rear Admirals Sims, Benson and
Mayo. If this is 50 a troublesome
question Of naval honors will be
satisfactorily settled.
The rank Of admiral has gone in
The past 10 American officers who
have commanded in person in i'm
portant naval engagements. Farra-
gut, Porter and Dewey won it in
that manner. It would greatly dis
turb our standards Of judgment il
this supreme rank we're awarded TO
Rear Admiral Benson, for instance,
who was assigned b-luqhout the
war to department duty in Wash
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Hindenburg for President?

The Hindenburg boom for Presi
dent of Germany is on, launched,
according to the Vossische Ze;tu1Q,
by the executive committee of the
German Peoples party, which is the
peace-tlme camouf1age designation
for our old friends the National Lib
erals.
A bulletin issued by that BODY
proposes that Hindenburg's candi
dacy should be free from the
wrangle of party politics. In other
words, the National Liberals, fol-
lowing a political recipe not alto
gether unknown in other republics,
propose to make the next election
bipartisan as long as the other
parties agree to vote for the Ma
tional Liberal candidate.
Hindenburg is still the most
popular man in Germany-is held
to be the greatest general of all
ages, Notwithstanding the trihing
detail of his having lost the war.
That he would make a good Pres
ldent-good, that is, from the
National Liberal point Of view
is made clear by statements he
recently made in speech at Hano-
yer, when the anniversary of his vic
tory at Tannenbcrg was celebrated.
I'VE must again. The London
Times quotes him, become what we
were when the new German Empire
was founded at Versailles. On that
day was among those able to raise
the first cheer for the Kaiser. The
spirit Of that great day must not be
lost by us in this false and nabby
time. The spirit which ! speaks in
your words affords me assurance
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Our Republic

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | read your paper for the news,
as you always have unprejudiced news
in your edition, but there is one thing
that not only your paper, but all the
papers in the country, both Democratic
and Republicans are doing. They have
pet phrase that this nation is a
democracy, and if you will ask for
definition Of democracy you will find
j. has instiled itself in the minds of
most people that dem ocracy means the
Democratic party, and almost all the
have that notion and that is the rea-
son that almost all immigrants are
Democrats, which is sad fact.
Why not change that in the minds
OF those who do not know that this is
republic and not monarchy, and
that republicanism does not mean
license, that all people are free and no.
slaves, but that we have laws to govern
that are lust and must be obeyed, and
every one who comes to this country
and is naturalized subscribes to those
laws and swcars to obey them, for we
sing "My country, it's of thee, sweet
land of liberty" (not lcensc), "thy
name I love"
If this be true, then let US try to
make the people know that this is a
republic and drop the word which is
misleading, democracy, and use repub-
lie instead. Let our public speakers,
our Republican papers and all who love
this Republic, let the people know that
this is a REPUBLIC. A. NJ NJ
Newburgh, \. Y, Oct. 16. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
The Social Unit Plan

What is the Social Unit plan
which is receiving Endorsement from
those interested in the substances
of democracy and no longer satisfied
with merely the forms of it?
1t is a scheme to increase local
participation in local public affairs
1t untes the dwellers in small terri
torial areas to work that is nearest
and commonly the most important
1t would restore the old America.
The old America was an agglomera-
tion of community-conscious, self
governing groups which carried
their spirit into the larger field of
state or nation. The public's busi-
ness was in fact everybody's bust
ness-its doing was not left to
chance or to the initiative of a dis
tant government. Neighbors were
neighbors. 1t was realized that mere
propinquity created obligations The
New England town meeting, the
fountain of our democracy, devoted
most of it's energies to homely mat
ters of local concern, deeming them
in their sum of more practical life
Importance than the great and
broad issues which occupied the
minds of statesmen.
A variety Of causes has atrophicd
a once active localism, particularly
in cities. The block, the precinct,
the ward, has no press, seldom has
local churches or lodges, and the peo-
pie have few contacts. Acquaintancc-
ship is scattered over a large area
and does not centre The consequence
is lack of practice in concerting the
furtherance of things which must
be done by neighbors if done at all.
The Social Unit movement is an
effort to bring folks together once
more. A block holds meeting
and selects an agent to see what can
be done to keep out nuisances, to
preserve health, to improve housing
conditions, to reduce unemployment,
to increase public spirit, to promote
recreation and to extend education.
The block representative meets his
fellows in council to consider COM
mon matters, and a benefcent coun-
Gil or soviet is established.
The plan has been tried in
crowded part of Cincinnati with re-
markable results. When the influenza
ragged the death rate was but 2.26
thousand in the unit area, whereas
it was 4.10 in the remainder of the
city and $50 in the remainder Of the
three wards Of which the unit forms
a part. Ample talent and wiling
ness to serve were found in the
units population-seldom was it
necessary to import experts. When
the undertaking was attacked as a
fad referendum vote of the peo-
pie who had seen its work showed
that 4,O34 were in favor and but 12O
opposed.
The democratic discussion and
solution Of community problems
this is the. essence Of the unit plan
Its only novelty is it's methods are
adapted to present conditions.
Women, we are told, are the more
/ practical sex-are more interested
than men in realities. Support of
this dictum is furnished by the fact
that the Social Unit idea makes a
strong appeal to women. Its success
is attributed to their work-to their
belief that it is as essential to keep
babies alive and healthy as it is to
vote protection up or down.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Propaganda Balloons

Or, look at the work of the Meteo-
rological Section of the Science and Re-
search Division. 1t developed long
range propaganda balloons, capable of
flying more than one thousand miles in
the upper regions of the air where the
prevailing winds are practically always
from west to east and have speeds
of 80, 40, so or even 100 miles an hour
1t also mapped these upper regions in
aid of aviation, an undertaking the i'm
portance of which can be seen from the
fact that an aviator above the clouds
who knows nothing of the direction Of
the winds Will move toward his objec-
tive 200 miles an hour faster if he is
helped by a l00-mile wind than if he is
opposed by it.
These are merely samples of the re-
suits which were obtained in extraordi-
narily rapid time by the group method
of attack upon the scientific problems of
the war, and these are merely few of
the developments which came under the
writer's immediate attention.
In the Chemical Warfare Service
equally rapid and equally important
work was done in the development of
new gases and in the development of
means of absorbing enemy gases in gas
masks
The extraordinary rapidity with which
scientific developments were made in
the war was unquestiona due. first.
to the forming of these highly COM
petent research groups. and second, to
the establishment of effective channels
for the cooperation between these
groups.
To be concluded
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
. Gotham Gleanings
ci57 If7 IfE M M 6SFz ~ iiS SSa M

News are scarce this week
Quite some rain Tell this week.
Jerry Kern OF Bronxville came
in to town Tuesday eve'g.
Herb Swope was to see Mont
Glass's show Tuesday eve.
Bank robberies, strikes, murders,
etc, are the order OF the day.
The smiling face OF Tommy
Ross was seen on 45d ST. one day
last week.
H. w. Ross has gone to Salt
Lake to visit his folks for tort
night & wks.).
Maj. Ed Goodsall of Chadron,
Neb., is expected home from ls-sur-
lille, France, this week.
Old Jack Toohcy had his pict-
ure in the Saturday Evening Post
this week, likewise Miss Elaine
Sternc
Nat Benchley. bro Of Franklin
A. Benchley OF Crestwood, n. ",
hurt his hand one day last week, but
is o. K. again.
-Reinald Werrenrath. Terry Nc
Govern, Louis Fuertes and ye scribe
will be the guests of Charley Beck S
father, Chas. Beck, tonight, rain or
shine.
Frank Case, wife and daughter
will sail for foreign shores a wk.
from to-day. Frank says he hates
to miss the Corncll-Dartmouth
game.
Harvey O'Higgins OF Martins
Vile n. J., is coming in to Gotham
Monday to attend the opening OF his
play, "On the Firing Line" Good
luck, Harve. say we.
We wrote Austin Strong last
week, but the typesettcr made il
Story. And Mr. Onenbach we learn
was born in Germany, but was really
a Frcnchman, living in the latter ma
ton practically all his life.
If Mrs. Wilson wants something to
read aloud during the lengtheninp
lonesome October evenings, we suggest
In Cotton WOOL" by W. B. Maxwell:
"Cherry," by Booth Harrington, and
"The Story of a Country Town" by
+. W. Howe
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Saving Shantung to China

The World, commenting on the
rejection of the Shantung amend
mcnt, sees fit to say:
"The Shantung amendment should
never have been adopted by the
Committee on Foreig Relations. AS
means of restoring Kiao-chau to
China it was futile AS a means OF
defeating the treaty it was down
right dishonest. The man who is to
blame for all the delay and mischief
that has come out of it is Henry
Cabot Lodge, who has been dealing
with the gravest issues of world
peace in the spirit of ward politi-
can."
When a person, on uncertain and
improved grounds, vehemently as
signs bad motives to another, it is
generally recognized that there is
measure of self-description. A critic
by the nature of his criticism gives
a movie of his mind. Readiness to
attack another for narrowness is an
evidence of narrowness. In the
treaty debate men of extreme par
tisanship have taken it for
granted that those who disagree
with them are Of course partisans.
Besides disclosing a most unlove-
ly spirit, our neighbor travels far
from, l-roxx,,, foo tc
stigmatize Senator Lodge. 1t says
that as means of restoring kiao-
chau to China, it being apparently
conceded that there should be res
toration, the Shantung amendment
was futile. How does it know?
The chances Of such restoration
frightened when the amendment was
proposed, and China will be fortu-
nate if they do not now grow dim.
When President Wilson recognized
that German rights in China were
valid, whereas they were invalid and
Certainly not trans sferable in view of
the provision in the Chinese German
treaty forbidding any assignment to
any other power, there was slender
likelihood that Japan would reconvey
to China. No statement came from
the Japanese Foreign Office of any
purpose to return anything to China.
Conditions are now somewhat diff
ferent. Japan has publicly pledged
herself to get out, Or almost to get
out. Why the change? The World
knows the reason-becaus of the
outcry at Washington. II no protest
had been made, if the advice of the
President had been followed and the
article accepted without examination
or even reading, it is highly improb-
able that Japan would have prom
ised any sort Of evacuation.
Senator Lodge, it is clear, was
playing no game. 1t outraged him
TO have this country give any sort
Of countenance to the doctrine that
we should join in carving China
Jul any III tUe war. Dut, tnOQgf
merely nnan9uvring to induce Japar
to perceive the impolicy Of receiv-
ing stolen goods, he may claim tc
have achieved a glittering success
He and those acting with him may
Justly claim that they succeeded ir
securing that which the diplomac,
of the President was not forcefu'
enough to secure-namcly 9 public
pledge from Japan to evacuate.
The outlook now is that Shantune
Will be saved to China--that in fact
If not in form. Chinese sovereipnt,
will be restored. The credit is d1,
to the amenders. Thus the amend
ment, although rejected has not bee,
futile. 1t has already borne 200,
fruit. If Kiao-chau goes where i
belongs, China Will gratefully re
member the effective labors in he
behalf by Senator'S Lodge, Norri
and others recorded with the mi
nority.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
it will return, even if do not

that it will return, even if I do not
see it,"
Others entertain even roster
hopes. According to the cables,
the Recluse Of Wieringen expects
the restoration of the monarchy in
Germany within year. In the mean
time Hindenburg as President would
afford an acceptable modus viuendi.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

An arresting, as the book critics say,
sentence is Lord Dunsany's charac-
terization of the top of the tower, the
Woolworth tower, that is-"It was as
if twilight had hidden the base of a
great mountain, and only the summit
was revealed, with incredible precipices
lifting their nscrutable beacons" And
the Woolworth at twilight is one of
many buildings filled with illimitable
crowds about to enter impenetrable sub
way cars.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

ington. Rear Admiral Sims COM
manded our naval forces abroad and
did excellent service. But the
American navy engaged in no sea
battles. Its battleshlp squadron
formed part Of the British Grand
Fleet-after Jutland-and had no
chance to fight.
Sims, Benson and Mayo deserve
recognition for doing what they did.
Permanent rank as vice-admirals
seems to be an appropriate reward.