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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Wanted: Expert
Cripples

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir May request space in YOUR
paper to present vital need that is
facing the Department of Field Work
of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled
and Disabled Men? The field workers
are called upon frequently by hospitals
TO furnish instructors for newly ampu-
tated men who cannot get about on arti-
fetal legs without expert guidance. Here
tofore the services of a man who WAS
remarkably adept in getting about on
two artificial limbs were available, and
many cripplcs received the benefits of
his instruction. Unfortunately this man
can no longer be called upon. The field
workers are looking for one-lcgged mon
or men without legs to teach their SINH
larly handicapped fellows how to walk
comfortably on substitute limbs.
The institute is confronted with the
case of an American who enlisted in
tho Canadian forces and who lost both
legs in action He received medical
treatment at bellevue for over year
and is fitted with artificial limbs. He
must now learn to walk for the second
time, and can do so only with the aid
of man who has overcome the handi-
cap of double amputation.
Surely there are q few public spirited
men who can be counted upon to give a
little time to helping the fellow who is
trying to learn to walk for the second
time. VIII such volunteers kindly COM
municatc with Mrs. f. A. Knapp, 81
Fourth Avenue, New York City,
HENRY BRAXTON,
Red Cross Institute for Crippled and
Disabled Men.
New York, Oct. 80 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Amendment No. 2
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial of toe day en-
titled Amendment No. b. you say that
no fewer than 100000 qualified voters
of New York are annually deprived of
the voting privilege because Of neces-
sary absence on Election Day"
The proposed amendment does no.
purport to dispense with the necessity
of registration upon personal applica-
ton of electors Of the class to whom
you refer. Article II, Section 4. of the
Constitution remains unchanged by
Amendment No. . That merely enables
the Legislature TO provide manner in
which, and the time and place at which,
qualified voters who may, on the occur
renee Of any general election, be una
vodaby absent from the state or county
of their residence because their duties.
occupation or business require them 70
be elsewhere within the United States
may vote, and for the return and can
vass Of their votes in the election dis
trict in which they respectively reside. "
The Constitutional Convention of
1915 provided method whereby such
electors could secure special registration
on personal application before an cleo
ton board ION day or days not more
than five months prior to the day Of
election" under such protective pro-
visions as would prevent fraud That
was a salutary and reasonable amend
ment The one now proposed is of but
little value, because it contains no pro-
vision for special registration and
makes fraud possible, expense certain
and delay unavoidable.
While to disagree with your conclu-
sion is regrettable, I nevertheless be-
lieve that the proposed amendment is
unwise and proceeds on a wrong theory
LOUIS MARSHALL.
New York, Oct 81, 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Prison and Prisons
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following letter of acknowl-
cdgmcnt, which l received from Lieuten-
ant Commander Thomas Mott Osborne.
to whom, as you know. the National
Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor
recently awarded a medal for distin-
guished service in the cause of prison
reform, will no doubt be Of interest to
the public,
al received the beautiful medal which
your committee awarded to me and as
sure you that appreciate it most
deeply When | receive such an evil
dence of high valuation OF the work
have done in the prisons it brings q
realizing sense of how far fall short
of deserving the credit which is given
me. The public and the friends Of the
movement unduly eXaggerate my indi-
vidual effort while they constantly I'M
derrate what has been done by the pris-
oncrs themselves.
after all, we must come back con-
tinualy to the fact that there is moth
ing that any of US outside can DO for the
prisoner, comparable to what he can do
for himself; and the history of the
Mutual Welfare League from the begin
ming TO the present time is that of very
remarkable service and accomplishment
by the men, What you and the rest Of
US can do is important, of course in its
help from outside, but the main work
must be done inside the prison, and, in
fact, inside the prisoner, and he IS the
only one who can do it and he deserves
the credit for success.
"W hen, therefore, | receive such beau
tiful acknowledgment as this medal it
gives me feeling that ! am not worthy
of such recognition. But about the
kindness which inspires the recognition
there can be no question, and thank
YOU greatly for this expression of it.
The medal is an exquisite thing, and |
shall hand it down to my children with
great pride"
In acknowledging the receipt Of Lieu
tenant Commander Osbornes letter |
said that while l agreed with him that
the men in the prisons who distinguish
themselves in carrying out this work
deserve good part of the credit, the
men who start the wheels going and
afterward look to it that they run
properly also deserve a great deal Of
credit ADOLPU LEWISOHN.
New York. Nov. /. 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
The Amendments

NO. is to promote the drainage
OF swamp lands. A good thing, but
the cost, the amendment says, "may
be assessed wholly or partly against
any property benefited thereby"
Under this the Legislature could
throw the burden on the state Treas
ury, and hence three-fifths of it
might load on unidentified New York
City
Our advice is to vote NO.
No. authorizes the Legislature to
enact a law to permit voters neces-
sarlly absent on Election Day to vote
by mail. Plain social justice de-
mands approval of this amendment.
Moreover. it is directly in the pub
he interest to have the weight of
100000 intelligent voters, now dis
franchised, felt at the polls. No one
makes any argument against the
merits of the proposal, but it is
SAID 1t would be difficult to show a
bill not open to practical objections.
But why should not the Legislature
try? Other states have provided for
absentee voting and the system
works.
Our advice is to vote YES.
No. 3 raises the salaries of state
Senators from $1,000 to $500 a
year and Of Assemblymen from
$1,000 to $4,000. Familiar cost of
living arguments are made for it,
but it is not clear that a better class
of legislators would be attracted by
the increases. Before according a
100 per cent wage raise to members
of one house and 1873 per cent to the
members of the other the state can
afford to wait until other wage
ecales are adjusted.
Our advice is to vote NO.
No. A is to give Judges of the
Court Of Appeals, our highest state
court, compensation not less than the
highest ALLOWED by law to any other
judicial officer in this state" As
things now are a Supreme Court
justice cannot accept promotion
without large personal sacrifice.
Our advice lS to vote YES.
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to draw damaging conclusions, but
why is Mr.. Untermycr not active in
having the truth revealed?
Preacher and Poetess

When fame and popular influence
are disproportionately great as COM
pared with sheer artistic ability
there is always temptation among
the wise and critical to reach too far
and deny everything to the lucky
possessor of the popular formula
Some such injustice has been metcd
out to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, n true
American prophet and preacher,
whatever her limitations as a
roetess.
Anybody who can write the lines
beginning Laugh and the world
laughs with you" does not need to
be taught anything as to popular
appeal. In her philosophy, in her
verbiage, in her personality and ex-
ample Mrs. Wilcox knew the mass
mind and addressed herself directly
to it. Her influence upon current
popular thought and religion was
correspondingly far-reaching. Few
Americans have expressed as we'll
as she did that peculiar compromise
of puritanism and passion, Of
bigotry and open mindedness, of flat
ness of manner and frmncss Of
intent. which are Of the essence Of
the American mind. Hers was not
an adventurous or boldly heroic
faith. 1t was, rather, a courageous
and decent and humanity kind faith.
1t was essentially way Of living
honestly and purely and we'll before
it was anything eloquent or noble
or mystical. Her message was not
so much glitch your Ford'to a star"
as practical advice for attaching a
self-starter that would work.
Of course verse can appeal to the
mass mind and be great poetry. the
greatest poetry Witness Burns and
Shakespeare. But such an appeal
and influence are obviously no sure
proof of poetical ability They are
proof Of power, Of clear thought
and vigorous language; and power
by virtue of these gifts Mrs. Will
cox undoubtedly had. BY a coinci-
dence. Mrs. Wilcox also possessed a
true verse technique, and here is the
complication of rating her work. 1t
can only be said with certainty that
her poetical gifts were far inferior
to her power as a popular preacher
AS the latter sf.1 must be classed
as leader of popular American
thought and as sound and peculiar
~ American leader AS the former
she seems sure Of only minor
standing, the last Of the poetesses,
who wrote not only as women
(Which all women must do till the
end of timc) but as ribs and help
meets and mothers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Scapegoating in Berlin

Germany lost the war when she
decided, in January, 1917, to resume
unrestricted U-boat warfare. Who
was responsible for that decision?
General Ludendorf, in his recent
~ published book. tries to dodge re-
sponsibility for that fatal decision.
He says that in the summer Of 1916
he and Hindenburg were opposed to
a renewal of the submarine cam
paign. They changed their minds a
few months later. Without Luden-
dorff's consent the Sussex note
pledges to the United States could
not have been withdrawn. After
January /, 1917, he exercised the
full powers Of military Dictator
He has pleaded in extenuation Of
his error that he was misled by the
oversanguine promises and calcula-
tons of Admiral Holtzendorff, the
administrative head Of the navy.
But he doesn't deny that he was in
position to override Holtzendortf.
He also has ungenerously tried to
drag in Bethmann-Hollweg as an
indorser Of the policy Of unrestrict-
ed warfare. Ludendortf charges
that since the U-boat decision af-
fected international relations the
political branch Of the government,
represented by the Chancellor, had
no right to wash it's hands Of it. He
even tries to show that he thought
he had Bethmann-Hollw concur
renee when he resolved to drive
neutral commerce from the Allan
tic, whatever complications might
arise with the United States.
The Chancellor's testimony be-
fore the Reichstag committee dis
proves this. To do him justice, he
did oppose, as far as he could, a
cancellation Of the Sussex agree
ment. He seems to have realized
much more clearly than Ludendorff
the consequences OF forcing the
United States into the war on the
side Of the Entente. He failed to
have his way only because Luden-
dorff, the sole arbiter, accepted the
Tirpitz view. Having accepted it,
Ludendorff's next step-a logical
one-was to drive Bethmann-Holl-
veg out Of Office.
Tirpitz was the father of the pol
lev of unrestricted U-boat warfare.
But, as he complains IN his
memoirs, he never was allowed to
put it into practice. Falkenhayn
and others froze him out Of the
Kaiser's confidence. He was COM
pletely shelved, and eventually was
forced into retirement Had he had
his way the German navy's pro
gram would have been very differ
ent. He says justly that the orlgl'
nal "war zone' blockade of 1915 was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Inhnity

From The 4nqlo-1talia~ Rsrtssrj
I ALWAYS loved this solitary hill,
- And this hedge too, that shuts cuA
from the view
So great part of the horizons I'm.
But as I sit and gaze, think sea
Interminable spaces jus. beyond,
And superhuman silence. deepest qa!ss.
Where fear is almost banished from tins
heart.
To me, the wind that ru.hes through
these trees
Is like the voice Of silence infinite:
And over me there floods eternity.
Dead seasons and the present. with ,ts
sound.
My thought Is drowned In that i'm
mensity:
And shipwreck in that sea is SWEET 20 ne.
CHRISTOBEL FOWLER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
These Freudiar
Times
(Frop, The 1rdionopolls Ne.cs,
1 EmeS

'N'NfNHNtS'Nf -'Ftt-'F
Some scientific persons in the East
have found an answer to question
that for months has been harassing the
ordinary mind Briefly, they have dis
covered that the trouble with the
present world is that the sub-conscious
is breaking out Tho Austrian Freud
has a theory by this time more or less
familiar to newspaper readers, that
many ills Of humanity are due to the
suppression Of more or less immoral
wishes. The repressed desire, put out Of
the conscious mind, is, nevertheless. not
done for. It fingers in the sub-con-
scious. creating disharmony and all!
sorts of ills, physical and mental, until
ELECTROMAGNETIC physician brings the
hidden irrtant 10 the surface. That is
one aspect of the theory. the basis of
which is the recognition of the sub-con-
scous function Of the mind and the in
fuence it has on the moral and physical
life
The theorizers have figured j; out
that. just as the suppression of wishes
under certain circumstances will set up
an irritation in the mind Of the indi-
vidual that may show itself in all sorts
of ills, the general repression during
the war is having a corresponding effect
on society az whole Race riots. day
light robberies, crime waves, strikes
lynchings and the other abnormalities
of these odd times are explained by the
same key. The soldier repressed by the
exacting regulations of military life
the workman bound by long hours and
speeded up while the war lasted, the
drinker who cannot have his stimulant
the drug fend crossed by the Harrison
law, are now breaking out. Their sup
pressed desires are making them do
things they would not do if compulsory
repression had not been exerted Such is
the theory
It is not a pleasant or a pretty idea,
with its far-reaching implications, but
it has a fascination for certain minds.
To limited degree history confirms the
theory. That il. period Of severe re-
preston has usually been followed by a
period of the utmost license. The Eng
fish Restoration. of course. is the famous
example for such reaction But it will
not do to take the idea 700 seriously
When men commit outrages it may be
we'll to think of them and deal with them
as criminals rather than as the guiltless
victims Of reactions supposed to be &C
counted for by the Freudian theory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
No Stevens Holiday
,e Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your issue of to-day contains
a statement to the effect that classes
will be suspended at Stevens Institute
of Technology on Saturday next to en-
able the students to 60 to Troy to
witness the football match between
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute and
Stevens Institute. The further state
ment is made: This is the first time
q holiday has been declared for this
purpose" Glasses are not to be sus-
pended on Saturday for any such pur-
pose. Provisions have been made for
the attention of certain number OF
men under we'll defined conditions.
Your statement suggests such q
radical departure from our traditional
policy that I feel it necessary to make
this denial.
ALEX. c. HUMPHREYS,
President Stevens Institute Of Tech
nology.
Castle Point, N. j., Oct. so, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Evasive Irwin Untermyer

Irwin Untermyer, when writing
his reply to cambridge Colby, was
apparently SO full Of indignation as
to forget to notice the specific points
concerning which information is
asked
Mr.. Colby remarked that draft
evasion has been insinuated against
Mr.. Untermyer the question
has been raised as to whether or
not he had sought to escape his
duty while practising law in New
York by urging that he was farmer
because he owned a small farm in
Warren County. Mr.. Colby also re-
marked that the records of the
draft, which would clearly show the
facts, were with the War Depart
ment, but that unless Mr.. Inter
myer consented, the press could not
examine them; that Mr.. Untermyer.
although repeatedly importuned, had
failed to give his consent; finally,
Mr.. Colby asked why consent was
withheld and why Mr.. Untermyer
was content to make what he Mr..
Colby] held were lame general
denials.
One can read Mr.. Untermyer's re-
ply up and down, forward and back
ward, sidewise and every other way
and be unable to discover a word
throwing light on his neglect to
authorize access to the records. lie
does not confound those he says are
slanderers by producing accessible
documents or by allowing any one
else to do SO. Is he surprised that
unfavorable differences are drawn
therefrom?
Mr.. Untermyer is Objectionable be-
cause he is a bOss-made candidate.
He is willing not only to accept a
nomination at the hands Of the
boss, but to displace an honored
Judge to satisfy his ambition. He
is Objectionable because his selection
represents an aggravated case of
political nepotism. Would Murphy
ever have thought of naming this
inexperienced man Of thirty-three
years except to oblige his father,
Samuel Untermyer? But failure to
authorize an examination of the
draft records raises even a graver
questionable question Of personal
character and moral fitness to serve
on the bench. No fair person wishes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
To the Editor OF The Tribune

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: 1t is unbelievable that the
letter written by Square DEAL and
published in to-day's Tribune can pass
without storm of indignant protest
from right thinking wives and mothers.
A wife and mother working for moth
ing because she is not paid regular
salary! Shame. and again shame.
Our modern homes surely would be
founded upon sand if financial re-
turn is all wife expects or wants
from a husband, or. as Square Deal"
suggested, when an adequate income
is paid her by the state. Sometime
this woman may realize what COM
plete home means to an individual.
She certainly will if she ever passes
through the deep waters Of loss. 1t
is necessary for some TO climb the
steep way Of pain and sorrow to get
q full view of the heights of happi-
ness.
Is there ne compensation in hus-
bands love sand in children's trusti
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
A Week diverse
From One Drowned at Sea

Iron The London ~-ssn,frster Gazette,
n FRIEND. who thought me for eve,
silent.
Hear Il voice from the wave
You who, when you die, IN tina. dav
Shall have earth for grave,
Hark, whom I loved, to what I sav.
To the bottom OF the water-mountains
fell from the crest:
There were weeds vrapt about my head,
And. bruising my breast.
The soft-hnoching fishes as they fed.
stand erect or 7 wander
Two-thrds OF the worlds space
But you'll lie. who once were with me-
In close place,
You the earth. the separate sea
/ shall always be part Of water,
You Of cities and land.
I shall be food and foam and tide.
You the fields. the strand
But friend, friend. we shall TO divide:
On every seas coast. or the faint pond.
margin,
On the ocean shore.
At the streams edge, one the river.
beach,
We shall meet once more
We shall meet once more each 70 each,
VIOLA MEYNELr.
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overambltious, and that unrestrict-
ed warfare should have begun late
IN 1918 or early in 1916, without
any diplomatic attempts to placate
reutrals. He thinks that so far as
the United States was concerned
Germany could have got away with
a policy of that sort early in the
war Possibly she could have.
From purely military point Of
view Ludendorff's campaign of ruth
lessness, therefore, involved a dou-
bic misjudgment. It's effectiveness
was vastly overrated, and it came
too late.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
The Drift From Teutonism

In the November A tldntic Monthly
alter lippmann, In many respects
She most brilliant. thoughtful and
candid of group which has labored
bard to introduce Tcutonic modes of
thinking into America. shows a vel
come tendency to abandon the task
and to come over to Americanism.
Mr.. Lippmann, discussing the
general subject Of liberty, seems to
discover for himself a truth with
which every American schoolboy was
once familiar-namely, that Lib
erty is not and cannot be absolute
that for it to exist practically it
must be embodied and if embodied
must be limited, for concretion and
Indignation necessarily imply limi-
tatlon. Platonians assume that the
general idea possesses an uncondi-
toned eXistence; Baconians, on the
other hand, see that the general idea
IS only known in phenomena, and
that phenomena are conditioned,
never absolute Mr.. Lippmann, thus
tending Bacon-ward, comedies more
than perhaps he realizes.
German thought, it is perhaps
trite to say, is based on Plato and
functions IN vacuum, while Amer
lean and British thought is based
on Bacon and emphasizes practical
ties that tangle the feet Of pure
logic Thus. when it is recognized
that it profits little to null over
Liberty in the abstract there is an
approach to Americanism and a
turning away from Teutonism.
The American schoolboy, until ex-
change professors began to come
over, Wa instructed that Liberty
was something that existed under
taw. He was taught that the lib
erty of man was limited by the
condition that he could not use his
freedom to invade the freedom of
another. Thus there is no liberty
TO Kill fellow beings at will; hence
The complicated code called the Law,
70 be changed in It's details but not
10 be generally challenged if Liberty
was to he an actualitv.
The German. mounted on the high
"orse of d priori, has held in his
concelt that his thinking is deep.
ms American, while willing to con-
cede that deduction had great merits
IN some fields, has deemed it of small
value IN the regulation Of human
eHalrs. He has attributed trait
IN which the German has taken
pride to incxperience In practical
politics. And when the MARKHAM
scnool arose, with its special insist
ehce on first principles and general
laws from which other conclusions
necessarily flowed, most Americans
'hstlnctlvely rejected it. 1t has been
asked, Does the scheme work well?"
ratr'ck Henry has never been rated
philosopher Of the first rank. but