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New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
The Fresh Air Fund
To the Editor Of I ne Tribune.

" tHc A.ultO< " ne flDuno.
Sir: I taklg'eat pleasure in informing
you that the b9krd of directors of Federation
Settlement, Inc. which maintains a Settle
ment House in Harlem. at 236 East 105th
Street, passed the following resolution az
its regular meeting on September last:
aesoivel. that the Board Of dsec.ors Of Fed
excellent work which has been one ,ni- year
and III years rast by The Kew York r. .ibiIne II
>onneG;lon , Win the welfare Q; the children OF
New CORK Cay. and, III particular, the children in
which the Federation Settlement, Inc. is inter
tsied, and further
Resolved, that copy O, this resolution hs
transmitted TO The New York Tribune 20
may state that this resolution was
prompted by the report of our head worker
TO the effect that out of III children con-
nected with the Settlement House who vera
enabled to obtain a short stay in the country
districts, SO were taken care OF by your Fresh
Ar Fund. GEORGE ". WOLFSON
Acting Secretary.
New Yor8 Scpt -, 1917
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
The Practice Of the Leisure Class

Sir: Onc Of the characteristics of the
leisure class is the idea, held by tho mem
bers OF it who engage in business. that the
money they inherit, marry or receive for
family Jobs is really earned. And in this
IDEA each is backed by his friends and
relations.
"Kenneth is doing very we'll with the
business says a friend. "lhcy are MAX
ing lot of money since he took hold Of
the plant" (He took hold OF it four
months ago.
"Mr. Jones is my right hand man-very
valuable to me-" says young Smith, speak
ing Of the man who has been running the
business ever since young Smiths father
died. ten years ago.
"Aiice and Beverly ore waiting until
Beverly support her" says Alicc's
mother. "He's just starting in business,
You know" Three months later Alice and
Beverly are married and start to live on
$4,000 year. Beverly, Of course, has
climbed to that salary in three months
The leisure class does not seem to know
that it is also the moneyed class They
are never erich people," or "successful
people," or lucky people," but always
mice people" or "cultured people"
G. O. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
Passing of the "Weaker Sex"

Not the athletic woman merely, but the
physically strong women, the woman ca
pable of doing a mans work with her
hands, as she is in SO many instances al
ready doing it with her head, is the
standard OF the near future, if move
ments now under way are successful. 1t
is a world wide movement, and its
achievement is being voiced repeatedly
in the international conference of woman
doctors, now in session here. The
"weaker sex" is to cease to be synonyme
for women, according to DR.. Anna l..
Brown, one of the delegates, who said:
I'VE must make women physically
strong before we can solve the problems
of modern, industrial, political and social
life. Women arc the victims of their own
delusions They cling to the idea that
tacy are less strong than men, and so
meekly accept smaller salaries and less
responsible positions, feeling that their
health is not equal to demands Of the
higher positions. Even when a woman
knows from personal experience that she
Is just as strong as man she cannot
enforce her rights, because Of the delu-
sion of weaker sisters al! about her"
1t WAS the war, of course, that gave
tremendous impetus to the movement for
race of physically strong women. The
unprecedented burdens that American
women shouldered under the urge of pa
triotism and Industrial necessity are an
old story now, but in war worn Europe
women undertook even more arduous
tasks than were attempted here, where
the pressure was not so heavy. English
specialists, hurridly summoned made
rapid inquiry into the amount Of heavy
work that women could do without jniurv
TO themselves and the coming generation
kuies were laid down as to the limit to
winch women could safely go in lifting
and carrying heavy weights. The spe-
cIalists reported that these limitations
We're fixed, not because of anv fuuda-
mental difference in the physical strength
Of men and women. but because the
present generation Of women, through
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
Indiana on the Treaty
Governor Goodric|S Replies to the
President
Special Correspondence

INDIANAPOLIS, September 15.
~ ONERNOR JAMES 7. GOODRICH OF
a Indiana, who, by the way, is likely
to be the "favorite son" candidate
OF the Hoosicr State for the Republican
nomination for President next year, says
tha1 Indiana, on referendum vote, would
sustain her two Senators in their attempt
to get the league Of nations treaty amend
ed. Following the address Of the President
III the Indianapolis Coliseum, at which Gov
erNor Goodrich presided. the latter said to
Tribune correspondent:
"The President has unusual grace and
felicity in presenting his argument in IA
vor of the ratification Of the treaty without
amendment would not say anything in
dispafagement OF his advocacy that might
De construed as ungracious, after presiding
tonight at the great mass meeting of citi-
zens who were There to do honor to The
Pres sident Of the United States.
lhe President, as a matter Of justice
and courtesy to the American people. should
take time while he is OIL his present trim
to answer the points against tho treaty in
its present form raised by former Senator
Root, by former Justice Charles T. Hughes
and by Senator Knox. The cmincnce of
these gentlemen in the affairs Of the nation
warrants consideration Of their views at
the hs.,ds Of the President. For him to
characterize them as obstructionists or with
being politically inspired is entirely un-
warranted by the facts The American peo-
pie, especially the people of the Northern
States, have very great confidence in the
Judgment OF these statesmen.
an his letter to Will II. Hays, chairman
OF the Republican National Committete. Il
Will be remembered that Senator Root took
the ground that under our Constitution Il is
the business Of the Senate to take the lead
IN such a discussion, to compare the DIFF
fcrent opinions expressed in the various
states and to draft in proper form, tho
amendments which the public judgment
seems to call for He held it was un-
fortunate that the Senate had not been
permitted to perform that duty. The Sena-
tor wrote his letter last spring. and since
then the Senate has been doing the very
thing he then desired-namely, discussed
the treaty and considered amendments
When Mr.. Lodge and MIR. Lowell had their
great debate in Boston both said the agree
ment ought to be amended
Senator Knox in his address in the Ser
ate SAID that the treaty in its present form,
and its logical workings would result in
two great leagues Of nations, which would
become two great camps each preparing for
a new and greater life and death struggle.
ut seems to me that President Wilson
Should take up the main objections Of
statesmen of the cailbre of Root and Hughes
and Knox and Lodge and soberly discuss
them.
There should be no politics in the qnes-
ton at all. If had considered that there
was partisan politics in it I would not have
presided at the meeting tonight do not
see now the President can escape indict-
ment for degree of arrogance and stub
bornness of opinion if he refuses to answer
the main objections brought against the
covenant by the Republican leaders,"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

Custlc-Fi ishing

In letter to The Tribune Which APP
peared on this page yesterday MI. HAM
ilton Holt accused another correspon-
dent, Mr.. Lloyd NJ. Howell OF befogging
the peace treaty issue. Mr.. Holt SAID,
among other things: The greatest
project that has been put before the
American people since the adoption Of
the Constitution should no longer be OBJ
scured by the irky fluid Of misrepresen-
tation and irrelevancy squirtcd about it
by the human cuttletish inside and out
side the Senate"
But Mr.. Holt himself does 4 little
cuttle-fshing. He holds that "the only
issue before the United States at this
moment is whether the peace treaty
shall be ratified or not" Such a state
ment can hardly be taken seriously.
From all the information obtainahle III
Washington only q small minority OF the
Senate is against ratification. The treaty
has been reported with Il resolution of
ratification attached. All the statements
submitted by the various groups in the
Foreign Relations Committee favor ap
proval of the treaty by the Senate.
The question which remains is whether
the text submitted by the President shall
be accepted as it stands, or with reserva-
tions and amendments. The President
has repeatedly said that the reservations
drawn by the Senate committee are
spperf1uous, because they merely restate
in other words What is in the compact.
The amendments, except one, concern
details in the execution Of tie treaty.
And that onc--on Shantung- seeks 20
correct wrong which the President
thinks ought TO be corrected in another
manner
Most Of the discussion Of the merits Of
the treaty, per SC, is irrelevant. Nearly
all the correspondents with the Presi
dent or his Western trip have noted the
fact that his speeches leave most audi
cnces wondering why, after all, the
treaty should not be ratified with! moditi-
cations. To modify or not to modify
that is the only practical issue before the
country.
The Presidents chief argument against
modification is that Of Inconvenience.
He says he hesitates to submit reserva-
tons to the other sgnatories. The real
issue between him and the Senate sim
mers down, therefore, TO this: Is it bet
ter to suffer the inconvenience Of resub-
mission for the sake Of getting into the
record for acceptance by our associates,
a hard and fast Interpretation Of Amer
lean obligations under the treaty?
Here is a definite question: which can
be discussed with reason and moderation.
IF the disputants only keep their atten-
ton fixed on it, cuttle-fshing will end.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
The Coming 7ower
~ REMEMBER, I REMEMBER

III REMEMBER, I REMEMBER"
I remember, remember
The house where | was born;
The rent was thirty-two month,
Which made my father mourn.
Hc~-said he could remember when
His father paid the rent;
And when a mans expenses did
Not take his every cent.
| remember I remember
My mother telling my cousin
That eggs had gone to twentysix
Or-sevcn cents dozen;
And how she told my father that
She didn't like to speak
OF things like that, but Bridget now
Demanded four a week.
/ remember, I remember
And with mirthless laugh
My weekly board at college took
A jump to three and a half.
| bought an eighteen dollar suit,
And father told me, "Sonny,
III pay the bill this time, but, Oh
l am not made of money!"
l remember, remember.
When I was young and brave
And l declared, "Well, Birdie, we
Shall now begin to save"
1t was childish ignorance,
But now It's little JOY
TO know Pm farther off from wealth
Than when | was a boy.
Bill Bulltt couldn't love Lansing so
much, it is conceivable, loved he not honor
more. And Old Dick Lovclace's lady friend
probably asked Dick, on the occasion Of his
celebrated assertion, "What do you mean
honor?'
Wol!, again The packers are going to
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
The MONS Forever.

Sir; notice that Herbert Hoover, one
time food dealer Tor all European countries
lexciuding the Scandinavian), says that the
trade unions were solely responsible for
kicking the Bolsheviis out of Budapcst.
Particularly. may not add, the Rumanian
Union of Infantry, Cavalry and Machine
Gun Workers. Locals 30. | to 100?
+
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
Redheld Escapes

\f rom The Wichita Beacon
Secretary Redfeld las resigned from the
Cabinet. And there wasn't single kick on
him. This is funny world
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
Nee Vencnatis Gravida sagittis"

Sir: In the interests Of truth and Justice T
am mpelled to expose Mr.. Arthur Guiterman's !
poetic bean to the stab Of the poisoned pun. As
for myself. I prefer the thrust of the punster's
dagger to the armor Of oblivion. As follows:
The name Of that Boston hostery recently in
fested-at the direction of the Somerset clerk
by me land. I assume him is the "Braemore
Absolutely II
The esteemed proofroom, thinking pcssi-
bly, tnat C.. AS contribution was TOO long.
stuck his signature in .he middle of X,
Our interest in the steel strike is
academic
We use gold pen. r. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
IF They Should!
from Tae Toledo H,oae,

.'ro0t IHe Toledo Ei0dcl
One paper observes: Mother ha, rot
gone out CT : strike ye..' 1t is vel. The
worst eaanc. lapren while the mothers o,
the "ation remain on the ior.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

Mr.. Hoover is believed to be a Republi-
can, although he favors the League OF
Nations as it now stands.-Evening Sun.
Not that the League is party issue.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
Action Knocks Out Action

uro'a Tie Toronto G!obe)
britan's Trades Union Congress aimed
a direct blow at direct action and Auocke ]
it out.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

Although diro evil stalks through the
pages of "Sorcery,' the author succeeds In
giving some OF MS characters proper and
lofty attitude toward life Arthur Tay for
instance, makes a terrible mess of his life
but nevertheless it is recorded gravely that
he, 700. had some Ideals: ne didn't want
his wife 10 smoke"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

Senator Johnson's phrase. "Misty inter
nationalism,' is not inept. The Misty Mid
region of Fear, he might have said
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
Modern Day Boston

II rom The Pittsburgh Gazstte-7,me..
Staring bostonward, we wonder if culture
is even skin deep
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
TME ptAEY Of OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYs

September iC-Early al my desk, and to
the courts with S. Spacth. who trounced
me two sets in three, and thence to meet
Mistress Ethel. very pleasant. and thence
With II. Ross and my wife and Jessie Hen
de.aon TO dinner. indifferent poor, and
thenaftcr 10 Eoss's house, and we shot
craps for An hour. which cost me a great
deal. so. after beaker Of soda water, home
and to bed.
17--With Mistress Fannie Carson TO Ho-
boken. where Mrs. Mills and L. Hartmann
beat US, but not through Fannie's poor
playing, iorasmuch as she played with
great force and acumcn. And S. Spacth
beat me again. through my inepttudc.
With my wife to dinner and read TO her
in the evening from W. De niorgan's ''rhe
Old Madhousc,' till MY wife fell asleep
IS Early to the Office, where all day IN
discussing po!itivks, which | know lit.le
about. and in ny scrivcning G. Rice to
sec me. and he looks forward to the world
series with no joy, and bet me IS the Gin
cinnatis would win.
And now it is Judge, for September 20.
Credited 10 Maj. r. S. Mckenzie, surgeon,
in the Watch on the Rhine, A. L. t.. is
Arthur Cu;torman's poem. "The Antiseptic
Baby and the Prophyactic Pup" Nj.
Guiterman wrote it more than ten years
ago for the Womans Home Companion.
since which time it has been Appropriated
dozens Of times. No form Of thicvcry is
more Letestabio.
at isn't true declares the Evening
Post, that Senator Lodge has been cx-
amining the treaty With microscope"
Tut we may be pardoned u profane
expression-thc Senator can't see the
treaty with tho Lick Observatory,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

Wo!!, again ,he packers are going t,
Jail. Please pass the vegetables.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

Alice Duer Miller's THE Charm scnool"
Harper's) is capital light fiction Nor is
= without satiric wisdom for all its pace
and sparkle. We were particularly struck
by the passage about Mr. johns. the great
banker, who read the financial article in
an evening paper--not because lie had the
least respect for the writer's opinions, but
because, as he often said he was curious
to see how "rong 4 fellow could be who
drew salary for being rght'
Newspaper book pages, We understand,
are issued TO solve o Ike curiosity on the
part Of authors and publishers.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
Books
By Haywood Broun

WE HAVE been aware for some tim.
" that prejudice exists against punx
particularly bad puns, which bsv,
always seemed TO us little better t,..
good ones. For instance, we have nav.
laughed quite as heartily in the shea.ro
ore night at the old Howard burlason.
house in Boston, when the thin comeda, !.
speaking about bullhght mentioned ~.
arena, whereupon the stout comedia, =.
marked that he liked it for breakfas. n,
course, l, developed later in the evenin,
that the stout comedian had confused ~.
word with "fsrina," coarse meal of ,rb;.,
Indian corn. Still, as VIC have sad .bo~.
IS no doubt that a prejudice exists aya;,,.
Duns, but i came TO US as complete sn,.
pr se thst there is some sort OF code abon.
punnlng. This We gather from "Sorcey,.
Century,, b. Francis Charles Macdonald
N which we rcad: "She was TOO tall and soo
dark 10 MAKE bad puns." We are not suro
however, that the rules are generally ar
cepted. i. P A. is decidedly dark and sv.
feet ten.
"SofcerT" disappointed us. 1t begins with
great promise, and the author succeeds ad.
nsirably in establishing background hv
using the local color OF Honolulu with
shrcwd restraint. but finally the author i'm.
piagcs on kipiings story The Mark OF III.
Beast" Probably nobody would srudge Nh.
hscDonald a previously u..lized situation
if he could make better use Of it, bu. the
author employs it 20 Indifferent ADVANTAGE
you may remember that THE Mark Of The
Beast deals with an Indian sorcerer who
puts a spell upon white man and is forced
to desist when captured and tortured In
"Sorcery" the evil one Is Hawaiian and tn.
victim girl OF mixed blood Kipling sue
ceeded IN making his story ore to bring
people closer to the campfire and one to
disturb dreams by merely suggesting tho
fearful things that were done 70 the soy
ccrer in the torture chamber He let the
imagination OF his readers supply the miss
ING details. and imagined horrors are al
ways i shade more thrilling than those set
down in black end white. Macdonald takes
exactly The opposite course and gives much
detail about The torture. be succeeds in
creating messy picture. but the reaction
comes rather to the stomach than to the
backbone, where Kipling directed it,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER ls. 1919
GUARANTEE

ysu car eurehs,s mer,hansse st.uil..a IN 'ps
TRIBUNE with absolute ssre:>Isr " di'saf's'se'en -.
svks In any IRE IGUNC ruAvshtess 20 va f'o'
rsney back uncn request. r,n tsre, No ou.e''''i
We make coed prcnE.is II sns at,eft,ser dses us'.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

OF course, the Young mans plan for
Charm school fails. although not unhappily
and in the failure he acquires much wisdom,
which he displays in debate with NJ
Johns in regard to the fallacy that woman
is Il mystery.
shes just so clear and direct" says
Austin. our hero, that men can't get the
hang of it." The debate follows: "Direc.
and clear!" roared Mr. Johns why l
th'rf you must be crazy. Women cant be
clear, for they don't know how to think,
and they can't be direct, for they don.
Ahow what they want, and when they do
they change 1t. Narium ct mutahlle. that
teller knew what he was talking about"
eyes, ard who said that" cried Austin,
for the first time approaching that his
midnight studies of Virgil had not been
wasted. "a slick male god trying to get a
wandering widower to desert woman so
constant that she Immediately burned her
self up on the seashore when ho actually
went"
'Ha!" said Mr. Johns, land do you call
tnat sensibie--to burn yourself up en- the
beach? Do YOU quote that as a rationa',
intelligent action ?'
Il call it clear and direct. anyhow" SAID
Austin
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

The Charm School" tells the story OF q
young man who inherits girls boarding
school from his aunt and undertakes to run
II himself on new lines. He asks Mr. John.
Why any parent ever sends girl TO board
ing school, and that crusty Old person re-
plies. with the utmost conviction: "To get
lid of her"
every true" replies our hero, "but that's
NOT all It's no good to get rid OF them for
four or five years and then have them back
on their hands forever. Parents want them
made into charming women - msrfiseeable
women Parents don't dare to say this
least OF all to teachers, OF whom they arc
naturally afraid They talk lot Of bunk
about cultivation and womanliness. but
what they really mean is attractiveuess-
they want their daughters to be charm rg
and have beaux-of course, they DO. Well.
my scheme is to meet the parents half
way. To come out boldly and say that the
object of my school is to teacn charm Ard.
by heavens! III teach 'em-have EN- taught,
tl:at is"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-19

We use d gold pen.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
IN ILLINOIS,.

The plan for a convention to make
a new constitution for the State of
Illinois is the result of a scheme of
certain Illinois interests led by the
copper-head Chicago Tribune.
There absolutely is no reason for a
change in the basic law, but certain
people of The Tribune ilk were anx-
ious to put some jim-crow provisions
in the law and the convention is the
result. Jim-crowism was not the only
Tribune scheme, but it was an i'm
portant cog in the plan.
The primaries have just been held
and three colored men have been nom
mated and it is reasonably certain
that all of them will be elected: Col.
Franklin A. Denison in the first dis
trict and Hon. Edward H. Morris and
Rev. A. J. Carey in the third district.
If they are elected the interests of
the colored people will be we'll looked
after.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27
THE RACE COMMISSION.

THE APPEAL still contends that
there is no reason for the existence
of the race commission" appointed
by Governor Lowden of Illinois. The
Supreme Court of the United States
has decided by unanimous vote that
segregation is unlawful, so there is
nothing to arbitrate
The editor has talked with several
prominent Illinois men this week and
the consensus of opinion among them
is that the whole thing is a political
scheme of Governor Lowden, who is
prospective candidate for president
on the Republican ticket in 1920
These men say that since he has
been governor of Illinois, Lowden has
developed a great prejudice against
the colored people. He has taken
'*jimcrow" colored men into his con-
fidence and his present plan is to
get the colored people to consent to
their own civil degradation.
AuCoC 1ll1AO1S u1cu Say LlldL CuS
commission is "packed." The ma
jority of the white men on the same
are enemies Of the colored people,
and the majority of the colored men
jimcrowists, that is, men willing to
make concessions in their civil rights.
THE APPEAL man has been we'll
acquainted with Edward H. Morris,
.Chicago's famous lawyer, who is one
Of the commission and can vouch
for him as man who will not con-
cede anything fundamental. He will
fight any attempt at segregation to
the last ditch
THE APPEAL is only slightly &C.
quainted with four of the other COL
ored men. One man he has never met.
He has often heard three of the COL
ored men described as jimcrow men
of the deepest dye.
1t is said that segregation PROPOSE
tons will be offered by the white
members. If such propositions are
offered the colored men should stand
as unit against them no matter how
trivial they may seem. They must not
yield single point on any question
involving segregation of any kind.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-27

Injustice between the white men and
colored men, we shall have burning
fuse on it's way to high explosive.
New York Knocked Chicago for it's
race riots. We do not mock New
York. The problem is too serious and
too imminent for anything but the
most painful consideration. How shall
we convince the colored man, who
fought for his country and saw a mil
lion of his race serving her colors,
the truth, for it is the truth, that his
country wants him, needs him, and is
united in it's urgent desire for his well
fare?
All that is necessary to convince the
cOlored man that his country wants
him, needs him, and is united in it's
urgent desire for his welfare,' is to
cut out lynching, mob murder and all
determinations of law and custom and
treat him the same as all other Ameri
cans are treated, no better, no worse
then he'll be convinced.