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Never in Vain

This belief in the support Of the people
many of the impromptu writer's state
with particular confidence. "President
Wilson has appealed over the heads of
the politicians to the people, says a
citizen of Dayton, mot for the first
time, and he has never appealed in vain,
for the people are with him, and the
boys coming home are with him, heart
and soul, to a man"
Hearing is believing is the opinion Of
Massachusetts correspondent:
"Any one who heard the logical and i'm
passioned appeals Of eX-President Taft and
Secretary Baker at the recent sessions Of
the league of peace conferences in Boston
cannot fail to stand back of President Will
son in his effort to do away with savagery
Of war with every ounce of his nhuence'
From Bowdon College in Maine
comes the announcement that twenty
four out Of twenty-five in the faculty
have signed an appeal for the league Of
nations. A clergyman who "has had an
opportunity of meeting ministers and
Christian laymen in many parts Of the
country" has expressed himself that their
desire for such league "is apparently
unanimous" He concludes:
81 believe that any one who is suspected
Of opposing this world plan for political
or partisan reasons will eventually be
buried under such a mountain Of national
indignation that there Will be for him no
political resurrcction"
From Maryland comes this word
81 may mistake the temperament of the
people Of this country. But ! venture to
predict that any Senator of the United
States who shall vote against the treaty to
bring an enduring peace to our distracted
world will be serving his last term in
Congress-"
A New York man speaks for labor:
"Thc laboring men of the United States
say: The Senate of the United States must
sustain the league Of nations or the United
vain'"
In Texas a correspondent makes
suggestion TO the nations Of the world:
"Up to this date our four-word axiom,
THE Declaration of independence stands
as the highest one in political economy, and
| viii now coin a axiom.
"The words that viii make a perfect title
for our worldwide wonder are 'the COM
pact Of nations and here submit it to
the nations Of the world for ADOPTION"
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For

TO BEGIN with the leagues defend
ers. Their anger falls chiefly on
The "wiifu Senator's who oppose it.
From Utah comes q voice, saying:
"aay United States scnator-or other
person who will deliberately interfere
w.'h Gods law Of progress, as consummated
IN 'ac league. might as well try to check
'he waters or Niagara with spoonful of
sand. Gods work wiil 70 on; it is work
o. progress, and 'the gates Of hell cannot
pFefaa against it,
And citizen from Ohio asks:
"Are we to bow in shame before our
soldiers and sailors, passiyely allowing a
's~ 81 sfanled politicians to disgrace US :?
= bas borah, Reed, Sherman, and their
H. who would discredit us!
are our boy4 who lie on Flanders field
% enc IN vain while We sleep on?
Another from the same state suggests
II xvii, be thou my good!' is to be vir-
'1A!iy 'heir motto, fhey may as well 20 the
1H'ie hog' wlth tho illustrious author Of
sAas motto, and prepare an easier transit
ION - their assured future by making up
''''1 minas from the outse. that it IS bet
= % reg" in heli than serve in heaven
80 ne pa'n upon which they are setting
@'s'f ieet does not lead cyen 10 the political
'eaYfn al Washington, mucn less to any
higher" ""'
Once, writer in the Illinois press
States american idcalism fairy oozed
IRON the skins Of thoac Senator'S but
,. AMY hsa'tate 70 Complete the tas1 Of MAX
as . combine shat 70 far ~ human jntel)i-
s"ee can make u assures permanent
ss"ee and initiates a worldwide democracy
:, -, he stronger because Il holds in Itu en-
es terrain monarchial constitutional
.' come one in Alabama inquiries:
~. ny are The Republican leaders IN the
$50 states Senate raisinx such an ou,.
y. ssaiDss the proposed Icaguee +. I,
p ,sg's's eaat they dream Of Winning tbe
sss'aehsy IN 1920 and, If successful' vii,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
What Do the American People Think of the League?
Congress Has Spoken, the Press
Has Spoken. What Do the
People Themselves Say?

demand that for the wrongs done this coun-
try Mexico shall pay in territory?"
"A gentleman from Florida objects to
destructive criticism:
ut would please me much better if those
VINO are inclined to criticise the league of
nations would restrain their desire to print
except when they are able to offer some
thing better than what has been ALREADY
proposed"
From Massachusetts it is suggested.
The Republican party, irres pective of
Mr.. Wilson'S academic temperamcntal pecu-
llaritles, must do its part in framing and
putting into effect the charter of a leapue
of nations, and give it chance to vivify the
aspirations of weary world and thus
remove it from any possibility of being an
issue in the 1920 campaign"
A theory comes from New York:
at is not the league of nations that is OH
Jectcd to. 1t is simply the old slogan of
1916: Anything to beat Woodrow Wilson,
That's all!
Another New Yorker proposes:
Let us man the surrendered German
warships with the noisiest and most ir
responsible enemies of the league of
nations. Then let the original proposal as
to the fleet take its course--tow it out to
sea and sink it. This is the I4odge-ical' So
luton.'
But the time is going to come a writer
IN Pennsylvania reminds us, when
"Prcsident Wilson will receive credit from
his innumerable critics as soon as they can
see beyond their nose. But little should
he care for them. The greater part of the
people support him in his undertaking, any
WaV'
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To-day we arcea world power and, as Roose-
Welt has Indicated we must at times inter
vonc to protect weaker power"
And a New Yorker conti,es
"Surcly Washington would be even more
determined than Woodrow Wilson. The
Senator or citizen who cannot grasp the
tremendous responsibilities the United
States is committed to is indeed blind or
n shameful coward; in word, un-
American man or woman"
fourth warns:
"Policies Of n century ago are no guide
TO the policies Of to-day, any more than
the methods Of business Of decade ago
are sufficient for the cxgencies of the
business Of to-day. The world moves apacc,
and IT'S absolutely rot for Senators Borah,
Reed, ct al. to attempt to put the clock
back"
Nor will it endanger the Monroe Doc
trine, according to "A writer from Chi
cago:
"rhcrc is nothing In the league of ma
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forced to spend many billions of dollars to
help in restoring order to the world Now,
when we asked to agree to put ourselves
where we may possibly be called to
spend few millions to establish justice
and maintain peace, Senator Borah says it
is unconstitutional
Says an Ex-Governor Of Florida:
mo man can join any society or organi-
cation without being subject, more or less,
to its laws. No man can live in any part
of the world without giving up some of his
sovereignty. Even Comanche's sovereign
ty to tomahawk was abridged. a natio. :
sovereignty to tomahawk other nations ana
the world at large must be abridged
league to enforce peace viii do it,"
An inhabitant of Milwaukee inquiries:
of labor and capital should resign their
liberty Of unhampered action to another,
why may not nations surrender their liberty
to butcher one another to arbitration 80
1t is all question of sovereignty.
some one suggests:
Sovereignty is often confused with the
functions of government. Senator Borah
says the league would limit our sovereign
right to maintain our army and navy and to
make war. and would require US to incur
heavy expenses for using force to maintain
order in far away lands, all of which is I'M
constitutional. If by sovereignty the Sen
ator means the exercise Of such functions Of
government as he has named unquestion-
ably the league of nations would curtail
them. That is the chief reason for creating
It, to take away from US and from other
less peaceably disposed nations the right
to throw the world into chaos at any time.1
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4ALiens-gn7n7;grcfio

Under the league what viii we 90 with
undesirable aliens? Says a Spokane,
Wash, letter writer:
Consider condition which confronts us
At the present time. There has sailed or is
about 10 sail ship from New York carry
ing numerous subjects of foreign govern
ments. We deport them because they are
menace to cur peace and welfare. We pro-
pose to deport more. Bat foreign govern
ment has entered protest against such action
and other governments are very liable to
do the same
And as for the immigration of cheap
labor, another observes that
Japan has already started the ball rolling
and viii probably find support in some OF
the European governments. The subject ol
Continued on page tro)
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NPEAKING in New York this week,
- President Wilson said: 1.-The first
~ thing am going to tell the people
on the other side of the water is
an overwhelming majority of the Amer
lean people is in favor of the league of
nations. / know that that is true" Con-
strung the Presidents words as refer
ring to the twenty-six articles of the
nresent covenant, surprise is expressed
in some quarters as to the frmness of
the Presidents convictions. Has the
President rightly heard the voice of the
people?
Senator Hitchcock is quoted as saying
that he told the President that the peo-
pic of his section were sweepingly in
favor Of the league constitution as pro-
posed. But then Senator Borah, of
Idaho. one of the leaders in the fight
against the league, has stated that out
of the 500 letters he has received just
"a per cent of them were opposed to
the league Senator Gronna, from the
agricultural reaches Of North Dakota,
has said the President would not think
the country was overwhelmingly in favor
Of the league If he could read the letters
he was receiving from that state. SEN
ator Gore conceded that he had no way of
knowing whether the President was
right or wrong in his belief My mall"
eh he said. so far indicates that the farm
ers Of my state seem to be lining up
against the league, whereas the people
in the towns seem to be for it
Aside from the mysterious depths Of
the Congressional mailbag, and from the
"yes" and no" OF the press, there is
one other iseans Of listening to the prob
lsmatieal voice Of the people, which dis
never really heard" as one commentator,
Las expressed it, except in the cleo
lions" That is by study Of those
spaces reserved by the domestic press
for the letters 10 the editor BY follow
ing the debate Of the "Peacemaker7 and
the "True American, ct al, it is possible
to get an idea or what the country thinks,
though as to the Overwhelming ma
.orty' it is impossible to form an est-
mate. The letter to the editor is gener-
ally written by one who sympathzes with
the policy Of the paper, and the writer is
NOS always anxious to state his interna.
iional ideals But at the same time it
expresses his honest opinion
a survey Of letters appearing in the
nations press during the last week show
not an overwhelming majority, but a
fairly even division in opinion regarding
the practicability Of the league, with
strong convictions either way
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Peace irst

4 SIDE from those actually opposed to
1 y the league are number who feel
that The actual peace with the Teutonc
powers should come first, and a framing
of the league afterward "The cart
they feel, SIS before the horse"
Here is the opinion OF a writer from
South Carolina
"The cart is before the horse in any dis
oussion OF league of nations at this time.
Before peace has been anywhere nearly
realized we have been sub iocted to an areu
ment which has concerned man since time
mmemora while questions vastly more
pertinent and pressing have been utterly dis
regarded
From New Jersey:
a do not like this great league of nations
project until the peace business is entirely
settled
TOO much cart before the horse
"A big batch Of pulnc baby nations for
tne United States to wet-nurse and spank
does not appeal to me even a little bit
At least one man in Alabama believes:
"Thc President would now have us 'sipn
on the dotted line in haste and leave the
rest to him that he can hurry back to
take up the problems pressing for solution
in Germany and in fact, all Europe. That
these problems growing and are danger
GUS all the world knows and that they
should have been disposed Of the first thing
at the peace conference all The world is be-
ginning to know; but with all this, can
America afford to act hastily on mat@
involving future generations?"
A query from Massachusetts,:
Are we not allowed to look about to see
if some other simpler and less nebulous plan
cannot be worked out that will attain the
major object, which is keeping the world at
peace and at the same time leave America
to work out her own salvation in the Western
hemisphere free from outside interference"
Punish Germany first:
"Prcsidcnt Wilson has conceived vast
scheme of unknown and unguessabe possible
ltics for the purpose of preventing war in the
future, or furnishing those who shall indulge
in it, by means of league of nations But
whose hideous guilt there Is not a shadow
of doubt, and already there is league of
nations with ample power to punish him"
Nor do the Senators go entirely un-
defended. A Bostonan writes:
"Our Senators are not a company of au-
tocrats that. have been wished upon us;
they are spokesman, elected by al, tae
people, the plain and handsome the IN
dustrous and lazy. And as the Spokesman
of 100,000,000 people it behooves us not to
ieer at their efforts to keep our ship of
state to safe course and to prevent event
ual shipwreck'
Why ask the league opponents for
war preventive comes the inquiry from
Baltimore:
DO not the defenders Of the league of
nations ask childish question when they
ask what the opponents of that visionary
scheme have to offer as substitute pan
against war? The opponents of a
league of nations do not believe that there
be cut and dried plan to abolish war
any more than that there can be plan 10
abolish death. War is gradually becoming
more and more abhorrent to mankind to be
undertaken only when it is forced upon an
enlightened nation. and in that evident fact
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tons constitution that endangers the prin-
ciples of the Monroe Doctrine; rather,
there are sections of it that materially
strengthen Americas position 1t is non
sensical to talk of her being n minor part
of the league; by her potential wealth,
her vast resources and man power she
proved her indubitabc right to participate
in the control Of world affairs"
A voice out in Washington declares:
"Man's advanced intelligence and modern
inventions have permanently tz~sorlaccd all
nations Uncle Sans feet are 40 entanged
in this network of nations that he cannot
cxtricate himself; the world has entered Il
new era; the Monroe Doctrine, as it has
existed, will to exist; the league
Of nations will stand paramount Taft is
right"
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Aloofness

"Why should we be afraid of Offering
our protection wherever needed. and by
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The sun., 1919-09-07

is a delightful little sketch, but it is
sheer Vatican. There is no trace here
of the old Derain who outdid Gauguin
in his love of the savage and went to
Africa and the Congo for his inspira-
ton.
Even more significant perhaps is the
larger still life, another recent work,
sober in its quiet realism, magnifi-
Gently solid in construction and so re-
served in color that it is practically a
study in black and white.
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Portrait of Lunard the Balloon;st by Johann zofany

fidelity to their models, there were
some who introduced an appreciable
degree of their own individuality into
their interpretations. Among these
one of the most conspicuously able
was Samuel McIntire of Salem, who,
though a competent architect, was
above all else a carver of wood. The
susceptibilities of this medium he
thoroughly understood and wrought in
1t with the sympathetic touch Of the
master craftsman. His taste was i'm
peccable and a room with woodwork
from his hand often possesses the
delicacy and elegance of a cameo.
I'm the succeeding period of the
Greek revival, which developed soon
after the beginning OF the nineteenth
century and correspondent to the En-
pire style in furniture, architectural
wood carving lost its refined char
acter and the details, as well as the
motifs themselves. became bold and
heavy and derived their Impressive
ness from sheer insistence rather than
from any intrinsic beauty that. inferred
in them. Beyond vigorous, and often
times ponderous, presentations Of
acanthus leaves there was little in
the style to invite and stimulate either
the manual skill or the imagination
of the wood carver and it was not
long before his hand forgot its cum
ming in the doldrums of banality that
followed.
During the heydey of early Ameri-
can decorative wood carving the items
of interior architecture upon which
carved enrichment was customarily
bestowed were mantels and chimney
pieces, door and window trims, cornices.
overdoor decorations, the capitals of
pillars and pilasters. and the brackets
beneath the treads of steps. In the
distribution of this carved enrichment
the chief difference between the Neo-
classic phase and thase that preceded
1t was that, in the earlier period, the
chimney piece or overmantel shared
equally with the mantel in the efforts
OF the wood carver, while in the
latter period all attention was con-
The sun., 1919-09-07

sunlight all the whites appear. and
then thank this provocative but UNI
deniably great painter for giving us
so lovely a burst OF summer sunshine
enshrined in SO beautiful a pattern.
OF the other Frenchmen think
vlaminck and Friesz are the best rep
resented, especially Vlaminck, whose
Through the Trees" is a superb ex-
ample / will not quarrel with any
one who contends that Vlaminck Is,
like olives, an acquired taste, but
once acquired II lasts. Even in these
days, when the struggle to be indi-
vidual is widespread and often la
borious, there are few painters SO COM
pletely themselves as Vlaminck. His
rather sombre color schemes, his pro-
nounced affection for blues, which
dominate all his landscapes, his austere
design and gravity Of composition give
his pictures a certain majesty and dig
nifty which place them at once in the
highest rank.
Othon Friesz sends nothing so ar
resting as his great pictures of THE
Ship" and 1.-THE Fisherman" which
made so great a sensation in Paris a
few years before the war, but his
painting of THE French Army En-
tering Strasbourg'-the only war sub
ject in the exhibition "a and his
woman in a Hammock" prove that
he has neither lost his talent nor
changed his style. Like Vlaminck
Friesz remains the good and true
fauve that he was before the war.
Arnold Bennett, who contributes an
introduction to the catalogue OF this
exhibition, says the Picassos and
Derains are very advanced indeed
1 am unable to agree with him. saw
decidedly more advanced" work by
either artist long before the war. Pr
casso's two paintings are not nearly
so abstract as were most OF his paint
ings in 1894. His landscape is @
pleasant brown and green simplifca-
ton, Cezannesque in color, but witt
the planes more sharply emphasized
Ten years ago it might have beer
considered advanced, but to the eyes
OF to-day it has almost the air of ar
| old master.
AS for the little pictures painted BY
Andre Derain since his rehabilitation
the extraordinarily interesting thine
about them is that they are positively
reactionary. Man with a Mandolin
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apples, swags and drops OF laurel
leaves or of drapery, fruit and flower
wreaths, sun rays. and occasionally
human or angelic figures, made their
appearance in ever increasing album
dance. The carving OF this period was
characterized by bold. rotund and
vigorous quality that carried sense
of very positive conviction. Admirable
examples OF this period of architcc.
tural wood carving In some of its
happiest manifestations are to be found
in the ballroom and on the staircase
of the Lee house in Marblehead, Mass,
and in Mount Pleasant, Philadelphia.
In this period, too, we now and again
find creditable instances of heraldic
wood carving.
"A marked contrast in manner Of
expression took place In the latter
part of the century when the extreme
refinement and delicacy Of the Adam
style were dominant in architectural
conceptions and were reflected in
every phase of decorative art Not
only were the renderings more atten-
tuated, and usually in lower relief
than formerly, but the scale was
and there came into vogue a set of
motifs either wholly different from
those previously employed or else ma
terially changed in form. Among the
motifs most freely used were urns
and vases Of several shapes, medal
lions. round and oval patere. oval and
spandrel fans with concave parabolic
curves. swags and drops, arabesques
and bell flower pendants, and all the
other classic details that the brothers
Adam and their school had trans
planted into English art from the
treasure house of Greek and Roman
antiquity.
while the American wood carvers
Of this period drew their inspiration
altogether from British sources, as
was quite natural. and very generally
in their renderings adhered with great
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Continued from Fourth Page.

risks. The local effects are mostly on
the hands, and these result in deaden-
ing the sensation in the fingertips
cause cracking OF the skin and nails
and lead to loss of elasticity of the
tissues at the fingertips.
IL is true that DR.. Richard B. Moore
at the Denver Laboratory OF the Blu
reau OF Mines, has found a way to
extract mesothorium from carnotite
ores and has advocated its use instead
of the far more precious radium in
the preparation OF luminous paints
But even mesothorium would prob
| ably be OF greater service to mankind
as therapeutic medium. This radio
active substance can do what radium
does, but its half life is only six and
a half years, while the half life OF
radium is 1850 years. Therefore, as
an investment, radium is far more de
sirable; and 1t can be depended upon
to maintain its maximum strength,
while mesothorium grows appreciably
weaker In a comparatively short while,
This Is a disadvantage and adds to
the difficulty of insuring an absolutely
exact dosage at all times.
Tho story OF the Governments par
t.c:raticH IN the -ad.ur, Industry is IN
teresting. and shows in one case at
least that Federal research has been
of material benefit in reducing costs.
In 1912 the attention OF the Bureau
of Mines was called to the value of the
carnotite ores of Colorado and Utah
as a source of radium. The need OF
comprehensive research was empha-
sized by the fact that the carnotite
deposits were situated on public lands
and constituted the largest known sup
plies Of radium ore In the world.
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Profiteering From Two Viewpoints

figures showing that he had cleared
$240 on one carload, which seemed TO
me to be pretty good on about 1900
bushels. While / was in the mans
home / heard him take an order over
the telephone for chickens, he set
ting 80 cents a pound as the price,
Then the small town financier
clIcidated a Wall Street saying that
short selling is the best end Of the
game from a money making stand
point. / was startled when farmer
after farmer was called up until the
full quota of chickens had bcen OBJ
tlined, and i'm no case was moro than
is cents a pound given. although The
deals were not concluded without
quibbhng or arguing.
Maybe the man was making only
4 fair profit, and then again he might
have been profiteerlng. The point Is,
where is the dividing liner"