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New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
Anti-Welfare
Governor Smith, Night Work
and Equal Opportunity

10 the Editor of the Tribune
Sir: The letter of Charlotte c. Ba,
mum attacking Senator Wadsworth d,
serves an answer. She states that Il
reason for the attack on him by certai
women is because he is anti-welfare, ar
that if the Democrats nominate Gov
ernor Smith to run against him Wads-
worth will be defeated
The welfarers should have learned q
lesson from this falls campaign. Per-
haps Governor Smith has If Governor
Smith had not stated in the hearing
before him at City Hall, when woman
after woman employed by the B. r. T.
for years had testified that she worked
at night from choice, that he did not
believe any woman who said that she
preferred night work; if Governor Smita
had not stated, when we appealed to him
to include in his message to the special
session of the Legislature reques
that the Lockwood law would be re
pealed, that the Capitol could fall abol
his ears before he would change in r,
gard to night work for women; if Cox
ernor Smith had not stated. at the NEE
ing of the Democratic State Committe
at Albany just prior to election, that
was necessary to elect Democrat
Legislature in order to get through tbs
balance of the welfare bills the Demo
Gratis might have had a Democratic
President of the Board of Aldermen and
Democratic Borough President 70,
Manhattan. There were three thousan
women transportation workers in grea
er New York, practically all Democrat
95 per cent of whom voted the straigl
Republican ticket on account of welfar
We wanted Republican Legislature
Furthermore, the welfarers fought o,
the issue at Oswego. They sent the
best speakers and spent thousands
dollars in an attempt to defeat Speaks
Sweet. We sent uplifted workers
fight him. told our speakers to sta)
their speeches II am Democrat. her.
working for Republican because he IL
against welfare" We won.
AMY WREN,
Counsel, B. r. 7. Equal Opportunity
League.
Brooklyn, Dec. II, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
The Message to Nitti

If the Presidents message to
Premier Nitti is as published by
The London Telegraph, it is not
strange d'Annunzio is feverishly
indignant. One would need to
search long in the record Of inter-
national relations to find a more in
sulting message from the head of
one civilized nation to the head of
another. D'Annunzic would be a
poor man and poor Italian if his
feelings were not stirred.
The President is presented as in
forming Italy that "the question of
Fiume does not seriously interest
the Italian people" They think it
does, but they are mistaken. Their
sole business is to do as they are
told to do by Washington. The
American Senate has impudently
presumed to judge the acts of the
All-Highest, but Italy is ordered
not to fall into a similar sin. She
is to accept the Presidents decree
without reservations. The Presi-
dent does not like the word.
If Italy presumes to hesitate in
obeying she is to be starved into
subservience. There is plain threat
of war to be embarked on without
asking for the consent Of Congress
or any one else. The war is to be
an economic war, not a military
one, but war just the same.
American opinion is cruelty mis-
represented by the Nitti dispatch.
The American people do not under
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13

without roll call bill which says
that when foreign producers sell for
lower prices elsewhere than in this
country their goods shall be excluded
by us, that the books of every for
eign seller shall be open to American
official inspection, and that any who
refuse are to be denied access to our
market. So by law there is to be an
embargo on the imports we must
have if there are to be exports.
The wheel-chair Administration
having reached a mountaineering
condition, special duty is laid on
the organization of business and in
dustry.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
The "Red" Propaganda

Berkman's deportation has been
approved, but Emma Goldman has
secured a weeks stay. The country
promises to be rid of both of them
soon.
This may appear to be monu-
mental achievement by the Immigra-
tion Bureau, whose policy has been
elusive and highly Pickwickian. But
the monument is of plaster rather
than of marble. Berkman and Gold
man get easily into the newspaper
headlines, yet they haven't been
really dangerous for years. They
have been, so to speak, on the "Red"
retired list.
Newer hands have taken up their
work and vastly enlarged and inten-
sifed it. The duo published more
or less harmless periodical called
Mother Earth. 1t stood nearly alone
in it's class. But now, according to a
recent report of the Department Of
Justice, there are All radical periodi-
calls in circulation in the United
States, all Of them with pronounced
Bolshevist tendencies. Of these 106
are printed in this country in Eng
lish and 222 are printed in this
country in various foreign Ian
guages. One hundred and forty-four
radical" foreign periodicals are sent
here and distributed. The I. w. W..
maintains thirteen newspapers print
ed in English and nineteen printed
in foreign tongues.
Here is an organized revolutionary
and anarchistic force which Berk-
man and Goldman never dreamed Of.
War legislation soon to expire has
enabled the government to hold the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
A Grave Injustice
Maynard Charges of Drunk.
enness Indignantly Denied

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: noticed statement in yes
terday's paper to the effect that Lieu
tenant Belvin w. Maynard, in response
to Anti-Saloon League pressure, gave
vent to his innate sense of humor in
the realm of aeronautic morals.
1t seems hardly conceivable and
strangely uniting that man who is
as good flyer as Lieutenant Maynard,
and as intrepid a pilot, should injure
the splendid traditions of the air
service, in the formation of which he
has had part, by such outrageous
mssta tements. In twenty months
spent at various air fields in this coun-
try have seen a great many deaths
occur, have known the men personally
who were killed, and never in one case
has the man who was killed been either
drunk or a drinker. 1t seems to me
that such statement as Lieutenant
Maynard's, whether he actually made
it or not, is calculated to do great
harm because it will become the COM
mon property of those who are always
trying to deprecate heroism and who
try to see a selfish and morbid purpose
in sacrifice.
know but little about the casualties
which occurred in France, but / do
know that the boys who were killed in
training or in testing work at the air
fields in this country were brave bows
who made the supreme sacrifice for
their country in just as fine way as
those who met their death on the bat
tlefront also know that these men
met their death in line of duty, and
that it would be great injustice to
have any such implication as the state
ment of Lieutenant Maynard would
convey rest upon these fine lads who
did their duty with courageous heart
and fine spirit of patriotism.
1t is one thing to criticize morality
by delving into generalization: it il
another thing to attempt to criticize
the evils of the liquor traffic by max
ing an example of those splendid ex-
amples OF American manhood who met
their deaths in the fields of Flanders
or Lorraine, or who died in the un-
swervlng devotion to their duty in this
country. feel that the press should
unite in calling upon Lieutenant Mavn-
ard for further explanation and
proof of his statement. or, else for .
retraction. Not that he in himself or
ms statement is of great Importance
but a wrong impression has been
created in the minds of the public bv
1T, and the influence which his nam.
carries on account of his recent ex-
cellent performance in the flying game
makes the credence given to his stats-
ment greater than the intrinsic merits
OF the statement warrant.
WILLIAM S. MARVIN
Formerly in United States Air Service
New York, Dec. 10, 1919.
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The Embargo

In his annual report Secretary
flass declared that he concluded not
) draw on the billion-dollar fund
fhich Congress created to provide
br the establishment of credits by
he use of which foreign countries
build buy in the United States, thus
reserving and extending our for
Ign trade.
The government having thus re-
hsed to play banker, foreigners
fho would buy find it impossible to
et credit from the banks. The
hnkers say they are merely agents
nd trustees, and inasmuch as
|merican investors will not pur-
base foreign securities they are
liable to lend.
| The country discovers itself in q
bsition where would-be customers
i've no cash with which to pay and
bssessors of goods will not grant
fedit. Under such conditions trade,
course, tends to stop. No wonder
De foreign exchange market has be-
me place of speculation rather
ian Of business, and business men
ixiously inquire as to what is 60
r. to happen.
And at this juncture there is put
|rough the lower house Of Congress
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The Garfield Resignation

DR.. Garfield has resigned as Fuel
Administrator, and the reason as
igned is that there has been a
Itudied ignoring of himself and his
iews. The Fuel Administrator
dissatisfied with the settlement, be-
iause of its failure to provide
Egainst a gouging of coal consum-
Ers, also objects to his exclusion
rom consultation.
DR.. Garfield is not loyal to the
|ettled policy of the Administration.
Who is he that he should be con-
ulted? Why should he ask for a
pecial favor? He is fully aware
hat in the well-thumbed lexicon of
he Administratio there is no such
kord as Consult"
AS good men as he is have been
|ontent to be seen and not heard
Let the ferule rap him into knowl.
kdge of his proper place. His idea
hat he is entitled to be called into
Eounsel shows he is hopelessly out
If sympathy with "the great ideal
st." as Senator Hitchcock calls
Jim.
| DIR. Garfield might have avoided
he error if he had conferred with
senator Hitchcock. The Senator
kould doubtless have been willing
b instruct him that he the Sen
tori had found that the only way
ID get along was to do exactly as
Irdered.
J And if it was not convenient to
| ly to Senator Hitchcock, Dr.
| field might have turned to Sec
ary Lansing. The Secretary, out
l. the wealth of his experience
gould have informed him that self
espect is incompatible with execu.
Eve service at Washington; that he
lad found, as lately he discovered
h regard to Mexico and the Fal
resolution, that the thing to dc
khen kicked is to make no moar
md to pretend the kicking is en-
Dyed.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13

any official statistics before him, re-
garding the relation of liquor drinking
to poverty, insanity and crime. These
personal opinions were not properly
decisions of the court and, even though
they were, would not be true.
For instance: The cases of alcoholic
insanity in the State of New York,
always a wet state, as shown by the
latest report of the New York State
Hospital Commission, are less than per
cent. Of what weight is an opinion by
a judge, or an assertion by an advocate
of prohibition, as compared with the
official facts?
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York, Dec g. 1919.
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activities of the "Red" press some-
what in check. What is Washing
ton going to do after the state of
war is officially terminated?
Here is a problem which dwarfs
that of Berkman and Goldman. 1t
is plain that instead Of allowing the
regulatory powers of war time over
the seditious press to lapse those
powers should be enlarged and en-
forced with greater rigor.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13

stand the complex Fiume question,
but they do understand that Italy
was our faithful ally, that the Fiume
question is close to her heart and
that her judgment is to be accepted
rather than the judgment Of persons
who little more than a year ago
were ravaging the fairest district Of
Italy,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
Where Blame Rests

Where Blame Rests
The slippery evasiveness of Sena-
tor Hitchcock's pretended compro-
mise proposals Gan evasiveness per-
haps not wholly his fault, for he
must do as he is told) is in evidence
in his latest speech.
The Senator, in his spoken re-
marks, widely departed from his
written speech, copies of which were
delivered in advance to the press.
The written speech contained some
thing in the nature of definite pro-
posals and is of value. His spoken
one merely reiterated profitless gen.
eralities and is of little or no value.
What do Senator Hitchcock and
his group of treaty wreckers pro-
pose to do? Is it shown by what he
penned or only what he said? Did
some message forbidding him to
commit himself arrive during the
period which elapsed between the
preparation Of his manuscript and
his rising to speak?
Some success has been had in mis-
representing the treaty situation,
but the game Of deception is about
played out. The ratification is not
held up and prevented by the major
ity IN the Senate, but By the Admin
istration.
By deferring ratification a SEEM
ingly desperate and bankrupt party
hopes to get some sort of issue for
the approaching campaign.
The Senate majority offered a
definite program. The answer was
a refusal to vote for anything ex-
cept unreserved ratifcatiom a policy
which Senator Hitchcock now ad-
mits is impossible, and support of
which necessarily implies opposition
to ratification at all.
This specific proposal was not only
rejected, but no possible counter pro-
posal was submitted. The vote on
ratification was delayed for days to
permit Mr.. Hitchcock to bring out
something. Nothing came from him.
He was tethered. He was gagged.
He wore a straitjacket.
Not only did the Senate majority
present formal proposal, but it re-
peatedly made other informal ones.
The co-workers with Senator Lodge
said they did not care about form,
and were willing to confer, on the
theory that many matters we're dis
putable. Would Senator Hitchcock,
with Senate votes back Of him, con-
fer? No, he would not, or, rather,
could not. He wanted the public to
understand he was for compromise,
but he was not.
All and sundry who are interested
in the ratification of the treaty
should know where to build the fire
to thaw out stubbornness. The heat
should be applied to the White
House, and nowhere else. The
League to Enforce Peace, if it really
believes in it's cause, should cease
bombarding Senator Lodge and his
associates and turn it's attention to
those who are keeping the door
closed.
1t is, of course, futile for the Sen
ate majority to bring up the treaty
again unless there is evidence that
the necessary two-thirds majority is
behind the ratification resolution to
be offered. 1t would be foolish to
have another roll call with the old
result
And the responsibility for lack
of another roll call Is aUith Senator
Hitchcock and those like him 1Vho
are aUilling to play the part of parti-
san dummies.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
In expectation of your present!
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE.

One may not be in accord with the
members of the American Legion who
cut the wires to the hall in Ithaca
though we doubt that they did it as
members of the A. L.-where Kreisler
was playing, and still not resign from
the Legion. The deeds of Hard Boiled
Smith and the alleged deeds of Captain
Detzer don't mean that the Army is no
good
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
For Our Information

Sir: You ask in reference to the be-
quest of 15,000.000 Does Princeton
get the money, and when? The donor,
who, by the way, though not college
man, has been one of Princeton's great
benefactors and was a trustee, had
made this will four years ago. That
it is substantially the amount for
which Princeton is making her drives
seems to be, in measure, coincidence
Owing to the affairs, taxes, ETC., it may
be that the university will, when this
great estate is settled, receive not
quite the full amount intended; but
whatever it may eventually prove to
be, it was left distinctly as an endow-
ment fund-that means, the income is
available for the running expenses of
the university, and the first thing to
be taken care of out Of this income
would be the increase in the salaries
of the instructional staff To bring
these up in the aggregate to the level
paid by the highest paid universities
IN this country would absorb the in
come Of $6,000,OO0. But there are
many more requirements in the way Of
the creation Of technical schools Of
engineering, extension of the curricu-
lum and the housing of undergradu-
ates that cannot be satisfied by Mr..
Frick's bequest. The immediate neces-
stiles are relieved, perhaps, but it is
certainly the duty and the great pre-
rogative of the alumni who are living,
who have benefited by what they got
from Princeton, to share in the great
opportunity to put their Alma Mater
in the first file Of the first rank and
insure her future.
Dear F. P. A., do you know that
every alumnus who leaves the uni
,a itxyo ri L. II L.
charges owes approximately $1,000 for
the mere education given to him, at
the end of the four years? Would it
not be greater matter Of rejoicing
if each alumnus had llquidated this
debt than if some wealthy patron had
discharged it by the stroke of a pen ?
The "drive"--a misused word-will
still go on; the proper buildings will
be erected, the great work will be
continued, the debt will not be foisted
on the shoulders of the few who have
always generously responded, nor will
it be discharged entirely by the
p!osthum1ous generosity, Of a wide
visioned, public spirited, perhaps, in
debt to the country will be doubIy un-
derwritten, for Princeton has been. is
now and always will be a national in
stitution.
The second paragraph is uninten-
tionally cutting. The last thing that
could have been said about Mr.. Frick
is that he was vain. He was always
simple, direct, forcible, but unassum-
ing and of a most retiring nature. In
his generous bcquests he has left no
mention of either memorial or a
building or tablet Each gift, un-
der his last will and testament, is
merely working capital tending al
ways to promote the health, the hap
piness or the best chances of educa-
ton of the living citizens and future
population of the country.
JAMES BARNES,
Princeton, 81.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
The Coming Tower
Just Before Christmas

1t is that happy season when
The bcllboys grow polite again;
When janitors fetch up the cream,
And give us plenty of nice steam.
The barber smiles the bootblack, too,
When he kneels down to shine your
shoe.
The elevator man returns
When he has passed your floor. He
yearns
To please you all he can. The maid
Is singing all day long, afraid
That she won't please you as she
should;
Even the cook is strangely good.
The waiter gives you heaps of butter,
And hears each order that you utter.
Your newsman brings the papers early !;
The laundrywoman isn't surly.
In fact, the whole wide world is
pleasant, "~
In expectation of your PRESENT.
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
Room for knowledge
From The Arkansas coz.,,

From The Arkansas Caxette,
Another encouraging thing about he
interest women are displaying in learn.
ing how to vote is the possibility that
tney Will share their newly acquired
knowledge with the masculine msnhs6 6
az thelr far,;1s.. ~
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13

The rank may be but the guinea's
stamp, as has been suggested; but the
guinea's stamp registers only about
$780,
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1919.

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ingenious as the drawings of Ignatz
are, we never should have written it
Xmas. Nor is the clip-cap on our non
self-iilling fountain pen located on the
barrel.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13

We are grateful to Mr.. Barnes for
his letter, which dispels the clouds of
an overcast mind.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-13

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It does look like white Christmas,
though. r p a
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-15
Wayne County's Mass Of Beauty is
Neglected BY Citizens, Say Artists

low bridges, Is one Of the county's
champion walks The season doesn't
matter. and despite the mud IT'S every
inch Q gem even on q wet day. This
whole region h Immensely rich In fol-
iage In the spring and summer. Ma
ture almost overdocs herself In fertile
valley land, and then turns abruptly
mp Q steep hill aud loses the travel In
miles Of rough, hilly country.
Canyons Are North.
Wayne county's canyons are north
Of the Henley stack on the Cart Road.
This road begins directly north of
Reid Memorial hospital, swings along
carelessiy for 1 while and then begins
. series Of steady ascents and de-
scents. The real canyons cannot be
seen from the road itself. but when
reached they are an invariable sur
prise because Of their beauty and
height. Weathering has been at work
In this region.
Turning northeast out Of Richmond
artists have many times sought Co
mer's Spring, on the second road east
Of the driving park, and other places
near the Pump House." The Estate
line" region has been considerably
painted.
Richmond artists have never turned
away and discarded this county and
other artists have occasionally discov
cred It and spent time here. Elmer
Wachtel came here once: Guesser and
Earhart, also Of Cincinnati, came here
IT only properly gathered believe
We could have q school equal to the
Barbizon school," said Mr.. Bundy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-15
CORN HuSkINC IS
Near END IN STATE

Corn huslking Is being completed in
Indiana under favorable conditions.
according to the weekly crop report
Of George G. Bryant, field agent Of
the cooperative crop reporting ser
vice. The report says that farmers
are using little additional help in the
work on account OF the high wages
asked by huskers.
The report IL as follows:
Favorable conditions prevailed
throughout the week and all farm
work progressed satisfactorily.
Corn husking is being completed
in most sections Of the state under
favorable conditions and with but
little additional help because Of the
high prices asked by huskers.
Reports OF Hessian fly in the
| wheat continue to come in from all
sections of the state in increasing
| numbers and more serious devasta-
ton. Many fields are being pastured
| with a hope Of saving some of them.
"The condition Of rye generally is
good.
Tobacco markets continue in a
flooded condition, with average prices
ranging higher than last week.
| Farm labor supply Is equal to the
demand in all sections Of the state
Generally farmers do not feel that
they can pay the high wages de-
handed.
with the exception Of a few scat
tered cases Of hog cholera all live
stock is in good condition.
| Pastures are very short and con
tain but little feed. Wheat and rye
fields are being substituted"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-15
METHoDIsTs HOLD TOOTH
CHURCH ANNIVERSARY

EVANSVILLE. Ind. &c. 15-Method.
lists from many towns In southern
Indiana and q few from northern Ken.
lucky towns came here today to at
tend the services held at the Coliseum
in honor Of the inc hundredth ami
versary of the holding of the first
services by the Methodists in this city
The services 100 years ago. were pre-
sided over by John Shrader, known az
Father john" who was one Of the
early itinerant preachers Of this sec
ton Of the state.