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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
Social Problems in the Platform

There was no field covered by The
Tribune's platform contest in which
greater diversity of opinion de-
veloped thai. in the broad question
of social legislation. 1t was plain
that the general doubts upon such
problems as old age pensions and
unemployment insurance were shared
widely by the voters of the Republi
can party.
The same hesitation shows in the
report Of the advisory platform COM
mlttee on social problems. Those
eager reformers who are persuaded
of the desirability of all such
paternalistic experiments will be
disappointed by this document. The
general sense of the party will sup
port it, we think. Upon the two
items of social insurance last named,
for instance, the report concludes as
follows:
while neither old age pensions
nor unenl ployment insurance may yet
be considered ready for definite ac-
ton, sympathetic attitude toward
efforts to tighten the burden Of old
age and unemployment, and a recon-
mendation that either the states or
the United States continue investiga-
tons, is made by the committee"
Such must, we think, be the atti-
tude taken by the party at Chicago,
and such must be the outlook of any
Republican President elected To
commit the party further at this
time would be to leap ahead both
of the experimental legislation of
the states and of popular opinion.
Upon the question of child labor,
where the party's opinion has
crystalized, the report is gratifying
ly definite and outspoken. If the new
Federal child labor tax law is held
to be unconstitutional, a constitu-
tional amendment must be passed.
In the language of the report: of
this decision makes it apparent that
we should need to amend the Con-
stitution we should recommend that
unequivocally."
This is sound Republican doctrine.
The record of Republican states
upon social legislation is quite as
praiseworthy as the committee fig
ures present. Roughly speaking,
two Republican states have taken
each forward-looking step for every
Democratic state that has taken it.
The party must live up to this past.
The platform adopted at Chicago
must be as Enthusiastically progress
sive as must the candidates named
for President and Vice-P President.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
The Johnson Cabinet

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The editorial in "The Boston
Evening Transcript" of Saturday, Nav
20, under the heading, "Wood, johnson
or Penrose,' gives the delegates and
the people of the country food for
thought In a portion of a paragraph
we read:
His followers hope and believe that
with johnson in the White House soma
Thing closely resembling political, al
belt forceful, revolution would talle
place in the economic and business world
within the next four years. and that he
would go further than any candidate In
either party in the radical reorganization
THAT would be expected at Washington
In taxation and other matters concern
Ing which popular sentiment is aroused
to-day. His avowed aim would be 10
purge rather than destroy "blg business. >"
but tho pureing process would. without
doubt be severe. Prohibition might NOT
be modified, but the league Of nations
would be knocked into a cooked hat
With Senator Borah for Secretary Of
State and u radical Of Senator Kenvon,s
type for Attorney General, tho johnson
administration would be counted upon
to Keep tho pot boiling" at Washing
ton throughout tho four years ahead.
There is much in the above to set
everybody thinking. Would four years
of Johnson "hell bent adminstra-
ton be any more of benefit to us
than Wilson's past four years Of in
activity?
Take the suggestion of Borah for
Secretary Of State and Kenyon for
Attorney General Does this mean that
the floor Of the United States Senate
Is beng used in an attempt to de-
1e"t Major General Woods chances
Tor the Republican nomination in the
interests Of Hiram Johnson?
HARRY HUBBARD COOPER.
Boston, Mass, May 3D. 1920.
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More Plenty and More Leisure

The Kansas Industrial Relations
Court act, which compels those en-
gagged in basic industries to bring
their disputes into court for settle
ment, is thus referred to in the re-
port Of the Republican advisory COM
mitteo on platform:
THE results Of our inquiry show
that the general principle of the
Kansas Industrial Court in it's ap-
piication to government employment
is favored by very large majority
Of those who have answered our
missionaries The same is true,
although. the majority is not quite
SO large, in the application of this
principle to public utilities. In pri-
vate employment, however, a large
majority is opposed to the principle"
With the ajority opinion thus ex-
pressed the committee seems in
agreement. 1t would apply the new
law to public employment and to
limited number Of public utilities,
but would not place the great body
Of private employment under COM
pulsion.
Touching private employment, the
committee urges the creation of new
agencies to make voluntary arbitra-
ton more common. Heretofore a
great weakness has been the need Of
establishing special tribunals. The
committee would not only have con-
Citation systematized, but would
have tribunals or boards investigate
even though not called in.
But the committee would mainly
rely on economic prcssure--on the
action Of tho laws called natural.
Rivalry Of interest exists between
employers and the employed, but
there IS also an unacceptable partner
ship Of interest. 1t looks to educa-
ton, Intelligence and experience to
prevent i too lively perception Of
the riyalries destroying tho vital
sense Of the partnership and its ben
efts. The committee expects no
miracle. It's inquiry, it modestly
says, and the examination Of thou
sands If qucstionnaires "do not
point the way 70 any certain road
to industrial security and peace"
Production is the common mother
NJ the gains IF both labor and CAPT
tai. Wages are paid out of its store,
and normally wages cannot exceed
the sum If production. The wage
worker property demands just dis
trjbatiou II goods fabricated, but he
IL more Interested in 4 steady accel-
Grafton II prodoctien, and hence in
stimulating arrangements 10 do their
work well, driving out their incf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
The German Drive
4 Soldier Who Feels That CHARITY
Should Begin at Home

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The streets of this city are being
infested by German women who solicit
money, saying it is to be used for the
relief of the "starving" children of
Germany and Austria. The two soici-
tors who accosted me spoke with notice
ably German accents, yet they declared
that the drive was being conducted by
Americans actuated by sense of hu-
manitarianism.
Before Americans squander their
hardearned cash on any such cause
there are d few questions which should
be considered
Are German children suffering to any
greater extent than American children :?
People with German names stand eager
to pour their tales of woe into the ears
of all who viii listen. On the other
hand, Americans who have been in Ger
many recently tell us that the children
of America are as a whole in far greater
nee" to-day than German children. We
have learned through bitter experience
that it is far from safe to believe She
word Of German on any subject.
One of the solicitors told me that tie
German children are innocent and
should not be made to suffer for the sins
of their fathers. Maybe. The fathers
who committed almost unbelievable acts
of wantonness and depreciation during
the war were the children of the Huns
who acted in a similar dastardly man
ner in 1870. The German children of
to-day will undoubtedly grow up and
repeat the acts of their forefathers.
What reason have we to believe other
wise?
enlisted few days after the
declaration of war by the United States
and was injured slightly over there. Nv
wound might have been much worse,
and I'm glad to say I got of as easily
as I did.
Did we go overseas, leaving our homes
and businesses unattended, suffering
hardships such as only an A. Z. f. man
knows Of, and riskng almost certain
death. only to come home and be told
that it is our duty as human beings to
neglect our own needy and to turn the
ether check to the race that did its
damncdest TO wipe us off the face of
the earth? Shall we now turn and
help that race build up its strength so
that it may be able to menace the
world again in few years?
Germany declares she was not
beaten, and that she will take the
first opportunity to tell the world she
will and can lick the universe single
handed. Then she has the nerve to
ask US to provide the club with which
we are to be beaten
ARTHUR T. RICHMOND.
New York, June l 1920.
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fcient rivals and pushing distribu-
table production to steadily higher
levels.
To these principles the Republican
party, which on the economic side in
dicted slavery for its poor manage
ment, was committed in it's early
days, and the committee would not
depart from them. More food, bet
ter clothes, more commodious shelter,
greater leisure, a larger self-respect,
a more general diffucion of culture
and a mere universal participation
in the beauties of life-these are the
ends to which social action should be
directed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
Anti-Armeniian
A Bitter Critic Who Is Strong.
ty Opposed to the Mandate
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of MAJ % Nj.
Constant Southworth warmly advo-
Gates our acceptance Of the mandate
over Armenia. The diffculties aad ex-
pense DO not appal him. The fact that
had the task been desirable some other
country would have had 1t $ rot con-
sidercd.
The friendship for Armenia that is
displayed in some quarters caa only
be explained by the circumstance tina.
worthless people frequently excite the
sympathy of altruists. The Armeuisns
pretend to be Christians; they belong
to neither tho Greek nor the Roman
church. They are merely not Mos
lem. The Christian virtues are to them
utterly unknown.
The Hon. s. S. Cox, sometime or
Minister to Turkey, had low opinion
Of the Armenians as a race. He tells
story Of an English traveller in Ar
menia. This traveller had a Turkish
attendant. Being fatigued, he dis
mounted under tree, bidding bis
Turk go to the top Of small emnence
and see if there were any suspicious
looking persons about. Presently the
Turk returned and treasured his mas
ter, saying: There is rot Christian
in sight"
The Turks tolerate all religions. As
a people they are brave. honest ana
Industrious, rather dull and kina
hearted, excepting when their fanar-
cism is aroused, and even then they
are not so cruel as was the revered
John Calvin. who caused Servetus 70
be bu~ned at the stake for the heinsl'
error of believing adult baptism 10 re
as eihcacious as infant baptism.
The Christian virtues do not depea"
on creed or dogma. AS opponents O.
these virtues. the Turks shine IN COW
parison with Armenians.
ROBERT w. LEONARD.
Mount Kisco. n. Y, June /, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
ting the few remaining manufac-

ting the few remaining manufac-
turers completely out Of business.
Representative Tilson, of Con-
necticut, has prepared bill that
bases the duty on these machines on
their original cost and not upon
the amount for which they We're
purchased from the British govern
ment.
The emergency is acute. General
Mitchell, of the United States Air
Service, declares that if this ma
terial is admitted to this country it
means the end of the military air
service. at will mean throwing
away the key to our front door,"
he says.
The three companies incorporated
in Maryland to sell these machines
and certain officers Of the Aero
Club of America, who are backing
the scheme, have adopted delaying
measures to prevent the enactment
Of this bill so as to give the ma
chimes already on the way a chance
TO be entered into the country at
the lower value.
Congress must push this emer-
gency measure through before ad-
journment to save American avia-
ton from complete ruin. The meas
ire itself will not prohibit foreign
machines from entering the country,
but it will prevent the dumping here
of surplus war material.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03


in his crowded career because in his
youth he laid up stores of physical
energy and self-command. Once
when wounded, his biographer re-
lates, he completed the business in
hand, and then, standing before
mirror, took four stitches near his
eye.
No need is there to worry over
this man serving out his term. In
these days it is necessary to invent
some excuse to justify opposition to
him other than the one that the
country should not have another
wheel-chair President.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
Canada : War Bill
BY Franz H. Simonds

Last Sunday I discussed in some de-
tail the financial aspects of the settle
ment with Germany Since that time.
one specific circumstance of much in
torest has been supplied by the pres
entation Of bill for reparations by
Canada. Our neighbor on the north
asks from Germany something a little
less than $2,o0o,000,000 as reparation
and indemnity for the costs of the war
to the Dominion. The exact figure is
$1,81 100000.
Now, this figure supplies an interest
ing basis of calculation. In the first
place, Keynes estimates the total
PREPARATIONS. which the British Empire
might claim. as a little less than So
00o,000,000 as against $4,000 100000 BY
the French. But, in addition, he pre-
scribed method Of payment, stretched
over q long period Of time without in
terest, which gave to the British share
present value of approximately ST.
400,000,000. We have, then, from Ca
NADIA a bill which amounts to ma
terally more than the whole sum al
lotted to the British Empire by
Keynes.
Una~r the Keynes proposal, then, if
Canada is paid her price not only will
the United Kingdom receive nothing.
but Australia, New Zealand, South AT
r,ca, all the British colonies and do
minions will go equally unremunerated
for financial sacrifices which, in the
case of Australia alone, must equal
those of Canada.
Carlada's Claim,
Now, at Hythc there was adopted
tentative financial program which
fixed at 100000 loco approximately
the total reparations payment of Ger
many. But again. this was to be
stretched over long period Of time
and interest was eliminated. Thu, the
present value of the reparations would
be but $4,000 100000 and the total
British share but 50 ,50O,OOO.oO0. since
the British Empire, under agreement
with her allies, will obtain only quar-
ter of the total Preparations payment.
But accepting Canada's claim and
placing that Of Australia at the same
sum, or even placing the combined
claims of Australia and New Zealand
at the Same amount, the whole Of
the payment to the British Empire il
absorbed and there is nothing left for
the United Kingdom, much less for
India or South Africa.
Now, midway between the KEYNES
proposal and that tentatively adopted
at Hythe is the American proposal
presented at Paris by the financial ex-
ports of the American Mission to Make
Peace and recently advocated again nv
Paul d. Cravath. This proposed total
German payment of $4,000, 900 900 with
present value. since it would bear
no interest, of 100000. But thu
British share of this would be but ST.
S7e,O00,O0O. In othvr words, under the
Keynes plan the total payment to the
British Empire by Germany would
amount to nearly 100000 900 less than
the bill of Canada alone. Under the
American plan it would just cover the
Canadian claim and leave nothing for
the rest Of the empire. Under tho
Hytho proposal it would provide enough
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
The Hyfhe Proposal

FINALLY, we have the Hythc proposal
winch doubles the sum held by Ameri-
can representatives to be the maximum
to be gotten from Germany. and nm
der the Hythe scheme, it becomes clear
that the share of the British Fnn;re
will no more than discharge the claims
of the two largest ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and Australia-without making nnv
provisions for the actual destruction
Of British property and shipping be-
longing to the United Kingdom. which
Keynes estimates at $3.50 900 900.
But what will be the feeling in Can
ada if her claims are scaled down 80
would be inevitable under the uvtbe
proposal, to sum certainly not moro
than half of the demand and probably
to less than quarter? Indeed r
the sum allotted to the British is frs.
applied TO repayment for actual
distractions by the Germans. then
there will be left only approximately
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
The Keynes Fignres

Again, Canada asks more than KEYNES
would allot to Belgium as reparation
Tor destruction due 20 wanton violence
and restitution to meet German steal
lrgs during the four years of occupa-
ton. Canada would, too, fare far bet
ter than Italy, despite the fact that
most of the Province Of Venetia was
rnvaged BY German and Austrian troops
following the defeat of Caporetto.
which was the direct consequence of
the dispatch of German army to the
Alps and is therefore chargeable to
the Germans.
dwell upon this Canadian item be-
cause 1t sheds great deal of light
upon the whole question of indenni-
ties IS we'll as of separations. In point
of fact, Keynes and his school insist
that none of the Allies is entitled to
any indemnities; that under the term
OF the armistice Germany could only
be asked to make good for destruction
and seizure and not at all for tho costs
Oh the war
BY contrast, the American represent
atiVe at Paris argued that Germany
might perhaps be justly taxed with
the costs Of the war, but whatever her
moral responsibility, it was physical
lnpossibility to extract more than sl5-
ooo,oOO,Ooo, and that, as Is obvious. this
sum would no more than pay for the
restoration Of the regions devastated
oy German acts and of the ships sunk
by the German s11hmarin
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a Humble Race

'From fhc ST. PAM D'eiiD Nc,cs)
At this distance there appears to la
nobody in Mexico who is too proud to
fight.
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Quaint Doesn't Describe 1t

OudAHC DOcSit DcSCIlUS II
dear F.p.a.
have you seen
the may number
of the dial?
there are
some poems by
e. E. cummings
which run just
like
this
and this
few caps
queer spac
ing
and
Everything
perhaps they mark
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a new School
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rather quaint
what?
OSCAR.
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Thoughts on the Convention

Thoughts on the Convention
When matters political make mo Their
stcal,*
(*Look it up: took tho time to ,+>
feel an imperious urge to do serious
Stuff with a kick and a rhvmo to i
Inc news unconventional makes mo
INTENTIONAL
Ardent to write something irneous.
But nothing sequarous hits nv cal
CareOuS
Bean, or my dome superligncous.
Despite my unreliable wish for indel;b,o
Fame, and some laurel and bav
with it,
I'm no good at all at it; though NAV
stall at it,
SIMPLY cannot get away with it.
+. p. A.
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Mrs. Connors knows nothing of eco
Monies
And cares less.
She has never heard
Of the Malthusian theory,
But mention of the miracle
Of the loaves and fishes
Angers her.
Mother Hubbard had only dog,
But Mrs. Connors las baby to feed
j. d. Mem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03
AVARICE

to pay Canada and Australia, but not
penny for the United Kingdom.
Now, looking at the thing a little
differently, if Canadas bill is S1.s71.-
ooo,ooo what possible justice can there
be in putting the claim of France at
s2,o62,50o,000, as does Keynes Chat is,
substantially that of CANADA, or at So
O25,000,0o0, $ did the American com
mlssioners at Paris, when this sum no
mere than equals the claims of Can
ada and Australia alone? Certainly no
one will pretend that either Canada
or Australia suffered any losses due to
German devastations, and Keynes
places. the French loss from this
source alone at $4,000, o0o,o 900, and
Keynes is VIGOROUSLY low in such esti
mates.
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Manhattan Miniatures

The Striker
Slig Connors, now on strike, believes
That his boss is crook,
That the foreman is tyrant,
And that the high cost of living
Is conspiracy of the politicians
To ruin The workingman.
Besides all this, Slig is convinced
That this spring weather
Is much too pleasant for work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03

1t is DR.. John Bassett Moore's con-
viction that two years is the proper
period for a President to hold office.
We incline the other way. We should
like to see the term heightened to ten
years, or even twenty. The expense of
campaigns and conventions would be
lessened; and the anti and the pro-
President editorial writer's would &C
quire the habit of writing the kind of
editorials they write so that, after six
or seven years of it, they could insert
a sheet of paper into the machine, go
out to lunch, and come back to find the
piece written.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03

According to c. A. P. another men,
Der of the o. f. nightgarb club, he likes
'em with collars, buys 'em with collars.
and wears 'em with collars; and not
made TO order, either, but from trade
marts on Fifth and Sixth avenues.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-03

The anti-husband propaganda, men
oncd recently herein, continues. at
was noticeable says the Sun. speaking
Of Senator Newberry's sentence, that
the most emotion was displayed by wives
of those whom the jury failed to con-
Wet"
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and Marcellus Murdock are a few we
should have confidence in.
Dulcinea has new hat. "What could
be sweeter?" she asked US Yesterday
as it costly?" we inquired. "You
don't know the half of it," she thrilled.
The Senate" says the Times, twas
IN ono OF its serious, deliberate ses
SONS Praise far from faint.
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