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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
to Guarantees
In Constitution Demanded

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Republican party, brought
into being on the principle of human
freedom and equal rights to all, puts
forth this declaration Of its principles:
The guarantees Of the Constitution
permitting free speech, free press and
free assembly must be preserved.
The right Of individual contract
should never be abridged.
Our industrial life should be 80 ad-
justed that the laborer shall receive
the fullest measure Of compensation
consistent in the employment Of CAPT
tai. to the end that its blessings shall
accrue to the humblest home.
Every great public utility should be
administered, not to promote fortunes
for the few, but to bring blessings to
the many. Educational service is the
keystone in the arch of this covenant
with the people. A. B. WEIGH,
Ontario County, N. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Better Chance Demanded
For Incoming Aliens
Law Held Too Complicated for
Understanding of Our Pros
pective Citizens

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We are living in an age of
social unrest, which is not to any
great extent due to the fact that the
people have lost faith in American
laws and institutions, but because they
have discovered, through bitter ex-
perience, that whenever it becomes
necessary to have recourse to the
courts Of law they are handicapned
by mass Of legal technicaIities
which befog the point at issue.
More and more the tendency mas
been to have two sets of laws. one
for the poor and one for the rich. The
reader of any daily newspaper will be
able to cite instances of this unfair
discrimination
The foreigner, coming to our shores.
IS seized upon by interruptions per
sons and, unfortunately, does not
come into contact with the better class
Of Americans. He naturally seeks the
fellowship and the guiding hand Of his
own race.
No promise of relief can be held
out for the future until this problem
has been carefully studied and there
has been . simplihcation Of our law
making and law interpreting system.
ERNEST COLLIER.
OIL Went 16Sth Street. New York City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Radical Era
In i. S. Laid to
Hasty Thinking
Precipitancy in Actions of
Men of To-day Is Traced
to Conditions Brewing
for Twenty five Years
War Removed Restraint
Solution of Problem Seen
to Lie With Next President
and Those in His Cabinet

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We are in an age Of headlong
thinking. We all to a degree are rad
zeal. Even the conservative would be
called radical by the conservative Of
forty years ago.
Previous to 1914 the development Of
mems efforts toward what we are
pleased to call economic emancipation
or industrial democracy had been
rather indefinite. The practical goal
for labor had involved wages and work
ing conditions. In few individuals
only, both laborer and executive,
broader vision had been revealed
For quarter century the new era
had been dawning, but the objective
was still dim.
Then came the WARMTH its effect
on thought and Imagination, stimulat-
ing, liberating. Mems minds reached
out with new assurance for that which
tney before had only dared look at,
AND for two reasons: The objective had
suddenly become clearer and the war
taught that restraints and inhibitions,
II only nerve and necessity drove them,
could be swept aside =
Thus, in four years there took place
IN the realm of economic and political
thought what thirty or forty normal
years might not have brought about.
is 1t strange, then, that there is here
and there precipitancy in mems &C.
tons?
These actions are the sequence of
thought, just as present day radical
thought is the sequence Of vague as
pirations Of the past.
The Republican party will soon have
the opportunity of leadership. 1t will
have to guide through turbulent
thought and select with wisdom and
tact the course that will progress with
the demands of popular thought and at
t the same time shun the bypaths Of un-
sound, fallacious doctrine. But this
wall be impossible if government of
selfish, little men is to be organized.
These problems can not be solved
through the incentive of personal am
bltlon or self-interest. For that rea-
son let there be no party promises
made now to good Republicans" that
Will later develop into necessity an
polntments to the Cabinet The man
whose services must be secured bv
such an advance understanding is nct
worth having. D. Fl n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Machinery Demanded
To Insure Efficiency
OF Cabinet Officers

70 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is to be hoped that the forth
coming Republican National Conven-
tion will take such steps as are neces-
sary to make Cabinet officers amenable
TO the people. During the last two
Wilson administrations practically
very department of government has
esen subjected to voluminous criticism
from every direction.
4 President Of the United States may
Be impeached. There is no public re-
dress against a Cabinet officer; and
here is certainly no redress under cir
sumstances in which the President re-
fuses TO yield to public opinion on the
theory that he will sacrifice no public
emc!al who 10 under fire."
Let the President, whoever he may
%. retain such sentiments; but Con-
9fsss should provide the machinery
pr reaching cabinet officers over the
BEAD Of the President through i'm
1eeehment, or other d,squalifying pro-
esdure. And the Republican party
you'd do we'll in declaring for such a
toliey. H. r. D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Preference inCiyi1
Service for Former
Soldiers Assailed
Merit Basis Is Demanded in
Dealing Out Jobs to Pro-
cure Applicants Most
Worthy of Being Hired
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems to me a very unwise
policy to give an unfair preference to
exsoldlers or sailors who may take
examinations for positions in the civil
service. l have no fault to find with
the official who voluntarily selects the
ex-service man from among the eliei-
bles when all other things are equal.
1t is perfectly justifable to allow the
rghtlng factor to determine an an
pointment in such cases, but it is a
grave error to give the soldier a fiat
load of, say, 10 per cent to begin with
or to permit him to dispense with the
examination entirely.
The practice is even more objection
able when viewed in the light of public
interest. Some localities have gone so
tar as to establish graduated scale 81
percentage allowances for ex-serv;ce
candidates for positions in pronortion
to the length Of time they served at
nome or overseas. AS if ten weeks of
military training in Texas or ten
months of fighting in the Argonne were
any indication of mans ability to
assert mail or to perform the duties
OF o., attendant in municipal SQUIRT! Are
the most competent men to be over
looked simply because, owing to cir
cumstances beyond their control, thew
were not engaged in military or naval
service?
| am sure that nearly all ex-service
men are sportsmen enough not to
wish for any handicap, and that thew
can readily appreciate how the appar-
ent advantage is in reality a detri-
ment. A good deal Of maudlin senti-
ment befogs the issue and resents any
ilrtimation that some civilians NAV be
better qualified than some soldiers for
certain particular positions in the
government. but political platform
must deal in actualitfes. The Repubn-
can party should pledge itself to make
the merit system exactly what it was
intended to bc-just, impartial. and
operative SO as to determine the fitness
OF applicants. G. w. FRIEDMAN.
26 New York Avenue, Brooklyn. N. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Education Listed
Among Big Issues
Republican Party Urged
to Take Definite Stand
for improvements

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: At this time, when there is
such an evident and widespread ex.
odus from the teaching profession in.
to commercial and industrial pursuits,
it seems as if some definite stand
should be taken by the Republican
party in regard to matters educa-
ti6nal.
The issue can hardly be overcm.
phasized.
Looking at it from the individual
standpoint, the need for cooperation
and assistance toward physical and
moral growth is insignificant compared
to that required for mental develop
ment by all but exceptional persons.
BY following a few simple rules the
individual can attain and maintain a
considerable degree of physical and
moral health, but the intellectual side
Of the balanced individual needs in
tcnsive cultivation.
Looking at the issue from mass
viewpoint, there is small gain from in
tense lndustrlal activity and large pro-
duction unless it really contributes to
the welfare Of the nation, and little
use of good will among men and ma
tons unless accompanied by mutual
service and progress.
The present movement away from tho
teaching profession is lesser national
menace than the facts concerning
school attendance. Educational sta
tistics show percentages of the popu-
lation that have had no schooling, have
not completed grammar school
course and have not completed a high
SEX DOL course which are staggering to
any one who may think that this is a
country Of educational opportunity.
This crisis must be met and it must
be handled effectively. We need more
schools, working more Of the time;
more and better teachers, better paid;
child labor laws with teeth in them
that will put and keep the child in
sch ool, where it belongs, and leave the
work Of the world for men and
women. The spectacle Of a so-called
civilization that hourishes by the
economic exploitation of little children
is nothing less than nauseating.
REID DAVIES.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Breach of Contract
A New Menace in
Industrial Unrest
Life of Trade Unionism De-
clared To Be at Stake i'm
the Present Rail Strike

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: No nation can hope to maintain
an orderly industrial life that permits
the abrogation of contracts by labor
1t is evident that the great issue in the
present rail strike is the right of
trade unionism to existence
1t may be conceded that if the rebel
forces win the old railroad organiza-
tions must perish or undergo such
radical changes in system that they
wilP no longer serve their purpose
Overthrow of the organizations is the
evident intent of the outlaws.
Every switchman now on strike is
repudiating his obligation to his en-
ployers as we'll as to his union and to
the public, and in absence of a firm
power in Washington the government
apparently is poweriess to remedy con-
ditions. The Labor Board may 70 a
long way, but it must be backed up by
undivided governmental support, and
our statute books to-day do not pro-
vide the machinery necessary to coun-
teract the evils Of such an industrial
crisis as the nation now faces.
A contract binds both parties. Union
ism means fundamentally that the en-
ployer and the employed, acting COL
lectively, can reach an agreement to
hours, conditions and wages that will
be faithfully and honestly carried cut.
Whenever it becomes apparent that
such contract may be treated as
nothing more than piece of white
paper and can be nullifed at will, di-
rectly or by subterfuge, the whole
basis of trade unionism is destroyed.
The Esch-Cummins bill seems too
liable to evasion. 1t is the forte of the
Republican party to insert plank in
it's platform that will invite the con-
tidence of both labor and capital-a
plank that will let the country know
what it may expect.
Then will labor and capital get down
to harmonious work and keep Mt it
until the Republican party is given op-
portunity to put curative legislation in
effect. The root Of all industrial evil
may be traced directly to the fountain
head in Washington.
MATTHEW C. BAINES.
Springfield, L. I.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Corporate Ownership

Ownership by the United States
government of Is per cent only of
the corporate stock Of every corpora
ton in the United States whose in
come tax return for the year proceed
ing the requirement Of said stock by
the government showed a net income
equivalent to 4 per cent or more of
the invested capital therein, and paw
ment therefor in United States 2 Der
cent nontaxable bonds, payable in
one hundred years from the date of
issue, to the end that the governments
and obligations be paid from the
earnings Of the business of the coun-
try, rather than from the net earn
ings Of the people as individuals,
And, with the establishment of this
ownership, the abolishment of the
income tax on natural persons
Bushrod Washington Wilson, Box
Bill, Corvallis, Ore.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Bring Taxes
Down. Raised
AS Party Cry
Demands Upon Treasury
for Any and All Aims
Must Be Curbed, He. Says,
to Safeguard Country
Danger in More Levies
Republican Party Advised
to Stand for Economy.
No Matter Who Walls
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The test as to whether or not
the Republican party deserves to be
entrusted with the management and
control Of the affairs Of tho nation
for the coming four yesrs will be found
in the absence Of any weasel words"
in the economy plank in the Republican
platform.
The most serious fact which con-
fronts the American Government is
the excess Of expenditures over in
come.
The best estimate available indicates
that the receipts Of the government fer
1921 from all ordinary sources Of tax
alton will fall below the expenditures
now made or contemplated, by nearly
$4,000. 100000. It IL impossible to keen
dipping money out Of the Federal
Treasury unless moro money IL put
into the treasury.
Whatever reasons may be advanced
at this time for . program Of Federal
assistance whereby millions of dollar.
are tobe poured into state treasures
to put teachers Of Americanization into
service, such a program means in the
coming four years q drain Of hundreds
OF millions of dollars from the United
States Treasury, and at this time there
is no available source from which such
hundreds Of millions Of dollars can be-
had except further tax on productive
effort-a further tax which must and
will be reflected and multiplied in the
cost of living
No matter how fine a plea may be-
general; for vocational rehsbilitat;on
OF persons injured in industry; for
Federal buildings, parks, rivers or
harbors, OR other government works:
Tor extension of the public health ser
vice; or for any other item of the
whole sociological and 'uplift' program.
each and every project, if undertaken,
means increased expenditures to be-
provided only by increased taxes on
production, at time when the only
way to meet the obligations which
already exist is by the present taxa
ton Of industry to the breaking point.
The one plank which taxpayers will
look for, and when found will be
scrutinized with exceeding care, and
which will win, if it bear the Stamp
Of honesty, will be the plank which
declares that the Republican party and
every man or woman elected to office
IN county, state or nation, who repre-
SCENTS the Republican party, will pledge
his or her individual and party effort
10 Keep taxes from going any higher;
to cut out every item Of government
expenditure that can be dispensed
with; and to reduce expenses below
receipts, no matter who nit removes
from the payroll, or what enterprise it
halts.
This plank can not be juggling Of
words; it must be an expression Of
CONVICTIONS. A. M. L.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Preservation of the Republic
Demands Safeguards in Treaty
To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.

To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.
Sir: The of
nationaism that the
scntatvcs OF the The
authority
sovereignty
establishment
that when Of
and matt for
We oarchy Of the Executive
to declars military
The Republic 10 In danger All patriots rally
2publn solidy
so7 wsst 1slss Street, New York. FRED T. SMITH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
High Time To Be United
Restoration Of Constitution De-
manded to Revive the
Rights of PeODlc

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The restoration Of the Consti-
tuition is necessary. We have had ou-
moral, civil and political rights vio-
lated. We have had almost eight years
Of government by coercion. We find
once friendly people bitter enemies. Is
it not time to turn around and bring
peace, love and Justice?
The Republican party must save tho
whole world from the chaos. Only by
eiecting man who stands for the
principles Of democracy can we ever
expect to win against the principles
II "denagogt." United We stand, d.
yided we fall. Let us be united. 1t
will pay. p. YORKSTONE HOGG.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

salk tor you try to stop them you are doing much
more for their cause than they can when let alone
me republican party should object to the present
Pcles being carried out in this relation on thu
VI our IDEALS and on the ground Of expediency Prob
aoy no american did more for the Bolsheviki than
certain Attorney General Repression does not work Il
~ the very things sought be suppressed
~ inc shortsghted bureaucratic way of DOING thinos
suppression does not treat human problems IN a hu.
ine Republican party should take Its stand in un
'erms IN favor OF the human. effective way of
treating spoken and written dissatisfaction: 49, :.
only IN TINS way that it successfully oppose tho
forces mat are working for revolution and danteora-
.on freedom of speech should DO advocated a. the
only e"ece've way Of fighting the elements that msE
for chaos and anarchy The plank may perhap. he
follows: 11' 10 ~oroeo
The Republican party pledges itself TO resstabi,b q.
inc OF our democracy freedom Of press and
freedom OF speech, in order that the ideals Of
ment for tho people and by people NAV ba reazed
Box IS, Sheldon Court Ithaca, ~ Y. rs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
10th Century
Nation. is Plea

10 The Editor Of The Tribune.
sir: The Jones- Resvis bill, pro-
posing the creation Of a Department
Of Public Works to supplant the
present Department OF the Interior.
smbodiss principle thst should be
speedily applied to the administra-
tive machinery Of tbs Federal gov
eminent.
4 ~ present the organization Of the
csysrnasaat In this respects can bs
rfop<riy characterized rs crazy
quilt patchwork OF bureaus and
sssneisG improperly co5rdinatsd
and III designed IN function scien-
t31eaily.
Both az sn official and ~ an en-
Esnssr am taking unusual interest
6 the sueesss Of the Jones~Reayis
I'D,
Ths EoveYsmsnts liks 4 private
1nsern, must abandon eighteenth
injury methods IT organization II
= u pxspes1y seAest tbs. capacity
!|| H..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Platform Contest to End Friday; $500 Planks Submit
To-Day's Prize Letter
A PIeo for Freedom of the Press and Speech

10 tho Editor of The Tribune
sir' The war to have been the occasion mar
,. '"'e 1or the undcmocratic elements in popu-
a' anoer the protective guse Of acting as shield
20 our institutions to their attacks on what
49, Ultimately the only hope and salvation of democ-
sacy-1reedom Of press and speech. These elements
A~se zone their work we'll and IL 1t is true, SONS
MAINTAIN that we sitting a volcano then It is
snese enthusiasts largely, that have caused it to be-
90 not question the motives that have led different
individuals and groups advocate drastic restriction
vi ireeo0m OF speech nor do question their sincerity
Aney may be sincere in their belief America can be
saved only by force by the strong But bayonets
never KILLED ideas; force has been the true god
ia'ner OF freedom 1t is perverted reasoning claims
That freedom can come from the lack of it.
1t VIII be said that running government is prac-
tlcal matter and cannot be done by ideals so-caed
That is just the point Government is practical mat
ter 1t is for that that restriction Of
dom of speech is ineffective and positively harmful
Let your radicals talk while you run the government
Tor then you will all the better your radicals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Conditions of tho
Platform Contest

Tho Tribune invites yss - WIN
plAnh for . Rspublican pls4zsssa
and 70 write letters shout planacs
proposed by ether ssodszs tAssouA
it, columns.
For the best planks and iseaass
The Tribune offers these prizes:
For the best plank. ....... .$See.eo
For the second best plank. 1Se.eo
For each of the eight next
best planks ............. loo.eo
For the best letter . daily
pfaxe OF ................ WV
For the best letter II tAs
whole competition 1000. loo1o
The Tribune will make up . plat.
fern Of tsn planks to b 1stszmiasd
b. your votes. Ths ten Issues -.
Giving the NEST vetss Win - ~
planks. The tan plains tAst ~
expesss the chosen Issues w111 u
selected For the prize awaras.
Each plank IL limited - 100 wssdA
OF two planks or letters Of squaS
merit the shorter will Be chosen.
Every plank and letter must bear
the name and address Of the sender.
although a nom de plume will b
published IL the writer desires.
Tho contest will close at midnight.
April 80, 1920. Manuscripts will mot
be returned.
Tho Judges Of tho contest Vim n
three q The Txibune's sditers. Thsv
viii base thsir dscisieua sa seunl
thinking and bssvity, sasasns1 anl
o&xangtA n sfntGsnanA. (
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
''Prime Factor" Wanted
Big Tasks Facing Next Presi.
dent Given Emphasis

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Washington was the prime fac
tor in creating the United States Of
America. ...l,
Lincoln was the prime factor in pre-
serving the nation from disintegration
Roosevelt was the prime factor in
purifying the government from forces
of corruption.
This Is peculiarly time for the next
President of the United States. who
can and will be the prime factor in
steering this country from unsdnd
tendencies now visible on the political
horizon, namely, class legislation. Red
anarchy, disregard for the rights Of
the public, disrespect for the Consti-
tuition and our institutions, wrong eco
nomic thinking, internatlonalism at the
expense of nationalsm and allied I'M
dermining forces, into sound channels
making for Anne rcansm.
The Republican party has great
opportunity before ito nominate that
next prime factor"
MICHAEL LAPIDEs.
81 Highland Street, New Haven,
Conn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Compulsory Naturalization

All persons coming into this coun
try or its possessions be compelled
to apply for citizenship papers after
two years from the time Of their ar
rival, and at the end Of five wears
take out their second papers, and
limited time set after the five-year
period, and if not taken out be de-
ported from this country to the coun-
try from where they came at their
expense: - George D. Murphy, Col
lege Point, n Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Federal Aid Demanded
To Upbuild Public Schools

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The continued welfare and pros
persty Of the country are dependent
On the efficiency Of Tho public school.
which Is truly the foundation Of an en-
li9htened career as we'll as Of modern
civilization itself.
In every part OF the Union and its
dependencies there should be ~ high
. standard Of public schools az obtains
in the enlightsned districts and estab-
lished by appropriate legislation. TO
that pufvoS1 Federal aid should be
granted wherever necsssary, I also
Syep0se that enAstmspt q lswS - make
vsssllesAl tsAlning ssmluleeszs -.
rx..,, - tea1a.Av 4: e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Unrest Laid to
Peace Slackers
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The high cost Of living and
consequent discomfort will be ell
minated when every ono produces
his share. A curtailment Of produc-
ton in things non-essential will
release capital, labor and material
for use in things moro important.
Every man physically able should
be obliged to engage in some es-
sential employment, producing
something actually necessary.
1t is the slackers in time Of peace.
as we'll as in war time, whose ac-
tions breed discomfort annonr loval
Americans. J. j. SCANLON.