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New-York tribune., 1920-05-23

industrial democracy, so-called, is
it's failure to consider the future.
1t all that is produced is at once
divided and consumed, who will
teed those engaged on works not
Immediately productive? Except for
the plant inherited from the old re.
glme the Leninites would be labor
ing to-day with only hand tools.
Present Russia is gradually wear
ing out her estate and replacing
little. Her fate, if there is not re-
building, may be easily imagined.
The planet may yet be inhabited
by race so intelligent and self dis
cipllned, and so perfectly altruistic,
that all will work, as Kipling
dreamed, for the JOY of working.
But this glad day is not vet. Man
must be considered as he is. AS he
is, it is shown that undiluted Boil
shevism pushes a people back into
the conditions which prevailed about
1000 B. c., or which prevail to-day
in China, where Confucanism ar
rested material progress. Moreover,
1t is shown that diluted Bolshevism,
which even we have in weak form.
proportionately palsies. The Ital-
lans, the French, the British proba-
bly, suffer more because of their
dalliance with the new ideas than
from the war. Germany and the
Central countries are even more
greatly paralyzed by the same cause,
the intensity of distress being pro-
portionate to the ingestion of the
Russian poison.
Whenever capitalism, despite its
abuses, has planted it's foot, there is
a growth of the welfare of the null
titude. Wherever the flag is red, or
even pink, is an access of general
misery. Is not the lesson plain?
Is it not proclaimed with clearness?
What happens to aristocrats and
even to the middle classes, except so
far as their destruction involves loss
to the millions, is of small conse-
quence. On this basis capitalism and
Bolshevism are both to be Judged,
and judging them by this criterion is
there doubt Of the verdict?
The swine of the Bible were not
happy when under demoniac posses
sion, but when they rushed over a
precipice they did not cure their dis
ease or add to their bliss. Those who
are devoting themselves to opposi-
tion to even partial acceptance of
revolutionary socialism are laboring
not for class, but are the true
friends of the whole human race.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
The Man Who Went

To the Editor OF Thc Tribune.
Sir: My grandfather fought in the
Civil War and refused to ask for a
pension, although entitled to one
During the recent war l served in
the armies both of France and the
United States. I favor bonus.
The United States entered the war
a year and seven months before the
armistice was signed. During that
period of time a soldier earned from
1925 to $3.50, much of which went for
insurance, allotments, etc; a clerk in
CONNIE rcial house between $500 and
$4,000; the government had many soft
jobs for those with political or social
pull paying $4,000 for that length Of
time; and shipyard workers, among
whom were many "too proud to fight" ,"
received $4,000 to $4,000 So that
shirkers and others had more than
enough, and when the soldiers we're
discharged took prom otion first because
Of practical experience gained in their
line of business.
This country is acknowledged the
richest on earth While the war lasted
it reveled in an orgy of squandering
money, having been defrauded of tens
of millions Of dollars on camp sites,
supplies and the erection Of factories
Thousands of millionaires were made,
in which luck and graft played no in
Ior 1o ~ 10
favorlte SON. of course, had nothing
to do with it.
The above mentioned non combatants
lived in lie of comparative ease and
luxury, in most instances gaining vo-
cational training, and received an av-
erage salary over $4,000 above that
of the soldier. Now along come many
wounded, disabled soldiers, and others
in hard luck, who have every claim
upon the generosity of this country.
What does the United States do? Does
ii indulge in an orgy of spending money
in order to see that those who most
deserve it are adequately cared for?
No. Although Canada, England and
France. whose financial standing is
much below that of the United States
can afford to give their soldiers a
bonus, We can afford in many instances
to almost ignore the disabled blinded
and unfortunate, and in some instance $
almost cast them into the gutter
When historians of the future look
back and write the history Of the re-
CO Mt war the words misfit and incom
viii 5c applied Ii nearly all the admin
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
would mean simply laying of Of
production for few days while this

would mean simply laying of Of
production for q few days while this
money is spent, and in most cases, it
is reasonable to suppose, foolishly.-
The country is taxed to death now,
and I fear at the end Of this year
there will be grand awakening when
the income tax reports are received.
Many people find it cheaper to go out
of business than to continue to work
their backs off, when il they do win
they pay the majority over to the gov
ernment. The retroactive feature of
the proposed taxation is most vicious
principle.
In conclusion let me say that | have
always voted the Republican ticket
but if this bonus bill is put thl ough
am frank in saying that my vote,
well as many others, will GO the
other way, provided the Democrats
have sense enough to put up candidates
of character and standing.
w C. COLES.
Summit, N. j., May 81, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
Houses at Last

A public service of widespread
benefit is the move by the Nero
poltan Life Insurance Company an
nounced in The Tribune to-day.
Twenty millions loaned for the con-
struction of houses that can be sold
for $4,000 or less means from four
to five thousand new houses avail
able next year. That is a large bite
into the housing problem that faces
New Y ork and that is growing hour
ly more serious.
The question of credit, of fnancial
backing for home building, is the
crux of the matter, as The Tribune
survey has developed. Every great
financial institution owes a duty to
give such aid as it can in this emer-
gency. The millions of capital of
the Metropolitan could not be
turned into a more useful channel
than that proposed. The time is
plainly one where our reservoirs of
capital must be used with due re-
gard to the welfare Of the entire
community. The Tribune is glad
to have been of aid in effecting this
partial solution of the housing prob
lem and hopes that from this sub
stantial beginning an extended cam
paign of building will flow sufficient
to meet the whole shortage, present
and prospective.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23

piled hint of separate negotiations
with Germany. His Oregon letter
shows that he wants to take his case
TOR Presidential monopolization of
the treaty power to the voters. He
is for his drafts of the treaties with
Germany and Austria against all
substitutes. SO long as he remains
IN that implacable mood Congress
cannot prod him into seeking a new
way to restore peace relations with
our nominal enemies. Nor cannot it
hope to repeal domestic war legisla-
ton except by overcoming his veto.
But Congress has at least round
Cd out the record which is to be sub
mitted to the country. The fact that
nineteen Democratic Representatives
voted for the Knox plan empha-
sizes again the Democratic drift
away from the Presidents peace pol
icies. His Oregon letter has appar-
emily failed to defeat Senator Cham
berlain for denomination. Vice
President Marshall voiced the feel
ing of a powerful element in the
Democratic party when he protested
the other day against the excommu-
nication of Democrats who do not
sympathize with Mr.. Wilson's de-
mand that the Senate take his draft
of the treaty or nothing.
The passage of the Knox resolu-
ton will not break the treaty dead
lock. But it helps to clarity the
issue between executive absolutism
IN the exercise of the treaty power
and the joint responsibility provided
for in the Constitution.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23

istrative heads at Washington for al
loving these conditions to exist. They
had wonderful opportunity to build
up fine morale and enthusiasm for
the average fighting man. Through
miserable bungling they have allowed
not heard one man in ten (actual count)
say he would volunteer his service. in
another war.
This may sound like a list of griev-
ances, but it is not. 1t is a statement
of injustice; and since justice to all
was one of the principles on which this
war was fought, we might start by
practicing what we preach.
realize that this is an extremely
ungracious letter; it is also true that
extremely ungracious acts of the Ad-
ministration in regard to soldiers have
called it forth.
1t is practically impossible to find
out who does or does not need a
bonus. Either all combatants should
be paid, or none. Under. the circum-
stances it is better to pay all. What
shall do with a bonus, if granted ?
Give it to some disabled or unfortu-
nate soldier, and should t be $3.50 it
won't take 500 for investigation to
find one, either
ONE WHO WAS MADE AN OFFI-
GER AFTER SERVICE AT THE
FRONT.
New York, May IS, 192Os
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
Disappearing Game
of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have just finished reading Will
lam T. Hornaday's article in Sundays
Tribune, and as | consider myself an
average hunter and sportsman | feel
that ought to try to defend my broth
er Nimrods.
In telling his little story about how
in New York State l think Mr.. Horna-
day lays himself open to criticism How
many of the 100000 licensed hunters
in New York State does Mr.. Hornaday
hunting season? Probably some of
Mr.. Hornaday's rich hunters, who have
nothing but time to kill and money to
kill it with And how many of these
or how many of our real hunters are
going to kill twenty-five ducks, eight
geese, etc, for every day of the open
season? None, absolutely none, Could
one man shoot 2,275 ducks in ninety
five days? Not even Mr. Hornaday
himself, a supposedly great hunter.
could do it, let alone the average hun
ter who spends maybe ten days as a
total afield. And yet, according 10 Nh
Hornaday 100000 are going to do it,
True, the game, As a whole, is L.
creasing, but Mr.. Hornadays ideas of
stopping this are, as whole. absurd
The only way of doing this IS TO put
a closed season or several seasons on
the game that is decreasing. not boost
ing the price of hunting licenses.
F F. MULLER.
Ilhaca Y Y MAY u 142n
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
Clarifying the Record

by adopting the Knox resolution
the House of Representatives has ac-
centuated the issue between the
PRESIDENT and Congress. A state of
war with Germany continues because
PRESIDENT Wilson will not permit
fatlhcatlon of the peace treaty on
any terms but his own. He has tried
perslStently to abridge and annul the
Nehate's right to participate in the
exercise of the treaty-making power,
since it is beyond question that but
lor MS personal intervention enough
democratic Senator's would have
voted for the Lodge draft, with
reservations, to give it two-thirds
majority.
deadlock exists which the Pres
'aehr prefers to see maintained until
e''er the Presidential election. This
0eaolock keeps alive legislation
was intended to lapse after
'"e war emergency was over. There
strong public demand for the
'eSVoration of the peace status
specially in the domestic field. Con-
s'eSS' which has the sole right to
ueclare war, has also an undoubted
''ght to declare war at an end and
10 repeal domestic war legislation.
~ tries to do this by passing the
"''ox resolution. 1t can, moreover,
Express the wish that the President,
lie Is determined not to allow the
senate to qualify the treaty with
~ e'stVations to which he objects,
a" s"a" negotiate new treaties with
~ oTe'fnany, Austria and Hungary.
-"e hnox resolution does ask him to
enter into separate negotiations
s'n Austria and Hungary. No one
s a'uots that he Will reject this sug-
AsS'ion' and also will ignore the i'm
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
The Omniscient Rupert

From The Cleveland Plain Deals-)
(All occult things 90 per cent fraud.
They are so per cent intentional fraud and
90 per cent unintentoral fraud.-Rupert
Hughes in his Advertising Club speechD
NE HOLD no brief for ouiJa boards.
" We never had much truck with
ghosts;
Our own experience affords
No passages with unseen hosts.
We are not one of those who lauds
The Lodge cum-D Doyle idea-but when
You say "all things occult are frauds"
Rupert, that's something else again.
It's this way, Mr.. Rupert Hughes
Whene'er we hear fellow say
A thing like that, we start to lose
Our own cocksureness, right away.
1t takes but little mental skill
To say, sans proof, that creeds ars
We were an atheist, until
We heard an atheist dogmatize!
"All things occult"-that's taking in
A lot of territory, friend.
1t means all things ere lives begin.
And all things when they come 70
end
1t means the songs Of bards inspired,
The hidden Cause of all Result.
Che spark wherewith the soul is fired
You cannot trace-it is occult.
What do you know of death or birth
Who give the lie TO mysteries,
More things there are in heaven and
earth
Than dreamed in your PHILOSOPHERS.
And, though We laugh at victims awed
BY pseudo-psychic ee-faw-fum,
What right have we to brand as fraud
The unexplained residuum?
he has not proved his case, and you
Condemn him for asserting it.
Right. But what is it that you do
That's different one single whit!
We find you guilty of bad taste,
And your bald bigotry a part
With what King David said in haste
With what the fool saith In his
heart.
TED pODJNCnN
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
The Choice of Salamis

After Salamis, recalls The VII
lager, which is not above deriving
instruction from history, the gen.
erals Of the Greek states had to de-
eide which of them should be given
the prize. Each general voted for
himself. But, though the votes for
first place were scattered, everybody
agreed Themistocles was entitled to
second place, which proved, of
course, that Themistocles was not
second, but first.
In the contest for the Republican
Presidential nomination there is a
bewildering number Of first choices,
but The Villdger notes there is a
strong drift toward unanimity
touching second choice. No name is
mentioned, but The Tribune ventures
to guess what name must spring to
every ones mind. 1t is that of
Leonard Wood. He is the first choice
of the greatest number of delegates
but more notably the second prefer
ence of a still larger number.
Would-be managers Of the conven-
ton are celebrating pretentious anti
Wood card structures, but there is
likely to be topping when there is
an attempt to concentrate In Ore
gon General Wood, if not first choice,
is second choice. and what is true of
Oregon is true of scores of states.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
In the City Of Night

To THE MEMORY OF EDGAR ALLAN
POE
From The A;i1lo-Frerch Rcp4e.o)
EITY of night,
~ Wrap me in your folds of shadow
City of twilight
City that projects into the west,
City whose columns rest upon the sun
set, city of square, threatening
masses blocking out the light;
City of twilight,
Wrap me in your folds Of shadow.
City of midnight, city that the full
moon. overflows, city where the
cats prowl and the closed iron
dust-carts go rafting through
the shadows;
City Of midnight,
Wrap me in your folds of shadow.
City of early morning, cool fresh
sprinkled city, city whose sharp
roof peaks are splintered against
the stars, city that unbars tall
haggard gates in pity,
City of midnight,
Wrap me in your folds Of shadow.
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: Your usually good political
economy seems to have gone q little
awry when you consider the subject
of the soldiers bonus bill. "The aver
age citizen who stayed at home profited
by the war" in the same way that
the average citizen profits by a con-
flagration, or the San Francisco earth
quake. In other words, a great deal
of his property is destroyed.
This is an old idea which The Trib.
une ought not to try to perpetuate
We sent abroad and put into non-pro-
ductive occupations 5000 900 of our best
young men. We employed, say, 5000 900
more in supplying the 100000 whom
we had in active service with things
that they would not have used up if
they had not been in active service.
The wages in nominal dollars of those
who stayed at home went up, and so
did the prices of everything they had
to buy, because there grew to be
scarcity of those things and because
we issued great many dollars based
upon Indebtedness. Some few profted
as they always do, but the people grew
poorer, and we are now nowhere near
as well off as we should have been
if there had been no war
You talk about the moral obliga-
tion and the debt of honor to those
who went, and say that Secretary Hons-
ton has confused two issues, namely,
"the> moral question Of recognizing a
just obligation and the financial ques-
tion of how the money is to be raised
to meet it." There is no moral ques-
tion involved of recognizing any just
obligation to the rank and file who
came back a great deal better than
they went out.
Reduced to it's simplest form, a fam
lily of ten settled on dangerous from
tier deputies one of the boys to keep
watch against attacks and to repel those
attacks. They furnish him with food,
with clothes, with weapons, with am
munition. The father and mother and
the younger children stay behind and
work hard to produce this ammuni-
ton, food and clothes, and when the
danger is over the boy comes back
and resumes his place and begins to
work with the family. The family is
not as we'll off as it would have been
had he been working with them all
the time. He has done his part, how
ever, and they are all grateful to him
and little poorer all together. They
may feel like celebrating peace when
he comes home, but if he is a good
son he will not demand that the fam
lily subject itself to further privations,
and he will not consider that the fam
lily owes him any debt of honor" He
will be glad to have been able to
serve and they will be proud of him
If the family can afford it they can
give him a present 1t isn't debt
OF honor, though, and the question Of
whether they shall give him a present
or whether they shall not give him a
present depends very largely on
whether they think they can afford to
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
The Bonus Debate
Why a Soldier Fauors Bonus and Why Tuo Ciuilians
Consider 1t Neither a Wise Gift Nor Debt of Honor

do it or whether they do not think
they can afford to do it, and Secretary
Houston has not confused the two is
sues, but he is entirely right
The question as to whether we shall
give the soldiers present depends,
provided our inclination is to do so,
Oh whether we can afford it. On this
subject the Secretary of the Treasury
is good man to consult
R. w. HUNTINGTON.
Hartford, Conn, May 81. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
Another Amerongen

With the reported death of Car
ranza of Mexico the curtain appears
to have dropped on the final act Of
another Drama of the Dictators. J"
Another stubborn, would-be poten-
tate, sitting on shaky throne, has
found life and events too strong for
him. But instead of flight to an
Arerongen, the principal defer of
fate in this particular piece elected
10 fight it out in the hills and met
Death as the reward.
One of the clearest summaries of
Carranza's disease was furnished by
Manuel Calero, Ambassador to the
United States under the Madero ad-
ministration, who wrote in 1916:
"Defaulting in the promise he made
10 Mexicans of initiating the rev.
olution-reestab of consti-
,utional eovernment-Carranza has
pretended " Is ID OlIoll d U4eNd w :
snip by the side of which those of
Santa Anna and Huerta appear like
the play of children"
Calero pointed to the closing of
tribunals Of justice, the suspension
Of the individual guarantees of the
constitution. attacks on religious
liberty, a muzzling of the press, the
prohibition of political meetings
and disorganization of the whole
mechanism of the government to
suit his caprices. Calero went on
to say:
pres dent Wilson said to Carran-
"a; What Mexico needs is consti-
-ational government; Mexico has no
government. if the tests of its own
constitution are to be accepted
"Carranza answered: Neither con-
.itutional government nor cleo
IONS; am above the constitution
ne country Will return to legal rule
vhen l may wish it and as I may
wish it. Recognize mel And Presi
dent Wilson recognized him"
As the disappearance of Carranza
gives basis for hope, SO do the state
ments Of the new chiefs. None OF
them has seized power. The Mexi
can Congress, as the constitution
prescribes, has met regularly anc
duly elected a provisional govern
ment, Elections are to be held anC
the Presidential aspirants pledge
themselves to abide the result. Ir
the mean time, there is promise OF
protection to foreigners and of jus.
tce to Mexicans.
It may be that at last better days
nave dawned for our southern
helghbors. All Americans, except
the negligible few who have schemed
i0r annexation, will rejoice.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
The Stoy-Qf-Hon1e
York, May IS, 1920s

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your article this morning hits
the stay-at-homes, but you must re-
member that everybody could not 20
over and that we have all done our
part both in economizing, bearing tax
alton and buying Liberty bonds to the
full extent of which we were capable
and taking a loss on them later On
the other hand, the men who went
abroad received more than money:
that is, the honor of being on the fir
ing line, which many of the stay-at-
homes would have given all that they
possessed to have done This in itself
is an honor far beyond any 800, 5000
cr $500. In addition, they received the
advantage of physical development, and
I'm nearly every case those who were
not wounded in action came back bet
ter men physically, mentally and
morally receiving a training which il
is impossible to put value upon.
Furthermore, doubt very much
whether the bill, were it put up to
the soldiers themselves, would actually
be carried. In fact, in my own town
Summit, n. J.-when the bill was
brought up before the American Le-
gion they turned it down two to one
The bill itself seems to me to b.
nothing but gross party politcs and
the exploiting OF patriotism for the
purpose of getting votes
That the government should AXE
care of those soldiers who are dis
sbied docs no, admit o. any argument.
but husky men do not need $50. $50
or 5000. In the majority Of cases this
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
To My thoughts

From To-Day
STEAL back, steal back, brave
Thoughts, and find
Some shadowed cloister of my mind:
Sit there, and girded wait; your free,
Tumultuous moment is to be-
Go home, fine Dreams, go home and
wait
Behind my hearts great double gate;
do not fear your rushing feet,
But times are when blank is sweeg.
At the first tap Of Passions drum
Ont. Jostling. splendid. you shall come.
G. H. TOMBSTONE.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
TED ROBINSON.
Smyrna
From To-

over the mountains shadowed snow,
A rosy fake, the moon
Drifts in the beryl glow
Of early night;
And over the still sea
Of malachite
Sings from the marble quay
Where blue black Nubians crouch Ia
shivering cold
A shrill and reedy tune
Ny heart FIST heard
In Uganda forests piped by some dead
bird
In unreme mbered days of old
WILFRlD WILSON GIBSON.