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New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
A Promise Of Insincerity

iiS Hciilol pSTLuTDdtlOn 1NIO
which The World and The Times have
been thrown by the partisan need
OF flXlng up some sort of alibi for
the President in the Spencer contro-
versy must be extreme. For in their
attempts to establish a difference
between the two versions of the
Presidents speech they don't seem
to realize the charge they lodge
against the President.
One version of the speech declares
that if the Balkan States would
agree to treaty guarantees for
racial minorities, then the United
States would send its armies across
the sea to protect them whenever
attacked. The Presidents version
admits he spoke of the expectation
of the Rumanians and Serbs that
they would be so protected, and then
argues that, this being the case, it
was reasonable for us to insist on
settlement such as we would be will
ing to send our armies to defend.
According to both versions the
President. as widely said at the
time, put the screws on the Balkan
States. There was a threat, politely
phrased, but nevertheless threat.
If the Rumanians and Serbs refused
to agree to his demands, then they
need not look to us for aid. But if
thcy agreed, then, it was plainly i'm
piled, they could count on lis. The
alternatives were clearly marked.
Would the Balkan States give racial
guarantees to get general protec-
ton? Or did they prefer liberty of
action concerning their racial mi
norities and no protection? Being
prudent, they chose the first, and the
Geal was closed.
Now, to say that the President
when so speaking did not intend to
make good, and that he held out
hopes he had no thought of redeem
ing, is to accuse him of the grossest
insincerity. This charge The World
and The Times support when they
contend there is a substantial differ
ence between the two versions. They
are IN effect saying that the Presi-
cent tricked his hearers-that he
encouraged them to believe thev
could count on protection, provided
they yielded on the point under dis
cussion, whereas, in fact, they were
being sold a gold brick.
We fly to the Presidents de-
Tense. He was scarcely on May 81,
1919, thus engaged in marketing
fraud. The covenant, including
Article X, had then been written.
He was Interpreting it in a natural
way-as guaranteeing to Rumania
and Serbia the frontiers fixed in
the treaty. 1t is merely to meet
the eXigencies of politics that he
now tries to crawl out of what he
said. The campaign has led him to
develop the remarkable doctrine
that the guaranty of Article X is.
after all, not guaranty at ALL
But this is no reason, we submit,
for the Presidents newspaper sup
porters presenting him as one who
successfully pulled the wool over the
eyes of the Rumanans and the Serbs
and induced their innocent agents to
accept a mere sheaf Of words as con-
sideration for a concession that
manned to some extent the sover-
eighty of their nations.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Calvin Coolidge Saws

(from his address before the Ma
fionol Association of Wool Manu.
tocturers, Boston, February II.
19so)
We saw during the war that our
country could not live unto itself
alone. We are in a League Of Nations
by fact, whether such League of
Nations be written upon parchment or
not, and it is not possible FOR US to
escape tho obligations that arise from
our condition. We did not escape
them during the war; we do not pro-
pose to escape them now. It is the
part OF America to cooperate not
merely for the purpose Of saving Eu-
rope, but for the purpose Of protecting
America itself.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Cox Newspaper Says
(F'rom an editorial entitled "Our
German Friends" IN The Dayton
DaIY NetVa, October s. 19l6l

(trom an editorial entitled "Our
German Friends" IN The Daytom
Daily Netos, October 5, 1870
1t is reported that many Of our
German friends are going to vote for
Justice Hughes for President and
against President Wilson. They arc
said to be unfricndly toward the Presi-
dent because Of his attitude upon for
eign questions, Indeed, some Of them
accuse the President of being unneu-
tral toward Germany.
We do not believe that all Of our
German friends, or anything Ike a ma
Jor1ty Of them, have SO lost their love
for the fatherland as to line up on the
side Of those who find fault because
this government did not go to war with
Germany over the invasion Of Belgium.
We do not believe that they are so dis
loyal to their friends and relatives who
are fighting for what they believe to be
right, as to give aid and comfort to
the worst enemies of Germany in this
country-namely, the rabid Roosevelt
and his personal choice for President.
We do not believe that these sober, staid
citizens, Americans as they are, but
sympathizing with their loved ones
across the water, will vote for the can
didate of the man who says those same
loved ones murdered men, women and
children and ought to have been at
tackled by the United States. We do not
believe that these German friends of
ours will vote against President Will
son for having written notes to Ger
many instead Of having declared war
upon the Emperor. But that is exactly
what will happen II a German sympa-
thizer votes for Justice Hughes. He
will be aligning himself upon the side
o. the most rabid anti German bunch
in this country.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
ArE1frY1 OF TBr AUaof1Arrn

MEsfrs1 OF TER ASSOCIATED rRass
Tie Associated Prrss ia exclusively entitled 10 lAs
$50 for republication o, ali news dispatches crsditsd
to II or not otherwns credited N this paper and
$50 tho local news OF apontaneous srix.n Yusiahea
h~en-
Al riTnts Of republication II az sshse Msnsz
hstSin slso are rcssr.n
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Ys1 ssa ssrchas merchandise s6ssftisss Ia TKH
's'sONE with absolute ssfet--fsr II di4satisfss-
nou results IN any TIE TKfsUkE syas~nssss
. pas your msnS back ussn rssusst Ne rod taps
No aulhsilrs. Ne maks sssa srsmpty II the
advertiser sess nst-
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

When Julian Streets Mr.. H. Bell
brown has visitors in New York he
doubtless directs them to the Hotel
"oicott, which is located, take it from
the stationery, at "Thirty-f first Street
by Fifth Avenue
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Erery One Suffers

IN 1871, when the carpenters and
metal workers get into a dispute as to
which is to have the prerogative of
hanging metal doors with wooden
cores, they too, as a matter Of course.
immediately strike against each other.
The painters, inishers and many other
workers have to stop work and 20
without their wages until the doors
are hung. Tenants cannot move in.
Costs and losses pile up and rents must
later follow. Such things are merely
the natural and unavoidable incidents
OF unrestrained private strikes
In the early years of the fifteenth
century the powerful Dukes of War
wick maneuvered the royal houses Of
York and Lancaster into the bloody
Wars Of the Roses, which brought
slaughter or death by starvation or
plague TO over quarter Of all the COM
mon people Of England, in the hope that
one of the Warwicks might become king,
Within the last two years Of the
twentieth century certain state leaders
OF the powerful coal miners union
maneuvered the national leaders into
the great coal strike, which meant a
fight with the national government and
billions of dollars loss to the whole
American people, in the hope that
they might themselves become the ma
tional leaders Of the coal union.
When Charlemagne died in 834 and
the last great Roman Empire broke up
our ancestors faced the problem of de-
veloping, an entirely new political or
ganization with only human nature as
guide and motive force.
Great robber barons neld the land
and warred with one another over every
petty ambition or jealousy without re-
straint or scruple till no peasant in all
Europe could plant crop without an
even chance that it would be fought
over and destroyed before he could
harvest it.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

II you want to write Mr.. Brown a
Letter full of synthetic warmth, ad
dress him Dear II. Bell Brown
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Dear, dear! Just as we were certain
of awarding the 1920 watch 70 G.. S. 3
along comes this joyous piece of criti
c'sm by flaccus. We are torn with
doubt.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
BALLADE. OF REFLECTION

NO Eagle screamed as it shook its wings
Ana showed the way to tho far-off SHORE:
1he heart of me leapt with the thought of
things
For man to do in righteous war.
heard no sound but the one word Fore "
10 the old routine I said Amen"
dreamt of action forevermore-
And here 1 am pushing a pen again
TO lands passed down from fearless k;ros
10 the world that was richest in martial
brings,
With faith and a trembling hope, tore
Over the seas TO make score
10 throttle dragon within its den
10 treat my ears to the battles roar =
And here am pushing a pen again
l heard the song that the bullet sings.
In Flanders l heard the oaths they swore.
! felt the courage that blindly springs
To the will, and carries you on and DER.
know the love that Is each mans store
The horrible hate of each / ken
learnt 1t all on wars grim floor
And here l am pushing pen again.
LENvoI
Romance, you are tickle the same az yore
You gave ME draught from your cup and
then
You left me thirsty and parched and sore.
And here | am pushing a pen again
ELMO p. ABBArI.
If the heart Of the world should
break while either Governor Cox or
Senator Harding is President. there
are enough medicines advertised in
The Dayton News or The Marion Star
that would, it seems to us, mend it
over night
Senator Harding, according to his
statement, is for league, not for The
League. 1t is a question Of articles
and he is in favor of the indefinite
article, except, always, Article x.
When Mr.. Herbert Parsons says that
gil Senator Hardings talk is mush. he
may be right But 80 per cent Of all
talk is mush and about 81 per cent
OF all writing.
Passion" is advertised in Photoplav
Magazine, as "A Mighty Epoch of the
Screen" Written, perhaps, as H. S. L.
suggests, by that great epoch poct
Epochtetus.
window Dressing Now a Fine Art
headlines The Times. I'VE have some
hne artists across the way writes H.
S. A, "who reverse the process"
Even so careful historian as The
Globes Mr.. Alfred W. Mccain refers
to Chester A. Garfield
Robins Appear Far From Unbeaten.
Evening Post headline
They do seem long way from un-
dauRted.
Just let me pitch to that fellow
again" said Pitcher Smith, referring
to Burns. But suppose Cleveland
doesn't win the 1921 pennant?
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Listening to Mr.. Leopold Godowsky
play convinces us that he is the Wat
son NJ. Washburn of the piano.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

||" NPP'U sfU NpON tNtS pUJC UUILI./
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.
In l22o-in what is known as the
Dark Ages - when Clan Alpine and
Clan Donald got into a dispute
over the fishing rights on Loeb Lomond
they, as matter of course, immedi-
ately gathered their warriors and
marched against each other. Cattle
belonging to the innocent neutral farm
ers along each line of march were
slaughtered. Harvests were trampled
or burned. Neutral villages through
which they passed or fought were pill
laged and many innocent villagers
killed. Such things we're merely the
natural and unavoidable incidents of
system of unrestrained private wars.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

The concluding article ef tAs ser"
wiU appear to-morroie. "Hk hat Are -
Going 70 DO About H9"J
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

o~aea and pub.n~d daily " New York rrtSuns
iqe.' New York cerpsrstssn oedss RED rrs.
esot; a. vsruor Roger. vice prss,dst. n.,s.
Hsssrs Reid, Secretary: X r. Mna.ld. Treasures.
address. Tribune Building. lS4 N...aa sr.ss. Nsv
York Tsephone. Bssknan ssss
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
GUARANTY

ss'a~d ss the Pcstonee At Nav Y~s as ssssns
Claa Nal MATER.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
The High Cost of Strikes
Chapter XII
Striking at the Ro offs of Anericanisn1
Bv Marshall Olds

(Thls is ome Of series Of thirteen
articles appearing upon this page daily.)
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

If the heart Of the world should
break while either Governor Cox or
Senator Harding is President, there
are enough medicines advertised in
The Dayton News or The Marion Star
that would, it seems to us, mend it
over night.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Just let me pitcl, to that fellow
again" said Pitcher Smith. referring
to Burns. But suppose Cleveland
doesn't win the 1921 pennant?
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Robins Appear Far From Unbeaten.
Evening Post headline.
They do seem a long way from un-
iaunted.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Senator Harding, according to his
statement, is for league, not for Tn.
League. 1t is a question Of articles,
and he is in favor of the indefinite
article, except, always, Article x.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Even so careful historian as The
Globes Mr.. Alfred W. Mccain refers
to Chester A. Garfield.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

When Mr.. Herbert Parsons SAWS that
gil Senator Hardings talk is mush, he
may be right. But 80 per cent Of all
talk is mush and about 81 per cent
Of all writing
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
RObber Barons

own.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

"Window Dressing Now a Fine Art"
headlines The Times. we have some
fine artists across the way" writes H.
S. A, "who reverse the process"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13

Passion" is advertised, in Photoplay
Magazine, as "a Mighty Epoch of the
Screen" Written, perhaps, as H. S. L.
suggests, by that great epoch poet.
Epochtetus
New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Misrepresenting Harding

To end the controversy concerning
the Des Moines speech Of Senator
The Weekly Review sent
to him this telegram:
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-28

make VIC profits while he ssasua
iasfs- The answer 10 that Il lnsts
as long in Rock Island a Il does
in Madison or La Crosse or Dsy.
export. He says customers are
sometimes unreasonable, but al
the unreasonable people are not
here. There must be 4 few in New
Orleans.
Labor Cost Not HIgher.
1T is a fayorite contention that
labor costs are higher in Rock Is
land than in other cities and that
that justifies the higher prices.
There are two answers to thst ::
First is that, generally speaking
1t is not true. Ice is sold cheaper
in some. Secondly, If it were, in
cities where wages to ice drivers
are higher. it would not justify the
difference in price, There are a
few towns where labor is lower by
a dollar or two pc week per man
than here. But since two men vii
handle from 10000 to 25,Oot
pounds Of ice per week, an advance
of dollar a thousand to consum.
ers is out of proportion to differ.
ence in labor prices. 1t IL the ole
story of the extra cost multiplied
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-28
I0SVER GIVEN
70 ARGUMENT
Of ICE DEALER
$50. Of Fair Price Committee Is.
AZ Statement in Regard to
Local Charges.

The committee Of women of the
,.;r price commission investigat-
M ice prices has issued state
msrt in answer to statements of
r 4 Schoessel on behalf OF the
4. dealers, quoted in The Argus
sereral days ago. It reads:
aThis commission has reached
,,s conclusion that the ice dealers
~ Rock Island in charging $3.50
nsr thousand pounds for ice are
charging more than fair price for
,h.ir product. This conclusion is
hased on an investigation of prices
nreyailirs in SIS cities, and towns.
% of which are in Illinois, II in
lava. and the balance in New York.
ohio. indiana, Kentucky. Wiscon-
sin Minnesota. Nebraska, South
dakota, Missouri and Louisiana. OF
all of these cities only three are
having the same prices as Rock
island five are paying more and
81 are paying less.
"Hr SehoesseI is quoted as say
ing that the great supply of natur-
al ice in the Mississippi and Rock
river is not available for domestic
nurposes because of impurities. AS
. matter of fact, a $4,000 ton ice
house in Davenport is filed with
;ce from the Mississippi.
1.-THE Consumers company of
Moline has also cut ice from the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-28

llisstGstppl. ana M. Schoessel has
IN Ice house ct the foot Of Twenty
NTH street, Moline, dlled with 49,
0Oo tons Of ice from the Mississippi
and one on Rock river with 10000
tons. Some Of this ice Is used for
domestic purposes in this commun-
ity at the present time. Not only
that is true, but he has stated in
conversation that natural ice IL
better and safer for domestic use
than artificial ice.
Prices Unjustifed.
The supply Of ice for this COM
munity is not, therefore, dependent
on the artificial plants, as he says
1t is. But even il it were there
would be no justification for the ex-
tortionate prices charged. In New
Orleans where there is no natural
ice at all, artificial ice is delivered
at 81 per 1000 pounds. provided
100 pounds are delivered at a time
and $3.50 if in lesser quantities
Artificial ice was delivered in ST
Louis last year for $50 while we
we're paying $3.50 and IS.
: In 1918 in La Crosse, Wis, ice
was selling at 1925 to s2.75, in
Prairie du Chen, $3.50; in St
Louis. $3.50; New Orleans, $3.50;
in Davenport at $500, while we
were paying $3.50,
This shows that the commun-
ity has been paying an exorbitanl
price for ice for years past. Nc
reason has yet been advanced by
any spokesman for the ice dealers
that justifies such prices.
"Mr. Schoessel says that prices
are lower in Madison, Wis.,, be-
cause. there the ice houses are on
the shore OF Lake Mendoza immed-
lately in the city. We have shown
that ice houses are as advantage
'ously situated in our cities. Nat.
ural ice has also been stored at the
foot OF, Forty-third street in Rock
Island for domestic use. He says
/. the trade Of the ice dealer lasts
but short time and so he mus
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-28

20 CONFERENCE.-THE mjddlemen's prof
III. We AK tor . square deal" .
Eofors Note: In the article ap-
pearfng IN The Argus under date Of
Saturday. April II, Mr.. Schoessel il
quoted a. saying. Not one foot Of
ice Is taken from the Mississippi By
local dealers. because of the fact
that the sewage Of Moline and East
Moline is poured into the Missis-
slppi and flows directly past our
shores. No reference in this con.
nectlon was made concerning ice
cut from the Rock river, but Mr.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-28

81 tn and then passed On TO TIE
consumer.
The fact is that dealers in Rock
Island charge big price for their
ice because they can get 1t ana get
away with 1t, and they will do that
as long as the people will stand for
it. Rock Island has the reputation
OF being and is one Of the highest
priced places to live. 1t Is not
good reputation for town to nave
that wants to grow.
Here is a commodity produced
locally, sold direct from producer
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-04-26
TWO POLICEMEN
APPO|NTEDTODAY
BYC|TYD|RECTORS
Sunday Baseball Petition
Filed but No Action
Taken.

For the purpose Of establishing
ten minute schedule on cars operatlns
within the city the Mopongahela val
ley Traction company made applicS
tion to the city Board of Directors this
morning for permission to buht
switch on Jackson street With the
application was filed blue prints show
ing the, location Of the proposed
switch. After goingz over the blue
print carefully the board turned the
matter over to City Engineer S, B. MI
Ter and Director Of Highways ". ~.
Arnett for investigation and report
+. The board is OF the opinion that the
switch would proves-to be a menace
to traffic owing to the fact that 1t
crosses Cleveland avenue at its inter-
section with Locust avenue and Jack
son street. This crossing is consid-
cred to be q dangerous one as 1t now
stands. AS it stands the blue prints
shows that on Jackson street there
would not be passage way on one side
of Jackson street between the curb
and standing car. The proposed
switch would start at the vacant lot
Just below the Grand opera house and
extend across Cleveland avenue to Lo-
Gust avenue near the Armory.
City Director of Water ]. Clyde Nor
ris was authorized to proceed at once
with the purchasing of concrete, q
pump and the renting OF steam boil
er to be used in repairing the reservoir.
Mr.. Morris submitted report to the
board relative to the purchase of a
pump. Mr.. Morris proposes within
the next week or two TO begin work
on the reservoir which will stop big
leakage in the tank and save the city
thousands of dollars yearly. Mr.. Nor
rfs was also authorized to secure
prices on coal for the city pump sta.
ton and if he deemed 1t advisable to
contract for years supply of coal.
This matter came up for consideration
when Mr.. Morris told the board of the
very rapid advance in coal prices. He
told the board that last month he paid
$3.50 per ton for coal this month. SS.25
for the first two weeks and that he
had got a. supply for the last half of
the month at 81, and would have to
pay $3.50 for the next supply.
City Solicitor Albert ]. Kern grew
reminiscent, atHthis point and recalled
that before the war the city had re.
ceived its coal supply delivered for. the
sum OF ninety cents per ton and that
at this time 1t was paying or would
pay Immediately $3.50 at the mine or
$3.50 delivered atsthe pumping station.
Mr.. Morris was also authorized to
proceed with the laying Of lines and
setting Of water taps necessary to sup.
ply the new houses with water that
are being. built by The South Side
Land company, the, Fairmont Mining
Machinery company and the West End
company in the vicinity Of Tenth and
Eleventh streets and Chamberlain
avenue. n
Two additional patrolmen were ap-
pointed by the board at the meeting
Continued on Page Ten.l
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-04-26
HALLS SLAYER IS
ADMITTED TO BAIL

James Laura, proprietor of. the
Union hotel and restaurant who shot
Lyle NJ. Hall Saturday night at his
place of business inflicting 4 wound
from which the latter died shortly ar
terward without regafning conscious
ress, was released by Justice Mus
grove on s2,500o bail this morning,
to appear before the grand Jury on
May IL. Laura was represented by
Congressman NJ. M. Neely by whose
advice hearing was waived.
The shooting occurred shortly after
eight o'clock. Witnesses to what hap
pened before the fatal affray. say that
Hail came into the restaurant and
started an argument with one of the
mattresses in the absence. OF Laura.
1t is claimed That Hall became very
profane and abusive, so much so that
a telephone call was sent to the po-
lice station. Before the arrival of the
officers, however, Laura returned 10
the place, and hearing of the trouble
advisd Hall TO leave. He then turned
and started up the stairs followed by
Hall who had taken the top off one
of the stools. Just what happened
afterward was not seen by any of the
witnesses who were donw stairs, but
Laura says he fired in self defense,
shooting Hall through the stomach
and lower inteStines.
After the tragedy, Laura ran from
the place and took refuge with some
friends, as he says, for safety from
Halls friends who he feared might
attack him. but came to the sheriff
and surrendered at one o'clock Sun
day morning,
Laura is married, his wife helping
in the management OF the place.
Hall had a sister living at the Nor
gan mines, to whose home the re-
mains were taken. His parents live
at New Kensington. Pa
Yesterday Coroner Frank Lloyd Sc
incted jury and went to. the mines
to view the body. The inquest VIII
bc held Wednesday morning
The .iI-y is composed OF the follow
ing: G. e. Jarrett, c. E. McCray, Har-
ry F. Brand, D, B. Snider, John Will
fong and Joseph Layman.