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New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Conditions of the
Platform Contest

The Tribune invites you to write
planks for a Republican platform
and to write letters about planks
proposed by other readers through
it's columns.
For the best plsnks and letters
The Tribune offers these prizes:
For the best plank. $4,000
For the second best plank. $4,000
For each Of the eight next
best planks. ks.............. 10000
For the best letter daily
plze OF. 1910
For the best letter in the
whole competition. 10000
The Tribune will make up a plat
form of ten planks to be determined
by your votes. The ten issues re-
ceiving the most votes will be the
planks. The ten planks that best
express the chosen issues will be
selected for the prize awards.
Each plank is limited to 100 words.
OF two planks or letters Of equal
merit the shorter will be chosen.
Every plank and letter must bear
the name and address Of the sender.
although = nom de plume will be
published II the writer desires.
The contest will close at midnight
April 80, 1920. Manuscripts will not
be returned.
The Judges Of the contest win be
three Of The Tribune's editors. They
will base their decisions on sound
thinking and brevity, clearnsss and
strength Of statement.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Strong-Arn, Methods
In Fighting Reds
Only Create Mart>>rs

To.the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Radicals and Bolsheviki are
IKE vermin; in fact, are vermn in
our national dwelling. No intelligent
person would attempt to rid dwelling
OF vernn by simply stamping on each
separate specimen.
We need to get into the corners
where social dust and filth accumu.
late and clean house. Strong-arm
methods alone create martyrs, drive
propaganda under the surface, make it
eIntlclng and dangerous, and increase
the numbers of "Reds"
Let the Republican party adopt a
broad, American attitude toward the
Red problem. Let us continue free
speech, tighten up on our local po-
lice law, encourage Intelligent discus
sion of these theories, and, in general,
take the calm, well-considered plan of
meeting the problem by getting at it's
causes. Let the good old elephant"
unroll his trunk and go to it!
G. O, ?. lily.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Plank of "America
F or Americans,'
To Bring, Success
Stricter immigration Law
Demanded by Woman
Voter, Who Tells of Sacri.
fees Made in World War
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When the call came for volun-
teers in the late World War, who we're
our volunteers? Came they from the
ranks of the Socialists, the "Reds," the
foreign born or the children of the for
elgn born? Not so. They, our noble
volunteers, were your son and my SON
Americans all-the boys from the
schools. the colleges, the homes.
Americas best-our very hearts blood.
Let us not forget this.
Men and women of America, | call
upon you as voters and law makers TO
make it impossible for the children of
the foreign born, radical, un-American
element to wrest from our children
their rightful inheritance. Let US keep
America for Americans" and for those
who prove by word and deed that they
are for America.
To this end let US have stricter i'm
migration laws-a much longer period
before these immigrants can become
citizens. Let us devise some practical
way of educating the immigrant to
higher standards of citizenship and to
undivided loyalty to our United States
of America. MARY E. HAYDEN. a
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13

Classified as
Unassailable
Principles Enunciated in
Our Basic Law Upheld
as Good Enough to Stand
the Test of the Ages
Application Is N ee d c d
Government of, for and by
the People, Defended to
Guard U. S. Forever

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I1ons ago the caveman first be-
gan the feeble attempts at philosophy
that caused Kavah, the blacksmith of
Persia, thousands of years later to pro-
claim freedom under his waving banner
OF leather; that later humbled the
naughty King John of England at Run
nymede, and finally gained for all citi-
zens of the United States the system
OF government which guaranteed free
dem to all under the Constitution-the
present basic law of the land.
Those basic principles of the Consti-
tuition are as unassailable now as when
the first glimmer of reason brought
supreme power to man on earth, and
they will be just as unassailable a
million years from now, in so far as
they represent the effort of human
kind to keep lit that unquenchable fire
OF freedom born of intellect.
At the present time those basic prin
cIples are being assailed by enemies of
our government-by shaggy haired aci-
tators who believe they represent thos
principles; by fanatical, bigoted indi-
Wduals and societies who have lost
sight of those principles in their eff
forts to force their minority ideals
upon mankind; by weak minded par
tisans.
quick return to the principles
enunciatcd by our Constitution, a
strong party, strong leader dedi-
Gated unreservedly, unselfshly and pa
triotically to a platform based upon
the Constitution of the United States,
a government of, for and by the pco-
pie arc absolutely necessary in order
that our ideals may survive
ALBERT J. COOK.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Direct Levies
Given as Cure
For High Cost
System That Gives Excuses
to 'sBarons'' for Raising
Rents Deplored as Bur-
den to Masses of People
Readjustment Proposed
Monthly Payments Upon
Gross Incomes Proposed
10 Solve Great Issue
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There has been much discussion
of the lack of real difference between
the two great parties. If the Repub-
llcans want a selling argument and 81
war or peace slogan. it is right at hand
in the subject of taxation Indirect
taxation is fundamentally wrong.
refer not only to income taxes, but to
the taxing of the tenant through the
property holder. Placing the great bur-
den of taxation on real estate is a relic
of feudal days. when the barons owned
not only all the land, but all the pco-
pie. The people would have been a
lot better off if they had paid their own
taxes, and so would we.
If we complain of rents, or prices,
or most anything else, the excuse is
"taxes.' Why not pay our own taxes,
and then adopt real penalties for the
protiteer? Every one in this glorious
land of the free should be willing to
chip in his share for Uncle Sam. If
we allow some one else to pay our
taxes they can assume the right to
patronize us. To pay our own taxes
will make better citizens and make US
all free and equal, and it also will re-
duce our actual tax bill by about 90
per cent.
propose a personal tax on every per-
son of legal age, male and female, citi-
zen and resident alien alike, and a
gross income tax. The net income tax
never can be made to work justly, and
it places a premium on profiteering.
The gross income tax can be paid to
The government at the end of each
month. By spreading the tax out in
low as to be almost negligible.
R. G. STANLEY,
1872 Woodwork Avenue, Yonkers.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
DIRECTION OF lax Evils Demanded to End Pr0teern6
To-Day's Prize Letter
To the Editor of The Trihune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The matter of the military
strength Of the United States in tba
future should not be passed over
lghtiy. Now that the war is over
the general trend Of public opinion
seems to. hold that we shall have
little use for large standing army
IN the future. This almost univer-
sal Impression is a great mistake
we need a strong army now more
than ever.
The idea that we Yanks can "rise
up and lick anybody" at a few min
utes' notice, while pleasing to our
vanity, is absurd. We played an i'm
portant part in the war and our
share in the final look-in was most
gratifying; but, get this! We did nor
win the war-we helped our allies
win 1T. | like to believe the Yankee
doughboy second to none on earth 4
and ne is second to none, but
doughboy doesn't rise overnight like
mothers bread.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13

Before we say that we need onlv
q small force Of regulars to relv
upon as a nucleus, let's not forget
we entered the war with GERMANY
in April, 1917, and that our troons
took no active part to speak of un-
til the summer of 1918. In other
words, it took us almost eighteen
months to get ready after we de-
clared war.
1t was three months following that
event before General Pershing. with
his staff, arrived in Paris. The Ger
man General Staff came very near
locating there in that many days.
Let's remember that we may not
have four powerful allies handy to
hold our line eighteen months for
US next time while we are gcttifg
ready. We made one big mistake
back in 1916 when we refused to heed
the cry "prepare." Let's profit by
that mistake now.
WILLIAM N. THRALL.
2O6 University Avenue, ithaca,
N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Propaganda EuiI.
Still Faces u. S.
Social Justice Is Needed
to Eliminate Specter
OF Hideous Bolshevisn,
. the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The indictment of disloyaltv
against large element of our foreign
( born population, justified by the ex
perlence of war, is so conclusive that
cumulative evidence will neither add to
1t strength nor render more imperative
the need Of reform.
America, therefore, having weathered
successfully the period of Immediate
danger, should now be taxing every
moral and social resource with the con-
struction and promotion of a definite
and practical program which will sun
ply what apparently our educational
and social systems have failed to pro-
vide.
To the surprising excellence Of our
schools, the historic prominence Of our
political institutions and the leavening
influence of our religious and social
agencies have been intrusted, with the
utmost complacency, the repatriation Of
our transplanted citizens And out of
the leveling processes Of our democ-
racy has emerged composite citizen
ship. We have excelled in the pursuits
of industry and the genius of our in
tellect. Yet the immigrant, with all his
knowledge, has failed to get under
standing.
Oficial Investigations of propaganda
lnimlcal to our government have not
been confined to the lower strata of So
ciety.. Hardly college or a public
school escaped the unsparing hand of
investigation and suspicion. And the
uncomfortable frequency Of the beam
in our own eye has made it all the more
difficult to cast out the mute from the
eye Of our brother.
Thus the successors Of the present
political regime become the involuntary
legatees of an insidious evil. And the be-
stowal of confidence upon the Repub-
lican party next November will carry
the imperative obligation to enact ap-
propriate legislation for the eradication
from our educational institutions of the
smallest particle of propaganda re-
pugnant to our government, and the
stimulation in place thereof of, a desire
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
More Bars to Aliens Needed

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Of course, the ideal condition
would be to have a world such that we
could invite any one to come to the
Ualted States. But long ago we found
it advisable to put up bars To-day
we need more and more bars, because
this country has no more resources
than 1T needs to furnish opportunities
for our own posterity.
[ believe we could trace much of
our political trouble to the immigration
which would be Objectionable to any
nation on earth.
CHARLES E. MORGAN,
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13

enormous added burden of taxation
upon the citizens Of the United States.
1t would involve months of effort.
Invasion alone is not sane, far
sighted policy. Rather must diplomacy
of the Rooseveltian type, backed up
by force Of arms, solve the problem.
Il must be a diplomacy so broad, so
forceful, so breathing of the Monroe
Doctrine that the world will marvel!
In brief, actions, not words, must be
the policy. ALLEN F. BREWER.
40 Harrison Street. East ORANGE. N I
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Curb Treaty Making Power

The Republican party recommends
an amendment to the United States
Constitution requiring the President
to appoint not less than two mem
oers OF the Senate to confer and ad-
wise with him whenever negotiations
concerning the regulation or control
or our foreign policy necessitate the
exercise OF the treatymaking power.
ST., BROOKLYN.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Repeal Of War Acts

The spectacular anti-prcfiteering
campaign of the Democratic Admin
istration and the existing system of
espionage over private business and
industry cannot reduce the cost Of
living: We are convinced the solu-
ton lies in stimulating enterprise,
increased production, checking; ex-
travagance and establishment of a
buslnesslike administration. We de-
maHd the enactment Of laws based on
a knowledge of business and the
repeal of war emergency acts which
hinder and repress private industry
C ?. G..
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Greed Called Dishonesty

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Whoever receives for wages
more than he earns, or sells merchan.
disc at excessive profit, is dishonest
Employer and employee must get to-
gether to arrange q scale of wages anc
limit of profit over cost Of produc-
ton, SO that neither would suffer
through the greed of either and that
cost of production would be able to
meet outside competition.
EDWARD M. MAHONEY.
797 East 142d Street, New York.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Punish Foes of Government

1t is recognized that there arc
forces within the Union that seri-
ously threaten its destruction, and
1t is believed that, while the right
of freq speech should be 4ealously
guarded and individual opinion and
expression left untrammeled to the
point OF positive and declared hos
Unity to the governments. indicating
an intent to subvcrt it and to COM
pine with others for that purpose,
the law Of self-presVvation applied
enemies of the government should be-
treated as such.-S. A. L.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
School Control Opposed
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Did you ever hear of the stu
dent at Columbia who gets $4,000 a
year as long as he keeps going to
school? The greatest inheritance any
parent cohld leave to child would
be an inspiration to work, work hon
estly and work usefully. What we need
is to thrash out the vocational guidance
idea and to give the general public ard
the schools useful information.
CHARLES E. MORGAN.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Change in Electoral COLLEGE

We favor an amendment to the
Constitution in relation to the Elec
to1al College to read as follows:
Ihat the electors at large shall be
the only ones chosen by a majority
or plurality of votes cast for presj
dent and Vice-President All the
others shall be elected by the dis
trlcts. This would prevent the re-
currence of contests where the re-
suit often depended on the vote of
a single distant state and uncertain
ty paralyzed business until the final
result was definitely ascertained.
David Roskan.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Too Much ssHushcd I'M"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t has been said that the cost
of living cannot be remedied by legis-
lation. We read of numerous com
mittees of investigation being ap-
pointed, but how often do we read of
actual results? Too many things are
"hushed up" in Washington. The Re-
publican party should take firm stand
against all forms of protiteering, and
honest investigation should be encour-
aged. NORMAN J. SYKES.
Nutley NJ T.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Constructive LEGISLATION

Improving our school system by
laws which will make possible better
salaries; better moral conditions:
improving labor conditions by better
living conditions; building up of all
things of value to the masses in
general. Laws should be enacted
that will be William
II. Vero, 525 First Avenue> Milwau-
kee, Wis.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13

The work Of conservation of our
national forests, of reclaming land
and perfecting waterways and their
natural sources, and especially of
providing lands for homestead set
tiers, is in need of constant obser-
vatlon and professional management
and we favor active and progressive
governmental aid for its efficient per
IOrmance-C r e.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Action, and Not Words,
70 Solve Mexican, Problem,

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The ultimate settlement of the
Mexican situation is, perhaps, one Of
the most pertinent questions to .he
virile, red-blooded American voter. To
see plank incorporated in the Pc
publican platform to meet and solve
this problem is unanimous desire.
Armed intervention in Mexico would
entail untold loss of life and in1ict an
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Compulsory Education

In the proper education of the
children lies the hope of perpetuitv
FOR the nation. The Republican
party favors compulsory education
IN the primary grades as to our
national emblem, its history and its
record of achievement for the United
States and for the world. Such
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Greatest NAVY for IL 6

Realizing that we have larger
coast to defend than any nation on
earth, we declare ourselves in favor
of creating and maintaining navy
superior to that of any other coun-
try in eXistence.-George Lyman
Banks, Groveland, Calf.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Some Suggested Planks
Among the of suggestions for pans in the Repubcou
platform the folloaUing:

education can result only in higher
ideals Of citizenship and in giving
that inspiration to purposeful action
which is characters of real Ameri-
cans.-C. A. Lemmers, State House,
Denver
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13

and s.n3 passion for that just individual re-
iatlonship which alone can bring to all
our citizenship the fullest measure OF
social justice.
LUC1US SUMNER HICKS.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-13

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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-08
POLISH CAPITAL
IS ALIVE: WITH
WAR ACTIVITIES

lay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRE
Warsaw, April Warsaw is
humming with war activity and is
crowded to its very doors with
hordes of poverty stricken refugees
from the areas for which the Poles
and bolsheviki are fighting. Trav-
elers say it Is the most crowded
city in eastern Europe. The popu-
lation is estimated to have increas-
ed from 100000 to 100000 since
the world war began, u....
Everywhere there are officers
and soldiers. Military automo-
biles, tractors and various other
vehicles of war traverse the streets
all day and most of the night, Tue
cafe life is as bright and gay as
ever. but the restaurants and the
aters close at 10 p. m. to save food
light and labor. The refugees from
the war-stricken areas began
streaming into the city about a
year ago. and have been coming
ever since. hoping to find food and
places to sleep. The problem of
providing Tor them has bafflcd the
city officials.
In the poorer district, easements,
which for generations were Used
for storage purposes, have been
used for refugees sleeping quar-
ters. In instances fifteen or twen-
ty persons, and even more, sleep
on a basement floor, on straw.
Others have found shelter in
stables or in buildings intended for
schools. Many of these refugees
are women with children, who have
come out of the east virtually with
out funds. During the day these
people are partly supplied with
food by the municipality or some
of the welfare organizations. Mary
exist only by begging.
4 Warsaw's tenements. always
crowded as New York'S east side
has been for years, are damned
with humanity as never before, and
during the severe winter weather
when there was. an epidemic If in
fluenza here old men and women
and children died by the hundreds
every day in this land of the poor.
X City officials see no relief In
sight until warmer weather comes
when they hope the people VIII
gradually begin leaving for tho
country to work on farms.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-08
BRITISH WAR TAXES
HIT NOBILITY HARD
c.v MORNING JoussAL SPECIAL LEASED wr~sl

tsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WEI
London, April 7.-England's war
taxes continue to force many of
her nobility to sell parts of their
great estates. one of the greatest
of these which recently has passed
under the auctioneer's hammer is
that of the Duke of Rutland, which
is known as Belvoir. The duke
owns about $4,000 acres of which
he is selling about $4,000 acres
located in the best part of Lincoln
shire hunting district. He ex-
planned at a public meeting thai
the sale was made necessary by
the increasing burden of taxation
resulting from the war.
Goadby hall, one of the dukes
properties of 230 acres, was sold
privately in the advance of the
public sale and 100 tenants have
bought from the duke the farms he
had rented to them.
Earl Manver's estate. known as
Holme Pierrepont" at Radcliffe
on-Trent, has been sold at auction
for f42,6S5. II covers 800 acres.
1t is reported that part of the
estate OF the Earl Of Londes-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-08
SENDING TROOPS
To RUHR ZONE A
b0NEH EAD PLAY
Opinion in Business Circles
Is That Intervention Was
UntimeIy; French Fell Into
Hun Trap, Belief.

!BV MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRGi
Paris, April (by the Associated
Press) Considerable reaction was
noticeable today in French public
opinion, which was unanimously
favorable yesterday regarding the
advisedness of the occupation of
the Rhine cities. Official circles
were silent
The failure of the American am
hassador, Hugh C. Wallace, the
British ambassador, the Earl of
Derby, Baron Matsui, representing
Japan, and Count Bonin- Longare,
Italy, to express an opinion con-
ceruing Premier Millerand's note
is not interpreted as unfavOrable,
but as merely pointing to the fact
that none of them has vet re-
CeiVed instructions concerning the
attitude of their respective govern
ments on the situation.
The attitude of the government
officials, however, is one of eX-
pcctanCy, and there is even some
anxiety regarding the probable
course to be adopted by the allied
governments.
Great interest is displayed in the
meeting of the British cabinet to-
morrow and there is much specu-
lation as to Washington's official
expression.
Banking, financial and business
circles are more outspoken; the
opinion is freely expressed that in
tervention was untimely ana det-
rimental to French interests.
At the stock exchange today the
belief was expressed that the
French government fell into a trap
cleverly laid by the German gov
eminent to separate France from
her allies by asking for individual
French authorization to enter the
Ruhr district and putting it up to
France alone to refuse Germany
permission to take military meas
ures.
The dollar rose today to the
highest point ever known-15.35,
and the pound sterling to CLIO
The Belgian franc even rose to
100. On the other hand French
francs decreased on all markets,
10th allied and neutral. which
caused the brokers to say. France
is going it alone-apparently the
wrong way
The German mark reached %
Centimes, a raise of five points
since last Friday,