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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Uses Of a Long Spoon

Admiral Benson, the chairman of
the Shipping Board, explains in re-
gard to the prospective deal with
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Line that
Germany is to be allowed to recon.
struct her shipping trade on fifty
fifty basis. He ventures the opinion
that it will be "a major stroke in
placing the American mercantile
marine on a sure footing in competi-
ton with the mercantile fleets of the
world"
Let us hope so. But Geheimrath
Cuno, the general manager of the
line, thinks the arrangement bids
fair to be somewhat more than fifty
fifty for the GermaRs. "a new and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
A Wadsworth Slogan

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter of "Another Brown"
in your Saturdays issue anent the
Wadsworth candidacy is very i'm
pressive. I am wondering whether the
six quiet family "crusades" will be so
intensely quiet as to preclude slogan.
My observation Of the "antis" does
not convince me on this point, and I
accordingly beg to suggest as an ap-
propriate. vote getting slogan appeal
ing particularly to those myriads of
indignant enfranchised women who
will swarm to the polls to register
their resentment at being permitted to
do so: Gle kept us out of politics. :"
Or, If this is objected to as not strictly
accurate, why not make it "He-al-
most-kept us out of politics.?
PHILIP COMSTOCK.
New York, July "a, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Anti-Sufrage Support for Wads.
worth

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Every reader of the New York
Tribune has right to expect that
nothing will appear in the editorial
columns Of the paper which is not
based on truth and justice. there
fore most earnestly protest against the
statement made in an editorial Of Sat
urday, July %, to the effect that Sena-
tor Wadsworth sis hotly opposed by
the women voters of the state" Such
a statement is absolutely uniustified.
Senator Wadsworth is not opposed
by the women voters of the state.
but only by small group of women
who would not be of the slightes t
Importance were it not for the fact
that newspaper reporters keep them
and Sheir utterances in the limelight.
1T is preposterous to suggest that
this small group represent the senti-
ment Of the women of the state.
ask how you reconcile the state
mcnt IN your editorial with the DEM
onstration given in New York City
last winter by the Womans Republic
can Club at its luncheon in honor of
Senator Wadsworth, one of the larg-
est and most impressive affairs of
the kind of the season. Surely the
women who there voiced their enthu-
siasm were among the women voters
Of the state.
Rest assured of this, the anti-suf.
frage women (and they are vastly in
the majority, whether they have ever
voted before or ever expect to vote
again, are going to vote for Senator
Wadsworth at the next election, and
the fine body.o suffragists who pat
their Republican principles before
their petty spites will do likewise.
ANITA NJ. FLOWER.
New York, July 81, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
The Pilgrims Adventure

A stirring scene there must have
been at old Southampton quay when
the pageant of John Alden's
Choice" was recently enacted. Eng
land is celebrating the tercentenary
Of the Pilgrims departure with zest
and imagination and a hearty spirit
of good will.
What was stressed at Southamp-
ton, it is interesting to note, was
the adventurous nature of the under
taking. John Alden was made the
central figure of the pageant and
his participation in the voyage
treated as a sheer adventure under
taken largely for love of his Pris-
ella. The point of view is valuable
and has too often been ignored by
Americans, who have stressed the
Puritanical origin, the religious
motives, which peopled New Eng
land. The prevailing character on
the Mayfiower was deeply religious.
But it was united with a spirit of
adventure, and it is impossible to
understand the strength of the
American experiment throughout it's
three hundred years unless the adj
venturousness of it's undertaking is
appreciated equally with the motives
of solemn religious fervor.
Our historians have recently given
increasing attention to this aspect
of our national development. The
influence of the frontier upon our
character has been analysed and
debated. We have never been with
out a frontier until very recent
years. There was always going
forth of the more adventurous
spirits into the West of recklessness
and treasure and open places. And
equally there was always a return
flow Of influence upon our national
character.
What the present tercentenary
can serve to remind us is that the
Pilgrims voyage in 1920 was, first
II all, most daring adventure, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Aiding Home Buyers
4 Public Spirited Citizen and His
Bencficiaries
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The acute housing conditions
bring forcibly 70 mind what one man
Of limited resources did in his COM
munity toward providing homes for the
people. His constructive work might
well be emulated by many public
spirited citizens and also others who
sit on committees and occasionally
hand out press agent stuff that is
ridiculous to students of the housing
subject.
Charles l.. Seibcrt, of Bloomfield,
N. j., died recently He was formerly
assistant treasurer of the Greenwich
Savings Bank, of this city; vice-pres-
dent of the Bloomfield Savings Bank
and treasurer of the Essex County
Building and Loan Association, of
Bloomfield, for more than twenty-five
years. Mr. Seibert was an enthusiast
and an expert on the cooperative build
ing and loan movement, and he used
his pen and voice to promote it at
every opportunity. He believed that
these organizations are beneficent, high
ideal institutions, inasmuch as they
have but two objects. e., to encour-
age the saving Systematically of small
amounts of money and promote home
owning among people of limited means
Mr.. Seibert's plan, in brief, was this:
Seeking married persons whom he
Is e.. 4
would first inquire what rent they paid
and find Il house suitable to their in
come; then proceed to work out plan
For example, suppose the house could
be purchased for $4,000 and the pro-
spective buyer was able to pay about
$40 month. A first mortgage of
$500 would be got through one of the
local building and loan associations,
which called for payments of s3s a
month (one-half interest and one-half
Ito pay Off. Mr.. Seibert took a second
mortgage of 1920 at per cent in
terest In few years the payments
and dividends on the $40 a month of
the first mortgage equalled the greater
part or all of the second mortgage;
then the two mortgages were amalea-
mated and Mr.. Seibert paid off. There
were more than 800 of these mortgages
held by Mr. Seibert at various times,
covering number of years, and not
one cent was lost by any one con-
cerned, and out of a list of eighty
which he prepared for me not one of
these persons had $3.50 at the outset.
When death or removal from town
caused sale Of the property a profit
resulted in nearly every case to the
owner. 1t is important to bear In
mind that not per cent of these per
sons could have got a home in any
other way.
Is there any higher form of good
citizenship work than this, combining
the ideal and the practical?
ARCHIBALD w. M'EWAN.
New York, July %, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
At Saratoga

William Barnes jr., although con-
ceding that Governor Smith will run
100000 ahead of his ticket, is per-
suaded that the Governor "hasn't a
chance of reelection "-predicts that
even with this large addition to his
party's vote he will be 100000 short.
If Mr.. Barnes is of the opinion
that the candidate he favors will
thus fall behind, it would seem that
the most rudimentary sense of pru-
dence would require him to look for
another candidate. 1t isn't safe to
nominate candidates so unwelcome
that they are expected to run 100000
behind the ticket.
Mr.. Barnes bore no small part in
destroying the immense majorities
New York rolled up for Mckinley,
for Roosevelt, and for Taft when he
was supported as the political heir of
Roosevelt. Mr.. Barnes did not do
1t all in one year, but he kept chip
ping away until the party was
wrecked. Then he retired and the
party began to come back. His
prominence at the Saratoga gather
ing to-day is thus calculated to fill
the Democratic heart with hope and
coincidentally to bring forebodings
to Republicans.
1t may be that, as the present po-
litlcal division stands, the Repub-
licans have 100000 plurality. But
they can get rid of the surplus. A
speedy way is to turn reactionary, to
repeal the primary system, and have
again conventions of hand-picked
delegates. To conventions composed
of men Of independence and enlight-
eminent the public is not hostile.
But to such conventions as the Old
Guard likes it is most emphatically
opposed, and it suspects that it is
the hand picked convention Messrs.
Barnes ct al. purpose to restore.
No special reason exists why the
gentlemen at Saratoga, in an ecstasy
OF foolish overconfidence, should act
in manner.to weaken the party. 1t
is to be hoped that the newspaper
correspondents who say that this is
their mood are misinformed. 1t is
plain that on the day when the Re-
publican party of New York ceases
to be a congenial home to men of
progressive minds it's power wifi de-
cline. The gentlemen gathered at
Saratoga might we'll take short
time off to visit the battlefield and to
reflect on what happened to Bur
goyne, although full of certainty
when he left Quebec that he would
arrive at Albany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Losing Leg and Pension
The Strange Predicanlcnt of Patti
otto Volunteer
To the Editor of The Tribune.

QUO CtuHteeT
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. Referring to the one-leggs
veteran mentioned by Mr. McNally in
Saturdays issue as having been
obliged to stand up in the subway
train, am reminded of another cns-
legged veteran, under thirty, whom
accidentally met on recent trip to
Washington. He was about to return
to this city from forlorn trip to The
Capitol, undertaken in the hope OF
being able to induce the Navy Depart
ment to adjust the mess they hsd
! made of his case.
He had lost his leg in the engage
ment at Vera Cruz and been retired
with a pension. When the big war
broke out he enlisted in the naval re-
serves, as he thought his services as
an expert radio operator might be
useful to his country, notwithstanding
he had but one leg. Evidently the re-
cruiting officer thought so, too and
thus displayed an unusual amount o.
discernment and good sense, as cor
trasted with most of his sort. The
young man served until the end Of The
war and made good to the extent tha!
he rose to the rank Of junior leuten'
ant and is still retained in the service
His predicament is that his pension
gained at Vera Cruz was stopped On
his reenlistment in the Naval Reserve,
the reason given being that his rssn-
listment is de facto evidence that De
is able-bodied, and TO able-bodied sea-
man is entitled to a pension. I'M;
absurdity is profered him as he STANDS
before the Dogberry official with only
one leg, the other having been cut OF
close up to the trunk Cervantes gives
US nothing richer in humot
Well, then, inasmuch as this COZ
clusion is considered unanswerable, 81
indeed it would be a waste of time 70
attempt to influence such towering
intellect, how about retirement WIFE
the pay accorded a retired junior
lieutenant? Apparently that mig''
possibly be brought about if it wefs
not for the unfortunate fact that as
is only a reserve officer.
Truly there are more Danielses 'nsn
one in the Navy Department. How tns
late Gilbert would have rupg Ihe
changes on such remarkable exhio',
tions of quibblingl Not even the i'0'O
High Executioner's reason for NOT nav
ing chopped off the head OF Nanki-fo'
exceeds this in richness.
Meantime, our young man remains
an "able-bodied man." with one 'ss'
but without cent to show Tor '"s
ether one lost in a hot fight wagsO
to obtain a proper recognition OF nv
nations flag.
It is fortunate that your COLUMNS
are closed to profanity. else bro'H''
McNally and might collaborate !" :
paraphrase of Swift's immortal GAME
ing ecclesiastical letter.
OLD-TIMER.
New York, July %. 1920
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Wages for Prisoners
,ditor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The question of wage to be
paid prisoners has been under con-
slderation for some time, and am glad
to give you my opinion on that sub
ject.
wage for prisoners is not only
just but, to my way of thinking, is
exceedingly good business. r do not
believe, however, that wage should
be paid unless it is honestly earned
and the money realized from the earn
lngs of the prisoners work in shop and
farm should be used for the payment of
their wages. l consider skill and ade-
quate supervision absolutely essential
in the production of good commodi-
ties or in doing good work. I believe
that part of the wages earned by the
prisoner should be used for his main
tenance and part for his family or de-
pendents. 1t must be remembered that
not only good machinery and compe-
tent foremen in sufficient numbers are
necessary, but also willing workers.
| do not believe that such willing work
ers can be secured unless they receive
compensation for their worbsand have
the constant incentive that their recon-
pense will depend on their own striv-
ing. | believe that the prison shop
can produce as good goods as can
free manufacturer, and that they can
be produced in quantity providing
reasonable wage is paid and there are
adequate supervision and instruction,
first class machinery, continuance of
the workers in one shop for a long
period and the realization Of the pris
oner that he can gain both material
and spiritual profit from a days work
we'll done.
AS | said before, part Of the wages
earned should be used for the family
or dependents of the prisoner / be-
lieve that the prisoners dependents
should be given chance and that
the men in prison should be allowed
to earn so as to help them. 1.-THE in
mate has no dependents, would it not
be an insurance against future wrong
doing if he had laid by sum of money
with which he could make a fresh
start on his release?
Work is g healer of many sores; to
know how to work and to feel it's i'm
portance is lesson which we all must
learn ifswe are to succeed in life.
ADOLPH LEWISoHN.
New York, July 26, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Why Workers Leave America

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ] wish to call your attention
to the fact that although we are re-
ceiving many immigrants at our port
we are also losing more. And those
who are leaving are the most success
full and take money with them. They,
with few exceptions intended to re-
main with us. There must be some
reason which has caused them to
change their minds.
There may be many such, but I do
know of one. 1t is the rudeness and
suspicious of our officials. Most of
our departing guests have taken out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
The Race Fiasco

There was not quite enough wind
yesterday for the Cup racers, and
another postponement of the final de-
cision occurred. There is nothing
new about such disappointments in
the matter of wind on that very
dusty section of the ocean. But the
repeated jeers for the marvellous
racing machines which could not
race in Saturdays breeze and must
have wind made to order---neither
more than twenty nor less than five
or six knots-are new, new and sig
nificant. There is no question of the
vast skill and ingenuity that have
gone into the designing of these
fragile and wonderfully fast craft,
But under short-sighted rules the
skill and ingenuity have been sent
off on a wild goose chase in pursuit
of something quite unworthy the
history of the Americas Cup and
lacking both practical value and
popular appeal.
AS a matter of fact, most yachts
men have seen this situation APP
preaching and have regretted it
deeply. Various factors, interna-
tional and personal, have prevented
an alteration in the Cup rules in
time to prevent the unfortunate re-
suit of 1920. There is no need of
going into these issues now--provid-
ed the lesson is learned and steps
are at once taken to put the con-
tests on a sounder basis. Perhaps
the fiasco of the current series and
the popular derision for the episode
of Saturday were necessary to bring
matters to head.
There must be two essential
changes. The test must be altered
radically, for one thing. The races
must be held at a place and during
season when heavy winds are fire.
quent and an all-around trying-out
is certain. On the other point, new
rules must be agreed upon which
wills compel the designing of able,
stanch craft of a cruising type, fit
to race in any sort of Atlantic
weather. Since a change must be
made, let it be a radical one. No
halfway measures should be coun-
tenanced. The sport of yachting in
both England and America is sadly
misrepresented by the frail machines
at Sandy Hook. In both countries
the development of yachting, save in
this one conspicuous event, has been
in the stanchest, soundest direction.
The shippers and crews on Sham
rock " and Resolute are typical of
the sturdy seamanship of both ma
tons. The pity is that their pluck
and skill can have no heavy-weather
test on these weather yachts.
No one can say which boat would
have cracked first in a thrash to
windward Saturday. 1t is most I'M
likely that Shamrock's fiat bows
could have withstood such a batter
ing, and Resolute's rigging might
or might not have gone sooner,
The race was rightly called Off. 1t
ought never to have been made pos
sible for two such boats to come to
the starting line in an America s
Cup race.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
An Awkward Position
(Fronl The Mil,paukec Sentinel,

(hronl The Milloau1tcc Scntinel)
With Mr. Wilson earnestly probing
to ascertain just what he thinks about
the league covenant and Mr.. BRYAN
ct al. exploring his inner consciousness
with equal zeal to discover his thoughts
concerning the Volstead act, Candidate
Cox now faces an unexampled onnor-
tunity for a display of political sa-
gacity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
A Fatal Friendship
(From The Providence Jour,,a

III
According to semi official statement,
Mr. Wilson will do everything in his
power to assist the election of Mr..
Cox. Considering the attitude of the
country toward the Wilson Administra-
ton, the Presidential candidate ought
TO pray that the White House keen it,
self out of the campaign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27

tention to what any newspaper says
and read what the pertinent docu-
ments affirmatively say. If he
does this with an open mind it is
not likely that he will be victimized
by the deceptive campaign which is
now in full cry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Not Interested

(From The Philadelphia Erenirg fs'''
Ledger -.
Scans attention will be paid III ".
country to the fact that 8,o00,ovV p''
ties of wine are TO be sold at ane''''
in Paris. Those of US who are ~
camels are foxes, with the TRADITIONS
opinion concerning grapes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Need for Haste

(Fron, The Los Angeles Tir'ss1 ..
But eight more months tof :.
Woodrow Wilson. II the Europss.
countries want him to heal the osVs -.
heart of the world they had os'ss
hurry up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
;. sunscHrTIoS. HATEg.zpy man, ,nsiuains
GUARANTY

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for II dlssatisfac-
ton results In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay Your money back eaueSt. NO red tars
NO euibhilne. We make GOOD promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
MEAfRER or rHn Assoc1Arrn pnrss

Tie Associated Press Is exclusively entitled TO the
use for republication Of ali dispatches credited
70 Il or not otherwise credited IN this paper. and
herein.
All rights Of republication of all other matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27
Another Presidential Mystery

tFron' The Kansas City Timcs)
The doctors couldn't have been more
mystlfying in their bulletins about
President Deschanel if he had been n
President of the United States,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27

Owned and published daily by New York Tribune
me. New York Corporation. Ogden Reid Prcsi-
dent: @. Vernon Rogers. vicc-prcs,dcnt: Helen
Rsgsrs Reid. Secretary: Y. +. Masned. Treasurer.
Address. Tribune Building. i5& Nassau Street, New
Tork Tslsphone. Hickman 5000.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-02-28
DUMB CURED BY SUGGESTION
English Specialist in Nervous Dis
eases Claims to Have Achieved
Some Remarkable Results.

Can dumb man be made 10 speak
merely Ivy being told that he must
speak?
Impossible though it may seem,
cures have been effected by this
means.
Lieut.-Colonei Sir Frederick Mott,
one of the foremost specialists in
nervous diseases. claims to have cured
several dumb soldiers by suggestion
Five men who were mutes We're
sent to him after they had been treat
ed previously, and il had been sHg-
eested TO them that they were not
going 10 get Well He took the first
man into Il room aud told him that
he never left Il patient until he had
cured him. "even II it took him 4
couple OF hours
The doctor had recourse to. n little
galvanism on the mans throat. and
asked him TO count ten. AT first he
Indicated that he could not bur after
coughing his lips begth 10 move. Then
he was asked To name The days of the
week and sing God Save the King"
Eventually he spoke; and the other
four were also cured 10y this method.
london Tii-Rits.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-02-28
ASSERT POWER OVER DEATH
TWo East Indians Make Extraordi-
nary Claims, Naturally some-
what Hard to Prove.

The dead can be brought 10 life.
This remarkable claim has JUST been
nr.ds by Meinan doctor OF Rangoon
usnrlna).
She Claims 10 have prepared certain
remedies. which are 10 he taken in
ternally and applied externally for n
week. at the end eS which any dead
person will revive. AS may be tx-
pected, she keeps her remedies a Sc
cret and she will not disclose their
ingredients to anybody, writes s. Il.
Banerjea OF Calcutta.
She further claims That the dead
person, when revived. viii have a new
mind and better features. The treat
ment 10 be completely successful
must I've continued for a month or two
The Burmese doctor has created
sensation in the country. Some are
soothing at her, while others are urg-
ing the authorities TO test her claims.
In this connection. may state TINT
some time ago Hindu doctor made
Similar claim and requested me TO
secure dead body for him. Now, no
Hindu or Mnssulman will allow any
experiment TO be made on the dead
body of near and dead relative.
Their religion forbids such expert
menting. Soon after the doctor had
asked my help, a distinguished Hindu
knight, whom l khew, died. i was
urged 10 sound his relatives. / did
sound them, but my request was re-
jected. approached certain doc
tors, bat they all laughed at me and
refused TO help me.
The Hindu doctor, I regret TO say,
will not disclose his mode of treat
ment. He will not charge anything.
He wants TO be judged by his results.
But who will care TO help him?