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New-York tribune., 1920-09-21

it warns the pedestrian just exactly as
we'll as a saucy noise. 1t is not the
proper function of the automobilist to
indicate why he gives the warning, nor
should he show how much or how
little he is irriteted by the pedestrians
real or supposed misconduct; all he can
properly do is just to give a warn
ing. What better than the old-fash-
ioned sleigh bells? Beyond the simple
noise they indicate nothing but the
rhythm of the horses motion; and that
is pleasing rather than otherwise. In
place Of that rational noise-signal the
strictly modern American takes delight
in the raucous horns designed to show
just what vicious and ugly feeling
exercises the drivers mind. Some times
we shall recover from such insanity;
but how extremely slow we are in COM
ing to our senses!
You see, have been pleading mainly
for measures which will conduce to the
peace of mind of the pedestrian. To
those who do not dare speak out on
this question, unless they can presen,
some direct argument for measures to
prevent killing people, appeal for aid.
If no person had been killed in the
streets fo- a year, we should still have
this problem with us--or at least we
ought to have it. B. B. ADAMS,
New York. Sept. 10 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Insulting the People

Mr.. Cox asserts that he believes
in the American people. Yet he con-
tinues to assert that the American
people can be bought.
In signed statement he declares
that Senator Harding is man
whose character and record entitle
him to high respect. Yet he affects
to believe that Mr.. Harding would
consent to allow the Presidency of
the United States to be purchased
for him.
Mr.. Cox's talk about buying the
Presidency is obviously insincere.
It cannot be sincere. He has long
been politician. AS such he
knows, as we'll as any man knows,
that campaign funds are necessary.
He knows that his own managers
are frantically trying to raise a
campaign fund in his behalf.
And his charge that the Republi-
can campaign fund-merely because
it is Republican, and not Demo-
cratic-is intended as bribe money
is not only stupid perversion of
the truth-it is an insult to the peo-
pie of the United States.
Mr.. Cox and his hackers have
been given the fullest opportunity
to prove his assertion. Not only
have they been unable to prove any
thing either wrongful or illegiti-
mate about the Republican cam
paign fund, but they have utterly
failed to show that the amount is
to be $15,o0o,o00, or anything like
that amount.
What has been shown is that the
Republican managers are giving all
the people an opportunity to con-
tribute to the campaign fund-in
small amounts. Never in the his
tory of this country has a method
Of raising money been employed
that is SO much in the spirit Of
democracy.
The man or woman who believes
that it is in the interest Of the peo-
pie to get rid Of Wisconsin can sub
scribe. Nothing has been, is or will
be done to coerce him to subscribe.
No promises have been made. No
threats have been uttered.
No corruption has been practiced.
None will be tolerated.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Freedom of Communication

A study Of world cable conditions,
made under direction of the State
Department, shows that while the
United States controls more than
$4,000 miles Of cable Great Britain
controls more than 10000 miles,
this being more than the combined
total of all nations other than the
British.
Only from the western coast
Of South America and to a limited
extent from the Far East does the
United States receive direct infor-
nation by cables free from possible
censorship or control by other ma
tions through which the cables pass.
The great mass of cable dispatches
reaching the United States must
come via British, French or jap
anese cable lines. Practically every
cable America receives from Europe
first passes through London or Paris.
Fair-minded Americans will not
quarrel with British interests, for
example, because they steadily en-
large their control Of cable systems
throughout the world. But they may
well insist on freedom Of cable COM
munication. Civilization is 80 close
iy knit y together through business,
djploaasAls and social ties that 10 ia
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olerance
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The attack Of "Disgusted" upon
tie long standing observance by Jewish
students seems to have been provoked
by the delay it caused in certain organi-
zation proceedings. One can hardly
sympathize with the authors of such
organization plans which can be so
easily upset Surely "Disgusted" and
his co-workers anticipated the holiday
lapse in the school term,
l believe with him that religion Ia
a metaphysical speculation. But the
very nature Of religion cannot of itself
tolerate interference, organization or
no organization.
do think that Disguised" is not
an ideal teacher Of children. His com.
plant confesses o weakness. He lacks
most important auality-tolerance,
Let him remember that vocational
teaching demands his ability to over
come obstacles far greater than Jew
ish holidays. HARRY FEINBLATT.
New, York, Sept ass 1ss@
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Calvin Coolidge Saws

(From his address at the home OF
Daniel Webster, Marshfeld, yulu
i, 1870
1t was sovereignty from within which
responded to the alarm of Paul Re-
we're on that April night, and which
went marching, gun in hand, against
sovereignty from without, wherever it
was found on earth. 1t only paused at
Concord, or Yorktown, then marched
on to Paris, to London, to Moscow, to
Peking. Against it the powers Of privi-
lege and the forces Of despotism could
not prevail. Superstition and sham
cannot stand before intelligence and
reality. The light that first broke
over the thirteen colonies lying along
the Atlantic Coast was destined to il
illuminate the world 1t has been a
struggle against the forces of dark
ness; victory has been and is still de-
layed in some quarters, but the result
is not in doubt. All the forces of the
universe are ranged on the side of de-
mocracy. 1t must prevail.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Holy Days in the Schools
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "Dsgusted" deserves to be
what he calls himself, but not with
others. When man says Religion,
which is nothing but a metaphysical
speculation, ought never be permitted
to interfere with secular education"
etc, he is branded as man who, of all
men, is least fitted to mold the ideals
Of our younger generation.
Why should "such specific and utili-
tartan education as special training in
the trades" be permitted in any way to
interfere with religious observances ?
"Disgusted" says "as a result" of Cab
scnce because of holy days) "I have
postponed my organization work G full
week. Upon investigation this will
be found true in more than half the
schools. Then why not arrange things
80 that Jewish children are not penal
lied by their religion? Why not, in
the interests of all concerned, shorten
the Christmas or Easter holidays and
have the schools closed for the three
high holy days of the Jewish year?
LILLIAN X. Seal.
(Mrs. Joseph C. Scal)
New York, Sept. 19, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
No Wholesale indictments

1t is devoutly to be hoped that
the "irreconcilables" Of the New
York Assembly, Republican and
Democratic, will swallow their pride
and permit the five Socialists TO hold
their seats without wasting the
states time in denunciations or
abortive removal resolutions. Moth
ing could be palmer now than that
the Sweet proceedings of last winter
were grievous blunder, violating
both the fundamental principles Of
our government and the sentiment
of the people of the state.
If there is specific evidence of
disloyalty or criminal anarchy
against any Of the five or any other
member of the Assembly, prompt
action can be taken. But the effort
to indict elected representatives Of
the people on the ground of their
party affiliations must not be re-
peated. Guilt must be personal.
1t is gratifying to note that the
Wall Street tragedy has not stimu~
lated the outcry against all So
cialists or all members Of any party
which our specialists in disloyalty
predicted. We think there are ample
signs that the public wants the cam
paign against criminal anarchy to
be as intelligently discriminating as
it is severe and thorough. There is
no conceivable reason why it cannot
be both. Tags mean little. There
are Socialists who are as mur-
derously minded as the Russian tor
turers, agents of the new czars.
There are Socialists whose theories
and practices are wholly innocuous.
1t must be the business of our judi
cial officers to proceed against the
one and respect the other.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
The New Polish Advance

Trotzky has been boasting about
his preparations for another great
Red offensive against Poland. But
as the season for active campaigning
draws to an end his armies are still
being driven east. The Poles have
just started successful drive to
clear southeastern Galicia. They
have driven the Reds out of Brody
and Tarnopol ard virtually across
the Russian border. Further north
Pilsudski has crossed into Volhynia,
taking Rovno, the southernmost
Of the three fortresses in the cele-
bratcd Rovno-Dubno-L Lutsk triangle.
The Poles are now advancing on
Dubno, the one nearest Kiev, and
ere thus again establishing a strong
line inside the Ukraine.
The Polish operation is manifestly
defensive, it's object being to secure
g solid stratecical front which can
be held with the greatest economy of
forces during the winter months.
The Polish government has agreed to
submit its differences with Lithua-
MA to the League of Nations. This
decision greatly relieves the situa-
ton in the north, since it will oblige
Lithuania to hold off from any mill
tary alliance with the Reds.
Poland is entitled to gather the
strictly military fruits of her great
victory over the Bolshevists. What
she is doing now is merely precau-
tionary. The eastern frontier laid
down for her by the peace conference
IS indefensible. The peace confer
encc powers will not help her to
stand off the Russians. She is there
fore acting iii her own right to free
her undisputed territory and at the
. same time to conquer positions be-
yond the conference line in which
her armies can most conveniently
hold fast. TO this sound exercise of
military judgment there can be no
reasonable objection on the part Of
the United States or on that of the
western European Allies.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Cheap at the Price
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Governor Cox rolls his ewes
in pious ejaculation to the effect that
$1b,000,000 slush fund is being gath.
cred by the Republicans to buy the
Presidency. Possibly Mr.. Cox expects
US to believe that he intends to win
without money and without price
Bluffing on four-fush sometimes wins
but oftener ends in disaster.
My own opinion is that money, and a
lot of it, is necessary to win this cleo
ton, and it is easy to spend S15, ,0OC
in perfectly legitimate and legal man
ner in doing so.
My own opinion also is that If it can
be won by the lawful use of s15 5000 ,0OC
it is the best investment possible and
will yield returns to the people of the
United States that can be counted in
billions.
have already contributed my modest
quota and am ready to do it again if
necessary. The real issue is "Wilson
that's ALL" and covers everything from
"Too proud to fight" to the unmodhcd
League of Nations
ALBERT F. SHERWOOD.
Waterbury, Conn, Sept. 18, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21

ticular idea, are ephemeral and have
had little influence except indirectly
as they have affected the course of
the big parties. To work in har-
mony with q powerful organization
and to try to turn it toward a Ger
tain goal is surely as worthy as to
affiliate with a new organization
which will require years to gain
potency.
Some persons seem to think there
is immortality in strict party loyalty
look with scorn on those who work
year after year for the success Of
an organization with which they
only partly sympathize. This is
largely a pose.
Having made q choice, the new
voter should intelligently recognize
what it implies. It means reason
able persistence in membership. To
jump in and out is no way to get
personal Anuuence IN any OrganlZa-
tion.
Nor is it possible for single per-
son to get course exactly pleasing.
AS we gather in large groups, as we
must, pet ideas must often be kept
in abeyance. Two wishing to act to-
gether may precisely agree. Not 30
when the concert is with millions.
Do not join a party lightly or un-
advisedly, but, being in, do not de-
part to feed small dissatisfaction.
Don't make a fetish Of an exag-
gerated independence. This is con-
ceited and anti-social. You have
married; for q just reason get a
divorce, but avoid polygamy.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
eConni11g 7 ower
BALLADE OF RuTH's FIFTY

BALLADE OF RUTHs FIFTY
Roughing on birch-browed Homestretch
Isle,
Oh, leagues and major leagues away,
Where over the far Ontarian mile
The pine peaks with the breazes play.
We leave the world, its weary fray,
But soon as the native sun has set
And Northern Lights illume the bay,
We wonder II Ruth has fifty yet.
Gone are the cares Of rank and file,
The League of N. and bills to pay.
Memories only: racial bile,
The Elwell case, and Trotzky's sway,
What Cox and Harding have to say,
Additional wages clerks will net.
Though gone we wish they'd always
stay.
We wonder If Ruth has fifty yet.
Here, where the bass and pike beguile
And weight our board in tart array,
Here we are lolling in Adams style
Where only the moose and rabbit stray.
Old Rainy Lake is blue and gay
And all Of your city we forget,
But still, when comes the end of day,
We wonder If Ruth has fifty yet.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
The Voter and The Parsv

Our neighbor The World, much
admired by its friends for the in
tensity of its partisanship, is dis
pleased with Senator Harding be-
cause he advises joining one party
or the other-hints that independ
ence in politics is perhaps too much
praised.
Yet, on the whole, and not pushed
too far, Senator Harding seems -
give good advice to the new voters
a man or woman who is interested
N doing practical good can ordi-
narliy eject more as a party men,
Der than by maintaining an attitude
OF sterile and often Pharisaical in
dependence.
"A party is commonly described as
group of citizens, sharing common
views, which serves as a coherent
BODY to carry through party pro-
gram. A good definition, as far az
ii goes, but it does not go far enough.
IL 1alrly fits parties as they exist in
here.
10 understand the American no.
ht:cai party it is necessary to con-
sider certain qualities of our DO
'iticai system. We have a govern
mene OF distributed powers. The
founders OF The Republic, influenced
oy Montesqr!eu, great political
theorist of France, held that the
greatest danger to free political insti-
tutions lay in concentrated author
lty. 80 they established independent
agencies, each to check and balance
the others. Liberty. they held, would
thus be made secure.
The weakness of this govern
mental system is that it works
against unity Of action. If blindly
wilHul, each department may veto
needed action. Integrating organs
OF coercion are needed.
Hence the political party as We
know liable to influence a lcpis-
lator of Tennessee, Il Governor Of
New York, as well az President and
Cohgress. No other country requires
partieg to perform this work.
Our government WouId function
poorly except for the political party,
with its traditions and pride, it's
responsiveness TO public opinion, It's
keen desire TO win.
Tns psegkAm parties Of Ameri-
saass nasae whish champion o pay,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
The Perverted Paciast

A characteristic comment on the
Wall Street outrage comes from The
London Herald, the Labor organ
which is regarded by Lenine and
Trotzky as their stanchest friend
in England and which has been re-
Gently asking it's readers if it shall
take the Bolshevist money offered to
1t as subsidy. The explosion, it
says, was at first regarded as acci-
dental, but "in a country so nerv-
ously apprehensive about Reds"
the accident was translated into
vicious design" AS "a deliberate
attack on life" it was, of course,
"abominable, just as every form Of
war is abominable." In other words
The Herald makes no distinction be-
tween the loss of life in battle and
the taking Of life in time Of peace bv
wholesale murder.
This is the very ecstasy of
paclfsm, or pseudo-pacifsm. The
editor Of The Herald, George Lans-
bury, is not above serving as the
tool of some Of the bloodiest
butchers the world has ever known.
but none the less he poses as the
apostle of peace and condemns war,
save when it is the war of class on
class. "There is enough misery in
the world" he says, without re-
course to deeds of slaughter.
whether such deeds be carried out by
governments or against Them" Such
cssuistry Ia familiar enough. Mr..
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21

vital for each state to make sure
that no single country or group Of
associated interests in two or three
countries can either control or ex-
ercise censorship over means Of
communication.
1t is understood that the ques-
tion of cable ownership, control and
censorship will be brought up for
discussion at the International Com
munications Conference, to be held
in Washington next month. In view
of our new relations to the world,
the progress and results Of this as
semblage merit careful attention.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Miuerand Accepts

Alexandra Millerand has yielded
to pressure and agreed to accept the
Presidency Of the French Republic.
He lays down the premiership-a
post Of vastly more importance-to
become the nominal head of the
state. Recently he has been advo-
eating an enlargement of the Presi-
Dental powers. Perhaps he has re-
ceived some vague assurances from
the leaders in the National Assembly
that the Presidency will be revital-
lied. A former President once said ::
II am the French Queen Victoria. f"
He meant it as pleasantly. Yet in
some important essentials a British
sovereign has much more power than
a French President.
Poincare was an admirable head
Of state and exercised much inf1u-
ence on the conduct of the war. Yet
General Sarrail has testified that he
was warned on one occasion by the
French General Staff that Poincare
was going to visit the Verdun front
and was cautioned not to mention to
him certain plans which Sarrail had
suggested to headquarters for a re-
organization Of that front. Poin-
care was a respected onlooker and
adviser, but the conduct of the war
rested always with the ministry and
its military agents.
The French constitutional system
is not likely to be materially changed
-"Americanized," as they say in
Paris-as result of Millerand's $
election. The French don't want a
strong single executive. They pre-
fer parliamentarism. And the cx-
perierces of the United States with
an executive head eager to impose
his will in defiance Of public opinion
are keenly appreciated in Paris, for
France, as we'll as America, suffered
from Mr.. Wilson's ill-judged ex-
ploitation of the authority constitu-
tionally vested in him. Democracy
is safer under q chief executive with
powers less extensive than those CT
an American President. The French
have had a Presidcnt-Louis Ma
poleon-who transformed himself
into an emperor. They prefer a less
formidable figure in their modest
White House.
AS Premier-President of the
Council Of Ministers-M. Millcrand
will be missed. He has fought val
'antly and successfully for French
interests. He has prevented conces
sions to Germany in the execution Of
tie treaty which would have been
Gripping to France. In doing so he
has at times disturbed relations with
Great Britain. Perhaps he has
rutfled Lloyd Georges sensibilitics.
At any rate, there is a strong feel
ing in Paris that the development of
his policies can now best be left in
the hands of another French Pre-
micr - probably BRAND. French
partnerships are brief. Millerand's S
has been brilliant. He can well af-
ford to retire into the dignified semi
Obscurity of the Presidency
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Motor Manners
An Argument Against All Brusquc
And Raucous Horns
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me to congratulate you
on having printed on your editorial
page four letters on the noise nuis-
ance, and particularly OF drawing out
so clear thinking a critic as your
correspo~ dent at New Rochelle, NJ. r.
Weller. He suggests that some audible
signal is necessary on automobiles;
that it need not be raucous, ear
splitting shrek; that the motorst
making noises unnecessarily loud or
harsh should be arrested and debarred
from driving until he Cor she) has
learned better; that ignorance of good
signaling Indicates 'ncapacity to run
car properly; and that a horn can
be adjusted fo- three grades of warn
ing, slight, moderate or loud. The but
ton which controls the horn need be
pressed only half cccond to produce
"piercing shrek" This is proper
only in rare emergencies. Use of
horns with Judgment will reasonably
modify the ofFensc which motorists are
constantly giving pedestrians.
This is all good; but who is going
to bell the cat? Mr.. Weller seems too
much imbued with the idea that tho
pedestrian is largely to blame for any
unple asantness between pedestrians
Gas class) and automobile is (as
class). So he is; but that is not a
pertinent fact. He gets in the way of
automobiles and runs the risk of be-
ing killed. There is no use in trying
to cure that kind Of foolishness by
standing up for your own rights. He
deserves to be killed, perhaps; but
nevertheless we do not want to Kill
him. The motorist has the advantage in
all respects; and particularly in the
respect that he may fail to do his part
and still not be punished by death.
Mr.. Weller has set forth a few facts
which are well settled l will note a
few other things which are equally
we'll settled, if we only recognize the
situation. l) There will always be a
percentage of reckless or ignorant or
lll-tralned drivers. (2) Discreet driv-
ers must submit to regulations sufh-
cien:ly rigid to curb the reckless
ones; that is a penalty Of using the
streets to-day. CD Pedestrians and
all others have q right to be warned
in a civil manner.
Reference has been made to a warn
ing "brusque, but not especially Of
fensive"; and many people try to hit
upon compromise between harsh and
mild, as they try to find golden mean
between a dazzling HEADLIGHT and one
dim enough to cause no trouble. Such
compromise of lights is impossible,
and compromise in the matter Of
noise is unnecessary. All noises should
be mild. The diplomat uses mild and
civil language even when he says
severe things. The motorist should be
diplomat. Should he not treat
pedestrian as politely as he would a
fellow passenger in a crowded street
car or rude person in a hotel? Every
one who is of enough consequence to
run an automobile is biz enough and
intelligent enough to be gentleman
all the time. A gentleman is not
"brusque.' If we can say "beg par
don" u hundred times day to per-
sons who ought to say that to US, we
can he civil to the stranger on the
highway.
a soft old-fashioned air~hplb honk is
vesy amYdests unaggTesssvM noise. but
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
A Frugal Nation

tFrom The Washington Ercniu1 Star,
Norway has decided to discourage the
importation Of luxuries. Mentioned
among the luxuries are automobiles.
monographs, grand pianos and other
articles which have come to be reea arded
as necessaries Ia other portions OF the
gl0ha r