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New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Men, Not Manikins

Asked as to whether it is his pur-
pose, in advance of permitting any
vote in the Senate, to submit to the
White House any compromise plan
that might be privately agreed to
by two-t thirds of the Senate, Senator
Hitchcock replied:
"That is bridge we will cross
when we come to it,"
In other words, the Senator is not
yet willing to avow his Senatorial
independence. He is not of the mind
of Webster when the great Daniel
said: "This is Senate, a Senate of
equals, of men of individual honor
and personal character. We have
no masters, we acknowledge no die
tators."
Senator Hitchcock has, one may
suspect, wish to be independent,
but he is not sure he can indulge the
luxury. Other Senators, alas! are
in his state of weakness. Herein is
one of the reasons for the treaty
difficulties. There is a collar which
chafes many throats, but the col
Jared dare not rip it off. If the
Democrats of the Senate had the
courage to be themselves the dead
lock quickly would be over. The sug-
gestion that the President is to have
a private veto in addition to his con-
stitutional one arouses foreboding.
If he has a chance to send the COM
promise over Bridge of Sighs to
secret death, taking no open respon-
sbility for his acts, the treaty may
yet fail.
The Republican Senators are un-
bossed. No one either in their num-
Der or outside Of it is conceded
power to dictate to them. 1t is not
too much to ask the Democratic Sen
ators to be similarly independent; to
be real and not dummy Senators of
the United States; to be men, not
rnanikins.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

lative bodies would be dispersed.
Let the constitutional Socialist pom
der the fact that the first time
regime pretending to be Socialistic
gained power it overthrow political
freedom.
A part of the Indictment brought
against Speaker Sweet relates to his
unutterable stupidity. He is no fox.
He will never be remembered as a
Machiavelli. He has shown the in
telligence of the bull teased by the
darts of the banderillero and expos
ing an open flank to the sword of
the Toreador
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Propaganda Values

John Spargo, the pro-war Social
ist, tells in his latest book that
when he was asked to join in
protest against the further confine-
ment of conscientious objectors,"
ro-Germans and the like, he re-
piled that he was in sympathy with
amnesty, but that men of unim-
peachable loyalty should be asked to
sign. He pointed out that thereby
the end in view would be more
easily attained. Mr.. Spargo re-
ceived the following reply:
"No doubt you are right. The
psychology of your argument is
sound. 1t is very likely that if your
method should be followed the am
ncsty would be granted at once But
IN that case the whole propaganda
value of these prosecutions will be
lost to US. We do not want the
President to proclaim general
amnesty. nor to pardon any of the
because of the menace Of our move
ment. We acant agitation fur more
than we aodnt amnesty"
If confession is good for the soul,
the gentleman who thus freely
acknowledged his purpose was bene-
flied within. Agitation is what he
wants, not amnesty. This spirit has
kept Mooney in prison. AS often
as the public was about to consider
the one pertinent question of whether
Mooney was fairly proved guilty Of
murder or not, spurious friends
have wrecked the prospect. If the
/. w. w. views Of Mooney were not
to be justified, he was to be left
to rot in the penitentiary.
Bolshevik Socialists have imported
from Germany the theory Of tactics
that the end justifies the means
and that to advance cause it Is
permissible to misrepresent and to
lie. Some Of the protests against
the Albany unseating reveal this
spirit. There is lacking an honest
solicitude for justice and democratic
principles. What is sought is con-
t'nnnnce Of the exclusion. There
is only sham interest in representa-
tive government. The Bolshevist
cares not for free speech and the like.
The Bolsheyist sympathizes with
Lenine and Trotzky, whose first acts
were to forbid free assemblage and
10 suppress free press, establish
ing a censorship more rigid than
any maintained by Kaiser or Car.
Ii the Bolshcvists secured control
here, not only would free speech
quickly 80, not only would a few
Legislators be unseated, but all legis-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
MIR. Hoover's Optimism

Mr.. HOover's testimony before
the Ways and Means Committee of
the House seems to show a con-
siderable modification Of his earlier
views. Apparently, in his opinion,
the European food situation is
mending and the economic crisis
abroad has become much less acute.
Mr.. Hoover advised the COM
mittee to allow Europe a further
credit of 100000 through the
Grain Corporation, the food thus re-
leased to be delivered to the worst
sufferers, which are at present
Austria, Poland and Armenia. Only
about twelve of the larger cities in
these three countries are now fac
ing starvation conditions.
The former Food Administrator
expressed great sympathy with the
Austrians, whose distress, he says,
is caused by the oppressive pro-
visions of the treaty of St. Germain.
He complains that Austria swas un-
wisely stripped of her agricultural
provinces and can now raise only
enough food each year to supply
her wants for three months. AS a
protest against this disastrous dis
memberment he would have the
United States make only one food
advance to the Austrians, and then
give notice to the European powers
that they must assume hereafter the
burden of feeding this pauper state.
Poland, he told the committee, de-
served special consideration this
year because her economic rehabili-
tation has been delayed by the war
she is making against the Russian
Bolshevists.
Last summer, when in Paris, Mr.
Hoover forecast much larger de-
mand on the resources Of the United
States. He then favored money
loans to the newly organized Euro
pean governments. He said, in "a
statement issued on June 8: II feel
that something like half a billion
dollars assistance from the Ameri-
can government may be needed to
join with the other Allies in the
reorganization of the currencies Of
the new states and to take care Of
some particularly acute and other
wise unsolvable problems.
These problems are evidently
solving themselves. At all events,
Mr.. Hoover now deprecates any
further government money loans to
Europe and also advises individuals
here not to send money abroad.
Remittances from the United States
should take the form of "food
drafts" cashable with the food ad-
ministrations with which the Grain
Corporation will cooperate.
Since returning to this country
Mr.. Hoover has several times
the need of Europe's
"getting back to work" Produc-
ton is the best remedy for food and
other shortages. Europe may think
that this view is uncompromisingly
optimistic. 1t undoubtedly repre-
sents certain rapid shift toward
optimism on Mr.. Hoover's part.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Ouija's Hour Of Triumph

The lure Of the ouija board may
we'll be as alarming a factor in col
lege life as the faculty of the Uni
yersity Of Michigan declare. That it
has succeeded the Bible and the
prayer book in fraternity houses and
students rooms may be all too true.
The story of the two young women
who were so undone by ouija as to
be obliged to quit college and place
themselves under nerve specialists
sounds believable enough. But why
pick on college students, we wonder.
If ouija is cutting into the lives of
the matriculated it is doing equal ex-
ecution in far older and more ex-
perienced quarters. No little group
of serious thinkers Of any age or any
cline but has it's board to-day and
it's mediums and it's tipping tables
and it's Maeterlinckian contacts with
all the otherest kinds of pale blue
philosophy.
And why not? If ever ouija was
to have an hour of triumph this is
surely it. The background is COM
plete. The conviction of a teetering
world, moved by unseen forces to
cavort in the most unaccountable
fashion, is upon us all. No grand
piano waltzing up a flight of stairs
beneath the fnger-tips Of select
coterie Of expert table tippers of
Greenwich Village could be half as
extraordinary as that entirely scien
tifc and respectable rocket to the
moon, now building at Clark College.
That radical visionary, esteemed as
a voice of authority only by children,
Mother Goose, turns out to have
been a conservative prophet by the
light of Professor Einstein's modif-
cation of the law of gravitation
which treats the COW and the moon,
we gather, as two soaring objects,
mutually toying with each others
four dimensions.
AS nearly as we (from our post
without the walls of vision) can
sense the general situation, it is ex-
actly as if the world were a ouija
board and Mr.. Maurice Maeterlinck,
with half-shut eyes, had his delicate
finger tips resting on it's surface and
was spelling out the most marvel
Gus and amazing things. Only the
other day, for instance, it was duly
announced by a silk manufacturer
that a certain shade of blue had been
officially selected as "Blue Bird"
blue; and the same was declared to
express, on the word of Mr.. Maeter-
linck himself, nothing less than "the
warmth Of the sunlit ocean, the
vibration Of the Alpine sky and the
restfulness of the distant mo1n-
tains." If this does not sound like
the utterance Of ouija we should like
to know what does.
But we do not wish to overesti-
mate Mr.. Macterlinck's responsible
ity for the current teeterings of the
universe. We merely suggest his
commanding and mysterious figure
as typical of much that is strange
and breathless and perfectly upset
ting-and yet not without it's lighter
side, at that
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
By
Heywood Broun

Of counsel for the prosecution" he said.
you. might naturally infer that / am
an advocate of force and violence. 1t
is not true. ! have never advocated
violence in any form. l always believed
IN education, in intelligence, in en-
llghtcnment, and have always made my
appeal to the reason and the conscience
Of the people,"
There is, of course, no question what
ever that from a strictly legal point of
view Debs was guilty of violating the
espionage act. He admitted as much
himself. The Supreme Court had not
passed upon the constitutionality Of that
act at the time of the Canton speech
Debs believed the act was unconstitu-
tional, and in this belief he proved to be
mistaken.
Yet for all the legality of the convic-
ton it seems curious and little un-
just that the law should have fallen so
heavily upon this mild old visionary.
while so many others of much redder
hue escaped. Debs was a centrist in his
party. He favored restatement of
the position of his party as expressed
i'll the anti-war plank of the St. Louis
PLATFORM
His offense rose directly out of his
opposition to the espionage act itself.
1t seemed to him almost dare to every
body who interpreted free speech in any
such far-reaching way as he did him
self. He accepted the challenge very
boldly. He faced the issue fairly and
squarely in his trial. He made no at
tempt to wriggle out by any subterfuge
such as by saying when / said this 7
meant something entirely different
Other radicals adopted this method sue
cessfully, but Debs stood by his guns
Il wish to admit the truth of all that
has been testified to in this proceed
lng," he said to the jury 81 have no
disposition to deny anything that is
true. l would not, if could, escape the
results of an adverse verdict. / would
not retract a word that 1 have uttered
that | believe to be true to save myself
from going to the penitentiary for the
rest of my days"
Personally, we feel that Debs's posi-
ton on the war was not justified by the
facts. We do not feel that it was even
logical position, since in his speech he
said at one time, "Men talk of holv
wars. There are none," and indicated
his opposition to all wars, only to speak
with great enthusiasm later about the
righteousness of the American Revolu-
tion and the Civil War.
But though Debs is not clear thinker
he possesses a number of qualities which
are useful to the community. Moral
courage such as his is undcniably rare.
nor IS there any ovcrabundAnce of such
hountiful sympathy for al, mankind as
rests IN the heart of this man Of sixtv-
i've, who has been sentenced to spend
ten years in Atlanta. Fine material has
been wasted. We need Missionaries. even
though they arc muddled headed. There
are things in life and law which hear
too harshly upon such men.
At any rate, we trust that ;f Debs
lives long enough to serve his sentence
and comes out to preach only bitterness
and hatred and violence, none OF us will
throw up our hands in surprise and say.
II wonder how this man came to reach
this state OF mind"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

outstanding marks, whether held at
home or abroad, at their full nomi-
nal gold value. See vast volume
of American "greenback" literature
for the reasons.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
The Cry of the Tenant
,e Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A ticket speculator can be put
in jail for profiteering. A food specu-
lator can be put in Jail for profiteering.
A rent speculator. the major criminal,
gets away with tho loot. Why?
100 PER CENT VICTIM.
New York. Jan. 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
The Service Chevron System Is Better

Sir There isn't so far as I know, any
definite code of mourning for domestic be-
reavements don't refer to ordinary losses.
such as relatives. But suppose you lose
cook? Would you wear deep Grape and. per-
haps, veil for month, or just until you
get another? And would simple arm
band of black both arms. perhaps, be
enough for a second maid, if she didn't also
do waiting?
And, besides. if you know at once that
Mrs Sheldon-Jones has lost her cook, you
may ba able to get her for yourself.
HoUsEKEEpER WHO Is ANXIOUS To Do
THE RIGHT THING.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
The Diary of Our own Samuel penvs

January 10-My wife, poor wretch. i'll
of the quinsy, so | with her all day
save for ride in my petrol-waggon,
wearing my new gloves, in which my
fingers grew cold in three miles in
stead of in one. My uncle George
to see me, as gay and comickal as he
was when was lad of three, and
as loveablc, too. Mistress Jacque
Campbell to dinner, so I with Mistress
Edna to "lolanthe," smoother than 1t
was last Monday.
Ito the office in my petrol-wag-
gon, and home for dinner, and took
Clara for ride in the snow, but the
streets too wet for any safety. Home.
and read the journals, which arc all
of the opinion Mr.. Sweet hath done
foolish thing at Albany. The Treaty
ratified yesterday in Paris, but we
not ready to sign it yet; nor are we
likely to be for long time. Payed
this day my bills, which leaveth me
without any money but $S2 G. Bur-
CESS come at supper time, but would
not sup with us, having had somewhat
on the way But | had great supper,
Of lamb, and sausages, and jam, and
apples; and yet was hungry.
12-R. Benchley tells me he hath re-
signed his position with "Vanity Fair"
because they had discharged Mistress
Dorothy Parker; which | am sorry for
Mistress Hida to dinner, very lovely,
and she gave me kiss. To the opera
house and heard "Martha," tuneful
score, and E. Caruso and Miss Mabel
Garrison sang we'll, but the story Of
the opera is a second-rate affair.
13-All day at my desk, and to din
ner at L. Untcrmeyer's; and thence to
meet Mistress Hilda and with her to
see c. Pollock's "The Sign on the
Door"
Cheers" says the Sun, Greet De-
feat of Effort to Seat the Five
Ousted Members" Whose cheers ?
The cheers Of those who go down to
the dock to hiss the departing de-
portees?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
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New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

For the benefit of those whose
literacy began in 1918, it should be
stated that the watch for the best
1917 contribution will be awarded to-
night to Mr.. Lloyd Mcclure Thomas.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

Wilson Consults Glass on Subject
of Successor.-Evening Mail headline.
Even the President appears to have
tallen for the spirit stuff and to have
taken up crystal gazing.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
The Coming 7ower

"HAEC OLlM MEMINISSE JUVABIT"
Oh, back in the year nineteen nine
teen, when l was an earnest vower,
The snappiest stuff that ever was seen
I swore I should write for The
Tower;
I'd write of the deeds of our soldier
men,
I'd sing of the Treaty, the L. of N,
And ] vowed that the verse from
my virile pen
should elicit the loudest cheer;
And this is the stuff that I recall from
The Tower Of the previous year:
G. S. b. wrote lot Of things that
averc tuN of control and speed;
And the poems Of Hay and old c. A.
hcd rhymes that loved to read;;4
printed the plangemt appeal of
Ruth;;'
And the voudeville thoughts of q
squandered Youth;
And the best of the lot acas piece of
truth that garnered the auatch,' by
Smeed.'
l. George s. Bryan
2. Newman Levy.
3. Charlton Andrews
4. And so did everybody else.
5. A school teacher.
G. Considerable chronometer il 1 do
T. Mr.. joseph Deems TAYLOR.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

Those who are interested in the
memory, as manifested in the case of
DR.. Brand, may recall the De Morgan
novel in which a man lost his powers
OF memory for many years.
For the life of us we can't remember
whether it was "Alice-for Short" or
"Somehow Good"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

Well, the Contribs hnve their cclc
bration this evening, but it will take
place in New York and not ut Eaton
CeLter, N. H., nor at Banquetc, Tex.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

The thoughts of Socialists are
Sweet when the morn is gray; Sweet
when they've cleared away lunch; and,
at close Of day, certainly Sweet.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

You can purchase h,erchandtse advertised In THE
nSfBuNE With absolute safeN-fo. II dissatisfac-
iieh results In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
TO pay your money back upon request. No rcd tape.
No anhailns. W. mako good promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

Merely because Pep and Likki tele-
phone that they want to attend the
dinner this evening, the suggestion ia
made to John 2hcy that his itinerary
include r, Mo. Also they want to
know whether Captain Bruce Bairns
father is to lecture "The 0 Hour"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

the sound of police whistle
brought the duel to an end, both
marksmen fiecing.-The Tribune.
What do you mean, marksmen
asks @.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
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New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
De Serectute

Sir: One great advantage of really being
old is that one is beyond being told he is
getting old. Possibly NJ. T. Cicero made
this same observation some time B. c. If
he did, he was right
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

Nor at Dinner Island, Fla.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
To Gladys Caldwell

Blithe maiden of the witching ways,
You dance as if there fingered yet
a memory of Dryad days,
A strain you can't forget.
And as | watch you dance, swear
That can hear it-~ycs, can
A faint and faroff elfn air,
Upon the pipes of Pan. C. w.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
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r. P. A.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-24

BY Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 24.-opportuni:
ties for trade with Spain are called
to the attention Of American business
men in report just made to the de-
partment of commerce by Trade
Commissioner Arthur Young, dealing
with Spanish finance and trade con-
dftiOns.
Spain, Ne. Young said. Ia tho only
European nation with q balance OF
trade In It's favor, and can pay cash
for American goods.
The cost OF living, Mr.. Young as
serted, has increased less In Spain
than in any other European country,
and there has been practically no in
f1ation of paper money beyond that
caused by the legitimate importation
Of gold.
Mr.. Young suggested that Ameri
can business concerns desiring
Spanish trade should adopt a credit
system which would gradually be-
come elastic enough to permit COM
petition with European houses who
are preparing to fight to regain lost
prestige.
Cotton is the most important
product entering into trade between
the United States and Spain, it was
stated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-24
Former President in Con
sultati0n With Next
Chief Executive.
INTERN ATOM
COURT D'. ,UssED
Taft Interested : Question For
Many Years y riding Also Dis.
eusse. Gu. 3 of Reorganization
OF Eseet Branch of Govern.
mont. Probably in Line For
Supreme Bench.
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Marion, o.. Dec. "A. President
harding turned to former President
Taft today for counsel on the world
peace problem and on practical de-
tails OF organizing the next admin
stration.
Inc conference was arranged at
Mr. Harding's request and is under
stood to have concerned particularly
the proposal for new international
court. in which the former president
has been interested for many years
Mr.. Taft was a supporter Of the Yer
sa1lles league. but has taken the at
t1tude that some different agency
now must be organized to stabilize
world conditions.
Wants Other Advice.
Another subject on which the pres
ident-elect wanted information and
advice was the proposed reorganiza-
ton OF the executive branch of the
government. In the closing days OF
his administration Mr.. Taft made g
study OF that problem and appointed
an efficiency commission to under
take the work OF reorganization. Y
Coming OF Mr.. Taft revived spec
ulation about his possible appoint
ment to some high post in the COM
Ing administration. He has been
mentioned most frequently for a
place on the supreme court bench
but his name has also been heard
many times in cabinet gossip.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-24
HOWARD GIVES HIS VIEWS.
Head Of Farm Federation Wants
Outlet For American Products.

Outlet For American Products.
BY Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 24.-Extension of
credits to foreign governments able
to pay for American farm products
was advocated today by James R.
Howard, of Iowa, president Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
at a joint meeting of the senate agri-
cultural and banking committees.
He suggested that the war finance
corporation be made the agency for
the extension of credits, and men
toned Germany and Russia as par
ticular countries desiring to buy
American products.
Some method for a permanent plan
Of marketing, Mr.. Howard said, is
needed to relieve the farmers. In this
connection he said that the plan of
Senator Hitchcock, democrat, Of Ne
braska, to make the profits Of the
federal farm loan banks available for
farm loan products and live stock
would afford some temporary relief.
Chairman Mclean, Of the banking
committee, remarked that he had re-
ceived a communication from the
federal reserve board expressing op
position to the Hitchcock proposal.