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New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Mind the Paint!

At last some one has appeared to
declare war on the excessive use of
powder and paint. The state super
intendent of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union announces that
the time has come for women to
wash off the cosmetics and return to
nature.
The male of the human species
long ago discovered it was unneces-
sary for him to attire himself in CAV
colors, knee breeches and powdered
wig to attract the attention of the
opposite sex. The female of the spe-
cies, however, still believes that per-
sonal adornment is the important
thing. Up to certain point, of
course, she is right. Men like good
looks, but, as a matter of fact, men
prefer not to know how results are
attained.
But there is little beauty in the
powder puff and the rouge pot and
neither is there mystery. Powder
that is more than visible and paint
that garishly proclaims itself can
add nothing to charm. A Distress
ing phase Of the matter is that the
worst offenders are those who need
no artificial aids to beauty. The
woman who seeks to gain the ap-
pearance of youth may be excused,
perhaps; but the girl who hides her
youthful skin with layers of tale de-
serves only pity. She will need
thicker paint and heavier powder a
few years from now.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Coming to Wall Street

A tradition of American politics
is that it is not safe for political
party to come to Wall Street for it's
candidate. The myth has been
spread that the financial district is
a den of artful thieves. A prejudice
against it has been fostered for
many years.
The effort to nominate Mr.. Nc
Adoo is in contempt of this assump-
tion. AS such it is welcome. We
have foolishly denied ourselves the
service of leaders of finance who
have so large a part in the leader
ship of business and industry. Wall
Street is like the remainder of the
country, populated by good ones and
bad ones. It's standards of private
and public morality are up to the
average, perhaps above it. 1t should
be allowed to help.
Mr.. McAdoo is a characteristic
product of the Street. He arrived
from Tennessee some twenty years
ago to become a promoter. He
furthered project whose success he
knew would be a good thing for the
public, and which he hoped would
be a good thing for his own pocket
book. Floating about was an un-
used franchise for a tunnel under
the Hudson. Why not try to do on
a small scale what Hartman had
done on a large scale with respect
to the bankrupt Union Pacific?
Mr.. McAdoo, an excellent sales
man, succeeded in interesting in
vestment bankers. The work was
started. But financial results were
not pleasing to the first investors
(promoters are temperamentally op-
timistic), and in the end the house
Of Morgan came to the rescue. The
donkey, who has been exercising it's
heels against Morganism, will surely
present an interesting spectacle as it
trots with Mr.. McAdoo as chauffeur.
Unless Mr.. Bryan is we'll coopered
he is likely to explode.
The McAdoo nomination would in
sure against the injection of an anti
Wall Street argument into the cam
paign. Mr.. McAdoo has shown HIM
self nimble and willing to make
demagogic appeals (witness his mis-
leading attack on the coal operators
some months ago), but he would
probably shrink from presenting
himself as a beanstalk climber who
was hungry for the head of the
Money Power giant.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
An Old Hostility

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Manierre's letter in this
mornings issue deplores the "hostility
of the renting public and goes on to
list the Improvements" necessary to
make the landlords life happy one.
Whether the landlord secures all the
benefits Mr.. Manierre wishes does not
affect the fact that the hostility" of
the public is q deep-seated sentiment
that has grown steadily for years.
1t is popular to talk thrift, and also
to cry how low are these rents the
landlords want; yet thrift" says one
fourth of ones income is reasonable
rent. The moderate middle class man
is the average in any city, and it is
he who provides the real profit for the
stores and landlords. How does the
landlord reconcile the one-fourth pro-
portion of present incomes with the
prices he asks fo4- his property?
The lists of rooms and apartments
furnished that flood the newspapers
are clear indication to those who have
no fish to fry" that the shortage is
not what is represented. The real
shortage" is in the money or income
to pay the rents the landlords ask.
The large proportion of middle class
people haven't got it, and the rich and
war babies" are not sufficient in num-
ber to supply the landlords hopes.
The recent rent bills are helping the
poorer people, but the middle-class
man cannot take the time to go to
court and cannot afford to incur the
landlords associations blackball on
his future leases. The hostility Of
the public" is due to last some con-
siderable time
A ROOMER AT A RENTING FIGURE.
New York, June 90. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Not the Immortal Alice

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In one of your papers of last
week | saw a statement to the effect
that the original Alice in Wonder
land had just died. I wish to correct
this. She died about fourteen years
ago and is buried behind Christ
church Cathedral, Oxford, where l
have visited her grave. There is a
mortal window to her memory in
the cathedral. Alice Lydle was her
name and she was the daughter of
Professor Lydle, of Oxford. The wom-
an just dead Is not Alice in Wonder
land. .C.s w
New Haven, Conn., juno 2s, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
That Frenzied Ovation

Just how fervently did the San
Francisco convention seethe in the
great Woodrow Wilson demonstra-
ton of Monday? Well, you can be-
lleve almost anything you want to
about it. There were observers
present who reported every con-
ceivable degree Of ovational tempera-
ture. At a boiling heat, proudly alone
IN It's torridity, was, of course, "The
World" whose headlines hissed and
bubbled: "Great Waves of Wilson
Fervor Sweep Convention"
i A few degrees lower down came
"The Times" with democrats Wild
ly Acclaim Wilson,"
1t is long drop from these faith
full Democratic souls to the mildly
Democratic Evening Post" Its ex-
pert observer, Mr.. Mark Sullivan,
had high praise for the CUMMINGS
speech; but of the Wilson picture
and the spotlight and the twenty
one-mlnute demonstration, the best
he could say was this:
1.-The strict fact is that the demon
stration did not get under wav very
spontaneously. 1t was stimulated bv
the band playing Over There The
Long, Long Trail and other euphonic
acceleratlons of emotion. Also. MANY
members of the national commit
tee, seated on the platform, did what
they could by leading the audience
notably woman member from Okla
homa, who made use of white
handkerchief to call the audience.nn
But it seemed to your CORE
spondent that, however the audience
may have cheered, the bulk of the
delegates remained unresponsive. It
was long time before there began
that march of the delegates, led bv
thclr state standards, which is n
feature of all national convontions y
We are not quite sure where to
classify our own. Haywood Broun
lie is not Democrat; but he is
even less Republican. Perhaps he
Is lighting neutral, if there is such
a thing. And Mr.. Broun goes a
shade further than Mr.. Sullivan in
his account of the frenzied ovation.
THE Democratic National Conven-
ton cheered President Wilson from
1884 until 12:5b o'clock this after
noon. 1t was distinctly dutiful
demonstration. 1t began fecbly and
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30

cheney and indecision marked the
Administration and although it la
bored in vain to recover lost time,
the energy Of the nation, despite the
Creels and the "New Republics" led
the President to some show of ear
nestness. But soon he relapsed again
into his "peace without victory"
ideas. He sought an armistice that
Germany would have wildly ap-
plauded, and when Foch wrote the
terms instead Of himself he was
highly displeased. He did what he
could to have the world believe that
his Fourteen Points were the basis
of the Paris Conference, whereas
the basis was the Fourteen Points
as interpreted by the Foch armis-
tice.
Following the meeting at Paris the
President found himself fighting
with a baby in his arms-the cove
nant-and to get acceptance of it
he traded. But whenever opportunity
offered he showed the same impervi-
BUSINESS to the issues of the war that
had marked his course throughout.
Only in limited way is the Presi-
dent anxious for a better world or
ganizatibn. He wants something
else more.
One who was so long Indifferent to
world duties may scarcely be con-
sidered passionately devoted to meet
ing them now. His concern for the
covenant must spring from other
motives, such, for example, as an
egotistic desire to have his own ex-
act way. This deduction is strength
ened by the discovery that he is will
ing to defeat the covenant itself
rather than accept reservations
which our allies have indicated are
agreeable to them, and which have
been voted for by all the Republi-
cans of the Senate and by majority
Of the Senators of the Presidents
own party.
We are not in the league because
President Wilson has willed it so.
His attitude is destructive and mega
tive. This being the case, to- hold
him responsible is not evidence of
either malignancy or of partisanship.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
A Pointed Omission

In enumerating the states which
are out of the League Of Nations
Chairman Cummings conveniently
forgot Costa Rica 1t wouldn't have
been tactful on his part to recall to
anybody's mind why Costa Rica is
out. This little republic didn't
elect to be a non-member of the
league. She was excluded from it
by the arbitrary action of our State
Department.
The Costa Ricans had the temer-
ity to engage in a revolution in con-
tempt of an unnumbered Article X
of an uncompleted Pan-American
treaty fathered by President Will
son and Secretary Lansing. This
article guaranteed the territorial in
tegrity and political independence Of
existing American nations and pro-
hibited recognition of governments
coming into power through domestic
revolution. 1t appeared later, slight
iy modified, in the league covenant.
The Pan-American treaty fell
through. But the Administration
undertook to enforce it's inchoate
Article x by issuing a State Depart
ment bylaw refusing recognition to
any benehciaries Of Latin American
revolutions.
A revolutionary government came
in in Costa Rica and was lboycotted
by President Wilson. This govern,
ment was legitimatized by an cleo
ton. 1t became strongly anti Ger.
man. Following our entry into the
war it broke off diplomatic relations
with Germany and subsequently de-
clared war against Germany. But
the United States government re-
fused to recognize Costa Rica as an
ally. The fact Of her declaration Of
war was suppressed in our official
publications. Mr.. Wilson insisted
that Costa Rica should be excluded
from the peace conference. She
wasn't even invited 10 Join the
league az neutral. Yet at the time
Costa Rica declared war on Ger
many our Ambassador TO France
wrote an official lettes 10 the repre-
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
The Crime Wave
To the Editor of The Tribune

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The long list Of "hold-ups" and
other crimes of violence appearing in
this mornings papers makes for very
serious reflection on our methods of
dealing with criminals.
The fault does not lie with the police
They do their difficult, dangerous dutv
WELL remarkably we'll, in fact, consider
ing the handicaps they labor under
The fault does not lie so much with the
courts; in the main they indict severe
sentences in an effort adequately to
punish the thugs who commit these out
RACES and to discourage others.
Where does the fault lie?
1t lies with the Governor of this state
When he gets time, amid his campaign
ing for the Presidency, or the Vice
Presidency, or whatever he is after. to
remember that his first duty is to this
state he might recognize that his own
weakness in handing out communications
and reprleves to condemned ruffians
awaiting the chair; his policy of permit
ting Sing Sing prison to be governed
with an eye to publicity; the readiness
OF the parole board to release desperate
criminals, habitual beasts of prev. on
! the representations of cranks who haunt
the prisons and "takc up" prisoners as
fad, is almost entirely responsible for
the present contempt in which the law
is held by the criminal element.
Nowhere in our Penal Code does il
provide that the penalty for breaking a
law shall be a period of reformation"
by the state. The penalty is confine-
ment IN prison as punishment. When
TINS TACT Is recognized and the old
women of both sexes are banished from
the control Of prison affairs, when
prisons are nustcre houses of punish
mcnt, and when the law and it's penalties
arc vigorously enforced, then may we
look for relief from the crime wave
which threatens to engulf us.
JOHN G.. PURDIE.
New York, June %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
4 Call to Laynen
4 Young Clergyman Asks for Con
structfpc Suggestions
10 the EditOr of The Trihl1ne

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May I appeal to you, also to the
two gentlemen (Mr. Talbot and Mr..
Arthur N. Hosking) who wrote che re-
cent articles "Why the Church Fails,,'
to give the public concrete example of
what would be termed timely and con-
structlve sermon outline?
Please note that there is not the
slightest trace of sarcasm in my request.
| am young clergyman of not more
than six years experience as a pastor.
l am we'll aware Of the fact that the
Church is not reaching the people. Mr..
Hosking states that "education and it's
broadening influences are responsible
for the change toward the Church."
Has the Church no appeal to the edu-
Gated? Has she lost her place in the
world? | cannot believe that is the case.
but l do believe that the Church must
meet the times and present day prob
lens.
admire The Tribune. 1 am proud
of its history. l go with pride to my
door every morning the very first thing
to look for it. think that no paper in
America has served her nation better
than has The New York Tribune l be-
lieve in it for the future. Could The
Tribune render a greater service to
America than bringing the Church and
people together?
| believe this can be done We need
to understand each other. Would not a
number of brief sermon outlines from
thinking laymen, with some practical
suggestions as to how their friends and
companions could be reached, have the
good effect of bringing Church and peo
pie together?
Don't knock, please We have abun-
dance of that. Let US build together,
suggest. R. A. G..
New York, June 26, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30

with the Broadway essence. They are
hlled with climbers and buffers, snobs
and parlor Socialists. One might as
accurately write story of London by
picking his characters from the folk
who visit the Tower
The typical New Yorker. Mr.. Irwin
to the contrary, does not strive for
intimacy either with headwaiters or
his neighbor's wife, and knows as little
about divorces as he does about Reisen-
weber's.
He has children and is fond Of them
and wife and is neither tired of
nor hostile toward her. He is amaz-
ingly like the plain, homely folk that
Westerners like to picture themselves
as being, and he outnumbers, by at
least ten to one, the kind of New
Yorker Mr.. Irwin draws.
Being by nature a sensualist-that t
is to say New Yorker" Mr.. Irwin
remarks in the course of one of his
stories.
Sometimes we wonder, if the rest of
America stayed west Of the Appalach-
ians for twelve months, how much of
the sensualism that Mr.. Irwin refers
to would be left in this city.
Very little, we think, and then when
the embargo was lifted and visitors
from the West began to pour in again,
how disappointed those visitors would
be!
We hope that local patriotism has
rot obscured entirely our belief that
Suffering Husbands" is a book that
will make you forget most Of your
woes, for time at least, even so heavy
one as your existence in this city of
sensualism.
We do feel, however, that Mr.. Irwin's
attitude is quite as unjust as would
be the frame of mind of a man who
wrote of Chicago entirely from i'm
pressions gathered on the Loop, or of
San Francisco after prowlng about
what is left of the Barbary Coast
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
The Record

The San Francisco convention. in
its formal message to President Will
son, saw fit to deplore "the malig-
nant onset which you have been un-
deservedly called upon to sustain
from partisan foes"
There has been, of course, wide
spread criticism Of the President.
But has it been malignant or par
tlsan? Is there just basis of COM
plant of unfair treatment? An i'm
preston contrary to that expressed
by the convention prevails-a belief
that seldom in our history has more
generous tolerance been shown.
Going over the record, the fol-
lowing features of the story of the
Administration are to be noted:
When the war broke the Presi-
dents first act was to publish a new
treaty proclamation which COM
manded the people to be neutral in
thought as we'll as in act. The is
sue of the war obviously did not
appeal to the author of the procla-
nation. He was deaf then to the
call of Righteousness. He coldlv
stood aside during that march to-
ward Paris when civilization as we
know it was in direst peril. The
Belgian invasion struck at the verv
roots of a world law which it had
taken centuries to build up. The
Belgian delegation came to this
country and was practically turned
from the White House door. The
President would not even whisper
a protest.
Others, seeing the truth, raised
their voices for preparation. In his
1914 message the President de-
nounced as hysterical those who
urged action which might have made
it unnecessary to fight and in any
event would have shortened the war
and saved millions of lives.
In the spring came the Lusitania
slaughter. The German govern
ment cared nothing for academic
warnings. 1t understood the Presi-
dent was "Too proud to fight"
Vain notewriting occupied the next
months while Americans continued
to perish on the high seas.
The next year, in the political
campaign, reelection was asked on
the ground that we had been kept
out of war. No duty to intervene
for democracy or civilization was
recognized. The President insult
ingly remarked that if any knew
what the war was about he wished
they would tell him.
Secretly the President carried on
negotiations to secure a stalemate
peace, though plainly such peace
would be German victory, giving
her chance to make another at.
tack completely successful. The
peace without victory" address
was delivered and to all practical
purposes the moral force of this
country was thrown on the Ger
man side.
Ludendorff and the military party
Of Germany, beholding America had
made no preparations, deemed il
safe to disregard her and struck for
more than stalemate. Unre.
strlcted submarine warfare was re-
sumed and another drive on Paris
planned.
The two months between the break
IN diplomatic relations and the war
declaration were occupied in efforts
TO secure an armed neutrality act.
Practically nothing Was done, as we
now know, to get ready. Sixty more
precious days were thus wasted.
During the war, although ineffi-
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30

sentative of Costa Rica at Paris,
congratulating him on the accession
of his country to the ranks of the
Allies.
Our blacklisting of an associate
in the war against Germany is q
strange chapter in the development
OF the theory of the self-determina-
tion" of small nations. 1t isn't a
chapter which could be profitably
dwelt on at San Francisco.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Caste in the Army
The Candid Opinions of q
Sergeant of Regulars
To the Editor of The Tribune


Sir: | read the letter in your issue
of recent date written by Henry Aulds
under the heading Caste in the
Army All he says is sad but true
But does not the writer realize that
the late Misunderstanding with Ger
many was brought to a successful con-
clusion simply by the inspiring pres
ence of the products of West Point?
1t is grim joke, but the only absolute
autocracy existing in the United States
to-day is the very force recently used
for the overthrow of the most absolute
autocracy in Europe
If the old "West Point svstenp were
abolished tomorrow and commissions
awarded to men from the rank and file
who have shown their ability under
actual service conditions, no money
for recruiting propaganda would be
needed. Never in the history of the
United States Army has its morale
been as low as it is to-day For won
der, the man in the street is actually
chances when he signs away his lib
erty for $50 month. | remember the
time when / used to draw the munif-
cent sum of SIS a month as a buck"
But then we men were in for the
game, not the money. And a grea.
game it was in those days The word
bonus" was unknown. | remember the
funny feeling l had when | was dis
charged at Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
IN March, 1919, "by reason of expira-
ton of term of service" as the dis
charge reads. The quartermaster cap
tain paid me my half months pay and
five cents mile to my home, and
then gave me $50 bonus. I asked him
what the $50 was for He replied,
ITO buy suit Of 'civvies Then he
looked at my final statement again and
said: Il take it all back, sergeant; |
thought you were one Of those drafted
birds" (No offense, boys; you GER
calmly did well in France Well, that
$50 did not go for any 'civvies,' be-
cause l reed up" inside Of twenty
four hours, to hold my rank, as l did
not care to stay out for couple OF
months and then "re'up" as buck"
and take my turn at Ok. p walking
post" and "P. and s" fatigue. But the
old army has gone, and feel out OF
touch with these prohteering times
l guess I am on my last hitch" !
can make as much money in one week
on the outside as | make in one month
in the army
Still, it is going 10 be wrench
after following the flag from the Phil
;ppines to France, and wonder how
it will seem never to hear the wind
jammer" again; first CALI or frosty
mornings before the sun is up; as
sembly," "reveille," "mess call, "siek
call" drill" fatigue" "adjutsnts'
Officers" first sergeants',' recall
church call" retreat" and "to the
colors," then tattoo" "call to quar-
ters," and finally, the most beautlfus
of all, taps" And, last but not leas',
on the first of the month, pay call
l don't think l will have the nerve 10
tackle civilian life again after all these
years. You can't teach an old cog
new tricks"
For obvious reasons. request tna'
my name be withheld, as ! am s;iiI IN
the service
A SERGEANT OF REGULARS.
Mitchell Field, New York, June 2S'
JQoO
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"The Times" said yesterday:

"The Democrats must look up, not
down, for their candidate The work
to be undertaken is beyond the
powers of an ordinary man; he must
be man of extraordinary ability, a
great man."
How would this message be in
terpreted by the convention if it hap
pened to come not from "The Times,'
but from the White House?
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
THE STREET TELESCOPE

lHE STREET TELESCOPE
Look at the moon for ten cen,s,"
10 my naked eye
A shining dime in the sky
With a womans face
Looking to the left
Like Libcrys on the dime.
10 this wider eye of glass,
Gathering for mine
Llght-and more light
A world Of dead volcanoes ghosts.
And dricd-up desert seas.
What does the eye of God,
Gathering infinite light,
See in us?
A burncd-out embera
Or kindIins spark
Of spiritual FIRE?
JOHN GAY.
baby, whom she said was he,
one -yearold son, Harry.~-The Tribune
His name should have been Cyril.
And so, tonight, ends the non-fizzcaI
year.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
The Toiler-New Style

Well, sport, got our raise to-day;
The old man came across. Soft, hey?
Amt we just had one raise? Well, kid,
1t makes no diff renee if we did.
We got the thumbscrews on 'em. brother,
An one good turn deserves another.
How d ye suppose the workin' class
Is goin' to pay fer oil an gas?
Amt been doin mighty well7
Yes, mebbe SO, some ways but, hell,
Ye gotta think O. this thing, neighbor--
They're maxim too much on our laborl
An our job is confinin, too:
Twas three p. m. when I got through.
l guess I'll saunter down the line.
Have I a garden? None for mine!
That garden stuff is in yer eye
We find it's easier to buy.
Come on around and shoot some pool
Ye can't? All right-then tOorh, ye fool
AGRICoLA STRONG