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New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
Confusion Worse COMPOUNDED
W AIOON " ASHBUI
New York, Aug. 6, 1920.

From The Springfield Republican,
There is cause for dismay to snv
serious student Of the Federal govern
ment IN the announcement by the chair
man OF the committee in charge of the
new apportionment that as result of
the present census the House Of Rcpre-
sentatlves is in danger of being in
creased from 435 to 500 members The
House has long been too large for the
efficient performance of its duties. Each
tenth year, following new census.
comes further increase. This is due
to the selfish opposition of members
from states which have not grown. They
lear retirement as result of the larger
population which each member must
represent If the total number of repre-
scntativcs is not increased. Already the
convenient physical limits of the hall of
the House of Representatives have been
reached If the House should take the
bull by the horns and decrease its mem
bership by fftyfve instead Of increas
ing 1t, much good would result. But that
can hardly be expected. The only hope
in the other direction is a demonstra-
tion as result Of continued growth
that there must be changes in the
methods Of doing business and in the
form of organization.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
A Persistent Atrocity

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Anent the discussion in your
paper regarding "it is I" OF "it is me-"
there is no doubt that the grammarians
will win out
But how about that terrible atrocity
we hear every day Between you and y? 4?
You will hear high school and college
graduates saying "He asked Mary and
|" or Between you and l." and imagine
they have it right. Why? Because, if
grammar made any impression on them
at all while studying, they have plumb
forgotten it. They have nothing to go
by but what they hear said in their own
particular circle. This in spite of the
fact that they never see it in print ex-
cepting in the correct form. Imagine
the plural Between WEI?
H. W. STRUSS.
New York, Aug. 7, 1920.
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Franklin Roosevelt's Ditto

Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose per-
sonal merit no one disputes, cannot
be said to have cleared up any
doubtful matters by his acceptance
speech.
Mr.. Roosevelt labors under the
same inhibitions which made Satur-
days address Of Governor Cox 80
hollow. He also is afraid to say an
open, understandable word. What
he regards as political necessity
drives him, apparently, to support
the Presidents policy, yet he is
plainly uncomfortable. The bride
does not fit we'll, though he consents
to wear it.
Mr.. Roosevelt repeats familiar
stuff concerning the duty Of this
country entering the League of Ma
tions. But not word does he utter
as to how or under what condi-
tions. There Is the usual talk Of
reservations which are not to i'm
pair the essentials of the league, but
as to what the reservations are to
be and as to what the essentials
of the league are Mr.. Roosevelt is
silent.
Mr. Lodge and those with him had
the grace to declare on what terms
they would have the country enter
the league. They formulated their
ideas in definite and constructive
way, and voted for ratification on
this basis. Mr.. Wilson would not go in
on those terms, but would not say
on precisely what terms he would
go in. Yet Mr.. Roosevelt seems to
hold that what the President did
was right, and that Governor Cox,
if elected, should initiate him. What
would be his position toward the
Republican Senate majority if it
had voted against ratification and
had stubbornly refused to indicate
the conditions on which it would
ratify?
We are not in the confidence of
Mr.. Rocsevelt's conscience We hope
he is able to satisfy it and to recon
cile his position with friendship for
the league principles which he adj
vertises. But, judging from the out
side, those who played "me, too," as
he now does, are obviously respon-
sible for the fact of this country's
present absence from the league.
The Lodge conditions were accept
able to Great Britain, France and
Italy, and to every leading advocate
Of the league idea. Only one man,
against the general wishes Of even
his own party, vetoed them.
Turn and twist as he may, torture
the case as he is able to, Franklin
Roosevelt will not be able to keep
from the people knowledge of this
simple record.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
"Good By, Jim"
4 Deserter From Cox and Harding
10 the Rev. Aaron Watkins

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: After Chicago gave slap in
the face to every voter Of progressive
thought by naming Warren G. Har-
ding, many thousands looked to San
Francisco to give them a chance to
express their feelings in condemnation
Of the work done at Chicago. San
Francisco apparently did we'll by nam
ing James NJ. Cox, who had been an up
standing progressive as Ohio's Gov
ernor.
His speech Of acceptance at Day
ton yesterday was awaited with much
interest and anxiety.
He gave a good many would-be sup
portcrs, myself among the number a
distinct chill by tying himself to the
Wilson kite, and what a sorry kite
it is!
If there Is ono man in this country
that saved America from the Wilson
autocracy, that man was Henry Cabot
Lodge, Of Massachusetts. Mr.. Cox sees
fit, however, to link his name with
those Of such men as Penrose and
Smoot. That in itself obscures any
good points in his message.
In the language Of the Hoosier
writer, I can only say Good by; Jim;
take kcer of yourself"
The writer has never failed to vote
in any election, however seemingly un-
important, since he came Of legal age,
and doesn't propose not to exercise
his privilege now
In November Cd. W I will cast a
ballot for the Rev. Aaron Watkins, of
Ohio, whom the Anti-Saloon party has
named for its candidate. Mr.. Watkins
cannot be elected, but he stands for
something both definite and whole
some. RYERSON w. JENNINGS.
Philadelphia, Pa Aug. 8, 1920.
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The Treachery of Summer

1t was like summer to behave as
q cool and amiable creature for
weeks on end, all through July and
a third through August, and then
suddenly turn and scratch as only
a New York summer can. Native
New Workers, which is to say accli-
matized sojourners of more than one
theatrical seasons standing, had
grown weary Of warning newcomers
that this sort Of thing could not
last. They had almost themselves
forgotten that summer was not ever
thus. Letters to the family in the
mountains or at the seashore for
once held no suggestion of envy.
Adirondack air blew into every New
York fiat, alternating with that Cape
Cod tang which only a watering
place-like New York City--can
boast.
There is a real consolation, how
ever. Colonel Watterson always used
New York as his summer resort,
history records, and with good
reason, hot weather or no hot
weather. When a real swelterer hits
the Atlantic coast it swelters every
body everywhere, only the degree of
discomfort varying, tales of sleeping
under four blankets to the contrary
Notwithstanding. But the beauty of
New York is that there is always
something to do to make you forget
how hot it really is. Those short
sighted mortals who quit living
when the mercury shoots up and
simply sit around and groan miss
the only remedy. Keep going, take
a plunge in pool, take meal on
a roof, see people, go to shows, hear
a concert, take a dip at beach
and before you know it, and all too
soon, winter is at hand.
1t is in it's extraordinary array
Of devices to make hot weather a
negligible and forgettable matter
that New York excels all other sum-
mcr resorts. It's summer is tricky
and variable hussy, adorable and
furiously enraging by turns. But
with so much to engage your atten-
ton, what can be Of less Importance?
New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
Waiting for Harding to Speak

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your leading editorials of
August 4 and 5 on the Russo-Polish
situation expose the futility of the old
diplomatic methods SO far employed
there. But they also contain an i'm
Piled criticism of the League Of Ma
tlons which seems unjustifed. The
covenant makes no provision for deal
ing with an aggressive war by mem
Der state, followed by defeat at the
hands Of what is legally not a govern
ment. There can be no invitation to
PRUSSIA" to submit the quarrel to the
league, because to the "elder states
men" of Europe Russia" does not
exist.
1t is these same men who violently
opposed the league in Paris. They are
now, perhaps unwillingly, maneuvering
their people and ours into q position
where, as you say, we may have to
decide whether we are going to march
against gigantic wrong" That is a
question which, without the league.
we shall have to answer more and
more often as the world Gets smaller.
Peace-lovng Americans would prefer
not to wait till wrong grows gigantic
and then to march against it, but to
deal with it when it is small. They
also would like to be represented in
the negotiations at the beginning of
the wrong, rather than to be suddenly
faced with the final emergency and
have to decide whether to march" or
not without adequate knowledge of the
wrongs they are asked to without
even knowing whether these wrongs
are such as can be solved by foreign
armies.
1t is such failures Of diplomacy as
the present Polish crisis that rein
force the demand for a new method of
adjustment. The League of Nations is
the only new method at present. That
Is why so many New York Republicans
are anxiously waiting for Senator
Harding to state that if elected he
Will work with the Senate for our entry
into the league, with the Lodge rescr-
vations, modified if necessary accord
ing to the international situation next
March. We have been taught to ex.
pect the concrete from Senator Hard
ing He has been studying the
covenant for more than year, and we
certainly have the rght to request
some definite statements from him. Uo
Will then be standing with both feet
on solid ground and not flying in the
clouds of fraternized conscience, where
he is obviously i'll at ease.
WATSON WASHBURN.
New York, Aug. 6, 1920.
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devised and is being erected by M-

devised and is being erected by Mr..
Failla, physicist of the Memorial Hos
pital
The Memorial Hospital has a ca
pacity of eighty beds and is filled to
ovcrflowing, and is also carrying on
an out-patient department of an aver
age of seventy-fve patients a day.
All are treated for cancer. More space
is required. The hospital is doing
splendid work for the poor of the
City Of New York In caring, without
cost to them, for those suffering from
cancer, or for such sum as the patient
is willing and able to pay The Memo
rial Hospital now is and has always
been a servant of the public. The
New York Skin and Cancer Hospital
also is doing a splendid work in this
field.
The Memorial Hospital may frankly
be said to have been a pioneer in
America in the study of cancer and
allied diseases as peculiarly affected
by radium, so that the statement an
pearing in the public press in refer
once to the purchase of radium by the
State of New York-that the New York
state Institution will be the only in
Stltutlon giving FREQ radiurl treatmen.
for cancer in the State of New York
IS inaccurate and erroneous. The graf
Lying fact that New York State has
taken up the treatment of cancer bv
radium is largely due to the results
attained in the Memorial Hospital.
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR THE
TREATMENT OF CANCER AND
ALLIED DISEASES.
BY Herbert Parsons, president; Archi-
bald Douglass, secretary.
New York, Aug. 6, 1920.
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Attacking Poland

Frederic Cunliffe-Owen attacks
General Pilsudski, chief Of the Polish
state, now in great trial and tribula-
ton, as pro- German in his views and
affiliations. This is apparently done
with the idea Of making this charge
in some way serve Paderewski, a
political opponent of Pilsudski.
In March an article, signed "Ex-
Attache," appeared in the press of
this country similar in content and
tone to the present one of Mr..
Cunliffe-Owen. 1t asserted that Mr..
Smulski, Chicago banker, who had
been active in Poland's behalf, felt
compelled to advise the withdrawal
OF capital from Poland because of
the pro-Germanism of Pilsudski and
declared that the Germans had
driven Paderewski into exile.
Upon this publication Casimir Lu-
bomirski, the Polish Minister to this
country, contributed, on April s last,
a letter to "The Washington Post"
This letter quoted a cablegram which
had just been received from Pade-
rewski stigma tizing as false the at
tack on Pilsudski. Speaking of the
Polish government, Paderewski said:
members Of government and their
chief are all ardent, true patriots,
conscious Of our obligation to the
great Allied and associated powers.
conscious of Poland's indebtedness to
the United States. They act accord
lngly and with utmost loyalty" Pa
derewski concluded by saying he was
not IN exile and would soon resume
his duties in the Polish Parliament
as member from Warsaw.
Mr.. Smulski, who happened to be
in Europe, also cabled to the Polish
Minister even moro emphatically.
He denounced the interview as a
fake and repudiated the sentiments
attributed to him. In his opinion,
ne said. the interview was manufac-
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to isolate it curiously from the col
onies that had other beginnings.

to isolate 1t curiously from the col
onies that had other beginnings.
Freedom Of sort they cherished,
but not the freedom which has made
America free. 1t was certainly not,
as Mrs. Hemans put it, freedom to
worship God"-except, of course, in
their own peculiar way. The Ameri-
can spirit spoke far more boldly in
Roger Williams, whom the Massa
chusetts Puritans drove out. 1t was
he who in "the Providence Planta-
tions" preached and practiced the
gospel Of religious and civic liberty.
Nor had they the tolerance Of Cal
vert, who saw that the prosecuted
Roman Catholics of Maryland should
not persecute in their turn. Penn,
too, has place Of his own in the up
holding of the principles of freedom
in our modern sense. The sturdy
Dutchmen who founded New AM
sterdam and the Swedes who colo
nized New Jersey also played their
part in the shaping of Americanism
as distinct from any other national
quality. And the settlers of Vir-
ginia were as truly freemen, though
with habits and beliefs quite dif-
ferent, as any Puritan of them all.
The Plymouth celebration is in
deed one in which the whole country
may fifty join. AS the President
says, "salutary and patriotic lessons
may be drawn from the fortitude
and the perseverance and the ideals
of this little band of churchmen." It
is no discredit to them that they
were products Of an age and an en-
vironment somewhat alien to our
own. They did, in the words of a
great English martyr, light candle
which should never go out. Nor are
they less honored if what they
thought and did are interpreted in
the impartial light Of history.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
Another County Heard From

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Mr.. Dudley's note characterizing
the designation of Mr.. Wadsworth for
United States Senator as an affront to
the Progressive, temperance and reig-
lous forces of Chautauqua applies equal
ly we'll to Allegany County. This is a
rock-ribbed Republican and prohibition
region, and tho naming of Wadsworth
is strongly resented by both men and
women. Unless he can be beaten in the
primaries it will cost the ticket a heavy
vote, for many will vote for decent
Democrat in preference. He has mis-
represented the state six years too long
already. Why has he not the grace to
withdraw? FRANK l.. GREENE.
Alfred, N. Y, Aug. ., 1920.
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Salt Lake City MUSINGS

10 the EDITOR of The Tribune.
Sir: Standing at the junction of
Main and Temple streets, in Salt Lake
CITY, is the statue of Brigham Young.
lhe great colonizer stands with his
right hand resting on a cane and his
left hand thrust out toward the East
presumably extending to all a homelv
welcome.
1t is interesting to speculate as to
no" many among the throngs who pass
him daily have in their veins a. strain
of the great mans blood. He is credit
ed with fifty children and seventeen
wives, though some say nineteen. But
we'll call it seventeen, as that is surely
enough for any one man, no matter
who he is or was.
10 an ordinary man who has been
henpecked for years the idea of bav-
me seventeen wives fussing around the
house at one time is an appalling
thought, and one that is apt to cause
him to beat it for the tall timber.
Still, it might not be so bad, looking
at it from a business point Of view.
Why not put 'em all to work? In
these days, when woman can earn
from hundred dollars up month, a
man with a dozen wives all working
would have about the softest thing |
Know of. He would have to have a
thorough knowledge Of women and be a
Judicious manager, but any first class
correspondence school would teach him
that for a reasonable fee.
If the Mormon Church had not cut
out plural marriages, I should be
tempted to join. I am sorry about
that. think it was a great idea, and
l can't see why they abolished it.
JAMES SHINE.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 8, 1920.
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Game That Pays
Hon The Pheasant Gould Become a
Source of Profit 10 the Farmer

iOW tllC ICuoufl &OulQ DCiO
Source of Profit 10 the Farmer
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: read with great interest the
forceful letter of W. N. Giles, Master
of the State Grange, on "Game and the
Farmer" l thoroughly agree with him
that, first and foremost, farm lands
should be protected against trespass
without requiring them to be posted.
His letter, however, strongly reflects
the feeling of the farmers generally that
game is nuisance to the farmer. He
refers to the "gormandzing" pheasant,
which pulls his corn and feeds upon his
wheat in the shock. The principal food
of pheasants during the summer is
grasshoppers and wild berries, and dur
ing the fall and winter ragweed seeds.
have opened many crops which con-
tanned from 1000 to 5000 ragweed
seeds, only occasionally finding few
kernels of grain.
According to my observation the net
result of their activities is exceedingly
beneficial to the farmers Sometimes i'll
the early spring they pull youag corn,
but the total damage is in-onsiderable
as compared with the service they
render and their market value.
Rabbits, however, are very destruc-
tive to young fruit trees, and the farmer
should be permitted to XIII them when
ever it is necessary to do so to protect
his orchards end young trees.
am not so familiar with the destruc-
ton done by deer, but Charles F.
Dietrich, who has a considerable number
on his preserve in Duchess County, has
often told me that although his deer
frequently fed in his corndolds the
actual damage which they did vas al
most negligible
We cannot have an abundant game
supply unless the farmer is financially
interested in producing il, and Mr..
Glles's letter makes il perfectly plain
that the farmer will never be interested
until he can realize profit from the
game bred upon his land. An effective
trespass law would permit of his selling
the shooting rights on his lands, and
permission to sell male pheasants killed
on his land under such restrictions and
regulations as may be established by the
Conservation Commission would be no
injury to the breeding stock and would
soon make him realize that it IS dis-
tinctly to his advantage 10 have an
abundance of them on bis farm.
According to the press. Germany has
been directed to deliver to France
100000 partridges and 2,0000 pheas-
ants to restock the area of France for
merly occupied by the Germans. This
region is only about one-sixth as large
as the State of New York. A propor-
tionate breeding stock for New York
would be about So,Ooo,oOO partridges
and 12,o00,000 pheasants.
1t seems to me that when the farmers
and the men from the city get together
and thoroughly understand each other
and the game situation they will not
differ substantially as to the remedies.
HENRY W. BRIGHAM.
New York, Aug. 5. 1920
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Mr.. Cox, in his acceptance speech,
flashed gem concerning the Federal
Reserve act. Concerning this act he
says it was Originated, advocated
and made law by Democratic
President and Congress-"
On November 10, 1914, "The New
York Tines editorially discussed
the origin CT the Federal Reserve
act, saying:
by whatever name we call it, that
bill the bill Of the Adrich Monetary
Commission was the source and
origin, it contained the spirit and sub
stance of the present Federal Reserve
RANKING act. Many of the
provisions, much of the language, of
the Aldrich commission bill were en-
bodied In the act"
The traditional policy Of the Dem
ocratic party toward an elastic,
bank issued currency was one of un-
compromising hostility from the time
Andrew Jackson wrecked the old
United States Bank. This Democratic
fetish survived the Civil War, and
the Democratic party fought with
tooth and claw against allowing
banks, even under close public con-
trols to liquefy assets into cir
medium. Sometimes the
party took up fiatism and some
Times It opposed fiatism. and some
Lines it wasz for 80 per cent
New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
Free Radium
The Record of the Memorial Hos
pital in Treating Cancer
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: AS announced through the
columns Of the daily press, the State
Of New York, realizing the need for
a public store of radium, has author
lied the purchase for the State Institu-
tion for the Study of Malignant Dis
cases, at Buffalo, of two and one quarter
grams of radium and has appropriated
for it's purchase s225, 900. This pub
lie act is both far-seeing and wise.
1t has been widely and freely adver-
tised in the press. Unfortunately,
some of the statements made in the
press in reference to the use of ra-
dunn for the treatment Of cancer in
this city by other institutions are in
some cases misleading and inaccurate,
particularly the statements which
have been made, Inadvertently, no
doubt, that there is now no free can
Ger treatment by radium in New York
State and that the State of New York
is the pioneer in the treatment of can
GER by radium.
The facts are that cancer has been
given free treatment in the State of
New York since 1887 by one institu-
tuition, and, we have no doubt, by
others. The Memorial Hospital for
the Treatment of Cancer and Allied
Diseases has been treating cancer and
It's allied diseases since 1887, and ex-
clusively since 1914. Our medical
staff, under an affiliation with the Cor
nell Medical School, has been study
ing the relation of radium to the cure
of cancer continuously since 1912.
Through the generosity and vision
of the late DE-. James Douglas, emf
nent mining engineer and metallurgist,
the Memorial Hospital received in 1917
in excess of three grams of radium, of
value in excess of 100000, and at
a later date the hospital received, by
deposit from the United States govern
ment, through its Bureau of Mines, ra-
dium in excess of one-half gram, to be
used for the treatment Of soldiers
and sailors of the United States. This
amount of radium is believed to be the
largest deposit Of radium held by any
public medical institution in the world,
and is used exclusively for the treat
ment of cancer. The conditions under
which this radium was given were that
the poor should be treated literally,
and, when advisable, gratuitously, but
that those who were willing and able
to pay for services rendered to them
should pay such charges as were well
within their means for the use of
the wards Of the hospital, medical care
and for the use of radium, the income
from such patients to be used for
the maintenance Of the hospital.
In addition to the radium on de-
posit with the hospital, the Memorial
Hospital some time ago erected a
laboratory at a cost of $4,000. This
laboratory is fully equipped for the
otuuy Ol caiScli anu particularly the
study of cancer in relation to its treat
ment by radum and radium emana-
ton, and has staff of eminent ply.
scians ard physicists. The research
carried on by this laboratory is made
possible by special endowment given
by the family of the late Coils P.
Huntington and others. AS a matter
OF fact, the state radium apparatus
now being erected at Buffalo has been