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New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Many Professors
Are Questioned by
Lusk Committee
College Men Assert Low Pay
Keeps Qualified Persons
Out of Profession; Several
Radicals Released on Bail

Professors of various colleges in and
around New York were questioned yes
terday at the City Hall by members
o. the Lusk committee, which is in
vestigating radical activities in the
state. Testimony was given regarding
the character of teachers employed by
the public schools and much discussion
centered on the question of teachers
salaries.
DR.: Frank E. Blodgett, president of
Adelphi College, Brooklyn, told the
salaries many desirable and we'll quail
fed men and women found it impos-
sible to enter the teaching profession.
Professor John Jacob Coss, of Co.
lumbia University, declared that "man-
illness and punch" are desired in all
teachers. but that the compensation is
entirely inadequate. "Thc minimum
salary at Columbia University" said
Professor Coss, "is $4,000 and the ma
jority of the professors receiving this
sum are married men" Professor Ar
thur Frothingham of Princeton Uni
versity, described the public school as
being the connecting link between for
eign- born groups in America and Amer
lean ideals
Several of the radicals arrested in
recent raids and sent to Ellis Island
were released on bail yesterday, and
it is expected that more will be re-
leased to-day. Bundles Of Liberty bonds
were taken to the immigration station
yesterday for the purpose Of bailing
out the "Reds" Eight women are
among those who will be given their
freedom on bail
Judge John Knox, in the United
States District Court yesterday, re-
served decision in the petitions for
writs of habcas corpus applied for by
two aliens, Martin De Wal, who is
known as "a man without a country"
and Alexis Georgian a Minneapolis
radical.
A. f. Stevenson. associate counsel for
the Lusk committee, said Yesterday
that the committee, as a result of its
recent Investigations, is now in posi-
ton to make recommendations to the
Legislature regarding the activities Of
radicals in the State of New York
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Bureau
Lacks Money
ToFeed Reds :
Men and Women Awaiting
Deportation at Ellis Island
May Be Released Unless
Congress Acts Quickly
ST., 100000 Fund Asked
100000 Also Is Needed for
Extra Guards, Caminetti
Says; 5000 to Care for
New Yorl: Tribune
WnSb:Mrt1 D.

Ncac Yori: Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-It was
stated to-day by persons in close touch
with the Bureau of immigration that
the "Reds" mobilized on Ellis Island
would have to be released soon or be
condemned to starvation. unless Con-
gress appropriate funds for their main
tenance.
According to this information, all
funds available for supporting the
Reds" have been exhausted, because
OF the unforeseen numbers of free
boarders the bureau has recently taken
on at Ellis Island and elsewhere.
Thousands To Be Fed
When the Labor Department gots it's
appropriation for the current fiscal
year it never dreamed that it would be
called on to subsist and otherwise care
for thousands more of deportees than
in past years. The wholesale selzine of
Reds" had not then begun and Com
missioner Caminetti did not calculate
on deporting more than 100 or SO of
these gentry during the year.
The outlook now is that he will have
more than 5000 of them on his hands
Notwithstanding that the Buford al
ready has taken $50 of them to Some
where in Russia" 1t was asserted that
the bureau had exhausted every pos
sible source Of funds for feeding the
deportees and suspects and that there
will be nothing to do but turn them
loose or starve them.
Mr.. Caminetti said tonight that the
situation was not imm ediately critical
and that he would be able to care
for his wards for a little while by
juggling the funds of the bureau in
tended for other purposes, but ad-
mitted that Congress would have to
act very promptly on his emergency
application for money with which to
meet the unforeseen situation that has
arisen, if it wished to keep anything
in the cupboard for the people who
are headed for Europe with an en-
thusiastic farewell
$l,000,000 Fund Asked
1--WE have asked the Appropriations
Committee of the House for 81 900. 900
to feed and generally care for the
unexpectedly large number of actual
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Spargo Condemns
Assembly Custer
Bolshevism Civen Mighty
Impetus, He Says, by
Barring of Socialists

BY suspending its Socialist members
the New York Assembly has "given a
mighty impetus to Bolshevism in this
country" according to John Spargo
the pro-war Socialist and writer on
Bolshevism, Mr.. Spargo, at his home in
Bennington, VT, last night issued g
statement attacking the Assembly's &C
tion.
"The suspension of the Socialists is
easily the most outrageous assault
upon the fundamental ideals of this
Republic that has occurred within the
last fifty years." said Mr.. Spargo. wt
would have been almost impossible tc
devise surer and more effective means
of fostering Bolshevism than that hit
upon by the laundering Solons al
Albany.
II can easily imagine the unboundec
glee with which Lenine and Trotzky ir
Russia received the tidings of an ac.
tion by the Legislature of great
American commonwealth, the conse.
quencas of which must inevitably be
more helpful to the Bolshevist cause
than the propaganda efforts of E
thousand agitators.
"The loud protest that has gone ur
from representative citizens belonging
to all classes, parties and creeds, from
influential organizations and from the
press, is most encouraging. 1t proves
that the spirit of Lincoln is not dead;
that we have not as a nation sur
rendered to the brutal spirit of Bis.
mark
II sincerely hope that it means more
than this; that it will prove to be the
beginning of a national return tc
American ideals and ways, determine
tion to put an end to the reaction
which has been masquerading as
patriotism for so long.
For we must not lose sight of the
fact that the action of the Legislators
at Albany was not an isolated event j.;
rather it was the elimination of most
extensive and dangerous series of as
saults upon those essential liberties
and rights of the citizen which elevate
American citizenship above the servile
state of the Turk, for example.
There is tendency on the part of
some citizens ,and a section of the
press, to belittle the enormity of the
assault of the New York legislators
eminent. 1t is said that the five
Socialist representatives have not been
found guilty without trial or expelled
from the Legislature, but only accused
and suspended during trial. Conse-
quently these apolo9ists for the New
York Legislature call upon US to with
hold judgment and protest
After asserting that the action ap-
piled to the Socialists might be ap
piled to the Republicans or Democrat:
were either of them in the minority
Mr. Spargo continues: During many
years we have had Prohibition party
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps mill
ions, of our people .have profoundly
believed the platform of that party t.
be absolutely inimical to the best in
terests' of the nation.
Nevertheless, the exclusion Of the
representatives of that party, upor
the basis Of that Judgment, would have
wrought a revolution in our poitica
system; revolution against the demo.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

which is almost revolutionary was
gwen last night by Senator Charles II.
!homas, former Governor of Colorado.
IN an address before the association.
Whatever may be said in behalf of
national prohibition" Senator Thomas
sad, and | am in hearty sympathy
with its purpose and can testify to it's
social, moral and economic value in the
states that have accepted it, the Eigh-
teenth Amendment not only changes.
but revolutionizes the original struc-
ture OF the government. II encroaches
upon the reserved power Of the states
and of the rights Of the people therein
under state constitutions and laws and
equips the national government with
power to enact laws for its enforce
ment IN every quarter of the national
dominion.
at substitutes the national for the
state constable the Federal for the
state court, the Federal for the local
jury. in all that pertains to the manu-
facture, distribution or consumption
of alcoholic beverages. 1t does this
in states which have rejected as we'll
as those which have accepted the
amendment.
No Longer Union of States
"1t must be conceded that the sub
!>>N NAAc~S'y NoASCIHS tIc conduct aQO
environment of the individual. 1t is
therefore, foreign to the supervisory
power of the national authority az
originally outlined.
The citizens diet, his extravagences
MS .frugality, his apparel, his pur-
distinctly personal aid local nature
should be regulated and controlled, if
at all, only by the local governments
II supervision of one may be delegated
of them
"The sovereignty of the state is de.
cilnlng. 1t may be further denuded
although loudly protesting 1t is sover.
eighty transferred to the nation, the
state ceases to exist; the former is
then no longer union of states. but
the governing instrument of all the
people.
eve may not hope to set aside the
Eighteenth Amendment, but we should
make it the high water mark Of the
tide of modern nationalism."
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
SATURDAY

Continuation of Our January Sale.
For the Second Week we offer our
entire line of Mems and Boys high
grade sweaters at prices lower than
we could buy them i'll today's market.
Mems All Pure Wool, extra heavy
Shaker Knit Sweaters, large roll collar,
in navy, Oxford, maroon, brown and
green. Today'S value 1850.
Sale price. S.oo
Boys Sweaters. Made same quality
and make as above, in maroon, navy
and Oxford.
Today's value 1850. Sale price. o.I5
Mems Fine Knit All Wool Sweaters,
large roll collar, also V neck, in Ok
ford and green heather. To-
days value 1850. Sale price. 100
Mems Fine Worsted Jackets, V neck
style. An excellent coat for sport
wear. Today'S price 1880. oa
Sale price. $50
Mems Extra Fine Quality Sport
Sweaters, V neck. Today's .o-
value 22. so. Sale price. -. lZ.5U
Odd Lot Brushed All Wool Sweaters,
with and without collar, large sizes
only. Today's value 1880. -.-
Clean up price O.3o
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

Mems Fine Knit All Wool Sweater
Vests, in Oxford and green heather.
TOday's value 900.
Sale price. O.fO
Extra Heavy All Wool Shaker Knit
Sweater Vests, Oxford only. ro-
Today's value 1880. Sale price o.So
Mems Worsted Cardigan Jackets,
in Oxford and black.
Todays value 500. Sale price o.oO
Mems Extra Fine Quality Worsted
Cardigan Jackets, in oxford and
black. Today'S value 1880.
Sale price. VIZ
"Carter's" Union Suits. Our entire
line. in cotton, ,ool, and cotton
mixed, medium and heavy weight, at
about one third below regular values.
Children's Knitted Wool Caps, in
beautiful color combinations.
Values up to i.2s each
Mems and Boys Worsted Gloves, in
black and khaki, value tjS pr. ~
Clean up price. ........... .oo
IS English Auto and Steamer Rugs.
Excellent assortment of beautiful
paids, mostly all wool Good heavy
quality, full size. ,oor
Today's value IS 90. Sale priceAU.Zo
None Sent c. o. D. or Exchanged
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17


cratic ideals and institutions of the
nation. against the things represented
by Washington, etferson, Lincoln and
Roosevelt, and toward the ideals and
institutions of autocracy and for the
things represented by czarism and kai
SSerlsm, by Romanoff, Hohenzollern and
Hapsburg. '
10 lock behind prison bars some
poor, wretched workman who utters =
violent diatribe against our Constitu-
ton, laws and system of government
diatribe to which nobody pays seri-
Gus attention and to leave Speaker
Sweet and the majority of the mem
bers of the New York Legislature at
large is to strain at gnat and swal-
low camels whole; 1t to punish with
brutal severity the ignorant weaklina
who only talks of treason, while per-
mitting actual treason in high places
to go unpunished."
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
House Leaders Object
10 Spy Death Penalty
Ideas of Senate and Palmer De.
clared Too Drastic; Action
Is Held Up

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-opposition
to giving anti-sedition legislation right
OF way has developed in the House
Rules Committee, Republican leaders
holding both the Senate Sterling bill
and the House Judiciary Committee
measure, originally drawn By Attorney
General Palmer, too drastic for i'm
mediate consideration by the House.
Am open hearing on sedition and free
speech will be held Thursday before
the rules committee.
Representative Fess, Republican, of
Ohio, chairman of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, is leading the
fight against the two bills.
A majority of the judiciary commit
tee, it is said, now oppose providing
the death penalty for obstructing the
government, resulting in loss of life,
and group trials" of agitators as con-
tanned in the committee bill.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

or possible deportees who are now
on our hands. or will be-" said Mr..
Caminetti. 1--WE also have asked for
100000 to pay the additional officers
and employees required in guarding
the persons who have been rounded
up for exile. While these amounts
will be treated as deficiency appropria-
tions, they are not strictly such, since
they result from an unforeseeable ex-
tension of our deportation activities.
Our request for funds was received
sympathetically by the committee. l
do not doubt that Congress will vote
the required amounts. If it should
fail to do so, it would require no
prophet to say that long before the
year is up there would be no rations
for Bolsheviki waiting for an enforced
trip to their beloved '.ree Russia"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Knos Quits Committee
Investigating BOLsheuisnl

WASHINGTON, Jan. l6.-The second
resignation from the Senate sub
committee investigating Bolshevik
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Tiffany &CO
FIFTH AVENUE & &37mSTREHr
PEARLS DIAMONDS .JEWELRY
SILNERWARE STATIONERY

manded, in the case of Socialists. some
means of recalling them.
Another document came from tho No
tlonal headquarters of the Socialist
party in Chicago. 1t was addressed to
Speaker Sweet and announced "The
world is in flux. 1t is marching on
ward to socialism irresistibly. We
laughed at your Lusk committee and
its stupid assertions that we stood for
a violent overthrow of established in
stitutions"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Three tica Socialists
Sentenced IN u. S. Court

UTICA, N. Y, Jan. 16.-Charles w.
Steene. Frank L. Preston and William
Hotze, Syracuse Socialists, convicted
of violating the espionage act on four
counts, were sentenced by Judge Gar
vim in the United States court here to-
day to serve one year and six months
in the Atlanta Penitentiary on each
count.
The sentences run concurrently.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-05
GIVE US BACK OUR CARS"

Without having statistics on which
to base its conclusions, The Forum has
believed for some time that our north
western railroads would be able to
solve our traffic difficulties, if they had
full use of their own cars and equip
ment when they needed them the most.
That this theory is borne out by the
facts, is proved by some traffic MEM
oranda of the Northern Pacific road.
The Northern Pacific owns approxi-
mately $4,000 box cars, of which 25,-
600 are suitable or could be made
suitable for carrying grain. 1t must
be remembered that grain car must
be in first class condition to avoid
leakages.
. The crop movement is just begin
ming, and the Northern Pacific should
have the equivalent Of 100 per cent of
its equipment available, in such year
as this when big. crops are in sight.
But the records of the traffic depart
ment show that it has in it's posses
sion not to exceed $4,000 cars Of which
not more than half are suitable for
grain and flour loading. Only 1880
Of them are Northern Pacific. The
condition of the other northwestern
roads is doubtless much the same.
The reason for this condition is
known to railroad men, but few out
siders understand it. The Northern
Pacific, like other northwestern roads,
might be called an exporting road. In
other words, it ships more freight out
of it's territory, than it imports into
the territory. It delivers more freight
to other lines than other lines deliver
to. it. The constant trend of cars,
therefore, is away from the North
west. To change that trend requires
an interruption Of the natural flow Of,
traffic. It requires the initiative Of
some person high in authority, and in
such freight jam as the present, it
calls also for a determined effort on
the part of many executives to carry
out those orders.
The problem before the traffic con-
ference being held here today, there
fore resolves itself into evolving ways
and means of getting the equipment
of the various northwestern roads
back into their possession. During
some seasons of the year, other parts
of the country might be allowed the
use of part Of this equipment with
out protest, perhaps, but in the crop
moving season the Northwest needs
100 per cent of it.-Fargo Forum. y.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-05

The idea is, if you can't do the thing
you want to, keep doing something
useful anyhow. Keep your way and
watch your chance. The man who is
working always stands a better chance
idle. The boy who can't get to col
Of better job than the man who is
lege this year can study something at
home and keep at work and watch his
chance. The main thing, in time of
uncertainty, for individual or nation,
is to keep going. Then when the right
moment comes, with it's opportunity
over goes the boat on the new tack,
filling her sails again without a mo-
ment's loss.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-05

enough more to take care Of their
needs for export, and by so doing Sc
cure enormous profits at the expense
of our producers and spectators. Be-
fore the opening Of the futures market
in the middle Of July new wheat was
selling at Gulf Of Mexico ports for
So per bushel for August and Septem-
Der delivery and there is every reason
to think that this price could have
been maintained on all grain export
ed, as rapidly as it could reach sea
port, if the future, contract market
had not been opened to the selling by
persons who do not deal in actual
grain. ss
feel confident that something can
be done to protect the producer Of
farm products. and that we must do
what is possible or our grain acreage
will decrease.
~ The Proposed Remedy .
Pass a Federal Law requiring all
grain exchanges, any Of whose mem
bers do an interstate business ito take
out Federal license or to re-incor-
porate under a federal law. 4I
Create comptroller of exchanges,
attached to the Department of Agri-
culture with power TO regulate grain
exchanges in the same manner that
the Comptroller of the Currency regu-
! lates the national banks.
Provide that future contracts shall
be registered at an exchange clearing
house established by each exchange,
and that within ten days after the
date of any contract there shall be
livered to the exchange clearing house
by the broker making same elevator
receipts, or the voucher of a bank that
has loaned on such receipts, covering
the amount Of grain contracted to be
delivered. Flour could also be jhedged
as grain if desired. @
Provide a heavy penalty for the
over issue of such receipts or the al
lowing of them to remain in force
after the grain covered has reached
terminal elevators on sales.
Provide that no receipts will BE ac-
copied for grain stored or in transit
outsidesof the United States, unless it
be transit grain actually billed to our
home ports.
Provide that where receipts are
rendered to the exchange clearing
house on grain outside Of that ex-
change clearing house on grain out
side of that exchanges natural terri
bfory an additional margin covering
extra freight shall be deposited.
This i'm brief outline is l think pos
sible remedy for the abuses that have
grown up about the system of future
trading, and am certain will give a
hedging market which will have some
value.F
At present, and for the past FIVE
years it has been impossible to use the
future contract as hedge because of
the heavy premium on cash grain.
Thanking you Mr.. Editor for the OPP
portunity of presenting this neces-
sarily brief and incomplete outline
of conditions, situation and aEemedy,
I remain, g"
/ Yours very truly,
3 AMASA P. PEAKE.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-05
THE GRAIN SITUATION.

Valley City, N. D., Aug. 4, 1920.
To the Editor of the Times-Record:
Dear Mr.. Editor-For forty years
have seen the crops Of Barnes county
mature and the. wheat markets open,
usually with a wave of selling by
spectators, many of whom neither
produce nor handle wheat and rye,
the great bread stuffs of the world.
The Bread Grain Situation August
LIST, 1920. l.
As compared with the Worlds Sup
ply one year ago, the wheat, and rye
eating nations are facing shortage
of available breatstuffs, during the
coming twelve months, of about five
hundred million bushels. Of this two
hundred fifty million is decrease Of
stocks held August LIST, 1919 in Argen-
tine and Australia.
These southern hemisphere stocks
of wheat accumulated during the
Worlds War by shortage of sea trans
portation have been completely clean
ed up by the heavy shipments of the
past year, leaving the United States
and Canada almost alone in ability to
export until January, 1921; indeed it
is highly probable that wheat will be
sent from our ports to South America,
Africa and Australia before their next
crop is harvested.
Market Conditions in United States
The wheat markets of North Amer
lea are dominated by the organizations
of brokers or commission men, at the
great terminals. These exchanges in
clude in their membership represen-
tatives of the exporters, millers and
elevators, both terminal and country
lines, leaving the farmer producer to
be represented by very small min
GRITTY of independent brokers who re-
ceive shipments directly from him or
his elevator organizations.
A natural consequence of this di-
vision of interests is that, the rules Of
the various exchanges. are made by
majority votes, in favor Of the buyer
Of the cash grain.
In connection with the handling of
cash grain there has grown up in the
past fifty years system of trading
in contracts for it's future delivery, and
the rules of the exchanges favor the
seller Of these contracts in every way
possible.
Anyone can sell any. number of fu-
ture contracts by simply arranging
with Que of the broker members Of the
exchange as to the security Ihe offers
for their delivery, and in most Of the
Exchanges there is nothing to prevent
member from selling an unlimited
number of future contracts, without
depOsiting with the exchange any Sc
curity other than the values Of his
membership in the organization. This
condition makes it possible for specu-
lators to sell the farmers crop before
it is ready for market or even has
been seeded, and under present worlds
conditions and with The exchanges
limiting open trading in wheat futures
to December, or later when the south
ern crop will be available, destroys
the value of future contracts for
hedging purposes and forces prices
much below their proper level.
Further it opens the door to the pro-
bability that European buyers of cash
grain will Join in selling large amounts
for future delivery, and after Great
ing great bearishness among our spec
ulators will buy in their sales, with