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New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

The fact that Senator johnson
heads the list in Nebraska's Repub-
licap Presidential preference ,pri-
mary is not likely to increase the
chances of his nomination or to de-
crease the chances of General Wood.
In Nebraska, as in Michigan, SEN
ator johnson is not fortunate in the
character Of his support. In Michi-
gan he was voted for by the elements
which declared in 1916 for Henry
Ford for the Presidency. In Ne
braska he has the friendship of the
pro-Germans, who are especially
numerous in the state. Any one ac-
uuainted with the distribution Of
Nebraska's population will be struck
in the returns with the Johnson
strength in the German counties. To
the help of pro-German irrecon-
cilables the Senator clearly owes his
Nebraska victory.
The Republican National Conven-
tion is not likely to be body whose
majority will vote for any candi-
date shouted for by radicals of a
revolutionary or an extreme paci-
fist type. Nor is it likely to shower
honors on the favorite of those who
put Germany's interests first. Nor
will the benson bestowed on Sen
ator johnson by William Randolph
Hearst be an asset. William Hale
Thompson, another conspicuous
Johnson champion, may be strong
in Chicago wards of large hyphenate
population, but he is not as we'll
thought of elsewhere.
Senator johnson still presents
himself as the true and lawful heir
of the Roosevelt tradition. 1t is not
easy to allow the claim, in view Of
the political company now seemingly
welcome to this Roosevelt claimant.
One can't exactly see Colonel
Roosevelt, if alive, marching with
the |. w. W. or the pro-Germans or
with Hearst and Thompson. Cali
fornia's gifted son must be eager,
indeed, to reach the White House
or he scarcely would consent to the
affiliations he now openly seeks.
But though there is small prob
ability that Senator Johnson will
gain the prize, the strength his can
didacy has developed is impressive
and there is being created a condi-
ton calling for counter concentra-
ton. The outlook is that this con-
centration will be about Leonard
Wood, whose friends, eschewing all
combinations and dickers, are max
ing an open and candid appeal te
the people in all the states.
If it is not Leonard Wood-if h
runs himself to death before reach
ing the homestretch, as Penrose an(
other politicians of the school Of th'
hard boiled have predicted-Mr
Hoover seems the only other who's
name commands that diffused ant
natonalized support which seem
essential in the Republican candidate
this year
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
The Old Clothes Club
A Badge and a Pledge for
Real Economy

To. the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The overall spirit is growing.
The use of overalls is growing. The
need, the desire, for relief against the
high cost of all wearing apparel has be-
come acute. The suit of overalls has now
become the outward and practical SYM
Dol of that need and desire; but this
idea and this plan, even when carried
into effect, can at best furnish only a
very small measure of relief, nor can
it be very generally carried into effect
for many reasons
1t seems to me that the better, the
more practical, plan would be the i'm
mediate and universal organizing of old
clothes clubs-clubs to be formed In
every village, town, township, county
and city in every state. They should be
founded in the smallest unit in every
community. They should pledge their
members to refrain from the purchase
during a definite period of any and
every article Of wearing apparel. Such
clubs should be formed -ot as protest
against the high cost OF living, not as q
blow against real or imagined profteers,
but as practical and substantial means
of relief against burdens that have be-
come wellnigh intolerable to all except
the very rich. The individual can do but
IJfflc. tcV %nrothpr
for mutual aid can DO very much.
suggest that (in this state, for in
stance) the Assembly districts be taken
as the units wherein the organization OF
old clothes clubs can Immediately easily
and effectively be formed
There are in this state $50 Assembly
districts; in these are upward of 1900
election districts. New York County
has upward of 1000 electior districts;
generally speaking, then, some so eiec-
ton districts in each Assembly district
Let the member of the Assembly imrne'
diatcly call into conference all the lead
ers, captains and workers Of all parties
in his election districts.
Few would refuse to sign a pledge
and wear badge, because each man
signing would know that his pledge
made it easier for another to pledge
made it possible for another 20 refrain
from burdensome purchases that are 80
often compelled for the mere sake o.
appearances. Such clubs would furnish
a way out for thousands of decent. hafo'
working but already overburdcned me"
The pledge could read: 81. the undef'
signed, a member of the Old Clotns'
Club of the Assembly District,
hereby pledge myself in all honor anu
good faith during the spring and SUM
mer and until August to refrain iro"
the purchase of any and every ar''e''
of mems wear. AS proof of this pleos.
and of service l promise to wear a. >"
times in plain sight badge or ou''o'
on which are the words Member OF '"'
Old Clothes Club" Old clothes, sne''
would not challenge unkind comment '"
criticism. The badge would explain "
cusc and honor the wearing OF tns ''s
clothes.
What Assemblyman. then, will o's"
this movement?
LEWIS NJ. sCHEuEk
New York. April 20. 1920, A
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Why Have Roofs When There
Are No Teachersl

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: wonder if the various econo-
mics effected by the Board of Estimate
in its control Of the school budget are
appreciated by the citizens? Millions
wcre saved on teachers salaries, and
yet the people seem ungrateful Per-
haps tho board will have better luck
when 1T is generally known how careful
it has been in spending money for the
repair of school buildings. Taxpayers
will be glad to know that thousands OF
dollars are saved every month. | can
vouch for this economy, because ! am
Whiting for some spcndthrift Board of
Estimate to vote tho money to repair
the leaky roof of Now York City
elementary school PRINCIPAL.
Nav York April 20.s1O20.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Jerichos of Stubbornness

Sap is running, grass is springing
and suffragists of New England are
beginning to stir.
Women of Vermont yesterday
made their appeal to Governor
Clement to call special session of
the state Legislature for the pur-
pose Of ratifying the Federal woman
suffrage amendment. A similar ap-
peal will be made the first week in
May by the women in Connecticut, in
final effort to break down the un-
seasonable and unreasonable opposi-
tion of Governor Holcomb to the
women voters.
1t is hard to see why these two
Governors hesitate in the face OF
what seems to be general demand
on the part Of their constituents.
Women Of New England are anxious
to take part in the Presidential cleo
tion. In only two states, Maine
and Rhode Island, is there a Presi-
Dental suffrage act which permits
them to vote for President, but not
for other public officers.
This constitutes to the feminine
mind an emergency" sufficient to
justify the calling Of the Legisla-
ture, and we fancy it would take on
the color Of an emergency to the
Governors likewise if all the men
voters of New England were in
doubt as to their right to vote next
fall.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Belgium and France
By Fra7k H. Simonds

tain differences having their origin
In the Belgian ambition to reunite
the two fragments of Luxemburg, one
of which fell to Belgium and the other
directed into a principality nearly a
century ago. But in a plebiscite held
after the war the people of the prin-
cipality voted to continue free and to
enter into close commercial relations
with France, which included transfer
to France Of the control of Luxembourg
railways, hitherto operated by the Ger
MANS
Recent foreign dispatches have sug-
gested that in the matter of the rail-
ways France and Belgium were at the
point of reaching an agreement But
aside from a question which is rela-
lively minor, the common interests of
France and Belgium are unmistakable,
| is disclosed in the prompt decision to
stand with France in the occupation of
German cities following the German
violation of the terms of the peace
treaty. After all, the German menace
is as close to Liege as to Verdun, and
the memories the Germans have left
behind them in Belgium are as poignant
as those surviving in occupied France
Belgium Remembers
English and American publics, mainly
ignorant of the true meaning of Ger
man invasion, unfamiliar with the dew
astated cities of France and the shame
full stories of German butcheries in
Belgium, find it easier to forget re-
cent history than do France and Bel
GUM. The efforts of the Germans
while masters of Belgium to destroy
the unity of the country by arrayine
Flemings against Walloons (that is
the Teutonic against the Latin ele
ments) remains for the Belgians, ever
more than the atrocities of 1914, &
measure of German purpose in theil
direction.
On the military side it remains true
exactly as it was in 1914, that the onl,
open road to Paris lies through Bel
GUM; in fact, the return of Alsace-Lor
raine to France, giving the French the
line of the Rhine from Switzerland +e
the Lauter and the fortified area o.
NJ etz-Thionville on the Moselle, makes ;
German thrust into France across tn,
common frontier more difficult than i
was in 1914, when it failed absolutel,
in the last week of August in the Battl,
of the Gap of Charmes
In 1914 Belgium could not defend he
frontiers, but to-day her ability t,
hold the left bank of the Meuse unit
French armies could join hands will
her own forces may be reckoned prob
able, while tomorrow, when Belgian
forces have been reorganized, it shoul,
be certainty. In any event tn
Franco-Belgian understanding is botl
a significant evidence of the readin,
of current events by one Of the tw,
peoples Immediately menaced by an,
military renaissance in Germany an,
an understanding. which, il it develop
into formal alliance, may have an i'm
portant bearing upon the future
copyrighted. 1920. Mcclure Newspape
Syndicatesh
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
When as in Denim My Julia Goes

w HeH dS III Denlm MY Juila (IOeS
Sir: In connection with the Rosemary Re-
union now being held by the old folks I am
led to wonder if others of the younger genera
ton recall with me the days when men like
CATER Old Mcintyre became Shirt Waist
Men. I remember pulling the drawstrings
of my little blouse very tight that 1 might
resemble those dashing champions Of sartorial
independence. The ends of the strings al
ways refused to stay tucked inside.
Then. again, ] am led to wonder IL an
other younger generation will one day be
told that there was great parade Of men
in overalls Saturday, April "a. 1920. and
particularly. if my grandchildren will be
told that I was authorized by the Cheese
Club to invite any enthusiasts who wished
to join the decent-clothes -for-a a-decent-price
administration to obtain further information
from Walter Kingsley by either phoning
Bryant $500 or writing to him at 154 w
10th st. MARC CoNNELLY.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Illustrations Artiess Aid

Sir: The Satevepost of April 18th contains
a good yarn entitled Let That Pass which
Clarence +. Underwood has illustrated. Con-
slider a paragraph. we'll down the first COL
umn, page 167: Besides Yolanda there was
her father. towering above her, above the
slim wasted Terry above every
body dwarfing the room" Then take a slant
at her father in the act of ''dwarfing the
room in the picture page 80. Father
may be on his knees but if he isn't he falls
short by at least eighteen inches of towering
above anything but the table, Then again
on page 1854, column four. last paragraph
we read that the Pott brothers wore small
well trimmed mustnches." If this is so who
is the old boy with the clean lip sitting at
the head of the table in the lcfthand corner
of the illustration at the foot of the same
page. and where earth are Lucretia and
Emmaline Pott, daughters of Hornnday Pott,
of whom the story speaks as being present
at the dinner? Furthermore where is the
vanilla soufle all hot and quivering' with
which Sylvia longed to do Charlie Chaplin
act? 1t may be in front of her, or possibly
the waiter. anticipating her act of violence.
has removed it and everything else from the
! table. Aunaosr r, ,-r,
Ban Put on Evening Dress. ss.--Tribune
headline.
He's sport, is Johnson, Raed desires
to tell the universe.
No, Prunella, overalls were not worn
in "The Old Homestead" You probably
are thinking of Denman Thompson.
The overalls campaign certainly has
the tailors. How can we alright the
landlords?
How about living in denim tents?
f. 2. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Fond Recoliections

Sir: 1t made me feel pretty jealous
to read about Harriette's having a
bicycle with an 80 gear, because
mine was only 72, and my feet went
around just like a squirrels in one
Of those ridiculous little cages. But
one day | borrowed a wheel that was
geared up to 80 from a boy named
Russell Jones, and I remember the
almost stately way my bicycle boots
revolved. That same day Russell
showed me a .3S caliber revolver
which he said his brother carried in
the war with Spain, and suggested
that a pleasing effect would be pro-
duced if we took a manhole cover
off the sewer and shot down inside.
SO we uncovered a manhole in one
of the principal. streets of the Only
City in the U. S. A. that was the
Birthplace of Two Presidents, and
reached my arm down as far as |
could and fired. The effect was
rather gratifying, though it didn't
make any more noise than the San
Francisco earthquake or the Black
Tom explosion. However, in the
light of that experience, if I were
going to shoot a gun down a sewer
again, | would take a more retired
street than the one Russell and
selected. DAISY BELL.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

Our first regret at being no longer in
the Army came yesterday, when it was
announced that soldiers hereafter will
be permitted to remove their caps, in
stead of saluting, when address,
ing woman. We think seriously of re-
enlisting.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
SONG

Come join my humble ditty, from
Gotham town 1 steer;
Like every other fellow, I take my profit
clear,
Like every other fellow, I'm having q
glorious year,
I'm an enemy Of poverty, a son Of a
profiteer.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Britain No Protection

BY the Treaty of Versailles Belgium
emerges from her position as neu-
tralized state. The value of guaran-
teed neutrality was disclosed by the
events of August, 1914. Henceforth
Belgium must defend herself in case
of danger. She can do this only by
arming adequately and by seeking an
understanding with other nations An
understanding with Britain. however
useful. cannot have the value of an
agreement with France, because the
British have demobilizcd their armies
and therefore would be as unable to
intervene promptly in the future as
they were in 1914. when at Mons, three
weeks after German troops had en-
tered Belgium and several days after
Brussels had fallen, only 10000 British
troops had reached the Belgian from
tier.
Thus Belgium has to choose between
the French and the German alliance,
and the choice is inevitable. Between
France and Belgium there subsist cer-
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
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for republication Of all news dispatches credited
IL or not Otherwise credited in this paper. and
also the local news Of spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication of all other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

The order probably was promulgated
in recognition of the fact that women
have ceased to be our superior officers.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

Nor is the punning school of road
Diary of DR.. Anthony Wood, 1869, refer
ence is made to "an ancient hall called
Rain Inn
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

When we receive "lttle booklets" we
invariably drop them into the zinc, but
when a "little booklet" "gotten up by
somebody comes, we chuck it clear across
the ROOM
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

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New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
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New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

The motto Of the A. W. Employees
Booster, published by the American
Woolen Company, is Square Dealing,
Team Work, Prosperity" It's object, we
gather, is the Americanization of en-
ployees. Possibly in pursuance of this
policy, the Booster reprints piece from
this department crediting neither The
Tower nor The Tribune But per-
haps that is one conception of Ameri-
cansm.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

How about living in denim tents?
f. 2. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
established.

Announcement of the development of
closer political relations between Bel
gium and France, relations envisaging
common alliance in the face Of the
renewed German menace, have peculiar
value at this time, when the sympathies
between the larger Allies who fought
the war against Germany have visibly
cooled.
To put the thing simply, France and
Belgium, with a combined population
little short of 50,OoO0OO people, are
capable not merely Of putting into the
field forces sufficient to hold the armies
of Germany now reduced to a popu-
lation inferior to 60OOO,000 at the
Rhine barrier easily, but for an in
definite time in the Ardennes, or, .rath-
er, in the extension Of the Ardennes
highlands between the Belgian and
French frontiers and the Rhine
Assuming that Belgium could, in the
future, mobilize 250,O0O men at the
outbreak of a new war, these added
to the French million would consti-
tute force substantially equal to any
thing the Germans could hope to send
westward, given their Polish problems
in the east. Moreover, the situation
created by the return of Alsacc- Lor-
raine to France and the transfer to
French control Of the Luxembourg rail
ways, in German hands in 1914, totally
changes the face of things to the ad-
vantage Of Belgium and France, and
this advantage is increased by the
destruction of German fortifcations on
the Rhine.
The lessons of the last war clearly
established the fact that under modern
conditions of confict-that is, in the
war of positions-while rupture Of
an enemy front may be achieved by
the secret concentration of men and
guns at given point, such rupture
cannot lead to any decision until all
the enemy's reserves have been ey-
hausted, since he can bring to the dan
ger point, after the first moment, far
more rapidly than his opponent, the
necessary reserves to restore the stu
alton
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
qua RAN TY

Entered at tho Postonlce at New York as Second
Glass Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

The overalls campaign certainly has
thrown scare into the clothicrs and
the tailors. How can we alright the
landlords?
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

A Yellow Primrose

l remember when I was a kid,
Gathering wonderful shells
On the beach at low tide;
How l loved the conch SHELF
You put it to your ear and heard
The whispered message Of the sea-
fairies.
And muffled music from faraway
dream countries.
I know better no-o.
Science proves that the sound
Is a common characteristic of the
Gastropod SKENE.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

No, Prunella, overalls were not worn
in "rhe Old Homestead" You probably
are thinking of Deniman Thompson.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-02-13

Lodge says it is UP to the Demo-
Gratis; Hitchcock says it is up to the
Republicans, and so they prepare Tor
the real battle on the Senate floor.
The six Republicans who have
jumped the traces on Lodge, are
Frelinghuysen, Wadsworth, Dilling-
ham, Ball. Calder and Sutherland.
The opinion was expressed by Sen
ator Hitchcock and some other Dem
ocrats this evening that Mr.. WolcOt'
undoubtedly was making a sarcastic
suggestion and never intended that II
should be taken seriously
McNary and mild reservation lead
ers declared that the outlook for rati-
flcation is better than at any other
time, and that the President will ac-
cept the treaty If ratified, even with
good, strong reservations.
Senator Underwood has not taken
up the work of rounding up Demo-
Gratis in favor OF reservations, as the
Republicans announced he would do.
He will do so whenever Lodge places
before him a proposition on which
the Republicans have united and in
forms him just how many votes are
required. Underwood believes there
is a general sentiment in favor of get
ting together and a fair chance exists
of obtaining the two-thirds neces-
sary for approval of the treaty.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-02-13
Prepare For New Fight
On German Peace Treaty
Leaders on Both Sides Lining Up for Debate, Which Will be Re-
sumed Monday Democrats Not Likely to Accept
Amy Compromise That President viii Not

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13-The situ-
alton as to the peace treaty in the
senate is once more largely depend
ent upon the attitude of the Presi-
dent. The Dem ocrats refuse to ac-
cept any agreements which will not
meet with the sanction of Mr.. Wilson,
and for that reason it is believed to-
day that a long and bitter fight Will
follow when the matter comes up
formally on Monday.
The Democrats are not insisting
that the compromise be approved by
the President in advance of their ac-
ceptance of it. but they do stand out
for something that will have chance
at least Of passing the President.
Notwithstanding this first bunker,
the prophecy continues that the
treaty VIII be ratified. The treaty's
friends are assuming that the revi-
sion upward of the reservation on
Article Y is simply for trading pur-
poses.
The Republicans do not deny the
suggested compromise Is stronger
than the original Lodge reservation,
but they say the mild reservati onists
who produced the substitute offer it
to all factions, and were not bound
to bring out something milder than
Lodge proposed.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-02-13
At
BIC MEETING
Victory Convention Is Opened
Today in Chicago
ln The Associated Press.

BIZ The Associated A Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 13-The fifty first
annual and final convention of the
National American Woman's Suffrage
Association opened today with 1000
delegates. The first meeting in ceie-
bration of the expected early victory
for suffrage for women, and Mrs
Carrie Chapmann-Catt, president OF
the association, said the delegates, be
cause there is no earthly power that
can do more than delay by trifie the
acknowledgment of women.
90! women, be glad today the
president said, 'let your voices ring
out the gladness in your hearts. There
will never come another day like TINS
Let 10y be unconfined, and let 1t speak
so clearly that it's echo will be heard
around the world and find Its way
into the soul of every woman OF any
and every race and nationality, yearn- =
ing for opportunity and liberty.
"Rejoice, applaud be slad-A ou We
won."
The Congress of the league OF wom-
en- voters, which suffrage leaders eX-
pect will absorb the suffrage associa-
ton, began yesterday to continue
through next Wednesday, The purpose
of the League of Women voters as
announced is to shape legislation TO
the interests of women.