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New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
So This Is Leap Year

We can think Of few omens of
the times more vocal than the
silence Of the world touching the
fact that the year 1920 Is divisible
by a and is therefore a leap year.
OF course, the "comic" weeklies
have picked out a few of the ancient
jests from the 1916 barrel; and the
London correspondents have writ
ten excitedly Of the fact that Eng
land expects every spinister to do
her duty. But here and now, in
both what was once known as bar
room conversation and out Of it, the
topic is dead as last years calendar.
Nobody knows, nobody cares.
Does this signify that woman's
emancipation is now complete and
that she will propose, early and
often? Or does it prove that she
is negligent Of her new status?
Or does it prove nothing at all?
There is, Of course, the theory
worked out by Mr.. G. B. Shaw, the
well-known boxing expert, to the
effect that woman has ever been
the pursuer and man the pursued,
the marked-down quarry, the des-
tined prey. etc. Following out this
view, it might be argued that Gus
tom has now only formally recog-
nized what was at bottom always
true. But this is, we think, to as
sumo too much.
There are supermen who will not
be captured; and there are super
women who will ever pursue. It is
only the right Of these exceptional
souls to do as they will that has
been ratified by custom, we suspect.
No attack Of Amazons en- masse
is to be feared in the year 1920.
On the other hand, sharpshooting Of
bold and competent markswomen
will be more deadly than ever; and
everybody so realizes. That is a
guess at the Indifference of the
hour. The proposal has not been
transformed, feminized; it has only
been made more elastic to fit indi-
vidual needs, and excitement over it
-.2ve among the marked-down
victims-is naturally zero.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03

country" he is reported as saying,
"the first to get decorated would be
the fellows who saw the enemy. /
would put them ahead Of Admiral
Benson and Admiral Sims" Now,
distinctions are given not merely for
meeting the enemy" They are based
on what the recipients did after they
got into the presence Of the enemy.
Similarly, recognition is not with
held from officers merely because
they never came into physical con-
tact with an armed opponent. They
are entitled to distinctions in pro-
portion as their work contributed to
the enemy's defeat.
More than the wisdom Of a Solo
mon is required to establish a true
relativity Of merit among those who
are eligible. Consequently, most
governments apply conventional and
more or less mechanical tests In
awarding military honors. Medals,
too, must be tied up with a good deal
Of red tape before presentation. Any
other process Of selection is likely
to lead to wide variations in judg-
ment and to grave determinations
between individuals, which latter
cannot be apologized for by plead
ing some convenient general rule or
some arbitrary limitation.
Mr.. Daniels, apparently, still be-
|lieves in the inspirational method.
He says that of the officers who
didn't "see the enemy" he would put
Benson first, as "the most conspicu-
GUS man on shore" Next would come
Sims. This verdict reverses the
principle on which Mr.. Daniels set
so much store in the case Of the
fighting men-that Of relative prox-
Unity to the actual fighting front.
For Sims was in command Of the
naval forces in the combat zone and
was directly responsible for the sue
cess Of American naval operations
there, while Benson was in Wash
ington and had to accept no per-
sonal responsibility for the fleet
operations in Europe except that in
volved in the selection Of Sims.
Secretary Daniels selected Ben
son. Perhaps, then, if the theory
which makes Benson "the most i'm
portant man on shore" were carried
to its logical conclusion the question
Of awards might be triumphantly
solved by bestowing one joint, all
embracing naval medal on the Sec
retary Of the Navy.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03

flee Mr.. Wilson repudiated that
pledge. And the Democratic Nation
al Convention of 1916 also repudi-
ated it in giving him a denomination.
No Democratic pledges or tradi-
tion would stand in the way Of Of
fering him a third nomination if
conditions favored such a venture
and he were in a receptive mood.
The only effectual assurance against
an attempt to run the President for
a third time, his health permitting,
lies in the fact that even from the
Democratic point Of view the record
Of his Administration has ceased to
furnish capital easily convertible
| into votes.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
The Front Page
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

y IHo ColtOr Oh Inc 1rlDune.
Sir: Permit me. with due respect,
to suggest that you, in common with
other papers, ignored an opportunity.
in the placing Of your news this morn
ing, to help turn the public mind to a
saner sense of proportion.
cannot believe it is because am a
physician that think the most impor-
tant item of news in this mornings
paper was the death of Dr.. William
Osler, the most celebrated physician
who ever lived. He is as widely known
among the general public, both hero
and abroad, as any crowned head, politi-
clan, money magnate, philanthropist or
labor agitator. His fame is due to
ideals, knowledge and acts Of the high
est value to universal human welfare
and not, as your correspondent says, to
whimsical remark which he once
made. The remark was widely pub
lished because Dr.. Osler was so cele.
brated at the time it was made.
The announcement Of DR.. osler's
death was probably not seen by one in
fifty of your readers. because it was
hidden away on an inside sheet of the
paper. Doubtless most Of you will
write eulogistic editorials upon this
great benefactor. But how many of
the public, especially those 80 prone to
lose their sense of proportion at uuch
times as these. will read your edi-
torial? Probably not one in hundred,
more likely about one in thousand.
The average person estimates the
Importance Of public events, persons
and questions according to the relative
prominence they are given in the daily
newspaper.
If Lenine or Emma Goldman had
died yesterday, in what size type and
on which page Of The Tribune would
the announcement have been made {?
Certainly not in ordinary type, and on
the sixth page. No, 1t would, no doubt,
be given greater prominence than was
given to the death of Osler.
To-day I was told by a newspaper
man that it would not be good TASTE
to imagine such comparison as tho
above, between Samuel Gompers and
William Osler--not out Of respect for
the memory of Osler, if you please,
but for Gompers. Shades Of learning
and letters! In what direction are We
drifting?
How is this possible? Newspaper
men are mostly educated and should
have eane sense of proportion. Why
bot use their influence and power to
help bring the public mind hack to q
realization Of tho truly important Gle
ments In lief
CHARLES B. SLADE.
New York, Dec. 80, 1910.
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The President Abroad
America Not Monarchy and Mr..
Wilson Had No Right TO Go

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A week ago you published let
ter from A. D. Blair under the head
Ing, "Our System to Blame" wherein,
after expressing his very natural sense
of modification at the fix the Wilsonian
peace conference policy has left us in,
he draws the following conclusion:
"If the American system Of govern
ment permits the country to be repre-
sented (abroad, 1t is inferred) at great
crisis by President who does not rep
resent a majority in Congress, the
blame must be on that system of gov
ernment"
Now. this embodies a very mischiev-
Gus and insidious political heresy, and
one which is so commonly entertained
among many honest, patriotic Ameri-
cans that hope you will grant me a
little space in which to point out what
seems to me to be the fallacy in it.
Our system does not permit the Presi-
dent so to represent the country. Those
who maintain that It does proceed upon
no constitutional prohibition Mr.. Wilson
was free to act as he pleased in the
matter. This view seems to me to rest
upon an essential misconception Of the
fundamental principles and nature of
our form Of government.
This is not (and some people seem
unable TO rid themselves of the notion
that it is) constitutional monarchy.
1t is strictly and exclusively constitu-
tional government, pure and simple, "of
the people, for the people and by the
people" deriving all of its powers from
the Constitution (and laws enacted
thereunder), and from no other source
whatsoever. It's powers, and the powers
Of it's President and all other officers,
are restricted to such as are derived
from that source; and all other powers
not so derived are prohibited. The
converse of this is not true.
There is nothing in the Constitution
or laws which confers or imposes upon
the President any powers or duties Of
any sort whatsoever outside of the ter
ritorial jurisdiction of the United States,
either as ambassador, representative or
otherwise, or at all. Moreover, it makes
special provision for the appointment
and making Of such ambassadors or rep
resentatives.
Therefore, when Mr.. Wilson, in his
capacity as President, undertook his
foreign mission, he assumed duties and
powers which were nowhere conferred
upon him by the Constitution or laws,
and which, consequently, were prohib-
tied. Furthermore, it should not be
overlooked that, in assuming in his Of
| fetal capacity to perform these unau-
thorized (and prohibited) acts, he at
the same time voluntarily abandoned
his post of duty and placed himself in a
position where he was unable to per-
form the duties of his Office, which he
was elected, and which he swore, to
perform.
1t is not a pleasant nor a palatable
task for an American who takes pride in
his country and all which concerns 1t to
criticize the acts Of the President, but
when it comes to passing the buck for
the latter's misdeeds to Uncle Sam it
is not only permissible but a duty to
stop mincing matters and talk plain
United States.
GEORGE WESTERVELT.
Newark, N. j., Dec. 20, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
sartor Resartus; or "The Review" Revieve
The Diary of Our Own Samuel pepys

December 31--To the Office, and hard
at work all the day; and then E. Davis
is come to take my wife and me to
New Jersey, where is great party,
the merriest ever ! saw anywhere,
what with all sorts Of rag, tag, and
bobtail; and H. Harrison the orator
very gay indeed and what with con-
versing on many topicks with him and
others, in especial with two dark girls
named Mazda and Janet. l did not go
to bed till four, nor did he neither;
nor, for that matter, did anybody
whose name l can recall.
January Up by nine, and full of
zest for the accomplishment Of great
deeds this year; and had goodish
breakfast, of fruit, and dozen pan
cakes, and coffee. Read then in "Davy
and the Goblin" to Doris, which she
liked; and home after luncheon, and
to the Office, where I found things dull,
and was sorry to find that Harvard
had beaten Oregon. Home, and read
in "a Golden Age of Authors and
so to bed.
2-All day at the office, very busted
with many things, and many visitors,
who seem always to como on Fridays,
when my labour Is the greatest.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
Mr.. Hoover's 8 Politics
(Fron Tho Hartford Cos.ras,t


A Washington dispatch quotes q
leading Republican as saying that if
we only knew where Herbert Hoover
stood the party would do well to
nominate him. II any leader OF
either party wants to know where
Mr.. Hoover stands he has only to
turn to the critical period of Ameri-
can history, when Woodrow Wilson
appealed to the people to elect a
Democratic Congress if they wanted
the war to end, and they elected q
Republican Congress and the war
ended. At that time Mr.. Hoover, who
had no political job and had no call
to butt in, added his appeal to the
people to vote the Democratic ticket
That should show whore he stands
politically.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
The Flaw in the Guinea Pig
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: ! have read Mr.. Steinbrugge's
clever Hint for New Years Eve" but
his theory has several holes in 1t. 1t
so happens that guiena pigs thrive on
wood alcohol and they never die from
the pclson. In fact, they have been
known to take on new life after imbib-
ing tho stuff. l might add, also, that
they abominats cherries, and they
never drink a beverage. They lap it
up.
/ am sorry for all this, as am in
thorough sympathy with Mr.. Stein
brugge's point Of view
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE.
New York City, Dec. 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
The Third Tern,

OOgmaClSm In the historical field
Is somewhat perilous. The Times
drops into it when it says that Pres
ident Wilson, were he still as physi-,
cally fit as when he went to Europe
Ia year ago, would be restrained
from accepting a third nomination
by the fact that the Democratic
party has committed itself in the
past to the doctrine Of no third
term. Here is the situation as The
Times sees it:
1T is the historic policy and prin-
ciple Of the Democratic party that no
President, however eminent, should
have more than two terms in the
White House. President Wilson
knows this as we'll as anybody, and
there is not the slightest reason for
supposing that, even II there were no
other consideration in the case, he
would disregard these pronounce
ments, reverse the historic policy
and abandon the historic principle
Of tho party to which he belongs"
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
Jackson observed the two-term
precedent set by Washington. A
Democratic House Of Representa-
tives once passed an anti-third term
resolution, directed at the activities
Of the Republican "Stalwarts." who
were trying to secure a third nomi-
nation for General Grant. But what
value have such abstract declara-
tions when they clash with a situa-
ton in which it may seem advisable
to powerful element in any party
to give popular leader third lease
on the Presidency?
Grant came near being nominated
in 1880. He entered the Republican
convention with more votes than any
other candidate. On one ballot he
was only sc short Of a majority.
Again. in 1912, Colonel Roosevelt,
standing for third nomination, car.
ried most Of the states in which pri-
maries were held for the election OF
delegates and lost because Of the op-
position Of the non-primary North
ern states and the over-represented
ISouth, assisted by the decisions of q
not wholly impartial national com.
nittee.
In these two cases-Grant's and
Roosevelt's-the third term sought
would not have been a consecutive
third term. An interval had oc.
curred-bridged over in the first in.
stance by the Hayes Administra.
ton and in the second by the Taft
Administration. 1t was the conten.
ton Of both Grants and Roosevelt t's
supporters that this breach Of con.
tinuity avoided a conflict with the
older two-term tradition.
/ But though that argument could
mot be made in Mr.. Wilson's case, II
1t appeared that he was physically
able to make another campaign and
II the Democratic party thought that
1t had an asset Of high value In his
candidacy, the leaders probably
would throw overheard with alacrity
the "historic principle" Of no third
term. Political expediency would
override "historic policy"
| As to the platform declarations Of
tho past, how long are they to be
considered bindine7 There is q
lstartling instance in point. The
Democratic National Convention Of
1912, before it nominated Mr.. VIII.
son, adopted platform pledging the
nominee, whoever he might be, to the
Iprinciple Of = single term. After hia
election and before he assumed Of.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
Josephaza Wisdom

Secretary Daniels isn't satisfied 10
Ut sleeping dogs lie. He happily ex-
txicated himself from the naval
awards nuddle by passing the
buck" back 70 the knight board.
Since he has disqualified himself fer
sver after 81 an official arbiter In
the matter Of naval Distinction, why
should hs kseD on expressing his pri-
vste and personal Judgmsnts7
III wsrs u represent ths spirit
Of ths navy and the spirit Of the
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
"The New Republic" Gets
RELIGION

OF many affecting spectacles
among our baff1ed intellectuals none
is more moving than that of The
Neav Republics discovering Christi
anity.
The general process at work is
familiar and obvious enough. Hav-
ing tried every formula known to
pacifis1m and socialism and to every
other millennial creed, and having
found the tympana Of the people
strangely deaf, the editors Of The
Ne1o Republic, like 30 many theorists
Of the past, are shifting their tents.
Where endowed uplift at 15 cents a
copy has failed let prayer and the
Beatitudes try their hand.
Just where and how Mr.. Herbert
Croly expects to conduct his revival
meetings is not clear. His present
essay is more metaphysical than
hortatory-one Is reminded rather
Of Thomas Aquinas than Billy Sun
day. For while we thought
that Mr.. Croly blamed the Reforma-
tion for the failure Of the "Reds" in
America and the deportation Of our
anarchists-over whom The New
Republic sheds many tears. "The
Reformation severed the alliance be-
tween knowledge and religion-an
alliance essential both to human lib
erty and religious authority" he
writes. And: "If the divorce of
knowledge and religion continues it
will ultimately wreck civilization"
But we gather from other sentences
that Mr.. Croly is at least resigned
to the Reformation, and it is not a
complete identity Of Church and
State that he seeks. Here is the
meat Of Mr.. Croly's newly opened
cocoanut:
"But owing to the divorce between
knowledge and religion the engi-
neers of the new knowledge trans
muted 1t into irresponsible rather
than responsible power. The pres
ent awful predicament Of civilization
is born Of this transmutation. The
steady expansion OF secular knowl-
edge Is tho dominating fact in the
lives of the Christian peoples. 1t is
exercising an ever more complete
and irresistible authority over both
the conduct and the conscience of
mankind. But its authority is de-
void Of moral sanction. The new
knowledge has done little, or nothing
to enhance or to lberatc human life
as whole. On the contrary, 1t Is
vcsting the moral ownership of In
calculably formidable engines of
power in particular classes and ma
tions whose special interests are op.
posed TO general human fulnllment
II the secularization OF knowledge
continues 1t will ultimately wreck
civilization. The integrity Of the
City of God can be restored only by
Iigion."
Tho awful predicament thus fac.
ing the intelligentsia Ia enough tc
make = German officer weep. To
! abandon The Cifv ~ thu Snv;oh foy
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
High Cost Of Bolshevism
tFrom The Providence Journop

(FT0n Tho ProVldcMoe JourraO
According to the Premier of Hun
gary, that country's brief experience
with . communistic government cost
1t moro than three billion dollars.
This suggests that communism might
be classed with war and pestilcncs an
something to be Stunned.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
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also the local Of spontansous origin publishsd
Asrein.
An nshts q seoubhcaasn ss all ethse ustsss
herein ere alss reaesssd.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03

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No suihbns. We make seed srsmsth II the
advsstisef dsss ses
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SATURDAY. JANUARY 5. 1920.

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New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
The Romano. Of Bookkeeping

Sir: l don't know what kind Of man
keeps personal expense account, but for
a woman It's More Fun. It occupies about
one-ffth Of my diary. Just think of the
joy Of pointing out how ono had bought a
pair Of shoes back in ninetean-so- -and-so for
five dollars; not to speak Of a round-trip
ticket between New York and Harmon for
dollar twenty. and now It's two fourteen.
And then. besides. IL always shows just
why ones broke. RAr
/ 1t was Ward and Vokes, az wa re-
call 1t, who used to pull the whee,e
about having a job picking blossoms
from century plants. And George
Fitch used to want to be an. auditor
In shipyard, and como down on New
Years Eve and enter "Thres battle.
ships" and call it year.
Wonder what census taksr dos,
between ce1isuees4
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susscxrrr1oN nArrs-n. NAM. Including
aUARANrY

ontsrsd st TIE Pcstoncs as New YoYA a. Second
Class Man Matter
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3. p. A.

Wonder what census taksr doe,
between censuses1
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03

Probably the worst influence in our
young literary life was Horatio Alger
Jr. 1t was so strong that we never
have been able to expunge the con-
viction that fortune, success, and hap
piness are the inevitable reward Of
honesty, chivalry, and industry.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03

Mr. James T. Fields, whose idea it
was that the dime novel helped to
crowd the prisons, was the author Of
1--WE were crowded in the cabin" two
lines of which sustained us as we
passed through the war zone. They
were
yop,t I'D rror %bn uet.r
New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
Isn't God upon tho water
Just the same as on the land?

The Fourth Dimension in Parties
[From the Baylor County (Tex) Banner1
The party at Mr.. w. G. Highs Monday
night was not enjoyed SO we'll, on account
Of no one being there.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-03-24

Ness, corresponding secretary Of the
Baptist Sunday School Board at Nash
vile.
The work is made possible by the
larger funds available from the IS Mil
lion Campaign and will be carried on
by the forces of the eighteen states Of
the Southern Baptist Convention, in
cooperation with the Sunday School
Board. Additional workers will he put
on in every state and large number
of Sunday School institutes will be
held in the hope OF reaching a great
majority of the rural Sunday Schools
in every state. Normal Sunday School
Institutes will be held in fifty coun
ties of Tennessee, for instance, and
over 500 rural certers will be reached
with the better system of Sunday
School teaching and methods Of admin
istration. Similar methods will be fol
lowed in all the states.
Every State EnIarges Work.
Over 100000 a year will be e1
pended on Sunday School field work in
the territory of the Southern Baptist
Convention. it is announced, and every
state organization will greatly enlarge
It's Sunday School force, giving especial
attention to the development Of the
rural schools.
In order that an adequate number oil
instructors may be available for car
rying on this larger program, thirty
day normal school will be held in Nash
Vile, beginning May 81, in the instruc.
tion in which large regular faculty
Of Sunday School experts and many
special lecturers will be employed.
The Sunday School Board at Nash.
vile has just established department
of Sunday School administrati which
will deal with all questions lday
School organization and eL nlant
This department will be in charge OF
Arthur Flake, who has been a member
of the field force f,the Sunday School
Board for quite while and who was
formerly superintendent Of the Sunday
School of the First Baptist church of
Fort Worth, Texas, said to be ths
largest Sunday School in the South.
Build Better Church Houses.
Another department Of the Sunday
School Board Is giving attention to the
encouragement of better church
houses and pastors homes in the rural
districts, furnishing architects plans
for this purpose and detailed instruc.
tions u.tnout cost to churches which
contemplate buildings along these
lines. -AP