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New-York tribune., 1920-09-22

stroyers, and may have set up the
claim that they were not needed to
avoid confessing the fact.
That the war was prolonged by
our inability or unwillingness to
furnish conveying forces is a sad
fact-a fact that led to many avoid
able sacrifices of life. 1t is argu-
able that Germany would never have
made her last great drive if our
ships had been on the scene Of ac-
tion during the summer of 1917.
Ludendorff knew they were not
there, and hence his confidence that
American assistance would not ar
rive in time, and hence, in turn, his
orders for the last great German
concentration.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22

We are glad to have read Charles
E. Chapin's Story (Putnam), if for no
other reason than to learn that Irwin
Cobb's remark eventually came to Mr..
Chapin's ears. Everybody, of course, has
| heard of the afternoon when Cobb was
informed that Mr.. Chaplin was i'll and
would not be down and exclaimed,
Nothing trivial, hope" It is crafty
ing to learn that Chaplin, too, was in on it.
Nobody is better qualified to write
about American newspaper work than
Charles E. Chaplin. He is the father of
Every rewrite man in the city who sits
in snug telephone booth and takes the
list Of frostbite cases from the leg man
in the Bronx owes debt of gratitude
to Charles E. Chaplin, who invented the
district system of news reporting.
Moreover, few living American-it
would be convenient to use journalists
now and again, but Chaplin specifically
rails at the word-newspaper men have
seen so many famous writer's pass into
the city room and out. AS city editor
Of The Evening World Chaplin came to
be for the newspaper profession what
the ivory hunter is to big league base
ball. He always had an eye open for
talent which was not yet recognized,
and he captured as cubs such men as
Irwin Cobb, Martin Green, Bob Richie
and Lindsey Denson. Unfortunately,
the self-revelation of any man so CLAM
ourous with legend as Charles Chaplin
came to be along Park Row is apt TO
be disllusioning to some extent. 1t is
almost shocking to any newspaper man
to read the moral reflections, the admis-
SION of weaknesses, the self-reproaches
of an individual who was to every man
in the business the embodiment of power
and confidence. We would like little
better to remember him as the man who
reproached the reporters who came to
see him in the Tombs because they had
not done as we'll as they should in writ
ing the accounts Of his trial. We don't
want to hear him say, ~ haven't that
much egotism left" or to express his
faith in the consultations Of religion.
Perhaps something that was has been
broken by the terrific punishment of
prison, and again he may never have
been so entirely "a self-contained in
dividual as everybody thought Still we
liked the legend better.
As a piece of writing the book Is
mixed in merits. AS long as it deals
with facts it seems to US absorbingly
interesting. Chapin's account of how
he found fugitive Chicago boodler in
Canada and his description Of the man
ner in which he solved q murder mys-
terry are fascinating bits OF straightaway
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22

Out in California Mr.. Cox, erst-
while racetrack and barroom candi-
date, more lately custodian of the
heart of the world and a passionate
foe Of John Barleycorn, has aban-
doned his cry Of "Fraudw and
turned to berating the newspapers
for their conspiracy Of silence"
against him. Coincidentally, the
odds on the election, according to the
revered Times, jump to TO on Far-
ding, with no Cox money in sight.
The inference is fair one and the
sequence of events logical. In any
rough and tumble ward fight, when
the battle is going against you, cry
"Steal!" and when all is finally lost
blame the newspaper plot" Once
more the Democratic candidate is
living up to the highest standards of
ward politics and running so true to
form that any bookmaker could
guess just how far back Of the Win
ner Mr.. Cox expected to finish.
Touching the matter OF newspaper
silence, we suggest that : little Of it
in Democratic circles might help min
imize Mr.. Cox's defeat considerably.
The World in its dependency has
taken to calling all it's opponents
liars, and The Post, erlptying it's
Boston reticule Of all logic, is en-
gagged in waving it's umbrella and
chanting "Our league or nonew The
voices are pitched in key with MIR.
Cox's strident observations. But is
such nonsense what Democratic
voters enjoy? Judging by reports
which reach this Office, the whole
Democratic campaign is alternating
votes with rapidity that makes a
conspiracy of silence about the best
thing that could happen to Mr.. Cox
and his idealistic but very grumpy
and pettish advocates.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
its name will disappear. 1t will give
way to the Kalmuck brand Of COM
munism and terrorism now prac-
ticed IN MoscoW.
UnterroriZed

Perhaps there never was a more
foolish proceeding than the assem-
bling Of downtown New York at
Bowling Green to watch the Custom
House blow up at 2 p. m. If the
vicious fanatics who killed their
tnirty-fve in Wall Street had really
been thirsting for more blood these
thousands of gapers would have
offered supreme opportunity for
bettering the first achievement.
But, absurd or not, we think these
TINT fans represented a serse of hu-
NOR which every one is in need of in
these unsettled days. The work of
the world must go on, bombs or no
bombs. One prime object of an
archists is to spread terror. Here
tofore they have operated chiefly
against crowned heads and high pub
lie officials. But terror was their
goal quite as much as the slaughter
of few conspicuous governmental
heads. And to the new style an
archist, who, true to the preaching of
Bolshevism, regards all the bour-
geoisie, stenographers and clerks as
enemies of the dictatorship of the
prbletariat equally with the capital
lists, the striking of terror in the
hearts of the whole community be-
comes the sole aim.
1t is pleasure to see that New
York is not terrorized. Rather it
took its great INT plot almost too
lightly-very much as the English
have for years taken the great gum
powder plot which made Guy Fawkes
famous. This attitude leaves plenty
of room for anger and resolve to
insist upon stern justice and thor
ough repressive measures. 1t is the
surest antidote to that hysteria which
is the Bolshevist's first aim.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
Calvin Coolidge Says
(F'ro1n his address at the dedication
OF the Town House, Weston, No.
Uember 27, 1917

(Fro7n his address at the dedication,
OF the To,On House, Weston, No.
vember 27, 1917
We are very proud Of our democ.
racy. We are very proud Of our form
OF government We believe that there
Is no other nation on earth that gives
TO the Individual the privileges and the
rights that he has in America. The
Time has come now when we are going
to defend those rights. The time has
come when the world is looking to
America, as the nation has looked to
Massachusetts in the past, to stand
Up and defend the rights of the indi-
vidual. Sovereignty, it is our belief,
is vested in the individual; and we
ere going to protect the rights Of the
individual.
it is an auspicious moment to dedi-
cate here in New England one of our
town halls, an auspicious moment in
which to dedicate it to the supremacy
of those ideals for which the whole
world is fighting at the present time;
that the rights OF the individual as
they were established here in the past
may be maintained by US now and car
ried to yet greater development in
the future.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
Metaphysics and the Schools

NAClc2ptaJSlSS dtlo tIIC OIItOOAS
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to add my mite to the
observations of your "disgusted" corre'
spondent He maintains that religion,
which is only metaphysical speculation,
should never be allowed to interfere
with secular educatiln.' Fine! Hurrah!
and couple of braves! But why
stop there? Why should it be allowed
to interfere with anything? Why should
non-believers be compelled to abstain
from theatrical entertainments on Sum
day? Why should nor Christian shop
keepers be forced to give up the prohts
of Sunday trade?
Like your correspondent, l am q
teacher. My work is done among for
eigners, none of whom observe Sunday;
and / am paid not by the year but BY
the day. Why may not I keep my
school open on Sunday as well as DUR
ing Christmas and Easter week? Both
teacher and pupils would benefit b. sues
an arrangement. For mere "metaphy'
sical speculation" religion seems to Do
rather abnormally we'll supplied with
teeth. EXASPERATED.
New York, Sept. 10, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
The Bureaucrat Army

The expenses Of government will,
Of course, continue high as long as
thousands of useless employees pack
scores of equally useless "war
bureaus"
Nearly two years have passed
since an American soldier fired a
shot. Yet these bureaus, created
solely for war, are still in flourish
ing existence.
They cost the people millions of
dollars annually. Taxes must be
kept high in order to pay for them.
They serve no purpose save to
surround legitimate business with
hampering restrictions and to supply
the Democratic party with votes on
Election Day.
These bureaus are maintained not
only in Washington, but in New
York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia,
San Francisco and in every other i'm
portant city in the country.
They are subject to executive au-
thority-that is, to the President.
They constitute a spoils system as
vicious as any that ever cursed the
country. Who will abate this ex-
pensive nuisance?
Not Mr.. Cox. The bureaus were
created by the party that nominated
him for the Presidency. Their en-
ployees are the friends of his
friends and the benefciaries Of the
gentleman whose ideas Of govern
n1ent Mr.. Cox has sworn to continue
If elected.
Yet the nuisance must be abated.
The people cannot afford any longer
to maintain an army which is not
only of no value, but Of actual detri-
ment to the progress Of industry.
Every idler in public office is car
ried on the back Of an Industrious
citizen. Every bureau whose func-
tons have ceased to be necessary is
ar unjust and unfair load on the
people, who cheerfully bore war ex-
penses but who naturally object to
peace expenses as heavy as those
Of war.
It is obvious that Mr.. Wilson de-
sires these bureaus to be continued.
Otherwise he would have got rid Of
them when they ceased to be OF
value.
It is equally obvious that Mr.. Cox
will desire them to be continued. He
thinks as Mr.. Wilson thinks.
But somebody must get rid Of
them II the load that the country
lie carrying is to be lightened.
Mr.. Cox cannot be trusted to do
1t, especially when Wilson appointees
and Cox voters will lose their Jobs
thereby.
Mr.. Harding can be trusted to do
It, for his loyalty Is to the country
and not to Mr.. Wilson and the Ad-
ministration spoils system.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
The Paramount Issue

Franklin K. Lane, recently Secre-
tary of the Interior, gained some dis
tinction at Washington by the fact
that his mind did not invariably run
along with another eminent mind.
So his contact with the White House
was largely limited to looking at its
stately pillars. Nevertheless, the
public persisted in deeming Mr..
Lanes advice was worth more than
came when the "me toos" nodded
their heads.
For Mr.. Lane has a wav of getting
data for an opinion before forming it
is not one Of those who gain an
easy sweep of conclusion by turning
to their unassisted consciousness as
an adequate instructor. Pursuing
his habit and wanting to know what
the country really thinks, Mr.. Lane
has analyzed QUESTIONABLE recently
sent to some nine hundred farmers,
industrial leaders, bankers and busi-
ness and professional men.
The responses in regard to politics
are particularly interesting. Those
who answered were asked to saw
what, in order Of relative impor-
tance, they regarded as most likely
to Influence voters in the November
election. The issue put down as first
is dissatisfaction with the present
Administration. 1t was first in all
parts of the country except the
South, which still takes it's politics
traditionallv and, of course. is never
dissatisfied with a Democratic Ad-
minlstration. Next comes the high
cost of living, and third industrial
relations. Foreign relations are
fourth
The solemn league and referendum
advertised last January to occur in
November is not coming off. 1t has
again proved impossible to make an
issue the paramount one by labelling
it so in political platform.
AS to the result of the election.
those who answered the question are
apparently Of the same belief as
those who are posting the betting
odds, which range from 4 to to
10 to I.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22

In his book, The Crisis of the
Naval War, Admiral Jellico. refer
ring to American participation in
the operations against submarines,
inserts this significant passage:
I'VE were pressing the United
states TO strengthen our escortinp
Sorees as far as possible In order to
extend the convoy system, when a
telegram arrived from Washington
20 the effect 1t was considered that
ships that were armed were safer
when sailing singly than in convoy"
Josephus was apparently having
one OF his recurrent brainstorms.
He did not believe in convoys-per-
heps had little clear notion OF what
they were. Later the idea was
driven into his head, and he since
has taken great credit for the con-
voyi1g done under his direction. But
1t took year Of steady drilling to
penetrate his skull.
But perhaps Josephus was not as
stupid as he seemed when he morti-
fed our naval officers abroad by
his extraordinary telegram 1t will
be recalled that when we entered the
war Josephus dispatched only six
destroyers, although the publicity
arm Of the Administration saw to it
chat the American public thought
European waters were swarming
with them; sent only twenty-eight
by JuIy1, 1917, and only forty-seven
up TO January I, 1918.
Josephus had been so busy max
ing speeches that he had no time TO
attend TO g little matter like pre-
paYedness. He did not have the de-
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
Finding the Reds

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The quickest and surest way "
trace the authors Of the Wall Stfee'
explosion will be to induce William d
Wilson and Louis F. Post. Of the ps'
partment Of Labor, to smother their fsei'
ings sufficiently to enable them to hana
to the proper authorities complete iiss
Of the Reds on their record rd-provideo'
Of course, that it does not conflict poo
much with the ideals" Of our preseas
government. T. E'
Brooklyn, N. Y, Sept. 90, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
Falsifers

Effective Campaign for Harding
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Worlds support Of Mr.. Cox
seems to be more joke than any
serious effort, and many Of its readers
believe it would oppose Mr. Cox if there
were the least chance Of his being
/ elected. Its latest editorial Joke was
headed give Thousand Falsifers" and
appeared in to-day's issue. 1t would be
a disgrace to journalism il it really in
tended its readers to believe that five
thousand men, including such as Messrs.
hughes and Taft, we're deliberately
planning to go about this country max
ing speeches and purposely deceiving the
peot.e in regard to the requirements of
Article X in the league covenant
Why would it not be good plan to
remind The World, Mr. Cox and the
entire Democratic outfit of the meeting
between Mr.. Wilson and the FOREIGN
Relations Committee of the Senate
shortly after the proposed treaty was
sent to the Senate for action? They all
seem to have forgotten Mr.. Wilson'S in
depreciation Of the obligation this coun-
try must assume under that much-dis-
cussed article Since Mr.. Cox PROPOSES
and says he intends to carry out all of
MIR. Wilson's policies, if elected, it ia
obvious that the Democratic part-. in
cluding The World, is bound, fettered
and lobhled by the admissions he made
at that meeting.
At first Mr.. Wilson tried to make it
appear that the league could onlv
"advise" and could not force any nation
to act against its Judgment A Senator
suggested that such an arrangement
would only be "rope Of sand" Mr..
Wilson then hedged and finally COM
pletely reversed himself, saying that
while there would be no legal obliea-
ton on the United States, for instance,
to employ its military resources to pro-
tect another nation from attacks. there
would be a moral obligation on US to
answer the call. Such moral obliea
ton, he said, is superior to a legal obli-
CATION, and 1T has a greater binding
force. He practically admitted that
there would be no way for this nation
to sidestep responsibility; legally it
would have complete freedom of choice
but it would be under the pressure of
international public opinion and an ab
solutey compelling moral obligation to
cooperate as the league planned. He
also admitted that there would likely be
au automatic boycott of any nation that
did no. do as the league decreed.
Senator Harding was present at that
meeting and suggested that the United
States did not need any written COW
enant to make it fulfill its moral obi
cations to civilization He is of that
same opinion yet, and it is the duty Of
every one of those Five Thousand Fall
sifiers," as lbcled by The World. to
mold the Democratic candidates as re-
sponsible indorsers Of Mr.. Wilson's in
terprctation Of the terms of this league
and tell every audience they address
about these admissions at that meeting.
There is no cause for worry, however,
for Mr.. Cox and The World are doing
very effective work for Mr.. Hardine's
candidacy, and the Republican National
Committee should put Mr.. F. D. Roose-
Welt on their pay roll. E.MN.
Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
Lenine's Kalmuck Socialism

Lenine, having become the Red
Gar Of the Russias, would be the
Red Gar Of the international So
cialist organization. Having repudi-
ated the pre-war organization of So
cialism, called the Second Interna-
tionale, he organized a Third Inter-
rationale Of his own. Having made
composite Of syndicalism and car
ism, he has adopted communism and
terrorism. He has issued an order
that even the name Socialist must be
dropped and threatens to exclude
from his International every organ
izat!on which isn't willing to placard
itself Communist"
Lenine has vast funds at his COM
mand and is willing to spend them
to get control of the Socialist or
ganization in other countries.~ He
already has grip on the Socialist
press in France and England. He
has his emissaries in the United
States. He subsidized the Spartacide
revolts in Germany and direct ac-
tionism in England. Since he is to-
day the overshadowing capitalist in
the Socialist world, his edicts are
carrying terror into the hearts of
the orthodox Marxians.
Lenine is as ready to prescribe
the old-fashioned Socialists as he is
to prescribe the bourgeoisie. One
OF his recent instructions to his ad-
herents reads: "The Communist In
ternationale cannot admit that sre-
formists' Of the type of Turati,
Kautsky. Hilferding, Hillquit, Lon
guet, Macdonald and Modigliani
have the right to consider them
selves members Of the Third Inter
nationale. Their inclusion would
make the Third Internationale too
much like the Second"
Such leaders, Lcnine says, must
be eliminated. Another instruction
reads: Every organization wish
ing to adhere to the Communist In
ternationale should systematically
remove from all posts of responsible
lty in the proletariat movement
{ tparty organizations, newspaper or
propaganda work, syndicates, par
hamentary groups, cooperativcs or
municipal services) 'reformists' and
'centrists,' and replace them with
tired Communists--not fearing to
replace them, especially at the out
set, with militants or mere laborers
from the ranks"
The Second Internationale still
holds TO the theory Of successful
political and parliamentary action.
But Lenino says: ut is the duty of
, Communists to create everywhere,
paralleling the legal organization, a
secret organization, capable Of full
| filing, at the decisive moment, it's
duty to the revolution" The secret
organization is to dominate the leea.
one and to use it as screen for its
revolutionary work.
Further, Lenine directs: every
organization wishing to belong to
the Third Internationale must de-
nounce both social patriotism and
social pacifism, which is alike hypo-
critical and false. Let US talk no
longer Of war against war That
formula is, from now on, exploded,
bourgeois and altogether yellow"
II Leninc makes good, then the
older Socialism will be dead. Even
New-York tribune., 1920-09-22
By
Heywood Broun

narrative. His moral reflections, on the
other hand, are conventional and te-
dlous. The mark of the pattern, for
instance, is on his account of the bar
rem future of the reporter: at is the
tate OF most newspaper men. They give
all that is in them to the service of
their employers, and when they are old
and worn out they are cast adrift, like
battered wrecks. Some find q brief
haven in an obscure political job, to be
again turned adrift with the next ad-
minlstration. shudder at the thought
OF what may come to them after that. The
luckier ones die young Few remain
actively in harness as long as did,
There were older men than I on the
great newspaper where I worked the
last twenty-sev4n years of my career,
but they were editorial writer's, who came
to the Office in the middle of the dav.
spent couple of hours chatting with
their associates, another hour in COM
posing an editorial, and then went home
to rest"
Naturally, we have no desire TO CON-
tend that newspaper work is not ar1one
the underpaid professions, nor would
We assert that its rewards are sure or
cumulative, and yet we feel that there
is certain fictional touch in the notion
of any great number of newspaper
men spinning into their work like q
runner setting a quarter-nile pace in a
marathon and dropping as he might do
long before the normal end of the Jour-
ney 1t seems to US that we recall other
newspaper workers than editorial
writer's stopping to chat their two hours
with associates. At the ten-year mark
we can't profess to feel any more bat
tered than we did at the beginning. but
it may be that the last seventeen years
are the hardest.
We wonder whether in his days on
The Evening World Mr.. Chaplin stopped
very much to shudder or to tell his
reporters that they were running them.
selves with work. Personally, as long
as there are firemen, street cleaners and
preachers we shall continue to regard
newspaper work as among the more
leisurely forms Of business.
Russell Sage, who was Chapin's great
uncle, figures arnusingly in chapter in
which his penury is described. "He was
director and ono Of the largest stock
holders Of the elevated Iines," writes
Chaplin. "and when we would ride up
town together he would crowd ahead
with his annual pass and wait until I
had purchased ticket. Once he said
he could get me by the ticket chopper
on his pass, but he didn't feel IL would