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New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
Misrcpresenting Mr.. Lodge
1.-The Times" Initiates the Blundcr
Made in the Democratic Platform

Made in the Democratic Platform
dTo the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "The Times," in an editorial
this morning, cites a speech made by
Mr.. Lodge in the Senate on December
Il, 1918, in which he declared that
I'VE must have common action now in
making the peace, and this unity be-
tween us and the Allies is the first es-
sential condition for a successful
peace" and expressed the utmost con-
demration of any attempt to "sepa-
rate US from our allies now or to pre-
vent perfect unity Of action" In this
speech in the Senate, says "The Times,"
Mr.. Lodge spoke as strongly against
separate peace as he had written
against it in The Forum that is,
in "The Forum" for June, 1918, when
tho war was at its height.
In point Of fact, in this speech Mr..
Lodge was not talking about a "sep-
arate peace" at all. He was talking
about the danger of dssensions and
divisions arising from the proceedings
at Versailles. And the specific object
of the speech, the thing to which ev-
erything else was subsidiary, was to
draw attention to the danger of ncor-
porating in the treaty a scheme for a
permanent league of nations which
might not meet the approval of the
Senate. The speech closed as follows:
eve have now at this moment a
league of nations. They have been
engaged in compelling Germany to
make peace and in restoring peace
to the world. 1t has taken four years
of the bloodiest war ever known to
get that peace. BY this existing
league the peace once signed must
be carried out and made effective.
therefore it is we'll to reflect that
entering upon new and larger
league of nations involves somewhat
heavy responsibilities and dangers
which must be carefully examined
they are incurred. {. The at
tempt to attach the provisions for an
effective league of nations to the
treaty of peace now making with
Germany would be to launch the ma
tions who have been fighting Ger
many on a sea of boundless discus
slons, the very thing Germany most
ue"iIeS. ~ would cause wide differ
enccs Of opinion and bring long de-
lays. If the attempt was successful
and league of nations, with the
powers about which I have ventured
to inquire, vested in it, were to come
here before the Senate, it might en-
danger the peace treaty and force
amendments. 1t certainly would lead
to very long delays. Is not the first
duty of all the countries united
against Germany to make a peace with
Germany? Is that not the way to
bring peace to the world now? Ought
we not to avoid 80 far as possible.
all delays? Ought we not, speaking
only for ourselves, to have a treaty
here before the Senate which will
not involve intcrminable discussions
about the provisions of league
:: To enter on these disputed
telds which are not necessary to the
making of the peace with Germany
seems to me perilous and more likely
at this moment to lead to trouble
and to failure with the German
peace and its associated questions
than to anything else"
FABIAN FRANKLIN.
New York, July 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
Luttwitz at Budapest

Bismarck said that the center of
gravity in Mid-Europe is Budapest,
and before and in the late war Buda-
pest, and not Vienna, was the head
quarters of Austro-Magyar impe-
rialism. The Magyar junker class,
rather than the Austrian aristo-
bureaucracy, was the chief ally of the
Hohenzollerns. To-day the hopes of
the Prussian feudal lords turn to-
ward Budapest, where Royalism and
Revanche sit enthroned in the person
of the late Imperial and Royal Ad-
miral, Horthy, now dictator of Hun
gary.
A COMMITTEE of the Downtrod-
den Nations" has just been formed at
the Hungarian capital. It's sponsors
are Mr.. Stephen Friedrich, late
Premier and Minister of War, noisi-
est and most obnoxious among the
chauvinistic, anti Entente and pro-
Hapsburg politicians; with him is
General Luttwitz, commander in
chief Of the Kapp coup d'etot. What
the committee seeks is stated elo-
quently enough by the above names.
One of their principal political
agents is Mr.. Ignatius Trebitsch>
Lincoln, international spy and ex-
convict, who, during the war, sought
to betray England's naval secrets
to Berlin, and who figured as head
Of the Kapp Committee on Public
Information.
To effect junction between the
militarists of Hungary and Ger
many, the junta. which to-day mas
querades as the Magyar. govern
ment, is planning the overthrow of
the republican regime of German
Austria. Vienna is flooded with
hundreds Of Magyar officers and
millions of Magyar kronen. Mag
var agents and Magyar money were
behind the recent anti-Semitic dis
turbances; Magyar emissaries di-
rect the royalist movement and en-
list the services of Austrian
ex-otficers in a royalist legion with
headquarters on Hungarian soil
near the Austrian border. Against
this particular phase Of the aeita-
tion the Austrian government the
other day entered formal protest at
Budapest.
The question of German-Magyar
cooperation is discussed by the
"kolnische Zeitung," leading organ
OF the German Peoples party, now
in control Of the situation. The Co.
logne newspaper says:
Hungary did not deserve being
sllghted, and she deserves it to-day
less than ever, because 1t seems that
this state is predestned to g role
IN central Europe even more i'm
portant than was played by her in
the old Austro- Hungarian monarchy
Particularly we Germans should turn
with our hopes toward her, be-
cause IN Hungary everywhere, but
especially in the ruling circles, there
is boundless enthusiasm for Ger
many. Hungarian longing for co.
operation with US is stronger than
we Imagine. You may take for this
the word of one who has been there
and seen things for himself In that
great sea of hatred which TO-DAY en-
circles Germany that little oasis of
pro-Germanism is doubly welcome.
1t would be unpardonable levity on
our part If we failed to exploit it's
possibilities"
A successful monarchist coup at
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
The Two Railroad Planks

Both party platforms this year ex-
press the undoubted wish of the
country to put the railroads on a
sounder working basis. The Repub-
lican convention praised the Esch-
Cummins law, which certainly de-
serves praise as constructive
achievement. The Democratic con-
vention didn't feel at liberty to
praise the law, because a Republican
Congress passed it. Yet it was
passed by Democratic as we'll as Re-
publican votes In both houses, and
didn't figure as party measure.
The platform makers at San
Francisco complained that the Esch-
Cummins act was sent to the Presi-
dent "in the closing hours of Con-
gress." This was a manifest slip.
1t reached him shortly before the
time he had set for the return of the
roads to nominal private control.
The platform hints that he yielded
his objections to the law rather
than risk few more months of gov
erYncnt operation. But the Presi-
dents objections, if he has any, have
never been made public. The Demo-
cratic platform doesn't mention any
specific defects and says:
"There should be fair and COM
plete test Of the law until careful
and mature action by Congress may
cure its defects and insure thor
orghly effective transportation sys-
tenn, under private ownership, with
out government subsidy at tho ex-
pense Of the taxpayers of the coun-
try"
This declaration doesn't harmonize
with the eulogy, in the earlier para
graphs, Of the plank, Of the results
of Federal operation. The Railroad
Administration kept the roads going
by p!ling up huge deficits, to be paid
out of the Treasury. 1t was short
sighted expedient, which has left the
roads crippled since the termination
of government operation. But the
main thing is that the two parties
seem to accept private ownership
and operation as the rational Amer
ican method and favor the building
up of thoroughly effective trans
portation system-something never
encouraged under the old regime in
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion.
The Republican platform opposed
government ownership or operation
and urged fair return on the CAPT.
tai invested in the railroads, the i'm
rrovement Of railroad facilities and
credit and fair wages for the en-
ployees. These results can be secured
by reasonable increase of rates.
1nferentially, the Democratic party
is also committed to such an in
crease and to common sense appli-
cation Of the principles of the Esch-
Cummins act.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
I3v
take the same view, though we really
don't suppose we're responsible.

Germans, French, Italians, Russians
and Scandinavians have always been
more frank in this regard than the
English. Despite the admixture of these
more tolerant strains in her blood,
America is probably to-day the most
prudish nation, from a literary point of
view, on earth.
The strange part of it is that we
blame our reticence on our Anglo Saxon
heritage, overlooking the fact that the
nation from which we are supposed to
inherit this quality is far ahead of US
in literary frankness.
Our fathers would undoubtedly have
called "Open the Door" immoral, be-
cause it is the story of a. woman who
defies convention and is not burned up
by Providence or an outraged populace
in consequence. We wish we could have
our sons opinion of it, twenty years
from now.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
The Frisco Deadlock

All SOIllc respects Inc Sau FRAN.
cisco convention is running q close
farar:e. to the Baltimore convention
cf 1912. At San Francisco six work
S,g days have been already con-
sumed and the delegates are in a
deadlock. Yet at Baltimore the ses-
sions began on Tuesday Of one week
and didn't end until Wednesday of
the week following.
Forty-six ballots were needed to
make Presidential nomination In
1912. Twenty-Five have been taker
so Tar at San Francisco. Rivalries
IN the Baltimore convention were
cleaner-cut than those at San Fran
cisco, because in 1912 many more
delegates were elected in primaries
after real contests between the lead
ing candidates. At San Francisco
Mr.. McAdoo, who led on the first
ballot and up to the twelfth, had
made no open campaign and hadn't
secured single instructed delegate.
An unusual thing happened at
Baltimore. Champ Clark, who car
ried most of the primary states,
polled 44012 votes on the first ballot,
and steadily gained until he had
- more than majority of the conven-
ton. Up to that time no candidate
receiving a majority vote had beer
defeated, under the two-thirds rule.
within the memory of living Demo-
Gratis. Clark held this majority for
eight ballots. Yet he was eventually
beaten through the greater tenacity
and better leadership of the support
ers Of the second strongest candi-
date, Woodrow Wilson.
On the fifteenth ballot at San
Francisco Governor Cox had 468%
votes-within eighty votes Of a
majority. On the last ballot he fell
. lack to 430. On the twenty-second
ballot at Baltimore Clark received
500 votes, Wilson 396 and Under
wood 115. Saturday,, on the twenty
Fecond ballot, Cox had 430, McAdoo
- 372la and Palmer 1861. On the
fare of things there is a singular
analogy between the two tactical
situations.
But, looking deeper, conditions 1T
Baltimore were very different from
conditions now. Eight years ago the
delegates had a free hand. They
were Embossed from the outside
Now the shadow of Mr.. Wilson's
seven years domination is over
everything. Telephone wires run
from the White House into the con-
vention hall and into the rooms Of
the Presidents spokesmen. The
majority Of the delegates are "hand-
picked" officeholders or associated
with the clique of officeholders.
They are Wilson men first and Pal
mer. McAdoo, Davis, Glass or Cum
mings men afterward. Mr.. Wilson
can have the domination himself If
he gives the sign. He can nominate
/ substitute if he prefers to do 50.
The deadlock at San Francisco Is,
therefore, more or less artificial,
%hereas the deadlock at Baltimore
was genuine. The god can now come
out of the machine at any moment,
because the machine is already in
stalled and in working order. The
excitement and struggle in the COLI
vention so far have had the quality
of unreality Tho plot may th;cken
to-day. Unlike Baltimore, San Fran
cisco is likely to turn out nonaina-
tons which will represent not the
will or the choice of the delegates
but decision imposed on them bv
that one-man power which is about
all that is left Of present-day De-
mOcracy.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
The Primary Paradox

tFrom The Rartford CouranH
The lesson Of the Republican nomF
mating campaign is apparently that II,
primary laws compel men 70 spen'
money, and then, because they spAnd j.
they lose their chances and open 'D'
way for somebody who has not spe"'
any. 1t is curious result, but tne''
it is.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

None demands in its leadership a
higher patriotism and a warmer en-
thusiasm for all that is American.
On every ground the demand for
the reelection Of DR.. Tildsley is ur-
gent and imperative.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
Gotham Gleanings
NEXEH2zrz2WNXAZ ZaE2E8E2Ngg

This is independence Day.
- For to-day: Cloudy with show
ers.
News are scarce these days, but
SO are readers.
Al Thomas is Containing over
the holidays"
Will McAdoo Sundayed at
Huntington, L. l.
Geo. Col1an celebrated his birth
day yesterday quietly.
A lot of us are spending the
holidays" in Gotham.
1t is going to be pretty tough
crossing the ferries this eve'g.
- Wern Mosher the w. k. traffic
cop made some arrests last wk.
Automobiles killed 62 in Gotham
last month, and the laws ought to be
enforced, and the penalties increased,
say we.
Either the lady and the gentleman in
Spalding's advertisement are about nine
feet tall, or the net is so low that there
could be no sport in the game.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

British authors seem to be going for
ward with the exploitation of territory
almost untouched a generation ago and
still isolated in this country by Amer
ica's strange system of censorship.
Recently the problems and crises of
sexual life appear to be seized upon
more boldly than ever before by over
seas writer's of English We have never
been able to see why the most dramatic
portion of human existence should be
slurred over in the literature of our
language.
Authors in Britain are beginning to
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
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The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
use for republication OF all news dispatches credited
70 II or not Otherwise credited In this paper, and
also tho local news OF spontaneous origin published
herein
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herean also resorycS:
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Feminsm as we'll as sex frankness
seems to have advanced further in the
British Isles than here. Hear the stal-
wart lover in open the Door:
"'You know l am yours, he said, to
do as you wish with, at any time, in
any way"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
Calling Foot Faults on Lawrence Perry

Calling Foot Faults on Lawrence Perry
Sir, Now that that tennis story in July
Everybody's, illustrated by Mr.. H. Weston
Taylor and written by Mr.. Lawrence Perry.
has been mentioned. let me give vent to
my feelings by few quotations. The hero
of the story, "one of the first ten in
the national tennis ranking and for this
reason, if for other, extremely popular
with the Newport set" is speaking. Whom
do you tackle. Army?' He glanced at the
draw list and then whistled. Major Pomeroy
the Englishman. l played him at Wimbe-
don in the service matches two years ago
Doesn't lob where he smash the ball. :"
It might be true-most of us don't.
Our hero says more, Hes strong back
hand and fore. too " Perhaps we shouldn't
blame him. Mr.. Perry has him win van
tage q short court rally" Launches"
him Into his second serve. which cleared
the net like a streak Of light, clipping the
chalk at the far corner of the court
an unplayable ace" After that he Clipped
the ball In an effort to pass and made
mot few shoestring Shots
In another match the players change
courts at all in the fourth set
DANFoRTH GEER JB
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
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No ouihh nq. We make GOOD promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
The Source of Candidates

(Frona The Boston Erenino Trsnser'Po
Having been turned down by MI
Hoover, the Democrats are now look'As
for another man with London address
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

The Income Tax Bureau is dissatisfied,
apparently, with the information we fur
nished it about our Bad Debts, and
wants details, such as addresses Of tho
debtors. Many Of these we are unable
to give, but If the I. T. B. will help US
we'll split 60-4O on any bad debts we
collect.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Owned and published daily by New York Tribune
Inc, New York Corporation Ogden Reid Presi
dent, G. Nernor Rogers Vice President Helen Rogers
Reid SECRETARY. Maxncld. Treasurer. Au
Siess. Tribune Building. ia Nassau Street. New
York Telephone. Beesmnn 23GG
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

'He usually boards the a. M train
at Huntington, l.. H." says the Ameri-
can, Of Mr.. McAdoo, "and reaches his
Office at 12o Broadway by a. M" If
he does this usually-nay, if he ever
has done tive are willing to bolt the
Socialist and the Republican parties and
vote for McAdoo for any Office. The 8:O3
from Huntington arrives at the Penn
sylvania station at 902; and while.
when Mr.. McAdoo was Director General
of Railroads, he might have been able to
order the engineer to speed things up,
he is only passenger now.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

GUARANTY

Esltered Al the Postotice q, New York as Second
Class Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Those who try to estimate the value
of books are accustomed to speak pat
ronizingly Of the first work Of any au-
thor, saying benignly that he or she
shows promise, but
Miss Carswell shows more than that.
She has immense ability and a ma
turty of outlook which, if she had not
walked into a slough in the midst of her
story, would have made "Open the
Door" something even better than Lon
don's best first novel of the year
Except for the lapse that we have
dwelt on, perhaps too long, her work is
fine and true and craftsmanlike. No one
of either the passing generation or the
coming one can read her tale of the
clash between the ideals and standards
of the two without conviction of her
novels power.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

The favoritc Los Angeles story Of our
highly valued contemp, B. L. r., con-
Germs the remark of the L. A. man at
funeral: "If no one wishes to speak of
the departed l should like to say q few
words about Los Angeles"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
Books Frederic F: By "a, d. w.,.,

The cover Of "Open the Door" (Har-
court, Brace & Howe) announces that
its author, Catherine Carswell, was
awarded in London the $3.50 prize for
the best first novel of the year. Pos
sibly the judges, having lot of books
to go over, read the first hundred pages.
which are as fine piece of writing as
we have seen, and the last hundred.
which are also remarkably good, and
took the middle of the book for granted.
The average reader will certainly en-
JOY it more if he follows that scheme, for
the novel sags badly in the middle.
II. G. Wells, master of splendid begin
nings that get nowhere in particular
later on, never started a novel with a
greater display Of power and skill than
Miss Carswell has shown in the first
few chapters of her book
The more we are obliged to read, the
more we grow weary of novels that fill
us with enthusiasm at their start. Brill
liant opening chapters and gorgeous
suArises both seem to presage clouds
and dullness later on.
Miss Carswell in her beginning is as
good as Wells at his best, and in the
body Of her story she is as bad as he is
at his worst.
No one with bringing up as puri-
tanical as ours ever would have imagined
an account of an illicit love affair could
be so stupid.
For chapter after chapter the author
concerns herself almost entirely with
her heroine's mentality, its development
and changing phases. The subject is
really not worth the space she eXpends
on it.
Miss Carswell's tremendous gift as a
Inner of characters is best seen during
the early chapters of the book. When
she is dealing with the family of her
heroine she is doing pretty nearly per-
feet writing. Her picture of the God
fearing, placid, earnest, old-fashioned
mother and the gradual breaking away
Of the children from the standards she
holds is splendid Her descriptions have
a lyric quality, and the forward march
of her plot is triumphant.
Yet toward the middle the book seems
tc come very close to breaking down of
its own weight. 1t is much too thick in
the girth. Obviously, it should have
taken q severe course in Swedish exer-
cises before venturing out into the
world.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

If the golfers succeed in abrogatine
the Eighteenth Amendment, they proba
bly, will substitute one called the 10th.
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Like many Of us violators of the holi-
ness of the Eighteenth Amendment, the
Democrats can take dry plank or leave
it alone.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Art Is Long. But tho Grave la Not Its Goal

Art L Long. But tho Grave Ia Not Its Goa
"Artistto Locations to Be Had Herc."-
Advertisement for Cemetery om tho N. Y.
". II. & II. r. n.
Pick me q post-impressionist hill
Where | may lie the longest still:
And make my grave both wide and deep
Where only Whistlers precepts keep.
Be sure a Bcardsley yew will trail
Der what war flesh and will be frai-
Be carved above my beatlcss heart:
Its pretty, ycs---but is 1t art r.
Let no unartful eye select
What I shall never sect
The line Of sky and trees above
That which is left of me-
Oh. let me lie long ages through
Midst only symmetry
Yet if fall. let critics tongues
Speak softly, lest I hear
Them carping near my tombstone on
The lack Of atmosphere
Say not mine urn lacks feeling line
My monument esprit.
When / am In my grave, for oh
The difference to me
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Barbara Allen To Be Wed.-Tribune
headline.
She who promised to die the day after
young Jenny Groves deathl
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Also, there is tho young woman who
had a long motor ride yesterday
STILL" she sighed, IT don't believe I
had as good time as I think I had"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Speaking of old songs, as we had no
intention of doing, Mrs. Reginald Bar
low recalls the following exhortatory
lyric, author unknown:
Stay the Farm, Boys
You talk of the mines of Nevada
They're wealthy in treasure. no doubt
But ah! there is gold In the farm, boys,
If only you'll shovel it out.
The city has many attractions,
But think of its vices and sins
When once In the vortex of Fashion
How soon the deluson begins!
So stay on the farm. boys. stay on the
Don't be in hurry to go.
Your mighty big arm you will need on the
When the city man comes here to blow.
So be it defeat disaster,
You'll never have cause for alarm,
Because you will be your own master
If you stay right down here on the farm.
Claude A. Swanson, United States
Senator from Virginia, began as a
grocery clerk. He was born in Swan
SOnV1lle-SO named IN honor of his ante
cedents, who were pioneers.--W omen's
Wear.
Virginia's pioneers appear to have in
cluded the Scandinavian
Also, there is tho young woman who
had a long motor ride yesterday.
"Still," she sighed, "1 don't believe
had as good a time as I think I had"
Like many of us violators Of the hol-
ness of the Eighteenth Amendment the
Democrats can take dry plank or leave
it alone.
If the golfers succeed in abrogating
the Eighteenth Amendment, they proba-