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New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
The Breach Between Landlord
and Tenant
} the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Every effort should be excrted
to bring the landlord and tenant to-
gether and heal the unfortunate breach
which has been widening for the last
few months.
There is a great deal Of right and
some wrong on both sides. Only addi-
tional injury and hard feeling will be
generated unless some constructive sug-
gestions are made and put into effect.
Recently what promises to be a pow
crful organization of real estate in
terests has been formed and eminent
counsel employed. Tenants will do we'll
to follow the same course, and when the
proper time comes both interests can
te properly represented and thu prob
lens solved In a dignified manner.
With real estate in disfavor, capital
will withdraw and all Of the community
will be the sufferer-the city, the owner
and the tenant.
Tho coming era should be one of ac-
cord and cooperation, rather than dis
cord and comeback. The world at large
has been surfeited with war and we are
now entering into period of recon-
struction.
Let us start by establishing peace at
home-here In our own city-and solve
our problems upon an equitable basis.
With both the owner and the tenant
properly represented, whichever way
the decision goes it should be ablded by.
All should feel that every effort has
been made to obtain equity for every
one concerned. JOSEPH P. DAY.
New York, Oct. II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
An Attempted WdUer

However, Latin America took the
Pfsident's statement as formal
waiver Of the Monroe Doctrine, and
consequently Mr.. Wilson had enthusi-
astic support In his effort to submerge
Che Monroe Doctrine. in the League Of
Nations covenant.
When the first draft Of tbs covenant
was made public IN the spring Of 1919
~ was Immediately ssen chat It
amounted to a waiver Of the dootrine.
Yielding to the great protest Of the
American people on that subject, the
President inserted In the covenant O
Te4~c'0nt Imperfect and cquivocal ref
erence ''nroe Doctrine, which.
as h. e:us t'r posed. VI les ma
teriaiv in tn french ano ncH.h
versions; 20 n44N ~, that Ii a i'll
dophtful whether H. dcctrtne In sds-
'lately preserved in, OF, rather, from,
...e covenant,
President Carrsnza of Mexico, IA Ais
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
The Next Apportionrnent

A wrong impression has been
given by statements coming from
Washington that the South and the
West will gain more under the next
Federal apportionment than the East
and the Middle West will. The con-
trary is the case. If by West is
meant the region beyond the Mis-
sissippi, that section will gain much
less than it did in the apportionment
of 1911. And the South will also
gain fewer seats in the House than
It gained ten years ago.
The apportionment is affected by
major fractions, and a ratio may be
chosen which works in favor of par
ticular states and against others,
through the manipulation of these
fractions. 1t will probably be the
desire of the House to prevent any
large increase in membership. The
ratio of representation has been en-
larged after each census except the
first, which was taken only four
years after the original constitu-
tional apportionment went into eff
feet Since 1870 the increment has
averaged about 10000. Assuming
an increment Of little over $4,000
next year, because of the check in
the country's rate of growth, the
ratio for the next decade will be, in
round numbers, about 100000. Un-
der it there would be only a moder-
ate increase in membership.
What gains and losses would the
choice Of a 100000 ratio produce?
In New England, Massachusetts and
Connecticut would gain one seat
apiece and Maine would lose one. Of
the Middle States, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania would gain
two seats apiece. Of the states
north Of the Ohio and cast of the
Mississippi, Michigan and Ohio
would gain three seats apiece and
Illinois one seat. In the Southern
group, including Missouri and Ken
lucky, Texas would gain two seats
and Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia
and North Carolina one seat apiece.
But Missouri would lose seat and
Kentucky would lose one if the ratio
goes as high as 10000. In the rest
Of the country beyond the Missis-
sippi there would be few changes.
Iowa would lose a seat, California
would gain four, Washington one
and New Mexico one.
The East would therefore make
net gain of seven seats and the
Middle West, east of the Mississippi,
a net gain Of seven. The Southern
group would make a net gain Of
four, the Far Western a net gain Of
five. The normally Republican
states of Maine and Iowa would lose
two seats, as would the normally
Democratic states Of Kentucky and
Missouri. Twenty-one seats would
be gained by the Republican states
Of Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Washing
ton, California and New Mexico.
Six seats would be gained by the
Democratic states Of Texas, Georgia,
Arkansas, North Carolina and Okla
homa. There would be a probable
net Republican gain of fifteen in the
Electoral College.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
Not Irnrnutable

Secretary Colby seems to have
the same fixed idea as President
Wilson-that the covenant, as writ
ten, Is sacrosanct and immutable.
He quotes Article Xxx to prove that
there is no possibility Of other
powers concerting with the United
States to construct an altered and
more satisfactory association Of ma
lions. Since by the terms of Article
Xxx members of the league agree not
TO enter into engagements inconsist-
ent with the covenants provisions,
Mr. Colby holds that France and
Great Britain, for instance, are de-
barred from considering American
objections to the present form Of the
league.
1t is enough to say that France
and Great Britain do not accept that
view. Earl Grey and Mr.. Lloyd
George have both indicated that the
British government is willing to meet
American suggestions as to changes
In the form of a world association.
The French government is also ready
to accept the real views Of America,
having already mistakenly accepted
Mr.. Wilson's personal views because
it supposed that he spoke for this
country. Europe acquiesced in the
covenant on the theory that it was
doing something highly agreeable to
the United States. Why shouldn't it
prefer now to give us something we
do want, instead Of something we
don't want?
Senator Harding says that France
has already communicated to him in
formally her desire to welcome
American leadership in transform
ing the basis of the society Of ma
tions. In fact, if the major powers
had ever had an opportunity to ac-
cept the Senate's reservations they
would thereby have consented to
material notifications of the COM
pact. Article X would have lost it's
force, since no government permit
ting the United States to reject all
obligations under it could be expect
ed to renounce similar option to
disregard those obligations at its own
convenience. Had this country en-
tered the league with the Senate
reservations the covenant would
have been changed in manner OBJ
noxious to Article Xxx, if that arti-
Gle can be properly construed as for
bidding any changes inconsistent
with the original draft. The door is
still wide open to changes by reser-
vations.
There are other methods, however,
by which the character Of the pres
ant league may be altered. Amend
ments may be adopted by unani-
NOUS vote in the Council and by a
majority vote of the members with
delegates in the Assembly only. If
the major European powers desire
tho cooperation Of the United States
they would have little difficulty in
getting satisfactory amendments
through both bodies. Even if they
should be blocked by some Of the
smaller powers-a manifest improb-
pbility-they have the further right
to withdraw from the league on two
years notice. And If they should
form a different association, in COM
pany with the United States, there
would undoubtedly be rush on the
part Of most Of the small powers to
get into the new organization.
The World War thrust leadership
on the United States. The only
question to-day is how the United
States shall best exercise it.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
Gotham Glcanings


Election Day 2 wks. from to-
morrow.
Pat Enright is learning to drive
his new car.
DR.. Sig Spaeth addressed 400
listeners at Allerton House Wcdncs
eve 6.
Charley Beck of Philada Fri
dayed in our busy midst.
Frank Case was to Jersey City
Tuesday eve. to see the clash in the
roped arena, he having secured one
of the coveted pasteboards.
Barney Flynn has moved into
his Croton estate, Meditation Tow
ers."
A cold spell is due.
Herb Swope is home from Va.
Hot Springs.
Chris Morley's new baby is do
ing finely.
Al Hammett the w. k. coffee and
cocoa salesman was playing tennis
last week.
A. N. Gitterman sent US a swell
pr. of shears last wk. Thanks say
we.
Finally a copy Of Anthology of
Newspaper Verse for 1919 and Year
Book Of Newspaper Poetry" edited by
Frankyn Pierre Davis, of Enid, Okla,
and published by F. P Davis Co., Enid,
Okla, has reached our desk. Mr.. H. S.
Germans recent review, wherein he
said that Mr.. Davis ignored the vari-
Gus Columns, is not just, for Mr. Davis
includes three of C. A.'sSpoems, origi-
nally printed in this department. AS
to the rest, the critical ability of Mr..
Davis, evidenced by his selections, is
as negligible as his ignorance of where
to fnd good newspaper verse is wide
He Is ignorant, apparently, of Ted
Robinson, B. L. T., Christopher Nor
ley, Folger McKinsey, Grantland Rice,
G. S. B., Laura Blackburn. Don Mar
quis, Walt Mason, J. NJ. Lewis, Frank
L. Stanton, Phnander Johnson, 8. E.
Kiser, and Louis Weitzenkorn.
In the old days when we werc try
ing to convince the prospective policy
holder Of the benefits Of the tontine
system, 1t WAS a current bromidion
that a man who couldn't do anything
else solicited life insurance. Now. ap-
parently, he becomes an antholoEist.
"We hope" says tho announcement
Of the Provincetown Players, whose
writer appears to have Joined the In
somniacs, "for full length poetic play
from Edna st. Vincent Mi1lay.~
Account Manager deslras change.
$1,000 q year.-Printers Ink,
As Josh points out, lt's q good dea1
Of change
When Mr. Fl. Boil Brown want.
some cash he draws . checqua snd-
thinks Alsy-douhtiess makes IL ont
to ~n1reencye'
Tho Washers and pol,ahsra IN garages
have gona hack to ~work," which Ia good
news fos the car painters and tho fender
Eepalrera.
Eheu fugacest u The only whisk'.
r3HN WA ave~ 1ws - us.~>Aax>l ,,,1.L ~
thd r~e~'t t@e -hb II glass used
leeVe on - ...no.
" rA
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
The Outlook for Business

Whether or not dehation could
have been avoided Is a political
question Of some interest; but
the observer of the shifting currents
Of business is not SO much concerned
with what might have happened
as with what is going to take place.
! The important thing is that def1a-
ton, with all the painful readjust-
ments it involves, is here and that
in all probability 1t is going to carry
a good deal further before economic
stability is attained That the ef-
fects will be far-reaching is certain;
that they will be disastrous, as some
commentators apparently suppose,
by no means necessarily follows.
1t is, Of course, inevitable that
sweeping readjustmcnt such as that
which now is under way must cause
serious embarrassment to some con-
Germs, especially those which were
taken by surprise. But the number
of such concerns is limited for the
reason that the reversal in the trend
Of business was not unexpected.
That fact accounts for the compara-
lively orderly manner in which the
decline has taken place thus far and
for the conviction which is widely
entertained that there will be no
panic. 1t being granted that the re-
adjustment will be orderly and
gradual, the question arises as to it's
probable duration. That, neces-
sarily, is matter Of guesswork. So
good an authority as the Harvard
University committee on economic
research entertains the opinion that
the liquidation in securities already
has been virtually completed and
that the liquidation of commodities
probably will come to an end
some time between December and
April. Whether or not this view is
we'll founded, it is practically certain
that it will take less time to deflate
than it did to initiate, for the simple
reason that the defation can hardly
go as far as imitation did. There is
general agreement that prices can
not go down to the pre-war level.
AT some point considerably above
that level the controlling factor,
money supply, will begin to operate
for expansion. Thus far there has
been very little Improvement in the
banking position, but the cumulative
effects Of the price declines and the
shrinkage in the physical volume Of
business will presently be seen and
the Improvement in bank reserves
should then be rapid.
When the money supply is re-
stored-by which we mean when the
potential supply Of money and credit
becomes large enough to permit
trade expansion-it is practically
certaAi that broad forward move
ment Of business will take place.
! The latent demand for goods proba-
bly, Is greater than it ever was be-
fore. All over the world there are
shortages Of housing and other
things. And the process Of dehation
itself builds up potential demand,
since people must some day pur-
chase the things the buying Of which
is being deferred In the expectation
Of lower prices. Once prices and
producti~c costs reach stable levels.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

rRteUNE with absolute safety--for II dissatisfno-
ton results In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to pa your money hack upon request No red tape.
No aulbbl'ng We make good promptly II tho
advertiser Coca not
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
Wanted, the Fool-killer
fFvos, rAe rwosAf.ntox ,e.t,

These Georgia and Alabama gentle
men who ssa now buxuing cotton to
dxive fha prtoa up to 20 cents are the
ssmo indignant sneasics Of tho II. C. l..
who a while ago were busily engaged
saving humanity by tho overall move
menA.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
MONDAY. OCTOBER IS, 1920.

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New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

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New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
Helping Germany Out

Before his address to the Mexican
editors, and before we entered the war
President Wilson had on December 10
1916, made his ill-timed proposal of
peace to the Allies and Germany, based
upon a league of nations to secure per-
petual peace and to guarantee the
status quo, necessarily as it then ex
listed, upon basis of German victory
and vast German conquests. These
conQueSts the German Chancellor only
one Week previously, December 12.
1915, had likewise proposed to solidify
by his offer of peace to the Allied ma,
tions. Both of these proposals, for
tunately for civilization. were instantly
and Indignantly rejected by the hard
pressed Allies.
1t is clear that, both in President
Wilson's peace proposal in 1916 and
in his first draft Of the league cove
nant in 1919a his intention was to abolish
the Monroe Doctrine by substituting
a general International guaranty OF
the status quo; and this is made per
tect!y manifest by his explicit an
nouncement on June 2. 1913.
No ona who understands Preside It
Wilson's psychology will doubt for a
moment that he still intends as far as
possible to abolish the Monroe Doc
trine, and this may account for the
double-faced text in the covenant tell
ing the French-speaking people one
thing and the English-speaking people
another.
True, this Is only one Of the birth
rights Of the American people that Mr.
Wilson has been anxious to present to
the outside world, but It may not be
sniss at this juncture to give promi-
Yserce to his idea Of WHIST the Monroe
Doctrine is and how he intends to
abolish it. JOHN PHELPS.
Baltimore, Oct IL, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

This statement was, of course, pre-
posterous in the mouth of tho leader
OK an administration which for five
years (1a13-1918) had been trespassing
upon the sovereignty of Mexico, frater-
nizing with her bandits, encouraging
her revolutionists, deposing her Presi-
dents obnoxious to it, and setting up
Presidents of its own dictation, and
which. indeed, had twice invaded her
territory with war-a course Of con-
duct which has done more to arouse
the very suspicion Of which Mr.. Wilson
spoke. than anything since the annex
alton Of Texas.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
Her Next Problem
New York, Oct. IL, 1920.

From Tho Chicago Daily NeUs)
Ohio should think of something 70 Do
IN the uY years.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

Last years campaign against refer
ring to Dartmouth as tho Green Noun
tain boys appears to have succeeded;
but Fridays Sun called Amhcrsts team
"the Connecticut Eleven
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
The Coming Tower
PVJRRnIIND

fUHkHLIND
IRupert Hughes in Chapter XII of his
new novel, Beauty" describes a pet dog
that "leapcd to cnsconce hcrself In the
clothes and purred loudly"1
I've steamed up tho Hudson on lovely, cool
days,
Worn atockfngs that didn't poke through.
I've driven a couple; of nicely matched bays
And seen water that really was blue.
Two been in tho bathtub with soap when
1t noated
Heard scrublady really say "wurrd."
But where lives tho man or the woman who y
noted
canine that purred7
I've eaten some crackers thnt one could
call crisp
Seen window which opened with ease.
l have Joined in q chase Of q wil-o' the
wsp
And tried my employer to please.
I've heard of an oil we'll that made a good
showing.
Known Scotchman whose accents were
buried
A canine that purred
CAnxoLI. LENA
If Rupert Hughes says dog purrcd,
we believe him. Mr.. Hughes Is care
full artist, and no subject is foreign to
his investigating. inquisitivc mind. Be
sides, a dog Is capable Of purring.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

1t was a good wheeze that Prexy
Butler pulled the other day-the one
about buying back the Island of Man
haitian for bottle of whisky. The least
Will Rogers could have done, when he
pulled it year or more ago, would have
been to credit DR.. Butler with it,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

Johnston and Tildenl Johnston and
Tilden
Those are the favorite Davis Cup chill
den.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

Call US nature-faker If you Will, but
our versatile cat, Mistah, frequently
barks.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY mail. .nc,ud,n

Entered at the Postofnce At New York a. secon.
Class Mail Matter.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

1t has been found unconstitutional
to forbid meetings such as were held
in Mount Vernon the other night.
speechmaking but the orators ability
and power to interest, arouse, or
amuse his audience. If all orators un-
able to interest, arouse or amuse were
jailed, the housing problem might be
solved.
Some time we are going to take a
visiting British author into corner
and tell him that the surname of the
author Of "Annabcl Lee" is a mono
SvlIahle
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
ScuttZing the Monroe Doctrine
The Wilson Record of Insis-
tent Efforts at Notification
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I doubt if the American people
have fully grasped the fact that Presi
cent Wilson has for some years beer
actively endeavoring to abolish the
Monroe Doctrine.
Mr.. Wilson does not want to pre-
serve the Monroe Doctrine. His &C
tions with regard to the league cove
nant are consistent with his previou:
attempts to nullify the doctrine
In an address to group Of Mexican
editors at the White House on June
7, 1918, President Wilson said to the
assembled Mexican newspaper men
for the purpose and with the effect o.
advertising his pronouncement to the
entire Latin-American population Of
the hemisphere:
Some time ago, as YOU probably
all know, I proposed a sort of Pan
that one Of the difficulties of
relationship with Latin America was
this: The famous Monroe Doctrine
adopted without your consent.
without the consent of any of the
Central South American states. If
l may express 1T In terms that
so often use in this country, we said.
we are going to be your big
brother, whether you want US to be
or not" We did not ask whether it
was agreeable to you that we should
be your big brother. We said
going to be. Now, that was all very
we'll so far as protecting you from
aggression from the other side of the
water was concerned, but there
aggression from US. and I have re
peatedly seen the uneasy feeling on
the part of the representatives of tho
states OF Central and South America
that our self-appointed protection
might be for our own benefit and for
our own interest and not for the in
terest of our neighbors. So. said I.
very well Let make an arrange
ment by which will give bond.
Let US have common guaranty, that
all Of us will sign, Of political inde
,pendence and territorial integrity.
the United States included violates
the political independence the
territorial integrity of any of the
others, all the others will jump
hsr' l pointed out to some of the
gentlemen who were less inclined to
enter into this arrangement than
Others. that that was In effect Civ
ing bond on the part of the United
States that we should enter into an
arrangement by which you would be
protected from (Page $40, Rec
ord OF Senate Foreign Relations. sub
committee investigation of Mexican
anairs)
This statement was, of course, pre-.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

Passing by the falsity Of this as
sertion, which is adequately shown by
the fact that it was Secretary Stewards
vigorous enforcement Of the Monroe
Doctrine that ended the Empire of
Macmillan in 1865 and restored to
Mexico her independence, not onlv
with her full consent, but to her mani
fest profit and benefit, and again pass-
Ing over the historical fact that the
Monroe Doctrine was not only pro-
mulgated with the consent of the re.
voting American republics, but was
their very certificate of baptism and
charter of independence, the astound-
ing fact remains that this declaration
of Mr.. Wilson's protege, Carranza. an
act of supreme ingratitud on the part
of Mexico and a vicious Blow at a
traditional American doctrine, was ac-
tually suggested and encouraged by Mr..
Wilson himself.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

address to the Mexican Congress on
September 1, 1919, made the following
declaration:
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

Tho Washers and poliahssa IN garage,
have Gona hack to ~woTk," which Ia good
news fos the, cas painters and tho fsndeI
sepalrsra.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

Ehsu fugacesl y The only whisk'
ring wa aver were associated with wa
thd re~'s ia J. -hb II glass used
leave Oh - mo.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

When Mr. II. Boil Brown want
some eash he draws q checqua and
thinks Algy-douhtiesa makes ls on
to "c1reencye'
New-York tribune., 1920-10-18

UeCIdT dLIUN.
AS the question OF the acceptance of
the Monroe Doctrine was taken UP at the
farls Peace Conference, the government
OF Mexico found it adviaa ble publicly to
declare and officially to inform friendly
9overnments that Mexico had not and
would not recognize that doctrine be
cause, without the consent OF ali the
peoples OF America. 1t established d
ctlterion and situation about which
fore, that doctrine attacks the soNer-
eighty and independence Of Mexico, and
would esta ablish an enforced tntels 90
over all the nations OF America