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New-York tribune., 1920-02-20
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,.rently very bad - illustrating that
rreak kind Of government which tries
~ make up for being too lax at one
time By being too severe at another.
~ us hope for an administration that
INTO the hands OF men sufficiently
strong and impartial to be just at all
times.
po,shevik assault, however, is by what
~ call .Americanlzation,' an organ
;,so active popular movement to in
str..ct the foreign-born in the princi-
lies the history and the character of
American free institutions. That is to
mse the true weapon of free democracy
"Ne must not confine it to the for
.;rn-5orn. 1t must extend to all the
sh;ldren in the schools, and to that
and it must be extended to all the
teachers in the schools, not by any
means excluding the professors in our
colleges.
There is not one of us-no, not one
IN this great countrywide will not
profit by earning more or hearing over
svain about the simple truths so often
forgotten, upon which our liberty, the
security of our homes, the opportuni-
.;es of our children rest, and about the
duty of service by us if these truths
are to be maintained.
"Let the Republican party give to the
movement for Americanization the
strength of its publicly declared and
active support
U. S. Must Assert
Right of Control
at is not enough. however, to teach
Americanization II the principles Of
our government are to be maintained
they nlxst be applied 1t is hopeless to
teach them unless we practice them
The relations between organized labor
in the United States and the public
call for the definite and conscious APP
distinct directions.
of the whole people of the United
States within its field, and the whole
people of each state within it's field,
over matters essential to the life of
the community, to the exclusion of
any class control over such matters.
"The second is to exercise that pop
uar control by making and applying
such laws and establishing such in
stitutions of government as to secure
Justice within the law to the mem
bers of every class and calling, so
that our system of government will
he justified by its works.
~For many years the American peo-
Ne have been watching and from time
70 time as individuals taking part, in
the great struggle for fair division of
the newly produced wealth Of the world
between the inventors and organizers
who inaugurated new enterprises; the
capitalists, great and small, who risked
ster money and frequently lost it; the
isborers whose toll produced more than
ever before, and the consumers who
purchased the product which cost less
capital and less labor than ever be-
fore.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-20
Change in Character
OF Economic Struggles

when labor used it's weapon of the
strike to secure from the employer bet
u. wages. shorter hours, better con-
ditions o. working and of living, the
general public sympathy has been wit
the laborer, alienated only occasionally
by unreasonable demands or acts O.
violence. The force of the strike was
applied to the pocket os the employer
Agreement TO labor's demands was the
price OF continued profits.
There has, however, been a change
in the character Of those economic
struggles.
"The massing of the population in
cities, where millions are dependent
from day to day for their food and
water and heat and light and health
and safety upon the uninterrupted
operation OF great business enterprises
for production aud transportation, has
brought new point of application for
the force of the strike.
"The effective threat of general
coal strike or a general railroad strike
is not that if such and such demands
are not complied with the coal COM
panies or the railroad companies will
cease to make profits. 1t is that if such
and such demands are not complied
with millions of Americans will be de-
prived Of things necessary to their ex-
istence The demands may be right or
they may be wrong.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-20
Prisoners to Miss Hanging
Chicago Sheriff Heeds Warning
Against Public Execution

CHICAGO, Feb. 'a.-Prisoners in the
Cook County Jail will not witness the
execution tomorrow of Smiling jack
O'Brien. twenty-one-year-oA gunman,
convicted Of numbering a policeman.
Sheriff Charles w. Peters announced
to-day that he would remove prisoners
from the death corridor, following no.
tice from Matthew Mills, Assistant At
torney General Of Illinois, and State
Attorney Maclay Hoyne that he would
be prosecuted if he carried out his plans
for public hanging.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-20
People Must Govern
And Not Be Governed

whether they be right or wrong,
the people Of the country. who are de-
pendent upon the continued operation
Of those industries, must in some way
secure compliance with the demands.
in order to save their lives, unless the
makers of the demands relent or are
controlled
This situation presents with star
ting dstinctness the question whether
our American popular government is
to continue. or is to be changed into
class dictatorship.
THE people over whom one class
or section holds lawful power Of life
or death to compel compliance with
its demands is not sovereign. 1t does
not govern. 1t is subject to the con-
troll of the dominating class. The de-
mands may be moderate to-day, but
they are moderate only through the
sorbearance of the controlling class;
and ordinary knowledge of human
nature teaches US that with power
unrestrained the demands will become
oppressive tomorrow.
THE question is not of form. 1t Is
one of substance. 1t is who exercises
the real power Of the government, the
Which rules, while it will doubtless
be for a time less brutal here in pur-
pose than the proletariat of Lenine and
lrotzky, the government will be in Its
essence the same 1t will be q class
control over the majority, established
and maintained through fear of actual
physical injury, fear of cold, and hun
ger, and darkness, and pestilence. the
stopping Of machinery upon which life
depends.
The philosophical justification of
'he strike aimed at the life of the COM
nanity cannot be found short of Trotz-
kys proposition, Terror as the demon
sSratlon Of the will and strength OF
.ae working class is historically JUS
uned, precisely because the proletariat
was .; able thereby to break the political
WIZ OF the intelligentsia, etc The
W Irotzky's other words. The pro-
iSetariat says, I shall break your will,
oecause my will is stronger than yours,
and shall force you to serve me-
Must Apply Principle
Vt Justice for All
.s II we are to maintain the princip- -es
our government of all the people
" Al! the people we must apply those
p.inelples now to this situation. If
NJ No are self-governing people we
Iast govern and not be governed. We
~.s .aould not attempt to make any man
Work against his will.
we should not attempt to take
ICY s~sy the right to strike. It Is labor s
Ssest protection. But we should by
n";.. s% limit the right to strike at the
tSs"t where it comes in conflict with
n,e. rse community's higher right of self
peeservation.
,r.No NO man and no set of men can
ttSSs''y claim the right to undertake
wS; v performance Of service upon
dsnsn dS,cn the health and life of others
lPeaa and then to abandon the serv-
ns,t % will. The limo between such a
E9lmance and an ordinary strike
Sssd be drawn by law.
DasaAU connected With The x1ght
New-York tribune., 1920-02-20

Finely shredded. mixed
with fluffy mashed pota.
toes and fried q golden
brown-every E-ssAay.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-20
Wilson at His Desk Again
Goes to Work at 9:3O A. M
Daily, DIR. CraysOn Says

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.--President
Wilson has improved of much, Rear Ad-
miral Grayson, his physician, said to-
day, that he goes to work at his desk in
his study every morning at $50 o'clock.
DR.. Grayson said the President had
not yet resumed using his typewriter,
but that he probably would do so soon.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
HIRING OF new
CLERKSDENIED
Civil Service Commission
Answers Charges Made by
Members Of Congress.

Denial that new and unframed
clerks are being brought to WASH
ington while thousands already here
are threatened with dismissal. was
made yesterday In a statement is
sued by the Civil Service Commits
sion.
Fully three-fourths of the vacan-
cies, says the statement. are filled
by the Unemployment register or
by reinstatement of former service
men who left their jobs to go to
war.
This action Is in line with the
executive order issued by President
Wilson Immediately after the ar
mistice.
Outsiders are only brought here
when II Is impossible to secure per-
sons from the unemployment reg
listers, or where highly trained and
specialized labor is needed and can
be secured in no other way. the
statement says.
Statistics of the commission show
that the number of Federal en-
ployes in the District jumped from
37,90S just before the war, to Ill.,
454. On February 20 last. this num-
Der had gone down to 100,S99. The
statement was issued in reply to
criticisms by members of Congress
and by the press, 1t said.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
GERMAN LABOR
PARTY OPPOSES
RULE BY SOVIET
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. :.
lin, Won Seecht. has found the
means to make life in Berlin un-
comfortable for the Communist ag-
itators from Russia. He started
concentration camp in Zossen (where
Mohammedan prisoners of war were
confined) for undesirable foreign
ers, ostensibly to rid the city of
thousands of profiteers, swinders.
crooks and fences" who flocked to
Berlin from Galicia and Russian Po-
land and converted certain parts of
the city into a regular thieves
market.
Many Taken I'm Raid.
Several hundred Of these were
gathered in by the first raid and
sent to Zossen, but the military
dragnet also caught in its meshes
a high proportion of the Russian.
Polish and Austrian Communist
agitators and gunmen.
The fact that the measure was
ordered by the military authorities
does not indicate ii was intended
for political undesirables quite so
much as for unpopular. Illicit busi-
ness men and profiteers. Socialists
of both categories, however, imme-
uldttly pTOteSleu strongly against
the misuse OF the measure for po-
litical purposes and demand the re-
lease of those held for purely po-
litical reasons and the transfer of
the matter to the hands of the po-
lice. One of the editors Of the
Independent Socialist Freiheit twice
was arrested and twice obtained his
release through the vigorous pro-
tests by Socialist papers.
LudendorH Tells Policy.
Even Liberal organs contrast the
energy shown in those arrests with
the hesitancy with which the gov
ernment Is proceeding against the
Kapp conspirators. None of the
traitors" as yet has been ini-
prisoned. .r
Many are tarrying in Berlin quite
openly and flooding the columns Of
the conservative papers with pro-
testations against the Inference of
any guilty intent. Ludendorff Is the
latest to inform the states attorney
of his high patriotic motives and
nonconnection with any reasonable
conspiracy. The police would have
no difficulty in laying hands on
many Of the culprits whenever they
desire, but they evidently are In no
hurry. ...' ..-.
Copyright. 1890. Public Ledger Col
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
Senator Smoots Weekly Heap Of Waste Pdpcr,
Unfaiingly Deliuered By Burleson's assistants

From there twill fall into the possession
Of secondhand paper DEALER who will pay
for it about 70 cents per hundred pounds.
Senator .Smoot has asked the cooperation
of every Senator to reduce, the waste of
paper used in printing needless documents
An equal quantity of documents is sent
each week to every member of Congress.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
BUTLER URGES
BUSINESS RULE
Fails to Touch on Own AS
pirations In Press Club
Address.

Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University and Repub-
lican Presidential aspirant, in an
address before the Press Club last
night declared world revolution
caused by the inability of existing
governments to function could only
be averted by remodeling those gov
ernments on business principles.
"All over the world" he said,
there is great dissatisfaction be-
cause of the apparent inability of
governments to carry out the will
of the voters even after that will
has been clearly expressed. The sad
spectacle of the treaty wrangle in
this country has been duplicated In
some form of government impotence
in the governments of all our allies
1T is not the born trouble maker
that we have to fear in this country,
but the honest doubter who is dis
hcartened with the spectacle of gov
ernment chaos.
Another step in business ad-
ministration 1 hope soon to see
adopted, is to give Congress au-
thority to call on the floor of the
Senate any heads of departments to
give their reasons for all appropria-
tions and to answer questions.
The most pressing of our prob
lens Is to restore the confidence of
the people in their own government.
''Since we are confronted with the
heaviest government expenditures
ever known it is more than ever i'm
perative to put the best business
brains that can be found in office.
The Overman act, giving the Presi-'
dent wide authority to make read
justments among various branches
of the executive departments should
be made permanent and the execu-
tive held responsible for making
changes to increase efficiency"
DR.. Butler did not touch upon his
own political aspirations.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
SUFfS' VICTORY
IN DOVER PUT UP
TO REPUBLICANS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
Washington again yesterday after
noon.
1t was said that Representative
Layton had also been urged by his
superiors in the Republican party
In Washington to betake himself
to Delaware. but so far. he has
not appeared on the scene of bat
~tle. Representative Layton's son.
Daniel Layton. is the chairman of
the Republican State committee,
who is waging war on the dictates
OF his party. When asked for his
reason. he says the people of
sussex don't want 1t, and that he
must be guided by them, but on
on moments he is heard to boast
of his hatred of Will Hays, chair
man Of the Republican national
committee and of his determination
to get even with him."
Most of the rest Of the opposition
is based on animosity to the gov
ernor, who is standing stanchly for
suffrage.
In conversation today. United
States Senator Ball pointed out that
ne had been elected to the Senate
with a suffrage plank in his plat
form, and that both he and Con,
gresham Layton, Delaware's con-
gresham, had voted for the amend
ment in Congress. He Furthermore
stated that 1t was the serious opin-
ion that the Republicans in Della
ware were openly jeopardizings the
success Of their party in the next
election. But, of course. he expects
the Republicans to get in anyway, in
which case he thought that the
State would have difficulty in the
future in securing attention from
Washington. Senator Ball expects
the legislature will take this broad
view OF things when the ballots for
suffrage are actually counted.
The statement that the Demo-
cratic party will charge the Repub-
licans with bad faith to the women
OF the country il they fail to secure
the thirty-sixth State to ratify, was
brought home when word was re-
ceived that Mrs. George Bass. who
has just been in Dover, announced
from Washington that she was to
take the stump in the West. Mrs.
Bass statement says: .
While the Democrats of Della
ware want to defeat suffrage rati-
fication, they greatly prefer to have
1t defeated by Republican votes, as
will be the case in Delaware il IL is
defeated. The Republicans have a
two-thirds majority in either house.
The measure is their measure, and
IL 1T doesn't get through it will be
their failure alone. i am preparing
to take the stump in Western States
and show the women how insincere
the Republican party is"
With the Republicans lobbying
at the State House against ratifica-
tion was Thomas F. Bayard, promi-
nent Democrat. 1t was said that
former Judge George Gray, another
prominent Democrat, was present,
btu he was not to be seen about the
Hobbies.
Copyright. 1920. Public Ledger Col
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30

Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, is
here shown with weeks accumula-
ton of government documents re-
ceived through the mails.
Recently Senator Smoot appeared
in the Senate with a similar collec-
ton of mail matter and registered
protest against the reckless waste of
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
SUGAR PLUM" NOTES
CAUSE $50, 600 SUIT

New York. March 2s.-Aithough
in his letters he called her Sugar
Plum" admitted he felt "mushy." and
referred to the time when he and
she could be out OF doors together
with the sky for q canopy and
Gods green grass for a carpetn.
Samuel Regal, vice president OF the
American Fashion Company, broke
his engagement to take her as his
fourth wife when he received a splr-
Il message from his dead third wife
advising against a fourth Marriage,
1t was testified today in court By
Mrs. Cecilia Rosenthal In her s6o.-
900 breach Of promise suit against
Regal.
Mrs. Rosenthal, a widow. whose
husbands sister was Royals third
wife. formerly lived In Topeka.
Kans.
Mrs. Rosenthal believes the de-
parted Mrs. Regal was no party 70
Royals engagement to marry her.
and that he should have fulfilled his
promise. despite the butting In OF
any spirit.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
DENIES HOUSE
VOTE CANCELS
HALF AND HALF

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
Those in charge of the bill do not
believe it will be stricken out, un-
less 1t is done by the Senate.
In denying that the half -and-half
plan Is abolished by the House vote,
Representative Davis says:
Hnlf-and-Half to Stay.
''The amendment did not abolish
the half-and-half principle, nor is
any abolition of 1t contemplated. In
fact, I don't think the House will
abolish IL when the bill Is brought
out of consideration by the commit
tee of the whole.
THE language of my amendment
prevents the Federal government
from appropriating as much as the
District government, merely to get
around the point of order which
struck out the original wording of
the bill Under my amendment the
District government can contribute
SIC. 900. 900 and the United States So
9s9.999.99. If you call that abolition
of the half-and-half you are draw
ing very fine lines.
Another point on which the pub
lie seems to be in doubt Is the So
called 100000 surplus to the credit
of the District. This does not exist
on the books of the Treasury De-
partment, but 1t does on the books
of the District auditor. OF course,
if the District needed this money
very bad I have no doubt Congress
would authorize them to expend 1t. :.
Text Of Amendment.
The following amendment to the
District appropriation bill which
was introduced by Davis Saturday
and passed, according to Davis, was
misinterpreted and caused the re-
port that the half-and-half had been
abolished:
That the following sums are ap-
propriated out of the revenues of
the District of Columbia to the ex-
tent that they are sufficient there
for, and the remainder out of any
money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated. but the amount
to be paid from the Treasury of the
United States shall in no event be
as much as one-half of said ex-
penses, in full for the expenses of
the government of the District of
Columbia for the fiscal year, end
ing June 80, 1921, except the
amounts to pay the interest and
sinking fund of the funded debt of
said District, of which amounts one
half is appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated. and the other
half out of the revenues of the Dis
trict of Columbia"
Discussion of the bill will prob
ably end today. and a vote be taken
before adjournment. Representative
Davis expects a motion to recon-
init the bill to the committee with
instructions to eliminate the sc 2-3
per cent increase in taxes. but does
not believe it will stand a vote of
the House.
Increases Stricken out.
Walsh, of Massachusetts, again
yesterday made points of order
against all raises in salaries not
covered up by the Campbell rule of
Saturday. He had stricken from the
bill increases for the two police
court and five municipal court
Judges from $500 to $4,000.
While Walsh was absent from the
floor, Davis introduced an amend
ment, which was passed, increasing
the salaries of the two assistant
superintendents OF schools from
$4,000 and $500 to $500 and $4,000,
respectively.
Mann, of Illinois, blocked an at
tempt of Treadway. of Massachu-
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30

white paper by gov
ernment bureaus and
Congress.
The pile Is COM
posed largely of
Congressional doc
uments dealing with
all manner of sub
ects, and all Of it
is destined for the
waste basket.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30
St. John S College Men
To Canvass for Funds

st. Johns College last. night an
nounced the names of members of
new canvassing team in the COL
lege's building fund for $150,O00.
This is to be known as the Camp
Lee Team" and composes students
Of the college who attended the
officers training school at this camp
last summer.
Headed by d. J. Murphy. the team
includes c.. w. Mccarthy, J. Bowl
ing, T. Maloy. w. Costello, ]. M.
Mcdonald, J. Keliher. l.. ]. Cipolari.
J. ]. Bielman, ]. Costello, T. Quaid.
j. Rogers. c. Clark, w. Froehlich
and A. Kramer.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-30

information on all public events
from the Communist point Of view.
&C. ZINOvIEv,
PRESIDENT of Executive Com
mittee of the Communist In
ternational."
Victor Berger, William Haywooo
and Vincent st. John, convicted In
the Chicago Federal courts In 1913.
are all extolled by zinoviev as use
full examples of the political use
of government institutions for
Communistic purposes.
THE particular business OF the
1. w. w. is to train workers for the
seizure and ndNmanagement OF Indus
try, All workers must be members
of the revolutionary Industrial
union of their industry and Of the
political party advocating Social
ISM" says another document.
public Ledger service.)