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nasty Of Woodrow Wilson must be
driven from power" Lodge continued
they should be driven out mot be-
cause they are democrats, but be-
cause Mr.. Wilson'S theory Of govern
ment is not American. The defeat Of
the present administration transcends
every other quest <l." he said
Lodge got his first real hit with
reference 10 President Wilson's par
ticipation IN the peace conference.
He went himself, said Lodge, "be-
cause he trusted no one else. The
delegates laughed heartily and fol-
lowed up with applause as they did
when Lodge in succession lambasted
the Mexican policy, government oper-
alton of the railroads, the proposal TO
accept the mandate over Armenia His
reference TO the defeat of the peace
treaty was also applauded.
(Iiy The Associated rrrsSl
CHICAGO. H., June S.-Unique in
the annals of the party, the republican
national convention assembled today.
Embossed. unbriiled, with no presi-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-06-08
NECESSARY TWO.THIRDS
VOTE LACKING In BILL
Uv The Assocrated Press,

AUSTIN. Tex. June S.-The bin
carrying 100000 appropriation to
defray the expenses of the national
guard at Galveston passed the house
seven votes short Of the two-thirds
necessary to make the appropriation
available Immediately. Another ef-
fort will be made to get a two-thirds
vote.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-06-08

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June S.-The re-
publican convention spent two hours
until ! o'clock tomorrow. The prin-
in its first session and then adjourned
cipal business today was perfection Of
temporary organization and hearing
the keynote speech by Senator Lodge.
Aft< adjournment the committees
began work.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-06-08
SHOE PRICES COME
DOWN Is CENTS TO
81, ANNOUNCEMENT

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June S.-Reduc-
tion of wholesale prices Of shoes IS
cents to So on various styles was an
nounced by the three largest shoe fac
tories here today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-06-08
WEATHER

Tonight and Wednesday generally
fair; light to moderate southeast
winds on the coast.
Maximum temperature 81. o.
Minimum temperature .... so. 05
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Who Is the Public :?

A writer in The Nation has some
amiable and pointed fun in an effort
to discover that public" which is so
much drawn by cartoonists, written
of in editorials and usually repre-
sented on boards by distinguished
citizens not generally regarded as
primarily concerned in anything ex-
cept their own fortunes. When capi-
tai confers with labor, for example,
who is the public, anyway? Profess
sors are admitted after some debate
by The Nation, followed closely by
the seven editors of The NeW Repub-
lie, all ministers of the Gospel, physi-
clans, dentists, veterinary surgeons,
authors, fortune tellers and poll
ticians. This gives total of 447,-
622 souls, or II per cent of the adult
male population of 1910. Not ex>
actly an impressive body to be
spelled with a capital P and gem
orally respected-in theory at any
rate.
Perhaps this notion of mysteri-
GUS public" serves some good use.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
A "Trapp" for England? I?

A booklet has just been published
by Captain Robert Trapp, formerly
of Germany's naval general staff,
body which was the chief instigator
of the strategy to concentrate the
entire hating capacity of Germany
on England. Captain Trapp be-
lieves that strategy was wrong. He
not only ahsoIves England from all
responsibility for the war, but ad-
vocates a policy which he sums up
in the slogan: Cover every hurdle,
over every ditch, over stock and
block, through thick and thin, with
England" The captain says at the
bottom of Germany's troubles was
Kaiser Wilhelms naval policy. The
remedy, logically, would be an "anti-
naval law" This, he proposes, should
take the form of resolution of the
National Assembly denouncing the
naval policy of the old regime as
"one of the most essential causes of
the war" and pledging the nation to
the principle that Germany and Brit
ain must never cross swords again.
Moreover, Captain Trapp urges that
Germany shall undertake no impor-
tant step of foreign policy without
consultation and agreement with
England
Now, the question is not whether
such policy would be good or bad.
Its results would be probably good.
What, however, strikes anybody not
German is the utter unreality of
the thing. Captain Trapp talks, not
politics, but the philosophy of either
or. There is no reason to impugn
his good faith, his ominous name
Notwithstanding; but his pamphlet is
typical Of that lack Of sense for re-
atty that characterizes the nation Of
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

But we are inclined to think that the
good, old-fashioned conception of the
nation, the state, is far more logical
and appealing and clear-cut. The
public" is necessarily shifting and
nebulous. The bricklayers belong to
it--most dccidedly-when the coal
miners strike and a bricklayers coal
hin is as bare of coal as bankers.
But the bricklayer does not belong
when he goes out on strike, thereby
boosting rents another notch.
Simpler and truer is it to say briefly
that all citizens are members of the
state, and that in any civilized nation
worth its salt the state, which is to
say all of us, is supreme
This is not fashionable terminol-
ogy, we are aware, among the guild
or soviet philosophers Of the hour.
These gentlemen loathc with a
deadly loathing the thought of a
supreme authority, a sovereignty
that is the voice of the common will
They picture charming scenes of
liberalization wherein bricklayers
carry portion of the national SOW
ereignty in their trowels; and brake
men receive yet another; and so on
throughout delightful slicng Of
the cake among all properly soviet
lied children. How will justice be
done and disputes settled as between
the sundry assignees Of sovereignty?
All, that is the problem, concede
these philosophers. We gather that
a half-hearted remnant of the old ma
tional government would try as best
it could to adjudicate or recommend
or plead for the right. The net re-
suit would be something not so diff
ferent from the blessed old feudal
days, when folks bought protection
where they could and were mighty
glad to be mulcted only of their gold
and grain and cattle.
After such an experiment the old
fashioned nation of US all might not
seem so bad. We suggest it as
present antidote against future nom
sense. 1t is the nation that should
be supreme, against greedy labor as
against greedy capital; and we are
all members of it, bound by its laws
and dedicated to its welfare, most of
all those who happen to be evil men,
bers of it, seeking gain for them
selves at the risk of injury to their
fellows.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Signals From Afar
Aurora, Not Mars, Respons;bl.
for Strange Messages
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: We have heard Of apparent sig
mails from afar, by wireless. but it i
probable that they are nothing more
than stray currents of electricity, such
as are occasionally manifested on land
lines when the Aurora is at play III
IS remarkable fact that wireless,
teiegfaphy works better between sta
tlons north and south than between
installations east and west, and. whs.
Is more singular, all wireless work,
better and over greater distances byI
night than by day. Long ago it vs,I
discovered that the earth was prest
magnet, and it is supposed that it.
magnetic condition is Influenced, if not
controlled, by the sun. 1t is believed
that light, heat and electricity are
variant manifestations of etheric VII
brations.
Readers whose memories go back toI
1865 will remember the attemnt to Iay
'he Atlantic telegraph cable, and how
IN mid-ocean the cable broke. The ship
returned to England, and the next year /
was successful in establishing telt
graphic communication. All this time
the broken cable of 1865 Law at the
bottom of the sea, but at what would
De the receiving station in Ireland the
galVanometer was in continual action
the moving spot of light swung to right |
and left on the scale as if attempting
10 deliver a message from the se
aepths. Thus, year passed by AMI
'he Hreat Eastern went westward sgail
to flnd the broken cable of 1865. Dsy
ana night watch was kept in the sta |
ton at Valentia Bay, until at last the |
moving spot of light, which had never
been still, began to show signs Of in-i
telllgent control. and the receiving
operator wrote the words as they can't
letter by letter, Canning to Glass, tell
ing how the ship had picked up thi
broken cable, had brought the end o.
board, Joined it to the cable in ths
mold and was proceeding westward 4
Few days afterward the voyage wss
successfully completed and the two
transatlantic cable were in operation.
1t is more than likely that these dis
turoances noticed at the wireless st.
tions are akin to the manifestation
observed by the cable operators wher
the end OF the broken wire lay ia The
ocean depths. two miles below the I
surface, waiting to be sought for sns 7
put to use. JOHN E. NORCROSS .
brooklyn, Jan. 81, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
The Incompatible Celt

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Oliver Herford's amiabIe
attempt IN his book, "The Giddy Globe"
to make fun of the Irish shows that he.
like all Brton- Roman -Anglo-Saxon-
Danlsh-Norman people, is incapable of
understanding or appreciating the quail
ltles that make the Celts the greatest
race on earth. What that part of the
Celtic races inhabiting Ireland NAV
have at one time been has no bearing
on this essential fact-that the Celt is
the superior to any other race that ex-
lists or that has existed 1t is probable
that those Celts who settled in the
Highlands of Scotland are somewhat
superior to those of Ireland. as the lat
ter have an admixture of Fierbolgs. Mi
lesans and other races that, to some
extent, detracts from the virtues of
the Gael
1t is not necessary to furnish proof
of these statements. They are admitted
by the Celts themselves, and Mr.. Her
ford's envious gibes cannot change es-
tablished truths.
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York City, Feb. 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
ihe American Labor Party
10 the Editor Of Tha T.;h,p.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: do not wish to belittle the in
portance of protest vote, when op'
votes the Socialist ticket, but that ],
not constructive. when there is a resl
solution to the problem.
For those who, like F. E. Benton, fee
ehat both old parties have out!ived
.heir usefulness and are too corrupt T.
junction any longer for the benefit o.
the iayman, there is the new party, ths
american Labor party, which comes
clean from the people to serve them IN
their own interest.
why do not all the readers who srs
thinking voters get busy and join tbis
new party? Platforms are easily D.
.a'ned by writing the Office, At ~
Last Twenty-third Street.
PEOPLE have just the kind of govern.
'"ene they want. Those who want tla
change to good government have tAs
cue now. How many want it ensusA
to do their part?
B. PHYLLIS rENIGsToN.
Sparrows Nest, Mount vsrnen,
N. T., Feb. 2, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
At Last Direct Evidence

At last, in the testimony Of Miss
Ellen Chivers, is offered evidence
which, if true, justifes the ex-
pulsion of at least one of the five
suspended Assemblymen.
Miss Chivers swears that in April,
1917, while listening to a speech
by Assemblyman Solomon at Ninth
Street and Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn,
she saw him publicly insult the flag
and heard him tell group of SOL
dlers, who proposed to hold re-
cruiting meeting, that the gutter was
the place for them and that if eve
had our way there would not be
any one who would ask a Socialist
if he might borrow his platform to
call for volunteers"
The young lady was positive in
her statements. The incident she
described occurred, she said, oppo-
site to her home. She had often
seen the Assemblyman and was en-
phatic in her identification. She
was member of an anti-Socialist
organization and earnestly patriotic
She declared that she and others
spoke to policemen who were in the
hall and that they declined to do
anything. 1t further appeared that
knowledge Of her story was not
known to Speaker Sweet in advance
Of the suspension. i, She wrote to
the Speaker after she had read
in the newspapers of the trial of
the Socialist Assemblymen.
This evidence is of such a char
acter, SO bears on the vital question
Of personal guilt, that the only ques-
ton to be considered is the one of
credibility. The witness is now
nearly eighteen years of age, and
hence was about fifteen in April,
1917. She could not remember hav-
ing mentioned the incident to any,
one since it's alleged occurrence, nor
does it appear that the soldiers, any
more than the policemen, took
notice of Solomon's behavior The
accused Assemblyman, although he
lays he remembers a meeting which
was continued when a recruiting
party arrived, fatty denies the re-
mainder of the story. Finally, SO
far no corroboration of any of it's
essential details has been furnished.
The committee heard the witness,
and thus is best able to judge
whether she was truthful or was led
to eXaggeratc through excessive
patriotic zeal. The committeeman
in arriving at their conclusion are
to be guided by the time -honored
rule that the accused is to be en-
titled to the benefit of reasonable
doubt If they conclude in good
faith and in honor that the story
is true, then there can be no differ
ence of opinion as to the sort Of
report to be made concerning AS
semblyman Solomon.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
No Alices left

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Milton Mobiles does no,
know the nature of the sweet and love
ly women of the time "Sweet Alice
was written. Any woman could blush
but 1T takes fine and beautiful one
10 love man so much THAT she
'weeps with delight when he gives he,
smile and trembles with fear at his
frown."
But he need not worry. They are
all dead in A. D. 1920. Besides. thera
are only few left of the men to make
girl feel that way. And thew don,t
grow on this soil.
1t takes Ireland to make such dear
ana lovely men that can lift ND the
SOUL so that one can weep with do-
hight. Yours for "Sweet Alice"
FLORENCE DREW.
Bay Ridge, Feb. 1, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Cold Weather Rules

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The press reports of the recur-
ring zero weather fires emphasize again
the deplorabc and unnecessary loss of
life and property, due to lack OF ordi-
nary care and the exercise of ordinary
intelligence.
In cold snaps hot air furnaces and
stoves fired up to the red-hot point are
the chief offenders, and the pointing
out of few elementary precautions in
connection with maintenance of these
we believe to be timely.
First-Nevcr let heater get red not /:
suffering from cold is safer.
Second nd-When the heater is being run
hard, few hours neglect of the drafts
may have fatal consequences.
Third-See that all woodwork or par
titlons within two feet Of the heater
are protected by sheet metal.
Fourth-Where the smoke hue passes
through partition, make sure that it
is protected by double metal collar
with an air space.
These are the A B C's OF fire pre-
vention that some have never learned
and many have forgotten.
WILLIAM O. LUDLOW.
Chairman Committee on Fire Pre-
vention, New York Chapter of
the American Institute of Archi-
tects.
New York, Feb. 3, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
The Deadline Of Free Speech

Attorney General Palmer, in his
statement to the House Judiciary
Committee, correctly traced the
deadline of free speech.
The constitutional guarantee does
not protect one who, by word OR i'm
plication, urges or incites resort to
physical force or violence to over
throw our democratic institutions.
Free speech is a flower of demo
cratic freedom. 1t blooms from no
other soil. Destroy democracy and
there is and can be no free speech.
A rule of force means the applica-
ton of gag.
So, to defend free speech it is nee
essary to deny to any one the privi-
lege of attacking its roots. Any one
who upholds the doctrine that it is
permissible in a free country to ad-
vocate the establishment of regime
of force is an enemy to, not friend
Of, free speech
This country, as the Attorney
General says, has had it's revolution.
Those who come to our shores accept
the results Of this revolution. Some
truths concerning government are
immutable-self-evident, as Thomas
Jefferson WrOte-and one is that
government must rest on consent,
and not fear.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
4 Life for a Life
a Defense of Capital Punishment
BY Bank Clcrh

" DufUC StS'T
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: A few days ago the evening
edition of one Of your leading (after
fashion) contemporaries featured on
it's front page an article about the
execution of one Of the most notorious
"killcrs" that this part of the country
has ever had tho misfortune to come in
contact with. 1t really decried tho fact
shielding the real criminal etc, should be
put to death in so heartless manner.
IL you will pardon the personal refer
ence, | would like to have some of your
readers who may have become influ
enced by the wording of this article
to see this matter from a more or less
selfish viewpoint.
am young man of thirty, the sole
support of mother. For over ten
years | have followed tho banking pro-
fession. | quote my own case because
l know there arc thousands of cases
just like it. leave my home in the
morning bidding my mother fond
goodby. The next big thing in her
life of that day is my return home in
the evening when she can serve me my
next meal and hear me tell about the
work Of the day. | arrive at the bank,
at peace with the world, trained by
time to be courteous to all corners at
the bank window, always believing that
the customer is right" Suddenly a
cold blooded animal filled with the lust
Tor money, a man whom had never
seen, who never saw me, knew nothing
about my family life, comes to my win
dow, and, as this late criminal claimed,
"in all fairness,' levels gun at my
face, and because | am not quick enough
to comply with his request, he pulls a
trigger sending me into eternity and my
old mother to probable starvation.
Of course few weeks later he make;
spectacular witness at his trial, is
perfectly composed, refuses even the
benefit of clergy at the moment of
death, thing that he denied the one on
whom he pulled the trigger, and because
of all this, some meddlcsome reformer.
Immediately raises hue and cry and
appeals to the sympathetic side Of the
papers circulation.
believe that the mere fear of capital
punishment has been the dctcrring fac
tor among many so-called gun fighters.
They arc at best towards and wouldn't
come out and fight clean. They must
either have fire arms or crowd to
work with them. But no, the law is all
wrong! ALVIN T.. HAUSER
New York, Jan. 81, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Is the Majority Wet?

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t has always seemed to me that
The Tribune has striven to give the peo-
pie the truth. Wish you would direct
your attention to the prohibition aues-
ton IN tins country, for the situation to-
day IS making so many lawbreakers and
causing such disrespect for the law that
we have come to be family very much
divided among ourselves.
The prohibition question-for it is
still questions of more personal in
terest to large percentage Of the popu-
latlon than the high cost of living or
who will be our next President OF any
other question. AS a rule they consider
that the present act of prohibition is a
"frame-up," and they are "sore" at the
government and country for bringing it
about, because they think that a ma
jority of the people want the country
"wet.'
Personally, | want, with all my heart,
to see the country dry" But am not
absolutely sure myself that the major
ity want it dry" And if there is a
majority wanting it wet" it must be
"wet." I think there is no way to
prove this except by direct vote of
the people.
The proving of this question is of
vital interest to stop the present growth
of lawlessness. which, unless checked.
might spread to other things. For dis
content is very deep and general over
several other conditions in this country.
CHARLES E. HEINLINE JR.
Norfolk, Va. Feb. 2, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Held Back knowledge

Our neighbor The World, in this
case adopting the leadership of
Hearst, joins the attempt to foment
antiBritish prejudice, to delay fur
ther the ratification of the treaty
and to weaken the league of peace
by sowing distrust among it's men,
bers. 1t twits the Republican rati-
ficationists for following the leader
! ship of Ambassador Grey while re-
jecting that of President Wilson.
Here is material for vociferous
demagogy, and the partisan plan is
to make the most of it.
1t is assumed that Senator Lodge
reversed himself when he read the
Grey letter-that his darkened mind
was suddenly illumined when he
learned Great Britain would accept
his reservations. Before that, it is
charged, he was scheming to prevent
ratification and to throw the treaty
into the approaching political cam
paign.
The trouble with this argument,
interrupting the smooth flow of it's
plausibility, is the fact that knowl-
edge of the British attitude, how
ever new to the general public, was
not new to the Senator. For long
time he had been aware, AS is now
revealed, that our principal allies
did not object to reservations. This
knowledge antedated November 19,
when ratification failed. Moreover,
there is evidence that the White
House also had full information.
SO one can imagine what were the
Senator's thoughts, honor compelling
him to keep silence, as he beheld the
White House demand the rejection
of the reservations on the ground
that they were fatally obnoxious to
our allies. and writing letters to the
effect that the reservations would
be held to "nullify" the treaty. If
Senator Lodge was converted to
ratification by the knowledge he
possessed, the event long preceded
last Sunday.
The British Cabinet refrained
from public expression of it's views
because it wished, it is plain, to
avoid anything savoring of discour-
tesy to the President. The White
House was the place from which the
get-together announcement should
have come. 1t is a mystery why
nothing came-why there was a
neglect to make a statement which
would have tended to straighten
things out, silence that necessarily
created a false belief.
The public is averse to learning
facts that intimately concern public
affairs via London or Paris. 1t
longs for time when Congress and
the country will be treated frankly
and openly.
The inner history of the pro-
tracted struggle over the treaty has
not been written. Some day it
doubtless will be, and then there will
be a better informed Judgment as
to where has been the chief obstacle
to ratification.