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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
Are We in a Blind Alley?

One Of the prettiest questions phi
losophers with a biologic cast of
mind can contemplate is the posi-
bility that our whole human race Cor,
at any rate, our great Western
civilization) is in one of those cu1s-
dc-sac which the scientists have dis
covered ITO be no infrequent incident
of evolution. Only this animal and
that plant survive; endless admira-
BILE organisms have gone the way of
the dinosaurs. May not man, the
best product of our planet, be headed
toward an equally complete extinc-
ton?
1t is possible, of course, to con-
ceive that partial break down of this
character have occurred with each
decay of a civilization. Egypt,
Greece, Rome, each ended in blind
alley ultimately. The question put
by some of our idealist philosophers
is whether, in the wake of the great
war. and in face of the appallingly
complex problems of our modern in
dustrial civilization, another greater
and final collapse of all that has
been achieved may not be around the
corner. For example, Mr.. Pethick
Lawrence, British radical and paci
fist, recently gave voice to the fol-
lowing warning:
II am not taking the pessimist's side;
am merely pointing out that the case
is not proven. For my own part I
feel that mankind is to-day at the
parting of the ways. Two different
kinds of development are possible. We
may become more aggressive and more
determined on domination; our in
creaslng power over Nature may be
turned more and more to destructive
ends. Or we may develop the social
and cooperative side of our nature,
which will enable humanity to pool its
victories for the common good. The
choice to-day is conscious and dchb-
crate; we can have whichever develop
ment we will. But if we choose wrong.
evolution will pass US by as those unfit
to survive"
We wish we could think that any
such simple analysis could be relied
upon, and that after due rationaliza-
ton conscious and deliberate choice
could be made which would save the
human race. AS a matter of fact, it
is exactly in such congratulations, in
this conception of the stream of life
as susceptible of scientific analysis,
that the gravest weakness of the in
tellectual lies; and were the incon-
celvable to happen and we should
gain control of nations and peoples.
almost certain disaster would result.
For about all that is certain. we
conceive, is that such problem ex-
lists and that we must solve it bv
those great racial and national in
stincts and intuitions which are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
The Reactionary's Ideal Senate,

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Anent the letter in vour issue
to-day signed "Enrolled Republican, -
l have often wondered who are really
the authors of the letters "knockinp"
the party they are supposedly connect
ed with. | would say from reading
the letter that it was written bv some
Democrat
His attention is called to the very
evident fact that there is a large pro-
portion of the voters, both men and
women, who do not believe the quality
of womanhood has been improved or
ever will be by the suffrage; that it
mas been put over" by the louder
voices of the militant kind that has
given them an advantage over those
who desire not to be conspicuous and
VINO represent the best womanhood of
the state. These, together with the
Socialists and Prohibtionists, etc. who
nave thought it good opportunity to
secure their party large increase in
numbers, have been the instruments
OF forcing public life upon all women
or the state, whether they would or
no; and, not satisfied with that. are
deslrous of thrusting it down on other
states who may be DESTROYS of re-
naming in the old possibly benigbted
condition by constitutional amendment
Senator Wadsworth by his stand.
believe, deserves honor and will re-
celve the support of larger propor-
uon OF the womanhood of the state
than our uneasy sisters think thew
control. 1t may be simply coinci-
dence-the free and easy manners now
so evident, the present dress. dav
evening and beach; the increasing num-
Der OF divorces, coming in connection
with the desire for entrance info nub-
TIC llfe-but there are many of US who
do believe it and are fearing where il
Will end, though fortunately there re-
mains the leaven of the oldtime v;r-
tues not entirely extinct that NAV in
the end leaven the whole.
Is it illogical that the people of each
and every state should decide for
themselves what should be the policy
OF their state, and that it be not taken
away from them by amendments passed
by legislatures that have never been
elected on the issue?
REACTIONARY.
New York, July 81, 1920.
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them are so extravagantly great
that If we could conceive them ac-
curately we would never risk dol
lar on them. There have been any
number Of $50 per cent syndicates.
Suckers are an annual crop.
So the moral is obvious and un-
avoidable. If we have a grain of
common sense we will dismiss the
thought Of easy money from our
minds, and plug ahead. Alas! that
grains of common sense are so
scarce-almost as scarce as miracle
dollars!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
Miracle Dollars

Nothing is quite as fascinating, as
certain to turn modern heads, how
ever hard, as that modern apple of
discord, easy money. Over in Bos-
ton folks kiss the hands Of the ma
gician Ponzi, who makes millions
grow where hundreds grew before.
Doubters line up to draw out their
money. Scores of faithful still cling
fast. The atmosphere is that of
religious fanaticism rather than
anything to do with so sordid a COM
modify as money.
We are not prejudging Ponzi or
expressing any opinion as to his
methods or merits. Whatever the
authorities discover as to his money!
spinning, the homely truth remains
the same: There is nothing as de-
mora.lzlng as easy money if you get
it---and you almost never get it. Of
course, it is that almost" which acts
asithe will-o'- the-wisp to drag trust
ing, pathetic mortals hither and
yon, spending their hard-earned dol
lars on oil wells and what not else.
These are miracle dollars. They
happen once in thousand years or
so, And the receivers of them are
one in y million or so. The chances
against Any one persona getting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04

instance. He is vicious minded,
anti-social being or he could not in
itiate such steps. 1t is entirely right
and proper that we should consider
the wholesale blood-letting which he
deliberately plans in deciding his
sentence and punishment-at most
restraint upon his liberties, with
minor hardships, for few months
or years. A society which has not
the courage and observation-disclosures to
see that such punishment is de-
served and necessary is too soft and
squshy to stand on it's own feet and
deserves to be swept aside by the
first crazy radicals with sense
enough to pull trigger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
The League or Nothing
the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Until Mr.. Harding declares in
SO many words that he is in favor Of
the United States becoming a member
OF the existing League of Nations all
your efforts cannot clear him from the
charge of ambiguity. The League of
Nations IS not paper scheme. to
which some other and perhaps better
plan can be opposed; it is an existing
organization, to which the great major
lty OF nations have already adhered.
Only three courses are possible. We
can stay out Cn company with Ger
many, Russia, Mexico and Turkev):
we can enter unreservedly, as other
nations have done, or we can enter
with such reservations as are accen+
aple to the powers now represented in
the league. But it is midsummer mad
ness to expect the whole existing Or
ganlzatlon to be cast into the melting
pot once more for the fabrication of
some new structure more acceptable to
a group Of Senators of single nation.
few months ago, when the covenant
was but document, it may have been
possible to talk about "some sort Of
international association; now that
the covenant is actually operative the
choice lies between the League of Ma
tons and complete national isolation.
PRESTON SLOSSON.
New York, Aug 1, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
The Southern Democrat
Further Protest Against His Dispro-
portionote Electoral Popy

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your correspondent Mr. Dick
son, commenting on my first letter to
you on the Southern vote, not only
takes q wholly indefensible position
on the subject, but also completely
misuunderstand my position or what
want the young Republican readers Of
The Tribune to learn. 1t is wholly
Indifferent to US that South Carolina
goes perpetually Democratic, although
1t Is rather suggestive of failure
to progress. 1t is equally Indifferent
to US that down there they DO not
want colored men in Office, although
there again it would seem but natural
that community which contains so
many negroes might well consider it
right that some be elected to Office
The United States Navy contains many
able seamen who are black, no doubt
also from South Carolina.
But Mr.. Dickson does emphasize one
point wish The Tribune readers
would remember, and that is that
South Carolinians neither want diff
ferent condition of things, nor do
they see the infamy of what goes on
on Election Day.
l repeat that my party was wrong
outrageously wrong, to its own sup
porters when it allowed the Four
teenth Amendment to become a dead
letter, and did not cut the representa-
tlon of those states in which masses
OF citizens are not allowed to vote
1t seems astonishing to an old-fash-
Toned American like the writer who
Mr. Dickson to the contrary notwith-
standing, has travelled all over this
country and Europe and, in fact, is
a Westerner by BIRTH that the parts
of the United States which most often
talk of gentlemen and honor should
hlch votes in the Electoral College.
Now l am partisan, since Mr.. Dick
son wishes to be partisan.
| would like to have him and his
fellow citizens tell young Republi-
can woman voter how he likes this
comparison: California in 1916 cast
just under one million votes foY thir-
teen electors according to The World
Almanac" it was 994551), which. with
a population of 100000, means that
$1,000 votes were cast for each elector
and that one citizen in three voted
Tor there was woman's suffrage. And
South Carolina? One citizen in twen-
ty-three was allowed to vote, and the
vote was 1000 per elector! What
would the young woman say?
1t was indeed disgraceful that the
Republicans in Congress did not cor
rect this wrong; it is not likely that
the Democrats will. Had they done
SO Wilson would have lost in 1915.
But it behooves every Republican
voter - woman OR man - to remember
That We are face to face with an out
rageous situation, which we can meet
only by carrying all the states We
won and most of those we lost in 1915.
AN OLD TRIBUNE READER.
New York, July 80, 1920.
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far beyond reason to control or
shape. Perhaps it is cooperation,
communism Of mind and property,
which will save. Perhaps these ten
denotes will make for a fatal soft
ness which will be the undoing of
the Western civilization by hordes of
the Goths of the future.
The broader judgments, based on
instinct as we'll as reason, will
doubtless prevail, but there is no
guaranty that they will save us
from a blind alley if such is the way
of evolution upon this one small
planet. But at least we shall not
be led astray by the silly mistake of
overestimating the capacity of our
reason.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
How Mr.. Debs Could Get Out

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | don't understand why Mr.. Eu
gene Debs's friends are going to 40
much needless trouble to get Mr.. Debs
out of Atlanta prison when. the way
to accomplish the result can be SO
easily and expeditiously reached by
simply telling the Secretary of War
and the general in charge of the At
ianta district or division that Mr.. Debs
knows where there is pot of gold
buried and won't they please let him
out to go and get it, and if they will
do so he will promise to come right
back like a good boy.
A. VAN GIBSON.
Nontclair, N. j., Aug. 2, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
Books

None of the novelists has convinced
us that there was any fun in being an
ancient. Of course, if you believe
Pierre Louys and his "Aphrodite," there
were scandalous dongs in Alexandria.
but they seem to have been animated to
depressing extent by an ever present
sense of obligation. 1t almost appears
as though a good citizen of Alexandria
never started out upon rampage
without first asking himself, "What can
| do tonight to help out the illus
trated, limited editions for subscribers
only which will come after me?" When
he kissed he knew that posterity was
watching, and there was never a feast
without the ghost of some yet unborn
freshman already clutching his five
dollars down and dollar a month.
Every Egyptian lived as if he knew
that his doings were to be sold, with
Balzac's "Droll Tales" thrown in for
good measure.
Nor could he relax, for in his off mo-
ments there was still the archn ologist
to consider. Nobody in Alexandria ever
did get the opportunity to put on his
slippers and toast his toes before the
fire. The voice of conscience was too
strong. 1t said, "Come, come, be an
ancient" and the poor man just had
to call for the dancing girls. In a
measure the ancients defeated their
own purpose. We read about them.
but we do not know them Both the
fictionist and the archaologist, for all
their writing, have only served to put
more dust between us and the dead
When Louis Couperus, in "The Tour"
(Dodd Mead), writes of "the hierop-
salts, the Microscopes, the hierogram-
mats, the pastophors, the sphagists and
the stoists" we feel that he has given
US the wrong end of the telescope. We
know much less of Alexandria now than
we ever did.
But before he is done Louis Cou-
dria in a sentence. He is describing the
entrance of Lucus, his hero, into
great diversorum, or guest house, and
he writes, "The janitor rose and bowed,
with his hands stretched to the ground"
In other respects Alexandria seems
to have been a good deal like New
York. In description of a street
scene we find, at was as though every
one were pressed for time and hurry
ing feverishly. Professions of priests
hurried; the Roman guards even, re-
turning from the palace after being
marched with an accelerated |
step; and yet the numerous litters
never struck against one another; they
all glided, at the trot Of their bearers,
to the right, to the left, beside one an
other; there was only a shouting,
din, cursing, cracking Of whips loud
enough to wake the dead. Yes,
that was the Egyptian character
hustle, tumult, uproar, yelling and
cursing for the least thing; quarrel
ing for the least thing; and then every
thing just ordinary again, as though
nothing had happened"
Ny friends, is there not lesson in
all this for us of New York? Everybody
Of that hurrying throng is dead What
does it matter now whether he got to
MS JOB or his appointment on time?
What does it matter whether he got
there at all?
Somehow or other folk never get out
IN the water without beginning to sing.
sailormen of many nations have the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
fearing Up Law

'fron' The Charleston Nc,es-C Courier
The United States is in no mood for
radical EXPERIMENTATION, says The New
Republic" If "Thc New Republic has
found this out, let US hope that the
other radical experimenters will seen
awaken to the same fact.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
Where Is the League?

What is the League of Nations do
ing with respect to the Russo Polish
war and other threatened wars? So
far as information is vouchsafed it
is not functioning. Interested ma
tions, particularly Great Britain,
France and Italy, are comforting to-
gether, bat not as league members.
They are comforting as indepen-
dent nations, according to the old
historic method. Poland, a league
member, marched into the Ukraine
without following the prescribed
procedure of the covenant Other
league members consented to her
course by inaction. Then Russia,
not a league member, attacked
Poland. Again the covenant is ig-
nored. The porley IN London, If a
meets, is not to be held undey league
auspices.
Article XVII Of the covenant, COW
ering war or threat of war between
a league member and a montague
member, says the league council
shall invite the outsider to become
a member and to accept league obi
cations. Then the article declares:
of state so invited shall refuse
to accept the obligations of member
ship for the purposes of such dis
pute, and shall resort to war against
member of the league, the provi-
sions Of Article XVI shall be appli-
cable as against the state taking
such action
Article XVI, thus referred to, pro-
vldes for instant action against an
offending state. First, there is to be
a boycott, and then the league coun-
Gil is to recommend to the several
governments what effective mill
tary, naval or air force the members
of the league shall severally con-
tribute to the armed forces to be
used to protect the covenants of the
league"
No one seems even to suggest &C
ton through Or by the league. Ger
many hurries troops to the border.
Rumania is reported to have dis
patched an ultimatum to Russia.
Hungary and Czecho-S lovakia dis
cuss military action, and there is
TOLL nf Ero,ch
tons to Poland, but it seems to oc-
cur to no nation to urge that the
war be made league affair.
There is ado over what platforms
and speeches mean, but the league
itself is inert. In a new sense the
question arises Of what obligations
this country would be under if it
were league member. Would it
also be of those signing and then
forgetting its membership while the
ink is still wet? Ony one wanting
to know why Mr.. Harding is averse
to making specific pledges as to ex-
actly what he would do next spring
may we'll consider what is currently
happening in Europe. A new situa-
ton has obviously arisen, and it is
not strange that Europe listens to
Elihu Root, the author of the Repub-
lican league plank, as he labors to
make the covenant a workable in
strument.
Before the Senate meets again the
league covenant may be archaic
through disuse--may have died from
general atrophy without making
even a squeak. If such should be the
case, is not new start indispensable?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
Red 7 ape

lFronl Tic Boston Globc)
The government will have no difficulty
in selling that stock of millions of dol
lars worth of canned meats at prices
below pre-war quotations if it makes
arrangements so that ordinary people
can buy in reasonable quantities with
out the fuss that has made previous
government sales unavailable for the
great majority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
What's In a Name?

NTo"E TIC Indianapolis Ncus)
The new Farmer-Labor party is led
by such doughty farmers and laborcrs
as Lawyer Christensen, of Salt Lake;
Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, of New
York; Author, Editor and Oficeholder
Louis F. Post, of Chicago, and other
horny handed toilers of the rostrum
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Tho Associated Press Ia exclusively entitled to the
Csc Tor republication Of all dispatches credited
TO II or not otherwise credited In this paper and
herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
Asssin slso are reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
A Fancy Farming Costume

tfrom The Pittsburgh Gasette- Tisassl
That picture of Cox dressed in six
shlrt, white collar and stiff straw hist
out IN the field shocking wheat VIII
catch the farmer vote, it is so true "
life.
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Somehow or other folk never get out
on the water without beginning to sing
Sailormen of many nations have the
custom in common. All the canoeists
who go up the Shrewsbury past our
house late at night are singers. On the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04

After having used up at least col
umn and half in trying to tell what
This Side of Paradise" was like, we
find that Miss Neysa McMein has done
it in six words-"a baby with his Inns
rouged."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-04
By
Heywood Broun

steamer Espagne, in the days when
ships were dark, everybody sang. There
could not have been a submarine COM
mander for miles around who did not
know that "She knitted me one night
and that all the young Americans on
the ship had accordingly learned
about women from 'er" Even on the
destroyer Semmes during the yacht
races we had songs of sort. We Won
der whether this is just human per-
versity or whether it satisfies some old
tribal urge within u.s. Mr.. Couperus
mentions some ancient beliefs in the
efficacy Of singing at sea, and writes
that the. master of the good quadrire1ne
Aphrodlte encouraged singing by hts
rowers, because melodious music
meant prosperous voyage and averted
evil chances and did not let the shrill
voices of the sirens ring from under
the waters and because the pure sound
OF the human voice kept away the
rocks drifting under the sea and COM
PEELED the sea serpent to dive back
into the deep"
And yet there are times when one
cannot help saying to himself in all
sincerity, Bring on the sea serpent"
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Sc necesitan Agentes

En- todos los pGebIos de la isIa
para la confeccion de blusas a
mano. SoIamente personas COMO
cedoras del ramo y con expe-
riencia deben hacer soIicitud. Sc
requieren referencias.
Ponce, P. z.
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Sol 141, altos, San Juan, P R. ,Advt.
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NERCADO DE CAMBNO
Coma 10 que quiera, perc conserve
So higa4o fuerte y salubable.

listed no puede digerir propiafriente el
aiimento que come 81 tiene el higado en-
fermo. Cuando el higado falla. I'd. CO.
nienza a sufrir de Indigestion, biiiosidad,
eructos. alicnto fetido' palptaeiones; dolo-
res de cabeza dyspepsia porque el higado
enfernlo no pucde ayudar Ia digestion.
Los desordencs del higado son segura y
pernanentemente curados con el Remedio
de Leonardo, el nuevo y inaEavilloso des-
cubrimiento vegetal. No contiere calomei.-
no estrifie es absolutamente inofensivo.
Ii Remedio de Leonardo fortalece vigo-
RIA los intestinos. hgado estomago Y es
muy agradabie val paladar Unas cuantas
dosis del Remedio de Leonardo aliviaran
muy pronto los desordenes del higado
estomago. De venta en- todas las drogue-
rias farmaciaS.