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New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

to the preference. The Democrats
fatty rejected the principle of non
partisanship in denying him nom-
ination. Now they are trying to
excuse themselves by saying that all
three sitting judges can remain on
the bench if Mr.. Chase is defeated
and Mr.. Elkus is elected. A circular
issued by the Elkus committee con-
tains this statement: Judge Chase
will continue to sit in the Court of
Appeals whether elected over Judge
Elkus or not"
This is highly misleading. Under
his designation Mr.. Chase cannot re-
main on the Court Of Appeals bench
after the calendar is reduced to two
hundred cases. There are less than
three hundred cases on the calendar
now. At the present rate Of reduc-
ton the designated justices will soon
return automatically to the Supreme
Court. Judge Chase, the senior sit
ting member, would thus be dis
placed, unless the voters elect him a
Judge in his own right
The choice is therefore between
Mr.. Chase and Mr. E.lkus-the first
a Supreme Court Justice since 1896,
with nearly fifteen years on the
highest state court the other Il
Judge for less than year and with
no prior judicial experience.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
Governor Coolidge

TIE welcome which New York
Republicans gave Governor Coolidge
was heartfelt ard richly deserved.
Every word that he has. uttered in
the campaign has been noteworthy
model Of temperate and wise counsel.
The nation wide admiration. for nim
has mounted steadily He stands
to-day in the voters minds on par
with Senator Harding in character.
in accomplishments, in fitness for
that high office for which both must
qualify.
This is as it should be- The
Tribune counts it as : large achieve
meht of the Republican convention
of 1920 that it put behind it old
negligence toward the Vice Presi-
dency and nominated figure of the
first rank therefor. Governor Cool
iage is typical we feel of that
younger Republicanism which is
arising to renew the cid flames and
quicken old faiths. His presence on
The national ticket Is representative
cf the many-sided personalities of
vide ability-from Mr.. Hoover to
Senator Root-which are availa bic
for Mr.. Harding's Cabinet and for
whose service, beginning next March,
a vote for the Republican electors
next Tuesday will be cast.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
Small Boy Hatred
New York, Oct. %, 1920.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Cox's crybaby attitude on
what The Saturday Evening Post did
to him and to the unsuspecting public
in its issue of this week is so ludicrous
1T IS almost pitiable. 1t reminds one
of the old song, 81 Don't Want to Play
in Your Yard If You Won't Be Good
to Me" or words to that effect.
Mr.. Cox complains that The Satur-
day Evening Post has imposed on the
confidence Of the American people, be
cause in cartoon it has portrayed Mr.
Cox as newsboy inventing false and
sensational happenings for the purpose
Of selling his wares, while Senator
Harding IS depicted as kindly and wise
You insult your public, Mr. Cox, the
Americans spirited thinkers, when YOU
infer that a cartoon is necessary to
bring so self-evident fact as the
klndliness and wisdom of Senator Har-
ding to the minds of these people. AS
for yourself, it is needless to believe
that any Of your loyal supporters and
admirers would be swayed one iota by
the exaggerated piffle of cartoon.
MIR. Cox speaks as if the American
public was merely teething infant to
whom The Saturday Evening Post as
nurse, was feeding poisoned candy
marked perfectly harmless" Poor.
unsuspecting baby; it has not even the
right to decline the candy; it has just
been pushed down its unwilling throat
by ''plutocratic," "profiteering" nurse
the owner Of The Saturday Evening
Post.
If this owner has escaped govern
ment taxes by diverting to this journal
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
Conservation Of Citizenship

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir. Much has been said about ire
sponsible citizens who show no apprecia-
ton of their citizenship but little has
been done to alter the fact that many
are poor citizens merely because they
have no fixed idea of the privileges and
duties and no realizing sense Of the
sacred responsibility that is theirs by
virtue Of their being plain Americans.
The United Service League has been
formed to initiate a movemen. n the
modest hope Of helping this siolation.
We are trying to establish the custom
CT holding on the Sunday befoce Elec-
ton Day, each year, dignii ID i'm
pressive ceremony with emphasis upon
the spiritual side inherent ns,ur 1T
izenship, something we are thi1tino of
as in the nature of "consec ration TO
a citizenship of service" AT special
meetings, neither religious no, ,ar-
tsan or in connection with service
already planned, we shall aim ultimate
= o' giving OH al opportunity sup
scribe to some simple statement of faith
IN America, to some pledge of adher-
once and of service to the ldea.e we
proclaim American. The plan, dt stoned
to furnish an important miles >na in
the first approach to the full enjoyment
Of the gifts Of citizenship, may easily
include all who, from year to yeor. wish
to renew their pledge.
Thousands have probably beea think
ing along these same lines; the cague
at its headquarters, lac Mont que
Street, Brooklyn, would like to hear
from many Of them.
UNITED SERVICE LEAGUE
Brooklyn, Oct %, 1890.
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Who Teal Is
Tc the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Joseph N. Teal of Portland,
Ore. lawyer and rate expert, has been
nominated for the Shipping Board.
/ know Teal. | met him in Cali
fornia during the war. He doesn't
know the bow from the stern of ship.
He struck me as a former pacifst and
pussyfoot. He was a great friend Of
Daniels. Only this and nothing more "
Hence he is qualified for the Ship
ping Board. He accepts'
At this rate we viii have a merchant
marine-in heaven NAVY.
New York, Oct 90, 1920.
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The Democratic CambQign
Tribune Readers Debate The Presidents Speech Coucrnor Cox
Methods and Other Aspects of the Approaching Election

national aloofness from III. .c.,
the world. q
Ihe dominant note in that n.
fble appeal in President Wil,o,,.
words was, My thought is Of . wa
ica.' 'HeF-
This is not the frs. tim. :.
history that the United s,,.. O0'
been asked to forfeit its indenars. aA'
by committing it to a concert os
eign powers. When league ~
tions. commonly called the HOLY .~
once, was formed under the Trea,y :.
Paris in 1915, the Emperor Of R,.."
said; There can no longer b, .n.s
thing as an English, French. Ru..,..
Prussian or Austrian policy; ther. /,
henceforth but one policy. which -.
the safety of all. should be adopted !.
both people and kings
Commenting upon the proposed .ru
ance. Daniel Webster said: III j, !.
true that there IS hereafter to \.
neither Russian policy, nor Pm,
sian policy, nor an Austrian poljcv ~.
French policy, nor even, which "a.
| will not believe, an English no,;.~
there will be. trust in God, an Ams-,
can policy"
That there will be resumptio, =,
an American policy. which has b..,
suspended during the last six wears
seems now to be beyond a reasonable
doubt. The voice OF the American p.o.
pie will express the spirit Of their "na.
tional honor and make clear 70 pr..,.
dent Wilson, in response to his apn.sl
that they do not propose to permi.
themselves to be put in the position o.
ever again having 10 redeem "the er...
moral obligation Of the United sta.,.
which has for the time been fcrf.j.sa
and redemption made necessary BY n.
man who, in the midst Of the rr.s.s.
international conflict in the wOrldi
history. pleaded for Peace wi,hou. vic.
tory" but succeeded in securing for
us only victory without peace
JOSEPH TAUSEK.
Brooklyn. Oct. 28, 1920.
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The League and Negroe,
Impossible 10 Ignore Democratic
Altitude


To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: So far-reaching are the ramif-'
cations Of the League Of Nations IS
sue that it il not surprising to en-
counter appeals based upon its appli-
cability 10 the interests OF ethnio
groups.
1t is hardly necessary to state that
the frequent reiteration by President
Wilson of the principles OF world de-
mocracy and the vision of new kind
of justice" brought tidings Of good
cheer to colored peoples, both y Amer
ica and wherever the love OF justice
throbs in the human breast; for upon
these principles hang the hopes OF Op-
pressed peoples the world over
Being supreme moral issue OF un'
approached world import, the league
should never have been interjected into
the arena Of partisan campaign. bu'
when we remember how inslstent ana
humiliating are the scourges OF race
prejudice in America, il Is not sito-
gether unnatural that negroes mani
fest deep concern for policies and pro-
posals which touch them as & group
And as heartily as We would weiconlo
the restoration to Africa OF miles u
colonial territory and as ardently Ss
we would desire the contentment anu
peace to be found within the folds u
chart of world emancipation, It IS 'H'-
possible to disregard utterly the pow
ical element about which the league
issue now revolves Though painiO''y
tolerant of fragrant violation OF inc
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
there is no manifest disposition on INC
part of Republican leadership 70 10
peal them. Il may lack the courage y
secure colored women IF thc Sour -
the exercise of their franchise, pu'
would not withhold the privilege i''-'
all women, out Of fear of the en'f'"
chisement of women OF color. Il nay
not accord to colored citizens prop0',
tionate participation in the affairs o.
their government, but it does recosh'9'
ability and merit in some colored men,
The Democratic party, on the o'as'
hand, embodies just the opposite pfln
ciples AND Governor Cox. during -sa'
entire campaign, has not uttered s'H
gle word Of sympathy for the wrongs
affecting our group, except to inc uc'
it in mis- uncomplimentary reference 4
the motley array
LyCIUS SUMNER HICKS.
Boston, Mass, Oct Is, l92o.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
New York, Oct. %, 1920.
Victory Without Peace

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The President, in his latest ap-
peal to the nation in behalf of his
League Of Nations, with characteristic
prodigality in the use Of words and
with equally characteristic generaliza-
ton, says:
"We entered the war not
merely to beat Germany, but to end the
possibility Of the renewal of such in
iquitous schemes as Germany enter
tanned"
These words are uttered by the same
man who, four years ago, conducted
campaign, the paramount issue of
which was that "he kept us out of
war just as the present Democratic
campaign is being conducted upon the
theory that President Wilson's League
of Nations Will keep US out of war. The
principal author Of the League of Ma
tlons covenant, more than any other
man or any other force in the nation.
prevented the United States from en-
terlng the war ''to beat Germany" for
the purpose Of opposing and prevent
ing such iniquitous schemes as Ger
many entertained" But from his lips
alone, who now speaks SO feelingly
about "the country's honor" and 1.-The
moral obligation of the United States, .
first issued the phrase I'VE are too
proud to fight" The national honor,
which had had its birth long before
President Wilson became the autocrat
of the White House, resented and final
ly resisted his plea for neutrality and
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Ordinarily one would refrain
from COUGHING in the irrevercnt Ian
guage of current slang an inquiry as to
the basis In fact Of Presidential ut
terancc; but seven years experience
with the assertions of a man who has
never permitted facts to stand in the
way of rhetoric perhaps constitutes
some justification for considering that
his utterances are not Altogether sac
rosanct.
In his address yesterday to the Holt
delegation, the President said that the
morale Of the German people had
broken down, because they felt that a
great moral force. which they could not
look in the face, had come into the
contest" etc. Now, "wnerc docs he
get that stuff" 1t is matter of com
mon knowledge the world round that
the morale Of the German people re-
ceived its first shock when they did
not win the war with their irst lunge
at France; that it cracked under the
strain of unanticipated years of war;
that it broke under the stress Of the
naval blockade; that it fell under the
realization that the United States was
adding 100000 fighting men 3 month
to the weight of the millions already
standing along the battle line from
Switzerland to the sea.
These were the forces that broke the
German morale. 1t was not broken by
the inability of the German people to
look great moral force in the face
They surrendered to superior military
force and not to a face.
LLOYD M. HOWELL.
New York, Oct. %, 1920.
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cans and Democrats on this issue can
be composed, once the personal issue,
Wilson, has been passed on. Common
ground between all our opposing views
can unquestonably be found in broad,
simple agreement, round which body
of opinion and decision will grow with
experience. Meanwhile, the time for
haste is gone. 1t was frittered away in
Paris. The loud cries OF those who tell
us that we have no friends left in
Europe may be disregarded. If we en-
force the troube-breeding provisions Of
the treaty and get into the wrong kind
of league, we shall have neither a friend
nor dollar left. Nor need the appeals
of either Europeans or Americans to
haste and sentimentalsm carry special
weight. When one is urged to hurry
and to sign on the dotted line, it is best
to scrutinize with great care the clauses
in small print.
No word has been so n,anhandled in
recent months as idealism. There is
something fine and splendid in aspiring
to the remote, the unattainable even.
provided it does not make US impatient
Of the poorer possibilities at our hand
and contemptuous Of the slow steps to-
ward the better things that are attain
able. But there are many kinds of
idealists, doctrinaires ike Darius Green,
who make themselves wings, mount to
the ridgepole in a glow of aspiration
and leap out into the pleasant, sunshiny
air. Then there are those more prag-
matte idealists who fashion their wings
with due regard for the rules of strains
and stresses, who have a wholesome re-
spect for the law of gravitation and
who take off from the ground. Darius
simply had vague yearning to fly, our
pragmatic aviator wants to get some
where, and TO land without a smash
when he gets there.
Wilson has elements of true great
ness and we have no sympathy with the
sneers at his league idealism but he has
always needed help that he refused, ad
vice that he would not take, to realize
so much of it as is practicable
Lincoln was great man because he
forgave his enemies, took :hem into his
household and made them work for him.
He was great man because. though ~
finitely patient, when his generals
proved Incompetent. he changed them for
men who could win, and in the end the
glory Of their victories was added TO
him. He was a great man Nccause he
realized the impossible deal of his gen
Grafton and freed the slaves A plain
man and practical az times q COM
promiser for harmonys or expedency's 8
sake, he knew that no trading stamps
go with a great moral issue. Emanci-
patton was not tied up in a package
with other matters that ne had COM
promised and handed to the North with
take-i.-all-or- message Lincoln
knew when to say mo compromise, no
surrender" when to compromise, and
enough to surrender when ne was wrong.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

millions Of their revenue In advcrtis-
ing why was he not hindercd or ex-
posed during q Democratic Administra-
tion?"
If Mr. Cox would cease to viiify his
opponents with such puerle hatred and
seek to vindicatc some Of his own mis-
demeanors it might count him in good
stead on November 2.
fMRS.) MARION E. CRAM.
Atlantic City, N. j.. Oct %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
IdeaI.sn and Its Enemy

If Tuesdays polling involved the
validity Of the ideals with which Mr..
Wilson has sought to identify his
fame the answer would be a tri-
uMphant Endorsements
America has not wandered from
her anc ent faith She still believes
in the brotherhood Of man, longs for
peaceful federation Of the world,
mas not surrendered her noble am
bition to be a lighthouse among the
nations.
But statesmen are judged by their
conduct, not by their professions
The criticism of Mr. Wilson relates
not to his dreams but to his meth
DDS, ard the motives which he has
shown are FIRST with him.
There are qualities whose presence
argues the absence of their con-
traries. Humanity, loving kindness,
magnanimty, devotion to great
cause and the like seldom co-exist
with arrogance, dogmatism, vain
pride, narrow and passionate stub
pornness and a quarrelsome and
contentious disposition.
When he departed for Paris which
of two spirits did Mr.. Wilson pack in
his baggage? Has he been an apos-
Tie Of concord or a fomenter of dis
cord? If the answer must be that
ne has neg ected no opportunity to
divide and has been full of increas-
ing anger against al who would not
blndly obey his lawless will, then let
there be no boast Of idealism. Ideal
ists don't act in this manner.
Another thing that idcalists dom
DO may be mentioned. They don't
dedicate their principal energies tc
making agreement difficult, if not
impossible, by campaigns of abuse
Mr. Wilson celebrated his return
from Europe by assailing those whc
questioned his supreme wisdom as
pygmy-mnded He insulted the
Serato, his constitutional partner i,
,resiy making.
He thus d disclosed he was more in
tcrestel IN self-vindication than ir
amy peace league. Since unutterabll
mceu have been the efforts to stig-
Ma11e any critic of his plan as nee
ossariy a malicious partisan, ar
enemy OF peace, a repudiator Of
Americas world obligations.
riaal'y, Mr.. Wilson furnished con
elusive proof Of what he cared for
mos; by s!auehtering his own child
rather than consent to a ratification
which he oracUiarly condemned. His
Senators voted with Borah and
Johnson to defeat the treaty Much
loose tax has been heard concerning
the relations Of Senator Harding to
the ''irreconcilables The record is
that the Wilson Senators eaday
voted with them, while Senator Har-
ding as steadily voted against them.
From whatever viewpoint the long
controversy is examined there is lit
tie evidence that Mr. Wilson was an
idealist in deed Principally through
him the unity of the nations that
won the war was broken; principally
through him they failed to unite eff
fective1y to maintain the peace they
had won; principally through him
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

Surely Secretary Tumulty~ knows, as
he says, at least as much about the
President as the gentlemen who dis
course yclubly in Pullman smokers, on
the golf links, and in the clubs; but
it was these volublc dscoursers who
elected him twice. If it were required
of each voter that ne state in one CO.
herent sentence why he is voting as
he does the balot-telng Jobs would
be far fewer.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

Secretary Tumulty comedies that the
President is the despair of the news
paper boys who want human interest
stories; that he lacks by temperament
the hail-fellowwell-met, slap you on
the back easy familiarity. Certainly
that is true. Whenever the Presiden.
has tried to unbend, it has seemed to
us that he felt that his mind was
going Summing
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
Air: LA Donna c Mobile"

III Id DoH11 HIUDIIe
Czecho-S -Slovakia,
Upper Silesia,
Lower Bohemia,
Carpathian Russia.
Beszterczebanya,
Pressburg and Prossnitz,
Brunn and Moravia-
Pilsen and Prague.
And Prague
And Prague
Pilsen and Prague.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
No Limit Necessary
tFrom Tae Dea Moves Ree.st

tFron TAe Des KosseS Register,
Apparently It was perfectly SAFE Ao'
the Democratic managers to annouh'e
that there VIII be mo limit" on con-
tributions to the campaign frnd. ~
one appears anxious TO give an u0'
reasonable sum.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30
The Diary OF Our Own Samuel Pepvs

October 2S-To the office early, and
at my desk, and with Miss Harriette
underhill to luncheon, she very gay
and merry, and SO to my scrivening
again and to Mistress Neysa's, but
found A. Woollcott there. and he spoke
Of the cider he had ordered from
Phalanx, but none of it for me. albeit
/ had said it was the finest ever |
tasted. But had glass Of port, and
the rain had ceased, so W. could not
calculate II. Brouns favourite Jest.
ANY port in storm" My wife come,
and II. Harrison, too, and me with
Mistress Sally Farnham to Port Wash
lngton for dinner, very good and
was twice helped to everything
29-Early uD. and by train to the
city, and to Brentano's, and talked
with Miss Lawler, q pretty girl who
hath much knowledge OF books. and I
tried to buy Mr.. Edsons THE Gentle
Art Of Columning," but it was not pub
lished, though it has been advertised d
fortnight All day at my desk, and
in the evening to the Garden to see
the fight between jackson and Fitz-
simmons.
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PROHIBITION MOTHER GOOSE
Jack and Jill went to the still
To get some frewatcr,
But they had to pay dollar bill
For what WAS once a quarter.
DOSiAs BxoTHKR
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

Reading that McGraw has been in
1lcted as the possessor Of liquor, ones
first impulse is to laugh. But
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

Let him that IS without gin frs
cast stone.
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our entry into the League of Nations
was prevented Here is no story Of
high idealism defeated by stupidity
and malevoence.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

Probably Chicago haircuts are to be
81 because Of the upkeep Of hand mir
rors the barber uses to let you see
kow 1t looks in the back.
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The Coming ower

The Psychoanalyst's Invictus
Out Of the night that covers me.
Rougher than seven football teams,
| thank whatever books. may be
For my interpretabls dreams
Through all my dreams Of hopes and
Looms but slumber unannoyed:
And so the dreaming Of the years
Finds and shall find me unaRreud
After January the haircut will cost
81 in Chicago. The brewery's place al
ready is in the home, and the self-in-
f1icted haircut appears to be coming.
Probably Chicago haircuts are to be
81 because Of the upkeep Of hand mir
rors the barber uses to let you see
tow 1t looks in the back.
PROHIBITION MOTHER GOOSE
Jack and Jill went to the still
To get frewater.
But they had to pay a dollar bill
For what once a quarter
DOSiAs BxorHKR
An oldfashioned newspaperman is
Sam Blythe. In The Satevepost he
speaks of "seven-column screamers.'
In the days when Old Sam was re-
porter that may have been true, bur
most papers have the eight column
page now and-except The New York
American use eight-column screamers.
The Marion Star and The Dayton News,
which MIR Blythe may have in mind,
are eight-column papers.
Grandmother was "coquctte";
mother was a "hirt"; daughter is a
baby vamp." ."-Margarct Mooers Mar
shall.
SO we were saying only few weeks
ago.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

In the palpitant excitement of won
dering about Tuesdays result, we
catch ourself specializing on whether
Eddie Cicotte and Joe Jackson are
reading the stories of the New York
Ruildinp Trades
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

TO ACRfCOLA STRONG

CWho objects TO Sdssoor's and Nichols >
limitations Of General Shermdn)
And how much longer must the young
men say
That war Is hell
To old men sitting in the council seats
Who know it we'll?
And how much longer must the young
men cry
For peace, in vain,
To old folks sitting by the kitchen hrs,
Who no slain e?
And will the old men never hear their cry
And Danish war.
Or must the young tell the tale again
korevermore? WILL Lon
THE world" Governor Coolidge saws.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

After January the haircut will cost
81 in Chicago. The brewery's place al
ready is in the home, and the self-in-
ficted haircut appears to be coming.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

Thursday nights torchlight parade
caused US to fee the city. Four wears
ago we paraded for Candidate Hughes
and the effect is history.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-30

THE world" Governor Coolidge says,
has needed an Isaac Newton" The
cost Of living needs one, palpably