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New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
Catering !

In his latest letter concerning the
railroad wage question, which plain
~ caters to the self-interest of a
group and hints he will control the
decision of board he has named
and has pledged to impartiality, the
President showed he realizes a po-
Iitical campaign is on and that he
proposes to use the old tricks.
Now Mr.. Harding, as if not to be
outdone, by his letter to Frank P.
Walsh, an agitator for the Sein
t'einers, discloses similar realiza-
tion and a similar willingness to
pander to group. 1t is regrettable
that Mr.. Harding, while a candidate
Cor a Presidential nomination, felt
moved to pass the word to Mr.. Walsh
that he was "all right" on the Irish
question. 1t may be the way of poll
tics and most politicians may be
guilty of like offenses, but it is a
bad way. The American people long
for arguments made to all of them,
not to their vociferous minorities.
The Harding letter comes at an
unfortunate time. The streets Of an
Irish city run with blood. The rights
and wrongs of their civil war few
Americans are competent to judge.
All ~ is clear is that it is not our
business to incite trouble. For our
conspicuous public men to interfere,
or to seem to interfere, is not a good
way to promote helpful international
relations. Senator Harding may en-
tertain what private sympathies he
pleases, but if he expresses them
he should also express his detesta-
tion of the sort of American citizen
ship the Washes display. Too long
have our politicians trif1ed and in
sincerely sought to make political
capital out of the Irish problem.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
The Front Porch of America

1t would be hard to find houses
more unlike than those two in
Marion, Ohio, and Northampton,
Mass, whereon fame has tentatively
perched. The Coolidge home has a
New England plainness and dignity,
not to say stiffness, and the modesty
of it's dimensions is it's chief distinc-
ton. The voters willing, it will be
able to boast of being the only two
family house that ever held Vice
President
The Harding house is quite an
other matter. 1t has, judging by the
pictures, that air of comfortable
prosperity which is the essence of the
American home. There are thou
sands of houses exactly like it scat
tered all over the Middle West. It
is neither very bad nor very good,
architecturally speaking Its chief
fault in respect of looks is it's being
perched some three feet off the
ground, in that strange fashion
which ruled supreme for half CEN
tury in American building-as if
there was some moral reason why a
house must be as disconnected with
its site as possible,
But if this boosting of a house off
tho ,rro,,,J ;c lo,I e.. =. ~ - IL -.
created that wholly American insti-
tuition which flowers in it's most ele-
CANT form upon the Harding home,
the American porch. Perhaps these
noble platforms were evolved to sup
port that article of American faith
by which every American boy is
looked upon by his parents as q pos
sible, not to say rather likely, Presi-
dent. Certainly in the case of young
Warren Gamaliel Harding the fates
bullded with prophetic foresight.
The Harding porch is clearly a won
derful crcstion, long and wide ard
resplendent, bulging into one of those
baby bandstands at one end plainly
prcdestined to rcvcrbcratc with ora
tory. The Coolidge home has a front
porch, Of course. 1t is a rcticent
thing by comparison with the Har-
ding creation, but It is a porch all
right.
ilow much Of American life is
passed on this national Institution :
Ask Pcnrod or William Sylvanus
Baxter jr. From this vantage point
the family observe every other fam
1y, and no important event can take
place without being duly noted.
within it's 2acrcd yet semi-public
confines flirting, courting, studying,
scoring, reading and cvcry elegance
u partying everything except birth
and dcath~-takcs place. 1t is the
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
A Voice Against Suffrage

70 the Editor of The tribune.
Sir: In the midst of your conpla-
cency over the cheap and easy way of
doubling the electorate, l wish to call
your attention to the fact that south
Of the Mason and Dixon Limo it Will
not be IS easy as you think, even if
the screws are successfully put on
some Of your lobby-ruled New England
legislatures, and you get so-callcd rati-
fcation.
As to the cheapness of the method.
we contest this point also When the
Chicago official election report shows
355lVoo,S45 as the expense Of letting
l92,712 women vote, and all the people
got IN return wa Mayor Thompson,
for whom Il PEI cent more women
voted than did the men, we think this
pretty expensive. As a conservative
estimate double suffrage viii cost our
country $2S,5oO,00o year, or $4,000
day, in increased taxes. Here, in
Maryland, we think that no price is
great enough to pay us for giving up
our state sovereignty. that includes
the control OF our own franchise.
CORNELIA A. GIBBS,
President Maryland Association Op-
posed to Woman Suffrage.
Baltimore, June Il, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
Psychic Facts
The Persuasipeness Of Phenomena as
They Have Been Observed
% the Editor of Tho Tribune.

To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: A letter by Mr. Rupert Hughes,
appropriately placed in the funny COL
umn of your issue of the 23d demands
TO know why, if there have really been
communications from the spirits Of the
dead, there is not forthwith one from
Elwell explaining the mystery Of his
murder.
The scientific inquiry known as
psychical research is engaged in study
ing facts which exist. not why other
facts do not occur In the beginnings
of telephone communication the thing
which properly engaged the attention of
persons who for the first time put their
ears to the receiver was not why there
were things imperfectly heard, incoher-
ences, etc.-this was easy to explain
but the fact that at times it was evident
that message was being received from
person known to be many miles away.
Psychical research is in its beginnings,
and yet no agency has done so much to
warn the public against frauds and to
instruct it as to the possibilities of sub
linlnal counterfeits. But great many
incidents have been reported which do
not belong to either category and which
present facts for which no one has given
rational and normal explanation.
query shy some special other fact did
not occur.
Mr.. Hughes, I am informed, has writ
ten some stories and some plays, and
could not if I would annul the evidence
that he has done so by the dersive in
quiry why he does not write a play
Of the grade Of Hamlet" or story in
the style of The Three Musketeers."
1t is possible that there are restric-
tons on "the other side" as to what
shall be told. Does Mr.. Hughes know
that spirits are "frec lances"?
| recommend to the humorous gen
tleman's consideration cases on rec
ord like that reported by Professor
William James ("Proceedings of This
Society,"" Vol. |, Part p, where the To-
cation of a drowned persons body was
discovered through q medium. Call it
clairvoyance or spirit communication
or what you WILL here is all existent
fact that would be more worthy of at
tention than why selected non-exstcnt
facts did not occur. And there are
others of similar nature on record
Eminent scientists like Lodge,
Croolles, Wallace, Barrett, ETC.. are
mentioned, as though their belief,
after long study, somehow vitiated the
case for spirit communication. This
is an inverted logic, of which the
whole letter rartakes.
WALTER FRANKLIN PRINCE.
Acting Director Of Research, Amcr-
can Society for Psychological
Research
New York, June %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
Caste in the Army

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While this will not in the least
be surprising to those who served in
the regular army, it will bring to the
attention Of those who have the well
fare of the enlisted men at heart con-
ditions as they exist at Fort II. c..
Wright, N. Y.
At this post there are, think, nine
or ten vessels Of various sizes that
occasionally give ferry service to the
mainla.d, especially so if the officers
or residents Of Fishers Island desire
it. They generally occupy ;he spacious
section in the rear Of tho pilot house,
and any one connected W h an officers
family, including servants. is wei
come. But my dear mother, whose son
is unfortunate enough to be an en-
listed man, can stand out on deck.
If Secretary Baker wants to help
the enlisted man, let him look into
matters OF Shis kind
HENRY AULDS.
New London. Conn, June 81. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
Books

If you don't mind going through a
good deal for the sake Of a prairie
fire and an Indian fight, wine O. the
Winds" by Keene Abbott Double
day, Page & Co.. will be worth whilc
reading. If you're we'll over the
seventy-year mark and still long tol
the literature of your youth, it viii
please you from cover to cover.
"Winc O. the Winds" is a story of
the '6os on the plains Of the West.
written in the style Of the SOS in the
cities of the East.
1t is the sort of book in which the
hero. who is seeking redemption on
the prairies, breaks off what promise
to be an interminable speech with tho
exclamation: 'Faugh, what eabble,'
And the worst Of il is, he's right.
There is lovely, placid. patient
heroine that Dickens might have
drawn at his worst There is also
the rough riding, cigarette smoking
imperious daughter Of plainsman
who starts out amazingly we'll
founders in mid d-Victorianism and
finally pcrishcs in a turbid sea OF
words.
Throughout the entire book Mr.
Abbott has trouble making his words
behave. He uses adjectives as
layishly as Eleanor Hallowell Of the
same name, but, We think, less ef-
fectively. Time and again, it's hard
to see what he sees because of the
intervening language.
"Bemused waiting he'd come to
the young man. says Mn Abbott
darkly. "Fe watched the livid
wiz-r,iry of the heat lightning, the
swift come and go .of the ragged
cloud paCeantry, whose dark masses
above the horizon continued to dis
play themselves against the culver
of repeated blue-whte narings. How
weirdly beautiful and strange. An
other mystery! Yes, to be sure
Mystery, mystcry-by day or by
night, mystery ever abides here. a
land of astounding caDrices, where
stern, untamed nature knows nothing
of small pettness, but is always
majestical-equivocal, too--a prodi-
gal besides! Only see, for example
what living gemmcry the wastrcl
has now cast abroad into the night
through the utter ocean reach Of ali
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this prairie vastness. The illimitable
" athrob, not merely with a few
slow sparks, orange and emerald, but
with an amazing jeweled drift Of
them, all space thrilled with them,
the unstarred and black blue night
pricked full of them-a pulsating
wilderness of little lovely frehies"
Much as we hesitate to risk our
yourtg reputation as q reader OF
books, We're obliged to admit shame
facedly that we haven't more than q
faint idea what Mr.. Abbott is talk
ing about.
When he is dealing with action,
and not with word landscape paint
ing, the author improves several
hundred per cent. His Indian fight
and the blaze that sweeps over the
plains are vivid and little hampered
by obstructing words. Mr. Abbott
should strive to keep the prairie
NreS burning.
While we're in complaining
mood we wish Mr. Abbott had re-
trained from introducing children as
comedy relief in his book. He
makes them about as amusing in his
volume as moving picture director
generally does ia films.
Why the author killed the cowgir
and let the other main character rs
of his book live is beyond US. He
should have reversed the process, in
say, the third chapter.
Still, Mr.. Abbott's book at its worst
is infinitely superior to its illustra-
tons at their best.
For fear that you set US down as
constitutionally grouchy, we will ad-
NIT that during these arduous weeks
when the future of the ration has
been hanging in the balance and
we've been trying to do Haywood
Broun's work while he watches it
hang, there are few books we have
found that we'd recommend with all
the superlative adjectives Mr.. Abbott
knows.
These are St. John c. Ervine's "The
Foolish Lovers Clarence Day jr's
The Simian World E. H. Jones's
THE Road to En-dor" and Frank 3
Linderman's con a nAssins From
ter"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
A Happy Church
Testimony From q Visitor to
St. Northumberland

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Does the Rev. John Roach
Straton think he is giving out re.
ligion when he breaches sensational
sermons? If such sermons I'll a
church, is he not lowering himself 70
the level Of the enterta inment he De.
nounces?
The trouble is that the churches 81.
not press agented. Ii the newspapers
lent their columns to ballyhooine tn,
churches-thc worth churchss
(most Of them aren't)--the way the7
ballyhoo the theaters there would a.
least be more people who would know
where to find entertainment for rs-
ligion should be entertaining IN
churches.
For ten years l have been divorced
from the Church because l didn't f,U
therein religion that could apply
to my daily life. And Why. in a busy
world, waste time on church that
hands out the mus'y, dogma:ic,
bigoted, orthodox rel gion taa. ths
churches hope to inspire you with
One night this winter an obligation
to friend found me attending 'M
evening service at s.. Mark k's-in-th.'
Bouwerie. And !, who used to cof'
slider Sunday e day that owed ME re;'
rcation and amusement. have noi
missed an evening since.
No, haven, got" religion. But J
have found spiritual, mental and
physical inspiration in the church. !
have found a church service in 'un'
with the life I have 10 I've 20 day; |
have found church that teaches not
preaches) one how TO be happy and
happiness is me keynote Of sF'''
itualism.
The first hour Of the Sunday ere
ming service is given over TO The n''
exquisitcly beautiful service Of ni''-
tation and prayer No other churea
in the world has such symbolic ssr'
ice, for it was written by Or. NoFni'
Guthrie, of st. Marks.
The second hour is devoted 70 com
munity singing in the parish ns''
And you should hear k.ddies, old 'oi''
and all the in-between- folks sing'H
folksongs, nursery songs and bals1'
a. the tops of their lungs.
Every Sunday night you Sc. tie sans
faces, with some new ones. They saF"'
out the season with about thirty per
pie. Now about FIVE times ths: TUE,
Der attend. And It is al, woFa "
mouth publicity-the newspapers oO-'
give publicity to church that's oo'As
good work; .hey merely lei L sp'.'-
on the front page when men Ike W.
Stickney Grant and Dr.. Strason s"
sensational.
I wish the whole word could e'.F
fit from St Marks as have. ano ~
not a religious fanatic, but VIZ.
very human being who has tie D',
time and gets the mos. out o. '"'
Of any one I know.
GERTRUDE x. sMIrH
Port Washington, n. Y, June 90
1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
A Railway Autocracy

The declaration of the American
Federation of Labor tor government
ownership of railways and "demo-
cratic control' of their operation is
construed by George H. Shibley,
chairman of the Nonpartisan Pro
gressive Federation, as an indorse-
ment of the Plumb plan. Few will
quarrel with this Interpretation.
Plumb is not mentioned, but what he
advocates is indorsed.
The Plumb plan, as is we'll known,
proposes, first, that the government
shall buy the chief railroads with
money sweated from the people at
large in tax levies; second, that the
property SO bought shall be turned
over to committee of fifteen,
elected by the railroad employees; !;
.hird, that this committee is to pay
such wages and fix such hours and
conditions Of labor as it deems
proper, with the gross bill, whatever
It is, to be met by the public in
higher transportation costs or poorer
service.
Such a scheme, it is scarcely neces-
sary to say, is not one for democratic
control. 1t is for monopolistic or
autocratic control. One-tenth of the
workers, in control of a vital indus
try, are to give law to the other
nine-tenths. Leninism would be
carried further than in its original
home. In Russia railroad workers
are not in absolute power--are COM
pelled to consult other bodies of
workers. Plumbism implies they
need not consult outside their own
ranks.
That the managers of the expen-
sive Plumb propaganda know exactly
What they are advocating is shown
ny remark dropped the other day by
erederic c. Howe, until lately Com
missioner Of immigration at Ellis
island and now editor of the organ
IF the Plumb Plan League. He said
that he has lost faith in political
government. AS political government
as we have it is democratic govern
ment, to oppose political govern
ment Is to oppose democratic govern
nent. Mr.. Howe is apparently for
seizures by minorities and for rule
by the strong hands Of the grabbcrs.
The growth Of the basic Plumb
plan idea among railroad workers
ts indicated by the sporadic strikes
now breaking out. Many railroad
workers believe the public is at their
mercy. The labor tribunal is slow
n rendering a decision (the subject
Matter Is vast and complicated) and
guns ere discharged, a. IL were, to
browbcat the court. President vii
Won, in his utterancc this wcck, euy-
@ests ne viii defend the public in
tersss no more firmly than in the
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

To the Editor of The Tribune. -.
Sir: Isn't it peculiar, to So! - =,
least, that man vho said ne 's',. ;.
over 100000 of his Own mohe' :, .
win the nomination for The PFes'a'".. ;.
on the Republican ticket shou''' =,
the eighth ballot, when leading II II
field for the first time. release .
pledges and swing his delegates g,',
dark horse? D. W. MILfS"N
New York, June %. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

Our advice to young men undecided
whether to go into the newspaper busi-
ness-or as the slangy ones have it, to
adopt the profession Of journalism
ways IS yes. One reason is that the
newspaper man has so many opportuni-
ties to absorb facts. Yesterday morning.
for instance, somebody called us to ask
wiz -Aer Nick Altrock was dead. We
We're not certain, so we walked across
the local room to Bill McGeehan's desk.
"Germany Schaefer is dead" said Bill,
"but Nick Altrock is not" "What time
does the freshman race at New London
start to-morrow?' asked another tele-
phoner So we had to find that out, too.
A former Clevelander then called to ask
whether Cleveland had passed St. Louis
in popula ion; we knew that one, so We
answered at once. And so it goes; if it
isn't one thing it hardly ever is
it's another.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
Perfect Peace

lFrom the Charleston Ncrrs and Courier
How strangely still everything seems!
The silence is positively oppressive.
Hiram and Borah shouldn't have sub
sided 50 suddenly.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

You purchase merchandise advertised In THe
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-.or il dlssatlsfac
Ion results in any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
o pay your money back upon request. Ne rod tape.
10 qubbItns. We mako sood promptly II tho
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

When cases like the Elwell case and
the Rosenthal murder are under discus
sion, it transpires that the telephone
company keeps records of calls made.
But when your telephone rings and you
answer, and there isn't anybody there,
and the operator says, Number, please 2"
and you say, "My telephone rang" and
she says, "There's nobody calling now;
III try to locate the CALL does she
locate" the call?
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
The Last Chance

fFrom The Portland irasa)
II Mr.. Gompers finds that the Demo-
cratic convention will not obey his
orders he will have Mr. pinchots nico
new party to turn to.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
The Wrong Kind

tFro,s Tho Toledo Blade i
Much of the Presidential tim''. -,
now pulp, but it doesn't help mo -
paper shortage.
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Assocsted Press exclusively entitled to tle
for repui lrcajon OF All dispatches, crodite!
Il or not Othsra.s credited IN tbs paper. and
,so the local news Of spontaneous origin plbAshed
oosein
All rights O, republication Of all other matter
icrsin also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys

June 22-up very betimcs, and played
few setts with G. Parsons; and so to
the Office, where till 6 at my desk; and
with Mistress Kate to dinner, and thence
ho~o and read "Winesburg, Ohio" and
greatly disappointed at it, deeming it
third-rate realism.
23-To the courts with G. Parsons,
and to the office, where so many visitors
are come to see me. | hastened to finish
my stint, and so to the courts with c.
Steele, and then with my Cozen Florence
to dinner, and she took me to Brooklyn
to see new piece of A. Hopwoods
called "Don't Be Afraid" and very poor,
too, to my notion.
24-News come that Will Tilden hath
beaten j. Parke at Wimbledon, which
am glad Of. All day at my desk and in
the evening to Great Neck to dinner to
VIII Hopper's.
We are Off McAdoo. "My attention
has been called 70 the statement in the
New York Evenin. World" he said. We
want candidat. who Sees by the
Papers.
Sing Sing Station to Glow Like
Jacobs Coat-Tribune headline
Who reads the Old Testament nova
days?
What SO ephemeral as pink silk
kmono? The Elwcl case is just manag-
ing to stay on the front page.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
Tho Poetry of Alfred Moves

Dear F. ?. A. I am going to quarrel
with you and Tapestry" for your quarrel
with Alfred Noycs'o beautiful poem, "A
Victory Dance" 1t hit me between the
eyes when | first read it in the Saturday
Evening Post and that is my only test for
a poem. Ii il strikes the reader emotion
ally. then il has accomplished the great
thing it set out to do. The point of view is
the right one. it seems to me. 1t is a
thought that has occurred to many of US.
yet we had not the art to express it, |
can't help thinking You are doing a fine
poet Il deep injustice. But | suppose one
can no more argue about poem than about
humor. You feel it, you see it--or you
don't I felt "A Victory Dance"
CHARLES HANSON TowNE.
"Can you tell me- asks n Y. NJ,
"where | can find poem called The
Last Ride In the Altogethsr,' by, think,
Bob Browning? 1t deals, l believe, with
girl named Godiva." Yes, indeed. 1t
is in the anthology that contains
Thompsons "The City of Dreadful
Nightics."
The Evening Posts "ziegfeld Fillies"
N'""Su ViiN PloOlIOOIll, as Qlu Cne / INES s
AS producer of revenues of this kind
Mr.. Ziegfeld stands alone But perhaps
both proofrooms cried "Stet!"
Jewels are precious stones, if memory
is on the job. But in headlines they must
be gems Missed Gems in Lootins
Pyramid said last nights Evening
Post. Takes $500 in Gems" said last
nights Evening Post. TO anybody who
can prove to have heard gem used i'll
a conversation as a synonym for "jewe"
or "preclous stone' we offer one pearl"
necklace costing not more than 100000
Not that gem never is used in ordi-
nary talk. a gem is a handmaiden who
has been in the famiIys employ for
whole month
Even Spaldng's Golf Guide draws the
W. K line when it advertiscs union suits
Tor ball players and athletes"
Q-Wil the Class in Journalism
please tell us what it is the Elwel case
and the Caruso Gem Theft do?
a Battle Investigators
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

Why Mr.. Riley should go after Gin
bels', whose profits averaged, according
to the charges, 103 per cent-and we, for
one, don't see why they shouldn't be
SOB per cent if they want to charge
prices that warrant those profits--and
not say anything about the soda foun-
tains that are getting zoe for ice cream
soda or SOC for frosted chocolate, we
do not know.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25
The Uncounted Thousand

(From The Buffalo ErpreSs)
Even Chicago il complaining Of the
census figures. If only the dark horses
could have been counted!
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

Then. suddenly. I heard him shout
This poet surely knew a birds worth -
And while the robins chirped without,
The scholar kept on reading Wordsworth
ClIlCnr
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

And Will, he dreamed of farm and lane.
Across the aisle, on plush seat kneelng
A little girl gazed through the pane
To what Nature was revealing.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

real shrine Of the American home,
and what more fitting than that on
it the great American rite of select
ing President should be conducted
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

Overheard: 81 think it's good deal
later than we think it is 81 don't. I
don't believe it's as late as we believe
it is
New-York tribune., 1920-06-25

Q.-Wili the Class in Journalism
please tell us what it is the Elwell case
and the Caruso Gem Theft do?