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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-10-22
The Council is the body that doe.
the voting for the League. Any actor
taken must be unanimous

Franklin d. Roosevelt, candidate for
Vice President on the Democratic tick
ct, is a man of large ability and OF
wide experience in affairs of govern
ment. He is an admirable running
mate for Coy Cox.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-10-22

"a list Of 121 prominent Republicans who
have lust signed an agreement to vote for
Cox and Roosevelt was published in New
York Monday. A1'sa S.As
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-10-22
England Does Not Have
More Votes Than the US

The statement that England has six
votes to sthe United States one In the
League Of Nations is false Read tie
league covenant and you viii mud that
1t consists OF two bodies. one Is the
Assembly. where England has a rep
resentatiye for herself, Canada Aus.
tire lia, New Zealand, South Afrlca and
India. The United States has repre-
sontatiyeS for herself and the Phil
lipines, Cuba. Hayti and other de-
pendencles, 5ut the Assembly is only
a debating body, to consider questions
OF interest 70 the League and does not
vote.
The Council Is made UP Of nine Votes
only In which England and her de-
Tendencies have only one vote and the
United States one, France. Italy and
Japan one These two countries are
to have these votes all the time. They
select four other nations to have one
vote each, changing them from time
TO time, SO as TO eventually give all a
chance to serve period in the Coun-
ell.
The Council is the body that does
the voting for the League. Any action
taken must be unanimous.
Therefore unless the United, States
agrees with any action proposed. moth
ing can be done by the League This
is safeguard enough for Sny body There
is no chance TO even make n move to-
ward sending our boys TO war unless
Congress. would instruct our represen-
tative in the Council TO do so. Com
gross has declared war several times
without the League OF Nations and can
do so again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
Why the Calamity Howler?

Whatever may happen in less IA
vored lands, things have way of
rlghting themselves in this fortu-
nate CONTINGENCIES impractieable
Missionaries undertake to regulate"
them too much. A few months ago
one of the speakers at farmers
cooperative society upstate drew so
mournful a picture Of coming events
that his hearers felt as if they were
attending a funeral of all the hopes
for happiness they ever had cher
lshed. He confidently predicted that
this autumn would See potatoes SELL
ing at $50 barrel. sugar at so
cents a pound, eggs at So a dozen.
milk at 40 cents a quart. And even
such retail prices meant financial
ruin to the farmer, he added, because
farm labor would be so scarce and
raw material needed by the farmer
would be so high as to bring bank
rurtcy right up to the woodshed door.
The recent slump in price of DO
tatoes may have opened the eyes
of this agricultural jeremiah. 1t is
caused, we are told, by the sudden
throwing upon the market of great
Southern crop. Long Island farm
ers are said to be refusing to dig
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
Victims Of Their Own Greed

Two of the winners Of Ponzi's so
per cent profit have returned their
winnings in response to the warning
Of a committee of noteholders, which
threatens the prosecution of all win
ncrs who keep their gains.
Sympathy with Ponzi's dupes is
natural. But how far do they de-
serve it? No doubt ignorance min
gled with the cupidity of many of
his clients. But were not the larger
portion of them perfectly we'll aware
of the nature Of the gamble? Had
they all forgotten the get-rich-quicll
schemes Of the past and their end
ing? In the case of $500 per cent
Miller" his clients were by no means
confined to simple persons. Hun
dreds who bought Ponzi's notes were
aware there was some hocus- pocus
about the extravagant interest.
They counted on getting while the
getting was good.
1t takes two to make a swindle.
That is no excuse, of course, for the
swindler. But the swindled cannot
escape all moral responsibility. II
he does not see that his gain must
be another's loss it is because his
greed has blinded him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
Peters Wandering Son


"The Evening Post" yesterday
said:
"Shall America keep faith with her
partners in the war? Shall America
join with them in the only honorable
and effective way Of making peace
with Germany Shall America enter
heart and soul upon the work Of main
tanning the peace of the world, as she
did upon the task Of winning the war ?
To these questions Governor Cox has
answered Yes and Senator Harding
has answered NO."
"The Evening Post" Of course,
meant we'll. But it forgot that Sena-
tor Harding had twice voted for the
league. And it overlooked the fact
that Governor Cox and President
Wilson, the latter of whom pre-
vented the ratification Of the cove
nant, "were absolutely at one with
regard to the great issue Of the
League Of Nations" It did not real
ize that actions speak louder than
words. It attempted to mix oil and
water when it came out for Cox and
the league principle. It reminds us
of Peter Rabbits half.grown, willful
son-completely lost, because 1t
didn't know the ways Of the Great
World.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
The War and Partisanship

Some sentences in Franklin D.
Roosevelt's acceptance speech have
hardly received the attention they
deserve. After conceding that the
war had been won by Democrats and
Republicans alike, Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
at would, therefore, not only serve
little purpose, put would conform i'll
to our high standards if any person
should in the heat OF political rivalry
seek to manufacture political advan-
tage out of a nationally conducted
Struggle"
VT if there Is one thing plain in
the present campaign it is that the
Democratic candidate and commit
tee are making the utmost possible
partisan use OF the war.
Two years ago the same thing was
attempted. The President declared
that only Democrats should be
elected. No matter how stoutly a
Republican Congressman had upheld
the Administration war activities,
standing by it despite its gross short
comings, he asked for the substitu-
ton Of some Democrat who might
or might not be loyal.
If we remember Alright, Franklin
D. Roosevelt did not then feel called
on to rebuke this extreme narrow
ness. He went along with the Presi-
dent, just as now he goes along with
the San Francisco platform and Mr..
Cox's clumsy efforts to capitalize the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
"One-Man" Government
Senator Hilhousc Tried 10 Avoid Il
By Constitutional amendments

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: James Hillhouse 1754-ls32)
was one Of the most public-spirited
men of his time-lawyer, patriot, states
man and educator. He was noted for
his sagacious craftsmanship and exec
utive ability; for fifty years he was
treasurer of Yale College.
In view of the present discussion
about the power of the President over
national affairs the amendments which
James Hilhouse offered to the Con-
stitution in 1903 are interesting.
His biographer tells US about them:
"In 1896 he DANES Hillhouse) en-
tered the Senate. When Mr.. JefFel son,
after being elected President, with
drew from the presidency of the SEN
ate, Mr.. Hillhouse was made president
pro tempore OF that body In the
party divisions of that period Mr..
Hillhouse ranked with the Federalists.
He had supported the administrations
Of Washington and the elder Adams
and he was in opposition under the
Administration of Jefferson. Yet mis-
addresses show that he was = no
means a mere partisan and that on
great questions of craftsmanship he
ordinarily rose to views above the
range of party interests. He abhorred
the idea of centralized and consolidated
power The Presidency of the United
States, with its great and ever grow
ing accumulation of power and with
the excitements and perils Of the
quadrennial election, was to his view
the point of peril in our system. Such
considerations, long cherished, led him
to propose, April, 1903, certain amend
ments to the Constitution aiming at
what he considered as dangerous ten
denotes in the system of our Federal
government. The lapse of half CEN
fury since his speech in the Senate
ravoring these amendments has not
diminished the power of the President
or the excitement which attends
Presidential election. The business Of
making Presidents has become the abb
sorbing and Misunderstanding business
of our national politics. The salaries,
Jobs and perquisites directly or in
directly at the disposal Of the Presi-
dent are claimed and acknowledged as
due to party workers who have helped
him to his place of power. Do they
not justify the fear Of this oldfash
Toned patriot for the future of his
country"
The three amendments to the Con-
stitution which James Hillhouse pro-
posed in 1903 are as follows:
First-The House Of Represents
tives shall be composed of members
chosen every year by the people Of
the several states.
Second-The term of service of the
Senator'S is to be reduced to three
years, third to be chosen each year.
Third-The President OF the United
States is to be taken by lot from the
Senate and is to hold his office for
one year. CATHERINE B. ELY.
New York. Aug. II, 1920
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17

their potatoes because the price Of
fered therefor IL lower than they
deem just. But unless rot intervenes
a good many Of the Long Island crop
will continue to grow as long as they
remain underground, and when
finally available they will be of
just so much added bulk. And Maine
is yet to be heard from. A person
of common sense may be pardoned
for doubling that the average farm
err in the Pine Tree State will let one
Of his principal crops remain under
ground through typical Maine win
ter and freeze so hard that next
spring he can do nothing with it ex-
ccpt repair stone walls.
Furthermore, the cheerful predic-
ton now is made that the unprece-
denied slump in raw sugar will mean
retail prices of Is cents a pound this
autumn, the probability of still lower
retail prices when the new Cuban
crop is ready for market in Deem
Der, and no sugar famine" in sight
anywhere. One reason given for the
welcome news is that certain large
consumers, unable to obtain adequate
supplies from American refneries,
have been importing sugar from
Java, Formosa, China, Brazil, Hol
land and the Argentine. In other
words, there was sufficient demand
in this country to draw supplies
from other countries. When the
flow Of natural trade is not coerced
by artificial conditions the reliable
old firm of Supply & Demand con-
tinues to do business in the reliable
old way. Finally, good news comes
out of the West: Kansas, for exam
pie, reporting the most wonderful
wheat crop in it's history.
Isn't it about time for chronic
calamity howlcrs to cheer up and
join the rest Of us in enjoying life?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
Parallel Forev-6ve

Explaining history by geography
is fascinating scientific game, and
nobody knows how to play it better
than Hilaire Belloc. He is able to
extract history from an atlas or
to construct a state by studying
weather figures. But an amazing
thing about him is his ability to talk
practical good sense at the same
time. His poetic disquisitions
nearly always contain good hints for
the traffic expert and the merchant.
Thus in recent number of Land
and Water" he makes a brilliant case
for Parallel as as the new axis of
European communications. Before
the war, he points out, the main
Continental highway followed the
line Paris trassburg- Vienna, the
route Of the old Oriental Express.
With the downfall of the Central
powers, this line is supplanted by
that Of Parallel As, this being a
handy, if somewhat inaccurate, de-
scrlption Of the line that connects.
roughly speaking, Bordeaux with
Constantinople via Dion, Milan,
Venice and Belgrade.
The war has established Bordeaux
as new important terminus of
transatlantic travel; the new Con-
tinental trunk line will mean the
passage of raw materials from the
east through the south to west, in
stead of through the north.
The plan of Bordeaux Milan
Belgrade Constantinople express
antedates the war. 1t was frus-
trated by the opposition of the Cen
trail powers. That opposition counts
no more. The new line is determined
by the greater political and indus
trial position of Italy; it may con-
tribute to the realization of Jugo-
Slav unity, and st means something
OF the restoration of that connection
between northern Italy, southern
France and Byzantium which marked
the Middle Ages
All the important trade centers
and ports of southern Europe from
Cette to the Bosporus are situated
either on this line or else very close
to it--Toulon, Marseilles, Genoa,
Venice, Spezia, Trieste, Salonica.
1t will not only form the land route
of the twentieth century to the riches
of Asia; it will have a great DO
lltlcal significance in working for
the reconciliation of Italians and
Jugo-Slavs. and it will represent the
same consolidating tendency in Eu-
rope as was exerted by the trans.
continental lines of the United
States and of Canada.
Not the least advantage of the new
route consists in its coincidence with
the zone of maximum water power
whereby it may help to emahcipate
Europe from the domination of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
PY6fGe About Poland
Mr.. Roosevelt Charged
With Lack of Information
couvrieht 1929. New York tribune Ino.

the head with some blunt instrument and
was raving bit. Then they would have
resumed their efforts to get England
and France to send them supplies.
AS for the Bolshevik armies, they
would have about as much respect for
the splendid moral force of America s
hundred millions of people as they would
for a direct wind from a glue factory.
Mr.. Roosevelt is making heavy in
roads on the worlds supply of pure
pifi1e when, for campaign purposes, he
tells the people OF America that the
failure of the United States Senate to
ratify the peace treaty Is responsible
for Bolshevik successes in Poland.
Because of the obstructionist meth
DDS of Senator Harding's group of
Senator's" says Mr.. Roosevelt, Amer
ica's hands are tied All it can do is
to offer its advice and sympathy
There was time, back in 1918, when
two American divisions could have run
the entire Bolshevik army off the face
of the earth. The brainy Mr. Baker
accordingly sent $500 American sol
ders to Siberia with orders to sit care
fully in one spot and not interfere in
any way with Russian affairs Amer
ica's hands were tied at that time, but
they were tied by Mr.. Baker 1t could
have offered suffering Russia and an
endangered world considerably more
than advice and sympathy; but the
| present Administration refused even to
offer that. All that Mr.. Baker would
! permit America to offer againlt the
rottcnness of Bolshevism was non-in-
reference with Russian affairs. If
decent fighting force had been sent
to Siberia with permission to do some
thing besides non-interfere with Rus
sian affairs, Poland to-day wouldn't be
on the verge Of being messed up by
the Bolsheviki. Or if England and
France, during the past winter and
spring, had furnished Poland with the
arms. ammunition and supplies that
she ecded the Bolshevik armies would
still be where they belong-in Russia.
But the entry CT the non-entry Of the
United States into the League of Ma
tons has had nothing whatever to do
with the matter.
All up and down through central
Europe and the Balkans Americans
who occupy responsible positions are
sending home loud and ear-piercine
message. "a League of Nations is all
right" they are saying. an theory
it's a fine thing, and we ought to be
in one; but not this League Of Nations.
The only thing that these people know
Is force! Don't let our people get into
any League OF Nations that will make
it necessary for Americans TO be sent
over here to fight! That's what this
League Of Nations means, Tell them ia
keep out!"
Mr.. Roosevelt probably means we'll
His only trouble is that he doesn'
know anything about central Europe.
KENNETH L. ROBERTS.
Kennebunk Beach. Me. Aug. IA 1920
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17

(From The Philadelphia Euensno Pablo
LEDGER
traveller in the grain belt of tho
southwest has discovered that the
farmers, though prosperous, are no
longer buying silk shirts. AS the silk
shirt" has become the symbol of the
orgy of extravaganza" the presurnp-
ton is that we should all be grateful
for an apparent return to normal.
Though, Of course, the silk shirtmakers
have another point of view.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
To the Editor of The Tribune

i
Sir: Franklin D. Roosevelt in a
speech at Milwaukee on August 12 made
the declaration that if America had been
member of the League of Nations
Poland would not to-day be fighting Boil
shevism with it's back to the wall. "If
America" said Mr.. Roosevelt as
quoted, chad been able to throw into
the scale the splendid moral force of its
hundred millions Of people the Bolshe-
vik armies would not be where they
are now" MIR. Roosevelt runs along in
the same strain for several sentences
and winds up with the stirring proph-
ecy that "history will lay great share
of the responsibility for the plight of
the splendid people of Poland upon these
little narrow men who to-day control the
machinery of the Republican party"
| have recently returned to this coun-
try after investigating conditions in
central Europe and the Balkans. Mr..
Roosevelt is either the possessor of a
remarkable amount of transformation
concerning central Europe or he is de-
liberately distortlng such facts as are
in his possession.
From the Baltic to the Bosporus
the League Of Nations is regarded as a
gigantic joke. Tell military man in
any of the central European or Balkan
nations that he can't do thus and so
because the League of Nations won't
let him, and he shrieks with laughter.
So, too, does every one in hearing. #
he has the arms and the ammunition
he'll do as he pleases, and the League
of Nations can go out and take a run
around the block. Each nation, once
it is armed and equipped, considers itself
thoroughly competent to punch the
world in the nose. The moral force of
the United States would have as much
influence at the present time with a
nation that had really made up its mind
to fight as would slap on the wrist
and shrill shrek of Naughty .
Naughty" The central European ma
tons are as unfamiliar with the moral
force of which Mr.. Roosevelt speaks
as they are with the works of the
Sweet Singer of Michigan or Boston
cream pie. They are familiar only with
the good old strong-arm stuff.
In spite Of Mr.. Roosevelt's sizzling
words concerning the "little narrow
men" who to-day control the machinery
of the Republican party and their Pc
sponsibility for Polands plight. there
is no occasion for any Republican to lie
awake at night from shame. If Mr.
Roosevelt should advance his theory in
Poland the Poles would look at him
blankly. The Poles knew last January
what was going to happen to them il
they were not supplied with arms and
ammunition by England and France
they said quite freely that with Yude-
mitch gone and Kolchak gone and Deni-
kline gone, the Bolsheviki only needed te
send their full strength against the
country in order to crush it, unless its
military resources were augmented. II
Mr.. Roosevelt had gone to Poland last
January and told the Poles that the,
were going to be whipped because
America wasn't in the League of Ma
tions the Poles would have listened DO.
litely; but when they had got beyond
earshot of the hall they would hav,
whispered privately to enc another tina
the poor fellow probably meant wei
enough. but evidently had been hit o,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
Rationalizing War WEAKNESS

1t is perhaps we'll to dismiss from
consideration various high flying and
sweeping explanations Of why the
nations avoid giving aid to Poland.
The underlying reason is probably
the same as leads our own coun-
try to hold back-namely, a natural
disposition to avoid embarking in
any sort of war at this time.
1t is highly doubtful, despite the
hectic resolution put forward in its
name, whether British labor, organ
lied or unorganized, has suddenly
gone Bolshevist. 1t is more prob
able that the small group Of radical
intellectuals who have been schem-
ing to get control of British labor
for revolutionary purposes saw that
the Polish situation, coupled with
aversion to a new war which all
elements of the British population
share, gave them an opportunity.
1t created parliamentary situation,
as it were, where a delegate either
had to vote for war or to seem to
support the Bolshevist agitators.
The declaration for secret Council
of Action is, of course, ugly, but
all public bodies are sometimes
likely to say more than they strictly
mean.
When human beings decide to sup
port view and the true reasons
for this attitude would not read we'll
in print they commonly put forward
others which have a better look.
The British labor congress, not
wishing to say that it has done
enough for humanity, for this would
not be noble, thus turns around and
says with its hand on its heart that
not to oppose the conquering Rus
slams is to serve humanity. 1t is not
likely any considerable number in
any country think this. The de-
mands of duty are heard plainly
enough, but it is felt duty should
keep quiet for a time.
The evidence is plentiful that Rus
STA and Germany are rapidly verg-
ing TO new alliance to promote
the militaristic imperialism they
both stand for. The evidence is also
plentiful that Bolshevism, imperial
lstic II its exterior policy, has a
domestic policy which leads to gen
cral starvation and to making mill
tary service, granted first place at
food tables, a preferred occupation.
But the world still hopes that the
disease will burn itself out. Any
way, it is more comfortable to take a
chance than once more to don khaki
The world is again in the mood
which enwrapped it in the years pre-
ceding 1914, when it "preferred" to
believe, as thinkers like Bryan are
fond Of saying, that there was no
menace. Only the blows of events
were able to awake the nations from
their torpor, and it may require the
same sort Of alarm clock again.
Poland knows that the Bolshevik
menace is real, and France par
TALLY does, but neither Great Britain.
nor this country is willing to recog-
nize that the menace is actual or al
least is not yet willing so to admit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17

war. Yet at the same time Mr..
Roosevelt would have credit for
breadth of view.
Instead OF advertising his virtue
in this manner, Mr.. Roosevelt might
well employ his energy to explain
how it happened that two years ago
the weight Of his influence sustained
the Wilson-Burleson contention that
the Republicans were Copperheads
and as such should all be relegated
to private life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17

coal fields. There is no end of the
interesting suggestions and deduc-
tons that Belloc contrivcs to
marshal along Parallel 81, and In
gauging tho practical value Of his
prophecies one should remember that
he was one Of tho few military ex-
perts Of the war whose predictions
had the habit of coming true.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-17
A Sorry Sextet

tFro'n The Philadelphia Inquire-)
It's tough on the Kaiser's sons that
the old man won't come across with
any cash, although all are hard up. One
OF them committed suicide rather than
go to work, and the trouble is that the
rest couldn't do any useful work if
they tried-and they have no notion Of
trying.
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