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Evening capital news., 1920-01-14
THE CAMP FOLLOWER.

(COlufnDuS ldDOF NcWS).
Consider the case of this man. He
Is carpenter. He doesn't belong to
the union. He is getting along in
years. He works for a half dollar less
per hour than the union scale calls for.
He doesn't think the unions could
mean much to him. But
When the union advances the scale
of wages. this carpenter advances his
own price. II union wages go up a
half dollar, he puts his wages up a
half dollar.
He is always about half dollar be-
hind the union wages, but every time
the union wages go up, his goes up,
too.
He is getting tho benefit of what
other men DO. He doesn't get the full
benefit, but he gets as much Of It as
he can.
He might be called camp follow
err He doesn't belong to the army,
but he sticks around where the army
Is.
Even those who refuse to share the
burden cannot escape the benefits of
the great and progressive work Of the
men and women who are making CIV
ilization better by their combined and
intelligent efforts.
But why should any man want to be
merely q camp follower?
Evening capital news., 1920-01-14

Mexico City has taken up the jazz
band idea. Well, maybe that is pun
ishment enough without any other
American Intervention.
Evening capital news., 1920-01-14

Nobody has suggested leather med
ais for the army and navy medal
awarders.
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YOU KNOW HER.

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YOU KNOW HER.
She goes into the dry goods store
and wanders round two hours or
more,
And looks at all the signs.
She handles all the latest styles of silks
and satins stacked in piles,
In long and varied lines.
She prices everything in sight and
drives the clerks to frenzy quite.
When they can't make the sales.
She misses not counter there, but
visits each to stand and stare
And bite her fingernails.
They think that she is going to buy the
while store out and wonder why
She doesn't make a start.
You see, she really looks as though she
has a whole CARLOAD Of dough
With which she wants to part.
And when they ask her, How much,
please?" in tones which show
they're Ill at ease.
She merNy shakes her head;
And when she leaves, it's safe to bet
she's bought just what she came to
A spool of cotton thread.
So long as people encourage him by
buying things they cannot afford, at
exorbitant prices, the profiteer will
flourish in our midst.
THEY OUGHT TO ARREST HER If
SHE TRIES IT AGAIN.
(Newport Correspondence Boston
Globe.)
Miss Blank, the prettiest girl here,
wears no gown twice.
STICKY.
(From the Neosho, Mo-, Democrat.)
e. Fosley, who lives in Marion town
ship. four miles west of Decord, has
on his hands 1900 pounds of honey.
Nobody has suggested leather med
ais for the army and navy medal
awarders.
Mexico City has taken up the jazz
band idea. Well, maybe that is pun
ishment enough without any other
American Intervention.
After staying out for three or four
days, the funny looking neckties are
beginning to disappear.
PRoTEAN ARTIST.
Mrs. Nancarrow LOOKED AT CA
MILLA WITH MICHAEL'S EYES
AND BROW, BUT SHE SPOKE
WITH A DIFFERENT MOUTH.-Cos-
mopolitan.
In Philadelphia they have evolved a
neat plan to make a good census show
ing. Philadelphia will make an ear
n.st effort to remain a regular town
If the following slogan given by the
Record" takes effect: LET every
loyal Philadelphian vow to do his ut
most to avoid dying until after the
census takers have got in their work."
you could have heard a pin drop
while the leading man held the lead
ing lady in passionate embrace"
"Well?"
"That's why lost patience when the
musical director spoiled the scene by
dropping his baton to the floor"
Bear with the poor man. happen
to know that the leading lady is his
wife and he hasn't been married to her
long enough to view such scenes with
professional indifference"
"He is dry wit" says friend of
ours, speaking of a certain author.
| Well say he is--just now, anyhow.
| THAT fellow. Blobbs, is very opti-
mistic, isn't he?"
| "Yes; sort Of chap who'd go into a
restaurant without a penny, order q
dozen oysters and expect to find q
pearl to nav his bill /"
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growth,
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THAT fellow Blobbs, is very opti-
mistic, isn't her"
YES; sort of chap who'd go into a
restaurant without a penny, order q
dozen oysters and expect to find a
pearl to paw his BILL"
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A-Yes. 1t applies to this.
c. 3. B. o-What can I DO for heart
disease7
A-Thers fs hope Of one being cured
with this trouble. but only tests with
blood pressure Instruments stethoscope
and other implements of search can tell
exactly.
9. T. K. o-what can I 10 for numb
ness?
A--Among the most frequent causes Of
numbness. tingling. needle and creepy
feelings In the hands and leGu II pres
sure from without or high blood pres
sure within. Hard work, lack Of rest
and recreation are also responsible. 0e
away for three or four weehs and rest
from housswcrk and werrisA
.. II. o-What can I 10 fer ehappsa
face?
&psss essl ersam srsw Aai, - sns
facet
A-Appay . littls siyssrins ana rsss-
water to the affected parts.
"a greasy cold cream vim grew hair.
N. v. o-can you ten me how - In.
crease nay hsightf
A-ksas1 y swtA ~ ~ SsauA, anA
join N sn ssh'sss. ssmsA
=. q A. e-what -. q ssr saa,ns
hairs
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A spool Of cotton thread.

So long as people encourage him by
buying things they cannot afford, at
exorbitant prices. the profiteer will
flourish in our midst.
Evening capital news., 1920-01-14

After staying out for three or four
days, the funny looking neckties are
beginning to disappear.
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"He is dry wit" says a friend of
ours. speaking of certain author.
Well say he is--just now, anyhow.
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A PRoTEAN ARTIST.

Mrs. Nancarrow LOOKED AT CA
MILLA WITH MICHAEL'S EYES
AND BROW, BUT SHE SPOKE
WITH A DIFFERENT MOUTH.-Cos
mopolitan.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
Omitted Leagues
itor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The New York Times is dread
fully worried because the Republican
national campaign textbook omits the
coyenant of the League of Nations. 1t
thinks every Republican will run to
get the Democratic textbook in order
to read over the precious document that
gives Great Britain six votes to our
one, damns the Monroe Doctrine with
faint praise, condones and confirms the
stealing Of Shantung from China and
binds America to undertake to pre-
serve the boundary lines of every coun-
try on the globe.
The Republican national campaign
textbook leaves out a lot of leagues.
1t leaves out the Ach@an League and
the Hanseatic League, and the Solemn
League and Covenant of the Scotch,
and the Anti-Corn League, and the
Primrose League, and the Wilson
League Of Nations, and all for the same
reason. ALVIN M. HIGGINS.
Croton-on-H Hudson, N. Y, Sept. ID, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
With Dubious Voice

The case of the girl Of fifteen who,
after living ten years with her aunt.
won't return to her mother is not so
curious as it may seem to many.
The idea that separation can make
no difference to mother and child,
that the tic between the two is
drawn so tightly by nature that
nothing can unloose it, savors Of
melodrama rather than of life. 1t
is an engaging theory that a
mother would know her child any,
where, that something would tell
her" But in fact the voice of kim
ship does not speak so plainly.
In this case the mother left the
child with her aunt because she was
unable to take care Of her. Now
that the years of poverty are over
she would have the child, fast grow
ing into %omanhood, back again. If
her own affection is unchanged, as
presumably it is, the present situa-
ton is painful. Yet the attitude Of
the daughter argues no unnatural
hardness Of heart. Her mother, see
ing her seldom, has become shad-
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16

owy figure. The psychical influence,
so to say, is stronger than the physi-
cal.
The court, to which the mother
appealed for compulsory return of
her child, gave a decision which
seems to serve the ends of justice.
The mother has thirty days in
which to gain the affection she
seeks. This is a brief opportunity
for uprooting the results Of time
and use. 1t may suffice; the rela-
ton so long sundered may be re-
stored. Yet, if it is not, compulsion
would miss it's object. Love may be
led, but it cannot be driven. And
ten years is longer in a child's life
than in an adults. 1t might suffice
to make strangers even Of those
who had been passionately attached
to each other.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16

them realize that the anthracite
fields constitute one Of natures ex-
elusive and restricted monopolies-
practically all comes from a little
stretch Of territory approximately
$50 miles in length and little more
than so in breadth. To shut off
our supplies of bituminous coal is
difficult, but far different is the
situation in regard to anthracite.
From the lawless days of the Molly
Maguires, half century ago, down
TO the Great Strike" Of 1902, the
anthracite fields from time to time
have been scenes of tumult, from
which the public suffered more than
the striking mine workers.
In 1902 President Roosevelt ended
what he termed "an intolerable situa-
tion" by calling representatives of
miners and leading coal operators
to the White House, there practical
ly compelling them to reach a settle
ment. His terms brought peace to
the coal regions and sufficient fuel to
the homes Of American citizens. This
happy condition lasted throughout
President Taft's term. What has
happened since-the scarcity of an
thracite, it's mounting costs, the
strikes and the threats of a fuel ia
mine almost every winter-is known
to all.
That the American people will
consent to be subjected over and
over again to this anxiety, this diff
Guilty in obtaining hard coal, or that
they will forever put up with con-
stantly increasing prices is most un-
likely. If nature had deposited, say,
in the small section of Michigan all
the available supply of salt or sugar,
the public would insist on enjoying
access to it. The condition in re-
gard to anthracite is not far diff
ferent. Too many miners and opera
tors alike seem to think their busi-
ness is wholly their own affair. 1t
is nothing of the kind.
Those engaged in mining, trans
porting and selling anthracite must
show more competence in conduct
ing business which is vital to the
lives and health and activities of
many millions. If present conditions
are not remedied it is not. impossi-
BILE that the Federal government it.
self may have to step in. The pub
lie will not stand much more trifing
with necessary of life.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
Best Republican Campaigner

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Some part of that fifteen mil
lion or billion, or whatever it is, should
be sent to Mr.. Cox "for services rem
dered." AS one who is con the road"
twelve months in the year, I can safely
say that no former candidate has
turned so many good Democrats into
potential Republicans as has he. Every
where one is made to realize what
sad and shameful example a man in
Mr.. Cox's exalted position is making
by his ward heeler" methods. 1t in
some years since Coxcy led an army into
Washington and | make the prediction
now that if the present Mr.. Cox wishes
to do the same thing he will have TO
resort to more dignified program to
raise Cox's army large enough to
take him out of Ohio. "For Harding
and dignifed craftsmanship"
P. s. DICKSON.
Rochester, N. Y, Sept. II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
Prudent MIR. Cummings

The announcement that Homer S.
Cummings will not be candidate
for Senator in Connecticut comes on
the day following the Maine cleo
tion. 1t will be difficult to dissociate
the two events. 1t had been &C.
cepted as a certainty that Mr.. Cum
mings would welcome the opportu-
nifty to run against Senator Bran
degee, just renominated by the Re-
publican State Convention. He was
the logical Democratic choice, &C
'cording to the Wilson-Cox school of
Democratic logicians, for he repre-
sents more than any other Demo-
crat in the state-more than any
other active Democratic politician in
the nation, perhaps-the "bitter-
ender" Wilson covenanter view,
while Mr.. Brandegee is an equally
pronounced anti-league and anti
covenant "bitter-ender."
Mr.. Cummings was a tactfully re-
ceptive candidate at San Francisco
for the Democratic Presidential
nomination. Now he says that his
physical condition will not allow
him to make six or seven weeks
state campaign. Yet the result in
Maine could hardly have failed to
strengthen his desire to spare HIM
self. The Evening Post candidly
admitted yesterday: "Maine is en-
phatically anti-league." What is
true Of Maine is true Of the other
New England states. And from the
Democratic point of view the most
alarming feature of the situation is
the opposition to the Wilson league
which exists inside the Democratic
party.
The Wilson covenant could hardly
win an Endorsement in a Democratic
referendum held in Massachusetts,
Connecticut or Rhode Island. The
delegations from these states to the
national convention didn't indorse it.
And one important factor in the
Maine result was undoubtedly the
detection Of many ant-lcaguc Demo-
cratic voters in the normally Demo-
cratic towns and cities
Democratic rainbow chasers have
been talking about the easy time
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
The Hat Smashers

1t is always a depressing season
Of the year when the varied and in
dividual and distinctive straw gives
place to the hard, tight little derby
that knows neither comfort nor
grace. Perhaps some consolation
might be found in the increasing
vogue Of the soft hat, the softer and
more irregular the better. But we
prefer to be solemn and gloomy over
the recklessness with which the hat
smashers have celebrated September
15-despite the best that protecting
magistrates could do.
Hat smashing has always enjoyed
certain intermittent vogue at ball
games, especially afound pennant
time and world series. 1t has never
been so gayly undertak ken as a light
and miscellaneous adventure as this
year.. Straw hats were whirled
away to the junkman quite as Gus
tard pies are wasted by the great
Mr.. Chaplin. "What is a straw hat
to anybody?" seemed to be the
theory. Was there once dull, alb
stemious and parsimonious era when
miserly folk maintained a straw hat
from one year to another? Throw
them out, toss their hats into the
river. Such skinfints have no place
iii this happy era of many dollars
and highest prices.
From which it may be seen by any
pessimist that once again the cele-
brated shooting of a certain crown
prince in the year 1914 arises to an
initiate and confuse, this time, straw
| hats. Just why war and high prices
should inspire to wastefulness, we
shall not attempt to define. But ap-
parently they do. A sort of drunk
cnness seems to seize the reckless
souls. Perhaps it is the high wages
of their particular jobs. But we
suspect it is something more general
and question of herd psychology,
and every one shares it in his or her
own particular field of recklessness.
The world may pine for normalcy.
| But it is still long way from prac-
ticng it.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
The Packers Margin

Figures submitted to the Institute
Of American Meat Packers, in ses-
sion at Atlantic City, show that the
total sales of eighty-one large cor
porations Of all kinds in 1919 aggre-
gated s9,25O,00O,OOO. The capital
engaged was nearly s6,O0O,OOO,Ooo,
and the total profits We're $780,
100000.
Of this business the Ave principal
packers did about one-third, but
their profits in 1919 were but s34,-
100000. No one of them, said
Thomas A. Wilson, their spokes-
man, retains as much as a cent and
q half out of each dollar of sales.
The average of the five was less than
one cent, The profits of the packers
are thus, he pointed out, exception
ally small
AS there is no reason to doubt
these figures, it is time for the gov
eminent to meet squarely the issue
they raise. SO far the governments
accountants, although they have al
most worn out the books of the pack
ers by repeated examinations. have
VIGOROUSLY not shown the inaccuracv
OF similar computations.
The consuming public is not pri-
marllY Interested in tho d;y;Io,J
rate of business corporations. What
concerns it is the margin be-
tween what an industry pays for it's
supplies and its labor and what it
sells its product for. 1t is doubtful
IL there is in the world any business
other than packing which operates
on margin as little as one cent to
the dollar. On the record the pack
crs are cheapeners of foods, for it
Is conceded that the cent they cling
TO comes from the economies of COM
plete utilization Of by-products which
are commonly wasted.
1t is time for the government to
prove its charges or to drop them.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16

For several months the Soviet prob
lem has overshadowed all other in
Great Britain, and the frequent changes
of the situation in eastern Europe have
caused Lloyd George to issue q new
note or to make new speech in Par
Lament every few days. The British
policy is also subtle and has a number
of angles. But it is imperative that this
policy be understood. Not only does
the future Of Bolshevism in Russia
and throughout the world depend upon
it, but the sudden claim of the domi-
nant factions of European labor to the
control of international relations, re-
gardless of the position of govern
ments-no matter how democratic-has
created a new problem as grave as
that of Bolshevism itself. The Council
of Action set up by British labor finds
its counterpart in several other coun-
tries. But the center of this movement
is England
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
The State Tickets

Tuesdays primaries, on both sides,
resulted, as anticipated, in easy VIC
tories for both sets of candidates
who had organization Endorsement.
An increase in the number of pri-
mary participants is observable, but
the direct primary, although gain
ing, is not yet the assemblage of the
rank and file of parties.
The disciplined battalions, those
accustomed to work together, are
still in practically undisputed con-
troll of both parties. But there is no
reason for those who favor greater
popular control to be discouraged.
Year by year come signs of slow re-
covery from the internal inertness
that gives the machines their ruler
ship. The problem of campaign ex-
penses has not been solved and at
tractive possible candidates are
averse to plunging into contests en-
ergized by bought-and-paid-for hull
labaloos. Nevertheless, we may con-
tlnue to cherish the dream that some
day the voters, each acting accord
ing to his personal volition and iudg-
ment, will do the selecting of candi-
dates without costly shepherding
and without compelling aspirants to
appear as lusty self-seekers.
The two tickets, especially as re-
lates to their heads, seem of more
than ordinary merit In Nathan L.
Miller the Republicans have as
candidate for Governor a man of in
telligence, of character and expert
ence. In Governor Smith the Demo-
Gratis have a strong candidate de-
spite his Fourteenth Street afilia-
tions. The gubernatorial contest,
it may be predicted, will be con-
Quoted without personal belittle-
tlement. The argument will be chiefly
as to which party is the more to be
trusted. AS to this Mr.. Miller seems
in the better position. Not only
must Governor Smith largely func-
tion through Tammany down state,
but up state through decadent or
ganlzation which has become Tam
many annex. Moreover, Republican
control of the Legislature being
certainty, it is desirable to have
unity at Albany.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
Cox Gaining

Other Democrats found it neces-
sary to swallow hard after the
Maine election and pause for
thought. Not Governor Cox. With
out seconds hesitation he raised
the Republican slush fund from
S15,000,000 to 30,000,00O, snatching
victory from defeat, as it were, and
proving once more that a good ward
politician is mightier than any facts.
The agile Governor, whose mathe-
matical speciality is adding, as BELTS
a citizen Of a city where the cash
registers come from, is thus gaining,
and gaining rapidly. But we hope
he will not stop with any such paltry
sum as $30,000,000. AS we pointed
out before the Maine election, Gov
ernor Cox will need not millions but
billions. of wicked Republican dol
lars on the day after election. We
suggested that he raise his accusa-
tion to fifteen billions. In view Of
the Maine avalanche thirty billions
is not a cent too much. Avalanches
cost money when they have to be
purchased, cash down, so much a
ballot, as Mr.. Cox charges.
1t is a whale Of an alibi that the
boys will want from their candidate
on the Sd of November, and Gov
ernor Cox is doing his darnedest to
oblige,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
Fafuify Of England

But Sovietists and -Sovietists
alike feel that if they can force one
concession they can force another
And here is the fatuity Of the British
policy. They think they can COM
promise with Boshevsm and yet de-
ccive it into thinking they are not
yielding to its power, but are merely
adopting a humane and intelligent
method to induce moderation and good
faith. On the contrary, the interna-
tional prestige and power of the So
viets are based in large part precisely
on the steady retreat of the British
diplomats.
To understand the present British
Bolshevist policy is to be on guard
against it. But let us not underest;-
mate its powers for evil 1t constitutes
the main support, and the only i'm
pcrtant support, of the pro- shevist
propaganda in America to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Dr.. Holmes never uttered a
saner deduction from human nature
than when he remarked 70 the effect
that every man has his off days-when
his mind is not at its best, when indi.
gestlon, queru!ous wife, lame back,
and what not, leave his thinking pow.
ers not at their keencst or his DISPOSE
tlon to take up prejudices unduly ex'
aggerated and too easily venial.
DR.. Holmes may have expressed the
idea converscly-that every man had
his exceptionally good days-and he
may not have expressed Al! Of the para.
phrase here given, bat he left it all,
and lot more, fairly deGucible frou
his leading thought
He had plenty of history 10 stand
on. The Tower of Babel was a bubble
it stands throughout history as the
most monumental blundcr Napoleon
was bubble. The recent Kaiser was
nothing but a bubble Even the late
Chinese dynasty. in all Of its antiquity,
was bubble, and some da, the Chinks
will see through a milestone when
there is a hole in it. Tney are even
now trying TO do this
Is there any known reason, except
the silliest Of ali insanities, vanity,
why the Sunday school sta.csmanship
OF league OF nations should eat up
our substance and moral viri!ity and
reduce this people to permanent
paucity of horse sense in order thst
some old ladies should think this world
is already heaven SO long as it really
is not?
When man, or a clique, will 60 70
the length Of challenging this country
TO keep faith" with Europe and not
20 disaopoint its dear hopes, founded
on the promises of a President who had
TO more authority to make the promises
than he had to go and Eve in Europe
while he was President, that man ana
that bunch Of politicians are no oeF
ter than Cicero's "corruoters OF the
youth"-if they corrupt any Of US who
are older that is our fault. Keep faita
with the devil! Let us make our OWE
promises before we are asked to keep
faith with either fool side Of tue
Atlantic Ocean.
ALFRED c. CoURSEN.
Huntington, n. Y, Sept. 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
The Coming ower

Wherein the Quarry Wins
Where do you get that stuff, dear
friend
'The quarry's nothing but the end
of the most interesting chase?
Have you been hunting for a place
To put your little Home, Sweet
Home?
Have you gone forth at morn, to
Until the close Of -eventide,
To chase a spot wherein to bide?
Don't tell me that the chase is best.
A house my quarry!
Darn the rest!