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New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
For Ogden L. Mills
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The voters of the 17th Con-
gressional District should realize that
they have an unusual opportunity to
elect to Congress a man of unusual
force and ability in Ogden l.. Mills.
to them if he becomes their repre-
sentative. He has made an exceptional
State Senator and has conferred a
lasting benefit on the state in laying
the foundations for rational taxation
a laborious piece of work occupying
more than two years. He went to the
front in France as a soldier in our
army, although his usefulness on this
side might we'll have excused him. His
latest public service has been as chair
man Of the committee on platform Of
the Republican party, which appealed
to the rank and hle of the party to
construct the party platform.
His clear-hcaded fearlessness in po-
litical matters viii be of great scrv
ice in the next Congress. The dis
trict is included between Fourteenth
Street and Ninety ninth Street on both
sides Of Central Park. Both as re-
CARDS the past and the future there is
every reason for the voter of what
ever political faith to see that the
name Of Mr.. Mills is on his ticket
CHARLES f. MANIERRE.
New York, Oct 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

ber of the bar for twenty-four years.
For six years he was an Assistant
District Attorney. He was candi-
date for justice Of the City Court on
& Observation-Disclosures League
ticket in 1907.
These four men deserve hearty
support. Vote for nine justices Of
the Supreme Court-the four Repub-
licans at the foot of the ticket and
the five bipartisan candidates imme-
diately preceding them.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
The New Yaphank

Camp Upton, built and improved
on the cost plus plan. has absorbed
$15, 100000 Of the nations money,
and is to absorb $5S7 900 more. But
when this payment is made the ma
tion will own forty square miles, de-
veloped with barracks, roads and a
water supply and available as a cam
tonment and army maneuver ground.
Forty square miles are equal to
25,oO0 acres. The award made by
the appraisers is thus $23 per
acre--not, apparently, a high price
for land near to the worlds greatest
center of population. Yet the owners
are glad to SELL They accepted 81 a
year rental while the government
was tenant. They were lords of a
barren waste, unpopulated and sell
dom visited except by hunters who
tracked the Long Island rabbit.
Yaphank saw glorious but trying
days. 1t was the nursery of the
draft army of the metropolis, but no
playground. One can imagine New
York fathers Of the future journey
ing there and pointing out the spots
where father blistered his hands and
almost broke his back as he labored
to conquer the wilderness. One rea-
son why our boys did so we'll abroad
was that after Yaphank the trenches
had frW torrOrc
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
Calvin Coolidge Says
(From his address delirered at Mid
dlosboro, Ky, October ~, 1920

(F'rom his address delirered at Mid
dlosboro, Ky., October ~, 1920
rejoice to find throughout this
broad country of ours strong, de-
termined patriotism, healthy fear for
the safety of our institutions, an un-
alterable decision to preserve their in
tegrty. We refuse to abandon one jot
or title of government. We will
not permit those we put into power,
whether man or a group or a party,
to continue a course which, we appre-
hend, will gradually sap our civic
strength and ultimately destroy our
free institutions. We will not allow
ambition to assume control of our lib
critics. We propose to prevent class
creation whether of wealth or of labor;
maladministration which wreaks injus-
tice, enactment of laws which arc not
for the promotion of the general well
fare, expediency in the determination
of our policies. extravaganza which dis
sipates our savings and plunges us into
unnecessary and burdensome debt. We
cmphatcally condemn invasion by one
branch Of the government of the pow
ers and duties Of another branch. We
will repudiate those who make solemn
promises in our name which they neg
lect or refuse to observe, and who
seek to commit us to adventure upon
unchartcd seas without counsel with
others equally responsible to us, and
be pcrilous to our existence.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
The Final Mysteries

There is no need to take too scri-
ously the Mysteries of our pro-league
neighbors who cannot now mention
the campaign without emitting such
charges as "monstrous" and "con-
scienceless," and generally working
themselves into lather. Whooping
up idealism in the wake of a Hooli-
gan campaign is a dusty and trying
job. Our readers who write wrath
fully of The Times and The Even
ing Post should make due allowance.
Yet we think there is point in re-
minding these estimable leaders of
opinion, even while still "het up" of
just why their emotional effort to
stampede the American people is
failing and must fail.
1t is failing for precisely the same
reason that Woodrow Wilson lost the
support of the American people
for himself and for his league.
Ideals are splendid things. The
American people can always be
counted upon to respond to their call.
But they must be embodied in a man
of sufficient fairness and bigness and
generosity to make them work.
When an cgoist, preaching an ideal,
Us too self-centered to sacrifice one
ounce of credit for himself in the
interest Of cooperation or compro-
mise, he is a false leader that no
people with sense will follow.
1t is different sort Of failure that
Democracy's would-be successor to
Woodrow Wilson presents. He is far
apart in talents and character from
the President. His shortcomings are
far more blatant, more obvious. Here
Is small-town politician, the candi-
date of bosses and vets the country
over, trying to talk like an inspired
prophet-when he is not lapsing into
ward campaign tactics. This is the
man in whose behalf The Evening
Post and The Times beat their
breasts-and, incidentally, snatch at
every cheap sectional or religious
lrrclevancc that they can muster to
their aid.
We say, therefore, that the Cox
campaign was doomed to failure for
precisely the same reason, funda-
mentally, that the Wilson campaign
failed. The American people are
intensely idealistic; they are also in
tensely practical They like lofty
talk, but they want deeds and char
acter to square with words-and
they are decidedly nauscated when
they do not.
There is sad task of deflation
ahead of our Democratic neighbors,
unless all the experts are wrong.
We suggest that they stop beating
their drums and whirling like der
wishes long enough to anticipate
their fate and pick place to drop.
After all, they have got to live in
this "monstrous, "conscienccless"
America after Election Day. Why
not try to tame their adjectives a
shade and realize why the idealists
of America are little shy of a bar
keepers candidate dressed in the
robes Of Elijah?
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
An End of allure
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In 1916 Wilson kept us out of
war" and in 1918 we found out that he
had not
In 1920 he furnishes US a plan, the
covenant of the League of Nations,
that is again guaranteed "to keep US
out of war The plan failed in the
Russian-Poland war. It's mandate prin-
cple has failed in Hayti, India and
Egypt. 1t has failed in Ireland after a
trial Of 119 years.
All the plans of the author have
failed. 1t would seem that the plans of
other statesmen should be tried. That
is common sense.
RICHARD PETE.
Denver, Col, Oct. "a, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
Health OF School Children

TO what extent are school chill
dren Of the United States suffering
IN health because of insanitarv
buildings, imperfect light, FAULTY
ventilation? How far are they phvs-
lcally handicapped by lack of sulfi-
cient Fairgrounds, by reason of
desks and chairs unsuted to indi-
vidual needs? Francis Arnold
Collins considers these things in an
article published by The Review of
Reviews.
Recent surveys, he says, show
that country children are less
healthy than city children, general
vitality being lower and death rate
higher in remote rural districts
than even in the crowded tenement
areas of New York City. Out of
an approximate total of 2O,0OO.O0O
school children, Mr. Collins states
that % per cent "have more or less
serious defects, in part the result of
their school environment" Of these
$1,000, 600, he adds, 5000 900 suffer
from eye troubles and 81 100000
have lung trouble, which more or less
seriously threatens tuberculosis,
rendering them a danger to others. "
lie quotes a recent report gathered
from some thousands of teachers,
66 per cent Of whom referred to in
sanitary conditions in their schools,
4G per cent to defective ventilation,
al per cent to insufficient toilet
facilities, while % per cent men
toned that the school drinking
water was mot dispensed in a sani-
tary way" While in the best build
ings dryness of atmosphere is
guarded against, scientific measure
ments have proved many class
rooms are actually drier than the
Desert OF Sahara.
While not disposed to minimize
the seriousness of the conditions
mentioned by Mr.. Collins, the un
alarmed will take into account the
difficulty of obtaining accurate re-
ports from thousands of teachers of
various ages and temperaments
Conditions which seem sanitary to
one seem quite unsanitary to an
other. Lung troubles" and "eye
troubles,' described as "more or less
serious,' likewise are subject to diff
ference of opinion on the part or
teachers who report. Yet if the gen
eral situation is only one-tenth as
bad as pictured it demands prompt
and painstaking investigation by a
competent body.
Fortunately, there is apparatus
for measuring with exactness such
matters as light, heating, ventila-
ton, moisture. But whether anv
private agency, however large, could
carry on q country wide investiga
ton is open to question. The more
advanced states already make such
surveys IS rule The need for
investigation, Standardization and
general improvement obtains prin-
clpally in the more backward states.
SPEAKING. generally, it is the rural
school which furnishes the most
difficult problem, one which must be
met intelligently and solved prop
erly. The feeling grows that the
Federal government must assume
greater responsibilities touching
matters of public health and educa-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
A Taxpayer s Protest

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS taxpayer in this state.
hereby enter my protest against the fly
ing at half-mast on the citys buildings
the national and other flags because
an arch traitor in the World War sue
ceeded in committing suicide, by name
Terence MacSwiney, late Lord Mayor
of Cork. | consider this use Of the
flag an un-American act and an insult
to 95,00000O unhyphenated Americans.
EDWIN T. BANTA.
New York, Oct 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

such momentous responsibilities. 1t is
incredible that one should turn with any
SO seriously discredited as the Demo-
cratic party in recent times, and which
has conducted the present campaign on
a plane Of hysteria. For all these rea-
now clearly drawn between Harding
and Hysteria.
PHILIP MARSHALL BROWN.
New York, Oct 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
Article X in Working Order

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir:
The Serbs and the Rumanians
Annoy the poor Aibanans,
So, send some Pennsylvanlans,
All thoroughly equipped
The Turks and MaceGonians
Are fighting Thessalonians,
Ten thousand Washingtonians
Are wanted. Have them shipped
The Kurds assault Armenians;
The Poles attack Ruthenians.
Don't send US any Fenians,
For lreland's In q stewl
We cannot spare Sardinians,
Or even Abyssinians,
So, send some West Virgin'sns!
Three regiments will do.
The Firms and Scandinavisns
Are stirring up Moravians
To massacre Moldavians.
Send cowboys, or police
And, since those vile Bulgarians
Are acting like barbarians,
A corps Of Delawarians
Is needed, now, in Greece.
The Let's and Lithuanians,
Galicians and Ukrainians,
Are killing Transylvanians,
And this we cant allow.
We're short of Caledorians,
So. send some Oregonians,
New Workers or Bostonians,
To stop this bloody rowl
New York, Oct. 25, 1920. -
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
Clutching at Straws

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: am not an artist, but if I had
the pen of Thomas Mast I would draw
cartoon entitled GA Drowning Man
Clutching at Straws.' The picture
would be that of Jimmy Cox, sinking
in deep water vainly clutching at a
collection of straws which are labeled,
"Any old reservations which the Sen
ate will accept"
ERNEST c. JOHNSON.
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
One Of the Nationettes

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Is not Hayti one of the nation
cites whose votes Roosevelt says we
need in the League of Nations?
Could the folly of this grotesque
league be better Illustrated than by
this failure Of military government?
Do we want this principle applied ia
the whole world?
LEWIS H. NASH
New York, Oct. 81, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

Until we know where the Republi-
can and the Democratic candidates 8
stand on Daylight Saving for 1921 we
shall remain pledged to Comrade Debs,
to whom nothing can be of less conse-
quence than an hour Of daylight,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
srEMnFR OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

T,c AeSoc'aet Fress is exclusively entitled To tho
t.e fcr rsQnolCat.c OF al news credited
70 = or nor Otherwise credited Ga this paper, and
sso 'hc 10 al u spontaneous origin published
heTru
A. lights Of republication OF al other matter
re>ela aiso are reser7ed
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

The athaletic young man who sends
things by Parcels Post is opposed to
Daylight Savings
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
The Coming 7ower
Starting ON Hixh

Miller or Smith? Miller or Smith,
Here is n couplet to start you off with.
L. B. c.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1920

owned and published daily b. New York Tribune
lac. New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. rresl-
asnt; O. Vernon Rogers. vicc-Prcsiden, Helen
Rogers Reid Secretary. r. = Mssfcld. Treasurer
Address Tribune Building. ls4 Nassau Street New
sert- Telephone. Beekman sooe
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

gn ssed q, tho roetcfNce al New YORK as Second
Class Mail Matter.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

YOU can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE With atsou,e safsts--tcr u dissatsfac-
ton results In any case TIE TRIBUNE guarantee
70 rsS your money back upon rtuu,st. No red tape.
NO aulbblinn. We MAKE gosd promptly II the
sdssrtissr does ne.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

Pro-Harding as we are, we do not
trail with Mr. Rupert Hughes in his
appraisal in The Times of Senator
Harding as stylist. Mr.. Hughes's ap-
praisal contains too many "quitcsv and
"verys" to convince US.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
The Stenog's Alibi

Sir: For the past few days | have been
getting out publicity for the Nebraska end
OF the Ncbras ka-Rutgcrs game. which is to
be played at the Polo Grounds Election Day.
My stcnographcr knows as much about foot
ball as you and | do about Harting's posi-
ton on the League of Nations COR. If the
policy of The Trip will not permit the
reference to Harding make it as the aver.
age American knows about cricket) Well
dictated a line: Coach Schultz has built
up a great Nebraska scoring machine The
young woman wrote it Securing machine. I"
When asked her why she used the word
securing she back with the replv .
i beard you saying that Nebraska would
clean up Rutgers. SO thought securing
must be right" CLYDE r. E,,ro7.r
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

" hen we first began to write about
II. Sd we did not realize the dangers
that were in it-dangers to US, we
mean. But by and by when we liked
Jurgen, and said so, John Sumner. of
the Society for the Suppression of
wee, asked pointedly what we meant
by praising such a book. Was it the
sort of story, he asked, which ought to
be put before H. Sd? Later we began
to get circulars from real estate
dealer in Westport, who said that we
simply must live in the country be-
cause H. 3D. would like it, and to-day
we have received letter, which be-
gins:
Il am your near neighbor and fellow
citizen. Please forgive the liberty |
take in urging you to vote for Schuy-
Ter M. Meyer for State Senator. In
the effort to rid our city of Tammany
control, his election win be an i'm
portant factor. You cannot wish II.
Sd to grow up in Tammany- -bossed
town, so vote for Schuyler NJ. Meyer. y
A new slavery is threatening us, but
We intend to fight against it. No man
shall control our vote, no woman and
no child. II. Sd can't bully US into
voting his ticket, reading his books or
living in Westport
AS matter of fact, we are not at
all sure that we would do him a sery-
ice by going out and destroying Tam
many. Perhaps he wants to be re-
former himself and he'll need a few
dragons. 1t hasn't been simply indo-
lence which has kept us from making
the world over completely. 1t would
be rather shabby trick, we think, to
hand it over to H. Sd, when he gets
ready to take hold, and say to him,
Here's your world. You should have
seen it before l got started 1t was
a terrible place, but now everything's
fixed up all right. You won't have to
do thing except just little light
busting and polishing now and then"
We don't even know that II. Sd wants
good world. Up to date we haven't
detected the slightest hint Of moral
earnestness in him. The risk of mis-
taking his intentions and his wishes
is too great. We rather think that the
safest thing for us to do is to leave
the world just as we found it. H. Sd
may not like it, but at least he can't
blame US
Youth and the Bright Medusa
(Knopf), by William Gather, represents
work extending over a period Of fifteen
years. All the short stories in the vol
ume are good work, or, at any rate, they
are all well written, but the growth
from an early one, such as "Paul's
Case" to Coming, Aphrodite.' is great.
Miss Gathers place at the top, or there
abouts, is sec',re by now, we suppose,
and it seems e. us thar she mas won it
in spite of the handicap of writing just
a shade too we'll We mean that it is
not difficult for her TO make a stodgy
conventional story seem rather dazzling
simply by tricking it out with keen
method and happy expression. For in
stance, we are told "The Case of Paul"
has been much admired and initiated,
and yet it says nothing that was not
said worse a score of times before Miss
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
Keep on Trying

heep on Iry1nR
have studied dithyrambics anapcstics and
iambcs.
I'm a connoisseur on assonance and rhyme.
can rattle off a lyric or compose Il pane
gyric
In meter that is noble and sublime
Yet with all my theoretics
On blank verse and rhymed poetics.
have never hit The Tower at the top.
Tor, TOP
have never hit The Tower at the Top.
Why, an ecloguc bucoiic is to me a
baby's frolic--
can write an ode rondeau in fash
L can reel off staid 1onics even prose in
polyphonics
That makes Amy Lowells verses sound
like trash.
Yet with all my theorctics
On blank verse and rhymed poetics.
| have never hit The Tower at the top.
TOP, TOP.
have never hit The Tower at the Top
LII IIf.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

In "American English and British
English" Professor Brander Matthews
tells about man who went into a
Vermont inn for his midday luncheon.
What kind of pie?' 'Open-top, criss-
cross, and covercd." All wrong, as
anybody who ever paid SO week for
board at Prettyman's, Ann Arbor,
Mich, knows. The varieties of pie
are known, in the Middle West, at
any rate, as covered, uncovered, and
crossbar.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

Great is our delight that the Demp
sey-Carpentier fight is to be held in
Havana. If it were to be exhibited
or, as the sport writer's say. staged
here, we should have lot of high
resolutions about not going; and the
morning Of the fight day we should
probably pay s62.50 for ticket.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
THE GREAT DIVINE

More careful computers than we have
convinced US that our figuring about
the linotype record was wrong. We
figured on 1914 ems plea instead of
nonpareil, so the record stands as a
little more than two columns an hour.
This is tremendous speed, though Old
Clint Ball, the minion speed demon
can set column of Coming Tower in
less time than it takes to write it.
which is no faint praise
It's True, Herb, But It's for the Wife and
Riddles
Sir: Syl says you're throwing contribu-
tions.
Say it ain't true. Frank: say it amt
true. HERE
Miller Attacks Smith on Beer.
Globe.
Infuriating, this home brew
This covenant" says Governor Cox,
us simply a bet on the morality of
the world" Well, that's good bet.
We always are willing to bet on the
m. OF the w.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29
Prohibition Mother Goose

Prohibition Mother Goose
A diller, a dollar, hootch- -hoisting
scholar,
What wakes you up so soon?
You used to sE a glass Of book,
But now you're stewed till noon.
c. G.. H.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

"Evers,' The Suns dispatch says,
made his reputation in baseball when
he was second baseman for the Cubs,
under Frank Chance And with Joe
Tinker and Frank Chance he made, we
regret to say, virtually all our repu-
tation.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
What does your pantry show?
Bottles of rye you cannot buy,
And cocktails all in a row.
There was q man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise;
He put into his cellar once
A stock Of gins and ryes.
And when he found his stock was low
With all his might and main
He motored TO certain place
And stocked all up again. M. M. W.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

Britain Valves Right to Confscate
German Goods.-Tribune headline.
Still ruling the valves.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

ut is gamble pure and simple" is
how Tex O'Rourke characterizes the
Dempsey Carpenter fight. In that re-
spoct it differs sharply from the 1919
worlds series, which was gamble
simple.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

1t is permissible-if subjects frivo-
lous as politics may be discussed-to to
wonder how the superintendent of the
Rutland, w., Masonic Temple, Mr..
harding Coolidge, will vote.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-29

The Presidential campaign began
with one Wisconsin.
1t VII end as it began.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-08

How ABSURD!
By Bruce Copeland.

boosy again the players
psadents Douglas There have been umors
late Hammond composed Of the "Clabby who met
absurd The Hammond team represent
e one Of the best esssns IL the country
Players fans glard aea.t the v.sares Of eyeoona
desce Moreover realize that n the ndepe.d
s.. .. VIZ y w he e Ts . Is
composed whole thies have just ea.se 70
lcm heavy ss opponeas who canaot match them
II general all-areund class.
AKRON THE ONE.
Report Indians not the Canton
Bulldogs have the inside track for this years champion
highly probable because Of the endless backing the In
Magic city Ten years dogs slept undstubed
the middle OF Akron streets Today the city teemns meopo
oveake Cleveland in numbers
prosperity Akron aluen rubber have backed the
with wheeling
which 49, indication Of the teams class
CANTON wANINGl
defeated the Pittsburgh Phcans. who
eared only as early season In the east rhe soee was
gadng strength Of Akron the Wheeling Colegans backed by
se .. sne "n s. Of the S
players in football Akron has been spelling for championship foot
s ROCK %s M nh % sS
WATCH THE STALEYS!
Island between the Staleys
Moline Judgment view Of the Starch
almost dav Of the in the The
fact that Saeys beat the should nothing
game inclined believe Independents will
but will by the margin of single touchdown
SILENT WATCHERS.
One Of the outstanding features Of the words series sentiment in
Chicago major league clubs Ths sentiment sshsi
The Argus scorboa To date there has been little
uban cation the fortunes Of either the Indians
Cleveland win