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New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
The Fleet at the Democratic
Convention

In tracing recently the political
voyages of Mr.. Daniels to the Pa
clfic Coast we got as far as the ini-
tlal division of our feet-in viola
ton of the basic principles of naval
strategy-and his political armada
of year ago. That was not the
end, however. The Pacific feet
had yet another political purpose 70
fulfill. Mr.. Daniels prepared for
his next triumph by rallying the
navy to the assistance of himself
and the Democratic party He Dr.
dered the Pacific feet to the San
Francisco convention.
Mr.. Daniels went to San Fran
cisco and hoisted his flag on the
New Mexico. And Franklin Roose-
velt, emulating the example of his
chief, hoisted his flag on the New
York. There they remained during
the convention-our two Pinafore
admirals ahoat in command of the
Pacific fleet-the navy helping to
make the United States safe for the
Democratic party!
But The duties Of the navy were
not completed at the Democratic
convention. It had cher political
functions to PERFORM 1t had other
contributions to make in the per-
sonal and political interests of Mr..
Daniels and Mr.. Roosevelt.
Upon the adjournment Of the
convention Franklin Roosevelt
hauled down his flag from the New
York and came home to fix his
'ences. Mr.. Daniels, in order to
tighten his grip on the electoral
vote of the Pacific Coast for the
Democratic party, fingered vet
longer for another junket, with the
Pacific fleet as a tail to his kite.
He took Admiral Rodman as pilot,
and with flotilla Of destroyers and
one or more dreadnoughts made an
excursion as far as Alaska. He told
the country he was up there to get
coal for the navy. He went "down
in a coal mine underneath the
ground" and got himself photo
graphed. His publicity bureau
published the pictures and reported
his speeches. How much coal do
the people expect him to get be-
tween now and March 4? 1t is safe
to say that he wasted thousands of
tons Of coal and many thousands
of the peoples money in adver-
tising himself at the expense of the
navy.
But if he wasted coal he might
yet, from his Josephan point of
view, count his fishing trip a sue
cess if the voters of the Pacific
Coast fell for his publicity at the
public's expense. Fortunately, there
is every indication that even from
this angle the trip was another item
of Democratic waste.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

When our fathers and forefathers
found that farming and industry in
the East had become overcrowded they
never thought of striking against a
situation that was Inevitable Nor
have we any record of their trying to
solve such situations by agitating for
some visionary scheme in which the
government or the state or somebody
else was to take control and work some
-omnipotent imDossbility for them. In
stead, by ten of thousands they went
where opportunity was.
There is a tremendous shortage of
labor in almost all fields to-day. Any
worker to-day in any industry which
cannot pay what the worker wants to
earn could, if he tried with tenth
Of the initiative and energy that sent
hundreds of thousands of Americans
of other generations into the West
or South, easily find many jobs that
would pay him anything he could rea-
sonably earn But of course that would
take him away from his local union,
where he pays dues every month And
this is one of the reasons why workers
to-day are being influenced and edu-
Gated to depend on strikes rather than
on personal energy and efficiency for
their jobs and their wage advances.
But not only is it true that there
are many industries which cannot pos
sibly afford to pay as high wages as
the workers would like to get, but one
of the most sad yet salutary lessons
brought home by many Of labor's
strike victories" of last year is that
no industry can go on paying as high
wages as the workers want unless the
workers themselves go ahead and ac
tually earn them by increased produc-
ton.
Strike after strike early last year
caused tremendous shortage in cloth
ing, shoes, shirts and wide variety
of other necessaries or near necessa-
ries. This shortage sent prices sky
rocketing With these high prices, and
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
MIR. Hoover on the One Issue

A clear and able analysis of the
Republican case was presented by
Mr.. Hoover in his speech at Indian
apolis yesterday. Not so much for
new arguments as for an accurate
definition of existing issues and their
relative Importance is the address
notable. Mr.. Hoover does an espe-
cial service in placing the league
problem-important as it is-in it's
true perspective to the broader issue
of the campaign. In his telling
phrase:
"Ihe solemn referendum is not on
the league; it is on the failure of the
Democratic party"
OF that failure Mr.. Hoover
speaks with an intimate knowledge
and lack of partisan heat that
cannot fail to persuade. His review
is detailed and overwhelming and
points moral for the future that
is inescapablc. The failure of Dem
ocratic leadership-"dis "disintegration, T"
Mr.. Hoover we'll calls the present
status of Mn. Wilson'S Administra-
tion-necessitates that "the respon-
sibilities Of government be trans
ferred" That is the single issue of
the campaign in The Tribune's view,
and Mr.. Hoover has done a service
to the country in stating the facts
with such inevitable logic.
Mr. Hoovers argument touching
the League of Nations is equally
admirable. There is no issue between
the parties on the broad question
Of league or no league. AS Mr.
Hoover we'll says, the issue is solely
one of method-whether it is best
to seek peace by driving this coun-
try against its judgment into the
Wilson league exactly as drafted, or
to organize the good will of the
people Of America in a world league
tc which they can give their hearty
support.
The pledge of the Republican
party and of Mr.. Harding to effect
such an organization is solemn ard
inescapable, as Mr.. Hoover states.
The Tribune leans strongly to Mr..
Hoover's view that such an organi-
zation can probably best be achieved
by a rebuilding of the existing
league, a salvaging of what is best
in the scrapped Versailles covenant.
Mr.. Harding, while refusing to bind
himself to any one program, frank
ly stated this method as an obvious
and probable coucse of action, and
there is nothing in his later speeches
rejecting this program if the wis
dom of the country approves it. 10
suggest otherwise is to doubt the
sincerity and the fidelity of the Re-
publican party and its candidate for
the Presidency, and we share Mr..
Hoover's faith that no such treach-
cry to a solemn pledge is possible.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

chart for forty issues showed a sharp
upturn before Henry Ford and the
rest OF the automobile crowd un-
llmbered their heavy artillery.
1t IS automatic that a bond is
worth more when its yearly yield,
say Sd, will buy four bushels Of
wheat than it is when the 81 will
buy less than two, and that is the
reason bonds decline in price when
consumers costs go up, and vice
versa. By the same token stocks
move the opposite way, because
profits, and consequently dividends,
decline with prices as a rule.
All of this is elementary to those
familiar with economies, but it is
The Tribune's experience, revealed
by the hundreds of investment in
quiries received each month, that
there is large body of thrifty peo-
pie who buy speculative stocks un-
wisely because they cannot be con-
vlnced that high prices, huge profits
and swollen dividends are not going
to continue forever.
The man who is in a position to
buy a bond, which is simply lending
dollars, now will collect dollars when
his loan comes due. In all human
probability his dollars will buy more
then than they could now.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
conference he did and said as this
country's official representative. Why
should he persist in denying the
voters full accounting?
The Missing Transcript

President Wilson described Sena-
tor Spencer's version of the formers
speech to the Rumanians and Ser
bians on May 81, 1919, as absolutely
and unqualitiedly false" Senator
Spencer's version is corroborated by
the official French transcript of the
Wilson address. Confronted with the
necessity of opposing the official
English version to The official French
version, Mr.. Tumulty and State De-
partment 2&cials merely say, on the
President Behalf, that there is no
official English version in this coun-
try.
The President told the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations on
August 10, 1919, that he had a copy
Of all the conference process GER
baa1. Where is the one covering
the proceedings Of May 81, 1919?
Lawrence Hills, Paris correspond
ent of The New York Herald, cabled
yesterday that the French govern
ment admits sending to Washington
a copy of the minutes of the confer
ence meeting at which Mr.. Wilson's
assurances of military aid were
given to the Rumanians and Serb
ians. Who has it, if this special
copy was sent? Was it mailed to
Colonel House, instead Of to the
White House?
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Girls on Iiptoe

(Fron, The Frcomanj
urls on tiptoe-sappho, YOU were
one:
You. reached up and touched the sky,
and knew what it was made Of.
You cried out and were a god what
am I afraid of
Girls on tiptoe-Helen you were one:
You reached out your hand for love,
and knew what it was made Of.
You took pain and JOY, and ate.
what am | afraid of
Girls on tiptoe Joan, you were one:
You did all the voices said. voices
I am hearing.
You went out alone and fought
what is there for fearing.
Girls on tiptoe, standing in a row.
Ghosts beside me on this hill. wins
pering, Come, too"
l viii reach my bare arms up and
touch the sky. like you
MARY CAROLYN DAVIES.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Flood Tide

Frops The Yale Reritlo>
Lije went achistliag catch. det1geen the
pI'n, and the cherry,
Rolling a blossom Of pinb-like almonds
under has tongue,
looked at US all as ne gretc and made
crceedia9ly merry,
Lord holo I'll dib6le and pr7,ne, .chem
y0u aren't so beoatiiauy young."
There was moon Ike spilling of milky
sap from the sky.
And the tree of the sky was a candle of
creamy flame.
Each white-fire leaf of star distinct:
and old wind went by
Hooded in dark and ashamed as It whis-
pered some muttering name.
We were huddled up in the launch ike
a sleepy parcel of birds
The plungine silence engulfed Us. We
heard as If we had died
The throb of the engines heart erase
our tiptoeing words,
And the SLOW, mysterious mouth of the
water against the side.
Then we saw the cloudy old house, and
the waters deep at its stair
Bright in an endless flood, irradiate,
calm and wise,
Like The mik-white body of Truth asleep
in her naked hair,
And the blood and strength of the Earth
arose to our dazzling eyes,
Quiet, quiet, and quiet, said the march
of the wave beneath.
Oh. immaculate shone the mind as the
lotos of silence grew,
And the sore heart heavy with youth
was clean blade straight in its
sheath,
AS we drank with matchlcss dream in
that chrism of salt and dewl
Death jams doica on his spade u, the
bloom Of our elrish orchard,
Euen the rott-carls craicl at the skels-
ton jokes he cracks,
Let's hold boughs for q lclac. as Our
Youth goes ont tc be tortured.
We shall remember a moon till ttey herr
as uader the orei
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Lament

tFroDl The S0HneD
WTHAT is our little love to US to-
day
The utter loneliness of little things
The beauty that is new nor fades away
The show of ribbons and of pretty
rings!
The shut-in evenings that we loved so
well,
The tea and prattle by the fire Of
turf,
Are as a tale some traveller has to tell
OF seas remembered for their singing
surf
For there Is blood in Londonderry
lanes,
And there is that in Belfast that is
sad;
And Irish hearts are bleeding! What
remains?
Can wounds be staunched? Can
Irish hearts be glad?
In Ulster towns to-day the heartsick
hears
The solemn tread Of Ulster volun-
teers.
MARrJ o'NEiLL
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

The Senate investigation further
showed that the average more skilled
miner, if he worked steadily eight
hours day every day his mine worked,
could earn from $1,000 to $4,000 a year.
and, if he worked overtime, that much
more in proportion. But in order to
give work to some hundred thousar<
or more extra men and keep them in
the union paying some 100000 or
more every month into the union treas
ury-which at present collects about
SlO,000,000 a year-the miners are so
discouraged from working more than
part time that few of them dare or
care to do it. So prevalent is this
practice that in some districts any man
is branded as a "scab" who works
more than three days a week.
If the coal miners had not won their
strike and the union leaders who per-
petrated this strike had been totally
defeated, if the hundred thousand or so
extra men who are not needed in the
coal mines should go back to the farms
and the other industries from which
they came and where they are vitality
needed, and the average skilled coal
miner were thus permitted to work
regularly, he would become one of the
best-pad workers in American indus
try.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Staggering Losses

The war, with its unsetting of old
standards and its establishments Of
many things on basis of greater fair
ness, and particularly in the way it
brought home to all the people the
Importance of labor, is primarily re-
sponsible for this advance in wages.
Strikes are not. Strikes, on the con-
trary, have gone a long way toward
taking away from labor the biggest
advantages which the war brought.
One hundred and thirty-four million
days Of labor is only part of last years
strikes plus other hundreds of millions
of days of labor lost because of those
strikes:
eight hundred and five million dol
lars worth of wares lost by strikers
plus billions of dollars of wages lost
because of the strikes.
two and one-half billion dollars
worth of production lost through
strikes alone plus other billions Of
dollars OF production lost because of
these strikes.
less than 3 per cent of these strikes
even claimed to be primarily about
wages and only about half of them
even mentioned wages.
the most conspicuous strikes that
pretended TO be for wages were either
hopelessly beaten or brought merely a
temporary fictitious advance that left
the average worker worse off than he
was before.
then, why in the name of labor as
well as the long-suffering public, have
the great proportion of these strikes
been called and fought with such
staggering losses to all Of US?
The answer to this question is the
most astounding indictment of all
against strikes and the way the strike
weapon has been used since the war.
(To-morrofo's article: "Strikes as
Mere Incidents in Fights for Personal
POtCer."
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

AS long as such high prices lasted.
manufacturers could afford to pay la
Dor almost anything on almost any
terms of reduced production. They
did, and the workers in these indus
tries went back to work on such easy
hours and high pay that they began
actually to believe their radical lead
ers' assertion that organization and
strikes were all that was necessary to
get rich quick.
But suddenly a great public reaction
set in. People decided they would not
continue to pay these high prices. The
war had taught them that they could
go without a great many things, and
this spring they decided they would
do without even very many of the ordi-
nary necessares of life till the prices
came down. The public is still paying
high prices for food, coal and such
things that it cannot exist without.
But it has stopped buying clothing,
furniture and q wide variety of such
products so completely that to-day there
is tremendous-not oversuppIy, but
oversupply at the price. As a result
factories are closing down on every
hand or materially reducing working
time. Labor is still theoretically en-
joying the high wages which IT'S strike
victories" won for it, but actually it
is getting less and less benefit from
them in its pay envelopes.
False Theories
But undoubtedly the biggest loss
that labor has suffered as a result of
these strike victories" of last year is
that these victories" have led labor to
thinking in terms of big money
for short hours and easy work, that
they have led labor into believing in
the utterly impossible economic fallacy
that wages depend on what labor
strikes for instead Of what it labors
and produces for. The public has al
ready declared that it will not pay the
prices which this fallacy leads to. La
Dor is right now beginning to pay heav-
lily in unemployment for the false
theories last years strike victories"
made popular. How much more those
last years victories" are going to cost
labor as we'll as the rest of the coun-
try depends on how soon labor begins
to see that the only way to get and
keep higher wages is to work harder
or more efficiently and produce more
for them.
The great coal strike that cost the
country, including millions of the la
borers, billion dollars got IA per
cent increase for the miners. 1t also
strengthened the power of the labor
officials and their system-which has
already been described and eMpha-
sized-of keeping tremendous excess
Of workers in the industry all work
ing on an average half to two-thirds
of the time.
But what has been the net result of
this to the average ambitious miner
Joseph Stewart, an unnaturalzed
Lithuanian, twenty-e eight years old,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

with three in his family, worked in the
jerome mine, near Fayette City. He
is an ambitious coal miner whose case
is reported in the Senate investigation
of December. 1919. BY working stead
lily with some overtime Stewart earned
$3,o7o2o for tie nine months for which
the Senate had his record, or at the
rate of $4,000 a wear.
Joseph Grandosky, an unnaturalized
Austrian is another average skilled
miner. He worked seventeen days less
than full time during the same nine
months and worked no overtime. His
record, according to the same Senate
report, shows that ,.s earnings for
these eight and half months were
Sl,792.67, or at the rate of over S2,5OO
a year. Grandosky paid an income
tax on S2,345.73 in 1918. All this was
before the strike and so before the
Id per cent raiae
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
A Convenient Guide

(From The Philadelphia Netes Courier
William r. Hearst is one of the great
est molders of public opinion in this
country. In order to make up their
minds about question, millions of
Americans need only 10 know how
Hearst stands on it. Having found out
which side he is on, they know that the
other side is right.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Cox's Newspaper Says
(From The Dayton Daily News
September 8, 1870

Here is thing to remember when
the world is talking war. The navy Of
Germany and of the United States
combined would be more powerful than
Great Britains. In other words, a COM
bination of Shese two navies would have
nothing to fear from the powerful
fleets of the mighty Britain, and in war
time it has been demonstrated nobody
place.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
The High Cost of Strikes
Chapter TX
The High Cost Of Strike "Victories'

(1his IS the ninth Of series OF thi,--
teen artacles appearing upon this page
dailv.)
Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
Carpenters through various strike
victories" got a 65 per cent increase
in their rate of wages last year, but
their actual wages decreased per cent.
The coal miners as A result of the
great coal strike and all the maneuver-
ngs and politics and negotiations that
followed got an increase of IA per cent
IN wages. But because of system
which that strike victory" helped to
is getting so per cent to 60 per cent
less wages than he otherwise would
be earning.
AS a result of the clothing strike
"victory" a year ago wages were in
creased from about $50 week to $65
and S75 and often more a week for 35
per cent less work. But for the last
three months, during what is normally
of all the clothing workers have been
walking the streets.
What happened in the clothing in
dustry has happened to a greater or
less degree in the silk, cotton goods,
shoes and many other industries.
Under normal conditions where COM
keen. on price basis, the average
manufacturer has to do everything pos
sible to keep his costs down. Under
such conditions he has undoubtedly
been very reluctant to advance wages
any more than he had to, except, per-'
haps, on a basis of greater efficiency
of production.
Wages Went Up
But during the war and for the first
year and a half after the war condi-
tions were such that almost any manu-
facturer could easily sell all he could
make. This, coupled with the great
shortage of labor, has made it actually
profitable during the last few years for
employers to pay as large wages as
possible. AS a matter of fact, employ
ers have in general been very willing
in the last few years to meet all de-
mands for wage advances unless the
demands were out of all reason.
One of the points the B. r. T. men
emphasized most strongly in their
strikes was the fact that other rapid
transit companies in and around New
York had voluntarily raised the wages
of their men. That this tendency is
general is not only a matter of COM
mon knowledge but is definitely estab
lished by the statistics of the United
States Bureau of Labor, which report
ed that of all strikes last year less
than 80 per cent were principally for
wages.
But there are of course exceptions
to this rule. The B. R. r. company,
which is in the hands of receiver,
could not meet the ware demands of
its men and keep on operating. The
Clyde, Mallory and Old Dominion lines,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
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A Week of Verse
Listen |

T9" Fa%eld F'9Fa stasee dgeS S9oi e~ o. sra.ise' y
of ''iHestrofirc poems Of feh4cA tnss -
eec P'soYshed by William Heiafnsa-a.
QUIET your faces; be crossed every
Z thumb;
Fix on me deep your eyes
Out of my mind a story shall come,
Old, and lovely, and wise
Old as the pebbles that fringe the cold
seas;
Lovely as apples in rain,
Wise as the King who learned Of the
bees.
Then learned of the emmets again.
Old as the fruits that in mistletos
shine;
Lovely as amber, as snow;
Wise as the fool who, wAc:. care saaa.
him pine,
Sang Hey, fol, lol, lilly 10.
Old as the words rhyming Thomas
snuffed sweet,
When pillion he rid with the Queen.
Lovely as elf-craft: wise as the stree.
Where the roofs Of the humble az.
Hsst! There's stirring, there's wiN'
in the bough;
A whirring of birds on the wing:
Like a river of water my story shat
flow,
Like runnels Of water sing.
WALTER DE LA MARE.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

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New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
4 Costly Victory

The coal strike got Ii per cent raise
for all miners. 1t helped maintain a sys-
tenn under which the union is getting
81 100000 to $l,500,0OO extra dues
every year. But this can scarcely be
said to compensate the skilled miner
who but for this abnormal system could
work steadily and make from so to so
per cent more.
Of course, from the public point of
view 100 600 mon kept in the coal in
dusttry who might be cutting down pro-
duction costs on the farm and in other
industries is net and permanent eco
nomic leak that makes the partial vic
tory" in the coal strike not only very
expensive but a continually very eXpen-
sive "vctory."
In other ages when education was
far less widespread the man who could
read and write and figure accurately
was so much less common than the man
who produced things with his hands
that the man who merely wrote out the
reports or kept the books or records
Of what labor did and produced re-
ceived a far higher wage than the men
who did the producing.
But the man of to- day who with his
hands and his head actually produces is
far more valuable to society than the
man who merely makes figures or re-
ports about that production
The man who produces is to-day hav-
ing the value of his work recognized
on a new scale in his pay envelope
And every broad-minded, intelligent
American knows that this is good
thing for both the economic and social
advancement of the whole country.