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New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

tration of the tenderness of the Ad
ministration toward German SYM
pathizers in the pardon of the motor
ious editors Of the "Tageblatt" before
they had even begun to serve their
sentence. These men sought to OBJ
struct the conduct of the war by the
publication of false news. The first
prosecution failed through the in
eptitude Of former district at
torney. The second resulted in their
conviction, and the sentence was
affirmed by the United States Su-
preme Court. Yet they are now free.
The other day a mere youth who
had overstayed his leave and had
become technically a deserter was
shot and killed by an army sergeant
on the plea that when discovered
he did not obey the order to halt
promptly enough. The contrast be-
tween the penalty visited on him and
the leniency extended to far worse
offenders is too obvious to need en-
phaSiZing.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
The Long Skirt

For the Attorney General of the
United States to link himself with
Paris fashion experts as opposed to
the domestic fashion leaders in a
contest for world supremacy in
styles shows how unconquered is
his appetite for trouble. His plea
for the short skirt, which is favored
by the Rue de la Paix, has brought
down on his head the wrath of New
York designers, who propose to dis
pute French leadership.
That this season is selected for
a change is rather unfortunate. 1t
will require the replacement of good
garments with new ones. The point
made by the dressmakers that longer
skirts will not cost any more than
shorter ones is no doubt true, for
the amount of material used has
never made much difference in the
price of clothes. Indeed, if any,
tnlng, the smaller the piece of ap-
parel the costlier.
Aside from the economic view
point, much is to be said for Ameri-
can designers, and the contest should
be q merry one. Many strange
things come out of Paris, and the
most flexible imagination hesitates
at pronouncing them beautiful or
fascinating. Time was when it was
limited that they were designed only
for American trade, a Paris label
being depended upon to put over
the most atrocious whimsey. But
American taste grows more dis
eliminating. If American designers
will avoid freakish pitfalls the race
with Paris may not be lost, despite
the Attorney General.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Major and Minor Wars

There is political disturbance IN
Asiatic Turkey, which threatens to
extend to other Levantine regions.
Contemporaneously Germany indi-
Gates she intends, in contempt of the
peace terms, to build up a new army.
The difference in the American at
titude toward the two crises con-
cretely illustrates a thought of those
who have insisted on reservations to
the covenant.
Not one American in ono hundred,
it is safe to say, favors American in
tervention in Turkey. This was
plainly revealed in the declination Of
the Armenian mandate. On the
other hand, a preponderant Ameri-
can opinion, we believe, favors ac-
tion to prevent Germany recognizing
the war.
We don't know much about Tur-
key. Her wars do not Immediately
concern US. Whatever the partition
there, our peace and the safety of
civilization in general are not seri-
ously menaced. Many of us person
ally have notions with respect to
what would constitute just settle
ment, but the controversy is compli-
Gated and far away.
Otherwise is it with respect to
Germany. If Germany is allowed to
weapon herself once more there is
little doubt of what will happen or
what Germany will scheme to nave
happen. Another expedition beyond
the Rhine would become Germany's
prime objective. Such a march
means danger to US and would in
volve us in another world struggle.
Common sense requires discrimi
nation when considering the prob
lens of Germany and Turkey. One
problem directly affects us and the
other does not. 1t is reasonable to
adopt as to one a policy Of partici
patton and as to the other policv
of aloofness.
Now, the covenant, as President
Wilson tried to jam it through.
made no distinction between Ger
many and Turkey. All wars were
alike. He assumed that there WAS M
such thing as geography or propor-
tion or relativity, and that if it were
wise for this country to join in polio
ing Germany it was wise to ioin in
policing Turkey or Tibet or other re-.
mote places Of the world. He tried to
make one rule apply, whereas diver
slty demanded variation. He would
not see Germany was in need of sne-
cial treatment, and that it ia far
more necessary to supervise her
than areas where power is scattered
and the selfishness of one tribal ma
ton neutralizcs that of another.
The blundcr was fundamental.
The way to peace at Paris was to
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Chivalry in the Elwell Case

The ingenious idea that chivalry is
the word which should govern a Dis
trict Attorneys office in conducting
the investigation Of a murder prob
lem probably accounts for Mr..
Swann's efforts to keep the police
safely in the background of the Ell
we'll case.
Police are notoriously crude and
coarse in their methods of investiga-
ton. Obviously one cannot rely
upon them to do the right thing, the
polite thing, in so delicate an affair
of honor as the identity Of the ladies
that knew Mr.. Elwell best.
There have been certain identifi-
cations made The young woman
from Kentucky was so adequately
described by the investigation of our
local authorities as to make it neces-
sary for her to bare to the public the
facts of her casual acquaintance with
Elwell. Yesterday the mysterious
"woman in black" was also off,
cially identified. But the code of
chivalry cannot be expected to ex-
tend to women who knew Elwell
only slightly or not at all. The iden-
tity of "Miss Wilson" remains
carefully protected secret, and chiv-
airy still rules triumphant.
Of course, if an arrest should be
made and ultimately a defendant
should be placed on trial, the identity
of this young woman would be re-
vealed, for she presumably would be
called as witness. But, judging by
the present progress Of the case, she
need not worry about that for some
time.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
The Ultinatu,n

Secretary Colby was the last de-
parting delegate to San Francisco to
have a personal conference with the
President. He said just before leav-
ing Washington: II don't believe
the document 1.-THE league treaty. re-
quires any interpretative reserva-
tons"
Since Senators Pittman and Hitch
cock offered interpretative reserva-
tions with the permission of the
President, it is little awkward to
dismiss their efforts as superhuous
or hostile. Even the Virginia plat
form, so highly eulogized by the
President, condemns only nullifying
reservations. Mr. Colby is somewhat
tolerant of the mental fabbiness Of
Democratic statesmen who cry out
for saving paraphrases. But his
heart isn't in that sort of defensive
coloration. He says frankly: "The
document, in other words, is so clear
that interpretative reservations can
hardly be urged as necessary"
That is the unchanging truth as
the President sees it. He believes
that the covenant he brought back
from Paris is letter perfect. In
the view of our ranking peace COM
missioner it is gliding refined gold to
try to improve it's phraseology.
Sometimes with wearied politeness.
sometimes with angry expostulation,
he has argued with the covenants
would-be CHARTERS that they are en-
gagged in vain and unworthy enter
prise. In his final injunction to the
national convention there is no
shadow of turning.
The President served an ultima
tum on the Senate: "Take nv treaty
draft as it stands or nothing" Whv
shouldn't he repeat that ultimatum
TO his followers at San Francisco
Then he can say to the voters as he
has always wished to do: Endorse
me and my work or stand forever
dlshonored at the bar of history"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
"Peccavi"

AS it Is ungracious to examine the
teeth of a gift horse, so it is perhaps
impolite to study the words Of an
apology.
But Dr. Butler might have gone
further, after a full weeks refec-
ton, than to express regret, in form
at least, only to those who "felt" hurt
by what he had said. A man re-
tracts not merely to compose the
emotions of those he has unjustly
assailed but to cleanse himself. An
apology was owing to himself though
no one felt hurt.
Nor is DR.. Butler happy in the
language he employs to explain how
it happened that words ''both unbe-
coming and unwarranted' came from
his lips. He says, seemingly in the
way of half justification, that he was
under the strain of a "sharp revolt
against the power of money in poll
tics" In this is a flavor of smug-
ness. While presenting himself as
one who had slandered others he in
the same sentence advertises his ex-
ceptional purity and sensitiveness
to evil.
But the apology does not reach the
heart of Dr. Buffers offense. In
effect he charged that General Wood
relied, presumptively in an illegiti-
mate manner, on money. By impli-
cation there is a repetition of this
outrageous misstatement. There is
no frank and manly admission that
the expenditures were a necessary
consequence of the primary cam
paign the Wood managers conducted
He does not say that the issue the
General forced was whether he
should go to the people or to the
politicians and that General Wood
chose the cleaner and more open
method.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

confirm the war-born alliance and
to maintain it firm and strong until
such time as Germany, the chief
power of the counter alliance, had
recovered sanity and could be trust
ed. The President fought this. He
insisted on his false premise that all
nations were alike and were to be
treated in the same fashion. The
conception was artificial and ignored
both historical facts and existing
conditions.
Reservations thus become indis-
pensable to correct the assumption
of universally. What the American
people desired was to join league
to protect world peace, but they did
not regard themselves as competent
to pass on and interfere in every
local quarrel.
The line Of difference is, of course,
not easily drawn. A minor disturb
ance may grow into a major one.
Yet the line could have been drawn.
The President did not try to trace it.
He jumbled the big and the little,
the important and the unimportant.
He would not allow us to join in any
alliance unless we were willing to
join scheme which would commit
US to sending troops wherever there
was local riot.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
The Aristocratic Bicvcle

Why do dynasties rise and fall
and return once more? Why does
art proceed from romance to real
ISM and back again? WHY does
wheel go around? We are not. sure
that we can answer these ingenious
questions, but we are certain of the
important fact that the bicycle, for
almost generation unmounted and
unsung, is actually reappearing, with
honor and ceremony, almost en-
thusiasm.
There may be deep and philo-
sophie content in the fact. The oc-
cultists will doubtless find a mystical
explanation for the descent from
four wheels to two. AS for the
economic explanation, we dismiss it.
-'~save as contributing factor-as
derogatory TO one Of the most de-
llghtful and ingenious machines ever
contrlved by the mind Of man. We
pt lIic SI!HpIcF V1cW, thdt as
Ulysses finally came home from his
wandcrings, so bicyclists, having ig-
norcd their best love through many
years, arc now turning back to faith
ful Penelope, her of the sparkling
spokes and whirinQ pedals.
II any explanation other than that
of the heart and it's cycles 1--WE use
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Why the Churches Fail
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Rev. John Roach Straton
points out that on a recent Sunday
evening there were present in eighteen
churches in the Times Square district
l,Sl7 persons, as against $4,000 attend
ing theaters and movies in the same
district. The inference drawn bv the
hev. Mr. Straton is that New Workers
are afflicted with abnormal interest in
sex matters and low amusements and are
lacking in interest in the things of the
spirit
But quite a different inference NAV
be drawn from these facts. namely. that
while SAID theaters and movies (and the
press goes in this category cater 70
vital interests in an interesting way.
study the modern mind and try to give
1t what 1t wants-are, in short, practi-
cal psychologists-the churches, which
have monopoly of what is really the
most compelling. vital and universal
interest of all, fail so to present II that
people can understand it.
They have no approach to the mod
ern mind. They talk over the heads of
people and soar in regions far removed
from their vital living concerns.
SETH ARMSTRONG TALBOT.
Westbrook, Conn, June 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Bergdoll and Others
Having suppressed the conclu

HAVING suppressed the conclusions
reached by the military authorities
In the malodorous case of Bergdoll,
Secretary Baker is apparently con-
tent to let it drop. Bergdoll is still
at large, and Federal agents are un-
fortunate in their efforts To catch
him. But the District Attorney in
Philadelphia is made Of sterner
stuff. He has got a special grand
jury together for the purpose of un-
covering the parties to the con-
spiracy There have been few worse
scandals than the escape Of this
loosely guarded prisoner, let out in
consequence Of a story Of a pot Of
9old which could hardly have de-
asevsd child.
Philadelphia supplies another illus
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
By
Frederic F. Van de Water

book. The author is willing to let his
stories run along naturally. He does
not insist on pumping them out of q
high pressure hydrant
The obvious analogy to draw is be
tween Mr.. Linderman and Bret Harte
we can see no reason why the latter
should object to having his own name
on the title page of "On a Passing
Frontier"
In "Presentine Jane McRae" (Little
Brown g. Coz. Mark Lee Luther insists
that his heroine is lovely of form and
lace and in his cover design and IL
Illustrations, James MONTGOMERY Flace
quite as emphatically denies both as
sertions.
The book, as the title indicates, has
for large part of its background the
moving picture industry 1t tells OF
the triumphs of Jane; her elevation
from a country hotel drudge to mov-
Ing picture queen and her emancipa-
ton from a husband she didn't care
Tor by fortunate airplane accident.
Mr.. Luther tells his story we'll and
draws his characters dcftly, if com
pletely unsympathetically
AS far as we are concerned Jane anc
the lover, who was only little less
of a prig than she, might have re-
NAMED IN the little upstate hotel anc
have lived on the sort Of food thew
serve in that sort Of hotel for the
lest of their lives. 1t would have
served them both right
The book ends in the accepted wav
When Jane went and married the
quasi-villain of the story we knew he
was doomed. With the blue bloodcd
and beloved rival hanging about in the
oftlng, James husband was obviously
the poorest Of life insurance risks in
Mr.. Luthers hands
Still, when he crashed in his air
plane we felt throb of regret. He
was the most nearly human characte,
in the book and it was a pity to kill
him
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23


is necessary, there is the snobbish
one that since everybody purchased
an automobile nobody could be any
body without some other and distin-
gushing method of progress. How
could a professor, for example, main
tain aloofness and dignity, save
by procuring a bicycle and ped
aling to classroom? He could, of
course, drive Ford, that useful
vehicle Of the very rich and the
very poor, that no man with a
union card would be found dead in.
But a Ford takes gasoline - not
much, but some-and with profess
sional and other bourgeois incomes
at their present low ebb the eco
nomic reason has probably aided
the factor of sound snobbery to
bring the bicycle back to popularity.
The bicycle, in short, is returning
for just the reasons that are driv-
ing the silk shirt out. Save to lay
bricks in or wheel a barrow through,
that garment of display and splen-
dor has utterly vanished. The most
silent, solitary and elegant of all
vehicles is returning to it's own, after
years of desertion, by the route of
economic pressure, but chiefly and
primarily because of it's true and
lasting distinction, which no num-
ber Of snorting cylinders, whether
by earth or sky, can permanently
eclipse.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
The Salvation Army Drive

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On the day that the Salvation
army had expected to finish their drive
ahd write down the completed sum of
Si,o0o'O0 they find themselves with
5000, 900
a man came in to see me YESTERDAY.
a single man, whose income is aboIt
*'o,ooo year. W. -poke of the Sal
'~tlon Army, Of thci- wonderful work.
aHd now much we admired them. I
asked him to tell me how much he
mad given to this Home Fund Drive
tney are now holding. after li.tle
hesitation he told me 25 cents. Is this
not the reason that these wonderful
people are facing n financial failure in
this drive? 1t is not too late for each
one to give the sum that the sp:ri.
within him shows him to be his dutv.
SAMUEL S. KEYSER.
New York, Juno 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Another "Plot"

Once more the Germans are in
jured innocents. An International
Seamen's Conference is in session at
Geneva, and the admission of the
German delegates is opposed by the
British delegates. One objection
was that they had been sent by the
German government and were not
truly representative of German sea-
men. Another objection was the re-
cent habit of German seamen to
murder other sailors and helpless
civilians. The Germans reply that
exclusion is the result of "plot" by
the British delegates.
1t is a further curious illustration
of the workings Of the German mind
that the attitude of seamen generally
toward those who participated in the
sea murders cannot be understood.
One of the German delegates de-
clares that his fellow seamen could
no more have interfered with the u
boat campaign than the British Sea-
mems Union with the blockade Of
Germany. Perhaps; but the indg-
nation which other seamen feel was
bred in large part by the heartess
brutalities which accompanied this
campaign. Sinking the ships was
bad enough, but the cruelty of leav-
ing the survivors to perish in open
boats was not incidental but delib-
crate.
No one who knows he traditions
OF the sea will fail to understand the
feeling of honest seamen of eyerv
nation. The spirit of chivalrv sur
wives among them. To save life even
at the risk of ones own is an obliga-
ton no. true seaman ignores. The
conduct of the German seamen
stained calling which from time
out OF mind has held the claims Of
humanity sacred. While the war
was still raging the German seamen
were told frankly that they would
not easily be readmitted to the fell
iowshlp Of the sea. Some day thew
may understand why.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
What Would Roosevelt Now Do,

What Would Roosevelt Now Do?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial of the 18th.
under the caption "Harding and Roose-
velt'Y you ask what would Colonel
Roosevelt now do if he were in Tho
flesh and called upon to choose between
support of Senator Harding and sun
port of Mr.. Wilson.
Let me, as a firm believer in and
follower Of that great leader briefly
state what I think he would have done
and would do.
AT the Chicago convention he, with
all that splendid energy and brain
power he possessed, would have. in un
mstakabe English, told the conven.
ton that without question it was the
VIII of the people that Leonard Wood
should be the candidate of the Re.
publican party and that the proposed
action of the convention was with the
full intent of putting the "Old Cuard'
of the Republican party back in the
saddle.
II he were here he would have called
on such man as George w. Perkins.
who has just gone over the "creat
divide to join him, brought the Pro-
gressive party again into action, placed
Leonard Wood al the head of the ticket
and led the party to victory-not as in
1912, but complete.
Would that he were here! The "old
guard have taken advantage of his go
ing. They have soon forgotten what
happened in 1912. The lesson may have
to be tAught again. A. T. ROSE.
New York, Juno 10, 1920.
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Books

Though the West we are familiar
with ends in the vicinity of Pittsburgh,
1t seems to us that con a Passing
Frontier by Frank B. Linderman
(Scribner), is the best thing of its sort
since "The Virgnian."
Perhaps that is not exactly fair
comparison, for Mr.. Wister's book is a
cohesive novel and Mr.. Lin.'ermans
rambling collection of sketches and
tales. Yet there is a certain clarity
in the atmosphere of each and lack
of gaudy local color that lead YOU to be-
lleve the author knows what he is
talking about and is drawing on his
memory rather than his IMAGINATION.
The stories that Mr.. Linderman
writes might have been related about
q fire where old plainsmen and riders
of the frontier had gathered, and they
are set down in much the way the old
timers might have told them.
There are no elaborate plots; some
tlmes there are no plots at all; but
the West that was and the people who
lived in the West are drawn with a
pen as sharp and fine as an engraving
tool.
One of the things for which we are
most grateful to Mr.. Linderman is his
tales simplicity in outline and in die
ton.
No sooner does the avcrare writer
speak of "coulee," "sombrero" or any
one of couple of dozen similar words
dear to the heart of the title writer
for William S. Hart films than he aca
his characters begin to run wild with
the English language.
We don't know who is usually the
worse offender, the English writer who
draws an American character or tho
average Easterner depicting a West
erner, but we do know that Mr.. Linder-
man writes as one who tells of his own
people.
Humor and pathos and aboundino
drama can be found in his all too short
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
A Mistaken Choice

(From Tho Pittsburgh Gosette- T!mcs)
Los Angeles surely is puzzled to un-
derstand why any party should pick the
little village Of San Francisco as a place
In which to hold convention when a
larger and better place is available.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
The Coming Totoez
Independent

Independent
Gideon Hoskins once laid out the
For new barn, and mortised it. One
day
Tobias Chase came by and said to Gid,
"Well. Gid, ye'll hev to change thet
frame o. yourn."
~ guess not, Tobe," says Gid. "Oh,
yes, ye WILL"
Tobias answers. ut amt mortised
right.
Yell hev to change it, jest ye mark
my words"
II guess not, Tobe," says Gid again.
With that,
He hammered all the harder {. Rails
ing came
Then, sure enough, Tobias words
proved true.
OF course, Gid might have saved much
toll and time
By taking Tobe's advice; but, as he
said,
A Hoskins never gave in to a Chase.
G. S. B.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

According to somebody who told
somebody who told Mr.. O. G. Willard
General Woods entire reading for a
year consisted of the Army and Navy
journal. Maybe he would like to read
Buffers "Tho Way of All Flesh"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

rhe Associated Press /. exclusively entitled TO tho
use for repu Ircsuon OF sl ne~s dispatches credited
to 1, or not otherwise credited In this paper. and
also tho local Of spontaneous origin published
herein
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
herein alio az reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

Il have known and honored New York
lor many years as frequent visitor"
writes the Rev. John Roach Straton.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
But Good Cigar Is n Smoke

lfrom The Evening Tclcgraml
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ba'h shower, telephone: woman; $40.
Schwartz
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

You can purchase merchandise advertised In The
rHi6UNE with absolute safety-for II dlssatisfao.
tion result. in any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay your money back upon request. No red tape.
No qubhiing. We mako good promptly II tho
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

Truthfulness is commoncr troit
than 1T is popularity believed to be;
but we never have heard a bather
admit that the water was too cold
New-York tribune., 1920-06-23

Oh, Doctor, the honor is New Yorks.
+. p. A.