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New-York tribune., 1920-08-19

The Secretary Of War has deliv-
cred himself OF campaign speech
in which he does his earnest best to
resurrect Article x pure and unre-
served.
In his unhappy effort to play
Gabriel Mr.. Baker. did all that he
could. 1t is doubtful whether any
one else, distending his cheeks, could
have blown the trumpet louder. But
the noise is that of penny whistle.
The hard, cold fact is that Article X,
as the President drew it, is triply
dead 1t died when the American peo-
pie intelligently realized it's contents.
1t died again when the President
beat the treaty. 1t died once more
this week in Poland when there was
refusal to protect Poland from in
vasion. Why talk of guaranteeing
all boundaries when Poland's are
pierced and there is but wordy pro-
&est?
There is, however, one subject
upon which the American people
have been waiting to hear the Secre-
tary speak-frankly, fearlessly, un-
reservedly. His address need not
consume more than five minutes of
time. He could utter it in any city
or village or country crossroads in
the land, before an audience of six
or Of six thousand, and it would be
displayed on the front page of every
American newspaper.
To command the instant and seri-
Gus attention of 100,000,00O Ameri-
cans, all that the Secretary of War
need do is to answer single ques-
tion
Who is the official, civil or mill
tary, who issued the order which
permitted the Stacker Bergdoll to
leave Governors Island?
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
AT Warsaw's Gates

While our government smugly says
that its heart palpitates with SYM
pathy for Poland and that Russia is
in the hands of foul autocracy, the
gates of Warsaw are stoutly held by
those who sadly know an invader
cannot be driven back by firing rhe-
torlcal ammunition at him.
One battery is worth more than
all the words Of the dictionary. If
roland saves her capital from rapine
and plumber, f the experiences of
Louvain and Lille are not to be re-
peated, it will not be by verbal can
nonading and unsupported express
sions of sympathy.
The Poles are fighting a desperate
battle with barbarism. If we can
not or will not extend material aid
let US have the grace to recognize
that our words are of little immedi-
ate value.
Grim business goes on at the gates
of Warsaw The Polish men who are
dying and the Polish women who are
doing work of equal devotion like
sympathy, but they prefer sympathy
that translates itself into acts.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
The Cost Of One Strike

What was the cost of the long
shoremen's strike, declared off after
more than five months of struggle? ?
What did it cost the longshoremen?
What the shippers? What the public?
Counting the men out as number
ing 10000, and earnings as low as SIS
a day, the men are a million and
half poorer because of the strike.
The shippers, in the extra expense
to which they were put and the in
terruption of business, of course lost
more. And what about the public?
1t is estimated that it suffered at the
rate Of $1,O0o,o00 day-probably
S150,0C0,000 in all.
Every buyer of food has been COM
PEELED to pay more because Of spoil
ages and the lack of usual supplies.
And the subtraction from the income
CT producers was probably as great
as the burden laid on consumers. Is
a tie-up of a key industry of conse-
quence? 1t is.
The conditions of which all COM
plain are in no small part due to the
fact that industrial disputes are con-
sidered the exclusive affair of those
directly involved.
\ Fomenters of trouble continue to
assume they can do as they please
that they may be as stubborn and
unreasonable as the unregenerated
human heart permits them to be. 1t
is still common in certain circles to
preach that the interests of employ
ers and employed are fundamentally
hostile.
But public education concerning
the falsity Of these assumptions pro-
ceeds rapidly. Liberty is precious,
but one may not use his liberty to
destroy the welfare of his neighbor.
The production and distribution
which are the concern of all must
go on.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Mr.. Hugo's Sacrifice

In announcing the withdrawal of
his name as a gubernatorial candi-
date Francis M. Hugo, Secretary of
State, says his action is due to his
unwillingness, in a highly importan:
Presidential year, to jeopar,lize Re-
publican chances by precipitating
what might be a divisive struggle in
the primaries.
NJ. Hugo had strong support, both
among the leaders and rank and file
of the party. He was sure of a large
vote. Thus he makes distinct sac
rifice for party harmony He gener
ously surrenders an ambition he has
long cherished and which a host OF
loyal friends and supporters desired
20 further.
Mr.. Hugo has served the state
faithfully. The administration of his
Office has been admirable. So it was
not Strange that thought of his pro-
motion came to many. But politics
is a queer and hard business. Con-
scientious public service, although
much praised, not always commands
a right of way.
But, happily, Mr.. Hugo is philos-
opher, cheerfully willing to subordi-
nate his aspirations to the interests
of the party of which he is member.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19

hand. the passenger pigeon, counted
by the thousands Of millions only a
hundred years ago, was hunted at
nesting time, when the female sat
twenty hours day. Females were
killed in disproportionate numbers
and the species disappeared in
sixty years.
The Rodier plan Of dealing with
the rat evil sounds sensible enough.
Every breeder Of horses, dogs, sheep
and poultry knows that excess of
males means failure, and regulates
his stock accordingly. In the case
of rats, where this failure of repro
duction, resulting in time in extinc-
tion, is the desired end, the excess of
males could be brought about delib-
erately. Combining the Rodier
scheme with a thorough system of
rat-proofing buildings might be
worthwhile experiment.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Landlords and enants
A Plea for Better Feeling Beiwcen
Them

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Patriotism and self-interest
should dictate to both landlord and ten
ant compliance with the Biblical in
junction, "Agree with thine adversary
quickly whilst thou art in the way with
him, lest at any time the adversary de-
liver thee to the judge" etc.
The landlords and tenants who do this
will be entitled to public approval, for
besides saving themselves anxiety and
physical annoyance and the hazards of
a Judgment on necessarily hasty and in
complete presentation of the case, every
controversy settled out of court dimin-
lshes the gravity of the situation.
The landlords should bear in mind
that many of their tenants are little
better able to pay an increased rent than
they were before the war That rent
forms a quarter and possibly more of
the tenants annual disbursement, and
that even if largely increased rent is
reasonable expectation on his part the
tenant must be given some years to work
up to it, and that conditions will keen
it at high figure long enough to re-
pay him, if well-meant but ignorant
tlnkerng with economic conditions does
not throw the subject back into its
present nearly hopeless condition.
The rs per cent increase which, while
not fixed by the Legislature is taken by
the tenant as rate of increase indicated
as reasonable, would in four years. if
continued, double the old rents and
would then probably cease. 1t may
never reach that point if unwise laws
are not passed.
The tenant, on his part, should bear
in mind that prior to the war he was
having his annual repairs and painting
on scale of rents which was made
quate, and that the first 25 per cent in
crease in some instances merely fixes
the rent at the rate of some years ago,
That with the increase in the cost of
labor and supplies there remains net to
the owner less than in former DAYS, and
that his payments are made in dollars
that have lost half their purchasing
power.
The landlord ought to be satisfied to
receive the average rate received for
like apartments in the neighborhood.
The tenant ourht to be willing to ap-
rroach the matter as one involving not
only dollars but patriotism, and with a
determination to meet the other more
than half way. Let it be known by all
that both are fully determined to avoid
court controversy.
CHARLES f. MANIERRE
New York, Aug 16, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Ways Of French Children
New York, Aug. 16, 1920.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Where, wonder. does Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch get the facts on
which she founds her assertions about
French children, quoted by The Trib-
une in to-day's review of "a Woman's
Point Of View"o
| lived in Paris ten years, from four
years of age to nearly fourteen, and nv
recollections are at variance with those
of Mrs. Blatch.
French children play dozens Of round
games; the French words of many | still
remember. They skip rope rarely bv
themselves, generally in groups. We
often, l may say almost always, played
with children we had never met before:
the only password necessary was: "May
l play with you?" The Champs Elysees
was full of dancing singing children
and France is too old a country to have
changed its customs. | was surprised
on my return to America at the formal
lty in the relations between children.
Inc only mythology | ever learned
was in a French school, l was also
thoroughly drilled in Bible history, an
cient Greek and Roman history, ancient
geography and modern geography of
every continent and country in the
world. On the other hand, in America
was never given anything but American
history and United States geography.
OF later education | have no personal
knowledge, but Mrs Blatch's statements
are not in accord with the French go
cial instinct" which is so marked a ma
tional characteristic.
1t is true that after studying other
civilizations the French prefer their
own, even as we prefer ours. I.B.
Brooklyn, Aug. Is, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
At Last!

At last. After more than fifty
years of never-ceasing effort, every
adult woman in this broad land is
accepted into full citizenship in the
human race. Progress, in robes re-
splendent, has struck down the bar
to sex equality. Only a few scraps
of tradition and convention remain
to impede.
Next to the emancipation of the
slaves, in some respects exceeding
this in Importance, the reform is the
most basic this country has ever
known. Its influence, transforming
and, we believe, elevating, will per-
sist through the generations. We
don't yet begin to appreciate the
new force that comes to organized
society through summoning women
to common privileges and respon-
sibiliti"s. We but family realize
what the removal of lettering and
narrowing restrictions means to the
women Of the future.
What will be the precise effect on
society and on women no one, of
course. can foresee. Probably little
change will be manifest at first. But
there is q shift in the center of polit-
ical gravity. Mans primary bust
ness, we are told is to take care OF
the present generation; woman's to
prepare the new one for life.
If this generalization is true,
thought of the future is likely TO
weigh more in public affars-there
viii be greater zeal for preventives
Of social diseases and less disposition
to rely on treatment of symptoms
The woman's hostage is her child.
Its welfare concerns her more than
her Own. Hence we have introduced
a great conserving factor-an ele--
nlent which will emphasize the long
view rather than the short one.
Surely, a great gain.
The release of woman from inhibi-
tions and taboos which have tended
to contine her sympathes and her
knowledge will, of course, make for
a loftier mental and moral stature.
Growth comes when pressures are
removed.
All hail to the superwoman. But
still woman. No man-made laws can
repeal the laws of nature The home
will suffer no harm, because it's pre-
siding genius has wider interests. AS
to some things, the more one gives
the more one has, and curious has
been the delusion that the mother
who cared little about public affairs
was through this indifference the
better trainer of her son.
The only regret in connection with
celebration of this great day is that
Susan B. Anthony and Anna Shaw
are not present to enjoy the felicita-
tons. How they would smile through
glad tears, saying: eve knew it
would come.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Science and Rat Killing

In view Of the anti-rat CAMPAIGN
recently begun by our health au-
thorities the criticism offered by an
English scientist, George Jennison,
OF the usual methods of rat extermi-
nation deserves attention. He points
out that these methods fail because
they aim at killing off all rats indi-
vidually, which in face of the
extraordinary fecundity of the spe-
cies is impossible. All rats cannot
be killed. There can only be at best
a reduction of numbers, which. re-
suits in increasing the available food
supply for the survivors and quicker
breeding.
The alternative suggested is
simple in theory, though far less
simple in practice. Mr.. Jennison
advocates catching rats alive, kill
ing the females and releasing the
males. The plan was originated
and successfully applied to rabbits
by an Australian, William Rodier, of
Melbourne, who claims to have
cleared $4,000 acres of infested area
in twenty years by this means alone,
whereas poisoning proved failure.
Under the present methods, be-
cause of their greater boldness, more
males are killed than females, but
reduction Of the number of males
does not affect breeding; it merely
turns the race polygamous. The
case of the bird of paradise is in
point. Tie male, never very numer-
Gus, has been hunted for his brighter
plumage for two thousand years.
AS result the race became polyga-
nous and survives. On the other
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
A Look Askance at Wadsworth

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t is natural for Senator Wads-
worth (needing their votes) to pose as
the peoples friend. But the people
may be pardoned little skepticsrn
Some of them remember his opposition
while in the New York Assembly to
the 5-cent fare bill, to the income tax,
to the direct primary bill and his fight
against proposed invest cation Of
Wall Street at time when methods
Of cheating and despoiling unsophlsti-
Gated spectators were rife. That he
fought valiantly for corporations such
as the Genesee River Company, the
Economic Power and Construction Com
pany, working against bills that would
force them to give up extraordinary
and unjust privileges they had gained
and that he was friendly toward the
Ryan Belmont merger Will not make
any particular hit with the people
With little effort the people will re-
member, too, his fight against the re-
apportionment bill drawn up by the
Tully committee when, at a cost to the
state of $4,000 a day, he delayed se'
ton, not because the bill was not a'l
that could be desired, but because "
did not permit the Senator's father ~
shut out of reelection by adroit msnipu'
lation of districts an excellent Senator
Mr.. Stevens.
These actions brand Wadsworth as
certain type, and as a United States
Senator he has run true to form. hs
voted for the Shields water power graz
bill, he was considered enough OF >
friend Of the meat packers to be askeo
by the president of Swift & Co. "
give advice and assistance to his coua'
sci, Henry r. c. McManus, when ths
Borland resolution for the investigS
tion of the meat packers was pending'
and he opposed the taxation OF was
profits.
Upon all of these things the peop"
look askanee Mr.. Wadsworths wooe's
of the averaoe run of voters VIII Us
successful only with those who kno"
nothing, read nothing and hope 10.
nothing in the way of bettermen1 -
general conditions.
BROOKLYN REPUBLICAN,
Brooklyn. Aug. IL, 1920 AZ
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
The Crisis Crare

All of which would be comic if 1t
were not tragic 1t means that the
nations which established Poland, which
have been pointing to the liberation of
Poland as one of the circumstances in
the Versailles Treaty which weighed
against many a serious mistake, have
abandoned Poland or have decided to
limit their assistance to words. Brit
ain indicts, America blesses, France
further imperils Poland And the Reds
are in sight of Warsaw
Six years ago, at this very hour, the
fCrts Of Liege were falling and Bel
gian, French and British armies, under
divided command, were approaching in
eVitable defeat. In less than three,
weeks Paris would be in peril. And
still after six years there is no peace,
no clear perception of the need OF
common policy. The European con-
cert has broken up, as did ;he Holy
Alliance before it, but to-day the con-
sequences promise to be graver and
more immediate.
Copyright. 1920. Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
A Futile Illusion

tfrom The Philadelphia Evenina Public
LEDGER
The futility of class voting is shown
by the fact that the blacklist of vari-
Gus organizations virtually includes
every member of Congress in both
houses. The wise voter votes as an
American, not as wet or dry, a
suffragist or an anti, a plumber or a
Methodist, and the thing that deter
mines his choice of candidate is not
single item in a platform, but his
seasoned judgment concerning all mat
ters therein contained.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Translating Freight Rates

What we like about the argument
of Ralph Peters, president of the
Long Island Railroad, concerning
the incidence of the new freight
rates is that it is specific He trans
lates the new rates in a way all can
understand-shows that if dealers
make large price boosts they can
not truthfully lay the blame on the
carriers.
Caulifower. potatoes and oysters
are the historic products Of Long
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19

lax their strangle hold on Germany.
It is not strange Candidate Cox
Ia rapidly accumulating the repute
of being the smallest and cheapest
politician who ever secured a Presi-
Dental nomination from one of the
major American parties. His mock
morality, his jumpings from side to
side, his choice of arguments that
he apparently thinks have popular
appeal. constitute about the greasiest
hypocrisy our national annals show.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19

There remains France, but what does
France do? She, in effect, declares war
upon the Bolsheviki by proclaiming her
Intention to support Wrangel But
this amounts to presenting the Bolshe-
WIKI with pretext for pursuing the
advance upon Warsaw 1t demolishes
all British hopes, for the Reds can
fatty assert that they will not make
peace with Poland while the French
ally makes war upon them, and will not
listen to British appeals while the
British fail to restrain their French
ally But this does not help Poland
much, lacking men and munitions now.
Granted that if Poland succeeds in
saving herself now, the Wrangel opera
ton will ultimately draw off weight
from the Vistula front But this is
a remote contingency.
so there the situation stands. The
british want peace. Lloyd George is
concerned only that what is to be done
by the Bolsheviki to Poland shall be
done so decently that there will be
no terrible offense against civiliza-
tion requiring British intervention
France is determined that there shall
be no recognition of Red Russia. and
proceeds to provoke a crisis which make
recognition wellnigh impossible, be-
cause it offers Russia a prtext.for dis
regarding even the minimum prescribed
by British policy.
Meantime, from our isolation, the
United States follows the French pol
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
A Prophetic Soul

tfrom The Boston Evenno Tronscript)
villa surrendered because he was
afraid of the United States. thus indi
eating that he has been intelligent
enough to get onto the fact that the
united States government is going to
change hands.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19

icy. in insisting upon no recognition
of the Reds, thus making Lloyd
Georges already difficult position ten.
fold more difficult, but at the same time
leaves France in the air by declining
to support any active campaign against
Russia.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Dissolution
By Franz II. Simonds

POLICY is not less unmistakable. Amer
ica will not recognize the Bolsheviki; :;
there is no popular sympathy in the
United States; no organized political
body of labor to demand it, No diff
fculty, then, for the United States
government to take high tone in de-
,ouncing the Bolsheviki. Americans.
tco, are sympathetic with the Poles, un
mlstakably so. hence it is equally easy
to assert this fact.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Polanl!'s Greatest Need

But the Bol.heviki are at the gates
o. Warsaw and Poland is appealing
not for moral but material assistance.
Tor men and money, for guns and NUM-
tons, not for sympathy or moral sup
port. 1t was not the moral support
OF France in the Revolution which as
sured our independence; it was not
even the volunteer assistance of La
iayette. 1t was the declaration of war
by France and the arrival Of the army
O. Rochambeau
Precisely this assistance, however.
we decline to give. Poland must suffer
whatever punishment is in store and
await, with the same confidence as
America, the triumph of justice. But
the last time Poland had to wait the
delay extended from 1915 until 1919
- more than century-and it may be
suspected that the Poles will feel a
cold chill down their backs as they
read the words Of Bainbridge Colby.
asserting the warmest of sympathy and
the coolest of purposes. sAo help from
Britain; no help from the United
States-this is what the two pronounce
inents of Lloyd George and Colby mean
to the Poles, the only difference being
that Lloyd George condemns them for
doing what his government did for
two years, while Mr.. Colby praises
them for doing something which can
not possibly be successful if thew ara
not assisted.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
The Bi-Lingual Wheeze

Sir: For museum purposes only had
brought back from Virginia bottle of
moonshine whisky Desda was there. and a
Frenchman, who did not understand what .it
was all about. He said 1t looked like water.
And |. who have little French. says to Desda
on tell him" and quick as wink thar
girl replied. Eau claire dc la lunc. mon ami
Ptcrrof." prrrp
"Where,' asked the luncheon guest,
do you procure that excellent cottage
oheese?" Il assume" the madly wap-
gish hostess corrected, you mean, How
do get that whey"
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
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New-York tribune., 1920-08-19

Mr.. Franklin Roosevelt attacks, he
says no. the Republican party, but
those leaders who, he asserts, decided
the nomination in the back room of a
MOTEL. Our information is that it was
decided in front room, facing Michi-
gan Boulevard. 1t might have been de-
clded more quickly in back room, where
the noise of the Illinois Central trains is
less audible.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
Bless Him.
A lad l like
Is Eddie Wellim;
He never giggles
Out: "You tell i'm"

Mr.. Arthur T. Walker, who inherited
the Searles jack, may be a highly es-
Unable gentleman, but we wish he
wouldn't stick the ends of his bow tie
under his collar
Historic Lines
Robert Louis Stevenson once said lono.
ingly, as he was passing a picturesque cave
IN between black rocks. That would be n
wonderful place for a murder!"-Harper's 8
Magazine, The Bookshelf
When Homer on classic day
Was stroling minstrelly through Trov
He saw a sight that made him saw.
In phrase picturesque oh Boy p'
Wnen Shakespeare ventured on The Strand
The jostling crowds about him buried
A single sentence came to hand
Or rather mouth "Pll tell the world"
I've gotcha. Steve" was coined by Swift.
III say she does" belongs to Poe
Fred Nietzsche beloved, Get the drift ."
And Goethe cried. You said it. boz
FRECKLEs
O. for Class in Journalism: What
is the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance? A.-Jap Pact.
Singer Once a Sewing Tribune
headline
Adv?
The second most effective conversa-
ton stopper we know of is to say "No"
to the operators "Excuseitplease?
The best emergency brake, however,
is mo" to "Is it b. 9. for you?"
F. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
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