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New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Power Under the New Census

The check in the growth Of the
United States since 1910 is disclosed
in the returns from the states even
more clearly than in the earlier re-
turns from the cities. Figures have
been made public for New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island, Oregon, Indiana,
Tennessee and Georgia. All these,
except Indiana, show decrease in
rate of growth in the last decade.
New Hampshire had the smallest
percentage-2.9. Between 1900 and
1910 her percentage was 4.6. From
1890 to 1900 it was 9.3. New Hamp-
shire, so far as population is con-
cerned, seems to be attaining the
status of finished state.
Rhode Island grew at the rate Of
26.6 between 1900 and 1910 and Of
"a between 1890 and 1900. Her
percentage now is only 11.4. Ore
CONS rates Of increase in the two
preceding decades were 62.7 and
3O2. In the last ten years she
gained only 1874 per cent. Tennes-
sees growth since 1910 has been
only 7 per cent. 1t was 81 in tho
preceding decade. Indiana, contrary
to the rule, has done better in the
last ten years than she did between
1900 and 1910. But her rate of in
crease is still very low-8.1, against
rs. Georgia has slumped from a
percentage Of 17.7 to one of 10.9.
None of these states seems to have
the ghost of a chance of enlareinS
her representation in the lower
house of Congress and in the Elec-
toral College. Georgia, Rhode Island
and Oregon gained seat apiece IN
the apportionment of 1911. Indiana
and Tennessee have no moro seats
IN the House now than they had un-
der the 1871 .apportionment. New
Hampshire has two now, and had
three before the apportionment Of
1881.
The present House ratio Of repre-
sentation Is 211,877. 1t has been in
creased by about 10000 in each of
the last four apportionments. Pos
sibly a smaller increase will be
made next year, since there 10 al
ways powerful pressure in Con-
gress against reductions in the size
of state delegations. If the ratio is
held down, the membership Of the
House will be enlarged and many Of
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Our Dead in France

Returning from France, General
Organ has added his protest to many
others against the bringing home
of the American dead. It is far
better, as Theodore Roosevelt said
Of his son Quentin, to let the tree
lie where it falls. If the dead could
speak, perhaps the great majority
of them unquestionably would prefer
it so. The brotherhood Of sacrifice
would not wish to be divided.
The feeling of relatives is easily
understood. "From his ashes may
be made the violet of his native
land" wrote Tennyson when the
body Of his friend rested at last in
English soil. 1t is natural to desire
the communion with those we loved
which the name on the headstone in
vites. But those who perished in a
great cause are an invisible army
whose ranks ought not lightly to be
broken.
General Organ points out that
the American graves in France will
receive perpetual care. That might
not always be the case were the
graves widely separated in America.
Neglect might too often follow when
those who knew the dead in life were
themselves dead. The French people
have accepted our fallen as sacred
charge. Even the relatives who
have visited these great national
cemeteries agree, for the greater part,
that there should be no reinterment.
1t would be difficult and painful
task; it would distress rather than
console the survivors. There are
various practical reasons, too, why
1t should not be undertaken. The
burden upon those to whom it was
committed would be very great.
The French will not oppose re-
movals, but they naturally object to
them.
The future Of civilization depends
In no small degree upon the pertua-
tion Of the sacred ties between
America and France. The land
which holds our dead could never be
an enemy land. A common sorrow
brings nations, like men, together.
Let this conspicuous memory Of the
great war remain undimmed.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Is the Cost Of Living Reall,
High?

The answer to this question de-
pends on just what you mean by the
cost of living. Doubtless major
ity would reply in the affirmative
offhand, for they know that four
lamb chops, formerly worth a quar-
ter, now take 70 cents out of the
pay envelope. But it isn't a ques-
ton that can be answered offhand,
because price is only one factor in
the equation. The amount of income
is just as important.
Shoes would be cheap ct dollar
pair, but that wouldn't help
if you lacked the dollar. You could
not buy them then at any price
Conversely, if they are $40 a pair
and you have a pocket full of money
you can and probably do buy them.
Let us state the matter this way:
Fluctuations in the real cost of liv-
ing are measured by the quantity
and quality Of goods and services
we can command, no matter what
the price level may be.
If that be accepted as 81 logical
proposition-and we believe it is
the whole question is put in differ
ent light. We have only to look
about us to apply the test. Are peo-
pie, as whole, better or worse off
now than they were, say, five years
ago, IN the extent Of their posses
sion Of the things that make for
comfort and pleasure? The answer,
we think, is unmistakable. People
are better off.
The automobile is no longer mere
ly the toy of the rich; it is the util-
ity of millions of wage earners. The
shopgirl who can't afford to wear
silk stockings is poor, indeed-ano
rarer than poor. Theaters have en-
]oyed tremendous boom-so has
the Jewelry trade. Expensive furs
decorate the working girl, not mere
ly in winter, when they help keep
out the cold, but in summer, when
they are only ornamental-if YOU
like the looks of them.
These are obvious things, at the
top Of the scale. But the same thing
applies to necessaries as to luxuries.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
eachu1g Democracy
american Principles Can Be I'M
bibed by All School Children

dlvually applied to the league for sug-
gestions as to material and methods,
and the number Of teachers supplied
through the requests Of superintend-
ents and principals is without estt-
mate. These teachers have not only
received material especially prepared d
for citizenship teaching in the schools.
but have received references and in
struction in the best modern methods.
The courses in civics, both for chill
dren and adults, have been revised in
many states and cities, the league CO.
operating, and clubwomen in all parts
OF the country are promising to inves-
tigate the teaching of citizenship in
the schools of their several communi-
ties and promote such teaching in all
grades.
Now that the National Education As
soclation has gone on record for teach
ing citizenship in all grades it will be
disastrous to promulgate the idea that
children of fourteen cannot understand
the principles of democracy. The
great majority of teachers deal with
children under fourteen. They need
the clearest understanding of the prin-
ciples of our government for them
selves as we'll as their pupils. If an
authoritative book on teaching gives
any. excuse, even by intimation. for
their neglecting to prepare themselves
to teach the principles Of democracy,
great harm will be done.
The principles of democracy can be
taught and understood in elementa ry
schools. They must be taught there.
Eta V. LEIGHTON.
Civic Secretary National Security
League.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Congestion, Housing and Labor

There is little in the report Of the
State Federation Of Labor on the
housing situation that has not been
said before, but one item deserves
attention. 1t is the assertion that,
among other causes of the shortage
is s'the failure Of the railroads to
cope with the situation in moving
freight ard building supply mate
rial" The statement is we'll founded,
but we should think an important
labor organization would be loath to
call attention to the fact. The chief
cause of freight congestion was the
"outlaw' railroad strike. That
strike did at least as much as any
thing else to check operations, not
only in building, but in other fields
of industrial and commercial &C
tivity.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Teacher as Home HELPER
Hous.pork Threatens Dignity of
Helpers Profession

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Sometimes I feel like saying
thank you for the editorials of The
Tribune. But when 1 read in yester-
days paper tho editorial, "The Home
Helper" I was amazed. l connot un-
derstand why you should applaud the
plan Of housekeeper in "commuting
village Of Westchester County" in
which a school teacher assists with the
housework in return for room rent and
board.
The mother of to-day does need help
in this servant problem, but that it
should be solved by the teacher seems
an unwise thing. The teacher is on
duty from $3.50 in the morning till in
the afternoon, and after that must stay
at school to attend to those who need
discipline, or to supervise class activi-
ties or dramatics, or to clean up her
desk and arrange and review her plans
for the coming day, or to mark papers,
or to do many other things that como
under the head of "teaching" She is
a marvel who can then have time and
energy to arrive at this Westchester
home "as punctualIy as If going to an
Office cooks and serves the
dinner and afterward washes the dishes
being through not later than 8
o'clock! The teacher herself surely
knows that her best work cannot be
done under such conditions. If, how
ever, as you suggest, the plan Is
means Of incidentally making more
satisfactory the incomes Of ill-paid
teachers" that is fact of which
Westchester County, or any other
county, ought to be heartily ashamed
AS a teacher, brought up in a pro-
fessional family where there was al
ways a servant before this help prob
lem became so vexing, with college
education and postgraduate study,
with high ideals for the profession of
teaching, I wonder, indeed what you
mean when you say that the success of
such a plan as the Westchester com
munity one depends in part on "sup-
preston Of the caste spirit" Whose
spirit, the housekeeper's or the teach
er's?
This spring a certain community In
Westchester County made remarkable
step toward providing for its teachers
more than a living wage and comfort
able living conditions in order, as one
member of the community said, "to
raise the teachers above the level Of
high-class servants" I am shocked
that this plan Of some other COM
munity Of Westchester County. which
"has been in operation for two years
soon is to begin for a third
year" The teacher and community will
suffer for it. DISTURBED.
New York, Aug. rs, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Why Not Votes for All Women? :?

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading a letter in a recent
issue headed "Votes for All Women"
and comment thereon in to-day's
paper, I am reminded Of an experience
that l had in Washington in 1918. 1t
was the evening of the day on which
the House had debated suffrage and
several Southern Congressman had
talked large on the subject Of South
ern chivalry" and announced their in
tention to maintain its traditions,"
which they seemed to regard as synony-
nous with defeating the Anthony
amendment, since that was the sub
ject of discussion.
I was in the Congress Hotel wait
ing for a friend. l sat near pillar
or partition opening toward the lobby.
group of men and women were near
me, and as the gentleman who was
entertaining them talked almost as
loud as if he had been making a speech
in the House l could not /help over
hearing his remarks, which had to do
with Votes for all women" | shall
not attempt to quote him. but the sub
stance of his remarks was that "every-
body knew" that Southern colored men
cid not vote in his state, and that it
was not expedient to have them do 80.
and that If the Anthony amendment
passed it would be but "doubling the
trouble for us down there, but we
Will be able to take care of it." This
gentleman was Congressman. He
made no effort to conceal either his
sentiments or his position. He an
swered that question, and l have since
heard 1T answered in the same way by
other Southern residents.
If the women who have so splendidlv
won suffrage feel that they are now
"out Of job they might 20 down
South into Dixie and win suffrage for
''cn ana women both. C. F.
White Plains, N. Y, Aug. 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31

Never before was the standard Of
living 80 high in any part Of the
world as 1t has been Of late in this
country.
Recently there has been a sane
tendency toward lessening Of ex-
tre,ne extravaganza, and in places
there is some unemployment, but
that is passing phase. Most peo-
pie will probably never return to the
old standards of living-save per-
haps temporarily and under press
ure Of necessity. The high cost Of
living doesn't really worry them.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Issue Shifters

Governor Cox's attempt to shift
issues In mid-campaign recalls Mr..
Bryan's tactics in 1900. The latter
ran in 1896 on the free silver coin
age issue and was defeated. He
didn't change his views on that ac-
count. But when he sought re-
nomination in 1900 he thought it ex
pedient to subordinate the silver
question. He therefore picked up
anti-imperialism-an issue growing
out Of the Spanish American War
and the acquisition by the United
States Of Porto Rico and the Philip
pines.
For a couple Of months the Com
moner exploited what he called the
peril to American institutions in an
attempt on the part of the govern
ment to administer overseas de-
tendencies. There was a touch of
novelty in this attack, but the issue
was too thin and artificial to last
out a campaign. About September
Mr.. Bryan cut loose from his anti
imperialist crusade and delivered in
st. Louis an elaborate onslaught on
the trusts. Thereafter restoring
the Republic" by drawing out Of the
Philippines fell to the rear.
This regrouping Of issues was
rightly interpreted at the time as a
confession Of failure. Mr.. Bryan
saw that he was losing ground on
the anti-imperialistic hurrah. But
he kept on losing it. Mckinley car
ried many more states in 1900 than
he had carried in 1896, and increased
his majority in the Electoral College
from 05 to 1877.
Governor Cox is also trying to
shift issues. He accepted the Will
son idea Of a great and solemn"
referendum on the Wilson-Smuts
league. He is reluctant to stick
to 1t, because every week shows
stronger trend of sentiment away
from an acceptance of the league
covenant, either as 1t stands or as
the President and Mr.. Cox might be
willing to have it modified. The
Democrats candidate is now very
busy charging a Republican con-
spiracy ITO purchase the Presi-
dency" and complaining that his op-
ponent is the spokesman of "Sena-
torial oligarchy." Wasn't it an "oli-
garchy" Of Democratic bosses from
New York. New Jersey, Indiana and
illinois which put through the Cox
nomination at San Francisco? Pos
slbly the Governor will get around to
that some time.
Mr.. Cox's desire to work away
from the Wilson league issue is
manifest, perhaps excusable. 1t is
baked-over meat from the Presi-
dents futile speaking tour in the fall
Of 1919. The country has no appe-
tite for it. And Democrats who
don't want the league as it stands
are much more easily entertained by
talks about big barrels" and auc-
tioning off tho Presidency. Mr.. Cox
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
A Wrong Guess
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: SO Mr.. Munsey is for Senator
Wadsworth. Well, then, am not for
Mr. Munsey.
If he thinks that this "Barnes-tagged.
Rnti-suffragist apostle of the limousine
life" is the kind of person the people
Of this state want to be their United
States Senator, he has another guess
coming.
The immortal Roosevelt picked this
young man up out of obscuritv and
tried to make a public servant out OF
him, but gave it up as bad job, say
ing that Wadsworth was worse than
useless, that he was a dangerous man
for the people.
So what Roosevelt couldn't do Mr.
Munsey is going to do, is he? Well, |
guess not. Wadsworth has been for
Barnes, for the party gang and ths
silk stocking life always, and it's too
late for him to mend his habits now.
He's going t. be beaten. you see.
Either Payne or Lunn is infinitely To
90 preferred. They hav- the ability TO
sense the public's will and the courage
60 fight for it. They are not frightened
when the Big Boss says: boo, I'll bits
you.' the way friend Lon Hooker was.
The people are heartsick Of the
graft and injustice of intrenched
privilege. More power to the men who
dare speak out in the open for the
square deal" in matters of govern
, ment! JOHN II. ROBBINS.
New York, Aug. 26, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
the bigger states showing a growth

the bigger states showing growth
OF 10 per cent or over will gain seats.
From present indications Michigan
and Ohio will reap the largest po-
litical benefit from the 1920 census.
Ohio fell just short Of major frac-
tion in 1910 and still has an unrep-
resented surplus Of 105,S26. Michi-
gan has credit of 65,772 and Penn
sylvania one Of 36,s2S. Illinois has a
debit Of 81, 1888. The Southern States
will make practically no gain in
the next distribution. The political
balance of power will therefore be
shifted still further in favor Of the
Middle West, California, and posi-.
bly, New York and Pennsylvania.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Denatured Alcohol Taxes

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The excise law enacted at the
recent session of the New York State
Legislature imposes tax of 80 cents
a gallon on all commercial alcohol
produced in this state and q similar
tax on alcohol imported from other
states if it is resold here. There is
not the slightest justification for this
heavy tax on a material used by many
industries throughout the state. such
as the manufacture of dyestuffs, chem
icals, varnish, drugs, flavoring extracts.
perfumery, etc, and concerted action
is being taken by the manufacturers
interested to secure the repeal of the
tax at the forthcoming special session
of the Legislature.
The principle established by the
enactment of the Federal untaxed de-
natured alcohol law was that alcohol
for industrial purposes should be freed
from taxation, so far as this could be
/ done without danger of that substance
being used for beverage purposes. Now
that the production Of beverage alcohol
is prohibited there is no excuse for
policy of taxation that, if the prece-
dent is followed by other states, will
put an additional burden on this neces-
sary and important material.
Governor Smith should recommend
the abolition of this tax and the Leeis-
lature should promptly repeal 1t.
WHIDDEN GRAHAM
New York, Aug. 26, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31

CHANT ROYAL OF THE BARDs

CHANT ROYAL OF THE BARDB
SEQ hero are blithe blown fields Of asphodel.
And hero dim wonder haunted groves. and
A wayward path that climbs-so shepherds
Parnassus. mount tho poets hold 80 dear.
80 fare we up to whore the Gods bestow
The folk who weary OF the plains below
And mount sagacious Pegasus to fee
Wise beast He drops them. each In his
degree,
In duo proportion distant from tho crest.
Well see them all and haply we shall
Whose song Is held tho stUcetcSt and the best
And hero upon the lowest foothills dwell
The thousands whose Pegasean career
Was done they could rightly parallel
The mountains height with theirs; 10 each.
severe,
Proclaims his hilocls highest, and would blow
His brothers down In piping bitter WOO.
Like nocks of angry sparrows in tree
They twitter shrily in the Same small key
Nor speak but to inquire wheno'er they rest
And II not mine. pray. enlghten me.
Whose song Is held tho sUeetest and the
bcstf"
Now climb we visit those who foil
Upon tho lesser peaks and piping clear
Fill every meadow Slope and woodland dell
With melody 80 sweet 1t starts tear.
All. these arc bards who hear the magic flow
or music passing all the art they know.
Yet some, because of many a bended knee
And eager praise of pilgrims such as we
Question the Justice of the Muses. test
And hint that Pegasus can scarce decree
Whose song Is held tho s,reetest and tho best
Full many different song is here to swell
Tho chorus Pan himself gives willing ear:
or knights and war. of roso and Philomel.
or youth and hope, of care and ago and fear.
And many one of Cupid and his bow.
or Laura, Julia, Beatrice--I trow
No lady OF them all e'er hears tho plea
Her poet sings so tuncfully but she
Can name beyond doubt-Uho sore dis
tressed
At public praise>-the Muses' devoteo
Whose song 10 held tho stDeotest and the best
And now tho summit: weariness farewelli
o happest meadow plot OF all our spherel
Where Dawn is ever strew1ng from her shell
Her rose leaves DER each cloud that comes
anear.
o happy music, lifting to and fro
Each note a futterin9 hint OF long ago.
merry music, blent of hope and glee,
That melts the crust of years and sets us
free!
And happy bard, Thou art forever blestl
For mono in hearing can there question be
Whose song Is held tho sUcetest and the best.
ENVOY.
A waif this bard, from song-sweet Italy;
His Tyre a box. his tunes sorry three.
Yet happy children dance, all garland
dressed
Gay little children-laughinR, Here is be
Whose sono IS held the sDeetest and the
best" GoRToN VEEDER CAngUTK.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
Back to Barbarism

" '"4'' Z 71e 1'HW tIFO EJpreSS)
Moslem religious authorities in Ana
tolia have issued proclamation de-
claring the principles of Bolshevism
to be identical with those of Islamism
and calling on all good Moslems to &C
cept the tenets Of Bolshevism. This is
particularly interesting to the Western
world as revealing somewhat more Of
the principles and character of Boil
shevlsm. The Turks are not far wrong
IN seeing in Bolshevism a reversion to
the Mongol destructiveness and mill
tary tyranny which they always have
represented.