New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
Mood Demands
: Excess Profit
I Tax's Repeal
''Take This Strangle Hold,
- OFF Neck of u. S. Rusi-
ness" His Plea at Will
lian1s Alumni Reunion
Raise i'm Teachers Pay.
s'Underpaid, Silent Army Is
Fighting ignorance" +" Says
: General, Assailing ''Reds''

Il Major General Leonard Wood in
sisted that the excess profits tax should
he abolished at once for the good of
American business, in his address at
the midwinter reunion of the Williams
College alumni in the Waldorf Astoria
last night.
"Let US spread the war tax over
many years" he pleaded, "and take the
strangle hold of the excess profits tax
OFF the neck of business"
Il General Wood received an uproarious
welcome when he entered the room
where"the 600 alumni were dining. Men
tossed their napkins in the air and
stood on their chairs while they
Shouted. The ovation lasted five min
utes.
y Plea for Americanism
The soldier candidate for the Repub-
3ican nomination for President again
laid stress on the necessity for un
adulterated Americansm, and made a
strong plea for better pay for teachers.
e eve want the men and women who
eome to this country to become Ameri-
cans" he said. "There's no use for us
ito have one door open for the deporta-
tion of Reds and another open for in
coming undesirables.
"Wc don't want people here who
come with the avowed purpose of pull
ing down the institutions our fathers
fought TO establish y
General Wood spoke of the work
teachers are accomplishing as the most
important of all, in that they educate
the coming generation in American
ideals and institutions. "They must re-
ceive compensation commensurate with
this work." he insisted.
eve need to attract as teachers in
tellectual men and women. An under
paid silent army is fighting a battle
nation are our greatest bulwark against
the invasion of foreign ideas"
American Labor Square
The speaker also said that in dealing
with labor a more human element was
needed. Hc expressed the conviction
that 90 per cent of American labor was
square and needed only American lead
ership.
l ne biggest NaNGe! 20 lhe country,
he said. "is not the Reds but our
indifference to them
He added that we had to dispose
of the treaty in such a way as to safe
guard our own national policy and to
do all we could to have nations talk
things over before they resort to
arms.
General Wood came to New York
yesterday to confer with his local cam
paign committee and Will leave for
Boston at O'Clock this afternoon.
The general came from Chicago and
Minneapolis yesterday, and he expects
to return to Chicago tomorrow. Cen
eral Wood smiled affably at the report
ters when they tried last night to draw
him out on his campaign prospects, but
said nothing illuminating. Asked about
the program of the Wilson Administered
tion of selling ocean going ships built
before and during the war, the general
said:
81 think Americans ought to buy all
Of those ships they possibly can"
Acclaimed as ''Next President"
Following his appearance at the Wal
dorf, General Wood was acclaimed as
the next President of the United
States in an ovation at the e.ghteenth
annual dinner of the Canadian Camp
at the Hotel Astor. General Wood,
who is one of the presidents of the
organization, delivered an eloquent
eulogy of the late Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt as a hunter.
At the conclusion of his speech Gen
eral Wood was given three cheers. Ed
ward James Cattell, of Philadelphia
was postmaster. w. Harry Allen
president of the New Brunswi Guides
Association, spoke on "Hunti Bea,
With Motion Picture Cameras" His
address was illuminated with movies
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