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New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
The Rexall Straw Vote

At the end of the third week the
Rexall drug store straw vote still
forecasts a sweeping Republican VIC
tory. Outside the Solid South, in
cluding Oklahoma, Missouri and
Kentucky, the drift is all toward
Harding.
SO far 613,S93 ballots have been
counted. Harding's total is 371, ,461
and Cox's 242,4 Harding has a
majority Of S9,32S on the mems vote
and of 39,701 on the women's. But
the women's vote shows an even
larger Harding percentage than the
mems does.
A straw vote on this scale can
hardly fail to eliminate local varia-
tions in sentiment. 1t corroborates
the judgment of most travellers and
other competent observers. Apart
from the South, where political di-
visions are artificially frozen, the
Cox campaign is making no head
way. 1t could not we'll be otherwise
The country is not voting on Cox,
but expressing its opinion on the
tragic failure of the Wilson Admin
iStratiOn.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Calvin Coolidge Says

(F'rom his address at the Univer-
sity of Vermont, June 90, 1920
There is a deeper reason than the
high prices which have prevailed in the
Immediate past for increased produc-
ton. Surplus is the source of eco
nomic progress Public service is the
end of economic achievement. A lin
tied output at high price means serv-
ice to a favored few. Large produc-
ton at low price means service to all.
Whether engaged in or connived at by
employer or employee, the one is an
attempt to levy tribute, the other to re-
spond to duty. The one will lead to
disaster, the other to success.
This universe is not so constituted
that it is profitable for man to be any
thing but his best. The encourage
ment of accumulation, investment and
the increase of production are to bring
within the means of oil the people the
best that the land affords, as the pro-
lection of property is for the purpose
not Of protecting the powerful in its
enjoyment, but of protecting the weak
in its requirement. These are the sole
methods of a permanent diffusion and
distribution of wealth to be pursued
for the purpose of limiting individual
selishness and promoting disinter-
ested public service.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

Navy Department, so that the navy
may rise again.
Here and now, however, the
whole country should demand that
Mr.. Daniels cease his political
maneuvering Of the navy and place
in the Pacific a feet that is a real
fleet, not fake one. 1t should be
fully manned, not half manned. 1t
should be ready for battle, not IN
ready. 1t should be fleet ";n
being" as Mahan says, not a paper
feet q la Daniels! 1t should be COM
posed of active fighting ships, not
"mere masses Of steel, useless for
purposes of war, and leading only
to a false sense Of national secur-
ity," to use the words Of the Gen
eral Board.
Mr.. Daniels heard these words
once in 1914 and paid no attention
to them. Doubtless he will likewise
ignore them now, if the people of
the United States will let him.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
The Issue in New York

Only Republican ma GRITTY in the
legislature saved The state from
Tammany Hall through tie last two
years.
Governor Smith is shrewd and
able politician. But he would as
soon think of disobeying an order
from Charles T. Murphy as he would
think of getting off the public pay
Toll--a thing he has not done since
be first went to Albany as an AS
eenlblyman, fifteen or twenty years
ago.
Smiths allegiance to "the organ
iaation' is unquestioned and unques-
fioning. He carried out its orders
as an Assemblyman, as majority
leader when the Democrats were in
power, and as Speaker.
He IS q product of Tammany, and
nll that Tammany stands for. And
IS long as he is in Office Tammany
will have staunch friend and de-
fender in the Executive Mansion.
Judge Miller, the Republican can
didate, is far ADLER man than
Smith--a man Of real ideals and Of
wide experience in public life. His
allegiance is to his state, not to a
political boss. He is a man of inde-
pendent thought and of profound
knowledge Of the needs of the people.
Furthermore, he is unalterably
opposed to the New York political
machine, which, under Murphy, is
reaching out to seize the whole state
government.
The state campaign is too i'm
portant to lose sight of, or to be
b'anketed by the interest in the
Presidential campaign.
The issue is clear-cut-it is a
tight by Tammany Hall to return
Smith to Albany, and to put behind
him a Democratic majority which
will give Murphy the master hand
Tammany Hall has been an offense
to decency in New York City under
Tweed, Croker and Murphy 1t has
reestablished its control in New
York City. Smith is Tammany-
nothing more.
Elect Miller and Murphy will be
driven out Of Albany And later he
can be evicted from the City Hall.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

light the fact that there IS reser.
fund of sl0,O0O,oO0 in this uniOns
treasury.
There are good many other power.
fu' unions whose members also nav
millions of dollars and undoubtedly n
some cases tens of millions Of dollar.
into the hands of few officials.
Management which IS generally Sc.
cret, and as far as the public knows r..
sponsible to no one-of fund of slo-
100000 year and perhaps Of even
greater sums in reserve; the tren,ep.
dous industrial and political power
which their influence over hundreds o,
thousands of union members gives to
higher union officials; the opportunity
which present conditions give to high
union officials Of publicly and conspicu.
ously exercising their power. Of being
able to hi columns of newspaper space
with their interviews and arguments
with great corporation presidents. Sen.
ators, Cabinet members and even .hs
president of the United States. al offer
tremendous temptation and incsn.
tive to labor leaders to scheme and
maneuVer and fight within the union
with one another 20 obtain for them.
selves or hold against personal rivals
control Of such financial and political
and conspicuously pubic power
The engineering Of big. conspicuous
strikes, which, whatever their effect on
the public or on labor, could be made
TO bring technical victory for til.
labor leaders who called o., handled
the strikes, or the forcing Of such big,
conspicuous strikes with the idea that
they would be defeated and so bring
defeat on some rival leader who had TO
call or handle them. have been notori.
ously one cf their ehler means which
labor leaders have used in their strug-
gle for control of union power.
lTo-morro'o's article. Striking for
Monopoly Control by Cisss 0rsr
huergoody's Neccssarles oj Life.'
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Women at Harvard

At last Harvard University opens
it's door a crack. Women are enter
ing the new graduate School Of Edu-
cation, and they are entering it as
candidates for bona fde Harvard
degree
Is this the beginning of the end?
VIII the Harvard Phi. d. or A. NJ. or
FL. u. soon cease to be exclusively a
masculinity symbol? Already at Yale
there is not a single graduate or pro-
fessional school that is closed to
women. There is none at Columbia.
with the unintellfgible exception of
the Law School. Oxford, the proto-
type of Harvard, has lately done
away with the last vestiges of sex
privilege. Can Harvard long hold
out?
The present innovation is not in
fact so much an innovation as the
news items would have it appear.
This is not the first appearance of
women on the Harvard campus. But
While coeducation de focto has long
been the custom of the graduate
School of Arts and Sciences. and
While women have lately been taking
many of the courses in the Medical
School, no woman until the last week
had been allowed the privilege of
calling herself a candidate for
harvard degree. In the School of
Arts and Sciences women and men
aV'ehd the same classes, pass the
Same examinations and fulfill the
same thesis requirements; but when
tNe course is completed the women
receive degrees from Radcliffe, not
from Harvard. Incidentally. of
course, the Harvard fellowships and
prizes are not open to them to COM
pete for. In the Medical School each
course is open to women or not, at
tie discretion of the individual in
ructor. The Law School and most
o. the others exclude women en-
{ rely.
OF course. it would have been
r ther absurd for the new School of
iucation to announce itself as
5 hool Tor male educators only. Nine
tenthS of all the teachers of the
country are women, and male AFRO
gance, even at Harvard, would hard
t., go so far as to say that the only
teachers that are worth bothering
poout are to be found among the re-
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Aid for Bellevue Convalescenta
New York, Oct. 6, 1920.

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Winter is nearly here end every
cay Bellevue Hospital, The largest of
the city hospitals, is dschareing its ma
tients physically cured, but in need If
helping hand with which to face
theIr life problems. The first ncces-
slty Is adequate clothing, SO that the
health of these patients may not again
become impaired and that thew MAD
start properly equipped to take nm
their former or new occupations. We
OF the Social Service Bureau of Belle
vue' appeal TO your generous readers
to send any kind of clothing for these
men, women and children.
Packages may be sent 20 Miss Mary
E. Wooley, Social Service Bureau. Be)le-
vue Hospital, Twenty-sixth Street and
East River.
ALICE II. DOMINqCK
Chairman Of Clothing Committee.
New York, Oct. 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
The Coolidge Excerpts
'ew York, Oct. 7, 1920.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; l am reader of The New York
Tribune, and each morning have found
great pleasure and advantage in read
ing the excerpts which you publish dali!
from the speeches of Calvin Coolidge,
Republican nominee for the Yiee-Presi-
dency. l do not believe have 4yer read
more concise or better expressed ss~sss
ments of the fundamental principles
upon which this government was estab-
lished. JOHN A. LARKIN.
New York. Oct. 5. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Personal Pomer at Stake

The modern labor movement Of
course, began because the ave racs
worker, without capital and absolutely
dependent on his job, could not nro-
tect his own rights or advance b;s
legitimate interests against his nowar-
full employers.
The possibilities Of power and nre.-
tlge which go with control over tens
OF thousands and hundreds Of thou-
sands Of union members and the i'm =
mense sums Of dues result not onlv in
intense rivalries between unions. hut
between individual leaders or crouns of
leaders within union for that control
And these rivalries also have been the
cause OF our own most costly strikes.
The bituminous coal miners nn;on
has for good many years collected 4
minimum of over S1loO0,G00 a year
n4er'bers' dues How many OF tbase
tens of millions of dollars may still be
IN the treasury no one in the world
put few inside union officials know.
lawsuit this summer between
rival unions of the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen has recently brought to
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Cool Union Politics

unquestionably many factors and con-
dltlons contributed to the coal strike. All
factions among the coal union officials
were undoubtedly agreed on the strikes
principal aim-that Of keeping as MANY
men as possible in the union. But the
best inside information is that the coal
strike was forced at the time and in
the way it was, in breach of the unions
written contract against the sure oppo-
sltlon OF the government and public opn-
ion, by one group of coal union officials
who were not in power 10 compromise
ara possibly oust the coal union officials
who were in POWER, and that the coal
union officials who were in power ac
tually went through with the strike in
open defiance Of the government and
fought it ont with such ruthless disre-
gard Of public cost and suffering pri
marlly to keep for themselves their Of
fees .and their power.
One man used to set a locomotive
headlight. To-day four men have to
do the job at far more than four times
the cost because each man has to wait
till another man does his part and puts
up his tools before he gets out his own
tools and does his partial because
Of union jealousies and rivaries be-
tween different unions.
The doors tE~-t 20 into modern fire
prooting constT Jction generally con-
sist Of core of wood covered with
metal. For years, all over the country,
fight has been going on between the
carpenters union and the metal work
ers' union as to which has jurisdiction
over this kind of doors. In Boston.
after long series of strikes over this
question, it was decided that this was
a metal workers job. In New York,
after similar long series of strikes,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Cox's Newspaper Says
(f'rom The Dayton Daily News,
October 2G, 1916)

All of us feel sorry for any merchant
vessel that is sent to the bottom of the
sea, whether armed or unarmed. We
feel sorry also for the man-of-war that
is sunk in a fair encounter. We sympa-
thize with the soldiers who are losing
their lives in the trenches-with mis-
cradle humanity in general. But our
skirts are clean as regards the activi-
ties of the German U-boats. They have
committed no crime against US. They
have played the part of combatants
and respected our borders. We feel
sorry for the men who have lost their
lives in this war, and for the women
and children who have been made to
suffer through no fault of their own
But it is not our war; it is the war Of
Great Britain and Germany, and we are
not going to interfere with either side so
long as our rights are respected.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
The eConningTo Tower
THE COOK

THE COOK
She fries, she broils, she boils, sh'
bakes.
In truth, she is no sloven.
She scales the fish, compounds tn
cakes,
Domestic happiness she makes
This Goddess of the Oven.
She caters to the stomach's needs
In manner. culinary.
Ingredients for countless greeds
She makes, and families she feeds
With victuals necessary.
All, blessed Damosel, my Tyre
Thrills to your art bewitchin'.
You fill me with poetic fire
You'd fill me better could I hire
You, Goddess of the Kitchen.
FRECKLEs.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
War Department Botching

w.
We publish on another page of this
issue the first of a series of articles
on War Department mismanage-
ment and extravaganza.
The War Department didn't pre-
pare for war. In the earlier years
of the Wilson Administration it had
a competent chief-Lindley M. Gar
rison, the ablest man in Mr.. Wilson's
Cabinet. Mr.. Garrison wanted to
reorganize the army and to build up
military reserve. The President
refused to support him and forced
his resignation. Mr.. Wilson was
satisfied that his own short stump
ing campaign in the winter of 1915
'16 was all that the country needed
in the way of preparedness. He
went over to the camp of Repre-
sentative Hay and the House paci-
fists and lent his influence to substi-
tute the sham Hay army bill for a
real measure Of military prepara-
ton.
Secretary Baker, a pronounced
pacifst, succeeded Secretary Garri-
son. He put a damper on the eff
forts of the General Staff and the
War College to get the military es-
tablishment in order. Even during
the winter of 1916-'17, when war
with Germany had become inevita-
bic, he refused to approve the prin-
ciple of universal military liability.
The selective draft measure went to
Congress after war was declared.
without a word said in its favor by
the Secretary or the President.
Later on the Secretary resisted an
extension of the draft age limits.
Until General March returned from
France and took a firm hold on the
situation Mr.. Baker continued to be
dangerous drag on the efficient
conduct of the war.
Public opinion finally compelled
mighty effort to defeat Germany.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were
voted to the War Department to put
the United States on a real war
footing. But under Mr.. Bakers
feeble direction shockingly large
portion of this was wasted. Tardi-
ness, laxity, complacency, gross
favoritism to localities and policy
of drift brought deplorable results.
The country doesn't begrudge the
cost Of the war. But it cannot for
give the incapacity and lack of pre-
vision and energy which made so
much of the War Departments ex-
penditure and belated effort barren.
The American people fought the
war. They gave lavishly. They
made the conscription system
splendid success. They ovcrcame all
dltticulties, so far as mass action and
spirit could overcome them. But
they owed very little to the govern
ment's leadership, which was more
often a hindrance than help.
Patriotic feeling has shrunk from
the idea Of uncovering the deDlorable
failures which occurred in so many
departments of administration. But
the truth must come out. The arti
cles on the War Departments short
comings which The Tribune will
publish make melancholy reading.
Yet they serve to point moral for
the future. They emphasize once
more the blazing folly and crushing
cost of governmental indifference to
an intelligent policy of military
preparation.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11


1t is matter of court record that
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
has a reserve fund of $1O,OO0,00O in
its treasury.
The Senate investigation showed that
the Bitumnous Coal Miners Union
collects minimum of $11,O0O,0OO a
year dues from its members.
Political fights within unions. be-
tween individuals or factions, for con-
troll Of such immense sums as these
and for the power which such control
gives, are the principal reasons back
of some Of the costliest strikes we
have had since the war
All the underwear manufacturers in
Cohoes, N. Y, were shut down for over
a month last spring-all their pro-
duction stopped and thousands of pro-
ducers idle-simply and solely be-
cause of factional fight between two
rival unions
Nlhe(y-llVe per cent-nlne and one
half out of every ten strikes in the
building trades last year, according
to Senate investigating commission,
we're called simply as incidents in
fights between rival unions for au-
tbority or jurisdiction or other forms
of power.
The printers strike, which cut the
wages of. a million and half outside
workers.; part of the shipping strike,
which almost paralyzed Eastern indus
try for most of this spring, and big
proportion of the other more costly
strikes we >have had. have been called
and continued despite every public pro-
test and effort simply and solely be
cause Of some political fight between
union officials for political control of
some union or group Of unions.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
For Columbus Day
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 inc EdltOr OF Inc Tribune.
Sir: 1t occurs to me that in con-
noction with Columbus Day, October
-, your readers may be interested in
a suggestion sent by the National Sc
curity League to $50 high schools and
numerous clubs cooperating with the
league in constructive celebration of
national holidays.
The purpose Of each of the leagues
plans for the observance of HOLIDAYS
has been to cause the public mind to
concentrate on some Enthusiastically
American thought. The league sur-
gests that schools clubs and individu
ais would find splendid inspiration to
good citizenship in a study Of Lowelrs
poem "Columbus.' In case time pre-
vents the reading Of this LONG noem
Joaquin Miller's poem "Columbusv
might be read instead.
Both these poems fttinglv express
the perseverance under difficulties
which is typically American. Thev are
BITS Of American literature which will
live and will prove sources OF eniov-
ment and interest to readers.
ETA Y. LEIGHTON
Civic Secretary the National Security
League.
New York, Oct. 6, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

have deficit fraction Of 64.626 on
the second seat. She will have
doubled her representation in the
House since 1880. New jerseys
prosperity rests on the solidest foun-
datons and her growth has only
bau,,n
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Living on Hone

lfro"' The Washington Eueainq Star,
A bolshevist is the kind OF bah a,.or
VINO always believes he viii be great
success the next time he performs.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Driven to Death

'fr0m The Boston Evening Tramsc,4pn
The reason why there are no NOR.
drives" seems perfectly plain. Drives
argue the existence of cash.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

fou can purohsse msrrra ndIsr advertised IN THE
fRisONt with absolute ssfeN--for II dlssa.,sfsc.
yen 'ssalts In any case TIE TRIBUNE fuarantses
- Ea5 iour money hack uson request. Mo rcd tsps
Ns dviAsn3. VS. make ausc prometly II the
tyoftlses does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Bad Grammar

(From The Boston Epenino rranscripn
The intellectuals may inspire the
outrages, but it is apparent that thew
DO not write the warnings.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

"Tell Professor Broun for me-" writes
William Allen White-and we're GER
tainly going to tell him--"that l think
it is a rotten trick not to put me on his
all-American team after | went and
bought him a breakfast in San Fran
CISCO He is unethical When man buys
breakfast for critic, it certainly is
unethcal for the critic not to put the
man on his all-American writer's team.
If this is done by other critics, authors
will quit buying them breakfasts and
they will have to buy their own break
fasts, which is absurd" If Mr.. w. A.
White bought Professor Broun as good
breakfast as is served at the White
mansion, 81 Exchange Street, Emporia
there is no gratitude in the Broun heart.
Since we had a Certain Rich Breakfast
in Emporia, it has been our conviction
that W. A. White is an all-American
team in himself.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

Advice to Woman About to Purchase
Gown
Wait till the price drops, Nellie,
And the cost is not so high.
Then We'll go shopping, Nellie,
You and /.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11

For once we string along with Miss
Amy Lowell. Her estimate, in yester-
days Times Book Review, of Old Louis
untermeyer as Critic, Parodst and
a Poet is just. Louis is first-class
critic, nobody but J. c. Squire can write
better parodies, and he is as good
poet as so excellent critic and parodist
which abilities make inevitably for
self fconsciousness-can be.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Class Consciousness

tFro,n The Baltimore Sua)
America is full of middle-ciass folk
who feel upper class and lower-clsss
folk who feel middle class, bat there
are no lower-class folk who feel lower
class.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
Enfer-T MON Clashes

1t mas been emphasized in previous
chapters that less than 80 per cent of
all strikes last year, according to gov
ernment figures, were primarily for
higher wages and that only a little over
half of all strikes even mentioned
wages. Most of these strikes which
were not for higher wages, and a very
bag proportion of even those strikes
which did bring up the question, were
primarily because Of jealousies or
rivalries between unions or between
groups of leaders within unions.
One million fifty-two thousand two
hundred and ffty-six men went on
strike last year for reasons which the
rest OF labor or the high officials Of
labor refused to recognize or openly
condemned Many, probably most. of
these strikes brought up the question
OF higher wages, but all of them were
actually due to jealousies and fights be
s"een rival unions or rival groups Of
leaders within unions.
And the only real difference between
TINS first class of strikes. caused bv
riValres or jealousies which recognized
labor officials sanctioned, and this sec
ond class Of strikes, caused by jeal-
ousles and rivalries which recognized
labor leaders did not sanction but out
lawed, was that in the second case the
Jealousies and rivalries were directed
against or contrary to the interests of
the recognized labor leaders them
New-York tribune., 1920-10-11
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