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New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Calls Chamberlain Safeguard

In answer to letter from Edward J.
McGoldrick, formerly Assistant Corpo-
ration Counsel in charge of city legisla-
tion at Albany, who recently was ap-
pointed by the Governor to the Supreme
Court bench, asking an expression of
opinion from Philip Berolzheimer, City
Chamberlain, on the bill pending before
the Legislature abolishing the Office of
City Chamberlain, Mr.. Berolzheimer
yesterday said:
"The abolishment of the Office of City
Chamberlain is of infinitely less con-
Germ to me than it can possibly be to
any other individual in the world ],
would suggest, however, that in no
other government, whether it be munlc-
lpal, state or national, OR in any we'll
conducted business organization, is any
one individual allowed to handle the
money Of others without, being subject
to some independent means of audit or
criticism. If this bill becomes a law
there will be no agency of the city gov
ernment, outside of the Comptroller
himself, that will have any opportunity
of ever knowing whether the head of
the Finance Department is conducting
his office honestly"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
'Drys'' Claiming Victory
Ia Ohio Vote Recount

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 26.-"Dry"
leaders late to-day predicted victory in
the recount of votes cast in the state
prohibition referendum.
With the original "wet" majority of
479 cut to 159, and with further reduc-
tions predicted by the "drys' through
alleged errors, prohibition forces ex-
pressed the belief that majority of a
few votes for the "drys" finally would
be recorded. DRY" leaders said they
expected prohibition forces next
week would demand recount of ballots
in precincts where the "wets" claim
errors in their favor.
Expected changes in the "wet" vote
include IA votes in Lucas County,
where a mistake in precinct returns is
said to have occurred, and 27 Votes in
Cleveland precinct, where the dry"
votes are said to have been lost. 1t
is also possible, according to dry"
leaders, that the vote in a Lima pre-
cinct will be thrown out, where the
votes are said to be missing. The lat
ter cut would take 80 votes from the
"wets." Loss Of an additional IA votes
is conceded by the -prohibitionists
The -prohibitionsts have on file
with the recount commission cross
petition in which they allege fraud in
thirty precincts throughout the state
Recounting of these and also of all the
remaining precincts of the state is
asked.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Knickerboc1kef
ICE
Company
Governor Charges
Drive on Welfare
Bills by ''Croup''
Discomfort Will Grow il
People Believe Freedom
of Debate Is Throttled, He
Tells Women Democrats

Governor Smith in an address be-
fore the Democratic women of the 18th
Assembly District in the Hotel Com
modore last night attacked the re-
ported lobbying by Republican legisla-
tors to defeat welfare bills.
He said that there was some activity
on the part Of certain group against
these measures and added:
"The Legislature has given a sreac
deal of time and has appointed COM
mittee to study the question of unrest,
but where can you find more fertile
ground of discomfort than in the
minds of people who believe that it
is possible to throttle freedom of de-
bate, which was pledged to the people
at the beginning of their constitutional
existence?
GAS good Democrat will inevitably
bow to the will of the majority in the
Senate or Assembly as representing
the will of the people of the state, but
any organized effort to control the will
of that body and try to pollute through
underground passages the stream OF
free speech in assembly cannot be
tolerated. Welfare measures should
be above all politics"
In discussing the duties of his Office
in relation to the reconstruction pro-
gram, Governor Smith said:
ut is ridiculous to elect Governor
of this state for two years if he spends
his first year in testing his eyesight
to see if he can see the White House.
and, if his eyesight fails, spends his
second year in trying to be reelected. :"
He told of the plans for simplifying
the government by Incorporating in
eighteen departments the powers now
held by 1877 departments and commits
sions.
"When that time comes," he pre-
dicted, under competent prison de-
partment it will be impossible for
women to be strung up by the arms
in any institution Of this state"
Mrs. Alice Duer Miller presided.
Franklin D. Roosevelt also spoke.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27

THE "Millionaires' Club
heads "Mi1lionaires'
Row"-Fiffh Avenue at Goth
Street. The White Marble
Club House cost 81, 500, 600,
and is one of the finest in the
world. The clubs official
name Is the Metropolitan.
Noted for the perfection Of
its service, it is in keeping
that the crysta]-<iear cubes
of ice that tiri.sle in the
glasses, the snowy &e-beds
upon which delicacies are
served, and the ice Csed
throughout the Club should
be Knickerbocker Ice.
Kniekerbooker lee exbes 50 generally Md =
formal dinners or parties, can Be eant, mode
B, marking off cubes on the ice, then xsisg ~
ordins,1 hand sdD.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Loa0den Ready to Reueal
Campaign Expenditures
Wires Borah Offer to Join With
Other Candidates in Submit
ting All Records

CHICAGO, March 26.-An offer to
join with all other candidates for the
Republican Presidential nomination in
submitting to Senator Borah, or COM
mittee appointed by Borah, all records
of his campaign expenditures was made
tonight by Governor Frank O. Low
den, in a telegram to the Idaho Sena-
tor, in reply to the letters charges in
the Senate to-day in connection with
the expenses of Presidential candi-
dates. The telegram follows:
"The statement made by you in the
Senate to-day, as reported by The As
sociated Press, with reference to the
expenditures by the various candidates
in the Presidential campaign to date,
so far as it applies to me, is in 10 way
warranted by the facts.
81 will gladly join with all other can
didates for the Republican nomination
for President in submitting to yourself
or to committee to be appointed by
you, all expenditures made in the cam
paign, together with names Of contrib
utors and amounts contributed, and all
books, records and vouchers, for the
purpose Of the widest possible pub
licity. l sincerely hope this may be
done, and at once"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Mayor to Lead Cleaning
Crusade in Middletown
Cox Decides to Weld Broom
in Defying Refusal of Raise
to ssWhite Wings''
Special Dispntch to The Tribune


MIDDLETOWN, N. Y, March 60
Business will be practically suspended
here tomorrow while citizens, led by
Mayor Rosslyn M Cox, attend to Mid
dletown's spring cleaning.
Armed with a broom and the convic-
tion OF a righteous cause, his honor
will make his initial appearance to-uor-
row as the towns street cleaning de-
partment. He intends to scrub and
massage Main Street clean, let the
slush fall where it will.
To-day, when Mayor Cox learned that
the city taxpayers at yesterdays cleo
ton voted against approprinting fur
ther money for street cleaners sala-
rles, he spoke his defiance as follows:
"To-morrow morning, at o'clock,
will walk right out on Main Street with
q big broom and start sweeping the
streets"
Amid the cheers that greeted this
statement John A. Korschen, Commits
sioner Of Public Works, rushed to the
side Of the peerless leader and begged
the privilege of welding the shovel.
Another stalwart soul volunteered to
swing a pick.
Still others focked to the standard
OF the big broom, and by nghtfall a
large proportion of Middletown's bust
ness and professional population had
volunteered. The remainder of the citi-
zenry set alarm clocks for $3.50 o'clock
before retiring so as not to miss any,
thing.
If the streets are cleaned the Mayors
problems will not be at an end. There
IS no money in the city treasury to pay
for feeding the fire horses. 1t was re-
ported last night that Mayor Cox was
about to adopt as a slogan, "Raise oats
Tor the Fire Department.o
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Fess Says Suffrage
Nav Suing Election,

WASHINGTON, March 26.-An adj
verse vote by the Delaware Legislature
on the suffrage amendment might cost
the Republican party the Presidency
the Senate and the House at the No
vember elections, Representative Fess
Of Ohio, chairman of the National Re
publican Congressional Committee, said
tonight in telegram to Senator Ball
at Dover.
Mr.. Fess appealed to his party in
Delaware to ratify the amendment, and
not to break the record of Republican
states which have voted on it, He said
twenty-nine Republican states of the
thirty-six necessary to make the
amendment effective have ratified it,
eight of them unanimously, while no
Republican state has rejected it. Six
Democratic states have voted adversely
on the amendment, Mr.. Fess said. If
the thirty-sixth state to vote, Repub-
lican state, turned the amendment
down, he continued, the party would be
blamed for the entire failure.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Women Open Fight
To Win Nation for
Universal Training
Gen. Organ Among Speak
ers at Meeting in Which
Countrywide Campaign
for Measure Is Launched

Universal military training, as pro-
vided for in the bill Of Senator James
W. Wadsworth, will prove far less ex-
pensive than maintaining q regular
army of any appreciable size, and it
will have the twofold result of Great
ing a barrier against external aggres-
sion and improving American citizen
ship, speakers before a gathering of
women in the Broadhurst Theater YES
terday declared.
The purpose of the meeting, which
was held under the auspices of the
Women's Committee for Universal
Training, of this city. was to obtain
the support Of women throughout the
gram already indorsed in the lower
house of Congress. The proposition
was espoused by Major General John F.
Organ, the Rev. DR.. William T. Man.
ming, Representative C. P. Caldwell,
Miss Helen Varick Boswell, Miss Laura
Cauble and. Miss Bell Gurnee, who pre-
sided.
General >O'Ryan said it seemed to
him some of the points raised by the
opponents of the measure should be
given consideration. ~ find the mass
VI tHOSc OpUOScu W UNIVERSAL CTdlHlU &
base their opposition on the belief that
if you are prepared for war you will
have war" he declared. "There is
much history to support the opposite
belief"
No better appeal in support of the
plan could be made, he added, than by
going direct to the women of America,
particularly the mothers, with the
facts.
DR.. Manning, who as an army chap
lain in the war, said he had seen the
many beneficial effects of camp life
and military training on the draft
forces, ridiculed the idea that the pro-
ject was militaristic.
Miss Boswell made a plea for as
sistance, financial and otherwise, from
the women of the city, to the end that
the committee would be able to win the
sentiment of all American women to
universal training.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Wood Leaders
Call Borah's s
Charge Absurd
Continued from paqe ono

truth the same prominence given to the
false allegation above referred to-"
In another statement Representative
Gould, commenting on a dispatch cam
paign story from Indiana, said:
The prominence which The New
York Sun. gave this morning to its
own special dispatch from Indian
apolis attacking the Wood organiza-
tlon for an alleged payment Of $3.50
each for testimonials is utterly
absurd. The statement is an insult
to General Wood and to his support
ers, as we'll as to tens of thousands
of persons who have voluntarily
written enthusiastic letters of indorse-
ment of General Wood. We have
given to the press Endorsements from
Robert W. Chambers, the novelist;
Booth darlington, Mary Roberts
Rinehart. David Jayne Hill, former
ambassador to Germany; Henry J..
SStlmson, former Secretary of War;
Of the. Treasury; Charles M. Schwab,
Frederic R.. Coudert, John Grier Hib-
ban and many other distinguished
men and women. To intimate that
such men and women could be in
duced by $3.50 to write a letter in
praise of General Wood is utterly
absurd.
AS matter OF fact we have thou
saHds of letters of Endorsements
voluntarily written and sent to u.s."
The Wood managers yesterday
marked Names twelve delegates in the
Wood column on the blackboard of
states at the Imperial Hotel head
quarters. The tally at the Eastern
heaquarters gives the Wood delegates
either pledged, instructed or certain
as follows: Arizona, 6; Georgia, 3;
Maine, 12, Minnesota, 10; New Hamp-
shire, 8; North Dakota, 8; Oklahoma,
y; South Dakota, 10; Tennessee, 10;
Tirj Tirginias ?, and the Philippines. 2.
The organization of a statewide wo-
mems division for Wood in Indiana is
nearing completion, with active repre-
sentation in every county.
The women of Cook County, Ill.,.
opened headquarters in Chicago yes
terday, with Mrs. John Leeming in
charge.
General Wood is campaigning in
Michigan to-day. He returns to Chi
cago tonight, and will return to Michi-
gan on Monday. In April he will be-
gin tour of Ohio, and later will visit
New England, particularly Massachu-
setts, where his name has been formally
entered in the preferential primary to
be held on April 27
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
DIR. Butler Challenged
To Debate by Beihi1f
Columbia President Asked to
State Whether He Really Is
Seeking the Presidency

Former Assemblyman Beihilf, run
ming on the Johnson ticket as candi-
date for delegate to the Chicago con-
vention in the 10th Congressional Dis
trict, yesterday challenged DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, also candidate for dele
gate in the same district, to joint de-
bate. Mr.. Beihilf wants to know wheth-
er DR.. Butler is really a candidate for
President, and if so, how it happens
that he is the only aspirant for the
Presidency running as a candidate for
delegate. He also wants to know who
DR.. Butler, if elected delegate, will
be for in the Chicago convention.
The Johnson men will decide to-day
on their Big Four slate in New Jersey
and also, it was said yesterday, will
announce the Johnson candidates in
nine districts in New Jersey. Senator
Johnson will speak in Rochester, Utica
and Troy to-day and will be in New
York on Sunday. Next week he will
make many speeches in New York and
Brooklyn. 1t was said at the Johnson
Headquarters yesterday that Senator
borah, who is campaigning for Johnson
will make the lavish use of money in
political campaigns the tissue.
Senator Johnson will begin his in
vasion Of New Jersey on April s. He
will speak in Colosseum Hall, Newark
that night. He will be accompanied by
either Senator Bcrah or Joseph Scott
president of the Los Angeles Chamber
OF Commerce. The following day he
will speak in Paterson and Passajc and
the next day in New Brunswick and
Trenton. On April 8 he will wind up
with addresses in Jersey City and Ho-
boken.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Dry Plank Is Keynote
AS Bryan Opens Campaign,

ELMWOOD, Neb., March 26.--Adop-
ton of a prohibition plank by the
Democratic Convention at San Fran
cisco was favored by William Jennings
Bryan in an address here to-day open
ing his campaign for election, April 90,
as delegate-at-large from Nebraska.
Mr. Bryan urged his hearers to help
make the liquor issue "as dead as
slavery, so that it will never be re-
vived again."
He reiterated his recent statement
that he was opposed to United States
Senator G. M. Hitchcock as a Demo-
cratic Presidential candidate, and in
this connection said the Senator had
voted against submission of the Fed
eral prohibitory amendment despite
the fact that Nebraska had adopted
constitutional prohibition by ajor-
ity of 20 900.
Opposition to taking the peace treaty
issue into the coming campaign was
expressed by the speaker, who also de-
clared he was agninst compulsory uni
versal military training
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Baker Won't Tell Why
Wood Was Kept at Home
Admits That No Officers Rank.
ing Persh;ng Had Command
of Combat Divisions
From The Tribm,e's WASHINGTON Bur

'0"' ''e 1|toH'tc w dSfinOtOn bureau
WASHINGTON, March 26.-The War
Department will not divulge the rea-
son for refusing overseas service to
Major General Leonard Wood the
ranking officer of the army, Secretary
of War Baker said to-day.
"The reason for assigning officers
to various commands" Mr. Baker said.
"is distinctively matter between the
War Department and the officer in
VOWED. No explanation need be ex-
pected from the department on why
officers did not have service in France. :"
When asked if General Pershing op-
posed the assignment of officers senior
to him in the regular army to dutv in
France Mr.. Baker declined to answer.
He admitted, however, that none of
General Pershing's seniors in the serv-
ice had been overseas with commands.
although several had temporary duty
with the American Expeditionary
Forces.
He said General Tasker II. Bliss. who
ranked General Pershing in the peace
time regular army establishment. had
continuous service abroad, but was as
signed to the peace conference and no..
to combat military duty.
Though an army medical board had
found General Wood eft for overseas
service" he was permitted only to ac-
company his division to the port of
embarkation en- route to France. At
Hoboken he was summarily detached
from the organization and compelled
to remain in this country by a War
Department order.
Thus far neither General Wood nor
the War Department has given a hint
Of the reason for the army's refusal
to permit him to lead combatant di-
vision in action in France.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Declares Plot
Against Wilson
Killed Treaty
Senator Williams Asserts
Some Foes We're Pleased
With Presidents Illness
and Hoped for Death
Period of the Conspiracy
Compares Senate Debate
Over Covenant With
the Fiddling of Nero

JACKSON, Miss, March 26. - The
peace treaty was rejected by the Sem
ate as result of "great conspiracy
against President Wilson, Senator John
Sharp Williams declared to-day in an
address to the Mississippi Legislature
beileve there are now men glad
that the President is sick, perhaps hope
for his DEATH" Senator Williams said.
Declaring the treaty debate was the
most confused gabfest in the history
Of the world" Senator Williams. long
known as master of sarcasm in SEN
ate debate, cxcoriated those who helped
defeat the league of nations.
Il do not see how any man who loves
his country can look with unconcern
on what has just occurred" he said
There was a chance for the United
States to stand at the head of council
of nations of the world, to lead the uni
verse in the pathways of peace. The
opportunity was rejected and future
historians will refer to the last two
years as the time of the great con-
spiracy.' We preached to our boys at
home and in France that this war was
being fought that wars might be no
more. We looked on the sufferings of
Belgium and Serbia and resolved what
we would do when it was over. Then
it finally was over and we have done
nothing. So far as we are concerned,
it appears we are willing to go back
to 1914 before it all began.
"The long-winded arguments in the
Senate were like fddling as Rome
burned talking with world in chaos.
Do you blame me for saying that l
would rather be dog and bay the
moon than to spend one minute in the
Senate after the expiration of my term
of office?
"The great conspiracy commenced
when the President went to Versailles.
and every time news came from Ver-
sailles that the President advocated or
opposed something the conspirators op-
posed his. plans. They are two by four
politicians. Senator Lodge is the head
of the poison squad
"Has any great institution founded
by our forefathers fallen down at the
times of stress and travail like the Sen
ate has fallen down?
II believe there are now men GLAD
that the President is sick, perhaps hop
ing for his death. When Mckinley was
shot down, when Garfield was shot, was
there a Democrat but expressed sor.
row? Has any one seen words of syra.
pathy for the President in any Repub
lican paper? A great man is sick, c
great mind and a great character, arc
they have whispered, We've got hin
now.'
Men sometimes disparage idealists
but they are coarse-grained jackasses
who do so, and do it because they are
coarse grained, but the idealists poin
the way and cheer mems souls"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Don't Knock" Harding's
Advice to Candidates


INDIANAPOLIS, March Ex-senator
Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, announced
confident" candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for President of the
United States at luncheon given in
his honor here to-day.
Senator Harding counseled his sup
porters and Republicans generally not
to "knock" competitors in the Presiden-
tial race, for he said he regarded all of
his opponent as worthy men. Criticizinc
President Wilson's attitude toward the
proposed reservations to the league of
nations, the speaker referred to the
Presidents statement about breaking
the heart of the world He said he
would rather break the heart of the
world than destroy the soul of Amer
lean nationality"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
SsEvery Lad a Boy Scout
Hoover Plea at Dinner
McAdoo Also Is Speaker at the
Tenth Annual Banquet of
the National Council

Herbert c. Hoover and William G
McAdoo we're among the spea ,rs last
night at the tenth annual dinner of the
National Council of the Boy Scouts OF
America at the Pennsylvania Hotel.
"There is great list of problems
before the American people to-day,
said Mr.. Hoover. Zone especially is
prominent-that of Americanization.
know of no better agency to carry on
that work than the Boy Scouts. If, for
an entire generation, we could have
every lad in the country Boy Scout
we would have no Americanization
problem"
Mr.. McAdoo thought it would be a
good thing for the country if the United
States Senate was composed entirely
of Boy Scouts. He was made an homo
rary vice president for the assistance
he gave the organization in its fund
raising campaign.
The dinner was the final event in the
two-day meeting of the National Coun-
Gil and National Executive Board of the
Boy Scouts. Colin H. Livingstone was
tOastmaSter
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Lodge ''Resting'' in Boston
Senator Slips Into Town Quietly,
Puzzling Republican, Politicians

Special DtspCtch to me Iraotne
BOSTON, Mass, March 26.-Leading
Republicans were surprised to-day to
learn that United States Senator Lodge
had slipped into the city over night.
They were puzzled over the meaning
of the visit, unless it had an important
bearing on the Senator's candidacy on
the "big four" slate for delegates at
large to the Republican Presidential
Convention in Chicago.
Senator Lodge himself said he was
here for weeks rest, but those who
saw him were inclined to think his looks
belied any need for rest. He seemed to
be in the pink of condition and has
taken on several pounds since last fall.
He is staying with Dr. William Sturgis
Bigelow, friend of the late Theodore
Roosevelt. at Sc Beacon Street. but is
not receiving callers or talking for
publication. :
New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
TIFFANY &CO.
FIFTH AVENUE & 37!nSTREEr
PEARLS DIAMONDS JEWELRY
S1LyERMARE STATIONERY

1o6th Street, and William Burke. of
DO West 106th Street. Kane and Burke
swore they did not sign the petition
containing their signatures, although
a notary public had signed his name
acEknhowledging the forged signatures.
~. dhereupon Justice 'Gavegan threw out
the entire petition, containing nine
names in that election district. The
Hines faction has succeeded in having
removed from the primary ticket sup
ported by Murphy sixty names of can
didates for members of the county
committee of the 11th Assembly Dis
trict: There are $50 committeeman to
be chosen, Of whom the winning side
must have 226 to select a leader.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Tar
box, appearing for the Board of Elec-
tions, told Justice Gavegan that he
did not think there was any legal
authority for substituting names for
those taken off the Murphy ticket,
which Hines claims were put on the
list OF his opponents to confuse the
voters. On this point Justice Gavegan
reserved decision.