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the Legislature into special session
and order special elections in the
d~isfranchised districts.
But has Governor Smith the
courage to use the weapons In his
hands? The outlook is that he
shrinks from anything drastic.
Caution is suggested by the report
that he does not intend calling an
extra session unless furnished evil
dence, which he is not likely to get
in advance, that the welfare and re-
construction bills will pass on an
other test. The partisan character
of the Governors comment on the
session indicates that, whatever may
have been his mood in the past, he
is now out to play politics.
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Yes, but Not Too Manv

Listen to Wilhelm Waetzoldt, q
Berlin critic, who fears that the
economic situation will rapidly drive
out all artistic talent from the
f%atherland. He puts the alternative
facing the German musician, con
poser, singer, architect, painter, car
toonist, bluntly: slow starvation in
Germany or a full stomach abroad.
I'm Germany" he writes, "these
mon I confronted, their high com
pensation Notwithstanding, with an
existence that is becoming increas-
ingly difficult every day. Weighted
down by the costs of necessaries, of
materials and transportation, handi-
capped by high taxes on luxury,
without the slightest hope for as
sistance from an economically
gagged state, what is there to pre-
vent these people from going to for
eign countries, where, in spite of the
high cost of living, high rewards
and salaries await them, part of
which, sent home and exchanged for
German currency, will open for wife
and child the paradise guarded by
food smugglers and protiteers?"
Moreover, this exodus Of German
talent, we are told, is not restricted
to artists, but extends to the high
est class Of skilled artisans as we'll,
for whose trained capacities tho less
developed countries offer a promis-
ing field. And the government is
powerless to help.
This loss of a number of her best
sons is undoubtedly a grave one for
Germany, and Germans will find
little solace in the suggestion that
they have to add that loss to the
debit side Of the war balance. But
there is another aspect to this mi.
grafton Of German artists and arti-
sans-namely, the attitude of the
countries which are expected to alb
sorb it. AS to this it may be said
that the incomers will determine
their own fate.
On the other hand, there is such a
thing as dumping" Of artistic and
intellectual goods. The later Greeks
had a bad name because they were
clever and emigrated in too large
numbers. The unpopularity of the
keen-witted Jews came after the
dispersion, and that it was not orig
inally due to Christian prejudice Is
shown by the fact that prosecutions
began before Christianity had gained
many converts. If the German intel
lectuals do not unite themselves
spiritually to their new homes, some
thing they probably have no nfVon
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Vanishing Sugar
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading in The Tribune Of the
22d inst, I noticed a heading hat as
tonished me. The article was headed
export of Candy to Europe" The
last shipment to the close of the calen-
dar year was $12, S05, Oe2--tenfold the
amount sent abroad the year before.
In another column I noticed the
heading, Sugar to Reach 35 Cents
by July l."
Well, the public will have to pay, as
usual. What are the good wives to do
about canning? The season will be
here in a couple Of months, and we
cantor, at least, I can't, and I know
there are thousands of others that
cannot-aford to pay 35 cents for
sugar for canning.
Why don't they stop the manufac-
ture Of candy until times are normal?
Why don't the food officials put a han
on the manufacture?
SWEETTOOTH.
Norwood, N. j., April %, 1920.
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Alcoholic Drugs Going
TO the Editor Of The Trhnna

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Whidden Graham, in a let
ter to your paper dated April 10, COM
plains rather bitterly of the sale of
so-called medicine with a strong al
coholic content. This he finds by "a
casual visit to a few drug stores.'
The report of the American Drug
Manufacturer Association, recently
In session in this city, that there is
already a decrease in the sale of medi-
cines with a high alcoholic content and
that their manufacture is being cur
tailed would seem to indicate that the
condition Of which Mr.. Graham COM
plains. will BIO only temporary except
among the few who are willing to drink
anything LIQUID except wnter and those
that feel moro at home in violating
than in keeping laws. Like the poor.
these will always be with US; thoy al
ways have been in the days Of licenae
Il. SWAIN CLIFFORD.
New York, April 10. 1920.
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Togas for Overalls

70 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To reduce the h. c. of l., don't
you think the dress of the old Romans
might be adopted?
For men. a loosely beltcd garn'e"
falling from shoulders to within an
inch or two of the knees and mace o.
cotton or other cheap material. IN
cold weather an overcape or scarf
might be worn, simila~ to the togs o.
Caesars day. These reforms would 40
away with baggy trousers and s'
slavery to the pressing iron.
For women, the loose, flowing roo'
falling in straight lines from shouias'
to ankle would only enhance Inv
wearer's charms. With rieh''
studded or beaded girdle. or, perhaps
a cord and tassel at waistline. Sspph'
would be complete. sClPIo III.
Appian Way, April IS, 1920.
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No Time for Display

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems to me during these
hard times, when a person in less
than moderate circumstances has all
he or she a do to exist, that it Is
very poor taste for rich people to
splurge SO during the wedding fes-
ti7ities of their children. How much
more sensible it would appear for
them to be married quietly aad simply.
instead Of all these dinnrr-dsnces,
balls, plays. etc,
1t makes one feel how unevenly
money is divided. Not that I am a So
%cialist, at all. How much good those
wasted thousands would do 30 many
who have not the bare necessaries OF
life! There is enough money thrown
away-wasted-in New York alone
City to feed and cloths all Of It's psf
per poor.
MRS. SALLlE BROWN SMITH.
Summerville, N. j.. April %, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
The armenian MIDDLE

The San Reno conference dis
closed a of humor in formally
Offering the United States an Ar
menian mandate and suggesting that
President Wilson himself fix the
boundaries of the new Armenian
Republic. In a recent message to
the Allied governments the Presi-
dent criticized the terms of the
Turkish settlement. We are not
entitled to take a hand in the liuui-
dation of the Sultan's estate, since
we never declared war on him. But
the Allies now cheerfully waive that
technically. They are glad to get
Armenia off their hands and are
more than willing to have Mr.. Will
son dellmit its frontiers and the
United States become it's guardian.
Lloyd George said the other day
that he had received assurances at
Paris of American willingness to
assume this particular mandate. The
promise was made by our chief peace
commissioner and was obviously de-
pendent on his success in getting the
Senate and the country to indorse
his peace policies. 1t lapsed from
force of circumstances not foreseen
by the maker. But the Presidents
latest attempt to influence the Turk
ish partition permits the Allies to
remind him without discourtesy of
his original intentions.
1t is a clever way of limiting at
the limitations of advice which is
divorced from any sense of respon
siblllty. The President may accept
an Armenian mandate. Yet he can
not hope to execute it without the
support OF Congress. He has so far
stubbornly refused to allow Congress-
to cooperate with him in determin-
ing the foreign policy Of the United
States. SO long as the deadlock over
the ratification Of the German treaty
continues assent by Congress to the
assumption Of new international OBJ
legations seems out of the question.
The President is, of course, free
to act as umpire in the determine
ton OF Armenia's boundaries. But
If he allows the new republic the ter
ritory to which it lays claim in
Asiatic Turkey his decisions are
likely to remain unenforceable un-
less the Allied governments which
sign the Turkish treaty agree to fur
nish troops Syith which to establish
and maintain Armenian sovereignty,
The European Allies don't want to
take v the job Of BUSTING the
Turks from Erzerum and western
Armenia. They would be delighted
TO have the American government
act IN their place. But American
military Intervention is impractical
bic at present. SO the conference
politely leaves an orphan on Mr..
Wilson's doorstep, without any Sc
rlous expectation that he will be able
TO nourish it except with benevolent
wishes and sympathetic words.
The State Department has rccog-
nizcd the independence OF the Ar
mcnian Republic, without prejudg-
ment as to its territorial limits.
J That ~ about all it can do at present
as a phllanthropic observer Of the
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partition Of an enemy empire with
which we refused to 60 to war.
Nathan Golf

NAtIl8N OOu WV q AOAiS CA1uC liz
used to write his name Nathan
Golf jr.) was one Of the most dis
tinguished Of West Virginians. He
helped to make the state, for he
was born a Virginian, and enlisted
in the Union army when the war
came and the mountain section re-
fused to abide by the ordinance Of
secession adopted at Richmond.
Golf saw much hard fighting in
the Second Bull Run campaign, and
later was captured and put in Libby
Prison. There he was selected as
a hostage to be hanged with six
other Union officers in case a like
number Of Confederate officers held
as spies were executed. Gof wrote
to Lincoln asking him not to in
terfere with the course Of military
justice. But an exchange Of prison.
ers was finally arranged.
From the close of the war almost
to the day of his death he served his
people almost continuously and al
ways conspicuously. He was an
ardent Republican in a state which
lapsed back to Democracy after re-
CONSTRUCTIONS leader who had to
make many uphill fights and suffer
many political defeats. For fifty
years he was a dominant figure in
his party in the state, although for a
large part of that period he sat on the
Federal bench. Nothing could extin-
guish his interest in politics. He
was elected to the State Legislature
in 1867. He rounded out his career
by being elected United States SEN
ator in 1918, serving until 1919.
COTS political activities were
amazing. He was Federal District
Attorney for West Virginia from
1868 to 1881. He had to travel
thousands Of miles each year to
cover his district. Yet he found
time to make unsuccessful cam
paigns for Congress in 1870 and
in 1874, and to run for Governor in
1876. In 1881 he served a short
term as Secretary of the Navy in
the Hayes Cabinet. The same year
he was reappointed District Attor-
ney, continuing in Office until 1882,
when he was chosen a Representa-
tive in Congress from the old 1st
District. lie sat in the House for
three terms, and then ran for Gov
ernor in 1883. He was elected on
the face of the returns, but was ex-
cluded from office by the Democratic
Legislature, which canvassed the
vote. From 1892 to 1918 he was a
Federal circuit judge for the Fourth
Circuit.
Golf belonged to the OIL Virgin
ian order and was loyal to it. West
Virginia used to be an isolated
mountain community, little developed
because Of lack of railroads. The
state has now become industrialized.
1t has cut away from the old South.
Its politics are less turbulent and
less personal. COTS career will
hardly be duplicated there. His
passing away recalls the picturesque
era in which he figured so actively
and with such distinction-a party
leader whom men gladly followed
unwaveringly for two generations
through victory and defeat.
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Mnnxn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press u exclusively entitled TO tho
as for republication OF ill news dispatches credited
10 IL or not otherwise crcditsd In this paper. and
Also tho local news Of spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication Of sl other matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

The idea hat q newspaper mar gets
chances to see the country and to meet
Lots of Interesting People is based on
truth. We have just received our
annual invitation to attend the COM
nienccment exercises Of the Colorado
School of Mines, at Golden, Col.
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AS for Instance?

Sir: Some little time ago you madc
a. statement in the column which no one
ventured to challenge, but which, 1T
seems to me, was a bit misleading to
unmarried contribs and might even
shatter some romance. You said some
thingr to the effect that husbands and
wives knew each others stories Of the
past by heart, they had told them all
over so many, many times.
So we have, so we have,-tolQ them
all over and over again, told all that
we're ever going to tell. all that W.
could c~onceivably think of telling, short
of peine forte ct dure, which was what
they used to call it back in the Middle
Ages when they had that persuasive
way of putting a cobblestone on ones
stomach and tying ones hands and feet
to opposite corners of the room. But,
0 my dear little readers and hearers,
do not for one infnitesimal fraction
of a second suppose that we could not,
each one Of us, tell far other and more
engrossing anecdotes which would hold
any loving wife or husband spellbound
while wars were fought unnoticed and
tornadoes passed unheard!
DAISY BELL.
Lord Dewar reports that the price
of wives in Africa has doubled; but
the thing evens up. In the United
States the price of husbands has
doubled. -
Fond Recollections
Sir: The perfect joys Of cycling were not
century runs on the Newbury Pond Pike
or Coney Island Boulevard. They were push
ing through sandy roads and the White
Mountains and coasting down Mount Wash
ington. I rode a Lowell Diamond g. & j.
tires. SIS extra). The coast down the car
Rage road was not so dangerous as 1t
sounds the worst place was on a three
nnue hill on the road to Jackson. Once
we got caught in a thunder shower and
put into a farmhouse on that road. The
farmers wife decided we needed blackberry
brandy. We prayed for rain ever after.
Coasting down the Crawford Notch was
good fun-almost twenty-five miles of down
hill. Once I hit a loose stone near the
old Wiley House and was carried back to
Crawford's and patched up. A guest OF
some eighteen summers was most syupa
thetic and I looked at her s~oulfully out
Of my one working eye. The bicycle en-.
trained for Boston for repairs. have a
bicycle now. by the way. 1t has no name.
ard doesn't deserve one. The tires last Iess
than Il year. They used to last four or Ave
years. 1t has a coaster brake, so I can't
show off by riding backwards. These be
S"o t''nes' ARTHUR ROBINSON.
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of doing, they will be unwelcome if
arriving by shiploads.
A German singer, a German aTchi-
tect or two do not mean q Prussian
invasion, and fortunately the emil
grants will have to stand the sound
est Of tests-competition in an open
market. Just the same, Germans,
Individually and collectively, will
have to do and say a thing or two
before the outside world consents to
give them the best seat by the fire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

There appears this Silver Lining: Il
you lose $3.50 at poker now, you lose
the price of a suit Of clothes; in the
old days you would have had to go
without two or three suits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

The Big Moment in our cycling days
came, We recall, when we learned to
jump into the saddle from the ground.
The thrill Of standing still without
touching the handle bars was slight
compared to that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

Owned and published daily b. Now York Tribune
Inc. . New York Corporation. Oxde, Reid. PrcS-
dent: @. Werner Rogers. vioe- Prsaidsnk: Holm Rogers
Raid. Secretary: r. "A Maznad. Treasurer. Adj
drs.. Tribune BUILDING. lsA Nassau Street. New
Ycrk. Telsphons. Bs~kman 5000.
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That Sugar Shortage

From The Boston HeroId
1t ia a wise sugar buyer who can 20"
scarcity from scare.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

You San purchase MERCHANDISE advertised In ThE
TRIBUNE With absolute safety-fo~ II dissattsfac'
tisR vssuits In any eass TINE Tribune guarantees
10 pay your msney haok uasn request. No red tspo.
No auibbiIns. We make ssed promptly II tho
advertiser sees not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

Old Sam Merwin, whose memoir is
deadly and accurate, recalls that he
first fell in love with Irene Franklin
at the Olympic Theater in Chicago;
and that the Society song in "A Run
away Girl" ended
I'd ride on horses with nice long tyles
II my pa-pah was the Prince Of Wyles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

The Journalistic Beauty Contest
Sir: Haywood Broun isn't the handsomest
nj wvpaper man in all the fair countryside
by any means. My ex-boss, Bill Farnsworth,
has it on Haywood by several dimples and
IL complexion, and III leave it to the
Aubry Sisters. ARTHUR ROBINSON.
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The Diary Of Our Own Samuel Z.ov,

April 24-Early up, and drove Mrs,
Sally Farnham and Neysa to Port
Washington, that they might see a GER
tain house; and back again. With nv
wife to Englewood, and I played a few
sets of lawn tennis, with fair sue
cess, but too cold for any great speed.
All evening in frivolous talk.
25-With j. Hutchinson for partner
I did play two games Of croquet, a silly
sport, and we were beaten by two girls,
which proveth what a foolish diversion
1t is, skill nor strength entering into it
not at all. Played some tennis to keep
warm, but with scant success at hitting
the ball or at keeping warm. All to
bed early, but Mistress Janet and I did
stay up long after the rest, discussing
this and that, highly interesting and
thought-provoking.
26-Up betimes, and my wife and !
waited neal an hour at the ferry, only
one boat running; late to the Office, and
working hard till my stint was ended,
and home to dinner. Muck talk Of the
presidency heard this day in the city,
and many leaning to General Wood,
but my choice still for Governor Allen,
Whether, as Signor Nitti says, the
world has forgotten how to smile is too
abstruse a question to be arbitrary
about. Our guess is that the world
never knew how to smile; that it's not
knowing how to smile is responsible
Tor most Of the trouble it has "a. into,
Or perhaps it is that it doesn't know
when to smile. Our observation hat
been that 1t usually smiles, or laughs
IN the wrong place.
.Ignor Nitti's motto: Tho univoise
with the smile wins.
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Differed At the postonncs a Now York as Second
Cas Mail Matter
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Or perhaps it is that it doesn't know
when to smile. Our observation has
neen that 1t usually smiles, or laughs,
IN the wrong place.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

n'gnor Nitti's motto: The univoise
WITH the smile wing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

Lord Dewar reports that the price
of wives in Africa has doubled; but
the thing evens up. In the United
States the price of husbands has
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-01-23

bis flrst call at tAe AmbersOn mansion
and what q great parsonage she
seemed, at home in that magnifcence
and yet 90 gay and friendly. He re
membered the first time he had danced
with her-and the old waltz song be.
gan to beat In his ears and In h,s
heart.
All the way to New York It seemed
to him that Isabel was near him, and
he wrote of her to Lucy from his hotel
the next night:
II saw an account Of the accident
Of George Minafer. I'm sorry. though
the paper states that It was plainly
his own fault. suppose 1t may have
been as a result of my attention fall
ing upon the item that thought Of his
mother a great deal on the way here.
1t seemed to me that had never seen
her more distinctly or SO constantly,
but, as you know, thinking Of his moth
err is not very apt to make me admire
himi OF course, however, he has my
best wishes for his recovery"
He posted the letter, and by the
mornings mail received one from Lucy
written a few hours after his depar-
ture from home. She inclosed the item
he had read on the train and wrote:
II thought you might not see it.
II have seen Miss Fanny and she
has got him put into room by him.
self. Oh, poor MISUNDERSTANDING
/ have been thinking SO constantly of
his mother and 1t seemed to me that
have never seen her more distinctly.
How lovely she was-and how she
loved himw
II Lucy had not written this letter
Eugene might not have done the odd
thing he did that day. He was an adj
venturer; II he had lived in the six
teenth century he would have sailed
the unknown new seas, but having
been born in the latter part Of the
nineteenth, when geography was a
fairly well-settled matter, he had be-
come an explorer in mechanics. But
the fact that he was a "hard-headed
business man" as well as an adven.
turer did not keep him from having q
queer spot in his brain. because hard.
headed business men are as suscep.
tible to such spots as adventurers are
Two weeks after Isabel's death, Eu.
gene was in New York on urgent bust
ness and found that the delayed ar.
rival of a steamer gave him day with
nothing to do. His room at the hotel
had become intolerable; outdoors was
intolerable; everything was intolera.
BILE. It seemed to him that he must
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-01-23
mo, JUS. to Take His Gently"

mo, Just to Take His t1ano-Gentiy."
see Isabel once more, hear her voice
once more; that he must find some
way to her, or lose his mind. Under
this pressure he had gone. with COM
plete scepticism. to "trance-medium"
of whom he had heard wild accounts
from the wife Of q business acquaint-
ance.
The experience had been grotesque,
and he came away with an encourag-
ing message from his father, who had
failed to identify himself satisfactor-
lily, but declared that everything was
ION higher plane" in his present
state Of being, and that all life was
continuous and progressive" Mrs,
Horner spoke Of herself es a
psychic but otherwise she seemed
odGSv unpretentIous and matter-of-
fact; and Eugene had no doubt at oil
of her sincerity. He went to Mrs.
Horner's after his directors meeting
today. He used the telephone booth in
the directors room to mike the ap-
pointment; and he laughed feebly at
himself, and wondered what the group
of men in that mahogany apartment
would think II they knew what he was
doing. Mrs. Horner had changed her
address, but he found the new one
and somebody purporting to be niece
OF hers talked TO him and made an ap.
pointment for "sitting" at Eve o'clock
Mrs. Horner appeared in the door.
way, wan and unenterprising look
ing woman in brown, with thin hair
artifcially waved-but not recently
and parted in the middle over n blush
forehead. Her eyes were small and
seemed weak. but she recognized the
| visitor.
"Oh, you been here before" she said
In thin voice, not unmusical. II rec
ollect you. Quite time ago. wa'n'I
it?" x
"Ycs, quite long time"
II recollect because I recollect you
was disappointed. Anyway. you was
kind Of cross" She laughed family.
I'm sorry II seemed So" Eugene
said. "Shali we"
.An right she assented, dropped
y into the leather chair. with her back q
the shaded window ~You better ~
down. too, I reckon. I hope you'n 81