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New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Lest We Forget

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Senator Johnson is now asking
the Republicans of the nation to nom
mate him as their candidate for Pres-
dent
His present supporters claim that he
Is big man, an able man; but without
dwelling upon some seemingly diverse,
not to say unsavory, elements that are
making up his candidacy, is it not we'll
to remember an occasion when he was
at least not big enough, broad gauged
enough, to place the interests of his
country, not to mention those Of his
party in the nation, above his own
the latter, but at terrible cost to his
country?
In the last national campaign per-
haps it is true that Mr. Hughes was
wrongly advised when he made his
speaking tour in California, and that
it would have been the part Of policy
had he remained away. Possibly it is
also true that while in the state he was
further wrongly advised as to his al
legged ignoring of Governor johnson,
who was then actively prosecuting
his campaign for election as Senator
from California as the nominee of the
Republican party of that state
Granting that these things are true
and that Mr.. Hughes, under those cir
cumstances, sought to, or did, ignore
(yOVernnr Iohpccn ep*ircl,y <otr h.
worst possible view Of Mr.. Hughes's
lack Of tact, Judgment or official cour-
tesy, the fact remains that Governor
johnson was not a big enough man,
not enough Of q patriot and lover of
his country to induce him to recognize
that the dominance of his party was
necessary to the welfare of his coun-
try and cause him to say: II place the
welfare Of my country and the inter
ests Of the national party above any
mere personal or official affront-even
insult-and l will do all in my power
to cause the electoral vote Of Califor-
MIA to be cast for the national ticket"
In sorrow rather than in anger do
countless thinking Republicans and
former followers Of Senator johnson
realize that when the test came their
big man failed to measure up as such,
when by the exercise Of even a trif1e of
his influence during his state cam
palgn the result would have been, in ad-
dltion to his own majority Of q quarter
of million in California, the reversal
Of the beggarly 900 votes, or such a
matter, by which the Democratic elect
ors carried the state, and thus electing
Hughes President and sparing the coun-
try so very much of all the unfortunate
(to put it mildly calamities that have
since been visited upon US
BULL MOOSER FROM WAY BACK.
New York, May 3, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
The Republican Race
Dark Horses Are Debated, the "Old Cuard Is Rebuked
and a California Candidate Is Discovered As of 1916

sary to arrange additional quarters
over In the stockyards.
The Old Guards anxiety TO beat the
peoples choice, Major General Wood,
is so great that they are resorting to
racetrack tactics in an attempt to ac-
complish it. The latest move on the
part Of one Of them, Boies Penrose,
to help wreck the Republican party is
the ridiculous bringing out Of Senator
Knox, possibly in an effort TO control
any delegates that might be elected
pledged to Knox to use in the interest
Of an Old Guard Sleeper"
1t is really pitiful to see the Old
Guard in such a plight in attempting
to round up delegates in the various
states in numbers large enough to de-
feat the nomination of man they
cannot control-Major General Wood.
HARRY HUBBARD COOPER.
Boston, Mass, May 12, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
A Call for Logic

10 tne Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Dewitt Mason's lettsri,-,
Tribune this morning, assuring !, ..
many disadvantages would result ~,
the admission of women students n.,
Columbia University Law School. h.
not explain anything and fails eva,
suggest what these disadvsn.,,.
may be.
That women seek to enter Ii. 4,
lumbia Law School only shows' Z,
they have the spirit Of progress 1.
if they are admitted the only rsl
will be that they will take their plr.
in the world with clearer undertu
ing Of what the world expects Of ti;
and they VIII be better equipped
accomplish whatever work they b
to do.
Men who have lived In marrow .
vironment and who are Handicapped
limited vision have accused womea
sinking their duties as wives q
mothers and attempting to take me-
places in both business and professial.
life. Statistics prove that this is 4
fact. Economic conditions hI
forced many women into business VI
would far rather be wives and MOTIFS
They are successful in business bscsss
their pride would not let them be u
erwise. For every woman who has laI
ferred business life there are haI
dred who prefer domestic life, and q
desire is increased rather than din
ished after a few years experiena
the business or professional world
Furthermore, the woman who has y
an opportunity TO know business nj
DDS and conditions is better equlll'i
TO manage a household and far BIT
able to understand the little irri'aF'
and business perplexities her husS'
must meet daily, and is Therefore
ter able to meet these conditions u
the woman who has seen only one
Of the human relationship,
If Mr.. Mason would frankly stat :
objections to women entering the y
lumbia Law School as students 2
would find these women most willi'
discuss the subject and try to arr" /
better understanding with hims sne
side he represents. II his oojssN
are logical no woman would tDi''
trying TO override them.
The intelligent woman has no De- (
to antagonize men. Give her ever v
portunity to cooperate with men, ;,
the adjustment of the difference
this great big family of ours VIII I" s
better chance of being accompiiS
What helps one helps all, ana n'
gument can prove otherwise
JANE BATES
New York, April 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
One Cheap Thios
The Horse a Creo,
tion Amid Soariov D.:
10 the Editor oil Thn rrih.

10 the Editor of The Tribua.
Sir: In these days of cul,n;,..
prices my attention was most :.
called to the contrast, indeed g. nc
vivid example, Of a decline i, s w f''I
To-day, for an interval. 7 a,,..s r
auction sale in mar. Z
with business; in fact. the ho,,.
ket sale in East Twenty fon,., = Sa
A few years ago foreign gove,,s' are
and later on our own goverpns,.
ing kingdom for a horss ,,a- We
any old price for any old plur ',.'' !.
horse. By the thousands, nav
tens Of thousands, were tho ..., - Z
bought and shipped to Franz. Nv s',''
Italy. Cannon fodder? Yes hn. sa
Der of them together could pull +. v
piece into action. Three to four -,
dollars apiece for them was maid :; .a''
days, and / saw them led atro.,
in droves for shipment abroad
To-day l saw dozens of tb.rn al,
from $50 to $50 apiece. Pln,., - . :
but such as we see drawing rn..'
and hucksters' wagons th,on.s
streets. Indeed, fine, or at l.,s, !, !"
heavy, respectable looking and o.:
draft horses sold for from sIse ;, :.
apiece. They were the exception, :
ordinary run sold for less than n. =
of good suit Of clothes.
AS to wagons and trucks. well :,
a double truck, in excellen. co,..
costing no less than s40O 70 m,k.
at auction for $3.50.
"Well!" you exclaim. "T,s A.,
the horse is over, except for the a..
horse and the thoroughbred. Tb;. !, :.
day Of the auto truck and the am, /
livery fiivver." True, but the .h,-.
that impressed me most in expla,,s
was the fact that the horse is n
must be fed and stabbed. High ~,
living is the main cause Of this 4s,,
allelcd decline in the cost Of Norssa,
Possibly it is approximating the co,,
horsefesh as food.
At all events, here is an exsm,l. !
the great exception to advanced u
advancing prices.
EDWARD S. FIEla
New York, May 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Marriage in the Laboratory

Those conventional souls who feared
that experimenting with marriage
would undermine every piety and
morality will do we'll to read care
fully the pronunciamento Of Miss
Fannie Hurst in announcing her
marriage-on-the-quiet. If ever there
was convention and morality in the
relation Of the sexes here it is. Miss
Hurst even refers to hypothetical
children as "offspring," exactly like
an eighteenth century novel. Taking
the statement right through and
having especial regard to the re-
iterated romanticism concerning
butterfy-wings, etc., 1t seems fair to
say that in respect Of essentials a
more mid-Victorian alliance of two
young hearts it would be difficult to
conceive.
Which Is exactly as 1t should be.
The bosh about free love that
sloshed about in radical channels a
generation ago and that is still to
be heard in some such area of con-
ventional radicalism as Greenwich
Village has pretty much disappeared
into the sands by this time. The ex-
perimenters speedily found that the
fine-sounding phrase involved an es-
sential contradiction-for, as an
English radical recently remarked,
if it's free it isn't love, and il it's
love it isn't free.
AS for poor old marriage, that Mr..
Shaw and the rest stamped on and
tore to shreds and abolished a few
years back, it is still doing business
serves even for such pair of
would-be innovators as Miss Hurst
and her husband. Apparently if we
had not marriage we should have to
invent something astonishingly like
it. The details of the relationship
might be amended in more ways
than one; and the habits of life in
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Parents of Brats
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: How strange that mos T
pie lose the pith of things! n'+
"Amos" defending the child foiis','s
ing on the sidewalk, when he s'''
know there is a civic ordinance "
such a practice. Presumably D" ],
most other parents OF the day, is"
children do as they please 81
break civic laws in the open ana
a bandit which business ma! :"
not turn into fairly good eips'
reason of the fact that o'''1 I,
stands no nonsense but insls's "
regulations being observed. 80,
Personally, / was brought up :,
older fashioned lines. My fa'as'
an army officer, and although iha's
to a fault he made me toe tho ..
obey first and talk it over af's'~
and 1 do not remember the asa' u
chap ever having TO give me- ." 3,
twice. do not think MISSY '.,s,
fun as boy by being lsW
or by having some renaA' =,
respect for decent behavior snS :,
sideration for others. The W
with the modern parent is be Sas
are too blamed lazy TO diseV 4
child and bring it up proper! Sns ~. d
their best to increase criminanG,r ',rs
crime. G. ii. a
New York April 80, lS2o'
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Mr.. Hooker's Candidacy

Elon Fl. Hooker's. announcement
Of his gubernatorial candidacy is of
the direct, manly, straight-from-
the-shoulder kind. He believes that
it is possible for New York, as an
organization of intelligent citizens,
to do much to better the life con-
ditions Of the average man, and
covets the opportunity to be on the
job in an effective, contributing way.
Mr.. Hooker is A highly successful
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
When Mr.. Palmer Sees Red

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t Is sad commentary on our
efforts to 60 from q war basis to a
peace basis-and get back to constitu
tional government-that we have an At
torney General who sees red morning,
noon and night.
AS business man have no hesitancv
in saying that this man Palmer is doing
more injury to the business of the coun-
try than all other agencies combined.
He is evidently half-witted fanatic and
entirely out Of place in the Department
Of Justice. Is there no way to suppress
him? Until he IS out Of Office business
will be up In the air. This opinion is
concurred in by my business associates.
R. W. HUNT.
New York, May 1, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
For Honor
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t may not be untimely to re-
call the reply Of French soldier when
asked by an American how he could
be contented with his small pay Give
cents a day.:
"En France on So battre pour
Phonneur." ("In France one fights for
honor.")
That is the spirit!
1t will be sad day for this or any
other country when patriotic effort is
measured with money. r. n.
New York. May 3, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Referred to Mr.. Gompers

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: | would like to have you ex-
press this through the editorial col.
umns Of The Tribune:
If approximately fifty million mon
for a period Of about four years en-
gage IN tho process Of killing each
other, or else in the manufacture of
the necessary equipment therefor, and
If other hundreds of thousands, DURING
said war and since, here and yon go
on strike for the sole purpose of
shortening the hours Of producing and
raising the price Of what they do pro-
duce, how in is the high cost
Of living going to be lowered?
| would like to have you show me
If you can't, ask Mr.. Gompers to do so.
VIM. H. GORDON.
Plattsburg, N. Y, May 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Subnormal Railroad Rates

The railroads in the territory east
of the Mississippi and north Of the
Ohio and the Potomac have agreed
to ask for a 80 per cent increase In
freight rates. These roads have
been hit hardest by Federal man.
agement and the lopsided expansion
of operating costs. Their earning
power is now hardly 60 per cent of
what It was when the government
took them over in December, 1917.
Current earnings will not meet
the present government guarantees,
which expire next fall. Nor will
they furnish enough income to en-
able the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to carry out the policy Of
the Esch-C h-Cummins act. That act
contemplates rates which will pro-
duce a minimum return Of 51a per
cent on the value Of the properties
employed in operation.
An increase of rates cannot be
fairly described as an absolute added
burden imposed on the shipper, and
so eventually on the public. Things
don't work out that way. The cost
of poor service at lower rates may
be even greater than the cost of
good service at higher rates. The
straits the railroads have been in
for many years have led to discon-
tent on the part Of employees with
relatively small wages. Transporta-
tion has been irregular, not only be-
cause Of labor troubles but because
Of impaired facilities. Freight en-
bargoes have been frequent. De-
lays in shipments and delivery are
chronic. And the loss to the public
through such distractions in rail-
road operation has probably more
than offset any saving through
abnormally low freight charges.
Poor terminal service is one of
the great items in the cost of goods
to the consumer. Our terminal
facilities are antiquated - nowhere
more so than in the big cities. The
present system of delivery is crude
and uneconomical. Too much re-
handling is required. The railroads
have not been able to introduce up
to-date methods. They have been
tied down to the job of making a
bare living. IF their credit should
be restored and their energies should
be released for constructive work
the public would benefit by a great
reduction in terminal costs as we'll
as by betterments in operation, such
as the maintenance of way and the
accumulation of an adequate supply
of rolling stock.
The railroads are public agency.
The public itself has the greatest
stake in their efficiency and their
continuity Of operation.
1t is cheaper in the long run to
keep them working smoothly, ex-
panding and enlarging their service,
than to let them run down through
undernourishment. The railroad
problem is at bottom the public's
problem. Its interest lies not in
having artiflclally low rates, leading
to stagnation, but in having rates
which will produce the best and most
economical service. Such rates will
prove to be cheapest in the end.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Goldsmith's old Squire Hard
castle said, in regard to politics.: "There
was time, indeed, I fretted myself
about the mistakes Of government, like
other people; but, finding myself every
day growing more angry and the gov
ernment growing no better, left it to
mend itself" And how long ago was
It that Oliver Goldsmith penned that
speech?
I had mind to ask you II you knew
Of good paper l might read in the
morning, as the sheet I take, one Of
your Republican contemporaries, came
out the other day, and is still coming
out, with the absurd statement that
Senator Knox looms large as Presi-
Dental candidate
Now, / am not going to horn in where
even political experts are stalling.
feel too much about political matters
as old Hardcastle, quoted above, felt
some years back. But I sometimes
wonder whether you newspaper scribes
credit US with enough intelligence to
mark our ballots right.
l am Republican-that is, of the
Progressive brand. I am a conserva-
tive, but not reactionary.
do not want to take up q lot Of
your valuable space, SO please pardon
my bluntness in coming to the point.
| don't believe that you now believe
in General Wood, any more than the
paper / read In the morning takes it's
own statement about Boss Penrose' g
Senatorial chum seriously.
Taxes, the high cost Of living, re-
construction, involving foreign affairs
perhaps should have named them in
the reverse order-are vital issues in
timately affecting US.
From an available standpoint-for I
wish Republican success and am practi-
cal enough to know that unfortunately
we are at the mercy of politicians like
Penrose and Crane-my second or third
|
is Johnson.
He is at least more capable and ex-
perienced than is Wood, more able to
handle the tremendous task involving
the issues above named The charge
that he is radical may be dismissed as
easily as it would be of Roosevelt were
he alive. AS to the nature of some
of his support, I might say that can
didate sidestepping any kind Of support
would, indeed, be a curiosity.
But the discussion is not germane. as
the politicians East will not have John
son and the country will not have, a
soldier without the greatly needed ex-
perience that must come to the task of
the next four years-a candidate whose
seeming idea Of paramount issues is
Americanism and military training
We will find enough Americanism in
| Hoover, Coolidge or Allen. When we
have set our house in order we can
talk about military training The Re-
publican organization has got to take
the future seriously and roll up it's
sleeves~-more seriously than those pan
handling, vote getting, bonus giving
lawmakers at Washington are doing.
EDWARD LATTUCK.
Brooklyn, May 2, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05

| he likes to make them tinkle. Indeed,
ne confesses as much. II prefer the ex-
preston Of the world to the world it.
self,' he writes. II would rather have
been Thackeray than Wellington, have
described Becky's fight from Brussels
than have won the battle. would
rather have written three Of the four
parts of The Old Wives Tale than have
been Mayor Of each Of the Five Towns :"
Again there Is 8 pleasant touch when
Mr.. Agate writes of "The days when
Ellen Terry brought a new morning To
the jaded world, and Irving sent MS
shudderlng to bed; when, touchingly. at
11:3o, Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall would make
it up again. When Mr.. Beerbohm Tree
was a rising young actor and Mr..
george Moore confesses he was young.
"hen those tremendous initials, G. B. s..
hrst growled and thundered in the
pages OF The Saturday Review Wilde
had not tired of confounding peacockery
with prose, and the giant Wells was
stirring in his sleep. When Rudyard
hiphng was power In the land, Lord
Rosebery a LiberalImperialist hone.
and it seemed as though the prince
never would be king"
On another page he writes II love
the tinkle of onyx 'chalcedonv
'oeryl,' more than the trumpery pauds
themselves. | love the word .must-
stained without desire to gaze upon the
1eet OF the treader Of the grapes; the
words splkenard' and 'alabaster' with
out longing for pot or jar I am crazy
Tor jasmine and for Jade and were T
a French writer you would find .iad;.,
on every page"
Ihere Is something like that in us.
whenever in any Bohemian novel wa
come upon mention Of "a steamino
dish OF tripe and onions" we thrill with
pleasure, and yet we can't begin to eat
the stuff.
Mr. Hayworth Browne. Morning
tribune, Park Row-Dear Mr.. Brown
my attention has been called to the fact
tha' you mention me as editor of The
coming Tower. In the event that Won
shou'a nnd 1t necessary, expedient, or
amusing TO refer to me again, will YOU
please describe me as the author ~
something Else Again. an absurdly
iow-priced book, published by Double
oay, rage & Co. .?-FRANKLIN p.
ADAMS"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
CroUeiing the Track

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Old Guard, by the time tn,
start of the race next June, will hav,
so many dark horses" that the "judges'
will find it necessary to run the race
in two sections. At present tn,
stable" is so crowded with these OLE
campaigners and "yearlings" that i
looks as though it would be neces
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
A Familiar Delusioli

fFron. The Boston he's-s lie =
When experts declare ths' >, q.
gases and armored cars WIZ ,,s33
war from now on impossible n0e ~
lar the fluff sounds to any a''
memory goes back to lsi"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
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also tho local news Of spontaneous origin published
herein. ,
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herein also reserved.
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GOAHRNII
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No auihbina. Ws mako good promptly u the
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The Ashford Influence on Commercial.
journalism


From the Journal Of Commerce1
Coab Gray and John NJ Miller Of Chi
cago were visiters on the New York Mer-
camille Exchange on Saturday.
1t takes no higher mathematician to
show the fallaciousness Of the high
cost living figures. The average
has increased, for instance, the figures
say, 1009o. But the computers would
get that result, the way they figure,
if house rent increased 1907 and
chewing gum 500. The figures are
averageable only if exactly the same
amount be spent on all the items.
This Laughless World
SIR Upon receiving the remains Of nv
recently purchased 35-cent badges Of un-
rewarded sCrvitude, 1. e., white collars, from
the. gent who charges me five cents apiece
to mangle them cad then tries to run me
down with his r when 1 20 for walk
Sunday morning. I happened this week to
notice the names on two Of them. One was
Liberty" and the other Prosperity Can
you spear a wheeze out Of this2 | couldn't
SID MERCER
Our athaletic young man says there
is no dimunition in his predeliction
for German reparitions.
TO DOLORES
Oh, lady, could you but enthuse
(And here crib from old Voltairs)
My superannuated muse,
I'd say: Come, love me If YOU dare"
But all the fire Of folly's fed;
My long since youth I can't recall.
l go as do the living dead,
A corpse without funeral.
Would ape the airs Of younger beaux:
Would blossom forth in gaudy tie,
And silly, slender-waisted clothes
A wage unseemly small I'd spend
In blowing you to shows and teas:
I'd make you verses without end
Don't vamp me, dear Dolores, please,
G. W. W.
1t isn't a flawless world, but 1t
would be pleasanter one if, as M. E.,
j. suggests, the fire apparatus went
tHIOO6u tuc StIeeCS as 1aSC as the mail
trucks, or if the mail trucks made as
much Of a warning noise as the Are
apparatus.
Mob Psychology
Sir: Casual observation on transconti.
mental jaunt: Los Angeles sidewalk crowds
coagulate before a sporting goods DISPLAY
in Indianapolis wndowful of mark.t
produce stops 'em--and in New York a trav
of diamonds, always diamonds SIN
Additional friends of Mr.. Donola @
Tendran True and Chloe We'll and JENNY
Kistmie.
| Observation-Disclosures: The hrst song IA
IN Mile. Modlste'; the second in The Red
Mill" Both were written by Henry Blossom
and Victor Herbert
The Attorney General might as we'll
be told.
Some one is boarding the warm
weather.