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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-06
The Soldier Cripple

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Here is something l witnessed
last evening, and I hope you will have
the kindness to give it space. At the
corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventy
second Street l noticed lame soldier
IN uniform trying to board north
bound bus. He was unsuccess ful, as
all the buses were filled Many dozen
automobiles passed and the soldier
called and waved to at least a dozen
that were entirely empty except for tho
drivers. The drivers looked at him and
drove on indifferently. He started to
hobble away and then returned to the
corner, evidently hoping that some ono
with a spark of human feeling would
give him lift. After what must have
been a painful and dishear.ening wait
man stopped his car.
1t is certain that those who refused
the crippled soldier a lift took no part
in the war; if they had, they would
not have refused him. AS some Of
them were about the same age as the
soldier it can be assumed that the
safety of those "safety- tirsts" had been
dearly paid for by just such lads as
the crippled one referred to- 1t Is also
possible that war profits enabled them
to buy costly automobiles in which to
ride up and down Fifth Avenue and
annoy women pedestrians.
While on my way home, thankful to
the one man who stopped his car, and
wondering what could be the makeup
of the creatures that passed the Grip
pied soldier, | was not left long in
doubt, for / was annoyed by several
Automobiles, presumably Of the same
low caliber, three of the specimens
drawing up to the curb and inviting me
to ride
If our boys were worthy of cheers,
tears. gratitude and consideration when
they went abroad whole to fight for US
they are certainly entitled to as much
now when they are back, disabled. 1t is
our duty and should be our pleasure to
give them helping hand whenever We
have the privilege.
MRS. NJ A. PHILO.
New York, July /, 1920.
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Overconhdence

Senator Harding has returned to
his home in Ohio and is soon seri-
ously to take up the business of
securing his election and the defeat
of Wisconsin.
No one charges that so far any
thing has been done to increase ma
terially Senator Harding's chances
The unfortunate impression created
by the way the Chicago nomination,
was made has not worn off. If any
thing it has seemingly tended to be-
come more acute. 1t would be fool
ish to deny distinct recrudescence
of Democratic hopes. Not much was
achieved for victory in November,
when as campaign advisers were
named such persons as Boics Pen
rose, of Pennsylvania; Jake L. Ha-
mon, of Oklahoma; A. 7. Hert, of
Kentucky; John W. Weeks, of Mas
sachusetts, and Harry NJ. Daugherty,
of Ohio. The list is conspicuous by
its non-inclusion of many represent
ative Republicans of different ten
dency.
In 1916 Mr.. Hughes defeated
himself by following a false cam
paign theory. He did not express
himself. He allowed himself to be
surrounded by politicians who said
it would not do to offend the pro-
Germans. 1t is to be hoped the po-
litical tragedy will not be repeated,
and that Senator Harding will not
permit himself to be persuaded that
he must cater to the "stand-pat" ele-
ment of his party.
A rudimentary knowledge of poll
tics suggests that Mr.. Harding has
already an excellent chance Of Sc
curing the so-called hard-shell
Republicans. But alone they are
not enough. They need to be sup
plemented by progressives and
independents, by a majority of the
new and inexperienced women
voters and by those idealistic Re-
publicans, always numerous in the
party's membership, who are not al
together satisfied with the lack of
definite statement of what is to be
done with respect to organizing the
world against future general war.
1t is to be assumed that Senator
Harding is not ignorant of the dan
gers ahead of him and is not in q
mood of overconfidence.
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A World Benefactor

William c. Gorgas will rank as
one of the great Americans, and in
due time his name will be inscribed
in the Hall of Fame. Next to Nor
ton, the discoverer of ether as an
an@sthetic, and thus founder of
modern surgery, DR.. Gorgas. of all
American members of his profess
sion, rich as they are in achieve
ment, may be rated as having done
the greatest world service.
Originally skeptical of DR.. Fin
lays epochal discovery Of how the
mosquito transmitted yellow fever,
he quickly yielded to the facts, and
with the enthusiastic support of
Leonard Wood, then Governor
General of Cuba, set to work to
sanitate a whole city. Havana,
a pest-hole for centuries, be-
came q health resort. Then fol-
lowed the creation on the Panama
1sthmus Of conditions that made
the construction Of the canal pos
sible. Applied science never won a
greater victory. The contribution
Of Gorgas was his large scale
demonstration that fierce and in
tractable disease can be stamped out.
Wherever civilized man hes since
gone he has carried this principle
and has applied the Gorgas method
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Why an Ex-Scrpicc Man Earnestly
Supports DR.. TIdslcu

To the Ex-Service Men of New York
City:
The reelection Of DR.. John L. Tildsley.
associate superintendent assigned to
high schools, is being opposed by the
enemies he made during the war while
trying to keep the schools loyal to those
ideals for which you and l were offering
our lives. His untiring efforts to see
that our children were taught what we
were really fighting for, his stubborn
determination to put the schools square
ly and Loyalty behind the government,
his fearlessness in doing his duty
these are the arguments now being used
IN the attempt to prevent his reelection.
Can we, whose children he was defend
ing against the most insidious of poi
sons, fail now to protest against this
injustice?
So far as I have heard no one contra
diets the statement that he is one of the
most efficient high school administrators
the system has ever had. That, however,
is the business of the educational experts
to decide. But that he should be penal
lied for his splendid efforts to protect
my boy against disloyalty while | was
fighting in the front lines in France is
my business and the business of every
soldier who has child in the public
schools. If any of the rest of you feel
about this as do, let's "tell the world"
especially that part at 500 Park Avenue
known as the Board of Education. Let's
tell them that we want a man strong
and courageous enough to keep all dis
loyalty out of our schools that we
"lovo him for the enemies he has made
and that we are backing DR.. Tildsley
now as strongly as he backed US then.
ROBERT A. HALL.
Formerly First Lieutenant 18th In
fantry, First Division, A. E. F.
New York, June 2S, 1920.
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ears for Germany
Why John Kendrick Bangs Finds 1t
Difficult to Sympathize With Her

over into the advertising space and
wetting down the sizzling brilliancy of
the editorial paragraphs on the other
side of the sheet, about the hardship
of Germany having to give over some
Of her several million mich cows to
France. 1t is too bad that any little
child, whatsoever his race may be,
should ever have to go without the
milk he needs to nourish him, but in
this particular case let it be remem-
bered that there are children and chill
dren. France and Belgium have little
ones quite as tender and needy as any
little lad or lassie in Hunland, and the
cattle that Germany has been forced
TO return have been either the cows
she stole from the little Belgian and
French babies or acceptable substi-
tutes therefor. There were nearly
100000 of those, as far as anybody
knows, and in round numbers 10000
have been ordered to be returned, not
as nose bleeding process by which
Germany has suffered hardship, but
neither more nor less than as an act
of restoration of something she had
herself either destroyed or stolen.
That is the fact we cannot too strong
ly stress. Those exactions upon ode
pressed" Germany are not fines or
penalties, but the mere return of stolen
goods.
| The talk about Germany's inability
L. IL
is the purest kind of poppycock leu
tonic bunk. If 1 were a President of
the United States with rather loose
idea of the exact meaning of words
/ should call it "skulduggery." There
is plenty of wealth hidden away at
this moment in Germany that, if that
country were in the slightest degree
! repentant and willing to make repara-
ton for her hideous misbehavior, could
be made Immediately available. The
Hohenzollern fortune hasn't all gone
into the woodpile. If the possessions
of the Krupp crowd were listed they
would be found to total up to almost
Carnegieish proportions. There is
wealth galore in plain sight from one
end of the Rhine to the other in aris-
tocratic preserves and castles, and any
government having an honest inten-
ton to repair its dishonor could tap
it and get it in five minutes, if it were
minded so to do. All that job lot of
secondhand kings, princes, dukes,
duchesses, counts and margraves now
idling in luxurious exile, which doubt
less they find depressing" in Swift
erland, have stores slowed away tina.
if taxed would do great deal in the
COW line, and if wholly confiscated
would serve to restore many a ruined
factory in time marking" France.
Here's hoping our hardheaded Amen-
cans may block her game, no matter
what nonsense returning members of
Hoover and other relief commissions
try to put over on them.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
Ogunqu4t, Me-, June 80, 1920.
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Greek Operations in Asia Minor

In it's first stage the Greek ex-
pedition into Asia Minor has full
filled all of Venizeloss expecta-
tons. The forces marching north
east from Smyrna have made a
junction with those landed last Fri
day on the south shore of the Sea Of
Marmora. The Greeks now hold the
railroad line from Smyrna to Pan
derma, shutting off the Turkish
Nationalist from a large section Of
western Asia Minor fronting on the
Egean Sea.
The Greeks are trying to clear
the region adjoining the Sea of Mar
mora, from which Renal has been
threatening Constantinople. The
Nationahsts have been at lsmid, at
the extreme eastern point of the sea,
and also at Brussa, on the southern
side east of Panderma. Brussa will
probably be the next place to fall,
as the Greek advance is already
near it and it is also exposed to
long range bombardment by British
vessels lying in the Gulf of Gemlik
When Brussa and Ismid are occu-
pied by the Allies the Nationalist
threat to the capital will be ended.
The next Greek objective will be
the Bagdad Railroad. A line run
ming east from Smyrna joins the
line coming southeast from Constan-
tinople at Aflun Karahissar. If
Renal loses this junction his forces
will be obliged to retire into the in
terror of Asia Minor and will be
marooned there, away from the
western seacoast provinces. After
that whether he held out or came to
terms wouldn't matter very much,
for no Allied power cares to assume
responsibility of the Anatolian hin
terland.
Renal is strong in his isolation.
He could put up a good guerrilla
fight. But that wouldn't profit him
much. He could get no military
supplies except from Soviet Russia,
and his troops would have to live on
their fellow Turks, which would up
set ancient Turkish precedents. A
true and possibly moderately pros
porous Turkish state can be created
in Asia Minor But it can never be
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The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepvs

|"fy 3--Up early enough, and to the
doctors, who tells me my lip is healed,
and so to S. Spaeth's and sat there read
ing and conversing, and met J. Toohey
at luncheon and cast dice for the reckon
ing, and | won, but had only some
corned beef and slice of huckleberry
pasty. 10 the courts in the afternoon.
and to e. Davis's in Englewood for din
ner, and beat him a game at croouet
So early to bed.
4-Up by times and crossed the river
to the courts, and played H. Swain and
beat him, and so to Englewood again
and played a sett with J. Hutchinson and
beat him, too, and in the evening r.
Werrenrath is come and tells us about
England and France, and all watched
the moon rise, and I called it gibbous,
and all were astonshed to look up the
word and find its meaning, which I
never had known before, neither. Much
frivolous talk, and there was a lady
from Pittsburgh there, and what she
thought Of the ight-mindednes of New
York I tremblc to imagine.
Sup by seven, and to the office,
where l did my stint, nor stopped long
enough to learn what was toward at
San Francisco, partly through indiffer-
ence and partly to play H. Manchester
in the tournament, who trounced me
without any trouble to him.
To those who waited last night to
ferry across from New Jersey it may
be comforting to know that their next
punishment is set for the evening Of
Labor Day.
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At Spa

Ex-President Poincare is not en-
thusiastic over the idea of taking
the Versailles compact to the heal
ing waters Of Spa for treatment.
1t is there, however, the Germans
have made great preparations for
the excursion. They hope to have
good time. The British revisionist
school is active in Gcrmany's behalf.
1t is hoped Great Britain will sup
port the modification in the repara-
tions bill which, according to Mr..
Keynes, Lloyd George couldn't OBJ
tain at Paris after he had success
fully bamboozled President Wilson.
The prospect that the British are
willing to reduce the sum coming to
France and to allow the Germans
to goosestep again, of course, greatly
delights Germany.
But France feels that her future
is at stake. 1t is all we'll enough,
from the Keynes point Of view, to
talk Of restoring the old economic
balance in Central Europe-in every
body's interest, including Germany's.
France hasn't reached the point at
which she can complacentlY identify
her own interest with that of her
chief enemy. M. Poincar6 may be
assumed to express Frances atti-
tude simply and truthfully when he
says: eff she [France] wishes to
disarm Germany, it is only to be
able herself to live for the future in
security and to reduce her military
charges. If she Is to be Unidentified
for the loss she has suffered, it is
not from the evil purpose of ruin
ing and humiliating Germany, but
only that she herself should be able
to live
The frame Of mind Of the Ger
man representatives is revealed by
Chancellor Fehrenhach. He says
they go there with an honorable
will to make reparation," but he
adds: "No one must dare to
pledge US to anything in excess of
our ability" And this display of
dogmatism incites Count Reventlow
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gradually brought it into disrepute by
their lawlessness. 1t is no secret that
they are still disregardjng and defying
the law.
How long will the nation or the states
tolerate these lawbreakers? To make
them feel the terrors and vengeance Of
the law will teach the same salutary
lesson as the breaking up of any ordi-
nary gang of criminals. 1t must be
done. 1t will be done.
ARTHUR DOUGLAS.
New York, July l, 1920.
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to large populations and to many
infections.
What has come is but an earnest
of what is to come. The tropics.
with their astonishing capacity to
furnish food, will yet be us whole
some as the temperate zone. Ma
laria will go wherever Gorgas is
permitted to do his work thoroughly,
and with the going Of malaria there
is to be a new kind of tropic man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-06
Inevitable
New York, July /, 1920.

,Fron, The Chicago Even,rJ POST
There is one penalty that San Fran
cisco has to pay for having the con-
vention-from one end of the country
to the other she is being blazoned
forth by the nickname she hates
Frisco. She can't get away from 1t,
either. No civic booster, no chamber
of commerce or anything else can CONF
pei the headline writers to use
double word of eleven letters and
spaces when they can get q single
word of half the length.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-06

''~'oeVA NiooSs WIN uOco I1OC tlcaly
his responsibility, attempts to en-
cuse the forgery contained in the
Democratic platform. Referring
to the quotation from Senator Lodge,
to which the date December, 1918,
was given, whereas the true date
was the preceding June, the author
Of the San Francisco treaty plank
says:
1t is asinine to draw fine distinc-
tions in matter like this. If it
was true as of June, 1918, it was
true also as of December, 1918. The
quotation was handed to me in type
written form and l accepted it with
out checking up as to the exact date
in which it appeared in The Forum
or in the Congressional Record. 1t
it absurd to talk about it as a for
gerry"
But time is the very essence of
the matter, for it shows what Sena-
tor Lodge was discussing. In
June to advocate a separate peace
with Germany, the conflict then be
ing at its height, is a far different
thing than to vote for the Knox
resolution in May, 1920, when
hostilities had been over for eigh-
teen months, and at a time when
our allies had signed and put into
effect their peace with Germany.
In the one instance there would
have been abandonment of COM
mon cause; in the other effort was
made to adjust this countrys af-
fairs to practical situation caused
by the Presidents defeat of the
treaty's ratification. Daylight and
darkness are not farther apart. One
does not envy Senator Glass if re-
CURED to confront in the Senate the
fact that he is not only responsible
for grossly mlsrepresenting a COL
league, but that when caught he
trickily attempted to defend his act.
Senator Lodge was opposing the
Presidents peace without victory"
and urging peace through victory.
He early foresaw the use that would
be made of the Fourteen Points
that they would be wedge to
separate the Allies. He almost fore
told the editorial article which ap-
peared in an Administration news
paper in September, 1918. He
seemed to have sensed that the Pres
ident in October, 1918, would need
to be whipped by public opinion
into consenting to the Foch armis-
tice. He perceived the conse-
quences of separating the Allies,
upon which course the President
subsequently, embarked-that this
would lose the best fruits of the
war.
Senator Lodge wanted an uncom-
plicated peace, jointly and expedi-
tiously made, based on Germany's
defeat, as the first practical step
toward preserving the futures peace.
Our allies also wanted this. But
our President said "No." He in
sisted on combining with the peace
treaty highly controversial league
project, which was certain to delay
peace and thus be to Germany's ad-
vantage. AS Senator Lodge said, SO
events have come. There is still
nominal war with Germany, and this
country is largely separated in
sympathy from it's war associates,
In view of this record, to try to
fasten on the Republican Senate
leaders the obloquy of advocating a
separate peace, as that phrase is COM
monty understood and as Senator
Glass knows it is understood, shows
how far partisanship will sometimes
lead men.
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Lawbreakers
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: No one can deny that many
respectable men were engaged in the
liquor business. Theirs was a lawful
traffic, licensed by the state. 1t was not
inconsistent with respectable citizen
ship to belong to the trade. But one now
wonders Whit kind of men are promot-
ing the business. Since it has been out
lawed by the Constitution and the Su-
prcme Court most of the respectable
men have abandon d the trade. 1t is now
left in the hands Of the men who have
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To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If any one thinks that the
nature of the Teuton has been at all
changed by the war and that the Hun
is sorry for anything but himself, let
him watch the newspapers day by day
and learn from what he reads therein
how the same old thing still survives,
in spite of the scotching of it's armies
and the smashing of it's imperial head.
One can hardly pick up an American
newspaper but that in the most inno-
cent of connections he finds propaganda
at work. Every ship that comes in from
Europe brings with it a cargo of this
precious stuff, and it's design to the
seeing eye is as simple as the mind
that considers it harmless. 1t has for
its purpose nothing other than to
arouse sympathy for gang of bandits
have robbed.
Only recently we had fair example
of it in the columns Of New York
newspaper in an interview with Mr..
Herman A. Metz, described as a mem
Der of the Hoover Relief Commission,
whereby the things that he said gained
force. In this interview Mr.. Metz is
represented as saying that he found
conditions in Germany depressing" as
if that were something for us to worry
over and ourselves to be sad about;
as if any of US should ourselves be
depressed over the depression, for in
stance, of Captain Kidd as he felt the
halter draw about his we'll known and
properly stretched neck.
Mr.. Metz is represented as saying
that France, expectant of a substantial
indemnity from Germany, is marking
time industrially" France is doing
nothing of the sort. France is working
tooth and nail to get back to where
she was before those now depressed
scoundrels Of Germany started in to
destroy her, ripping up her fields,
burning her homes, despoiling her
women, smashing her factories and
footing her of every portable posses
sion within reach of their obscene
hands. She has restored to cultivation
She is getting her highways back into
possible use. She is daily enduring
the sickening process of cleaning up
the scum and nastiness left behind by
particularly nasty and scummy
enemy.
If in her manufactures she is slow
to recover it is not because she is
marking time in the expectation of
ers. She is under no illusion as to
that. She knows as we'll as the rest
Of US know that whatever substance
there is to be in any indemnity she
will receive from Germany will be ex-
tracted from the Hun only by some
yet to be discovered triple process Of
wringing his neck, his heart and his
pocketbook simultaneously. France s
slow recovery industrially is due to
the plain and simple fact that where
the Hun did not utterly destroy her
plants he stole her machinery and took
it home with him. One does not need
to travel twenty miles in any part of
devastated France to have this abomi-
nable fact borne in on his mind, and
in the interest of truth and comm on
justice 1t should not be forgotten by
US over here, whatever returning
Metzes, Strassburgers, Hochheimers,
Katzenjammers and Whatnotzers gen.
orally tell US to the contrary notwith-
standing.
One can almost hear Mr.. Metz's
tears drip through the types, stopping
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viii They Rag in lime?

(Fron, The Los Angeles Ttmcs)
The new Provisional President of
Mexico Is said to have an unusually
sweet and we'll trained tenor voice.
The President of the United States is
also said to have had a pleasant and
cultivated tenor in his college days. 1t
would seem as if the two could get to-
gether and strike harmonious chord
once in while.
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A Drastic Remedy

(Frotn The Philadelphia Evemin1 Bulletin
Mr.. Hoovers suggestion for the COM
plete elimination of Article X was
long ago denounced by the President
as cutting the heart out of the treaty.
Compared with that operation, the res
ervatlon program of the Republican
majority was only a dose of aspirin.