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New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

To many the project of raising
the Lusitania will be distasteful.
The tragedy Of her sinking was so
poignant that to see her afoat again
would recall too many sad memories.
Nor has it been generally regarded
as practicable to bring her to the
surface from the depth of some $50
feet where she lies. Some hundreds
Of other ships sunk off the British
coasts have been salvagcd, but most
of these lay in shallow water and
were of smaller tonnage.
Nevertheless distinguished
French engineer, M. Emile Bertin,
believes an attempt to raise the
Lusitania would have a good chance
of success. His scheme is to con-
struct floating chamber 800 yards
long and 200 yards wide, to be at
tached at low tide by means of some
800 steel cables, and so manipulated
as to raise the hull from the sea
bottom as the tide rises. 1t is not
quite plain how all the details Of
this scheme could be carried out,
and NJ. Bcrtin admits that success
would depend upon the condition of
the hull, and that if the ship were
brought to the surface there would
be great trouble in Bleaching her.
The cost in any case would be
enormous.
Perhaps all this will have to be
dismissed as one of those ingenious
problems with which men of science
sometimes like to play. The work
Of divers at $50 feet under the sur
face is wellnigh impossible, and all
kinds of unexpected obstacles would
probably be met if the work were
undertaken. 1t may be doubted il
the money for such a hazardous
experiment could be raised. And,
conceding that the Lusitania were
to be restored to passenger service
again, would she not be too much
haunted by the ghosts of her dead
to be attractive to travellers? "Hic
1ocet' is probably the better final
entry
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

essential idea is as old as the Hebrew
fathers. But Rome took to much
bathing in it's era of decadence.
And cleanliness tas scarcely been
a shining characteristic Of Chris
tian martyrs, in any era.
In fact, it would be possible to
make case against soap along al
most every line of progress. If it
is a question of art, Of beauty
created by the mind of man, there
is the splendid age of the Renais-
sance, when clothes were worn in
definitely. Michael Angelo might
have done better sculpture had he
taken a Saturday night tub; but
there is nothing in our present age
to decide the point. If there is any
relationship, causal or accidental.
between soap and any Of the vir-
tues or the graces, it is very hard
to prove the fact cut of history.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
SoaE, and Civilization

The Englishman with his cold tub
looks down upon the rest of the
world as standing upon lower
rung of civilizations ladder; and
the American with his hot and cold
bath looks down upon the English
man. But IS this snobbery of soap
mess justified? Is there any direct
ratio between being cleanly and be-
ing civilized? If you think there is,
how about this passage from the
pen of Mr.. Frederick O'Brien in the
"Century":
To Tahitian his brooks are his
club, where often he sits or lies in
the tapping water, his head crowned
with flowers, dreaming of a life Of
serene idleness. Once or twice a day
be must bathe thoroughly. He is
clean, his skin is aglow with the
effect of air and water. No Euro
pean can teach him hygiene. He
was perfect animal, untainted and
unsoiled, accustomed to laving and
massage, to steam, fresh and salt
baths, when Europeans, kings,
courts and commoners went un-
washed from autumn to summer:
when in the "Lois dc la Galan-
terie,' written for beaux and dan
dies in 1910, it was cnjoincd that
Every day one should take pains to
wash ones hands, and one should
also wash ones face almost as
often"
Mr.. O'Brien, next to Stevenson,
put the South Seas on every civilized
center table and is presently to put
them in the movies. He writes en-
Enthusiastically, but he knows his dis
trict, and it is safe to accept his
assertion Of Tahit;an cleanliness as
fairly accurate. OF course, the Ia
hltlans have much cultivation and
civilization. They have elaborate
religious ceremonies, drama, ora
tory, even a nobility. But they are
scarcely considered by Europeans
or Americans to belong to modern
civilization at all. For all their
long established cleanliness, they
still lag far behind that Occidental
civilization upon which we are
pleased to pride ourselves.
Religion has often attempted to
establish some relationship between
soap and morals. 1t was John Wesley,
in the eighteenth century, who made
the famous observation that clean
liness stood next to godliness. The
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
MIR. Harding's Mail

Fifteen thousand letters in sin
gle mail must be the record-at least
for an individual. Such was the
formidable package sent from
Marion to Senator IIarding's Wash
ington home, where several thou
sand letters and several hundred
kilograms have been the average
daily delivery. And every writer
sensitively expects an answer. No
wonder the Senator il doleful. Even
congratulations pail in time; and
many Of these missives, we are told,
seek advice.
1t is safe guess that a large per
centage of the Senator's epistolary
friends write supcrAuously. There
are not as many AZ fifteen thousand
persons with just claims upon his
attention developed in ore day. Is
u not for the greater part o matter
o. feeding sense OF Importance?
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
The Panic of 1898
Not Caused by Dumping of
Securities, 1t Is Asserted

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Under the head of Doing
Something for Silver" in your issue Of
June "a you say: THE imitation of the
currency through silver note issues
and the endless chain drain on the
gold supply to redeem silver notes and
greenbacks helped to bring on the
panic Of 1898"
This theory of that panic has been
exploited by the opponents of silver
for just twenty-seven years. But in
vestigation proves it to be utterly
false. The theory assumes that the
outflow of gold was due to the return
of American securities by foreign in
vestors who had become alarmed about
our silver policy. Thus, Mr. N. T.
Bacon, writing in "The Yale Review
(November, 190o), says:
English investors made their heavf-
est losses in the panic of 1893, when
they dumped all manner of securities
on the New York Stock Exchange for
anything they would bring"
Now, the reports of arbitrage trans
actions on the Stock Exchange, as pub
lished in The Tribune, "The Evening
Post" and other newspapers, show
that up to July 27, 1898, when the
panic occurred, therc was an actual ex-
cess of purchases for foreign account
Of nearly 100000 shares. There was
also an excess Of purchases In the next
fvo months Of that year. In 1892
there was an excess Of purchases Of
some 100000 shares.
It has been said that these reports
do rot include transactions on direct
orders or outside Of the Stock
Exchange. But such reports as /
could find of these deals were all one
way-purchases. 1t has also been said
that the reports are not reliable, ss
they are based On mere estimates and
guesswork. But, even so, it is not nee
essary that such reports be even ap-
proximately correct-if they are within
mile of it; that is to say if the pur-
chases for foreign account exceeded
the sales by only a dozen shares. IN
stead Of nearly 800 600, il is enough to
knock the bottom from under this
much exploited theory of the cause Of
the panic of 1898
[ gave the details of these transac-
tions by months in "The Sewance Re-
view" (July-Septcmber, 1909, and u9
to the present time their correctness
has not been questioned.
WILLIAM II. ALLEN.
Brooklyn. June "a, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
By
Frederic F. Van de Water

the following from faraway Warwick:
You are requested to come here by
the first train tomorrow to hang Mr..
Smith, who has lately murdered his
wife and three children. 1t is a sari-
Gus case and am sure you will sympa-
thize."
Bits Of the magic cloak Of her child
hood still cling to Daisy Ashford at
fourteen, but we cannot get away from
the impression that she is growing up
and has already absorbed many of the
stodgy, mawkish, mediocre ideals of
the generation ahead
You can picture Miss Ashford at
twenty-five proclaiming valiantly that
woman's place is in the home.
DAISY Ashford: Her Book" we i'm
agine will be more interesting to the
student of Juvenile psychology than to
that mythical person, the average
reader.
Irwin S. Cobb is substituting for
Barrie as preface writer to this volume
There is little probability that he will
be accused of its authorship
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

If Mr.. Harding could confne him
self to a brief acknowledgment in
the third person to all but those
who have right to expect reply
his mail would soon become more
nearly normal. But he is a candi-
date and may not.
And as the Senator is deluged
with correspondence and dis
tracted Office force labors to take
care of the flood, doubtless hasty
citizens will continue to rail at cam
paign funds and ask why so much
money is needed.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
Providing Wholesome PLAY

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The problem of providing
wholesome recreation for young girls
and boys, especially in tho small
towns outside of New York, is of
primary Importance to every com
munity. It has been established by
such agencies rs the Prison Associa-
tion Of New York that one of the
causes Of juvenile delinquency is tho
utter lack Of recreational facilities for
the boys and girls who after school
hours have nothing to do and, con-
sequently, drift around the billiard
parlors, public dance halls and street
corners, and in many small towns it
has become practice for young girls
to "doll up" and promenade down to
the railroad station to "pick up"
strangers, travelling statesmen, etc.
who come into town.
An attempt has been made by such
organizations as the Young Women's
Christian Association, the Bow Scouts
and others. but they all have failed
because they nave not been cohesive
enough and have not emanated from
the committees themselve No one or
ganization can shoulder the burden of
all spare-time activities. 1t is I'D to
each community to appoint itself recre
alton monitor and mentor. Only when
each community wakes up to it's in
dividual responsibility will there be
anything like an effective solution of
the problem.
An example of what can be done by
organized community effort is afforded
by the town of Saranac Lake. in tho
Adirondack Mountains About twenty
two years ago a winter carnival was
started merely as social activity. 1t
has now developed into an annual event
and is one of the great features of
the life of the community. It has
taught the children the value Of Or
ganized play outdoors in the winter.
Rome, N. Y, is staging a pageant
for the summer months, and other COM
mittees have accomplished wonders by
their collective efforts.
"A little booklet compiled by DR.. o. f.
Lewis, of the Prison Association. gives
very comprehensive survey of the
work to be accomplished and detailed
plan for its successful completion.
We must pay too dearly for the
neglect Of the youth Of our great state.
Let us get together and provide a
normal, healthy, uncommercialized out
let for their exuberant spirits.
A. d. MOIR,
Field Secretary. Prison Association
of New York.
New York. June 2s, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
to assist in maintaining the peace of

to assist in maintaining the peace of
the world"
How does such a statement of pol
icy affect Article X? BY that article
each member of the league under
takes to respect and preserve as
against external aggression the ter
ritorial integrity and existing politi-
cal independence of all other men,
bers. 1t is admitted that ratifca-
tion of the covenant as it stands
cannot bind our government to use
force to preserve the territorial in
tegrity of members Of the league,
unless Congress shall SO decide here
after when the emergency arises. A
reservation acknowledging that fact
destroys the legal obligation imposed
by Article X. 1t must also destroy
the moral obligation, since no moral
obligation can remain if Congress is
to be left free IN each instance to
make cnOlce.
"The Worlds" plank is indefinite
and opaque. 1t avoids crucial par
ticulars. Nobody knows at present
what reservations the President
would permit, if he ever got to the
point of discussing them concretely.
Secretary Colby has a much clear
er plank. He says: ~ don't believe
the document requires any interpre-
tative reservation s."
That is the logical Administration
position. 1t is practical and precise
1t responds in every respect to Pres
ident Wilson'S demand for clarity at
San Francisco.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
The Real Obstructor

A railway wage award has been
promised on or before July 20, retro
active to May l. No doubt sub
stantial increase in wages will be
recommended. The peculiar feature
of the controversy before the BOARD
is that it doesn't turn so much on
the justice of an increase in railroad
pay as it does on the collateral qucs-
tion as to where the money to meet
the increase is to come from.
The present award will be the
first wage settlement under the
Esch-Cummins railroad act. That
act commits the government to the
policy Of allowing the railroads a
fair and reasonable return on the
value of the property employed in
operation. 1t is the manifest intcn-
ton of the act that wage increases
fixed by government arbitraI
agency shall be added to the cost of
operation, and not deducted from the
fair return guaranteed the owners.
All previous wage awards were
made on a different theory, namely,
that neither the mediation board nor
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion-the rate-nlaking power-was
concerned as to where the extra
wage fund came from.
Most of the railroads can't paw
increased wages because the govern
ment refuses to let them earn the
money with which to pay them.
The railroad administration raised
wages and charged the increase to
the taxpayers. Under the rental
guaranty, which holds good until
next fall, any increase now granted
by the Labor Board will probably
also come out Of the Federal Treas
ury. But where is it to come from
after the Federal guaranty expires?
The representatives Of the roads
on the Labor Board know from bit
ter past experience what it means to
accept wage award and then wait
in vain for the rate-making power
to increase rates sufficiently to cover
it. They know how difficult it is to
get the commission to take note of
things which happen outside its own
headquarters. The roads would
gladly pay better wages if the COM
mission would let them have better
freight rates. The check on The de-
mands of the men is, therefore, not
really in the railroad offices nor in
the Labor Board 1t is in the stand
pat attitude of the commission.
Under practical system Of rail
road regulation 4 wage award by
one government agency would be
automatically accepted by other
agencies. The governments word
would be as good as its bond. But
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has never operated along such
lines.
1t has denied the railroad workers
justice as necessary incident to de-
nying the railroads justice. 1t re-
mains the most disturbing element
in the situation. The President
should bring pressure for remedial
action on it even more than on the
l.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
Root Plan VS.. Wilson Plan

That Elihu Root should be abroad
to establish better world organiza-
tion for peace while at the same time
h he proudly acknowledges authorship
of the league plank of the Chicago
platform is held by some to be in
consistent.
There is no inconsistency. The
Chicago platform expresses no an
tagonism to the league of peace
idea. Those who so contend are
either deceived by Wilson camou-
f1age or are partisans who would
deceive others.
Not even is the plank against the
essentials of the Wilson plan. Mr..
Root was in favor of adhesion to
the league. The chief promoters Of
the plank voted for ratification.
Ratification and entry into the
league were defeated by the Presi-
dent. If Americas absence from
4 the common council table is shame
the sole responsibility is with the
4 White House. After indorsing the
league idea the plank merely refuses
to make acceptance of any particular
form or formula of ratification
test of party feeling.
But though willing to accept as
better than nothing the Wilson
/ league, with its most glaring defects
corrected by reservations, Mr.. Root
regards the covenant as poor job
and believes that it attacked the
peace problem in wrong way He
saw that it repeated the error of the
Holy Alliance, and hence was an in
secure foundation for world tran
quillity. He is at The Hague to
/ rectify President Wilson's error and
to get back to the path of true
progress.
There are two kinds of peace
leagues. One concerns itself with
conceptions of right and establishes
a court to apply the law. This
iuridical theory controlled the two
Hague conferences. First was to
come a definition of right, then a
world court to apply the definition,
and third, in the end, a sheriff to
enforce the decree.
The other sort Of peace league
centers in power and partakes of
the nature Of an armed alliance. 1t
concerns itself with political cues
| tions, which are questions not of
I right but of interest. 1t considers
where national frontiers should run
and what flags should be hoisted.
1t provides no judicial hearing and
its decisions are according to the
self-interest Of the managing group.
To these things Senator Lodge at
Chicago referred when he exclaimed
that the covenant, as written, Gre
ated not league of peace but an
alliance for the waging Of war.
The truth is that the covenant
jumbled the two conceptions. Some
sections weakly suggested that its
organization was to be jurdieal
Others clearly showed that the five
managing nations proposed to en-
force their will as they pleased. In
the mixture, inlsmuch as the ma
chinery authorized related only to
the exercise of coercion, the political
element was dominant. The writ
ing of an international code was to
be considered by a commission not
yet appointed; likewise all ques-
tions relating to disarmament. THUS
to postpone was to como close to
doing nothing.
/ Mr.. Root is more learned in peace
league matters than Mr. Wilson and
feels and has long revealed more
vital interest. May Elihu Root be
able to patch up ard make of some
value Woodrow's slovenly work.
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New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
Gotham Gleanings
S2Eg22HgslzgM{221sg,1z Z1EZEyAs

Elegant weather we are having
these days.
Harry Miller of here was to New
London Friday.
Jack Pershing was to Cambridge,
Mass, Thursday.
Miss Lola Fisher entertained at
dinner Friday cve'g.
Deems Taylor has moved from
34th St. to L. 83rd ST.
Ted Robinson OF Cleveland was
pleasant caller Thursday.
Ralph Hayes, Of Crestlinc, o.,
was in our busy midst Friday.
Bill Tildcn of Providence, R. T.,
is in London and very homesick.
Well. this week the runner-up
for President will be nominated.
Miss Ncysa McMein has sub
scribed to press clipping bureau.
Lew Genslcr the tire king was
pleasant caller Wednesday p. m.
Sam Merwin passed through
Gotham Fri. on his way to Indian
apolis.
Ray Hitchcock and wife got
caught in tho rain autornobiling
Thursday.
A violet by mossy stone is Mr.. A.
Mitchell Palmer, whose nomination
might cause us to lose our tepidity for
Senator Harding. Gwen though I
should not be nominated" said the
Attorney General, at would not pre-
clude an inevitable Democratic victory
in November
BY the way, the A. P. dispatch said
"prclude." If he meant "prelude," his
modesty shattered the shrinking record
"The next company was H-hc was
making progress. He passed through
II, passed I, and then was among Us
men. From "The Scoop of Charles
Hamilton Potts." by James Hopper, in
Everybody's.
If the 28th Infantry, the regiment
he was looking for Company K in, had
a Company J, the regiment deserves
mention in special orders.
Casual visitors to this Office arc ap-
palled by the Uttered disorder of our
desk. "Why don't you clean it out :?
they ask as one man. To the next
querist we shall reply thnt we have to
put in so much time being amiable to
visitors that we don't get time for such
things.
Wick left for New York on Wednes-
day with his wife, who came from
Memphis to St. Louis to meet her hus-
band. Mrs. Wick was accompanied by
her wo-year-old baby whom Sam had
not had the very great pleasure of see
ing before, rs it was born while Its
father was in New York with his team
Evening Journal
Still, the Yanks have been idle nov
and then in the last two years.
"The perfect Venus discovered late
ly in Carthage" says tho Columbia
s. G., Record, "is hcadless. A girl
usually loses her head when she dis
covers she is beautiful" Nor Is the
head losing always confined to the
girl.
Still, II she's beautiful enough, hcI
head Is of small use to her.
r. p A
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
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Tho Assoeis.ed Press Is exclusively entitled 70 tho
Use for rcpuf caror Of all dispatches credited
10 II not otherwise credited In this paper. ard
also ths local OF spontaneous origin published
hsren.
All rights Of republication Of all other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
GUAR NTY

tey can purchase merchandIss .dys,tlsed Ia The
tion result, In any ease THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay your money back upon request. No red tape.
Ne su!bhns. We make good promptly II fhs
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

For Remembrance

For Remembrance
When shadows heightened on Memorial
Day,
We climbed tho drumlin where, be-
meath the pines
Tier upon tier the peaceful sleepers lay,
Yelled by May lilies and inwoven
vines.
Tho scattered hags rose proudly into
bloom
Where rest the men who fought the
Flag to save;
Each had upborne it tn tho face OF
doom,
Still each upbore It on his lowly
One was an aged stranger who hac
fought
Among the Buckeyes in tho ranks Of
blue;
He, far from homo, in sudden darkness
caught,
Here bivouacked with folk he neve,
knew
Oh, we were glad to mark the bright
flags spring
Above our hill-folk in this lonely spot;
And yet moro glad to mark brghte,
thing,
You Buckeye man: that you were un
forgot. G, S.B.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

In fact, we wrote a labored para
graph to that effect and sent 1t down
stairs, and then Point 1873 contribution
arrived. "Also," he adds, "a sign oppo-
site the Scranton Times Office abbre-
viates it 'LACK'A PANTS co.."
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
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New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

We agree with Point 16, who suggests
sending the Brownies to San Francisco
to settle the Palmer-Cox contest.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

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"I do not recall the name of the
gentleman whose Baccalaureate advice
was directed against Columbia, 49,"
writes E. P. S., "but do remember that
he asked us to pray for the President.
Will the fact that 1 have been doing it
ever since give me an honorable men
tion?" Yes, especially if he meant tho
president of Columbia
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

"The perfect Venus discovered late
ly in Carthage" says tho Columbia,
s. c., Record, "is hcadless. A girl
usually loses her head when she dis
covers she is beautiful" Nor is the
head-losing always confined to the
girl.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

Still, II she's beautiful enough, her
head is of small use to her.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-28

Words based on the word rhyme" arc
unusually difficult for linotypers. In q
single story the Evening Post uses
"Rhymster" and "rhymned." The first
proof of copy in which "rhymester" oc-
ours usually comes. up "ryhmster"