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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
No Pmtncrship
4 Plan for National Support Of Gs
Russian Policy
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Secretary Colby's announcement
of American policy toward Russia de-.
serves the careful attention of every
American. 1t is comprehensive state.
ment of principle that should meet with
hearty appreciation, and there can be lit
tie doubt that it will rank in the future
as marking an epoch in international re-
latlons. When the Russian people HAYS
reasserted themselves and the new Rus.
STA energies it is bound to form the basis
of INSTANTANEOUS solidarity which
will be the paramount influence in the
maintenance of world peace, and Rus
slams in the future will point to it as an
act of true and substantial friendship on
the part of America.
There is no point in it to which Amer
leans cannot whole heartedly subscribe,
for it makes no compromise with Boil
shevism and looks forward to relation
ships based upon the fundamentals Of
civilized international intercourse. That
its effect in Europe will be profound 10
certain. 1t warns Mr.. Lloyd George Of
the danger of basing a policy upon
temporary expediency. 1t strengthens
Millerand in maintaining his objection
to compromising with the Soviet govern
ment. 1t gives the Italian government
courage to struggle against the elements
of disruption at home 1t will give
heart to the Poles to fight on for the
maintenance of their independence
1t seems to me of the highest .mpor-
tame that this declaration should not Do
made the subject of partisan politics
1t is policy for the American people
and not for any political party. There
is always temptation in the midst OF
political campaign to seek to make capl'
tai out Of criticism of announcements
OF this sort, but matters of big foreign
policy of this character concern the
whole people and should not be made 8
subject of narrow partisanshlp. IL
would be wise, therefore, if the Repuo-
lican party would acknowledge the
.soundness and statesmanlike character
of Secretary Colby's announcement ana
proffer cooperation, since there can 90
no difference of opinion among patrlouc
Americans as to Americas position ID
the matter. An attempt to beittle the
Importance of the announcement or |"
picl. flaws in it can only react harm
fully upon those who criticize ana
surely TO loyal Republican will wish 70
take the position of appearing to de-
fend the vicious Soviet government OF
to plead for its recognition or for deaf
ings with it. JEROME LANDFIELD.
New York, Aug. II, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

sible. The species can be made as
dead as the dodo. The expense
would be heavy, but it would prob
ably be overbalanced by the saving.
In Porto Rico it Is estimated that
they cost each person in food about
Sill annually. A town in Peru is to
be destroyed by fire to rid it Of rats,
so bad has the bubonic plague be-
come because of them.
Equipment of docks and ships with
rat shields and replacement Of
wooden waterfront buildings with
concrete Structures, as outlined by
Health Commissioner Copeland, are
of great Importance. But absolute
destruction is needed. Great Britain's
new rats and mice act, which COM
pels occupants of land to keep their
premises free, with penalty of $25
for failure, would seem to be better
plan than the bounty system some
times used in this country. Bounties
carry the temptation to make rat
raising instead of rat extinction the
chief object.
The late Mayor Gaynor once made
the town smile by his letter to a
learned ratcatcher, but the rat ques-
ton is no longer a joke.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Suspcne.iag Judgment

In view Of the maze of contra
dictory statements pouring forth
from Europe, Americans of sober
mind do we'll to walk warily until
they possess actual facts concerning
an exceedingly delicate situation
facts sufficiently complete and suffi-
GENTLY enlightening to make posi-
BILE clear-sighted judgment.
How serious is the apparent d.
vergence between Great Britain and
France respecting the Bolshevik-
Polish crisis it is impossible to say.
That every effort will be made to
avoid a severance in their Allied
policy may be taken for granted; the
consequences Of break would be
grave beyond the power of man now
to perceive. Americans, at any rate,
are bound to consider basic condi-
lions with care, and in a spirit of
calm common sense. What are they?
A delayed cable from Warsaw re-
ports Trotzky as asserting, only
three days ago, that Bolshevism is
more powerful than ever and that it
will spread to other countries. He
is supremely confident that "in a
year all Europe will be Boishevik."
This from a fanatic who possesses
power and whose whole purpose in
life is to foment and direct revolu-
lions everywhere including the
United States; to bring on a world
wide reign of terror, and to carry
civilization down in Sone grand
smash. This self-avowed savage and
his followers, of course cannot carry
out this program of universal chaos.
Somewhere, at some point in their
madness, they will be stopped. But
there have been an Attila, a Ma
homet, a Ghengiz- Khan and a Will
helm ii.
1t is impossible to sit down and
reason quietly with homicidal
maniac who grips bloody cleaver-
or with 100000 of them, which IS
the estimated strength of the Boil
shevist forces now rushing on to
ravish and to lay Warsaw waste
You cannot recognize their leaders
as representatives of a government
with which civilized nation can
treat of peace or anything else;
They have given abundant evidence
that they have no intention of keep
ing their word or of respecting the
validity of any documents they may
feel it expedient to sign.
For these reasons, and for the
further reason that Boshevik pleni-
potentiaries are reported as already
in Berlin and in Vienna, to renew
diplomatic relations between Soviet
Russia and Central Europe-we are
loath to believe that the British gov
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Destroy the Refs

Were the city collecting an an.
nual tax of $3.50 from each resident
TO support the rat family an i'm
mediate end to the extravaganza
would be demanded. Yet, according
TO DR.. Heislcr, of the Rockefeller
Foundation, that is what it costs to
provide for the rat population.
Three and half million nibblers
consume thirty-ive million dollars
worth of food yearly in New York
City. How the doctor knows he
doesn't state, but he says he does.
But there is more than a money
loss along the Gulf. Coast of the
United States, and in cities of South
America and Europe the bubonie
plague is taking toll of life.
Port authorities here and elsewhere
are taking every precaution to pre-
vent rats reaching shore from in
coming ships, and the danger of an
epidemic of the plague in New York
is remote, DR.. Heisler thinks, al
though the menace is always present
where rats abound. And if the plague
gets a foothold it can scarcely be
eradicated, as is shown in Liverpool
and San Francisco.
The determination of rats is fea-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Meeting ascent Labor

Yesterday the German marks
gold value Gin gold all American
commodities are priced) was 2.15
cents; the gold value of the French
franc was 7.20 cents, and of the Ital-
. ian Ira, 5 cents. Marks thus have
less than one-tenth of their nominal
value, francs about one-third and
lire ne-quarter.
The American worker for wages
may we'll seriously consider the sig
niticance of those figures in view of
the San Francisco declaration for a
tariff for revenue only. Senator
Harding would fail in his response
bility to the country if he neglected
to emphasize the fact that the Amer
lean job is in danger-that general
unemployment threatens through an
excessive growth Of imports.
The wages of the German work
man before the war were about half
of the wages of a like American
workman. Now he is paid in depre-
ciated marks, and although his nomi-
nal compensation is up three times
his actual wages are diminished two
thirds to three-fourths. The German
workman who got 81 day gold in
the first half of 1914 now gets about
25 cents day gold. A similar re-
duct.on of wages, although not to
the same extent, has occurred in
France, Italy and Great Britain.
The workers of America can fig
ure out for themselves what will be
the effects here when German fac
tories, manned by 25-cents-a-day
workers, get fully under way and
the only bar to the entry Of the goods
thy make is a tariff for revenue
only. They need not be told by any
newspaper what will probably hap
pen. Already incoming goods are fill
ing up the warehouses Of American
ports. And there is merely be-
ginning Of the movement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
The Extra Session

In his statement explaining why
he is led to call the Legislature in
extra session Governor Smith men,
tions only the housing problem as
demanding consideration.
1t was apparently the Governors
original purpose to bring constitu-
tional amendments to the Legisla-
lures attention. But he was COM
PEELED to abandon this. There is a
constitutional provision which re-
quires a Legislature to act on con-
stitutional amendment three months
before it's submission to the cleo
torate. This requirement was for
gotten until too late for action this
year.
AS to the housing problem, the
Legislature has tussled with it twice
during the Governors administra-
tion-once at the extra session a
year ago and later at the regular
session. Having solved it twice, it
is necessary to solve it again. The
joint legislative committee which has
been wrestling with it's difficulties
feels the need of strengthening the
legislation. There is more apprecia-
ton than there was of the fact that
what is needed is more houses, and
that to lynch landlords is not a good
way to encourage other landlords to
build. It is to be hoped that this
time way will be found to some
thing constructive.
But other subjects are likely to
come up at the session. The telephone
company has a new rate schedule
that may we'll be studied. More re-
ports come Of traction companies
quitting. The laws of New York
with respect to state railway rates
are not in harmony with the orders
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion with respect to interstate rates.
The PTS beer and wine bill has been
killed by the Supreme Courts de-
cision with respect to the universal
ity of the Volstcad act. The plan is
for the extra session to last only a
few days. 1t will be fortunate if it
is not snagged by extended contro-
VERSES.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

n Prediction Of Democratic Success
After -Four Years of Harding

a 'S"sS'O' " A~SHOSIuaaS OutScOC
After -Four Years of Harding
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: "rhis is not cheerful year
to be Democrat" states The Tribune
editorially August II, implying pre-
sumnbly that it is cheerful year to
be Republican-prophesying VIC
tory for Senator Harding in the COM
ing elections. Does it ever occur to
the cheerful Republican that he who
laughs last laughs best?
Senator Harding will probably oc-
four years; then it would seem that
the Republicans may experience such
deluge that the cheer will haste to
the Democrats. This Is not said in
any spirit of idle speculation, but
rather expresses an opinion which ap-
pears we'll grounded.
The next few years, whether or not
the much talked Of panic and accom-
panying hard times descend upon us,
are certain to be exceedingly trying
ones. Industrially we are in a state
bordering an upheaval Of some kind
or other. We have only partly re-
covered from war conditions, and in
dustry has not really commenced to
adjust itself on peace-time basis
not by long way. REIMBURSEMENT is
bound to be slow-it cannot we'll be
otherwise-and extend we'll through
the coming four years. Many, many
conditions will have to be changed,
and changes cannot take place with
out hurting some and producing much
dissatisfaction. All those who imagine
they have been harmed in any way
and all those who have not benefited
from the changes as they thought
they should-and there will be mil
lions who will not--will blame, rightly
or wrongly, the ADMINISTRATION. The
party in power, particularly the party
to whom the White House occupant
owes allegiance, will be blamed for
all the ills and fancied ills-be he a
Republican or a Democrat--and the
discontinued ones will turn in 1924 to
the other party for relief.
Has not this been the case during
the past few years, and is it not al
ways the case? We have had a Demo-
cratic President for four years, in four
of which he has been supported or en-
barrassed by a Republican Congress.
The dissatisfaction with the Admins
tration during these four years has
not been directed to the functioning
Congress, but to the President. The
head of a nation occupies an unen-
viable position when the nation is not
contcnted. This has been shown in
Vulnerable times, and it will be demon
strated again during the coming Adj
ministration-a prophecy with which
none can differ.
l make no claim to being either
Democrat or a Republican, but if I
were Democrat playing the political
game l would play to lose, with ex-
cellent chances Of winning out in the
long run-laughing last and laughing
best. REGINALD TRAUTSCHOLD.
Upper Montclair, N j., Aug. ~, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
A Triumph of Progress

1t is IN anything but party spirit
that the friends of suffrage witness
the approaching completion of their
hopes at Nashville. Unless all signs
fail Monday will see the ratification
by Tennessee of the Nineteenth
Amendment, and the requisite thirty
six states will be recorded in favor
of this, the greatest single grant of
the ballot in the history Of civiliza-
ton.
Before such a contamination the
boasts of any party seem small in
deed. There is glory enough for all,
but praise belongs chiefly to those
courageous women, pioneers and
captains and soldiers, who have
fought a good fight ardently and
faithfully, and who now see their
years of effort crowned in an hour
with complete and abiding success.
1t is to such figures as Miss Anthony
and Mrs. Stanton that thought
turns. Theirs was the leadership
that gave the high note to the cam
paign in behalf of women, that made
the fight for suffrage not selfish self
seeking, but {! generous will to
service.
The victory will be for the whole
country. AS matter of party pride
The Tribune would have been glad
to see the final vote come from Re-
publican state. But there is a
larger significance in this vote from
a Southern Democratic state, and
The Tribune welcomes it as a happy
augury for the future. The vote
of women can work no magical re-
form. 1t can aid in the general
cause only as it brings the peculiar
ability and the moral strength of
women to bear upon the whole po-
litical scheme of things-in private
discussion, in the home quite as much
as at the ballot or in public assem-
bly,. The will to make the most of
this new force for righteousness
must be at hand or it will count for
little. Therefore the example of
Tennessee signifies much.
1t means that in good faith and in
good part the whole country, those
sections that have been opposed to
suffrage equally with those which
have favored it, accepts the change
now clearly at hand. The women Of
America step into their new estate
by the overwhelming will of their
countrymen, under a grant of power
ungrudgingly and confidently made.
The triumph is for the spirit of all
progress, and the victors are the
future generations of America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
4 Wilson Compromise
President Was Not Always Set
.4gdinst Bolshepisn


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: read with interest the edi-
torial in your issue of this morning,
commencing President Wilson's atti-
tude toward the Bolshevist regime, as
expressed in the note to the Italian
Ambassador. In praising the Pres-
dents present stand, have you forgot
ten his position on the same matter in
the past?
When the central government under
Kolchak was established at Omsk, as
surances of support were given by both
the French and British governments.
There was no doubt that the Allies
would recognize Kolchak; in the coup
d'etat which gave birth to the Omsk
authority a battalion of British troops
played no small part Every true Rus
sian patriot looked to Kolchak as
savior. Then came the famous COM
munication from Paris, stating that the
Allied Council could recognize no one
of the Russian factions, and propos-
ing that all the warning parties ar
range an armistice and send repre-
sentatives to the elsie of Dogs" to dis
cuss matters in an amicable fashion.
This proposal was nothing less than
recognition Of the Bolshevists as lc-
gitmate belligerents; it was sug-
gestion that murdercrs and robbers be
accorded the same rights as honest
men. The decision of the Allied Coun-
Gil was not framed to accord with the
desires of either France or England;
they both desired to recognize Kol-
chak, for they saw in Omsk the nucleus
of stable and orderly power.
There has never been any doubt as
to who was the author of the isle of
Dogs" plan; it bears too clearly upon
its face the stamp Of Impractical
idealism. After the Allies had repudi
ated the original program, the United
States, as represented at Paris, was
so ill-advised as to persist in the eff
fort to arrange a compromise between
Bolshevism and orderly authority.
In view of these facts, it is extremely
interesting to read President Wilson's
present Characterization of the Boil
sheviki as an "inconsiderable minor
ity," who have "by force and cunning
seized the power and machinery of
government and have continued to use
them with savage oppression to main
tain themselves in power"
One is compelled to ask: If Kolchak
had been recognized and supported by
the Allies in January, 1919, would Po-
land now be menaced by the Bolshe-
wiki, and who prevented the recogni-
ton of Kolchak? r. F. c..
New York, Aug. 10, 1920.
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What We Are Coming Tc
Fron The Los Angeles Tin.es)

V7-To"F Z 77e 1'os fHJs1eS lnteSJ
Government agents in PHILADELPHIA
discovered batch of home brewing by
the mere fragrance in the air as thew
passed the premises. We will develop q
race of prohibition agents with the
scent of bloodhound who will go about
with their beaks in the air to catch the
faintest hint of the damnable hop or the
pernicious malt. The noses will be
trained to register all fraction above a
half of l per cent, and at IL per cent
the sleuth will become as rigid as a
thoroughbred pointer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

Allies Cannot Afford to Quibble Over
q Basic Problem
To the Editor of The Tribune.

La the EQltor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Such ideas as expressed in the
news columns Of "The Star" and re-
printed in The Tribune, on Thursday,
August IL, do not represent the
stable and constructive reasoning which
has always been uppermost in the
great minds of the world. The time
has long since passed when the Rus
sian situation was a political question;
it is now question whether the Al
lies will continue to be weak enough
not to support moral condition. The
Soviet regime in Russia is not merely
al. immoral government; it is an I'M
moral government. 1t has not merely
slipped a cog in it's usual high standard
platform, but it's base from the very
bowels of the thing to where it comes
above ground is without a vein of
morality anywhere.
1t is not only absurd but it is pitt
full when prominent parsonage comes
tu front with the statement that at
is purely and absolutely question
for the Russian people" He wants
the situation to just roll on and on
and on, for maybe thousands of years,
until the whole world is tired out;
he does not stop to think that any
nation OR rule suffering-and causing
every other nation to suffer-from i'm
morality has never been allowed to
exist in that condition, but has been
led to the right before success came
Nero is not ruling Rome to- day; and
the Louises are not kings in France.
The great World War was fought to
overthrow corruption not only in the
German mind but in the world. 1t
stopped before the job was done. l
am not ready to admit that it would
be wise to send troops to Poland; but,
when the unstable and unmoved Soviet
government sees a thorn in the flesh"
practically within it's own border, | do
believe, with all other broad thinking,
constructive and God fearing minds,
that the Christian peoples of the world
SHOULD give moral and economic as
sittance to a group of sturdy, con-
scientious and loyal people who are
strong enough to take a stand for the
right.
Rome was immoral; it fell. France,
uhder the Louises, was corrupt; it fell
Germany was immoral; the world
turned out to defeat it. And now
Christian peoples are bending back on
the principles which have been upheld
with the best Of their manhood and
a,e totterjng on the brink of a we'll
of instability There is only one thing
for Christian nation to do, and Chris
tianity cannot afford to bubble over
a question of immortality.
j. G. HUDSON.
New York, Aug. IL, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
But it's pretty good wagon after ALL

movement is on foot to adopt other
means, and George Creel suggests that
If the Russian peasant be taught Pei
manism at the same time as he's
taught his letters, in about fifty years
the Russian people will not only read
but know by heart the Presidents
views.
The Poles have been asked by Wash
ington not to irritate the Russian
peasant, who now will be occupied
with his A B G.. A SEER.
New York, Aug. u, 1920.
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White Race Suicide
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir On two cardinal occasions Lenine
has been a traitor not only to white
mankind but to all mankind and to the
Socialism which he processes. The first
was when he made no effort to keep
the weary Russians in the war beside
the Allies, but capitalized for personal
power their inclination to quit. The
second is now, when to instigate a
worldwide proletariat revolution he is
| melting the colored races against the
white and creating situation wherein,
if he succeeds, Germany will dominate
the white species
Whist Lenine, the so-called, and mis-
| takenly called, man of acumen, never
saw, and would not change his death
riding course if he did see, is that if the
colored races win there will be no So
cialism and perhaps never again prog
rcss. This man is, then, either through
blank brain blindness or stark stubborn
ness, or wicked willingness to gamble
with world decay and death, betrayer
of the cause, Socialism, for which so
many devoted but unthinking apostles
of that creed worship him.
And he has created condition which
lmperatively calls on the late Allies, in
Guiding US, to place an armed barrier
against his further military progress in
Europe and Asia. If, through the cow
ardice, opacity or perfdy of the reigninc
Allied politicians and ours, Lenine con-
quers Poland and sets Asia afame
against Europe, the white race is lost.
1t is not true, as some are hopelessly
saying now, that Europe cannot be res
cued from feminist Bolshevism except by
rearming Germany against it and there
by delivering Europe and the world to
the Infamous Prussian Junkers, creators
of the World War, thus utterly undoing
that war. That attitude is craven sur
render. Those who urge it are stone
blind to the redeeming social key. The
Allied working classes are this key. Buy
back their absolute allegiance to the
white race by an immediate social recon
struction, in which every one of their
grievances is removed. And inscribe on
the vault of heaven, in letters of fire.
for all men to read, that failure to do
this will be white race suicide.
MORRISON I. SWIFT.
Boston, Mass, Aug ~ 1920