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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-02
Huntress-Adarns Co.

HunCfeSS-A 20.
A Big Clean-UP Sale On
ss Dress Skirts .., =. ~
;: COMMENCES TO-DAY
t.s 4 PRICES CLEAN THEM UP AT ONCE
regardless silks woo Jerseys and
multitude of stripes plads and plated
A GENUINE STOCK REDUCING SALE
Vacation time hand-a may just
to complete wardrobe
Skirts including sport stripes pad and plaid silks Val
ues to 1915, Cean-U Price $4.9S
Skirts including gray navy foua two black tafetas
32nch waist and lot of wool plaids Were $780,
Cleanup Price $40
including Coors-back navy taupe were
$780, black Fale silk $195 waist bands
Cleanup Price $1O9S
One Lot Skirts Il of themW pd and checks upoe styles
cooing Were $3.50 $4,000, Cleanup Price
pds stripes plated
models or tailored styles with belts and big
tos25oo Cleanup s15ss
Four Sport Stripe Skirts box plated
buttons to match Coors-an brown, bues $3.50
Cleanup Price S19.75
Skirts-sk popns Colors-nav upe black value
Cleanup Price S4.9S
navy aupe; extra Sizes were
S1598 Cleanup Price $1O.9S
One Lot browns blues
Were Sl375 to $3.50, Cleanup Price $1O.9S
Serge Panama ssO or more Blacks and navy blues 2 to
waist Values sI98 to $1675, Cleanup Price IA Off
During This Sale
Bonet Satin Skirts white coo S115O $3.50 values
PEI iscount
Store Will Be Closed
August and September, Commencing June9th
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22

have no chance to succeed. What
ever professions of non-partisanship
he made, he would be forced to op-
crate through party associates. A
non-partisan entirely surrounded by
partisans is not non-partisan. Tho
World, of course, knows this, and
hence it's anxiety as a partisan paper
to use Mr.. Hoover's name.
No one will accuse Mr.. Hoover Of
consciously participating in fraud,
but it is possible that during his
long residence abroad he has lost
contact with some Of the verities Of
American life. 1t is not possible to
have a non-partisan President, and
consequently there cannot be a non
partisan candidacy. Mr.. Hoover
must choose which of the two major
political groups Of the country he
will operate with. He would not be
able to avoid such a choice, and, Of
course, he would be the agent Of the
party which put him in. The
World, whatever it may say, is not
engaged in non-partisan enter
prise. 1t seeks to serve it's party
to lift 1t out Of the ditch in which it
sees II.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22

the other. DO we want non Americans
III the Assembly? That is the Issue,
stripped Of all cant and camoufage.
Finally, if the committee of the New
York Bar Association really wants to
help democratic principles and renre.
sentative government" it should throw
its influence on the side Of the Assembly
and its Speaker. II is they and not the
five Socialists who are fighting for
American principles. Let Us not bs
fooled by the false cry these Socialists
have raised in behalf of Representative
government. To quote from an editorial
of The Tribune written not 80 many
months ago;
Zone of the most entertaining prae-
tees of our Socialist revolutionares il
to wave one copy of the Constitution
franticaily aloft as a protector Of ,he,
doings while kicking another cop,
around the floor like houn' dog
And l beg leave to submit that yoir
attitude toward the Assembly action is
giving a helping hand to those carrying
on those most entertaining practices"
and also giving aid and comfort to ths
whole Socialistic propaganda in An9
ica. RICHARD NARROWER
Elmira, N. Y, Jan. II, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Whom to Fight2
Evidence That Mr.. Wilson
Was Long in Doubt

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The statement which Admiral
Sims says was made to him on tie eya
of his sailing for Europe in March,
1917, to the effect that eve woult just
as soon fight the British as the Ger
MANS" seems TO be considered by most
people to be very surprising one.
But is it really novel? Let ug look
back bit over the files and see what
we find. At that time "1Nhe New York
World" was generally regarded as an
Administration organ. That is to say.
most of us supposed that its items Of
news touching the attitude of the Ad-
ministration toward any pending ques-
tion might we'll be expected to be such
as the Administration would approve
of. In its issue of February 6, 1917
CATER the German Ambassador mad
been handed his passports), the fol-
lowing announcement appeared in ITS
Washington letter:
"The President has no intention OF
being made to take sides if he can
avoid it. He will make clear this TACT
at the earliest opportunity, perhaps "a
an address to Congress before the end
Of the present week, or in the form OF
communication that will tend to dis
sipats the theory existing IN the cap
itals Of the Entente nations that he is
to be counted on as all ally to their
cause against Germany. His whole
concern now is for the protection Of
neutral nations generally and the safe
guarding of the rights of American cit
izens to travel peacefully the free seas
of the world and to trade amicably
with the citizens of other countries
with whom we are on friendly terms.
The President does not mean that the
United States shall be made a party
to any entangling foreign alliances.
1t will fight its own battles against
either or both sides in the present Eu-
ropean conflict
Possibly when Admiral Sims sailed
the Administration had not yet decided
against whom it would ask Congress to
declare war.
E. HENRY LACOMB.A
New York, Jan. 81. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Home r lie for India

The adoption by the British Par
lament of the Montague Chelmsford
bill, providing constitution for the
Indian Empire, marks the begin
ming of new era in the history not
only of that vast country, compris-
ing over one-ffth Of the human race,
hut also in that Of tho British
Empire.
The constitution Institutes species
OF federalism. The central govern
ment consists of an executive council,
appointed also from among native
indians by the Viccroy, and a legis-
lative assembly, four-ffths Of which
will be elected by the provincial
assemblies. The most interesting
and novel feature Of the entire
scheme is the organization Of pro-
vinclal government on the basis of
what is called diarchv, or the bifur-
cation of governmental authority be-
tween officials OF the crown and the
representatives of the population
In each province the government
Will consist OF two sections: on the
one hand, the Governor, with his
official colleagues in executive coun-
cll; on tho other, the Governor, with
ministers drawn from the (elective)
legislative assembly. To the former
VIII be reserved the administration
o. the broader and more technical
duties Of the state, such as police
power, land revenue, irrigation. uni
: versitles, forests, industries, narbors
etc To the latter will be trans
erred the remaining duties, such as
jocal government, primary educa.
tion, sanitation, excise, agriculture
roads ard bridges, etc. r'he Gov
ernor will be the link between the
TWO sections, each fully responsible
withln its own sphere. Ten Yeas
hence parliamentary commission
viii advise on. the success of the
experiment. In case Of favorable
findings further powers will be
transferred to the parliamentary"
ms contrastcd To the "ofIic.al sec
ton of the 9oyerrment, and The
process viii be continued until the
latter altogether disappears and full
N'f-government is attained
The scheme, az can be seen, is
highly complicated, and tn success
depends mainly On two elements:
nrgt, tho degrce Of political ability
inherent and dcvelopable IN the
Indian pt5ulAtior; second, the CO.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
The Women's COLLEGES

The women's colleges, like other
institutions, are in serious straits
for lack of money. Bryn Mawr is
campaigning for s2,o00,000; Smith
for $4,000,000; Vassar is to launch
big drive in the spring. At Bryn
Mawr the whole Of the new endow-
ment, when obtained, will be used
for raising professors salaries; at
Smith and Vassar the greater part
of the money will he so used. The
present salaries are, in relation to
the existing scale Of prices, lamen-
tably insufficient. The instructors do
not get enough to marry on; and
even the highest paid professors are
hardly able to send their children to
college. When the bonds of loyalty
and of inertia--have ceased to
hold the present stats, it will be
impossible, under such conditions, to
replace them.
A few years ago the United States
Department of Education made a
careful investigation Of all the col
leges and universities in the coun-
try. Fifty-nine of them were clas-
sitied as Of first academic rank, and
among these ffty--nine there were
just six independent women's COL
leges-Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Smith,
Wellesley, Mount Holyoke and
Goucher. 1t is inconceivable that
any one of these precious six should
be forced by mere lack of money to
lower its standard of scholarship.
Any one Of the leading girls col
leges could obtain The necessary
money by doubling tuition fees. There
would be no injustice in this, in any
ordinary sense. 1t would simply
mean that the students would be
more nearly paying for what they
get. And the numbers would per-
haps not diminish. There are plenty
Of rich girls who would be attracted
by the idea of rich girls college.
But such 4 solution is not to be
thought of. Education must be
made more, not less, accessible to
girls and boys in moderate circum-
stances.
It is not necessary to argue the
case Of higher education for women.
The arguments in its favor are all
about. A large part Of the best
teaching in the country-teaching
of boys as we'll as of girls-is done
by college trained women. In all
sorts of work for human welfare
ard human progress they are taking
a useful part. The institutions shat
have produced these results are a
great national possession, and must
be able to carry on their work.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Was There i'reachery?

Concerning the naval controversy,
three questions are presented which
The public believes itself capable of
understanding anl Judging.
Was Admiral Sims, while engaged
n handling the difficult business in
trusted to him, honestly supper Ted
by Washington? Was he given u
liberty Of action such as was ac-
corded, for example, to General
Pershing? HeHays he was not and
cites facts which apparently show
he was not. If he was not 50 sup
ported the Navy Departments head
may justly be called to account. As
the admiral points out, it was pri-
laary duty to trust him or to sub
stitute some one VINO was trusted.
The second question is even more
important. Is it fact that The ad-
Fniral was told by some one il a re-
sponsible position that this country
was as willing to fight Great Britain
as Germany? If he was SO in
formed, then he was melted to be
treachcrous to an ally whose secrets
ne was to acquire. Here is an issue
OF national honor-not only that, bdt
an issue of whether there was true
allegiance to a war which could be
won only by loyal cooperation. In
his disclaimers Secretary Daniels is
1'titully vague, and one recalls that
no, lorg ago he was advocating The
construction Nf feet big enough to
sweep Great Britain from the seas.
The third point is whether the
Navy Department violated, for polit-
zeal or other reasons, the primary
strategical principle that forces
should be concentrated in the area of
conflict. If this is so, it follows that
the war was unnecessarily prolonged
and lives needlessly sacrificed.
It is an extraordinary thing that
the head OF the Administration has
not seen fit to order public investi-
cation on his own account. Seldom
have such charges been made against
naval chief by service admiral.
It is difficult to escape the conclusion
that either Secretary Daniels should
be kicked out or the admiral subject
ed to condign punishment.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Is Mr.. Hoouer Ehgible9
4 Reader Questions His Eligibility
for The Presidency
for The Presidency

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The proposed candidacy Of Mr..
Herbert Hoover for the Presidency of
the United States raises a constitutional
question unique in tho history of our
country. Article II, Section 1, Para
graph s, Of the Constitution says:
mo person, except a natural born
citizen, or a citizen of the United States
at the time Of the adoption of the Con-
stitution, shall be eligible to the office
OF President; neither shall any person
be eligible to the Office who shall not
have attained the age of thirty-fve and
been fourteen years a resident within
the United States"
Does this mean any fourteen years Of
mans life, or does it mean any con-
secutive fourteen years? Or does it
mean fourteen years Immediately pre-
ceding mans candidacy to the Presi-
dency?
1t is understood that Mr.. Hoover has
spent the greater part OF his life abroad
If this clause in the Constitution means
fourteen years. residence in this coun-
try Immediately preceding a mans cam
ddacy, will not Mr. Hoover be debarrcd Z?
The meaning Of this clause has hitherto
not been defined by the courts If Mr..
Hoover becomes candidate, it is GER
tain that this factor will weigh in his
election. RAYMOND L. BUELL..
Princeton, N. j., Jan. 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22

pacity and willingness Of Anglo
Indian officialdom to cooperate with
the native section Of the "diarchy."
AS could be expected, the scheme sat
isties extremists on neither side.
While hidebound British and Anglo
Indian conservatives decry it as I'M
workable-they have nicknamed it
"dyarchy"-the nationalist bitter
enders attack it as inadequate. The
majority Of the Indian leaders, oc-
cupying central position, however,
hail the project as the best possible
solution under the prevailing cir
cumstances.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Leather and the Price of Shoes

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Leo F. Sturm ia corroct
about the leather used In making coats.
However, leather manufacturers are
turning out limitations Of goatskins
from sheepskins, and the leather is
used in making shoes. But it is poor
STUFF ard should be discouraged.
Mr.. Sturm is all wrong about the
price of leather not being the creates It
factor in the high cost OF shoes. THOUGH.
1t takes four feet Of upper leather to
make pair Of women's o-inch boots.
Nldskins that sold for o5 cents a foot
in 1915 have sold up to s1.25 a foot
lately. On the other hand, the shoe
factory labor cost in making a pair Of
shoes has risen from 35 cents to about
80 or 80 cents pair during the same
period. Let Mr. Sturm figure that out
for himself
The protiteering in the leather trade
has been about the most conscienceles
Of any that has come to my knowledge
G. R. SARGENT.
Boston, Jan. Il, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Herbert c. Hoover, Receiver

The vehement manner with which
The World launches the Presi-
dental candidacy Of Herbert c.
Hoover and the arguments it en-
ploys to make it alluring constitute
q remarkable confession Of Demo
cratic hopelessness.
The bankruptcy of the party is
practically acknowledged. An as
signment in the hope Of saving
something out of the wreck is openly
proposed. 1t is, in effect, said that
no Democrat has the slightest
chance of succeeding-that condi-
tions are SO desperate that the only
thing to be done is to o-nominate a
Republican. The World appears
in the role of a distressed bond
holder who prays the court to name
Mr. Hoover as receiver for the ad-
ministration of the shattered party
estate.
What is urged, it is scarcely
necessary to remark, is resort to
the strategy that resulted in the
nomination of Horace Greeley in
1872. Mr.. Greeley was a Liberal
Republican, as Mr.. Hoover is a Pro-
gressive Republican. 1t was recog-
nized then, as now, shat there was
absolutely no chance of making a
respectable showing in the election
by presenting the name of a Demo
crat, so the thing to do, it was said,
was to name a Republican in the
hope Of dividing the Republicans.
Mr.. Greeley was led as a lamb to
slaughter and the country was told,
as The World tells it, that there
was no great difference between the
parties-that, if anything, Mr.. Gree
ley was n better Republican than
General Grant. The World has
doubtless considered what hap
pened when a candidate was thus
kidnapped from the other party.
The Greeley candidacy, although the
movement in its behalf was launched
with great enthusiasm and forlni-
dable backing, fell fiat.
That there is no difference be-
tween the parties isn't true. 1t may
not always be easy to catalogue the
differences, but there is profound
consciousness Of them. Which party
IS IN power at Washington is of
consequence. The present mood Of
the country sufficiently indicates a
perception Of this. 1t is commonly
believed that things would go better
If the Republicans were now in
control.
Mr.. Hoover has an attractive per
sonallty and record. Not few Of
his fellow Republicans think their
party might we'll select him as the
Republican standard bearer. But,
elected on a Democratic ticket and
under compulsion to rely on Demo-
cratic support Mr.. Hoover would
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22

anarchist? This will be the logical
effect of excluding the Socialist AS
semblymen merely as Socialists-if
no proof is offered that they are
feloniously identified with the force
doctrine. The Tribune holds that the
men should have their seats unless it
is proved that they are personally
guilty in this sense, and deprecates
efforts to dedice guilt from stretch
ing inferences and implications.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
A Perverse Electric Bill
To the Editor Of The Tribune

~ VIC IultOr O1 Inc tribune.
Sir: &c. II. O.'s" letter about electricity
IN the home interests me to the point
OF the pen. My electric light bill
jumped forward exactly s5 a month
when my laundrcss used an electric iror
one day week-and, as you know, most
of those six working hours tho current
is turned off. At the present time, after
repeated complaints, my electric bill
never falls below Sc, although | use nc
electric appliances and never for more
than one hour day bedtime in the
nursery-havc more than one light
burning in my apartment This, it NAV
be, will explain to &C II. o." why dc
not do it electrically.
r. d. l.. DODD
Now York, Jan. 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Our New Poor
'he Trihllne

To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring to the letters on
clothing prices in The Tribune Of
January 19, I Join an B. A." in asking
Arthur Williams where an over
coat can be bought for $685.? Such
an article at that price might be found
IN secondhand shop or at the sale
Of a dead mans effects, but some Of
us have natural prejudice against
wearing such clothing. Much nonsense
is being written about the cause of
nigh prices. We have been told that
every one wants the best" That NAV
be true Of those that are able to pay
for the best, but it cannot include tens
of thousands of the people Of this city.
"Harvey's Weekly" recently commented d
on an article in "The English Review
by Austin Harrison on the "new
poor Of England Colonel Harvey
comments as follows:
And these same new poor" these wors,
sufferers from the wars wasteful orgies aI, Il
its terrible aftermatli-the we hav. vi. },
ns, because OF Iabors hold-ups coupie,i
"'tI. ''!c Htoiity ~ spuauuering OF post war
graftcTs and proiiteers. bringing in thei,
train attendant burdens OF stargerinc liV-
ing costs neaped higher and higher UPON
the back Of that pathetic beast Of bur6en
the public. But the worm does turn some
tines our own new poor" may We; be
heard from
All that many Of Us ask is that we be
able to live decently and comfortably
winch is Impossible under the present
regime Of protitcering. A. N Y
New York, Jan. 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Those ''Intellectuals
tFron The Omaha BccD

tFroIn Ihe O5hdhd bccJ
Highbrows who think In the rareflSS
realms of pure reason are also to ta
held amenable for utterances that may,
have a dangerous effect on ordinars|
folks who arc not so gifted mentally.
Our government is fact, not theorys
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22

Speaking Of telephones-a pleasanter
task than speaking into them-the
Evening Suns advice is for all per-
sons to "avoid placing the mouth close
to telephone receivers" Is the Eve
ming Suns service so bad that the
staff now talks into the receivers?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
On Which HIP

Nrom The Boston t,iobcJ
Docs Governor Coolidge expect to be
inaugurntcd next year ia January or
in March7
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
GUARANTY

Yes rurcskss ret srdis. advertised In THE
TRIBUNE Win aisouts satsb-for i, clssatlsise
tfea ssuits Ia any r,2 TaiSuh- guarantees
- pay yolr monsy back uron request. Nc red tape.
70 suibbiln.. ~e maze soou prcaorY II the
.esersissr G3ss
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
GranHand, Priceless Old Bean. Is
Off in Florida, But He Shall
Ever SO Wen Be Spoken
To, We Mean to Sav

To, We Mean to Say
My Dear Old Soul:
| hate to bother you and all that
sort of thing. but if you've a spare
moment | wish you'd toddle down
the passage and speak to Grantland
Rice. | mean to say, all that stuff
ne wrote in yesterdays jolly old
issue about chappies being "chopped
into pink ribbons" and the blightcr
with the "rcd grin that bubbled
gore. What | mean is, he doesn't
seem to realize that we lads who take
IN The Tribune read it at break
fast, and, believe me, dear old son,
when Jeeves, my man, slipped a
couple of fried eggs in front of me
just at what you might call the
psychological moment, it was a near
thing, laddie, a very near thing.
Jolly old Rice, I've no doubt, is one
of those healthy. hearty fellows who
skip out of bed like two-year-olds
and feel perfectly topping before
breakfast, but in my case-well, YOU
know how it is. I'm never much of
lad until after the morning meal.
~AAN', N'iSil AZ NOtllCS W having TO
breakfast on red grins and bubblino,
gore, we'll, | mean to say, what! |
mean, you know what l mean. I
mean!
Well, that's all. Cheerio and all
that sort Of rot! Good -bye-ee!
BERTHE WOOSTER.
(per pro P. G. Wodchouse, Sccy.)
ITO Quiz Reds at Custer Hearing"
runs an Evening Mail headline. "I
wonder" wonders c. Pugh, whether
Grandma, thirty years ago, would have
understood that snappy caption"
Inc Governor has proclaimed next
Sunday rs Law and Order SUNDAY.
when "cltizcna generally may offer
prnyers for tho enlightenment of the
minds and the quickcning Of the un-
dcrstandlng Of those among US.
whether alien or native, TO proper
conception md keen appreciation of
tho aims and purposes Of tho great
government under which we live"
Why not a Law and Order Year'
New-York tribune., 1920-01-22

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