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The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-29
no BRING PEOPLE BACK TO
EARTH"

borrower--you, II you have not al
ready done So will find that when
you step up to the discount window of
your bank and ask for additional
money or to extend your paper now
in the bank. that you will not find
that open armed desire on the part
OF your banker to accommodate you
neither will he as he has In the
past For over year this paper has
preached economy and told its read
ers that this spring there would be a
readjustmont of credits. and to set
ready, but few would. That period
is now here and the federal reserve
and which is now the life saver of
the nation-for with it 4 panic such
as the Republicans used to give US
at regular periods, is impossible; but
ths federal reserve bank Is now func-
tiouing in the way that this paper
has told it's readers all along. that it
would-and that il the restricting
and contraction Of credits,
Anyone who reads and thinks and
sees understands that periods of eX-
randlng credits and increased cur
reucy make rcriods Of contcutmCnt
and prosperity. and also mounting
Prices-and they also know that this
condition cannot continue indefinite
L. or the gravcst OF consequences
would result, However great the
necessity may have been for encour-
aging business and production by lib
eral extension OF credits by the banks.
made possible by a generous use of
tho rediscount privilege, there must
come an end sometime, else the over
inflated balloon will burst and coll
lapse.
That time. in the judgment Of the
management of the federal reserve
bank, is at hand, and their judgment
is supported by that OF bankers and
economists generally The extension
OF credits TO stimulate production
was Indispensable. not only during
the war but for a period following
tho war. when rehabilitation was
throwing hundreds of thousands Of
men out II uniform and places had
tc be made for them in the Ie,ds %
business and industry The veadJUst-
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-29

and the public would like to hear a
reply.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-29

Attorney Billy Linn asks the cops
4 couple Of Interesting questions
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Logic Is Logic

The administration hired men,
disrega garding the eight-hour law,
work to multiply rods attached to
their boss. High matters are in
terrupted while a photographer who
knows his business is received.
There is a ride through the streets
Of the capital when most crowded.
Journeying Bainbridge Colby gives
an excellent imitation of one burst
ing with a message. The hamstring-
ing Of candidates who may be in the
way is deftly done.
But the President is not candi-
date, though he "registers" as If
one. To but a single call will he
respond - that Of Duty. But while
Duty clears her throat to be ready
to shout it is permissible to dwell
on logic. If the Presidents deeds
are to be glorified, why put an ap-
prentice on the job? Only one per-
son really understands the policies
of mystery which are to be defended.
His is plainly the speaking part.
The argument cannot be success
fully resisted. President Wilson is
the only proper candidate. Justice
joins her voice to that of logic. 1t
is unfair not to grant to him a
chance to face his fellow country
men with the story of his steward
ship. The public does not want
secondhand stuff. Marionette dane
ing and the voices of ventriloqual
dummies neither amuse nor instruct.
Why should the San Francisco con-
vention hang back and act afraid?
If wisconsin is to be it's watchword,
then who is so competent to lead on
as Wilson? How, if he is not nomi-
rated, can the charge Of insincerity
and sef-stultification be fairly met?
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
The Children Of Babel

A new sort of drive, perhaps as
important as any ever undertaken
in this city, is being made by the
Department of Education to bring
adult English-speaking elements
of the population into the evening
schools.
The army training camps showed
that an appalling number of men
knew nothing Of the common Ian
guage. The census returns, which
include women, have brought the
matter to the front again. In Man
haitian alone are two hundred thou
sand men and women over twenty
one who cannot speak, read or write
English. The total for greater New
York is not yet published, but no
doubt it is large.
TO induce the non English speak
ing to learn English will not be a
simple matter. Necessity does not de-.
mand that they know our language.
Almost any national can find in
New York City settlement where
he may live and work among people
of his own tongue. He finds here
his newspapers, his church and his
theatre. Except through his chill
dren, who are quickly absorbed into
American life by means of the
public schools, he comes little into
contact with things American. The
voluntary student, of course, will
find his way to the evening schools
without persuasion, but the number
of people discovered by the census
to be unacquainted with English
indicates that it is unwise to leave
this question entirely to individual
initiative.
The work now undertaken by the
school authorities should be sup
ported and encouraged in every
possible way. The census bureau is
cooperating by furnishing names
and addresses, and a personal house.
toulouse campaign is to be made.
In the fall the movement will be ex-
tended over the entire city. Not
only will American institutions and
ideals be better understood, but some
of the present-day problems may be
more easily solved when there is a
common language among US.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

country. More and more is the
woman's college changing from a
luxury for the especially gifted
woman, aiming to teach or pursue
research work, to an essential equip
ment of the intelligent woman. The
shift is coming gradually, and it is
all the sounder for its slow evolu-
ton. The Far West and the Middle
West and the East share in the
movement The finishing school
holds it's special and relatively in
significant clientele. The woman's
college broadens in influence and
gains in force and numbers with
every year.
1t is a matter for general con-
graduation that in these parlous
times for education from the budge-
tary point of view our great women's
colleges have sought and gained
generous support for their sus-
tenance and growth.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

rest of US cry in a deep voice 'Ha!
Ha! Ha.' like some supreme being in
sardonic amusement at the vulgar
whirligig of life below him"
A still summer day? The air was
charged with sound, Barbellion de-
clares, had one the ears to hear. 1t
is not merely the birds cries--it is
"their dangerous living, feverish and
intense" that contributes to "this
uproar of life Heart-muscles and
wing-muscles give out note as they
contract. The interior of a falcons
body is "a scene of dark-sounding
romance and incessant activity, with
the blood racing through the vessels
and the glands secreting and the
muscles contracting" At Barbel-
lions feet is an "avalanche," jagged
powders of silica are descending and
spreading out-only sand-grains, so
he cannot hear the crash of the
powders, but matter, atomic solar
systems, colossal" Nor is this all:
"That is the secret of the fascina-
tion of the Dunes. Specifically all
seems dead and dull. Reflection
brings the deeper understanding of
myriad forms of life, creeping, run
ming, springing, burrowing noisy,
screaming, struggling life dominated
by tho august secular movements OF
the great sea-"
1t was Barbellion's shattered hope
to be known as writer rather than
scientist. Such fragments as these
are all his weakened pen could
achieve. Yet surely here is great
and beautiful prose-and a sense Of
beauty in life which takes one back
in imagination to no scientist, but to
young poet, John Keats, who also
died in his prime singing of the
beauty Of the world. Exactly a
century, century Of science, stands
between these two young English
writer's. Yet the world is surely not
less wonderful to the later mind.
Rather have it's marvels become
multiplied through much knowing.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

suit that American-produced bullion
now commands 991a cents an ounce,
while foreign bullion is selling for
only 81 Y cents.
The Pittman law is thus operat-
ing, as the Bland Allison and Sher-
man acts operated, to put a fictitious
value on silver bullion-if mined in
the United States. The error made
in 1878 and 1890 is being repeated.
Silver is not needed as a basis for
currency, especially when purchased
at more than market value. The
"joker" in the Pittman measure
should be eliminated at the next ses-
sion of Congress.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Aduice to Hiram
Climb Aboard the Band Wagon
While There Is Time

While l here Is l lnle
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Hiram Johnson will accom-
plish nothing by sulking or even by
boiling.
In 1916 Hughes received 254 cleo
toral votes. To these add four from
New Hampshire, which state Wilson
carried by ffty-six plurality and which
no sane person believes Harding can
lose in November next, and we have
258 as the bedrock, irreducble mini
mum of Republican strength Now,
add the eight votes of Nebraska, where
Bryan and Hitchcock are at each
others throats and where the Repub-
lican Congressional nominees had a
clean sweep in 1918, and we have c66
electoral votes or an exact majority.
But Kansas is even more certain
than Nebraska, and if we add her ten
NOtto We nave 40, III WNlCn case we
could even spare Oregon and South
Dakota both of which Hughes carried
four years ago, with their combined
total of ten electoral votes, and still
have our majority in the Electoral
College.
All this takes no account Of Ohio,
Harding's own state, which went over
whelmingly Republican on the Con-
grcss ssonal vote in 1918 and which we
confidently except to contribute twen-
ty-four electoral votes % our total.
Nor arr we saying anything about
Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky and
New Mexico, all of which look
promising.
It's as near perfect cinch as any
thing earthly can be, Hiram, and you'd
better climb on the band wagon while
you can do so with any degree of
grace and dignity whatever.
w. c. J.
New York, June %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
The Secret of the Dunes

The man of science, Of acute, pain
full search after Getail and accuracy
of fact, was strangely welded to
rarely vivid literary imagination in
the person Of w. N. p. Barbellion.
the young Englishman whose ex-
traordinary diary appeared a few
months before his death. That vol
urae, "Ihe Journal of a Disappoint-
ed Man, held a mingling of bitter
ness, morbidity and truthful obser-
vatlon of the world, within and with
out the human frame 1t was not
an easy or a pleasant book to read,
but it left an unforgettable picture
of the man bitterly, fever
lshly facing the death by paralysis
which gradually overran his frame.
Even more poignant are the con-
cludlng entries of the diary, which
have now appeared in "The London
Mercury Barbelion lived to see
the journal appear as a book with
Mr.. Wels's enthusiastic preface and
to receive high praise from review
ers. Success seems to have been a
turning point in his life. Onlv
few months of living remained, vet
the change in point of view Is
marked. He speaks of this mellow
ing himself and rejoices that he "can
sWecten and soothe" his warped
frame with little of the delicious
honey of kindly recognition -"can
rest in the sun while, soak up the
warmth and sweetness into this
tortured spirit and crave every
ones pardon before the end comes"
Love and sympathy for his wife,
heightened by thought of the tragic
burden he had hecn to her, over
whelmed him in these last davs
Brief entries in the diary are laden
with the pathos of impending scpa-
ration. Yet throughout there runs
that strain Of what Mr. Wells called
'unprcmedltated and exquisite
beauty This wrackcd and half
dead human body could still record
the visible word-visiblc, that is to
the eyes of a scientist-and find
therein unbelievable splcndor.
On April Ia, 1919, with death only
short distance away. Barbellon
was wheeled out to his beloved sand
dunes, bare enough to ordinary eyes.
yet to him appearing thus:
"Thc Dunes arc always associated
N my mind with burning hot, cloud
less summer days, during the whole
long course of which, without Gems
'ng lapwings tapped around NV
hcoh' u'ter'ng their crazy walls cir
cusos Of scimitar- winged swifts
S"ishcd by and screamed hystcrical-
~; the face of The blue skv wos
H'',od at regular intervals with sing
INK Iarks, singing all day long with -
out inlcrmIttcnce. poised mcnncinp-
- overhead, 80 that the white no,
needle points Of their song seemed
Nkcly al any moment to descend pcr
pcndicularly and penetrate the skull.
Occasionally dnzzlingly white her
ring gull would sail slowly. majcsti-
cnlly in from the cliffs, and from a
! much greater height than all tho
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
"Doing Something for Silver"

or many years our government
was committed to the policy of ''do-
ing something for silver" Back in
the '70s and sos the friends Of
silver wanted to boost the value
Of bullion by resuming silver coinage
on the old legal rate of IS to /.
On November S, 1877, the House
of Representatives passed the Bland
free silver coinage bill. Silver
was worth then about 80 cents
on the dollar. The Senate didn't ap-
prove, and both houses passed in
February, 1873, the Bland Allison
act, which provided for the purchase
each month of bullion worth not less
than S2,000,000 nor more than 3d.
100000 and its coinage into 412%-
grain dollars. President Hayes
vetoed this act, but it was repassed
over his veto.
The pressure for free coinage con-
tinued. 1t came both from the
cheaper money advocates of that day
and from the Western mining inter
ests. After General Harrison's cleo
ton, in 1888, the free silver men
forced another compromise. This
was known as the Sherman silver
i purchase act, passed in 1890 Under
il the Treasury was directed to pur-
chase bullion to the amount of 800
600 ounces a month and to issue
notes against it. But the compulsory
coinage Of at least 100000 silver
dollars month was stopped and the
Treasury notes issued were made re-
I deemable in coin. The act declared
it to be the policy of the United
States to maintain gold and silver at
a parity on the existing legal ratio.
The imitation Of the currency
through silver note issues and the
''endlcss chain drain on the gold
supply to redeem silver notes and
greenbacks helped to bring on the
panic of 1893. President Cleveland
called Congress in extra session. and
with Republican aid, secured The re-
peal Of the purchase provisions of
the Sherman law. The silver bought
was warchouscd.
Before the war silver bullion had
dropped in value to the ncighborhood
CT 80 cents. During the war, how
ever, there was a strong demand 70,
silver III the Far East. Congress
sought to take advantage Of this sit
uatIon. 1t passed the Pittman act
which provided for the retirement OF
$3.50, 100000 Of silver certificates anC
the melting up and sale as bullion Of
the silver dollars in the Treasury
which the certificates represented
About 300,000,O00 Of these dollars
were used in Far Eastern exchange
Silver skyrockcted in value. In 1911!
it went as high as s137 an ounce
eight cents above the old binctalljc
ratio.
Recently it has declined almost as
rapidly 1t is now worth about sc
cents in the world market. But the
Pitt1nan !aw contained curious
Joker" This required the Treas
ury to purchase for every dollar
melted up an equivalent amount of
bullion at the fixed price Of 81 an
ounce. The Treasury has begun To
make sych PURCHASES. with the re-
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Still Scrubbing

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial on The Passing
OF the Scrubwoman" interested me so
much that broachcd the subject with
the lady who has washed and scrubbed
tor me for the last ten years, and is
stIlI on the job, and I remarked, "Of
course, your husband gives you most
Of hls wages now that he can't get
drink Cant ret drink?" she
echoed. "lIe gets all he wants. The
trouble is he has to pay 80 much more
TOR 1T that, ~hIlc used to get "A few
dollars out OF him before prohibition
now get mono at ALL Somebody's
making pile of money out of prohibi-
ton. but it amt me-"
The scrubwoman is not passing, take
1t from ono who knows |. A.
Now York, June 22. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

lC the EdltOr OF The Tribune.
Sir: While reading in to-day's Trib-
nne the controversy between Major +.
ii. La Guardia and Comptroller Craig
came to where C. +. Kerrigan reached
an alteration with La Guardia.
1t seems that III answer to a per
sona remark made by La Guardia
(whether La Guardia was justified or
not | do not know, Kerrigan replied:
but ! am no 'wop.'"
Now, | ask you, Mr.. Editor, wny is
1t that to be an Italian or of Italian
descent, or (it hurts me to say it a
"wop,' in the eyes Of such as this Mr..
Ncrrlgan, is to be Objectionable, re-
pusive, disgrace?
Why is it that while these men are
apparently trying to Amcricanizc the
foreign element they insult them in
the most btazen, arrogant and abomi-
nable way. by telling them that they
are nothing but "wops," "dagoes," etc
And while these remarks arc heard
thousands upon thousands Of times.
nothing is left for one but to draw
the conclusion that to carry the name
o. Maroon, La Guardia. Stella, Ca
prom, etc, is shameful and disgrace
1ul, but to carry the name of Kerri-
gan, Craig, Hylan. etc, is honorable
and worthy of the hospitality and pro-
lection of these great United States /,
AN ITALO-AMERICAN.
Wilkes Barre, Pa, June %. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
The Penrose Intrigue

SO far as the standing of Pcnnsyl-
vania is concerned, nothing in her po-
litical history has done moro to dis
pei the idea that the Republican party
in this state is merely "a corrupt and
criminal combination" than has the ac-
ton of the delegation at Chicago.
pennsylvania may never provide the
Republican party with a idcntial
nominee. But it will be recorded in
her annals that she would have fur
nished one in 1920 if it had not been
for. tho deliberate. persistent. under
handed intrigue of United States Scna-
tor Boies Penrose.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

The only disloyal members in the
whole delegation we're Joseph R.
Grundy, the lobbyist for reactionary
manufacturing interests, and Percy NJ
Chandler, who trailed with him.
But the Governors candidacy had to
withstand more than the Grundy
poison gas" While he was dropping
his bombs, Penrose in Philadelphia
was directing submarine attacks against
the Sproul craft. Penrose at no time
favored the Sproul movement; he had
sought to discredt it with ridicule
and to block it by pretended advocacy
Of naming Senator Knox. While the
delegation was valiantly fighting for
Sproul, and while the convention stars
in their courses were swinging toward
his nomination, the wires from the
Penrose house in Philadolphia to the
rooms of lieutenants were kept busy
with instructions how to torpedo the
Governors candidacy. When Sproul
supporters tried to get an Endorsement
for him from Penrose, word came back
that the Senator was too i'll to be dis
turbed; but all the while messages
we're coming through from his resi-
dence to his representative, King.
A Strong Candidate
The nominating of a Presidential
candidate, we fully realize, is an un-
dertaking of vast magnitude and COM
pleXity, the result being dependent
upon almost countless forces, influences
and combinations of circumstances
Yet we can declare, from close per-
sonal knowledge of events at Chicago
that for several days the nomination
of Governor Sproul was not merely q
possibility but a matter of strong and
steadily increasing probability; this
condition prevailed down to the time OF
the conference in the early hours OF
Saturday which brought about unex
pccted agreement upon Harding.
Governor Sproul at all times kept
his poise and permitted himself tc
CHerlSn no lNNdteO llluSlOnS. Alter the
contest was over he exhibited not
the slightest resentment or disappoint-
mcnt. He had the unique honor OF
being supported to the last by his
state delegation, which withstood al
open or treacherous attempts to break
down it's solidarity. He emerged from
the struggle a national party figure
and is certain henceforth to be poten.
tial in Republican councils. One of the
foremost governors in the country, he
has the distinction OF having saved
the party by his candidacy, which
prevented Penrose from delivering the
Pennsylvania delegation to the Old
Guard combination. If the party, bur
dened already with the weakest of the
possible candidates.. had to stagge,
also under the odium of having the
decision made by a Penrose controlled
delegation, the handicap would be
| fatal.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

mo As,ocised Press Is exclusively eutited TO the
use for repu lrcatjon Of All dispatches credited
to It or not oherwise credited in tbs paper. and
also the local news OF spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights of republication OF all other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

Ballade of Petty Accidents


Oh many times I've smashed thumb
While mailing carpets in my shack.
Id raise the hammer. and by gum.
I'd give myself an awful crack
One day | nearly broke my back
While in the bathtub l was laving.
But say Would you believe it. Jack?
I've never cut my ear while shaving
Once | was almost stricken dumb.
When in the night--'twas Stygan black
bunked my head. and Kingdom Come !.
They took me home within hack .
All, oui, I've sat upon tack;
I've even slipped on icy paving.
But listen, fellows, it's fac
I've never 0Nt my ear, while shaving
I've sprained my wrist and ankle some
While sprinting the running track
I've put a tendon on the bum
In trying to regain the pack.
A cinder from chimney stack
Has often left me bindly raving.
But this experience I lack
I've never cut my car while shaving
I'ENvoI
Prince, I cxult, with Joy I clack
My little flag I'm wildly waving,
For (et me on the table thwack)
I've never cut my ear while shaving
CHlcor.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

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