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New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
Who Are They?

There are second hand and indi-
rect statements from Washington to
the effect that thirty Eight Senator'S
-lenough to insure defeat) have ac-
cepted the leadership of Senators
Borah and Johnson and agreed to
vote against the ratification of the
treaty unless the Lodge-Lenroot
reservations are accepted precisely
rs written.
Perhaps this statement is mac
curate, as have been so many others
concerning the treaty negotiations;
but assuming it's accuracy, the ques-
tion may pertinently be asked: "Who
are the thirty-eight?"
Senators should be fair enough to
themselves and to the public to give
their names. They should declare
their position and give their con-
stituents an idea of how they pro-
pose to represent them.
No argument is necessary to estab-
lish the unreasonableness of no-com-
promise declarations. The way the
public reacted to the no-compromise
letter of the President sufficiently at
tests what is thought of insistence by
any one on having his exact way. If
it is Objectionable for the President
to refuse to bulge an inch, it is
equally Objectionable for others to
initiate him.
When a situation requires sixty
four men to agree concerning a COM
plicated matter, concessions to others
must be made. 1t is not to be con-
tended that the Lodge-Lenroot res
ervations are perfect and that their
alteration is not discussable. In some
respects the reservations are notori-
ously faulty and susceptible of profit
able change.
But, aside from all issues of merit
and demerit, the public is entitled to
know the names and the addresses of
those who make up the alleged
thirty-eight. The country is famil-
lar with the personnel of the Borah
"battalion of DEATH" but who are
the ether twenty-five?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
But fox Leonard Wood

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: But for America Germany
would undoubtedly dominate the earth.
But for Leonard Wood and men of
his stamp America would not have been
ready in time to turn the tide. But for
them John J. Pershing would have had
tory's heroes.
While we were being told It was our
moral duty not to prepare and Presi-
dent Wilson was sending congratula-
tory birthday messages to the Kaiser
many months after the damnable Lusi-
tania outrage, Leonard Wood was do
ing all that mortal could to prepare
this nation for the inevitable conflict,
To-day Woodrow Wilson is President
because she kept us out Of war" and
John j. Pershing holds a rank in our
army never attained by George Wash
ington.
If the hundFed million people in the
United States were worth saving from
the consequences of their own short
sighted folly in blindly following theo-
retical idealists so long, if they have a
grain of gratitude, love of fair play,
justice, decency and the eternal fitness
of things, they will not rest or sit idly
by until, in so far as possible, wrong
is righted and Leonard Wood receives
due recognition for his invaluable
services. SQUARE, DEAL.
New Milford, Conn, Jan. 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
The Business Of an Alien

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In view Of the widespread
alien propaganda in this country. the
Following words of an ancient moralist
are not without present interest. They
are found in Cicero, "De OFicis,"i, 1875:
"Peregrlni autcm atquc incolae officiun,
est nihil praeter SUM ncgotium accrc
n'hll de alio anquirerc minimcquc esse
IN alicna re publica curiosum'-"as for
tho foreigner or tho resident alien, it
Is his duty to attend strictly to his ow,,
concerns, not to pry into other peoples
business, and under no condition to
mcddle in the politics Of country
not his own"
CHARLES f. BENNETT.
Ithaca, N. Y, Jan. 2s, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
The New Secretaries

During the years he followed aca-
demic pursuits the chair of David r.
Houston was that of political science.
The subjects Of his study were
finance and economics rather than
the applied science of agriculture.
So in passing from the Department
Of Agriculture to that of the Treas
ury he returns to matters which have
most engaged his thought.
Secretary Houston during the
time he has been in the Cabinet
has been a non-sensational, unosten-
tatious worker who has not been
actively served by a press agent-a
fact to be gratefully recalled in days
Of vociferous self advertisement. But
it became known that he commanded
the confidence Of the President to an
exceptional degree and that he was
consulted as to matters not within
the purview of the Agricultural De-
partment. He took a part in the
framing of the law creating the Fed
eral Reserve system, all things con-
sidered probably the best piece of
constructive legislation to the credit
of the present Administration, and
on the organization of the Federal
Reserve Board became, to the sur
prise Of some unaware of his quail
fications, an er oficio member, and
helped establish firmly the new insti-
tuition. Thus there is no reason to
doubt that his management of the
Treasury Department during the re-
naming months of the Administra-
ton will be conservative and intelli-
gent Moreover he has the great ad-
vantage Of being one of the few men
able to retain the confidence of the
President, and it is highly desirable
tc have in the Treasury Department
"a man that the President will not
ignore.
The new Secretary of Agriculture,
Edwin T. Meredith, Of Iowa, is a
publisher identified with the agri-
cultural interest He is a man of
great personal popularity and has
made a striking success in business.
II may be assumed he will carry on
the great work identified with the
name of "Tama jim" Wilson, also of
Iowa, with great zeal, and that it will
not be said he is unmindful of the
special claims of the great farming
industry, which, after ALL is the
backbone Of our national prosperity.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
News of an Old Friend

Captain Pray of the bark Har-
ward reports he saw in the North
faclflc seas, northeast of Borneo.
the h'stor1a gentiatm septentriono-
Iu'n, otherwise, the sea serpent. The
sklpper's wife was with him, and
she verlfies the tale. The beast was
about the size of the spanker boom
ana at first was taken for a log, as
sea serpents always are; but then it
wrlggled and submerged. That two
pairs of eyes were deceived is not
likely. Nor is the authenticity of
the serpent itself to be questioned :;
there are too many witnesses to
lts existence, among them Bishop
Pontoppidan, whose story was told
IN l746, and Captain M'Quhae, of
ri. M. S. Daedalus, who sighted it
in 1849, in latitude 24' a. south and
longitude 90 90 east.
The sea serpent has been fre-
quontly seen off the New England
coast. The Sea Serpent Club, of
Marblchcad, was long a fourishing
institution. But after the great war
broke out the familiar apparition
was seen no more. The theory ad
vanced by many was that it had mi
grated, fearing the submarine. To
this the adventure OF Captain Pray
gives confirmation. 1t could easily
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
Mass Platform Making

Carrying out his idea of democra-
tizlng the party of which he is the
organization head, Of stimulating it's
rank and file into taking charge of
its affairs, Chairman Hays of the Re-
publican National Committee an
nounces the names of an advisory
committee to assist the smaller COM
mittee of ten which is to award prizes
and report to the Chicago convention
tentative drafts of platform.
Mr.. Hays is what may be called a
Western, rather than an Eastern,
partisan. He does not like the boss
system. Along the Atlantic seaboard
the notion prevails that because Of
public Indifference it is necessary to
have within party special group
of professional and semi-professional
politicians in general charge of party
business. To the voter the only func
tion left is the one of indorsing or
rejecting in toto work privately done.
When the managers are broad, intel
ligent and unselhsh men, quick to
sense public opinion and in sympathy
with good causes, the method works
well; but alas, in many instances con-
troll has been seized by the selfish and
the unscrupulous, and what are stig-
matized as boss-ships are created.
leading to futile rebellions whose
only effect, even when successful is
10 substitute one machine for an
other.
Dir. Hays, with his trans-Allc-
ghany views, represents the older
habit. when there was little ORGAN
ized leadership. He would have h;s
party become self determining in all
things. He would restore the old
conditions, wherein every voter was
politician. He would like nubIic
affairs to be as much discussed in the
days of the fathouse and the steam
radiator as in the days Of the corner
grocery and wood stove. He il thus
fundamentally democratic, and pro.
foundly prefers amateur to profes-
Adonal party management.
A big idea, running through ali his
work, is fostcred by Chairman Havs
This young man would bring back
the oldtime caucus-would have ar
gunent, even heated argument, in its
deliberations. He dislikcs programs
slated in advance. Not only as to
platforms, but as TO the selection Of
delegates and the making Of nomina-
tlons' he would have the eager popu-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
Inert and Dilatory Courts

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l think the letter in your issue
OF January 25 signed Augustus Sham.
mo should be read from every house.
top and street corner in this great
United States of America. Yes, why
arc not Berger and Rose Pastor Stokes
to-day where they belong and should
be: serving their sentence?
l am sure decent people and true
Americans have had more than enough
OF them, and why don't they and al
OF their kind, if they don't like this
great and glorious country, leave it and
go where they ought to be7 Thei,
very names have become disgusting anG
nauseating to every real American
both man and woman.
c. D. s. NARROWER.
Member of Loyal Legion, United
States of America.
"ilkes-Barrc. Pa, Jan. 90. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
Peace With Reservations
No Widespread Demand Seen for a
Compromise If Necessary"

Compromise If Necessary"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Through your columns I should
like to make the public protest against
the statement of the committee which
went to Washington yesterday, headec
by William Church Osborn and favor,
ing the speedy ratification of the
treaty, to the effect that the sentiment
of this state, county and city was fol
an early ratification "and for com
promise to bring about this end if s
compromise should be necessary"
This committee represents the
League to Enforce Peace. This organ
ization has been from the beginning in
favor of the ratification Of the treaty
and adoption of the league of nations
covenant without amendments or res
ervations. This is the attitude of this
organization to-day. It's willingness tc
consent to reservations sounds queer
coming at this late day and in the
present situation.
l am a member Of several civic or
CARNATIONS and of committees which
have had in charge, among other
things, the consideration of the treaty
and of the league covenant. One of
these organizations is headed by a
prominent member Of the organization
represented by Mr.. Osborne's commit.
tee. In all of the associations referred
to, upon every OCCASION, when the facts
have been presented and both sides
discussed, the majority Of those pres
ent voted in favor of ratification with
reservations. There was no "f nee
essary" about it. This was the result
of the deliberations in the organiza-
tion headed by a prominent member
Of the> League to Enforce Peace, in
spite of the fact that the committee
having the matter in charge knew ex.
actly the attitude of the president OF
the club and in spite of the fact that
the committee chairman was in favor
Of reporting for ratification of the
treaty and acceptance of the covenant
without modification.
Public sentiment in this city and
state, as l have found it, is for ratifi.
cation of the treaty with proper res.
ervations and for leaving it to the Sen.
ate as to what those reservations
should be; and for acceptance of the
league covenant only in case it can be
made practically workable. The feel
ing seems to be that at present it is
too purely idealistic for practical use
Occasionally it is suggested that the
responsibility is now upon the Senate
but few minutes discussion with one
who makes this statement usually
brings out the further conviction tina,
the original difficulty, which has re
suited directly in the present situation
was the failure of the President tc
take counsel with the Senate, his CO.
partner in treaty making under the
Constitution, before and while nego.
tiating the treaty.
ANDREW COLVIN.
New York, Jan. %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
The Pedagogical Crisis


The loss Of 1900 teachers from
the public school system Of New
York City, with corresponding losses
from the schools of the entire coun-
try, seems to be creating something
like panic in the minds of the
school authorities and of parents
who still believe that the foundation
of successful life rests in formal
education. These parents will un-
doubtedly insist upon an increase of
salaries, sufficient at least to keep
the school doors open.
But it is extremely doubtful if
salary schedules alone, however
generously conceived, will make the
teaching profession attractive to the
most spirited young women now
casting keen eyes into the future.
For many years the drift of advice
has been on the side of "anything
but teaching." The brilliant girls in
colleges and high schools have been
exhorted not to "waste themselves
in teaching" and college committees
have been organized and books pub
lished to enlighten the younger
generation concerning the openings
in business and in other less monoto-
nous professions. The fruit of this
propaganda is now being harvested
"a far larger crop than the sewers
perhaps wished. They sought to
protect few from blighting routine.
Apparently they affected a whole
sex.
The suggestions of the emergency
committee of the National Educa-
tion Association, which take note of
some Of the defects of the teaching
profession, are as important in this
connection as the sob stories about
professors who must wash their
own dishes and teachers who must
shovel snow on Saturdays. The COM
and more logical basis for promo
ton, as we'll as a system for detect
ing real ability in the teacher and
giving him or her an opportunity to
cultivate it. It attacks the theory
of the annual salary increment, and
would grant increases according to
proved merit, instead of mere length
of service.
The demand from women teachers
for equality Of treatment is a corol-
larry to these demands. A high
spirited woman suffers as much
from seeing an inexperienced man
put in authority over her as from
knowing he receives SO per cent
more salary. An opportunity to
recompense the woman teacher
for some of the years Of slight
and to elevate the profession
in the minds of many hesitating
young women is now before the
school authorities of New York City.
Two high schools for girls are to be
opened early in February-one in
Brooklyn and one on Washington
Heights. Applications from women
for the positions of principals of
these schools are in the hands of the
Board of Education. The system
boasts many women Of tried ability
and of intellectual attainments equal
to those of the men available for
these positions. Will the fair claims
OF the women be ignored by the
school authorities?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
A Discredited Prophet
(From Tho Kansas C;ty y;u.,

TFrom Tho Kdnsas City Times)
General Won Bernhard thinks kaiser
ism is coming back in Germany. but
considering what VIC know of tho gan
ernl as prophet We should say what
no thinks has no great bearing on tho
question.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
GUAH HANT

Ysu can purchase merchands advertised In THE
,u,hieUMI wsh absolute sa1styofo, y d!ssat.fao.
TO pay your money back upon request. No red tape
Nc aulbhi'ng. We make good promptly II the
advertiser docs not.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
MEsfsER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associa ated Press is exclusively entitled to tho
uss for republication Of all news dispatches credited
70 4; or not otherwise credited In this paper, and
also the local OF spontan origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other mattos
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29

Owned and published daily by New York Tribune
me. . New York Cooperation Ogden Reid. Presi-
dent: c Vernon Rogers. Vice President. Hclen
Kogers Reid Secretary 4. A Siter. Treasurer.
Address. Tribune Building l54 Nassau Street. Now
York Telephone. Beekman 5000
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29
An Obstinate State

fFrom The Portland Press)
Rhode laland continues to fight pro-
n'o'tlon with unrelaxing vigor, We
may have to deport Rhode Island.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29

Entered at tho Pcstofnce At New York a. Second
Class Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1920-01-29

r. P. A..
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-10

of the present laws looking toward the
rehabilitation of wounded men.
Following the sessions of the confer
ence Mrs. Phillips will tour England,
France and Italy studying the methods
of the various governments.
Mrs. Phillips served with the am
bulance corps in the war and was
wounded in action near Nerdun. She
spent five and one-half months i'm hos
pitfalls. She was decorated for gal
lantry by the French government and
has been recommended to receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor, the
highest reward for yalor in the gift of
the United States government. As
president of the National Carry On
association her work for the disabled
is widely known. She is a member Of
Wendell Phillips post. New York city
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-10
MORE ON MISSING MEN LIST
Additional Cases Reported in Which
Members of Families and Friends
Seek Information.

The following additional cases of
missing men have been announced in
the hope that information may be pro-
vided to relatives and friends regard
ing their death or disappearance
JOHN E. NEWELL, reported trans
ferred from Co. d, 305th Inf. on Aug. 80,
1918, and killed on Sept e. Buddies say
they saw him in lOlst hospital, A. E. F.,
on Nov. l. Later report said he was suf-
fering from shell shock in hospital in
America. Information wanted about his
fate by brother. Howard Newell North
Attleboro. Mass.
DANIEL L. KEATE, Sth Co, 5th Ma
rines. killed in action Oct T. 1918. Par
tculars and personal effects sought by
mother, Mrs. J. c. Keate. Box ISL, st
George. Utah.
DAN NJ. BLANKENSHIP S3rd Co, 9th
marines, died in Base Hospital No. on
June -. 1918. Buried at JULY, Seine -et-
Marine. Photograph of grave wanted by
father, NJ. L. Blankenship. Higgins, Texas
JOHN n. BOESL Co. c, 1l6th Eng.
died in Base Hospital No. q, Anglers, on
Oct. 8, 1918 Nurse and buddies are asked
TO write to his mother Mrs. Cora A.
Boesl, Allen, s. ID.
MERTON r. OTTMAN, Co. l. 3Ilst Inf
killed in action. Edna Ottman. Moquah
Wis. wants particulars.
CAPT. RICHARD TOWNSEND. Co. H.
357th INF, died at Evacuation Hospital
No / on Sept. Is, 1918. Details desired by
springs. Ark.
WILLIAM X MOUNTS. Btry. f.. 54th
Railroad Artillery replacement died oil
| disease at Mailly camp. Aube Oct rs
| 1918 His mother Mrs Hattie Mounts
! Manchester. o.. wants particulars.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-10
ATTENTION TO DISABLED MEN
Many Posts Join in Campaign to Pro-
vide Aid and Care for Afflicted
EX-Service Boys.

Quick response has been manifested
by scores of posts of the Legion in the
campaign launched by the American
ism commission to aid and care for
disabled service men. Reports from
all sections of the country tell of en-
tertainments arranged for the wound
ed and Of visits to the hospitals where
they are confined.
Eight service men who are now in
the Fox Hills IN. " hospital have
been assigned to the Scarsdale post,
which is planning to look after them
following their discharge from the in
stitution, while the New Haven
(Conn) post presents a weekly enter
tainment for the 400 veterans conva-
Iescing in the hospital in that city.
Plans along similar lines are being
carried out by the John Purroy Mitch
ell pos, Of New York city, which has
appointed a committee to advise and
assist wounded men in the Polytechnic
hospital, and group of patients from
this institution are entertained each
week at the KnolIwood Country club at
White Plains. The men are taken out
into the country IN motorcars.
Henry J. Ryan, state Americanism
chairman of Massachusetts, arranged
an outing when many soldier GONZALES
cents in the hospitals in and around
Boston were motored to country es-
tate in Chestnut Hill, where they were
guests at luncheon and a horse show
was staged for their benefit
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-10

How post of the American Lee
gion purified a little oil-boom town in
Texas when respect for law and order
had become mockery is told in the
American Legion Weekly.
Desdemona, Tex, was hardly more
than a stop for wayfarers on the road
a slumbrous, dusty community, until
oil came and the town took on new life
and lured hosts Of braWny advcntur-
ers The treasure hunters came to
prospect and pioneer, but, as is inevi-
tably the case, there followed after
them a horde of shifty-eyed gentry
and red-lipped women. The word was
passed out that the lid was off in Des-
demona.
Then the ring ran up against The
American Legion. individually for
long time the members of Peavy-Brice
post tried quietly to combat the spread
of vice in Desdemona. The ring, aid
ed by the town constable, a deputy
sheriff and the justice of the peace. de
cided that it would crush this organi-
cation of veterans who stood for ideals
of unsayory repute. 1t began by
threatening the LegiOnnaireS with vio-
lence and when it found them unwil-
ling to retaliate it grew more AFRO
giant. The post quietly called cap
tain of Texas rangers from Austin.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-10
Voted for Cigarettes.

Anti-cisarette reformers met their
Waterloo when Legion post nj
D"wncrs Grove. an exclusive suburb
nr tnicugo, restored the banned
smokes 10 the shelves of IDral Stores
by means of a referendum. The vote
was almost two 10 one in favor of
bringing back the cigarettes and more
women voted for the restoration thai
against II.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-10

The captain found Desdemona in
tumult. Armed members of the vice
ring were parading through the streets
in confident bravado. The post mar
shaled it's forces and ordered the three
offending peace officers of the town
to leave within twenty-four hours The
latter returned a contemptuous re-
fusaI. Desdemona seethed. From oil
fields and camps hundreds of men
poured into town to be present when
the utmatum should expire.
Eighteen Legionnaires were sworn
in as deputy rangers and mingled with
the crowd while the offending officers
staggered down the main street Just
as the time limit expired one unarmed
member of the Legion post stepped up
to the officers and ordered them to
surrender. a dozen reyolvers leaped
from a dozen hips and all the bravadO
went out of the ring. The Legion dep
uties disarmed the leaders and march
ed them off to an Office where they
wrote OUT their designations as town
officials.
The next morning the roads from
Desdemona were dotted with automO-
biles bearing the exodus of the sport
ing fraternity to newer and greeneT
pastures. DcsdemOna was through
with them.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-10
IN BEHALF OF WAR-DISE b
Mrs Wendell Phillips Sails f Bel.
GUM to Represent Legion
Inter-Aiied Meet.

Mrs. Wendell Phillips has sailed for
Belgium to represent the Amer can
Legion at the fourth inter-allied con
ference to study questions concerning
the war-disabIed. The Legion has led
the fight to obtain more favorable
treatment for the men who gave their
health and strength in battle and has
been responsible for the enactment
and the proper administration Of many