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The Washington times., 1920-07-29
WILSON WON 7
BUTT|NONCOX
President HaI Not Attempt TO
Control Democratic Nominee
During Campaign.
Dy WILLIAM PHILIP siMhs'
International News Service.

President Wilson will not attempt
10 exercise the slightest control over
the campaign OF Gov. James NJ. Cox
Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency, an official in CLOSE touch with
the President told the international
News Service today.
What the President wants most or
all. this authority declared. is TO help
win the election for Governor Cox In
eny way he can. This help II was
further stated, will not be thrust
upon the Democratic nominee, but
will be given freely whenever IL Is
desired.
In other words. the speaker made IL
plain, President Wilson unreservedly
recognizes Governor Cox as the new
leader OF the Democratic party. and
has no intention whatever OF trying
to dictate to those who are managing
his campaign. Cox is the nominee,
and II Is Coxs campaign. This is the
Presidents view of the situation, and
under no circumstances VIII he con
sent to butt in" to snatch the guiding
reins from the governors hands.
CALL WILSON "BOssIsM' ABSURD.
Such is President Wilson's real at
tlluut, dCtoIuihk " Wv w.
persona grata at the White House
Stories that the President would
boss" the campaign and endeavor to
dominate" Cox. il was said, were alb 4.
surd.
Democratic leaders here resent the
Implication. given in some quarters
to the Wilson-Cox accord on the
league of nations. that Governor Cox
had one set OF views on the subject
when he called at the White House
for his conference with the Preside mt
and another set when he went away
This, they say. was not true. There
was complete accord between Pres
ident Wilson and Governor Cox just
as there should be. but why, they
ask. can IT not just as well be said
that the President agreed with Cox
instead OF Cox having agreed with
the President?
IN PERFECT ACCORD.
That they assert more nearly ex-
presses the situation. Governor Cox
had previously announced his posi-
tion on the League of Nations issue
He said he would not oppose reserva'
tions which would not destroy the
purposes of the league. At the fam
Gus tete-a-tete with the President on
the south portico of the White
House. party men here insist, the two
leaders. the old and the new. found
tn hemselves in accord.
The Governor of Ohio did not
change his views to make them Jibe
with those OF the President, Dem
ocratic bell-weathers aver. nor die
the President cede a point to brinG
himself into line with his visitor.
That again is described as true
statement of what happened on the
portice OF the White House.
The prediction was made today by
an Administration official close to the
President that Governor Cox or
August 7 will leave no one in doubt
as to his real position on the Leagn<
Of Nations, and that his speech OF
acceptance will be found not only In
perfect accord with his previous
declarations on the subject and with
his pronouncement following hii
interview with the President, but
with the views of the President him
self.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
A Symbol Of Unity

The appeal of the Dean of West
minister for fund of $3.50 900 to
save from threatening decay "the
most historic and most beloved
building in the empire" will touch
the heart not only of every citizen
of the British confederacy of ma
tions, but of many Americans as
well. For Westminster Abbey is
more than the national shrine of
England, the monument of thou.
sand years of English Christianity
It is the Pantheon of English
speaking peoples, the most power
full external sign of their spiritual
and cultural union. "The English
speaking peoples of the world glory
in Westminster Abbey" the dean
says. Il know we'll, after residence
for over nine years in this place, and
I know well from the extraordinary
experiences in the abbey during the
years Of the World War, how dear
is this chuEch to the people of this
country, to our brothers and sisters
IN Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
A Hopeful Sign

1t is heartening news for every
Republican Of Progressive mind to
learn that General Wood proposes
to stand behind the Harding can
didacy and lend the great weight of
his personality and following to the
support of the Progressive faith
within the party.
There are two measures open to
the party leaders which will insure
the full Progressive vote for the Re-
publican ticket. They can give the
Progressive elements Of the party a
large and active share in the cam
paign. They can make it increas-
ingly clear that the Republican
candidates and the Republican party
stand for Progressive measures all
along the line in domestic and inter
national affairs alike.
Upon both of these important
points General Woods statement is
vigorous and clear. He declares his
understanding that the Progressive
elements Of the party are to be
brought into the campaign and given
full representation and participa-
ton" This is plainly statement
as to the future. Senator Harding
and the national committee have as
yet done nothing of the kind. Pro-
gressive representation in the cam
paign is as yet wholly subordinate
and inadequate. We take General
Woods words as a hopeful sign that
Senator Harding proposes to sur
round himself with the ablest minds
of the Progressive wing of the party
and give their views due weight in
his policy and campaign.
General Wood also sets forth a
clear summary Of those Progressive
principles which are the common
faith of many Republicans. and upon
which Senator Harding must take
his stand if he is to head a united
party. Senator Harding's speech of
acceptance will be approved by Pro-
gressive Republicans to the exact
extent that it recognizes these gen
eral views.
The Progressive members of the
party gladly accept General Woods
statement as a sign of promise and
await eagerly the acts and declara-
lions by which Senator Harding can
give that promise fulfllment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
Saving the Garden

Every old New Yorker, which is
to say every American who has
dwelt in these parts long enough to
know the subway from a Hylan bus,
will rejoice at the news of Madison
Square Gardens lucky preservation.
Diana is not to be hauled down after
all and may be counted upon for
ten years more of glory at the least.
To the regeneration Of boxing and
the imagination Of the great "Tex"
Richard we are indebted for this
unexpected blessing. There are
job lot of shows that used the Gar
den annually, but their total rental
is not enough to pay for SO huge an
investment. Some steady use for
the arena was needed. Contests of
the prize-ring and other sports are
to provide that use, and there will
be general applause, we are conf
dent, the net gain to the community
being so great and far-reaching.
No building could surpass the
Garden in beauty or fitness for it's
purpose. 1t is everything that eye
and heart could desire, and through
long association it has gained a
place in the affections of young and
old that counts for much in a city
of restless change. 1t is in the name
of athletics that it is now to embark
upon a new career of permanence
and prosperity, and this fact ought
to please Diana the huntress to the
tips of her golden toes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
Protecting the Weak

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent Mr. B. T.
Thayer, whose letter appeared in your
issue of July 8, assumes a great deal
when he writes, 81 think he will not
question the fact that alcoholic liquors
are harmful" That is precisely what
those who have used alcoholic liquors
not only question but deny in toto.
The only convinced believers in this
"fact" are those who have never used,
or have more or less seriously abused,
those admirable gifts of Nature.
The greatly preponderating mass of
respectable physiological opinion re-
jects Mr.. Thayer's "fact," and expe-
rience amply justifies the rejection.
Mahometans have practiced total abb
stinence for well over a thousand
years, but we have yet to learn where
in they excel alcohol-using peoples.
Out of every hundred great men of the
past there will not be found even a
scant five or six total abstainers. So
much for the "fact."
If, as keepers of our weaker brother,
there rests on US a moral obligation
to sacrifice ourselves unreservedly
that ne may be shielded from tempta-
ton, the same obligation must lie as
to all temptations, and the more
weightily as the offense to which he is
tempted is graver. If we must aban-
don the innocent and wholesome use
Of wine that there may be no drunken
ness we must, fortiori, abolish prop
erty that there may be no thievery;
we must obliterate sex that there may
be no adultery; we must even extin-
gulsh the human race that there may
be no murder; a reductio ad abs,ordum
sufficiently exposing the folly of this
novel theory that all must be restrained
from the otherwise permissible in order
that temptation may be kept from the
weak and the illdoers. T. T. GAFF.
Osterville, Mass, July 10, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
The "Third Party" Energies

The new third party, forming at
Chicago, will be essentially labor
party, after the British and Cont
mental model. The labor wings
convention has swallowed the con-
vention of the original Forty
Fighters" and Single Takers. The
platform of the new organization
will be essentially "laborite" in the
foreign sense. 1t will approve an
exploitation of the interests of small
minority groups of unionized labor,
as against the interests Of unor-
ganized labor groups and of the
community generally. 1t will soft
pedal on fads and fancies like the
single tax and firt with socialism
and Bolshevism only so far as ad-
hesion to socialism and Bolshevism
may seem to make for the aggran-
dizement and prosperity of labor
minorities.
oOGo ouSi q poiVy 4ilCt'SuAG Op W
the requirements of a real third
party, capable of displacing one or
both Of the two major parties?
There has hardly been enough spon-
taneity in the proceedings at Chi
cago to justify faith in the staying
qualities of the new contender or in
the freshness and vitality of it's ap-
peal. Organized labor has seemed
many times to be on the verge of
setting up for itself in politics. But
always it has balked at accepting the
burdens and responsibilities of d.
rect party action, involving, as the
latter does, the construction Of a
platform covering the whole politi-
cal field.
MI: Gompers has fought against
the creation of a separate labor
party, chiefly because he realizes
that labor, whether organized or un-
organized, is bound to divide when
it comes to non-labor issues. The
American Federation of Labor, an
international body, was able at the
Montreal convention to veto an in
dorsement Of the Versailles Treaty
because that treaty contains a pro-
vision for the Observation-Disclosures of
labor activities. But, even at that,
there was a powerful opposition in
Montreal to the political sections Of
the league covenant. In an Amer1-
can labor party convention it would
have been impossible to get an in
dorsement Of the Wilson draft Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
Porcelain Money

Relief of a kind beckons to the
hard-worked printing presses of
Germany which for the last five
years have been pouring forth paper
money in unconscionable quantities.
Herr Reinhold, the Saxon Minister
OF Finance, purposes solving the
problem of change by issuing one,
two and five mark pieces coined (if
that verb be permissible) of Dresden
china. The famous state-owned
Nielsen porcelain factory, from
which halls the ware known as ROYAL
Dresden, has already turned out a
few samples of the new money. The
results, to judge from German press
comments, are terrifying.
The Berlin newspapers admit that
there are few things to be said for
the innovation. A five-mark "coin"
made of reddish brown china, slight
ly larger than the silver dollar, is
worthless, but not more so than the
old, torn, smeared paper rags that
nowadays pass for imperial cur
rency. The china money is clean
it can be washed and rinsed like
dishes. 1t is almost impossible to
counterf eit, for this particular red
dish brown ware is manufactured by
a secret process. There, however,
it's advantages end.
But the drawbacks are many. A
man passing by with handful of
porcelain coins in his pocket makes
noise like baby tank. A pocketfuI
of five-mark pieces nowadays does
not get you anywhere. A housewife
cannot venture across the street with
less than couple of hundred marks
or so; and to carry that amount in
porcelain one needs a pushcart. And
the new money has the further dis
advantage that, although the indi-
vidual china coins are only a little
larger and thicker than silver, their
bulk and sound grow not in arith-
metical but in geometrical ratio.
The German newspapers do not
say what the trade. union of burglars
and pickpockets has to say on the
subject. For the rest, opinion seems
to be against the Neissen plan. Al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14

the covenant. Chicago dispatches
say, in fact, that the new labor
party platform will be aggressively
anti-league.
A third party, If it is to be a
success, must offer some promise of
conducting national affairs in the
interest not of single class but Of
the entire nation. The people have
never been more impatient than now
of the arrogant claims put forward
by small, belligerent minorities. The
Chicago third party is obviously
thinking and working in terms Of
petty group profit. That isn't the
spirit in which great American par
ties have been born.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14

South Africa and India; and, III a
particular degree, to our brothers
and sisters Of the great Republic Of
America"
The dean pleads that the sum
which fifty years ago was fixed for
the maintenance of the abbey has
proved utterly inadequate, and that,
in face Of the rise in costs, the
guardians Of the fame are on the
verge Of bankruptcy. For the pres
cnt the necessary expenses are de-
frayed from moneys borrowed from
the Ecclesiastic Commission, and
the abbey is ''in danger Of entering
on phase Of structural deteriora-
ton"
The appeal states that Of the
$3.50, 600 asked for 100000 will be
spent on immediate repairs and
$4,000 will be set aside for fund
to keep the abbey in condition. If
the amount is oversubscribed the ex-
cess will be applied to extend facili-
ties for concentrating the illus
trious dead.
The list of subscribers is headed
by King Georges contribution Of
$1,000. It is inconceivable that the
comparatively small sum asked for
should not be raised.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14

in our judgment, scored one Of his minor
failures in reserving his praise for Sec
ond class novels and third class plays.
We don't think he ever committed him
self orally or in writing to the theory
that the American stage reaches its
highest peak in vaudeville, but we are
reliably informed that variety shows
received the major portion of his atten-
ton in Washington. On none of his
trips to New York did he attend a note
worthy theatrical performance. Invari-
ably he chose popular musical comedy
or mystery play. To be sure, he sent
! good novelist to Belgium, but he COM
promised that stroke by sending a
dreary one to Holland.
Admitting that Woodrow Wilson is q
better man than George Harvey thinks,
we must still maintain that his contri-
button to American letters while in the
Presidency has been exaggerated. It
would be partisan folly to assert that
his state papers were not above the
VAN
average, but that is no mark at which a
college president should shoot. Particu-
larly we were not with him when he
aimed low. Mr.. Wilson has always been
terrible snob with anecdotes. The air
of patronage was heavy in every funny
story which the President told in public.
Usually he told them wrong.
Without question there have been
some penetrating Wilsonian phrases.
Even the unfortunate "too proud to
fight" had literary merit, but for every
peace without victory or make the
world safe for democracy" we received
an "identic" or may l not" Mr.. Sci
bold is an experienced and accurate
correspondent, and so probably we must
accept as authentic the fact that Mr..
Wilson referred to the young woman
who wrote "Uncle Sam of Freedom
Ridge" as chat lady"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
The March Of the Move
(From The Philadelphia Record

(From The Philadelphia Record'
Mexico, We read in current disps~a =.
has decided to lift the heavy censoisnx
from the movies and to foster the en's''
prise in every way. There seems y !,
no stopping the triumphant marea Z,
the movie stars. Not long ago We ~
that Devonshire House, the famous -
devious of the Wings in Londons =
fallen before the cinema. The Ainssn'-
and the Empire, famous music hale q.
to go, too. England and the Cons'p'. !.
appear to be as wild for the screen !.
we are here. All doors are opsninf !.
it. Not long ago the conservative -
can sanctioned the picturing OF q
portant religious function. Greas
the moviesl -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
Concerning Rent Laws

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I was much interested and
amazed BY Don Carlos Buelps article
In your Sunday edition on the above
subject, and which l assume was
wrote sarcastic" l know there are
many landlords who consider the laws
are in favor of the tenant and against
the landlord and that the landlord cam
get justice in any court, but / haven't
found one yet that would agree that
the rent laws were in their favor and
against the tenant and that the tenant
can't get justice in any court.
Tho 25 per cent increased rent table
is especially interesting; but why stop
at 1925? Why not show the "getable"
rent in A. D. 1000? / suppose the in
creased cost of paper prevented it's
further extension
Whisper: What's the idea Of Brother
Buell's article. anyway?
STEWART BROWNE.
Nav York, July IL, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
The Sumner Defense
The Tribune's Repiew and the Al
tempted Suppression of MADELEINE

The Tribune's Repiep and the Al
tempted Suppression of MADELEINE
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Ny attention has been called u
the editorial in your issue Of July 10
regarding the decision Of tho Appeliats
Division in regala to the book sMade.
leine." This, from The Tribune, would
be amusing were not the effect Of this
decision, as a precedent, on the public
welfare so serious.
The attention Of this society was irst
called to the character Of this book By
review in The Tribune of October a.
1919. This same review was incorpo.
rated in the opinion of Magistrate Simp.
son, who held the defendants for trial
It was before the tzial court which
unanimously convicted the defendants Of
the offense charged. And 80, in this
same ridiculous error of Judgment
the writer, as complaining witness, had
the encouragement of The Tribune and
"The Times" and the agreement Of
conscientious magistrate and three jus.
tees of the Court of Special Sessions.
Now, what is the decision Of the Ap.
pellate Division? Mr.. Justice Smith
says: II venture that no one can read
this book and truthfully say that 1t con-
tains single word or picture" (why
picture? y (which tends to excite lusttul
or lecherous DESIRE" That is technical
He further says: 81 can see no useful
purpose in the publication Of the book
l cannot agree that it has any moral
lesson to teach. Its publication might
well be prohibited, as are prohibitM
books containing recitals of crimes" ID
other words, the book should never have
been published, as was admitted by to
defendant Brainerd on the trial. Tech
nically the book is said by these four
judges of the Appellate Division to D
neither obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy
indecent nor disgusting. However, y
should never have been published. why
Mr.. Justice Bowling, in dissenting
opinion, says: "The justices OF ~
Special Sessions are the triers Of sns
fact as to whether the book comes v'tn'a
the prohibition of the statute, and To"
have found that it does. agree with w
conclusion reached by them. This BOOK .
suggestive throughout. 1t offends a.
cency and good morals. In my opinion
completely meets the description OF ~
books forbidden by the statute"
Five judicial officers and the Distn"
Attorney hold that the book is obsceDs'
Four hold that it is not. All agree tn's
it should never have been published
Wherein is the ridiculous error
Judgment and the "preposterous nv
take? What are the grounds for YOU
criticism? 1t appears to me THAI 's'
is not a propitious occasion for yea'
ever-ready condemnation of this $685.
TVS proper work. The standing
defendants, whether high or low, NJ
or poor, has nothing to do with the eaA.
acter of their output. There is no NV
around the publications of any concs'~
JOHN S. SUMNER.
Secretary the New York Society l0'
the Suppression of Vice.
New York, July ~, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14

4 Defense of Modem Rcformatory
Methods in Prisons

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you permit rejoinder to
Mr.. Purdie's letter in to-day's Tribune
on the crime wave, which commends the
plan of greater severity to criminals,
which has proved failure for so many
hundreds of years? If severity were
the only thing needed crime could be
stamped out quickly, but from the days
were punished by death up to the pres
cnt moment the persons about to COM
NIT crime appear to be incapable OF
looking far enough ahead to antici-
pate capture and punishment, so tina.
as deterrent to crime severe punish
ment seems to be failure. The only
result of severe prison treatment has
been that men come from prison ten
times worse mentally, morally and
physically than they entered it, which
accounts for the large number of recid-
visits or "repeaters."
Law and order must be upheld and
society must be protected, hence vicious
men who persistently prey upon So
ciety must be confined where they can
do no harm. The aftermath of every
great war has shown a great increase
in crimes Of violence, this being psy-
chologically and economically expli-
cable by the intense excitement of war
and by the long or short periods of
unemployment following the war Crime
should now be on the wane, since pro-
hibition is counted upon to keep
100000 men from going to prison each
year, AMI industrial activity reduces
crime; but the one line of approach to
this problem which bears promise of
widespread and permanent results is
the effort for the prevention of juve-
nile delinquency now being undertaken
by the Prison Association of New York
and other agencies. Probably from 20
to 40 per cent of all criminals are
subnormal mentally. Some of these, if
taught as boys, can be morally trained
and made economically independent
but the greater part of them should
be segregated before they commit
crime. AS to the remaining 60 to rs
per cent, these come from broken
homes and are handicapped by drunken
or diseased parents, malnutrition in
childhood and lack of education or
training of any kind. They have never
had fair chance, and it is hardly to
be wondered at that they steal, and
stealing constitutes 70 per cent Of all
crimes.
1t Is not only good investment, it
is the moral obligation of the COM
munlty to gather the boys from broken
homes or bad surroundings, place them
IN families willing to adopt them, or in
institutions which are humanelv and
lntelligently run, have them thoroughly
examined by a psychiatrist, physical
defects remedied, their mental and
nervous characteristics studied and
education and moral training given
The results in good citizenship, as AL
ready evidenced by boys from such in
situations as the Berkshire Industrial
Farm, will astonish the public Not
more cruelty in prisons, but the pre-
vention of juvenile delinquency.sis the
goal to be aimed at.
RICHARD M. HURD.
New York, June so, 1920.