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New-York tribune., 1920-10-17

the level in authority of King of Eng
land And that will pervert our entire
structure of government; we shall have
but two functioning branchcs-the
legislative and the judicial.
The Republicans arc trying to pic
turc Senator Harding as another Nc
Kinley. How, then, have they the au-
dacity to accuse Cox of being the can
didate of group of bosses? They are
inveighing against the extravaganza Of
the present Administration in the con-
duct of the war. Have they forgotten
the Spanish War and its extravagan-
ces? Mckinley was President then.
We~who were in France didn't die from
consuming impure food. The soldiers
of that other war did
Mr.. Harding appears to see the un-
rest of labor as a series Of local and
wage disputes. Is it possible that he is
learning nothing from Russia, from cur
rent happenings in England, in Ger
many, in Italy?
Governor Cox, feel, is but politi-
clan. Senator Harding is negative,
platitudinous, and lacks the desire to
become informed
Are we so impoverished that these
two men are the best we can produce
at the most critical social moment in our
history?
And finally, sir, permit me to ask
why we Americans feel impelled to be
violent and often vituperative simply
because we are partisan? Can it be that
we are like actors, of so little talent
that we surround ourselves with in
ferior talent in order not to have our
lack discovered? That might explain
why our newspapers, while protesting to
be pro Harding or pro-Cox, devote most
of their energy in being anti Harding
or anti-Cox. DAVID CARB.
New York, Oct. 5, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Lunch

The carry your own lunch" move
ment, if successful, will for many
office workers further reduce that
time-honored break in the working
day. Restaurants and dispensers of
soft drinks have made what once
was sacred ceremony an event of
slops and sandwiches. The pitiful
remnant is perhaps not worth
saving.
Of course, even in those happy
and dissolute pre-war days, the
average American luncher fell far
short of the European. No re-
spectacle Frenchman ever thought
of completing d6jeuner in less
than the traditional period from II
to 2. Still, one could find plenty of
people in this country who used the
word "lunch" to cover the whole af-
ternoon. 1t was an essential part
of the days work, not only meal
but social occasion, a method of
transacting affairs under genial in
f1uences. The tired business man
returned to yawn at his desk.
But times are changing, and the
disappearance of beverages has
robbed lunch of much Of this social
aspect. Few can still afford restau-
rants, and many Of those who can
eat little or nothing. An increasing
number do without lunch altogether.
Apart from the financial saving,
they point out the beneficial effect on
the digestion, which is quite prob
able, to judge by the prodigies of
fasting occurring these days.
1t is doubtful, however, whether
any but the most enthusiastic work
ers will 60, this far. The average
person is generally sufficiently lazy
to look forward to a break in the
day with JOY rather than regret, and
would object to giving up an oasis in
desert Of toll. Moreover, benevo-
lent law, seeking to uplift, but not
always succeeding, does not look
with kindness on lunching within
factory premises.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
The Anti-Clin,ax

1t merely remarked composcdly that
the majority of its readers seemed to
favor acceptance of the gift So far as
the outsider can judge, the effect upon
its advertising and news revenues has
been rather favorable than otherwise
Certainly, the man in the street is not
AT all excited about the case He may
be disposed to regard The Heralds atti-
tude as mot cricket" as one man
phrased it, but he is neither Mortified
nor shocked. He probably wonders, if
his thoughts could be translated into
American, where the Soviets get off:
why they should endow a paper which
already is favorable to their cause.
And now comes the anti-climax For
Mr.. Lansbury, the radical, who serves
his casual callers with tea and scones
in most charming manner, announces
that he will not accept the Russian
s75.OOo,
The great English middle class-than
which, to quote Irwin Cobb there is
none whicher-goes imperturbal ~ on its
way, wondering vaguely, perhaps, as it
glances at the glaring billboards or
which Horato Bottomley screams, "To
the Tower With George Lansbury,'
what the country is coming to, anyway.
No, it couldn't happen anywhere but
in England.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17

of the proletariat means the govern
ment of Russia by the towns. We
do not recognize equality between
the peasant and the town worker"
Lenine has not yet reached the
tyrannous perfection of Caligula,
who made consul of his horse, but
he is on his way. He first ex-
cluded the Czarists from participa-
ton in government, next the bour-
geoisie, next Liberals and Socialists
who did not agree with him, and
now the peasants. The next exclu-
sion will perhaps be of those not
baldheaded, and then all except
those whose names begin with al, +"
and finally every one except the
Lenine whose first name is Nicholas.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
A Week of Verse
Alchemy
{ From Thc Snectnt-A

FROM me SPECTATOR
n SEVENTY-NINE her keel was laid
She did tea years in the coastal.ra6s
But since those days she's been rorsv
Iramping the seven seas all over.
Tramping them back and fore and side.
ways,
But mostly on unchsrted tidevav.
mat honest traders had no word OF
And gun-boat captains never heard of
ones wandered where the pack-!ce
reaches
Seal-poaching on the Bcring beaches;
Up sluggish. soupy jungle rivers,
Where urk proas devils and the shiver.
Swapping condemned, corrodcd rifles
For pearls, spice, gold dus. and such
trihes.
OF fowery, fairy isles she's lowered
Trading her customers all covered
BY Maxims ranged along her gunnel
Rugged false masts and dummy funnel.
Flown the White Cross of Island ms
sioners
lhen hailed her coppery parishioners-
Despite their frantic supplications-
10 bondage on remote plantations,
With bland and icicle effrontry
She's flown the flag of every country
And changed her name TO match her
kidney.
She's been the Wailaroo Of Sydney:
The Oscar Ohlsen of Carlskrona;
The Santa Fe of Barcelona;
The kelpie Leith; II Re, Catania;
Inc KONG Haakon, Christiania-
To give typical selection.
With paint she's altered her comnlcxion
And practised manifold disguises
| Pursuing shady enterprises
All up and down the worlds dim .doe.
Whilst noble ships have split on ledge.
Or drowned on nights of flame and
thunder
And eager clippers sailed clean under
Still she sinks on, battered and rusty.
Her engines lame, her bottom crusty.
Her deckhouse starred with bullet
splashes,
Her fo-csle SCARED with shrapnel
gashes,
Loud with her engines crazy clamor
Into the splendid sunset glamour:
Leaky and foul, accursed and haunted
She staggers onward. nothing daunted.
The oily fiame-gilt waters churning,
Her rusty hide all glowing, burning
With her every stay cleaning wire
And her every portfolio flashing fire;
Sun-blazoned into the west goes she.
golden ship on golden sea.
CROSBIE GARSTIN.
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4 Statue Speaks
Overheard at the Corner of Broad
and Wall Streets

Overheard at the Corner of Broad
and Wall Streets
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Last Saturday afternoon, pass
ing, for the first time since its occur
renee, the scene where the dastardly
crime against the institutions of the
United States, against civilization itself,
was perpetrated, it seemed as thouqb
the expression of the heretofore benign
countenance of the Washington statue
before the Sub-Treasury had undergone
subtle change. Taking on new per
sonality, the lines of the mouth showed
sterner resolve, there appeared to be
stronger light in the eyes. It was as
though the Father of his country" in
his position of guard at the pulse of the
nations finance, deied those who would
DO away with the present order of
things, those who, with physical force,
would wreck the representative insti-
tutions of this broad land, built on the
foundations of the faith of our fore.
bears in the principles of the Constitu-
ton, which they framed and which has
stood the test of 1873 years.
The lips of the statue appeared to
part and a sonorous voice sounded a
warning:
For many years I have stood here
silent, grave, Misunderstanding the
passing of time and men. Scenes of
gayety and sorrow have passed before
me in an ever-changing panorama. l
have sympathized with the sad and re-
loiced with the happier spirits of other
occasions. as a loving father who has
at heart the welfare of his children.
But woe unto those who, from the base
ness of their souls, caused the bloodshed
and the havoc which I had to witness
but was powerless to prevent. Like a
bolt from the blue came the awful fash
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
III

WHAT lips my lips have kissed, and
where, and why,
have forgotten, and what arms have
lain
Under my head till morning; but the
rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and
sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremcmbered lads that not again
VIII turn to me at midnight with a cry
Thus in the winter stands the lonely
tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanisheN
one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than
before:
cannot say what loves have come and
gone,
only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no mora
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17

and crash of explosives, leaving in
their wake a scene like a battlefield
To-day all is peaceful, and, save for
broken stone and windowless buildings,
there is little to remind one of the ter
rblc happening. The passerby can
scarcely believe such a catastrophe oc-
cdrrcd within so recent a period But
see in the countenances of the thinkers
determination that justice shall be
done, that the master mind who en-
gineered the diabolical plot will be
hunted to his lair, and his helpers
brought before the tribunal. | see no
cringing, no intimidation, but many
faces upturned to mine. The strong
countenances of men and women reflect
the spirit Of their forefathers. I stand
here as a symbol of the establishment
of rightful government and have full
faith in the present generation to check
IN their respective spheres the efforts of
misguided or designing men TO substi-
tute their misrep presentation in the place
of truth and their discontents IN the
place Of stable government, and to call
to mind that, as the people of the
United States have been permitted, asn-
der the Dipsne favor, in perfect freedom,
after solemn deliberation, aud in an en-
lghtened age, to elect their o,c,a gouerm-
memt, so will their gratitude for this
nestimable blessing be best distin-
the Constitution and the MWs.'"
The italicized words are from Wash
ington's proclamation delivered at Phila-
delphia, September 25, 1894.
A CITIZEN WHO ENJOYS LIBERTY
UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.
New York. Oct ., 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Defiation and the Farmer

Farmers are justsabout four years
late in seeking relief from what un-
doubtedly is serious situation.
That of which they complain is a
result of a long-continued political
tampering with economic law, or po-
litical ignorance of economic law,
which amounts to the same thing.
The Administration appealed to
the farmers, on patriotic grounds, to
produce as much as possible. The
farmers responded generously, as
the great yield testities. But be-
tween planting and harvest the Ad-
ministration became alarmed over
the political effects of the high prices
produced by its own mistaken policy
of imitation, and determined to force
prices down in an arbitrary man
ner. Ostensibly it's attack was aimed
at protiteers, but its aim was poor
1t was legitimate business and agri-
culture that were hit hardest when,
through the Federal Reserve Board
the Administrator decreed that it's
policy of initiation must be aban-
doned and one of drastic defation
substituted. The method of accom-
plishing this was simple, consisting
merely in refusing to provide credit
to finance the large crops which had
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
been produced at the Administra-
tion's behest.

been produced at the Administra-
tion's behest.
Lacking the means to carry the
crops so that they might be marketed
in a normal manner, instead of
dumped in such bulk as to break
prices below production costs, the
farmers face heavy losses. Appeals
to Washington are not likely to do
much good. The Administration
could scarcely undo the harm it has
wrought by its inflationary and de-
aationary policies even if it wanted
to. About all the farmer can do is
to work for the restoration of eco
nomic sanity.
The farmer is in the plight of Lib
erty bond holders who "bought until
it hurt" on the implied promise of
the Administration that if the peo-
pie would borrow to buy bonds the
Administration would see that they,
the bond buyers, would be able to
carry what they bought until they
could be paid for at reasonable rates
of interest. The implied promise
wasn't kept. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that those who would break
the faith with the Liberty bond hold
ers would hesitate to do likewise
with the farmers. No wonder is it
that farmers are bitter in denounc-
ing Mr.. Wilson s financial family.
The Administration may derive
some comfort from the fact that
there will be no complaint about it's
price policies from abroad. A large
part of our agricultural products is
exported. Naturally, the buyer for
export is pleased when prices are
forced down. The foreign buyer
feels no lively interest in the pros
perity of the American farmer.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
The MeyneH Mission

1t was set forth that the bondholders
o. the paper had been informed of the
facts, and that they had been asked to
meet with the directors to consider the
offer Then:
when Francis Meynell was in
Esthonia, Finland and Scandinavia in
September and October of last year
he discussed on his own initia-
tive with members of the Third Inter-
national the financial position of The
Dally Herald. Meynell made it
clear:
"That he was speaking for himself
alone that before any money
was accepted from Socialist sources
abroad, the fact would be publicly an
nounced . that the money would
have to be free and unconditional gift
that Mcynell would tender his
resignation from the board of directors,
if and when the money was used, to dis
pei any possible suspicion that he had
come to public understandings
Apparently nothing better suited the
Bolsheviks than this philanthropy.
"Assent was freely given," continued
The Herald; "and Meyncll thereupon
took necessarily very slow and
spread over many months--to collect the
money agreed upon, namely, 975,OOO.
"This sum is now in Meynell's pos
session.
eve wish to have the opinion of our
readers as to whether we should ac-
cept it.
THE only reason against it which we
consider valid is that it seems pitiabe
that We should have to accept help from
a country which, because of British
action is so impoverished
"On the other hand, this offer is a
magnificent demonstration Of real work
ing g-class solidarity, and Of what the
Russians mean by intcrnationalism
To accept it will be to complete
a notable episode in international
socialism,
FINALLY, the financial position which
this money was intended to meet has in
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Calvin Coolidge Says
(Fron, his address at the U1iversity
Of Vermont, june %, 1901

(Fron, his address at the Un;uersity
of Vermont, June 2s, 1920.)
The world has just experienced the
SIX most cventful years in human his
tory. Whole continents have broken
With the past. Dynasties have ended.
Empires have fallen. This has come
rot from the preconceivcd plan of man.
That plan was for the aggrandizement
of power, for earthly glory, for a place
IN the sun, for military supremacy. 1t
came as the irresistible shock of war in
which the artificial in human relation
ship was cast aside and the real pre-
vailed. If despotism has not yet been
banished from its rule over people at
least it no longer wears a crown, it is
no longer glorified anywhere but denied
everywhere, and wherever practiced
now masquerades under popular sover-
eighty.
In this change that has marked all
peoples America has not remained un-
changed Politically we appear to be
the same. Our political institutions,
resting on the firm foundation of the
people, have not been shaken. They
have been assailed, will be assailed both
by the unthnking and the vicious.
Against all such assaults this univer-
slty stands as firm defense 1t was
established that the inhabitants of this
state might be free. But how be free.
how come into the greatest liberty? Not
by casting aside Of all restraint, but by
the observance of all law, not by lack
of self control but by an intense dis
cipline, and finally never by ignorance
but ever by larger knowledge of the
truth.
There may be an involuntary servi-
tude but never an involuntary liberty.
1t is ever purchased with a great price
1t is not given or bestowed, it is ac-
quired. The American people in <their
sovereignty must forever remember that
to set free king requires the ransom
of king
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Wild Swans
fFron. PANTY FAIR
)OkED in my heart while the

From PANTY FAIR
LOOKED in my heart while the wild
swans went over;
And what did ! see l had not seen
before?
Only question less or q question
more;
to match the fight Of wild
birds flying.
Tiresome heart, forever living and
dying
House without air, leave you and
lock your door.
Wild swans, come over the town. come
over
The town again, trailing your legs and
crying.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
TWO SONNETS

plTY me not because the light of day
At close of day no longer walks
the SKY;
Pity me not for beauties passed away
From field and thickct as the year goes
by;
Pity me not the waning of the moon.
Nor that the ebbing tide goes out to sea.
Nor that a mans desire is hushed 50
soon,
And you no longer look with love on me.
This have I known always: love i. no
Than the wide blossom which the wind
assais,
Than the great tide that treads the
shifting shore,
Strewing fresh wrcckage gathered in
the gales;
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every
turn.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Bolsheuik Rubles in Britain
The Complete Tale Of the Mysterious SIS 900 That The Daily
Herald British Labor Organ Confessed and Finally Rejected
By Harold E. Scarborough
Staff Correspondent of The Tribune

for the subsidy of The Daily Herald, tell
him lLansburyl at any rate that the
subsidy will be paid by those who
have authority to organize the financ-
ing. of our organs abroad. The sub
sidy for the preservation of control
must be paid by degrees"
Following the publication of these
messages, Mr. Lansbury, on August 20,
repeated the emphatic denial which
he had made in the spring, and even
added some embellishments to it.
"Not bond! Not franc. Not q
ruble." ran The Daily Herald's head
ings.
"As for the Documents" proceeded
the newspaper, "there is no proof be-
yond the word of the British govern
ment, which is a notorious liar, that
these documents are what they purport
to be. The sources from which
this newspaper has received its money
are not hidden. Lists of those who
have invested in the paper may be in
spected by anybody at Somerset House.
There is nothing which we have
to hide"
The curtain again falls to an ac-
compartment of not overly muted skep-
ticism by the press orchestra. 1t rises
on the third act September 10, with
the first number, the statement is
which, as a headline, The Daily Herald
placed the question mentioned at the
beginning of this article.
"The facts are" it explained, Chat
not gold but an offer of gold, has been
received by Francis Meynell, who acted
absolutely on his own initiative in the
matter. That offer has not yet been
nccepted -
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
4 Citizen in Despair
No Ray Of Hope in Harding Any
More Than in Gov


More Than in Gov
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Because your newspaper is moro
aegressivey and blindly partisan in
regard to the present political match
than any other in New Yolk-save that
one which is nameless because its name
is never stable-and because | am no
more in favor of Cox than of Harding
| am addressing this criticism of your
candidate to you.
The reason that l. could not vote for
Mr. Harding and retain my self-respect
as citizen of the United States is
expressed by the candidate hmself-he
la normal, which is to say, average. In
the White House we require a leader,
and leader, to be effective, must be
above the average
The Senator's patriotism seems to be
of the brand which considers that TO
love your family you must be aloof from
your neighbors; he seems to have the
idea that because our house is somewhat
remote from the city we are immune to
Its diseases. The war has taught him
nothing.
He appears to be sort of litmus
paper, which changes color when certain
fluids are applied. (My chemistry is
weak, so l dare not be more specific
His apologists argue that he will have
strong Cabinet. But why, one asks,
should we not elect a Cabinet if our sole
faith rests in it, and not a President? ?
A strong Cabinet is the worst possible
argument for electing Mr.. Harding.
Strong men are bound to disagree, and
there will be no one strong enough TO
discard, or rather dominate, their diff
ferences
Furthermore, Mr.. Hardngs election
will mean that for term of years, at
least, the Presidency will be at about