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New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
"A Respite

No association of bankers Of
business men, Of captains Of In.
dustry, or planters, or farmers, OF
partisans, or churchmen has power
equal to that Of the organization
of railway workers. Haye we a rul.
ing class? If so, the members OF
the brotherhoods may claim more
than others to compose it.
Only two forces are bigger-pub.
lie opinion and the government as
the mouthpiece Of public opinion.
Looking about and taking note of
the present temper of public opin-
ion, the railroad men conclude that
it is not wise for them to refuse
all arbitration offers. They could
tie up the country-it would in
volve no great difficulty. But the
railroad leaders are intelligent to
sense after effects.
The railway wage problem is
postponed-not solved. This time
there Is arbitration, but the prin-
ciple that there always must be
arbitration Is not conceded. Ap-
parently the right Is reserved to
hammer the railroads when returned
to their owners.
So the public gains a respite and
will wait patiently for the display
of evidence justifying a further in
crease of wages to an employment
which already has obtained an in
crease Of 106 per cent since 1913.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Smokes for Women!
Why Continue to Tdlk of the Sedsn.
tdry Sex?

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l have noticed a news item In
your issue of February 6, headed
Church Opposes Women Smoking"
1t is to be exceedingly deplored that
such view should have been expressed
by anybody, whether society o:
chnrchmen or others, and when this
is coupled with the statement inferrinp
that woman leads a more sedentary
life than man it confirms the indca.
ton that the person expressing it is
deluded into the selfish belief that we
are still living in the Middle Ages, when
the lady remained at the portcullis
patiently awaiting the return of her
lord and master, the meanwhile en-
ploying herself aimlessly with q piece
Of fancy work.
Such person Is, consequently, in
capable of understanding the relation
ship to-day between man and woman,
and when this construction can DO
placed upon a statement issued by q
church it assumes a more serious as.
pect, since it must regrettably be pre-
sumed that there has been no advance
IN thought, whereas to-day in progress
alone lies the vitality of religion.
Dealing directly with the subject, the
Item betrays further ignorance, mas
much as women in other countries have
smoked for many years, and I do no!
think that any one, taking England, for
instance, as an example, would say
that is, any one with knowledge Of the
subject-that the fact of women's smok.
ing has affected the "welfare of the
country"
Personally, I know no woman who
does not smoke, and the children Of
those who are married can scarcely be
regarded as decrepit, but, to the con-
trary, they are considered splendid
specimens of childhood
/ would think i'll of myself indeed
were |, whose life is far more seden-
tary than my wife's, to advocate 50
narrow minded a policy, and one so
opposed to common sense as that ind'
Gated In the statement issued.
l write this with due respect to the
church in question and in the sincere
nope that progress may be made TO-
ward broadening the minds of those
responsible for directing its policies.
L. NJ. BROWN
New York, Feb. 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Those Generous Bolshev;sta
New York, Feb. 13, 1920.
lFrom The Los Anns1ea 1Y...sA

(From Tho Los Angeles TImss)
1he bolshevik ambassador declares
enae Lenine has dropped the idea of TAX
ing over the world In his program of
revolution and Is willing to let America
alone. He says that Soviet Russia
can oety the rest Of the world, anyhow,
and therefore it is no longer neces-
sary 1or the revolutionists to take over
the rest of the universe. This is an
unusual exhibition of modesty and for
oearance on the part of Lenine. Pres
emily he will be allowing Wall Street to
loan MN money, although he says he
mas enough to tide him over till spring.
II he can give good bond to keep all
his revolutions In Russia some attention
might be paid to him, but there is al
ways q question about the quality and
endurance Of his backing.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
The Swiss Reservations

The admission Of Switzerland to
the league Of nations demonstrates
that the council of the league has no
invincible opposition to membership
with reservations. In order to let
Switzerland in the council had to
annul several specific provisions of
the covenant.
Article provides that the original
members of the league shall be the
signatories of the treaty with Ger
many and such neutral nations,
named in the annex to Part I, "as
shall accede without reservation to
the covenant" Switzerland was one
of the neutrals named. Article /
also provides that these neutrals
must deposit declaration Of access
sion within two months of the COM
ing into force of the covenant"
Switzerland's constitution makes it
impossible for her to deposit such
declaration within two months, for
her government has to submit the
question of departing from the
Swiss policy of neutrality to vote
of the people, and this vote cannot
be taken within the period fixed.
Nevertheless Switzerland was re-.
ceived into the league last Friday.
But the council didn't stop merely
with suspending the rules of admis-
sion. 1t permitted Switzerland to
make sweeping reservations to Arti-
Gle x, often described as "the heart
of the covenant" and to Article XVI,
relating to the coercion to be en-
ployed against a communicating
state. Switzerland has pursued for
centuries policy of absolute neu-
trality-of non-interference in the
quarrels of Europe. She desires to
remain a neutral-at least in the
military sense. Although willing to
make some sacrifices in order to
enter the league, she insists that her
military forces must never be used
extensively against nations which the
league may want to discipline.
She therefore refuses to accept
any obligation ITO preserve, as
against external aggression, the
territorial integrity and political in
dependence of other members of the
league" if that obligation commits
her to the use of armed force. Her
reservation to Article X goes much
further than our Senate's reserva-
tion does; for the United States
agrees to use force, as we'll as eco
nomic pressure, whenever Congress
so authorizes.
Article XVI requires members of
the league to combine to punish
a covenant-breaking state both
through the economic boycott and
through military pressure. Members
agree ito take the necessary steps to
afford passage through their terri
tory to the forces of any Of the men,
bers Of the league which are CO.
operating to protect the covenants Of
the league" Switzerland, besides de-
clining to furnish military aid
against an offending state, declines
to allow the passage of foreign
troops across her territory, or to
allow her territory to be used In any
way as base for military opera
tions. She gives notice that she will
defend her territory in any circum-
stances, even against the league of
nations.
Such reservations "cut the heart
out Of the covenant" so far az
Switzerland is concerned. Yet the
counciI while admitting this fact,
has yielded to the constitutional and
historic traditions of the Swiss. and
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

has admitted them into limited
partnership in the league.
The United States also has cons
stitutional limitations and historical
traditions to live up to. The makers
Of the covenant didn't sufficiently
realize that. The council seems to
be more open-minded. Having ac-
cepted Switzerland's stringent reser-
vations, it has debarred itself from
objecting to much more moderate
reservations on the part Of the
United States.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
"Blood and Iron"

AN interesting appeal to the
. Democrats of Germany is made by
DR.. Hugo Ganz, a leading Viennese
publcist. Writing in the Neue
ziircher Zeitung, DR.. CAM points
out that German Liberals have COM
mltted an all but fatal error in not
using their country's disaster in a
systematic effort to educate the
German people politically. For fifty
years, he says, German Democrats
have been stigmatized by the rul-
ing junker class as Impractical"
ldeahsts. Their endeavors wer
frustrated by the prevalence Of the
blood and iron" ideology Of the
Bismarckian tradition which per-
meated every layer Of the popula-
tion and became the national creed.
To-day, DR.. GAM continues, Ger
many lies PROSTATE, and her COL
lapse is merely "the inevitable con-
sequence of the methods by which
the empire had been created" The
outcome of the war brought full
justification to the Impractical
enthusiasts" Of yesterday. The
"blood and iron" Realpolitik Of the
junkers stands revealed before the
world as policy of fallacies. On
The contrary, the doctrines preached
BY the idea1ists-those of inter
reconciliation, Of peaceful
asmocratio development in good
understanding with the other Euro
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Where Is the Cleverness1
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In view of the fact that the
Clty OF New York is supposed to be a
little superior to any and all other
cities in any and all ways, it seems
to me that the matter Of keeping
enough coal on hand in case of emer-
gency might be met and solved. It Is
most distressing thing to pick up
Inc tribune almost any morning when
the weather is particularly cold and
cminous to read that coal shortape
is imminent" 1t seems, with all tho
concentrated cleverness that is sup
posed to be stored up in this city, some
OF 1T might be allowed to vent itself
on this paramount problem.
New York, Feb. 10, 1920. E.CM
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Protecting the Country

For five months, according to his
own diagnosis, the President has
been unable to perform the duties OF
his office. Moreover, not competent
to serve himself, no one, he holds, is
able to serve in his stead, even con-
cerning matters Of administrative
detail.
So the executive department has
not functioned. This is the informa-
tion which the President has been at
pains to communicate through the
Lansing letters. The few pulse beats
Of seeming life that have been no.
ticed merely indicate "usurpation," F"
or perhaps reflex action. The Ara
bian romancer told of the sleeping
princess; here's the spectacle of the
sleeping prince, alive, yet of suspend
ed animation, with all around him
likewise frozen into lifelessness.
The disability of the President
having been a fact, it would seem
the clause Of the Constitution which
says that in case of Presidents Gin
ability to discharge the powers and
duties of the said office the Presi-
dencyf the same shall devolve on the
Vice President" should automatically
have come into effect.
But it has not come into effect.
Congress has absolute authority "to
make all laws which shall be neces-
sary and proper for carrying into
execution" all powers devolved on it,;
it may thus specifically define "dis-
ability" and prescribe how the fact
of disability is to be ascertained and
attested. But it has failed to do so.
1t has hesitated to act when there
was crisis, and when there was no
crisis it has been Indifferent.
The leaders of Congress have not
always, it is to be feared, put the
welfare Of the country first since
October. Aware of the troubles
heaping up because of the paralysis
Of the executive department, they
have not provided captain. 1t has
been to the advantage of their party
to have the Administration break
down and dissolve in full view of the
country, and they have allowed mat
ters to drift.
1t seems impossible to pursue this
policy much longer. A responsibility
is laid on Congress which it must
meet. And as the leaders Of Con-
gress must not yield to their own
partisanship, so they must not yield
If charges of partisanship are made
against them when doing their duty.
The country's interests are above
those of any man or party, and the
country must know on evidence that
can be trusted whether the Presi-
dents disability no longer exists.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
greetings to an Artless Senator


To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: What a felicitouslv onnor+r,,
moment Senator Wadsworth has chosen
TO announce his recantation on the
suffrage issue! Of course all suffrao-
ISIS Will now unite in forgetting that
le was his vote alone which held up
'ne passage Of the Susan B. ANTHONY
amendment and that he has steadily
refused to obey the dictates of his
party and constituents in this matter.
10 you suggest that suffraeists hold a
love feast to welcome this convert to
'nelr ranks! Such utter single-minded-
ness and artless friendship should be
given their just need. .
SALLY PETERS.
New York, Feb. 19, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Diminished Diets
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: 1t would seem that Americana
indebted beyond expression to NJ
Thomas A. Edison, have now an oppor-
tunlty Of indicating to him at least a
measure of their obligation by acting
on his advice In regard to a diminished
diet. By conscientious reduction in
opr menus" we women of America
could at this moment perform a serv.
ice-selfsh though it is, since It is
primarily conducive to our own better
health-of national. yes, international
import.
MRS. OLIVE DURANT SMITH
Brooklyn, Feb. Is, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Paying for Liberty Bonds
Raise of Bank Rates a Hardship
to MANY Purchasers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS reader and admirer of
your column in The Tribune write
to ask you If my conclusions as to the
following transaction are right or
wrong.
In October, 1918, in answer to my
own feeling in the matter, along with
patriotic appeals from all sides, sub
scrlbed for $4,000 Of the Fourth Liberty
loan through large trust company
In which had an account. My total
wealth at the time WAS about $4,000
$4,000 in real estate and $4,000 in
stocks and bonds, including $4,000 pre-
vious Liberty loans and $1,000 cash
balance in the trust company.
was willing to back the good old
U. S. A. to my last dollar, but practi-
cally I didn't have real dollar, so
did what W. W. advised all good citi-
zens to do and signed my name to an
/. o. U. and passed it in along with
forty shares of P. r. R. as collateral
to the trust company. I didn't know
at the time where the $4,000 would
come from, but by dint of hard scrap
Ing and saving, when my year was up,
took up $4,000 worth, giving my note
for $4,000, ninety days. at Az per
cent. In January received letter
from the bank inviting me to cancel
the $4,000, or they would be happy, if
/ were unable to do so, to carry me
along for another ninety davs at 8 per
cent-plus, if they found it necessary
to be paid In advance.
The account at this date stands thus.
191S-1o19
Paid the bank by me. $21810
Received In interest from
U. s. on $4,000. S2o72b
Paid the bank by mo Jan.
on 1000 ........... 2a76
Paid the bank by me Jan
q In advance. .......... 1928
Received In interest from u.
s. 50. 2.OOo............. 90
Balance In banks favor to
uate.. b3.8S
s261.13 $ae1.1s
Now this bank, along with other
banks, is putting up great "holler"
about what it has done during the war,
etC. i HIS punK claims TO nave secured
over $30,0o0,000 of subscriptions to the
Fourth Liberty Loan. Well, how could
they loan Uncle Sam 100000 900 when
their total assets are $45,O00,ooO, with
only 100000 cash?
Didn't they take all this paper down
to the Federal Reserve Bank and get
real money for it to loan out on their
own account for from to 20 per cent?
Money they didn't have before patriotic
citizens passed them in this paper.
IT am wrong in my conclusions that
the banks are claiming too much credit
will be glad i you will set me right.
| have bought every issue of the Lib
erty loans and still hold them. in
tend to hold them to the last ditch. but
IL sometimes looks to me as if the
banks are not giving the original hold
ers fair deal, but would like to shake
them out Of their holdings. C.F.E,
Philadelphia, Feb. 8, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

You can purchase merchandise ADVERTISED In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for II dlssattfAo.
tcn results In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantee
to pay Your money hack upon request. No red tspe.
No quieblnp. We make good promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
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also the local OF spont aneOus origin published
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herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
The Height of Absurdity

(Fro'n The ST. Lo,ns Globs-D Democfp1
Count Apponyi says there are 1las
aosurdities in the treaty offered Rp'
gary, but all told they are not 50 =
surd as the idea that Hungary sfp =
along without signing it.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Gotham Gleanings
4I1SaR1 1lR6 SD GiF5 {7TJ7;S IN,

The SITS. are in bad condition. If
The telephone service is poor. if
For to-day: Rain or snow and
warmer.
Max Hart of Chgo. is in our
busy midst
bill Orr was a pleasant visitor
Friday. Come again Bill.
-Chas. Daniel Frey Chicago's en-
terprising adv. man arr. in town Sat-
urday.
Frank Hackett who was confined
to his home by grip" is able to be
out again.
Saturday was St. Valentines Day
and many messages d'amour as thew
say changed hands.
Kay Ives was a pleasant caller
Iues., wearing his new shoes, $9.75
+. O. B. Washington.
-Rube Goldberg's new babv has
changed his name from F. p. Gold
oerg to George w. Goldberg.
Jack Drew opens to-nieht IN
Rupe Hughes's drama, The Cat
bird" Good luck boys say we.
Miss Carroll McComas gave an
elaborate party Sat. eve. for Mr.. AL
exander Woollcott, both being of
the West Fifty-seventh St. set.
frank Ward O'Malley, of 200
West Seventy-ninth Street, is rece;v-
ing many requests to speak at din.
ners, many calling up ye cd. and ask
ing for Franks house number
since using the Eighty-sixth Street
ous'" writes Argy, II have been able r.
give up my chiropractor. The treat
ment on this line is systematic and
thorough, and the fee nominal-,vo
cents. No appointments are necessary
as ousses run at intervals of five min
utes' but the hours from to are con-
s'oereo the best. Patients taking tho
cure Tor the first time are cautioned
against too prolonged treatment. From
Avenue A to Lexington, or from River
side Drive to Fifth Avenue, is about al,
tne ordinary patient can manage at
nrst. After week, the full trip NAV
De taken with beneficial effects on
mind, body and wearing apparel"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Conspicuous Waste

Sir: Three columns to the right Of
The Tower a guy writes a long letter
ob1ecting to snow shoveler taking
forty minutes to shovel away little
snow, wasting time filing pipe and
enjoying smoke at the expense of
the city. The writer admits he
watched the man from a window.
The snow shoveler out in the cold
had more right to waste the time than
the man at the window and close to
the steam pipes. I'll wager also that
the letter writer Is one of these So
called efficiency men, and that he was
smoking cigarettes as he watched the
toilers at work.
The laborer's cost to the city, saws
the writer, amounted to $3.50 for the
forty minutes. Men standing at win
dows watching others at work have
brought on wars and to-day are cost
ing the world millions of dollars.
H. E. S.
P. SIT has just occurred to M.
that I have wasted seven minute, oet-
ting this out Of my system. Well. T
feel better for it, anyway.
If we were Februarying in Florida
and the thought occurred to us that
when the photographs of Palm Beach
ers came into newspaper offices these
snowy slushy, sleety, rainy, haily eve
nlngs those who look at them sigh. and
their eyes fill with tears-if that shonld
be our thought, it would be, we con-
lecture, remarkably accurate.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

II the thirty former German ships
are 70 be sold for song, as Chairman
rayne OF tho Shipping Board is said
TO have said. Let 1t be q chantey.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

From the conversation we eavesdron
from women these days, our CUES. ia
that the first question asked Of the
Martians will be, "Hey, what're Won
paying pound for rib roast?"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
By
Hcypood Broun
the intellectual giants and the virtuosos
of literature"

the intellectual giants and the virtuosos
of literature"
"Have you some sort of prejudice
against natty folk in literature ?" writes
Bruce Delmer. 81 fail to remember that
you have ever praised any novel in
which characters appeared in evening
clothes, high hats or spats''
We can forgive the evening clothes
and the high hats, but we must admit
that we find it difficult to accept spatted
fiction. Men in rubbers we are inclined
to set down as conservatives, but those
IN spats are reactionaries. Nothing of
much interest can happen to man once
he begins to wear spats. He is fin
ished. He is the slave of custom. No
new ideas will ever touch him. Doesn't
1t say some place or other that "the
leopard cannot change his spats"?
In replying to parent who recently
wrote to criticize the deadening in
fuence of school regime upon an mag
NATIVE child, Egeria, teacher in the
New York public schools, answers:
Like most people with children of
their own, she thinks of education as
relating to the child. Textbooks and
articles on EDUCATION all harp on the
development of the child. Now, in the
modern school, especially the public
school, the unit is not the child. but
the class This is distinction O; the
very gravest Importance No teacher,
who, like myself, teaches $50 to 200
pupils, in classes ranging from twenty
tive to forty each, can possibly study
any child's individual needs. She must
work by the psychology of the crowd,
not by that of the individual"
But, of course, that is precisely the
basis of the complaint of those who saw
that the modern school system turns out
a machine made product.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

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New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

The death Of the saloon was synchro-
nous with the expiration Of the treating
habit. Still, it may only be diverted.
Next summer, unless man be ton
minute egg, he~will say to his motoring
host, "See here, Gus, the first round Of
tires Is on me-"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

entitled, .. g., Them Navy Blues."
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

1T did seem too bad in writing up
so unusual play" writes W. S. F., "to
express a personal opinion which | be-
leve is open to question"
But If a reviewer of books or plays is
not to express a personal opinion inst
what sort Of opinion is he supposed
to express, we want to know?
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

BoY-Young lady wanted as office
boy. T 681, Times Downtown.
Girls will be boys.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-By MAIL, Including
Postage. IN THE UNITED STATES AND
GUARANTY

Entered at tho Pos.otHcs At New York ss Socont
Class Aan Matter
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-07

VICTOR CULBERSON Fierro, N. M, President N
Il and Growers Association.
JOSEPH w. SMITH, Snowflake Arizona, Cashier
III Arizona stetas n,
H. C. KERR Carlsbad N. M, Stockman.
PAUL B. BEVILLE, Mesa, Arizona Orange Grower.
GREGORY PAGE Gallup, N M President Gallup State Bank
CAPT FRANK Santa Fe NJ President Santa Fe Bank
JOSE {. RIVERA, Pecos, N NJ, Sheepman.
J. T. FULLERTON, Magdaena, N IA, Sheepman.
HON. JUAN ORTIZ Galsteo, N M, Capitalist.
VICTOR SAIS Albuquerque, N M, Sheepman.
A. GREEN, Eanca, N. M, President Estanca Saving.
JOSE MONTANER, Taos, N. M. Editor.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-07

CARLOS MANZANARES, Park View, N. M. Sheepman.
NJ RAYNODS, Hobrook Arizona President Hobrook State
Bank
HON. G. BRYANT, Porales NJ M Vice President First Ma
tonaI Bank
MAJOR w. p CEARY Phoenix Arizona Formerly Assistant At
torney General of Arizona
I. E. MITCHELL, Albert, N. M. StocL1nan.
SOL FLOERSHElM Springer, N. NJ Merchant and Banker
JONES Tucumcar, M4 President First National Bank
DIR. R. c. HOFFMAN, Demng, N M, Physician and Surgeon.
ADoLIo SANCHEZ, Belen, N. M, Sheepman.
c. J. WOLFRINGER, Aamogerdo N. NJ, Merchant
NEAL M. SCHUSTER Artesa N. NJ, Merchant.
HOWARD H. BETS, Silver City, N NJ. Insurance Broker