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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
The Legion Speaks Its Mind

The American Legion's demand
for the dismissal of the Assistant
Secretary of Labor, Louis +. Post,
is not surprising. The Legion feels,
as so many other Americans do, that
Mr.. Post has proved an obstruction
to the enforcement of the alien de-
portation laws, intended to rid the
United States of dangerous and un-
desirable foreigners.
1t is the governments established
policy to expel aliens who preach
anarchy or the new form of anarchy
which is known as Lenine com
munism, or who belong to groups
and parties which seek to overthrow
our political institutions by violence.
Administrators appointed to en-
force these laws ought to be above
a suspicion Of tolerance for the
opinions and activities of those who
come under their inhibitions. Mr..
Posts record as radical" certain
ly units him to serve as a vigilant
prosecutor of those who come here
to plot the overthrow of the demo-
cratic system Of government. He
might make an admirable Assistant
Secretary of the Interior. But he is
out of place as Assistant Secretary
Of Labor in charge of the operations
of the immigration Bureau.
His persistence in blocking the
deportation of undesirable aliens
has already brought him into open
conflict with the Department of
Justice. In rudderless administra-
ton this conflict has passed UNI
noticed. Mr.. Post has been allowed
to retain his power and deportations
have practically CEASED.
The Legion is a vital force for
Americanization. 1t isn't content
to let a real enforcement of the
alien deportation law await the COM
ing in of a new administration. 1t
has said its say, regardless Of the
exigencies of national compaign.
There is little hope that its protest
will be needed. But it has at least
spoken what is in the minds of the
great majority of the people The
United States intends to clean house
and to send home all alien in
truders who are working here in The
cause of sovietism and anarchy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Hoped, Tied and Branded

Awakening suddenly to the fact
ahat his surrender to Mr.. Wilson
was monumental political blunder.
Mr.. Cox cried out to a Wichita
(kan.) audience:
Wilson is not running for Pres
ldent this year; Cox is running for
President.'
This brave show of independence
comes two months too late.
Cox may be the candidate. but
Wilson is the issue in this campaign.
Before he was even notified Off
cially of his nomination Mr.. Cox
went to Washington and solemnly
pledged himself to the Wilson
policies.
He has devoted his campaign to
their advocacy. And not a man who
has heard him doubts that if he is
elected he will carry out these poll
cies to the letter.
Not only does he hold the Wilson
views but he has the Wilson tenn
permanent, as the anger at Interrupt
ton which prompted the foregoing
utterance amply proves.
Remove Wisconsin from Mr.. Cox's
propaganda and there is nothing
left of it.
He swallowed whole the Wilson
program. He made every pledge
that Wilson demanded. And but
for his belated discovery that Will
sonism is extremely unpopular, he
never would have made even this a.
tempt to free himself, and for cam
paign purposes try to be his own
man.
Mr.. Cox's choler may be pardon
able, for he doubtless repents of his
folly and fain would make amends
for it.
But it is too late for him to at
tempt to be even maverick in this
campaign.
He is roped, tied and branded, and
never again can he stray unrecog-
nized from the Wilson ranch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02

fairness and national self respect
will prevent war and will encourage
good government as distinguished
from anarchy the world over. The
present Administrator has meddled
with the affairs of other nations
everywhere, irritating them, alienat-
ing their good will, exciting their
resentment, lessening their respect
for us and precipitating war. And
while causing worldwide turmoil,
American rights, American interests
and American lives have been need
lessly sacrificed. Governor Cox
would perpetuate this condition. 1t
is unbelievable that the people will
permit such catastrophe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02

There are always slushy minded
folk ready to forget instantly wrong
doing and welcome the criminal back
into the fold before he has repented
or been punished. Such have al
ready shown their thoughts upon the
baseball crookedness by suggesting
that after all the players who be-
trayed their teams did not mean any
harm, were sorely tempted, have been
punished enough and ought to be
restored to the game.
1t is certain that neither fans nor
honest players will consent to any
such easy forgiveness. The whole
performance of these players con-
stitutes as mean a form of crooked
ness as we can recall. Their obi
cation to their employers who paid
them handsome salaries, to their
fellow players, to the public which
supported and cheered and trusted
l.
The mind that could forget such a
heavy duty and sell out for few
thousand dollars, at the most but
little more than straight playing
would have won for them, is in a bad
way and cannot be lightly restored
to trusted position in society.
Talk of one players family is
heard and his desire to pay off the
mortgage on the old farm. The less
such cheap and false melodrama is
heard in the case the better. No
man earning whatever salary, to say
nothing of handsome living, is to
be excused upon such pleas for an
act of mean treachery to that most
human and abiding obligation to
play fair upon which these men
turned their backs. Baseball must
never see them again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
A Great American
he Editor of The Tribune

10 tne EultOr OF Inc Tribune,
SIT: In the universal expression of
the sorrow of this community at the
death OF Mr.. Jacob H. Schiff, I do not
think that sufficient stress has been laid
upon the value of his precept and ex
ample IN matters bearing no relation
either to his race or religion. His serv-
ices to that race and religion were so
notable that the value of his work as q
man and as citizen. in other spheres
OF activity may possibly have been
somewhat obscured.
Although Mr. Schif was devoted IN
the race and faith of his forefatbers
lie was always insistcnt that every
American, whether by birth or adoption
owed the supreme duty of patriotism to
his country He was himself most
ardently national and patriotic in his
spirit. He had no faith with the effort
TO substitute pale and Intellectual in
ternatlonalism for the natural love of
country. And in this as in every phase
OF his lie, he proved his faith by his
works He took an intense and prac
teal interest in national, state and
municipal politics. His voice was ALWAYS
raised on the right side of every public
question which appealed to his intellect
ana inner conscience. He supported
with his great personal energy and bv
ms vast influence, as we'll as by his
wealth, every cause of which he an
proved, though it bore no relation 10
Judaism. For instance, he was one of
the warmcst and most effective friends
and supporters of the work of the Sal
walton Army during the great war. and
IN countless other directions he showed
the breadth of his sympathcs.
He was great Jew, but there was
nothing narrow or bigoted in his .J,,da-
ISM. Rather he was the great American
because of his love for his ancient creed
lie VIII be remembered as was Disraeli
not only because he was sprung from
the great stock that kept alive THROUGH
the centuries the faith in the one God,
put because he was a great American.
proud of his country. ALWAYS loval to
her interests and working out his des
tiny under the protection of her flag.
GEORGE GORDON BATTLE
New York, Sept. 20, 1920
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Senator Borah's Dissatisfaction

The essence of the understanding
reached at Chicago between those
who supported ratification with the
Lodge reservations and those who
opposed ratification on those terms
was that support Of no particular
plan should be made test of party
fealty.
Senator Borah as one who voted
against ratification with the Lodge
reservations, pointed out with great
force that with respect to treaty
Senator was bound to vote, under
his oath of office, according to his
personal convictions; that he could
not lay aside this duty at the COM
mand Of any party or convention.
He also pointed out that because of
the two-thirds clause of the Consti-
tuition the ratification of a treaty.
was necessarily a bipartisan cues
ton, and that to attempt to make
any particular pledge in platform
was to ignore this essential fact.
Finally, on practical grounds, he
urged that no one could now in
good conscience say what it would
be wise to do next spring.
Yielding to the weight of this argu
ment, the subcommittee. although
its majority was composed of men
who favored ratification with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02

Secretary Baker assumes full re-
sponsibility for having cut short the
prison sentence of lizard Boiled"
Smith. In doing so he exhibits a
callousness to opinion of which the
Hard Boiled" A. Z. F. military
jailer was himself incapable. 1t is
to Smiths credit that he wrote let
ter to the Secretary of War advising
against clemency in his case, for the
sound reason that it would excite
unpleasant public criticism.
Smith was convicted by court
martial of cruelty to soldiers con-
fined in prison barracks in France.
This was grave offence against the
good name of the American Army.
Our court martial system has been
criticized for its harshness and the
enormity of many of it's punish
ments for relatively minor derelic-
tons. But brutality on the part of
officers toward military prisoners is
still less defensible than a Draconian
discipline administered under the
forms of law.
Smith received an extremely light
sentence-dismissal from the army
and imprisonment for eighteen
months. The sentence dated from
May 20, 1919. But the prisoner
wasn't brought from France to this
country until July q, 1918 He went
into Fort Jay disciplinary barracks
on that date and remained there
only eight months-until March 20,
1920, when he was released on pa
role. His sentence, with four
months deducted for good behavior,
expired on July 2S, 1920. No no.
tice was given to the public either
of the parole or of the termination
of the sentence.
Smith disgraced his uniform. He
was an officer without any sense of
an officers primary duty to men un-
der his charge The offence for
which he was punished involved
gross moral turpitudc. Yet his pen
atty was made easy for him by an
Administration which has shown
persistent Indifference to the claims
of the men who fought in France
especially to the claims of those of
them who were disabled
Mr.. Baker has taken a morbid in
terest in protecting conscientious
DIRECTORS" who have received prison
sentences. He has stood out, on the
other hand, against any relaxation
of the seventies Of the court
martial'systew. On what ground is
his extraordinary sympathy with
Smith explicable? Could he have
confused the Hard Boiled" A.
L. +. jailer with some conscientious
Stacker who preferred term in jail
to going to the front?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
In Reply to Mrs. Livermore

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Under the heading "Charpes
League Makes Traffic in Women Legal,
to-days Tribune publishes an attack bv
Mrs. Arthur L. Livcrmore on the
League of Nations covenant
The following quotation from the
September number of The Social
Hygiene Bulletin, published by the
American Social Hygiene Association.
would seem to show how ineenjous1v
Paragraph of Article XXIII has been
mslnterpreted by Mrs. Livermore:
Fearing that the gradual withdrawal
OF anti-immigration regulations will
provide a fresh opportunity for white
slave traders, the council of the League
OF Nations at a meeting in Rome sew
erai weeks ago took steps to suppress
the traffic. Senior Gastao de Cunha. the
Brazilian representative, presented
report dealing with past activities in
that direction, and on his Recommended
ton the council appointed an officer.
attached to the secretariat, whose spe,
cial duty it will be to keep in touch
with all matters relative to the wh;ta
slave traffic"
CAROLINE ODAY.
Rye, n. Y, Sept 80, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02

There was a time when legitimate
American interests were protected.
There was a time when the Ameri-
can flag commanded respect. There
was a time when respectable Amer
lean citizens engaged in business in
foreign countries could not be tor
tured, murdered or kidnapped with
impunity.
During the present Administered
ton American interests and Ameri-
can citizens have received no protec-
ton whatever in certain countries,
notably in Mexico. Mr.. Bryan an
nounced the new Democratic doc
trine that All American citizen who
ventured to do business beyond the
limits of the United States did so at
his peril! There can be no doubt
that this weak and pernicious policy
invited contemptuous disregard of
cur rights and indirectly caused the
murder of hundreds of Americans in
Mexico.
And now it appears that Governor
Cox approves of this un-American
surrender of sacred rights. He says
"me, too" and follows Mr.. Bryan
and President Wilson in advocating
the desertion of Americans residing
temporarily in countries where an
archy and isgovernment reign.
In recent speech Governor Cox
said: cts one thing to talk about
protecting American citizens, no
matter where it might be, but when
an adventurer goes into a hornets
nest and knows where he is going
the United States ought not to send
a brigade of soldiers with him."
There can be no doubt as to the
meaning of these words. Governor
Cox stigmatizes Americans who en-
gage in legitimate business in Mexico
as Adventures" who deserve no
sympathy and no protection This
brutal and unpatriotic policy, openly
declared by Governor Cox, must in
evitably ilnperil American interests
and American lives the world over.
In this we find another reason for
change in the administration of
affairs at Washington. There is
need of immediate return to the
good old dignified American doctrine
that the United States should never
NEEDLE with the internal affairs of
any country, large or small, weak or
strong; but, while minding our own
business, we should at all times de-
mand recognition of treaty obliga-
tons, strict conformity with inter-
national law and the protection for
American interests and American
citizens that is traditional among
civilized nations.
The true-blue American policy of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Germany's Shipping Recovery

Among the recent indications that
Germany, emerging from her after
war lethargy, is passing on to a
period of vigorous reconstruction,
None is more remarkable than the
Upward tendency of her shipping
prospects. A correspondent of The
London Telegraph submits interest
ing data on the revival of the port of
Hamburg.
Men in the Hamburg shipyards
are doing as much work in eight
hours as they were formerly doing
in ten, and are settling down to
steady and intensive effort. The
warehouses are stocked with raw
materials, awaiting delivery.
Most important of all, start has
been made, he says, in making HAM
burg again the terminus of overseas
lines. Before the war the number
of lines running regular services
from Hamburg was 1871, Of These
1913 were German. BY August l
last between forty and fifty COM
panies were resuming traffic, exclu-
sive of lines connecting with Euro
pean ports. The correspondent
writes:
"The competition among these
lines is exceedingly keen, and testi-
fes to confidence both in Germany's
present trading capacity and her
commercial future. Day after day
the Hamburg papers contain not
merely columns but whole pages of
the displayed advertisements in
which the great mercantile marines
Of the world solicit the patronage of
German passengers and goods"
But the revival Of Hamburg is
not an isolated phenomenon. Even
more significant is the project to
make Cologne a leading seaport.
This plan, says the Berliner Tage-
b!att, is directly helped by the pro-
visions of the Treaty of Versailles
abolisr>lg the discriminative tariffs
In favts of Hamburg and Bremen,
ordering Decentralization of the
Rhine All obliging Germany to COM
pletc zoe Rhino-Scheldt canal.
Through the razing of the fortifica-
tons Considerable area is gained for
the e%s.a's'ion Of the city Finally,
the csM clauses Of the Spa agree
ment i,HAase enormously the value
Of the RFsneland Ignite deposits, of
which Cologne is the logical loading
place. The costs of the develop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Screen Distinct Strikes

buring January of this year there
were seven separate and distinct strikes
that handicapped production or dis
'Iioution and so increased the price
OF sugar. Four of these strikes con-
tInued into February and four new
ones were begun. Four of these ex-
tended over into March and twelve
new strikes were begun in March Six
OIL these continued over into April and
lVe ne" ones began in April. all of
winch, both old and new, continued into
May. Meanwhile the price 81 refined
sugar advanced from 13a4 cents mound
the first of March to 22l4 cents a pound
by the end of May.
Moreover, in addition to these per-
efal facts as to the relation between
S'rlKes and the increased cost of sugar
there are any number of isolated in
stances where strikes have resulted
directly in sending the price of sugar
stlll higher. For instance. during tho
recent outlaw railroad strike around
pittsburgh sugar was % cents pound
IN all the surrounding territory, but
because no new supply could be moved
into Pittsburgh sugar went. up and
stayed up to 80 cents a pound as long
as this strike lasted.
There Is no shortage of sugar here
More sugar Is produced and Americans
are consuming more sugar than at any
other time in our history Our per
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02

But in the center of Cuba everv-
thing grows wild, the social demands
are limited, and the local equivalent
for our high cost of living can be
very comfortably maintained with oDlv
an ordinary amount of work at so
cents per 100 arrobas. At $3.50 hun
dred arrobas it can of course be main
tanned with only third as much
work And who can blame this poor.
backward Cuban if he has been Sc
duced by very popular modern labor
doctrine and now refuses to work more
than one-third of the time? Or who
can blame him if he refuses to WORRY
because his loafing OF the lob still
further increases the price of sugar to
some unknown Northern gringo?
Moreover, the modern strike bacillus
as we know too well, also refuses n
stay put. He soon got to work among
the railroad operatives who transnort
the sugar to the port; among the dock
men who load the sugar; he followed
on up into the sugar refneries. of
America
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Very, Very Dry

The candidate had just declared
that Senator Harding voted thirty
two times wet and only twice dry,
when heclller interrupted to ask:
"Under the same circumstances
would you have voted dry"
81 would"
Walls of French Lick, how you
must long to tell the secrets of a
famous conference! John Barley
corn, how you writhc on the double
cross
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
ment are estimated at 100000, 900

marks.
Opponents argue that in her pres
ent condition Germany cannot afford
such costly improvement, but the
opinion seems to prevail that the
degradation Of Hamburg and Bremen
makes the construction of a great
west German seaport a vital neces-
sity and that putting Cologne on
the ocean is cheap at the price of
half billion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Does Labor Reolise2

Moreover, it must be clearly under
stood that all these represent only
the direct effect of such strikes, and
only strikes which have had direct
and traceable effect on prices. The IN
direct effects have in many cases un-
doubtedly been even greater.
Again, it must be remembered that
labor itself is the biggest buyer OF
food products in the country.
The question cannot help but oc-
cur: Does labor itself. does the aver
age American worker. really know or
realize how much it often costs, not
only the country as a whole. but how
much it costs him. because some few
or few hundred fellow workmen, some
where in the country, casually decide
to go on strike?
(To-morrow's chapter: ".Strikes and
fhe Hioh Cart Of ('Jofhs,-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Calvin Coolidge Says
|F'rons has address at Williams COL
lege, October II, 1879

II rom ms 000reSS at W UtidNlS COL
lege, October II, 1879
A desire for the earth and the full
ness thereof must not lure our people
from their truer solves. Those who
seek for sign merely in a greatly in
creased material prosperity, however
worthy that may be, disappointed
through all the ages, will be disap-
pointed now. Men find their true salts
faction in something higher, finer,
nobler than all that. We sought no
spols from war; let US seek no spoil
from peace. Let us remember Babylon
and Carthage and that city which her
people, flushed with purple pride, dared
call Eternal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Why Sugar W'ent In

Authorities do not agree as to lust
winch is the most important and which
is only the second most important con-
'r'outing factor to the high cost Of
sugar There are those who saw that
the honor of being the primary cause
goes to an arbitrary war government
which handled the sugar situation with
far more regard to the feelings of GER
tam Southern politicians than with re-
gard to the pocketbooks of the rest Of
the nation. Others maintain that the
trouble started when fully developed.
high-powered modern strike bacillus.
escaping from warning civilization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
The High Cost of Strikes
Chapter / Continued
Strikes and the High Cost of Food
BIZ Marshall OIds

strayed in some unaccountable way into
the jungles of Cuba.
For years the dark-skinned gentle
men who since the end of revolu-
tlonary days have used their wide
famed machetes in the peaceful occu-
patton OF cutting sugar cane have been
paid at the rate of so cents per 100
arrobas, Of about % pounds each, for
this work. Now, however, since the
modern strike bacillus found its way
into Cuba, he receives s1.50 for the
same work. AS a result the first cost
IN the production Of sugar is up 500
per cent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Normally in Mexico

IRON The Pittsburgh Ca.otte-Times,
A plot to assassinate General Ohrecor
is alleged to have been discovered which
goes to show that Mexicans are moving
normally.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
4 500 Per Cent Raise

NOW, there arc few sections in the
country IN which the general cost Of
living, according to the best official
figures, had gone up more than 1O7
per cent since 1914. In California it
had gone up very much less than this.
Yet last year just as the tuna fish
began to run the California fishermen
struck for a 500 per cent raise in
wages and stayed on strike till after
the schools of tuna fish had left. As
a result there was practically no tuna
hsh packed last year and the demand
throughout the country put the price
up about 90 per cent. The price Of
sardlnes and other fish handled in the
same industry was of course also
more or less seriously affected.
Again this year just as the tuna
fish began to run the fishermen
struck Again also for 500 per cent
increase in wages, but they finally
compromised on $50 per cent in
crease. This necessitated still fur
Their advance of 35 per cent in the
price of tuna fish. In other words all
the rest of US whose incomes have not
even kept pace with the high cost Of
lvlng must now pay So per cent more
Tor our tuna fish simply and solely
because certain California fishermen
decided to use the weapon Of The
strike to increase their own incomes
over four times their increased cost
of living