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New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
4 "LVer" on Capital Punishment
This editorial from 1.-THE Sing Sing Buehn by prisoner under
of life Imprisonment

Many serlous-minded men and women
are exerting their influence and elo-
quence in an effort to try and induce
che Legislature of New York State to
abolish capital punishment. They are
meeting with stubborn resistance from
those who still confuse justice with
vengeance, and who insist that the law
shall exact an eye for an eye, life for
life. 1t is argued by those who are
opposing the movement that to abolish
the death penalty will mean an increase
in the number of murders committed
that fear Of death in the electric cha r
is the only legal restraint against
crimes Of violence
Perhaps some of us men in prison
Will be permitted to express our views
Many of US have studied the subject
more thoughtfully and with clearer
vision than any of those who are seek
ing from religious or sentimental mo-
tives to abolish capital punishment,
or those who are opposing them. We
have studied it at close range, some
of US in the solitude Of the condemned
cells, in the gloomy shadows Of the
execution chamber and Its hideous
electric chair.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Stiffness

The discounted few who still feel
under partisan compulsion to 10
through the motions of supporting
the President seem unable to get re-
command of their common sense,
This appears from the revival Of
the silly claim that to make a sep
arate peace with Germany means
dishonorable abandonment of allies.
No question Of abandonment is un-
der discussion. If the President will
consent to no ratification which car
ries reservations, and the Senate and
the country will consent to no rati-
fication which does not carry reser-
vations, there must be separate
peace. Even the weak of intellect
must see this.
A separate peace, as the phrase
has been loosely used, connotes con-
duct such as Russia was guilty of.
In Russia's defense France entered
the war. Then Russia, after 2,0O0,-
900 had laid down their lives in her
behalf, demobilized her army and
basely capitulated to Germany. Thus
she released one, hundred German
divisions for service in the West and
prolonged the war at least a year.
But America did more than was
asked of her. Her soldiers, from
Chateau-T Thierry to Sedan, fought on
to the end. She didn't quit. Ger
many was whipped. The British
Premier last week said Germany
was paralytic, incapable Of doing
harm. The job on which we were
engaged is finished.
We surely did not bind ourselves
forever or place our national des-
TIMES in the hands of an interna-
tional committee. Moreover, it is
generally recognized in Europe that
it is to the interest Of our allies to
have a separate peace, which will
'HdoIcli 4SCO1lot1 uGCIoil, 1otilcI CIldI
prolongation of the deadlock the
Administration is laboring for.
On practical grounds many potent
objections can be made to the Knox
resolution. 1t promises to be futile
expression. Until two-thirds of the
Senate ca,l be enlisted in behalf of
an agrced-on program nothing can
be done in the direction of ratifying
the Versailles Treaty or of nego-
tiating a new one. But this is no
reason for indulgence in misrepre-
sentation and epithet~throwing
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
benefits to the party and to the
nation
News from Paradise

Letters from the Bolshevist ely-
SUM have arrived in this country
from q source whose authority our
super-radical friends will scarcely
question. The writer is a former
well-known resident of. America.
Emma Goldman by name, whose in
duced departure from this country is
still mourHed in select circles.
Miss Goldman. though she is back
in the land of her birth and be,
holds about her u coming true of
her dreams, confesses she is home
sick. She misses America. She
does not find life one grand, sweet
song. Rations in Moscow are appar-
emily short, for she speaks Of star
walton, which she attributes to the
blockade. She has not been invited
by the Comrades to place near the
food supplies. She has become active
IN no work, she says. She spends her
time going about and seeing people
and acquainting herself with a
strange condition
Russia fn times past has sur
passed even the United States as
food producer. No country has as
large an area of tillable land. Yet,
as Miss Goldman bears witness,
there is hunger. Why? 1t isn't the
war. Two crops, each leaner than
its predecessor, have been harvested
since the Bolshevists came to power.
The borders of Russia have been dis
turbed, but in Central Russia the
authority of Lenine and Trotzky has
not been seriously questioned. The
blockade is not the cause of the
starvation.
Surely by this time a social para
disc should begin to declare divi-
dends to the Russian masses. But
Russia, except in proclamations for
foreign reading, is in no hallelujah
mood. The new system does not
work and can't be made to work.
And its chief victims, of course. are
the weak and the good.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Rohrbach's Roarback

The I'iliager has taken the
trouble to look up Dr.. Paul Rohr-
nach' a recent contributor to
me atlantic Monthly and certified
to by 1T as member of the "mili-
tarist' Social Democrats and thus.
presumptively, pleading free of war
guilt.
In the article for American ewes
Rohrbach confesses Germany made
a great mistake, but says that she
did so sincerely and that the world
must pity her; the internal Pan
Germans and Junkers, it appears,
induced her to believe she was
forced to fight for her life.
And who is Paul Rohrbach. who
thus bleats for mercy on the ground
that the imbecile Germans did not
know what they were doing? Our
katonah contemporary points out
that ne was an editor Of Das
Grossere Deutschland, the largest
and most harmful of the Pan-Ger-
man publications. Since 1908 i'm
perial commissioner for African
colonization, Rohrbach was an inde-
fatlgable writer Of pamphlets and
books which stimulated Germanv's
appetite for conquest. East and
west Germany's borders were to be
extended, Russia suppressed, Great
Britain crushed and France reduced
TO the rank of a second class power.
After a lifetime of such actiy-
lty. without word of personal
acknowledgment of responsibility.
this man hypocritically presents
himself as victim Of Pan-Ger-
man propaganda. Impudence could
scarcely go further!
II Germany is to restore herself
she must begin by being honest. In
1914 the world was not gulled. It
will certainly not now be gulled,
despite the recrudescence Of Ger
man propaganda. If Germany has
real friends they will use their in
t1uence to induce her to desist from
vain efforts to deceive and caiole.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Songs for Parents
tFror, Contemporary Verse
WISH

A FROGS very happy thing,
Cool and green in early spring.
Quick and silver through the pool.
With no thought OF books or school
Oh, want to be frog
Summing, stretching on a log.
Blinking there in splendid ease.
Swimming naked when I please.
Nosing into magic hooks,
Quiet marshes, noisy brooks
Freel and fit for anything
Oh, to be frog in springl
A COMPARISON
Apple blossoms look like snow.
They're different, though.
Snow falls softly, but it brings
Noisy things:
Sleighs and bells, forts and fights
Cosy nights.
But apple blossoms when they 90.
White and slow,
Quiet all the orchard space
Till the place
Hushed with falling sweetness. seems
Filled with dreams
PARENTHOoD
The birches that dance on the top o.
the hill
Are so slender and young that they
cannot keep still
They bend and they nod at each Whit
Of breeze,
For you see they are still Just tHs
children of trees;
But the birches below in the valley ara
older,
They are calmer and straighter and
taller and colder,
Perhaps when we're grown up as solemn
and grave
We, too, will have children that do not
behave.
JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

maj. There are other duties of far
greater consequence which he could
perform to advantage if political
practice in Washington should be
slightly modified. An administra-
tive deadlock like that which the
country has faced for more than a
year ought not to be without it's les
sons. And its chief lesson is that
the Vice-Presidency has been fool
lshly neglected as an agency for as
surlng continuity and coordination
IN the working of the Executive
branch.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

vain. The murderer would simply have
been put TO death that other lives
might be spared. But it doesn't work
that way. There have been more mur-
derers executed in the state of New
York than In any other state in the
Union, yet to-day there are more muir
derers in the condemned cells at Sing
Sing awaiting execution than at any
time in the history of the prison.
We all of US agree that murderers
must be punished, and severely and that
the punishment must carry with it a
message to other men that will serve as
safeguard to society What shall that
punishment be? We men who have been
through many Of the phases and have
studied the subject from every angle do
more than a fieeting punishment. But
we who have passed from the shadows
of the condemned cells to the workshops
Of prison and are expiating our crimes
AZ tIlt gray gar VI Il ItlOI, we hlOW
the full significance Of what punishment
means. We know the heartache it
brings, the dreary loneliness, the deadly
monotony the never ending sorrow and
regret. And we know there will never
be anything different In all our lives
1t will be the same tomorrow and all
of the to-morrows that follow after as
long as we live, or until the period Of
our long sentences expires.
The writer expects to be in this prison
throughout the remainder of his life.
During the period Of his confinement
here he has talked with more than a
hundred murderers. All are undergoing
punishment. Many of them were con-
fined for long periods in the condemned
cells, some of them for years, and were
saved from the electric chair only a few
hours before the time set for their exc
cution, the Governor having commuted
their sentences to life Imprisonment.
The views Of all these men, and they are
expressed with impressive sincerity,
may carry some thoughts to the minds
Of those who are fighting against the
movement that is now being made to
abolish the death penalty
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
A Sugarless Platform
(Fron, The Los Anoe!e, Times,

a7EDt!ey 7fFteJJ
1t appears that President Wilson has
his fingers on the situation from a
Presidential point OF view and may
conclude to make another race. Posi-
bly, on the platform che kept us out Of
sugar And this is substantially cor
rect. The Federal government failed
to realize the situation, was asleep at
the switch, in fact, and the Cuban sugar
crop, which might have been secured,
was allowed to go elsewhere. Exports
to Europe were not restricted when
they should have been, and as a
consequence the shortage of sugar is
acute in this country, with little pros
pecs oi relief in the near SStusv,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
What Murder Means

We know, better than most men. what
is in the mind Of murderer before
he kills, and we know the anguish and
torment that come to him afterward,
when he realizes that it is not horrid
dream. We know what 1t is to spend
days and months and even years in
close confinement, in silent contempla-
tion Of why we are here, alone with
our thoughts and our misery. We know
what it means to wearily drag out an
intolerable existence, with regret or
remorse gnawing at our vitals, pain
fully awaiting the final decision of JUS
tice as to whether we shall be put to
death or condemned to spend the re-
mainder OF our days behind the walls
of a prison. And we know what 1t Is
to bare our souls to God and plead for
a speedy hnality.
Men ask how shall n1urderers be pun
ished if the death penalty is abolished I?
Killing man does not punish him. 1t
is simply the easiest way of getting
rid Of him. And what does it accom-
plish? 1t doesn't lessen crime. 1t is
not deterrent to more murders. It
doesn't check the impulse in others to
kill. Inaicting the death penalty has
the same effect on mankind that killing
a mad dog has on other dogs. Men
will continue to kill and dogs will con-
tinue to 60 mad with rabies.
The easiest punishment the law can
inflict on q murderer is to put him to
death. A short walk, few seconds Of
agonizing suspense, and it is quickly
over His suffering ends. There are
no longer days and nights of heart
ache and remorse, Of never ceasing
sorrow and regret. He pays the pen
atty the law inflicts and his sin is
buried with him. If his execution
served as lesson to mankind and pre-
vented other men from committing
deeds Of violence it would not be in
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
The Proper Punishment

Ask any one Of these hundred or
more murderers what should be done
with the man who kills another and
he will quickly reply that the only en-
during punishment is to send the cul-
prit to prison and keep him there un-
til he has worked out his REDEEM ption.
Put him at work, pay him for his la
bor and divide his earnings between
those who were dependent upon him
and those who were dependent upon
the earnings of the man he killed. Cur
tall the pardoning power of the Gov
ernor to the extent that the murderer
shall not be freed by political influ-
ence, or by any influence, until he has
fully redeemed himself in the eyes of
man and the eyes Of God.
Give the Governor the power TO par
don only on the unanimous recommen-
dation of the disciplinary authorities
Of the prison in which the murderer
is confined. The warden, the princi-
pal keeper, the prison physician and
the chaplain, assuming that they are
all honest men, know better than any
one else can possibly know. when the
man who has killed another is fit to
go back into the world and mingle with
mankind.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Penalty No Deterrent

Some of these men claim to be in
nocent, convicted by perjured testi-
mony. But even those who frankly
acknowledge their guilt say that no
thought of the penalty ever entered
their minds at the time the crime was
committed. They all knew that the
law prescribed that murderers shall
be electrocuted, but in the frame of
mind they were in at the time Of the
commission Of the crime no thought
came to them of the penalty they must
pay. Some were crazed with drink,
many blind with passion pr jealous
rage, few conscious of what they were
doing. Had the electric chair been be-
fore their eyes it would not have
stayed the impulse TO kill
And all of these men. even those
who fought for theit lives through
all the varied stages of legal proceed
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
A Week of Verse
Sonnets


(Fro'' segue~ce Of ..oentv son~oe. appear
tn0 sevtollv IN ReedYs Mirror, These ar~
from the fret fue printed IN the lssue,
Of April 2s)
7 SHALL forgot you presently, my
dears
So make tho most Of this, your little
day.
Your little month, your httle half q year,
Ere forget, or die, or move away.
And we arc done forever; by and by
/ shall forget you, as I said-but now.
If you entreat me with your loveliest lie
1 will protect you with my favorite vow.
[ would indeed that love were longer
lived,
And oaths were not so brittle as tho,
are;
But so It Is; and nature has contrived
To struggle on without break thus far:
Whether or not we find what we are
seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.
Into the golden vessel of great song
Let Us pour all our passion; breast to
breast
Let other lovers lie, in love and rest:
Not we-articulate, so, but with the
tongue
OF all the world: the churnins blood,
the long
shuddering quiet, the desperate hot
palms pressed
Sharply together upon the escap,ng
guest,
The common soul, unguarded and grown
strong.
Longing alone is singer to the lutte;
Let still on nettles in the open sigh
The minstrel, that in slumber is as mute
AS any man, and love be far and high
That else forsakes the topmost branch
fruit
Found on the ground by every passer-by.
How healthiIy their feet upon the floor
Strike downl-these are no spirits. bu.
a band
OF children, surely, leaping hand in
hand
Into the aix, in groups of three ans
four!
Wearing their silken rags as If they
wore
Leaves only and light grasses, or a
strand
Of black elusive seaweed oozing sand.
And running hard, as if along shore,
know how lost forever, and at length
How still, these lovely tossing limb.
shall lie,
And the bright laughter and the painting
breath;
And yet, before such beauty and such
strength,
Again, as always when the dance is high.
am rebuked that believe in death
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
The Vice-Presidency

1t would be wrong to take Sen
ator Johnson's announcement that
he will not accept nomination for
the Vice-Presidency as implying a
disparagement Of that important
office. 1t is not as if he had said:
"No. I don't ever want to be can
didate for ice-President." He was
a Vice-Presidential nominee in 1912.
He ran with Colonel Roosevelt on
the Progressive ticket and received
eighty-eight electoral votes. He
merely gives notice now that he
doesn't care to take a second NOM
nation.
1t has been Republican party
practice not to renonlinate Vice
Presidential candidates. An excep-
ton was made in 1912, when James
s. Sherman retained the second place
on the national ticket. He died,
however, before Election Day, 1912,
and no votes were cast for him when
the Electoral College met. The
Democratic party in recent years
has renominated three Vice-Presi-
Dental didates-Hendricks Ste
venson and Marshall. But Senator
Johnsons advance declination is in
line with Republican precedents.
The Presidency has undoubt-
edly lost something in public estima-
ton since the days of the fathers,
when the second highest candidate
for the Presidency automatically be-
came Vice-President. Thus Adams
was twice chosen and Jefferson once.
Afterward, when the TWO offices
were voted for separately, the popu-
lar prestige Of the Vice-Presidency
began to decline, although elder
statesmen Of the rank of Calhoun
and Martin Van Buren continued to
seek nominations for it. But the IL
logicality of this decline has been
demonstrated by the succession of
five ice-Presidents to the Presi-
denay-Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson,
Arthur and Roosevelt. In its poten-
tialities and inherent dignity the of
flee remains one Of the highest un-
der our form of government. Mr..
Lowden, for instance, Mr.. Hoover,
Governor Coolidge, Governor Allen
or any other active or receptive
Presidential candidate could well
consider accepting nomination for
it, once choice for the Presidency
has been made.
The political value Of the Vice
Presidency has been strikingly en-
phasized by President Wilson's long
absences from the country, followed
by his serious illness. A situation
has arisen in which it should have
been easy for the Vice-President to
take over temporarily the Presiden-
tial functions. But an unfortunate
usage has stood in the way of q
proper development of the Vice
Presidents powers. He should be
an assistant President. He is now
only an heir apparent.
1t would strengthen the Federal
system at weak point if the Vice
President we're hereafter to be ad-
mitted to closer association with the
Administration. He ought to sit in
the Cabinet informally, if not for
mally, and thus be enabled to keep in
touch with the public business. He
should preside at Cabinet meetings
if the President is out of the coun-
try or too i'll to do his ordinary work
The Vice-P Presidents duties as pre-
siding officer Of the Senate, are noun
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Mor1bund

(Fronp Contemporary Verse
IT WAS an old pitcher.
1t was cracked and discolored,
The rim clipped in twenty places.
Year after year it stood upon the
kitchen cupboard shelf
Outlasting bright new plates and III n
white teacups.
This morning
When it slipped out Of my hand and
broke
swept up the fragments,
A little sorry
The ugly old thing was gone at last
I wonder
VIII my tall grandchildren feel the same
way
At my funeral.
ELEANOR HAMMOND.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
To a Grandson
a Letter From the Pen of
Isaac II. Bromley

Among tho group Of distinguished
U,1ters soho made The Tribune famous
O. generation ago sods tho late Isaac II.
Bromley, on editorial &criter under both
Horace Greeley and Whitela.c Reid. The
follot0ing letter from him to his grand
SON sods read tn lecture upon his life.
deRrered at Ya,e last 1eek by Colonel
N. G. Osborn, editor of "The Ne4c Haven
Journal COURIER:
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

ings, declare that there never was a
time when they would not have chosen
death by execution to life lmprison-
ment for their punishment, II they had
only themselves to consider. Those who
fought the hardest claim their only
motive was 60 save those they loved
from the stigma associated with igno-
minious death in the electric chair.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

ys e,s rahss .,eeaaase sSx'It'sd S.s.,s,so !, Ia.
fglsoss.. E,'i h, anY csss THE tribune guarantees
.ss rs,g. srsS roney back request Nc red tape
y. w'S SssIbSI,nq. We make coed promptly " 'he
.ay.rtfs,r doas not.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Moondown

From POETRY
MOONLIGHT and foam Of the sea
" When shall tire of singing
Your solemn witchery,
And Beauty shall fail in bringing
Its poignancy,
Deed mar J be
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

tfrons seguerce Of ttoentv son4ofs oppecr-
tn0 eeT1asIy IN ReedYs Mirror These are
rom the fret fve printed IN ths Sssae
Of Aprl 2s)
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

The discounted few who still feel
under partisan compulsion to Ko
through the motions Of supporting
the President seem unable to get re-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-15


Douglas MAcI,esn and Doris May
viii be seen In Lets lie Fashion
able" at the Coliseum for the last
time today Norma Taimadgc comes
Saturday In her latest picture. yes
or No
THIS new pho,opiay affords an un.
usual opportunity for Miss Tai
madgo's personality. In that Il pre-
sontz her In double role which
parallels tho lives OF two women.
ono an extravRgant and pctted wife
and the other a poverty stricken
drudge. married To a resident or one
~ the poorest districts Of the east
side OF New York. II IL the story
OF the disiilusionmcnt 81 n woman
who throws away her happiness on
a worthless individual and hAs AZ
unusually thrilling ending.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-15
STOMACH TROUBLES
ARE DUE To AC|O|TY


so-ear'ef stomach tronb'~- -uch
as ind aeHtion. gas. sournras. storn-
ach-ache and Inability to retain food
are in probably nine cases out -
ten simply eviden nee that excessive
secretion 81 acid is taxing place in
the stomach. causing the formation
% Ras and acid ind R-Ation
Gas dlHtrndH the stomach and
causes that fun. oppressive. burning
feeling sometimes known as heart
burn. while tho acid initiates and
infiamrs tho delicate lining ~ tho
stomach The trouble lies entirely
In the excess development or aecro-
ton OF acid
To stop or prevent this SQUIRTING OF
the food contents ~ tho stomach
and 90 nrutraliHe the acid. and make
u bland and harmless. a teaspoon
ful - hisufaied maEneHia. a good
and effective cnrrrctur Of acid stnn-
ach. should be taken in a quarter 81
glass 81 hot or cold water after
eating or whenever gas. HournesH or
aridity is felt This swaetrus the
stomach and neutrhllzes tho actdity
IN few moments and tH perfect
~ harmless and inexpensive remedy
to use.
An anti-acif. such ns biHurated
naNneHta. which can be obtained
from any druggist IN either powder
or tablet form, enables the stomach
to do its work properly without tho
aid Of Artificial dlEcHtanta Mag
nesia comes IN several forms 80 be
certain to ask for and take only
BiEuraied hagnesia. which ~ eape-
ciRliy prepared for the above pur-
pose