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New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

Wilson-That's All

If there was any doubt as to the
issue in this campaign the President
has removed it.
Ignoring Mr.. Cox, he has put up
himself and his "solemn referendum"
IS the question before the voters.
Ee is thus contemptuous Of the
nominal candidate, because he knows
ir. Cox will not dare repudiate him.
And he has made perfectly clear
what The Tribune has insisted from
the beginning, that though the voice
may he the voice of Cox the hand is
he hand Of Wilson.
Il Mr.. Cox is elected Mr.. Wilson
will he President, in spirit if not in
truth. His policies vii be continued.
lIe will be the dominant influence in
ne ampaign. You cannot read his
forouncement and doubt that for a
accond.
And in the continuation of his pol
ic;os the county viii be given the
saue kind of administration which
Las hsougnt it to its present dire ex-
fremity.
Ii will be vain hereafter for Mr.
Cos to shout that Wilson is not run
nng for President this year; Cox is
running for Pie ident."
2lr. Cox indeed is racing around
he country cN special trains and ad-
dl.ess;l 2 crowds Of curious citizens
Sui Mr. Wilson IS sitting IN the
White House doing the thinking and
The rlann.ng for the future ard
v,riting statements which prove that
his is .he master mind.
Tic has abated not a jot of his
stubborn determination 10 force upon
inc country his covenant, Article X
md all. just as written. And it is
plain from the tone CT his manifesto
that he has tae same power over Mr..
Cox that he nd ofe~ the weaklings
II his party VINO, againgt thoir best
Judgment. supported him in his bat
lie 10 make h.s pr. ate doctrines the
law of The land
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
The New Household Worker

There are plenty OF reasons for
the extraordinary interest in this
years Electrical Show. Thousands
of scientists, inventors, engineers,
artisans and mechanical workers Of
many kinds have dreamed and
toiled and experimental, during the
last twelve months, to make more
useful to mankind that potent
agency, easily generated, easily con-
trolled, which is bringing about such
a revolution in many directions.
Creation of power, transmission Of
power, utilization Of power-that, to
large extent, is the secret of man
kinds future development in things
material. And in this electricity
seems destined to play part incom-
parably greater even than it plays
to-day.
But it is electricity in the home
that calls the loudest this year, and
for obvious reasons. The modern
housekeepcr, handicapped by the
shortage Of domestic servants, finds
in electricity practical solution for
many Of her hardest problems.
Within few years her eyes have
been opened to the fact that large
part of daily drudgery may be done
away with. The modern housekeep-
er feels that labor-saving appli-
ances, have as important a place in
the home as in the store or office or
factory. Being an eminently prac-
tical person, she proposes to have as
many of them as she can afford
Wherefore a demand for such goods
-undreamed CT a few years ago
has sprung up all over the country
Not alone in large cities and in
towns Of considerable size is seen
this new interest on the part of
American women, but in villages and
wherever electric power is available.
Exhibits of household appliances,
Of course, form but one part Of the
whole great Electrical Show, which
reaches into a thousand avenues of
industry, commerce, transportation,
science, education and entertain
ment. But it is doubtful whether
any Of these viii receive more ear
nest consideration than perhaps a
dozen of the principal utilities for
reducing household drudgery AS
soon as electric power and transmits
sion companies give consumers a
comparatively low domestic rate on
electricity its household use will
vastly increase.
The demand of millions of homes
is a household worker who will stay
on the job and is always obliging
and willing-and outside machine
the filling of these specifications is
becoming a rarer and rarer treat.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

New Io. - : rate OF growth in the
ast decade was The Noxt to the low
est on record since the first Federal
enumeration ~ 1900. The only ten
Years in which The percentage of in
crease was smaller were those be-
tween 1850 and 1870. That was
also war decade. The stoppage of
immi grafton, from which this city
as the greatest American port Of
entry and the most cosmopolitan
community in the country has al
ways profited in a marked degree,
accounts largely for the falling
ratio. The percentage Of increase
FOR the state was 25.4 between 1900
and 1910 and oil between 1890
and 1900. For the last ten years
t Was on4I 1879.
New York City's rate of growth
was 17.9 per cent. This was also
the next lowest decennial percentage
on record. Between 1860 and 1870
the percentage was 1853. Between
1900 and 1910 it was 1877. Between
1880 and 1890 it was 25.6. In the
decade between 1890 and 1900, in
which the consolidation took place,
the rate for Manhattan was 28.1
and for Brooklyn 391.
tN
much faster than the rest of the
state. The population of the state
is 10,384, 144, and the increase since
1910 is 1,270,53O. But the city's
increase is S53,165, or two-thirds Of
the whole. The city's population
is 5,620,048 and that of the rest
Of the state is 4,764,O96.
New York is the first state to
pass the ten million mark. The new
total Of ten millions and a quarter
IS imposing. Yet we were prepared
for something moro startling. In
1917 the War Department assigned
us for draft purposes population
of 11,1S7, ,79S--a slight overcharge
of 917,26S.
How do the new figures affect our
representation in Congress and the
Electoral College? New York has
under the present apportionment.
with its ratio Of 211,877, forty-three
Representatives. Assuming an in
crease Of the r9tio to 100000, in ac-
cordance Wits the practice in recent
apportionments, she will be entitled
to forty-five seats. Of these, twenty
four and half would go to the city
and twenty and half to the rest
of the state. At present there are
twenty-five districts within the city
and TWO partly within and partly
without.
In the apportionment of 1911
New York gained six seats in the
House and in the apportionment of
1901 three seats. But in the next
apportionment, II the ratio is in
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Wilson Appeal Welcomed

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The American public will well
come President Wilson's appeal, pub
lished this morning More than ever
does he make the issue Wilson and his
League of Nations.
Utterly ignoring the fact that we
could long since have had covenant
which defined our responsibilities under
Article X, covenant with such inter-
pretatlons as would permit us to live
up to our contract he denounces as
ignorant and impudent those who dis
agree with him, and looks forward with
confidence to the result of the referen-
dunn on November 2.
SO do wei WILLIAM SAGE
New York, Oct. a, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Standing With a Democrat

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There has lust come into INV
hands an appeal by Miss Elisabeth Mar
bury to vote the Democratic ticket this
year upon various grounds, among
others, that "therc will be no more
wars, no more sacrifice of human lives,
no more expenditures of national funds. "
This unqualified assertion that the mil
lennium will result from voting the
Democratic ticket is in itself SO striking
as to be interesting, even though speci-
flcatlons are not voucnsafed 1t makes
one feel almost-but not qute-that the
last seven years have been but a night-
mare which might pass with the rising
of a Democratic sun on the morning
after Election Day.
Unfortunately, however, Miss Mar
burys closing assurance, "Remember
that | am standing back of YOU
shoulder to shoulder, and may God bless
you!" may have a tendency to make the
voter to whom the circular is sent feel
that with all the cstimable ladv's con-
fidence and possible elasticity she would
experience as much difficulty in stand
ing back of him-shouder to shoulder" :"
as the voter himself had when he was
admonished before we entered the war.
to "stand back of the President" and
found that he could do so only by play
ing squat-tag. LLOYD NJ. HOWELL.
New York, Oct 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

a translation Of the French version,
and it was published in our news
columns on December 8, 1919. Ac-
cording to this authentic French
document, Mr.. Wilson said to the
representatives of the two Balkan
powers:
"If the world should be troubled
again, if the conditions which we all
regard as fundamental arc chal-
lenged. the guaranty which will be
given to you will pledge that the
United States will send its army and
its fleet across the ocean. Is it sur
prisng, under such circumstances,
that it should desire to reach u solu-
tion Of the various problems which
seems to it to be satisfactory ?"
Here was definite guaranty of
military aid to Rumania and Serbia
in return for concessions on which
the President had set his heart.
There is no proviso in it about the
consent of Congress. Mr.. Wilson be-
lieved then-as he probably believes
now-that no Congress would resist
the fulfillment Of moral obligations
contracted in the peace treaty.
There is no essential difference be-
tween what he said at Paris and
what Senator Spencer has repre-
sented him as saying.
What is the country to think of
the Tumulty statement, alleged to
have been made with the Presidents
authorization, that Senator Spen-
GERS version is absolutely and un-
qualifiedly false? Mr.. Tumulty
owes it to himself to go considerably
further into this issue of "inverac-
ity."
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Calvin Coolidge Says
(f'rom his address to the Republican
State Contention, Boston, October
i, 1879

(from his address to the Republican
State Convemtion, Boston, October
i, 1919)
Wholesale criticism of everybody and
everything does not necessarily exhibit
statesmanlike qualities, and may not be
true. Not all those who are working to
better the condition of the people are
bolsheviki or enemies of society. Not
all those who are attempting to conduct
a successful business are profteers.
But unreasonable criticism and agita-
ton for unreasonable remedies will
avail nothing.
We, in common with the whole world.
are suffering from shortage of mate
rlals. There is but one remedy for this.
increased production. We need to use
sparingly what we have and make more
NO progress will be made by shouting
'Bolshevlkl' and "protitcers" What we
need is thrift and industry. Let every
body keep at work. Profitable employ
ment is the death blow to Bolsheyism
and abundant production is disaster to
the profteer. Our salvation lies in put
ting forth greater effort, in manfully
assuming our own burdens, rather than
in entertaining the pleasing delusion
that they can be shifted to some other
shoulders
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
The High Cost of Strikes
Chapter L
Striking at the Ncruc Centcrs of Industry

almost as big a proportion of the food
would be shut off
Last November certain labor leaders
stepped this less than per cent of
our production by the strikes of this less
than 2 per cent of our workers for a
few weeks and threatened to stop it
longer. The actual non production was
perhaps not more than $5O,OOO.OO0
worth OF coal, but this mere beginning
of the strike, coupled with the threat
Of continuing it, Immediately threw
millions Of men out Of work and cost
the country Immediately hundreds of
millions of dollars
The railroads, though in a different
way, are every bit as vital as the coal
supply, not only to the industrial but
to the human life Of the country. Ac
tually stop railroad operation for the
tew weeks necessary to exhaust the
limited food supply on the grocers'
shelves and in the warehouses, and
every man, woman and child in every
big city in the country would have to
board out or hire out on some farm
and most of them would have to walk
to get there
But strikes that attempt to tie I'd
the whole coal industry or the rail-
roads are too much like conspicuously
holding a dagger at the nations indus
trial heart. They incitc immediate re.
slstance by the whole country, and
though the country may suffer severely
IN the struggle, as it did in the coal
strike, such strike is too utterly auda.
cious really to succeed.
& Dagger at the Heart
If the coal strike may be ikened to
holding a dagger at the nations in
dustrlal heart, where the very con-
splcuousness of the strike aroused in
slant general resistance, the outlaw
railroad strike might be likcned to the
sticking of fine needles into one after
another of the vital nerve centers along
the spinal column and quickly pulling
each out again as soon as the act was
discovered.
The outlaw railroad strike repre-
sents the development of new
strategy Of strikes which, unless the
American people understand its method
and its aim, may make strikes Of the
future as much more expensive than
presens strikes as present strikes have
pcen more costly than those of the
past.
The basis of this strategy was its in
consplcuousness. It carefully avoided
ever at any one time calling out any
great number of men 1t did not want
the public to become aroused as il had
been IN the coal strike. 1t did every-
thing possible to keep from the public
any linking of how vital and costly
this strike was planned to be.
Instead, it called out only small
bodies of men at a time-sometimes
very small bodies of men-now here.
now there, but always exactly when
and where they could do the utmost
damage
II some special yard at some termi-
nal point was having a specially heavy
run Of traffic, right at the height of il
the locomotive firemen would be called
out. The engineers and conductors and
switchmen and brakemen would all be
at their posts, SO that only fifth of
the men-perhaps not more than a few
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
The Coming Tower


The Contents Of My Lady's Handbag
powder magazine, a puff,
A handkerchief Of lace,
CA gift from met cost enough
To fix pcnnant race);
Some postage stamps all glued together
A nickel and dime,
A piece Of useless ostrich feather,
Some fruit" drops (navor lime);
A hairpin and n mirror and
A silver pencil, some
Vermilion rouge, rubber band,
A stick Of chewing gum;
shoe horn and some peanut shells,
A street guide Of the city,
Some smelling salts she never smells
And clipping of this dittyl
EDAR.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Is There Anything Finer2

he Tflbune
Sir: Has anything finer ever been
written about our flag than the words of
Calvin Coolidge-in to-day's Tribune
from his Flag Day proclamation, be-
ginning: at pictures the vision of peo-
pie whose eyes were turned toward the
rising dawn. 1t represents the hope of
father for his posterity. 1t was never
haunted for the glory of royalty, but
to be born under it is to be a child of a
king, and to establish home under it
is to be the founder of royal house. "
S. T. LEFFERTS.
New York, Oct. 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Audacity Without Bounds

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; While it is conceivable that those
who do not agree with Woodrow Wilson
may be guilty OF gross ignorance and
'impudent audacity," 1 for one decline
to admit the former, but may l not
glory in the fact that l propose to be
impudently audacious enough to vote
for Harding on November g?
HOWARD P. ROCKEY.
New York, Oct. 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

creased normally, very few states
will gain as many as two seats.
California, with an indicated gain
of four, will probably outclass all
the others.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
The Coal Nerre

The nations coa' supply is of course
cne of the two most conspicuous Of
such nerve centers.
Considered in bulk. or in mine value,
coal represents less than per cent of
the total of American commodity pro-
duction. All <he men engaged in coal
mining reprc, mt less than 2 per cent
OF the total of Americas industrial
workers. Yet coal is out of all proper
tion to these figures the most vital
necessity in Americas industrial life.
Seriously interrupt our supply of
wheat or wool or cotton or steel or
any other single product, and you may
stop 10, 20 or perhaps 40 per cent OF all
Industry, Seriously interrupt the sup
ply Of coal, and 30 per cent of in
dustry, transportation, heat, light and
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
"Flappers and Philosophers"

Sir: There is a sign in music
store on Fifth Avenue near Forty
second Street, which announces a
Jenny Lind Centennial Concert. Chanc-
ing to pass this sign abreast of two
happers, each of whom represented an
outlay Of several hundred dollars in
clothing (quality), l overheard this
remark:
"Just to think, dearie, hundred
years old and still singing'
M. w. C..
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

AS Mr. Roy Dusrstinc says in his
Making Advertisements" one must
have ones clientele in mind when
writing copy. each customer" the La
Fontane Beauty Parlor, 1912 Lexing-
ton Avenue, advertises, "gets careful
attention, ana you Will soon get &C
customed to cleanliness and sanitary
methods"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Partial Starvation

The best authorities estimated thar
at no time during the war was our pro-
duction OF normal necessaries curtsilec
more than 20 per cent. Yet prices went
up lot per cent.
But the persistent partial starvation
Of market also adds psychological
factor that very much cxaggerates tois
normal price tendency TO go up dis
proportionately to the actual amoun'
of the shortage
A man who is used TO having plent!
to eat may be able 70 continue TO live
indefinitely even if his rations are re-
ducea to the actual point of suSsis-
tence. But if in addition through TINS
long period he is continually threat
ened with having nc food eI all il can
be easily understood how he would &c.
into a state Of nerves wkere lie woua
DO almost anything or paS a.esost any
thing to insure himself of rcA,s' ~aousa
20 eat again f.r while.
Last fall during the coal striSs
manufacturers everywhere faced 'ns
possibility of getting no coal at o..
But i was problem tkey could 81
face together and fight together. Y
was a definite condition, and tes"
was eefnite enemy |, flgtt.
There is ample coal to-day being pre-
(Coneltsdsd on foloioing pas1
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

The place Of women who stand fifty
minutes in line to register before dis
covering they are in the wrong polling
place is the home
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

copyright 1920. New York Tribune Inc
Coal costs $3.75 ton at the mine.
This price includes the cost and profit
to the operator and all labor costs of
mining and cleaning and making the
product ready for the ultimate con-
sumer. Yet in July coal cost SIT ton
at Hampton Roads and $22 a ton in
New England. The basic reason has
been strikes, but strikes entirely out
side of the coal field
Chicago is built on millions of cubic
yards of sand and gravel There are
mountains of sand and square miles of
gravel where sand and gravel can be
had for few cents a cubic yard, with
and New York. Yet Chicago and New
York builders have to pay from $3.50
to IS cubic yard-~about twice what
coal costs at the mine for common
sand or gravel.
Outside Strikes
Bricks used to cost $40 a thousand.
But the price is s44 thousand in
New York and Chicago, where rents
keep climbing because of lack of con-
struction.
The basic cause in both these cases
is strikes-but strikes entirely outside
of the building field.
There are, because of the intricate
interrelat tion Of tho human bOd,, cor
tain vital nerve centers whose smallest
disruption may have an effect on the
whole human system out of all propor-
ton to the area seemingly affected.
A man familiar with anatomy can
by jabbing a needle into certain Of
these nerve centers, though he leave a
wound no bigger than a needle point,
paralyze some major function of the
body.
Just IS in the human body so in
our vast, intricate industrial organza-
ton there are many vital nerve centers
whose smallest disruption may have an
effect on our whole economic system
out Of all proportion to the area af-
fected.
And the skilled labor leader to-day,
intimately familiar with our economic
anatomy, has discovered that he can,
by striking at these nerve centers
though the disruption may not itself
appear on the surface to be big or i'm
portant, paralyze whole sections of our
economic BODY.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

Candor compels the admission that
the preceding paragraph was provoked
by the young Columbia student who
wasted fifty minutes Monday evening
thus. And when he was told to go
to another place of registration he was
astonished.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-06

dozen-would be on strike. but with.
out the hremcn, and particularly be.
cause none of the other men would
dare break union rules TO substitute as
frcmen, the trains could not be oper.
ated and the whole yard would become
hopelessly congested.
But as soon as the particular strike
and the actual results it was having
began to get the pubic's notice, the
men would 60 back to work and an
other specially busy freight yard Al,
some distant, entirely different point
would be selected. Here. except that
perhaps the brakemcn instead Of the
fremen would be called out, the whole
program would be exactly repeated.
A Sio,0 Paralysis
This strategy OF strikes Of cours.
did not keep freight from coming
through in large quantities. 1t was no.
intended that it should If freight had
been onspicuously held up at any one
time this would have aroused public
opinion to the real state cf affairs and
some definite solution might have been
found
Instead this policy was cunningly cal-
culated merely persistently partially
to paralyze traffic For persistently
partially paralyzing traffic meant per-
sistcnt partial starving Of industry
which is far more Furnishing and costly
to industry and so to the whole public
than any sudden stopping Of traffic
could be.
That this is true is conspicuously
evidenced by the fact that while the
production of coal was practically
stopped by the coal strike the price did
not go up more than few dollars
ton, the persistent partial starvation
Of the coal market over period OF
several months sent the price Of coal
that cost 1915 a ton at the mine to s22
a ton and up il New England.
There are two reasons why persistent
partial starvation is most Furnishing
and costly One is economic and the
other is psychological. Both these rss-
sons must be clearly understood be-
fore the ms sidious danger Of this new
type of strike strategy can pc really
appreciated.
1t is we'll known economic prlnci-
pie that shortage invariably s-vances
prices out of all proportion 20 the
actual amount of shortage.