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New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
(LYDE MAYER, president Of
~ the Student Council, foot
ball and baseball star, first
signey of the report

Eighteenth Amendment and made
useless the hinges on the swinging
doors Of the Dutch Kitchen, the
Senate. the College Inn. the Stag,
the Alhambra and other tlme-hoN-
ored and traGition-hallowed meet
ing places.
But where that had been but
treason this new state Of affairs
threatened sacrilege and heresy.
Think of masculine student calling
on co-eds, taking them to the
movies, going tobogganing Win
them. or trailing with them along
Forest Home Walk. Think OF
Cornell man turning into a fussirg
SNAKE, Think Of co-oeds winning
positions on publications Think Of
co-eds on The Sun board Think
Of co-eds at house parties IhInk
Of goods joining in student parades
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
A Union Link. Too

IF he would spy out a troop of
Federal men coming down the road
he would meet them with the utmost
cordiality and invite them in to dine
as he told them: My son-in-law,
Nathanlel G. Taylor, who married
my favorite daughter, Emmy, is now
in Washington, working side by side
with Abe Lincoln to foil secession
and uphold the unity Of the nation
and the Yanks fell for it and his
flocks and herds were untouched.
But if he saw nOndescript company
Of soldiers struggling up, whose uni
forms We're so tattered and travel
stained he could not determine to
which army they belonged. he would
dash out with even more impetuous
hospitality and exclaim: brothers,
welcome. Welcome to MY home, I'm
for free salvation. free navigation,
and, by Moses, I'm hell sumner.
And he would tell them so many
funny stories they would forget to
steal his sheep.
And it was from this willy old dip
lomat that Bob and Alf learned
statecraft.
Because they had twin sisters. Bob
and Alf, who We're near the same
age, were often thought to be twins,
also They were inseparable as
boys and young men and were sent
together to college at Pennington.
n. J. Although devoted 10 each
other in an extraordinary Damon
and Pythias brotherhood they were
always playing pranks on each
other. Alf was the more thorough
student and logical thinker, but Bob
had the gift of oratory. A. college
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
III RS. MAMIE LOVE TAYLOR qcido3c of Bob Taalor
- three times G0rer10r of TeNMessAe

and when he took his family to
Washington City from his ancestral
estate on the banks of the Watauga.
which is still known as Happy Val
ley. he also took along two or three
COWS ard crib full Of corn and a
score or 80 Of sacks Of corn meal, so
nat he might not miss his favorite
evening dish, corn meal nush and
cream. Besides these he likewise
t.ck With him all Of his traditional
in1t:lc.s Of Southern hospitality. and
ere evening, a. he was leaving the
House Of Representatives. ne met a
friend Senator from New York,
and invited him to supper with him
Assured by Nj. Taylors insistent
and cordial hospitality, the Senator
overca.nc his own metropolitan
serurles Of formality and went.
Supper was served early because
there was q brood of little Taylors
who We're being drilled in Ben
Franklin's theory Of early to bed.
Without any apologies whatever the
Senator was seated between two
chubby youngsters, at table on
which nothing could be seen but an
immense plate OF golden butter. an
enormous pitcher Of cream and a
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
A Serious Question

The Sun was deadly in earnest IL
its analysis Of the problem, which is
a. Cornell by no means an inconse-
quontial one so far as talk goes. The
Sun took the attitude that the whole
rumpus about co-education was
little tempest in the teapot which
had "blown the lid out, much to the
disgust Of right-minded persons"
This was far TOO mild for The
Critic, which demanded an apology
in blackface and italics. Diatribc,
protest, reputation, sarcasm-all
and more we're the weapons Of The
Critic, which called 10 the com
mittee:
con, you big strong men, pre-
serve unsullied your virgin nlascu
Unity
The co-eds themselves have main
tanned dgnifed silence.
The question is an old one. Back
in 1873 Cornell's trustees accepted
not inconsiderable gift for those
times from the Hon. Henry W. Sage
on the condition that instruction
shall be afforded to young women
as broad and as thorough as that
now afforded to young men, The
acceptance Of that gift had the
full ard hearty approval of Ezra
Cornell and Andrew Dickson White.
founder and first president Of the
university In the words of acting
President Albert W. Smith, '78, "it
follows that Cornell by contract
and by the ideals Of It's founders is
committed to co-education.
At first Cornell had but few
women students, and those there
mainly for graduate work. Some
how or other-there are dozens Of
reasons variously assigned to it--a
bitter and for long time unrelent-
ing prejudice took root against CO.
eds, or "fossies," as they were then
+ called.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

in November broke the
solid South, has had gubernatorial
aspirations for nearly forty years.
In 1856 Governor-e ct Tavlor.
then known as Alf. and his brother.
? Robert Love Taylor, afectionately
termed Bob by the entire South.
ran against each other for Governor
Of Tennessee. All on the Republican
ticket and Bob en- the Democratic
ticket. AS Tennessee at that time
Was overwhelmingly Democratic,
there was no hope for the Republi
can brother, and their mother. who
had been remarkable comrade and
adviser TO her sons, urge1 .Alf. not
20 accept the nomination, fearing
that jealousies would ariso between
the two. When he did accept it.
against her wishes, she took to her
bed and declared that It was the only
lime in his life that Alf had ever
disobeyed her
Hearing Of her illness, 9Th broth
ers dropped their electioneering and
FASTENED TO her bedside. She was
lying on big four poster mahogany
he'd with colonial conso table on
either side. On one table was an
immense vase of blood-red roses, on
the other q vase of equal size filled
with roses of snowy whiteness. She
made these two grown sons. then
thirty years of age, kneel down be
side her bed. From one vase she
took rcd rose and pinned it on
ATS lapel On Bob's coat she pinned
the white rose, and there by her bed
side she made them swear to her
that there would be no strife be
tween the two.
Thus the campaign became known
as the War OF the Roses, and was
one Ct the unique political bat
lies in the history Of the nation. Al
that time the white rose triumphed,
Bob Taylor being elected three times
Governor Of his state, and later to
the United States Senate, where he
lied in 1912. The election Of 1920
marks the ascendancy CT tie red
rcSp
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

-enitentiary for stealing a chicken
or ham had only TO come befose
The Governor and tell how hungry
hey were when they committed .he
theft and weep a little to be imme-
diately pardoned. One old negro
nanny came TO him one day and
said:
"Oh, Marse Bob, please let MY
John Hennery what stole that pig
come home. Amt YOU all done keo'
him in jail long encdgh9"
And why. Aunt Hannah said
the Governor, should I let your
John Hennery come home?"
Case, Marse Bob" said Aunt
Hannah, I'VE all done plumb out o
meat agin."
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Bob TAYLOR " ould

A story IS told Of a drunken, par
doned ex-convict who wandered into
an evangelistic revival in Tennessee
one cold winter nigh. and sat down
in the warmth of The church and
vent to sleep He was awakened by
good sister Of the congregation
shaking him by the shoulder and say
ing:
"Oh, my brother, come out on the
Lords side. God will pardon your
SINS
In his half awakened, dazed state,
he rubbed his eyes and said:
well, if he don't, Bob Taylor will,
ard I'm fer the Demmycrats, any
way
1t was Bob Taylor who made the
historic remark, "Have two seats,
Mr. Gaines" John Wesley Gaines,
a tall. lank figure, wandered one
day into the Tennessee State Capitol
long before he had become known az
a Congressional possibility. He had
grandiloquent, pompous manner
with which he sought TO impress the
/ Governor.
Il am John Wesley Gaines he
said with orotund deliberation.
Have seat, Mr.. Gaines,' Sad
: Governor Taylor. But Mr.. Gaines
had not finished; he was still stand
ing
Il ana the son-in-law Of judge"
- The Governor did not let him
finish.
"Ah" he said, have two seats,
Mr. Gaines." and his ironical re
mark followed John Wesley Gaines
throughout his political career.
which was not long.
Bob Taylor also married very
young. His first wife was Miss Sarah
Baird, neice Of Senator Zeb Vance.
Of North Carolina; and to them were
born FIVE children. His second was
nis cousin, Miss Mamie Love St.
John, who survived him and is now
living in Washington, D. {.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Laughed AWAY

Now It's all been laughed away,
largely because Of The Cornell
Mourning Male, which appeared
when the argument was at its
height.
By what sovereign rights do the
male undergraduate preempt their
proud pogitions?" asked The Mourn
ing Male in profound seriousness
Suppose female should prove her
elf capable Of running the hundred
II 9:03, should the fact that she is a
woman, although fast, debar her
from the track tean?"
And Why should not goods sing
Cornell songs on New York ferry
Doat, one Of the crimes charged
against them? The Mourning Male
believed that TO have been fire
demonstration.
Think of the thousands Of people
~ho have crossed the North River
IN ferryboats and never heard a
Cornell sorg," II pointed out.
The Mourning Male, published By
members Of the Cornell chapter o.
sigrna Delta Chi, the journalistic
fraternity, followed closely on a
yosuminoas ard academic debate In
the eos1rns Of Tire Cornell Daily
sun. the student newspaper. and an
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
The Trouble Breaks

Sentiment Of this kind has been
growing for so years. and
THANKSGIVING Day, when students
were hearing returns of the Cor
nell-Pern game in Bailey Hall. the
frs storm came. A picture of Sage
College, a woman's dormitory. was
hisscd. References to co-eds in q
college song were Kissed
It brought rebuke from Presi-
cent Smith, who said that any man
has. Of course, right to his own
opinion Of co-education. but ~
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

Day the pent-up feelings OF
years Of antagonism nurtured by a
few men students gave vent to
demonstration against co-eds at an
athletic rally. Two days later 4
lengthy report signed by nine seniors
declared co-education to be fiat
failure and asked not merely that
the number Of women students a..
Cornell be limited but also that
those in attendance be segregated
from the men students, ultimately to
be put into d college Of their own.
Women students found immediate
and vehement defenders. For sew
eral days co-education and coeds
were heatedly discussed. The college
press devoted columns to it. Stu
dents, men and women, argued it
vigorously; professors had their
words at it; alumni and strangers
chirned in; even the head Of the uni
yersity issued a statement.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
A Storm of " eeping

When Mrs. Taylor would tell this
part of her story she would always
laugh deliciously at the histrion.c
effort made in this theatric scene
and would continues
knowing fun well that I would
not weep alone, soon heard BIB
and Alf shifting behind me, then
Jim and Nat, little older, swelled
the chorus, and my two little girls,
mere infants, seeing their mother
weeping in this strange, big house,
broke into an audible wall
Needless to say that Landon c.
Haynes was pardoned with speed
and alacrity.
During Bob Taylor's long Cover
norship, serving three terms, as Re
did, he became known as the ~par-
doning Governor" because he either
remitted entirely or shortened TIE
sentence for SO many petty crimes.
Negroes who had been sent to the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Bob, Champion Of the White Flower,
Did Not Live Long Enough
to See Rivals S Success

tress. She had a quaint sepse of
humor that made her refuse to &C
cept the solemn provincialities Of
her unusually large set Of relatives,
and she enjoyed very much shocking
them with her clever, daring
speeches. Just after the Civil War
her brother, Landon c. Haynes, was
one Of the treasonable rebels who
had to be pardoned by the Federal
government, he having taken such
an active part in the affairs Of he
Confederacy. The securing Of tsis
pardon Mrs. Taylor, mother OF the
present Governor-elect, undertook
herself, going all the way from East
Tennessee to Washington by stage
with six of her small children. Many
times during her later life she
would rehearse this scene fer he
delectation Of her adoring grand
children and greatuieces.
Before went 10 tie Waite
House I dressed myself in a tight
fitting Black velvet gown with a lonc
train she would say. L wore pen
dent cameo earrings and big cameo
brooch. The best hairdresser in
Washington had done my hair. All
dressed up in their frilled white
cambric waists and little black vel
vet trousers, trooping at my heels,
came jim, Nat, Bob and Alf and
following them my twin girls =
Rhoda, as fair and blue-eyed as a
Saxon princess, and Eva, with ra-
ven hair and eyes as flashing and
black as Pocahontas. President
Johnson arose to receive ne and
drew a magnificent chair for me t
sit beside him. but instead Of tina.
fell on my knees and implored my
bsother's pardon, and as. I knel.
great tears splashed from my eye.
on the White House floor"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
IL, Brothers. Ora.io,l

When Bob began rolling out his
orotund phrases and polished PER-
DDS. AT sat up in amazement. nis
eyes almost starting out. lob was
delivering the speech he himself had
written with so much care. and Bob
got the medal. When taken to task
about it Bob said:
"Simply a matter Of conservation.
1t was too good a product to be
wasted. Nobody would ever have
known there was anything to it if
Alf had said it!
Alf Taylor, present Governor-elect
Of Tennessee, represented his dis
trict in Congress twice, the Fifty
first and Fifty-third Congresses,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
ny Years the Red Rose Triumphs in Tennessee

lumlnations. Tall white candles were
set IN Democratic windows and red
tissue paper shades We're made for
Republican candles, while nightly
torch parades and rallies were held
IN the streets. If the paraders
passed an illumined house thew
would go in and demand that the
politics be declared in open candle
light.
Although the brothers made the
most singing partisan speeches on
the platform and teased each other
with every sort Of jibe and ridicule,
both being ready at repartee, once
out of the public eye they were al
ways afectionate, devoted comrades.
laughing at the wordy tlts in which
they had just INDUCED.
Union Of North and South
The Taylor brothers were the sons
Of Nathaniel G. Taylor, Republican
Congressman from Tennessee during
the Civil War. and of Emma Haynes.
sister Of Landon Garter Haynes. a
member of Jefferson Davis's Cabinet
and an orator whose orations became
the speeches of every schoolboy in
the South in the '7Os and sos. Edna
Haynes, another sister, married John
Harris, whose son, Nat VI. Harris,
was elected Governor of Georgia in
1915, Ex-Governor Harris being the
first cousin of Governors elect Taylor
of Tennessee.
The political syn,pathies of the
Taylor children became divided early
between the mothers Democratic
people and the fathers Republican
relatives, and the family of ten chill
dren was about evenly lined up with
the two parties.
When Bob and Alf were very small
boys, during the Civil War, they
lived for time with their maternal
grandfather, David Haynes, known
as King David from his vast acres
and imperious manner. King David
was also q politician and saved his
kingdom in Happy Valley, Carter
County, Tenn, from the ravages OF
foraging bands OF soldiers by his
diplomatic measures.
MANY a time said Governor Bob
Taylor, Il have seen my grandfather
stand as straight and stately as q
tall pine between the pillars of his
Colonial mansion on the banks Of
the beautiful Watauga River and
scan, with his eagle eye, the river
road up and down Ike a sentry. If
he saw band Of Confederate cav
airy dashing up the road he would
rush out, overwhelm them with his
hospitality, saying, Boys. my son.
Landon c. Haynes, is working With
JEFF Davis to try to save the country
from the damned Yankees And so
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
X ouId ak Sense

White. in The Sun, which IS Il
largest college daily in the country
and wieids a powerful influence
he university, supported the pro
posal . limit the number Of un Ter
zrad5ates. 4 cause which he has ao-
vocated ali year. The question Of
segregation, however, he said. is
sufficiently remote TO be almost i'm
perceptibie on the horizon. He
proposed % "let the mud settle from
the stream and tne. ~, sense.
And that's about what the whole
thing will amount to. And three or
four years from now, after things
have been cooped up q while, there1l
&c another undergraduate cat&clysm
perhaps a football team that can
beat Pennsylvania, or a protest
against knickerbockers or a demand
that the totem pole be turned
around, or something equally mo-
mentous. Undergraduates must have
something 10 do in their off hours.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
A Rush of Colds

Recently, however, goods have
been coming to Cornell in far great
er numbers and greatly enhanced
pulchritudc. This ranked the jcal-
ous nale, who Ianented with much
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Students Cornell Say Girls ne Schools Athletic Standing

acrimonious attack on the report Of
the nine seniors in The Critic, a
nce-in-a-while publication OF the
"agin-the- government" type.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

they were both contending for an
oratoricaI medal. Alf wrote his
speech With great care and put much
time on the revising and polishing Of
it, but Bob, although urged to pre-
pare his Grafton, pu- it of in his
happy-go-lucl<y manner. but man-
aged to be put on the program ahead
Of his hrot hnr.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Mother a Remarkable Woman

The motherso OF the Taylor brothers
was a very remarkable woman. She
had the tall, willowy figure, the per-
sonality and the manner of Sarah
Bernhardt, and in her latter years
looked very much Ike the great ac-
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
e B. WHITE, editor in chief
1' Of The Cornell Daily Sun,
4rho odrised less noise and more
sense

Think of co-eds singing Cornell
songs on New York ferryboat
Think Of co-eds having the colossal
nerve to ask Why trey can't enter
an athletic managership compc-
A......
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

the hungry Johnny Rebs took what
he gave them aud left his smoke
house and granary unmolested
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

p OBERT LOVE TAY-
LOR, nor dead, 7cho &C.
feated his brother for Cor
e5mor IN the days 2chen the
state 7CGs dIlcays Democratic
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

Collum. '21 A. S. Duncan, '21, and
D. ". Jewctt. '21. Each o. the men
is prominent in son.e form of under
gra4aate activity.
Co-edacation is fiat failure. is
the conclusion Of the report. reached
early in the discussion. "Co-educa
ton is not indigenous to the Eas,
ard it is idle 10 point 70 a Western
Institution ard say that co-educa-
tor works there. Il il did it would
not concern US. But the fact is. il
does not work there or anywhere
else nor will It. It has no defense
Any attempt to Justify it degener-
ates into an apology. No attempt
vas eyer made to defend it on peda-
goeic or scientific grounds. Il was
an accident Il is cheap, and there
fore accepted where chcapness and
oxpediency hold sway. In fairness
to women in search Of higher educa-
ton, and in fairness to men, it
should be and in due time will be
abolished. Women should be pro-
vided with proper schools Of their
own and not dragged through a CO.
educational process. 1t has abso-
lutely no association with women's
rights, as some small minds are in
clined 10 think. II should properly
be associated with wonen's wrongs.
Or more clearly, wrongs to women I"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

mammoth platter Of hot. steaming
corn meal mush.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

second, an indiscriminate hashine
over OF issues on the part Of both
men and women.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Bob Taylor and His Brother Alf
Were the Leaders Of the
Opposing Parties

RED ALEXANDER
~ TAYLOR, whose election
as Governor Of Tennessee
in November broke the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-12

CORNELL UNIVERSITY has
just emerged from the throes
Of a coed war. Thanksgiving
Day the pent-up feelings Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-10-23

such large forces. not to mention
ammunition and other supplies.
And to get the sinews OF war
where they are wanted when they
are wanted, the motor truck Is a
prime necessity. The French wish
to encourage the use OF motor trucks
by their business men and houses. so
when the next war comes along they
will have an ample reserve of trucks
for transport purposes. To accom-
plish this end an agitation Is now
going on in Paris and throughout the
provinces to subsidize all motor
trucks. or at least free them from all
taxes and 'imposts. which will be a
mild form of subsidy. Such action is
,calcuI tied to stimulate the use OF
trucks.
THE sponsors of this idea see no
great difference between subsidizing
a motor truck which will be taken
over in time Of emergency and sub
sidizing an ocean steamship line,
which also will be taken over in
emergency. In both cases the subsidy
ia granted and afford means OF dis
tributing goods With your own ma
tionals, and, of course. enable the
government to count on ready re-
serve in. time of emergency. fleet
Of trucks on the good roads OF France.
or. with Hanged wheels attached, on
the railroads Of France, would be OF
incalculable assistance to the French
army"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-10-23
NEW TYPES Of CARS
FEATURE OF SHOWS
Models From Across Seas Will
Vie With American
Product.

Interest In the 1920 Automobile
Salon. TO be held at the Commodore.
New York. November 14-2i. and at
the New Drake In Chicago the last
week OF January. promises TO be
largely divided between the new cars,
either making their salon debut or
returning after an absence OF sew
eral years. and the new types and
styles OF custom built bodies.
American high-grsde motor cars TO
appear for the nrst time include
Packard and Winton. newcomer
from across the sea Is the Manchester
OF England. one OF the highest priced
chassis on the market. The Napier
will be at the 1920 salon after ten
year absence. This English car ng-
ured prominently In the ormond-Dsy-
tona Beach racing OF 1908 and 1904
Panhard. of France, another former
ch ampion in international racing, and
winner Of the first Vanderbilt Cup
race, also returns to the salon after a
long absence. as does the Minerva.
of Belgium. The complete list of
makes appearing at this years salon
are: Brewster, Collins, Cunningham
Daniels, Delsxe, Manchester, Lancia,
Locomobile, Meteor. Minerva, Napier.
Packard, Panhard. Pierce-Arrow, Por-
ter, Renault, Rolls-Royce, Sunbeam
and Winton. Custom body builders
having separate exhibits are Brooks
Ostruk, Fleetwood. Healey. Holbrook,
c. p, KimbalI. Locke. Leon Rubay and
United.
As, heretofore, the custom built
bodies, OF which over 100 viii be
shown with no two alike. are certain
to arouse great interest Types VIII
include two and four passenger road
sters of several types, touring cars
sedans and other inclosed drive mod
els, broughams, with town car type
predominating. limousines and Ian
daulets, individually and in combina
tons. couDes. cabriolets, etc. In each
case there are many variations oil
designs, which differ to such an ex
tent that nearly a score OF new
names have been coined, such as
! marine roadster. suburban Limousine
boulevard landaulet. etc. %"
Tho latest ideas and designs in up
| holstering. in fittings and In equip
ment, including accessories, will BE-
found on the various cars exhibited
The new trend in finish. including the
employment of various harmonizinG
colors in combinations, and stripingi
in gold and white, will also be dis
closed by the forthcoming automobile
| salon., -, w..