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New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
The Home Run Addict

We. have no thought of rejecting
upon the Hon. Babe" Ruth, to whom
be more and longer swats with every
warming, limbering day. 1t is home
runs as a vice in the world at large,
as metaphor for what is technical
ly known as busting up the game"
that we attack.
Everybody is doing it, has been
doing it for going on six years now.
Time was, to return to our metaphor,
when it was considered heroic and
satisfying to beat out a slow
grounder or lay a scientific single
in short center, or even bunt. But
who dreams of bunting now! You
can't get in the news at vail with
any such small-town stuff.
The front page tells the story.
The war that has never stopped
makes the page with a new spring
drive. So does the daily batch of
strikes. So does the campaign, state
by state, hour by hour, candidate by
candidate-a sort Of political big
league season, wherein visiting
teams whale the life out of favorite
home teams or vice versa-and all
Is din and roofing and swat. A
mere box score Of the days news
demands columns of space and all
the type in the shop.
Tighter fielding, better pitching
and more headwork are the real
needs of the hour, we respectfully
submit. So long as the bleachers
insist upon home runs there will be
home runs-and the game will be
busted up day by day. But there
is such a thing as science, and it is
really more fun than slugging, even
if not quite as exciting. Will some
body please resurrect this forgotten
method Of playing the game?
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
The Primary Change
Independent Candidacy
Made Difficult

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; The public is asleep. The Leri.
lature has just passed a law requirn,
all party nominations to be voted ip,
at a general election of all the votsn
of the state, and nominations of card.
dates for the Office of justice Of Ii,
Supreme Court shall be made BY psrty
convention. In other words, the pr.
mary law is killed. To deaden the stns
the law provides: "a petition for tAs
designation of candidates for delegate.
to state or judicial districe conventior
may state the preference of the pet.
TONERS for a candidate or candidates iw
one or more of the offices to be nOni
mated at. such convention"
There are nine Supreme Court jus
tees to be elected this year. Some Of
the gentlemen who may be nominated a
succeed themselves by reason Of thsi
party strength are not best fitted to n
justices of the Supreme Court. II :
were left to the members of the bar thG
would retire these men to private Ii.
and not permit them TO sacrifice then
selves in the cause of public duty.
Under the present system it Is ssE
to put an Independent party canddss
into the field. Under the new laws .
will be necessary to obtain delegates !;
every Assembly district committee Il
advance TO a particular candidate, re
gardless of the convention nominees wa
will only loom up in the party CONVEX
ton. What a job-the work can N
compared to a Presidential campsigr
The amount of money and advertising
required is enough to kill any attsnF'
to undertake a primary fight for s
state or Supreme Court judicial Office
So radical a change in our election
laws warrants a public discussion sDd
hearing. Where are our bar COMMITTEES
have they formed an opinion on tbs
subject? What do people think? Let H
have light and plenty of thought on tn'
subject before the Governor passes %
this legislation.
ISADORE MONTEFIORE LEVY.
New York, May 3, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
Short Circuited Logic for Law.

Responsibility for the continued
exclusion of women from the Co.
lumbia Law School is not an easy
thing to locate.
President Butler declares he Is in
favor Of admitting women to the
Law School, as they are already ad-
mitted to all the other graduate and
professional schools of the univer-
sity. The trustees, it is understood,
are of the same opinion. But the
law faculty stands in the way. 81
have talked with them in vain," says
DR.. Butler-apparently assuming
that to do more than talk would be
out of the question.
The law faculty shifts the bur-
den to the students. "If women
were admitted to the Law School,
thus runs the faculty's argument
"the best Of the men that now come
to us would seek their legal educa-
tion elsewhere, and the school would
suffer a net loss of tuition fees"
The students have the courage of
their prejudice. They say, at least
some Of them say, that they don't
want the women in their school.
But do they 60 far enough? To
live up to the faculty's notion they
ought to be saying that if the women
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
wages several times larger than
those paid to soldiers.

wages several times larger than
those paid to soldiers.
In the same way the Administra-
ton resorted too freely to borrowing
in lieu Of taxation. Patriotism led
millions of Americans to subscribe
to Liberty bonds which were not
worth their face value. The Treas
ury thereby saved something in in
terest. But at the same time it de-
stroyed its own bond market and is
now precluded from offering bonds
except at an interest rate which will
still further prejudice the outstand-
ing issues.
Since the armistice the Treasury
has been living by means of short
loan conversions. Yet last Decem-
ber it transmitted to Congress stag
gering estimates Of expenditure.
Congress is trying to reduce them
by $1,250,000,0O0 in order to bring
them within hailing distance of the
governments prospective income.
The Administration has thus merely
aggravated its war finance blunders.
In Professor Hollander's opinion
defation will necessarily be slow.
But it can be begun hopefully by
Federal retrenchment, a refusal to
create more debt and more credit,
the maintenance, perhaps the in
crease, Of taxation, the liquidation
Of the floating debt and the amorti-
zation Of at least a portion of the
funded debt. Government defation
must precede general defation.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04

come in the men will 60 out, or at
least would cease to come in. Do
they say it? The Law Student
Monthly, the students organ, says:
"There is very practical reason
against such admittance; namely,
that the school is already crowded
with the number of men students,
and that the enrolment next year
will be even larger than this"
How is this? The faculty says
that the admittance of women would
result in depletion of the student
body; the students say that it would
result in overcrowding. The stu
dents argument and the faculty's
argument don't look well side by
side.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
Larkin's Principles

"1'm going to prison." said James
j. Larkin, the well-known alien revo-
lutionary agitator, after sentence had
been imposed on him, "for prin-
ciple which even death cannot make
me give up"
The principle to which he referred
is the crime which is defined in
Article Ia of the New York Penal
Code. This crime consists in advo-
eating "the duty, necessity or pro-
priety of overthrowing or overturn-
ing organized government by force
or violence" That Larkin had done
this he made no serious attempt to
deny. His defense was equivalent to
confession, as was his declaration
subsequent to conviction. He had
come here from a foreign country
and while a visitor here urged the
overthrow of our government by
force and violence.
The use of such force and violence,
of course, implies murder if any
dare resist. Larkin, at the earliest
possible moment he could induce
enough to join him to give the enter
prise a chance of success, was for
launching it. He proposed the
multiple murder of all who did not
accept his mastery and that of his
group. This is the "principle" to
which Larkin is devoted Look at
it nakedly and judge whether it can
be excused or condoned in a country
whose laws freely permit govern
mental change when the promoters
Of change are able to command a
majority by persuasion.
Larkin's apologists will doubtless
assert he has been condemned for
exercising the right of free speech.
This will be a falsehood. He is an
enemy of free speech. His doctrines
make him such. Under a regime of
force and violence free speech can
not exist.
Penal codes for the most part con-
sist of the definition of crimes
against individuals-are for the pro-
lection of human beings in their
lives and property. But steadily the
idea makes progress that the most
heinous and dangerous crimes are
those which are committed against
society as a whole. Successful COM
mission of these means murder by
platoons, by regiments, sometimes
by millions, as in Russia to-day.
The disorganizer who uses force and
violence to achieve his ends is an
outlaw anti-socialist-is beast who
must be chained.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
A Favor for a Veteran

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you please allow me to ask
a favor? / am an old man, eighty-six
years old. I was born in Delaware
County, N. Y. would like to revisit
my birthplace before die.
l would like to have some good. true
reliable, dependable person meet me in
New York as soon as l arrive on the
Mallory Line from this port. If | con-
clude to go by sea on that line I would
start from here in about thirty days.
l have stopped several times overnight
at the Mills Lodging House and felt
safe there. From New York City I go
to Schenevus from Albany. And then by
stage over the hill five miles to Fer
gusonville, the end of my route.
Surely you can refer me to some kind
Christian person who delights to per-
form kind and useful deeds to do this
for veteran of the Civil War, 1s61-'65.
GEO. w. COPLEY.
P. o. Box $40, Galveston, Tex, April
%, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
Another Defender of Brats
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Just a few more remarks re-
garding street skating, "Brats" and
Street Nuisances," as the Lime Juicers
call these street kids Where are
these kids to skate? If in the middle
of the street. the cops chase them on
the sidewalks, so they are where the
law says they should be.
l am a middle aged bachelor. but
still like to see our boys and girls have
all the fun they can get out Of their
young lives. I never had much in mine.
and am glad to say that kids have run
into me and I have always sent them
away laughing, and not frightened at a
stranger.
Sorry 1 took UP too much Of your
time and space, but I have been a
subscriber for eight months and I
like your paper more every day. This
stuff makes me swear by it, too
A. COB. U. s. N.
New York. Aprir so, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
MIR. Colby's Issue

"His envious detractors, like raven
ing wolves, have bounded him inces-
sanity by day and by night"
tary of State Bainbridge Colby at the
Press Club dinner.
The obvious facts are that the
political opponents of the President
and the whole country have been
conspicuously patient and restrained
through a period of Presidential dis
ability that has strained the institu-
tons and the spirit of the American
people to the breaking point.
That period still continues. 1t is
the fate of the American nation to
face a year of world chaos and do
mestic confusion under a President
handicapped by a grave illness, the
status of which has been from the
start enveloped in deceit and secrecy
and the present and future conse-
quences of which are beyond the pos
sibility of public estimate.
In the circumstances, the vituper-
ations of Mr.. Colby raise an is
sue which the remaining adherents
of the President can i'll afford to
submit to public debate. 1t is
not question of petty personalities,
whether of rancorous attack or idol
atrous defense. 1t is question Of
one hundred millions of people who
are entitled to a President.
1t would be difficult to compress
into one speech greater misconcep-
tions of official obligation and pub
lie fact. 1t amply justifes the dis
appointment which the country felt
at the selection of Mr.. Colby, and
confirms the view Of that episode as
evidence of the continuing threat to
the national welfare which the exist
ing Presidential situation holds.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
What II Means
By Frank H. Sin,onds

agreement that Germany could obtain
from her conquerors very real and very
great concessions, provided only she
displayed the smallest evidence of any
willingness to accept the decision of
the war, to abandon her old leaders and
her old policies. But if the world un-
deniably feels less bitter toward the
German people to-day than it did a
year ago or two years ago, it does not
feel more kindly toward the military
leaders of the Junker policy. And pre-
cisely these elements and these policies
retain ascendancy in Germany, as wit
messed by recent events. The republic
remains the willing or the unwilling
prisoner, it hardly matters much which,
of the military element.
The British agitation to modify the
treaty has resulted, not in any con-
comitant modification of German spirit.
but in q rebirth of the old spirit. The
more the Manchester school has de-
nounced the treaty, the more the Lu-
dendorffs have gained in assurance.
Manchester has, in fact, and not for
the first time in its history, played the
role which John Randolph once de-
scribed in our own politics as the al
lance between the Puritan and the
"Blackbag," although in this case it
has been the partnership between the
pacifist and the Prussian.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
Unionism Us. Art
The Cleavage Betwcen Creators and
DcShovers
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: The writer lately attended a
meeting Of the Architectural League,
at which was discussed the subject of
the proposed draftsmen's union. For
the information Of those who do not
know, it may be stated that there is
movement to enroll all architects and
engineers craftsmen in a union affili-
ated with the American Federation of
Labor.
1t soon became clear that there are
two classes of craftsmen. One of
them wishes to unionize; the other
would rather give up the profession
than belong to trade union.
The objects of the first class were
succinctly stated by delegate among
those present. They not only want
higher pay and better social conditions
they want to run things. They want
every member of the office force to
have a voice in running the business
and to share in the profits.
The second class want nothing of
the kind. They are architects or en-
gineers in the making. They see the
absurdlty of such a state of things, and
as each one of them hopes to have an
Office of his own he will not counte.
nance system which he knows would
deprive him of the stimulus of orig
inal work when he gets into practice
for himself. 1t would kill architecture
as an art. Art is always personal and
cannot be standardized.
The first class contains those who,
lacking that combination of originality.
enterprise, personal force and organiz-
ing power that go to make a successful
archltect-or a successful man in most
lines, for that matter-and seeing the
boss make his success, envy him and
think they could do just as we'll if they
only had the chance They are quite
blind to the qualities behind the sue
cess and have neither ability'to see nor
honesty to admit their own limitations.
and, like vast numbers of others in
Russia and other countries, they desire
to reap the fruits of others labors.
to possess and control enterprises that
they never could have initiated nor
carried through, and which, if they do
control, they inevitably ruin. This
class of craftsmen seems to be, on ell
the evidence, in the majority, and pro-
poses by the weight of numbers and
the backing of labor unions to impose
ITS will on the constructive art of the
nation and level it down to union stand.
ards.
great line of cleavage becomes
clearer every day the world over. 1t
| Is between those who create and those
who create not or would destroy; be-
tween those with the urge of magma
tlon, whether in art or business. and
the Joy of work, and those with no ioy
In their own work who would degrade
the work of others. And it is time for
US to recognize the cleavage and for
those classes who by their foresight,
courage and persistence have built IN
civilization, whether they be profes-
slonal or business men or the .anor
and constructive minded amonp the
manual workers, to form their plan of
campaign to preserve civilization, to get
together in one big union of all those
who can create in defense against those
who would only destroy.
HAROLD A. CAPARN.
New York, April %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
Another Treaty Enemy

The statement of Chairman Cum
mings Of the Democratic National
Committee concerning the Knox
peace resolution is marked by par
tisanship of a shallow and extreme
kind. AS such it contributes not at
all to the end Mr.. Cummings asserts
he has in view.
At no time since the negotiation
of the Versailles Treaty has it been
possible to have settlement unless
it was non-partisan or bipartisan.
For treaty purposes no party has
had majority. Hence no party
could put through a program. It
has been essential to have support
from men of different party labels.
Mr.. Lodge and the Republicans
who favored his reservations consti-
tute the largest single group in the
Senate, but they did not muster the
two-thirds necessary to ratification
They are not even q majority of the
Senate. Many have assumed that
Senator Lodge was master of the
situation-have complained because
he did not ratify. He couldn't. He
has lacked the power.
Nor will the Knox resolution,
even though it passes the Senate,
mean a settlement. The President,
as is his admitted right, will prob
ably veto the resolution. To disre-
gard his veto once more a two-thirds
vote is required. A two-thirds cote
caaa be provided by no party alone.
Mr.. Cummings ignores the pri-
mary fact of the situation. He says
not a word in favor of compromise
or combination. On the contrary,
his tone is such as to add to the diff
ticulties of getting together. He pre-
tends to think it is dishonorable for
this country not to act on the treaty.
Yet he uses his influence to perpetu-
ate the alleged dishonor. What
must be thought?
Mr.. Cummings knows as we'll as
any one that no party is likely to
have two-thirds of the Senate as a
result of the November election, and
that even if by miracle any party
should gain such preponderance its
power would not come into effective
existence until after March a next.
To postpone action for a year means
postponement forever.
Any one who does not favor a COM
promise and contributes a non-par-
tisan or bipartisan solution Is not,
whatever he may say, a friend of
ratification. Mr.. Cummings must be
aware in what list he places him
self. He marches with the enemies
of ratification and has no higher
apparent purpose than to use the
treaty dispute for a partisan
purpose.
The treaty has been so bedeviled
by those who have upheld the Presi-
dent In his stubborn unreason that
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
Thrift for the Rich

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Society in general is suHerns
more from the high cost of necessars'
than from an inability 70 purehs"
luxuries. We are told by those WIZ
have studied this condition that il j
caused by the law of supply and Cs'
mand-that there is not enough pr
duction of necessities-houses, l00O'
staple clothing and the like--to perm
reducing the price appreciably pew
its present almost prohibit.ve h''"
This being the case. it looks impe'
tive to cease for time the produeu'D
Of all articles not strictly necessary !"
the well being of society and to di''i,
that labor to producing the gooa' V
which there is such a shortage.
We must grant the truth OF y'.,
correspondents proposition thss "
cease buying luxuries would woFs
most decided hardship to the sellers '
luxuries, but we cannot admit thsl ~
mere circulation of money. when 'asl, ~
is such deplorable lack Of the 'aiHe.
for which ws must exchange our m0"'.
n order to live, is god economies "
even good common sense.
Thrift is just as good thing fol =
rich as it is for the poor; ana ~.
ever proud we may be Of our 09's
handed money aristocracy, the pfss'
time, when both lower and middle s'
are crying for more production IN 'h'-
lines, is iil-chosen for the eneou's.;
ment of purely ornamental and p''''
cally useless industries.
LOWER-MIDDLE CLASS
New York. April 50, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
The Mood of the World

On the subject OF the necessity to
help to restore the economic life of
Germany there is no wide difference
OF opinion anywhere in the world. The
French, quite as much as the British
would be glad to see Germany going
back to normal life with the same
promptltude which France DISPLAYED
after 1870. Germany, complying with
the terms of the Treaty of Versailles
as loyalty as the French complied with
those Of the Treaty of Frankfort, would
be for the French the most pleasing of
all possible prospects.
But the difficulty has been and re-
mains that Germany has not accented
the Treaty of Versailles; instead. from
the outset, she has adopted a policy
which varies between passive resistance
and open defiance. Conceded that there
are portions of the treaty which are
pnenforceable, it is not less true that
there are portions which the whole
world agrees should be enforced. But
1t Is precisely these provisions which
the world believes should be ann,,ed
that the Germans are most eagerly
seeking to evade, particularly the dis
armament clauses.
The mood of the world Ia ouita d,f.
ferent from the prevailing sentimsrt
OF 1913. 1t is q matter Of common
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04

BY what authority does the De-
partment of Justice maintain an Of
flee building Jail where it secretly
confines prisoners? The public will
impatiently wait for a satisfying
explanation.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04

its prospects are not good under any
circumstances. The net result Of
the Cummings declaration is further
to lessen the probabilities of rati-
fication.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04
The Keynes Selfshness

1t is mistake to associate this Man
chester school with Bxitish sentiment
as a whole, to believe That the British
nation as unit has embraced the sell
tishness which has been expressed. by
Keynes and the rest Of them, selfish
ness which is expressed in the idea
that Germany must be saved if it takes
the last French franc and no modest
portion of the American dollars re-
naming available. On the contrary.
very earnest and honest voices have
been raised in Britain against this
policy and not few Englishmen have
appreciated the peril such a course had
for British reputation in the world.
Lloyd George at San Reno has at least
taken note of this British opposition
and has returned to the logical and in
evitable basis of requiring Germany to
take the first step and give the first
evidence of good faith, of real inten-
tlon to perform within the limits of
possibility. If this policy endures the
Anglo-French entente will survive and
Germany will find economic health. Anv
other policy is foredooned to failure
because the French, having due regard
alike for their own security and SOL
vency, will, as they can, block all at
tempts to restore a defiant Germany
at their expense in the present and to
their deadly peril in the future.
Copyright, 1920, Mcclure Newspape@
New-York tribune., 1920-05-04

In SO far as the results of the San
Reno conference are accurately dis
closed in the formal statements which
have been issued by the participants,
this gathering represents q complete
reverse for that fraction of the British
public press and public men which has
undertaken to establish the principle
that the Treaty Of Versailles must be
"scrapped" as the first step toward i'm
proving international relations and that
in place of making Germany pay any
thing, France, Poland and the United
States should be compelled or invited
to pay the costs of the rehabilitation
of Germany.