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New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Death a Deterrent

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The death penalty is an effective
deterrent for violent persons who care
little for law or morals, but fear force.
All penalties of the criminal law are
for people who are inclined to go
crooked when the policeman is not look
ing.
OF legal deterrents to wrongdoing
capital punishment is the greatest "All
that man hath will he give for his
life" Warden Wolfer, of Saltwater
Penitentiary, said that he never knew
a prisoner who was Indifferent even to
detention.
Directors to the death penalty argue
that man has not the right to deprive
another of life-God's supreme gift
but in war the same persons approve
the sacrifice of innocent millions, mere
ly for the maintenance of preferred
government. Is the murderer's life
more sacred than the patriots?
The Bible declares "Whosoever she'd
deth a mans blood, by man shall his
blood be she'd" but some mushy philan-
thropists, who carry flowers to incar-
cerated fends or build $4,000 homes
for dogs while children starve, would
preserve, pardon or parole. Retain and
enforce the death penalty but remove
faster the evil environments which Gre
ate criminals and murderers.
H. N. PRINGLE.
Newark, N j., March 90, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Convictions for Anarchy

The conviction of Winctsky, sec
ptary of the Communist party, for
criminal anarchy, following the con-
,iction of Getlow for the same Of
fence, shows that when adequate evi-
dsnce is presented jurors act
promptly.
These convictions have direct
bearing or the case of the suspended
Socialistic Assemblymen. These AS
semblymen, if guilty of anything,
are guilty of criminal anarchy. If
this is their offense they should be
indicted and tried by due process of
law. If the state does not deem the
evidence against them strong enough
to warrant indictment, it is not
strong enough to warrant the As
anlbly expelling them from meber-
ship.
1t is American parliamentary
prac.icee, when legislators are ac-
eused Of personal crimes, to await
the result of their trial before taking
their Offices away. This procedure
has been followed in the Newberry
case, and the same principles that
CONTROLS the Senate should control
the Assembly.
The more the case of the Socialist
Assei.blymen is studied the more
difficult is to understand how any
sOurd lawyer can avoid urging the
dscontinuance of the present pro-
cedng against them. And the
sgalities of the matter are strongly
supported, as is usually the case,
BY manifold practicalities and mo-
alities.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
The New Milk Prices

Under the agreement between the
officers of the Dairymen's League
and the Milk Conference Board, rep
resenting the city's chief distribu-
tors, the dairyman is to receive, be-
ginning April /, IL cents less per
quart than the March price.
Of this drastic reduction, a reduce
tion which is likely to cause great
disturbance upstate and which may
lead to revolution in the manage
ment of the Dairymen's League, the
public is to get the benefit of part.
But not all, it appears, if the dark
remarks of the milk companies about
a higher cost of distribution mean
anything.
1t is established to the satisfaction
Of milk producers that they have not
been getting too much, and it will be
generally agreed that the new April
price will surely not exceed the
dairyman's costs. 1t is also estab-
lished to the satisfaction Of the dis
tributing companies that they do
business on a thin margin. No one
seems to challenge the figures which
show that their profit is less than
one-half cent per quart Hence the
milkman's profit could be taken
away altogether without much bene-
fiting milk buyers.
So, if the dalryman is down to the
minimum at ahich he will produce
and the distributors make little per
quart, the only rational prospect of
cheaper milk is in more economical
distribution. Three practical pro-
posals have been made. First, the
establishment of milk monopoly
that will get rid of many costs Incl
dent to competition; second, en-
forced abolition of the home delivery
system and the substitution of one
by which all must go to stations for
milk supplies; third, interesting the
morning newspaper vendors, who are
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Who Is Behind IT.?
The Editor of The Tribune

The Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Many of US arc wondering what
lies beneath the bill, so insidiously
introduced, for the abolition of the
death penalty. What can be the object
for lessening the safeguards to society
at this particular time when the state
government has at, last seen the wis
dom Of taking steps to curb the spread
of anarchy, which unrestricted threa-
tens to attack our homes and in
stitutions?
What kind of men can they be who
would spare the lives of such people
as the murderers of the unarmed
Rosenthal and the defenseless Brook
lyn cashiers? In their expiation these
murderers gave New York one of the
most salutary lessons she has ever
had.
Who wants bill to spare the lives
of those that take away life? To in
stance one of the murders recently
committed in this city, by what right
should the creature live who struck
down a girl of seventeen with crow
bar? The death penalty is only pro-
vided for first degree murder.
In the case Of Bolshevik riot the
state cannot make herself defenseless
to punish murder by death; in such
an event is she to await Federal in
reference by martial law and expose
herself to all the dangers of procras-
tination which invariably attend mill
tary interference
The fact that prisoner nearly
suffered the death penalty through a
miscarriage of justice would seem to
point out a need Of reform in the
methods whereby his conviction was
obtained, but it is hardly an argument
for the abolition of the penalty itself.
F. T.
New York City, March 25, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
The Sermon in Spring

We doubt it there was ever a
spring so thoroughly welcome and
appreciated as that now graciously
tripping in. Old gentlemen of forty
have been seen to fling their hats in
the cir and cheer. A cold and sickly
narror'. it must be that isn't pcne-
trased by the all-pervading warmth
that enters right into ones in
most being and hangs up it's hat
there. AS for external evidence, one
can smile even at the prices-turn
where you will there is only beauty
and fun amid such weather. Never
such a spring.
We set the moral down not so
much in the thought that anybody
will heed it should another awful
winter embrace us in its snowy
bosom ss for its bearing upon other
drear and seemingly uncomfortable
episodes of life. Nothing is as bore
some as that exquisite hour when a
hint Of green first paints the land
scape--if you have had no winter to
set against it. Ask any invalid who
has ever pursued the spring north
notwithstanding at Egypt, let us
say and ending in England when it's
April there. A rare, rare treat, you
think? Far from it! Nothing is as
monotoncus, as deadly and depress-
'ng-not even the bleakest winter.
Weather and life are alike in that
both would be dull affairs without
seasons and their contrast.
In short, where it is always spring
there is no spring.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: In response to your invita-
tion for an expression of views con-
cerning the bill to abolish capital pun
ishment in this state, would say that
am in favor of the introduction Of
this penal reform. The right, under
any circumstances, to deprive q human
being of life belongs only to God, who
has written in his divine code "Thou
shalt not kill"
OF course, arguments pro and con as
to whether the death penalty is de-
terrent influence are in order, though
the main and decisive and preliminary
point to be settled is: Has any state,
court, jury, or any other man or as
sociation of men, valid and inherent
right to take another mans life? But
it may be said that Michigan. which
abolished the death penalty in 1846;
Wisconsin and Rhode Island, in 1852,
and Maine, In 1887, have not found that
murders are of more frequency than
before the repeal was carried into
effect; at least, this would seem to be
the natural deduction. Capital punish
mont has been abolished in several
European countries, while in others,
though still provided for by law, it has
been wholly or in part remitted in re-
sponse to popular humanitarian senti-
nsAt.
CHARLES A. INGRAHAM.
Cambridge. N. Y, March %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
An All-Round Man
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: stand for Leonard Wood as a
candidate for the Republican party. He
ia the one all-round man we have, soldier,
administrator, statesman and prophet Of
preparedness.
In Cuba and the Philippines he proved
himself first class administrator, al
ways choosing the best heads Of depart
ments that it was possible to find. If
he had not started the Plattsburg camps
the war would have been prolonged,
thereby causing losses Of men and
money impossible to calculate.
Why should we not elect man for
President who will do the best that is
humanity possible? A REPUBLICAN.
Lakewood, N. j.. March l6. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
The Io,ca,, System,

To the Editor~ef The Tribune
Sir: In one of our states where murder
in the first degree was punishable by life
Imprisonment certain criminal, duly
convicted and imprisoned, broke Jail
and, in so doing, killed three guards.
He was recaptured and returned to
prison. Obviously, no additional pun
ishment could be inflicted for this new
and aggravated offense. Thus, this
worthless criminal took no chances, as
penalty under the law when he made
his dash for freedom. He took three
useful lives and for this triple murder
suffered no penalty. Would such law
not encourage criminals to feel that
they could commit murder with always
the chance of escaping punishment by
breaking jeil or by pardon?
The Iowa provision permitting ju-
ries, upon conviction Of murder in the
first degree, to fix the penalty in aggra-
waited cases, or those in which there
was no reasonable doubt at imprison-
ment or death, appears to me to be a
good one. 1t seems a step forward, in
line with the realization of a greater
fexibility in the criminal law, and yet
permits of inaicting the death penalty
in cases where it seems to the jury to
be the only adequate punishment.
Assuming the abolition of the death
penalty and the fixing of life imprison-
ment as the maximum penalty, we are
confronted with the problem of pardon.
An executive, President or Cover
nor, having the pardoning power is al
ways subject to pressure in behalf Of
convicted criminals on the part of those
habby sentimentalists of whom Theo-
dore Roosevelt said that their heads
were as soft as their hearts. Plenty Of
persons can always be found who will
sign any kind of petition. Further
more, the executive pardoning power
is subject to abuse for political or per-
sonal reasons.
Let US consider two recent cases.
Charles W, Morse, the so-called "Ice
King" was convicted Of crime by a
Federal jury and imprisoned In a Fed
eral prison, His friends promptly be-
stirred themselves to obtain a pardon
and it was represented to President
Taft that he was dying and therefore
should be pardoned that he might not
die in prison, though why that. even if
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
When .'osephus Guarded the
Spoons

Secretary Daniels and Admiral
Benson once meditated doing the
right thing. To be sure, they in
tended doing it at the wrong time;
but one can let that pass in elation
over discovering the twins were not
always wholly wrong.
On July 10, 1917, after acceding
70 the dispatch abroad of "minor
hshting forces" for anti-submarine
Fork, the department announced
Its unwillingness as a matter of
policy to separate any division from
the main feet for service abroad,
although 1t is acilling to send the
eatire battleship feet abroad to act
asa united but cooperating unit when
the emergency is deemed to warrant
it,n
Since time immemorial the pops
Ut belief has been that the way for
'navy to defend the coasts of
country is to mount close guard over
'aem, using it's ships as floating
l9rts. Since time immemorial naval
Experts have held that the best way
"guard the coasts of a country is to
aessroy the enemy fleet as far from
'ae coast as possible.
Admiral Mahan mentions an early
instance. During the peloponnesian
var the enemies of Athens were
p'oVlsloned from Sicily. The Athe-
aans decided, therefore, to send
ss'r great naval forces against the
aand Then arose Hermocrates be-
,''e tne popular assembly of ancient
'sfacuse and pleaded with his fell
"" citizens to sail forth to point
@s Athenian fleet ,rust pass and de-
sf0y the enemy there. But the as
SmDly kept the fleet at home and
saaefed = long and costly siege by
" Athenians in consequence. The
s'sndonment of the coast defense"
e0sy lies at the root of Britain's
assai power, but it has taken CEN
s ,uaes OF instruction to make the
british people see the truth. Not
sa.'l ss Fishers day was there COM
'sse concentration.
suppose that a feet of twenty
g. .aeny battleships were about to
s'sck US at some unknown point.
~. carry out the "coast defense"
rs we should divide our fleet of
s0ty-eight capital ships into, say,
~ parts and assign one to Boston,
. New York, one to the Chesa-
se and one to New Orleans.
squadron would be without in
sa support from the others and
'a nave only it's own strength of
- snlps to oppose the concen-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Death Penalty Defended

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: This writer fully believes in the
theory that the community has the
right to defend itself. This means
capital punishment for those too tur-
bulcnt to admit of control otherwise.
No lengthy argument is needed in
support Of this view. Some years of
my life were spent In North Carolina,
where the death penalty was, and prob
ably is now, applied to burglary at
night Of inhabited buildings, on the
ground that if the person is desper-
ate enough to enter an inhabited house
at night he will not hesitate to COM
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28

of legal transgression against the pre-
cept ITSELF" and that reformation
rather than revenge, should be the OBJ
ject of our penology.
Statistics show that murder has de-
creased instead Of increased in the
states that have abolished this ancient
and barbaric law. Let us hope that the
Empire State will soon be numbered
among them.
PAULINE FLORENCE BROWER.
Hartman, N. j., March %, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Should the Death Penalty Go?
Tribune Readers Debate the Questions Raised by Editoria
Majority for Abolihon Some Prefer Iowon Low

nit murder if interfered with or in or
der to escape detection. l believe that
is a preventive Of crime in that state.
1t would perhaps be we'll to apply
the Iowa system, say, for term of
years. But set UP rigid system of
educational Americanization in all
cities and large towns
FRANK f. EMERY.
New York, March 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Ave !!

From The New WitnessJ
WHEN all the world was black
Your courage did not fail:
No laughter did you lack
Or fellowship or ale
And you have made defeat
A noble pageantry,
Your bitterness more sweet
Than is their victory
For by your stricken lips,
A gallant song is sung.
Joy suffers no eclipse;
Is lyrical and young.
Is rooted in the sod;
Is ambient in the air,
Since Hope lifts up to God
The escalade of prayer.
The tyrants and the kings
In purple splendor ride;
But all ironic things
Go marching at your side,
To nerve your hands with power,
To salt your hearts with scorn,
Till that awaited hour
When Freedom shall be born.
THEODORE MAYNARD.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
a Week of Verse
The Passing Strange
From The Yale Revie.c)

tF gOHS 4 nc 0tc deptStC/
GINCE moons decay and suns decline
- How else should end this life of mine?
Water and saltness are not wine.
But in the darkest hour Of night,
When even the foxes peer for sight,
The byre-cock crows; he feels the light.
So, in this water mixed with dust,
The byre-cock spirit crows from trust
That death will change because it must,
For all things change the darkness
changes,
The wandering spirits change their
ranges,
The corn is gathered to the oranges
The corn is sown again, it grows;
The stars burn out, the darkness goes.
The rhythms change, they do not close
They change, and we. who pass like
foam,
Like dust blown through the streets of
Rome,
Change ever, too; we have no home,
Only beauty, only power,
Sad in the fruit, bright in the flower,
Endlessly erring for its hour
But gathering, as we stray, sense
OF Life, so lovely and intense,
1t fingers when we wander hence,
That those who follow feel behind
Their backs, when all before is blind.
Our JOY, rampant to the mind
JOHN MASEFIELD.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Retards the Soul

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: In answer to your editorial Of
to-day wish to say, in the most en-
phatic way, that l am opposed to the
death penalty. There are many rea-
sons, but one will DO. 1t retards the
evolution of the human soul.
GEO. CARR.
Paterson, N. j., March %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28

up early and make deliveries, in
milk as a side line. But nothing
along these lines OF other practical
ones is done by our rhetorical Mayor
and our equally rhetorical Health
Commissioner.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Il Great Step

To the. Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l believe the passage of the bill
for abolishing the death penalty to be
great step in civilization.
JOSEPHINE CLARA STEWART.
New York. March %, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Sacredness of Life

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l believe it is wrong for the
state, as such, or for any member of the
state to destroy or authorize the de-
struction of human life under any cir
cumstances whatever In other words,
believe in the sacredness of human
life. ELINOR BYRNS.
New York, March %, 1920.
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New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Jazz Fantasia
fhro,, TIL. D;,u

ff'rom The DiaU
nRUM on your drums, batter on your
banjocs,
Go to it, 0 jazzmen.
Sling your knuckles on the bottoms Of
the happy
tin pans, let your trombones ooze, and
go husha-
husha-hush with the slippery and-paper.
Moan like an autumn wind high in the
lonesome treetops,
moan soft like you wanted somebody
terrible, cry like a
racing car slipping away from motor
cycle cop, bang-bang.
you jazzmen, bang altogether drums,
traps, banjoes, horns,
tin cans-make two people fight on the
top of stairway
and scratch each others eyes in a clinch
tumbling down
the stairs.
Can the rough stuff now
Mississippi steamboat pushes
up the night river with a hoo-hoo- hoo
90 and the green
lanterns calling to the high soft stars
a red moon rides
on the humps of the low river hills
go to it, o jazzmen.
CARL SANDBURG.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
Submarines

From The London Spsctstor)
THE firth lay like q dragons tongue
tonight
Flaming to westward: with her smoke
afire
The far town rose beyond, Vikings
pyre;
Then one by one those ranging shafts Of
light,
With passing benediction fading home.
Have left such lake Of calm on sea and
land,
The ripple scarcely moves to stir the
foam
Or lift bubble from the quiet sand.
Not on the living falls 50 wide . peace!
Arrows Of silver striking on the bay.
Tho terms are hunting still IN pfumes Of
spray:
The weasel crouches there henaath the
trees;
Under tho calm Of those rejecting seas
Man, too, was waiting, waiting an the
day.
HERBERT ASQuTTH.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
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The Newest Tax

From The Boston Herald,
The extravaganza of our government
S now taxing even the Imagination.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
But Distance Cannot Part

(From Cetesr. Losn1bxA
and rivers deep and vida
With thousands Of long dsas1t leagues
me from my lovs divide
Yet not that dsunting distance nor low
ering skies above
Can stop my nightly visit in Dream
land to my love.
GONNOSkE KOMAI.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
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'sThou Shalt Not kilL''

New York City, March 25, 1920.
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FOREIGN RATS
New-York tribune., 1920-01-06
Ex-Bigs Lacquer
To Coach Pitts
Baseball Squad

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5.--The Unver-
sity Of Pittsburgh students are paying
full attention to winter sports at pres
ent The basketball team, which naug-
urated it's season with game against
Yale here last Friday, has a busy cam
paign ahead of it. which will last until
March 5. The second game on the card
is with Grove City College here. jan
uary 9.
The Pitt swimming team inaugu-
rates it's season next Friday with a
dual meet at Erie with the Erie Y. NJ.
c. A. A dual meet with the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md has also been scheduled, and it is
likely that an baltimore team will
be met on the same trip.
Pitt is being congratulated upon the
acquisition of Dick Harley, the old
major league outfieIder. as it's baseball
coach. Harley will be here next month
to look over the situation. A fine
schedule is being mapped out. and al
ready an Eastern trip has been booked
with games at West Point, George
town, Fordham and Swarthmore. Penn
has rendered its commencement week
game at Franklin Field on June IL, and
this will doubtless be accepted. Games
will also be played with Penn State,
West Virginia and other schools in this
section.
Pitt has just about completed large
indoor track, where early spring prac-
tice in baseball, track, and lawn tennis
will be carried on.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-06
Paddock, Undefeated
Sprinter, Enters Meet

Charles w Paddock, the University
will compete III the Milrose A. A.
games to be held in Madison Square
Garden February 10, it was announced
by the local committee last night This
means that the sprints will be the
feature of the meet, as invitations
have been gent out to every prominent
dasher in the United States. Such
stars as Billy Hayes, Of Notre Dame
University; Eddie Teschner. of the
New York A. c.; Billy Raymond and
Bernie Wefers jr. probably will COM
pete against Paddock
Paddock, who caused sensation in
the interAllied games in France last
year and was the biggest factor in
Uncle Sans successes on the track in
Pershing Stadium in Paris, has never
been defeated in open competition.
In the inter-Allied meet the Califor-
nian flashed to victory III the 100 and
200 meter dashes and was member
of the American team which triumphed
in the 800-meter relay.
Joie Ray will be on hand again to
compete for the Rodman Wanamaker
one and half mile invitation trophy,
as we'll as for the -quarter-m lie
special. His appearance, of course,
will be one OF the features of the
night. Pitted against Raw will be such
stars at Gordon Nightingale, Mike De-
vaney, Earl Eby and Homer Baker.
The committee also has sent an in
vitation to Henry Williams, of Spo-
kane, Wash, who won the go yard ma
tional championship last year in phe-
nomenal time