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New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

not been at his elbow to help him out.
Tolstoy devotes sufficient space to bring
out the characteristics of this remark
able woman, but clearly leads us to in
fer that such housekeepers are to be
had all over the southern part of Rus
sia at least. If a New York intelli-
gence Office were to advertise that it
had on its lists some 10000 Agafeas, we
wonder how long they would last. We
feel quite sure that they would be ab-
sorbed in about three days and then a
great wall would go up for as many
more.
! Fortunately for us, at this time we
have our own Princess Cantacuzene, the
granddaughter of General Grant, who
can vouch for the good qualities of the
| Russian servants, and, moreover, can
put us in the way of securing the right
ones. Tolstoy, in spite of his devotion
to the Russian peasant, insisted that
We must always remember that he had
the usual characteristics of all human
beings and was by no means free from
the faults and weaknesses of the human
race.
1t will not do to send over to the
consuls at the different ports and tell
them to ship indscriminately to New
York million or two Russians
There must be an organization formed
by the proper leaders among the wom-
en- of America to bring over the men,
women and children that we need in
our households in both the cities and
the country. The sooner the work is
begun the better it will be for over
worked women of America and the
starving peasants of Russia
R. S. ROWLAND.
South Jacksonville. Fla, Nov. 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Townley's Failure

The most serious failure since Or
ganization met the Nonpartisan
League in Tuesdays election. Town
ley's radical farmers have probably
succeeded in reelecting Governor
Frazier of North Dakota by a mar
row margin, but they went down to
disastrous defeat in every one of the
other states in which they had been
proselytizing What is more, the
voters Of North Dakota approved
several laws especially designed to
hamper the league and sent hostile
Legislature to Bismarck. Professor
Ladd, of the Agricultural College
the Nonpartisan candidate, goes to
the Senate, but his ability and
standing gave him outside support
and his victory is a personal rather
than party success.
The most serious setback is in
Minnesota. Townlcy has made a
long and intensive effort to convert
this state to his radical views. The
headquarters of his highly central
lied organixati ton are in st. Paul, his
weekly organ is published there, and
at least one important radical daily
has given him support. Several
times his candidates have polled a
large vote in the state. The peculiar
primary law Of the state made it
especially easy for the league to
practice its policy of stealing an
other party's emblem for it's can6i-
dates. 1t has been beaten in several
close contests in the last few years I;
the threat Of the party was never
more lively than this year, when
the climax of its propaganda was
reached.
Despite all these favoring factors,
the league candidates were over
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Among the Pleased

Satisfaction over Nj. Harding's
election seems to be spreading. We
We're told that the rejection of
President Wilson'S covenant would
break the heart of the world" But
the heart throbs on, apparently more
Joytuliy. France, Great Britain.
Italy and the other nations of ELL
rope feel great weight is gone from
their shoulders.
Here at home, too, cheerfulness
extends far beyond Republican cir
cles. Mr.. Bryan is pleased and
doesn't care who knows it. He would
like to see an immediate change in
the White House and thus justify a
real Thanksgiving Day. Samuel
Gompers, one Of the most potent in
fuences in the Wilson administers
ton is not cast down. Mr.. Gompers
was heart and soul for unconditional
ratification of the covenant. At
Montreal last summer he induced the
American Federation of Labor to an
prove the covenant as it stood. He
asked all his followers to vote for
Cox. AS usual, most Of them did as
they pleased. But Mr.. Gompers is
Iar from miserable. He says that
his campaign for the election of
Senators and Representatives salts
factory to the federation was gilt
terlng success. He didn't defeat any
OF the Republican Senators who
voted for the Esch-Cummins act, and
Plumb plan supporters will be
scarce in the new Congress. Yet
Mr.. Gompers has cause for self
congratulation. He resisted the
temptation to put out a Gompers
third party Congress ticket and risk
showdown all along the line.
Debs, in his prison cell, confesses
pleasure at Mr.. Wilson's elimina-
ton. He anticipates a better run
for President next time-the fourth
for him, or will it be the sixth or
seventh? The Farmer-Labor party
candidate for President, Parley P.
Christensen, is more exuberant than
Debs. The canvassers haven't had
time yet to count his vote. But he
is convinced the election shows that
the FarmerLabor party will carry
the House Of Representative in
1922 and elect President in 1924.
Mr.. Anderson rejoices that the
dry cause is safe. The New jersey
Liquor Dealers Association. which
collected subscriptions for the Cox
campaign, has not been heard from.
But its labors, with those of Gov
ernor Edwards, saved the Demo
cratic party at least one seat in the
New Jersey Assembly. Moreover,
the vets are now released from the
burden of any further political I'M
derwritings.
These are only few Of the
pleased III an election which seems
to have carried some value for nearly
everybody.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

whelmingly defeated on Tuesday.
The story in Minnesota was the
same as that in Montana, Colorado,
Nebraska and South Dakota. The
landslide to Harding offers no suffi-
Gent explanation for this utter col
@07e of Townleyism in all five
states where Nonpartisan propa-
ganda had been seriously under way.
The inference seems fair that the
league has reached and passed its
high-water mark. 1t will doubtless
hang on in North Dakota for a
while. But as a spreading radical
ism, as a serious factor in any ma
tional farmer-labor movement, it can
be dismissed from consideration.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Servants From Russia
Why Not These Marpels By the
Mi|liono

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Now that the shouting and the
tumult has ceased, the spellbinders
have departed and we know the names
of those who have been selected to oc-
cupy the White House and the halls of
Congress, might it not be we'll for the
women Of this country to tackle much
more important problems than the is
sues of either the Republican or Dem
ocratic parties?
They all seem to agree that the most
vexatious difficulty to overcome is that
of securing servants to fill the respon-
sible and important positions now va
cant or badly filled in the homes of the
American people In spite of all the
electric washing machines and suction
, sWeepers. buffers, Wallets, housekeepers
and maids are still essential compo-
nents in the art Of living, and just now,
unfortunately, there are mighty few of
such assistants to be found.
At this juncture we have offered to
us something like 100000 servants,
both men and women, from starving
Russia. Any one can find out all about
| these people by taking down from the
shelves of their libraries the copies of
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and reading
the pages devoted to Prince Stepan
Oblonsky's Matvey. The latter filled
to perfection the posts of butler ma
jordomo, valet and confidential adviser
with a zeal and loyalty which could not
be surpassed The prince allowed him
IS day to provide for the food for the
household, consisting of a princess, six
little princes and princesses, besides
governesses, nurses, maids, cooks and
the rest Of the kitchen force. One will
note that even in Russia Matvey's
commissions must have been very
small, but he was, no doubt, paid the
liberal salary of $3.50 year whenever
the princes more pressing obligations
permitted his paying a fraction Of
his creditors. Prince Step1H was t.,
president of an important commits
sion in Moscow, with a salary Of
$4,000 annually, while the Princess
Darya had as much more from her
own private fortune. 1t is no ex-
aggeration to say that life would have
been impossible to Dara Alexan-
drovna had it not been for the serv-
ices rendered to her by the head nurse,
Marya Philimonovna, whose firm and
pleasant voice smoothed out all diff
culties even il it was accompanied by
q stern and pockmarked face"
Perhaps the character which will ap-
peal most strongly to all American
housekeepers was that of Count Lev
mss Agafea Mihaloyna. Her position
in his household was that of general
manager, counsellor and friend. The
count had 5000 acres of the best land
in his province and was q skillful
farmer, but he would never have been
able to carry on his work and be the ad-
wiser of all the peasants living within
radius Of thirty miles II Agafea had
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

character and intellect which have been
the source Of tragic failure, this is
very far from imputation of bad mo-
tive or denial of high aspiration.
We cannot forbear to hope that,
at this moment Of sore trial and deep
disappointment, Mr.. Wilson may find
it in his heart to say the one word
which would beft great man in a
great crisis of his career He has ii
in his power at once TO render a
which he has at heart and to pluck
from his defeat a laurel greater than
the laurel of victory. He has fought
single handed fight which we think
he ought not to have fought, but
which he undoubtedly feels he was
justified in fighting. Stricken with
disease, all but powerless in body, he
has held to his purpose undismayed
and undauntcd. Now he has lost
But the country remains, the world
remains, the cause remains. Let him
forget the pangs of defeat and the
anguish Of disappointment. Let him
say to his countrymen: "you have de-
cided against that which l have held
to be best for the world, the surest
promise of a better time coming for
all the peoples of the earth To its
attainment l have devoted all that
there is in me in mind and will, have
suffered without repining the loss of
my health, almost of my life. What
| shall now do, what ! improve ali
who have trusted me and been faith
full to me to do, is to help with a
whole heart those upon whom now
devolves the lofty duty of doing
all that can still be done for the
cause of peace, Of international COLI
cord, of all that progress toward a
reign Of reason and good will upon
earth, Of which two years ago we
cherished SO high hope. 1t Is idle
to repine over what has been lost
The call of duty remains as COM
manding as ever. Let all men of
good will, forgetting past bitterness
and contention, unite their hearts
and minds in firm endeavor to
achieve all that can be achieved OF
that great purpose which, whether
wisely or unwisely, but certainly with
all sincerity, have striven to the
utmost Of my power to accomplish"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
a Week of Verse
q. n. O.. January. 1919
(f-Oyr Po>tr1n


REMEMBERING the flowers my
mothers hand uncloses
Between her hedges spread with spi-
ders' laces-
Narclssi pale and straight like April's
rain,
The peony's deep stain.
Pansies with kittens faces
And summer roses,
Whose yellow fingers from the summer
Remembering how she loves the rabbits
on the lawn:
The barren desks and empty Offices
Where nothing wise is done
Had nearly slipped my mind.
With all the deaf, the tonguelcss and
the blind.
Whose works and pupils thrive beneath
the sun,
Jnlovely and unkind.
EDMUND WILSON JR.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Fugitive
(Fror. Poetry

You are the shooting star
That pales the Pleiades.
You are the frost
That fires the autumn trees.
You are the sunset
Upon the cloud-lost peaks.
You are the silence
Music seeks.
You are the wird-winged dream
I waken TO and Danish.
You are the hands that beckon me,
And beckoning, vanish.
Across the grass
Yours are the white wells
Of obliterating snow
You are every one pass.
And no one that I know.
SUSAN N. BOOGHER.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
On a Political Prisoner
(Frons The Dfoi

CFrons The DfaD
CHE that but little patience knew,
- From childhood on, had now SO much
A grey gull lost its fear and flew
Down to her cell and there ALT,
And there endured her fingers touch
And from her fingers ate it's bit.
Did she in touching that lone wing
Recall the years before her mind
Became bitter, an abstract thing,
For thought some popular enmity,
Blind and leader OF the blind
Drinking the foul ditch where they lie.
When long ago l saw her ride
Under Ben Bulban to the meet.
The beauty of her countryside
With all youths lonely wildness stirred
She seemed to have grown clean and
sweet
Like any rock bred, sea-borne bird:
Sea-borne, or balanced on the air
When first it sprane out of the nest
Upon some lofty rock to stare
Upon the cloudy canopy,
While under its storm-beaten breast
Cried out tho hollows Of the. sea.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Opening the Doors

Pursuing his promised policy Of
an open covenant openly arrived at,
Mr.. Harding announces he will con-
suit all comers at Marion concerning
International relations. To this
witenagemote he is summoning lead
ers of all shades of opinion. A free
parliament AMI forum will develop,
he hopes, some unity of plan.
The gathering may turn out to be
mere cave of the winds. One can
imagine the impact of collisions be-
tween Senator Johnson and Mr..
Taft, between Senator Lodge and
Brother Cox. Nevertheless, it is
worth while to have a conspicuous
abandonment of the game of soli-
taire. 1t 10 of good cmen that the
President-elect turns away from
foul air Of one-manism.
Assuming that it will quickly ap-
PEAR that the consensus of opinion is
in favor of the league principle, the
first change that is likely to Be mani
fest is as to how best to proceed to
realize it. Should the existing league
be entered, with elisions and reser-
yations, in regard to which there is
now happily not much argument, or
should a new start be made and the
existing league be scrapped?
For reasons it has often stated
The Tribune is of the opinion that
the first plan is the more feasible
one. There are practical difficulties
about assembling a new conference.
Much depends on the attitude of
other nations Moreover, new con-
ference would find on its doorstep
the teasing question Of whether un-
repentant Germany and anarchic
Russia should at once be admitted.
Nevertheless the advocates of a
fresh start do not lack weighty ar
guments. There are basic differ
ences between a league which is
based on conceptions Of general
right and one based on power
which deals with political questions
that relate to issues not to naked
questions Of right, but to diverse
natural interests and Judgments.
The Wilson covenant is faulty in
that It commingled the two ideas:
sought to create q political alliance
and charter for mankind in one
document. II may well be said that
The two things are irreconcilable.
Nevertheless, while it is unintelli-
gent to minimize the logical strength
Of the argument for a new start, this
IS practical world, and logic but
partially controls its action. For
the existing league it will not be
easy to establish a substitute, and
though its parts may be inconsis-
'oiV, IL may work INTO something
reasonably harmonious and effective.
1t provides for periodic conferences,
US sets up various activities inter
rational in fact. and while it does
not create new international law, it
authorizes commissions which may
do so.
30 the scale of practical advantage
seems at present to tip to the side
OF using the covenant AS basis.
but this conclusion is tentative
rather than absolute. Much depends
on winch method Of procedure prom
ises to be stronger in the Senate and
with other nations.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Song Of the City Troy

(Frons Contemporary Verse,
THE fifty sailors are whettins their
= swords.
The brown sun beats on the tarry
boards.
And Helena skins by the rolling sand
And waves with the feck Of foam
white hand.
And the blood of Youth pounds hot in
the throat
AS the long oars lash from the lunging
boat.
Richly she came through the leaping
green,
Like the shrine of a god, like sun first
seen,
And they cried "Hurrah for the Golden
Queen!"
And Paris crushes her, breath to breatt.
And she gives him her honey of love
and death.
Ruddy and gold where the torches stare
Helena sits in her carven chair.
Lovely and strange as a. moonlit cloud
But her head droops down like a petal
bowed.
Beneath her the blood and the wine run
deep
But her eyes are seas more quiet than
sleep.
The drunkards brawl and the cup goes
round
But she gives no sign and makes no
sound.
And her mouth is flower that says
"Departi"
And the hilt Of a knife is under her
heart.
The kings of the world have finished
their chase,
They dash their wine in the glorious
face.
And Paris is dead in sickly land;
plume-white hand
They dice for her rings and the game
is sweet
And lean Menelaus is smiling sleet
And the captains chuckle, counting their
scars,
! For the hosts Of the earth have finished
their wars
And Helen and Troy are cold as the
stars.
Waves in the dusk with a sound Ike
tears
(And the deep tide foaming and fow-
ing)'
Saying one name for thousand ycars
(And the wind of Fate is blowing,)
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET.,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
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A Severe Lesson

tFrom Teb Philadelphia Inqu;rer)
Governor Cox will take trip abroad
next year to study conditions in Europe.
The Governor probably figures he has
absorbed all there is to learn about
conditions in this country.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
The Greatest Feature

(Fror, The Detroit Free Prssso
All things considered, the most re-
markable fact about the campaign il
that William J. Bryan got through it
without going on a speaking tour.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

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Better Than 1t Sounds

(Fron Tho Birmingham Age Hsrald)
"Hooch" is an ugly word, but when
whispered into the ear Of staid ctti-
zent it makes him act ten years younger.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-07

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Cas- Mail Matter
Arizona republican., 1920-10-22
STATE NURSES ASSN.
 CCNVENTI ION HERE
 ENDS WITH BANQUET

After a day spent in the appointment of committees, the discussion of the bills affecting nurses which will be introduced at the next legislature, and the transaction of a mass of routine business, the second session of the first annual meeting of the Arizona State Nurses association ended yesterday with a dinner at the Grand cafe, where covers were laid for 50 members of the organization.
 The days work began at g: 30 o'clock in the morning with the appointment of committees, the most important of which were that having in charge Ari- zona's part in the nurses'. relief fund. which is to be used for the relief of nurses who become in need of assist ance. and the committee on resolutions.
 The afternoon session was taken up with a discussion of public health topics. which was led by Miss Grace Franklin of New York city Miss Wen dells public school nurse in Miami, and Miss Luella Erion, who is associated with public health work in Arizona.
 While these sessions were going on the legislative committee spent the en- tire day in a consideration of the
 
 will come before the state legislature at it's next meeting. These bills, which have been prepared to raise the stan dards of nursing in the state and also to afford protective measures for nurses, are considered the most i'm portant work of the organization. If adopted, it is said that they will give Arizona a standard of nursing which will be second to none in the United States, and which will form a basis upon which the best of nursing systems may be built.
 Before the meeting adjourned at 4 o'clock in the afternoon Miss Lula Cliff ton of the Deaconess hospital invited the nurses to inspect the new Dea- coness hospital at Tenth street and McDowell road, which is now nearing ,completion.
 After the dinner at the Grand caf' part of the nurses attended the pub lie health center meeting at the Wom' ans club building, while others saw ; special public health film at the CO lumbia theater.
 The nurses will have another bust ness session this morning, when tn, report of the legislative committee vii be submitted to the organization. Thi will be followed by the election of of 1 ficers for the coming year, after whicl Miss Mary l.. Cola director of the Re- Cross public healtI work in the Pacifi division, will deliver an address ol "AmericaniZation."
 The convention will end with luncheon at noon at the Grand caf and series of round table discussions
Arizona republican., 1920-10-22

East Jefferson street on August 25.
 SHIP IN 16,0oo EWES-On a permit issued by Dr. R. J. flight state vete rinarian, Babbitt and Doyle of Litch field and Goodyear have shipped in 16,000 head of ewes which will be placed on the Southwest Cotton com pany land at Goodyear. The company will also have 5000 head on leased land at Litchfield.
 ALLEGED SLAYER ExTRADITED Nathan Robinson, alias John Myers, wanted in San Francisco on the charge of murder, will be returned to Cali fornia to face the charge. Governor Campbell having yesterday granted extradition papers authorizing the re- turn of the fugitive, who is being held at Nogales. Robinson is charged with the murder of Nelson s. Dunning.
 WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY-De- claring that her husband threatened her with a revolver, Katherine Brooks yesterday brought suit for a decree of divorce from Edgar Brooks, charging cruelty and failure to provide. She asks for the custody of their three children and $50 a month for their sup port
 CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING- Sidney Levy pleaded guilty on We'd nesday before Justice Charles De Sales Wheeler to a charge of defrauding an innkeeper, and the passing of sentence was postponed pending an investigation of the matter Levy is charged with leaving the Jefferson hotel without paying for two days lodging for him self and wife. He was arrested in Tucson on Tuesday. According to the story told by the officers, Levy regis, tered at the Jefferson hotel about October 15, and two days later his wife removed their luggage, telling the em- ployes of the hotel that her husband would remain. The couple then, it is alleged, drove to. Tucson, where Levy is alleged to have registered at a hotel under another name.
 SEEK LOST BOY-The sheriffs of flee has been asked to locate Robert Donald Hedgepeth who ran away from home on October 1e. He is r years of age, feet II inches in height. weight 155 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes, and light complexion. He was wearing a blue shirt. blue overalls, large brown hat and hob nail shoes when he left home He has a scar on his throat un- der his chin. Anyone knowing of his whereabouts is asked to communicate to the sheriffs office or Barry Hedge peth, care of Valley Lumber company