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New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
The Blacklist

The Presidents Oregon letter has
been accepted in that state as chal-
lenge to Senator Chamberlain's can
didacy for reelection. Chairman
Hamaker, to whom the letter was ad-
dressed, is managing the campaign
Of Mr.. Starkweather, Mr. Chamber
lain's opponent in the Democratic
primaries. The chief Federal Office
holders in Oregon are supporting
Starkweather. Mr.. Chamberlain
voted on March 10 last for the rati-
fication of the treaty with tho Lodge
reservations. Il. - No President
holds, these reservations "nullify"
the pact and are stain upon Amer
lean honor, then Mr. Chamberlain is
a co-conspirator to destroy our
"world leadership and to prevent
the application Of "moral and Chris
tian principles" to the worlds prob
lens.
Mr. CnamOerlaln is the strongest
Democratic leader in Oregon. He
was twice elected Governor and twice
United States Senator. He has served
in the Senate with distinction. Many
Oregon Republicans are in the habit
OF voting for him because of his
broad views and high character. But
he has' committed the unforgivable
sin of supporting treaty reservations
which the President 41ikes. He is
to be defeated for ren nnfnation, if
the Administration car bring about
that result, even though Demo-
cratic seat in the Senate may be lost
in the process.
But AtMr. Chamberlain is to be
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Burglar Hunting

In this open season for second
story men 41d sneak-thieves almost
anybody 10 liable to be faced any
dark night with the problem of
burglar-hunting in ones own home.
What is the etiquette of the occa-
sion? Suppose one has gun avail
able. Suppose one hasn't. Do duty
and self-respect require one to put
on slippers and dressing gown and
take ones chance at the uneven
duel?
If the burglar enters ones room or
attacks, we assume that the question
is answered. But in the ordinary
case the burglar IS very glad to stay
as far away as possible, provided you
will let him. Should ono respect
this preference or not? The answer
involves some fine notions of mascu-
line honor; apparently a number of
wives (by their attitude) and hus-
bands (by their response) assume
that anybody worth his salt will take
his life in his hands and go below.
1t Is exactly 80 ease Of the old
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13

fashioned duel over again for these
sensitive souls. However unskilled
at firearms or however unequal the
combat, householder must attack a
burglar.
To which we submit the plea that
there is no question of real bravery
at stake but that there is very large
item Of common sense. Burglardom
knows no code of honor. The thief
has no notion of an equal fight or a
fair fight. He knows he has all the
advantage on his side, and he does
his best to keep it. The father of a
family who, even armed, starts a
fight with a burglar is doing some
thing much more like jumping off the
Brooklyn Bridge than rescuing his
family. Both acts take courage of
kind; but the former is certainly not
noble or sensible piece Of bravery.
That is the crux of the matter.
Fighting burglar is bravery to the
point Of foolish recklessness in most
cases. Why should anybody indulge
in it? Why not save such courage
as we possess for the wearing Of old
clothes and other similar acts of
heroism Of real benefit to the uni
verse?
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13

blacklisted all the other Democratic
Senators who voted as he did on
March 10 must be blacklisted. There
are twenty of these-a formidable
list. 1t includes Ashurst, Of Arizona;
Beckham, Of Kentucky; Fletcher and
Trammell, Of Florida; Gore and
Owen, of Oklahoma; Henderson and
Pittman, of Nevada; Kendrick, Of
Wyoming; King, Of Utah; Myers
and Walsh, of Montana; Nugent, of
Idaho; Phelan, of California; Pome-
rene, of Ohio; Ransdell, Of Louisi-
ana; Smith, Of Georgia; Smith, of
Maryland; Walsh, of Massachusetts,,
and Wolcott, of Delaware. Gerry, of
Rhode Island, and Jones, Of New
Mexico, were paired in favor of rati-
fication with reservations. Reed, of
Missouri; Shields, of Tennessee, and
Thomas, Of Colorado, voted against
ratification, but had also voted
earlier for reservations. Twenty-six
of the forty-seven Democratic Sena-
tors, therefore, fall under the Will
son ban.
The terms of ten of these expire
next March: Beckham, Chamberlain,
Fletcher, Gore, Henderson, Nugent,
Phelan, Hoke Smith. John Walter
Smith and Thomas. Mr.. Wilson will
therefore have to carry his war of
prescription into Kentucky, Florida,
Oklahoma, Nevada, Idaho, Califor-
MIA, Georgia, Maryland and Colo
RADIO, as we'll as into Oregon. 1t is a
boycott of huge proportions. But
the President seems perfectly willing
to defeat any Senator or to lose any
state in his effort to punish Demo
Gratis who failed in loyal apprecia-
tion Of his treaty policies and his
personally conducted world leader
ship.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Urging On the Other Fellow

The latest addition Secretary
Daniels makes to the "smoke screen"
behind which he hopes to conceal the
navy's pitiful lack of preparation for
the war is to spread on the record
a confidential message which the
President sent to Admiral Sims on
July 4, 1917.
This message was a severe ar
raignment of the British Admiralty
for its unwillingness to risk its prin
cipal naval force in an offensive
operation against the German naval
bases. He said that the British
were helpless to the point of panic"
and oracularly declared that the
time was not one "fol' prudence, but
for boldness, even at the cost Of
great losses
And at the time Admiral Sims
was thus practically ordered to find
d way to force the British to take
chances what was the policy of our
own Navy Department, policy
which must have been approved by,
even if it did not originate with,
the President?
This policy in the main elements
may be collected from the facts of
which there is now knowledge. First,
the Navy Department either could
not or would not send destroyers to
European waters in considerable
number; second, the flat announce
ment that the American fleet would
not be risked, that it would be kept
together and on this side of the
water in all its material elements;
third, the declaration that the
American fleet was to be kept in
tact and out Of danger because it
was more important to provide
against postwar eventualities than
it was to win the war speedily.
That the President had two
policies operating at the same time
is not surprising. The public is
Injured to revelations of his ex-
traordinary inconsistency. Unable to
get an adequate explanation Of his
capacity to have the lobes of his
brain contemporaneously cerebrate
to contrary conclusions, the public
gives up hope of a solution of the
mystery, But why, in the name of
the nine Gorgons Of the sea, was
Josephus led to publish document,
long kept secret, which practically
destroys his case?
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13

healer (does the service a. healer
comprise exercising religious convic-
zion Tor another pe1Don?) 70 be OF
curative value TO the slolds Or did
Dorothy Walker herssle sApr-ss be-
lief in the efficacy OF Christian Science
and preference for ia .re-emensl
She was only nine years Ad, rather
young to have formed religious opin
ions. But if this was the case, then,
should think, she was too young FOR
medical attention given her to have
any significance in her own spiritual
state, and her death constitutes mar
tyrdom to her fathers Conscience
(granting that medicine night have
saved her.. How does Christian
Science, Of which the creed mas: en-
body the fundamental principles Of
altruism contained in, religion
taught by Christ, defend tA,s?
E1-i-1r.r HASBROUCE.
Kingston. &. ~ hay 8, 800
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Beecher Addenda
New York, May 6, 1920.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: May I make a few additions and
corrections to the interesting letter OF
r. b. Hobby on the Beechce family IN
this mornings Tribune7
Lyman Beecher had eight sons, seven
of whom lived 10 maturity and became
ministers o. the Gospel. Frederick dleo
in infancy. The others were William
Henry, born 1902. died 1889; Edward
born 1903, died 1885, George, born 1909
killed by accidental discharge of gun
1843; Henry Ward, born 1919. died 1885,
Charles. born 1915, died 1900; Thomas
Kennlcut, born 1924, died 1900. ana
James Chaplin. born 1923, died 1850
1t was James c., not George, who hVea
for some years in the AdrondacEs, SHa
in the early S0s had charge OF the Betas'
of Plymouth Church. in Brooklyn.
w. II. KENT.
Brooklyn, May II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13

France may serve, when they return,
RS useful ambassadors of the truth.
A correspondent who has been
over the road from Paris to Chateau
Thierry, Soissons, Compiegne, Noyon,
Cambrai and Arras, declares that
nothing he has read "has given a
picture of the appalling reality"
What he himself writes may no
doubt equally fail of the full effect.
But travellers who follow in his foot
steps can hardly fail to be, like him,
appalled, and heartbroken at the
visible evidence Of destruction for
the sake of destruction.
"If ever | Join the Church of
Rome" wrote Robert Louis Steven
son. 81 shall stipulatc to be Bishop
Of Noyon, on the Disc" Noyon, with
its beautiful Hotel dc Vile and its
noble cathedral. is gone. Noyon was
not obliterated by the fortune of
war. 1t is victim Of vandalism.
Excuses of one sort or another can
always be made for shelling a town,
though in many cases the Germans
had none. But the deliberate devas-
tation Of a whole country, to turn it
into d desert, speaks it's own mean
ing. The story of the wholesale cut
ting down of orchards has been told
more than once, but only eyewit-
nesses of the havoc realize how thor
oughly the Germans planned for
"waging war with France long after
peace had been officially declared"
Yet from the very moment the ar
mistice was signed the whole pro-
German and pacihst pack has been
in full cry
There IS something more than un-
human lack of sympathy with
France in the pleas for a "sweet,
oblivious antidote" to the memory of
German brutality. There is repudi
alton of the work our own men
crossed the seas to do.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Putting Ideas Into a Platform
(F'roue The Evening MoiN

(From The Evening MoiD
The New York Tribune's poll of the
wishes Of its readers in the form of a
composite Republican PLATFORM each
plank of which is judged to be the best
of number submitted, has been justi-
fled not only by the interest aroused
but by the terse document which has
resulted
The wide discussion created by The
Tribune's enterprise has undoubtedly
helped to clarity Republican sentiment
and to concentrate the thoughts of Re-
publicans everywhere upon the declara-
tions to be made at Chicago.
1t is best to have this discussion be-
fore the convention meets and to be
able to lay before the resolutions COM
mittee these results of an effort to re-
veal the opinions of the rank and file
of the party.
The time has come when party plat
forms must be made to stand upon -
not merely to "get in on,'' as n olden
days. TIE country is looking for po-
litical party that has something to say
and tbaa means what it says.
Such a platform as The Tribune has
evolved is close approach to that de-
mand. 1t is a work we'll done and of
great value to the Chicago convention.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Conscience Us. Contagion
An Official Statement of the Christian Science Vien
and The Opinions of Number of Our Readers

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In the letters called out by the
Walker trial in Newark, N. j., which
have appeared in recent issues of The
Tribune, it seems to have been al
most entirely overlooked that Christian
Science has been proved beyond the
possibility Of refutation to be very
eflcacious remedy for all forms of dis
ease, including those regarded as con-
tagious or infectious. The great ma
Jority of adherents Of this religion have
been healed through its ministrations,
many of them after vain attempts with
medicine. Even medical doctors them
selves acknowledge that Christian
Science heals the sick. In recent is
sue of "Thc New York Medical Jour
nal" DR.. Woodbury., lieutenant colo
mel of the Medical Corps of the United
States Army, stated: Every day we
hear people remark that they have
been given up by several physicians
and finally went to a practitioner not
of the regular medical school and we're
cured. | formerly thought that it was
case of eXaggeration or of seIf-delu-
sion, but feel that we cannot dismiss
these testimonies with q learned bro
mide. The results of irregular prac-
tlce are ali around us. Ten Christian
Science churches in New York City
alone cannot be blown away with a
laugh. We have to admit that these
sects and cults possess a knowledge
OF healing which we do not recognize"
TO judge fairly of the Newark case
it must be remembered that a Chris
tlan Science parent has the best Of
reasons for the faith that is in him.
Mr.. Walker had tried and proved to
his great satisfaction the practicabilty
of Christian Science treatment for
hoallng the sick to the extent that he
had come to rely wholly upon spiritual
means. and it seemed altogether natural
that he should desire for his child that
which he had found most eliicacious for
himself, since surely he was more
solcitous for his child's welfare than
any other person except the mother.
who in this case was quite in accord
with the method Of treatment adopted
Christian Scientists are notably care
full in cases Of diseases regarded as
contagious, and Mrs. Eddy emphatically
enjoined her followers to render ready
obedience to the law Far from being
menace to public health, Christian
Science has healed the sick in nearly
every community in our land More
over, there is yet to be proved an in.
stance where contagious disease has
become epidemic because of the neg
llgence of Christian Scientist.
No right thinking persons would con-
tend that free exercise of conscience
IN religious beliefs should go to the
extent of constituting a menace to the
community. That Christina Science
has so become would be quite impos-
sibe of demonstration. On the con-
trary, this religion has come to be re-
garded BY many persons outside its
immediate adherents as not only a
great remedial agency but as q most
poten. preventive of disease.
ALBERT F. GILMORE.
Christian Science Committee on Pub
lications.
New York, MAY 12. 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13

own faith, whatever it may be. to be
cause Of injury to another they do
so at their own risk, and they cannot
be permitted to plead their faith, or
there could be no convictions for
crime. From time to time God has ap-
pointed and directed men to do very
strange and curious things, if the men
themselves are to be believed. But if
the community were to permit them TO
plead such divine directions as a de-
fense for injury to third persons or
for an omission Of an affirmative duty
to be performed according to stand
ards established by society in the in
terests Of its own preservation, main
tenance of conformity to the moral
sense Of the community would be i'm
possible. Society places an Affirmative
duty upon father to protect his child,
and unless he is forced to afford that
protection according to the usual and
customary standards and By the usual
and customary means the imposition
Of this duty upon him is useless and
of no effect, because he can always
say that he simply acted according to
his own wisdom and his own faith.
MURRAY 7. QUIGG.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Broadway's Tears

All-nlght lie is Stlll pegglng along
at sundry Broadway GASES, thanks to
the advertising of DR.. Straton and
the will of visitors to New York to
squander. But the spirit of the dream
is just about as altered rs possible.
While the theaters and movie houses
never did such business and hotels
and restaurants cannot seem to
charge enough to discourage pocket
books, the landmarks that made the
Roaring Forties audible the night
through and the country over are
dropping away one by one. The
prospective end of such famous
spots as the Knickerbocker and the
Beaux Arts may be due to other and
exceptional causes. But the mourn
ing revellers-the little bright-eyes
of the Hitchcock song who made
) a, m. famous-will shake their
heads ominously and murmur that
unluckiest number among the ordi-
mails, Eighteenth.
What is the loss and what the
gain? There is certain pathos, of
course, in the thought of Broadway
actually tucking itself in around
midnight and at last getting some
beauty sleep. Pathos there always
is in the demise Of historic sites, re-
plete with flavor and the odor of
memorable occasions. SO much for
the past For the present, is an
ocean of JOY ebbed away into the hot
sands Of the desert? Is the future
bereft of all hope Of gayety and fun
and comradeship and happy days?
Not exactly; and we think it becom-
ing to concede to prohibition certain
distinct gains along this precise path
of fun.
The stimulated good time is, in
deed. passing. But is it worth break
ing ones heart over? There were
real all-night parties in the Roaring
Forties in the old days, parties that
were good because of the gang and
the wit and the friendliness. Well,
we think these parties still exist
and always will exist. 1t is the other
type Of gathering that has gone the
way of alcohol-or, when still at
tempted, yields mournfulness as it's
shining attribute. The picked-up
crew of business friends or clients or
college brothers or anybodies could
be stimulated into a semblance of ex-
cltement and fraternity year ago.
Now a party is only a party-the
sum of its parts and nothing more.
There have been and there will be
sad, sad occasions, dinners, suppers,
what not, until the lesson is learned.
1t is astonishing how certain friends
seem to have lost their charm and
pep under the new regime!
So much we submit as a prohibi-
ton gain, let Broadway grieve as it
may. More sleep and fewer parties
rendered endurable only by their
high alcoholic content will not make
a metropolis genuinely duller or kill
even half of one per cent Of joy out
of anybody's life.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Nitrate Prizes

To the Editor Of Tie Tribgno.
Sir: Th& CA!|ea7 6ocssry for the
Propagaetoe q sSt.ra:s. ss which ar
the Representative IN the United
States, instruets ps TO rucsicly cor
rect an error ltstiha ed ts Senator
Norris, o: Nebraska.
IN Washington lsws, dA:ed Mach l.
last, :hs 6enatos IS Quosso as a:stlng
that The price G: nitrate o. coca Is
fixed in London os - 'An Ais5ion. or
which two Representatives. ,t the
Chilean government have ssats."
The price Of pitsa.s o. soda Is h1sd
in ValsAraisa by che board ot directors
of the nitrate essoat4tiOn, on which
four rep1sssn Ia tives sf 9ho Chilean
eovernne ent ssrve.
The demand for nitrate sf SODA IN
tbs United States, whiia constantly
augmsnting. ia abeu9 ene.tnird less
than the demand in Epropc, Sc that
much the larger oannases alo made
by agents IN Lcnooa % Ar,&sh and
Continental buyers. Try naSe oid for
as shush As i,o6U,dV0 aoas Or a time
for delivery esJts3D axes orsf 8 gear.
Nevertheless, ths sccir2 sna pvNsy Of
the association a1e - seaognze and
protect An,sricaa interests as 8
Aeparats entity.
I may -aod shue .he src.ens pres
@S nitrate ss ssta in rAs Un!red States
IS less thaa Ne ptics III Europe, and
that it Is 2g.assveiy iJwsr u the Cnitsd
statea soan before the En- :. considering
the higher cost Of production stoarly
dousas}, aue to the prvgaitn. high
labor *nxc, cost Of 100, Bag. sic, sn'
the bisnef rates ei freiEta-aoout
thres for .ne.
Fey nany purposes nitrate OF soda
has ~ e.acient substitute. enf for the
purposes that other com,nJult,es can
be used it is below panty r. pi1ce
even when the modeSate export duty
which is paid TO the Cniis4n govern-
ment upon all nitrate os SOFA exported
is added to It.
WILLIAM S. MYERS.
New York, May s, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
UnforRettable

German propaganda in these days
rests largely upon the assumption
that mankind will forget. 1t is only
by ignoring what France has en-
dured that the effort to make easier
terms for Germany can possibly
succeed. Only so can "militarism"
be imputed to the French people. So
the Americar tourists soon to visit
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
Do You Know Her "Fd Rather Have
Fingers Than Toes?

Sir: Miss Anna Geld's verse ~ never
saw a purple COW" is delightful little
product, but to my mind her little poem
beginning "My bed is like little boat"
is better. For boys, however, should
recommend her thrilling adventure
story, Treasure Island" one of the
best things she ever has written.
f. II. HODGSON.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13
The MIitarist
4 Definition Based Upon the Obscr.

pdUOnS OF a OQTcoT
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Since the people began to de
mand Leonard Wood for President the
principal and most effective argument
OF his opponents has been TO call him a
"militarist." AS none of the newspapers
that condemn him with that epithet
have defined their use of the word, !
have been interested in deducing their
definition of mlitarist from General
Woods record. If Leonard Wood is &
militarist, the definition that follows Is
correct:
"A miitarist is patriot who devotes
his ability to the service of his country
and uses every opportunity to advance
human welfare. He never sends a SOL
der whore he will not go himself, and
he shares all the hardships of his men.
II dangerous territory must be made
safe for democracy, he does his part, at
whatever risk of life and health may
be necessary, at whatever cost to him
self of suffering and prvation. If a
plague-strlcken, poverty stricken, down.
trodden, ignorant people need salvation,
he devotes himself and all that he is
and has to giving them sanitation, edu-
cation, order, agricultural and indus
trial development, self government If
his nation has on hand particularly
difficult and dangerous task of pacify-
ino
offers himself, and by courage, resource
fulness, tact, patience and the winning
power of singularly humane person
ality, be gains their friendship and
gives peace and prosperity to regions
that had never known the meaning of
those words. When danger threatens
his country and civilization he prepares
and urges preparedness. When the war,
which he has done his utmost to win, is
over, he sets himself to making peace.
If race riot or mob violence breaks
out in a region for which he is respon-
siblc, he accepts his duty at whatever
risk of unpopularity, and prevents
bloodshcd and restores order without the
firing Of q gun or the loss of g life.
When he is asked to speak or write he
never refers to what he has done Every
word that he speaks or writes is about
what we should do for the safety and
welfare of our country He appeals for
greater attention to education, for bet
ter pay for teachers, for special care
and kindness for immigrants, for friend
ship between employers and the en-
ployed. He RECOMMENDS universal mill
tary training, so that the duty and
privilege of safeguarding our country
should not be monopolized by a pro-
fessional mi}itarized class, but be made
the sacred trust of true democracy;
and so that, in an emergency, our best
and bravest shall not be needlessly
sacrificed. while those who might have
stood by them and helped them are
being organized and trained He be-
lieves that we should make peace and
friendship with our own people and
with all the world and that we should
avert war by every honorable means.
He does not believe that we can avert
either disease or war by refusing to
admit its possibility"
MARGARET COOPER M'GIFFERT.
Duluth, Mimi, May 6, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-13

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The conviction of a Christian
Scientist in New Jersey for the "man-
slaughter" Of his child recalls a some
what similar case in Ohio nearly
eighty years ago, when a parent Was
charged, but discharged, for a like Of
Tense. Only in that case he had AM
ployed homeopathic. instead sf a
regular, or "old school," phys!c!m, IN
those days homeopathy was boycostsd
even worse than Christian Saence L.
now. I remembeq the social and sars II
persecution of my father for ress-:.n &
to it, particularly when he lost child
from scarlet fever. His defense was
that he had already lost one undsr
"old school, treatment and that ne
thought 1t was wise to try the "nsw,~
E. G. HOLDEN.
Tryon, N. c., May 9, 1920.