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New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
a Government OF One
From, a Yankee Document IN
Another Crisis

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: A recent copy of New YORK.
paper stated that Secretary Daniels
also revealed that after Congress
passed law permitting American o.
Iicers to accept decorations from for
eign governments. President Wilson
directed the State Department 70 IN
form ali European governments thtt
the United States did not wish any
awards made
Considering the present deadlock in
Washington, and believing that there
are few Yankees still left in the
United States, cannot refrain from
quoting few lines from Lowelvs
"Biglow Papers," written at lne time
of another great crisis more than fifty
years ago:
"The Pres'dunt he thinks that the
slickest plan
'ould be t'allow thet he's our on'y man,
An thet we fit thru all .het dretfle war
Jes' fer his private glory an eclor;
Nobody amt a uoyal) man, SEE he,
'Thout he agrees, thru thick an thin,
with me;
Warn't Andrew Jackson's (poltics) jes'
like mine?
An amt thet sunthin' like a right
To cut up ez kentenkerous ez l please,
An treat your Congress like nest O.
feas?'
Wal, expec' the People would'n
care if
The question now wuz techin' bank or
tariff,
But l conclude they've bout made up
their mind
This amt the fttest time to go 1t
blind,
Nor these amt meters thet with pol
tics swings,
But goes way down amongst the roots
of things;
VINO owns this country
Leastways it ough' 20 be the People
and he.
Let him be senior pardner, ef he's so
But let them kinder snuggle In as Co.
Did he diskiver 1t? Constable numbers
Think thet the job wuz taken by
Columbus
Did he set tu an make it wut it is?
IL so, | guess the One Man power
hez riz.
Did he put through the business
clear the docket,
An pay th' expenses out Of his own
pocket?
IF thet's the case, then everything
Is t hev him come an pay my ennoosi
texes.
Vast he thct shou'dere all them
million guns?
Did he lose all the fathers, brothers,
sons?
Is this ere poplar gov'ment thet We
A kin of sulky, made to kerry one'"
have changed only three words Of
the original. YANKEE.
Ridgewood, NJ J., Feb. 80, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
The Union League Stand
Il Reader Would Identity All So
cialists With Bolshepisn,
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In an editorial appearing in
this mornings issue OF your paper,
entitled "The Union League Resolu-
tion," there appears this statement:
the Guthrie resolution in
effect asks action on the unwarranted
assumption that all Socialists are Boil
sheviki. Are the Union Lcaguers so
lll-informed as not to know that even
IN Russia the most courageous defend
eTs OF democratic principles are So
cialiats ?"
1t Is serious matter for a metro
poiitan daily which for SO many years
has stood as defender of American
institutions to mislead its readers so
thoroughly.
Inc investigation now being carried
on by the Judiciary Committee of the
New York Assembly as TO the qualifica-
ions Of the five Socialist Assemblyrn en-
eject TO take their seats in that BODY
Fnises the Issue, among others, whether
the Socialist party Of America, of
which the five Assem- blymen-elect are
admittedly members, is q revolutionary
organization seeking to bring about a
change IN the form Of this government
by unlewful means.
1t is true that some of the ",nost
courageous defenders of democratic
principles in Russia are Socialists"
but the evidence already adduced be-
fore the Assembly Judiciary Committee
haa shown that these same Russian
Socialists are repudiated and vilified
by the Socialist party Of America. In
fact, the Socialist party Of America
las branded as traitor to the Socialist
movement --e great body Of European
1ocialista in all countries, which. dur
ING tho war q s after the war, supported
their respective governments and
adopted the policy Of class reconciia-
ton.
While it is improper at this time to
prejudge the case or to urge either
the seating or the unseating of the
Assembl blynen-elect before the evidence
IS complete, it is equally improper and
subVerslve OF the public interest to
confuse the public as to the real oues-
lions at issue.
You declare the issue of the pending
investigation to be "whether the ac
cused are guilty Of personal offense."
ana you assert that "there has been
failure after five weeks of inquisition
to establish individual guilt"
1t would be improper for me and il
would make this very long letter to
cite the testimony that is pertinent to
this issue, but it is not only nrorar
put important that your attention be
directed to the fact that the writer
OF your editorial has evidently fallen
INTO the fallacy, rather widely preva-
lent, that the Socialist party of Amar-
lca IS IN agreement as to plans, meth
oas and purposes with those Socialists
IN Russia Who are opposed to the
autocratlc &c of the Bolsheviki.
The contrary is the fact and has
neen proved beyond peradventure Of
"ouo' III 'he proceedings now pending
at Albany
ARCHIBALD EWING STEVENSON.
New York, Feb. q, 1920.
LMr. Stevenson seemingly over
LOOKS the fact that there are So
clallsts and Socialists and that the
party's attitude as a party is i'll
defined. Why did $4,000 radical
Solshevik sympathizers abandon the
party and organize themselves as
Communists if the regular Socialists
are Bolsheviki?-Ed.]
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled the
use for republication OF ali dispatches credited,
10 st otherwise credited in this paper and
Aeo the local Of spontaneous origin published
.isrein
! All rights Of repub,:ca3on o, all other matter
herein also sre reserved
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
Now Find the Coal!
CFrom Thu n..-..

lFro'n The Detroit Ne,o,l
attorney General Palmer has very
kindly favored Us with an explanation
- now ne got coal for the country
80 al W. have toxand out now is what
became Of it.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
81 Cannot Sing the Old SONGS"

Cannot Sing the Old Songs"
sir: remember that one, tool
1t went:
tirea that burn in quiet, long and bri-iyht.
ly glow
Flames that rush and riot soon to ashes 90
LIPS mat move not often, when they do-oo
wise.
II You love me Da-ar-li-rg. mo with
your eyes -
What II waltz it made-aYd how It trens.
lated and transhgured the dumb awkward.
moss and wordiess emotions Of manv an
adolescent swain
And never knew who wrote It'll Bless
ings on Samuel Minturn Peck and all the
sentimen talistsl
But-there wasn't single cowbell in it
and-shades of jessamine and Southern moon.
Aght-one cou.dn. possibly shlmmie to it
HELEN ROWLAND
You see" said Mrs. Wallace Young,
of Larchmont, Miss Brices sister-in-
law, "we live in the country and
haven't read anything about the charge
against my brot..er." Non sequitur No.
667. People wko live in the countrv-
especially those who live in the suburbs
are the carefullest of newspaner
readers. Suburbanites are more con-
versant with topics Of the day, as re-
fiected in the newspapers, than c;tv
chaps.
Ninety per cent of our inconspicuous
errors are hoped upon by suburban
ties.
." here art the good old fashioned
citizens" asked Vice-President Mar
shall, the w. k. Vice President. "who
used to think that two men could dis
agree and yet be equally patriotic %,
Well sir, some are in Jail, soma arc
trying to reseat the Assemblymen at
Albany, some are Democrats and Soma
are Republicans, some were killed fight
ing IN France, and some were out of
UNIFORM between April 6, 1917, and No.
vember II, 1918. But the whole ,ot
OF them added together are infreouent-
ly enough to carry an election.
III is no secret" the Times account
says that the detectives have kept a
close watch on Miss Brice's movements
lor TWO weeks Least of all, we
hazard, is it secret to Miss Brice
vi all the persons we have known who
nave been under the surveillance of
detectives not one didn't know it abont
ten minutes after the surveillance
began.
old Fontaine Fox, the aged gambler,
is willing, he says, to give us SO for
each ''me Mrs. Franklin I. Mallory is
csiaea the former Molla Bjurstedt if
wen give him $40 for every time Fred
Alexander is referred to as the veteran
internationalist.
nat the melting snow needs is
open sewers openly Arrived at
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New-York tribune., 1920-02-25

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safety--for II dlssrtisfac.
von results In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
q pay your money back upon request No red tape.
10 eYibh.lna. We make good promptly II tho
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25

IN the Washington letters that Cen
eral Shanks read Monday it was shown
that General Washngton's men were
frequently low in morale, uninterested
IN the war, that they often thought
they were beaten, and that desertions
were frequent. Why the Department
Of Justice didn't i'll Washington for
alleged pro-Brticism it is hard to
understand
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-By mat. Including
Pcssase. IN THE UNITED STATES AND
GUARANTY

Entered 1t the Postoficc a. New York As Second
Class Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
A Shining Exception

fFrom 1'hs Milwaukee JomrnaU,
Lloyd Georges son is in America.
but, thank heaven, he isn't going to
lecture.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25

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Inc. New Yors Corporation. OE'len Reid. Presi-
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New-York tribune., 1920-02-25

Mr.. Percy MacKaye's George Wash
'ngton" was displayed Monday; and
that and the success of "Abraham Lin
coin have aroused Miss Edna Ferber
to the desire to write a historjca,
drama. She has named it civilian
Howard Taft" Our own historical
play, "Millard Fillmore" is practically
finished; but our "Thomas w. Wilson:
Masque," will appear on these Boards
Of Briliancy first.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
The Coming Tower
A BALLADE OF SUICIDE
(Accept, dear Mr.. Chcsterton. n.y profound
npoEo0tes.)

| (Accept, dear Mr.. Chcstcrton, my profound
apoI0Otcs)
I bought hempen rope short time gone by
It's nice and new and fit to bear my fall !:
The cost Of living Is so cursed high;
| fail to find play that does not pail:
The magaznes--Doc Crane writes for them
all
And everywhere go the jazz bands bray;
The newest novels are spiritual
And SO think I'll hang myself to-day
This is joyless Iand-so dull. so dryl
No longer may qunR the tumblers tall
or lordly liquor and more may I.
For fifty cents, behold game of ball:
The occult Lodges hold each lecture hall;
have haberdasher's bill to pay;
My landlady won't stand another stall
And SO / thinl. III hang myself to-day.
The only clothes the clothiers supply
Are cut in at the waist absurdly small
And Ill become a Rangling. grace!ess guy;
In spring thcrc'll be Music Festival
Two weeks and more of this internal squall--
My verses make hit with f. P. A;
Fair Mistress Edna will not have me call
And so l think I'll hang myself to-day.
L'ENvor
Princess, this s no place for folly's thrall,
This world to prohibtionists prey;
There's a convenient hook upon my wall
And 80 l think I'll hang myself to-day.
G. w. W.
AS a rule, the ballade isn't worth
the trouble it takes. If we were certain
Of being able to finish one in three
hours. we should do one whose refrain
is "But no one writes Preface to my
books"
II, in 1914, the cost of living WAS
10000 American, we blast no confidence
III estimating it to-day as 2149o Ameri-
can.
On Mars or Saturn, Sig Thinks, the Tele-
phone Company's Orders TO Operators
Are Something Like These:
]. During the congestion Of telephone lines
only essential calls should be answered The
easiest way to find out whether a call 10
essential is to wait at least five minutes
before answering. If the fash is still on, it
means that tho caller is anxious to get his
number.
2. If after this interval the number still
seems to you non-essential, that Of news
paper or Il department store, for instance
just buzz the busy signal. Most people
hate that sound worse than dentists
machine.
3. For purposes of convenience the fol-
lowing grouping of exchanges has been
made. The names may be used inter-
changeahly. they are not very different
anyway: Murray Hill, Madison Square and
Morningside; Barclay Bryant, Academy and
Plaza; Schuyler. Stuyvcsant and Rhine
lander; Bcekman, Greeley and Riverside ;
Worth and Circle. Gramercy and Vanderbilt,
Lenox, Columbus and Audubon.
=. DO not listen to than the first
nall OF number. 1t saves time in he long
run, as the caller may give it up altogether.
b. If wire is really busy, break in with
another call whenever possible This is
known AZ Intensive utility and produces
interesting results.
b. Do not hesitate to cut off a telephonist
Whenever you consider the conversation
sufficient.
l. Pay no attention whatever to calls from
public pay stations. The nickel is in the
box, why worry?
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25

"has the melting snow needs is
open sewers openly Arrived at.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-25

Princess this is no place for foly's thrall
This world to prohibitionists a prey;
There's convenient hook upon my WALL
And so l think I'll hang myself to-day
The Washington times., 1920-07-25

But can 1t be that there is no solution
for 1t? Can 1t be that the actor who on
countless occasions has proved himself the
master Of far more difficult situations
lacks the power to find his way back to
his wifes heart? Has MIR. Eddinger for
gotten the wondrous magic of those en-
dearments with which he turned tar
nished world bright when he played Little
Lord Fauntleroy?"
After Little Lord Fauntleroy" young
Eddinger kept right on fixing things" in
other plays. In "Holly Tree Inn" Loves
Young Dream, "nThe Soudan" and Among
the Pines" the plot never failed to work
about so that the boy with the long, fair
curls should be the one to lead the way to
happiness.
Grown to manhood and to established
success on the stage, he continued being
in great demand as one OF the actors
best fitted to extricate heroes and heroines
from the tangles of troubles which the
playwrights devised. His friends might
well have nicknamed him Little Mr..
Fix.It," for every role he took gave him
claim to that title.
There was "Officer N666," in which Ne
played the leading part Theatregoers
The Washington times., 1920-07-25

Eddinger she ran up to him, flung her
arms about his neck. and with an ecstatic
cry of, "You old DEAR" pressed a kiss upon
his lips. Mrs. Eddinger looked on with
amazement, puzzled and not little
troubled
"Who is that woman?" she inquired icily
as they went homeward.
81 don't quite remember, my dear. !
know she was in our company last season
and her face is familiar"
Indeed. II must be-" was Mrs. Eddin-
gers sarcastic reply, "and so was her con.
duct. What a way to greet man who
does not remember her name!"
"You must not mind, my DEAR" he
pleaded. kissing is a habit among peo-
ple Of the stage and II does not mean what
il does to non.professionals. II is rather
silly habit, I will grant you, but so are
most habits silly"
The Washington times., 1920-07-25

continually with people of the stage. II
was for a non-professional woman like her
altogether like entering an entirely new
world.
In many ways II was not at all pleasant-
to her. Hardly day passed that she did
not see or hear something which grated
on her sensibilities. With all the skilful
tact which he has displayed so many times
on the stage, Mr.. Eddinger tried to explain
these things away and help his bride to fit
herself comfortably into the world in
which he lived. For time II seemed as
II he were going to be successful, but one
day something happened which all his skill
found it impossible to explain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddinger were riding in
their limousine. As the car drew up In
front of a department store a woman who
had been in his company the season before
chanced to be passing At sight OF Mr..
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The Washington times., 1920-07-25

stlll remember now In tnlS play every
character was led to think all the other
characters thieves. When everybody was
apparently hopelessly enmeshed by doubts
and suspicious fears, along came Mr.. Ed
dinger with little gentleness, some moral
suasion and one heroic coup which settled
things so that everybody could live hap
PLY ever after.
"The Third Degree" was another play in
which Mr.. Eddinger added to his reputa-
tion for fixing things. Tortured by detec-
tives, exhausted desiring smiles more
than all else in the world, he ended the
inquisition by saying, Eyes, It was II did
It," He was actually under sentence of
death when he finally contrived a way to
fix things to his satisfaction. BY his agile
wit he got out of Jail, regained his wife,
and began life all over again.
And what a skyful Of trouble there was
for Mr. Eddinger as the dashing young
hero of The Aviator" A girl whom he
considered the only one in. the world be-
came aviation mad. She wanted him to fly,
too, and without single lesson he boldly
sailed off into the blue. The heroine was
dismayed to find when II was too late to
stop the fight that he did not know a
propeller from lip stick. But with his
usual propensity for fixing things, Mr.. Ed
dinger returned after an adventurous trip
safe, though scared, and great hero.
1t was while he was appearing In "The
Only Son" that Mr.. Eddinger met his
great romance of real life. He fell In love
really, deeply he believed inextricably-
with charming and wealthy young widow,
Mrs. Iva La Grove. They we're married,
and their honeymoon began with every
prospect Of continuing indefinitely as lone
grand sweet song" Mr.. Eddinger and all
his friends believed that this delightful
melody was to be the obligato accompani-
ment OF his future success on the stage.
But alas for all the fond hopes OF the
bridegroom and his friends. Il was not long
before the honeymoon's harmony began to
be marred by sadly discordant notes
Mrs. Eddinger had never been on the
stage. She knew actors and actresses only
through seeing them play their parts from
her seat in the orchestra or box. After
her marriage she was, of course, thrown
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The Washington times., 1920-07-25

stage, while her husband has been there
all his life and is an unusually good actor.
Being a non-professional Mrs. Eddinger
does not understand the ways Of the the
atre and she has fallen too readily under
the spell Of her husbands acting She has
taken at face value all the kisses and en-
braces which Mr.. Eddingers roles require
him to lavish on other women, and has
been unable to accept as mere make-be-
lieve the terms Of endearment which his
roles compel him to murmur in the hero
ines ear
The sight OF her actor.husbands re-
slistic love-making long since became so
unbearable to her that she gave up going
to the theatre when he was appearing
And now she has decided that life with a
man who must fling himself into the arms
OF another woman-and sometimes more
than one-six or eight times week dur
ing the theatrical season is no longer en-.
durable.
II this version of the matter be correct,
the domestic troubles Of the Eddingers are
indeed serious problem-one that can
be matched perhaps only by the torturing
jealousy to which the wives Of physicians
often find themselves a prey.
The Washington times., 1920-07-25
Citizen Fix-lt"
Ever Since He Wore
Long Curls, .
Wallace Eddinger
Finds 1t Impossible to
Persuade His Wife
That Love and
Embraces on the
Stage Are After All
Only Make-Believe
and Fails to
~ TITLE LORD FAUNTLERoy" is

~ TITLE LORD FAUNTLEROY" Is
in serious trouble. In the play
- the knickerbockered, lace col
Jared. golden-curled young hero won the
hearts of everybody and found no difficulty
in holding them captive forever and ever,
but in real life he has been unable to hold
his wife's love, and 1t is a question
whether he can ever regain it.
This is only another way of stating the
fact that Mrs Wallace Eddinger is seek
ing divorce from her husband, the we'll
known actor. For Mr.. Eddinger was the
first to take the part of Fauntleroy. and
this. as we'll as his subsequent stage
career. is what gives his present domestic
if(culties unusual in
The Washington times., 1920-07-25

IeTcSI.
From the days when,
as a curly-headed boy Of
six, he played Little
Lord Fauntleroy," down
to his latest appearance
as the bedevilled but
finally triumphant hero
Of wedding Bells" Wal.
lace Eddinger has been
continually fixing things
up" so that they might
end happily for every
body concerned except
the villain of the play.
AS an ironer-out of the
amazing difficulties with
which playwrights fill
their. plots he has had
few if any equals. With
splendid poise he has
faced calmly, even smil-
ingly. an array OF
troubles such as would
have driven a man in
real life to despair. But
not a situation the drama
has yet produced has
been capable Of dismay-
ing the suave, self-pos.
sessed Mr.. Eddinger. I'm
der his winning person
ality's magic glow all the
clouds roll away and
everything ends as hap
PLY as any audience
could possibly wish -
misunderstanding are
cleared up, enmities for
given, wickedness pun
ished, and by the time
the curtain falls the
arms of the hero are al
ways enfolding the girl
he deserves to have.
1t seems hard to be.
lieve that a man who has
faced successfully on the
stage so many varied
problems of human love
and hate should meet in
real life one that battles
all his suavity, patience
and tact. Yet this is ex-
actly what threatens to
be the case.
Mr.. Eddinger's wife
has begun suit for di-
vorce. The real reason
for her action, say some
who know the couple
well. lies in the fact that
cha hos poyor hoop ~, tho
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