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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
Anfi.Tiereck

To the Editor of The Tribune.
, Sir: With a sentiment mixed with
indignation, disgust and fun I have
read your front page story Of to-day,
"Hyphen Vote Organized to Turn Elec-
ton" You have insulted the Amer
leans of German birth during the war
daily, and | ask you why you do it
again now after the war is over. Do
you indeed assume that single Amer
lean of German birth or origin will
take you. or Mr.. Viereck's escapades
seriously? You and Mr.. Viereck are
confounding "the nationwide council
of ninety-six members" with the ninety
six subscribers of his sheet. You and
Mr.. Viereck make yourselves the
laughing stock of the country. notwith
standing his two stalwart aids, Mr..
Franklin and MIR. Mach.
If you were able to be reasonable,
if you would judge fairly and impair
TALLY, you would come to the conclu-
sion that the publisher of THE Amer
lean Monthly" has absolutely no back
ing or following among the Americans
Of German birth. He stands as we'll
alone, 80 Heine 5 Is from the "Fichtem-
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A Catholic Need

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention has frequently been
called to the multiplicity of appeals
now being made for financial assistance
by educational institutions in this coun-
try | recently read q list of seventy
five colleges which are now seeking
funds aggregating more than $125,-
100000, and in that list, to my SURPRISE
was the name of not one Catholic COL
lege. | wonder if American Catholics
realize that their colleges are feeling
the financial pressure of the times even
more keenly than are the Protestant in
stitutions | believe that recognition of
this fact should be made.
One of the most sterling of Catholic
educational institutions, | have lust
learned, has been compelled to curtsil
its work because of inadequate funds.
refer to Mount St. Mary's Col
lege, of Emmitsburg, Nd wonder
how many Catholics of this city know
of the debt New York, as we'll as the
entire country, owes to that splendid
institution. 1t was Mount St. Mary's
College which gave to New York that
great prelate, John McCloskey, the first
American Cardinal. To Mount St.
Mary's College also New York owes
Archbishop Hughes and Archbishop Cor
rigan.
1t would require more space than can
be given to this letter to give the names
of all those priests who have won
distinction in their holy calling who
have come from Mount st. Mary's Col
lege. Among its former students in
lay fields are such men as Chief Justice
White, Of the United States Supreme
Court; Edward R. Stettinius, and former
Judge Charles Burke, of the Maryland
State Court of Appeals. l venture tina
assertion that no other institution Of
learning, of its comparative size, can
furnish anything like the list of distin.
guished men that can be given 20
Mount St. Mary's College. 1t is not to
the credit of the Church that this col
leEe is permitted to curtail its service
while SO many others are literally sup
ported. MORGAN j. O'BRIEN.
New York, April 81, 1920
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German, Buckers

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Senator Johnson and his friends
have had much to say about the alleged
financial hackers of General Wood and
about the use of money in his campaign
for the Presidential nomination.
wish to say that we in the Northwest
have been unable to notice any indica-
tions that the Wood campaign was
more literally financed than that OF
Johnson. The Johnson people have
spent money as freely as any one in
this section, though there may have
been no illegal or improper expend-
lures. All the talk about the Wood
people stealing the Minnesota primaries
from Johnson seems to be pure bunk.
1t should be made known to Repub-
lican voters generally that Johnson, if
nominated, could probably carry no
Republican state in the Central West
Especially in the Northwest, east of
the Rocky Mountains in which the rad
icals, Socialists, pro- Germans and the
Nonpartisan League do not predomi-
nate. There are but two states in which
it seems at all probable that these ele-
ments may win in the next election
Wisconsin and North Dakota. Repub-
licans in the Northwest, outside of the
elements mentioned, will not have
Johnson at any price, nor any man who
curries favor from such elements.
Of course, large numbers of men of
German blood in this country were en-
tirely loyal during the war. There were,
no doubt, many such in Minnesota
Whatever l may say of proGermans is
not meant to apply to people Of Ger
man birth or descent generally. There
is large district in Minnesota popu-
lated chiefly by Germans. Many men
from this section have been active in
state and national politics in past
years. During the war, many portions
of this district were strongly pro-
German, and to-day they are united in
their opposition to any candidate whom
they consider unfriendly to Germany
or who helped to bring this country
into the war
This pro- German element is in close
cooperation with very large German
element in Wisconsin, and with smaller
elements OF the same sort in North Da-
kota, Nebraska, Missouri, Chicago and
perhaps in other sections. Their real
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4 Republican Round~Jp
Our Readers State the Case For and 4 gairst John
son and Debate The Character of His SUPPORT
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
'eral editorials which have appeared in
The Tribune promoting the candidacy
Of General Wood and incidentally seek
ing to cast the semblance of unclean
politics at Senator Hiram W. Johnson's
political chances for the nomination, all
that can be said against the generals
strongest rival is that he has the sup
port of certain radicals which The Trib-
une does not like
1 am RADICAL I'm for Hiram. And
am gentleman and q soldier. l am
not so much opposed to the general for
what he has not done for the rest of
US soldiers as l am for Hiram for what
he may do for US and will do for us,
North, South, East and West
A great deal has been said editorially
and by certain writers for The Tribune
as to General Wood being the only man
In view who measures up to national
greatness. Does The Tribune want us
to believe that it would not stand for
Hiram if the Senator got the nomna-
ton at Chicago?
We think that The Tribune may we'll
hesitate to characterize a mans politi-
cal chances for success merely because
he has what is now termed the support
of radicals.
Radicals, headed by Theodore Roose-
welt and some others, not only bolted
the convention once and started a new
party, but gave the progressives a
chance to align themselves. Now that
we are back in the fold again, call us
progressives. Don't call us radicals in
the sense of being un-American Please
don't infer that we lack, as class, re-
ligion, culture or refinement
CHARLES F. GARDNER, U. S. A.
Fort Jay, N Y, April 20, 1920.
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Another Favorite Son

Senator Penrose seems one Of those
willing to swap favorite sons while
crossing a stream. He withdraws
Governor Sproul and substitutes
Senator Knox.
Senator Knox is man Of ability
and sobriety of Judgment, who is we'll
seasoned in public life, and as such
although not insensible to the COM
pliment paid to him by his colleague.
he may be assumed to be aware that
the probability of the Presidential
nomination going to Pennsylvania
this year is slight. Pennsylvania
suffers under the handicap of being
q state deemed safely Republican.
Moreover, he is not ignorant of the
unlikelihood of any one specially
chaperoned by Senator Penrose be-
ing acceptable to all elements of the
party.
Why Governor Sproul Is displaced
as Pennsylvania's favorite son is not
explained. Can it be that it is be-
lieved a better known man is needed
to keep the Pennsylvania delegates
from drifting to General Wood?
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Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Inc.

publicly advocated the election Of q
Democratic Congress in 1918.
You cannot pull wool over the eyes
of the voters by claiming that Johnsons
support comes from German sources.
His record throughout the war and his
attitude toward the Wilsonian peace
treaty have been that Of patriotic Amer
icanism. With the exception of General
Wood there is no citizen in public life
better fitted for the Presidency than
Hiram Johnson.
Some of your readers appear dis
gruntled over Johnson's success in the
primaries and have announced that they
will not vote for him if nominated.
am one of the four and half million
Republicans who left the party in 1912
and voted for Theodore Roosevelt. I
also will now issue an ultimatum. I will
not vote for any candidate of the type
of Messrs Harding or Lowden.
GEORGE H. HORNE JR.
Woodhaven, N. Y, April %, 1920.
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The Wolf, Wolfer

Up to the hour of writing these
lines the horrid cataclysm known as
May Day and entered in red on At
torney General Palmer's calendar
had produced nothing more startling
than loyalty parade of boys, the
arrival of the battleship squadron of
the Atlantic fleet in New York and
a home run by the immortal Babe"
Ruth. Of course, the world NAV
leave is orbit any minute, May
Is still young, and we arc predicting,
nothing in these peculiar days. But
there is a word to be said touching
Mr.. Palmer and his reiterated warn
lngs of battle, murder and sudden
death.
That is that such constant cries Of
Wolf! Wolff" defeat whatever sim
cere and necessary desire to warn
may lie behind those words. The
ancient fable of the shepherd boy is
a true one Witness how it worked
yesterday. There was nothing red
or terrible that Mr.. Palmer did not
portray as scheduled for the day. but
owing to the fact that it was about
the hundredth time that Mr.. Palmer
had made predictions of this charac.
ter, nobody paid the remotest atten-
ton to him. The consequence is
plain. If real and immediate peril
should actually take form, how could
the public be prepared to take nee
essary precautions?
OF course, as a Presidential can
didate Mr.. Palmer doubtless feels
under the necessity Of saving the
lives of the voters as often as pos
sible. But even here, in the circum-
ambient political atmosphere, he
fails Of his purpose. So often has
Mr.. Palmer gone through the mo-
tions of Staying this invisible dragon
in its hidden lair that gratitude long
since faded into suspicion. Is
our swordwaving Attorney General
quite such a dragon-slaughterer as
he advertises?
And there is a moral for every
one, from Assemblymen up and
down. These are unquestionably
days Of unrest and dangers, but we
need clear heads and a sense of fact
to meet these dangers effectively. To
exaggerate or mistake the peril is to
create, first, false panics, and, sec
ond, false sense of security. 1t be-
hooves every one, whether a public
or private citizen, to commit neither
Of these blunders. Never was there
greater need of a calm look and a
clear head and accurate talk than
to-day.
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A Turned Mantle?

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Once again we are privileged to
sit at the feet Of George Sylvester Vie
'reck. near whom I and little group of
non -hyphenated Americans sat on the
memorable occasion of the Walt Whit
man dinner, III honor of the birthday
Of that good gray poet" in May of last
year and learn wisdom, even if we are
not bright enough, in view of the out
come of the primaries in Michigan, Ne
braska and New Jersey, to gain little
wisdom on our own account
Your reporter quotes from "The
American Monthly" created and edited
by Viereck, the byphenated word Ger
man-American," the quotation provid-
ing all the evidence which has not pre-
viously been provided of the purpose of
the hyphenatcs to make the first half
OF their appropriate hyphenated desig-
nation stand out more prominentlv
ttan the latter.
In New Jersey the fight was a
straight-out battle between Wood and
Johnson, the former standing for un-
questioned Americanism, the latter
lending a listening car, if not actually
subscribing. to the "isms" of the Non
partisan League and other radical ele.
ments The most superficial analysis of
the johnson strength in New Jersey
shows that It comes from the German
American and irish American strong
holds, with the Wood strength equally
marked in the non-hyphenated part
the southern half-of the state
And further, in this relation it Is
quite instructive to note. as quoted in
this mornings Tribune, that while Mrs
Douglas Robinson, sister of the late
Colonel Roosevelt, for old friendship
sake rebuked the women at the Hotel
/ Commodore for kissing the name OF
Johnson, she added that she feared
that the latter chad gone far on the
road toward radicalism"
If Senator Johnson is wearing the
mantle of Theodore Roosevelt it is yer,
strange the members of his immediate
family cannot recognize the garment
Apparently he is wearing it wrong side
out. A. NJ ADAMS
Brooklyn, April %, 1920.
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,aum ensam i'm Norden auf Kahler

baum einsam i'm Norden auf Kahler
Hoeh."
1t is true, anyhow, that no thinking
American, irrespective Of his birth, can
vote for Mr.. Wilson or "his man" for
President. I myself would rather vote
for any fourteen-carat yellow dog than
for the "all highest, the infallible and
sage" but I protest most energetically
against Mr.. Viereck's or his two or
three followers leadership. Ninety
nine and nine-tenths per cent of all
the German American voters share my
views, you may be sure of it. He never,
never at any time was leader Of
the German Americans; they do not
know him-aye, they despisc him
openly. And do you think man who
was exposed during the war has any
reason to speak in the name Of the
decent commandments all Of whom
are good Americans?
AMERICAN OF GERMAN ORIGIN.
New York, April %, 1920.
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resolved against them. They were
punished for the Sins of another era.
But that punishment has reacted on
everybody who uses the railroads. It
is time to drop the theory of revenge
and ostracism. The railroads are a
great national utility. They should
be developed as such, intelligently
and sympathetically, as matter of
justice to the owners, whose burdens
and responsibilities the government
has refused to take off their shout
ders. But even more than as a mat
ter of justice to the long-harassed
owners the roads should be made eff
Gent, self-supporting and depend
able for the benefit of the public.
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RICHARD CHURCH
The Comfortable People

From Ains1c<'s)
IN THE ground and under green,
By the brooding tower or steeple.
They who happily have been
Are the comfortable people,
For they rest entirely there.
Void of toll, and free of care
Darkness which is not night
May enfold their endless dreaming,
But they do not need light.
Having done with sight and seeming.
They are not like me and you,
For they know their state is true.
In the earth and under snow,
Or the dandeion's glow,
Near tho quiet tower or steeple.
All, the comfortable people
Those unhar1nable and gray,
Dreaming deeply out of day.
?. H. BELKNAP.
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The Pantheist

From The Poetry RevieU. LordexJ
WHA'T i. this Love of which the pest
sings7
'Tis said it is thing most strange
and sweet,
see it but a trammeling Of the feet
A thing Of tentacles that binds and
have found Love in all thousand
things,
Swift in it's coming passing all as
feet,
But strong and free as is the mighty
beat
Across the water Of sea birds wings
Not to single bondage will yield
Who found the World for Lover in 4
dreamI
Give me the wide gray sky and ops1
sea,
The west wind blowing through g
popped field,
Wet hedges in a fitful sun agleam,
Rain on my face, and red Garth
under mel
81. E. NORRIS.
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Own Your Own Home

Society's remedial forces, like
those of physical nature, work, for
the greater part, silently. They have
no press agent. They 60 not depend
on publicity, though they may be
accelerated by it.
Through the length and breadth
of America to-day spontaneously
organized movement, little adver-
tised but gathering momentum as it
travels, is in progress that promises
to do more for the future than all
the reconstruction legislation, how
ever good it may be, which is dis
cussed in Congress, the legislatures
and the public prints.
1t is the Gown Your Own Home"
movement, self-starting and self
propelling. Once it was a reproach
to an American not to possess his
shelter in fee simple. A home was
personal. To rent house was like
hiring a daughter or a son. The
professional landlord was not an
evil, for he scarcely existed.
Then the disease Of tenantry
secured a hold and became epidemic,
particularly in cities. In New York,
for example, according to the last
survey, are a million apartments,
few owned by their occupants. More
than 100000 persons are renters
and live with little sense Of residen-
tial permanence. It Is an evil COM
munity habit, for nomads miss a
large part Of the joys Of life.
Now throughout the country the
landlord system has broken down.
There are not enough dwellings to
go around. A new supply comes but
slowly, for while the tenant finds
the rent prohibitive the builder finds
the cost of material and labor so
high that he shrinks from building,
despite the lure Of high profits.
The Gown Your Own Home move
ment should have started sooner. If it
had begun ten years ago large part
of the present unrest would not
exist. The gains Of the wage earn
ers would less easily slip away. The
cost of his shelter would be stabilized.
He would share in the advance in
land and edifice values, and could
laugh as the rent collector passed by.
Own home. Make arrangements
to this end al once. Buy let %
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Suits at 81.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A number of your readers ask
for information as to the locality where
mems hreepece suits at $40, $3.50 and
$3.50, as described in my letter, may
be purchased, We wish to advise them
that these suits are for sale along the
Bowery and up Third Avenue as far 81
Fourteenth Street, and are displayed
and plainly marked with their prices in
shop windows along this route
SIMON ACKERMAN.
New York, April 81, 1920
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How Carranza Reached Power

Stephen G. Hopkins, a Washing
ton attorney, formerly a confiden-
tial agent Of Carranza, has fur
nished the Senate committee infor-
nation as to the way Carranza ar
rived in power.
He testified that in 1914 Car
rama was furnished with arms and
munitions with the direct cogn-
zance Of our government. ~ was
informed" he says, chat the
United States government would
close it's eyes to a procedure under
which the munitions would be taken
out of Texas ports on bills of lad
ing indicating the destination was
Cuba" When the ships reached
blue water they changed their
courses to the Mexican coast and
unloaded. Later their owners were
prosecuted for violating our mill.
tary laws and fined. but the Sec.
rotary of the Treasury RENTED the
fines. With the committee was filed
the following letter, written by
Hopkins to Carranza:
"President Wilson has discreetly
permitted ii to be known that you
allow mediation since it is the opinion
of the American government that the
only way to pacify Mexico would be
through the complete triumph Of your
revolution"
The mediation was the so-called
A. B. c. intervention, participated
in by Argentina, Brazil and Chile
The conference was held at Niagara
and nominally the Mexican claim
ants were on equal terms. Instead,
Carranza was secretly promised
verdict. Such was the sort of open
diplomacy practiced by the Admin
istration in 1914. If what Hopkins
says is true there was gross deceit,
such as it has been our boast that
our State Department avoided. 1t
would seem as if an Improbable of
Tense has been committed, for pub
lie officers are represented as in
conspiracy to nullify our laws.
Since 1914 Carranza has made a
business of biting the hand which
placed him on his dictatorial throne
He has failed in his promises, both
to Mexico and to the agents Of the
Administration. Washington's de-
vious policy has been a CHASTITY
failure. Carranza has perpetuated
anarchy, has plotted with our ma
tional enemies and attacked our
troops and countenanced the murder
of our citizens. If our government
ever again has stealthy dealings
with Mexican despot let us hope
that an enforceable agreement will
be required of him at least to meet
his part of the bargain.
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without delay. Whatever site you
select, you can hardly lose, for it will
take years for commercial builders
TO satisfy the housing shortage.
You will not be comfortable unless
under your own roof. For some
things family can afford to 20 into
deot. 10 possess a home is one of
them' especially under present and
probable future conditions. This
city greatly needs real estate boom
hot one carried on by spectators
out by investors who buy for use.
The community, the state and the
nation could employ their credit no
better than by financing home own
ing. 1t will not be long, let us hope.
until revolving building funds will
be provided, as in Great Britain and
other countries.
Home owning, besides it's obvious
moral and social dividends, is eco
nomlc. 1t keeps down the repair
Dill. 1t gets rid of the loss from
vacancies that landlord must count
on. 1t cuts out commissions and ex-
penses. New York wastes MANY
millions year because nearly 90 per
cent of its population are renters
and the cost is cumulative. No bet
ter undertaking is now afoot than
the one to stimulate home owning.
Get aboard.
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The Allen Law Upheld

The Kansas law creating an IN
austrial court with power to enforce
,rbitral awards touching the produc-
lion Of coal and other prime neces-
uriss has successfully withstood its
ers. judicial scrutiny.
The decision of a lower Kansas
eurt Is to the effect that the police
,Swsr Of a state extends to protect
irg the health, morals and general
welfare of its population; that the
measures to secure these ends are
matters for legislative determina-
ton, and that the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitu-
tion does not invalidate this common
law public right.
The principle at stake, as Judge
Curran. of Kansas, remarks, is older
than Blackstone, who recognized
and defended it. A social organi-
zation may protect its members
against practically any action its
law making power deems prejudicial
to the common interest. The issue is
fundamentally one of self-defense,
and implies that no group or person
may use a right to the destruction
Of the rights of others.
For those in control Of the fuel
supply to combine to freeze their
fellow citizens is to seek to establish
monopoly such as law has always
forbidden. Governor Aliens great
act is spoken of as a novelty. In
fact, it is as old as written law, and
is found embedded in primitive
codes. Even an animal pack per
ceives the necessity Of turning
against any Of the company which
attack the continued life of the
group,
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Morning and Night

From Poetry
WTHEN through the curtains hutteY
w the sun slips in,
Streaks yellow on the floor and fscks
the face Of you,
I awake to think of busting off the red
plush chairs
And of drying steaming dishes long
white hour through.
shall sweep light leaves from the
wide, strong pillared porch;
Brush out the feathered dirt with my
stiff new broom.
I shall press vine-tendril patterns from
wet linen, shall ruffie
The fresh, starched hangings for the
sunny sitting-room.
All these rushing hurried moments Of
the morning through
l do not love you. there is too much
to do!
But when the poplar's shadow by the
lake grows tall,
And the fire CLEANS gold on the teaeup
by your plate,
Then the whole room listens with the
wonder of it all,
With a still impotence for your whis-
tie at the gate.
EDA LOU WALTON.