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New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

from the non-union coal operators of
Logan County, but it certainly would
require pile Of money to ease the con-
science of any liberty-loving American
citizen who would defend such sys-
tenn as that which exists in Logan,
County.
They arrest union miners without
warrants in Logan County and throw
them in jail and keep them imprisoned
for weeks without any charge being
placed against them. Armed thugs and
gunmen, paid by the coal operators,
drive union men off the public roads
and highways. If they resent these in
dignities they are beaten or shot or
charged with treason. Treason against
whom? Treason against the super
government set up and maintained by
these non-uaion coal companies.
Non-union coal operators own and
control every part of the county gov
ernment. The Sheriff is their man.
They dictate to the courts 1t is i'm
possible for union miner to get even
a shadow of justice in Logan County.
This condition is so notorious that
everybody knows about it. AS far back
as history goes, no coal company gum
man ever was convicted or punished
for the killing of union miner.
And it is not> only the union miner
,,rLo
system, but the non-union man, who
has been denied the right to join the
union, is subjected to the same brutal
ity, as is proved by testimony in many
lawsuits and Congressional investiga-
tions. These gunner, under the guise
of deputy sherffs and mine guards, are
please, and many are the outrages
that have been committed bythem
against defenselessand helpless men,
women and children of that field Let
them challenge this statement if they
dare.
So brutal and violent did these line
guards become that the miners refused
longer to submit to their viciousness
and the uprising of August, 1921, was
the result. Several thousand miners
and other citizens decided to fight back
and break up the thug system as a
matter of self-protection and preserva-
ton. The evidence in the treason
trial at Charlestown showed this tc
be true. They were no defying Che law,
of West Virginia, but, on the other
hand, the ywere simply trying to pro.
tect themselves against these hundreds
of armed desperadoes who were under
the domination of non-union coal com
panies and their servile county officers
These miners were trying to make the
constitution of the State of West Vir
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Attack on Alien Bill
Fear That Registration Measure Would Work Hardship
Penalty for Revolutionary Beliefs
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Seldom have more bad features
been combined in one measure than
are found in the ninety-three- page bill
introduced in Congress by Representa-
tive Johnson, of Washington, in regard
to the naturalization and registration
of aliens (H. R. 10,s60).
strong protest against it has been
issued by the executive committee of
the Interstate Council on Immigrant
Education. The council is made up Of
men and women prominent in that line
Of work, with the Massachusetts State
Supervisor of Americanization at it's
head. They point out that the bill
would take away the control of immi-
grant education from the state and
local educational authorities and give
despotic power over it to an official of
the Federal Department of Labor.
The bill requires every alien to
register every year, paying So every
time, with SO additional for each chH,.
and fines him s25 if he fails IT,, do 80.
The money thus raised is to bs matched
with an equal sum by the local school
authorities and used to train aliens in
American citizenship. under the direc-
tion of this Federal officer
Mrs. Frederick p. Baglsy and other
Americanization workers Object on the
ground of the bitterness il would cause
among our immigrants. W. cannot tax
and fine an alien into loving the United
States. The entire foreign language
press Of the country is opposed to the
measure.
One object of the bill is 80 make it
easier for the government to keep track
Of alien radicals; but where it would
enable the authorities to ,ocate one
really dangerous alien, it would arouse
disaffection toward the government in
breasts of thousands who now have no
such feeling.
Citizenship training for aliens is
very desirable, but the proposed
method would be like forcing the poor
est of our public school children to pay
for their own education. 1t would
work especial hardship at this time of
widespread unemployment.
The bill also proposes to refuse or
revoke naturalization in the case of
any person "who believez in the un-
lawful assaulting of any officer or Off
GERS of any organized government, be-
cause Of their official character" We
have right to take measures against
any one who tries to upset our own
government; but why should we penal
ize an alien for sympathizing with an
attempted revolution against some for
eign government which may richly de-
serve to be overthrown? You can
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Ride, ,Vigilantes, Ride!"
Need of Revival of the Spirit of 1917 to Co,tex,o.
Demoralizing Propaganda : ~0u"'eract


.nat plotted with GERMANY in s.s
.''ne' There is nothing new in +hosa
'h'hgs' but they are alive and +ha,
grow. and they are pro- German IN tha;.
origin and influence
NO less so are the two delusions that
we have always with us; 6r.t thst
strange. illogical, inconsistent tb;nr
'hat we call pacifsm. You can never
make "pacihst" face the clear ord
Just distinction between tho aooresso,.
ana the defender. no matter what fun
damental and indispensable thing is to
De defended. If you fight YOU arc
wrong anyhow, no matter what YOU arc
hghung Tor or against This Of necos-
slty throws the burden of proof an +be
defender and automatically acquits the
aeeressor; so that we hays the paradox
OF so-called peace-lovers passjonatelv
defending the strongest and basest
acts of militarism. And so we come
TO that worst and most dangerous Of
ell deiusions-perverted Christianity.
Christ said, Love your enemies"
and "Resist not evil" Taken bv
themselves and extended beyond in
dlvlduai experience, these sayings
would not be convincing; and Christ
did not so practice them. The last to
resent personal injuries, He WAS the
hrst to condemn severely any de-
llberate injury to others, especially to
the helpless. If we take advantage of
the mercy of God, why ignore His in
exorable justice? Ignorance and pas
sion He pardoned, but did not condone;
the word was, Go, and sin no more"
Falsehood, hypocrisy and cruelty won
no such amnesty; it was "Woe unto
you;' Better for such a man that he
had never been born or-"that he
were drowned weighted with mill
stone" The words, "They know not
what they do were literally appic-
able to the Roman soldiers and the
tickle multitude; but the authorities
who approved and brought about in
justice and cruelty had already re-
ceived their condemnation: "Ye are of
your father the devil"; and Chow shall
ye escape the damnation of hell?"
Condoning wickedness has never
helped the world, and never will. From
a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci comes
the pregnant saying, "He who fails to
punish evil commands it to go on"
But try these arguments on one of the
Christians who say they are neutral
because of the saying, Judge not"
Say to any one of them. "The condem-
nation is not personals but the wrong
doing was fragrant, and we are COM
manded to judge between good and
evil The answer is still, "The evil
was committed by all the nations and
Germany's part in it is exaggerated"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
West Virginia
Loans for Europe

hardly have revolution without asS
saulting government officials. This bill
would have punished every Italian
sympathiaing with Garibald. every
Hungarian sympathizing with Kossutns
every Irishman sympathizing with Sinu
Fein or the Irish republic, every Ar
menan who believes in resistance to
"the unspeakable Turk"
The same penalty is to be imposed
upon any one belonging to a society or
group" which favors this or any one
of long list of other things Ths
word group" is indefinite, and would
make it possible to deport almost any
alien who had friends in sympathy with
any revolution anywhere.
The bill gives enormous and vague
powers that would readily lend them
selves to purposes of persecution. 1t
has other bad points as we'll.
The sho-tfiuge hill in the United
Sta:es Senate (s. a4o3), is much the
same, only worse, as it would make the
annual registration fee for aliens S24
instead Of So.
Opposition to these bills Is growing
and will increase as their provisions
become better known. Those who dis
approve of them should ask their
Senators and Congressman to oppose.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
Dorchester, Mass. May Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
to the death pour right 10 say iVoairc 10 Hcyetius

ginia and the Constitution Of the
United States effective in West Vir-
ginia, from which both had been ban
ished and aouted by coal company
thugs.
These miners had appealed in vain
to four successive Governors of West
Virginia for relief and protection N
relief was afforded. The reign of the
gunman was unhampercd and uninter-
rupted by these Governors. Coal com
panics run and control the elections in
that state.
On numerous occasions miners who
had been brutally beaten by these paid
thugs were taken to the Office of the
Governor at Charleston and exhibited
as proof Of what was going on. but even
these bloody exhibits won no relief
against The reign of terror.
Mr.. Mcintosh said in his letter to
The Tribune: "The United Mine
Workers have left trail of blood over
ever foot of ground in southern West
Virginia which they have covered"
Yes; that's true--they have left a
trail Of their own blood which flowed
from wounds on their own bodies, made
with blackjack or pistol in the hands
of company gunmen.
If coal companies would, but remove
these thugs and allow the Constitution
to return to West Virginia there would
be no more turmoil and no more trou-
BILE. If men could feel the assurance
that they were to have the same rights
that are enjoyed by citizens of other
states the coal-mining fields Of West
Virginia would take their place among
the peaceful communities of this lib
erty-loving nation. But paid pres.
agents such as this man Mcintosh
would be out Of job.
ELLIS SEARLES,
Editor UNITED Mine Workers Jour
nal"
Washington, D. c., May 1s, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
The Spirit Of 1917
Alien Bill Opposed
r. tAe Editor of The Tribune.

ia tQe LuitUT Vi 4 ne ALtuuues
Sir: Your editorials are helping to
nsp alive the best traditions of the
sar-the strong united feeling, the
high ideaiism. the spirit of courage and
sslf-sacrfice, as against the miserable
reactions of the present time-the per-
plexity, the seltishness, the indiffer-
ence. the lack Of honest indignation
against evil, and of devotion to truth
and right. Can we not revive the old
enthusiasm, and it's free expression, by
some concerted action against the de-
ceptive propaganda which on every side
is working to weaken our souls?
In 1917, shortly before Mr.. Wilson
decided that he would lose prestige If
he kept US out of war any longer. n
little group of good American writers
formed syndicate entitled "The
Vigilantes.' Its primary object was
to save the national honor, and defeat
the pacifist and pro-German propa-
ganda. Under the able editorship of
Mr.. Charles j. Rosebault, it grew un-
til the stream of loyal sentiment flowed
into every channel of our national life
Some of us were under "militarv or.
ders' to furnish a certain amount 10
patriotic material every month The
best that pens could give Of verse and
prose kept up the brave influence until
the war ended. Then the actual work
stopped but its spirit should he
marching on. To-day we need a revival
OF its direct influence to counteract the
present forms of moral delusion.
"Ride, VigilantAs, ride!" from /.
poem by Edith Thomas, was the SLOGAN
OF 1917; and we need that spur again.
"nlle we sit back, and talk of peace
forgetfulness and compromise, the
moral force of the world is subtly un-
dermined by false philosophy and per-
verted Christianity. Let US rallyarain
10 the standard.
Here are some of the things we have
to fight; and let it be observed that
they all go back to a single influence
First, there is real or pretended in
difference; its slogan, "The wars over;
forget it," A very brief argument with
any one who utters this phrase will
show you his reason for forgetting it
If you ask, "Dare we forget? Has
Germany ever regretted her sins again
the world? 2" the answer is, "The ma
tions were equally guilty; the atroci-
This comes in different forms, but in
spirit it is always the same And fol-
lowing this, We have the prevailing
false judgments against our own Allies.
France is unreasonable and militaris-
and always will and so on: this
las. oe course from the Irish element
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
An Age of Art2
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: Reports from England indicate
great regret over the purchase of so
many valuab BILE art treasures by Ameri-
cans and their departure to this coun-
try Contemporaneously appear state
ments concerning the development of
artistic discernment on this side of
the Atlantic, vast increase of inter
est in oil canvases and plan to pro-
vide New York with a great temple of
fine arts. With marvellous discrimina-
tion in dress, new and wonderful win
dow decorations, organizations forming
to beautify cities, ornamental ad-
yertisng and the arrival of artists
from abroad in unusual numbers, does
it not seem that the age of machinery
is soon to be followed by an age of
art? r. r. M.
Mount Vernon, N. Y, May II.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
to III TIL

SO we have Germany exoneratsd ..ou
from just obligations, a vast injustice
oonc and our moral fiber dangerou.,v
weakened.
we have heard these things since
IVA but to-day they are widely re-
'terated, in the reaction from war. he-
cause war is abhorrent and only to he
endured as an alternative to worse
eSils--evils which touch the sou,
rather than the body and which mas
auerade as good. Our soft and pious
arguments are logically followed bv
the deiusions of Communism end
'neoreticai Bolshevism. Russia's plight
mas not yet convinced loose thinkers
Ihat communism is madness
am not speaking of conferences.
nor OF international perplexities, but
principles behind them. Bolsheyism.
1or example, will not prevail in this
country, but it is preached, and it is
poison. 1t is preached by certain
student bodies in our universities. |
nave recently seen poster set up in
conspicuous place at Columbia pur-
porting to show the causes of war and
hsting patriotism as among them. One
would like to ask for the substitute
ism" Comment is almost superfuous.
Pro-Germanism is also preached and
with more subtlety 1t is not mere
preference, but world principle. And
1t is the chief poison, which unites all
the others. Come back to the stand
ard, vigilantes! Preach the truth and
contend for it, in season and out of
season. Never mind who is attacked
- "prlncipalitics, powers, spiritual
wickedness in high places" Stand in
the Valley of Decision, and Choose
You this day whom you will serve"
MARION COUTHOUY SMITH.
New York, May IS, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
West Virginia | errorism
Editor OF the United Mine Workers Journal Sets Forth
Conditions in Logan County
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: There was published in The
Tribune last Sunday letter from
oharlestown. w. Va, signed by G. C.
mcintosh. in which vicious, savage
attack was made on the United Mine
workers of America, denouncing them
as outlaws, lawbreakers, traitors and
everything else that they are not.
helng sent from Charles Town, where
more than one hundred members of the
united Mine Workers are to be tried
on fictitious charges of treason, muir
der assault and numerous other crimes.
reader would be led to believe that
the letter was written by citizen Of
that quiet, peaceful city. But such is
rot the case.
This man Mcintosh, who so angrily
abuses the miners, is the regularly
hired, employed and paid press agent
for the non union coal operators of
Logan County, w. Va. Through
out the first treason trial Mcintosh
has been at Charles Town. working
diligently but ineffectively as the press
agent and publicity man for these coal
operators, and his letter to The Trib-
une is but one of his marvellous
schemes for Slipping something over"
on the newspapers in behalf of his
union-hating employers. He does not
live at Charlestown. He lives at Hunt
lngton, W. Va, next door to Logan
County, the county that has been
drenched with the blood of union
miners and organizers whose onlv
offense has been to exercise the right
10 organize. a right guaranteed to
every workingman by the laws of the
land and sustained by all Of the courts.
. Logan County is the county in which
the hired gunman and thug, employed
and paid by the non-union coal COM
panies, have beaten up and killed more
Union miners than, perhaps, in any
other county in West Virginia, and that
is saying lot, | assure you A mem
Der Of the United Mine Workers can
not work in Logan County if these
hired gunmen and outlaws know it. 1t
is theri business to keep the union and
union members out of Logan County,
so that the non-union coal companies
may keep wages of miners down to the
lowest possible point and thus pile up
! greater and still greater profits. If the
history of the coal industry of Logan
County were to be written every line
would be written with the blood of
union miners who were assaulted
mailed or killed in this unholy war
against the right to organize, and yet
this is the very thing that this man
Mcintosh defends in his letter I do
not know how much salary he receives
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Lending to Europe
0 the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of May 1s "A Dis
abled Soldier" refers to the s5 600, 900
loan to Liberia and asks: "Why should
this government be lending money to
other countries when it owes money to
its own ex-soldiers at home?"
This leads me to ask: Why should
our government allow American bank
ers to lend other vast sums to Europe
while these same bankers are pleading
poverty as an excuse for opposing the
adjusted compensation bill now before
the Senate?
According to one of your contem-
pories these same bankers have, since
January I, 1922, lent to Europe, about
half billion dollars!
| trust that citizens Of all classes
ex-service men included, will continue
to insist on getting a definite answer tc
these questions.
WILLIAM H. ALLEN.
Brooklyn, May 19, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Prospect Park
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your editorial on the Tooth an
niversary of the birth of Frederick
Law Olmsted was a we'll ll-deserved hon
or and honored The Tribune also. But
while you were mentioning some of
Mr.. Olmsted's work in this neighbor-
hood why didn't you think to mention
Prospect Park, which, to be sure, is in
Brooklyn, but that is in New York
City. / had the honor of taking Mr..
Olmsted and his former partner, Mr..
Vaux, through Prospect Park one day
several years after they had left
Brooklyn. AS we were coming out at
the Plaza exit Mr. Olmsted leaned over
and said to his former partner, "vaux,
this is the best work we ever did"
ELIJAH r. KENNEDY.
New York, May 10, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Perpetual Problems
(From The Portland or,oor.o.

(From The FortIond OreoontamD
The controversy over the color a
Washington's hair is as little likely to
be settled finally as the identity of
his authentic body servant or the true
list Of places where he made HIS
"headquarters" while commander in
chief Of the Colonial army.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Unrealizcd Income

(From Tho Philadelphia Inoutrer)
We wonder whether the govern
ment ever got anything in income taxes
from that large class who during the
war were bought by British gold"!
New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-10-06

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idrieb: sanb mid i6ni Die espioe
2iebe" perlteben.
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W3an fraee bel ut1s an, tuenn man uts
Dien { zines rGlumberb" ben6tiet.
Inter Bronu Gountp Banf
y}efn Him. Minn.
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3.rHreut. profeTorseattin:
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bDladen?a sd min meme elettyis
fae Siihlampe anaiinben.S
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-13
(From Fridays Daily)


 A very remarkable and unusual instance of de- fomity in the physical form of humaity revealed Friday night of last week in he birth of male child to the wife of Ezra Lamb mile east of Walcott. The infant was born without legs, the members of the left side being off above the elbow and knee while those of the right being off below the elbow and knee The babe otherwise is reported to be of perfectly developed form, and weighing and one-half pounds. Dr. w. ?. Hutchins, of Walcott, the at tending physician and vouches the accuracy of the port published and stated it the first of it's kind known within the of his experience the experiences of other physicians with whom he has dis cussd the subject
 The news of the freakish birth has created much interest in the community of Walcott and doubtless will prove subject Of much thought and discussion among the medical and surgical profession generally, and the doubtless will be given widespread pub icty and attract nationwide attention. The progress and development of the infants Webeng will be eager ly watched
 The limbless babe is the third child born to MT. and Mrs. Lamb They have two daughters, aged four and years, both of whom are normal children. Mrs Lamb is 26 years of age and is the daughter of H. U. NeWson, who resides farm near the home where the freakish birth occurred. She is of average build, enjoying good health, it is said. The family has resided in the Wacot section for many years.
 Mr. Lamb the father of the mbless child is son Of the late Will Lamb and brother of James Lamb, resident of this city, partner in the restaurant with Jeff Willcockson at the corner of P1uet and Main streets The father of the child has spent his life upon the farm in the WacOtt region