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New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Effective Prohibition
Jail Figures Cited as Evidence-Eiigh1eena A,oen.;.
ment Seven eighths Successful

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: When a boy on the farm, one
Of my chores was to feed the calves.
They did lot Of "bcllcrin'" at weaning
time. Now that the people who didn't {
want to be weaned by the Eighteenth
Amendment have begun to stop be-
having like calves, thore may be more
chance to hear from the very large ma
jority who wanted prohibition. Figured
by territory or counties or population,
the liquor business had been voted out
Of more than rs per cent Of the United
States before the amendment, 50 that
the state legislatures were merely
cnacting the win Of the people.
Is legal prohibition effective? The
Albany County, N. Y, pententiary re-
ccives prisoners from eight coanties-
In 1910 there were ,120 commitments; !;
in 1915, 1,o74: in 1920, f7S. OF the
commitments in 1919, i25 were for
drunkenness; in 1915, 1872; in 1920, 6.
The commitments to Connecticut jai 9
for drunkenness in the year ended
September 20, 1919, were 3,77S, but in
the year ended September 80, 1920,
they were only s4S. In the city Of
Hartford the arrests for drunkenness
for the year 1916 were 6 973, but In the
two years ended June 30, 1924, they
were only 5,219; that is. they were re-
duccd more than three fifths.
Two Labor members OF the British
Parliament, G. II. Stick and J. T.. Davi-
son, came to the United States to in
vestigate prohibition and reported that
so far as average citizens were corr
cerned they found this country saloon
less and dry. So when Lord Northcliffc,
who doesn't favor prohibition in Eng
land, said, "Show me prohibition in the
United States and I will tell you what
l think Of IT," he was simply acknowl-
edging that all his knowledge came
from his access to the cellar supplies
laid in before the United States went
dry.
One of the magazines in its De-
ccmber issue says in an article BY &
supposed expert on "Who's Drinking
in America ?" that of the $4,000 600
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Senator Borah' s Attitude
Admirer Asks That He Define 1t a
Little More in Detail

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In the speech delivered by Sem
ator Borah in the Senate on December
II he SAID, among other things. that
# the Washington conference does not
include prohibition against the use
OF the submarine-and I believe he
also mentioned planes and gas-he
would vote against the four-power
treaty. as he would consider it a mill
tary alliance. He elaborated this by
saying that if Russia and China COM
bined and should attack one of The
islands covered by the treaty the four
powers would in conference, in all like
iihood, decide to use force in frustrat-
ing such an attack.
Pray what would Senator Borah ad-
vocate doing if such a contingency
arose? What agency other than force
would be evoked to prevent Russia and
China accomplishing their ends ?
Would he appeal in the forums of the
world to the conscience of the world
to frustrate such designs? When has
an appeal to a nations conscience pre-
vented it from going to war?
But let us assume that the confer
ence adopts all of Senator Borah' $
ideas, then what line of action would
the Senator take if the aggression of
Russia and China should occur
Would the elimination of submarines,
gas, ETC., lessen the probability of Rus
sie-China aggression, and what would
Senator Borah do if those two coun-
tries should apply those barbarous
agencies in their aggression?
In fine, would Senator Borah forego
all attempts at lessening the chances Of
war if all the objects he strives for arc
not adopted at this conference
Would he take President Wilson's
stand-Article X or nothing, the cove
nant in it's entirety unchanged or the
possibility of future war? Is it to be
all or nothing-a whole loaf of no
bread?
1t would be we'll if some Of our Sena-
tors were to look across the water and
take pattern by our English friends in
their marvellous gift of compromise.
Those who admire Senator Borah for
his personal and political integrity (of
whom n one) are anxious to have
him defi-xe his attitude little more in
detail, so that they can determine for
themselves whether the Senator is a
statesman or an obstructionst.
J. J. jacob.
San Francisco. Calf, Jan. i, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Prison Bctserment
Justice for France

adult males in the United States. X
900 900 were teetotalers before t,.
amendment and 10000. $50 were d,;,L
ers. OF these, the article gays. the n.,
day night drinkers who have stopuea
number 100000, the occasional drin.
ers who have stopped A,500,00o. and II.
regular saloon drinkers who h.,.
stopped 100000. 50 that Of the aa
900 0oo pre-prohihition drinkers on,r
100000 remain, one-eigath Of III.
former number. That makes ii.
amendment segen-ei ghths effective.
But that ISN'T all. The same AUTH.
ity gives the total amount Of lioao,
snuxgled, distilled and withdrawn fro,
bond in the last year az 80 ,0o0ma
quarts. That means little over !,
pint week far the 2,5Go000 arinAe,,
left. bat the average amount Of drint
for the 10000 600 drinkers ia 1917 w..
about nine pirts week.
This proves the new Interpretation y
the law Of supply and demand--thas "a
can regulate the supply and change d.
demand.
A prominent manufacturer in III.
city Of Albany told re that he gavs
up cocktails and favored proaib.sios
for the sake Of the homes and familia.
Of the United States. That is the war
more than 80 per cent o. the peopls Of
The entire country feel.
The real spirit Of people is re-.
veaIcd in their Spontaneous unthinkins
behavior. The big greeting card pub.
hshing houses say that While the pee.
pie spend s22 100000 year for Chris-
mas cards the Eighteenth Amendment
Joke cards are Z drug cn the market
ELWELL 0. MEAD.
Georgetown, Conn, Jan. 3, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Treatment Of Prisoners
Practical and Humane Aspects of the Problem as
Viewed by Adolph Lewisohn

for the self protection Of the commu-
nifty to try to so arrange that when
the prisoner Is discharged from prison
he will be able to take care of himself
and his family, also that he has been
so treated that his health is not I'M
paired, as otherwise he becomes dan
ger to the community, spreading dis
ease.
Besides the practical side Of the mat
ter there is, OF course. the humane
side. We are neglccting our duty if
we remain indifferent to these mat
ters. I consider it just as cruel to
neglect the proper care Of the prisoner
Us was the sinking Of the steamer Lusi-
tania with a number Of civilians on
board The course which should be
pursued is, | think. evident to every
fair-minded man who has given this
matter thorough consideration.
AS soon as the prisoner is committed
he should be examined by first class
physician to determine whether he is
feeble minded. also his general health
should be determined and the occupa-
ton he is suited for. He should be
put to work promptly. preferably at
outdoor labor, such as farming, road
building, etc. He should receive fair
remuneration for the work he per-
forms, which should 60 partly toward
tie sustenance Of his family. He should
q a hoV <CI hot I,
comes out of prison it is likely that
he will be in good normal condition,
able to take care of himself and be-
come useful member of society.
What greater folly can there be than
to have unhealthy cells for these pris-
oners, narrow, dark and damp, so that
It is almost certain that they will con-
tract disease and when they come out
will spread that disease? 1t certainly
is crime against the prisoner and q
crime against the rest Of the popula-
tion. There might be some difference
of opinion as to the way prisoners
should be handled with regard to how
comfortable they should be made. but
to leave the insane with the sane, to
put prisoners in unsanitsry cells, to
subject prisoners to inhuman treatment
Of any kind is utterly incxcusable and
criminal
We certainly have no right to ig-
more these matters and to plead, "Am l
my brothers keepcr?"
ADOLPH LEWISOHN.
! New York, Jan. S, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Remember the Soldiers
Prohibition s Success


Sir: There arc a few fundamental
principles regarding the treatment of
prisoners on which we all must agree
namely, that the prisoner must not be
exploited by contract labor or in any
name and sensible treatment OF the
prisoner, with view that when he
goes back to the community he will be
able to take care OF himself and his
family and be likely to become good
and useful member of society.
| would like to see the number Of
prisoners greatly reduced. | would
only put such people in prison as are
likely to be dangerous to the com.
munity. AS it is now, most of the
prisoners are, of course, only tempo
rarily confined, and if it is claimed
they are a menace to the community
putting them temporarily into prison
does not solve the problem, because
when they come out they are at least
rs dangerous or more dangerous than
they were before, as long as we conduct
prisons as most prisons arc now CON
Quoted.
We spend tremendous amour. Of
money every year all over the country
ii building new courthouses, mainte-
nance OF courts, judges, attendants,
criminal lawyers, district attorneys,
prisons, wardens, keepers and all other
enormous expenses connected with this
work. ! would not be astonshed if it
amounts to at least several hundre d
millions Of dollars a year. l would like
to cut this expense, say, in half, and
use the money thus saved for the pre-
vention Of crime.
l would like to give all the people
good educations, have plenty of Young
Mems Christian Associations and
Young Women's Christian Associations
Educational Alliances, plenty of public
baths, many free concerts, music school
settlements, Fairgrounds, parks, recrea-
ton for the people, young and Old; in
struction in home gardening, good
housing facilities and many other
things. l think if we 90 all these
things we will greatly reduce the num-
ber of prisoners.
When the prisoner is sent to prison
he Is made dependent. and therefore it
evidently becomes the duty of the COM
munity to see that he or she is prop
erly treated and taken care Of. 1t is
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
The Disabled Veterans
Are They To Be Neglected and Forgotten ?-Lves
That Can and Must Be Saved

faithful Christians have lapsed into
plain Indifference as to what becomes
of these crippled, defective and dis
ablcd war heroes.
We do not make it our business to
look after them. We have passed the
responsibility for their care on TO
Washington, while we look the other
way; and thcrcupon we seek to dis
miss the images Of dolor and distress
from our minds. 1t is not SO fashion
able to be solicitous about the welfare
OF our bo. coming out of the war with
gaping wounds and gasping breaths as
it was when they went into war right
and brave In their new uniforms. Sal
vaging is not being done this season,
and yet the greatest Of all salvaging is
here to be done at Fox Hills and other
hospitals and Ought to be done now
the salvagng of human lives.
The patients at this hospital and
other hospitals arc we'll aware of the
fact that if there is change to- civil
ian physicians as the executive order
Of Senator Smoot reads, we will be, as
the cid army expression goes, S. O. l..
Yet there is afoot an effort on the part
Of few conscientious and benevolent
organizations and individuals to arouse
public interest in the cause Of relieving
these unfortunates and Of securing all
necessary treatment and action.
When you pass an ex-scrvicc man, re-
gardless Of the button he is wearing,
rocollect that these are the symbols
of thousands of sufferers who made tire
supreme sacrifice for YOU.
. IRVING SPANER,
Fox Hills Hospital, S. l., N. T.,
Jan. 4, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Protect the Good Tenant

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Now that the Assembly has
convened at Albany, the rent laws will,
of course, come up for consideration.
One of the most important provisions
of these laws-and one that should by
all means be retained in full force in
detinitely--is that which prevents a
landlord from being the sole Judge of
the dcsirability of tenant, and from
thus being able to evict tenant at
will, without other cause being as
signed than that 81 want your apart
ment for somebody else"
Any tenant who pays ire agreed rent
and who otherwise behaves as a good
tenant should, certainly ought to be
free--as under the present laws he is
from the menace of an arbitrary
dispossess notice, issued at the caprice
Of landlord
A landlord, of course, can always go
into court and secure the removal of a
tenant who fails to pay the agreed
rent, or who behaves in an objection
abic manner. and this is right; but
wcll-bchavcd and prompt paying fami-
lies cannot fairly be moved about like
books on shelf or checkers on a
checkerboard, on a mere whim Of the
landlord.
Good tenants should continue to be,
as now, secure in their quarters-per-
manently free, by statute, from the
menace Of arbitrary and unmerited
eviction. UPTOWN.
New York, Jan. s, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Germany Can Pay
Instructive Disbelief in Protestations
of Inability

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I believe that the first auto
matte reaction of the average citizen
to all these winnings about Germany
not being able to pay her Preparations
bill is that they are not true. Ever
since 1914 statement by Germany, or
most Germans, has aroused in most of
US the feeling that it is not So This
is nothing but the natural result of her
national policy and Of the sayings and
doings of so many Of her people.
When Germany protests that she
cannot pay, one instnctively does not
believe it because she says it. Where
has her money gone? When one re-
members the continuous bowling dur
ing the war about the "iniquitous"
blockade that wouldn't let Germans or
German goods in or out of Germany,
one asks the question: Where did her
money go? On her own showing she
must have spent it within her borders,
for she could not buy goods with it
outside to any great extent. So she
must still have it-unless she spent it
on propaganda in other countries.
Can any one really understand this
tendency to be easy on Germany and
hard on Franco, to believe Germany
and to disbelieve France? Has not
Frances attitude from the beginning
been conspicuously ghtforward and
easy to understand? Did not Germany
destroy one-third Of her territory, her
own remaining intact? Has not Ger
many now nearly every economic
privilege, including that Of freedom
from the cost of large army, while
her victim, impoverished France, must
maintain large army because neither
she nor any one else believes in Ger
manys protcstations? QUESTION.
New York, Jan. s, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Believers and Skeptics
70 the Editor of Tho Tribune.

10 the Editor OF Inc Tribune.
Sir: l have enjoyed reading your
editorial regarding DR.. Leuba's book
on "The Belief in God and immortal
ity." 1t occurs to me that college pro-
fessors and students are not tho best
ones to whom to put such questions,
because many Of them are specialists
who soon have single-track minds.
Having great respect for many scholar
~ men, SO far as their specialties are
concerned. l may be permitted to re-
mind you that they often are real pyg-
mics outside Of their stamping grounds.
My association with students convinced
me that they delight to take positions
that they are likely to abandon later in
life.
have great respect for the skeptic
who honestly doubts much Of the
teachings Of the churches; ! am an
intense churchman and entertain many
doubts myself.
However, the most ardent believer in
the modern theory of evolution must
admit that the belief in an ultimate
source, of intelligence and love, is far
more justified by scientific research
than is the hope of the materialistic
evolutionist that he can eventually
prove that life comes from matter. II
is not scientific to base your belief
upon what you hope to prove, but it is
scientific to base your belief upon what
science has proved.
The modern program Of religious
education is SO far removed from the
old haphazard textual method of prov
ing anything and everything, that it is
refreshing to find the out -of-date meth
DDS of churches being discredited. l
say this in spite Of the fact that much
of the criticism is far from being in
telligent.
Never before in my life of Gfty-tvo
years have been SO satisfied with the
reasonableness Of the Christian rcli
gion. M. S. POULSON
Vcntnor City, N. j., Jan. 6, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
70 the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have read and appreciated
your editorials on disabled veterans.
Bcing disabled soldier myself feel
deeply grntifcd. should like to con-
vey to the public an idea Of what tho
soldier patients at different hospitals
have to contend with.
About $4,000 soldiers and sailors Of
the World War were discharged from
the service of their country with men,
tai disorders or nervous ailments.
Fully half of these men can be re-
stored by time, favorable environment
and proper treatment. Forty thousand
ex-service men were discharged as
tubercular and 5000 more came home
gassed or suffering from other pull
monary disabilities. OF this total Mt
least one-third may be cured, and every
man Of them may have his life pro-
longed and his condition amelorated
by remedial agencies of fresh air and
sunshine, full meals and decent living
quarters. Naturally, a largo proper
tion of those who arc gassed or tuber-
cular have drifted to the West, recon-
mended to that locality because of its
salubrious climate and its wide repu-
tation as n sanatorium.
The Federal government has undcr
treatment by the Public Health Serv-
ice about onc-tcnth as many ex-selv
ice men rs arc suffering from pull
monary or nervous disorders and sur
gical disabilities. The other nine
| tenths must wait until the slow proc
esses Of department. machinery reach
| them on the list. Meanwhile we who
count ourselves as loyal citizens and
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Wilson as Hero
More Misrcprescntel Than Any
Other Public Man Since Lincoln

Other Public Man Since Lincoln
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | do not know John Crosby
Brown, but having just read his letter
in The Tribune will you kindly permit
me to express my appreciation and
hearty Endorsement Of the latter part
Of said letter through your columns ?
1t is very courteous but frank disap-
proval Of what he designates as your
i, "excessive and unwarrantad attacks
upon Woodrow Wilson and the things
he stands for"
Like him, have long been a reader
Of Tho Tribune, and, Notwithstanding
for the last two years have been many
times tried almost beyond endurance
by the assumption and attitude of
many Of its editorials, still find
much valuable and pleasant reading in
it.
Personally, | am by family tradition
and inheritance a dyed-in-thc wool Re-
publican, but since all the great issues
Of these later. days have been largely
world issues, have bccn compelled
to almost forget parties and party
lenders, as such, and have become not
only an ardent supporter Of the league
but an admirer and follower Of Wood
row Wilson as one Of the greatest men
this generation has produced Not that
he has not made tactical mistakes.
Who could have gone through the last
six strenuous years, with their pcrplex-
ing and bewildering complications,
without mistakes? But that he has
been more unjustly and unfairly dealt
With, more abused and misrepresented
than any public man since Lincoln, /
stoutly maintain.
Take your own attitude All through
the treaty fight you were sincerely for
the League; you frankly said so, our
place was in it. But why, why did YOU
and do you still, assert that "Mr. Will
son kept us out Of it,? Only few
days ago you said he "twice prevented
this country's entry into the League"
One would never think there had been
such thing as a round robin formed.
even before the Legaue was completed
| One would never dream there had been
4 Senatorial conspiracy led by Lodge
| & Co. TO defeat whatever Mr.. Wilson
brought back from Paris, no matter
what happened to the world, so long
as the man and his party were de-
feated.
You always insist it was all Mr.. Will
sons doing. 1t takes more than one to
make a night; one cannot get up a
quarrel alone, and | insist the fight
and the quarrel were started right in
the Senate and were spread by propa-
ganda from orc end of the United
States to the other, and that Mr.. Will
son had to fight, and did fight right
nobly, till life itself was almost lost,
in an effort to keep what at least would
have been beginning toward world
peace. All who are not color blinded
by partsanship or personal hatred
know now, it seems TO me, who kept US
ont Of the League, and why.
I firmly believe had we gone in it
as fundamentally and enthusiastically
az we did into the war itself, it would
have bound and strengthened the
bonds between all nations, all coun-
tries, and the whole world would have
been in much better shape every way
than it is to-day. And that it was the
stricken hero in Street who alone
kept US from this great achievement,
as you always assert, |, as firmly deny.
New York, Jan. 4, 1922. l.. S.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Letters the Tribune's Editor F.
~n
The French Case
Facts To Be Borne in Mind in An
swer to Misrepresentation

dStS 10 De DOrne IN iVllnO IN AN
swer to Misrepresentation
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: want to write a word in praise
of the article by David Jayne Hill in
defense Of France. Out here in the
West there appears to be regularly
organized propaganda to misreprescnt
the nation that has suffered more and
received less than an other in history.
France is condemned for not demob-
ilizing her army. yet only a few days
ago The Associated Press stated that
Trot4ky in his address to his army
of 1,595,000 men told them that they
must be ready for war. 1t was the
army of France, through hcr officers,
that saved Europe from the Russian
hordes few months ago. French off,
GERS to the number of about 600 reor-
ganised the Polish army and defeated
the Third Internationale under the
very walls OF Warsaw.
When the war ended the victors,
other than France, went home to their
own countries and found their towns
and cities untouched by war, leaving
France with 100000 dead and 450,0O0
houses destroyed, and her great indus
trial area desolate. Of the 025, 900
spindles carried away from the textile
mills of France only 100000 have been
returned, the balance having been sold
by Germany to neutral countries. And
French mills are without spindles.
Thousands of French peasants are still
living in "dugouts" and "shacks," J"
while not stone in Germany was up
turned.
During the first three years after
the armisticc Germany had paid in gold
only onc-third of the amount paid by
France during the first three years
after her defeat by Prussia in 1871. If
| France is to be denied the means to re-
build her devas tated area, then who
is to rebuild it? The homes of Amer
lea and England were defended from
behind French farm villages, and after
they had been destroyed in order that
homes Of other lands might be saved
we offer nothing to rebuild the ruins
brought about in common defense,
but we ask France to forgive the enemy
and assume all the burden.
When the history Of this epoch is
written by those removed from it's pref
udiccs the great outstanding wrong
will be the treatment Of France by the
Allies. That her soil should have been
used as n common battle-ground in de-
fense of civilization and that she
| should be left bled white and denied
even the assistance or guaranty for
the future is the crime Of the century.
+. C.
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 4, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
The Swiss President

fFrona The Westminster Gasettc)
The office of President of the Swiss
Confederation, to which M. Robert
Haab has just been elected, became Of
conspicuously greater international i'm
portance during the war, and it's re-
cent holders have even broken with
tradition so far as to pay official visits
to foreign countries. A few years ago
you could spend months in Switzerland
without ever hearing the Presidents
name. Many holders Of the Office have
been working men, and there are stories
OF eminent visitors being received by
M. ie President in his shirt sleeves or
by Madame, his wife. fresh from the
washtub.