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torlala?Advertisemcnta
Meraher of thc Atuiii Bureau ot Olrculatloot
MONDAY, JANUARY 12. 1920.
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Treaty Referendums
President Wilson h?s urged turn
ing the next Presidential election
into a "great and solemn referen
dum" on the question of ratifying
the Ti-eaty of Versailles. On this
point he finds himself in complete
harmony with the anti-ratification
ists in the Senate?the so-called "bit
ter enders." They are ultramontan
ists. So is he.
But if the next Presidential elec?
tion is to be converted into a treaty
> referendum, how is a clear and mor
ally binding decision to be reached?
How is the question of unconditional
ratification, rejection or ratification
with reservations to be divorced
from party politics? Is one party
to nominate an advocate of ratifica?
tion without qualifications, another
an advocate of ratification with the
Ludg:e reservations, another a cham?
pion of ratification with compromise
reservations milder than those which
the Senate has attached to the treaty,
and still another .some leader of
the Knox-Borah-Johnson group who j
favors the rejection of the- treaty
and the restoration of a peace status
by joint resolution?
"Manifestly, there aren't enough
parties to go around. Moreover,
there aro millions of voters in both
thc Republican and Democratic par?
ties who want to see the approach
Lng campaign fought on domestic
issues and who are only mildly in?
to rested in the treaty controversy.
These voters are mainly concerned
with party victory. They don't care
to be scattered into four different
new groups in order to express their
preferences as between ratification
and rejection and as between three
or more modes of ratification. They
would revolt against a referendum
which tied the result up with the
fortur.es of the various Presidential
candidates.
Even if a referendum could be
taken in advance of the Presidential
eiection ita value would be dubious
so far as developing the real senti
ment of the country is concerned.
Each party would be maneuvering
to draw partisan advantage out of
.1. A plurality might be given for
atification of soriie sort. But there
is a chance that the vote for re?
jection might be greater than the
vote for any one of the three or more
dilTerent niodes of ratification. Thus
nothing would be settled.
Some Democrats in Washington
have been talking about ordering an
immediate national referendum, in
order to take the treaty question out
of the Presidential campaign. But
on what basis would a straight-out
appeal to the people be made? Were
the Democrats to advocate a nation
wide referendum the restrictions on
the suffrage in the South would at
once become a disturbing factor. If
the result were determined by the
states, voting separately, with repre?
sentation equal to their representa?
tion in the Electoral College, a mi
nority of the people might easily
overra'ie a majority, or a deadlock
might result such as happens when
there is no majority in the Electoral
College and the election of a Presi?
dent is thrown into the House of
Kepresentatives.
In the national field we are very
firmly committed to the principle of
representative action. National ref
'irendums don't fit in with checks
and balances of our system of dis
rihuted powers. The President and
? hc Senate are charged with making
treaties. It would he a grave con?
fession of untdaptability on their
part if, not being able to come to a
i ational understanding, they should
t ry to shift the burden of a decision
the people at large.
Back to the Genteel
It Is descrving of publicity and
praise that the International Asso?
ciation of Clothing Deaigners now
nssembled in this city has set ita face
firmly against belts and cuffs and
?valstlines and other strange and
awful acourges which have marred
th* claasie outlines of the American
torso of the rnasculine gender in late
v?ar?. The war and eeonomy were
*upposed to have cleared up these
*b*urd decoratlows. Bu; they did \
not. Bifb prices are now given as ,
the reason for the present decision i
ta save. The gentle cynic may be
pardoned if he suspects thafc ?n
fther tnotive has played it? part?
t>? n?e?M?!ty of ehanging the style,
which naturally spells simplicity,
the limit in the bizarre and the
ridiculous having been reached and
passed.
It is a sweet word, genteel, as it
lY.lls from the lips of these remodel
lers of America's shoulders. "A few
months from now a man will not
cause comment because he is dreseed
like a gentleman," deciares the offi?
cial spokesman for the designers.
This is, indeed, thrilling news if
true. We have always wondered
why it never was true?why the
epoch-making thought never oc?
curred to the designers of clothes for
tho millions. It seemed so obvious
and profitable. Yet it was studiously
ignored. Would the millions have
none of such clothes? . Or did it
never occur to any one? Or is it
tliat the last freak and added eccen
tricity has now been tried out and
only the genteel is left?
Why Not Tell?
ln his reply to Judge Hughes
Speaker Sweet asks for a euspension
of judgment until the Judiciary
Committee of the Assembly holds its
hearings.
The Speaker thus seems to con- j
cedo that the exclusion of the Social-1
ist five is not justifiable merely be?
cause of their party affiliation?that.
it is essential to establish personal
guilt. I
The Speaker makes progress. His i
first utterance was not exactly in
this spirit. He seemed to convict in
advance of any trial.
But why hold back the evidence, if
there is any? Why not reveal its
color at once? No reason for delay
is advanced.
The Speaker must be aware that
his silence concerning the nature of
the evidence leads many to think
there isn't any.
The Colonel House Mystery
Some new light has just been
thrown on the mystery of the break
between President Wilson and
Colonel House. ln an article in
the January issue of The Atlantic
Monthly Mr. Charles H. Grasty, dis
cussing "the personality behind the
President," indicates that Colonel
House somewhat overplayed his
role as the President's deputy in
matters of world politics.
The colonel, in Mr. Grasty's view,
could have ? exercised without any
resti'aint the powers of an un
official domestic grand vizier of the
Marcus A. Hanna type, for the rea?
son that the President was never
even moderately interested in the
details of patronage distribution,
party management and domestic
poiitical strategy. But when it
came to reconstructing the world at
Paris the President concentrated
all responsibility in his own hands
and became highly impatient of the
concurrent services of any vice
regent or coadjutor.
Mr. Grasty says:
"Mr. Wilson's tendency to give his
indorsement in blank has sometimea
got hirr. into trouble, No man
should have been put into the posi- |
tion that Colonel House was. The
country resented it, and finally the
colonel himself used the President's
writ too freely, with the result that
unity of policy was somewhat im
paired at Paris. Colonel House
fillod a deeply felt need at the White
House ar.d from thc President's
point of view was most helpful. He
was very activc in the field in which
the President had disabilities. He
loved being a Warvvick as much as
the President hated the whole busi?
ness of handllng patronage. House
was, as it were, a bureau drawer
for things he did not exactly know
where elsa to put. The Texan is
orderly minded and has much sa
gacity, but he overestimatcd his
reach. It was inevitable that this
should be the result of the Presi?
dent's clothing him with too much
! power."
Mr. Grasty says that he "estab?
lished a relationship" with the Presi
i dent at Paris during the peace con?
ference. Presumably, he had the
means of informing himself of the
tragedy through which the colonel
lost his kitchen cabinet prime min
istership. He tells much; but he
doesn't tell enough. Will the coun?
try have to await a revised edition
i of Colonel House's autobiography
[ for a complete account of the cir
cumstances of that descent from
favor whose uttemess Cardinal
Woolsey may well have hinted at
in tho famous words to Cromwell:
"And when he falls he falls like
Lucifer"?
Short-Cutting Legal Processes
Tho Law Reform Committee of
the New York State Bar Associa?
tion, in its report to the parent body,
obviously approaches the subject of
women serving on juries with some
trepidation. The committee, its
members steeped in the traditions
of a conservative profession, is o*
coury* opposed to the woman juror. '
But it admite, with unconcealed re
gret, that if the women insist "we
perhaps must yield." The word
"perhaps" might have been omitted.
Ifc is also something less than
frank, probably, in its statement of
reasons for its opposition. Trained
mainly for wifehood, motherhood
and the making of homes, women,
so the committee averu, not only
have no time to attend court and
are more or leas incompetent prop
crly to weigh judlcial procedures
and to pftgs on evidenee, Rather
old sferff, It is not tfa* moz? ?o?>
?tocmg because Jfc cenaej ttom tep
reaentfljfervaj* of a wrx -wfrleh, fn jtrry
service in America at least, has been
notoriously susceptible to the emo
tional effect of a starry eye or a I
rosebud mouth. ,
The committee would have been ;
more in agreement with the general
view had it expressed the fear that
if given an important share of court'
work women soon would demand!
short cuts in judicial processes. New \
at the business of helping to run j
the country, without a background J
of ancient usage, woman jurors may !
object to the usual ponderosities j
not because of inability to under- ;
stand, but of impatience with sense-1
less verbosity. Women are the prac
tical sex, we are told, and are likely i
to revolt against the droning pro
lixity which the law loves. The
solicitor of the, Shandy family used
several pages of the Shandy mar?
riage contraet merely to say, as
Tristram remarked, that Mrs.
Shandy could go to London only once
a year at her husband's expense.
Setting a new fashion in court
procedure, banishing the present
style of endlesa red tape, would be
a real achievement for emancipated
woman.
Berger's Second Exclusion
The House of Representatives, by
a vote of 328 to 6, has once more
voted to exclude Victor L. Berger
from membership.
The ground for this praetically
unanimous action is the same as be?
fore?namely, that Mr. Berger has
been duly convicted of having vio
lated. a law of the United States,
and, "having previously taken an
cath as a member of Congress to
support the Constitution of the
United States, had given aid and
comfort to the enemies of the United
States." Not as a Socialist, as Rep?
resentative Dollinger declared, but
as guilty of treason, was he ex
cluded.
Mr. Berger has recently asserted
he is not a revolutionary or an advo
cate of force?that he has not
countenanced resort to violence.
Over against this disclaimer maybe
placed the following from a signed
articlo by him published in The Mil
ivaukee Social Democratic Herald:
"No one ?will claim that I am given
to the rtciting of revolutionary
phrases. On the contrary, I am
known to be a 'constructive', Social?
ist. However, in view of the riuto
cratic lawmaking of the present
day, tt is easy to predict that the
snfety and hope of this country will
lie in one direction only?that of a
violent und bloody revolution. There
fore, I say, each of the 500,000 Social?
ist voters and the 2,000,000 working
men who instinctively incline our way
should, besides doing much reading
and still more thinking, also have a
good nfle and the necesmry rounds of
ammunition in hi* howc and be pre
pared to back up his ballots with his
hullets. if necessary."
*
This tta's' written as far !;:uk an
1909. In view of Mr. Berger's views
before the war and his conduct dur?
ing the war, it is not strange that
the sincerity of his present pretend
ed devotion to peaceful and constitu
tional agitation is doubted.
Are Americans Crazy?
Some of the statements made to
explain and rationalize the ever up?
ward trend of prices for food and
clothing involve a flat challenge of
American sanity. They may be true.
But, if they are, "Who's looney
now?" is the proper tag for post
war Americans.
Mr. William M. Wood, the presi-'
dent of the American Woolen Com?
pany, said not long ago that prices
of men's clothing were high because
purchasers of suits demanded the
highest grades of woolens and would
take no others. That is a. echo of
the meat dealer's well known com
plaint that his customers all want
tenderloin and porterhouse steaks
and sniff with scorn at cuts which
are more plebeian.
We are disposed to attribute a
sense of humor to the frolicsome
butcher, whose sardonic attitude
toward the world at large is pro
verbial. We might think that'Mr.
Wood was also indulging in genial
I sarcasm. But hei'e comes Mr. Ar
jthur Williams, the Food Administra
| tor in these parts, whose experiences
j should by this time have. made him
: impervious tc^ the facetiousness of
j those who have things to sell and
want to sell them at decorative
j prices. Discussing the ballooning of
' footwear quotations, following re?
ported declines in the price of hides,
Mr. Williams says somewhat enig
matically:
"The peculiar part of the whole
shoe situation is that dealers cannot
turn out enough expensive shoes
[Oughtn't 'enough* and 'expensive'
to be transposed?.]. I know of one
firm that manufactures ahoes to or?
der [are shoe" ever manufactured to
order?] for $50 a pair. The demand
for these shoes is rcmarkable. Th<
owner of the plant tells us that his
difflculty lies not in disposing of the
shoes, but in obtaining expert work
mon to manufacture them.
"Above all thingrs lt is neceBsaryto
prevent unfair mercnants from tak
ing advantaga of this $ituatlpn,
in which th* public virtually ignoren
prie$$."
? 11 the public virtually ignores
prices there ia, of course, no renson
why nhoeo shouldn't bo uold at $400
to $r>00 a palr?flguroa which they
rcachod ln Confoderatc papor monoy
during the last days of the Civil
War. Yet li th* mania of tho con
ranunr, really renponsible for the I
high cost of e1otrrlng"to-day? Thero
are many profiteers whose money
burns in their pockets. But can the |
average consumer he fairly indicted
for moon-faced recklessness in
pushing up his living expenses? It
is a mystifyihg problem. Has Amer?
ica gone consumption ma.d?
On the ratification issue most of
the Democrats in thc Senate ap
parently want to accept Mr. Wil?
son's leadership while adopting Mr.
Bryan's policy. So there is glory
enough for all.
A Dubious Clause
Conlradiclion Clouds the League s
Recognition of Monroc Doclrine
To the Editor of Thc Tribune.
Sir: I would ask the privilegc of
drawing attention through the columns
of The Tribune to an important di
vergencc in meaning between the
French and English texts of Article
XXI of the covenant of the league of
nations on the subject of the Moiiroe
Doctrine.
The English tcxt reads:
"Nothing in this covenant shall be
deemed to affect the validity of inter?
national engagenients, such as treaties
of arbitration or rcgionnl understand
ings like the Monroe Doctrine, for se
curing the niaintenance ot' peace."
The French tcxt reads:
"Les engagements intornntionaux,
tels que les traites d'arbitrage, et les
ententes regionales, comme la doctrine
de Monroc, que assurent le maint;en de
la paix, ne sont consideres pomme in
conipatiblcs avec aucune des disposi
tions de present Pacte."
A literal translation of the above
reads:
"International engagements such us.
treaties of arbitration, and rcgional un
derstandings, like the Monroe Doctrine,
which secure thc maintenance of peace,
are not considered as incompatible with
any of the dispositions of the present
pact."
It will be'Observed that the French
text is the exact rcverse of'the English
text. Instead of a guarantee that
nothing in the covenant shall be deemed
to affect the validity of the Monroe
Doctrine, we have a guarantee that the
Monroe Doctrine shall not be deemed
to affect the validity of lhe covenant!
In other words, it is tho covenant that
is safeguarded, not the doctrine!
As both texts are held to be "authen
tic," this article obviously requirea
something strongur than a mere inler
pretation, if the United States honestly
desires to safeguard thc Monroe Doc?
trine.
There are thost who hold that by
agrecing in recent treaties of arbitra?
tion to arbitrate tlisputes of every
nature without i ny reservation what
e,ver the United States has already
abandoned the Monroe Doctrine. Such
persons will doubtlesa find great satis
faction in tho fact that Article XXI for
some peculiar reason guaranteea that :
nothing in the covenant shall affect the
validity of these treaties!
The more one studios the covenant,
us well ns the wholc Treaty of Ver?
sailles. the more evident the necessity
appears for a elenrer tindcrstanding of
the nature of the ohligations the United
Statea is asked to ;<. mme. Ilon'or as
well as prudence demands that we
pledge no more than we are willing to
fulQll.
Tho more time and opportunity is
afforded for a thorotigh study of the i
covenant and for moro light on Euro
pean conditions in general on which '?.
the whole project is based, the mere,
certain it is that the American people'
will insifjt on stringent reservations. It
is even possible that they may come to
distrust thc wisdom of undertaking any
such engagements and ma; hold that
tho United States may best preserve itsl
freedom of moral leadership in behalf
of world peace by refusing to be bound
by any such compromising provisions
as are typifled hy Article XXT.
PHILIP MARSHALL BROWN.
Princeton, N. J., Jan 9, 1920.
For Delegate-at-Large
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With that strange lack of vision
and poiitical fbresight that has often
in the past characterized Republican
leadership, F notiee the "Republican
organization of this state" purpose ?
exclude women from membership of
the "big four," i. e,, the delegates-at
large to the Republican National Con?
vention, notwithstanding the fact that
women constitute one-half of the Re?
publican voters of tho state. Aa if to
emphasize this ignoring of tho "new
voters" it is purposed to send as one
of the "big four" a United States Sen?
ator who. through his vote and in
fluence, put forth every possible ef?
fort to prevent tho right of suffrage
being extended to women. Could any- ,
thing more stupid, politically, be im- !
agined?
Fortunately, there is a meajie at
hand that may be used in saving ths
party from the consequences of such
unwise and short-sighted leadership.
The direct primary makes it possible,
independent of the regular party or?
ganization, to have names of candi
dates for delegates placed on the pri?
mary ballot in the same manner and
on an cqial footing in all respeevs with
those that will be named by "tho or?
ganization" at its forthcoming "un
ofPHal convention."
In thia connection I am sure I voice
' nentiment of Republicans. of Now
York generally and will have their in
stuiit indorsemont when I suggest for
one of the de!egai.es-at-large a women
of keen jntollect and broad vision, ::
who is in every way fitted and qualifled "
to aplendidly reprcaent the Republi- >
cana of New York ln the National Con?
vention. Thia woman is Mra. Margaret
Blaine Damroach.
It will be agreed that the fact that
Mra. Damrosch ls a daughter of that j,
moist Ulustrioua and brilliant Ropub- [
llean Jamea G. Blalno would be an '
added rftason why tho Republican'
votcra of this utato would drhght to
honor hor.
MRB. PAVID ALLEN CAMPBELL,
Enrollod Republican, 10th Aaaembly
Diatrlet.
W?ar Yorlr, .Tnn. S. 1020.
The Conning Tower
Village Nocturnes
The World Goes By
The lights along our village street
Go off at twelve o'clock,
And double darknes9 settles 9tiddenly
Beneath thc arches of the elm trees.
Then hcaring grows still more alert;
My cars pick out the scattered noises
of the night.
A sleepy rooster wakea and crows,
A horse within a sfable, restiess at
the flies,
Stamps, and the stable is a sounditig
, board;
A baby cries,
A feeble fret against the shrill in
sistence of the katydids;
In troubled sleep
Bchind a windovv in a house near by,
Some dwellcr muttcrs
And the bed complains;
A long way off, acro9s the star-lit fields,
A dog barks once, and then is still;
Far ddwn the road, a droning buzz at
first,
I hear the rumble of a motor truck:
Its lights appear, two staring yellow
eyes,
That flash and swell and btust in
golden radiance
Into the groined black arches of the
elm nave.
It piisses on,
A squnre of black with one red eye,
Stamped on the radiance it pours ahead.
The village has not waked,
Stlence again, and darkness. . . .
Then, far away once more, ;i long
drawn whistle
And a pounding, steady chug,
Louder and nearer, rattlirtg to a roar?
The north-bound freight goes through.
It hits the siding switch;
The wheels
Go thump-tluimp, thmnp-tluimp,
As they cross. '
Between two houses, where the view
is clear,
I scc the dark train suddenly aglow;
The boiler door is opened,
The fireman is heaving coal,
Thc trailing smoke phnne, on its under
side,
Is shot with ct'imson like a comet's tail.
Then darkness, and a dying roar,
And silence once again.
Thc world goes by us in the night,
We sleep. . . .
I walk home underneath the trees,
Between the crickcts and the katydids.
Walter Prichakd Eaton.
The Belection ot' San ' Francisco for
tho Democratic Convention will cost
the Enstern newspapers what may be
called, without overstatement, a pretty
penny. Aside from tho transportation
expenses of the correspondonts, there
is the great cost of telegraphic dis
ptitches. The silver lining is that the
papers may economize nnd print only
twice as much stufif us people can
read, instead of ten times as much.
Thrall to thc Maeterlinckian Blues
is Macy's ihapBodic advertisement
writer. "It i? Maurice Maeterlinck,"
he says, "who, glimpsing those shin
ing feathers, spun a silken web of
poetry to snare the singing bit of
blue." A silken bolt from the blue, if
vo'u ask us.
_
|| Gothani Gleanings B:
?Glcn Flory is mighty busy these
days.
?January thaws are thc order of
the day.
?This dep't is for Henry J. AUcn
for Fres.
?The subway service is no better
than it should be.
?Geo. Adams of Boston was in j
town over Sat. and Sun.
?Geo. Ade is spending the frigid j
term at Bellcair Hts., Fla.
?Miss Neysa McMein is better of j
the la grippe, which she had last wk. j
Frank Ward O'Malley is writing i
pieces" fur Geo. Lorimer's wkly these j
days. ?
?Herb Swope was a pleasant!
caller Wednes. aft. Come again!
Herb.
?George Schncider, thc best pvt. :
sec'y ye ed. and Geoffrey Parsons'
and VVm. McPhersoh ever'shared,
left Sat. to engage in the fire ins. bus.;
in Bklyn. Good luck Geo.
?Toni Wells is now editor of
Harper's and Lee Hartman asso
ciate editor. Good luck boys say we.
?Boze Bulger was a pleasant'
caller Thurs. Boze is reading "Les
Miserables" in the original (French), i
which he reads almost as well as
his native tongue. Bozc. studied
French under Col. K. R. W. McCabe
a: N'cufchateau, Fr.
-Charley Orth is going to be i
married ln March to Miss Kathcrine j
Stamm, of Harrisburg, Penn.
?Jack Drinkwatcr was to Bklyn. |
for dinner Thurs., returning to the i
city the same eve'g.
A well toined piece of voice, accord?
ing to A. J. B., is this, from the Green
wich Village Follies:
Though you*ve an arm-chair there
And a pipe, and Cohan Doyle,
Home'e not home, sweet home,
If there ilnt a beautiful girl.
"I am wondering," Kerb lders,
'about John 2hey'? taste ln furniture.
Doos ho care for the :ial? Or doesn't
ie go ln for this , atuff?"
Soiiutor Loi^re, it Is denled. will
ipend the summor hL Treaty, Ind.
But this paper 1s committed to
rribune, Mo.
F. P. A.
What, Again?
fCopyrtght, 1920. .\>w York ^Tribune Tnc.l
Bool^
Hcywood Broun
A new and perplexing problem in re?
gard to immortality is introduced by
Horace Hutchinaon, the famous English
golfer, in lys "Fifty Years of Golf"
(Scribners). Commenting on the fact
that one of the spirit messages re?
ceived by Oliver Lodge came from a
man who said he had just been golfing,
Mr. Hutchinaon raises the question of
what golf may be like in the future!
life. Though there is u touch of banter
in his speculations, he affirms that his !
intent is f.erious. This may well be
bolieved, r-ince he states on a previous
page: "At the moment ot' writing it
is most unlikely, according to all the j
doctors say, that I shall ever play,:
properly or improperly, again; but it
would not do for me to grumble. I ]
have had a very full and pleasant j
golfing day?much interrupted, it ia'
true, by illness, but still as extensive,
as a reasonable man could ask. And if
all active part in the game is to be
denied in the future, at all events I can \
still take interest undiminished in the1
work and play of others. Golf is not
only the best of games to play: it is
also, in many respects, the best to look
on at." i
One is williilg to believe, then, thati
there is a touch of wistful hopefulness'
in the heart of Mr. Hutchinson when [
he discussea the immortality of golfi
and writes:
"Such revelations, if we attach value i
to them at all, inevitably carry the in-!
ference that we shall there find golf,;
together with other conditions not'
widely different from those that we!
have known on earth?not a 'fancy';
golf on illimitable Elysian Fields, withi
never a bad lie on the whole immense,
monotonous expanse, but real golf, dif
ficult golf, golf with bunkers and all!
incidental troubles to be overcome?not
without rexation of spirit?golf in
which (for we cannot presume an in
finity of halved matches) one or other!
player will be beaten.'
"So it may be. It needs at least'
equal boldness to deny it as afttrm it.
And, if it be so, arises then the fur-j
ther auestion: 'Will those who are j
champions now, be champions then?!
Are we to carry on, into that beyond,!
any portion of the skill acquired so
painfully here below? Will Harry Var
don still be, golfily speaking. Harry
Vardon there?'
"It scarceiy seems an equitable pros
pect. Have we not more reason, and
even somejiigh authority, to suppose
that the blessed hiw.of compensation
will be in operation?that the first
here will be the last there, and tho
eighteen-handicap man now, the scratch
player, or better, of that bright future?"
Of courae, the prospect of immor?
tality fa enticing to golfers. Some of
ua feel that in such an existence there
might be time for ua to leam how to'
ptftt.
Englishmen are fnclined, not without!
justice, to regard Americans as a peo- j
ple devoid of a sense of humor. It is
not to be denied that often we are too
Hteral to appreciate English flights of
wlt. We haaten, therefore, to affirm
again that we rralize that there ia a
bit of spoof in Mr. Hutchinson's specu?
lations. And yet they are, rooted in a
definite hope. We rather fancy that in
hia heart of hoarts the great golfer
thinks of Hcaven as a place not unlike
St. Andrewa on a clear. coolish day
with juat enough wind to give a few
extra yarda of carry when it la at the
drlver's back. For that matter, if
there is golf ln Heavon we rather think
that some arrangement has been made
?o that on every hole tha breeea la a
favoring one. Also, if it is within the
power of the lordff of life and death, it
would be pleasant to have golf balls
which would squeak loudly "Here I am"
whenever they were driven into long
grass.
It is possible to conceive of golfers
going to Heaven, but we are not so
sure about caddies.
Certain drawbacks are bounci to pre
vail. It raa- be that after death we
shall al! lcarn to regard such ugly
myths as hell and damnation scorn
fully, but if the words accordingly drop
out of the language it will be rather
diflicult for a golfet to express himself
with any satisfaction r.o himself or the
spectators. '
Here in America we are sometimes
inclined to regard the English as hard
losers, but we do not take into account
the depths of English passion for out
door sports. It is easier for us to
lose with good grare because the game
itself is vastly less important. In
Hutchinson's book one finds that the
pain of the loss of the championship
which fell to Walter J. Travis has not
yet entirely subsided. English golfing \
writers still insist on speaking aa if!
he had no club in his bag. but a put-!
ter, and that a strange and outlandish {
contrivance.
Hutchinson's attention was first!
called to the American invader by a I
friend who remarked: "Have you seen |
that American who is putting with an
extraordinary thing like a croquet mal~
let? He's putting most extraordinarily !
well with it."
Later Travis put out Hutchinson. and !
the latter is generous although not. ex-!
actly spendthrift in his praise of his I
opponent.
"With the. black cigar," he writes I
of Travis, "and the deliberate methods,
including the practice swing before!
each stroke, he was perhaps a rather j
hard man to play against, but at the
same time, and although I have said!
he did not play very well when 1 met
him, I think those critics make a great
mistake who say that he was not a first
Class golfcr. He was, and is, a wonder- '
iul putter. I know that, not only by
the wonderful week of putting that he
put in over here at that time, but by'
what Jim Whigham and others who
have played a great deal with him in "
America have told me. Whigham said
that you were grateful. thinking that
you had n lucky escape, if you were his!
opponent. and he did not hole the ball
from fifteen yards. This was ut Gar?
den City, whefo he knows the greens
better than his drawing room carp'et !
ndeed, all Travis's record disproves
the statement that 'he was not flt to
win the championship.' , That he was
lucky to Min' we must think. Unless
a man is head and shoulders above his '
field, he has to have luck if he is to'live
through a tournament such as our|
amateur championship; ?nd Travia had
no such head nnd shoulders advantagc
ns this. But put him down at a hun
dred and eighty or any less number of I
yards from the hole and there was no !
Player, amateur or professional, better i
than he. Perhaps there was no amateur
as good."
Chriatmas and After
(From Tf Memphia Comm9rpial Appfat) !
After the sweet buy-and-buy comes!
tho bitter pay-and-pay.
All at Sea
^m Jht BMton ^tMng Tranaoript)
The Seeretary of the Nayy never
found himself ln deeper water.
That Wet Atlantis
Reasons Why It Is Likely to
Remain a Myth
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the magazine seetion of l?a
Sunday'8 issue of Tho Tribune th*r*
was an article hy Mr. Fred B, Pitneyon
the proposed island of Atlantis for th*
sale of liquor. etc. :ir.il the lmpresaioi
gained is that this sale could be ear
ried on without hindrance from thf
United States unless the United State
by a high-handed course. by the righ'
of might stopped it, and this wtthool
the might of righl back of it. This, 1
think. is not quite true, and I wouk
like to call attention to reasons why I
think there would bi a might 6f righl
back of ti.
First, it is likelj thal 'he Treasury
Department mighi consider that i'
would make smup-gling essier, and,
therefore, take stens to have it stopped
In this I believe they would be actinp
within the law of reason, for thare li
no reason- to doubt that article! of
small sizo, easily carrled in one-'
pocket, could be broughl there fron
foreign shores and ps scd over to som*
casual visitor From teswhowouUl
carry thom in. ln order to overcome thit
possibility it would bi i ecessary foi
each boat coming into any port with.'
three or four hundred miles from tha
point to be searched, passengers an;
all. This would require an immar.s1
increase in the por-;onnel of the cus?
toms service, a greatly increased cof
and also an immense amount of how;
ing from coastwise passengere thr.
otherwise are free from -uch treai
ment.
Second, there 8 more than a passinr
possibility of crime of some kind o
another being comn itti ere, and H
so where could n " he mad*
According to the aTticIc, lhe attoiw
?enerals of the nearby states have d"
:laimed any jurisdicl on over 'hat p?r'
Df the sea. If the i ' nera tr:ed to hoi<
:ourts and try th'- - efendant and four.
Kim guilty what v.-ou'd they do witr
:iim? If a jailable offei ? wnuld the
letain him or it' gu t> of homicid'
Arould they execute him? Should th?)
try to do either 01 a ot theae thf
vould then become chargeable *'ilr
liracy* Should they take ar.othr
:ourse and try to reimburse ona w'-f'
"laimed that his money or valuabl*'
lad been taken it would not take low
.u-fore there would ba many claimant'
vhich would soon depietc any Vv0- '
hat might have accrued.
1 feel confident that these two r*?
10ns alone would cause the l'n*tef
>tates to prohibit the earning out e
his project. HAROLD F. AP.OiS
Havana,?Cuba. Jan. 4. 1920.
Two Kinds oi Suckcw
(From The Riehmond T> ne?-Du>patt\>
The Ohio farmer who paid $15 f? ?
reserved seat to see the worid com? ?
?n end was hardly more gullible, or ??
locent, if you prefer, than those whi?*J
ntereats that are paying out b;g m?:if;
.o high-priced lawyera to perauade J*
United Stntes Supreme Court 'hat thf
Federal prohibition amendment is 'uD
:onstitutional."
The Final Blow
(Fro% Ths Omaha World-Htrsli)
Mr. Palmer doesn't seem to b* "*T
ng a whole lot of euccess in ama?h'B*
lown pricea. But, of course, ho ha?" ?
prurig his trump card on B C. I* 7*
Vait till hc gots out an injunction.
Darwin Disproved
(From Ths Dttroit Jo*nal)
Dlsintetrratlon of the Preaidw'
Jabinet has not left the theory ?*'?"
urvival of the fltteat ? leg to etan?<*

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