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Writers Unite
In Demand for
Reservations
Interest in Foreign Rela?
tions Increases in Popu?
larity Among Framers
of Republican Platform
Living Cost Ranks Tenth
Rational Industrial Court
and Opon Shop Plank*
Amone Those Suggested
Another day's mail has added to the
evidence that a : rge percentage of
Republican voters believe foreign re
latior.s is the param? uni issue of this
year's Pre-'?-. i a! campaign. The for
?ign relations plank not only held its
place at the top of the list in The
Tribune's aat onal Republican platform
contest, but increased its margin of
rotes over Am x ?sm. the second
?une in point of popularity.
The nurr.be? of planks submitted in?
creased fron- 667 to 824. the largest
?^in for a single day since the contest
began. That interest in the compet?- '
tien is growing rapidly was indicated
\o by the increased number of letters
?ling with single planks or with the
tfonn in general.
The order of the first ten planks is
now as follows:
roreign relations, Americanism, so?
cial -legislation, capital and labor. Bol?
shevism, constitutional rights, army
and navy, free speech, national budget
:.:. i cost of living.
Universal military training, which
tras in the first ten on the Drevious
..-, has dropped back and now ranks
, .er.th. with its supporters only one
!r3S in number than those advocating
a r'ank trailing for a party declaration
.,??' the high cost of li\ ing.
The contributors of the day who ap?
plied their talents to the foreign rela?
xons problem were almost a unit in
?sanding strong reservations to the l
covenant of the league of nations, '
Some expressed themselves as ?ypposed
to "me?3diir.t- in Eur pe's arfa rs";
ithers were iess specific One demand
? ; that the document be "American
iied." Ancther wanted the league sub?
mitted direct to the people.
\mong the suggestions tor the capi
? ! and lab^r nlxr.k were a national in
striai tribunal to settle disputes,
-ate courts of arbitration and a sys?
tem of profit-sharing in which em
pioyer, employee, government and con?
sumer ail would -hare. One Con?
tibutor proposed that the party come
"tit flatly for *;-e "open shop "
Other suggestions of the day were a
?onus for soldier? and sailors pro?
portionate to their length of service in
he World's War. a national poll tax
: ?3 a head to help pay off the war
kbt, daylight saving, recognition of
Ireland's efforts to become a republic,
:. portfolio of education in the Presi- !
ient'8 Cabinet and a census of "100
per cent Americans."
' lanks
?. To-day's P
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On the making of plat?
forms, in general, I have this to
say:
1?Plain people do not read
lengthy platforms. Nor hare
we much interest in big words
and high-sounding political
phrases. What we want is
something concise, timely, in?
telligent and true. Along with
this we must be made to feel
that the party means to keep
its pledges. We will not vote
where we cannot trust.
2?It is not wise to argue any
issue in a platform. The cam?
paign orators and debaters will
take care of all that. Just
state the matter plainly, in a
square, solid plank.
3?It is not good policy to
criticize the opposing party
and load up with denunciations
of an Administration that will
have to answer for its sins.
The Wilsonian brow wears no
halo. If there are any shining
remnants of it left they will !
Square Deal for Labor,
Capital and Public Urged '
Legislation Beneficial to Masses,
Rather Than Classes, a
Prime Party Duty
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: America as an enlightened na?
tion has long led the way in progves
?we labor legislation. We believe:
ihat labor should be protected to give
it adequate returns, rightful condl
?ions of service and the opportunity
to enjoy the leisure that is the in?
alienable birthright of every American
citizen. In all fairness, we should be
iieve that capital should be protected
:o give it adequate returns in inter?
est, an expanding market and the
financial freedom that is its right.
The Republican party should en
force existing labor laws. It should
pass such legislation as is deemed
necessary to protect labor as a whole,
?"ith especial attention to female and
child labor. But, equally, the Republi
?an party should protect the capital
stic interests arainst an over-aggres>
sive and extortionate labor group. Too
l'ten in the last eight years labor
legislation has been to benefit a class ?
as against the mass of the people. It j
can only be regretted that the power
of the organized few could influence
legislation detrimental alike to cupi?
al and the unorganized public.
KARL R. HENRICH.
375 Park Avenue.
Store Hours, 9.30 A. M. to 6 P. AV.
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of
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1 Kolinsky Wrap. $975
1 Mole Wrap.. $695
1 Beaver Coat . $625
also
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Natural Beaver Scarfs. . $39.50
Hudson Seal Scarfs. $24.50
Hudson Seal Stole3. $69.50
Wolf Animal Shaped Scarfs. $29.50
Wolf .Muffs. $39.50
Skunk Tie Scarfs. $39.50
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Natural and Dyed Raccoon Scarfs. $17.50
Brown Fox Scarf?. $49.50
Brown Fox Muffs. $52.50
At the.se annual ?ales it is possible to secure
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W'ywrth PUnrr
Y
Sub m
rize Letter
be stripped away in due course.
But the platform is not meant
| to serve that purpose.
4?No plank should be so
narrow and absolutely rigid as
to be brittle. Many things
come to pass between the June
convention and the November
? election. A plank may be posi?
tive enough and at the same
time so worded as to permit
of a large interpretation. It
must be able to sway a little
with the rest of the platform.
Too many nice particulars are
i dangerous. A great party
should not be committed to any
one mere method.
5?The Republican platform
must be built up this year with
even more care than ever, its
foundations bedded deep in the
concrete of Americanism, its
framework substantial rather
than beautiful, its every plank
of clear, sound stuff, straight
grained and seasoned. The
Tribune, in its platform ?con?
test, is serving both people and
party. W. S. C.
Deeds,Not Words,Needed
In Fighting Bolshevism
Aid for Russia in Stamping Out
"Red" Evil at the Source
Is Suggested
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Bolshevism seems to be one of
the greatest problems facing the
world to-day.
During the past year the armies of
L?nine and Trotzky have brought a
large area under their, autocratic con?
trol. One by one the leaders who have
valiantly fought to save Russia have
failed. Throughout the "world their
insidious propaganda is being spread
v^h'.re it tinus a fertile tield?in the
minds of the ignorant and dissatisfied.
Even in our own country the effects
of that propaganda have been evident.
Our government has made promises
to the Russians. They have been told
that our country would support them
iii their uphill battle for liberty, but
they have received only words. Even
now we are withdrawing our little
handful of troops from ?Siberia, leav?
ing that helpless country to her too
certain unhappy fate.
It is clearly evident that the world
cannot long exist part Bolshevik and
part free. It is also clearly evident
that Bolshevism cannot be stamped out
by the deprivation of a few alien radi?
cals. The evil must be attacked at its
source, which is in Russia.
The Republican party must face this
issue squarely anti must pledge itself
to the aid of unhappy Russia and all
of those countries that border on
Russia, and must be prepared to back
up its pledges with deeds as well as
words. MONROE W. KNAPP.
95 Maple Street, New Britain, Conn.
>
CaldwelJMtndorses Ic!?ea
Voters Who Support Platform
Entitled to Voice
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune is contributing a
high public service in ascertaining the
sentiments of the public on the ques?
tion of what a platform should be in
the forthcoming campaign, and this
is exactly the way a platform should be
composed, namely, by ascertaining the
opinions of those who are expected to
.-support the platform.
R. J. CALDWELL.
Chairman Industrial Relation' Com?
mittee of the National Republican
Club.
Penny Raising Tactics"
Of Retailers Are Denounced |
To the Editor of The Tribune. '
Sir: No matter how the planks read,
the American public would like the
retailer's incessant penny-raising
tactics to stop at once.
I may not win $10 with this letter,
but could save more than that under
less rapacious trade practices. W. E. C. j
-?
Definite Stand on Article X
Favored hy Lodge Admirer
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One of the planks in the plat?
form of the Republican party should be
the rejection or acceptance of Arti?
cle X.
I don't think it takes a Philadelphia
lawyer to put me down a3 an enthusias?
tic Lodge Republican. G. D. M.
Ill Broadway, City, Jan. 27, 1920.
itted i
Radical Beliefs
In Declaration
Are Deplored
Suggestion Is Made That
Contributors View Issues
More Broadly and Omit
Element of Personal Bias
Virtues Seen in Brevity
J Concentration of Subjects
in Their Specific Planks
Is Declared Desirable
1 To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I would like to offer a little
criticism of the planks published in
your Platform Contest.
It seems to me that most of the
planks published cover too small a field,
and also too many insignificant sub?
jects.
A national platforiri should cover
?t?nly the most important issues and
cover them in as general a manner as
possible. By general I do not mean
indetinite. For example: One plank
should cover the whole question of for?
eign relations and another should cover
a?l phases of the labor problem, etc.
Probably the most serious fault with
the various planks proposed is that
they are too radica!. Although there
are very few of us who have not radi?
cal opinions on all the vital problems
of the day, we must realize that radi?
calism is unwise in conservatives as
well as in liberals.
In short, each contributor has taken
his own particular "b?te noir," added
a radical remedy and offered it as a
a plank for the whole Republican party.
I do not presume to insinuate that
I am capable of suggesting a platform
that could withstand even my own
criticism, but I believe that if the con?
tributors would try to regard the cur?
rent issues from a broader viewpoint
their suggestions would be more useful.
* P. H. R.
Has Plan to Increase
Value of the Dollar
j Reduction of Volume of Monej
Through Reserve Bank
Is Suggested
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The high cost of living ha? go:
I every working person worried. We heai
'time and again questions as follows:
j What is the dollar worth to-day com
j pared with the index figures of the
years previous to those of 1913? When
I will these prices become staple.'
Questions of the above character can
be answered only by the law making
bodies of our country and states.
Congress may pass certain law3 to
reduce the high cost of living and the
state legislatures may pass laws to co
incide with these. A law such as re
ducing the amount of money on th?
market at present would raise the dol?
lar to par value. The old saying woul?;
still be true, "The scarcer the mone;.
the higher the value of it, therefor
the cheaper the cost of living." This
can be ?Jone with the aid of the Federa
Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserv.
Bank has the power of withdrawing anc
issuing money.
The question that would arise on th'
withdrawing of the money would be
'Would it not reduce the capital o?
certain large firms that needed it?" M.\
answer to that would be, No! It wou!.
only stop the wholesale speculation il
Wail Street.
I trust that I will be one of the fa
vorable candidates to have my plan!
and composition accepted.
SOLOMON J. BROSLAW.
1<)5 Eighth Avenue, City.
Would Raise Teachers' P,"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I believe the Republican party
platform should advocate the follow
ing measures:
1. Ratification of the league of na?
tions, with reservations protecting our
interests.
2. A naval policy which will make
land keep our fleet the most powerful
In the world.
3. Universal military training to
form an efficient reserve to the regula:
army.
?1. The conservation of natural re?
sources.
5. Adequate pay for teachers, in or?
der to induce a greater number and ?
high class of women and men to tak?
up the work of education.
6. Such compensation to ex-service
men of the World War as will put
. them in the same position financially
as those persons who worked in the in?
dustries during the war. and retired
pay to volunteer officers of the Civil
War.
7. BYeedom for the Philippine Isl?
ands, with relations between the United
States and the islands such as exist be?
tween the United States and Cuba.
8. Doing away with the Electoral
College, and the election of the Presi?
dent bv direct popular vote.
r. w. t.
Conditions of the Platform Contest
T
HE Republican National Convention will meet In June to nominate
candidates and draft a platform for the 1920 campaign. What
should its planks be?
The Tribune believes yon ought to have a chance to help write these
planks. It offers you an opportunity to get your ideas before the
Republican leaders.
The Tribune invites you to submit your planks and to write letters
about the planks proposed by other readers through its columns.
For the best plank and letters of discussion The Tribune offers
the following prizes:
For the best plank.
For the second beat plank ....
For each of the eight next best planks
For the best letter a daily, prize of
For the best letter in the whole competition
$500.00
2.?0.00
100.00
10.00
100.00
THE TRIBUNE will make up a
platform of ten planks to be
determined by your votes.
Every plank submitted and every
letter advocating a plank will be
counted as a vote for the issuo
it cover?.
The ten issues receiving the
most votes will be the planks of
the final platform. The ten planks
that best express the chosen issues
will be selected by the judges for
the prize awards.
The Tribune believes In short
platform?. It limits each plank to
100 words. In judging between two
planks or letters of equal, merit
the shorter will be chosen.
Every plank and letter must
bear the name and address of the
sender, although only initials or a
nom de plume will be published
if the writer so desires.
The contest will close April 30,
1920. A manuscript mailed be?
fore midnight on that day st any
place in the United States will ba
eligible.
Manuscripts will not be re?
turned, even If stamps accom?
pany them.
The judges of the contest will
be three of The Tribune's editors.
They wtll award the prizes, basing
their decisions on sound thinking
and brevity, clearness and strength
of statement
n the Platform Contest
Some Sugg?
Making Good Citizens
Our foreign-born must be looked
after. They must be helped over the
rough places?kept from influences
that trap the unknowing. They must
be taught that while ours is the land
of peace and happiness, free speech
and democracy, yet erty is not
l?tense, freedom is not excuse for radi?
calism, individual rights do not form
cause for anarchy. They must be
judged fairly?without prejudice,
without malice. Yet the gl ve that
leads them to true citizenship should
cloak a hand vigorous, determined,
certain?a hand st^rn enough to crush
instantly those who maliciously waver
from the path of true Americanism.
? H. van H. Proskey, 36 Bayview
Avenue, Port Washington, \'. Y.
Liberty, Not License
The Republican party stands for
freedom of speech but not for licen?
tiousness of language, it stands for
the freedom of the press but not for
the reptilian propaganda that spews
out disloyalty and treason. It stands
for the right of assemblage but not
for the dictation of the mob. It up?
holds the principles of true democracy
and therefore it is opposed to the
blood-smeared autocracy of B
ism.?Rogers Tayler, 30 North Ferry
Street. Schenectady, N. Y.
Reform in Fiscal Affairs
The fiscal affairs of the United
?sted Planks
States government demand a business
I management. Since 1885 ours has
; been the only great nation in the
world that has tolerated a fiscal sys?
tem that is a reflection upon the in?
telligence of its citizens. To go on
as a leader among nations, responsi?
bility for our financial affairs must
be centered in the President; the
Secretary of the Treasury must be
made a true riscal officer, surveying
the field of expenditure and revenue,
and Congress must return to its
former practice of concentrating its
appropriating powers in single com
; mittees of the House and Senate.?
i John K. Wood. 120 West Forty
! eighth Street, New York.
Undeveloped Land
All undeveloped land remaining un
d for two years shall revert to
< the government' without compensa
! tion and shall be sold to the high?
est bidder within a reasonable time.
?Edgar Dayton BrinkerhotT, SS
N'orth Nineteenth Street, East
Orange, N. J.
Undivided Loyalty
We indorse the following as con
stituting straightforward American?
ism: Every citizen, whether foreign
or American born, owes his undi
. vided allegiance first, last and al
I ways to this country. To every citi?
zen is accorded the right of free
I speech. Free speech includes the
right to advocate changes in form of
government, provid.ee such changes
are to be brought about, directly or
indirectly, by vote of the majority
of the people. Free speech does not
include the right to advocate rule
by minority, or to incite others to
rebellion, violence, anarchy or any
disobedience to our laws.?Aretas A.
Saunders, 21 Edlie Avenue, South
Xorwalk, Conn.
Americanism, First, Last and
Always.
Xationa! budget system, woman
suffrage. Federal aid to pub ?c edu?
cation, reduction of the high cost of
living, universal military training
i Swiss system?, immigration stopped
for a period of years, universal prof?
it-sharing system for employ?es.
Americanization of foreigners by
compulsory education in American
ideals, history and language; elimi?
nation of all radical elements tha.
aim at the overthrow of the United
States government; national labor
tsupreme court with district courts,
made up equally of capital, labor and
the public, to settle ail labor dis?
putes.?H. F. Standerwick jr., Blair
Academy, Blairstown, N. J.
?
A Merchant Marine
We believe m the enlargement of
our merchant fleet and its proper dis?
tribution, in order to keep the su?
premacy of the world trade and
carry our goods and flag to the four
corners of the earth.?L. G. Balle?
steros jr., Livingston Hall, Columbia
University, City.
I
Freedom Endangered bv
?^ *
Spirit of Intolerance
Suspension of Socialist Assem?
blymen May Re Attack on
True Democracy
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We are considering plenks for
the Republican platform at a time when
an attempt is being made to link the
deportation of criminal anarchists with
actions such as the ousting of the New
? York Socialist Assemblymen into one
; general movement to stamp out mn?;
j tion.
We should remember, the Repjb
lican party should remember, that
j America is a democracy, that the first
i ten amendments to our Constitution are
, America's "Bill of Rights.-' and that
i the amendment which provides for free
j dom of speech, press and assemblage
! is the backbone of that right. Let us
; remember, let us determine, that our
state and national legislators shall re
? member that liberty of speech and
! press becomes license only when abused
j by those who advocate governmental
j change by violence, and that a pol?ti?
ca' party may be proscribed only when
it departs from the rule of the bal.ot.
and thereby ceases to be a poli: cal
party. Let us not forget that the ad
vocacy of any cha?ar in governmen' is
? legitimate if the proposed means of
o tnge are constitutional. Wo should
deport ard incarc?ra to criminal an
archists an.i those agitators who vio?
late our criminal laws, but at the same
! time we should be guided by the prin?
ciple of tolerance and the spirit of our
Constitution, lest in our zeal for the
j preservation of our country we sball
I destroy our democracy. R. S. N.
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