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FRestf Fair Deal for Labor Urged To End Unrest Rent Profiterring and the Sugar Hold - Up Cited as Examples of Impo? sition on ?Workingmaii X Cure for Bolshevism Dollar Will Stabilize Itself. I? Claim, When Other Conditions Are Righted To the Editor of T*he Tribune. Sir: The theory that Is being so videly exploited now, that bo much labor" trouble is due to the fact that labor wants to be democratized and have something to say in .the manage? ment of the business in which it is en? gaged, is ?11 nonsense. Labor has no objection to the man who invests his money in a business conducting that business in his own way so long as he treats his employees and patrons in a fair minded way. What it does want, ?nd what it is determined to have, is its snare of the wealth that is being created by the carrying on of that business. Stock Advance Defeat? Argument The capitalists arc engaged in a ?trenuous effort to convince the people that the present high prices of neces? sities are due to the high price of labor, but they never will succeed in convincing the people that the 10 to 100 per cent increase in the price, of industrial stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange Is due to the in cresed cost of labor, or that the extra dividend? that are being declared on ;hose stocks from day to day are made possible by the increase!! \v.;ge that labor is receiving, Labor is too intelligent for the profiteering capitalist ever to make it believe that there was a scarcity of Fugar in this country when it was jelling for 10 cents a pound, while ?here is plenty and to spare when it sells for 1? cents a pound, or that it is necessary to charge $-40 to $50 rent 'or an apartment that three years ago rented for $25 to $30 and met all ex? penses. Practices That Breed Bolshevism The government can deport the alien agitator for preaching the theory of Bolshevism, but it never can deport the support given to that theory by the American workman so lor g as it permits these undesirable conditions and practices to continue, Neither is there any probability that these con? ditions will be relieved or the prac? tices stopped by electing to the Presi? dency the man who first advised the exorbitant price of wheat that was the begi' ning o? the orgy of profiteer? ing that has been going on for the last three . ears, and for which there is no other man in this country more responsible than Herbert Hoover. Let the government limit the profit which capital shall receive for its ?erv icafin providing the commodities of life to a reaaonab'e return, and it will not be necessary to waste any more ink and paper writing treaties on how to stabil? ize the dollar, or time and money de? porting "Reds'"; for the dol ar will stabilize itself and the Bolshevik propa? ganda will pass over the American ?working man just as easily and with as little effect as water rolls otf a duck's back. E. L. HOLMES, 404 East 158th Street, New Yorh City. Waste Spur to Unrest Economical Government Ad? vised lo "Satisfy Voters To the Editor of Tha Tribune. Blr: Extravagance and wastefulness in high places are the causas of much liiicontent among the kind of people who vote the Socialist ticket, think? ing in that way they register a pro? test agamBt practices that disgust them. The Republican party should stand :or a national budget with a leader responsible to the people. As long as the debit and credit sidps of our Fed? eral accounts are in the hands of two different sets of men, working separate? ly and with no public responsibility, fo long will our national money mut? ts? go from bad to worse. Efficiency in Congressional finances tnd our national accounts should be the aim of the Republican party. M. D. S. Republican Party Advised To Uphold Monroe Doctrine Toahe Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Tve Republican party should mute "Pure American" its platform, u&sed on a government o? tue people, by the people and for the people, to luil extent of its meaning. It must uphold American ideals, the Monroe doctrine and oppose the league of nations aa danger,;us to our welfare American lives ,.i<d property in Mexico fiuat be protected by action if neces <?ry, not by words. Frankly Bpeaking, the Republican party must uphold American princi? ples; the teachings of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt. it must do ?way with the present social unrest and get down to pre-war conditions; it must uphold law and order. JOHN A. AULETTA. Yonkers. I Smoker"? TVaya, 97.SO~tJ5.00~917.50 FOR MEN *T*HE ordinary "men's A gift" renders the man about as happy 3s Ham? let. The kind you can get at Ovington's?at fair Prices ? will make him ?? pleased as Punch. OVINGTON'S "Hu Gift Skip ?/ Fifth Av0,% 314 Fifth Av., near32d St. Cordon ftD??worth ? Real i?? OiungeMabmaiadi Among the mass of suggestio Enforce AU Amendment? i We believe in the enforcement of j ?11 laws on the statute books and of ': all amendments to the Constitution without discrimination, including the ? Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend? ments.?H. P. M., New Hartford, ; N. y. Lower Living Costs To hasten lower living costs through the free operation of sound economic laws we pledge ourselves to the release of enterprise from re? pressive, restrictive, punitive meas? ures and to the pursuit of policies j fostering economy and increased ' production.?Max Hacker jr. Suppression of Profiteers j Profiteers and other wild beasts of i prey flourish, while the uncounted, too busy to quarrel with them, eat j the bread of tears. A happy people | breeds no trouble. Neither the masses of the native born Americans nor the well disposed from foreign lands, who come to our shores to breathe the air of freedom, take kind? ly to being bowed down with bur | dens which a wise government would keep off from them or relieve them from, once they are on them.?John F. Howard, Silver Lake Assembly, N, Y. - Would Solve Mexican Problem We ?tand for an unprejudiced so? lution of the Mexican problem. Be? lieving in the competency of the Mex? ican people to achieve by themselves domestic tranquillity, we would de National Budget as Issue for Campaign Republicans Urged to Paint Re ! duction of Living Cost on Party Standard i To the Editor of Tht Tribune. Sir: In these days of rising prices i the paramount duty of the Republican party In the coming campaign will be | to present itself squarely in favor of 1 finding a remedial action regarding the cost of living. Lead the way in reducing the high ; cost of living by reducing the high ! cost of government. Obviously there is no more Dressing problem to be embodied in the piat ! form than that of living cost. Let the party put itself clearly on record | i in favor of a national budget, a na- j i .ional audit of governmental expend?- i ! tures and the economy In F?d?rai de- I partments that should be corollary of ! ! !.he budget system. Living costs and government costs have gone up together. Perhaps they ' will come down top-ether. The govern-I ment, despite its defects, sets the style j in many things fcr the industries of I the nation. Let the Republican party J pledge itself to reduce the cost of gov- | ernment by instituting economy and j efficiency, and see if the country does not follow the lead of the government \ by reducing the cost of living. ' L. M. S. ! Rural Housing Advocated Attractive Homes to Alleviate Crowding in Cities I To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Since it is so evident that, in ] spite of high wages, there is much un ; rest and iT.happiness among people in : the United States, and since in our large cities the masses have fewer op? portunities for enjoyment, owing to j th? dense crowding in unattractive I homes, it is the conviction of many | ! Republicans that the government should continue the war-time measure of I housebuilding for wage earners. ? Construction of houses on a large scale, as cheaply as possible, should ! 1 continue in the more or less rural; : neighborhoods, and economic induce- . ments should be offered to the in? habitants of cities to go to these coun ! try centers. A SETTLEMENT WORKER. ? ? "Americanism*1 Is Put Forth As Republican Battle Cry ? To the Editor of The Tribune. Siru The Republican platform should , be based on unadulterated American? ism, with a strict adherence to the Monroe Doctrine; the treaty with reservations; deportation of all aliens; Btringent immigration laws; imprison? ment for all profiteers and doing away entirely with the high cost of living Our Department ! of New Accounts attend* to ail details in connection with opening new accounts - - sup? plying pass books, deposit slips, check books and tke fullea! infor? mation and assistance. Any phase of banking about which an explanation is desired is freely and intelligently discussed. We would welcome an opportun? ity to talk over possible banking relations with you. If it is not entirely convenient for you to celidurin? regular bank? ing hours, come in whenever you can during your business day and your nw da will bo snot. * THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL B\NK ?*f*UfcW IMS3 ?2? Broadway N?w York City f-7=-~~?I $?7S,000,0?QQ0 iction of Profits" Advocated in Platform Contest Some Suggested Planks [Republicans j To-Dav's Prize Letter Conditions of the ns for planks in the Republican cry any heralded policy of armed in? tervention. We demand that recog? nition of the present government be withdrawn; that a Mexican in active sympathy with the purposes of the United States be established as Pres? ident, and that notice bo given to the world that the, government of the United States pledges its whole re? sources to that .Mexican government in any policy which it may determine upon to bring about internal peace. ?A. H. B, ? Conservation of Resources We believe in the conservation and utilization of the rainfall. To trans? late water Into terms of energy, har? nessing together rivers, lakes and canals for transportation and inter? locking water power and steam for light, heat and power; to preserve watersheds for domestic purposes and against pollution; to protect for? est?, to reclaim lands, to revise and codify water laws coordinating Fed? eral and state Jurisdiction; these are matters demanding immediate action. Water is the basic factor of economic civilization, and its use and control under competent business adminis? tration will result in diversified, in? dustries, diffusion of population and the normal settlement of national un? rest.?Charles M. Chadwick. Department of Education Education is fundamental to con? tinued success in a government by the people. We favor a department of education under the Federal gov? ernment. This department should (which is causing more trouble than anything else); generous allowance ior all soldiers and sailors who have served their country, whether in World War, Spanish or Civil War; a fund to provide for coming genera? tions, especially the under-nourished school children; compulsory military training from 18 to 25 years of age; discontinuance of all foreign printed papers or magazines. In other words one country, one language, one flag. M. A. Readjustment of Rails Called National Duty To the Editor of The Tribune: Sir: These are critical days for the nation and especially critical for the j nation's railroads. If wo are going to turn them back to the owners, they j must not be turned back in the crippled plight in which the present administra? tion has involved them, for upon their condition depends in a large measure the economic welfare of the country. The readjustment of the railroad situation is an issue which the Re? publican party may well take part In ? to put the railroads back on their feet | and again make them self-supporting. ] For a time at least the government ? must stand as their financial agent, for having increased wages, shortened hours and added to the number of ! employees, it cannot expect the rail? roads under private ownership to go back to pre-war conditions with lower standards than are at present in effect. The government has been operating the roads under these standards at a loss of millions of dollars, so private operation cannot become so efficient and economical as to perform a miracle by wiping out this great deficit in a short while. The roads must be given a chance to modernize themselves to keep up with the times, and under a minimum of wise and necessary regulation must , have the right to do things which are most essential to the welfare and pros- | perity of the American institutions: with which they do business. The return of the roads to private ! owners will meet with many obstacles,! 1 and it will require time to get them , running smoothly again, and any policy that restricts their expansion to meet, their rapidly growing requirements is certain to work an injury in the long run to the country as a whole. The American transportation sys- '? tern is a vital part of our industry and we owe it to our industrial future I to help them "over the top." L. C. B. I platform are the follotuing: work for adequate salaries for teach? ers throughout the country. It should assist local communities that are un? able to supply enough teachers of high American ideals. Americanization of the foreigner, better rural schools and better education for negroes should all be parts of its work. Its ideal for accomplishment should be equal educational opportunity for all, irrespective of race, color, finan? cial condition or place of residence. ?Aretas A. Saunders, 21 Folie Ave? nue, South Norwalk, Conn; Scientific Economy Promised The Republican party pledges it? self to a scientific economic policy in the matter of revenues raised by taxation for legitimate government expenses, which expenses should be based upon a budget of actual re? quirements; and it further stands for effective legislation correcting laws that burden business enter? prise witfi the present cumbersome and inquisitorial income tax law, with its iniquitous excess profit tax provisions.?William Macdonald, 60 Broadway, City. Stands for "America First" We believe in America first, with no entangling alliance abroad other than a moral one to uphold right and defend the oppressed, and the Americanization of aliens, with free? dom of speech and other public ac? tivities limited to citizens of the United States.?H. W. Bonney, 1817 Broadway, City. Industrial Peace Best Check on High Prices Predicts Disappearance of Liv? ing Problem When America Works Joyfully To the Editor of The Tribune: Sir: The indefinite statements which pro rbially characterize party plat? forms often give them an air of insin? cerity. Is it precisely illuminating, for example, to promise "effective measures promptly to reduce the present high liv? ing costs"? If the members of the pari y can devise measures which will do this, by all means let us advertise them in our platform. Instead of promising in general to reduce high costs we more usefully may state what measures we believe will bring about permanent co? operation between capital and labor. When America is working joyfully in? stead of bitterly quarreling prices will take care of themselves. Similarly, pledges to adopt a "con? sistent and clear policy to protect our borders and the rights of the people," and to "handle foreign problems ac? cording to the best American tradition," only appear to say something. We must state plainly whether we will go so far as intervention or not. If we are to in? tervene it must either be alone or in co? operation with other powers. At any rate, let us say exactly what it is that we intend. A. T. OTIS. 3 Dusenberry Place, White Plains, N. Y. Lodge Reservations Urged People Should Ratify Constitu? tional Amendments To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: May 1 suggest my views of what the Republican plank for 1920 should contain? 1. Indorsement of an amendment t< the Constitution requiring that al future constitutional amendments be submitted to the people for ratification and not to the state legislatures. 2. Ratification of the Treaty of Ver? sailles containing the Lodge reserva? tions regarding the league of nations covenant. 3. Return of the railroads to private ownership, unhampered by govern? mental control. 4. A' strong, decisive Rooseveltian policy in our relations with Mexico. DAVID MURRAY LITTLE. 267 West 153d Street. Harriman national Bank Filth Avenue and 44th Street NEW YORK Energizing Production The key to deflation is production, and the exer? cise of thrift, implying economy, saving and the elim? ination of extravagance in every direction. Contrac? tion of consumption and decrease of indebtedness will equally serve. With deflation must come a reduction in the scale of living, but this should be no hardship, inasmuch as scale is relative, and deflation, .like inflation, will affect all alike. Inflation has its joys and its sorrows, but it does not contain so much ill as deflation. We cannot refrain from again quoting the philosophy and wisdom of Sam Patch, who averred that it was not the flying that hurt, but the 'lighting. The present conditions in the steel trade are, it would appear, repeated throughout our industry gen? erally, with promise of continuation of activity. The fly in the ointment is that we are not producing at the rate of 100 per cent., but possibly only 75 per cent, or 80 per cent The Harriman National Bank has al? ready pointed for the benefit of its customers the probable course that trade must ultimately take, and we believe that they are fully prepared for any change in the present trend. The solution of the cost of living problem will be helped by immigration, of which there are favorable reports coming to hand. What this means in the re? duction of labor costs is obvious. As many supposed, the rapid emigration of our aliens back to Europe was in large part a temporary matter. Now they are re? turning. They have discovered America to be a land not only of promise but of performance. lliX?S?lE?? ? OCLO0K *> * ? ? O'CLOCK P. M. DEPOSIT VAULTS OPEN FROM I k M. TO MUMMT Told t? Avoid Class Issues Laws That Will Prevent Strikes and Compulsory Arbitration , Advanced as Future National Policy Omit Sectional Problems Decent Wage for Labor and Curb on Profiteers Urged as Vital Necessities To.the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: As a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so a Presidential platform Is only aa strong as its weak? est plank, and all subserviency to class or local prejudice, or temporizing with vital Issues must be sedulously avoided. There are too many political leaders who advise subserviency to class or sectional issues. We must enact such laws as abso? lutely will prevent all strikes .where the "innocent bystander"?the general public?suffers, and public utilities are prevented from functioning. -We must substitute enforced arbitration. We must, on the other hand, prevent exploitation, both of labor and the pub tic, by arrogant profiteers, see that labor has a decent living wage and that the public is brought into closer contact with the producer, thus bring? ing the lowered prices due to the elimi? nation of intermediates. Sectional problems, such as that of the Pacific Coast and the Japanese question, should not be allowed to be? come national issues excepting in so far as they involve national honor, and then there can be but one stand?that of justice and right regardless of local prejudice and feeling. With labor and capital working har? moniously together, Bolshevism, the bacillus of unrest, would have its viru? lence greatly lessened. Stringent laws should be passed to curb the degener? ates and those of perverted intellects, whether natives or aliens, who continue attempts to subvert justice and destroy that America which we believe in. That party which comes nearest ful? filling these obligations will be the party which will exert the controjling power in this country for many years to come. HAROLD CHANNING. 520 East Seventy-seventh Street, Apartment 68, New York City. Party Is Urged to Put Ban on Immigration Services of Inferior People No Recompense for Making Them Parts of Nation To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: This great Republic is the crea? tion of a race of pioneers, immigrants all, but immigrants who faced un? known and untold hardships for the sake of greater freedom. Following them came other immigrants, lured by the wealth of the land, not for freedom or adventure, but to find a softer liv? ing. These were exploited for the bene? fit of those who were here first and have in their turn helped to exploit more recent arrivals. Now the time has come to pay, and everywhere we are paying. The immi? grant, lifted from misery to rela? tive wealth, flourishes and multiplies, crowding out the pioneer stock. So that generation by generation the make-up of our population has changed from the old self-reliant people to a softer race. To-day we have the anomaly of American communities ac? cepting minority rule. Surely the dilu? tion of blood has gone far enough. .In view of the?e facts, there could To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Our national energy Is dis? sipated. We fight the I. W. W.s and depart a few; then we fight Bolshevists, and deport a few; then we fight strikes and punish a few firebrands; then we fight profiteering and pun? ish a few thieves. What we need is a positive motive for the use of our great'energy. A positive policy for limiting im? migration?say, to every nation a yearly 5 per cent of the number be no more important plank in the Republican platform than one against immigration. The following is sub? mitted: "No immigration. Until such tima as a class of immigrants applies who we feel to be equal or superior to our? selves, we propose to bar all. The services of an inferior people do not recompense us for making them part of curselves." ARTHUR P. ACKERMAN. Great Barrington, Mass. Personal Liberty Idea To Rule in Campaign People Declared To Be Dis? gusted With Arbitrary Re? strictions of Conduct To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: There is more merit than would appear at first blush in the views of your correspondent who prophesies that the anti-prohibition element will be the deciding factor in the nest elec? tion. The successful prohibition cam? paign is only one illustration of the | rapidly growing tendency toward gov? ernmental interference with personal rights. Governmental control of prices, how? ever necessary it may have been in the emergency of war, is, under normal cir? cumstances, merely a bothersome re? straint upon the natural law of supply and demand. The slogan, therefore, of the party which expects to be victorious in the next election will have to be something as follows: "We, the people, demand observance of our constitutional right to decide by our majority vote all mat? ters affecting our morals, habits and general conduct of life. We will tol? erate only such restraints upon our personal liberty as we may ourselves impose through the exercise of the ballot!" JAMES OWEN TYSON, 150 Nassau Street, City. Circus Over, Back to Work Uncle Sam Like Farmer Boy After a Dav Off To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Readjustment from post-war to normal conditions is at present a domi? nating issue in American affairs. Uncle Sam is like the farmer boy who has just been to the circus. He must stop buying peanuts and red lem? onade and get back to the cornfield, and by hoeing a few more rows each day he will be ready when the next ahow comes to town. Economy in buying will help read? just supply and demand, thereby lower? ing prices. Increased production f?-om farm, mine and mill is the right way to raise wages, for by increased supply prices inevitably fall and the dollar gets back its old 100 per cent kick. Who will help restore these condi? tions? A great majority of the Ameri? can people who so freely gave their | time, their money and their blood ? when asked to uphold the honor and safety of the land we love. ( L. VAN HOESEN. S09 Warren Street, Hudson, N. Y. i McCustcheon's Special Sale Men's Underwear For this sale we are offering many unusual values, which, in view of the prices generally prevailing, are Reg. Trade nark remarkably attractive. Athletic Shirts and Knee Drawers of Linen and Cotton Mesh . . . $2.50 per garment. Shirts and Drawers, Imported and Domestic, of Medium and Light Weight Natural Wool, White Merino, Balbriggan, Cotton, Aertex Cotton Mesh, also Gauze, Cotton and Light Weight Lisle. Men's Union Suits, Ribbed Natural Wool, Ribbed White Cashmere, Balbriggan, Cotton, Grey Merino and Lisle in Medium and Heavy Weights. These are the Vassar and Lewis makes. All the above are specially priced for this sale only. Pajamas Outing Flannel. $2.95 per suit White Madras. 4.75 per suit Satin Stripe Pongee .... 4.75 per suit Colored Satin Striped 1 4 7S . Pongee, Military Collars/* * ' **/? per smt Pure Silk Shirts $12.00 reduced to $ 9,75 13.50 reduced to 11.75 18.00 reduced to 14.75 Men's Gloves Men's Tan Cape Skin Gloves . . . . $2.95 Men's Scotch Woolen Gloves ? ? ? ? 1.95 Fifth Avenue, 34th & 33rd Streets Matt DtfU, 33rd St. Entrame* I_ m?< m ? tf / ?v < ?Y/?\y>W?V/ ?v/pv/ ?\ / ?vr ? * tbey already have here. A positive policy of Americanization?training which all prospective citizens must take, failure in which insures their automatic return. A positive policy of good will and honest work together between capital and labor, meaning all workingmen. A positive spirit of patriotism which will make profiteering a thing too low to exist. Patriotism, not internationalism, which will make every man's country sacred because of the love we bear our own, I. B. R. Sees Evils in Cheap Labor Writer Opposes Indiscriminate Admittance of Aliens To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: The most difficult thing for the American people to do, and the most important thing that they can do and the thing demanding their undivided attention, is welding together, in one harmonious whole, the people who come to this land to settle, teaching them to speak our language, to love our Constitution and representative form of government. We must not import herds of im? migrants, regardless of where they come from, because we need cheap libor, caring nothing as to where they settle or what slum districts they cre? ate or how they drive our workers from pillar to post because of the inability of our workers to live in herds. Americanism is founded upon rever? ence for constituted authority and the undeniable right of the majority to rule. ALBERT SANFORD. 813 West 141st Street, New York City. Platform Contest? The Tribune invite? yon t? write pianks for a Republican platform and to writ? letters about planks proposed by other readers through its columns. For the boat planks and brttars i The Tribtfns offers theso prise?: i For the fewit plank.$300.00 For the second host plank.. 259.00 For each of the eight next best planks . 100.00 For the boat totter a daily prie? of . 10.9* For tb? bent letter ta tb? whote competition ...... 100.00 Tb? Tribun? will make op a plat? form of ten planks to be determined by your rotes. The tea Irme* re? ceiving- the most votes will be the planks. Tb? tea planks that bast express the chosen issue? will b* selected for ttte prise awards. Each plank is limited to 100 words. Of two planks or letters of ?qoal merit the shorter will be chosen. Every plank and letter must boar the name and address of the sender although a nom de plum? will b published if the writer desires. The contest will close at midnight, ApTil 30, 1920. Manuscripts will not bo returned. The judges of the contest will be three of The Tribune's editors. They ? will base their decisions on sound thinking: and brevity, clearness and ? strength of statement. 1 ! liJ A Bank Knows Its Own Country I TN Japan, South Africa, Italy, England?in ?I ?*? aU important countries?are great com' S mercial banks which can give the facts as I to credit, markets, individual character and ;? ||| business methods that are needed by American jlj business in foreign trade. ! 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