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Mayor Hears
Judge Would
4Indict' Him
Tiernan. When Asked About
Threat, Wasn't Sure of
Term, but Declares He
Will 'Stand By' It Anyway
Report Disturbs Hylan
Passes Much of His Time
Asking Official Friends:
'Is Tiernan After Me?'
Mayor Hylan wasted a lot of time
yesterday inquiring of his fellow
members of the Board of Estimate
whether County Judge Tiernan, of
State* Island, was "after him." Judg?
ing from the attitude of Judge Tier?
nan last night, the Mayor could have
found out in a jiffy by calling the
judge by telephone. The judge is
a|ter him.
In the shape that the story of the
solemn conclave of the Board of Esti?
mate and Apportionment got to Judge
Tiernan it led him to believe that Com-'
missioner of Accounts Hirshfield had
announced that he had written to tho
Mayor of a conversation with Judge
Tiernan at the State Bar Association
dinner in the course of which Judge
Tiernan threatened- to have Mayor
Hylan indicted. The story went on to
say tha; the Commissioner of Accounts
?aid he was going to withdraw the let?
ter because the judge had apologized.
"There's nothing to apologize for,"
gaid Judge Tiernan on hearing the
itory. "I remember discussing the
traction situation on Staten Island
with Mr. Hirshfield at the Bar Associa?
tion dinner, but I don't remember
threatening to have Mayor Hylan in?
dicted.
Will Stand by "Indict"
"However. I took no notes of the con?
versation, as Mr. Hirshfield apparently
did. and if Mr. Hirshfield says that I
made that remark I am willing to
stand by it.
?"The investigation of the Richmond
County Grand Jury into the traction
situation ?* going to be continued to
the end, no matter what city official is
scorched in the inquiry. Every civic
organization in Staten Island demanded
relief from the ?tlayor and the Board of
Estimate. Xo relief was forthcoming,
and now the situation is up to the
grand jury."
In the iottfr to which the Mayor re?
ferred Jud?e Tiernan is quoted as say
in? he would have the Mayor "im?
peached," not "indicted."
That the grand jury was hot on the
? trail the Mayor had reason to suspect
when he learned that its subpoenas had
been served yesterday on Comptroller
Cra.g and Commissioner of Accounts
Hirshfieid. Borough President Van
Narr.e of Richmond had informed the
Board of E-t?mate Thur .day that in his
opinion Judge Tiernan's charge to the
grand jury constituted a threat to in?
die! Mayor Hylan and other city offi
': was int > this atmosphere of gloom
*' it !-. : Hylan, all ruddy from Palm
.'?- ich, bur; t when the Board of Esti?
mate as i mbh .; yesterday. He asked
Borotij E * ? * nt Van Name if he had
?a d th it Judge Tiernan was after him.
The B rough President replied that
that v.. . | inion.
Mayor Want? Information
"Why is he after me and not after
y a ?" as! d he Mayor.
"The 'ormation I had was con?
tained in the charge made to the grand
jury,'' the Borough President replied.
"This referred to a very high official,
and as J am not one I supposed it re?
ferred to you."
"I hope," said Mayor Hylan, "if the
Borough I':* dent o? Richmond has
any infoi relating to the judge,
or the gi d jury, or the District At?
torney nond, in regard to me,
he will let me ..now."
"This is a county judge running for
opee,'' nterjected Borough 1'iesident
Connolly, of Queens. He referred to
Judge Tiernan's ambition to be ele?
vated to the Supreme Court bench.
"Well, he *.v?n't be able to practice
law if he is elected," remarked Comp?
troller Craig.
"I had a fetter some time ago stating
what a judge in Richmond was going
to do to said Mayor Hylan. "This
shows the methods persons t.re resorting
to to intimidate the Board of Estimate,
and that is a violation of the penal
law."
Mayor Reproves Juflge
Judge Tiernar said that he had
chosen his words carefully in talking
to Commissioner Hirschfield at the
dinner about the trolley situation, be?
cause he knew that his statements
would be carried to the Mayor and he
wanted that official to know how
earnest Staten Island was in its deter
mination to have its trolley service re?
stored, even -.t an inn ruase in fares.
His recollection was that he had told
the Commissioner of Accounts that the
Board of Estimate had better wake up
or a Grand Jury inquiry would be
started and ul! its members might be
called before the Grand Jury.
He said.Hhat after he had permitted
Fruit i?flWi fj.jo te faf.oo
?IFTH AVENUE is
?*? Fifth Avenue, not
only in its marble and
brick, not only in it9
motors and hansoms and
busses, not only in its
people, but also in its dis?
tinctive shops.
OVINGTON'S
" The- Gift Shop ofFi?h Avenue"
314 Fifth Ave. nr. 32d St?
Cordon &D?worth
== Real ??
ObangeMaemaiade
j MOTEL
Peter ??tu?be#mt
? Central Park4.es., at 86th St
JUST COMPLETED
cult?? of one room to a? many mu
I, ?quired. Furnished or unfurnished.
He?Uuriiia ? la Cart?
?_ WJa.1T. INFOLD. Manxar,
the County Court House st St. George
to be used for a mate meeting, at which
trolley service waa demanded, Mayor
Hylan, on meeting him in the City Hall,
had ignored his outstretched hand!
Later, said Judge Tiernan, the Mayor
had summoned him to his office and
taxed him with being the tool of the
trolley company. Judge Tiernan said
that when he had explained that the
Court House waa the people's building
and (;he meeting a people's meeting, the
May??r had shaken hands and assured
him that he was convinced that the
judge was not tho tool of the trolley
company.
Socialist Appeal Argued
Decision Reserved in So^rty's
Conviction Under Espionage Act
Decision was reserved yesterday by
Judges Henry G. Ward, Henry W.
Rogers and Martin T. Mant?n in th?
United States Circuit Court of Ap?
peals in the appeal of the American
Socialist Society from the conviction
of the society for alleged violation of
the espionage act by the publication
and circulation of "Great Madness," a
pamphlet written by Scott Nearing.
Samuel Seabury and S. John Block
prepared the appeal papers. The for?
mer contended that the judgment was
inconsistent in that the Bociety was
found guilty of publishing tho paniph
,let, while the author \was acquitted.
He said the society had no intention
of obstructing recruiting in publishing
the pamphlet, and that one of the soci?
ety's purposes was to expound the
? theories of modern socialism by lee
tyres and publications.
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Mrs. F. J. Gould a Film Stfir
British Company Promises Big
Salary to Ex-Chorus Girl
LONDON, March 6.?Mrs. Frank Jay
Gould, whose marriage was recently
dissolved by the courts in Paris, has
signed a contract to become a film star
with a new British moving picture
j combination, according to this morn?
ing's newspapers. She will receive a
1 salary which is considered phenomenal
; for Great Britain, it is said.
Mrs. Gould was a chorus girl in the
1 musical comedy "Havana" when Mr.
Gould met her, about a year After his
first wife, Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould, di?
vorced him in 1909. The decree of
1 divorce obtained by Mr. Gould against
his second wife, Edith Kelly Gould,
on April 17 last year, was sustained
. by judicial proceedings in Paris in
December.
Dancer Sued for ?20,000
On False Arrest Charge
Vassas A. Kanellos, a Greek classic
dancer, was arrested yesterday by
Deputy Sheriffs Murphy and Eisenstein
: in a $20,000 suit brought against him by
' Christ Petroulius for alleged false im
: prisonment and malicious prosecution.
Petroulius complains that? Kanellos
caused his arrest January 14 on a
charge of larceny, the dancer accusing
him of stealing 1.000 copies of a maga?
zine catled "Hellenic Renaissance,"
,\vith a value of $400. Petroulius was
; discharged in the Magistrates' Court.
Kanellos gave Sheriff Knott a $1,000
bond to assure his appearance at the
trial of the suit and was discharged
' from custody.
Facts on Soldier Dead Sought
WASHINGTON, March 5.?A resolu
: tion asking Secretary Baker to inform
j the Senate what steps nave been taken
i to effect a settled policy in regard to
J the disposal and protection of the
; bodies of American soldiers in France
I was introduced to-day by Senator
j Frelinghuyseu, Republican, of New Jer?
sey.
H?g Island Ship
Yard a Mistake,
Schwab,Says
Believes It Should Be Con?
verted Into Great Cargo
> Handling Terminal or a
Mammoth Steel ,Plant
Built on Unsound Idea
Fabricated Craft Idea Also
a Failure, He Says; Good
Only to Scare the Kaiser
The fabricated steel process of ship?
building, assembling ships' parts at
the yard from factories all over the
country, is not the way to build ships
according to Charles M. Schwab, formel
head of the Emergency Fleet Corpora?
tion, who declared yesterday that thi
huge government plant at Hog Islanc
was practically unsound althougr
theoretically perfect. As a shipbuild
ing plant it could be operated onlj
after vast sums had been expended 01
it, he said, and then, probably only i
several corporations shared in the en
terprise. He suggested turning th
shipyard into a cargo handling ter
minai or a steel plant.
"The principle upon .Hiich the yan
was founded was not sound," said Mi
Schwab. "The competition of peac
time was bound to kill it. The opera
tion was too big and it included to
many wasteful factors, long frcigh
hauls from widely scattered mills sup
plying the fabricated material, th
necessity for huge warehouses wherei
materials were sure to become jumblec
On paper the fabricated ship, with it
forms and shapes all ready to b
riveted into place, was a beatutifi
theory, but in practice it didn't wor
out. It i only one more example c
a dream that didn't come true whe
attempted to be demonstrated in th
cold white light of morning.
An Industrial Mistake
"When I undertook the task fc
which I was drafted by the goverr
ment I learned the truth I am tellin
you, and immediately split the open
tion of the Hog Island plan.t into unit
of a few ways each, bringing to tl
base of each unit its own storehous
and machine shop. This elminatc
many of our difficulties, but more r
mained. I couldn't change the fabr
oated instructions idea upon which tl
yard was'founded. We had to go alor
on that idea, notwithstanding the e
perience of my own yards, whit
showed that ships could be bui
cheaper and better in the old way.
kn.w then that Hog Island was an i
dur.trial mistake, but it was my duty
keep my mouth shut, and I did. It w;
part of the game to put fear into tl
heart of the Kaiser and his advisei
and in that respect, at least, Hog Islai
was a tremendous success.
"I do not believe Jog Island can
operated a. a shipyard without chang
involving an immense outlay of monc
If it were feasible to build ships wi
the present equipment and layout
piers and buildings 1 would buy it m
self. Perhaps a number of corpoi
tions, each operating five or ten wa;
might make a go of it. That is soi
thing which requires careful study.
"The best chance for the succei
ful operation of the property in my i
timation is to make of it a great wa:
housing and cargo-handling termin
'ike the Bush Terminal. Philadel?l
needs just such a plant and this is
unique opportunity to acquire it at t
minimum initial cost."
Hog Island would be a "great" s
for a tidewater steel ]?famt, too, Mr.
Schwab said, owing to its favorable
situation both as to rail and water
transportation. Ha estimated the cost
of such conversion of Hog Island at
$10Q.,000,000Y "But it would be a
smashing big enterprise," he added.
Edward N. Hurltay, former chairman
of the Shipping Board, gave out a
statement yesterday advising the early
sale of the government merchant fleet.
The 1,900 vessels must not go in large
part to any one steamship company, he
said, or be absorbed by any group of
companies.
Distributed among the three hundred
existing steamship companies, he de?
clared, the vessels could compete with
a good chance of success with those
of other nations. Eighty per cent of
the American ships, he pointed out,
were oil-fired, while only 6 per cent of
British vessels were so equipped, and
other nations were still further behind.
"Just as soon as our bankers and in?
vestors realize the importance of this
asset," he said, "and appreciate how
long it will take British merchant ship?
ping to show high percentage of oil
burning vessels, our merchant fleet will
pass rapidly into private hands. The
sooner this happens the better for the
li' ted States, aj no nation can become
truly great in foreign trade and in in?
ternational banking until it has a virile,
resourceful, privately owned merchant
marine carrying its flag everywhere."
a
Mayor in Jovial
Mood at Meeting
Of Estimate Board
Fails to Have Usual "Tiltr
With Craig, Who, How>
ever, Is Attacked by Cur
ran on Voting Powei
, Mayor Hylan was in an unusually jovia
mood following his return from Pain
Beach, and yesterday's meeting of th?
Board of Estimate, over which he'pre
sided, was without the customary tilt
between him and Comptroller Craig.
Borough President Curran of Man
hattan, however, enlivened the proceed
ings when he sought fo place the Boar?
on record against the bill introduce,
in Albany providing that six votes of i
majority of the whole number of vote
in the Board of Estimate necessary t
pass a measure must be votes of tw
members authorized to cast three vote
each. The members who have thre
votes are the Mayor, the Comptrolle
and the President of the Board of Al
dermen.
Mr. Curran declared that the bill wa
"merely a move on the part of th
Comptroller to secure more power fo
himself."
Charges Minority Rule
"I offer this resolution," said Mi
Curran, "because this bill now in th
Legislature changes a fundaments
provision of the charter and will mak
six votes of this board become a ras
jority of sixteen. If you pass such
bill as this you put the affirmative i
the hands of a minority of two official
The bill has been instituted by th
Comptroller in order to secure moi
power himself. You might just as we
call it a Craig-Hylan government an
let it pro at that."
The Comptroller opposed the rcsoli
tion on tho ground that the matt?
safely could ho left in tho hands of tr
legislators at Albany without an e:
pression of opinion from the Board ?
Estimate. The Comptroller moved th;
the Curran resolution he filed and Bo
ough President Connolly, of Queen
objected. He declared the Comptroll?
also had caused to be introduced
bill which would make the City Char
bcr'.ain an appointee of the C?mptro
1er instead' of the Mayor.
"That is true," said Borough Prcs
dent Curran. "The Comptroller is d
ing everything in his power to have tl
city government turned over to Crai
The ator?is dosed fflt'5 P. M. daily
MADISON AVENUE = FIFTlrl AVENUE, NEW YORK
TBhhrty-fOMrt?h Street T!hSrty=f?ftl!i Street
The Men's Cloth log Department ~
Is Introducing for the ensuring season
Men's Spring Overcoats
made off fflne=qimality imported materials (light gray) In
smart herringbone weaves; In two attractive mniodeIls=
one loose, the other fonn=f?ti5ng; both extremely well
tailored, with yoke and sleeves sllk=15ned
each (in stock) at $85.00
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Other Sprlmig^we?ght Overcoats
In fashionable models, made of American materials, are
shown in stock at prices ranging from
$45.00 to 65o00
(Department on SIXTH FLOOR)
The New Hats for Spuing
featuring every wanted style and color, are shown
on the FIRST FLOOR
This bill is foolish and absurd and that
is why I know it came from tne Comp?
troller."
Put to a ?ote, the Mayor and the
Comptroller voted against disapproving
the bill, with the other members vot?
ing the other way. The matter was laid
over automatically for lack of suf?
ficient votes.
Bus Lin? Authorized
The board authorized the operation
of a bus line from Twenty-third Street
and Seventh Avenue, via Eighth Street,
over the Williamsburg Bridge, and
from the North River and Fourteenth
Street over the same bridge, beginning
to-morrow, when the New York Rail?
ways Company has given notice it will
discontinue the part of its line running
over the bridge.
Corporation Counsel Burr was in?
structed to appear in Albany in sup?
port of the bill introduced in the Legis?
lature on the request of the Jamaica
Board of Trade, prohibiting the Long
Island Railroad, which is owned by the
Pennsylvania System, from charging
more per mile on Long Island than Che
Pennsylvania Railroad charges between
points in New York and New Jersey.
The present round trio rate from New
York to Jamaica is 59 cents, as against
thirty-three cents to Newark, an ap?
proximately equal distance.
M.ary Pickford Dodges
Camera and Reporters
Film Star Runs Away Sobbing
on Return From Divorce
Trip to Nevada
LOS ANGELES, March 5.?Mary
Pickford, weeping and worn, stumbled j
from the train here to-day on her re?
turn from Minden, Nev., where she ob?
tained a divorce decree on Tuesday
from Owen Moore.
Miss Pickford waited until all the |
passengers had left the car, then peered i
out and, seeing newspaper men and '
camera men, flanked by a crowd of the ?
curious, she fled from the opposite side
of the car. As she ran, with tears I
streaming down her face, she stumbled
and fell. Her mother helped her up
and they fled to a waiting automobile
and sped away.
Miss Pickford would not pause to
answer the questions of interviewers,
but her mother spoke for her.
"This is entirely a personal matter,"
she said, "and neither the papers nor
the public have any right to be prying
into it. Why can't you leave the poor
little girl alone? She's nervous and
broken up. Can't you see she's crying?!
This is just needless cruelty."
Kingston Loses in Census
WASHINGTON, March 5.?Popula?
tion announcements for 1920, issued
j to-day, by the Census Bureau in?
cluded:
Kingston, N. Y., 25,884, a decrease of
24, or 0.1 per cent.
Joliet, 111., 38,372, an increase of
3,702, or 10.7 per cent, over 1910.
Anderson, Ind., 29,767, an increase
of 7,291, or 32.4 per cent.
Muncie, Ind., 36,524, an increase of
! 12,519, or 52.2 per cent.
i Lexington, Ky., 41,534, an increase of
S 6,435, or 18.3 per cent.
Shreveport, La., 43,874, an increase
of 15,859, or 56.6 pe? cent
Mexico More
Defiant Since
Lansing Left
Carranza Government Now
Openly Shows Contempt
of U. S. Rights, Senators
Find Upon Reconvening
Oimax Believed Near
Writer Declared Expelled
Because He Had Evidence
Jenkins Was "Framed"
By Wilbur Forrest
Special Dispatoh to The Tribune
TUCSON, Ariz., March 5.?That Mex?
ican relations with the United States
are possibly approaching a stage as
serious as at any time in the past five
years was indicated *D-day when the
Senate committee investigating these
relations reconvened here.
Senator Albert B. Fall, of New Mex?
ico, arrived early and immediately
went into conference with Senator Mar?
cus A. Smith, of Arizona, regarding
the campaign being carried on by the
Carranza government to intimidate
witnesses subpoenaed to testify before
the Senators. The situation in Sonora
and the most recent proofs of Carranza'3
stubborn defiance of the United States
government were also discussed.
It appeared that since President Wil?
son's virtual discharge of Secretary of
State Lansing, who was known to be
desirous of calling the Mexican gov?
ernment to account, Carranza's govern?
ment has become even more openly
contemptuous of American rights in
Mexico than before. Secretary Lansing
was known to be convinced of the in?
nocence of former Consular Agent
William 0. Jenkins and intervened
forcefully in Jenkins's behalf.
Evidence Showed Jenkins Was "Framed"
The Senate committee here has in?
formation that the expulsion of Gerald
Brandon, correspondent for "The Los
Angeles Times," from Mexico yesterday
as a "pernicious foreigner" was based
on the fact that the correspondent had
discovered incontrovertible proof that
the evidence against Mr. Jenkins had
i been "framed" by the Mexican authori?
ties, and the former consular agent,
who is to be deported and whose prop?
erty, worth $2,500,000, is to be seized,
will be tried on the "evidence" un?
earthed by the correspondent. The
Senators are informed the correspond?
ent's success was discovered through
his imprudence in sending by messen?
ger a dispatch to his newspaper telling
of his discovery. Brandon's deporta?
tion followed.
The Carranza government in the last
few days also bluntly refused to con?
sider the "plea" of the State Depnrt
meat that there shall be no discrimi?
nation against American property hold?
ers in Mexico who have testified before
the Senate committee regarding chaotic
conditions in the southern republic.
A test case was made following the
refusal of the Mexican Consul at San
Antonio to vis? the passport of Henry
Forrest, a witness before the commit?
tee at San Antonio. Forres is denied
return to his home and business at
Matamoras, Mexico, and the same fate
awaits all those witnesses who have
answered Senate committee subpoenas
and told the truth under oath about
conditions.
Carranza Troops Reinforced
Citizens of Nogales, Ariz., which is
opposite Nogales, Sonora, arriving here
to testify before the Senate committee
resent the attitude of some residents of
the Mexican town that their business
and lives would be endangered if they
testified. They inisted this stand was
taken only by a mercenary few and
dd not represent the true American
spirit with which the majority are
imbued. A leading citizen informed
the Senators that as an American he
felt capable of protecting himself from
Mexican vengeance, even though the
Administration at Washington might
withhold from him such protection.
Reinforcements of Carranza troops
under Gerenal Diaz have appeared
south of the Arizona border. I? is be?
lieved they are there to combat Yaqui
Indians and other followers of General
Alvaro Obregon, the opposition candi?
date for the Mexican Presidency in
the forthcoming "elections." Border
observers look for a clash between the
opposing factions within a short time,
especially as the Carranza reinforce?
ments make it plain to Obregon he
must fight for the Presidency if he
defeats General Gonzales, the Carranza
candidate who has the Carranza army
behind him.
Obregon has been "flirting" with the
Yaquis for many weeks, and Carranza's
latest move would indicate Obregon
has won them to his side. The Yaquis
are the stanchest fighters in Mexico,
and a comparatively small army of
them is believed capable of marching
straight from the West coast to the
Conquest of Mexico City.
Fighting in this vicinity, however,
is regarded as sure to work i?s usual
havoc on American live3 and property,
and may force American troops guard?
ing the border to take a hand. There
are many in close touch with Mexican
affairs who forecast that in view of
Carranza's present attitude toward
Washington that American military
interference, such as appears probable,
would strain Mexican-American rela?
tions to the breaking point.
Flyers Back From Mexico
May Face Court Martial
Tvco Army Aviators Believed
Under Arrest Pending Inquiry
on Landing at ?Satozari
DOUGLAS, Ariz". March 5.?Lieu?
tenants G. L. Usher and L. M. Wolf,
i American aviators, who landed at
: Nacozari, Sonora. Mexico, Februarv 2,
arrived here to-day, and at once left
for El Paso by airplane "under escort"
by order of their commanding officers.
It is assumed here they are under ar?
rest pending investigation.
The two aviators said they had noth?
ing to add to their previous state?
ments as to how they came to be more
than one hundred miles south of the
international boundary line, and
reiterated previous statements they
had lost their way in the clouds after
their compass failed to work, causing
them to lose all sense of direction.
They said when they flew over
Nacozari they realized^ they were in
Mexico. The landing was necessary
because they had run out of gasolene.
The aviators said their airplane is
still at the spot where they landed in
a canyon eighteen miles south of
Nacozari.
During their stay at Nacozari they
made their home at a Nacozari hotel,
and until their release nine days ago
were constantly, though not closely,
under guard. They said they were
treated kindly by the Mexican officials.
EL PASO, Tex~~March 5.?Whether
G. L. Usher and L. M. Wolf, American
aviators now on their way to E: Paso
from Douglas, Ariz., after an enforced
stay of more than a month in Mexico,
?will be tried by court martial depends
upon the result of a preliminary in?
vestigation to be held here, Colonel
Francis W. Glover, chief of staff to
Major General Robert L. Howze, com?
manding officer of the ?1 Paso military
district, said to-day.
"We shall give the young men a?
chance to explain their presence in
Mexico before taking further action,"
Colonel Glover said. "A court martial
may or may not result from the pre?
liminary inquiry."
Union Warns Landlords
-
General Strike .Seen Unless Rent
Profiteering Is Stopped
Edward I. Hannah, president of tha
Central Federated Union, announced
last night during a discussion o? ihe
rent problem by that body at a meeting
in Labor Temple, East Eighty-fourth
Street, that if rents were raised any
higher unions throughout the city
would be forced to break their agree?
ments with their employers and strike
for higher wages.
Mr. Hannah said that he was reluc?
tant to consider such an action, but
.hat it would become necessary if rent
profiteers continued their gouging tac?
tics.
"If the government doesn't act quick?
ly," he said, "the people will."
A resolution condemning importation
of Chinese labor, and another calling
on the Legislature to increase the pay
of teachers, were adopted.
Mexican Rebel Leader Executed
MEXICO CITY, March 5.?Cirilo
Arenas, a rebel leader, who was cap?
tured less than a week ago when he
entered the city of Puebla disguised,
was sentenced to death by a summary
court martial Wednesday night and
executed yesterday morning in Puebla,
according to advices received here.
Mexico Mav Stop Hides Export
WASHINGTON. March 5.?The Mexi?
can governments reported in consular
advices to the Department of Com?
merce to bo considering the issuance
of a decree prohibiting the export of
hides to the United States.
TOPICS OF THE DAY
"If Uncle Sam wants to get out of debt all he needs to do is to turn his shipyards into
ouija-board factories.'*?New York World.
"It ought to be a simple matter," an Indiana editor remarks, "to mark and brand the real
8editionist." But it is not a simple matter apparently for Congressmen to devise a measure
which will satisfy at once those who fear that our institutions will be overthrown by seditious
propaganda, and those afraid they will be undermined by interference with civil liberties. In
order to help Congress find out what kind of legislation the people really want, if any, we have
asked a large number of newspaper editors to set down the provisions they think a sedition act
ought to contain.
THE LITERARY DIGEST for March 6th presents these opinions, and taken as a whole,
gives a constructive basis upon which to build. While the Dayton News believes that "public
meetings where the Government of the United States is attacked and insulted should be stopt
everywhere and those who persist in traitorous activities should be jailed, fined, or deported, as
the case deserves," the Kansas City Star declares that "additional legislation is more dangerous
than soap-box oratory or foolish publications." Running between these two extreme*view-points,
the article in THE LITERARY DIGEST reflects a wide field of public opinion.
Other particularly timely news-features in this number of the "Digest" are:
Ulster's Appeal to American Protestants
The Protestant Side of the Irish Question, As Opposed to the Sinn-Fein, Is
Presented to the American Public By the Unionist Ulster Delegation
How the Press Sizes Up thej Hoover
Boom
Presidential Inability
What to do with the German Ships ?
Aircraft and Political Craft
Germany's "Premature Revolution"
Juryless Japan
Is America Friendly to England?
What is Back of the Drug Habit?
No More Country Doctors
A Machine That Brands Walnuts *
Costly Snowflakes
Men Who Always Ask "What"
Is $10,000 a Year Enough For a
Christian?
Literary Ambassadors
A Purist on Drinkwater's "Lincoln"
Snow-shovellers and School Teachers
A Plea for "The Wrath of God" in
the Pulpit
Paths to the Presidency?Favorite
Sons?The Great Test, etc.
The Americanism of General
Leonard Wood
Personal Glimpses of Men and Events
Sugar Consumption in the United
States
World-Trade in Artificial Silk
Best of the Current Poetry
Many Interesting Illustrations, Including Humorous Cartoons
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