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No "Great and Solemn"
President Wilson long bad in
mind a "great ?and solemn referen?
dum" on his differences with the
Senate over the peace treaty. As
the President's latest ' biographer,
Professor Todd, of the University
of Chicago, poii'id out, it always
went against the President's grain
to compromise with his political op?
ponents. He preferred in every
?case to take an appeal to the voters.
The President could have had his
way with the peace treaty referen?
dum had it not been for the Admin?
istration's wretchedly poor strategy
at San Francisco. The Republican
National Convention accepted his
challenge. It condemned his peace
policy, his draft of the covenant and
his* refusal to allow the treaty to be
ratified with the Lodge reservations.
He could have clinched the issue ii
he had directed the Democratic Na?
tional Convention to demand rati?
fication without the reservations
which he had condemned as "nulli?
fying," but which were supported
fey'' twenty-three Democratic Sen*
.atara.
He may have thought that his
agents at San Francisco?notably
Mv> Cummings and Senator Glass?
were framing a real referendum on
the line of the Wilson plan against
all other plans. But, Mr. Cum?
mings and Mr. Glass yielded to
much pressure for harmony. They
allowed a reservation proviso, offered
by Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts,
to be attached to the treaty planlc.
Mr. Walsh voted for the Lodge res?
ervations. He protected himself and
the Democratic Senators who co?
operated with him when he induced
the Committee on Resolutions to ap?
prove this wide-opefi declaration:
MWe advocate the immediate rati?
fication of the treaty without res?
ervations which would impair its
essential integrity, but we do not
oppose the acceptance of any res?
ervations making clearer or more
specific the obligations of the United
States to the league associates."
The supporters of the Lodge res?
ervations, whether Republicans or
Democrats, may properly hold that
these reservations do not impair the
essential integrity of the covenant.
They may fairly argue that the cove?
nant is made more workable by the
reservations. Certainly the Lodge
. reservations are intended to make
dearer and more specific the obli?
gations of the United States to other
?tepibers of ?the league.
If Mr. Wilson had been renomi
aated. the wording of the Demo?
cratic ratification plank would have
been of less consequence. A ref?
erendum on his treaty policy would
have been unavoidable. It might
still have been possible if Palmer or
McAdoo had been chosen. But the
contrast between the hasy wording
of ,the plank and the original sharp
issue between Mr. Wilson's plan and
all other plans has been disastrously
heightened by the nomination of
Governor Cox?an outsider and the
favorite of the anti-Administration
and. Lodge reservationist elements in
the convention.
There can be no'?great and solemn
referendum" this fall, because the
issue, as President Wilson framed
it, has been blotted out. Hiram
Johnson and'James A. Reed, were
brothers-in-arms in the treaty fight
in- the Senate. Both were "bitter?
enders" and enti-WtlsoniteB. No
two minds were closer together on
the covenant Yefr Senator John?
son is standing squarely on the Re?
publican treaty plank, and Senator
Reed, barred from a ?eat at San
Francisco because of his treaty
views,, is supporting the Democratic
platform and sending congratula?
tions to Governor Cox. Says Sen?
ator Beed: "I am firmly'convinced
that yog will always maintain and
iafantl vox nation and will never
eonsent to the surrender of any part
of it? sovereignty or the abandon?
ment ?of these great international
fa?dea of the fathers."
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Breitmann's Ewigkeit.
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A Call to Two Governor?
/Th'?*ae are active days in Demo?
cratic suffrage circles. It's a poor
day when President Wilson or Can?
didate ?ox doesnY plead with some
D?mocratie state, to be ?good and
ratify. Latest oh the list, Louisiana,
heard the plaintive call of Governor
Cox and voted suffrage down with a
will.
All of which makes the continued
silence of Governor Clement of Ver?
mont the more marked. There were
high hopes in Washington after the
Governor*? conference with Senator
Harding that this hard-headed ex?
ecutive of an exceedingly hard-head?
ed S?tate had been converted. Certain?
ly, if persuasion by Republican lead?
ers can influence this one mind upon
which so much depends it would by
now be won overi But days have
passed and no announcement has
come from Montpelier. What is
Governor Clement's decision?
We express a renewed hope that
Governor Holcomb of Connecticut
may also reverse his decision and
call an extra session of his Legisla?
ture. Much has happened since ho
last announced his view. The Re?
publicans in national assembly have
spoken." The likelihood of ratifi?
cation by sufficient Democratic states
is becoming remote. The responsi?
bility upon the remaining Republi?
can states is all the greater.
The question is larger than any
partisan glory. The overwhelmingly
Republican character of the ratifica?
tion is established anyway. The
?question is whether the woman of
the whole nation shall vote next
November. Litigation by the anti
suffragists may postpone decision
unless additional states are added
to the list already ratifying. Bothj
Vermont and Connecticut should?
therefore join the procession. The
Republican legislatures of . both
tfiese states are declared to be in
favor of the amendment. The re?
sponsibility upon the two governors
is simply that of calling a special
session, which will enable the legis?
lators to speak. We repeat our
earnest hope that both Governor
Clement and Governor Holcomb will
reconsider their decisions and call
their respective legislatures in spe?
cial session at an early date.
Poland's Setback
Poland's military setback may be
only temporary. On the right wing
of their long line the Poles are get?
ting back toward the old German de?
fenses. Budeney's Russian army?
?which has had such remarkable suc?
cess west of Kiev, is composed large?
ly of cavalry. It has^flltered through
the Polish lines at many points and
compelled a general Polish with?
drawal. In recent infantry opera?
tions Pilsudski has more nearly held
his own..
Poland has been censured in many
quarters for continuing to fight So?
viet Russia. The Peace Council cre?
ated ,the Polish state, but didn't fix
its eastern boundaries. Poland was
exposed to a Bolshevist attack and
decided to do her fighting, if there
was to be fighting, as far to the east
as possible^ The~AHied Council has
done little or nothing for her since
the peace conference ended. Yet the
erection of a free and strong Poland
was one of the chief aims of the war,
and even figured conspicuously in
the celebrated Fourteen Points.
The Allies cannot afford to have
Poland overrun by the Soviet
armies. It was the great tragedy at
Paris that so much time was spent in
creating a League of Nations and so
little given to guaranteeing Prance's
security on th? Rhine and Poland's
security on her eastern frontier.
These two states would be the natu?
ral bulwarks of peace in a reorgan?
ized Europe,. Long delays in the
vital work of peace settlement have
weakened the interest of tho West?
ern Allies in Poland's future and
minimized their capacity to aid her.
Aid should be given generously now,
for .Poland's collapse would wreck the
Versailles Treaty and put a capstone
on the blunders which have hindered
its execution and have plunged Eu?
rope into a new series of wars.
The Bergdoll Scandal
Eight persons have been indicted
in the Bergdoll case by a Federal
grand jury at Philadelphia, among
them the mother of the fugitive and
the "family friend," who admittedly
assisted him in dodging arrest. A
court martial wa?o recommended for
the officer in command at Fort Jay,
who permitted ?ergdoll to set forth
on his search for the mysterious "pot
of gold," as well as for the guards
who permitted him to escape so
easily. The counsel, who explicitly
pledged themselves that he would be
returned to prison, were also criti?
cised severely. The grand jury was
obviously moved by a desire to see
justice done all around.
This is the first sign of real a??
tivity in dealing with what has be
come a national scandal. The story
by means of which Bergdoll secured
his supposedly temporary release
from confinement was top foolish to
deceive a child; the grand jury takes,
pains to express disbelief in it. Why
the military authorities should have
hearkened to it is a mystery beyond
solution. The suspicion that this
man, by his ability to command legal
aid? obtained a privilege which
would feave bee? denied to aaotfaw*
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i? &$t?d?r ?jJurto?B to.confidence
in the present administration^ of the
War Department. Even after the
escape there was only what appears
to have been a perfunctory investi?
gation. It is difficult to resist the
conclusion that but for the energy of
a district attorney the whole case
would have been allowed to lapse.
The immunity of Bergdoll from
capture is hardly less Surprising
than his escape. 'It may be that
everything is being done to find him,
but the failure of the effort so far
makes the government ridiculous.
It is'something to have his accom?
plices brought to book. Their offense
is only less than his. Nevertheless,
this malodorous scandal should
never have been possible.
Another Check to Rent Gouging
^decision in the 4th. District
Municipal Court of Brooklyn may
help to break the force of the pres?
ent drive to nullify the emergency
rent laws. Landlords have been
growing bolder since the Legislature
adjourned. They have been trying
to stampede tenants into signing
new leases at large increases by call?
ing attention to the fact that new
tenants are willing to pay still
higher rates. ''If you stay on and are
dispossessed," the landlord's argu?
ment runs, "you will be much worse
off than if you had accepted another
lease at the market rate."
Under the situation created by
the anti-dispossess legislation it was
to the landlord's interest to get
rid of his tenants by persuasion or
intimidation. He had in his hands
the weapon of an extortionate rate
submitted to by new homesoekers
and held over the heads of those
whom the court? might permit to be
dispossessed. Justice Jacob S. Strahl
has tried to equalize conditions and
make the enforcement of the new
rent laws easier by ruling that dur?
ing the existing emergency land?
lords are obliged to charge a reason?
able rental?in general, one repre?
senting no greater advance than 36
per cent on the rate for the previous
year?to new tenants as well as to
old ones.
The rent laws were passed in the
exercise of the state's p?lice power.
Their purpose is to safeguard pub?
lic health and to maintain public
order. In Justice Strahl'a view, if
their enforcement is hindered by the
power of a landlord to charge ex?
tortionate rates to new tenants, that
power must be restrained. If it
isn't restrained an anomalous situ?
ation arises in which it becomes
difficult for the courts* to establish a
standard of reasonable increase in
attempted dispossession cases.
A minority of the landlords
haven't been cured of the profiteer?
ing habit. They sneer at the new
laws and are confident that they can
find a way to evade them. The
season of annual rent renewals is at
hand. Many tenants are being brow?
beaten and harassed. They ought
to have a clearer assurance that
their leases will hold good if they
offer to pay a reasonable increase.
Justice Strahl's decision now offers
an assurance that the general level
of rents will not be boosted in one
year 50, 75 or 100 per cent. If this
decision doesn't curb the extortion?
ers an extra session of the Legisla?
ture and more stringent rent regula?
tion will probably be unavoidable.
Beauty Unobserved
Just how dulling. habit tends to
drop the eyes of every one below the
beauty round about is very interest?
ingly suggested by Mr. Arnold Ben
nett Having nothing to do between
bis annual ?novels and his ? monthly.
essays and his weekly occasionals,
Mr. Bennett is dashing off a letter to
"The New Statesman" on neglected
architecture. Says he:
"Our attitude toward architecture
is far too much dominated by the
esthetic canons of the past. We get
into s groove of taste and so miss
innumerable beauties. I wonder how
many of the millions of admirers of
the Medici tombs at Florence have
? noticed that the Church of San
Loroneo visibly exists in extreme ?
loveliness. I imagine that not one
person in a. hundred thousand who
passes the Junior United Service
, Club, at the corner of Regent Street
and Charles Street, ever notices that
it is a masterpiece. But who am I to
animadvert? After thirty-two years
of London I noticed last week for the
first timo the singular charm of
Stagg & Mantle's, in Leicester
Square! When it has raised all its
school teachers from the starvation
level the L. C. C. might usefully
spend a trifle in attaching plaques to
a few thousand buildinga in London
with the name of the architect and
the date of construction displayed
thereon."
We hate to think how many New
Yorkers have never noticed the
beauty of so obvious a jewel as their
City Hail?or passed by the loveliest
of houses on Fifth Avenue, designed
by Stanford White, without a thrill
?or for a lifetime regarded the
Brooklyn Bridge solely as a high?
way. Yet, as Mr. Bennett makes
clear, every one is blind to most of
the beauty about him, and especially
blind toward that which is nearest
and whicjh he see? oft?nest Such is
the deadly effect of habit upon the
best of us.
And the question is how we can
keep our tetinas fresh and at the
samo time maintain their genuine?
ness of reaction. The ease of the
Medici tombs is In point. Tfo have
not our Baedeker before us, but it is
? safe fceUhas these admirable ere
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ations ?re suitably doubl?*? tarred.
Therefore, it is an equally saf? bet
that few visitors to Florence have
escaped seeing them with suitable
reverence and attention. But such
dutiful study bears no slightest ref?
lation to a teal sense, of beauty, that
tingle of. the mind and the emotions
which is life itself. To walk about
one's city with a conscious resolve
"Now I will look for beauty" will
probably result in nothing better
than that most painful of female
types which is always raving about
the sunset. Uplifting one's taste by
seizing one's artistic bootstraps and
hoisting away is just'about as effec?
tive as similar effort? at moral up?
lift in politics.
Surrounding ourselves with as
much beauty as possible is probably
the surest if slowest way of improv?
ing taste. And yet, by the laws of
habit, these,objects of beauty must
be perpetually renewed and added to
if we are not to take them for
granted and presently to forget
them. Memory goes back to a French
inn within a stone's throw of the
ch?teau of Azay-le-Rideau?one of
the most beautiful things in the
world?the interior of which'inn was
hardly less distressful in its modern
French equipment- than any Ameri?
can boarding-house.
Perhaps for every one to be in
some small field an artisan of beauty
?in the making of a flower garden
or hats or poems or music or any?
thing that serves to keep fresh one's
sense of beauty for any of the many
forms of aft?would help in creating
a genuinely artistic people. For this
fresh response to beauty is the cen?
tral point. Seeing that it took Mr.
Arnold Bennett thirty-two years to
get it with respect to Stagg & Man
tie's building in Leicester Square,
let no one be discouraged.
t ! ' , ' '55S
N Overconfidence
A Warning to Republicans Against
? Hard Fight Ahead
To tho Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Democrats have picked
from their aspirants the strongest pos?
sible candidates. ' Your editorial July
6 on overconfidence is timely and will
need to be kept in mind until Novem?
ber.
Conditions have changed to such an
extent since 1916 that it -would be im?
possible to make any estimate of 1920.
Then there were about 18,500,000 balr
lots cast, with a D?mocratie plurality
of about 500,000 and a majority of
twenty-three Presidential electors. But
with from 14,000,000 to 16,000,000 hew
voters it would be impossible to deter
? mine which way the balance may
swing.
While the Presidential election holds
first place, yet a larger working ma?
jority is sadly needed in the Senate,
and to aid the Republican administra?
tion must be secured.
While I hope and believe that Hard?
ing and Coolidge will be elected, it
will be necessary for each of us to do
his share of work. A. F. D.
Brooklyn, July 7, 1920.
<i-.?,_
No Easy Time for Harding
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: As a reader of The Tribune I
feel that I have the privilege of voicing
my sentiment concerning the recent
nominations among the ' other com?
ments appearing on the editorial page
of The Tribune.
Now that the Democrats have nomi?
nated Cox a real fight is impending. If
Cox should win Ohio, and he has a good
chance of doing it, for he has carried
it three times, he will have an ?Xt
cellent chance for the Presidency. The
Republicans must get ahead and make
sure of that state. Harding is not going
to have such an easy time as some
think, for while there is nothing against
the man himself, he is an "old guard"
standard bearer, and this is a black
mark against him not easily erased.
There may be no use crying over spilt
milk, as some have said, but it is time
to let Penrose's group of "old guarders"
know that a good many Republicans do
not like the way they run the' conven?
tions.
Leonard Wood was not the man to be
controlled, by a few scheming politicians
such as compose the "old guard" crowd,
and that was the very reason Wood was
not elected nominee of the Republican
party. The "old guarders" do not belong
to the progressive part of the Republican
party. They fought against Roosevelt
and against his principles. They have
caused two big elections to be lost.
If McAdoo had , been nominated by
the Democrats I, for one, would be a
stanch supporter, and as it is it will
take a good deal of persuading for me
to swallow the "old guard" dose and
vote for Harding.
A. C. HANLEY.
Brooklyn, July 7, 1920.
One WK? Would Bury Hatred
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It is well for the poor little
innocent sufferers of this wicked war
that they are not dependent on the
generosity of <a Mr. Bangs. For?
tunately for them, there are plenty
of noble and high-minded man and
women in this sad world of ours who
still remember Christ's teachings.
Mr. Bangs seems to belong to that
type of individual who at a Versailles
conference needs a barbed wire fence,
and is probably not interested hv the
meeting at Geneva of many noble
women from tho warring countries,
and how friend and foe greeted ono
another as sisters with one common
cause, to bury hatred and ugly -pas?
sion. LYDIA E. S1ILLINGTON.
New York, iuly 7, 1920.
In the Distant Future
<Prom Th? Jtafutw City Star)
As nearly as we cap figure it out,
a rival candidate will beat Sam Gompers
about the same year that the Republi?
cans write a platform that will break
the Solid Sooth.
' POMMBft
After 0raoto.*wetin* one?, a few of w
Discussed the Germans, and Ed Fond
spoke up.
""Wall, sir/' be naW? "I l?ow a Gorman
one?
That; was oZ! white, tlvod ?with mj? folks
for years, ]
And naver said or did an ugly thing,
Nor acted moanlike; had no uppish
way?
At' all about him. Shrinking, too, he
was: i
Liked to get U a corner 'and Just stay
Right there in silence. Always ato our
food
And relished it; I never heard him ask
For any funny things that Germans
love.
Kept his own counsel, always was polite
To strangers who might call, and never
talked
About a soul of us behind our backs.
I own I felt cut up, the time he died."
"Who was this wonder, Ed?" somebody
asked.
Ed said: "A full-blood Spitz I used to
have." G. S. B.
Gargantuan as our veneration tot
Governor ?ox and Senator Harding Is,
ours is the belief that fifty years from
now this will he known as the year in
which Ring Lardner and Irvin Cobb.
received votes for the Democratic nomi?
nation.
Doubt iprill be felt, if net expressed,
by some of our little readers as to
whether anybody fifty years from now
will have heard of Cobb or Lardner. In?
deed they will, and on July 9, 1970,
we are going to reprint this paragraph,
with the headline "We Told ?You So,'
Didn't We?"
There is no limit to the boldness of
seme gamblers. The man who wagers
that the Cubs of 1908 could easily beat
the Yanks of 1920 is now plunging on
the bet that MeAdoo would make a bet?
ter President than Hoover.
'Speaking of wagers, we should like
to collect five francs from Mr, Wade H.
Hayes and five from Mr. George White,
who, when they were majors at Chau
mont, Haute-Marne, Fr., bet us, in
August, 1918, that the next President
would be 'a military man.
The) Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys
July 6?To my office by noon, and at
my desk an hour, whence away and
played a few games of pool, with slight
success, and H. Canby come for me, and
with him and A. Samuels to dinner, and
I met Mistress Jobyna Howland, very
cheery and glad of seeing me, and told
me the poem Miss Akins was said to have
wrote to Miss Barrymore at the age of
fourteen, she .actually did write, which,
as Heaven is my judge, I had never a
doubt of. S?W Miss I. Corbier at dinner,
looking better than ever I saw her. For
a ride in my petrol-waggon with H.
Canby, and so home early to-bed?
7?Early up, and all day at my offlee,
and so to see Mistress Kate, and with
M. Glass and H. Canby to dinner, which
I payed for, losing the cast at dice. To
see "The Follies of 1920," whose appeal,
save* for the comickalities of Fannie
Bnce, is wholly visual. A beaker of
ginger beer, and to home, later than I
like, by omnibus, and to-bed.
8?News from my wife how rejoiced
she is that I am to see her on Saturday,
and tells me I need not bring the
thermos bottle she? had wrote me about,
which I am glad of, forasmuch as I could
not find it in the place she had told me
it would be. To J. Burgess the dentist's,
and so to my office, where till evening,
and with my Cosen Florence to dinner.
Nine-tenths of the ballades, rondeaus*
and villanelles submitted to this Pifiar
of .Prosody do not conform to the rigid
? rules that govern these restricted
j forms. That' is why tbey fail of pub
! lieation. If you must write a ballade,
write a ballade, not merely three
octets with an envoy.
The Complete Letter Writer,,
[From th? manager of a five and ten cent
emporium]
"Replying to yours regarding a' short?
age in change you claim due you from a
i purchase made some time Friday 18th
in our store. Can only state our cash,
register shows a balance on that date
and sales Jady in charge of this depart?
ment recalls waiting on you very clear?
ly and also state your correct change
was giuui you Therefore I presume in
*you hape to catch your train you must
have either lost or mislayed it
No money being turned in to our office
on that date and cash balancing at night
I am unable to make good your claim
due to no neglect or carelessness on the
part of any of my employees Trusting
hoWever you will see our point of view
in this matter and*you will discover
your lost is through no fault of the
- Co. extending my sympathy to
you in you lost and sorry to have been
sway at the time when you call but
was out for about 15 min and returned
shortly after you left"
Mr. MeAdoo, if he had been nomi?
nated, could have made a bid for the
Early-to-Bed vote. While the conven?
tion was at what Mr. F. Scott Fitz?
gerald would call its high point, Mr.
MeAdoo was reported as being in bed
by 9:30. And on ordinary evenings he
probably leaps into, the flax by 8:45.
Philosophers who see sermons in
stones might meditate on the fact that
two of three candidates for the Presi?
dency are not men who were in the
Army or Navy during th6 war, and
the third is in jail for having opposed
-the draft.
? ??'.'.?
It is a sweetly solemn thought that,
although Nicky Arnsteln gave himself
up, Bergdoll still is uncaptured and
nobody knows who killed Elwell, tfce
police eye never closes. If you carry
? lighted cigarette in the subway, you
are almost certain of arrest.
The porch campaign is too simple.
It will He at least a verandah or a
piazza campaign.
Always the congratulations sent by
the defeated to the victorious candi?
dates aro"warm."
It isn't bo much, we suspect, the
heat as the humidity.
y. r. a.
ANYBODY CAN GET A GOOD LETTER OF JREC?MMEN?j
coprrifit, i?J?, Noir Tor? Trttua? ta?.
Book,
B9
Frederic F. Van de Water
Mildred Cram's "Lotus Salad" (Dodd,
Mead & Co.) is improbable, rather fan?
tastic and extremely good reading, if
you are content to ask neither "Why?"
nor "How ?" but will follow unquestion
ingly the glamourous pathway of her
romance.
"Soldiers of Fortune" might have
been "Lotus Salad" had Richard Hard?
ing Davis been a woman and chosen
Douglas -Fairbanks for his hero.
All the way through her rather pre?
cariously linked stories of revolution
in a banana republic Miss Cram seems
to have asked herself whenever a
crisis approached: "What would Doug
have done?" and then made a pretty
good guess. "
Th? following account of not the
most vigorous of her hero's adventures
might have been lifted bodily, it
seems to us, from a Fairbanks scenario:
"Pug ran along the polished marble
counter, kicking glasses and bottles
right and left, caught at an elaborate
chandelier which hung from the low
ceiling, swung there above the heads
of the struggling crowd, then dropped..
He fell on the shoulders of two gigan?
tic vaqueros and knocked them down.
But he rose again, laughing, and kicked
his way to the platform with the whole
room in pursuit. ?He tripped the two
guitar players, sending them sprawling
headlong, and spun tho pianist right
about face with one violent twist. Then
he vaulted the piano and pushed it
forward off the edge of the platform
on top of a squirming heap of dazed
Nationalists.
"He picked up one of the guitar play
era' chairs and smashed his way back to
the' bar. Then, reaching behind him to
the loaded shelves, he seized bottles,
glasses, bottles and more glasses, and
used the enraged faces below him as
targets."
There i3, as you probably have gath?
ered, much action in Miss Cram's story.
There is also not a little drama, and
through all of the twenty-two chapters,
most of which are really separate short
stories, you are filled with the pleas?
ant consciousness that the author had
almost as good a time in writing them
as you are having in reading.
We don't think Miss Cram would
! have written "Lotus Salad" had she
'not first read "Cabbages and Kings"
?and "Soldiers of Fortune," but we're
j glad she did.
Usually we steer clear of verse on
which we are supposed to* express
publicly an opinion. It seems to us as
hard to tell why you like or don't like
! poems as it is to explain your fond?
ness for or antipathy .toward pie.
But we recently picked up "Country
.Sentiment" (Knopf), not because the
i fame of its author, Robert Graves, had
j reached our ears, or because of the
I stirring things Louis Untermeyer says
! about the book on its paper cover, but
j because it looked like a small book
[ that could be read quickly and pleas
i antly. It still looks to us like a small
?book. .
This ?3 more the nature of confession
j,than criticism. We found Mr. Graves';
! verse obvious for the most part, silly
in spots and sounding much like a com?
bination of Tennyson at his worst and
Mother Goose. *
There is little facility, it seems to
us, and less music in "Country Senti?
ment's" contents. There are lines like: ?
"A fourpcnce on cakes, two pennies I
away
"To a beggar I gave."
This and others sound more to us
like a schoolboy translation of a Ger- !
man lyric than anything els?.
We also cherish the conviction thatj
Mr. Tennyson, after penning "Airy j
Fairy Lillian" or "As through th? land
at eve we w?nt," might have confessed
reluctantly that Mr. Graves had beaten
him at his own worst, if he could have
? read "Loving Henry." This -sounds
i like a jazz song, bufc is supposed to be
a lyric.
Probably there are depths of feeling
and heights of beauty in Mr. Graves'
work hid from one so material of mind
?s we. Probably also a person with our
benighted convictions has no business
foisting them on the world.
We are so sunk in ignorance, now
that we are in a mood for confession,
that we think Rudyard Kipling far
greater than Joseph Conrad ever was
or ever will be. For the benefit of
those who are about to rush forth
i and cancel subscriptions: Heywood
I Broun will be back next week.
Wherein We Are Passed Up j
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The effort of The Tribune to mis?
represent Mr. Wilson has amused his
friends for many years. On Monday,
just about the time this great, free i
Democratic gathering was preparing to
nominate' Mr. Cox, w* read your puny
editorial in which you say: "Mr. Wilson'
can have the nomination himself if he
gives the sign. He can nominate a sub?
stitute if h? prefers to do so." While
this is a great tribute to the man, the
absolute confidence of his party, he did
not give the sign. But The Tribune
will go right on misrepresenting his at?
titude on this as well as other questions.
Of course, had he given the sign, the
dollar sign, up to a few millions, as
your favorite did, it would not have
affected the delegates. But the Repub?
licans must find something to say; so
we will pass it all up. It merely shows
what a strong man can do. Whatever he
does the Republicans fear, and they
haven't a chance?with Harding.
SAMUEL SMILEY.
Gastonia, N. C, July 5, 1920.
Nothing in a Name
(.?Uroiri Tha Charleston ir<ju>?-Couri*i?)
Asia Minor is rapidly becoming a ma?
Jor issu*. *? sfe
Cleanliness of Body and Spirit '
tu the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: Permit me to comment on the
letter of H. Russell Fraser jr. ?
which appeared in yesterday's Tribune.
The letter hardly merits attention ex?
cepting in so far as it is of historical
interest as representing a survival of
the medieval mind. Indeed, the writer
is to be commended for the faithful?
ness with which he expounds the doc?
trine of mortification of the flesh. In
the middle ages godly people believed
that any one possessing healing pow?
ers was possessed of the devil. So
likewise we may suppose that Mr.
Fraser believes that the late General
Gorgas, in cleaning up the pest holes
in Cubs, Panama and Ecuador, instead
of doing missionary work was acting
under orders of the Prince of Dark?
ness. Does Mr. Fraser believe thai
the Y. M. C. A. is defeating its own ends
when itv installs shower baths in its
buildings?
I believe that cleanliness of body ii
an aid to cleanliness of spirit, ano"
that we should aim at both. I believ?
that the average American is superioj
to the average citisen of any othei
country in both respects.
F. R. HOSJNGTON JE.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 8,1920.
Sating Brothers
An Altruist's Plea for 'Pra/uiji?
and the Voice of Z)ar}
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It was with great interest am
read Mr. Tucker's letter, sa ynhw?
"wet's" last protest, in yetttnjj
Tribune, as he no Coubt voices tat m
timents of a larga number ef hit ftB?
citizens.
Apparently Mr. Tucker is entw?
selfish. No ? Well, maybe not Thtni
certainly nothing in his letter, how?
to lead one to believe otherwise. 1
states that because he entered tail t?
without his say-so he should thereto
have the right to live his own liftj
gratify his own desires. Certainlj.fi
not? If he desires to hinder his
bor from acquiring that which ii
fully his neighbor's why shouldn't
Evidently Mr. Tucker has not heart
Irishman's clever definition of
rights. According to the story, *|)
rights end where my nose begins.'
so with Mr. Tucker. His personal rijS
cease when they begin to interfere ?$
those of his fellow men; those, rigs? '
make the most of their lives tint?]
the heritage of all
Does it not eome down to the
tion of "Am I my brother's
If Mr. Tucker has any sense,of
play he must admit that he it t?
very large degree. For did not the
munity, Mr. Tucker's brother
practically bring him up from <Mj|
hood? Did it ;;ot educate him. p\
tect him and offer bim advantage* M
his older brothers ne.er had? W
it not now protect Mr. Tucker ft*
harm, both bodily and property? DM
it not now educate and proteet vi
children, of Mr. Tucker and ?
friends? Did not millions recently *
aside all personal objectives in **
that he and his friends might ?*)<
to the fullest those things for *#
countless others sacrificed in ***
to create for the benefit of Mr. Ta*
and his fellows, and which he ?"
accepts as a matter of course?
I think Mr. Tucker would be ?i*
to sacrifice in order that his wejjj
brother might have a chance to m
good. And is he not willing <? g
up his "glass of beer" in order *
bis weaker brother men may a** J*
additional obstacles to eurmottS*i_
think he will not question t??*
that alcoholic liquors are"harmrw*
^at there are men, many men, *?*r
tV at they cannot be temperate. ?*?
Mr. Tucker believe with Germany ??
the weak mast serve the ' strjmft ?l
with his own country that the #*
shall help the weak? Is it Mr. fJJJ
creed to take all he can snd *W*
little as possible, or to use hi? ??*
ates, trained by his fellows, t? a?
fellows ? ' *,
I believe and sincerely trust ?? v
Tucker and his friends wiU ?? *
the right. At present it appeal*
ho and others have li&tened toe 0
to theiroice of personal deal?? j^V,
little to the voice of duty to *??*
nity, that body of brother **4
whom Mr. Tucker owes ever.
As for danger from '**?* **%|
carbonic acid gss concoeti*???^^
Tucker really believes what ?* ,
here is hi? chance to become $>
of his fellows. B. T. THA??
! New York. July 6, l?20.
The Bitter ??**2**
{From The PhilwiclpM* *?$***
When evert argument of ?*j^|
ietretion is launched the **%*?
thelesa remains that we eosjM-WfJ
buying sugar just now far # *~
pound if the President had pt1 -
attention t? 8j*?stomach ***?-Vg
States as be does to the ta?f* *
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