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New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
Is Money Power?

Money IS regarded with an almost
teverential awe by some, as if it were
the fount of all power. 1t can do many
things, things agreeable and things con-
6picuous. Without it human being is
circumscribed in comforts and in culture.
But just how much power has it? Is
the power in the money itself-or in
something back Of the money?
The cases of Andrew Carnegie and
Henry Ford, both creators of great
wealth, both pacihsts, both striving
earnestly to do good, suggest more than
coincidence. Andrew Carnegie was one
of the greatest Of modern money spin
ners. By his talent and force and
imagination and courage he built up a
reservoir of ppwer, if money is power,
that should have made him a colossal fig
ure in the world. He did great and good
things with his vast wealth. No rich
American has had better will to serve
his time. But, barring a name carved
on many libraries and hollow palace of
peace, what mark Will his millions leave?
In the steel industry, where he knew his
task, knew it supremely, his influence
was gigantic and his imprint permanent
There his personality counted.
But Andrew Carnegie, peacemaker,
was different figure There was moth
E. ing absurd or quixotic about his labors
Tor peace Any number of fair minded
= and intelligent people applauded But
4o dld his vast gifts to peace accon,nlish
anything? The Hague palace stood
through the Great War symbol of mis-
placed confidence. The propaganda for
peace so lndustriously carried OF bv the
huge Carnegie endowment accomplished
what? Here was a fund larger than
any propaganda sums of all the wicked
munltlon manufacturers in the world it
is safe to assert. And the. war cana
despite it, and the cause of peace was
yet to show any effects of the great ex
penditure whatever.
The Ford peace ship was a grotesoue
effort to buy peace. But in the retro
spect was it much more unbelievable that
peace could be made by millionaire's
sudden rush overseas than that peace
could be placed in the hearts of men by
a costly propaganda?
Does not the mistake lie here? Monev
Is the natural result of great business
force in America, but it is never the
force itself. The force IS in the brain
ana wlll-the money is only the tool.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
The Weeping Horse

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have read with great deal Of
interest the letter by Nat" in regard to
''The Weeping Horse of Hickory Hollow"
Seeing mule grazing in field near by.
wondered what the effect would be on the
mule if read the "Weeping Horse" article
TO it; so, taking along my copy OF to-days
Tribune and standing in front Of his
majesty, l started to read Mats" letter.
The mule appeared to be quite interested
until I reached the place where Mrs. Blake
had a tender heart, etc, and prepared dry
nettle and burdock" then the mule actually
started to laugh SO heartily that | could not
finish reading the article. 1t lay down and
rolled over several times, emitting at the
same time a low, cultural sound of he haw,
he haw, he-haw then rolled over again and
died WILLIAM A. WARD.
Clinton Coma, Aug. Is, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
Livestock Prices

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: A letter from H. g. Erdman. of
Jersey City, N. j.. was published in The
Tribune recently. We should like to add
some further information to that given by
the editorial department of The Tribune. in
order that Mr.. Erdman will have a clear
understanding of the relationship of live
stock prices and meat prices.
In his letter Mr. Erdman refers to figures
obtained from table shown on Page AZ
of Swift e. Co.'s year book. In the table
we present the following cost, proceeds and
profit figures Of our entire beef business
per head of cattle:
Paid for live cattle e...........S9 .S92.7O
Received for meat. t..............Sl45
Received for by-products. 22O6
totals receipts ............ S103.51
Amount remaining for expense and
proht ...................... 1851
Expense Observation-Disclosures. 979
front Observation-Disclosures. Sl.O2
Mr.. Erdman doubts the accuracy of these
figures in the belief that cattle averape
1900 to 1900 pounds in weight and Weld
1000 pounds of beef. Applying his weights
TO Swift & Co.'s proceeds for meat, results
IN an average price per pound of ~
cents, and he wants to know who is buying
meat at such price
Our year book states clearly that the
hgures presented by us are the average re-
suits on our entire beef business for the
hscal year 1918. We handle all grades of
cattle, ranging in weight from 900 to 500
pounds alive. The total number of cattle
handled last year averaged to weigh a.,
follows:
Average live weight paid for 923 pounds
Average weight of beef sold .46s pounds
Yield of beef averaged 5O7o per cen, of
the live weight
According to the weights, we bought 9o3
pounds of cattle for S927O, or an average
cost Of $1,000 per cwt, and we sold 468
pounds of beef for sS1.45 or an average of
$l7.40 per cwt.
Mr.. Erdman states that the public paws
from 40 to 55 cents per pound at retail.
for beef. 1t does for choice cuts, but re-
tail beef prices must be considered on a
basis Of what The combined cuts from a
side of beef average.
Swift & Co. publishes weekly in the New
York papers the average price obtained for
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18

opposite Of "claustrophilia," or cockney
tents or cities. 1t implies love of a
wide expanse and free movement. And
SO forth. Yet correspondent Of The
Nev Statesman promptly wrote in to
jeer at the whole notion. Writing from
Trinity College, Cambridge, he expressed
his thankfulness that "the thalassophlia
Of my ancestors was insufficient to urge
them to cross the sea to a country where
such books appear under the guise of
scientific publications." Love of the sea
is not like the possession of six toes, he
declares: "And to translate the phrase
into Greek and then call it Mcclellan
factor may be magnificent but it is not
science"
AS for naval men and thalassophilia,
this grim critic says that in his observa-
tion their idea Of heaven is a safe shore
job. Fishermen, the same. All those
who use the sea, he insists, hate it as
workingmen hate capitalists, and for
similar reasons. Lastly, he exclaims:
"Is it not a fact that the 'thalassophil'
Carthaginians were defeated and driven
off the sea by the 'claustrophil' Romans :?
Were not the ferocious and daring pirates
of the North African coast the descend
ants of the cultivated Moors, landlubbers
to man? Is there any evidence that
Nelson, who was always seasick, had any
'thalassophilia' at alI?"
We think that this excited Briton has
rather overstood his mark. Even if all
his questions must be answered eyes"
there yet remains the definite fact of
love of the sea, hankerng for it that
will not down and that inhabits indi-
viduals and families and races Perhaps
love is poor word. Your seaman may
hate the sea and curse it out, but he can't
resist signing up for new voyage. The
sea stirs farmer boys on the praires and
sends them around the world. It's grip
on certain humans is the strongest fact
in their lives, and whatever else the sci
entists may prove as to it's inheritance
and it's pedigree, it is one of the fates
that control the lives and destinies of
men and nations.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
Last Survivors

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l was quito interested in the letter
of III. w. c." in regard to your editorial
statement that Edward VII on the occasion
of his visit to Boston ffty-nine years ago
called on the last survivor Of the Revolu-
ton" Perhaps I can add another to the
list who certainly was living after that
date.
I am ffty-nine years old, and can re-
member when boy accompanying, my par
ents, we called on my great grandfather,
Albert Waterman, who was a pensioner Of
the War of the Revolution. He was = very
old man. l do not, of course, now
call how old he was, but remember seeing
him then. cousin older than myself
knew him we'll and is sure that he was
soldier and pensioner of the Revolution
and that he was living when I was a boy.
I had three other ancestors in that war, but
he was the only one I ever saw. All Of them
were New Englanders.
c. B. STODDARD.
North Cohocton, N. Y, Aug. IS, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
The Peace Bell
To the Editor of The Tribune

Sir: In reply to your correspondents
question as to the history of the Columbia
peace bell of 1893, can, as one of the verv
lew surviving members of the Liberty
Bell Committee" say this:
All the important data as TO our COM
mlttee's contracting with Meneelv for max
ing the bell. at cost OF $4,000, and our
celebration in the foundry at Troy on its
completion, also its triumphal exhibition
IN the Worlds Fair and other cities and
the final sale of the bell on our failure to
the manuscript department of the New
York Free Library. Whether the maker is
still the owneE or certain firm in Phila-
delphia. cannot say. Possibly the bell is
still intact, and, in all its original unique
beauty and tone, could be made ready when
the peace treaty is signed to send forth in
glad peals the glorious proclamation IN
scribed on its shining surface, GLORY to
God in the Highest and on Earth Peace,
Good Will Toward Men"
Your correspondent Clara Hllman says
Mr. Meneely wrote her. The Columbian
Liberty Bell was made ror the Daughters
OF the American Revolution" l think this
statement needs verifcation. Anyway. I
know the D. A. r., although able to do so,
never aided our committee to make the final
payment and SO secure possession 0, the
bell.
Surely in the unique value Of the his
tor:c relies and coins in gold, silver snd an
cestra. rinss gwen ~ princes and famous
patriots that went into the metal Of this
beautifu. toned bell. no other casting large
or small, the world over can approach
It in the great variety Of its interest
J. c. PUMPELLY.
Summit, N. j., Aug. 13, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
Prof1teers of Victory

Speaking about after-war profteering,
word may be said about the high cost
of sightseeing 1t would appear that in
this field our land is better off than
Others
Take the instance Of victory parades.
There was grumoirg here when seats on
Fifth Avenue rented as high as S25, or
even $50, apiece. But sightseers of Paris
paid more to witness the march Of tri-
umph on july IA. One French paper re-
marks that the fees collected for a single
window on the Avenue des Champs
Elysees would buy comfortable villa
in the Paris suburbs
At 81 Avenue dcs Champs Elvsees five
Windows were rented out to twenty-five
persons at 5000 francs (S6OO, normal
eXchange) q seat, or 5000 francs for
the whole lot. AS a special inNucement
the landlord stated he would furnish the
chairs. At 81 Avenue des Champs
Elysees balcony. holding twenty people,
If well crowded together,' was to be
had for $4,000 francs. "a unique oppor-
tunity,' the poster on the street door re-
marked. At No. 80. corner of Rue Mar
beuf, there were numerous wndows' at
200 francs a seat, but the owner ere
served the right to demand references"
At No. 67 lady who pays for her resi-
dence yearly rent of $4,000 francs Of
fered five windows with twenty seats at
3,OOO francs a seat and got it. She har-
vested in a couple Of hours four times her
yearly rent. At No. As, balcony, $4,000
francs, holding twenty-four, if "tightly
packed and another, with capacity of
twelve, if "even tighter packed" for
$4,000, decorations to be provided by
lessee" At No. 145 one balcony rented
for 1000 francs.
In one single case there was redeem
ing feature At 33 Avenue des Champs
Elysees lady, who "woud see appli-
cants between 8 and II a. n1.," said that
the receipts would go to the aid of the
devastated villages.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
~ Euerything
The Art Of Keeping Young
To The Editor OF The Tribune.

TO the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: am an old lady who has been
constant reader Of The Tribune since girl
hood, and perhaps you will have room IN
your paper for note from mo about r.
PA
1 have read 1.-THE Coming Tower" every
day. and while my son has had to explain
some things to me, I am able to thoroughly
enjoy it, and take this as sign am real
ly not rs old as seem. / hope hc will not
discontinue "Pepys Diary" as suggested.
One Of my grandsons went to Yale, and
he tells me Professor Phelps there not only
reads the "Tower," but is sometimes con-
tributor under an assumed name, which IS
enough proof for me of its worth.
can remember The Tribune during tho
period just before the Civil War, when my
father was one of several gentlemen living
in the country near US who had a station
Of the underground railway" to help the
slaves escaping from the South, and It still
seems to me to be the best paper.
My son is writing this for me, as my pen
manship Is not as clear as it once was.
L. r. w.
Plainfeld, N j., Aug. IL, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
The Modest Jazz.Bird

From POETRY
THE Jazzsbird sings barnyard song
cock-a doodle bray.
jingle bells, boiler works.
A he-man's roundelay.
The eagle said: "My noisy son.
send you out to fight"
SO the youngster spread his sunAower vinos
And r0"Fed with all his might.
His headlight eyes went nashine
From Oregon to Maine;
And the land was dark with a1rship,
In the darting jazz birds train
Crossing the bowling ocean,
His bellmouth shook the ssv.
And the Yankees in the trenches
Gave back the hue and cry.
ana Europe had not heard the like
And Germany went down.
The fowl Of steel with clashinv claw.
Tore off the Kaisers crown.
vACHEL LINDSAY.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
The Goat

Out of all the assertions and denials
and threats and wranglings that attend
ed the initiation of the present unpleas-
antness just one fact seems clear That
is that nobody-neither men nor Inter-
borough nor Mayor-seems to have given
the slightest thought to the public. AS al
ways, and even more so, the travellers Of
New York City, constituting some mill
ions of people, are the plain, unmiti-
gated goat.
His Honor is organizing bus lines, to
be sure, which may prevent the cityfrom
going completely out of business. But
that is after the mischief has been done,
and it was hard to see in his colloquy
with the great Mr.. Connolly any grim
determination that the public must be
served. AS for the Interborough, it's
wheels stop turning, and that is the end
of a perfect day. Wheels remain stopped.
For the representatives of the men who
kicked the city into the present mess
with hardly any warning and with the
scantiest opportunity for negotiation
there is not less blame.
In sum, there is nobody for the public
to sympathize with except itself There
will be much eloquence to come from the
Mayor, from many others, in the days of
pedestrlanism to come. 1t will fall on
deaf ears. The public will walk, and it
will walk in no forgiving or concliatory
mood. Unfortunately it cannot strike
CT to
it do anything? Information and lead
ing are wanted. Meantime we suggest
resolve to walk and keep on walking un-
til somebody remembers that the City of
New York is neither Mayor nor a
batch of corporations nor a few thou
sands of carmen, but five millions of men,
women and children with jobs to fill and
health and comfort to be consulted and
constitutional right to live.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18

peef IN that territory SO that dealers are
iuIly advised from week to week of the
market changes.
II there is any other point that Mr.. Erd
man or any reader of The Tribune is not
perfectly clear on, We shall be glad TO fur
h'sh the information necessary to an expla
nation. Time can be saved bv addrees;ner
uo oirect SWIFT & CO..
Per 0. C. E. Matthies, Commercial Re-
search Department.
Chicago, Aug. Il, 1919.
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Sweet Cider

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The action of the Senate Judiciary
Committee in amending the prohibition en-
1orcement bill so as to permit the manu-
facture of sweet cider may seem to such
simple souls as Samuel Wilson, of the New
Jersey Anti-Saloons League, an assurance
that "hard," or alcoholic, cider will be
under the ban of the enforcement law.
Perhaps Mr.. Wilson will explain how the
government is going to prevent sweet cider
following its natural bent and becoming
hard Apples are grown on millions of
1arms. Are we to have an army of 100000
spies, snoops and informers to watch the
honest farmers cellars and stop the process
OF fermentation as soon as the wicked bac
terra begin to convert the sugar in cider
INTO alcohol? Or will the farmers he al
lowed to grow only apples that contain no
sugar? WHIDDEN cpAuA,,
New York, Aug. rs, 1919.
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Inheriting the Sea

Has your son thalassophilia? Is he
hyperkinetic? Or was there at any rate
& navy man among the male relatives of
his mother? If yes, then you can send
him to Annapolis with every confidence
that he will make s successful fighting
naval officer. So at least you are in
formed by publication Of the Carnegie
Institute, publication No. 259 1919,
Naval Officers, Their Heredity and De-
velopment," by Professor C. B. Daven-
port.
Of course, the rough and ready sea-
farer will make short work of those
long words. "If all you mean is that
the boy who loves the sea and has an
adventurous, scrapny disposition is likely
to make good sailor, why don't you say
SOL" eve omit embellishments Some
such comment is also made by distin-
guished British scientist, j. Arthur
Thomson, discussing the volume in The
Ne'c Statesman. Yet, at that this critic
inclines to the view that heredity can be
observed and studied in such fashion as
to make it feasible to pick good naval
officer from a bad almost wholly on a
knowledge of his parents and ancestors.
Nelson is a rather tough nut for these
scientists to crack. For he was a weak
ling as boy and never overcame sea-
sickness His uncle, Captain Sucking,
cried: "What has poor little Horatio
done that he, being so weak, should be
fo Of ,o1o
Horatio did show a high sense of honor
as lad and did climb the schoolhouse
pear tree and strip it of it's fruit-which
he refused to eat. Thus, as Professor
Davenport says, Captain Sucking "did
not understand the significance of the
retrospective, brooding silence, that ten
acious regard for his honor, that willing
ness to undertake hazardous enterprises
, without claiming any material reward,
which Horatio Nelson had already
shown"
That was hyperkinesis, apparently.
The same urge led Michael de Ruyter,
when between ten and twelve, to climb
the church steepe, sit on the ball at it's
top and wave to the people below. Of
Lord Dundonald it was written: "Ac
ton was the breath of his nostrils. Give
HIM an element to overcome and he was
IN hls element his life was
made up of a series of quarrels" John
Hawkins, patriarch of all sea rovers,, was
bred to the sea in the ships of his family
and "craved adventure"
The capacity to command these in
vestlgators rate as another essential of
the naval inheritance. Farragut at
twelve took command for Porter of the
recaptured American ship Barclay and
with his pistol dared the angry CAPTAIN to
come on deck unless he wished to 90
overheard" Before eighteen he was nut
IN command Of a brig and wrote thus of
his promotion: "I consider it a great
advantage to obtain command Young.
having observed, as a general rule. that
persons who come into authority late in
lite shrink from responsibility and often
break down under its weight" A born
leader, in short.
Love of sea, thaiassophilia, as Profess
sor Davenport likes to call it. seems sim
pie enough. 1t has been recognized in
certain strains of mankind, the Phmni
clans and the Vikings, for instance. 1t is
regarded by the psychiatrists as the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
The Nine-Hour Day

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | read with interest this morning
your editorial Work and Save" Have you
not the nerve to go further and give US a
two-tsted article telling US about the great
est of all profiteers, the real cause of the
high cost of living organized labor?
Can't you back an idea which, though it
may appear harsh, is a real solution-a
minimum nine-h hour day?
W. H. MICHAEL.
New York, Aug. 10, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18

TO the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: l enjoyed the story of The Weep
ing Horse of Hickory Hollow" very much,
but there are one or two points that are
NOS exactly clear. Did Don weep real salty
human tears? And was it the fact the
Methodist meeting lasted so long that he
became tired OF waiting that caused him
TO shed the tears. or was it because Of the
impression the meeting had on his SOUL
New York, Aug. 15 1919 WALLY
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
NHE high cost Of living seems to be
.bn IN ro aunt ;care throuobout fhe

the paramount issue throughout the
world to-day. To our mind the
real cause is sidctracked, because
the fallacious millennium builders are filling
the air with "blessed baisams" that appeal
to the masse. to cure insidious disease that,
if not checked, will end only in eating out
our vtals and in slowing up human prog
ress everywhere.
In the United States the government 80
constantly being importuned to REGULATE"
everything. So-callcd experts ard commits
sons galore arc appointed and millions Of
the taxpayers money are appropriated to
find the cause. With what result To
satisfy public fallacious clanior, Such re
ports generally slander !egitimase ,ntcr-
ests ard, in fact, contribute 80 higher costs
of living through indorsng snortcl work
hours, increased pny, encouragement Of in
efficiency and ignoring the great underlying
cause, to wit, Increased production-in
other words, ignoring the imnutab!e law of
supply and demand"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
Exchange and Exports
To the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following letter received from
correspondent in Belgium may be Of
interest to your readers:
"Brussels, July "a, 1919.
"The dollar is quoted to-day on the Brus
sells Exchange at fr 1929 to 7.421b or
depreciation of our money of 40 per cent
1t is therefore out of question for us to
thlnk OF buying in the United States at
present.
Until such time as, through interna-
tonal understanding, steps will have been
taken to bring the rate of exchange he
tween the Old and New World to more
reasonable level commercial relations will
be impossible
Never before have the circumstances
been more favorable for these commercial
relatlons Not to take advantage of them
is to leave the door opened to the Ger
mans and If they take foothod now thew
Will soon be once more the dominating
factors
"Wth England the difference is also
about 80 per cent
Under such disastrous conditions how
could we give the preference to our allies
When the exchange will be back to rea-
sonaole level write us again. we shall see
II 1t is not possible TO do something if it
is not too late"
Ih1s letter IS only one of the many of
the same tenor received The situation "a
described above is of more Importance to
US than 1t IS TO Europe Even exports of
raw material will soon become impossible
under such conditions, and our cointrv will
soon lace disastrous situation if our ex
ports stop and We are faced with food
of importation. EREI, DIrPy
New York, Aug II, 1919.