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New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
A S316,Ooo,O00 City Budget

The tentative city budget, as re-
ported to the Board of Estimate,
carries S316, ,52l ,4276O, an increase
of S68,495,99 over the preceding
year.
Surely huge sum, more than a
few years ago it was conceived pos
sible to raise. When the greater city
was created in 1899 the budget was
S93,000 900. The Low admnistra-
ton kept it near to this figure until
1903, when Tammany came back.
During the six years Mayor Nc
Clellan was at the City Hall ex-
penditure steadily rose, reaching
$780, 100000 in 1909, The upward
sweep slowed during the compos-
ite Gaynor administration, but it
reached $19S, 100000 for the last
Gaynor year. The increase was
largely due, it is fair to note, be-
cause large floating debt had been
;nherited-because the Mcclellan
administration did not follow the
pay-asyou-g rule.
The Mitchell administration, the
most economical the city has ever
known, kept the budget near to the
5000, ,000,0 mark. 1t struggled for
three things-to hold down ex-
pendltures, to increase efficiency, to
provide betterments to meet new de-
mands, and to provide for speedy
charge off for improvements from
their nature not income producing.
Its success was remarkable.
Yet one OF the elements in the
compound of prejudice which led to
the defeat Of Mayor Mitchell was the
credit given to the false accusation
of extravaganza. Mr.. Hylan, as can
didate, was vociferous in charging
waste, and promised that he would
conduct the affairs of the city for
much less. Tammany shed the usual
crocodile tears. The outcome has
been as the ungulled expected The
last Mitchell budget was $211,OO0 900
and by a couple of leaps the Hylan
administration has reached more
than 500, 900 more-this in spite
OF the neglect Of streets and schools
and Of bookkeeping devices which
temporarily covered disagrecable
facts.
The Hylan administration is. OF
course, not responsible for largo
part of its increase Interest or
new issues of subway bonds mus
be met, Albany still passes man
datory legislation, there is JUS
increase in the salaries oS city en-
ployes. But the Mayor may bt
properly chidcd for insulting tn
people with such farrago Of non
sense as he includes in his letter O
yesterday morning. He reveals him
self as an economist who is for tn,
tens Of bill and against it's total
He makes out a single definite pro
posa for reduction. Not create
good viii come from his barren ex
hortation than came from his mis-
leading antc-election promises.
The taxpayers Of New York mus
brace themselves to carry an enor
NOUS burden during the COMING
year. The Federal government, bJ
laws Intentionally discriminating, il
TO take huge sum from the pocket,
Of New Workers. The state has i'm
posed an income tax which viii hit
the city harder per capita than th,
remainder Of the state. On top ot
ali IL t. be 3 mill general tax
levy. which. 80 far aB there arc in
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Soldier Swearing

Ever since Uncle Toby and the
siege of Namur armies have sworn
terribly in Flanders, and it is safe
guess that the armies Of the Great
War were no exception to the rule.
But is the habit permanent one?
And just how devastating to the
immortal soul is swearing under
stress and strain of warfare?
In that mellow centre Of we'll
being, Des Moines, Wallace's
Farmer discusses the problem with
becoming reserve and customary
poise. There is nothing to swear at
in Iowa, with hogs where they are.
So little else could be expected than
that this calm midland philosopher
should plunge for the careful
tongue, call swearing useless" and
cold stuff" and urge every one to
"cut it out"
1t was this passage from letter
"My son has returned from over
seas, and J. do not need to tell you
what joy there Is in this home. But
my own joy is tempered somewhat be-
cause he has acquired terrible habit
Of swearing. Mothers do not always
know what their sons do, but 1 feel
quite sure that before he went away
he did not swear. Other mothers with
whom l have talked are having the
same sorrow. What can be done
about it?'
We have never seen the Freudian
theory Of swearing But we are
sure it looks upon swearing-undor
proper circumstances something
far less terrible than this mother
was able to regard it and less use
less than the rating awarded by
Wollace's Farmer. If a soldier boy
kept on swearing at the Flanders
speed limit after a return to "civvfes'
and the plough, there would, indeed,
be cause for maternal alarm. All we
mean to suggest is that extraordi-
nary strains on nerves and tcmpers
and tongues beget the need of ex-
traordinary expression, and that to
look for anything else is to expect a
boiler to be safe without safety
valve. And nerves and tongues
should have ample time to sign the
peace treaty.
OF course, there are oaths and
oaths. Colonel Roosevelt had a
weakness for "By George" accord
ing to sundry observers. The elo-
quent Neri, Of "The Jest" puts his
faith IN "the twenty-four thumbs of
the twelve apostles" "the thirty
thousand virgins of Cologne" and
"the lives of Mahound." 1t is all q
matter of taste, and profanity has
no necessary relation to swearing
whatever. "Sweet patootie" will do
as we'll as the best mouthfiller that
ever split a Flanders sky. We offer
this suggestion as a hint for lag
gard tongues loath to make the
transition from wars and armistice
to the pious calm of perpetual peace
and Dcs MOines.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
The Coming 7owe1
POLICE COURT ANTHOLOGY
MIS-. August Richmdn.

Mrs August Richman.
I had been at my sisters that night, Your
Honor.
And it was after nine when I got home.
The first thing that saw when got in
Was August lying writhing on the floor.
He had on working clothes. 1 can remember
that,
His flannel shirt was thick and red with
blood,
And he just gasped for breath.
Mr.. Lonnegan was there and the floor
Was long kitchen knife we'd always had.
August kept saying, when he could get his
breath.
s'Danny did IT, Danny did me dirt"
And Mr. Lonnegan just looked at him, and
said,
You're liar. Gua.
You know you stabbed yourself.
ii
Daniel LonnegGn.
NV mother met me Mt the gate that night
She said: For Gods sake, hurry, and stop
Gus.
He's going to kill himself"
SO l ran into the hall, and there he was,
Holding a knife in his right hand.
asked him what the trouble was. and he
Said he was going to end it ALL that he was
sick
OF being treated like dog Mt home.
And then he raised the knife.
I grappled with him. but 1 too late.
And he fell bleeding, to the floor.
Then. when his wife came in, he blamed me
for it.
( think he did It Just for spite, Your Honor,
Because tried to stop him b. g., JK.
It's an i'll wind that has no silver lin
ing. During the strike Of the American
Railway Express drivers the only things
that shoot out at you from the side
streets, as you motor down the avenues,
are taxicabs.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

vestments in brick and mortar, will
tend to raise rents and, so far as
land is concerned, to diminish SELL
ing values. A meeting Of the vari-
Gus public demands will absorb ap-
proximately one-quarter of the net
per capita income of residents of
the city.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Hindenburg- Beneficiary

,Erom Tic Omola Bcei
Attorney General Palmer tells tha'
q Colorado school teacher died during
the war. hequeathing $4,000 t. ven
nindenburg. which bequest the uniiea
States government carefully carr's0
out, converting the money into she"s
and smokeless powder and passing
them over the line FAIR enough.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
An Idea for Chester
Nrom The Nsio Harcn Re0iStrr)

Tho Nonpartsan Lcaguers' methods
of finance disclosed in the crash in
North Dakota introduced the post
dated check in a manner which would
have mndo J. Rufus WallinGford green
with envy.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Evolutionary Bifurcation

d'rom Thc Momphis Commercial AppcoN
That Pittsburgh woman who WAS
sent to ini for wearing trousers. WAS
II forcrunner of things to be; if skirts
get much tighter they Will have to be
bifurcated.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Carry Me Back To Old Virginnv

Carry me back to old Virginny
There's where the cotton and the corn
and 'tatoes grow.
There's where the birds warble sweet IN the
sprirgtinie.
There's where this old darkeys heart does
long to go.
There's where ! laborcd so hnrd for old
Massa
Day after day in the fields OF yellow corn.
No place on earth do | love more sincerely
Than old Virginny, the place where was
born.
Chorusi Repeat nrst four Inca
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
SUBSCRIPTION RA1f,S--By MAIL, includins
istase. IN THE lNlrED sTAtES AND
GUAR RANIEE

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safet--for II dissatsfac.
ton results In any The TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay your money back request. No red tape.
No qub5Iirg. We make good promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Aero persih,ge

Sir: Somebody Sateves IN the Post as
follows: Mrs. Jacksons heart lcaped up al
the words like the poet Wordsworths at
the sight of daifodils.'
thought it was by seeing rainbows he
got that way. AS I remcniber, you and l.,
on the road from Neufchateau TO Chaumont,
reconstructed by mutual effort of memory,
hitting it fairly near on two cylinders:
My heart leaps up when l behold
biplane in the sky.
They had none when my life began,
see them, now | am q man,
Oh, let me fly
Let me but be. before to sleep l 20,
An NC-i above the II9O
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

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The Associated Press IS exclusively entitled to the
for republication OF al dispatches creiited
In II otherwise credited IN this pafor, and
also the local os spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
The Happy Warrior

Sir: The penultimate occasion upon
which we lamped that w. k. thcspian
Alfred Lunt, namely, the final curtain
of "The Country Cousin" he avowed his
determination to enroll at Plattsburg,
Notwithstanding. And recently, with
the opener of "Clarencc." we note the
same w. k. t. clad as private, Q. NJ. c.
From which, we query, must it be that
he failed to get his commish'
SNUBBFR
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

Look around; fresh flowers every
where" said Mr.. Campbell Don't you
love them ?"
81 certainly do" said DIR. Berthold
A. Baer in an advertisement.
A darned good answer, too.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

The city budget looks so much Ike
ones own grocery bill that when one
discovers that it is the city budget one
is suffuscd with the 6. and e. {.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Eavesdropped on Riverside Drive

:" Henry J. Allen"
"Who's he?
"Well, he's Governor of Kansas now"
"Kansas? Oh, yes. That's the
place that girl in the or books came
from"
So much has been said about lyrics
lately that it ought to be added that
Mr.. Stammers's songs are unusually
good nonsense and that the enunciation
of the singers is uncommonly precise
The Sun.
Thanks for the nd
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
A. Amy One Knows Who Has Any Sense,

A. Any One Knows Who Has Any Sense,
or Course It's n Mere Coincidence
Sir OF course it's mere coincidence but
any Dickens admirers who have read a
Holiday Romance and they're as rare IA
the JustloveI Lewis CAROLS who know "Sylvie
and Bruno Concluded. are aware that the
Young Visters' stunt was done without dis
puise by the Wizard of Gad's Hill. And
here's the mere Conc chapter OF that iu-
vcnile romance written by Miss Nettie
Ashford aged nine.
GELrrT BunGrss.
British Birth Rate Shows Large
Gain.-Sun headline
And Britain wins her proudcst bays
In good King Georges glorious days.
Conceivable is strike Of housekcep-
ers whose husbands are working on n
thirty -ninc-hour week basis.
One could bear with tons of equanlm-
ty the news that the English muffin
wcldcrs had strucA
Or the Applc-pic Nutmeg -Sprinklers'
Union.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
A Safe Refuge?

tF,om Tho Indianapolis Nc.o0
Emma Goldman seems to have been
deportcd to New York. instead %
Europe.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

Owned ard published daily by New York Tribune
Inc. New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. rresi-
dent; 6. Nerncr Rogers. Vice President; Helen
Rogers Reid. Secretary: F. A. suter. Treasurer.
Address Tvhuae Building l5i Nassau Street. New
York. Telephone. Beckman 5000
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
When Three Contribs Meet Face to Face,
Though 1t Be in Chicago, ILL.,

Sir, And the first thing wo said was
isn't the world small place. after all %
HAEoN Ireland.
tIACCUs.
SAM HILL.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
A Prayer for Landlords

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The present attitude of the land
lords prompts me to quote some highly
interesting facts from the pages of Eng
lish history
About the middle of the sixteenth
century social misery reached its height
Popular indignation was directed against
tho landlords, whose greed was thought
to be the cause of all the evil. Hugh
Latimcr, in sermon preached at Paul's
Cross in the presence of Edward VI,
called them "Rentreisers" and "Step-
lordcs" The government passed stat
utes ordering that Enclosures should be
pulled down, but preaching and legisla-
ton were alike frutless.
The following is taken from "The
Primer; or, Book of Private Prayer"
authorized by the above mentioned
King:
"a PRAYER FOR LANDLORDS
"Thc earth is thine % Lord), and
all that is contained therein notwith-
standing thou hast given the posses
sion thereof unto the children of mon,
to pass over the time of their short
pilgrimage in this vale of misery:
We heartily pray thee, to send thy
holy Spirit into the hearts of them
that possess the grounds, pastures,
and dwelling places of the earth, that
they, remembering themse Ives to be
thy tenants, may not rack and stretch
out the rents of their houses and
lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines
and incomes after the manner of
covctous worldlings, but so let them
out to other, that the inhabitants
thereof may both be able to pay the
rents, and also honestly to live, to
nourish their families, and TO relieve
the poor; give them grace also to con-
slider that they are strangers and
pilgrims in this world, having here no
dwelling place. but seeking one to
come; that they, remembering the
short continuance of this life, may be
content with that that is sufficient
and not join house to house, nor
couple land to land TO the impovcr-
ishment Of others, but so behave
themselves in letting out their tcno-
mcnts, lands and pastures, that after
this life they may be received
into everlasting dwelling places;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen"
NEWTON MERRILL.
Pawling, N. Y, Oct. Ia, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

Mass formation in football is not
much used this season, the tendency
being toward tho open game openly
arrived at.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply to Mrs. Fuliers letter
in this mornings Tribune, l wish to
say that I also am puzzled at the ways
of the mighty.
Although | am graduate nurse
enrolled as housewife, to be told
that housewifery is not an occupation.
My husband is physician. We have
no maid. I cook three meals day, do
all the housework and scrubbing. an
swer the telephone and door bells
bathe the cat and mend the clothes.
If these duties are not an cccupa-
ton, just what would one consider
them7 They are certainly not u pleas
ure, and neither do they yield any
pecuniary reward.
LUCILLE SPRATL1NG BLEIR.
New York, Oct. Il, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

The next time non-mcdical man
speaks confidentially to you of lesion
ask him to define the word. 1t may
silence him.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

great bold cross in the circle under
the eagle. Then 1 went out and tele-
graphed my husband, Cant come.
Registered instead"
OF course, I don't know about men,
but l am sure that many women do not
register simply because they have not
the time. r. W.
New York, Oct. ID, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

No. 1t Should Be "Balladcs and Rondeaus'
Sir: Your esteemed order of the Sth inst.
should have read Ballads and Rondeaus."
by Gleeson White, published by the Walter
Scott Publishing Company II is temporarily
out of stock with the publisher. Are We for
given? Very truly yours,
BRENTANO'S
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

We trail with Colonel House, who
says "Everything has been said that
can be said on any vital subject In
fact, that was our conviction years ago,
and that is why we decided not 10 be-
come an editorial writer, but, instead,
commentator on nothing but unvital
ubiects.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Lyrics OF Labor.--II

Lyrics or LhbOr.~N
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands.
The smith, q striking man is he
Who makes concrete demands,
Or never horse shall again be shod
By his manicured hands.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-16

Or the Applc-Pic Nutmeg Sprinklers
Union.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13
Plan for Fourth Of July.

Now is the time for Eagle River
citizens to begin planning for their
Fourth of July celebration. By start
ing in time a proper observance of
the day can be made and there is less
than a month now in which to make
arrangements for that day. The ma
tion's birthday is fraught with great
er significance than ever before. With
the new national spirit made mani
fest by the successful termination of
a world war through the efforts of
this nation. there is all the more rea-
son why the spirit of '76 should fill
the hearts and minds of present day
citizens, uniting all in a better reali-
zation of true Americanism and the
ideals it stands for. Eagle River has
always in the past staged fitting cele-
brations of the Fourth. This year,
with the return of countless numbers
of young men from military service,
the day promises greater results. Let
the true spirit prevail. Make plans
early and provide a program that will
justify the bigness of the day and
foster the spirit that prompted our
forefathers in their fight for equality
and liberty.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13

and British and following actions
brought him in touch with the
French fighters and other allies on
the western front. On October 9th
he was gassed in the Meuse-Argonne
operation but after a few days in the
hospital he was returned to the front
lines again. His longest stretch of
active duty on the front line was for
ty-four days without relief. His tales
of those days when the allies, through
the rapid tactics of the Yanks, were
pushing the enemy back miles at a
time. and the stiff resistance encoun-
tered at certain well defended places,
are extremely interesting. At Brest,
while waiting for sailing orders, he
met his brother Francis, who is in
the navy, now on duty Drinking home
the troops. 1t was the first meeting
Of the two brothers since
they entered the service owe a year
before.
Fred Dolansky reached Eagle River
Thursday afternoon having received
his discharge at Camp Grant. Fred
has been overseas about a year driv-
ing motor truck in the 33rd Division.
His duties with that division took
him over a large part of France and
he saw much that will live in his
memory for years.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13
Room for Farmers

One hundred Thousand farms of 80
ere each are waiting the farmer in
upper Wisconsin. This land has a
good soil, has an abundant rainfall,
is close to the railroads, and has ac-
cess to large markets.
Nearly one half of the Is, SOC, 600
acres in upper Wisconsin is already
occupied in farms in all stages of de-
velopment-there is left more than
6, $500, 900 acres of good farm land, as
we'll as 100000 acres suitable for
pasture and forestry purposes.
Upper Wisconsin appeals to the
business farmer. The value of the
crops produced IN an ere of improved
land in upper Wisconsin is higher
than in the southern Wisconsin
counties or the average Illinois, Iowa
or Ohio county. Here is the proof,
taken from the government figures:
In Marathon county, according to
the United States census, the average
value for each acre of improved land
of all crops produced in 1909 was $15.
In Dodge and Fond du Lac counties,
which arevtWo of the richest counties
in the southern part of the state, the
average value was S14 an acre, and in
Dane county, SIS. In the state of
Illinois for the same year the average
nr0ducti0n was XI3 an acre in iowa
81, in Ohio S12, and in Wisconsin
SIP.
Villas county lands offer the best of
opportunity to the landseeker. There
are vast acreages to suit every purse
and purpose and the success of those
farmers who have located here is
proof conclusive that this part of the
state is unsurpassed agriculturally.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13

ready granted the franchise to It's
women and enough more will do Sc
in the near future to insure it's rati-
fcation. The placing Of the ballot in
the hands of women is the logic al
outcome of the entrance of woman
into every other walk of life where
her worth has time again disproved
the timeworn argument of s~'superiori-
ty of the male" Students of the
woman suffrage question look for rad
ical changes in much legislation when
women begin to vote.
We were glad to see that both of
Wisconsin's senators voted for the
amendment.
Gov. Philip, replying to a request
for a statement of sentiment in his
state on the suffrage amendment,
said: woman suffrage amendment
has been received and will be submit
ted to legislature Tuesday. It is my
Judgment that it will be promptly
ratified"
LATER-The suffrage amendment
to the federal constitution has been
ratified in Wisconsin by both houses
of the legislature. The vote in the
vas "a to 2. The senate
stood % to 1. Illinois ratified the
one hour before Wiscon-
sin did.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13
FIambeau vs.. Eagle River.

Sundays game with Rhinelander
failed to materialize because of wet
grounds and the prospects of more
rain. The disappointment to fans
will be Offset by the fast game that
the Flambeau Indian team will put
up Sunday when they arrive to play
the locals. This game will undoubt-
~ be a snappy one as the Flambeau
team in the past has always played
good ball and the lineup this year is
up to the same old standard. Make
it a point to attend the game and
show the team that they have the
backing of the fans in their work.
The team this year has the pep. The
management has secured several new
suits to fill out the clubs deficiencies
in that line and are otherwise show
ing much spiri 4FTahsIng games
with the beses che teams Within
reach. The team this season de-
serves all the local support it can get
for the reason that a ball team is one
of the features of a towns progress
siveness, giving an outlet for enthusi.
asm that no other sport does. The
town has been without a team for a
couple Of years and the lack OF it has
been feIt.- There will be a baseball
dance tonight at the Lyceum opera
house for the purpose of enriching
the treasury of the local club and
help defray some of the expenses in
Cured in bringing in outside teams.
Buy a couple of tickets whether you
go or not. The boys need the sup
port. Watersmeet, our old rival
from the north, is anxious for an
early game here. Several return
games out of town are scheduled for
the neal future.