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New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
No Philippine Boycott
To the Editor Of The Tribune.


Sir: Apropos some correspondents
from Manila published in the New York
papers regarding so-called boycott
against American goods in the Philip
pines, due, it is claimed, to the bitter
ness Of the controversy anent the exten-
sion of the United States coastwise law
to the islands, allow me to inform you
that according to the latest papers re-
ceived by us from Manila nobody takes
the proposed boycott seriously.
1t appears that this movement was
started by handful of mon who resent
what in their opinion is rabid cam
paign against Philippine interests on
the part OF the American press and
Of some elements Of the American busi-
ness community in Manila. That it
lacks the sympathy and cooperation Of
the Filipino people is clearly demon
stratcd by the fact that the Filipino
press unanimously condemns it in the
most vigorous way. Furthermore, the
Acting Director of the Bureau of Com
merce and Industry, Major Jorge B.
Vargas, on behalf Of the Philippine
government, denounccs this so-called
boycott in a statement to the press.
Mr.. Vargas says: II do no: hesitate
to say that such movement would
bring more harm than good to tho
commerce and industry Of these islands.
The United States is good market for
Philippine products and buys big
amount Of the same. Last year alone
the total exports of this country to the
United States amounted to 113,305,384
pesos. 1t is equivalent to SO per cent
of our total exports. For this reason
we should be very careful with every
step we may take in connection with our
campaign to secure the repeal Of those
sections Of the Jones merchant marine
law extending the coastwise law restric-
tions to the Philippines. There are
legitimate and more effective means
within our reach to accomplish this end
than the course Of action planned"
FIDEL A. REYES,
Director Philippine Bureau Of Com
merce and Industry.
New York, Aug. 81, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
Extra Stories for Tenements

10 the Editor OF Ihe Tribune.
Sir: The suggestion for the relief of
the housing situation made by Chairman
John p Leo of the Board of Standards
and Appeals, as to adding an additional
story to existing tcne emcnts, is one of
the most constructive suggestions yet
made.
1t offers no practical difficulties. AS
Chairman Leo points out, it would be a
very small matter 70 add this story on
a fireproof building; structure of fire
resisting material could be erected
which would meet the requirements Of
safety and at the same time afford
additional housing space.
Not only should this suggestion meet
the approval Of tenants looking for
apartments, but it should also meet
tho approval Of property owners, who
in this way are afforded an opportunity
of increasing the revenue from their
buildings at a small expenditure. Rooms
located as these would be highly priced
as they would have wonderful light and
ventilation.
SAMUEL ROSENBLUM.
New York, Aug. 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

and himself convinced by the Ad-
ministration's propaganda that a
great smash was impending, also
stopped buying. Worse, he can
celed orders already placed to a
total running into tens Of millions
Of dollars.
That left it up to the manufac-
turcr. On the one hand his bankers,
under pressure from Washington,
We're demanding payment Of loans
or refusing to make new advances
to carry goods in warehouses. On
the other the market for his prod
rcts had temporarily vanished.
Being financially sane, he took the
only alternative to ban!<ruptcy-rc-
duced output. Operations were sus-
pended or curtailed until the de-
mand for his goods should reappear
and until the transporta tanglc,
created by the railroad strike, should
have been cleared up.
That is what caused the closing
Of plants, and we believe Mr.. Com
pors knows it as we'll as any other
observer Of the trend OF business.
To the extent that responsibility
for tie shut-lo"ns can be placed,
il must rest rot on the shoulders of
unnamed Republican capitalists CO.
ercing labor to swing votes, but on
IN Administration which has bun
gled pretty nearly everything it has
touched in the economic field, from
price liking to price cutting, from
initiation to defation, and on labor,
which has Stacked outragcously.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
What 8 the Use?

From The Philadelphia inunrcr)
A labor organ remarks that "indcpend-
cnt action in the political field for the
c.ass-conscious working men and women
spells adherence to The Socialist party
and support Of the Socialist campaign" i"
Perhaps it does; class consciousness
takes strange turns.
But why should such n thing exist in
country where every class has it's
chance? Why should working mon and
women detach themselves from other
Americans as persons with different
aims and interests? Nowhere is it moro
true than in u republic that the good
Of all is the good of one.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
Arbination-With a String

The hard coal miners who tried to
intimidate President Wilson into ap-
proving the minority report Of the
wage arbitration commission ard
now threaten to strike because he
has approved the majority report
were originally heartily in favor Of
the arbitration. They indorsed the
arbitration project and bound them
selves morally to accept the boards
verdict.
It turns out, however, that the
only sort Of arbitration they have
any use for is the sort that goes
their way. The first impulse
Of the Wilkes Barre unions was to
fight the award because it wasn't
favorable enough and to repudiatc
the labor leaders who had promised
tho President that the miners would
play fair and accept the wage COM
missions judgment. Failure on the
part Of 80 many labor organizations
70 honor contracts and live up tn
agreements is prejudicing employers
sSd the public more and more
against union methods OF applyinx
the principle Of collective bargain
Ing. II the group isn't going to
s3sow . collective sense Of honor and
responsibility what is the use Of
representing group bargaining as
t1hs most effective means Of bringing
~ employers and workers toeether7
q sksike is srbitrated. Indiyid-
uaa Wcxksre are dissstiaAed witt< ~
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
Books u<ywoda BY s,oun
Investigation has deve

A certain handicap is placed upon
Maurice Level from the very fact that
his short stories are collected under
the title of Tales of Mystery and
Horror. Any reader is apt to approach
such book with all his emotions
tightly clcnched into the resolve, "Ill
just bet he can't shock me-"
Personally we are by no means hor-
rorproof. Dunsany's "The Gods of the
Mountain" nearly scared us to death the
first time we saw it, and we don't much
like to put worms on hooks, and the
! Chicago stockyards gave US the wilies,
but we can contemplate Mr.. Levels
exercises in the horrible quite calmly.
Most Of the stories appeared in French
newspapers, and the author probably
wrote great many of them. Some
times he had an engagement and again
he he'd been out pretty late, but it was
necessary to deliver the stories just
the same. Any newspaper man who
works under pressure must develop q
formula. He may not be obliged to live
by it always, but it's a handy thing
to have when the pinch of time is acute.
If John Roach Straton had never lived
we would have missed many train. AS
it is, if worse comes to the worst we
can always turn to The Menace of I'm
mortality and find something with
which we disagree violently enough to
get paragraph out of it.
The Paris exccutioner is Levels
John Roach Straton. At such times as
no other plo. comes to hand he spins
! some story about the guillotine man.
Nothing more is required than to let
some mysterious man move through a
story and then have it revealed to the
other characters, Unexpectedly, that
| they have been dining with the execu-
TONER or buying him drinks or swap
ping funny stories. This is always CAL
oulated to give the other characters a
nasty turn.
Unfortunately, the reader who goes
through Tales Of Horror and Mystery
from cover to cover is not able to regard
the eXccutioncr in this same mood Of
horror. Before we were done with the
book we looked On him as an old friend.
We were never surprised when he came
into the plot. He had to do no more
than turn down the brim of his hat
and we knew him perfectly. Moro than
that, for all the squcamishness about
the eXccut.oncr with which Level en-
dows his characters it is plain enough
that the author himself has no such
feeling. Gratitude for the man who
invented the g'lillotine and all who have
ever manipulated it is manifest in
every story of this type. Level is no
snob, and he is not person to forget
an old standby who came to his rescue
again and again when he did not have
another thing in the world about which
he could write.
The only story in the collection which
seems to US distinctive is THAT Scoun-
drel Miron," in which a successful
French painter commits forgery and
leaves Paris to escape arrest. Years
later he comes back, longing to paint
again. He finishes picture and signs
it Loriot. The first art dealer to whom
1t Is offered recognizes that It Is the
work Of a man Of great talent, even
though the painter Is an old and un.
kempt man Of whom hA has usvas
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

the United States more justly or
widely condemned for its political
corruption and it's crude disregard
of public welfare than that of the
liquor manufacturers and dealers.
Does their money become sanctified
when poured out for the election Of
nominee who is his own censor Of
contributions and whose sensitive
heart is turned to stone when he
ilnagines he sees funds much less
malodorous flowing into the Repub-
lican campaign barrel?
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One abuse that should be cor
rcctcd at the coming special session
of the Legislature is the form of lease
that landlords arc insisting upon.
Under this form the tenant scarcely
has the right to breathe. An eoui-
table standard form of lease ought to
be substituted JOHN ICKES.
New York, AUG. 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

tFron The Chicago Daily Ne.os>
Reduced to practical application thera
Ia little difference between the Hegelian
concept Of the state, which is the phi
losophy Of Prussian junkerdon, and tho
MARKHAM dictatorship Of the proletariat.
Botn aim at the complete subjugation
and enslavement Of the people to =
small, self-selected group.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
Cox's Blank Cartridge
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Cox promise to stagger the
country aad his frizzie Of o revelation
has, think, staggered many Of his
friends and supporters, but he was
destined to be showed under in Novem-
Der long since. Having recently re-
turned from California and Arizona.
stopping at Kansas City. Chicago and
Cleveland en- route, found not only the
Republicans united and enthusiastic,
but that lifelong Democrats are going
to vote the Republican ticket this year.
C. A. P.
New York, Aug. as, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
Minority Dictatorship

The true character Of the 3. r. T.
strike cannot be obscured by politi-
cal appeals to Judge Mayer to let
the claims of the strikers go to arbi-
tration, regardless Of merit or de-
merit. The strikers have broken
contract signed as the result of a
p.evious arbitration. They do not
come into court with clean hands. If
they wouldn't live up to one agree
ment, what confidence could the court
and the receiver have that they
would live up to another? Judge
Mayer is right in saying that,
though he would gladly consider the
question of new negotiations between
the men and the receiver if the men
keep their word and return to their
posts, he cannot have any dealings
with leaders who either provoked
or failed to prevent or sanctioned
the present arbitrary walk-out.
The B. r. T. is not free agent in
dealing. with its employees. 1t is in
receivership. The Federal court has
accepted the duty of protecting the
stockholders. It must be the final
judge Of the concessions in wages
which the B. r. T. system can afford
to make. Arbitration unlimited oy
the reserved power Of the court to
disapprove isn't legally feasible. Yet
the strikers, who have lightly dis
regarded their own contracts, are
trying to coerce Judge Mayer into
betraying his judicial trust.
The strike is "outlaw" in effect,
whether or not Mr.. Shea and other
leaders now claim that it is not "out-
law" in form. 1t is an attempt to
upset the conditions Of Federal re-
ceivership. The B. r. T. cannot be
expected to pay higher wages than
its present Federal guardians think
It can pay. The men may claim a
right to quit it's employment if they
are dissatisfied. But, once having
quit, they no longer have any rights
in the Federal court as parties to an
existing contract, and they have no
right at all to obstruct the opera
tion Of the system by substitute en-
ployees.
A public service corporation is a
community agent. Any group of
men trying to prevent its function
ing because Of disagreements about
wages or conditions Of employment
is setting itself up as a community
enemy. The people Of Brooklyn
must carry on their affairs. A tic-up
of transit facilities causes universal
annoyance and loss. Interference
with traffic by former employees.
now outsiders, is, therefore, a form
Of vicious class warfare by small
minority against the great body Of
citizens. 1t is immoral and illegal
and anti-social. The greatest good
Of the greatest number is the rule
Of democracy. That rule is defed
when little body Of dissatisfied
workers denies the community the
right to use public service transit
facilities and to 60 on earning
living without molestation. The B.
r. T. strikers are warning only in
a minor way on the management Of
that system. Their real war is on
the patient straphanger.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
A Housing Solution

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The housing problem can be
solved by taxation--viz, tax all vacant
property 25 pc cent on tax valuation
fo'' the year 1919, all property built for
living PURPOSES between October, 1920,
and October, 1921, to be free of taxcs
for ten years.
Laws covering this could be passed
at the coming special session.
G. A. G.
Brooklyn, Aug. 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
The Great Libido

I want to land Let others say
That strivings worth a 'S'lo,e bouquet
Of laurels won. that turn to dross.
And "travclinH hopefullys sauce
Make, any pudding seem soufflc
For me--fresh bravos every day
For rnc-the myrtle and the bay
Should worry if they withered Boss,
l want to land!
I yearn to join your Towers array
OF chosen hc.ds. Oui. . .? CT y est?
Thumbs down! Impaticntly you toss
Aside my rondeau, torn across:
But tciut'S the matter ,cith this !du,
"I tc0nt to lund"3
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
aint" Between Friends

Governor Cox started out to con-
duct on behalf of the Democratic
party "great and solemn referen-
dunn" on the adoption or rejection of
the Wilson, SHUTS covenant. That
was perhaps too arid an apostlesh;p
for a man Of his political tastes and
training. At any rate he wearied
of it. To relieve his own spirits and
to enliven his speaking tours he
pushed to the front his recent
charges that the Republican Ma
tional Committee IS trying "to pur-
chase the Presidency" The only
evidence of such an enterprise which
he has produced SO far consists of
rather crude expression of the de-
sire CT some subordinate Republican
campaign collectors to whoop up
contributions after the manner Of a
Boy Scout or Salvation Army over
the-top drive.
Mr.. Cox himself has assumed a
magnificent virtue in discussing
campaign finance. He has warned
the country Of the corrupting effects
Of an expenditure of Republican
funds, in existence as yet only in the
imagination Of some expansive pro-
spectus writers. He has intimatcd
that Republican contributions are
coming from tainted" sources. He
has pledged himself to investigate
all Democratic contributions, and
has guaranteed their freedom from
faint" He carries around a
bucket Of pitch from which to spat-
ter the opposition managers. And
he snites his breast in public and
thanks heaven that he and his friend
Chairman White have absolutely
escaped having any questionable
sinews of war wished on them.
The Democratic nominee has been
practical politician long enough to
know that too much celebration of
ones own immaculate virtue is sub
Ject to dangerous comebacAs. A let
ter just produced before the Senate
Investigating committee in Chicago
throws into humorous relief Mr.. Cox S
advertised aversion to "taintcd'
money, raised by self-sceking ard
undesirable interests. 1t was an
appeal for funds from an organiza-
tion IF New jersey liquor men, &C
companied by the sufficient explana-
ton that "the organized liquor trade
Of New Jersey has set out to do it's
part toward the election of Gov
crnor Cox"
The writer Of the circular was at
least measurah!y within the truth
when he said: "Ihe nomination of
Governor Cox for the Presidency by
the Democrats Is big victory for
our interests, and it can be a.trib-
utcd to great Il gree to the activity
of our trade organizations here in
New Jersey and throughout the
nation"
ohc New Jersey ex-liuuor dealers
intend to express their confidence in
The Democratic candidate by con-
triLuting literally to lis campaign
fund. How, if he has any gratitude
/ in his breast, can he refuse their
Offering? Is it tainted? Perish
the thought!
There IL certainly no interest in
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
a Sufficient Reason

(Fron The Detroit FREQ Press,
An explanation of the Saghalin incl
dent from q Japanese source inciden-
tally mentions the fact tha. the Rus
slan haR Of the island contains nearly
all OF the soals That would seem to
be sufficient explanation.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
The Cheaper Wav

(From The Louisville Courier Jeu~moD
Lenine remains a stanch advocate
OF worldwide revolution. II would be
less costly to him than wars wased
for conquest. If the civilized world
Will overturn itself the Bolshsvik Cxsr
will be greatly obliged.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
A Striking Omission

fFro'" The Dss Aotnes Rcaister)
Perhaps he most remarkable feature
Of the Soviet drive an 1Nsrsaw is the
absence Of any report eAst Lsnine has
vowed to eat his dinner y the Polish
capital So
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

reo purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute saietJ-ior II dsss!!sfao.
Tee rpsvits In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
. pay yssr meRsy back upon request No rad tape.
We auabeIlns. we make GOOD promptly II tho
advstissr dses nos.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
The Modest Sex

(From The Washington Brcmtws stor>
Every man who IL o candidate for
any office feels sure that the woman
vote will 80 his way. It l. the seotiszn
Of the sex.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
MEataER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TIE Associated Press is exclusively ctitied the
for republication all dispatches tied
tn It not otherwise credited In this papef. and
also the local Of spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication Of ell other matter
herein also arc reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

His name is w. 7. Wood, but if you
insist on writing check to his order
you'd better make it out to W. T.
Wood, President of the international
Conference Of Colored Grand Masters,
Fast Grand Masters ami Grand Secre-
taries of the National Imperial Coun-
Gil of Colorcd Shriners and Knights
Templar.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
DreimaI Hootch!

Sir: A vacation spent in Maine and
the daily observation of the endless
procession Of hootch-cars, Fastening to
the Elysian Fields of Canada, have
convince>. me that these United States,
in the matter of strong liquor, have
now reached satisfactory Modus BIZ
bcndi. II. Y. L.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
The satevepost Impressionists

Sir: To break into the Sa;evepost
IL what I'd like to do the most.
But-you gotta evolve strange new pro-
cedurcs to do so. +nst: In current nuR:er
IIolworthy Hall has Judges elected to the
Appellate Division. And I used to be awed
by his apparent intimate knowledge of busi-
ness And then Arthur Train in Tut
Tut" in not-so-far-back Post describes a
trial in the Criminal Courts Building. If
an; one ought to know. Train ought. Trial
ends dramatically twenty minutes after start
of afternoon session. 20 p m. Author
Train describes Deacon Terry. of the Trib-
une frantically diapatchng his copy by boy
to his office. pres umaby to catch the Bed
time Edition and beat the other evening
papers
P. S.--Occasionaily the SEP has a num-
Der containing pieces by Holworthy Hail.
Wilbur Hail, and Hersrhcll Hall. and
wonder why it doesn't hire one.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

Any family member of which may
be playing against Bill Tilden these
days is entitled, not, perhaps, to-
wound stripe, but certainly to a serv-
ice flag.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
Everything would be all right

heard. He offers to buy all the paint
ings the artist can supply and tells him
that his manner is not unlike that Of
Mlron, but that he can easily surpass
Miron in his own field and make Loriot
so famous name that Miron will be
forgotten.
"Of course" the dealer explains, "you
understand that l can't offer much for
the first picture. 1t will be some time
before people understand the difference
between Loriot and Miron. Most buyers
need guidance. But it will end by
Miron's going to the wall.''
Loriot means nothing to the fugitive.
For years his only consolation in exile
has been that he has left lasting name
and reputation behind him. He refuses
to sell his picture, and putting it under
his arm goes out to the fast darkening
streets. In a moment q wagon ap-
proaches, and with swift gesture Miron
tosses his picture under the hoofs Of the
horses and smiles as it is trampled
into the mud.
For the rest there is nothing very
novel or thrilling in pouring vitriol
over ladies or throwing lovers to the
bloodhounds or confronting murderers
with the bodies of their victims.
Maurice Level seems an agreeable
writer, who has placed himself under
the somewhat painful necessity of Sit
ting down before his typewriter every
once and so often and saying, "Let me
see, here it's Friday afternoon and I
haven't done anything horrible for
Monday"
For few minutes he pufrs violently
on cigarette and then he smiles with
satisfaction and sets down: "Not q
muscle quivered as the man stood with
his gaze fixed on the dead woman.
Through half-closed eyes he looked at
the white form on the marble slab;
milky white it was, with a red cash
between the breasts where the cruel
knife had entered"
And when the last paragraph is fin
ished Maurice Level smiles again and
goes out and spends his advance royal
ties for dinner.
"The element Of fairness in New
Yorks spirit" writes DR.. John Roach
Straton, "has been remarkably illus.
trsted in the way in which the great
New York papers have printed large
extracts from the messages published in
this book
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
Marian is Informed

Sir: Please advise Marian that the tele-
phone girl Mt Brentano's replied in that tone
because they are instructed that the voice
with the smile wins-cr. if the matter. not
the manner, of the reply was questioned. in
form her that it is the rule of the shop for
the telephone girl, who is not required to
be familiar with any OF the Georges. to ask
Books or Periodicals ?" in order to con-
meet the customer with the wanted de-
partment. =. w.
The literacy Of the bookshop bill
clerk continues to fascinate. GUS
toner has received, from the Sunwise
Turn, bill for
Grewhon Reviste ct
Erewhen
Simcan World.
High Learning in America
Delane Of the Tunes.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01

The s!,immy, according to Berton
Bralcy, was popular on Olympus. "The
goddess" Berton exhumes from Pope's
translation Of the Had, "softly shook
her silkcn vest"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-01
4 Family Of Landers

Sir: Three hundred years Igo my great
great, great. seven times great grnnddame
Remember Allerton landed on Plymouth
Rock.
To-day :!
WILrAHD W!HTI1Rop EVERETT