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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-02-05
WILL HELP SETTLE
MINE TAX MUODLE
GREAT MEETING OF MINING EN-
GlNEERs is SCHEDULED
FOR NEW YORK.

Mine problems in practically every
aspect of interest to the American
engineer will be the discussion at the
122nd meeting OF the American msti-
tute of Mining and Metallurgical En-
gineers to meet in New York during
the week Of February 16. Mining en-
gineers and metallurgists from every
important field win be present and
the largest attendance in the history
OF the institute is Indicated
Mine taxation and an equitable ar
rangement between the government
and mine owners will be one of the
topics of general interest to the mem
bers Those leading this discussion
will include Ralph Arnold. valuation
expert of the petroleum division of
the internal revenue department; J.
R. Fnlay, who evaluated the mines Of
the state of Michigan; J. Parke
Claiming of New York and r. c. AL
en- vice president of the Lake Super
ior ore association.
Great Sum Held Up.
1t is expected that this meeting viii
point to an arrangement that will
tend to settle the basis of mine taxa
tion which, since 1917, has been in the
air. with $2OOOOO,OOO stiH unpaid be
cause of this fact
This annual meeting Of the insti-
tute will be featured by many social
attractions. on Monday night
smoker, with many new features, and
on the following night a banquet at
the Waldorf Astoria, followed by
dancing. On Thursday an excursion
win be taken to the iron and zinc
and steel plants in the vicinity of New
York and a trip is planned for the oil
members to one or more oil refneries, |
Of which there are several around |
New York bay
The officers Of the American Insti-
ute are, president, Horace " Win
,hell first vice president, A. r. Lee
lOuX; treasurer George D. Barron: /
Bradley Stoughton.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-02-05
Mining and Development
Companies of the Occur d'Alenes

Meetings Delinquent Lsts-Donss Of
Companies o Special Interest to All stoekhoders
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29

American people are not deceived
by such claptrap.
The country wants to know def
nitely and without hedging on the
part Of Cox whether he still sup
ports the Wilson covenant for a
league of nations, especially Article
\. Would he ratify on the basis of
the Lodge reservations??
The country wants Governor Cox
to tell it explicitly, without attempt
at evasion, why his newspaper was
openly German.
The country wants to know Just
how intimately he is affiliated with
Murphy of Tammany and the liquor
interests in general.
Above all, the country wants to
know to what degree he proposes to
follow in Woodrow's tracks, to what
degree he will obey telephoned orders,
to what degree he will be prexy and
to what degree proxy.
Sooner or later Governor Cox
ne must come out from behind his
smoke screen and face the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Wadsworth's Defects
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: George Henry Payne, in his adj
dress at Ellenville, August 25, ex-
pressed the views of thousands Of dis
appointed and disguised Republicans.
Wadsworth possesses, as The Sun
says in an editorial of August g.
"fine lineage, liberal education and
wide experience" and 1 agree that his
record was splendid on preparedness
legislation. army reorganization and
the League of Nations. But he is q
Federalist, not q Republican.
This was very good doctrine In
years gone by. But any individual or
party that continues to live in that at
mosphere rides for fall.
We wanted General Wood nominated.
Wadsworth apparently did more than
any other New Yorker to hold our del
egation from Wood. A man that will
fully disregards public sentiment must
be retired to private life, and every eff
fort should be made to defeat him at
the primaries.
Either Charles E. Hughes or Elon
Hooker Is the logical nominee on the
Republican ticket for the Senate.
j. H. PINCKNEY.
New York, Aug. &c, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
The High Cost Of Readins

Listen to the pitiful tale of an
editor of three periodicals Of gen.
eral circulation who says he has be-
come little more than "a purchasing
agent buying finished goods and con-
tracing for other goods to be turned
out according to general specifca-
tons for future delivery!"
The poor chap found that he had
to have three serial novels. He was
forced by the greedy authors to
agree to pay $25, 900 for the serial
rights of each. Two of the authors
demanded advance payments of s10,-
600 before they had written a line,
and got it. The third belittled him.
self by asking for less. AS for short
stories, $500 is considered by no
means excessive for a story by an
author Of some note, while popular
writer's of real distinction smile and
say they are not ct liberty to say
what they receive
The broad back of the movies, :"
universal scapegoat, of course comes
in for tempestuous castigations,
What can you do toward subduing
a writer to see reason, what appeal
can you make to induce him to live
contentedly in his garnet, when he
can change his plot into a scenario
and get double money for it? Green
witch Village is thus falling into evil
ways-its rents high and paper
napkins no longer good enough for
it. 1t is needless to point out that
art perishes when it becomes pros
porous and can afford a haircut.
These things meek and humble con-
ductors of magazines vainly bring
to the attention of naughty authors.
Conditions are getting SO bad, it is
said, that the editors talk of appeal
ing to labor board to save them
from profteering scribblers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Irish Ethnography

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In connection with the ethno-
graphic discussion about Ireland. It Is
interesting to reread the statements of
William q. Ripley, Phi. D., assistant pro-
lessor Of sociology, Massachusetts In
stitute Of Technology, and lecturer In
anthropology at Columbia University,
New York City.
This authority on anthropology writes
as follows In his book, The Races of
Europe-Chapter XII-The British
Isles:
"The ethnic history Of the British
Isles turns upon two significant geo.
graphical facts, which have rendered
their population decidedly unique among
the other states of Western Europe
The first Of these is their insular posi-
ton, midway off the coast between the
north and south of the continent. That
narrow silver streak between Calais
and Dover, which has insured the politi-
cal security and material prosperity of
England in later times, has always
profoundly affected her racial history.
partial bar against invasion by land,
the fatal step once taken it has imme-
diately become an obstacle in the way Of
retreat. Invasion thus led inevitably
to assimilation. Protected sufficiently
against disturbance to assure that
homogeneity Of type which is attendant
upon close contact, the islands at the
same time could never suffer from the
stagnation which utter isolation i'm
plies.
1--WE are still further assured Of the
truth Of this geographical generalza-
ton on comparison with the racial his
tory of England with that Of Ireland;
for we thereby have opportunity to OBJ
serve the effects of different degrees
of such insularity. In the latter case
it has become bit too pronounced to
be q favorable element in the situation.
Dfsregarding her modern political his
tory-for we are dealing with races
and not with nations-it is, indeed,
true, as DR.. Beddoe says, that Ireland
has always been little behindhand.'
Ethnic invasions, if they took place at
all, came late and with spent energy;
most of them, as we shall see, whether
of culture or of physical types, even
if they succeeded in reaching England,
failed to reach the Irish shores at all.
These laws apply to all forms of life
alike. In flora Ireland has but two
thirds of the species Indigenous to
England and Scotland; for the same
reason her human population contains
much less variety of human type"
CATHERINE B. ELY.
New York, Aug. %, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
My Changeless Reedy

HE ASP1RED to nothing more than
human, and alteration of the super
man or scheme of anything beyond life"
entered not into his scheme of being.
distractions interested him only in their
human pplicabilty-not otherwise. He
refused to consider life ACCIDENTALLY. He
refused to consider anything pom
tifically. The Olympian attitude typical
of the celebrated editor he never for
moment assumed. Arrogance in any form
he eschewed in his own practice, though
aware of his own place and knowing
that it was, by common consent high
one.
So far as I am aware, he was the ar-
thor Of but one book, and that bibelot
"A reprinted essay, IN fact. He poured
himself out unstntedly in The Mirror
which was, IN very truth, himself
but, with strange modesty, declined
otherwise to come before the reading
public. He was not, he said, a writer
of books. He might easily have been
the most delightful one of his genera
ton, but a book, to him, demanded an
amount of care and time in both concap
ton and execution for which he had no
opportunity. He would put forth moth
ing scamped or shoddy or inadequate in
lieu of that which was his ideal.
So The Mirror remains his monument.
No man ever raised one more like him.
self. Those Of US who through all the
years have read and loved it and lived
with it have read and loved and lived
with him, and while the coming genera.
tons cannot have that privilege-did he
aspire to that? l do not think so. He
wished to live for his own generation.
the people of his own time and day. to
give himself to them, to love and to be
loved by them. In the field which he
chose no other man has dons this so
wholly or 80 well. And now that he has
gone forever from among US, with each
day that knowledge will become more
clear, enshrining MIN in our hearts till
they shall cease to beat.
JOHN L. HERVEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29

May we kill great and small in the
lust Of joy.
May we plunge our daggers into their
bodies.
May Poland reek In the glow Of Arc
and ashes.
There lives a God Of vengeance and
Justice,
And this God must destroy this brood
Of Poles.
You children arc devils and tho sons
Of devils.
You, the God-accursed, tried to rob as
Of our German land.
Such things cannot allow a German
heart to become softened.
Not peace, let hatred between tho two
countries be.
And, should ever arm myself for bat
tie unto death,
May / with my dying breath ex-
claim:
'Oh, God, mako tho Polish land a des-
ert!'"
1t sounds even a bit worse than Bel
GUM, doesn't it?
GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM.
New York, Aug. 20, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Constantine's Obsession

Ex-King Constantine Of Greece
has evidently learned nothing from
his disastrous experiences in the
World War. He lost his throne
through his facility for going wrong
and his obstinacy in staying wrong.
He bet on the losing horse and
wouldn't hedge when it became an,
parent that his Judgment had been
at fault. He was more loyal to his
wife and his brother-in-law, the ex.
Kaiser, than he was to his people, to
the treaties with his Balkan allies or
to the great powers which had Gre
ated modern Greece and were its
legal protectors and best friends.
Constantine says that he is still
King, that he never abdicated, and
that he expects the Allied powers to
let him go back to Athens and re-
sumo, without passion, rancor or
hate, the noble duties of my crown"
This expectation harmonizes with
the very slight opinion he always
had of the intelligence and courage
OF the powers which won the war.
All Greece's nationalistic interests
counseled an alliance with the En-
tente. Bulgaria and Turkey were
her hereditary enemies. If thew
were beaten Greece would have a
chance to redeem large areas Of ter
rltory historically Greek and occu,
pied in large part by a Greek-speak-
ing population. Venizelos, the great
est of modern Greek statesmen, saw
this clearly. AS the builder of the
new Greek state he understood that
a German-Austrian- Bulgarian-Turk
lsh victory would end all possibilities
of Greek expansion, if it wouldn't
threaten the loss of much Of the ter
rltory gained in the Balkan wars.
But Constantine was willfully
blind. He rapidly became a mere
German partisan, satisfied to rule,
under German protection, whatever
might be left of Greece, should Ger
many be victorious. All the time
that he was signing agreements with
the Entente Allies he was receiving
German money and urging Falken-
hayn and Ludendorff to send Ger
man troops to attack the Allied front
IN Macedonia and Thessaly, while
he prepared to make an attack from
the rear.
Constantine's dethronement was
too long delayed. After his expul
sion Venizelos restored Greece's
prestige and greatly expanded her
boundaries. The tiny kingdom of
twenty years ago has become a
powerful state. 1t owes nothing to
Constantine but contempt. Yet this
fatuous King in exile seems to think
that its people are thick-headed
enough to want him back. Even if
they were so thick headed it would
be folly for the Allies to allow a
German pawn like Constantine to
resume rule in Athens and become a
factor in the settlements
which still have to be carried into
effect in the Near East.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Sending Goals to Europe

ASASAA wal SyliQiCdto HIS all
nounced contract for 35,OOO,OOO
| tons of American coal to serve Brit
aims export trade in France and
Italy and to be used in the British
Isles for domestic and industrial
needs. The coal will be shipped at
the rate Of 100000 tons annually
for the next five years.
Here is another example Of Brit
ish business far-sightedness, notice
able throughout the world since the
close of the European war. British
capital already controls the major
portion of world petroleum reserves
IN Afghanistan, Persia, Rumania,
Mexico and elsewhere. British en-
glneers <are prospecting constantly
for the precious metals and the COM
mercial. Unable to develop her own
fuel export up to pre-war standards
because Of labor troubles, Great
Britain has extended her search for
natures wealth to the United States
and has consummated a deal which
makes Americans gasp.
Conservatory estimated, about
S200,Oo0,o0O Of British gold or goods
will come to these shores for coal
within the next five years. And yet
the American consumer is told that
coal is scarce, that this is the reason
for its high price. Yet our coal
producers contract to deliver seven
million tons of coal annually to be
shipped across three thousand miles
of water and then shipped on the
Continent. And this coal is to cost the
ultimate consumer abroad less than
it costs the American householder in
the United States to-day. 1t must
compete with British, French and
Belgian coal in those same countries,
and the British syndicate is not in
business for it's health.
The American manufacturer and
householder does not think of Amer
lean coal in billions of tons. He is
compelled to think of it in dollars.
Nevertheless, it is well to force ones
self to remember that the American
coal reserves to-day are three tril-
lion two hundred billion tons. There
are 20,700,000 900 tons of anthra-
cite; about 1857 400, 100000 tons of
bituminous, and some $4,000, O00,-
600 tons of the poorer grades. Since
1883 the United States has used of
these reserves some 25,0O0,OO0 900
tons. Assuming that the United
States requires for it's own use 5OO,-
100000 tons of coal year, there
is enough left in the ground to last
about 5000 years. Four thousand
years ago the Babylonin empires
were in their infancy.
Thirty-fve million tons Of coal,
bought for English export trade,
is thus but & thimbleful. But the
significance Of the sale is large. The
fact that American coal can be sold
at price which undersells Europe
makes the country wonder what is
the matter with our domestic coal
market
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Where the Waste Really Is
BY Clayton A. Penhale

far longer than the period Of compare
tive slothfulness.
Just now we are suffering temporarily
from the effects of too much leisure, or
too little effort, which amounts to the
same thing. We have INDUCED pretty
nearly all our desires, but have lacked
the willingness to pay for the indul-
gencc with good hard work The work
ers in factory and office alike have been
stacking. They have worked shorter
hours and fewer days, which might
have gone on indefinitely. But they
made the fatal mistake of not working
hard when they were at work. The out
put worker an hour slumped terrif-
ically.
The result was inevitable. Produc-
ton dwindled and costs and prices
mounted beyond all reason. So we are
in a period which economists call ire
adjustment"
That Is -wnat is meant by waste at
the point of production. We cannot
consume what we fail to produce All
must learn that fact. The lesson may
be an expensive one for all of u.s. We
have to have a period of hard work to
make up for period Of sickness
But If labor once learns the lesson it
will enjoy a standard of living higher
than ever obtained before, even in this
country, for its command over goods is
limited solely by its willingness to pro-
duce them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
A Week of Verse


fFTon Contemporary verse)
A IL day I've been a-wishing
For things I haven't got:
A quaint old blue delft pitcher,
A rose-filled garden plot,
A dancing dress Of silver,
A little gate that swings,
A gently curving highboy;
All me, the lovely things!
All day I've borne my wishing
weight against my heart,
And all my thoughts were longings
To burn and sting and smart;
But now that 1t is evening,
III sit mo down to rest.
And watch the twilight soften
The hills low crest.
Above my small white doorstep
Are stars; the night is still;
Deep are the inky shadows;
Grave is the distant hill.
Ny heart is hushed with bcautyi
My spirit stirs and sings.
Tell me, what is wishing?
And what are Things?
HELEN COWLES LECRON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Retreat

(From The Ne4o Wftness,
A GARDEN filled with briar and vel
low rose,
Pale lavender and dropping tesss-
mine,
An arbor where the honcysuckle grows,
A corner where the yellow sun
flowers shine.
A cottage with small windows open
wide
To catch the whisper Of the quiet
day,
A little wood beyond, where branches
hide
A river, singing all along its way.
All these are mine-and here the noon
day sun,
With pensive beauty all the garden
fills.
And after sunset, when the dsv ia
done,
The wind blows softly from tina
cloudy hills.
And all the leaves are lifted in IN.
vale,
10 the long music Of the nightingale.
DOROTHY ROBERTS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29

sense OF humor talk Of the sanctity
OF national right? If it is funda-
mentally wrong for London to make
law for Dublin 1t must be equally
wrong for Dublin to make law for
Belfast. The agitation in this coun-
try for the Irish Republic" makes
little Roadway because it's leaders,
Directing to conquest, make little
secret Of a desire to start their
new government with conquest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
German Hatred of Poland
Voiced in Hymn Circulated Among
German Silesians

&cIHIul CtcStQUS
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: When reborn Poland a few
weeks ago seemed destined to again be
knocked into cooked hat Of national
dismemberment Lloyd George was
ready enough to abandon tho apparent
ly sinking ship. Now that Poland, with
the aid Of France, has got to her feet
again, things look differently to the
Welsh statesman, which Is to be ex-
pected.
Poland now faces tremendous op-
portunity. If she will be content with
moderation she can establish herself
irreducibly both at home and in the
public opinion Of her fellow nations
But Poland stands 8 chance Of being
aggravated into excuses just as per-
haps she has been in the past. Ger
many and the pro- Bolsheviks of all
nations will SEQ to that. For instance,
good deal has appeared in the press
during the last week about Polish Tag
gressions" in Upper Silesia.
AS a-matter of general information
and rather quaint historic interest l
quote as follows translation Of a
German made Hymn of Hate" which
appeared in the German press of Sile-
STA about year ago. 1t indicates pref
ty we'll the attitude of the German
population, backed by the Polish-hat-
ing powers-that-be at Berlin, toward
Poland and the Poles. This sort of
thing at least indicates some of the
reasons why Poland almost inevitably
is confronted with trouble. In the face
of such bitterness even the most
Christian advocate Of turning the
other cheek" cannot expect the Poles
to conduct themselves too decorously
in Silesia:
"Hymn Of Hate in Silesia"
eve Germans Of Upper Sileslal
Oh, God, help the German cause, the
just cause!
Let not German men DO servants to the
Poles
Give US strength to break tho Polish
power, that we
May obtain an awful revenge with
blood and fire.
Send sickness and disease, and seal
their land with plague.
Let poisonous fruit grow on their trees!
You devils brood! You filthy. dirtv
Poles!
May hell and devil take hold upon you
IF Silesia become Polish,
Then, oh God, may children perish
like beasts in their mothers womb
Then lame their Polish hands and their
feet, oh God!
Let them be crippled and blind In
their eyes.
Smite them with dumbness and mad
ness, both men and women.
May grooming and sorrow, not sounds
of joy, seize
Poland's country, both In town and
village.
Thus may God prove thu Germans
wrath.
Then Thou, Almighty One, send thy
lightnings!
Let dwellings and cottages become
ashes in the heat of fire.
Let the people in hordes burn and
drown with wife and child.
May their seed be trampled under our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Smoke Screens

~ charging that members, of the
"epobllcan party are contributing
n an enormous corruption fund
"Vernor Cox is clearly playing the
SIMILAR old game of distracting at
s"'lon from matters which are I'M
~m1ortable to struggling, sore
:. candidate. He is trying to
t"se smoke screen against pointed
a' nsistent inquiries as to where
stands on important issues The