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The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-01-30
nc Anchorage, in August,

.ng Anchorage, in August, 1918, he has been engaged III u,e cont acU dN- ision of the war department at Wash ington, D. c. MT. Lindner expects to report at Anchorage for duty 'l'e '"'- ter part of March.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-01-30
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New-York tribune., 1920-04-28

Debutantes who would have died of
pneumonia rather than go to an af-
ternoon tea without their furs IN
1919 will suffer no permanent injury
whatever from forgetting all about
these articles in 1920.
The point is, 100, that fashions
change far more than do souls.
"Dardanella" may sound a thousand
years distant from "In the Good Old
Summer Time" But there were
vamps even in those days. The sim
plcity Of the Innocent Eighties was
not all childlike and bland-any
more than the wisdom Of the pres
ent era of. blase infants is really as
complete and devastating as is some
times supposed. Infants are still in
fants, and summer is still summer,
however dresses expand or contract,
thicken here, thin there or disappear
yonder. Souls, in fact, are almost
as irreducible and permanent and
unaffected by custom or circum-
stance as millinery bills.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
Another Civil War

Mexico confrOntS another perlOo
of chaotic disorder, whether Car
rama chases Obregon or Obregon
chases Carranza. In either event
banditry, Mexico's one profitable in
dustry, is to have a revival. Who
ever occupies the palace in Mexico
City, fighting will go on in the hills.
Thus after seven years crowning
failure comes to the policy Of the Ad-
ministration. 1t held, except when
it indulged in the luxury of gross
Inconsistency, that if Mexico were
but let alone long enough it would
develop capacity for lf-govern
ment and would end its anarchy by
its own action. Mexico was to have
time, and she has had seven years
of it.
Diaz ruled by force and Madero
turned him out by force. Huerta
ruled by force and Carranza has
done the same. There has been moth
ing resembling a free election or
constitutionalism And Obregon, if
he comes in, is to be another tyrant
in the long series. Economically
the Mexican people are worse off
than they were and politically they
have made no gain. The same 250,-
900 who control Mexico still control
and fight among themselves in the
same way. Porfirio Diaz obviously
knew Mexico better than did Wood
row Wilson.
"Watchful waiting" having come
to an ignoble end, what remains to
be done? 1t is obvious that the
Mexican chaos cannot be allowed to
endure forever. If Obregon wins he
is, of course, to be allowed every
chance to show himself civilized, but
the disease which afflicts Mexico will
persist--a disease for which inter
vention seems more and more to be
the only cure.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
Driving Out Men Teachers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Make no mistake, such as was
made in your editorial, "The Short
age Of Teachers" The reason men
teachers Of ability are no longer at
tracted to the schools is that they
are unable to support family and
the usual number of masculine de-
pendents-Athat is, dependents who
look to their male relatives for sup
port-from salary quite adequate for
a woman teacher with one or two de-
pendents and no family.
1t is equal pay that has eliminated
the schoolmaster Of distinction.
The argument Of women teachers
that family is an asset to man is
not true. The modern man will not
enter a profession where ones ulti-
mate reward is financial dependence
upon ones children.
Considering economic conditions in
the educational world, I am SURPRISED
that women teachers have not driven
all men out of our colleges. sun
pose this will be only matter Of
time. II
Brooklyn. April 25, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
Tea $4,000 RubIes q Pound

We suffered much, especially this
winter, with the cold The last months
Miriam had to cut the wood, bring it
up four flights of stairs. No water
ali the water pipes were frozen
Miriam lived almost entirely on gruels,
sometimes butter. For one year
Miriam did not see an egg-butter
costs, when one could find it, 200
rubles pound; gruels. 700 rubcs
DounI Bread at last was nasty
black bread, never white bread-nevcr
meat, or very seldom. Tea at the last
cost $4,000 rubles pound, false
coffee was made from oats, salt was
iven out on cards for the holidays
with one pound of sugar for each
person. Milk we had the last two
months for vladimir, he being so ILL.,,
Miriam paid for one bottle 24O rub)es:
chickens cost 1000 and goose 5000 to
1000 rubles. You can see by these prices
that few people can exist. Potatoes
pound, 160 rublcs.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
Underwood as Leader

Mr.. Underwood's selection as the
minority leader in the Senate is
good thing for the minority and
good thing for the Senate, and,
through it, for the country The
minority was completely disorgan
lied during the treaty fight, because
Mr. Hitchcock, the temporary stand
ard bearer, handicapped himself and
exaspcrated his followers by a policy
of "cuckooism." John T. Morgan
warned his colleagues back in Presi-
dent Cleveland's day that no man
could long retain influence in the
upper house vino had no larger am
bition than to echo there the init
mate thoughts and controlling sug-
gcstions Of the White House.
Mr.. Underwood is no "cuckoo."
He has had long experience in leg
islation and in party leadership. He
knows that the Senate cannot be con-
verted into Presidential sounding
board. Presidents come and 60.
But the Senate is permanent, con-
tinuous body, w;th a fixed tradition
of autonomy. Mr.. Underwood prob
ably rates Senatorial independence
as high as his eminent predecessor
Mr.. Morgan, did. At any rate, in
him the Senate will have a minority
leader who will not finch from think
ing and acting, even if every telc-
phone wire from the Capitol to Sec
retary Tumulty's Office happens to
be out of commission.
Mr.. Underwood is a Southerner
with a Northern background He
was born in Louisville, kentucky,
and was brought up in Minnesota.
He is national minded rather than
sectional minded, and his economic
views are now more nearly those Of
the average American than they
were when he was in the House Of
Representatives and was approach
ing tariff legislation and kindred
subjects from point Of view still
colored by the prejudices Of section
alism.
The new minority leader is, in
general, force for construction, not
for obstruction. Nor is he unrea-
sonably partisan. He wants to see
the Senate do it's work and do it with
courage and self-respect That is
much more than has been expected
or could be expected from the av-
eragc opposition leader.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
Old Stuff
A Foilo.oer of fhe Golden
Rule Lan-enfs the Age

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | owr house in an ups,et, ~.
which is occupied by q Gentleman wnom
will call Mr.. S. Mr.. S. recently wro,,
to me saying hat il was his intent;o,
to paper Two OF The rooms in nv hons,
at his expense. ard asked ME to decorate
one Of the otnor rooms. replied that
would do so, that he could select wba.
he pleased, b-t wished ne would use tho
sar.a economy that he would if he wcrs
to pay me bil
| told HIM that it was my intention
TO be always as generous with him as
could afford to be, but with the varjons
taxes, interest, insurance, repairs etc
the house was not a paying proposition.
as ne very we'll knew, and that was the
reason why | had to do some things
that might seem small. Also that while
/ knew that no one loves a landlord. il
VAS not ali roses to be one. ouo,,
from his reply to my letter:
Il thank YOU for your splendid le..
ter. | have bought the paper for tho
two rooms. l Will have the man pape-
the other room which you say YOU viii
pay for. | will keep separate account
Of this room and will not waste cent
because no one knows better than do
how many cents there are in one little
lone dollar. | appreciate your spirit Of
cooperation, and assure you that | am
willing to do my share in any under.
taking. My interest in the place is mora
than simply that of a tenant-it is home
to me. In connection with the landlord
business you speak of, have placed YOU
as too square chap TO be considered
for second as being within gunshot
distance of that group of men. am
glad that our relations have been of the
most cordial nature"
Do you know l am proud of that let
ter? | am going to keep it. l consider
it an accomplishment to extract such a
letter from man. l know that Mr.. s.
and l are both hopelessly od-fashioned
that the idea of give and take is way
behind the times. Instead Of doing as
we do we should so to Albany and sec
which could outhowl the other. We should
try to get the papers to side with Us,
in which case he could get more papers
than | could. for there are more of him.
Yes, there is no doubt about it. VIC are
behind the times. The Golden Rule IA
dead. Mass formation is the thing. II
the other fellow has anything that you
big enough. That is the up-to-date stuff
And yet Mr.. S. and / shall continue 10
do as we are doing-give and takc-for
we are hopelcssly old-fashoned.
f. S. B.
New York, April 25, 1920,
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
The Relic

Zone of our New York news
papers," according to The Columbia
Lav Student Monthly, has "pointed
out what a blow to Columbia Law
School tradition the admittance of
women would be-" Can it be that
reference is made to The Tribune
editorial Of February %, entitled
"a Historic Relic? In that we did
to be sure, express the wish that in
these days of restless change, wher
one landmark after another is being
swept away, "this fine old monument
to masculine dignity and pride" (the
Columbia Law SchooD might be
preserved in the pristine glory OF
its sex exclusively to remind the
world now and again of the days
of the horse car. But the suggestion
was Pickwickian; represented merely
a temporary wallop of feeling fol
antiquities and curios. We do not
on sober consideration, recommend
that the Columbia Law School con
tinue to sacrifice itself on the altal
of the past. On the contrary, W.
think it would do better to le
archaeology and it's own nonasti'
traditions go hang, and to fall il
line with the forward march Of mer
and women.
The admittance of women to th'
leading law school Of the state il
thing which prospective womel
lawyers Of the college graduate type
really need, and their presence
would do the school not harm, bu
good. Those young men who ar
afraid of admitting women ar
doubtless in need to learn what tn
college woman Of present days i
like.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28

the full rigors of decree written by
a fully aroused Attorney General.
The Sherman law, although little
has been heard of it for long time,
is still on the statute books and still
has capacity for harm. For it may
be assumed that it is harmful if in
action it requires the Supreme Court
to take such means that concerns
which serve the public in a coal
vending way make more money-that
their profits are to be larger when
divided than when united.
Again may the question be asked,
Why the Sherman law? Has it not
been sufficiently demonstrated that
it is useless when not positively
harmful?
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
! orpedoes on Skates

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Three cheers for Sir Derricl,
"ernher, the "6-foot Brton," as YOUR
reporter picturesquely describes him,
VINO was arrested the other night on
West Forty-seventh Street for spanking
little blackguard of the roller skate
Tying squad. Sir Derrick exhibited
pralseworthy civic courage by asserting
the right of pedestrians to use the
dewalk unmolested. Did it ever oc-
cur to the sentimental fools who
"seizcd Wernher and held him till
the policeman arrived" that sidewalks
were invented for walking, among other
things? The little brat.-thete are doz-
ems of them every night torpcdoing
the crowd on Fifth Avenue and Broad
way-are perfectly conscious Of the
sentimental prejudice that protects
them, and they bully orderly people
to their hearts content. In democ
racy the rights Of the strong should be
respected, too
Yours for safe and sane sidewalk
ENGENE S. BAGGER.
New York, April %. 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28

The Good Old Summer Frocks

Among the more important and
significant news of the day we greet
the tidings that the old-fashioned
summer girl, hounced, ruffled and
Leghorned. is scheduled to reappear
this season after we forget how
many years Of retirement.
NO longer are furs to protect the
innocent happer from the searching
rays of the sun. To the mothballs
goes the velvet frock of the baby
vamp. On the word of the Millinery
Chamber Of Commerce, all is to be
one long, tluttering, sunny playtime
Of organdie, voile and Georgette and
simplicity, utter and serene. Will
compilations be revised to conform
to the new idea? Remade is the
word, perhaps. Not real sunburn, as
IN the days of Sweet Marie" and
her associates in innocence, but a
sunburn tint that will neither wax
nor wane will probably be the order
OF the day. Even indestructible
freckles may be experimental with,
we suppose.
Need we feel alarmed at the over
turn that is asked Of debutant GUS
toms, manners, souls? May ti.c sud-
den strain prove too great-upon
tender shoulders, for instance, ac-
customed to their squirrel and their
fox? The answer is in the negative.
Never is human nature 50 ductile,
tractable and plant as when it is
feminine nature conforming to a
convention or chamber of commerce
OF those finest Of all arts which fix
the fashions for given seax
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
On the Landlords S Side
Tho Points Submitted Against the
Mayors Committee

VuYOI 4 AOTpnlltcc
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your Sunday issue it is
reported that the Mayors Rent Com
mittee deems 10 per cent Of so-called
profit, based on the owners equity, to
be the highest fair return which the
landlord should seek. Consider two
similar houses, valued at 100000 each.
If one Of these is owned free and clear
its tenants would be expected to pay
an extra $4,000 in rent for the privl-
lege Of living in an unmortgaged
building. The landlord is entitled to
net $40 200. The other building has
a $4,000 8 per cent mortgage upon
it. The rent will include $4,000 for
mortgage interest and $4,000 as the
owners profit, total of $1,000, as
against the first mentioned $4,000.
These figures ought to demonstrate
that the use Of equities to determine
profit is unsuitable.
From the context of the article re-
ferred to it would appear that the
Mayors committee has failed to con-
slider obsolescence, or the probable
life of the building. If $1,000 is al
lowc0 for that item out Of the land
lords "profit" on the mortgaged build
ing above referred to, it shrinks to
$4,000 In these times he could OBJ
tain by safe investment in stocks
or mortgage 81, 800 if he had so in
vested his $4,000 equity, so that his
real return for responsibility time
and risk would be reduced to 5000.
However. he ought to lay aside an
nually about $500 to pay the expenses
of renewing his mortgage Con which
occasion the state may demand from
him recording tax Of $350). His to-
tai expense in that connection aside
from the tax, may run up to 81 400.
/. will be apparent, then, that instead
of prohting he will be paying out s10o
year for the luxury of being called
"prohteerl landlord" Possibly he
may obtain some satisfaction from
considering that this cost Of such
luxury may be paid by him in the
same 50-cent dollars with which the
rent is paid to him by his profiteer-
tenants. CHARLES E. MAN1ERRE.
New York, April c6. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28

ours IS an easy going and opti-
mistlc age writes John Roach Straton
IN one of his messages and wrath and
Judgment which are combined in a
volume called THE Menace of immoral
ity" published by Doran. eve do not
like to be disturbed with unpleasant
thoughts" continues the genial doctor.
land yet, if we are wise men and wom-
en-, we will give due consideration to
these things, in the light of the .re-
mendous times IN which we live. There
never has beer such a day as this be-
fore in tho worlds history. This is
time @.realy Of judgment upon a
wicked word The whole world is now
standing in the shadow of anarchy ard
starvation. Unless we repent and turn
to God, we will have to pay the price
Of our folly and sins. And New York,
let us understand, is no exception to
these great truths of God. Though she
eXalt herself to tae very heavens. she
SHALL be laid lo'F. uniess she repents
and turns from har wicked wavs. We
N'" =" " =
':c "@'o 'eeo"'e 50 vain 'o-'"y over scTen-
llnc achleVemcnts a.d education and
all that, that we have tended to CON
descend even % Goo We tend to look
"o", u-'o'i 'ii'' rom our ioidly human
"e's".s nu' "''"~ 'o'ly 1t ls' He
sl''e'' II, '"e ia ems shaii laugh 7.
Icy ,, nc "oC iaus' a' Us! AND let US
, l''''N ~'' = u" IS 'o' snort
20 - .'e n'eans' even
jay 'f'"-' IA 1is alH'lgh'y
.''..'' s, ,'"', So' e'c' 'hought or what
., ;.., ~, t' "''N' would 90 to
,'.~''o Oi' 'Ne" ''i"' as we cali ner!
... "'u we WOOL
- 'Ns 'Vi"p.r o't''Ae neaalong into
49,. '-''',' . ~, an . through such
a.. 80: -. .,'- 20 1 nat winch laid San
un,a .a"''seo .e' Prov 'e"1sy n the dust!
'"' sii's" nc Metronoi-
Co.,. C '"'"''s oF'' or MADISON
Te-a'. 1870 oa'oen sometime when there
,,er, ~ soa.a ~ 49, n'''''s ol people IN
.,,n - ,h 80, 5ou'ess ceieora-
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
And Reading Went Up

The stock markets comment on
tho decision of the Supreme Court
divorcing the Reading Railway and
the Reading coal properties was an
advance of 13 points in the price
OF Reading stock.
It's poor time for railway
securities. II has seemed as if moth
ing is able to put them up. Yet a
victory" by the government in
trust prosecution did the business.
The triumphs Of the Sherman law
are thus OF the same nature they
we're in the days when the Standard
Oh and Tobacco combinations felt
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
The Tragedy of Sugar

The increasing exploitation Of
sugar seems to have attracted
the attention. of Attorney General
Palmcr's chief observer of the up
ward course of prices, the myster-
ious and mellifluous Mr.. Figg. Sugar
rrotiteering is tragedy which the
Administration itself scenarioed and
staged. The stabilization of sugar
prices during the war was the one
notable demonstration of the govern
ment's power to protect the con-
sumer. The Sugar Equalization
Board performed little miracle of
its own which made all the other
price regula lators look like bunglers.
Apparently the board was too sue
ccssful. After the armistice mis-
guided economist who had access to
the President advised him that
sugar could take care of itself. So
our one spectacular economic accom-
pllshment soon ceased to give offenSe
to those who wanted to return to
the good old ways. The sugar
board, an agent Of economic fore
sight and restraint, was allowed to
dissolve, even though Congress au-
thorized the President to continue
it in operation until the end of this
year. So we see the sugar specu-
lator and profiteer already in t.lair
glory, and sugar, having risen from
ii 70 p cents pound, now heading
gayly toward 80 or 40 cents.
The inimitable Mr.. Figg is re-
ported to be engrossed in conjuring
, off the crisis by discovering new
sources of supply. The spectators
J naturally cry "Shortage!"
But according to figures prepared
by the National City Bank sugar
importations for the year ending
June 30 next will be much the
largest in our history. Moreover,
we are exporting sugar and are
using vast quantities of it for non
essential purposes. The govern
, ment's refusal to buy in the Cuban
sugar crop Of 1920, Mr.. Palmer's
, notice to the Louisiana producers
that they might sell for II cents a
| pound, manipulation of supply, fore
; stalling and all the familiar forms
, Of pressure to boost prices and mulct
. the consumer have worked to con-
vert sugar from a low-priced war
, time staple into a pampered luxury
) in time Of peace.
t The government looks on foolishlv
{ at this spectacle. It is abashed at
{ It's own shocking mismanagement.
t 1t hates to confess error. What can
the consumer do to protect his in.
terests? He can, at least, demand
that the Sugar Equalization Board
De revived and that sugar again be
rationed. Sugar exports should bc
emoargoed, and uneconomic domestic
consumption should be checked.
The greatest need for sugar in
the immediate future is in the cam
hinG industry. Vast crops Of fruit
and vegetables will 20 to waste if
they cannot be preserved, either in
the home or the factory. The can
ner has the first call on sugar be-
cause he is conserving foods. His
claim IL far superior to that of the
candynaker and the server of soda
fountain drinks. Has tho Admin,s-
srat'on yigor enoughsleft In It to
New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
Terijoka, Finland, March Is, 1920

Terijoka, Finland, March Is, 1920.
Dearest Ones at Home:
Just think, here we are safe, and when
| tell you all we have been through
these last two years, you will not believe
it, We have been trying to get away
for many months, but could not find
any one to take Us over the frontier, as
it is most dangerous thing to do, but
at last we could not stand the life any
longer and found Finn who, for a
large sum Of money, promised to get US
safely on the other side.
Vladimir started two days before
Miriam and me, and he could only take
the costume nc had on and package
on his back which looked like sack of
potatoes. Poor Vladimir, weak from his
three months in prison, started out, got
only half way and waited for u.s. We
were dressed to look like peasants
shaws over our heads, large sacks on
our backs and little dog under the
arm Miriam dragged in sleigh our
packages to the station, and there we
met and put them on our backs, very
heavy, and took the train for short
was to take US.
The Frontier Closed
We drove and drove and finally came
to lonely house, which was the home
Of the Finn, and at a in the morning
we continued our trip, again being
stopped by Red soldier, making very
narrow escape, and then being left at
a little house given over to an old man.
We continued on foot over the snow up
to our knees to the next village, where
we found Vladimir, who had waited for
us. We rested there all day and at night
began again that dreadful trip in the
dark, never knowing when we would be
stopped. In deep, deep snow, on to the
next village, and so we continued ff-
teen versts from the frontier, and there
we arrived more dead than aliuc, and to
be told we could not enter Finland, as
the frontier was closed. You can mag
inc our despair. | was like q person
knocked in the head. I found bed in
the kitchen and threw myself on it and
fell asleep.
Miriam, wet and tired, started for the
frontier, determined to get across, and
those last three versts were something
dreadful, the snow up to your waist,
and that poor child continued to walk
to and over the frontier until she was
stopped by the soldier, who told her if
she made three steps he would shoot.
She made the three steps and turned
around and told him TO shoot, that
death was preferable to being sent
back, and so he took her on foot fifteen
versts to the staff, and there she cx-
planned, and the next day she came to
fetch us. We were taken to several
different posts in North Finland, treated
very kindly, and finally sent here for
the quarantine.
Last summer we were all ready to
leave by the same way and we're all
three of us arrested, put in prison,