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New-York tribune., 1920-09-30

ask for a shoe with a broad toe
and straight, low heel in any but
the most expensive shops is to bring
down on her head the kindest but
firmest pity. She is recommended
to go to the Broken Arch Shop, which
handles Grandma's Comfort Shoes
exclusively. So she has learned to
camoufage by asking in a lofty
manner for a college last or an
English walking shoe, and finally a
mannish shoe. At this point the
proprietor is called into conference,
and she is referred to some exclusive
sporting goods shop. Such has been
the fate of the individual seeker
for foot covering that would COM
bine utility with smartness.
The groupseeker will have more
success, and unless the demand
originating among the college girls
proves to be only passing fad a
standard shoe for women with some
relation to the foot for which it is
intended may soon be the rule and
not the exception.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
The Gamblers Trail
sible.

Professional baseball has lived
through many crises. 1t was almost
killed by the Brotherhood secession
and it's old structure was savagely
attacked by the exploiters of the
Federal League. These troubles
came from within. The present
trouble comes from without. 1t origi-
mates with the "sure-thing" gam
blers, who would control scores as
they control the ball on the roulette
table.
The plague Of corruption, once it
gets firm hold, is hard to stay.
Messrs. Comiskey and Gleason are
entitled to great credit for helping,
despite financial loss, to expose the
indicted White Sox players. They
have scrapped their powerful team
to save the game. Baseball mana
gers are not greatly beloved of the
public, but some have worthy mo-
ments.
Baseball, though professional
sport, was long conducted in spirit
of healthful amateurism. The play
ers had love for the game and got
enjoyment from it. That was be-
fore it was SO highly commercial
lied. The public wasn't noticeably
chilled by the process of commercial
ization, because it still believed that
the sport was honest. Let the fans
once be convinced that the spirit of
craftsmanship has passed out of the
game, and baseball will fall to the
status of horse racing or boxing.
Too thorough a cleaning up can
not be made if public confidence is
Ito be restored. The vast majority of
the players are undoubtedly straight
and self-respecting. The link with
gambling is the great peril, and to
break this it is as necessary to pun
ish the payers as the paid.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
Driving the Flag From the Sea

The refusal of the Administration
to execute the merchant marine act
is receiving the attention it deserves.
But this is not it's only contribution
to driving the American flag from
the sea.
At this critical moment the Ad-
ministration in other respects is
dilly-dallying and bungling. The
history of the Shipping Board is a
record of persistent mismanagement.
There has been no continuity of pol
icy. 1t is a story Of nebulous ideas
and impracticable schemes, result
ing in the waste Of hundreds of mil
lions of the peoples money. The
fleets Of wooden steamers tied up in
our ports are silent witnesses of a
stupid regime. Hundreds of use
less hulks are now for sale at great
sacrifice. These ships should never
have been built. General Goethals
opposed this foolish policy. The
Democratic Administration dis
missed him from the Shipping
Board and built the ships. 1t was
like throwing millions Of gold into
the sea.
And to-day the President refuses
to comply with the law as regards
the composition Of the Shipping
Board. There should be seven men,
bers. There are only two. There
is no quorum. No matter how hon
est and conscientious these lonely
two members may be, their acts and
decisions will not have the weight
of complete board. The legality Of
their action is questioned. At this
most important epoch in the history
Of our merchant marine the Ship
ping Board should be active, strong
and wise.
The failure to fill the vacancies on
the Shipping Board and the refusal
Of the President to execute the ship
ping act may lose the fight for an
American merchant marine. 1t is
an amazing situation for which the
Administration is entirely respon-
sihIa
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
Women's Shoes

At last there seems to be a ray of
hope for the much abused feminine
foot. The college girls Of Chicago
have struck against the woman's
shoe Of commerce namely, the
narrow-toed, high-heeled, decorative
contraption resembling a human
foot less than anything else-and
have adopted the boys shoe, made
primarily for wear.
The news dispatches do not say
that this departure from prevailing
custom came about because the girls
demanded TO be comfortably shod.
Instead, it is said that they prefer
boys shoes because they wear better
and are cheaper. I That is merely
feminine diplomacy, however, used
for the benefit Of the average sales
person who affects not TO understand
any other argument.
gaB % wesa@n @adaS seventy TO
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30

1t is highly harassing to coddled
community to have fog sit down on
it and hang about for days. The
rivers fill with tootings, trains and
ferries arrive late, and if you chance
to live near the sea like as not a
lighthouse siren, with the lungs of
a hundred COWS, will moo penetrat-
ingly all night long, almost as if
by your pillow. Sleep and engage
ments, to say nothing of the zest to
be had from blue sky and q SPAR
king sun, arc rudely thrust aside.
To all Of which there is no de-
fense to be made to polite civiliza-
ton on behalf Of Indifferent nature.
but there is word to be said of the
lot OF those to whom the fog is noe
an annoyance or a bore but the
greatest trial and test Of nerves that
can happen. The sons of Mary who
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30

ride to town on trains and dash over
to Europe on liners give scant
thought to the sons of Martha who
see that their trips and voyages
come safely to pass. Perhaps if they
realized just how utterly their lives
depended upon these same engineers
and captains and every subordinate
with a task to perform, especially in
times of risk such as shut in with
dense fog, they might not only give,
a thought but say small prayer
of thankfulness and obligation.
Of all the perils of the sea fog
comes first--not fire or reefs or tenn
pest, but this silent, soft pail, so
harmless and gentle to the eye, so
perilous to the seaman who knows.
1t is fog that causes most collisions,
most wrecks through an error in
course or position. Man has devel-
oped an elaborate system of protec-
tions against, it, Of signals aboard
ship, Of signals ashore, giant engines
that can send sound waves many
miles through the air-and Of late
years, by the submarine bell, under
water. But at best it is a groping,
a blindman's buff wherein skill and
eternal vigilance can reduce the risk
knf orpot o,,I -
1t is part Of the risk that every
son of Martha is born and bred to;
of the adventure that makes rail-
roading and the ships call into their
service the husky-hearted men that
they do. No sorrow is asked or
wanted for these habitual dealers in
life and death. But when we who
travel our comfortable ways are
cross and peevish over a few min
utes' delay or little lost sleep we
might gain a new perspective and
lose our vapors of discomfort by
casting an eye toward those to
whom a fog, for instance, means a
battle fought by cunning, resource
full enemy. There are many thin
lines of heroes standing between US
and destruction besides the famous
red ones of whom Mr.. Kipling wrote.
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the facts of the situation created by
its folly, it was just as immoderate.
1t could think of only one thing to
do, and did it. Figuratively, the
board hit business with a club, on
the theory that if business were sud-
denly prostrated business couldn't
use. money, and so initiation would
stop. Well, initiation has stopped,
and SO have good many businesses.
The fault is not with the system.
"It is not improbable" Professor
King declares, that the Federal Re-
serve System could be so conducted
that it would actually serve as
delicate currency regulator, nicely
fitting our supply of money and bank
credit to the needs Of business. Such
regulator is eminently desirable,
and the machinery now in operation
appears to be we'll adapted to that
end"
unfortunately, as far as concrete
evidence shows" Professor King
concludes, "an elastic currency re-
mains as much an ideal 70 be at
tained as it was in 1914. 1t
cannot be denied, however, that the
Federal Reserve System may have
possibilities along that line. The
American public has waited patient
ly for five years, in the hope of see
ing these possibilities develop into
realities. Will the policy Of watch
full waiting be rewarded? Time
alone can tell"
The Presidential election will have
a good deal to do with what time
is to tell.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
Misna1,aged

In an Illuminating article Profess
sor Wilford I. King demonstrates
the soundness of the quantity
theory Of money-namely, that f1uc-
tuations in the volume Of currency,
unless accompanied by like move
ments in the production of goods,
are bound to cause corresponding
fluctuations in commodity prices. 1t
was through the operation Of this
fundamental economic law that a
fantastic rise in the cost of living
was produced when the Democratic
Administration's Federal Reserve
Board adopted a policy Of imitation
OF credit and currency.
The Federal Reserve system !"
professor King says, "was originally
described by its sponsors as a. plan
aor making our currency elastic.
lhis was everywhere heraIded aa
'ts chief aim. The essence Of an
elastic currency is that it must ex-
pand when business needs are great
and contract when the need grows
aess." """
lhe Federal Reserve Board has
81 81 sd TO understand this basic fact.
'credible blindness Il Yathered
est preposterous imitation.
sss aa 1t awakened ssaddsa]v ts
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
Pleasing Tammany and Hearst

In his first speech to the local Pc
publicans as candidate for Gov
ernor Mr.. Miller emphasiz I'd an is
sue old but still highly pertinent.
This issue is the necessity resting
on a Democratic Governor Of New
York, no matter what may be his
personal merits, to cater to Tam
many. His party support in the
Legislature is Tammany hand
picked. He can do nothing if Four
teenth Street blocks him.
With Tammany on one side ready
to swing a club, Governor Smith
finds on the other the cleaver of
Hearst plus Hylan. Was ever
man in politics so grievously beset?
Tammany, for prudential reasons,
has permitted Governor Smith to be
"good" during his first term, but if
reelected the faithful, more hungry
than usual, will demand deliveries.
AS to Hearst, the tomahawk has not
been buried-is merely withdrawn to
be whetted.
Against the possibility Of The
Governors independence, Tammany
continues to be Tammany and
Hearst continues to be Hearst. It is
scarcely conceivable that good will
come to the state or satisfaction
come to the Governor if reelected
and he is forced to choose between
political loneliness and subservience
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
Yellov Chickering's
By Nathaniel PETER
Special Correspondent of The Tribune

tween China and Japan, and we hope
that you gentlemen will see that these
obstacles be removed. At the same
time VIC, Chinese citizens, will also
take adequate steps to deal with the
wrctched miitari5ts in our country.
1--WE wish that you will extend your
aim for the welfare of the people in
Asia on the principle of righteousness
and humanity to the struggling of
welfare of the world as a whole. For
in benctting the whole world YOU
are really beneiting the various
countries in the world, and also the
individual citizens in the countries.
Now, you say that your aim is to
promote the welfare of the countries
IN Asia on the principles of righteous
ness and humanity. while your minis
ter in Peking is granting asylum to
su-Shu-cheng and other Chinese
criminals these are former government
officials who have been overthrow for
their pro-Japanese actions and their
betrayal Of the country's interests to
Japan, and your country is suppress
ing the independence Of Corea. OF
course, these are all done by your mill
tarists, but you Japanese citizens can
net give any excuse for keeping idle.
"At this point another Japanese
student representative stood up and
said: We also oppose our militarists,
and our people are just beginning to
be aware of same
The Peking student representatives
then expressed their opinion regard
ing the equality between the races.
the equality in a universal suffrage
and the form of government. q re-
public. This the Japanese students
deemed it impossible to be carried out
just at present, but the Chinese STU
dents believed that these all depended
on the efforts of the young generation
This is universal question, but not
only for the countries of Asia alone.
Here Is the place where the views of
students of the two countries differ.
The meeting adjourned at 4 .. M"
From which it is to be seen. first.
that the young Chinese is as adept q
diplomat as his elder prototype in the
pages of American fiction, and, second
that many tides will turn before the
tabled monster of yellow solidarity will
threaten the American or Euroneao
home,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
Democratic Lucidity

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One cannot help noting and
admiring the clear and lucid reason
ing of q Democrat. That same clear
and lucid reasoning which argues that
German Americans who wish Germany
might have won the war will vote for
Harding for President in spite Of the
pro- German attitude of Cox's paper
throughout the events that led up to
our participation in the struggle finds
expression in letter written a day or
two ago to your neighbor The World,
over the signature of H. P. Hampton.
In one part of his communication Mr..
Hampton expressed the pious hope that
the patriotic Republicans of the coun-
try will refuse to permit the Irish
Americans to vote for Harding, and
that they-the Republicans-will 20 to
the polls and vote for Cox as a protest
against such pcrfidy on the part of the
Irish Americans.
1T would seem to me that there are
enough former patriotic Republicans
who would refuse to acuuiesce in the
alliance which their party is trying to
effect by going to the polls and voting
(the Democratic ticket, of course) in
protest Of any such arrangement"
The equally pious hope and belief
that the Irish-Amcricans who are to
be barred from the Republican party
Will be true to the Democratic party,
where they will be eagerly and prom
erly welcomed, is later expressed in the
following:
ut is to be hoped that between now
and Election Day many radical but
well-meaning Irish and Irish-Amer-
lean voters will become convinced that
there is nothing in the League of Ma
tlons program that is inimical to the
cause of Irish freedom, and that their
support will be given to the party that
mas promoted the interests of the COM
mon people (the Democratc)."
Which is all just and clear and lucid
as the testimony given by Mr.. Cox as
TO the source and authenticity of the
$3o,ooo,ooe campaign fund the Repub-
llcans have laid away in their war
chest. A M ADA,,c
Brooklyn, Sept. 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
A Look at the Northern IFo'

To the Editor of The Tribune. Il
Sir: Before the cross in the eohs's''
ton of Cygnus descends from its n'D
mental place at the zenith we shs'
observe it ons, more. This Nofs'uk
Cross is larger and more symfneti'
than the better known Seu'Ae
Cross. II is formed of Eve stars :
of which. Arided, possesses first h's'
tude brightness. The four other sss''
the Northern Cross, Beta, esm"
Delta and Epsilon, present 8 eha',l
though not conspicuous appeafaase' I
the other hand. the Southern Cfos'
formed by four conspicuous suns
already stated, our own Nose'.l
Cross is to be found around 8 p. u
The vicinity of the zenith.
across the dim and distant baeks',ss
of the Milky Way, and is surrounass1 N
the consultations of Cepheus th"]
eastl, Draco (north), Lyra. VIE
blue and beautiful sun Vega 49,
Aquila, with the bright sun so
(southwesD. and Pegasus. WIZ
Square" Ito the southeastls =
CHARLES MEYERS EoLAss|
Newton. Mass, Sept. 60, 1890.
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Calvin Coolidge Says
(From his message to the Massnchu-
setts Legislature, vetoing a sulary
increase biU.)

o''" Ho0 0tothtHfcj CoLOtHU IL SutNTH
increase biU)
The realities Of life are not meas
ured by dollars and cents, The skill
of the physician, the divine elouuence
of the clergyman, the courage of the
soldier, that which we call character in
all men, are not matters of hire and
salary. No person was ever honored
for what he received. Honor has been
the reward for what he gave. Public
acclaim and the ceremonious recogni-
ton paid to returning heroes are not on
account Of their government pay but Of
the service and sacrifice they gave their
country. The place each member of the
General Court will hold in the estima-
ton of his constituents will never de-
pend on his salary, but on the ability
and integrity with which he does his
duty; not on what he receives, but on
what he gives; and only out of the
bountifulness Of his own giving will
his constituents raise him to power.
Not by indulging himself, but by deny
ing himself, will he reach success.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
He Kept Us Out Of .

To the Editor of The Tribune. /
Sir: 1. He first kept US out OF VII,
when in his heart he knew 1t was iH
evitable that the United States wouS
be drawn into the World War. Il
9. He kept us out of peace, trylA
to pass the buck to the Senats a&
Congress. when the sole causs for u
failure of peace ratification was ovid
to his own obstinate bigotry. 1
3. He kept US out of coal, placing st
other inexperienced, theoretical eeIs&
professor at the head of the acute aN
situation, when the country abounded {
experienced, practical men. A colsS
professor at the head of the nstion VI
a-plenty.
4. He kept US out of sugar annualN
during the canning season. What W
done to stop the profteering Of "
sugar barons? Nothing was forthcoy
ing but words, and We are weary 4
thew. However. an acute, lpraeasS
man Of world affairs wanted him TO u
his executive powers in purchasing ~
Cuban sugar crop at a fair price, whx4
ever-alcrt England did; but, as usuih
he passed the buck TO Congress, and ta
public paid twice the price for sussf
that we would have had to pay il w
Hoover's advice had been taken.
S. He kept US from compelling HuefY
to salute the Stars and Stripes sa
from capturing that bandit, Villa.
an expense Of many millions our ssF
ders were sent to Mexico, but veY
told at certain stage not to 60 nof'
east, south or west. Huerts neVff
saluted, Villa was never esptsfsN
Americans were continually hleS
cold blood. Il
And last, but not least, he is tf!i
to keep a splendid type Of AnsiS
manhood-W. G. Harding-s MAJ
broad national experience, out Oh u
| White House. We all remember w
he appealed to party prejudices in
elections two years ago, when the y
publicans had so Loyalty supported III
both among business men and IN
House and Senate. We remember w
his appeal to party prejudice was Y
pudiated by the American public.
A DAYTON CITIZEN FOR THE
LAST NINE YEARS.
New York, Sept. 26, 1920. !
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A Government of Altgelds ,
To the Editor of The. Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Are not the following words OF
Roosevelt OF public interest at the
present time?
Every true American, every man who
thinks, and who if the occasion comes is
ready to act, may do we'll to ponder upon
the evil wrought by the lawlessness of
the disorderly classes when once thew
are able to elect their own chiefs to
power.
IF the government generally got into
the hands Of such men as Altgeld, thc
Republic would go to pieces in q year;
and 1t would be right that it should go
to pieces, for the election of such men
shows that the people electing them are
unfit TO be trusted with self-govern-
ment. Prom American Ideals, in Col
lier's publication Of works of Roose.
welt. JOHN r O'RRTEN
Englswood, N. J.. Sept. %. 1890.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-30

PEkING, China, Aug. 14.-"People's
diplomacy" we have with us, too, in the
Far East, among other modern improve
ments from the West. Here it has novel
complications and sometimes significant
revelations.
In the last year there have been nu-
merous interchangcs Of delegations of
various kinds between China and Japan.
Mostly the movement is from Japan
Chinaward, and mostly the Chinese are
wary Of the japanese bearing sweet sem
tments@ Such delegation is here now.
1t consists Of eight representatives,
japanese, of the Japancse-formcd "Asi-
attic Students Federation" They come
to remove the differences between the
two peoples, cement the relations, unite
in bond the yellow races and all that.
The Japanese delegation has had a
meeting with Chinese student repre-
sentatives. Below is given the formal
translation Of the statement given out
of the results Of the conference. To
those who still dangle before their eyes
the bogey of the Yellow Peril it should
tell much of that fantasy made in Ger
many. The statement is given exactly
as it appears, for it reveals as much in
it's quaintness of phrasng as in ie3 con-
tent. 1t follows:
Eight Japanese students of the
| Asiatic Students Federation, who are
now in Peking for tour, were recon-
mended to the Peking Students Union
yesterday afternoon at p. r1., and were
entertained by the Chinese students at
the Peking Government University. The
reception was opened by a welcome
speech by MIR. Lin Pao-che. The min
utes were taken down by Mr.. Hsiung
Ta-chao. The meeting lasted for three
hours. The following is brief account
of the conversations held between the
student representatives.
| "In response to Mr.. Lin's welcome
speech one of the japanese students
represented the Japanese student
students for their hospitality. The
Peking students then asked about the
object Of the organization of the
Asiatic Students Federation. In re-
ply the japanese students stated that
the federation was organized in
March last for the promotion Of
friendship and good will between the
student bodies OF the various coun-
tries in Asia on the principles Of
righteousness and humanity.
GAS to the organization of the
federation opinions still difPefe great
ly and cannot be decided upon as yet.
But anyhow it will not change its
former object in spite of the opposi-
tion on the part of the Chinese
students or the preservation Of the
Shantung clause in the German peace
treaty raisedjn America.
"The Peking students commented
that the tides Of the twentieth GEN.
tury are running toward the good
Of the world, but not for the welfare
of any. section. The formation of the
Asiatic Students Federation seems to
be Of gang spirit which we cannot
approve of. Friendships between one
group Of the human race with another
cannot be firm if the obstacles be-
| tween them are not removed.
"The miltarists and capitalists Of
Your country are ths obstacles be-
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Is 1t Possiblep

'from The San Francisco Chrontcle)
On November 2 Scotland itself. the
original fountain of whisky, the only
veritabls source Of that liuuor that
mas beea SO long associated with the
land and the people that it Is univer-
sally identified by the adjective
Scotch Is to vote on the question
OF having no more of it. OF ali horrible
examples this is the horr;blest.