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New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
Speeding DeRation
Fall of Exchange Regarded as
Working Prime Good

20 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems about time for the
leading papers to take editorial cog
nlzance of the fact that the fall o.
foreign exchange will help to bring
about the prime good Of debating prices
and OF oustiDg labor from its presen.
position, where it can make the mos
exorbitant demands with fair hope Of
receiving them.
To hear the arguments advanced by
manufacturers, exporters and finan-
ciers allied with them, one would think
1t highly desirable that We continue
exporting huge quantities of commodi-
ties and receiving little in return.
Translated into terms OF goods, such
a condition means that we have less
bread and clothes for ourselves and
that their prices are consequently
higher.
vi course, we are taking securities
ot-one sort or another for our surplus
OF exports and may some day expect
payment for them, but it would seem
evident that we shall never need them
more ourselves than now. As for those
who do not benefit by the present
prosperity" by saving part of their
incomes. they will score q clean loss,
TOR they are penalized now by high
prices and later will have no income
from savings as a return
The result Of a continual excess Of
exports over imports for long period
IS strikingly shown by the present
condition of England. Her fields are
barren, her other natura, resources
seriously depleted and approaching ex-
haustion, and although her investments
abroad have reached such an extent
that for many years her physical ex-
ports have been less than her imports,
she must yet get from abroad many
necessaries, and at much higher prices
than those at which they might have
been produced at home.
Can't we muster up enough colleo-
tive cool-headedness to realize that,
even If all exports are cut of, enough
domestic demand can be created right
here IN America to keep every one Of
US busy every working day? OF course.
industrial prosperity will suffer II the
process is too rapid, but that does not
argue the process perverse. 1t is fuc-
tuation in the demand and supply,
causing now shortage and now a
surplus, which makes trouble. Perhaps
some day we might even find it ad-
Vlsable, If we could see far enough
anead, to prohibit all exports and ali
immigration, adopt policy Of rigid
conservation of our natural resources
and try to live within our national in-s
come, natural as we'll as monetary{
All the world can't be engaged in tbs
manufacture Of raw materials.
j. D. H.
New York. Jan. 81. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
Change Unchanging

Reaching far back into the dim
and prehistoric past the young ladies
Of Hunter College light upon the
year 1870 as an ancient landmark
about which to cluster grandmotherly
anecdotes. And the upshot of their
revelations is worth every ones atten-
tion. 1t is that in this infinitely re-
mote year, when the early General
Grant school Of architecture was
just blossoming upon our fair land,
while the hustle hung still unimag-
1ned In the mind Of fashion and the
Centennial was yet a far and winged
thing, these grandmothers in uues-
tion entered in their remembrance
books" lines calculated to bring not
the lift Of an eyebrow to the peppiest
sub-deb of 1920. We mean TO saw
that eyebrows would be moved by
neither shock nor condescending hu-
NOR. The lines, in content if not in
manner, are exactly as if no fifty
years had intervened.
There is, to give specifications,
mention of smoking, Of late hours,
OF dress unrestraining, of men,
known and unknown. (The one OBJ
solete note is a reference to mus
taches. We suppose a generous
minded debutante of 1920 would say
that 1870 probably knew no better
and had nothing more absorbing to
think off, The shimmy is not on the
liat. But flirting is. Plainly these
young ladies who expressed their
sentiments in the most delicate of
Spencerian hands were at heart yerv
closely akin to the maidens of to-
day.
AS why should they not be. A
granddaughter is closely related to
her grandmother, though to hear
your refo1mer talk you would imag-
inc them as far apart as a tadpole
and a monkey. The reason for the
delusion is not hard to find. Man
ners do change appallingly. SO do
customs. So does dress. So does
speech. A whole vocabulary.
whole manner, goes out with each
major change of style. No wonder
the generation that found itself in
svelte princess frocks. with a train
over the arm, felt that it was utterly
different from its bouncing, flounc-
ing mothers in crinoline. Older
women of to-day, remembering their
bepetticoated past, are appalled, at
the athletic freedom of the modern
est feminine costume. But to the
younger generation that wears it the
new idea is simply pleasant and
healthful and comfortable.
The fashion changes; the girl re-
mains the same. That seems to be
the moral Of the Hunter College ex-
hlbit. Yet not quite the same. The
letter from correspondent lament
ing the extinction Of Alides who could
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
Heroic Nurses
High Purpose and Efficiency III

High Purpose and Efficiency That
Fem Citizens Realizc
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The article headed Heroic
Nurses in Van of Fight on Influenza" "
that appeared in last Sundays Tribune,
gives such clear picture Of the nurses
position in the present critical condition
due to the influenza that want to ex-
press my appreciation. / feel the desire
to write this letter not only in recog-
milton of the good work Of your re-
porter but also because yours is one Of
the few adequate public recognitions Of
the important place that the nurse oc-
cupies.
The patients and tho families of the
patients are tremendously appreciatve,
and were it not for the constant ex-
preston Of their genuine and deep graft
tude, it would be more difficult for the
nurses to keep up their high Standards
for the best Of us need the stimulation
of this kind of appreciation. But there
has been comparatively little, almost
no, recognition by the public press Of
the genuinely heroic service that the
nurses are doing. An emergency such
as this brings out dramatically the
value of the doctor and the nurse.
The work Of the visiting nurses is
invaluable at any time of the year, and,
since they work silently, it is, perhaps,
difficult for the ordinary citizen to Wis
ualize their great service; but those
who are in a position to know what
they accomplish feel humbed in the
face OF the sustained high purpose and
efficiency that is displayed by them all
over this great city Of ours.
LILLIAN D. VALID.
Henry Street Settlement, New York.
Feb. d, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
The Railroad Bill

With respect to the two railway
bills experts have preferred the
Cummins bill of the Senate to the
Esch bill of the House. The former
seemed better considered, the latter
to be more political" stop-gap.
SO it is not cheering to find that
in the conference differences have
been reconciled by acceptance Of the
Esch draft.
The Cummins provision is out
which forbade railway workers to
combine and to quit en- naasse. 1t is
to continue possible for powerful or
CARNATIONS Of labor to take the pub
lie by the throat and to force it to
meet the ransoms they demand
Also out is the Cummins provision
for the creation of transportation
board to handle the more purely ad-
ministrative features of government
control. The Interstate Commerce
Commission, semi-j body and
slow in action, is to exercise unitary
control. There Is advantage in this,
for the body that makes the rates
should also be responsible for op-
Grating and financial results, but ex-
perlence with the commission does
not warrant lively optimism. 1t will
DC necessary to revolutionize the
spirit Of the commission and to scrap
large percentage Of it's precedents.
The Cummins bill, in the interest
or operating economy and the avoid
snce of unnecessary Implications,
made the consolidation Of grouped
railways compulsory. The Esch pro-
vision is accepted which makes con-
solidation permissive, and thus less
likely to occur.
The owners Of existing railway Sc
curities seem to have gained a meas
ure OF protection. They are to get
y per cent on the value of railway
property, to be ascertained by a
survey and an assessment. The next
u per cent is to go for improve
ments, and above 6 per cent there
is to be division-the governments
half to go into improvements, and
also the carriers half If the govern
nent so orders. In addition a revolv-
ing fund of $3O0,00O,0OO is created
to be lent to the railroads for better
ments.
The foreshadowed act will succeed
or fail according as events give an
swer to the questions: ~ Whether
the railway employees misuse their
power; (2) whether the rate-making
body will have the decency to make
the income from rates equal to out
go; (3) whether there will be in
come in excess of 51a per cent to
nay for or to provide basis for
borrowings to modernize the ran
reads. Billions are needed.
Will the Interstate Commerce Com
rtission make rates that will net
enough above the income pledged to
the old owners (who sre to accept a
SEALING down Of former market
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
The Coming 7ower
Little Things Like These'

Little Things Like These"
| am bringing Americas
highest paid and widest read
author to the screen.
am bringing to the motion
picture theater the largest au
dience commanded by any liv-
ing personality.
Herbert Kaufman is the one
writer Of our generation who
has everything essential to sue
cess on the screen.
He puts an epic in a c0uplet.
He dramatizes Opportunity. He
writes prose-poems like "The
Dreamers" and '"The Man Who
Sneered at Santa Claus ''-and
little things like these.-
stake n risk or take the
count
''Some men WouM get in
0jtener if they'd get out
sooner"
''Christnas gifts don't
count if they aren't brought
do,on the clhin1ney.''
''Most rOOsfers 1pear their
croms too long and their
spurs too Short"
Lewis J. Sclznick's advertisement.
Oh, would that I could scale the
height
And touch the Pleiades!
What epic couplets l should write
And little things like these:
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

Lord Grey does not see any ser
ious objection to the Lodge reserva-
tons. Therefore, according to The
World, Senator Lodge is following
the ambassadors leadership. BY
using this system Of reasoning any
body can demonsArate that the Presi-
dent has been following the leader
ship OF the nimble World, which has
worn out its legs jumping to the
support of the President.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
Another Plea for the Horse

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
sir: Every one with kind heart
must reecho Mr.. Bonnell's appeal for
the horse in to-day's Tribune. What
can be done to better his condition!
ne ana not the motor truck brings our
necessities to our doors--nailk, pro-
visions, coal. An engine may refuse to
work but horse, never.
One very simple thing would be Of
great aid in rounding slippery corners
VIZ bag of sand. An aid in prolong-
ing the usefulness Of the horse would
De hest Farm, where overworked ami
mais could have two weeks holiday
II 'ne owner were poor horse would
De lent him till his own came back.
FLoRE FINCH
New York, Feb. 4, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
lmmovable World Of the Wet

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / would suggest to your cor
respondent ~. W. E. that his list of
worthless from Columbus down were just
as lacking IN their knowledge of rail
roads, telephones, airplanes, submarines.
wireless, vaccination, antiseptics and
the like as they were of prohibition.
It's pretty hard to convince a wet"
eHat the world moves. W. II. T.
New York, Feb 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
What Then>

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In the event of the treaty meet
ing the approval Of the Democrats and
the Republicans in their meeting to
be held at Washington next week, and
IN the event of President Wilson re-
fusing to sign it when presented to
him for his signature, what then? Is
there any provision in the Constitution
to cover such an exigency, which it is
possible may arise? L. c. T.
New York, Feb. 4. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
Does Not Believe in Socialism

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your report Of the hearing
before the Assembly committee on Feb
ruary you print that 1 stated |
believed in socialism. This is an in
correct version Of my testimony What
| said was this: "Prior to 1917 I be-
licved in some of the tenets OF So
cialism.' BY this ] meant | believed
in industrial insurance, old age pen
sions and measures of a similar kind.
which are socialistic as opposed to in
dividualistic policies.
RICHARD c. BUNZI..
New York. Feb. 4. 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

"weep with delight" at mans
smile celebrated a landmark. There
are others. All we insist upon is
that most of the visible and debated
and seemingly vital changes are not
changes at all, but simply different
way OF tying up an old and ever
mysterious package.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
The n. G. l.. Mountain Range
(Frons The Phaadelphia Inquirer)

Still defying the edicts Of the De-
partment of Justice, the Department OF
Labor announces that food prices
reached the peak" in December. 1t
cites phenomenal increases in common
articles of diet-cabbage, for example
going up So per cent and onions II per
cent. To the overburdened. as to the
heart bowed down by weight of woe,
this can no comfort bring.
1t would be more consoling to have
reached the peak, perhaps, were it not
Tor the suspicion that other and higher
peaks may be disclosed from this.
Economic topography may be as illu-
sorry and deceptive as physical.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
By
Heypood Broun

least nine times out of ten. What he
means IS, II am doing this for my own
convenience" and he ought to be frank
enough to say so.
The trouble is, as Mr. Floyd Del
pointed out in these columns some
weeks ago, that the parent wants COM
piete submission and complete affection
too. He can't have both without making
a hypocrite of his child 1t is perfectly
healthy that the child should have
fierce outbursts of resentment against
his parents when they get in mis- way,
and he should be allowed, and even en-
couraged, to express his protest. 1t is
the most arrant nonsense to suppose
that relationship Of continual love is
desirable thing to keep up. 1t is much
too wearing
The other day l tried to take small
fragment of newspaper out of H. 3d's
mouth, and he tried to swing his right
10 the jaw. l still have the reach. and
was able to protect myself by fre-
quent use Of lightning left jab Finally
L rescued the paper. 1t was only a
small section. of an editorial in an
evening newspaper about the trial of
the five Socialist Assemblymen. Proba-
oily might just as we'll have permitted
II. Sd to swallow it. Without doubt. the
paper would have taken it back the nex+
day, anyway.
In speaking of his endeavor "to mako
'ne small duties of life pleasant to the
enid" one parent writes: "T,hese items
should never enter the arena Of arpu-
ment; they may, If taken up earlv. bv
gentle, loving firmness, be treated
always as though they were as certain
as sunrise, for there is curious con.
ventlonality, liking for having things
done in dependable fashion, with little
folks, and there is nothing to which
human nature in young or old more
cheerfully submits than the inevitable. -
1es, and there is curious conyen-
tlonaity i'll the man who has been bor-
ping about the office all day in obeyinr
the orders Of the junior partner or the
city editor, which inspires him when
ne comes home to his children to nre-
tend that he is Kaiser, Fate. or God
Himself.
NO time of day is more heavenly in
home than the hour when little chill
dren, like white angels, go up the stairs
to bed
We Wonder if our continued failure
to get any such impression rests onlv
on the fact that we have no stairs
"one wise another tells her children
to divide all people into two classes
friends and strangers. Friends we ]ov.
too well to gossip about; strangers we
know too little.
another suggests to her children to
meet a proposal steward gossip with the
quiet remark, Il like all my friends 1,
Nothing more can be said"
But it can; the child rebuked bv the
quiet remark has only to say. "We,,
then, let's talk about Gaby Deslvs ~,
King Edward VII"
The newspaper" writes Mr.. For
bush, tears down some reserve and 50
does the Old Testament Also, it is
often almost Biblical in its quiet reye-
iation that the White Way leads To
death"
Whatever newspaper Mr.. Forbush has
IN mind we don't remember havino saar
II on the newsstands of New York
In the Sunday book pages of Tho
tribune next week we shall print an
article by James Branch Cabell ON "The
Judging of Jurgen."
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
been received.

From Mr.. Eddie Rckenbacker and
Mr.. Douglas Campbell and other ex-
members Of the oath Aero Squadron to
our distinguished contrib Flaccus, who
was what that gifted phrasemaker calls
zone of Uncle Sans birdmen," all OBJ
servers and pilots will be glad to know
that, according to the Evening Mail,
Young Hamilton served in the army
during the war, while his brother vas
an .Nia k0r ~
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

How spent my steed How weak
his wings,
Though strong my wish to please,
| cannot write the zipful things
And little things like these:
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

I'VE will hazard the prediction"
hazards Daniel, in the Sun, etc, chat
tomorrow night the National Associa-
ton will take some action toward
changing the code and that before the
night IS over the we'll known love and
ether antiquities will be eliminated -
Well, Daniel. we will hazard sora
thing less impalpablc than a predic-
tlon-say, seven 1919 tennis balls-tbst
the old scoring system, in spite of its
love handicap, will be retained
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
values) to make improvements
financially feasible? The commits

sion is likely to answer this ques-
ton according to instructions it re-
ceives from the public The rail-
road issue thus settles down into
the one Of whether men of vision
and intelligence are to get their ad-
vice accepted or whether, under the
leadership Of visionaries and dema-
gogues, the railroads are again to be
headed for bankruptcy.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
II Remember. | Remember

Sir: My first day at school was charac
terlzed by great scorn on my part for the
other children. who were still struggling
with The cat has rat whereas 1 had been
reading "rhe Yonkers Herald for long
time. But when the mathematics time came
| lost all my conceit, and I've never been
"oie 10 get IL -pack since BAB.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

In order to get your automobile
license plates this year you have to
do some figuring of your own. 1t is
simple, and it takes little more III
teligence than copying does But
probably the delay in getting the plates
they should have been received be-
fcre February lis owing to the in
accuracy of the human race in filing
out blanks unassisted by experts.
No, Griselda, our plate has not
been received
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

fsu purehass merchandise advertlsss In the
TRIBUNE with absolute safsty-fee dlssathfac
tson results In any THE TRIBUNE suarantses
70 pay your money bach upsn request. Ne re4 tass.
Ne suibbilnS W. make seed PROMPTLY II the
advertiser does nst.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1920.

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New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

o the snow, the terrible snow.
Filling the streets and the walks halou,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

Mr.. Berton Braley, in the current
Bookman, says things concerning a
ers toward contcmporaneous light
verse: true talk it is, too. And the rca
son for this patronizing manner, we
believe, is this: There is, on the part
of Those Who Are Doing Things, of
those who aTe Helping in the Worlds
Work, a sincere belief that any time
they want to take an hour or go off
they can write light stuff. And yet,
as Sir Despard and Margaret sing in
"Ruddigore,' this sort of thing takes
deal Of training.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

We, for one, see no reason whv :,
shouldn't be retained; and none why il
should be. But what progress the
game will make if "love" and "deuce,
be eliminated we cannot see with
Lick telescope.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEN1bEH of TIE ASSVCIA TED fNtSS
Tho Assoc ated Press ia exclusively entitled to the
Csc for republication OF all dispatches credited
A Il rot otherwise credited in this paper. and
also the local OF spont aneous ori1in pubuShed
helen.
All night, Of republication Of all ether matter
Asrcin also ars reserved
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

Where is the person who warbled tha
song,
beautiful snow, it can do notbine
wrong.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
SUBSCRIPTION RATES-py NAH. including
PeesAxs. IN THE uNITED STATES AND
GUARANTY

Intsesd st the posto<nes At New York A. Second
Casa Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06
The Hoover War Crv

'Fron' TIE Boston HeraMJ
What a slogan it vould wake, "vote
for Hoover and the full surarbowl!n
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

he asserts" says the American.
that his careful management has re-
duced her debts from $4,000 to $1,000
in three years" At last we discover
manager as careful as we are.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

They may have an Enlarged Infants,
SECTION IN Los Angeles, but Glens Falls
observes H. A. W., specializes in Home
Made Children's Dresses.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-06

NO time of day is more heavenly in
home than the hour when little chill
dren' like white angels, go up the stairs
to bed"
We wonder if our continued failure
to get any such impression rests onlv
on the fact that we have no stairs.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-17
"BOY CALI -CURCl"
TO SING HERE WITH
THE PAULIST CHOIR

Master Billy Probst, known as the
boy -Galn-Curci," has, sung in more
cities of the United States and Canada
than any other solo-boy, and perhaps
even as much as the famous DIVA"
herself. He will be heard here June
26 when the Paulist choir appears at
the Auditorium under the auspices Of
the American Legion. He is the
youngest of the Probst trio. which for
many years has been associated with
this great Paulist choir.
!, Stanley, the eldest boy9s was the
senior chorister when the choir sang
for the Pope at the Vatican in 1912.
He is still active in the choir, having
graduated into.the tenor section.
The other brother is a counter
tenor having been for two years a
SOLO boy.
Billy's career has been most inter
esting. He excels as student. as a
.chorister, as a soloist and las a real.
live, honest-to-God boy. ~
He/wi be presented here in some
OF the concerted works and a group
OF arias which he has sung in many
Of the great auditoriums of this coun-
try. He will be heard also as the
high h-obligatp. boy in a great ensemble
which is being prepared for the COM
ing European trip Of the choir.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-17
LEO BAER DIED
this MORNING
Funeral Services Will BE
Held Under Services Of
Masonic Order.

Leo Baer. aged 81, died at 2 O'Clock
this morning at a local hospital fol-
lowing prolonged illness.
Definite arrangements for the fu-
Ceral have not been made as yet, but
the services will be in charge Of
Acacia lodge No. 4, A. F. and a. Nj,
of which Mr.. Baer was member.
Mr.. Baer, is survived by his wife
two brothers and sthre. sisters. He
was bern in GernsAss and ea4af e
5tl1iss sseeuntry whey 4kfspng rhz1X Ht
lived. at Crookstoh- and Fertilg FOL
many years and then came to Grand
Forks where he was connected with
the Sig Wolf establishment He late,
returned to, Crookston and then some
four. years ago came back to Grand
Forks, where he was connected with
the Peoples Supply Co.
A brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gus Baer of Grafton, were here
at the time of his death.
Mr.. Baer was a member of the
Elks lodge at ,Crookston. the Mason:
and KEN Temple A. A. o. N. NJ. S.