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New-York tribune., 1920-08-09
The SHINES Mystery

The surprising charge that Hugo
SHINES, the German coal king, called
by some the uncrowned ruler of Ger
many, is aiming at the disruption of
German unity is raised by certain
German Socialist newspapers. What
SHINES wants in the first place, they
argue, is that France should occupy
the Ruhr district; hence his bullying
attitude at Spa. Now, French oc-
cupation Of the Ruhr could not but
result in the eventual establishment
of a Rhenish- Westphalian republic,
which would form the nucleus of a
West German federation; and this,
again, would lead to the detachment
OF Bavaria and the founding of an
Austro- -Bavarian state.
Now, what concern may SHINES
have in such an outcome? Firstly.
ne IS the greatest coal operator Of
Western Germany, with important
business interests in Luxembourg and
Alsace-Lorraine. The blast furnaces
OF Lorraine are built to use West
phalian coal. A West German re-
public organized under French aus
plces would facilitate close coopera
ton between the coal owners on the
German side and the iron and steel
people on the French. Conformity
they could develop dangerous COM
petition with England. Also. the Sc
cession of a West German state from
the Reich would relieve Westphalian
industry from the oppressive burden
of German taxation.
The argument is taken up bv
'Humanite," organ of the French
Socialists, which suggests that vast
Continental coal-iron syndicate is al
ready being formed. There is
rumor, even, that SHINES is nego-
tiatlng for large quantities of coal
and iron ore in Sweden. These con-
lectures Of the French and German
Socialist publications have a rather
fantastic ring. Yet it is as we'll to
recall the circumstances under which
the other day M. Andre Cheradame.
the French writer whose exposure
Of Pan-Germanism is remembered,
resigned from the staff of the Paris
daily "La Democratic Nouvelle." In
an open letter to the publisher of
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Noisen,akers
4 Plea for More Newspaper Noise
Against Them
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The foregoing is the title Of
an interesting article which appeared
on your editorial page last Tuesday
describing wildly one Of the noise
nuisances in the public streets and
denouncing the city authorities who
neglect to suppress the nuisance. But
it was not an editorial; only re-
print, in small type, which served as
filler at the bottom Of a column
and 1 have somewhat to say to thee!
Why do you and all tho other pa
pers let the noise nuisance 60 on prac-
tically undisturbed? This little squib
from Louisville. aimed at one item,
the unmuffled gas engine, is sample
Of what all the papers are printing,
occasionally; occasionally, but never
persistently. With one consent you
all treat the subject merely as n d.
version; never seriously to the extent
Of more than half column q year-or
possibly half year. Perhaps you do
not realize the intensity of your in
frequency.
The noise nuisance is widespread
and unending. Automobile horns are
about the worst offenders at present,
and yet you fellows-and the legisla-
tors as well-open up invariably on
the muffler question-when you open
up at all.
Other nuisances are, Of course,
worse; the speed maniac, for instance.
But to suppress the nervy motorist,
who has no nerves and cares nothing
for invalids and others who do have
them, would be ono Of the very best
things that could be done to regulate
speed, for the careless noisemaker
is the kind Of fellow who develops into
careless man-killer. Let US see this
and then.
If you have got sick Of the subject
because of the monotony Of continued
failure let me remind you of the new
phase of the old nuisance which has
lately become so common-the staccato
whistling Of automobile trucks. The
widespread abuse of this instrument
should be a challenge to every editor
who asDires to fulfill the useful func-
tion of municipal agitator; who ap-
prcciates the honor Of being so situa-
ted as to be able to stir up mayors and
legislators. The newspapers are our
only hope! B. R. BLANCHARD.
New York, Aug. 5, 1920.
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Pity the Frlln1an Ports
4 Plea for More Wages and
End of Tips
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: There are certain workers 1
gagged in the passenger transporx1
branch Of railroad service who i
beyond doubt very essential, bu. |
whom very little is ever saia and 4
whom very little has ever been DID
simply because few have thought
worth while to champion their cagsl
such few as have attempted it in \
past have been brushed aside or hsj
betrayed their trust because there VI
nothing but personal interest in i
effort.
We refer TO the Pullman porter, u
though not classed as a skilled wOrs1
has certainly displayed much skill
being able to support himself on \
meager wages which it has al#1
been his misfortune to receive, q
supplemented by gratuities from
travelling public, 80 that actually 4
sustenance has been dependent on 4
generosity Of the passengers who II
ride on the cars from time to tisii
This might have been quite ssa
factory in the past generation and
time when the Pullman car wal
luxury INDUCED in only by the v
to do. In this, the twentieth centa1
which is an age Of progress and
which every one Is trying to attain
a higher standard of manhood, y
humiliating mode of living should !
relegated to the forgotten past, "
living wages should be paid this ~
ticular class of workers.
The porter has always been .
couraged from organizing at ea
turn in the past, but the advent
government operation furnished I
opportunity and several organlzat'7
have sprung up Gall having the 81
end in view and are now sD7
to perfect details for the merging
all into one compact unit, so as to
of sufficient strength to be able 70
as others have done--claim the ri
of being entitled to collective bargsI
ing for the Improvement of his wei
ing and living conditions. Why sho.I
he not have an opportunity Is ne
fellow mortal, entitled to equal
portunity as one of Gods creatures
| am actuated to write the above
view of the fact that the porter y
not included in the recent wage asp
and is now receiving an average 81
fraction over 10 cents an hour. ~.
deducting for two meals at lesss
cents a meal there is left for
support of himself and family sO'
as cents a day. Is il possible !
him to live decently and educate e. e.
dren on this scale? L. L. W
New York, Aug. 6, 1920
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A Case for Aloofness
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS daily reader of The Trib-
une I want to commend your article,
"a Case for Aloofness," in to-day
paper. We have had enough of this
Irish nonsense and they would bet
ter be advised to stop 1t before the
question becomes as painful here in
America as it is in Ireland. To the
writer, who is all American, the Irish
hyphenates are not less offensive than
the German hyphenates, perhaps even
more so. 1t is quite time that Ameri-
cans were walked up to the real mean
ing Of a situation which may bring a
revival of the hatred and bigotry Of
the Middle Ages. G. E. JULIAN.
New York, Aug 6, 1920.
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Enough of Chaos
We Should Leave Irish Question

We Should Leave Irish Question
Alone rs None Of Our Business
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me to thank you for and
to congratulate you upon the editorial
published in your issue of August s
concerning the Irish question.
Your paper can render no more pa
triotic service to this country than to
maintain bipartisan and unprej-
udlccd attitude on this subject. AS
Americans, we are not interested in
lavishing upon the English nation an
undeserYed praise, but are anxious
lest a Fictitious and wholly un-
necessary discord be created between
this country and England through the
agencies of a selfish, sinister and un-
principled propaganda.
The world is in a sufficiently chaotic
condition as it is. We want no further
antagonisms; and unless we are pre-
pared to view both sides of the Irish
question we shall do we'll to leave it
alone as none of our business.
Your paper has published the fairest
consideration of this subject that I
have seen in any New York paper at
any time since the present unfortunate
agitation began.
CHARLES L. BUCHANAN.
Darien, Conn.,, Aug. 6, 1920.
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Interpretations"

That hypothetical child, who
would be able to understand the
speech Of acceptance without ar
effort, as Governor Cox glow
ingly assured his fellow-citizens
is doubtless still plowing through
the exhortation of that colossal
address. When his headache lets
up he will be ready to tackle the
two or three columns in which the
Governor in word makes perfectly
clear his stand upon the League of
Nations.
We can imagine this confident in
FAINT pursuing truth painstakingly,
word by word, down these shadowy
labyrinths-hopefully and ever hope
fully. Until at last he comes out
upon that beautiful word of five syl-
tables and a corresponding ampll,
tude Of connotation, "interpreta-
tions." These, whatever they are,
and provided only that they are
drafted by friends" Governor Cox
has no objection to, indeed rather
welcomes into the fold.
"But why Interpretations and to
say what?" we hear the bewildered
child plaintively ask. Is there a
clew as to what may and may not be
said in an interpretation? Can we
find out just what this glorious thing
when properly interpreted that
Governor Cox is for and in whose
name-when properly interpreted
he challenges to combat all the
wicked Republicans in wickedly
Republican Senate and world? All!
hope shines at last-at the bottom
of column 3! Here is the long
sought secret:
"Our platform clearly lays no bar
against any additions that will be
helpful, but it speaks in firm reso-
luton to stand against anything that
disturbs the vital principle"
Vital principle!" Any interpre-
tation you will that is helpful but
does not disturb the vital princi-
pie" Here is reward at last. Not the
exact answer, to be sure, but clew,
real clew.
All that our hypothetical child has
to do now is to go to Governor Cox
with these simple words "vital prin-
ciple" in his hands, and ask him
what they mean. When the Cover
nor tells him he will know at once
just what the Governor might have
told him in a dozen words at the
start. And he can run off to bed, ex-
haus,ed but happy, and praising the
wonders Of Democratic simplicity
and frankness as compared with
hateful Republican duplicity.
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a Democratic View of the
League

|C0SOC
10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Those active in the campaign
to elect Senator Harding President If
the United States-the men bowine to
the leadership OF Senator Lodge and
pulling under the lash of the oreani-
zatlon-have repeatedly made the
| statement that Governor Cox has made
promises which he cannot perform in
the event Of his election. They call
attention to the fact that there will
not be change enough in the compost
tlon Of the United States Senate to
enable the passage of the covenant of
the League of Nations, even if the
people of the country indorse the
stand of the party now in power by
their votes next November.
Even Mr.. Taft now announces that
ne can't leave his party and follow
the dictates of his conscience and his
belief, because the United States Sem
ate won't let him. And he doesn't
blame the whole Senate, either. Hear
him:
No such issue as the ratification of the
League of Nations as submitted can pos-
sloly De settled in the coming election.
because there VIII remain in the Senate
Whatever the result of the election, thirty
three Republicans who have twice voted
against the ratification of the league with
out the Lodge reservations.
Thus the Republicans-frst the poll
tlcians pure and simple and then the
most worthy Of his party-come out
openly and tell the poor American:
I'VE have taken charge of your affairs
and will do as we'll by you as we see
fit. You elected us, it is true, but YOU
are not adroit enough to decide what
you want in other things"
Mr.. Taft would release us from the
autocracy of President by imposing
on US the autocracy of a group of
Senators. But he would do far more
than this. He would release us from
the necessity of voting, from the ne
cessity of thinking, from the necessity
of ruling He would establish a tri-
umvirate of three times eleven reac-
tionary Senators and sell out the coun-
try to that triumvirate at the price
of that mythical and, in these days
of single issue, that utterly incompre-
hensible thing known as party fealty.
The covenant of the League of Ma
tions is an issue. Its fate will be
decided by the people next November.
And the will of the people had better
be obeyed. No thirty-thrce men can
rule this nation. Senators have been
stripped Of their togas Senate cham
bers have been destroyed.
+. A. P.
Lackawaxen, Pa, Aug. 6, 1920,
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Listen to the Dictionary

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The controversy over the use
of the phrase at is me" seems to be
waxing a trife bitter Your CORE
spondent who signs himself "Pedan-
tic" declares that to him the use Of
"me" in place of the nominatve is
quite revolting"; but he adds that
French is his native tongue, which
makes this expression of opinion less
difficult to understand. 81 amt had
none may be as widely used as is
the offending ITS me-" but good usage
has sanctioned the one, while no one
but an ignoramus would use the other.
Some great English scholar of the past.
whose name do not recall at the mo-
ment, said that if person who knocked
at a door were to reply, when asked
who he was, 'It is l." it would sound
stllted, and that it would be quite
correct to use "me."
But why not turn to our diction-
aries, or some of them, at least? We
find in Webster's the following:
Me 8. Equivalent to I, esp.
after as, than, and as a predicate sub
stantive; thus, 1T is me- (Cf. f. c'est
moi.) This use of me violates the
grammatical rule of construction,
which calls for predicate nominativa
after is, and it is now chiefly colloquial
or dialectic, but is justified by some
good writers as being historically
idiomatic"
1T is |" is excellent English, but
good usage has also sanctioned-
IT'S ME.
New York. AUG 3 1920
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CITY Last To Be Cared For

Under these contracts the city entered
into a partnership with the transit
companies, putting in certain specified
amount of money, the transit companies
furnishing the balance. The transit COM
panies were to receive, first, certain
preferential payments out of receipts to
meet their income from the then exist
ing plants, as going concerns. Then
came the interest on the bonds issued
for cost of construction by these COM
panies, and following this the cost of
operation; and finally, the interest on
the subway bonds issued by the city, as
their share under the contracts.
1t will be seen by this that the city's
bonds were the last to be cared for. and
that II the system was not a profitable
one. the interest charged on these bonds
would fall upon the taxpayers at large.
This is an important consideration to be
kept in mind in coming to a fair con-
clusion on this question. One of the
important considerations in these con-
Vi"~So was. tHat tHeis Snould De uni
versal fiye-cent fare throughout the
city. All would have gone we'll had con-
ditions remained stable as to values.
but the great war came on, materials
Increased in cost by leaps and bounds.
labor costs doubled owing to increased
cost of living, and contractors who were
building the subways found themselves
facing ruin, and many of them aban-
doned their contracts at great loss.
The transit companies also had To
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The New Guardian

tFrom The Philadelphia IrGairef'
Governor Cox says he is out 70
adjust tho affairs of civilization.
yes. And in that capacity, we presl'
he hopes to become the new cusfoo'
of the heart of the world, and reos'
a commission as the defender OF han'
ity from him who has the honor o. :
discovering humanity.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-09
The Opposite Sex

Never was the opposite sex and
how to behave in it's presence more
debated than in this crowded hour
of night wandering motor cars,
emancipatea debutantes and cheek
to-cheek dancing. Is the world prac-
tically in devils hands, as Mrs.
Katherine Fullerton Gerould thinks?
Or can it yet be saved? And if
so, how?
Plainly the International Bible
Students Association thinks that
what hope there is lies in the direc-
tion Of drastic measures. We can
see the amazed surprise of the
debutante as she reads the VOW of
these stern reformers. To conduct
ones self toward those of the op-
posite sex in private exactly as in
public, in the presence Of a congre-
cation of the Lords people," is a
large order. The rest of the VOW,
'to avoid being in the same room
with any of the opposite sex alone
unless the door Of the room stands
wide open," is not SO precise and
terrifying. In fact, we suspect it is
shot that misses the mark. The
modern dancing has brought young
things into close proximity quite in
the public gaze, with all doors COM
pletely open.
1t is hard to say just how large
part rules can play in keeping
boys and girls sweet and fine and
honorable in the presence of one
another. The rules that are usually
cited as the bulwark of morals have
always been impossible for the larg-
est classes Of humans-that requir-
ing chaperon, for instance, for
all occasions outside the home of
the girl. Yet the morals of the poor
undoubtedly equal those of the rich,
who revel in chaperons. The wicked
motor car is accused Of demoralizing
a generation; yet buggy riding is as
old as the nation.
In defense Of the present customs
it is probably to be said that the
opposite sexes never understood one
another as well as to-day. There
is a frankness Of friendship that
cannot help but prevent ill-assorted
marriages and blunders based on a
misconception Of the divergent prob
lens which the two sexes face. Man
ners and customs have changed;
morals, according to most opinions,
have remained about where they
have always been.
What parents should concern
themselves about, it would seem, is
not SO much an attempt to restore
precise and obsolete rules as an
effort to be sure that a spirit of
fineness is kept alive amid the
present-day changes of customs.
Not so much open doors as high
ideals might better be the goal.
There can we'll be rules against
customs that are corrupting and
coarsening. Such rules have funda-
mental sense behind them and can
prevail. But we should be very sure
that we are not insisting upon
technical rules, i'll adapted to cur
rent life and bearing not at all
upon essentials.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-09

(From The Boston Globo
An lnterchurch World Movement sur
vey in New York City has shown that
thirty-three different languages are
spoken there, including one that is
something like English:
New-York tribune., 1920-08-09

(From The Dallas Morning Ne'es,
The ex-Empress Eugene lived y
life, but not merry one. That Is =
ally the way with royalty. II they
long they don't live merrily, and II '
1--we merrily they don't live LONG )
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herein.
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meet the new conditions and the in
creased cost. They have appealed to the
city to have their contracts so modified
that an additional fare could be charged
to Offset the increased cost to them of
construction and operation. The only
official bodies that have the power to act
to relieve these conditions are the Board
of Estimate and Apportionment and
the Rapid Transit Construction Commits
sion, and up to the present they have
been appealed to in vain.
Men of good, sound business sense
would think that in such crisis. where
so much is at stake, the parties with
power to provide the remedy would get
together and, putting all the cards On
the table, face up, work out a sensible
solution in the interests of all con-
cerned. The city has now invested in
this scheme something over $3.50, 100000.
The interest on this sum is approx
mately, at per cent. S14, 1000, 900 annual
ly, and must be made up by taxation if
the transit lines are not run at a suf-
ticient profit to provide for the inter
est on the bonds which the city has
issued; added to this there are thou
sands Of our citizens who, believing in
the success Of this scheme have put
ether millions Of dollars into stocks and
bonds of the roads, and receive no re-
turn upon their investments.
A Time for Cooperation
Astonishing to say, we find ma
jority of the Board OF Estimate oppos-
ing any scheme to increase the income
of the roads; instead of cooperating as
partners and adopting a constructive
policy, they present opposition and ap-
parently determination to bring dis
aster upon the whole scheme of tran
sit. They have even gone to the ex-
tent of attempting to establish indie
pendent bus lines to compete with the
system They refuse to consider any
question of increase of fare, well know
ing that their own household expenses
have increased in the last four wears
from SO to 100 per cent; they are ap-
parently content to let the transit lines
furnish transportation below cost.
There IS another feature connected
with this matter; thousands who live
out of town and pay no taxes in the citv
in which they do business reap the ad-
vantages, while the city's enormous in
We { IN
deficit which the resident taxpavers
must pay. Such folly upon the part of
our city officials is closely allied to
'criminality, and those who have the
power to provide the remedy are fac
ing retribution which an angry pub
lie, when it knows the facts, will
be sure to visit upon them, because.
as is shown by the quotation at the be-
ginning of this article, the average
dweller in this city believes in q
square deal
The writer of this article, in Justice
to himself, ought to say that he has no
financial interest whatever in our tran
sit system, his contribution to the
cause being wholly voluntary, with the
hope that the present difficulties of the
financial aspect of our transit system
may be swept away
GEORGE W. BRUSH.
President former Brooklyn League
and chairman of the Brooklyn
Transit Conference.
Brooklyn. Aug. 8, 1920
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