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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Intrastate Railroad Fares

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission will begin on Monday an in
vestigation of the legality Of the Sec
ond District (New York;. Public
Service Commissions refusal to al
low railroads to increase their intra-
state passenger, Pullman and milk
rates. Such an inquiry is based on
the Federal commissions authority
to determine when an intrastate
rate implies preference or prejudice
as between intrastate hauls and
hauls which have an interstate char
acter.
The question is an old one, re-
peatedly dealt with by the commits
sion and the Federal courts. The
Texas Railroad Commission tried
some years ago to build up business
for eastern Texas towns by allowing
them much lower local rates than
were the interstate rates for the
little longer run to Shreveport,
across the Louisiana border. The
Interstate Commerce Commission
condemned this practice on the
ground that it artificially penalized
interstate business. The Supreme
Court subsequently held that intra
state rates must not be allowed to
derange or nullify interstate rates.
AS to freight, the states no longer
try to extract local advantage by i'm
posing different intrastate charges.
The New York Public Service Com
mission for the Second District al
lowed the recent freight increases to
be applied to internal traffic, but
1t held out for passenger and milk
differentials, and based it's decision
in part on the charters of New York
railways.
These differentials, Of course, GRE
ate determinations against different
localities. For the southern section
Of the state the shortest and best
passenger service to this city is over
lines running in part through PENN
sylvania and New Jersey. The Erie
Railroad, for instance, on Septem-
Der 26 last put in effect the new
interstate passenger rates between
New York City and Port Jervis, and
presumably between this city and all
southern and western New York
State points. But if a passenger
were able to travel from Port Jervis
to New York City by a circuitous
intrastate route he would pay, un-
der the state boards order, con-
siderably lower rate a mile.
The interstate rate governs most
travel. 1t is general rate, deter
mined by broad view of transpor-
tation costs. If state could hope
to become separate, self-sufficing
transportation unit exclusive intra-
state regulation would be logical. 1t
ceased to be logical when our rail-
road system was nationalized.. Jus
tice to all sections Of the state and
interstate comfy seem to require a
standardized intrastate scale, for
both freight and passengers, CORE
spending to the interstate one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

himself with anything less than the
largest volume attainable? Isn't this
q good thing for both the business
man and the country at large?
Large sales stimulated by low prices
has been the American formula Of
business success. For the banking
branch of the Administration to
close factories, throw men out of
employment and increase the num-
her Of commercial failures simply
because 1t doesn't know how to
handle the situation created by its
own prior policy Of imitation has
naturally aroused the apprehensions
of the country.
That @ branch Of the national
banking system publishes such mat
ter in large type on the first page Of
its "review" shows that the emotional
economists are still with us. It is
time to have more old-fashioned
common sense. With the reign Of
common sense there will be better
realization of the fact that with a
50-cent dollar man or q concern, if
the turnover margin remains the
same, must double the dollar volume
Of the business to avoid loss. The
50-cent dollar is largely the conse-
quence Of extravagant imitation, but,
wages and prices now being partly
adjusted to it, manifest is the folly
Of trying to force the use Of a
larger one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

In the monthly review of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of New York
manufacturers and merchants are
advised to content themselves with
more stable and conservative VOL
ume Of business" Stability. is, of
course, highly desirable, but II
conservative" means "sn,aller /"
and apparently It does, there ia room
for difference Of opinion.
No business man worth much con-
tents himself with q static volu,ne
OF business. why should he congAnt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
The Cox Campaign
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The entire country owes Mr.. Cox
one sure thanks that he has completely
demonstrated to decent citizens his
entire unfitness for the Presidency in
insulting the nation with the loose talk
OF ward heller.
ANY student Of current events, free
from bias, would prefer Mr.. Hays's
eimple word to Mr.. Coke sworn state
ment even Il he had tho courage TO
give IL. A PLAIN REPUBLICAN
New Rochelle, N. Y, Sept. s, 1870.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

ever ran for the Presidency, and he
will Feed ample ammunition where
with to cry Fraud" "Steal!"
Billions are what he will need to
denounce. And why shouldn't he.
have them? They cost nothing to
anybody,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Justice Bet,ueen Nations

Hmding's Speech on League Raiss
Mem and Inspiring issue s,
To the Editor Of The Tribune. : ~
Sir: The Tribune has been my maias
stay for years. But now The Trlbuns
fails me, and not alone. Other Repub.
lican papers do the same. A great
issue has arisen, but receives little at.
tention. 1t is an issue that could sweep
the country If voters are made TO real.
lie 1t. What is the issue?
After the acceptances of Cox and Har.
ding had determined to vote for Coz,
A lifelong advocate Of q league Of
nations, l saw Cox favor it and the
Republican leaders trying to kill it.
Not that l believed the Wilson league
would be effective. The adverse vote 81
one power prevented action on cry
issue. Unanimous voting is almost un-
known. The league would seldom func.
tion on major international issues. II
would soon atrophy and die; but the
vote for a league would convince polite
cal leaders that q real league was
wanted, and sooner or later a real
league would evolve.
a popular vote against the league
would kill the idea for generation, or
ont1l another world war arrived. Tiers.
lore vote for league was my duty
reservations? Buncombe! EntranA
into league doesn't affect the Constitn.
tlon. Congress controls the declaration
OF war. Congress and the FRESHEST
have always acted in harmony on ths,
question Of war, and the President wo1W
see that the United States vote in the
league was against war unless Congress
favored it, and without our vote The
league could not make war.
lt-hurt my feelings to think of voting
the Democratic ticket. A large proper.
ton Of voters feeling as l did will ast
vote at all. Many Republicans ana many
Democrats will do the sGsas.
Harding's recent pronouncement on
the league solved this problem for ne
1t should solve it for others when IN.
derstood. Harding shifted the Repus'
ltcan attitude. Republican leaders were
consulted and are with him.
A great moral issue is raised. d
league founded on justice and not ruled
oy politicians-pcrhaps Influenced by
special interests league regulated h&
international law Is needed.
international law is coded and fairy
definite. It has never been backed w
international power, nor interpretea
systematically by an intsrnstienas
court. The Hague tribunal srbitrats1
IL Ia not real court Of law, but here u
the chance for court Of law. Intsrls1
sionai law 10 q growth from long exps
1'ence in international relations. Is 2
safe. 1t Is conservative. IL 10 fair. "
provides a square deal. 1t sheuld ecs'
esn and control international relations
Think Of campaign cry: "a vssa
1or Cox is vote FOR q league Of Pa
ssesans; q vote for Harding Is q sess
1or league for international justice
Who can fail to be inspired by sssss
moral 'des-3ustics between natiensy
Brooklyn, Sept. g. 1890. M,F.@
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Getting the Nation Into scrapea

Senator Lodge in bis Maine ad-
dress briefly disposes Of the Article
x argument recently emphasized by
Msasrs. Wilson and Cox and echoed
by those they have beguddled. This
argument 10 that the covenant provi-
sion requiring unaninity in the
league council would protect us
from acting under the obligation as
stunned unless In 3 particular case we
wished TO-
Theoretically, Senator Lodge con-
esdess this sssnss eonelusives but he
nsasoass two things that smash tho
hsss,xs The fsrse 10 that the rspye.
sssst 4his eeamesy iss tho
80
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Ships and Prosperity
Extracts From an Address Delivered Before the
Engineering Society of PHILADELPHIA BY p II. w.
Ross, President, The National Marine LEAGUE.

Many things have happened in this
last year that has gone by, but the
most important Of all is the change
that has come to US by reason Of our
having passed from the condition Of q
debtor to that of creditor. nation.
The change affects our lives and our
occupations, no matter what these NAV
| be.
All nations are primarily supported
by either one or the other Of two great
activities-they either create and pro-
duce or they distribute.
Until 1914 the United States OF
America was almost exclusively cre-
alive or productive nation; almost
everything that you see, all the the sky-
scrapers, all the great buildings, all
the wealth Of the United States-is
based upon the fact that the land facili-
ties Of the United States have been
used most intelligently by about 1OO,-
100000 people.
idle at Our Gates
Up to the year 1914 all that we did.
practically, was to create and to pro-
duce. Then we sat idly at our ocean
gates and let who would carry away
20 per cent Of our products in their
ships. Less than 10 per cent of Amer
lean products moved over the world
in American ships.
That is one picture. On the other
hand, let US take the kind of civiliza-
ton that is chiefly represented in this
day by the British Empire. There we
have group Of intelligent people VINO
have been supported-not by any cre-
alive powers; they have not land
enough to produce anything; ali of
their wealth and their strength has been
achieved by the intelligent use of the
dlstrlbutive faculties which they have
developed to most astonishing de-
gree. All over the world English ships
carry not only their own goods but
those of other countries to and fro,
and by means Of developing the power
Of distribution they have, as you we'll
know, accumulated great power, great
wealth and great domination all over
the world.
Distributors Are Masters
Here is curious thing. Those ma
lions which are purely productive are
almost always servitor nations. From
the earliest dawn Of recorded history
the master nations have been in
variably the distributive nations. It
was not the products OF Venice that
made Venice powerful in her day, but
the products OF Asia and Africa that
came to Venice and were again distrib-
uted by her and sent elsewhere. II Is
not the product Of Great Britain that
has made Great Britain rich, but tho
products Of the world that she has
brought to her shores and has distrib-
uted all over the world.
You will ask why this particular
change has come to US. Why are we
compelled, whether we wish It or not.
70 engage in the distributive-in the
worldwide distributive business more
than ever before? The reason 10 chat
before the war this country practically
had no credits abroad. No one abroad
b.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
becoming 7 ower

When Mr.. Aaron S. Watkins, Prohib
candidate for President, says that the
public is not interested in the exact
or even the approximate figures Of any
campaign fund. he Is vocal to some
purpose. Only the smallest part Of
the public is interested in anything
but shelter, food and drink; and the
results Of political and sporting con-
tests.
It would be the higher economy to
dine in Pittsburgh, where, according
to The Hartford Post, Restaurants
Cut Prices so to 1000 Per Cent"
The Diary OF Our Own Samuel Pepys
September Sat my desk all day, and
with II. Harrison to dinner, and SO to
the Playhouse to see Mrs. Young's "Lit-
tie Old New York." play with an
outworn plot but giving chance to see
and hear Miss Genevieve Tobin, as fresh
as a young poplar. wish I might 90
to two-act play, forasmuch as beaker
OF soda water after each act hath been
overmuchs for me lately.
9--To the Office, and so with Mistress
Neysa to Sands Point, where they had
a party for j. Hutchison, it being his
birthday, and a great cake with twenty
five red candles on it. Home, and found
my wife there, she coming in from
Mount Kisco, and we had much merry
talk, and read her the tayle of a man
who was 121 years old, from quack
medicine almanack, which amused her
greatly.
Clay later than like, and so to the
Office; and A. FERGUSON and A. Sam
uels to luncheon, which payed for, what
with rhy Ill luck at dice. At my desk
all afternoon, and so to meet J. Cham
berlin. the scrivener, and his wife, and
with them to dinner. Mr.. Harding, he
thinks, will be chosen; as do all speak
with about it.
Whether Mrs. Hylan, as the Mayor
asserts, makes the best lemon meringue
pies in the United States, we cannot
deny. But we may doubt We are will
ing to bet two lemon meringue pies, win
ner take all, that Sarah, Frank Cases
cook, can outpoint Mrs. Hylan in the
lemon meringue pie event. Sarah, as
you might say, heats a mean oven.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
The Real Cause

tFTo'H The CAarlsssea Necs aad tesfssss ], !,
Inc telephone caused the wal, ssSs
an author in The Living Age. ThsM
may be something In this theoEy &
view Of the effect telephones hsye 3
sae esnapees OF even che best-asaaS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

Yes ean pssshass msrsAandiss advsfa!ssd 10 we
TRIBUNE 9th abseiste safse-fsr ~ elssasssgas.
thea Fesaits "a any case TnE TRtBvNE euaraatass
e pay ysar maasy eaaa geen REQUEST. No red tapa.
Me- euhblihS. We maks seed premy1iy 80 &hs
advertiser desc e0e.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
A FAMILY AFFAIR

Long years ago my brother Joe
And I resolve as how
Wen writer's be; and rivalry
Follows our solemn VOW.
He'll make name, is Joseph's claim,
And show his brother up.
And affirm (it makes him squirm),
Gust wait, you little pupil"
The high school age: Joe's stuff o rage
In Hackensack H. S.
The Critic runs his PONIES and puns
And Joe's a god, no less.
All Hackensack applauds his knack
And. says he has A Future.
He grins at me and says in glee.
II hope my efforts suit yer"
"By Jove!" I cry, "1'll show the guy
I too can cop some fame!
I'll make The Tower! Oh, how he'll
souri,"
And soon do the same,
And keep on landing verses grand
And wheezes gay and bright,
Departs his goat the while gloat,
And once we have a fight.
For years I keep on losing sleep
That may make The Tower.
And soon I'm known from here to
Scone-
A real Controlling Power.
At Joe, meanwhile, rudely smile,
And he-he nearly busts.
He keeps on writing day and night
And for revenge he lusts.
And soon, alas! there comes to pass
A grave calamity.
A novel Joey sells, and, oh,
The difference to me-!
He makes rep and soon I'm hep
That have lost the battle.
He says, "You gink, stop wasting ink;
Try law, or punching cattle"
I take to business, sad of phiz;
And there l am to-day
Amazing dimes land sometimes rhymes
Like this for F. P. Az.
EDAR.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
MgaBKR or THE ASSOCIATED pnEss

Tho Associated Press ts exclusively entitled 90 che
aso for repablieetion Of al dispatches credited
TO o. pot otherwise credited 10 this paper, and
Aeeefn.
All sfshts % republication OF ell othea naatsss
asrsfn also are reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

owed US any loaned money. We did
not have any foreign investments at
all, to speak Of. On the contrary, we
borrowed all we could from England,
France or Germany, or from any
source whatsoever.
What has come about since the war
In the brief space Of a few years we,
instead of being debtor, have become
creditor nation. We do not owe the
world anything in particular, but the
world owes us eight to ten billions of
dollars, and in the years to come will
probably have to owe US four or five
billion dollars more.
S'oanaped With Goods
Now comes the point. How is the
world going to pay its debts to Amer
lce? 1t cannot pay in money, but only
IN goods or services of one descr;n-
ton or another. Admitting such 20 be-
the case, what shall we do with these
goods when they get to America? II
we are to accept in unlimited amounts
goods manufactured in Germany. or in
france, or in Italy, or England. or
eise' from any country owing
US money and bringing their goods
mere lndiscriminately-if we attemp.
TO absorb such offerings without ia.
elimination, what would follow? Wa
should be swamped with goods mado
much more cheap,y than we in Amer
lea can possibly Turn them NM in
American mills at American rates ~
ray. 1910 VI
The position we are in to-dsv w..
semoies, in some respects, that 80
oiea' britain after the Napoleonic
wars. In 1920, that being Just a hum
ored years ago, the outer world o,roa
britain large sums of money Tha
outer world could not pay Britain in
money, but in goods. Britain cou,d Oh
sorb those goods! She had mn cotton
nelds' no wheat fields in tha wav ,ro
M nave But what should we, here In tho
united States, do with such pooda9 w.
produce think, about 80 per cent OF
.ne cotton and nearly 80 per cent Of
the foodssuffs of the world There
iore' we In America could not ass;n;.
tate within our own borders the kind
OF payments that we shall have to re-
eeiVe IN the same manner that GREAT
Britain could. Therefore, what Ia IL
that we must do?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

Speaking Of Pittsburgh for tho eolf
championship, how about Tennis. s.
Oak. instead Of Forest Hills?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
The business OF Re.espoys

Whether we want to or not we mus+
engage In new kind Of businssa-tha
eransshipment, or reexport, business
mere IN the United States Of America
heretofore in America all we hsva
thought Of was to export something
'"@t was grown or made in America
or to import something that was IN ha
consumed or made uss Of in America
IL mas never occurred to us, as @ great
nation to take something from Java,
'i0r instance, and sell IL in Peru; or to
take something from Germany and sell
II III ohi'e' and so on. Yet, neverthe-
sess' It is exactly that transshipment
business, as I said before. that has
been the means Of making Great Brit.
am as great and wealthy and powerful
ss she 'ss.' And that Ia the naw hns;.
ness that we must aevelon Asra IN
America. K
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

or Tor that matter, Love, Ark. O,
Service. Miss.a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

Some day The Evening Post NAV and
preventive to keep its copy desk
from passing representatives,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

ANo hanging anu klSSlng, says
The Weekly Review, "the honors of a
golf tournament go by favor" And,
as in those other sports, the winners
| achieve the heights by pure nerve.
ut may be true that the Democratic
papers have Dementia ProCox," con-
cedes H. A. j., "but many Republic
can sheet Is suffering from Harding
of the arteries"
Miss Lulu Bett''
Sir: I am one of the guilty editors who
rejected iona Gales rema rkably fne novel.
Miss Lulu Bett." when was on McClure's
! Why? The reason is simple: We had two
or three long serials on hand, and the date
OF book publication precluded the holding OF
the MS for several montha was 80 en-
thusiatic about the story, however. that 1
remember telephoning q fellow editor, tell
ing him that while we could not run the
serial here was an excellent chance for him
to get something unusual But he, too, waa
IN NIX such as mine. So don't be too harsh
on the poor editors They have problems
OF their own. I have bought innumerahle
copies Of Miss Gales book and given them
away. After Ethan Frome'' consider II
She most significant short novel that has
come out Of America.
CHARLES HANSON TcwNn
AS to the name for the League OF
Nations building, C. J. H. suggests it
be called neither Wood Row nor Henry
Cabot Lodge.
Suggested political song for women:
Sally in Our Rally.
Some day The Evening Post may find
q preventive to keep It's copy desk
from passing preventative"
speaking OF Pittsburgh for the golf
championship, how about Tennis. s.
OAK, instead Of Forest Hilla?
or Tor that matter. Love, Ark? Or
GopgSNa Mir,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

Suggested political song for women :
Sally in Our Rally.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
AAN1V

@eseFe6 90 sAo PessoAhee Of Esw York 40 Second
Casa Mail MattS7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

Like hanging and kissing" says
The Weekly Review, "the honors of
golf tournament go by favor" And,
as in those other sports, the winners
achieve the heights by pure nerve.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

It would be the higher economy to
dine in Pittsburgh, where, according
to The Hartford Post, RESTAURANTS
Cut Prices so to 1000 Per Cent"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Miss Lulu Bett"

AS to the name for the League OF
Na1ions building, c. j. H. suggests it
De called neither Wood Row nor Henry
Cabot Lodge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

Long years ago my brother Joe
And I resolve as how
Wen writer's be; and rivalry
Follows our solemn vow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

81 49, 81 s''s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-31
Resides on Same
Farm Since 1856
Special to rimea.Republican

Special TO Times Republican
Eidora. Jan. Si,--To have lived on
the same farm since tho year OF 1856
and to have attended tho first school
ever established in tho township In the
record OF Willard r. Johnson. OF Har-
din township, this county. The Johnson
family came 10 Hardin county
in that early day and built for the
flrst homo log cabin. which building
Ia still standing In fair state OF pro-
servation. Mr. Johnson's brothers and
sisters. his children and grandchildren
have all attended the samc school that
he did In that early day. Another dis
tlnction which Mr., Johnson Is entitled
10 Is that Of having been elected asses
sor OF his homo township eleven sues
ceasivr times and stlll holds that post
tin. Notwithstanding Mr.. Johnson's 70
odd years no IL strong physically and
mentally, almost daily walking three
and one-haif miles 60 town 10 do
trading, During tho latc world war Mr..
Johnson's daughter Miss Caroline.
served az n Red Cross nurse for
twenty-five months being I'm active
service most OF the time IN Brest,
France.