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New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
'Pay-When-Ie-Suits-Y You''

Mayor Hylan has started an
agitation for the partial repeal of
the pay-as-you-go law. He Cites the
request for s46,000,000 for new
school buildings as an argument for
the modification. He would borrow
the money on long-term bondsinstead
Of carrying it as budget item.
He is naturally for anything that
will shunt burdens to his successors.
The exemption Of appropriations
for schoolhouses from the operation
Of the pay-as-you-go act would, Of
course, be an opening wedge. Pres
emily the city government would be
running to Albany for relief when
ever 1t wanted to make big expen-
diture for non-productive purposes
and feared the political effect Of an
immediate enlargement Of the
budget. Mr.. Hylan favors going
back to the old pay-when-it-suits-you
method of issuing long-term bonds,
spending the proceeds and letting
some one else wrestle With the prob
lem Of refunding or liquidating the
principal.
The pay-as-you-go law repre-
sented courageous effort to reform
the city's finances. The old system
was shiftless-and unduly expensive.
It also impaired the city's credit. The
Mitchell administration restored con-
fidence and stabilized borrowing
transactions by discarding longtime
bookkeeping. It also entered into
agreements having the nature Of a
contract with the city's creditors
that 1t would not indulge in further
non-productive expenditure which
couldn't be met by taxation.
That was a sound exercise Of SELF
restraint. The budget makers are
now trying to wriggle away from
wisely fixed limitations. New schools
may be needed much more
than Mayor Hylan's new court
house is needed. But it would be
disastrous in the long run to start
In to boost the city debt. It is
more necessary now than ever for
the city to conserve its borrowing
power and live within its means.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

as the Otner cn8llengea Ino present
industrial order-promises an end of
private ownership and management
as the most just and effective meth
cd of securing that intensification Of
production which is essential if
standards Of living are to be raised
and that distribution which gives
to workers, through wages, an equi-
table share of a production progress
sively enhanced.
The much discussed capitalist sys-
tenn, Of course, cannot hope to sur
vive unless on the whole it is best
for the masses. Having successfully
endured the comparison of Russia,
its supporters will not have much
doubt Of a similar'success when COM
parison is made with the Italian
plan Of Bolshevism by inches.
In the large (there are, of course,
many individual exceptions) the
capitalist owner of the Industrial
century has more than paid for what
he got: that is to say, performing
the role of risk-carrier, improver Of
methods and eoordinator, leader and
technician, as we'll as toll taker,
the masses are better off than they
would be if cooperative ownership
and management were normal and
normal workers absorbed the totality
of the industrial product.
No intelligent advocate Of the cap
italist system has ever denied that
If the greatest good Of the greatest
number can be more effectively Sc
cured by another method capitalism
must and ought to go. If capital is
not profitable servant, worth more
than its keep, then it has no justi-
fication. 1t is confessedly based on
an unpleasing selfshness, and the
only adequate. defense of it is that
it so harnesses selfshness as to
make it labor for the general good.
If serious effort is made in Italy
to place management Of great plants
in the hands Of committees chosen
by the present wage workers the ex-
pertinent, it is needless to say, will
be watched with great interest. Will
Italy produce as much a man as
formerly? This is the test. If she
does not, this, of course, means
fewer comforts and luxuries for
workers and likewise no creation of
a fund to make the improvements
which a progressive society i'm
neratively demands.
1t does not require much prophetic
power to be able to predict that to
the degree Bolshevism controls Ital-
ian industry to that degree Italian
wage workers will have slcnderer
rations and incomes of less ex-
changeable power.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
That Slush Fund
Democratic Headlines and the Facts
in Evidence

in Evidence
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On the first page, irst column.
OF The Brooklyn Eagle of Sunday. Sep.
tember ~, 1920, and also continued on
the fourth page, last column, are the
following headlines: "Cox CHARGES
Are Justified; G. 0. P. Slush Fund
Proved" The substance of the article
indicates that these headlines are in.
tended to mislead and deceive the ma
Jority who read only the headlines
and will not take the trouble to read
further on the subject.
The article in The Eagle referred
to reads as follows q quote verbatim) =:
The investigation has disclosed, not
to the satisfaction Of the Democrats
that the $1,000 limit has been adhered
to. 1t has not shown the hand of Wall
Street in furnishing any large amount
OF funds. Of the first million and q
quarter raised only about one-third
came from the East. There has been
A'o S'AOS"ASo W SIIcW LudC any mOnoV
was to be used for buying an under
hold on the Presidency or for estab-
fishing the use of bayonets in settling
labor disputes There has been moth
ing indicating corrupt use of money or
any kind of 'criminality."
These statements in Sundays Eagle
are under the caption: "Cox Charges
Are Justified; G. o. P. Slush Fund
Proved" The article repudiates and
gives the lie to the headlines.
These tactics can only be character
lied as an adroit attempt to help the
Democratic party by misleading the
great mass Of ignorant voters who
read nothing but the headlines in the
daily press. yet assume to know all
the facts.
Has The Eagle any explanation to
offer to these discrepancies Is any
explanation possible Of such outra-
geous distortion of truth?
IDA E. GEDNEY.
Brooklyn, Sept. 12, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
On Running Away

There may be few stald parti-
sans of things as they are who have
never longed to run away. But
these gluttons for virtue are sure
ly peculiar and far between. The gen.
eral run of boy-kind and Cirl-kind-
and mankind and won.an-kind-
have had their moments when moth
ing seemed worth a hoot except
going away from here and starting
life afresh in a world where it is at
least occasionally sunny and every
body is always appreciated at his
or her true worth-or at any rate
appreciation is not in the hands of
stubborn, ill-natured dubs, etc.
To all such brothers and sisters
of Huck Finn the tale of Miss
Louisa Fletcher, of Gloucester,
comes with lyrical Tilt and
twang Of the heart. Some
of the paraphernalia is new;
but the essentials of the plot are
as old as the fairy tales. There is
always wicked governess, or a
witch, or somebody peevish and
horribly cruel, who ripens the heart
OF the runaway to the exploding
point. Later, in retrospect, it is
possible to see that this individual
guilt was exaggerated; it was not
really the witch that soured the
universe, but the universe that went
bad of it's own innate meanness and
hit upon the witch as its personifi-
cation. Husbands, and even wives,
take on this witch-like aspect in
times Of stress and strain, we have
heard it rumored. But at the time
such fine distinctions lie in the gut
ter. All that matters is that impos-
sible meanness and nagging and re-
stralnt loom up in a dark figure be-
hind, and ahead lies the broad, open
road to freedom!
Or at least it seems freedom at
the time. Miss Fletcher's un-
troubled parent in Indianapolis re-
marked sagely when the first It'd
lngs reached him that "it seemed a
case Of spanking." Parents may
differ in their methods and tech
nique. But fate does not. Therein
lies the weakness, we regret to say,
of the whole philosophy of running
away. Briefly, it might be summed
up by the short statement that it
can't be done. The open road is
there. Parents may be eluded. It
is physically possible to run away.
But what does one not take with
one, however complete the getaway!
Not only ones self-which is enough
but all the bonds Of affection and
interest that make life as much worth
while as it can be in whatever spot
we land. Perhaps there ought to
be such thing as a fresh start in
this. blunderingly run world, but
there isn't. All history, from Adam
to Huck Finn and Miss Louisa
Fletcher, is in agreement upon this
depressing truth.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Art and the Machine
To ahe Ed;to~ 80 III. MT.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: May I add a few words to the
letters appearing in The Tribune dis
eussing "Art and the Machine?
Don't you think the gist of the mat
ter is this: That real art cannot be pro-
aueed without imagination, and in order
tnae the picture OF article may be real
arr' 1t Is essential that imagination be
used directly In the production; eonsss
quently, neither machine made article
nor photograph can be real art.
while IL is true photographs often
ano machine made articles occasionally
are artistic, neither can ever be rs-
&afaed as real art. w. L. 7.
New York, Sept. 10. 1890. 4,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Isles Of Safety
To the Editor Of The Tribune

40 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; am a tourist from Japan, ar
rived here few days ago. Ny first inn
preston In this great New York Civ
's that dangerous street has no safe.
guards. I learn from your paper sss
persons killed by sutos here last seven
months. Isn't it awful and shameful
OF your civilized country! But such
murders 's not sim Of drivers or chaus-
,euls' out mistake Of the city. The
pest way to stop committing murders
IN the street is to make safety lands
on the center Of such road as to he
across by people. Only q trifle az
ponse will do ito save precious
human life, and the humanity in Amer.
lea shall be safe. G. MrvAKr
New Rork, Sept. ii, 1890.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
TheConni,1g I otper
OUTMODED

OUTMODED
I saw upon Fifth Avenue
A dapper wondrously arrayed,
But all forlorn and weeping, too,
And thus accosted I this maid:
{" 'Tis not my custom, 9airest zliss,
To speak to maids unknown TO me;
But tell me why you weep like this
Upon the street so bitterly.
OTIS most unseemly for TO cry;
You'll ruin your rouge-you've ruined
it now.
I pray you, maiden, dry your eye
What is the matter, anyhow"
ooh, tell me, sir, how to get back
Unto the place where belong;
Fer have lost my way, alsck!"
(This was the burden Of her song.
(Her broken English is thing
In rhyme I cannot reproduce,
So literally I'm translating-
A foreign acceRt is the deucel)
"My homo is in a magazine,
La Vie Parisiemme by name,
And all the girls that I. have seen
Make me to blush for very shame.
"Such display Of silken hosel
Pray, let US haste away from here
I'd never dare to wear such clothes!
Oh, take me quickly home, monsieur
La Vie Parisienne I knew;
took her there without delay;
No moro upon the Avenue
Will this outmoded maiden stray.
C. W. W.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

Attention Of Mr.. Julian Street: And
his envelopes may be addressed For
Mr. ri. He'll Brown. Mr.. Browns
wife, presumably, addresses her letters
Local, or Town.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

coercion. Arbitration has not sufficcd
Charles Seignobos, the eminent French
authority, in The New Europe, Novem-
ber Ia, 1918, wrote: "But arbitration,
far from being a rough sketch Of jus.
tice, is the negation Of justice between
nations. It presupposes that all diff.
ferences can be adjusted within the
framework Of lawsuit and that the
parties at variance stand upon the same
level morally. 1t declares in advance
that it is powerless to redress any vio.
lation Of the law, since 1t does not even
admit that the state can be considered
guilty Of a crime, and hence it places
the criminal and the victim upon the
same level. To discuss with the
brigand the amount of the ransom which
he is to exact is not enlaxging the do.
main of justice; it is giving a fresh
sanction to brigandage."
The Harding Plan
The world court proposed by Mr.. Har.
ding is to operate upon basic principles
Of law and justice. International laws
Of justice, universally accepted, re.
spected and cherished by mankind, will
serve as world code to govern the de.
cisions of the judges.
Upon what means can such o court
rely to enforce its decisions? What
evidence does our own history offer that
| sovereign bodies can be depended upon
to settle their differences amicably in
accordance with court which bases its
decisions upon justice but has no CO.
ercive power over the sovereign bodies
to enforce its decisions?
Oliver Ellsworth, one Of the trainers
OF the Constitution and subsequently
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court of
the United States, expressed himself in
the convention Of Connecticut for the
ratification Of the Constitution as fol-
lows:
Hence we see how necessary for the
Union Is a coercive principle. No man
pretends the contrary; we all see and fee
this necessity. The only question is, Shall
1t be q coercion Of law or a coercion OF
arms7 There Is no other possible alter
native. Where will those who oppose q
coercion of law come out? Where will
they end? A necessary consequence OF
their principles Is a war OF the states one
against the other. I am for coercion by
law-that coercion achtch acts only apom
tndttsduals. This Constitution does not
attempt to coerce sovereign bodies. states
In their political capacity. No coercion
Is applicable to such bodies but that of
an armed force. If we should attempt to
execute the laws OF the Union by sending
an armed force against delinquent state
1t would involve the good and bad. the
innocent and guilty in the same calamity
But this legal coercion singles out the
guilty individual, and Furnishes him for
breaking the laws OF the Union. All men
VIII see the reasonableness Of this; they
Will acquiesce. and say, Let tho guilty
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Another Trunk Mystery

from The Boston 0lobe1
LOST-Suitcasc (full) at South station wait
ing room Plymouth seat, or on the Boston
to Provincetown train; inside was M. White
head' +. Syracuse, NJ Y: July q, Sat. p.
m : reward. R. IVESTER, 40 Conwell ave-.
w. Somerville, Mass.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

Qualities the ideal husband should
have are required by N 1863, who ad-
vcrtises in The Plainfeld Courier
News: "Wanted-To buy trunk; must
ec strong and reasonable"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Il World Supreme Court

Ihe Constitution explicitly recog-
nlzed the sovereignty of our states.
1t provided for Supreme Court which
could interpret the national laws and
render decisions against individuals
and enforce them by means Of statutes
which provided for the punishment of
individuals. But it has no power over
the states as sovereign bodies. In 1861
individuals resisted the national gov
ernment; strictly no state as such
did SO.
Yet thirty-one states have been heard
as plaintiffs or defendants before this
court. Eighty-odd decisions involving
states have been made and every de-
cision has been complied with,s al
though the Supreme Court and the
states explicitly recognized that the
court had no power whatever to en-
force its decisions.
The obedience to these decisions re-
suited from the recognition Of its i'm
partial justice, the respect for the fair
ness of its justices. it's codifed pro-
cedure and its adherence to a recog-
nized code of laws. A Supreme Court
of the world, as proposed by Mr.. Har-
ding, operating in accordance with a
recognized code Of international laws
and in adherence to a suitable svstem
of procedure, having, because of it's
character and organization, the respect
OF the peoples of the world, can dis
charge just as effectively as our Su-
preme Court the duty of settling diff
ferences between sovereign bodies
without fmpairing their sovereignty.
The Long Arm of Justice
AS soon as the people of the world
have attained sufficiently high stand
ard of international consciousness and
the court has functioned with IMPARTIAL
justice and success they may be will
ing to permit the court powers ~ eo.
erclon over individuals who attemnt
TO bring about international disturb
ance in violation of recognized inter-
national laws. AS our Supreme Court
has powers Of enforcing punishment
on individuals who violate the supreme
laws Of the land, so a Supreme Court
OF the world may not only render de-
cislons based upon justice, but may
ultimately be endowed with "teeth"
ana enabled to put the fear Of God into
the hearts Of individual violators OF IN
ternational law who attempt to lead
nations to aggression. For they would
know In advance that they could not
escape the grasp Of the long arm of
justice.
Experience is the oracle oY +rrth.
snd where its responses are unequivo-
cal they ought to be conclusive and
sacred" (The Federalist, Article XXX
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

"The Wilson tour" The Tribune's
Marion O., correspondent says, "was
ideally planned to cover the West in
the shortest possible time. That is
the only reason that may prompt Sena-
tor Harding to lay out similar route
Tor him." 1t is not to be thought, we
deduce, that the Senator, by speaking
IN the same towns that were in the
Presidents tour, is conceding one
centimeter to the Democratic party.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

For that League Of Nations building
b. l.. i. suggests Chapeau d'Espagne; !;
and ). Il. P. thinks Borah Hall wouldn,t =
be bad.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

ffooaoly 1t will bo built Of stucko
and be known as The House of Seven
Babels.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Chase vs. Quarry

Is the chase more thrilling than the
quarry?" you ask
Well, I'll just say this. by gorry:
I've been chasing your column for seventeen
years
And there amt no gosh darned quarry.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
The Compleat Slangles
tFrom King Henry Ivl
Some wine, boy.

Dehn1tion-M. L. M.'s-oY a Demo-
crat: One who doesn't care whether
your ancestors landed at plvmorth ~
Ellis Island.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
To Sport Editor, Satevepost:

Sir: In the current number Of Brother
Lorimer's revered bcentenarian hebdomadal
Mr.. V. H. Cornell reveals certain curious
hnc hitherto unpublished facts regarding the
rules OF football. From His Big Moment"
the searcher after strange truths may learn :
~ 'he dropiick Is used for gaining distance
IN midheid and may be "a perfect spiral" :
W that a tackler may dive through the
ara catapult leap'-and escape unpcnaI-
'Sed: 20 that coach is acting in an un-
precedented manner when he refrains from
gong on the field to confeg with his charges
during the mid-half intermisson; and az
that when time expires Immediately follow
ing touchdown no try-at-goal is permitted,
C. NJ G.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
The Uses Of Advertisement

Sir: l note that Miss Neysa McMein now
employs a clipping bureau. Some time aoo
=! published IN your col. the statement that
had found it safe to use the Authors'
Clipping Bureau, Munsey Bldg, Washing.
ton' u: C., as they had not discovered the
col. This proved an error. They had. There
IL now no haven. 1t seems only fair. in
view of my previous statement, that Miss
McMein. and others. should be made ac-
quainted with the facts.
SAMUEL, MERwIN
Perhaps the new administration will
not be so great change. The first
two paragraphs Of Senator Harding's
Minneapolis speech, o. D. F. points
out, contained seven "very"s.
An ideal contributor is she who, for
clipping of her contribution, asked
for week after its publication, sends
us, by trusted messenger, One Quart.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

Reporters omitted the name Of Mr..
herman Roe's paper in their stories
the other day. 1t is, we know, the
Northfield, Mimi, News; and Mr.. Roe's
stationery reads, "Cows, Colleges, Con-
sentment'"-not bad motto, as mot
toes go.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

It is q distinction to have been tho
first person to use the subway tele-
phones. At the instant Of half-volley-
ing to press we don't know who has 1t.
We wonder, also, what other fame the
man who bought the first subway
ticket, back in 1904, has acquired. And
how about the man who bought the
first admission to the World Series in
1911? Evanescent, indeed, as has been
said, is Fame.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Again 4:

The fundamental principle OF the old
confederation is defective; we must totally
eradicate and discard this principle Geo.
ercion Of states) before we can expect an
cHicient government. The gentlemen who
have spoken to- day have taken UP the sub
1ect OF the ancient confederacies, but their
view Of them has been extremely partial
and erroneous. Tho fact is that the same
false and impracticable principle ran
through tho ancient governments. The
first OF these governments we read Of
was the Amphictyonic Confederacy The
council which managed the affairs Of this
league possessed powers OF a similar COM
plexlon to those of our present Congress-
The same feeble mode Of legislation in
the neads and the same powers OF resist
ance In the members prevailed. When a
requisltion was made 1t rarely met a COM
pliance and a civil war was the conse.
quence. Those that were attacked called
IN foreign aid to protect them; and the
ambitious Philip, under the mask of an
ally to one, invaded the liberties of each
and finally subverted the whole.
In The Federalist, written by AIexan-
der Hamilton, James Madison and John
Jay, the principle Of coercion of states
is fully treated. The history of its in
variable failure in the past, it's failure
IN their own experience in the confed-
Grafton Of the United States, and its
necessary and inevitable failure in the
future are expoundcd in decisive fash.
ion.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

Mrs. Chaplin's complaint, among
others, is that Charlie never did any
thing except think. But probably it
was what he thought about her that
she really objected to.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
The WiLon-Cox League
How Its Coercion of Nations Violates
Teachings of American History
BY Theodore Sfanfeld

The Wilson-Cox league proposes
that the body called the council may
coerce member states, by force Of
arms If necessary, Notwithstanding the
fact history cries out that every such
attempt has failed and caused war.
The smen who framed the Constitu-
tion of the United States discussed,
debated and discarded this very prin-
ciple Of coercion Of states. It was en-
bodied in the Virginia plan. In his
record of the debates Of the convention
James Madison quotes himself as hav-
ing said concerning the Virginia plan
on June 10, 1887:
Tho coercion on which the efficacy Of
the plan depends can never be exerted but
on themselves (referring to the states).
Tho larger states will be impregnable.
the smaller only can feel the vengeance Of
1t. He illustrated tho position by the his
tory OF the Amphictyonio Confederates and
the ban Of the German Empire. II was
the cobweb which could entangle tho weak
but would be the sport of the strong.
Again, on July IA, 1887, he stated:
The practicability Of making laws with
coercive sanction, for the states as political
bodies has been exploded on all hands
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Cannot C0evce States

Alexander Hamilton said:
To coerce the states would be one oY
the maddest projects ever devised. No
state would ever suffer itself to be used as
an instrument Of Gaercinz another.
There could be Ko euro for this great
evil but to enable the national laws to
operate on individuals, like the laws of the
states.