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New-York tribune., 1920-03-19

as saying cheaper milk would not
mean more milk bought; that the
milk demand is practically constant
and incapable of being enlarged.
In the long life Of the milk contro-
versy many foolish things have been
said, but the foregoing seems en-
titled to the prize for folly. True,
the milk demand has kept up in spite
of doubling in price, but extraordi-
nary general prosperity has existed
and other foods have gone up as
much as milk. Let milk become rela-
lively cheaper than other foods, and
the demand could be doubled in a
short time. The milk producers and
the milk distributors don't want to
sell for less-are applying the prin-
ciple of taxing a traffic all it will
bear. 1t might as we'll be admitted
The new sinister phase of the milk
situation is in the fact that the
dairymen and the city milkmen, after
fighting each other for years, and
thus to some degree protecting the
public, aye now in firm alliance. The
outlook for the consumer is discour-
aging. The milk companies were
few and had no friends. 1t was
altogether safe for Hearst or
Hylan to attack and scare them.
But the Dairymen's League-here's s
something every upstate politician
fears.
The outlook is dark not only be-
cause of the Dairymen's League but
because the pretended champions of
the consumers interest show little
intelligence. We have, for example,
the District Attorney yesterday
morning playing up the rate Of divi-
dends earned on the stock Of one
company. AS if this much mattered
What counts is the amount com
pany gets for it's service. Official
figures show it is about 3s of cent
a quart. Knock the companies out,
and unless there are savings else
where milk will not come down much
perhaps would advance in price,
because Of poorer management.
About the only hope of securing
cheaper milk is, seemingly, in recog-
nizing some sort of marketing
monopoly which will diminish over
head charges and duplicated ex-
penses. Municipal ownership and
operation will not do it, but regu-
lated monopoly may.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
England's Way With Prohteerils

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why all this fuss over the ran
profiteering situation? The remsN
appears simple. Taking as a preeedeM
the fixed prices on sugar and otbea
necessaries Of life, why not rule rs
any landlord-owner or lessee-vpe
obtained 80 per cent or more adva
IN rent October, 1919, should not, ocse'
Der, 1920, be permitted to charge mes
than an additional 20 per cent and tme
only if the Board of Health passed ~
premises as satisfactory in regard z
plumbing, heating and elevator safeg
and capacity? Then place money -
mortgage at fair figures, as has ben
done in England and Canada. a
Just returning from England, founs
there that any one charged a profitees.
ing price could complain to cens4s
body and inside twenty-four hours 81
tain a conviction and fine where IN
case was proved. In one 15-cept prs'
chase the fine imposed was $25.
G. A. AKRON 4
New York, March Is, 1920. &
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
The Quart of Milk

The milk problem, something we
always have with us in varying de-
grees Of intensity, is again projected
on public attention in an acute form
by the threat of one of the principal
distributing companies to a dairy
man if he ventured to increase his
herd not to buy from him at all.
Under the business arrangements
between the distributing companies
and the milk producers, combined in
the Dairymen's League, the COM
panies are expected to take the
whole supply of dairyman. The
companies sell all they can as milk
and convert the remainder into but
ter, cheese and milk products. Fore
seeing a fall in prices through de-
crease in the foreign demand, the
companies would keep down the sur
plus, in the mean time keeping up
prices to the meek buyers Of the
city. This policy of curtailing the
milk supply and Of soaking" the city
consumer has the approval of the
| Dairymen's League. In this mat
ter producers and distributors are in
firm alliance - are doing hearty
team work.
The present daily surplus in the
New York area is 100000
quarts day-that is, milk to this
amount is produced in excess of the
quantity shipped on the milk trains.
To the suggestion that part of the
surplus be brought in and sold at a
lowered price, which in turn would
increase the consumption, the officers
OF one of the companies are quoted
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
Our Talking Mayor

In sonorous majesty of phrase,
IN every literary quality, our Mayors
mouthfuls ares unquestionably su-
perior to any uttered by his con-
temporaries. Bring forward a topic
calling for imaginative verbiage
(like cart artists") or a pastoral
scene (like that of the toad and the
jellyfish) demanding a stark and
simple realism, and his honor is
unquestionably "there."
But in certain prosaic concerns of
the city's affairs one must confess
to seeing merit in other utterers.
Such one, for instance, as Mr..
Henry H. Curran, who yesterday
spoke plain, crude words - un-
touched by the faintest suggestion
of literary capacity-concerning the
traffic situation on Staten Island of
this city. We hesitate to perpetuate
such words beside his honor's lilt-
ing sentences. But for certain
rough truth Mr.. Curran's homely
words deserve repetition. Said he:
"While the Mayor talks the public
walks"
Every one will regret to concede
that there can be anything in such
coarse stuff. But every one will
agree that there is not only some
thing but much-many mouthfuls
in fact-in this one brief statement
His honor is rare talk talker;
but nothing that he says means any.
thing to the lives or calves of Slater
Islanders. They are still Hylanbound
trudging their way to work, while
their Mayor expounds the Theoretical
beauties of busses which are wholly
futuristic in their outline so far a:
present service goes. Who can blame
the patient Staten Islanders for fix
ing their eyes longingly on that day
in November a year or so henc,
when they, the voters, may do thu
talking and his honor will do the
walking?
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
Lowering the Crescent

An Allied occupation of Constanti-
nople has been forced, not by the
recalcitrancy Of the Sultan but by
the bellicose activities of Mustapha
Kemal, the Nationalist leader in
Anatolia. The Sultans control has
been limited to a narrow area near
both sides of the straits. Mustapha
has set up a practically independent
government covering most Of Asia
Minor. He has been encouraged to
resist the claims of the Greeks to
the province of Smyrna, Of the
Italians to Adalia and of the French
to Cilicia. He has no idea of turn
ing over Western Armenia to the
Armenians.
The delay of more than a year in
imposing terms on the Turks has
given time to arouse various aspira-
tions. The Syrians now demand the
{, recognition of an independent Syrian
! state under an Arab prince. They
want to include Palestine and Meso-
potamia in the new kingdom and to
dispense with any mandatory super
vision. The Near East has awak-
enod to a new sense of race and
nationalistic self-sufficiency. 1t has
ceased to look to Constantinople for
direction. Although Great Britain
{ and France seem to set great store
on preserving the Sultan's status
as the head of Islam and on main
tanning his residence on the Bos-
porus, the peoples he once ruled
seem to have cast him out of their
thoughts and their schemes of re-
construction.
Mustapha is rebel. The Anato-
Mans ignore the Sultanate. The
Kurds and the Arabs have seeded
from it, Constantinople is occupied
by Allied troops. The Allied COM
missioners Asay that the occupation
is provisional and that there is no
intention of destroying the Sultan's
authority or of casting him out of
his old capital. But they add the
warning that this decision may be
modified if trouble occurs or opera
tions like those of Mustapha against
the French and Armenians continue.
Apparently, the Sultan cannot be
> real ruler unless he leaves Con-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19

by the figures relating to the Penn
sylvania and West Virginia mines.
In Pennsylvania's anthracite mines
43 per cent Of the workmen are Eng
disappearing. This 43 per cent suf-
fered only 28.8 per cent of the fatali-
ties. The other 81 per cent of the
workmen suffered II per cent Of the
fatalities. The ratio in the bitumi-
nous mines Of Pennsylvania is I'll
to 1923 and in West Virginia 100 to
1,424. The increased number of fatal
accidents where the known number
of. non -Englishrspeaking men is
available can be estimated with al
most mathematical accuracy.
The report from the Bureau Of
Mines contains. this striking state
ment:
"Had the fatality and injury rate
for the English-speaking Americans
been maintained throughout the
three groups there would have been
saving Of ZIG fatalities and 900
very serious injuries, strong argu-
ment for Americanization and educa-
tion Of the miner"
1t was the draft law that called
attention to the astounding igno-
rance that permeates the entire ma
ton. There are eight million persons
past the age of ten in the United
States who cannot read any Ian
guage or who cannot read or speak
the English language. This means
there is mass Of our body polite
equal to the entire population of the
combined states of Nevada, Wyo-
ming, Delaware, Arizona, Idaho,
Mississippi, Vermont, Rhode Island,
North and South Dakota, Oregon,
Maine, Florida, Connecticut and
Washington that cannot read our
language. Many of these can neither
read nor speak it, though large
percentage Of them no doubt read
their own language.
Judging by the figures from the
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
coal-mining districts, the number Of
fatal accidents among these eight
million persons directly traceable to
their ignorance must be staggering.
1t would seem that Americanization
may we'll be urged upon foreigners
as safety first" measure.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
The Housing Bills

The nine housing bills reported by
the Lockwood committee will hardly
excite opposition on the ground that
they are overdrastic. They make
no provision for "a rent commission
with sweeping and arbitrary powers.
They seek chiefly to protect tenants
against oppression by enlarging the
existing powers of the lower courts
to deal with individual cases of dis
possession.
1t is perhaps wiser to try out
these powers than to plunge into a
general scheme Of rent regulation.
Price fixing so far has not been sue
cessful. The courts are agencies of
equity, and if given freer hand
their judgments will have weight
with everybody except, perhaps, the
most hardened profiteers.
Bills No. / and No. 2 go a certain
distance toward a definite limitation
of rent increases. They give the
courts in first and second class cities
discretionary powers to stay sum-
mary dispossess proceedings against
tenants when the latter tender the
old rate with such an additional
amount as the court may deem fair
and reasonable. They also empower
judges to dismiss dispossess proceed
ings unless proof is produced that
the rent has not been increased over
the preceding month and has not
been increased by more than 20 per
cent during the twelve months pre-
ceding.
In general, the burden Of proving
that rent increase is fair and rea-
sonable is put on the landlord. SINH
larly, the landlord is required to
establish the fact that tenants are
Objectionable" if he seeks to get rid
Of them on that ground. Under the
terms Of many existing leases in this
city the owner needs only to show
that he is acting in good faith in
making the allegation of "objection-
ableness." The Ottinger law, gov
erning verbal leases, is to be re-
pealed, and tenants with verbal
leases may prolong their tenancy to
October of any year unless another
date has been specified.
These remedies establish many
projections against custer for prof
iteering purposes. They stabilize
tenancies and will discourage specu-
lative resales and sub-leases, which
have been one Of the prime causes Of
rent-kiting. They will ameliorate
conditions for the tenant while the
housing shortage lasts. But none
of them. except Bill No. a, will help
to stimulate new building.
This last measure exempts from
state income taxation the interest on
capital up to $4,000 invested in
mortgages. Such an exemption is
desirable while the renting crisis
lasts. Building is the only thing
which will break the housing famine
Any reasonable concessions which
stimulate construction are worth
while. The problem can be solved
only by the erection Of more habita.
tions. Remedies other than this are
merely palliatives to soften the
asperities Of an emergency.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
Books

II lost the nomination solely through
the vile and malicious ISLANDERS of
Colonel William Jennings Bryan, of
Nebraska" writes Champ Clark in "My
Quarter Century of American Politics"
(Harper's.) Later he adds: at was on
the fourteenth ballot that William Jen-
nings Bryan violated his instructions
and by base and false insinuations-to
use no uglier word-robbed me of the
nomination to which was entitled by
all the rules Of decepcy, justice, hon
esty, common sense and fair dealing,
as l had. clear majority on eight
ballots"
1t is rather a pity that Barbellion
was first in the field, for the one ap-
propriate and complete title for Champ
Clark's book would be "The Journal
of Disappointed Man,
Of course, no book Of political
"reminiscences is complete without q
gress," but Champ Clark is no more
successful than any of his predecessors
in vivifying this wit. When the anec-
dote gets into print it is hard to un-
derstand just why "the House rocked
with laughter" For instance, there
is that little joke of Vice-President Ho-
bart's. Speaking to an audience large
ly made up Of newspapermen he said ::
"Since 1 have been in office have
given the newspaper men everything
they asked Of me-except my conf
dence!"
Mr.. Clark states that the mot was
"enjoyed immensely by all his hearers,
especially by the newspaper men them
selves" But in those days after-dinner
speeches always sounded better than
they do now. Then there is the yarn
about the quick wit of Senator VOL
colt, of Colorado, who undertook to
preach Republicanism to Southern
audience: "Wolcott began his speech
at once with one of his best stories,
The audience was separated, the col
ored folk all being in the gallery and
only white people below. In about
five minutes Wolcott's discretion was
overcome by his Republicapism, and
he made a pointed thrust at the op-
| uyb
young men in the corner of the theater
shouted, in concert, 'Rats!' Wolcott
paused for moment, and then, waving
his hand at the gallery, said: Waiter
come down and take the Chinamen's
orders!' The effect was electrical and
effectual."
Thomas Reed was noted wit, but
Clark states that on one occasion
Colonel Jamss Hamilton Lewis scored
off him heavily.
"One morning Colonel Lewis went
into the Speakers room to secure
recognition from the chair to call ur
by unanimous consent some bill of in.
terest to his constituents. After q
well, guess l will have to grant
your request, Lewis. l am not SO ugly
as l look"
Lewis bowed nearly to the floor
went through all sorts of genuflections
and gyrations, and with a graceful
sweep of his arms said, in deprecator,
tones:
Impossible, Mr.. Speaker; utterl,
impossible!' which amused Reed yer,
much, though clearly the joke wa, on
him."
Now, in all the foregoing there seem.
to US to be cause for not even 3
chuckle. Accordingly, we suggest te
the Democrats and Republicans tha,
the next two candidates for the United
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
Extravaganza Without Profit
{From The Philnde,nh..

Froms The Philadelphia InQuirer,
mat as many as 100000 employees
may De dismissed when the RAILWAYS
pass back from government to private
controi' with an increase rather than
decrease in efficiency in consequence
Is suggestion which throws further
hight upon the extravagant fashion in
"nacn the railways have been run.
NOR has the public, which foots the
oill, even the satisfaction of feeling
that it got what it paid for. !.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
Safety Frst'' Americanizatioz

An interesting corroborative argu-
ment for Americanization is con-
tanned in statistics compiled by the
Bureau of Mines of the Department
of the Interior. They show that the
rate of accidents among non-E Eng
disappearing miners is much great
er than among those who speak and
read English. Foreigners are much
more prone to accidents because of
their inability to read warming
signs, to grasp written instructions
and to understand the spoken orders
of foremen.
The toll of this ignorance is she cwn
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19

Mr.. Hoover has stated his views on
the treaty situation, and his position
on universal military service is clear.
But before we vote we-and other oc-
casional readers Of this Obelisk Of
Opinion--want to know what he thinks
Of Siegfried Sassoon, Amy Lowell, the
change in the football rules, the
Movies as a Menace or Help to the
Stage, and nutmeg in apple pie.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
The Coming 7'ower
Horticulture

A primrose by rivers brim
Is something for bard to hymn;
An orchid on a slender stalk
Is matter for metric talk;
A pansy smiling in it's bed,
A rose that bushes nobly red
These, and the various other tribes
The Official Catalogue describes
Less lovely are to me than-O!
NY Phyllis at the Flower Show.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19

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for republication Of all dispatches credited
10 1t or not otherwise credited In this paper and
also the local news Of spontaneous origin published
herein.
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19

However the election goes next No
vember, our bet is that it won't be
necessary to hang over the ticker for
two days to find out tho result.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19

There is likely to be drive to raise
funds to increase the pay Of the facul-
ty of the Electoral College.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
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New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
By
Heywoed Broun
States Senate ought to be Don Marquis
and Franklin Pierce Adams.

However, in ju; lice to the House and
the Senate, it should be said that the
various mots, epigrams and wise cracks
which Clark selects are in most cases
at least as amusing as the witty
pranks of the Gridiron Club, as
chronicled in the newspaper accounts
the next day.
In "Treacherous Ground" (Moffat.
Yard) Johan Bojer has used once more
the theme which he employed in "The
Face of the World" As in his former
novel, he tells the story of an idealist
who brings only ruin and misery by
his attempt to better the lot of man
kind. The theme is not strikingly
original at best. In "The Face of the
World" it was Wild Duck served cold.
and now it is cold Wild Duck warmed
over. Mr.. Bojer thinks he has hit
upon startling discovery when he
presents the fact that his idealist is
not so much impelled to good deeds
for the sake of his benefciaries as by
the inner glow which they bring to
himself. This is stated again and
again with endless detail and reitera-
ton, although it is hardly likely that
many persons could be found who
would dispute this Interpretation OF
human conduct. Nor is it any way
belittling to the idealist. The whole
strength of idealism lies in the power
full appeal which it makes to the en-
llghtened selfishness of mankind. The
nope OF the race is bound up in the
fact that 1T is more fun to promote
the welfare Of mankind than its de-
struction.
However, We have no desire to he
come invoked in q discussion abont
social ethics. Some little time AGO
we were asked what method we ,vara
going to use to instill moral ideas into
the head of H. Sd. We said then that
we rather hoped that he would be able
70 get along, for while at any rate.
without any. We felt that it was the
last thing in the world concernino
which we wanted to be dogmatic. Un-
fortunately, the moral sense seems to
arise early. Already H. Sd is con-
stantly inquiring "Good boy, dada p"
uusually this comes after he has
Clipped the furniture or broken some
of the china.
of course, we ought not to answer
MIN. We have no idea whether he
is good boy or not. The marks Of
his destruction are plain enough. but
without knowing his motives we can't
pass on his conduct. We were slightly
annoyed when he broke the lamp. bnt
perhaps it was no more than pardon
able curiosity on his part. Perhaps it
wass wanton. How can we tell? And
yet, 1t - impossible to preserve neutral
!ty. After the fifteenth or sixteenth
lc;teration of the query we always saw
Yes, you are good boy" and then he
goes away satisfied. But we are not
He is beginning to make us feel like
the Supreme Court or Moses. It,s +oo
much responsibility.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
The Surgeon "a soliloquyl


No surgeon in the world
Knew how to treat case like this
Successfully. Then came the war;
And, spurred to high cndeavor,
An old French surgeon turned the
trick,
And made himself immortal.
And yet some wonder why choose
A Doctors life! Poor souls,
They little know the satisfaction
Yes, the thrill
OF graphing with grim Death himself,
And winning out. Good doctor
John"
Looked in as I was getting through,
And viewed my handiwork, and said:
"Well done, old man." and slapped me
on the back.
Praise from Sir Hubert-and it did me
good.
hope that no one calls me out
Tonight. want novel and nv
pipe
And then some sleep. ]. T. S.
Strange are the metamorphoses OF
language. "Redding up," in New Eng
land especially, meant tidying, making
neat; now 1t means preparing for a
Soviet government.
Examination In Journalism
Q.-What season is now close a,
hand?
A.-The season Of swat.
Q. What does the ice price do now
A.-Soar.
Q.-Who gives himself up tomorrow
A.-N1cky Ar.stein.
Q.-And the next day?
A.-Nicky Arnstein.
Q.-When the bride and the bride
groom leave the church, when the
burglars make their getaway with the
loot, when the prince or the President
alights from private car, what kline
OF automobile or taxicab is invariably
used?
A Voting. AL.
San Francisco, March 17.-Mr. anc
Mrs. N. j. Kenna, tramps de luxe, whe
left New York Oct. / on wager tt
walk to San Francisco by March 15
arrived here to-day, won the wager
and registered at the best hotel
Stamford, Conn.,, Advocate.
Perhaps, as Wiggie offers, they
walked backwards the last two days.
The Greater "Declasse" Club
Sir: Without the consent and an
proval Of Zoe Akins, we nominate fo
admission to the Greater "Declasse'
Club Of America the following:
The purchasing power of the dollar.
A prominent Anti-Saloon League Su
perintendent.
The detectives who are hunting Nick,
Arnstein.
The Bryan Presidential boom.
Article X and Constitutional Amend
ment No. 1B.
The STRENGTHENING department Of
leading Eastern Metropolis.
The police department, ditto.
Other candidates will be reported from
time to time.
EDWARDS MURRAY.
How much money, if any, M,
Nicky Arnstein masterminded ava,
with him we have no means of know
ing; but our guess is that it is cost
ing him a large percentage of it t.
xemain undiscovered.
In the words of the vulgar, it was
large day-a very large day.-Georgi
W. Leffingwell, in the Evening Sun.
We hesitate even to reprint such vul
garities.
Or, suggests Palay, you might cal
Theda Bara's play Tempting on tn
Old Vamp Ground"
Kapp has hearksned to the cries o
Take him out!" and the battery j
now Ebert and Noske.
Even an atheist, if his blooms win
prize at the Flower Show, must fee
that he had little assistance.
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-19

Well, we read Shelley's Julian and
Maddalo," the manuscript of which
brought $16,250 tho other day, and
found that it is almost impossible to
read, these jazzy days, six or seven
pages of rhymed pentameter couplets.
Almost as hard as reading the hodier-
nal free verse will be hundred years
from now.