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New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
The Public Paws

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, by granting rate increase on
the present volume of traffic, passes
on to be paid by the public the wage
increases granted during the Nc
Adoo regime and since, a tax of
$500, 100000 year.
The railroads still labor from
other increased costs of operation,
but are allowed per cent on valu-
alton of s1S,9OO,OOO,O0O. 1t would
cost much more than this to replace
the railroads, and railroad property
is Disseminated against by being de-
MED any dollar benefit from the
fifty-cent dollar; but further confs-
cation is halted, and over this the
great and anxious army of owners
of railway securities may greatly
rejoice.
1t is now possible to do something
to build up the railroads and to stop
the recurrent congestions which in
timately affect the prosperity of
every man, woman and child. Other
money now brings more than 6 per
cent, but the interest rate will not
forever keep at its present level.
Confidence is the chief thing, and if
investors can be persuaded that their
principal will be respected and that
the era of confscation is over rail
road betterments can be financed.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has been largely responsible for
the practical railway bankruptcy
which for some time has prevailed.
1t is to be congratulated, and the
country is to be congratulated, on
reversing it's policy. If only it sticks
to its new course with the stubborn
ness with which it adhered to its old
course, then railway rehabilitation
will doubtless be achieved within two
or three years.
The new rates are not agreeable
to pay. They drive another nail in
the coffin of the hope that the cost Of
living is to fall. Taking the coun-
try as a whole, there is to be an ad-
dition of SIS per head, or $50 to S75
per family. But there was no other
way to keep the railways function.
ing if present railway wages are to
continue and other enhanced operat-
ing costs are to be met.
The public pays. 1t always pays.
Yet some deluded themselves by run
ming after the phantom that only the
owners Of railway property would
pay.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02

any period. But what occurs to us
ia the striking fact that the largest
two figures in current English
literature, by general agreement,
belong to no movement whatsoever.
We mean Thomas Hardy and Joseph
Conrad. The latter was writing
"Almayer's Folly" and "The Nigger
of the Narcissus" in the zoos when
literary England was agog over the
Beardsley excitements and "The
Yellow Book" was on every up-to-
date center table. Hardy has lived
through how many Movements and
remained himself! Conrad, begin
ming in the midst of Art for Arts
Sake, has passed through the era of
propaganda and into the present of
futurism--and is still Conrad.
1t is wholesome to recall that
George Meredith was literary con-
temporary Of Alfred Lord Tennyson,
that Richard Feverel" saw print
along with the first 'Tdylls of the
King" The most Victorian of
novelists lived and worked in the
heart Of the Victorian era.
Going back to George Moore, it
can be argued that his merit is in
his individual Celticism and that
every "Yellow Book" tendency
counts against his Immortality. Max
Beerbohm is, perhaps, clear prod
uct of the zoos, probably its one
successful offspring. The remoter
influence Of the '9Os is another
thing. Every devoted artist-from
Joseph Conrad to Rebecca West
must own loyalty to that scrupulous
love of form which was too large
part Of "The Yellow Book" creed,
but which must be an elemental
part of every great artists in
stinctive equipment. Therein is the
best that can be said for Move
ments, we imagine. They do keep
old truths alive by rehashing them
in new phrases and applying them
to new forms. Their atmosphere,
however, is mostly bad for the de-
velopment of genius, which usually
flowers independently and afar from
the little groups.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
Editing

"The Boston Transcript" has sad
experience with one part of the Will
son plan of campaign. In it's COM
ment on the Harding acceptance pro-
ceedings it remarked that "a two
fold sentence Of death" was "pro-
nouneed at Marion to-day upon the
Wilson covenant"
1.-The New York Times" after
hailing "The Transcript" as the
chief newspaper supporter of SEN
ator Lodge, and thus acquainted
with his mind, altered the foregoing
into the following:
"Exultingly it ["The Transcript"l
declares that Senator Lodge and Mr..
Harding united in pronouncing "a
twofold sentence of death upon
the League Of Nations.'
The Wilson plan of campaign is
to try to make it appear that the
Wilson covenant is the only possible
or conceivable League of Nations,
hence to oppose it's fiat ratification is
to oppose any League of Nations.
"The Tines is enlisted in behalf of
the plan.
So far as the Wilson covenant is
concerned, and the place and time it
received its death sentence, "The
Transcript is not strictly accurate.
The place was Washington, not
Marion, and the time was when it
clearly appeared that the Wilson
covenant could, would and should
not be ratified as written. This was
nearly year ago, when the Senate
majority adopted the Lodge reserva-
tions and public opinion sustained
the action. During the winter and
spring the way was open for the
ratification of the Wilson-Lodge
covenant. But the President would
not have this, and the Wilson cove
nant died
The final encoffinment occurred
not at Chicago or at Marion but at
San Francisco, when Senator Walsh,
of Massachusetts, secured in the
Democratic platform language which
acknowledges the validity Of the res
ervation principle. This was notice
that the Wilson covenant as brought
from Paris not only was dead but
dead beyond hope of resurrection.
The Lodge covenant is at
present in state of suspended ami
nation. Neither the Chicago plat
form nor the Harding speech makes
promises in regard to it, either for or
against. 1t may be revived or it
may not be. Nobody can now say.
If two-thirds of the Senate can be
induced to ratify it, if revived, it's re-
vival is probable. If there is no
hope of this, then to waste time and
effort in campaigning for it would
show little friendship for the League
of Nations principle, and the prac-
tical thing is to work for a salts
factory substitute.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
A Market Closed and a Doc,
Opened

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An item in the news of the day
in The Tribune gives an account of the
protest over the closing of Catharine
Market. Another, from different
source, gives the details of the opening
of a form of public welfare service
which has hitherto been carried on un-
der the name of charity. These events
bear out the Spanish proverb which
says that "no door is ever closed but
what another is opened in its place"
"The members Of my parish" said
Father Janennuzzi, speaking of the clos
ing Of Catharine Market, 3are working
people. For seventy years they have
been accustomed to get their food in
Catharine Market, and since the market
was closed, eight months ago, they have
been sorely pressed"
The other event which is said to
merit the attention of all those who are
interested in New York's hospital serv-
ice, whether as officials, taxpayers or
as prospective patients, relates to the
case of the polo player who was cured
of serious and often fatal anliction
in what he calls the best institution
in the world. "All could spend there"
he says, "was $3.50 for weeks room
rent, which beats any hotel in town."
All this highly organized and efficient
hospital service is to be had for the
asking by anybody afflicted with disease
at Bellevue or other city hospitals.
This fact, it is said, is worth at least
the momentary consideration Of chronic
fault finders with New York's municipal
institutions.
No one has ever justly found fault
with New York's charitable municipal
medical institutions. There is reason
to find fault with the change that has
made them under the name of welfare
institutions serve a purpose for which
they were never intended by the tax
payers. Like the Catharine Market
which has been closed, they were in
tended for the benefit of those who
would otherwise suffer if they were
not maintained. Such is not the case
in the instance above given.
There is more need to-day for mu-
nicipal markets than there is for med
ical hotels. The price of medical serv-
ice has not scared in proportion to the
price of food either to the rich or the
poor. JOHN ?. DAWN, NJ. d.
New York, July 27, 1920.
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What the }obbcr Does
Enables Whole Public 10 Buv
lPIMT SHOPf
Economically
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

Economically
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ultimate Consumer" in com.
plant IN Fridays Tribune, asks: why
the jobber?"
If ultimate Consumer" be at all
acquainted with the methods Of market
ing let him or herr consider where all
of US would be were It not for the jobber.
Consider a grocery store where every
thing comes from the jobber
In the first place, where could we 20
to find complete stocks? The neighbOr.
hood retailer has on his shelves about
four hundred different kinds OF goods
made by about one hundred different
manufacturers. These are supplied by
less than half a dozen iobbers. How
could the customer be given present
service if all of these goods came drec.
from the manufacturer The retailer
would need a large and costly clerical
force, an elaborate system Of perpetual
inventories and purchasing department
to see more statesmen than there are Gus
toners. These statesmen would be work
ing for the furthering Of their own
product, while the few statesmen of the
various jobbers help the retailer to
sensible and varied selection of goods to
meet the customers wants.
The large number Of competing man.
ufacturers could never have the interes.
for the retailers good Will and success
that the jobber has. He can supply the
retailer with stocks not too large for bis
customers needs, being perfectly salts.
fed with the small orders for individual
commodities that the manufacturer would
laugh at. Without the jobber we would
be forced to buy all our supplies from tha
big dealers, who are impersonal and
operating out Of our neighborhoods- The
small retailer would be forced 10 raise
his prices or go out Of business. As i.
is now the jobber provides a method for
the whole public to buy economically. he
increases retail efficiency and encour-
ages retail competition and thereby
reduces the cost to us.
l cannot justify your correspondent
treatment in being charged so cents for
piece Of wood, but I do want her 70
know, "Why the jobber?" The arga-
ments in favor of grocery jobbers
service are just as pertinent to the JOB
her of household utensils, who certain
ly handles scores of other articles.
DONALD Z. MACFARLANE.
Waterbury, Conn, July 80. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02

wise laws of the United States to the
islands were being held everywhere.
| know that similar meetings have
since then been and are being held
now in Manila and the provinces.
The sentiment expressed in these
meetings, both by President Quezon
and other leaders of my people, is
one of frank and energetic but dis
passionate protest against this meas
ure.
In closing, I am going to quote the
following statement to the press made
by President Quezon in answer to
some silly charges of certain ele-
ments against his attitude:
~ still oppose the measure, but it
is silly for people to bruit the un-
truth about Manila that l favor, or
have said I would favor. using force
to resist its application. We have
constitutional means which we can
invoke to procure the repeal of the
law and l will avail myself of these
and these only. I have great hope
that the law will be repealed before
the date set for it to become effec-
tive" FrDFT. A pEvEc
Director Bureau of Commerce and
Industry, Philippine Government
New York, July 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
Murder in Ireland

TIC the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's issue is letter from
Mr.. Seumas MacManus in reference to
the recent Belfast riots.
After reciting numerous outrages by
the Orangcmen, he says that "no man
living can recall party riot, shooting
and beating in any city or town where
the 'intolerants' hold sway"
Has your correspondent forgotten the
Easter rebellion of 1916? Does he re-
member the riots and boodshed which
accompanied it? True, this was re-
volt against the Invaders" but any
loyal Irshman who refused to ioin
the republican army was promptly
shot.
Sim F6in has always played the bully.
When murder is committed by a Sim
Feiner it is termed can act of war"
But when Carsons followers pursue the
same tactics it is different Then the
offenders are "murderers" and "brig-
ands." No case is on record where Sim
Feincrs have been brave enough to at
tack the Orangemen when those Orange
men were armed. 1t requires no courage
to ambush man and then murder him,
nor for hundred men to attack DO
lice barracks Of eight and imagine them
selves heroes.
| am not attempting q defense of the
recent disorder in Belfast. l will saw
this, though, that Sir Edward Carson
has repudiated all those taking part in
these outrages and has mobilized his
volunteers to prevent further trouble.
The Invaders also have not been
standing idle. According to Sim Fen
these men should, as is the case when
people rebel, do all in their power to
crush the rebels? But what happened ?
Carsonite and Feinian alike were ar
rested and the troops made no distinc-
ton between loyalists and rebels.
The Belfast riots are the outcome of
Sim Fein's policy. l deplore extreme
action on either side A murderer is q
murderer whether he be Protestant or
Catholic. But the Catholic party has
been hunting for trouble and now when
II comes they throw up their hands in
mock indignation. Truly their motto i.
excellent. yourselves alone" can dc
what they wish, but when Ulster plavs
the same game-murder!
F. R. RASTRICK.
Brooklyn, N. Y, July 80, 1920.
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Eccentricity is the explanation
given by the widow of a prosperous
physician who abandoned his prac-
tice, disappeared from his usual
haunts and died while serving as a
dishwasher in New York res
taurant. 1t is an obviously compre-
hensive explanation, and yet it
leaves the heart of the mystery un-
touched
There is no difficulty in under
standing how even successful man
may find his occupation pail upon
him. The enthusiasm that is un-
affected by minor irritations is rare.
Nor is nature always easily subdued
to what it works in, like the dyer
hand. The restless spirit of ad-
venture persists long otter youth
has vanished.
The desire to sink into kind of
oblivion is but the diverse Of the ro-
mantle spirit. The boy runs away
because the atmosphere Of home is
hostile to his imagination. The man
disappears because he is surfeited
with his circumstances. In both
cases it is a revolt against too fixed
order. Most of us are conscious of
other potential lives than the one we
are forced to lead Theedoctor who
turned dishwasher is said to have
had ideas and tastes his family did
not share. Home offered no alterna-
tive to the deadly round of profes-
sional visits. Is it altogether sur
prising that he ran away and accept
ed menial task when nothing else
offered?
IF "dull mechanic exercise" be an
antidote for grief, it may as easily
be a support and encouragement for
the philosophic mind. Who knows
in what world of deep speculation
the self-exiled man of science dwelt
while plates and forks ratified around
him! A feeling of distaste for the
job may only have thrown him the
more completely upon his mental re-
sources. There is great solace in
contrast. From the ills that flesh
is heir to, from fever patients and
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The New York papers have pub
lished some corresp spondence from
Manila, under the responsibility of Mr.
Frazier Hunt, in which the following
paragraphs occur:
"For the first time in years there
is a possibility of real trouble in the
Philippine Islands. The Filipnos are
vibrating with excitement over passage
of the bill by Congress which, at the
discretion of the President of the
United States, places the Philippines
under the new coastwise shipping law.
Great popular meetings of thou
sands Of natives are being whipped into
fury against the Americans Heading
movement for war on the United
States is Manuel Quezon, president of
the Philippine Senate
This is so ridiculous and absurd that
under ordinary circumstances it would
not be necessary to expose it to the
public as a fake of the worst kind. IN
fortunately, however, there is part of
the American reading public who are
not conversant with conditions exist
ing in the islands and who might be
easily misled by such fantastic
stories" 1t is for the benefit of this
portion of the. American population
that this letter is written.
1t is true that both the Philippine
government and the Filipino people are
strongly opposed to the extension of
the coaswise laws Of the United
States to the islands. Their attitude
is prompted by the consciousness
that the operation of these laws in
the islands would be a terrible blow
not only to the material interest of
the Filipinos, but also to their po-
litical ideals. These points of view
do not in any way mean hostility to
the American government and the
American people. 1t is a protest
based on the sound American prin-
ciple that no law should be enacted
without the consent of the governed
and that it is the fundamental right
OF q citizen to protest respectfully
and strongly against any measure that
he deems detrimental to his or the
commonwealth interest. In this re-
spect it would be enough to say that
portion of the American community
in the Philippine Islands is also an
tagonistic to the extension of the
United States coastwise laws to the
Philippines. Furthermore, even in
this country there are many people
who are convinced of the unwisdom
and unfairnoss of this measure.
There is no more possibility Of the
Filipinos waging war against the
United States than the citizens Of
New York going to Washington to
overthrow by force Of arms the pres
ent Administration. Facts have amply
demonstrated that the Filipinos are as
loyal to the American government as
the most loyal American citizen. The
president of the Philippine Senate,
the Hon. Manuel Quezon, whom Mr..
Hunt boldly states is heading "a
movement for war on the United
States" was the first Filipino to
raise his voice during the war in
viting all his people to offer every
thing they had, their lives and prop
critics, to Uncle Sam. 1t was main
ly due to his activities that the
Filipinos rose like man and offered
their all to the United States.
When l left the Philippines month
ago meetings Of popular protest
| against the extension Of tho coast
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
The Naughtiness of Apparel

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Hibbens rage and imagine
vain thing. Were there not the hustle
and the eelskin skirt, the Grecian bend
and the crinoline? Have not mine ewes
tcneld the bang and the rat. the cork
screw curl and the waterfall and the
chgnon? Yea, have seen them. for I
be old; the grave yawneth.
They had their pestilences, their
hlbbens, yea, each unto its kind. false
prophets of evil. They said the
naughtiness Of the apparel shall bring
the people unto destruction. The peo-
pie live, and they are naught.
They said the woman shall find \
husband, she shall not order her raj
mcnt that she find favor in his sight.
nay, she shall find favor by the aus.
terity of her garments, by the sobrie17
of her goings and comings, so NAV she
find mate of the tribe of Hibben.
And l say unto her that powdereth
her nose, that bobbeth her hair. that
shorteneth her skirt, that she NAV be
refreshing unto the eye, to her | saw,
thou hast the blessing of an old man;
go to it. But unto the Hibbens | saw
go to-go to-go to. thou naughty var
let. f w r
Brooklyn, July 30, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
The Kaiser as a Movie" Hero

1 " IilC LultO1 VI 1 llc lIOQilc
Sir: May l call your attention to re-
newal of insidious German propaganda :?
On the 28th l attended "movie" in
Point Pleasant, N. J., entitled "Tar-
rished Reputations." The name Of the
author was not thrown on the screen,
nor was that of the director-inten-
tional omissions, so it seemed to me
after having seen the picture There
was nothing unusual in the story, as
stoues go. The Objectionable feature to
me was that "De Wenebourg," with a
face like the Kaser's, was the disinter-
ested friend and protector of the un-
fortunate heroine. He takes her when
released from reformatory, makes a
famous actress of her, and unselfshly
arranges a reconciliation with the man
(artst) she loves.
l could hardly sit through it. Disgust
ing! The people ought to be put on
their guard against such propaganda.
JOHN MITCHELL HARPER.
Gladstone, N. j., July 80, 1920.
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nervous invalids to solid earthen-
ware and unresponsive kettles, was
conceivably the way to the peace Of
the spirit. Eccentric? Are not
they who pursue life's dull round
after it has become inexpressibly
weary to them more eccentric?
Once there was man who after an
active business found happiness in
polishing cocoanut, and did not the
Emperor Charles V devote his time,
after he voluntarily abdicated, to
trying to make score of clocks tick
together?
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
In Summer

tFrom The Natson)
\ THINK these stars that draw 50
strangely near,
That lean and listen for the turning
Earth,
Are never wholly careless when ths'
hear
The murmur of her hushed and qule'
mirth--
But looking out upon a world in bloom,
They half-remember, and they heed
and bark:
A reminiscent sweetness in the gloom
A music older than this singing txE'
Their summers gone, SO many aons pas'
Birdsong and bloom and swali0"
from the sky,
These dead, desireless worlds find here
at last,
Something remembered when 'a'
Earth turns by,
Sweet with these blowing odors they h''
known,
This happy music that was once the1
own.
DAVID MORTON !
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
The Uproarious Motorcycle

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why are motorcycles permitted
to use the streets without muffiers (and
VINO ever saw one run any other way ?
Our hospitals are filed with nervous
wrecks, and no wonder, when we must
suffer from the unnecessary and un-
lawful noises of our city's streets.
Are the police asleep?
GEORGE BOSTWICK.
New York, July 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02

ance would be more than balanced
by the enmity Of the Czecho- -Slovaks
and Rumanians. Neither by her
past nor by her present has Hun
gary earned title to exceptional
treatment, and the frantic attempts
of her rulers to evade the conse-
quences of their own crimes and mis-
takes will not increase sympathy for
her in the outside world.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
A Cox Slogan: Cured

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: THE Evening World" has or is
trying to get q twclve-word slogan. How
about this, that have printed on my
stationery: II voted for Wilson,; In,
cured? r. w. ANDERSON.
Pittsburgh, Pa. July 80, 1920.
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