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New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
To Be Considered Settling the Irish Question

tlement-the new two-parl}ament
Home Rule bill outlined by Premier
Lloyd George just before Christmas,
which will come before Parliament
when it reconvenes this year. There
is, of course, the Home Rule bill Of
1914, which, IL it is not superseded,
will become effectiv. after the final
ratification Of the final peace, but no
one wants that now. Lloyd George
himself declared. In fact, the pres
ent bill was designed to take its
place.
This new bill had most unfavor-
able reception in every part Of Ire
land. The chief objection from the
South of Ireland from an economic
point of view arose over the oues-
ton of taxation. Ireland now con-
tributes, involuntarily, 918,0OO, 900
to the imperial exchequer. The Brit
ish government proposed joint ex-
chequer board to settle the rate Of
contribution for the future and the
question Of taxable capacity. Con-
troll Of income, excess profits and
super-taxes was to rest with Great
Britain. toeether with control of Gus
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toms and excise and the postoffice.
The two parliaments were to have
taxation powers somewhat similar to
those possessed by state legislatures
in the United States. 1t was pro-
posed to give back to Ireland money
raised by taxation in excess of the
amount agreed upon as her fair
contribution.
Nationalist, Sim Fein and Re
publican" Ireland unite in denounc-
ing this proposal. Why, they ask,
should they pay taxes to England?
Why should they pay from their
pockets for q war which England
fought without the sanction OF bless
ing of most Irishmen? Why should
they annually contribute els 100000
for which they could find mu(h bet
ter use right at home? Reduction
Of the entire annual taxation of Ire
land by s1S,o0O,oo0 would mean
freedom from financial burdens to
every Irishman. Or the money could
be used to develop home industries,
"a country which does no. con-
troll its own taxes is never free,
said a prominent Nationalist curing
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would be TO propose a settlement
which proposal probably would bring
down upon his head the combined
wrath Of all three factions. In point
Of fact. I, for one, can conceive of no
workable solution at the present
time. But Of one thing am certain :
the Anal solution to this complex
problem will be based upon sound
economic reasoning before every
thing else. A country may wave
its flag and shout until its neigh
bors are deaf. But its eventual
prosperity will always come back
to roost upon the firm bases of trade,
commerce and industry.
Let us examine the claims Of each
faction involved in the Irish tangle
from the economic point Of view,
leaving aside entirely all questions
Of religion, politics, sentiment or
past wrongs. This, of course, Is q
thing no Irishman will do; he will
not discuss the economics Of the stu
alton without bringing in some
other phase Of the difficulty.
First Of all, there is the British
governments proposal for a set
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as from every other point Of view
listers proposed solution, Leave
things as they are" is naturally
more Objectionable to the South of
Ireland than the British proposal.
And out of the objections of the
South, resulting as they do in de-
creased production, dissatisfaction,
lncessant warfare against England,
arise economic difficulties which
make England herself deslrous OF a
change for her own sake. Ulster
would have nothing changed. It is
argued that Ireland was never more
prosperous than it is today. Why
take the control Of affairs from the
hands OF an established government
capable of administering them and
place them in the hands of fanatics
who would use them only as weap-
ons to further their ends, or end,
which is complete independence?
Ulster doesn't want an Irish par
lament, not even an Irish parlia-
ment Of her own. Why, it asks, GO
to the expense of setting up all this
machinery, when Ulster is getting
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
BY Frank Getty

: soe. rhe Trs6~nSs ExropeGr Buysa.
IRELAND presents a problem.
Three factions are striving for
its solution -- England, Ulster,
and the rest Of ireland. Each
mas Its own answers, mono Of which
is satisfactory to the other two.
England proposes Home Rule,
with reservations; the Irish of the
South say "No," it is not enough.
those Of the North are even more
emphatic; 1t Is too much. Ulster
mas = comparatively simple remedy,
Leave Us alone" The South
again says NO." ten thousand
Zines NO; England agrees that
the present state of affairs is un-
satisfactory. Sim Fein proposes in
dependencs; Ulster offers to fight
= such . proposal is considered; ;
england vetoes it as impossible.
and 10 on, "around tho mulberry
oush," like the three snakes Of the
hypotaetical question trying to swal-
low one another.
ohvicusly, then, the one rash
sning which an outsider could do
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are ready and proud to bear our
share Of the war debt We don't
ask that our load be lessened by a
single penny. Belfast is going TO
work to make more money that the
debt may be more easily paid Off"
The Ulster objection is to any
thing which, moving in the direction
Of separation from England, will
weaken the firm economic bond be-
tween the two countries. listers
one great market, practically her
only market, is England. Belfast is
a great commercial city, but her in
dustries are essentially dependent
upon English support.
There is an influential element of
patriotic Irishmen in the South who
favor what they call Dominion Home
Rule, with Ireland controlling her
own finances. This, they assert, is
at once simple, fair and practi-
cable solution of all the difficulties.
Yet they overlook Ulster. Not that
they care; no one with the spirit
Of the South cares what happens to
Ulster.
Econe 'ically considered, as well
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a discussion which we had on the
subject in Dublin. "Your ancestors
in the States went to war over much
the same sort Of proposition. Tax
alton is the backbone Of oppression;
it is the economic weapon of the
stronger nation which strangles in
the smaller all hope Of national de-
vclopment. The more Ireland makes
the more England takes.
"She doesn't treat Canada in this
way. She knows better than to try.
Canada has control of her own tax-
alton and contributes just what she
pleases to the imperial exchequer.
England must give Ireland con-
troll Of all her own taxation; then,
and then only, will Home Rule be
good enough. even for those of us
who do not want to see separation
from England occur"
1t would not be fair to 20 any
further without saying that the
Unionists of Ulster raise no such
objection to contributing to the inn
perial exchequer.
"We are Irishmen, but we are
British" they say in Belfast. eve
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II ne has only the average amount of
common sense his wife has three
courses open to her. She can get a
divorce and have it over with. She
can trail him so closely that he can't
go astray, which would be extremely
irksome to both Of them. She can
sow her own field Of wild oats. Of
course, the poor woman can always
bear it in tears for the sake Of the
children, but self-respecting children
would never consent to their
mothers sacrificing herself in that
way.
Hence, we have the man Of forty
five, the middle-aged ass, setting
forth to SOW his wild oats. And it
may be believed that they are real
wild oats. They are not the kind
the deluded boy sows. The wild oats
the youngster sows are a very harm
less variety. They are only the
flowers of his illusions scattered on
a sterile and unproductive soil. But
fathers wild oats are the fragments
Of his ideals, and that is a very diff
ferent matter Sons wild oats soon
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along all right under the guidance
Of Westminster?
OF all the proposed solutions. that
from Ulster is the least likely OF
permanent adoption, either by Brit
ain or Ireland. But it is represented
by the present state Of affairs, and.
as long as the rest cannot arree
upon what form the demanded and
offered change shall take. the Ul-
ster solution has the floor.
Is an independent Ireland eco
nomlcally practicable? Il asked
that question of every one I met in
Ireland. And the South Is solid In
its "Yes." But up North thew
waived their pride as Irishmen and
said they doubted it.
Looking at the matter broadly
and overlooking a lot of annovinr
details which always pop up in anv
discussion OF Irish affairs to CON-
found the writer, we may say that
IN event of Irish independence:
Ulster would suffer economicalIv
unless she could get into perfect har-
mony wiz, the South. an extreme,v
doubtful superstition.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Ef They Only Knew

1t is the slow growth Of ideals
that makes the young man settle
down, and as long as he can hold on
to the one valuable illusion that
ideals may possibly, by some mlrac-
ulous happening, be achieved he is
likely TO continue more or less
steady going. But knocking hard
corners off the world will soon
enough dissipate that illusion and
then he has left only a few ideals
that he recognizes as impracticable
and begins to discard one by one in
consideration Of the practical prob
lens Of life.
Switch Elsie Lindtner once more.
Read women for men aud man for
woman, thus:
"1f women suspected what took
place in a mans inner life after
forty they would avoid us like the
plague or knock us on the head like
mad dogs.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
The Wild Oats of Youth Much
Less Perilous Than Those
of Later Years

years are slowly creeping, standing
before his mirror with pair Of
ivory-mounted callipers, hopefully
measuring tho increasing diameter
Of his sonsure. He no longer seeks
to retard the years, but rather adds
q couple Of birthdays from time to
time.
How old are you,
Forty-three.
Lucky fellow. Only two years
more in swaddling clothes.
Who said "Youth will be served?
Middle age, young man, middle age
shall be served.
The credit for this discovery be-
longs to Philadelphia. 1t was made
by the Rev. Calvin W. Laufer, a
Presbyterian clergyman of that city.
who has made special study of
the subject. OF course, there are
many who will sniff when Philadel-
phia is named as the home Of the
discovery. That explains 1t, they
will say. Men don't wake up in
Philadelphis until they are forty
i've or over. But stop a minute.
Where was tho Clover Club cocktail
invented? Where Is the boss system
in local politics most highly de-
veloped? Just take q run over there
and 60 to a musical show, if you
think New York can teach Philadel-
phia whole lot. Philadelphia is
about the most appropriate place
In America for a discovery about
wild oats to come from. Wild oats
are Indigenous to New York, but
they are cultivated in Philadelphia.
Furthermore, there is~ample proof
for the truth Of the theory. There
is so much proof that the only real
wonder is the discovery was so long
delayed. Who but a middle-aged
man invented the classic "I'll give
you $50 week alimony and the
house,?
Karin Michaelis wrote Of men as
we'll as women when she made Elsie
Ldndtner say in 1.-THE Dangerous
Age":
"You know, like the rest Of the
world, that Richard and I have got
on as we'll as any two people of the
opposite sex ever can do. There has
never been an angry word between
us. But one day the impulse, or
whatever you like to call it, took
possession Of me that I must live
alone, quite alone and all to myself.
Call it an absurd idea, an impossible
fancy; call it hysteria, which per-
haps it Is, must get right away"
And she continues: Il have no in
tention of living upon bread and
water and virtue. have not taken
the veil"
Women and men are not so vastly
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Preacher Says the Dangerous Age for Men Is

different as some people would have
us believe.
From twenty-five to thirty years
Is the constructive age, says Mr..
Laufer. And at twenty-five, when
the angry bride threatens in voice
choked with tears to "go home to
mother" does the tortured bride
groom do more than writhe? No.
He does not. Or does she go? Not
while her strength holds out to
punch her meal ticket.
But at Forty-five?
But at forty-fve? The tale Is diff
ferent then. The erstwhile BRIDE
groom has passed through the age
Of construction. He has dreamed of
buying home in the country and
digging in his own garden and sit
ting in the shade of his own fruit
trees. He has done his part in con-
struction of family that now con-
aists Of eight human beings and a
slovenly domestic. He has fought
the annual deficit and slept for
twenty years with the ghost of tho
semi-annual insurance premium. His
bald spot extends from ear to ear,
and, frankly, he is tired Of the
whole blamed business.
"Shall l be quite frank, Richard?"
says Elsie Lindtner when she ar
rives at the dangerous age. Let US
switch the form Of address and
make it "Shall I be quite frank,
Elsie?" and continue the quotation.
II am rather ashamed when I
think Of you, and I can honestly say
that never respected you more
than to-day. But 1t could not have
been otherwise. I wish in my heart
Of hearts that l had something to
reproach you with, but l have moth
ing against you Of any sort or kind.
You have been a kind, faithful and
delicate-minded friend to me, and
am not so lacking In delicacy that l
do not appreciate this in my inmost
heart No other woman has ever
claimed a corner Of my heart. In
a word, having considered the eues-
tion all around, am suffering simply
from nervous malady. Alas! it is
incurable!"
From thirty to forty-fve is the
age Of disillusionment, says Mr..
Laufer, and thereby stamps him
sell as an ardent optlmlst, Few
and chosen of God are the men who
keep their illusions until they are
thirty. They may retain a few
ideals, but they are under no illu-
sion about the possibility of attain
ing the ideal, and the years from
thirty to forty-five are not the age
of disillusienment. They are the
age Of frantic endcavor to cling to
slipping ideals. Man does not be-
gin to SOW his wild oats at forty
five because he is finally disilu-
stoned. but because the last idea,
has slipped from the grasp Of the
long since disillusioned man.
Illusions never kept any man
from sowing wild oats. On the
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contrary, 1t is illusions that arc re-
spon5ible for the feeble attempts
the youngsters make to SOW a cron
or wild oats. They have the illu-
sion that they are seeing life and
tho illusion that they are proving
sney have reached maturity, the
illusion that they are showing them
selves men Of the world, the illusion
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
By Fred B. Pitney

TIME true explanation, the
philosophical and scientific
reason for bald-headed rows
at musical comedies, has
,..n discovered. And like all true
d;seoveries-discoveries as distin-
g,,ished from the evolution Of the
ories-it is revolutionary. For the
essence Of the discovery Is that man
beplns to SOW his wild oats at forty
Ave.
The argument divides itself into
three parts: The age from twenty
Ave to thirty is an age Of construc-
ton and development; from thirty
TO fcrty-hve is the age Of disillu-
sionment, and at forty-fve, with all
his ideals and illusions wrecked or
thrown overheard, man begins to
SOW his wild oats.
There is something fascinating
about this discovery. It Is truly in
ccnsonance with the spirit Of the
AZ. Progress Is It's very nature.
No longer need tho blass rake
Of eighteen sigh because the world
q - young. BE knows now that in
twenty-seven years he also viii be
a youth and can mingle in the giddy
whirl Of baldheads on equal terms
with the maddest Of them.
The Halcyon Days
The venerable parent of thirty
two, father Of six growing children,
striving to make both ends meet on
q salary Of $50 q week, can face
the future in a new spirit. With
each passing year, with each new
line in his face, draw nearer the
halcyon days, the care-free days, the
golden days, the days Of forty-flve.
No more is the widening bald
spot badge Of shame. One sees the
tenacious bachelor, over whom the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
At Twoscore and Five the Age
of Disillusionment Ends and
Then Comes Recklessness

father, approaching middle age, look
forward with hope where he for
merly experienced tremors? But,
no, she is merciless.
II am not sending the letters back
to discourage or hurt you," she
says, "only that you may sec how.
with each adventure, you have
started with the same sentimental
Illusions and ended with ths same
pitiable disenchantment. The mora
inferior the man (woman) Of your
choice the more determined you
were to invest him (her) with ex-
traordinary qualities. Bpt as soon
as the next one appeared on the
scene you began to judge his fher)
predecessor at his (her) true value"
A Malady of Age
So says Elsie, advising her friend.
A little later she has her own
awakening.
"The worst Of It Is" she had
quoted another friend, that know
my madness will be only temporary.
It is malady incident to my age.
One day 1t will pass away. One
day shall have got through the In
evitable phase"
Elsie got through her Inevitable
phase-read carefully. fathsr-and
she wrote to the husband she had
deserted:
"Come, then, dear friend. and I
will give you such q welcome that
you will not regret the Journey"
His answer comes, and we see
Elsie after she has read his letter.
"So he has dared!
$50 all his passion and his grief
at parting were purely a part that
he played! Who knows? Perhaps
he was really glad to get rid Of
me.
"Ah, but this scorn and con-
temptw
Take warning, father, that the
Philadelphia philosopher does not
lead you astray and that you do not
have to say with Elsie Lindtner:
"How badly have played my
cards! I who thought myself 80
cleverW
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How could II be otherwisef III
a man took infinite pains to reveal
himself to a wife or mistress Just
as he really is she would think he
was suffering from some incurabie
mental disease"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Twenty Years Ahead

Son doesn't SOW that kind Of wild
oats. Son is like the busy bee that
fits from flower to flower. He is
busy, oh yes, terribly busy, too busy
to stop long at one fountain of
sweetness. He doesn't know what
real thirst is. He knows nothing
of tho long, arid years Of weary
struggle, the years Of bleak denial.
He does not know what it is to turn
his back on pleasure with grim de-
termination. He knows nothing Of
the terrible longing for just one
night off, one night free from the
terrible phantasm Of the future, one
little excursion into the lotus land
unaccompanied by the grisly skele-
ton Of responsibility. All that is
twenty years ahead Of son.
And then comes Elsie Lindtner
again. What was the matter with
that woman? Why must she COM
plete the picture for the Philadel-
phia philosopher? Why not let
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wither and die, but fathers take
deep root and are a hardy plant
Son fancies himself more than a
little as he sits opposite the delicious
little blonde at the secluded table
behind the palms in the famous res
taurant, spending a weeks pay on
ono course that she sends back un-
touched. Son fancies himself, and
the wise ones smile. Son is sowing
his wild oats. But those baldheads
that line both sides of Peacock AL
ley, no one smiles at them. There
is serious business there. Father
is sowing his wild oats.
"To all Of us comes a time in life
when we believe we can conquer or
deceive time" says Elsie Lindtner.
Son thinks he experiences a thrill
when he clasps the little blonde in
his arms and joins the jazzing
throng. Son doesn't know what a
real thrill is. Green wood won't
burn. But the fire eats into the
heart of the seasoned log. y 20 is
it insures q $4,000 automobile with
instructions to the insurance agent
chat all correspondence in respect
to tho policy is 20 go TO his office
and not to his house and Is to be
marked personalf Father. Who is
it carries $4,000 FIRE and burglar
insurance on an apartment on the
upper West Side when any one can
learn from tho Telephone Directory
that he lives on Sixty-fourth Street
East? Father.
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that they are admired, the illusion
that they arc envied, and that great
est illusion of all, that they are hav-
ing a good time.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
When the last ideal Is gone the II

When the last ideal Is gone the
real struggle comes. All that man
has left is his common sense. Right
and wrong mean nothing to him
subjectively. Right and wrong are
idealistic, and that point of view
went from him with his ideals.
There are two things he has to con-
slider. The first is his health and
his pocketbook. Will his health
stand a life of more or less dissi-
patton? How far can he go without
facing poverty inshis old age? The
second thing to be considered is,
Can he get away with it? Can he
cover up his doings outside the
sacred circle of the family so that
they will not subsequently be at
tended with unpleasant publicity,
even notoriety?
AS Elsie Lindtner expresses it.
"The more I reflect upon life, the
more clearly see that have not
laid out my talents to the best ad-
vantage. I have no sweet memories
of intidelity; have lived irreproach-
ably-and no% I am very tired.
Life has passed me by; my hands
are empty; now it is too late.
"Once happiness knocked at my
door, and l, poor fool, did not rise
to welcome it.
"1 envy every country wench or
servant girl who goes off with a
lover. But l sit he's waiting for
old age"
When the Vampire Vamps
If man has enough common sense
to know that at forty-fve he has
passed both the high point of his
physical vigor and his years for
successful exploration in new fields
Of production and that folly always
discovers itself, even If only to a
limited circle, he will keep going
straight, and the most expert YAM
pire would find that the mot daring
exposition Of her fascinations in
spired him only with curiosity. But
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NO MORE is tho bald spot
a. badge of shame. Son
hnoaos nothing of the long,
amg for one night free from,
the phoMtom, of the FUTURE
one bttle excursion into the
lotus land unaccomponied by
the grisly skeleton of re-
Sponsib1ity
The Washington times., 1920-06-04
BUBON|C PLAGUE At
VERA CRUZ kills.
Fifty Cases Under Observation.
Refusal OF United States
Aid Is CenSured.

VERA CRUZ. June 4.-Three new
cases OF bubonic plague and three
deaths at the lazaretto on tho Island
OF Sacrifice were reported by tho
sanitary department today. more
than fifty suspected cases or the
plague are under observation.
Medical men are dissatisfied win
the action OF the mayor In refusing
President Wilson's offer TO send a
destroyer from New Orleans with doe
tors, nurses. medicine, and DIS
infectants to help combat the out
break. Fears were expressed that the
local sanitary authorities Will be un-
able to control the epidemic without
outside help.
A number of old buildings are be'
ing burned The main wharf and a
two-story office building at the en-
trance TO the docks and several small
frame shacks were destroyed. They
were infested with thousands or rats
which were believed TO have been in
oculated with the plague germs.
All the business houses remain
closed on orders from the municipal
authorities. All merchants have
been ordered TO clean their stores Of
rubbish on penalty of a heavy fine.
Tho refuse is being carted TO the out
skirts and burned.
The Washington times., 1920-06-04
FRECkLES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid OF
1 These Ugly Spots.

There's no longer the slightest need
~ feeling ashamed OF your freckles,
as Othine-double strengths guar
Anteed TO remove these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce or Othine-
double strength-from any druggist
and apply a little of IL night and
morning and you should soon see that
even the worst freckles have begun
90 disappear. while the lighter ones
have vanished entirely. IL ID seldom
that more than an ounce is needed to
completely clear me skin and gain a
beautiful clear COMPLEXION.
BE sure TO ask for the double
strength Othine as this Is sold under
guarantee Of money back II 1t fails TO
remove freckles.