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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Unless the membership of the House is in creased from 435 to at least 800 tC meet the increased population shown by the 1920 census, 10 States will lose one or more Representatives according to Representative Siegel of New York, chairman of the Gen. sus committee which will frame the new Apportionment bill. Those States are:
 Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri which will lose two Congressmer each; and Illinois. Kentucky, Maine Maryland, Nebraska, Vermont ano Virginia, which will lose one Con gressman each.
 Mr. Siegel explains that if the House membership is retained at its present figure, it will be necessary to increase the population basis in each Congressional district be yond the 211,000 or major portion thereof now fixed. If this is done he says, the 10 States named VII lose one or more of the present dis tricts because their populations have not increased in proportion to those of other States.
 Increase Is Opposed
 On the basis of the estimated pop ulation of 106, 900, 900 for the whol' country in 1920, an increase of ap proximately 14,000.000 in 10 years MT. Siegel says 65 or 66 new seat in the House must be created 1 the 10 States are to retain thei present numerical representation While precedent warrants the in crease, Mir Siegel declares there i
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
Enormous Fish Catches
 Being Made in North Sea

BERLIN, July 27.-After the long war interval. North Sea and Baltic fishermen report enormous catches of fish. At Hamburg and Cuxhaven alone. 10000 tons of fish have been landed in one single month. From Kiel and Luebeck come similar re- ports of immense shoals of herring and other fish. Nevertheless. fish does not seem to become any cheaper on the Berlin market.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
Princess Alice Heads
 North From Ketchikan

KETCHIKAN, July 27. - The steamer Princess Alice left this port at S:30 o'clock last night for the North with the following passengers for Juneau: John w. Troy, Fred J. Cox, Miss R. H. Simpkins, Rev. D. Waggoner and family, Miss E. A. Baxter, w. J. Benson and family, James A. Stewart. Wallace L. New ell. Joseph Flanagan and Thomas J. Conroy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
Wheat, Corn Prices Tumble
 On Chicago Grain Market

CHICAGO, July 27.-Disturbing fin ancial and industrial developments caused a drop of eight cents a bushel in the price of wheat and nine and five eights cents a bushel in corn prices on the Chicago Grain Ex- change yesterday.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
Thousands Homeless, Many
 Killed in Luzon Typhoon

MANILA, P. l.. July 1S.-Thou- sands of persons are homeless and many dead as the result of a ty- phoon and torrential rains which have ragged on the Island of Luzon for two weeks past. The property damage is enormous.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
200 Disabled Service Men
 Call Strike in Hospital

SARANACA YAKE, July 27.- Two hundred disabled soldiers, in- mates of service tubercular san itarium here, today struck against threatened removal.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
Infants Found in Cistern;
 Alleged Father Arrested

OMAHA, Neb.. July 27.-H S. Kent. Gl. was in jail here today, fol lowing the finding of the bodies Of two infants about two days old in an abandoned cistern and the alleged admission by Louise Boecke that she was the mother and Kent the father of the babies.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
Avlona Fighting Resumed;
 Warships Bombarding City

LONDON. July 27-Fighting in Av- Iona, Albania, is reported in a Lon- don Times despatch from Milan. Italian warships and artillery bom- barded the Albanian positions, which replied with rifle fire.
 The movement of Italian troops is increasing rapidly.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
DEFENDER LEADS BY HALF MILE
 WHEN YACHTS ROUND OUTER MARK
 AND STAND TOWARD FINISH LINE
Shamrock w. Outdistanced By Yankee Rival Beat to Windward, Unable to Recover Lost Distance on Leeward Course Mighty Chorus of Whistles
 Greet the Winner

HOOK J. July 27-The Amercas cup emblem of the yachting supremacy the world will travel back across the whence wresd fifty ago, for another at least.
 Sir Thomas Lpon fourth attempt within twenty to lift ended in failure today when Resoute the American defender the final deciding by safe mar gin yacht had victories her credit and win TOT either today the
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-27
Prince John to Replace
 George on Northern Run

VICTORIA. B. C.. July 27.-The steamer Prince George will tenn porarily replace the Fringe George, Grand Trunk line steamer damaged in Seymour Narrows. on the Vic tOria-Prinee Rupert run. Grand Trunk officials here announced to-
 day.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12

all. War brings it out-as, often,
does peace. But the finest and most
generous emotions are the dominat-
ing emotions in war for ones coun-
try. They certainly 80 far to coun-
texact the baleful effects Of man
killing.
The parallel to patriotism Is very
close. Patriotism is love Of ones
own people and land--the largest
group 10 which human affection has
as yet poignantly attached itself. 1t
is a fine and splendid thing. the fruit
Of centuries of evolution and devel-
opment from plane to plano. In the
emergency of self-defense it uses
ancient, jungle instincts; reawakens
them temporarily. II mead be. A ma
ton lacking tho instinct to use these
primitive weapons would quickly
cease to exist. But the permanent
fact is the fine, unselfish emotion
not tho incidental weapon seized for
a moment TO accomplish a particular
purpose. When will our pacifist
friends pursue their new discoveries
to this inevitable conclusion?
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12

to go into actual combat had an am
munition reserve Of not moro than
thirty-one shells per gun, and that
there were no new torpedoes on hand
for the destroyers. Moreover, Sec
retary Daniels couldn't make up his
mind even to send tha deatroyers
across the Atlantic-to the critical
field Of anti-submarine action.
The admirals whose testimony has
implied belief in the complete pre-
paredness of the navy have done the
navy and the public little service.
Every one who has the welfare of
the navy at heart wants to see faults
in it's administration barred and cor
rected. We need a better rounded
feet than we had in 1917 and much
more competent direction of its mill
tary policies. To say that the navy
was prepared for war three years
ago is to handicap it's development
and to block the road to expert mill
tary direction in the future.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12

The railroad employees who are
trying to paralyze transportation
and cut OFF the public's food supplies
left their work without taking the
trouble to formulate any grievances.
Tribune reporters, inquiring what
these grievances were, received the
answer: "Go to hell, you buml"
AS an afterthought, some demands
for higher pay have now been drawn
up. But to whom are these to be
submitted? They have not been ap-
proved by a vote of the unions to
which the strikers belong. They
cannot be laid before the railroad
arrangements, because the latter
have wage agreements with the
unions, inherited from the era of
government operation. The Esch-
Cummins law provides for the sub
mission Of all wage disputes to an
arbitration board appointed by the
President.
The strikers have disregarded both
the law and their union obligations.
They have repudiated all sense Of
duty to the public. They are making
war on the community at large in
order to force an acceptance Of their
illegitimate claims.
The public cannot afford to COM
promise with such bushwhackers.
The strikers challenge admits of but
one answer. Any appeal they make
to public consideration or tolerance
should be met with an emphatic
"No!" They have put themselves
out Of court They are seeking to
accomplish by willful interference
with the public interest what they
have an orderly means Of accom-
plishing through union action and
an appeal to the new railroad arbi-
tration commission. Their inter-
ference with the operation of the
railroad system should be met with
all the force the government has at
its command.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12
Retroactive Judicial Rent

Decisions by Justice Davies, Of the
Court, under the new rent
laws raise questions not likely to be
settled except after a prolonged
legal struggle.
The court, applying in broad way
the principle Of judicial rent, holds
that though tenant has signed
lease he may bring action to have
the rental lowered and may recover
any excess sums that he has paid as
far back as April, 1919. The doc
trine thus laid down is novel to
American Jurisprudence, although
the fixing Of rents by courts and
other public bodies has long been
known abroad, notably in Ireland
under the land acts.
The conclusions Of Justice Davies
seem to grow out Of the distinction
drawn between the common law and
the statute law. Under the common
law the landlords remedy when
deeming himself wronged was dis
traint- But this has been abolished
in New York. In place the land
lord was specially protected by the
dispossess law enacted by the Leg
islature. Now it is said that what
the Legislature has given it may
modify or take away; that, having
established courts, it may prescribe
how the same may be used. Not long
ago the Federal Supreme Court, sus-
tanning the statute compelling news
papers to file circulation statements
before their admission to second
class mail privileges, did so ON the
ground that when a publicly main.
tanned facility is used the public may
dictate the conditions Of It's use.
But on the other side is the clause
OF the Constitution which fatty for
bids the enactment Of laws impair
ing the obligation Of contracts. A
lease is a contract. May tho Lesis-
lature authorize courts 70 rewrite
leases and change their terms7 II
is not easy to see how such rewriting
may occur unless it is established
tfat there was duress in securing the
signature OF one Of the parties. Blu,
duress is not generally thought to
be shown unless particular evidence
OF 1t is furnished. Will tho upper
courts rule that duress is to be pre-
sumed from the fact that houses and
apartments are scarce?
II there is no lease the doctrine Is
familiar that a tcnant 10 bound IN
pay such sum as c-1rt may say is
fair rental. In this sense we have
|ong had judicial rent, but to fix 4
rental against the terms Of lease
md ~ make ~ hxstiou 1stsosctav.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12
Nonsense About the Port Treaty

Nonsense About the Port Treaty
"This Port Of New York bill ia
simply another method Of grabbing
the Port of New York." says Mayor
Hylan, with characteristic precipi-
fancy. The Mayor has been led to
believe that the chief purpose Of tho
measure Is to take away from the
city the control it now exercises over
its splendid harbor facilities. His
idea seems to be that outside con-
spirators are trying to deprive New
York Of one of its greatest <ssets--
to paicel out its sovereignty to ito
humiliation and injury.
There is no ground for a sus-
picion Ut that kind. The Mayor and
the Board Of Estimate and Appor-
tionment are deceived by surface
appearances. We have had a great
independent port here. 1t has de-
veloped along the line of the least
effort. But that development has
ignored underlying economic factors.
And the time has come when those
factors can no longer be ignored.
Manhattan Island and Long ISL
and are cut off from the great ma
jority of the continental rail heads
by water barrier. Rashipnaent
across the Hudson or tho Lower Bay
is costly. For most Of our foreign
commerce, outgoing or incoming, the
more natural freight terminal ia on
the west eAte of the Hudson. The
lightering ditferential against the
east side of tho river is considerable,
and is increasing instead Of de-
creasing.
The port treaty represents q far
sighted agreement with the State of
New Jersey by which the port ON
both sides Of tho river is to be united
and consolidated. so that both sides
may get the maximum advantage
from future development. A divi-
sion OF the port into two rival sec.
t'ons, fighting for advantage, would
operate against New York's inter-
ests much moro than 1t would ope-
rate against New Jerseys. New
York City would ultimately be tho
greater gamer by an arrangement
which insured a fair and economical
expansion Of the port as = unit.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Most of the editorial comment
on the present vice investigation made
by the press Of New York has been
very cold and cynical. Your own atti.
tude seems to be tinged by a dislike Of
DR.. Straton and by the ancient obses.
sion that no cure can ever be found for
the social evil.
There may be no permanent cure for
the social evil. but New York need not
therefore tolerate plague-spots Of dts.
ease and crime In her very heart.
euphemistically but disgustingly called
"tenderloins." Such vice may be . sir
or disease. from an ethical point Of
view, but there is little doubt that 1t
spreads the most loaths ,me plague
known to medical science. Our draft
boards disclosed the widespread ray
ages Of this plague and its terrible toll
Our military authorities did not tol.
crate any so-called "tenderloins" in or
about the army camps. not from any
high moral reason, but because thoy
interfered with the supreme objective
OF army training--to secure q fit body
Of men to do wars terrible, necessary
but temporary work. But "our fair
city" is DETAINED IL any citizen. espe-
eially a clergyman, endeavors to en-
courage the civil autho4 ties to do, In
peace time. what the military authori
ties did in war time-help to keep men
clean and ut to do their appointed and
everyday tasks in the world.
Why object to this7 According to
New York newspaper logic. why not
permit financial tenderloin" In Wall
Street and Maiden Lane? Why not
permit a disease tenderloin" in Cen
.ral Park7 "Thieves will be thieves"
and we shall always have thieves in
the world. Why have jsils and isois-
tion hospitals and health regulations
at all il thieves and disease-carriers
will always be with us and we car
never rid the body polite Of such.
Why do you lend your support to the
ancient policy Of putting property
above persons? Why protect propertJ
and let humanity go hang?
The real question involved in the
present vice investigation is not, as
you seem to think, to demonstrate the
integrity and efficiency or otherwise Of
the Police Department, but to protect
New York from the contagior Of every
plague-spot that imperils It's health
offends It's moral sense, menaces its
morass and efficiency In the prosecution
Of those inevitable and splendid tasks
which its premiership IN tho world has
thrust upon It.
The army that helped win the war IN
the interest Of international security
did SO by ruthlessly destroying every
thing that hindered its physical, ms
terial and moral strength. It won BY
such means. Is IL q defamation Of "our
fair city" 70 ergo upon our own beloved
community . similar policy in the In
terest Of our national security! VIII
our city bs any less fair for cutting
out it's eancers7
FREDERIC B. HoD0lNS.
New York. April 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12
Discreet Propaganda
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The anti-Sceialist bills, Il they
60 through. may for q time bar sns
open and perfectly legitimate tseeera.
ing to the Constitution Of the UHstee
Etates) activities of the radicals. oss
how can they silence tongues and STAY
pens in discreet propaganda
II some Of our leg!slstors took vss'
tion for q few months and devoted thai
time to The study Of history. they weua'
II possessed Of even = very modssas
amount Of brains. alter THAR tactics.
ANTI (BLo0DY) REVOLUTION .
New York. April Z 1ssA .-.4s
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12
A Sinecure

{From Ths Los Angeles Tymes>
Bainbridge Colby has finally been
confirmed as Secretary Of State and,
prohting by the mistakes Of Mr..
Lansing, who fondly imagined that
Secretary Of State had something
to do, will confne himself to sign
Ing passports. 1t Is not hard Job,
though likely to get monotonous at
times. But under e., Wilson regime
that is really all that is needed Of q
Secretary of State.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12
Unreal Preparedness"

Those who failed to read carefully
the recent testimony Of Admirals
Mayo, Rodman and Wilson may
have received from it the impression
that, in the view Of these witnesses,
the navy entered the war in a gen.
eral state Of preparedness. But the
testimony, critically examined, fails
to support such claim.
The preparedness they were think
ing Of was relative preparedness
on the part Of certain feet Units.
Admiral Rodman commanded the
battleship squadron which was sent
over for patrol duty in the North
Sea toward the end Of hostilities. It
was, no doubt, fit for the task as
signed it. There was no feet battle
In the North Sea after Jutland. The
critics Of tho departments policy
have never said that the Ameri-
can squadron attached to Admiral
Beatty's feet was unequal to the
specific task assigned to It.
Admiral Mayo reports that the
battleships Of the North Atlantic
fleet at the beginning Of hostilities
were in good condition and that the
morale Of the officers and men was
high. That is another single detail.
The ships and crews may have been
eager to go into battle in spite Of
many material handicaps. But no
aggressive use was made Of them
and none was contemplated. The
Navy Department informed Admiral
Sims In June, 1917, that it intended
to keep the fleet intact for after-the-
war purposes, "The future position
OF the United States must in no way
be jeopardized by any disintegration
OF our main fighting feet" was the
message sent to Sims in London.
Admiral Wilson told the sub.com-
mittee that II the German High Sea
Fleet had broken through the Brit
ish lines I'VE would have given it =
pretty good drubbing." That Is a
matter OF opinion. tits hardly likely
that the German High Sea Fleet,
after a battle with the British
Grand Fleet, would have been in a
condition to meet our navy. But our
aeet was not as well balanced as the
German fss1s and was startlin9ly
weak in certain most important
units--such as fast light cruisers
and destroyers. II contained no bat
tle-cruisers. 1t was not prepared
for war in the same sense as the
German and British navies were
prepared. And it was following. un-
der Mr.. Daniels's orders, the policy
OF avoiding disintegration through
action.
In a material and technical sense
our navy was far below the desired
maximum of preparedness. In a
moral and strategic sense 1t was still
more unprepared during tho early
months OF the war. We had no war
plans, Captain Laning, assistant In
the Office Of the Chief Of Operations,
has testified. He also said that a
week after war wad declared even
tho fsw bsttlsships caish wsrs able
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12

The interesting shift that has taken
place in the point of view of the
more thoughtful pacifist is we'll illus
trated by Jerome X. Jerome, writing
in the London weekly Common
Sense. Spite Of all the clamor for
the brotherhood Of man, he comedies
that "militarism is more firmly seat
ed in the heart Of man than ever be-
fore in the worlds history" A.
league Of nations to do away with
war? "As we'll league of dog fan
ciers to do away with dog fights.
The fact has got to be faced in all
its naked horror. Man loves fight.
ing for fighting's sake" And, pur-
suing his idea further, Mr.. Jerome
argues:
What brought the crowds In their
ten thousands to watch the haneinrs
at Tyburn? What brought the wom-
en- OF st. Antoine to pass tho morn
Ing knitting in the Place do Guillo-
tine? What draws tho men and tho
women and' the children for miles
around to an American lynehinr7
What draws the crowd Of urch,ns.
srinning and staggering. to peep
with greedy eyes through the cracks
In the slaughter-house door? Tho
beast that slumbers and waits in
every man, woman and child. We
give it pretty names: Patriotism.
Your King and Country Need You,
MY Country Right or Wrong, The
White Mans Burden, Chivalry.
Honor, For the Love Of Christ. The
name does not matter. II never did
matter. The real appeal ever was.
and Is, to the opportunity it gives to
man to slake his bloodlust."
Now, there is plenty Of basic truth
IN Mr.. Jeromes conception Of the
tiger lurking within each Of us. His
preaching is sound talk by compari-
son with the myopic pacifist who still
insists that wars are created by
munltion makers and capitalists gen.
orally. But in shifting to this
sounder ground tho paciist has made
another error Of fact almost as fatal
to sound conclusion as his earlier
error. No wonder the pacifist is to-
day more despondent than everl He
sees nothing but bloodlust behind the
pretty names" Of Patriotism and
Honor. What chance is there Of thu
world ever becoming more peaceful
or moral If this picture is t-ue?
The answer is, we think, clear In
any one who has ever shared tho
sentiments in question. There ava
the highest and finest emotions Of All
mans spiritual experience In theas
words. We do not mean that patriot.
ism is all splendor and sacrifice. W.
DO not mean that the beast described
by Mr.. Jerome plays no part in war.
Human nature 10 composed Of uany
elsments. The beast does 1usk ~ &ua
New-York tribune., 1920-04-12
R121c BY

said: "tan you make me . very sour
lemonade, Mr.. Bartender" This was
before the days Of the Volstead act.
and naturally Sandy Ferguson felt az
grieved.
Ferguson was noted bad man. He
carried two guns and they werc gen.
erously notched. OF course, we do not
need to tell the reader that Bard only
smiled when Sandy covered him with
both guns and that when the had man,
disconnected by these steady nerves, at
tempted to stab with him a knife, he
duckcd the blow and laid out his as
sailant with pretty right hand cross.
After that we never worried about
Bard. When he was trapped in the
ranch house by thirty men he merely
shot the wire on which the big lamp
hung from the ceiling and escaped while
the cowboys were fighting the fire. Then
when Nash tried to throw a lassoo
about him as he swan the swollen river
he cut that with another bullet. Sally
Fortune was lucky girl to win him
for her own, because he must have been
handy man about the house.
Long before we had finished tho book
we had ceased to wonder so much at
the nerve of Bard as at the extraordi-
nary courage Of Max Brand, who did
not seem to be afraid to put every
time-worn situation of Western fiction
into his novel. Nor did Mr.. Brand ever
exhibit the slightest temerity in solv-
ing each situation as it always has been
solved. Nevertheless, we found the
book amusing. Certainly the action is
continuous, and we must confess that
although we knew the tenderfoot would
vanquish every bad man who came in
his way we rather wanted him Co win
Probably the earliest recorded COM
plant OF the deleterious effect of the
films is to be found in the areopagitica
OF Milton in the lines; "When God gave
Adam reason, he gave him freedom to
choose: he had else been a mere arti-
fetal Adam, such an Adam as seen in
the motions"
Justice compels US to admit that we
did not come across this while browsing
about in Milton, but found in Helen
Haiman Joseph's "a Book Of Marion
ettes," which is published by Huebsch.
We have not yet had time to xead the
book entire, but we are already pre-
pared to re~ort that in all Its physical
attributes this is the handsomest book
which has come our way this season.
1t has been said that no form Of
autobiography Is so revealing as col.
iections Of letters, and q notable addi-
ton to this fielG of literature is con-
tanned in the two-volume edition Of 1.-THE
Letters Of Henry James," which Is pub
lishcd by Scribner's.