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New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
Soaring Beef Prices

During April whole beef carcasscs
sold in New York for an average of
IS cents g pound. Last week the
price was 25 cents. A jump of
nearly 40 per cent has come. On
choice cuts the present advance
means approximately Is cents a
pound more to the wholesaler. What
will be the boost of the alert retailer
can be imagined.
No clear explanation is furnished
A year ago the packers warned gov
ernment investigators that if mon
key wrenches were thrown into the
machinery Of the packing companies
the consequences to the public would
be grave. But prosecution was not
stopped and the companies made
what was called a voluntary reor-
ganization. Perhaps this dismem-
berment has contributed to the price
leap. Oil products and tobacco went
up when the DEGREES against the
Standard Oil Company and the
American Tobacco Company were
entered. But no facts are at hand
showing that the packers have been
forced to abandon economies.
The reasons for the rise thus far
given are freight congestion and
scarcity Of cattle because of oversea
shipments. These factors hardly
completely account for the sensa-
tional advance. 1t Is probable that
the chief cause Is the unproftablc-
ness of cattle feeding. 1t has been
the practice of thousands of farmers
to buy lean cattle at the stockyards
and then to. fatten them. But the
price Of corn is SO high that it pays
better to sell the grain. Many stock
feeders have lost money and have
quit the business in disgust. Not
until corn reccdcs in price is it likely
the American herd will build up.
And to build it up requires three
years.
Another element making for high
or beef prices is the closing down of
the distilleries, whose mash fur
nished a relatively cheap cattle food.
Cattle raisers have been selling off
their stock for more than year,
and though the FIRST effect was to
depress prices the final effect is to
raise them.
The outlook Is that beef will be a
luxury for some time. The packers
and the dealers will be, of course
rallied at, and to some degree the
farmers, but this, as usual, probably
will achieve nothing. All the pub
lie can do is to see that in the jour
ney from producer to consumer no
abnormal profits arc exacted.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
These Romantic Democrats

A dour and solemn lot are Republi
cans by the side Of these romantic
Democrats. At San Francisco life is
just one gulping heart throb after
another. AS, for instance, when all
Democracy rises to its hind legs and
chants "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" and
"The Sidewalks of New York" to
the glory Of "Al" Smith and the
Bowery.
A liking for the very likable "Al"
himself doubtless furnished much
of the impetus behind this demon
stration. But that was not the
whole story. The Bowery is not the
Bowery Gas New Workers. know it,
to the heart Of Democracy that
beats beyond the Hudson. 1t is
quite as unreal and romantic as the
Golden Gate is to us by the Atlantic.
1t Is thing Of fights and dancing
and gayety and larking boys and
waltzing girls and idyllic dope
dreams, and all the other enrhant-
ments which good old distance
obligingly lends.
Here, seen close aboard, there has
been less magic in "Al's' birthplace.
The principal lights have been red
lights; the boys shoot a Rosenthal
for a price. and crime and corruption
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
The Internationals

1t is q hard road that the alien
visitor in search of an athletic
trophy travels, however great the
good will and sportsmanship of the
visited nation. Americans need not
be too cast down by the poor show
ing of our one home bred golfer,
Walter Hagen, in the professional
golf championship at Deal. We
should noti be 100 confident of what
Mr.. Tilden, of Philadelphia, will do
to Mr.. Patterson, of Australia, when
they meet, in the challenge round at
Wimbledon. This particular tennis
star has done superbly in the tour
nament rounds just finished. Facing
Patterson, who has not had to play
through the tournament, he may or
may not repeat.
The same considerations operate
in our favor in the Americas Cup
race. The odds of 2 to 1 in favor of
the Resolute are probably justified,
excellent boat as is the new Sham
rock " and great as is her designer.
The handicap of crossing an ocean
and tuning up yacht-or a human
being-in an alien climate and
among alien influences is a severe
one.
Thus far Mile. Suzanne Lenglen
is the only foreigner to win outside
her home country. Her internation-
al tennis victory was striking and
impressive, for the standard of
woman's tennis play in England was
never higher. Her success confirms
the impression already prevalent
that this young Frenchwoman is an
athletic marvel of the first rank,
without comparable woman rival
in any other sport.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
Establishing a MYTH

The familiar excuse for the Pres
ident's prolonged deafness to the call
of imperiled righteousness is that
the American people were selfshly
apathetic. Sentiment in this coun-
try, we are told, was dead until
aroused by slow process of educa>
ton. This pretty theory, now being
paraded at San Francisco, Of
course, requires forgetfulness Of
most Of the Presidents utterances
and his obliviousness to the need Of
preparation. But among partisans
it still doubtless commands some
acceptance.
But what vitality there is to the
theory is brought to an end by the
revelations Of Won Bernstorff. He
says in his book it was plain that
if Congress had been in session when
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

the Lusitania was sunk the Presi-
dents influence would not have suf-
feed to keep us out Of the war.
He attributes to an interview with
the President the preservation Of
peaceful relations between Germany
and the United States. Greatly
fearing a rupture, he hastcned to
the White House and came away
convinced, he declares, that the
President would never sanction war.
The only apprehension was whether
Roosevelt would have influence on
public opinion. He does not con-
ceal his belief that if Roosevelt had
been President German Vaccinations
would have been in vain. Did Roose-
velt or Wilson represent American
feeling at the crisis? Won Bern
storff leaves no doubt as to his
own opinion on this point.
The idea that President Wilson
led reluctant nation to assert it's
manhood and it's honor is contrary
to all the facts. 1t was quito the
other way. The President paltered
with words and juggled with facts
while the popular resentment rose
higher and higher until 1t compelled
him reluctantly to act. Yet with this
record staring them in the face the
Wilsonites at San Francisco are
seeking to establish the myth that
the President and his party are
slngularly sensitive to moral ap-
peals from over the sea and that the
wicked Republicans are so dead of
soul that they delight in avoiding
the performance of international
duty.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
Books
By
Frederic F. Van de Water

Katharine Haviland Taylor's "Yellow
Soap" Doubleday Page G. Co.. has not
only villain who would appear to ad-
vantage in an old fashioned three vol
ume novel, but also possesses a perfect
ly grand paper cover
Our short experience with books has
taught US that the more perfectly grand
volumes jacket is the less you need
expect to find inside it. The discovery
of the villain shattered what we had
begun to regard as we'll established
rule, and we suffered only minor shocks
when we discovered how much better
yellow Soap was as a whole than its
cover indicated it would be.
There is boy who grows up in the
underworld and, naturally enough, be-
comes motion picture magnate. There
is also lovely young heroine who is
supposed to be charming and sometimes
is. Best of all, there is her villainous
father.
He, we believe, is the most poisonous
OA AAAo eAADo CAnV Wo nave IuGC Oh recent
years. Villains of late have been losing
their punch. Those still introduced into
works Of fiction are apologized for and
condoned from the very start of their
careers. The fraternity has been going
to seed badly. 1t is comfort to meet,
after scores of these anemic specimens.
one of the old robust type, packed down
and running over with evil; blood
brother to Uriah Heep and Long John
Silver.
There is pathos and drama in Miss
Taylor's story as we'll as villainy. We
rather wish, though, that she had spent
more space on her hero as tramp and
less on his sentimental campaign when
he became a baron Of the films.
1t is hard, after the struggle of the
hero to keep from starving to death,
to hold your interest up to the same
height in his effort to win the lady Of
his heart, especially when you feel
morally certain that the outcome will
be eminently conventional and salts
factory.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

party bosses. SO emancipation is in
sight for the anti-Murphy district
delegates from this state.
In some of the other primary
states the unit rule has been
dropped by general consent. Prob
ably it can't last very much longer
in Democratic national conventions.
1t Is in. .consonance with the auto
cratic methods of the present Ad-
ministration. But it conflicts with
the increasing demand for party
self government. Tho San Francisco
convention is notoriously "hand-
picked" But it is intelligent enough
to see that the days of thumb
screw unit rule are past.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
The Clinton, Ia, Idea

Sir: Permit me, also, to bear wit
ness to the courtesy of the same Clin-
ton upheld by A. NJ. Adams. arrived
there on a hot and dusty evening last
year. Despite the fact that it was
nearly sixteen minutes after o'clock,
Municipal Closing time, was enabled
to purchase utterly without difficulty
two new 85x4h cord tires at Eastern
Prices, regardless of the fact that
Clinton is West Of the Mississippi.
After 1900 miles the four-inch tube
IN one went fiat in the Mohave desert,
on my way home. Hey Broun should
have known Clinton, If for no other
reason, by the celebrated clamshells
found in the Mississippi at that point,
sometimes containing lustrous combi.
nations Of lime and horn known as
pearls. In Trinidad, Colorado,
bought two tires. one at night, ono in
the morning, the last two in town,
neither what I wanted, and tho price
Western and courtesy the same.
RAY.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

have had there a fostering spot.
Here in days gone by Tweed and
Tammany built their beginnings;
and here to-day Tammany still
counts her faithful votes for vileness
and corruption, year after year.
That "Al" Smith came from the
Bowery is not to be held against him.
That he has always been and still
is loyal Tammany man marks him
with brand which no Democrat,
however distant or romantic, ought
easily to forget.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
That Boston Quaker

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of to-day is a let
ter purporting to have been written by
loyalist in Boston at the time of the
Battle of Bunker HILL The letter is
unsigned. The writer uses the Quaker
form-when he thinks of it. There
were no Quakers in Boston at that time
Quakers and Baptists were anathema
They found refuge in Rhode Island. The
Lord Howe was an admiral. The general
who directed the assaults was Sir
William Howe.
ROBERT W. LEONARD.
Mount Kisco, N. Y, June 81, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

Croping More Acute Because Of
Attacks on Landlords

ATTACKS on Landlords
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Mr.. Manierre's letter, published
on the editorial page of The Tribune
of juno 26, is the clearest and most
concise statement have seen in con-
nection with the present housing crisis.
The antagonism to landlords, as
shown by the renting public and re-
f1ected in the newspapers, is TODAY the
greatest obstacle to the necessary re,
lief.
Even though we may overcome the
uncertainty of the labor situation and
secure q large supply of money for
building purposes, the building Of
apartment houses will be severely re-
stricted, because the speculative build
er knows that, with the present feel
ing, outside capital will not purchase
his finished building while the attacks
on landlords continue; and if he cam
not sell his product at a profit, why
should he build?
The restrictive laws as applied to
apartment houses, passed with such
haste at Albany, have had an immedi-
ate effect, which is shown by the in
creased number of Office buildings
planned, because they are unaffected
by these laws, and the decreased num-
Der of plans filed for housing accom-
modatons.
The shortage of Office space will soon
react to the normal level through the
operation Of the old law Of "supply
and demand" but in the meantime,
through ill-conceived legislation and
the lively Socalistic propaganda
against landlords, the housing situa-
tion will grow more acute.
Until a moro sensible view Of the
business of building homes is reached
and 1T is treated as a business and
not as mere philanthropic vocation
there will be no adequate relief.
DOUGLAS L. ELLIMAN.
New York, June 28, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
Cleanliness Next to Decaderce

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The editor of The Tribune fails
lamentably to make out a case for
cleanliness. Himself he muses. whether
it might not be easier to make out a
case against soap, SO far as it may be
conjectured to affect civilization.
Indeed. and he's right. It's much
easier. Take that accurate reflection
Of ourselves, the stage To-day, in
our superscrubbed and scented sane
tity, cursory view of the plays crowd
ing our theaters. proves the most nox-
ious the most popular. We might even
trace an analogy between the de-
cadence of our minds and the cleanli-
ness of our bodies. Nowadays any one
who does not get his bath every day
has fit. Ergo, we are too clean of
body to have time to clean our minds.
And then look at Shakespeare and our
intermittent attempts to revive him.
And then look at Shakespeare in Shake
speare's day, without our highly skilled
supporting casts, without our elaborate
stage settings, costumes and lighting
effects. Why, in Shakespeare's day;
could you or I have ventured into one
of their theaters, we would have had
to have our noses tightly clamped with
clothespins. Sans underclothing, sans
bathtubs, sans board Of health to
teach them better Cor worse), sans one
hundred other things that we consider
erser tial, they must have smeiled to
heaven--but they went to see Shake.
speare. And they supported his plays
and he wrote two Of them a year, and
the theater was always crowded from
the pit to the gallery.
One could 60 on and on, but It's too
unpleasant.
GERTRUDE WE'LL KLEIN.
Brooklyn. June 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
The Final Word
Prom The Chioooo Bnenino

prom The Chicago Euenino Post)
OF course, we cannot settle down on
this Presidency business till we hear
the verdict Of the magazines. AS yet
most of them have not gotten past the
mystic point indicated in the words {:
"By the time this issue reaches our
readers the Republican convention will
have named its candidate"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
Facts Which Remain Facts

ne SaH TdnClSCO COHVcutlOl
can resolve this way or that, as it
pleases, but no matter what are its
declarations it cannot change facts.
1t may say white is black, or red is
green, but this will not alter colors.
What is so will remain so.
Twenty-three Democratic Sena-
tors voted for the ratification, with
reservations, of the Treaty of Yer
sailles. Get a copy of the roll call
of March 19 last and scrutinize the
list. You will find there, voting for
ratification with reservations, the
Democratic Senators most distin-
guished for discernment and char
acter.
You will also find that the twenty
three, practically one-half of the
Democratic membership, voted for
ratification against the advice of the
President and despite all the pres
sure he could bring against them.
The twenty-three were very sure.
Here are facts which no scheme
of words fathered by a gathering
subsequently meeting can destroy or
weaken. The Democratic Senators
(for many stuck to the President for
party reasons against their own
judgment) overwhelmingly wanted
to ratify and to have this country
enter the League of Nations. The
President, and the President alone,
defeated ratification and prevented
this country joining the League of
Nations. This will be the verdict
of that history to which the San
Francisco orators are appealing.
The President said that accept
ance of ratification on the terms
prescribed implied a notification of
the league and made entry therein
farce. The twonty-three Demo
cratic Senators, not merely by their
words, but by their acts, said that
this was untrue.
SO also said the entire Republican
membership Of the Senate, for the
Republican irreconcilables were at
one with their party colleagues in
holding that ratification with reser-
vations was consequential.
Likewise so said the principal Of
ficers of the League to Enforce
Peace, including Mr.. Taft, Mr..
Hoover and President Lowell, who
have denied that ratification with
reservations was notification.
So also say our friends abroad,
who have clearly indicated that they
@ould gladly accept our reservations
and welcome us into the league
with our reservations defining our
participation.
Seemingly the only informed per
Son who thinks ratification with
reservations is notification is Wood
row Wilson. Which is the public to
accept? His unsupported say-so or
the general voice of mankind? Is
the President so singularly potent
that he alone is majority? Isn't
it more reasonable to infer that his
course Is the result Of motives other
than those which relate to the
organization Of the world for peace ?
There Is tragedy In this treaty
business. 1t is indeed tragic that
one man should have the power to
prevent the attainment of an objec-
tive which many regard as one Of the
chief purposes Of the war
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
The Process of Elimination

(From The Richmond Times Dtspatch)
Postmaster General Burleson has dis
missed an employee who criticized the
administration Of the department. II
he intends to exclude from the service
all Americans who criticize it, he will
have to rely entirely on infants of such
tender years and limited information as
to be incapable Of conversation.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

average summer novel. Considering our
experience with this years crop, it
might be only just to say that it is
much, much better.
CERTAIN OF our acQuaintances have
seen fit to laugh at US in a most un-
pleasant fashion for our recent defense
of New York against the literary on
slaught of Wallace Irwin. Worse than
that, they have hurled back at us GER
tain alleged remarks of our own that
make Mr.. Irwin's indictment seem fairly
mild.
Our only response is that New York
ers never praise their city to each
other. Most Of them go far in their
condemnation. But the repetition of
half of their own remarks by outlanders
could not possibly end in anything less
than a lynching
II story appeals to you at all that
begins with a recently made bride open
ing her hotel door only to have a beau
tiful woman, stabbed through the heart,
come tumbling in at her feet, read
William Johnston's "The Mystery in the
Ritsmore" Little, Brown & Co... That
is only the start of a mystery yarn
that turns and twists and drives and
scars in a most amazing and extremely
exciting fashion.
You'll find when you have finished
that your credulity has been strained
all out of shape and that many of the
laws Of probability have been shattered
but you'll also find that you've had a
bully time.
This IS not Mr.. Johnston's first mys-
terry story, but it is the best work of
hts pen we have read. We don't believe
that he can write another book along
these same lines that will not be an
anti-climax to "The Mystery in the
Ritsmore"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
A Large Order

From The Bostom EventnJ Transoript)
Well, let US not heavo too many bricks
at the Democratic convention. Remem.
Der that it also has two wings Of the
party to satisfy Is we'll 50 both ends Of
ireland.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
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Suggested toast, to be drunk in q
pony Of tepid grape Juice: ~ give you
the Democratic party"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

Economists may tell US that the cost
Of the Satevepost actually has advanced,
for although the same nickel buys it, its
advertising rates have increased greatly.
You buy an automobile and you pay for
the advertising. But the unadvertised
stuff is as costly; and the argument is
too involved to untangle on a warm
aftcrnoon
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

A rhythmic speaker is Senator Hard
ing. His eve do not mean to hold
aloof; we choose no isolation" sounds
like the opening chorus In a Gilbert
libretto. Thus:
We love to laugh, nor spurn to spool;
We are a chubby nation.
We do not mean to hold aloof;
We choose no isolation.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
JOHN GAY.

The gentleman sent US that box of
tennis balls, but if he hadn't we should
offer as an instance of commodity
whose price hadn't gone up, in spite
of increases in the cost of all its in
gradients, the Satevepost. 1t is, in our
opinion, the greatest jitney's worth Of
reading matter in the world.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

Mr.. Johnston is, we understand. an
old newspaperman. He did not pick up
his knowledge Of detective work from
the police of this city, however.
His book ends with the solution of tho
rdar
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02
G UARANTY

xss cas- purchase mercAandise advsrt|sea In THE
vhi5UkE with absolute :atstyGtSr = dIs.attstss.
b pay your money back upon request No RED tape.
No suieblins. We mako 5000 promptly II shs
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

sENEsCENCE

SENESCENCE
The outward and visible signs OF age
are merely indicative of what 10 going
on within the body. Subjectively
there Is gradual lessenlng Of the emo
tions--of Joy, Of the xest for adventure.
of the passions; one by ono their heights
decrease In altitude. The appetite for
food becomes less keen, and the desire
for physical activity less insistent.-
DR.. Stanley M. Rinehart in the Sateve-
post.]
Darling, I am growing old;
Signs Of age are manifold;
Such as. on my bean engraven,
Silver threads among the raven.
Yet, my darling, I've moro fun
Than I had at twenty-ona;
And my love for you is moro
Than 1t was at twenty-four.
Darling, am growing old,
CAS- you maybe have been told).
And, although 1 shake and dodder,
absorb lot Of fodder.
I can do more gastric tricks
Than l could at twenty-six.
Darling, I could write all day,
But I'm going out to play.
When Governor Brough seconded the
nomination Of Senator Owen he pulled
the old wheeze about Arkansas being
the only state mentioned in the Bible.
"Noah opened the window of the Ark
and saw" We tried to find reference
to another state, but failed. We looked,
however, through the Maine Concord
ance.
The ". k. Babe gets hon. mention in
Numbers xii, SO: "He that gathered
least gathered ten homers."
The Airplane ON the Beach
A half-heard hum in air
A swelling purr-
A roar that browns,
a moment only,
Slow-marching tramp
Of breakers.
A lonely child
Looks up from spade and sand
A moment only.
A roar, purr, hum
A silent shape diminishing
A glinting dragon-fy of dreams
That vanishes in haze.
A lonely child,
Piling sand
Forming a new dream
A dream to drown,
A moment only,
Eternal-marching tramp
OF breakers.
JOHN GAY.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

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