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New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
Foes Of the Schools

The radically minded Teachers
Union has authorized what it is
pleased to call "a scientific investi-
2ation,' or survey, Of the working
conditions of New York City teach
els TO make certain the nature of
the findings, Henry r. Linville, pres
ident of the union, will make the sur
vey. He announces he will resign
January 1 to undertake the "investi-
cation" Expenses will be borne by
the several hundred members Of the
union, who Will Brindellize monthly
for a period Of three years.
The union is not satisfied with the
salary increases, amounting to 80
per cent, allowed by the State Legis-
lature, nor with general social con-
ditions, Of which its leaders are wont
10 voice blatant disapproval A
large number of its members are
cut-and-out BolsheVilz sympathizers.
Their secretary the next day after
adoption Of the survey program de-
nounced the Allies for maintaining
a blockade against Soviet Russia.
Linville has revealed himself as
a most ardent advocate of the "com-
ing social revolution" and it may
he assumed that the investigation
has for its ultimate object the
spreading of propaganda among the
teaching force and the city's 80O,-
900 school children.
The Teachers Union, which in no
sense can claim credit for the ad-
vance in teachers pay and the con-
soquent drawing back into the pro-
fession Of many highly trained in
structors, is concerning itself with
political matters. 1t is an agency
Of party. 1t is thus out of SYM
pathy with one basic idea of the
public school system, which at all
times is to be kept free of religious
racial and partisan prejudices.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
The Conductor Pays
the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: After being employed for a
number of years by various railroads,
during which time | travelled on a pass,
afterward became q commuter. It
Was not long before l left my commu-
tation ticket at home and discovered it
on the morning train am sure the
conductor knew | was a regular com
muter, and l think ne knew my family,
because we once lived in his home town.
but | had never been employed by this
road. l explained the matter to him
when he asked for nv ticket, and, after
glancing sharply at the man seated be
side me "a stranger to me-, he told me
to look carefully through my pockets
and he would be back later. He did not
come back.
On the return trip at night the con
ductor was a perfect stranger to me
but he knew | was commuter I ex-
planned the matter to him on the plat
form before the train started and Of
fered to pay my fare if there was nc
other way. He asked ne to help him
out little and said if | followed has
instructions he could fix it. This !
did, but do not think l should explain
further So l rode both ways free
Some time later l was talking it over
with railroad employee and he told
ne that the first conductor, who hac
oeen over thirty years with the road
had been recently laid off for thirty
days without pay for passing another
commuter who had forgotten his ticket
Another passenger had watched the
proceeding and reported him to the
company.
After that made up my mind to in
sist on paying my fare II ever forgo
my ticket again. MOTIVE POWER.
New York, Nov 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
Philadelphia's Police Troubles

New York has its police troubles,
but they are not more acute than
those Of Philadelphia. Banditry
reigns in Philly. Even in the heart
of the city, in business centers and
residential districts alike, the tale of
robbery and murder goes on. Rarely
are the criminals caught. They
make their getaways in the midst of
crowds Of paralyzed citizens and
under the very eyes of the officers of
the law.
The Director of Public Safety,
James 7. Cortelyou, brother of the
former Secretary Of the Treasury
and for some years the very efficient
chief inspector Of the postofficc, has
devised a comprehensive plan to
rect the emergency. He wants more
policemen, and ne particularly wants
more automobiles and motorcycles
for quick pursuits. He further pro-
poses a system Of stations so ar
ranged as to command all the chief
thoroughfares, connected by electri-
cal signals. in order that an alarm
may at once be spread and the flee
ing bandits be intercepted at stra-
tegical points.
The plan is ingenious, but does not
touch the main difliculty-namely,
that the police force of Philadelphia
Is, and has been for years, controlled
by political bosses. Since the mag
i,trates are in most cases similarly
controlled, the underworld is in little
danger of undue annoyance. The
present Mayor, j. Hampton Moore,
took office as reforner, but it does
rot appear that he has achieved any
distinctive results in this direction,
and his fulmnations against boss
control are regarded in some quar-
ters as Of the nature of heat light
ming. He apparently lacks the de-
termination to take the police force
out Of pelitics at all COSTA AmA he
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
The Two IreIands

The great desire of liberal Eng
lishmen to do justice to Ireland and
to remove all justification for Irish
bitterness is illustrated by the speech
of Viscount Grey on the Irish ques-
ton.
In view of this utterance by a
man recently Great Britain's For
eign Minister and who in private
life exercises great influence, it
would not seem as if all England
were filed with malignant hate of
Ireland or that her only policy is
to conquer and to oppress. Rather,
it would seem that there is eager
ness to do everything possible to ar
rive at righteous settlement.
Viscount Grey argues for autonomy
for Ireland equal to that enjoyed by
the self-governing overseas British
dominions and would have no i'm
perial troops maintained in Ireland,
unless their presence was asked for.
The practical weakness Of the
Grey plan, if it may be Judged by an
outsider, is that it fails to face a
fact that has wrecked other Home
Rule plans. 1t assumes that Ireland
is a political unity and is inhabited
by but one nation. 1t is VIGOROUSLY
a political disunity and II inhabited
by two nations. One nation wants
independence, while the other would
have closer connections with Great
Britain. Thus it is impossible to
give self determination to one Irish
nation without denying it to the
other.
Both Of the Irish nations, though
for contrary reasons, are opposed to
the Lloyd George Home Rule formu-
la. There is no evidence that they
would unite in favor of the Grey
formula. Indeed, it may be assumed
that the less numerous Irish nation
would more bitterly oppose the Grey
plan than it does the Lloyd George
plan, and it is doubtful whether the
more numerous Irish nation could
be induced to favor it.
No solution of the Irish question
seems likely until all sides agree
either to compromise or to abstain
from claiming rights not conceded in
full to the other side. AS things now
are, there seems to be little spirit of
compromise, and Ulster invokes
against South Ireland the principle
of elf-determination which South
Ireland invokes against England.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
The Rockefeller Gift

Still holding tightly to the Bible
doctrine that a rich man, with re-
spect to his possessions, is a steward
who must render an account, John d.
Rockefeller has added $63, ,000,0 900 to
the already great total Of his gifts.
In view of the confusion ener-
getically introduced into many minds
! by recent miseducation it may not be
without profit to consider for a few
minutes the character of this trans
fer Before it was made Mr. Rookie
feller possessed, through ownership
of this capital, a personal power to
command, at $5 a day, the labor of
100000 men working one day
each. Now this power is designated
to trustees who are authorized to
apply the result of this work to the
betterment of the condition of wom-
en- and children. Nothing is added to
or taken away from the store of ex-
isting wealth and capital. All that
has been done is to segregate to a
particular object q specified amount.
Such donations are commonly
spoken of as being for public pur-
poses. They are. Of course. But
they mean Withdrawal of support
from other purposes which may be
equally public. When a rich man re-
tains possession and exclusive con-
troll of wealth it's income is seldom
expended to promote private ends.
When it goes to build needed new
factory, or railroad, or to dig new
canals, or to any other great improv-
ing work there is public benefaction.
In a special case the question to be
decided is whether the public need Of
amelioration funds is greater than
the public need Of creative enter
prises.
At times in human history the
philanthropic influence has been too
strong and too great Indulgence Of
it has brought harm. Witness the
period of England when more than
half the wealth Of the country was
under the control of institutions of
beneicencc. 1t became a social
necessity to pass the statute against
mortmain. Experience showed that
in dead hands capital manifested too
little enterprise and initiative 1t
surely would be a misfortune to this
country if the income Of all existing
wealth was dedicated to maintaining
institutions of religion, or education,
or even of relief. In private hands
enough must be retained to carry on
and to help create more.
Shallow thinking of radicals has
been able to stigmatze profits to
some degree and to make possession
seem sinful, but the light is break
ing once more into dark places. 1t
is once again coming to be realized
that the capitalistic system, notwith-
standing the abuses often marking
it. is at bottom scheme or plan by
which the ablest, by working for
themselves, at the same time work
for all, and thus push the human
race forward
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

celebrated by bayonet thrust. So it
is not impossible that Lenine deems
it time to end the joke.
But though the Lenine rubles are
buried in the pockets of the last
holders, Russia will not be entirely
moneyless. The Bolshevist commits
saries, to the extent of their op-
portunities, are getting hold of gold,
Of platinum, of jewels and of other
portables. What they lay hands on
they do not let go Of except for an
equivalent. To them that is money
which does the work Of money, and
a moneyless millennium has no per-
sonal attraction for them. To the
Russian people money may already
be chiefly memory, but not SO to
their masters.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
The Armenian Tragedy

The net result Of the League AS
sembly's outburst Of sympathy with
Armenia is a call for some power to
mediate between the Armenians and
Mustapha Kemal. The United States
is not excluded from the list of eli
gible mediators. This country was
expected by the peace conference
negotiators to accept a mandate for
Armenia, and at the invitation Of
the Allied Council President Wilson
is now drawing the boundaries of the
Armenian state planned by the
makers of the new world order.
Meanwhile Mustapha Kemal's
forces have entered EriVan. the cap
ital of the circumscribed Armenian
republic, which FOR the last two years
has been leading precarious eX-
istence in Russian Armenian terri
tory. Any power now accepting the
task of negotiating with the Turkish
Nationalists must face the fact that
Armenia has become again only a
geographical term. It's territory
has reverted to the Turks and the
Soviets.
No power would care much to ac-
oept a mandate for q nation which
exists only on paper. Europe would
be vastly relieved if the United
States should offer to act as a guar
dian for the submerged republic
Congress declined to accept a man
date when there was stll an Ar
menian government and the Treaty
of Sevres. conhning the Turks tc
Anatolia, still seemed capable of en-
forcement. The treaty has become
dead letter, because Mustapha
hemal refuses to recognize it and
there are no Allied forces available
to compel his submission. What
Congress thought SIX months age
was too costly an adventure fol
America has now become prohibitive
rot only ON account of the enormous
expense of it but also because OF
distant international complications
which couldn't be escaped from
within calculabe period
Unfortunately, the proposed break
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
Coal Trade Abuses

Senator Calder is a man not given
to radical theories or the advocacy
of paternalistic legislation. When
an investigator Of his cautious tenn
permanent says that the coal industry
ought to be subjected to Federal
regulation it is safe to assume that
there is a great deal the matter with
that industry.
Many other investigators have re-
ported that the coal industry is in
efficiently conducted-that it is over
manned, suffers from undue seasonal
lay-offs and abbreviated work
ing hours and is economically far be-
hind the times. The Senator doesn't
go into this broader question. But as
the result of many committee hear
ings he is satisfied that the machin-
cry of delivery is faulty and much
too costly. He attributes most of the
present retail overcharges to prof.
teering and speculation and says
that the operators who admit these
evils haven't shown much zeal yet in
the way of putting the industry back
on fair basis.
Coal is a prime necessity. Time
and again the consumer finds his
supply short when the winter season
opens. He has to pay famine price
for an article produced all the year
round. He can discover no reason
able relation between the price
charged him and the price at the
pits mouth. He isn't able to under
stand why coal shouldn't be distrib-
uted properly in the summer and
early fall.
The testimony collected by Senator
Calder points to an artificial disturb
ance Of the market for the purpose
Of forcing up prices. We had Fed
eral coal board during the war, and
its activities at least repressed gross
eXtortiOn. 1t was put out Of business
last spring. Since then the lack of
firm control from the outside has
been sadly felt. The Lever act is on
the statute book, but only few
small-fry have ever been picked off
by the volubls takers who have been
enforcing it. The evils of the stu
alton need to be handled at the
source. not sniped at from the out
skirts.
The public is weary of being bled
by speculative middiemen. If those
who mine coal cannot rid themselves
Of these leeches Federal supervision
may be a help to them. 1t could
hardly make matters worse for the
afflicted consumer than they have
been recently.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
Auto Census Called Absurd

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Something that seems to me to
be absurd is the current police inspec-
tion of automobiles. No mechanical
examination Of any value could be con-
Quoted inside of an hour or two, and
there are probably few policemen
competent to make it, but 1 have not
heard Of a case where even q cursory
mechanical examination was attempted.
To suppose that such an inspection
will prove helpful in finding stolen
cars is ridiculous. After the cam
paign's plans had ell been carefully
published, even a thief would conclude
that he had better keep his car Off the
streets or get it out of the city by
night. A small thing, but another evil
dence Of houghtlessness, is the fact
that the makers of the pastors which
certify inspection put the glue on the
wrong side, SO that either the paper
must be fastened on the outside Of the
windshield, exposed to the rain. or else
the driver alone may enjoy the privi-
lege of knowing that it is the original
slip given by an officer of the law.
Unique tionably the idea behind auto
mobile inspection and supervision over
decorations in public halls is praise
worthy and aimed fer the public good.
but can't we have the execution of the
details guided in a less laundering man.
ner? A WOMAN
Brooklyn, Nov. %. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
The Coming ower
THE WAR ORPHANS, rrrE


[The author acknowledges hts indebtedness
to Mr. Alfred Noyes1
read that for the fathcrless
And mothcrcss of France,
They gave wild Venetian Fete,
A Bacchanalinn dance.
wonder what the orphans thought
OF such circumstance?
The rooms Of crystal and Of gold
Were heavy with perfume
There were bright costumes of brocade
From many a busy loom.
And champagne flowed from golden cups
In every flaming ROOM
Gay dinners, served on golden plates,
Were planned with special care.
One woman wore comb of gems
Within her raven hair;
1t cost cannot quite recall
But more than any there.
The folk Of fashion did their bit
To help q stricken world
The orchestra was loud with Jazz
AS long the dancers whirled
At midnight. near the courtroom door,
There was a drunkard curled
Disguised beneath their wigs and paint,
The men and women screamed,
And showed and pushed and romped and
roared
Like something one has dreamed .
This was the crowd that lately cried
"The world has been redeemed r.
Then 'breakfast" came at four o'clock
whisky-sodden crew
Went home in rosy limousincs
To sleep till after two
Thank God the orphans Over There,
Thank God they never knew!
CHARLES HANSON TowNn.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
a MoneYless Russia

If our more or less highly esteemed
contemporary the Berlin Red Flag
is correctly informed, the dictator Of
Soviet Russia, on January ! next,
will issue a decree formally abolish
ing money. The root of all evil is
to be torn up and cast into the revo-
lutionary furnace. The symbol and
servant Of infamous capitalism is to
exist no more, and when our chill
dren are grown SO runs the glad
tidingsl they will know money only
by memory"
If the decree is issued it will es-
tablish nothing new-will merely
recognize what already is. The peo-
pie of Russia have no money now
have not had money for a long time.
First, the presses of Lenine printed
millions of rubles, then billions, and
at last accounts the output was in
the trillions. The watering process
has gone on so rapidly that now
there is no flavor of money remain
ing. Purchasing power, the essence
of money, is gone. A peasant will
not voluntarily trade g. bushel of
wheat for a bale of paper. The cur
rency is not current. 1t is no stand
ard of value If is no medium, Of
exchange unless acceptance is &C.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
An Awful Prospect
(From The Kansas city stor,

From The Kansas city star)
It is sincerely hoped this little mis-
understanding between the cable COM
Vany and the State Department will not
reduce Secretary Colby to the terrible
necessity of using Postmaster General
Burlesons nail service.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

You can puroha.c merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safety--for II dlssatisfac-
ton results In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
10 pay ysur money back upon request No red taps.
Ne euikbIIns We make GOOD promptly II the
eovsrtlse. doss net.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
The Perfect Servant

(From II Samuel, l6; discovered by II. p R.)
And when David was a little past the
top of the hill behold. Ziba. the servant of
Mephiboseth, met him. with a couple of
asses saddled and upon them two hundred
loaves of bread, and an hundred punches
Of raisins, and an hundred Of summer fruits,
and bottle OF wine.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

Old man Roget for some, and Funk
& Wagnalls for others; but for G. H
w. the rhythmic appeal lay in the
math. textbook-it sounds like Hall &,
knight to us. Thus:
The product of Constant and Vari-
able is Variable;
And the limit of the product of a
Constant and a Variable
Is the product of the Constant and the
limit of the Variable.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

dullness. Nobody can deny the appeal
ing quality of sacrifice, but it must
be for a purpose. Like the flying tackler
who misses and falls on his face. use
less sacrifice is leap into the domain
OF the ridiculous. A man must be shrewd
as well as brave if he would be a hero
The trouble with Archer's sacrifice was
that it would never work. Whom God
has put asunder man cannot ioin to-
gether with the best viii in the world
The calm peace which descends upon
the Archer household thirty years after
Newland's great sacrifice for the sake
of May, his wife, is distinctly the con-
tribution of the novelist. In reality.
we believe that at the end of thirty
years Archer would still be sorry that
he had remained at home to tend his
duty, and by that time we have also
at least a suspicion that May would
have begun to share his feeling One
Of the greatest arguments against indis-
criminate sacrifice is not only that it
may be bad for the victim but con-
foundedly wearing upon the person sup
posed to benefit by his deed.
But whether one takes Mrs Wharton's
point of view or not he can hardly deny
that she has written brilliant novel.
Her picture of a place and period is ex-
traordinarily fascinating by virtue not
only of truth. but selected truth. The
reader sees the thing he wants and is
burdened with nothing more. Her pic
ture of the New York and the Newport
of 1870 is more than research 1t is
recreation.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26
ur,fprR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
rse FOR republication Of all dispatches
credited 70 II otherwise credited in this paper.
and also the local news OF spontaneous origin pub
jishsd herein.
All rights OF republication OF all ether matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

1t is Mr.. Brock Pemberton's notion
that the cast of Miss Zona Gales play
might include John Flood. and" Of
fers Harriette Underhill, "Marguerite
Snow" "Has a bid for the movie
rights" asks J. J. R., been entered
by Emil Schauer?"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

Our recollection of 1885, or ever the
cadence of Miss Mllay's name kept us
awake, this refrain-a nightmare OF
First Year Latin and Greek History
and Plane Geometry-course through
our little brain:
Amo, amas, amat; the Spartans
isosceles triangles.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

Well, the artist who drew "The
Greatest Mother in the World" poster
wasn't, as printed herein, A. e. Faringer,
but A. E. Foringer. The error is not
ours, the compositors, or the proof
readers. 1t is the American Red
Cross's. We telephoned the A. r. C.
and it was thus spelled to us.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

is no Hylan, and demoralized Phila-
delphia, not without hope and no
longer contented with corruption, is
pleading strenuously to him.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

After January l money is to be abol-
ished in Russia, and our guess is that
happiness will result Where, frexamp
is happier, more contented crowd
than The Tower contribs?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

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New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

Although it is our belief that there
Is too much genuhection in America
to British authors, we think that if
we ever should meet H. G. Wells or
John Maseheld we should swoon.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

Stationery for pardons is expensive.
+. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

In a Newark cobblery: Preparation
made until while you wait"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

Entered at the Tos,orce at New York Second
Class Mail Matter.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-26

Perhaps it is as we'll that the Wall
Street explosion still is mystery.