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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
MIR. McAdoo's Letter

Mr.. McAdoo has had his letter to
Senator Stanley read on the floor of
the Senate, thus relieving the nnx-
iety of those members Of the upper
house who wanted to hear from him
on the railroad relief bill. The rist
Of the communication is that fund
ing the railroad obligations to the
government is not 2 question Of legal
and moral obligation, but question
Of public policy. Such statement
can hardly injure the bills chances.
From the point Of view Of public
policy relief for the railroads is
urgent. Furthermore, the railroads
are not being helped as a favor to
them, but because a restoration Of
normal conditions in transportation
is essential to general business re-
covery.
Mr.. McAdoo's arguments are, in
the main, a cover for the gross mis-
takes Of the railroad administration,
Of which he was the first Director
General. He cites the fact that the
government advanced the roads on
capital account many hundreds of
millions Of dollars. 1t couldn't we'll
do otherwise, for the roads under
Federal control, receiving rentals
but suffering huge losses in net earn
ings, were not in a position to issue
bonds to take care Of these capital
disbursements.
The ex-Director General didn't
mention tho fact that he inflated
railroad costs Of operation without
increasing rates sufficiently to meet
them, or that the railroad admin
istration left the carriers, when vhey
were ready to be restored to their
owners, burdened with excessive op-
Grating ratios and on the verge of
receiverships. He and Director GEN
eral Hines could have returned them
strong and prosperous if they had
allowed them a fair return on scrv-
ice during the war period and had
not paid vast rental deficits out of
the Federal Treasury.
The moral obligation to assist the
railroads arises from tho govern
ment's maladministration of them
during the war period. The Geo.
nomic obligation arises from the fact
that prosperity in many other indus
tries is dependent on efficient Ind
successful railroad operation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
Protecting American Labor

For the seven months ended on
July 81 the total merchandise i'm
ports into the United States were in
value 81 ,499,2o4, 1856, against $3,4s1,-
617,44 in the same seven months Of
1920. The decrease thus is approxi-
mately 81 per cent.
The imports of manufactures
ready for consumption for the seven
months Of 1921 were in value $685.
437,535, against $528,430,9 1O last
year, decrease Of approximately SO
per cent. Taking account Of the de-
cline in prices, amounting to 20 per
cent, the inflow Of goods in volume
Is down only little more than 10
per cent.
1t will be recalled that in the
spring and early summer of 1914 the
Underwood tariff began to make its
influence felt. Foreign goods came
in in a great food. This country
seemed headed for an industrial de-
preston. The war stayed the
movement, but now it begins again,
accelerated by the fact that millions
Of Europeans are working for less
on a gold basis than in 1914.
The Fordney tariff bill is not
popular document. Its many crudi-
ties are admitted. It's schedules need
recasting. But the time is probably
not distant when the wisdom of a
tariff that will emphasize protection
will be more recognized than now.
The Underwood tariff was not
enough in 1914 to equalize differ
ences in labor costs. 1t is certainly
not enough now, with European
wages down and American wages up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
Nothing But Decorations
No Fund to Help Woman War
Worker Who Served With Red Cross

Worker Who Served With Red Cross
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sig, IA one Of your recent issues
appeared letter signed "Disabled
Civilian" The condition mentioned in
this letter is one which has not been
brought out in the press before, SO far
as l know. This was due perhaps to
natural dislike women have for pubs
licity, and more likely because the same
spirit Of altruism which led many Of
US into war work and overseas also
held US back from posing as martyrs
If we happened to have suffered in
consequence.
A woman voluntary war worker for
three years overseas, returned to tn,
United States as war widow, de-
prived Of pension on account of inter-
national red tape. and broken in health
as we'll as famed for life from an acci-
dent which occurred during my service
with the American Red Cross.
This organization allowed me thres
months compensation at $40 week
until l was able to get Job, after hav-
ing spent twelve weeks in a hospital
as consequence of the injury received
IN service. Naturally, tho compensa.
ton ceased automatically when I COM
menced work, but the financial difficult
ties of The winter made nv employer
regretfully dismiss another war worker
and myself among other employees.
For six months since losing my Job
I have tried continually to get an
ether place. Pawning and selling what
ever had to keep going and not being
able TO eat the two decorations I have
it has been a hungry search. / cannot
apply to the government, as vas ncu
employed by it. paid my own wag
over and SO am not entitled to a wat
risk bonus. cannot expect the Red
Cross to pension me, as want Il
work, and it Is strictly charitable
organization.
I see few Federal Board me1
working and walking around drawing
$40 monthly, which am glad the
get. With all the funds and drives,
why has no one thought Of establishl
ing fund where we who cannot trs
and who are not provided for in tHc
mazes of red tape which bind up 81
departments Of pensions, compensa'
lions and allowances may be allows
to draw the little We need to keep u
from thinking that the sacrifice n
made was In vain and that the riys'
IS pretty goodlooking place al
times? T n.
New York, Aug. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
Germany Making Headway
Her South American Trade Reported
Increasing at Our Expense

Increasing at Our Expense
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Passing over criticisms OF in
dividual statements which do not really
matter one way OR another, I am glad
to have reused William c. Wells, chief
statisticisn Of the Pan-American Union
The fact remains that the statemen
has been made, and + have repeated it,
that Germany is encroaching on the
trade which has been largely controlled
by the United States in South America
during the last few years. that this
encroachment has begun 10 &c heavy
during the last year and that we in the
United States have lost and are losing
ground.
I think that that is the thing to be
emphasized and brought to public at
tention for the benefit Of those engaged
in or desiring to engage in overseas
trade and particularly South American
trade.
Mr.. Wells admits that 1920 stats
tics are not yet available. Arc we to
wait for their publication before we
admit q condition that has been clear
to all observers who have been in the
field?
Except to statistician, percentages
in this particular instance, are Of little
value. The United States might go on
steadily year by year increasing its
percentages ard yet be as steadily, year
by year, losing trade. 1t depends,
does 1t not, what the other nations
total Of trade was ct the beginning, let
us say, Of 1920?
Mr.. Wells admits that "thc .otal
trade has fallen off enormously" We
that is those of US who have been re-
Gently in South America going over
the situation, see Germany's trade in
crcasing at our expense. That is all
We only desire to call attention to the
evidence of our eyes that German
ealcsmen arc better equipped just now
to sell certain products to South Amer
lea than are our own statesmen; that
they are selling German products in
competition with ours and that they
are making Roadway against US.
FRANCIS B. PURDIE.
Albany, N. Y, Aug. %, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
American Valuation
No Difficulty in Administering Ford
ney Tariff Bill Provision

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l have noted that one OF the
chief arguments against tho American
valuation plan, as proposed in the
Fordney tariff bill, is chat the admins
tratlvc features would be go intricate
that even q multitude Of customs Off
Gals could not obtain the true Amer
lean values.
America has never acknowledged in
feriority TO or defeat by any nation on
earth. In the World War the American
soldier proved himself superior to his
opponent. The American athlete has
carried off the laurels in competition
with the world. Statistics have proved
the American laborcr produces more
than the low-priced foreign laborer.
Why, then, should we assume that
American customs officials arc not at
least the equal Of foreign customs Of
fcials?
England leves its al valorem duties
on the value Of the goods at the place
of importation Holland, France and
Japan have long had this system and
Belgium adopted it within the year. It
is absurd to say that what works suc>
ccssfully in other countries will not
work in the United States.
Hero values are known by our manu-
facturcrs and emc rchants and even by
the consuming public to great ex-
tent American buyers in our large
dcpartmer stores could not retain
their positions If they wero not ex-
perts on both foreign and domestic
values. 1t is the duty Of our customs
officials TO know values. They have
had many years Of training in this proc
css.
1t is strange to hear 1t said by op-
ronents Of the American valuation plan
that American customs examiners and
appraisers could not successfully ad-
minister a law that foreign officials in
other countries have no difficulty lr
administering. 1t would be far easier
for our officials to ascertain the true
American value than it Is to get the
real foreign value
WILLIAM A. CLIFF.
New York, Aug. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
Civil War Revenue Stamina

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t might be we'll to inform your
correspondent Maurice Inman of the
fact, which you doubtless know. that
at the time Of cur Civil War and, /
believe, for years after, there was not
only 2-ccnt stamp on checks and a
stamp on receipts, but also on bills of
exchange, drafts, bills of lading, promis-
sorry notes, etc.
EUGENE l.. LENTnHON.
East Orange, N. j., Aug. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

situation Is job that women must
accomplish for themselves. Employers
must make fair terms and live up to
them unless they are willing to con-
tinue to havs terms made for them
by their employees.
The subject is a very farreaching
one. Thousands Of families are break
ing up their homes entirely on account
Of this situation, or are living in
smaller quarters than they can prop
erly aford-a situation which affects
business in every way.
A HOUSEHOLDER,
Far Rockaway, L. l., Aug. "a. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
Did Trotzky Say 1t?

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is pleasure to have t.
director OF the Russian informatio
bureau, in his letter published in yovl
issue of August 20, confess so frana'
that ne never even saw the Russis'
Pravda of July IS. Mr.. Sack says & 81
the statement which he attributed y
the "Pravda" ard which never appeare
IN either the Moscow vi rerlOrrd1 psPd
OF that name. is merely repetition q
a well known statement" by Trotzsy
OF two years ago, as follows: III j
possible that we will go, but Il we q
we will slam the door so that the en-
tire world will remember US
1t is pity that Mr.. Sack did not SCI
tit to give his authority for this alless
quotation from Trotzky. | venture 4
claim that Trotzky never uttered TAI
words attributed to him by Mr.. SseS
VIII Mr.. Sack kindly give his sour
for this quotation. naming the DIS
End place where the words were spoken
KENNETH DURANT.
Publisher Soviet Russis'
New York, Aug. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
Peace on Our Own Terms

Inc new LreaLieS Win GeTIuduy
and Austria merely define the con-
ditions on which peace relations
with our former enemies arc to be
restored Our claims against Ger
many are to be liquidated in accord
ance with the Knox-Porter resolu-
ton, the armistice terms and those
provisions of the Versailles Treaty
which we desire to keep alive.
This is an acceptable settlement.
1t satisfies even those who have
been overfearful that somehow the
financial and economic guarantees
assured US by the Versailles Treaty
would be sacrificed if we made
peace separately. 1t takes the
wind out of the sails of the irrecon-
cilables, who still were hoping for
an impasse with Germany which
would compel the Administration to
submit 70 the Senate revised YER
sion Of the Versailles compact "The
World" tries hard to argue that the
Dresel-Rosen instrument should be
rejected for the reason that cit is
of no consequence whatever to Ber-
lin that the separate treaty with the
United States should give to this
country everything accorded to it
by the Treaty Of Versailles" Yet
its Washington correspondent re-
ports that Democrats generally are
quite satisfied, apparently, as the
treaty confirms the Versailles pact,
which is referred to by name and
section in the new covenant"
Ratification of the Versailles
Treaty, with notifications, was al
ways an alternative in case Ger
many baked at meeting the re-
quirements Of the Knox-Porter res
olution. But it was only STRATEGY
cal alternative. Too much water
has run under the bridge since The
summer Of 1919. The time to ratify
the Versailles Treaty, with suitable
notifications, was in August or
September two years ago Mr. Will
son practically admitted in his con-
ference with the members of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee the soundness Of the conten-
tons of those who wanted reserva-
tions made on Article x and other
articles. He could have marshaled
a two-thrds majority then by of
ferirg slight concessions to the Re-
publican reservationists. But he
preferred to fight to keep his own
draft intact, and thereby made rati-
flcation impossible.
Separate peace with Germany,
Austria and Hungary and coopera-
ton outside the League Of Nations
with the allied powers were the
logical outcome Of the popular re-
pudlation Of Mr.. Wilson's policies
Adroit and enlightened leadership
at Washington is getting the coun-
try out Of the mire of the Wilson
failure. We have peace at last
with Germany on our own terms
and do not have to pay for it with
entanglements which would have
sbeen observation-disclosures.
A separate peace" which suits
us Ia far better than joint peace
which would have tied US up to
an unavoidable League Of Nations
covenant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
"A Corker
,ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribunc.
Sir: Your editorial on "Not by the
Whim of Men" in to-day's Tribune is
q corker and, from your very "wet'
attitude, you ought to know all about
corks and corkcrs. You seem to over
look the adjective Unreasonable" in re-
gard to searches and seizures.
In regard to the liquor question,
life, liberty and property" seem to
be bound up with beer and wine In
your estimation. Well, you'll get over
writing rum editorials some day and
he far happier.
JAMES N. CHALMERS.
Quogue, L. T., Aug. a. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

Sooner or later English Will replace
French, not through any selfish rea-
sons, but merely as practical mat
ter. Woodrow Wilson called English
the diplomatic language of the Pa
cifc.' This it is, and this it will be,
and the reason is not that the world
loves French less, but that it finds
English more practical.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

:"At Sixty-one He Strangles Bear"
is new headline On Ex-Governor
Osborn's aquatic bear hunt. Can it
Dc that the bear, instead Of attacking
the ex-Governor's boat, merely want
ed to climb in and have a ride?
Bears are said by their friends to
have affectionate dispositions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

BY Presidential decree the Repub-
lie of Panama is ordered into mourn
ing for month because Charles
Evans Hughes would not let it 90 to
war with Costa Rica. Is it to be
wondered at that comic opera turns
so frequently to that part Of the
hemisphere for theme?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
The Household Servant Problem


To tho Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is unfortunate that the dis
cusson of wages for domestic servants
appeared in August, because that month
and tho month Of December are per-
haps the only ones in which the subject
is not Dulsating With interest for every
householder.
Servants take their board and lodg-
ing quite for granted, so that in any
discussion Of wages they invariably fail
to add "plus board and lodging" To
them it seems a negligible quantity.
but it is quite another matter for the
one who foots tho bills. Nv cocs It
500 per month earns the equivalent
wage Of teacher or social worker
who spends years In preparing herself
For the incompctents the wages arc
much too high and until the employers
standardize the work and hours there
is no relief in sight. Women seem un-
able or unwilling to do this, for know
Of no woman's organization that has
undertaken such work, although it Is
essentially woman's job
The employment agencies likewise
complicatc the situation unnecessarily
The tax for running an agency is $50
a yenr. With benefit to all concerned
1t might be 81, ooo year, rs one OF
their number informed nc. Fifty
agencies scattered over the residential
districts Of the greater city could do
the work far more effectively than the
many hundreds now in operation.
The improvement of tho domestic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
The Test Of Numbers

The French want their language de-
ciarcd tho official language Of the dis
armament conference, but it is said
TINT Washington feels that since there
arc more Engliah-spcakine people CON
oerncd the language should be English.
But # that is the test, then it should be
Chinese.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

Even the little newsies and boot
blacks of City Hall Park seem to be
participators in the spirit Of Poor
Johns administration. They were
playing Put and Take yesterday
right under the Mayors window.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26


yeu csn purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TSi8uNE With absolute safsty-fer u dlssatlsfao-
ton results In any case The TRIBUNE susrsn-
tess t. pay your monsy back upon request. Ms RCD
tape. No auIbbl'nD. We mako soed prsmstiy II
tho advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
IN DESPERATION
l know I'll do no work to-day

/ know I'll do no work to-day
Unless they take that map away.
1t hangs, all brave in green and blue:
New Jersey From a Birdseye View"
And !, though nrisoned here, still know
That pleasant land is even so.
Above the dirty city lies
The tenderest Of August skies;
And summer winds, demure and sweet
Invade the reek of Frankfort Street
And call man to come and play.
I wish they'd take that map away.
I see the slow Passaic run
Fast Newark and through Paterson.
A swelling mountain almost hides
Two Bridges, where the stream divides.
And there, I know, that fragrant sedges
Grow lush beside the waters edges.
What more could son OF woman wish
Than there to sit and fish, and fish?
Here, roaring trucks forever pass;
There breezes run the bending grass.
Six million folk arc here. Not one
A comrade like the summer sun;
Not one whose voice or presence thrills
Like winds that blow across the hills:
Not ono who compcnsates to me
y
Here, shsckled to Job, stay.
| wish they'd take that map avail
Way in one corner, see it 20,
The tranquil, winding Ramapo?
OF all the nations thousand streams,
1t rises in the Land Of Dreams.
The slders guard it as it flows;
The cardinal beside it glows;
Tho sober catbirds squawk and sing;
The kingfshcr is on tbs wing.
And you may hear on either hand
The murmur Of the summer land.
Upon the map, I cannot see
Inc place L would That l might be.
Beyond the furthest rim it rests,
Yet green hills hold it to their breasts
And down their sleek TANKS, one by one,
The coursing, blue cloud shadows run.
GU watch the wind the sunlight break
To golden flakes upon the lake.
You hear vagrant puff Of breeze
Tell secrets to the poplar trees.
You roam the fields where flowers lie,
Inviting bee and butterfly,
And let thousand worries ride
Away on summers swelling tide.
I know III do no work to day
Unless they take that map away.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

sfE2lBER OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tho Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to
tho for republication Of all news dispatches
ccif,cd to 1t or not otherwise credited In this
paper. and also the iccsl Of spor AnsS';s
oxign published hercn.
AL rights o. republication OF ali ethes matter
herein fcserved-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

We elimpsed a headline in "Thc II.
luatrated Ncws' to the general effect
that athletes Are in Training for Pc
lice Games" Can it be that this cx-
plains tho hitherto incxplicable CON.
duct Of Detective Tighe ct al?
MAKE BELIEVE.
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Owned ,, New York Tribune Inc. a New York
Corp~ston- Published daily. Ogden Reid. Prcsl-
deaf; G. Vernon Rogers. v,ce-Preeident: Helen
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the claims Of the humblest to be
sound Of body. Here is species Of
socialism which is worth while.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

For the final, ultimate, not to men
ton last, Of all lines our nomination
LAS always been tho New York, susque.
nInha q "cseern. Z. K. V.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

VIII Tsmnany win? Ask the man in
the street-or the gentleman around
the corner
To Be Sung by tho Meyer Committee
Say, docs your business look rotten to
you?
Say, does existence seem specially
rank?
Worries too many and profits too few?
Draw few hundred bucks out Of
the bank.
Cease from your wall and your pes
simiet's view,
Can both the visags and gsrb of the
mOurncr
Al Will be lovely when you have come
through
With gift to the gentleman just
round the corner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

Entercd ct tbs roston1cc st New York - Second
Class Mall Matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26
THEM WAS THE DAYS


My father used to sing (and shock
ny mother):
Tread on my corns and tell ME lies.
But don't give ME dried apple pies.
And we'll do recall going into school
when a small child and thinking the
earth would surely swallow the child
who had dared write on the black
board:
Blaine rides white horse.
Cleveland rides n mule;
Blaine is q wise man,
Cleveland is q fulc.
And our teacher, Southern Demo-
crnt, nearly did! S. r. B.
An added starter to ". NJ. Ms school
Gays hymns of hate:
Three more days and we'll be free
From this school Of misery
No more pencils. no more books
No moro teachers. with ugly looks:
No more Latin, no moro Greek.
NO moro sitting on a hardwood scat
Note-"Three" in the first line.
changed daily, starting about sixty.
This is my best recollection of tho
version rendered by the youth Of the
Blaine School, West Superior, Wis, in
or about the year 1895. SPINCUS.
For the benefit Of blue law advo-
Gates who bemoan their lack of popu-
larity IN these sin-stecped parts, we
suggest that they start at once the
legal protest they are contemplating
against the Downcy- Wilaon fight. But
our word never went for much with
blue law advocates, and it is probable
that they will wait until the Friday
heforc Labor Day, thereby cmbittering
the thousands Of perscrs who by then
VIII have purchased tickets.
What the Blue law folk need most is
some entirely goddess reprobatc Of a
publicity manager.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-26

$50 far as kin see," says Uncle
Abimelech Bogsrdus. Of Preakness,
N. j., "Mr. Volstead is scandalized
cause some Of these fellers in Wash
ingtcn is advocatin' bill to lsssalize
the Constitution"