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New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Swiss CITIZENSHIP

A proposal to require twelve years
consecutive residence in order to OBJ
tain Swiss citizenship is now before
the people of that republic. Evi-
IDENTIFY the Swiss are feeling the
same reaction to the peaceful inva-
sion of foreigners that has been
manifest in this country. Like
ourselves, they are willing to make
their land an asylum for the op-
pressed up to certain limit, but,
more wisely than ourselves, they
prize the privileges of their citizen
ship so highly that 1hey are willing
to grant them to aliens only after
long residence.
This proposal to make the term of
residence twelve years is considered
so drastic that the government has
offered a counter-proposal of six
years residence before naturaliza-
tion and four years additional resi-
dence before the naturalized can
become office holders. America will
watch the outcome of this referen-
dunn with interest. Many people
have claimed that the naturalization
laws in this country are too lax.
Switzerland has often before set US
good example.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Wine as Medicine

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A dispatch from Washington to
The Tribune to-day in regard to the
bill forbidding beer as medicine states:
"The redrafted measure, while plac-
ing certain retrictions around the
use of wines in medicine, did not in
clude the original provision which
would have outlawed wine as medi-
cine along with beer"
Whatever may be ultimate design of
the Volstead act in regard to outlawing
wine as medicine, this stigmatization
was not contemplated in the supple
mentary bill for prohibition enforce
ment now before Congress. 1t was beer
and beer alone which was to be out
lawed by Section of this act, which
provides that only spiritous and
vinous liquors may be prescribed for
medicinal purposes, and all permits to
prescribe and all prescriptions for any
other liquor shall be void"
JOHN P. DAWN, NJ. D.
New York, June ?, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Retired Officers Paw
Old Army and Navy Men Receive
Small Increases if Bill Passes

Oiu 1iiiy anu !NdVy wen Receive
Small Increases if Bill Passes
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A bill has been introduced in
the present Congress, Senate No. 1872,
and House No. 371s, which is designed
to give very small increase of pay
to the retired officers of the army. navy
and marine corps.
Many persons seem to think that an
otficer who has resigned from the serv-
ice has retired. That is not so. Take
the navy as an example. Nearly all
the retired officers entered the Naval
Academy at Annapolis when they were
boys, have spent their entire lives in
the service and are just as much in
the service to-day as they ever were,
subject to naval discipline and the
navy regulations and to immediate
orders to duty in case of war, and
consequently deserve reasonable con-
sideration at the hands of Congress.
1t has been impossible for any of
them to make or save any money.
Throughout their active career they
had to support themselves on board
ship, paying for their own food and
laundry, etc, furnishing their own bed
ding, towels, uniforms and civilian
clothes, paying out of their own
yofc of L.
Sans official entertaining in every
quarter Of the globe and supporting
their wives and children on shore. To-
Gay this tiny fraction of the COM
munity, practically all of whom could
be put inside of good-sized theater,
a~small body of men who have no one
to champion their cause, are probably
the only human beings in a nation of
105,000,000 who have not had one cent
Increase of income for the past thir-
teen years.
The retired officers of the navy are
particularly hard hit, for they are for
hidden by law to take a position with
any company that has a governm ent
contract, thereby shutting them off
from the only work that their educa-
tion, training and experience fit them
for (this law not applying to the army
and making life doubly hard for them.
Both the War and Navy departments
have asked for more commissioned
officers while persistently refusing to
employ retired officers in active duty.
The bill now in Congress will, it is
estimated, cost every one in the coun-
try between one and two cents year.
certainly nothing to worry about.
EDWARD WATSON.
New York, May 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

evolution Of mankind. They see, too,
that the economic system has stamped
human labor power with the character
of commodity. But they do not see
that it is the economic life itself which
of necessity turns into a commodity
everything that forms part of it. The
economic life consists in the produc-'
ton and useful consumption of com
modities. 1t is not possible to divest
human labor power of the character of
commodity unless one finds some way
of detsching it from the economic
processes.
1t is of no use to direct ones en-
deavors to SO reorganizing the economic
processes that human labor may come
into its own within the economic field.
Rather we must ask: How can labor
power be withdrawn from the field Of
economics and directed by social forces
that shall divest it of the character of
a commodity? The worker aims at cou-
ditions of economic life within which
his labor power shall find its proper
place. He does so, not seeing, that it
is because of his wholesale incorpora-
ton in the economic processes that his
labor bears the character of commod-
ity. Having to surrender his whole
labor power to these processes, the
whole man himself is absorbed in them.
1t is the proper nature of the eco
nomic process to endeavor to consume
labor power in the most useful man
ner, just as it consumes commodities:
and people. as if hypnotized by the
power of the modern economic life, fix
their eyes only on what can go on in
side it. They may look forever in this
direction without finding out how la
Dor power can cease to be a. commod-
ity For different economic organi-
zation will only make labor power
commodity in different way. The
true aspect Of the labor question as
part of the whole social question will
not be seen until it is recognized. that
within the economic life the production
of commodities, the exchange of COM
modities and the consumption of COM
moditles take place according to laws
determined by interests whose domin-
ion must not be extended to cover hu-
man labor power.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
The Insurance Burden

a biting supplement to the recent
report of the s200,0O0,0Oo increase
last year in fire losses is furnished
by the figures showing an increase
Of $120,o00,000 in premium collec-
tions. Whether the increase in losses
justified the increase in premiums
or whether it sprang from a sordid
determination to squeeze insurers, it
is high time for intelligent insur
ance men to recast their business.
The fire insurance business is con-
Quoted with heavy overhead and So
liciting expenses. Broadly, about
dollar is collected for each SO cents
paid back. The spread, it seems to
many, is too wide. Satisfying ex-
plantations are lacking. 1t should be
possible to reduce the margin to the
advantage of both the companies
and the public. The opinion pre-
walls that insurance managers do
not much try---are afflicted with
want of efficiency energy.
And those who meet the burden
think they discern the reasons.
Rate competition died out of fire
insurance with the establishment of
common rate-making and the Gre
alton of boards of underwriters tc
prepare risk maps. The theory of
this is good in many respects, but it
tends to make management per-
functory and clerical.
And there is still graver weak
ness--namely the prevalence of the
vicious cost-plus principle. There
is an incentive to- have losses heavy
rather than small. AS income
swells with an increase in the mass
of the premiums, and the mass of
the premiums is proportionate to
the size of the losses, there is pc
cuniary advantage to companies and
agents in heavy losses.
Of course, insurance men are to be
acquitted ofany prevailing conscious
purpose to stimulate incendiarism
and carelessness. Many strenuously
and unselfshly labor to keep
losses down. When policy has
been written a particular loss is at
some company's expense, but gem
eral causes in the end make them
selves felt. In the background. is
the ugly fact that big losses lead
to greater dollar income.
BY better organization and a les
sening of soliciting expenses, no
longer necessary now that taking
cut insurance is SO largely
matter of course; by more en-
phasis on fire prevention and dimi-
nution Of risk; by urging the prac-
tice followed abroad of penalizing
an owner whose lack of care leads
to destroying not only his own, but
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
The City Obstructionists

The city government is following it's
traditional policy of hampering and
obstructing Investigations. Just as
it opposed the efforts of Ex-Governor
Charles S. Whitman to unearth the
truth last winter, SO now it is doing
all in its power to hinder the work
of the Meyer investigating commit
tee. Verbal protestations of desire
to cooperate are accompanied by
anti-cooperative tactics. The only
conclusion to be drawn is that the
city has more to hide than at first
seemed likely.
The request Of the committee for
Police Department records was
evaded for three weeks, and finally
granted under protest. Corporation
Counsel O'Brien refused to permit
witnesses to testify before sub-com-
mittees of one. Deputy Commission
er Leach refused to testify unless Or
dered to do SO by the court. Presi-
dent Connolly of Queens defed the
committees right to impound docu-
ments and refused testimony.
Now comes the case of Honest
Dan" Costigan, whose help is wanted
by the committee. The Acting Police
Commissioner asks the Meyer COM
mittee if some one else will do in
place of Costigan, as his value to the
is such that he can
hardly be spared. This is the same
Costigan whose services Commits
sioner Enright considered so lightly
last year that he reduced his rank
and banished him to an insignificant
precinct in the suburbs.
Ex-Governor Whitman last Janu-
ary was compelled to threaten con-
tempt proceedings to get the desired
police assistance. Will the Meyer
committee have to do the same to
secure the services of Honest Dan"
Costigan?
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Canada's S Testimony

The time has arrived when a pub
/ En acknowledgment of. error may
.airly be asked of those who urged,
IN behalf of Article X of the cove
nsnt of the League of Nations, a
esmnaign which did so much in pre-
venting ratification Of the Versailles
Treaty. They may have been honest
in their mistake, but they are not
sble longer to deny that they were
mistaken.
1t was said up and down the land
that Article X was the heart Of the
covenant-that to eliminate it, or
even to safeguard it, was a knife
thrust at the life center of the
league. 1t was also said that other
league members would not agree, and
could not be made to agree, to it's
elision or any change in it. Such
we're the stock assertions not merely
Of those who for party reasons hoped
to achieve the defeat of Mr.. Harding
but also of many pro-league Repub-
licans and independents.
Thesuntruth Of both of these as
sertions has been abundantly demon
strated. Every important league
member has indicated it would be de-
lighted to have the United States in,
10 matter what it's action in regard
70 Article X. Canada, a league mem
ser, goes further, and on her own ac-
c5unt asks for an excision of the
article. There was no knife thrust
b Senator Lodge-the league could
function without Article X.
Mr. Harvey has been unjustly ac-
ased and praised. He had little 20
Do with Americas rejection of the
lsague. This is unfair to a former
friend Of his. 1t was not Mr.. Har-
yey but his former friend who was
The artii1cer of rejection. There
never was a time when the league
sauld not have been ratified if Arti-
&c X had not been insisted on. So
lar as Mr.. Harvey and the irrecon-
aiables had practical influence, they
assisted ratification rather than the
contrary. The dagger that brought
alietus did not bear the Harvey
initials; The power that drove the
dagger home was the one which
SAID Article x or nothing" ana
lFled to persuade the American peo-
pie to accept as true things that
were not true.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
An Educated |. w. w.

Seven years ago rampageous
young radical named Frank Tannen-
baum .. thought that to harry the
churches would help bring on a revo-
luton. So he organized a gang and
led it nightly to the disturbance of
church services. His claim was that
his followers needed food and lodg-
ing, whereas-it was manifest that he
was merely exploiting their misfor-
tunes to arouse social hate.
There were those who would in
continently have cast him into outer
darkness, and when he sought to
enter Columbia University would
have rejected him as certain to con-
taminate that institution and to per-
vert his fellow students.
Happily, wiser counsels prevailed.
He was sequestrated for a time, but
then another chance was given to
him, which he improved. Service
for the nation IN the great war in
spired him to be literal evangelist
among his fellows, Transforming the
spirit Of many from sedition to pa
triotism. Instead of communicating
Columbia, he was converted by it to
rational liberalism. Now he is grad
uated with highest honors in his
tory and economics and instead of
a badge of the |. w. W. wears Phi
Beta Kappa key, with promise of
making substantial and valuable con-
tributions to current considerations
of the most important sociological
problems which beset the nation.
The belief prevails that once an
l. W. w. always an |. W. What
the disease is incurable. Frank
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Disarmament Dav

An many churches to-day will be OBJ
served as disarmament day. 1t is
natural impulse to wish to see
swords turned into plowshares and
the worlds great burden of expendi-
lures for military purposes lightened.
MOST Americans favor scaling
down of military appropriations
through international concerts. Joint
action would benefit all nations
and weaken the security of none.
but beneath this uniformity of de-
sire for economic relief lies a real
divergence of opinion as to scope and
method. The peace of the world
rests to-day on the armed strength
o. the Allied nations. The Versailles
treaty cannot be enforced except
through military coercion.
Russia, the most populous of the
European states, is still an outlaw,
outside the treaty pale. Lenine's
policy is one of destruction-abroad
as we'll as at home. Germany hasn't
yet accepted the peace in good faith.
The fultillment of German obligations
Will continue to depend on the extent
to which France and. Poland remain
armed and ready to punish treaty
infractions.
General disarmament is a goal
achievable only in settled world.
The world is far from settled to-
day. Each nation will naturally
be reluctant to cut down taxation
at the expense of self-defense. 1t
is a problem with two sides, for
new wars, not peace, may follow
one-sided or unwise disarmament.
In so far as the movement in
this country to reduce military ex-
penditure looks to reasonable
agreements with our Allies, it is
commendable. But in so far as it
reflects the rabid pacihcism of the
period before the war it is un-
sound and vicious. Mr.. BRYAN
again suggested the other day that
America should disarm on her own
account, no matter what other
powers did. He still cherishes the
old illusion that nnpreparedness is
better guaranty against attack
than preparedness. This obsession
is undoubtedly behind some of the
effort in Congress to disarm at
any cost.
The powers on whon the respon-
slbllity for maintaining world
peace rests cannot afford to be
caught off their guard, as they
were in 1914. Disarmament 80 the
point of incautiousness and un-
preparedness would be more costly
and injurious than no disarma-
ment,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Under the Flag to Europe

though the new merchant marine
IN grave trouble and America
o0es not yet enjoy the position that
was hers in the early years of the
nineteenth century, we have at least
Oeaten our own records for the mum
ger OF passenger liners carrying the
s'ars and Stripes to European ports.
formerly American tourists en-
PARKING for Stratford -on-Avon,
Dfages, the Rue de la Paix and the
sondolas of Venice preferred to
aep at once on foreign soil when
.aey mounted the gangplank. And
iOfeigners had no liking for Ameri-
ssh ships, since the few that ad-
'ealured hither had interest only
N our Niagara Falls, our Indians
and our cowboys lassoing wild steers
"a State Street, Chicago.
oat nowadays the arrival and de-
paf'ure Of American liners are
marked By the publication of full
passenger lists of Americans and
'0feigners. The Eighteenth Amend
Ient seems to have no greater effect
/, "a dsssuading home folks from bar
Fss liners than it has in keeping
ap pockets from being bulky here.
1ao alien tourists, aware that the
'aolan tomahawk days are past and
Ass at least the mad steers are
afrlcaded from State Street, make
@e voyage in United States ships
'seause at last they are interested
= The American himself and in his
FORKS.
!, ms patronage maintains our
aafopean services and will develop
4sfn' 1t is bringing home to us
:, gan that we share equally with
'1s world in the propertyship of the
~eahs and that any infrequency in
N appearance of the American flag
'0ufslng over the extraterritorial
assers anywhere on this globe is
.pe TO lack of enterprise. Travellers
e nnding American ships run
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
In Quest of an Anthem
1ew York, May 20, 1921.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter which was pub
lished in your paper recently deploring
the efforts being made to legalize "The
Star-Spangled Banner as the national
anthem, has elected MANY comments
pro and con, but it seems that those
satisfied with the anthem have ad-
vanced no substantial reasons for sup
porting it. Just because it has been
sung for years as a national anthem is
no argument in the face of progressive
thinking.
We are told that America, since the
war, has become the musical center of
the world. Then there must certainly
be sufficient talent here to produce an
anthem which is wholly of American
conception and expressive OF the ideals
and hopes which We entertain, to-day.
DOUGLAS WISE.
New York, June 3, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
German Confession

In the trial at Berlin Of the Ar
menian boy who shot Talaat Pasha
it was brought out in the testimony
OF Marshal Liman Won Sanders, who
commanded the German forces in
Turkey during the war, that the re-
ports that sickened the world were
not exaggerated; that the total num-
Der of unarmed Armenians slaugh-
tered by official orders exceeded
100000.
1t was further brought out by the
testimony of Professor Lepsius, q
German representative in Armenia
at the time, that Talaat's commands
were to XIII everybody, even the chill
dren in the orphanages. Talaat was
so eager to get the gruesome news
that he had been obeyed that he tele-
graphed: "Wire me how many are
dead and how many still alive!"
Tamerlane was no such butchering
monster as this partner and agent
Of Germany.
What is to be done with Liman
Won Sanders and with those at Ber-
lin who gave him his instructions? :?
He knew and they knew what had
been done and who did it. The Ger
man general is still unregenerate.
At the trial he sought to excuse the
massacre and was treated with great
respect.
1t is not enough to acquit the boy
who killed Talaat. In the clearest
manner, by proceedings in their own
courts, the Germans are fully in
formed. II they continue to homer
criminal such as Marshal Won Sam
ders confesses that he was and is
they confess that the worst charges
made against the German people are
true.x
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Invocation

L THOUGHT that beauty was forever
dead,
Until / saw a daffodil abloom
And two bright tulips in my garden bed
And silver spills beyond my little room.
l thought that grief would never 70
from me,
Yet how wonderful are all the days;
l am no longer hurt by misery
But wild with joy and tremulous with
praise.
0 God, let not too many white stars fall,
Nor let your bushes bloom in one small
hour.
could not bear the beauty of it all,
For l would pause with awe before each
flower
And touch each blossom with my finger
tips
And feel the winds first sweetness en-
my lips.
HAROLD vINAL.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
A Week of Verse
Lament of Man for His Som

Lament of a Man for His Son
From Harpcra :
son, my soni |
/ will go up to the mountain;
There I will light fire for the fess
of my sons spirit,
And there ] will lament him. 7
Saying, !
Oh, my son,
What is my life to me now you are de-
parted?
Son, my son, /
In the dark earth
We softly laid thee,
In the chiefs robe,
In warriors gear.
Surely, there,
On the Spirit Road,
Thy deeds are walking. +
Surely, !
The corn comes to the ear again.
But I, here,
l am the stalk the reapers left standing.
Son, my son,
What is my life to me now you are de-
parted?
--Paiute Indian Lament, translsted By
Mary Austin.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
HAROLD vINAL.
In Mernorian

DEAR friend
And you were once
All of that to me
I cannot reconcile
This sudden meeting.
had hopes,
Upon seeing you again
After many years,
That %e might go
Out together as of old,
Converse silently
With the stars,
Feel friendships expectations
And cay little.
But instead l find you dressed
In meaningless talk
Of extravagant and futile adventures
Over the world.
Poor dead soul,
feel at best
We can only shake hands
And go
Our separate ways.
VIRGIL GEDpEs.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
VIRGIL GEDDEs.
Karula

From The Net0 Republ;c)
WTHEN thou art little as l, mother,
~ And I as old as thou,
I'll feed thee on syllabub, honeycomb.
And sweet milk from my cow.
I'll make thee q swan's-down bed,
mother;
Watch over thee then, will /.
And when in far-away dream you
start,
Ny tongue shall sing, Lullaby
It's many, oh, many an age, mother.
We have known US. But quickly now,
Thou shalt be happy, grown again
young.
And I as old as thou.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Stopping at the Source

From The Detroit Free PressJ
The tide of immigration might be
dried up considerably merely by trans
lating the Volstead act into the various
Continental tongues and handing a
copy TO each person who asks for
ticket 20 America.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

more nearly in accord with Ameri-
can taste than their competitors, as
ene Tear that an anti-patriotic preiu-
diee would lessen traffic is about
gone.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
STRANGER:

EiRST STRANGER:
Who walks on the hill7
Second Stranger:
] cannot see for the mist.
Third Stranger:
Running water | hear,
Keeping mgubrious tryst.
With its crosses and grasses and
weeds,
In the white obscure light from the
sky,
Second Stranger:
Who walks with US on the hills?
Wild Bird:
Ay, - =. Aye, Ale.
WALTER De LA MARE.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

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New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
April

HYACINTHS are in the shops
Where the ladies pass,
Iris bloom, forget-me-not,
Tangle grass.
What are all these things to me,
When long to see
Windy flowers in a wood,
Iris by the sea.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
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