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New-York tribune., 1921-11-01

An admonitory example of the
persistent perversion of names and
other words was cited the other
day by Mr.. w. T. Hornaday in a
letter to The Tribune. The case in
point was that of Mussel Shoals, in
the Tennessee River, now and for
some years past called Muscle
Shoals. 1t is true, as another
correspondent pointed out, that
Muscle" is the name to be seen
on signboards at the place in ques-
ton; it is also found on maps and
in. gazetteers, and Mr.. Hornaday's
fear is we'll founded that it is off,
cially used by the United States
government. There can be no
question, however, that "Musselr
is correct, referring to the she'll
fish found on the shoals, and
that Muscle" is wrong, since it
could have no conceivable appiica-
ton to the shoals.
This perversion probably had its
origin in somebody's ignorance of
the proper spelling Of "mussel."
1t Is really surprising to note the
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01

readiness with which such errors
are adopted and maintained in gem
eral use. Other perversions are
deliberately made, such as the mis-
calling of Woods Hole, on the
Massachusetts, coast. For years, on
the snobbish principle that "thole"
sounded too common and vulgar, it
was written and printed Woods
"Holl," and in one well-known
gazetteer it figures az Woods
"Hill."
These corruptions add nothing to
simplicity, brevity, euphony or any
purpose for which modification Of
language is justifiable. They are
purely gratuitous. The great evil
of them is that they belle, conceal
or destroy the real significance Of
names and other words. They
ought to be earnestly resisted, not
merely by literary purists and styl-
lists, but by all who value English
speech as practical, accurate and
businesslike vehicle Of expression.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Second Hand

Joseph p. Tumulty's almost identic
repetition in his "Woodrow Wilson
Disclosed" Of George Creel's version
Of the General Wood incident in
"The War, the World and Wilson,
is quite too bald to be artful
plagiarism, even if the ostensible
author were to be suspected of that.
From this sample, however, of Mr..
Tumulty's literary ware it must be
admitted that, as was said of Dis
raeli, he has extraordinary power
OF appropriating phrases Of others. :"
The acknowledgment of indebted
ness which he says he is to make in
the preface to his volume will not be
out of place, even if belated.
1t is disappointing to be served
with q warmed-over dish of what
were expected to be revelations. !"
Mr.. Tumulty was in the swim, his
craft was anchored where the fish
ing was the best. He ought to have
been able to exhibit some shining
beauties from his own crcel.
If Mr.. Tumulty hadn't deAied that
he took his expressions from a
Sinaitic memorandum it would be
easy to believe that both he and
Mr.. Creel had carbon copies of the
General Wood story from certain
distinguished typewriter and each
could truthfully say: II tell the tale
as twas told to me-"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01

stablishing the boundaries Of Kurdi-
stan and Armenia, would put Kcmal
in position to recover much Of the
ground now held In western Asia
Minor by the Greeks. Constantine
is seeking French and British aid.
He wants Paris and London to
finance the war which he has been
carrying on against their wishes.
His cffrontary is still magnificent.
But if the Allies liquidate Greece's
venture in Asia Minor they will
probably be prudent enough to elm
mate Tino as a beneficiary. The
Asian war has lasted long enough.
Greece and the Anatolian state are
both exhausted. 1t is now mainly a
question which of them willsjoin first
with France and Great Britain in
modifying and then enforcing the
Treaty Of Savres.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
New York, Oct. 2s, lsu-
Escaping the Sales Tax

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Senator Edge, of New Jersey, ad-
vocates the adoption of sales tax on
the ground that it is in reality a vol
untary tax. "No one" he says, "has to
pay it unless he wants to, by purchas-
irg." This will be good news to the
hundred million consumers who have
been worrying over the prospect OF
having to pay higher prices because Of
the proposed tax on consumption, that
would add at least billion dollars to
the cost of merchandise bought each
year,
All that the people who buy things
will have to do in order to evade the
sales tax will be to stop purchasing. as
explained by Senator Edge. What the
merchants Of the country, who have
been complaining of what is termed
"the buyers strike" will think of this
brilliant suggestion remains to be seen.
Just how the adoption of tax poll
icy that will discourage buying will
promote trade and relieve unemploy-
ment is not exactly clear, but Senator
Edge deserves credit for suggesting a
tax that nobody need pay. so long as
he abstains from the pernicious habit
Of buying goods.
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York, Oct. 80, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
The Chinese Problem

In his remarks to the China So
ciety B. Lenox-Simpson, widely
known under his writing name of
Putnam Wcale, adviser to the Chi
nese government, attacked the Chi
nese problem whose consideration
is to occupy the attention of the
Washington conference from rather
new approach.
His solution of the complicated
issue, overburdened as it is with
confusing detail, is simple. He
would equip China to defend herself.
He thinks if this were done her
weaknesses would cease to trouble
the world and her future could be
left to the natural development of
events. The defense he has in mind
is not militaristic, would not
imply the attainment of equipoise
by an armed China facing an
armed Japan, but by establishing
economic freedom based on prin-
ciples hardly susceptible to chal-
lenge.
First, he would have the nations
represented at Washington agree
that China should have control of
her interior communications With
China master of her internal des-
tiny, and no outside nation in con-
troll of her rivers and lines of rail-
way, he believes that particular
questions relating to ports and the
ocean littoral would in the end set
tie themselves.
Second, he would have China pos
sess tariff autonomy like that en-
joyed by all other nations. AS
things are, Chinese tariffs are fixed
by commercial treaties with fifteen
states. Even when it is generally
admitted that changes are desirable
1T is necessary to get fifteen ma
tions to agree---something always
difficult and often impossible.
Third, he would have common
cancellation of the leaseholds which
now exist. Russia was forced out
of the Liao-tung Peninsula, Japan
succeeding to Russia's title, and
during the World War Germany
was expelled from Kiae-chau, Japan
succeeding to the title. Great
Britain has base at Wei-hai-wei.
AS to this last named lease the Brit
ish government, on September 7
last, indicated it's willingness to can
eel it provided other powers will in
like manner re-cede, and further in
dicated that Great Britain is pre-
pared to take the initiative by pro-
posing this to the Washington con-
ference.
Fourth, Mr.. Simpson would have
some modification (although he
does not stress this psoposal) of the.
extraterritorial powers now exer-
cised by consular courts. This he
holds should not be done at one
blow. for China at present lacks
courts in which foreigners can re-
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Lockwood Versu. Craig

| The part taken by Senator Lock
wood in protecting the renters of
New York from extortion is known
to every tenant family. The saving
to the public he effected is not capa-
BILE of exact statement, but it is prob
able that except for his jealous and
intelligent labors the average tenant
of tho city would be paying 10 per
cent more than he now pays.
| Investment in Senator Lockwood
has richly paid the public. He is
n one of those promisers who think
their duty is done when they ver-
bally assail the Interests" and then
do nothing to correct abuses.
But aside from the housing mat
ter there is another reason why Sen
ator Lockwood rather than his op-
ponent, Mr.. Craig, should be elected
Comptroller of New York, with three
votes on the vital Board of Estimate
and Apportionment. This reason is
the fact that Mr.. Craig is by temper
ament an obstructionist. Witness
the fate of the Riverside improve
ment.
After great labor, participated in
by number of city administrations,
an agreement was perfected under
which Death Avenue was to cease
mangling and killing, Riverside Park
to be enlarged, the tracks of the New
York Central placed under ground,
public access given to the North
Rivers edge, and the city given a
modern freight terminal that would
lower the cost of doing business and
thus the cost of living. Mr.. Craig
ignorantly scrapped the undertak-
ing. He talked vigorously of some
thing better. In fact he had moth
ing to suggest. A golden oppor-
tunity was lost that is not likely to
come again.
If Senator Lockwood was good
investment for the public Mr.. Craig
was a bad one. And as matured
men tend to continue to be what
they are, it may be predicted that
Mr.. Craig would do no better in the
next four years than ! has done in
the last.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Kenal Makes Peace With France

The Turkish Nationalist govern
rnent has ratified the treaty with
France which it rejected last spring
in a fit Of megalomania, caused by
the victories over Constantine S
armies. The second Constantine Of
fensive, which came to stop only
thirty or forty miles west of Angora,
and which greatly taxed Mustapha
Kemals resources, gave him some
thing to think about. He had been
trying to fight Greece and at the
same time to turn cold shoulder to
France and Great Britain, against
whose advice Greece was making
war on him.
Mustapha decided that many enc
mics are a luxury, as the Germans
also found out to their sorrow. He
has accepted the liberal terms which
Paris offered him, for the French,
too, are weary of the high cost Of
maintaining an army in Syria.
France abandons any territorial
claims in Cilicia and also returns to
the Turks q strip from the Mediter-
ranian Sea east to the Tigris--north
of the Bagdad railroad--which the
Treaty of Sevres awarded to her. In
exchange the French receive eco
nomical concessions in the eastern
Anatolian provinces.
A treaty with Great Britain, es-
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Use for College raining
Social Work to Take Up Spare Time
of Women Graduates
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There has been considerable
verbal and written "huffing and ufy
ingS for some time on the subject Of
the worthwhileness Of college edu~
cation--does it make one a more de-
sirab.s member of society, ETC.? Is
seems to me that perhaps the best way
of testing a college education is 10
put it to work. also think that those
who have had what l prejudicedly be-
lieve to be the advantage of college
education" have a moral obligation to
put their training to work.
There must be many college gradu-
ates in New York who feel as / did
last year. What could I do that was
worth while with my spare Tins?
Because l found solution that was
very satisfactory to me l want to pass
it on.
Last year, when the Charity organi-
zation Society at 105 East Twenty
second Street asked for volunteers
who would give at least fourteen hours
a week to social work, applied | was
put to work in the Gramercy district,
and it would be hard for me to describe
the fascination of the work | suppose
the reason for it was that one was
dealing not with theories and commit
tee discussions, but directly with peo-
pie, and therefore with life itself l
learned much through this practical
experience, and the course in "Prin-
ciples of Social Work." which was
given these volunteers, helped us won
derfully to understand the philosophy
behind the work we were doing. For
tunately, the same opportunity is be-
ing repeated this year, and Miss Clare
Tousley (Gramercy 4o66) will give
details to those who are interested.
The course starts November z.
To me this opportunity presents a
big challenge to the alumna with gpare
time, to prove the something-more-
than-cuitural results Of her four years
of collegiate work. -.
KATHARINE WELLES BARBER,
Vassar '15A
New York, Oct. 2s, fsxI-
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
A Singular Delusion

One OF the Queercst delusions
with regard to the Washington con-
ference is that under which "The
World" seems to be laboring. 1t said
last Sunday:
"The Washington conference in it.
self is monument to the force OF
public opinion, for 1t was literally
imposed on reluctant Admin stra-
tion by the force of popular senti-
ment. When Senator Borah intro
duced his resolution and THE World
began it's disarmament campaign the
Administration did not intend to do
anything except obstruct. When it
was finally compelled to surrender it
went far beyond the Borah resolu-
tion and opened up not only the en-
tire question of armament but tho
entire question of the Pacific and the
Far East"
The Presidents hand wasn't forced
by any one. The holding of an in
tcrnational conference to discuss
limitation of armament was always
an essential part Of Mr.. Harding S
foreign policy. Such a move was
determined upon by the President
before he took the oath of office. 1t
was freely discussed at Marion in
the interval between election and
Inauguration. The way had been
cleared for it in Mr.. Harding's cam
paign speeches.
1t may be that "The World" never
suspected this. Mr.. Borah probably
knew better, since he was in touch
with other Senators who could have
told him what was in the Presidents
mind. The theory that Mr.. Harding
was hostile to the conference and
sought to obstruct the Borah reso-
luton because he didn't want to call
conference rests in a complete
misunderstanding Of the situation.
If the President objected at all to
Mr.. Borah's resolution it was be-
cause he considered it too limited in
scope. He preferred a conference
not confined to three powers only
in which the underlying obstacles
to the limitation Of armament
especially Of naval armament
could be dealt with and through
which the United States could re-
sumo those concert relations with
the other major powers which had
been broken off by the indebtedness
of the Wilson diplomacy.
1t may have suited the Admins
tration's purposes that s"The World"
and Mr.. Borah should take it for
granted that in supporting confer
ence they were snTagonizing it.
The more supporters for the confer
cnce project the better. But it is
a grotesque misreading of the facts
to hold that the President was
coerced by outsiders into doing what
even before entering the White
House he had underlined among the
things of first Importance which he
intended to do.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Jerome Wasn't Asleep
His Former Secretary Explains How
Photograph Was "Faked''

Photograph Was Faxed
TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In yesterdays Tribune "x. "
laments the time fifteen years ago wher
his loyalty, abandoned by both infor
nation and Judgment, had single
handed to rally the kids of his gang tx
the support Of District Attorney Je
rome, who had been depicted by ono Of
| the hostile newspapers asleep at his
desk. "X. Y" asseyerates 81 even sait
the picture was faxed, although / die
not think So" l can assure him tha,
his heart was wiser than his head
There was such picture. 1t was 9
photograph. 1t was faxed. If he still
has copy Of that picture can tell
him how to prove it to himself.
Let him look at the clock on the Dis
trict Attorneys desk, showing little
to one side Of his feet. He will see
that the time at which tho photograph
was taken was something like $3.50, nm
hour entirely ouside of Office hours,
whether a. m. or p. m. Besides, he
may notice that the cigarette Mr.. Jc-
rome holds in his right hand has not
yet gone out.
The fact is that photograph was
taken couple Of years before it was
used. One evening during his first ad-
mlnistration Mr.. Jerome stayed at the
office with some of his staff long after
+ ~
finish up some work. At last the work
was done. Mr.. Jerome stuck his feet up
on his desk and relaxed into general
conversation and storytelling. An
itinerant photographer came wandering
in. He asked permission to take pho
tograph Of the District Attorney. MIR.
Jerome gave the permission, telling
him to put his camera up and to
let him know when he was ready. In
few minutes the photographer asked
Mr.. Jerome If he might take him as
he was, with his feet up on his desk.
Obliging as ever, Mr.. Jerome again
consented. The photograph was taken.
Later the photographer sold the mega
tive to the aforesaid hostile newspaper.
1t was put in storage. After couple
of years, when the owner of the news
paper had turned against Jerome. anx-
ious to misrcpresent the District At
torney in any way it could, the news
paper dug this photograph up and clev-
erly blackened out the eyes on the
negative with lead pencil, thus very
effectually closing them and putting the
District Attorney to sleep at his desk.
Then the newspaper published it, large
size, on the front page, without any
verbal mendacity. But it forgot the
clock and the cigarettA
The incident occurred before I be-
came the secretary of the District At
torney's Office. But | have a COPY of
the picture and 1 was told about the
taking of the photograph not long after
its publication, by Alfred Holder, sec
retary during the first five years of the
Jerome administrations, and by Dan
Coffey, "of the 9Th Ward" chief attend
ant during the entire eight years, both
of whom knew about it personally. So
cheer up, "x. "" and resume your
faith!
WILLIAM CHAUNCY LANGDON.
Bronxville, N. Y, Oct. 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01

pose confidence, but perhaps a be-
ginning can be made.
The program is an ambitious one
and will, Of course, meet with power
full opposition. But it is difficult to
see how China's problem can be
solved as long as China does not
have national rights similar to those
possessed ~by other nations. To the
open door principle must be joined,
it would seem, something that will
automatically keep the door open.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Copyright, l9af. Nov ToTk IrID

violations Of the highway laws, which
in 1919 totaled three, in 1920 ffty-four,
and up to October 20, this year, twenty
eight, this increase being due to the
increase in the number of automobiles
conveying passengers to the summer
resorts in Greene County and the in
crease in tourist travel to the Cats
kills.
In 1919 two hundred automobiles
carried summer visitors from here to
points in the Catskills. In 1920 375
automobiles were engaged in the same
business and this year $50 automobiles
were needed to carry the nearly ten
thousand people who came to Greene
County IN excess Of the number who
came here last season. With such an
increase in automobile traffic there was
necessarily an increase in this form of
law violation.
No county in the state has been more
prosperous than Greene County, which
is devoted pretty generally to agri-
culture and the entertainment of vaca-
tionists. With bank deposits in a pc
riod of general business depression
showing an increase of more than a
million dollars over the preceding year
and an increase of nearly ten thousand
in the number of vacationists here dur
ing the summer, there is little indica-
tion Of county being on spree.
RICHARD S. BARRETT,
President Catskill Chamber Of Com
merce and Greene County Asso-
ciation.
CHAMPLlN CLARKE,
President Catskill Merchants Asso-
ciation
Catskill, N. Y, Oct. %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
The Coming 7'ower
AUTUMN INTERLupE

A LII night the trees would keep
: Signing, and then oncc moro fall
hushed;
As sleepers stir and, ere thsy wholly
wake,
Turn once again 70 sleep.
Thin, rceky scuds would take
Across ragged moon. When day be-
gan to break,
These ftful shapes, as at signal,
rushed
Together; and in start
The long, chill fingers Of the rain
Came searching ut the pane
Like ghosts OF old grief searching ut
the heart,
And go that day We bads tho sunshine
spring
Forth from its prison in the cloven
pine;
And brought late roses and tendrils
gay that cling
To tumbled walls and round young
elm-stocks twine;
And read of things veracious authors
say
Once happened, long ago and very far
away. &. S. B.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
His Word

This day week will present to the
people of this city an opportunity of
choosing manikin or a man to be
the Chief Magistrate Of the greatest
municipal corporation in the world
An opportunity of deciding for or
against the safety of life and prop
ertys for or against ignorance, for
or against corruption in government,
for or against graft, for or against
decency, for or against reduction
of the oppressive cost Of living, for
or against higher taxation, for or
against an adequate school system,
for or against the meanness of fos-
tering class feeling, for or against
the exploitation of the poor, for or
against Hearstism and all it implies,
for or against further spoliation by
Tamn4any Hall and it's plundering
bosses, for or against civic righteous
ness!
This day week will be Election
Day, and never in the long history
of New York has there been one
fraught with such consequences for
good or i'll. Upon it's event will turn
the city's future for generation, if
not longer time.
In view of the past four years of
Hylanis,n, where would New York be
at the end of four more?
On the eve of this election, re-
spending to the wires of Hearst and
Murphy, Hylan, the manikin, prom
ises all things to all men-anything
that he thinks, or rather that they
think, will catch an unwary vote.
He is for all the things that the self
respecting citizenry of the town de-
sire to see established in the life of
New York.
Hylan is for reduction of taxes,
meaning thereby a reduction in
rentals--a reduction in the high cost
of living and an alleviation of the
burdens that Cypress the poor. Four
years ago he was for a reduction Of
taxes.
Said he, promising then, as now,
all things to all men:
There is something wrong about
a government that has so advanced
its tax rate that people cannot afford
to own real estate"
That was Hylan's promise. What
has been his performance?
In the four years since Hearst and
Murphy put him in Office taxes have
increased $109,662,573.41. That is
65 per cent over the preceding ad-
ministration. That means if you
own your own home you are paying
to-day $165 in taxes, as against $100
four years ago. That means if you
are rentpayer that in that increase
lies the key to your higher rent and
the justification of the profiteers
who have been exploiting you.
And what has led to this increase
in taxation? Hylanism. The cost
of government under its control and
its wasteful, ignorant influence has
jumped from $3.50, 100000 in 1917
to $1,217, 100000 in 1921. That is
an increase of 46 per cent?
dollar Mayor! And what are his
promises worth? What is his word
worth? Will you take it? William
Travers Jerome says Goslin did.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-01
Mail Van Protection
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why not make mail vans Of
sheet iron? Lock the van before it
starts out, keep the key at the point of
departure and have another key at the
end Of the route. Armed guards would
not be necessary. L. s. B.
New York, Oct, %, 1921.