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Nnti"nai Grange Opposed.

In appearing before the Ways ana
Means Committee. Charles a. LYMAN
OF the national board, told the corn
mittce that the National Grange. no,
animated with the board. is also on
posed 10 the repeal OF the excess.
profits tax.
Tho National Board OF Farm or.
Plantations. II is learned is sending
out bulletins 10 its mcmbcrship ma
10 the leaders Of the affiliated bodies
mat IN" latter may make contact
with their Senator'S and Concrcss,ncr
To urge opposition to the proposed
repeal
II has further developed that IN.
agricultural bloc in the Senate which
- In close touch at AL times with
the farmers organizations has re-
,aincd as an expert adviser on tariff
and taxation questions Professor J..
ID Black. professor OF economies Of
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DE VALERA IS FIRM FOR
ABSOLUTE SEPARATION

CONTINUED From Eirs, boz,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
The New Paw Clinic

The new pay clinic of Cornell
University Medical College in New
York City, opened this week, is to
serve large population that has
not been able to profit by the ad-
vance in medical science. The scrv-
ices Of the great specialists of the
city are obtainable by the rich and
by the poor. But to the great group
of people in between the necessity
for medical treatment beyond the
scope of the family doctor looms like
specter.
In estimates of living costs and
partitions Of the family income the
portion for medical and dental fees
for one year would not take care of
the specialists fees for one illness
or operation. For an ordinary fam
lily Of five, with an income between
$4,000 and $4,000 a year, the
medical and dental allowance is set
at $50. But when a complicated
illness grips some member of the
family and an operation may be need
ed, or perhaps the improper develop
ment of child strikes terror to the
heart, this sum is inadequate. There
is no recourse but the free dis
pensary, on the one hand, or the spc-
cialisU's Office, with its mortgage on
the family income, on the other. Yet
it is SAID there are 100000. families
in New York with incomes between
$4,000 and $4,000. The free dis
pcnsary is great and wonderful in
stitu sion, but many would not resort
to it. The family would pay its way
and the specialist is entitled to his
fees. Hence the pay clinic, the ap-
plication Of the cooperative prin-
ciple TO medical service and valu-
eble supplement to the free and half
pay service Of our noble hospitals.
At the pay clinic there are three
rates Of fees~--$1 for each visit for
examination and treatment, $3.50
for a thorough health examination
and SO for a diagnosis, including
consultations and laboratory tests.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Suspending Politics

Since the inauguration of the new
Administration there have been per-
sistent attempts by newspapers bill
iously dissatisfied With the result of
the Presidential election to foment
the refghting of dead issues and to
intrude partisanship into the prop
crly partisan discussion about to
begin at Washington.
Fortunately no success has come
to those efforts to make the confer
ence failure Senator Underwood,
the Democratic leader of the Senate,
by accepting a place on the Ameri-
can delegation, showed he would not
become party to them. The votes
on the resolution to end the war and
to ratify the German treaty were, on
the whole, highly creditable to the
Democratic minority. But some Of
the special friends of the former
President held aloof, and there has
been apprehension concerning their
attitude.
Nov comes Senator Swanson, of
Virginia, a special friend of the for
mer President, to put himself be-
hind President Harding's efforts to
achieve something for disarma-
ment and international association.
Though the Senator still thinks the
failure to join the League of Ma
tions was unwisc, he says that the
course taken by President Harding
was the only course open to him.
This declaration of Swanson, appar-
emily q considered one and made
after consultation, seems to remove
all danger that domestic politics will
disturb the conference.
Senator Swanson says no more
than he should, but, nevertheless, in
view of the weaknesses of human
nature, is entitled to hearty COM
mendation. 1t is still patriotic to
suspend politics at the oceans mar
gin. A great blunder was committed
when the League of Peace matter
was so handled that partisanship
came into its discussion.
And as Senator Swanson does
what he can to soften asperities, it
is agreeable to note that Ambassa-
dor Harvey, who has broken a long
silence, is much less bellicose than
he was last spring and can now men
ton the League Of Nations without
using tone that suggests a desire
to commit murder.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
His Word

Six days hence will be Election
Day. Six days hence the qualified
voters of the City of New York
that is to say, the stockholders in the
wealthiest and most diversified cor
porato enterprise on earth-must
decide between manikin and man
as administrator Of their affairs.
Hylan, the manikin of William
Randolph Hearst, of California and
Riverside Drive, and the mask of
Tammany Halls plundering bosses,
has had complete control of the
great business since January /, 1918.
When he took charge it was a going
concern, fresh from the hands of an
administration which had challenged
the admiration of the nation. 1t
stands on the verge Of bankruptcy.
Hylan promised to do better than
any predecessor who had ever occu-
pied the office of Mayor. He prom
lsed to reduce taxation; but instead
of doing so, as we indicated yester
day, there has been an increase
under his direction of 65 per cent. or
$1o9,662, ,573.41.
But that was not all that Hylan
pledged his word and his Sacred
honor" to do. He promised, if you
would only elect him:
"A sane. economical, common-sense
business administration, and to de-
stroy dishonesty in public service"
He was taken at his word. Has
he kept it? What says the record?
The record says that the cost of
government for the last four years
has been S1,217,00O,0OO, as against
100000 for the preceding term,
or an increase of 46 per cent.
The record says that the per cap
ita cost has jumped from S26 to
$3.50.
The record says that salary in
creases have leaped Sd per cent.
The record says that the cost of
conducting the departments directlv
under the Mayor or controlled bv his
appointees has increased from S65.-
oo4,61S in 1918 to ,689,6S9.
The record says that Hylan has no
thought or plaDo of retrcnchment.
The record says he is opposed to
any reduction in salaries or wage re-
adjustment.
The record says that the pav roll
gifts to Tammany leaders alone
amount in round figures to $3.50 900.
The record says that the Mayor
under oath admitted in August that.
although chairman Of the Sinking
Fund Commission since 1918, he did
not know what the commission Is for
The record says that there have
been corruption and graft in the
Markets Department and that for
money one can get "honey."
The record says that tha Mayor
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
The Milk Strike

The milk delivery men receive
minimum weekly wage of $35. They
draw, moreover, commissions on the
milk they handle, and these are esti-
mated to bring their earnings up to
from $45 to $65 week. They have
had so much success in their contro-
versies with the milk companies that
they are now emboldened to ask an
advance of SIS week and two weeks
vacation year with pay.
Appetite grows with what it feeds
on. The milk drivers have gradually
pushed the companies into a corner.
The men make their own rules and
are exceedingly impatient Of control.
The excessive cost Of the delivery
system is one of the chief. causes Of
the high cost of city milk. House
toulouse delivery, once a highly
priced service to the consumer, has
become in way burden fastened
on him. He cannot rid himself Of it.
If he is willing to go himself to a de-
livery sub-station and carry home
his own bottled milk he must pay
the same price as he pays for it with
the high cost Of the itinerant drivers
service added.
The milk drivers want to rule the
roost in the milk industry. The COM
panies have too weakly bowed to
them in the past. Now the COM
panies say that they will fight to re-
gain control of their own business.
Every milk consumer will hope that
they do and that when they regain
control of it they will run it on a
sounder economic basis, taking out
the overcharges due to the present
luxurious system of special mes
senger delivery.
The strike must thus be regarded
as another wanton challenge to the
public. 1t is brutal attempt to ex-
tort privileges for a small, highly
paid class at the expense of the less
we'll to do and the sick and the de-
pendent. The majority of the users
of milk in the strike area do not earn
wages as large as those of the av-
erage milk driver. But to increase
their incomes and strengthen their
strangle hold the drivers unions are
willing to deny a necessary Of life to
infants, small children and patients
in homes and hospitals, as well as to
persons of moderate means to whom
in these days of inflated food prices
milk is more than ever an essential
Of diet.
The drivers lot only attack the
public, but from the standpoint of
selfishness serve themselves poorly.
They further cut the ground from
under the peoples waning belief that
unions can be trusted to be fair.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Devastated Eastern Parkway

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why has Eastern Parkway
from New York Avenue to the Circle
been left in condition bordering on
devastated France for years after the
subway was finished and running?
Thousands of motorists get nsd
every time they have to take the mar
row, badly paved side roadways IN
going to or from the park or eastward
out on Long Island. 1t was more than
seven years ago that tho general road
way was closed off, and nothing has
been done for at least three years
The plea used to be: ave cannot get
men," What is the excuse now
Patrons of the Brooklyn institute
Museum are also greatly incon'
venienced. Is not this scandal Of real
Importance? C. ". S.
Brooklyn, Oct. 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Sergeant Samuel Woodhll

An order directing Sergeant
Samuel Woodfill, stationed at Fort
Thomas, Kentucky, to represent
the infantry branch of the army at
the Arnistice Day ceremonies for
Americas unknown dead reveals to
the people war hero hitherto quite
unheralded whose exploits rank with
those of Sergeant York and Major
Whittlesey. Indeed, General Per-
shing, who has singled. him out to
take part in the patriotic ceremony
of November II, in his forth
coming final report as commander
of the American Expeditionary
Forces seems to give first place to
Samuel Woodfll.
The citation of the fighting officer
for the Congressional Medal of
Honor tells the story in detail,
which few newspaper readers can
have overlooked in yesterdays
editions. Reading of this one
mans super-onslaught with pistol,
rifle and pickax, one gets the full
import of General Woods speech
to the soldiers he had trained: Re
member that your sole duty is to
take your objectivcs."
Woodfll was a lieutenant on the
day of his prodigious feat at Cunel,
October 12, 1918. He was pro-
noted to captain. Now he is Just
a "non-com" regular, as he was
when the United States entered the
World War, 1t was all in the day's
work for him to be a hero. He was
only a regular. He did not retire
with his decorations and his cap
talncy when the'war was over. What
he did was to re-enter the army as
an enlisted man, taking his medicine
of demotion. That, too, was a spe-
cies of heroism, was it not?
All will agree that General
Pershing has done we'll in detailing
Sergeant Woodfll for special dutv
on Armistice Day.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
refuses to remove the Markets Com

refuses to remove the Markets Com
missioner.
The record says that the shipping
of the port was squeezed during 1919
and 1920 for $4,000, ,ooo-this to
pay "watchmen" and i"guards"
against pillage-nearly three times
the cost of policing the whole city.
The record says that the Commits
sioner of Police on salary Of 81, 500
year has made bank deposits of
100000 during his less than four
year term of Office.
The record says that former po-
lice inspector, who resigned at the
beginning of the Hylan administra-
ton to go into the "private detective
agency" business, has made deposits
in excess Of S1,000,0O0.
The record says that piers have
been let by the Dock Department to
favorites of the administration, who,
in turn, have sub-let them at profits
as high as 240 per cent.
The record says that the Depart
ment of Education has become a po-
litical pawn.
The record says that New York S
wonderful public school system is a
wreck
The record says that HyIan has
not built a school out of money ap-
propriated through his recommends
ton or effort, and that the credit for
the few schools built in his time is
due to the forethought OF his pred
ecessor in office.
And yet Hylan stands forth to-
day, in the face of that record and
more, promising, whining, that if
but given another chance he will
change all these things, rectify all
these mistakes" He has failed
simply Through the impulses of his
honest heart" Responsive to the
strings of his manipulators, Hearst
and Tammany, he promises all
things to all men.
Hylan has broken his word. He
has not kept faith. What is his
word worth now? What is. its face
value? VIII you as a voter take it
at par?
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02

the total cost Of both police and fire
establishments of the city flushing
the pockets of friends of Fourteenth
Street!
On the other hand is Mr.. Gilroy,
son Of a former Mayor of New York,
man of unblemished record and
unchallenged probity. He is a Demo-
crat, but not of the kind his OPP
ponent is. Which of these two men
should be voted for? 1t seems un-
necessary to make any argument.
The facts speak.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Mixing Economies and Politics

IL CHe EulLOr OF Inc Tribune.
Sir: l should like to commend YOUR
editorial to-day in which you saw:
American instincts recol at mixing
economies and politics. Government
ownership and operation Of the ma
chlnery of production or of the in
strumentalities of commerce run conn
ter to normal American theory and ex-
perience''
True talk, but will not the menace
OF just that danger be present until
the thought you uttered is accepted as
an axiom? One striking illustration
that Will come to mind whenever gov
ernment ownership or operation is
mentioned will do more than acres of
economic preachments. May I attempt
to supply one? The money just spent
on two industrial activities of govern
ment-railroad operation and shin
building-would, if put at prevailing
rates of interest, supply funds for the
building each year from now until
eternity Of project like the Panama
Canal.
Can political futility be more strong
ly illustrated? EDWIN HALE
New York, Oct. 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02

given by our military and naval ex.
perts. Are they up to date? Will
they continue to claim that armies and
battleships can be employed as in the
past? Will they still cling to the
absurdly conservative ideas they have
urged in Congress during the last
three years? Will they persist in ad-
vocating the cid. and in opposing The
our delegates to the conference will be
deceived. Economy and limitation Of
useless armament will be defeated.
Wastefulness in building out-of-date
and useless weapons will continue
True preparedness for modern warfare
will not be promoted.
Reviewing the subject we find tha!
the Far Eastern question, continental
and intercontinental as it is in scope
involves only two armies-those Of
China and Japan It involves three
navies-the greatest and most expen-
sive in the world-those of Japan,
Great Britain and the United States,
the navies that would have most 10
Go in world wars. If the conference
can be limited, therefore, to dis
cussion and settlement of the Asietic
doctrine; if the European and Ameri-
can doctrines are debarred, we may
secure Limitation of armament" in
matters that not only affect Asiatic sf-
fairs but which tend to prevent inter.
continental wars as we'll. This will
be great accomplishment. The world
is praying for it.
But il the distinguished delegates
are not left to themselves; if their
competency Is not recognized; II
numerous well meaning individuals
and pious societies cannot be induced
to settle various world affairs quietly
among themselves; if the conference
is subjected to interruptions, impor-
tunities and befogging questions that
have nothing to do with the subject,
the discussion will have no end and it
will have reached no decision whea
Gabriel with his trumpet rudely in
terrupts the interminable proceedings.
God forbid! Limitation of discussion
will secure limitation of armament
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Glroy VS.. Hubert

The President of the Board of
Aldermen has three votes in the
Board of Estimate. In the Mayors
absence or death he becomes Mayor.
He is member of the vital Sink
ing Fund Commission. He presides
over the Board Of Aldermen. Surely
his is an important Office.
Vincent Gilroy or Murray Hubert
is on Tuesday next to be chosen to
fill it. Which of the two should it
be? Both are Democrats. So in their
cases no question Of national parti-
sanship is involved.
Murray Hubert is the nominee of
Tammany. He is at present Dock
Commissioner. His conduct of this
important post gives the measure Of
the man and indicates whether or not
he is one to be trusted with the
power to cast three votes in the
Board Of Estimate and to exercise
the other functions Of an aldermanic
president.
AS TO Mr.. Hulbert's conduct of the
Dock Department the testimony
taken by the Meyer committee shows
that t~enty-four lessees of city piers
sublet TO the unfavored at profit
OF 100000. One company spent
$25, 900 to get a lease and in one
year made $251,000.
But there is worse than this.
Under Commissioner Hubert a sys-
TEN Of pier lessees hiring guards
from detective agencies headed by
Tammany favorites has grown up.
In 1919 the toll levied for this "pro-
lection" amounted to S41,61o,0 1000,
and in 1920 to $50 $4,000. Never in
the c:ty's long record was there ever
such opportunity for graft. The
sums that once were sweatcd from
saloons and rambling houses and
bawdy houses are nothing com-
pared 81 it.
And this has been done not merely
at the expense Of. pier and steam
ship companies, but at the expensc
al the whole city. The business of
tie Port If New York goes else
wtefe. While Mr.. Hubert has
Loked on New York's most impor-
fapt oceYagnic irterest has been
ths11tls,l. Think of 1t! More than
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Harden Next?
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; AS one of the submerged Ameri-
cans let me thank you for voicinp so
well our sentiments concerning the off :
clal reception to Richard Strauss.
The cffrontcry Of Hylan makes us
wonder If we are broad awake and
not dreaming some horribly G, ,otesque
dream.
Soon we are expecting another cher
ished German, who calls himself Maxi
milan Harden, who is coming to mir
MS views on Bolshcvism He, too, will
doubtless have an escort of honor and.
II it can be staged before Hylan goes.
an official reception at the City Hall.
MERCEDES l.. M'ALLlSTER SMITH.
Asw YorkysOct. 80, 1924.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Juggled Statistics
(From Tho Kansas CITY Sta

(Fron Tho Kansas CITY Star)
The human race has added ten years
to the life Of the average man in tns
last fifty years, an actuary told fns
life underwriters in Chicago yesterdas'
Why shouldn't this sort of thing 81
on, he asks, until man lives to be on'
hundred? Why not. to be sure Just = -
Mark Twain figured about the lens.
of the Mississippi. 1t was cutting ou'
bends and shortening itself so mues
every year. If the same rate shouS
keep on, in the course of few sho'-
sand years the Mississippi world "
only eighteen miles long.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02

1t will be possible for the busy per-
son to make an appointment by tele-
phone, eliminating the wasteful de-
lay of waiting in line. Also there
will be evening sessions for those
who cannot come in the daytime.
The physicians will be on salary, and
altogether the patient at the new
pay clinic may feel that he is get
ting the best that science affords
at the lowest possible price.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Ireland's Day at Westminster

1
which have no liking for Lloyd
George, and in spite Of many fail
ures persist in burrowing campaigns
against him, ascribc such victories
as the remarkable one that he gained
Monday in the British House Of
Commons to his oratorcal ability.
BY the black magic of his words he
is held to work spell.
The explanation is not altogether
satisfying. The little great Welsh
man has a nimble tongue, but the
oratory he chiefly relies on is that of
events and situations rather than Of
speech. He has an uncanny faculty
of inducing or goading his oppo-
nents to take the wrong side of an
argument. When they are inextrica-
bly, enmeshed they are easily over
come. During the war and since, on
the many occasions Lloyd George has
been about to be unhorsed, it has
quickly appeared that the criticism
of his course, on the particular mat
ter under discussion, was absurd.
Mr.. George is called an oppor-
tunist. He is this, Of course, but the
term does not completely describe
him. More accurately could it be
said that he disciplines his opinions
to subservience to facts. He does
not arrogantly cling to personal pref
erences when the heavens threaten
to fall, but joyously yields. So he
successfully resists political inter-
ment-shows a vitality that puts
many teeth on edge.
The resolution of censure on the
Irish question, which was able to
muster only forty-tkree on a division
cf the House, is a case in point. The
common sense of Great Britain so
much wants peace in Ireland that it
is Indifferent to>the technical irregu-
larity of negotiating with declared
rebels. TO call off the Irish parley
seems nonsensical. The British peo-
pie have never forgotten that George
III and his ministers INDUCED in the
luxury of logic, and thus lost the
American colonies.
Yet it is a striking thing that on
an open vote, by ten-to-one major
ity, a British House of Commons has
declared for peace in Ireland at al
most any price. Great is the change
in British sentiment. A few years
ago the beloved Gladstone was
deemed almost traitor for advocat-
ing any kind of Home Rule. Now a
degree Of Home Rule is offered to
Ireland such as Parnell did not
dream of asking for-not only Of
fered, but it's acceptance begged. If
Irish pride revolts. at the thought of
compromise it can be Modified by
noting that, Great Britain has re-
vised more of her cid opinions than
has Ireland.
That in the end an Irish settle
ment will be reached it is almost
blasphemous to doubt. The vote in
the House of Commons is an impress
sive declaration of Great Britain's
great desire to meet Irish wishes. As
such it can hardly fail to have q
powerful influence with the chivalric
Irish pesple, people quick to flame
into suspicion and resentment, per-
haps, but also quick to respond to
manifestations of good will.