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New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Pessimisrn's Bad Week

1t has been a bad week for the pro-
fessional pessimists at Washington.
They still hope for the worst, but,
alas! can't help recognizing that the
drift Of events is steadily against
them.
The Hughes plan for naval disar-
mament is virtually adopted; Japan,
instead of disclosing an incorrigible
spirit and banzai-ing for war, shows
desire for accommodation; lease
holds in China are to be mutually
Cancelled and Japan offers to return
to China most Of the Shantung
rights which Germany conveyed to
her; while outside the conference, yet
bearing on its business, France Is
seemingly content to give Germany
more time to meet her reparation
agreements, and the 700-year-old
Irish question is settled by diplo-
macy. No wonder the pessinists find
it difficult to keep up their chants of
impending woe.
The die-hards are not yet dead.
The illiberal liberals who beset the
times still chatter, but they find the
atmosphere of optimism sitting. The
nations represented at Washington
persist in multiplying atrabilious pre-
dictions. Not following the role as
signed to them and refusing to fly at
one another's throats, they are ex-
employing the belief that at the
present juncture of affairs concord
is better than discord.
Particularly detected are those who
are so weak in imagination and faith
as to believe that the covenant way
is the only way. These irreconcil-
ables continue to burn candles before
the altar of dead reputation and
still regard the success of the con-
ference personal affront. But,
happily, their tom~tom beating grows
fainter and fainter. A few more
weeks like the present one will re-
duce them to silence.
The envenomed stream that has
flowed from so many pens promises
soon to run dry. The times are out
of joint for the marplots whose voca-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

Leaving Hokkaido, the northern
island, cut Of consideration because
of its coldness, although its density
of population is three times greater
than that of California, there are
4S5 japanese to every square mile.
Belgium has $50, Holland 474, Eng
land $40, Italy SIG, France 1913, and
China, including her outlying re-
gions, has 70.
But another fact must be taken
into account. The japanese islands
are volcanic, and less than so per
cent of their area is tillable or habit
able. In Japan the agricultural land
is less than one-quarter Of an acre
per person. Intensifying the shortage,
the population of Japan, stationary
for two centuries, has doubled since
1870. Yet Japan has no colonies to
which her surplus population can go
or from which she can draw raw ma
terials. Corea has a population of
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
China and the League
Said To Be Member by Virtue Of
Peace Treaty With Austria


Peace Treaty With Austria
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In my letter to you of Decem-
ber 3, commented upon by you in
this mornings Tribune, enormously
stated that the Versailles Treaty was
voluntarily accepted by China. In
writing l had before me the official
copy Of the treaty, the opening para
graph Of which recites the names Of
the various countries taking part in
it and the plenipotentiaries represent
ing them, respectively China and it's
commissioners were included in this
enumeration. The signatures were
not printed in this copy and l assumed
that the names recited in the preamble
were subscribed to the document.
You call attention to the fact that
the Chinese commissioners did not
sign this treaty, and this / find is the
fact. China did sign the peace treaty
with Austria, dated June %, 1919, the
first chapter of which is repetition
of the covenant Of the League of Ma
tions, and by so doing China became
a member Of the League Of Nations
and has been since then represented in
its assembly, and at present also on
the council, and Mr.. Wellington Koo
has taken the action in the assembly
to which I referred in my letter.
CEODCL, Wy UrVCKED
New York, Dec. 6, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

204 per square mile and Formosa
400 per square mile, while southern
Manchuria has a density about the
same as that Of Corca.
The case for Japanese expansion
somewhere is strong, for the nom
Oriental countries bordering the Pa
cific generally exclude the Japanese.
The best answer to Japan's COM
plant, In view Of Japanese aversion
to cold or hot climates, is to allow
her access, on equal terms, to raw
materials of other countries, and a
right to sell, also on equal terms,
her surplus manufactured products.
This will enable her to employ her
people at home and import her food
even as Great Britain does.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Patent Office Relief
Salary Increase Essential--Qucstioa
as to Inventors Fees

OoAoiJ lhti iCdSC L~ooCutldi---N[u [uCotSVlk
as to Inventors Fees
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial The Starving
Patent Office" gives needed publicity
to the "deplorable condition" Of al.
fairs confronting its commissioner and
all who deal with it. Congress has
been consistently deaf and dumb to
the appeals of his predecessors. Only
sustained publicity for this famishine
bureau of the Department of the In.
terror can be looked to as means Of
quickening Congressman into voting
Commissioner Robertson says, and the
only way to get it is to increase
salaries. He proves his plea beyond
denial. His remedy is by House bill
7077, but this bill, as he points out, Sin
creases the fees" to the inventor seek,
ing patent.
This idea meets your editorial IN
dorsement because you believe would.
be patentees would offer no objection
to paying $40 where now they pay
$35 in fees to the government. This
is not the case as to the majority Of
inventors who are paying their own
fees as distinguished from the profes-
sional inventor whose work is assigned
to his employer.
Inventors are, as a class, not men Of
such means that the payment Of 50
more is a matter of no financial
moment to them. The government fee
is not half the cost Of patent appl-
cation. An attorney is needed. TO
file an average application. properly
prepared, costs $50. If no amendments
have to be made to the specification or
claims or no appeals taken the total
cost Of the patent becomes $40. 1t Ia
usually nearer s1Oo than $40, often
times much more.
Why place the burden Of increased
salary costs upon the inventor? Has
any other department Of the govern
ment increased it's fees? Is any other
department expected to be self-sup3
porting?
To increase the fees for obtaining q
patent is backward step. Canada mas
just reduced her charges from $50 to
$50, SIS upon filing application and szo
upon allowance, the American scale,
after long consideration of the sub
ject.
Let the salaries be increased as pro-
posed by House bill 7077 and the
number of employees be increased 50
the work may be done promptly, but
amend the bill in so far as it proposes
.i.e anomaly of passing along such In
crease to the American inventor. who
has. as your editorial truly states, made
America the America it is.
SEWARD DAVIS.
New York, Dec. 5, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Wireless Playgoing Next

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: We all know now of the wonder
of the wireless telephone. All VINO
have @'listened in" are convinced of i1s
practicability. One thing it LACKS
however-great scope of subject mat
ter in transmitting.
The public ought to be able to hear
plays, lectures, operas over the wire
less, just as it reads about them IN th'
papers. This would be an inestimaois
boon to those who are tied down ~
home through old age, illness, OF :
large family; also to those who are ~
far from the city that attendance is M
possible. This service could be pa'0
for according TO it's cost in each mar
vidual case. Here is an opportunity
for the inventor.
MARY NJ. FERRER
Caldwell, N. J., Dec. 4. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
The Hole in the Tax System

A much criticized feature of our
fiscal system is the exemption from
Federal taxation Of state and munic-
ipal securities. The Kitchin income
taxation system sought to collect in
come surtaxes ranging as high as Is
per cent; but such rates were self
defeating. 1t was open to persons
subject to the excessive taxes to shift
their capital into exempt bond issues.
1t has been demonstrated that the
saturation point Of income taxation
IS ct present about 80 per cent.
Income collections above that level
have almost dried up.
President Harding recommended
yesterday the submission of consti-
tutional amendment ending the i'm
munity enjoyed by state and munich
pal bonds. He recognizes the awk-
wardness Of asking the states to sur
render the advantage which they
now enjoy in the investment market.
Some Of the members of the farmer
bloc in Congress are said to have
voted at the extra session to retain
income taxes in excess of SO per cent
on the ground that states, counties
and cities are enabled by the artifi-
cial premium put on their issues to
go ahead with road building and
other public improvements.
This Is q narrow view. AS Mr..
Harding says, "the drift Of wealth
into non-taxable securities is hinder
ing the flow Of large capital to our
industries. manufacturing, agricul-
tural and carrying, until we are dis
couraging the very activities which
make our wealth."
There are two ways Of checking
this drift. One is the longer way of
ratifying a constitutional amend
rncnt putting all securities on the
same level. The other is the shorter
way Of keeping the maximum income
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

Ireland free shtate and seq Ulster
can come in and out as the fancy takes
her,"
"I've tould you phwat 1 think" sez
O'Flannigan.
"Ye'vc tould me 'to hell with the
English" sez ], (which is no more
than any dacent man would say. l
want your individual opinion ON the
wisdom av the Irish Republic becom-
ing the Irish Free Shtate.'
Just thin man put his foot on the
rail beside me whom I recognized to
be Mike Sullivan that got himself a
job in the Federal prohibition enforce
ment Office.
"Phwat are ye talkin' about, the Irish
Free Shtate 2" questions Mike. But
O'Flannigan had lent over the bar an
was graspin' his dhrink an mine wild
both hands, holdin' thin we'll above his
head.
mike Sullivan" sez he, "tell me the
truth before I desthroy the ividince.
Are ye on business or on pleasure?"
"On pleasure" sez Mike. "Phwat
dye think am" sez he, "a dhirrty spy !
Phwatll ye have?" sez he, turning
to me.
I told him, an O'Flannigan put the
glasses back where they rightly be-
longed.
1--WE was talkin,," sez I, "about this
Irish Free State, which is proposed as
the result av the successful outcome
av the Irish negotiations in London.
Phwat might you think av it ?" sez I.
He took the A. P. dispatch which
the iditor had given me from my hand,
an started to read it.
"Who might this Lloyd George be-
sez he, "who is deshcribed as the prime
mover in these negotiations 2"
"The English Prime Ministher, !"
sez 1.
eye admit that ?" sez he.
CAV course I admit it," sez +. Why
would not?"
ITO hell wild the dhirrty English!"
sez he. "Finish that an let's have
another. 'Tis tonne I was back on the
job at Enforcement headquarters"
"'Tis a hell of shtory I've got to go
back to my boss with" sez I to
OFlannigan when Mike Sullivan had
departed. "Phwat will I do? Can ye
not think av anything to say but phwcs
livery dacent man says? Have ye no
wurrd of jubilashun that Ireland has
won her freedom an her long shtrug-
gle is over?"
o'Flannigan filled them again, an
held his to the light, wild his head
on one side an his eyes shcrewed up.
Sure" sez he, cts the poor bhoys
I'm thinkin' av in this sorrowful hour.
Them as has given their lives to the
cause. Phwat will they be doin' at all
at all, if the dhirrty English has ef-
fected settlement behind their backs,
an this free country turns deaf
ear to the woes av Ireland?"
That's thruc," sez I. 81 hadn't
thought av it. An there's me shtory.
To hell wild the dhirrty English"
ITO hell wild then," seq O'Flannipan.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
The Irish Settlement

The Irish settlement provides,
first, that Ireland is to remain an in
tegral part of the British common
wealth, and, second, that northeast
Ireland is not to be forced to merge
with the remainder of Ireland.
Thus, on the two disputed matters
the settlement is on terms long ago
offered. Yet it is inaccurate to
say that there is any victory over
southern Ireland. It's leaders have
merely bowed to the inescapable
facts of the situation. The British
government has all along made it
plain that it would not consent to
Irish secession, and northeastern
Ireland has made it equally plain
that it would not surrender it's lib
erty of action.
But it is not friendly to either
part of Ireland nor to Great Britain
to speculate over which element has
the more nearly gained its own way.
There is glory enough to go around.
What will southern Ireland do
with her new freedom? Will she
Loyalty adhere to the new act of
union? Will Irish policy be directed
to developing friendship toward
Ireland's neighbor or will it be in
the direction of intensifying a
separatist spirit? The future de-
pends on the answer to these cues
tiocs.
George W. Russell, the well
Known "a. E." whose pamphleteer-
ing has been influential, would have
Ireland travel lonely road, but
though this may now be the prevail
ing temper it is against the ccntrip-
etal tendencies of the times. Ireland
will, of course, properly struggle
for economic development, but, if
wise, rather as a part of a greater
whole than as domain setting itself
apart. If separatism is the watch
word the years to come will bring
new causes of friction.
The attitude of northeast Ireland
will be one of watchful waiting
The typical fisherman before he
votes to marry Celtic Ireland will
want to see what sort of house
keeper she is. The hard-headed
FISHERMAN sees as plainly as others
the practical disadvantages of dis
sociation from the remainder of
Ireland, but business isn't every
thing and the fisherman will want
to be shown. No friend of the Irish
state will urge her to try to coerce
Ulster by boycotts and the like.
In America, except among the
professionals who have long kept
themselves fat on the avails of
Irish agitation, the settlement will,
of course, be most welcome. 1t holds
out hope that at last Americas own
affairs are not to be neglected in
order to wrangle over the rights
and wrongs of the Irish question.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Scrappi7g the ShMaZah
Special Correspondent Hries from Washington TO Get
Story ON Irish Freedom

Being tilgraphed for hurriedly from
Washington, where I was kaping g
watchful eye on tho Interests av the
Irish Republic in the Far East, 1 pri-
sinted meself to me iditor as per his
imperative summons.
"Tim Murphy" sez he, Eye we read
av the successful outcome av the Irish
negotiations ?"
81 have not" sez 7.
Eye We not read in the papers that
Ireland is to be the Irish Free State
and Ulster to come in or out as she
plazes?" he asks in astonishment.
II have not" sez |. "Me eyes have
been turned exclusively to the Far
East, where the next immadiate throu-
bic for Ireland is like to develop. This
was in accordance with yer own in
sthrucshuns to be lookin' for throuble.' y
"Well," sez he, handing me an A. P,
dispatch the length av your arm,
take look at this" sez he, "an' thin
go out an get the views av the leadin'
REPRESENTATIVES av Irish opinion in New
York upon the hardly won freedom av
their beloved country"
"Who will go to 2" sez I.
"You can go to the divil for all I
care" sez the iditor, who, being Scotch
an Presbyterian from the North av
Ireland, Is not as slow to anger as
some others. eur the love av Mike
don't you know the leaders of your own
cause? There's Cohalan an Goff an
OLeary an dozens av thim."
"If you ask my opinion" sez I,
"thim is not the people you want to
express their views on this important
subject. It's time the voice av the plain
people was heard on the wrongs av Ire
land, an by the same token it's me
friend OFlannigan that with your lave
will spake to first on this matter, for
O'Flannigans a good man, an by the
howly saints he's plain one, none
palmer" sez I.
"You can spake to who you damn
we'll plaze, so long as you git the story"
sez the iditor, impatient like.
So that was how I come to dhrop into
O'Flannigan's place on Second Avenue,
which is cosy little place, retaining
still many av the comforts av home, in
addition to the lunch counter, where
Irish shtew an Boston beans may be
consumed at reasonable price.
"Have ye hurrd the news, O'Flan-
nigan?" sez I, whin l had greeted him
an found that the stuff was passable
"Phwat ws?" sez he.
"Phwat news!" repates. "Have ye
no education, OFlannigan, or do ye
not read the papers, that ye've failed to
see the successful outcome av the
Irish negotiations?"
might ye name the talk there has
been with the dhirrty English?" sez
he. "The same" sez I.
ITO hell wild the English" sez
OFlannigan, splitting upon the floor.
II am wild you," seq l. "And I
should know" l SEE, "after observing
in Washington there the wrongs they
are like to put upon Irish inthrests in
the Far East. But my boss has stint
me to you get shtory, an shtory I'm
goin' to get"
"Phwat kind av a shtory?" seq
OFlannigan.
"The Ignorance av the man." l sez
"a newspaper shtory av course. want
to know phwat you think av the out
come av the negotiations which makes
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

surtax below 80 per cent. Congress
refused to take the short way. 1t will
probably have to bow to economic
common sense, however, when the
next tax revision is undertaken,
whether the country has or has not
adopted by that time an amendment
destroying the privileged status Of
state, county ard city securities.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Verbal Disarmament
(Ffoan The irlcrelnnd ptnin n.a1.

fFrOsn The Clcuelnnd Plain DeoIsr,
Congressman Campbell, of Kansas, pro-
poses to limit the number Of members
of the House of Representatives to 300.
Fine! Now let Great Britain cut the
Commons to 300, and we'll allow Japan
100 in whatever she calls her lower
chamber.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Crowded Japan

To the December number of "The
Review" K. X. Kawakami, dis
tinguished japanese publicist, con-
tributes the following table showing
the density of Japanese population:
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

tion is the manufacture Of suspicion.
Wholesomencss and sanity are COM
ing into their own again. The world
is not to blow up in one grand ex-
plosion.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
The Towcr

"Public life in France, Germany, and
England" says Mr.. II. G.. Wells, "got
moro and more crazy about propa-
ganda; there was fear Of insidious
whispering mischief afoot. moro like
the fear Of witchcraft than anything
else; until at last it became dangerous
and ineffective to make any utterance
at all except the most ferocious
threats and accusations against tho
enemy" Even this broad land, Mr..
Wells, trembled with fear of enemy
agents, of enemy propaganda. For a
few months this country had a bad
case Of spyorrhea; nor has it utterly
recovered.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Only a Dream
(From Litel

(From Lite)
Some of the geniuses in Greenwich
Village may be genuine, but most Of
them seem to be freudulent.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

Knowing how eager clipping bureaus
are to supply xAeir clients with the
slightest reference to them, we'll bet
that the preceding piece of M. G.'s (cf
line 15) will cost Little, Brown &, Co. SC.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

1t astonishes us that no letters
signed Fair Play or True American
havc been received protesting against
the playing Of "Thc Beautiful Blue
Danube" in Good Morning, Dearie."
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

In accordance with our annual Gus
tom, We proclaim that when we re-
coive two contributions of equal merit,
the one in the envelope adorned with
the majority Of Christmas seals gets
the preference.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

Speaking of militarism, Prof. Wood
burn, of the Northwestern University
our info comes from n perusal of the
Childs advertisement--has caused to
grow an ear of corn with red, white,
and blue kernels.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

Just because the adored Amcrican's
advertisement spoke Of it as "The
Varying Snore," A. M. thought the
show was going to be bedroom farce,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-07

BY the way, our test for an East.
erner is this: He speaks Of the North
western University and Ann Harbor.
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PERMANENT HIGHWAYS,

There Is no subject iust now Of
more marked interest than is the
one OF good roads. An over the Unit.
cd States the people have finally
caught tho true inspiration and they
have conceived the great value of per.
manent highway construction.
In Georgia aud the South, the plan
is receiving hearty approval and mil
lions OF dollars are being expended
on GOOD roads OF every character. So
IN keeping with the progress of the
times. we in Brunswick and Glynn
county must see 70 it that the st.
simon bridge lso built. That Is the
,ne essential thlng for MS 70 do now
aaa as soon the engineers finish their
survey work. We must do the neces.
sary.
TN the question q permanent high.
sass 50 is isspo 81 Safew DAYS asa,
tas esteemed cclnnhas EousreF.San
A
rhe Thomasville TinseSEaser.
,rlse declares that Georgia must hsild
eoals that arr permanent. and that
~ Enoas...-Sun endorses the SUE.
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AT A MOTHERS MEETING.

the wife of a noted New York divine
said to her listeners, Watch carefully
your daughters physical development.
Mothers should keep their daughters
wei Informed as to matters pertaining
to health, and should see hat nature is
assisted, if necessary, to perform it's
Offices
Irregularities and pain are warning
symptoms of some trouble, and moth
ers may depend upon Lydia E. Pink
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them, and restore the system to a
healthy, normal condition.
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President Harding does not always
practice what he breaches He pre-
vented Congress from taking vaca-
ton and then proceeded to take one
himself.
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John shelton Williams has always
led thta happy faculty of saying just
What he meant to say and saying 1t in
an emphatic sort OF way Governor
H1rding of the Federal reserve board,
has perhaps discovered the fact.