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New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Remembering Magma Charta

This year, for the first time in
New York, the anniversary of the
granting of Magma Charta has been
commemorated, but its observance,
a few evenings ago, was unnoticed
by the great mass of the population
and received but brief mention in
the press. Yet few dates are more
worthy of remembrance.
1t is an error to think of the Great
Charter as something pertaining
solely to England and to medieval
times. The instrument extorted
from John Is a world document and
in its essential spirit and purport as
vital and valid as when an unwill-
ing king signed it on June Is, 1915.
Consider, for example, the present
pertinence Of Chapter 80:
"No freeman shall be arrested. or
detained in prison, or deprived of his
freehold, or outlawed, or banished. or
IN any way molested; and we will not
set forth against him, nor send against
MN, unless by the lawful judgment
OF his peers and by the law of the
land"
This not only foreshadowed but
actually embodied several of the
chief items Of the Bill of Rights Of
our own Constitution. The funda-
mental principles of the rights of
citizenship were first formulated
not in the Constitution Of the United
States. nor in the Declaration of In
dependence, nor in the Colonial town
meetings, nor in the Mayflower Com
pact, but in quaint old document
with the phrasing of clerkly medi-
eval Latin.
Nor can it be said that Magma
Chorta represented merely victory
won by tbs barons fer the barona,
regardless as the sommoa people.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Taxing State Securities
Opinion That They Are Not Exempt
FROM Federal Levy

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Every citizen should read
Samuel S. Blythe's article in The
Saturday Evening Post on sport
Economy Is Good Pert" He will be
wiser but sadder for so doing. must
disagree with him, however, in his
statement regarding tax exempt se-
curities, the creation of which ne de-
plores. 1.-THE principle established by
the Supreme Court that states cannot
tax national revenues applies with
equal constitutional force to state and
municipal securities; neither can the
nation tax those. Hence these states
and municipalities issue their bonds
as free from Federal taxation"
There is not shadow of authority
under the Federal Constitution for the
states to make their bonds free from
Federal taxation. 1t is a debatable
question whether even Congress has
the power to grant such exemption.
The Sixteenth Amendment gives
taxes on incomes from whatever
source derived" Mr.. Hughes when
Governor of New York called the at
tention of the Legislature to the fact
that by ratifying that amendment
without making reservation as to
state bonds, etc, New York gave up
any rights that the state might have
to have its bonds exempted from
Federal taxation. Congress, having the
power to tax incomes from whatever
source derived, has the power to tax
the incomes from all state securities.
The states having yielded the power
of taxing incomes from whatever
source, they are bound by their own
act not to claim that incomes from
their own securities are constitutional
ly exempted. IRVING H. BROWN.
Plainheld, N. j., June 1e, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Fusion's Double Problem

With the appointment of confer
ence committees by the New York
County Republican organization and
by the coalition committee the busi-
ness of effecting an anti-Tammany
fusion in the Mayoralty campaign
enters on a practical stage.
The common objective is to oust
Tammany, and in union is strength,
but it is plain that there are lions in
the path to fusion. Some Republi-
cans think the time is opportune for
offering a straight Republican tick
ct. They would risk alternating out
side support, unmindful of the weak
ness of such political strategy and of
the fact that elections are uncertain
in result. On the other hand, some
independents and anti-Tammany
Democrats hotly oppose nominating
any recognized Republican, no mat
ter how great his personal merits.
But, happily, among the cooler
headed on both sides such narrow
ness of view is rara The committee
named by President Koenig is COM
posed for the greater part of men of
open minds. The selection of Charles
E. Heydt TO head the Republican con-
ferees is a fortunate one, insuring
fair treatment of the fusion idea and
at the same time increasing the like
lihood, because of Mr.. Heydt's
strength with the organization, that
any recommendation he will make
will be indorsed in the Republican
primaries.
The conferees of the coalition
committee, headed by Joseph M.
Price, seem equally of open minds.
They seem to recognize, if fusion is
to be achieved, that the agreed-on
candidate must be able to carry the
Republican primaries, and would not
repeat the experience of four years
ago which made Tammany success
certain. The negotiators must at all
times remember that two battles
must be fought first in the prima-
ries and then in the election) and
that the Republican leaders are un-
der constraint that does not rest
Jon the coalitionists. The direct pri-
mary law still makes fusion difficult.
The problem facing the conferees
is double one. First, the candi-
date selected must be one of whose
victory in the Republican primaries
there is no reasonable doubt; and,
second, he must be such one as will
attract and hold that vast body of
independent voters who split their
tickets last November, throwing the
city 100000 for Harding and $780,
900 for Smith. Neither phase of the
problem can be neglected if Tam
many is to be ousted and the city
once again have good government.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Always With Us
(From The Philadelphia Eveni,'

(Frons The Philadelphia Evening Public
Ledger
Partly because of the existence Of
farmers bloc in the United States
Senate, fear is expressed that the two
party system is on the way to oblivion.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. If the organi-
cation within the two parties meets
with any big share of success, and it
may, it will inevitably be followed by
other groups, labor, capital, wet, dry
and the like; which will simply mean
transference Of activities from the
lobby to the floor. In order to ac-
conaplish anything they will have to
combine; with the probable result that
one set of groups will line up against
another set of groups--and the two
party system will be with US again.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Frolicson1e Man

The idea that Charles Evans
Hughes, Secretary of State, reads
only heavy books was disproved the
other day by the librarian Of Brown
University, who gave list of books
that Secretary Hughes has read.
In his liking for light reading Mr..
Hughes is not exceptional among
statesmen. Most public men, par
ticularly If their responsibilities are
great, turn to non-serious books as
a relief. Lloyd George is such
man. Woodrow Wilson is another.
Macaulay reveled in trashy stories.
Chief Justice Fuller used to read
detective stories. Abraham Lin
coins we'll known fondness for
Artemus Ward has been used by MIR.
Drinkwater in his play with great
effectiveness. Queen Victoria,
charmed with Alice in Wonderland,
wrote to the distinguished author
tor more books like that, and was
astonished to receive a list of alb
struse mathematical works. Kant,
one Of the greatest philosophers of
all time, delighted in his newspaper
and in humorous stories. One of
the most profound Greek scholars
in America, the head Of a theologi-
cal seminary, who died only few
years ago, kept scrapbook of all
the funny" things he saw, and
read them to his friends with loud
laughter.
Indeed, it may be said that the
very qualities that make man ca
pable of shouldering great respon-
abilities lead him to and relief Ia
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
The New Stock

The following names appear among
the prize winners in this years
graduating class at Hunter College:
Shapiro, Bronstein, Goldberg, Kan
gla, Greenberg, Shmisman, Schmid,
Klauer, Aguero, Luks, Zorb, Shaft
man and Mahnken.
Hunter College has no favorites.
Its competitions know no race lines.
All it's students are alike, to it. The
old stock, as it reads the foregoing
honor list, may we'll feel little less
sure that it is an easy task to dis
tance the new stock.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Aldermen and Sim Fein
Ill-Adyised Appeal for Recognition
of the Irish Republic"

va ltlS tilott tkCpuDifC
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t would seem that alderman.
presumption outdid itself in the joins
resolution introduced by Aldermen
William r: Collins and Augustus Fer
rand at yesterdays meeting of the
Board of Aldermen.
By specious references to our own
Revolution these gentlemen would COM
nit the City Of New York to grave
and very unjust proposition. For them
to petition the President of the United
States to recognize the so-called Irish
republic" is asking him, in the name of
all Americans, to offend possibly 60
per cent of the Irishmen in Ireland.
No informed person can doubt that
the people of the north of ireland.
to preserve their membership ia the
British Empire, will fight to the finish.
Their attitude in this reGard was re-
Gently manifested when they solennized
the opening of their own Parliament.
But it should not be overlooked that
the south Of Ireland is by no means
unit in favor of Sim Fein republic.
1t might be of great interest to our
aldermen if they could know just hov
many of the good people there are in
the south of Ireland who in their heart
of hearts do not want their fate in
trusted to a Sim Fein government.
But our urbane New York aldermen
would wave aside such unpleasant mat.
ters as international embarrassments
and close their eyes to the true cir
cumstances of this vexing Irish prob
lem.
They would override the wishes Of
most of US Americans, offend a great
and friendly English-speaking nation
and, willy nilly, cram republic down
the throats Of all Irishmen, regardless
of whether they do or do not want a
republic. E. B. WRIGHT.
New York, June 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

irresponsible and does not represent
Russia. The help which will benefit
Russia, if the United States will extend
1t, is that which will comply with the
principles upon which the United States
was built, and such help will establish
in Russia sound, stable governm ment.
Such a movement will lay the founda-
tion not only for business relation
ship, but also for solid friendship be-
tween the people Of Russia and the peo-
pie of the United States.
HAROLD NJ. SCHECKTER.
New York, June 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
"One of Those Hyphens' -
Free Speech by Sailor Who Wore

the Blue Under Admiral Sims
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t would seem the gallant Ad
miral has plenty of kin, Judging from
the letters The Tribune is so happy to
publish. I wonder what chance the
pitiful minority has of getting into
print. Of course this member of that
minute chamber is one of the jackasses
whose opinion doesn't count, now that
the war is over. He is one of those
hyphens. His ancestors didn't come
over in the Mayfower, and so both his
grandfathers served in the Union ranks
in the Civil War, when they might
have paid some one to shoulder gun
for them had they been sufficiently
Americanized
In the last war this poor jackass and
his two brothers enlisted, although one
was above and another below the draft
age, but then I suppose the poor, down.
trodden English and the "real" Amer
leans would wipe the race off the earth
were it not for the Augean stables
cropping up here and there as the
world rolls on. 1t is a wonder the gall
liant Admiral didn't see to it that his
feet of destroyers, riding the sub
marine-infested seas, were manned by
real Americans. Many and many a
jackass wore the blue under his COM
mand-I know this one did--and, o.,
treason one of the watchdogs of the
English main was the O'Brien.
You, the mighty press, molder of
public opinion and reputed expounder
of the same, lament with the gallant
Admiral and tell the world how the
Irish maltreated our boys at Queens
town. New York is large city and
your paper we'll read, but did it ever
occur to you to comment upon what
happened in English seaports? The
captain of the Leviathan sent nightly
patrols ashore to preserve order in the
streets of Liverpool. l was a member
of that guard many times. I was also
included in company of eighty Of
the ships guard mustered hurriedly
one night to break up an ambush at
Seaforth Sands, not more than two or
three hundred yards from where we
were drydocked.
While I am at it I might as we'll
confess to having been sent to dream
land, via a bottle over the head, one
half hour after first set foot on Eng
lish soil, Christmas Eve, 1917. Lest
you gain the wrong impression, you
ere advised that no argument or brawl
preceded the knockout. am still
under the jurisdiction of thA United
States Navy and may easily be brought
to book for any misstatement.
Knowing that an American can care
for himself with the next one, be he
English, Irish or Scotch, l have stead
fastly refused to do the cry-baby act,
especially since our boys gave as boun-
tifully as they received, but when you
saw fit to comment editorially upon the
Queenstown affair l thought it about
time to jack you up, as it were.
Just parting word to remind you
that I am an American. No one has
better or clearer title. I sympa-
thize with the Irish and because of
that sympathy am not less an Amer
lean than Admiral Sims or Colonel
Harvey. In fact, am better Amer
lean than either, since would not use
an office Of honor and trust to vilify
and malign my countrymen.
PAUL L. TRACY.
Newark, N. j., June 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Lansing on Our War Entry

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Concerning the discussion as
to the "cause for which the Unitea
States entered che World War" it seems
to me that Robert Lansing in his BOOK
The Peace Negotiation gives concise
and clear definition that viii be moss
satisfactory to disputants.
On page 1873, the last paragraph, ne
says: "The United States entered fns
war to check the progress Of the auto
cratic imperialism of Germany. Tass
purpose became generally recognises
before the victory was Won"
H.P.G.
New York, June ss, 1891. Il
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
MILITARY Extravaganza"

An extreme statement of COM
mon misrepresentation is found in
letter to the Editor of The Tribune,
published on June II, which began
thus: "More and more, the people
are learning that SO per cent of the
appropriations are for' past and fu-
ture wars, per cent for civil de-
partments, per cent for public
works, l per cent for education and
science. G., per cent for our most
needful purposes and 90 per cent for
the most harmful purpose"
The appropriations for 1922
totaled $s,Soe,ooO,ooo. This total
included $34s,00o,000 estimated for
the army and $396,00000O esti-
mated for the navy. The army
bill now in conference will probably
be cut below $33O,oO0,00O and the
naval bill is not likely to exceed
$430, 100000. 1t may be less. The
total allowed to the two standing
war services will therefore not
greatly exceed $75o,oOO,0 O,0oo-or less
than 20 per cent of the appropria-
tions.
Where do the other military
charges come in? The fortification bill
total was $S,000,oo0. The pension bill
carried $265,000,o00. That brings
the direct expenditure growing out
of wars to little over $1,000,000,-
00O-or about 27 per cent of the
total. Evidently the interest on the
public debt-s922, 900, ,OoO--is in
cluded in the extravagant estimate
of SO per cent of government ex-
penditure for war purposes. But
part of this interest is paid on bonds
for the construction Of the Panama
Canal and for other non-military
purposes and on the $4,000, ,000,0 900
advanced to our allies, which is a
loan, not an expenditure.
For the coming year Congress ap-
propriated $576,Oo0,O00 for the
postal service-about Is per cent Of
the total appropriations. Is this a
war expenditure? 1t is paying for
the national merchant fleet, which
still represents peace asset of
nearly $1,000,ooo,ooO. The legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill carried $110,O00,O00, the
rivers and harbors $15,0Oo,o0O and
the sundry civil $3S4,OOO,O00, over
100000 in all, or nearly IA per
cent Of the total.
The charge that SO per cent Of the
appropriations go for past and fu-
ture wars is therefore figment of
the imagination, unless it is assumed
that practically every governmental
agency is a permanent war agency.
The Civil War pension bill is still
1866, 100000 a year. But who will
say that it is money wasted "for
the most harmful purposes? The
uni6cation of the country was worth
all it cost. The burdens Of the World
War, onerous as they are, also can
be borne with cheerfulness. We had
to do our part in defending common
rights. Only an obsessed pacifism
can see in reasonable expenditure
for self-protection and the mainte-
nance of American honor and inter-
ests base misuse of the taxpayers S
money or the nations resources.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

on the heels Of it's predecessor we
could prop ourselves up by the
knowledge that Mr.. Shaw still sur
vived. But if Mr.. Shaw is going and
the world and civilization are to be
left alone with Mr.. Wells as the only
guardian the prospect is indeed
gloomy.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
A Model E.x-Ruler
(From The San Fra,,eiseo g,.y,s

fFrom The San Francisco Bulletin)
Let it be counted to the credit of
Viiia that he is the one and only de-
Foseo ruler not Causing any trouble.
Maybe he is busy writing tho story of
his life,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
supscnrrroN nArrs-ry mail. including
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New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Yes. Or "Box Populi Box Del"

Sir: When Georges enters the lists
to engage in the big joust, don't you
think-I am sure you do-that he
might borrow, for his shield, the motto
of Great Britain: "Dieu ct Mon Droit"7
SANDY RICHARDSON.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
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New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

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erpoat,cu. Published daily ogdcn Reid. rresi-
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New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
The Book Borrowers

For what l thought was just loan,
Gave The Lost Girl to Charlie Boni.
And in moment Of great folly
A Bed of Roses went to Wallie.
The Moon and Sixpence has, pll bet,
A lovely home with Henriette.
A book of plays is out as we'll;
My Anatol abides with Belle.
MARIAN.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
The Coming 7ower
The Not impossible She

The Not Impossible She
I've fused and girled all over the
world; I've fallen in love in my
time;
Pm the sort Of bird that can speak
no word, or whelm 'em with
prose and rhyme.
I fall while for a lip or a smile, or
an eye that's brown or blue;
But some time l weary of all Of 'em,
dearie, but I never get tired
of you.
| was fairly sure that Amelia's lure
was a permanent, changeless
thrall;
And Marguerite was terribly sweet
until she began to pail.
They all look prime for a limited
time, and I think I'll be leal
and true;
But before very long I find some
thing wrong with all of the
girls but you.
Oh this one chatters on too many
matters, and that one Hates a
Crowd;
And this ones slow, with a voice
too low, and that ones too fast
and loud.
Perhaps by the time I print this
rhyme I'll tell you "Goodby
Pm through"
But I will confess, as we go to
press, that Pm far from op-
posed to you.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

"She is the kind that likes to carry
around a rabbits foot in the dark"
The Tribune's linotyper made Mrs.
Stillman say. Mr.. Henry Ford's Dear
born Independent please copy.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

Versed as they are in the ways Of
politics, men like the Hons. F. H. La
Guardia and John F. Hylan beat us
badly in The Globes primary. But
yesterday afternoon we were leading
the newspaper field with ifteen votes
to William R. Hearst's, Ralph Pulitzer's
and Louis Wiley's one each. Retiring
forever from politics this morning, we
point pridefully to that.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Ono Day OF Conxentinnalitx

lFrom The Union Bridge (Md) Pilot1
Marshall Harwetel and wife, of Baltimore,
spent from Sunday till Monday ut the same
place.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

"lf my brother married Miss Hart
ing" Mr.. Donald Mackay is quoted to
have said, che was not conscious Of
it, How better that demeanor than
that of the conventionally nervous,
self-conscious bridegroom!
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

those things that are seemingly
trivial. but sometimes are funda-
mental.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

Ambassador Harvey will entertain a
large party of compatriots," cables The
Herald, although it is conceivable that
he may do nothing of the kind.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL. pEPYs

June 14-At my Office till four,
whence with J. Hutchison to the courts,
and l was hard put to it to beat him,
the third set being 14-12. So with him
to dinner, and so to Newman Levy the
barrister's for few minutes, and
home, early, and to bed
15-At my desk for short time, and
so to call upon P. Hammond, and had
tea with him, and C. Van Vechten
there, and gave me book of old songs
| was glad to have, and met there a
lady, Mistress Harvey, that was one of
the Dudley girls from Chicago, with
the loyeliest voice to hear ever I lis
tened to. So with Neysa to dinner,
and then to the Playhouse to see Mis-
tress Ethel Barrymore do "The Twelve
Pound Look" fine play, and she
acting it to high perfection. And j.
Donahue I found the drollest dancer
and talker had seen this year, his
trick of casting about for words being
stJrrringly comick.
16-Early up, and all day at my stint,
and in the evening in my petrol-wag-
gon to the Royal Theater, to see Chic
Sale do his impersonations, and there
is nobody on the stage 1 had liefer
see Meseems there are more moments
of merriment in the average vaude-
Vile show than in most musical COM
ejies I have seen in two years.
17--All day at my scrivening, and
home early and to bed.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

1t is Mel's notion, however, that the
Fienchman's motto is Carpy Diemps.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
The VoEstead College Yell

The Volstead College Yell
Pommery Sec! Three Xl Three x!
Pommery Sec! Three x! Three X!
Margaux!
Bordeaux!
Clicquot!
HOOK!
1NEz
and SAM
and BILL.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

Well, It's an /. w. that doesn't blow
the Postoffice Department good. Ad-
miral Sims's speech has provoked more
newspaper letter writer's than anything
since the episode of Eddie Cicotte and
the money under the pillow.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

Speaking of screen stars, there's the
me icsquito.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
DR.. G.. H. Wright writes to the editor
to say that he believes our article on
sports is German propaganda.

Oh, by the by, it suddenly occurs to
us that up to now no book has been
mentioned in to-day's column! We are
still recommending Sir Harry john
ston's The Man Who Did the Right
Thing (Macmillan) as the best novel
of the season, and to the non-fctionists
we suggest Lytton Strachey's Queen
Victoria (Harcourt, Brace & Coz, which
will be reviewed in The Tribune Maga-
zine tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

Mr.. Slovenian is, we take it, a ten
mis- player rather than golfer, or he
could hardly speak so lightly of the
man whose hardest task is to drive q
golf ball straight and true" For the
rest his point is we'll taken. We plead
guilty to the contradiction.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

Captain F. N. Hitler, "late Royal
Field Artillery" writes to the editor:
"surely no man can ever have been