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New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Tax Cuts and Tariff Revision

The tariff bill now pending in the
Senate is an emergency measure. 1t
is not intended primarily to in
crease revenues, but to help some
! domestic industries through trying
period of price readjustmeYit. Tariff
duties have ceased to play large
role in government financing. They
were mainstay when the Treasury
spent less than $1,000,000,000
year. They arc more like 81 drop in
the bucket when it is spending $4,-
00o,000,O00.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee is debating whether to revise
the tariff schedules first or excise
and internal taxes. The public is
little interested just now in a gen.
eral revision of the tariff. Since
1914 our exports have been vastly in
excess Of our imports and imports
have entailed little or no pressure on
domestic industry. The Underwood
rates were based on pre-war condi-
tions Of production abroad, and
though they were not designed to
offer more than a nodicum of pro-
lection, they have had little effect
either in encouraging or restricting
imports. The war made it impossi-
ble"for the other chief manufactur-
ing nations to compete for the Amer
lean market.
The worlds industry is still upset.
Exchanges are abnormal. European
countries are overweighted with
debts--including large debts to the
United States. We are concerned to
establish few new essential indus
tries like the manufacture of dye
stuffs. We also naturally object to
foreign dumping, such as might be
possible if Germany recovered her
productive power and no correspond
ing rise occurred in the exchange
value of the mark. But; on the other
hand, we must take foreign products
in considerable volume if our loans
to Europe are to be paid off.
This is poor year, therefore, for
q permanent tariff revision, either
for purposes Of revenue or purposes
of protection. The economic situa-
ton is too chaotic. No real peace
settlement has been reached. We
have no treaty Of peace with Ger
many, and Gersnany's industrial and
financial peace status is still to be
determined.
A readjustment Of domestic taxa
tlon is much more urgent. The pres
ent excess profits taxes, for example,
will yield much less in 1921 than
they did in 1919 or will in 1920. AS
revenue producers they are rapidly
drying up. Perhaps the revenue
they bring in can be dispensed with
entirely. If it can't their repeal and
the levying Of new taxes will afford
an opportunity to drop other oppres-
sive war taxes and to equalize peace
taxation. The public would prefer
TO let tariff revision wait until Con-
gress has dealt with the problems of
| internal taxation and the liquidation
OF war extravaganza.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
The Motley Throng
4 Poets Lines on Unrestricted
immigration in 1892

immigration IN 1917
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; The inclosed beautiful and
prophetic lines by T. B. Aldrich
clipped from The Tribune a number OF
years ago. Will you kindly give them
space again? The "motley throng'
still press through our unguarded
gates and "waste the gifts of free
dom" for which our forefathers fought
bled and died and which they left US as
sacred heritage. as it we'll to leave
the gate unguarded?" God forbid
AMERICAN.
Danbury, Conn, Feb. 8, 1921.
UNGUARDED GATES
(Thomcs Bailey AEdr+oh IN The Atlcntlc
Monthly, April, 1899
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates
Named OF the four winda---North South,
East ana West:
Portals that lead to an enchanted land
OF cities. forests. fields OF living gold,
Vast prairles, lordly sumrnits touched with
snow,
Majestic rivers sweepin6 proudly past
The Arabs date palm and the Norseman's
A realm wherein ars fruits OF every zone,
Airs of all cliInes, for 10! throughout the
ysar
The red rose blossoms aornewhsre--A rich
land,
later Eden planted IN tho w!lds
with not an inch OF earth within :ts bound
But II o Rlave's foot press It sets him free!
Here 1t ia written. Toll shall havo its wage
And Honor honor and the humbest man
Stands level with tho Highest in tho law.
OF such land have mon IN dungeons
dreamed,
And with tho vision Frightening In their
eyes
Gone smiling to the fagot and the sword.
Wide open and uneuarded stand our gates,
And through them presses wild, a mot
ley throng-
Men from tho volsA and the Tartar
ateppes.
Featureless figures OF the Hoang-Ho,
Maiayan, Scythien. Teuton. Kelt and slav.
Flying the Old Worlds poverty and scorn.
These bringing with them unknown gods
and rites,
Those tiger pass!ona hero 60 stretch their
claws.
In street and alley what strange tongues
arc these.
Accents OF menace, alien to our air,
Voices that once tho Tower OF Babel knew!
o Liberty. White Goddessl Is It well
To leave this gate unguarded? on thy
breast
Fold Sorrows children. sooths tho hurts
Of fate.
Lift the downtrodden: but with the hand
OF steel
Stay thoss who to thy sacred portals
CONS
To waste the sifts Of freedom. Have 8
care
Lest from thy brow the olustered stars be
torn
And ,trarnpled In the dust FOR 80 OF old
The thronging Goth ana vandal trampled
Rome.
And where tbs temples of tha Coesars stood
Tho lean wolf unmolested made her lair.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Train Our Diplomats

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Why not have school for the
education Of diplomats in Washington,
D. c.? For instance, young man on
leaving college decides he would be
glad to tsko course in diplomatic
life. He does not want to be sent out
into any nation an American know
nothing, and yet that is what many a
man Is who goes to represent our great
country. We have had some fine rep
resentatives because they happened to
be travellers and experienced men Of
the world, not Of America only. To me
it seems both cruel to the man and
our country to send man on a mis-
sion that he does not in the very least
understand how to manage.
SO suggest school to educate men
to understand everything there is to
know about every country, to find out
what course is best to pursue with
every nation. What applies to one does
not apply to the others-their dispo-
sitions, their ways, of thought, what
the countries stand for, their economic
situationi in fact, all details that It
would be possible to get at. Let it be
regular course Of study made to be
obligatory, so that no person ignorant
Of the affairs Of tho world and the
characters and temperaments of the
different nations can be run in for the
sake Of politics only. Those men who
took such course could go on in their
professions or business, but they
would be on record as able, Intelligent
Americans, educated up to the position
when their country called them. They
would know what they were about and
everybody else would know it, too, and
America could forge ahead as the
greatest nation on earth. knowledge
is always poweri
ELEANoRE 1, MULHoLLAND
New York, Feb. 6, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

material replenishment assured by
America In the dark days Of enemy
occupation, this IL, 30 TO speak, the
roplon!shment Of French thought, 1t
comes from these lad!es OF America,
always 80 wisely organized, SO gen.
srous and 30 swift TO express q
charitable inspirations"
We are glad to cali this small item
from a ruined countryside to the no
tice Of our readers. II any one
doubted that the spirit Of France
still lived amid her desolarion, these
touching words are good evidence
that the French heart and mind are
still quick and warm.
The Offices Of the American Com
mittee for Devastated France are at
16 East Thirty-ninth Street in this
city. Contributions sent there will
mean, as M. Regnier says, both
bodily and spiritual succor for a
war-torn people.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Red Tape and Typhus

" DR. Copeland will have the city be-
hind him in fighting to the last ex-
tremity the entry Of typhus suspects
or persons infected with the typhus
carrier. No chances should be taken
y With a plague so virulent and easily
communicated as typhus.
1t is a lamentable reflection on
present arrangements for excluding
Infectious disease that DIR. Cope
lands efforts have brought him into
collision with other port authorities.
For this the long delay in extending
the Federal quarantine to New York
Harbor is partly to blame, State
quarantines have been abolished, but
the state Health Officer here has not
yet been superseded. The Federal
, Public Health Service hasn't yet as
sumed responsibility for passing in
or halting vessels from infected cen
ters in eastern and southeastern Eu-
rope. In declining to cooperate with
the city authorities the immigration
Bureau in Washington is thus able
) to plead as an excuse that whatever
friction exists is really between the
state quarantine and the local
Health Board.
Strictly speaking, tEis Ellis Island
examination Of alien immigrants
r Doesn't involve quarantine tests. IN
coming ships are passed by Quaran-
line officials before they can dis
charge passengers. Secretary Will
D son has denied DR.. Copeland the op-
portunity to delouse arrivals at the
Immigration station. The latter has
been obliged to detain and examine
incomers after they are pushed
through the front door Of the Barge
Office. Many immigrants inspected
On Saturday and yesterday were in
tested with lice. The Health Boards
secondary embargo is, therefore,
absolutely justified.
What is needed is real cooperation
in shutting out typhus. Except for
. redtape and bureaucratic flumrnery
Ellis Island could be offered TO Dr..
, Copeland as an operating outpost.
Except for delay in establishing
Federal quarantine the Federal Pub
lie Health Service would be in a posi-
ton to call on the Immigration Bu-
reau to aid in preventing the trick
u ling in Of possible typhus carriers,
: not detected on their arrival. AS it
IS there is divided authority, with
y Quarantine, Ellis Island and the
Board Of Health working at cross
purposes.
President Wilson has been ap-
pealed to to bring order out Of con-
fusion. He should act at once. This
is no time for haggling over techni-
calities. Federal, state and local
Z agencies should get together in the
.ight to exclude Europe's dreaded
z var pest.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

and violent jerks, swings, screwing Of
the nerves Of the face, rolling Of the
eyes, and SO on. To men of taste, al
this is exceedingly ridiculous"
I'm your review Of ZeIl last Monday"
writes Henry G. Aikman, the author OF
the novel, "you comment:
" Seemingly the author believes that
in the most important question which
came TO Zell he made the right de-
cision when he decided to 20 on
through life with the wrong woman
Perhaps, but my feeling is that an
author has no right to obtrude what
he himself happens to believe; the mo-
ment he does 30 he ceases being an
artist and becomes moral propaean-
dist.
"One Of the things I wanted 20 do in
zell--and I'm sorry if went astray-
was TO present what seemed 20 me a
Poignant and tragic situation; a stu.
alton familiar enough to any lawyer
who has occasion TO go into the di-
vorce courts. / was attempting TO de-
plct divorce from the viewpoint Of the
children involved. Obviously-to me,
at any rate-the existence Of children
takes away to large extent the free
dom Of the parent 60 do as he or she
pleases.
"But-thsre being children-.s d.
vofce entirely unjustihable, and if It is
5ustifable, under what provocation ?
Was 1t Avery Zell's duty to his son to
give up what seemed chance for great
happiness and go on living with the
wrong woman? To what extent must
self-abnegation be mixed with self-ex-
preston to achieve happiness? Again,
can the continuance of an unhappy
marriage ever produce the sort OF home
the children ought to have? And so on.
mot SO easy. Only the professors
can tell US. AS for myself, don't pre-
tend TO know whether or not Zell made
the right decision. To tell the truth,
don't see how anybody can know.
Aell himself wasn't cure, years later, as
you have shrewdly limited. Such
choices as the one he had to make are
obviously not clear-cut Issues of right
and wrong; ell sorts Of delicate and
battling considerations enter in; one
finally takes what seems the less IN
felicitoue decision. All things consid-
cred, Zell was perhaps rather lucky in
being able to feel in the end almost
happy"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
For a Free Armenia
A Statement From the Armsn.
America Society
To the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's Tribune then Il
communication from the Armenian Pre-.
Bureau objecting to the resolution
which were adopted at the mass meeting
last Sunday at the Cathedral Of s.
John the Divine.
The Armenia America Society, undsr
whose auspices the meeting was heg
realized that there was a faction aiuoaG
the Armenians which disagreed with The
policies that are favored by the grea,
majority Of the Arrnenians in America
In order to frame the resolutions in sue.
terms that they would accord with Il.
views Of the Armenians themselves, G
dinner was held last Saturday evening
to which representative Armenians vsr
invited. At that dinner the resolution
to be presented at the mass meaar
were considered. The group represents
by the Armenian Press Bureau fesH.
that any attempt by American citNi
to influence the conference Of the Pr
miers at London on February q wiki
is TO revise the SAvres Treaty vOs-
tend to discredit Russian Armenia. n
reasons for this position taken by a'H
small group did not appear to the Other
present at the dinner to be sound.
set Of resolutions was carefully worseE
out and every effort made to couch tSE /
in terms that would be acceptable eTe
to the group represented by tie AFn'
nian Press Bureau.
To allay the fear OF the latter g'os
that the present sovletized Ar1snA
, Republic was being abandoned it u
pointed out that some practical sagE |
tions must be made so thss the ter
tories in Turkish Armenia delimitsd
President Wilson might, in the Tevs'
Of the S6vres Treaty, be ea,7narked Il
Armenia and held either By pr
visional government and under pr
tectorate or By some other arr'ns'
ment until the complete Independents
the Armenian Republic should n'I'
possible 10 unite the entire Arnsa1
territory.
The sentiments expressed at no '-
ner seemed 60 show the great nsJ0'~ s
Of Armen;ans as feeling that jasti''
the Arrnenians, who are acknoWis's
in the preamble OF tho SeVres 4fs''
to have been allies In the late WaF' e''
not depend upon the present rec'sn1.
OF the soviet republic. The ArEne''.
as a whole have very little sympathy
sovietism.
GEORGE Il. MoNTGoMERH
Director the Armenia America Soci'@
New York, Feb. 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
They Never Change

(FF0T Tfo Philadelphfo TrQl|rerl
We would be willing to place mod
crate hazard on our guess that the cor
respondent Of The New York Tribune
who writes that "any indemnity placed
on Germany Is contrary to the teach
lngs Of Christianity" is one of those
chaps who, few years back, played
the Huns game to the limit as peace.
at-any-pricer
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
The Aerial Defense Problem

At the present moment England
is IN the throes Of a discussion of
the important subject of establish
ing ministry Of defense, with Sec
retaries for land, sea and air hav-
ing equal status.
The British proposition has
bearing on the movement which for
the last two years has sought the
establishment of separate depart
nlent Of air in this country. This
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Air Department Suggested

To the Editor Of The Tribune. =.
Sir: One Of che rank ani ale o =, ;.
Republican party wishes 70 sass .
that, in his opinion, the swo .s' !,
things the party leaders can 90 W.
country's good are: .,e
Create a separate Air DspS''. =,
functioning as do the Navy ana - -"
departments in their respective - =
and q seat in the Cabinet FOR "
General Wood as the occupant
Appoint really big and liye n', =
the committee OF the budseh
Calvin Coolidge SIS chairman ,os
New YorR, Feb. 10, 1891.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

There is Reuben c. Bland, OF Rob-
ersonville, N. c., with his thirty-four
children. 1t is pleasant enough for
Pop to be able to have somebody to
send to the corner when he wants a
newspaper; but suppose some evening
he says, "Well, Nom, let's ell go to
sec 'Sally'"; and he has to buy precise
iy three dozen seats Mt speculator's!
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Armchair Patriots

tFrora The Boason 1'rss'e''pSs az
According to the arguments ...s
people, the Entente should ra'hS' ,.a
burse Germany for every cens ..ss
she spent during the wsr' DD. -. b
persons, it may be added, S0's@ r.i1I
var for the NEST part IN fAS
States.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Normal Conditions

tFron' The Kansas CITY star)
1t isn't much comfort to reflect that,
except for its outward aspects, the
Irish situation isn't really much worse
than it has been for the last 100
years.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

Still, tho government allows $4,000
income tax exemption for wife and
lis 1t 5000 for child. Pop Bland
probably sends the Internal Revenue
Collector q bill.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
willamette Of Valentines

Lady OF this heart Of mine,
Betty, Alice, Marjorie,
Be- oh be my Valentine!
Phyllis, for your smile pine;
Eva, Edna, which shal! be
Lady of this heart Of mine?
Dorothy, do not decline;
Katherine, Penelope,
Be, Oh be my Valentine!
Not one will 7 resign:
Amy-Ethel-thou art the
Lady Of this heart OF mine.
Julia, beauty such as thine
Chains me in captivity
BE, oh be my Valentine,
Esther, Maude or Madeline,
1t is ell the same to me
Lady Of this heart of mine.
Be, oh be my Valentine!
c. W. "
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Boudoir Reds

(FTom Tbs Washington Posi-
Another red menace: Fifteen-year-
old girls with the rouge habit.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

You can purchs&c ,aprcbanGis3 advertised Ia ThE
TRIBUNE with absolute satety--for II dissatisiae
,lon results in any THE TRIBUNE gusran-
tses 60 pay your menoy back r"uues', "N r"f
ta2t, Nc quihhnp. We make coed promptly II
ths advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

'>a Tac Associated Press exclusively entitled TO
tAe use for republication OF all news dispatches
credited 10 I. not otherFIso credited in this
papor. and also the local Of spontaneous
0ciEhl published herein
Al rights Of republication OF au other m&t.cr
...y- herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

The King and Queen did drink thereof,
And many moro beside, too;
And what they could not drink that
night
The Queen next morning tried to.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
eConning ower
Tho Slant Of Queen Gulneyers

When good King Arthur ruled the land
Hs wsS a goodly king;
Hu brewed q lot Of wine and beer
And ale and everything,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

Germany appears SO desperate about
her ability to pay that indemnity that
she may propose to match the Allies
for IT. double or nothing.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
L'ENvO1

Queens and princesses, to ye
Goes this heart Of mine;
Willow waly, woe is me.
Be my Valentine!
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

AS If we don't have enough holidays,
mere we are confronted with the first
anniversaries of Nicky Arnstein's dis
appearance, the EIwelI murder, and the
Wall Street explosion.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
Ballade OF a Polygamous Heart

OA I" OsJ Bd1NOHS AASGE l.
NRep~bhshed by opertohegn{n9. dcmamdl
Sylvia, Gwendolyn, and Flo;
Janet and Marie;
Dora, Mary Jane, and Jo;
Belle, Andromache,
Frances, Katherine, and Bee;
Blanche and Caroline;
Gladys, Emma, Lalage-
Be my Valentine!
Ethel, Edna, Doris, O.
Phelia, Dorothy,
Claribel, Keziaf, 10
La, Penelope,
MAZDA, Margaret, and Ney-
Sa and Geraldine;
Sally, Grace, and Emily
Be my Valentine!
Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Trow,
Mrs. Cassidy,
Miss McComas, Miss Le Vcau.
Mrs. McAtee,
Mrs. Ferber, Miss Du Prce,
Mrs. Rosenstein,
Mrs. Glass and Miss Niece
Be my Valentine!
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
m Nh i7 81
Gotham Glcanlngs


Now is the time to subscribe
Advt
Painting on ye scribc's auto has
begun.
-Chct Depew and wife have gone
South.
To-day is St. Valentines Day,
an illegal holiday, so to speak.
Mrs. Mabel Hill the demon adv.
writer Wednesdaycd in Gotham.
Don Marquis of Bk1yn was a
pleasant caller Thurs. Come again,
Don.
Miss Anne Morgan entertained
a. select few at dinner Thursday
eve'g,
+, D. Waterman is home from
the Southland where he has been
playing golf
Preparations for Ring Lardner'a
birthday party next month arc 60
ing busily on.
ANYBODY that wants TO help
Hank Ford send It here and we
will f'wd same.
willard Fairchild, who lives in
Cleveland now, was visiting his old
haunts here Thurs. and Fri.
Bill Mcclellan has accepted a
job as m'n'g'g editor of the N. Y.
Tribune. Congrats to all concerned.
Charley Wilcox the w, g. book
salesman reports a tremendous de-
mand for the best poetry these days.
Surely you have met me-" writes
D'Ylsian. "I'm the enthusiastic bird
who loves to discuss the contemporary
novels. And always say Moon Street
when I mean Main Calf"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

Mrs J, W. Gibson's condition re.
mains about the same. X-ray pic
lures taken of her head eoem clear
and reveal nothing.-Buena Vista, Va,
News.
Add treachories Of science.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1921

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New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
sunscFIrT1oN ,ArES HATnsag 5, ,,,o asn including
GUARANTY

rgtefes Al The PostolHce at New Tork as Second
Glass Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
By
Heywood Broun

and violent jerks, swings, screwing Of
the nerves Of the face, rolling of the
eyes, and SO on. To men of taste, all
this is exceedingly ridiculous"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-14

New YorR. Feb. 10, 1891.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-31
Brownsville Fires
Lead to Inquiry;
Arson Suspected
Owner of One of Damaged
Buildings Is Expected to
Die From Burns; North
Beach Dance Hall Burns

Assistant Fire Marshal Sheehan has
begun an investigation into two fires
IN the Brownsville section of Brook
iiyn early yesterday morning. After a
blaze which destroyed several stores
at 1882 to 1640 Pitkin Avenue, Brook
lyn, had been placed under control, a
second fire was discovered in the Gift
ton Wet Wash Company, in Chester
Street. The fire marshal's inves "a
ton is being conducted in he belief
that the two fires were of INC .ndiary
origin.
The first is said to have been pre-
ceded by an explosion and burned out
the stores occupied by the Kecne Fur
Company, the Sach Furniture Com
pany, the Holland Shop, a millinery es-
tablishment; the Parkway restaurant
and business Office of the telephone
company. Damage was estimated at
100000.
Three alarms we're turned in and q
row of tenement houses on the op-
posite side of the street ordered
vacated by the police Reserves from
the Brownsville (Ralph and Miller
avenues) station, under Captain
("Honcst Dan"l Costigan, were re-
quired to hold back the crowd.
Firemen had no sooner got the Pit
kin Avenue blaze under control than
the fire in the Clifton Wet Wash Com
pany, several blocks away. was re-
ported. Patrolman David H. Simpson,
of the Brownsville station, who was
one of the first to arrive, saw Toby
Yoskowitz, fifty years old, the owner,
hanging with his head out Of second
story window, unconscious.
The patrolman pushed a laundry
wagon to the side Of the building, and
by climbing up on it succeeded in pull
ing Yoskowitz to safety. He was re-
moved to st. Mary's Hospital suffer
ing from burns. He is not expected to
recover.
Four persons were reported missing
to the police following fire which
early yesterday morning destroyed the
Hennessy dance hall, in Bowery Bay
Road, North Beach. A man, his wife
and two children who lived in the rear
of the hall could not be found when
the blaze had been extinguished. The
damage was estimated at $4,000.