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New-York tribune., 1921-09-09

Gaudens, Winslow Homer, A. r.
Ryder, Whistler, Chase and SO on.
Even now there is in preparation
a memorial exhibition of the works
of the late Abbott H. Thayer. And
the character of the collection based
on the Hearn fund is sufficient indi-
cation of what the museum does for
the living American artist. He is
backed, in short, in the only way in
which it is reasonably possible for
the museum to back him.
The faults Of modernism are
numerous and in many ways their
influence is evil. The Tribune will
never cease to combat them in the
future as it has combated them in
the past. But from the assertion
that in making the exhibition now
assailed the museum has been lend
ing aid and comfort to the enemy,
compromising with Bolshevism and
degeneracy, we dissent with candid
disgust of the sensationalists who
have sought to stab it in the back.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
1t Might Be Worse
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1t doesn't seem so bad after all to
be former Kaiser. A former member
Of the German ministry reveals that
since Wilhelm's fight the Prussian
state has paid out $S54,ooO to support
him.
It's more comfortable to be a former
Kaiser, For instance, than TO be Ger
man workingman who fought for the
Kaiser. He is paid in money worth
less than one-twentieth of what it was
worth in 1914. The British officers
who fought against the Kaiser are en-
during greater hardships. Some of
them are keeping from starving by
playing hurdy-gurdies in the streets
of London. Even the American serv-
ice man looking for a job is not
cared for as tenderly as the jobless
Kaiser
The former Kaiser, living in luxury,
is striking contrast to the country.
one time his, which is struggling under
the burden he inflicted on it. He gets
his pound of flesh from a world he
laid in ruins.
And yet, who would change places
with the former Kaiseri
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
Third Treaty Talk

The theory that a new treaty be-
tween the United States and the
principal Allied powers is necessary
in order to give validity to the Ver-
sailles territorial settlements has
little to stand on. 1t is said, for in
stance, that our government hasn't
recognized the recession of Alsace-
Lorraine to France, of Posen to
Poland or North Slesvig to Den
mark, and must do SO through a sup
Elementary treaty.
But treaty isn't necessary to es-
tablish our admission of the altered
status of these portions of the for
mer German Empire. When we
maintain consular representative in
these ceded areas and ask erequd-
tua's for them from France, Poland
and Denmark we have recognized the
passage of sovereignty. Every other
nation which maintains consuls there
does the same.
The United States has never
claimed in it's correspondence with
the Allied Supreme Council concern
ing territorial settlements a residu-
ary interest in European territory
which has changed hands. Germany
ceded her territory on the Continent
to particular nations. We have
made no protest and have none to
make. But the German oversea pos
sessions are ceded to the five princi-
pal Allied and associated powers
jointly, both by the Versailles Treaty
and by the separate Americo-Ger-
man treaty. We have defended our
unextinguishablc right to a say in
the disposition of these possessions.
This situation remains to be
cleared up by negotiations with the
Council powers. The settlement isn't
likely to involve drafting supple
mentary treaty with them. Our
reservations with regard to the man
dated territory are modest and can
occasion nc serious friction, except,
perhaps, in the case of Yap or Shan
tung. And even these last-named con-
troversies are susceptible of adjust
ment by routine diplomatic means.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
portioned among the states without
favor or jockeying, in accordance
with their 1920 population.
Restarting Work

Versatile Judge Lands, whose am
bition seems to be to play the role of
universal umpire while not surrcn-
dering his salary as judicial servant
of Uncle Sam, has indulged his rul
ing passion by deciding what wages
shall be paid in Chicago's building
trades.
The finding of the arbitrator,
whose Judgment employers and en-
ployces agreed to accept, is that the
facts Justify a reduction Of from 10
to 33 per cent. Masons are to get
$1.10, instead Of $1.25, an hour;
eight skilled crafts are assigned less
than S5 cents an hour, and ten crafts
in the laboring class 70 cents.
Even more important in the way
of restarting work and ahating un-
employment is the cancellation of
working rules designed to establish
monopoly, to diminish production per
man and in various ways to multi
ply jobs wastefully. With great
vigor Judge Lands condemns all
throttling of individual effort the eff
feet of which is necessarily to keep
wages down. He recognizes thai
once the unions realize that they un-
dermine the welfare of their menl-
bership by limiting; production most
of the objections lof employers to
labor unions will be removed.
The impeachment of Judge Lands
recently was asked for by the Amer
lean Bar Association because he is
the baseball umpire. Will there be a
similar outcry against his participa-
ton in another non-official labor?
The cases somehow seem different;
but, different or similar, there is rea-
son to rejoice that man reputed to
be sympathetic to labor unionism
has had the courage to tell it openly
of it's great fault.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
In Defense of Brandon

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your attitude with regard to
the case of George Brandon deserves
the commentator Of all fair-minded
citizens. l have studied the Brandon
case. AS you have pointed out SO ably.
there existed at all shines since the
trial and conviction of the defendanA
doubts as to whether he was guilty of
the crime. These doubts seemed to in
crease as the time for the execution
of Brandon approached, but the officials
of the State of New Jersey who are
charged with the duty of administer
ing equal justice did not concern them
selves much with the strong possibility
that an innocent man was about to he
Killed - no less a murder than the
crime for which Brandon suffered. It
seems to me that the record Of the
trlal, revealing very unconvincing
case, and other circumstances clearly
made it a fit case for at least a stav
Of execution until there could be a
thorough sitting of the evidence.
Neither the State of New Jersey, it's
law nor its citizens would have suf-
fered.
Now Brandon is dead. Suppose
subsequent investigation proves he was
innocent. No doubt such discovery
would give his family some comfort, but
the stigma would remain and there
could be no redress. Nor can Brandon be
restored to life. Officially, the affair
will be called terrible mistake" As
matter of fact, the execution of Bran
don will be proved an atrocious crime.
DAVID III. KNOTT,
Sheriff of New York County.
New York, Sept 6, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
The Size of the House

The House of Representatives
passed a reapportionment bill last
winter which satisfied the country.
It was, in fact, put through to meet
a popular protest against the log
rolling bill which the Census Com
nlittee had reported. This latter
measure authorized an increase OF
membership from 435 to 483. 1t
readopted the easy-going theory, ac-
cepted in the readjustments of 1911
and 1901, that enough seats ought to
be added after each apportionment
TO keep any slow-growing state from
losing in representation.
The Census Committee had its
way for time. A Republican eau
Gus fell into line. But before the bill
came to vote criticism Of an in
crease granted solely for the politi
cal convenience of few state dele
cations began to make itself felt.
There are two objections to larger
House. The first is that the House
has already grown unwieldy and has
slowed down noticeably in efficiency.
1t enjoyed far greater distinction
and influence when it was smaller
than it does now. The other objec-
ton, very pertinent in an era of
economy, was that an increase of
forty-eight members would involve
an extra annual expenditure of at
least $1,O0O,O00.
When the House voted on the
measure, on January 10 last, the
committee was beaten and the pres
ent limit Of membership was re-
s tanned. Unfortunately, the bill was
caught in the Senate jam at the end
Of the short session.
The House Census Committee, in
spite OF last winters experiences,
mas reported new bill calling for
an increase of twenty-five members
instead of forty-eight. 1t will be
taken up soon after Congress recon
venes. The same objections apply to
ies as applied to the original expan-
sion scheme. The House is big
enough. Congress has been ruth
lessly cutting down operating ex-
nelases in other branches Of the gov
crnment. With what grace. can it
vote to increase its own overhead?
The second Sigel bill ought to be re-
sscted. Retaining the present limit
of membership, seats should be APP
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
Enforcing Exile

st. John Ervine, the Irish play
wright, is an fisherman who has
shown a pronounced Sim Fem bias.
For example, his play, "Mixed Mar
rage" presented last winter in New
York, pilloried the theological mar
rowness of the people of his section.
But Mr.. Irvine is unable longer to
follow De Valera. When the two
men were in New York Irvine asked
the Sim Fein leader what he would
do if Ulster refused to be included
in the proposed republic. De Valera
answered:
ulster people may elect to do one
of two things: They may stay in
Ireland, In which event they must
accept the republic, or they may
leave Ireland, in which event we will
compensate them for their property"
Mr.. Ervine, with respect to both
lines of his ancestry, comes of fami-
lies which have lived in County Down
for three hundred years. On the
other hand, De Valera can legally
claim American citizenship, having
been born in Brooklyn of Spanish
father and an Irish mother; Arthur
Griffith is a Welshman; the late Pa
draic Pearse, the chief organizer of
the Easter rebellion, was the son OF
an Englishman; Thomas Johnston,
the most influential labor leader of
Dublin, is an Englishman, and so is
Erskine Childers, one of the most ex-
treme of the inner Sim Fein group.
A playwright is supposed to take
detached and impersonal view OF
life. But this one is irritated by the
cool proposal to transport all recall
eitfant UIstermen to distant parts.
So ne blurts out that he will see De
Valera damned first" Mrs. Sheehy-
Skefington, during her visit to
America, said that her way would
be to give every Ulsterman ticket
out, with no return privileges. But
this holiness was excused in a woman
whose harmless husband had been
most cruelty and unjustly shot by a
crazy British officer. But the ell
forced exile doctrine wears a differ
ent aspect when it comes from a
man who would play the part of a
responsible leader.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09

The Morse Giants
A Different Reaction From Mr..
Maxim to Their Divine Brutality"


To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: I write to comment upon some
of the remarks Of Hudson Maxim in
The Trbune-his Second volley," as
you headed it. Just why writer
should waste so much ammunition in
a panegyric of the Norsemen, "a race
of drinkers" Is beyond ordinary COM
prehension.
With what JUNCTION he describes the
orgies of these "Norse giants" with
"the divine old brutality Of the cave
man in them," at their nightly wassail
and carousal around their oaken table
in the glare of the great fire and under
the fare of the torches, where they
drank to one another's health and we'll
being until they fell under the table.
Mr.. Maxim claims it was these men
who "before Columbus ferried the At
lantic in an open boat and nodded the
world into thing of beauty" Dil
has studied the history of that era
knows how they drove their boats into
almost every harbor in Europe, and
the people in the churches prayed to
divine brutality"
AS to ferrying the Atlantic, the jour
ney was not long, as any one can sec
who looks at the map of the northern
part of the world. Old manuscripts
tell of the discovery of Greenland in
the year 876 or 877 and the founding
Of colony there in 986 by Eric the
Red. This colony lasted 400 years, and
its ruins may be seen to-day.
In the year 1000 Left, the son of
Eric the Red, sailed with thirty-fve
men to find the land to the west. He
visited the island, probably Newfound-
land, which he called Helluland, or
Flatstone Land; then sailed on to Nova
Scotia, which he called Woodland, and
finally landed somewhere on the coas.
of Massachusetts, which he called
Vineland, because of the quantity of
grapes he found there. There he spent
the winter, loading the vessel with tim.
Der, and returned to Greenland to tell
his story. Other voyages to get tim
Der, which was scarce in Greenland.
were made
rich man named Thorfnn Karl
sefni, with three ships and one hundred
men, founded colony somewhere on
the American coast in 1907. The col
ony was given up. Just where it was
is not known, for though men have
searched for signs of it they have not
been found.
few more voyages were made to
get timber, but as there was no print
ing in those days men forgot all about
the land. SO much for the discoveries
of the Norsemen and their voyages be-
fore Columbus.
LUCY PAGE STEELE.
Woodstock, N. Y, Sept. /, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
Ldw and Learning
Judge Hotchkss Emphasizes the Need of Broad Preliminary
Education for Lapyers
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to express my un-
qualified Endorsement of Mr.. Stra-
hans letter published in your issue of
to-day and entitled Educated Law
yers." Necessarily, the subject is one
that cannot. in all of its bearings be
adequately discussed in q newspaper
article. But in certain of it's broader
aspects it may be said to depend upon
the point of view. Is tbs profession
of the law, the right to practice in the
courts, to be properly regarded as a
right or as privilege? If the latter,
if to represent ones self as possessing
the technical qualifications necessary
to advise the unlearned as to their
legal rights and the proper course to
be. pursued for their attainment be
something in which the state has an
interest, to the end that only such as
are adequately qualified shall under
take the Office of adviser, then it must
necessarily follow that standards of
efficiency must be established and only
such as show themselves possessed of
the necessary qualifications should be
granted the privilege to advise. AS
Mr.. Strahan we'll says, the phrase
"the law business" is an outgrowth of
the tendency to regard the Office of
counselor and the practice of the law
as trade and not as profession, and
is, i'll my opinion, in large measure
due not merely to lowering of the
standards of professional competence
but to a recognition on the part of the
public that there has been such low
ering. Bus whether this be or be not
true, surely no one will have the te-
merity to assert that the standards Of
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09

professional competence should not be
fixed as high as is practically possible;
high enough to bar all aspirants who
have not by required tests shown
themselves to possess such elementary
education and cultivation of mind as
we'll as general intelligence as to
justify the belief that they have the
disposition and capacity to acquire to
an adequate degree a knowledge of
law as 8 science rather than as
trade.
That the two years Of college work
as preliminary to the study of law
as recently recommended by the Bar
Associations will accomplish this result
in all cases is not to be expected But
it is means to an end, a fair, reason
able, intelligent recommendation, prac-
ticable of attainment and we'll within
the power of the vast majority of those
whose aspirations to become lawyers
should be encouraged. It's purpose is
twofold: to keep out the unprepared,
those whose past studies do not en-
courage the belief that they are yet
sufficiently mentally trained and de-
veloped to begin the study of law, and
to insure that those who are permitted
so to begin have an adequate founda-
tion.
That these conditions will prevent
or discourage some who might become
ornaments to the profession is not to
be denied But rules are intended to
regulats the great majority of the
cases Or subjects to which they apply.
Exceptions there always will be. If a
rule be reasonable, practical and we'll
calculated to improve the present stu
alton it should command support
and this, I think, is the case with the
rule under discussion.
HENRY D. HOTCHKISS.
Williamstown, Mass, Aug. z, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
Not Miracle Day

A committee representing towns
on the Incorporated Missouri &
North Arkansas Railway has been
in Detroit. 1t laid humble petit
tion before Henry Ford, begging him
to assume management of the prop
erty--and work another of his rail-
way miracles.
The committee was not joking or
seeking to pester the Michigan
semi-billionaire. 1t was in dead
earnest. But, alas! the ears of the
flivver king were deaf to the prayer.
1t wasn't his day to work miracles.
Not along the line of the Missouri
q North Arkansas is he disposer of
hundreds Of thousands of tons of
freight, by whose routing he can
convert deficit into surplus.
In some quarters anxiety has been
expressed concerning the integ ,ity
of the Ford mentals. But he is
still able to find his way about-has
a shrewd notion concerning the
limits of his wonder working pow
ers. When he comes to make figs
grow on thistles he would pick his
railway-would have it so located
that he can fatten it's income bv
diverting traffic.
SO If owners of other bankrupt
railroads come to the Ford ante
room in large numbers we may ex-
pect to behold an elderly gentleman
OF philanthropic aspect climbing out
OF back window, and when he
crawls back hear him nervously ask
ing his faithful secretary care they
gone YETI"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
Re MIR. Smith and Miss Jones
Ie Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply to George Tageart:
When you send your letter to the
firm of Smith & Jones you may be sure
the letter will be accepted even if YOU
leave Off the "handle," and when Won
get to the correspondence itself be
frank and honest and just write your
letter without any hypocritcal saluta
ton, thus:
Smith e. Jones, 154 Nassau ST.. New
York.
Your order received" etc.
This is good form and does not do
violence to your knowledge of whether
they are gentlemen or not, nor of call
ing them "dear" when you little mean
lt-though. they may be dear enough
withal
DO 1T this way, and you cover all re-
quirements of propriety.
A. E. MEDAR.
New York, Sept. 7, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
Mr.. Murphy's Number

To the Editor of The Tribune.
AszSir: For the first time in the his
tory of his reign BOSS" Murphy is
face to face with bona fde revolt
that has assumed the proportions of
SNOWFALL rolling down hill. Also for
the first time the Democratic voters
of Manhattan have the opportunity to
vote for or against the miserable lead
ership of Murphy, which has reduced
the party to its present impotent con-
dition.
Murphy has not considered it neces-
sary to explain either the reason for
leaving Judge Talley off his personally
conducted ticket or the reason for
placing him upon it. He does not seem
to realize that the day of ward politics
is past and that the voters consider it
one OF their privileges to have a hand
in nominating the candidates they are
expected to support at the polls.
The issue of the present campaign is
enc that every self-respecting man or
woman voter can indorse, and the only
sure way of indorsing it is by going
to the polls on Primary Day and cast
inga vote for James j. Hines, the man
who has had the courage to introduce
this issue. In the past the general
apathy of the electorate on Primary
LAY has had much to do with keepinv
Murphy in power. 1t is the abuse of
this power that has caused the present
dissatisfaction which has eliminated
In open revolt.
While Mr.. Murphy's putting and
driving may need improving, as he
claims, there will be no room for inn
provemsnt in the putting and driving
INDUCED in by the enrolled Democratic
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09

supper, and can they be revised?
Imagine man who on tax day had
waist lind of 50 and two months
later had skunk to SO! Would he
receive rebate?
The intent is good, but the ex-
ccution would be complicated. Why
not follow the simpler method and
tax the wrinkles in the back Of the
neck?
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
What Is a Fair Return?
Reader Takes Exception to the Let.
ter of the United Real Estate
Owners Association

OWucIS Association
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's Tribune the presi-
dent Of the United Real Estate Owners
Association expresses much satisfaction
with the ruling of the Appellate Court
of Brooklyn with respect to the allow
able return on rented property. lam
particularly interested in the following
statement:
The manufacturer, merchant and
investment security owner have al
ways been entitled to the net earn
Ing power of the capital invested,
whether it was begged, borrowed or
stolen"
Will your correspondent favor me
with the particular authority who
originated such theory, for it must
ever remain theory only? 1t smacks
OF the generalities so commonly heard
from landlords.
just what is fair return upon sn
investment will always remain mat
ter for discussion. However. the Amer
lean Congress has defined invested
capital, and upon this matter there is
not so much obscurity as upon the
proper return therefrom. A reading Of
the Federal tax regulations would shed
a great light upon certain hitherto OBJ
scure economic theories. One thing Of
interest is the exclusion of borrowed
money from invested capital. Another
interesting item is the disallowance of
appreciation, unless actually realized or
under certain other conditions having
for basis equally good foundations.
Your correspondent speaks for large
body of men, but he submits nothing
IN the way of data to support the 80
per cent on value of property" theory.
Large corporations are spending lot
of money to educate the public and
good results have followed in the way
Of a clear understanding of individual
problems and otherwise. The Landlords
eve something of the kind to their
tenants.
Granting that the return on real es-
tate may not always have been fair
In the past, is it good business to go
to the other extreme and expect re-
turn not only upon the cash invested,
plus mortgages thereon, but upon the
appreciation in the value of property'
Why should 10 per cent be the figure
any more than or Or II or Is per
cert? And if this is a fair return to
the landlord, why should not the grocer,
the shoe dealer, the public utilities
and manufacturing organizations be al
lowed relief from business risks? Per-
haps the landlords, or at least certain
types Of landlords, are looking to the
dear rentpayer to aid them recoup thsr
losses from speculation and secret
agreements with shrewd janitors.
Service" is now a word not to be found
any longer in the landlords lexicon.
Repairs, elevator service, switchboard
service, etc., are items one dreams
about-they are not realities with some
landlords tenants.
And why does tenant pay cents
fin addition to switchboard serviee'
for telephone call when he gays only
5 cents for each call from a stations
Let the Real Estate Owners Associa-
tion do some educational work.
NATHANIEL B. BERGMAN
New York Sent 2 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09

voters on September IS. They will put
Murphy on the political ash-heap and
drive him from the party he has used
so long to satisfy his personal ambi-
ticn.
When Murphy went into that tele-
phone booth it looks as if James j..
Hines got his number.
JOHN F. MCGOWAN.
New York, Sept. 5, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-09
Dawn

AT morning dusk woke and heard
The waking call of phoebe bird;
\ spark in tinder! Through the trees
A flame of song outsoared the breeze.
1t lit the scarves of flying night
Through my closed lids felt the light;
The woods and countryside took fire.
II mounted high and ever higher.
| looked upon the sky and 10!
The whole world was one crimson glow!
ISABEL VALE.