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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
General Wood Accepts

In accepting the Governor Gen.
eralship Of the Philippines General
Wood has again put service to the
country, above all other considera-
tions. He bows generously to the
necessity Of retiring from the active
list Of the army and Of postponing
his installation as provost of the
University of Pennsylvania. His
tour Of the Philippines has convinced
him that new spirit must be in
fused into our insular policy. He
yields Internationally to that con-
viction.
Under the lax administration of
the last eight years perverted idea
Of the relations between the islands
and the United States has taken
root. The Wilson-Harrison admin
istration catered to whims and am
billions of the Filipino politicians
representing only small percentage
of the island population. 1t ignored
the interests of the less advanced
tribes, not represented in the Philip
pine Legislature, and Of the Mahom-
etan and pagan elements in the
southern islands. it encouraged a
pushing minority, with little expert
enee or capacity, to aspire to taking
over control of the great majority
under semblance of nationality and
self-government.
General Wood was one of those
who originally labored to fulfill the
American trusteeship in the Philip
pines by introducing order and ma
terial progress, building roads and
schools and stimulating industry and
commerce. That era of develop
mont, under Mckinley, Roosevelt and
TAFT, was brilliantly successful. In
the later Wilson era its patient
ideals and methods were set aside
and an attempt was made to call off
our experiments, and liquidate our
sovereignty and obligations by a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
p.Ia By
1OOIo Percy Hammond

The program of "Scribner's Magazine
for September is, in part, as follows:
Being a Waitress in a Boardwalk
HoteP'-1n which the author, "a Nov
elist," desiring material for fiction
about the working-woman, engaged
herself as waitress in an eminent
Atlantic City hospice. She found her
employers grasping and her custom
ers, particularly the family of multi
millionaire, greedy and penurious.
What does it all mean," she inquiries,
"this endless struggle between human
coolies and human drudges?"
my Grandmother's Table"-An ap-
petizing chat by William Henry Shell
ton, describing the savory roasts,
sauces, fritters, vegetables and pas
tries served by his grandmother, who,
as loyal New England woman, cal
ways had pie and cake on the break
fast table" Good reading for the
trenchermen.
''The Drift of the River RATES
telle Ashe, aided by whimsical pictures
by E. M. Ashe, composes the amusing
journal Of voyage in houseboat
through the Ohio's lofty surges from
Parkersburg to Cincinnati.
Change for Bokhara"-In a mood of
amiable evaporation Katherine Fuller
ton Gerould berates the Kaiser for hay
ing disarranged the itineraries Of the
world, rendering Illustrate the desires
of persons of wandering tastes. She
finds that he has destroyed the litera-
ture of travel, abolished the time tables
of the earth, and that now even Cook
cannot tell you at what hour you will
change for Bokhara. at used to be
about 1o;40 a. M, and you changed at
Merv," she says.
THE New Pacific" H. Schole-
field discusses informatively the prob
Ions Of the Pacific Ocean, the trade
and other responsibilities of Australia
New Zealand and the United States
America is now irrevocably an Asiatic
power, says he, and "the menace to
her social structure in the Pacific
states compels her, whether she likes
it or not, to keep her sword in the
side of Asia at Manila"
"Japan's New Woman an article by
Emma Serepta Yule, author of Filipino
Feminism," treating authoritatively and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
In Other Word.

(ront The Philadelphia Euenino Bnlietim)
Mr.. Gompers's hope that "some day
the people of the country will demand
that Congress restore the sovereign
rights of Congress to enact legislation
and ceny the judicial branch of the
government the right to annul it is
only the recall of judicial decisions
dressed in unnecessary verbiage. Either
proposition would be the unseAting of
John Marshall as the expounder of the
principles of the American Constitu-
ticn. and that will be q most diffi-
cult Job.
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copyright. la21. New York Trbune Inc.

| with photographs the progress of the
modern woman of Japan.
"The Bribery l.. Allen Harker, q
short story. 1t relates how a cruel
youth outwitted and Inundated q rich
and ancient sutton for the hand of q
pretty girl and made money in the pro-
cedure.
"Thc Poor Old English Language
"The trouble with our English" says
Meredith Nicholson, 'is that too much
is taught and not enough is learned y
He considers the memorizing Of short
passages of verse and prose an inn
rortant adjunct to the teaching of
English by any method.
"Doc Jenny"-A short story in fic-
ton Of great-hearted country doctor.
Appealing and not sentimental.
People by the Wayside"-Margue-
rite Wilkinson tells of the pleasant and
picturesque persons encountered by her
and Jim when they take to the open
road in their rakish and ramshackle
fivver.
"Talisman"-Being the melodramatic
adventure of Morgan Thcrndyke, tall,
slender, masterful young American
China merchant, with Princess Tai-lo.
the most beautiful princess in the Mid
die Kingdom. They were caught by her
huge husband in a moment Of sus-
pected infidelity; and the dagger, aimed
at Mr.. Thorndyke's heart, buried itself
fatally beneath Tai-lo's quivering shout
der. He returned to America with
Tai-lo's magic amulet of three-colored
jade, and by its symbolic influence be-
came married to Vercnic Hallet, daugh-
ter Of Ezra Hallet, his employer. Com
plete atmosphere and violent episodes
by A. Carter Goodloe.
"a Study in Smoke Ben, a bitter
labor leader employed in the gun
foundries of Woolhurst, falls into the
white-hot metal pouring from fur
mace and is digested into the nothing
ness of carbon. When, thereafter, the
sailors fire the six-inch gun made from
his molten sepulcher they see his
wraithlike figure in the smoke. The
gun explodes in battle, killing it's
crew, and the experts who investigate
the disaster find that 1t was caused
by a weakening superfiuity of carbon
in the steel. Told so we'll by Shane
Leslie that Won believe it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
words, 1--WE have not yet begun to

words, eve have not yet begun to
fight" We have not yet subdued
pneumonia, while cancer, heart
diseases and nervous maladies seem
actually to be increasing. Reason
forbids us to doubt that one day
cure or preventive Of each Of
them will be found. The plaques
which bave been conquered are
those which rage most in low stages
of civilization, and which naturally
yielded to the advance of culture.
Those which remain are in great
measure ills created or aggravated
by civilization itself. Surely, If our
arts and sciences could eliminate
the former they can find way to
avoid propagating the latter.
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Disagreeing With Mr.. Root
A College Education Is Not lnGs.
pensable for a Good Lawyer

-
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Having read the article in
your paper to-day about the convention
of the American Bar Association,
would like to make few criticisms re-
garding Mr.. Elihu Roots report to
that body Of men and women, wherein
he recommends "two years college and
three years law schooling to admit to
the bar" / heartily concur with Mr..
Root as to the three years law school
ing, but as to the other requirement of
two years college schooling take
issue with him.
The one great mistake Of this recon-
| mendation is that it restraints the poor
hey from entering the legal profession.
Fecause his wealthy brother has the
wkerewithal to go through college does
not by any means signify that he is
better fitted for the legal profession
than the poor boy, who only has the
natural God-bestowed talents and .
burning ambition, which often the other
fellow lacks. A college education does
not make man a genius, whether ia
law or any of the other professions; 1t
merely packs his brains with infornaA.
ton. The real test is whether he has
the capacity to learn, and if he has
that, whether he has the natural ability
to apply his knowledge intclligently.
The really great men of CHS country
were not college-bred, but self-edu-
Gated. What learning they did have
was obtained through hard work snd
burning of midnight oil.
admit that we have great lawyers
now, and Mr.. Elihu Root is onc
of them, but a two or more years
college (not law school training
did not make him such. 1t was the
use of his naturally endowed faculties
which has made Mr.. Root the legal
genius he is to-day, and these faculties
could have been developed without .
"two years college schooling"
The great trouble nowadays is that
E-eil are 100 lazy W use lHeii Diot''os
and go to college with the idea that
they will receive something for nothing.
II cannot be done. To-day there is too
much vicarious thinking-thas IS, think
ing done for us by some one else. And
tais is Just the case with a great num-
Der of college graduates. When they
complete a two years college course
they come out with the belief they are
intellectual giants because they have
their heads crammed with lot of I'M
formation which they will never use
and which, no doubt, they would nor
know low to use even If they could.
want it to be understood that am
not opposed to college training for any
onet who wants it. am not speaking
now of the law school or other teehnicni
schools, for such are necessary, but l
do insist that to be a great lawyer one
need not have q two years college
schooling" if he has the ability 10 read
and write the English language and Is
industrious enough to use his brains
and think about what he is reading aua
writing. That is all most Of our ia
nous lawyers and legislators had IN
days gone by. JOSEPH GULLY.
Jersey City, N. j., Sept. 2, 1921.
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the sum paid for this particular
horse. But consider how far America
is in advance Of the rest Of the world
when an artist can buy racehorses
during his lifetime, instead Of hav-
ing to wait until possibly hundred
years after he is dead to make q de-
cent income. Have we not succeeded
in reversing the axiom that tart is
long and time is ffeeting," and
proved that while our art is not
short, time is not so fleeting that it
cannot be circumvented, with a pub
lie so quick to recognize syndicated
masterpieces?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Twofold Appreciation
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: | hasten to thank you doubly
for your article of to-day on "The
Davis Monument.''
FIRST, for its verbal dress, as a place
or singufarly eloquent and impressive
English, such as, alas! we seldom read
nowadays in the current press; and,
" Second, for it's noble and exalted SEN
t'ments, which are worthy Of the broad
est craftsmanship and the most benevo-
lent humanitarianism.
Ihe writing and publishing of such
an article make the world seem better
worth living in
FRANCIS CHISHOLM.
New York. Sept. !. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
The Rent Decision
The President of the United Real
Estate Owners Association Speaks

Estate Owners Association Speaks
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The unanimous opinion Of the
Appellate Court of Brooklyn that land
lords Of housing were entitled to 10
per cent net income on the value Of
their property, and not on the equity,
is the most farreaching decision that
courts ON the erratic, peculiar and
questionable decisions that have been
made by the Municipal Court justices
ever since the rent laws were placed
on the statute books. From now on
tenant, landlord and Municipal Court
justices will know what q reasonable
rent is, which none of the three
seemed to have the remotest idea re-
garding, on account Of the erratic court
decisions.
This decision will stabilize rental and
real estate values and will enable tens
OF thousands of housing owners to get
reasonable rental, which they do not
now get.
The manufacturer, merchant and in
vestment security owner have always
been entitled to the net earning power
of the capital invested, whether it was
begged, borrowed or stolen; and why
any sane man should imagine that real
estate owners should be entitled only
to net income on equity instead of on
value is one of those things which no
fellow can understand.
The United Real Estate Owners AS
ISOLATION has fought for two years to
get this very decision written into the
statutes by bills it has drafted and had
introduced, and has endeavored to get
the Municipal Court justices and the
Mayors Rent Committee to accept it
as basis of reasonable rent, but it has
failed because those chasing tenants
votes opposed it and rent gouging own
ers also opposed it, as they opposed the
rent laws in toto, thinking they could
either be killed in the Legislature, in
the Court of Appeals or the Supreme
Court of the United States. This asso-
citation felt considerable sympathy for
tenants in 1919 and 1920, and while
thousands of tenants to-day can prop
erly be sympathized with, the great
mass Of tenants deserve no sympathy
whatsoever. Their idea Of reason
able rent is no rent at all, and they
have no hesitation in banding them
selves together and fighting all rents,
whether agreed upon or otherwise. As
an example, one of their greatest lead
ers, q personal friend of mine, for
years has occupied seven-room and
threebath apartment in a modern
apartment house at a rental Of $94 per
month. The Mayors Rent Committee
comes out and says that this decision
will produce litigation where previous
ly there was none. 1t will produce lit-
cation. 1t deserves to produce litiga-
ton. 1t is about time that owners of
housing property in New York City
had reasonable rent on their property
and that tenants were prevented from
being rent gouged by shyster landlords
under the present court discretion.
STEWART BROWNE,
President United Real Estate Own
ers' Association.
New York, Sept. 2, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Unmasling Hylanism

Henry Curran does we'll by the
people of New York in placing the
responsibility for the wrecking of
the public school system squarely on
the shoulders of the present Hylan-
Hearst Tammany administration.
The mayoralty candidate of the
fusion forces employs a simple,
direct method Of speech which no
taxpayer, and particularly no voting
father or mother, can possibly mis-
understand.
How many schools do you think
present city administration? Mr..
Curran asked Of Brooklyn audience
on Thursday night, and, choosing to
construe the silence which ensued as
meaning mona, he answered: "You
have guessed wrong. They did build
some. The number is two-just two.
There is little addition to school
ia the Bronx and there is q new
school at Forest Hills, In Queens
County. That's all.
ave need to-day at least one hun
axvd more schools"
We need one hundred more schools
than we have and Hylanism has pro-
vided two! What an indictment Of
Hylanism!
As this administration has ex-
plotted the poor in their markets
and foodstuffs so it has exploited
them in something as precious to
Americans as their daily bread
education. Hylanism promised near
~ four years ago that if it were
given the warrant to govern the city
part-time in the schools would be no
more. equal opportunity for the
poor mans children and a seat for
every child was it's cry, and more
as the result Of that than any other
issue it won victory at the polls.
And after forty-four months in Of
flee there are one hundred thousand
more children than there are seats.
Regardless of class, the hope Of the
Republic is possible Of achievement
only through the education Of to-
days children-to-morrow's citizens.
To deny the children of the poor the
opportunity Of education is to deny
them participation in the heritage Of
America.
But that is what Hylanism is do
ing in New York, the while it squan-
ders the funds Of the city's taxpay-
ing parents.
Close the public schools to the rich
mans children, and he can avail him
self Of tutors and private institu-
tions. Close the public schools to the
poor mans children, and there is
nothing left for them but the streets
and the back lots.
OF what meanness is Hylanism
rot capable!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03

the 9Th Ohio Infantry, during its
service on the border. He obtained
q patent on November 6, 1917. The
royalty was fixed at a low figure and
half Of the net profits set aside for
the benefit of the Red Cross. The
flags were first distributed in Cleve-
land, by an ordinance Of the City
Council, to the families Of soldiers
and sailors entering the service
Ed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
THEM WAS THE DAYS
Pie

Sir: rise, rs 1t were, from the grave
belonging to that elderly generation
reared in the nineteenth century,
which your generation has consigned
to oblivion) to say word In defense of
dried apple pies.
In the days when apples were
really dried there were no motors to
make dust, and the long strings hung
out in the sun on Grandmother's porch
blown upon by a sweet wind which
came over the Ipswich marshes where
the cranberries were ripening. There
was a pungent smell of pine, too, from
Grandfather's saw mill, and the still
ness was broken by the whine OF the
saw.
The best pies were "turnovers." A
small circle Of crust was filled on one
side and the other side laid over it
and doubled under to hold the filing
in. When baked you could--and did
take this detachable crescent in your
hand and depart through the wood
shed to the frosty outdoors, eating as
you went.
OF course, mince turnover was bet
ter, but none of you ever scorned the
lesser good. However, generation
and city which is content to pay five
cents apiece for Oregon apples
which are dried by nature on the tree
and never tasted real mince pie, may.
| suppose, be excused its ignorance.
WALTER PRICHARD EATON.
Sir: 1t surely is pity you didn't
own at least one Ohio grandmother
who lived on farm-preferably near
Dayton. Poor thing! Why, you never
tasted near approach to real dried
apple pie. I say nothing Of apple but
ter pie, with a criss-cross cover, and
shooHy pie, with no cover at all!
1t was always hard to get q fair
start on this latter delicacy. Because
as l carefully parked myself on the
top stone tagging step which led from
the winter MISUNDERSTANDING a whole
warm pie in my two fat fists (if my
stern parent could have seen me: he
didn't permit "ea.ing between meals"!)
my st. Bernard dog Immediately took
up strategic position opposite me and
attacked the outer rim.
GRETCHEN KRoHN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
A Timely Warming

In his War College address the
President wisely seized the occasion
to deliver warning. Visionary
millennials, who would serve the
| cause Of peace but little know how,
are again at the business of arbusing
false hopes. The coming conference
is ecstatically hailed as promising
the end of all armament and all war.
Mirage painters whose lures appeal
to those who delight in the auto
intoxication Of vague aspiration may
do as much harm at Washington as
they did at Versailles.
But there is some risk in uttering
warning The professional pacifst,
although fond of denouncing inter-
national suspicion, is himself most
suspicious. We may expect to hear
that the Presidents unwillingness to
promise Utopia is because he is a
militarist, and his words of doubt as
to whether there will ever be COM
plete disarmament will be cited as
proof.
The President, of course, did not
set himself up as prophet. He Is
about the last man to claim he
knows all the secrets Of the future.
Nor is he ignorant Of the human rec
ord. The family, the tribe, the ma
tior1--in the development of these
mankind has seen an increasing
| enlargement Of areas which settle
| disputes by means other than those
Of armed conflict. The ultimate
destiny of the human race may we'll
be universal union--with no more
soldiers, and policemen the only
agents Of force.
Defective human nature, now the
bar to making dreams come true, is
subject to change. The twin influ-
ences Of enlightened selfishness and
more active sense Of justice are
Transforming it. Few of our public
men have shown stronger faith in
better days than has President Har-
ding. Sometimes, indeed, he has
been sneered at as a sentimentalist.
His common sense tells him that
there is need Of a monition against
expecting TOO much.
The closer the conference keeps to
the ground the more definite good
will it do. Armament proceeds
from fear. So the first task is to
labor to substitute confidence for
fear. But fear is often justified, as
it was justified when the Entente
nations watched Germany getting
ready to spring. So the removal Of
special justification for fear is the
second task. Finally, trouble makers
must be made to understand that the
nations which possess preponderant
power propose to hold fast to their
union and are likely to march to the
assistance of right when it is grave
ly imperiled.
The conference will have great
difficulty in agreeing on formulas for
armament limitations; but if wisdom
is it's guide it can achieve much by
mobilizing these mighty imponder-
ables whose power even Bismarck
recognized and which are the chief
deterrents to war. The English COM
mon law arose and became strong
without syllable of statute and the
common law Of a new world can be
established with minimum of writ
ten agreement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
The Reason Why

(Frorn The San Francisco Chreniele)
Physical deterioration of the citize1-
ry Of the United States may have set
in with the tide Of bootleg. Eysn
Arericans cannot be expected to haye
frames Of platinum, tissues. Of asbastos
ana sonstitutions at copper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03

Candidate Hendrick now explains that
he framed the anti-lynching, not the
anti-lunching, law, but after two weeks
Of monday eating on Park Row we
favor the latter measure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Write Your Own Head

Mrs. A. H. Dauer and Miss Adele Kelly,
of New Orleans, La, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Garrett %. James. OF 3O8 Burns Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. james now spending
week at Bay Shore.--Forest Hills Gardens
Bulletin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03

The charge that Americans are con-
cerned in the assassination of eight
Soviet leaders is ridiculous on it's face.
Why should citizens of this country
feel they had to go abroad to kill
people?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03

Unless the inventor Of the nom
Reliable bottle feels that his life has
been entirely blighted by Mr.. Volstead,
we do wish he'd devote himself TO
evolving the mountaineering plate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
The Service Flag
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Before our memories of the
great war fade quite away it might be
we'll to learn something in regard to
certain observances peculiar to this
war. Chief among these / place the
service flags. Displaying them was
patriotic, suggestive and touching
custom and it seems only just that we
should know to whom we owe it. !
have questioned number of persons
who frankly confess their ignorance
and am sure that large proportion
Of your readers would be most grateful
If, through your columns, they could
learn the origin of this purely Ameri-
can flag.
should like particularly to know
how it was brought to the attention OF
the public. Was it through the Red
Cross, and was it sold for the benefit
OF that or any other society? A. G.
Geneva. N. Y, Sept. i, 1921,
1.-THE Service Flag was designed by
r r. C1tria ~n,. of C1oxyo1apd rar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
GRETCHEN KRoHN.

The Ford Company reports $685.
100000 in the bank, indicating clearly
that the concerns officials don't drive
thsm. T.y.V.