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New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Drawing-Roorn E.nnui

1t is an established and widely
prevalent ailment in America, and
but one real cure for it has been
discovered. There are various pal
liatives and soothing syrups. Ono
can multiply ones trips and stunts
and clubs. and committees and try
out the various virtues and vices,
one by one. But permanent i'm
provement comes in only one way
getting out Of the drawing room
and into a job.
The latest conspicuous venture
into the movies is but following in
the wake Of thousands of American
women for a generation. The
movies are relatively recent in
vention, and but few women are
fitted to. work in them. The trek
from the drawing room to the lob
was we'll under way before the
movie was invented. 1t was this
fact, unQuestionably, that made suf-
frage possible. The ants never
discovered it, apparently, and went
about talking of woman's place
being in the home-when, for quite
other reasons, she had left and was
leaving it every day.
AS matter Of fact, it was not
the home that woman was leaving
it was the drawing room. Through
the changes in home life no job
large enough for an able-bodied
adult was left in the home. Espe-
cially after the children are grown
there is not enough left in an Amer
lean home to keep q strong, intelli-
gent woman from ennui or mischief
or anything else. She had to go or.
become a drone.
One good thing about Mrs. Hoyt's
example is worth understanding.
When she made up her mind to go
to work she took the job for which
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
A Public Welfare Department

The Republican party pledged it.
self in it's 1920 platform to a better
coordination of the governments 8
activities. In the present Federal
structure there is little evidence of
shop planning. New departments
came into being automatically as
the scope Of Federal administration
was extended. There were only
five departments under President
Washington-State, Treasury, War,
Postoffice and Justice. The Navy
Department was created in 1898.
The Interior Department emerged
in 1849. The Agricultural Depart
ment dates from 1889.
These alterations came about
through natural segregations, one
bureau or a couple of bureaus split
ting off and setting up for them
selves. But there was never any
impulse. toward radical reconstruc-
ton. The only real approach to q
regrouping was the establishment
of the Department of Commerce
and Labor in 1908. But this de-
partment was subsequently split
into the present separate depart
ments of Commerce and of Labor.
Many Federal activities are still
misassigned to single department
or are scattered heedlessly among
several. The result is duplication
Of work, divergence of methods and.
standards, waste, in maintenance
and administration at cross pur-
poses. The. government :. control
ehart looks like a crazy quilt. If
the pledge to restore order and
ecopomy in operation IS to be ful--
filed there. must be a farrreaching
reconstruction.
President~Harding has started by
recommending - through General
Sawyer the creation Of new De-
,artment Of Public Welfare. 1t is
% have charge of the agencies of
social welfare, public health, edu-
:ation and care Of the war vet
rams. u The Public Health Service
md War Risk Insurance are now
'nder the Treasury; pensions and |
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Daylight Saving To-Morrow
Time Zone for Middle and Eastert.
States Before CONGRESS

0totCS 0ClOIC NOIlKICSS
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: On Sunday, April "a, at Q Il.
M, the clocks Of the city should b.
turned forward one hour to introduca
daylight saving time for the summer
months.
This has already been done in Chi
cago, Milwaukee, Louisville. Pitts
burgh and other Western cities, and
will become operative by local reso-
lutions on Sunday morning in one
hundred or more cities and towns in
the State Of New York and neighbor-
Ing communities. The whole State of
Massachusetts, is on daylight saving
time.
The cities that have thus far passed
daylight saving laws in New York
State are as follows:
New York, Buffalo, Am msterdam,
Albany, Watervliet, Niagara Falls,
Syracuse, Oswego, Newburgh, New
Rochelle, White Plains. Poughkeepsie,
Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Glen Cove,
Kingston, ,Glens Falls, Gloversyills,
Hudson. Troy, Cohoes, Schenectady,
Rensselaer,, Peekskill, Port Jervis,
Cortland. Lackawanna, Rochester,
Saratoga Springs, Mechanicsville,
Watertown, Geneva, Tonawands,
North Tonawanda, Green Island,
Plattsburgh. South Nyack and Utica.
Hackensack, N. j.. and Hartford,
Conn.,, have adopted daylight saving,
and other towns near by are daily be-
ing added to the list.
Senator Edge and Congressman
Alderman have introduced bill III
Congress which if passed will make
daylight saving uniform in the
Middle and Eastern States, called
Time Zone No. /. This bill has
been Endorsed by the Merchants, As.
sociation. the New York State Fedora
tion of Labor. the Massachusetts,
State Federation Of Labor, the medi-
cal societies and athletic organiza-
tions, the women's clubs and other
associations.
The National Daylight Saving AS
ISOLATION, of which Marcus M. Marks
is president. actively indorses the
uniform Eastern time zone bill and
asks friends Of daylight saving to
write to Washington. 1t will carry
out the wishes Of fully 80 per cent Of
to have daylight saving uniformly es@
tablished. MARCUS NJ. MARKS.
New York, April 22, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Time to Pay

The German government, whether
imperial or republican, is more per-
sistent in using old maneuvers than
in inventing new ones. So it has
tried to hook the present Admins
ration with the same bait it dangled,
not wholly unsuccessfully, before its
predecessor in October, 1918.
The United States has been once
more asked to mediate in Germany's
behalf, Again it is assumed that
the United States is neutral.
Again wedge is sought to be driven
between this country and its war
partners.
The night letter reply Of Secre-
tary Hughes, dispatched while the
ink on the German message was still
wet, is fiat declination. In a brief
paragraph Berlin is informed that
we do not accept the role of either
mediator or umpire. If Berlin has
concrete reparation proposals to
make we shall, Of course, forward
them If such action is agreeable to
Paris and London. Otherwise
Washington sees no reason why Ger
many should address communica-
tions to our government. 1t might
have been better if Secretary Hughes
had cabled merely, "See Briand!"
but Germany will get the idea.
When the Paris conference in
March offered settlement to Ger
many, naming figures that repre-
sented an abatement from the prob
able findings Of the Reparations
Commission, a door was opened to
Germany to make counter offer. A
counter. offer was submitted, but,
though rejected, the door to other
offers was not closed. BRAND and
Lloyd George have both been listen
ing. They have both avoided giving
basis for charge that they had de-
clined to consider something not laid
before them. The attitude of Secre-
,ary Hughes is essentially the same.
Unless Germany, before May l,
has something definite to present. it
is practically told that the measures
adopted to enforce collection will
have this country's approval. Our
unfortunate qualification of the
Versailles Treaty makes our techni-
cal position anomalous. But a way
has been found to act as if the treaty
We're ratified.
If Germany has entertained any
hope Of again enmeshing our govern
ment in note-writing she should
abandon it. Her sole business is to
pay up. The game of shifty evasion
can no longer be played.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23

she was best fitted. The trouble
with. too many women experiment.
ing with careers is that they at
tempt not what they can do but
what they think it is safe and COM
Portable and ladylike to do. Which
is worse than nonsense. To fuss
with interior decorating, let us say,
with no especial equipment there
for, gives no moro satisfaction and
does no more good than fussing
with any of the ordinary social
diversions. If you have made up
your mind to work, work. That is
che first rule for the cure Of draw
ing-roon ennui.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Caruso's Restoration

The public hears with great pleas
ure that Caruso is so restored as to
be able to drive out and to behold
once again the miracle of spring in
Central Park. 81
New York has warm spot in it's
heart for this adopted son. Not in
a generation has there been a singer
to compare with him in lavishness
OF voice, in popular appeal, in every
quality that fills a house with
standees and sweeps it with
"bravos." 1t is a real tribute to
the character and solid intellectual
gifts OF Caruso that where he is best
known he has won respect and ad-
miration. He is more than a singer
or an operate hero. He is an in
sntutlon, a genial and witty figure
OF our metropolitan life, and his re-
covery means the city is not to lose
a. precious possession.
@aS sHeer organ OF golden sound
'Caruso's voice undoubtedly ranks
with the great voices of all time. It
possesses an opulence, an amplitude,
splendor to which there have been
no parallels among tenors for many
years. Its richness almost defied
adequate recording on the talking
machine, but it is good to know
that his records exist and will last
to charm many generations and ex-
cite comparison with the great
tenors Of the centuries to come.
That the great gift of this su-
preme minstrel will be. found unim-
paired when next he displays it is
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23

That old-fashioned and still potent
spirit of public obligation, Of neigh
borhood responsibility, was strong in
Moses Taylor Pyne. BY his rule Of
life his days work was but partly
done when he had attended to his
own personal affairs. The most Inn
portant part remained--a labor Of
love upon community or school or
college affairs in behalf Of every one.
The old system Of giving 1.-THE
Of ones property to tho Church is a
poor substitute for this gift Of de-
vote rvice. No community, no
insti. stion, can amount to anything
unless there are serving it exactly
such men, donating, let us say, q 1.-THE
of their time and energy and intel
lect to the common cause. Moses
Taylor Pyne gave Of his wealth as
we'll as Of his time; but it was his
intense personal zest and effort, his
will and faith and Judgment, that
made him so powerful force for
the upbuilding Of Princeton Uni
versity.
He dies rich in the affection and
good will of all who knew him, Of
all whom he served. A true and
generous soul, loyal and devoted
aid In his chosen labors, his life
stands a shining and inspiriting
career for the whole community,
young and old alike, to read and
mark.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Higher Pay Earned and Due

There Is unanimous agreement
that the city's patrolmen and fire.
men are entitled to higher pay.
Mayor Hylan himself inserted in the
budget year ago the exact pro-
vision of the bills recently passed by
the Legislature and now before him
for action. 1t was taken out Of the
budget because the Mayor did not
see where the money was coming
from to meet the $3.50 raise. Ap-
parently he is considering a veto
now on the same ground.
This is the pass to which three
and half years Of Hylanism have
brought the City Of New York. 1t
has not the money, in the view Of it's
Mayor, to pay wages richly earned
and deserved by its loyal employees.
The case is that of the teachers over
again. His Honor was for letting
down the bars, for flooding the
schools with cheap incompetents-
anything rather than pay fair SAL
aries.
We hope Mr.. Hylan will see a raw
Of light in time and not veto these
bills. They aid the rank and file
OF our most necessary public
forces. They are due and overdue.
With less attention to terra Gotta
contracts, with Mayor who wrote
his own letters instead of signing
those submitted by a Hettrick, with
efficiency in charge of departments
instead of political decentralization,
there would be ample funds with
which to pay these men what they
earn.
Since the city failed in its plain
duty the Legislature did we'll to act.
1t passed the bills-unanimously, it
should be noted. They do not go
into effect until next January, and a
great deal may happen by that time
even a new and competent Mayor
who can find the money with which
to pay what the city in honor and
justice owes. The bills unuuestion-
ably should become law. A..
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Too Much Work
(Froan The Wichita Reo.o.,

fFro,n The Wichita Beacon)
Folks will gradually stop making
their own liquor, on account Of the
labor involved. That's the answer to
the fellow who fears prohibition may
turn US into nation Of "make your
own"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Books )

Several readers have written in to
complain because we recommended The
Ways Of the Circus, by George Conklin
Our disappointed clients confess to, be
romantic about lions and they assert
that Mr.. Conklin has taken away their
illusions. He has rubbed the gilt off
the gingerbread by writing that the
record for all the lions he has known
consists Of one substitute trainer and
q COW. His whole attitude toward lions
is contemptuous in its calm and SO
is the attitude Of practically everybody
else in the book with the exception of
the cow and the substitute trainer
Even they suffered a little, at first,
from overconfidence.
On the night down in PHILADELPHIA
when Wallace, the big lion, escaped
from his cage in winter quarters no
body grew excited. O'Brien, the owner
Of the show, did not even get up, but
called through the door "Go git Conk-
lin!" The preparations Of the trainer
were simple. First he got an iron bar
and then he found the lion and hit
him on the end Of the nose. "After a
few minutes" he adds, "I had him
safely locked in again"
Lions, for all their air Of authority,
seem to be easily dominated. They're
not 50 much wicked as weak. Anybody
with little firmness can twist them
around finger, possibly not the lit
tie finger, but any Of the others. 1t is
a great pity that lions should be like
that. To be sure, the information ought
not to come as a surprise to anybody
condition we have mentioned has ex-
listed for long time. As far as we
know, Daniel had not so much as an
iron bar when he went into the den.
He overawed the lions with nothing
more than faith.
Perhaps 1t is not quite fair to go
on as if lions were the only living
creatures in all the world who are
swayed and cowed by frmness and
authority. The same weakness may
be found now and then among men.
All too many Of US if hit on the
nose with iron bars, either real ones
or symbols, do little more than lions
in similar circumstances. We may
growl and roar little, but we do not
show resentment in any efficient way.
And like the lions, we are singularly
stupid in not making working all
liances with our fellows against the
man with the iron bar. BY and by we
begin to go through the hoops as If
the procedure were inevitable. Hav-
ing made a protest we feel that our
duty is done.
1t is q great pity. Lions ought to
know better. The man who stares
you in the eye and squeezes hard in q
handshake may come to the bad end
which you wish him, but it is unlike
ly that he will ever be eaten by
lions. Something else must be de-
visad for him. Even outside the cir
Gus he is likely to go far Anybody
who can shake little personality can
be ringmaster in this world. And
we, all Of US who have none, do moth
thing about it except to obey him.
Camels we can swallow easily enough,
but we strain at the natty dresser.
Still we did manage to find few
bits Of information in The Ways Of
the Circus which were brand new to
US. If, for instance, rhinoceros
escaped from his cage just what
would you do TO get him back again :?
That is, if he were the sort of
rhinoceros you wanted back. At first
glance it seems rather prob
lem, but any reader Of Mr.. Conklin's
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
By
Heywood Broun

book could arrange It for you with
out difficulty. Nothing is needed but
carrots and stout heart. The car
rots you scatter profusely about the
floor of the cage, and when the
rhinoceros returns to get them YOU
slam down the door, and there he is.
In Getting What We Want (Har-
per's) Or. David Orr Edison has writ
ten a book which should be; invaluable
to the producers Of musical comedy,
DR.. Edison sets forth the theory that
brunettes are thinkers who. dislike to
travel, while blondes prefer Ito roam.
With the aid Of this manual the stage
manager ought to be able to avoid the
usual difficulty Of the musical comedy
company and pick chorus willing to
go on the road at the end of the New
York run. That is. he could IL DR..
Edison had only added another chap
ter on how to tell blondes from bru-
nettes.
"Your correspondent J. T. L." writes
Gertrude Atherton, referring to a let
ter we published few weeks ago de-
nying the existence Of "society" in San
Francisco, "does not even know his San
Francisco Bohemia very we'll, for, de-
lightful as it is, it makes no claim to
being what Is technically known as
society. I doubt if even in Bohemia
are there any descendants to-day of
what he calls that queer lot who went
there in '49' The gold-seekers either
went back East with their wealth or
lost it at the gaming tables, then
drifted out Of ken. Certainly, in So
ciety, they have left no trace.
ION the contrary, the people who
founded, in the late sos and early SOS,
society which would have put old vien-
ma to the blush for exclusiveness came
from the best families Of the South;
later on, when war hatreds had died
out, New York, Boston and Philadelphia
added their quota. could waste your
space with long list of names dis
tinguished in the East and South that
arc still on the list Of those present
at every social function. These people
were so powerful In the late '7os that
the families Of the bonanza kings had
a long, hard struggle to obtain en-
trance, and SO did all new fortunes
until the EOS. Now the barriers are
down, and few possessing wealth are
forced TO mourn without the gates. 1
will add that those Of the old stock
whose wealth has dwindled, or even if
forced TO earn their bread, are equally
welcome. The point is that if repub-
lies must have aristocracies San Fran
cisco is as entitled to the claim as
Richmond or New York. But Bohemia
gives the passing guest 80 good time
that he departs with the impression
that no other social circle exists.
Il think you were unfair in saying
that after the earthquake and the
tire Sisters in Law dwindles down to
luncheons. Although the book is BAL
pages long and deals largely with San
Francisco society there is not single
social function described. Several are
alluded to, but was too fully occupied
with the more personal performances
OF the characters to waste space on
luncheons or teas. There are many
more in small-town novels"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
The Manhattan Lease


new traction commission does not, as
The Tribune has sought to make
clear, set up plan for the settlement
Of the traction problem. 1t merely
provides an agency to formulate a
plan. A large part Of the popular
confusion marking the discussion Of
the Knight-Adler act arose out of
the erroneous assumption that the
new commission was committed to
specific action.
The misconception is disappearing
as information comes that the COM
mission is now busy feeling it's way
toward a plan. Some tentative pre-
liminary steps seem to have been
taken. For example, it is reported
that the commission is considering
bringing about cancellation of the
Interborough's lease of the Manhat~
tan Elevated lines.
For long time the lease was an
asset to the Interborough. Now it
is a liability. The Interborough's
income from the Manhattan does not
meet the interest on Manhattan
bonds and dividends guaranteed to
Manhattan stockholders. The SUBJ
way alone now pays more than oper-
ating expenses and interest on the
Interborough's subway investment.
The company's deficit grows out of
the Manhattan lease.
Manhattan security owners, natu-
rally, do not relish being asked to
take their property back. It's old
rolling stock and power stations are
useless. The prospect Of being COM
PEELED to operate separately. is not
alluring. The Manhattan has no or
ganization and would face the neces-
sity of large additional invest
ment, with present deficit at it's
heels. So spokesmen for the COM
pany say contract is a contract,
and that the Interborough may not
withdraw from it's bargain unless it
goes into the hands of receiver and
is sold at auction.
Doubtless the contract is binding
as long as the Interborough is tech
nically solvent But one can con-
ceive of pressure that may be applied
to induce the Manhattan to agree to
contract revision. A corporations
trouble is the public's opportunity.
A glimpse is given of what Governor
Miller may have meant when he init
mated that a plan might be worked
out. greatly to the city's financial
advantage.
The Manhattan rumor is interest
ing in another aspect. If a single
fare unification of traction service is
the McAneny commissions chief OBJ
jective it can proceed either by link
ing together existing traction lines
or by further developing the subway.
Mr.. McAneny, when the bargainer
for the city in the negotiation of the
dual contracts, inclined to extending
the subway, whose operating costs
are low, rather than to keeping alive
lines less efficient. It. is. possible he
has not changed his mind and that.
with his colleagues, he would now
push toward that day, to come some
time, when practically all traction
service will be underground A per-
manent cancellation of the Manhat-
tan lease thus would have large sig
nificance, as suggesting the general
policy of the commission.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23

the ardent wish Of the army Of
Caruso's admirers. His absence
from the stage has warned us that
great tenors are born as we'll as
made.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
The Greater Problem
(Fyom Ths Pyopiderc. .Yo,s,,,r n,

fFyonn The Providencs JotrnalJ
The problem that occasionally faces
America, Of what to dS with our ex-
Presidents, is nothing compared to
Europe's annoyance fromfex -monarchs
who refuse to be happy away from
home. ss
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
MzMsrn OF THE ASSOCIATED senxss

The Associated Press Ia exclusively entitled to
tho use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited TO II not otherwise credited IN this
paper, and also the local news Of spontaneous
origin published herein
All rights Of republication Of ali other matter
herein also reSer7td.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
Faithful Servants
(From The Toledo Blade)

" F0" ne OtedO btddeJ
German Reds are quiet now, but will
respond again when the government
needs an uprising for psychological
purposes. The German Reds are as
faithful as a FIRE department.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23

Our suggestion to Mrs. Harriet Tay-
lor Upton. when she takes the Public
Welfare portfolio, is. that she deny the
use Of the mails to newspapers that
advertise fraudulent or harmful patent
medicines. Nothing more closely con-
Germs the public health.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
"Toujsurs Ia Politesssi''

[Fron The Chicago Tribune1
Dennis Donovan the owner Of the hotel
after the battle was taken outside and shot
dead for harboring the rebels After tho
fatal mistake was made apologies were
made to Mrs. Donovan
New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
A Large Order

fFrom The Bis,ainchans ASe-Hsrcld)
Trying to start an anti-cigarette cam
paign in kexico is our idea Of msnt
sized i-A