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New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
a~@T%~ Letters to the Tribune's Editor @H=~=
Japan Overflow in China
Skepticism Regarding Reasons As
signed for Emigration
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: While the Washington Confer
ence is drawing near, the Mikado's
spokesmen have repeatedly declared
that Japan's policy OF commercial and
territorial expansion is based on eco
nomic necessity, as she must find out
let's for her surplus population. For
the last two decades her emigrants TO
various countries have amounted 20
large numbers.
unfortunately, several nations have
recently enacted laws prohibiting
Asiatic immigration. Cold regions
such as Siberia and tropical countries
such as Java are not particularly At
tractive to the Japanese, as the jap
anese race has shown small capacity
for acclimatization. By force Of these
circum stances the japanese have q
strong tendency to colonies In Man
churia, Shantung and Fukien, where the
climate is relatively more agreeable to
them, and where folk ways and social
usages are fundamentally similar TO
their own.
The question then arises: "By so
doing is Japan able to alleviate mate
rally the pressure Of her populati on -
Let US consider the density Of Japanese
and Chinese population. Koto-fu and
Nagasaki-ken, from which 8 large body
Of emigrants is drawn, are peopled by
304 square kilometer Cor 11s a square
mile), and 1927 a square kilometer
Cor 9s.7 a square mile) respectively.
Many have emigrsted to Shantung.
whose population density Is 52s to a
square mile, and to Fukien, whose dem
sity Is 282 to 8 square mile.
The Japanese have thus come to
places where the struggle for existence
is appreciably severer; and yet they
are telling the world that they are
solving their surplus population prob
leml In Manchurian villages where
the density Of population is low, the
Japanese are not able to compete sue
d
the latter generally surpass them in
efficient management and cheap labor.
In other Spheres Of influence" the
practices Of Japanese exploiters are
more ruthless than those Of Western
capitalists.
Moreover, japanese emigrants to
China have moved from a relatively
higher wage level to a lower wage
level.
Even making Bomc allowance for
small differences In the cost Of living
IN tho two regions, the Japanese in
Dalny, South Manchuria, are actually
receiving much lower wages than their
brethren in the same occupations in
Japan. Furthermore, in Japan wages
and living cost keep pace with each
other fairly closely. The Osaka De-
partment Of Industries has recently
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16

though she sold less in this country
than she bought here.
1t is not true under the law of ex-
change or any other economic law that
the exports Of any country TO another
must be equal to or approximate the
imports from that other country. Be
fore the war, am told, two-thirds Of
our imports were from countries that
are not our debtors, although our ex-
ports were heavy then to those debtor
nations. Our imports from South Amer
ica and the Far East before The war e1-
ceeded our Imports to these countries,
and we we're making heavy exports. AS
an authority Oh eaonomics has said:
The balance CT t-ade between any
pair Of countries is rarely such as to
bring about an equalization Of their
exports and imports. 1t is in the
grand total OF 4 country's transac-
lions that we find the equalization of
imports and exports. or rather the
equalization Of all o. country's in
ttInlelo!-al deoOS ana cIeNltSs ana IL
is broad equalization which serves to
bring about settlement without the
fow OF specie"
All this talk, therefore, about the ne
cessity Of our furnishing market here
for these debtor nations In order to en-
able us to sell our products to them I
believe represents economic nonsense.
J. f. ZOLLER.
New York. Oct. 1a. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16

shown that, taking 1914 as the base
year, wages up to 1920 increased 1853
per cent; wholesale prices, ITO per cent.
In China the Chinese Ministry of Agri-
culture and Commerce has found for
the spending period that wholesale
prices in Shanghai. for example. In
creased 140 per cent, whereas the in
crease in wages hardly exceeded 80 per
cent
The big gap between the rate of in
crease in wages and in wholesale prices
has caused serious maladjustnaents In
the Chinese population, and has vitally
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
An Insufficient Reason


Senator France, of Maryland, con-
clude. that Lenine and Trotzky are
gentlemen Of good intentions, and
therefore are highly to be commended
as government executives.
The system put into effect by these
benevolent gentlemen has ruined Rus
sia, prostrated her industries, destroyed
her transportation, and so discouraged
agriculture as to convert a scarcity
into q famine that threatens the lives
Of millions OF persons. All this dis
tress Is the result Of their attempt to
spply theories that the whole expert
ence Of mankind has shown to be un-
workable.
An amtable ass might set Off a maga-
zine Of high explosives and kill thou
sand persons. on the theory that the
explosion would clear the air His
amiability would hardly be justification
for permitting him to keep on repeat
ing the experiment.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Employer Answers I Housemaid
Questions Statements as to Working Hours and Wages
Where Are $40 to $50 Month Maids?

monty asked for greenhorns as we'll as
Inexperienced girls"
Again: "a bright girl usually lands
a job at $40. After she is there q
month her employer wants to reduce
the maids wages for the coming month,
and if the servant does not agree to it
she can go. The servant usually goes,
only to find the same hardship at the
next place" AS our French friends
say, this is to die Of laughter. I have
kept from three to six maids for the
past thirty-six years; I have q large
circle Of friends living more or less
as I do. never once heard Of an EN-.
plover suggesting reducing wages. but
could give hundreds Of cases where
wages were raised, often without any
request from the employee.
How does "Mss H" account for the
fact that in the early sos an ex-
cellcnt laundress got SIS a month, a
high class waitress $40 and an excellent
cook s25? Now the same work (no,
much less of it) receives $50 to $40,
so to $50, $50 to 500. As for priv
iIeges. comforts, recreation, there is
generous provision made in most
households, and no maid need stay
where she does not have them, for
these are wellnigh universal nova
days.
can only infer that Miss H is as
incorrect about the Middle West as
about the East. II the $5 a week state
ment were true, New York would soon
be flooded with applicants for SIS to
$50 & week positions, and the Middle
West would do its own work.
1t is not question of servant and
mistress, 1t is a modern phase Of
intense dislike for housekeeping, or
domestic work. or whatever you choose
to call it. 1t accounts for the thou
sands Of small Notwithstanding apart
ments, the cheap boarding houses, the
small, cheap (often good) restaurants,
and alasi for the small families Of the
present day. L. O. +.
New York. Oct. 1a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Busy Ru1nania
Chile and Nitrate
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems time for al employer
Of many years to come forward and
nrblicly deny the gross misstatements
made by "Housemaid Miss H" Butler
John Smith and others Of their kind.
In tire Tribune Of October Miss
H."s former housemaid, makes asser-
.ions so amazing and SO inexac. that
are wonders at her being brave enough
70 rut them down in black and white.
70 start with she says: TN the homes
Of well-to-do doctors and lawyers I
found ths working hours to be sixteen
hours day, with the exception of
Sunday. which was eight hours" I
have known scores. might almost say
hundreds of doctors and lawyers
homes ard not a single one where
sny such hours were expected or given.
Miss H" had only to leave her SIX
teen-houE-a-day place and find plenty
Of good homes with easy hours and
pleasant surroundings il she was COM
petent and faithful.
As for neft-overs" q. food, in every
house where the type OF maid called
housemaid (Which implies upstairs
work only is kept there ia separate
kitchen table always before the family
meals. and I myself always eat the
"left-overs" from the kitchen dinner at
midday.
Take the next paragraph, "Ask any
good girl f her lie wasn't bore to
her while engaged as housemaid."
No occupation IS "a bore" which is
done intelligently, thoroughly and
faithfully. These very qualities make
i. interesting. Perhaps Miss H" does
not possess them.
Next: The employment agencies
offer positions at $40 to $50 month
to experienced girls" Where, oh, where
are these ofices7 VIII Miss H send
their addresses? It is wellknown
fact these days that $50 to $50 is com
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16

affected Japanese IN China. Generally
speaking Japanese colonization in China
to-day is not an economic succe j.
There appear no great inducements for
further influx Of Japanese emigrar -
in any large numbers.
I am thus led to surmise that tea
population argument, like many ara IL
ments advanced at the Paris confor-
ence, IS designed to cast "smo 80
screen" behind which Japanese dip o.
mats viii play the real drama Of L a;
Nippon IA CHEN.
WASHINGTON. D c. Oct. Il. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
The Lucky Victorians
Did They Guess That the Good Time
Was Coming to an End?
(Fro1s Tho London Poss)

We see that Sherlock Holmes has
been welcomed back to the stage az
Victorian. Whether or not he ia en-
titled to that distinction is a matter
OF some doubt, but at any rate he
brings back to most Of us a period
which was very different from our own.
indeed, the great man had many quail
tiles characteristic Of the Victorian
era-an honest pride In himself and
his work and a happy freedom from
those qualms and doubts which worry
and entrap out generation To the i'm
mortal Sherlock a criminal was q Grim
nal; even the fatuous Watson. if we
remember. never suggested that he was
anything else. The criminal was an
enemy of society, and was therefore
fair game. The new psychology had
not invaded Baker Street in those tran
quill days. Tranquility indeed is to
many Of US the mark Of the Victorian
era. Its children had their doubts, but
tnose doubts were so presentable, and
the background OF orthodoxy 20 solid,
that they caused little more commo-
ton than the kissing Of tea urn.
They hnd their troubles, their wars,
their social problems, but we who know
OF Ypres and Moscow, and the dismal
succession Of strikes and unemployed
PROFESSIONS, smile at them as we smile
at the adventures OF CULVER. Only
yesterday we rather despised the Vic
torians; particularly for some reason
or other the MidVictorians; now we
rather envy them. We think them
rather lucky. Did they think them
selves lucky? Did they guess, those
shrewd people who were ever so much
more Intelligent than their surround
ings and principles would lead the
moderns to expect that the good time
was coming 70 an end, and that in
place Of comfort was to come travail.
and in place Of peace varied by little
wars world conhagration? At any
rate, they escaped, and II we do not
grudgc them their luck we can timidly
suggest that If our failtngs are many
Moreover, instead Of disparasing we
are beginning to appreciate the Vic
torians. Readers Of Mr.. Strachey's
entertaining volumes cannot get away
from the fact that the persons with
whom he deals we're big persons. They
not only believed in themselves, but
they made their contemporaries and
their successors believe also. To them
man was something more than an atom
General Gordon, Florence Nightingale,
Cardinal Manning and DR.. Arnold never
felt themselves in need of publicity
agent. Like the hills, they proclaimed
themselves. Their belief in man no
more wavered than their belief in
God. That was bracing influence,
and our own generation could do with
q little more of it. It would be &
great pity 4 after having come through
SO much we should waver at the dif-
fculties which still hang over the way,
and, in the half comic despair which
is SO prevalent nowadays, confess that
we are but the sport Of blind forces
To counteract such a fatalism there
are many fine remedies in the phar-
macop1ia Of the Nic-orians, and dur
ing our dusty journey We con find
healing waters and bounteous noursh-
ment in the great literature which they
have bequeathed to US.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
JIn,,nionized

From The Chicago Daily Ne.Cs}
Living in the style to which they
arc accustomed is an impossible prob
lem for the unemployed former kings,
iaasmuch as their pensions are SMALL
and their union has no funds
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Masferlv Inactivity

From TIE Syracuse post-StquGurd
Mayor Hylan opposes the Miller trac-
ton program because It IS program.
His slogan is: "Do nothing"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16

New York. Oct. Il, 1921.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-15
OUR DAILY STORY
MORAL: RETIRE YOUNG.

Ali his life Random Shots had beta
a slave to business. up with the lart &.
to bed with the headache. He breathei
figures. ate discounts and slept price
lists. But for years he had dreamed
Of tho time when he would retire and
devote the rest OF his days TO luxurious
idicn"ss and l"nS neglected read!nS
And now NJ last We find him on the eve
Of realizing his dream, for he had
aIHasSed 4 million dollars and some odd
cents
Good BY forever Office he cried,
happily. as ne turned the keys over TO
his junior partner AT last | can lie
in bed q mornings. 1T last | can draw
my cigar up TO the lamp and read
Shakespeare, Eleanor Glyn. Dante. Ma
RE Curclli"
And the next morning nwakirg IS
usual Ut $50, he tried 10 chase the H.
,ISrS out Of his thoughts and 30 bliss
fuzzy back t. sleep. but ne couldn't bliss
TO saw. his neck. So he got up. almost
worked himself into brain fever trying
breakfast, and then sat down with the
morning paper ana copy OF Hamlet.
But ten minutes later, his nerves buzz
lnE inSiStHntly with the desire for a.
ton. he !ciprd UP and went about the
house rearranS!nG all the pictures,
which had Just been rcarr2nEed the day
l., i"rc. After that he spent an hour
sorting his cigars according 10 size anc
then another hour r"sortinS them ac-
about the house rcarrang!ng all the pic
lures again.
by that tim" il was noon, and, with
out waiting fer lunch. Random Shots
hnstencd fcverishly back to the office
Copyright by George Matthew Adams.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-15
M'BRIDE'S IMMIGRATION
PLAN

The plan TO regulate and distribute
immigration. presented 10 the senate
Immigration committee by Harry \.
Mcbride OF the stat cdcpartmenc IS very
similar TO that contained IN the STIR
llng bill now before IN. house COIN
mit:ee Both prov de Tor Il board to
have general control OF immigration.
and for agents OF this rovcrnmcr, u
be stationed in foreign lands to select
immigrants before they leave home.
Distribution IN the United States 70
points where needed is another feature
Of both.
To carry out this system II would BE-
necessary TO establish 4 method Of in
ternal cooperation through which &C
curate information would DO furnished
to the immigration board OF the needs
OF each community. II would also be
necessary 10 have some plan tina, would
make II rea sonably certain that :lnm!-
grants would stay whore placed. Other
wise they would quickly join IN the
general drift TO the cities. The distri-
button plan, however. would at lea 81
nrevent the congestion IN the big east
ern cities which is now SO marked and
q LARGO number Of the newcomers would
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-15
RIPPING RHYMES
By WALT MASON.
THE KNOWING ONE

II | had john Il! Mi,t"u's harp,
an ode about thu sharp who truly
knows his traIc. he it the bon!ug Of
q carr. ~ :..iEG of - spade. Nine
V, .kIacn tried to liz my has, which
Lad been hitting wrong; for days J
>uw them with II fuss. tn" while their
h.I grew long. and could only weep
AVID cusS. when scheduled Tor song.
'Ta,y he'd an inquest al my art,
fa;,. was Of little use: they took tt"
motor all apart, and PRED ~" crank
shaft Loose. to lind "Ut why jhin%S
wouldn't start when th"y applied ,the
juice. And when their greasy toll
was done. the hoal Was just the
same: me whatyouCalNt wouldn't run.
IT." th!nSumhob was lame: and Il
lid taken all my ron {" pay them
tn- their game. The might have
rIadr good auctonrers, or co-oncrs.
or clerks: lu"ymiBnt nave won Out
.riiME steers. or preach .nG ii the
I.:~.s: hat they were lemons. il APP
gears. among = motors WORKS. And
,,..n came workman Number Ten.
wien these line Jay w"rc gone;
$50. on" OF natures nohic:n"r came
sfi'?.nw Up tie lawn b" cane 80
earn N honest yc:. and did. :" help
ne. Jni". u" MaS = man rf Pep and
sense. a workman skilled was H.. and
- - hnnr n" haniSh"I thence the
grief that S3".i"d ny c'c". and my Old
rar would Jump fierce or Climb a
h;,myau tree.
Copyright by George Matthew Adams.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-15
AN ASTONISHING COM
PLANT

Lord Mayor O'CauaShaa OF Cork
complains that the newspapers Of
America are controlled BY the British
and that outrages in ireland have re-
ceived little publicity. In view of the
fact that everything which mas hap
pened In Ireland has been given wide
publicity in every newspaper IN the
country, usually at considerable length
and with large headlines on the front
page, this assertion causes a gasp OF
establishment. IL suggests that O'Cal-
faghan Is either ignorant OF the facts
or that he is = rant.ng fanatic.
So far as the British controlled"
charge Is concerned, it would be an easy
matter for OCallashan TO ascertain thai
a great majority of American news
papers have expressed sympathy for
Ireland in their editorial columns. So
much sentiment for Ireland has been
shown IN this country in various ways
that Great Britain has made an Official
protest 10 our state department. What
Mr.. OCallaghan probably means is that
American newspapers are not advocat-
ing Intervention By the United States
to bring about Irish independence.
He and his fellow extremists appar-
emily fail 20 realize that hostility be-
tween tho Cnited States and Great
Britain would be a very serious matter
for tho world. Ireland IS not now op-
pressed. She can have practically every
thing she wants except independence
and while tho United States would bo
glad 10 see her get that. too. this ma
ton cannot run the risk or 4 devastat-
Ing and unnatural war TO bring about
that result
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-15
ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE

; Just why Robert bridges wrs ar-
pointed poet laureate f En-.an,l whom
such u celebrity As Eudyard Kir,in1
vas available has always puzzled
Americans. Apparently the ,holre has
England either. rs Premier Lloyd
George was asked in the house Of COM
mons few days ago 10 Tire bridges
AMI appoint some verS.f-r with more
"pcp." HoratIo Bottomlcy introduced
The subject. and asked Lloyd George
whether Bridges had written any ;,r.'ry.
on the war. on the declaration Of peace
taph. Mr., Lloyd George replied that
Bridges had written some war poems.
but had not written on the other events
mentioned. bu; that Re did not consider
1t necessary 70 max" 4 change.
In justice TO Mr.. Bridges. 1t must Ua
admitted that the position of poe:
laureate is difficult one. Poetry writ
ten a. n specified time on specified
subject is never great. Usually it Is
StsH and mechanical. Poets DO thor
best when they write on subjects tha;
come 10 them spontaneously, and whirh
represent their real sentiments. Il would
Seem that the position OF poet laurvat"
should be largely emeritus. as a reward
for past accomplishments rather than
in expectation Of future work. On this
principle. I; is hard to see how Eng
land could have considered any poet
except kjpliug.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-15
LIQUOR AND THE MERCHANT
MARINE

- A special phase OF the prohibition
= question has developed in connection
- with our nations new merchant ma
rine- In hearing Thursday before
= the house judiciary committee. officials
y Of steamship companies declared that
they would be unable to compete with
4" foreign ships for passenger trade. un-
less they were permitted 10 serve liquor
beyond the three mile limit.
- It Is clear that tho sale Of liquor on
ocean steamers has some phases that
- do not enter into the question OF pro-
hibitlou within tho territorial limits OF
our own country. We cannot compel
- other nations to cease serving wines
= and liquors on their passenger ships.
nor can we compel anyone 70 ride on
our ships. II Is reasonable 10 SupPoS"
that foreigners accustomed to vine with
their meals will not care 70 cross the
ocean on prohibition ships. 1t Is also
probable that many Americans Will
prefer vessels on which they can get
alcoholic drinks. In fact. such ships
may have special appeal to residents
OF "dry" territory.
There will be some. on II" other hand.
VINO Will prefer ships without liquor.
and some who will cross on American
ships as a matter OF patriotism. On the
Whole. the vessels with the liquid re-
rreshmsu:s will probably be the more
popular. II we could offer other attcac-
tiuns 70 cpUu;"ract ;h!s IN" situation
would az, 30 Of any importance. The
great trouble - that IN" foreign cont
plnieS. with their lower costs OF con-
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We have ahead Of US a period OF
which We shall not only have to con-
pete With foreign manufacturers
within cur own border but will Of ne
cesstcy Aavo 10 compete with these
manufacturers IN all OF the markets OF
The world.
The obligation OF American business
10 Co-op"ratc with the government IN
making provisions 50 lhrt such COM
petition al home and abroad can hr con-
Quoted n the interests Of American III
duStry - an ahsolut" obligation whlcA
today We are not ComprlrAtly Milling
and which. unless "" de- assume K.
will load SOONER Of later INTO u COM
pet.tive condition which Will seriously
mar our industrial LIE.
Prior to the war, when corporation
between the government and American
business was n,cdCd-Sl CO-opCrNtiot
'aat should lead 10 Cush!"ninS the DIFF
tru., spots and 10 lifting American bus
mess up to better position. the whole
tread Of publ" Thought. both Official
ana among the people generally. WAS
that business needed nothing bat re-
S:rt;ni.
Il came - r." p"iu, just prior 10 thr
war when the restraints applied hccain"
So difficult that many Of oar good
friends were chatting - riouSIy and thor
seemed 70 o.. no p"SSihl" way IN which
relief could hr hruurht about b"caus" II
had To- turn the entire trend az public
sentiment and opinion away from tn"
method and tn" pro"rdUr" Of thu carrier
Years into = new channel & Thought.
Ef- a, II me-