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New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
Salute

The avoidance of public dinners,
10, these many years, has been with
us quite an exact science. There are
people who say we have achieved a
new art. But at long intervals we
read of "feast" in the next morn
ing's newspapers only to regret our
experience and wisdom. For in
stance, to-day we are wishing that
we had been inveigled into attending
the Washington dinner held on. Tues
day night last in celebration Of the
Lafayette-Marne anniversary. That
was a dinner!
Mr.. Samuel Gompers was among
the guests and, of course, among the
speakers. And, of course, the sub
ject assigned him was Labor" And,
as usual, he overlooked the differ
entiation between labor and labor
unionism. The dispatches say that
he did not repeat the assertion that
if it had not been for the labor unions
the Huns would have won the war.
But the president of the American
Federation of Labor must have come
within shooting distance of that
claim, for when he sat down one
John j. Pershing, late commander of
an organization known as the Amer
lean Expeditionary Forces, which
admittedly participated in the war,
stood up. And from that moment on
we should like to have been present.
sitting directly across the table, so as
not to have missed word of what
our old chief felt called upon to say:
'The policies of this Republic are
not determined by labor unions or by
any other organizations, but by the
consensus of opinion of it's patriotic
citizens of whatever affiliation."
Having established his range with
that direct hit, the General opened
fire for effect:
Il want to say that every American
is patriot, whether he belongs. to
some labor organization or is just an
ordinary citizen, and that it isn't a
question Of labor unions, it isn't Il
question Of any organization, it isn't
question of whether we belong to
some association or not.
at is a question of whether we are
loyal citizens of the United States, I
am here to say to you that the mem
bers of the labor unions weren't the
only ones who won the war. 1t was
the citizens who inherited their pa
triotism from their forefathers who
came across in the Mayfower and
helped determine and decide the indie
pendence of America rs we'll as those
who have adopted American institu-
tions as their own. 1t seems to be
about time for us to rise up and say
that America shall be ruled and gov
erned by American citizens and not
by organizations which have their own
selfish purposes to serve"
1t is not about time, as the Cen
eral puts it; it is time-time that the
leaders of the Republic set to the
propounding and the inculcation Of
those truths.
General Pershing, we salute you!
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

the desire Of his administration to
proceed step by step until the way is
sufficiently free of obstacles for rec
ognition without prejudice to It's dig
nifty and to the national honor. He
says:
"Our government Is as much preoc-
cuped with protection of the interests
of Americans in Mexico rs is the gov
ernment of the United States. 1t con-
siders such protection one of its most
imrerious obligations to that great
country, not only because Of material
bonds on account Of its neighborhood,
but also because of the moral ones,
greater yet, rising out of our sympathy
for its democratic institutions and the
high quality of Its people. Both gov
ernments, therefore, are in accord on
this purpose, and the Mexican govern
ment, with the object of cooperating
more efficiently in its realization---that
Is, desiring to take stand which will
strengthen the prestige of said govern
ment, and thus enable it best to fulfill
its obligations and at the same time
bring about closer future relations be-
tween the two countries-has preferred
to eliminate any chance of making
promises which might humiliate il
through the natural carrying out of it's
political and administrative plans"
President Obregon, after period
IF dubiety, once more impresses OBJ
servers as possessed of an ability to
hopes into facts.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

The. net operating income Of the
railroads for July so far reported
shows a gain of about $4,000, 900
over July 1920.
1t is expected that full returns for
the Class l carriers will show a July
return on tentative valuations Of
from Az to 5 per cent. A year ago
these roads were operated at deficit
of more than $11, 100000, paid out
Of the Federal Treasury.
The prospect for the carriers is
brighter although their gross in
come is steadily falling. tits a mis-
take, however, to assume that the
Improvement in net earnings was
due entirely to the wage decrease
which went into effect on July l last
A considerable part of it is attrib-
utable to sharp cuts in mainte-
nance, structural and repair work
Expenditure on these accounts was
simply deferred. 1t will have to be
charged up to operation later.
The July figures disclose clearly
what was the matter with the rail-
roads wnen they were turned back
to private operation. In July, 1920,
the operating gross was $51s, ,O00,-
600. This year it is only $454 ,00O,-
600. But year ago, when the rail
roads should have still been benefit
ing from the war expansion, the
wage bill alone was $503,000,000,
and goods and passengers were be-
ing carried at loss. This year the
wage bill is $14S,000,0o0 less, and
there is a moderate balance left in
the carriers treasures.
Tie economies forced on the roads
have had good deal to do with cur
rent unemployment. Tens of thou
sands of railway employees have
been discharged since last January,
and skimping on repairs, building
and the replacement of rolling stock
has pinched many of the industries
furnishing railroad materials. The
passage of the railroad funding bill
would permit the carriers to take
up deferred maintenance and to
order new cars and locomotives. It
would also allow them to enlarge
their working forces. By reviving
business in many lines it would help
materially to reduce unemployment.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
The Oil Settlement

One by one the obstacles tc
recognition of Mexico are being re.
moved. Article n, threatening
confscation of property, has been
interpreted not to be retroactive
Commissions to investigate the
claims of damages of foreigners are
to be named. Plans for the resump.
tion Of payment on the Mexican for.
eign loans are being made.
And now another problem that
promised many difficulties has ap-
parently been solved by direct nego-
tiation between the American
petroleum companies and the Obre-
gon government. Production and
export of Oil will be resumed, and
Mexico will refrain from acts of re.
taliation and discrimination.
In his message to the Mexican SEN
ate President Obrkgon emphasizes
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

but also ignored her agreement With
Bolivia. The latter country entered
into secret negotiations with the Ar
gentine, which led to further COM
plications. Finally a treaty was
made in 1905 through which Chile
agreed to build railroad to La Paz,
the capital of Bolivia, and to give
Bolivia free transit to specified coast
towns Of Chile.
To-day neither Peru nor Bolivia
is satisfied, and both want africa.
There have been charges and
counter charges, and Chile has been
accused Of melting hostility between
Peru and Bolivia. The complica-
tions seem to be endless. Wherefore
the league, suspecting that the nj
trates of Tacna and africa have be-
come explosive, has marked the ques-
tion Handle with care"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
America 8 Tardy War Entry

Sir: In recent issue of "The Con-
gregationalist and Advance the editor
claims that Ambassador Harvey delib-
erately aspersed Che motives Of thou
sands of Americans who spranr to
arms in 1s17." 1t is fair 70 inquire. il
the motive Of American soldiers was
other than, as the aforesaid editor
states, simply to conquer brutal
foe" why should they have waited un-
til the forces which were struggling to
conquer said brutal foe were very near
exhaustion?
After the sinking of the Lusitania,
through which a large nomber Of
Americans net their death, not to men
ton the invasion of Belgium in the
year previous, there were thousands Of
Americans who but needed that the
government should declare war against
Germany to have caused them to spring
to arms. Every thinking man welt
knows that it devolved upon this conn
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ism, preceded by ponderous indica-
tions Of amorous benignity.

'SHl, preceueo py ponder0uS lndlca
tions Of amorous benignity.
*, 4: *
The sheer mass and weight of Mr.
Waddington's egoism prevent him
from realizing that he is not the only
man among the women. The world is
his respectable harem, he thinks.
When Mrs. Levitt, plump and acquis-
itive widow, arrives in his life, there
fore, he is ripe grapes. She plucks
him for money and such comforts as
the neighborhood affords, and when
he tries to kiss her, as salute pre-
liminary to putting her in London
fiat, ne is surprised that she resists
him. "You silly old cuckoo" she says,
you don't know how ridiculous you
are! You old imbecile!" Mr.. Wadding-
ton is but little abashed. He thinks
that the failure IS Mrs Levitt's, not
his, and that she is simply cold.
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Later he imagines that Barbara, his
wife's companion. and his own secre-
tary. is in love with him, despite the
romantic propinquity of Ralph, who is
young, freckled, muscular, with curly
hair. dappled eyes, lips neither too
thick nor too thin, merry laugh and
an engaging frankness. Mr.. Wadding-
ton decides, superbly, to elope with her
to the Riviera. Listen, Barbara" he
says, in tone of forced, unnatural
calm. "It's life and death. I know
your secret and I shall repay you for
your love for me-" "How can you be
such perfect pig?" answers Barbara,
disgustedly, pushing his big mustache
away from her face, You're as mad as
halter. I'm going to marry Ralph. !"
Mr.. Waddington looks at her with com
passion. poor child!" he says, $50
that's what I've driven you tot"
Barbara is a nice, wise girl. When
she sees Mr.. Waddington's loud, ma
genta, forked-lightning silken paiamas,
purchased by him to forestall senilitv.
she says to Mrs. Waddingson: "Good
God, Fanny! It's lucky he didn't. get
them eighteen years ago, or your boy
would have been born an idio. :" Fanny
Waddington, Horatio's patiently amused
wife, is one of the multitude of
women of whom it is always said:
"How in heavens name did she ever
marry that ass ?"-she is 80 sophisti-
Gated, So smart, 30 good-iooking. and
with srch twinkling sense of humor.
Miss Sinclair endeavors to explain
Fanny's compassionate attitude toward
her affliction, but the best she can do
is to suggest that Fanny found COM
Portable happiness in making fun Of
the old fool. and in a woman's realiza-
ton OF how far she surpasses her man
in every human way.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
Books Percy b. asn,,...

Mr.. Waddington, Of whom Miss Ma.
Sinclair writes in "Mr. Waddington o
Wyck," is an egregious old ass opera
ting his solemn self -satisfactions in ans
about the Manor House, a picturesque
country seat in the Cotswolds. He is
in Miss Sinclair's quizzical account o1
him, the windy outline Of an English
gentleman, with no sense of humor,
large circumference inclosing naught;
an imposing periphery, facade. In
western words, you open his from,
door and you. md yourself in his
back yard; or, as Miss Sinclair might
say, his kitchen garden. He is study
in stuffed shirts, to employ linge
less obscure; or, as Miss Sinclair agair
would say, study. in the egoism OF
the elderly male.
Horatio is Mr.. Waddington's given
name, though one says it who should
not. He is upward Of fifty; he is vast
and handsome, d great expanse of the
routine and traditional elegances OF
his class. His complaisances are OF
coarser fabric than those of Mr.
Meredith's Sir Willoughby, if faulty
memory does not err in recollection
of that fastidious Imam. He is, to his
simple self, among the most admirable
of his species, perpetual panorama
of mankind's worthier Weaknesses and
strengths. If pretty lady looks at
him with an auspicious female eye
he feels genuine sympathy for her
saying to himself "poor little woman
| won't be too hard on her!"
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Therefore, "Mr. Waddington of
Wyck" is NO volume to be perused
comfortably by ford old chaps, who,
retaining all the confidence and some
of the vigors of youth, decline to real
ize that age is regret, not frolic.
Still, Mr.. Waddington's experiences
may, as a helpful handbook, have o
salibrious influence on the conduct o1
those elderly readers who resemble
him. His genial fatuities are ex-
pressed, perhaps, as theirs are, in an
incredible consciousness Of himself, a
passion for noble, though not extrava-
CANT, gestures and attitudes. He casts
himself in various pleasing roles
now as grave and dignifed British
patriot, anathematizing the Bolsheviki,
and again, as discreetly adventurous
hover, fervently explaining to his
pretty amanuensis that his wife does
not understand him. He likes to think
of himself as climbing rope ladder
to his lady's chamber, mandolin at
hand and in scarlet tights. In those
moments. Miss Sinclair says, his
solemn face SINNERS with excited ego-
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
General Woods Assistant

Colonel Frank Mccoy, who has
been selected to be Vice-Governos
Of the Philippines. served in the
Moro campaign in Mindanao and
Jolo and was secretary and later
engineer of the Moro Province. He
was on General Woods staff in the
Philippines in 1908 and 1904 and
was aide-de-camp to President
Roosevelt and to Mr.. Taft when he
was Secretary Of War.
In the World War he was made
. brigadier general and became d.
rector general Of transportation in
the A. e. f., and was member of
the special mission to Armenia.
ColonG Mccoy is now in the Philip
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

try to have immediately prepared for
war and to have entered into the con-
1ict as soon as practicable. Every
thinking man we'll knows that it would
have been far better to have done so
than to have delayed for about two
years before going to the assistance Of
the nations which were fast reaching
the point of exhaustion.
In recent address Major General
Charles P. Summerall stated that II
was more than year after war wax
declared before an entire division 6f
American troops could be transported
and trained sufficiently to assume the
offensive in the Great War.
L. c. BREED.
Boston, Mass, Sept. !, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

pines with General Wood. His inti-
mate knowledge Of Philippine condi-
tions, his broad experience with ad-
ministration affairs and his close
relation to General Wood fit him
peculiarly we'll to be Vice. Governor
Of the islands. With General Wood
as Governor and Colonel Mccoy as
Vice-Governor the Philippines will
be in able and sympathetic hands.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
The Same Old Issue
Protectionist Stirred by New Mani
festations of Free Trade Folly

oy ANSW NAoiIH
testatlons of Free Trade Folly
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is rather strange that the
free trade advocates insist upon disre.
garding economic conditions. Thev an.
parently take no cognizance of what i.
gcing on in the world in the adyocac,
of their pet idea, which has worked
havoc every time it has been tried in
this country.
The Wilson tariff bill bank.
ruptcd thousands and closed American
factories by the score. Over 600 o0C
working people were jobless. Scum.
houses and bread lines were the order
OF the day. The free traders, however
do not seem to have comprehended the
bitter lesson. Now they are at it again
spreading the gospel of "throwing down
the bars" and allowing the products of
all the world to flood the United
States in competition with American
industries and labor. Newspapers like
The Times" "The World" and others
are again hammering the American peo-
PIE and are endeavoring to drive home
to them a long exploded fallacy which
would again mean bankruptcy.
NO sane man will dispute the fact
that the labor costs in this country are
from 30 to 500 per cent higher than in
any other country on the face of the
globe. Moreover rents, raw materials,
overhead charges and living expenses
are far i'll excess of those of every
other country. Consequently American
products cost that much more and cam
not be sold successfully in competition
with Japan, Germany-in fact, with any
other foreign country.
Any schoolboy can figure it out that
1t competitor can supply an nrticle
Tor less than it costs the American to
produce it the American producer and
his working people will be driven out
OF business unless they are protected
by leveling tariff. Only day or two
since the representatives of the Fed
eration of Labor. in session at Atlantic
City, strongly advocated the mainte-
nance Of the present rates for labor.
The free trade papers, however, are
ignoring that fact and continue to harp
upon "free interchange Of products"
with foreign countries.
Our economic conditions, living con-
ditaons and social conditions differ 30
vastly from the conditions which pre.
vail in foreign countries that it is i'm
possible for us to compete successfully
with the foreign producers unless we
get down to their lower and cheaper
level or they rise to our higher level
However, would it be wise for ia to
retrogress and destroy the good work
dcne by past generations? When the
free trader will get that through his
cranium he will realize the folly Of his
doctrine, which proved destructive and
utterly worthless in the past.
JOSEPH RoCKHILL.
Brooklyn, Sept. /. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
Quick, Which Half?

Oh F. F. ", yoa quite suit me,
At least for half column.
But take a tip from F. P. A.
Your last line is too solemn.
LOUISE.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

fFrons The Toledo BlaasJ
Why should the disarmament confer
ence be open to the public? There
isn't going to kp fight.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
But There's Always Hizzoner in
Politics

Sir: This week I have consulted the
woman in politics, ths clergyman in
politics and the reformer in politics.
and don't think they're any different
from the politician in politics.
c. A. w.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
THEM WAS THE DAYS
Chanteys

~ Chanteys
Dear Sir: One of the early jingles
which l remember as great aid to
rcliteness runs as follows:
Beg your pardon:
Grant your grace.
Hope the cat
Will scratch your face.
This was repeated by the children
in the Green Mountains, with great
glee, fifteen or twenty years ago.
SERGEANT.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

And Preface" as we remember it,
always stood for "Peter Riley Eats
Fish and Catches Eels," while "Con-
tents" was decoded in our grammar
school days thus: "Chinese Ought Not
to Eat Nuts Till September"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

Sometimes, when we're embarrassed.
we can't think Of arg. F.F.y
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
The Coming I ower
COULD lT HAVE. BEEN?

COULD IT HAVE. BEEN?
Could 1t have been dreamed?
| only know that by my bed it
seemed
Isaw you for single moment stand,
Your old dear self. felt you take
my hand
And, somehow, knew you were about
to speak.
You bent your head end kissed me
on the cheek.
/ cried your name and raised my
arms to find
Only tho curtain, blowing in the
wind.
;. Could it have beenI dreamed?
Above the roofs, the drifting night
hawk screamed;
A clock struck thrice and down the
western sky
I saw the moon, sentry tramping
by
The watchfres where the worlds lay,
all asleep.
Along the road | heard the night
wind creep.
Where you had stood pool Of MOON
light cleaned
Could it have been I dreamed?
"This here Sim Fein," says Uncle
Abimelech Bogardus, Of Preakness. N.
j., "seems ready to resist peace to the
last man"
Each nation in the league appears
willing to cooperate in bringing peace
to the world, just as long as the or
eanization leaves each nations own par
ticular problem alone.
Unanimously Acclaimed the Peer Of
Fictures," announces a movie adver-
tisement, which imprcsses T. II. r. as
warrantng place in the Honesty in
Advertising Hall of Fame.
Now that the movie makers have
departed from the osculatory finale in
feature films, we continue to hope that
a patient Creator will let us live un-
til some director discovers what a
newspaper office really looks like.
And then, if it isn't asking too much,
we'd like, before senility steals our
sight, to see a film in which collegians
on a campus behaved like collcgians
en- a campus.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08
Before the Storm

The wind has lashed the silent bay
Until it writhes in pain:
Its foam-tipped waters dashing high,
Like fingers that have reached the sky
Have touched white clouds that sail
away
Along the sullen depths Of gray;
And where the reed-fringcd sand banks
lie
The silver-feathered sea gulls fly;
They beat their wings in vain.
And we are solemn, you and I. 4A
Tomorrow it will rain!
VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

The real estate section pictures Of
the houses one may buy, "terms like
rent" almost reconcile us to the things
our landlord contemplates doing to US
next year.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

Sir: The grammar school jingles of
the "good old days" kept up with the
procession until I finished school, which
was not SO many moons ago, and have
a generous supply on hand. Why is
II that can just about recall the OPEN
ing lines of Virgil's Eneid but can
very readily recount the following:
If this book should chance to roam
Give it a kick and send it home.
NELLY R. l. P.
Dear F. F. ": In the dear old '80s,
in dear old Boston at the dear old
Lewis School, we dear young kids used
to chant this bleat sotto voce when
cur dear old principal, who had nerv
Gus eye trouble, hove on the horizon:
An eagle flew from north to south
With Blinky Hoozis in his mouth,
And when he'd found he'd such q fool
He let him drop at the Lewis School
F. r.
Dear +. f. ": Did you ever chant
the following? l did, and they're still
doing it:
pity the river,
I pity the brook;
pity the one
Who steals this book!
The one who steals this book of Knowledge
Will. be graduate of Sing Sing College.
BETTY.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

Each nation in the league appears
willing to cooperate in bringing peace
to the world, just as long as the or
eanization leaves each nations own par
ticular problem alone.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

Unanimously Acclaimed the Peer of
Pictures" announces movie adver-
tisement, which imprcsses T. H. T. as
warranting place in the Honesty in
Advertising Hall of Fame.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

"This here Sim Fein," says Uncle
Abimelech Bogardus, of Preakness, N.
J, "seems ready to resist peace to the
last man"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

And then, if it isn't asking too much,
we'd like, before senility steals our
sight, to see film in which collegians
on a campus behaved like collcgians
en- a campus.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-08

Now that the movie makers have
departed from the osculatory finale in
feature films, we continue to hope that
a patient Creator will let us live un-
til some director discovers what 9
newspaper Office really looks like.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-02
CARUSO PICTURES
 AT PARK THEATRE

Saturday and Sunday. F. J. Cara mama, for years private secretary to the immortal Enrico Caruso, will present at the Park theatre the only authentic and official moving pictures of the great song birds life and death.
 This will be the first showing of these wonderful pictures in America. and Bridgeport has the distinction of being the first city in the United States to obtain them.
 They are now being shown in all the large cities throughout Italy, where they are being acclaimed as the greatest biography that can possibly be written of Caruso's life.
 The pictures begin by showing the theatre where he made His debut in Naples singing ''Cavalleria Rusti- cana" his first engagement at the York, when he set the whole country afire with the voice such as had never been heard before, and probably will never be equa1led again.
 Intimate scenes of his home life surrounded by his almost equally fa- nous fellow artists, among whom are