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New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
The Wells recipe: If you wish to
avoid Russia's fate, initiate her.
The Unemployable Residuum
A Social Liability for Which Provi-
sion Must Be Made

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We are all so busy these davs
trying to secure jobs for the urem-
ployed that we are paying little or no
attention to the problem of the unem-
pioyable residuum, which, like .he
poor, is always with US and which is
especially troublesome in a time o.
acute unemployment like the present.
For these pitiful, pathetic and tragic
uncmployables are the very ones who
try to monopolize most of our attcn-
tion, 50 that we have almost no time
to help the employable man or woman
to secure employment.
THIS problem of the uncomfortable
residuum has greatly troubled me in
my work as chaplain of the Strangers
Welfare Fellowship, and other well
fare workers tell me that their ex-
perience is the same. A certain per
centage of workers is out of work
because they have passed the age
limit, or they are unable to hold a lob
because of a dsagreeable personality,
or they are just inefficient; there are
many reasons why men drift into the
unemployable class.
Well, one of these unemployables
comes to you if you are a welfare
worker. You size him up at once; but
you are sorry for him-maybe he has
q family in dire need. And so you
send him to a business man you know,
with as strong weak recommenda-
tion as you can make after a fight with
your conscience; and you hope and
pray for the best. What happens ?
Your business friend declines to en-
ploy him and will probably decide to
ignore your recommendations here
after.
For myself | don't recommend un.
employables any more; but what is to
be done with them? They are here
with US, a social liability for which
our civilization must finally make pro
vision. 1t is right that in the present
extraordinary labor crisis we should
all bend every effort to secure employ
ment for the great army of employable
men and women. But when we have
done that there still remains this
tragic problem Of the unemployabls
residuum. Some day we will have tt
face it, and l think the sooner the bet
ter. JAMES B. WATSON.
New York, Nov. 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Emancipating China

The Washington conference is
moving steadily in the direction of
an emancipated China. After
granting "in principle" a renuncia-
ton of extraterritoFial privileges it
has decided to allow her to manage
her own postal system. Japan
maintains 124 postoffices in China,
most of them in Manchuria. France
has thirteen postotiices, Great
Britain twelve and the United
States one. Their presence on Chi
nese soil IS an irksome though
minor incident of the status Of
tutelage which outside peoples have
imposed on the Chinese.
1t is a small matter to abolish for
eign postal administration Only
the Chinese sense Of nationality is
offended by it. The postal revenue
affected is small. But in parallel
field-control of customs foreign
domination .undermines the repub-
lies financial independence as we'll
as its administrative integrity
China is obliged by treaties to levy
per cent duty on imports, and
the rate cannot be increased without
the consent of each of the treaty
powers. The Chinese central gov
ernment is thus deprived of con-
venient and fruitful source Of rev.
enue. It's control over the prov
inces is limited. 1t has subsisted for
some time past largely on foreign
loans and the proceeds of sales of
leases and concessions.
These leases and concessions have
been the means through which for
eign political penetration has been
accomplished. One form of de-
pendence has generated another
form. The conference has now un-
der consideration a proposal to al
low China to raise the tariff rate
from S per cent to IL per cent and,
after certain period, to restore to
China control Of her own customs
system.
China's wardship and helplessness
lie at the root of the troubled Far
Eastern situation. She has been
bound tight by nations which have
profited by her passivity. Now those
who bound her see that it is to thei1
interest to free her. They have be
gun to cut the bonds.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Cuba and the Fordney Bill

The sugar duties of the Fordney
tariff bill are condemned as exces-
sive by the American Committee on
Cuban Emergency. The present spe-
cific duty on sugar is 1886 cents
pound. Cuba is entitled under the
reciprocity treaty to 20 per cent
discount, making the present duty
1.0o48 cents. The Fordney bill in
creases the duty to 2 cents a pound
equivalent to 1.60 cents on the
Cuban product.
This is higher rate than was i'm
posed in the Mckinley, Dingley or
Payne-Aldrich law, and there is no
claim that sugar has increased ma
terially in price, for the price Of
Cuban raw sugar is lower now than
it was before the war.
Americans who are interested in
Cuba's prosperity point to the fact
that our imports from the island in
1920 were valued at $720,000,000
and our exports to it were valued at
$515, 100000. There is also an Amer
lean investment of 81 1,000,00O,O00 in
Cuba. The republic is under our polit-
ical protection, has special treaty re-
lations with US, and for it's size is
one of our best customers. The
Fordney bill doesn't disturb the 20
per cent differential, but it's very
high rate on sugar at present prices
is an additional Encouragement to
the people Of Cuba, now in the grip
of violent reaction from wartime
prosperity.
What is the necessity of so large
an increase Of sugar duties? The
Fordney bill was drawn, in general,
under misapprehension of our
present economic relations with the
rest of the world. The Senate
Finance Committee will have to re-
write it in the light of more up-to-
date knowledge. A rational tariff
doesn't exclude exports for the sake
Of excluding them, 1t tries to strike
just balance between the needs OF
the home producer and the benefits
of foreign trade.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Commuters Really New Workers.

10 Cne Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Many reasons have been given
for the apparently determined willing
ness of the citizens of New York to be
misgoverned rather than we'll gov
erned. To some of the suburbanites
one reason is very apparent which so
lar has hardly been mentioned. It is
that so many who are really New
Workers have no voice in the govern
ment of the city.
Visit the New Jersey ferries during
the rush hours" You will see thou
sands who cannot vote in New York.
though they go there for business, for
study, for shopping and amusements
and for many other reasons. They are
really New Workers, and they all read
the New York papers.
How many people doing business in
New York and having their real in
terests there go out every night on the
New York Central, the Harlem. the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
and the Pennsylvania roads far beyond
the city limits itwould be hard to esti-
mate.
Watch these throngs of commuters.
You will find them for the greater part
intelligent, Industrious, thinking men
and women, altogether reliable citizens
OF whom any country might justly be
proud. They may live In Bronxville or
Garden City, or Morristown or Eliza
beth, or any one of the hundreds of
other towns within committing dis
tance, but they are New Workers
though their home city can no Longer
give them proper accommodations fo,
themselves and their families.
Is there any way by which men and
women spending the greater part oi
their waking hours in New York could
have voice in the government OF the
city! 1t might change things a bit fo,
the better.
Chatham, N. j., Nov. %. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
The Eternal I7lapper

Disregarding other possible deter
rents, writer in "McCall's Maga
zine" blames the small number Of
marriages last June OH tho fapper.
1t is said men have found that the
fiapper does not make a good wife,
and so refuse to marry her. SO the
fapper, we are told, is passing, as
man, this writer contends, creates
woman in the image he prefers her
the mid-Victorian sort, the Gibson
girl, the flappcr. When he tires of
one style in girls he conjurcs up an
other.
This expression Of masculine con-
ceit is interesting, but a little incon-
sistcnt with the notion of the eter-
nalness of woman. If there is one
losing campaign man has fought it
has been the one to keep the female
of the species in the place to which
he has assigned her. If the flapper
fades away it is because of her own
Will, not that of another.
But the happer does not go. She
will always he with us in one guise
or another, for the fapper is youth,
irresponsible and uncertain - "a
young bird unable to rise says the
dictionary. And why should a lapper
worry about marriage? And as to
the happer's beau, the only one
whose opinion she regards, he likes
her the better the more she flaps.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

"a bugaboo invention. There are
entirely honest reasons for the
aversion to full reports Of around
the-table discussions, chief Of which
is that otherwise the public would
draw baseless differences and thus
in fact be deceived. Few are the
men who can rid themselves of q
species of shyness and something
stilted when on platform. Public
discourse can never be the same as
private, and this psychological fact
may not be profitably ignored. On
the other hand, not only is the pub
lie entitled to information, but un-
der some circumstances the inner
reaction that comes from comrul-
sion to make open disclosures and
to defend conclusions reached has
happy effects.
In this matter, as in many others,
q middle course is productive of the
best results. So far the Washing
ton conference has shown q happy
mixture, and the business is further
on because of the combination Of
publicity and its contrary. Those
who urge keeping the limelight IL
ways focused talk much nonsense.
The attack ON secret diplomacy has
been overemphatic. for seldom in re-
cent years have important matters
been kept from the public. Secret
treaties have not been secret-at
least, net for long.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Sanitarium Cases
(From The Toledo B!ade)

Portugal has suggested a novel and
possibly efficaeious method of dealing
with dethroned kings. This is by as
signing a sanitarium as the home of
former Emperor Charles of Austria
hungary, exiled to Madeira. The long
ing for power is an ailment. The de-
sare for power that all the world is de-
termined shall not be given is dis
ease. 1t should be treated as an affiic-
ton. Charles is at last in the right
place. He should have the company
of old Bill Hohenzol!ern and half a
handful of other gentlemen who have
been parted forever from their pomp
and circumstance and just cant be-
lieve it.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
R1o1c By

each member Of which is sworn to
make war on any one who disagrees
with him. This sanguinary coterie is
led by Lien Chang, Chinese occultist,
who possesses an agile hypodermic, one
jab of which puts ones neighbor
mysteriously beneath the sod. Our
journalist is their errand. His red. war
like endeavor TO bring the pen and
the sword into odious collusion dooms
him to death. But, before he can be
assassinated expertly by the hero, in
the interests of peace, he Is hit IA
tally by taxicab and Is removed
from the complexities of the terminus.
A careless unidentified chauffeur, thus,
is moro significant in Mr.. Snaith's
romance than any other Of his more
imposing characters. All of them ex-
cept the chauffeur are rather fabulous.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Christine Nilsson
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t was with great pleasure l
read your article on the late Christine
Nilsson and to know that the great
artist that she was had not been for
gotten by every one. I always look
back to the many of her great per-
formances had the pleasure of hearing
when she was under the management
of my father, the late Colonel J. H.
Mapleson.
She certainly was the greatest Mar
guerite. | am sending the cutting to
Count Casada de Miranda at Madrid.
ARTHUR MAPLESON.
New York, Nov. %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

"Caliban," "Potterism," "Erik Dorm"
"The Briary Bush" "The Brass Check"
and Success" do very we'll in their
small way to show US around the
journalistic catacombs. Their expedi-
tions, however, are but glimpses of the
scene compared to Mr.. j. C. Snaith's
survey of it, in "The Council of Seven"
Here are big, exclusive sights, dis
playing the Press in it's most obnoxious
postures, swinging the scaly horrors of
its tail in all directions. Like the
Devil, it is revealed as the author Of
everything within its spacious in
f1uence. from book reviews to Peace
Mr.. Snaith's excursion is made neither
in sorrow nor in anger, and malice is
not among his virtues. He exhibits
simply, and with quiet emphasis, the
nefarious career of Saul Hartz, editor
of the London "Planet" and the pro-
prietor and director of the universal
Press"-a career which may humiliate
and be an omen to every upright pupil
in the colleges of journalism.
i: x X
Mr.. Hartz, known to his stipendiaries
as "The Colossus" enters his sanctum
promptly at II a. M, for, as his biog-
raphers have said, punctuality is
cardinal fact in his amazing life. Mr..
Snaith calls our attention to his feline
movements as he cat-foots to his desk
and regards with languid interest
the mornings mail. He is quick, adroit
and rhythmic, and the purr of his gentle
voice has warmth of overtone that is
delicious to the ear of Helen Sholto,
his secretary, an American girl from
Richmond, Va. In his eyes, curiously
hooded like those of a bird of prey,
turks the faculty of seeing into the
future. Now and then, as he picks his
words with the fetid delicacy of
Baudelaire, you, can distinguish the
admonitory huskiness of rattler.
X X
Gage, one Of his editors, is sum
moned. "Must We" Gage inquiries, dis
sue an ultimatum to the Chinese gov
eminent to-night?" eyes" answers
the Colossus. "Give them forty-eight
hours to apologize or take the conse-
quences. AS | told the Prime Minister
yesterday, it all helps to keep the pot
simmering." Eartz can press button
of his DEVILS machine and wheat rises
five shillings bushcl in Europe; he
can press another and half continent
is removed from the comfy of ma
tions. In his sight this "meanest of
the planets is but grain of sand in
the tideway of eternity. "Let us 20 a
modest bear on National Mexican
thirds" he continues, "and give the pro
ceeds to His Nibs's fund.-" meaning a
charity sponsored by the Prince of
Wales. Even literature is not immune
to his septic attentions. care we to
review that book?" his editor asks, re-
ferring to a radical volume. "No," is
advertisements until further notice.;
and he orders publication of the work
to be stopped at once in New York.
AS you read Of these cosmic feats Of
Mr.. Hartz in London journalism yol
regard as intinitesimal the honest ges.
lures of American newspaper men
The Hearsts, the Ochses; the Munseys
the Swopes, the Curtises, the Amer
bergs ct cetera, to say nothing oi
those who inspire and direct this jour
nal, are but weakly ingenues in con
trast to Mr. Snatth's Colossus.
:: X I:
Perhaps it is just as we'll, for Mr.
snaith assemblies in "The Council
Seven determined band of pacifsts
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Our Commercial Aviation
lnsistence on Need of Aircraft Req.
lation, as In Europe,

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Regarding your editorial o. &
Americas Commercial Aviation" A.
is quite the proper thing to encourars
people with glowing reports d
Americas progress in aviation, but s.r
view Of the actual inactivity or apsts
commercial aviation 1t appears bet III.
consider the true conditions and TIM
to search out the causes and remediu
of our backwardness.
Is it not singular that we han
available only the first annual repos
covering the operations Of only on
company? In a country Of IN magnis.
cent distances such as ours, with ID
opportunities for aeronautics, com
pared to the disadvantages of Europa
with its mass of short haul traffic, N
stand forth with the report of cls
company operating only flying foahk
and boast that "the threatened sns
feared European commercial. al t~.A
vasion Will never materialize.-
Where is our commercial flying ~
ulation? Europe regulated flying b =
fore the war, and now it is snterns $
tionally controlled. Hero we hsm
very limited and varied state legisls's..
tion, but no national supervists r
Canadian flyers can land here withotl
trouble, but what Is the status ~
American pilots and planes IN Canadl' +
Senator Wadsworth has introducsds
bill in the Senate to regulate hylHI
and develop American aviation. in D.
fense Of which a memorandum hn
been issued with some pertinent fae's
I quote: According to a survey msds r
especially for Secretary OF Commess r
Herbert Hoover by tho Manufacture e
Aircraft Association, the 1.2oo cor
mercial planes in operation few 3 tos
of 3,25o,oo0 miles in the first six mohsa |
Of 1921. But during this period fher
were forty serious accidents, resuifa
in death to fourteen persons, and y f.
jury to fifty-two. Practically aA
the fatalities and most of the inture
might have been prevented shsoap /
proper regulation" Why under "
sun don't we go after the proper ~
ulation? Insist on the passage Of ~
craft regulation. 4
Successful commercial all trsngrS 4
tation depends on economical N
ficiency in operation Of the earrsp
Within the last two months Amt 4,
has had two efficiency contestsx +
which first and second honors n Il
one were granted to Italian and W
man planes, while in the other consa
the performances of the macms
have been announced without q
cision as to the winner, but ~
again it is obvious that the Dutch
German contestants are neck and nfeI
for first place. I might go Into ms
moro detail as to why this should
the case, but it is evident that
European commercial aeropEne
invaded America and remains hers
stay until We produce a satssfscm
competitor HARRY J.sMARA
New York, Nov. %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Gotham Gleanings
HlSGMHlEEnH Han ~ GlGz zkz z{IiG Gail

Mot much news this wk
Looks like white Xmas.
-Xmas shopping has begun.
Its a girl up at Newman Levy's.
Well, the it. bali season is over.
Art Samuels was out walking
Thurs noon. All there Art!
Jay Darling was in Fri. with a
brace Of wild ducks. Thanks Ding.
Ted Robinson has opened a
bookshop in Cleveland. Good luck
Ted
Miss Edna Ferbcr of Chicago is
expected here this wk. and Mont
Glass too.
R. c. Benchley spent the Day
of Gratitude (Thurs) with home
folks in Worcester.
y esterday was the birthday OF
Mrs. S. ]. Farnham and many were
the good wishes she reed.
The West 112th st. Thanatopsis
Club will meet next Sat. eve, to dis
ct.ss the disarmament question, etc
1t. Adolph S. Ochs of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, once the beloved cir
culation manager Of The Stars and
Stripes, Rue des Italiens, Paris, FIR.
was married Nov. l9 to Miss Patty
Martin. Good luck, It., say we and
his many other friends.
"Have you read Far From the Mad
dening Throng'?" asked the professor
in the English class.-Princeton Tiger
1t wasn't, we hope, Princeton pro-
fessor.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
The Peter Pan of 8. M. A.

Sir: Speaking of Staunton Military
Academy, as Mr.. Briggs did to GER
tain extent Friday morning:
When was little boy said Staun-
ton Military Academy used in its ad-
vertisements as sort Of trademark,
the Photographic likeness of chubby
faced, manly looking lad in cadet
uniform. Now, I was little boy long
enough ago to be conscious Of . dis
turbng pang nowadays when news
paper writer's refer to Willie Hoppe as
the veteran cue artist; and yet the
same bright-faced cadet, looking not a
day older and none the worse for wear,
still adorns the Staunton advertising.
Can l persuade you to aid me in sat
isfying the curiosity Of years regard
ing this lad? Who is--or was-he
Where is he now? Does he still wear
that uniform and part his hair on the
left side Has he, perhaps, grown
mustache? Has he made use in some
way of the wide prominence that has
been given his youthful likeness?
Gone into the movies, for example, or
into politics? Or might it be that
he has continued his soldiefly career
and become q major general, or some
thing? Who knows? Who can tell7
Somebody might if you print this.
r. J. B.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

the party of the second part becomes
'guest."
And so everybody is happy. 1t only
remains to be added that even the
prune Is not what 1t used to be. Let
us respectfully speak Of it, please, as
the California plum.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Breaking the News
(From The Indsomapesss

fFrom The Indianapolis Nstosj
1t must be very helpful to Tho r@
ular delegates to have the frresuw
Washington correspondents tell tpss
how the arms conference Is going I
turn out. II gives them a chance
prepare themselves for the resulk.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Various Vacations

fFrom The LoaispilIs Comrter-JournaU
America wants naval holiday
Great Drf.asn seems to want naval
holiday. Japan may be willing to
take naval holiday Germany is or
naval holiday.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
True Talk

frank Moore Colby In Harpers Maya
znel
Far more important than the saving
Of his first one hundred dollars to the
little grocer's boy, destined to ulti-
mate sublimity in grocership, was the
saving Of his first one hundred
thoughts that might have detached
themselves from grocering. Success,
as explained in magazines, is nine
tenths mental abstinence. The heroic
suppression by successful persons Of
all extraneous mental activity, as
shown, for example, in the writings of
the late Andrew Carnegie, on Homer,
and of Mr.. Henry Ford on everything,
makes up in large measure the rugged
moral beauty of their lives. This, in
deed, is the main point in the litera-
ture of success addressed to young
Americans, and supplies the answer to
the logical but hasty reader who, on
meeting the minds of millionaires in
magazines, infers that so far as hope
of the "great rewards" Is concerned
there is no use in making any effort
with his own.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
xn1nEn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled TO
ths for republication of all dispatches
credited TO i, or otherwise credited IN this
paper. and also the local news OF spontaneous
origin pubiished herein.
All rights ef republication u all other matter
herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

No more for tars life on the per
manent wave. For them, and for the
oceans, permanent calm.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Confirmation

fFrom The Rartford Conv9nt)
Germany, we read, denies ,BrisSos
charges. 1t looks as IL they must !
true.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

ysu can pufchsss msrchandhs ssvsrslsed Ia vhE
LkIeuAE with absolute safets--fer Il dlssatisfae.
Tee to pay ysur meaey back spea request. No red
taps No suihbiias. We make ssed promptly II
'ths advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

BRAND the other day, "that Ameri-
can newspapers have passion for
sensationalism. They appear to like
nothing better than to discover quar-
rels where they do not exist" -
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

She is Lady Ann Azgepetian, and so
The Pueblo Chieftain's linotyper
speaks Of her as "the tilted lady"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

Suggestion for Japanese war song:
xxx -kato, Admiral Kato"--
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
The Tower

Look at This. Look ut This. Look
at This.
O halt, ye homeless wanderers, without
place to slecpl
Attention, all unfortunates who tramp
the nightly pathsl
Be clcanly cleanly clennly clcanly. curry
combed, yet cheapl
Flcischman's Bathsl
Fleischn1nm's Baths!
FLEISCHMAN'S BATHS!
Hotels are crowded, rents are high, 10
prithec be not loath,
Well scrub your epthelium and fill your
cells with vim, an
You'll sleep all night quite comfortably.
Welcome, welcome, both
Men and women!
Men and vomeni
MEN AND WOMEN!
Of this, our advertising scheme, we wish
to say a word;
It's ugly, yes, but ugliness Is not our
grand objective,
For all our billboards snite the eye. and
though somewhat absurd,
They're effcctivel
They're eGective!
THEY'RE EFFECTIVE! BUS.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
BUS.

"Thc Postmaster" says Mr.. A.
Brisbane, ais working at flying machine
development, seeking to find useful,
profitable work in peace for machines
and trained flying men that would be
our reliance in war" The mailed fist.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
GUARANTY

Eassrsa At the Pestocncs st New York - ssrcnd
CaA Mail Mattes.