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New-York tribune., 1921-11-17

Miss Thorne. 1t was under the trellis
hard by her door, and the smell of
grapes was in the air. He took her
head in his two hands and pressed his
lips hard against hers. Her will dis
solved, her head dropped against his
shoulder But they had words,
later, and O'Bannon, though he loved
her, was forced to send her to the
penitentiary at Auburn, since he was
onc of the many conscientious servants
of the people, sacrificing his own SEN
tlmental inclination to the good of the
multitude.
Conviction and Imprisonment did our
hostess great deal of good. She en-
tered Auburn ruthless anarch, but
after three years. beneficial associa-
ton with the criminals therein she
emerged seraphic, replete with SYM
pathies and understandings Those
jurors who are,. as Dulcy says, averse
to penallzing pretty woman learn in
"Manslaughter" salubrious lesson
Miss Thorne goes to Jail bad Long
Island girl and she returns from it
good one. O'Bannon, her Irish per-
secutor, though impervious to her
fascination as breaker of laws, sue
eumbs to her as female repentant.
LYDIA he whispers in the last lines
OF the story, which, by the way, is
very well told. "Lydia"-but she does
not answer him, because her face is
buried closely into the hollow of his
arm.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
The Chinese Proposals

The ten-point proposal yesterday
submitted to The Washington confer
ence by the Chinese delegation will
he disappointing to China's friends
in America because of its indefinite
ness. B. Lenox-Simpson, adviser to
the Chinese government, recently de-
clared that what China most needed
was specific action. Mr.. Simpsons
advice was apparently not followed,
for the official Chinese demands are
vague and general.
Mr.. Simpson mentioned two essen
tials. One is Chinese control over
her lines of interior communications.
If this were conceded, if Chinese
railroads were not owned and policed
by foreigners, he thought that alien
control over ports did not much mat
ter. His other essential was tariff
autonomy and the scrapping of old
treaties which forbid China to make
a change until consent is indepen-
IDENTIFY secured from fifteen nations,
something practically impossible.
Instead of descending to particu-
lars, the Chinese program asks for
a reafirmation of the open door
principle, respect for her territorial
and administrative integrity, prohi-
bition of secret treaties relating to
China, no new leaseholds and scru-
tiny of the titles to old grants and
reconsideration Of the jurisdiction of
consular courts. All very good, but,
though conceded in words, intrusion
could continue.
TIE writing of new general form
ulas will not much help China. In
the end she must protect herself and
must be permitted to develop within
her own territories the force to do it.
The world is too much preoccupied
to look after the welfare of per-
petual wayt.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
DawdIng

In scotching another investigation
of the United States Shipping Board
the Senate's Committee ON Com
n1erce displays commendable good
sense. There has been more than
enough of investigating Of cur mari
time affairs this past sixty years,
and particularly since 1914.
1t is about time that Congress
gave over plowing and narrowing
and began TO do some real legislative
planting. The nation demands a
harvest harvest Of ships free to
traffic in the earth's commerce on a
living competitive basis.
Can't the members of Congress
that?
But they dawdle. This year so
far has passed without6he adoption
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Pre-Columbiar, America

Anorner or the periodical contro-
versies over pre-Columbian dis
coveries Of America has arisen, in
which, as formerly, the strife is for
an empty honor. A generation ago
the claim was in behalf of the Morse
men. Eric and Left, and it was so
we'll maintained that now nobody,
we assume, doubts that those hardy
adventures did for a time colonize
part of New England and perhaps
other regions. Now the claim is for
the Irishman Brendan of Clonfert,
who died in May, SIT, and therefore
long preceded Eric and Red.
There is no inherent impossibility
nor even improbability in the gen
eral story Of Brendan's voyages. as
told in the Book of Lismore, though
even his stoutest partisans will
doubtless concede the story Of an
Easter celebration on the back Of a
whale to be fanciful embellish-
ment. 1t is commonly believed that
the Irish colonized Iceland long be-
fore the Danish settlement of that
Island. In an Icelandic saga there
is reference to land, presumably
to the westward and southwark,
called Ireland the Great, which some
have identified with the American
coast. Seeing that the Saga of st.
Brendan's Island is to be found in
ancient Latin, French, Saxon, Scot
tish, Flemish, Irish, Welsh and Eng
lish literature, it cannot be lightly
dismissed. Moreover, among the
Algonquin and other Indian peoples
was legend Of white race which
once occupied much of this continent.
Timberlake believed the Cherokees
to be of half white descent, whence
their light color and high mentality,
and zestermann and Squier held
that the Ohio Mound Builders were
Caucasians - scarcely Brendan's
lrishmen, however, since their time
is placed at about 1900 B. C..
But then there were others, too.
Cousin, the Norman; Skolno, the
Pole; the Zeno brothers, of Venice,
and various Basque and Dutch navi-
gators were all alleged to have
reached the shores Of this continent
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17

long in advance Of Columbus. There
was Sertorius, in so b. c., who heard
from sailors of two great, islands
which they had visited, 1,15O miles
west Of Africa (the actual distance
is 1000 miles). There were Plato,
Theopompus and Plutarch, spanning
nearly five centuries, who all re-
ferred confidently to important lands
westward across the Atlantic. There
were also the Phmnicians, referred
to by the Prophet Ezekiel, who more
than three thousand years ago
emerged from the Mediterranean
founded Cadiz and navigated the
Atlantic with both sails and oars,
and who may we'll have ventured as
far as the American coast. No one
will covet the task of disproving the
claims of any of these to the honor
Of pre-Columbian visits to these
shores.
But such claims, though substanti-
ated, would be in a sense, as said
above, an empty honor, for the rea-
son that the early discoveries meant
nothing of permanent Importance to
the world. The visitors came, they
saw, perhaps they tarried little
time, and then they vanished, leav-
ing only slight traces. The supreme
distinction Of Columbus was and is
that he was the pioneer in the ex-
ploitation of the American con-
tinents, in their. permanent coloni-
zation by Europeans and in the
opening of them to European civili-
zation. In that he has and can have
no rival.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Emergency Officers .
A Courageous Captain Recalled by
Letter in Their Behalf

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In the Sunday Tribune appears
a letter, plea for simple jusI ice in
the matter of pensions for disabled
"emergency officers" of the World War.
bearing the signature "Henry IMasliu"
This signature caught nay eye and
brought to mind vivid picture:
Broadway, Saratoga, September 27.
1920. The second anniversary of the
breaking of the Hindenburg lire WAS
made the occasion for get-to gether
Of the 9th Division.
When Captain Henry Maslin, former
commanding officer of D Company OF
the 105th Regiment, made his first puo-
lie appearance after two years spent N
Fox Hills Hospital-two years in bcd.
think of this men almost went wild.
And Captain Maslin, touched and IN
spired by their enthusiasm, got, out q
the car and walking with difficulty be-
tween two canes limped two Blocks TO
Convention Hall, where, though visibly
exhausted, he led his men in singing:
Pack all your troubles IN your old KIT
bag,
And smile, smile, smile!"
1 have never heard Of Captain 2Iasin
since. But he will always stand TO me
as an example Of magnificent courage.
Do you wonder that my blood boiled
when / read the extremely modest and
temperate statement of the injustice
done to him and to many others of his
grade and condition by a most unfair
ruling?
This government has just spent
money and enthusiasm and emotion
without stint in honor of our brave
dead. Let US not shamefully neglect
our brave living!
WIFE OF A 1O5TH VETERAN.
Schenectady, N. Y, Nov. 13. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Waiting Means Walking

To the request from the City Hall
that the Transit Commission wait
before beginning practical labors to
restore the five-cent fare, to main-
tain it in the future and to find ways
to furnish traffic relief, Clarence j.
Shearn. counsel of the commission,
aptly replied:
eve have done nothing but wait
for the last four or five years. 1t
seems to me that il is time for ac-
tion. So we will call our first Wit
ness"
The opinion of the city, as it may
be gathered from the recent election
and other convincing evidence, is
that before any matured plan is
finally put into effect it should be
submitted to the city's authorities
or to plebiscite for approval or re-
lection. A strong argument is thus
to be made for an amendment to the
transit act establishing some sort of
review or veto.
But the argument for such an
amendment does not imply the re-
peal of the transit act or support the
claim that in the mean time the
Transit Commission should suspend
its work.
The labor to be done is one of
great complexity. 1t is practically
certainty that it will not be finished
and the necessary consents secured
until long after the Legislature as
sembles. The commission has only
begun it's hearings, and perforce
must carry on protracted negotia-
tions before it can make definite
report; so there is no reason for
postponement even though the law is
to be changd.
The initial work will be done
finder state authority. The city ad-
hinistration is not equipped to do it,
even though it could be safely trust
ed. 1t would need months to get
ready. Moreover, it is inconceivable
that the Legislature will turn over
the making of subway contracts to
agents Of Messrs. Hearst and Muir
ply.
To protect the home rule princi-
pie the city may properly ask for a
chance to express itself before con-
tracts are signed, but for the COM
mission to quit now would mean at
best years of further delay and at
worst scandal more odorous than
that of Jake Sharp's day.
New York wants low fares, and it
also wants a chance to avoid walk
ing. Neither Of these ends will be
attained by following the policy out
lined in the City Halls message to
the Transit Commission. Does the
new city administration construe the
recent election as giving it permis-
sion to string along the subway issue
to carry another election?
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
An Economist on Prohibition
To the Editor Of The Tr;hure

eio GoiCoT OF Inc Tribune
Sir: Professor William Graham
sumner, OF Yale, was perhaps the best
known authority on political economy
In this country until his death few
years ago. What he said in his we'll
known textbook entitled "What
Social Glasses Owe to Each Other"
page 1872, is as pertinent now as when
he wrote it. l quote as follows:
"The fallacy of all prohibitory.
sumptuary and moral legislation is
the same. A and B determine to be
teetotalers, which is often wise
determination and sometimes a
necessary one. If A and B are
moved by considerations which seem
to them good, that is enough. But
A and B put their heads together to
get a law passed which shall force
G to be teetotaler for the sake of
d, who is in danger of drinking too
much. There is no pressure on A
and B. They are having their own
way, and they like it. There is
rarely any pressure on D. He does
not like it, and evades it. The pres
sure all comes on C. The question
then arises, Who is c.? He is the
man who wants alcoholic liquors for
any honest purpose whatsoever, who
would use his liberty without abus-
ing it, who would occasion no pub
lie question and trouble nobody at
all. He is the Forgotten Man again,
and as soon as he is drawn from
his obscurity we see that he is just
what each one Of US ought to be-"
Is it not time for all who advocate
temperance to listen to the wise voices
Of the past and to try to find some
way through which we may attain the
benefits of moderation without the
bad effects of attempted prohibition !?
Human nature has not changed. Pro-
fessor Summers work on political
economy had as q basis profound
knowledge of psychology, without
which no attempt to control human be-
ings can be economically successful.
Laws to be effective must appeal to
reason and not be dictated by fanati-
cism. WILLIAM P. EMO.
Saugatuck, Conn.sNov. 10. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
The Towey
AN EXPLANATION

AN EAPLANATIUN
When was boy and | went to school
They learned me the words Of the
Gilded Rule:
Remember your manners and al
ways do
What People CT Consequence tell
you to-"
A college professor has brains to spare
(Though hardly as much as mil
lionaire),
And sure, when his backing is good
and strong,
A clergyman never would guide you
wrong;
SO what should / do when I'm just a
cop
And he is Reverend Archbiohop?
Enough: 'Tis the word of Grand
Bashaw;
You needn't to bother about the law
He knows what is black and he knows
what's white;
Whatever he wants you to do is right,
He told me they wasn't to speak at ALL
You don't need warrant to clear
hall.
He told me to tell them to stir their
stumps;
When "Clubs!" is the order, then
clubs is trumps.
What else would it be when Pm Just
cop
And he is q Reverend Archbishop?
And oh, It's a blessing to know the
whim
Of wise and infallible folks like him!
And if he should tellsmc to Cake and go
And shut up a play or movie show,
To break up dance or perhaps a
strike
Or burn a few books that he failed to
like,
To lock a few lads in a dungeon cell
And smash few heads in the bargain.
we'll,
What else would | do when Pm Just
And he is Reverend Archbishop?
ARTHUR GUITERMAN.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Open Diplomacy
fFron The Providence Jonnaa)

fFrom The Providence Joarnoa)
Discussion in Washington about ac-
cording recognition to Mexico has sub
sided. The significance apparently IS
that tho next time Mexico seeks it she
will have to ask for it with full un-
derstanding that she must accept the
Harding Administration conditions.
Secretary OF State Hughes is the au-
thor Of the maxim of diplomacy: "Say
what you mean, ard mean what you
gay"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Police Prussianissn'

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please accept one readers
thanks for to-day's editorial entitled
"Police Prussianism.''
am not interested in the subject
of birth control, but | am interested
in preserving the constitutional right
Of law-abiding citizens, irrespective
Of their religious or political views, to
meet and discuss without interference
subjects in which they are Interested.
ROBERT s. ROSS.
New York, Nov. Is. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
The Piecework System
Objections to 1t From the Garment
Workers. Standpoint

WolkclS CtdnOpOlnr
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l trust that you will grant me
space to discuss an angle of the pres
ent strike situation in the clothing
industry which I consider of impor-
tance to the community. 1 refer to
the desire on the part Of the manu-
facturers in the cloak and suit line
to re-establish the old system of piece
work, which was abandoned in the in
dustry several years ago.
Piecework was discarded after years
OF propaganda by the clothing unions
and many civic bodies, which were of
the firm conviction that the system was
harmful to the workers and to the
community at large. They felt that
the mental, moral and physical well
fare of these many thousands of
workers was being impaired; that pro-
duction was chaotic and unscientifc,
and that the rush to finish a garment,
because rushing meant extra pennies,
tended to reduce to minimum the
quality of the finished product.
All of which seems reasonable. Com
petition among workers, which the
piecework system created, caused i'll
feeling between the more and the less
agile. Men would toll long and health
destroying hours, only to find that they
had produced so much that factories
would close for extended periods, or
until sterilization set in. Enmity
among the workers tended to keep
them from making the collective eff
fort necessary to raise the health and
sanitation standards of the factories
and shops, the result being the crea-
tion of sweatshops, which were a
menace to the workers and to the COM
munity.
The successful fight waged by the
unions and civic bodies, eliminating
in the abandonment of the piecework
system and the establishment of
arbitration machinery to smooth the
wrinkles of the industry, has un-
doubtedly promoted health, sanitation
and sanity in industry. Through scien-
ti6c and humane treatment of prob
lens which are the bane of other in
dustries many pitfalls have been
avoided, and the past years have wit
messed workers receiving living wage
under decent conditions of employ
ment. In the same years the employers
of labor in the cloak industry have
made profits unprecedented in the
annals of the clothing industry.
The re-establishment of piecework
will reduce the workers to the condi-
tions of the years gone by and create
havoc in the industry. Some method
should be found by which the warning
factions can be brought together and
induced to solve their problems AMIGA
bly,. In community alive to it's in
terests and problems this should not
be difficult matter. A. TRIVIN.
New York, Nov. Is, 1921. ri
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Books p.,., Hammond b.

Let US this afternoon go motoring
on Long Island with Alice Duer Miller
and Miss Lydia Vanetta Thorne, her
"heroine" in "Manslaughter."
Miss Thorne is difficult, selfish
beauty, hard to get along with, but
she drives with stimulating velocity,
and, therefore, adventure awaits us
as we wend our hasty ways through
the sleepy suburbs. Her foot gently
presses the accelerator. On either
side of the road purple cabbages grow
like tufted carpet to the very edge
of the macadam; and there is enough
mist IN the autumn air to magnify
the low hills along the Sound to an
imposingly vague bulk. ct is Mrs.
Miller who is speaking.) In every
other direction the fat, fertile, sandy
plains of Long Island stretch unin-
terruptedly and the cloudless sky as
sumes symbolic, ominous gray.
OF course we are dining with the
Leonard Piers this evening, but it is
a party eminently chuckable-tha is
70 say, Miss Thorne is going in order
to please the Piers rather than herself,
and she can telephone, if needs be,
her regrets. The needle swings to As
as we increase our celebrity. We pass
with q whist" governesss cart, full
Of frightened Bayside children, and as
we confront the road, straight and
clear, ahead of US we are little
drunk, for we love rapidity and we
know that Speed is the aristocracy of
Motion.
We decide, as we dash along, that we
shall have Eleanor move the bridge
tables out upon the terrace. Eleanor
is stupid about preferring to play in
doors. Bobby Dorset will be there for
tea, and Tim Andrews and perhaps
Hamilton Gore, lean home-wrecker
of former generation. "The last time
talked to Hamilton" Miss Thorne
tells us, as she urges our chariot to
greater swiftness, she called me sleek,
black panther" We are now proceed
ing at sixty miles per hour. Flushing,
Manhasset, Great Neck, fit by. Our
driver, like Cesar, is not liable to fear.
She can turn short corner and an apt
phrase at one and the same time. For
traffic constables her emotions are con-
temptuous. She bullies them with her
cold, glittering smile, and she is al
ways let go. But the Long Island
mately) this afternoon is run into by
her and killed. Our light conversation
about this, that and She other frivolous
thing is thereupon interrupted by a
crash and the sight of wrecked
motorcycle, with young man lying q
dead, featureless mass at the foot of
telegraph pole.
Our to-day's outing having thus
gIoomily concluded, we withdraw and
leave Mrs. Miller to extricate Miss
Thorne from her dilemma. Miss
Thorne is selfish, cruel and Borgian-
Indifferent to the feelings of others,
and with an idea that because she is
rich and handsome she is immune from
the etiquette of manslaughter. So, as
we abscond guiltily from the scene,
we observe, with considerable satisfac-
tion, that they have backed up the
wagon for her and that she is to be
called TO account for her murderous
predictions.
Mr.. O'Bannon, the prosecuting at
torney Of Princess County. Long Island,
once had an opportunity to embrace
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
How Much Armament?

In the environs of the Washing
ton conference, if not in the confer
ence itself, two theories of life strug-
gle for mastery. One is the trust
principle, which flowers into peace,
and the other the distrust principle,
which is the basis of war. Both have
roots deep in human experience,
reaching down even into the subsoil
Of the race history of all gregarious
animals.
The ability Of President Harding
and Secretary Hughes to grasp occa-
sion by the hand has given an initial
advantage to those whose minds in
cline them to confidence. But now
comes ample evidence that. the cham
pions of fear are not sileGced. They
re-rally their forces and are using
the familiar tactics Of emphasizing
difficulties and questioning motives.
This is not, Of csurse, the result of
0CllDCAGbS SO4lS klI1 al --liiOOO VI ~ ID
unconscious, is merely the spontane-
Gus expression of fear psychology.
Men sincerely assume that only fool
ish visionaries or scheming hypo-
critics contend or pretend that there
is or can be any modification in the
law of grabbing and keeping.
But though the manufacturers of
distrust are once again pestiferously
potent, they will lose this time. The
great obstacle to their success is the
extreme simplicity of the particular
issue presented and the universe.
knowledge of the events which have
thrown it to the forefront of affairs.
The issue is the single one of
whether five nations which through
terrible years showed themselves
loyal companions in arms have since,
for no reason, become nascent enc
mics. AS friends we armed OUR
selves against common foe. We
subdued him-have reduced him for
an indefinite period to helplessness.
In our eagerness not to lack the
means for ultimate success we natur-
ally and properly weaponed ourselves
heavily. But with victory the whole
condition changed. The need for ar
mament largely disappeared.
In his speech Tuesday night Post
master General Hays summed up the
matter briefly. eff we armed as
friends" he asked, "can we not also
as friends cease to arm? Must we
keep our swords out when the only
possible object Of keeping them out
is to bring apprehension to the minds
Of loyal friends?"
If the rule is good that friends do
not need to arm against one another,
there is strictly but one sound reason
for armament Of the peace-desiring
nations and but one measure of the
extent of such armament. The force
at the disposal of the peace-desiring,
ready to be used in crisis, should be
something more in the aggregate
than the force at the disposal of ma
tions not to be trusted.
What should concern naval ex-
perts is not so much the number
of the battleships or hydroplanes
or submarines of the United States,
Great Britain and Japan as the
number possessed by Germany,
Russia, Turkey and the like. The
balance Of power idea is dead. In it's
stead is to be established the doc
trine of preponderance of power
with those not likely to abuse their
mighty responsibility.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17

You can purchase merchandise advertised In TINE
TRIBUNE with absolute ssfes--sor Il dissatistac-
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tees to pay yeur money back upon rsaucst. Ne REQ
fase. Ma quihhiHe~ We make csod etompfsy u
the advertiser does aor.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17
Mr.,nrR or TILE Assoc,ArKp PRESS

The Associated prrss Is exclusively entitled 10
the use 10. republication Ct all dispatches
credited 10 II or not otherwise credited In tais
paper. and also the local news ef spontaneous
origin published herein
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hsresa alsn reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17

of a single constructive maritime
statute. Dawdling Is not going to
produces an American merchant
marine.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-17

Britannia, briefly, will golden-ru1e
the waves.