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spirit of the thing. That is our tradi
tional failure. Right at the beginning
of a party we realize that it is our
duty to get gay and put ice down
peoples backs and all that, and it ter
rifles Us. Whenever a host says "Here,
drink some more Scotch and livcn up"
we have the same sinking feeling that
we used 70 get when one of our former
city editors wrote in the assignment
book opposite our name: GO up to
the zoo and write me funny story"
The whole trouble with life SO far
is that too much Of it falls into as
signments. We're not even content to
let our holidays just happen. Instead
we marx them down on a calendar, and
there they stay as fixed and set as an
execution day. There are times, for
instance, when we feel like turning
over new leaf and leading better
life and giving up cigarettes, but
when We look at the calendar it isn't
New Years at all, but Fourth of July.
and so nothing can be done about it.
Columbus Day or Washington's Birth
day generally comes just about the
time we've worked up an enthusiasm
for Lincoln, which has to 80 TO waste,
and the only strong impulse we ever
had to go out and cut loose was spoiled
because we noticed that everybody we
met was wearing white flower in his
hi oil J -
was Mothers Day. There are even
times when We don't want to play
cards or travel or railroad trains or
read the newspapers or 60 TO the
movies, but these times never syn
chronizo with Sunday.
When we first took up drinking we
hoped that this would be one of the
avenues Of escape from schedule and
assignment, but it didn't work out.
Even here there were preliminaries
ard premeditation. First Of all, it was
necessary to cultivate q taste for the
stuff, but that was only a beginning.
There we're still ceremonies to be com
piled with. Drunkenness never Just de-
scended on anybody like thunder
storm, rain or inspiration. IT was not
possible to go to sleep sober and wake
up and find that somehow or other Won
had become intoxicated during the
night. Always an act Of will was re-
quired. A fixed determination, Pm
going to get drunk" must first he set,
and then the rum has to be ordered
and poured out and consumed pretty
regularly. In fact, we never could look
at a bottle without feeling that the
label probably bore the express direc-
tlon, Take ten times every hour until
relief is obtained" Even before the
Volstead act liquor was spiritually a
prescription rather than beverage.
We never had the strength Of char
acter TO get any good out of it. It's
a fallacy. Of course, to think of a
chronic drunkard or chronic any,
thing as person OF weak Will. In
deed, as matter of fact, his will is
so strong that he has been able to
marshal all his energies into one chan
mel and to make himself thereby a
specialist. In all our life we have
never met but two determined men.
One took cold bath every morning
and the other got drunk every night.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
No Secondary Boycotts

The Supreme Courts decision in
the Duplex Press Company case goes
back substantially to the principles
enunciated in the famous case Of the
Danbury hatters.
The court disapproves of the sec
ondary boycott instituted by the In
ternational Association of Machin-
lists to stop the sale and use of the
Duplex Press Company's products.
The main question passed on was
whether the Clayton act, amending
the Sherman Antitrust act, had
given immunity to such operations
as had been found illegal in the Dan
bury decision.
The Clayton act provided that a
labor organization shall not be held,
as such. to be an illegal combination
or conspiracy in restraint Of trade.
But the unions are entitled, the court
holds, to nothing more than to carry
out their legitimate objects in law
ful manner. The right to strike and
TO impose a primary boycott on the
trade Of the employers with which
its members are engaged in a labor
dispute are freely conceded. Yet a
union cannot go beyond its legal
privileges and become a cloak for
illegal combinations or conspiracies
in actual restraint Of commerce as
defined in the antitrust laws.
The secondary boycott, enforced
by threats against outsiders willing
to buy, transport or use the Duplex
Press Company's products, was, in
the courts view, a violation of that
company's right to do business. The
Clayton law prohibited the use of in
functions in disputes concerning
terms and conditions of employment
disputes between principals, that
is. Such a limitation cannot apply
to efforts to foment strikes on the
part of employees Of the customers
Of one Of the principals or to inter
fcrc otherwise in his transactions
with third parties.
The Clayton act, in other words
dealt with limited, concrete two
party disputes. 1t DIDN'T contem-
plate licensing what the Marxians
call "thc universal class war" The
secondary boycott is a natural in
, strument in warfare Of that kind
The general strike or boycott supple
rnents and universities the particu-
lar strike or boycott.
Such running amuck practices
would make the antitrust law.
meaningless. They would leave the
individual no freedom at all to do
business. The secondary boycott is,
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
Secretary Of Peace
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The purpose OF the United States
Army IS TO maintain or gain n honor
able peace and not TO make war. Foy
tins reason the title "Secretary Of War
Is misnomer and also misleading
Peace with honor being the objective o.
our army, the title of the official at the
head Of that army should signify its
purpose peace and not the action that
is so seldom necessary and never desired
to maintain il.
Secretary Of the Navy does not imPg
war, but the navy IS the first line Of
defense and usually first in action II
time Of war. If it is not necessary 70
designate the navy with title e 'war
why IS it used in connection with the
army? War is the one thing the entirs
world IS endeavoring 10 find way 70
avoid. Why should the United States
which Is contemplating an association
of nations to prevent war, keep the wcES
war before the public by tacking il OF
to the title of Cabinet officer? II the
title OF the Official at the head Of on
army was changed from Secretary O.
War to Secretary of Peace, or at leas'
Secretary of the Army, it would be more
fitting nation that IS to undertake 'n'
organization OF all nations 10 preven'
war.
The business OF policeman IS to pre-.
vent crime, but We don't call the chez
of police secretary of crime. A cons'a'
bic or policeman is called peace officer
An army officer is never called an ot'ee'
Of war, yet he gets much nearer Wa.
than what we term our Secretary Q.
War. Why have a war department
Al. EWING.
Wichita, Kan, Dec. IS, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
Courtesy in New York
Keep Out!" Signs Criticized and
Postmen Praised
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: keep Out" fairly snapped til.
sign on the geological park grounds q.
me as l sat last Saturday at window
in the Rocking Stone Restaurant Two
or three years ago, when the addition
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
was building, the contractors had up
for weeks on, the museum property
sign which read: "Keep out, That
means you.'
We all deplorc the lack of manrers
Of the foreign-born children who gun
about our streets, but how can we ex-
pect anything better when we Gamer.
icanize" them by wiping out the good
manners many OF their elders bring
with them and face them with such
insolent signs as the foregoing?
One would think that the men who
are made directors of such ingtitu-
tions as the art museum ana the
geological park would have SONS
knowledge of the amenities Of life-or
in which they are supposed to be in
terested and do not see these things.
There is such word as "please"
occasionally used in America, and Il
it is obsolete in New York the sign
could be made to read, "Closed to the
public wording which would no.
irritatc people into wishing to intrude
and would not be public display Of
bad manners
Perhaps it is never Just TO general
ize, but venture to say that in my
nine years residence in New York th.
only people whom, as q class, ! have
found uniformly courteous are the
letter carriers. Surely, what these mer
can do the directors of our cultural inst
tutions can DO, or see TO it that their
employees do. II. O. SMITH.
New York, Jan. 3, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
A Fnnis to Houstonism

Tho overwhelming vote in the
House overriding the dyspeptic veto
Of the resolution reviving the War
Finance Corporation, following a
similar vote in the Senate the day
before, fttingly squelches Secretary
Houston's arrogant effort to lessen
our export trade.
The resolution il spoken Of az
particularly one to give the farmers
relief. This is not accurate. There
is nothing in the statute creating
The War Finance Corporation which
limits its activities to financing the
vale Of agricultural staples. The cry
mat the resolution was class lcgis-
Istion had no proper basis. Every
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05

would-be shipper will find the cor
poration his friend.
The corporation before Secretary
Houston stopped its activities by his
poison gas pursued careful course.
Many thought it was too cautious.
Doubtless it will continue to be most
conservative in it's terminated state
and scrutinize most thoroughly all
applications for credit advances,
thus insuring payment when obliga-
tions mature.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
Just q Clumsy Lie

In the edition Of Mondays New
York American which circulates in
Albany a part Of the statement
issued by Senator Robinson and AS
semblyman Steinberg on their reso-
luton for an investigation Of the
New York City administration was
quoted as follows:
with these facts known to the
public, it is no wonder that the
decent traction security investment
elements Of the city and state are
demanding that the Legislature in
vestigate tho departments of the
city, county and borough In New
York City, which is suffering from
probably the worst and most cor
rupt administration in its history"
In the edition of Mondays New
York American which circulates in
New York the same paragraph is
printed with the words "traction Sc
curity investment" carefully deleted.
Now, Senator Robinson did not
use the words "traction security in
vestment," and everybody on The
New York American who had any
thing to do with writing or editing
the report knew that he did not use
them.
But The American is trying to
make it appear that the effort to
stop building graft and violent crime
in New York is merely a device Of
the traction and investment ele-
ments in order to "get" Mayor
Hylan. So the words were written
into the report Of the statement, just
as the reference to prayers for VIC
tory was edited out of one of Mr..
Wilson's proclamations when it was
printed in this same New York
American.
Lying Of that kind doesn't deceive
anybody. 1t doesn't even deceive
tIlS lcRlSldCOIS, WlOs 4s1I. A1Cdl oC q y
pears to think, are more easily to be
gulled than the New York readers
Of his newspaper.
Furthermore, printing a lie in
one edition and the truth in another
edition leaves the readers Of news
paper in doubt as to which edition
to believe. If Mr.. Hearst's Ameri-
can is going to continue to lie about
the reasons for the Hylan investiga-
ton we suggest that it lie continu-
ously and consistently, and not dilute
its mendacity with occasional injec-
tions of truth.
Also, we suggest that it lie less
pointlessly and clumsily. Deliber-
ately writing words into typewrit-
ten statement, copies of which have
been given to all the correspondents
in Albany, will make some people
suspect that where Mr.. Hearst's per-
sonal ambitions are concerned his
newspapers are not always abso-
lutclv trustworthy.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
White Collars VS.. Horny Hands

Sound doctrine was preached in
the recent letter of Tribune
reader urging a new respect for
manual labor. The facts are much
as he stated them. Brain workers
have brought about a contempt for
shopwork that permeatcs our whole
educational system and social struc-
turc. Until a fairer and truer esti-
mate of the different kinds Of labor
is gained there will be utterly need
less hatred, envy and schism and a
waste of precious energy.
Fortunately the rise Of science and
the development Of the engineer in
all his manifold forms have set to
work new social and economic forces
which are bound to make for 4
wholesome attitude in the long run.
The white-collar man who has
achieved his position via the labora-
tory is not likely to be ashamed OF
overalls; he learned his profession
in them to great extent, and he
must get into them at regular in
tervals or become the equivalent Of
an absentee landlord Also, applied
science has produced such laborers
as the lathe worker, who is still
classed as a manual laborer by our
stupid conventions, but whose daily
stint involves a very perfect blend
ing Of both brain and hand. To
classify a high-grade shop worker
as in some mysterious way inferior
to a bookkeeper, for example, is too
preposterous to last.
AS our correspondent remarked
in his letter, the contempt for
manual labor goes far back in the
centuries In modern times it is a
likely hypothesis to see its source
in the rise Of book learning. The
most honored occupations were
"learned' professions, those which
centered around wisdom bound in
books. Already that point of view is
disappearing. Broadly speaking, il
may be argued that the application
Of book learning to practical affairs
involved in applied science carried
/ the inevitable destruction of the old
exclusive worship Of sheer bool,
learning. Not such wisdom in itself
but wisdom as it serves and creates
has become the prevailing ideal Ir
fact, so far has this new attitude ar
rived that there is danger of under
rating the Importance Of pure sci
ence, without which as a foundation
of speculation and research applied
science would speedily die.
But the fresh attitude toward
manual labor involved in the Shift
is wholly sound The time is ripe
for a natural and sensible revalua.
tion of the estates of labor. The
truth is that the old sharp distinc-
ton between brain work and hant
work has broken down. A farmer
is good farmer only if he nike.
brains with his plowing. The tech
nical cxpcrts-the most essentia
class in society to-day, as the Red.
Of Russia and Italy discovered tc
their sorrow-arc both hand anc
brain workers. Probably the fairly
even balance between the two cle
ments Of their labor points the way
to the best hope Of economic con
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tentment-to say nothing Of health
and general happiness.
Such being the case, the sooner
white linen as a badge of glory and
horny hands as a mark of disgrace
are forgotten the better. The i'm
portant thing is not how clean a
man keeps his collar but how ably
he functions both above and below
it, fusing high intelligence with
skilled craftsmanship in his days
,yrOrl,
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in fact, an unlimited conspiracy to
restrain trade-to involve lookers-on
in dispute with which they have
nothing to do. In the public interest
such molestation should be made i'm
possible. 1t is viciously unfair and
M A n1nrican
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
A Great Success

7!70F TIC hdNScS CfiV St0rl
The League of Nations assembly has
adjourned, and it seems to be counted
great victory for the league princi-
pie that the delegates, in most in
stances, were still speaking to each
other when the session ended.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
A Fifth Ace

G'rom Thc Philadelphia North american,
The fake Eddie Rickenbackcr who
has been making trouble in Florida is
q living example Of thc unpleasant .ess
generally cause by the turning up Of
an eYtra acA
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
Hard to Convince
(rrom The Chicono Dniru

fFrom The Chicago Daily Ncics> 90
Before China Japan is trying to pose
rs Santa Claus. but China obstinatelv
continues to yell for the police.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
THE COLLEGE "BOY" IN THE
MOVIES


lie wears high necked sweater that
must have been in camphor balls a. good
ten years; large fob bangles from
the watch pocket of his trousers; his
grammar and high school graduation
pins are deftly displayed on the silk
of the fob, His hat is the pancake felt
type. with incisions in the crown
through which has been drawn a col
orcd hatband. On the brim of the hat
has been written. with indclble pencil,
"Shorty,' yale 10-Harvard O." "Lake
Massequanto"; and perhaps a few
drawings showing the influence Of the
neolithic school He always wears his
"Frat" pin on the outside Of his coat,
and from his mouth impends 4 mighty
briar pipe, with an inlaid initial across
the face Of it, Under his arm he car
ries megaphone. He is always laugh
ing, and invariably expresses apnrecia-
tion of humor by standing on his right
leg, lifting his left knee, and shifting
his left thigh. Curiously, he is still
able to secure plentiful quantities of
good beer, which he unfailingly quaffs
from q stein while lolling in Morris
chair in "a room furnished with Roy
croft furniture and cmbcllished with
dozens Of felt banners. FREDDIE.
Speaking again Of songs, it never
seemed to us that "What the Dicky
Birds Say" was particularly comic, nor
moro than a commonplace piece of
lyric writing. 1t was, we suppose, an
echo-and how weak. of "1'it Willow"
That il achieved popularity is owing
to Mr.. Francis Wilson. AS we recall
it, the best song Mr.. Wilson ever sang
was one ending
They were sons OF guns,
Those triplex sons
Joseph, James, and John.
Wasn't it in "The Monks Of Malabarr?
BLOW CHOW CALL
We've neither skill nor talent,
Nor aptitude for rhyme;
Each year try to qualify
And funk it every time.
And If you zinc US this year
AS you have always done
Wen sit and grin and try agin
In Nineteen Twenty one.
And since the markets falling,
1t nigh, be best to wait
Next year the fee might only be
About three bucks per plate
Morr
BILL.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
Tho Bus Takers

uontNy COtNHtOuS -" Wv
"Oh 'Erminie.'"
"That's funny. I thought Bah WAS
success"
"They don't seem to get success in
that theater."
"Oh, don't know. How about those
operas last year?"
Eyes, that's so. What was that one
I saw-that queer one? 'Ruddigore
didn't like it. | went because +. p. A.
ravcd about it,"
"Who 2"
"F. P. A. in The Tribune. Anything
he raves about is generally pretty
good, but I didn't like that one. But
think he's wonderful.'
II sec Cardinal Gibbons is better"
'Inaugurating," advertises the Res
taurant do la Paix, "thc European
system Of non-tipping' Well, per-
haps peace has changed everything.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05

If we knew any one engaged in
writing musical comedy we should
suggest that in the restaurant scene
the women, as women in restaurants
do, take out their handy repair kits of
paints, oils and varnishcs, and adjust
their compilations. And that the men,
dipping shaving brushes in the water
tumblers, go through the process of
shaving. All we want for the sug-
gestion is 40f5 of the royalties and
500 Of the movie rights.
'Thc Police Bureau we read in our
favoritc Canton, China, paper, The
Times (Sept. 15), has issued notices
for tho arrest of Chan Wal, who un-
lawfully murdered his wife, Mrs Chan
Ng SEE, at No. 5, Wo Ping Lane, on
August 2G.'
Shall VIC send marked copy to
the Commissioner?
r. .
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
ar,rpre OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press IS exclusively entitled 20 ths
for republication OF all news dispatches
credited otherwise credited in this paper.
snd also tie local news or spontaneous origin pub
uShei herein.
Al rights Q: republication of all other matter
herein aso reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05

Speaking OF pieces Of writing worth
Sl50,00O, we have an idea that "Aftcr
the Ball" was worth that to Charles
K. Harris.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
Coming Tower
Quatrains From Martial

Us
High Finance
Dinlid!ur, dorGre Limo guam credere totNr,
When Linus seeks a loan, my friend,
If, rather than the whole to lend
To give the half outright you choose,
IT'S but the half alone you lose
VIII-1O
Anti-ProfiteerinR
Emit lGcernds rllIibus deccin Bds,us
Bassus has bought thousand-dolar suit.
He made a profit: Bassus is astute.
why was the suit bargain them you say.
No, not at ali but Bassus will not pay.
NI-5i
Revenge Is Sweet
Ouod conrlp1rIs sine me tam suepe, Lupercs
Without me, Lupercus, you frequently dine
With anger I'm perfectly dumb.
But when next you invite mo revenge shall
be mine.
You ask what I'll do Why I'll come.
I-47
The Leopard Cannot Change His Spots
Nupcr crat medtcus, muno est v!sp:llo Diaulus
Daulus used to be doctor,
From that profession now he's strayed:
And he's become undertaken
He hasn't really changed his trade.
ADELAIDE.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
NARIUM ET MUTABILE

REIL M III vi . AbIIE
What time [ act real coo-and-billy.
My Ladye warns, Now. don't be silly y
What time I drop the lovers patter,
My Ladye asks me- Whats the matter?'
Whether I shun her come nigh her.
Methinks I cannot satisfy her.
Srsnr IL
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
Wichita, Kan, Dec. IS, 1920.
Another State of War

(From Philadelphia Epcriao Pubic ie's".
London is still fighting the battle e
JutIand. 4
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xsu car purehasc merchandise advertised In The
yhiBUNE with absolute safety--for II dissatlsfae.
sisn results IN any THE TRIBUNE guarantees
e pa, your back ruauest. hc red taes.
Ne authbins. We make posn promptly " the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05

Owned by Sew Yotk Tribune Inc New York
Cooperation Published daily Ogden Reid Prcsi-
tsut: G. Vernon Rogers. Vice President: Helen
Rogers Field. Secretary: r f, Msxaeld Treasurer.
Address. Tribune Building. l5& Nassau Street. New
Yesk Telephone Beekman 5000
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05

Insomnac though we be, whenever
we read of somebody promising "a
business administration we sink into
a sound slumber II business were run
like politics it would collapse. In busi-
ness, when man fills his job with
conspicuous success to the people who
put him into it, he holds the job as
long as he continues to fill it that
way. A Happy New Year, by
the way, to Arthur Woods.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05
suBscNrrTIoN sArrs-Ry mail. Including
GUARAN TY

Sntsred a. shs Postei,,ce At New York ~ Second
Class MaN Matter.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05

OF course, there would be this about
it. If Mayor, for instance, should
hold Office as long as the people, by a
nine tenths vote, were satisfied with
him, there would always be that sec
ton Of the press to charge that he
was making good purely for political
reasons
New-York tribune., 1921-01-05

Shall VIC scnd marked copy tc
the Commissioner?