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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-07-23
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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-07-23

ce la cabeza, va era un caddver.. !
Una nueva rosa habfa lido a poblar
los5JaFdines del Parafso.
RAFAEL SALIVA.
Mayagiiez, julio de 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
Pier Profteeri,,g

The Meyer committee is beginning
to uncover ugly facts in connection
with pier profteering. It has been
shown by General William M. Black,
U. s. A., in q report to the Shipping
Board that many piers here, leased
at average berth rentals running
from SIS to $77 day, are being
farmed out for berthing purposes at
from $125 to $450 day. 1t is an
abuse of long standing. But little or
nothing has been done to root it out.
Dock Commissioner Hubert says
frankly that he is opposed to this
exploitation Of city property, but has
not bean able to induce the city au-
thorities to make an end Of it. Ex-
Senator Brown, the Meyer commit
tee counsel, asked him: "You think
the present system Of leasing piers
is inequitab!e, unfair and unproht-
able, don't you" To this he replied: i:
II think it works out that way"
General Black has shown in his
report that the haphazard method
Of letting piers and the fayoritism
and profteering which have crept
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
Even More Pathetic
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: Your frequent correspondent,
John P. DAWN, M. D., seems to think
that prohibition is the root Of all evil
Just before started on my vacation in
July he had letter in The Tribune
in which he cited a case in his expert
ence as physician wheresa "poor dying
woman" cried continually for beer. To
me the pathetic part of the story is not
that DR.. DAWN could net give her
the beer but that any dying woman
shouli spend her last few minutes on
earth crying for beer.
AS rule do not believe in using
"seb stuff" to convert others to. my
point of view, but may I, AS teacher,
tell Of an experience had which seems
even more pathetic than Or. Davin's :?
One day last June pupil in my class
a boy of six years, lurched into the
room with flushed face and silly grin.
knew something was wrong and called
him to me. AS soon as he could man
ago to get there I knew by his breath
that he was drunk. 1t happened to be
a day when the Board Of Health nurse
did not report to our school until af-
ternoon. At intervals during the morn
Ing / sent another boy after water and
Frank drank it all-feverishly. BY noon
he was able to walk home.
With prohibition let US hope that in
the next generation dying women will
not cry for beer nor six-year-old chill
dren be sent drunk to school.
A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER.
Brooklyn, Sept. ID. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16

into 1t aru q serious menace to the
growth Of the ports commerce. He
says that the congestion here is arti-
fcially caused and that the excessive
berthing charges, truckage charges
and overhead costs Of handling goods
are due to misuse Of the ports
facilities
The city governments attempts to
obstruct the port treaty and the de-
velopmcnt Of the harbor as a unit
have been In line with its tolerance
Of pier exploiters. Is it more inter-
estsd In maintaining private profits
than in reducing the excess cost of
living caused by inadequate termi-
mails and avoidabls congesticn7
Mr.. Hulbsrt is apparently able to
clear himself Of responsibility for
the continued tolerance Of pier farm
ing. But his testimony opens a wide
range Of inquiry. Who have blocked
his efforts to oust the profitssrs, and
why? The port is New York Cty's
greatest natural asset. 1t is being
put to shabby uses. And food and
other necessaries are thereby made
more expensive for those who live
here and who must pay the price of
the city governments lethargy and
neglect.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16

Secretary Davis does better in his
second attempt in discussing nom
employment. He admits that his
prior estimate, ~ that estimate Was
construed and was bound to be con-
strusd, was ambiguous. He now en-
plains that when he estimated that
5,735, 900 fewer were on the pay
rolls on August 1, 1921, than in
March, 1920, he did not mean this
number were unemployed.
If the figures did not mean unem-
pioyment why were they published? :?
If many had merely left industrial
establishments to take up other
work; if there was return home Of
hundreds of thousands Of women
who had gone into industry tempo
rarily when the labor demand was at
its peak; II all these things and
others Of equal perinence were true,
why spread the notion that nearly
5000, 600 were out Of work? There
is no profit, as the Secretary now
comedies, in an exaggerstion Of evils.
In the abnormal period of early
1920, during the height Of the price
craze, there was overempioyment-
probably to the number Of 1000, 900.
Perhaps, the country over, another
million have found other employ
ment; and since August many fac
tories have resumed operation. How
many are out Of work now? No one
knows. 1t is about as profitable to
inquire as to ask how old is Ann. In
the welter of statistics one discerns
only guesses, and not very intelligent
ones.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
A Note of Optimism
G Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Having been a reader of The
New York Tribune for several years
and being more or less familiar with
its average type of reader, feel that
just few words on business in gen.
cral, from the visionary viewpoint of an
industrial engineer, may possibly be
Of interest. From my location in the
hnsiness world-that of chief engineer
OF an industrial engineering firm-the
outlook, SO far as big business is con-
cerned, in this country is one that has
never existed before and doubtless will
never exist again. AS matter Of fact
1t never could present itself again il
any attempt at all is made to attain
the commercial and international ideals
now being formulated My impression
is formed by the pictures presented of
the organizations of our various clients
who, practically as unit, are making
ready on the basis of actual orders
and requirements for an exceptionally
large volume Of business calling for
deliveries from November on. This is
putting the actual facts conservatively.
Furthermore, this business Is abso-
lutely healthy and sound and is not
simply replenishing Of empty shelves
purely forced by emergencies. Ou,
own organization is preparing, by aug
menting its engineering department
for the performance OF industrial prof
ccts in a number of the largest in.
dustriai plants in the United States
Would not this in itself visualize the
era am endeavoring to portray:
Primarily, my object in expressing
my views through the columns of this
paper is to bring before a few of the
reasoning and intelligent people Of
New York the fact that the United
States is not quite yet on the proven
|bial road to Hades, as several good
citizens. ostensibly, would have as be-
lieve. VIZ.
New York, Sept. IA. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
Divided China
Represent the Nation?

sided for ten years in the United States.
1t was in the United States that DR..
Sun Yat-sen imbibed the ideas of pop
ular government which caused him to
return to China and establish . repub-
lie there.
The leaders Of the South China Re-
public control the six richest and most
important provinces in China and have
the sympathetic support Of three other
provinces. These provinces have 9
population of more than 200, 0,0oo, 900
persons, nearly twice as many people
as there are in the United States. If
this great section Of the Chinese peo-
pie is not represented at tho confer
encs. how can tho Far Eastern ques-
tion be settled? How can it even be
discussed Justly and fairly from the
standpoint Of the Chinese?
The Peking delegation to the confer
ence can not and will not speak for
South China. The people of South
China, hGlf the people Of all China, will
not recognize decisions assented to by
the Peking delegates. They should not
be expected to. The reking delegates
cannot bind the independent southern
government, nor can they represent
that government.
Az the Peking government cannot
speak for the whole Of China, and in
fact cannot carry out any undertak-
ings entered into for the whole Of
China, is it right or just that South
China should not be represented! Gan
the American government afford to
have China's participation in the dis
armament conference mere farce7
Unless President Sun Yat-sen and
200, ,o00,000 people united in the South
China republic are invited to send rep
resentatives to the conference China's
participation will be a farce and the
gravest injustice will result.
Under these circumstances the United
States, traditional friend of China,
should invite the South China govern
ment to Join the conference. and such
stanch American papers as The Trib-
une should awaken the American peo-
pie to the true situation.
ROBERT HARRIS.
New York, Sept. IA, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
The Aldrich-Dawe. Gospel

Nelson w. Aldrich, who generally
knew what he was talking about,
told the Senate away back in the
days Of the Taft Administration
that $300,000,00O could be cut off
Of the governments annual expend-
i&ure by good business management
Congress paid no heed to him be-
cause at that time 1t wasn't inter-
ested In economy and scoffed at the
idea of setting up anything like a
budget system.
General Dawes holds to the AID
rich theory. Fortunately, as Di-
rector Of the Budget, he has
had the opportunity to put his belief
into practice without let or hin
drance from anybody. He has just
informed the Senate Finance Com
rnittee that he Is going to save
| &360,000,000, not on the estimates
for the year 19ae'e3, but on the
appropriations already made for the
cuYrant year. Such a promise Is
without precedent in Washington,
where department and bureau heads
have acquired the pernicious habit
Of spending everything allowed
them and then making overdrafts
on the Treasury. President Harding
some time ago warned the executive
spenders not to create any more
deficits. But it is an unheard-os
thing that they should now be per
suaded to restore to the Treasury
through heroic retrenehment $780,
100000 standing temptingly "a
their account, The War Depart,
ment, the Navy Department, the
Shipping Board and the railroad
administration will be the heaviest
contributors to this unexpendee
balance.
Where there is will there is a
way. In the last two years Of Pres,.
dent Wilson's regime Congress war
overwhelmed With proAigats esti
mates. It had to cut even thost
for 1S2l-'22 by nearly a billion ant
a half. Nevertheless, some excess
over minimum needs remained, ant
it is due to General Dawes's crus&d
ing fervox that this excess now ha'
been recovered. The country wants
relief from oppressive taxation. The
shortest road to relief is through
economy in outlay--a temporar,
slowing down Of Federal activities
We have taken that road and arr
making progress on 1t, first estab
fishing budget control and next ere
ating under General Dawes's min
istrations a morale which regard
official wastefulness as a strain Q,
patriotic service.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
Putting Golf Up to Currau
Seventy-Year-Old Player Speaks for
More and Better Public Links

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have written to candidats
Curran on the deplorable condition Of
municipal golf in New York, as follows:
II am reading daily about your cam.
paign for Mayor of greater New York
and like your style of talk and bus-
nesslike attitude on the several cues.
tions that are vexing the voters. sm
d Republican: was a Roosevelt Pro.
gressive and have no apologies for Il
"oc34 iia5 cured me of bodily ills and
made me hearty, vigorous man at
seventy, and If you don't believe it
I'll take you on at any Of the municipal
links at any time when can get away
from my job. which means Saturday
afternoon or Sunday or & holiday.
"By this you will know that l work
for living and cannot afford to b.
long to one Of the numerous expensive
private clubs in the vicinity.
"But I am q vigorous, active, de-
voted advocate Of golf not only for
recreation but as one of the best Of
the proved factors for the promotion Of
good health, good morals and good
manners, and for municipal golf par
ticularly, as it brings the benefits Of
golf within the reach of the masssh
who need it most.
~ consider it one of the most cor
siderate acts of the municipal goyefa-
ments of the various cities to have
provided golf courses for the use Of
the public, but I consider it stigma
on the record of the great city Of New
York that it, the biggest Of sll Cities
has fewer golf courses by at least ons-
half than its rival city, Chicago, and
keeps them in worse condition than
most other public links; that it takes
from the players many times the COST
of the upkeep annually and turns this
into the city treasury, instead OF using
it as fund from which to improve
the links already in use and provIde
others. so as to relieve the outrageous
congestion now taking place.
"There were 5000 Disguised golfers
on the various public courses last Sun
day, only q few Of whom got the chance
to play. and there was one gentiemsn
/ in bed with broken head, received IN
| q vain attempt to recover his ball from
one of the ball thieves that infest 'sn
Cortlandt Park. All will welcome one
Of your definite, clear-cut statements
az to where you stand respecting the
future treatment Of municipal golf ~
this city" OLDIiME"'
New York, Sept. 13, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
Varotta Farnily's s Need
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: AS stated in The Tribune VI
September .5. the family Of Salvatore
varctta, whose little five-year-old ooy'
Giuseppe. was kidnapped and murders''
have been in serious need Of help s'nss
last May. Continued assistance WI.
have to be given or the family nos'
starve.
Through the illness Of the man anu
his wife and one Of the other children
this family has been known for mc'e
than a year to the Social Service oa'
reau of Bellevue Hospital. They s''
entirely worthy Of trust and their pres-
ent misfortune should appeal to VI.
readers of The Tribune. The soc'a'
Service Bureau will gladly receive COZ
tributions to be used for this family
need. Checks should be drawn 70 'ns
conyalescent relief fund snd sent y
the Social Service Bureau, Bellows
Hospital, First Avenue and Twsn"'
sixth Street, New York City.
MARY E. wADLEY'
Executive Secretary
New York, Sept. IA, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
Does Peku,g or Canto,

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is a puzzle to me, long
time reader cf your paper, why The
Tribune should take the attitude you
have shown in your editorial entitled
"China at Odds" have no quarrel
with the facts you state in that edi-
torial, but I fail to see how The Trib-
ure, noted for standing beside the
right and always fighting for it, should
ignore the situation facing the world
in China.
The conference called by President
Harding has been hailed as great step
toward peace in the Pacific. All Of us
know that in order for good to come
from that conference China must have
delegation there really representing
the people Of China.
The tyro in Far Eastern politics
knows that the present oMeeholders
and people in power in Peking have
mortgaged everything they could lay
their hands on to Japan in order to
raise funds to pay their soldiers, who
sustain them in power. In fact, the
hold that Japan has on the crowd now
misgoverning in Peking is so apparent
that the Chinese people have risen in
arms and refused to recognize Picking
any longer, Even the military chiefs
in the north recognize Peking only
when they think they can get money
for their own uses.
Since these facts are known, how,
then, can the United States pretend
that the Peking government can send
delegation to Washington and also
pretend that regular constitutional
government now sitting in Canton has
no standing?
The people Of South China have set
up a government of their own ana .owe
no allegiance to the Peking govern
ment. They form more than one-half
Of the total population of China and
are the more progressive Of the Chi
nese. Their leaders are such enlight-
sned men as DR.. Wu Ting-fang, who
was twice Chinese Minister to the
United States and Is we'll known in this
country, and DR.. Sun Yat-sen, the
father Of the Chinese Republic, who re-
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
General Woods Assistant
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.

40 rne Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your recent appreeiative
comment on the appointment OF Colonel
Frank S. Mccoy as y!ce-Governor Of
the Philippines you might with ac-
euracy have gone even further than
you did in commencing his selection.
Colonel McCoy's brilliant career in the
army has been largely due to qualities
which argue for his success in the
islands--an old head on comparatively
young shoulders, rare integrity Of
character, 3 temperament at once ju-
dicial and executive.
As secretary Of the General Staff at
the time whsn General Harbord was
chief Of staff, A. E. F., he might have
remained with honor and usefulness in
the comfort and security of Chaumont
but, like his chief, he applied for service
at the front. He was given the CON-
mand Of the 16bth Regiment (ths old
SETH in the Rainbow Division. IN
which "Bill" Donovan was then q bat.
TALON commander. He fought in the
storm center Of the great battle of july
ID, 1918, the last major onslaught o.
the Huns, repelling seven attacks with.
out giving a foot Of ground, and as 9
consequence of his resolution and
capacity was promoted shortly after.
ward and given a brigade Of the 32e
Division, which was constantly in &C.
ton until the srmistice.
He was one Of the fighting officers
who exposed themselves continually
but ne came through without scratch
The fine manners which spring from
kind and loyal heart arc essential te
success with the Filipinss, and it i.
assuring to know that the new Vice.
Governor is equipped Herewith.
DAVID GRAY.
Portland, Me-. Sept. Is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16
the native taste and business needs
Of American women Will become their
inspiration,
Ircland's Language

Ono need not be Of Sim Fein to
Wish that the classic Celtic language
Of Ireland shall continue to be
uttered by few. A tongue that has
given the world such treasures Of
romance and poetic lore is worthy
Of survival. But that the Dali
Eireann in full sway can ever make
Irish the spoken and written Ian
euage Of ireland from the center to
the sea," as a Gaelic orator pro-
poses, is most improbable. Nor
would Ireland gain by revivifying
an ancient speech that modern peo-
pies will not take the trouble to
learn.
ireland has been for long tima
an English-speaking country. IL
not the Irish "brogue," ms scholars
say. English as Shakespeare spoke
It! What is the language Of Gold
smith, Burke, Thomas Moore? And
how many In Ireland are able to
read "The Ulster Cycle" except in
trans!ation! The Gaels of Ireland,
Scotland and Wales have centuries
old heritage in language, Indo-
European like their own, that is now
common to nearly two-thirds Of the
civilized world. 1t is a possession
worth cherishing.
Command Of Gaelic is a literary
accomplishment that will always ap-
peal to those of Celtic blood. But
Gaelic is not likely ever again to be
q popular vehicle Of communication.
Were it to become 80 it would make
for Irish isolation. 1t is not well
Tor a people to erect a language bar
rier against free intercourse with
other nations.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16

countenance the folly Of the former
Administration. which, as it were,
condemned rain because sometimes
the clouds send down hail.
An American SHOULD be proud, not
ashamed, of dollar diplomacy. To
the degree that we protect capital
sent beyond our national borders,
and thus encourage others to have
confidence, we contribute most to
making the world a better place in
which to live.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16

From the medieval-minded who re-
gard money-making as necessarily
wicked and from the shallow-minded
who echo Proudhon's silly words that
property is theft a loud clatter will
doubtless arise against the announce
ment that the State Department
will hereafter give encouragement
and protection to American invest
n1ents abroad.
The waste places Of the earth must
be transformed into areas of happy
human habitation. Water power,
forests, stores of metal, undeveloped
resources of every kind, must con-
tribute to mans welfare. When the
pioneers, dollar diplomats Of their
day, subdued the American hinter-
land their main personal motive was
to better their conditions in life; but,
though so inotived. their work serves
the generations.
OF all the expressions Of Rryanism
nothing was more cruelty injurious
to the peoples which sit In darkness,
with industries aud resources in cry
ing need Of legitimate exploitation,
than the policy which stigmatized
and practically forbade foreign in
vestment. 1t was as if an embargo
had been laid on shipments of food
to the starving. 1t said the back
ward were not to have a better en-
yironment-that handworkers were
not to share in the blessings of labor
saving machinery and the knowledge
OF easier ways Of producing.
The fact chat too often those who
appear as missionaries Of business
are pirates who prey should not OBJ,
scure the truth that outside invest,
ments are in their principal effec,
most beneficant to the masses Of =
country. Even when the building o1
a railroad is enveloped In chicane the
railroad comes into existence ane
hauls for less than does a cart
Though the cost Of the improvement
is unduly high, it is cheap at any
price. Mr.. Hughes will, Of course, do
what he can to restrain the excesses
Of financial adventurers, but to get
rid Of them he happily will not
New-York tribune., 1921-09-16

Mr.. Curran, speaking affirmative
lE, bears emphatic testimony to the
part played by women voters ia
Tuesdays primary. Tammany, with
a silence even more emphatic, sadly
testifes that it realizes what it con-
fronts in the approaching election
The psychology Of the woman
voter has been batting TO roughneck
politicians of the old masculine typs.
That the newly enfranchised were
coming to the polls in large num-
bers election officers reported. But
how ballots were marked has not
been altogether clear. Whistling to
keep up courage, Tammany leaders
said that the electorate had been
merely doubled-that results were
not changed; but there was uneasi-
ness about expressions Of the con-
clusion.
Now there is more anxiety among
the professionals than ever before.
1t is ylournfully realized that women
were women, and as such assembled
certain qualities, long before they
became voters; and that their essen
tial character is not altered by a
couple Of minutes in a polling booth.
So Tammany is melancholy. Though
it tries, it finds difficulty in speaking
the feminine language.
Women are interested in good
housekeeping. This does not incline
them toward the messy and dirty in
the municipal housekeeping Of Hy-
lanism. Women are interested in
schools. No person much concerned
about schools can want Mayor Hy-
Ian to hold on. Women are inter
ested in children. Is there q mothes
in the city who would not rather
have her boy pattern his life after
that of Henry H. Curran than that
of Charles F. Murphy?
In the approaching election WON.
en- can exert the deciding influence
They know this, and so do all the
candidates. Where this influence il
to be thrown was foreshadowed or
Tuesday. In their sleep the brave,
of the Wigwam are disturbed by
dreams of an unending marcia OF
the petticoated, each bearing a bal
lot and look that BODIES i'll to New
York's ancient institution of graft
When Tammany finally yields VI
the ghost, as some day it will, OF
its tombstone is not unlikely to bs
craven the words: "Slain by thu
Nineteenth Amendment"