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New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Labor's Opportunity

Labor long has been recognized as
q co-equal with capital in the dis
patch of commerce and the conduct
of industry. Its right to organize
and to bargain collectively for wages
is fully established. Organization
has given it dignity and power. No
longer can it be exploited by the
unscrupulous or oppressed by what
some of its leaders are fond of call
ing predatory wealth.
All the more reason, therefore,
why labor should accept the respon-
sibility which comes with it's new
estate. To ask that it be left free
to unite without assuming account
ability for the great force it exerts
is to ask for special privilege. Spe-
cial privilege cannot safely be
granted.
Labor's opportunity lies in taking
a wise, broad-minded and a fore
sighted view of it's future. Only
dull labor leaders will counsel re-
sistance, for example, to law
providing that labor unions incor-
porate, and to the axtent Of response
bility at least accept state regula-
ton.
No aggregation Of capital, no mat
ter for what purpose it is brought
together, is permitted to organize
and do business without incorpora-
ton under state laws. The very
fact that capital is power makes
necessary its regulation. Incorpora-
ton fixes responsibility. 1t makes
capital accountable for the use of
its power.
Labor, like capital, is power. 1t
is of the same economic Importance.
1t is as much a factor in develop
ment. Yet, at present, it is as ire
sponsible as it was in the days of
wage slavery
The proposal that it incorporate
is not intended to destroy the labor
unions. 1t is not an attack on the
closed shop. 1t is merely the recog-
milton of labor as one of the great
constructive forces. The labor lead
ers who are big enough to see that
this is the case and who help to
give labor its due dignity by teach
ing it to accept the full RESPONSE
bility belonging to it will do labor
greater service than all the agita-
tors who have ever spoken in it's
name.
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FRANCES T. sTOCKWELL.
New York, Dec. q, 1921.
The Cruising Taxicab

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Traffic Commissioner Harriss's
plans for Tightening congestion in such
centers as Fifth Avenue will bring re-
lief quickest by taking up first the
problem of the cruising taxicab.
Whenever it begins to rain have
noticed there is sudden influx of these
vehicles from the side streets, and they
violate traffic regulations in darting for
customers.
| have stood on a corner for half an
hour and noticed that fully 70 per cent
of the taxicabs that passed were empty
Just cruising and obstructing other
vehicles.
| would suggest that no empty taxi
cabs be allowed to proceed along the
avenue further than one block. The
traffic policeman at each corner could
easily make all empty taxis turn into
the side streets.
MRS. Aida PECK.
New York, Dec. 20, 1891.
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merely state once more that it is a
fact.
In regard to the latter part of your
editorial, | should like to say that Mr..
Wilson is at present private citizen
who is still recuperating from a Sc
we're illness acquired in the service of
his country. l think that at present
he is entitled to a certain degree of
privacy and consideration. l have ab-
solutely no knowledge of or connection
with Nh Wilson except as an admiring
fellow citizen; but there is a time for
everything, and it seems to me that
whatever solace there may be in rest
and relief from responsibility and,
above all, from strife and controversy
might we'll be wished him, for some
time to come, by friend and foe alike.
JOHN CROSBY BROWN.
New York, Dec. 27, 1921.
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A Hero of Science

Another reminder Of the heroisln
of peace, equalling that of war, is
provided by the story Of DR.. Howard
B. Cross, of the Rockefeller Insti-
tute, who died the other day at Vera
Cruz of yellow fever. He delib-
erately abjured safety to visit a no.
torious plague spot to study one of
the most deadly of diseases, hoping
to discover more efficient means of
checking its ravages. He did a
hero's work, and died heros death.
He was worthy follower Of Jesse
Lazear, who, to prove the method
Of transmission Of that disease,
subjected himself to infection, and
through whose death the lives of
thousands have since been saved and
Cuba, Panama and Ecuador have
been cleansed,
Pasteur. the Frenchman, was the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Cleared Up

Dispute as to the meaning OF Ar
ticle ! of the four-power Pacific
treaty promises to be ended by an
exchange of notes between the
United States and Japan. The natu-
raj Interpretation, adopted by Presi-
dent Harding, is to replace the
forced Interpretation which was
agreed upon by the drafters Of the
treaty, but which was not avowed
and expounded, as it should have
been, by Mr.. Lodge in his presenta
tion speech.
Japan, it seems, was not insistent
on having the empire homeland in
cluded among the Japanese "insular
possessions and insular dominion"
in the Pacific with which Article l
deals. The japanese delegates
thought that Japan should stand in
this respect on an equal footing with
the three other signatories. Pres
sure for the contrary Interpretation
didn't come from them. Japanese
sentiment has recently turned
strongly against any differentiation
of Japan's position from the posi-
tion Of the other principals to the
treaty. And since American opinion
is equally against it, no obstruction
exists to a declaration of under
standing to accompany the treaty
when it is submitted to the Senate.
Article / was clumsily drawn.
But a common sense reading of it
does exclude Japan's homeland.
Though the drafters held the other
view, they didn't express it convinc-
ingly. 1t is not a matter of great
Importance in the international sense
whether all Japan is embraced by
the article or only Japan's subsidi-
ary possessions and dominions.
From the point Of view of domestic
politics, however, here and in Japan
it is matter of considerable impor-
tance. The narrower interpreta-
tion pleases both nations. 1t is we'll,
therefore, to give it indisputable
sanction through an addendum to
the treaty.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

exert his influence among Socialists
to get hate out Of socialism? Great
is the need OF a cleansing. Profess
sional socialism has become creed
of rancor and bitterness, Of envy
and dogmatic narrowncss. If Debs
can introduce different spirit into
his party he will justify his pardon,
for no one would have any element
Of the population dwarfed in soul
by the poison Of chronic malevolence.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
The Old Home
From One Who Worked on The
Tribune in 1873

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The picture Of the old Tribune
Building printed in your issue of De-
cember 25 should bear an earlier date
than 1875. In November, 1873, worked
for brief time on The Tribune, and
the red signboard had been taken down
and new building was under construc-
tion then. The new building was being
put UP on the old site without inter
ruption to the publication of the paper,
which was quite feat in those days.
Horace Greeley had been dead then
not quite year and there was tablet
on the walls,
"In peace after so much turmoil,
In honor after SO much obloquy,"
or something to that effect. I have not
seen it since and have wondered what
became of this tablet.
The Typography of the paper, with
its wide columns, solid matter and
modest headlines; the editors and the
oldtimo printers, several of them
archaic specimens then Of long since
vanished tribe; the vencrated old Fore
man Rucker, with fiaring high collar
and features of classic mold, and
his veritable Scrooge of an assistant
all these things made an indelible inn
preston on my boyish mind, fresh as
then was from a country printing
Office in the town since made famous
by William Allen Whites "Emporia
Gazette"
I wish you much prosperity in your
new location, but l can believe that
when going you will want to 'cast one
longing, lingering look behind"
ALBERT PHENIX.
Baltimore, Md, Dec. 26, 1921.
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Leniency to Criminals
the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The combination of the modern
idea that criminal is "sick" man
and should be treated as such, to-
gether with the indeterminate sentence,
the action of sentimental parole
boards and the misuse Of the power to
pardon, has rendered the admins
tration of criminal law in this country
Il farce.
The indeterminatc sentence should
be done away with and the parole
boards should be legislated out of ex-
istence. Why appoint board to in
terfere with the verdicts of juries and
the judgments of courts
IL there is any communication neces-
sary let it be done by the joint action
Of the trial judge and the prosecuting
attorney. L.R,
New York, Dec. %, 1921.
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Bryn Mawr Girls Who Married

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Apropos of college girls and
marriage, was rather impressed the
other day by certain statistics that
came to my attention.
In my daughters class of 'O5 at
Bryn Mawr was little group Of four
teen girls who were intimates.
Throughout the course all of them
were more or less active in the sports
and amusements as we'll as in the in
tellectual work of the college. The
honor roll at graduation (the first ten)
included at least four of their names.
All fourteen of these young women
have married, although some Of them
waited for several years after gradu-
alton. The marriages have all been
happy. Thirteen out of the fourteen
have children, varying from one to five
each--in all, forty children in the thir-
teen families. P.
New York, Dec. 27, 1921.
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The Steal Box =

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / beg leave to say: "Hurrah
for The Tri5une!"
That editorial of yours entitled "The
Steal Box" was the finest thing I've
seen for dogs age. 1t fairly had all
my other Christmas presents beaten
to frazzle.
The estimable paper you refer to
has been giving every one entirely too
much Wilson and too much Tumulty
The whole country is tired of it.
EXASPERATED.
Pleasantyilie, N Y, Dec. rs, 1921.
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Fifth Avenue Traffic Control

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If the admirers of DR.. Harriss
want to erect monument to him, it is
natural they should think of Fifth
Avenue, but the monument could better
be put in Central Park, where it would
not interfere with traffic so much.
The new traffic towers on which the
city is TO spend SO much are, in way,
a monument to good DR.. Harriss, who,
we admit, deserves recognition for
having created the Fifth Avenue light
system. But the placing of the new
towers permanently in the center of
the roadway virtually offsets what was
gained some time back in widening
the avenue.
The lights could be seen just rs we'll
if they we're suspended over the road
way from tower at the curb. Or, bet
ter still, the colored globes could be
placed at each corner on the lamp
posts already there; they would be
visible down each cross street, and all
the lights could be operated on the one
wire and switch.
In the old days when the semaphorcs
first came into use, with their "stop"
and "go" signs, the policemen used to
roll them aside when the tide of traffic
was in one direction, e. g., down town,
and thus gave room for four or five
lines down town and two up. The per-
manent towers prevent any such in
telligent shifting and make the road
way one line narrower.
r. F. MCCORMACK.
New York Dec 2S 1921
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More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montague
The Kidd That Was

Mr.. Glider proposes 10 shcp Ad
Kidd was not a pirate. and that he nssu
buried an ounce Of gold or other tsc.
ure.-From a PROSPECTUS Of The Ceamy
Association.
Back in the days when, with fer.
vent tenacity,
l cherished the hope Of {
pirates career,
Daily | dreamed Of unbridled rs-
pacity,
Scattering horror and dread
far and near.
Gaining a name for fanatical
bravery,
Wading in blood and exultng
in strife,
Practicing gayly the awfulless
knavery--
That, l was sure, was the life.
Kidd was the hero whose doings
inspired me;
Kidd, with his cargoes Of jewels
and pelf;
From Kidd / derived the ambi-
ton that fired ME
To embark in the pirating game
for myself.
Great ships would | sink when
| hunted and harried them,
Then forth on the wide rolling
sea would I range,
With treasure chests waiting, IN
spots where I'd buried them,
Whenever / needed some
change.
But now I am told that pattern
of piety,
A man who from righteous
ness never backslid,
A person of probity, truth and
sobriety,
Was this much maligned and
DETAINED Captain Kidd.
Instead of a monster OF frightful
ferocity,
With murder and pillage and
evil his aim,
The man was model of jovial
jocosity,
Who hadn't a cent to his name
If this I had known when my
fancy was Towering,
If /, as a tender and innocent
youth,
Had heard that these stories OF
pitiless securing
Of blood-reeking oceans was
far from the truth,
I'd have thought more of Kidd,
I'd have highly respected
him
AS kindly and just and high
toned and discreet,
But, nevertheless, I'd have
promptly rejected him
AS lamp for my juvenile feet!
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Nearer Home

fFfom The Louisville Courter-J Joarrsu
A dozen years ago bandits were sur-
vivals of bsraarism in Bulgaria and
Thessaly and Morocco. Nowadays every
American expects TO meet one aftsa
dark If he has not met cns before dsrk,
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No Due Process of Law

Germany has abolished her court,
80 there doesn't apcar to be any way
to sue her for that back indemnity.
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Disquieting

Some Of the Irish leaders seem TO
have discovered that il they accept
freedom there will be nothing left
to fight about.
Copyright by James J. Montaxue>
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thA uss fcw republication Of all news diSstcaes
ss~litsd 10 or not otherwise credited IN this
SAces. and also the local news OF spontaneous
orz3n published herein.
All rights Of republication O. all othsr matHS
Haxetn $50 reserved
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Signing For Woodrow Wilson

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: l have repeatedly heard 1t as
serted, on what appeared to be good
authority, that during Mr.. Wilson's
long illness in the White House state
papers came into the departments
signed Edith Boiling Wilson for
Woodrow Wilson" Recently / was
informed in Washington that this had
not been denied by the then head of
department who was questioned on the
subject.
Can you tell me whether these
statements are true, and, ii they are,
what would be the status of Mrs. Will
son if she thus usurped the preroga-
tives Of the President Of the United
States, and, should the question of the
legality of state documents thus signed
be raised, how would it affect the mat
ters with which these documents are
concerned?
FRANCES T. STOCKWELL.
New York, Dec. q, 1921.
1.-THE Tribune has no information
that Mrs. Wilson signed state papers
for President Wilson during his
lllness.-Ed.
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Only Natural

In common with ell baseball peo-
PIE, Judge Lands objects to spending
all his time on the bench.
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GUHHNNrT
Wee eaH eurthsss msrchassha advevtiscd In TINE
TNteuNx With absolute safsvf--ses u dlssstisfss.
tim results Ia sxy case THE TRIBUNE suarar.
tsw 70 psy ysur msnsy back 3pcn request. No rsd
taeA Ne saisslIn,. We make ssed prsmStiy u
the adseGtlser dees ret.
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The 7ower
On the New Year of lB b. C..
AID POSTUMUM


"Ehca! fugaces, Post,.ne, Postumc"~---
0 Postumus, my Postumus, tho New
Years bells have tolled,
And silver threads, il any, find
themselves among the gold;
And nothing you can do or say, be
it jocular or solemn,
Can keep your name forever from
the obituary column.
Why, if you gave hospital and
twenty schools away,
You couldn't put tho Reaper off the
fraction of day.
For everything man can get and
everything he has
He has to leave behind him when he
gets the Final Razz.
Some morning when you say goodby,
as usual, to your wife,
Unmindful that she never more will
sec you in the life,
A motor car will hit you -.
and some finer, better feller
Will spill upon your marble floors
the hootch that's in your cellar.
"The band struck up Hail! Hail!
the Gangs All Here!'" said the Debs-
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THE SUBWAY TAKERS

"Say, met Marg'rets brother
yes'd'y."
"Yeh? He's nice looking. isn't he ?"
"Yeh. He's policeman, y'know."
"a policeman? Nav, he can't be q
policeman. He isn't twenny-one years
old yet"
"Well, what's that got to do with him
bein' policeman"
"Well, y'can't be a policeman till
ye're twenny-one."
''ls that SO? Y'can't be a policeman
till ye're twenny-one
"Nope, not till yc're twenny-one. An
Marg'ret told me he was just twenny
years old"
"Yeh! Well, thought some one told
me he was a policeman"
"Well, you muss be wrong, because
y'can't be policeman till ye're twenny-
one years old and he's only twenny."
"Say, l never knew that. Ye sure Of
that?"
"Yeh, that's right, what I'm telling
y
twenny-one" MYRRIL.
F. p. A. quotes Mr.. Daughertys as
sertion that Mr.. Debs is pursuing
theory erroneous in principle and
wants to know whether Mr.. Daugherty
has the right to assert that it is
erroneous.
If +. P. A. cares to leave it to us
and much is left to US in these latter
days-we think Mr.. Daugherty has a
perfect right to make such assertion.
If theory is not sufficiently attrac-
tive, plausible or convincing to secure
for itself trial-if, in addition, it is
considered hokum by nearly every prac-
tical-minded, level-headed, straight
thinking individual in the world-the
probabilities are that it is erroneous
in principlc.-Jay E. House in The
Philadelphia Ledger.
Which exhumes the questionable
same question as that of Mr.. Daugher-
tvs or Mr.. Debs's right to say that a
theory is or isn't erroneous-as to
what the definitions are of "practical-
minded, leyel-headed, aight-think-
ing" A lot of straight thinkers differ
vitality on the definition Of straight
thinking.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
A Perfect Woman, Nobly Planned

A Perfect Woman, Nobly Planned
f. p. a: You suggested recently as
title for an essay ~ simply don't get
time to read paper" May l inquire
what your candid opinion is Of Stenog
who finds time to read nothing else but
Inc Tower? Peggy.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Safety First

+. +. A.: Our -year-old girl re-
ceived an invitation to Red Riding
Hood party. Before she accepted our
child asked, "Did they invite the
WOLFF" MRS. TACKS.
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Physical circum stances

HysICdI CItcuWstaHces Cause
the Tartars to delight in diet OF milk.
From "Thc History of the Jntellectu-
al Development of Europe" by John
William Draper.
AS we always suspected, they export
the cream. F.pA
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 80, 1921

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"The band struck up Hail! Hail!
the Gangs All Here!'" said the Debs-
welcome story from Terre Haute.
Why not marching From Georgia.?
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Badly Shot and Cut in Game o.
Cards.-Last nights Sun headline.
Bullets and jacks.
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GUARANTY

3atsssa ~ the rtstcsncs At Ns~ York as second
Cssss Mail Matter.
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Peggy.

And then Of a sudden the spirit and
the understanding of the business came
to him Arthur Brisbane] and he
blazed out into brillancy of written
words and comprehension of what to
write and how to write it that made
his associates gasp in admiration; and
ne went on to supreme success.-Ches-
ter S. Lord in The Satevepost.
Doesn't Mr.. Lord mean "success"?
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

Vicarious, or Painless, Dentistry
lFrom the Bradford (Vt.) United Opinion1
Mrs. Elmer Still was in Bradford one day
last week. having dental work done for her
daughter Ruby.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

The Contribs' Dinner, we have been
requested by Adelaide to announce, will
be held February 81, 1922, at the Hotel
Majestic. At this barbecue the watch
awarded for 1928 best Tower contri
button will be given to Mr.. j. M. Kcr-
rigan. Only bona fde contribs who
send, as far in advance as possible,
$3.50 to Miss Adelaide Hahn, Hunter
College, New York, are eligible. And
don't bother US; bother her.
"Your Contribs,' writes Mr.. F. P.
Pitzer,
"Should be careful how they praise
Traffic Bluecoats in their lays
For you know (eXcuse the quip)
There's Many Slip Twixt the Cop and
the Lip"
Peroxide of hydrogen will also re-
move ink stains. Wet with the peroxide
and lay in the sun till they disappear
"Sparks from Housewives Anvil"
Gosh, we love to lay in the sun
ANYWAY
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-24
BENN|NG'S MEN
ARE PREPARED
Game With Brooklyn Team to
Prepare Tote nviIIe Legion
for SpeedWays

The Imperial Separates of Brook
Iyn. is the opposition booked for
the Beauvais Post basketball team
in the latter's weekly game on tho
Amicitia hall court in Pleasant
Pains tonight. The Brooklyn team
is one of the strongest combina-
ticns booked to appear on the Pleas
ant Plains court this season, ana
a hard fought game is expected.
It is probable that Charley Sher,
star guard of the legion team, will
be ready for action in the game to-
night. He recently injured his back
which is responsible for his being
forced to stu. eff the court during
the past week. If he does not play
in the game tonight, he surely will
appear against the Speedways in the
game on the Auditorium court Mon
day night
The remainder of the legion line
UP for the game tonight will be as
follows: Covell and Preacher, for
wards; La Forge, center; and Price,
guard. Hoehn played in Sher's
place in the game last week, and
this player will be used in ase Sher
does not get into the contest to-
night.
Copeland will o%fficiate in this
game. The lineup of the BROOKLYN
team has no.. been announced, but
the Separates manager has announce
ed that his strongest lineup will De
brought down for this game.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-24
next MATCHES IN LEAGUE
SCHEDULED FOR JAN. g

The next matches of the City
Bowling league will be rolled on
Monday night, January 9, and on
this date the first games in the Sec
ond half of the league schedule will
be run off. In Arranging the sched-
ule originally, provision was made
so that no matches were set down
for the holidays.
At the present time the American
Smelling & Refining company entry
is leading the league with h re-
mainder of the teams well punched.
A meeting of the representatives
of the different teams was sched-
uled for last night for the purpose
of deciding on the distribution OF
prizes. This meeting was postponed
by President Howard Richards until
Tuesday night of next week. This
meeting will be held in the Elks
club and will get under way at
o'clock.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-24
VARSITY SQUAD
TO PRACTICE
Candidates for Boys and Girls
Teams to Keep in
Trim

The candidates who recently re-
ported for the boys and girls var-
sity teams of the local high school
Will hold practice sessions at inter-
walls during the holiday vacation 30
as to be in readiness for the pen
ing of the regular season shortly af-
ter the beginning of the second half
term.
Veterans Of the boys and girls
teams of last season will take charge
OF the candidates who are out for
the varsity teams during this pc
rod. The squads which have re-
ported this eason include a number
of the stars Of the girls and boys
varsity teams of last season, and il
is possible that the teams for the
1922 season will be built around
these players.
Coaches Miss Marion Burns and
Robert S. Waddell believe a grea.
deal of real varsity material was
produced through the medium of the
in~tericlass series just completed. II
IS believed a new system will De
Used this year in choosing the var
witty teams, so that everyone coming
out for the team and capable of de-
'lvering the goods. will have a chance
70 win their letters.
Miss E. Jones, manager of the
girls team is arranging a great
schedule for her team, while Ed
P~atten, manager of the boys team,
has already completed his schedule,
which includes games with many OF
the leading teams in the state.