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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
Enlarging the Conference

The State Department has invited
Belgium, Holland and Portugal to
send delegates to the Limitation of
Armament and Pacific Conference.
These nations are not directly con-
cerned in the reduction of naval
building programs. But they have
interests in the Pacific, and will take
part, along with China, in the at
tempt to remove the causes of fric-
ton in the Far East which now
stand in the way of naval retrench-
ment.
Holland has her colonial posses
sions in eastern Asia. Portugal
holds the little island of Macao, and
was the tirsA Of the European pow
ers to get foothold in Chinese ter
rltory. Belgium, without territorial
leases or possessions, has large
financial interests in China. Belgium
capitalists hold railway and other
concessions, and have worked to-
gether for many years with other
national groups in the development
of Chlna's resources. 1t is de-
slrable that all these countries should
be brought, as negotiators and orig
inal signatories, into any Pacific
concert which may be arrived at.
The Pacific problem is world
problem, in its present complications
endangering world peace as prob
ably no other international problem
does. The moral weight Of the
world must be put behind a settle
ment if it is to endure. China's
anomalous situation is the disturb
ing factor. Is she nation or isn't
She? All the peoples whose inter-
ests reach into the Pacific will be
benefited by Qualification of the
republics status and of its relations
to outside powers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
~ Hamlet's Grave

Not since the memorable occasion
When Mark Twain wept at the grave
Of Adam has there been a more note
worthy visit to a tomb than that
Of forty members Of the Interna-
tional Psychic Congress TO the grave
Of Hamlet. But why the president
of that Congress should say he was
disappointed because neither the
ghost of Hamlet himself nor that Of
his father appeared to tie delegates
is not made clear. 1t has been un-
derstood that the latter spectre gave
up revisiting after his son had
wrought suitable vengeance upon his
homicidal brother; while as for lam
let himself, he did not promise to
come back The young man was
heartily sick of earthly life.
But the forty delegates, though
ghosts were coy, succeeded in doing
something nobody ever did before
that IS, discovering, Identifying and
demonstrating the grave of Hamlet.
Good old Saxo EXAMINATIONS, the
chief biographcr of Hamlet, though
he hourishcd seven and a half cen
turtles nearer to IIamlet's time than
we do, knew no more about it than
that in his own words, "a plain in
Jutland is to be found, famous for
his name and burial place"
Indeed, down to the present there
has been deal Of uncertainty con
corning the identity and the actual
existence Of Hamlet. Shakespeare
got his information from Bclleforcst,
Who got his presumably from Saxo,
who got his from the Skioldunga
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
Squeezing EN-

While one set Of Hylan officers has
been busy collecting higher taxes i'm
posed by higher tax rate another
set has been busy screwing up as
sessments.
The city's new assessment totals
10,6l4,S0 ,042, an increase of
$440, 100000 from last years
figures. On this enormous sum,
despite the new moneys flowing to
the city's treasury from the city's
share of the states collections, tax
rate is to be fixed for next year
whose height no one yet has the
hardihood to estimate.
The financial policy of the Hylan
administration is simple one It's
motto is squeeze em'--squeeze
tenants, by raising rents, and owners
who are not able to pass on the
burden. A grand impartiality marks
Hylan taxation as it spirals upward.
1t is after the widows mite quite
as ardently as it is after the re-
mainder the income tax leaves the
millionaire
Hylanism is costly. A foe to
savings bank deposits, it loves
1attened pocketbooks. To direct
taxpayers it says: Put it in the
rent" To those who pay in
directly it says: ooh, you don't pay
taxes" 1t has developed a great
system. Government, it holds, ex-
lists for the benefit of the governing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05

the commission TO the principal Al.
lied and Associated powers, with
full report az to the taking Of the
vote and recommendation as to
the line which ought to be adopted
as the frontier Of Germany in Upper
Silesia. In this recommendation
regard will be paid to the wishes OF
the inhabitants as shown by the vote
and the geographical and economic
conditions of the locality.'
The treaty further says that the
Allied powers shall subsequently, in
form the German authorities that
they are free to take over the ad-
ministration Of the territory which
it is recognized should be German"
and that the Polish authorities shall
receive similar notification as to
the territory (which it recognized
should be Polish" The principle Of
division, according to the decision
Of the communes, is here clearly cs-
tabhshed. The commission recon-
mcnded various schemes of division.
The Supreme Council, unable to
choose among them, asked the
Council Of the league to suggest a
solution. But the facts in the case
Justify an adherence to the theory
Of partition and a rejection of the
Miller theory Of indivisible as
signmcnt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
Red Cross Classes

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The teaching center of New
York County Chapter, Red Cross, is
how registering pupils for its fall
classes in food selection, home nursing
and first aid.
These classes are practically free, a
nominal fee of $3.50 being charged 10
cover cost of textbooks and clerical cx-
Fenses. A competent dietitian gives the
course in food selection, watch covers
IN fifteen lessons such subjects as
Care OF the Digestive Mechanism"
Food for the Adult Man ard Woman"
Food fer the Baby ard Growing
Child Menus" Food Plans and
Detaries," Food for the Sick and Con-
valescent' and 'Food Costs
instruction in home nursing is given
b. trained nurse. and covers in If
teen lessons such subjects as "Rccog-
ni.ion of Symptoms Giving of Medi-
cine and Other Remedies "Bedmak-
ing and Bathing the Patient" Sick
Hiets," Care Of Patients WIKI Com
municable Diseases Care of the
Baby" and personal Hygiene" A ply
stefan Gives instruction in arst aid.
Resides these three courses, special
Instruction is offered in the ma1ing of
Giabetic diets
Classes are held twice week, during
the day o. evening. at the teaching
center headquarters. - Fifth Avenue.
AS soon as ten persons have eglstercd
icr course Instruction via begin. 1t
is expected that all classes wall be n
progress by the middle OF October.
In making application to enter
class please address the Director. Red
Cross Teaching Center. Il FIFTH Ave
nue. For further information tels-
Phone Stuyvesant 1886
FREDERIKA FARLEY,
Director, Teaching Center.
New York, Oct 3. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
The Attic Principle

What is the next generation to do
when it would stage costume party
of the period we live in? There will
be no attic stores to draw from,
because as people we have dis
carded the attic principle. 1t is
partly because the Homestead" has
practically disappeared, and if we
have an attic one year we have
some other attic the next, and partly
because the constant call of the rum
mage sale keeps down our equipment
of vesture practically to what we
have on our backs. But it is prin-
cipally because in these days Of
apartments there is no attic to keep
things in. We are always in light
marching order.
And the attic principle is more
than a matter Of old clothes-it
stands for respect for things that
have served a useful purpose-a
reverence for age. Our present dis
carding Of the habit of saving old
things, whether for sentiment or
against d possible rainy day, is
symptomatic of a general attitude
toward life. We have no home
steads of custom or Of thought any
more than We have homesteads for
the children to come back to- Many
child of to-day can point only to
towering apartment house as his
birthplace, and many another can
only say: Il was born in a house
that stood where that big build
ing -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05

time the goods arrive al port of desti-
nation. and even then the matter will
be by no means settled, for the reason
that several values, or even no value
at all, exists at times at the port OF
arrival, whereas in the port of original
shipment there is always a more OF
less active market with values easily
to be ascertained by the consular au-
thorities, as well as appraisers at this
end
cd It viii work hardship on the
manufacturer, the importing shipper
and the so-called importing trader who
buys from Importing shippers and re-
sells to American consumers, because
the difficulty of fixing the American
valuation VIII force the importing ship
per naturally and logically to protect
his interests. and he viii either refuse
to sell With the duty paid, because he
hesitates to estimate it, or VIII make
his estimate so high that the manufac-
turing consumer in America VII! prob
ably have to pay more in proportion to
his needs than would be the case if the
duty could be accurately estimated Al
time of shipment.
would here mention thai the fair
average shipment time from various
sections in the Far Eas. to New York
is about as follows:
- |. II
one-half months; from north China.
four months; from south China and
Neither lands Indies. two and one half
months; from India, one and one-half
months.
Via Panama, the list should be
turned upside down in comparison
with The times given.
To those who are rot actively en-
Gagged in the import trade the foyeeo-
ing jargon viii in most cases be unin-
telligible. That is the great trouble
about the whole affair. Our lawmsk-
rrs figure cut a plan for raising duty
and leave it to the importers TO fight
out their side of the case, most diff
cult thing to do. because the lawyers do
not understand the importers trade
technology and the importers. for the
most part, find it difficult to make them
selves clear in argument. because the
fundamentals are Greek to the law
ycrs. In other words. we think lot.
but We cannot make ourselves under
stood.
should think the best way would
be for Congress to invite well-known
importers to take share in the pre-
lnNnary discussion rs members of
committees rather than "a witncssc.
before committees.
}. S. MACHlDEN.
New York, Oct 3, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05

Drawbacks Of American Valuation Plan for Fixing Duties

To The Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I think most importers are OPP
posed to the American valuation svs-
tenn. At least, do not recall having
met any who were not opposed to it.
1t seems to ne it is an arrangement
which places additional burdens on the
trade when the contrary bject should
be the case, and, so far as can see, it
Will not produce any good 10 either the
government or the importer, and il
stead of cutting down red tape Of Gus
toms procedure it viii make it more
difficult and uncel tain
The present ad valorem system has
now been III effect for some years, and
my experience with it leads to the CON
clusion that the existing system is
1alrer to the producer, merchant. i'm
porter, buyer and government alike
| would also mention that during the
time the present I'D valorem law has
been in operation appraisers here have
had little or no difficulty in ascertain
ing the true market value Of almost
any article. In many Instances have
found appraisers better posted as to
prevailing values than the importers
were, these values being chose eff the
primary market thousands of miles
away.
The whole trouble is that importers
cannot make themselves understood
They cannot plead their case because
The fundamentals Of their logic arc
understood neither by the man in the
street nor by the Congressman.
To my mind. speaking as an importer
trading with the Far Eastern countries,
the so-called American valuation plan
works hardship, changes custom and
handicaps business in these respects:
(a) 1t makes cost price fixing mat
ter of about seven months after date
of purchase contract, as against three
months undor the present I'd valorem
system.
CD 1t places dependency for import
valuation upon the widely differing
various American market values, as
compared with the comparatively sim
pie value of the market of the port OF
shipment, one which is comparatively
easy to find out and fix
Co 1t will cur!ail trading in futures,
thereby circumscribing the market. be-
cause the longer ahead the merchant
sells or buys the greater his uncer-
tainty in the matter; if he buys OF
sells ahead under the present ad valo-
rem arrangement his uncertainty ex-
lists only up to the time of shipment
Under the proposed American vaMa~
ton plan bis uncertainty would extend
beyond the time of shipment up to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05

=, Mr.. Borah continues 10 prove too
much in his arguments against rati-
fcation Of the German treaty He
says that if the United States se-
scrves for is own benefit the parts
ri the Versailles Treaty which de
fre Germany's obligations to us
#~e shall pat ourselves IN the posi-
stsou Of having to collect our dues
through an agency acting Jointly for
Us and FOR our allies The idaho
Senator further insists that if the
German treaty is approved the JOIN.
method OF collection VIII be the only
practicable method, and that Con
gre VIII therefore have 70 pass u
hiH authorizing the appointment Of
TN American TO tie Kcparat.on,
FormiEa.or.
The Senate and the country have
cever shown any dissatisfaction
with the economic and financial
factions Of the treaty. We want
Germany 70 make reparation for
ffcr wrongs against Us ~ well as
for her wrongs against others.
.fserman resources are tied up by
'tre engagements she made in the
Versatile Treaty They would
sand ahead Of any obligations she
raight assume toward ne ia a
separate settlement.
(. Is, as Mr. Bogah admit, much
.spsier 70 collect our dues through
Il joint rcporations commission
Tfich has been fanctionio9 for two
ffhrs than it would be to collect
sxtm through separate and rival
tFnerican rcparations commission
Eossuge on Germany 10 pay ~ill be
fIorc effective II II is JOINT than II
It's divided.
What. then, Ia Mr. Borah's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05

Saga, the text of which is now lost.
There is a Hamlet who figures in
the Ambales Saga as the son-in-law
Of Tamerlane; others insist that he
was the same as the British Have
lok, while Sim Feiners and Orange
men alike contend that he was the
Irish warrior Amhlaide. There are
also those who remind US that Saxo
was 2 dligent reader of Latin tales,
that the name Hamlet in Morse
means the same as Brutus in Latin,
and that there is a striking parallel
between the Jutland Prince Of Saxo
and the Roman avenger CT Livy,
Valerium MaXimus and Dionysius
of Halicarnassus. Nor must we for
get the singular likeness between the
Hamlet legend and that of Kai
Khosrau as told by Firdusi in the
"Shah Nameh."
To clear up all these doubts and
queries in few hours visit is an
achievement abundantly worthy of
the labors of forty men, in view of
which we must regard their mission
as having been highly successful
Uncounted multitudcs of playgoers
have heard and seen the ghost OF
Hamlet's father, but no one in all
tho world, at least for more than q
thousand years, had ever seen Ham.
let's grave.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The United States has become
a great industrial nation and is trying
to become great maritime one. We
need able sailors as well as skilled me-
chanics, and that love of the sea in cur
population that mast be developed in a
mans youth if it is to influence his
life
Just now we face the fact that &
large percentage Of the crews Of our
ships are foreign born, and when ship
flying our flag enters port there are
more Europeans than Americans aboard
Such a condition cannot help toward
the permanency Of our flag on the ocean.
Fortunately we have vast quantity
OF material on hand that is of practi-
cally no commercial value, but is worth
all it cost as educational equipment
| refer to cur large feet OF wooden
steamships. Their cost to cur govern
ment may be roughly taken as $500O00
a ship when fully found. Their pres
ent value for commercial purposes,
judging by the offers made to the
United States Shipping Board, is about
one-half of l PER cent OF their cost:
e91a per cent is some shrinkage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
The Military Budget

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The total amount OF appropria-
items Tor military and naval mainte-
nance. including al new equipment
and pay of the forces, amounts 10 only
eighteen and two-thirds per cent Of the
total government appropriations. The
remainder Of the so-caled military ex-
penses covers the cost of pas. wars ana
is more than double the amount OF
money appropriated for actual military
cost. This amount is actually anti
military expense. That *, !. IS the
amour, directly chargeable to our fa'l-
ure TO equip ourselves to such an ex-
tent that war with the United States
would be undreamed Of by other
nations. Such equipment is easily With
in our capabilities.
Every effort is now being made 70
reduce army and navy appropriations
An immediate reduction Of taxation 10
expected as result. An actual feduc'
ton in military appropriation Of % yer
cent win produce ;wc results: FIRST
II viii render us in five years tins
almost wholly aefense.eSs. second u
viii save a little over ny cent
taxes. This IS ridiculoasly sins"
amount for such risk
ATRuE PACIFlSE
Brooklyn. Oct. 5. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
The Red Herring

sin his attack on the Transit Com
missions plan to re-establish decent
-,raction conditions and to give the
public service at actual cost Mayor
Gylan. of course, condemns the pol
dny, so far as he had one, that he has
heretofore pretended to favor. But
ais political case is desperate. As a
politician he still hopes it is possible
70 to confuse The public that he will
ride back to power.
So, with no plan Of his own to
oTer, not even the shred of one, he
plunges into the widest sort of mis-
representation. He says that he is
the only bulwark of the tive-cent
.fare-that if he is not reelected the
Transit Commission will withdraw
fits proposals and substitute therefor
n scheme to rob the public This is
preposterous, but some may be de-
-seived by it.
- Mayor Hylan is not b@lwark of,
or any kind of support to, The five
cent fare. For The five-cent fare does
not exist. On the subway, even
though it is operated more cheaply
than any other transportation facil-
fly. there is a sevcn-cent fare. Of it
Ave cents is paid directly by the
1
Is paid by him as a taxpayer. The
city is paying annually out Of its
treasury interest on S250,000, 900 of
city money invested in subway con-
structon, and this figures out, APP
proximately, two cents q passenger.
Other large masses of traffic pay
seven cents-tive cents fer one car
itaQe and two cents for transfer.
In ether cases, through the divorce
anent Of formerly Jointly operated
lines and the reed of using two COM
rznies to reach destination, the
fare Is ten cents, and in some cases
fifteen and twenty cents.
To say there is q tive-cent fare
row is falsehood Fares are pre-
vailingly from seven cents up. The
Only prospect Of securing 2 restora-
ton Of the Gve-cent fare is by the
application Of some such plan as the
Transit Commission proposes. The
Mayor knows this as well as any one.
So does Hearst, and 50 does Murphy
Tho trio are engaged in a confidence
game They are trying to sell bogus
goods They hope TO be able to gull a
public to whom s1ch words as
Amortization, 'rccapture." "valua-
's.on" and the Ike are strange.
The effort to deceive will not sue
seed There is too little foundation
for it. The transit plan proposes
operation at cost and municipal own
ership, and the squeezing out Of the
last drop Of water from The old trac-
.tion securities. What more can be
offered
,saIiylan. Hearst and Murphy would
draw the herring Of the traction issue
aeross the tran, and thus draw the
pablo away from consideration Of
ere real issues.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05
Big Six 4"
The Largest and Best Fire Engine
of Little Old New York

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have noted recently certain
surmises in The Tribune as to how
Christy Mathewson, prince of ball play
ers, gained his title of Big Six" None
OF the reasons given strikes me as be-
ing correct. Therefore, may be per
mitted to make this statement?
During the course of an active and
merry life it was my privilege to serve
an enlistment in the United States
Army, being stationed in Oregon and
Arizona. This was about forty years
ago. Among my comrades were sew
eral New Workers. OF course -espe-
cially when in their cups - they ex-
changed many "reminiscences of the old
city.
In the early days of New York, as
you know, the fire brigade was volun-
tcer one, and it was the ambition of
every youngster to run wild de ma
chine" as they termed the fire engine
Of their particular district The largest
and best of the fire engines was No. 6,
known far and wide in New York as
"Big Six" Gradually the term spread,
and finally grew to mean anything Of
an outstanding nature in "the village"
AS a matter of fact the leader of the
New Workers in our company was
called "Big Six" by his own particular
friends. He had in his early days "run"
with the "machine' in question, and
never used to tire Of telling how. when
fire broke out, and Big Six" was
on its way to the conf1agration, the
gallants Of old New York deemed il a
privilege and pleasure to tear them
selves away from business and risk
life and limb, if need be, to see that
"Big Six" had it's water turned on first
at the fire
Now, it seems to me that the sobri-
quet Of Blk Six" was bestowed on the
peerless Mathewson by some New
Yorker whose father, perhaps, had
recounted in his hearing some Of the
doings of the brave days of old
J. d. F.
Toronto, Ont, Oct. /, 1921.
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proposition? Is it to take longer
chances on collecting what is com
ing to us, or even to abandon ali
hope of collecting anything, rather
than act jointly with the other
creditors? An ENHANCEMENT Of
creditors is nothing unusual in bank
ruptcy proceedings. How could it
hurt us, since it offers US our best
chance to recover from Germany?
What Mr.. Borah pictures as an inn
pediment to ratification is really an
argument in its favor.