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New-York tribune., 1921-06-29
Railway steel-spring Company

50 Church Street. New York Civ
May 26th 1921
C;arsI GEMT 92@s1, i1s, has this day been de-
company, payable June 3oth 1921. to
stockholders Of record June nth. 1921
The Transfer Books wilt not be closed
=, Checks will be mailed by Bankers Trust
H s. RANGHARr rrea su..ar
New-York tribune., 1921-06-29
Standard Oils

Sal les Ooen ITigh Tow ras+
90 Buckeye Pipe 72 ~ 70 ~
$50 Imperial OIL. 8 ~ ~
500 Std Oil of Ind 62l5 s2h s21s 81 a.
Ohio oil.....240 24O e40 s.0
20 Prairie Oil. Sss S9s 3a5 S95
10 Prairie Pipe L.16S 1853 1853 163
New-York tribune., 1921-06-29
OFFICE OF
LOCKWOOD, GREENE & 60, MANAGERS


The quarterly dividend of u p upon the
preferred stock OF Wtnnshoro Mills has
been declared payable July l. 1871. at the
Once OF the Transfer Agents, the New Eng
,sna ii trust Co, Boston, Mass. to all stock
June 20, 1921.
WINNsBORO MILLS.
HENRY {. EVERETT. Jr.. Treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-29

OFFICE OF
LOCKWOOD. GREENE Il co. MANAGERS
Boston, Mass
>. quarterly dividend OF 2ss upon ths
Common Stock OF Winnsbo Mills has been
declared payable July !. 1921, at the offite
OF the Company. GO Federal Street, Boston
Mass, 10 all stockholders OF record al fha
close of business June 90 1921
WtNNSBORO MILLS
HENRY C. EVERETT. Jr.. Treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

tions, which falls largely to the dip
lomatic service, requires a famil-
iarity with public opinion, officials,
leaders and other related sources of
power and influence which cannot
we'll be acquired in a provincial
coast town Or under the stress of a
mass of commercial routine. Many
consuls are handicapped in this re-
spect.
There are numerous members of
the consular service, however, who
show particular ability or have had
special training. Exception should
be made in their cases by appoint
ing them ministers or ambassadors,
or in certain cases by transferring
them to lesser posts in the en-
bassies and legations. Thus an
other group of men familiar with
international affairs would be avail
able for the selection of diplomatic
Offices.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Meeting Teachers Half Way
College Instructors Discouraged by
Indifference of Students

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial commenting on
the statement of Dean Mackenzie, of
Detroit, that university professors are
intellectual misers" raises an inter-
esting question which deserves discus
sion. The charge that instructors treat
| their students as mere automatons is
serious enough to be answered, or at
least explained.
Doubtless there are some teachers
who have never tried to secure per-
sonal contact with their students. But
it is equally probable that many have
given up their praiseworthy aim only
after a number of discouraging expert
| cnces.
At first full of enthusiasm for their
work, they have been made cynical by
Indifference on the part of their stu
dents, particularly when their subject
is not Of purely practical nature.
Then, too, the university instructor
must often teach the most elementary
part of his speciality. AS for his al
legged craving for publicity, is this not
| in many cases q search for more ap-
preciative audience than he can find in
the classroom?
The university teacher should, Of
course, strive for close, personal con-
tact with his students. But he cannot
renounce all claim to the title of
scholar and become mere uncritical
dispenser of textbook information with
out seriously imrairing his service to
student and science alike.
In the American college and univer-
sity there is of necessity still much
compromise between the elementary
and the advanced aspects of learning.
| If the instructor of creative ability
bears this fact in mind, there is no
reason why he should not be able to
impart something of his own enthusi-
asm even to his more elementary
classes. But he should be met at least
half way by his pupils.
LAMBERT A. SHEARS.
/ New Milford, Conn, June 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Militant Suffrage in China

Chinese women in Canton who
wish the ballot are asking for it in
a militant fashion, distantly echoing
exciting incidents in suffrage cam
paigns in this country and England.
They throng the galleries of the
Provincial ssembly, some in ma
tive costumes, some Western, some
with feet but lately unbound. When
refused permission to address the
august members they wrecked the
Legislative hall, while the Assembly
men beat hasty retreat. Yet there
are no tales of police interference
or prison sentences or hunger
strikes. Canton men are prudent.
Chinese women, who have accept
cd a state of inferiority for CEN
turies, in high places and low, de-
mand share in the government of
the new republic, while nine-tenths
of the men are still unrepresented:
That they should express their de-
mand by acts of physical violence
is SO foreign to the tolerant patience
of the Chinese temperament that it
means more than in other lands and
shows how China has evolved.
After a recent demonstration at
the Canton Provincial Assembly the
women marched in a body to the
official residence of the President,
DIR. Sun Yat-sen. He received them
with the utmost politeness, and with
suave diplomacy suggested that
when five million women marched
with them they would be irresistible
the vote would be theirs. Five
million Chinese women in a suffrage
parade! One can see DR.. Suns
smile.
But women can also smile and
work, and perhaps DR.. Sun may yet
see his five million asking for the
vote.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

impact Of his injurious policy is
against labor.
There is one law, as firmly lodged
in social relations as the law of
gravitation is in physical nature,
which nobody can repeal or even
modify. This is that the sum of dis
trlbution cannot exceed the sum of
production. When the work to be
turned out per operative is stand
ardlzed the wage rate is tethered to
figure no higher than this average
product sells for. This law, birth
Of mathematical necessity, would
control, it is scarcely necessary to
point out, during an era of socialism
quite as much as in an era of capi-
talism. Indeed, not the least potent
of the objections to socialism is that
wherever tried it has reduced pro-
duction, and SO lowered the wealth
divided among workers.
Some in the clothing industry are
gloomy. On the contrary, looking
ahead, optimism is warranted. The
harassed employer may find that ap-
peals to his employees on the basis
of fair play and altruism do not get
far, but he can safely count, it
would seem, on the persistence of
selfshness. 1t is fatty against the
interest of workers to limit produc-
ton. False leaders have taught the
contrary. but year by year intelli-
gence is more diffused. Employers
might we'll grumble less and educate
more.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Consuls and Ambassadors

The report that Consul General
Skinner may be appointed AM
Dassador to Belgium shows fur
ther disposition on the part of the
State Department to disregard the
sharp line between the consular
and diplomatic services. Consuls
hitherto have had small chance of
being transferred to the diplomatic
service. If an exception is made in
the case of the Consul General to
London it will involve a departure
from the tradition of the last ten
years.
But to make all consular and
diplomatic posts interchangeable,
however, is a different matter. This
is the proposal advanced by a GER
tain group which feels that the
consular service has heretofore been
Sighted as compared to the diplo-
matte service. AS matter of fact,
the nature Of the work in the two
services is sufficiently different to
require different training and diff
'ferent background. Doubtless it
would be valuable for all the mem
bers of the diplomatic service to
have experience imthe consular serv-
ice; they would thus learn much of
a practical nature that is lacking
in the present training of the Amer
ican diplomatic secretary. Direct
contact with matters of trade would
give them a greater appreciation of
international business relations.
But beyond a certain point the
distinction between the two services
is too great. For example, the
political side of international rela-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Ii the Contrary Had Been Sale,

10 deny proposition, logicians
tell u.s. is to assert its contrary. Let
US apply the principle to the case Of
Admiral Sims.
The Admiral said in London. as he
repeatedly has said at home, that the
oinn Fein hyphenates of America.
pro-haiser in one period, pro- -Bolshe-
WIKI IN another, and at all times la
boring to embroil this country in war
with Great Britain, are a stencil to
most Americans. Should the Admiral
nave said the contrary--that the Co.
bragh-uber Allies element speaks for
America? He saisi that while thev
were stationed near Cork his sailors
were so often attacked by Sim Fein
rougns that it was necessary to re-
woke permits for the boys to go to
the city. Should the Admiral have
hed about or concealed the facts
is he proper subject for censure be-
Ne'ooS iAS IOlQ JIi6 CTQIn
he said that many American poll
tlclans had catered to Sim Fein
hyphenism as they catered to other
forms of hyphenism. Who can con-
'tradlct this with a straight face?
Should the Admiral have grossly de-
ceived his hosts by telling them
that these vote seekers represented
American opinion?
If the recent election meant any
thing it meant that the American
people were tired, thoroughly tired,
OF fighting the battles of the Old
World in America. The result was
victory for the idea that an Amer
lean should be preponderatingly
American. It rebuked the embroil-
ers and the trouble makers who for
selfish or prejudiced reasons would
get us into every European mess.
Should the Admiral have been a
false witness and declared that our
people were possessed by passion
to get into every row?
Concerning the form if not the
matter of the Admiral's remarks
there is a basis for difference of
opinion. Men have not always the
same taste in metaphors. We in
cline to the opinion it would have
been better to have omitted the
references to jackasses and zebra.
But figurative statement, while not
itself embodying the truth, is often
gunpowder to drive truth home.
If the Admiral had been milder per-
haps his ideas would not have trav-
eled as far as they have. At any
rate, in consequence of them, the
Sim Fein hyphenates are likely to
slow up little and Senator McCor-
mick may find that after all he did
not play good politics.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Non-Exenplary

Mrs. Emma I. Bergdoll, Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll's mother, is every
whit as ultra defiant as he is of Fed
eral law and the Federal power. Her
recent examination by House COM
mittee disclosed her naively intract-
able temper. She offered no excuses
for her conduct. She was heart and
soul with her Stacker sons. When
she was convicted the other day the
judge imposed Jail sentences as well
as fines on her and her four code
PENDANTS charged with conspiracy to
obstruct the operation of the con-
scription act. But the moral effect
Of the sentence was neutralized, ac-
cording to Philadelphia dispatches,
by a concession remitting the jail
sentences in case the fines were paid
before June 13.
Mr.. Untermyer has raised here the
question Of the efficacy of fines as
substitutes for Jail terms in the case
OF building materials dealers guilty
of violating the antitrust laws. A
tine against corporation or an in
dividual able to pay it out Of Illicit
profits means little or nothing. The
public really pays the smart money
after having been the victim Of the
illegal operation. A fine is a harm
less, non-opprobious penalty with
no social after effects. But to per-
son who can afford to pay a fine. a
prison sentence is a penalty with
real teeth in it.
Respect for law is weakened bv
the semi-condonation carried by a
fine sentence. The man or woman
who isn't able to pay must go to
Jail to work out the fine. Thus the
alternative penalty in the law be-
comes a measure of discrimination
between richer and poorer and raises
doubts as to the equality of justice.
Judges seem prone to assess fines
instead of enforcing Imprisonment,
emphasizing, perhaps unconsciouslv.
a distinction between the purses of
criminals, which ought to be un-
known to the law. Mrs. Bergdoll.
the last person in the world to de-
serve leniency of this sort, has now
profited by it. An extreme case like
hers may be helpful in focusing at
tention further on a confusion as to
the ends of justice which seems
much too widespread in the criminal
courts.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
The Flags Origin
The Washington Coat of Arms SLAM
der Again Refuted

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am glad 30 see in your edi-
torial of June 6, "The Flags Origin !"
that you knock on the head the erro-
neous idea that the origin of the Stars
and Stripes was Washington's coat of
arms.
When gathering material for my lee
ture Broad Stripes and Bright Stars"
delved deep into flag lore, consulting
every known authority on the subject.
Here and there / found allusions to
the above absurdity, but in no case
found authorization. I did find that
Congress without official action" re-
quested the commander in chief of the
army to confer with them upon the
question of flag for the country and
that, together with Colonel Ross and
Robert Morris, he submitted a rough
sketch of flag to Elizabeth Ross as a
basis for design for the flag.
1t is evident that the sketch had for
its origin the Cambridge flag. some
times called the "Grand Union" fag,
villa ltS tulIteeH SLTlpeS ana Union
Jack field. 1t required no great in
spiration to remove from the blue field
of the flag the crosses of st. George
and st. Andrew and to place thereon a
white star for each of the thirteen
states, since this was the object of tho
revolution. With an understanding Of
the life and character Of Washington,
1t seems slanderous to say that at his
instigation or suggestion his coat OF
arms was used as the basic idea for
the flag of independence. Historical
records fail to reveal thatsehe ever
made the assertion that such was the
case Or that he ever stopped to have
his family arms exploited for the graf
ification of his personal vanity.
That Washington, who used his arms
and crest upon his seal, on his book
plate, on his watch seal and upon his
Presidential coach, should have per-
ceived any similarity OF these emblems
to the flag of the land he had led to
victory and independence and not pub
ilcly discountenanced their use is in
dicative that the idea was remote from
his thought. CHARLES A. M'COUN.
Ridgefeld Park, N. j., Juna 8. 1921,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Education Versus 'Grurnbling

The strike settlement in the cloth
ing industry, besides providing for
small decrease in wages, pledges the
unions to an increase Of Is per cent
in output per operative. Comment
ing on this, The Villager remarks
that it recognizes new principle in
industry namely, acknowledges that
employees may specifically fix the
product per man, for if one standard
can be established others can be.
The new regulation is surely in
teresting. In many industries the
work limitation is tacitly accepted,
but perhaps the statement is true
that this country sees for the first
time large-scale application of the
principle. If generally adopted it
will have important effects.
With a product standard estab-
lished, not merely as minimum to
keep out the inefficient worker but
as a maximum beyond which per
capita production is not to go, an
employer will, of course, lack in
centive to improve machinery or
methods. Once the allowed maxi
mum were attained to turn out more
would be to put the factory on part
time. A standard is thus calculated
to throttle industrial progress in it's
cradle.
Another implication is to be noted.
Union labor's old enemy. the piece
scale, forbidden entry at the front
door, is sneaked in again, with the
unions approval, from the rear.
When wages are Sc much per hour
or day and there is a standard of
permissible manufacture it follows
that the employer pays specified
sum per garment, and this is COM
pensation per piece.
But the new piece scale differs in
some respects from the old one.
Formerly the specially skilled work
er received an enlarged income. The
new piece scale will subdue his in
come to the common average. In
stead Of a stimulus to do the most
there will be competition as to who
shall do the least.
The workers in the clothing indus
try do not seem well served by their
leaders. These have zeal, but lack
intelligence. Sidney Hillman, of the
Amalgamated, who is sometimes eu-
logized as learned in economics, has
need to do more thinking. So far as
concerns the future, his policy does
not conduce to higher wages. He
may succeed in making life less
pleasant for employers, but the chief
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Marketing a Fraud

IN his remarks at the Coalition
conference Gustav w. Thompson, Of
Brooklyn, took note of the boast of
Mayor Hylan that he has been the
savior of the five-ceut fare.
This, Mr.. Thompson pointed out,
is unqualifedly false, for a five-cent
fare has not been saved. Ask hun
dreds Of thousands Of citizens wheth-
er they now travel to and fro for
five cents. They pay ten or fifteen
cents. The breakup Of traction sys-
tens forced by the Hylan admins
ration's policy ended the nickel fare.
The cheap transportation which the
Mitchell administration bequeathed is
gone.
Nor on the subway does the five
cent fare continue to exist in any
real sense. The city has invested
hundreds of millions of borrowed
money in the subways. On this it is
paying interest. Neither the Inter
borough nor the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit meets its rentals. The def
sit is something more than $10,00O,-
900 year, and the city administra-
ton balances it out of the money Of
taxpayers, who in turn shift the bur-
den to their tenants. Counting the
city and its citizenship as one, which
they are, the present subway fare is
in the neighborhood Of seven cents.
The only persons who escape with
fve-cent fare are visitors to the
city, who contribute little or nothing
to taxes. The rest of US sadly dis
cover that the Mayor and Tammany
are politically endeavoring to mar
ket fraud. No wonder is it that
men and women of all parties are
coming together to smash, all things
considered, the worst city govern
ment New York has ever had.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
A ku-Klux Synnpathizer
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter by e. H. Quick rela-
tive to the Ku-Klux Khan is decidedly
interesting.
Too easily do we forget our Ameri-
eanisIn, and if the reorganization of the
Ku-kiuz Klan can influence men to
become better Americans and realize
their responsibility-als put fear into
the hearts of some of those who are
among us with no good purpose-I say
more power to them, for the need is
great.
I question whether there is any more
fear of klan members "prowling about
at night in masks and white shrouds"
than there is of the great Masonic or
der doing likewise in its regalia.
NEW ENGLAND YANKEE.
New Haven, Conn, June 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Boys at Plattsburg

That boys of sixteen and seventeen
attending the Plattsburg camp will
receive special care and training is
brought out in recent letter to The
Tribune from the president of the
Military Training Camps Associa-
lion of the United States.
This banishes the doubts in many
minds as to the desirability of send
ing young boys to military camp.
The fact that it is the hope and ex-
pectation Of the authorities that the
appeal will be answered primarily by
those from sixteen to twenty-five
further removes any criticism of
mixing the too young with men ten
70 fifteen years their seniors.
The War Department is fortunate
IN having already had experience III
handling young boys in the excellent
'unior Camp at Plum Island in 1916.
lhe age limits there were fourteen
70 eighteen and the schedule was
suited to their capacities. The sue
cess of the camp was attested not
only by hundreds of schoolmasters
Out also by the boys themselves, with
Vhe result that the demands for en-
ro!lment jumped to nearly $4,000
WITHIN six months after the camp
had closed. The value of the camp
men, as now, was not SO much pre-
Mredness for war as the develop
Rent of we'll ordered, controlled citi-
|eAs whose service in peace as we'll
as IN war was Increased because Of
melr training.
: The camp taught the boys to obey
promptly and cheerfully, it gave
mem a respect for authority, it
aught them to do thoroughly work
assigned to them, it improved their
posture and their physique, it in
0esSed their respect for the coun-
Uya flag and intensified their
pafFlotism," was the report of one
Seaool principal in 1916.
ihat such training is equally valu-
ah'e to-day none will doubt. The op.
Foftanity Of obtaining it combined
"'th fonr weeks holiday, with all
expenses paid, is one that should ap-
peal to all healthy youngsters.
Parents and employers should
mink seriously before placing obsta-
sies IN the way of those wishing 20
attend. In fact, it is to be hoped
mat employers will appreciate the
salue Of the camps sufficiently to be
Wiling to grant those going to
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

ing itself. The officers who know most
may, therefore, have least to say.
Mediocrity and bureaucracy ofttimes
hold the fort in our navy and may
secure complete control in shaping
cur naval policies. In the last eight
years they have been supreme. 1t is
believed, however, that the present Ad-
ministration may abolish this throt-
Ting system.
1t is respectfully suggested that the
statesmen, the people and the naval
officers in power give prayerful con-
sideration TO the serious limitations of
cur navy in war overseas, especially if
our enemy has submarines and air
forces, while our fleet has none-if
our enemy commands the air and the
sub-surface of the sea! What is a
Strong navy? What can our navy do
to-day?