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A Strange Protest

"The World" supports its strange
contention, "No Senator ought to be
a member of the American delega-
ton to the Disarmament Confer
ence," by quoting a protest made by
the late George F. Hoar against
Presidents McKinley's appointment
of Senators to be peace commission
ers and to undertake other special
foreign missions. Mr.. Hoar was a
violent opponent Of the acquisition of
the Philippines and was much cha
grined because President Mckinley
chose Senators Cushman K. Davis,
William P. Frye and George Gray as
members of the delegation which
negotiated the peace treaty with
Spain.
Mr.. Hoar's protest was based on a
strained Interpretation of the prov'-
sion of the Constitution which for
bids the appointment Of any Senator
or Representative during the time
for which he was elected to any civil
office which has been created or
whose emoluments have been in
creased during that period. This re-
striction was overlooked when Pres
ident Taft appointed Senator Knox
Secretary of State, for the Secretary
Of States salary was increased dur
ing the term for which Mr.. Knox
had been elected Senator. The diff
Guilty was met by paying Mr.. Knox
fer a time the old salary Of the office
The Secretaryship of State is an
Office under the United States. But
it has never been held that a peace
commissioner or a member of an i'll
ternational conference holds an office
in the constitutional sense. Such
appointments are temporary and
without definite emoluments They
are not submitted to the Senate for
approval. They do not violate the
spirit or letter of the Constitution
Senator Hoar himself admitted
that President Mckinley followed
precedent Foreign relations fall
within the domain Of the Senate. 1t
is a part of the treaty power.
1t is therefore to the public advan-
tage that Senator'S, who have to ap-
prove compacts with other nations,
should have frst-hand information
about the conditions under which
treaties are made. 1t is admitted by
most of Mr. Wilson's friends that
one Of his primary blunders at Paris
was his obstinate attempt to ignore
the Senate and TO keep it entirely in
the dark as to his activities and in
tentlons as peace commissioner.
Mr.. Harding's plan Of consulting
the coordinate treaty making power
and giving it share in the shaping
Of foreign policies is eminently wise
How can such a course be assaulted in
the light Of the Paris catastrophe?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-29

Daniel j. Neville (Patrolman No.
S035), killed in the line Of duty, WAS
true to the type Of the New York
police force. The criticism which
has been made of the Police Depart
ment never has been directed at the
rank and file, which is made up in
the main of men like Patrolman No.
$685., men of resolute hearts and
absolute devotion to duty. The pity
of it is that men Of this type should
be under control of Tammany's crea-
lures and at the mercy of their
caprices.
"There's dead copper in the lot
up street," shouted gamin Of
"Hell's Kitchen" Another policeman
investigated and found Patrolman
No. 8035 dead, with bullet wound
just over the shield which he had
worn with honor for fourteen years
The lot where Patrolman Neville was
shot had been the nest of gangsters,
who had disposed of Patrolman
Neville's partner three years ago by
dropping brick on his head from a
roof as he passed along his beat.
Neville had been relentless in run
ming down the gangsters. When he
arrested any of them he always had
the evidence to convict. He was the
Nemesis Of the lawbreakers of
"Hell's Kitchen"
Neville was told that the gang
sters were at the old meeting place
and went into the shadows to seek
them out. The cleaning and ur-
tarnished shield furnished the mark
for the assassin, who feared and
hated it with murderous hate
Thus died Patrolman No. 8O35, alone
and in the dark. Oh, the pity Of ir,
that such men as he should not have
leaders fit to command them!
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Too Frugal

"What frugal government Won
have." was remark frequently
made to the late Walter II. Page
while he was Ambassador to Eng
land. "Will you explain to me why
it is that your great government has
no embassy" he would be asked.
cts very odd" And Mr.. Page, fol-
lowing the experiences Of our ambas-
sailors in other countries, could
make no satisfactory explanation.
The United States simply did rot
supply embassies for it's representa-
tives. They could live In garnet
and work in the street. as far as
Washington was concerned.
The effect of this was well summed
up by Mr. Page in one of his letters
to Colonel House. "The American
Ambassadors homeless position" Re
wrote, "shows that the American
government and the American peo-
pie know nothing about foreign re-
latlons and care nothing-regard
them as not worth buying a house
for. This leaves a doubt about any
continuity Of any American policy.
1t even suggests sort of fear thay
we don't really care" Again, touch
ing upon the difficulties confronting
the individual who accepts the posi-
Of ambassador: "Witkout a home or
house or fixed background, every
man has to establish his own posi-
ton for himself, and, unless he be
unusual this throws him clean out
Of the way Of giving emphasis to the
right things"
All of this is aside from the fnan-
cial burden upon the individual of
paying out of his own pocket for tie
house in which he lives as the repre-
sentative of the United States. In
many cases an ambassador has had
to put his whole salary into house
rent alone and has eaten up the saw
ings Of a lifetime in unfolding the
dignity of the United States.
These conditions prevailed in 1914
when MIR. Page was ambassador
They still prevail today And until
cur government sees fit properly &c
house its foreign representatives
and to pay them adequately its rep
reservation abroad will be ham
pered. 1t will be deprived of the
services of able men who, under
present conditions, cannot afford The
luxury Of serving their country as
ambassadors OF minister's
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Sweating Children
litor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I am glad of your editorial
Sweating Children" I looked for it
yesterday.
Child-labor is a cancerous growth
in the nations industrial fabric The
children Of nation are peculiarly is
wealth, its promise CT perpetulty, rs
high opportunity for domestic states
manship.
May the Supreme Court at least up
hold the national child-labor iaw until
the parent is aroused in every roman
and man Of Us. Nay that outraged
parent speak nationwide through R'
press in words Of steel. bayonets o.
meaning, which Will penetrate the coz
seriousness Of North Carolina or, '0'
that matter, any community that toie''
ates the misuse Of its young, the ~
tons youngi
We never get love from children ID
exchange for nothing-or worse. 1n'
child who is protected by his county
who in his poverty is still given op.
rcrtunity for vital citizenship, VIII
love that country, DAISY s. GILL
Douglaston, L. l., Aug. IS, 1921
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-29
The Open Door

what is the policy of the United
States toward China ?" asked DR..
Jacob Could Schurman, the new
American Minister to Picking, in a
speech at Shanghai, and then an
swered the question himself: eve
stand for the integrity of China and
the open door We want China to
remain in possession and control Of
her own territory, to be mistress in
her own house; and We want in
China an open door for trade and
commerce to all nations on equal
terms"
This is clear and precise declara
ton 1t reafirms the return to our
traditional policy toward China,
which Mr.. Wilson had abandoned.
It's insistence upon the territorial
integrity Of China and the principle
81 the open door" shows that these
two soints are still cardinal in our
! ar Eastern program. II gives a
hint as to our attitude on those cues
lions before the coming Pacific con-
ference which relate to China. II
forcshadows an understanding as II
cooperation in China on a common
basis. It strikes at the doctrine Of
Special interests" conceded by Mr.
Wilson.
The hope has been expressed that
Americas whole policy toward The
Far East win be thoroughly re-
viewed in the Pacific conference.
There are many misunderstanding
still 10 be cleared up The honesty
n Americas motives has been qucs-
toned. The logic II Arncrica's stand
has been assailcd So long NJ these
points are not understood, The stu
alton Ii disturbing. But the Pacific
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pean passwords are outlasting their
American cousins.
What are the trees that make
themselves most at home in the dust
and CRIME of Manhattan? The
ailanthus, the Chinese "tree of
heaven" that will grow anywhere
in spite of all handicaps, and the
Japanese ginkgo, or maidenhair
tree, which is beautiful as we'll as
hardy. If we should pass exclusion
laws against tree immigrants Cen
trail Park would be a sickly pleasure
ground.
What is it in the foreign strain
that crowds the aboriginals to the
wall? Our city birds are nothing
but English sparrows and starlings,
The very weeds of vacant lot and
wayside are European interlopers
In the California-made movies we
are "fed up" with Australia's ma
tional tree, the eucalyptus. And the
parasites come, too. They have
done for our chestnut already. The
white pine rust, no doubt, has trav-
eled from some far land.
Well, if we can't have trees Of our
own soil in the parks we shall have
to make the best of the gifts from
overseas and be thankful that they
are so readily Americanized.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-29
imznortals of Obscuritv

Two books recently published sug-
gcst that anonymity is coming back.
They are respectively "The Glass of
Fashion," by "a Gentleman With
a Buster" (the pen name of the
author Of "The Mirrors of Downing
Street"), published in England, and
1.-THE Mirrors Of Washington, pub
llshed in this country, by an enter
prising writer who has evidently
taken "a Gentleman With a Buster"
as model.
The British book is a caustic ar
raignment Of the so-called smart set
Of London, and the American book
IS a somewhat clever but VIGOROUSLY
inferior attempt at political lam
pooning. Leaving aside, however,
the contrasting literary merits Of
these two volumes, can it be possible
that the anonymous authors are
ushcrlng in a new era in literature?
II so they should be placed imme-
diatcly among the immortals. Junius
has hitherto occupied field almost
exclusively his own, but if these two
modern protagonists of the lost art
or Modcsty are to set the fashion in
anonymity, think Of how much we
shall be saved Authors hereafter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-29

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The suggested exchange Of the
West Indies for Great Britan's notes,
which we hold in such large volume,
is an important topic which in due
season will no doubt be widely dis
cusscd. Among the masses of the Eng
lish people there is the most sincere
desire to come into the closest kind Of
understanding with the United States
and remove every possible source Of
friction. With the Stars and Stripes
flying over ali these islands the de-
lenses Of the Panama Canal can be
forever secured.
If we we're as liberal to the English
as we were to the Danes the value Of
the territory would no doubt reach as
large sum rs billion dollars, and
Britain would welcome the relief from
such large portion of the debt due.
The loyal West Indians would no doubt
prefer to remain under tho old flag. but
IN recent years nave talked with n
number Of them who stated that the
economic development of the islands
could move forward much more rap
idly If the trade relations with the
United States could be placed on a
permanent basis instead of being lab e
to suffer from frequent tariff changes.
r. s. ROWLAND
Ar qtcn, Fla, Aug %, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-29
Forego the Bonus
Reduced Taxation the Country
Need. Says Former Service Man

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Public opinion is the real rul-
ing power, and it will be felt in no
uncertain terms if the afmy takes a
final stand for the country in these
days of harassng legislation and de-
clares itself against a further burden
to the taxpayer through the country.
If Congress and the President will do
all in their power to reduce taxation
we want no bonus. In increased pro-
duction the chance to work will be
given us.
A special effort might be made to
give normal employment to the hon
orably discharged soldier and sailor
Secretary of Labor Davis reports $685.
600 unemployed for the week ending
August 90. Give them all a chance.
Most of US have received or will re-
ccivc a bonus from our state.
The writer was on the front line and
has q right to express this final need
the country, our country, has of us.
Let us declare ourselves for reduced
taxation and give up the bonus. Why
should we add to the already over
whelming burden of HE people? By
decreasing taxation and by a general
reorganization of the railroads coal
and raw materials can be brought to
the manufacturers and their products
rapidly dispersed.
At present the automobile is the
leading industry in number of men
employed and amount Of raw materials
consumed. However, it is the taxpayer
that builds the roads and pays two
thirds of their upkcep. The automobile
license should be increased, and mas
much as the heavy trucks destroy the
roads they should be made to pay the
larger part of the upkeep and save that
burden from the taxpayer. D. B.
Hague, Lake George, N. Y, Aug. "a
1921.
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To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The writer has been much in
tercsted in the various articles that
have appeared in your paper in refer
ence to the return to normal prices
In Monongahela City this week, stay
ing at hotel he and his party had
as good dinner as he has ever had
in any New York City hotel.
He is tempted to hand you herewith
the menu, which he feels sure will be
of great interest.
EDWIN STANTON GEORGE.
New York, Aug. 25, 1921.
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AS Tacitus SAYS

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: It would be well for MI
Hughes to have before him in gooo'
clear type what Tacitus says OF Wis
Germans (Germania, Chapter ST.;
Indeed, we forced them TO cross
the Rhine, but from that time wna'
has been our advantage We nave
triumphed, and Germany is stih IN
conquered
True to-day as it was then.
AN OLD TRIBUNE READER
New York. Aug. q. 1921.
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conference will offer the opportunity
to explain and discuss them frankly
and fairly.
DR.. Schurman has pointed the
way. He has spoken with candor
and conviction. 1t remains for the
conference to harmonic this view
with thosc' Of the other nations. This
will be done in spirit of justice and
fair play to all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-29

The statement made at Atlantic
City by DR.. Alfred Peffcnberger, pro-
fessor Of psychology at Columbia,
that an animal never thinks and
man but seldom, is not new. The
professor referred to the army tests,
in which the intelligence of the av-
erage white American citizen was
shown to be that of child Of
thirteen, and remarked that he
"reads and understands the simplest
kind of English, and that is all"
Well, what of it? May this not be
wise provision of Providence in re-
straint Of too much intellectualism?
The use Of simple English is unfortu-
nately not habit that fastens itself
upon either professors or other lit
craft. Thus those who are afflicted
with too much learning constantly
find their audience growing more re-
stricted. They are dubbed dull, prigs
or bores by the majority, who turn
away from them. To be learned,
and at the same time simple, is a
great achievement. Few attain it.
Let none deceive himself" remarked
st. Paul of any one fancies he is
wise among you in this age, let him
become foolish that he may become
wise"
The intelligence of thirteen-year-
old is by no means to be despised.
There have recently been too many
misleading tests. Is not the real
test, perhaps, that which lies in char
acter and Judgment?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-29
A Legislative Mystery

IT FOTH I nc fTortdtnce JourraFJ
The committee that is drafting the
new revenue law is reported to have
agreed not to increase the taxes on al
cohollc beverages. 1t is one of those
uncanny mysteries which, as Lord
Dundreary used to say, mo fellow can
find out" how it is that alcoholic
beverages, prohibited BY the Constitu-
ton and tho laws. continue to pay
taxes.
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GUARANTY

YOU purchase merchandise advertised In tn E
TRIBUNE with absolute ssfoty-for II dissatisfao-
lion results In any THE TRIBUNE suaran-
tees to pay your money back upon request. No red
tape. No clubbing We mako good promptly II
the advertiser does not.
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urs,srR OF 7,uu ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associated Press 10 exclusively entitled to
tho for republication OF all dispatches
credited TO It not otherwise credited in this
paper. and also the local of spontaneous
origin published b,rein.
All rights OF republication Of all other matter
herein also reserved
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F asst inc

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Confusion is worse confounded
by the common phrase "Daylght say
ing time" 1t is astounding how many
people blundcr and get it as later IN
stead Of earlier. If all would say
fast and "slow' time, no one could
possibly mistake
MELVIL DEWEY.
New York, Aug. 81, 1921.
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THEM WAS THE DAYS

sometimes Mother would say at break
fast:
"For goodness sake, Elmer amt you
going to eat your fried potatoes? Don't
you feel good?"
And you'd answer with considerable
difficulty and categoricaly:
Nom. Ycs'm. l could eat few
more cakes, though"
You never confessed how many you'd
eaten already, and Mother never asked.
She just called to Maria for more cakes
and then said to you:
little boys that don't eat enough
don't grow up into men like your Pa"
You tried your best to grow up like
Pa. After breakfast Mother packed your
snack in q two-quart bucket and you
trudged off to school, so filled with a
sense of wellbeing there was little room
for breath.
Long before noon the memory Of the
breakfast had faded away and the
thought of even fried potatoes held
some glamor. All you had for your snack
real ones that you could just raise your
teeth overland some cookies and a jar
of Mothers jelly and half pie, washed
down with pint of milk
Somehow you always felt sleepy when
you went back into the classroom.
And then, after you'd got homo and
done the chores and played around a
little, you had a square meal. None
of these new-fangled feeds where they
bring you a little at time, but real
dinner with everything on tho table at
oncc-meat and whole flock of vcge-
tables and pickles and jelly and cookies
and cake and always one of Mothers
pies.
They filled up your plate till Father
had to use both hands in passing it to
you, and you tucked your napkin in
your collar and sailed in valantly
Sometimes you had difficulty in releas-
ing your napkin when you were through
If you didn't take second help of
everything Mother was certain you
were sick And you were.
Then, after you had fallen asleep over
your homework a couple of times, you
went off to bed and slept like a dead
man for ten hours.
Out upon this talk of balanced ra-
tions Poo-poo to this chatter of diet
and of persons digging their graves with
their teeth
Gosh, you're alive yet, aren't you?
'Jcvcr at breakfast time set yourself
down
To quart of hot mush in blue and
white bowl
all brown
A Joy to your stummick, balm to your
soul?
'J'ever eat biscuits and eggs and fried
ham,
Cut two fingers thick and cooked special
for you;
Not the sort you get nowadays-tain'
worth whoop-
But pink and tan slab that a Teller
could chew?
lever eat cakes till your waist grew
too small
And your collar constrictin', compelled
you to cough;
And when you had finished them, syrup
and all,
A big piece of pie to top everything off :?
'J'ever?
'J'ever come home from school, yearnin'
for food,
And then plead with Mother, with voice
weak and low,
That you'd 60 right out, honest, and
chop all the wood
In return for some milk and dough-
nut or so?
'J'ever come in when you'd done the
last chorc
And set around askin' when supperd
be done
Then waller about for an hour or
more
In the best of billed dinners that's
under the sun
With boiled beef and cabbage and turnips
and greens.
Till you felt like pig with all feet
in the trough;
Potatoes and corn and then, maybe. some
bcans
And big piece OF pic to top everything
off ?
'J'ever7
F. =. v.
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Mr.. Walpole's travellers are all occu-
pants of flats at Horizons in Duke
Street, and it is thence they make their
sorties into the precarious shadows.
Some of them have experiences less
melancholy than those Of Mr.. Jay. The
Hon. Give Torby, returning with one
arm from the war, determined to live
thereafter only for dancing and kin
dred enjoyments, finds him self sud
denly poor. He ends, smiling house
painter in yellow overalls. Lucy Moor,
daughter Of the rector Of Little Hawkes.
worth, visits her aunt n Horizons and
becomes TRANSPORTED by the symphonies
and other metropolitan influences. At
Queens Hall concert she meets
handsome, mysterious stranger and for
gets her betrothed, a rural clergyman
who is untidy and whose lips, she
thinks, arc too red. Robsart and Peter
Wcstcott the novelists, are at hand, and
poor Mrs. Porter, the ghost Of whose
brutal husband fortunes her TO death
The stories are all explicit and pene-
tratlng studies; but TO me the most ont
standing moments of the book are those
wherein Miss Morganhurst's brother. a
dim and shabby little clergyman, tells
hec something about his boys death IN
one of the more unpleasant of the Ger
man prisons. The publisher is the
George II. Doran Company.
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AT FORTY MILES


A long, white road, and a humming
car,
And steady hand at the wheel.
Elms with dropping scarves of green,
Shadows that soften the meadows
sheen;
Sweeping hills where the skyline
fades,
Tasseling corn in the lowland glades;
A bowl Of blue in a piney vale,
Where a homestead CLEANS in its
circling pale.
Meadows and hills and lake Of blue,
Meet us, and greet us, and leave US.
But YOU
You who are pilot and captain and
guide,
Though hills fee away, you are still
at my side
Speed on, down the long white road
M. l.. S.
Solve Your Housing Problem by Buy
ing Home" real estate advertisement
admonishes US. Well certainly do that
just as soon as we have adjusted our
transportation problem by purchasing a
RollsRoyce.
When we worked for living they al
ways used to shut off the Park Place
escalator for the night just as we stepped
off the train. Now some one has told
them we have changed our hours, for
the darned thing has been wearing for
the last week q sign: "Out of Order"
Sunday Nights Our Courage Is Aston
ishing
F. F. V.-Would you dare say that
the A. f. F. boys now enlisting in the
Spanish forces are Morocco bound?
DON ALLEN.