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New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

Cermany's Self-Blockade

That the German mind is still the
German mind is shown by the policy
of the Prussian Landbund, an organ
ization which is the agrarian branch
of the extreme German National"
Right. Its business is to exploit the
antagonlsm between country and
town, now rising in central and
eastern Europe, in the reactionary
and monarchist interest. 1t seeks
to ALLEVIATE the more prosperous
Catholic farmers of western and
southern Germany from their tradi-
tional allegiance to the Center
party, which supports the republic.
and align them with the Prussian
Junkers of the east and north. The
Landbund wages relentless war on
the republican government and is at
present specifically engaged in op-
posing reparation payments. It's
leaders maintain that the govern
ment should repudiate the Versailles
treaty.
Professor Levin l.. Schuckine. a
prominent German scholar and Lib
eral publicist, in discussing the ac-
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

tions of the Yankee fishing fleet.
The Elsie gave her master the best
she had of speed and heart, but it
was not enough to overcome the
power of the larger Bluenose. 1t
should be remembered. too, that the
saying that youth will be served is
as true. of ships as it is of men. Yet
though it was written in the stars
that the Elsie was to be beaten by the
big Lunenburg schooner, she was not
outgamed. And that's something to
boast.
So here's to next years races, to
Marty Welch and to The smartcst
and slickest banker in the Gloucester
or Boston fleet when October comes
roundl That cup is going to be feel
ing homesick about that time.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
Railroad Wage Adjustment
Big Four" Cannot Change Eco.
nomic Laws Without Disaster

Oi6 IOuI AannOt NndnEc ECO
nomic Laws Without Disaster
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: During the period of Federal
control Of railroads the "Big Four"
backed by the Director General and
the national government, contended
that the cost Of living (not producton)
was the proper measure for wage in
crease, but they now insist that is the
wrong basis to apply in the regulation
of wage reduction. And this in face
of the railroad labor bill being In
creased by the Adamson law, the
United States Railroad Administration
and the Railroad Labor Board from
$780, 100000 in 1916 to $4,000, 100000
in 1920, or over $50 per cent.
For example, during 1920 the aver
age hourly earnings of railroad en-
ployees were 172 per cent higher, while
the average hourly earnings Of those
IN other than railroad employment
were only 90 per cent greater, than in
1913. And as to the present relation
ship of railroad wages to the cost of
living, during the second quarter of
1921 each railroad employee averaged
at the rate of $1,7S5 per annum, or 1926
per cent higher, as compared with the
cost of living, which was only e2 per
cent higher than in 1913.
Railroad freight rates and labor costs
must both be reduced, and this can best
be accomplished by increased production
per man hour or otherwise by the re-
duction of wages to the level of like
employment elsewhere. What the rail-
roads have gained in surplus earnings
during the last few good weather
months by improved operation and
skimping maintenance will be moro
than needed to tide them over for the
next six bad weather months.
The wage adjustment now in contro-
versy should provide for comfortable
standard of living and education and
for earnings which, with proper ex-
penditure, will insure surplus. But 1t
must not be overlooked that while
capital must provide the opportunity
for labor, supply and demand, manage
ment and the worker fix the wage rate.
as the employee must be paid out Of
what he produces and not out OF
capital. The "Big Four" cannot change
economic laws, any moro than any one
else, without disaster.
J. E. MUHLFIELD.
New York, Oct. 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
Muscle Shoals
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: w. T. Hornaday, whose letter
appears in your issue of the Gath
inst, Is no doubt an authority on
bivalves and Jealous in defense Of the
rights and privileges of the lowly
mussels of the Tennessee shoals.
But is he not In error when he saws
the location of the great government
nitrate plant on the river near
Florence, in northwestern Alabama, is
being mistakenly rendered as "Muscle
Shoals?
When in 1913 / first visited this
point found a population of about
$4,000, where year before there had
been scarcely more than single
family. I recall walking quarter Of
mile in order TO make certain Of the
name of the settlement before writing
home.
Curiously enough, the name over the
'postofiice was spelled Muscle Shoals"
HOWARD E. KELLEY.
Boston, Mass, Oct. %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
The Duty on Gloves
'ew York, Oct. 25, 1921.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune of October IS
find letter by Joseph e. Wood, in
which it is stated:
"We do not have to swear to the
invoice price of the goods We import
If we buy dozen gloves for 1s0
francs in France our agent can in
voice at 120 francs and we paw the
duty on same, and the government
loses the difference"
There is a specific tariff imposed on
all importations Of leather gloves,
Thus, in tho instance referred to. it
make very little difference whether the
gloves cost 60, 100 or 600 francs per
dozen. as nobody is asked to swear to
the valuation Of the consular invoice.
Tho duty on kid gloves under fourteen
inches, sewn overseam, irrespective of
value, Is 81 Per dozen pairs. If they
are sewn P. K, add % cents pei dozen.
W. M. SMITH.
New York, Oct. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
Hail the Rluenosei

More power to the Bluenose! May
her years be long and may she never
know a water HAUL or days ill
luck!
American sportsmen everywhere
will concur in wishing the best to
this years winner of the North At
lantic fishermen's trophy. The Ca
madam schooner is a true banker,
and defeated our little Elsie handily
and in way that leaves good taste
in the mouth of everybody who par
ticipated in the contests off Halifax.
In the Elsie and her skipper,
Marty Welch, we sent the best out
Of Gloucester against the Bluenose.
And nobly did both the Elsie and
Captain Welch sustain the tradi-
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

A silly tragedy is ended and fool
ish man has satisfied his futile ambi-
tions by making a last melodramatic
attempt to regain a throne he does
not deserve. Thanks to the advice of
foolish followers, he has made an at
tempt to take his former kingdom by
storm, and all he has done is to cause
the death of several hundred mis-
guided subjects.
Charles, being a weak creature,
may we'll have contemplated suicide.
But one good can still come of his
adventure. He and his kind may be
forever barred from central Europe
and his advisers may suffer the pun
ishment which they deserve and may
be removed from the temptation of
wrecking their country to satisfy
their personal ambitions.
1t is reported that Charles and his
wife, Queen Zita, have been turned
over to the British. The British
escorted him to Switzerland in 1919
and 1921. Neither time did they
force him to abdicate. Will they again
fail to act? From France comes
report that a third attempt by
Charles is not feared. And, pray,
why not? Charles is a man who suf-
fers under the delusion that the
heavens have ordained him to rule
over Hungary. Gott may have sided
against him twice, but why should he
do so the third time?
The responsibility for Charles's
future rests with the Allies. The
action they will take will indicate
the sincerity of their declarations
that he never shall reign again. 1t
is up to the Allies to see that Charles
abdicates and is removed from the
way Of inflicting harm. Let Charles
weep all he wants, so long as he is
permanently discarded.
Whether king Or pawn, the game
is over, and he should be put away
in box.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

Not the Old Sort of Strike

The reluctance of so many Of the
other railroad unions to follow the
big Five" in their projected walk
out is probably not due entirely to
the fact that the railroad workers
have so poor case. There is an
other consideration which works
powerfully against strike. 1t will
be strike-as was the strike of the
coal miners-against the public and
the government.
Before the Esch- -Cummins law
was passed the Federal government
stood apart from troubles between
The railroads and their employees.
1T was third party, willing to offer
mediation through it's conciliation
and arbitration agencies. But these
agencies couldn't act unless their
services were agreeable to the two
contestants. The Federal govern
ment, as in President Cleveland's
time, protected the operation of mail
trains. But it didn't feel obliged to
guarantee the operation of other
trains.
Now, however, the Railroad Labor
Board, body in which the roads,
the workers and the public are all
represented, is authorized by law TO
fix railroad wages. This board.
having ordered an advance of % per
cent year ago, recently ordered a
cut of II per cent. The unions de-
hghtedly accepted the decision of
1920. They would thus seem COM
mltted to accepting the decision of
l92l. In refusing do they not chal-
lenge the whole system of regulation
which the Esch-C -Cummins law set up?
The Federal government is bound
to support the Railroad Labor
Board. 1t also owes assistance to
the roads, from which it has taken
away the power to control either
rates or wages. One purpose of the
Esch-Cummins law is to keep the
roads operating. A conspiracy to
tie them up is q thing Of which the
Department OF Justice may properly
take notice. Injunctions may be OBJ
tanned against the use of union
strike funds.
The unions which go out will be in
a novel and difficult position. Thew
VIII have against them the whole
weight of public and government
disapproval.
The conditions of which thev com
plain are of government origin. The
existing private management, SO far
as 1t relates to the issues involved in
the strike, is merely nominal. is not
actual. 1t is the public, not the rail
roads, that the brotherhoods are
graphing with.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
If Ice Were Forbidden

Suppose we should read the fol-
lowing dispatch:
"PARIS, Oct. 24.~-By a unanimous
vote the Societ3 Generate de Vini-
culteurs, or wine growers associa
tion of France, passed a resolution
forbidding American officials in
France from drinking ice water and
soft drinks in their homes and in
the buildings devoted to government
business.
"'The practice of drinking ice
water said M. V. B. Vielaire, coun-
sci of the Anti-Ice Water League, is
directly responsible for the evils at
present SO rampant in the United
States. 1t has been custom to per-
NIT foreign representatives in France
to bring ice with them which is to
be used solely within the embassy,
but no good reason can be given for
permitting this practice"
And yet such action would be par
allel to the recent announcement of
certain dry chiefs that the repre-
of the foreign nations of
the conference shall have nothing
stronger than tea. A gentleman
for his blue zeal dog
proclaimed from his prop
aganda bureau that the laws of ma
ions and the customs of interna-
ional intercourse would be sus-
pended by his dictum and our for
ign guests be denied even medicine.
But the State Department, though
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

headed by gentleman who is afTili-
ated with church not opposed to
water, at once took up the challenge,
and is apparently determined to up
hold the doctrine that representa-
tives of foreign governments are
immune from prosecution, on the
ground that embassies are foreign
territory. To smash the interna-
tional law that now exists is poor
way to begin charging it's domain.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
Ways Past Finding Out
Messrs. Mcclellan and Wallis Would
Interest Dundreary
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Lord Dundreary added to the
category of things whose ways are past
finding out
1t almost seems as if that category
of things which no fellah can find outs
must be increased by adding the cause
of the adherence to Hylan's candidacy
Of two such diverse champions as
George B. Mcclellan and Gates Of
He'll" Wallis.
Mr.. Mcclellan, it is fond Princeton
tradition, replied TO dear young thing
at one Of Jimmie's receptions in 1883.
who had commented on his athletic
prominence, 81 cahr't pull very gooi
oar, but can run a very good mile"
He had creditable record, in spits
Of the critics, in his service Of tks
city and has run very good mile
in his academic career. Why he SHOULD
leave the clustered peace of Princeton
and inject himself into a campaign fcr
the salvation of Tammany is hard to
understand It may be merely pross
OF tse efficiency Of the co-ordinator: Life
insurance, Christian Endeavor, Presby-
ter, deputy police commissioner, immi'
grafton commissioner and Ellis Island
impresario and now co-ordinator. That's
going some, Mr.. Editor.
But is there not inconsistency Ia ous
near-revcrend friends record!
Those of US who received q request
60 take off our coats and work for
Wallis to beat Hylan cannot under
stand it.
One recipient of this appeal replied
that unless Mr.. Wallis yepudiated his
then recent Endorsement of Honest
John before the Christian Endesvor
Convention he could not conscientious
ly back him to conduct bona ide anti
Tammany campaign.
Not only was there no such repudia-
tion. but we were staggered by the CO.
ordinator proclamation ending "Ths
gates Of he'll shall not prevail against
tim"-i. G., against Honest John.
Both Mcclellan and Wallis are men
Of culture and education. There Is one
acid test of their sincerity Do they
believe in Honest Johns attitude in re-
gard to the schools of New York! lie
has charged that he is fghting the
Rockefeller Institute and Mr.. Gary I'D
their inquitious attempt 70 control ths
education of our city's children.
This reiterated confusion of the able
executive Of the steel company wfta
the Gary system as partial remeas
for his own failure to provide means
or educating the city children is eitnes
a deliberate falsehood or proof Of DID
Grass ignorance. His followers nave
been deluded by it and he knows IL
Still he persists IN his misstatemen''
Why not print daily short boSea
summary of the Gary plan? 1t is sur
prising how few intelligent people can
offhand define its scope or its purpose.
And with it. if you wish. summary o.
the "Ettinger" equivalent
1t will be interesting to see how 'n'
College Mems League to perpetual.
Hylanisni, as co-ordinated by "Gases u
He'll" Wallis, will deal with the niasss''
PREsBUTEROS CYNlCuS
New York, Oct. 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
Too Much Tazz

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A letter in a recent issue of
The Tribune strongly condemning the
lmmoderate use OF jazz in music, art
and poetry so prevalent in these days
appealed to the writer az both timely
and healthful. The effect o' jazz on the
young and undiscriminating is de-
in the extreme, and to the
cultured it is tiresome nuisance.
L. +. SPENCER.
Passaic, n. j., Oct. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
A Pitiful Object

fryo,a The Cleveland Plais Dea'sf'
Ex-Emperor Wilhelm has had 70 %,
charge ten of his servants and h1's'.
cheaper head gardener. Thas
pitiful -stAo;ts will yet wiring the nssaS
OF his former "a les, and hefore ''-s
Wen be asked to put our names ~
on a subscription list for him.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
The Point of View

tFro7n The Charleston News- ColarSer)
Inc President has been pointing out
the difference between education and
propaganda. He might have stated it
more simply. Your arguments are
educational; the other fellows are
propaganda.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
Disarmament and Dues
By Frederick E. Breithut

event Of war Germany could hardly be
kept from taking them into her hands.
The rest of the world would be left
about where it was at the outbreak Of
the World War.
3. There remains third method. Let
each nation develop for itself the one
peace industry-thc coal tar chemical
industry-which has the power Of con-
version into newer forms of war. This
method is simple, sane, practicable and
efficient.
If we have our own dye and organic
chemical industry We are ON the road
to having other industries which we
need.
Industrial independence is as i'm
portant as political independence.
The dye industry in itself is a small
one But there are other industries
which group around it as the branches
OF tree spring from the trunk. If we
can make dyes we can make perfumes,
havors, tanning materials, Photographic
chemicals, rubber chemicals, paints.
meteorological stains, artificial resins
solvents, disinfectants, roofing ma
terials, road binders, motor gpirits
drugs to soothe and heal the sick and
no man knows how much else. For all
these come from coal tar and they are
all covered by the serm "the coal tar
chemical industry
The possession Of its own coal tar
chemical industry Is the nations best
assurance Of industrial independence.
preparedness for peace and the possf-
bility of disarmament with safety.
During the last six years the United
States has built up a dye and coal tar
chemical industry which, considering
the short time, is an American indus
trial achievement Of the first order In
TACT, it is all industrial achievement nm
paralleled in history. The eighty-two
independent dye plants scattered among
elghteen states, which are part Of the
2lS independent coal tar chemical
plants scattered among twenty-five
states, are this nations best prepared
ness for lasting peace. The dye plants
alone serve directly textile and other
industries whose annual OUTPUT is
valued at approximately $4,000 900 900
Chemical Preparedness
Military armament means tremendous
expense, increased taxation and pre-
paredness for war, with all its at
tendant twisted psychology. Coal tar
chemical plants mean no expense to the
government, reduced taxation and pre-
paredness for peace with the normal
security so passionately longed for by
all OF us.
Preparedness for peace" is precisely
what the coal tar chemical industry
gives US. If this nation were forced
into accepting one of the two courses,
either armament without coal tar
chemical industry or coal tar chem
ical industry without armament. it
would be wiser to take the latter.
Let US limit armament by all means.
but not without assuring ourselves of
an adequate domestic source of the
hundreds, yes, thousands, of coal tar
chemicals.
Safety first,
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
A General Feeling
(rrom The Baltimore suuA

VHTUW IHs buIftMorc SuNl
AS last desperate means of get
ting back to normal almost every good
citizen is willing to have the other
fellow take smaller profits.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

Disarmament is to-day's paramount
world thought. All sane men and
women are agreed that the costs of
preparation for war are intolerable.
We all want to disarm. But we all
want to be safe at tho same time
That is the real question-how to dis
arm without losing our security from
attack or invasion.
There is way to do this. The way
is so clear and SO simple that very few
see it.
What is the way?
The way to disarm safely is to build
and operate dye and synthetic organic
chemical factories. Men may talk
themselves blue in the face, red In the
brain and yellow in the spine. but they
will get nowhere until the white light
of reason shows them this simple
truth; the way to disarm safely is to
build and operate factories for max
ing dyes all the way from coal tar.
Why is this SO?
Coat lar Uses
This Is SO because:
/. The same materials used to make
dyes are used in making explosives
and poison gases.
2. The same machinery and similar
general processes are used in making
dyes, explosives and poison gases.
3. The same men who have been
trained In making dyes and kindred
substances can promptly uso that ex-
perience in making explosives and
poison gases.
4. The same money that in tho form
of taxes would be spent on useless
armament can be better expended by
citizens investing in the useful peace
time industry OF dye making.
II we have these four essentials de-
eloped-chemical materials, chemical
machinery, chemical men and money
we need no armament. If we have the
armament we still need, tho four es-
sentials-chemical materials, chemical
machinery, chemical men and money.
What is disarmament?
By disarmament we mean bringing
nations to an equality in means Of
waging war. This may not be the
dictionary definition, but it is actual
ly what most of US have in mind. It
is the purpose Of the conference az
Washington.
Now, suppose that each Of the major
powers had the same number of
battieships, the same number Of
torpedoes, the same number of guns,
the same number Of shells, the same
sized armies and the same sized
navies. Would they then be equal in
means of waging war?
They would mott
The nation with the best developed
coal tar chemical industry would have
great advantage, and the bigger the
industry the bigger the advantage.
That is why Germany held out so long
against the world in the recent war.
Germany still has her dye and other
coal tar chemical plants intact There
fore, she has just that much advantage
over the rest of the world.
What can we do about 1t?
!. We might destroy Germany's or
gnnic chemical plants. This is un-
thinkable.
2. The League of Nations might oper-
ate Germany's organic chemical plants,
using them for making the dyes, drugs
and fine chemicals for the entire world.
This might be an efficient way, but It
is impracticable. These plants would
all be on German territory. In tho
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

Medicine or not much OF the current
bter seems to be doctored.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

vsu caa purchase me~chsadss advertised In THE
TRsBuNE With ahsciuts safsty--fer q dIssatlssac-
tses to pas your money back upon REQUEST No rcd
tape. No pubhlins. Wo mako good promptly II
tia adsnfffxer does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26
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New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

Add Charlie Chaplin coat Of arms:
A pair of shoes, dancetty.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-26

Motto for crest: Cinema qua non.
F. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-24
Prince Given Ovation as
He Departs for Baroda
Visit to Bombay Great Per-
sonal Triumph, Governor
Wires London

LONDON, Nov. % (By The Asso-
ciated Press).-The entire visit of the
Prince of Wales to the Bombay Presi-
dency has been great personal tri-
umph, says message received at the
India Office from the Governor of Bonn
bay. The departure of the Prince for
Barcda was made the occasion of an
other great demonstration. Masses of
people thronging the platform in an
effort to get near the Princes car made
it difficult to get the train moving.
The Prince on Monday, the fifth day
of his visit in Bombay, participated in
polo match. according to Bombay
dispatch to "The London Times"
BARODA, British India. Nov. % (By
The Associated Press).-The Gaekwar
of Baroda gave state banquet in
honor Of the Prince of Wales to-day.
In the speech which he made to the
assembly the Prince eulogized the
happy conditions prevailing in Baroda
and expressed regret over the short
ness Of his stay.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-24


tions! for liquor to people not actually
requiring it.
"No embarrassment in the enforce
ment Of prohibition" Mr.. Haynes said,
"is anticipated from the provision
imposing penal liability upon officers
searching dwellings without warrants
and searching other property without
warrants maliciousiy and without rea-
sonable cause. No substantial decrease
in the activities of prohibition officers
is anticipated rs the result of the new
act"
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 23.--rest of
the constitutionality of the anti.beer
bill. signed by President Harding. will
be begun soon by the National Brew
ers' Association, it was said to-day by
II. A. Poth, secretary of the Pennsyi-
variR Brewers Association,