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New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
The Common Aspiration

1T must not be again" said Presi-
dent Harding, his voice choking with
emotion as he gazed on rows upon
rows of pine coffins, each tenanted
by the mortal remains of those who
gave their all.
The feelings of the President were
creditable to him as q man, and his
declaration was creditable to him as
a statesman. His aspiration is the
common aspiration. 1t finds an echo
in every heart. ''Never again"
might we'll be inscribed on every
banner of the Republic.
And how can the dream of "never
again" be realized? BY frankly,
fully and firmly publishing to the
world that the power of this nation
is pledged to peace maintenance.
Aloofness and shirking of respon-
sibility will not save the future
young men of America. "We never
were and never will be able to main
tain isolation" declared the Presi-
dent; and, so declaring, pointed out
the only possible way to peace.
Many have doubted or pretended
to doubt President Harding's atti-
tude toward the overshadowing
world problem. 1t is easy to go
astray in misunderstanding. The
difficulties he has wrestled with in
trying to formulate a specific policy
ere very great. But his eye is firmly
fixed on the objective of peace and
he believes that it cannot be attained
by this country functioning alone.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25

petent or grossly insubordinate
workman is as much The enemy Of
his fellow workmen as Of his en-
ploycr.
Ii the strike has refurbislled these
simple ideas, and if tyrannical, ad-
vantage seeking employers have been
taught that few iii this world wholly
have their own way, then it will not
be altogether loss. 1t will take a
long time properly to educate the
two parties to production, but edu-
cation seems to offer the only road
to industrial peace. And losses and
bruised heads and empty pockets
educate often more effectively than
more gentle persuasions.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
Living Cost Comparisons

The discovery by DR.. William E.
Mosher, of the Bureau of Municipal
Research, that living costs are high
er for single women than for single
men is no surprise to the women
themselves.
When women began to initiate their
brothers and wandered from the
home town in pursuit of job or pro-
fession they soon observed that an
economic inconsistency existed. Sal
aries to women were smaller than
those to men, while at the same time
the cost of living was much higher.
The discrimination in salaries is less
noticeable as time goes on, but board,
clothing and laundry still demand a
larger share of a woman's salary
than Of mans.
DR.. Mosher's estimates are sup
posed to cover The cost of living for
government clerical workers and city
office workers and to be above what
is known as the poverty or subsist-
ence level. But a scrutiny Of the
budgets submitted, especially for the
single woman, allows little margin
for the difference in seasons, for the
present cost of laundering or for the
price of food in the restaurants.
A glance around at the trim young
woman office worker casts doubt on
the assumption that one suit, one
coat, one wool dress, two hats, two
pairs OF shoes and one pair of gloves
are responsible for the finished prod
uct. Are these winter clothes or
summer? And what of the wash
fTocks, gloves to match, and the
white shoes and stockings that re-
fresh the eye? DR.. Mosher allows
the single woman 25 cents a week
more than the single man for laun-
dry, but a glance at any laundry slip
outlaws this difference. And now
adays, although the Bureau of Mu-
nicipal Research seems not to have
discovered it, washerwomen base
their charges on the laundry figures.
Another gasp of astonishment at
the bureaus findings is the price of
meals in restaurants. Cafeterias ara
used in the computation, but, even
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
Englewood Cliffs
To the Editor Of The Tribupe

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Thanks for your editorial "It
Was Henry Hudson" There is 8 shin
plying the river whose owners will
also do well to read your article. And
in relation to misnomers l would cali
your attention to your own phrase,
"the Englewood cliffs"
The City of Englewood has no cliff
front on the Hudson. The locality
mentioned in your editorial is in the
Borough of Englewood Cliffs. The
ferry landing known TO the Interstate
Park Commission as "Englewood Ap
proach'' is separated from the City of
Englewood by the width of this
borough, and the magnificent road UP
the side of the Palisades is built on
land acquired from this borough.
The stranger falls so easily ;nto
your error of saying "the Englewood
Cliffs" instead of plain "Englewood
Cliffs" that beg you will give space
to this correction.
WILLIAM HAMILTON.
Borough of Englewood Cliffs. N.
j.. May 23, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
New Jersey Prohibition
No True Expression of the Peoples
VIII Without a Referendum

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t has, of course, but an
academic interest, the discussion car.
ried on among your correspondents
whether New Jersey is for or against
national prohibition. Upon this CUES.
ton I submit the folle wing facts:
Not until 1917 did New Jersey ever
have even a local option law. New
Jersey could have had state prohibit
ton by change in its state constitu-
tion at any time if the majority of the
voters desired. Such = change could.
only be made by referendum vote.
In the primary campaign of 1919 ex-
Governor Runyon was the candidate.
backed on the Republican side by the
Anti-Saloon League. He did not win.
At the election Governor Edwards,
running solely on the wet and dry
issue, won out, overcoming previous
Republican majority of $4,000 by 1Aee9.
AT hearing before Legislative
committee on the subject of ratifying,
Wayne B. Wheeler, chief counsel for
the Anti-Saloon League, argued against
permitting a referendum on ratifca-
tion, claiming the technical constitu-
tional prerogative of The Legislature
to act. In accordance with his cleo
ton promises Governor Edwards asked
Republican Attorney General TO bring
suit in the Supreme Court testing the
constitutionality of the Eighteeath
Amendment. The suit was lost. There
fore, in every public test allowed
(actual test having been denied9 New
Jersey, perhaps in error, is not IN
favor Of prohibition, either national or
state.
There is not the slightest reason to
suppose that even if the present Legis'
lature had ratified it would have acted
in accordance with the will Of the
majority of the citizens. We shall
never get q true expression Of the
peoples will on national amendments
until legislative action on them S
confirmed by referendum vote, the
same as was required in changing the
state constitution. 1t is to be hoped
that Senator Wadsworth's resolution
amending Article v to permit this
will shortly be passed, that we may
do away with the fiction that legiS-
latures are the sole representatives o.
the people in constitutional amend
ments. They have been proved to DO
something quite different
A JERSEYMAN.
Newark, N. j., May %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
Anna Marshall
the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: At St. Georges Chapel yester-
day morning tribute such as she
might have wished was paid to Anna
Marshall, whose death on Saturday
brought sorrow to host of those who
have known and loved her, and ended
service of more than forty years as
a teacher and as a principal of private
schools in New York. Her passing calls
for word of public appreciation as
we'll, for there have been few women
who have given more generously to the
finer side of the city's life or offered
more compelling example of good
citizenship.
Miss Marshall's preference for the
quieter way of doing things marked
all of her career She possessed quail
tiles of mind and of heart that would
have won distinction in any field of
her seeking; but she elected to devote
her exceptional ability to tho calling
she held highest, and year after year,
class upon class, for moro than a gen
Grafton Of time, enriched the minds
and hearts OF others. Boys and girls
alike were among her earlier pupils.
Little children, perhaps, appealed to
her most strongly; their downright
honesty and lack of affectation and
self consciousness met with her SYM
pathetic understanding. But her girls,
particularly, many hundreds of them,
will recall with gratitude the wisdom
and sanity Of her methods, the rare
degree Of friendship she unstintingly
gave them and the charm of her per-
sonality. She had, indeed, a genius for
friendship, and gave to her intinlates
a devotion IS rich in sentiment as It
was free from sentimentality.
Those who knew Miss Marshall in
relations apart from her school work
knew how universal her interests were
and how readily she found her ots
portunities for public service, espe-
cially in movements for improving
the city's social and living conditions
But her teaching, in sense, filled her
life, and her influence for good as a
teacher and as a leader of teachers
can never, perhaps, be adequately
measured
She died, after brief illness, on the
evening of her schools commencement
day, few hours after the girls of her
graduating class, not aware that her
end was so near, had visited her to
say their goodbys-a fitting last in
cident in q beautiful life.
venture to send you this word as
one who knew and appreciated both
her public and her private worth.
GEORGE M'ANENY.
New York, May "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
Ambassador Harvey's Candor
New York, May "a, 1921.

y
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In his Sunday morning SER
mon on May % one Of the leading
pulpit orators of New York Citv de-
nounced Colonel Harvey, our Ambas
sador to England in most scathinc
terms, because in his recent address
In London he had said that this coun-
try went to war for lf-interest. This
same pastor was one of the most pro-
nounced pacifists throughout the war.
If he had had his way Germany would
have conquered the earth.
Colonel Harvey told the plain. un-
vanished truth. Of course, however,
the truth does not please men who for
four years have deceived themselves
with false doctrine of idealism.
Ihere"has been so much after-th the-fact
nonsense preached about our reasons
for entering the war that apparently
some people cannot stand the truth.
Had this country gone to war for
anything else than self-interest it
would have done SO when Belgium vas
invaded The Administration and all
the idealists of the land lost their su
preme opportunity for the display Of
disinterested and unselfish interna-
tional altruism when they preached
neutrality in thought, word and
deed" at time when every instinc.
of righteousness and justice called
for action.
ONE OF THE CONGREGATION.
Brooklyn, May %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
Bring Out the Drug F'ae,.
Let The Meyer Committee Iny..,;.,,.
and Decide on Control Ms.Lasfa MLsa'e

~e' ''io Nicysf Sommlttee lnvessigsl,
and Decide on Control Metbassi
TO the Editor Of The Tribup.
Sir: How true friend Of n,
cotic drug addict is Miss Sara G,.. usf'
Mulball, whose letter yos nnht,.aaa heaafa-
few days ago! This detected, h. ~
lent lady, who has just been lss;.,' 800
out Of the Office Of Deputy c.. 60
sioner of the New York state N..a.' 'ais'
Drug Department, sounds an .,. .s'e
which, ii needed, will result =
greatest possible benefit to n. ~,s .s'
tudes Of drug addicts in tbi. .'' .sas
Their gratitude to her need not h. .se ~.
ened by the fact that she MAJ ,'''-
earned it all unwittingly. Hs's
In her letter 10 you Miss Mn,.,,
declares that Judge Collins + ~
an authority on drug addiction 0s ~o'
has he studied it intensiyelv
have for twelve years. vs..
the last month or two, withou. ...Sa ..'A
ing any reason for his change 81 ~
he has allied himself with the o,ss
camp"
Well, that settles the status Of 1n,
Collins. All in vain shall hi. -.
ciates on the bench point to hi. rn..
years of trying and judging addietiss
cases, to his earnest, honest ana ~
ligent study of the drug habit a, 4.
ease, and to the fact that he ia eh.;s
man Of the Committee on gs,...,.
Drug Addiction Of the Judges .rs
Justices of New York.
"He has allied himself with The air..
camp" So, then, there is saotA..
camp. What camp? Has Miss MaIb,w
camp? What is it, who are in { ,,s
why? How many camps are tbs,ss
Let us, in the interest of the sufs,;nr
thousands--too long forgotten vhi,s
alleged experts wrangle and fa,n
camps-let US get all the facts on q.
subject out into the light. The s.cons
course you suggest in your editorial
to-day woald be ideal-that the N.ys,
committee investigate thoroughly ana
then declare how thess sick usool.
shall be treated.
You say truly that there has bean
too much beating the air with catch.
words and slogans; truly. too, that d..
cent doctors and druggists should not.
ask the public to assume that all tasir
colleagues are to be trusted. Yoa
might well have added that it would BE-
equal folly to assume that all admins,
traitors are intelligent just because tte
badge of Office has been pinned on
them. WILLIAM HEMMINGWAY..
New York, May %, 1921. S.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25

so, 95 cents for food a. day seems
pretty close to subsistence level as
prices now arc, This ia the allow
ance for three meals day, all eaten
"out," and is tho same for the husky
man as for the girl. The heads of
families, no doubt, will be somewhat
pessimistic at the budgets allowed to
them, and, altogether, it is hard to
feel that the Bureau of Municipal
Research has exaggerated living
costs In its survey.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
Official Utserances"

Representative Flood, of Virginia.
wants to know whether Ambassador
Harvey, in his speech in London, de-
Rvered "official utterances." Mr..
Floods curiosity is particularly in
famed by the passage wherein Mr..
Harvey spoke of q war between
Great Britain and the United States
as conceivable, and that the United
States went into the war not to save
Great Britain, France and Italy, but
to save the United States.
If Mr.. Floods queries, contained
in a resolution which he has
fathered, reach the State Depart
ment, which is improbable, he doubt
less will learn that the ambassador
expressed personal views. The Off
cial utterances of the State Depart
ment are usually in the form of
written, signed statements, with
their delivery not trusted to word
of mouth.
AS to the conceivability Of war be-
tween the two English-speaking ma
tions, Mr.. Harvey explained his
meaning. He made it clear that he
was using the word conceivable" in
its strict sense-spoke as a psychol-
ogist using a technical term. He
remarked that revival of the War
of the Roses is conceivable SO it is
conceivable that Freud may yet con-
tend the moon is made Of green
cheese because many have dreamed
that it is. To pick at Mr.. Harvey
on the assumption that he meant
war is probable seems small busi-
ness,
4Fs to Mr.. Harvcy's second of
fending-namely, his notion Of why
this country went into the war
why debar him liberty of inter-
probation that others are allowed?
Colonel Roosevelt declared We went
in because it was the only decent
thing to do. Mr.. Wilson talked of
making the world safe for democ-
racy. Congress officially declared
that we did not enter the war at all
that we merely recognized that
Germany had begun war on us.
Though Mr.. Harvey might we'll have
kept away from the controverted
question altogether, it would have
been doubtful taste for him to pro-
claim in London that our motives
were wholly altruistic. 1t was moro
modest to say we went in on our own
account, permitting others to contra
dict him if they so desired.
Nor is there much nutriment in
denunciations Of the announcement
that the Geneva league is not to be
joined. Names do not count for
much. We now are members of
three world organizations-the Su-
preme Council, the AmbassadoriaI
Council and the Reparations Com
mission. All are peace leagues, and
the terrible Harvey goes cheerfully
to attend their meetings. Some day
it will be recognized that this coun-
try, having not entered one particu-
lar peace league, has made up the
lack by joining three others.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
The Way Out in slesia

Germany's explicit promise to
France to close the Upper Silesian
frontier, to disband the German VOL.
unteers who have been mobilizing
there and to discourage irregular
operations in the plebiscite area re-
moves one element of danger from
the Silesian situation. So far as Ger
many is concerned, Upper Silesia is
alien territory. The Versailles
Treaty detached it from the Reich
and put it under the jurisdiction Of
the Allied Council. The Council is
responsible for the maintenance of
order there until the district is par
titioned between Germany and Po-
land.
The Polish government has re-
peatedly denied having anything to
do with the Korfanty uprising. 1t
has repudiated Korfanty and has no
idea of sending Polish troops across
the border to support him. 1t must
be remembered that most of Kor-
fanty's supporters are not Polish ma
tionals. They are Silesians who
were formerly German nationals.
Polish citizens who have gone over
into Silesia have taken themselves
out of the jurisdiction of Warsaw.
They are subject to the Allied Upper
Silesian administration.
1t is clear that the German gov
ernment has no shadow Of right to
send armed forces into the plebiscite
district. France warned Berlin that
such action would lead to reprisals
in western Germany. But the Ger
mans themselves are shrewd enough
to see that they have everything to
Lose and nothing to gain by sending
troops into Upper Silesia for the
purpose of putting down local disor-
ders. They realize that this would
he for them a fruitless violation Of
the treaty, entailing immediate
French seizure of the Ruhr. 1t is to
their advantage to insist on complete
AAllied responsibility for the preser-
cation of order in Upper Silesia and
Ror the partition of that territory in
accordance with the terms of the
treaty.
The partition is duty imposed on
She Allied Council. Its power is
absolute. The Upper Silesian Inter-
national Commission simply makes
recommendations which may or may
not be followed. The Council is to be
the final arbiter and it's decision will
have to be unanimous. There is little
probability, therefore, of a settle
n1ent which will not represent fairly
the views of all the principal powers.
Much annoyance, friction and eco
nomic wastage would have been
avoided il the unanimous recommen-
dation of the peace conference COM
mission on Polish boundaries had
been adopted and the eastern section
of Upper Silesia had been given two
years ago outright to Poland. The
error made then has returned to
plague Europe, But through show
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
Newark, N. j., May 90, 1921.
Lockwood Committee Matters

Lockwood Committee Matters
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Lockwood committee seems
to be doing some work that will Dc
helpful in promoting dwelling house
and apartment house building; but
is also wasting a lot of time over mat
ters of trifiing Importance.
Take 6re insurance, for example
Any owner of residence property ess
tell you the cost of that item is one o.
the least OF his troubles. have small
wooden house in Flatbush, Oh whles
the fire insurance cost 81 per $1,000 foF
a three-year policy fifteen years ago
and it costs exactly the same to-day;
in other words, less than 2 cents ds?
for $4,000 FIRE cover.
On this identical property the city
tax bill for 1905 was $ls3l7 and fol
1921 it is $4S7.eO. being more thai
seventy times the cost of the FIRE IN
surance. Why not see il soriethins
can't be done to remove the fear Of fur
ther increase in taxation thst is al
ready exorbitant?
That and fear Of more inirniesl
legislation at Albany, added to higI
costs of labor and materials, opersts
to keep much capital out Of dwelling
and apartment house construction.
F. N. T.
New York, May ri, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
The Clothing Strike


Now that direct negotiations are
in sight, the strike and lockout which
for twenty-four weeks has tied up
the city's clothing making industry
promises soon to end.
Neither side may look back with
satisfaction. Both lost, and lost
heavily. The workers, in wages not
received, are poorer by $50,000,Oo0
and have bankrupted the treasures
OF their organization by spending
$1,300,O00.
The employers, on the other hand,
in profits not earned and in interest
on idle machinery and in wasted
rents have suffered probably as much
as the employees. The city's gen
eral business has been correspond
ingly injured, and to bring back
trade diverted elsewhere will not be
easy. A costly luxury is such a
strike.
The vast disturbance represents a
backwash from Bolshevism reach
ing our shores. Hillman, Schloss-
berg, Bonbridge, Blanshard, Ship
lacoff and other leaders of the Anal
gamated became infected with Rus
sian ideas. The time had come, they
preached, to make clothing plants
valueless in the hands of private
owners. Coincidentally there was
an assault against trade unionism.
The language was not so frank as
that of Lenine and Trotzky, but it
practically echoed them. Sabotage.
stacking, defiance of discipline and
resistance to piece scales came into
the shops. The week had been re-
duced to forty-four hours, and bush
elmen, for example, received 81 an
| hour, with no standard Of what con-
stltuted a weeks work. The eco-
nomical use of labor-saving machin-
cry was opposed, and employers
could neither hire nor fire.
The manufacturers, their shelves
crowded with goods and foreseeing a.
fall in prices, concluded to make
stand-to restore some control over
their establishments. A system
under which there was control by
those who rejected pay roll respon-
sibility would not work.
The Amalgamated was rich. It's
leaders talked fuently of their abil-
ity to produce comparatively, and
scores of manufacturers were willing
to sell; but Messrs. Hillman and
Schiossberg had so little faith in
their ideas that they never urged
their unions to go into business,
though there is no impediment in
either law or public opinion.
The foreshadowed settlement will
doubtless be practical and oppor-
tunist. The majority of clothing
manufacturers do not seem at heart
opposed to the closed shop. It has
elements of practical advantage
tends to keep down price-cutting
sweatshop competition, to modify
the extreme periodicity that afflicts
the clothing industry and to lessen
the number of petty quarrels. The
industry formerly had many abuses,
and as decent men most employers
welcomed the help of their employees
to keep them from coming back.
But the manufacturers would have
unlonism that has some perception
OF mutuality Of interest--that sees
that wages are not normally paid
out OF profits, but out of current
production as whole, and hence
knows that Stacking means lower
wages: a unionism with intelligence
enough to recognize that an incors-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
New interpretations

The Heart and Head Bakery Co.,
Fancy Bread a Speciality"
Amusement Park, "Loathed Melan-
choly Henced"
Friends, Romans and Countrymen
Auricular Hospital, Cars Lent"
The New Playf ouse, Inc, "Kings'
Ccnsciences Caught"
The Star Parking Co., Wagons
Hitched."
The Rubicon Gambling it., "Dies
Cast" MIN.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
The Coming .z7ower

Short story scenario: In 1917 man,
inspired by tho Give-Till-It Hurts and
Buy n Bond for the Boys = in :
thcTrenches drives, bought one thou
sand-dolIar Liberty bond. In 1921 he
sold it, buying two seats for the fight
with part OF the money and putting the
rest of it on Dempsey.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
She Has a Patented Wither-
Wringer. Too

Sir: Your enterprising business
movement fills long felt want. Can
Dentist Broun do anything to check
the growing scarcity Of shen's teeth 7?
Also, I've a Gift Horse whose mouth
I'd like looked in.
And your reliable cleaner. Can he
also out brief candles? I shall visit
another shop you advertise, for the
purpose of having a few lies nailed and
an attention riveted. Also, want a
Great Gulf fixed, and Welkin made
to ring.
l am still at work on my own in
ventions. I have perfected a Heart
cocklc Warmer and Portable Bridge
Burner, and shall shortly patent a
Stellar Htching-Strap and a self.
starter for Reluctant Feet. am yet
working out an individual rede-recker,
that every one may reck his own rede.
c.. w