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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
Withdrawal for Repairs

William Mckinley, Nelson Ding
ley and Serene Payne, all of whom
had to do with making tariff acts,
were not weak protectionists, yet all
favored duty-free hides.
twas plain to all three, as to prac-
tically all great protectionists, that
if our manufacturers of leather
goods, being compelled as they are to
look. abroad in ordinary times for
half of their raw material, could not
compete in foreign markets if their
raw material was taxed, they could
not retain even the home market I'M
less there were compensatory" du-
ties on leather manufactures, and
that this would mean that the farm
er, though he might receive a little
more in some instances for his
hides, would lose more than he
gained when he went to buy shoes
for his children or harness for his
horses.
Who, then, would get the benefit
Of the hide tariff? The packers,
chiefly. Of the hides produced in
America 65 per cent are marketed
by the packers, to whom they come
as a by-product of beef buying.
Hence the intelligent farmer is not
caught by the bait of hide duty.
Doing the farmer little if any
good, the leather-making industries
would find that the foreign demand,
which is more and more relied on
to give employment to hundreds of
thousands, would be at great dis
advantage; and not only would
leather manufacturing be hit blow
between the eyes but the related
tanning industry, which now also
looks abroad for most of it's tanning
material, would naturally move
elsewhere. 1t is worth while to note
that not country in Europe has
duty on hides or on tanning sub
stances.
The Fordney bill may we'll be with
drawn for needed repairs. The oil
duty, the lumber section and the
hide schedule now plastered on re-
guire further consideration. No one
knows what conditions will exist
next autumn, and it is unwise to
leap long in advance The interim
can be proftably occupied by matur-
ing tax revision, for which there is
increasing impatience. No one has
yet satisfactorily explained why the
tariff bill was reported ahead of tax
revision, for it is admitted that no
tariff bill can become law until tax
revision is disposed of and the sum
ascertained that it is necessary. to
raise. Why have the farce of hav-
ing action by one House in July
when it will be necessary to redo
the work in October or November?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
The Oil Tax Vote

President Harding's hint to the
House Of Representatives that a
duty on crude oil is inconsistent with
larger commercial and diplomatic
policies which the government has
in view was more than sufficient.
The House reversed the action of
the Ways and Means Committee.
II thereby showed a willingness to
look at tariff problems from a view
n point broader than that of Mr.. Ford
4 ney and his associates.
World conditions have changed
vastly since the Payne tariff act was
passed in 1909. And even in 1909
the country felt that Mr.. Payne and
Mr.. Aldrich had been overrigid in
applying the protective theory. The
Republican revolt in the Senate
against the wool schedule, which
Jonathan P. Dolliver led, had a
marked effect on the 1910 election.
The United States became through
the World War a great exporter and
shipper, and also a creditor instead
of a debtor nation. We have enor-
nous loans and investments abroad.
We have built great merchant ma
rine. We cannot resume the posi-
ton Of economic aloofness which
formerly justified a policy of exclu-
sion toward competing foreign prod
ucts. How can Europe pay us if
we do not admit her goods?
Mr.. Fordney hasn't adapted his
tariff doctrine sufficiently to these
new conditions. His bill looks back
ward in many respects instead of
forward. More than ever before
.arif changes are knife which cuts
10Th ways. A daty which was bene-
icially protective ten or fifteen years
go may be injurious now as preju-
icing our new relations to the rest
I the world. 4
II is evident that the measure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
The DiabIesse Arrives

None can so we'll appreciate the
extraordinary hardihood of the first
immigrants who came to this country
in the early 1600s as those fortunate
few who have dared the ocean in
small sailing vessel.
Last year an adventurous seaman
crossed the Atlantic in a fifteenth
ketch.- And now news has Just come
OF the arrival at Cowes of the twen-
ty-one-ton schooner Diablesse, of
New York, John B. Kelly owner.
with his wife and two Glands" on
board, one of whom is a hero in
Greenwich Village.
There is nothing particularly haz-
ardous in such trip. Old CAPTAIN
Slocum sailed alene in his sloop
through the seven seas. The Spray
was known on the Amazon. the
Mediterranean and the Pacific, un-
til one day the captain sailed away
and was never seen again. 1t was
only little sloop, such as few would
care to sail into the ocean. Others.
too, have ventured in small boats to
Europe and to the South Sea Islands
But whether the hazard be large or
small, these adventurers are few in
number and stout of heart. 1t takes
a certain amount of spirit to cruise
from New York to Maine in a 49,
loot schooner. And to adventure
across the ocean in such a ship, fac
ing the possibilities of two months
or more on restless sea, with the
danger Of mast carrying away and
drifting helpless for long days, re-
qulres courage. The very prospect
OF a never changing horizon where
the sea meets the sky, the monotony
of the rise and fall as the swell
rolls by, the swapping of the white
caps lighting up the gray, green and
blue of the ocean and sky, are
enough to make such a voyage a
trial to the impotence of the modern
American.
And yet that was the fate of our
ancestors who left their homes for
the land of the great unknown. |
Their boats were larger than the
schooner Diablesse, but their speed |
was, if anything, less.
Nor had they canned foods and |
modern means of storing water.
Their accommodations were print
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
The Knot of Interrogation

According to the Paris correspond
ent of The Tribune, Able Lenaire,
Deputy for the Nord, will attempt
soon to alter the marriage law of
France. At present Frenchman
cannot marry until he is thirty with
out the consent of his parents. The
able does not agree. He says:
Il certainly think a man is sutfi-
GENTLY matured by the time he is
twenty-five, or even twenty-one."
There is doubtless truth in this.
1t is possible, however, that the dan
ger lies equally at the other end, if
not more so. The older man grows
the less he seems to know about get
ting married. Able Lemire should
have the French law changed so that
q man cannot get married after he
S forty without some sort Of super
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
Plumbing a Deficit

The Shipping Board, it was sup
posed, had exhausted it's ability to
startle and scandalize. But not so.
The newest disclosure of Chairman
Lasker shows new depths of ineffi-
cheney and waste.
The government invested S3,OOO,-
100000 in a war fleet. The shriveled
investment is now less than $1,000
100000 in value. The shrinkage in
part represents natural postwar
def1ation, but a loss of two-thirds
is not easily accounted for. And
the deficit continues to roll up.
Mr.. Lasker now shows that for
1920'21 the board spent $680,000,-
900, while only S300,OO0,OoO came
back in operating revenue.
Of the deficit Of $38O,000, 900
$160,000,000 went to new ship con-
struction, on which there will be
probably further loss either
through sales or operation. Mr..
Lasker's indignation at this sort of
business management seems amply
justified, and it is painful and dis
heartening to read the details which
support his indictment. The relays Of
Shipping Board members outdid in
many ways their colleagues in Fed
eral railway management. But there
is at least one consolation. This gen
Grafton has learned the lesson of the
futility and wastefulness of such
governmental ventures. Burnt tax
payers will dread this sort of fire
for many years to come.
Mr.. Lasker's program is liquida-
ton. The government must get out
Of the shipping business as fast as
it can. In self-defense it must sell
it's ships to private operators at eur
rent prices, crediting the loss to the
high cost Of a Wilson hobby. 1t
must also cease to operate as far as
practicable, for operation by it on
the commission plan puts an unfair
burden of competition on the private
owner. Private ownership and oper-
alton, with government assistance
if necessary, constitute the only
door to a merchant marine.
But Mr.. Lasker, all will gladly
note, is not discouraged. In the end
he believes an American merchant
fleet will be firmly established and
become the instrument for the
proper expansion of our foreign
trade. The hope of the future lies
in the 100000 tons of privately
owned and operated ships which are
year by year showing the American
colors in more and more ports.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

before the House requires long
and careful examination. A hastily
passed tariff bill, drawn on tradi-
tional lines, may prove as much a
boomerang as the Payne bill did.
The country wants scientific tariff
and, except as to the agricultural
items carried in the emergency tariff
act, can afford to wait for a scientific
revision. Tax revision is far more
urgent than tariff revision is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

tive, their discomforts unrelaxing.
But their spirit brought them
through. They possessed the fear
lessness of the pioneer which was
one Of their great gifts to this ma
ton. The love Of adventure still
lives, and thousands who possess it
but are tied down by the business of
making aliVing will follow with keen
interest the further story of the
Diablesse. What a cruise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
The Coming I ower

An Episode Of the Texan Panhandle
If I'd only took the water back to Ma.
'stcnd of stoppin' by the trough to chin
with Sam,
Things had been better. And | might
"a known,
For | never fell down yet in what she
wanted
Without some pesky business comm
of it.
Sam bought the horse at dollar
morc'n my price;
Six months I'd had my eye out for a
sale.
But the trouble was that Sam and mes
been friends
Nigh onto thirty years; and since he
went
And sold my horse same day for dol
lar more,
Somehow or mother things amt been
the same
With Sam and me. And l hate to lose
friend.
There's nothin' better in this world
than friends.
If I'd only took that water back to Ma
Things had been all right. And I
might "a known.
WITTER BYNNER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
New York, July IS, 1921.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A correspondent in Sundays
Tribune sweepingly protested against
the giving of an 'indiscriminate" bonus
to those who served in the late war.
principally on the grounds that it
would further upset the financial con-
dition of the government, that it would
afford only temporary relief and that
it would be squandered in most cases.
What radical change has come
over some of those who were so filled
with patriotic zeal during the war!
Three short years ago nothing was too
good for those BRACE boys who went
across. Yet to-day they look upon this
self-same flower of our youth, or what
is left of it, as spendthrifts and profit
gates, as unable intelligently to use
the few hundred dollars which the
rank and file of the people. are willing
to give them out of a sense of gratitude
for what they have done for their
nation.
The men who struggled through the
weary and soul-testing days, who un
complainingly bore the brunt and hard
SHIPS of the war while others were en-
loying their usual routine of life thou
Sands of miles away from all the havoc
and destruction, should not be denied
Whatever financial assistance thew
need and should receive it without
this unnecessary haggling and delay.
Many of them are in dire need at the
present time, contrary to what some
would have US believe, and would look
upon the bonus as a veritable eodsend
in alleviating their condition and in
aiding them to retrieve at least por
ton of their lost earnings.
Most of the opposition to the bonus
appears to etnanate from a single
source. Not from the general public,
however, as can be seen by the favor
able action taken in most states to
grant ex-service men some compensa-
ton, but from those who seem to fear
they would have to disgorge part of
thelr enormous, and in many cases ILL
gotten, profits to cover the increase
in taxes that might follow the grant
ing of the bonus.
ARTHUR E. HART.
New York, July .1S, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
The Postponed Bonus
Doubt as to Legion Sentiment;
Many E.x-Service Men in Need

Many E.x-Service Men in Need
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The officers of the American
Legion recently were reported in the
newspapers as announcing that the
American Legion had not changed it's
attitude in regard to the soldiers
bonus in face Of President Harding's
speech and Secretary of the Treasury
Melons statements, but would con-
tinue to advocate the passage of the
measure.
l should like to know by what au-
thorlty the officers of the Legion could
thus speak so promptly and without
special instruction for large body of
men, the vast majority of whom l am
sure feel now as they felt during the
war that their first duty is to their
country. After having been so definitely
Informed by both the President and
the Secretary of the Treasury that the
passage of the bonus bill at this time
would be contrary to the best intere SITS
of the nation, l cannot believe that
the officers in advocating the passage
OF the measure are representing the
spirit of the men they claim to rep
resent.
l believe that if the American Legion
had paid more attention to relief of
the disabled and less attention to in
discriminate bonuses the disabled men
would have been more promptly and
efficiently cared for and the American
Legion itself would have become far
stronger organization.
ALBERT GALLATIN.
New York, July IS, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

A number of readers, we find, take
keen and controversial interest in
the question of what books children
should read. We are disappointed,
however, to discover in practically all
the letters received the suggestion
that the reading of children should be
rigidly supervised and directed 1t
seems to us that the best way to set
child to reading is to turn him loose
in big library and let him browse
where he will. Naturally he will come
across much which is not suitable and
much which he does not understand.
but these are small penalties beside
the blessed feeling of freedom.
We got lot of fun out of reading
when we were eleven or twelve, more
than we do now, because we were I'M
hampered by any sense of obligation
or restriction. Green books were our
favorites, and in following the green
line we came into some strange pas
lures. Hypatia is one of our early
recollectlons, and much of it puzzled us.
what's all the orgying about 2" was
a question which came to our mind
frequently. Nobody took US to see
Mrs. Danes Defense" but we read it
and started grown-up discussion about
the play by breaking in with the OBJ
servation: "But she didn't want him
to know about her past, did she?" We
had not the dimmest notion of what a
past might be. In those days we didn't
even have one, but lack of knowledge
never abated our interest.
Growing more nearly to understand
ing, we began to take great interest
in villains and adventuresses. They
held our affections much more closely
than the heroes and heroines. We re-
member weeping bitterly when we
found that Eliza was going to get
away from the bloodhounds, and we
were the strongest sort Of partisan
Tor the woman in The Three Musketeers
who had the brand upon her shoulder.
lnconstant lovers, in particular, fasci-
hoped to grow up to be the sort of
man who could break woman's heart
and then cast her away like withered
violet. In this we have been disap-
pointed. We have never won SO much
as third place in throwing the withered
violet, nor have I'VE even received our
numerals for putting the underground
look in the eyes of any one.
Still, we had our dreams and our
visions. We remember glamorous viii
lainles and romantic roguery, and the
fact that none of it happened doesn't
make much difference now. We re-
main thankful that in our youth we
had the privilege of indiscriminate
reading. But for that we would have
been compelled to go through life
without past.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

1t is about time to call a halt now
on the discussion of children's books,
but first we want to let Inez Haynes
Irwin have her fling. She writes:
u hope that am not too late to en-
ter the controversy in regard 10 chill
dren's books. For long while chiv-
alrously held my peace, being for the
moment very busy correcting proofs of
child's book. But when Phyllis Du-
game entered the arena the other day
| realized that must either speak or
explode.
"Children's books! Why, the ocean
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

Perhaps somebody versed in psy-
chology can tell us why most persons,
when you tell them you have lost some
thing, deny, with considerable abiding
vehemence, having seen the lost object.
Why is the concern over their own
innocence, which has not been i'm
pugned, greater than their sorrow over
your loss?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
MrsBEa OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tie Associ ated Press Is exclusively entitled to
The use for republication Of su news dispatches
CREDITED It not otherwise credited In this
paper. and also the local news OF spontaneous
qrigin published herein.
Al rights Of republication OF all other matter
tseln also are reserved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

You san purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute sssety--for " dissatIsfae-
Hon results In any case THE TRIBUNE auaran-
tsss TO pay your money back upon request. No red
tape. No authhiins. We maks GOOD promptly II
The advertiser does net
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
Getting Particular
IRON Tie Pronide,,ce u

fFrom The Providence JournoU
The fans used to cheer when Babe
Ruth made home run. Now they
want their money back if he doesn't.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
A Nation Must Win Three Legs for
Permanent Possession

Sir: The Galley of The Miami Her
aid will be pleased to be one of the
five colyums to give s3,O00,o0O to that
ration keeping out of war for 200
years, beginning November II, 1921,
provided that you will agree to the ad-
dltlon of clause stating that no one
nation shall win the same prize twice
in any given century
MARJORY SLOVENIAN DOUGLAS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
Hymn of Hate
A girl I hate
Is Dorothy Parker;
My hymns to hers
Are not a marker.

Horrible is the feeling of senescence
that suffuses when we look at Louis
Untermeyer's revised edition of Modern
American Poetry, just published. For
years, because of youth Owe used to
thlnk) and ir1Ima tureness, our stuff
never was included in anthologies.
Later something would appear, and al
ways, in chronological lists, near or at
the end. But in Mr.. Untermeyer's list,
whish begins with Emily Dickinson
(1S30-18S6) and ends with Hilda Conk-
ling (1910 } and includes 80 bards,
we are eheu fugaces!- SO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

Phillip Moellcr and Pitts Sanborn.
when it is rumored are collaborating
on musical comedy to be produced
next season, are in Paree.-The Green
wich Villager.
Whom is writing the book and whom
the music?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

Some day this week, or maybe next,
we shall review Frank Swinnerton's
Coquette, which is skillful and in
teresting novel in spite of the fact
that it blows up lamentably in the last
chapter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

Commercial candop at Broadway and
Forty-seventh Street: "We have been
selling these shirts at almost double
their prices"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
The Age of Specialization

From The New York Times
LAWYER in sash and door factory expert
enced man only. Apply $50 73d St.,
Brooklyn.
"They"-The Tribune is speaking
of the orang-utans-"re reminded the
newsboy of his discourtesy by throw
ing all his papers overheard except one
for their own instructions" Which one.
Injurious reporter, WHICH ONE?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
British Star
Bests Record
At Columbia

Abe Mitchell Negotiates Sensational
Zero, Shaving Stroke from Dean's
Greenwich Effort
Visiting Golfer Becomes Pe,Ynn-
nent Champion of Universe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
The Burning of Rome


(As L. W. d. thinks Joseph Herges-
heimer might report it,
Personally, since had no interest in
the preservation Of Rome, | was free
to enjoy the wide sweep of that livid
and CHASTITY malignancy of flame, with
ing now, as it did, would, into rocco
volutes of amaranth and violet, the
very architecture and hot fresco work,
st once trivial and fascinating, of the
but not by me, save sesthetically--.
supposed portals Of He'll. Nero, how
ever, slipping, with just that divine hau-
teur of connoisseurship one would have
preferred for him, slipping, then. from
lily-like goblet the iced and clothed
milk of mares, prescribed as his regi-
men, Nero, had, did, turn his, what was,
after all, superb gesture, back on the
spectacle; for him noticeably somewhat
boring, as being hitherto imagined and,
so enjoyed the more nobly, though not
hitherto by me-"
What Hamlet said about spots was
bit profane.- Gartside's Soap Co. adj
vertisement.
What did he say?
MITCHELL" says The Tribune, "was
around in o.; which provokes S. P. to
the following headline:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
Orator of the Day: Chick Sale,


Plymouth, Mass, July 18.-From a
source known to be reliable it was
learned to-day that the Plymouth
Rocks are about to celebrate their Ter
centhennery. The slogan: every pedi-
greed rooster on the roster" Official
color, henna. w. w. F..
"Aha!" said the mad, mad wag Mark
Harris as she swatted the fly with the
roses he gave her last week, "Slay it
with fiowersl"
1t was $8so,ooo,ooo, according to the
Lasker figures, that the Shipping Board
lost last year Easy come, easy go.
After this the sailor probably will
have certified public accountant in
every port. r. p. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
EiIAR ANIX

inferred at the Pos,onice at New York Second
Class Mail Matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20

MITCHELL" says The Tribune, "was
around in o.; which provokes S. P. to
the following headline: