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New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
The Presidents Income Tax

Mr.. Harding spoke in his natural
character when he told Congress
that he didn't want to have his
salary as President exempted from
income taxes. 1t would be uncon-
genial to him to feel that the Presi-
Dental office erected artificial bar
riers between him and other citi-
zens. He doesn't want to be tick.
eted as entitled to privileged per-
sonal status. He Is probably think
ing very little Of the immunities of
the office or it's mere surface graft
fications. The President-elect has
the democratic grain and point of
view. He dislikes emphasis on any,
thing that seems to isolate him or
to reduce his sense of contact with
others. He has no use for false or
exaggerated Difference. His reac-
tion to the old-fashioned Inaugural
tion fiummery, for instance, was
that of any wholesome American
citizen.
Other government officials, except
Federal judges, must pay income
taxes. President Wilson paid taxes,
but they were returned to him be-
cause the Supreme Court, in passing
On an action brought in behalf of
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16

the Federal judiciary. held that they
infringed the provision that Presi-
dents compensation, as well as q
judges, shall not be reduced during
his term Of office. Mr.. Harding's
salary could be exempted only by
special statute. Other Federal off
Gals Estate officers are excludedD
and ali private citizens subject to
income tax have to bear the burden
Of increased Federal expenditure.
If the Presidents salary, with a tax
deduction. Is insufficient, the. better
way to meet the situation would be
to increase the salary. To waive
the universality of income taxation
in the Presidents favor Is to intro
duce q distinction which is distaste-
full and smacks Of snobbery.
The President-elect has a highly
developed instinct Of simplicity and
equality. It could not but manifest
itself In a refusal to accept a priv
ilege which would allow him to es-
cape the incidence Of our war tax
laws,
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or letter saying that our adverse
notice has amused him very much and
greatly contributed to the sale of his
little book and would we come around
and have lunch.
Miss Fuller managed to cut deeper.
James Russell Lowell never recovered
from the shock of her poor opinion of
him, and was forever lampooning her
IN public life and private. She seems to
have been singularly free from awe for
the great literary figures of her day.
In an age when not liking Longfellow
was almost as much q mark of ma
tional treason as urging reduction
in the German indemnity would be to-
day Miss Fuller wrote of Longfellow
in exactly the spirit in which he is re-
earded by the later critics who looked
at him dispassionately.
when we see a person of moderate
powers" she wrote, receive honors
which should be reserved for the high
est, we feel somewhat like assailing
him and taking from him the crown
which should be reserved for grander
brows. And yet this is, perhaps, un-
generous. He (Longfellow) has
no style of his own, growing out of his
experiences and observations of nature
Nature with him, whether human or
external, is always seen through the
windows of literature. This
want of the free breath of nature, this
perpetual borrowing of imagery, this
excessive, because superficial, culture
which he has derived from an acquaint-
ance with the elegant literature of
many nations and men, out Of proper
tion to the experience of life within
himself, prevent Mr.. Longfellow's
verses from ever being a true refresh
ment to ourselves"
Ralph Waldo Emerson was her close
friend, and yet she could see him clear
Iy enough from a critical point of view
to write: owe doubt this friend raised
h-nself too early to the perpendicular
and did not lie along the ground long
parent life. We would wish he might
be thrown by conflicts on the lap of
Mother Earth, to see if he would not
rise again with added powers"
The feminism of Margaret Fuller is
passionate and far reaching. It does
not stop merely with the plea for the
vote, but includes a newer and freer
ideal of marriage. There is inspiration
in this, and yet something q little dis
turbing in the article which she wrote
about the London Reform Club, in
which she said: II was not sorry, how
ever to see men predominant in the
cooking department, as hope to see
that and washing transferred to thei,
care in the progress of things, since
they are the stronger SAX"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
The Naval Bill

The naval appropriation bill as it
passed the House of Representa- tives
represents fair compromise on
the 1916 building program. Mr..
Daniels's ambitious and extravagant
new program was brushed aside.
The moderate sum Of ninety million
dollars was voted to continue work
on ships already authorized. But
an amendment offered by Mr.. Oliver
forbade the use Of any of this money
en- vessels not begun or contracted
for. The question of adhering to
the 1916 program in all it's details
or modifying it, so far as untouched
construction is concerned, was passed
along to the next Congress, which
will have clearer data to go on.
Those who want to break away
sharply from the 1916 program lay
stress on the fact that the navy
has already more than a full COM
plement of destroyers and that the
battleship has ceased to be an at
tractive investment We are we'll
supplied with super-dreadnoughts
end have no battle-cruisers. There
is relatively little opposition to the
building of the battle-cruisers al
ready listed. Admiral Sims recently
advised their completion. In COM
rliance with the policy of temporary
1etrenchment in military expenditure
the House has reduced the enlisted
personnel of the navy from 143, 900
to 100000 and Of the Marine Corps
from $4,000 to 10000.
The chief failing of the bill Is the
insufficient provision made for the
air and sub-surface arms. The role
of the air service in future naval
warfare is just beginning to be
realized. Naval forces must fight
hereafter in the blue and under the
seas surface as we'll as on it. A
three-plane development of our navy
is essential. Limitation of the more
costly forms of naval building
through some international agree
ment, now much discussed in Con-
gress, may produce d new orienta-
ton to our naval policy. But the
House wisely hesitated to discount
such concert. 1t favors a prudent
continuation of surface fleet con-
struction, which the Senate should
supplement with more generous ap-
preparations for aircraft and SUBJ
marines.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
A Super Sub-Chaser
The Next Step in the Development Of
Undersea Warfare

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1 have followed with interest
The Tribune's well informed efforts 81
create an intelligent public interest
naval policy. In mapping out its paa
for well rounded navy, howeyc IL
seems to me that The Tribune S. ia
not omit from its discussion the p&
sibilities of type of craft which w5A
originated during the war as rasuig
Of the German undersea campaie l-
namely, vessel designed exclusivelg
for combating the submarine. Perhaps
you will permit me to initiate discus
sion OF what l believe might be accom-
plished by super sub-chaser in the
future.
It is we'll known that the hydrophone,
the only means thus far devised of To-
eating submarine running submerged,
is practically precluded in the case OF
The destroyer, owing to the difficulty Of
shutting down all her machinery, esps-
cially her circulating pumps, for moro
than the briefest time, II she is to be
prepared to get under way again
quickly.
1t is my belief that super sub
chaser having sufficient speed, sea-
worthiness and cruising radius, ana
equipped with sufficiently sensitive by
drophones, would be an invaluable ad-
iunct to a feet. Forming convex
screen q considerable distance ahead OF
the capital ships, these super SUBJ
chasers should make the feet pract'
cally immune from under sea attack,
except during an action with enemy
surface ships, when the chaser screen
would be driven back on its own dread
noughts.
The growing Importance of the sub
marine would seem to render irnpers'
tive the inclusion Of modern anti-suD'
marine craft in our navy, although
here, as in the case of the seaplans'
any program that might be mapped 00'
should, think, be planned with vie"
to experimentation, as the rapidity OIL
obsolescence of weapons, the develop
ment OF which Is just commencing, u
so great. FORTY-FIFb'
New York, Feb. 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
Requiescat

Matthew Woll, president Of
the American Federation of Labor,
did not exceed the limits of truth
VIXEN, in asking for the repeal Of the
Sherman antitrust law, he said that
it had been futile in preventing the
formation of powerful combinations.
In 1890 public opinion was in the
grip of economic delusions. 1t be-
leved that the promoters of big bust
ness concerns, then beginning to be
formed, could have only one motive
-namely, to capture the market so
as to command artifcially enhanced
monopoly prices.
Adam Smith had taught that the
small concern, other factors being
equal, would always, through better
management, produce or distribute
more eheaply than the big. Andrew
Carnegie heatedly wrote magazine
articles proclaiming that the trusts
contained the seeds of their own
downfall-that outsiders would sell
cut to them until they burst from in
terror strain.
So the thing to do both to protect
customers and to stimulate produc-
tion was to preserve competition un-
impaired, But the business world
did not agree with such eminent law
yers and theorists as Sherman, Hoar
and Edmunds. 1t persisted in the
notion that the big concern meant
the elimination of waste and the in
PRODUCTION of economies, with low
cred prices, and the public thereby
was benefited rather than oppressed.
The business men proved themselves,
as has often been the case, the better
legislators. 1t is fortunate for Amer
lea that the law was successfully
negatived.
The Sherman law, touching its
chief objects, is dead letter. It's
only monument is vast pile of
yalueless legal decisions. Some day
substitute will be provided-a
measure that will not seek to end
mere size or to penalize forms of or
ganization, but will relate to the spe-
cific conduct of all business establish
ments. And nothing more fitting
could be imagined than to have a
man of labor deliver the funeral ora
ton over the original act.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
Blaming the Pedestrian
,he Editor of The Tribune:

To the Editor of The Tribune:
Sir: Your editorial of February IL,
"As to Who Should Pay" deserves
more than passing attention. 1t looks
to as as if. the City Club could have
come to conclusion very much sooner
if it had consulted the claim de-
psrtments of any of the good automobile
insurance companies. 1t doesn't seem
to the writer that any conclusion could
be correct which places all the blame
on the automobile driver, whether of a
passenger car or q commercial vehicle.
Statistics will show that in possibly
rs per cent of these accidents the pc
destrian Is to blame, and when I say
pedestrian l do not mean the children.
who, NO doubt, are easily confused on
finding themselves close to the car
itself or startled by the warning horn.
We do not understand how the City
Club or any other organization could
assume to extend to pedestrians the
same protective rights that are afforded
to employees without increasing the
premiums to the purchasers of pro-
tective insurance. In all cases now
where the insured auto driver is to
blame settlements are promptly made.
and in many other cases compensation
is made to eliminate possible court
sprocedure. JAMES MADDEN,
Secretary North Jersey Automobile
Club
paea~poy NJ E.A - ,nos
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else. While this spirit lasts the
westward tide can hardly be called
at an end, even though it's first
great wave has plainly passed.
The Tail Twisters

That the British government has
raised for discussion the question Of
international debt cancellation has
provoked reaction TO be expected.
The tail twisters have fastened
their hands In firm clutch and are
eagerly tying new knots. Behold"
it Is said, "the diabolic cunning of
John Bull--as usual playing up
lofty ideal to save his pocketi"
Yet Great Britain has some right
to claim her proposal should not
give offense--that she has stand
ing for making it. During the war,
to help the common cause, she lent
as well as borrowed, and her loans
greatly exceeded her borrowings
She advanced in all $1,000, ,o00,o
to France, to Italy, to Belgium
and other countries. On the ledger's
other side she received sA,21O,000,-
600 from US.
Thus Great Britain's loans ex-
ceeded her borrowings 100 per cent.
II there was cancellation she would
sacrifice on balance approximately
S4,500,000,000. AS her population
and wealth are less than half our
own, the individual Briton would
give up something more than the
individual American. So she does
not invite US to practice a gener-
osity she does not exemplify.
To bring the debt cancellation
project forward now is doubtless an
error in Judgment. 1t is too soon.
In time it is not unlikely that mutual
cancellation will come in some form,
for if the war was waged for a
common purpose it is scarcely fair
to have some nations bear a greater
part of the burden than others.
But whether or not there Is can
collation. it is scarcely sportsman
like to attack Great Britain for
offering program under which she
will give up her claims. But the
tail of the British lion is tough and
elastic, as has often been shown,
and probably will be able to endure
the new strain put or it.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
For the Good of Wrestling

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Although the ban has been put
on the head lock, the toe hold and the
scissors hold, it seams to me that this
was extreme and unnecessary.
| realize that such holds are danger
Gus to che life and limb of contestants,
but so Is the Knockout in boxing.
In other words, would it not be feas-
ible to permit the head lock, etc, and
give the decision to the one holding
II IL his adversary cannot wriggls out
within certain limited time.
This ruling would also serve to
shorten wrestling contests, which are
now so long as to be at times tiresome,
thereby losing in popularity.
S. W. TAYLOR,
Editor The Rider and Driver.
New York. Feb. Ia, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16

honorable record. At worst, he mis-
read statute by and with the ap-
proval and general understanding
of the authorities at Washington.
For the present we prefer his legal
opinion upon the point to that Of
the Representatives crying for his
hide. But even if he should be re-
versed by superior judicial author
ity, where is the occasion for damn
ing and excitement?
We respectfully suggest that the
gentlemen of Congress stop calling
names and let this minor decision
of judicial etiquette be made by the
proper umpires in due calm and
order.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
Storms and Judge Lands

Lightning and hurricanes are an
old story to that much ibuffeted
peak His Honor Judge Kenesaw
Mountain lands. He has thrived
on storms and is plainly enjoying
the present laundering in Congress.
To date there is no mistaking the
fact that public sympathy, Of fans
and the few other Americans, is
standing by the judge. OF course,
the law must prevail, and if it says
that a Federal judge cannot be the
benevolent despot of baseball, why,
he cannot be. Perhaps he should
not be, But just why are the
gentlemen of Congress so hot about
1t? There is no charge of corrup-
tion or intentional wrongdoing
against thls Judge with long and
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
Fake Home Rule

E1edTssC anu ANNUALLY WOulu ulS-
tract attention from city admins
tration which is in an advanced
stage of decay, and thus, of course,
seek to make much of home rule in
connection with the transit problem.
But not many are likely to be
fooled. Ti1e city is in no danger Of
becoming ruled province. In his
explanatory statement of yesterday
the Governor indicates that he real
ICES this-that he knows neither
Governor nor Legislature can take
away from the%city essential control
over the traction situation.
In the first place, the constitution
flatly reqaAres that one-half of the
abutting pEoperty-holders shall con-
sent before "a street railway can be
built.
In the second place-even more
important-the, Governors bill spe-
cifically says that before corporate
stock can be issued to build street
railroads the local authorities must
approve. The parse power is left
with the city, and as long as this Is
so, as long as the city can't be COM
PEELED to fnsare a new plan, the city
need not worry
In the third place, it is doubtful
whether the Legislature, once it has
authorized the city to enter into a
contract, and the authority has been
exercised, may then arbitrarily void
the contract. 1t cannot do this to
the financial injury of the contract
ing private company, and, by parity
of reasoning, it may be held it cam
not do it to the financial injury of
the contracting city.
Over and beyond the legal protec-
tion of home rule is a political one.
Of the states population more than
one-half now resides in the city and
of the states total vote nearly one
half is cast in the city. With the
city's faster growth and the absorp-
tion of the alien population it will
not be long until the city, if SO in
clined, would be able to elect the
states officers. Concerning the
Legislature, despite the constitutions
al gerrymander, the time is also not
distant when tine city will have
majority of both houses.
So it is absurdto speak of upstate
ruling down-state. Upstate is in
more danger of urban dominance
than is the city of rural dominance.
The state government is likely to be
city-controlled if the city cares to
exert its power Indeed, as time
goes on the distinctions between the
state and city governments will tend
to disappear. Each, though dealing
with different problems, will repre-
sent the same thing-the one will
practically embody as much home
rule as the other.
With respect to the Miller traction
plan, many things need to be consid-
cred and discussed. Doubtless the
first draft needs amending as to
many matters. The subject covered
is so vast and complicated that sec
ond thoughts may well be regarded
as better than first.
But dismiss consideration of the
political home rule issue as preached
by Hearst and Hylan. This is mere
ly screen behind which discred-
tied city administration would hide
1t is dust-raising and insincere.
.Tammany and its allies dearly love
contracts and their letting and would
hold power in order to fatten when
public necessity becomes so acute
that no close scrutiny will be given
to any scheme, no matter how much
graft there is in 1t, provided it prom
ises relief.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
Landlord and Tenant at Philipse
Manor


A letter written by Ralph baftoh
and dated at PhiIipse Manor was pup
lished in The Tribune on December ~
in which Mr.. Barton severely com
mented upon the conduct Of his Isna'
lord as profiteering of the most e@
treme character, calling it robbery anu
comparing it with the prevailins
crimes of house and highway robbery
Nr. Barton particularly complslne"
that his landlord was charging nim
almost twice as much as was receives
for a larger apartment in the sams
building.
Robert e. Farley, president OF INV
Robert E. Earley Organization ~. M
stated to The Tribune that sn'
PhiIipse Manor property to which n''
Barton refers is we'll known to oe ~
the hands of his company and 'hs.
the publication of the letter da'9'
from that place does him and his COM
pany great injustice. The Tribune
satisfied from an examination when y
has made into the facts that ths A'
verse criticism Of the landlord DsssN
on the comparison between MI
toms rent and that of the other tehsN'
was mistake; that in fact the otns'
tenant went into possession under
long lease when rental values "et'
low, whereas Mr.. Barton's lease ~s'
made last fall, and that Mr.. Barton :
comparison of his landlord to oah'i.
or robber was unfair and should aO'
have been published.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
MIR. Summer Is Shocked Again

EgreglouS MI. sumner, or the So
ciety for the Suppression of Vice, is
at 1t again. apparently his brain
is incapable Of assimilating wisdom,
no matter how frequently he is re-
buffed by the courts. This time it
Is the ultra-modern Little Review
which has sent him shuddering to
court. He read something in Ulys-
ses@the tale by James Joyce ap-
pearing serially in this very special
magazine-and, In consequence, the
editor and publisher thereof are fac
ing a criminal charge of publishing
obscene. matter.
Mr.. Sumner seams incapable Of
appreciating anything 80 frivolous
as a joke, but the joke Of this par
ticpAar prosecution Is 80 unusually
delightful that even he might see IL
and laugh at 1t himself. In brief,
1t is that nobody, not even the most
radical of the literary Futurists
has been able to make out what
James Joyce has been writing about
in Ulysses. The thing is a novel,
evidently. Yet so modern and
Freudian is it's method that whether
its action has now, after many
lengthy chapters, lasted an after
noon, day or many years not even
the most ingenious souls specializing
in such things have dared assert.
SO if Mr., Sumner has been able to
be shocked by it he deserves not only
cheers from the pure Of heart but
The congratulations Of every literary
student.
The method Of the book is that
which Miss May Sinclair has expert
nented with in her last two novels,
Mary Olivier and The Romantic
following in the very dull footprints
Of another English novelist, Miss
Dorothy Richardson. 1t consists, in
essence, of relating not so much
what goes on round about the char
acters, but what goes on in their
minds. And this mental stream is
presented, neither summarized nor
analyzed, but broken thought after
broken thought, a strict record of
that stream of consciousness which
slips through every human mind so
quietly that few Of us, save at ar
resting moments Of decision or self
searching, are aware Of it's content.
In Ulysses young Mr.. Joyce has
carried the method beyond anything
ever attempted before. His earlier
work, be it said, showed high prom
ise and imagination. The present
effort may initiate new and Won
derful form of literary art, but if SO
Mr.. Sumner is the first to recognize
it's merits.
Whether isolated phrases taken by
themselves form Objectionable mat
ter in Ulysses it will be for the
courts to say. But that the effect
of such q Futuristic publication in
high brow periodical like the Lit
tie Review is not conceivably cor
rupting there can hardly be ques-
ton. Last time it was Mile. de
Maupin that Mr.. Sumner discov-
cred and was Mortified by. Th3
courts not only threw his complaint
out of court but sustained a $4,000
verdict for damages in a suit for
malicious prosecution. The present
prosecution is equally preposterous.
Can't the controlling authorities of
the Society for the Suppression of
Vice take it in charge and end its
present status as the Society for tho
Suppression of Literature that
Shocks Mr.. Sumner?
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
The Coming ower
Ad PyrrIsarn

II
Horace: Book |, Ode 5.
"Qas multa gracihs te puer in rosa." !"
Who is the devil-may-carc, harum-
scarum boy,
Pyrrha, philandering with you in
the cave
Tell me for what supertalcumed and
bay rum boy
Wear you your hair in per1na-
uent wave2
Often he'll wall at your promise per
6dious,
Often he'll weep at your treacher-
Gus vow,
Finding your falseness as fair as
insidious,
Learning the wisdom that / pos
sess now.
Here on the wall Of the shrine of
Poseidon
Hang l my weeds that are drip
ping and damp;
Witnesses they Of the tricks that
were tried on
Your correspondent by Pyrrha the
vamp.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
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