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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
The New Review

The combination of "The indie
pendent" with "The Weekly Review"
promises to offer the public a first
class serious weekly, representing
sanely liberal opinion.
Each brings to the union its own
particular qualities. "The indie
pendent" has age, dignity, tradi-
ton. "The Weekly Review" stand
ing in contrast to "The New Re-
public" and other pink or reddish
weeklies, has endeavored to uphold
the standards of American liberal
ism before it was contaminated by
half-baked ideas imported from
Russia and Germany.
Although both publications had
large calculations, neither by itself
filled the broad need of an Ameri-
can weekly Of opinion. If the COM
bined "Independent" and "Weekly
Review" can do this, the union will
do great good.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Judge Andrews

The one argument that the oppo-
nents of Judge Andrews make
!. against his nomination at the Re-
publican State Convention ON Fri
day is the strongest Of arguments in
his favor.
Vhe sole objection to Judge An
drews is the fact that he wrote the
opinion that supported the decision
o. the Court of Appeals in the bonus
case. On this ground il is demand
ed that he be driven from the bench.
1T is true that in some quarters
] ranaouflage is spread. It is said that
be happens to live in district which
has two other Court of Appeals
judges. But this geographical argu-
,nent was not heard of until the
bonus decision was rendered. 1t may
therefore be dismissed as insincere.
So direct issue is raised-an issue
which strikes at the roots of Judicial
independence. The Republican con-
vention is asked to say to Judge of
our highest court: "Your ability,
FOUR probity, your learning, are I'M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
8 The Upward Trail

Richard e. Enright, Police Com.
missioner, and as such fit rep.
resentative of Hylanism, yesterday
publicly admitted that he received
$4,000 from Allan A. Ryan, one
of his special deputies. Mr.. En-
right was carried by Mr.. Ryan in
transactions that were fictitious, sc
far as Enright was concerned, and
duly received his profit"
I. 1t makes no difference where
the spotlight of the Meyer commit
tee strikes. 1t is all the same,
whether it is School Department,
Markets Department, Police Depart
ment. No wonder Mayor Hylan
fought the investigation! The
friend of Brindell and the aman-
uensis Of Hettrick had some notion
of what it would reveal.
The trail leads up. Soon it may
mount to the promoter Of the Black
Diamond Corporation. Is it reason
able to think that what was happen
ing was without the knowledge of
the Mayor? So to assume would
be a terrific indictment of the
Mayors intellectuals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21

The announcement by the State
Department that "the protection Of
legitimate Russian interests must
devolve as moral trusteeship upon
the whole conference will doubt
less be welcomed by the Soviets.
Answering request of the Far
Eastern Republic in Siberia to be
represented at the Washington con-
ference, this statement, if taken at
its face value, appears to reassert
the Wilson doctrine that the ter
ritories Of the former Russian EN-
pire are to be kept as one aggre-
gate.
The statement, it Is true, lacks
the usual precision Of Secretary
Hughes. The phrase Legitimate
Russian interests" which is suseep-
tible to varied interpretations, is
twice used. No direct declaration
is made that the territorial integrity
Of Russian Siberia will be main
tanned, but this is the general tenor
Of the note. cit is the hope and
expectation of the government of
the United States" the declaration
concludes, ssthat the conference
will establish general principles of
international action which will de-
serve and have the support of the
people of eastern Siberia and of
all Russia by reason of their justice
and efficacy in the settlement of
outstanding difficulties
Does this mean that the policy of
the "open door" will be extended
to Siberia? And if so, will this in
volve further meddling in one. of
the problems Of the Far East
against our best interests?
There are, of course, different
arguments in favor of preserving
the territories Of the former Rus
sian Empire intact. Mr.. Wilson
was willing to exclude "ethnic Po-
land" Finland and part of Armenia,
but he refused to recognize that
the states of the Caucasus and the
Baltic provinces had the right to
self-determination. The Bolsheviks
were unwilling to part with either
Finland or Poland, and even.
boosted that their expansion toward
india had exceeded the ambitions of
the czarist leaders.
The Russians of the old regime
claim that the territories Of the
old empire must remain unchanged.
And so do those who object to the
disruption of historical entities.
Mr.. Hughes's present declaration,
however, has to do primarily with
Siberia and the Far Eastern Repub-
lie. As such, it is open to question
on practical, rather than on theoreti-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Helping Foreign Finance

The Administration has made II
clear that it will support legitimate
American enterprise in foreign coun-
tries. The policy Of dollar diplomacy
has been Refrigerated. President
Harding's conferences with the bank
ers: of the country, the State Depart
ment's acceptance of the plan for
the China consortium and various
other acts show that it is the in
tention to support American finan-
cial development abroad.
I. The Department of State is in
terested in long-term foreign loans
floated in this country. It is inter
ested in them because such loans
affect Americas foreign relations.
More and more it is true that
economic considerations influence the
political relations of great states.
The State Department knows the
political and economic conditions in
foreign countries. 1t is in a posi-
ton to warn would-be investors that
the claims, say, of Eastern Galicia
to ultimate independence, on the
strength of which claims a loan is
being asked, are overambitious. It
is able, to give important informa-
ton about political conditions which
may have a vital bearing upon
financial negotiations.
And while, of course, it is out of
the question for the department
either directly or Indirectly to guar
antee or underwrite or in any way
commit the government to the finan-
clal or political support of any propo-
sition submitted to it, it can at least
assist the would-be investors and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21

possibly warn against proposals
which for various reasons might
embarrass investors, the bankers or
the government.
Would it not be wise for the State
Department to send a representative
to the coming conference Of Ameri-
can bankers in Los Angeles to get
in touch with bankers from all sec
tions of the country and to explain
what the State Department can do
in assisting foreign trade and
finance?
Inasmuch as the policy to be
followed applies to the whole coun-
try and not to Wall Street alone,
would it not be we'll to speak directly
to the bankers of the whole country?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Some Retail rices
What a Working Gill Is Paying At
Present for Food and Clothes
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
/ Sir: William Nelson Taft's letter
Retail Prices Down." in this morning.
Tribune is irritating. 1t has the sam,
effect upon one who has to pay thru,
times the old prices for things that tA,
weather mans announcements had led
July. While we, who had to work o.
the immediate surface of the earb
were sweltering. the weather ma
calmly announced that the thermom..
ter had registered only SO or 80 De.
grees of heat, etc. or course, he was
high up in some cool altitude where b,
could get the "mean" temperature
while down on the streets of New Yori
we got the heat and humidity in full
force-many degrees higher than the
reported SO or 80 degrees.
Saturday, September II, bought a
pair of low-heeled, plain leather pumps.
price $40. "Why, how cheap!" you say'
Maybe--bnt the same class of shoe In
1917 and 1918 sold for S.. ] Likewise
purchased some silk hose Saturday,
price $3.50 pair. OF course, as every
one. knows, silk hose went up IN price
IN 1917 and. they have never come down
The same grade hose that I purchased
Saturday in 1917 sold for SO cents a
pair. To be sure, at period during
the war these hose sold as high Is
$3.50 pairi
For porterhouse steak still pay u
cents a pound and for butter Ga cents
OF course I might eat round ateak and
use inferior butter. Cream is 81 cents
half pint, with a fve-cent deposit for
the bottle. Of course working people
have no right to use cream, but ths
fact remains that / used to buy al
the cream I wanted at 16 cents hall
pint, ard, to boot, had the privilege o.
buying it IN Scent gill bottles. Gu
bottles are no longer used.
As for clothes, paid, just two wees'
ago, S45 for a very lightweight cape
and the lining is not of very COCA
quality-the best I could get at the
price. In 1916 I purchased handsons
coat, beautifully lined, with fur collar
and cuffs, for $50. The same srs0s
and style Of coat at the present writing
is more than 500.
Is there any need to go further
These are the prices that a wor1as
girl is paying at the present mcrneaA
and the things buy ars rot y.
highest grade. So the Ding cartoon o
September IL is far nearer the truu
than these weather man" quotations
of lowered prices. r. M. r.
New York, Sept. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Congress Comes Back

Congress meets again to-day I'd
complete the work for which it was
called in extra session. Two pri-
mary tasks were assigned to it last
spring--to revise the internal tax
schedules and the tariff. These
were in addition to the neces-
sary duty of repassing certain meas
ures which were vetoed by President
Wilson or were caught in the Iegisl
lative jam at the end of the last
Congress.
An effort has been made to. show
that this Congress has wasted time
and shirked responsibility. Consid-
ering the character of the work it
had to do, such a charge is extrava-
CANT. Before the recess the army
and navy appropriation bills were
passed and the preceding Congresses
stand against overappropriations for
military purposes was maintained.
The sum carried in the army bill as
it passed the last Congress was re-
duced and the S496,000,000 navy
appropriation which the Senate
wanted to make was cut down to less
than $4oo,0o0,0o0. The Knox-Por-
ter resolution was passed, thus open
ing the way for the negotiation of a
peace treaty with Germany.
AS to the tariff, both branches
passed an emergency bill intended to
meet the needs of the farmers and
others who felt themselves menaced
by an inflow Of imports. The House
passed permanent tariff bill and
tax reduction bill before the recess
was taken. 1t remains for the SEN
ate to act on these. The Finance
Committee has put the tax reduction
bill In shape to be reported inmedi-
ately.
A permanent tariff revision seems
even less urgent now than last
spring. The problem is immensely
complicated. World trade conditions
are still abnormal. Our true tariff
policy is hard to determine. It is no
misfortune that the Fordney act has
been held up indefinitely in the SEN
ate. It will be no misfortune if
action on it there is postponed until
next year.
AS for tax reduction, a bill will
probably pass before the extra SEES
sion ends. Time has not been mis-
spent in studying this problem. A
measure passed now viii be subject
to modification within year or two
If the Administrations hopes of re-
ducing government expenditure are
realized. If Congress has gone a
little slowly, it has acted prudently.
Overhurried tariff and tax revision
has often caused keen regret to the
party responsible for it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Premiers at Washington

Lloyd George fears that the Irish
negotiations and other pressing gov
eminent business will prevent his
coming to the Washington confer
ence. Mr.. Balfour will probably head
the British delegation, as The Trib-
une's Washington dispatches an
nounced week ago. Premier BRAND
has also been anxious to sit in the
Limitation of Armament congress;
but strong opposition to his leav-
ing France has developed. Before
November he may even have to face
ministerial crisis in the Chamber
of Deputies.
In one way the absence Of these two
premiers will be regretted. Many
people feel that the personal par
ticipation Of government chiefs in a
conference Of this sort enhances it's
prestige, or at least it's spectacular
value. Yet, in the light Of what hap
pened at Paris in 1919, it is a ques-
ton whether the attendance Of heads
of cabinets makes for greater eff
cheney in such gatherings.
There are reasons why those who
have to review the results Of interna-
tional negotiations should not act as
their own negotiators. They have
necessarily different status from
the other commissioners, and this in
equality prevents free interchange
of opinion among the delegates gen.
orally and the best utilization of the
talents and Judgment of delegates Of
lower rank. 1t was noted at Paris
that the Cabinet heads were often
highly unsympathetic to suggestions
put forward in council by their own
associates. They had to safeguard
their authority, and the consequence
was that the Paris Conference grad
ually simmered down to a Council Of
Four or Council of Three, sitting
in secret and deciding many matters
hurriedly, without regard to or in
defiance of matured expert opinion.
Heads of cabinets, dealing with
minute details in negotiation, become
entangled in personal advocates, op-
positions and commitments which
they cannot afterward escape from
with good grace. A blunder becomes
irretrievable. But a Cabinet chief,
reviewing the work Of others, can re-
wise it or modify it without embar-
rassment. President Wilson would
hardly have stood out infexibly
against the Senate for tho accept
ance Of all the minutim Of the treaty
draft if he hadn't, as peace commits
-sioner, tied his own hands as Prcsi-
dent.
If each government Is represented
at Washington only by delegates of
equal rank a situation will be avoid
ed which did much to spoil the work
of the Paris peacemakers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Answer to Importers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One of the serious objecti0''
by importers to the American vsiss'
ton plan of assessing ad valorena ~.
ties. is that the new arrangensa'
would make it impossible for them 9
tell what their selling price would .
in advance or know what the Anaef'e'..
selling price would be on the date :
expectation o. their foreign msrsSs'
disc.
cannot see where there wouio :.
any greater risk to the importers un.s.
the american valuation plan than un''.
the present foreign valuation pas
Under the present law, the fmpo's.
pays duty on the foreign value ~ - :.
date of expectation, although ecntises.
for the purchase Of the goods may a. =.
been made months In advance -
foreign price is just as liable 70 ~
tuate during these months as Thy 49, ~
lean value. r. D. pope
New York. Sept. 20. 1921. &
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Cost of Coast Defense
Items Included in the $1,870,O0O,-
600 Outlay in the Last Ten Year.

Items Included in the $1,870,O00,-
600 Outlay in the Last Ten Years
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In doing me the honor of pub
fishing my letter in reply to Quarter
deck, in your issue of yesterday, you
followed with footnote in which you
quoted Brigadier General William
Mitchell, in part, as follows:
SIN the last ten years $3.50, 900 900
has gone into the creation and main
tenance Of our coast artillery and coast
Defense"
Your evident intent in publishing
your footnote was to place me in the
position Of having been in error when
l denied that statement of Quarter
decks that billions of dollars have
been spent upon forts and guns"
Now to examine your quotation from
General Mitchell. Please note that the
sum named by him covers not only the
creation. but also the maintenance of
our coast artillery and coast defense
In other words, it covers such items as
construction of barracks and quarters
roads, walks, wharves, water and light
ing systems, drainage, and the main
tenance Of all such utilities, together
with the cost Of the water and light
consumed
In addition these items are included:
Pay of officers and enlisted men, cloth
ing and feeding of the enlisted person
mel, personal arms and equipment of en-
listed men, ammunition for both small
arms and big gun target practice And
the ten years mentioned include two
years of active participation in the
greatest war in history, during which
the coast artillery manned, in addition
to the coast defenses, all of the follow
ing weapons used in the mobile army:
the railroad artillery, the 92-inch and
S-inch howitzers, the 1856 nm. G. P. #.
longs, tho anti-aircraft artillery and
the trench mortars. SO, getting down
to forts and guns only, think you will
find my figures much nearer the truth
than those of Quarterback.
Also, however ethereal their MANY
flights toward heaven may have made
the personnel of the air service, [ do
not believe that they have yet risen
above those weaknesses of the flesh
which still call for shelter, food and
clothing; nor do they fly without pay.
ROBERT P. GLASSBURN,
Major, G. A. c.
Fort H. G. Wright. N. Y, Sept. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Opposing Veteran Preference

Opposing Veteran Preference
TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Major General O'Ryan. com
mander of the 9th Division, is quoted
IN the newspapers as being opposed to
the proposed constitutional amendment
granting absolute preference to war
veterans over all others in civil serv-
ice examinations for appointment and
promotion. He states that it is con-
trary to our American spirit and fair
ness, which is quite right.
| am surprised that more Of our
prominent public officials have not
come to the front to oppose a prefer
ence that would wipe out the present
system of selecting employees through
merit and fitness by civil service ex-
aminations. Veteran preference is one
sure way of demoralizing the state and
city's system of employment.
l am sure that if the citizens of this
state could be made to realize the in
justice that veteran preference will
work they will defeat it at the Noyem-
Der election. Does the average citizen
know that young men who were not
within the age limit to enter the World
War will be barred from civil service
for the next forty years? Does the
citizen who was prevented from enter
ing the World War by family ties
know that he will be barred forever
from entering public service if vet
eran preference is allowed? Do the
nurses and other war workers know
that they were not included in this
preference amendment, and will never
have chance in civil service examina-
tions?
Why couldn't an amendment have
been submitted that would give vet
Grams number of points over their
competitors in entrance examinations,
instead of absolute preference in pro-
motion and entrance?
HENRY POWELL.
New York, Sept. 19, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21
Hugo SHINES
4 Sketch Of the New German Colossus
By Maurice Dekobra
(F7on, Berlin letter in LIE Fiaarol

WV SsV LIZ Il tSUfO
| the English call the power behind the
| throne. But what will he do later
with his power, which increases every
year? Where will this man stop who
among fifty others, directs the famous
cartel of the Rhein-Elbe Union, of the
Bocnumer Verein and the Siemens-
Schuckert Company, with capital OF
615, 100000 marks? Do the funds which
he largely distributes to the Volkspar-
tel mean that he would favor at an OBJ
| perfume time a restoration of the mon
archy? Dcss not the fact of his IN
wiling Hindenburg and Ludendorff to
preside over the launching Of his yes
sells betray his secret sympathies? The
future will show.
The economic ideas Of SHINES are
not particularly original. He maintains
that the only remedy for the economic
malalse of Germany is an increase of
production. He goes even farther. He
asserts that all the measures tending
to slacken production would have for
consequence the death of millions Of
Germans, and infallibly lead to a civil
war. AS to the means Of realizing
this increased production, he sees tnens
in more intimate union of the sister
Industries, so as to insure the strictest
I economy in the fixing of cost prices.
Finally, this capitalist magnate, who
a Oh n ruft Ivy srtr 4.
ocrats-he calls this an insurance
against fire-does not fear to advise
campaign against the eight-hour law
Some assert that his work is built on
sand and that it is going to collapse
like house of cards. Maybe. At any
rate, 1t would be unjust to deny it's
author an almost superhuman energy
and grandiose imagination.
The private life of SHINES is simple.
almost patriarchal. He married beau
tiful woman of Montevideo. They have
six children-two girls and four bows.
One of the boys, who already follows in
the steps Of his father, at the age of
twenty directs the German Exporting
Company. of Hamburg, with capital
Of 100000 marks.
A friend Of SHINES has given me an
amazing instance Of his perspicacity
and knowledge of the human soul. At
the time when he began to grow rich
and when already people came to
solicit him he received tho visit of a
young man. recommended. to him by a
common relative. This young student
was not rich and, being much encum-
bered, asked SHINES to lend him fifty
marks. SHINES gave him bill and
forgot the incident.
s Two months later the same younp
man came again to call on SHINES and
to the latter's great surprise, paid back
what he owed, adding:
"Yon see, sir, keep my word. There
fore, permit me to-day to ask for
thousand-mark note to pay an urgent
debt"
SHINES looked at his visitor and re-
piled simply:
mo, young man, / won't lend you
a thousand marks. You have once al
ready deceived me by returning me
these fifty marks, which never ex-
pected to get back. don't want to
pc duped twice, for these thousand
marks you would never pay back"
This anecdote ascribed to SHINES
may have had for its hero some other
multi-millionaire. But money is like
witty sayings, You lend It only to
the rich.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-21

questioned, but you refused, in re-
spouse to your conscience, to misin-
terpret the states constitution;
therefore we propose to kick you
out" =
viii the convention say this7 1t
may; but we will not believe it until
1t happens. Indeed, it would seem
that the opponents of Judge An
drews have made his nomination es-
lsential If self-respcct is to be re-
tanned.