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New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Industrial Waste

The management of American in
Gustries is conceded to be the most
efficient in the world. To this and
the use of mechanical power the
country owes, even more than to it's
natural resources, a wage scale and
a general living standard far above
that of any other.
But how far short we still are of
the attainable. is strikingly shown by
the report of committee of engi-
neers appointed by Secretary Hoo
yer to make survey. This commit
tee, as a result of exhaustive investi-
cation, soberly finds that with the
facilities now in existence no less
than so per cent could at once be
added to American production.
Wastes are of many kinds. Ma
chinery is idle. Effort is duplicated.
Industries are carried on in places
not suited to them Industrial dis
putes bring stoppages of regular
work. Even when strikes do not oc-
CUT the labor turnover is excessive,
leading to the need of constantly
training green workers who at first
create small product. Only few
plants are operated at anything like
full capacity. The output of indus
try can be increased without any re-
sort to the speeding up which or
ganized labor objects to. Labor
regulations, born of ignorance and
the false assumption that the manu-
facture of jobs is a good thing for
the wage-worker, keep wages unnec-
essarily down.
The development of mechanical
power during the nineteenth century
more than quadrupled the per capita
industrial product. 1t is possible for
the application of intelligence 10
management to give even a greater
increase during the remaining years
of the twentieth. The field is ready;
the opportunities spread out are
practically limitless.
The nineteenth century was the
age of the inventors The twentieth
is to be that of the engineer. One
harncssed nature. The other is TO
harness the cooperative instincts,
with equally great gains in the pro-
aastaea sAisA ia the mothes OF
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Residence and the Bonus
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial this morning on
Estate Bonuses" Is admirable, except
that it leaves out the fact that there
will be a large number of ex-soldiers
fully deserving of the bonus who under
the present law will be left out en-
tirely-those who were unfortunate
enough to move from one state to an
other between the time Of their enter
ing the service and the time when the
bonus law was passed.
l entered the service from New York
in April, 1917, served twenty months
here and in France and, still resident
of New York, was honorably dis
charged. In May, 1919, I moved from
New York to New Jersey, Of necessity.
New York will not give me bonus be-
cause / was not resident at the time
of the passing of the law. New jersey
will not give me a bonus because l
was not a resident when l entered the
service. Thus I fall unhappily between
the two chairs.
When it is a question of our paying
state income tax New York is not SO
particular about our being residents Of
the state, but when it comes to paying
US bonus the question of residence
is one of great moment. 1t appears to
me that if I pay tax on income re-
ceived within the state ! should receive
bonus. A. I.
Hackensack, N. j., June I, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Drying Up Loans

The testimony before the Lockwood
committee reestablishes long-estab-
lished truth. This is that statutes
against usury are futile. So they
ever have been. So, probably, they
ever will be.
To have an effective anti-usury
statute would doubtless be desirable;
but the wit of man has never devised
one. Practically everything has been
tried--from confiscation of the loan
to trimming the ears and pulling the
teeth of the usurer, and all to no
avail. The possessor Of liquid CAPT
tai, when attacked, either retired his
funds from the market or in some
way got his moneys current worth.
In other lines Of business there is
conspiracy among sellers when they
are not satisfied with the market
price of their article. But usurers
seldom conspire. They don't need to.
They don't fix the money rate. They
merely recognize one that exists
openly and notoriously. Thus the
usurer's case differs from that of
conspiring commodity dealers whose
first step is to name a price. The
Lockwood committee apparently
overlooked a vital distinction.
The testimony shows that insur-
ance companies and savings banks,
cooperative institutions, have con-
spicuously ignored the anti-usury
laws. This conduct raises an inter
esting moral question. Is it right,
when money is worth s per cent and
this is received by the great ma jority
of lenders, to coerce the owners of
small amounts Of capital to lend for
per cent? The question is respect
fully referred to those esteeming
themselves special champions of little
fellows. Placed where duty to de-
positors required one thing and the
law another, trustees seem generally
to have decided that the first obliga-
tion is the greater Depositors
and insurance policy holders natur-
ally view the offense charitably.
1t is not worth while to jolly our
salycs by attributing the stoppage of
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Recognition of Mexico
Obstacle Lies in Conhscatory Provi
sion of Mexican Constitution

sion of Mexican Constitution
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your publication this morning
Of statement by President Alvaro
Obregon of Mexico provokes consider
alton of the facts of the case.
General Obregon states to your cor
respondent, in effect, that recognition
of nation carries with it the obliga-
tion to comply with its international
duties, therefore no promises made
in advance of such recognition binding
Mexico to the performance of obliga-
tions would have any more force than
recognition itself.
Up to the time when the United
States was confronted with the ques-
ton Of recognition Of Mexico this
statement would have been correct in
principle and in truth; but something
happened prior to the application of
Mexico for recognition which makes
this case exceptional.
That something was the adoption by
Mexico Of a constitution which has
been interpreted by the governments of
Mexico, including that of Obregon, as
sanctoning confiscation of properties
Of foreigners in Mexico without COM
pensation. The existence of this con-
stitution, against which France, Eng
land and the United States have sol
emnly protested, is notice to the world
that Mexico is distinctly not inclined
to comply with the obligations which
recognition as a member of the family
of nations would create. Britain never
did recognize any Mexican government
sanctioned by this charter. President
Wilson recognized Carranza only after
receiving his solemn promise that it
would not be applied in a confiscatory
manner.
1t has been a principle and tenet of
all American governments that a condi-
tion precedent to the recognition of any
foreign government is that that gov
ernment must show a positive inclina-
tion and an unquestioned ability to
comply with it's international obliga-
tions. The existence of the new con.
stitution of Mexico absolutely negatives
the existence of such inclination.
Hence, from the special circum stance
of the unprecedented Mexican consti-
tuition arises the necessity of definite
promise, in advance of or concurrent
with recognition, that the prccepts OF
that constitution which are antagonis-
tic to international law will not be ap.
piled against foreigners, certainly not
against American citizens.
Any other course would operate as
an acceptance by the American gov
ernment of the validity and sanctty
of the confiscatory provisions of the
Mexican constitution and would estor
the American government from pro
testing or taking action against en-
forcement of its terms, to the ruin OF
American citizens. II. A. ADAMS.
Washington, D, c., June /, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Verrazano' s River2

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Regarding Henry Hudson ana
the river named after him, may i say
that that intrepid and courageous
navigator was not the discoverer Oh
the Hudson River? Giovanni da Vef-
razano discovered the Hudson Rlvef
fully eighty-five years before HUDSON
ever thought of taking the long trip'
Hudson is getting the honors, anu
as usual, every one gets in all xmas
of controversies about nothing.
Honors are always bestowed upoa
those who have no right to them.
JOSEPH o. LAIN0.
New York, June 5, 1921. Il
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
On the Wrong Shoulders

The World reprints, with its ap-
proval, an editorial from The Herald,
charging Congress with practising
sham economy. The argument made
is that the cuts in the estimates are
only paper cuts and that because
actual expenditure still outruns ap-
preparations made many months ago
Congress must accept sole RESPONSE
bility for continued squandering ''in
the face of the imperative need to
save"
The editorial in question says:
"For the present fiscal year (end-
ing with this month"; the Democratic
heads of departments asked for S.
064,350,793, and this was hailed IS
wild extravaganza. The Republican
Congress cut those estimates and rp-
propriated to meet the revised items
3,717,441 Asa and this was acclaimed
by the legislative body as heroic
economizing. But Secretary Mellon
OF the Treasury figures that when
the year closes four weeks from now
the actual spending will have been
.$5,602, ,o24,S61, not counting Postofice
outlay, which was included in the
original estimates and the appropria-
tions"
This indictment is based on erro-
neous figures. If The World and
The Herald would take the trouble
to consult the statement of appropri-
ations for the fiscal year 1920-'21,
contained in the Congressional Rec
ord of June IA, 1920, they would find
that the estimates submitted totaled
s6,334 100000, not $1,000, 900, 900,
and that the appropriations totaled
$4,859, 100000, not S3,717,00O,o0O.
Congress cut down the Wilson Ad-
ministration estimates $1,474,000,-
600. 1t was working under crush
ing handicap. The 192o-'21 appro-
priation bills carried $4s6,000, 900 to
meet deficits for the fiscal year 1920
and prior years, and s725,00o,o00 to
meet in part the debt created by
Federal mismanagement Of the rail-
roads.
For the fiscal year 1922 the
Wilson Administrations estimates
we're $5,259, 100000. Congress ap-
propriated s3,So6, 100000, figuring
the naval bill total at 100000,
the amount it carried when it passed
the House of Representatives Here
was a reduction of $1,453, 100000.
Of this $273,ooO,ooo was produced
by slashing the figures of a Secre-
tary Of the Navy who has just been
writing a series of articles for The
World telling how perfect his admin
istration was.
How can the figures contained in
the appropriation statements be
tortured into an indictment of Con-
gressional extravaganza? Up 70
March 4 last the Wilson regime con-
tinued to run up deficits. The ap-
palling railroad bill it left behind
hasn't yet been paid. The Shipping
Boards debts are another annoying
legacy. If because of hangover obli-
cations the Treasury has to pay out
more money this year and next year
than Congress provided, that isn't
CONGRESSES fault. 1t has worked
wonders in the way of retrenchment
1t can't, of course, repudiate the far
dung Wilson I O US. But since
March 4, 1919, it has done what it
could to save the taxpayers S4,60o,-
100000 which the Wilson wasters
wanted added to our postwar ex-
penditure.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Relief for Veterans

Although proper care of the war
veterans is the declared purpose of
the bill now before Congress, an
amendment effectively nullifies one
of its most valuable sections. The
bill originally divided the country
into twelve regions, each Of which
was to be a complete admin
istrative unit, able to investigate
and act on cases within it's terri
tory. Under the amendment this
power is restricted by denying to
the regional offices the right "to
make compensation and insur-
ance awards and grant vocational
training"
In other words, the amendment
undoes much of the good Of the
original bill.
The main purpose in providing
regional treatment of cases is to
eliminate the waste of time caused
by men throughout the whole coun-
try dealing directly with Washing
ton. Under the regional Office sys-
tenn it is possible for a man to apply
to center near his home and have
his claim personally investigated.
More important still, each regional
Office has the power to act and to
give prompt relief.
The amendment, however, re-
moves from the regional Offices
most of their executive powers and
makes their work merely advisory
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

next winter We may enter the homes
of the elect early and stay late. And,
in closing, j. N. S. 4th will be at
Princeton about the time Of q. sd's
sojourn at Harvard, and will tell nv
son always to be very kind to his social
interiors. Ave atque vale"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

plenty. Socialism has confused re-
cent thought by undue emphasis on
of distribution and it's
hate dogmas, but signs multiply, of
which this report is one, that once
more the human family is getting
back TO the main road of progress.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

II never had the courage to write
for your intellectual attention
before" writes James N. Slee, because
I always thought you were a Harvard
graduate. Also my Princeton diploma
reads Quasi Chassis ami 1915 and is
dated Nassauci@ 16 Kal. Jul. AF. 1919,
and this small discrepancy in dates has
always been too much for me, but to-
Gay l read that you were missing from
the immortals, so here goes:
Your implied dig at the social
prestige of Yale in to-day's paper is
excellent, though am afraid you were
aiming at Princeton. / suppose those
rather decent Princeton men who
dropped in after dinner could not be
asked for the entire function because
of a mere victory over Yale.
"En passant-oh, excuse me, forgot
that French "A In passing it seems
that implication is a favorite Harvard
method; this morning Mr.. Arthur Rob-
inson remarks, at has been exactly
twenty-five years since Princeton beat
Harvard at Cambridge True, undoubt-
edly, but shall we say not quite COM
plete? Here it is revised from a
Princeton standpoint and equally true {:
Harvard has beaten Princeton at Cam
bridge only three times in twenty y-five
years.
However, o Arbiter Eligantiarum.
we Princeton men realize that socially
we are under heavy cloud and must
walk humbly before our lords; still. we
are cheered by the thought that our
fathers we're very prominent socially
back in the sos and early '90s and
We have hopes that even so early as
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

Why thus deprive a good bill of one
CT it's most important features? AS
originally drawn the bill promised
quick relief for intolerable condi-
tons. AS amended it opens the way
again to endless delay and red tape.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

elimination between the innocent and
the guilty. In vain did l appeal to the
skeptics to accept the logical outcome
of their skepticism; it soon appeared
that when thunderbolts were in ques-
tion there were no skeptics."
LAS your surname begins with B."
writes Aubrey Bowser, "you must have
been in Copey's section of English A
at Cambridge. AS fellow alumnus of
Cope land University I am panied to
note your daily departure, in your book
column, from his strict precepts. More
especially, fear that some of the Ellis
or Tigers whom you have been kidding
so unanswerably that even your female
correspondents have tried to help them
out-that some once-in-a- -blue-moon Eli
may know enough English to observe
your pet solecism and give you a rak-
ing. And that will be more than a
moral victory.
1.-TWO or three times in one para
graph, in matters of simple futurity,
you say we will' or we would What
has become of 'shall' and should p
You employ the solecism so unfailingly
that l sometimes think you must be
convinced that it is correct. Yet you
must know better, for in other respects
your English is not half bad, even for
pupil of Copey's. 1t is small mat
ter, perhaps, but what a morsel it
would be to the Ellis who are searching
heaven and earth for something to
show you up!
"This, of course, Is a confidential
warning, so I hope you will not print
it, unless you wish to kid the Ellis for
their ineptitude in overlooking an
obvious opening. But even then they
might not see it."
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Los Angeles.

Statesmen are like ball players and
third rate actors; as rule they con-
slider it ridiculous to know or to re-
member the names of newspaper men
or authors. Here is the senior SEN
ator from Idaho reviewing, for two
columns in last nights Evening Post,
viii Irwin's The Next War; and not
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
"A.nd Good in Everything'--in Calf,

Sir: They've proved that the Coach
ella Valley, in Southern California, is
an ideal place for growing dates, and
although the Arabs say truly that a
date tree in order to flourish must
have its head in He'll and its feet in
water" do you imagine this checks the
southern Californans claims for his
climate? Not at all! On the contrary,
he now proudly boasts said climate is
rot only Heaven for human beings
as all admit,-but it's He'll for dates!
HOWARD D. HADLEY.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

One of the travesties was written by
John Hastings Turner. If this is the
same gentleman who wrote Simple
Souls, as packed with innocent merri-
ment as any novel ever written, some
body should say so, if only to revive
interest in that glorious novel.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

Tne Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to
the for republication of all dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local news Of spontaneous
er!gin published herein.
All nights Of republication OF nl other matter
hereir also reserNed.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

You can purchase merchandise sdvsetse5 In TINE
TRIBUNE with absouse safsb--for y dissatsfae-
lion results In any THE TRIBUNE suaran-
toes to pay yeur money sack upon request. No red
taps. No uulesllas. We make good promptly II
the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
The Coming Towcr
A VILLAGE IDYL


When Greenwich Village gathers
nightly
In Pirates Den and Devils Cavern,
In Selmas Cave and Toscha's Tavern,
The poets twinkle, so brightly!
The minstrcs of the motley vesture
In lisping accents drool their verses;
Their rimes, as empty as their purses,
They stutter, with a regal gesture.
The bobbed hair ladies rush to hand
them
Applause and more substantial treas
ures;
They lisp their praise Of limping
measures,
Though none there are that under
stand them.
There came one night to Daphne's
Hang-out
Clarissa, Viscount Go5tem's daughter,
An heiress who had crossed the
water
To dwell awhile where genius sang out.
And as she came Sylvester Sopus,
soul unshackled and romantic,
Convention drove him simply fran-
ticU
Was chanting this, his latest opus:
Ny LoUe
MY lope is q lavender star,
s10eeping, pmlsimg, hrobbing,
across q hehotrope sky;
my life is beige cloud
so beige, 50 beige, o, so beige
yet a0hen you appear, coruscdting yoe.,
q rose-tinted aOi1d
driVes a10Gy tho cloud
and the star shines forth,
forth forth forth.
Clarissa listened, temples throbbing,
Her heart ablaze, her pulses hum
ming,
Her ev'ry complex wildly strumming
And then embraced Sylvester, sobbing:
"Iour song invades my inmost inches,
1t fills me with q fierce elation;
Let's wed and live in sweet vibration
On poetry-and fathers richest"
Sylvester sailed and Gotten gave him
The cash to purchase boundless
pleasure,
A life of undiluted leisure,
With Wallets to attend and shave him.
A year he lived in ducal fashion,
But ev'ry day his bride recited
A bit of verse that she'd indited,
A piece like this. declaimed with pas
sion:
My Love
Ny tove is q scarlet harp,
strung Nth purple passions
and poppy hued desires;
there are dreary days
,Ohen 1T is mute
mute =. mute . mute :.
there are other days Whem you are
Nth me,
tender days full of music,
then it sings n,adly
madly -: madly
A year Sylvester listened, daily,
His brain was sore; his ears were
aching,
And then he gave it up, forsaking
Clarissa and her wealth quite gayly.
And now whene'er the Muse starts
strumming
The Tyre on which the sonnets
glisten,
Sylvester will not even listen
He makes an honest living, plumbing.
LESTER Markell.
How niggardly--or it may be how
thoughtless or how indifferent-are the
newspapers in giving credit! All of
yesterdays papers spoke, and most of
them in praise, of the travesty of
Clair de Lune" incorporated in "Snap-
shots Of 1921" And they all credited
! Mr. H. l. Phillips with the authorshi ir
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
The First Claimant

That prize of Edward Bok's is mine,
If judges be but fair;
To serve old Philadelphia
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

"When it comes to college heroes in
fiction, how about the Boston Tech
men?" writes Walter r. Bylund. "Did
you forget them? Or are you little
jealous of the Tech boys, as are lot.
of Harvard men?"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

1t will not down, this theory of tn,
universe's infnity
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

"Only two plays" says Mr.. Kenneth
Mcgowan in The Globe, "came in for
direct rlesque-'Deburau and Clair
de Lune,' the latter by H. I. Phillips,
the Globe Trotter." Why not say who
wrote the "Deburau" burlesque, too?
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

Well. it's large world, after all
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
moved
away
from
there.
A. NJ. ADAMS.

If somebody'd only raise our blood
pressure about 20 points, we'd call.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

How niggardly-or it may be how
thoughtless or how indifferent-are the
newspapers in giving credit! All of
yesterdays papers spoke, and most of
them in praise, of the travesty of
"Clair de Lune" incorporated in 'Snap-
shots Of 1921" And they all credited
Mr.. H. |. Phillips with the authorship
OF it, but only The Globe identified Mr..
Phillips as being The Globes colum-
mist.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
GUARANTY.

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Glass Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1921-06-04

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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-05-11

The exposition will be held most
likel y the first two weeks in Sep
tember, exact, date, along with com
plete list of officers to be named
within the next few days.
It is predicted by those familiar
with the plans that fully 100000
people will attend this exposition,
and special efforts are to be made
to bring school teachers from all
over the Carolinas to the show, in
order, that they may study the won
derful variety of exhibits on dis
play. 1t will be an eye ?opener to
every one, for the 1000 manufac-
turers of the Carolinas are manu-
featuring today practically every ar
ticle made in America
There will be on hand machinery
making cigarettes, plug tobacco,
cigars, cold drinks, hosiery, cloth,
candies and medicines, shoes and
wood products and it is expected
that at this shoy will be represented
the finished products made from
wood, cotton, peanuts, cotton seed,
minerals, chemicals, leather and ali
OF our raw materials. The furni-
ture manufacturers, the woodwork
ing manufacturers, the monument,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-05-11

of stores; Charles Parker, president
of Parker Gardner company; Nor
man A. Cooke, vice president and
treasurer of the Southern Power
company; David Ovens, of J. B. Ivey
and company; H. o. Miller, presi-
dent of the Carolina Baking com
pany; S. S. Alexander, Jr., South
ern representative of Crompton-
Knowles Loom works; Joe Fitzsim-
mons, president Carolinas Auto
Supply house; Lane Etheridge,
president Pyramid Motor company;
John l.: Dabbs, southern manager
for DUPONT and j. G. Patton, Of
The Charlotte Observer.
Purposes of Company
Work will commence within d
few days on the construction of a
building $50 by 400 feet, which will
provide 100000 feet of floor space,
about 10000 of which will be used
for displaying Carolina made prod
ucts. The building will be thor
oughly equipped for comfort and
convenience, being provided with
rest rooms, smoking rooms, band
stand, etc.
1t will be the largest building of
its kind on one floor in the south.