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New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
The Revival of Baseball

There are seasons and seasons, but
none that quite equals the baseball
doings that began yesterday with at
least the usual uproar. Locally there
are good reasons for an extra whoop
from the throats of the devoted. The
immortal Ruth stands up to the plate
again for another try at fate and
the unbelievable record Of last year
which he himself hung up. Never
before have the Yankees presented SO
formidable front as this year. The
Giants have more uncertain and un-
tested spots, but they promise much.
The Dodgers start with fine record,
tried team and world of good
will for their game and successful
fight last year.
There has been a heavy mortality
Of familiar faces since last year,
thanks to the cleanup Of crooked
ness. The race is opener than usual
as result. There may be many sur
prises before the season is done. In
a very real sense baseball is starting
fresh, with new lease of life and
revival of good will and oldtime
zest and applause.
BUT let no manager or owner or
player mistake the temper of the
fans. Suspicious long whispered and
long evaded or ignored proved to be
the truth last year, and it would be
idle to pretend that the fan ap-
proaches the game this year with the
same old trust. The new era in
baseball must earn the confidence of
its patrons all over again, from the
ground up. There must be no
shadow of crookedness permitted.
There must be a rigorous obedience
to the strictest discipline. The
standards set by Judge Lands must
prevail in fact as in name. The
game must seem straight and be
straight or the revival will die
a-borning.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

Constantine began his war on the
Turks without sufficient prepara-
tion. The Greek armies established
themselves last fall in Asia Minor on
a north and south line fronting the
Anatolian railroad, from Afiun-Kar-
ahjssar to Eskisher, and. then up
toward Ismid. They had been op-
Grating in conjunction with British
forces in the Constantinople area
and were helping to enforce submis-
sion by Mustapha Kemal to the pro-
visions Of the Treaty of Sevres.
Then came Venizclos's expul-
sion and Constanfinc's restoration.
France and Great Britain realized
that they couldn't cooperate with a
man of Constantine's record and
character. They decided to mollify
the Turks. The new Greek govern
ment refused to accept the treaty
notifications authorized by the Lon
don conference and started in to
enforce its own claims in Anatolia
by fighting Kcma. single-handed
Constantine removed the Venizelist
generals who had conducted the sue
cessful offensive of 1920 and substi-
tuted some of his own less expert
cnced partisans. He forgot, also,
that the French had been keeping a
part of Kemal's forces busy in
Cilicia and that they could be re-
leased by an accord between France
and the Turkish Nationalists.
Constantine struck at the Turks
last month, and at first had an easy
success. His troops reached the
line of the Anatolian railroad, occu-
pying Afiun-Karahissar, at the
south; Eskisher, in the center, and
Rilejik, at the north. Mustapha,
however, quickly countered. His
generals smashed the Greek. left
wing, driving it back to it's base at
Brusa. The center also recoiled and
the left was obliged to withdraw from
Afiun-Karahissar toward ushak.
The Greeks have tried to minimize
their defeat and have been talking
about another drive toward the Ana
tolian railroad, which is the only
line connecting the Turkish Angora
front with the Adalia and Cilician
fronts. But Turkish troops from
Cilicia have now appeared far to the
west Of Konia, threatening an en-
velopment of the Greek left wing.
The Turks are reported at Denizli,
marching northwest against Serai-
keni, which lies only forty miles
stuth-southeast of Alasher. The lat
ter city is well in the rear of Ushak
and more than half way toward
Smyrna, on the railroad to that port
from Afiun- -Karahissar. The Greek
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
Bits of Real Life
Motion Picture Plots in the Day S
News That Censorship Would Spoil

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial "Aladdin's Lamp
Realism" in to-day's issue is, with
out perhaps your intending it to
be such, one of the best and strong
est arguments against the censorship
OF motion pictures that could be ad-
vanced.
AS your editorial points out, it is
a fact that writers look to the daily
newspapers for bits of real life for
ampllhcatlon or condensation into
novels, plays, motion pictures, etc.
But it is also fact that in numerous
states such situations and bits of life
as you mention are debarred from the
motion picture screen by politically
appointed censors.
AS one who writes for the movies 7
agree with you that the gem of all
the nebulous plots in the group you
mention is the story regarding the
capsule containing $4,000 worth of
radium, which was lost bv hosn;taI
attendant and which is a deadly men,
ace to the finder who keeps it. It is
capital idea for what is known as q
serial~-a continued melodrama.
But if, as you suggest, producer
were to make a picture in which this
radlum was stolen by a band of in,
ternational thieves and one by one
its members were attacked by the m
suspected malignity of radium's ravs
and suffered ugly, cancerous death. tho
censors IN many states would refuse IT,
permit the showing of such scenes
and would be very likely to condemn
the whole picture as exerting too
wild" an influence on children. or to
prohibit its showing for any one of a
hundred other reasons"
All Of the other "bits of real life"
that your editorial mentions would
also be mangled by the censors, scis-
sors, especially anything that even re-
motely suggests suicide.
1t is we'll for the people of New
York to realize now that censorship
may keep from the screen such "bits Of
real life" as your editorial mentions
BEN H. GRIMM.
New York, Aprii 10 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

The New York Call, radical So
cialist publication which adroitly
labors to promote syndicalism, is in
telligent enough to recognize it when
i. sees it. So it vehemently bp-
poses the Meyer-Martin bill, which
would plug up hole in the anti
trust act whereby syndicalism has
crept into New York law.
The Donnelly act forbids COM
bination to control the price of any
article of common use. Constituting
this statute, the courts have held
that products of the photo-engraving
industry are not of common use, and
hence the prohibition does not apply
to it. Taking advantage of this in
depreciation, the union of photo-en-
gravers and their employers have
combined to fix prices and to keep
new concerns out Of the business.
This is syndicalism--that is, a
monopoly group Of employees has
seized control of an industry and
absolutely dictates what the public
shall pay for it's products. Behold
ing the nose of the camel of syndi-
calism thus in the tent, The Call,
with it's principles, naturally resists
its expulsion. 1t hopes the whole
animal may get in. The issue is so
plain that it is strange Mr.. Gompers,
who is against syndicalism, is willing
to journey to Albany to oppose the
Meyer-Martin bill.
The authors Of the Donnelly act,
of course, never intended to author
ize syndicalist monopoly in the photo
engraving industry. They did not
dream that the courts would narrow
the phrase "of common use" so as to
exclude products that merge into
and are part Of other articles.
But, constituting the language Of the
act in forced way, there is exclu-
sion. The Meyer Martin bill merely
puts the matter back where it was
thought to be. If the bill is not
passed syndicalism will continue in
the photo-engraving industry, as The
Call perceives.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
Buying at the Bottom

Governor Miller's special message
asking for an amendment to the new
traction act makes it impossible for
even the most suspicious to credit
the slander that the Gov vrnor * 8
party to a conspirac.' 10 benefit ,s.e
traction interests at the expense of
the public.
The Governor would have fur
ther safeguard to protect the city.
He proposes, in brief, that the COM
mission when making the valuation
of traction property which must pre-
cede new arrangement shall fix
no higher value than is supportable
out of present earnings with a five
cent fare. This is to say that he
would acquire the property not on
the basis of prospective income but
on the basis of to-day's income. He
would buy when prices are the low
est and have all future gains accrue
to the public.
If the Governors recommendation
is studied doubt may arise as to
whether the companies will come in
on his basis, but no reasonable per-
son will longer believe nor any candid
person longer charge that he seeks to
serve private interests. He would
secure for the city at bottom costs a
property of almost limitless worth
and prevent any future group of
traction spectators fattening at the
public's expense.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
Hylanisn's Exposure

The terrific arraignment of the
Hylan administration contained in
the resolution yesterday adopted by
the state Senate amply justifies the
investigation of the city's affairs
which is ordered.
The Republican majority is war
ranted in viewing with satisfaction
the fact that only two Republican
Senators yielded to the influence of
local Republican leaders, notably
Jacob A. Livingston, of Kings,
who, for some undisclosed reason,
sought to protect the Tammany-
Hearst administration.
The old days of bi-partisanship,
when the local Republican organiza-
ton, feeding on contemplate pottage
thrown to it, took orders from the
Tammany boss, happily are gone.
Mayor Hylan, his aids and part
ners must face the light Of publicity.
They have squirmed for months to
keep in darkness. They have run
from screen to screen. But their
camoufage is pierced-their smoke
defenses are blown away. They con-
front exposure.
Waste, extravaganza, inefficiency
and corruption characterize Hylan-
ism. 1t has headed the city toward
insolvency by voting expenditures
and failing to provide revenue to
meet them. 1t has put the city's
credit in peril. Many of it's depart
ments recA with graft, as the
twenty-five indictments returned by
the Whitman grand jury attest. All
signs are that it is rotten through
and through.
It is time to know the full truth.
And it is to be known. Insidious in
fiuences were able to delay inquiry,
but to prevent it was beyond their
craft, and once on it will be unstop-
pable.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
German Debts Due Americans

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some time ago l noticed an
article in some of the papers bv a
New York lawyer referring to the COL
lection of funds from Germany due
American citizens residing in America
l have in mind just such case as
was mentioned in the above article. It
IS the case of a widow whose husband
was an American citizen residing in
America and left her an income from
German properties. None of this monev
has been received since war was de-
clared by Germany and the widow is
IN sore straits. She has been notified
by the German government that one
half OF this income will be taken bv
the government to pay war indemnity.
How about this?
1t seems to me that it is high time
something was done to protect the
rights of our citizens in this matter
!! cannot understand why the matter
has not been taken UP by our Senators.
WILLIAM R. HOOPER.
New York, April -, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
1914 and After
Frank
To the Editor Of The Tr

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent Frank
L. Sowter writes:
"lf any nation or nations. for any
purpose they saw fit, wished to bring
about such a crisis as arose in 1914,
the United States would be ready to
do what it did in 1917"
May l refer Mr. Sowter to the files
OF The Tribune in the days preceding
the war, so that his letter to you may
appear in its proper perspective? We
were "big enough, strong enough.
brave enough" in 1914, but we waited
as Belgium was raped, as France was
devastated, as the Lusitania was sunk;
but our bigness, strength and bravery
were not sufficient to compel US to de-
clare war on Germany, or even send
Won Bernstorff home.
Once again respectfully refer Mr..
Sowter to the editorials of The Trib-
une from the fall of 1914 onward He
will not then feel like writing about
doing something in 1924 that we ought
to have done in 1919, namely, join the
league or be proclaimed the bully
among the nations.
JOHN NJ. F. HOWE.
Buffa1o, N. Y. April ~, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
The San Antonio Case

Fuller information in regard to
the Supreme Court decision in the
San Antonio, Texas, traction case
throws doubt on the accuracy of the
newspaper summaries of the de-
cision.
The decision was presented as one
to the effect that contract for a
five-cent fare is not binding when it's
enforcement means company is not
earning a fair return on it's prop
erty. In fact, it seems to be merely
that the city Of San Antonio did not
have power to contract-that thus
there was no contract, and hence
the fve-cent clause in a nom binding
instrument was not enforceable.
1t appears that the original San
Antonio Traction Company was Or
ganized by special act of the
Texas Legislature in 1874, and that
the Texas constitution of 1876 pro-
vides that "no irrevocable or uncon-
trollable grant oe special privileges
or immunities shall be made" In
1899 San Antonio passed an ordi-
nance providing that street railways
operating in the city should not
charge more than five cents for a
continuous ride. But subsequently
the Legislature ordered the sale of
tickets to school children at one-half
the regular fare. The company re-
sisted on the ground that it had a
contract with the city whose terms
the Legislature had impaired, and
that therefore the Legislatures act
was void. The decision was that
there was no contract-that the city
had no power to make one, on ac-
count of the constitutional provision
mentioned above.
The litigation which ended on
Monday arose out of an ordinance
of the city forbidding an increase of
fares. Whercupon the company at
tackled the ordinance on the ground
that the city's act was confscatory.
The roles being reversed, the city
argued there was contract and the
company that there was not. The
lower court decided there was no
contract, and this decision the Su-
preme Court affirms. The implica-
tion is that if there had been a con-
tract the company could not have
raised it's fare.
In the Cleveland case in 1904 the
Supreme Court held that when CITY
had right to contract with respect
to fares, and traction company
entered into such contract, it could
not abrogate the contract on the
ground that the contract rates were
confiscatory.
Any case coming up from New
York City will probably involve
questions not touched upon in either
the San Antonio or Cleveland case,
Here we have contracts made in be-
half of the city by a state commits
sion whose power to contract is not
challenged. The issue with us is
whether the state, acting through
another commission as trustee for
the city, can modify contract made
b. it's predecessor when the other
party thereto agrees to the modif.
cation.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

That the ends of justice will be
better served when women have
larger share in the administration
of the law was the burden of the
recent speech of Judge Florence
e. Allen, Of the Court of Common
Pleas, Cleveland, Ohio, before the
Women Lawyers Association. Her
chief complaint against all-male
courts and juries is that their no.
tions of "chivalry" get the better
Of their common sense when they
are dealing with women wrong
doors.
Criminals take advantage of
this fact" she says; "they use a
woman to perform acts essential to
the committing of crimes, with the
feeling that she will be let off at
the same time that she serves the
purpose of screening them. 1t is
quite true that practically all men
lawyers, judges, prosecuting at
torneys, witnesses and jurors
are disposed to be lenient with
women" The leniency is not de-
liberate, she seems to think, but a
matter of instinct. Pretty women,
particularly, are all too likely to
make men lose their balance.
The woman criminal is, of
course, ready enough to play up
her delicacy or her charms in the
hope of being treated as child
and let off easy. But such exemp-
tions, as Judge Allen says, are an
undesewed reflection upon the
character and intelligence of the
sex, and women in general disap-
prove of them. A woman crook
before woman Judge is pretty
sure to get fair treatment-and
nothing more.
AS women come to have more of
hand in enforcing the law their
unsentimental way Of dealing with
women lawbreakers doubtless will
have the force of an example. This.
certainly, is one of the reasons why
women should be enabled to serve
on juries. And there are other and
more obvious reasons, chief among
them being the consideration that
to double the number of people
from whom jurors may be recruited
will be to halve the difficulty that
now exists in obtaining intelligent
jury service.
There is need also of women
judges. So far only one woman
has held judicial Office in this
state--Judge Jean Norris, who was
appointed by Mayor Hylan to the
magistrates bench, and who has
been discharging the duties of her
post with credit. New York would
do we'll to follow the precedent of
Ohio by placing a woman on the
bench of court of general juris-
diction. The state has women
lawyers of distinction. Bertha
Rembaugh, for example, was nomi-
mated for <he Municipal Court in
1919 and received the support
OF all the bar associations and
OF the Citizens Union. and there
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

time to an amount sufficient to enabls
the new company to earn not only iii
own charges and 6 per cent on the
portion Of the agreed capital value of
its properties represented by stock,
but also the whole or part of the In
terest and sinking fund charges of the
city upon all Indebtedness incurred BY
it for the construction of lines opented
by the company. Any earnings In sx-
cess of an amount sufficient to pay the
interest and sinking fund charges Of
the city are to be divided between ths
city and the new operating company
on some specified basis.
The new company is to lease and
operate any additional lines con-
structed by the city. The new COM
pany is to make such Improvements as
the Public Service Commission may
direct cut of the proceeds Of bonds or
other obligations issued and sold with
the approval of the commission. In
terest and sinking fund charges in re-
spect of all such obligations are to bs
included as part of the charges to be
provided for as above stated.
Recapture by the City
Provision is to be made giving the
city power to terminate all the leases
and to recapture all the properties
as an entirety. It would be desirable
also to give the city a right instead Of
terminating the leases to acquire all
the stock of the operating company at
fixed price, based on the agreed
capital value of its property repre-
sented by the stock. If the city should
ever take over the traction properties
they ought to be operated like other
city departments by elected or ap-
pointed city officials A better plan
would be to require the city to operate
them through separate corporate
organization managed by a classified
board, consisting of, say, nine men,
bers, of whom only one would be ap-
pointed each year. If all the traction
lines were operated by elected or ap-
pointed city officials like the other
departments of the city a dangerous
amount of patronage would be vested
IN the political party in control and
the operation of the lines would be-
come both inefficient and cxtravagsnt.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
The Penalty of Greatness

fFrom The Louisville Courier-JournaD
The optimist used to encourage the
struggling youth with the assertion
about there being always room at the
top. The pessimist nowadays observes
that at the top there are taxes which
lop off earnings like the scimitar of
Saladin Topped off heads.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

right wing is, therefore, in an even
more perilous position than the
Greek left wing. In the war of
maneuver Constantine's raw COM
manders are making a sorry show
ing against the undervalued Turks.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

can be no doubt of her fitness
for higher post than that
to which Tammany-ridden cleo.
torate failed to raise her. Miss
Rembaugh has been suggested as
a fit bipartisan candidate for one
of the next occurring vacancies in
the Supreme Court Of this county.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
Another Burst of Morality

From the Grand Rapids (Mich. j.
Journal
The Muskegon Community Council
announces that Mary Pickford and
Douglas Fairbanks's pictures will be
barred because Of their marriage after
her divorce. Mack Sennett's Bathing
Girls will be featured
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
MrMBEx OF THE ASSOCIATED Press

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled TO
ths use for republication OF all news dispatches
credited TO j. or not otherwise credited in this
paper. ard also the local news Of spontaneous
origin published herein
All rights OF republication Of an other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

BALLADE OF A SMALL SALARY

BALLADE OF A SMALL SALARY
do not know and do not care
A cuss where those ladies are to-day,
Alys and Ermengarde and the fair
Flora of rascally Villon's lay;
The last years SHOWS are melted awav.
AS any idiot ought to know.
But not so completely as my pay
Where does my monthly salary go?
For long dead ladies don't DESPAIR.
In well contented that they should
stay
Wherever they are, whatever thew
wear;
l know lovelier lot than they:
But every one of them says me nay;
bonbons and roses I can't bestow.
Never luncheon, never a play
Where does my monthly salary go?
TO fuss the fappers do not dare:
Seldom see them, for my array
Is ruinous and beyond repair;
My only trousers are all afrav.
| belong in field to keep at bay
The thieving and unmelodous crow:
Tailors are damned expensive-and saw.
Where does my monthly salary go?
LENVOI
Tell me a mouthful, Queen, pray;
Forget that query about the snow;
This is my burden ever and aye,
Where does my monthly salary go?
c. W. W.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

Yeu cen purchase merchandise adveetlssd In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safep-for dissatisfac-
ticn results In any case THE TRIBUNE susran-
tecs to say your money back upsn request. Ne red
tape No auihbiins. We make good promptly It
The adSsrtlser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
4 Suggested Subway Plan
Outline of Method for Untying Ctys Traction System

The subjoined specific proposal
LOOKING to q consolidation of the
traction lines of the city, some of
whose features are IN accord aUith
Governor Miller's special message of
yesterday, acos prepared for The
Tribune By one Of the city's leading
Traction, erperts.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
Subway Suspects

Suddenly she gave start; the time
had come. She looked about furtively.
No one was watching her. Swiftly and
silently she opened the black bag and
extracted a long, sharp implement.
Then she paused and once more making
sure that she was not being spied upon,
slowly raised the pencil and wrote in
her memo book "Get steak for dinner, !"
D. V. N.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

fFrom The Washington Post)
For safety from hold-up men, New
fork's home-huilding boom should in
'clude line of forts.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

There was talk, few years ago, of
changing the name of this nation to
the United States of Columbia. Our
choice is the U. S. of Puritania. For
Presidents: Clayton R. Lusk.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
Think of a Condition in Bourbon,

IHInK OF Condition IN Bourbon!
Sir: Down in Chile, South America.
in the National Agricultural Institute,
they teach the art of making wines,
liquors, etc. What pleasure to be
honor man in Cognac--or what con-
ISOLATION to funk in Champagne! What
an imeptus the desire for learning
would get if our own Aggies boasted
such courses! ALONZO.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
A Serious Drawback

ffrom The Boston Trdnseript)
Even in the spring they don't play
golf in the Utopia Of Soviet Russia.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14

Of course, the freedom of the citv
can be abused. Remember Gomorrah.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
The Greenwich Golfer

'Tis nice to live in Greenwich,
Where they have a 10Th hole.
And when you've finished 1s,
You slowly toward it stroll;
And sit there sad and gloomy
And silent while you sip
A Cos Cob Rhubarb Cobbler
Or Mianus River Flip.