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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

tho hope ct peace in Ireland
which fell low yesterday, rises high
to-day. The De Valera message in
explanation of what he meant and
didn't mean in his preceding letter
throws open a door that seemed
about closed.
AS nearly as can be made out de
Valera desires the conference to &C.
cur, even though fully aware that
the British Cabinet will dcbar from
ITS agenda consideration of the indie
pcndence of Ireland. If this topic is
taboo then of necessity the conversa-
ton must be about something else.
What else? Obviously political re-
latlon that implies continuance of
some form of union. Though his
language is ambiguous, De Valera
has yielded on the crucial matter.
Technically, the Sim Fem delegates
may enter the conference as repre-
sentatiyes of a sovereign power.
But what do they advertise they will
be when they come out?
1t would be too much compliment
to Lloyd George to say that his argu-
mentative adversary has yielded to
his reasoning. What has caused the
change is the change in those who
have been behind De Valera. More
and more it appears that Ireland
would have peace-regards the Brit
ish offer as one it is worth while to
accept. De Valera may be person
ally willing to restart the war, but
what is a commander in chief to do
when his soldiers won't march?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Diamond, War Hero

The French cat Diamond, whose
death has just been announced and
who was honored for his share in the
war, apparently bore out the conten-
ton of w. H. Hudson, that cats
think. Diamond made his way regu-
larly through the trenches to the
German lines and regularly returned
as bearer Of cigarettes.
Hudson declares that a true cat is
unlike any other creature in the ami
NAL world--a statement scarcely con-
tradictable. He tells one story of
cat who for rumber of days
stalked birds who were in the habit
Of descending upon lawn regularly
for the crumbs If an afternoon tea.
He couldn't catch them and gave it
up. Then he resorted to the plan of
lying motionless in the midst of the
crumbs. He tried this for three DAYS.
and then gave that up. "In this in
stance" writes Hudson, "the cat had
made fool of himself all the time
a bigger fool when he changed his
strategy than before-but the very
fact that he did change it appears to
show reflection he had hit
upon an idea-one must use the word
IN this case--that it was his conspic-
uous advance over the smooth lawn
which alarmed them and sent them
away and he, being on the
spot, would have no difficulty in
catching them." But it didn't work,
so he gave it up.
Many people are inclined to believe
that cats have 40 affection because
they do not always display it in the
vociferous manner of the dog. But
this is not true. Cats have been
known to pine away and die when
parted from those TO whom they have
become attached But the freside
sphinx is inscrutsble. Within the
green and black depths CT their occult
souls are hidden things no naturalist
has classified.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
A Mother of Soldiers
In Reply to One Who Objects to Re-
ceiving Cash for Patriotism

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After reading the letter of A.
Rene Moen on "The Legion and the
Bonus" and many others of the same
trend, l came to the conclusion that he
is not looking for job nor hungry
perhaps even owns car to convey him
to his place of business.
Evidently he has not read the vi
brant appeal of A. NJ. Taylor in your
issue of August 20 under the caption
"Men Who Are Slipping" nor the
statement IF Major Deegan, of the
American Legion, that among the I'M
employed in our great metropolis 75,-
600 are ex-service men, some not only
jobless, but roofless and hungry as
we'll.
Why such men, who have left their
all to uphold the honor of the country
and the glory of our flag, should be
branded as unpatriotic for expecting a
modest compensation (not bonus
hateful word!) when left stranded by
the war, when not word is said of
VIC tWCuIy-COu JHCuSanQ new mill
ionaires, made rich by huge war prof
it's while safely at home, is beyond my
understanding.
AS to the care of the disabled men,
our Congressman and Senators should
have settled this and prepared the best
Of places to receive them while the
fighting was going on over there, and
not have waited nearly three years to
remember these unfortunates.
To come back to Mr.. Moen: Should
the compensation become a fact those
who do not want it could promptly
send it back to Uncle Sam or to the
nearest American Legion post which
could find still some buddies who
could use it to help to bring them
back to their pre-war status. And yet
1 wonder how long would Be the list
of those who would return it?
WIDOWED MOTHER OF TWO EN-
LISTED SONS.
New York, Sept. Is, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

it is useless. So he saves the country by
removing all the propelling machinery
from the battleships, thereby increasing
their efficiency by simplification, and To-!
he has floating batteries" for coast de-
tense! FLOATING batteries" which, as
battleships with mobility and speed,
were helpless before aircraft, are now,
by miracle of Quarterdeck's, invul-
nerablc to aircraft, even though inert,
anchored to the mud!
ROBERT P. GLASSBURN,
Major, Coast Artillery Corps.
Fort H. G. Wright, New York, Sept.
10, 1921.
[Brigadier General William Mitch
ell, assistant chief of the Army Air
Service, in a recent memorandum
concerning the bombing tests, makes
the following comment on the ex-
pense of maintaining the Coast Ar
tillery Of the United States:
sin the last ten years $3.50 ,000, 0cS
has gone into the creation and MAIN
tenance of our coast artillery and
coast defense. What defense is this
against hostile sea forces or against
hostile air forces? Millions of dol
lars have been spent for navy yards
distributed along the seacoasts, few
of which havoc depth of water suffi-
cient to accommodate wounded bat
tleship limping into port, drawing
forty or forty-ve feet of water. An
innitesimal part of the money which
we can save from these useless ex-
penditures, devoted to the Grafton
Of an air force, would protect our
coast against any enemy, either in
the air or on the water
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
The Elusive Juror

The woman juror question con-
tinues to stir the New Jersey courts.
Just now the Sheriff Of. Bergen
County is shocked at the discovery
that women beg to be excused for all
sorts of reasons, none of them legal.
The guileless Sheriff has apparently
never heard of men begging off.
II for ages women only had served
on juries the lodging excuses would
have been, of course, based on fen,i
nine routine. Then had men sud-
denly been summoned on venires
their squirmings would have been
just as amusing as women's are now.
A dandified juror would have asked
to be let off because his one and only
wig was that day being recurled and
powdered, an operation of some mo-
ment. Masculine wig wearers are
not 80 many years removed from the
lady with the permanent wave. Van
lty is not the exclusive possession of
any one sex. AS Gail Hamilton said
of women, "God made them to match
the men,"
But, however invalid may be the
excuses based on the claims of per-
sonal adornment, there can be no OBJ
lection to making employment and
professional exemptions peculiarly
applicable to women, just as there
are exemptions for men. Certainly
the mother of small children is ell
titled to exemption, and perhaps the
housemother who actually keeps her
house and prepares and serves the
meals for her family. Such exemp-
lions would not be concessions to
womanhood, but to occupation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

ion, faces a real danger. Because of
this she feels that she is entitled to
special consideration. 1t has been re-
ported that she will make no agree
n1ent at the Washington conference
to lessen armament unless she re-
ce'ves the pledge of MILITARY assist
ance from Great Britain and Amer
lea IN case of another defensive war,
but 1t is also reported that she will
give anything to win America as an
cncctiye protectivc'friend. How any
one can fail to recognize that some
understanding relating to concert of
action among the five great and
trusted powers of the world is noe
ccssary is great mystery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Income Tax Adjustments

The Senate Finance Committee
has approved an income super-tax
schedule which smoothes out certain
inequalities in the House scheme. 1t
adjusts the whole range of super
rates to the new maximum IMPOSE
tion of 80 per cent. Under the pres
emit law the maximum is IS per cent.
The House abolished all gradations
between 65 and 81, but left those
below SO unaltered.
Experience has proved that super
taxes above 80 per cent defeat their
own purpose. That was the level
of sterilization between investments
IN exempted securities and invest
ments in unexempted ones. If a
taxpayer was required to pay more
than a SO per cent surcharge, it was
to his advantage to sell other hold
ings and put the proceeds, along with
new surplus income, into state and
ihuhlclpal oMlgaIionS. Inc supreme
Courts Interpretation of the Consti-
tuition left him this option. The d.
version of funds from industry to
non productive state and municipal
enterprises WAS economically in
curious. The surtaxes above the 80
per cent mark are to be repealed out
right IN the public interest. rather
than in that Of the individual. tax
payer. They have, in fact, repealed
themselves by becoming unproduc-
tive as well as a clog on business.
There are also valid reasons for
Tightening the super-tax on incomes
subject to rates below 80 per cent.
1t is undesirable to pcnalize the ac-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
The Little Road

From The Lyric West)
IND you ever notice little road
That you didn't wonder where II
led?
Whether-after the cool, green wood
1t CHANGED on the dell where your dream
house stood?
notwithstanding dusty and rough,
1t keeps up the pretense just long
enough
To tire those who haven't the clew.
And leave the adventure-and end--to
you?
Maybe it leaves the highway to follow
Up, swooping up like the fight of .
swallow
Till valley and town lie dim below.
And Time flies far on the winds that
blow,
There you may find nook for your
dreaming,
Seeming,
just planned for you from the Eden
glow.
So the little road cries to me-: Follow.
follow,
Maybe you'll find that your dreams ara
hollow,
Maybe you'll see-but follow, follow,
Come with the faith of the homing
swallow,
Or, to your death, you will never know
ELLEN MORRILL, MILLS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Outside the Gates

IF the United States SAYS the
Paris Temps" "has no immediate
interests in Europe it has enormous
interests in the Pacific. But the stu
aslon IN Europe reacts upon the equi-
orlum III the Pacific. American
diplomacy will not be able to accom-
PiSh daily tasks in the Far East
.and all great undertakings require
oally effort-unless 1t follows Euro
pean questions closely and consist
ssntly.s
IN other words, the world is one
IS all oceans flow into one another SO
70 all questions. We cannot be in the
tactic and out of Europe. Take, for
Example, the case of France. Her
nose interest in Russia is bound to
Ahect her attitude toward the terri
'ollal integrity of Russian Siberia,
winch will certai...y come up at the
sonference. This in itself is one of
.ae many links between European
continental politics and the settle
smeht of Far Eastern problems. So,
aaso, is Frances interest in Indo-
China.
~ expect France not to be indif-
,esent to her future is unreasonable.
and Frances interests are linked
''0sely to the Far Eastern settle
J, a'sat' So also are Great Britain's
!, s,'erests, and those of Belgium and
s I, The continents cannot be
divorced.
/. ine Warning - lie "Temps.'-
'Aefefore is timely. 1t. comes from
: friend, old in experience and
armed IN the complications of world
s ], Not only France, but all of
: Europe, is concerned in the Far
sassern settlement, and as long as
Aopean politics are closely bound
y With the East it is unwise for
~ 'er.ca to forget that Europe ex-
So me geographical locus of pres
s.. prohlems is the Pacific. but the
's, !. center is still the Atlantic.
rance regards herself as aban-
ss..'0' She ressnts British indiffer-
AZ Ky and American sepsrateness.
, 'se's that Italy IS working.
q fer' She alone, in her opin-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Labor in the War
The Work of the Doughboys Con-
trasted with the Work of Labor

Aio. "oiA VI TIC CouSnDOyS NOn-
trasted with the Work of Labor
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Gompers is constantly
stressing the superior patriotism of
union labor during the war, as if to
make virtue of it and have us believe
man or organization deserves some
exceptional credit for being patriotic.
There is no middle ground in the
duty of man or organization to the
country. Citizens are either loyal or
disloyal, patriotic or unpatriotic. 10y
atty and patriotism are the first and
primary duties every man owes his
country, and entitle him to no special
credit.
The evidence, however, we'll known to
those on the inside during the war,
does not support Gompers's contention,
II patriotism means putting the inter
ests and welfare of the country first.
During the war union labor held it's
own alleged rights and welfare superior
to those of the government. During
tHat pefiVd IL INDUCED IN ABOUT III
strikes and the only way the men were
kept on their jobs was by the constant
coddling of the Wilson Administration
and its inordinate. concessions to union
labor's incessant demands and its
every within and caprice-facts so we'll
known that they are beyond dispute.
While the boys in the trenches in
France were shedding their blood and
dying for the munificent sum of 81 per
day labor was shedding its sweat in
safety at $50 per day and upward It
doesn't seem that this is anything for
labor to boast about. In fact, it be-
hooves it to put on the soft pedal
when it begins to talk patriotism and
what it did to win the war, for there
are too ~any of US who know what the
government had to contend with in
its handling of the labor situation at
that time.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Washington, D. c.. Sept. is. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
a Week of Verse

From The BooemorJ

From The BooSmapJ
MORE lonesome than q lonesome shfn
at sea,
The sailing moon rides beautifully nv.
Blown from such purple hsrbors -
may be
In unimagined corners of the sky.
She is not careless where she gazes down
On sleepy streets the silver silence
fills,
But thoughtful ever Of little town,
And foolish-fond of little, wooded hills.
Sea-foik are given so to telling tales,
| think the moon, when she puts in at
last,
May spin story where she reefs her
safsy--
And there her talk of shorelands that
she passed
Is all of glimmering meadows, ghostIv
still,
A sleepy town a lonesome
little hill.
DAVID MORTON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

cumnlation Of surplus capital---or TO
divert too large a proportion of in
dividual earnings aboye the $4,000
level to government uses. The Sen
ate Committee accepted the House
provisions, relieving tax payers with
incomes below $4,000. These pro-
visions increased the exemption of
married men or women from $4,000
to $4,000, and increased the exemp-
ton for each dependent child from
5000 to $500. The effect of these
changes is to reduce by nearly one
half the tax liability of many per-
sons in the under $4,000 class.
The Senate Committee has now
rounded out the general reduction,
lowering by one point the super-tax
rates on incomes between $4,000 and
$4,000. There are eight classes
below $4,000. The 1 per cent re-
duction in each of them will also
benefit all tax payers on incomes of
more than $4,000.
The war is over and war condi-
tons arc passing away. The Har-
ding Administration is determined
to reduce swollen government ex
penditure. Under these circum-
stances it is only fair and sensible
to lift some of the unprecedented
burden of taxation borne since 1917
by those whose income has exceeded
$4,000 year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Are Coast Forts Uselcss:9
Major Of the Coast Artillery Corps Replies Quarterdeks
Article Their Obsolescence

shells" at seacoast forts Where are
they? Can it be that the word "shell'
brings to his mind only the pinky
ones, the crinkly, scalloped ones with
acres" Of which the surf plays on the
beaches before our batteries?
Having destroyed all the seacoast
forts by the infallibe efforts of his
aerial Buffalo Bills, Quarterback arrives
at his GROWING logical acrobatic. He
writes, even if the aircraft fail to de-
stroy--can it be that he harbors a
shame-faced doubt of their infallibility :?
the forts, the forts cannot defend the
country. Why? Because their guns fire
only an insignificant fifteen to- twenty
miles. Knowing that, the enemy ships
Will keep out of range of the forts, saws
Quarterback. Thus, the forts, by slim
ulating the enemy's fear and keeping his
ships fifteen to twenty miles away from
the country, have failed to defend the
country. When is country defended?
Now Quarterback leaps lightly to the
railway artillery and strews our coast
railroads with wrecks. He states that
the railway guns are useless, as they
"can be bombed off the earth" So can
Mount Washington, or tomato can, or
anything, provided, first, that it is hit
and, second, that enough explosive is
used. All of the two million men who
made up the A. E. F. were exceedingly
vulnerable to being blown off the earth,
and not few sincere attempts to do
so were made, but the bulk of the A. e.
F. is still alive and on the earth, after
having given a reasonably good account
of itself against an active enemy.
I was in the railway artillery during
four months of the reckless handling of
explosives and firearms on the Western
front, and / have yet to learn of
railway gun having been damaged by
aircraft. Why did not Quarterback pro-
duce at least one fact to support SO
sweeping an assertion?
At last we arrive at Quarterdeck's
own approved solution of the problem of
harbor defense. 1t is no guns, but
mines, torpedoes, submarines, air forces
and possibly some kind of floating bat
terry Of course, with no guns and no
friendly aircraft--for all of Quarter
decks arguments are based upon the
simple assumption that our enemy's air.
craft will fill the air unopposed by US
to protect the mines the enemy would
not sweep them out. No enemy but
would take the attitude that it would
not be sporting to sweep out unpro-
tected mines.
But what is that floating battery"7
1t must be something that floats. 1t
must have guns on it, or it would not
be a battery. So guns are not quite out
of it, it would seem. And the floating
battery" must have some kind of pro-
lection against hostile fire. 1t begins to
look like an old, familiar friend. Quar-
terdeck does not mention any propelling
equipment. It just floats. No aviator
so dastardiy as to bomb a thing that
just floats.
But stay! / know what the floating
battery" is! In many previous para
graphs Of mourning over the stupidities
of our leaders of national defense Quar-
terdeck has proved that the battleship
Is helpless against an aeroplane; that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
AS to Tax-Exempt Securities
To the Editor OF The Tribune

10 Ihe Eultor OF The Tribune.
Sir; AS do most authorities, The
Tribune opposes the higher surtaxes
on the ground that capital is thereby
driven into tax-exempt securities, sin.
stead of being employed in productive
industry" as you say to-day.
No doubt you are right and, no
doubt. am obtuse, but l can't SEQ
the particular advantage of having the
rich abstain from non-taxable securi-
ties; some one must buy the bally
things and whether they are bought
from the surplus of the rich or the
savings of the non-rich is as broad as
it's long as far as tying up capital is
concerned. That any added popularity
of tay-exempt securities is material
factor in the quantity of their issue
is hardly tenable AGAWAM.
Springfield, Mass, Sept. IA, 1891.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Heretofore Quarterdeck's mis-
statements and sophistries have been
directed against the navy, which is
we'll able to care for itself. In your
| issue of to-day Quarterback turns his
giant intellect upon the coast artillery,
and, in two columns, annihilates it.
Follows a swan song of a coast artil-
leryman:
First, let us examine Quartz rdeck S
position. For weeks he shouted in
your columns that the battleship had
been written off the navy list by the
airplane. Then tests were held at sea
to permit the air services to demon
strate what they could do. Although
these tests were held under conditions
considerably more favorable than the
airmen may ever hope for in war, the
joint board of army and navy officers
which conducted the tests came to t
sound conclusion that the battleship
still is the principal guardian of our
aviation presents just what each inno-
walton in warfare has presented, only
added complications to the general
science of war. To the great discom-
future of Quarterback, this sane con-
cluson was met with the widespread
approval it merits.
So Quarterback, waxing more hys-
terical, turns upon the coast artillery
He makes the misstatement that
billions of dollars have been spent
upon forts and guns" That is untrue.
The Taft board recommended expend-
lures of, in round numbers, $97, 900 900
on seacoast forts and guns. Including
that amount, considerably less than
$500, 100000 has been spent upon them.
Quarterback reviews the situation as
follows: That, although coast forts
have won nearly all engagements with
ships, they are "now useless" because
they are "pitifully vulnerable" to the
ibly-accordin to Quarterback
accurate airplane, flying by day or by
night" To give the forts any chan
a. all they would have to be rooted
over.
Has Quarterback, in these last seven
years, heard of camouhage? Has he
ever seen a coast fort? 1t is a com
monplace among military men that be-
lief in the infallible accuracy of weap-
ons of any sort is widespread only
among those whose ignorance of weap-
ons, and of their uses. is most pro-
found. The inexperienced cannot Wis
ualize how difficult it is to get accuracy
out of any man-controlled weapon in
the physical stress and danger. and
the mental strain. of battle.
Whence this vast experience of
Quarterdeck's upon which he bases his
belief in the faultless hitting ability Of
an airplane, flying by day or by
night" under the fire of anti-aircraft
artillery and machine guns, and ex-
posed to the destructive efforts of hos
tile aircraft? Why this championing
of aircraft at the expense of all other
essentials of national defense? The
air service has unquestionably won its
place as an essential arm and needs
no such specious argument to gain
recognition of its capacities.
Quarterback speaks cf acres Of
:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
The Hunter
(Fron, Poetru.

From POETRY
YOU asked me what I did
In peaked New Mexico,
Where lives the most wild beauty,
To which man may 90.
And i answer that ! pursued
Content that would go in a song
Upon its silvery mountains
So vainly and so long.
That if it were bear or lion
Which I had hunted there
should now be like Orion,
Fixed hungry in the air.
GLENWAY wESCoTT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

calls it not dollar but balboa.
The name does not matter, the
value is the thing. The coins might
still be called dollar, peso, sol, mil
refs, boliviano, gourde, bolivar, or
what not, but in intrinsic worth
there would be practical equality
which would powerfully make for
fraternity among the nations.