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New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

In our own history the Continental
currency was allowed to die from its
own redundancy. The expression
mot worth a Continental" still sur
wives as phrase to signify worth
lessness. 1t has been obvious that
Germany neither could nor should
bring her marks up to par. But the
German government, while there
was time, failed to refund, and the
news from Berlin suggests that at
last time has arrived when the
paper mark will not float.
German holders Of marks are eX-
changing their paper money for any
thing they can get for them. Hence
stocks on the Boerse have taken a
wild leap upward. 1t is not that the
stocks are worth more but that the
currency is worth less. The spasm
is wild and catastrophe, but it be-
came inevitable when orderly retire
ment was not provided for.
And Germany will doubtless do
better when she gets valueless marks
out of her financial system.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
der Deutsche Tag"

In an editorial headed Der
Deutsche Tag" the "Staats-Z Zeitung,"
calling upon Germans in America
and American citizens Of German
origin to get together and prepare
for the future, quotes extensively
from the address of a Dr. Francis
NJ. Schirp explaining why the So
called "German-Americans' have
been much attacked since 1914.
They treated US this way because
we deserved it," said the doctor, land
we deserved it because we did not do
our duty politically'
This sounds too good to be true.
But listen! The next sentence says:
Had we been politically organized
and united they would never have
dared to treat US as common trail
tors"
The question, according to this
man, is not whether these people
we're really disloyal, but merely
whether they were too disorganized
to terrify the Americans Had they
been strong their attitude would
never have been questioned by these
cowardly Americans.
1t is truly an astounding confes-
sion to make on the day Of ratifca-
tion of the peace.
To all such talk as this there is
but one answer. If the American
citizens of German birth or parent
age wish to continue to have the sus-
picion of real Americans let them so
organize and so unite.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
On Babe" Ruth 8 Side

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: While the writer has never
had the opportunity of meeting Babe
Ruth, he has had the great pleasure
Of seeing Ruth meet the kind Of bail
that suited him and send it southeast
on a number Of occasions and add an
other home run to his record.
Ruth's so-called violation Of the
rules OF baseball seems 10 be ridicu'
lous allegation at the best, for there
is no law in the land that stipulste'
as to how many Jobs man shall hOlo
down or how much he shall limit him
self to as 70 earnings. and do not
feel that a test of this point would
hold in any court
One cannot say word against Ruiz
or his 100 per cent sportsmansh!p.
AN OLD FAN.
New York, Oct. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
For the "In-Betwcens"

ruth Avenue. "The Avenue" of
the world, is almost SYNONYM for
luxurious splendor, yet the proudest
OF New Iorks thoroughfares has
wealth that would serve. There is.
for example, the Fifth Avenue Hos
pltal, now nearing completion. which
mas for Its specific purpose the care
OF patients described as "in-be-
tweens'-those who are unable to
pay as literally as the rich. but who
DO not ask for charity.
For such patients the trustees Of
the hospital have adopted "part
payment plan whereby the former
Will command expert medical and
surgical service at prices which thew
can afford. Certainly this will be a
boon to many whose purses are lean
but who are insistent on paying as
they go.
In another respect the Fifth Ave.
nue. Hospital will be a pioneer-thc
hrst wardless hospital, it is said, in
the world. A private room is to be
provided for each patient, insurine
freedom from the depressing atmos-
phere so evident where the sick are
conRrcPated.
This institution which promises SO
well Will have an ample endowment
fund contributed by handed
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
Preference to Veterans

On no principle of good govern
ment or public interest does it seem
possible to Justify the pending pro
posal to give veterans of the war q
sweeping preference over all other
candidates for appointment In the
civil service Of this state. 1t is not
question of whether veterans shall
receive special consideration, but of
whether they shall be favored in the
costliest possible manner and at the
expense of the gross impairment Of
efficiency of all departments Of the
public service.
To a proposal that, the qualiiica-
tions of candidates being substan-
TALLY equal, veteran shall have
precedence in appointment there
would be little or no objection. Such
rule has long been in force in some
states. But the present proposal
goes far beyond that. 1t provides
that veterans Of low standing on the
eligible lists and Of inferior quail
fcations shall be appointed over the
heads of civilians who stand far
higher on the lists and have far su-
perior qualifications. Anything more
certain to demoralize the public serv-
ice it would be difficult to conceive.
It would mean the destruction of the
merit system.
No banking house or other busi-
ness establishment would for a mo-
ment consider the adoption of such a
system. No advocate of the pending
proposal would adopt it in his busi-
ness. The scheme seems to be based
upon the pernicious theory that the
public is not entitled to the best serv-
ice and that the clerical and other
departments Of government are not
to aim at the highest efficiency, but
lather at being eleemosynary.
All right thinking citizens have a
grateful regard for the war vet
Grams and wish all proper favors to
be granted to them. But do they
want them taken care of" at the
cost of making our administrative
departments Of government more ex-
pcnslve to conduct and less efficient
IN operation? 1t would be better to
pension an incompetent veteran in
ldleness than to do so by putting him
INTO salaried office which he is
unfit to fill. In the one case he would
cost the state merely the amount of
his pension, while in the other he
viii cost the amount Of his salary
plus the damage which his incompe-
tence would inflict upon the public
business.
"Public office" wrote Dorman B.
Eaton, "is public trust" 1t would
be betrayal Of that trust to fill
public Offices on a basis of fitness and
efficiency inferior to that which the
public itself insists upon in the or
Rarzatlon of its non-official business
service.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
Questions differentiation
Problem Of Unemployment Not Re-
lated to the Tariff
the Editor Of The Tribune

7 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Seldom has letter exhibited no
complete a misapprehension of SUBJ
ject as docs the communication of
Joseph E. Wood in Mondays Tribune
on the subject of American valua-
ton. In tho first place, allegation
that undervaluations cost the United
States Slo0,000.00O each year is en-
tirely unsupported, and those whose
experience and observation put them
in the best position to know rhe truth
know that the figure is impossible.
Astounding as it may appear, Mr..
Wood is complaining of undervaluation
which cannot exist, because the goods
of which he writes, kid gloves are
subject to various rates of duty
dozen, depending upon the kind Of
leather and upon the length Of tho
gloves, and not depending in any wise
upon their value So far az the
revenue IS concerned, it is a matter OF
no Importance whether kid gloves are
SO far as one can learn, all the sp-
praising officers are against this 80
called American valuation scheme. and
largely because Of the immense prac-
tical difficulties attending its operation.
Mr.. Wood once more demonstrates the
fallacy OF the proposition that this
new scheme viii have the effect Of
equalizing low cost countries with
high cost countries His illustration
make it plain that Japan's duty-pad
cost would be So, Germanya duty
paid cost S14 and Canada's aaty-paid
cost $50. No scheme Of duties Will
ever alter the cost OF production in
foreign countries -
The raw skins that Mr God refers
to have been free OF duty under oil
recent tariffs until the enactment Of
the emergency tariff bill. with sll
due respect to M Wood. il is doubtful
whether the diminutive skins that are
imported in the raw and used for glove
purposes carry any great amount Of
dutlable hair. There is no particular
reason why they should carry any
duty now any more than they did
under the tariff act Of 1890 1897 or
1909. Finally, It IS scarcely Ingenious
to ascribe the present unemployment
condition to undervaluation Of in
ported goods. This problem exists in
all industries, including those which
are not at all or but remotely atFectsd
by the tariff. It exists in all Countries
THOMAS J. DOBERTY.
New York, Oct. IS, 1921. IA
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
Lest We FORGET
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: did not see Representative
Siegel's letter headed Lest We For
get" but I would be glad to send him
some of the literature of the "Iest
We Forget" committee and assure him
that the reason our committee has not
been able to take up the cause Of
the poor insane fellows on Wards
Island is because we have been hard
put to it to raise sufficient funds to
carry on our work for the three thou
sand and more sane wounded and sick
ex-service men in the hospitals.
There are many of US who do not
forget, who never have forgotten and
never viii forget but money is ab-
solutely necessary to accomplish re
suits, and our first duty has been to
the sane. We would like to form a
special committee to provide com
forts for the men on Wards Island
and have plenty Of willing workers
who Will give freely of their time
for nothing, but they cannot 90
empty handed, and our treasurer is
without funds. JULIA TERRY.
Chairman Lest We Forget Com
mittce.
New York, Oct. 10. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
Viva Diazt Viva Italia!

There was a true Latin warmth in
the reception extended yesterday by
the City of New York to General
Armando Daz, the Italian military
hero. The "vivas" of Diaz's own
countrymen in America mingled with
the whole hearted cheers Of Ameri-
cans whose forbears had come from
other lands. All types Of Americans
greeted him and made his progress
to the formal reception at the City
Hall a procession Of triumph. Be
hind him marched bravely two red
shirtcd veterans who fought with
Garibaldl.
1t was fitting that this reception
to the trim gray soldier OF Italy
should be among the most impressive
extended to guest from abroad
since the United States entered the
World War. General Armando Diaz
is to Italy what Foch is to France.
1t is Diaz who is credited with hav-
ing turned the disaster Of the Piave
into a victory Moreover, the United
States in paying homage to this gal
liant soldier does so all the more
warmly because Of the affection and
the sympathy that always have
linked Italy and the United States.
Viva Diaz
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
The Paper Marks End

a domestic question that Germany
has faced, but answer to which she
mas lodged, has been whether her
present paper mark was 10 be re.
tired and in its place, at some ratio,
a good mark substituted, or whether
the present paper marx was TO be
allowed - go 10 sleep in the pocket
oY its last poascasor.
Nations have taken the water out
of their curmncies By both methods.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
aking Their lime

From The Springfield Rcpublcon)
Whenever the Shipping Board has
an Afternoon off it is apparently spent
IN inspecting the Leviathan at her
dock in New York. The thing is get
ting to be habit, like the surveying
Of the Connecticut River between
Springfield and Windsor Locks by the
army engineers in other days. If the
former German liner waits as long to
be rented as tho Connecticut has
waited to be improved the grandsons
or the present Shipping Board will
sun be inspecting in their own turn
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

Woman Voters Judgment on Pro-
posed Changes In State Constitution

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR Aside from the election of puh-
nc officials, grave responsibilities rest
upon the men and women of this state
IN approving or Disappearing the con-
stItutlonal amendments to be voted
upon at the coming election. 1t seems
to mo that no stone should be left
unturned in urging all voters to 90 to
the polls prepared to vote intelligently
on these amendments. Only BY free
exchange of ideas in the public press
can this be accomplished, and would
like to give my reasons why somo Of
these amendments should be approved
and others disapproved. They are as
follows:
Amendment No. 1, proposing to give
civil service preference to all veterans
Of the Spanish and World wars over
all other citizens, would DESTROY the
equal rights and privileges of one
class Of worthy men and women as
against another class, would DESTROY
our merit system in public service and
would not render assistance or fulfill
our national duty to the disabled vet
erans. | believe we should vote mo"
and defeat this amendment
Amendment No. 2, to increase the
salaries of members of the LEGISLATURE
from $500 to $4,000 a year, should be
approved on general principles, as
every one knows good men will not
serve the public interest propcrlv
where their expenses are greater than
what they receive for their work. At
least this is true in peace times among
all the law makers of the country.
Amendment No. 8, providing that
all new voters qualifying after Janu-
ary /, 1922, must be able to read and
write our language, should be approved
by every thoughtful citizen. This
amendment properly will not disqualifv
any present voter, but makes the
privilege to new voters dependent upon
their being intelligent American citi
zens and at least able to understand
our institutions.
NA'ioiiuiHeHO mo. Is TO give tho
Legislature the power to vote more
practical and effective form Of county
government to Nassau and Westches-
ter counties if the people Of those
counties vote to approve what the
Legislature proposes. There seems
good reason why we should approve
this.
Amendment No. 5 proposes to au-
thorize the Legislature to grant spe-
citic authority to the Domestic Rela-
tions and Children's courts, which
courts have not heretofore been taken
care Of under constitutional provisions.
We should all vote Eyes" on this amend
ment TO strengthen and vitalize these
courts, so valuable to the welfare and
protection of our domestic and child
life.
Amendments No. and are not
so important. They provide only that
small sections of the old Erie Canal
already cut off and useless nav be
sold under authority of the Legisla-
ture | believe we should vote eyes"
on these two amendments.
These changes in our constitution
the women voters particularly will, If
they understand them, support or de-
feat on their merits and not be in
fuenced by political propaganda, which
in the past has, am sorry to say,
been an important factor in the pass
ing or defeating of very important
measures.
ORAH MILDRED TRULL.
Brooklyn, Oct 18, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

Mr.. Croker, having predicted the
reelection of Hylan, added:
"Of course, you know that I am not
in politics. and that am speaking as
rank outsider"
Not only as rank outsider, but,
IN view of the revelations before the
Meyer committee, as rank piker.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

proper study of art is in an art
museum.
1t is fitting for one of the worlds
greatest educational institutions to
note the fact that near its seat is
one of the worlds richest museums.
The Metropolitan has already been
Of great benefit, but the practice Of
using it has only just begun.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
DZ Bv
SOOf[O Percy Hammond

she dlsdains the stereotyped adjectives
and says: Gee, that was swell" or
Gosh, amt it elegant" She considers
it ostentatious and vulgar to speak
of music or other beauties as being
"eXquisite' or wonderful" Miss
Ferber is so hospitabe that she takes
US up in Charlotte's room and makes
us stay there while Charlotte dresses.
Charlotte comes out of her bathroom
"like q slim goldfish" and proceeds
to put on her clothes "She wore,
usually, three wispy garments, not
counting shoes and stockings. First,
She pulled the stockings up, slick and
tight, and then cuffed them just be-
low the knee. This cuff she then
twisted deftly round, caught the slack
Of it, rolled the fold tight
and hard three inches below the knee
and left it there, an ing silken
bracelet. Above this, p of scant
knickers and brassierc that bound
her young breasts. That was
all" Her aunt told her that
her dress was sketchy, but that it
seemed to cover her.
x x
Ex-Chicagoans will be particularly in
terested in "The Girls" because its
scene is so explicitly local. Miss Fer
ber makes a background of Marshall
Field & Co.'S Columbian Museum. Of
the Messrs. Mandel & Bros hall at
the University of Chicago and Of many
other picturesque institutions, includ-
ing Prairie Avenue and the Illinois
Central Railway. l wish there was space
to tell You about Ben Gartz, an alleged
Chicago business man, who called
his automobile a "bus," and who in
the restaurants, mixed his own salad
dressing. AS Charlotte III said of him
when he tried to court her, he had
never heard of "Alice in Wonderland"
and he thought that the japanese were
a wonderful little people. HI referred
to summer as the heated term, and he
was addicted to the locution mot an
iota." When Mr.. Gartz tried to kiss
Charlotte II in Washington Park his
embraces we're but Miss Ferber's
description Of that encounter is beyond
repetition. In case your tastes are
similar to mine in fiction, you viii
find "The Girls" the best of the Amer
lean novels since Main Street.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
The Coming ower
ALICE ADAMS

(Being G. A. C.'s lyric paraphrase OF MI
TaIkington's noveD
Fathers gone and lost tho family
money;
Brothers skipped SO he wont 90 to jail;
Mothers do1on and out,
SO IU have TO look about
To see If can ecrn q bit of kole.
Then Tee gone ard lost my only honey;
He 7con't como back because he tyent
oway.
0, gee, it's owfuI tough,
A nd times are apful rough
But to myself I ayways say:
CHORUS
There's little bit of sunshine sh,niuo
somewkere;
You tciN fnd it If you only start to
climb.
Though the ground floor may be black,
Don't let that hold you back,
70" aoiN get there if you only tcke tho
time.
You 10iH have to change your utsh6ons
into backbone,
When you find your backs against the
toall.
Though it's tough to hare no dough
And life seems dun and slo1c.
Thank God that there is sunshine for
us oN
used to try to Hve like Mrs. Astor
On an income thdt Would hardly keep
her horse;
A nd many times Id lie,
A nd at dances I would sigh
To be like tho daughters of ma Dn1du's
knew that ,ons headed to disaster
Whe' tried to give dinner that tUos
swel,
But things they went all 1cromq;
That's a0hy it is this song
A bout 1t oil noau do tell:
CHORUS
There's httlc bit, etc.
Labor usually is runner-up in its
contests with Its we'll known antaro-
! mist, and as it has to win three times
to gain permanent possession of a
country, its job is fairly, as GEORGE
Fawcett might say you might say, diff
ficult
Just what general railroad strike
would do to tho bootlegging industry
causes Reason to Totter on Its Throne
Book Reviews
book I'm keen about is A.
A Mines new volume, "If May"
Indifference as to whether Mr.. Lloyd
George comes to the conference is
ours; but we want Mr.. Arthur ]. Bal
four to come and we want to see him
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

Miss Edna Ferber in her good novel,
"The Girls" has changed so much
since her Emma McChesney days that
you have to look twice before you rec
ognze her Who would have thought
while reading Miss Ferber's specious
accounts of that wordy saleslady's ad-
ventures in the marts of trade that
the author Of them would ever write
tine and honest story? All of us, one
suspects, regarded Miss Ferber as a
permanent practitioner of caligraphic
fiction, of the inflated everyday stuff,
festooned with lucid and ornamental
t1ourishes. In those times Miss Ferber
wrote rapidly and to order A shrewd
clairvoyant, she gave them what they
wanted, and she gave 1t to them often
and very well indeed. | went with her
through the kitchens of the Hotel Sher-
man one evening in Chicago, and she
came out with four short stories, hay
ing discovered as many heroes and
heroines among the walters, bus boys
cooks and dishwashers
One of the several interesting quail
ties of The Girls" is its intimacy.
Miss Ferber takes you so closely into
the lives of her characters that you are
almost abashed. Three women are
particularly exhibited and analysed
Charlotte Kemp, aged eighteen and
half; Charlotte Payson, her aunt aged
thirty-two, and Charlotte Thrift, her
greataunt, who is seventy y-four. Miss
Ferber shows them to you in such de-
scriptive propinquity that you can see
them dressing and undressing and
hear their innermost thoughts. These
three understand life and one another,
despite the handicap of misunder-
standing environment. The Oldest
Charlotte, q pioneer Chicagoan, loved
beneath her and lost her man at Fort
Donelson in the Civil War. The young
est Charlotte, also first -Chcagoan,
loved likewise beneath her, the grand
nephew of her great-aunt's sweetheart.
He was killed in the Argonne. The
middle Charlotte, revolving against the
Illustrations Of her commonplace life,
went to France with the Red Cross,
and while there was impelled by the
cosmic urge to be mother to the child
Of q journalist and soldier, who sub
sequently fell IN battle
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

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New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
lime to Stop

fFrom The Boston Transcript
They are talking about Il couple more
constitutional amendments Let Us
hope that with about the Twenty-hrst
Amendment the Constitution Will be re-
gnrded AS grown up.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
xENRrR or WE Assoc1Arrp Pnns.

Ths Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 70
tie Use for republication O; al dispatches
credited It not otherwise Geditsd IN this
payer. and sc tho locA news OF spontaneous
ogtxlu published herein
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hsrsfn aiso reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

givers. The building fund, however,
still lacks S75o,OO0. The public, it is
hoped, will respond generously to the
need.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20
TEH CARELESS LIN-O-TYpER
TEN CARELESS LIN-O.TYPER

Wicked as deadly viper
Is the speedy lin-o-typer.
He twists beyond all recognition
He twists beyond all recognition
Lines obscured by repetition.
Lines obscured by repetition.
LESLIE.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

If Charlie Chaplin should be
knighted, what about his shield? Or
his coat of shoulder arms? Well, per-
haps; sinister, a derby hat, sable,
rampant gardont on a field of celluloid;
dexter, tear-drop, argent, co4chont
on a field Of lilies uair
New-York tribune., 1921-10-20

Too dovetailed and too coincidental
you may say, to be real. Well, az Miss
Josephine Drake remarks in "Lilics Of
the Field" "life is true to fiction" :"
and all of US have encountered some
fabulous rhythms in our prose expert
ences. We leave the three Charlottes
at the finish of Miss Ferber's book
bending over the cradle of the war
child. No one knows that he is the
second Charlotte s illegitimate progeny,
except the three of them, and us.
Every one else in the book believes
that she found her baby in the bull
rushcs Its brave lie, Lottie," says
the aged Charlotte. "Stick to it,
Miss Ferber gives US in Charlotte
III an alluring photograph Of the flap
per of tomorrow. This refreshing
young person is not the prevailing
ingenue who, because she has lip
stick, rolled stockings and a long
cigarette holder, regards herself as
the inventor Of sex. Charlotte III is
nearly nineteen, slim, plant, clear
eyed, candid and full of determina-
tion to express herself. The old con
ventions irk her, and when her boy
lover tells her at picnic that he can
see all Of her legs because her skirts
are so thin she explains to him that
it is because she is between him and
the sun. She is familiar with Have
lock Ellis and Freud, and Miss Fcrber
says she is one of the first women
since Eve to tell the truth and face
the consequences.
X y