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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04
Combination Fish

JUNCTION CITY, Kan.-Fishermen who
live near here have never seen anything
like the fish that Arthur Johnson caught the
other day. The fish weighs about twelve
pounds, resembles salmon, but has a suck
er mouth way under the jaw. The body
is round and twenty inches long, with very
few bones. They have christened it the
''cOnbin1 tiOn fish -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04
Senator Moves to
Rake Ship Board

WASHINGTON, June 2.-The first
move in a senatorial ral1ing over OF
the shipping board, it's methods and
policies was taken today when Sem
duced resolution calling on the
board 70" reformation concerning all
it's activities. "A
His reservation was most sweeping,
and if adopted would require the
board to furnish the senate with de-
tails concerning the construction
cost and maintenance of ships, the
salaries paird employees and officials
of the board, labor costs, operating
costs and everything pertaining to
the business. The number of ships
now on hand, both in service and
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04

rect revolver fire on the garrison.
The tanks broke up the attack with
machine guns. The Germans left
number of dead.
A number of Poles joined the
French during the fighting but as
the tide turned, they were forced
to withdraw to the edge OF town
where they kept up a desultory fire
on stray Germans running from the
main battle area.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04

house painting is said to be salts
factory and while there has been re-
action in the remand from the motor
trade the past two weeks, business
in that line has been heavy thus far
Summing up, the Glidden plants are
said to be running about 7~per cent
of capacity.
Steel business continues quiet with
manufa cturers working at intervals,
just taking care of accumulated or
ders. Tool manufacturers report a
slackening in May over April and
they do not as yet see any change
for June
Tin can industry shows a falling
off in orders. One large vacuum
cleaner manufacturer reports sales
averaging 80 per cent of 1920 bust
ness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04
Man Sells His Son

VIENNA-General Indignation has been
reused in the town of Ried by the acti2n
of Georg Erlacher, Il well-todo butcher, wl0>1
sold in inn his four-year-Old son to a
horse dealer for 10000 crowns, now worth
about $50. In another inn he publicly Of
fercd his other children for sale, asking
the same price for each.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04

$3.50 will bring you The Tri-Week-
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THE TRI-wTEKLY JOURNAL
Atlanta, GA.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
"Buckshee"

One of the words which the war
has introduced into the colloquial
speech of England is buckshee," :"
which the connoisseurs of such things
will recognize as a corruption of
backsheesh, the gentle process of
holdup by which the Eastern beggar
gets his.
We have not yet heard the col
loquial form upon the lips of Amer
leans, but the newly developed
practice of certain of our police
force-under Mr.. Enright's regime
suggests startling resemblance to
the Eastern custom. Backsheesh (or
bakshish, as the dictionaries now
prefer to spell it) is not exactly
aims in it's native lair. 1t is theo-
retically tip or reward or gift for
services performed. But the distinc
ton is usually too delicate for West
ern minds to follow. In plain fact,
~ 40 JUoI q pcCCy lOInl OI tribute
paid to low caste Orientals for per-
mitting visitor to see or do any,
thing.
The new police custom seems to be
exactly that. The policeman is paid
by citizen and taxpayer for doing
the very thing that his salary paws
him him to do. This is not aims. OBJ
viously. 1t is tribute exacted by the
simple method of the hold-up. The
citizen must have police protection.
He gets it-after suitable grease,
graft, backsheesh or "buckshee" has
been handed over.
If the caliphate of Mr.. Hylan is
distinguished for nothing else it
may surely be remembered for the
fact that during its generous and
sbeneficent years this little matter of
;Tbuckshee" was introduced to the
taxpayers of our great city of easv
marks.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Lenine's Western Converts

The French Socialist congress
held recently at Tours, voted to ad-
here to the Moscow Internationale
That may have been a triumph for
Lenine, who is as arbitrary in his
attitude toward non-Russian inter-
national socialism as he is toward
the home school of Marxians. In
his opinion, good Socialists must be
Leninists first and Marxians after
ward.
1t was an unpleasant dose for tfis
older Socialist elements. TfqasglS
Russianized, the convention ntSority
was reluctant to accept rebnAtissssitl
from Moscow. The wordA 1.Gent,
munist" still has many disagrAggbhB
connotations in France. AS a srathSs
shamefaced compromise it was de
cided to use the compound "Com-
munist- Socialist"
For many years Socialist" has
been title to conjure with in French
politics. There were all shades of
Socialists-Radical Socialists, Inde-
pendent Socialists, Unified Social
lists, even Democratic and Repub-
lican Socialists. But the moderate
groups will have nothing to do with
the new communism, either plain or
adulterated. The Tours congress
split into three groups. The minor
ity Center and the minority Right
the latter outright nationalists--
have set up for themselves. They
are more in harmony to-day with
the radicals than they are with the
Leninists. The latter group has
shrunk to insignificance in the
Chamber of Deputies. The Socialist
bloc in that body is no longer for
midabe. Nor is it likely to be any
more formidable at the polls, as the
results Of last weeks Senate elec-
,tions have indicated,
Lenine Is more absorbed in break
Ing down democratic government and
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
The Victory Medal
TO. the Editor of The Tribune

l.
Sir: My attention has been called
to H. R. Holbrook's letter in this
mornings Tribune, in which he rakes
Reginald Holden Thayer over the
Goals for standing in the Victory medal
bread line" and daring to mention it
to the public. l assume that Mr.. Hol.
brook is in the government service.
spent twanty-four months in the
navy, twelve of which were at sea
thus figuring that I rated Victory
medal myself. AS for the "bread line !"
| can't mention it without .cussinc
Why?
In July, 1920, made application to
the Navy Department for Victory
medal. On July 19 received y letter
from the commanding officer of the
Sd Naval District, advising that my an
plication had been forwarded t, them
from Washington and that p medal
would be sent to me. On October 20,
l92o, l received a printed card from
the Sd Naval District office, saying that
my application and release orders had
been received and that l would receive
medal at the earliest practicable
date.
This is January 20, 1921, three
months later, and no date has yet been
practicable to forward my medal.
| suppose I will hear from the COM
mandant for daring to write this letter.
but l can't let Mr.. Holbrook get awav
with it. | agree with him when ne
says that the time required 10 apply
Tor medal is only "few minutes, )"
but the time required for said appli-
cation to go through rhe mil, in my
case has to date been six months.
Perhaps Mr.. Holbrook would like 70
call me liar, too, but / would appre-
ciate an explanation Of what he terms
"a very simple system for the raw"
JESSE T. KILLER.
Columbia University, New York,
Jan. 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Selection VS.. Exclusion

The; Senate Committee on I'm
migration has agreed to drop the
one-year suspension provision .'of
the johnson immigration bill, passed
some weeks ago by the House
of Representatives. A restriatiol
scheme somewhat similar to that
contained in the Dillingham; bin ,ssis
to be substituted for the johnson
policy of exclusion. :,
The Dillingham; bill, based on the
ideas of DR.. Gulick, limits the num-
Der of aliens of any nationality ad-
mitted in any fiscal year to S per
cent of the number of persons of sucA
nationality resident in the JFnited
States. Nationality is to be gsdeters
mined by former political ALLEGIANCE.
A flaw in the bill as introd2EsN elf
December 13 last is it's failure to
specify what residents of theSvhited
States are included among thh per
sons of such nationality" actGMly .in
this country at the time the eSsper-
centage Of eligibles for admission is
to be fixed. Are aliens only of such
nationality meant, or the larger
group composed Of aliens and nat
uralized citizens and their native
born children?
1t was argued before the Senate
committee that this method of re-
striction would keep down immigra-
ton nom the countries of southern
and eastern Europe. 1t would do So,
of course, where the new annual in
flow is in excess of S per cent of the
total already here. But if the per-
centage is based on alien residents
only, very large proportion of each
immigration allotment will be drawn
from those countries which have
contributed the excess in the past.
The Sterling bill goes a little
deeper and fixes percentages on
ethnic groups, which exclude resi-
dent aliens and include only nat
uralized citizens and native-born
children of foreign-born mother or
father. This apportionment would
cut far into the increases allowed to
groups which have been found most
difficult to assimilate.
The percentage restriction plan
has the merit of being constructive
and selective, and in that respect is
an advance on the old hit-or-miss
standards of admission. 1t keeps
Americanization in view as we'll as
economic advantage. 1t is better
than exclusion. But the johnson ex-
clusion act was frankly admitted by
it's supporters in the House to be
only an emergency makeshift.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Gifts From the Grateful

District Attorney Swami blurts
out a defense for what he calls
gifts to policemen from grateful
persons" He sees no great harm in
the practice; ergo, the Whitman in
dictment for gift-receiving should
not have been returned.
A mans opinion much depends on
his environment. Mr.. Swami has
been a Tammany officeholder, and is
naturally sympathetic toward any
system which adds to the incomes of
officeholders.
If Mr.. Swami had lived different
sort of life he might have different
point of view. Suppose, for ex-
ample, he had been factory worker
and some time had been on a strike,
and while picketing had been ham
mered over the head by policeman;
suppose, when in the hospital, he
learned that the policeman whose
club hit him was in the receipt Of
money from an employer grateful
for the help received in breaking the
strike. Under these circumstances
he might think poorly Of the gratuity
system-might declare that his as
sailant was hired thug.
Or suppose Mr.. Swami had been
an employer whose blishment
had been attacked by gang of hood
lum direct actionists; suppose, as he
lodged brickbats, some one had come
to him, saying: "If you want police
protection you should be grateful to
the extent of $500" Under these
conditions Mr.. Swami might have
found his way to the police station,
but as he paid over his money he
would probably have muttered, ".The
dirty grafters"
AS far back as Magma Charta days
the principle was laid down that JUS
tice should not be sold. 1t is sold
when an agent of the law gets on the
pay roll Of either side to dispute.
Mr.. Swami reveals what are Tam
many standards-that's all. Mr..
Whitman reveals different standards
by denouncing the new graft as
worse than the sort which prevailed
when the criminal and the semi-crim-
inal were duly grateful at stated in.
tervals.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
A Mathematical Necessity

1t is striking thing when pro-
tectionist Republican as seasoned in
the faith as A. Barton Hepburn, for
merly Comptroller of the Currency
and now the sage Of leading Amer
lean financial institution, frankly
recognizes that situation has
arlsen which practically forbids an
upward revision Of the tariff.
Mr.. Hepburn's argument is SIM
pie. A few years ago the United
States was debtor nation. 1t owed
in Europe four TO five billions. Now
it is a creditor nation to the extent
Of nearly twenty billions. Formerly,
TO redress the interest balance an
nually due from us and to pay for
shipping and insurance services
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
The Roosevelt Republicans

The flood of Wood letters which is
reaching this Office reveals impress.
sively the high esteem in which Gen.
eral Woods character and talents
are held by his countrymen. 1t is
because of his record as an admin
istrator, an organizer and only Incl.
dentally as a soldier that his fitness
for the post Of Secretary Of War is
first of all urged.
But even more striking, from the
political point of view, is the fact
that these writer's plainly regard
General Wood as the natural repre-
sentative of the whole Roosevelt ira
dition. 1t is as Republicans who
have now returned to their party in
the faith that Mr.. Harding purposes
to be the leader not of one wing of
the party, but Of the whole body of
Republicanism, that these voters
plead for General Woods service in
the Cabinet.
General Wood is not a politician
1t can be through no artificial pub
licity that the Rooseveltian demand
persists. 1t originated in the long
intimacy between the two men, and
it has been solidly buttressed in the
consistent actions and words Of Gen.
eral Wood. He is the natural heir
of the Roosevelt tradition, and he
has proved himself worthy of the
faith that the great body of Roose-
velt Republicans have placed in him.
There is no other man in public life
who shares this leadership in the
slightest degree.
These Republicans are all loyal to
their party, these letters make clear
as loyal as General Wood. They
voted for Mr.. Harding with every
confidence in his breadth of vision
and generosity of outlook. They
1eel thaC Mr. Harding owes 1t to the
unity of the party, quite as much as
to the service Of his Administration,
to add General Wood to his official
family. In sense it is a political
appointment that is urged. But it
is case where politics comedies
with unequaled fitness for a post,
and where the politics involved is no
local or sectional appeal, but a de-
mand from the great nationwide
progressive element that centered in
the name and character of Roosevelt.
Such is plainly the view Of our
readers. We profoundly hope that
their opinion and desire will prevail
with Mr.. Harding.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22

and to meet the expenses of Ameri-
cans travelling abroad and the re-
mittance drafts of immigrants, we
sent out more merchandise than we
received.
Now, to redress an interest bal
ance which swings the other way,
we must receive more merchandise
than we send out. Unless we cancel
the debt Europe owes to us we must
accept goods or services. This is a
mathematical necessity. 1t is as
futile to say that this should not be
so as it is to say that two and two
should not make four.
Our new tariff policy must thus
be discriminatory rather than pol
icy whose objective is in keeping the
total of imports down. Some of our
industries need protection-will be
destroyed if there is low-tariff
bar. Others are able to hold their
own against foreign competition.
AS to others, things which Europe
can produce to better advantage, we
must allow an open door.
Mr.. Hepburn says that an upward
revision of the tariff would be a
blunder. Let this be amended so as
to read: GAS to some things there
should be downward revision and
as to others an upward revision" A
new demand is made on the intelli-
gence of Congress.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Big Men and the Cabinet

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Having just come down from
northern New England, where | live
part of the year, l can assure you that
the announcement of Mr.. Harding's
Cabinet is awaited up there with more
than interest-with real apprehension.
For, as the vital needs of our nation
grow more and more clear to the aver
age man and woman and they hear
that Mr.. Harding is entirely sur
FOUNDED by self-seekers and politi-
&ans," they feel there is very little
,h8Spe for the selection Of the really big
lAsn of our nation.
Il # Mr.. Harding wants to have sat-
isfled people behind him in the great
t<sks he faces he will put in his Cabi-
met such men as Mr.. Root, Mr. Hoover
and our choice for the head of this ma
tion, General Wood. A. F
Brooklyn, Jan. 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Trading in Futures

For fifty years Congress has re-
currently wrangled over the ques-
ton of whether trading in commod-
ity futures should be permitted.
Nothing has been achieved, and
Tor sufficient reason. The assail-
ants Of the exchanges have insisted
on a root-and-branch extinction
have not been willing to discuss
compromise. And as the exchanges.
despite their abuses, perform a val
liable business and economic service
Congress has preferred to keep
them intact rather than to eliminate
them altogether.
Another campaign against the ex-
changes having been launched. Mr.
Hoover has submitted to the House
committee what seems a PROMISING
compromise proposal. The proposal
70 adopt policy OF regulation in
sSead Of either policy Of hands of
OF OF fiat prohibition. Through a
national board, functioning in CO.
operation with exchanges, he would
limit the volume of transactions
Small speculative transactions. Mr..
Hoover thinks Offset one another.
but ne would not allow predomi-
mating party TO work prices either
up or down. Moreover, he would
permit a miller who had purchased
grain for his plant TO 90 "short" to
The extent OF his purchases, thus en-
abling him to be solely a manu-
facturer and TO escape becoming q
speculator in. mis- product.
This Hoover plan seems TO merit
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
A Franco-American Alliance

Some of the phrases in that part
Of Premier Brands speech which
dealt with Franco-American rela-
tions are interpreted by our Paris
correspondent as forecasting an
offer by France to the United States
Of treaty of alliance against
Japan. But the phrases are vague
and may merely indicate that the
new French Premier deems the time
is opportune to substitute a more
general agreement for the tripartite
treaty signed by Mr.. Wilson in 1919,
but now virtually defunct.
By the Wilson-Lloyd George Gle
menceau compact, which France ac-
cepted in lieu of definite military
guarantees on the left bank of the
Rhine, Great Britain and the United
States bound themselves to go to
Frances assistance in case of an
other German attack. Great Britain
ratified, but the ratification is to take
effect only after the United States
has ratified; ;d and ratification here,
when itsmight have been secured,
was prevented by the course Mr.:
Wilson saw fit to pursue.
America now seems averse to as
suming hard-and-fast obligations to
interfere in European quarrels. But
the United States has not lost its
altruistic spirit. Moreover, it is still
greatly interested in peace preserva-
ton, and the more intelligent part
Of it realizes that the best way to
preserve it is to bring this country
and Fran, and Great Britain into
close union. So the alliance idea,
though sleeping, is not dead.
Surely French statesmen do not
think thatswe are concerned enough
about our differences with Japan to
consider an alliance for mutual sup
port which would counterbalance the
British-Japanese alliance. That is
natural conception to the Euro
pean mind; yet. it misreads our atti-
tude toward Japan. We do not fear
japan. Neither do we fear the pos
sibility of British support for Japan.
The British dependencies fronting on
the Pacific are with us in the issues
on which we clash with Japan. The
present British-Japanese alliance, so
far as it may be directed against US,
doesn't represent the united policy
OF the British Empire.
The dominions want to see the
Anglo-Japanese treaty modified. 1t
expired by limitation last July and
has been renewed for a year pending
the discussion of changes. 1t con-
tains one article which relieves
either signatory of the obligation to
go to war with a third party with
which it has a treaty of general
arbitration. Whether we have such
a treaty with Great Britain or not
depends on the construction given to
the Bryan "one-year cooling Off
treaty of 1914. Is it or isn't it "a
treaty of general arbitration?
French friendship for the United
States can be counted on. We ap-
preciate it and return it. If appeal
Is made to US on the right grounds
an alliance may be realized.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22

serious consideration and may
prove that it will meet the just COM
plants of the agricultural interests.
Especially is this probable because
part of the plan provides for public
warehouses where farmers can store
their grain and find it easier than at
present to borrow money on ware
house receipts.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22

nationalistic conceptions in western
Europe than he is in spreading the
MARKHAM gospel. He has prescribed
by name most of the old radical
Socialist leaders. If Jaures. were
alive to-day he would be as mHch an
outlaw in the eyes of Moscow as
Millerand or Clemenceau is.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Three Of the Ablest
the Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: All Of your readers must thank
you sincerely for your able editorials
relative to your preferences for mem
bers Of the next Cabinet. You have Sc
lected and advocated consistently three
OF the ablest men in public life. These
three men-Mr. Root, General Wood and
Mr.. Hoover, men of national and inter-
national reputation--would make the
Cabinet of our next President the won
der and admiration of the world.
S. NORMAN.
New York, Jan. 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Record Unsurpassed

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS voter of the G. o. P, and
taxpayer l wish to be placed on record
as adding my commendation to Presi-
dent-elect Harding of General Leonard
Wood. His record is unsurpassed. We
hope to see him placed in a prom.
nent place in the Cabinet, such as Sec
tary Of War. JAMES H. WILLIAMS.
Brooklyn, Jan. 20, 1891.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
The Reason for Critics
<Frou The yawcoxvsr EvM)

tFrom The vancoxvsr EtM}
A literary critic has been defined "
somebody as a person who has tried, W.
successfully. to write books. By ansioss'
would An eticiency expert b peTe'"
who has tried, unsuccesafully, 70 rsn
businessf
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22

NEMBKR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
fhe Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
aas fer republication OF ali dispatches
sre1tse to It otherwise credited In this paper.
and elss tho local news OF spontaneous origin pub
uehsd herein.
All rish,s Of republication Of ali ether ns,tas
eseSln alao are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22

When the Commissioner suggests
that maybe newspaper editor or two
might know how to run the Police De-
partment, he uses a familiar torn of
irony. But it's no good. We know, for
we used it years ago, and discarded it.
Letters used to come in-still do come
into the effect that their writer's
could conduct The Coming Tower q lot
better than we could. Our tendency
was toward the deiant-to say, "All
right, come ahead and try it," and one
night we were filled with the fear that
one of them might do it. Our first
duty being to our family, we laid off
that variety Of satire.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22

Yes can purehass merchandise advertlssA In THE
YkfBUNE with absolute safsty-for II dissatsias-
Hen results In ANY case The TRIBUNE guarantees
e pay ysur money back ueon rssusst. Ne red taes
NJ suibhiIas. We make seed promptiy II the
sfvsrtssr dses net.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22

When tobacco men say the scent
cigar is gone forever, we rise to
question of reasonable doubt. How
about the old three-for-a-nicke stogie?
New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
The Art Of Mrs. B.tty: In Two Reels

[From the Watkins IN. " Expressl
very delightful dinner party was given
at o'clock on Saturday evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Batty Covers
were laid for eighteen, and nothing further
needs to be said to eny one who is at all
acquainted with Mrs. Batty's nrt of cooking.
w. w. Batty suffered an attack of acute
indigestion Monday night and was uncon-
scious for a time. However, he is much
better at this writing.