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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-02-04
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure Catarrhal Deafness,
and that Is by a constitutional remedy
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE acts
through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System. Catarrhal Deafness is
caused by an inf1amed condition OF the
mucous lining Of the Eustachian Tube
When this tube is infiamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t IL entirely closed, Deafness is the
result. Unless the Inflammation can be re-
duced and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing may be destroyed
forever Many cases of Deafness are
caused by Catarrh. which is an infiamed
condition of the Mucous Surfaces.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case Of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured BY HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE.
An Druggists 7Sc. Circulars free.
y. J. Cheney q Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-02-04

Advance styles in new spring
hats at Mrs. Arms.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Human Engineering
4 Policy Commended to Heads of Large ENTERPRISES

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: During the annual meeting Of
the American Society of Civil En-
gineers last January the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company invited the
engineers to a luncheon and an ad
dress by its president on Human En-
gineering."
The facts were brought out that the
company insured all its employees and
encouraged savings accounts, SO that a
clerk laying aside 5000 a year received
4 present of like amount from the
company. Doctors and dentists care
and free lunches were furnished by the
company. The company supplied all Of
It's six thousand employees with UNI
brelas in case of stormy weather.
The Guaranty Trust Company and
many other large concerns look after
the welfare of employees in such man
Ger as to insure the greatest loyalty,
thus reciprocating the good will of the
company.
1t is most encouraging that this pol
icy, called human engineering, is spread
ing all over the country.
Twenty years ago the policy Of a
large Western railroad was defined by
Its president as one seeking the loyalty
of employees. They were assured of a
job as long s the road ran and promo j.
ton in regular order, with reasonable
service. In fact, the general welfare
CT the employees was considered Of
prime Importance. The good will of
the public was sought All improve
ments in the territory served by the
road were joined in by the company to
the extent Of its benefit
A general good feeling all around
was created, and it was frequently re-
marked that the employees worked as
members of united family. The pub
lie was quick to resent any proposed
legislation thought to be unfriendly
to the road. Lawsuits were infrequent
and seldom went to trial. In fact, the
policy was good illustration of human
engineering, although at that time this
policy was generally considered as com
mon sense.
This road finally was sold, and the
new manager adopted a contrary pol
icy Employees were given to under
stand that past good services, under
the old regime, were detriment rather
than an aid to promotion; that any
one's position could be readily filled
by equal and probably better ability,
and that loyalty to the road was of no
consideration.
AS to the public, no favors were to
lie shown and the business of the road
was conducted as one-sided affair
The result WAS that operating expenses
increased enormously, wrecks and
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
VIII Drinkwater Stage Wilson,

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In your issue Of March it was
reported that on Tuesday next many
of the prominent men and women OF
New York City are to meet to con-
s.der a nationwide tribute TO Wood
row Wilson. Among the leaders sp-
peared the name Of John Drinkwster,
After / had read the article the thought
camc to me: why does not Mr. Drink
water, eminent playwright that he is,
write a play about Woodrow Wilson,"
Mr.. Drinkwater has written what
probably is one of the greatest mod
crn dramas, his "Abraham Lincoln"
Through the medium of that play he
has made Lincoln seem real to many
people who had before given little
thought to him. He has created an in
terest in one Of our great American
figures. Cannot he do the same with
another great American, Woodrow Will
sen? VIII he not do it,
c. RALPH BENNETT,
Ithaca, N. Y, March II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
The Fleet To Be Reunited

The report that the battle fleet
of the United States will be reunited
at no distant date and stationed in
the Pacific will be received with
pleasure throughout the navy and
the country. 1t is consistent with
Mr.. Denby's first public utterance
that it would be his aim to keep the
navy ready.
There is nothing aggressive, there
is no threat of war against any
nation, in this sensible policy of
reuniting disrupted feet. 1t is &
mere condemnation of the incxcus-
able action of the previous Admins
tration in dividing the feet in de-
fance Of naval strategy. Moreover,
it was we'll known to the navy that
the War College, the General Board
and the Office of operations would
never have approved such a fatal
policy.
1t was dictated by political consid-
erations shortly before a Presiden-
tial election, and when the so-called
Pacific feet, padded with obsolete
ships, reached San Francisco and at
tended the Democratic convention it
was openly derided by naval officers
as "political caravan"
The world at large, as we'll as SEN
sible people at home, will under
stand that the reorganization of our
fighting fleet is nothing more than a
return to naval sanity after years
of naval incompetency and political
chaos.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
How to Stop the Wriggling

The difficulties in the way of COM
pelling Germany to live up to the
obligations she assumed when the
Versailles Treaty was signed are be-
coming moro and more evident. If
Burke were alive he might be in
cllned to add to his famous saying
fnat he knew no way to draw an in
dictment against whole people by
declaring that 1T Is not easy to
draft writ Of execution forcing
collection from whole people.
Germany, as she has abundantly
shown, has no respect for treaties
and cares as little for moralities. It
IS not on her conscience that her
agents wantonly chopped down the
orchard trees of Picardy. 1t is moth
ing to her that the masses of other
countries, through her fault. have
suffered and are suffering more
than the people Of her untouched
territories. She would not pay her
dnbts, and nothing else weighs with
her.
Yet She has wit enough to under
stand that other peoples are rot as
she is, and she pursues her cynical
course with this thought in mind.
The Devil quotes Scripture. The
basis of her present policy, as one of
her leaders has blurted out, is to
compromise the moral status of the
Entente" Her propaganda is
steadily devoted to this end. One
week it is the Horror on The Rhine"
and the next it is the pitiful story
cf the occupied regions where fac
tories are closing and men are losing
their work.
What is the best contribution
America can make to breaking the
deadlock? 1t is to make it clear
hat this country refuses to be con-
used by artifice. The person that
,ermits himself to be fooled by Ger
nan stage play does not contribute
o world settlement, nor even in
serve Germany herself,
or as long as she persists in her
'reseDt attitude she will have
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
The Ballot and the Schools

Two admirable bills which should
pass at Albany without opposition
are those introduced by Assembly,
man Moore, of Westchester, for the
broad purpose of binding our public
schools more closely to Election Day.
One bill provides that course Of
instruction upon the ballot shall be
given in every public school. The
other compels the use of public
schools as polling booths wherever
practicable.
AS a matter of fact, the teaching
of civics in New York already covers
the marking of a ballot and the
progress of this important study has
for some time tended in the direc-
ton of exactly such practical train
ing in the essentials of citizenship.
II is an excellent thing to have train
ing in this most highly essential of
all public duties made compulsory
The benefit will be not only for the
future voters thus educated, but for
their parents now.
The public school is the logical
place for polling. 1t has served ad-
mirably wherever used in the past.
There is money saving to the pub
lie, but that is the least of the good
effects. The environment in which
ballot is cast inevitably affects the
mind of the voter. One of the ad-
mirable, if incidental, consequences
Of giving the suffrage to women has
been to end the old practice of using
as polling place the dingiest barber
shop whose owner was friendly to
the district boss. The fashion in
which polling places were improved
at the last election was an unmiti-
gated blessing.
The reform should be carried to
its proper completion in the manner
urged by Asscmblyman Moore 1t
is in our public schools that America
is recreated, generation by genera
ton. Their use for the high obliga-
ton of voting, honestly and wisely,
is an object lesson for children and
needed reminder to their elders of
their sacred duty to coming genera
tons. These considerations are def
mite and compelling and no small
reasons of picayune party plunder
should be permitted to obstruct Mr..
Moore's bill.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
The Chess Championship

The two first-class powers Of the
world Of chess, DR.. Emanuel Lasker
and Jose Capablanca, begin their
duel for supremacy in Havana to-
day. This meeting has been looked
forward to for years by followers of
the game, from the acknowledged
masters down to the humblest
"wood-pushers."
The combatants are without ques-
ton the greatest chess geniuses
since Paul Morphy. Whether or
not Morphy could have defeated
them is one Of those speculations
that tease curiosity without graft
flying it. The New Orleans prodigy
had little first rate opposition; the
tltular champion of his day, Staun-
ton, would not risk a match with
him. So he could afford to toy
with his opponents in all manner of
dazzling sorties. But the coruscat-
ing style is archaic in the higher
realms of chess to-day. The ele-
ment Of surprise has been almost
eliminated; sound defenses have
been evolved in every variation of
every opening. Tedious trench war
fare behind stonewall pawn for
nations is what one must expect in
the coming battle of the giants.
There is likely to be a big cluster
of drawn games.
Who will win? Capablanca has
certain advantages. He is PLAYING
IN his home town, where he is idol
lied. He has confidence in his
powers that makes swelled-headed-
ness seem like diffidence. He has
youth. DIR. Lasker, for twenty-five
years the champion, is in his fifties.
The war disappointed him and left
him enervated, for he was one of
kultur's own. He has lately talked
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Backward Hayti
Little Progress. Only Some Reminder.
Of Better DAYS
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I read with interea. the ls-so.
concerning Hayti by citizen Of TIA.
republic, who, naturally, rises 10 TIA
defense Of his people I feel. howevo,
his defense is based more or seu+irs,-
than on facts. AS proof that his corr.
try was progressing he submits figure,
showing that the exports for the vesr
prior to the American intervensio..
were greater than those IN 1874 -
last year Of the French occupation 4,
examination of these figures shows tsa-
the increase is Insignificant. +, sn;.a
Of the fact that more than 100 ves,.
had intervened. His figures woss
show at best that Hayti had stood SIN
over that period.
1t was my opinion in 1911, when
spent several months in Hayti. that ~.
people Of that country had lost ground
in the march of civilization. The cities.
in which the only semblance Of civijjza-
ton existed, wholly lacked tne cor
veniences Of modern cities, and santa
ton was practically uoa-ex5ste1.
What business there was seemed to bs
in the hands OF foreigners, the natjys>.
giving themselves over wholly to il
ternal politics, to an extent and in
manner which wholly justified the n
tervention Of the United States.
Foreign capital and enterprise, in the
face of great political opposition, have
made whatever improvements the ISLAND
can boast. These improvements, let y
be said, we're never kept up by the ns-
tives, and had degenerated 1911 into
pitiful state Of disrepair Dock.
railroads and other engineering cor.
struction built but shortly before the
time I was there were practically IL
ruin from neglect.
For many years little or no attempt
has been made to cultivate the vas.
area Of fertile soil. Whatever IS grow
ing there is the planting Of the French
colonists, which, fortunately for th.
people, produces its crops with 10
other assistance than that Of nature.
The only roads and highways I fourd
outside of the cities. not including the
little donkey paths, were those built
century ago by the French It is
heartrending sight to see these ola
roads and to run across the ruins Of
great mansions, covered over now by
the growths Of a tropical jungle. These
are constant -eminders OF better days
on the island and nothing comparable
was added by the Haytians
believe not only that the interven-
ton was proper. but that its continu-
ance is necessary duty on ,the part
bf the United States to aid the masses
of those unfortunate people to improve
their condition and to gain some q
the wealth which lies within their
grasp. ALBERTO STEPHEN MARIO.
New York, March II, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
On to BerlinI
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The simple truth is that che
German people think they can get aws5
from the consequences OF their crimes
and it is time the Allies adopted sterner
measures.
Instead OF occupying few towns
the Allies should walk straight into
Berlin and remain there until GERMANY
is made to realize that she has got 20
render justice to al The nations ana
peoples she has injured in her war
Germany can pay and SHOULD be race
to pay any indemnity that our aniea
see fit to impose upon her.
If justice is done now--and Ger
many fears justice-it will DO more
toward the suppression of wars in tns
future than all the leagues OF nations
and the leagues Of peace that the wor''
will aver see. DAVIS STRONG.
New York, March II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
The Legend of the Redskin

Legends are of tough fiber and
their endurance against the attri-
ton of the centuries, to say nothing
Of the facts, is marvellous. When.
therefore, Queen Marie of Rumania
puts first on her list of objects to be
seen and surveyed in the course of
her visit to America the words
"Cowboys and Indians she is paw
ing tribute to the most indestructi-
bic of all European legends touchinp
America.
That the redskin does not SCALP
ms victims on Broadway with any
degree OF frequency is we'll known
by the iterate European. But the
degree to which the poor Indian has
been thrust aside to dwell among his
own and to lose, save in few in
stances, everything that made him
interesting and exciting is very
poorly appreciated. The America of
Chateaubriand and Cooper is still
potent in the European mind. AS
for the cowboy, he, too, is on his
way. The end Of ranching in the
old style, when cattle were grazed
upon public lands and the cowboy
rode the ranges from Texas, is in
sight. He is pressing on to the new
Northwest that lies across the line
in Canada. Queen Marie can see
enough of the old school cowboy at
Cheyenne and see him in action. AS
a living factor in the new West. he
is all but ready to join the redskin
The last item upon Queen Marie's
list of Americana to be visited. "a
motion picture laboratory" suggests
one reason why the American cow
boy holds such sway the world
around. The American movie"
goes to every civilized country:
Charlie Chaplin is unquestionably
our best known citizen, and close
rival to his wistful feet and pathetic
career upon the film is the Western
picture. These pictures have
glorious background. Their adven-
lures appeal to the longing of civil
lied folk everywhere for romance.
Thanks to the movie" the Ameri-
can cowboy is better known in Eu-
rope to-day than ever before in his
existence. Very probably in this
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

trouble. Her new propaganda,
though it may annoy. will in the end
no more succeed than her old propa-
.Ganda.
There is and has been but one way
to real peace, and that is by con-
vincing Germany of the hopeless
ness of melting Allied discord-by
presenting so united a front that she
will yield to the Judgment recorded
against her. Wriggling will cease
when the wrigglers realize It's use
lessness.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Back Home Again .
A Reader Stirred by Gtantland
Rice's Fine Bit of Verse
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Back Home Again" by Grant
land Rice, in this mornings Tribune IS
as fine bit OF verse as have see.
for some time. want to express m
personal pleasure and admiration foe
The Tribune in that It does not forge.
what the Yanks did in France, while al
around Us III this city Of ours the pro
everything but American propaganda
smells TO heaven. While it is not SO
hard to be patriotic when the bands
play and the flags wave, It IS well to
remember that true patriotism Is need
ei as much now as in the days OF t917.
Grantland Rice's war poems stir the
depths of the soul Of every one who
ever loved and served under the Stars
and Stripes. More power to him.
WENDELL PHILLIPS BIEsER.
New York, March y, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

lawsuits multiplied MANIFOLD and the
railroad received scant consideration
from any jury. The management, in
order to make financial showing. re-
duced the number of employees below
reasonable requirements and cut off the
upkeep of the road to a point endan-
eering the public safety; in fact,
skinned the road. BY these means q
temporary reputation of being wizards
III railroad management was secured,
and other railroads sought their serv-
ices in advanced positions. The old
road was left to be put in shape by
their successors at great cost.
1t is needless to add that this rail
road has never regained the loyalty Of
its employees or the good will of the
public which it formerly enjoyed, but
considerable progress has been made
IN that direction, as the majority of
railroad officials favor the humane
policy.
The country is sick and needs human
engineering applied in all vocations.
Mr.. Sabin, of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany, stated recently that duty to the
public at times exceeded the duty of
tans officials to the company. This is
no doubt true, for, as a last analysis, if
the public is not protected we under
mine the foundations of our govern
ment
1t Is fair to state that human en-
gineering applied by the heads of our
large institutions and insisted upon by
directors and owners Of these proper
ties, who are chiefly responsible, would
solve nine-tenths of our labor troubles,
c'-eapen the cost Of living by prevent
.ng enormous waste, give better earn
ings, strengthen the government and
make the world a better place to live
IN for all concerned.
EDWARD GILLETTE.
New York, March II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
An Ancient Remedy

No defense, of course, can be made
of the tar and feather method used
by a Kansas county to express its
aversion to activities of the so-called
Nonpartisan League. 1t was bar
barous and cruel proceeding, an
ebullition of lawlessness not to be
condoned because the rite is as an
cient as ducking.
Nevertheless, the outrage throws
vivid light ca what typical agri-
cultural community thinks Of the
league after watching it at work. 1t
is recognized as one that has de-
veloped highly Objectionable tech
nique for lifting other peoples hard
earned money into the pockets Of it's
managers. The Kansas farmer has
no dislike of cooperation when the
same is honest, but he is not long
deceived by false pretenses. So he
suspends free speech something this
side of craftsmanship Of fakes.
Among those making a speedy get
away from the neighborhood Of the
tar bucket we note the name OF
former Senator Burton, once promi-
nently in the news as a bribe taker
and who exchanged his toga for
stripes. The Nonpartisan League
attracted to itself many of the Bur
ton type, grafters and confidence
men, who did not measure up even to
the latitudinarian standards of po-
lltlcal parties. So the league broke
down because of its internal rotten
ness. 1t fooled gullible magazine
writer's who took it at the face value
of its professions, but not those
acquainted with its controlling per-
sonnel.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
America, Britain and the Sea
Naval Unon Betwecn the English Speaking Peoples w ould
DO More to Secure Peace Than Any League of Nations
By Lord Sydcnham

The London Times on the seventeenth
Of February published some extracts
from The Chicago Tribune Of the
fourteenth and rightly described them
as deserving "most careful study both
in the United States and in Great Brit
ain" Briefly the contentious of the
writer were that "a conscious or sub
conscious purpose" was at the back of
the decisive rejection % a naval holi-
day by the Japanese Diet, that war
Tor the control of the Pacific was in
prospect, that failing an understand
ing between America and Britain this
war must come and that an alliance
between Britain and Japan hostile to
America was possible if not probable.
To any one who, like myself, has
striven throughout the best years Of
his life to promote the closest relations
between America and Britain, such
pronouncement must appear startling
IN its forecast of danger to civilization
Has it any basis of actaality? Is there
really any risk that the English-speak-
ing peoples might be involved in war
which would be disastrous to the fu-
ture Of mankind?
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

cam l., asks II. l.. Mencken in the
April Smart Set, "a barbarian if |
say that there seems to me to be more
genuine poetry in In American, by
J ohm Y. A. Weaver, than in all the am
bilious strophes of Woodberry, Mark
ham. ct al. ?" No, Henry. There is.
There is more genuine poetry in it
than in the ambitious strophes Of
almost anybody. But, while the am
bilious strophes. as exemplified in his
The Roamer, of Woodberry arc tenu-
Gus stuff, don't forget that Woodberry
wrote 20, lnexpressible as Sweet"
as neffably lovely lyric as we ever
were glad of an excuse to reprint:
Q. inexpresslble sweet,
Love takes my voice away:
cannot tell thee when we meet
What most l long to say.
But hadst thou hearing in thy heart
To know what beats In m!ne,
Then shouldst thou walk, whcre'er thou
art.
In melodies divine.
SO warbling birds lft higher notes
Than to our ears belong;
The music fills their throbbing throats.
But silence steals the song
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Income Tax Inequity
ew York, March II, 1921.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What about the Justice of the
income tax law, or rather injustice?
A little girl makes $500 year. She
it telephone girl, and must pay tax
on $500. A fireman drawing a much
higher salary is exempt. I am the last
man to knock fireman. for they are
not overpaid. l might say the same of
The school teacher or policeman. These
all have pensions. The telephone girl
has not, but she, with the poor stenog-
:epher and the poor clerk, must pay,
and is allowed only 81 900 to live on.
IL this square deal? Why should
there be an exempt class? Why
SHOULDN'T they pay to support the gov
ernment the same as the telephone
girl and clerks? WALTER WINANT.
New York, March IL, 1921.