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New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
The American Wav

The agreement reached at Wash
lngton to arbitrate the Tacna-Arica
dispute is another step toward
American solidarity. Two of the
leading South American powers in
vlted the United States to help them
end a controversy which has kent
them at daggers' points for the last
forty years. They were unable to
agree because of ancient grudges.
and had so snarled themselves un
that diplomatic relations had to be
broken off. Yet confidence on the
part OF both in the friendly impair
tiallty of the United States has
howered into a submission of their
quarrel to our adjudication.
Our interest in the matter is mere
~ to do justice and to promote
amlty. There is treaty to be in
ierpreted. Questions of equity
growing out of the long non-fulfll-
ment of that treaty also are to he
considered. There is little doubt
that reasonable adjustment can
be made and that both Chile and
Peru will profit by it. It will benefit
them more, certainly, than the con-
t'nuation of dispute which has moi.
soned neighborly feeling and held
up the tranquil development of both
countries.
America is fortunate, compared
with Europe, in that national nm,
mosities here are limited and that
the habit has been formed of seek-
ing outside counsel in cases of fric
tion- The Pan-American idea bs.
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s'eugenics." The British government
had both Bertillon's method and
finger printing carefully studied by
royal commission, which reported
in favor of both. and both were
practiced for some years. But the
disadvantage of Bertillonage led to
its abandonment about dozen years
ago, since which time finger printing
and photography alone have been re-
lied upon. In this country like
course has been pursued. Finger
printing is almost universally relied
upon, and the Bertillon system is
remembered chiefly as an interest
ing scientific process, beautiful and
convincing in theory but difficult,
fallible and undesirable in practice.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Sims on Navy Grog
Explains That Naval Officers Have
Always Favored Temperance

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In "The Literary Digest" of July
/, 1922, there appears on page ID the fol-
lowing quotation from an Eastern paper
concerning the sale of liquor on Ship
ping Board vessels:
"The boozy Shipping Board needs to
be kicked out, to follow the generals
who used to insist that we couldn't
have an army without provision for
soaking the soldiers in beer, and the
admirals who used to howl that the
navy would go all to smash without lots
of grog."
Without implying any criticism of
the Shipping Board, beg to invite at
very sadly misrepresent the attitude OF
our military services in respect to the
use of distilled liquors. The fact is
that the officers in question were the
original prohibitionists.
At no time during my service OF
over forty-fve years has "hard liquor
been allowed on any of cur vessels.
Officers were permitted to have light
wines and beer, at their o,7n expense,
of course, under the supervision of the
commanding officer; and while there
was too much drinking until about
twenty years ago, yet since that time
it has been sternly frowned upon. The
grog ration was abolished about 1850,
and the constant effort of our military
officers and those of all other countries
has always been to save our men from
the demoralizing effects of alcoholic
beverages not only in their own in
terest, but because temperance is es-
sential to military efficiency.
Moral suasion accomplished a good
deal, and there was little difficulty in
preventing the smuggling of ''rum"
into our ships and army posts, but as
the country was then very "wet" we
could not enforce prohibition beyond
the limits under our control. The dis
couraging consequence was that i'm
mediately outside the gates of army
reservations and navy yards and on
the docks of sea ports there aourished
nests of dives much too vile to admit
of adequate description. But the worst
of it was that the evil influence of
these dens of iniquity was greatly
aggravated by the fact that much of
the home brew" whisky they sold our
men was dangerous to degree. /
have known few drinks to turn a
self-respecting sailor lad temporarily
into raving maniac, and sometimes
the poisonous stuff caused death.
Nor was this ALL These dreadful
dives were often combined saloons,
gambling hells and houses of prostitu-
ton, and those who understood the
harm they did naturally wanted them
driven away by the only means that
seemed practicable while the country
remained "wet"-that is, by establish
Ing canteens within our government
reservations for the supply Of beer and
f~Ser our owr coptrol 90
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fourished because there is q real
community Of sentiment behind it.
Sympathy growing out of a common
fight for freedom from European
domination has survived the years,
and the absence of aggressive i'm
pulses has allowed the American re-
publics to think of one another as
rivals only within family circle.
What will help to bring Chile and
Peru closer together will help all the
other states, because it promotes the
cause Of American union. Our
hemisphere has been, in the main,
n hemisphere Of peace and good will.
1t Is the policy of the two Americas
to keep it so.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Years Are Not Enough

1t is the interesting theory Of
George Bernard Shaw that the
longer a man lives the more intelli-
gent he will become.
In Back to Methuselah" he
makes it appear that the fullness of
years means the fullness Of wisdom
that until man can attain at least
two centuries of life he is still a
child.
The nearest the world has recent
ly approached to an opportunity to
check up Mr.. Shaw is in the study
of the life of "Uncle Johnny" Shell,
Kentuckian, who just passed away
at the estimated age of 1874. Owing
to cloudy records there may be un-
certainty as to his exact number of
years, but the fact that he left more
than 200 descendants may be taken
to indicate that he far survived the
ordinary span cf lfe.
"Uncle Johnny" at the age of
more than hundred knew how to
shoot coons and how to cook his
meals over cabin fire, and that was
about all.
While he was on the earth slavery
f1ourished and passed away, The
steam engine and the automobile
and the airplane relieved the horse
Of many of his burdens, people
learned to talk to one another
around the world, first with wires
and afterward without them, and
machine was built that could repro
duce the human voice.
Andrew Carnegie scattered libra
ries over the land and John D. Rock
efeller and other rich men endowed
colleges in the remotest corners of
it. Motion pictures brought geog-
raphy as we'll as drama to the back
woods, and the mountain Kentuckian
beside his still was able to read of
the international tennis match on
the day it was played.
All these matters left "Uncle
Johnny" cold. The prep" school
boy of seventeen knows more than
he did, and could make a better
living had he been sent into the Ken
lucky mountains.
Perhaps in time the years will
really bring wisdom, but they GER
tainly brought very little of it to
the Oldest man of modern times.
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and health. Mr.. Hylan knows moth
ing Of system, and seems incapable
of understanding it's value.


Chairman Adams of the Repub-
lican National Committee sees fit to
echo the charge made by the tariff
bills managers in the Senate that it
is being held up by a Democratic
filibuster. This charge has little
merit. Delay has not been due to a
filibuster. The Fordney bill came
over from the House year ago. It
was SO crude as to need to be COM
pletely rewritten. The process con-
sumed many months. The revised
draft has not been acted on mainly
because that draft is still subject to
legitimate debate and alterations and
because the pressure from the coun-
try is for further consideration
rather than for swallowing the bill
without examination.
Mr.. Adams says that it is neces-
sary to pass permanent revision at
once in order to carry out the
pledges of the last Republican ma
tional platform. To show the error
of this it is enough to quote the tariff
plank of that platform. The man
date given for tariff revision was
broadly discretionary and highly
conditional, The plank reads
"The uncertain and unsettled con-
dition of international balances; the
abnormal economic and trade situa-
tion of the world, and the impossi-
bility of forecasting accurately even
the near future, preclude the formu-
lation of a definite program to meet
conditions year hence. But the
Republican party reaffirms its belief
in the protective principle and
pledges itself to revision in the
tariff as soon as conditions shall
make it necessary for the preserva-
tion of the home market for Ameri-
can labor, agriculture and industry"
Exchange is more unsettled to-day
than it was when this plank was
adopted at Chicago. The economic
and trade situation of the world is
as abnormal as it was then. The
fight in Congress still unfinished
over the question of American or
foreign valuation shows how ex-
tremely difficult it is to write a per-
manent tariff in the face of economic
fluidity and chaos abroad.
Are conditions ripe for the fulfill
ment of the elastic promise. of the
Republican platform? 1t is open to
any Republican to say that they are
not A Republican may go further
ard say that in effect the mandate,
so far as there is one, is against
enacting permanent tariff bill until
international trade is normal, which
notoriously it is not at present. The
attempt of Chairman Adams to use
the platform to shut off debate is
not warranted by the language Of
the platform itself.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Humane Care of Addicts

The Police Department has at
last ordered strict separation Of
criminal narcotic drug offenders
from mere sufferers from the drug
habit. There are, of course, many
criminal offenders engaged in
smuggling and selling narcotics. and
also degenerate users of drugs who
are fit subjects for punitive police
action.
But there are also many addicts
who are as innocent of evil intent
as are sufferers from cancer or
tuberculosis. Why such should be
subjected to police control has never
been explained. Those of them who
are unable to employ competent
physicians to treat them should have
hospital or dispensary care. But
the non-indigent are entitled to be
cared for by their own personal or
family doctors, just as are sufferers
from other ailments.
1t discriminates against a most
pitiable class Of sufferers to insist
that they alone of all sick people
must be turned over to the police
as if criminals. The order Just an
nounced should be promptly fol-
lowed by another which will permit
innocent addiction patients freely to
seek health at the hands of physi-
clans instead of at the hands of the
police.
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With visions Of family jewels, rsrs-
old lace and the like, the wife reached
for the package, tore off the wrapplnes
and saw-what she saw. The Angel
whose duty it is to forecast domestic
weather put up new bulletin.
The moral is, Of course, that if has
bands must forget dates-and it ap.
pears that they are so constituted ths.
they must-let them make it the thir;
installment of the income tax or soms,
thing else where the penalty is con-.
paratively light.
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On Signalling Wedding ANNIVERSARIES By Fairfax D,prs

of their immature features will arouse
in their wives the same glad emotions
that thrilled Bassanio when he chose
the leaden casket containing fair
Portals counterfeit" and married
money.
The husband arrived at his home
with warm greeting and the
package. His wife was overjoyed at
the receipt of the latter. And the
Angel whose duty it is to forecast
domestic weather posted a bulletin
reading: "Thaw Fair and warmer"
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Thanks 10 Briggs
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: At the executive meeting
the board of managers OF the
Council of the Junior 0. U. A. u, ipss
held on Saturday, was instruetea
compliment your paper and MI. 0iiss'
on the cartoon in relation to ouf has
We believe if more of this were uV''
in the newspapers the flag wouiu
ceive more reverence and wouic si's 4
the aliens the impression Of wnas N
means.
Our organization has been 10
istence a great many years anu
lave presented many flags to tae pa
lie schools.
Again complimenting you ana spt. 80;
ciating the interest your paper s'.s
in Americanism, I am
FRANKLIN S. FAlr, s4l
State Council Secretara
Brooklyn, July 5, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11

DR.. Georg Michaelis, Chancellor
of the German Empire in the beau
tiful days when the Fatherland's
armies were chopping down enemy
| orchard trees, flooding mines and
otherwise heartily enjoying them
| selves, takes advantage of his visit
| here to illumine darkened American
minds.
Should Germany default and
France seize the Ruhr region as a
| pledge, then he foresees another
war. The young men Of Germany,
he says, would not endure the out
rage. Bismarck, it is true, occupied
French provinces until France paid
to the last franc, but only those
whose intelleets never have been en-
lightened by Kultur will contend for
equality of right between Germany
and her neighbors.
/ The worthy doctor re-parades an
old friend, namely, the claim that Ger
many cannot pay. The installment
due this week is $50,000,000, yet
| Germany, though her national
wealth is 5000 times this sum, can
not find it anywhere about her. As
| the German government bank alone
has in gold vastly more than the
amount falling due, the ex-Chancel-
lor, of course, cannot intend his
statement to be taken literally or
seriously. What he means to say is
that Germany won't pay-will fight
first.
Instead of paltering with side
issue insincerities why does not
some authoritative German voice
openly declare for reparation sey-
! tlement such as would genuinely
satisfy Germany? What it would
include can be most easily sur
missed. In brief, it would place on
France the business of liquidating
Germany's expenditures and all war
losses. Many German bonds were
f1oated and their. owners cannot be-
come calm and labor quiet until
assured of payment. Why not de-
mand that France assume the
| burden?
Except for an accident at the
Marine France would have been com
PEELED to pay to the last. centime or
else suffer Paris to be perpetually
occupied. Why not act as if there
had been no accident at the Marne
and proceed according to the orig
lnal Berlin plan? Because Won
kluck stubbed his toe is righteous
ness to be mocked?
The German argument now is that
France should alone meet the cost
OF mopping up the damage done in
France by German armies. That IL
to say, the invasion was justified.
and hence France has no right to
claim compensation. From this con-
ciuslon 1t is but short step to the
further one that France should paw
what Germany spent on the invasion.
A sheriff who is forced to beat down
door to serve warrant pays no
damage bill; on the contrary, he
collects his fee and his mileage.
Germany has been too moderate.
She should add to her threats and
solemnly declare that unless she is
paid for her war expenditures she
Will Immediately bite herself to
death by going royalist or
: Bolshevist.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
What Readers Sau

to consumption and at such prices -
to render the dives Improbable.
Our naval officers as class have al.
ways been for temperance, especially
since about 1900, when Theodore Roose.
welt inspired in the navy a very ets'
fective desire for efficiency. This prse.'
tically abolished the consumption Of.
alcohol in the navy, and at any tins'
since then a vote of the officers Of the
service would, am sure. be practically
unanimous against allowing any liquor.
in our ships or stations.
Very sincerely yours,
WILLIAM S. SIMS,
Rear Admiral, U. S. N. = .
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Just as the wellnigh intolerable
tension caused by the international
tennis match is relieved we are
plunged into still more terrible sus-
pense by the golf open championship
tournament.
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advertiser does net.
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TUESDAY. JULY II, 1922

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"X Marks NV Room

He determined to be bachelor. He
thought all girls were le-brained
10 marry him girl had to be clever.
One evening at dinner he sat along
side. of member of the fair sex. She
impressed him. He decided that at
last he had found the clever girl
They met occasionally. Then came
the summer. She went away to some
resort.
One day he received picture post
card from her. All she wrote was.
Having fine time. Wish you were
here"
He still deducts only $1,000 cxemp-
ton on his income tax return.
BILL NETCH.
The French movement to occupy the
Ruhr basin seems to get very little mile
age out Of an awful lot of gas.
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More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
Partisan Justice

Taflslan Justice
In Paris, when automobiles
(Which are thick as they are
over here)
Lay pedestrians out by the heels,
The chauffeurs drive off with a
sneer.
No fear do they have Of the cop
per's stern hand,
They know they will not be
molested,
For, under the curious law of the
land,
The victims the man that's ar
rested.
And lately a person who took
From a table where long it had
lain
A tattered old poetry book
Was held to be wholly insane.
In bleak, padded cell the poor
fellow was left
To the warden's apochryphal
mercies,
Of all of his friends and his
money bereft,
For stealing a volume of verses.
We are not purveying a brief
For a person who dabbles in
crime;
II the fellow was proved q thief.
He ought to be doing his time.
It's the judgment that struck us
uncommonly queer
And leaves US so mentally hazy.
Why didn't they send him to Jail
for a year
Instead of adjudging him
crazy?
And even if crazy he was,
And his mania led him to steal
The thing was outrageous because
He couldn't have got square
deal.
Why hold that a man has a rift
in his dome,
And direct a deaf ear tn his
plea,
For taking two-penny poetry
home
When the fellow who wrote II
goes free?
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
No Drama in Il

We don't believe that Will Fl. Hav.
would give much for the movie rioht.
to the ex-Kaiser's book
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Identification Needec
fFrom The Eassas City T.mss

fFrom The Eassas City I.n's8
New York is going to have ~ 4,
come stranger" COMMITTEES g ~, =
boost travel to that metropolis 4.
sounds like good idea, but w'en ]. 4,
committee goes so the depot % :" s.,
come strangers they should VA $,
badges or something to dlst'nsuS,, u.
them from the bootieggers c'a1''
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Wrong Season

1t is wise for blacksmiths to strike
while the iron is hot, but thi. adaes
doesn't apply to coal miners and the
weather.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Too Much Competition

Congress adjourned over the
Fourth which was just as we'll, for
NOBODY could have heard them for
the frecrackers.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
The Tower
I'M 20 r r N CE

More powerful than I, who rule
Olympus,
That he should make my thunderbolts
his slaves,
And lash my lightnings to his wagon
wheels?
Know, then, that l am Jove who slew
the Titan,
Fer that my fire he stole and gave
to man.
Him chained | to the trackless noun
tain top,
And tortured through the crawling
centuries.
Shall l show greater mercy to this
mortal?
Speed, then, swift messengers Of
death! Yet, lookl
He grasps them in his hand; he grips
and binds them!
He catches them and hurls them in
the air;
He threads my thunderbolts upon wire
And makes the furthest earth to hear
his voice!
He catches them and hurls them in
the sea!
Like silver snakes they leave his finger
tips.
And bear his mandates through the
circling ocean!
Hark, how the sea god shakes his
angry trident,
Lashing the waves to fury! Can it be
The seas no longer hear him? Who Is
That earth and air and waters work
his will?
10, he has fashioned for himself swift
wings,
And downward looks upon the eagles
brood
And plays among the stars! The air
is filed
With voices! Yea, he fills the air
To bring them cheer who dwell in
lonely places.
There is no space nor distance any
more;
lie holds within the hollow of his
hand
'rhe Infinite! Eternity is his!
Is he. then, mightier than the death
less gods?
More powerful than l, who rule
Olympus?
All! l have fear, fear
Vida SALVAGE OWENS.
Mrs. Mallory says she is not satisfied
with the result of her match Nth Mile.
Lenglen. This makes it practically
unanimous as for as this side of the
Atlantic IS concerned, but ace don't sec
Vhat any one is going to do about it.
Some there may be who will find
fault with the alibi so readily ad-
vanced by, the former Miss Bjurstedt.
But as member of a nation setting
so much store by the don't know when
you are licked" spirit, we congratulate
Mola on her rapid Americanization.
The Erie has been forced by the coal
shortage, it says, to lay off twenty-one
trains. If all of the roads patrons
would keep their car windows open the
amount Of fuel retrieved ought to be
enough to bring at least nineteen of
them back into service.
INTERESTING INSECTS
The cockroach has cleanly mind,
He loves to splash and scrub:
Each morning vhen / rise I find
Him sitting in the tab.
Too earnest a study of dead lam
guages may have brought about the
present lamentable condition of Paul
Simonetti, who, our favorite morning
paper announces, "was placed under
A-ray yesterday in order to locate the
seat of infection in a deceased is,.
bone"
TO MARY
Perhaps it is the subtle tilt YOUR nose
Assumes that makes you dangerously
"cute"--
Or just the way your candid lips can
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11

Too earnest study of dead Ian
guages may have brought about the
present lamentable condition of Pau!
Simonetti, who, our favorite morning
paper announces, "was placed under
A-ray yesterday in order to locate the
seat of infection in a deceased ia, 4.
bone"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
TO MARY

TO MARY
Perhaps it is the subtle tilt YOUR nosa
Assumes that makes you dangerously
Cute
Or just the way your candid Inns can
close,
lnciting, while you stay demurely
mute.
Another time, think your charm is
bound
Within your crisp gold hair. You
are meek
Iransplanted angel; heaven lies around
You. When you smile, Pm dizzy for
week
Experience grows tinctured with de-
spair;
l cannot versify your charm and
grace;
All art is futile when the subjects fair
AS you, with winsomeness upor it's
face.
But these are idle vagaries, it's true.
like the way you let me fawn on YOU.
NERO.
1he Pope has discharged his cook for
charging him tWice for one chicken
My mtstoks, Your Holiness" remarked
the funetionary, looking about TO ssa
that the eatt from the Vatican ,oas I'm.
oostrscted. "Merely papal bull"
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G IL A q AMY

Entered OF the Posiofnse a. New York as secont
Class Mail Matter
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INTERESTING INSECTS
The cockroach has a cleanlq mind
He loves to splash and scrub;
Each morning when / rise find
Him sitting in the tab.