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New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Island Lure

just because the wireless station
ON Easter Island, thousand miles
off the coast of Chile, failed to an
swer during thirty-six hours the
story at once went abroad that the
island had sunk into the ocean.
Not even the sophistication which
has accompanied the spread of scien-
tlfic knowledge has succeeded in d;-
vesting islands Of their subtle lure
Only few days ago it was reported
that Ponce de Icons fountain of
youth existed on the island of Iris
tan da Cunha, in the south Atlant;c
One of the reasons why Frederick
obrien. Gauguin and Senator T,odpe
We're 50 successful in boosti,1g the
South Sea Islands was because IF
the mysterious charm their vary
names exercise ever the imagination
Crusoe's island and Treasure Island
inspire similar fascination, and even
the names of some Of the iesser
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
The Traffic Emergency

In his statement on traffic regula
fion Chief Magistrate ATcAdoo deals
only with the immediate necessity
which is to save life. He points out
that most of the children who have
been killed under the wheels of mo-
tors at city crossings have been with
out police protection. His remedy is
to centralize the licensing of auto
mobiles and their drivers and to add
$500 traffic policemen to the police
force.
Some such measures as these must
be taken Immediately if the lives of
children--and adults, for that mat
Ser-are to be safeguarded in New
York City. The Police Conmis-
siener would do well to take counsel
with Judge McAdoo. who probably
knows more about the traffic situa-
tion than any other man in New
York, before making new regula-
tiens.
But it must be borne in mind that
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20

known peaks in the Pacific are
enough to conjure up visions OF ro-
nance and adventure.
There is Christmas Island, one of
the few never inhabited before white
men discovered it. There is Malpelo,
huge rock, mile In length and
half mile in width, which rises
sheer out of the waters Of the Pa
ciflc and is uninhabited and affords
hardly any possibility of landing.
There is Cocos, lying five hundred
miles west of Panama, where hum
dred years ago more than $12,000,-
600 worth of stolen coins, jewels and
silver ingots were buried. Accord
ing to documents issued by the Brit
ish Foreign Office, most of this treas
ure still remains undiscovered, de-
spite numerous expeditions to the
island to find it.
Easter Island itself, rumored to
nave vanished beneath the waves,
lies half way between Peru and Ia.
hiti, far in the south Pacific Ocean.
1t contains remains Of a forgotten
people which are still to-day rid
die to psychologists. Enormous
stone platforms and great stone fig
ures have been found there, with
never a trace Of how they were cut
or who built them.
Hard-headed persons whose atti-
tude toward the world is utterly
practical are ready to believe of ISL
ands tales which if told of their own
neighborhood they would scorn as
nonsense. The very word island" is
enough to revive forgotten dreams
OF childhood, in which desert islands,
pirates, treasure and high adventure
were woven into living romance.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Eminent Southpaws

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following may be Of inter-
est TO the writer signing himself Ben
'amins" on the subject of t-handed-
ness:
Napoleon was left ft-handed, as IS Mar
snai Foch. In the field Of athletics you
VIII iind such names as Norman
hrookes and Dwight Davis, tennis play~
ers, listed among the left-handera, And
IN !, the movies" we have Charlie Chap.
lin ON our side.
authorities who have made study of
'he subject say THAT per cent of the
peopie arc born left-hauded.. That
oeing SO, believe we can average uo
as wen as the 90 per cent risht-hand-
ers 81 when it comes to awho,s Who. in
sne worlds history, past and present.
N the third chapter Of the Book Of
'udges you may read how a left-
nanaer, Ehud, delivered the children of
rsfasi - by sticking dagger into the fat
A,ng 81 Moab. A LEFT-HANDER.
Yonkers. ". Y, Nov. II. 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
A Budget for the Y. w. e.. A.

Instead of haphazard CAMPAIGN
Tor FUNDS after a deficit is discov-
cred, the Young Women's Christian
Association Of New York has ADOPT
ed a budget system. Accordingly.
before the end of the fiscal year, a
statement is prepared showing the
estimated operating expenses for
the coming year, payments on mort
cages that must be met and the total
OF available receipts. The differ
ence between the established income
and the expected obligations repre-
sents the growth and expansion Of
the association, which it's friends are
asked to finance if they believe in
the work. The statement this wear
indicates that 100000 will be re-
qulred to carry out the pla1s for
the new year. II pledges are re-
ceived up to that amount the associ-
alton will proceed according to esti-
mate. If the amount contributed d
falls short, the work intended to be
done will be cut to fit the new in
come.
This is fair and businesslike
proposition and makes the public
share the responsibility before in
stead Of after the expenditure of it's
funds. No wheedling is to be done.
The case is stated and the public is
asked to say whether or not the
work is to be supported. The fact
that the association is already s3
per cent self-supporting is indica-
tlon of the strong hold it has upon
those interested. Endowment and
trust funds, together with member
ship fees, make up this income, so
that for 1923 new contributions of
only II per cent are needed. Even
the colleges do no better than this.
The success Of the budget system
may be measured by the experience
OF the last two years. In 1920, when
II was lnaugurated, not enough
money was contributed to carry out
the plans for 1921. Consequently.
the work had to be cut 35 per cent.
IN the fall of 1921. the budget for
1922 was raised in full, and expan-
sion instead Of retrenchment was
the result. Now that the system is
Well under way, there is every rea-
son to expect that this years budget
week will bring with it a guaranty
of progress for 1923.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
The State Bonus
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: In your editorial on "The
Bonus Solution" the statement is made
that "New York passed a constitu
tional amendment providing s45 5,ooo,-
600, but the legislation authorizing
submission was declared invalid by
the Court Of Appeals"
The Court of Appeals decided that IL
was unconstitutional to pay this
money from the state treasury and
did not render it's decision until about
the middle Of July afte" the measure
mad been passed by vote OF the peo-
pie. The people OF the State of New
YORK did not vote on this question as
an amendment to the constitution az
the state, but it was submitted to the
people as proposition to be voted IN
IN accordance with the provision of
the constitution that all approprsa-
tions exceeding $l,ooo,ooo must be
submitted to vote of the people. A
proposition so voted does not hecona
part of the constitution. The copr+
OF Appeals has no jurisdiction over )
constitutional amendment once it has
Deen approved by majority % +ha
votes Of the people, for It than ~
comes part OF the constitution and
.he only ones who can change it are
'se people themselves. A corst;tu-
1lona' amendment must pass bv :
aa'ofiey IN TWO successive legislatures
ps signed BY the Governor and sun
missed to vote Of the people.
You might add for the insormat;on
~ :,, ,ne ex-ssrvice rnen, who, believe
s ss.n NUMBER great many among your
'seaaers' that there may be const;tn. '
' anendmsnt submitted 20 tAa
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Farm BLOC Projects

Senator Capper, the head of the
farm bloc, has noted down some
things which remain TO be done to
complete the bloc's legislative pro-.
gram. The Senator finds an argu-
ment for completion in the results of
the last election. He says that the
farmers stuck by the Republican
party while ''labor" deserted it. This
is hardly convincing. In the indus
trial states of Massachusetts,, Con-
i'ecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi-
gan and Illinois, for instance,
Labor" did not desert Republican
Congress candidates sufficiently to
make the desertion noticeable. More
ever, New York and New Jersey
went against the Republicans mainly
on the wet issue.
There is no reason why Congress
should not pass some of the legisla-
tion which Mr.. Capper recommends.
Rural credits ought to be further ex-
tended. A better marketing system
and fair grading ought to be pro-
vided for the farmer. 1t is desirable
that railroad rates on farm staples
be lowered, although the worst way
in the world to lower them would be
to abolish the Labor Board and
wreck the Esch- -Cummins act. A
helpful readjustment of freight
rates can be best accomplished by
strengthening the transportation
act and compelling the Railroad
Labor Board and the Interstate
Commerce Commission to cooperate
IN establishing rates and wages, in
stead Of working, as they now do, in
separate, air-tight compartments.
Mr.. Capper mentions Muscle
Shoals. That is not simply farm
relief problem. Neither is consti-
tutional amendment prohibiting tax
exempt securities, or any general
taxation scheme. The whole country
is concerned with Federal taxation.
which should not be regulated by a
single group interest like the farm
bloc.
The bloc prospered and attracted
sympathy when its aims were limit
ed to direct farm relief. When it
goes afield and wants to upset trans
portation or give our tax system
uneconomic and injurious twists it
makes many non-farmer friends
grieve. The bloc should be judicious
enough to stick to its own furrow.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Battling Bob" and the Third
Party

Senator La Toilette generally
knows where the center of the stage
is and is never backward in appro-
priating it. He is the oldest farm
bloc statesman in Washington. He
was farm bloc-er before the farm
bloc ever existed. He was progress
sive, radical, agrarian and insurgent
while Borah, Capper, Norris and
other leaders Of that group were
kindergartners in politics. He has
tcyed with third partyism longer
than anybody now talking about
forming third party. He carries a
complete. third-party organization
under his hat.
The Wisconsin Senator has wasted
no time in putting in claim for rec
ognltlon as the chief Of any insur-
gent biparty, third party or pan
party movement which may be start
ed in the next Congress. He oper-
ates with Mr.. Huddleston, Demo-
cratic Representative from Ala
ban1a, a Peoples Legislative Serv-
ice" an agency which has both
union labor and farm bloc connec-
tions. Messrs. La Toilette and
Eluddleston have therefore called a
conference of third partyites. near
thlrd-partyites and politicians who
talk their third-partyism but could
never be induced to practice it. What
the delegates to this gathering NAV
do is not of much Importance, so long
as they keep it firmly fixed in their
minds that Mr.. La Toilette is the
senior statesman around Washing
ton ia the business of being in
third party and yet not being in it.
Battling Bob" is one of the
ancients. He goes back two wears
further than Henry Cabot Lodge.
Pe was one of the trainers of the
Mckinley tariff bill. He has been
running on Republican tickets for
forty years past. Yet he has been
excluded from Republican national
conventions because Of unorthodoxy;
and he is now a Republican only be-
cause he writes his own definition OF
Republicanism.
4 am near-sighted as to third
Parties" says this canny veteran.
lie couldn't see the Progressive
party at all in 1912. A movement
which forced the Republican party
into third place in Presidential
election didn't mean any more to
Linn than Farmer-Labor sideshow
led by Perley P. Christensen. Mr..
La Follette's Republieanism seems
TO suit Wisconsin. 1t gives him
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
More Truth Than Poetry
By James j. Montague
Realism

Realism
When Fielding or Dickens or
Thackeray found
Some curious son of gun,
Whose ways didn't jibe with the
rest of his tribe,
But were out of the general
run,
Though rich man or poor man. or
beggar or thief,
Or banker or bishop or crook,
They gave him name and made
certain his fame
BY putting him into a book.
The dull, prosy fellows who went
on their rounds
In the dreary and common
place way;
Led the usual lives with the usual
wives,
Whose steps never wandered
astray,
Were never put into novel at
all,
For the authors beheld them
askance,
And they knew what was due to
the popular view
That bore had no place in
romance.
But the lads who provide us with
fiction to-day
Pick the stupidest chaps they
can find, r,~s.,a
Who toll and who drink and en-
deavor to think
Like all Of their average kind.
Put dull, dreary words in their
commonplace mouths,
Record the dull things that
they do,
And the critics declare with a
gratitied air:
sThis book is bear. 1t is
true!''
Some day, if these tales should
be read by and by
(Although we are sure they
will not),
Our grandsons will say that the
folks of to-day
Must have been a poor, sap
headed lot.
And they'll pity the authors who
lived in a world
Where the people all travelled
in ruts
And consisted Of groups Of drab
feminine stupes
And conventional masculine
NUTS!
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20

committee assignments and power IL
the Senate which he would not have
as third-party Senator. Yet il
leaves him unfettered to think and
act as he pleases and to collogue, AZ
President Wilson would say, with
ccngenial spirits, be they Republi-
cans, Democrats, Socialists, Farmers
Laborites, pro- Bolshevist intelligent
sia or Gompersites.
In a third party Battling Bob
would undoubtedly have to accept
the claims of discipline and respon-
sibility. AS well think of caging the
skylark as of imprisoning him in SO
deadening an association.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Germany Re-
copyrixrf. 1879, New York Tribune INC.

plication of this policy in practice. Il
will be applied only when the Allies
ore satisfied that the measures of dis
armament which have not yet been
taken have in fact been taken.
AS for the German government, they
are understood to have accepted the
project "in principle; but il is
| acknowledged that they have not yet
complied with the conditions attached
to it. These are fairly stringent. Be-
sides the transformation of the muni-
tion factories and the surrender Of ex-
cess war material--both uneompieted
four years after the armistice--they
demand, among other Nthings, the es-
tablisFrnent Of the recruiting system
and of army organization in conform
ity with the treaty, adequate guarantee.
or assurances-there is wide Diff
ference between them--as to the or
ganization Of the police, and adequate
facilities to the Intey-Allied Control
Commission for the performance OF
their work. 1t is not yet clear, official
quarters ingenuousiy confess, that the
German government have actually ad-
hered to these conditions. But they
really must, and the conditions must be
completely carried out before the Com
mission Of Control could be removed.
EUGdirg Disarmament
We have no hesitation in asserting
that this projected withdrawal of the
lnter-Allied Commission must be
promptly and decisively renounced by
the new government We shall be
greatly surprised if it has received
the assent of France; we know that
Marshal Foch and General NoIlet, the
French member of the commission, are
strongly opposed to it. 1t is desirable,
and indeed necessary, that Parliament
and the nation should know what have
been the influences in the late govern
ment, in the War Office and in certain
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
The Judges Salaries

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: After considerable delay we have
finally learned that the proposed
amendment increasing the compensa-
ton OF the judges of the Court Of Ap-
peals has for second time been de-
feated. BY what process of reasoning
the voters of this state have arrived
at this conclusion Is puzzle to me.
Certainly the logic of your editorial
that the justices of higher court
should receive no less compensation
than similar members Of an inferior
tribunal has never been satisfactorily
answered. Are we to infer, then. that
the people of this state believe that the
justices of the Supreme Court in the
First Judicial Department. are overpaid.
which is one inference that can be
drawn from the election results on this
amendment? Surely that is not so, for
II the citizens Of this state believe
that they can obtain jurists with the
learning and ability required in a ius-
tice of our Supreme Court at a salary
less than $1750o per annum, who are
willing to endure the extreme nervous
STRAIN and perform the arduous and ex
acting duties incumbent upon them in
the First Department, they arc grossly
mistaken.
Personally ] have endeavored to rec
oncile the results by considering that
the press of business in the courts of
original Jurisdiction has been weighed
against the more deliberate processes
OF the Court Of Appeals and been found
to warrant this discrimination.
ROBERT ]. WILLIAMS.
New York, Nov. ls, 1922.
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What Readers San

people providing for the payment Of y
state bonus TO its heroes, which is en-
ooaied IN the Swift Brundage bill passed
IN she last Legislature and which will
agaih come up automatically when the
AteTlsiature convenes next January. II
again passed it should be submitted to
'he people for their approval, which
w,li revise that part of the state con-
ssisasion that NOW prohibits the pay
ment OF state bonus to its soldiers.
anu ! nope to see this enacted into law.
EDWIN WALTERS.
Woodhaven. n. T., Nov. Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
fFrom The London Times)

4
The coming Lausanne conference
should not for moment distract at
tention from the steady pursuit by
Germany Of q policy Of rearmament.
The late government and certain
authorities at the War Office appear to
have been duped into conduct which
directly supports this policy. Our
Berlin telegram Of yesterday stated the
latest concession made in favor Of this
bdarling scheme of s'Prussian militar-
ISM" The official information given to
our correspondent is to the effect that
the Allied governments have agreed to
withdraw the Inter-Allied Military
| Commission OF Control so soon as ar.
rangements have been made for wind
ing up few outstanding matters.
| Thereafter small military committee,
on the lines of the air committee Of
guarantees established last winter, is
| to take it's place.
Inter.AlLied Control
1AC PlOJCSCs ~ oCSAiS, dlIS&Oy nAS
been communicated to the German
government, and they have confirmed
lit, subject to the condition that future
control is to be limited to the control
named in Article 2l3 Of the Treaty of
Versailles--in other words, that it is to
be limited to such investigations as the
Council of the League Of Nations may
sanction.
In official quarters in London the
truth of this statement is admitted
under the fiimsiest and the most trans
parent Of DISCUSSES. There is no in
tention, we are indeed assured, Of
doing away with the fnter-Allied Com
mission now or in the immediate
future. But the general policy of the
Allied governments is to pursue the
same course as in the case Of the
Aeronautical Commission. The time, it
seems, has not yet arrived for the ap-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Back to the Amendments

Goyernor-elect Smith says that he
viii go back to the reorganization
plans embodied in the report of the
Reconstruction Commission and con-
Etitutional amendments which the
last Legislature failed to submit to
the people. These plans contemplate
a thorough overhauling and modern
ization of the state government.
70 If they are adopted New York
State will move far along the road
to simplified administration and bet
ter returns to the public for each
cellar expended at Albany. The
nuisance Of too frequent state elec-
tions will be abated. The Governor s
term and the terms of other elective
officers will be heightened to four
years. AS Mr.. Smith truly said the
other evening, it takes a new two
year Governor about year and a
half to get fully acquainted with
his surroundings. Minor state of
1icers-the Secretary of State, the
Treasurer, the Attorney General
and the State Engineer and Sur
geyor--will cease to be elective and
Iecome appointive. Only three state
officials will be voted for--the Gov
ernor, the Lieutenant Governor and
the Comptroller. The Comptroller
will exercise Independent auditing
power. The Governor will become a
real executive, with all the depart
lnent heads, except the Comptroller,
strictly subordinated to him. The
departments will be further consoli-
dated and brought into touch all
along the line with central author
ity.
Most students of the confusion at
albany have felt that such thor
cughgoing constitutional reforms
we're highly desirable. When Gov
ernor Miller came into power in 1921
he decided not to employ the slower
process of constitutional amendment
70 simplify government and compel
economy. He decided to clean up as
Ear as he could through legislative
and administrative pressure. He
did splendid work in his chosen field
and started an era of real retrench-
ment.
1t seems clear, however, that it
would have been better to undertake
the constitutional changes instead Of
depending entirely on shortcut
statutory changes. The Legislature
of 1921-'22 should have submitted
The amendments authorized to be
submitted by the Legislature of
19l9-'2o. Now they will have to be
submitted by the next Legislature,
( and also by the Legislature of
1e25-'26.
il What New York needs politically
$Qht re than anything else is a four
*year-term Governor and a biennia,
Legislature, the Governor and the
Lieutenant Governor, the Comptrol.
Ter, the Assembly and half the Sen.
ate to be elected in the even years
between Presidential elections. The
states which have tried this plan
like it. 1t insures greater tranquil
lity, order and efficiency in state af-
fairs. If Governor Smith again
brings forward the proposals of the
Reconstruction Commission, as he
says he will, he ought to have BIZ
party support. These proposals are
not Democratic, any more than they
are Republican. They put the pub
lie good first by encouraging eff
cheney and economy and by guard
ing against too constant intrusion
Of politics into state government.
-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Not Very Useful

All the Demon Rum got out of the
wet victories in five states was un-
moral support.
Copyright by James j. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Hardly Pausiing

These are times when a public
man walks right into office, turns
right round and walks right out
again.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
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ALWAYS a Majority

The election in New York seemed
to show that the Smith family is
standing together.
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