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New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Irish Free State OF Ruin

IF Cork is with Michael Collins
for the Irish Free State the out
comc is pretty we'll assured, for the
city of Terence MacSwiney holds the
rabidest Of the irreconcIabes. Hood
lum tactics would have kept the Irish
leader from speaking on Sunday if
the great majority of the Cork
crowd, including 5000 cx-soldicrs,
had not been on his side. The at
tempt to "razz" him went beyond
fair bounds, but Collins faced the
music and appears to have had all
the better of the lively skirmish.
Collins says he does not know
what De Valera and his crew arc
trying to do except to stir up
trouble. Nor does anybody else
know. And Ireland has had 700
years Of trouble. 1t is a queer sort
or patriotism that, by rejection of
independent dominion rule, would
plunge Ireland straight into more
distressful days than even she has
ever known.
Arthur Griffith at Dundalk told
the people that the Ang!o-Irish
treaty made Ireland nation among
European nations and mistress of
her cwn house, and that there was
no alternative to the treaty but
ruin. That is the situation as it
appears to the best friends of Ire
land in America. Talk with whom
you will outside of the die-hard
coterie that would rather keep on
fighting Britain "a few thousand
miles oh-than see Ireland free. YOU
will find the sentiment for the Irish
Free State overwhelning. Rejec-
tion Of the treaty would find no
sympathy here; it would be re-
garded as an act of lunacy.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The lrapiacabIe Brady

We should think that in merely
suggesting life imprisonment for
producers of questionable plays Mr.
". A. Brady would be astonished
at his own moderation. After hear
ing his denunciation of these col
leagues of his it might we'll be in
ferred that nothing short Of the
electric chair would satisfy him as
fitting their crime.
The Tribune does not condone or
encourage immoral drama. 1t does
not IN the least agree with Mr..
Charming Pollock that a censorship
designed to prevent immoral drama
would "destroy the finest thing in
the theater.' If some of the in
decency now on the stage consti-
tutes the finest thing in the theater
1t is time for something less fine
However, it is fortunate for all
producers that they arc not left to
Iiie lchuer hlcfcleS OF Mr.. Brady.
According to the recent estimate Of
the Rev. DIR. John Haynes Holmes
there are ten unfit plays in New
York to-day. Adopting MI Bradv's
suggestion the District Attorney
would have to send ten managers to
Sing Sing, already overcrowded
with highwaymen and other GRIM
inals.
Perhaps by counsel and confer
ence some better method of clean
ing up the drama can be found than
either censorship or life imprison-
ment. If it is not found by the
managers it will be time to trv
censorship as remedy That fail
ing. life imprisonment might be ex-
perlmented with. But we would 20
no further Somebody ought TO
reason with Mr.. Brady before he
begins insisting on capital punish
ment.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Authority Out Of Bounds

The Transit Commission sug-
gestion that people stop using the
subway in rush hours seems q trihe
ill-judged The idea that women g
mania for shopping is such rs to
cause them to flock into the sub
ways in rush hours is hardly sound.
The vast majority of women have
80 shop when they can. If the only
hours when they can get away from
household duties coincide with sub
way rush hours they must submit
to the discomforts Of travel at that
time. Nobody, not even a tired
business man, would ride in the sub
way between 7 and 9 in the morning
or 5 and T in the evening if he
could help it.
Women, especially, may be
trusted to keep out of that turmoil
whenever it is possible The Tran
sit Commission is doubtless doing its
best to end rush conditions. 1t has
the sympathy of The public in this
task. But the public cannot assist
it by keeping out Of the subway,
much as it would like to do so.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The Kansas Court

The Supreme Court has refused to
review decision of the Kansas Su-
prene Court sustaining the consti-
tutionality of the Kansas Court OF
Industrial Relations. This latter
tribunal punished Alexander Howal
for contempt when, as head of the
Kansas coal miners union, he de-
clned to recognize court findings
The power of q state to establish
courts of industrial relations of the
Kansas type is now put beyond
question.
Kansas is state little troubled
with labor disputes. The unions are
not strong or widely organized.
Public opinion deprecates industrial
strife and wants to see labor quar-
rels composed judicially. The good
of the community is held to take
precedence Of the claims and inter
ests of pushing minorities.
ouch system OF appeasement
could be introduced only with great
difficulty in the populous industrial
states. Tradition and habit arc
against it. The theory of minority
latitude and self interest is strongly
intrenched. The East is probably
far from educated up to court set
Elements of strikes and lockouts
Kansas goes her own way, however
She is the parent Of the idea Of
which the Court of Industrial Rela-
tions is the symbol. She is proud Of
its work. Credit is due her for her
Willingness to be pioneer and to
conduct political experiment sta
ton and laboratory from whose ex-
perlments the whole country is at
liberty to draw instruction.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The Book Shortage

That the demand for books IS
ever growing is the conclusion
reached from consideration Of the
annual report of the Public Library.
There was an increase of "a per
cent in the demand in 1921 over
that of 1920, the number of volumes
lent for home use during the wear
Just concluded being 10,226.366.
There has heen no corresponding
increase in the funds available for
the upkeep of the library. This has
been particularly true in the branch
libraries throughout the city, from
which most Of the lent volumes were
given out. These branches have been
hard put to it to meet the demand
tor the English classics-Dickens.
Thackeray, Scott and others gener-
ly classed as "standard authors"--
for while the modern best sellers
have been popular they have not
equaled the old-timers. 1t is an en-
couraging sign that in those districts
most thickly populated by foreign
elements the call for the best English
language classics has been greatest.
AS a result it has been necessary to
keep on the shelves thousands of
volumes which under proper condi
tons would have been discarded as
worn out. There is little prospect,
unless new appropriations are OBJ
tanned, of remedying this situation
during the coming year.
The central reference library. on
Forty-second Street, is also suffering
to such an extent from a lack Of
funds that the principal worry of
the book purchasers is what not to
buy rather than what to buy. Com
pared with the Library of Congress in
Washington, which has an infinitely
smaller proportion of readers than
the New York library, the available
funds are only about one-third as
large. Besides this, the New York
library has not the advantage of re-
ceiving two free copies of every
newly copyrighted book printed in
the United States, as has the Library
Of Congress.
The shortage of funds for the
maintenance of the Public Library
is becoming serious problem. I'm
fortunately it is one which grows
worse in direct proportion to the
demand for the library's services.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The Fordney Bubble

Chairman Fordney and other House
leaders have been talking about
rushing through the bank loan
bonus bill in an innocent faith that
the President, despite what he has
said to the contrary, is not opposed
TO it. Secretary Mellon's letter
makes short work of that illusion.
In the view of the Presidents re-
sponsible financial adviser the new
bonus bill draft is even more obiec-
tionable than the preceding drafts,
which contemplated payment OF
bonuses through Treasury bond is
sues or taxation
The bonus advocates in CONGRESS-
are averse to levying new taxes or
to floating more bonds. They would
like to seem to give the soldiers ad-
Justed compensation without giving
it in such way that TIE country
would feel it. The gesture of pay
me..r is what they value, for they
are looking for grid pro quo in
votes. The bank loan. o. pawn
brokers' draft, suited them exactly.
since it enabled Congress to claim
the soldiers gratitude while defer
ring any immediate settlement in
cash. On this basis the public was
to be told that no taxes or bond is
sues would be necessary and that
payment would somehow later take
care Of itself.
Mr Mellon has curtly punctured
this false pretense. He says: 'It is
impossible to avoid the cost if
bonus is to be adopted" The coun-
try must pay eventually. More
over. this particular attempt to
avoid Or postpone settlement would
have the extra disadvantages of !
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The Extra Point in Football

Football reforms, more FREQUENT
OF recent years, long overlooked the
goal kicked after a touchdown. #
was generally recognized as placing
an unwarranted premium on the
prowess Of q single individual.
The new rules abolish the place
kick for goal and substitute for it
single play, starting on or outside
the five-yard line, either for a field
goal or touchdown, to score one
point if successful
Removing the responsibility from
q single individual naturally makes
more for team play The possibility
Of variety)of moves not only dinl;n-
ishes the chances of success but
gives the attacking team the oppor-
tunity to profit by team skill in
stead of making the other plavers
mere appendages to a good kicker.
SO also the opposing team, instead
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The Disabled First

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the discussion about the SOL
clers' bonus some people have forgot
ten the brave men who have paid the
price Of victory and are unable to work
because Of injuries received in the war.
They forget that these men are Door.
and even if they should get we'll they
would have no money to make fresh
start:
Many of the soldiers who are sick
with tuberculosis could be cured if thew
could be sent TO dry climate, but
unfortunately large number of these
men do not have enough money to take
them to the right place. Would it not
be best for the people of the United
States to give these nearly forgotten
heroes enough money so that they can
get well and make new start in busi-
ness? ALICE J.. WASHRIrpNr
Lakewood \. j., March u, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Pay Day in the West

For two years the farmers in the
Middle West have been unable to
get for their products anything like
what they were worth. But instead
Of selling at a loss or, as some fan
tastic theorists advised them, using
their corn for fuel, they turned their
corncribs into savings banks and
awaited g. better day.
The better day has come. With
corn at 62 cents a bushel on the
ear, and worth even more when
transmitted into hogs and steers on
the hoof, the Middle Western farmer
IS again coming into his own. The
same intelligence that led him to
cling to his corn will now lead him
to buy tractors, agricultural imple-
ments, better stock and, of course,
pianos and monographs with the
money he is now receiving. The
modern agriculturist believes in the
country and in the future. He wants
TO be ready to supply the demand
that grows with population.
The money paid for corn and hogs
and other farm products will 20
Immediately into general circulation
in the East as we'll as in the West.
It viii turn the wheels of factories
and mills long idle. 1t will put men
TO work who have been for wears
without steady employment. 1t will,
IN brief, do more to restore normalcy
than all the business booming laws
Congress and the legislatures Of
forty-eight states could pass.
Prosperity in the Middle West is
the most reassuring among many
indications of the return of general
prosperity. The public reads of 5O4
more companies incorporated in
New York this year than last and
wonders how many of them will
continue in business. 1t reads of
~ pei AIiiO lIlNit0SC III DOSldl re-
ceipts in February and sees only
Intangible figures. 1t learns that
steel mills are operated at 65 per
cent of their capacity and thinks
sadly of the 35 per cent still idle.
But when it discovers that wealth
is again springing from the source
OF wealth it brightens perceptibly
and forgots to croak.
What this country has lacked for
two years is confidence. The news
from the West will go far toward
supp ying this lack, Prosperity that
IS founded on production is substan-
'ial. Pay day in the Middle West
means more pay days in the South
the East and the Far West. 1t is
/ fundamental business condition.
The tidings of it is the best news
that the country has had for two
rather uneasy years
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14

piling ups more frozen bank loans
and reinhating the currency. 1t
would be far better, the Secretary
points out, to borrow directly now
than to dodge borrowing at the ex-
pense Of the banking system and
government credit.
There is only one practicable way
in which the cost of bonus can be
met. That is through sales tax
But those who would have to pay
a sales tax don't care to have the
bonus financed that way, and Con-
eress is afraid to impose such & tax.
The device which the Ways and
Means Committee has been recently
nursing is mere vote-stalking de
vice, 1t is bonus legislation in Che
interest of Congressman trying to
mend their fences for next fall.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Mothers Federal Aid
Not Analogous to National Defense,
Says Maryland Spokesman.

Says Maryland Spokesman.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems to me that Mrs
Florence Kelley's arguments in her let
tie, to The Tribune regarding the Shcp-
rard- -Towncr act are of the same
spccious sort that are used by those
who advocate putting mothers on the
government pay roll and making
There can be no analogy between the
Federal governments concern with the
rational defense and interstate mat
tcrs and those questions that concern
thc care of mothers and babies. The
Constitution gives the Federal govern
mcnt power to control the former, but
by no stretch of tho imagination can
the "weltarc clause be made to in
cludo the latter, which must depend on
an enlightened public interest in each
community and state. The Congress-
men who have SO far forgotten their
oath to support the Constitution in
served to the states will have to be
reminded of their lapse by their con-
stituents at the next election.
The leaders in MARYLAND in the care
Of mothers and children arc against
the Sheppard d-Towner act DR.. John
Rowland, physician in chief OF the
pediatric department of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, has said:
81 am unwilling TO believe that such
emergency exists as has bcen claimed
regarding maternal care in this coun~
try, and am quite sure from consider
able experience with statistics that
there is no basis for the statement
that the United States stands seven
tccNth in maternal death rate. Even
civilized countries have not sufficient
ly accurate statistics to enable any
orc to make definite statement such
as this.
q do not believe that the way to
improve health matters in states, cx-
cept those that have distinctly ma
tional or interstate application. is by
Federal supervision or control"
Since Maryland is a "sovoreicn
state the fact that Virginia has ac-
ccpted the Sheppard -Towner act should
rot carry any weight with a courageous
and independent Legislature that is
capable Of working out its own prob
lens. CORNELIA A. GIBBS.
Secretary Woman's Constitutional
League of Maryland.
Baltimore, Nd March II, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14

Of presenting a feeble defensive,
will have 4 greater chance Of block
ing q kick or of stopping a play.
All Of this tends to make this extra
point a matter of genuine con-
test. and, in the case of tied score,
offers the opportunity for a vigorous
fight. which should be more salts
factory from the point of view Of
the teams.
Doing away with the fashioned
goal will also make the game more
attractive for the spectators. The
old place kick for goal was too
much in the nature Of an anti
climax. In making success difficult
the new rule promises greater eX-
element. In making the game
fairer it promises better sport.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The FlaDper'

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In response to the letter Of
"The Mother of Flapper" let me say
q word. am 4 young mother Of Il
soven-ycar-old girl. I am not too old
to be "sourcd BY time nor do think
was unintolligcnt whom I WAS at the
happer stage as | was a school teacher
at nineteen.
| admit that. due perhaps to the
wider scope OF womcn's activities and
the effects of The World War, the last
ten years have seen definite meta
morphosis in the privileges and point Of
view of The girl of from fifteen to
eighteen. There seems to be decided
lack of the "ladylille' dcmcanor that
fitted girls Of ten years ago.
The mothers seem to aid in the inanc
costumng that is termed "collcgiatc." :"
Perhaps it is "cute' to sec those hap-
ping galoshcs left open at the top.
They might look neat if they we're
properly fastened. Perhaps that pine
apple bob" is just too sweet 1t would
be if it were surmounted by a normal
hcadgear. Why the terrific angle Of
those 1apper hats, or the collegiate bon
ret, as it is called? Why the awfulness
Of the angle of that quill? Why the
scarf inside the coat? Why the coat
open in pneumonia producing weather? -?
And why must the feet drag? I'm told
that is all part of the collegiate attire.
Il this new fapper is more intclli-
gent than the ingenue of the last decade
Why doesn't she seek originality? Why
does she persist in being a sheep that
follows blindly the leader?
This "camaraderie" between the girls
and boys may be all right but the
sexes could stand q little more ex-
change Of refined courteses.
MRS. f. l..
New York, March 9. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montagu.
Easy Come, Easy Go!

Rothvogel built up a groes7
With the help Of his kids enc
his wife:
AT fifty he fancied the stake be
had made
Would last him the rest Of BIZ
life. i
He'd handled molasses and sugar
and soap I.
Till the sweat had bespangkd
his brow, Il
And therefore he took a delight
in the hope 4
That things would be easis.
now.
But RothvogeI wasn't quite ssds
fed yet s
He wanted to make one last
haul II
So he put all he had on bucket.
shop bet
And now he has nothing Al
all
+
Cassidy carried the bod twenty
He started when still a young
lad.
1t wasn't exactly the king OF
careers,
But still it was all that he had
He saved up dollar or two nov
and then
His needs were but trifins
and few
And counted his money again aao
again
When the days occupation
was through.
To knock off at sixty was CaF
sidy's plan,
But, alas, it was little avail,
For he trusted his cash to
bucketshop man
Who spent ito keep out "
Jail.
Hardscrabble wrested his bread
from the soil. !.
He rose every morning !"
dawn
And put in his time at the hara'
est OF toll ~.
Till the last streak Of dayhgM
was gone. -.
He plowed and he narrowed sh0
watered the stock, :.
The turkeys and chickens NJ
fed, -,
He kept at his chores till clever
o'clock, -.
Then he wearily fell into psu, J.
At last. in the war time, whea
prices were high, M.
The wealth he'd been toii'hs
for came: IL
1t came--and it left, in the nasp
of an eye g..
When he tackled the bueSev
shop game.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
An Impartial View
f',om The KonSoa City rim,

From The KonSoS Citv Times
Mn. Hull. the chairman of the Denfo-
cratic national committee. announces
that after careful Investigation he has
been forced to the conclusion that the
Republican Administration at Wash.
ington is a complete failure. This
revelation from am absolutely neutral
and impartial source cannot fail to be
convincing tI the Democrats.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
LO,cer Deck Actiuities

After this frank avowa the docu-
ment goes into detail of the propa-
yanda measures which it is thought
are likely to meet with most success:
First of all, great attention must
be paid to the navies Of the western
powers, where the soil is very favor
able for active Communist propa-
ganda and agitation, and particularly
to the British and French navies.
In the carrying out Of this work
the following general principles
must be borne in mind:
Q) All seamen---in consequence of
their mode and trend of life-are
devoid of specific nationalist
theology and therefore are interna-
tionnlists in substance
(2) Service conditions for seamen
in submarines, cruisers, and in all
vessels on foreign service in general,
arc very severe; the men get little
rest or leisure, they are badly fed
and are constantly risking their lives.
(S) Peace has not brought to
sailors the moral satisfaction and
rest which they expected, but, on the
contrary, is threatening them with
new gigantic naval war.
(Q Finally, it must also be re-
membered that sailors are less in
clined than any one else to adhere
to discipline, and are always very
prone to INSTRUMENTATION. In this
respect the examples Of the great
Russian October revolution, in which
Kronstadt and the Baltic fleet
played such u prominent part, and
Of the German revolution, practi-
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Much Too Much

The Kaiser, appealed to 70 =
lieve the sufferings of Germany s,,s :.
them his photograph. Advef',
merely hardens some peoples nea's
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
See Market Reports

We are informed by some OF =.
newspapers that food prices arc ~
down 20 per cent. This, ho"e's5
is a theory and not condition
Copyright by James J. Montss~
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Sufficient Grounds

1t is rumored that Lloyd 1e0ss'
is soon to divorce himself i'0e
British public life, his Gauss
action being non-support.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14

fsJ can pcfchase merchandise advertised In TaE
TRIBUNE With a5ss'u,s safsh--for II dtssctisfac.
fion rcsai's In Ths TRiBUNE eusran-
tecs 10 pay money rses upon request No red
fsne. No auisbhs. we refuad preaptb u the
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

iAt Associated Press "a exclusively emitted IN
Tho Use Tor capitalization of all uews dispatches
credited to 1t or ncd o-hsrstse credited IN thls
psfsr snd aiS' the local news Of Spontaneous ofsrn
published hercir
Al nights cf republication Q, su other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
An objectionable Ofense

fFron' The Baltimore Sum
One thing about the modern pir1 that
causes her elderly critics to be re-
sentful is her youth.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Pecping Tom

I. +. vi don't see where this guy
Bob B. has got any license to be stuck
or himself just because he saw young
woman with bare ears on Fifth Avenue.
The other day, on Fifth Avenue, saw
young woman with skirts so long
that she held them up with her right
hand to keep them out OF the mud.
And she was wearing white cotton un-
dorskrt with an embroidered hem. III
make an affidavit to this effect If you
think it's necessary. EDDI.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
The Greatest Loss

(From The Pittsburoh Gasette-Iims" s,
At Genoa Germany will reciee iv.
as reason for the Allies being =.
on her. We presume the 1888
war will be included