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New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
The Tower
t.opr,, Nsw York Tr.bune mo-, 1899
Card Of Thanlss---Delaycd

SabA NJ Nhhy C4
We owe--we have been owing for
nearly twenty years---a debt of
gratitude to Mrs. w. n. FELTON,,
Georgia's new Senator and the first
woman to enter the United States
Senate, which we shall never be
able to pay in full. Mrs. FELTON,
wrote some Of the best things we
ever got credit for. We used to
write editorials for the Atlanta,
Ga, Journal; and at the same
time she was contributing signed
articles daily to "The Journal"
1t struck us that she was writing
so well and on such variety of
subjects that it was a pity that she
was not writing editorials. This
feeling used to become especially
strong about 2 o'clock Of a summer
afternoon, when there was just time
to get out to the ball game. There
were always five or six columns of
Mrs. Felton's articles in type in the
composing room, and we would make
column or so of them our own by
the simple process Of telling the
printer to pull galley proof and
change every II" he saw into "we."
This was known to the foreman and
ourself as "We-ing a FELTON," Some
weeks, no doubt, Mrs. FELTON, used to
get shock of surprise 1--WE hope it
was pleasurable) by seeing that she
had written most of the editorials
in "The Journal" for a period Of
two or three days. Baseball was a
passion with us at that time.
Mrs. FELTON, is grand old lady,
one Of the grandest that ever lived,
and it would be a good thing for
Georgia and for the whole country
if she were to be United States SEN
ator for six years, instead of for
only few months. She is an ap-
parently exhaustless dynamo Of
mental energy--the most intellectual
woman from whom we ever stole a
column of copy. We were always a
little bit afraid of her in those days,
because Of guilty conscience
though she was a good sport and
never told the boss on us--and we |
don't remember that we ever let her
know how much we admired her.
This card Of thanks is just to let |
the dear old Senator know.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Enlightening the Mayor

Governor Miller declines to per-
NIT Mayor Hylan to make political
capital Of the injunction issued by
Justice Mullan forbidding the city
to operate the bus lines established
by the Mayor without warrant of
law.
The Governors letter TO Mr.. Hy-
Ian points out that the buses can
be operated legally and how they
can be operated legally. He makes
it perfectly clear not only to the
Mayor but to the people Of New
York City that if 100000 persons
are forced to walk instead of ride to
their work. or to the nearest sub
way, it Is because Mr.. Hylan viii,
not take the trouble to ask fo,,
certificates Of emergency which
would permit the buses to continue
in operation.
This ends, or ought to end, the
use OF the buses as campaign is
sue. Mr.. Hylan is informed bluntlv
that there will be no special session
of the Legislature to authorize the
use OF the bus lines. because no such
session is necessary.
MIR. Hylan is and has been ius,
as sure as lis the Governor that he
could have operated his lines legally
had he asked the help Of the Transit
Commission. But his purpose has
been to destroy the Transit Com.
mission if possible and to ignore it
as long as he was permitted to by
the courts. Securing its co-opera-
tion in his bus project would have
been an admission that it was use
ful to the public. That admission
he refused to make.
Mr.. Hylan is left now in an en,-
barrassing position. He can con-
tinue the bus lines with the help of
the Transit Commission, and in no
other way If he does not continue
them he win find himself besieged
by thousands Of angry passengers to
wiaom they have become necessity.
The Tribune believes that he will
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Can Women Be Fansa"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Thanks for the retort-shall I
call 1t courteous Pin the editorial on
women fans in to-day's paper.
Did it ever occur to you that
women didn't acquire brains sudden
ly upon the suffrage grant7 Perhaps
the woman described is typical of q
class, but confess haven't met her.
Would you call her intelligent? fn-
telligent folks-even female-are not
prone to need more than one showing,
even though green" at any game.
After more than twenty-five years as
baseball dcvotee-Ill not say fan, as
it seems usurped male prerogative-
it makes me and several hundred thou
sand women real peeved to be asot"
in the corner thus abruptly.
Really, you know, our brains were
given us about the time Adam was
aching for a fall, afraid to or unable
to invent or find an incentive. If lots
Of us misused them, few still re-
tanned a modicum, even before wise
Republican and Democratic men folks
thought it polite to appease us and
use our vote.
I've been seeing games since Honus
Wagner was cub and McGraw was
the scrappiest scrapper that ever hit
Pittsburgh. and I've been reading all
the sport editors of numbers Of
papers daily for long time, so please
grant me little sense, good judgment
and just ordinary intelligence.
MARGARET F. MAGEE.
East Orange, N. j., Oct. o, 1egg.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

Georges talk was the clash between
his implied policy Of excluding the
Turk from Europe aid his actual
policy Of inviting him back. The
British Prime Minister probably has
no feeling against the Turk. But he
is deeply chagrined to have ma
neuvered himself into a position in
which Turkish recovery of Con-
stantinople and Thrace has come to
be interpreted as a setback to
British diplomacy.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Batting Lloyd George

He DflClSn trade Unions Con-
gress, the parliamentary Labor
party and the executive committee
OF the Labor party have joined with
large section Of the London press
in demanding Lloyd Georges resig-
nation. The Prime Minister'S pres
tige is even lower now than it was
last spring before the Genoa confer
ence, when Sir George Younger, the
unionist organization manager, tried
to break up the present Unionist-
Liberal coalition. Lloyd George failed
at Genoa; he has failed even more
conspicuously in dealing with the
Near Eastern situation.
The labor organizations COM
planned because the government has
talked war with Turkey and has
spent good deal Of money prepar-
ing for war. They are against a
war with Kemal, whether the latter
gives cause for It or not. But that
Is largely the British pacifist view.
The non-pacifist critics blame Lloyd
Gorge for talking fight when he had
really nothing to fight about. Thew
say that ne risked war out Of pique
and irritation and simply to cover
up the mess he had made Of Turkish
affairs.
The Prime Minister had the hardi-
hood to ask for the publication Of
ms conversation with the Labor
leaders on September 81 last. 1t an
pears from the record that he taxed
them with having said in 1918 that
the Turkish subject peoples should
pe taken away from the Turks and
put under the care Of an interna-
tlonal commission.
Thus he scored a point on +ba
Laborites. But recalling what was
said in 1918 is a dangerous indul-
gence for Lloyd George. In that
year, wishing to encourage Indian
recruiting for the Palestine cam
paign, ne promised the Indian
Mahometans that Great Britain
would not consent to taking eastern
Thrace and Constantinople awav
from the Turks. He held to that
promise as late as the winter Of
1920, reaffirming it in speeches in
the House Of Commons. But in the
spring of 1920 he changed his mind
and in August of that year signed
the Sevres Treaty, which elected the
Turk both from Thrace and Con
stantinople.
| Alarmed by the Montagu resigna.
tion incident. he shifted ground again
in the spring of 1922 and agreed with
France and Italy to let the Turk
back again into Europe--to give hin,
Constantinople and eastern Thrace
as well as all Of Asia Minor. Lloyd
George talked during the neutral
zone crisis as If he were anxious ia
fight to keep the Turk in Asia. In
reality he was only defending the
neutrality of the Straitsa neutral
ity conceded in principle by Kemal.
What has impressed the British
public NEST unpleasantly In Lloyd
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

10 the Editor or Inc tribune.
Sir: As one who has lived in the
Near East and has maintained vital
interest in it's problems, deeply de-
plore the attempts of certain Ameri-
cans of influence to embroil the United
States in the present confused political
situation. Nothing, in my opinion, is
more calculated to prevent the United
States from exercising a profound in
fiuence for humanity and decency than
to take sides in the grave questions at
issue. Nothing could more seriously
endanger the great American philan-
thropic and educational institutions in
the Near East. Nothing could more
effectively embarrass the work of the
intelligent and high-minded Americans
in Turkey than to drag the United
States into the eternal Eastern ques-
tion.
The United States is the one great
nation remaining entirely free to ad-
minister relief, to alleviate distress
and to exercise lofty restraining in
fuence in behalf Of all who are in need
in the Near East at this moment. 1t
would be folly to lose that position Of
vantage by needlessly arousing the
hostility and distrnst Of the Turks.
must confess that | cannot undar-.
stand what kind OF actlon these friends
of the Near East are advocating, DO
they actually think that the American
people would ever be prepared to send
sailors and soldiers to fight the Turks =
Do they mean that we are to attempt to
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
A Futile Comparison

Ex-Governor Smith attacked Gov
ernor Miller Monday night for fail
ure to carry through the Reorganiza.
ton Commissions plan for a simpli-
fication of the state government
through constitutional amendments.
This plan won a very wide approval
& few years back. The Tribune sup
ported it, as did Republican and
Democratic newspapers generally.
The scheme was, in fact, an inherit
ance from the Constitutional Conven,
tion of 1915, whose work the voters
somewhat capriciously rejected.
Governor Miller, after getting
down last year to the task of recon
struction, preferred another method.
He deprecated the slow process of
constitutional amendment. Also he
argued that administration ought to
be made more flexible and it's details
fixed by statute, so that they could
be easily amended Constitutional
provisions are beyond the reach of
change for years. The Governor op-
posed to the commissions wholesale
reorganization at some future date
his own program of prompt piece
meal reorganization.
Naturally the Governors way ap-
pealed to the Legislature, since he
was assuming full responsibility for
his retrenchment and consolidation
projects. 1t could not be otherwise.
Mr.. Smith blames Governor Miller
for taking a different line Of ap-
proach to a difficult problem. But
every administrative reorganizer is
entitled to work out his own method.
What the public is interested in is
that he gets down to the job and
grapples 1t with enthusiasm and
capacity.
1t is futile to set up against the
partly realized Miller program one
which never passed the academic
stage. Who can say how constitu-
donal reorganization would have
worked or how long it would have
taken to get it working? On the one
hand we have facts and accomplish
naent; on the other only forecasts
and speculation.
Governor Miller has put his hand
to the plow and his heart into turn
ing straight furrow. He has per-
formed wonders in an unpromising
field. The people of New York will
have scant patience with this attempt
70 deny him credit for what ne has
done and to argue that some one else
might have done better with diff
ferent team and different plow-
share.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Wireless Around the World

Worldwide wireless colnmunica-
ton, the dream of twenty years, will
become a reality next month, when
the gigantic station at Monte
Grande, near Buenos Ayres, calls
the equally powerful station at
Rocky Point, L. I. With the COM
pletion of the Argentinian station
there has just been concluded the
most important commercial agree
nlent Of international scope made
since the termination of the World
War. This contract between repre-
sentatives Of the wireless telegraph.
interests of this country and Europe
brings into being instantaneous com.
munication between all civilized ma
tions and places the service at the
disposal Of the public.
The size Of this vast international
undertaking is emphasized in the
combined invested capital Of tho
companies involved, a total Of $780,
600, 900. It's inauguration eliminates
the last vestiges of international
isolation and adds new impetus to
the growth of international COM
merce.
How important worldwide wire
less telegraph communication has
become is barely realized by the pub
lie at large, so steady has been it's
growth. It will come as quite a rev.
elation, therefore, to many to learn
that in transatlantic telegraphy "a
per cent Of the entire communication
traffic is now handled by radio. This
percentage will be doubled within the
next year if the expectations Of the
companies signatory to the agree
ment just reached are realized.
There is very important point t.
bear in mind in connection with long
distance wireless telegraphic COM
naunication. 1t is the fact that there
is no theoretical limit to the speed at
which messages can be transmitted
between two continents. Marconi. in
his experiments aboard his floating
laboratory, has already received at
the rate of two hundred words q
minute. The possibility of transmit
ting across the Atlantic, by auto
matte machinery using the tele-
Photographic process. at a speed of
one thousand words minute is by
no means remote, according to the
experts. When this speed is reached
International communication will be
within the reach Of all. Moreover
important business messages which
are dispatched by mail at the pres
ent time because of ..he prohibitory
cost OF cabling will then be sent bv
wireless, and international com
merce will thus be speeded up.
The agreement just signed opens
up to worldwide communication
seven gigantic stations situated in
the most strategic points. These
will in turn be served by other.
medium powered stations, SO that
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
By William Brown Mcloney

in the Philippines, but Japan exploits
their trade. We own Hawaii and it il
an outpost of the Orient. Porto gicc
belongs to US and still dreams of Spain.
The average man in the street doesn't
know whether the island Is governed
by warrant or legislature Soulh
America would do business with as, bu.
for years all we have had the grsa
to say to her has been "Go to helr
We proclaim Monroe Doctrine ant
permit Mexico to invite the world to
challenge it. We pirate of peace and
good will toward all mankind and with
only our shirtsleeves diplomacy fer
armament go about inviting war.
We revolutionized the science Of
shipbuilding, created steam navigation
and screw propulsion and we have no
merchant marine.
Looking ahead
We need scouts and troopers and
colliers. To obtain Mauretaaias sad
Aauitanias the United States must b
prepared to pay as Britain has paid,
calling the price by any name one Will
subsidy, subvention, grant or bounty,
but paying it. To have troopers snd
colIiers the United States must naks
it possible for them to live in thelr
respective trades Of peace against tas
day it shall suddenly need them. We
must be willing to make any saer1hce.
And above all call must be sounded
that will draw Americans back 70 ths
sea. And it must be the call q tas
whole people, not the specions sin "
a class. Provision must be mace "
challenge it. We pirate Of peacs anu
absorb in the merchant marfne some
of the four Thousand men wac easA
year are discharged from the haVs.
Therein lies a constant source OF ns~
blood--a veritable fountain OF solns
men Of incompatible prepafaaon aA1
discipline for commercial sea pussa'ss,
Their service with the colora snou.u
be permitted TO count as weight ~
examinations for bridge and engine
room certificates and they snoulo -
given preference Of empioymehs -
quartermasters and petty officers on q.
mail lines and in other deck anu
engine-roem positions on lines az
mitting of such employment.
The question is one presenting
thousand angles Of approach.
going to take time and bigness snu'
patience and the interest OF the "As''
people to even approximate sesus
ment-forbearance by labor and iols
bearance by capital. What we nav.
been destroying through fifty years =
cannot rebuild in an hour. IN view s
history and all the facts OF our nasiolFs
experience neither statement ncl
gument should be required |to asD
onstrate further that the destiny -
the United States is inseparable ias.
the sea. We are committed to the e
Of the oceans which are our boundal's,
by. all the factors in the schems = !,
civilization-committed geographicslss,
politically, commercially. socially e. &.
by the military necessities ana s.
instinct Of self-preservation.
We cannot longer deny thsse sS's
mitments--this precious heritsse Z.
Tyre---and hope to survive as . p0ss1 .sss
OF influence In the affairs Of the wo1as''
{F'ron, .Tsae heritage of Tyre Ras.
1ished by tho Aacfnillan CoInpaagytt g. ttuFisxy
Hveninr POST Copyright. 1893. sx.sssss. y W.
Curtis Publishing c6mpany. Phiiaesls'
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
To Regain Our Heritage

The jolloaoing is the concluding ar
ticle of Mr.. Meloney's series on the
American merchant marine:
Reduced to a few words the four
principal factors that contributed to
the striking of the American flag on
deep water from 1855 to 1914 were I:
l. The inability of the United States to
build iron and steel vessels as cheaply
as foreign nations, particularly Great
Britain. 2. The inability Of ship owners,
tective system, to build abroad, or,
having built in this country, to operate
their higher costing vessels profitably
in competition with those of foreign
nations of lower living standards. 8. The
unfaniliarity of the American people as
a whole, because of the diversity and
competition Of their interests and their
geographical distribution, with the ma
tional necessity or the advantages of
maintaining a merchant marine a. A
laissez faire political policy, satisfied
if the ships of other nations were will
ing and ready to carry our commerce
more cheaply than American vessels to
let them do it.
A Case for Surgeon
1t has been proposed by others that the
Congress should authorize the President
to suspend whatever provisions of the
seamen's law shall be shown to be in
equitable and detrimental to the best
interests of American shipping. But
this is a case for a surgeon and not a
physician. A knife, not an opiate, is
the remedy.
The government ownership PROPOSE
tion is urged by men who argue that
because private enterprise since 1866
has failed to produce merchant ma
rine government should now become
the god in the machine. And they con-
tend that. in the face of record of
legislative pig-headedness that is with
out parallel in the history or the expe-
rience of any other modern nationl
Still it remains for them to explain
how they would apportion their govern
ment-owned tonnage equitably among
the divers classes of American COM
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
The Parking Problem
fiSrcn. Thc Colaastta StaseJ

Almcst every city has the xoap.s
that New York is always having ~ s.sa
ing 10 preserve its parks from ths 81 "
trusion Of bathing pools. buildings s''s s
oar stands. Most peoples idea s. 81
park Ii place Id which 70 park shsAs
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Britain's Board of Trade

Britain's Board of Trade
The suggestion as to the creation of
department Of marine is not original
with the author, any more than it is
with the government ownership.
servers, who included it as the admin
istrative power in the legislation pro-
posed in September, 1914. In the
Alexander bill, however, it was called
shipping board. The idea was first
proposed by Bernard Nadal Baker in
an article in "The North American Re-
view of January, 1910. And Mr..
Bakers inspiration was the successful
experience of British administration
through similar organization.
The Marine Department of the Board
of Trade of Great Britain is the god
head of the empires shipping. There
is no otheE authority. And as it pro-
poundeth the law. so Britain's owners
and mariners-and, too, the foreigners
tratticking in and out of British ports
obey it. Its officials are permanent.
The laws which it administers are
codiied and known as the merchant
shipping act. No amendment to this
act is considered by Parliament unless
upon the advice and with the assent
of the Board Of Trade. There is no
possibility Of change Of policy over
night placing British investments in
sea property in the limbo with wildcat
mining schemes. The British public
knows this, and SO the British public
invests in British shipping. Capital is
protected and labor is protected.
The time has come to cease play
ing the part Of bandarlog people.
We boast that we opened the
door of China, and we did, but China
hasn't seen us since. Nor does she
understand why our ships go not to
her ports. We opened the door of
Japan and to-day we must cross the
Pacific in her ships and float our COM
merce under her flag. We are domiciled
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Thus far they've not meddled
One Thing After Another

AS If living costs were not high
enough, here comes a new colored
pugilist to this country to give exhi-
bitions for which Americans must
pay SIS a head to witness.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Only Fair

We wish that capital and labor
would arrange some system by which
the public could make partial pay
ments on the strikes.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

Our. priced and priceless volume of
"Parely Original Poetry" by the late
]. Gordon Coogler, is still missing. AS
q reward for It's return we offer "The
Life of Leonard Wood and "The
Speeches of CALVIN Coolidge" No ques-
tions asked nor, with regard to
the books we offer, answered.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

vee esa eursAass rerehaadss advertised In the
rRisuNE vita aatsUts ssissy-.fsr 4 dissatissao-
ices to pay ysuf money back esen request. No red
isse. Ne saihhiias. We refnHd premptly u tbs
eesert,xef does nek,
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11


M. C. s. e. has system of mnemonics
which, we are obliged to confess, is su-
perior to our own. Hear how 1t works:
"There is a telephone number | have
occasion to remember, Rector 1882
and this is how I do it: The ultimate
sum Of the digits is 8, obtained as fol-
lows: Z plus 6, plus s, plus 2, equals 21,
and two plus ! equals 8. Now, what is
the greatest idea associated with the
number 8? Why, the Trinity, of course.
And that reminds me Of church and
church reminds me of rector. Now
for the number itself. Trinity comes
first, with Z; church next, with g. rec
tor next, with 6, and last of all I and
the chap I want to talk with make g
And there you arei | know another
fellow who has occasion to remember
this same number, and he follows me as
far as the name of the exchange is con-
cerned, but he prefers to get the number
in a different way. He drives twin
six machine, and it is easy for him to
remember Sc as the middle Of the num-
Der. Then to the left hand he adds
16 2-3 per cent, getting Z, and from the
right hand he subtracts 662-3 per
cent, getting g. He says it is easy
to remember these odd percentages
whereas common ones like 10, 25 or Sd
would be easily forgotten or confused"
Our own trouble with these systems has
always been that by the time we have
remembered the number we have forgot
ten what it was we wanted to say over
the phone.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
All the Symptoms

We begin to suspect that the
malady the sick man Of Europe is
afflicted with Is rabies.
Copyright by James j. Montaguel
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

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merce. Would the importer, who always
pays the freight, be favored, or would
the exporter, who, under the economic
rule of things, never pays, be the
privileged one?
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

continue them, and that hereafter
he win abandon his futile attempts
TO pass the traction buck to Cow
ernor Miller.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

a complete international service be-
comes assured for the first time in
history.