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New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
At the E.scalator

To the Editor Of The Tribune 90.
Sir: am not so slow, but ~ "a
been using the 125th Stree' "A
Broadway station for five yeals' y.
your editorial of the other day y a.,
first intimation have ever nS' -,
| should stand in line for the ese",'. -,
have always, in using an eseS'e =.
as in entering cars, elevators ~,
crowded up as close as I could WIZ 49,
jostling, and stepped in at the -. ~ /.
opening. So far as I can tell 'n''
what every one else does. y
Now, I, like great many w0ns :.
my type, am extremely sensitive I" =,
charge of taking advantage OF my y,
I have been in and around Offices :. ).
fifteen years. and | have neve. - =,
liberately taken advantage Of 'n', 80.
cident, yet it seems have been as''
so all the time. /,
How is the line formed! "nsr -,
the line? Never yet have / seen
thing ] could recognize as ''n, =,
preaching a. staircase or an escs'e
But if there is a line 40 =.
to stand in it.. that / may ppIs5s.
self ~ offenss' A WOMAN
New York, Jan. 16, 1927.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
The Bonin Islands

The BONN Islands, say certain
Japanese, arc to Japan as Hawaii
is to the United States. If Hawaii
IS excluded from the agreement,
why not the BONN Islands? This
group lies about 500 miles southeast
OF japan and was annexed bv that
country in 1877. It's present popu-
iation IS small, and so far as is
known no extensive Notifications
have yet been erected there. AL
though the islands are considered
OF Importance in Japan's scheme of
defense. They are within strik;np
distance Of the American line
OF communication between Hawaii.
Iuam and the Philippines.
II these islands are included in
the agreement Japan will make
some sacrifice. But the United
States seems to make the greater
enes with respect to Guam and the
Philippines. The principle of NM
tual concessions has animated the
whole program of naval limitation
1t remains for the naval exner+s
to decide which power has the
advantage under these restrictions
There is a school that claims that
Guam IS the key to the Pacific.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Reviving Old Tactics

Senator'S Borah. johnson. La Fol
lette, Ladd and France, Republicans.
five in all. have declared hostility to
the fourpower Pacific treaty. Per
haps there will be other additions to
The opposition from among the Re-
publican "irreconcilables."
But by no process of extension
can the Republican irreconciables
swell themselves into a COM
rany numerous enough to de-
feat ratification. In 1920 entry
into the League of Nations was pre-
vented by coalition between
Borahites end Wilsonites. Neither
element alone could have achieved
success, but together they COM
manded more than one-third of the
Senate. The alliance was an un-
natural one, but, in spite of all eff
forts to disintegrate, the alliance
held together and defeated favor
able action.
Now the obvious tactics again are
to tie together the obstructionists of
two years ago. Many STRINGS be-
meath the surface have been visible,
and from week to week it is re-
ported, with gaining positiveness.
that Mr.. Wilson will try to rally to
the opposition a group with which
the Borah group can do business.
SO far there has been no public ex-
preston, but the weight of opinion
seems to be that a hos lie declara-
ton will not be much longer de-
layed and that the excuse Zone
excuse is as good as another) will
be given that the four-power treaty
does not harmonic" with the con-
stituton Of the Geneva league. The
idea still seems to prevail that to
abate by one jot or title this per-
feet Instrument is to profane a
Sinaitlc message.
How many Senators will obey if
a summons comes to them to oppose
the Pacific League? How far Will
partisanship of the most malignant
kind triumph over a pretended So
licitude for peace? In 1920 some
voters shut their eyes to where
lodged esponsbility for the failure
to enter the Geneva league. The
record Of the roll calls spoke plainly,
but it suited prejudices to ig-
more it.
But can the same trick be worked
a second time? If we are voted out
of the four-powcr league by practi-
cally the same persons who voted uc
out Of the Geneva league it is prob
able that it will be truly known where
the blame lodges. To aid in making
all Senators understand this is about
the best contribution we can make
toward securing acceptance of an
agreement that lessons the danger of
war in the Pacific.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Stop Weighing

10 the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: If Mrs. Gait in her sneoch a.
the Town Hall had said: "Had Wood
row Wilson not been prevented from
haV'ng his own way, in his own wav
inns would never have occurred" sho
would have been nearer the truth 7
Sometimes feel if "a handful of creditn
o-"4u /" substituted for "a handful Of
Sliv<r' Hrownng's "Lost Leader"
would cover past situation all Of us
who long for world peace must forever
lore. What difference does it make
who voices great truth so lonp az
that truth is lived?
Jacob Ris once said in extenuation
OF Theodore Roosevelt's, at times, over
'mpulsiveness: "If a man spends all
MS time weighing he never hands any,
thing over the counter" With starry
ing, disorganized world clamorinp for
help' stop weighing relative claims for
credit and hand something over the
counter" league that failed because
one man would not make few minor
concessions must not be replaced by a
conference sterile because, it did not
accomplish everything hoped for at it's
glorious beginning.
c. S. SPENCER.
New York, Jan. II, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Others hold it is of little value.
Some contend that the placing of
restrictions on japanese fortitica
ton of the Bonin group and the
islands ranging from Formosa to
the Japanese mainland, such as are
imposed under this agreement, puts
Japan in the position of making a
greater sacrifice than the United
States.
If these islands are excluded from
the agreement, however, the United
States is obviously placed in posi-
ton of making a much greater
sacrifice than Japan. For America
to bind herself not to increase her
defenses on Guam and the Philip
pines while no similar restriction is
placed upon Japan with regard to
lhe Bonin and kiu-kiu groups is a
serious departure from the principle
Of mutual concession which has
dominated this endeavor to limit
naval armament. If Japan insists
on excluding the BONN Islands
America will hardly consent to the
inclusion Of Guam or to erect no
more Notifications in the Philip
pines.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
What Delay Mean.

The decision of the Court of Ap-
peals which unanimously upholds the
legality of the transit act of 1921
quiets all reasonable doubt Of what
body in New York has jurisdiction
over traction matters. Three JUS
tees reserve judgment as to the con-
stitutionality Of the act with respect
to the status of railroads which be-
long to the city, but no justice ques-
tions the general powers Of the
Transit Commission.
The Corporation Counsel prcclaims
& purpose to take the case to the
Federal Supreme Court. To what
end? He cannot expect a reversal
Of decision Of the states highest
judicial tribunal constituting the
states constitution. To conduct liti-
CATION merely to obstruct is un-
worthy of a lawyer.
The city's traffic statistics and the
discomforts all travellers now endure
sufficiently warn that it is time to
push for new construction. Even
with conditions normally favorable it
would take probably three years to
get the contracts let and five years
to get new lines in operation Think
Of what the crowding will be in
1880. Think Of what the congestion
will be if there is longer postpone
ment
Is there not some way to open The
minds Of the Board Of Estimate to
the manifest consequences of cling
ing to the policy of delay for delays
sake? The Mayor says he wants no
suggestion or advice from the press.
So be it. Is there not, then, warrant
for approaching Mr.. Hearst on
bended knee and begging him to use
his influence at the City Hall toward
unhardaning the Mayors heart?
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Comforts and Culture

The Emperor of Japan has cabled
to Pittsburgh for a number of in
stantaneOus water heaters. No
doubt by this time those handy
little burners which ar so familiar
here and have gone far to make the
lot summers endurable are already
on the way to the Mikado's palace
IN Toxic. From the comfort-loving
West to the luxury-loving East the
little water heaters must naturally
follow in the wake of the American
bathtub. That same bathtub, once
an object Of derision. then of envy.
may be found almost anywhere on
The face Of the earth, with or with
out its plumbing. Travellers report
1t in the most out-of- -the-way places
and in the most ludicrous OF
settings.
SO if the culture of America has
not yet made itself felt in the world
the comforts of America have. To
show the world how to get water
and heat, gas and electricity by the
turn of a screw or the push of q
button is something. And after all.
culture and the bathtub are not 80
far apart as might appear.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
The Jingle of the Guinea

Mr.. Hylan's evident intention to
desert Mr.. Murphy and Tammany is
easily accounted for 1t is not that
he Mayor loves M: Murphy less,
but that he loves NJ. Hearst more.
Mr. Hearst has more money than
Mr.. Murphy-a great deal more
money. And so. even though Mr..
Murphy may not approve. Mr.. Hy-
an advocates new party. which is
To nominate Mr.. Hearst to some high
Office.
AS to the nature of the high office
The public requires only two guesses.
The only high Offices to be voted for
next fall are those Of Governor and
United States Senator. With Mr..
Hearst as the nominee for either OF
these the new party would be sure to
start with splended financial pros
poets. Mr.. Hearst and Mr. Hylan, in
other days. have objected to million
aires in politics; but the millionaires
they objected TO were bad million
aires.
OF course. Mr.. Hylan will have TO
overcome Mr.. Hearst's we'll known
dislike for running for Office and the
publicity it entails. He will be forced
20 drag the millionaire publisher
from the obscurity he loves so we'll
and convince him of his public duty;
out in this he will have the assist
ance of the new party that Mr..
Hearst caused to be formed in Al
oany the other day. With this help
Mr.. Hearst may be persuaded to
yield. Once persuaded he may be
counted on to pay the bills. He can
-rell afford it. To him few millions
are as nothing compared to the needs
Of the boys in the wards.
AS to Mr.. Hylan's desertion of
Murphy, that is a personal matter.
Perhaps Mr.. Murphy can be talked
over. 1t has happened before. But
whether he can or not, Mr.. Hylan is
manifestly for Hearst. And why
not? Is Ihere any other man in the
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
The St. Lawrence Threat

The Joint international Commis-
,ion's report Oh the Great L.alies-St
Lawrence waterway, now before
Eongrcr s. recommends the conclusion
# canal treaty between the United
states and Carada and the expendi-
'ure of $4,000 600 on the Welland
Canal and the river route from Lake
Ontario to Montreal. The interna-
tlonal canal project has thus taken
definite form. 1t is also assured OF
stror q support in Congress.
What are New York and neighbour
ing states going to do about it? This
Statc owns n competing route, that
from OsWcgo to the Mohawk and
thence down 10 tldcwatcr This
route is shorter, capable of operation
for longer period each year and is
the short route TO foreign ports. 1t
lies within American territory and
It's Development will help American
shipping and add to national re-
sources. Why go to Canada in search
IF a new outlet for the commerce OF
lhc lake region?
The argument is made by Missis-
silr Valley shippers that the Port
of New York is congested and lacks
modern port facilities. There. is un-
doubtedlv truth in this. But New
York and New Jersey have made a
treaty for the modernzation of the
port. A comprehensive plan cf de-
velopment has been prepared and
aid before the two state legislatures.
Every New Yorker is interested in
he adoption of this PLAN for it aims
both at increasing the usefulness of
The port and at reducing the excess
cost of living here, due to archaic
terminal machinery and inflated de-
livery charges. The states growth
and prosperity have been bound up
for decades with the utilization of
It's natural advantages as route to
the seacoast. Shall these advantages
oe diminished now by the creation of
Canadian route, financed in part
by our Federal government?
The appearance Of the Joint Inter
national Commissions report is an
other challenge to the people of New
York to get together and do some
thing. The city government is fight
ing the b-state Por. Authority's s
plan. Yet that plan is the only one
under which the pert area can be
unified and developed to the advan
tage Of all its parts. Discord here
offers another argument to Western
congressman to favor Montreal
| What kind of case can we make in
Congress if The city and the state
government continue to lock horns
over port development?
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
The Franchise in Mississippi

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: All honor to the gentleman
from Mississippi for standing up for
his state and his beloved "Marse Will
liams." I like him even for his un-
reasoning loyalty. 1t is interesting
however, to look at the figures, taken
from a good Democratic source, so as
TO b1 perfectly fair to the gentleman
who, by the way, may belong to the
cold school, as most of the latter day
Southerners always admit and seek to
justify, on one ground or another. the
exclusion of negroes from the fran
chise.
have compared Mississippi with
Kansas, whose populations are sub
stantially the same. In these states the
American citizens twenty-one years and
over are as follows: Mississippi, S-2.-
094; Kansas, 9S1,547 Even allowing
for the exclusion of women in the for
mer state under ruling by the Attor-
ney General, the fact that out of a total
male population twenty-one years of
age or over of 441,331 there were 225.-
700 negroes makes it evident that they
do not vote. The 1920 total vote for
President was: Mississippi, S2,o92;
Kansas, 562,243. No sarcasm Of the
gentleman from Mississippi can change
the fact nor can the threat of the wrath
Of "Jawn Sharp" change it. They do not
vote. They know better than to try.
Life is sweet.
FREDERICK L. PERRY.
New Haven, Conn, Jan. IS, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Law School Standards

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Harlan F. Stone, dean of CO.
lumbia University Law School, has is
sued warning that numbers may en-
danger the efficiency of law education
in this country, stating among other
things:
"The most obvious method of selec-
tion is that row employed with increas-
ing effectiveness by raising the stand
ards of scholarship exacted Of all stu
dents in the school, It is the
duty of law schools to dissuade the man
of ordinary ability and meager educa-
tion from beginning law study, and if
he will not be dissuaded to apply to
him the standards of proficiency and
attainment worthy of the profession to
whose membership he aspires"
Who in this free country Of ours
makes it the duty of anybody to dis
suade another from taking up the study
Of law and who is able to decide
whether a youth of twenty or there
abouts possesses ordinary or extraor-
dinary ability? Is this science Of law
so obscure and intricate that only
youths of extraordinary ability can be
made fit to interpret it? What chances
would Abraham Lincoln have had if he
had tried to enter Columbia Law
School, or would the dean have in
stantly recognized in the -rawhonsd
youth man of extraordinary ability
and education? Men Of plain, everyday
common sense and ordinary ability"
in my humble judgment, make the best
lawyers. P.
New York, Jan. 16, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Lenine's Promises

Karl Radek, who holds first rank
among The preachers of Bolshevism,
has addressed a message to the
"proletarians of other countries"
In an article which appeared re-
Gently in the Moscow "Pravda" he
says:
Hurry, therefore, with your strug-
gle. DO not carry on this struggle
on the basis of the new policy Of
the Soviet government, but on that
of the old Communist tactics. Our
new economic policy, in so far as it
concerns concessions to your and
our enemies, concessions to world
capital, is necessary only because
you have not carried out the old
slogans of Communism and have not
yet taken your bourgeoisie by the
neck"
Lenine has often proclaimed that
the end justities the means; that
lying is permissible and pledge
breaking may be a positive virtue.
When Bolshcvists object to what is
called his "new policy he answers
with wink that he can be trusted;
that in a few years Russia will have
an army strong enough to make
1t Of no practical consequence what
she now promises. "Don't you fool
ish Russians sce,' he asks in effect,
chat if we induce others to build
railroads and factories for US we
can grab them?"
French peasants out Of hard
earned savings furnished the funds
which built Russia's railroads, in
Guiding the great highway without
which Siberia would be populated
by only few nomads. These rail
roads belong in morals to those who
created them. In Russia's hands
they are stolen property, held by
force. Is it strange that France
objects to meeting at Genoa on
terms of equality the agents of the
chief Of the Russian banditti?
While the war was in a critical
period Russia was guilty of the
enornaity Of abandoning her allies.
Sophists have tried to offer ex-
cuses for this betrayal of faith, but
there it stands, the most monstrous
in human history. The chief pro-
meter Of betrayal which brought
death to hundreds of thousands of
Frenchmen, Italians, Britons and
Americans was Lenine. What is to
be thought Of those who would now
take him by the hand and receive
him into fellowship? 1t is probably
useless to argue with or appeal to
those who do not see the reasons.
idealistic and practical, why this
should not be done.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Reparation by Criminals
Need Of Law to Provide Specific
Compensation for Victims

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In letter to The Tribune
Stephen Haweis says the prison sys-
tenn is wrong; that it was failure u.l-
der extreme severity and is little better
now with paroles and leniency.
Make the criminal support himself, "
he says, "and give him everything he
and we can afford. but do not permit
him to shoot the unarmed stranger and
rob the merchant at his counter Iso-
late, under state supervision, the men,
bers of the community who cannot get
along without crime when in a condi-
ton of promiscuous liberty. Let wages
be the same for them as for the free,
out of which let them pay for board and
lodging"
No revenge of society" in that,
hardly hint of punishment and no
more of restraint than is needful to
the betterment Of the criminal himself.
l approve that. Society is great and
powerful and should look upon the err
ing neither vengefully nor with easy
going tolerance, but rather as symp-
toms Of disease calling for scientific
intelligence and steady hand under a
patcrnal spirit.
Any claims of society at large against
the criminal being thus whitfield down
to the lowest terms (not to say trans
posed into claims upon society in be-
half of the criminaD, l suggest that
particular sufferers from criminal dep
relation have specific rights to repara-
tions, which should now be recognized
and their liquidation provided for in
the criminal law.
For several obvious reasons the civil
law in hosts Of cases does not and
can not afford such protection. Many
victims of robbery or violence have not
the means to conduct lawsuits, and the
offenders rarely possess known prop
erty for attack. The hand of the law
which deals with lawbreakers should
have authority and be required not
only to restore to the owners such
property as may be recovered, but also
to compensate victims of crime on
some we'll thought out system which
should derive some part, if not all, of
the funds required from the property
or earnings of criminals.
For half a century the ingenuity Of
rcformers has spent itself in modifying
the hardships Of prison life. Very
we'll, but meantime thousands of men.
women and children have suffered from
robbery, arson and every form of vio
lence up to murder, with nothing done
to put the cost of their losses on the
hands that caused them. Organized
society exists to maintain Justice. In
this matter it has utterly failed to take
first step.
The needful thing is to extend the
principle Of eddity into the domain of
criminal law, the state requiring the
assailant, the faithless guardian, the
murderer and the rest to make resti-
tuition by their property or their serv-
ice.
]. ALBERT STOWE.
Arlington, N. j., JAM 16, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Thrift and Spendthrift

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Now that January II has been
set aside as a day of Thrift" the
value Of which has been shown by pre-
cept and example, why not inaugurate
a day for the furtherance of extrava
gance? It ia. certainly debatable which
of the two days would be of more gen
eral benefit to humanity and of the two
courses pursued which is of greater
benefit to the soul.
No matter how variously defined,
thrift" in the last analysis. means
saving money, and between the mind
bent on thrift and the miscr there is
very thin wall. All nature is spend
thrift and nature is beautiful. A too
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

thrifty person seems ever apart from
humanity.
Goldsmith was fond of saying Half
the nakedness Of the INDECENT world
could be clothed from the trimQings of
the vain.' But the trimmings of the
vain are not an evil from an economic
standpoint. Thrift as virtue has
been praised beyond its merits and the
effects Of extravaganza too little under
stood GILES F. HElLPRIN.
New York. Jan. 16, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
More Trut!, Than Poetry
BY James J. Montagu.
Realism


Somewhere, at the present wit
ing,
On the worlds extensive msp.
There's a gent and lady fighting
Using knives and clubs nlayhap.
They may both be serf or peas
ant,
They may be a King and
Queen;
But their language isn't pleasant,
And they make q dreadful
We could live our lives without
them,
But We'll see them both some
day
When Realist learns about them
And they're featured in a play.
Somewhere. folks unprepossess
ing
Rant and struggle, curse and
rave,
Suffer agonies distressing.
Or despitefullv behave
Snarling. stabbing, vitriol throw
ing,
It's their only way Of showing
How such wretched creatura
feel.
Just at present we don't MIND
them,
We can let them bite and rage;
But some Realist's bound to ma
them
And to put them on the stage
Somewhere life is smoothly flow
ing,
Somewhere people laugh and
play,
Somewhere there are faces glow
ing
With the pleasures Of to-day;
We would like to hear the iaugn'
ter
And to feel the JOY it brings
But the Realist follows after
Other harder, sterner things
Catching all the mystic beauty
Of the light and happy heart
Isn't his dramatic duty;
That is happiness-not ar0'
Inadequate
The difficulty with the income sa
is that it exempts the two most pf0.'
porous classes, bandits and D00''
leggers.
Naturally
Golf Now Played at Sea. ns''
line. Why not. Isn't ship away
on a course?
Looking Toward Peace
Why not make it six power 'lss,' ,
and include the New York gunner
.ro-,~;s,bt nv lanes j M0ulae"~f
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

NEMBiE or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ITO Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 20
tAc csc FOR republic atiofi OF all dispatches
credited to Il np, o;hcrvise credited In this
paper and Also The iccai Hews OF Spontaneous
ur;sin published hereia
AL rights o. republication Of ali other matter
hsrch. sisr reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Holding Out
{ From, The Wichitu Be,

I CFrom The Wichita Beacon)
+ jazz Is Doomed" says headline
1t was doomed two or three years ago.
but somebody must have given it q
commutation of sentence