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New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

If the President is prepared to
risk fight in the Senate in order to
have W, P. G. Harding, of Alabama,
reappointed governor of the Fed
eral Reserve Board he is entitled
to hearty support and encourage
ment. Mr.. Harding deserves renom-
ination. He guided the Federal
banking system through one of the
most trying periods in the financial
history of the country and
showed unusual ability, foresight
and energy.
To permit personal or partisan
reasons-the Alabama Harding is a
good Democratic interfere with
his denomination is not only unjust
TO the country and to him, but
means establishing the bad prece-
dent of introducing politics into the
Federal Reserve system. Such an
organization is above politics and
mpst remain so. Just as man
should not be appointed governor
of the board for partisan reasons, so
he should not be kept off it to
satisfy the animus of politicians.
AS a matter of fact much Of the
opposition comes from Senator
Hefin and from the Senators some
times referred to as part of the
farm bloc" who cherish the delu-
sion that Mr.. Harding's policy dur
ing the period of readjustment was
aimed against their constituents.
ar. Hefin doesn't like Mr.. HARDING
and his ways. The ffarm bloc"
Senators consider his nomination in
the light of a political affront.
The President may not have easy
shedding. But the fight is well
worth making and will make far
more friends for the President than
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
Answering Library Critics


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. James F. Morton jr., whose
letter in The Tribune, September 20,
headed "Branch Library Shortcom-
ings," is perfectly correct as to short
age in the book stock, seems to be un-
aware of two important features of the
library's work. He suggests "a single
cumulative card index, supplementary
to the separate indexes in each branch
/! library" Such an index, called the
Union Catalogue, has been in
existence since the library consolida-
ton, and is consulted by many readers
daily in Room 100 of the Central Build
ing. Mr.. Morton cannot mean to sug-
gest that this immense catalogue
should be duplicated in each branch
library. The mere space which it would
require, to say nothing of the enormous
expense, would forbid that.
1t Is not necessary, as Mr.. Morton
seems to think, to make personal
search" through the branches for q
book nor to ask the branch librarian
to inquire "among ali the other
branches of the city" A clearing house
for such inquiries, called the Inter-
branch Loan Office, in the Central
Building, attends to this The same
conditions--lack Of an adequate book
stock and adequate facilities hamper
this service, but last year this Office
received over 10000 requests for loans
between the branches and filed 8s,76o
OF them. A request for this service
may be made at any branch.
! Another letter to The Tribune re-
GENTLY. said that oais remedy For book
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

Sooner or later New York will have
to do something of the kind If traf-
fic is to move at all.
The one-way street system has to
some extent facilitated crosstown
traffic. Police rules for keeping
cars moving during theater hours
have been of great assistance. But
there is still north h-and-south con-
gestion and will be unless streets
are set apart for such traffic, with
higher speed limit, or until either
an elevated viaduct or subway Is
built for north-and-south traffic.
New Workers will watch with in
terest Chicago's experiment. If it
is successful it's adoption here may
assist in solving the local problem.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
Emergency Mine Exits

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; In connection with the Argonaut
tragedy the question arises why was
not such shaft as the rescuing miners
aug between the two mines always
there?
wouldn't 1t be good idea and a
great help in cases OF this kind to have
sucn connecting shafts dug between
parallel mine shafts even where the
property is owned by different COM
panaes? They would serve as FIRE OF
accident exits. much as special exits
serve In theaters, and no doubt the
mine owners would be only too glad to
share the cost of the shafts. They
could be closed at each end except in
cases of emergency.
Had such q shaft been in existence
at the time of the disaster forty-sever
Lives might have been saved.
New York, Sept. 20. 1892. r. H. s.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
Chicago's Experiment

Chlcago, cursed like New York
with automobile traffic congestion
is experimenting with new method
OF relieving 1t. A part of Michigan
Avenue is to be set apart for ex-
press automobile traffic. On it cars
VIII be permitted to exceed by five
or ten miles an hour the speed limits
elsewhere imposed, provided thew DE-
not slacken their pace or stop along
the way.
This will, it is believed, enable
people who have no reason for hest.
tating in the business district to
keep out of the way of the general
traffic stream, and win speed up
trafflc generally through the city
from north to south and rice ueysn,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
The Work of the Session

Mr.. MondelPs eulogy Of the ses-
sion of Congress which ended yes
terday was not as discriminating as
it should have been. 1t was pitched
too much on a single note.
The country will not forget the
splendid work done since March a.,
1921, in reducing inflated Federal
expenditure and liquidating the left
over obligations of the war. In the
fiscal year 1919-'20 the expenditures
were S6,56o,0O0,000. In the fiscal
year 1920-'21 they fell to $685.
100000. In the last fiscal year they
were cut to $3,795,000,00o. In this
field Congress showed remarkable
energy and diligence. 1t passed the
budget law and put the government
for the first time on real budget
basis. The fruits of its zeal and
self-restraint are being reaped in
sound economical readjustment.
The Senate ratified at the last
session all the Washington confer
once treaties. Thus it recovered
much ground which had been lost
at Paris in 1919. The situation in
the Pacific was tranquillized and a
step was taken toward sane world
disarmament. Generous provision
was also made for the disabled
soldiers.
Here are the two striking achieve
ments to the credit Of Congress.
Against them are to be set a tariff
act whose makers had so little con-
tidence in the exactitude or equity
Of the schedules that they gave the
President the power to put rates 60
per cent up or so per cent down
That was their own verdict on the
Fordney- -McCumber tariffs skill in
responding to economic conditions
and its ability to wear.
The attempt to pass the bonus bill
was highly discreditable. Had il
not been killed by the President'E
veto and by the remnant in the
Senate who sustained that veto Mr.
MondelPs jubilation over the re
trenchment showing Of the session
would be meaningless. He and the
other Republican leaders would have
made ducks and, brakes Of the
hard savings of the last couple Of
years. They would have thrown the
country back again into the bog Of
unwarranted expenditure and ac
cumulating taxes.
Congress should have its due. But
it was only through the interven
tion Of The President and minority
in the Senate that enough of a gooC
record has survived to justify il
part Mr. Mondelps overcomplacen
encomiums.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montague
Interpretation

AHtS1 pl Ctdtlou
know not how the bee CONVEYS
=, The thoughts within his breast
10 other bees who go their ways
With such laborious Zest.
L only know that when he finds
That sugar is at hand
lie gets a message to their minds
They seem to understand.
Perhaps he signals with his feet
His feelers may impart
To other bees that he may meet
What he has in his heart.
Perhaps his buzzing may reveal
To others in the hive
Where they may find a bounteous
If they will look alive.
It's plain enough that he can
speak,
For many facts abound
To prove he sends them forth to
seek
The flowers he has found.
I've watched him in vacant lot,
I've studied him in parks,
But | confess that l cannot
Interpret his remarks.
But when the winging, singing
elf
Some sunny summer day
Has any message for myself
l grasp it right away.
When on my nose or chin or ear
He nonchalantly leans,
And gruffly says: "Get out of
herew
I know just what he means!
Epidemic
The weather has been unsettled
lately, probably following the ex-
ample of industrial conditions.
Stubborn
Germany hasn't got any money
and won't pay any of it to the Allies
till she has to.
At Last
The Democratic party is about ta
grant Mr.. Bryan his liberty.
(Copyright by James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

parents. "This is the life" said she.
raising her glass to Mr.. Gest "In three
weeks they will have food and cloth
ing Mr.. Gest, the fanatic Russophile,
had fountain pen, and Miss Fechtner
produced from beneath her benevolent
garter many blank Hoover certificates.
Tell me-" said to SIR BalieF,
Something about tho home life Of
Pavlova7 IL Rimsky- -KorsakofF." / asked
"all that gossip says about him; and
who was the father Of Olgas second
child-Mordkin, Maeterlinck or George
Moore" Mr.. BaliefF answered. as he
summoned another vanilla pekoe. that
the forty-two members of his Chauve-
Souris, support more than a thousand
of their hopeless countrymen in Russia
Il see them" he said, their bony arms
outstretched ia this strange, happy
roof-theaterSa celestial miracle wrough
by Morris Gest" "How did they kill
your brother?" asks one pretty come
"-NstsAN VI N4iNtAtN4s iflA lNtI SnDOL MN
or cut his throat?" But Mr.. Gest and
/ are on our way ere the answer is
forthcoming. 81 wanted to show you,
says he, sardonicslly. "the Russians
at play"
1T is n pleasure to be unjust to Mr..
A. II. Woods. He likes 70 be lied
about; and vilihcation in the news
papers is one Of his best recreations.
Accuse him in the public prints of
lubricity or salaciousness and you are
endeared TO him, not because you are
right in your Indictment but because
you are wrong. Mr. Woods excels in
letter writing. I have had great
deal OF correspondence with the
literate producers of Broadway drama,
but none so satisfactory as the notes
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
Oddments ard Remau1ders By Percy Hammond

MIR. GEST not long ago invited me
to participate little in the night
life of the Russians in the Chauve-
Souris. They have jolly times, he said
as they drspe the late hours with en-
joyment's crimson curtains. See them
he bade me, after their evenings act
is over and relaxation is at hand. The
sententious, stolid Balietf at play, sur
rounded by his adoring vassals! In
teresting, talented Muscovites, frisking
blithely in New York cafe! Russian
songs and dancing, quips about Chekov
karsovina, Rachmaninoff, the kopek
and Maxim Gorky. The revels were
said to take place in an obscure esta-
minet called "The Blue MILL" hard by
tho Century Roof in Central Park
West.
Well, "Thc Blue Mill" is among the
most commonplace of the mid-uptown
ice cream and soda water parlors, spe-
cializing in nut sundaes and root beer
All of the forty-two colorful gehiuses
OF the Chauve- -Souris were present on
the night that Joined them, and they
were eagerly discussing famine, naked
ness, bloodshed, destitution and the
cruelty of the Soviets. The evening was
a particularly gay one. Miss Fechtncr,
a pretty dancer, after months of
searching, had found her father and
mother starving and in rags in Il
Bcssarabian hamlet so remote that it
was unknown to her and the maps.
What" said to her vivaciously, "what
of Tolstoy?" and she told me how she
had written to seventy-cight theater
managers in Russia, promising three
Hoover packages" to any one who
would discover the whereabouts of her
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
What Readers Are Thinking

shortage in the library is to stop lend
ing six books at a time to u reader
This recommendation can hardly have
been made in perfect good faith, since
the writer of 1t is in position to know
that this permissive rule is much re-
strieted in all the branches, except a
few where the stock of books permits.
In many of the branches only two
books per reader are allowed at one
time, and only one of these may be
fiction. EDMUND L. PEARSON,
Editor Of Publications, The New
York Public Library.
New York, Sept. 20, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
Search and the Three-Mile Limit

The Hahn Onward incident off our
coast has raised many perplexing
legal questions. The Hahn is pro-
hibltlon enforcement cruiser. The
Onward is a yacht suspected of be-
ing in the liquor-smuggling traffic.
She flew British flag without the
right to do SO, it is now stated) when
she was halted outside the three-mile
limit and an attempt to board her
was repulsed by her captain. The
revenue cutter Seneca was subse-
quently sent after the Onward, but
could not overtake her.
Among the questions raised are
these: Has a prohibition enforce
ment cruiser right to seize suspect
ed rum runners" outside the three
mile limit? Is the United States
statute authorizing customs officers
to board a merchant ship headed for
an American port (constructively or
actually within a twelve-mile limit
IN conflict with international law?
is there a precise dead-line for GUS
toms activities intended to prevent
smuggling and similar trespasses?
Great Britain passed a "hovering
act" IN 1886, which assumed, for rev.
enue purposes, a jurisdiction Of four
leagues from the coast, by prohibit
ing foreign goods to be transshipped
within that distance without pay
ment of duties. Our statute, assum-
ing similar jurisdiction, dates from
March 2, 1907. 1t provides that Off
GERS of revenue cutters may board,
search and examine merchant ves-
sells which arrive within the United
States or within four leagues Of the
coast thereof, if bound for the United
States"
These laws were part Of the war
fare of that day against smuggling.
They were not intended to infringe
otherwise the freedom Of the seas.
They were enforceable largely be-
cause no foreign government was
likely to present protests against
visits. and arrests when making
them only facilitated the work of
smugglers.
In the Federal District Court for
the District Of Massachusetts Judge
James M. Morton sustained last
Tuesday the seizure of a British
schooner, Grace and Ruby, six miles
off shore. The Grace and Ruby
transshipped liquor into motor
boat. She was therefore doing on
our coast what British law would
permit her to do on the British coast
Judge Morton said:
"The line between territorial water,
'nd the high seas is not like the
boundary between US and foreign
power. There must be, it seems te
me, certain width of debatable
waters adjacent to our coast. How
far our authority shall be extended
into them for the seizure Of foreign
vessels which nave broken our laws
is matter for the political depart.
ments of the government, rather thar
for the courts, to determine"
rt7e
This decision follows somewhat q
decision by Chief Justice Marshall in
a case in which an American vessel
was seized by the Portuguese author.
tiles four or five leagues off the
mouth of the Para River in Brazil
Marshall held that the exact distance
from shore was immaterial in this
instance, since the Portuguese gov
ernment had right to use necessary
means to protect its commerce and
these means were not limited within
oa1%a;r ~. a ,eLnd hca,r 4 q - arr .,L:uI
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

enemies. The position of governor
Of the Federal Reserve Board is of
such Importance that it should go
to the man best fitted for it by ca
pability and experience. That man
is w. p. G. Harding.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
But What Are Brains ?

An outstanding, outspoken citizen
is President Hopkins of Dart
mouth, and what he says is always
we'll worth attending to. When he
says that too many men are going
to college and that the privileges
Of higher education should be
restricted to an aristocracy OF
brains he is talking sound sense.
Altogether too many boys of rich
parents loaf their way through COL
lege with the aid Of tutors; and
while the brightest poor boys un-
doubtedly get their chance at COL
lege education by working their way
through with the aid of scholarships,
many others not quite SO smart are
unable to share in preparation for
life by which they would greatly
benefit. That should be the test
only those boys should go to college
who can and will profit by it's ad-
vantages.
But how sift the wasters from
the workers? How tell at eighteen
years which of two boys is best en-
titled to four more years Of book
learning? There are the old-fash-
toned examinations. But President
Hopkins very keenly points to the
danger Of Confusing the symbols
and the facts of intellectually" and
dismisses mental gymnastics" and
facility in appropriating the ideas
Of others" as true tests of intellec-
tuality. There are the new "gen-
eral intelligence" tests with which
Columbia is experimenting and
which afford some inkling of mental
alertness. But these hardly allow
for those queer Dicks and dreamers
who develop slowly enough in most
matters of observation and common
sense and who turn out often to be
the most brilliant minds of class,
poets, inventors, what-not.
Let us have an aristocracv Of
brains by all means, but what are
brains? Just what are the qualities
to be searched for? All-round abil-
ity to make good in books, athletics
and leadership might seem a fair
basis for test. But every college
man will remember any number Of
these well-rounded souls in college
days who accepted success as it
came to them thus easily and never
toiled hard enough to go on to real
achievement afterward. The fable
OF the ugly duckling comes true
oftener than one likes to concede
Perhaps there is something in tho
very lot of being queer and original.
somewhat unattractive and uncon-
ventional and therefore lonely
which makes boy strive harder
and in the end pass his more en-
gaging competitors.
The two factors of oripina,itv
and leadership suggest the qualities
which we have in mind and which
ought to enter into any true test
of real aristocracy. But examina-
Ftion papers that really test imagina-
tion are hard to conceive; and the
qualities which may make man a
great leader further on in life are
hard to isolate at eighteen. We
hope President Hopkins will return
to the attack. The difficulties be-
fore him are considerable, but it is
great deal to have the problem
recognized and the goal staked out
The notion that mere size, the num-
Der OF students that can be cor
falled IN one college, make a. great
institution, has been abroad in the
iand. Dartmouth does we'll to stress
quality above quantity and set out
IN search of those true aristocrats
who alone have any business in a
college.
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

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married again. what kind of
woman would marry him?" asks
Aunt Prudence. "Why, he drinks"
Aunt Prudence's Ideal Man Ia
DR.. Frank Crane. She has sew
eral pictures Of DR.. Crane
cut from the public prints, be it
understood: DR.. Crane has never
sent Aunt Prudence picture
which she shows to
visitors.
"There he Is, in one of his hard
thinking times!" says Aunt Pru-
dence, delightedly, holding up
picture. Cant you just sense
tho Thoughts and the Morality
moving inside that handsome head
Of his? But this picture is the
one I like best: it looks as if he
was getting ready to speakl |
can just look at those lips Of his
and hear him say boys shouldn't
treat their mothers mean, and
young girls shouldn't run off with
other women's husbands, and en-
ployecs shouldn't steal money
from their bosses, or some of those
great sayings Of his!'
DR.. Crane need not be surprised
if he gets pair Of wonderful
slippers next Christmas, embroid-
cred by Aunt Prudence herself,
with her own loving hands.
bedroom slippers, Aunt Prue?"
we asked her.
Aunt Prudence blushed, and
then became angry with US
the idea of her sending bedroom
slippers to a man she doesn't
know! Or even to a man she does
knowl There are times when
Aunt Prudence suspects that we
have a coarse mind.
The slippers will be embroidered
with Texts and Sentiments from
DR.. Cranes own Works, great
moral thoughts in brief compass:
popularizations of the Ten Com
mandments handled so as to of
fend nobody, admonitions to the
wicked presented so as not to lose
Circulation.
CDR. Crane has done great
deal for the Ten Commandments"
we suggested, piously. His
manner somehow adds to their
solemnity."
"He hasl" agreed Aunt Pru-
dence. And as we spoke we
seemed to feel a presence in the
room; the presence of DR.. Crane
himself.
We made a further suggestion
to Aunt Prudence.
"Why stop at slippers?" we
said. "Why not make dressing
gown for DIR. Crane? You can
embroider at least a hundred Texts
and Sentiments from DR.. Cranes
own Works on dressing gown,
and perhaps we who admire him
can persuade him to wear it when
he speaks in public"
And Aunt Prudence is going to
do it.
"Across the breast Of it," she
said, trembling with enthusiasm,
~ shall embroider in red silk:
LIPS THAT TOUCH LIQUOR SHALL
NEVER TOUCH MINE"
We demurred. "Is it true" we
asked, Chat DIR. Crane, like w. j.
Bryan, has never taken drop of
alcoholic liquor in his life?"
ooh, yes! Yes! OF course!"
said Aunt Prudence. But we have
never seen a statement to that eff
feet in DR.. Cranes articles, and
before encouraging her to put that
line on the dressing gown we shall
wait for such a statement. Per-
haps, after all, he will not care to
make that statement directly.
Great Publicists, Great Prohibi-
tionists, are sometimes afflicted
with strange hesitations in these
We are going to look up for
Aunt Prudence forty or fifty Texts
and Sentiments from his Works to
go on DR.. Cranes Dressing Gown.
We hope that DR.. Crane will ac-
cept Aunt Prudence's Slippers and
Dressing Gown In the spirit in
which they are offered, and crafty
his admirers by wearing them in
public places. To us Aunt Pru-
dence's thought for him is dear
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

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The Turkish soar gives the League
Of Nations something to to
fnIE nbos,f
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

While the Moon Was Shining
A man tuho was gaYbed as beggah
Claimed he ccme from the bright star
Of Ve0a,
And descended to earth
To replenish the dearth-
The guy a0as a rich old bootIeggah.
IF T., M
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

Hermione and her Little Group-not
to be behind the times--are getting up
"a Ghauve-souris." This makes it prac-
ucally unanimous,
DooFs MARQUIS
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
At Last

The Democratic party is about tn
grant Mr.. Bryan his liberty.
(Copyright by James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

Aunt Prudence Hecklebury Pre-
parea a Gift
Aunt Prudence Hecklebury is
shocked at the rumor that the
former Kaiser is going to get
married again. what kind of
woman would marry him?" asks
Aunt Prudence. "Why, he drinks !"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

The notices, selected by Aunt
Prudence and ourself, will ap-
pear from time to time during the
next two or three years.