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New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
A Key to Contentment

With an automobile man buys
for himself and family the use and
enjoyment Of the woods, the lakes,
the streams and the countryside for
many miles around. He is enabled
to break the shackles Of monotony
His interest expands with his eX-
panding radius of action.
If he has been city bound all his
life. he becomes Columbus making
new discoveries. He may be pro-
vincially conten,ptuous of the strange
people he sees herting cows, pill
ing fodder into silos and guiding
tractors through the fields, but he
is tremendously interested in them,
nevertheless. He becomes to some
extent citizen Of the world
Seeing the same sights, doing the
same things continuously, powerfully
promote unrest. The foreign travels
on which a man cmbarks at the news
reel "movie" arc not satisfactory
Photography is a poor makeshift for
experience. Even with second hand
car he can make first hand advcn-
lures. And the old feeling of discon
tent, the sense that he never can be
anything but a prisoner in a dirty
little town, departs as his motor
chugs forth into the country.
Furthermore, the bossing and d.
rection Of the car satisfies a deep
inward craving. A man grows
weary Of being run. He wants to
run something himself. And it is
very pleasant to know that his car is
his creature and, with occasional fits
of stubbornness, will obey his will.
The contribution to the Joy of
living is perhaps the most valuable
thing that the automobile has done
for humanity. Discomfort is q nat
ural state Of mind with those whose
lives are colorless snd uneventful.
1t is with them that the wander in
stinct is always the strongest. Dis
content, left to stew and ferment, is
dangerous not only to the discon-
tented citizen but to the whole coun-
try in the event that demagogues
organize and fatten on it. The au-
tomobile has done much to abate it..
And in doing so it has become a
powerful factor for good.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
Revocable Citizenship

The action Of the British govern
ment in revoking the citizenship of
Sir Edgar Speyer is a reminder to
this country Of principles which are
often overlooked and even injudj-
ciously denied.
One is that naturalization is
granted not as an inalienable right,
but as privilege and only in consid-
Grafton of the fulfillment and main
tenance of certain conditions. If an
applicant violates or fails to main
tain those conditions the naturaliza-
tion may be lapsed. Moreover, native
citizenship, in its fullest functions, is
not an invariable and inalienable
right. The mere fact that it is auto
matically entered into by the great
majority of persons on attaining the
age Of twenty-one years, without ex-
animation, oath or other formality,
does not prove that every one is en-
titled to it or that nobody can be de-
prived of it. A person at twenty
one enters full citizenship because
he has complied with the condition
Of age and because, in the absence
of proof to the contrary, he is as
sumed to have complied with the
other conditions, of mental COM
petence, of obedience to the law and
of loyalty to the national govern
ment. In the case Of the native, for
cause, the rights of citizenship may
be withheld or withdrawn.
1t would be monstrous to revoke
citizenship as an act of oppression
or of political discrimination. But,
on the other hand, when sufficient
cause exists, it is duty to which
nation cannot afford to be recre-
ant. Just as surely as the worthy
citizen should be secure in his
rights, so surely should the un-
worthy citizen be deprived of the
rights which he has justly forfeited,
whenever his unworthiness becomes
a menace or a detriment to the state.
Americans, it is to be feared, are too
prone to consider citizenship as an
indefeasible right.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
Germanys Undertaking

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | hear from many friends Of
the disastrous results to their manu-
featuring business Of German competi
tion. l think you can hardly call it
competition; it seems more like a de-
llherate attempt to create a chaotic con-
dition in our industrial life,
l know wages here in many lines
are still much too high, that freight
rates (due to high cost Of coal, wages,
etc.) are also much too high. but when
German goods are being sold at prices
from so per cent to Is per cent under
our pre-war values, equal to-day to
about one-eighth of our present
values, it does not look like competi-
tion
Can there still be any doubt that
Germany is deliberately destroying her
ability to pay for her transgressions,
and will use all her powers to destroy
others at the same time, hoping that
in mood of despair the business
world will cry out for the elimination
Of reparations? P. A. WATSON.
New York, Jan. 7. 1922.
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jected as insulting. And although
the French waste more time about
the formslitics than VIC do, gener-
ally spending at least half an hour
on conventional conversation before
approaching the business Of the day,
they utilize the luncheon period to
the utmost and settle many deals in
restaurants.
Our drift toward the business
lunch Is encouraging. 1t makes for
a good digestion and adds n Ger
tain personal touch to the meetings
that is missing in the fornality Of
the Office. Interruptions arc fewer,
the sense of trcspassing on time is
absent, and the feeling Of communion
conduccs to harmonious action.
1t is rash to predict THAT the days
Of the lunch counter are numbered,
despite the appearance Of automats,
cafeterias and other developments Of
the original counter system. But
the trend toward business lunches
is marked, promising peace to the
harried and relief to the snails, who
will no longer have so many whit
ings complaining to them about the
porpoises trcading on their tails.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
Eat and Talk Business

The lunch hour is gradually CON-
ing into its own. Busy men are real
izing that the quick lunch system
does not pay in the long run. 1t in
jures the digestion and wastes time.
No one can discuss deal or policy
while boiling cup Of coffee and a
sandwich at top speed. 1t is difficult
to talk business while some one
stands behind you resenting your
every mouthful and silently "hunch-
ing" you to hurry, just as men will
"hunch" horse to win race.
"'Will you walk little faster
Said the Whiting to the Snail;
There's porpoise right behind me,
And he's treading on my tall"
This applied to the process of
sandwich grabbing is hardly con-
ducive to the most enlightened
thought And yet this is the frame
of mind in which most Americans
used to approach the duty Of lunch
ing.
To-day the tendency is more to-
ward doing business at meals. And
this means that even if only pie and
coffee form the lunch it is eaten a
little more leisurely, and while the
time away from the Office is greater,
the fact that piece of business has
been calmly thrashed out over the
meal reduces in reality the amount
Of time wasted.
In France they carry tfsis plan to
an extreme. From II o'clock to 2
is given over to lunch. A full stom-
ach, stimulated by a cup of good
coffee and a glass of cegnac. in
duces a frame Of mind favorable to
the reception Of proposals that be-
fore luncheon wodd have been re-
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
BY
ercy Hammond

feet as she takes constitutional in
Jackson Park"
Miss Ferbcr when seeking "copv"
IN Chicago. will dance in the lowest
dives with Carl Sandbury. Ben
iiecht, Harry Hanson or young Gene
Markcy; and the next evening "she
VIII be at the smartest dinner, talking
brilliantly to these same men," In
New York Miss Ferbcrs cronies are
Franklin p Adams, William Gillette.
Rutger Jewett, Albert A. Boyden.
Julian Street. Charles Hanson vownc.
Alexander Woollcott and many 9th
crs who make New York the shining
spot it is''
broadway" - Interesting dramatic
criticism by Kenneth Andrews. who
discusses Eugene O'Neill and "1ne
Straw" "Thc Intimate Strangers. ;,
"Golden Days. "Thc Wandering jew"
"Thc Madras House" and "Thc Per
feet Fool OF Mr. Ed Wynn. the star
Of "The Perfect Fool Nh Andrews
says: "lle has future
"Thc Editor Recommends''-Lite
ture receiving Mr.. Farrar's approval
includes "Ghitza and Other Romauces
OF Gypsy Blood" "The Secret of the
Sahara: kufara.' Compton Macken-
zie's "Rich Relatives" Keith Preston's
book OF verse, "Splinters"; Christie
phcr Morley's "Chimneysmoke' and
Don Marquis's "Noah an Jonah an
Cap'n John Smith,
"a Shelf of Recent Books Satisfy
ing essays by Burton Rascoe on New
ton Fucssle's "Gold Shod" and other
volumes; Sidney Williams on "a Mag.
nficent Farce" by A. Edward Newton.
and Louis Untermeyer on "Our Living
Laureates,"- judicious and entertain
ing derision of the works of Robert
W. Service ard Edgar A. Guest.
x $: :;
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Dear Sir: Does
reviewer ever explain? If so. will,
you kindly bring relief to a SUFFERING
intellect by calculating your remarks
IN Inc Tribune about Thomas Dixon.
whom You extol as impartial, unpreiu
alced, sober, courteous and amiable
supporting your contention by pas
sage from his book which seems to me
at least even more virulent. violent.
verbose and vicious than the reverend
gentleman has permitted himself to be
IN his previous outbreaks against his
tory and amcnity. Are your remarks
TO be taken in Pickwickian sense
Or did my modest New Years Eve in
duigence in few specimens of Vol
stead's Folly leave me permanently
non compos mentis?
ASHTON H. SARTWELI.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
The Saloons Persistence
the Editor Of The Tribune,

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent "Anti-Pro-
hibltion' in The Tribune of January r
again reminds me OF the great amount
of loose thinking there is on the liouor
question. I write as one among thou
sands who are not in sympathy with
the present liquor legislation,- but l
am IN warm sympathy with the pur-
pose to put the saloon permanently
out OF business. The public saloon is
the crux Of all our liquor troubles
Much water will go over the dam re-
fore the dire results Of it's record
cease to pollute our nations life.
l hold no brief for social, conyiyial
drinking Of liquor in the homes of the
American people; but such drinking
would never have created the senti-
ment that put the Eighteenth Amend.
ment into the Constitution and passed
the Volstead act. 1t was the Ameri-
can saloon and the liquor interests be-
h'nd it that brought about the present
result.
The Eighteenth Amendment will re-
main, but the Volstead law will not
stand after the saloon is truly dead.
If prohibition" saw M dr,nkcn
man in Quebec during his three -day
stay in that city and saw three drunken
men "on his way home" in ons even
ing 1t Is because the American sa
loon-that is, the evil genius Of the
saloon-stiA persists.
PHILIP ALTER.
Hasbrouck Heights, N. j., Jan. 6. 1922
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Regarded as Offset by Her Service
in the Common Cause

in the Common Cause
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Representative Reavis's idea
that France might as we'll pay her
debt to US as to put money into war
like preparation seems to be based
upon two Misunderstanding First,
that France could pay US any impor-
tant gum of money, and, second, that
France could wish to 60 to war or
could gain anything through war
The bitter experience Of France has
taught her that she must always be
prepared against sudden attack. The
Washington conference is not going to
change Frances position on the map,
nor change the character Of her Ger
man neighbors, nor make the German
people believe that their Lost territory
has become rightYully French. And
the Germans will continue to outnun,-
Der the French. F'rcnchmen rAmem-
Der and Americans ought to remember
that although France was attacked in
August, 1914, no American army ap-
peAred on the field Of battle until early
in 1918. 1t is quite the limit of alb
surdity for us, in our isolated security,
to advise France as to what She needs
for her security
Technically and, it there were an in
transitional court, legally, France owes
US about $3,0o0,oo0, 900. Morallt. We
ought to be able TO see she owes us
nothing. No money was leaned until
after we became a party to the con-
h'ct. We were not ready to fight, and
so we helped those who we're lighting.
The war had become our war as we'll
as frances war, but it was not our
blood that was being poured out, nor
was it our land that was Being devas-
tated. Our loans should have been
considered contributions for the gen
eral cause instcad OF loans, but Of
course there WAS no time to think Of
that.
No money was loaned except to be
spent in this country greatly to che
F-~'AS ~'N NSiAD01uk VI Our WAnu1aC-
turers and Of our workmen, in a period
Of wild imitation. No money went TO
France, and she has none to send to us.
II ~e insist upon it she can tax her
overburdcned people and use French
money in the purchase Of goods to be
shipped to the United States and sold
for the benefit Of our government, but
IN such case our Congressman would
soon hear from their constituents.
There is great economic difference
between the making and exporting of
goods to be used up b. armies and the
receiving Of foreign goods, in time Of
peace, to be sold for whatever they
Will fotch. The moral question, how
evsr, ought TO be sufficient for Amer
cans who arc proud Of their country.
All Of the apparent debt Of France to
VI is fairly Offset by the service and
suffering Of France in the cause which
was ours as we'll as hers.
j. HOWARD COWPEETHWAlT.
Now York, Jan. Z, 1922.
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Other Life Than Ours?

Observations at the Wilson OBJ
servatory, we are told, show no oxy-
gen or water on the planet Venus.
wherefore "thc presence of animal
life is precluded. With the results
thus obtained by the telescope and
the spectroscope we may not quarrel.
But biology must be taken into ac-
count.
Men have long speculated upon the
possibility of ether planets, and even
of our own satellite, being inhabited.
But it is commonly assumed that the
other worlds, to be habitable. must
be similar to if not identical with our
own-that "life" on other planets
must be the same as our own in it's
physical necessities To animal life
as we know it on this earth certain
elements-notably oXygen-are nee
essary. But it is conceivable that
somewhere in the universe are forms
of life so radically different from
ours that they do not need oxygen
and the other elements and COM
pounds which our life requires.
If there is no oxygen on Venus
there can be no such life as ours. In
deed, we might say the same. even if
there were oxygen there, because of
other marked differences in physical
between that planet and
our own. Blu. that is all that it is
safe to say. We cannot. say that
there is and can be no life of any
kind there, because that would imply
tnat no life is possible save such as
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
A Contrast

A striking contrast exists between
the methods which Mr. Wilson pur-
sued at the Paris conference and
those pursued by the American dele
gates at the Washington conference.
At Paris the American case was un-
prepared. At Washington it was
thoroughly prepared.
Mr.. Lansing showed in his book
how completely undigested were the
plans which Mr.. Wilson carried to
Paris and how imperfectly worked
out in detail were even the few
which were crudely shaped up "in
principle" Confederation of this
testimony crops out from an unex-
pected source-in Mr.. Ray Stannard
Bakers articles on America and the
World Peace" He says in his sec
ond installment:
II have commented elsewhere upon
the extraordinary efficiency, due to
long training, of the British and
French foreign Offices. They always
had plan ready; and even if the
basic idea came, as did that OF the
Limitation Of armaments, from Amer
leans, the resolution which placed it
before the Council was often the
product of these experienced diplo-
mats. There is, obviously, a great
advantage in this, as these expert
enced negotiators we'll knew, for q
plan tends to shape the views of
every one present and place other
conferees in the position of critics."
Mr.. Baker was speaking Of the
agility and success with which Lloyd
George took control of the discus
sion Of armament limitation out of
Mr., Wilson's hands by presenting
the first concrete resolution on that
subject.
This sort Of thing didn't happen
at Washington. Secretary Hughes
submitted a limitation -of-armament
program. worked out to last detail.
Mr.. Root offered the Chinese resolu~
tons and the submarine and poison
gas resolutions. The American del
egates were ready in advance for a
determination Of every issue. They
were never put on the defensive by
having to accept the role Of critics
of propositions before the con-
ference. Paris had taught them the
lesson that preparation pays.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09

our own. It will not do thus to limi,
creative power.
The physical oneness Of the uni.
verse. as shown by the spectroscope
and it's revelation Of the presence Of
the same elements; the mathemati.
cal oneness as is shown by the obsdi.
ence to common laws; tho gravita
tional and even electrical oneness
support the idea that il elsewhere
there is life at all it must be like our
life; but the idea can scarcely be said
to be established-probably never
can be.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
Roosevelt and France

To the Editor of The TRIBUNE ,.,,.
Sir: The editorial in to-aas >,
1.-THE Lost Leader" and the Iep,'s -.
the Long, Long Trail are nesa'' ",
minders at this particular u'a'' .,ss,
say of Roosevelt that he had wv Il,
vision to pluck the simple s"' .,p
cssential oat Of the sesm!us" ~,
pleX" and GLOW honor the gre'' N,
We can best do it by rejecting "
he would have advised" ..,r
Would he have answered NV ,rs
mus" to the question "shai' w !. a,
claim to the world that ffan's h
friend and an unjust attack ~ ann.
will result in our active insei'.s s;r
Would he not have visioneo '"' ~,
plifcation Of world prooie~s
would be achieved by our PiO rrf
that aid and called on his couns' !,
to take up tho burden as u's' hi i,
tailed by the wealth and powc' ,b.y'
Providence had showered upon /
Erie, Pa, Jan. 6, 1892
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More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Alontagu.
Then and Now

Then and Now
You doubtless remember the tale
Of the night. which, though
v-lntry and Wild
Yet vas pierced ny tie heart.
rending wall
Of the helpless saloonkeepers
child.
She sat in her lowly thatched cot,
On a cheap little. mean little
street;
Distressing indeed was her lo1,
For she had but u dry crust 70
The brewcry'd forecloscd on he
thriftless Old dad
And the crust-a quite small OF:
Was all that she had.
She knew if for aid she applied
What the pitiless neighbo'
would say.
And so she just sat there a..
cried.
Which chcered hcr bit-ns
way.
Far be it from her to beg bread,
Or to crave. say pie, as
boon.
And 70 hear it remorselessly Sn'
~ our father-he keeps q
aloon"'
So : ate up her crust in 3
Gle brief bite.
And vainly sought sleep for The
st OF the night.
How altered conditions tedsy.,
When saloonkeepers AvIrlsn
no more,
And the bootlegger drops IN u
That he's got a nice case q
"pre-war"
"Two hundred a case lor ASe'
star"
He snarls in a hard, rasplns
"I've promised my daughter ca'
And think she prefers a Rolls
Royce. -
You pay it perhaps-and buy sly
quarts of water. a..
But YOU never will weep for INK
bootlegger's daughter.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09

their ability to direct and handle a
financial institution from the ground
up, for although women have gone
beyond the experimental stage In
their participation in business, it
has been in subordinate capacity.
In the direction and management of
large affairs they arc just beginning
to feel their way.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09

The passage of the Root resolT
ton pledging the nations represent
ed at Washington not to use poison
gas in military operations rounds
out the work done by the confer
ence to discourage aggressive war
fare. a limitation has been put on
the capital ship, the backbone of an
oversee offensive, and on the air.
plane carrier, the capital ships most
important auxiliary. The use of the
submarine as commerce destroyer
has been outlawed. The size and
armament Of cruisers have been
reduced. Now the employment Of
asphyXiating gases has been banned.
The inhuman methods of German
warfare have been repeatedly de-
nounced by all the Allied govern
ments. The action taken at Wash
ington shows that so far as these
governments can avert their influ-
cnce there will be no return to Ger
man "schrechlichkeit."
The use Of poisons or poisoned
weapons, as Mr.. Balfour pointed
out, is already forbidden by the
law of nations. The Hague treaties
of 1899 and 1907, restating the laws
and customs of war on land. both
contained clauses announcing this
prohibition. When in the Second
Battle Of Ypres the Germans sent
clouds of chlorine gas into the
trenches held by the French aud
the Canadians even the neutral
world was shocked and cxasperated.
That barbarous defiance Of the rules
of war, following so many other
defiances, eXtinguished the last
spark Of outside tolerance for Ger
many's military methods. Germany
became a pariah and remained onc.
Since poison gas warfare is an
abhorrent and forbidden thing, it
was natural that the conference
should rcstate the condemnation
which civilized nations have put
upon it. This was, perhaps, all the
more necessary because some mill
.ary authorities outside Germany
have been led to argue that poison
gas had become a normal and indis-
pensablc military weapon. 1t is not
that now and cannot become that
until 1t is legalizcd by international
compact or employed b. belligerents
under tact consent. 1t is true
that the conference powers cannot
constraln a belligerenJ like the Ger
many of William II to observe the
laws of war. Yet this impotencv
extends to the illegal use of any and
every war weapon. If the laws of
war are useful land no one doubts
/ that they are), then the rcaffirma-
! ton of the ban on poisonous gases
is as useful as any other restriction.
Civilization rests on faith among
nations. And the signatory powers
at Washington are perhaps power
tul enough to make their judgment
as to rules of war binding on the
conscience and practice of nations
generally, whether the latter adhere
formally to the new poison gas and
submarine declarations or not.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
Search Criminals for Wcanon.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On reading in your issue Of
to-day the account Of the murder OF
detectives Miller and Buckley, one can
not but be struck by the impression
that the tragedy was avoidable.
Tho murderer was man "vith .
record" under arrest at the time. Sur.-
~ 1t Is, or at least should be, a mat
ter OF routine that such . man, on
arrest, should be searched for weAoons
and II he has any, should be deprived
OF them. This simple prscaution
would have saved the lives Of these
two oficers. U.s. chAwrry
New-York tribune., 1922-01-09
At 1880 P. NJ.

The wintry skies are dour and prey
And bitter Is the wind that blows
Across the bleak and frozen way
Where bleach the bones Of ancient SHOWS
And through the realm Of dusk, afar,
1 know the freight bids me come.
II chimes, ruddy cheerful star,
10 guide this weary sailor home.
And there, when l have closed the door.
MY eyes that weep from cold will view
A shining table, covered Ser
With napery; rug Of blue;
Quaint china, set that We may sup;
A kettle, carolling of tea.
And, gosh! Unless 1 hurry up
How warm my welcome home will bsl
Z,