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New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
That Economic Conference

Although the hints that Washing.
ton will be the scene of :. conference
on financial disarmament are some
what premature they should not be
overlooked. 1t seems certain that,
sooner or later, such a conference
will be held. AS the great creditor
nation of the world we may be ex~
pected to suggest and guide it.
But the time has hardly yet come
to issue the call. Europe is not vet
ready, nor are we. Such a confer
ence, to be effective, must do more
than discuss the settlement of debts.
1t must formulate constructive pol
icy for the economic rehabilitation
of Europe. The Administration has
already declared itself opposed to a
general debt cancellation conference
and has, instead, undertaken individ-
ual negotiations with the separate
debtor nations. These negotiations
are still in the preliminary stages.
There has not yet been time to
formulate a definite American pol
icy. So far as the economic rehabili-
tation of Europe is concerned it's
basic principles have been clearly
stated by Mr.. Hoover. But SO far
little has been done by the Euro
peans to put them into effect.
For ar. economic conference to be
successful the United States must be
prepared to take the lead, just as she
did in the Conference on the Lin1ita-
tion Of Armament. The precedent
there established for concrete, con-
structive action will lend strength to
a concise program clearly presented
by the United States. government.
When the American representative
is prepared to say to the financial
delegates of the European nations
"The United States will do thus and
so if the European nations will do as
follows" the time will be at hand for
calling an economic conference in
Washington. To force such a con-
ference prematurely, however, is to
risk having it go the way of Genoa
and The Hague.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
The Good WIN Tour

No one VINO visits the devastated
regions OF France comes awav with
any doubt as to the item of the rena-
fae'ons Dill which covers this dam
age. Unless and until the Gern,, y
people set to work in good faith r.
feoulid these villages they can ex-
pect little sympathy from anv ;,,,
partial observer. The members of
the Good Will Delegation, the eighty
seven women who have just returned
after months visit to France under
the auspices of the American Com
mittee for Devastated France. are
no exception to the general rule
Their sympathy for France is clear
1t is too bad that more Americans
have not a chance to know that
greater France which casual visitors
to Paris see so little of; that reso-
Lutte, unconquerable peasantrv which
paid the German indemnity of 1871
without evasion or delay. France
has many sides and Paris is one Of
her most delightful and lovable
aspects. But that charm and beauty
would never have maintained their
long career of leadership had not
they been founded on the soldier
rock of a sturdy countryside.
The backbone of France these
farmers of France have been called
They are not less the soul of France
as these Good Will travellers testifv
The awful desolation which faced
the returning peasants of the devas-
tated regions when the last guns
spoke in 1918 would have utterly dis
heartened any ordinary breed of men
and women. Here were trenches and
barbed wire and shells where had
been homes-a rose-bush in a she'll
hole blooming alone to mark a vii
lage. Nowhere has there been hest
tation or faltering. The dangerous
task of clearing and leveling the land
is we'll on it's way toward completion.
With all France aiding, the rebuild
ing of the destroyed and shattered
homes has been commenced. In the
midst of horror and appalling wreck
these farmers of France are iaboring
to-day, men, women and children, an
example of steadfast heroism such as
the world has rarely seen.
1t is TO rebuild the homes of these
families that the French first of all
demand that Germany pay. The
SHINES offer is hopeful sign that
Germany is awakening to the fact
that here at any rate is plain de-
mand of justice and humanity which
no nation can ignore and deserve the
respect of a civilized world.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
The House Where Monroe Died

In supporting the movement to
purchase the house in which James
Monroe died the Sulgrave Institute
is doing a service to the City of New
York as we'll as to the country.
This house, at Prince and Lafay-
cite streets, once in a fashionable
residential district, is now threat
ened with destruction in order to
make way for new loft buildings and
offices. 1t is in a dilapidated con-
dition, covered with signs and ad-
vertisements, and used as storage
place for rags and rubbish. The
fine old doorway, with its two Colo
NAL pillars, is falling to pieces, and
inside, the freplaces and few rem
nants of oldtime decorations are
broken and SCARED.
1t is a small house, two stories
high, with dormer windows, front
ing on Prince Street, with side and
kitchen wing in Lafayette Street.
As an architectural specimen it pos
sesses no unusual merit, but it is
good example of the residences built
at the beginning of the last century.
There were once many others like it,
but most of them have gone down be-
fore the uptown rush of enormous
loft and Office buildings. Even if
the house had no special claim to
fame it would deserve being pre-
served as a type of the New York
home of century ago.
Monroe moved into this house only
a year before he died. 1t was then
the property of his son-in-law, Sam
uel L. Gouverneur. The last years
of the fifth Presidents life were
neither as prosperous nor as happy
as might have been wished, and wher
he came to live with the Gouver-
neurs in 1880 his health was failing
and most of his strength spent. He
died there at $3.50 o'clock on the
afternoon of July a, 1881, at the age
of seventy-two.
We have been too careless in the
preservation of historic landmarks.
Many houses full of historic interest
have been allowed to be destroyed
because sufficient interest to pre-
serve them was lacking. Fortu-
nasely the directors of the Sulgrave
Institute have begun in time in the
case of the house where Monroe
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
A Contrast

s"e pennsylvania Railroad Com
ss4s mas recorded the gratifying
IS mat in the year ended Nav 81
n. n mere was not one passenger
~ N a train accident on it's en-
ssssein. The Pennsylvania sys-
comprises more than 11,ooo
q road, and carried 152,O00,-
passengers in the year.
a August grand jury in this
reported that in July last on
Sseets of this city eighty-one
,,.s y We're killed in automobile
ss..s ssnss and that in the first six
81 : Of this year 21s persons
n hus killed, making a total of
s, 2l2 days. Timorous people
- &. . think that railroad travelling
) dangerous. 80
~. sa a contrast suggests some
81, sas inquiries. Is the govern
iii, s .nis city and state as solic-
.,'a,. aa efficient in safeguarding
S0'ie IS is the directorate of
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
A Pseudo Victory

One of the orators at the Wilkes
parre anthracite miners convention
mid his hearers that Mr.. Lewis's vic.
nrv oyer the operators was "the
reatest the laboring classes have
.xar won" No one can deny the
~lners' leader victory in the po-
ltical and personal sense. He had
sis way. The operators in both hard
nal and soft coal fields had to bow
b his dictation.
But a political victory is one thing
and an economic victory another. A
yolitical victory may be accompanied
bv enormous economic loss. Mr..
lewis's prestige as a labor czar has
been greatly enhanced. But it has
zbeen enhanced at the expense of the
public, Of the coal industry as a
whole and even of the mine workers.
A cynical delegate complained that
every miners family had incurred,
on the average, a debt of $700 dur
ing the FIVE months strike, in addi-
ton 10 the loss of five months wages.
The one year contract at the old
scale, be said, would not allow the
men to lay up enough funds to strike
again in September, 1928, if re-
mwaI Of war wages was then OBJ
Il ated to. Set alongside this bitter
4 Fgth eulogies of the Lewis leader
Ap are unconvincing.
4 The fact is that the politically sue
tsssful miners strike of 1922 was
Undertaken and carried through by
men who were victims of an eco
nomic delusion. The coal industry
can thrive only through adequate
Production. Wages cannot be paid,
overhead charges cannot be met and
profits to the operators cannot be
assured unless all the coal there is a
demand for is dug and sold. Every
body concerned in the industry is
made poorer when the mines are
ecsed down to thrash out quarrel
involving questions of prestige and
union labor politics even more than
of wages and working conditions.
Other industries are necessarily
aHected by a coal shortage. The
e0untry's productive capacity is low
efed Less wealth is created for
general distribution. The losses oc-
easloaed by such voluntary idleness
s4ilsios be made up. The coal oper-
asors and workers may try to recoup
themselves by raising prices, but
q 'nls instance the federal govern
es''s and the state governments have
sepped IN to prevent extortion. Ger
M'aiy the whole cost of the strike
sAaaot be passed along to the public.
aug Il It were, the only result would
: Q raise the cost of living to every
sous, The economic waste of the
s'tase would still be unacceptable.
4 iae coal strike was an unnecessary
- mdefensible affliction. Every
WY else had to lose in order that
y Lewis might win. The laudi-
gAs Of his lientenants cannot blind
rank and file of the miners to
4 q y iace that even they already have
4 s. sn more for that victory than it
y ever be worth to them.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Germany. That is q good illustration
of the lack of confidence.

They do not seem to fear France or
4 French invasion. 1t is their own
government they fear. Speaking of
France, let me assure you that the Ger
man hatred of France is unlike any
thing else in the world. 1t is apart
and aloof from any other hate ever
cngendered at any time or anywhere,
and in Germany it is shared by the
bumblest and the highest. That is the
one common ground upon which all
classes unite and agree.
Another s'Der Tag
The spirit of hate has been so deeply
instilled in the German mind, genera
tion after generation, and that hatred
has been so focused and centered upon
France that 1t can never he eradicated.
even by the sword. They will fight
France again and just as soon as it is
possible for them to do so, whether
their government be republic, monarchy
or bolshevik. 1t Is the one thing they
dream about, on which they even APP
proach the idealistic. They live now
to fight France some time. There can
be no doubt about that. They do not
conceal their intentions, nor do they
try to. The shop girl will tell you
that "the next time" they will crush
the French. The merchant will say:
Zach! the Frenchl SwinehundI Their
day is conning-we do not forget" The
banker and the professional man will
say: Eyes, we lost the war, but the
next war will be different. England .
ind France already have parted COM
rany, and neither England nor America
will fight again for France"
Every German with whom have dis
cussed the matter is firmly OF the be-
lief that Germany exists principally
for the purpose of crushing France.
That is the ultimate. All they are do
ing now is to accomplish that end.
They do not in the least conceal their
aim. I never believed it was possible
for hate to be so deeply imbedded in
people. They are paying reparations,
or have been paying them, and as they
do so the people chuckle to themselves
and say: eve will get it all back with
good interest when the time comes.
There is to be another Der Tag"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
The Panama Treaty

The proposal TO negotiate q new
treaty with Panama has q greater
significance than would attach to any
mere change in the details of our re-
lationship with that country. 1t is
understood that the new instrument
will supersede both the Hay-Bunau
Varilla treaty of 1903 and the Taft
Amador agreement of 1904, and that
it will be somewhat more favorable
to Panama than they are The MAX
ing of it will doubtless be peculiarly
gratifying to President Porras as
vindication Of his policy, for he was
strongly opposed to both of the exist
ing compacts.
The changes will not impair the
fundamental principles of American
control of the canal and the Canal
Zone. What is most interesting is
the manner in which they will be
made. When the Hay-Bunau Varilla
treaty was concluded there were
many who declared it practical act
of annexation, or at least q certain
prelude thereto. The United States
would thereafter, they were sure,
dictate more and more arbitrarily
to the isthmian republic until the
last vestiges of its independence
were gone and it was purely sub
ject territory.
Such, however, has not been the
case, and now this country, instead
of increasing, is actually considering
relaxing it's authority over Panama,
and will make a readjustment of re-
lations not by arbitrary dictation but
by mutual negotiation, just as
though it were treating with ore of
the greatest powers of the world.
After nearly score of years
Panaman independence is confirmed
rather than impaired.
A similar lesson is to be observed
with respect to Cuba. Twenty years
ago it was confidently predicted that
"Cuban independence" would be
treated by us as joke and that
more and more we would impose our
authority upon that island and med
die with its agairs until it should be
annexed outright. But that predic-
tion has not been verified. This
country has been increasingly reluc-
tant to intervene in Cuban affairs,
even in pursuance of its undoubted
treaty rights; it has more and more
regarded Cuba as an independent re-
public, and in the present mission OF
General Crowder it has much more
respect for Cuban sovereignty than
it had on more than one former occa-
sion.
Those two countries arc still, and
will always in sense be, "dependen-
cies" of the United States, though
scarcely more than they were for
half century while under Colombian
and Spanish sovereignty. But they
are feeling their dependence less ana
less as they make gratifying prog
rcss in the art of self-government.
-
IT, apsv-holon,;cal Moment
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
BERLIN, Aug. 90.

Dear Mr.. -: I have now been in
Germany about six weeks and lave had
time to look about bit and to get a
perspective on the people and on condi-
tions. l have been straight through
Germany, from Hamburg to Dresden,
by automobile, stopping off OCCASION
ally and getting acquainted. America
and no other country ever had such
crops as we saw everywhere. We did
not see an acre of ground that was not
producing something. If it was too
sandy or rocky for rye, wheat and
similar crops there were pine trees
growing in an orderly Manner. all set
out in rows and being prepared for
lumber for industrial purposes or for
firewood. If the land was too swampy
for grain it was producing something
else.
Every one was working, and work
ing hard. Old women and little chill
dren in the fields, men on the roads
and in the factories; no idle and closed
factories; every one running at full
tilt and producing merchandise of one
kind or another. Even the dogs--and
Germany has more dogs than Heinz
has beans--were working. Many, many
times one sees man or woman or
small child harnessed up alongside a
dog in drawing loaded wagon We
learned that milch cows are permitted
to Craze until o'clock in the evening
and then usually are hitched to a
wagon to haul load of farm produce
to town.
The rural districts are dotted with
factories which poke their tall red
smokestacks far above the surrounding
country and which are located in those
places to absorb the rural population
in labor.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
More About James Fisk Jr.
From a Fellow-Vermonter Who as a
Boy Saw the Orange Riot

boy CaW the orange fNQS
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Frederick A. Hubbard's letter
SGone Where the Woodbine Twineth"
proved very interesting reading to us
"old fellers" 1t is in the main per-
fectly correct as to the private life of
Jim Fisk jr., really interesting and
brilliant character.
Coming from Windham County, Yerr
mont, my family was thrown into i'm
mediate contact with not only James
Fisk jr.. but also with his father.
james Fisk sr. ran the peddier's cart,
assisted by his son, 1T journeyed, as
Mr.. Hubbard states, through southern
Vermont and New Hampshire, and
even into Massachusetts. Where the.
| three states border on one another and
near the Mohawk Trail at Greenfield
and Turner's Falls, Mass, was the
Fisks' old stamping ground. AS a boy
have heard of the Fisks and their
"doin's" at all these places.
At or near the close Of the Civil War
it is not strange that the sons of New
England, Jim Fisk jr. included, when
they emigrated to New York, should
have entered upon military career
as a side line, possibly In the old
old Company D, Captain Meschutt
commanding-in which the rank and
file were practically all Vermonters,
and nearly all of them knew James
Fisk jr. and his father before they left
the green hills. When. Jim Fisk ir.
looked around for "other fields to coH~
quer" the National Guard loomed up
as promising field for him TO enter.
He was colonel of the 9th Regiment,
and not that of the 69th, as Mr.. Hub
bard states. The seth at that time
was ably commanded by Colonel Cava-
nagh.
Colonel Fisk's money was of much
service to the 9th Regiment. He was
a fne-looking, dashing officer, but as
for military efficiency it is true that
he was rank failure. In the Orange
riots the entire National Guard of the
City of New York were ordered out.
The 9th Regiment Armory, In Twenty
sixth Street, near Seventh Avenue, was
near the scene Of the disturbance IN
Eighth Avenue extending from about
Twenty-third Street (Fisk,s Grand
Opera House) to about Twenty-seventh
or Twenty-eighth Street. AS a boy
recall seeing the 9th Regiment that
day, drawn up in line of battle at the
west curb on Eighth Avenue and Tween
ty-fourth Street. I was an eyewitness
of the volley from that regiment fol-.
lowing upon pistol shots fred at the
militia by the rioters.
The 9th did good service upon that
day. but they were minus their colo
mel. A report was circulated The next
day that Colonel Fisk was hit ON the
heel with a bullet as he stepped from
his carriage at the regimental armory,
his 4injury" being the first casualty
in the riot sustained by the New York
National Guard. | doubt whether he
even donned the blue and red uniform
Of the old 9th upon that eventfuI day.
He was no soldier. There is. however.
no doubt that his meteroic career ere
ated sensation in those days-even
in 'little old New York.
EDGAR H. FOX.
Also an ex-non-com. Of the list
Regiment, N. G. N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
To the Editor of The Tribune.

u eAe Eultor OF ne lr1Dune.
Sir: The following is very in
formative letter from Berlin received
by me on the 4th inst. l venture to
believe that it will be of great in
terest to your readers.
Those parts which would identify
the writer have been omitted, but I
may mention that he was formerly
on the editorial staff of one of the
great New York dailies, which ac-
counts for his lucid style.
CHARLES STEWART DAWSON.
New York, Sept. 6, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

aled, and If their plans are success
ful they will be able to open il as a
memorial on the hundredth anniver-
sary OF the proclamation of the doc
trine which has made Monroe's name
famous for all time.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
9 great corporation? Ii not, why

9 great corporation? III not VIII,
not?
Does the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company permit a man guilty Of
ten, twenty or thirty violations of
lts rules to continue running a pas
senger engine? Of course not; else
is could not have such a record for
safety. But the grand Jury cited
ene case of chauffeur who had q
record of thirty violations of tho
traific law and was still licensed to
drive 4 car! ~
Inc contrast in mortality is
equally a contrast in efficiency of
administration. -
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
THE TRAMps

TSHE tramps stink in at half-past feus
in the sweet summer weather,
and stretch upon the grass and snors
peaceably all together.
They look like litter on the grass
and not like sleeping men
that life-the feaster-dropped and has
not tidied up again.
HUMBERT WOLFE.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Vespers
-lFrom The Centuyy)

+fFrom The Century,
Or THREE
Who satin the dooryard sun,
One said -T'd like a hill
When this is. done,
A place where / can look around,
Provided I'm not sleeping sound"
And one:
"Hill or vale, what's that to mef
Id like a place beneath tree,
And when the spring is hereabout,
I'd climb up with the sap and shouks
But the third said;
af'li take the dip
In the old wood lot,
Where can lie in peace and rot
Until, some day, as those things go,
Some one will pinch my dust, just so,
And say, WHY, man, this stuff will
growi'"
ALBERT FREDERICK WILSON.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
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driver in New York would cost me at
least SO cents.
In the large cities conditions are diff
ferent from those in the, rural districts.
There is no idleness, but in the cities
there is great waste of man power
because Of the socialistic government.
There are vastly more public employees
than the Kaiser ever thought of, hav-
ing. Every public building is swarming
and overflowing with job holders and
tell you it keeps the Reichsbank
printing presses busy twenty-four
hours day turning out paper marks
with which to pay them. These office
holders, and there seem to be mil
lions of them, are of the new regime
and for all the world they physically
look like our New York brand Of young
hare-brained socialists.
Those of the old regime, according
to their strata in society, are the mer-
chants, the shopkeepers, and many of
them, reduced in estate, are the shop
workers. Or rather, the shop workers
mostly are those of dull intelligence
who failed to get aboard the band
wagon when the revolution gave them
the opportunity. l have talked with
mapy of them. They are sullen lot.
Few of them openly advocate violence
at this time, but ali declare that if the
mark keeps on sinking into the depths
they must quit work. What's the
use?" they ask, "The mark won't buy
anythin p--why work for II ~
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