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New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
Mr.. Kenyon and the Bloc

The effort TO dramatize Senator
Kenyon's appointment to a Federal
1udgeshlp doesn't carry much con-
vlctlon. Senator Harrison, of Missis-
sippi. and others have paraded the
henyon nomination as crafty raid
on the leadership resources of the
Congressional farm bloc. The Iowa
Senator was the head of the bloc sec
ton IN the upper house, called
Jocosely the "Ken-Kap klan.' Presi
dent Harding is now credited with
having tactfully interned him in a
/ ederal circuit court.
This explanation Of the appoint
nent is fanciful. It docs little JUS
tice to Mr.. kanyon's intelligence or
personal motives. 1t is unbecoming
OF the farm bloc Senator's even to in
tlmHte the reproach: Just for an
$500 Federal judgeship he left u.s.
Mn. kenyon has for some time past
had an ambition to sit on the Federal
bench. He considered taking a Fed
sral district judgeship last year. He
frankly prefers judicial service to
Senatorial service.
Why. then, try to sensationalizc
his retirement from the Senate as
the hnination Of deep political
intrigue? The error into which Mr..
Harrison and his imltators fall is in
assuming that the farm bloc has
been taking on the characteristics Of
a new political party. The Southern
Democrats, who are SO largely repre-
sented IN t. like to think of it as the
nucleus Of new party organization.
They have no idea of joining it them
selves, for they viii remain Demo
crats. regardless Of any political or
economic views which they might
hold in ommoN with a new farmers
party.
Mr.. Kenyon, no doubt, realizes as
well as any one else in Washington
that The present farm bloc must re-
main temporary bipartisan combi-
nation for certain ends. These ac-
complished through an exercise Of
the balance of power which it holds
in Congress, it Will dissolve. Each of
the bloc's constituent elements is
more at home in it's own party than
it would be in association with the
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

neither the activities of war nor
the labors of statccraft were per-
mitted to blunt his interest in
poetry. the drama. music and pic
torial art. An aristocrat Of aris-
tocrats. his human sympathies were
keen and unfailing, and he dis
played that unaffected democratic
spirit which not infreQucntly has in
aristocracy its most perfect type.
In America he will be re-
membercd with deep regard. That
will be not merely because of the
delightful impression which his en-
gaging personality produced during
his visits to this country, but also
because of his unfaiing faith in our
friendship for Japan and because
of his insistencc upon maintaining
the most cordial relations between
the two countries. Ever since as a
youth he witnessed Pcrry's "opcn-
ing OF Japan, he was Americas s
best friend in the island empire.
I'VE Japanese, he said, "have
always looked upon you as our
great and good friend. You arc
sort Of mother country to US. The
Japan of to-day is a child of
America His was public spirit,
in both national and international
affairs, which Japan and the world
could i'll afford to loose, and which
even in his death they will not lose,
because of the indclihlc impress
which it has made upon them
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

other in new party. The time ism t
ripe for fusion of the agricultural
South with the agricultural West,
for the South isn't ready as yet to
come out Of its sectional shell and to
liberaize ard Amcricanize its poll
tics.
The farm bloc is entitled to do
what it can to improve the hard con-
ditions from which agriculture is
now suffering. 1t can perform its
mission if it remains interpartisan.
The questions with which it deals
have no genuine partisan character
Mr. Kenyon advertises this fact in
leaving the bloc He could not well
have left it with self respect if he
had considered the Ike kap klan'
the forerunner Of new and power
full third party.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
The Baconian Obsession

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your Moliere editorial com
mentlng upon the fact that the great
French dramatist has recently suf-
fered the fate Of Shakespeare in be-
ing included in the category Of authors
who didn't write their own wr;+;noa
you attempt to show the folly Of sup
posing that Bacon would conceal his
authorship of the Shakespearcan plavs
IN a cypher so elaborate as TO be unde-
clpherable You forget, apparently,
that lgnatius Donnelly has deciphered
1t, and that the results of his deciphera-
Non' so to speak, are set forth in q
portentously bulky volume entitled
The Great Cryptogram."
Before pronouncing final judgment on
this cipher question you should read
that work, though if you are a man
OF advanced years and have ANYTHING
else to do you could hardly spare the
time.
Are you not mistaken in YOUR
reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne as
assisting Della Bacon in her Baconian
propaganda? I have not Our Old
Home at hand for reference. but NV
recollection is that Hawthorne speaks
Of Miss Bacon in that work as one
whose obsession he pities and deplorcs.
But perhaps you refer to some other
Hawthorne than the author of the
Scarlet Letter." and now that | think
OF 1t seem to remember that there
was judge Of that name who took
stock in the Baconian theory.
| suppose that more msdirectcd in
eenuity has been expended on the at
tempt to prove that Shakespeare didn't
write his own plays than upon all
other subjects since the world began.
and the various theories attributinp
them to other writer's are on par for
good sense and perspicacity with the
theory of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs
O'Flaherty shat Shakespeare was born
IN Cork. c. 0. YOUNG.
Milford, Pa, Jan. 80, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
The Bonus Burden
Legion Member Opposes Measure As
Likely to Prolong Hard Times

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: May |. through Your columns,
protest against the action of the Amer
lean LEGION which seems to me un-
warranted. in advocating the soldiers
bonus bil' As member of the Amer
lean Legion and Of tho North Sea Mine
Force association, who served ahoat in
the so-cnlled 'suicidc fleet" during its
entire wartime activities in the dan
ger zone request tho privilege Of
expressing my views. which, it seems
to me-. must also be the honest, if un-
expressed. opinion Of thinking men, in
cuding the officers of the Legion itself.
In its demand for the bonus the Le-
gion seems to be disregarding the vel
fare of the nation, blinded bv ava
ricious arguments which have some
how been made 10 appear as if coming
from the majority of Legion MEMBERS
Despite the warning so honestly, cour-
agcously and patriotically voiced by
Secretary Mellon, the Legion proceeds
TO urge the passage of bill which will
add TO the financial burden under
which wo are staggering, and will sue
coed only in prolonging. by additional
taxation, the hard times and conse-
qucnt unemployment.
The Legion spokcsmcn mention the
$1,000 jobless ex-seryice men in New
York City who would be benefited bv
the bonus do not deny their need.
but should like to know how many Of
these same men can trace the cause Of
their unemployment. directly or indi-
rccty, TO their wartime service, in
most cases completed three years ago.
How many of them had not already ex
perlenced the same unemployment dur
ing similar hard time periods before
the war?
But granting their worthiness. as
we'll as their indubitable need. can we
not aid these unfortunate men more
directly and less eXpensively? Must
we pay bonus to about 100000 men
who saw some kind of service. the
great ajority of whom are employed
and able to care for themselves finan-
clally IN order to alleviate the suffer
ings of the $4,000, or only 1ls per cent.
who are unemployed?
1t seems to me that this is n time
when we should all practice self-sacri-
fce and national economy in order to
bring about the return Of good times,
with the accompanying jobs for the
Jooless and prosperity for the nation
as a whole. Let US forget our own
pockets; let us aid the unemployed in
direct and practical manner; let Ms
tell the American people and our gov
eminent in Washington that our war
service was thing too sacred to be
repaid by monetary compensation.
REDINGTON FISKE JR.
New York, Jan. %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
California Sunshine
That Mans From the East-He's
Carrying an Umbrella!"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: On the subject of Pacific
Coast temperature l have observed that
palm trees flourish in the open air at
least as far north as Sacramento.
where they may be seen in the beauti-
full grounds surrounding the state
Capitol. In some adjacent localities,
such IS Alameda, on San Francisco Bay,
the streets in the residential district
are lined with them, which sufficiently
disposes of the assertion that Cali
fornia has cold climate.
I have visited the state six times,
always in the month Of August, Sep
tember or October. and not once have
I suffered either from excessive heat
or unreasonable cold, though I was
informed by resident of Monterey
that it is sometimes actually warmer
there in January than in July. 1t is
a great pleasure at time when New
York is usually sweltering to be able
to indulge in long tramps without the
slightest discomfort and to sleep under
a light blanket at night. In regions
adjacent to the desert, as at Red
lands, it is of course warmer than
along the coast.
San Francisco and Monterey have
their sea fogs, but they rarely last
long. If you are New Yorker visit
ing Los Angeles for the first time you
awake in the morning to find the sky
overcast and you think it is going to
rain, but before 10 o'clock the "high
fog" as the natives term it, Is COM
pletely dissipated, and you get per-
feet arch Of blue for the rest Of the
day. On my first visit in 1905, as
stood in line in the Huntington Build
ing, at Sixth and Main, to purchase a
ticket to Santa Catalina Island, heard
woman behind me remark to her COM
panion: "That mans from the East.
He's carrying an umbrella"
l cannot speak from personal OK
perience Of the winter climate, but .
friend wrote me from Los Angeles on
New Years Day, 1918, at time when
the thermometer here was at IL or
10 degrees below zero, that flowers
were in bloom in the parks and that he
found it unnecessary to wear an over
coat. believe there is usually "rose
carnival" at Pasadena about that time.
New York, Jan. 81, 1922. AE. C.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
The Little Entente 8 Fright
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune of January 25
appears an article from Paris giving
an account of the frantic appeals" of
the Little Entente to the big one, ask
ing to be saved from the supposed de-
signs of the former Empress Of Aus
tria. Have Charles and Zita, then, so
large a following or are they so for
midable in themselves that the mere
presence Of the latter in any part Of
Europe sends the Statesmen" of the
new nations into blind panic?
No wonder that NJ. Poincare, with his
clear French head and quick sense Of
the absurd, hastened to declare officially
that France had no share in such a
silly performance!
NJ. A. HOWARD.
Aurora-on-Cayuga. N. Y, Jan. rs, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
Seeming a Hyphen
New York, Feb. !, 1922.
Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS consistent and vehement
enemy of "German-American" and
Irish-American" hyphenism, feel
justified in protesting against such
British -American" hyphenism as ap-
pears in the letter by S. H. Harary in
your columns this morning.
Colonel Roosevelt was too good an
American, and too pronounced in his
own denunciation Of the hyphenate at
titude, to have approved Of any sup
port given to him in American politics
on so irrelevant a ground as the ex-
preston of his views with reference
to English rule in Egypt. Moreover
II his son inherits the stalwart Ameri,
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
The Birthday

A cable to the New Yorker
staats-Zeitans' contained interest
ing information concerning the COM
ments Of the Berlin press on the
former kaiser's sixty third birthday.
The general feeling seems to be that
ne is still German Emperor and King
of Prussia.
The "kreuz-Zeitung." which re.
produces the Iron Cross with the
motto, with God for King and
Fatherland,' declares that the kaise,
was compelled to abdicate by traitors
and false counselors, adding: For
US royalists, the oath of fidelity
which we took still remains, and we
renew it until DEATH In the opin-
ion of the "Kreuz-Zeitung," the ne.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
Fewer Deaths by Alcohol
Anti-Saloonist Finds Encouragement
in Comparative Figures

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Bird s. Colcr, Commissioner Of
Public Welfare, performs a valuable
service when he calls attention to the
excessive amount of whisky allowed for
so-caled medicinal purposes.
Mr.. Coler's statement, however, re-
garding the prevalence Of alcoholism
should not cause alarm or discourage
ment to those who believe in prohibi-
tion as social welfare measure.
We all know that any and every old
souse is likely to be picked up by the
police to-day and pumped out and
watched for signs of alcohol poisoning.
A few years ago only those drunks were
sent to hospitals and jails whom the
policemen had time and disposition to
handle.
Because of the publicity rightfully
given to poison liquor the tendency
now is to send any individual remotely
hospital for observation. This is q
wise precautionary measure, but nat
urally it results in an increase of the
number of hospital cases reported as
alcoholic.
Suspicion Of alcoholism on account
of the poisoned liquor is in almost in
verse ratio to the number Of drunks;
in other words, the fewer drunks there
are the more reason to suspect them
of being victims of wood alcohol.
The real test of the amount Of drunk
cnness is not the number committed
for observation, because scores of these
would in the old days have been
stacked up in tiers in the police sta
tions to sleep it off, but the number
Of fatalities.
A few years ago, when a sense of
consideration for mans family caused
medical men to ascribc any possible or
contributing cause of death rather
than alcoholism, the registered death
rate from this cause in New York City
was from six to seven times what it IS
day. For instance, in 1916 there
were, according to figures reported by
the medical examiner of the New York
City Board of Health, 6S7 deaths from
alcoholism, while in 1921 there were
only SO. In 1920 the number was 90.
Compare this with any e-prohibition
year, when the number ranged (from
1910 to 1879 from 621 to 1852.
Last year the number of deaths from
wood alcohol in New York City was 16,
making a total of 102 deaths due to
alcohol-the lowest total death rate
from this cause since 1910.
To sum up, the actual deaths In the
pre- prohibition year of 1916 from ordi
nary, everyday, good. pre-war hootch
was somewhat over six times the total
number Of deaths reported last year
from drinking all kinds of liquor, in
cluding liquid fire, "smoke" and wood
alcohol ORVILLE S. POLAND,
Counsel for Anti-Saloon League Of
New York
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
The Wrong Method

No longer the criminal expert Of
France,
With fierce and Svengalic
expression,
Can put poor crook in a hyp-
motto trance
And thereby extort a confes-
No longer, whenever he happens
to think
That a man would be willing
to burgle.
Can he COW him with wink after
bulldozing wink
Till his weakness he OWLS
with a gurgle.
Time was when man who
was thought to have done
A plain or a fancy garroting,
Who an illicit wine shop had
brazenly run
Or was summonsed for illegal
voting,
Was clamped in a chair, while
another mans eye
Was fixed on his face. till. all
witty
And shrunken and droopy and
ready to die,
He wearily owned himself
guilty.
The scheme was good one
wherever applied,
Wherever crime was COM
The prisoner owned it before he
was tried,
And no one was ever acquitted.
However, its lately been put to
the test,
And a doubt of its worth has
arisen,
For they find that the innocent
only confessed
While the guilty all kept out
Of prison.
For only a person who isn't
crook
Will submit to the hypnotic
power;
A rascal will stare at each with
ering look
With never cringe or a
cover.
The experts declare the new
method to-day
Is foolish and futile and silly,
SO they seek for confessions tho
old-fashioned way
BY knocking 'em down with
billy.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
Home Rule

The defeat. in it's infancy. Of the
Cuvillier home rule bill ct Albany
Is not an indication that the Legis-
lature is opposed to genuine home
rule for New York. While Il we'll
selected and able charter commits
sion is at work upon new charter,
half-baked charter amena.sits by
the Legislature would serve only as
stumbling blocks to progress.
The people Of New York are ca
pable of running their own affairs
and are desirous of running them.
But they want a charter which viii
give them genuine home rule. not
permission by the Legislature to
conduct such departments OF their
own affairs as the Legislature from
time to time may see fit.
Il IS to be hoped that before the
present session Of the Legislature
concludes its labors the Charter
Commission will have submitted its
recommendations in such a form
that they can be presented as a
charter amendment.
The city ought to have control of
It's transit lines, Of its piers. of it's
Police and Fire departments. of its
streets and sewers and hospitals and
prisons. SO long, however. as there
remains a possibility of Tammanv
government there must be appeal
to the Legislature Otherwise con-
dltions would soon become intolcr-
able.
Only by appeal to Albany could q
comprehensive plan for subway ex
tension be obtained; only by act of
the Legislature would the piers.
which have been very badly mis-
handled, be put into the hands of
competent and public spirited men.
Any charter, to be acceptable TO
intelligent people and to be useful
to the city itself, must necessarily
include the Transit Commission and
the Port Authority Home rule does
not necessarily mean rule by one
man government-the one man be-
ing the Mayor. It means rule bv
the people Of New York through
representatives best qualified to do
the particular work they are set
to do.
The Mayor has no reason to be
Jealous of the members of the Tran
SIT Commission nor of the members
OF the Port Authority. These men
are just as interested in good govern
ment IN New York as he saws he is
and are by capacity and experience
better qualified than he is to manage
the affairs which have been intrust-
cd to them. Instead of resentine
their authority and seeking to block
lhelr every action, the Mayor should
be grateful that duties which be
does not understand have been com.
mltted to more competent hands.
The work of the charter commits
sion is Of the highest Importance to
the people just now The commits
sion deserves every assistance. both
at home and in Albany. The Lepis-
lature will do we'll to suppress anv
measures which tend to hamper a
harmonious charter plan.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
'opyrlght. 1872. New Yorl

canism and belief in the underlying
principles Of democracy which made
the elder Roosevelt illustrious he will
be foremost in condemning any argu
ment that his advancement should be
due to his fathers merits, and not to
his own. If he deserves to be Gov
ernor it must be solely on his own ac-
count. JAMES F. MORTON JR.
New York, Jan. %, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
A Transposed Grievance

(From The Indianapolis NewT
Farmers kick because they get ..
few dollars for the food they sell al"
the consumer kicks because he gcts ~
little food for his dollars.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
A Pleasant Thought

fFro'n The Kansas City Tfmss)
AS Mr.. Lloyd George sees other pre-
miers come and 60 it must give MIN
great comfort to reflect upon the so91f
and basic conservatism of the Bss9
character.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
A F amiliar Event
{ From Tie Boston Trnnsc,

fFrom The Boston Tronscr,rD
Economic conferences are nothing
new in American life. They take place
IN multitude of households as often
a S the monthly bills arrive.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
Judging by Results

Among the new idle rich may b
numbered prohibition enforcement
officers
Copyright by James J. Montagus)
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
SupcrcroqatOry

We can think Of nothing more fool
ish than to say that people who drink
wood alcohol ought to die. They al
days do.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

And we lift our voice above the rat
tic Of revolver shots and the concussion
of exploding safes to demand whether
any one has thought Of investigating
the part the munitions manufacturers
are playing in this non-cxistent epi-
dcmc of iniquity.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
Poker Requiems

Oh, who can speak without blush
In praise Of Ezra True!
When he displayed black card flush,
He always cried: Call blue!"
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
The 7ower
EMANCIPATION

EMANCIPATION
When have sung the song Of songs
And lie at last in sleep,
Seek not to bind me with the thongs
OF earth, and do not weep.
But carry me to the high hill
And let my body lie;
For wind and rain to have their will
Beneath the open sky
Where one by ono their healing
hands
Shall slowly set me free,
That l may tread the lonely lands
And sing beside the sea
MABEL WMES SIMPSON.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

In the face Of Commissioner En-
rights dcnials, Hippockcttease dares to
announce in clarion tones that New
York has evidently permanent crime
wave.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
Boosting Homo Industry

The elevation Of VIII Hays to the
movie chieftainship ought to be big
thing for all those Indiana writer's.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
The Cop Appears in the Next Issu,

Fe N0P HPPNUfo III tftc -NcAt InoUc
+. F. ": Can you explain the signifi-
canoe of the following: The frontis-
piece of the January % issue of "The
Dearborn Independent" depicts an au-
tomobile drawn up on the left side of
the street and almost directly in front
of water hydrant. MAC.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
81 Rreathed a Song

With sweat and pain made my lay;
| strove with PASSIONS fire to sing;
| wcpt myself, so deft the way
| pluckcd upon my lutte each string.
And no one ever said thing
| cast all purpose high aside;
For lyric worth l tried no more:
| let my rhyme and meter slide,
And all the winds that reached me bore
The self same comment as before.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
vr>rrn or ruE ASSOCIATED PRESS

t. Associated prrs< IS l-usivcy entitled 10
the use fcs republication o, spatches
ersf.ti .o 5. ~ rc' Otherwise credited this
rt.-f rrl Asp f,r l.-al - sgou' 'sncc'is
Aa lis' 5 o. --runeA,.on Ok ,u other matter
re-s.. reserved
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

Is it possible that De Valera has gone
to India?
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

The erudition of Samuel A. Halsey.
who answered all Of Mr.. Edison's ques-
tions. disturbs us b-t little. We sit
and grin in intellectual darkness at the
news that he has just married.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
THE LIMIT IN PRECOClTY

She born in 1887 at Cochrane
Mills, Armstrong County. Pa. and began
newspaper work while quite young. In 1887
she Joined the World staff-The World.
We doubt the veracity of the seisnto-
graphs which report q heary earthquake
somewhere. Probably several of us
happened to sneeze is unisou
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
THE PULE-PROVING EXCEPTION

That bum sport who insnuated that
mcrcenaries abounded on certain Mid
die West football teams has descended
further into iniquity. The rotter has
gone and proved it.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

"Ainf reforms monderfuI|' demands
Uncle Abimclcch Bognrdus. Of Prcnh-
ness, N. ]. "Hcrc we're sauin' by pro-
hibtion almost half enough to pav fo,'
en}orcin IT,"
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02

Maybe the demand Of the police for
tear gas is only their attempt to coun-
teract the effect Of the Mayors fare
we'll message.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-02
LlIAR ANY

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