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New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
The Tariff Agreement

In The Tribune's view it was un-
fortunate that this Congress COM
mitted itself to permanent tariff re-
vision. Conditions in 1921 were
highly unfavorable to scientific ad-
justment Of rates. They have been
hardly more favorable in 1922. The
time has manifestiy not yet come
for that intelligent accommodation
OF tariff rates TO world conditions
which the Republican platform of
1920 promised.
The Fordney bill, which the House
passed more than year ago, was
step taken in the dark. The Nc
Cunber bill, which the Senate passed
last month, also showed little en-
lighteneds appreciation of the real
purposes of q protective tariff. The
true Republican doctrine of protec-
tion was warped in both these
measures.
Now we have a conference report
which represents an Interviewing of
two scales OF duties, both high and
both drawn with an eye to politics
rather thar economics. The last bill
of this pattern-the Payne-Aldrich
act--did not live long enough to test
its economic possibilities fairly. But
its political value was promptly
tested, with results highly disastrous
to the party responsible for it.
The past frequently repeats itself.
II may not do so this year.. But
should it not--should political dis
aster be averted-there will still re-
main little economic excuse for the
passage of bill, premature and
speculative in character, whose work
could be done far better by the ex-
isting emergency tariff law.
The Republican party and the
! country would both be lucky if the
permanent revision, now in it's ad-
vanced form, should somehow fail.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
What Readers Are 7hnhing

would be able to point out to him
many things he does not understand,
such as that the home is unhappy be-
cause of malnutrition of children
through the ignorance of the mother:
or mans pay is plenty for the whole
family 70 live on in comfort, but the
Vile is Ignorant of how to run her h ONE
on budget system.
a social worker quickly teaches
these things, and in so doing brings
happiness to many a workingman's 8
nome. What a different feeling would
grow up between worker and emnlovcr
Wnen, on one side, was seen a desire
not only TO pay fair wage hut 10
be of real help in solving the troubles
q NE; and, on the other side, ths
silent thanks shown by loyalty because
one has found "a good man.
Ihe Christ has told us to slove YOUR
brother as Yourself No man can
understand this until he can see both
what has brother suffers and the good
that ss in him, The man who EMPLOYS
only a few would find rich reward
by visiting their homes with the de-
sire TO be one Of them. There can
not DO peace until we understand each
other and have a desire To ssrva ona
another. SAMrYEr. 4 wavsrp
Nsw York, Sept. 10, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
A Field for Social Workers

40 tne EQltor OF lhe Tribune.
Sir: At this time when we are all
suffering from the fact that capital and
labor are so far apart it is good to
look into every way that we can think
OF to bring them to closer UNDER
standing of each other.
should like to make a suggestion
to the men who employ large numbers
OF their fellow men, many of whom
know very little or nothing of the
lives of these men outside Of their
working hours. ] believe it is pos
sible for every man to have in his
Office detailed information about the
nome life Of his married men. Would
ne not look on a man who worked for
him every day with different ewes if
he realized the troubles that this man
may be carrying silently, feeling that
his employer was not interested in the
fact of sickness, ignorance or gome
trouble which made life SO hard for
him?
Well, how can an employer get
this information who has not the time
or faculty Of getting it FOR himself?
II the number of his EMPLOYEES e
large enough ] believe it would mora
than pay him to havo on his staff 4
trained social worker. Thia worker
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
Dickens on the Screen

To the Editor of The Tribune. &.
Sir; As q great admirer Of caas's,
Dickens and his works may =
attention to the vast wealth q
terial in his writings suitsbls s, 3
screen and stage production 8s'' s,
have seemingly been oy~er'ess~ ~
while need for greater and 81.
entertaining plays is constantly sss'
ing.
True. the stage has favored Y 81, s+,
"A Tale of Two Cities" and 19a's,
Twist" and the photo drama w 5
Expectations @our Mutuai fF'sg .
and David CopperAa,@Ar ~
nleriting fair amount of ssess's J,
nevertheless, it appears that news
Charles Dickens containing gS.
characters and problems of aa'
time, as modern to-day as ses's's..
have bees overlooked. For ins'ang, s,,,,
Hard Times,a Little poFEit.~ y
Curiosity shop "Barnaby apas, .s
and sBleak House, offer great s'sss
Of story and action. "A
Whas, wonderful phosealss arlx
what opportunities remain Y ia
Curiosity Shop" ssBlsak Aouss
Little Dorrit"! .,.x
HORACE GREELEY sk
Rssslle, ~. J.. Sept 10. lssS
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
conditions have been favor
ahfn 4hro,,cho1rf tha seaso,,

weather conditions have been favor
able throughout the season.
An abundance of food is therefore
assured for the coming year. But
it remains to be seen what effect this
will have upon prices. The lower
they are, of course, the greater the
dissatisfaction of the farmer. An
abundance pf crops that cannot be
sold except at less than cost means
continued misery for the producers,
Once more we may hear stories of
corn burned for fuel and of other
products ruined for lack of market.
For the consumer, however, present
prospects are good. Whatever the
difficulties in the business world, the
farming community seems to have
accepted at face value Mr.. Hoover's
remedy for most economic ills--to
get back to work with vengeance.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
The HALF Drawn Shade

Not long after my arrival in this
country was nearly thrown out of
a Brooklyn house by an ordinarily
most amiable lady, who had consented
to shelter and feed me at a price per
week so reasonable that ! have not the
heart to quote it in these days of more
exalted levels. The sole cause of her
lost temper was that I, quite innocent
ly, had raised the shade of a parlor
window to the top and left it there
for the sake of few more rays from
the waning winter sun.
DO you want people to take this
for cheap boarding house ?" she de-
rnanded with flashing eyes as she
jerked the offending shade down to
its proper median line. And I, fresh
ly come from country where shades
are wholly raised to let in the greatest
possible amount of light, or wholly
lowered to keep out all prying glances,
could do nothing but cape in hopeless
lack of comprehension.
Going West subsequently, found
Chicago differing from New York in a
hundred ways, but still united to it
in spirit by the law of the half-drawn
shade. Further westward still, as Y
followed the line of least resistance. /
found purse-proud Minneapolis con-
quering in the same sign. 1t the
same time found that, although dis
agreeing violently on every other
topic that could be raised, st. Paul
and Minneapolis proved themselves
true twin cities in the regulation of
their window shades.
Since then 1 have travelled wide and
far, noting many curious localisms.
but whether / stopped on Cape Cod
or in the shadow of the Rockies, under
the frs of Maine or the palms of
Florida. one feature Of the environ
ment remained invariable, and that
was the half-drawn window shade.
Thus, | knew myself safely contained
on American soil.
The Brooklyn lady's revelational re-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
No Striking Farmers

In spite Of declining prices and de-
creased earnings the farmers of the
country have not gone on strike. Ac-
cording to the Department Of Agri-
culture this years crops will exceed
last years in value by over billion
dollars. The acreage in some of the
important crops, it is true, is slightly
less than last year, but the yield is
greater and the gross value in
creased.
In other words, despite unpromis-
ing market conditions, the farmers
have been hard at work, bent on re-
coupling the losses of 1920 and 1921.
Not for them any haggling about
hours or reduced incomes. Their day
begins with the sun and ends after
dark, and to cut working hours
means to reduce incomes still
further. No farmers union can
force the soil to yield increased re-
turn.
Corn, cotton and hay head the pro-
duction list. Their aggregate value
is more than half Of the total value
OF the country's crops. Wheat and
potatoes, barley and tobacco show
considerable increases over last year.
and the apple crop promises to
doublssssh yield Of 1921. In general,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
In a Nutshell

Governor Miller dealt frankly in
his Johnstown celebration speech
with the root problem uncovered bv
the coal and rail strikes. The public
must have coal and must have trans
portation. Is it tolerable that groups
In these industries, to gain their self
ish ends, shall lay an embargo on
mining and train operation by not
only refusing themselves to dig or to
operate but by preventing others
from digging and operating?
MIR. Miller summed up the matter
when he said:
"The time has come when we arc
1ace to face with the proposition in
thls country as to whether our Amer
ican form of government is strong
enough, competent enough, to protect
the public in their necessities of life
from the effect of the disputes be-
tween particular groups of our peo-
pie.
"A man has right to say whether
ne VIII work or not, and aEy attempt
py the government to corSgel a man
TO work under conditions not to his
taste, not to his liking, would be, as
think Mr. Gompers has said, form
of slavery. But the right of a man
to work or not as he pleases does not
involve any right in him to say
whether his neighbor shall work or
not as he pleases, and while compul-
sion of labor nigh. be slavery, the
effort of any group of men to control
on nationwide scale the production
OF any essential article or to control
transportation and to say net only
whether they shall work but also
whether any one else shall work is
tyranny, and q free government can
not permit either slavery or tyr
amy"
Too much attention has been given
in the past to building up group
claims which infringe on individual
rights as we'll as on community
rights. A closed shop may be legiti-
mate enough SO long as those inside
it continue to produce. 1t loses its
meaning when they walk out and
then try to close the door against
others who are willing to enter. The
thing of real Importance is to keep
the shop going. 1t is one of the pri-
mary duties Of government to pre-
vent those who voluntarily go out
from standing at the exit and using
violence, intimidation or any other
form of coercion to keep the desert
ed shop empty.
That is all there is in the eosed
shop-open shop issue which Mr..
Daugherty has raised in the Federal
courts. It is an issue on which no
compromise with American tradi-
tions of liberty and order can be
considered.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
The School Disgrace

The City of New York is again
denying education to thousands of
her children. Mr.. Hylan is person
silly responsible for this condition,
but as the voters of the city placed
him in Office by an overwhelming
vote they are basically to blame.
Those children of the coming genera
tion who grow up half schooled must
condemn chiefly the people of New
York.
1t is especially calamitous that
half of the 100000 students in high
school should be on part time and
that hundreds are actually barred
out. People talk of encouraging
higher education and then deny it to
those eager seekers after knowledge
who form our high-school popula-
ton. In so doing they are often
denying college to those pupils who
most need q college education and
are best able to benefit thereby.
Cannot Mr.. Hylan swallow his
pride sufficiently TO admit his blum
der and apply the only possible So
luton, the work-study-play or Gary
plan? His blunder hits chiefly the
poor children of the city--families
with means can afford the expense
or private schools. Does Mr.. Hylan
think that his consistency in error
Is more important than the welfare
and future of hundreds of thousands
OF poor children?
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
No General Strike Craze

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribuae of this morning
I notice an editorial headed "a Change
of Heart" in which you say: "The
executive committee Of the American
Federation Of Labor has dropped the
idea of calling general strike as a
protest against the Attorney Generals
temporary injunction. This is
reaction toward common sense"
] think you are unintentionally doing
the American Federation of Labor a
great injustice in that statement.
There has been no Change OF
heart" and no reaction" There has
never for one moment been time
when the executive council Of the
American Federation of Labor would
consider seriously such a crazy idea or
even the idea of striking for one day.
There is no more likelihood Of such ac-
tion being taken by that organization
than there is of the National Manu-
facturers' Association considering a
national lockout as reprisal policy.
I saw headline last week Cnot In
The Tribune) which created the inn
preston that Samuel Gompers had
said he would recommend to the execu-
tive council the calling of general
strike, but the article itself showed
that what Mr.. Gompers had said, when
he was asked what he would do with
certain resolutions calling for a gen-
eral strike from the central labor
bodies, practically ali of them radical,
was that he would submit them to the
executive council of the American
Federation Of Labor AS president Of
that organization Mr.. Gompers could
have done no less; but not for one in
stant did he indicate the slightest ap-
'proval Of such policy, so far as I
have seen.
To my mind, one of the most signifi-
cant and wholesome features of these
strikes has been the discovery that the
Reds have cut practically no figure
in the affair except in sporadic
cases of sabotage and bomb throwing.
Moscow did not have finger in these
strikes, despite the great talk in the
Communistie, Socialist and Bolshevist
papers. There was no Conspiracy. be-
tween the miners and the railway shop
men. RALPH NJ. EAsLEY.
New York, Sept. ., 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12

curately fits Lord Balfour. But can
it be applied with equai honesty TO
a man who as Secretary of War
while we fought Germany hesitated,
blundered and muddled, and who
not only admitted that his depart
hlent was unprepared and in state
of confusion, but cheerfulIy ex-
planned that it was "a happy con-
fusion? The Britannica's bio
graphical notice may be unfriendly,
but it is not for that reason
inaccurate.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12


The World" Senator Borah and
others are castigating Rudyard
kipling for some remarks he is
credited with making to Mrs. Clare
Sheridan, one of the leading lights
in the new school of literary indis-
cretion. 1t would have spared Mr..
kipling some embarrassment if he
had read "My American Diary" be-
fore unbosoming himself to his
sprlghtly interviewer. But even
allowing for the possible inaccura-
cies and exaggerations of indirect
quotation, the statements attributed
to him about Americas role In the
war are much too waspish in tone
and are inaccurate in several par
ticulars.
, Yet the reaction in some quarters
TO these remarks seems overdrawn.
Mr.. Kipling has shown in his writ
lngs that ne is no great adnlrer of
America, of her spirit or institu-
tons. This antipathy has been long
discounted here. The Kipling whom
America has admired for years is
kipling the artist, not Kipling the
ultra-coionial Briton or Kipling the
poet of imperialism. The Kipling
of the World War was also figure
to attract genuine American sym-
pathy.
1T IS, OF course, pure emotionalism
to charge that the America which
went to the aid of the Allies and
enabled them to win the war merely
accumulated the gold of the world
while they saved their souls" The
soul-saving was confined to no ma
ton. The Allies were eager to bor-
row American money while fighting
for their own interests as well as
for civilization. They cheerfully
engaged to pay it back. We are
going to allow them to pay it back
at their convenience. There is no
room here for determinations as to
moral worth.
MIR. Kipling is also wrong when
ne says that the United States
forced the Allies to end the war too
soon. On the military side the
arrnistice was granted on the advice
OF France and Great Britain and
against the advice Of General Per-
shing. The German politicians and
public wanted to quit on any terms.
The arrnistice was equivalent to
surrender. There was no sound rea-
son for continuing the fighting.
But when Mr. Kipling says that
the United States entered the war
too late he is telling the truth. That
is perhaps the greatest offense which
he committed in the eyes of many
of bis critics. An Administration
which did not comprehend the war
stood in the way Of our sntering 1t
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12

A shade is q utilitarian thing that
we have nev9r managed TO raise iato
beauty. So it is, whether seen fror
within or without. It is q thing 70
hide when not actually needed Why
should it, day after day, year in and
year out, be gratuitously displayed b
million American homes regaTass
of what weather prevails or what sass-
ter of the compass they facet h
room with half-dr2wn shades the agis
strikes the eye from below, where y
is unprotected, and the eye suss1
doubiy, from too much direct ~.
where it is not needed and frea =
sufficient light on the objects .sh
have to be yisioned. Why Should ss
hundred million people prefer 70 wv
in twilight that does net even ft''
their eyes?
There are moments when ! lnrs'ns "
regard the half-drawn shade ~ >
moral symbol. Observing sss~'
phenomena indicative Of certain w
willingness TO face the truth, ! Toassf
in disturbed way if it can be the aN'
ward sign of some spiritual tssaiais
that impels to instructive svoieAnse =
a light strong enough TO show talaF
as they really are. And thea ""
heavy heart. / am apt to matt's
myself the words of the dying sRSs'ss'
"More light"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12

and kept us unprepared for the day
when Germany should drag us into
It. Our delay was a modification to
right-minded, far-seeing Americans.
1t is reproach which we cannot
now take offense at, no matter from
what quarter 1t comes. We can only
say in rejoinder that when we came
in at last, we did cur utmost, and
that it was Americas military con-
tribution which turned the scale.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James ]. Montague
The Squanderer


"a Boston economist has figured
out that a working girl getting SO a
week ought to save at least so cents
of it.)
The working girl can we'll afford
Three dollars for her room;
Four dollars ought to pay her
board,
Economists assume.
So she has wealth to put away
These learned folk contend
Nine dollars is her weekly pay
Which leaves her two to spend.
Of course she has to dress herself,
The theorists admit,
But, if she's careful with her
pelf,
She ought to save bit.
One-fifty buys a lot Of clothes
A very small expense
What does she do, do you sup
With that odd SO cents?
Perhaps it goes for chewing gum;
1t may be that she pays
A portion of this goodly sum
To go to movie plays.
Perhaps she gives too many tips,
Or spends her hard earned
hoard
On powder puffs or trolley trips
Which she can ill afford.
At all events her pay is spent
Before the week is out.
She never saves a single cent,
Of that there is no doubt.
She goes ahead and has her fling
Like one with cash to burn,
And it would seem, poor silly
thing,
That she will never learn!
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
By Edwir1 Biorlsman

shade. which to-day remains as mash
defiant, insolubie riddle as on shn
day in Brooklyn when my bewiItsrsd
mind was first confronted with It.
Why? I havs asked innumerahls
times. And then I have asked sgsir;
Why just here in America, the land
OF freedom and of unbounded horiscnsi
And after nearly thirty years d
American citizenship, when month
abroad makes me long for home as Il
1t had been home forever, with mars
generations Of ancestral graves in d,
background, that hslf-drawn SHADE
still ofends me as much as It puszks
me.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12

mark led me slightly astray for
while, but I soon learned better. There
are no people more jealous about the
exact location of their window shades
than those who keep boarding houses.
And | have never yet entered hotel
room without finding the shades of it's
windows neatly poised at the midway
line between top and bottom. NV first
observation of this peculiar phe-
nomenon, so characteristic of this
country, and Of this country alone,
was made three long decades ago. The
other day I strolled along New York
streets which did not exist at the
time of my landing here, and among
architectural styles betraying a
steadily rising degree of sophistica-
tion I fsand the buried past reflected
in one fssfure only: the half-drawn
window shades.
Of course, there are tenements
crowded with more or less recent ar
rivals from abroad, and there are
huts on the outskirts that struggle
vainly to appear like human dwellings.
But elsewhere the law of the half
drawn shade prevails unchalIenged-
even in Greenwich Village. For there
are limits beyond which the widest
radicalism cannot 60. And even the
furthest advanced of the rebels against
all traditions and conventions drags
behind him string connecting him
with the respectability from which he
is vainly fleeing. That string is the
one he, or she, pulls irately when the
window shade has to be put where it
properly belongs.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
nraBrI or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tire Associated press is exclusively entitlsd to
ssse Use for republication Of All news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited ia this
Ispsr and also the local Of sponsanecgs cfgtn
p2blished herein.
1eTsia sifo are reserved
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12

! am man with curious mind.
fond OF puzzling out laws in SEEM
ingly lawless universe. With puckered
brows | have often pondered abstruse
problems like immortality and the
origin Of life, and none of them has
failed to grant me at times the graft
Tying sense of a slight approach, at
least, to ciearness. Not so the ever
present mystery Of the half-drawn
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12

ysg csa purchase merchandise adyertisse ta ThE
TssabNE Nitb shsssuts ssfeiy--for Il dissattsfes-
tea rssHiss ID my case THE TRIBUNE guarna.
sttsz 10 say ysaf nassy back upon fsausst. Ne rec
saae No Eubhtiny. We refund promptly u shs
advertiser Secs not
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
Modern Version

"See Naples and die" runs the
proverb. The same thing is true of
bootleg joint.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-12
Useless

Diamonds are carbon, but the deuce
of it is you can't burn 'em during a
coal shortage.