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New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
An Illusion of Hope

Quite naturally the Democrats,
who took possession Of the govern
ment in 1912 because of the Repub-
lican split, are trusting devoutly that
something of similar sort may
happen this autumn. Democratic
leaders have wistfully fixed their
gaze on every incipient third-party
movement that has sprung up,
hoping that it might be the gen
esis of a great revolt against the
Administration.
In every case they have been dis
appointed. The Farmer-Labor party
collapsed two years ago. An at
tempt in Kansas to incubate an agri-
cultural party has been an utter fail
ure. Wherever an attempt has been
made to organize discomfort it has
resulted in disaster to the organizers,
Perhaps La Toilette, Hiram John
son and William f. Borah would be
glad to oblige the Democrats by
forming a new party which would
draw support from the Republicans
But La Toilette has neither strength
nor following outside of Wisconsin,
while Johnson and Borah, though
hey made serviceable Roosevelt lieu
tenants, have both proved their in
ability to become national leaders.
What the Democratic trouble
makers seem unable to understand is
that the reason for the Progressive
movement was largely Theodore
Roosevelt. Without him there coulu
have been no Progressive party. 1t
was Roosevelt party, vital as long
as he led 1t and dead when he re-
turned to the Republican fold. Had
he not been its candidate in 1912 it
would not have carried a single
state in the Union.
Johnson and Borah knew this in
1916. When Roosevelt refused to
run they put the Progressive party
out of business, and it has been out
OF business ever since. Nothing like
it will return in 1924.
The next Presidential campaign
will be fought between the two
great parties-the Republicans
standing on the record of their
party and the Democrats, for want
of any more recent issue, on the
record of Woodrow Wilson.
Differences that arise meanwhile
will be fought out in the primaries.
as they were in Indiana and are
about to be in Pennsylvania. There
Is no revolt within the Republican
party, and only from Republican de-
fection could be recruited any po-
litical movement which would serve
Democratic desires.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

twenty instructors, while among
them are the largest three in the en-
tire list. The fifteen have q total
enrolment of 8,16s students and
3,303 instructors, showing ap-
proximated by no other city IN
America or in any other land.
Nor are the universities and col
leges of New York noteworthy
merely for their number and size.
Their standards compare favorably
with those of any other centers OF
learning. In the coordination CT
applied sciences with pure culture
in the elevation of schools Of peda-
gogy, journalism, finance. commerce
and what not to true university
rank; in the development of evening
classes, summer courses, extra
mural departments. and other de-.
vices for making university instruc-
tion and training more available to
the masses of the people. New York
has been and is to-day foremost.
Faults and imperfections and
causes of complaint and criticism
we have in superabundant measure.
But we have also in New York much
to be justly and honestly proud Of,
and among such things we must give
high rank to our unrivaled array Of
colleges and universities, which
make New York the greatest "col-
lege town in the world.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
More Obstruction

Although in his latest attack on
the Transit Commission Mr.. Hylan
refers only vaguely to transit plan
of his own, he still contrives to be
misleading in his statements con-
cerning it.
he makes a comparison Of the
commissions figures of $218,000,-
600 as the cost Of purchase and ex-
tension of the transit lines with his
own figures of s9o,ooo,ooO, care
fully neglecting to add that his own
flguxes are merely the estimated
cost of buying out and extinguish-
ing the private capital now invested
in the existing subways and provide
for no extensions at all, whereas the
sum mentioned by the Transit Com
mission is for subway extensions.
The Mayor compares when there is
no basis for comparison
Where the Mayor gets his figures
he does not indicate. He apparent
ly derives them from the recapture
clauses of the dual contract which
give the city the privilege, if so it
elects, to buy out the private COM
panles by paying what they have in
vested, plus Is per cent. 1t is high
ly probable that a valua ton so
arrived at is higher than the valua-
ton which has been made tentative
ly by the Transit Commission. If
analysis shows this to be the fact,
then we have the spectacle of the
Mayor offering to give more to the
Interests" than the commission.
Before Mr.. Hylan can put any
plan into execution he must first Sc
cure the permission of the Legisla-
ture, which has taken all authority
over the traction lines out of his
hands. Grant for the sake of
argument that this is possible, his
method Of procedure would natu-
rally follow the method he has en-
ployed with the surface lines, which
is to force them to break up into
the constituent companies, with a
resultant doubling of fares.
Mr.. Hylan and his advisers are
significantly silent about the five
cent fare in this latest pronuncia-
mento. Somebody has evidently in
formed the Mayor that this subject
| should be avoided until he finds
some way by which fve-cent fare
can pay for a seven-cent ride.
The entire Hylan statement bears
the marks of a clumsy attempt at
further obstruction. 1t is merely a
new method of blocking the first
constructive attempt to settle the
transit problem that has been nut
forward. Because this attempt is
made by the Transit Commission.
which is really able to succeed in it,
he once more seeks to interpose
foolish objections.
His object, of course, is political,
but he will gain no political capital
by continued delay in the remedying
of situation that is rapidly becon,
ing more burdensome to every resi-
dent Of New York City.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
BOORS By Percy Hammond


The heart Of Mark Sullivan beats so
ardently in admiration Of the recent
Washington conference that he, as
much as any other historian, regards
with gloomy disapproval the conduct of
the French in that momentous parlia-
ment.
Mr.. Sullivan, as you know, is dis
tinguished scholar in and commentator
upon the affairs Of the world. AS the
Washington correspondent of The New
York Evening POST he is gifted with
the earnest soul of the wise historian,
as we'll as with the keen eye and per-
suasive stylus of the great reporter.
He can extract from the pastures OF
Mr. Hughes's spacious and varying
whiskerage acute symbols of that
diplomats state of mind In M.
Brands agonized reiteration of La
France! La France!" he can hear a
just explanation Of pernicious, warlikc
doctrines. Mr.. Sullivan is able to
record with equal authoritativeness the
facts that Mr.. Hughes slept soundly
the night before he obliterated the
navies and that beneath the fragrance
Of Mr.. Balfour's charming urbanity
there lurked, in the secret sessions Of
the conference, some venomous thorns
The potent X-rays of Mr.. Sullivan's
equipment empower him to penetrate
with proficiency the secret walls of
public diplomacy as we'll as its open
spaces. l chatter thus doxologic about
Mr.. Sullivan's accomplishments be-
cause in Paris during the peace con-
ference l observed him, most enviously,
operating as one of the three or four
American correspondents who were not
a humiliation to American journalism.
In "The Great Adventure at Wash
ington" Mr.. Sullivan contemplates the
inimical department of the French as
the more or less eXplicable misbe
havior of spoiled child who has been
abused. Or as naughty pensioner
hospitable to aims though hostile
to the almsgiver. Mr.. Sullivan seems
to remark with Olivia "How apt the
poor are to be proud" if not to agree
with that sagacious lady in her belief
that if one is to be prey how much
the better to fall before the lion than
the wolf. Mr.. Frank Vanderlip said
it more harshly in q recent volume
when he ventured the suspicion that
no matter how numerous the French
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ships nor how valiant and populous
the French army the Germans, in
view of their prowess in the first
World War, would certainly beat them
unless they (the French) had the aid
of many others.
Mr.. Sullivan deplores the petty sem
|sitlveness of the French at the Wash
ington conference. Exhibitions of this
childishness began with the first pie
nary session, when BRAND found him
self sitting at place not sufficiently
conspicuous. AS Colonel Repington re-
ported it, "They were furious that
they were not sitting at the top table
and Jusserand was white and clenched d
his fists"
The disposition of seats was in ac-
cordance with ingenious Washington
study of etiquette in the textbook
"How to Behave" and no insult was
intended. The arrangement was
amended at once, but, Mr.. Sullivan
says, there was something grotesque
in the fact that men like Hughes, Bal.
four, Kato and the others, engaged
as they were upon one of the greatest
adventures in altruism in history
keep their brains alert under appre.
Eension lest their immense task be
imperiled by an excessively sensitive
amour propre on the part of the
French.
The French, he says, seemed con.
stantly on the lookout for sights
They held their hurt feelings up fo,
further wounds. The infantile chir
was constantly upon their shoulder
anxious to be knocked off They sulked
about the stereotyped way in which
they were disposed of at unofficial
dinner parties; and they deported
themselves generally as a ravished
fiapper (the figure is mine), blaming
the world for her misfortune and ac-
ousing it of unsympathetic indignities
therefor. They seemed, Mr.. Sullivan
says, "a little ridiculous" and, think
he meant, a little pathetic. THE dele
gates of France he asserts, "neve,
seemed to share the spirit of the con-
ference. In their self-centered intent,
ness upon their amour propre they
were cut off from the emotions of ex-
altation that gripped the conference
and the world. When the whole world
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Free Hides and Shoes

Chairman Fordney, not commonly
rated as tainted with free trade
ideas, put hides and shoes on the
free list of his tariff bill.
Then the farm bloc hammered on
the door of the Senate committee,
demanding duties on hides. The COM
mittee promptly did as it was told.
On the next train arrived the shoe
manufacturers, saying that the hide
duty not only meant the loss Of their
foreign trade, but also a loss of the
home market unless a countervailing
duty on shoes were imposed. The
argument was irresistible and an ad
valorem Of 90 per cent was written
into the bill.
Now comes another shift. The
farm bloc has become persuaded that
to pay 81 more for pair of shoes
will lose them more than the hide
duty will bring to them. SO both
duties are to go, and Senator Lodge
and the shoe manufacturers of
Massachusetts are pleased, for their
foreign trade will be saved.
The incident is another argument
for the postponement of the enact
ment of a permanent tariff. Neither
the farmers of America nor the
ranchers of Argentina, nor the
ahoemakers of Lynn know the con-
ditions Of the early future Produc-
tion throughout the world is still
abnormal. There are surpluses in
some places and dearths in others.
AS it is with respect to shoes and
hides so it is as to other commodi-
ties. The time is one that demands
waiting before leaping
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
The Liberian Receivershlp

The credit of s5,0O0,oOO which
President Harding has asked Con-
gress to authorize for Liberia is to
fulfill an engagement entered into by
President Wilson in 1918 and which
LIS so far remained unfulflled.
America S interest in Liberia is
largely sentimental, dating back a
hundred years to the early attempts
to return freed slaves to Africa,
American institutions were nominal
ly transplanted to Liberia and have
been nourished by American mission
aries ever sinqt But following the
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Objects to F Fosterism'

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With reference to your edi-
torial Fruits of Fosterism," which l
think a. an editorial. might we'll have
been much stronger. may inquire
ii, in your opinion, it is quite a
proper and an altogether agreeable thing
to designate the theories or system
this man stands for by name which,
whether rightly or wrongly his, is also
the name of thousands of citizens of
this country!
The Foster family name is one OF
Americas oldest Why throw mud on
it? This mans system is Bolshevism
isn't it, and not Fosterism? If his
name were Harding would you call it
"Hardingism"? M. G. FOSTER.
New York, May IL, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

These and many other things filled
All exceptionally busy and versatile
life.
New York, as it sees what Cen
trail Park means. for health, for
pleasure, and for sheer beauty, may
we'll remember with gratitude the
services and the personality of
Frederick Law Olmsted and wish
that he were still with us to help on
the great transformation of New
York's environment which the Sage
Foundation is seeking to further.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
The Parade Barrier

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t IS my. privilege to be in
business, and l am proud to announce
that my work keeps me so we'll oc-
cupied that l do not have time ia
stand on the Fifth Avenue curb at any
hour of any day to view q parade.
or course, l realize that it, is my
misfortune to find it necessary
to cross the avenue during q
parade, but there are undoubted.
ly other unfortunates, and feel GER
tain that some of them will agree tc
the suggestion that few subterra.
mean passages between Washington
Square and Fifty-ninth Street would
prove time-saving. This 10 not a new
idea, but why wait until the twenty
first century?
CONSCIENTIOUS WORKER.
New York. May l8, 1929.
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was star eyed in pursuit Of ths s,sat
adventure the delegates Of Fnau
were thinking Of their place It Ii.
tablet"
They were, Of course, thinking n
more than that, as Mr. SuIEun
admits when he suggests the s.,,o, d
France for the brooding Hun; Of ia
horror Of that vengeful day vhsa tho
now docile Uhlan will be sunesnsly
convalescent to puncturs again with
his cruel lance the white throst ..
earth's most beautiful and most help
less belle. Mr.. Sullivan fnds excuse
for Frances open pores in tbs fact that
an American Presidents solemn prem.
Use, with Great Britain. to protect hG
from further rapine and violation vu
pooh-poohed by an American Seni.s.
Mr.. Sullivan indicts the French at tie
Washington conference on the follow
ing counts:
They prevented a consideration ..
the land ornaments.
They took a position abcu. capita
ships that would have made the cen.
ference a complete failure had it not
been for Mr.. Hughes's sinewy diple-
macy
They made any limitation on tie
quantity of submarines impossible
They made limitation on the
quantity OF auxiliary craft impossia.
They desired. You may CLEAN from
Mr.. Sullivan's impressions, ITO rustic
in unpaid-for silks to assess the eos
mos in remuneration for their down
trodden pride and aspirations. TO de-
mand payment, though Mr.. Sullivan
does not say so, of Russia's debts 70
France. and to suggest in the sans
breath that their own debts TO Anisl'e'
be. forgot. There was a eablesfan u
yesterdays Tribune, by the way vDis1
contained the following explanatory
news:
PARIS, May IA sad sehc u ...t ..t
war is found in q communiestleA ~.
l.
mune of Moronvilliers to the rsm "A.
of Rheims. This message IRON II
cial of the town which was the 80 - 11.,ls
some Of the worst fighting IN L. h.ld
with the regional council eieeIG1 aid,
throughout France to-day u.ron.
laconically: 1.-The Commune - o...i law
villiers cannot apply the eieSst eiesSas..,t,.r
because of the lack Of inhsDs,1s.rt ..r the
Owing to the devastation y W.yor
commune is uninhabited ana 'as ..vn.
himself lives in q neighborins
Mr.. sullivan's history srsa'' =
closely upon the hsels Of the s'sn'' !. =
satisfactorily describes that y i.
handicapped by its prssinau'sy, Z, y ...a
subject. wers it not done v'.s ~ ...s
aord.r and sequence" and dsi...;,s vlsa ~.
intimate. vivid and illun'a's.. ....
honesty it would bs ~ pssss ,':..,,,
terday's newspaper. Nj. r. ss,. s,..ia.pt
portrait, for instance, Of tho ri,
(Harding) making his m0as.. ..a,.,.
from the conference after his au,' -,
to it is more informative thsn :. .onld
rotorravures. Aud what cinsnas s's;, !,
reproduce as Mr.. Sullivan eo.' ..n,
printed words tas tragic phy'see us1, :.
Of Earl Beatty as he il inforus. s..r, !.
casual bewhiskersd American .s :.
tary Of STATE that Great Sf''s -
been dismissed as mistress :. ,..u
seasr Personally, I dsemec ~ n..e
until last night. fed up "l'a .nort
conferences and the pr'ntea ..,;u,
of them by journalists. But a,.re
with a little desperate reius.s1
rieked up Mr. Sullivan's the W
Adventure at Washington, -
every word on it's interesting Pc,
before | put the volume down.
minutes ago. Not thst It ms'~'s
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What Readers Sau

but everybody else's to the grindstone.
A good thing may be so exaggerated
that 1t becomes warped. If you stand
up too straight you bend over back
ward. Then you're crooked.
MARJORIE OWEN.
New York, May IL, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
The Seata Of the MaacuIira

The Seats of the Masculine
Sir: The Tribune asks editorially
"Why is Whalen?"
We'll, why is he?
The Honorable Commissioner now
turns his attention from plant and
structures to human structures. The
dark visage of this defender of the
fair sex grows yet darker at their
lament chat on the municipal ferry.
boats men occupy the women's cabins
to their exclusion, each man taking up
enough space to seat two women" Yet
IL is a wellknown anatomical fact that
the sitting-down woman occupies one
and one-quarter times the space that a
man does.
Nor is the average man addicted to
the pernicious habit of reserving seats
for friends or bundles. The Whalen-
harassed male Staten Islander ALWAYS
deposits his bundle decently on the
floor, be it a ventilated box Of live
chickens, a bundle Of trees, a lawn.
mower or new hatrack
The Commissioner might like to add
these signs to his already large collec-
ton masterpieces Of ingenuousness and
courtesy-that are placarded all over
the ferryboats:
READ THIS SIGN. Passengers must
not get off the boat before it reaches
the slip.
LOOK HERE. Passengers must not
touch the propeller while boat is under
! way.
THIS MEANS YOU. The department,
| is not responsible for passengers who
keep one foot on the dock when the
boat leaves the slip.
TO EMPLOYEES. Employees must
not do any work while boat is unde,
way or while it is tied up in the slip
LOU.
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understandable

1t may be that Liberty bonds have
been duplicated, but nobody ever
duplicated any Of those German
bonds that sold around here in 1914.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
The New England Conscience

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I come Of undiluted NeI
England stock; have, I hope, inherited
q conscience, but not that stern sense
Of duty. to which Or. Riggs refers, for
it is unsoftened by the gentle light of
understanding, lacks the mellowing in
Atsass of humor, and expresses itself
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

"You can drink milk without fear Of
headache, backache or sleeNessness," )"
proclaims an advertisement. ' We are
willing to sign testimonial that while
imbibing it we have never found cause
70 shudder over the imminence Of
warts or housemaid's knee, either.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Unfit for a Slogan

No candidate for the Presidency
of the Irish Republic will ever be
elected on the issue: "He kept us
out of war"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Wait

(From The Baltimore Sun)
The most remarkable thing about
the rapid spread of radiophones is
that it has occurred without law for.
bidding 1t. .nss
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The Obstacle

Prosperity will come back az soon
as they take the peak Of high prices
out of the way.
Copyright by James j Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

AS far as we can make out, the
net result Of the Genoa conference is
an offer from Russia to pay her
debts if somebody will give her the
money to pay them with.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

One of the drawbacks of living in
New York is the necessity of going
to the polls every little while and de-
feating William Randolph Hearst
for some office or other.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

The Genoa conference is going to
move to The Hague. The diplomats
who are to settle the fate Of the world
evidently believe in Seeing Europe
First.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

Rudyard Kipling writes verse these
days rs though he were trying to write
like Rudyard Kipling
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
At Least a Gallon a Mile

~ i-DoSt odiIOu Rllie
Sir: Having equipped my hivver with
nine different devices, each guarantee ed
to reduce gasoline consumption IS per
cent, how much gas should l find in
the tank after going from Dobbs Ferry
to New York, assuming, of course, that
l start with the tank empty?
FRANK OSBORN.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

When transit matters are up every
meeting of the Board of Estimate is
a block party.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Brfng Your PsychoIoeicoI R..;n.

BIG MONEY FOR AGENTs.-Boys or
girls from 10 to 80 years will do, selling
Gomething new. Address Agent Supply, 1875
Register. ~00''
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

"No curiosity seekers desired" an.
nounces sign on Park Row. So, in
stead Of going in, We spent part Of yes
terday's noon hour watching the hum
ger seekers pouring into the lunch
rooms.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

Even the above might not have shak.
en- our belief that humanity is super.
pessmistlc and oversophsticated il
the same mail had not brought an ex.
cerpt from The Tower with the follow.
ing:
Dear Sir: If there is anything com
ing to ME for sending you this clipping
please mail me check and oblipe -
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

Those who contend that newspaper
work makes cynics Of it's addicts are
referred to Columbia School of Jour
nalism form letter which suggests: "If
this notice is sent to the wrong address
send US the correct one"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
The 70wer

IN THE ACCEPTED MANNER
TOLD harnesssd sentry, watching By
~ the sea.
Sublime and arrogant. you warn
each cloud
With challenge Of your towers ma jesty,
Upraised like lanccs, truculent and
proud:
Filled with the mutter OF a thousand
speeches
That sound the laudamus of endless
toll,
With piers enormous masking silver
beaches
And palaces that house the Old
Worlds spoil.
Oh, awe-inspiring, fecund human hive,
Through whrling steam your million
rooftops CLEAN,
And on your streets swarming peo-
pie strive
To build reality to match a dream.
lncarnate majesty and endless power
Tremendous bridges vault your water
ways,
Wealth shouts to Commerce from your
every tower;
The roar of traffic chants your hymn
of praise.
You pause, and all the earth is filled
with fear;
You speak, and far-hung nations
hear VOur yOico
Your lips are lustful, yet your eyes
are clear;
You know the lash of woe, yet you
rejoice.
bright, insolent, omnipotent you stand
Embodied youth; desire personified;
The avatar of this half-wakened land,
A child in hope--a king in naughty
pride.
Oh, warden at the sea gate of q
world,
Who keeps a treasure you alone may
give,
The glowing dawn is hut your nag.
half furled-
But gosh! You are rotten place
to live!
1t mightnt be bad idea to let both
I'll
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Ih's suggestion is mnde despite tho
toct that Sorsnno remarhs causticauy:
Il note that you haze abandoned ths
usual Dolly Dozen for morning Rylan
New-York tribune., 1922-05-16

1t mightnt be bad idea to let both
Mayor Hylan and Mr.. McAneny 70
ahead and build all the subways they
want to-
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(Copyrig ht, 1922. New Yorl

ships nor how valiant and populous
the French army the Germans, in
view of their prowess in the first
World War, would certainly beat them,
unless they (the French) had the aid
of many others.