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New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Maintaining Embassies

The announcement that Ambassa-
dor Harvey will move into the new
embassy building in London which
was presented to the United States
government by the late j. P. Morgan
raises again the question of housing
ambassadors.
The government has at last
adopted the policy of purchasing per-
manent homes for it's representatives
in foreign capitals. In several coun
tries the transactions are already
closed and the ambassadors decentlv
housed with suitable Offices. But
Congress, always niggardly in ap-
preparations for foreign affairs, has
not yet provided maintenance funds.
American representatives, therefore,
md themselves faced with running
an expensive establishment upon an
insufficient allowance.
In the case of the new London en-
bassy Mr.. Harvey is somewhat more
fortunate than his colleagues on the
Continent. The building is a gift to
the government. 1t is now being
completely renovated, despite the
protests OF certain Congressman
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Beginning

A Deputy Commissioner of Mar
kets has lost his job because, as
he asserts, he refused to use his
influence as member Of the Elks
to boost the political aspirations Of
Mr.. Hearst. A supporter of Mr..
Hearst-one of his employees--has
been given the place.
The power of the Mayors office
has been put into politics in the in
terests of Mr.. Hylan's friend. How
far this will go it is too early to de-
termine. But a beginning has been
made. The government of New York
can-if the Mayor is willing-be
made an annex to the Hearst can
didacy.
Fitness for public Office can be
waived if the aspirant for it is will
ing to help Mr.. Hearst get himself
nominated for Governor of New York.
This is further than most mayors of
great cities are willing to 60 in these
modern times, but Mr.. Hylan feels
that he owes a great deal to his
editor defender, and perhaps before
the convention only Hearst men will
be left on the public pay roll, so far
as appointive Offices are concerned.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02

on the pole with Peary. He sees no
further need Of proving that the
pole is there. He was curious about
Peary's mysterious Crocker Land, 80
he spent several years In ascertain
ing that il was mirage. But In
Bafiin. Land he has something tan
gible. Here is MacMillan's creed:
ri hold that we should explore
every land, however remote and how
ever desolate; that we should lay
down its coastline accurately, in
form ourselves Of it's physical char
acteristics, study Its bird life, clas-
sify it's botanical species, know it's
people; that we should substitute
facts for ignorance, conjecture,
guesswork and absurd theory"
No expedition to the North was
ever better equipped than that Of
the men who sailed on the Bowdoin
to collect facts. On its return they
will have lot to tell to geographers,
mineralogists and lists of every vari-
ETY..
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Worse than Graft

Commissioner of Markets O'Mal-
ley, in threatening to bar from New
York public markets the New Jersey
farmers who complain that there is
graft in his department, admits that
he has removed men for dishonesty,
but whines that it is impossible to
get rid of all the grafters.
His defense is a confession. A
competent commissioner could keep
graft out of the Markets Depart
ment. But worse than any petty
profiteering by employees, however
dishonest, is the breakdown of the
public markets system under Mr..
O'Malley's administration.
The purpose of public markets is
to secure reasonably priced farm
products to people of limited means.
Tor this end sites were set aside and
provision made for farmers from
Long Island and New Jersey to
bring their produce into the city,
where it might be disposed of direct
ly either to the consumers them
selves or to the small green-grocers
who supply them.
This is not done to any useful ex-
tent and cannot be done because
spectators are permitted to monop-
olize stands in the markets-to select
the best of tie vegetables that are
brought in and to dispose of them at
advanced prices to dealers who sup
ply people of abundant means living
in distant quarters of the city.
This arrangement makes it impos-
sible for small purchasers to reap
advantage from the markets. In
stead of being institutions to keep
food prices down they have be-
come institutions which keep food
prices up.
When the speculator system is at
tackled Mr.. O'Malley comes to the de-
tense of the specula tors, asserting
that they keep prices from "break.
ing" and thereby benefit the farm
ers. When Mr.. O'Malley becomes the
subject of criticism Mr.. Hylan writes
him letter of sympathy and as
sures him that the food profteers
are seeking to make victim of him.
Meanwhile the taxpayers pay the
expense of the markets and their
benefits are denied to those who
stand the most in need of them.
This is done by men who would have
it believed they love the Door.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Thrice Across the Ocean

The story of the Belgian woman
who arrived at Ellis Island on the
last day Of the immigration fiscal
year to find the Belgian quota full,
and is now forced to return to Eu-
rope and then come back to this
country in order to arrive during the
new fiscal year, brings out sharply
the need of getting red tape out of
immigration regulations.
The Belgian arrived on June 80 in
the evening, during the last few
hours of the old year. Had her ship
been delayed by fog, or had sailed
few hours later, she would have ar
rived on July l, and thus would have
been within the new fiscal year. S.s}
the rigidity of the present law ccUA
not be softened.
Under the law she must return by
the steamer that brought her, but as
the boat left while her case was
being examined she must await it's
return. So, in order to get in, she
must travel across the Atlantic on
the same ship and turn around at
once and come back to Ellis Island.
Unless she does this quickly the new
quota may be exhausted
The case is merely another ex-
ample of the difficulties of admin
istering immigration restriction
without proper supervision at the
points of departure. Sooner or later
the government will have to provide
sufficient personnel abroad to en-
able thorough check upon all
| would-be immigrants.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague

Enough Trouble Here
1t might be nice to chat with
Mars
And gossip with the other stars
Concerning things
Like debts and kings
And wars and business
credit,
But somehow we don't much de-
sire
To get these planets on the wire
And hear what they
May have to say;
In fact, we sort of dread it.
If they have troubles like our
own
They'd all be prone to make 'em
known,
To fill our ears
With tales of years
Of woe and tribulations;
And we would get depressed and
sad
About the troubles they have
had,
And we would weep
And lose our sleep
In useless lamentations.
This world that we are living in
Is stepped in trouble and in sin,
And every day
Life grows less gay
And drearier and tougher.
SO really we don't think we
should
Derive a particle Of good
Were we to know
The load Of woe
That other planets suffer.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02

who felt that the donor should have
paid the repair bills and who, there
fore, objected to the Congressional
appropriation to cover them.
But there is still the upkeep Of
such an establishment to be borne,
and as yet there is no indication that
Congress will he willing in the fu-
ture to vote adequate sums for this
purpose. The American Ambassa-
dor, therefore, will still be faced
with large expenses in order that
the government may keep up proper
appearances.
1t is, Of course, true that when
the government purchases embassy
buildings the ambassador is relieved
from paying large rents out of his
own pocket. 1t is said that the rent
of the embassy in Paris before the
war was several thousand dollars
more than the ambassadors total sal
ary. But the government must go
further and create permanent main
tenance funds for the upkeep Of the
buildings.
Until American representatives
abroad are suitably housed in build
ings owned and kept up by the gov
ernment the principal diplomatic
posts can be held only by men of
large wealth.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
All Well in Baffln Land

There is reassuring news from the
workaday Arctic expedition headed
by Donald B. Macmillan. The ex-
plorer and his companions wintered
comfortably in Baffin Land, whose
coastline up to this time has been a
blank and whose interior has been
virtually unknown. They have estab-
lished sixteen field stations. All are
well and observations successful" :"
Macmillan is now more interested
in the science than in the adventure
of inspecting the roof of the world.
Frozen feet kept him from standing
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Paying Gerznany's Bill

When examined all projects, plans
or schemes to link the reparation
and debt questions, no matter how
the hugger-mugger purpose is dis
guised, boil down to two things.
One is that Germany is to be let
off. The other is that this country
is to pay what Germany owes. We
spent twenty billions on the labor Of
prying German armies out of
France. This was well. But why
should America, in addition, assume
the duty of appropriating ten bill
lions more to repair the damage Ger
many did? To let her escape with
out payment is hardly way to dis
courage her or other countries from
running amuck.
We might consider, if there were
pressing need, the cancellation of
the debt owed us by Great Britain,
France, Italy and other nations
which suffered so much in resisting
German aggression; but our people
don't see, and probably never will
see, the rightfulness or the common
sense of meeting Germany's obliga-
tions, thus giving her, as it were,
reward for merit.
The linking Of the reparation and
debt questions has the unacceptable
consequences mentioned. With math-
ematical precision the burden is
shifted through various steps from
Germany to us. Great Britain,
France and Italy, which owe and
are owed to, stand to gain nothing
and lose nothing, for their credit
items about equal their debit items.
Only Germany has no credit items
and only the United States has no
debit items. A general moratorium
would be for Germany's benefit at
our expense. By foregoing what is
coming 70 US we would De the rlch
uncle who wrote check to cover
the worth of dishes and furniture
broken by nephew when on a jam
boree of destruction.
1t is unlikely Congress can ever
be induced to pass bill whose cor
rect title would be: "a bill for an
act to assume Germany's debts.'
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
The Rand School
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention is called to an
article appearing in your paper on July
25, headed "Rand School to Get Gar
lands ssO0,ooo Fund"
Please permit me to say through
your columns that so far as we are
informed this report IS entirely with
out foundation. To the best Of my IN
formation the trustees of the Amers-
can Fund for Public Service have not
as yet taken any action with regard to
appropriation from the moneys in-
trusted to them.
l wish further to correct some Of the
inaccuracies contained in the follow
ing passage:
Because Of its endowment estsb-
lished in 1905 by Mrs. E. D. Rand,
whose daughter married Professor
George D. Heron, for whom the
school was established, the place so
far has been able to weather the
storm Of public protest and govern
ment investigations"
The Rand School was in no sense es-
tablished for Professor Heron. He has
at no time been a member either Of
its governing body or Of its teaching,
staff, nor is he in any sense respone
sible for the policies of the school, with
which in some cases, am sure, he haa
disagreed. The trust fund for the Rand
School, which was created By Mrs.'
Carrie D. Rand, was exhausted soma
time before Attorney General Palmer
and Senator Lusk began their attacks.
upon the Rand School We have been
enabled to weather the storm by the
loyal support Of great labor organiza-.
tions and of thousands Of individua!
sympathizers.
Finally, you are In error when you
state that "The Rand School Is with
cut license from the Board OIL
Regents of the University of the stats
of New York, on the ground that u y
'an institution teaching revolution ana
the overthrow of the existing govern
ment of the United States" Tns
Rand School does not teach and has
not taught the overthrow of the exist
| ing government Of the United States
1t is not eur business to seacn
doctrines" and especially not such
silly ones as you attribute to US. las
Board of Regents has never expresses
any such opinion as you attribute to u.
| The Rand School has never appl'ed
for a license, because it Is makins'
through regular channels, test OF sns
constitutionality of the Lusk law.
ALGERNON LEE,
Educational Director
| New York, July 26, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
By Percy Hammond

history Of personal adventure among
the hotels, race courses, taxicabs,
tourists and beverages Of the Pearl Of
the Antilles, as he has nicknamed IT.
A keenly humorous travslogue, making
further propitious "The Cosmos" boast
that Mr.. Lardner Is now monthly con-
tributor.
Don't Marry an Actor"-Beguiling
proof, submitted by Gouverneur Morris,
that marriage between a smali-town
belle and an agreeable hummer may
contain mono Of the torments that are
said to lie within the small circle Of
a wedding ring.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
The Prohibition Poll

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the matter of the "secret
ballot" of "The Literary Digest" and
your recent editorial thereon it seems
to me that the recorded votes ore far
from registering the minds Of the
voters Look at the ballot and you
will see that there are practically two
questions involved in A, B and C. but
the voter can declare himself only as to
one of them:
Prohibitions. (Put cross (x) in
the square opposite the policy YOU
favor).
A. Do you favor the continuance
and strict enforcement of the
Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead
law?
B. Do you favor a modification of
the Volstead law to permit light
wines and beers?
c. Do you favor a repeal of the
prohibition amendment?
Mark (x) in one square only.
In "The Literary Digest" of July 20
it is said 145,727 have voted for "modi-
fication." How would these voters
divide on the question of prohibition
or repeal if they had been given the
chance? 1t is conceivable that a voter
might be in favor of prohibition and
modification, or vice versa, but he can
not express himself on the above
ballot. The only fair plan would be to
make each question answerable by a
"Ses' or NO." as is done on the
Bonus" ballot. T.
New York, July 80, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Epicurean

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: That story in Sundays Trib-
une of dinner at the Hotel Pernollet
Belley, France, is as delicious as the
meal must have been.
Both the writer and the illustrator of
it are worthy companions of the ch eff
who cooked it, all being perfect crafts
men in their respective specialties.
Englewood, N. j., July 81, 1929. J.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02

ioom All nlgnt WIN a corpse, IN ordef
to predispose him to the mortuary pro-
fessson, and the airy second lieutenant
recounting his firtations with the
mademoiselles while A. W. o. l.. in
Paris. He was refreshing himself at
the Olympia bar.
And there was one of these tousled
blondes sittin' one Of those high stools,
you know, and I was kiddin' her along
she wasn't a bit bad-she didn't have no
stockns on, just bare legs tho whole way
and high heel slippers-when in comes my
old captain out Of the Thirty eighth, with
two of the best lookin' james you ever eaw.
And. boy. was lost right there. I just
said. 'Goodby, Montfauconp just couldn't
get away till this mornin'."
Desiring summer literature Of diff
ferent mood you will find in the "Red
Book" for August among other reas-
suring fiction:
"You"-In which Booth Harrington
tells whims ically Of the romances of
Muriel, who to notable physical come
liness added flair for art, letters and
socialism, writing papers for the local
Fortnightly Club and expressing there
in hard contempt for Longfellow and
the capitalists.
isle O. Dreams" A dexterous
manipulation by Samuel Hopkins
Adams Of a picturesque affair of the
heart between an impecunious sign
and portrait painter and a lovely
daughter Of the New York rich. The
romance is marked by situations not
used hitherto In fiction of the kind;
and by bright, pleasing and credible
conversations, one of which occurs at
midnight upon scaffold where, high
above Broadway, the artist is manufac-
turing an advertisement.
'~The Princess of the Purple Star
Wherein Peter Clark Macfarlane causes
life again to twist itself into strange
and startling postures, hanging By its
toes from lofty trapezes and jumping
through incredible hoops and flying
rings. She is a perfumed princess of
Arabia, he an upright boob from the
local open spaces, rough, but with a
heart Of gold.
"Don't Go Near the Water"-An in
gratiating bit of hysteria by the unsual-
ly sane Mr.. Lucian Cary, narrating the
romantic outburst into unconventional
matrimony Of a village vestal, who Is
told by her parents to beware Of the
country club and to be in bed at $3.50.
In "The Cosmopolitan" or ''The
Cosmo," as it is known affectionately
| by it's readers, there is to be found:
I "Ponjola"-The beginning Of serial
by Cynthia Stockley, whose heroine,
about to end it all in the Seine, is de-
tered from SO doing by chance en-
counter with likable mining man from
Rhodesia. Promising, as such things
go, in manner and contents.
''The Tramp''-Little Ninon Gay is of
the flotsam Of Hollywood, bathing
/ beauty with sharp wit and figure.
"Are you an actress?" inquiries a
naughty woman visitor from Pasadena.
"The jury's still out!" is Ninon's quick
rejoinder, as she crimps her pretty
bare, pink toes about the edge Of the
springboard. Ninon's tragedy is that
she falls in love with a sub-director,
Lives with him as his unmarried wife,
and is forsaken by him on Christmas
Eve. An effective picture of warning
to the 'Mnnies and I,ucys from Nash
willie, Des Moines and Waukegan. who
aspire to the moving picture lie OF
California. Composed by Adele Rogers
st. John.
'nIy Week in Cuba"--King Lardners
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Cheering Prospect

The swimming pool to be estab-
lished in Central Park, New York,
will enable the Follies girls to show
their one-piece bathing suits with
out driving clear down to Long
Beach.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02

men In sight. Not to keep the shop
men from enjoying pensio,s rights
that they haze paid for is the public
wilIing 70 take the risk OF great
and unnecessary calamity.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
No Law Against 1t

To Zoe Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Would it be permissible. ~ :
descriptive paralie.isn:. TO speas -
HirshRcld as Hyian's Tamrlty!
ANXIOUS READER
New York, July rs, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
CONCERNING COSTUMES

CONCERNING COSTUMES
In summer, aohen the sun is high,
One sees the salesgirl fapper;
Although SHE'S meuer trod course,
At work. in golf shoes dapper;
Or, though she's never played q game
In tennis outfit, snappy.
don't begrudge IL to the dear--
1t makes her oool and happy.
Bat, as tho coolest Summer sport
Is s10immimg on the beaches,
Why does not she her daily task
In bathing suit and breeches9
NURBLIEH.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
The Tower
R O N D E A u

ron ID e A II
WTHEN darkness falls upon my
wv eyes.
/ would not hear, afar, the cries
OF those who desolately weep.
Let none a mournful vigil keep.
The hand of death is calm and wise.
The kind stars blossom in the skies !;
From rose to rose the hawkmoth
flies;
Sweet mists across the meadows
creep
When darkness falls.
The afterglow's faint watchire dies /;
The frog to drumming frog replies.
Night brings a peace, serene and
deep.
Why mourn for him who down to
sleep,
Toll weary, on his pallet lies
When darkness falls?
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Problem

One wonders often what bootleg
gers buy one-half SO costly as the
stuff they SELL
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
No Relief

One Of the drawbacks of being an
aviator is that il is fly time all the
year around.
Copyright by James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02

To offset the impression made by "The
Literary Digest's" poll on prohibition
the dry advocates should call attention
to the stern and just hand Of Prov-
dence that marooned 400 excursion
to Canada on a shoal in the St. Law
renee for twenty-four hours.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
,rv,fprp or THE Assoc1ATrp PRESS

1hs Associated Press Ia exclusively entitled to
shc use for republication OF all dispatches
credited to 1t not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local Of Spontaneous origin
published herein,
I'll rights Of republication Of all other matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02

Frank Vanderlip says the troubles
of the world are due to two men.
Hitherto we supposed that it was
one man, whose last name is Hohen-
zollern.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02
Commuter Cush

Mr.. J.. Throckmorton Cush is COM
muter. Arriving at Grand Central
Station considerably ahead Of train
time, as is his invariable custom, he is
one of the first through the gate when
it is opened. He hurries down the
ramp, selects a seat in the center Of
one of the cars, seats himself next to
the aisle and becomes engrossed in
his evening paper.
Gradually the car fills up, until the
only vacancy is the seat partly occu-
pied by Mr.. Cush. Several other COM
muters look askance at the vacant
space, but, presuming he is holding it
for friend, move on. Finally some
one politely asks Mr.. Cush as to
whether or not he is reserving the
seat, whereupon the gentleman most
graciously replies:
"Why, no, indeed! Not at ALL"
And then he moves over to the win
dow. SNUZER.
Mr.. J. Throckmorton Cush, after
boarding the train for Mount Vernon,
carefully reads everything printed on
either side of his ticket. When the
conductor finally reaches his seat he
is still busy trying to get the ticket
under the metal strip on the back Of
the seat before him. f. M.
The three jail breakers of Monmouth
County are said to be hiding in the
Jersey swamps, and If there's any JUS
tice in the world each should get two
days off his term for every day he
stays there
New-York tribune., 1922-08-02

Because the Belgian wife Of an
American arrived at Ellis Island three
hours too early she will be obliged to
60 back and make the transatlantic
trip over again. Our sympathy for her
suffering is somewhat obscured by our
sorrowful thoughts over her husbands
future. With this result of punctuality
as a precedent, we don't suppose the
poor guy will ever again see the first
act of show in her company.