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New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
A Variant to Charm

Without a single hunger strike Or
any parade of devotees and not much
laundering in the editorial columns
women have won their knickerbock
ers. No constitutional amendment
was necessary, it may be urged, and
therefore campaign was not OBJ
ligatory. Yet in that unwritten con-
stitution which governs these really
important concerns no clause was
clearer or more revered. Even after
it was conceded that women, even as
tables, had legs, there was the Stout
est insistence that they remain
purely hypothetical and be super
fcially, at least, contradicted by a
singleness of skirt.
Now any highway on holiday
demonstrates that the hypothesis
has come true. What began as a
riding costume and was stretched to
"a hunting costume has now, ON the
lines OF a golf suit, become a COM
nonplace for climbing, hiking or
even plain golfng or gardening.
Skirts have grown longer, angels
wings flop at their sides, and every
trace Of masculine severity has been
Danished from the ordinary frock.
But it has not been banished from
the wardrobe. 1t reappears in con-
centrated form on the hook where
hang the newly acquired knicker-
hockers.
It would indeed be time for toe
SINS and petitions if a complete age
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

Robert NJ. La Toilette, the loudest
of American public men and solitary
in his views, three times has been
nominated and elected Governor of
Wisconsin, each time after a knock
down and drag-out contest; three
times he has been nominated and
elected to the Senate, following cam
paigns of great ferocity. Now a
fourth Senatorial nomination has
come to him with great ease.
In many respects the luckiest pub
lie man in America is La Toilette
at least in his own state. When a
majority has been clearly against
him it has split itself among multi
plicity of candidates; at other times,
when there has been concentration,
he has been favored by the weakness
OF his opponent or by the selection
OF an issue which gave him all the
advantage.
tse For example, this time, in Wiscon-
sin of all states, his chief adversary
was a Clergyman who is militant
prohibitionist and had the enthusi-
astic Endorsement of the Anti-Saloon
League. "Bob" himself lodged and
talked of other things, but word was
passed among the thirsty; "Bob is
all right"
Senator La Toilette is beaten
when he seeks to elect friend, but
when he himself is an issue he has
politically the proverbial nine lives
of a cat. Yet it is highly doubtful
whether in many years he has had
behind him the people of his state,
1t almost looks as if Wisconsin, to
avoid having him and his trouble
making abilities at home, deliber-
ately ships him to Washington to
put the teeth of his Senatorial breth-
rem on edge,
The probabilities thus are that the
Senate, if the healthS of the Senator
does not break down and his voice
and arms remain unimpaired will
continue to exhibit the spectacle of q
small man with pompadour hair
charging up and down a deserted
aisle, stopping now and again to
thump his desk or to slap one hand
against another, while his associates
keep the din out of their ears by
fleeing to committee rooms and hid
ing there until the storm is over.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

If the offer of Herr SHINES really
signifies that the powerful minds of
Germany are at last disposed to ac-
eept the verdict against their coun-
try and in good faith begin the pay
nient Of the judgment rendered, it is
a most hopeful sign. There will be
approval and appreciation in every
country. Americans especially will
be glad to applaud the FIRST indica-
tion Of q sincere German effort to
pay.
It cannot be too strongly urged
upon Germany that 4 is this failure
to try to pay which has kept Ameri-
can opinion alienated. 1t has been
impossible to escape the conviction
that 9 concerted and highly astute
effort was being made to make pay
ment seem impossible. This has
seemed to Americans, in plain words,
q tricky and dishonorable policy, UNI
worthy of a great people Had Ger
many made sincere effort to pay
there would have been prompt sup
port and sympathy here had the eff
fort proved q failure, demonstrating
that the total of reparations de-
manded was excessive.
1t is from this angle of good faith
that the new offer is to be first of all
viewed. 1t raises difficult practi-
cal problem for the French, who
would gain nothing if the acceptance
of the payment in this form threw
their own workmen out of employ
nent and reduced their national
productivity by q corresponding
amount. But the offer is significant,
and it will be generally hoped that
it can be accepted and performed.
BY this path lies not only a rebuilt
France but the beginning of better
feeling across the Rhine.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Clearing the Air

The Attorney General breaks in
on those who are disposed to discuss
his injunction in a hysterical way
to say that all talk of an attempt by
the government to abridge personal
Liberties or deny freedom of speech
or of the press was ''the product Of
agitators. T" He well added, however,
that freedom of speech and freedom
of press do not mean that those me-
dipns may be used to incite riots
and murders.
Thus goes glimmering the large
Interpretation which some have
placed on the Attorney Generals re-
marks 10 the court at Chicago. No
bones have yet been broken and few
arrests made, and such as have oc-
CURED have been only for definite
acts of violence.
NO one needs to fear interference
If he avoids pulling railway spikes
or melting others to do it. The Con-
stitution and the law are in no seri-
Gus danger. On the contrary, the
power of the government, with pub
JIG approval, is solidly behind both.
1t Is pertinent to remember that
whatever an administrative officer
may propose it rests with the courts,
and the courts alone, in injunction
matters to dispose. The injunction
IS only a temporary ones 1t is sus-
ceptible of textual modification if
It's language is too sweeping. No one
is to be deprived of his day in court.
Whatever its minor defects, the in
Junction at least has had the merit
of clearing the air. Every one
understands that there must not be
violent and illegal interference with
interstate commerce.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

The Blue Nose, Nova Scot;an vic
tor of the international fisherman,s
race last year, must compete in the
trials off Halifax early in October
to choose the Nova Scotian cup de-
fender. No special privilege is 10
attach to her on account of her vic
tory last year. The best boat of the
season is to sail for Nova Scotia and
theSRlue Nose must take her chance
with the rest.
These are the decisions of the
Nova Scotian committee. They fol-
low the precedent of the interna-
tional yacht races, in which the hest
OF several vessels is chosen to chal-
lenge or defend the cup. But in the
present instance there is a certain
practical spirit that is appealing
These fishermen have decided that
speed alone is not sufficient. The
contestants must be boats that have
proved their worth ON the Banks,
They must have made good wears
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
a New Panama Treaty

The President has proposed new
treaty with Panama to replace the
Aay-Bunau Varilla treaty of 1903.
which was drawn up primarily with
view to meeting the exigencies of
building the canal. Now that the
construction is complete, many of it's
clauses are obsolete and new condi-
tons have made it advisable to en-
body new provisions.
The State and War departments
both agree that better basis of un-
derstanding than the existing treaty
Is desirable. Whether they go as
lar as the Panama authorities, how
ever, is another matter. According
to Washington dispatches, the Pan
anna government not only wishes
new agreements as to lands used by
the American authorities and as to
the relationship of the Canal Zone
administration and the republic, but
also as to the rights of the United
States government to intervene in
behalf of peace and order.
This is point of great Importance
to the United States. In the HAY
Bunau Varilla treaty Article XXIIr
reads:
"tf it should become necessary at
any time to employ armed forces for
the safety or protection of the canal,
or Of the ships that make use Of
same or the railways and auxiliary
works, the United States shall have
the right, at all times and in its dis
cretion, to use its police and its land
and naval forces or to establish forti-
fcations for these purposes
The Interpretation placed by the
Panama government on this clause
IS that its aim was to insure unin-
terrupted traffic through the canal
and prevent damage as a result of
local disorders.
Although the State Department
has made no statement of its atti-
tude, it is doubtful if the American
construction is so narrow. The
maintenance of the canal in opera
ton, whether threatened by domestic
disorders in Panama or from alien
sources, is of such vital Importance
to the United States that it is diff
cult to believe that America can
compromise her right to exercise the
fullest protection against the dan
gers of the moment. A crippled
Panaun~C Canal would be an annoy-
ar"e fer the shipping world, Eut for
the United States it might be an
actual menace.
In any changes that are made,
therefore, in drawing up new
treaty with Panama there is not
likely to be anything to jeopardize
Americas right to intervene to pro
tect the canal from any possible
danger, whatever its source. Such
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Georgians and Victorians

multiply one upon another, increasing
the facilities of life and extending
the command of the individual over
time and distance, it is no wonder that
the Georgian is carried away by the
current Of progress and inclined to
look upon his predecessors as pygmies,
insomuch that his intolerable pre-
tensions to superiority are provoking
signs of remonstrance among those
who still can claim to have a foot in
both camps.
The Georgian in his exultation for
gets that the advantages which inven-
tions bring do not make those who use
them better or abler, especially the
great majority who do not understand
them. 1t is very convenient thing
to be able to order ones dinner by
telephone, but it does not require more
mental exercise than walking out to
the shops.
The aim in life of Francis Cation
who was born in 1922 and has there
fore just come into his centenary-was
co find way by which men themselves
might be made cleverer and improved
physically, He was, as every one knows,
the founder of eugenics as a scientific
doctrine and very interesting little
memoir of his work has just been pub
lished by his disciple, DIR. Karl Pearson.
Galton worked by the samo method
as Darwin, insatiably collecting facts,
scrutinizing them laboriously and
building UP his theory on the results.
DR.. Pearson seems TO put the impor-
tance of his work beside that of Dar-
win, but here. from the ordinary mans
point Of view, we cannot follow him.
To begin with, it has not nearly the
same interest. The idea of eupeuics
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

has been before the minds of men from
very early period
Fortes creamtur fortibns et bo14s
Est an jsuencts, esd In eQgis, pqtran
Strong springs from strong and
sound; OK and horse have the mettfe If
their sires-that was evidently recoF.
nized in Augustan days just as clearly
as in 1922 A. D. Darwin, on the other
hand, took the convictions of men and
turned them upside down, They had
previously believed in a vague way
that, though superior to their fathers.
they were yet descendants from a
golden age which was stronger, hand.
somer, longer of life and nearer to
the gods. Whether we agree with The
different pieces of bis argument, there
is no getting away from the general
result. Darwin has altered the whole
outlook of educated men upon lifs and
nature. and this is something that
makes much more difference to hu-
manity than the knowledge of the tele-
phone.
Eugenics involves no such change Of
mental adjustment We should suspect
that another centenary will come
around before the teaching of Gsltoa
has borne much practical effect on the
ways of men, unless it is to alter our
ideas in regard to the treatment Of
the deficient and the habitual This
however, does not affect the respect
which we owe to Galton as 9 neabsr
of great hand whose attainments IN
science and literature raised tha whale {
intellectual standard of their gensra.
tion to a level from which it is TO be
feared that the complacent GeorgiaDs
are steadily descending,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
What Readers Are Thinking

crease, books show less advance than
anything else on family budget.
A large public library which printed
its analysed statistics last year stated
that the cost per volume of its pur-
chased books had risen al per cent
since 1914, figure that tallies closely
with estimates made by the book trade.
A bookseller who priced model home
library seven years ago priced for ex-
pertinent the same list by this years
prices, and found 40 per cent increase
was shown. Manufacturing costs up so
per cent, books up 40 per cent; GER
tainly the publishers have not passed
on their increased costs to the public.
Miss Malone has worked hard and
devotedly TO get higher salaries for
library workers and to persuade the
city to vote more funds to be used
solely for that purpose. why should
she not turn her energy toward per-
suading the city to give its great
library organization the support that it
deserves for all parts Of it's budget ?
In the eyes of the best library opinion
OF the country New York's support OF
its library system Is ridiculously in
adequate.
FREDERIC G. MELcHER,
Executive Secretary Nasionai Asso-
citation Of Book Publishers.
New York, Sept. 2, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

The appointment of William II.
Woodin to the arduous office of Fuel
administrator and Mr.. Woodin's ac-
ceptance thereof are happily marked
by fine display of public spirit.
The Governor in giving his in
structlons and Mr.. Woodin in reply
ing to them both set most excel
lent example. The Fuel Administra-
tor is told that his duty is to prevent
profiteering "by whomsoever at
tempted" and to supply first the
needs of the smallest householder.
Il trust you will use as little power
as possible, and all that may be nee
essary, to accomplish your task" says
the Governor in conclusion. Surely
here is phrase worth remembering.
Mr. Woodin's answer is in a SINH
lar vein. He unreservedly dedicates
himself to a public. service for which
he has stipulated he is to receive no
compensation. The fair service of
his work is not to be clouded by
thought of money. Thus a sweet
breath blows from war days. In an
other crisis another business man
shows the standards business men
set for themselves.
Coal bins are empty, and the Fuel
Administrator does not advertise
himself as a miracle worker. But
what can be done to conserve and to
distribute justly he will do. And
back of him will be Governor who
holds that the measure of loyalty to
the public's interest is revealed not
in words but in deeds.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

So many things have slumped and
| slid backward in this disappointing
universe that the scene of sports
lmanship and round -the-world friend
ship displayed on the Forest Hills
tennis courts was trebly welcome. 1t
warmed the heart and cheered hopes
of better times. The three Anzacs
gave an exhibition of tennis and
courage and friendly courtesy that
amply deserved the extraordinary
applause the tennis fans gave them.
1t was pleasant to beat this mighty
trio, but the crowds made it clear
that the match was the thing and
that defeat by such visitors would
have been not only endured but
loudly eheered. Evidently mob,
even partisan tennis mob, has a
rich reserve of generosity and fair
ness if you only know how to ap-
peal to it.
Part of that international friendli-
ness was based on an old and estab~
lished fact-that there is certain
likemindednessg between British CO.
lonials and Americans which makes
for sympathy and understanding. 1t
is what might be called the pioneer
slant upon life. It's convolutions are
simpler than those Of the older civili-
cations. There 10 rscre man-to-man
stuff, less elaborate convention. We
hit it off with the Anzacs in the war
just as we did with Messrs. Patter
son, Anderson and Wood.
But there was more than that in
the good feeling at Forest Hills. 1t
has been present in all the wealth
OF international matches now on
toward the French, Spanish and
japanese tennis visitors, toward the
British golfers, toward that ad-
mirable polo team from Argentina.
Offhand, sport may seem a rather
inadequate substitute for war, vet
it really does offer some of those
opportunities of test and ardor that
William James sought in his essay
upon a moral equivalent for war.
The question there raised has never
been answered by the active advo-
Gates of peace. They have devoted
their whole energy to extirpating
war without thought of developing
a substitute for the supreme moral
test that it offers the individual. If
any one thinks tennis is too weak a
substitute, ask Bill Johnston or any
other great master of the game
about the labor and singleness of
will involved. At any rate, sport
may help toward answering the
James query. And if international
sport can develop liking and UNDER
standing among peoples of greatly
differing speech and manners there
may well result a better basis for
peace than can be built by many
conferences.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

catch and sailed the seas with the
rest of the fleet in order to be truly
representative. This the Blue Nose,
of course, has done. But other ships
have gone to sea since she last raced.
and other ships have made fast time
in from the Banks with fun catch
in the hold. Other shippers have
shown dexterous skill in taking ad-
vantage of every play of wind and
weather. Against these, therefore,
the Blue Nose must take her chance.
This is the same practical spirit
which, perhaps carried little to
excess, led the Gloucestermen to dis
bar the Mayfower last year because
she seemed too much a yacht and
not enough fisherman. When the
Mayfiower had proved her worth on
the Banks and shown that she could
take her medicine with the best of
them the ban against her was re-
moved, and she will compete this
year at the American preliminary
trials.
1t is good to see the precedent of
utilitarian practicality established in
the history of these fishermen's races.
1t adds an unusual note Of interest
to the sportsmanship which has al
ready placed this racing event fore
most in the minds of many devotees
of international sailing.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
Sky Sailing

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial "Sky Sailing
you write: "The case of the buzzard
has been long observed and carefully
described. By picking out circling
and rising air current he can soar
slowly skyward in a spiral fight with
out moving wing"
But how can the buzzard soar whore
no rising air current exists? Rising
air currents occur practis ally only in
hilly country, but buzzards can and de
soar over fiat country; hence they must
have the ability to soar in either as
cending, descending or horizonal air
currents.
/ have observed that soaring birds
make q wave line in the vertical plane
when they soar upward against the
wind. This wave movement is quite
rapid-from about three to five waves
second-but it can plainly be OBJ
served with binocular of eight times
magnification when the bird is soaring
close to the observer. fs
An investigation of the physics of
this wave line proves that the bird is
able in this way to gain velocity even
when going upward against the wind.
When the bird has gained the desired
height it scars downward, either with
or against the wind, just as an airplane
with motor dead.
Of course, the energy to raise a soar
ing bird is derived from the energy Of
the wind. which means that bird can
soar upward only when there is wind
blowing. However, the direction of the
wind is immaterial to the bird, since it
affects only its strategy.
Men will never be able to soar in
wind of any direction, as soaring birds
do, before they are able to initiate this
vertical wave line with their gliders.
The Germans, whose recent success
in glider operation has aroused such
widespread interest, apparently have
not discovered this operating trick
Herr Hentzen, who scared over three
hours, said that his science amounted
to getting out, locating favorable cur
rent and hanging on. Soaring birds
cannot do this. They have to look for
food, and cannot depend on finding as
cending air currents when they are
hungry; also, they have to soar, since
their wing muscles are entirely toe
weak to sustain long tapping flight.
CARL MoNNIcHE.
Brooklyn, Sept. q. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
(From, Tho London Morning POST


It is now some time ago--three
thousand years, more or less--since a
profound observer of human nature,
the "Divine Homer" his countrymen
used to call him, marked it as stand
ing foible among men that each ago
should consider itself immensely in
advance OF its immediate predecessors.
eve claim to be far superior to our
sires" Is D constant saying OF his as
sertive characters in debate. Nestor
and the wise Ulysses would shrug their
shoulders, but the sentiment probably
went down with the assembly and has
been accepted ever since. There have
been times, 80 be sure. when there has
been Httls perceptible progress in the
conditions of this country. even from
century to century. There would seem
to have been no great substantial diff
ference, for instance, between the Eng
land Of 1880 and the England Of 1880,
But things have been moving recent.
ly at very different rate.
Tho present centurys still In its
youth, has witnessed the conquest of
the air and the penetration of the
depths Of the ocean. We are seeing
the deep sea cable outdons by an in
tangible apparatus, with an immense
future still before it, The telephone
and tho gramophone have come TO be
adjuncts Of daily life. The 'well-
trod stage" Is threatened by the
camera. More than all, the whole
business Of warfare and of effective
destruction has been improved out of
oil recognition. AS these inventions
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07
The Library and Book Prices

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of te-day Miss
Maud Malone, of the New York Public
Library staff, takes exception to the
statements that have been made by the
library's trustees that the city's appro-
priation for the library is too small.
In her opinion 35 cents per capita is 8
sufficient sum, even though twice that
sum is votsd in Newark. three times as
much in Boston and nearly four times
as much in Cleveland, TO instance a
few typical examples.
In the face Of generally rising costs
Of all kinds the city government radi-
cally reduced the appropriations for
books last year, and the shelves natu-
rally show depletion and the patrons
naturally show irritation.
Miss Malone states that the cause Of
the trouble Is the price of books; a.
that publishers advanced prices during
the war 100 per cent; (2) that the ef-
forts of the library trustees should be
directed against these publishers in
stead Of each year toward asking more
funds from the hard-pressed city.
Miss Malone'a figure Of 100 per cent
is quite mythical. AS trained libra
r;an she should have known where to
get more exact statistics. The only
things in the book field that have gone
up 100 per cent are wages in the print
ing and plate-making industries. Paper
lis at present 66 per cent higher than in
1914, and the total cost Of making
books is 80 per cent up. The selling
price of books averages a 40 per cent
increase from the wars effect. With
the cost Of living now nc 65 per cent i'm
New-York tribune., 1922-09-07

Of trousers really threatened. There
are problems of beam and girth,
especially beam, which no Paul
Poiret will ever solve In terms of
knickerbockers, Even for the sylphs
and Dianas it is unthinkable to con-
template them as l perpetual uni
form. But as a nes spot upon the
landscape, another variant to charm,
"a different favor for week ends
who dares criticize?