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New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
King Constantine Speaking

King Constantine Speaking
Pm a senli-detachable monarch;
When peace is abroad in the
land
My scepter I sway for eight hours
a day
At my ancient and regular
stand.
/ am first in the hearts Of the
people,
And first on the salary roll,
And'my subjects unite in express
ing delight
At my wise and benignant
control.
But once fresh war has been
started, ,,E
There rises general shout:
"That sap-headed King is to
blame for this thing!"
And I am abruptly thrown, out.
From country to country / wan
In quest of bed and snack,
For I'd hate quite a lot to be shot
on the spot,
Which I'd be if ! ever came
back.
Then-as soon as the war drums
cease throbbing-
And the enemy quits my do
main, -
I am called on the phone to re-
turn to my throne
And continue my glorious
reign.
And loudly my praises are
sounded
And gayly my followers sing:
"The blessings Of peace that are
gladdening Greece
Are due to our excellent King"
However, I make no engage
ments
For more than week in ad-
vance,
For a rumpus may start and TIL
have to depart
For Russia or Norway or
France.
Nor do feel hopelessly blighted
When roaming an alien shore.
For ! know by and by the peace
banners will fly
And ! shall be kinging once
more.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
The Iower
r-on, N.w vnrs T,r,bnns Iue.. 1929
A Communication From Archy

A Communication From Archy
boss i'should like
to discuss one or two
business matters with you
quite seriously
in tho first place need
somc sort Of head gear such as
football players wear
! have to butt each
key of the typewriter
with my head
and am developing
callouses on my brain
these callouses on my
brain are making mo cruel
and careless in my thoughts
am becoming brutal
almost human
In my writings
and then would like
little automobile
i have to 60 from place
to place SO much
PiCktHk up aloWe I'VE SVu
clock work ono would do
with chauffeur to keep It
wound up for me
and lightning bug to
sit in front and be
the headlight on dark nights
1 hate to mention food boss
it seems so sordid
and plebeian but no longer
find any left over crusts
of sandwiches In your
waste paper basket ] am
forced to haunt the
restaurants and hotels for food
and this is at the ate@
imminent risk Of my life
unless 1 get these things
/ will quit you on
november first is not the
laborer worthy Of his hire
yours for economic justice
and living wage
archy
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

an impartial and broadninded study
and prompt action. IfMr. Hylan will
recant from his policy Of illiteracy
he has still an opportunity to act.
But the time is short. The emer-
gency is TOO grave to permit his
political juggling with the most ini-
portant duty Of the community
much longer to continue.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

was the war a business PROPOSE
ttion? That is the main question
which is left in the mind by Mr..
Hoover's speech on the European
debts.
His argument is sound and
Illuminating upon the problems of
exchange involved, and it was
needed. The sort Of plea that Mr..
Reginald McKenna put forward has
won altogether too much easy as
sent. Mr.. Hoover's speech marks
out the road of return TO common
sense. The crude theory that pay
ments from debtor countries had to
be made in gold or in goods direct to
the United States and that there
was danger of flooding our markets
by such shipments needs radical
modification. Mr.. McKenna's in
genious suggestion that it would
ruin the United States to collect
its debts was precious nonsense, and
Mr.. Hoover does we'll to stress the
other side.
But it is disappointing that Mr..
Hoover did not discuss the moral
aspects Of the debts as thoroughly
as he did the economic facts. He
ignores completely the question of
why America entered the war, the
question to what extent the war was
a joint venture, the question of
whether after our entrance into the
war our Allies did not pay in flesh
and blood for our unpreparedness,
suffering loss beyond all price.
The date of our declaration OF
war marks the official starting point
Of our joint venture with the Allies.
/. For q whole year our troops reached
Europe in driblets. Throughout
that year our Allies bore the shock
of battle, losing thousand by thou
sand their last precious ranks of
youth. Thereafter our troops en-
tered the battle line more and more
swiftly, and there can be no ques-
stion that it was their fresh vigo.
and splendid valor that determined
the issue between the tired, waver-
ing lines that had fought through
four long years.
Mr. Hoover urges frank discus
sion OF the cancellation problem,
but he ignores this entire aspect of
It's status. He treats the obliga-
tion as cold business, proposition,
precisely as if we had never fought
side by side with our Allies in a
common cause. The Tribune has
no desire to prejudge the settlement
of the debt problem. 1t is mani
festly complex one. Until France
and England agree to common
sense reduction of the German debt
and then unite upon the strict en-
forcement of its payment it is diff
cult to see how America can act.
!. But in the end, we submit. the
problem must be approached and
settled in spirit of generous good
will toward our Allies and recog-
milton of all the facts of our com
mon venture, moral as we'll as
economic. lt.cannot and should not
'he settled by the letter of the obli-
cation and upon the theory that the
war was matter of hard business
IN which the value of lives can be
ignored and dollars alone are to
count.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
archy

Our answer to this ultimatum is,
emphatically, No! There is q large
brown and black spider named James
who is just yearning for chance to
do Archy's work, and he lives through
the winter on the recollection of the
flies he ate in the summer. We will
not be held up by anybody. Archy
struck once before, and at the end of
two months came crawling back to us
on all six Of his knees begging for
reinstatement on any terms, or no
terms at all. Poets and insects are
too numerous for US to have to bargain
with them.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
Hell Maria ;" Fireuorks

national policy, to advise the Presi-
dent upon, and then he has got his
reviews to make, of the troops If lie is
Secretary Of War, and If he Is Secre-
tary of the Navy-God save the mark.
-he has to inspect the ships, and
then he has got his patronage, and
then he has got his speeches TO make.
What does he know about the
routine business Of that great admin
istration? He doesn't know anything,
and you can't get a man who will
know anything that is worth while in
the few years that he stays there with
all those distractions. And I soon
found out that if wanted information
had to go to these men who stayed
with these organizations, the bureau
chiefs. They are the men who are
determining the business policy of
their different departments.
Take the navy. A man from the
Geodetic Survey came in and wanted
s1,ooo,ooo for ships. Well, we thought
they had enough ships In this govern
ment. They sell them for $4,000 or
$4,000 apiece now after they cost
100000 or 100000. We thought that
we ought to be able to get them o
couple of ships, and so we made an
investigation. wrote and asked the
Secretary Of tho Navy to loan two mine
sweepers for the use Of the Geodetic
Survey. The answer came right back
We can't spare them
'.Let me call your attention to the
fact that under the old system that
would have ended it, but I simply
want. to say that I didn't do 1his with
any pride, but I didn't take my hat off,
4 didn't wear my shoe leather out run
ming around after these Cabinet officers
after I got this principle established
we were establishing principles the
principle of the subordination Of the
Cabinet members and bureau chiefs te
the agent of the President for the pur-
pose of imposing unified plan;, so ]
sent for Mr.. Assistant Secretary Roose.
yelt and he came to my Office. I didnt
go to his.
"And ] said, DO you want to go on
the mat with rae before the Presiden,
of the United States on this PROPOSE
ton? tell you that this letter shows
that you are not running your depart
ment. You have got forty-nine mine
sweepers that are going out OF commits
sion. If they are kept in commission
they won't deteriorate so rapidly. II
YOU loan them to the Coast Geodetic
Survey and If we have a war. you can
get them back; hdt, above all, il you
don't give them to the Coast Geodetic
Survey the United States government
has got TO spend $1,000, 900 70 get the
ships. Now take the letter back He
took the letter and he said we could
have the ships.
W hy. you have no idea Of the arrc-
gance Of some Of those bureau chiefs
in maintaining their right to do as they
had done for ls2 years in this govern.
nlent; doing MS they damned pleased In
the interest Of their department, irre-
spective of the interest ri the great
country of which they are but j pzrt.
81 had the cRiss of opcrations IL the
to get on those navy appropriations j
very ahle body oS msnand ssid 10
him after he talked to me about The
navy clique that It didn't make any ina-
preston upon me at alI, because heard
those terms lied to situations where
there is efficiency, where there Ii abil-
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
Bluff

This is the season Of the year
when hundreds of thousands Of peo-
pie sit shivering in stadiums and pre-
tend that they understand what is
going on on the gridiron.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
Making It Double

Europeans coming to this country
40 not object SO much to American
manners as to American customs.
Copyright by James r.. Monfaruel
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
Explanation

One reason for the wane Of the
crime wave is that SO many criminals
are going into winter quarters in the
various penitentiaries.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

ity, where there is fidelity to a pro.
gram, and / said to him 'You are not
giving to the President Of the United
States the information from the Nary
Department which enables him to de-
termine an alternative policy.
sand the chief of operations Of che
navy, an admiral, said to me, Z regard
it my duty to the American people 10
maintain the navy in an efficient cob
dition.'
81 said: The he'll you do. Either
you leave this Office or will leave
this Office. You are responsible to
the commander in chief Of the navy;
you are q subordinate Official. The
| Constitution of the United States puts
upon the President of the United
States and the Congress Of the Uni.id
States the duty of imposing poiify
upon the business operations of oar
country, and you say that you owe tie
duty that the people look to the
President and the Congress to per-
form. Now you will 60 out Of Office
or will 60 out Of Office or that issue,
and you bring me tomorrow morning
the information from the Navy De-
partment which enables ne to carry
to the President that upon which he
In the performances Of his duty can
determine an alternative policy. And
he came back.
ssThat little conversation saved the
Uaited States slo,ooo,ooo. hut he
brought ths information SO that the
President could determine what hs
wanted TO do, and I am very glad to
say that the opinion Of the President
, Of the United States was the original
| opinion of the able chief OF opera
tions, minus the slo,Ooo,ooo. Thss =
all we got, but it was worth II.
aThe trouble in this country, ssA g
| THE reasons that ws have this trcrslA
is the direct primary. We ars gsHks
back to the Constitution Of the unss4
States. We have passed, hops 7ss
ever In this country those days "a
denagogic rats dared TO get n'nsA
at the foundation Of the Constitush
lin connection with the instise9'
referendum and the recall q ns
judges, those things from wfsicn ~
foresight Of our forefathers had M
teeted US and stood between the M
democracy Of Russia, the free dem
racy which ruined Greece, the ~
democracy which has brought n M
name Of liberty proud peoples - -
solute destruction and almost sst'|
hilation.
"The trouble Is cowardice in EF
gress! There are men Sa Office ss
would barter the interests OF W.
country in order to stay IN q
And if there is any sggressive op2
Ition--look at the way they run hslss
an organized minority, whsther 4
q minority of labor union, whf
lit is . minority Of maternity mi
Eciation, whether it is minority A
farmers' bioe - those damned coss
run and runl IS
1T Isl just as easy TO be sggres1
| in standing for common sense, aass
wish sonse of these young men hes
! : hare had nay All Of It IN puslis 4
+ san.s .throughif any young
would start out and cali spsd
SPADE and take. his successive liekl
All the hands OF the political bos
but keep 1t it right, keep at conass
sense, I can promise him now in Ii
United States the career Of statsszs!sIs !sI
ships which is the only career q
iic life worthy Of ! honorabis n!
lalnbitionl 2
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

: vsu can sureaass sserchandise advertised In THE
IHI6ukE with absolute aafety--ser II fsssstissses
tsn results in any ease The TRIBUNE suaraa.
tees to pay seur mosey back upon request ne red
tasss No euibbiina. We rxfune premrt,y u the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

Shs Associated Press Is exclusively rntined 10
che use for republication Of all news dispstchss
Kfsdttd TO u or not otherwtss credited In this
paper. and also shs local Of SPONTANEOUS origin
S1hlished herein.
All rights q renubslcation of all ether matter
hsSen Also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

They are having a terrible time in
Kansas trying to decide whether Wells's
"Outline Of History" "is a At book for
college men to study" They are going
the wrong way about it if they want
the book neglected-put it in the pre-
scribed reading course and no student
will ever know what it is about. Bar
it from the school and curiosity will
make the Boys and girls read it.
AS to the book being dangerous
book, Of course it is. 1t is likely to
make some one think. It. is always
dangerous to start people thinking.
They may get into the habit Of it and
develop discomfort with existing con-
ditions. This would be bad for good
many industries, including politics and
the real estate business.
We sometimes ,hink that all books
should be abolished entirely, for the
sake Of safety. For you can never tell
what book is going to make a person
think. Mother Goose" Is full Of in
cendiary suggestions to the infant
mind.
One is not safe even from book
that puts one to sleep. For ten years
we have been trying to read Boswelps
Life Of Johnson" We always 20 to
sleep Just as Boswell is explaining how
brilliant and tremendous one Of DR..
Johnson's' tremendously brilliant re-
marks is. After we get to sleep we 20
on thinking about it; the sub-cons cious
mind keeps on with it while the con-
scious mind is dead to the world.
Boswell and Johnson and our sub.
conscious mind, among them, have yerv
nearly made rabid revolutionist out
of US. 1t is dangerous book. No hu-
man being can read it without, con-
sclously or unconsciorsly, wishing to
overturn law, order, established
churches and the settled conventions
OF modern civilization. The good Doc
tors orthodoxy and morality must have
made millions Of rebels.
After death he was, no doubt con-
demned to converse for ten million
years with William Wordsworth. It il
hell, but both Of them are happy, for
neither one Of them knows 1t. Words
worth was poet a dozen times, but
the rest Of the time Gas friend Of
ours remarked Of Bernard Shaw)--"he
has too much patience with himself %
Wordsworth makes us wish to deny the
immortality of the soul, persecute
feeble old paupers and bring destitu-
tion to widows and orphans. Words
worth is dangerous. 1t is not Shelley
and his crowd who influence people
to anarchy; it is Wordsworth, Elsie
Dinsmore and the Rollo stories.
All books are dangerous, for one
reason or another. They should all
be abolished. And books are especially
dangerous for college men. They are
likely to take their minds of the reason
for going to collegewhich is TO make
friends on the athletic teams, In the
frats ard glee clubs, who will be usefu,
to them later when they get their de-
grees and start TO selling life IN.
surance.
Says a headline: New German
Edict Bans Speculation in Ex-
change" The government evident
" wishes monopoly in the
manipulation Of phoney currency.
|
The rest Of the Administration
seems to follow with great docility
fwhereyer the Prohibition Baronz
lead.
DON MARQUIS.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

the NeW York branch of the Na-
tional Budget Committee.J
"It IS not too much to say that If
there had been at the beginning of
the war the system which we have
in effect now under the President of
the United States, o-ordinating sys-
TEN, one. under which one plan is
followed and under which General
Harbord here and the Secretary Of
War, the Postmaster General and the
Secretary Of the Navy work, billions
Of dollars Of unnecessary waste would
have been saved.
when we went into it-just think
Of it!-here was the War Department
selling stuff at II cents on the dol
lar, and some enterprising citizen buy
ing it and reselling it at 800 per cent
profit to another department Of the
government; nobody was paying any
attention to anybody else.
II want to say something here about
the Cabinet. They have a dual capac-
ity. They are the advisers of the
President in regard to national policy,
They are entitled to be dignifed, they
are entitled to give independent adj
vice; but in the organization, the busi-
ness organization Of government, they
are nothing but the routine vice.
presidential managers Of business
that is all, and they must take their
place, and under this Administration
they have taken their place, as sub
ordinate, administrative vice-presi-
dents of corporation. .Y
"Supposing we wanted to co-ordi-
nate the ships. Supposing that, as in
England, we wanted to have our
marine carry the troops instead Of
army transports for this tremendous
shipping that we have, and supposing
we wanted the navy to do some Of the
work for the army ordinating the
shipping All right.
"Was to run as agent Of the
President, to make a study Of that,
over to Secretary Weeks, and because
he was my personal friend to wait
until the Senators got through with
him, and slip around to the back door
SO that they wouldn't see me and
persuade him to 60 to Mr.. Denby with
me, and then the both of us sit in a
back room and wait to see him after
the Senator'S had gone and so they
wouldn't see us. and then having got
those two together take those two To
Laskar or Lasker to them?
There had to be central power in
somebody as the agent Of the Presi-
dent to coordinate, and II you are
going to coordinate you have to get
around a common table the men who
had charge of those things. Now that
| is the revolution that has been accom-
plished. That wasn't done by The
budget law.
aNow let me tell you why tie
Cabinet never have been ana never
| can be proper administrative vice
presidents Of the routine business or.
ganization Of government Take any
one of these Cabinet members Il fal
as this il concerned, take any one iii
the past. He comes in here, ne ii
suddenly put at the head of an or-
ganization employing tens of thou
sands cf men. He IS engaged In the
most diversified and technical activi-
Ties, and then he has got these quos-
eioas OF poles, national policy, inter.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

Says a headline: New German
Edict Bans Speculation in Elk,
change" I" The government evident
" wishes monopoly in the
manipulation Of phoney currency.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

From the speech Of Brigadier
General Charles G. Dawcs, former
Budget Director, at the dinner Of
the New York branch Of the Ma
tional Budget Committed
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

The rest Of the administration
seems to follow with great docility
wherever the Prohibition Barons
lead.
nnN M Kp0vYxt,
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
q IA RAN rY

Gatsrsd At the posocnce ss New York Is ascend
2 Glass Mall Matter.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
War or Business?

Was the war a business PROPOSE
tion? That is the main question
which is left in the mind by Mr..
Hoover's speech on the European
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SYKESVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl CLANCY and chill
dren, OF Baltimore, spent the weeks
end with Mrs. Chaney's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Schrade.
Miss Nellie Gather visited friends
in Baltimore Sunday.
Mr.. H. d. Hepner is preparing to
put up another fine dwelling house on
Springfield avenue. This one is just
next to the telephone exchange.
The people of this community are
not in favor of the daylight saving
plan.
We really have Smith in our town
now. and this is the first one. Mr.
Walter Smith, formerly of Mt. Airy,
who will do all kinds of metal and tin
ware work. He has his shop in the
Carter building.
The Young people of the town are
preparing a play, The Lady Detec-
tive" and announcement Will soon be
made of the time It's fine and no one
wants to miss it.
Mrs. Myrtle Eyler, of Cooksville, is
visiting at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Carrie Gather.
Miss Kate Merceron, who has been
SDGHuIHS the Mlulcl III hpo
returned to her home here.
Holy week was celebrated in all the
churches in Sykesville.
We are glad 20 learn Mrs. Charles
Kemp is improving from two-week's
illness and will soon be out again.
Mrs. Kate Duck, who has been quite
sick, is improving.
There will be I o'clock morning
service in St. Pauls Methodist Epis-
copal Church next Sunday morning
and also an IL o'clock service.
In the Defamation contest in the
public school here last Thursday even
ing. Anna Prough came out first
The special services in Springfield
Church will begin April 20. Rev. VIM.
Milne has secured for this meeting.
Rev VIM. Cummings. of Kentucky, a
very successful revivalist.
Mrs. Carrie Gather was taken to
the Maryland University Hospital.
Baltimore. for some serious trouble
last Monday.
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Farms i'm New York City.

1t has been commonly reported that
Manhattan Island, once sold for S24.00
is valued at more than that amount
per pinch. This would lead us to think
that there is only sky scraper build
ings and business blocks, but such is
not the case. There are on the island,
especially on the Northern borders,
and even in the business districts, scat
tered about, more than 500 producing
farms of different sizes, the largest
being about IS acres. Of course, in
tensive farming is considered, espec-
tally in these strenuous days of strik-
ing and restlessness.
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NO. IOI INSOLyENT DOCKET.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll CoaHl
In the Matter of Jonas B. Burner, d
solvent.
WHEREAS Jonas B. Burner. OF u
roll County, Maryland, being an
solvent debtor. did make applicatlS
to the Circuit Court for Carroll CoHf
ty for the benefit of the InsOlvent Ia"
of the State of Maryland. on the term
and conditions prescribed in san
laws, and it appearing that the Sa saw
inSolvent debtor has complied WIZ
the terms and conditions of said Id
solvent laws, and had acted fairly am
bona fide. 1t is thereupon this l1'a
day of April, 1922, by the Clreu.
Court for Carroll County, adludssu
granted and ordered that the SAID ~
mas B. Burner be fully and imam
discharged from all debts and cor
tracts made before the filing OF 'n'
application aforesaid. unless cause =.
the contrary thereof be shown Oh "
before the Sth day of May, ls22' plU
vided a copy of this order be lnseL'.'
in some newspaper published IN oli
roll County for two successive weeA'
before the 1st day of Nav, 1922
VIM. Fl. THOMAS
True Copy:-Test:
Edwin NJ Mellpr, Jr., 80.
Clerk. aprlf