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New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

demoraiised coal production. Mr..
Lewis'a violent opposition TO arbi-
tration shows how completely he is
satisfied with things as he has
shaped them and how eager he Is to
deny the public chance TO pass
judgment ON the coal industry's
economical shortcomings.
The head of the miners lnion is
not avcrse to over-n,anning, for over
manning swelis union membership
and dues. 1t makes the union mill
tar1a, It exaggerates the seasonal
character Of the industry, encour-
tges the working Of poor mines and
puts the operators III large meas
ure at the mercy Of union dictation.
There are operators also. as Mr..
Hoover has pointed out. who think
that they can make more profit in a
d;sorganized than in an economical
ly organized industry. He calls them
coal "hoot,eggers.' Their influence
is pretty sure to be thrown with
Mr.. Lcwis's against operating re-
forms, man power dehation, govern
mental rationing, arbitration and
other schemes to relieve the public
of excess coal costs, uneven produc-
ton, summer strikes and winter
famines.
The country wants to see an inn
partial investigation made of the
ailing coal industry. II demands a
show down. 1t is more likely to get
this from an independent commits
sion. The undermining of coal min
ing and distribution has ceased to
be an industry problem and become
national one.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
What the Miners Rejected

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In view of the fact that your
newspaper did not publish the terms
of the offer Of the anthracite operators,
upon the rejection of which by the
miners the Philadelphia conference
Adjourned en- August %, a statement
of these terms may be of interest. The
offer of the operators was as followg:
"All mines to resume operation
upon the execution of a contract
extending to March 81, 1923, the
wages and working conditions which
were in effect March 81, 1922. This
contract to provide that:
"(a) On January 5, 1923, the
Anthracite Board Of Cancellation
shall meet in conference and deter
mine wages and working conditions
IN the anthracite field effective for
a period OF one year beginning April
|, 1923. On January 8, 1924, the
board shall meet in like manner to
determine wages and working .condi-
t'ons for period of two years be-
ginning April i, 1924.
"{b) In case there has heer no
agreement prior to February 15 in
the years 1923 and 1924 the pre-
siding judge of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sd
judicial District shall appoint three
aisintevested citizens of outstanding
Character and ability, who shall sit
with the board to hear the argument
and make findings with respect to
the matters in dispute. These find
lngs shall.be rendered on or before
March 10, shall be rccommendatorv
In character and shall be subject to
acceptance or rejection by either
party within ten days thereafter
The operators had previously pro-
posed a binding arbitration plan to fix
wages after April 1923. When this
was rejected the above proposal wa.
made. 1t is described by the operators
as the extreme of concession" and it
can scarcely be denied that this is
fair description.
The miners. however, would have
nothing to do even with plan for
,'reeommendaatory" findings by impair
tial unpires. Mr. Lewis had nothing
TO propose except that the operators
should sign an eighteen months agree
ment TO pay the wages in effect up to
April. 1929, when strike was called
and thus make inevitable the main
tenanee Of wartime prices for anthr,.
cite until April, 1924. D. T. PIERCE.
New York, Aug. "a, 1892.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
Dispelling The Debt Fog

Secretary Mellon has disposed of
two erroneous theories fostered
abroad. The first is that Grea.
Britain underwrot, the debts of the
other Allied nations to the United
States, and that this gave Britain a
special relationship to the entire
debt problem. The second is that
the United States is not opposed to
linking the debt with the repara-
tions and intertwining the settle
ment of Britain's debts with those
9of the other Allies.
In his ill-timed note about the
debts Lord Balfour implied that
Britain had underwritten the debts
OF thu other Allied nations to the
United States and indicated that
the burden which Britain thus as
sumed weighed upon her. Although
the passages referred to are written
in the adroit and often ambiguous
style of Lord Balfour, the impress
sion given is that Britain has as
sumed mere than her share and
that she is therefore in a position
emitting her to special privileges
This whole thesis is denied by. Mr..
Mellon, who quotes from Treasury
Department Communications to
show not only that the British gev-
! ernment did not underwrite the
debts but that the United States
was from the start of the opinion
that the loans to each country
should be dealt with separately.
Britain's delt to the United States,
he points out, grew out Of direct
transactions with this country for
advances made for the account of
Great Britain. They had no rela-
tion to advances by the United
States to France, Italy and the
! ether countries.
I In making this clear the Secre-
/ tary of the Treasury at the same
time answers in the negative Lord
/ Balfour's plsa for joint considera-
ton of the debts and definitely op-
4 poses connecting the debts with the
rcparations settlement. That this
would be the policy of the Admins
tration has hem clear from the
various unofficial statements thai
from time to time have been made
about the suggestions from Europe
20 link the debt and the reparations.
The amount Of the German repara-
tions should be determined by Ger
rnany's ability to pay, and not by
Americas willingness to remit
debts.
Secretary Mellon's statement
! should clarity Americas position in
the eyes of the Europeans. Once
the idea is understood that the
United States will consider the AL
lied debts only separately, dealing
1 directly with each debtor nation,
many nnisapprehensions will vanish,
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

conducted conventions in the past,
by giving the deciding voice To the
chairman Of the New York County
delegation, thus making him state
as we'll as county boss.
A convention 50 directed will
again raise a demand for direct
nominations. If Mr.. Murphy is
sincere in his belief that the cen
vention syst N Is the more desira-
BILE he will not this year repeat his
performances as Buffalo and Roch-
ester and Syracuse
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
Standing for Principle
Negotiations between the rail

lE NegOtIarlonS between the RAN eX-
ecutives and the brotherhood chiefs,
acting for the striking shopmen,
Z broke down on clear question of
principle Seniority was the bar TO
an agreement, as it has been from
the beginning. The brotherhood lead
ers asked the executives, as Mr..
Jewell had previously asked them, to
admit that the men, after walking
cut, still retained an option on their
old places. This option is purely
imaginary The Railroad Labor
Board warned all strikers year ago
that if they quit the service as
protest against board decision they
would lose seniority rights. How
can the executives, in the face of that
ruling and of Chairman Hooper's re-
cent reassertions of it, consent to
restore the strikers to positions they
held on June so?
The roads accepted in good faith
the Railroad Boards decisions and
assurances. The men who stayed
on were told that they would be ad-
vanced in seniority in so far as
places ahead of them were vacated.
New men were employed with the
promise that they were to continue in
the service and rank next to the work
ers who remained loyal. Chairman
Hooper publicly approved these ar
rangements. They We're fair and
just and Of great value in steadying
railroad employment and cantribut-
ing to uninterrupted service.
The representatives of the strik-
.lers want to persuade the roads to
help to annul the principle estab-
hshed by the Labor Board. If the
strikers are "reinstated" in the sense
in which Mr.. Jewell and the brother
hood chiefs use that word any one
Of them, if he doesn't get exactly the
status he had before, can appeal to
the Labor Board. The board will
then be confronted by the fact that
the roads volun.a4i1y surrendered on
the seniority issue,
b The executives say on this point:
"aAs. this acknowledgment [of the
strikers seniority rightsl would
doubtless control the decision OF the
Labor Board on dispute submitted
under your second paragraph as to
seniority and oblige it to render a
decision against the old men who re-
manned and the new men who en-
tered the service. W. caanot ac-
cept it.
No ether answer could be made
under the circumstances. The rail
heads would be guilty of breaking
faith with those who stood by then,
if they made such compromise with
the strikers. They would dishonor
themselves. They are fighting for
a principle which goes to the root OF
the present strike and which must be
upheld if government regulation is
to do what it was intended to do and
railroad strikes are to be put an
end to-
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

There are pleasant Victorian
memories awakened by the Newport
Art Associations approaching musical
pageant of "The Viking" which is to
be produced for the first time on the
evening Of Tuesday, August 20. The
pageant, arranged and set to music
by the artists and musicians of New
port, as the announcement informs US,
is an adaptation of Longfellow's poem
"The Skeleton in Armor.n
The circumstances which gave birth
to this lyric ballad are full of a ro-
mantle interest. 1t was during GER
tain summer of the early '50s, in the
period when Boston first "discovered" "
Newport and peopled it with some of
the rarest literary and artistic stars
of the time, who established them
selves at the old Cliff House, over
looking Easton's Beach. Among others
of the coterie were the Longfellows
and their children; George William
Curtis and his wife; Thomas Gold
Appleton, accounted the most brilliant
talker of his day; Charles Sumner
and my parents, DR.. and Mrs. Howe,
with their two elder children, my sis
ters, Julia and Florence. This galaxy
Of literary lights, caused Count
Gurowski to give the Cliff House the
nickname of the "rSotel Rambouillet"
after the famous literary center of
Paris in the early seventeenth CEN
tury. Out of that coterie grew the
French Academy; Madame de Sevigne
was its queen; Richelieu, Corneille and
La Rochefoucauld were its familiars
The Skeleton in Arnlor
There was much talk among the
l;terati at the Cliff House about the
Scandinavian explorers, and great In
terest was felt in the voyaging of
Left Ericsson and his Norsemen, who
it was then believed had landed here
and left as a legacy to Newport the
Old Stone Mill, the lofty tower" Of
Longfellow's poem. 1t was not long
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
The Chartres of Tomorrow


We wonder just what the late
Henry Adams would have said TO
the plan of Mr.. Ralph Adams Cram
and others to regulate and improve
art in the Episcopal churches of
America. Nothing very encourag-
ing, we fear. That dry old New
Englander spent the last years Of
his life worshiping on his knees be-
fore Our Lady of Chartres, and his
heart was sold--in the language Of
the great American faith, business
Ito the medieval idea. That idea
is long way separated from the
present plan to improve ccclesiasti-
cal art by sitting out horrors and
regulating beauty upward by con-
troll from above.
That much debated thirteenth
century, long scorned as period
of Grass ignorance, now much re-
habilitated and by some regarded as
The greatest of centuries" had any
hing but an art controlled from
above. The taste and enthusiasm,
that built Chartres Cathedral and
all the other great churches of the
period welled up from below; they
were in the eye and hand of stone
cutter and window builder quite as
much as in the brain Of the great
designers. Rivalry between cities
was one great stimulus; Chartres
We'd with Rourges and Rheims with
Anaiens--their people working witt,
might and maiia--exactly as If all the
citizens Of New York should fall to
upon their greatest church in an eff
fort to outbuild Boston. Religion
was the center of life. 1t sent
knights and children alike careerirg
off on crusades. 1t sent towering
atoft the most wonderful buildings
since the Parthenon, puising with
lie and fresh beauty.
Well, things are not that way
nowadays. We have our wonders.
Especially we. have the towers Of
downtown New York, and anybody
who thinks they are not wonderful
would have been a killjoy In 1922
and scoffed at Charities Cathedral,
when building, as strange, mon
strously tall horror. But the great
thrust of American architecture,
the best in the world to-day, does
not reach its great successes in
church building. So one wonders
about the new plan to save our
churches from horrors. Is taste to
be bettered in this negative fash
ion? Can anything more be
achieved than rather prim, con-
ventional adherence to old stylesy
Perhaps it is the best that can be
hoped for in a period of waiting
between tides. 1t will certainly
save sensitive retinas many awful
wounds. But what Of great
churches? Is their day past or will
some revival of exuberant faith
send them soaring skyward again,
as utterly original as the great
Gothic cathedrals, to reach with
their steel ribs a height and majesty
that no cathedral builders before
ever dared attempt?
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
Too Noisy Sirens
. the Editor Of The Tribune.

. the EDITOR Of The Tribune.
Sir: May add my protest 20 that
oI o. yoar correspondent on the subject oi
fhe sirens or motor trucks?
City dweslers must of necessity hear
WIN many things which are injurious
90 health but these sirens are hoeh
injurious and unnecessary. Their
sefesea lars the whole nervous sys-
ten It tends to confuse the man IN
toof' and he who lcses his presence 81
mind u the trassc Of New York stands
little chance Of saving himself.
NJ, Y. r. WHITE.
New York, Aug. % la22.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
The Towev
FROM THE LIFE
4 LExANpER MAcTAvlsH MAC

A LExANDER MAcTAv1sH MAC
IA DoUGALL MACQu1E
Learned the virtue Of thrift at his
grandfathsr's knees
While others their time TO extrava-
gancc gave,
His single ambition was simply to save.
"'Tis better auoth he, with resolve
stark and stern,
ITO keep ali you can from the pay that
you earn.
MY savings in time Independence will
give,
And then I'll retire and start in to
live
Alexander MacTayish MacDougal Mac
Quie
Saved up and invested assiduouslee.
BY walking to work and back, stormy Or
clear,
He thirty-six dollars reserved every
year.
one-half Of his salary went in the
bank;
He used food but rarely; cold water
he drank.
Particular folk at his clothes looked
askance,
But he put into bonds what he saved
or his pants.
Alexander MacTsvish MacDougal Mac.
Quie
Rather envied the fellow who went on
spree.
His ardent Scotch nature would now
and then pine
For song and the bootlegger version
of wine.
"By abstinence now" so he said, "I'll
employ
The wealth of the future on things I
enjoy
So he moved to garret to save on
his rent
And invested the balance Mt seven per
cent
Alexander MacTavish MacDougal Mac
Quie
Went over his books and discovered
with glee,
That in forty brief years he had man
aged to raise
Enough to live we'll on the rest OF
his days.
"The dream of my life," he exclaimed,
"has come true!
I'll do all the things have dreamed
should do"
And freed from ali want, at the age
Of threescorc,
Alexander MacQuie went on saving
some more.
The seniority issue has precked the
chances Of a settlement of the railroad
strike. Apparently the union man who
quits his job hotty resemts the implica-
ton that he is no longer working for
his icte employer.
Unionism's motto is evidently: "Di-
yided, we stand: united. we sit down ~
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
By Maud Hone Elliott

the leading parts in the pageant aya
throwing their hearts into their work
and the rehearsals go merrily on night
and day. The Mayor of Newport has
consented to have the Old Mill illumi
mated on the evening OF the pageant,
the grounds will be filed with a gay
crowd of spectators. young and old, the
stage filed with handsome lads and
lovely girls.
In the audience will be several of
the founders and the officers OF the
Art Association, amonE whom are the
president, Harrison S. Morris, the able
chairman of the entertainment commit
tee; Mrs. Howard S. Graham and the
musicians who have arranged the score;
Mrs. George Eustis Corcoran and NJ.
Shafter Howard. Unfortunately Mrs,
Frueauff, who wrote the admirabla
scenario and has made it possible for
the association to build the exeeileEs
stage, is in deep grief and cannot as
present Many charter members viii
be present. among them my husband
John Elliott, and myself, the secretary
and general promoter of the Art Assa-
citation affairs, and the two Sturte-
want sisters, Louisa and Helena. bcth
artists of merit. It was in Helenss
fertile brain that the idea OF TIE
pageant hrst arose.
Shqdcp Guests
To some of the elders in the audiers:
certain dim shadows are likely to 50
pear among the guests. shadows q
those guests of the old Cliff Houss
who SO long ago paced the streets ua-
der Newport's beautiful elms. or walkaa
on the silver sands OF what was thea
before its present desecration, the ncss
beautiful beach in New England Nov
alas, Easton's Beach, over which VII
liam Hunt used to galiop, where
George Bancroft used to walk up and
down and where Channing thought eus
his noble discourses. has become ths
sordid commercialized place we see te-
day.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

Xes csc eurehss. r-f.hsrdse a3ves.t.es In TEE
TrfECkE wi asscfuta ssiaty--fef n cisss 'stsr.
tar rne,ts n say ssse THs TgieuNE saa-sa.
tees .e pay sapf rstn y task urss fsausss. Nc red
ssess Ne ee,ehrns. W. sefens aaonpsi. the
Advertiser eses rot.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
Why Do They Do Ita

| reverence all of our statesmen;
My pulses are always a-throb
When l think | might meet, pass
ing by on the street,
A man with a government job.
like to believe they are marvels
Of vast and superior worth
Not creatures like me, who are
willing to be
Just average children of earth.
But when, as I wait. at the movies
Till a comedy reel is unfurled.
While they show the reviews Of
the once-a-week news
That is culled from all parts
of the world,
And some eminent statesman is
pictured
Stepping off of, ship to
dock,
Or making speech at some pop
ular beach,
1t gives me a violent shock.
They show them in speed-boats
and airplanes:
On warships and barges and
cars;
They show them in camps in the
costumes Of tramps,
And smoking prodigious cigars.
They show than in faraway
countries
Or at rest by tropical sea.
But wherever they're shown, in a
crowd or alone,
They always look foolish to me.
If l were an eminent statesman
(Which I'm heartily glad ! am
not)
When my labors were done
would hurriedly run
To hide in my lowly tfatched
cot.
For I'd know that no worship
ing millions
Would be awed by my promi-
nent place
If the cinema reel got a chance
to reveal
The features composing my
face. ~
The Lure of the Game
Everybody who has been in the
railroad business wants to get back
into it some time-including Uncle
Sam.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
Those Lost Causes
lFroln Tac .Kassas csfg Star

From. Tac ka8sas t'fb Stu'F
Monarchist grouDs in Eurors ~
plotting to set up thrones in Eaysr'a''
the Rhineiand. Austria and F''f's .
With things looking 50 pran1ilsans s..
Lanished dynasties we wonos,a
don't hear Of the Stuarfs s's '''s
themselves again.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
But sliplicity Is So Prevalent.

But Siiplicity Is So Prevalent.
Sir: Submitted as the best line
among the many favorable reviews Of
"The Old Soak" and found in Mr.. Percy
Hammond's review:
neither the author nor the
actors strain. They just go along af-
fording you pleasure by the quiet
siplicity of their vices and virtues"
Give me life of quiet siplicity,
every time! HILARY.
Before we indorse the current move
ment to convert America to sovietism
we'd like to be certain what nation is
going to undertake the relief work.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
Mr,lnKn or rnE AssoclArrn pnrsa

Ths Associated ryess So eseitisisely erti.rd n
the esc for rrppb .catcn o. all asws Il spstcps
escdt;cd 30 ~ nGs ethsfwise r-esi,ed IN .as
rspry. and aiso ihe osl q sps,taneCus o-igla
,ssbsssica herein
All rt-hts .. capitalization G al ethes matter
fstc.n aiSe are reserved
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
The Grand Old Game

IhS IHaN0 Oid tame
Sir: The most popular form of Mos
quito Golf is played on one-hole
course. varying in length according to
the personal specifications of the
player.
The game can be played at any time
of the day or night and even in COM
bination with other activities. The
ideal time is after you have turned off
the lights and slipped into bed. Dark
ness assists in concentration and the
bed makes for the comfort of the
player.
Only cne club is necessary, with
head adjustable to all shots. Ordi-
nary wood shots are made with the
cluhbed fist and follow through de-
Gently regulated by the players knowl-
edge of how much damage each part
OF the course can properly absorb
Chip shots are safer and the result
just as satisfactory.
From traps, such as the ear, good
outs can be made with the thumb
rigidly extended and a Arm wrist
movement. However, on these shots
care should be exercised to remove
such obstacles as noses and eyes from
the path Of the descending nibliek.
1t is never necessary to replace
divots. They are as irrevocabiy lost
as ease of gin in a police station.
Good Mosquito Golfers are rare, ex-
cept in New Jersey, where constant
practice makes them anbidextrous.
The game requires wonderful keen
ness Of ear to follow the ball, nice
Judgment of distance and the patience
OF jellyfsh. Vocabuiaries are on
tional--usually depending ON whether
gallery is following the game.
LOU.
Men hemeefoYth will not Be permitted
70 carry liqper on the hip, dry agents
dssert. II Wont be 50 tong before evcyv
rum raider Viu be equipped with a
stomacA pump.
Novels have been written on less
than che following Associated Press
dispatch from Chicago. printed in the
evening papers yesterday:
Waiter Undaras, unrecognized sculp.
tor. forty three years old. bowed ha !.
fore the headless figure Of the Winged
Victery' in the Chicago Art Institute
Yesterday and shot himself through the
nead. One day before he had paid his
iast financial debt. for which he had
given UP his art after reverses and had
taken work as Clerk
Two women have been arrested
charged with Turing men to their home
ana then taking all their victims
money in crooked gambling gamos.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
Working Fairly Effectively

Just now about quarter of the
railroad employees of the country are
operating the block system.
Temporarily Safe
1t begins to look as If the peace
of Europe would last, anyway, till
the next conference.
Copyright by James j. Montaguel
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

Two women have been arrested
charged with~luring men to their home
and then taking all their victims
money in crooked gambling games.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

res yes, of course. The females of
the specie. n "
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
FRIDAY AUGUST IS, 1922

asaed by Nev Trsk Tri,aune inc. Ns~ York
"a Sssyasasias ssuSsished daily. nrden Reid. t'sssl-
dssss 9. ysrssss Rosers yiee- -prss.dsnt: Herp
nsxsrs Reid, eecrstssys n r Msxseid. Treasurer.
zstdfssx. Tsse1ne I5usidns iN Nassau Ssfcet. Nex
Sosk rsltpssoap ntekrasn $3.50
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25
SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rs mail iaciuS..s
Tsss.sae. IN YnE CNlTEp STATES.


rnlssea ., the rossoaist at New York as sceead
& gss Man Mister
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

Men hemeefoYth wtll not be permitted
20 carry hqper on the hip, d,y agents
assert II '0on't be 50 tong before, evcyy
rum raider ,oiu be equipped with d
etomach yump
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

Unionism's motto is evidently: "Di-
vided, we stand; united, we sit down"
New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

The seniority issue has ipreeked the
chances Of a settlement Of the railroad
strike. Apparently the union man aDho
quits his job hotty resemts the isnpltca-
ton that he is no longer working for
his lete employer.