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New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
Penalizing Ambition

| 1t has long been known that Sec
ond lieutenants and assistant college
professors gave hostages to fortune
when they took unto themselves
wives. Yet second lieutenants and
assistant college professors have
been getting married since the army
was established and the first uni
yersity was founded, and few of
them have ever regretted it.
The dean of Northwestern Uni
versity, super-synapathet1c with the
struggling college instructor with a
wife, has now barred him from the
campus. His action is reminiscent
of the rich man who, inportuned
for a loan by an old friend, ill and
destitute, called the janitor and
said:
Put this man out! He is break.
ing my heart"
1t would seem to an outside OBJ
server that the young man who has
the nerve to get married and still
stick to small college job is the
kind of man the colleges need. He
certainly sets devotion to duty above
worldly welfare. If he is willing to
make sacrifices of luxuries and COM
forts in order to follow a highly
useful profession, no dean, however
great-hearted, should be permitted
to say him nay.
The time will come when the fac
ultaes of the colleges are paid ac-
cording to their service. Even now
a professor can earn better than
$4,000 a year, which is enough to
keep wife who is not too expensive
in her tastes. The youth who does
not hesitate to do outside work now
and then, even if it is literary pot
boiling" to quote the distinguished
dean, ought to be allowed to settle
his own matrimonial affairs.
To establish a rule that no man.
can be married till his earning
capacity reaches certain figure
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21

trouble, until some kindly psyche
analyst consented to remove them.
But what hapened7 Flooding wear
lily homeward, our young convict
suddenly pricked up his ears and lift
ed his eyes to discover the whole
youth of the block out to greet him
with whoops Of awed admiration. So,
far from being hang-dog villain,
he suddenly saw that he was the
proud hero of the entire block, the
school, the neighborhood~-or at least
of that portion Of 1t which really
mattered.
Such seems to be natures efficient
method Of avoiding completes. II is
all rule of thumb, and DR.. Jung was
not consulted about it. But it works
not badly, as the large number of
normal complexless individuals alive
to-day testifies. Whether we stow
away or don't, there's always some
body--h husband, wife or young son or
daughter--to take the starch out of
us if we get stuck up, and some
group of under dogs, or romantics,
or plain loyal friends to admire us
il we get laid low. Ask Anna and
Katherine. They know.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21

prevail, at that. The tennis crowds
were always true to Maurice Me-
Loughlin even in his decline, just
because he was gallant, eager
figure. Matty is still d god TO the
baseball fans, and rightly. The
for little Gene Sarazen is
due to the fact that he is jolly and
simple and modest quite as much as
because he is young. Miss Wills
has equally the dash and courage
to win crowd. If the public is
resigned to seeing Mrs. Mallory
yield before newcomer, is it not
largely from the feeling that. like
Madenioiselle Lenglen, she was a
better tennis player than ambassa-
dressg AS for young Vincent Rich
ards, he has still to prove that he is
Of the stuff Of which great champions
are made. After all, tennis crowds
are only human in demanding that
their heroes and heroines, old or
new, be real people, piucky, gener-
GUS and fair.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
In the Midst Of Plenty

New York will justify her title as
the Empire State this year by pro-
ducing a crop of grapes, apples,
pears, oats, hay, potatoes and garden
truck that is 8 per cent greater than
last years. This crop will be har-
vested, despite unfavorable weather
conditions in many parts Of the
state. Returns from the dairy indus
try have not yet been received, but
the size of the hay crop indicates
that they will be larger than they
have been for number Of years.
Farming is by no means the chief
industry of this state, but it is a far
more important industry than most
people understand who have not Wis
tied Dutchess County, the Mohawk
Valley, the Chautauqua grape-grow-
ing districts and the southern tier.
The great value of bumper crop
so near at home is in the compara-
tive cheapness of distribution. No
railroad strike could keep from this
city products which would be brought
in few hours by motor truck from
any farming section of the state.
It may require the efforts Of the
government at Albany to secure, coal
for New York residents this winter,
but they will not be in any danger
Of famine.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
Governor Harding's Case

1t would be scandalous thing lie
the personal opposition of q single
Senator should be allowed to stand
in the way of the denomination OF a
capable public official like w. r. G..
Harding, governor of the Federal
Reserve Board. An uilwritten rule
has constrained the Senate at times
to regard personal disapproval by
any Senator of an appointee from
his state as a BAR to confirmation.
Mr.. Hehin, Of AAabama, has put for
ward such an objection to Mr.. Hard
ing, although both are Democrats.
Mr.. Harding's offense seems to have
been chiefly that he acted as a mem
ber of the Reserve Board in way
which Mr.. Heain resented.
This hardly constitutes q personal
quarrel. Mr.. Harding believed it
necessary for the good Of the coun-
try to release frozen credits, in spite
of the fact that the process of un-
freezing was painful to groups
which were carrying cotton. Other
farm bloc Senators have the same
grudge against Mr.. Harding; but
they admit that it is political, and
not personal.
Mr.. Harding deserves renonina-
ton. He is unusually well equipped
for the post he holds. He enjoys
high degree of public confidence.
1t would be concession to dubi-
Gus practice to recognize the per-
sonal veto which Mr.. Hef1in would
like to put on this appointment.
Members of the Reserve Board
ought not to be punished thus for
taking a disinterested, non-sectional
view of their duties. At the least,
Mr.. Harding should have chance
to overcome objections to his con-
tinuance on the beard which are
without real merit. His renomina-
ton would be welcomed as notice
by the President that petty animosi-
ties cannot influence selections to
this important Federal agency.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
Back age People

Let us ramble together--a leisurely
ramble through the pages of house
hold magazine. !. Not that way.
You are beginning at the front
cover A ramble, we venture,
should be something pleasant; sue
cession Of agreeable sights and sug-
gestions. Let as begin with the back
cover and stroll inward by easy stages.
There are such delightful people on
the advertising pages. Their good
cheer and contentment are con-
tagious. If we pass into the maga-
zinc by way Of the front cover we
shall meet with all sorts Of odd per-
sons, many of them unhappy, to judge
by the illustrations; gloomy, shot to
rieces with problems. gone wrong with
love. So let us enter maga :.
zinedom by the back garden gate
rather than by the imposing front
door.
See the children. Did you ever OBJ
serve two merrier, better natured
youngsters? The baby is curling up
his feet in a paroxysm of glee, while
his sister, who is serving the jelly Tin
fancy form, with whipped cream)
looks scarcely less radiant. Mother
peeps at them from behind curtain
with an expression that suggests Ali
Baba when he first saw before him the
wealth Of the Forty Thieves.
And what JOY is written on the face
Of one-we see her in a mirror-who
is using an electric massage device
upon her hair And is there anywhere
within the halls of wealth content
like that Of this young n,atron who is
going over her living room floor with
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21

vacuum cleaner? 1t is comparable
only to the damsel on the page follow
ing, who is getting more fun out of a
portable sewing machine than most
maids Of her age derive from silken
nest of super-chocolates.
No, little one; you with the pair
of patent garters; we are not for
getting youi We. see you hiding-no,
not precisely hiding-there. And we
know how happy you are. But you are
not whit happier, little one, than
this brunette who cured herself Of
deafness right in her own home. Or
this good lady who has just finished
polishing her gas range.
Contentment springs from proper
appraisal of the littlo things Of life:
things that nobody in the front page
pictures Of the magazine would ever
think of getting happy over. i.
Look at this dining room through
which we are passing. Did you ever
see such bliss as that family is getting
out of its new oil heater? And regard
these merry young folks coming brisk
ly toward US down the back-pags
street. Two lads, Immediately dressed,
and between them young girl, ir-
resistibly smiling. She has been told
by her friends-fne chaps, both of
them-of certain soap which will
make her proud of her complexion.
They are leading her to it, such being
the cooperative spirit which charac-
terizes the lives of back-page people
and makes them SO refreshingly diff
ferent from the rest of us.
If one grows hungry after ramble
through the back pages-as who would
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
Good From, Evil

Some good will come out of the
evil Of the coal strike If Congress is
spurred into passing Senator Kel-
logg's bill enlarging the Federal
power to protect aliens against mob
violence. The Herlin massacre was
not alone stain on the credit Of the
state whose constitutional guaran-
ties it fouted; it has subjected the
United States again, as President
Harding pointed out last Friday, to
the reproach of bad faith in it's for
eign relations.
We make treaties with other ma
tions in which we promise to give
their nationals entering our terri
tory the equal protection of our
laws. We demand similar treatment
for our nationals who go abroad.
But our government lacks adequate
authority to make good it's word. It
is obliged to depend on the good
faith of the states and of sub
divisions of the states. If an alien
is lynched or mobbed and no local
reparation is obtainable our State
Department can only apologize and
regret its impotency to reach the
offenders.
This situation has arisen many
times and been deplored by many
Presidents. Mr.. Harding says that
it recurred when the authorities of
Williamson County, Ill, turned an
investigation of the Herrin murders
into mockery. 1t is deplorable that
a power inherent in national SOW
ereignty and implied in our treaties
with other states has been so long
withheld from the Federal govern
ment through Congressional indiffer-
ence. Such power would be exer-
cised only if state or local justice
was inadequate. The withholding of
it only covers up local delinquency
and encourages despicable spirit Of
lawlessness.
The Dyer anti-lgnching bill, re-
Gently reported to the Senate, would
put a check on mob violence against
citizens of the United States as we'll
as against aliens. 1t also ought to
| pass. Yet if American citizens are
! deprived of the equal protection of
the laws, that is household affair.
We disgrace ourselves, but we do not
break our word to other govern
ments. The Kellogg bill deals simply
with the problem of putting our en-
gagements with other countries on a
more honorable, two-sided basis.
1 Congress should not hesitate to re-
store the nations dignity and self
respect by giving assaults on aliens
a Federal character. They, undeni-
ably have that character. What
Congress has done so far is simply
to run away from what it has con-
! sidered duty to strangers within
our borders, having no votes and
! therefore negligible
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
E.xacting Legal Training
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: note that the novsnslH
to adopt q two-year college Ess
liminary as requirement
future candidates for ths lssn
profession is making rapid pIos
ress under the leadership OF the nss
York Bar Association. At hEsf sls''
the proposal would appear 70 o
plausible remedy for the inteliessuT
decline which is the associations 81
SON for undertaking the niossness
But the matter should be carsla"'
considered.
1t lis not unreasonable to recsAs
high-school eduction as quai'pea,'s~
for entering the law schools, fes 3,
attends high school in those year E
minority during which Eaany s'a'
prohibit him from working. bcs s.
iege education is different Z
more expensive and can be hao Xxx
when the poor boy must leave sssss. s.
to earn his bread and help supp0fs 8
rest of his fathers family.
AS a student of Fordha,n Law 49,
who has noticed the display @ -
tional talent by mere high-schees s's
yates in class cs 1so studsnts'
vocate a more exacting bar sSs'A
tion, involving ell the practlsA &
jects and questions necessary sss
the competence of applicants. ss. 81.
that any one will prore this 'n'sss 4,
cable, or less desirable rsiasas &,
the ills of the profession than -
Association proposes. ,,,,o
DANIEL ]. DoWNiAs
Brooklyn, Aug. 10, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
The Path of Glory

Those ingenious young ladies
Anna and Katherine, aged thirteen,
who wished themselves upon the
steamer Majestic and paid call of
few hours on Southampton, Eng
land, are meeting the ups and downs
inevitable to the path of glory. The
darker side reached it's climax when
they had to go to court and stand
up before a judge and be remanded,
whatever that may be-grown-ups
use such terrifying words and all
together look fate in the eye. No
wonder they were ready to cry, and
did cry, and unanimously passed
the frmest resolutions against ever
disobeying their mothers again.
And yet and yet! AS soon as they
appeared on the doorstep every
child in the block turned up with
worshipful eyes. Gee, I wish I'd
done it, and "Tell us about it
again." were the unending chants.
Whatever Anna and Katherine were
to their parents and the Children's
Court and the captain of the Ma
jestic, they were real heroines to
their block. Not Cinderella in her
golden coac nor Charlie Chaplin
with his waddling feet could be
truer object of alteration.
There comes to mind distin-
guished member of the New York
bar who as small boy once pasted
SNOWFALL between the shoulder
blades Of a stout policeman. The
act was one of those sudden i'm
pulses which beset the best of us.
The SNOWFALL seemed drawn ire
sistibly as by magnet to that
broad blue back. In awe at his own
effrontery the boy did not even try
TO escape, and was presently locked
UP securely in the station house with
other desperate characters. Every
thing went rudely for the small pris-
oner in those days, and what with
parents weeping and irate, the boy
was in a bad way by the time. he
was discharged beneath heavy bur-
den Of reprimands. Was life worth
dragging through after so much
guilt and shame? Plainly here was
all the material for the formation
Of one Of those terrible complexes
which might have led the mature
man into goodness knows what
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
By Arthur Fl. FolpelI

not, bearing in mind the zestful Al,
nosphere there is food in pIsntT,
and maryelously prepared in five
colors. CHEEKY company, too. No
breakfast grouches here, no morose
husbands with newspapers proppea
before them; no fretting children 81.
at whose table you wilE-for every
one keeps open house in the back
pages-you will find nothing but
smiles and dimples and appreciation
for whatever is served. And food i
not brought to these tables In per-
functory manner, by a glum or care
less maid-servant. It Is shown az tie
owner Of the magic goose must have
displayed the first golden egg.
What will you have? There is veal
loaf with asparagus tips, more nasnnl
even than in life. There are peaches,
fat ones, garnished with pinsnsos
and stuffed olives. There is s2sssl
page-a whole page-of sliced par
apple. Ard look at that slip d
blonde-hardiy old enough to bs nEs-
ried, you would say--who is putsing
her husband through the ross
ecstatic PAGES. simply by porrsns
syrup on a plate of pancakes. Thers
are more----Stopl Don't turn tina. page,
my boy, or you'll find yourself Ia the
front pages of the magaxins. vhers tAs
reading matter Is and whsrsfocdisnersr
shown in gay colors, and where ssblea
are either bare or eurrounded BY pss-
pie who are worried and shcw u N
their looks.
Let US tiptoe out by the way "
came-by the back garden gate. Trsss
softly lest we disturb the husband and
wife who are renewing their honsy.
moon over a catalogue Of open plumb
ing. Or is it the new linoleum polish
which makes them look at each otaes
that way? Here VS. are as
the gate; let as pass out with sign
out into a world where people do nss
always smile, and where 1t takes noH
than an oil heater or plate Of beam
to make them happy.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
A Year Of Youfi,

This is year of youth in sport,
and the public that palpitates is
eorrespondingly excited and pleased.
Gene Sarazen, at twenty-one, stands
as the great success of the season,
having won both open and profes-
sional championships at golf. Miss
Helen Wills, at sixteen, made a bold
bid for the tennis championship, and
only the steadiness and experience
of Mrs. Mallory stood between her
brilliance and victory. Vincent
Richards is the boy wonder Of the
tennis world and clearly earned his
place on the Davis Cup team
At first sight the liking of the
public for youth seems a little cruel
and bloodthirsty. Why throw old
favorites to the lions with shout
of JOY merely because new hero
has entered the arena? At Forest
Hills one of the really able fights
was put up by Mrs. Bundy, once the
champion Miss May Sutton, now
the mother of four children; : yet
she got little support from, the
crowd, which had eome to see Miss
Walls triumph. There is a certain
fickleness in popular favor, as every
hero knows to his sorrow.
But there is scsne discrimination
in the awarding of popular ap-
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21

praise. 1t is q by-product of moral
evil; and it cannot be stopped by deny
ing the existence of evil nor by re-
fusing to resist evil. It is only the
individual who can rigidly practice
non-resistance. Christianity pledges
US to resist evil in the form of cruelty.
injustice or tyranny toward others.
Every nation able to resist Germany
was morally pledged to do SO.
That Miss Adams, or any one else,
could protect child from cruelty on
every occasion with no other weapon
than intelligence is merely comicai.
Imagine protecting the Belgian border
with "intelligence." 1t is unfortu-
nately impossible in the actual world In
which we live to protect anything at
all with complete abstention from
violence; and it is unfortunately an
absolute necessity that few things.
such as childhood, home, motherhood
and maidenhood. should, in civilized
countries, be protected. Righteous
ness cannot be in this world a nerve
less, fabby thing If even your cor
respondent saw deadly weapon point
ed at q helpless person she would find
II duty to strike at the arm that
held the weapon, at the risk of break
ing the arm.
As to lynching, we have proved that
It cannot be stopped by q mild remon-
STRANGE. It takes resistance, and more
OF It than we have ever had the moral
courage to apply.
But these are truismss A little tru-
ism on the part Of so-called pacifists
would be at least practical. Butt
would never exonerate Germanyt And
logically, that seems to be the point at
ISSUE Non-resistance would have sc-
cured the supremacy of the most mill.
taristic power in the world. Is this all
we mean when we say s'peace"?
MARION c0UTHouY SMITH
New York, Aug 1s, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
Futile Pacit ism =
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter in last Sundays
Tribune. by Olivia Dunbar Terrence,
of the Women's Peace Union of the
Western Hemisphere, setting forth the
paciist attitude with extreme candor,
hardly needs a reply. For lack Of
logic and common sense it refutes it
self; therefore am glad you printed it,
The apparent conclusion that both
sides in every war must be equally un-
righteous, obliterating the obvious dis {.
tinction between aggression and de-
Tense, is not worth discussing. If one
wants to draw q parallel one might
suggest that policeman ought to look
on dispassionately while bandit Is
beating and robbing harmless citi-
zen, rather than stop the deed by force.
That is a parallel case to the recent
war, whatever may be said of any other
war. The idea, like all of its kind,
simply amounts to an excuse for Ger
man aggression, which, as your corre-
oPOiioSSib lAhPlAGSS SHoAlQ nave gone OH
without check. The logical conclu-
sion is that German domination would
have been good for the world, or-bet-
ter still-good for Germany.
As to the mysterious economic ori-
gin" Of the war, have heard it seri-
ously asserted that in 1914 all the
nations concerned got together and
planned war for commercial reasons!
The effect upon the commerce Of all
the nations was hardly of nature to
sustain this choice bit of "propagan-
dist mythology" People don't ruin
themselves financially for the fun 81
hghting nor for the benefit Of few
proateers. The idea is, of course, to
shift the blame from Germany.
"Pacifism" would be perfectly good
word if it meant peace" No civilized
being wants war. The worlds prob
lem is to stop war. But how? War
is not a thing in itself to blame or
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
A Quick Sb;ft

fFSom The Philadelphia Evening Ledaerj
The one thing the German govern
ment is willing to do, as the French
see It, is to give perfect imitation Of
inability to pay it's debts. Later. If
the debts be remitted, it will stage
one Of the swiftest come-backs imapin-
able. With belief so strong there ia
nothing surprising in the drastic meas
ures France wishes to take.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
Jerry Cormeny's Pen in Hand

10 the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: l see in your Sunday magazine
in the third of series of articles by
Arthur James Pegler where the old de-
tective, Frank Caddell, says / tried to
panhandle him in scme downtown
street. I am taking my pen in, hand
to inform you that Frank is liar if
he made that statement to your paper.
The fact is, of course, that I knew the
old fatfoot block away and merely
passed the time of day with him.
1t is true I have been reduced to
panhandling, but it offends my amour
propre to have it said / did not recog-
nize Caddell. He is as recognizable as
the Woolworth Building, and one of
the worst detectives the world ever
produced. He couldn't catch a circus
on She open plain, but let me hasten
to add he is something far more i'm
rortant than any detective--he's real
mama square guy" SO that's why
| think maybe your brilliant chronicler
made Frank say was panhandling
just for the atmosphere-local color
what you will If so, it's all right
with me, and my faith in my old friend
is restored.
| have read the entire series Of
articles by Mr., Pegler, and want to saw
that they constitute the most fascinat-
ing review of vanished scenes in New
York City have ever seen in print.
The old detective, who never detected
anything in his life, but is very
fine fiddler and tenor singer, has been
permitted to tell his story without too
much obtrusion by the writer. The
result is real story Of old New York
the gaslight gayety, the girls that are
gone-God protect them! and in gen
eral, as you say, a review Of the town
that was. cannot imagine more en-
crossing topic, being myself nearly
seventy and having experienced all
that Caddell relates.
Pardon an old man for trespassino
on your attention. I am one of vary
few surviving among the so-called
underworld characters Frank mentions
IN his interview. and no longer in the
picture. The gaslight period was nv
period. Electric lights hurt my eyes.
Thank you for the articles. have
them all clipped out.
GERALD w. CORMENY.
New York, Aug. II, 1922.